The Express. — London, England, 1847-09-14 00:00:00

oa England has beta moo allsokid than MO*, idas by 6 , ge e, Europe—and thseastellan bg 00Ioiag Ins Serb, la Oa Saturday the but lisataid babiankg at tam al. Ito • Corros.—Comparadve W ewpYd Wan at dr of pane United Mait• durin i Xtst two weeks, whit the stake tie wising to the ports, in theimad bake : Great Total yo Etriutn. Prams. Others. exports. Reeeipts. Storks. 1817... ..... 23 ... 9 ... 7 ... 44 ... 10 .. 217 . 8 2 2 ... 13 ... _ 3 ... Tat srociUi of cotton on thin side of the Atlantic still enotinue to Is loge, but are grodually diminishing, as oar . emoria are on a larger Setthan loud at tlus period of the year low Mt our triads geed Null with our cotton artiele of 14da ked u with what prec i s e part of it we know not. As joionshas we think It our dolly t, give the moot authentic seeaafls war proses* at m a, and, If we we symptoms of easeperalkoris la the via eats of rains, worms, and eztraciallaary leekwerdesos, se we ig o eg . ht we del their, to regard Mk 11111,111•1111.4111111 11111pleke sad circumspection. We said there was Emelt llNlMPlradiat Mad lbe result has proved we were comet hated of se Maw atop mace beisg orreovod before the last week of August, we see 134 has haws tern reorient at New Osiers' up to the 30th August latiodes, spinet ter hales to the mos time Wet pre, that the int bale at !While was one day behind the first of loft _year and the fat bale te Savannah four days Maid hot par. The ireathar darbig august Ira on far, with some szerpdans, bees grad ear the ear n worm storie s at New Orleans lave keen unirersdly voted warms and at Mobile lees and less credit Is glen to them. In parts or the Atlantic States reins and tell worm have been ineoked, but It is sot by such aides as bull worms sad heal shown' that great deft- Peoriae are made in the cotton crop. The army worm, sweeping a whale plantation of every leaf of codes he Ices than a week, is a plain and inteiligible cause when It sepses as it did in August, 1848. Henceforth, we might expect pretty large arrivals of cotton at New Orleann, if the yellow fever, which mew more fatal than fur many pus post, did not prevent a freetesortla thecity. The chance. are still adverse to a large crop—ln favour, perhaps, of not mere than 2,200,000 or 2,300.00 U balm ,The iliac of any eery serious injury from worms, in cam they should appear, is not quite over. Wet weather and early frost may esoily limn the crop below 2,200,000, and layourahie weather and olarcue of frost possibly cony It up to or cm bryead. We have no ends to .erve by inierepressalstlce • Oins a lew i— taken. We had rather they should be by congthsimill , estimating the crop when prior are high ant ..4 1 .1.0.. Had we joined the full thorw about rains and weans, me immit bane said sow what we should have mid by the LW Mama ftatal Cots have Pentributed meanwhile to ruin • kV of OW saes th o ught se gave exangeration and we raised a = 4. ••141, v what mann, the decline of i to i per cent per Da In In spin at advancing etchturge and declining receipts very phial Easkline. Tim subjoined may be useful for reference, and at Mast will low thst OW statement that the present crop was not much, If at *Eh taw beak ward than those of 1837 and 1639. was net a mere rumba ameetkin. New Cotton Crop of Coos _of Total poi ved at N. Orkin. le, 611. e., and N. Anba. C. 8. to horse 17, Inchoise. Arkansas. and Tom. erg. Tem. km .... ..... ..... 42 Balm 1 t tin ....... ...... . 5 ~ about 1 . 90 about 211 about 1.776 1345 .... ......... . 425 „ Ave: r-. 5 ROM 731 196 2.391 MU 663 170 2.030 um ..... .... ..... 12..5 „ 0.2,4 1101 2,379 tan about Aril ~ 6bll 119 1,631 IMO about. 100 „ 0.4 118 LOS 776 165 2.176 Log , 1137. to cili Sp. 113 „ en 13f 1,6 1 1 evolve •from 1342 to 1646 ........ 713 .. 2,1:51 Do. Irani 1137 to 1611 ...... . 610 .. 1,7,r2 Our money matket in steady and active, but not ?reseed. Loans an call are readily obtained on Rood secity at Si. and the enamel tete of interest is. per cent. The banks are filly sad az tneed for the moat part to their limits. The ape Wok me tonvequently the duties are rio too, tit{ es tbele PM am pail %belly in mark, Treasury Note. being at • pegriluk Ilts lacks as kept in constant cheek by the drain upon air elk nig* is imam& diately removed from their vaults to thong of DisManoase. If paid out again here, where by far the largest geopertion of the duties ' rte collected, this. coin would Soon find its way bask again; but inas much to it iv sent on for the mat part to the Mats for the use of the armies, its withdrawal is a source of alma to t he banks—and, ea exchange on England tends upwards, and thud radial She expectauon of further supplies of Riede tam that genetee, the operation of the sub.treasary upon the limb snd spa In currency becomes injurious. The rise in French eitimege.' tt I "wild go a littk higher, might lead to the exportatkat sf milk well an be made with a.tvantage when the rates are at from 3...%1• Sin —and they are closely verrin upon that. Tlie general trailre reentry ie ra34 prosirous. Importation, tny well. and sa Innslaws tot that of the specu lator in grain to flourishing. The stock Weise ts not active. Treasury ninny bearing 6 per cent., and misM.lolll into a 6 per cent. stock of twenty yeam, are now at 31 to 4 pr Vat pentium, after having been as high as 8 per annum. TOS. when partly from the grout demand for money oemaioned by • fall and proapeniva full trade, and partly by the well-founded apprehension that • new inn of treasury notes, or a new ban, will he requisite to meet the large war expenditure., of whirl no end is yet men. APPILLINC COLLISION AT SEA.—ONE HUNDRED am) SEVENTY.TWO LIVES Los r.—The Boston papers, 17th Aug., announce—The ship Shanunga, arrived at that port on the previous evening front Liverpool, reports that on Mon day morning, the 9th inst., at one o'clock, in let. 44 25, lon gitude 53 30, the weather being foggy, she came in contact with the Swedish bat que Iduna, firom Hamburg for NurYurk, with 209 persons on hoard. The Iduna sank in about half an hour. Immediately after the collision the Shanunga's buts were put out, and, with one boat from the barque, picked up 34 persons only. Oars hundred and seventy two persons, including the master, Captain Ernest An dreas Moberg, were lost. The names of the persons saved were : &lead Kaiser, Teresa Litthner, cabin pas wagers ; Carle Lessen, Leohard Rohshuber, A, Werster, Fralk. Kohr, Carle Sets and wife, Daniel Gunthee, Ksseburgh, Johanna Wenzel, Heinrich Troblose and daughter, Joseph Wenter, Johanna Knught, Gothel Shultz and wife, Anton Buttner and son, Christopher Glocke, Johanna Gessner, Fredk. Mahnhort, Andreas Lang and son, Heinrich Hoffman, Susannah Schebecher, Barbara Larken, steerage passengers; P. G. Wiberg, first officer; Hay froon. second officer; Cloff Soderlann, John Medburg, Eliu Liodstron, Peter Culthorn, Justotf Muhttohon, seamen. 1,500 dollars were subscribed at Boston in a couple of days for the relief of the surviven. COLONIAL. CANADA.—We have received Montreal papers to the 28th or August (inclusive). The following extracts are from the Montreal Herald of that date . . The long drought has been terroinoted by a few showers within the Last 21 hams. The diatribution a sunshine and moisture this season has been exceedingly irregular. Westward of the di-tract of Montreal we hear of hem local thunder-storm, In the district of Quebec, and to the north and east of that city, we bear of almost 000tiERIOLLII rain. In this neighbourhood we hove mucely had more than one *tower for the last two months, and we hear both from the northern and eas•ern tsiwnshipo that the &Tearable promise of July boa been mach abated by the extreme dryness. The wheat to good, but we are told, Irma many quarter', that oats, pease, and barley will be very Notwithstanding the many warnings that bare been given to emi grants, that it Is melon fur them to proceed to St. John'e with the view of entering the United States by the Lake Champlain route, the steamers on that water refining to sorry them, a considerable nuns ter of More poor meatuses have panned in that direction, and the consequence is, that awe of Giver and distress have accumulated, and the Wrestles is weeding. We regret to learn that the Rev. Mr. Dawes, a clergyman of the church of England, is among those now suffering !rem the epidemic, contracted in his attendance on the sick emigrants at that place. The Provincial Secretary here replied to a petition of the Roman citholic clergy, that "The legislature has formally appropriated the revenues of theJesuits' tenths to educational purpone, and that these revenue", consequently, cannot b • divested therefrom into the hands of the clergy of the church of Rome without the previous sanction both of the crown and the legislature ; and his excellency is of opinion that this is an objl •d t which it is neither expedient nor able to en deavour to attain. Potxr ST. CIIAIRLEL —Number . (Ma en the 26th Aug.: —Men, 988; women, 411; children, 203; total, 1,262. Died during the last 24 hours:—Min, 19; women, 9; children, 6 ; total, 23. signed, lAA. CIIAKIPORD, M.D., comm.ssioner. NOVA SCOTIA.—The Halifax Morning Post re cords the wreck of the ship Mamlonk, from New York to Liverpool, laden with provisions, in lat. 33 north, long. 67 W., while lying to, in a violent hurricane, on the 15th of Anpist. Thirty-five passengers and seven of the crew were washed overboard, and the remainder were taken off and brought to New York by Capt. Dews cf the brig Be li ze, 19 dap from Boston, bound to Port-au-Prince. NEW BRUNSWICK.—MIrtamicif QUARANTINE Biroar,—The following is the doctor's report for the last week of August respecting the station at Middle Island: There are 66 passengers on the island in all ; 33 of whom are from the Loeshtauk ; 5 d,aths daring the week ; 35 convalescent ; and 16 oa quarantine of observation. !be Court. A RDVERIKIF., SEPT. 10.—This afternoon, her Majesty and the Prince drove out in a pony carriage, attended by Major.Oeneral Wemyss, the equerry in waiting. —The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal walked out accompanied by Miss Hillyard.—The Marquis and Mar chioness of Abercoru, who remain on a visit to her Majesty, are the only addition to the royal party.—Her Majesty will leave Ardverikie on Friday next to join the royal yacht on her progress to the south. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knew beek, arrived, yesterday morning, at the Bricklayers' Anna Station of the South-Eastern Railway Company, from Dover, and immediately proceeded to his residence, Cam- bridge-house, where he arrived at eleven o'clock. In the afternoon, the royal duke left town for Richmond, on a vi.it to the Duchess of Gloucester. Major-General Sir Harry Smith, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, called yesterday morning at Cambridge house, to pay his respects to the Duke of Cambridge. During the forenoon, Sir Harry paid valedictory visits to the Cabinet Ministers in town, and, in the afternoon, took his departure for Portsmouth, to embark in the Vernon for the Cape of Good Hope. DESECRATION OFTHEDEAD.-OFFICIAL INQUIRY. In conseqaence of the reports recently circulated concerning the alleged desecration of the dead, in the vaults! of Slim Chapel, Fetter-lane, by the removal of the bodies in carts, and the coffins being distributed fur firewood, Alderman Sir Jame, Duke, accompanied by Charles Pear lon, E.g., M.P., City solicitor, the parish authorities, with Mr. Cemfort,the foreman, and other members of the inquest, attended yesterday to inspect those vaults, with the view of ulterior proceedings. Long before the hour of inquiry Fet ter-lane and the pasaages leading to Slim Chapel were crowded with the friends and relatives of the deceased buried in the vaults. Upon entering the chapel Sir James Duke said, that as alderman of the ward, he attended with the inquest jury to inquire into desecrations alleged to have been and to be perpetrated upon the dead buried under the chapel. I. Frisken admitted that before the Westering got pos !erasion of the chapel, the most dreadful atrocities had been committed in the vault, but since they held the chapel no burials had taken place. The removals of human remains that had subeemliently taken place were made through mo basso( decency, and from respect for the dead whose scattered sad exposed bones were covered with earth.—Mr. Comfort, who said that he had witnessed at least 300 burials in the vaults, asked whether it was true that the coffins had been distributed amongst the neighbours for fire-wood?—Mr. triallen said that the trustees did no such thing.—Mr. F owler: But are not the trustees aware tint the grave digger chopped up the coffins in the epee passage and gave tabu wood t the people to burn it i—Mr. Fritken: Well, I believe that the old man gave away oodles. But he did se without the consent of the trustees.—Mr. Fowler: When we and that coffins have been so cut up and disposed of in the public day,what platelike) have we that the bodies which inhabited those coffins have been treated with more respect, or that they have not been also cut up and carted away ? The Rev. Mr. Cowan complained that an attempt bed been made by Mr. Church to transfer the serious charges pre ferred what Blies chapel to the graveyard of St. Dunstan in the West, which in common justice ought to be retracted, as the latter graveyard was free from imputation.—Mr. Colke wished to be informed whether several feet of the earth dose to St. Drusetan's graveyard had been removed, and for what purpose ?—Mr. Peahen replied that the earth had boon removed to the depth of several feet, to cover the bone. that were scattered about. He admitted that formerly disgraceful sgenes had taken place is Elim chapel vaulm, but denied that they had been re-enacted during the last few years. There had been, at one time, heaped together, in one corner, at least three waggon loads of the ends, tops, and bottoms of coffina—Mr. Comfort: The people iq the neighbourhood who burned the coffin wood informed him that the smell from the wood greatly injured their health. He asked Mr. Walker, whether coffins saturated with human material, and employed as tire wood, would not be injurious to health ?—Mr. Walker: Unquestionably. Too many cases proved the fact. The inquest jury afterwards proceeded to examine the vaults, which presented • most revolting spectacle. A large pit had been recently excavated, to the depth of several feet, whence a vast number of human remains had been removed, and on the right hand side was en accumulation, to the height of several feet, of human bodies and broken coffins, while opposite was piled together heaps of old broken coffins. The j ury and several other gentlemen having expressed their disapprobation of the date of the vaults, Sir James Duke, who had meet minutely examined every portion of the vaults, said that the present proprietors were not to blame for the con fused meaner in which the dead were heaped together. On the contrary, they were doing all in their power to remedy the evil, and the alterations which they were making were necessarily Imposed upon them, and were done with every possible respect for the dead. Still, be called upon them to lees no time in completing their work, end thereby securing to the dead respect, and to the Haug security from disease. Dr. Farquhar assured the worthy alderman and the in quest that since he had visited the vaults during the previous week many of the abominations which he had then wit nessed were removed. For instance, he saw in one coffin three bodies, one that of a female, whose net cap was quite fresh. lie wished to know what became of those bodies ? Sir J. Duke : The trustees do rot deny that such abuses had existed, but in which they had no share: and those abuses they were new endeavouring to reform.—Mr. J. C. Atkin son, surgeon, Westminster, end Mr. Rose, surgeon and suc cessor to the late Dr. Lynch, gave it as their opinion that the present condition of him Chapel vaults was deci dedly opposed to the deeency with which the dead ought to be treated, and exceedingly injurious to health.—Mr. Fowler said that on Sundays he bad seen as many as nine per‘Ona removed from the chapel in fainting fits, induced by the pes tilentialexhalations fern the vaults. . _ _ Mr. Pearson, in answer to questions from Sir James Duke and others, said that on two previous occasions similar complaints had been made against Eliot Chapel, once four teen and again seven years ago. But he was confident that the present would be the last. The scene they bad wit nessed proved that burials should only be permitted in con secrated ground.—Sir James Duke having again pledged the trustees to lose no time in properly securing the vaults against further sacrilegious intrusion, the inquiry concluded, and the angry crowd assembled in the chapel were by the entreaties of Meurs. Comfort and Walker induced to depart peaceably. CROSBY HALL.—MR. RICHARD BlRNlE.—Yesier. day evening the first of a series of lectures on the dramas of Shakspeare was delivered at Crosby-hall, by Mr. Richard I Birnie, son of the late Sir R. Bimie, whose cue, as lately stated by himself in a letter to a morning paper, has excited some public attention. The play which Mr. limit, under took to illustrate was " Timon of Athens." After the ela borate criticisms which the dramas of the immortal poet have given birth to it would be difficult to strike new lighte, and, indeed, Mr. Birnie did not attempt this. Ile regarded the play as a satiric poem, and the object of the poet to dis tinguish between true benevolence and the indiscriminate prodigality exhibited in the character of Ti num. it was not Shakspeare's design to portray the world's ingratitude, for men were not ungrateful : gratitude was spontaneous and in stinctive in the heart of man. But, though Timnn lavished with a liberal hand, he gave to the undeserving as well as to the deserving. Ile knew not what true friendship was : he had no domestic ties, and his speech to the parasites who were revelling at his table sho eed that he was devoid of delicate sensibility. It was not surprising that degrading insanity should be the result of such reckless waste and in discriminating judgment. Mr. Birnie's delivery of the various passages of the play which ke read in confirmation of his observations was distinct and impressive. He was de servedly well received by (considering the state of the weather) a numerous audience ; and we trust he wiil succeed in hie object. SHAKSPEARE'S 1101:SE.—The sale takes place on Thursday next, at the Auction Mart. The London and Stratford committees will bid together for the house, though it is not their intention to give an exorbitant sum, or to allow Mr. Robins to imagine that they are even inclined to bid to the extent of the subscriptions received. Lord Mor path, the president, thus recommends the subscription in a recent speech at the Sheffield Atheneum " I cannot men tion Shakspeare without just reminding you that an under taking has been lately set on foot to rescue Shakspeare's house for the English nation. A subscription has been esta blished for this purpose. Ido not mean to say that any in ordinate sum ought ever to be given to rescue Shakspeare's house from the jobbers in the market; but I believe three who have undertaken it will conduct the purchase prudently, so as to secure the place from being an object of mer chandise. Our American friends have threatened to remove it bodily to their own country. I think they have a common right to *here in the fame of Shalispeare, seeing that he lived before they had the misfortune to separate from us; but I do not wish that they should possess his house as goods and ohattele. I say, that the gentlemen who have under taken the subscription will manage the purchase prudently ; and then, I think, any surplus of the sum which the English public may raise, in order to mark its sense of the claims of Sbakspeare to a nation's admiration, might be very properly expended on some purpose congenial to the object for which it was subscribed—possibly to provide good shelter and com fort fur some poor veterans of the drama, whether authors or actors, who have dune credit to that portion of our literature in which Shakspeare holds the undisputed first place ; and who also resemble Shakspeare in this particular, that they have not received from their contemporaries that full share of credit and admiration which posterity has in reserve for them. In pursuit .of such an object as this, permit me to say that I do not tee why the members of the Sheffield Mechanics' Institution, and of every Mechanics' Institution in the country, should not now resolve to give some little token—sixpence or a shilling per head—to mark their tense of the greatest genius which ever adorned English literature. APPLICATION OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH TO LOCOMOTIVES .—A line of electric telegraph is in active pre par pre parationon along the railway from Vienna to Prague. As soon as i t is completed, every locomotive engine is to be furnished with a small electric apparatus, by aid of which and by that of a wire, which can, at pleasure, be put into communication with that of the railway, the train can announce to every station, far or near, the events it may have learnt on the ro ad. INQUEST, YESTERDAY.—THE ACCIDENT ON THE , LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.—By Mr. Os ' baldiston, coroner for Hertfordshire, at a private house, ad- Rent to the Bushey , etatiou, to Inquire Into the death of ichard Lamborn, aged 22, who was killed on Saturday.— Henry Webb was first called. He said he was in the em ploy of Mr. Harris, who has the contract for laying down the electric telegraph on the line of the London and North Western Railway. The deceased was in the same employ, and, on Saturday last, they were engaged in carrying along the wires from post to poet, about half a mile on the Landon side of the Bushey-station. Shortly after 11 o'clock, the deceased crossed from the down line on to the up line, hav ing a ladder on his shoulder, for the purpose of placing against one of the telegraph poets, to arrange the wires. At the time he so creased, witness observed the up train, which leaves Birmingham at 45 minutes after 7, approaching. He heard the whistle sounded. and called to the deceased to get out of the way, but whether he heard or not he could not tell, as he continued to walk leisurely on the up line with his back to the approaching train, which immediately came upon him, and threw him and the ladder 40 or 50 yards in ad vance of it. The train passed over the body without touching the deceased, and on witness ' s arrival at the spot where the body lay he found the ladder smashed to pieces a short die , tance from it, and the deceased bleeding profusely from the nose, earn, and mouth. As soon as the train was stopped, medical gentleman, who was a passenger, looked at deceased land pronounced him dead. Was positive the whistle was sounded several times before the arrival of the train at the spot where deceased was. Did not think that the engine driver was to blame in the matter.—A brother of the last witness corroborated the foregoing testimony, and added that the deceased had been cautioned only on the previous day as to the impropriety of welking on the line in front of an approaching train.—Mr. Macconnell, chief of the locomotive department, stated that he was on the engine at the time of the occurrence. They passed Bushey station at the rate of about 40 miles an hour, and on coming round the curve there he called the attention of the engine-driver to a man on the up line. The driver immediately blew the whistle severed time., but as it did not induce the deceased to get out of the way ho ordered the steam to be shut off and the engine reversed, but there was not time to stop materially the impetus of the train before it reached the deceased. One of the buffers of the engine caught him at the back, and hurled him several feet in advance. It was impossible for the eagine-driver to have avoided the accident —The jury ultimately unanimously returned a verdict of " Accidental Death."--Atceoen DEATH EKON IMPROPER —Before Mr. W. Baker, coroner, at the London Hospital, concerning the death of It. Dean, aged 41, who died from injuries he had received by being run over by a cart, al• leged to have been occasioned by the improper driving of C. Luckings.—J. Heyr, a sailmaker, stated that the deceased was form rly a soldier in the East India Company's artil lery, and only arrived in England a few days since. On Thursday evening witness, deceased, and a man named At kinson, were standing in the Commercial-road, when a light cart, driven by Christopher Luckinga, came towards London. Witneu called out to the min, and he drove the ' horse on the off side of the road. Witness endeavoured to pull the deceased out of the way of the cart, and in doing so the near wheel struck the de ceased and forced him to the ground. Lucking, paid no attention to the occurrence, and still kept driving on, and witness stopped the horse. Deceased was removed to the hospital, where he expired shortly afterwards. Witness said that great blame was attached to Luckings, from his having passed them on the off aide when there was suffi cient room on the near Bide.—Another witness Basted that when the deceased fell to the ground Luekings Mill kept on, and whin informed of t►e unfortunate occurrence he said he had called out te them to move aside, and he was not aware of what bad bappened.—The Coroner thought the occurrence purely accidental, and advised the jury to return a verdict to that effect. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death."—The Coroner cautioned Lucking* to be more careful in future. EDUCATION LN INFANT SCHOOLS. The following letter has been addressed by Dr. Kay Shuttleworth to the Secretary of the Home and Colo nial Infant School Society, Gray's-inn-road Committee of Council on Education, Council-oeloe, Whitehall, Aug. 14. 81r,—Since the receipt of the report of her Majesty's Inspector on the schools of the Hoene and Colonial Infant and Juvenile School So ciety. the Committee of Council Pee had under their consideration the coarse which It may be expectant to pursue as to the exudation of candidata foe mediates who beer beentrained at that Institution. You are, of course, aware that my lords have no authority as to the distribute of the parliamentary grant, except that which Is defined In the minute. presented to parliament. In determining the coarse to be pursued, their lordships' discretion extends only to an Inter pretan of those minute. no they are to be applied to any particular care. No training school can enjoy any - benefit, es a result of these examinations of candidates, plea It he placed permanently undo uppection. Certificates granted to obtains who, at the period of the examination, have been one year resident In the atablishment, will ideate followed by grata in aid of the fund. of the Institution. Their lordships' Intention may therefore be Inferred to have been, that one rear shoed be the esiniesee. period of training In any normal school. 'The minutes of the Committee of Council have not made rcparate provision the the claims of infant bebop's. Their lordships' intention was to include infant schools under the general regulations of girls' schools, and the training school, fur the mistresses of infant schools under dinner rules to those of schools for the education of schoolmietresees of girls' schools. Their lordships were of opinion, that whatever peculiarities of method or of organimation were aces eery In infant whoa, the education of an infant's lichee mistrees ought not to bo inferior to that of a girls' school mistress. Their lordehips are papered to examine in training reboots all who have reorient one year's education ix these establish ments, but none who have been trainel for a shorta period. But errangementa will be made In the several Inpectors' district. to enable any rehoolniistress, whether of infant.' or girls' whale, to preacet themselves for eumination before one or more of her Majes ty's inpreters no candidata fur eolith:ides, even though they have not been trained during one year in any normal school. The trus tees or managers of the schools In which such ahoolmasters or ochooknistreeses of infant schools are settled must make application on their behalf, and must place the school adder inspection. With these preliminary explanations, 1 am now to inform you what is the standard of instruction, and what are the subjects of exami nation which candidates for certificates as masters or mis trams of inlaid schools must prove that they have acquired. The general principle of this arrangement in, that the matte cc mistress of an infant school should be as well educated as the mistress of a girls' school. On this ground the same standard of instruction will be required in both oozes. According to the minutes of the Committee of Council, mietrases of girls' school, are te train gialt woe are paid teachers so as to pea an examination in—The Holy Scriptures (in those schools In which religious knowledge is exa mined) ; in lenglialt grammar and composition; in general gee,. graphy in the histnrial geography of Great Britain; in the Otithoes of English history; in arithmetic (written and mental); in the com position of the notes of a lam, Ina account of the organisation of the school and the methods of instruction used, and of an cee.ay on some subject connected with the art of teaching; in their skill in the management of a class under Instruction, and in their ability to give a gallery lemon; probably also In viral music and drawing. Such being the subjects in which instruction will hove to be given to pupil teachers in girls' whale during their apprentice ship, no mistress ought to obtain their lordships' third or lowed meditate who Is sat prepared to show an accurate knowledge or skill in these departments. Their lerdebips are alga of opinion that the. • subjects, at least, shoull enter into the examina tion of the master or mistress of an info .t school The scale of aug mentation for mestere or miatresees of infant tiebacks (who obtained certificates) would be the same as that of the mistresses of pas' schools. The augmentation for the third or lowest certificates woad, therefore, vary from 101. per annum to 131. te. Sd., on the fulfilment of the conditions contained in the minute.. Their lordships wid, therefore, be really to examine, in the training school of the Home and Colonial Infant and Juvenile School S iciety, all candidata who have been educated aloha one year In that institution. My lord. will also be prepared to cause candidata who have been trained for ihorter periods to be examined in the inspector' diaries, if applica tion be Mlle on their behalf from the managers of their eehook —I have the honour to be, he., J. I'. Kee StiVrrLtivueru.—Mr. John S. Be} eolith, Hon. See. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1847. OPERATION OF THE BANK CHARTER. Sir,—The Circotor for Bankers drew attention on Friday to a remarkable circumstance. The largest and most frequent failures are stated to occur in districts chiefly dependent on the Bank of England for discounts, and in which little or no circulation of private, er joint stock bank notes, takes place. Large houses in London, it is said, which have accounts with the bank, readily get any amount of bills discounted. Large houses in the provincial cities obtain the same assistance through the agency of their bill brokers in London. Assuming the fact to be as stated, it affords no argument, one way or the ether, on the policy of a restriction of note issues. Both the Bank of England and the provincial bankers are smarting under the same unjust en croachment on the legitimate sphere of their activity. The nature of the notes employed by rash speculators would afford no additional security to their customers and to the public. But the locality in which merchants seek to make their credit available is clearly a point of primary import ance to all parties. If a merchant obtains credit where he is known, we may assume that he is worthy of the trust re posed in him. If he be compelled to seek it at a distance, the circumstance, under freedom of banking exertion, would of itself tell against him. Now the law of banking for which this great commercial country is, under heaven, indebted to tl:e wisdom of Sir R. Peel, exactly reverses the above simple and intelligible pro position. Inducements and excuses are held out to comae! , chl men to evade the test of their neighbour's opinions as to the solidity of their credit. They are driven to the Bank of England when they might be independent of its aid. They are screened from scrutiny by going there if they dread inquiry. The great minister, in his worship of the power of money, overlooked the principle of banking, which makes a banker dread to trot incautious merchants. In Sir Robert Peel's opinion, the nation was awe. whatever the trader ventured, provided he had a safe banker. Experience now shows him what all bankers know before, that the best banker can be placed in jeopardy by trusting ill-advised customers. In other words, the public is far less interested in the amount of notes issued anywhere than in the use that is made of them when they are issued. A bill that would regulate speculation (were such a measure practicable) would be of far more value than any act ever devised for the regulation of the currency. No stronger case could be made out against the present system of doing violence to the banker's right to private judgment in matters of trade, than the circumstances which the banker's circular, on good authority, states as attending I the lamentable failures which occurred last week. The demand for notes for local purposes, such as the pay ment of wages and the settling of small accounts, is sure to absorb, in • manufacturing locality, any moderate sum to which private bickers may be restricted. For these pur -1 posies the bankers may issue too, on more advantageous I terms than the general merchant can afford to pay. Were our law of currency what it ought to be, the country banker would, in extending his issues, exercise hie judg ment en the business doing by his cus•omers. He would ultimately , resort to the Bank of England, both for relief and to dispose of his Nth. But in this man ner the Bank of England would discount on the se curity of • banker who know what the merchant was doing, and not on that of • merchant, of whose dealings the Bank of England can know little or nothing. Instead of this simple and natural mode of doing business, the Bank has been induced to submit to restrictions devised by Messrs. Peel, Torrens, and M'Culloch, by the supposed bribe of a limitation of private issues. The bankers of the metropolis are not allowed to issue notes at all; country bankers are tied down to amounts that lulled • previous epoch of our growing trade. To make the most of the supposed mono poly, the Bank was recommended to establish branch banks to the larger country towns in such a manner as to become a direct rival of those between whom and the Bank a natural dependence existed to mutual advantage. We have the results of this lamentable intermeddting with trade in two distinct shapes in the recent failures. They arc partly to be ascribed to the facility with which • discount account with the Bank of England enables reckless specula tors to screen their proceedings from scrutiny. Similar secrecy would be difficult to preserve when the parties had to resort to private banks. It would be out of the question where joint stock banks with a numerous proprietary held the control is the first instance. But the present lamentable condition of mercantile credit I. also in part to be ascribed to the want of confidence which was almost immediately per ceptible on the pasting of the Bank Charter Act, and which has its source insthe impossibility of calculating the operation of that act by the simple and usual principles of trade. An act which, at the mmo time, draws from our industry a por tion of the life-blood by which it was nourished, and gives to the remainder • forced and unnatural circulation, provides for such alternations of feverish excitement and death-like paralysis, that all must tremble to be connected with the dimmed commercial system which is abandoned to such doc tors and to such a nostrum. R. THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY. We see no practical good to be gained by prolong ing the controversy on Mr. O'Connor's experiment at this stage of its progress. We therefore, as becomes a polite landlord in his own house, give our guest, Mr. Frost, the last word, and therewith close the discussion. When the time comes for renewing the argument it shall not be our fault if it is not carried on, as it hu been now, with that mutual respect which earnest seekers after truth owe to each other even when they differ most widely. Sir,—Notwithstanding your avowed intention of avoiding any further controversy on the subject of the National Land Company, I cannot refrain from again addressing you on those portions of my letter of last week which you appear to have so strangely misunderstood. I have no wish to com plain of being called a chartist,• though the word only par tially expresses my pnociples, which are considerably in ad vance of the six points of the charter ; but I am surprised that you should decline to accept my prophecy that you will, " ere long, be found among the most prominent of the talented advocates of those pnnciplea which alone can re deem suffering humanity from the social evils which hang as a dead weight at the wheels of progression." lam sur prised I say at this, when I find you advocating, in the second column of your reply, the very principles to which I alluded. It will be a source of congratulation to the work. ing classes, that they have such a talented advocate of the • We used the term without any disrespectful meaning, in the usual vague, and, it must be confessed, not very appropriate way. Properly speaking it ought to be restricted to that intelligent and respectable dam of the oMversal suffragists represented by Mr. Lovett among the artisans, and Mr. ?rano, Place among the middlaelsaste—the real originators and supporters of the charter. Mr. Foveae O'Connor and his more immediate followers took It up as they would have done any other document that had the recommendation of going far." We question if half-a4ozen of tlilseeetiol of nt called chartists ever read the charter. Our coirivondent again belongs we presume to a third deny, to whom this designation la also ineorrectlurgel. lie appears to adhere to soon of the notated shades at ac co-operative principle sa yourself, and I feel proud of you so a fellow-labourer in the same vineyard. I reminded you that " the co operative principle will do mom than buy land and build cottages ; it is destined to build workshops and factories, in which machinery shall work for man instead of against him ; " and as you have suggested a co-opera tive factory ma an improvement on the National Land Company, you will be pleased to learn, if you are not already aware of the fact, that manufactures and mechanical pursuits enter into the plans of the Co-operative League, founded by William Hewitt, which proposes to unite those branches of industry with the cultivation of the land. But I apprehend that the question is net so much whether the land plan of Feargus O'Connor is the best system that can be devised for the amelioration of the condition of the working classes, as whether they are prepared to adopt social economics, involv ing a greater departure from the present societary system. It is only a comparative few, the elite of the working classes, who are prepared fur those advanced stages of human asso• ciation to which the National Land Company will form a step. If lam right in supposing yuu to advocate the eaten aion of the co-operative principle to the cultivation of the land as well as its purchase, I am decidedly of the opinion which I understand you to express ; but I question whether the allotteea generally will agree to adopt it. I suggested to the allottees at O'Connorville the advantage of co-operating in the purchase of coals, grocery, &c., and I have been gra tified ray seeing the suggestion carried into effect, which shows that the working claws are beginning to appreciate the arl• vantage of extending the principle by which they obtained their allotments. _ I will now proceed to the more immediate object of this letter—those points upon which it appears that I was so un fortunate so to fail in making myself comprehensible. Readily admitting that " the shareholders of the land com pany will obtain no more land than they can pay for, and that the purchase-money of an allotment sufficient to main tain a family would, in any other form, render the owner comparatively independent," and that " a cottage and lour acres of land can scarcely be worth, on an average, less than 1.101.," I wish you distinctly to understand that very few members of the National Land Company possess a sum at all approximating to that you have named. You have, however, considerably under-rated the value of a four-acre allotment, as none but good land is purchased, and the cottages are built with excellent materials. How can a hand-loom weaver of Leeds, or an agricultural labourer of Dorsetshire, invest even 1,10/. in the purchase of a house or a government annuity ? Neither of there can he possibly do ; the only in vestment which is open to him so the National Lan4 Com pany; he takes out two shares, pays for them by instalments of perhaps threepence per week, until he has subscribed the full amount of his shares, 21. 125., when he receives his cer tificate, and at the end of a longer or shorter period, as it may happen, he receives two acres of good land, a three roomed cottage, and an advance of 151. to commence opera tines with. These advantages he obtains for 21. 125., which he has paid in small instalments, which, in many instances, would otherwise have been dissipated at the public-home; and the delusion under which you labour, that a member of the company must necessarily be the owner of a sum equivalent to the value of his allotment is most unaccountable. The allotments are conveyed as freehold property to the allottees, who undertake to pay the compiny 5 per cent. as interest upon the capital expended. This interest is redeemable by the allottees placing their savings in the redemption department of the National Land and Labour Bank, Cur which they will receive 4 per cent. interest; and the money thus invested is appropriated to the redemption of the interest payable by the allottee. In the third paragraph of your reply you represent me as stating that " the whole capital of the society is not sunk In land, but that a portion of it forms the capital of a bank." Now, sir, if you will take the trouble to read my letter, you will look in vain for such a statement. You speak of the land being " the sole security to the depositors." Why, sir, no other bank gives any tangible security at all. \Vhat other bank gives land and houses as the security for the de posits ? I cannot understand what you mean by the bank advancing loans at 5 per cent. ; no such loans are mentioned in my letter, nor in the rules of the society. You have been fighting a shadow, sir. By referring to my letter, you will find that my explanations on this subject are strictly in accordance with the third rule of the society, which stands thus: " That a bank of deposit shall be established, through the medium of which the money expended in the purchase of lead, and i n the erection of buildings, &c., shell be reproduced, the property of the company being made security for all cash deposited in such bank. That the depositors shall receive 31 per cent. upon their deposits, and that the interest or rent-charge payable to the company by tke allottees be available for that purpose. The money thus advanced upon the company's property to be invested in the purchase of other lands, erection of houses, &c., upon which, in like' manner, money shall be risen; such operations to be con tinued until the objects of the company arc accomplished." I have quoted the rule in full, as it serves the double purpose of setting you right on the banking question, and showing the manner in which the original capital of the company will bo made reproductive, until it finally returns to the members when all are in possession of their allotments. Croydon, Sept. 9. T. Feeler. IRELAND. DUBLIN SEPT. 12. The good people of Limerick are extremely eager that their port should be appointed the packet station for transatlantic communication. Their anxiety has received an additional stimulus by the visit of Lord Auckland to Cove, which they look upon as their great rival, and a meeting has been the consequence, at which it was resolved to leave "no atone un turned" to obtain their object. For this purpose, a committee has been formed, members of parliament are importuned, boards of guardians put in motion, and the ministry are to be attacked by a series of memorials shot forth from parish commissioners, harbour hoards, wardmotes, poor-law unions, magis trates, and congregated trades. The Limerick men seem anxious to emulate the activity of their Cork fellow countrymen, and to assimilate to their fondness for public meetings.. It is to be hoped they will not emulate also the cneoethes loquendi, of which the Corkagians furnish so striking an example. The much censured Board of Works—censured be cause they will not take the whole support of the poor off the landlords—have shown io the matter of the Feigns drainage how anxious they are to do all they can with propriety attempt. The Feigns flows through Ennis, and by Clare to the sea. A large quantity of land is overflowed by its waters in winter. The Ennis town commissioners apply to the board to proceed with the drainage, and the board through its secretary replies that it " has already instructed its resident engineer to proceed with the works with as much vigour during the present season as the circumstances of the case, the peculiarities of the work, and a due regard to economy, will permit ;1 taking care at the same time to avoid, during the period of harvest, the employment of men who may be required for harvest work." Thus it is we find Iwhile landlords and town commissioners are com plaining the board is working. Now that the Temporary Relief has ceased to issue, and that all work is suspended in the districts less favoured by the care of resident landlords, distress is again developing itself, and it is much to be feared must continue. In Dingle the Rev. Mr. Sayer, who is at the head of a " Protestant colony," writes that he feeds 3,000 souls per day, and that when his means are exhausted he has no resource for the people from starvation. GROWTH OP FLAN IN IRELAND.—MANI7PACTVRES.-10 an address presented to the Lord Lieutenant on Friday last by a deputation from the Royal Society for the Proroption ' and Improvement of the Growth of Flax in Ireland, his ex cellency's attention was called to a series of the reports of the society presented therewith to him. Tho address adverted to the especial importance attaching to the operations of the society at the present moment, when the support of the popu lation of the country was about being thrown on its internal resources, as the cultivation of flax was alike important to the agricultural and industrial population, preventing either from becoming a burden on the other classes of the community, and extending at the same time " our only textile manufac ture which may be rendered independent of foreign nations." The address prayed that hie excellency would undertake the office of vice-patron of the society.—Lord Clarendon, who was accompanied by Sir W. Somerville, after accepting the office of vice-patron, and complimenting the society on its exertions and the encase which has attended them, thug spoke upon the general subject of trade and manufacture— especially the cultivation and manufacture of flax . He attached the greatest importance to the cultivation of flax, because it afforded the means of creating and spreading a spirit of industry in Ireland; and he felt the more interest in it on account of its being the particular branch of agriculture most closely connected with that particular branch of menu- facture, the linen trade, for which Ireland had been famous as an exporting country. As a free-trader he thought that there should be no restriction placed on the produce of I other countries, however remote from Great Britain, end the principle of which he app rove d was that they should bay in the cheapest and sell in the dearest markets ; but that did not prevent his desiring to are the productions of his own 1 country cheaper, better, and in all respects superior to those of other countries. Under their auspices he hoped they should yet see the linen manufacture flourish throughout the country. :siotwithstaniing that their climate was highly favourable to the production of flax—that their peasantry were as labori ous, and their artisans as ingenious as those of any other country—with all these advantages he saw, with great re gret, that the people of Great Britain and Ireland were tribu taries to foreign countries in the amount of flee or six millions annually for an article which could be abun dantly produced at home, the manufacture of which would be a source of wealth to the country, and the consump tion of which would confer the blessings of remunerative employment on our own artisans. He, therefore, looked upon the growth of flax, and the manufacture of linens in Ireland, as of imperial importance ; and there was nothing that the deputation could point out to him, either as vice-patron of the society, or in his official capacity, by which their objects could be advanced, and the manufeeture of linen promoted, in which they might not be assured of his cordial so-operation. His excellency concluded by asking the deputation if they had any sug gestion to make by which he could be of use to the society. Thus invited, Mr. Mulholland, a large mill-owner in Bel fast, a member of the deputation, suggested that the privi lege possessed by France and Belgium of exporting their I linen fabrics to Great Britain duty free, while they imposed *heavy duty on British linens or linen yarn exported to either of those countries, was a great discouragement to Irish industry in the flax manufacture, He also suggested that an arrangement of the River Plate question would be of great benefit to the north of Ireland. His excellency ad mitted the inconvenience of the heavy duties laid on in France, lamented that France was highly protective in her commercial policy, hut " goverramentcouldnot prescribe a rule *faction to other countriev ;" " however, he hoped that, through the force of our example, the advantages of a more liberal intercourse with England would be better appreciated in France." His excellency held out strong hopes that " a satisfactory conclusion" would attend recent steps respecting the River Plate question, and " no one could tell how soon ' order would issue out of chaos in Mexico." Mr. Mulhol land again suggested " interference by the government on behalf of Irish linens " in Spain, Portugal, Beard, and the western coast of Smith Amenca, but his excellency said " it was not the custom to put forward any particular article to the special notice of any foreign government." The deputa tion, consisting of Lord Erne, Mr. J. S. Crawford, Messrs. Herdmau, Mulholland, and M'Adans withdrew, pleased and, doubtless, instructed by the interview. THE PRELATES IN PARLIANIEST.—Thefour Irish repro tentative prelates for the session 1847-8, are—The Arch bishop of Armagh and Tuam, the Bishop of Killaloc and Clonfert, the Bishop of Kilmore, Ardagh, and Elphin, and the Bishop of Clogher. A FEVER Vtcrtse—M. de Mussy, one of the physicians sent over to Ireland by the French government, to report upon the epidemic now prevailing, is ill of fever at his resi- , dence, in Stephen's-green. The fever is of the spotted type, and Dr. de Mussy has been in a perilous state; but his medi cal attendants now have strong hopes of his recovery. He caught the infection in the fever thesis in the ►icinity of Dublin, where he had been almost constantly in attendance. STATE Hl' THE COCNTRY.—The Liniertch Chronicle gives the particulars of a very gross and unmanly outrage. Some time since a gentleman named Walsh, residing near Limerick, in Clare county, was attacked, and an attempt, fortunately unsuccessful, was made on his life. On last Thursday morning his son was riding to school in Limerick when an unmanly scoundrel assailed him, threat ened his life, and cursed the ruffians who had suffered his father to escape. The little fellow rode off to the next police station, brought the police on the track of his assailant, and succeeded in having him arrested and lodged in gaol. There hu been a rescue of cattle seized at Dingle for the poor and Temporary Relief Rates; 26 cows which had been taken were driven away front the bailiffs. " What is strange," says the Limerick Chronicle, " is, that the rescue was led by the shopkeepers of the tows." If this be so. they ought to be made an example of.—The guardians of Nenagh Union, who seem to have an especially keen scent for • job, have elected six relieving officers, five of whom stood to some guardian in the relation of son, brother, or nephew. After Tait job was done, the five disinterested guardians resigned.—The price of fresh meat has fallen in the provinces, the recent fall of rain having had this effect. In Dublin prices of fresh meat have not declined. The general rates of corn remain unchanged. SCOTLAYD. EDINBURGH, SEPT. 11. The Glasgow authorities have issued a proclama tion to paupers prohibiting them from selling any part of the victuals supplied to them by the parochial boards, and from buying spirituous liquors. Pro vision dealers are also cautioned against purchases from paupers, and heavy penalties are quoted against those who are accessary to the placing of undeserving persons on the roll. For independent poverty some thing is also doing. The new lodging-houses in Gies gow have been successful, and are to be instituted in different parts of the city. In the original establish ments beds are furnished for 3d., and breakfast and sapper for 2d. From the end of June to the end of August, the inmates have been, males, 2,399; females, 152; married couples, 113; and the numbers are steadily increasing. An animated discussion is going on between the Scotsman and the secretary of the Board for Highland Destitution, the gist of which may be gathered from the Scotsman's own summary. The people will not work if by cheating or ,lulling they can avoid it ; the local either aid or abet, or show themselvea power less to prevent; a great deal of stave, waste, and demoralmition, have csirte I all along; and • very vigilant and active inspectorship has not been able to prevent these evils from continuing and in crewing. The quesilon now is, shall this nyatem be resumed nest year and for several years I—for the funds is hand are sufficient for three years' expenditure even at the rate of the present year. That la a liiivstion on • hich we have more to nay, sad m the ultimate deter ini.tion of which the public, we do not doubt, will insist on having a more potential voice than come people intend to allow them. The threatened continuation of the diatribe will tend to secure the certainty of a government commis , sion of inquiry being appointed, and it will require all the omnipotence of such a body to lay bare the social evils of the highland population—but there can be no doubt that a well digested report will expose matter of deeper moment than squabbles between lazy dolts and utilitarian ins The reports on sites have somewhat pre the public mind for dis closures regarding v age and serfage, which will show that the tenantry are not alone to blame, and that highland;as well as Irish, landlords, must be reminded somewhat in detail of the relative rights of property. Some highland usages will be assailed from another quarter. The Edinburgh association for protecting roadways intend commencing a corre spondence with the proprietor of Glen Tilt, and it is possible that the noble duke may have to make good his title to road-closing before a court of law. All Scotch proprietors are not like his grace of Atholl, and, as a striking counterpart to his exclusiveness, it deserves to be mentioned that Mrs. Fergusaon of Dirleton, East Lothian, throws open her extensive property to the public, and allows her numerous tenantry to kill game when they have a mind. A public meeting is to be held in Peebles on the 17th inst., for the purpose of taking steps for the effectual prevention of fictitious votes in that and other counties. The Witness says that the greater portion of the voters expungeed from the register held life rents over properties belonging to the present member, Lord fraquair (who had forty-eight votes on one farm yielding 500/. a year), and other two proprietors, for which the life-renters granted bills not yet paid, for amounts varying from 1501. to 2001. In the cases, some twelve or fourteen, where the rents had been paid, the parties were allowed to remain on the roll. 'Die proceedings of the registration court are to be published at length. The University of Edinburgh opens its sessions on Ist of Nov. Except the vacancy in the Hebrew chair, caused by the resignation of Dr. Brunton, and which will be filled up before the session commences, the class list presents nothing new. Did the patrons and senators rightly discern the signs of the times, they ' would institute a chair for civil engineering. The High School is moving, Dr. Schmitz, the rector, having contrived to add music sad the elements of natural science to the curriculum. It is always pleasing to notice redactions in taxa tion, and doubly so in the case of penal imposts. The prison assessment for Glasgow is to be 2d. per pound this year instead of 3d ,as formerly. Partly, the re daction has been effected by the increased returns from prison work—that item having this year been augmented to the extent of 300/. The Glasgow authorities are also taking steps to increase the num ber of public wells. A usage prevails in England with respect to the law of entail, which, not existing in Scotland, requires to be explained to readers south of the Tweed. It is thus referred to in last number of the North British ' Review :—" In England the statute law of entail is nearly as strict as that of Scotland, but the judges, from an inveterate hostility to a system so monstrous and injurious, have encouraged all methods by which it could be evaded, and in this way a fiction of law has been converted into a most effective reality, whereby the ' tenant in tail,' may dock ' or put an end to the entail when he pleases. No such method exists in Scotland of restricting the perpetual existence of an entail once completed." ESTATE OP KINTAIL.—AIes. Matheson, E - $(1. of A.rdrosa, M.P. for the Inverness burghs, has just purchased the fine baronial estate of Kintail—an importantaddition to thelarge extent of landed property already acquired by that gentle man in the county of Rose. DUCAL Fees.—At a meeting of the Perth town council, Bailie Barlu stated that heavy fees were exacted by the Duke of Atholl from every one who visited the Dunkeld grounds, and that the whole of these fees went into the duke's pocket. He (Bailie Barisal was certain there was not another duke in Scotland did the like. " There fees," adds the Advertiser, "are as follow One person. 2s. 6d.; two persons, 3s, ; and a shilling a head for any greater number. A gentleman told us on Monday, that be had lately paid 7s. (or the privilege accorded to the party with which he was connected. ___ . RIOHT or WAT.—A subscription has been set on foot (says the Aberdeen Journal), in aid of which the public are invited to come forward, and to support their claim to a pathway on the south side of the River Don. Lord James flay has issued an interdict, prohibiting the public front using this pathway, which he claims as private property. At a meeting of the town-council of Old Aberdeen, on Fri day last, a motion was made that the council shoed give 101. to waist in defending the right of way through Seaton Park. The council, however, negatived the motion without a division. COPYRIGHT OF THE rOdTHF3IOI'S WORXd OP THE LATE Du. CHALHERS.—The late Dr. Chalmers has left a large quantity of unpublished manuscripts, among whirl is • ' m C I t o i ht nA ate itoaturroypnguobnlthicatheter:Si,nriauprvturise,suo, the as f e 1 series ) ,l ili t : re.. O n f dw J h eio c :- he, as professar of divinity in the University of Edinburgh, etawaidresstetdedtotothhise saretude.ntsthwashoselevttureheosluog,icalundederstoucatont:beas singularly original and brilliant. There has likewise been found among the correspondence which Dr. Chalmers car ried en with nearly all the distinguished men of the present century a number of letters of a deeply interesting nature, sufficient to make, with a memoir of himself, four large octavo volumes. The whole of the rev. gentleman's manu scripts have been bought by Mr. Thomas Constable, brother in-law of Mr. Cowan, the new member fur Edinburgh, and Ban of Mr. Constable, the friend of Sir Walter Scott. Mr. Constable has given the enormous sum of 10,0001. for Dr. Chalmers' manuscripts—a sum, we believe, much greater than was ever before given for the posthumous works of an author. The largest amount ever given, under similar cir cumstances, was 4,5001., which Mr. Murray stave to the suns of Mr. Wilberforce for his " Life and Correspondence. . .. ILLCATHATIONS OF POLITICAL ECONOXT. The bell man of Arbroath lately intimated to the inhabitants to re frain from purchasing the 41b loaf until its price avn equi valent to that of flour. At the time the announce- meat was made, the best flour was retailing at 2s. 4d. per atone, and the loaf at 841, The inhabitants being determined to resist paying Bd., when the very fi nest at the west-end of London is only 7d., took the above slaps in order to bring the bakers to their senses. A meeting of the muter bakers was therefore held, when it was resolved to reduced it to id. Having been successful, the nest move was to obtain a reduction in the prices of dairy and other farm produce. Accordingly the Denman was again put in requisition, intimating is all thrifty housewives to i,betain from purchasing butter or eggs until such time as the pries of the commodities were equalised with other Mar, s. Dairy maids looked aghast, hen-wives were contemplating .lscapi tation to their feathered brood; but, when the psnic had reached its climax, a my of hope again enlivened than, by the bellman announcing that the public were most respect fully informed that the farmers, taking all things into ionsi deration, had resolved for the future to refrain from <ending either eggs or butter to the market until parer . re quested to do ea.—Dundee ..4doertiser. LIFTING A House. Last week the fahel...thnts of I Port Gordon witnessed the application of the snethaniaal powers to a purpose of rather a novel description. A.mer chant, finding his large two-story fish-caring house to be inconveniently situated, resolved upon having it removed to a more suitable locality, at the distance of 201) yard. from its former site ; and the fabric being of lath and plaster, it oc curred to him that its removal might be effected moat expo ditiensly and economically by procuring the assistance of 80 or it/ hands, and at once raising it entire, whinh was actually accomplished is the space of an hour, without the slightest damage to the house, or the least injury to any person con cerned in its removal. ANOTHER DETERMINED ATTEMPT ATSUICIDE.—A female engaged is a public work at Anderston, Glasgow, having been discharged from her employment on account of some misconduct, resolved upon destroying herself. The poor creature bad set her mind upon death by poison. but in order to effect this, she found it necessary to have recourse to the pawnbroker, and she actually pledged a portion of her clothes for threepence, with which she purchased firs: one , pennyworth of laudanum, which she drank, then • es fond, and these doses not proving immediately effectual, the lut penny was expended on the drug in order to accelerate her death. She was found in • dying state, and the cause of her illness having been ascertained, the stomach pump was ap plied, and she is now nearly recovered. DRAINAGE Arr.—Application for loan under this let, which appears in the Edinburgh Gazette of 7th inst. Applicant Counter of r St. Wen t Coyhaa, Dalrymple, Ayr, T .1. Oared 11 "" Wr • T " twl T Jr ' I freeway, Kirkham, IKirkend l. Colreal, Dairy .... I bright AtlimmL / . ...c.OO 0 o WALES. SHIPWRECK' ANI) Lois OF LIFE.—IR the t eening of Saturday last, the 11th inst., during n heavy Ri.le from the WSW., in Carnarvon Bay, five persons met a Fr( mature death. Two vessels, one a yacht, the other a schooner, were seen on the afternoon of that day out in the bay. The yacht signalled for a pilot to crow the bar, and proved to be the Gem, the property of J. Fleming, Esq., member of the Royal Yacht Squadron. In consequence of the d.stance from the station, she did not wait for the pilot's but exchanged one of her own bands for the mate of the other vessel, who was to act as her pilot. The schooner proved to be the Vine, of Pwllheli, bound with a cargo of coal from Llanelly, in South Wales, to Bangor. From some cause or other, perhaps the darkness of the eveping, the schooner, in attempting to pass the bar, some time between five and seven o'clock, into the Menai Straits, struck on LI., north bank, must have immediately capsized, filled and suck with all on board. The pilots belonging to the station at Llanildwyn went out in the life boat, but, owing to the extreme dark ness, and the schooner showing no light, they were usable to find out her position until day-break on Sunday morning, when having discovered her, they pulled out for the T....rpose of boarding. She was on her beans.ende, with her masts imbedded in the sand. In the cabin the dead body of a woman passenger was found, and on the bank the lady of a man was discovered ; and both were immediately taken to Carnarvon, there being signs of life in the man. Four other men, the remainder of the crew, perished. The Gem arrived sate over the bar with the Vine's mate on board. r EXPLOSION OF OAS ON BOARD A CoLLlEß.—Yester day intelligence reached Lloyd's that the schooner, Flirt, of Plymouth, 179 tons, about to sail with a cargo of crcds from Cardiff to Barcelona, bad been blown up on the r.th inst. whilst lying alongside the dock at Cardiff; by an explosiets of gas in the hold, which carried away the entire sleek from the main hatch forwards. The rigging and sails erre also fired. and before it could be extinguished the schoor.ir was rendered a complete wreck. Fortunately the crew were principally ashore at the time; had they been in their berths in the forecastle, their destruction was inevitable. PROVINCIAL. LANCASHIRE. HER MAJESTY'S EXPECTED VISIT TO FLEETWOOD. At the time the express train left Manchester yesterday evening it had not been ascertained positively I y the directors of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Com pany (at present lessees of the Fleetwood railway and &eke) whether her Majesty would touch there; but Mr. H. Houldsworth, chairman of the company, and Mr. Hawks- • hard, the engineer, bad left Manchester yesterday morning to meet Capt. Beechey, R.N., of the royal tupradron, and in the event of its being certified that her Majesty would re turn that way, tkey would stay to make arrangemerts for the reception of the royal party. The company are patron ising a grand regatta at Fleetwood, which is to take pare on Thursday and Friday, the days on which her Majesty :s ex pected to arrive and it is expected that, from the company likely to he attracted by the two events, Fleetwood ‘M be an exceedingly gay and busy place this week, JENNY LIND AT LIVERP6OL.—MadIIe. Jenny Lind lodged', during her engagement in this town, at the ccener of Danaing : street and Rope -street. The fair syren, though she has received homage enough to turn the head of one possess ing less good sense and firmness of character, shrinks front popular applause save such as she wins in the exercise of her . profession ; hence she has a great repugnance to lodgie.g at hotelq, and uniformly endeavours to bailie public earl, tity as to the whereabout of her temporary location. Diving her short sojourn in Liverpool she rose early and took Pr ~:ent exercise on horseback, cantering out into the country beyond the southern suburbs of the town. It was well for her that her domicile was not known. The inquiries respecting her location were numerous ; and many individuals called at the Adelphi to iaquire resputing her whareabout. Under the impression that she put up at that hotel, crowds assembled around the doors at the time she was expected to proceed to the theatre, yr to return from it. On two occasions ladies who were set down late at night from their carriages, which they had bro:ght with them by railway, were treated to loud cheers, the populace being each time impressed with the idea that the renowned Jenny was before them. During the two nights of her performance Williamson-square was crowded with people, and Murray-street, into which the stage door opens, was almost impassable. Oa Wednesday night a multitude of people surrounded the carriage, which was waiting at the stage-door, and when the celebrated voca list entered it, she was saluted with cheers, loud, hearty, and long-continued. Though the carriage drove off at • rapid rate, a hundred or two admirers held on by it and by each other, and accompanied it to the lodgings of the fair contatrier, where the cheering was renewed. The receipts of the house on blonday night amounted to 1,6001.; oa Wednesday they only reached half that sum. The total receipts in Liverpool, therefore, were 2,8001. Jenny, we be lieve, received 5001. per night, Balfe 501. per night, and Oardoni 501. per night. The theatre wan let to Mr. Knowles for the moderate sum of GS/. per night, including the ser vices of the musicians. scene-shifters, and all other auxilia ries. If we suppose Lablache to have had 251. per night, and the cost of the other vocalists to have been al. per night. Ind allow in addition 501. per night for extra inci dental expenses, the total outlay for Liverpool was 1,4961., which, deducted front the receipts, leaves for Mr. Knowles the very pretty profit of I,2l4l.—Liverpool AMion. A NEW BEICK-MAKING MACIUNE has recently been patented by a Liverpool firm. The clay, without any pre vious preparation, is put into the machine, where, by the action of two sets of cutters, it is prepared and carried forward by the ad of buckets or elevator', and deposited into a hopper. It then descends upon a revolving table set with dies, into which it falls, and, after being closely pressed, is driven, by a slight movement of the machinery, to the surface of tie table again, from which it is taken by the carriers. The bricks are then ready, without any further process, for the kiln, saving all the time necessary in the ordinary method of preparation in the pit, and drying on the ground. Shrinkage is thus considerably lessened, and the article, it is sail. it of more perfect shape, and such superior to those completed in the ordinary manner. It is calculated that the machine, which completes two at the I same time, will turn out on an average thirty per minute. a T 2 ,110.0 e railwayno 0 o v en contractor,t i n ventor bricks s a f n , enterprising r rjihot w has .yn mec h anic.imme d iate ly construction, it u .3e ta ha, p ; d n. t th at r the machine. nc.novitMaP DERI3II3ILIttr.. COMPARATIVE PROSPERITY OF MIDLAND TowNE. pauper on the parish —Whilst Nottingham and Leiewster .(thefatter more eope per quarter poor daily) artfoverburthened with pauperwm, in the borgh of y i n m:s ' t a , er h e ,:tg t e l o e oc p ' a e l' y u ie p 2 . l ?°th l er l o 2 f et :a 3d bouee, the rental of r iL: aF ice ea rkibh : llli t th hr legre p i.l o il: o . r-ratee in Nottingham are nearly u heavy : I but at Derby the occupier of a 201. house has to pay cal 7 be. ld. per quarter, and sometimes the levies are only made twice a year' In Leicester, twenty-three thousand at a pop*. lation °feisty thousand are said to be pau than oat third' lnNottingbam.althoughnotsoh h m thaproportios ia very great ; in Derby it is very anallindeed. Themes el**