The Express. — London, England, 1847-06-08 00:00:00

e w e the state f the law of marriage i n Scotland was It Eo. w u t h e pro posed was, that marriages performed r der e of varo-usdenomisations should remain as they hat respeeting otheemodes ef marriage, that if they ..we etro; 0 , =meet clergymen they must be tag the arse of jeers and quaker', he forms o f marriages in Scotland to two, those be - Ile t a, clergyman and thou before the registrar. It was rciiii , e 4 t h a t persons married by the registrar should r osi k a t i a the datriet for a certain time, as at would tend .7 t hole the barn and precipitancy of marriages. The ; de to the the was to he equivalent te proclamation W kr the purpose of a outrage before the clergy. hf Be bad brought forward the bills now merely with selL the s ow of stating their object, and postponing them till onion. and the interval he would employ m etetfaspovemeet and amendment in them that he could. igagORBBS said that he and those other members from s oma who opposed the present bills only represented the . a gags of the peseta of Scotland. If the people of Scotland ;pin femur of the bills, why were there no r 'Sitio= from jo t. tkit effect They objected to the bill for the intr. Yloes artjar 9, in the first place, because it created Val sew Avert They also objected to the bill, because it eruct any ,chop aster from being a regis tr ar. There d&WI in the bill which was very much complained of s o d a s& wady, a clause compelling persons, under a rea lty, who were present at a birth, to give in tass before a certain time. A man who married was Joe o bliged under a fine to go to the registrar, and as he b oa to P ays fee to the registrar, it would operate as Nr ri , mar riage, These were some of the reasons which iswe d t h e people of Sootland almost universally to oppose bill, and he *.herefore hoped it would not be forced tri tium. The motion was then agreed to. PRISONS BILL.—ADJOURNED DEBATE, l e mower to a question by Mr. NEW DECIATE, Su O. GREY said that be would fix Thursday for the a ajsented debate. )tr. BANKES said that the debate on Portugal was e as t for Thursday. gje O. GRBY .aid as that was the earliest day on which t h e a djourned debate could come on, in any case it was Enter to flu it for that day. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. Cot SIBTHOUP called attention' to the railway &trio. delltl whisk had recently occurred, and thought an inquiry el& to he made into their causes. j r UCDSON said that railway directors lamented such *Skits u much as any men could do, and would be very sad to bear of any suggestion by which they might be likely to be prevented. The hum then adjourned at 20 minutes past 12 o'clock. gh erpregg. MAILS. ouch coarse or other manufactures u would defy coin petition. Those looking for the salvation of Ireland should, instead of following the iris fates= of Mr. GODLEY, follow rather the steady light of Sir Ronisur Kaxa. n , Wert laths mails, excluding those for Mexico, Honduras, sad 0, goring, will be auk up on the morning of the 17th June. Ile min for rev, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar eV De made an ea Ile morning of the 17th June. The awls he Britidt North America, Bermuda, and the United yam\ .d 1 be made up on the everting of the 18th June. TM overland mail- for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, D,o,agokosytte, India, Floag.Kong, and China, via floutbamptes, ay M meleup en the evening of the 10th June. medeng sloped mails, vie Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, BeeKAlre,oollsa, WM, Hong Kong, &e., will be made up on the iitairias Nei Jeri, the mil ke New Ikea Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and New leimlidlbe New up on the evening of the 30th June. 111 oil kr lie Brains, the River Plate, Monte Video, Peraane. =MesfrAra, and Buenos Apra, will te made up on the deo 4111Jui 7 . And MI be mole op for Sierra Leone, by H.M. steamer Growler, Be., t h e le aril, from Plymouth, shout 12th. Letters, semibe sambas, 4 ' By Growler." TO CORRESPONDENTS. Aderrtinusente intended bwr The tepress, London erening paper, curt be at the Offer by Two o'clock on the day of publication. RIGA WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. Ts Dar. —Morair r, 24 rain. past 9; Wows, wt 9. To.ltosiow —Month*, 29 min. past 101 Altarecc4, solo. past 11. LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 8. Tea rumour of another failure of the potato-crop recalls those feelings of political anxiety for Ireland, which had, in part, been set aside, and which were not to be roused by the most specious schemes for emigration of men, or reclamation of land, that inge nuity could devise. We had not vet come to believe in the necessity of feeding the * lrish population on wages in lien of a bit of land, and on corn in lien of Makes. The immense difficulty, the almost impos sibility of the thing, deterred the contemplation of it as a necessity. And we looked to the new poor-law as likely to produce a more prudent location of labourers, and a better distribution of cos-acre, instead of its elevating the Celt to the bread and cheese of the Saxon. _ . Another failure of the potato crop would, however, put the problem before us with en urgency past shirking, and necessitate the adoption of some tempo rary measures to obviate the famine, as well as per manent ones of a more wide and serious nature than any which parliament has consented to entertain. The existence of the disease once ascertained, there should be constituted some ruling committee, whether that of boards of guardians or unions, or of one more exclusively of landed proprietors, to be invested at once with a dictatorial power over the agriculture of the district, so as to be able to provide at once for the replacing the potato by grain or esculents which might defy the disease. The absorption or employ of the population would then come as the grand consideration, and as such it would be forced upon the empire. In such a moment Mr. GODLEY'S scheme, or some modifica tion of it, would also force itself on the consi deration of the public, and even of statesmen. There is much in Mr. GODLEY'S plans to render them repugnant to the English public. The forma tion of sectarian communities, bound and sealed up in exclusion and prejudice, and bringing with them their great Pandora's box of Irish peculiarity and Irish hatred to a chosen corner of the new world, would alone disgust the liberal and the intelligent. The reason, too, assigned for such a preposterous ar rangement, viz., the enticing of the Irish to such colony, is a very idle one. If open land and remunera tion for labour will not entice Irish settlers to Canada, let as abandon the idea of locating them there. If the United States have so many real advantages, if their laws be so superior to ours, and their facilities of colonization beyond our giving, we must only abandon the idea of putting i&mada in competition with a more free and happy land by the side of it ; or, if we are to carry on the competition, let not the bait of favouring especial religious prejudices be the means employed. The peculiarity of tie plan is, however, that it offers a possibility to an emigration in large meanes— t!)e only way in which emigration could act benefi cially on the labour market at home, but a way, at the slime time, which excites the greatest fears for the safety of the emigrating masses. Armies of half a million, even those who have swords in their hand to take what they find, generally end in famine and destruction. An army of emigrants would be more difficult to manage and to settle. To advance money too, in order to employ those thousands on public works in the colonies, whilst we deny such employ at home, seems, moreover, invidious and pre pastorali& Mr. GODLEY would not easily peas a bill for the accomplishing of his scheme through par liament. For our part, we fear much that Ireland must, in some mode or another, employ and feed its own eight millions. It will do this, very probably, in some mode which will shock political and farming econo mists. But this thing must be done. It is very easy to show that large farms are more productive ; that they grate a better class of farmers, and a better clam of labourers, than small holdings, and that they return more rent. Of what use preaching these truths after a session of p arliament in which all thi s was admitted; but in whic h no one thing wan devised for lightening the labour-market that was not instantly scouted ? We doubt much that any great or efficient remedy , can be supplied by parliament. Hitherto parliament has looked solely to agricultural employ,. with the exception perhaps of fisheries, trifling in im portance and amount. The true and best absorption of the Irish surplus population would be in work unconnected with agriculture or with the land, which would vary the classes in that country, diversify the • interests, and raise up something in the country besides lord and serf; something at least other than an intermediate and " uneasy" class, which has DO other prospect or interest than to agitate and harangue, and to seek remedies for social evils in political quackery. Bat parliament cannot be expected to encourage anything like Irish manufactures. It would be con tiury to the idets of free trade. The measures foe of infringe every day upon the great principle of free trade, as far ea land is concerned. And Lord RADNOR takes care to tell us so. It would be useless to recommend parliament or government to turn the stream of their geuerosity to anything else than land. For, although indulging and delighting in the abuse of Irish landlords, it is evident that parlia ment and government look exclusively to them for the regeneration of the country. But we would re commend it to the Irish themselves, to the Irish council, to Irish boards of guardians, to see if they could not devise means of giving employ in towns to the supine portion of the population, by establishing TUE number of accidents which crowd the columns of the daily press is fearful. A colliery explosion, and the crushing of several railway carriages, with the loss of seven or eight lives in each instance, are the events of one day. No foresight or inspection c mid have prevented the catastrophe of Wolverton, which was owing to the folly of the guardian in charge of the break . Pallet these fresh accidents are occurring, an inquest is elucidating the catastrophe of the Chester bridge, and enable' us to examine the canoe of all. Whilst the public blame the di rectors and proprietors of the railway and the railway bridge, the coroner's jury blame the late officer of public safety, the officer appointed by the coroner's jury blames the contractor who put up the masonry, and, of coarse, the superintendent inspector of the work,' ; while the engineers examined before the coroner blame the Admiralty and other public boards, for compelling them, in building bridges across rivers, to attempt all sorts of dangers, and even impracticabilities, and so exhibiting a total disregard of the security of the travelling public. Thus, everybody is to blame, and nobody. It is plain that this is not a state of things that can be allowed to continue. Somebody must be the eseponsible party to the public for the safety of tra vellers. We must cease to have divided responsibility. The public have been led to believe that the directors of the railways were not fit to be entrusted with the liies of the travelling community, to whom they were represented to be the natural enemies. A Rail way Board of Inspection has been appointed ; they run over a line, glance at the works, try to under stand the plans, and if they are satisfied, they autho rise the opening of the line. Of course, if an accident happen after this official approbation, the undivided responsibility which used to rest on the proprietors, engineers, and directors of the line is now at an end, and, as in this case, nobody is to blame. This division of responsibility is therefore a source of public danger. General PASLET, when examined, replies, " I am not infallible, I gave my opinion that the bridge was safe ; this was my duty, and my whole duty, and I did it—true, I have long changed my opinion, and the bridge has fallen as it ought. Official inspection thus amounts, as far as public safety is concerned, to a mockery in the matter of safety ; and, in the matter of serious damage, places between the suffering public and the wealthy proprietors of the railway, a man of straw, from whom no compensation can be obtained, 'and whose mere opinion is a full acquittal to the solvent sponsors, the directors of railways, from all responsibility for the security of those daring struc tures which suspend thousands of human beings daily by a few inches of iron, stone, or brick, over some frightful abyss. The time has come when we must know who are responsible for railways to the public. The Railway Commissioners sanctioned the works on the Edinburgh and Berwick line, and the public, in simple reliance on official ingestion, allowed them selves to be whirled along precipices a hundred feet above the level of the sea, when whole viaducts and embankments were, in a single night, hurled down from the mountain sides. The works on the Enniskillen Railway bad just been approved by another inspector, when we had to record the fall of an entire arch over a public thoroughfare, as a regi ment of soldiers were about to march under it. Finally, this Dee bridge falls; and we are now informed that not only this bridge, bat one hundred others of the same description, have all been passed by the public inspector. If they fall, there is again nobody is blame. The public inspector has a bs olved the railway directors from responsibility. The one thing indispensable in these matters is un divided responsibility. This is frustrated by the exist ing system of inspection. The only persons who can kaaw my thing about the value and stability of such works must be those officers and engineers of the cora wise silo see every stone laid, who see every bit of iron toted, who daily watch the condition of the works, and whose years, months, and days, are spent in acquiring a knowledge which no flying survey of a railway board or its officers, on a summer's day, can possibly attain. These employes of the railway com panies alone thoroughly know the nature and use of these works, and the proprietors and directors are the proper parties to be exclusively, avowedly, and directly responsible to the public for refety, and to sufferers for damage. Seeing that con4denee in official inspection for public safety, and in a railway board for immu nity from accident, is a popular fallacy merely, which costs the country much money, which costs the public valuable lives, which adds nothing but false confidence to the railway traveller, and gives the party who ought to be responsible a position of divided responsibility—let us reverse our policy. Let us leave the railways to those whose sole business it is to manage them, and place the undivided responsibility of accidents on those who alone have the knowl ed ge, the means, and unques tionably the deepest and most personal interest in promoting them, and whose knowledge does not change with a political party, nor become transferred by military promotion, nor exercise itself on an ooca anal visit of professional routine. If our laws of recovery against directors are not sufficiently prompt and powerful, let as make them eo ; and let blame, responsibility, and punishment, fall where alone there is knowledge, duty, and interest, to avert the danger ia a degree as great as it is possible to bring to the ear duct of human affairs. As to the accident itself which suggests these remarks, the evidence of Mr. STEPHENSON, Mr. LOCKE, and Mr. Goocw, as engineers, combined with that of eye-witnesses, leaves no doubt as to the way in which it took place. The tender got off the line, the carriages followed the tender with great mo mentum, and pushing on behind struck the side supporting girder and knocked a piece out of the upper side of it, cutting away the iron brace that sup ported R. Had it been a trussed timber bridge instead of iron, the same result would have followed. Had it been a brick or stone bridge, it is probable the train would have followed the tender into the water. As it is, we have merely proof that an accident not intrinsic to this species of bridge occurred to the train, and that the train passing off the bridge drove the girder along with it. An getting off the line is a casualty against which there is no possible precaution, except care, science, and habitual caution, such as are daily brought to bear with more and more efficiency on the railway system. When a brick bridge tumbles, it would be absurd to declaim against all brick bridges• when a timber bridge takes fire it would be ridiculous to abolish all timber bridges ; and now, because an accident to • train has happened on a bridge of iron, it would be equally . absurd to apprehend similar accidents on all iron bridges—folly which some people now seem prone to commit. A hundred such bridges have been years in use without accident ; and it is now a hun dred to one that for years to come no similar accident 'v recur to disturb the confidence of the travelling THE Court of Queen's Bench has become the ordi nary channel of advertisements for all persons who, in their pursuit of notoriety, can contrive to be abused or criticised by any opponent who is willing to play into their bands. Any censure against a public or would-be public character, is immediately met by a motion for a criminal information. Even if the rule is refused, the counsel who moves for it has an oppor tunity of eulogising his client, and of contradicting all possible statements or rumours to the contrary; while, if it is granted, a second day is, after an inter val, devoted to the elucidation of the same interesting subject matter. The accusation, it is true, generally obtains, in the course of the proceedings, an infinitely wider circulation than any which could have been contemplated by its original utterer ; but it is not an uncommon case to prefer being attacked or libelled to neglect and silence. "If they were to leave off abusing me," said JOHNSON, " I should starve." The public journals have really a right to complain of the formidable competition against their advertising columns thus carried on with their own resources. We are obliged to furnish, with great care and ex pense, reports of the proceedings in the courts of law without any profit, except that which arises from the general circulation of the paper. It seems hard that those who require publicity should be noticed gratis in our law report, while the advertising columns are open to them at the usual charge. A motion fora criminal is no doubt THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1847. than an ad- vertisement, bat one paynast in this way mares insertion in all the public men, and sumo a degree of public attention which no single advathessent is likely to obtain among the crowd of rival paragraphs. The least that the Queen's ' Bench ought in fairness to do for the is to discourage applications to its ex traordinary jurisdiction in cases where the complainant has not even been attacked by any one. If he desires protec tion against imaginary euemies, let him apply to the advertising agent and the bill-sticker. Our readers may have observed in our law report of Friday bust a most extraordinary instance of gotoemoucherie, arising, perhaps, from the temporary inattention of the learned judges of the supreme criminal court of this kingdom. All London has, within the last six weeks, become unavoidably fami liar with the name of a lady who, it seems, is the poetess of a Sunday newspaper. Not wishing to be the subjects of a criminal information, we abstain from mentioning the name, referring the carious to the gigantic placards which still ornament the hoardings and unoccupied houses of the metropolis, and very possibly of all our provincial towns. It seems that another lady, of the same christian and surname, was formerly convicted of the murder of her child, and, we believe, executed accordingly. No one, pro bably, ever sup posed that there was any sort of con nexion between the criminal and the genius; but a newspaper in want of a paragraph took occasion to pay rather an awkward compliment to the placarded authoress, and at the same time to satirise, with lum bering jocularity, the indifference of the public to her works. " Considerable anxiety "—thus the pars graph runs—" has been excited among the public who do not read the poetical contributions of the —, to know what can have induced its proprietors to present their subscribers with a portrait of a woman who has murdered her own child. Such is fame, among the masses; a murderess is a heroine, and a! poetess unknown." In other words, the public is se t as not to have heard of X. Y. the poetess, ignorant as not tohave heard of X.Y.the poets., although it is familiar . with the memory of her name sake X. Y. the popular murderess. Perhaps the taste of bringing together two persons of such different character was questionable; but the innocent and even complimentary intention was sufficiently obvious. But compliments are, as all experienced persons know, the least efficient form of puffing. Turned inside out and converted into the ground of a criminal information the paragraph was worth a square mile of placards. As, therefore, might have been expected, an affidavit was gravely sworn that X. Y., spinster (the poetess), had not only never murdered her child, but had never had a child to murder; and on this affidavit a rule nisi for a criminal information against the proprietor of the delinquent journal was moved for, and, as could not have been expected, it was actually granted. It never seems to have occurred to the court that the charge supposed to have been made was so monstrous, so unreasonable, and so unusual, that it must be capable of some ex planation—that it might be ironical, or hypothetical, or otherwise different from a direct and scandalous libel. If the court had read the sentence with common attention, it would have been impossible not to see that it had been altogether misrepresented or mis understood. But, nevertheless, the rule nisi was granted. Probably the court may have been influenced by the statement of the complainant's counsel, that it would not be necessary to make the rule absolute, as communications between the parties were in progress. If so, advantage has been taken of the accommo dating. disposition of the court, for we observe that it has since been announced that the matter is too I serious for compromise, and that it will be proceeded with in due course of law ; giving, as we have said, more publicity than a wilderness of placards to the extremely offensive association in which the name of the sensitive X. Y. has been placed . But the subse quent conduct of the parties is entirely beside the question in considering the decision of the judge*. The practice of granting rules for criminal informa tions, for the mere purpose of enabling applicants to contradict injurious allegations, constitutes the • unfair competition with the ordinary traders in advertisements of which we complain; the remedy by criminal information has always been spoken of as an extraordinary and supplementary ap plication of the law, to be adopted only where the ' remedy by action or by indictment is insufficient to meet the Justice of the case. It is entirely in the dis cretion of the judges to allow or refuse the rule; and it has been customary, where private individuals have made the application, rather to discourage than for ward their attempt to avail themselves of a mode of relief which lies beyond the ordinary practice of the law. _ It has often, in former times, been urged as a rea son for granting the rule for an information, that this was the only criminal proceeding in which the libelled could assert his own innocence as well as obtain redress from the author of the calumny. In a civil action for libel the defendant could always plead, and, if the case admitted of it, prove the truth of the libel, and by establishing it offer a complete defence. The criminal proceeding, on the other band, by indict. ment, being founded on the theory that libels are per nicious whether false or true, as tending to the disturb ance of the peace, admitted of no allegation or proof of the justice of the statement complained of. A prosecutor might, and often did, obtain a verdict without clearing his own character or impugning the veracity of the defendant. The jury had only to decide whether the writing before them was libellous, and if so, whether the defendant had published it. T he character of the victim of libel was often rather damaged than otherwise by his success; for the unfairness of a prosecution where the defendant was not at liberty to justify his state ment, naturally became a common and effective argu ment to juries, who knew that, in a civil action, the truth of the case might have been fully tried. The injury which was thus sustained by the victims of unfounded charges naturally led to frequent appli cations for criminal informations, with the main ob ject of stating on affidavit the complainant's innocence of the charges brought against him. As the defendant has the opportunity, in showing cause against the rule, of filing counter-affidavits, the merits of the case are, in this mode of proceeding, to a certain extent, tried by the court. The common law, however, has also discouraged the system of trying questions of fact by written statements or on the allegations of the parties. Except where public officers were attacked in the discharge of their duties, or where some other characteristic circumstance removed the case from the ordinary ran of libels, the general inclina tion of the court was to leave complaining parties to their civil or criminal remedy before a jury. Since the passing of Lord CAMPBELL'S libel law, it is less necessary than ever to facilitate a departure from the ordinary course of litigation. To an indict ment for libel it is now open to the defendant to plead, first, that the alleged libel was true ; secondly, that the publication of it was for the public advantage. If the jury decide both these issues in his favour, he is protected from prosecution. The mere proof of the troth of the libel is justly held to be an insufficient defence. In a great number of cases it would evidently be absurd to set up the public interest as a defence to an indictment for libel ; but the knowledge that where such a defence really exists it may be used by a defendant, ought to make the Queen's Bench more chary than ever of granting extraordinary assistance. We hope we have not rendered ourselves liable to a motion for an information on the part of X. Y. Whether she is a poetess we are not enabled to state, but that she is quite a different person from X. Y., the murderess, is a point on which we have the firmest conviction. We wonder how the alleged libeller was supposed to ac count for the circumstance that his X. Y. was at large to write poetry, and to stick bills over all the walls of London. The Chamber of Deputies appointed a committee on Saturday to report on the question whether M. Emile de Girardin should be allowed to present him self before the Chamber of Peers. Of mne members of the committee, two only are members of the oppo sition, and as the government is in favour of sending M. de Girardin before the upper chamber, it is pro bable that each will be the result. _ _ The project of law for a credit of three millions for the establishment of agricultural camps proposed by the government has been rejected by the committee of the chamber. Queen Maria Christina was expected at Rome on the Ist June, where she was to have remained a few days. She was expected at Toulon about the 7th. L'Union Monarchique gays : We are informed that domiciliary visits have been made at avers] of the hotels in the faubourg St. Germain, and at the dwellings of persons who have manifested sympathy for the 8 refugees. The authorities hare resorted to measures, and these searches hare been attended and executed by numerous agents of the police. Warrant' hare been Waned against the Count de Monte molin. In one house, more than forty policemen bare been occupied in searching the rooms, the cellars, cabinet", ; but in vain. All these proceedings have been, and most necessarily be, fruitless. These searches have been continued for more than three hours. A precis-verbal, declaring that, in spite doll the searches which have been made, the Count de Montemolin has not been discovered, has been sent to Neuilly and laid before the council of ministers. The Muniteur Algerien, of the 30th nit., announces officially the resignation of Marshal Bageand. Advicee have arrived from Madrid to the lit inst. No change in the personal relations of the Queen and her consort had taken place. The Pope's legate, M. Brugnelli, was received by her majesty on the 31st, and gave daily receptions at the hotel of the legation. Same food riots had broken out in Grenada, but not of a very serious character. ROME, May 28. The leading event of the week here is the death of I the great tribune of the Roman people, Cardinal Micara, who expired on the 24th. In him were I centred the hopes of the transtererini, should any evil befal our enlightened monarch : for though dean of the sacred college, and born in 1775, he was a vigor ous septuagenarian. Fanny Kemble, who, like old Boetius, has written a boo k, " De Consolation Phi , losophica," in brisk demand here, records a conver sation between Micara and Lambrnschini, on their way to the conclave in one carriage: "If the powers of darkness preside over the election, you'll be pope," said the defunct : " if the people had a voice, I'm the man ; but if heaven has a finger in the business, 'twill be Ferretti." Micara was the terror of the retro grade faction : he was known to advocate most sweeping reforms, including an agrarian law for break ing up entails, and reconstructing the tenure of land in the Roman territory. Hence the great leviathans of the desolate Campagna tried to ridicule and depreciate him : being a capuchin : he wore a flowing bifurcated grey beard, and was nicknamed bythem the " Pacha of two tails." The utter simplicity of his establish ment rebuked the pomp and expenditure of his brother dignitaries; but he racked not what they said, and was himself a frank ontspeaker. I had a long oonver sation with him last month, of which Father Mathew, his brother-capuchin, was the subject. " Why doesn't he come to Rome ?" " Your eminence is not, perhaps, aware that the lives of some thousand poor people de pend on his untiring personal exertions in Ireland!" Bens, capiaco, braro padre! But, said he, about his , advocacy of temperance," we wanted him here a little ! under the late pontificate!" Whether this was an epigram or not Ido not presume to judge. I merely give his words. The consequences of the great banquet in the baths of Titus, and the (confiscated) report of the speeches, are still perceptible. The King of Naples has sent his compliments to Marquis Dragonetti (a Neapo litan), who spoke the opening oration, requesting his presence at court; the orator declined; whereupon Ferdinand 11. called on the Pope to expel him to the frontier, where relays of gens d'armene were ready to escort him from Terracina to the Castel novo : Pins flatly refused to commit such a breach of hospitality. I Here the matter rests. The organisation of the national guard exhibits the policy of Pius as resting for support not on the mob, but on the middle classes emphatically. All artists, shopkeepers, members of liberal or learned profes sions, with householders and proprietors, are to be enrolled under arms. The nobility have began to see their mistake, and, convinced that opposition is useless, they are now about to show by a signal demonstra tion that they are more determined admirers of the Pope than the people themselves. The 17th of June will be the first anpiversary of the grand decree of amnesty, and on that day they are preparing, at their exclusive expense, not allowing any other class to contribute a farthing, a most splendid testimonial of their adhesion. On the spot in the square del Popok, where last year the people erected a trium phal arch of lath and plaster, they are about to erect the model in ,gesso of a colossal group in sculpture, with gigantic accessories, from the design of a Milanese sculptor. Yesterday they mustered in force on horseback as early as four o'clock in the morning to escort Pius on his journey to Subiaco. The " pilgrims of the heart," to use their own phraseology, arrived on Monday, and proceeded at once to the Irish seminary with the contents of the silver urn, which I saw to-day de posited In the vestry-room of the church ad jacent, called St. Agatha dei Goti (of the Goths). 'The associations and reminiscences connected with this spot are by no means Irish, it having been, since the time of the gothic Arians, a den of heterodoxy ; indeed, Gregory the Great calls it " %whines prari tails hareator," (lib. iii., epist. 19). The seminary itself is far from realizing the character of a national institution ; it was got up a few years back by a Dr. Blake, whose impracticable temper it had to contend with till his removal and the appointment of the pre sent mild sad considerate president Dr. Cullen, but it is by no means an improvement on Maynooth. Far from fostering a race of young clergymen, able to overawe and cope with the intelligent laity, of new growth in Ireland, it can at best only produce a set of half-witted ascetics. There is here an Irish convent and church better entitled to this national relic : I mean St. Isidoro, founded several hundred years, and always tenanted by distinguished Irishmen, the ear liest being Luke NI adding, the great historian of the Franciscans. There was some whisper of a vault in St. Peter's, but up to this moment, those who gave that hint have been told that none but crowned heads were admissible, such as the Stuart race, the Sobieskis, the ex-queen Christina of Sweden, and (should she die here just now) the ex-queen Christina of Spain, her great rival in combining gallantry with devotion. If I were consulted on the matter, I would at once carry the silver urn away from the obscure and ill famed locality of the Suburra (vide Persil Satyr. v. 32 ) , ascend the Janiculum-hill, and in the church of Montorio, seek out the spot where moulder the bones of O'Neil of Tyrone, and O'Donnell of Tyrconnell (1608). I'd not lame thee thou late one To pine ea the stem Where the Panuors are sleeping— Go ! sleep thou with THIN The Italians find some difficulty in understanding why and wherefore this Irish champion was not dis posod to allow his heart a resting-place in his own beloved land. The notion altogether is suspected here to be of posthumous origin, yet numbers resort to this small church to pay their respects to the &evertor of his country's freedom, and feel flattered at the thought of possessing the relic within their walls by whatever agency brought here. The deceased had certainly no reason to cry out with Scipio Africanus, " Ingrate patria ne ogee quidem habebis." As to ingratitude on the part of his co-religionists and other admirers the thing is prepoeterous. He was most munificently remunerated, and never were the words of the Greek orator, in reference to his great antagonist more applicable: Are / savor 0 hear ; our ! &Ma poyairslorpodopy. IT is on record that the com mon disturber of Europe, Pope Hildebrand, dying somewhere near Naples, exclaimed, no doubt in per fect sincerity, "Diteri justitiam et odici iniguitatem ergo morior in crab o; but as for Mr. O'Connell, his exile itself was voluntary, not like the banish ment of an illustrious writer of antiquity, whose dying momenta are sang by Lamartine: ( A ) l , t s ri . :a i r , d: mono anal descendant mains, Aux Situates barbares — rsyclaa s eetdre, moire Lax Remain' Then sit], both hands uplifted the bard ere he breathed His last deb far away from his Modred sad home, To the Scythia= his ashai bath left—but Ai l is ueathed glory to Rome! The mention of uplifted hands may well introduce an anecdote of Dan's dying chamber. It seems that the pressure on the brain had caused naturally enough partial paralysis of the limbs. Oa the 14th of May he was observed by his chaplain to draw his right arm from the bedclothes, and making a feeble rt to raise it, " Doctor," he faintly murmured, " this arm la EMANCIPATED." It soon fell. We " Boman' " are exceedingly fastidious in the matter of Latin inscriptions, and, perhaps from habit and frequency, are familiar with the elegancies which enter into what ie here called the "lapidary" style. Hence sundry comments have been made on the caco phony of what we read on the urn—"Natua Kerry, obiit Genore." It is mentioned in the authorised, but somewhat ponderous and bigotted biography compiled by John, that Dan's first schoolmaster (who besides the hornbook initiated his pupil into the mysteries of a horn comb) was one of the Mahonys. That worthy Wagon°, if alive, would have suggested to Dr. Miley something less dull and leas rinclassical than the above. Perhaps he would have furnished a couplet, justifiable by Virgilian precedent; ex, gr.: Nem. me =suit: Lewes moire; Meet Me Rows cm at roma cation run once& Posy awr.—l have justretarned from another riot to the vestry-room, where the heart is kept. I now have found some reason for justifying the selection of St. Agutha's Church as the final receptacle of Dan's heart, for hare at least there is one other distinguished man entombed. On examining the edifice I find at the right hand, between two columns, the following inscription on a Greek worthy, who, it appears, is in terred beneath, John Lascaris, one of the refugees from Constantinople (when taken by the Turk.) and an efficient promoter of the revival of letters in western Europe:— Ammack aUsirry4 y. , msawo. Toast krer brow msµpeparor Ewe/. muiszorr MA' azkra. wrst Av.! On to zow %woo +farm away. which I have not time to versify, but the plain prose of it is this -- • " Lsacaris lies here in a foreign grave; but 0 stranger, he does not feel uncomfortable on that account—he rather rejoices ; yet is not without a pang, as a Grecian, that his fatherland cannot afford him an emancipated sod of earth." GERNIANY.—PRUSSIA.—BERLIN, JUNE 4. The Allgenseine Preussische Zeii44l49 of this day publishes the continuation of the grand political debate which com mutated in the Chamber of the Three Estates on the 30th it., with a remarkable speech by the Minister of Justice (Harr Von &vigil"), who contended that the demand for an Naval or biome' convocation of the diet could not be bred upon the promises made in laws previous to the pagnt royal of Feb. 3, and that there was no contradiction Intermit those statutes and that charter. The political debate on the following day, the 31st ult., was a very animated one. It was opened by the Graf von Renard, who, in the course of his address, examined the two ques tions, whether the periodical convocation of the diet was really necessary, and whether the request for such convoce tion was an opportune one. With regard to the former, he maintained that the yearly assembling of the diet might be set down as desirable and necessary; and, with reference to the latter, that although his Majesty, in his royal message of the 22nd of April last, had promised to convene the diet again within the period of four years, it would not e presumptuous or indiscreet to ask for a periodical convoca tion. inasmuch as that royal message merely fixed the as. sembling of the dist for one particular time, and the petition asks for a concession altogether different from that already made. The speaker moved, as an ameridnent, that all those motions for petitions having in view the modification of the patent of Feb. 3, be drawn up in terms whereby his Majesty should be humbly requested to lay propositions, connected with those petitions, before the diet, to be convened (according to the royal message of the 22nd o. Aril) within the period of four years. The Marshal, after • ta p tthe sense oldie assembly, declared that the Graf s amendment had found the legally required number of sup porters to allow of its discussion. Herr Von Sperling next addressed the house. He accounted for the general apathy or silence with which the patent royal of Feb. 3 was re ceived, on the grounds that the people did not consider it in unison with that justice which is the greatest ornament of the throne • and that the important rights of the estates were violated in it. Me said he belonged to the 137 mem bers who had signed the well-known declaration respecting the differences existing between the ordonnances of Feb. 3, and anterior ones Lit declaration we may state here which skims certain privileges as rights, and not as favours), but he should not, on that account, oppose the petitions for further concessions. He maintained anew, that the diet had a right to be periodically assembled, but craned, also, that such • convocation was both useful and necessary. The mode of petitioning was, he observed, a new and unknown one for the members of the house, and they did not know how far those petitions would be granted. Should a peti tion for • periodical convocation of the diet be based merely upon the necessity and usefulness of having fixed times for meeting, and should such a petition be rejected la the House of Lords, matters would be in a worse state Lima they are at present. The speaker concluded by referring le several laws, which, according to his view, held out the wont of an annual convocation of the diet. Ater emelt ether deputies had addressed the house in favour of Ow alma convocation, the Royal Commissary stated that he kit called upon to set forth the views of the crown with reference to the limits of the debate then carried on. His honoured colleague, the minister of justice, had already explained, that in the royal message of the 22nd of April, his Majesty e x pressly declared that he recognised in the diet no other rights than those uerrbed to Up the laws of as Feb. 3, or such he might hereafter, in ale way, make over to it. That message had certainly hel out the possi bility of the extension of those rights, and had admitted the right of the diet to address petitions to the king in favour of such extension. It was, however, another affair for the diet to resolve that it possessed rights, based upon former acts. Against such a resolution he must make a stand, and he did so even by royal command. His Majesty declased, in his royal message, that the patent of Feb. 3 had fulfilled all former promises, and be (the royal commissary) must oppose every motion declaring that the diet had other rights than those set forth in the patent of Feb. 3. The debate was brought to a close on the 2nd inst., by a unanimous vote in favour of forwarding a petition to his ma- Psty, beseeching him to convoke the diet every two years. Previously to the general vote, which was in accordance with the report of the committee of the house appointed to examine the question, one was taken on the amendment pro posed by Baron Von Vincke, to the effect that the penodical convocation of the diet was entirely based on right and pro. mites of a date anterior to Feb. 3. This amendment was carried by • majority of 13. This is, in fact, the more im portant vote of the two, inasmuch as it shows the opinion of the majority . of the house with reference to former °riot:- races, and inasmuch also as there are other questions de pending upon the interpretation given to those ordonnances. It is fully expected that his majesty will accede to the prayer of the petition. POSTAGE REFORM IN GEltMANT.—Letters from Frankfort say that a radical reform in the system of postage will be speedily effected in the German states. The govern ments of all the states are in accordance on this subject. The following are the bases of the new system :-1. The free pas sage of the mails from state to state, without obstruction or delay.-2, A daily mail everywhere.-3. Mails to follow the shortest route as tar as possible.-4. A uniform rate of pos e, and as low as possible. TURKEY.--CONBTANTINOPLE, MAY 19.—Teeter day, the Ottoman government was informed by one of the foreign ambassadors that the Greek government had ac cepted the mediation of Austria. The Ottoman government is offended at this step, and considers that its object is only to gain time. It will, accordingly, proceed with the mea sures which had been previously decided on. It will with draw the exequatur from the Greek mongols, and will ex clude the Greek commercial marine from the coasting trade and all commerce with the coasts of Turkey. If these mea sures be ineffectual, Greek vessel' will be excluded from the Dardanellee, and Greek subjects residing in the Ottoman territory wi ll be excluded from the practice of certain trades. The Porte only waits for the return from Athens of the Russian packet-boat, which has brought despatches to M. Perdard.—Augsburg Gaunt, June 2. ALGIERS.—INVASION OF KARELIA. —The No tional publishes the following letter from Algeria, of the 27th ult., giving details of the recent proceedings in Kabylia, which are, if true, sadly at variance with the accounts re cently forwarded to the government by Manta u Bugeaud : " Tne battle fought by the marshals column lasted front five in the afternoon till the following ineradag; bat daring the night the out-posts only of the Freak asap kept up the firing. At day-break the affair became w serina. Our troops were, es they always are, tell at ardor mad intrepidity. Several considerable villages were talus, some of which had • population of 6,000, and were defended by crenelated towers. The marshal, as the Akbar has stated, himself gave the orders for this devastation, it having been previously agreed that the firing of three cannons should be the signal for putting a stop to the pillage. The troops, excited by the heat of the combat, rushed headlong into the villages, and completely sacked them. Jewels, rich stuffs, carpets, provisions of all kinds, • quantity of arms, and a profusion of gold and silver, fell into the hands of our *oldie's. The booty was immense. Numerous jars filled with olive oil were broken, and their contents allowed to flow about the streets, and the fire from the hunting houses gaining this liquid, a horrible eyeshade yeemonted itself. All the inhabitants who came end& lark of our soldiers were put to the sword. La the midst of this frightful sleeks a Kabyle chief of athlede lbws was sea limiag his way to the marshal, and bevies one ip, eatesaled Lm, in terms of humble supplies*" tothe Aorta don, and he and lispesplevealdm ake tehesis sion. In the semi of his was t e spressise of his countenance, there was so auk siessety as well as grief, that the marshal ordered the throe swam to be fired, and the destruction and plunders& ere meet This was to the great regret of the menial, The avid het esemiewshea ea the terrace, that he wilted he hot bees mete eftlsatiy at tacked, in order that the deilesslies mkt have been more complete, and the Lem men hasps. Tals is no calumny ; it is the truth, sad again/ mess then the teeth." Abe GUttn. H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen and Prince Albert yesterday, at Buckingham Palace, and re mained to luncheon with her Majesty and his royal high ness. Lord J. Russell had an audience other Majesty. The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace in cluded H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, H.S.H. the Prince of Leiningen, Lady A. Bruce, Baroness de Spetb,_Lsdy _A. Paget, Viscount Jocelyn, Mr. 0. R. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, and Sir G. Couper. The band of the Soots Fusilier Guards was in attendance during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended. H.S.H. the Prince of Leiningen paid tints to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, yesterday, at Marlborough House ; to H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House; and to their RR.HH. the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, at Cambridge House. H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, and also H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester.—The Royal Duchess paid a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on Sunday at Cambridge-house. Prince William of Hesse Philippethal arrived at Marlborough-house, Pall-mall, at twelve o'clock yesterday, from the Continent, on • visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager. His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantin of Rues& attended by his suite, honoured the Marquis Merchioness of Londonderry with his co mpa ny at dinner, yesterday, at Holderneme-house.—The Marroneu of donderry bad afterwards an evening part L. Their RR. HR the Duke and of Cam ' Midge, attended by Lady Augusta Casein and Baran Knesebeck, honoured the Austrian Ambassador anti the Countess Dietrichstein with their company, at dinutr yes terday evening. Their ItR. HH. the Hereditary Orand Duke and Grand Duchess of Sale Weimar, visited the Duke and Dueler. of Cambridge on Sunday, at Cambridge.houes, and the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester-bouse. The Here ditary Grand Duke inspected St. Paul's Cathedral 3 esterday. In the afternoon. H.R.H. accompanied by Prince William of Philippsthal, and attended by Earl Howe and Count de Beust, went to the Home of Lords, and also inspected the new Palace at Westminster. Prince Oscar, of Sweden, yesterday, visited the Dockyard and Arsenal, Woolwich THE GRAND DUKE CONSTANTINE yesterday in- I the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards at the parade ground in the barrack square, Albany-street. _ _ Couut Sehhamelpenninek, the Netherlands Minis ter, visaed Yiscouat Pahnerston yesterday at the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Mr. Thornton trans acted hardness at the Foreign-office on Friday. Earl Cath cart had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colo nial-offi,e. Mr. Welman had an interview with Sir George Grey 3 esterday at the Home-office, ROYAL COLLEGE Or CtiMenfiT.-The fiat annual general meeting of ae.h 11111 held yesterday at the college in Hanover-square. Mr. B. B. Cabbell, M.P., pre sided. Mr. Jackson, the searotary, read the report of the council, and also that of Dr. Hoffinac, with regazd to the progress of instruction in the college. The former opened with the announcement of the completion of the labora tories, the first stone of which was laid by Prince Albert in June last. The council congratulated the members upon the appreciation which the institution had met with from the public. The number of students at present in the college was 38, making no less than 147 from its establishment A member of the college had expreseed his intention, as soon as the oollege was free from debt, to invest the sum of 1,0001. as a premium for discoveries in chemistry effected therein. Two offers had also been made of donation to the amount of 1001. respectively, for the purpose of raising in each case a thousand pounds as soon as other persons would come forward to complete the sums. Dr. Hoffman's report announced the entire soccer, of all the arrangements in the new building, and the progress of the students in various new chemical discoveries, which be con ceived might lead to very beneficial matte. The total receipts of the institution last year, including the previous balance, amounted to 6,8461. 7s. ; out of which a present balance remained of 6221. 18e. 7d. The reports, together with the statement of accounts, were adopted unani mously ; which was followed by the re-election of the council-with some additions-in the place of several gentlemen who were removed from the board to be included in the list of vice-presidents; and, also, of the officers of the company, to all of whom complimentary vote, were awarded. The business being concluded, some conver sation ensued on the subject of the 1,0001. which it was pro posed to invest as a prise for chemical discoveries, during which Mr. Blakemore ' M.P. (who was understood to be the donor), explained that the premium was to be offered in par ticular for the discovery of any means which should render iron, when applied to all ordinary purposes, as little liable to rust or corrode as copper.-The meeting then separated. The BASINGSTOKE CANAL COMPANY'S half-yearly meeting was held yesterday at the Gray's Inn Coffee-house, Holborn. The report, which was unanimously adopted, stated that the traft on the canal for the year ending on the 31st March, 1847, was 22,402 tone. producing 2,0661. 75., to the 31st March, 1846, it was 24,018 tone, producing 2,1E91. 16s, 7d , bring a difference of 1,608 tons, and 1231. Bs. 7d. This decrease in the tonnage is attributed chiefly to the length and severity of the last winter, during which the navigation on the canal was much impeded, not withstanding the exertions made to keep it up by means of the ice-boat. The high price of coals, and the great emcee titioa of the South-Western Railway Company, elm operated very unfavourably on the traffic of the canal. In consequence of the diminution of the coal trade of Odiham, arising from the unabated competition of the above-mentioned railway, it had been deemed necessary to reduce the toll upon coals from Is. Gd. to 2s. per ton. The total expenditure of the half year had been 2,5401. 2s. 9d., and the receipts 2,6951. Is. 6d., leaving a balance of 1541.18 e. 7d. The following was the state of the company's affairs on the 31st March, 1847. Assets balance as above, 1541. 18s. 7d. ; Exchequer bills 2,000/. ; amount owing to the company for int erest on Exchequer -bile, tolls, &c., 3791. 18s. I Id. ; total, 2,5341. 17s. 6d. Debts: unclaimed bond interest, 2,2371. 14s. 9ii. ; amount owing by the company for mate rials, &e., 1901. 17a. 6d. ; total, 2,4281. 12s. 3d. Leaving a balance of 1061. ss. 3d. in favour of the company. This balance was stated to be considerably less than that of last year, in consequence of the expenses incurred in the erection of new buildings and works, which, however, had increased the value of the property. Surrounded as they wore by difficulties inseparable from the nature of canal trade when contrasted with the rapidity and precision of railway traffic, the committee did not disguise from themselves the necessity for great sacrifices in the revenue of the company. They foresaw, however, that by cultivation of the goodwill of traders, and by a rigid perseverance in economy, the pro prietors may be ensured the possession of every possible ad vantage which the Basingstoke canal is capable of yielding. The election of a committee for the ensuing year, and a vote of thanks to the chairman, closed the proceedings. SERVANTS' LNSTITCTION-Thc thirteenth general annual meeting of the friends and members of this maim- L tution was held yesterday at the Committee Rooms, 42, . Great Marylebone.street, Portland-place, John Maidment, , Esq., in the chair. The report of the part year stated that the number of male subscriptions was forty-two ' and the • female ninety-eight. A considerable sum had been ex pended in medicine for sick members and general relief had also been granted to a large numbe r of applicants, besides which a pension fund had been opened for the further relief of distressed members. The financial statement represented things in a highly satisfactory condition. The total receipts of the year amounted to 3361. 14s. 111 d., whilst the expendi ture was 244/. 16s. 4d. ; 811. 17n. having been derived out of the former by donations and subscriptions, leaving a balance in the hands of the banker, after defraying all ex penses, of 911. 18s. 51d. The meta of the institution amounted to 5861. 10s. 91d. After the re-election of officers, and other routine business, the meeting separated. THE EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANYLIN.-The party of Royal Sappers and Miners who are to form the " searching " peen to be despatched on a boat expedition in search of Sir John Franklin and his wty, in case no intelligence of them should reach England before next spring, embarked yesterday on board the Prince Rupert and the Westminster. The detachment consists of 1 corporal, 2 lance corporals, and 12 privates, all of whom have been examined by Sir John Richardson, and selected from Woolwich, Chatham, and Sandhurst, out of a large number who volunteered for the expedition. The in structions to the party are, to land at Fort Jack, and proceed to the company's station on the M'Kenzie river, whets they are to winter, and in the event of an unfortunate doubt still hanging over the fate of the intrepid Arctic voyagers, they will be joined by Sir John Richardson, in the spring of 1848. The men are all to be teetotalers, that is, no grog or spirits will be served out tit them, but they will receive double pay and rations. and will have an abundant supply of pemmican, or the dried flesh of the buffalo. Winter dresses, prepared from the skin of the moose deer, are also provided for them, and every pro vision has been made to enable them to meet the rigours of the terrible climate they will have to endure. The men are all accustomed to the use of boats, which they will have to resort to on the M'Kenzie, and have been selected from the trades of carpenters, smiths, &e. ACCIDENT AT THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-OARDEN.-Shortly before 12 o'clock on Saturday George Hill, was engaged in removing one of the side wings, when he lost his equilibrium, and fell on the stage from a height of ups anis of 22 feat, sustaining the most serious injuries. It was at first feared that the poor fellow was killed on the spot, aa on being picked up he did not appear to breathe, nor move. He was takes to King's College Hospital, where he remains in a very die- Messing condition. Amongst the visitors of distinction to the opera may be mentioned 11.R.H. the Duchess of Cam bridge, who kindly sent several times during Sunday and yesterday to the hospital to make enquiries as to the state of the unfortunate man, of whom last evening favourable accounts were given by the surgeon. INQUESTS.-DEATH OF A BOW-STREET OFFICER. -Before Mr. Carter, at the George, Kingston-hill, oc Saturday evening, upon the body of Francs Howell, formerly a well-known Bow street officer, who has been residing at Kingston upon a pension granted him for his services for a great many yeah, and who cut his throat on the 24th of May. The deceased livedwith his POO, Aaron Howell, and one of his grandchildren, in a cottage at Coombe Warren, near Kingston, and on the day in question he sent his grand-daughter out, and in her absence milieu d a severe wound on his throat, and also cat the joint of his left arm.-Dr. Cox, a surgeon, residing in the vicinity, upon examination, found that the wound was three inches 100 g but not very deep, and the windpipe was slightly injure d. Owing to some injuries deceased bad received in his bead in the performance of his duty he was at times very violent, and Dr. Cox never considered him to be perfectly sane, al though there was nothing in his conduct to justify his bring placed under restraint. The medical gentleman further stated that although the injury inflicted by the deceased upon himself, might have hastened his death, he did not consider it was the actual cause of death.-The jury returned a verdict that the deceased died a natural death, which was accelerated by the infliction of a severe wound upon his neca by himself while in a state of tem po rary insanite.- ACCIDENT ON THE BOVIN-WZOTEBN RAILWAY.-By Mr. Payne, at St. Thomas's Hospital, yesterday, on the body of A. Brooks, age,'.pater en the South-Western line of rail way. Mr. Kenacte, station agent at iiirit;;;:iesii, said that on Friday, at haltpast twelve, witness hear,' the whistle of the down train, and, on looking round, saw the deceased walking between the down line end the platform. The train instantly came up, but not at full speed, and de ceased was thrown off his legs, but not on the rail. In making an effort to get up, he put one band over the rail, and he was again 'truck on the head. Seven carriages passed over him before the engine could be stopped. He had no business on the line, but should have got on the platform to ring the bell. He ^s brought t " ' • - died from ~. Duke rang the bell. He Was brought to the hospital, where he D louse.died on Saturday morning, from the effect of the inj,:cs. ~. Verdict, '' Accidental death."--manstAtiogin• .. .1. - 4 . C _ l ,,"' fore Mr. William Baker, at the Black Hone, - Settobl-hoote-: .' • s '''"'Y , lane, Ratcliff, on the body of Ann Ford, ag •MI yggs:who • . lasso died on Sunday morning last, from the ; calk' dja ;Films ' es . received from a man named Henry Jones • moil ,. ... Mr. /' titian Allan Cleland, surgeon, said he found the , •. , Offering ~. s sad under inflammation of the peritoneum. i t io t fitgariga her • /- ' inner, for a week, and she improved under his t , t. At the , - '..c. '.. Lon - end of that time she complained that the . , ; .i ..• ~...1 41, - ... i over the whole region of the abdomen. .:11" 1 , 7" I Cam- weaker until she expired. On a pos .n t i ming i n.x- 4. Baron nation, he ascertained that the p 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111