The Express. — London, England, 1847-06-05 00:00:00

Sr p osess— f• The lowest rioter -YO m _ aude Ala". his favour by "as h: la a i li X l it s is time that be abeald his se the literal -minded osomorporeta who his sodhi/ w ow to have all the palwrses of a_ iser °l id. sod t he most exquisite attest!, of which we s owed to introduce sectarian anneosity into po lio! l ooggles has been made by the well-known loos, o f Liverpool. It seems that thi has s 1111 ' ▪ o rs vof the Beast of the Revelations MU.. a • des buttes, with a sudden love of seg % eo Pn rm med with a desire, and no doubt a tM delve, to assist the Irish relief fund. Accord !.7",i, !when taken occasion to deliver, for the benefit 7 a l l Irish Association, a lecture on a picture— ▪ p what picture ? Not on RAFFNELLE'S cartoon d , feeding of the five thousand, nor yet gcs i m eolous . draught of fishes, nor on any of the • of BORROmEO at Milan, nor on the 111!dilliTItstrations of Charity which are to be • sooty collection. By a curious coincidence, xlisunes teathetical judgment selected an histo -01 atuve of the trial of the seven bishop'. The t mat tyre were used to open the hearts Won dia=alito the distresses of the Irish papists; m i doubt, uhe warmed with admiration of the eir , and in critical appreciation of the colour ke was also unintentionally drawn on to 4stiste on the original of the painted scene, on the se oechments of 'Ames IL, on the resistance of the in d of Oxford, on the overthrow of the h og kis& and the final triumph of proteetantism. haps the moral also followed, altugh critics and m i l cell WI that art is su ffi cient for k tself without an Wiwi or religious key. And J. , there any moral hid within the mown at the ross We doubt not, however, that the orator deli stay intimated to the lovers of art in Liverpool, tilt while they subscribed for the Irish, and while they appreciated lights, and distances, and & l a g , they . should yet vote for some candidate to whose imagination Rome always painted itself in a land fire, like me of TURNER'S, and who woald re sist to the death all attempts to do common justice to sa y bet the holders of the true, genuine, low church, sisiemuitan! no-popery Another absurd exhibition of religious twaddle in a political struggle has arisen in the course of the Ox led contest. The Times rather humorously informed Mr. ROUND'' supporters, that he had been seen at a & a t* earl, where our pious contemporary can any hoped hehad not gone with religious objects. Mr. Roads supporters instantl y . took alarm. The charge t i d y declared was as calumnious as it was grave, and }bribed the ineffable absurdity to publish a statement at their candidate regularly attended a certain earth at Pimlico every Sunday morning and even *. We wonder they did not add certificates that he twined himself to three glasses of wine a day, roes belf-past seven, went to bed at eleven, and per treed all the other domestic duties of an English in a manner corresponding with his faalt- C d o ellan teervaace of the Sabbath. The Standard, more stir, backed up its friends in their absurdity. A congenial correspondent &r -obed that paper with a statement that whereas Mr. Bova had nut gone to a meeting-house, Mr. GLAD run had converted a lady of hoe family to Roman ia. Mr. GLADSTONE took the trouble to write to the Standard to declare the falsehood of this imperti rea chargs ; but at first could only obtain a declare hoc that, in the correspondent's opinion, the charge was nevertheless virtually true. On being farther pruned, this genuine contributor of the Standard con fessed his error, but justified it by the charge which had been brought against Mr. ROUND. I disapprove, he magnanimously says, of this mode of carrying on the contest: But I thought that if Mr. BOUND was to be watched and dogged, the same mode d attack might be made useful against his opponents. h other words, that if the Times had a joke against Mr. ROUND, the Standard might as well have a false hood against Mr. OLAnsTONE. To make the matter letter still, Mr. ROUND admits that the atrocious and calumnious charge is, in fact, tree. Re has only been there three or four times, but then he has ken—apparently for the purpose of whetting his appetite for the Pimlico services, by eager observation of the eccentric devotions of nocconformity. If he had not been there, his fall love for the church might have remained without sufficient development. It is disgraceful that a contest for Oxford should be mixed up with such gossip and twaddle as this. The educated constituency, who ought to judge of the capacity of their representative with a larger and more liberal view than can be expected of Wars or mechanics, allow themselves to be amassed by means which almost any borough in the country would despise. If Mr. ItouND's prin ciples and talents are such as they must believe them to be, he ought to be proof against the seductions of ern four dissenting sermons. If his supporters can not trust him in the enemy's camp, they must greatly doabt him in their own. But these follies will not beer argument. It is enough to mention them. On of those terrific catastrophes has occurred at Chester which we have long had reesin to expect : • *lway bridge gave way while a train wee poring, and train and passengers were pre eiPtated inta the depths below. Where the line of the Cheater and Shrewsbury Railway crosses the Bee with a bridge 300 feet long, one of the arches, or rather one side of one arch, crumbled down, and the were devoted to a new species of *fade, a horrid mixture of suffocation and con tain. The train had just started from the station, and was of course moving but slowly. The engine -driver, with incredible presence of mind, put big steam on the engine of the falling train, and the obedient locomotive, as by an instinctive spasm. bounded from the chasm, and bore its rider unharmed on to the solid land ; his companion on the tender, a few inches behind, being overwhelmed with the other Pilferers in the train. He has lived to tell us how, without any warning—how, without any previous symptom or we Amos or vibration in hie daily pas sages along the line, he had carried over train after train, both of heavy goods end, as in this case, light with managers, in perfect confidence ; and how, in an instant, without warning, or visible occasion, he felt the way yielding beneath him. But neither he nee any ere -witness of the accident seems able to ac count for its falling. All over the country the alarm excited has been great, and much natural, though perhaps somewhat nuliecrimiOste, indignation, has been felt and strongly expressed. As there are two or three bridges in every mile, over every line of railway, the chance of some one breaking down as a train passes over it, becomes a subject of anxiety to every railway traveller. We have, therefore, regarded the progress of the inquest with great interest, and have ex amined the scene of the disaster. The bridge is formed of iron girders or beams, nearly 100 feet each in length, and there are bridges of similar construc tion, though not of the same extent, in use on all the railways of the country. A pair of these girders support each line of rails. They are of great strength, being more than a yard in depth of solid icon casting, and have the additional security of what is willed •=ln t f of wrought iron bare, designed not merely to en the bridge, but also in case of fracture or *xi ent, to prevent it from falling down suddenly, as in this case unhappily it did, in spite of that precaution. The first question that oocarredto the public, and the first asked by the foreman of the jury, Sir E. WALKIEI4 was this: how came the railway board to sanction the opening eta bridge which many people now amen to have been always dangerous, and a subject of alarm ? This bridge it appears had been examined by General PASLET, the government inspector of railways ; in other words, the officer of public safety : he states that he not only had inspected the bridge, but also that he had the use of the plane of the bri from the engineers so as to satisfy himself of the mensions and proportions of the designs, as well as the quality of the workmanship, and that he passed the bridge as worthy of public confidence. If, therefore, the bridge was of a vicious construc tion, or formed on a bad principle by which the pub lic safety was in danger, it is plain that as far as the public are concerned, the responsibility of the acci dent lies entirely on the shoulders of the railway board and their late inspector-general, Oen. FABLE/. ft is plain that the railway directors having employed one of the best engineers of the country, and received the sanction of the officer of public safety, are in that case absolved from blame; and it now becomes the busmen of the public to see whether we do or do not provide ourselves with adequate provieions for public safety, by appointing a railway board, and paying the salary of inspectors sad • staif, which coat the country so many thousands a year. General PARLEY approved of the railway as adequately providing for the public safety ; but he states, that if the bridge were reconstructed in the same manner, he would not now pass it. His words expressly were, as we reported them on Thursday, when asked by Sir L. WALESA t " Now, General, if this bridge were restored to its original state, would you be prepared to pass it as fit for public security ? " "No, I would not." And again, " I should not now allow trains to pass over it without fixing independent supporters ;" and further, "I am not troubled with nervousness, but I certainly should not like to travel over it until it was secured as I have stated." Nor does he now for the first time question the stability of such structures: he hu long been of opinion " that the wrought iron tension bars would do little good." He knew that one of these castings had formerly been cracked, and was replaced ; therefore thinks that " these bridges are not safe"—"that it is a mere cast of a die between their safety and their danger ;" that "they are on the verge of danger;" and adds, "I always was of opinion, and am so still, that these tension rods are not of great use." It appears, there fore, that cast iron is liable to creek, which the In specter-General knew when he this bridge — that he always was of opinion tt i rte wrought iron bars, which the engineers who built the bridge added, in the belief that, in the case of a crack in the cast iron, they would prevent the fall of the bridge, were of no use. Nevertheless, having always entertained that opinion, and possessed that knowledge, he passed the bridge as adequate to public safety ; and has only now changed his opinion because the bridge has fallen! In these circumstances, it becomes a most serious Ruestion for the public to determine whether inspec tion of this kind does not tend rather to increase the public danger by taking off the shoulders of railway directors and engineers a reaponsibilitT which ought to be personal, immediate, and undivided ; whether such inspection, instead of affording a guarantee for tic safety, is not a mockery and a delusion which t i iles passengers into the belief that the spider's web-like structures that span the air are warranted by public patent, and enables railway directors to say, We are not engineers, but the inspector-general is ; he has passed the bridge, and we are exonerated. WHILE our Parliament and our Admiralty are ' debating uto the reasons why our ships and steam frigates are neither fast enough nor powerful enough for useful service, the Americans have undertaken an enterprise requiring ships of a larger class and a higher speed than any in this country. It has been clearly seen, both by France and America, that the existence of packet-ships traversing . the Atlantic, ready to be armed as steam-frigates in time of war, is an advantage which Great Britain cannot longer be allowed exclusively to enjoy; and so, under the auspices of the American government and the Prus sian (!), a new line of steam-ships, larger and more powerful than our own, is being constructed. One of them is already on the way, it is said, to this country. The Ocean Steam Navigation Company are to sail their ships from New York to Bremen, calling at Southampton. The engines are 1000-horse power, being high pressure, and having a 10 feet stroke, a 38 feet paddle-wheel, cylinders of 72 inches dia meter, boilers 36 feet by. 15. The paddles are seven feet wide, and have as feet immersion. It will be curious to see the practical result of promises so large. The company threaten to do the distance in nine days. If so, our Admiralty will do well to bestir themselves, and see whether such a class of ship, so much faster and more powerful than our own, would not be able, when armed , to choose h er ' dist ance, and do with us just what she pleased. One of those stirring diatribes which common re pute ascribes to the inspiration of M. Thiers, and which tell against the ministry with more effect than the most able speeches delivered from the oppo sition benches of the chamber, occupied the leading columns of the Constitutionnel of Thursday. It is devoted to a resume of the consequences of the Spanish marriage affair of last autumn, respecting which each magnificent hopes were held forth by the partizans of the foreign policy of the Guizot cabinet. The Paris journals comment on the contrast pre sented by the refusal of M. Guizot to afford the chamber any information on the subject of the pro posed intervention in Portugal and the promptitude with which the English ministers gave the required information to both houses of parliament. There is no intelligence of general interest in the journals or correspondence of Paris. The Madrid journals of the 29th ult. have been re ceived, but are destitute of news. The King was still at the Pardo. It was said that, after the 10th inst., the Queen, with her suite, would remove to the pa lace of St. lidefonso. The Pope's nuncio was expected in Madrid on the evening of the 29th. It had not yet been announced that the army of intervention had crossed the Portuguese frontier. El Faro says that the operations of the army of intervention cannot proceed, in consequence of the financial embarrass ments of the government. PORTUGAL. We yesterday published news by the Peninsm, and Onental company's steam ship Tiger, to the fol lowing dates : Gibraltar, May 26 ; Cadiz, 27 ; Lie xi, 29 ; Oporto, 30 ; and Vigo, 31. Our corn spond ent's letter gives a complete account of the state of affairs at the starting of the Tiger LISBON, Hay 29. Now that the bubble of non-intervention on the of England in the domestic affairs Of Portugal has b urs t, and the sodden dterieticee in Leg Palmerstos's has Marro politely brews. it, pelisse, say be amid , to Men:l;lZ* end le *New a neemosom pima ow*, phases al the we win* to abort to be gear's& In so onespensd sad amejemseises a =sm. Thom orb, as guides Is to the rising delsiodastism of the Isjg=tinst to war the Portuguese pseuds to IMO their thsnestives, std to abstain fro interferon • a= t er the Mbar. Nor did the animist the commisalsosus, Ostend We asset Menuimß tend to sire this iorrm• se keg es their WINO wage oneathorrised and undid by the British W ainer at Wiest The thoreasta knowledge of the rats of pates opinion, and at dr real causes in wkidi the reyolialiom took its the, poems& by the Ido oho* &affairs' bore. pretest • r steatites block to the esert perly, but Mr. Southern wee weavo& awl the swifts =ant of Sir H. Ssymose, on eakkatial = .12 :1 King Leopold, to the Liam smimerq, anflisisatly isoleseell the new turn which die rem M teas. The sea equisar have been the total sherlsollund of the line it Mid heretehre so preiselly ebeerva, end the ormshment ef England to en NEM intamotioa in a purely dowsed, quarrel, which may yet Uri be. into • series of acts of the vee r grat and most costly drodplsa. The recent of Si H. Sertnoar . and Ostend i Wylde to th i n= sad its goner& naivonally felt here at sus. reposer. In pressing the propositions of our gems. moot upon the Junta Sir H. Se_citerecteriese ihmis as *swim the " maternal and simt iatorisos" of the QOM*, whose graciousness Neer the topic sf swim psnS s a the same letter eilmessi to Des Aldo ; end s is used by our sedisiseter, in despite of the t ae to the whelp nation, that the lo mat berovolsot iatestioos= Maria were under almonds& fie the period of a fortnight before they IMO MO* oviestootly awed to, and that it was only by Sommos, approsehiml!sosomo, that Sir H. Seymour convinced Her Hist Nakoty of the necessity of according the whet* dthe forms met oat by Lord Palmerston, with:tat any alteration whatever bring made in than. The fact is, se I AMA to a former letter, the Queen of Pampa was most profoundly humiliated et haft hermit ander the sessmity accepting the media,. ties et WeesM sad Spain mon the conditioes Wheel by worldlier, sof, thomalbre, es ke tecother intentions having been lorrosiont gresitom, they won coostrained and so gmoless, sod they were ezterted free bee at a prim whisk oar sear maw the recollection of tie irsmaction a polling sad paid& ems. If seem, am to dwell upon a Mph which will , I fear , leave soy imp sod lasting traces Wag afar the immediate emergereey hes sabsided, it is moorry to state that, after the stegesnes of s fa-might, the waratmator Bulldog arrived here tam Portsmouth, bringing replies to the despatch" seed home per Jackal, on the 14th instant, which replies, I understand, are an terrors' of the proceedings a Sir H. Seymour and Colonel Wylde, and the tTanelnielea of orders to the admiral in command of the fleet lyisig _ls ths Tagus to take such immediate ma y be concert government of Donna Maria, as may be found nasty le reduce the junta and the generals in arms to instant lab- simian to the Queen. How this determination is to be car ried out lam at a loss to divine at present. The general impression at Lisbon is, that the Spanish troops are to ad. ranee from Tay on Oporto on the one aide, and from Badajoz into the Alittrve and Alemtejo on the sither,whilst our vessels and the marines are to lend their aid on the coast and in the two rivers Tagus and Douro, as occasion requiem The ulldog landed liavilaud, a queen's me s senger, at Vigo, and THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 5, 1847. he issmadkulat ir proeseded en hie Journey to Madrid, bowleg as . M. Maw. igrrs eali Ms to et whisk these proceedings will have, it is as yet , Minirto speak. A letter from **Viscount de 81, t.. Übes, May 26, states it to be his intention to re sist keel & intervention by force of arms, and to submit only 1 to the or of the victor. But, subsequently to this, the I Plissween same in from Oporto, bringing despatches vr aialakted, it wee currently reported, the acceptance, of the mediatory terms proposed by England aad , and throwing the responsibility of dirk being into full and complete effect upon the powers by l Whose Instrumentality they were imposed. This sounds pknibly enough, and, as Polyphemus was despatched out of the Tagus within an hour of her snivel, it seems likely that she has gone to St. Übes to I convey the orders of the junta to Sades Bandeira, r who, in that case, will make his immediate submission. In the mean time, there was a great deal of firing heard on the morning of the 28th in the direction of St. Ghee, hut from the inquiries I have made I have been led to believe that the cannonading was oanfined to a few redoubts, and that no sortie was attemtted. The Superb is at St. bee, where, together with Phcenix, she is observing the insurgent forte under Sade Bandeira. A few days ago an account reached Lisbon that one of the Oporto stamen had fired into the Donna Maria frigate, and several shots having taken effect in her hull and mmenutast, the latter bore up and made the best of her way into Vigo. Polyphemus brought intelligence that the Mindello (one of the junta steamers) was steaming close behind her on her way to St. Übes. The mission of Polyphemus to that place is, as I am since informed, for the purpose of putting a stop to any naval movements on the part of the rebels. She brought, also, intelligence from pO eto that, on the 21st inst., a meeting of the British inhabitants there had been summoned by the consul, when he declared to them that he had received orders from Lisbon to demand a sus pension of arms from Des Antes; end that if this sou not acceded to, he informed the meeting that, as the Gladiator would probably have to leave the River Douro, he there fore intimated these facts, in case any person wished to take refuge en beard and to leave the cry. This meeting, like the preceding one, called in January last under similar circumstances, produced no results, as the British inhabi tants at Oporto did not appear to be apprehensive of the vio lence of the Portuguese. I also learn, by a private letter of the 27th, that the Fos Castle had been reinforced with 1,600 men, avowedly with the intention of firing on the Gladiator and the Spanish brig stationed in the Douro, in case the junta's steamers should be taken possession of by the British or Spanish war vessels. The Bulldog is still here taking coals. The Dublin Steam Company's packet Duke of Cornwall, commanded by Captain Kempston, went this afternoon to ' Figueira in order to convey despatches from the governor to Saldanha, who remains still at Oliveira de Asemms. P.S. I have not adverted to the fact that France com bines also with England and Spain in this armed interven don : the assistance Louis Philippe is to render is confined to the " moral weight of his recommendation and approval of our policy." FRANCK—BAYONNE, MAT 29.—The Spanish general, Alma, and Co!. Don Lnis-Antonio Garcia-Puente, both of them Carlist refugees, were arrested yesterday, by the police, in a house in which they had secreted themselves. General Don Juliano Joaquin de Alias is one of the leading men of the Carlist party. He is still young, and bears a name unblemished by any set of cruelty during the civil war. Under existing circurnstancea, this will be a death blow to the desperate hopes entertained by the Carlini of Guipmcos, of Biscay., and of Navarre ; and in this respect his capture is one of high importance for the cause of the Queen. General Alma is considered to share the full con fidence of the Count de Moutemolin. Different modals, bearing the effigy of the Duke of Bordeaux, which were found upon his person, prove that he was in communication with the French legitimists. Col. Garcia Puente held a high office in the department of the ministry of war under Don Carlos. Other artiste have been made, but of little or no importance. A corre spondent writes to us, under the date of the 31st ult., that " General Alma was to leave Bayonne on the let inst. for Limoges, which had been assigned to him for his future abode by the French government." The mayor and muni cipality of St Jean de Lus have sent in their resignations to the French government in consequence of Dr. Dop, one of their solleagues, having been subjected to a domiciliary visit by the police in quest of Carlisle. COLONIAL. NEW SOUTH WALES.—The following satiafac tory extract of a letter from a gentleman of high position in this colony, dated Sydney, Feb. 17, contains in brief space the substance of all the intelligence we have received by the latest arrivals. From other sources we learn that the wool clip of the season, though later than meal in reaching the coast, on account of the floods in the Mader, is excellent both in quantity and qtaility. The imemerett etas waft et the set ft pirllansenteating the ado et Isms br berm rem ml the Apt et pre. Ire den mibiatisa Ns ellary. are lwbs e lemar Mpreammle rear reenialrarbil elfish . dr i er bre MOM barb tem staledpra . We bd mar seer Mt et made te eor WM in Mit emelm la the aim Ire re =Maw et m* teer mt Meer ten to bra dismad mem rub fed MI andemMle deMbrig aim. We bare bed a terbrenee et Me be dis bittern Ewes dm sae intrmir at saw to dr Mr. Mae bled one Telat 11 = Wan by be Maw et redo MMus; f* et the = 9l lsee net yet MON& MN/ mos bay set yet got dem Mee beta nip Tails, ere arm tbe red te be daldnid tre swantlia ; bat fa Ms made tbo grons mot Woolson Our VII eattle are wake tn fat, sad Ys data do prim of tallow kw many to mho azionsira anomownonto for down. THE HALIFAX AND BOSTON MAIL.—The Cambria, Captain Judkins, sailed yeeaseday from Liverpool with mails and pamengers for Halif a sail Boston. She took out very little specie, the whole sum being under 13,0001. Qrourt. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.--H.R.H. Prince George left the castle this morning for town. Lord and Lady John Russell took their de parture for London this forenoon. The Duke of Norfolk, Earl Foremen., and Earl Spencer, also left for the metropolis. H.S.H. Prince F. Lishstenstein, H.S.H. Prince Lowenstein, the Duchess of Sutherland, and Lady Caroline L. Gower and Lord George Lennox, let in the °eine of the day. H. I.H. the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, their RR. HR. the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grind Duchess o f thite Weimar, and H.R.H. the Prime of Laos, took leave oldie Quin and Prince Albert, and with link sequive one pesseded to the Slough station in baktemsNot at 8 o'clock this afternoon. Queen and Prime Albert, the Prince of Via Prince Alfred, the Princes Royal, the Princes. AM" the Princess Helena, the Peace of Leiningen,_ the Thenetess Jocelyn, the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Hon. Ms Stanley, Hon. Miss Dewson, Lord Camay*, Major filem.lnswks, Lient.-Col. the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Majorthe fees A. N. Hood, Lord Alfred Paget, and Capt. the Hon. A. IL Gordon, left the castle soon after four o'clock this afternoon, in five royal carriages and four, escorted by a party of the le Regiment of Life Guards, fur the Slough station of the Great Western Rail way, and travelled to town by • special train. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the royal. children and the Prince of Leiningen, and attended by the Lady and Maids or Honour in Waiting, the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, the Lord, the Groom, and the Equerries in .-C Waiting, Lieutol. the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and the Master of the Household, arrived at Buckingham Palace at twenty. five minutes past, ea o'clock yeeterday afternoon, from the Paddington terminus of the Great Western Railway, s cored by a party of the 12th Lancers. Her Majesty and her Royal Consort were received at Buckingham Palace by Lady Caroline Cocks and the Hon. Miss Paget, Maids of Honour; the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Master of the Horse. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Leiningen, honoured the performance of the French Plays with their presence yesterday evening. The Royal suite consisted of the Viscount Jocelyn, Lady Caro. line Cocks, Lord Calmly., Lord Alfred Paget, and Capt. the Hon. A. H. Gordon. Ladyy Caroline Cox and the Hon. Miss Paget have succeeded the Hon. Misses Stanley and Dawson as Ole Maids of Honour in waiting to her Majesty. H.A.H. Prince Oscar of Sweden arrived in town yesterday afternoon, from the continent. H.R.H travelled to the metropolis b a the London and South Western Rail wa, arriving at theine Elms terminus at ten minutes be forey six o'clock, attended by Baron de Rehausen, tivedia charge d'affaires, and Colonel Berkeley Drummond, groom in waiting to her Majesty. Prince Oscar and suite entered one of the Queen's carriages, which was in readiness at the station, and proceeded to the residence of Baron de Rehaa ern, in Halkin-street west. Soon after his arrival H.R.H. paid a visit to the Grand Duke Constantine of Rawls, et Mivart's Hotel. H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent took a carriage drive yesterday. Their RR.HH. the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchene of Saxe-Weimar and snits arrived at Heap borough.house, the residence of her Majesty the Queen Do r, at half-past four o'clock yesterday afternoce, Ikea a Tait to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. H.R.H. Prince George returned to his residence in St. James's Palace yesterday, from Windsor Castle. The Committee on Education of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council held a meeting at the Council-office, at twelve o'clock yesterday, which was at tended by the Lord President, Lori J. Russell, the Earl of Clarendon, the Earl ot Auckland, the Earl of Minto. the Viscount Morpeth, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Sir G. Grey. Mr. K. Sbuttleworth was in attendance. A deputation from Rochester had an interview with the Right Hon. E. Strati yesterday, at the office of the Com missioners of Railway's, in Great George-atreet.—Sir H. W. Barron had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon yester day.--A. deputation from the Board of Guardians of the Holborn Union had an interview with the Comminionen of her Majesty's Woods and Forests yesterday.—Mr. Roebuck had an interview with Lord J. Rumen yesterday, at his offi cial residence, in Downing.street.—Lord Bemedale had an interview, yesterday, with the Right lion. E. Strutt. (From Wt night's (hustle.) WAILOFFIOE, AMU 4. let Life Celx—Capt. C. K. Macdonald, from 11.. p. Coat., to be cant., vice 0. Ruahout, who each. Lieut. J. Ferrer to be eapt., by pair., rice Macdonald, wbo get. • Cornet and bab-Lieu4 H. D. BtrestAeld to be l ieut., by par.: 'W. A. Eraser, Bart., to be cornet and sub. lieuL by pt. 7th I. Gds.—Capt. A. C. BentlnelL from Cape Mounted RUM. men, to be apt., elm A. IL Mhgrell, 'who ret. on h..p. of 60th F. 14th Lt. Dragn—Regtl. Seri:Awe G. Lamb 'e be quartemost., ice Rms•r a npp. paymist. Mb Fat—A. Davies Oa be we, by per., vice Damn, spy. to lard F. IBM E.-Lira. W. T. Ernes to be eapt., without par., vice Emote, Moth F.—F. T. Mamie, to be ma., by par, vim Comatry, prem. S3rd F.—Ens. and Adit. J. W. Mows to lie Drat, fly per., vim Loom who rd.; Ens. A. J. Daman, dam 01b F.. 10 bi en., •ia• Mb F.—T. Blatherodet t. be rent.4corg., Moe Webb, app. to the AWL 76th F.—Ea. J. C. Clarke to be Bast., by par., Moe Outdo; who rot. ; W. M. Weitropp to be ma, by par. Nth F.—Arslat.-darg. J. SUN* M.D., from the MA to be moist onrjavicelowts, doe. F. :• 0. Mane. hoe been snowed to res. his CCM. 90th F.—Lieut. T. Rau to heart, by par., vise Posh, who ; Erma. E. Viral to lie Matt., by par. ; W.V. Tinllag to be res., by tut. Pird F.—Lieut. W. T. Workhouse, hom b.-p. as payloari of let Dna, to to Emit., vice Brown, prom ; Ens. W. W. Carden to be Bma-, by by par., vice Wade, wbo mt. ; W. D Macdonald to be NI L, par. Cape Mounted Billemen—Capt. O. Johnstom from h.-p. 00th F., to be apt., use Dentin* app. to 7th Dm. Oda. licesrmaraya—Auart.-Surg. V. Webb ham 67th F., to be moist, ▪ to Immo, vice M•Nab, sop. to 7tth F. .-1b be Melon to the army; Copt. C. IL Masicsald, of M.ll - 06t. ; Copt. 0. Jokesters, of Cape Mounted Rifleman. THE MURDER IN MARYLEBONE. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. DVANAII, Noarn.—The Hod. 11. T. Liddell, who bra represented the scent Ithislol2 of the county of Badman since 1637, has declared bis intention again to become • candidate at an approaching di/Atha. In his address to the electors Mr. Liddell rye: " Mehemet I may not be prepared to avow {indica coaailense fa leer Majesty's premed edseinis nation, anther am I disputa Ie offer to them a systematic, still Ws • vexatiousosppeshien" The appearance of Mr. Liddell's eddress has taken the liberals rather by sarpries, as they expected he would net epic offer himself; but as a contest now appals basAabis, and both parties are confident of seem" if anode to predict the result till a caner takes place. It is ez=t i siberal candidates will mo menta their cancan Essex, Bourn.—)dr. Palmer Ism hosed an address in which he states his retiremsat on the plea of advanced age. Mr. W. Bowyer Smyth is in the field u • candidate. In his address to the siselers, ha says:—' I ground my claim to your support moss the Whereas, which I profess to the semi priesigies whisk have astestad Mr. Palmer shrewish his kw, sea kesaL and benethithill eerier." This stalemest is aimed an eauttade s a of esseerwative otios► sebum assierina ;maiden in piese MILL Bea: Last evening an inquest was held before Mr. Mills, at the Carpenters' Arms, Adam-street West, Bryanstone square, to investigate the cireurnstauces connected with the death of Mary Stowell, the aged female alleged to have been murdered by a woman named Mary-Ann Haat, on the night of Tuesday lad. The jury built; viewed the body, the evi dence wan entered into. Charles Bettereby, peliee-constable, said : On the of Wednesday last found the deceased deed in the kitchen of the house, No. 40, Adam-street West, at sboat a quarter put five o'clock. About a quarter past four en the same morning I was passing through Adam-street West, and saw a woman, named Mary-Ann Hunt, put bar head outside the street door of No. 40. She had her bonnet on, and the moment she saw me she drew her head back and closed the door. I thought it looked suspicious, and I concealed myself. About a quarter before five, the 811/110 woman eame out with two bundles, but seeing me she threw the bundles in again, and then went in and shut the door. Shortly after, the door was opened, end I got my hand in and forced it open. I then saw Mary Ann Hunt in the garage and said, "Do these bundles belong to you ?" She said, " Yea" She said she lodged with the old lady in the front kitchen. I went down stairs with her. As we weed back towards the back kitchen-door, my shoulder tot it, and she them said," Don't say I did it, for I havn't seen her since last night." The woman Hunt had a reticule on her arm, and she took a pound's worth of silver from it, and said she would give it me if I would let her go. I said I was sus- pleions before, but I am confident now that something is wrong. I then took her up to the person who lived in the shop, and she identified the woman as living with the de ceased in the back kitchen. I then took her down Main spin, and after knocking at the door without effect, I went into the yard to look in at the window, and whilst doing so, the prisoner endeavoured to escape by means of a water. pipe on to tie wall, but I prevented her. She then asked to go into the closet, and I allowed her, but as she tried to shut the door, I looked in and found her trying to strangle herself. thett took her up, and, hay ing given her into the melody of another mutable, I went down stairs and got into the back kitchen by mans of the window. I then discovered the body of the deceased lying with her head end, r the grate, with the rope I now produce tied tightly six times round her neck. I found a great deal of blood on my hands, and then saw her face wee covered with blood. The person who committed the act must have got out of the kitchen-window, as the door WY locked, and I found the key under the body. There was no money in the room ; but I have two watches, a break ring, and other trinkets, which I found in demosed's pockets, and her daughter has identified them as the ceased's property. On examining the woman Hunt at the station, 'I found that the gown she had on at the time I took her into custody was eovEW with blood. It was stained on the left arm to the extent of three or four inches. There were sand spots of blood on the breast and front of the gown. Her hands were clean, and there was an appearance es if she had attempted to wash some of the blood from the wrist of the gown. The wines& here produced the poker, which I was covered with blood and hair, as also the clothes of the accused, for examination by the coroner and jury. Susannah Nisbet—l reside at No. 40, Adam-street West. I last saw the deceased alive about three o'clock in the after noon of Tuesday. I was then in the yard, and deceased was en the kitchen-stairs. She then appeared as usual. The woman Mary Anne Hunt lived with the deceased, and was, I believe, a servant out of place. She bad lived with her 10 or 11 weeks, as a fellow-lodger with deceased. I last saw Hunt about 9 o'clock on Tuesday night, coming along the passage from the kitchen stairs. She held down her head, an.appeared ashamed. I heard Hunt quarrelling with the deceased, on Monday night, and in the course of it I heard one of the voices, which I believe to be Hunt's, say, "I will do fc; Sarah Sinclair said—l had a conversation with- the de- ' ceased at three o'clock on the Tuesday afternoon. Deceased asked me if I heard her quarrelling over night with Hunt, and said she was afraid to go to bed, as Hunt said she would do for her. I advised her to lock Mary Anne Hunt out, and we thee parted. The witnere Nisbet was recalled, and, in answer to a question, stated that she bad heard the seemed, Hunt, say that she knew deceased was an old miser, and had got plenty of money in that drawer, pointing to one in the kiteken. Mr. Wm. Crofton Moat said, on Tuesday morning I was called to see the body. It was cold, end the limbs were rigid. Blood was flowing from the nose and mouth. I found the card produced tied ate them round the neck, but it was not tighe uselokbr Frahm strangulation. My impression it that deemed Li bustard about eight lams. I have, by order of the emover, mule a pod merlons examination. Externally Mead had dewed ever dr deed end tight arm, and the head bid la a pod el' blood. Oa the right side of the scalp there wee a mark of violence, bat the skull was sound. Gnat achymosis existed around the right eye ; the eye was aramisent, C 1115434 by a severe bruin ; the tongue projeded * starters of en inch beyond tits gums. The marks cm the did not indicate th a t the mud was tight. Under the kilt Me et the jaw there was esigineebertending from the ebbs to the eagle. A similar meek was near the Lvertehme. The ribs on both sides were vary eaten freseered, indeed broke, quite through. Th ere was eengodea of the mode of the chest amend the The rings of the windpi pe os were bettered by violent*, and the oracles was with bleed. The lungs were ceselted by the fractured ri bs . The cause of the de ceased's death was the rush of blood into the sir verde of the hogs, caused by the crushing in of the ribs upon them. The ribs might have been broken in by damping with the feet, lent I should think it was done by a larger surface. I Milne that she was first injured over the right eye by an inetrameat at least two inches in dreumbrence. I do not think the pair ereineei was the WIWI& Mg. I have no doubt that thtiles been greiment hem the ereelleg in of the chest I nee the sewn yreithel, end I have no dienht the 'ph en them eve mike 'flirted. H. thurtentan peeved that the eyed produced was the pint et a eiedemast she had placed el i az d t i te . purge of the kitchens in the twee where demand The NMI" then proceeded to rem up the evidence, and I. the jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder'," against Mary Anne Hunt, and the . coroner issued his warrant for her committal to Newgate. DIQUEBTS, YESTEBDAT.-BTASVINO A CHILD TO of the DELTE.—Bahn Mr. G. L Milk, la thi , B i anca room Merytehwee Weekbeess, us whisk oomph& several bee% wpm Idaad=iAlima,l.9l4t wbost Perowto MOSS Et Moilhaluat, Odard guest Mr. hales, the depend that des lather, who was aimed in the warismeldal 1110.N11, hid been ht gems thee eat of week, and bad hew he three week' in Midallaseuheeldte dozing the seeelle eta. The woman was a maltelesdi baekma, whe idedied everythlog to buy drink. Leta ea th. Maid sills na al April a person in formed Mee fiat the eldldrea wen with h He had the date *mod, when he hod raying that the 14nWn had been remewed, and saw the two children lying naked trader the ticking of the bed, and aryls.. H. sand in • lady who lived In the parlour, sad whoa the meeker »tweed home gave her into custody for steeling the !matters. The father wasthe& in the hospital. The shake& wen brought to the Maryialwase workhouse, where the desma ri d ded, se the 27th lA, ,H he' Allan, sod alas pose, h for a long pedal her miller had kft hit lad the decoutd without say ether had deorhig the day bat a palmy loaf and water, sad OEIO'IO6V/du they seldom had ere, although they ware almost mini Her mother frequently beat her with a nd sad her wiel d with a stick. Her lather was kind, ff in work lave takes cars ef them ; bat when he attempted to de se her needier tamed Met oat. Mr. Allen, surgeon to the weeldwrese, whe speed the body, mid that it was very emaciated ; the somentary , sad hags were diseased, end en effuaion had taken place in the ven tricles of the brain end the pericardium, which causeddeath. Deceased only weighed 131 lbs. Several other whamue proved that the mother, although she had ample mom to feed them, starved and neglected her childria.—Yadiet, " Manslaughter waited Elisabeth Allen, the amelliar."— TEX DOUBLE SUICIDE IN THE SISPENTIIII.-114110 at the Raw and Crown, Kni=senc i a t y l er se bo B Iph Blackman, aged 35, and aged 24, who m eoelitted saki& together in the Ilerpeatlae , as moduli la ear pew et yesterday. Mary Ana HAY, of No. 10, itaimesaist,Maida-hill, ideeilied the beam of the desessal. Blackman was by trade a pedalos sad shist, and Mae Hellas, sister of witness, was a amereatoeisailly sat of pima, and resided with her. Her sheer Ilest Wow es quainted with Blackman while in parka et NeL ffilr Post man-street, Portman-equare. Her Oster was seer her con finement, cad latterly had been in exostaingly Wl= frequently declaring she should drown hereeff. B had told her sister he was single, and it was not until De cember that she found he was a married man. Her deeeseed sister went out on Tuesday last, and did not return, but on the next day she received the following letter : " Dear Mary—You will receive this from me as the last. I hope I shall he a trouble no more in this world. My dear mother has all my thoughts ; end now farewell.—Euza Hows."— , Jens Blackman, of Jemossitreet, Oxford-ghee% mid the de ceased (Blackman) was her husband, and that she knew of the intercourse between him and Hollis. He never threat used to commit suicide, but was very anxious about the girl, who he feared would make away with herself. Witnesa had learned that the girl, after she left her home on Tuesday, went and took Blackman away from his work. Nothing more was beard of them until their bodies were found in the Serpentine between 4 and 6 o'clock on Thursday morning.— The jury returned a verdict of " Found drowned but how the deceased got into the sestet there was not sufficient Eti. SICDCe to show." He toya: By slosalimt etaveriet I am ems, ettethei le the era third *ask god stionjorsedy greed streport ls the morstent laseralses of dm warn einer arewmaat of a Isms sorer Ala ire aat the mess time din Owen issamet Nese rot arty of orreme era I emend tee meeste I weserly armee owita ie ntr; ewe err may mew to re eirathe • eerie mond soma of re prim Detembel to err Ow Mosso of Oisimens un ordeal byersa by Dry, l a sm entl gift to the =ret lord klatil ressimelet support, eselfer rathelsof en swotp eta permit day the best as *pre arlimet. Ganiorence.-14 to the present time no conservative candidate has boas aaseamed to contest this borough with its present mismbars, Admiral J. W. D. Damii:e and E. 0. Barnard, Esq. A requisition has been talked of to Sir C. Earley Smith who has succeeded to the estates of the late Lord Sap and ' Sele, but nothing definite has yet transpired. KENT, Woor.-It is not the present intention of the liberals of this district to allow the present members to walk over the course. A requisition has been presented to Col. Angerstein, son of J. J. Angerstein, Esq., of Woodland., Blackheath, and that gentleman has consented to stand for the division, provided its former long tried mortar, Thos. Law Hodges, will not again come forward. Communications are now parsing through the Central Reform Association at Maidstone, to ascertain Mr. Hodges's sentiments, but either Mr. Hodges or Col. Aageretein wall certainly be put forward LICHFIELD.- It is believed that the conservatives of this city will not take the field on this occasion. Nothing has yet been heard from Capt. Dyott or his friends; and, In all probability, the election will be a "walkover." It is under stood that the Hon. E. M. Mostyn retires, and that Viscount Anson will succeed him : this was declared to be the ar rangement at the time the hon. gentleman was elected, his lordship not having at that time attained his majority. Lord Alfred Paget wi'l stand again, although, in the event of any opposition, it would of course be directed against his lordship. MARTLEBONIL-Two MORE CANDIDATES. -Yesterday a meeting of elect" members of the " Vented Reform Associttion," took place at the Rising Sun Tavern, New road, for the purpose of considering the steps necessary to be taken with reference to the representation of the borough. J. Howarth, Esq., senior churchwarden of St. Pancras, presided. Mr. Serjeant Shee (one of the candidates) was present. The meeting was of a very stormy character.- On the confirmation of the minutes being . proposed, Mr. Belton moved that the vote of con fi dence in Sir Ben jamin Hall, Bart, be reminded. He contended that Sir Benjamin Hall had neglected his duties to his consti tuenta.-Mr. Boyls rounded the amendment-Messrs. H. C.. Wilson, Potter, Aldis, and other gentlemen, warmly defended the conduct of Sir Benjamin Hall. especially during the last twelve months, and contended that, if nothing else, the bold stand the hon. baronet had made in the cause of Ireland entitled him again to the con fidants' sad the hearty support of the electors of Marylebone. O r e i to .... % gr eestlirlesing put, the vote of confidence was ma ll then read the following communica tion bra =Napier, in reference to he rejection as a essiliste *dim aselory, Whit, Kay It, 1547.--ntr,-I bays la ackao.- kelp reeept of yew latter, osehming the ropy of a rasstation unman** pond by *Diem eel llegle*Mon Asseebtlaa, we. ***** as es my pram" sip*** far tab* I WS to NW= my Win I ham abs malvel semmoNsattem ears tbe osartistire or the remessrallsnotrrylsheakeet sours is to sess*-1 ha, Comae le . eeteMbeeteTh °°` T h is ßo:Amen, Beg., fleamery, Beers ithssides, hha tusta been snared on the minutes, Mr. NSW said he thought the Om bed aow arrived when the soneolation should take some stop with reference to the borough election. They had, it was true, several candidates before them, bat to has thinking there was not as yet one up to the mark re. quired by such a borough as Marylebone. (Hear, hear.) Marylebono had a right to expect the moat talented men in the kingdom as its representatives, and he (Mr. Potter) be lieved he was right in saying that the liberal electors had the oppertausity of Nieces( sesh men if they thought proper. (Maar, hoar.) It *aid be remembered that in the year 111S4, the united vestries el the borough of Mary lobar imbed a gentleman to co* forward who would have dome be. to =but who, sessequent on unforeseen ei He srmat Kr. D. W. Harvey. He (Mr. potter) taken the liberty of communicating with that *adman as an einefar, sad be - would now submit the correspning* to the =din. It *a as follows : 7S, Oraelheaninsit. *Ns 1.-I+ner Sr : I *Wm free nennpaper report** yea ars *A* lei Se as* wham* Tea may 1 osseatlhenrartemmehhhteskyiscal•MarylatisabbaSSlods yea ware *mint by very toms stejsellyee es thin *ld* at 1 tbelmisesb sa esprammt them to bee Mows et Omer* las a reamheret the Ilmaylnher Siam koidalroo leery et tae piss sa *fa le emilei I bemswith wit* erlon of pear prim** a* Is ashal. belintag pea as mien* Ore gni* I las so kag firitbsythaal ylea es a pais *a a* ism I** I have, NI If yaw aims issOY birsessolloths • Sim me a sa*elty of *um obearrnbas mg. pert yea Is Om ammer set he* is oar *St Meow*" anew= Y Wren* ysa se the sisers at Imp NS a anYiMe be *sir ad. tressa-1 remain, be., Taos. Porma-th W. HerVili, les. Sea. To this be (Mr. Potter) hed received tho flaDowfai reply Oil lii S hem* ze L-Denr Sir : I revert wt* pram to thaossamene =to Wow. when • ImSISMIMISY ths ragralabities at Meryl ge e esbassa gee in Ohs *Sift erg peal* repremot them la penarsea• se I defter pm* paw *let **SA they bid my mom visa retarnid by Ye Ispongh et L.* t, ~at he alms Pas hemearal me • imllar hnibelh* Tam War, I* romitel, Is Os yelpibeinerebhal ilm* the Owl* animas Cal phms ONO* smil a** br*y ea rmrs alosilesar Iczecer s 14114==in. br ua lte *Om IWO *Mr imam W mumble olneli law um** 1* Ism mapiessoWths alignet thdr priehrume• I ill** am rimed la *as *unit l• their hem*. a* *ea Kama am MIL 1111** no year *Ms* Is net** news yea auk bur no mint* of woad* grimelples. Sr ins usikapartkftwoa heard la the or* My** hem ham will aim harp** romaist la then radar 11•• A my Anew apes pi* mean be boosL WWI I Mme, I semi; a* audit nem@ Os ell* al row dri ft yea nil my *dos sa I ems hays Isom ths Ikea suppeeW of sway maw* esidelel mem* the Imp*, el the Login sad *MI *haver hs so aseared as hy =lbw inerytting; we *Mk the makeusrele wlinnwribrusgralfebe it may appear.-I, " rtt paw, Mr. Donate ootobisioi la terd Dudley Stuart to Mr. D. W. Harvey, sad onshlared it premature to Aims the nobs of the **Wien will the whole of them err bakes the seseggisa 'ts he aembiesd. T h ey li g h t the. trod thin Ms. Nam, led &sopa hislpinn Ds gm* tits hiseMbg rasehedse That a committee be to suelda wbother the several candidata will submit aims SO tis sagratestatica et the Wee& to the destion Mae mgmili 4 s ise t this amosistbsk awl ia tam the italt ensideeloi the assoclatios be egmeevai en, the Moslem et a meeting (to le b ey We that ), WM, will win treat the cad* Ihr the assi se fikr mar shall have hem yeah* from the mai =lll***Mtbs shall cell a yodel meeting eitbe ea ts wig* tbe whole ofthoeaodidateeehallbein tlipi to 'Mead, sad that at that mosting a ballot by the PM** of the smosigisa shall take plies, to do. &whirl the monelnilla shall smog.' M. aseemied the imelsloa. Mr. Densest the pegeettlne a sms, as It would ea= bust to he hip* Lord IWO would be slid If kt altered Ids_gelitim emir rirwArena& fressr, hear.)-Mr. kW* eggsersei seristi" awl blued to add the name of tram sollomit as otatille& (lassgborr He hat bum or vitiate emesesres se • emiltbio Nls . 1. L. Bohent-iir. ▪ gise In mew on sissmeNith. =Met so* ossitatiao, otbooMbet, "That the shell herein, de in So gages fa favour of, and suggest MIS one of Ibe ems& Ewho mar cobalt their probados >represst the , without sheibiss any glatip kaat the ea* see a *AM* of tag mggeetod by the swastatfaa.-Hr. Bremen sesembi iho raseabssat.- llogsaat Shoe, in a kimi ginsailli *Mk sairsessi ens rap ea • member of the amoshilea. He Ilsolted the goadeessa he had met, for the freak opinions thug bad him, and said he was sure the IMPS le = "sa ssetras al liras in %, t e better man it would make him, and he moat to lig as the gallant Sir C. Napier did, to attend entry aseedng laid, in order (as the objection to him was thatio was unknown) that he might be known. (Hear.) They mid he was an untried man. That made him the more anxious to be tried, and he hoped and believed the electors of Idarylebone would give him the trial. The learned serjeant said he would retrain from entering into his political sentiments in the abeam of the other candidates.- The origioal resolution was ultimately carried almost unapt measly, and a committee was appeanted. STAFFORDSHIRE (Sours).- he liberals are strong "sough to return a good Colleague for Col. Anson, but up t• the present time no efforts have been made to seem a can didate. A oorreapondent rays :-" Lord listherton's eldest son goes upon a bad tack at Walsall ; If the hon. gentleman could be induced to change the venue for the county, with pod management, his election would be almost a certainty. Lord Inflame is far from popular." STAPFORDSHIRS (NORTH). -Mr. JOSS Watts Rumen some time since announced his determination to retire, and nothing has been heard from the hon. gentleman that would A Vaantcr of Accidental death Was been returned by the lead to the inference that he has changed his resolve ; in all jury empanelled to investigate the causes of the fatal mei probability he will be succeeded by Yr. Buller, who formerly dent at the Chunock Richaod pit. represented the division, and at present M.P. for Stafford, Meourrasras tours CORONRIO.-In Manchester, a but the hon. gentleman has not yet announced blastoff. Mr. few days ago, a man beat and jumped upon his wife, who Adderley will, doubtless, be re-elected. subsequently expired. The borough coronet held en inquest STSOUD.-M. W. Motewether Turner, Esq., of Wood- on Wednesday night, and the jury decided that she had died cote, Carshallon, has issued an address, soliciting the from inflammation previously existing, and discharged the suffrages of the electors of this borough. He oppooes the husband. The husband was brought before the magistrates of government plan of education, supporta the repeal of the Manchester yesterday, and, after an investigation into the malt tax, an amendment of the poor law, and vote by ballot. case, he was committed for trial for wilful murder. The honourable gentleman . , however, explicitly declares DURHAM. that he will not contest the borough against two liberal can. OPENING OP HARTLEPOOL Win HARBOUR anti Boots, didatee. The present members are Messrs. a. Poulett -Tuesday last witnessed the celebration of an ireportant Serape and W. H. Stanton. It is rumoured that the con- event in connexion with the shipping interest of 'Jib county servatives will bring forward a candidate. -the opening of the West harbour and doct.,,, T a tto o, near TANwORTIL-AN OPPOSITION, of a somewhat novel rind the tillage of Strentoo, about a mile and s..nali to the south unexpected character, is to take place at the ensuing elec- of Hartlepool, CUR* upon the sea-shore, Thu part of the tion for the borough of Tamworth. The oppoaing condi- coast being necessarily much exposit t o the por th.eget data is no other than the late prewar' s own brother, who, winds, winch, ia stormy weather, mgr. gnat &igneous of IRELAND. DUBLIN, Joss 4. The Freerruin of this morning contains an alarming paragraph on the prospects of the potato crop. It states that accounts have reached from Kildare, Car low, and the Queen's counties, to the effect that the old disease had set in in the most malignant form, de stroying the stalk before the tuber had been formed, and thusabeorbing a large amount of capital and labour without the most distant hope of a return. This damping intelligence consists mainly of the old rumour cast in a newer and apparently more authen tic shape. No new facts support the appearance of the disease; indeed, the acosunta received to-day wholly disprove it. Everywhere the hopes of the hturbandmen are most promising. It is, however. well to be prepared for the worst consequences, and accordingly the Royal Agricultural Society meets to day to consider what the farmer should do in the event of failure—what crops might be sown in the blighted fields—within what time, &c. It is fervently to be hoped that the exigency may not arise, but pre paration and foresight are imperative on all to meet so formidable an evil. The statement so recently made in parliament by the Chancellor of the Exchequer that there were 2,500,000 rations distributed daily in Ireland, will have prepared your English readers for the cessation of those details of destitution by which, for so many months, their sympathies must have been harrowed. But disease is making terrible progress. In the metropolis fever becomes each day more developed, though, haply, it has not yet assumed the fatal cha racteristics which in the country distri , As it already manifests. In Dublin cone of the wealthier classes have yet fallen victims, while in the provinces we every day hear:of mortality by , fever among the higher ranks. In Limerick the hospitals hold many patients more than they are capable of accommodating, and so rife has fever become out of doom that the local board of health have appointed three additional medical prac titioners. In Belfast, with greater appliances of drainage, and notwithstanding the recently con structed baths and wsshhouses, things are far worse. The fever hospitals contain over 1,000 patients, and an equal number it is estimated suffer from the malady in their own homes, and not fewer than 18 of those recently employed as nurses have now in their turn become patients. Imperfect as are the details from the more rural districts, we cannot flatter our selves they present any greatly mitigated symptoms of the condition of the cities. It is painful is feel that though disease must necessarily be a concomitant of our condition, still that the affliction is greatly aggravated by our own want of energy and pre caution. S VATS OF THE COIINTRT.—Armed parties, according to the acozuntshere to-day, daily parade the county of Limenck, attacking dwellings, plundenng them, and violently punish ing obnoxious parties or imaginary wrongs. That county would mean tole in a complete state of disorganisation, and the condition of Clare would seem scarcely better. In one district of the comity Limerick, containing 11,000 inhabi tants, 9,000 are receiving relief. The number receiving full rations in Cork is 10,000 ; the number allowed to purchase at a reduced rate, 20,000. In Dublin the rations daily distri buted amount to 35,000 at the least. We have heard this year much censure heaped open the government for neglect ing to supply the farmers with seed-corn. Supplies of coon and also of seeds were forwarded to such districts upon the southern and western coasts of Ireland, as being distant from markets, must find more than usual difficulty in pro curing supplies of them. Amongst the other places to which supplies of seed oats were sent was Kilrush. Here tie occu piers were offered it at the price of Is 2d. per stone. The small occupiers had no money to purchase— the landlords would not become purchasers or sureties for them, and the season having puswol, government ordered &mita the oats by auction last week, at which it realized Is. 74d. Per sten.). SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, Joss 3. The cause of Dr. Chalmers's death was generally understood to be apoplexy, but the autopsy has shown it to have been disease of the heart, that organ having, to a considerable extent, been converted into fatty matter, and so becoming incapable of one mus cular action. The other parts of the body were decidedly healthy. The funeral will be a public one, and, from the programme which has been pub lished, we judge that half the city is expected to job' the procession. The " navies " employed in the Edinburgh and Northern Railway amount to 8,632; and the peace of the county of Fife is ever and anon disturbed by strikes and brawls between the Irish and Highlanders, on which latter recession lethal weapons are largely displayed, and sometimes dangerously used. On Saturday last a serious outrage was attempted near Kirkaldy, but the timely interference of the sheriffs and other authorities kept down the uproar. PROVINCIAL. it will he ggessusharea. w s Under Secretary of State, denim the Dad et Wellington.e olsainistraton, and ambermeber hr th e uniamety c on widge. The tohowiog is his 'ikon : ourkses.--la smirks ot as earl,' d isso lution the grimi Ila to tarierna say Menden b ,r=l" "lble ress a re .alP.l Wks L a r i lila agn •lA . gmbal od nina gsep as my pert, as CM ar pot inks* I hart, whelks k sr =ellite".llsenant. e:sk P_ . 10 the aranerlity of Use bersogh ef Takweelk - sod he the wsitse MOM= ale InewMtesin see the sidwe hm sepleth 1 rely kr .Pw mem! ef anfamse skin rale reqe me la Armor deetim. Reamed la parlikeent„ at op mai. Im Ilk be Se milk mgmlf to year ke Ink 4 wg de., Ors ames• Zgar sl4 / 1 1, sainterkerteeelhe 'Oft pod Owe these ping key nay) soils amend thin your local lanwese win nest wit* the ore ma seismitea oroentlemea, he .—Wassan TAM haws 2, kV. It cannot for a moment be doubted, says a correspondent, that Sir Robert Peel will be returned ; but the mate r bids (sir to lead to a very pretty family quarrel. If Sir Robert coalesce with Captain A'Coort, the gallant captain will stand a good chance: under other circumstances, his election would be extremely . doubtful. The general opinion is' that Mr. Pye and theisrotectionista arc at the bottom of this move ment. IRELAND. CORK COI:NEV.—The city liberals, who have very consi derable influence in the county election, are disputing about nothing, while the Vries are organising tilde forces. No liberal Ims yet been named to fill Mr. O'Connell's place. A contest involves such enormous expense in the absence of any powerful political stimulant, that none is anxious to un dertake it. This natural reluctance on the side of the liberate leaves the field open for their adversaries, and though none as yet have declared, the " Ivanhoe" will appear when the writ shall have been moved for. Lord Bernurd, it is confi dently stated, will be the candidate ; in that event, Bandon will be open fora roving candidate. Mr. M. Attwood, who is working Athlone, through a very modest and retiring Irish barrister, may thrust another iron in the Bandon fur nace. Two chances are better than one. DUROANNON.—Mr. Falls, who contested this close bo , rough before, wrn, it is reported, take the field again against the present membm, Lord Northland, of "Coal Hole" ce lebrity. GALWAY.—The Solicitor• General has progressed won derfully in the esteem of his constituents. Not a word of opposition is spoken, and indeed it would prove utterly futile. Mr. John Augustus M'Oeoghegsn O'Neil would like the capital of hie native county well enough, but she will not " take him to her loving arms." The " widow Closmel," too, is quite satisfied with the attentions of her present lover. Cashel, Carlow, and all the other snug places, are occupied. What would he think of trying the county ? He should, however, double or quadruple his former liberal offer of 5001. KINO . B COWITT.—In the event of either Sir A. Arm strong or Colonel Westenra retiring, the present high sheriff, Mr. Robert Cassidy, a gentleman of great local influence and a whig, is read y to accept the burthen. Of the contin gency there does not appear to be much probability, ac cording to the King's County Chronicle, which has another very worthy candidate in the person of Captain Bernard, aide.de-camp to the late Lord Lieutenant—liberal, and of large fortune. LIMERICK Crrr.—The pretensions of the Gort family are canvassed with more keenness by all classes of.eleetors, and they decline in the inquiry. No repealer is at present talked of, and the only_person besides the Hon. Mr. Vereker is Mr. Monsell, of Tervoe, who gets almost a certificate of character from the repeal local papers. He is praised for every quality except the great and essential one, to which, however, he approximately approaches. "He is for a home parliament, though an imperialist : why not shake off his last fetter and be our own." Such is the praise and the invitation. As between the two gentlemen alluded to, the odds are in favour of Mr. Monsell. Nsway.—Opposition is here talked of ; but it is held too close in the lordly gripe of the present occupant to be libe rated without very considerable expense.