The Express. — London, England, 1848-04-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 24, 1848, - —Th e ßoy 1G,,,,, NA . a asette says, in its review k u b i go v " — tistlee: -- d olt swam to ray that great distress exists in the colony I:Low a egiiing is doing in the way of mercantile Burins 11 0 " . ...., on agriefahural it is intramilble that the principal illf w"" i des eon suffer without involabig all the twit w ith i t. w elasl,.„ ll ' S air, the beet proof of the inefficacy of the measures Foidiiti l e km, government on the 3rd ultimo la, that the sms parte whkh brought the news of tt eh. having been _semi le o n Beare of Commons has railed to Impart the slightest ..1.1 - im i l n tato Wainer of any kind. The tbetrt of Policy 11 1 .17 — s ee mein during, he fortnight Indeed, we believe, the IL " Is, that in the way of law-making little remains iilopelirrewee time ti come. No additions appear to be needed !gperffirlaliatieentiv introduced and asses on subjeeta or leg,d ;odd inalfrast But in SR c,:t.enslaiiprovince lake this there is %irbricorillV Vorier,i'irot'ellhat rruLah...cr ilhe: - -.A Oliva swing out fresh. To day a email addition haa g ni et _yA g ew perdition, by the arrival of the Arabian, 21 days from poems, with 263 Africans —namely, 12345 women, 41 ratan adla There were .2 death. on the paa.age. An arrival aiggibis pee from Madeira, with 14 Portugucee, e ll gr ea. Th e Me g ebr the last two or three dap , has been fine and clear ; but promor part of Th e ig we have had deluges of rain. SNIDAD. whole thoughts of the colonists 0 WOOStnlttd on the retrenchment of public expenditure. IN perf of Npain G azette recommends that of all salaries ow eisg 3001. per annum only two-thirds shall be paid till bat times return ; that even salaries under 3001. shall be oved w h ere diminution can be borne ; that the vacant w oe judgeship be left in abeyance during the same period; isat the colonial magistrate, the assistant colonial secretary, pi the first clerk of the treasury have their services din: ed with tot nterim. A delicate hint is administered to sri lianis tha his %glary will bear reduction as well as the Wanes of minor dignitaries. WINDWARD ISLANDS.—ST. LUCIA. The hhopendene Preu remarks: us our undoobtal opinion, then, that free-trade institutions and o o de l i b e rty of comn.erce are the only remedies any way proper *see to Mow unparalleled and incredible grievances of which we opt w i g and spin complain, 101 we have tired the pa lled mother- tience Of our o be s e rulers. And well, indeed, may these be ca e weins, becouar toil ore the one* be means of which we can igg , g amin those bie,..maa of law, only truth, iind liberty, to which we woo gag been, 'del suit continue to be, perfect strangers. CHINA. THE EASANTERND AUST g p IPELAGOA . HONG-KONG. —The China Mail of the 27th of Nara announces that Keying bad obtained leave of abmi,ce • r ecount of his health. The Mail says : Wm Minister Plenipotentiary f o r Foreign Affairs, has obtained bigiorAnnee on the ground of bad beidth, and in the interim Sett, Ulligennnt-Gosernor, will exercise the functions of his high te a , Bach is the moot authentic account we can obtain at a m oor, which hoe bean the lament of many others not so well The special purpose for which Keying was appointed wei▪ kg ken acsompliaLed, it is understood ho has been very Bras in his petitions to be relieved; and, knowing thia, we at gss supposed his resignation had at length been accepted by bast of Peking ; but from what we now learn it seems more pro e - lab be has obtained only a temp orar y leave of absence, solely on th weal health. ilk constitution has been giving way under the puma of his arduous and harassing duties, eo that those who nave Salim of late have been struck with his a ltered appearance. Put gars ie nothing to indicate a decay of his personal influence and an ode", which we are inclined to believe well be augmented by a visit nide', and be fet by foreigners, whether Keying reeumes &reel Islwourse with them or not. lie lam probably already taken his de ei lt is some days since V.P.C. cards front Mitt were Pent to at the heads of departments, or for whom he has conalved • regal. 3'p Yail elto states that the magistrates I f Nan•hae had long a proclamation regulating the excursions of foreigners into the country, with a view to prevent fatal rencontres, oni:az to that issued by the British consul at Keying's re quest, of which notification was received by last mail. The Rail adds We understand that the British Chamber of Commerce nt Canton be,. geared resolutions entreating British subjects to plate nu re deem oil the ertangements come to by the authorities, but confine liemetves as much as possible to the factorinv, and if they proceed up *I rem, not to land on the banks or penetrate into the oountry bev poi, "in the con fi dent reliance that her Majesty's gores meat will OWN. to them the full enjoyment of their prielleisa at no very dis tant period." These resolution: 4 were adopted on the 19th inst., the day after the following letter had been addressed to her Majestj'a consul, whore reply i subjoined t "Canton, Feb. 1 4 , 1848 . - To F . C. Macgregor, Esq.-ringSir,-Refer to the regulation. recently made public as to the manner in which British subjects are directed to proceed when desirous to walk into the country for exercise, we beg to inquire whether, in the event of any due thinking the presence of the policemen would afford us no protection, while it would certainly be s considerable annoyanee, and prekrring therefore to take our chance as heretofore, we are to con sider sweeter@ prohibited from doing so; and whether, in the event of our dispensing with each attendance and meeting with injury, we should be deprived of our right to appeal to the British authorities far retirees -We have, Sc., EDWARD Besmear, It. J. Ortares, R. R. CAI. , ULT." " britiah Consulate, Canton, Feb. 21, 1118.—To Edward Boo sted . Esq., R. J. Gilman, Esq., mid It. R. Calvert, Esq.—Gentlemea, -1 hare to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated the lath lout, which only reached me on thitorday afternoon, and I have to slate in reply to the seremi questions therein propomd, that as the regulations to which you allude were framed for the protection of foreigners on their excursion .% parties going into the surrounding country without &tithing themselves of thi ni, must be considered && doing co at their ' own peril. —1 am, Mc., FILL.. C. M.1.0..1tE(101 , " VI e Alen read in the same journal : We have heard thut:some days ago two American missionaries pro amded a little way beyond the ray, accompanied by the guides. They met with some slight molestation, but no personal injury, oral accord ing to their own account the affair would scarcely be worth mention. ing, hut for the exaggerations in which it is the practice to clothe ouch 0,0/TelICeS. The following mem , rial from Kong• Kong to the Secretary of Rear. for the Colonies, has been sent holm. by this f o r bee To the Right Honourable the earl Grey, tecretary fte Majesty's Colonies —The memorial of the Britt& and other inbabi tam (long-Kong and no ehoweth, that your memorialists ace Reply interested in the welfare of this colony, either as owning or rerung property in it. Your memorialists deem it unnecessary to obtrude on your lordship a detailed statement of the unsatisfactory pceition of the colony, the subject having been PO recently brought to the notice of her Majesty's ministers in the report of the select committee of the Home of Commons on British commercial relations w,th thine, but your memorialists respectfully submit to your lord- WO, that since the establishment of the settlement, the unusually heave grouud-rent Ina been felt an a severe burden upon themselves inte‘d .uallv, and a rerious drawback to the prosperity of the place. was Your lordship le no doubt *Aare th a t the high round-rent chiefly accaractel by the unnatural competition consequent unit the inadequate number of I is of lad offered for tale in the first instance; and your memorialists would now direct the attention of your lord ship to the absence of any active local trade capable of supporting such a burden. Your memorialist, desire not to be understood as claiming Psi 'option from reasonable taxation, but would urge on the consideration of her Majesty's government the necessity of an early and important reduction of the ground-rents levied in llong-Kong, an well as a revision of the terms of the present learn as the only effec tual means of enabling your memorialists to support their poeition as British colonists. Your memorialists annex a return showing the ground-mat paid for each lot, its area, and the annual rental or esti mated rental of the buildings erected on it, by which it would appear that the groenthrents received by goeernment in llong-Kong equal or exceed the house-rents paid in many of the cities and WITT. of Great Britain. In conclusion, your memonalists beg the attention of your lordship to the questionable policy of entailing upon the few who make llong-liong their residence, the burden of maintaining a gov, en tarot whose chid duty is the protection and control of tho traffic of the people of two great empires, a traffic by w hich the rev. noes of Great Britain and her Indian posse-sions are mitten dly augmented. Feel ing a strong eonv.etion of the justice of their noose, your memorialists entrust it with confidence to the hands of your lordship, and, relying on its favourable coatideration by her Majesty's government, your ss in duty bound, will ever play.—llong-Song. Feb. to, IA4I. SINGAPORE, MARCH 7, 1848. The Overland Mail of Dee. 24 arrived at Singapore Feb. 7, per Penin. Pala and Oriental steamer Lady Mary Wood; happily woo of the failure; in Europe have yet &Mated any of the emaratrei firms here. On Feb. h, 9, 10, and 11, it blew almost a hurricane from the north-east, accompanied by a Many sea; the whole of the Singapore beach was encroached opts; the murk& trees planted along the road-side on the Uplanade were washed away ; the snipping happily sus tamed no damage. The steamer Lady Mary Wood, which left this on the Bth ult. for China, put back on the 10th, laving proceeded as far as Pedro Branca, where, the wind and sea being very high, the vessel at full power could not make one mile an hour. As the coals were Expending to no pupae, Captain Evans resolved to return to Singapore and again started for Hong Kong on the 11th. So high a sea has not been before witnessed at Sin- More. Several plantations sustained damage, es pithily the nutmeg trees. Alter the 12th, the 'saber became calm and sultry. The nz m influeamade its appearance, and still rages, few escaping its attacks—some fatal cases have occurred amongst the juvenile clam. We look for the appearance of rain to remove the epidemic. The all-engrossing topic here has been the sad tragedy committed by convicts on board the ship General Wood, wlrm the cap tain, offlore, and above 75 persons perished by butchery and shipwreck. 1 have drawn op a separate narrative of the mCancholy affair, as the subject demanded remarks in detail. Cass of piney are almost of daily occurrence within the vicinity of the harbour, and yet the government cannot be ioducth to orgatise a harbour police. Oa Feb. 1G a boat, containing four Chinese, who were proceeding to Tanjong to cut timber, was attacked by two Malay prahus, armed with heist, spears, ; two of the Chinese were killed, one jumped overboard, and has not since been beard of, and the forth was left dangerously wounded ; the boat wan plundered of its contents, consisting of two incubi of Mee and a basket of fish, the whole worth ix doilan. The Malays have escaped. Two other cases of Limy and loss of life have occurred during the month of r °Run'. In ell three instances the outrages were perpe tiled in the light of day and within sight of the harbour and town of Singapore. The H. C:steam frigate Auckland, which in January last proceeded to China with 35 artillery . men from the Straits, for service at Canton, r eturned to Singapore Feb". 24. Sir John Davis having patched up the affair in Chins, was as anxious to send the troops away as he wan before urgent for their being sent on. The Auckland took the artillery on to Penang, and returned here on Hatch 4th. H. M. S. Medalui, from Hong• Kong, arrived ' at Singapore Feb. 25, and will await here until after the departure of the mail, when she will proceed to Pinang, remain there until relieved by the Mmander, Capt. Efppel, when the Diedabis will return to Singapore for Bares, and sail for England. During the past ten or fifteen days the town has been set in commotion in consequence of 'Mend krge placards, in the Chinese language, rated at the corners id the leading thoroughfares. These placards were of an infftromatory nature, deriouncive of the conduct of the government rind the police generally, and of the ofli 'Wing deputy of police in particular—the latter having be come obnneuran and u io t...tosce.s Chinese,th e e s . in consequence of his o o o n . - e inthea on m Mohler., miners, and other bad p r e characters. en" The appear ince of these placards is a bad sign ; it is following up the Perniciousoracti:e so common and fraught with no much "at Canton. The editor of the Straits 7 imes has brought to the notice of the authorities the existence of six or sewn Chinese printing establishments where intlamma torr placards..h . ll ha n s, &c., are printed by blocks. Iland , bill . . cilia • on the Chinese to quit the country o r a oaociate putting Fc m °f the down (by violence) tho alleged har linese police are circulated among tho hueye , or keret societies. The Straits Times has very properly •• retoin alluded th b 7 7 • t h ese Chin ese printing establishments s hould ems. ,at cred as vquired of " all proms," by Act XI. of 1835, for if beyond reach of the authorities in coat of vio lating the law, the most dangerous consequences may ensue, and the unruly Celestial mob at Singapore become as in fluential as the Canton agitators. Speaking of the Hueys, I may mention that about • fortnight since a regular pitched battle took place at Built Teinah, seven miles from the town of Singapore, between the partisans of rival Ilueys, each party endeavouring to overcome and carry off the other, and to put them to torture and death at leisure ! No lives were lost on either side, and finding each party • match for the other a truce wan agreed to, although nut until atter many wounds were inflicted. The quietly disposed Chinese planters were compelled to abandon their work; many of them proceeded to town for the protection of the police, there being no rural constabulary force. These Huey feuds form • great drawback to Chinese emigrants unless there exists a vigilaut police possessing sufficient numerical strength to keep them in awe. On the 28th February, the B.C. , steamer Tenasserim arrived at Singapore from Afartras, hay- • ing on board 265 rank and tile of her Majesty's 25th Regi ment, under the command of Major O'Connor. 'the other portion of the left wing are to come on in the Hon. Company', steamer Enterprise, and it is stated that her Majesty's 18th Royal Irish will probably be brought to Singapore per Ben bock steamer. All this activity among the troops has arisen out of the unstable policy of Sir John Davis, who wrote down here for several regiments for service in China. The Vulture steam-frigate was despatched from Hung-Kong with a countermand for all troops; had the Vulture pro ceeded at once to Madras, lashed of remaining at anchor here several days, the expense of trap-porting the troops might have been spared. The Vulture would have arrived at Madras on the 13th or 14th Feb. The portion of her Majesty's 25th, which came in the Tenesserim, did not em bark till the 18th, and left on the following morn ing. The countermand which was sent, rid Galle, would not reach Medias before February 20th. It is probable the departure of other troops will be stopped. The Hon. Col. Butterwortb,C. 8., Governor 1 of the Straits, returned to Singapore with his amiable mid accomplished lady on March 4, after an absence of six weeks, , during which time the governmental duties were performed by the resident councilor, liou. Mr. Church. Her Majesty's sloop Ringdove, Capt. E. A. Ingletield, returned to this port ea the 6th inst., having been to Penang to make a demote- stretion, with the view or awing the King of Quedah into a compliance with the dictates of the Beogal government. On the same day, the Peninsular and Oriental Corny any's steamer Lad> Mary Wood, arrived from Hongkong, having I on board General d'Aguilar. The general lauded at noon under • salute from the battery, and became the guest of his honour the governor. In the evening an entertainment was given at Government House, at which the general was present, and expressed himself extremely satisfied at the attentions he received during a short stay at Singapore. P.S.—Mauen 7, NOON. —The Honourable Company's steamer liuoghly proceeded this morning to the North Natunas, in search after the Chinese convicts that escaped in the boats of the " General Wood." lier Majesty's sloop Kin dove leaves to-day for theAnambas, on the some searcn l as the liooghly. The Honourable Company's steamer Tonasserim, with part of the let: wing of her Majesty's 25th Borderers kit Singapore this morning to return to Madras., General d'Aguilar having advised that step in consequence of Sir John Davis having writteeolticialiy to the gevernineut of India to countermand the despatch of troops to Chins. The Honourable Company's steamer Auckland is now here ; Alter some repairs are done to her enaii.es she will, I believe, proceed to Cochin China, to endeavour to release Mr. Victor Humes, supposed to be still in confinement in that country. The following important intelligence from the Saylor:. Archi pelago h.a been received by the editor of the Strai , s Times this morning. Theearly departure of the steamer to Gene has prevented its publication, but 1 send you a galley proof of toe news. Having just seen the ofliciel desoitchea 1 can vouch for its correctnees: tiravisii Exrcon tor anamsr out ri.Tv,.—Tines office, March 17, II A r.—ray the arrival here last night of the Spanish war steamer, }Minim :Is Castilla, wheal:as have Mtn remised at a most gallant attack on the lkilanguem pirates. On one or two oceasionathe governor. general at Manilla had written to the sultan of ao.aoo to ex terminate the pirate. at halentignt, but the sultan having neglected to do so, the Spanish government very prowl); waterbeds the kok, and tolls ably performed it. The blanilla authorita s resolved to punish the pirates who for years have made descents on the coasts of Lumina, and carried away into captivity Spanish subjects. The cats din. left Manilla Feb 5, and comprised 3 war-seta., 2 war.sehounem, 6 nue-boats, 8 small do., 601.1 1 u e, fantry, 50 artillery, with 2 tit Id pieces. Os the arrival at the chief haunt of the 'antes, the island lialangigiii, the place was testes by assault, alter a wog obotivate and donut resistance, the work of extermination continuing from Feb. 15 to 25. Two fortresses, ably defended, were assaulted and taken. The attacking force lost on< intantry captain, and 20 privates slain; also lo otheers and 156 men were wounded. Of the pirates MAT then 430 men were killed ; their redetance wws most determined; In vain were they oriel ed quarter—they resolved to perish. At one of the form assaulted, called sippett, the gamma, finding no chance of eimape, commenced slaying their wives and children, lest they should tall into the band s of their attache ; on th is, the general commanding interposed, and humanely saved three hundred women and children, who were a.out being put to death by the Ktis. About two hundred slaves were liberated, some of whom were taken from the Philippines about two years preciously, others wet e Dutch subn eta: the general commanding offered to convey the latter to Jars. 'the spanish took 124 guns, chiefly brass; also tired oral destrojed about 156 piratic,' prows—called pantos a nd vintas— rased seven vtl loges and tour (inlet Pam, called lialanlrliMi, Singap, oippac, and Liu contingal. About 7,660 or s,oooc:wog-nut trees were also dotniyed, and all possible mean' employed to render the island unfit fur habita tion. NOVIe of the pirates managed to escape, favoured by the occur rence of a Revere storm of wind; but we have reason to believe that the pirates of the Island of lialangigni hare been annihilated. Great praise is due to the Spanish for the manner in which the cspeditam was mined out. The above, winch is auttieutic, is all that we have received on the subject. BORNEO PROPEIL—SooLoo ARCHIPELAGO. — The Amelia, a trading vessel, arrived at Singapore, Feb. 24, with dates from Brunk to the 13th of the emus month. Mr. ' Burns, who proceeded to 'hued to enter into engagements for working the antimony mines at Binteeloo and Tenpin, had OA audience of the sultan and was manning under the protection of his highness. Some progress had been made in the antimony negotiation, which, when completed, will de. stroy the Sarawaic monopoly and reduce the price of the ore which by the Sarawak monopoly was raised from Ti. per ton to 301. As hinted in my communications of July and August last, the Sooloos have resolved to punish the bad faith of the sultan in slaughtering the pirates that escaped from the H.C. steamer Berate in May last year. From the best source at Bruni I learn that active preparations are being made to re pel an attack from the Sieolooe. My informant ob serves: All the prahus that have arrived lately front Maluda have breught intelligence that the Sultan of Boole.) is making extensive preparations for an expedition to Borneo Proper, in order to chastise Bruni for taking part with the Engtish ; and the Sooloos expree a determination to retake ?delude and other districts as far as }Liman's. These reports at first were not much heeded, but on February 5, Sheriff Holman (son-inlaw of Sheriff Houseman, who was killed at ?Saluda by Admiral Coch rane), arrived at Bruni, confirming the intelligence con veyed by liie precursors, and stating further that the Soelooe have refused to trade, or to hold any friendly communica tion with him or his people, unless they renounced their allegiance to the Sultan of Bruni, and gave up all inter course with the Eng:ish. Sheriff Beeman also states that, prior tibia departure, three Datoos, named Hassim , M aluk, and Hamat, arrived from Sooloo as deputies, selected by the Sooloo sultan, to demand of the people of Metleula an answer whether they would take part with Sooloo, or adhere to the ' court at Bruni and the English. By way of intimi dation, these Datoos said, that at Sooloo the sultan had just completed a strong fort, the construction of which was superintended by • white man, named Guillions (Williams?), and if the Sooloos wished it, they could do now with Labuan as they did years ago with Balambangau. On the return of these Datoos to Soo 00, they plundered a prahu on its way to Bruni, and carried away with them four of the crew. The Sultan of Brnni is making preparations for de fence, end has sent word to Ltebman. The sultan expected the next news would be—the poor wretches rending along the coast flying for succour to the capital from the invading foe. The Hon. Company's steamer Phlegethon was still act ing as guard-ship at Labuas, so that no fear or cd be enter tained for the lives of the subjects of his dinginess of Borneo in that neighbourhood. It is to be hoped that the Sooloos will carry out their intention, especially as the Spanish ex pedition, noticed above by our Singapore correspondent, would co-operate. WESTERN AUSTRALIA. SWAN itivEa.-- AdtiCel and journals from Western Australia have been re ceived at Singapore to Jan. 15. Whilst parties were quitting the place for Adelaide, Port Phillip, and elsewhere, the colo nists were loud in their complaints of the paucity of labourers, especially s hepherds; of the latter class, Capt. Scott , of the AI trope, had assured the colonists, that he would bring out 200 Scotch shepherds , provi ded the local government would pay half the passage•money. German imtnigration was chiefly looked to for succour ; a subscription paper was cir culating in the York district, having ! for its object the en• gagement of 200 emigrants, with their fatuities, at the rate of 181. per annum and the common rations, as shephVon erds and labourers. The e lan is warmly supporteei by Dr. Summer, and rendered more hopeful from the fact of up wards of 5,000 German immigrants having settled at the o m f i Western i i n g ili-tz i A ut ofs uht r , South i A . :a t . t r e a u t i i a . . F . T c h . c i ( t a w ct . ieg , ) .. g ti o n v u e es rno to r he highly unpopular ; his measures are nauseous to the co lonists—in fact, Col. Irwin is in a fix with his (unofficial) council. On the death of Mr. W. B. Andreve, the vacant neat in council wasoffered to Mr. J. Busse! ; that gentleman declined. The th et a n the list, Mr. S. Moore, accepted it ; but on Oct. 7, edy fixed' for meeting of council, Mr. sent in his resignation, Mr. F. Slade, the next in rota- Yuleo . ff r ere t h dto ° M y c r i. ..5 . . , 5 , sent • verbal message stating that his presence in council fluostetdert‘d'eaccltinedth,easi"htis ass Lion, t n ih re e wit , required. The vacant seat in the council has gone a re sr:lni begging. • SOUTH AUSTRALIA.— ADELAIDE. —By the arrival of the Bremen ship Herr Von B: clerra'h at Batavia, journals have been received from Adeaide to Jan. 10. The prospects of the colony continued to brighten. The culture of the native silkworm is progressing, und promises to be very successful. The ship Derwent, from London, having on board the first protestant Bishop of South and Western Australia arrived at Adelaide Dec. 27, after a passage of 116 days from Portsmouth. The bishop received a most hearty reception. On Dec. 30 his lordshipss installed at Trinity Church with due ceremony. • house of Mr. Roberts, at Kensington, was taken as a temporary residence for the bishop ; it is understood that a substsutial episcopal palace will be forthwith built for which his lordship is provided with ample funds. 'On Gth January a govern ment sale of mineral lands took place, when 1,024 acres realised 6,8001., being an average of 41. 3s. Oil. per acre. The sections were chiefly In the neighbourhood of the Kapunda copper mines. The Para company were the principal pur chasers. NEW ZEALAND. —From Wellington intelligence has been received to N.JT. 24. New Zealand affairs do rot appear bright. Governor Grey was not only en very ques tionable terms with the Legislative Council and the public, but had fallen out with the ecclesiastics by an attempt to in vade the church territories. The claims urged by members of the Church Missionary Society are, in many eases, ridi culous and unjust. The Britannia ,(Inptain Stone, wiled from Liver iool on Saturday, for Halifax and Boston. ne Court. The Duchess of Kent arrived at Osborne on Satur day afternoon on a Till% to the Queen. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay arrived at Osborne on Saturday afternoon from town en a visit to her Majesty. Yesterday morning her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, and the ladies and gentlemen in wait ing, attended divine service in Osborne. The lion. and Rev. C. Leslie Coortenay officiated. Lord Arundel had an interview with Sir George Orel on Saturday at the Home-office. the Earl and Countess Grey left town on Thurs day for Datcbet. Vizcount Morpeth has left town for Tren tham-hall, Staffordshire. Viscount Palmerston left town on Saturday for his seat, Broadands, Hants. Despaches were received on Saturday at the Colo nial-othce from the governors of New South Wales and South Australia. Despatches were sent off on Saturday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governor of the Cape of Good Hops. THE VICE-PRESIDENCY OF THE BOARD OF TRADE. —Mr. James Wilson, M.P. for Westbury, has been men tioned as the probable successor of the Right lion. Milner Gibson, u Vice-President of the Board of Trade. What ever arrangement& may be contemplated, it is quite certain that no step has yet been taken in the matter.—Observer. DR. MARTIN has been appointed stipendiary ma gistrate in the colony of British Guiana. PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY. The Atheneum says : " We believe we can say with some confi dence that the new president will be the Earl of Rouse—a choke which will combine the aristocratic element seemingly so dear to the members of the 11. , ,yal Society, with the ac knowledgment of a claim for service done to science, which is more befitting the theory of their character." CALLS TO THE BAR.—MIDDLE TEMPLE, APRIL 22.—The undermentioned gentlemen, until to the degree of the Utter Bar on Thursday last, were published in the Middle Temple Hall on Saturday: B. F. Moose, Esq., and C. H. Cook, Esq. 'TILE MARYLERONE VESTRY, on Saturday, agreed after some discussion to an address to her Majesty, assuring her of the loyal attachment of that body, and their readiness to assist the authorities in the preservation of the peace. UNION OE THE MIDDLE. AND WORKING CLASSES. —On Saturday a meeting of the inhabitants of St. Martin ' ins-the-Fields was held in the parish vestry, to adopt a con gratulatory address to her Majesty upon the happy termina tion of the late abortive attempts to create riot and revolution in the metropolis. The Rev. Sir H. R Dukintield, Bart, , was called to the chair.—The Hon. Mr. Gladstone, /4.P., rose to move the adoption of the address, which he had him self prepared. He said that in this tree country every man had the liberty of following his own judgment as to the course he pursued, and therefore there was manifested here a greater diversity of opinion than could be found under a despotic monarchy or a republic, fur both were found equally hostile to the free expression of opinion ; and hence there were found a concurrence of feeling and a conviction in this country, more profound, more powerful, and more sig nally united, than in any other country in the world. The bun. gentleman then read and moved the adoption of a very eloquent and loyal address, which concluded thus ; " A nd we pray your Majesty's happy reign may be remembered to the latest posterity, as for other distinctions, so especially for tee ireful, impartial, and frugal expenditure of the public resources, and the further progressive improvement of the condition of the people."—Mr. Churchwarden Palmer seconded the motion.—Mr. Henry Pouncey was most desi rous that a uniformity of opinion and sentiment should exist amongst them, and distinguish that address, which could not occur unless it embraced every subject that should, at that crisis, be brought under her Majesty's notice. While they congratulated her Majesty upon the late events they should also draw her attention to the neceasity of adopting such measures as were calculated to remove the causes that lately jeopardised the public peace. It was utterly impos sible to secure the peace of the country without a reform being made in the present mode of taxation, expenditure, and representation. He therefore moved that the following paragraph be added to the address : to While the meeting, dutifully and moat respectfully exproming your Majesty the strong attachment to your Majcaty's throne and person, end their determination to uphold and support them, would be guilty of a fatal omission if they did nut at the same time express their conviction that the delusions which artful men have employ cal in thetrentleavuurs to raise an armed opposition to them have been fearfully aided by a feeling that the par pc of the upon. try has hen pro use, and the taxation and representation unequal. And your Majesty's faithful subjects in ley al &Ina ray would implore your Majesty to direct a severe investdtatioa into the expenditure and taxation; so that whatever defecai cabling therein being re. moved, there shall remain to no class of your Ma sty's subjects any just ground of complaint, and your Majesty'a throne may be more firmly established in the a fftetions of your Majesty's subjects. Mr. Abbott seconded the amendmenti—Mr. Lebran sup ported the amendment. He placed little faith in petitions, and, therefore, was of opit ton that their only . hope ot re ds, as was tom ' addressing the throne at mace, and directly. —Mr. Gilbert Pouncey thought that it 'Would be more loyal and dutiful for them to forewarn andeforeann the Queen against the future, than to conceal nom her Majesty the real condition and feeling of the country. Thealfore, the address would he a " delusion, a mockery, and a 'snare," unless ac companied by the amendment. —Mr. Lancaster similarly ex pressed himself.—Mr. Wilson assured the meeting that al though the middle classes went out armed to resist any at. tempt that might have been made last Monday week to in jure property or person, the middle classes 'empathised with the chin tints, and were willing to juin them in their struggle for the objects they sought. (Cries of "yes, yes"—" no, no.") Yes ; the middle classes were for household euff,agc and triennial parliaments. (Hear.) In his iipinion the chartists were fools to aid the middle classes to get rid of the income tax. They should have left them to fight their own battle. (Hear.) After a very warm and prolonged discussion that part of Mr. Pouncey's amendment calling upon her Mak sty to order an investigation into the taxation and expenditure ' of the country was adopted; and with that addendum the address was agreed to, and ordered to be presented to the Queen by the rev. chairman, to whom the thanks of the meeting were given. SIIAKSPEAItet HOCSE.—The dinner at Stratford upon-Avon, in commemoration of the birth of Sbakspeare, takes place to-day (Monday). Lord Brooke is to preside, and he is to be supported by Lord Morpeth, the chairman of the London committee, and about a dozen other members of that body. The entertainment is under the especial ma nagement of the Shakspt are Club of Stratford, consisting of most of the persons of rank, wealth, and distinction in the county of Warwick. The whole body will take a sew of the newly-acquired property, now become national, and will make such temporary arrang , meats as are necessary for its custody and preservation. 'elle character ball (to which, however, a particular costume is not necessary) will be held en the 22nd of May. The list of pa. tronesses is daily increasing. The nights fixed upon for the London performances of the amateur. are the 15th and the 17th 'May. The tickeu will admit to both, but will be transferable. On the lOth of May will be given " The Merry Wives of Windsor," followed by " Animal ' Magnetism." The cast of the principal characters in the I comedy is, we understand, the following; Falstaff, Mr.' Mark Lemon ; Shallow, Mr. Charles Dickens; Slen der , Mr. Leech ; Ford, Mr. Forster; Page, Mr. F. Dickens; Host of the Garter, Mr. F. Stone ; Sir Hugh Evans, Mr. Lewis ; Dr. Calm, Mr. Costello; Pistol, Mr. G. Cruikshank ; ' Fenton, Mr. A. Dickens ; Mrs. Ford, Miss Fortescue ; and Mrs. Quickly, Mrs. Cowden Clarke. We have not yet heard how some of the other parts are to be filled, but Mrs. Cow lden Clarke, the authoress of the " Concordance to Shakspeare," is a great acquisition to the strength of the I company. Is the farce of " Animal Magnetism" the two principal characters will be filled by Mr. C. Dickens and Mr. Mark Lemon. The performance on the 17th of May will be a repetition of "Every Man in his Humour," so capitally represented a year or two ago, and with the same actors in ail the leading parts. The alterpiece will be Kenney's most humorous farce of " L ove, Law, and Physic." Flexible, Mr. C. Dickens; Lubin Log, Mr. Mark Lemon ; and .bulreto, Mr. Lewis. The attraction will be unequalled.—obserrer. FIRE AT LIMEHOUSE.—By the official report we learn that the tire which broke out in Church-row, Lime- I house, on Friday night, wan attended with a far greater de- I struction of property than wa s at first expected. A great numbe of persons who resid in the hou on the opposite side of r the thoroughfare have ed lost the wh ol e of their terni ture, wearing apparel, and other effects. It has been as certained that no persons were buried in the ruins, but a child living in one of the opposite houses was severely burnt. Tt.e fallowing is the official statement of the damage done: — No. 18, Church-row, Mr. Horne, sail-maker : premises burned down; insured in the Phoenix Fire off ce.— Mr. Taylor, boat-builder; workshops burned down.—Mr. Chalter, patent felt manufacturer, burnt down; uninsured. I —No. 6. Mr. George Davis, front door and windows burned out, and considerable damage to furniture by fire.—No. 7. Joseph Deeley, house partially destroyed, and furniture con siderably damaged by tire ; insured in the Sun No. 8. William Sayers, front doors and windows destroyed, third floor nearly burned out, and rest of house seriously damaged insured in the Globe.—No. 9. T. Spence, house-front burned out, and furniture considerably damaged by tire, &c. ; in sured in the Globe.—No. 20. .1. Inglis, front of premises da maged by fire; insured in the Phenix —No. 4. E. Chat field', similar damage to stock aid building.—No. 5. F. Aycrst, premises damaged by tire, and furniture by removal ; uninsured.—No. 10. W. Field wick, front scorched ; unin- THE REFORM MOVEMENT. On Friday night a public meeting was held in the Waterloo Rooms, Silinburgh, in favour of the enfranchise ment of the working classes, the reduction of the national expenditure, and the equalisation of taxation ; and in sup port of the movement lately set in operation by Altura. Fiume, Cobden, and other liberal membins of parliament. Professor DICK WOO called to the chair, and after alluding to the fact that the Lord Provost bad declined to call the meeting, said he was convinced, although this country had many valuable institutions, that there was yet room for ex- terunve improvement in them. lie did not coinci•le in opinion with that body who were known as chartists, and he was opposed to all violent measures to obtain reform. Re held that, with patience and perseverance, they would ac complish all that they desired. " Rome was not built in a day ; ' and it was vain to expect that they would obtain a redress of their grievances without both time and exertion. (Hear.) He advised them, therefore, to go on with a quiet but determined agitation, in seeking the reduction and the equalisation of taxation. (Applause.) He contended that from the facilities afforded by railway communisation, we might reduce our army one-half; and, from the superiority of one steam marine, he maintained that there was no neces sity for having such a large and fully equipped navy as we now had. (Applause.) Alluding to the church establit. enent, he said it was unjust end tyrannical to make the minority of the people pay for the support of a religious communion in which they did not believe. This was espe cially the ease as regarded Ireland, where the Episcopal Church was a disgrace and an intolerable grievance to the country. (Applause.) He might advert to other matters, but these were sufficient to show the need of some reform in our electoral system. While he did not believe that the working classes were asking a very unreasonable thing after all, he considered that if they would go more systematic illy to work, more coolly and quietly, they might ultimately succeed in obtaining an extension of the franchise. The Rev. Mr. Boeznirson (Independent) moved the first resolution, which was to the effect that the people of this country were a politically proscribed and an unjustly de graded class, and that the time had now come when partial representation and elassizinsiation must cease, and that the representation of the people of this nation must be full, fair, and free. In those days of gagging bills, intended to pre vent or punish certain kinds of "open and advised speak ing," Mr. Robertson said he had thought it proper that what he was going to say should be thoroughly " advised." lie had, therefore, committed his thoughts to paper, and nothing but an irresistible impulse would draw him from his manuscript. (" Hear," and a laugh.) The impression now seemed to be almost universal that. their country was far from being in a safe condition. What meant these gigging bills—these warlike demonstrations on the part of the constituted authorities—these organising; and mighty aesemblings of special constables—(a laugh) — those shrinkings from the discussion of political questions ; did not these things indicate fear ? Did they not lay, in language which could not be mistaken, that the conditim of the country was far from being safe When such danger existed, there could not be peace. The only way, there fore, to restore quiet and confidence to the country, was to enfranchise the working classes. The middle classes, and the friends of peace and order of every class, must come to the rescue. The country demanded that they should speak out. The majority of the House of Commons were asleep, and they must be roused. He approved of the principles of the charter, because they were consistent with justice and , equity ; but he was the determined and unflinching opponent of physical force. Those who spoke with such empty bravado and cowardly bluster he would not trust. They would de sert the people its the first hour of danger. Much, however, a, he was opposed to then who advocated a resort to physical force, he still more strongly reprehended the conduct of those who were for using force to oppose the working classes. I, There was the excuse for the latter that they were goaded and exasperated by a keen sense of oppression; but the former were conscious of plundering led degrading their fellow-men, and rather than give up their plunder, I they were resolved to imbue their hands in their brothers' Hood. Out on all such cold-bloo led villainy. (Cheers.) Mr. Robertson then remarked that the day had gone by when the soldiers of any country would tire on their friends, their brethren, and their fellow-countrymen, at the beck or call of any government. He rejoiced in this, because he saw in it a reason to hope that the period was at hand when na. tions would no longer lift up the sword against nation,. He took leave of physical force by sating that the government had no more right to shoot the pepple than the people had to shoot the government. Mr. LI:UNSAY seconded the resolution, which was carried amidst acclamation, as were all the others subsequently pro- posed. Mr. luxes proposi d the second resolution. which referred to the hoplessnere of getting a complete and fair representa tion of the people by an act of the present House of Com mons, under the direction anal control of the existing mini stry ; and, therefore, that a memorial be presented to her Majesty to dismiss her present ministers, and to call to her councils such men as have acquired the confidence of the nation. (Cheers.) Like Mr. Robertson, Mr. lanes read his speech. He commenced by saying that a set of aristocratic idlers had too long usurped the legislature of the country ; and that it was now high time that men acquainted with the interests of trade—men who sympathised with the wants and wishes of the people—should be placed at the helm of affairs. The petitions of the people had too often and long been listened to with inattention, or laughed at with contempt. Too long had gr ie st. acme pressing severely on tho people been allowed. to remain, and the remedies which they pmposed rs fused. (Cheers.) There must be a change in the representation ; the people must be enfranchised ; for was it not reasonable that those who had the labour of making the money, should know best how to lay it out ? Alluding to the increase in the army and navy, he asked if they were to allow all that they had gained in corn to be thrown away in powder ? Was it just to tax an over-oppresred people to keep up a large standing army, which cost tea millions more than it did at the period of the unreformed parliament? In ender to accomplish this, and to secure a reform of the estrls under which they laboured, parliament must no longer be elected by corrupt freemen or aristocratic serfs, but by the people themselves. (Applause.) Mr. lanes concluded by an allusion to the statement of Lord Palmerson, that " the blood of Douglas would protect itself." The introduction of a gagging bill, and the alarming anxiety demonstrated by the government and the legislature did not in his opinion afford any very decisive proof of " the noble blood of Douglas being able to protect itself." (Cheers.) Mr. FINLATSON seconded the resolution • and, in the course of a somewhat lengthy speech, referred to the enor mous expense of our Laval and military establishments. Mr. JOHN STEWART proposed the third resolution,which regarded with feelings of hope the great movement now organising under the leadership of Joseph Hume, Richard Cobden, John Bright, and the other reformers of the House of Commons, for the enfranchisement of the people and the reduction of the national expenditure; and pledged the meeting to strengthen their hands by every constitutional means which could be made available to that great end. (Cheers.) Mr. MENZIES moved the fourth resolution, approving of the proposal for forming a people's league, to effect a union of the working and middle classes, and to combine all true reformers in one united and peaceful movement.—Mr. tiltlNrosil seconded the motion.—Mr. CCHNINOHAM moved he adoption of petitions to both houses of parliament, founded on the resolutions.—Me. MESHET seconded the reso'ution. The CHAIRMAN said, so the businem of the meeting woo now concluded, he begged again to impress upon them that a peaceful agitation would do more to secure the redress of ' their grievances, than all those demonstrations which had induced the authorities to call out the special constables. II" had himself acted as a special constable in the late dis turbances in this city; and he believed that the authorities exercised a wise discretion in calling them out. A vote of thanks having been given to Professor Dick for his conduct in the chair, the meeting quietly separated at 11 o'clock. • • • •• IRELAND. DUBLIN, APRIL 22. Instead of Mr. Mitchell following the example of his fellow-traversers, and " putting himself on the country," he pleaded in abatement of the information that one of the grand jury, who found the bills, was a member of the town council, and as such ineligible to the office of grand juror, by a provision in the Irish Municipal Act which disqualifies the members of the town council from serving on any jury, except for a commission of assize or general gaol delivery. What course the crown will pursue has not yet trans pired. The plea, be it good or bad, being on the re cord, and resuming a conviction to be had, Mr. Mit chell would be enabled, under Lord Campbell's Act, to stand out on his recognisances until the final deci sion of the House of Lords. The course of the Attor ney-General will probably be this : to abandon the present informations, and proceed against Mr. Mit chell under the last act, if he should afford the oppor tunity, which he declares himself he will not fail to do on every recurring Saturday. Under the Crown and Government Security Bill the process is simple. The offender may be held to bail at once for the felony, and tried by general or special commission. The other traversers having pleaded not guilty, will be tried in the usual course. The meeting of the clubs on Thursday night put the government on the alert, and steps were taken to insure public order should its violation be attempted. The marines of the Dragon and Amphion were brought up from Kingstown by rail, and stationed in the customhouse, and the various other detached points throughout the city were strengthened by addi tional companies of infantry from the several barracks. In consequence of some information received by the authorities, it was deemed necessary to increase the military force at Drogheda, and two companies of the 31st were despatched on Thursday evening by the railway. The country is deluged with declarations and ad dresses. Another is to be added to the number, en titled, " National declaration in favour of Repeal." An address to the Lord-Lieutenant has been for warded from Armagh, signed by the Protestant and Roman catholic primates, and by a vast number of the inhabitants of the different religious denominations. The trades of Cork have determined for this year to abandon their usual procession on Easter Monday—a prudent determination. Three additional workhouses are to be forthwith constructed in Ireland ; one at Berehaven, Cork ; another at Dingle, Kerry ; and a third at Bangor, in Erris, Mayo. The Limerick paper notices the circumstance that the military, in marching into or through Limerick, are not as usual billeted on the houses of entertain ment, but are la gents that it is in There was a ri clubs on Thursdai themselves as - admit that an> occasion, but in probab:lity of t IHE PLurue arms, is becoming organised throughout all Europe. It re• sues its natural place as an element of the state. A national guard, to protect the rights. interests, and honour of the nation, was the earliest demand of every people who have won their freedom in our day. National honour is no longer in the ceeping of kings and ministers-it is guarded by the strong hands of the people. And wisely and jealously they have guarded it, till tyranny or anarchy alike threaten it in vain. Ireland, too, demands this guarantee for liberty and order. To secure it we must make certain that there are. men ready and competent for so serious a duty. And this trial has begun. The lollowing declaration is in course of signature. The first name to it is that of William Smith O'Brien : 'P Resolved,-That, inasmuch as the circumstances of the present time require that every win should hold himself in readiness to take up arms in defence of his country, sod that the names of those who are willing to perform this duty should he known to the British government and to their fellow-countrymen, it is recommended that the fol lowing declaration be signed by all Irishmen between the ages of 18 and 60, who are willing to serve as members of a national guard : We,the undersigned, hereby declare that we are willing ' to enrol ourselves u members of a national guard, for the purpose of preserving social order and protecting this island against all foes, domestic and foreign ; that we arc prepared to furnish ourselves with suitable weapons and • accoutrements, and are resolved to hazard our lives in de fence of our country, in case any emergency shall arise which may require our services in its behalf.' " This doctor ation will be signed by all men who are pre pared to abide by it, and we trust by no others. It is not a light undertaking, and must not be lightly assumed : for it involves life and honour. It will, of course, be signed openly, and the names published, or otherwise plead be fore the country. Men fit for this country are not ashamed of their country or their devotion to her sacred cause. God speed the army of the people." DRILLING AND TRAINING. -A circular has been ad dressed by the government to the magistrates of petty ses sions throughout Ireland on the subject of drilling, with the view that the peasantry should be informed of the perils they incur by following such illegal pursuits. The following is a copy : Dublin Castle, lath April, Gentlemen,-Varions reports having been reamed by the govern ment of meetings and assemblies of persons for the purpose of train ing and drilling themselven, or of being trained or drilled to the use of arms, or of practising military movements or evolutions, I am di reeted by the Lord Lieutenant to call your attention to the act 60th Den. 111. and taut.. IV. a I, by which all such meetings and as semblies pinhole with such authority as is therein mentioned) are pro hibited ; and persons training and drilling others or attending such meetings for the purpose of doing so, or who aid or sang in drilling others, are liable to be punished by tronsportation or impel .o.nment ; and three who are so trained or drilled, or shall attend foe that purpose, to berthed and imprisoned, by sentence of the court of Guises or quarter sessions.-I am, fee., T. N. RLDIMOTON. ADDlteeit TO THE LORD LIEUTENANT. -Today the fore man and twenty-one of the grand jury of the county of Dublin waited on the Lord Lieutenant wi.h an address of loyalty to tre crown, and confidence in the government of his excellency. In his reply the noble earl said :- Your loyalty to our emeriti, Sovereign and your attachmeet to our constitution could sever be doubted ; but the public declaration of your principles is of infinite value and importance at a mamma elms evil disposed men reek to turn to their own account the Anna of the people and the events that have occurred abroad, and are mass. I Touring, by seditisus speeches and publications, to stimuli= of sanguinary violence among her Niajeety'etubjects in this These attempts, I am convinced, will signally fail; but it Is I most weed that the ill effects which they bare already pro- duvet should be placed on record by gentlemen so well acquainted I with the condition and so deeply interested in the welfare of the I county and city of Dublin. You state, mast justly, that they not only • create alarm among the well-disposed potion of the community, hut ' that to the country at large the connequences are dirastrous, for during a relied of agitation that confidence ie destroyed without which neither trade nor commerce can tourish-industrial pursuits are unavoidably suspended-all classes are injured -but the injury must, bet mid doubt, tall more directly and heavily upon those whose only property is their labour, and whose ewstence depends upon their employment. I shall, with entire confidence, rely upon your offers of resistance, should the necessity for availing mysell of them unfortunately maw ; but I trust that the measur e. ado p ted for maintaining rder will continue, and prove, as they have hitherto done, sufficient for that MI-important object; and with you I venture to hope, that when people more fully comprehend the delu sions practised upon them the present excitemeet will gradually sub. side, and that the blessings of tranquillity will he restored. Never were those tflesOrlies more needed for Ireland than now, when she slowly recovering from the effect. of a terrible calamity-and the people, where undisturbed by reckless agitators, are everywhere L lama-view with remarkable industry. Never would capital, owing to a variety of causes, be more ready than now to flow into Ireland, and spread it. vivifying influence throughout the whole social system, if the security of law and order could be relied upon-and at no time, I will renture to say, have the government and the legislature been more ready to redress every acknowlediced grievance of Ireland, or more anxious that the restoration of peace should be followed by con tentment and prosperity. SAVINGS BANKti.-In consequence of the recently-dis covered defalcation in the Tralee savings bank " a run " has commenced on that of Killarney, and what is most afflicting, defalcations have been du .overed there also. The clerk of the latter is in prison, and the actuary fled. The Trslee defalcations amount to 35 01)01. THE WHOLE or THE CATHOLIC PRIESTS of Cleric and Rees have signed an address to her Majesty in favour of re peal. TEose of Wwerford and Lismore are said to be about to ad..pt a similar course. SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, APRIL 21, A requisition, signed by about a hundred electors, was sent to the provost of Stirling, to call a public meeting to petition for complete suffrage ; but the request was declined. The requisitionists then passed the following resolutions: I. That being deeply impressed with a conviction of the e v i ls arising from clam legialation, and the suffering thereby inflicted upon our induatrious fellow-subjects, tine meeting emphatically affirm j that a large majority of the people of this country are unjustly excluded from that full, fair, and free exercise of the elective franchise to which they are entitled by the great principle of Christian equity, and even also by the British constitution; lor agreeably to Judge Blackstone's Commentaries—"No subject of England can be con strained to pay any aid or Mum, even for the realm or the support of the government, but such as are impeded by his owa consent, or that of his representative in parliament.."--J. That this meeting repu diates every other mean, to obtain c har ac te rlete enfranchisement of the people than those of a peaceful Any other than three which appeal to the moral, religious, and intellectual mime of men, it unequivocally condemns.-3. That a petition, praying for the complete enfriu3chisemeat of the male adult population of the United Kingdom, be drawn up, and signed by the inhabitants of Stirling, and entrusted to J. B. Smith, Esq., M.P. The fund for the unemployed in Edinburgh amounts to 1,2501., from which 5001. will have to be deducted for debts already incurred, leaving only as much money as will enable the committee to keep up their present relief operations for three weeks, while every day is bringing hosts of new applicants whose claims cannot be attended to. In connexion with this topic, and as a warning in regard to the economy of timely relief, it may be mentioned in regard to the damage caused by the late riots in Glasgow, that an opinion of counsel has been obtained that all claims must be Paid by an assessment oa the inhabitants. Two NOTICEABLE THIALe took place at last Sheriff's Court in Cupar. The first was the imprisonment for six months of a deacon of the free-church, who had appropriated 291. 10b. of church subscriptions to his own use. The second was that of a hawker, who was sent to gaol for twelve months for imposing on the lieges by a sale of a pretended bankrupt stock of cloth. The goods were represented as being of tke best quality, but were ink ity worthless, and the prisoner's counsel pleaded in for the license of drapers' rhetoric. PROVINCIAL. CHESHIRE. EXECUTION OF A MURDERER.—The convict Wm. Bates, the highwayman, was executed on Saturday et Cheater. It will be recollected that at the recent Cheshire assizes, William Bates, aged 20, and John Walmsley, aged 20, were convicted of highway robbery and murder under circumstances of great atrocity. On the ISth of Feb. last a corn dealer named Enka was returning home from Mar elesfield, whey be was stopped by the prisoners, who pre rented loaded pistols at him, and demanded his money. Enick being a powerful man a desperate struggle took place between them, hut he was eventually overpowered and knocked down with the butt-tad of the ',muds, and lay oath* ground blvding, when a labouring man c..imiog up the prisoners took to their heels. The news of the outrage reach mg the ears of some men at an adjacent farm, who saw the highwaymen cross the fields, they went in pursuit, and were fart gaining on them, when the two suddenly turned round, and presenting each a brace of loaded pistols, swore they would shoot whoever dared to follow them. Their pureaers, however, increasing in number, they placed their Lacks against a fence and presented their pistols againa',:a mob. Two brothers, named Wyatt, more determined that the rest, spring forward to seize them, and were both in stantly shot, Bates shooting Wm. Wyatt in the abdomen, and the other Wyatt receiving Walmslev% fire in his arm. William Wyatt died a few hours afterwards. The prismers were instantly secured. On Thursday a reprieve for Walmsley was received by the governor of Chester Castle. Between twelve and one o'clock on Saturday morning the convict Bates was removed from the castle to the place of execution by the city sheriff and a strong body of police. At eight o'clock the execution took place. The culprit, when led forth, a ppeared perfectly firm, and prayed fervently. Every nett mart. preparation being completed, the bolt was withdrawn, and thewretched man died apparently without a struggle. There was an immen e concourse of persons. NIYSTERIOU6 AFFAIR.—On Sunday, the 16th inst., a number of boys, in returning from Frobbain to Runcorn, passed through Rocksavege , and amused themselves b y throwing stones at a crow • neat. One of them, on entering • field in search of a stone, found a mahogany box, such as is usually carried by travelling jewellers. The lid we' broken into pieces, and the box was empty. There were several marks of blood upon the lid and outside of the box, and also in the inside, all of wbsch appeared to be quite fresh. One of the boys proposed to his companions to search the wood adjoining the field, but they refueed to assist him, and the vox was carried to Runcorn. Information was given to the active chief constable of Runcorn; and, on the following day , he, with assistants, pro ceeded to examine the field near to the spot where the box was found. They discovered a breast-pm, a knife, and two steel pens. The woods and adjacent grounds were then starched, but without sllCCess. On Tuesday, a wider still unsuccessful. On Sutton, near Frodeham, on Saturday, within half a mile of the place where the boa was foun d, carrying. a similar one, but no further trace of this man can be obtaned. It is to be feared that a deed of violence and bloodshed has been committed. The road from Rocksavage to Runcorn is peculiarly lonely. being • footpath through &lie ; and in the township of Rocksavaoe, or Clifton, thcre are only two houses, occupied by two farmers, who rent the land. But it appears that the murder has not been there com mitted, but that the spot has been selected, from its loneli ness, as a safe place for the division of plunder by the parties whose hands were t, en reeking with the blood of their mur dered victim. There are many retired and sequestered die triets in the neighbourhood of Frodeham, with a scattered house here sod there, where parties might be assailed, robbed, and even murdered, without the certainty of imme diate detection. That this murder, if murder it be, must have been committed in the open daylight, is almost certain, from the known fact that Jew pedlars never travel through the country after sunset. LANCASHIRE. MR. O'CONNOR attended a Chartist meeting in the City-hall, Manchester, on the evening of Good Friday, at which he announced his intention to go with the new move ment, at the head of which are Mr. Cobden, Mr: Home, and other liberal members, so far at it might carry him, but he would still stick to " the ohartee and no surrender " He de clared himself against physical force; said the late violent speeches in London, prior to "Convention Manday" had caused hint greater anxiety, in the fear that "his dear children" might be induced to rush on the bayonets of a trained soldiery and spill their blood in vain, than he ever suffered in his life before ; he declared his sympathy for the Irish revolutionary leaders, and said he really thought he should once more go over to Dublin, mount his wig and gown, and take his seat at the bar as one of the counsel for the defence. YORKSIIIRE. MALICIOUS SHOOTING.—On Good Friday, shortly after noon, as the congregation were leaving the Indepen de. ts' Chapel at Dewsbury, a young man deliberately fired • pistol at Mr. Simon Crawshaw, currier, of the Market place, and wounded him in the upper part of the back, near the spine. The assailant was immediately secured, and proved to lie one George Waterhouse, the son of a pe'r'son now deceased, who was formerly minister of the chapel at which Mr. Crewels.; had been attending, and of which he is a deacon. The prisoner is a journeyman grocer, and has been for some time residing at Leeds out of employment, hie mother residing at •Shetfleld. The surgeons were called in without delay, and on examination it was found that Mr. Crawehaw had been hit by two 5m.,11 slugs, and that one of them had lodged in the body. He was going oar favourably on Saturday. The intended assassin was brought before the going magistrates at Dewsbury on Saturday, and was re manded for further examination. WARWICKSHIRE. THE REFORM MOVEMENTS IN BIRMINGHAM.- 0111 correspondent, writing on Saturday night, says: The breeze for reform which has set in here promises to stiffen into a gale—such an one as will find sympathy with all the true liberals in the country. This morniug a monster placard was appended to the walls, covered withler names printed in very small type. It is neither more nor , than a solemn declaration by the und, signed, " that they ear neatly desire the following political changes, and declare their determination to obtain the same by all peaceful and constitutional means: Household suffrage, vote by ballot, triennial parliaments, and electoral districts." T here are considerably more than a thousand signatures already ap pended to this rather formidable-looking document, and it becomes important when the fact is borin in mind that this is not a " monster petition ;" it has nethieg id the chap:: of a false pretence about it. On looking over the list of names I see those of nearly all the most respectable mercantile houses : there are three-fourths of the aldermen of the borough, at least an equal proportion of the town councillors, a fair sprinkling of magistrates, and the list is headed by • brace of M.P.'s—to wit, George Fred. blunts and William Schelefield. The signatures are chi, fly tt. me of etcetera ; the placard is receiving additions hourly, and bids fair to he the nucleus of a movement here as formidable r that of 1531. There seems to he just now quite a fervour for this sort of thing here. During the past week there have issued from various pens a whole batch of pamphlets on the subject of the present crisis, of the reforms whit:. are declared to be netts' cry, and of the means to be taken foe securing them. Some portions of these ephemera are funny enough ; I purchased half* dozen to-day for and inclose them for your especial amusement, if nut edification. Amongst them is one from that veteran reformer, Thomas Clutton Salt; it is in the shape of a remonstrance to the magistrates for swearing in special constaibloi, which he deems impolitic : and he appeals for right and justice to the thei as h t e 53. 0 t 1 3 y , and fe ars. r v idly dl e , nextae 1 1 :7 °, 17 , 1 ,, d e or i a s e i a n t & d u i ? e re t r i e m n e or , vein ; it is an address to the middle classes on the present crisis, by Geo. Dawson, M.A., and is calm and philosophic as his lectures, which thousands in Manchestr and elsewhere have listened to with wonderment and admiration. A third is in the "fire and brimerone " style, from one Geo. Mantle, ouv rier. The writer addresses himself to Lord John Russell he is clearly a physic sl-force chartist. lie com mences with the declaration that " the people have decreed a revolution," and that " there will be one ; ' and ha quaintly winds up hie effusion with the consolatory piece of informa tion to the prime minister that he is his C. mortal enemy and determined foe." The three of these nublica'ies a I have thus briefly noticed being a fair specimen oftheir class, I leave the remainder to you. It is quite obvious that the movement is as taming • very important character, and that it will no more be put down by vague promises than the one that carried the bill of 1532. LINCOLNSHIRE. MANAGEMENT OF FALLOWB.—'IIIe monthly meet ing of the Spelling and Draping Fen Farmers Club, on Tuesday last, was well attended. The subject for discussion, " The best method of managing Fellows," was brought for ward by Mr. R. Parr, of Deepiog Fen, and, after an in teresting debate, the following resolution was unanimously agreed to : " That, in this part of the c nntry, fellows are best ploughed up sufficiently early in the spring to let the weeds vegetate before again stirring ; a nd afterwards, when the root-weeds are brought up to the top they should be carted off instead of being allowed to remain for the sun to kill, and the soil should be made solid before depositing the seed." LEICESTER-SHIRE. THE REFORM MOVEMENT.—At a public meeting held io the Amphitheatre, Leicester, last week, and nume rously attended, the fo:lowing resolutions were agre t cl to: d That this meeting, believing that t he only equitable source governroental power is the people, and that such power, to be duly and legitimately exercised for the common weal, must be derived, from the universal suffrages of the people, as expressed through tbeie representetivera and which can only be secured by the princioniple, of the eon. taixed in the national charter , protests ageing the constitut prese nt legislature of Great Britain as partial and unjust, and as only calculated to represent the opinions and promote the inte n t . res. of an inconsider dale minority or the kingdom. That regarding nd un fettered discussion, in public meeting or otherwise, as the founddices of all liberty and ruth, and deeming that theta+ , already inexistense against treason and reedit ion are more than *depute to meet ent tor U any ew m er geney, this nue' ing views the measure in by governm alleged " better security of the crown and governme nt of the noun. try " as anou teage upon the common sense of the peoVe, se a dine, Infringement of constitutional freedom of @leech, as fraught with danger to the personal liberty of every independent teaser, and as tending to undermine the civil and religimu liberty of the a hole na tion. That the majority of the members of the present Home of Commons, while profiting to be the representatives of the people, meet unequivocally exhibit their purely arietocratic character, by wsiformly opposing all rcewures of government retrenehment, by dis. regarding and treatinewith contempt all petitions for the C0DC(1,409 of popular rights, and by assailing with derision those honest and inde pendent repreweiauyes who arc true to the interests of the nation. That while holding in the utmost detestation the helicon and ignoble conduct of the majority in the House of Commons, fee its c a non abuse of the faithful representatives of the people, this meeting con siders that Richard Gardner, Fseq., and Sir Joshua NValinieley, Nl.P.'s for Leicester, are entitled to the cordial thanks of the liberal subs. bitards of this town for their able and coexistent advocacy of re trenyhnient and reform, and for their determined opposition, in the fare of who and tory jeers, to the measure of the government us fringing the rights and liberties of the people; and that a memorial con yey.ng such thanks be presented to Uw ge e ntleme That rester lie opened for this borough, in which the name.. are, residence ; and occupation of every person who is in favour of universal suffrage, and the principles stated in the national charter, shell be enured ; and this meeting recommends the inha bitants of every city, town ape village in the Hellish Islands to do the eanie, in order that the opinions of the who!, population may be fully ascertained on these important subjects. A MOST DEPLORABLE AFFAIR took place on Thum day Ist, in the vicinity of the Water-hou-e, a secluded spot, situate at liertingfordbury. The Water-hous e as it is termed, is an old-fashioned building, erected over a running stream, formerly a keeper's lodge, and is occupi ed by sat agricultural labourer named Clark. About lit o'clock is Thursday forenoon. • shepherd, who was attending his fioek in a neighbouring field, heard the report of fire-arms in the direction of the Water-house, and soon afterwards saw the son of Clark, a boy of about 14 years of ere, running to a female who was sitting oa the groueil, but as alarm being given of anything serious having Oc curred he took no notice of the circumstance. A short line after, the boy, it appears, went to the residence o Miss Robert', a lady living in an adjacent farm. and told her ome one had shot elm. Huckle (who, 1.. should he observed, was an elderly female, 68 years of age, and who kid come to Ciark's house during the absence of Mrs. Ciark in Loadrdi), but who had done it he did not know." Mrs. Roberts im mediately went over to the house, where she found the unfortunate woman weltering in her blood, and in a dying state. She exclaimed, "Oh, Lord! I must die: it was Bill who did it." The boy contradicted her, say ins, " No, it wee not me." Before medical assistance could be procu red she expired. The boy was taken into custody. An inquest was held on the body by Mr. Turner, the coroner, which lasted several hours. * Ultimately the boy came forward, and ad mitted, with stolid apathy, that he was the accidental cause of the poor woman's death. He said be was shooting at birds in a walnut-tree, when the gun went off accidentally. The coroner, having sere rely reprimanded him for the falsehoods which he had told, the jury, after comiderable discussion, returned a verdict of "Accidental death."—lhe boy, how ever, still remains in cmtodv US of the police. SSEX. THE INCORPORATION OF BRIGHTON.—The question whether Brighten shall be incorporated or not leas at length been answered in a manner that must conviece, if it doss not satisfy, every one. The question has been put to the in habitants in two ways—first, as vestrymen, voting according to the amount of their usessment to the poor-rates. and the answer wee against iccorperation by a melonty of 601 votes; secondly, as sample rate-payers, each person having use vote, and the answer was still more decided. Alter three days' poll, which closed on Thursday, the numbers were declared as follows Against incorporataon, 1,419; for a committee ef . nal bafeteu on tne nosias ~,„n Karene . located in a barrack; the notice sug- is in order to prevent " fratern . isation." W e d nesday_ the Fe arer Canal was dragged rangTh s ' -- was taken, but the parties were still unsuciemful. On •s totiows .l i 6 igaios iu , o rr r r t , . 6 - 3 Th 0 ' a lti S nd rsalln I 'and ma jority Zcel""drat'' del u l ert a rumour that, at the meeting of the Bridge to Weston Point, but to no purpme. n uay property num rs have art that it wo nraday, a number of persons enrolled the grappling ins, weft put into r‘quiAtion at the pi? mad be advantageous to incorpor•te . Brighton. national guards. The Nation does not poncla in the neighbourhood of Rocksavage, but with similar , • GLOCCE,TLEFAIIRE. . • Testa, I t appears that 011 Friday a Jew pedlar, • POST-OFFICE DELINCIC ENCT.--AE am. • ay national guards were enrolled on that stranger, slept at a lodging-house in Runcorn. ilia bed- Post-office authorities has taken place d • in the following article it alludes to the fellow, a tai l or, has seen the boa , and says he believes it is relative to a packet of papers add f such a course being taken : the same which the Jew bad with blua, but he will not solicitor, Cheltenham, by Mr. Coppoek,: E'S Powza.—The popular power, arrayed . .ssz :b fact. Amat or Jewish mita was sem at liamtutary agent for the petitioners rig • . 1 4. es' / ; ' • • • capitulate. The tke of Oldenburg ie has given up the 18th from iat day contain* r, stating that Oft nd of the duchy toed of ministers, faithful subjects )tections of their al of certain into ly oppressive. got up by a party working classes to slur, and to force hitherto unpopu. g which the emit_ at, and demanded s been most provi_ er of the interior, 1 to very energetic ras called out, pla e meeting, and the and the publication ion, which will ap to quiet the public *turned to CriscoW ble answer from the 'rom Borne to the ad a secret sitting on 01 Sardinia that the 10,000 men into Loin. the frontier. A com port was expected to o of the lan accounts ApniL 21. ---•• Thig ighnees Prince Alexia in the royal tomb at inge and Prince Henri acourse of persons were JCHIES.—We have news from Rendsburg s General llalkett a allied army, that is of . the Prussian, Schies. Aidziwil will command eanig.Rolatein Sondes wick will hare no (.0m- A vessels into the Wart Id of Silt. The Com ination of the King, in immcdiattly evacuating trque, capture the Chip,, in property within his d March have been MEXICO. 1, called the United in Hackstaff, arrived ith dates from New Before entering the 1 on a complimentary ates from Mexico are here was that on ao .en Generals Scott and n as a witness in Mex. aerican papers contain by us in the news per leave Mexico for the irt of inquiry adjourns. late from Vera Cruz) had not arrived. Ge it San Luis Potosi on ct of making a pronnn- ed out, and her news, se revolutionaly events Lment here, iz., from was looked upon as ICC and prevent the re. published in the New property amounting to °Hats. fhe New York ing omitted to lease the sum than that of half says : vetinues sound and prove stock rats s above par, as do e made at tram 1011 to 102. sy proposals for the new loan. is have been vsry large sines , larger than in the same in :ars, and the exports both to re been very heavy. If we mtion as the prob. , tile extent e presume few will now be of our former opinion, that y of 2,200,000 bees being ff the accounts per steamer =battle that. we may see a ids than for many years past. a re compelled to hold a part are more settled in Europe. en materially. What decline is difficult to predict. In the ms at present, we will merely re about 61 cents and fa ir In breadstuff* little is dt c rinl e o wnward. Western a dole. per hbl. ; wheat, 145 to a corn, 52 to 56 cents. El m fourth page.) )lA. MAIL. tail packet Thames, Captain Southampton, yesterday, r the charge of Lieutenant y the Thames are :—Vera ico, 13th; Havanna, 28th ; ,111, 23rd; Demerara, 20th; loes, 27th; Antigua, 29th; da, 24th; Porto Rico, 24th; uda, April 7. passengers on board the onsists of 84,4 7 3 dollars; 12,1 box pearls, 100 bags of iwroot, 40 bales tobacco, 18 s of sundries, and 14 lice ed boisterous weather en tba :ico is anticipated by later reached Jamaica, on the 21st al truce sent to Granada had I ogy for the Moult offered to the prisoners whose fibers,- r the rights of this funny little ritain has unconsciously been ably wait till Lord Palmer •s he has promised, with any is since received. Jamaica, from Aux Cayes, an outbraak in that town . on people from the adjoining Ming that the commandant of leposed, and Ctn. 'f.Alornache The commandant made his latter rested. From the loa the actors in the affair it was ?.sident was at the bottom of id of an officer who did not lamber of Commerce met at NI a aeries of resolutions, of which important : Chamber that, with a moderate differs ir a limited period of ten years afre , n 4 a it interval by liberal immigration Iran on of the slave trade being enforced. line i planters, assisted by capital, which MO . • their command. would place Jamaica 111 treed competition with all other sure' Chamber feels convinced that, on Pro' Jamaica planters fear no competition. t the atandonnkent a sugar WOO I now become general, and, as a conies ot its inhabitants be throws into a caa. ,ant, accompanied by wide-spread Med d advisable at once to lay a memorial be 'mends to the different parishes simil!'r ig his excellency to call together the less e delar, that the aPPell in g " uncial cag' insidered. situa t i o n to cont inue .nd are not In a toChamber, therefore, strongly urge , V 2 , 1 1.! stirnates of contemplated eapenditure tot at tomible limits, short of abandoning for ms. that maim atnonrt all eitillad natig:%-mi individmil rights for the public tiled ; if, therefore, the British natl il er deetroys her colonies by waging an lit ler own subjects, cou n tsve invested th ey_ aratitee of their 's laws, th_r.t.r. sir claim for full and ample compense of w- - aroperty —a claim which the justiosi