The Express. — London, England, 1847-05-07 00:00:00

Bet if Harvlebone does not choose to take this pstsc, cut it adrift, and with it every metropolitan wi sh,' if such a sacrifice be necessary to enable the WI to make the port without delay. Th s measure is not one in which delay is tolerable. It is not a dilettante bit of legislation, which can be % Wed for. It is not an ex?eriment which may be tried and abandoned at will, like Lord lleouGuast's Bankruptcy and Insolvent Law. There are hundreds of daily deaths which cry out for it fr /in nerds;church thousands of pining infants whose dumb moths ask for it ; tens of thousands of pale and I , l ofuleas artisans, whose miseries, if not their tongues, I .. its d f or the speedy removal of the sources of their l e - h ea lthy life, and premature decay. Public morality calls for it; economy calls for it ; decency calls for it. w e a re weary of parading the material proofs that I these demands arc justified by facts, disgraceful, as I they arc destructive, to England. But it is not :etthat the evils exist . A government ' aof this country, the embodiment of enlight- • es ed public opinion, the true executive of the will o f England, does not come forward until its' intervention is asked as well as needi d. The will I mast art before the muscle works. That intervention I h asked now, from places widely distant, bat in terms rely too much like each other. Not York and Halifax alone, but Ipswich and Warrington, Bradford and I Worcester, Bath and Briatol, Plymouth and Rugby, Newcastle -on-Tyne and Gateshead. Rochdale and Whitby, offer up their prayer to be delivered from mischiefs at once greater and more within the reach of intelligent prevention, tilt' any purely material evils that afflict civilised men. Poverty has its complicated causes, which no single r emedy can reach ; ignorance assumes its thousand f i xms,which no formal teaching can assail ; crime isas vicious in its developments as the human nature in which it originates is complex and inscrutable. But filth is tangible. Unlike its results, which are often subtle and immaterial as they ore fatal, the cause is a foul, obtruive, material reality. Every sense takes involuntary cognisance of it. It may be men with the eyes, smelt with the nose, handled with the hands. It pollutes the food we eat, it stagnates in the water we drink, it strikes death in the air we breathe. Lord Morarrrris bill contains a machinery such as was never before applied to remove this fruitful source of moral and material contagion. All other preven tive agencies have failed because they had not that stimulus which supervision gives, or that intelligence, the want of which a central body will be expressly selected to supply. Why should the district which happens to be saddled with a supine parochial board, a careless me dical body, a selfish clergy, and an ignorant working class, continue to pine under the incubus, while the rt at of the community has power and intelligence to rescue it from the consequences of its own incapacity ? In a country like England, every square mile of which is dependent on every other square mile, for good or evil, no one locality, in virtue of a so-called claim to self-government, has a right to become a centre of disease and demoralisation for surrounding districts. The intelligent will of the community, embodied in its government, has not only the right, but lies under the duty, in such a case, to take the plague-spot into its own hands, and treat it with lenitive, or caustic, or eradicative remedies, as may be required. Once for all, when the cry of centralisation is raised against this measure, the simple eloquent answer is to point to every one of the 10,000 parishes of England, and ask what self-government, without the guidance, and stimulus, and control, of some central authority, has done for the poorer classes of this country, con sidering its wealth, its activity, and its intelligence ? WHERE does the Russian treasure come from ? is now more than ever the question asked by the unini tiated since the Austrian Obserrer, in a late number, undertook to explain away some of the difficulties discovered by incredulous minds in the recent finan cial arrangement. Without pretending to unravel the mystery satisfactorily, the following notices, al though necessarily fragmentary, may furnish some in formation as to the real state of things. Gold, it is well known, is found in the rich sands at the foot of the Ural Mountains, where it was first washed on a large scale in 1819. The total produc tion down to the end of 1823 is stated by the official journals to have been 1,711 puds of 40165. each. In 1829, the gold sands at the foot of the Altai chain, which sepamtes Chinese Tartary from Siberia, were discovered ; and these proved much richer than the former. The production was consequently augmented from 314 puds, in 1829, to 1,722 puds proiluced in 1846. This quantity, expressed in English avoirdupois weight, is about 27 tons. The total production, from 1819 to the end of 1846, inclusive, has been, from this statement,l4,33s puds, which, eking the fineness to be English Mint standard, the pound or 40th part of a pad to be equal to 8533.3 Dutch asses, and the English (sovereign to weigh 166.17 asses, gives the large sem of 29,500000 S approximatavely. The same official re ports state, however, that only one-third of this was on the account of the crown, the other and larger portion belonging to private owners. The share of this treasure properly belonging to the crown was, therefore, nearly ten millions of sovereigns in gold. There is a law in Russia prohibiting the exportation of coin, we believe, under the severest penalty. That the prohibition is not rigidly enforced is well known, and many continental bankers can tell pretty accurately what, number of imperials and Russian ingots wander to the mints of Paris and London. We do not pretend to dive into such mysteries. In general we know that the bulky exports of Russia are compensated with imported colonial wares, whether of Spanish, llansentic, Dutch, or English produce. We may, perhaps, assume that the secret service money distributed in gold and diamonds over Europe, added to the travelling expenses of the nume rous branches of the imperial family, come nearly up to the profits on grain exported to Western Europe in times of scarcity, and which was to be paid for in gold. But on this head we will for the moment assume a clear balance in favour of Russia to the amount of 4,500,0001. sterling. We will farther assume that all money so imported goes into the imperial mint, and that none of the gold produced in the country . gets abroad. We shall then have a trea sure in co in amounting to 29,500,0001. of native gold, and 4,500,0001. of foreign gold: 34,000,0001. Against this large sum we have the various wars to net off. The Turkish war of 1826-1827, the Polish revolution of 1830, the Greek intervention and battle of Navarino, and the expedition to China in 1836, which ended so disastrousle. Lastly the Circassian war has been a heavy drain upon the finances of the country for many years. We cannot well estimate the outlay for these various undertakings at less than twenty millions sterling. The balance in favour of the treasury would thus be 14,000,0001., or about 85,000,000 silver rubles. It appears from the same official statement that the sum actually in the coffers is 103,667,149 rubles, on which 95,000,000 of liabilities rest, leaving 10,000,000 of rubles free for a financial experiment. The dif ference may, perhaps, be silver bars, which are pro cured from Nertchinsk by slave labour. There is one way of explaining how all the bullion can be brought into the imperial treasury, and that way we know has been resorted to. If the crown exacts the payment of taxes in bullion, but pays all its own obligations within the country in bank notes, the vaults of the treasury will speedily be filled, even although the notes may be at a discount. Practically, this is one mode of reducing salaries. The indemnifi cation for the cost of producing the precious metals may also be paid in this manner. Estimating this Last item at 30 per c nt. in the imperial mines, we should have about 18 millions rubles of costs on the crown gold to add to 162,615,600 rubles, the value of the private gold bought by the state. These 180 mil lions of silver rubles; exceed the amount which, according to our calculation, ought to be in the trea sury, and the error may be placed, at the dis cretion of the reader, to the account of so much more expended in war or diplomacy than we assumed, or of so much less purchased with notes by the treasury of private mine owners. In fact, the reader has room enough for speculation in the re spective amounts quoted ; for the official numbers are without all guarantee, and beyond the undoubted fact that items of expenditure similar to those we have assumed were actually incurred, oar own have no claim to exactness. The account given by the writer in the Austrian Obserrer, who is, in all probability, a well-known author on financial statistics, confirms our general view, in as far as lie reckons amongst the liabilities of the treasure 68,420,811 silver rubles upon deposits in bullion, received by an office specially created, and empowered to issue notes convertible on demand for the sums so received. Another liability cmmed is for one-sisth of the new notes issued in the proportion of 10 for 36 of the assignats, which were by over-issues reduced in that proportion, and redeem able at that rate since 1843. Happy Russia! Could the Bank of England change the proportions fixed by law to this figure, we should have a good sum to dis pow of without creating a panic. Our accounts from Paris of Wednesday represent all other topics as thrown into the shade by the charges brought in the letter of General Cubieres I l against M. Teete, former Minister of Public Works, and now judge in the Conr de Caseation. It is alleged that when M. Testa was Minister of Public Works, in 1842, he was induced, by the offer of cer tain shares in a mining company, to grant a state 'concession of incorporation to it, which, but for such improper means, would have been withheld. This ire pears to be the substance of the charge. General Cubieves, however, himself is mixed up with the affair. A Cabinet Council was held on Monday even -1 iag, at which the Minister of Justice was directed to: communicate with both General Cubieres and M. Teste. The result of these conferences bad not publicly or officially transpired, but as we stated in a Rostscript to our Paris correspooderre of yester day, it was understood that a royal ordonnanco would be issued, suspending General Cubieres, and directing an inquiry on the subject to be held before the Cham ber of Peers. The public disavowal made by M. Teste iu the Chamber of Peers on Tuesday, of all knowledge of, or participation in, such as affair, was not followed by any discussion, it being felt that the chamber ought nut indirectly to express an opinion on a matter which must come before them judicially. The French papers state that M. Eynard had offered Gram' Coletti to pay, on behalf of Greece, the half-yearly interest on its share of the loan de manded by the English government. Advices from Madrid to the 30th ult. luxe been received. The ministerial combinations attempted to be effected under General Narvaez completely failed, and the general was to have departed on the Ist, and was expected, as we have stated above, at the hotel of the embassy in Paris on Wednesday evening. The retirement of the Queen to the palace of Aranjuez was expected, but the chief part of the household will remain at Madrid. The Count de Castellar had arrived at Madrid, and at a private audience had placed in the hands of the Queen a letter from the Infant Don Enrique, supplicating her ' Majesty's consent to his marriage with the count's sister. The Pope, without positively declining to celebrate the marriage, had postponed it in the hope of the royal consent being obtained. The Duke de San Lorenzo bad been named Captain-General of the Halberdiers, vice the Duke of Hiylen, resigned. An adjournment of the congress was still spoken of for fifteen days, but had not definitively taken place. FRANC - T.—PAM MAY B.—FRENCH CHAMBERS. —ln the Chamber of Deputise the discussion on the extra ordinary and supplementary credits fur the budgets of 1846 and 1847, was continued. The budget of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs came under examination. See. 1, For travelling expenses, and expenses of couriers; was adopted. Sec. 2 related to cr edits of 800,000 francs for extraordinary missions. M. Billault addressed the chamber; he spoke loudly against the aunual increase of the supplementary credits. lie blamed the manner in which the rallannta to Le Plata had been conducted, es also of those to China, which only resulted in a struggle between agents, each provided with contradictory orders. Those missions were uncalled for. It was vanity which led to the expeditions to the Miuquesas and Otaheite. It was a diplomatic comedy. The few commercial advantages with China were already guaranteed by the treaty concluded between China and England. As regarded the planting of Christianity in Chins, he thought that the money would have been far bet ter spent in Syria, where the christian population seas suffer ing in cruelly. But Eagland had cards to play in Syria, and the government wax timid. The same want of energy was shown in Greece. England was endeavouring to destroy French ieduence in that kingdom. Such, in fact, was the manner in which the foreign department was conducted : M. Billault then turned to Spain, blaming equally the French system of policy followed there. "The English alliance is broken. Alt that has taken place was long since predicted by the opposition; but it is not now with the oppo sition that you have to contend but with your own majority. M. Billault, who spoke at some length, sat down amidst some excitement in the chamber.—M. Guizot rose to reply. Ile said that, according to M. Billault, the ministry of foreign atfairs cost a great des! and did nothing. He did not deny that there were some expenses which figured in the budget higher than they ought to be; be thought it advisable for such expenses to he inserted in the budget, without coming under the head of supplementary asdits. As regarded the assertion that the outlays were annually increasing, he denied it, as the expenses for extraordinary missions 'varied record ing to circumstances. M, Guizot here entered into a detail 'of the credits during the but ten years. As regarded the mission to China, France had concluded a commercial treaty on a larger basis than that accorded to other nations: it was the duty of the government to extend French comm•res as much as possible. The performance of christiaarn worship in the Chinese dominions was an socket preroxative, which has been restored to France, and in nowise affected the in terests of the Christians In Syria. The rights of France should be maintained everywhere. The Moniteur announces that the quantity of po tato seed, which the Minister of Agriculture had procured for dieritiutien, is completely exhausted, the applications for it having Isom most numerous. HOLLAND.—THE HAGUE, MAY 4.—No bulletin of the King's health has been issued to day. We learn that his Majesty has posed a very quiet night, and that he feels very well to-day. The official Journal publishes a royal decree, dated April 30, 1847. ordering bank notes of the value of 20 florins to be called in. On the 2nd of June, 1847, these notes will not be recognised as legal currency. G ERM ANY. —Putr setA. —B ERLIN, MAY 3. —The Al;gebteine Preussische Zeitung of this date contains the official report df the meeting of the combined Estates of April 29. The subj.ct of deliberation wasa message from the King, respecting the establishment of provincial savings banks (on the principle of those already existing in Westphalia), under the direction of the provincial diets. To this end his Ma jesty proposes to plat? at the disposal of the diets a sum of 2,600,003 dollars, to be disiributed amulet the eight provinces in proportion to their respective superficial extent and popula tion. No intereatis to be required on this loan from thecrown. It is not to be demanded back until the at nowhere accruing capital of each provincial batik doub' es the amount of the loan, and even then only after such previous notice, and in such instalments as shall preclude any risk of inconvenience. M. Hansiamen acted as reporter from the committee appointed to report on the message. The report intimated that a pre liminary question had been discussed in committee whether it was cempetent for one committee of the combieed estates to sit on the message ? or, whether it would be necessary to have two committees, one of the estate of nobles, and one of the ether three estates ? Under the circumstances of the case, the message having been addressed to the combined estates, and the committee including one se emberof the estate of nobles from each province—the committee held itself com petent. The resolutions of the committee on the message are three in number ; —l. That grateful thanks be ea r:aimed to his Majesty for the appropriation of two and a half million dollars to the object mentioned in his message. 2. That the specific mode of uistxibuting the funds indicated in the ministerial memorial which accompanied the address, be adopted. 3. That regulations ,es to details for the guidance of the provincial diets be prepared by a committee of the combined estates in communication with the minister of the interior, and that this committee consist of 32 members, one from each estate of all the eigh t provinces. These resolutions were adopted after a long d ebate, which turned, however, chiefly on an incidental or epis odical question. Count Itrenplitz moved, that inasmuch as Westphalia bad already a savings bank system, its share of the loan ought at cam to be advanced to it. This proposal was met, on the part of M. Disberg, Minister of Finance, who took part in the discussion as substitute of M. Von BOdelachwitur, on the ground that the money could not be handed over to the Weat phahan diet until the conditions of the advance, winch horse yet to be prepared, bad passed the states-general. Hereupon M. Von Vineke raised a constitutional question regarding the respective spheres of action of the provincial diets, and the States General. 51. Von Vineke, apprehensive ofexcessive centralization, seeks toextend the sphere of action of the provincial diets at the expense of the authority of the States General. Messrs. Hansemann, Von Auerswald, 'Von Beeekerath, and others, apprehensive of the weakening sestets of discordant provincial authorities, beck to create a national feeling by concentrating power, as far as expedient, in the States General. Th is is the first of a ground whereon two opposing constitutional aitation parties may be formed ia Prus,ia that has yet appeared in the deliberations of the states general. M. von Viocke de dared that the rejection of his proposal involved au encroach ment on the rights of the Westphalian, Saxon, and Silesian estates. With one exception the representatives of the two last named provinces disclaimed participation in this view. And when M. von. Vineke insisted upon having the question referred to a separate s ote of the estates of his own province (an itio is; parts:), it appeared that he woo not supported Is the requisite two-thirds of their number its this proposal. This sitting of the combined estates, which commenced at 101, a.m., lasted till 11 p.m. FOOD Rlol3.—M'urtemberg has in turn to deplore excesses of this kind. On the let of May the market-place of Ulna was the scene of great disorders. The riot sea. commenced by some people who complained of the high price of corn, and being abused by one of the corn venders, threw his cart over, opened the bags containing the corn, and distributed it among themselves. Excited by their success, they attacked a miller's bonse , and plundered it of the meal, money, and cosh•books. The police being unable to stem the popular torrent, found themselves reduced to look on and remain inactive. A small det-edurient of soldier, which came up was much maltreated by the people, who threw stones at them and wounded many. The windows of several houses were smashed. A larger body of soldiers coming to the spot, and recourse being hail to the butt-end of the muskets, the mob gave way, and many wi re &nested. The streets • Lieu beams gradually to THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 7, 1847. I clear, and a Let attempt at forming a barricade in °seethe main streets, having been made by the mob and defeated by the soldiery, calm: es wag restored. Patrols paraded the street' iu the evening, and a placard was posted all over the tawny, enjoining all public-holm keepers to shut their shops at ten o cleek in the <veiling, and forbidding the use nabling together in one place of more then ten people. Everything was quiet on the 2nd May.—ln Brandenburg the high price of food,tad also given rise to disorder, but they were speedily put down. AUSTRIA.—VIENNA, APRIL 29.—The bulletins with respect to the health of Duke Karl show a tendency for the worse The greateit fears are entertained for his reco very. The tut bulletin states tbatthe Dukes rest was much broken during the night by opprekaion of the chest and pains in the lower part of the demob. BOIIENIA.—PRAGUE„ APRIL 24.—The royal go veronant of Bohemia has just decreed that the Jesuits libel not be permitted to email in the capital of that kiegdom. OLDENBURG, Arm.. 23.—The senate of the city of Oldenburg have petitioned the grand-duke to grant them a representative constitution, POLAND.--WARSAW, APRIL 27.—Piinceea Helen, who has reached this place from Vienna, is at presai.t in very bad health. She will stay here with her hummed for a few weeks, when she will return with him to St. Petersburg. The emperor and empress are expected in Warsaw by the 15th of May. RUSSIA.—ST. PETERSBURG, APRIL 25. —The Council of State has adopted, in full sitting, a proposition of the Minister of Finance for the investment in Russian and foreign funds of thirty millions of silver roubles of the capital formed for the conversion of bills of credit, which does not 'lived 114 millions . f silver roubles. The papers 1113 to be deposited and the interest applied to the payment of the state debt. Should a demand of coin take place, the fends thus bought are to he immediately converted into coin on the dif ferent European money markets. The Emperor of Russia was still suffering slightly from a liver complain , , and hie physicians are unanimous in declaring that in order to complete his recovery a visit to some of the mineral springs of Germany is riquispe. It does not appear, however, from any of the accounts that the least fear is entertained of the malady of the Emperor sasumiog a serious character. GREECE.—ATIIENS, APRIL 21.—8 y the arrival of H.M. steamship Locust at Malta, on the 29th u!t , we have news from the Greek capital to the above date. 011 the arrival of the Licust at Athens there was a great /mesa. tion, from a report arising that she had brought orders to Sir E. Lyons for him to demand the immediate paymeat of the in terest due upon the loan. This in fact wastrue. Sir E. Lyons waited upon M. Coletti, and read a despatch from Lord Pal merston, requiring the immediate payment of the luterest upon the loan ; or, otherwise, the socior Laval oft :sr had orders to lay an embargo upon Greek vessels. As a prelude to this, the Fantome sloop-of-war Isad been sent to &lonics. Some desultory conversation took place, but it was of no avail; the orders of Sir E. Lyons were peremptory; and, therefore, Coletti promised payment in a few days, and the Fantome hat le!ea recalled. Coletti had a narrow escape of a disenimal, with the ether ministers. High words paused between him and King Otho ' who said that Greece was ruined. The Queen atept in, and defended Coletti, declaring he was the only man Who had saved, and could yet wave, Greece, and laying all the blame upon the British minister, Sir E. Lyons, whom bee Majesty upbraided in sharp terms. Her majesty's arguments Travailed, and Coletti re. mains in power. It is said that the interest of the loan will be paid in tive-franc pieces; it so, people are asking where they are to come from, unless from the coffers of Moneieur Piratory. But this state of things cannot long continue. A minister accused of extortion, the accusation being proved in the chamber, is absolved from the inculpation by the in trigues of Coletti, who had the effrontery to declare in the public chamber, that he had taken a sum of money far ex ceeding his monthly salary. One minister is gone, and Coletti will soon follow. Tire French liner, Triton, now lying in the Pincus, is ordered to France, being in so rotten a state as to be totally unfit for sea. The French liner, Ink flexible, in running into the Pincus, got ashore. After tart ing her water, and landing moat of her store*, with the assistance of the crews of the Rodney, Albion, and Van guard, at the expiration of four days she was got off, un• injur.d, the place where she struck being a soft mud bank. BRAZlLS.—Captain Reduchaud, captain of the Baujeu, which entered the port of liavre on the mornirg of the 4th of May, having sailed from Gran Para on the 31st of March, states that the scientific commission, at the head of which is Count Csstelnau, had jukt reached Pars, after undergoing great sufferings and dangers,_whilit exploring regions as yet unknown to Europeans. M. Castelnau has brought back a valuable collection of rare animals, and a complete series of the produce of the soil. The Brazilian government, having put a steamer at the disposal of the chief of the commission, it was considered probable that MM. Castelnau and Deville would leave for Cayenne on the let April, and thence make their way home to Frame. 'Ube Court. The Queen and Prince Albert rode out on horse beck yesterday. Lord J. Russell had an audience of her Majesty yesterday, at Buckingham Palace. The royal dinner party yesterday, at Buckingham Palace, included his Serene highness the Prince of Lemingen, his Excellency Count Kielmansegge, the Duchess of Inverness, Viscount Sydney, and Lord and Lady J. Russell. H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady A. Bruce, honoured her Msjesty'sTh.atre with her presence last evening. Their MIMI. the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday. H R.H. the Duchess of Kent visited the royal duchess on Wednesday, at Gloucester -house. A deputation from the Birkenhead Docks had an interview with the commissioners of her Majesty's Woods and Forests yesterday, at their office in Whitehall-place.— A deputation on the subject of improved mail 00111M11,1C6- don between Belfast and Fleetwood and between Belfast and Ardrossan, hod an interview with eh! Chancellor of the Eachequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing street—A deputation headed by Viscount Bandon, M.P., Sir H. Douglas, M.P., and Mr. Entwisle, had an interview with Lord J. Russell yesterday, at his official retidenee in Downing-street.--Count de Sarnae, French Charge-d'Af ffaircs, transacted business yesterday at tha Foreign-offize.— A deputation front the vestry of Marylebane ;had an inter view with Lord Mer j acth, at Owydyr.houae, yesterday, °lithe subject of their objections to the machinery of the Health of Towns Bill.—The Governor of the Bank of England and the Deputy-Governor had an interview, yesterday, with the Chancellor of the Exch , quer.—The Mayor of Manchester and Mr.Brotherton h Ad all interview with Sir G. Grey, yester day, at the Hume-offic,.—A deputation from the Health of Towns Aasociatiou had an interview with Viscount Monseth and Sir George Grey, yesterday, at the office of the Woods mid Forests—Mr. P. Mahony had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon, yesterday, at the ofSce of the Board of Trade. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners fsr England had a general meeting yesterday. The Commissioners of the Metropolitan Improve ments had a meeting, yesterday, in Whitehslbplace. Three were present Viscount Morpeth, Lord Colborne, Lord Lyt telton, Sir Robert Inglis, and Mr. A. Miley?. lag chains balassglag to the earporatins of London. are vested lu the 0111111 1 1 . 111111r1, with pourer to dispose of any primte mooring chains they away think nereamuT to remove for the purposes of tl.e navigation. A powor la loam to the conservators to rube 100,eOnt ou the credit of the Macs, rent.. vested in th,ni he the set, to be applied by them, la the tint Inst.na., in the reasov.l of the shoals specified in Mr. Walk... report, end al:awards to widen and deepen Cush:marl or the river. The couservatoe s areal...empowered to act as justices to the counties of 3liddleses, Surrey, and Kent, for the purview. of the set. AU the ,powers nnw Chimed by the erown, with reepset to the bedand soil of the river, or o th erwise, are vested 111 the onaservatoni, and the suit now pending betNt eel] the trowel and the corporation is to cease and determine. That your committer, agreeing with the report of the subaximmittec, recommend that they shouln be empowered to present the bill to tfic House of Commons, and to pi o smite th^ MOW in such manner as they shall be i.driseet, end that a copy of the said hill should be sent to every memt.et of your honour. hie court. The court then unanirnomly agreed with the report, and immediately afterwards Innis.- up. TILE HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL.—DEPUTATION TO Loan bloke g.rn.—Yesterdly a deputation from the vestry of St. Mary:tab:me waited upon Lord Morpeth, at the office of the Commissioner of Woods and Forests. in refe rence to the Health of Towne Bill. The Rev. Dr. Spry read a memorial emb 'dying the objections to the bill which have been Ise frequently urged, and added that their great point was that In ouch a measure the ratepayers who COII tri buted should have control over their own feuds. They had an objection to external supervision, except with regard to the sewage, and in that particular they would have uo objection to supervision being exercised by a responsible officer of the government. It mignt in many instances desirable to consolidate hoards for paving and lighting pur poem but any new hoards constructed shoaled he on the representative principle laid down by Ilobleoese's Vestries Act. The :ystern of electing commissioners by plurality of votes was most objectionable, and the permanent appointment of one-third by the crown wculd render boards mere instruments in the Innis of their own officers and of the central hoard of commissioners—Sir JIM. Hamil ton, Mr. George Daniel, Mr. H. C. Wilson, and other mem bers of the deputation, showed at some length the inelficieucy of the present irresponsible government Commesioners of sewers, sal went into statistics, showing that the power ought not tube taken out of the hands of properly•censtauted local authorities, but teat, on the contrary, Otis powers should be inereased.—Lord Morpeth read to the deputatiou memorials he had received from the inhabitants of the high way district and other parts of Marylebone, complaining of local management, and c riling for the interference of the government —The deputation offered to teat the opinion of Lbw ratepayer. either by calling a public meeting of a poll of the parish.—Sir Benj. Hall and Sir Charles Napier rermaded Lord Morpeth that the sentiments expressed by the deputa tion were not only those of the ratepayers of Merylebone, but of nearly every parish in the metropolis and previa:cal town and city in the kingdom—Lord Morpeth expressed his satisfaction at hawing entered with the deputation so fully into the subject, and that all appeared to be agreed on one important point. namely, the necessity of a measure for the improvement of the sanitary anal social condition of the people. He had no doubt that ratans would be devised in reference to the proposed measure, which would meet with general approbation.—The deputation then withdrew. FESTIVAL OF THE SONS OF THE CLERGY.—Yes today, at three o'clock, the anniverary of the festival of the sons of the clergy was solemnised at the cathrdral of tit. Paul's, before the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke of Cambridge, the Bishops of London, Durham, Lichfield, I and Winchester, the Lord Mayor, and a numerous aueitory, to promote the objects of the institution, which are, by woo of the contributions received, to apprentice the hil dren of necessitous clergymen, or otherwise place them in respectable situations in life. The sermon was preached by the Rev. H. Howarth, B.D. rector of St. George, Hanover square, who took his text Pions the Psalm, chap. 37, verses 13 24. During the reading of the prayers Contrite Domine and Deus Ifisereatur were effectively chaunted by the choir. A. liberal collection was mode at the door.—ln the evening the anniversary dinner of the csrponation was held at the Merchant Tellers' Hall. The Lord Mayor pr-sided, and among a company of 260 guests we observed many eminent members of the Church, two of her majesty's judges, several members of parliament, and many gentle men of intluenee and station in thiCity. " The Church and Queen" was the fires toast given after toe removal of tar cloth, and then fol lowed " The Queen Dowager" and " The Duke of Cam bridge, the Royal Steward of the year, with the rest of the Royal family." The Archbishop of Canterbury, in the absence of his royal highness tho Duke of Cambridge, acknowledged the toast. In the absence of the Duke of Cambridge, the duty . devolved upon him to pro pose the health of their chairman—the chief ma gistrate of this imperial city—who discharged the reap- risible duties of ha high situation with the greatest efficiency and dignity. (Cheers.)—The Lord Mayor having acknowledged the toast, proposed" The most R the Arch bishop of Canterbury, President of the Festivel."—The Archbishop of Canterbury, who was very indistinctly heard, after acknowledging the manner in which his health had h ea drunk, passed a high eulsgium on the memory of the late Lord Chief Justice 'Tindal, who fiilsd the °filet of vice president to the institution, wed whose memory was itheatie fled with its bests iuterette, and those of the srcietias id* which it was connected. (Hear, hear.) He had to propose a toad, in which he was sure the company would all cor dially unite with him, and show their sense of the honour dose to them by the Lord Chief Jostles of Eng land, who now acted as vice-president to the Cor poration of the Ssna of the Clergy. (Hear, hear.) Lord Denman thanked the venereal lord primate for the handsome manner in which he had proposed his health, and for the merited panegyric which lie had pronounce.' upon the memory of the late Lord Chief Justice Tindal. Before sitting down he begged to propose the health of an individual of the highest distinction, who took a warm interest in the institution, who hod established for himself one of the highest positions in asserting the rights of morality and just cr , and who on every occasion had stood forward as the worthy minister of the religion which be adorned—he meant the Lord Bishop of London. (Chem.)—The Bishsp of London, in returning thanks, dwelt strongly on the claims of the corporation to public support, and stated it as a posi tion beyond controversy that the efficiency of the clergy was a most important element in the notional prosperity. The following list of hoists was then given from the chair and duly responded to—" Mr. Freshfield, mad the stewards of the day ; " " The health of the preacher, the Rev. Henry Howarth, with thanks for his excellent sermon ; " "The Dorn end Chapter of St. Paul's, with thanks to them for the use of the Cshedral."—To this toed Archdeacon fiats responded The Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's considered it a privilege that the society gave them the opportunity of celebrating the Liturgy in the cathedral in a manner un equalled, he was sure, since the time of the Reformation. Any man who asked what the use of their cathedrals was, and who attended divine worship as it had brie preformed that day, would say that if God was no honouree), and the liturgy of the church celebrated in a mar.ner so imposing, the cathedrals in the kingdom could nor be said to exist is vain.—To the• toast, "The Merchant Tailors' Company," proposed by: the Archbishop of Canterbury, Mr. Pigecn responded, and then came the last toasts of the evening— " The health of the Treasurers," acknowledged by Sir R. 11. Inglis, and " Prosperity to the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy."—The entire contributions to the (uncle of the charity amounted to 9501. SUNDAY SCHOOL UNTON.—The annual meeting was held last evening at Exeter Hell. Charles Ilindley, Esq., M.l'., psesidcti. The report, which was read by the secretary, anceiraced the steady progress of the schools in various parts of the world. The number of grants made by the society during the pest year were 269, amounting to 6,1.571. 'the number of libraries were 160, amounting to 1.703/. Within a circle of five miles from the General Post-office, tha number of schools, teachers, and scholars, were as follows..--schools, 538; teachers, 11,166; scholats, 108,631—0 f whom the average attendance was about two-thirds. The amount of sales for the year was 8,7821., being a decrease of 9301. The receipts for the past y ear, including a previous balance of 6.33'. 13s. Bd., amo :rated to 1,5751. 10a. 4d . out of which a present balance rem tined of 2031. Bs. 4.1. With regard to the government !eon of education, the committee did not consider that it had . muifi tient bearing upon sunder-schools to justify their inter• ference. or any expression of opinion on their part —The Rev. Mr. Waddington proposed the first resolution for the adoption of the report, and the appointment of the officers and committee for the ensuing year.— The Rev. Dr. Archer secondel the resolution, alluding in the course of his obser vations to the government plan of education, to which he made some general objections,avowinc that had he his choice he would rather remain an ignorant freeman than become an educated slave. The resolution having been further supported by the Rev. Dr. Baez, of Calcutta, was about to be put to the meeting, when Mr. T. Thompson begged to move an ad dition to the resolution, to the effect that whilst the con. fidence which the constituents of the union had always reposed in their officers, had been so well returned by their active and well-directed efforts on behalf of Sunday schools, both at home and abroad, the meeting would urge on the officers, then about to be appointed, the adoption of such measures as should not only secure the continuance of Sab bath schools in their present state of praperity, hut would also v ard them, as far as possible, from the extinction with which they are threatened by the minutes of the com mittee of the privy council on the subject of educa tion. Mr. Thompson proceeded, amidst some opposition, to state his views on the subject, and to urge reasons in sup port of his proposal, which was then seconded by Dr. Hewlitt, and the resolution with the addition carried utmost unani mously. A collection on behalf of the union au then made among the assembly, as the chairman observed, to test their earnestness wita regard to the voluntary principle. Mr. Hindley then vacated the chair, his place being supplied by Mr. Thompson. The third resolution was also adopted. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. Tim hall was filled to overflowing. IRISH SOCIETY.—The annual meeting was held yesterday at the Queen's Concert-room, Hanover square. The Earl of Galloway presided. The rep ,rt of the com mittee was read by the secretary. It commenced by re gretting the famine and disease which had swept over Ire land since their last meeting. But, at the same time, they considered the past year to be one marked by the many °peeing* presented for preaching and teaching among the Irish peasantry, marked by the loosening in various places of the minds of the Roman catholics of Ireland from the iron fetters of popery ; and by the earnest desire of many of them to read and judge for them selves. After some particulars of the objects and pro arese of the society, which had been tstablished to employ their native language as a medium for conveying scriptural instruction to the Irish peasantry, the committee proceeded to state that from its commencement to the begin- ning of the present year, the society - had pro gressed steadily onwards—cherished by its friends— sometimes apparently receiving a larger shore of bless ing, sometimes a smaller—having beeu the means of in structing nearly 300,000 persons, chiefly adults, to read the scriptures. But, during the present year, openings, neither expected ner lothed for, had been made fur every branch of labour in which the society had been eugasc ; and the re suit had been, a great extension of the original work of the society—the simple instruction of the peasantry in the read ing of the scriptures. Many Komar cathelies had asked per !union to attend cnureh, sal some had scot fur protc.taot clergymen to visit thereon their diseth-beds, while a great in crease had taken pieties in the number of scripture readers Thirty-five of the old readers lint been wholly, instead of partially, engaged ; and 35 new ones had been sent out. At the pe tient time 122 applications were be fire the committee front Irish clergymen in behalf of their parishes. Through the kindness of the committee of the " Special Fund for the Spirituel exigencies of Ireland," who had granted 3001. far that purpose, the today had been enahied to take measures immediately to supply to twenty of the puishes one reader each for the space of six mouths. The committee acknon kilned with tnanks a series of donations from the same fund to the amount of 2,4001. The funds of the society from every source amounted t' 9.6111. Gs. 9d. le inn an Iscrtuse ale eve the former year or 4,2:311. 13e. Gel. 6,7901. of the receipts had been remitted to Ireland. The remainder of the reps; t consis ed of details of the society'. operations in the venous distrinta. Tne report was adopted on the motion of Lord Ashley, accorded by the Rev. E. Bickentath ; and further re solutions in support of the society were alto carried, the enacting being addressed by the Bishop's( Cashel, the Archdeacon of Enoly, the Rev. A Wynne, and other gentlemen. The proceedings clued with a vote of thanks to the chairman, who had retired during their progress, his place being supplied by Lord Litford. lIIII.ITAET BAZ.IAII IN AM OP TILE DISTRI:SSED (assts.—At the Grand Military Bazaar, in rid of the dis tressed Irish and Scotch popolation—Ret on foot some time since by the officers of the brenscheell cavalry, and anpuinte Sy e-reciel permission of thi- authorities of the War-office to be held in the Regent's-perk Barracks—the Marchioness of Londonderry, the Marchioness ofAylesbury, the Visenun tem Combermere, the Countess of Dcsari, and many other noble ladies, will hold stall-. The regimental counter to he furnished by the officers of the Guards will be presided over by Mrs. Mnunrjoy Martin. The Marchioness of Waterford, the Marchioness of Clanricarde, the Duchess of Montrose, the Duchess of Cleveland, the Marchioness of Worcester, and many other lathes, lean < signified to the mirmittee their intention of assisting, if not personally, at least by their contributions. Yesterday Ma anonymous donor, who merely acknowledged herself one of the lair /Inn, sent a beautiful nil painting, which wi I form an attractive ornament to one of the stale. The bazaar is to be held on Monday, the 24th of May, the day preceding tho birthday and draw iug-room. tier Majesty has eiguitied her intention of honouring the committee frith a visit. EMIGRATION.— Preliminary arrangements have been made for the trenansission M a very considerable num ber of emigranta to America, consisting of the poorer ciao of the natives of the German states, by means of the New York line of packet ship., which trade between New York and the British metropelis, during the, ensuing Rummer season ; and, as it frequently happens that one of the New York Boers is appointed to sell on Sunday morning, accord ing to their Nettled time of departure and the state of the tide, or on other days when the steamers frem Rotterdam arc due, and are freighted with a number of these persons— who, if the Anneal forms on the part of the revenue were re quired to be proceeded with, both at the periods of arrival and departure, would be prevented from being despatched at the time and by tbo skip intenled, and delayed for se veral days in the metropolis—arrangementa have been made with the ager tee, with the express permission of the revenue authorities, fur a partial landing and examination of their effects, to take place at Blackwell, and the same immedi ately reshipped on board the vessel bound for America, and lying off the place, for the purpose of receiving them, by which all delay will be avoided, and every possible facility given for their instant departure to their destination. INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—FATAL ACCIDENT ON TILE 'treas..— Berme Mr W. Baker, at the Queen's Heed public ' house, High -street, Poplar, ore the body of George Lesion, aged 25 years, a lighterman of Greenwich. Oa Saturday room ing, the 17th of April last, the deceased was employed by Mr. Sexton, a real merchant at Greenwich, to navigate a Marge laden with coals to Chelsea. The barge was merle feet to a buoy in the river off Greenwich, and the dm-treed took a boat fur the purpose of loosening the rope belonging to the huge, and while standing on the buoy, the Aberdeen stunts vessel passed, and the swell overturning the buoy, deceased cell into the river. He was unable to swim, and ho quickly disappeued under a number of vessels which were moored alongside tho barge. His body was not recovered until yesterday morning, when it was discovered in the paddle wheels of a steam-tug lying off Blackwell. Verdict—" Acci dental dalLll."--CHARGE or NEOLICT AGAINST RELIEVING OFFICEEL—Before Mr. Carter, at the Tanker villa Arms, Caroline-street, Lambeth, on the body of Mary Jane Hubbard, aged three months, who died in the street.—Serah Hubbard, of Stntbatn, Essex, stand that the deceased was her illegitimate child. She had been* servant at Kennington, but now had no home, and WAS therefore driver. to walk the streets at day, and sleep among the casual paupers at night. who were, by the rules of the house, turned cut at six o'clock in the morning. About three weeks since witness made an appliesnion to Mr. Bel lamy. the relieving officer, with an eerier from Mr. Mitchell, one of the parochial surgeons, to be admitted into the house, as she was very ill and her infant was dying. Witness gam the order to him, but he said, " You don't belong to the pa riah, and I cannot admit you." Witness told hint her child was dyio3 for want, when he added, " It may die; you had no business to get it," He then turned witness out, and told her he could do nothing fur her. On Monday morning last witness left the house at the usual time in the morning, and after walking about for some hours, she proceeded to the house of G Mrs. Holden, in Beech-street, Kennington, where they allowed her to sit (town and wash the baby, and gave her a cup of tea. In the evening witness found toe deceased in a dying state, and me ried her into the surgery of Mr. Harris, in Clapham-road, who told her to take it with all speed to the workhouse. Witness hastened to the house, but on reaching the steps de ceased died in witnesea's arms. Witness had very little milk, and what she lead was poor and thin. The eleecesed was very well when she first left the house, but from the want of sufficient food she had gradually fallen away. The coroner. finding that the proceedings impugned the characte r of Mr. Bellamy, ordered the surnowninc officer to make diet person acquainted with the nature of the case, as his attend ance was highly necessary to answer the charge brought egainat him; and after other evidence had been heard, which partly corroborated the mother's statement, Mr. dellaniy arnved.—The Coroner, addressing him, said that he had deemed it necessary to send for hint, an that he might hear the evidence, to afford him an opportunity of meeting the charge, and Meer his character of the alleged berth treament —Mr. Bellamy said that the mother of the deceased did not belong to their parish, and they bed ren dered her considerable assistance from time to time. Aboat three weeks since she cannily came to witness, with an order from Mr. Mitchell, one of the parish surgeons. It was what is called a " di•eretionary order," which at en .d, " suf. faring from alleged cflic, and able to work." Its had seen her at the office on numerous occasions, and, after putting the necessary queetions to her, in a kind manner told her he could not elo anything more fee her. the had been relieved several times by the board with money. She did not bring an order for admittance into the house, as she had mated, but an order to see the rzlievin:; officer, who had to use a discretionary power, whether it was a case that absolutely required immediate aid or not. No one could 'sensibly tell the number of tricks that were doily practised cap ;n them, and the great care required in carrying out the rules of the boar I. He, in the most solemn manner, denied the charge.— Tne woman Hubbard was again called in, and when showed the order, acknowledged it to be the same she presented oar the day in question, but still persisted in her first state ment---The coroner then went through the evidenco, and the jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of " Death from natural causes," and " that no blame is attri buted to Mr. Bellamy, the relieving officer."—ltOrthinn TIIE DEAD.—By Mr. Payne, at the school-room, Walbrook, on the body of Mars Ann Bobbett, aged 30, who was found dead in her own house. The particulars of the case will be found in our Mansion-house report. Mr. Chas. Chickrasy, of IS, Grafton-place, Euston-square, said that the deceased was his cousin ; he had not seen her for four years ; she had a mother living at Steele., in Suffolk ; her father was a pur ser in the navy; he believed she WAS never married. Mr. Blenkard, susgeoa, of Dowgatc-bill, had examined the body, and his impression was that she had died from exhaustion, consequent on consumption; he saw' nothing suspicious in her death, The jury returned a verdict of " Natural death , from consumption." COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. - - CONSERV.theY OF THE 'NAME-4.—A special court was held to take into consideration a report on this subject. Mr. It, L. JONE• rid he had to present to the court the moat important report with which be had been entrusted since he had iv. en a member of the corporation, inasmuch as it embraces. the whole future jurisdiction of the river Thames. He thought it right to recapitulate the object and nature of the bill. PurLsment had appointed a committee upon the whole of the tidal harbour. and navigable rivers in the United Kin:dom. and that committee had reported to the house that it was essential that one board of jurisdic tion and conservancy should be established. A bill had been accordingly brought in last seamen by Mr Hume and Mr. Ward, and the court appointed a special committee to confer with the government on the subject of allowing the corporation to bring in a separate bill for the river Thames. The government gave permission, and referred the committee to the First Lord of the Admi ralty and the First Commissioner of the Woods and Forests; and several conferences were held with their lordships, the result of which was a concurrence in the bill first presented, which he expected would prove a distinguished advantage to the commercial interests of this great city. He believed that, as the various jurisdictions were now consolidated into one body of conservators, immense advantage would be ac complished by that judicious consolidation; and, as the government had sanctioned and approved of the bill in i's present form, he did not apprehend any opposition to the measure—The report then proceeded Having taken the Important subject of the conservancy of the river Thames Into our consideration, we referred it to a sub-eoramittre to consider the same, with power to confer with her Mojeety's tete, who have since reported to us as follows:-That a draft of the proposed bill having been prepared by Mr. Itemembrancer, model the direction of tho suheommuttm, copies of the tame were transmitted to the Earl of Auckland, the First Lord of the Admiralty, and to Viscount Morpeth, the First Commissioner of hrr Majesty's Woods and Forests, and also to the Elder Brethren or the Trinity-house. That since December last up to the present period the sub-committee have held repeated conferences with Lord Auckland and lard blur- Path and also had several interviews with the Deputy-master of the Trinity-huuse, and have at length bad the satisfaction of reporting to your marnmittte the terms upon which the vinous and ooaflteting interests connected with this great and important subject have been arranged. The fleet point to be amomplished was to vest the various conflicting Jurisdictions and claims of the crown, the Admiralty, the Trinity-heuse, and the corporation of London over the )river Thames in me permanent hotly. This important ob- Jcet has been obtained; and the draft of the bill, approved by the government and also by the 'frinlty-hame, vests all the rights coo meted with the river Thames in a permanent body of comer rotors to be appointed by the corporation of London, and also provides that the Trinity-house shall remove the shoals in the river Thames when required by the conservators, and that bathed shall not be raised in any parts of the riser which the conservators may consider injurious to the naviga"ion. The conservators to be appointed to carry the sot into operation are to consist of the Lord Mayor, five *Mennen. and l 3 commoners-the aldermen to be nominated by the Court of Aldermen, and the cornmonws by your honourable court. The con actvators so appointed am to oontlaue in office so long as they are members of the orpective courts, subject to removal by your hark murk The comer vapors arc to exercise all the powers now pant.ird by the crown and by the corporation of londort, as well as those con ferred by the act. A superior boarder come: vancy is to be appointed, consisting of the Bet Contral.,iorter for executing the ofilse of Lasa High Admiral, the Chief Commissioner of her Majesty's Weeds, fee., and the Prendent of the Board of Trade for the tame twine, who are to approve the general line. of embankment, and also the bye ! laws to be ti,de by the couservitots prey omly to their Way earned into eff, .1. The barer, era also to have power to appoint of and clerks at an annual charge including all not exceeding low!., which is to he paid out of the conservancy funds. The bill `taros to the conser,tor. necimory powers for carrying the set Into execution, and 'nobles them to erect or lease piers and landing times, and to take toll for the same. The conservators are att. empowered to appoer:t harbour -unale. and to remove the eresamt or any lattice harbour-rusaters. ALL the moor- IRELAND. DUBLIN, MAY 5. The following signet, by the surgeon-general and Sir Henry Marsh, was issued this morning : TEN o'CLoca.—His Excellency paced a good night, and is much better this morning. At four o'clock this afternoon the answer to inquiries at the Castle was, " His Excellency continues in the same state." _ _ . Accounts have reached Dublin of the effect pro duced on popular feeling by the final reduction of the Ist instant. There has, of course, been strong lan guage in the provincial prese,• but beyond the verbal explosion, except in tile eases immediately referred to, all has been tranquillity,, though its per manent existence cannot be guaranteed. The prin cipal outburst has taken place in the laud of turbulence —Tipperary—in three places, ar.d all in the same day. Cashel and Killeuaide vented their fury in demonstrations, but Clonmel proceeded a step farther, and plundered some fifty sacks of flour. In Castle connel, Limerick, there was a similar demonstration accompanied with similar effects, but order was restored. As soon as the able-bodied lists are made out, and the necessary works ready, employment wid recommence on a more limited and useful scale in districts where the pressure on the ordinary labour market is too great. The city is in a state of excitement after the events of last night. Every circle is busy in canvassing a purely Mils row in the pillar room of the Rotunda. A number of small traders and shopkeepers got up a dinner to the captain and crew of the Victor. About three hundred were present, and, among them, the leaders of the Young Ireland party. The oratory and fury, of course, fell to their lot, or rather, they warped them. The original promoters of the '• ban quet' felt inaignaut at the monopoly, and the issue was one of the most scandalous exhibitions in the records even of the prize-ring. 'file pugilism was general, though not good, there bring more lacerated coats than contused noses. The Young trdsual party are charged with having premeditated the nip ure ; and their policy was eminently successful. One of the stewards, like Prospero, broke hie wand and quitted the room when Mr. Meagher ran close on the line of disloyalty. Altogether, toe scene was, of its kind, perfect ; out why the Young Ireland gentlemen should have taken such pains to excite against them selves the full measure of unpopularity, can be ac counted for only by their extravagant vanity-sad folly. They hare covered themselves with disgrace, and will find it difficult to emerge again into the light of public favour—such glimpses of it as they heretofore enjoyed. As to the chief guest of the evenwg, Capt. Clark, ho demeaned himself with much grace and good taste. Ile had the good cense to hold himself apart from the heated politics which impregnated the air, and, while grateful for the honours paid to his own country, he pleaded the existence of strong inter national relations with England to bar the exercise of any language un becoming a neutral and a gentleman. MURDER IN CLARC.—A savage murder was perpetrated in this county on Saturday !mt. A !tumble man nom tl DooFan, who some two years since became the purchaser of the tntermt of an occupying tc net.: in a few acres of land, was shot at from behind a hedge, and atter he had fader, tho assassins fractured his scull turd ru: Larose. Two hot, , , were robbed of arms on Sunday and Monday last, scar Limerick. MORE FOOD FI:011 THE STATr....—TIe Soathern Reporter of esterday announces the are its], on that morning, sit the Overmaun, from Newark, N.•w Jets. y, v ith a cargo of free pros-hires'', clothing, &c. The PETRO journal mentions, that of GOO persons tome tine since d setion:ed from the public winks at Bantry, in that county, 250 are now dead. VICARAOL or SCHULL.—The Bishop of Cork, Dr. Kyle, has considerately promoted the nirani of tichul I to the vicar age vacant by the lamented davit of Dr. Trail!. SCOTLAND. EDINBUROII, MAY 5. The reports of the county meetings ant furnish proofs of hostility to the Marriage and Registration Bills. At Forfar, the fount r measure was eondemned, and, in reference to the latter, it was held that the pre sent system of regiatration was quite adequate if made imperative. At Perth and Ayr, both were rejected. I Atumti ies, their consideration was postponed until 111th inst., when a special meeting is to be held. The leading counties may now, thcrefere, be considered as having pronounced their deliverances, and it conse quently next falis to be inquired what value is attach able to their opinions. This may be judged, from the feet that the country people have at their meetings opposed nearly every important reform as regularly as it has been attempted. WALES. THE CASE OF MEEDEIS ItE A MOELLER. tray Carmarthen, was investigated by a jury oa hlouiley last. It w il l be re membered, Vat three childri n were found in a miserable house at Llanhyther, hanging from a beam, quite dead. They had been last seen alive in charge of their mother, who could not be found. Esilence was gtven before the corn ...er inducing a belief of the urotber's insanity. The inquiry was adjourned. The unhappy culprit is in custody. She bad wacdered over the mountains to the neighbourhood of Llau dewybrefe, about ten mi es away: she called at several houses, mentioning that sit: was going to other places, but taking different ifireetlous, whereby she, for a time, eluded pursuit. She wen unknown, but people strongly suspected that her mind was dersiusfed. On Monday, two per-ons travelling on the mountains mar the parish of Cayo, finding her to correspond in appearance with the ileacriptirn circu lated by the police, gave her iota custody. Bbe confessed that she killed tits children. PROVINCIAL. ...,........... CHARGE Or MYRDER..—Yesterday, at the County Police Court, Salford, a man named (here' Leech, a mechanic, employed on the Manchester and Leeds Railway, was charged with the murder of Fr-Anti. Deakin, a market gardener, at Chorlter.-eurreHardy, LICIT Maneluster. When the prisoner bad been put up, howeser, fur examination, his attorney irked for a delay of • few minutes, thee he might consult with his for more detailed instructieco. This delay was granted, acd when the reamer eel put up again the magistrate was told that all the whet - i.e.* in the erne had left the court—a proceeding which Lai taken place, it would appear, in consequence of a dispute between the coro ner and the magi-trate as to jurisdiction. The coroner is Mr. W. 8. Rutter, clerk to the magistrate, and he had threatened to commit every one of tee witnesses hot eta atl as.; I efore him at four o'clock iet the afternoon, tied though it wee then oily twelve o'clock, they had kit the court in order to reach Charlton (four miles) in time for tire ineutat. The case was accordingly adjourned. The particulars of the affair are these. The prisoner her pa a beerhatt-e at Choriton, and on Wednesday afternoon the dicea•c,l, aiAl :..see other men, were drinking at his house, and so re surly in tolics'ed, when some words occurred between the prisoner and his wife, in the coulee of which he spieled an opprobieue epithet to his wife. Drakin remonstrated wi'h him, and said such lar.guage was unmanly, and on Leach a , temptiag to strike her, he went betwurs them, and challenged L .ach out to tight. Leach immediately upon ti •le drew out a drawer 11-an the kitchen table, in which same knives were kept, and selecting front ameeget them one with a pointed blade, plucg , tl it into Oeskin's breast with suck lute° that it pared through the right side of the heart, and he died almost instantly. Tee prisoner is a tall, power ful man. TORKSIIITIE. Onn FELLOWS/111..-0a Tuesdav night lar, the 11 , v. Dr. ' lienk, vicar of Leeds, the Rey. Tunas A Nlturot, incumbent ' of Trinity Church, Leeds, the Rev. Edward I.sekson, c:erk in orders of the parish church of Leeds, end curate of St. James's Church, and Mr. Alderman Dernton Luccoek, were admitted members of the Grand Celtic' Order of Odd Fellows, by the memhersnf the Lord Demme Lodge, usually &seem:ling at the flee Hire Inn, Vicar-liine, Lied', but which, on this special occasion, met in the Music Hall, Leeds. The vicar of Leeds, and Alderman Lucccek, when recently mayor of the boroegli, had provieusly been admitted members of the Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows, the Rev. Dr. Hoek beirg initiated at tire Jolly Sailor Lodge, as sembling in Meadow-lone, Leeds. TESTIMONIAL TO THR EARL or ITAULROOD.—Upwards of seven hundred guineas have been subscriued by the gentlemen of the Bramham Moor Hunt, for the purpose of presenting to the Earl of Harewood. the present mester of the hunt, an ceuestrian portrait of Isis lordship. The sub seripti in was recently orisineetd, and is elpected to amount to a thousand gelatin. Should the 1411:11 subscribed consi derably exceed the east of the portrait sod frame, an engraving will be made for the subscriber. CI:MM.:KLAN U. A HINT TO Tot RISTS is given by the Carlisle Journal. By the opecieg of the various railways in Cumberland and Sir astmoreland (says that paper) most ready seers will be given to the lakes and mount dos of these counties ; and the feeilitits thus opened out will, we doubt not, be taken ad vantage of by thousands who meant before dreamed of the joys of such a v:sit. From Carlisle, Unaware, the most romantic of our lakes, may now he reached in little more than an hour's ride; and from the Up of that lake the " mighty Heleellen" may be climbed. by say one bale in wind and stout in limb, with the law of only a few home. A ride of less than three been will set the traveller down amidst the calmer and tare softened beauties of Windermere, the heart of the lake district. Then, for the le neht of intending traveller renWiog in more distant parts of the country, it may be refill to knew that persons leaving London at 10 a.m., Liverpool at 3 p.m., and Edinburgh at 5 a.m., may reach Milathorpe in time fee Atkiteron*s mail-eerich at half-past seven, and Newby-bridge, at the foot of Windermere Lake, at half-pat nine. the same evening. There are now steamers plying daily on Winder mere ; and a new steamer is shortly to be started to run from Rea Island te Fleetwood. The whole lake ilbtrict may thus be travelled, with the utmost ease, in the course of a very few days. larr,reezat en A RAGOBD SCHOOL 1: 1;;;.:177;t on toot in Plymouth. The rsom selected for the purpose is csp.ble of holding 120 children, and disks sill be fitted up tir 100 to commence with. Boys of any age, between five and sixteen years, will be invited to come and receive free instruction is this school. A local paper says :—" Everything of • sectarian character will be carefully avoided. This is as it should be. In so benevolent • work u that of amisay...uring to raise the most degraded and the most miserable of our population, we should all be permitted to partici pate. It is a labanr of love and charity that will bring its blessing with it ; and we are pleased to know that the appli ances necessary fur carrying out the good work have been procured from different sources, so ad to Iwo no doubt of the wishes of the founders. It is intended °sly to try the experiment with u boys' school at resod ; Mail that should suety d, there is, we are sure, benevolesoelisdkient to en sure the permanent foundation of a similar school for girls. Nothing is more wanting for the cbildnin of botl. sexes, especially in those parts of the town whiSh Y ° ritutNl near Sutton Pool. There is there a main of fivinesnoe and cri minality which is appalling. and we twat ibis' this experi ment wdl prove beLeliCial. • KENM i/..eN DEATH Or MH.YriOADgOOX, Tan Co•C:I)TAN. —An .LblatlCe of the uncertainty of life law just ~ seamed at Roam hter. Mr. A. Y. Broatituot, tLe stage-manager of the theatre of that town, was engaged en Wednesday in matters connected withhisbenefit, which wasappoiated to take place on Monday next. He was apearently in his usual health and spirits. when about noon he comphieticdof being unwell. He was advised to proceed to the house of Dr. Ely, a short distance from the theatre, which he did: The die•or's ser vant went up stairs to call bis master, and Dr. lily immedi ately came into the aurgerv, when he found the unfortunate gentleman lying on the lisor, a corpse. An inquest was field in the evening, and from the evidence of the medical attendant it appeared that death atom frees, apoplexy. NOH.FOLIi. CANDlorerloi roe PAILLIAMENT.—We (Buy Post) un derstand that Edersict Coke, il•ti , And Anthonyr lianiond, Esq., have consented to become candidates foe West Norfolk at the next election. SUSSE.N. Tee Sevres Atten.tioLuott;an Sorr.vri held their first meeting for the year, on Wednesday, at Shoreham. Tie tnimliers first examined the 'absinth of New Shoreham, which as our readers are aware is one ash* !heat specimens of ecelesias.ical chiteeture In the county. The tower, which gives importune,. and apieuresque appearance to tee little town nestled round it, is suo r orted on very fine spe cial:l,s of the Ar.slo-Norman arch. The eharch was for merly of a cmcitorm shape, And peebebty entirely in the es" • 4 , *err , wre.. • t.r • sec Awe f.. W r • . is.. al a. saw, • I