The Express. — London, England, 1847-10-15 00:00:00

the Court. WINDSOR, TRURSDAY.—The Duke of Holstein- Glucksbourg and Prince William of Holstein, took leans of her Majesty and Prince Albert to-day, and left the Cantle. The Queen aid Prince Alberttook their accustomed early walk. The royal family took walking and pony exer cise this morning in the grounds around the Castle. Count de Reventlow, Baron de Rehauseu, Count Revel, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Lord R. How ard, and the Right Hon. Sir S. and Lady Canning, took their departure from the Castle to-day. A cabinet council was held at two o'clock yester day Ifternoun, at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Lord .1. Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lans downe, Sir G. Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland, Sir J. Hobhou e, Lord Campbell, Visoornt Morpeth, the Right Han. H. Labouchere, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay. The council sat three hours. A deputation on metropolitan cemeteries, consisting of Mr. G. P. Irvine, Mr. James Bourdillon, Mr. James Bourdillon, Jun., Capt. John Gardiner, and Mr. John Har grave Stevens had an interview with Viscount Morpeth yes terday at the office other Majesty's Commissioner of Woods and Fozeate in Whitehall-place. A deputation consiating of Mr. H. Davidson, Mr. E. Thompson, Mr. R. Davis, and Mr. A. R. Scott, had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office, on the subject of the Jamaica memo rial. A deputation, consisting of Sir Edward Deriog, Bart., Sir Edmund Milner, Bart., M.P., Sir Brook Bridges, Bart., Mr. Plumptre, MP., Mr. Hodges, M.P., Mr. John Neame, Mr. Charles Negate, Mr. Elvy, and Mr. Knatchbull, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Dowsing-street. The Right Hon. Sir William Somerville had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday. Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterday from Windsor Castle. The Right Hon. EdwareStrutt, chief commissioner of railways, arrived in town on Tuesday night. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office, from the Governor of Gibraltar. Baron do Cetto, the Bavarian minister, and Count Schimmelpenninck, the Netherlands minister, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Mr. Mark Boyd and Mr. Samuel Browning, had an interview yesterday with her Majesty's Commissioners of Emigration. DEATII OF DOWAGER LADY WATERPARK.—We have to announce the demise of the Dowager Lady Water park. The melancholy event took place on Monday last at her residence in liertford-street. Her ladyship was eldest daughter and co-heir of Mr. Thomas Cooper, and married Aug 6, 1719, Richard second Lord Waterpark, by whom her ladyship had a family of twelve children, ten of whom survive their venerable mother. Lord and Lady Waterpark, the Hon. Richard and Mrs. Cavendish, Sir George and the Hon. Lady Philii a, Hon. Capt. Cavendish, R.N., Mr. F. and lion. Mrs. Taylor, Viscount and Viscountess Duncan, Hon. S. and Mrs. Carew, Lord and Lady Berriedale, and other families of rank, are placed in mourning by her la mented decease. Her ladyship was in her Slat year. DEATH OF MAJOR-GEN. T. P. HOWARD, We have to record the demise of the above gallant general, who died on Thursday last, at his residence at Weymouth. at an advanced age. The deceased entered the army in 1793, and during that and the succeeding year served with his regiment on the continent. From 1795 to 1799, he took part in the operations of the British troops at St. Domingo and the West India islands. He subsequently served with dis tinction in the Peninsula under the Duke of Wellington, and at the battle of Talavera he was severely wounded and taken prisoner by the French. The gallant general con tinued in the 23rd Dragoons up to 1818, when he retired on half-pay. His commission were dated as follows: lieut. 25th Sept., 1794; cape., 4th June, 1798; major, 15th March. 1810; lieut.-col. 12th Aug., 1819; 10th Jan., 1837 and major gene ral at the geueral promotion in the army last November. He was nominated a knight of the order of the Guelphs of Hanover in 1837. THE REGISTRATIONS. - - --- CITY OF LONDON.—PCXCH'S NOTE.—In the pre cincts of St. Bride, Mr. William Bradbury, of the firm of Bradbury and Evans, appeared on the list for No. 8.5, Fleet street, ; and Mr. Brown objected to him on the ground that he was not rated, the description given of the premises in the list being " Punch Office." Mr. Brown confessed that he had in this case made a speculative objection, being anxious to bring into court that little old gentleman, with thin legs, tke notorious Punch, who was in danger of losing his political voice through the loose manner in which he was rated.—Mr. Smith contended that the objection was frivolous. Mr. Brown knew very well that Messrs. Bradbury and Evans occupied Ne. 85, Fleet street, or the " Punch Office." Mr. Brown denied that he had any means of knowing this fact, when the name of Punch was used for the purpose of description.—A clerk from the Punch Office, who attended the court on behalf of the claimant, proved that the premises, 8.5, Fleet-street, were occupied by Mews. Bradbury and E VAMP ; that those gentlemen were liable for, and actually paid, the rates, and that they were the publishers of the publication known by the name of l'unch.—The Revising Banister considered Punch quite a substantial character, and, having paid the rates through the person of Mr. Bradbury, be appeared to be entitled to vote. The ineccaracy in the description of the premises might be corrected under the 40th section of the act.—Mr. Brown submitted the contrary; and, by way of illustration, argued that if the proprietors of the London Tavern were only rated for their house by its ordinary name they could not be held to be rated an occupants. In like manner, he said, if " Herold " or " Herald office " were inserted, such a description could not suffice—Mr. Smith said that if in the cases supposed, the prcprietors proved their occupation of the premises intended, the vote must be allowed. The Revising Banister ultimately overruled the objection, but said that as there was certainly an inaccuracy in the descrip tion, he could not allow costs. Mr. Brown felt sure that Mr. t'unch was too much of the gentleman to require them. —The Revising Banister asked Mr. Brown whether be would like him to put the question to the party concerned? Mr. Brown replied that he should have no objection if Mr. Punch would come there in person to claim costs. This important case having been disposed of, the next was that of William Wilson and James Gibb ; a firm inserted on the list for No. 104, Bridge-street. Mr. Brown objected, on the ground of misdescription. It appeared that the pre mises were formerly occupied by Alderman Werth man, at which time "No. 104" was painted on the door of a house in New Bridge-street, and that it had been known ever since by that description. The Revising Barrister disallowed the objection, and gave 20s. costs.—J. R. Like, described in the list as occupying No. 1, Shoe-lane, was objected to by Mr. Brown, on the ground that he did not occupy it. It appeased that the pre mises in question, though formerly called No. 1, were now known as No. 2 ; further, that houses Nos. 1 and 2 formed 30 years ego outs entire premiees, and were known as No. 1; but that a division having been subsequently made, there were, at the time of making the objection, three separate premises, two of which were numbered "2," and the other " 1," the latter being occupied by Mr. Cleave.—Mr. Smith argued that as No. 2 was in reality a misdescription of No. I, the court was empowered to correct the number on the list : and, in support of this view, he quoted the judg ment of Mr. Justice Erle, in the case of " Luckett e. Knowles."—The Revising Barrister did not consider him self authorised to alter a number, inasmuch as by doing so he would change the qualification ; but, as it was owing to the negligence of the overseers that the party would be dis franchind, he should fine them 31.—The overseer in attend ance made a strong appeal to the court not to carry out this decision, as the mistake Was, he said, slight and entirely un intentional, but Mr. hlPChristie remained inflexible.—Was. Smalley, described on the list as occupying No. 127, Fleet- Street, was objected to by Mr. Brown, on the ground that the residence was obligatory. It was proved that the pre mises formed the office of the Morning Advertiser, and were occupied by Mr: Smalley, the secretary of that paper, who paid for them a rent of 2501. • year.— The witness by whom these facts were stated said he had no doubt that Mr. Smalley received back the rent. Mr. Brown contended that Mr. Smalley could only be regarded as the representative of the proprietors, in which capacity he had no substantial title to vote. A series of questions was then put to the witness, for the purpose of eliciting an ad mission that the residence of Mr. Smalley was purely offi cial, bat the only answen of any importance returned were that the witness had seen Mr. Smalley give a cheque for the rent upon his own private banker, and that he had the whole of the house to hi.oseU.--The Revising Barrister thought this case a stronger one even than that of the Anti- Corn-Law League office. There was nothing at all to invalidate the title. The vote was allowed, and costs awarded, amounting to 20s.—Mr. Brown strongly protested against this decision, contending that there was evidently no equitable claim.—Thomas Smith, of the " Licensed Victuallers' Protection Society," was described on the list as occupying No. 91, Farringdon-street, being, is fact, rated for No. 90. The name was expunged, and, as the error was traced to the overseers, a fine of 31. was in flicted upon them—The Messrs. Wigram, three in number, were objected to by Mr. Smith. It was proved that they occupied a wharf, on the bank of the Thames, next the pre cinct of Whitefriars. They tare not rated on the perish list, but were set down as extra-parochial. The point of the objection was, that they were not rated in the precinct, though the claim was made in respect of property stated to be within its limits. The objection was overruled as frivolous, and 20s. awarded, as coats, to each member of the firm. The result of the day's revision was as follows ;---Liberal cleans allowed, 1 ; disallowed, 13. Conservative allowed, none; disallowed, G. Liberal objections sustained. 20; failed, 30. Conservative sustained, G 0; failed, 40. Objec tions by both parties : sustained, 19 ; failed, 2. MIDDLESEX.—The court eat yesterday, at the White Horse, Uxbridge, when the Hats for the parishes of Cowley, Hari field, Hayes, Hillingdon, Ickenhem, Norwood, Ruislip, Uxbridge, and West Drayton, comprising the Ux bridge polling district, were revised. In the Hillingdon list • claim on amount of two cottages and gardens, made by John Bakewell, was disallowed on the ground of insufficient description, the word " freehold" being omitted in the claim, the barrister holding that unless the qualification was fully let forth in the claim he had no power to hear evidence as to its sufficiency. In another case, that of C. Brett, Esq., the qualification was stated in the claim to be " Waxlow Ferns, Southall," without stating the nature of the holding.—Mr. James contended the qualification was insufficiently stated, and, according to the previous decision of the barrister, the claim must go.—The overseer, on being asked, said that he did not know whether the property was freehold or copy hold, but it was let on lease by the claimant to another person —The Barrister held that " farm" meant " lease hold," and that the claim was good.—On the part of several eaismate who had been objected to by Mr. Shop- I herd. the objector for the conservative agent, and whose objections the banister, on the second day of the revision, pronounced to be adornial, Mt. Garden', an attorney, attended and claimed cora ma against the objector.—The Barrister : You must 'how me that the party has served a valid objection befeire I can entertain the question at all.— Mr. James *Merced, that these objections were all against new clainis.—The Barrister: Yes; and it has never been the practice to give costs in the case of new claims; but in this cam I was compelled to decade at the commencement of the revision that the residence of the objector not being suf ficiently described the objections were informal, and that, consequently, I must take the claims as though there were no o'lections to them.—Mr. Gardner considered it hard that his clients should be put to expense in defending their without any remedy being given to them as against the person who had occasioned it.—The Barrister believed hie decision as to the objections had been reported in the public papers. The next sitting of the court will be at the Black Dog, at Bedfast, on Saturday, at twelve o'clock. A DEPUTATION FROM PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND is now in London, bearing a petitioa to government not to renew the appointment of the present governor of Prince Edward's Nand. Circumstances have for some time ren . deed a continuation of Sir Honey Vero Huntley in his office anything but desirable, and the well-being of the colony would no doubt be served by the appointment of some other gentleman for the administration of its affairs. Indeed, no other course would seem to be at all politic from the num ber and station of those who object to hi s peculiar course of action. The deputation ermaists of the Hon. Mr. Pope, Speaker of the House of Assembly, the Hon. Mr. Palmer, representative of Charlottetown, and And. Dunn, Esq., one of the principal merchants of the island. The second named gentleman was a member of the Executive Council, and only resigned his seat at the board in consequence of his own and the public feeling with regard to this question. The petition bears the names of all the sheriffs, 36 justices of the peace, 43 oommisaionen holding judicial offices, and about 4,300 electors, including all the principal merchants and other inhabitants of the island ; and the prayer of the peti tion is supported by the recorded opinion of a majority of the present members of the House of Assembly itself.— Liverpool Mercury. ROYAL MAIL STEAM-PACKET COMPANY. —The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of this company was held at the London Tavern yesterday, Mr. Colville in the chair. The report, which was read and adopted, stated that , The disboesemmiM have been greater than in the corresponding Itelf of trit • end th at the surplus isles : but the total receipts show a tairesee, notwithstanding the deledeney le homeward freight, tioredemed by smaller shipment el specie from Mexico, meialting from the unsettled state of hat montry. The wage. exceed them or 111411 by Vela, oomiteed yelnelpally by an increase Mine shillings per waist he emit siemmes wipe; and by the pro genies ugmentmeten et pay,eawrig le the length of their ranter,Under the heed dpnevMsms then Ism incresee M1,11172L, owing toile neoesity he going • hew quantity on board the sidps to meat the himened somber el ymeegers. The excess of 1,7841. spa Mires sates Welly from Me Firebugs of additional saloon he lime, mem* Pm, ors ca by the general repair of the Teets* sad ether aim ; And by some kw Nakao. required for the Oreot Wales. The pawl' service ad Maim eabibit an increased expemillimm amen to 3,0171., wine Mae from the hire of the eihMner Hort at Mauna, to way the Madura. mails for um telp s sidle the company'. schemer Ins win hauled up on the 'obi dip for repair; by a eabseription to thew he selleing the widows ani of men who pethlud et is meet of the Tweed; by s t al lalre of see iota le semen Os mils eke the has of that ship; and by ememee Mooned In eshMiging_ stunt measimediden et Panama, Crum% melChtgesh, via alms mmunt u 1,1931. 'Thera is an in crease d Klf. Whit Me Mod ef owlet say 6161. in Lesion, and SOK K losthempleo; ohhk the digesters unanimously red justUleit bp the 1111111theirelbirml. The ship's repairs show an In crease elf Milk Ow gnaw port dui& was he the idareser and Lem et 11.1 hems; engem@ esesssune spa shiltleg the Oilers of the Aim ka. d floolhimism Thom hob= a redaction iglus the some gmbilums mime smoke lo p g u asilfsgbe7MS. lo lhedmi am the eller Mut him rosiges teamt mmuni fright. the yesydelms eel bigiollhd loelmem gut that bon hit sag emes DD. • ma WI. amp lovoint Aided. the Mug et hoick has boeselmogy amemMlaw. yhms Of he 'rise ' Mon by du wire den Orme Weems; atemagesaad slip. V i e:l! iodated roe the sengWe ameba This iseleabie ghats, ad that Melte Conway. o laWrcolmilei shwa semd, atnesattuy together to .bout 40, his been pit eat el the Grimy moans of the cos. the Is had et 701111. Is as oat nerernment net, eat itwether bewiment. Me Laid Ibis Admiralty ham sequel a Mutinies's( the pack. t amaraee ea mad kola taks SY dam mast, whith will mtshifsh a Agri eocaausliatioa Meal, ass a math, between Southampton am New °rhea Loafs( at the gesrat state et the company's Whirs, the imam feel graMed In proposing (us before) a dividend of 11. lie. der Mem, exclusive of insiline tat tame to be payable on and ohm the 10th last. Mr. Ridgway complained of 200 guineas extra being voted to Captain Chappell, the secretary, and contended that if the expenses of the company had been properly curtailed a dividend of 21. per share, instead of 11. 155., would have been declared. He concluded by proposing a resolution to the effect that the 200 guineas extra to Captain Chappell should not be allowed, and also that the dividend should be increased to 21. per share; but it was lost by a large majority. Thanks were then given to the directors, and the meeting separated. FREEMASONS' FEMALE SCHOOL.—An election of children, to participate in the benefits of this society, took place ye sterday at the [school, in the sveetminstcr-read. It wan stated in the report that, since 1768, when the establish ment was commenced, 592 children had been educated and clothed. The number now in the asylum is 6.5. The pro ceedings terminated with a ballot for the election of five children to fill the vacancies which have occurred since the last election. The successful candidates were Louisa M. Willis, Anne E. P. Daly, Caroline D. Rhodes, Kate L. Gamorif, and Emma E. Millard, and Asmeth Br dford. GERMAN HOSPITAL, DALSTON.—A special general court of the governors of this institution was held yesterday at the London Tavern, in consequence of a complaint pre ferred by the committee against Dr. Freund, the directing physician. There was a very numerous attendance, about 200 governors being present. The Duke of Carnbridge pre eided.—ilis Royal Highness introduced the business by ob serving that he bad attended the committee on Monday last, end eat several hours listening to the evidence which would be laid before the meeting. As chairman he would give no opinion on the case ; his only object was the welfare of the institution, to which there could not be a greater evil than the want of unity. He trusted all the governors were ani mated by the same feeling.—Mr. C. A. Preller, the sub treasurer, read a report, which charged Dr. Freund with violent and unseemly conduct. Dr. Freund rose, and entered into a lengthened defence of his conduct.— After much personal altercation his royal highness left the chair, stating that the committee would probably act till their successors were appointed. Three cheers were given fur his royal highness as he withdrew, and three groans for Dr. Kuper, who had taken an active p art in the proceedings against Dr. Freund. The great body of the governors remained. Mr. Alderman Sidney M.P., was called to the chair. lie said that this must be considered a second meet ing, but he hoped no resolutions would be proposed which might prove injurious to the hospital. Dr. Berney' then moved that a committee of inquiry was neceaary, but that in the interim Dr. Freund should be requested to resume his duties as directing physician. This resolution wee seconded and unanimously agreed to. Dr. Freund acknowledged the kindness of the meeting. Thanks were then voted to the chairman, and the meeting separated, having occupied about four hours end a half. THE VALUE OP THEATRICAL SHARES.—Yesterday, Mr. Robins, the auctioneer, put up for sale, at the Auction Mart, two renters' shares in the Theatre Ro yal, Drury-lane. Each was entitled to a transferable free admission, admitted on all occasions, and saleable annually. They were, respec tively, held for an unexpired term of 47 years, and paid an annual dividend of ls. 3d. per night of performance, the ori ginal income being 2s. 6d. per night. Fifty guineas were first offered for each, and they were severally bought for sixty-four guineas. Last year one similar share fetched ninety guineas. CUOLERA.—Some years ago, when Asiatic cholera was in the south of France, a physician of Marseilles having noticed that charcoal men were exempt from the disorder, determined to try charcoal as a remedy for it, and was emi nently successful in his practice. As no effectual remedy for this disease appears to have been hitherto discovered, and as charcoal would at any rate be harmless, it might be well worth a trial both in Asiatic and other cholera. Its action is understood to be antiseptic, By . corretting the putrid con dition of the bowels, the di s ease m said to be checked. FIRE IN Fasstrosu-STREET.—Yesterday afternoon, shortly before 2 o'clock, a fire broke out in the manufactory of Mr. James Bickerton, hatter, of Stamfordatrett, Lam• beth. The flames originated in the finishing shops, a build ing nearly 100 feet long, two floors in height. At the time of the outbreak, the whole of the workmen had gone to dinner, and the neighbours first pencived the flames rush• ing through the windows, and in the coarse of a few minutes the building from end to cad presented one Immense sheet of flame. Several engines soon arrived, but the fire was not extinguished until the building in which it commenced was burred out and the contents consumed. The adjoieing pre mises escaped. Mr. Bickerton was insured in the Sun I. ire office. The boiling over of a can of " proofing," a verbcom bustible article, it is 'unposed was the cause of the disaster. INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—ALLEGED MEDICAL NEG LECT Ai TILE CITY OF LONDON DM ENDA RY.—Berore Mr. W. Payne, at the Fountain Tavern, Redness-street, on the body of Mary Anne Prime, aged two, whose death was supped to have occurred from the administration of improper medi cine, owing to the alleged neglect of the apothecary at the City of London Dispensary.—The mother of deceased said the child was taken ill on Saturday week, and, by the advice of Dr. Park, she went with the deceased, on the Tuesday, to the City Dispensary, in Aldersgate-street Dr. Goodfellow prescribed for the HAW, and witness went to the apothe cary for the medicine. She received a powder, which ins administered the same day, and deceased appeared better on the following day. On Friday following Dr. Goodfellow attended again and prescribed the same as before, with a blister to be applied to the chest, and the child al teredi so much that she was afraid to proceed with the medicine. The deceased then began to grow aleepy and drowsy, and, on be coming still worse, witness sent for the doctor, and the dis penser of the medicine himself came. Witness told him the child could not have had the proper medicine, it being sm. peered that she had taken opium. He asked witness If she had given the castor oil. She maid she had never bad any. He then said that it ought to have followed the powders. He had spoken of the castor oil, but no one brought any bottle for it. The physician came next day, but deceased was worse, and expired on Tuesday morning.—By the Coroner: Witnen's brother had tasted the mixture and it made him quite sleepy and heavy. The dispenser t ook the bottle away without witnem's knowledge.—R. Fisher, brother to the last witness, proved having fetched the medicine from the dispensary, and stated that not a word was said to him about a bottle for castor oil, nor was he asked any question at •11.—Dr. Good fellow, physician to the Royal Dispensary, Aldersgate-street, stated that deceased was brought to him on the 6th hut, when he prescribed some opening medicine. The mother stated that it had had an eruption, which she supposed to be the measles. Witness attended several times, and prescribed according to the symptoms. By a Jima: Had hood lied the dispenser had taken away a bottle elyly, whisky's. dew wards found et the dispensary.—T. E. &midi, soolittsot to the apothecary, said he had been occupied with Ilr. Siert in dispensieg medicine since October 1, and dad beset several years in the profession. He had dispensed the medicine in the present case. He then gave a lengthened explanation, which was of a very unsatisfactory character, several of the statements being at total variance with th o u of all the other witnesses.—Mr. Lloyd, • surgeon, had made apart Nemesis examination, and ascertained the cams of death to be bean chide, or bronchial pneumonia, and there was no trace of poison in the stomach.—The Coroner summed up at great length, and remarked severely upon the conduct of the dis penser inomitting to give the articles as they were prescribed, although it was proved that death was not affected by such neglect. The jury returned a verdict of " Natural death." — NECESSITY FOR A BURGEON IN MERCHANT SHIPS. — Before Mr. W. Baker, at the White Lion public.house, re specting the death of R. S. Lane, aged 19, who died on the river on Monday lot.—W. Loraine stated that the deceased was an apprentice to Messrs. Somes, the shipowners, end in September, 1646, sailed with witness on board the barque Mountstuart Elphinstone, for Bombay. Ou the homeward voyage near St Helena, the deceassd complained of pain in his fore finger of his right hand, and about a week afterwards his finger swelled very_ much. He became worse, and a portion of it fell off. The captain spoke a Dutch vessel, and afterwards went on board. The Dutch captain saw the deceased, and said it must be burnt off. The deceased refased to have it done, and the captain adminis tered some medicine. He became worse, and was attacked with dysentery. When the vessel arrived in the river on Monday last, between Gravesend and London, the deceased expired. In answer to questions by the jury the witness said there was no medical gentleman on board, and when they anchored off Deal the captain did not send on shore for any medical assistance. Several of the jurors expressed their surprise that the captain did not pro- cure medical advice at Deal, and said he was guilty of great neglect—The mate of the vessel said the captain consulted him as to the propriety of sending the deceased on shore, and witness told him that the decease.' was too weak, end it would prove dangerous.—A juror mid the captain ought to have sent on shore for medical assistance, if the de ceased was too weak to leave the ship, and not have allowed the deceased to die without a surgeon seeing him. The con duct of the captain was highly reprehensible, and ought to be severely censured.—The mate said the deceased had been treated with great kindness during the voyage, and the cap ! min intended putting him on board the Dreadnought —The father of the deceased complained of neglect, and said he received no information of hie son's death until he was in formed by his brother, who accidentally read it in the news papers.—The Coroner said all the witnesses had confirmed each other as to the deceased being treated kindly by the captain, and thought there was no blame attached to him. —The foreman said the captain had been guilty of neglect, and the jury, after consideration, returned averdict of " Natural death." THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1847. IRELAND. llt.isim, Oc-r. 13. The returns new being furnished by the police ex hibit the state of the rural population in a very dis tressing light. The census is, of course, incomplete, but enough has transpired to aggravate an alarm already sufficiently intense. One case will illustrate the condition of a very large portion of the country. It is fetched from a county whose resources are far greater than the average districts of Ireland—the fer tile Tipperary—and may be relied upon as authentic. The police return comprised a number of townlando, containing 8,000 acres. Two resident gentlemen occu pied between them about 700 acres, and the remainder was cut up into small holdings. Throughout the entire district there are not fifty acres of potatoes; and one third of the occupiers have not a four-footed beast. Already there is scarcity. The general food of the lower description of farmers is the stunted turnip, which is roasted and eaten with salt—a most unpa latable substitute for the potato. Of course, through out this extensive waste, rents and taxes have but a poor chance of liquidation. If matters be thus in the neighbourhood of the " Golden vein," how stand they along the barren and uncultivated coast of Con naught? The fast rising distress is about to produce a strong and unprecedented step on the part of the Roman catholic bishops. You are aware they anticipate their usual time of meeting by a month. On Tuesday next they enter into conclave, and if report speak truly they will carry their complaints, or rather the reflections of the popular complaints, to Lord John Russell, and should the interview not prove satis factory, even to the very foot of the throne ! I have heard it stated that a deputation will first wait on the premier, passing over the Lord Lieutenant as less able than willing to give assistance ; and if the reply of ministers fall short of the heirarchical hopes, the deputation will then humbly solicit an interview with Queen Victoria. This is a bold course; and rely on it that nothing short of the most critical emergency would influence such sober-minded men to go on an embassy to London. It is altogether a most serious business. I may add that the universal feeling is one of forbearance and kindness towards the ministry. They have un equalled difficulties to vanquish. May they summon " the stout heart to the steep brae !" The Mayo gentry once more fall into the ranks, and harmonise with the government. The Swinford guardians have addressed the Earl of Clarendon is a very gratulatory vein, and treated the people of Eng land with a full weight of panegyric for their late unparalleled generosity. Sir W. Somerville, on be half of his excellency, replies in a similarly kind spirit. As to the repayment of advances, he says the government will proceed with every possible for bearance, and with a due regard to the depressed state of many of the unions in which the poor law is to be put in operation. The Court of Exchequer will sit five days at Nisi Prins next term instead of three. This, however, is only temporary, and has originated in the heavy arrear list of records remaining over from preceding after-sittings. A deputation from the Irish Fisheries Company lately organised, had an interview yesterday, with the Lord Lieutenant. Sir Edward Borough having stated the objects of the company and the proposed plan of its operations, the Earl of Clarendon expressed nis deep interest in the success of such a branch of the national resources, and accepted with pleasure the honour of patron. The Marquis of Lansdowne is also among the number. DEPUTATION FROM THE COUNTY OF CLARE TO THE LORD-LIEUTENANT. This day, at 2 o'clock, a deputation, composed of the High Sheriff of the county of Clue, Sir L. O'Brien, Burt., M.P., Sir E. Fitzgerald, Col. Vandeleur, Capt. Francis M'lsramara, and William Fitzgerald, Esq , waited on his excellency the Lord Lieutenant, at the Viceregal-lodge, for the purpose of presenting the idbwing address to Y 4 ICIZZLIJIPCT ILUtL CLARCOPON, LORD LI crraugANT AND OE-VIRAL OVVEZJIAM siazawb.w.. •T IM Mils ear Maar mellow, la tles laws reinnettni tmeneneen, end to the pertornare of a pia bet unavoidable *Mg, we lid aselerr Mae Nara sited ea be offir oar anew laterahr the sat an lanai gernmeer, her Ire saleasue teenprersergredisareas heaver stades area was proonslialdes= ' eft! sallerage efthemaiestallaisnelmptreemmurearkience Wet Masa poilibi be area in what a a angry now warm ma essmatel leas et amiss et sal M a Wham arempera We Mee la inatted ° jot= row faerea the Names calla et ofir ...try In seemedse with the lam la Ad, wrr a bed es with pro lamine raisidipa. lama area, Rh enimetet,:= ary sea then metraeL Ws de net bell tie theirmals.-71se taker m i late In mien of ISM it was the erh mega et ad Oat by the nevarest in the which la lamer dr paha of Ir i els It bees cam bred with Moir resseren or In a pair ct wary rase It have pissed a Male a argot; bet when the swhal ally 10 ihr omen oil rW4seta.gni when the satire destitute paha et Mad, My as well es faseiteri. the sled, the infirm, sad the elgaered. wen thrown this alas re name, it In an ear the pram sot pre sentreste rmy et Om aresangeer 41•11.11n7 seesesees—others, whose sole assemad In the reed they arilid—mate fehm be meals* pad by ths hal peopeary= whose eserlat bralen or pmt MillndllannllPSlO not amerft IlyanpweYr of gereaset elan a often, and net by the arm ft • Yet, notwitheleadhig the sera, seingehit i Ver g = th t acted, we set eallelpt• thee premineests grail meths hlth =aphid thalweg fete err shoe new elisafid, left m eridiem& men the ordinary BM valid normass a the eountry.llie tam, we Mee Men told in sa Mal reel, le • area rial, that letting werinniaiseed to the seanakerthemperve rert Judea, whisk arandieg the mai of the May, em :Wl%area that there works 1611 EN est entihne ea the et Meta Is the Serena Mask or Mier the 12th of AusaG 111 . :L e ty t :o=t pr os:=•tell= l and area babas who tad meineenign wYL the Lear Rate AM, nor power to ear Its operation. Seek • seaunialle te be now used as an mast, should have la Wag to the= the " extraordinary mane" of the apne alrra Me these path ed abs &strop= deer has an Mar an opportunity to q r Withdraw hal we her. le sere that many of these wee shateedlaraireoademer , and while untapeeded beam fared en ban Ma were =rd for Mir easeutim AM we tar mat the atßate Act, in its 20th scedon, maismanst "M k ' Mee works, even after the 15th if Amp& gen that no extraordinary sessions shall be COtillinek DOT verb am menced after this date; but it does net suggest that wens tam awed bear should not be finished subsequently to the date in question. But we much miscalculate sour esaellanay, It pee will new the important question at issue On the name male el • strict legal interpretation, or of the obscure intasatiM a se sad pestles menu. We respeedully call on your exeellenny le terns ear proper- We ties and future remnant from the evil. ash new sea us. suggest to your excellency's coneideration the Mary gasses about being claimed by the landed proprietors of thementry, Ma, in most eases, would not be sought, or could not be aware , hiel those roe& been liniahrti, enteral of bleb are calculated, II tells apimod> , to fad litatc the internee...es of the country, to dame the svmutural capabilities of the soli, end to secure advi to the properties through which they run mere then the mom ins volved. We earnestly all your excs areas to the renewal of that alarming destitution whkb now treaters the people of this country, not so much hem a deficient supply of find, se horn the want of all means for its purchase. We submit the completion of leers roma would see In , the egad= months et Muter, innhiable Mem laberrng diode nee semworrolvely eme= we mit smart, be lb= new= dr Rend nitroeloYds sermagrenZ Ale emers= they ga med our leemed ghee,. Theseendjegy spa emu= les web 1 7 hall-yeedy =gourmt ; bet =kr 1 y pa est, cm the faith of Mika ems peomememe eon pedelore bad ten men far me m= Apia the tier rate sat gmeles for Its itlke a. lir lee= et es poor rale while grand lon taxa= bib ambadedy wpm the en see the mown*, at mai *kw =To Gft randis el =Um end Me tornating. and = prude= wintio, w dim= game coedit Der gasaeb d itee.r,l%c etrien fts. elremmeameore your esailisay • now I alma d=ory for gale d Gogh prommiri, whom men she be amenreale govommomenglemeu se le gannet georens; neessosty .... to le le =gni m the MINITS osemdm ad bagger in este room gad by gni l=alase= It Berner= shall at. Or Us= • semplinase with this, oar respeetful but elm= andintl e. =r rpm eraellenoy to amid the ordinary powers of the such easy urgently =tem et your esselleney=rl;es in tregeterre tarthwith to arm= pullammt. regeorlyos isr se neer perisige, &condition &tarp I eke degingehle End reenempai. The Led Urger= received the deputation with the great= senresey, a= catered minutely into a Rio excellency did not return the deputation any written reply; all that occurred was smonly of a conversational nature. Rig excel lency, whilst be deplore the wretched state into whickthe country had ham plienced, held out no hope that the prayer of the memorial, es tar as related to a loan of money, could be granted. la bet the present state of monetary affairs in England precluded the government from recommending such a course to parliament.—Mr. Redington and Mr. Cony Connell= were In attendance upon his excellency. STATE OF THE COUNTRY. There are two counties from which we have accounts to day, the complexion of which are at once embarrass ing and melancholy. The one is Tipperary, the other Mayo. It is unnecessary to say that Tipperary is that to which the former is applicable ; Mayo that which justifies the latter. The conditisn of Tipperary presents one succes sion of outrages and robberies of arms and property. Armed parties are aid to prowl about at night, and intimidation has proceeded to such a height as to put a stop to local legisla tion. There was hardly a single summons decided at' Nenagh on last Saturday, as the witnesses were afraid to come in to give evidence. In one place an armed party fired into a dwelling-house ; in =ether, two met- entered a red dance to search for arms. By good luck these were cap tured. On one aide we have a house fired over the sleeping inmates, who happily escaped with life ; in another, the windows were demolished, but the resist ance manifested forbade further violence. A cow is shot on one macs estate, a horse on another, and a third going out at night finds the best sheep of his flock under the knife—al thief deliberately skinning it ; a fourth loses wool and butter by these leviers of contributions. Such is Tipperary. Mayo is all physical suffering—the more pitiable because it is borne with patience so exemplary. It is positively stated that the few potatoes tilled there have been attacked by the potato rot, which is making great ravages, and the poor law has not been, nor can it for many weeks, owing to local circum stances, be brought into operation. The district of Ennis, larger in extent than some Irish counties, is wretched be yond even the other portions of the county. There is very little tillage, so the people were totally without seed in spring or summer, and the landlords, who, with one or two exceptions, the local journal de scribes as "beggars," were unable to advance them any. The whole corn ullarfe would perhaps not cover one hundred acres—so says the Mayo Constitution; and as there is no labour to be had, the position of the wretched inhabitants may be easily judged. Already they are reduced to live on turnip tope, which they boil, and, thickening the water with a little Indian meal, consume it for food—toe happy if they have it daily. On Saturday, IR convicts front Waterford and 47 from Clonmel entered Cork, and were transmitted thence to the convict prison in Spike Island. This prison is calculated to accommodate 400 inmates. There are 1,400 processes and 30 ejectinents for hearing at the present quaver sessions for Cluumel. SCOTLAND. EDINRCROH, OCT. 13. The town council of Edinburgh has unanimously resolved that application be made to the Highland Destitution Fund for repayment, for fever purposes,l of 4,0001. of the 10,0001. contributed by the city for the relief of Highland and Irish distress. It is not very likely that the board will comply with this re quest, and it is doubtful if they can legally be com pelled to do so. The question, then, recurs, if with fever raging amongst them the Edinburgh community should not put their hands anew into their pockets, in order to adopt such immediate sanitary improve ments as the exigency calls for, and not allow the plague to make head, while an irregular, and probably fruitless, controversy is being carried on between the council and destitution boards. Edinburgh is regu larly visited by fever, and it had its share of cholera ; but by neither visitation have its rulers learnt wisdom. Sixteen years have elapsed since the latter scourge visited the northern metropolis ; and yet while the seat of one of the ablest medical schools in the world, with no manufactures, and with natural advantages singularly favourably to salubrity, what has been done during these sixteen years to miti gate the severity of the dread Asiatic pestilence should it again unfortunately visit us ? Incidentally some improvements have been made, such as builders, for better investment of money, knocking down old tene ments and raising new erections, and capitalists opening suburban cemeteries. But what direct efforts have been made to improve the health of the town ? Have quadrupeds been expelled from dwelling-houses, or water been coursed down closes which, having neck-breaking inclinations, are hydraulically . adapted for spontaneous cleansing? Have piggeries been cleared away from the Water of Leith, where cholera first broke forth ; or has the said Water of Leith been allowed to run in its primeval channel ? Is it not still a disgusting mass of stagnant putridity, in order that a few meal-mills may be supplied, and that most lamely, with motive power ? Is it not the receptacle of all the filth and sewers of the city, which crowd upon its surface so pestiferously, that even its natural volume of water, if allowed to run entirely, would have to meander turgidly through solid deposits that something like Ganges momentum could alone in fluence? Have inter-mural churchyards been shut up? Have fever hospitals been opened in airy situations,—in fine has anything purely and not incidentally sanitary been done? It is all very well to ask the present able Lord Provost to remain in office for another year, in order that the new sanitary bills may be expedited; but why should not his lordship, and those who sit in council with him, not have thought of these things before? There is nothing in the present juncture that calls for reformation one iota louder than it did within the last five, ten, or fifteen years. But we are not grumblers, and are quite alive to the "better late than never" philosophy. Let the matter now be taken up earnestly, and we shall be contented. A tithe of the energy bestowed on theological controversy would do the whole business. Fax OF GLASOOW.—The MIS Fay, whole cue has already been before the police and the public in reference to the alleged fatal injury and confinement of his wife, has been apprehended at the instance of the sheriffs' offidals, and recommitted on the charge of culpable homicide. PROVINCIAL. THE MURDER At CARIASLE.—The inquest on Mary Harlin, who was killed by her husband, a travelling tinker, was concluded on Friday last, and a verdict of wilful murder was found against the husb sod, Peter Harlin. The husband at the time was in gaol, suffering severely from erysipelas, produced by a blow which it was believed had been given to him by Charles M'Mianis, another travelling tinker, in a scuffle to ascertain which was "the better man.' The symptoms gradually assumed a more dangerous form, and terminated fatally at twelve o'clock on Saturday,pist within a week of his wife's death. Two days have since been (occupied by the coroner in investigating the cause of Ha fin ' s death, and the inquiry has resulted in the acquit tal of hlldinnis, who was in custody on suspicion of having inflicted the fatal wound during the hay. _ STAFFORDEIHRE. • CHARGE OP STEALING A BILL OF EXCHANGE FOR 1,0001. AT WEDNlABTRY.—Considerable interest prevailed at Wolverhampton on Saturday morning to hear the par ticulars of the charge of felony which had been preferred against Mr. Henry Pitt, of the firm of Pitt and Maybury, Victoria Ironworks, Wednesbury, who had been remanded from Thursday on a charge of stealing a bill of exchange for 1,0001. from Mr. Thomas Lee, clerk in the bank of the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Company.—H. Hill, Esq., depend :—I am the manager of the Wolver hampton and Staffordshire Banking Company's bank atWol verhampton, in this county. On Wednesday, the 6th Oct. last., I received from London a bill for 1,0001. noted for non-payment. The bill was dated Liverpool, let of July, 1847, payable three months after date, drawn by Higgins Brothers, upon Pitt and Maybury, Victoria Works, Wed nesbniy, accepted by Pitt and Maybury, at Spooner and Co's., bankers, London; due the 4th of October instant. The bill bore the endorsement of " Higgins Brothers," and then nest " Pro George Jones, John Jones," This bill bad been received @Atha bank in part liquidation of Mr. 0. Jones's amount. Having been informed that Higgins Brothers were insolvent, I adopted the course not unusual at our establishment of presenting the bill to the acceptors, as it sometimes happens that the bill has been returned by mis. take. I directed Mr. T. Lee, one of the clerks in the bank, to go to Messrs. Pitt and Maybury's and require payment of the bill. He went and returned without the bill. I then directed him to get a warrant fur felony against the party who deprived hint of it. I have not had any communication with Mr. G. Jones, nor with any one on his behalf respecting this bill. I say this in consequence of it having been insi nuated that I am aiding Mr. 0. Jones in some dispute between hint and Pitt and Maybury.—Cron-examined by Mr. Serjeimt Allen, who appeared for prisoner: Mr. G. Jones keeps an account with our bank. He is a manufac turer of inn, and is a man in very good circumstances. I cannot tell, without the books, the exact day on which this bill was received in the bank. Mr. George Jones has over. r drawn his account at the bank. He is sot a partner in the bank. lam not aware that he has any shares ia the com pany. The bill in question came into the beak with others, from Mr. George Jones in the regular way. lam aot pre ps/red to say who brought the bill to the bank. As far 41 my knowledge extends the bill might have been brought into the bank by any one else, but I placed it to Mr. George Jones's it . I have bad no communication with Mr. Jones respecting the bill from that time to the present mo meet.—Mr. Serjeant Allen, addressing the magistrates, said he supposed there would be no difficulty as to the production of the books. The article alleged to have been stolen being a security for money, it was necessary to show, in order to enable Mr. Hill to appear there as prosecutor, that the bank became paused of it for a valuable conaide- I ration. Therefore, he apprehended it was necessary that the books should be produced.—Mr. Leigh said it was essen tial to the prosecution that there should he a property iu the note and possession. That Mr. Hill had proved possession could not be doubted.—Mr. Hill : I have myself endorsed the bill to our bankers in London.—Mr. Leigh : Mr. Hill ' swears that this bill had been paid to the account of one ' Mr. Jones. Does not that make it the property of the bank ? —Mr. Serjeant Allen : If nothing else appeared, that would be so; but if he were merely the depositee of the note which hati been obtained by fraud by Jones, that would not enable him to prosecute for a felony. Mr. Hill must establish a property in this note. That he can only do by showing he has given a consideration for it, because otherwise he would hare no right to sue en the note.—Mr. Leigh • Supposing that the clerk at the bank had neglected to enter up credit Serjeant Allen: All that Mr. Hill knows of the note is that there was a note endorsed by Mr. George Jones, and that it was entered to the credit of Jones, hut by whom it was delivered Mr. Hill cannot say.— Mr. Hill : It would not appear by the books es to who paid it into the bank.—Mr. Serous. Allen But we do not know what would appear unless the books were produced.—Cross ' examination of Mr. Hill resumed : I have never had aay conversation with Mr. lone', or with any one on his behalf relative to a transaction with Mr. Pitt. I have never heard from Jones that he held a quantity of iron which was to be delivered to Pitt, for which the bill had been given, but which iron had never been delivered. I have been told that Higgins are now insolvents. The bill was paid into the bank in the regular way. I have had no communication with any tone on Mr. Jones's behalf. Mr. Mill added that he might as well state that he bad given aotice to all the parties of the dishonour of the T. Lee examined: I am a clerk in the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Company's Bank in this town. Mr. Hill, the manager of the bank, gave me a thousand pound dishonoured bill, and directed me to present it to Messrs. Pitt and Maybury. The bill Mr. Hill has been speaking of is the same bill, and I copied it into a book before I took it. When I arrived at the Victoria Works, I saw Mr. Pitt and another person. I exhibited the bill to Mr. Pitt, holding it in my hand. He came and read it over. I told him it was dishonoured, and I asked him if be would favour me with the cash, or the reason why it was returned. Mr. Pitt then said that Mr. Maybury was about the works and he would send for him, or he would be in shortly. Mr. Pitt then went out of the office, and took the poem who was in the office with him. I put the bill into my pocket before Mr. l'itt went out. Mr. Pitt returned in a few minutes into the office. He said he had sent a messenger for Mr. May bury, and he would be in shortly. Mr. l'itt then walked round the desk to where I was standing, and lie then said, " Let me see, what are the expenses of the bill ? I suppose we must do something with it when Mr. May bury comes in." I took the bill out of my pocket again, and was in the act of opening it to inform Mr. Pitt what the expenses were (my eyes being directed to the bill), when Mr. Pitt made a violent snatch at the bill and snatched it out of my hands. He then crushed it up in his hand, and said, " There now, you shall never have that bill again." It was the same bill that I took to him by the ditection of Mr. Hill. I said to Mr. Pitt, " Why so ?" He said, " I have never received value for the bill. If Mr. Jones will let me have my pig iron, I will pay the bill." I said to him (advancing towards him) " Then you say I shall not have the hill. do you ?" He then rose his arm over me, and said " I'll never part with it, I'll suffer death first." Mr. Pitt was very much excited, and I thought he would strike me if I attempted to get the bill back again. After a short time his passion abated, and I then told him I should charge him with robbing me. He said he did not care, he would stand his trial, and undergo the lash of the law. Mr. Pitt wished me to wait until Mr. Maybury came, and I did so. In about an hour after, Mr. Maybury came, and I told hint what my business was. Mr. Pitt said, " I have taken possession of the bill, and wish to speak with Mr. Mayburv." They then left me in the office, rind went out together. In a few minutes after I followed them to the warehouse. I there saw Mr. Pitt, Mr. Maybury, mid Mr. George Jelli coe. Mr. Jcllicoe said, " You are come about the bill." I told him I was, and that Mr. Pitt had snatched it out of my hands. Mr. Pitt was then walking about, and was within hearing. Mr. Jellicoe said they had been stating the case to him, and he recommended them to give the bill up. Mr. Pitt was then only two or three yards from Mr. Jellicoe. Mr. Jellicoe said that Mr. Pitt was mad, and that I must not take any notice of him. I said that I must either have the bill, or Mr. Pitt must go with me to Wolverhamp ton, and see if he could arrange it with Mr. Hill. After some time, Mr. Pitt agreed to go to Wolverhampton with me. He got his gig and drove me as far u the Blue Pig at Bilston. He wiehed me to wait till Mr. Maybury arrived. I demanded the bill, and said I would not wait any longer. He said he had given the bill to Mr. Maybury. Mr. Pitt stopped :at the Blue Pig, but a man drove me part of the way in Mr. Pitt's gig to Wolverhampton. The bill has never been restored to the bank. Mr. Serjeant Allen addressed the bench in explanation of the circumstances under which the bill was given, and stated that ne consideration hail been received for it by the ac ceptors.—Ultimately Mr. Hill rose, and, addressing the magistrates, said, I think after the lucid explanation which has been given by the learned serjeant, I shall have no ob jectiou (with the sanction of the bench) to take back the bill, and to be satisfied that Mr. Pitt may have been mistaken in the matter.—Mr. Serjeant Allen: I am most anxious to show that, up to this moment, Mr. Pitt has committed no felony.—Mr. Leigh : Are you prepared to give up the bill —Mr. Serjeant Allen: I should say certainly yes.— Mr. Leigh : Will you consult with your client?— Mr. Serjeant Allen : I do not think it necessary to consult with him on the subject. I should say it would be highly improper for him to detain the bill after what has been stated. —Mr. Leigh : We must have the bill handed up here before we can come to any decision.—The bill was here produced, and handed by Serpent Allen to Mr. Leigh. It was identi lied by Mr. Leigh, addressing Mr. Hill. said: I understand that if we should think it can be legally done, you will withdraw proceedings ?—Mr. Hill : Yes; all I want is the bill.—Mr. Leigh, addressing Mr. Serjeant Allen, then said : As you have shown a disposition to shorten the proceedings, perhaps it would be as well to state what our impression is, and in what way this inquiry may be terminated. Ido not entirely go with you in all your ar guments as to larceny. If it is proved that this bill is in the possession of the bank, and they have legal possession of it, and the bill is taken by violence against the will of the party holding it, and for the benefit of the party who takes it, that comes very near the definition of larceny. The only difference is that the bill is taken in an unusual way. Usually, when a larceny is committed, there is some con. ceahnent of fraud, but if a party chooses to set law at de fiance, and openly to rob a person on the highway, although he may be very near other persons, and the party himself be very respectable, it is very difficult to draw the line between larceny and that offence. It is a most outrageous thing for a masts" do ea, but it is possible be may have done it from hasty temper and mistake as to his rights.— Mr. Serjeant Allen: If this were an ordinary chattel, un doubedly he would not be justified in so taking posses sion of it; but the seizing of a paper of this kind is made larceny by set of parliament. At common law the taking of this bill would not be a larceny at all; but in order to pro vide for this difficulty, a statute has been passed, which, by special enactment, makes such valuable securities the subject of larceny, and it accompanies it with certain conditions ; it must be a bill in which the prosecutor shall have such a right that it shall be due to him and unsatisfied." Now this bill would not be "due and unsatisfied "if it were fraudulently obtained.—Mr. Leigh : It is possible that under high temper and under exasperated feeling, finding that he had been made the dupe of interested parties, he may have violeatly taken the law into his own hands, and subjected himself to this charge. Although we are inclined to think that most, indeed all of the ingredients of Limey are to be found in this case, yet taking into consideration his sta tion, the claim of right, and his having been defrauded, and not having received value for the bill, he may at the moment have acted in this way from violence of temper. We are bound to give Mr. Pitt the benefit of every doubt we may have, and taking into consideration all the cir cumstances of the case, we think we may, contiatently with public justice, and at the request of the prosecutor, Mr. Hill, on behalf of the bank, consent to the proceed ings being foregone, because although we think that the ingredients of larceny are to be found in this case, Mill it is such an extraordinary transaction that we are willing to give every doubt to the party accused. Then it is to be ob served that he is very much indebted to the bank. Mr. Pitt must know the solemn nature of considerations of this kind. Commercial it would be at ;I end if an unfortunate party, when called upon to pay a bill, were per mitted to snatch it openly and by violence from the hands of the person presenting it; and it is very possible that the bank might have taken this view of the cue, and would not, on the ground of public justice, have been disposed to forego a praeecution of this kind. Perhaps Mr. Hill ha well considered this, and as Mr. Hill has come to the conclusion that he will withdraw the charge, perhaps we may safely consent to theprosecution being withdrawn : but really it is a very disgraceful transaction on the part of Mr. Pitt.—[Mr. Allen: It was very violent, certainly.) He must know the nature of a bill of exchange, and he has stood in a very serious position.—Mr. Hill I am quite willing to make every allowance for the excitement of Mr. Pitt. He did not seize the bill in the first place, but after consulting with some one else.—Mr. Leigh. The fact of his doing it in the open way which has been described makes it possible that he did it under the influence of strong feelings, without seriously contemplating the offence which ho was committing; but I do not know any one ingredient of felony that sloes not appear in this case.— Mr. Serjeant Allen : Any claim of right would have justified him in taking possession of the bill—Mr. Leigh: If it had been snatched out of the hands of the perton who had de frauded him; but he must have known that it came into the bank in tke regular way. Mr. Serjeant Allen: It resolves itself into this—tkat he ought to have presumed that the hank had given consideration. If he ought, then the offence is complete; but if it ought to have been made apparent to him that the bank had given consideration, there is no foundation for the charge.—Kr. Leigh : I have no doubt that what passed between Mr. T. Lee . and Mr. P itt was enough to thew him that the bank had given thesensideration. I Mink we must take it for granted that lrrk did not omit the most important part of his errand, but if we have any doubts the magistrate' are bound to giro the party the benefit of them.—hir. Pitt nu then discharged. THE FORGERY ON THE DORCHESTER BANK.-- William Willmshurst, wbo had been remanded on the 18th ult., waion Monday last again brought before the magistrates at Dorchester. The first case gone into was that of having forged a letter of credit for 3001., purporting to be from Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., bankers, Charing-cross, Westminster, and addressed to Messrs. R. and H. Williams, of Dorchester, Dorset. The first witness called by Mr. Mul lens (solicitor to the Bankers' Association), who attended to prosecute the charge, was Charles Good, clerk to Memrs. Williams, who deposed that he recollected that a person who represented himself to be Mr. W. S. Mason, called at the bank on the 11th of January last. He believed the prisoner to be the same person ; but his appearance was now consi derably altered. He could not swear to him. He ap plied for 3001., in compliance with a letter of credit previously received, and purporting to be from Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co. Witness filled up the draft now produced on Williams, Deacon, and Co. for 2671. 10s., and prisoner gave bins a draft en Cocks, Bi ddulph, and Co., for the same amount. Prisoner then requested him to draw another draft on Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., for 321. 10s. He did so and prisoner signed it "IV. S. Mason," as it now ap peared in the draft produced. Witness gave him, in ex change, both notes and cash.—Mr. Morrell, the mvistrate, inquired if the prisoner had a bat on at the time ?—Witneris replied he wore a hat and a great-cost.--Mr. Mern.ll then directed prisoner to put on his hat, great-coat, and spectacles (blue glass), which he did, and Mr. Good said "That is the man. lam quite satisfied now."—W. Vickers was the next witness called by Mr. Mullen', wbo stated he is a clerk to Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., bankers, London. That en the 12th of January the draft now produced for 2671. 10s. was presented to him for payment, and he gave in exchange two notes of one hundred pounds each, numbered 54,255 and 54,259, dated July 24, 1846, a fifty pound note, No. 17,219, dated October 5, 1846, and 171. 10s. in cash. The person who presented the draft wrote on the back of it Received, George T. Lee, Poole, Dorset." lie had no re collection of the person.—Mr. Mullen" then called It. J. Sykes, clerk in the issue department of the Bank of England, who deposed that on the 12th of January last the three notes now produced were brought to hint to be exchanged for gold. lie gave gold for them. The address " George T. Lee, Poole, Dorsetahire," was on each of the rotas when brought to him at the bank. He could not recognise the prisoner as the person who brought them.—R. T. Cocks, one of the partners in the firm of Cock., Biddulph, and Co.. bankers, Charing-cross, Westminster, on looking at the letter of credit, said it was a forgery ; the signature was not his, nor that of either of his partners, and that it was not written nor signed by the authority of the firm—The pri soner said he had no question to ask nor anything to say.— He was told that tie would be fully committed on the charge of forgery for trial at the next Merck assizes. Ile was also committed on four other charges. LITERATURE. Progress of America. By JOHN MACGIIIR.OIt 2 rots. We resume our notice of this work. The contrast between the political and social coedition of the Hispano-Amencan republics and the United States of Anglo-America, shadowed forth in the statistics exhibited in Mr. Itlacgregor's volumes, is even yet more striking to the common reader, and more re plete with political instruction to the statesman, than that which the Brazils affords —as, in the former case, the governmental and administrative conditions ap proximate more nearly, while the results, in the relative prosperity and power of the les tire communities, diverge yet more widely. Similarity of organisation in the two hemispheres produces no uniformity of effect. According to tho current political theories, the states of Spanish America ought to present the most perfect specimen of unity and the prosperity which acting in concert gives to nations ; for they possess in a remarkable degree all there ele ments of unity and coherence on which stale con structors calculate for the preservation of the integrity and durability of their work. They speak a uniform language. They profess a common religion. They come from one parent stock. They have the same original sympathies and tendencies, whether social or political. They have a common history, traditions, and literature; until recently, they had a uniform system of government; and, generally speaking, their material and commer cial interests were also identical. Anglo-America, on the contrary, did not possess a single one of these great elements of unity and conservation. It was open to, and ultimately peopled by, every possible variety of race, country, and creed. There is pro bably not one primitive stock, or one form of Chris tianity existent in the older world which has not its representatives or its followers there. Every Euro pean language is spoken ; and every species of jealous and antagonistic nationality flourishes on that chosen soil—although the Saxon elements, both of race and language, predominate ; and will probably, in process of time, gradually assimilate all rival forms to its own character. There was no elementary unity in the United States ; a fusion of hostile ingredients has taken place, and a new compound—truer, however, to the original and predominant type than might have been expected—is the result. In fact, the same pro- cess of fusion and interfusion of adverse and diverse races, has been peaceably effected on the North American continent, which, in a leas organised period of the world's history, could only have been accom plished through such agencies as the great migrations of nations, with all their attendant horrors. Yet, reviewing the history of the colonisation and progress of the Anglo-American and the Spanish hemispheres from this point of departure, with all the moral elements of union and prosperity in favour of the latter, and taking no account whatsoever of the immeasurable material advantages which it pos sesses in its superior soil and climate, how different is the result! The United States have cemented and bound together the conflicting ideas, interests, and passions, which nature had planted in her bosom; and, advancing by an irresistible im pulse, have already assumed a position as one of the great powers in whose hands are the destinies of the world. Sprnish Americo, on the other hand, has split itself up into hostile fragments, which are for midable only for mischief, and which are constantly at war with those of their own kindred, language, and religion, for the most petty of objects and from the most puerile of causes. The Anglo• Americans have progressed in peace, in the development of free insti tutions, and the cultivation of the arts of civilised life; while, to use the generalisation of Mr. Macgregor, in no place where the Spanish tongue is spoken, is there, in this 1847, either civil or religious liberty, freedom from anarchy and violence, confidence in the main tenance of peace, or security in the government. These irreconcileable results of political systems working onwards under kindred fortin are striking in the extreme, and are not to be satisfactorily ex plained by any reference to the dogma-60 univer sally accepted in America, and so often appealed to of late in England—of inherent and organic supe riority of race. However true this may be, it is not wise nor useful to preach it. No good can come from such wholesale depreciation. Nor, were the asserted superiority true, would such a way of oohing so curi ous and important a problem be satisfactory. It is too vague, general, intangible ; valueless as a result ; a mere dead formula where the inquirer wished to discover a vital cause, and inapplicable to any pur pose of reform or regeneration. Human endeavours are only realised and consummated through known instrumentalities. If it be granted that the Saxon is intellectually superior to the Spaniard—and that this is merely an assumption we trust is sufficiently self evident—it would still be necessary to exhibit the superior processes evolved by the superior mind ; and when these processes were laid down, it might then be seen whether or not the Spaniard was incompetent to follow them. This method would be more to the purpose, and fairer to its subject. The other is un worthy the dignity of the historian ; it creates ill blood among those who need rather to be drawn closer together ; and produces no other effect, even to the " man," than a feeling of vanity, indulged in at the price of truth and manliness of sentiment. The difference in the present condition of these re , publics mhayva, we think, be sufficientl for without ing recourse to any suc y h un nec e ssary cause as an organic distinction of race. A lthough AlthoughgK the Spanish colonies were founded a century and a half before those of England, they were founded after the destruction of the municipal liberties of the Spaniards. England founded hers at a moment when her people began to make use of their muni cipal liberties to secure political _rights and reli gious freedom. The difference de termined in a great degree • ject. The Spaniard went cious metals. His object return to Europe in order mostly an adventurer; and so first object. he little cared for obtained it, or the permanent behind. He was a soldier, s• the natives appealed only or recognised, no other la , . _ These were the general moralities IMO and thereabouts, Cabot:- were projected in the lime fereoce of time, too, d e- Tee the difference of ob- out in search of the prt,.. w.ro.orutot that enjoyeo th g e e joatm l f t l 4. 1 .• ant suffering which • • and in his des)• to the sword ; he • ,; ••!: tw—no ether teat ,oralities of the n ot's voyages from Eng •.•- spirit and carried out 1111 • ..