The Express. — London, England, 1848-07-17 00:00:00

cbt court. -- - On the 13th, the King of Wurtemberg, the Grand Dukes of Baden and Hesse-Darmstadt, and the Duke of Saxe Meiningen-Hildburghausen, arrived in Frankfort, to visit the Vicar of the Empire. The following list of central ministers for the German empire is circulating in Frankfort, a list which the Mainzer Zeitung declares is drawn up on tolerably good authority :—President of the Council without portefeuille, Camphausen; Minister of the Interior, Schmerlia (ex-president of the Germanic Diet) ; Minister of War, Von Sebreckenstein, or Von Stockhausen ; Minister of Justice (if one be nomi nated, which is doubtful), Molitor, formerly a mem ber of the Bavarian cabinet; Minister of Commerce and Finance, I)uckwitz, of Bremen ; Minister of Police, Mathy. It is said that Wessenberg declined to accept the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs, and no other name is given as yet for that important place. The conduct of the King of Hanover and of the first chamber of that king will be shortly brought before the constituent assembly. The Frankfurter Journal denounces that conduct as ta cation to the people ( Vulksterrath ), and declares that the central power will pronounce a severe judgment upon it. Such language is remarkable in so moderate and in fluential a journal es the one above quoted. Referring to the threat of the King of Hanover to leave the kingdom if the Frankfort Assembly went beyond certain limits, the Bremer Zeitung of the 13th remarks that "if his Majesty can do without his dominions, his dominions can do without him." PRUSSlA.—Respecting the affairs of this state our Cologne correspondent writes as follows : COLOGNE, JULY 15. The Prussian ministry gained a decisive victory on the evening of the 12th, by the rejection in the Berlin con stituent assembly of llerr Jacoby'ii motion, to the effect that they did not approve of the conferring of irresponsible power by the Frankton &nimbly on the Vicar of the Empire ; that they, however, acknowledged the competency of the German national assembly to make such a provision,without requiring the consent of the various German governments ; and lastly, that it did not become the Prussian government to make a proviso or restriction of any kind whatever. After a stormy debate, durin t which the assembly decided that the motion should not be divided into two parts, the motion was negatived by a majority of 262 to 62, a result which will tend to strengthen the Prussian government and the majority in the constituent assembly in Frankfort. It appears (by the Alfgemeine Oder Zeitung, of Breslaw, of the 11th) that the statement of two or three German journals, that all the prisoners in Posen, with one exception, had been released, was premature, General Von Brunneck having officia.ly ii,clated that he had not yet been authorised to restore them to liberty. Re states, however, at the same time, that he had received no instructions to bring them to trial, or to give them op to the civil authorities. AUSTRIA.—The elllgemeine Oder Zeitung states that up to the 10th instant the Baron Von Do'Alhof had not succeeded in forming a new ministry. The Breslau Zeitung of the 11th announces the appoint ment of General Count Aueraperg as minister of war, and Dr. Bach as minister of justice. The scheme, however, of the Vienna journals of the 10th throws some discredit on this announcement. The Cologne Gazette of the 13th inst. publishes a correspondence from Pesth of the Gth inst. communi cating the report that the ultra Illyrian party in Agram have declared Jellachich dictator, pro tem.,until a king be elected. A great and deciding battle was expected to take place on the 6th inst., at Becse, be-' tween the Ilungarians and Illyriars. The former are estimated at 33,000 men. The result has not yet transpired. In the last sitting of the Diet of Agram, when the question was started that there was a want of ade quate funds for sending troops to the threatened quarters, all the deputies, and even the auditors, rose to offer voluntary contributions, several giving 600, 1,000, or 2,000 florins ; the ladies followed the example, and gave watches, chains, rings, and other precious trinkets, so that in a few minutes, besides other objects of value, no less than 15,336 florins were collected. The Hungarian ministry on its side does not appear inclined to make any concessions. The same journal, in an article headed " Pesth, July 6," says that the Russians had not only crossed the Pruth, but had marched further in. It is added that all the rich boyars bad fled to Cronstadt, and that some were expected even in Pesth. NAPLES, JULY 8. Of the affairs of Calabria I think I may speak with a greater degree of certainty than heretofore, though the differences between the stetements of the two parties conti nue to be as wide asunder 11.1 ever. Oa the Gth, news arrived that Busacca, reprovisioned, had united with Lanza and De Corn 6, and reduced almost the whole of Castrovillari, particularly Cassano, Saraceno, Lungro, and Firmo, who had all sent invitations to the troops to enter. The insurgents had fled everywhere on their appearance. They were then moving on Cos.nza. At 10 p.m. of the same day, news arrived that a deputation from the Archbishop of Co senza, the canon archpriest Scaalione, DD. Campagna, Mauro, and Gaudio; had waited on Busacca on the 4th to assure him that the majority of the people of Cosenza were well disposed to his present Majesty, and that they were wait ing with great an r iety for the presence of the troops. The provisional government had fled from Cosenza, in the direction of Tiriolo. The Neptune, on the oth, brought further intelligence that Busocca and Lanza were in posses. aim of Cosenza, and that Nunziante, seeing the inutillity therefore of his marching in that direction, was occupying Monteleone and Nicastro, and taking measures to intercept the fugitives. With this view the passes of Amato and Sorace, tha narrowest and most difficult of the peninsula, had been closed. Deputations had waited on Nunziante from Nicastro to excuse the several communes, declare a firm at tachment to the King, and promising to give up their arms. The King had sent several thousand ducats to bo distributed amongst the sufferers of Pizzo, which had been burnt by the royal troops. At four, p.m., of the 7th, the following news arrived from Diamante by telegraph. "The royal troops are on the point of entering Cosenza. By order of the intend, nte, the telegraphs have resumed their active opera tions." On the contrary, the anti-royalist party in Naples, nu merically a strong party, admitting the flight of the provision ary government, and the bodies of the insurgents, describe it so the. mode of carrying on a guerilla war, and aff,ct to entertain hopes of the ultimate defeat of the king's party. "A nation can never be conquered," said one of the party to me, " the principle may be good, but it is not the nation who are united against the present state of thing., but merely a party who, whatever may be their assertions, would not he sorry to see a republic established here. Ric ciandi for instance, one of the most devoted chiefs of the movement, declares himself a republican. Many wounded on the part of the king, they say, have been brought up to Naples; on the night before last, four steamers full, and carriages and waggons in great numbers, bad been ordered to a certain point to take them to the hospitals. Evidently some distinguished persons, it was said, had been landed dangerously wounded, and the greatest mystery had been observed as to the fact. Immediately after General Winspeai bad been sent off to the seat of war. On the arrival of a F ov,rnmeat steamer no communication is permitted between st and the land ; the greatest passible secrecy is maintained, and d was said that all the officers of the Roberto had been placed under arrest a week or ten days since for having made some revelations. The fact is, however, that the royal troops have decidedly the bett2r of it, and (as says the Corriere di Calabria) that the insurgents, even the most exalted, are alarmed. Nor is soy dependence to be placed on the other provinces who had promised largely enough; then" being no sufficient motives to induce the peasantry to leave their homes and their families to expose themaels. a to the dangers of war. The difference between this or that constitution is what they neither understand nor care about. A superior officer is said to have arrived from Aquila, giving news of a counter-revolution in that province. The crowd carried white flags and cried " Down with the consti tution." " Lena live the past government." Orders had been given to sustain the existing constitution. The Porcupine returned from Palermo, having taken do on, as I am told, d. spatchee with the name of several of the princes who would not be unacceptable to the English government as sovereign of Sicily. It was added that on its particular reeomrnen..ation the name of the Duke of Genoa had been first proposed and discussed in council, no decision basing been come to. The Porcupine I again for Palermo to-morrow, in order to ascertain the resolution of the government, At Messina hostilities seem to be suspended. It is said that the English government was the fleet to ac knowledge the independence of Sicily, anticipating the French by two or three days. Here, in Naples, 13eauharnais is spoken of as a candidate for the Sicilian throne. Since I lest wrote, the King's speech has been the topic, and general appears to be the dissatisfaction which it has created. Not a word about Sicily—no clear intelligence of the state of things in the Calabrias—no promise of a farther :- tension of the constitution ! Such are the remarks in every owe'. m uth. The Sidon steamer left yesterday for Palermo, with one of the secretaries of the embassy on board, to be present at the choice by the Sicilians of their King. TUE STAMM GOVERNMENT AND SIR H. Bt'LWER. —The annexed communication from Senor Orem (Marquis de Alhaida), one of the most distinguished men of the pro gresista parry, goes far to prove that the Spanish governs meat fabricated a tissue of plausible but false accusation against our ambassador at Madrid. Senor Orense has wi•tk thffieulty escaped into France from the persecutions of Ner eus :—"Bayonne, July 9, 1848.—Sir,—I observe in the Herald° of the 4th instant, a diplomatic note containing the charges of the Duke de Sotomayor against Sir H. Bulwer. In the .sth he mentinos me as one of the individuals whom that gentleman concealed in his house. Nevertheless ' the truth is that, never in my life, nor on the 26th of March, nor before nor after, was lin the residence of Sir If, Bulwer. I AM much surprised that a government, albeit the actual one of Madrid, can affirm falsehwds whose only foundation exits in the reports of its spies. In order that the truth may be known, I request you will have the goodness to insert this communication, and remain in the meantime your 'very 2bedient servant.—Josg bleats OEENSE." The Queen and Prinoe Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and the domes. tio household, attended divine service yesterday morning in the private chapel in Buckingham Palace. 'the Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated. Prince Albert wan present at the field-day of the Scots Fusilier Guards on Saturday morning in Hyde park, and took the command of the regiment. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by Major- General Wernyse and Lieut.-Col. Seymour, equerries in waiting, drove up on Saturday in • carriage and four to Richmond, and honoured Lord and Lady J. Russell with a visit at Pembroke Lodge. A magnificent chimney-piece, grate, and fender, en suite, of an entirely new mode of manufacture , made for his highness Abbas Pscha, were submitted to her Majesty and Prince Albert, on Saturday, at Buckingham Palace, by Mr. H. Room, of Birmingham. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were pleased to express their approbation of the arucles. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Countess of Charlemonr, Hon. Mira Cavendish, Lord Carnoys, Major General Wemyss, and Lieut.-Col. Seymour, honoured the performance at her Majesty's Theatre, on Saturday even ing, with their presence. The Duchess of Kent and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, and the Princess Mary, also honoured the performance with their presence. The Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister, had an interview with Sir George Grey, on Saturday, at the Home office. Mr. J. G. Deane and a deputation of bakers had an interview with the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, at the office of the Board of Trade, on Saturday. Mr. J. Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an in tervi,:w with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. Despatches were sent off on Saturday evening from the Celonial-office tor the governors of the West India colonies. The Duke of Wellington attended the early ser vice yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St, James's. The prayers were read by the Rev. W. Hall, and the sermon was preached by the Hon. and Rev. A. Petceral. At the daily service the prayers were read by the Rev. T. Helmore and the lesions by the Rev. G. Renton. The sermon was preached by the lion. and Rev. A. Perceval. The anthem, •' I was in the spirit" (Blow), was sung Messrs. Brad bury, Bennett, Francis, and Machin. Mr. Tulle presided at the organ. Lady Crofton and suite arrived in London on Saturday morning by the Gene.al Steam Novigation Corn. pany's steam-ship Triton from Ostend. Lord I)aniekold (Lord Chamberlain to the King of Den.nark), his family, and suite leR London on Saturday morning by the General Steam Navigation Con y's steam-ship Princess Royal, for Hamburg. THE NEW COLONIAL SECRETARY AT SIERRA LEONE in place of Mr. T. O'Brien is to be Mr. \V. Fir guson, one of the writers in that colony, where he has spent, says the Obserrer, the almost unprecedented period of ten years in the public service. CONSUL TO THE COMORO ISLANDS.—Mr. T. Na pier proceeds immediately to the Comoro Isles in the Indian ' Ocean, as Consul of Great Britain, the wry great increase of our trade in that quarter demanding the residence of • British agent there. SIGNET-OFFICE AND PRIVY SEAL.—The Earl of Mioto, Lord Privy Seal, George C •rnewall Lewis, Esq., Under-Secretary of State for the Rome Department, and George Rich, Esq., one of the Lords of the Treasury, hove been instructed to inquire into the Signet-office and the office of the Privy Seal, with a view to their amalgamation, or reduction in these departments. They have appointed as their secretary Mr. W. If. Stephenson, of the Treasury, who was private secretary to Sir Robert Peel when Prime Min ister. Being composed entirely of persons already in office, it will be an unpaid commission of iropiry, and will hold its sittings—to commence this day—at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing seri:et. THE. LORD-LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND, IN ENG LAND.—The Queen's letter was despatched to Ireland on Saturday appointing Lords Justices to administer the go vernment of that country during the absence of the Lord- Lieutenant. The Archbishop of Dublin, the Lord Chan caller of Ireland, and the Commander of the Force., are named in the commission to act in the place of the Earl of Clarendon, to enable his excellency to pay a short visit of a few days to London, es usual at this period of the year. Lord Clarendon will leave Dublin on Monday (this day). It is not improb able that during his short stay ministers will avail them selves of his presence to discuss more closely the present con• dition of Ireland. The intended visit of the court, post poned by the unhappy circumstances of the country, so de trimental to its best interests, may still, perhaps, form ono of the subjects for discussion.—Observer. TILE NEW STEAM-SIIIP EUROPA, Capt. Lott, sailed from Liverpool, on Saturday, for Halifax and Briton. ROYAL. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. —On Friday morning the general meeting of the members of this society was held in the Guildhall. the Earl of Yarborough in the chair, when votes of thanks were imanimouely adopted to the Lord Mayor and corporation of York ; to the local COM• mittee ; to the various railway companies who had afforded facility for the transmission of stock and implements; to H. S. Thompson, Esq., of Fairfield, for the use of land to try the implements ; and to Professors Johnston and Simonds for their lectures. This concluded the business. — Mr. Bates, of Kirkleavington, near Yarns, then said he had written letters to the president and judges, which, if they had been attended to, would have prevented certain errors that had been committed in reference to a particular clan of cattle. His remarks, however, were not sufficiently definite to be understood by the meeting generally.—Tho chairman stated that that was not the proper occasion on which to discuss the subject ; but that if Mr. Bates had any com munication to make to the society, it would be received by the council at any of their usual periodic it meetings—The Earl of Chichester proposed a vote of thanks to the chair man, which wan seconded by H. S. Thompson, Esq., and earned unanimously.—The Chairman acknowledged the compliment, and then requested the Earl of Chichester, an president elect, to take the chair at the meeting of the coun cil of the society. The attendance at the show grounds at York, during the three days it was t pen, appears to have been very large. On Tuesday 1,113 persons we.. admitted ; on Wednesday, 6,066; and on Thursdav, '25,732; making in all 32,912, for the period spoken of. The tickets being ex hausted, about 1,200 were admitted by payment of money at the door. A considerable portion of the prizes are awarded to parties in the south of England. LONDON CHARTISM WITHOUT FUNDS.—The fol lowing official communication was issued on Thursday last, from the chartist headquarter, John-street Institution, Tottenbam-court-road :—" We h ave this day balanced our accounts. and have to announce to our friends that we are without funds.—On behalf of the Executive Council, 'ow; M'CRAE, Secretary." THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY.—Sir,—WiII you kindly permit me a word of explanation with reference to the question put last night in the House of Common+ by the Earl of Lincoln to the Under Secretary for the Colonies, on the subject of the Hudson's Bay Company, and with which my name has been connected ? In bringing the subject under th- consideration of her Majesty's government I was actuated by the double motive of drawing attention :—lit., to the condition of the inhabitants of Rupert's Land; and secant!, to the peculiar nature of the tenure under which the company at present exercise their monopoly of trade over that extensive territory. As this last feature was not ad verted to by either of the distinguished speakers I take this opportunity of stating briefly the facto of the case, and they will, probably, be new to many. The Huckon'e Bay Company was incorporated in, the year 1670, under a charter of King Charles 11., conferring on them exclusive privileges of trade over the countries around Hudson'. Bay, together with other Immunities and powers of the most ample descrip tion. This extensive grant, however, slid not receive any parliamentary sanction or confirmation, and being on that ground held to be unconstitutional, failed to secure to the company the privileges intended. From the journals of the House of Cemmons it appears that in 100 the company, sensible that they had no legal title to their monopoly, were under the necessity of petitioning parliament for a bill to confirm their charter, upon account of the great losses they hail sustained from the French, end their having no right to restrain English interlopers. Accordingly, after consider able opposition, a bill (2nd of William and Mary) was obtained for confirming to the governor and company of adv. nttirere trading to Hudson's Bay their privileges and trade, " but for the term of seven years only, and no longer." Whether the company after the expiration of the act (which, by a remarkable oversight, was never printed) were appre hensive that parliament would not renew it, or whether they deemed it impoliqc to awaken public attention to the subject of their monopoly, the fact is no less certain than extraordi nary that thee have never from that time to the present applied for a second confirmation of their charter, and to this day hold their monopoly of the trade to Hudson's Bay under the original unconfirmed grant of King Charles 11. In 1821, the Hudson's Bay Company having united with the North West Company of Montreal, who had for many years I successfully contested the fur trade with V.ern, obtained from the legislature of the day a license of exclusive trade for 21 years over the Oregon territory, which, as its waters empty themselves into the Pacific, was not included under the original charter. This license was renewed in 1842 for a similar tem. These licenses, it is important to observe, are not (as has been generally supposed) in any way a con firmation or extension of the charter of King Charles 11., as may be seen by a reference to a parliamentary paper of the year 1843 (No. 547), being a return made by the Hudson's Bay Company on the motion, in the House of Commons, et Mr. Ilume, of all the grants made to them from the date a their i icorporation to the present time, the all important act of 2nd William and Mart being, however, for obvious rea sons, omitted. From these facts, then, it is clear that the title of the Hudson's Bay Company to the exclusive trade of Hudson's Bay as distinguished from that over the Oregon territory is altogether imaginary, and rests entirely on public sufferance.—A. K. Issisraa.—July 15, 1818. DESPERATE LEAP FROM WATERLOO-BRIDGE.- Yesterday morning, a men named James Crispin made a most determined attempt to destroy his life. The unfortunam man, who is about 45 years of age, was one of the many labourers lat-ly expelled from France. Since his arrival in London, he has had comparatively ho.hing to de pend upon for a living, but has been obliged to obtain assist ance from his friends. He walked on Waterloo-bridge, and having mounted one of the recesses, plunged headmremost Into the river. The splash in the water attracted the atten- THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 17, 1848. tion of several waterrnen on the river, who immediately put off in their boats, and with the aid of the police the poor fellow was rescued off Hungerford.market. Upon being laid hold of he made a desperate attempt to get away, and nearly capsized the boat. The parties , carried the man to Channg-cross Hospital, where he partially recovered, bat re mains in a very precariou' state. A COLONIAL PENNY POSTAOE.— If the govern ment of Great Britain were capable of doing anything, how ever insignificant, in a bold, energetic, and businesslike manner, we might expect them to extend the blessings of the penny postage to the whole of our colonies. At present, a letter is carried from the Land's End to John o'Groats for Id., but the cost of sending a letter to Canada or Australia is Is. or Is. 24. Now, to the people of this country, who have become familiar with the benefits derived from Rowland li.ll's admirable scheme, and who have heard ministers profess that the colonies are entitled to all the privi. leges enjoyed by the mother country, this cannot but appear a piece of monstrous injustice. We talk of measures for the encouragement of emigration, but West measure could any one propose, which, at so small a cost, would tend so much to promote emigration as the extension of the penny postage system to the colonies ? At present,. newspaper from Canada or Australia costs nothing fur postage, while a letter from either of those two places costs Is. 24. What inconsistency Is there here ! We do not object to the free postage of colonial newspaper", but if they can be carried fir nothing, surely letters might be brought from our most distant possessions for Id. or 2d. each. What a boon would this be to thousands of poor relatives left be hind in " the old country," by adventurous emigrants, who have gone to " push their fortunes" in the wilds of North America, or in the Aastralian bush! Under the present system the cost of a letter is a heavy tax, the burden of which has, no doubt, led to a breach of intercourse in thousands of instances where kindly correspondence would have been maintained, but for its excessive cost. —Manchester Ex aminer. A PARLIAMENTARY COLD WATER CUBE.—Mr. Hume very properly complains of the lengthy talk of members of the Commons. There is no doubt of the alarm ing fact; the tongue of parliament has grown too long and , too large. Like the tongue of a certain species of parrot, it is in preposterous diaproportiqn to the brevity of its bray. Mr. flume proposes that certain memberr, under certain conditions, should only be permitted to speak for half an hour. We would make this another point of the charter. Few members are so full of knowledge that they may not pump themselves entirely dry in 30 minutes. The ancients measured time by an instrument that dropt water ; a ma chine called a clepsydra. Now, we would, improving upon this notion, measure parliamentary time by the power of the lymph ; and after this manner : We would have every member about to address the house place himself in a eon of roofed pulpit. He should not be per. Indeed to utter a syllable from any other place. Well, from this pulpit there must he a wire leading to the chair of the Speaker. The member having had his full thirty minutes' discourse should he summoned by the Speaker to remove himself to his seat. Two minutes'—for we would do nothing rashly, uneourteously —two minutes' grace should be allowed. If, after then, the member persisted to address the house. the Speaker should Much the wire, which, communicating with the roof of the pulpit, should act like the string of a shower bath, and immediately flood the orator. No call to" order" could, in our opinion, he half so efficacious. Again, should a verbose, stammering member, with sundry bottles of cham pagne fizzing and effervescing from under his white waist coat, still insist upon transgressing the half hour, he would be soundly ducked, as was done in the good old times, for the misdemeanor of scolding.—Punch. NEW REMEDY YOR ASIATIC CIIOLERA.—A com munication has been made by Mr. Guthrie to the Royal Medico Botanical Society, in reference to a new mode of treating Asiatic cholera. Hitherto this formidable disease has resisted nearly all the efforts of medical skill to arrest its protease or to mitigate its virulence. It has been the oppro brium medtcorum ; but now, if we may believe the state ments by medical men in Circassia, a remedy has been found both simple and efficacious. This is naptha. a drug hitherto little used ill the treatment of disease. The virtues attributed to it are truly wonderful—arresting the copious diarrhoea, rousing the vital powers, and restoring warmth to the ear face previously chilled with the coldness of approaching death. The new remedy, however, requires the sanction of experience before it can be looked up to with confidence by the physician, and it will be his duty to give it, the first op portunity, a fair trial—Medical 'limns. INQUEST, SA - rt.:AMT.—FATAL FIGIIT.—By Mr. Mills, at the Queen's Head, Finchley. on the body of George South, a railway labourer, aged 27.—Thomas Thorn deposed that on lag Wednesday deceased and others were engaged haymaking in the " park," and while they were partaking of some beer in the evening deceased demanded :51. from another man, named Bowland, who replied that be would piy it to " Joe," of whom he had borrowed the money. Deceased then stripped to the skin, declaring that if ht did not nay him he would have it out of him. The, were prevented fighting, and when deceased again attempted to renew the quarrel and the fight in the tap of the Queen's Head they were separated, Bowland all the time expressing great unwillingness to tight deceased. They ultimately repaired to a field behind the church, where they had two rounds, Rowland knockine down deceased each time. After the second round deceased never spoke, and upon being re moved to the Queen's Head expired.—By the Coroner: Deceased was to blame for the fight. There was no foul play in the affair.—Mr. Currie, surgeon, opened the body, and found a rupture of the left lung, whence an effusion of blood followed, causing death.—The jury, after some delibe ration, returned a verdict of " Mis elventure." SOLICITATION OF ALMS BY LETTER. Sir,—Some months since I was shown by a gentle man known to contribute to charitable institutions, a letter, which had been sent to him front the wife of a beneficed clergyman in, it would seem, a state of distress. Recently other copies of the same epistle, addressed to different indi viduals, have fallen into my hands. They are accompanied with every faclity for rendering what is solicited—alma There is a small card, neatly cut to admit a coin for transmis sion in a stamped envelope, which is ready directed by and to the writer. I send you the letter,beeause if the cam be thought, primdfacie,worthy of relief, it will become the more wifely known to the benevolent by being published in your exten sively read paper, but I omit the name and address; to avoid an exposure which would not be agreeable to the clergy in general, in case the tale of distress should turn out to be exaggerated, or that the applicant for relief should be unworthy of it. I have not the slightest ground for en tertaining either supposition, for I know no more of the matter than is revealed in the letter. This, in deed, is the ground on which I notice the sub pet at all ; conceiving the system upon which charity is thus sought to be objectionable. It is not unlikely that copies of the same letter, with their incloaures, have been sent to all parts of the country to persons known for their benevolent liberality ; a knowledge not difficult to be obtained from the subscription lists of charitable institu tions. It is manifestly impossible for persons at a distance to test the validity of the statements contained in such let ters by personal or even by delegated inquiries, and it is scarcely just that their cfarities should be diverted from ob ji cm within the range of their personal knowledge to those of which their only acquaintance is derived from an ex parte appeal, cleverly accompanied as it is by matetials for trans mission, which takes advantage of the first excitement of pity, by presenting a mode of forwarding relief that gives no trouble, and, therefore, little time for consideration. The system is, I know, practised fur public objects—was adopted by the Corn-law League and is followed to procure subscriptions for the building of churches. But ler such undertakings no inquiry is needed. Their merits are, before the receipt of such letters, widely known, and can be can vassed as well in one place as another. The parish from which the following circular is dated is in a wealthy diocese, to which it ought to have been confined for the reason already given. There is surely suffi cient wealth and good foelino amongst the neighbouring clergy and gentry to have prevented the necessity of extend ing the appeal beyond the county, or at least the diocese. I find that the living held by the husband of the writer is valued in the clergy list at 2011. per annum, and that the population of the parish is only 125. Sir,—Extreme necessity compels me reluctantly to solicit you ea behalf of my husband, who, as incumbent of this small living, has lately been obliged le build a rectory-house, and in consequence many heavy and unexpected debts have fallen upon him, which (having a large family to support) it will be impossible to liquidate without aneetance. Indeed t assure you that ouch is the preasure upon us at this time, that the sma:lest sum you may kindly send wi'l be doing us an incalculable honelit ; and f. id you know the urgency el the case, I am sure you would not refuse your aid. I will gratefully acknowledge your kindnere.—l am, air, &a, —May I request you to return thin note and card, even if you do not leftist us I The letter concludes with a reference to a clergyman in London ; but this does not meet the objection I have urged to a mode of soliciting charity which, from the ease with which it ma) be practised, ought, I think, to be discouraged. and duly cenacted from time to time. The public sewers may be kept in good order, and danger may be so far averted or lessened, and yet accumulations, the real ant constant though unsuspected loam of dise ase and death, may con tinue to exist time to dwelling-houses and even within them. Though the sewers commissioners, with the powers they already possess, may accomplish some good, yet, in spite of their utmost activity and skill, the nublie in every part of the metropolis must be constantly liable to casualties similar to what has befallen the Westminster precinct, until such time as the whole of the sewerage and drainage is brought under one and the same system of management, and is com bined with properly regulated supplies of water. Notwith standing the expositions that have been given of the princi ples of this system, the conviction of the necessity of its being publicly applied, and particularly the conviction of the indispensable necessity of the combination of the house drains with the main sewers, and of the whole with an ade quate system or water supply, appears as yet to have per- vaded only very limited circles; it certainly has net awakened general attention, nor is the consideration of it as yet even entered upon by parliament. It is the peculiar disadvantage of this question and the great obstacle to its progress, that to understand it aright requires a specialty of knowledge not to be acquired without some study, and which is certainly not in general possessed by professional persons. The inadequacy of common and even eminent architectural knowledge, for example, to ac complish what would at first view appear to be the very simple work of putting the house-drains in proper relation with the sewers, and of combining both as necessary and dependent parts of a general system, is exemplified in the arrangements recently made for the drainage of the new Horses of Parliament. . Another circumstance unfavourable to the progress of this question is, that, after long residence amidst such influences as prevail in Westminster and the metropolis generally, comparatively few retain the power of appreciating them ; to that not only the emanations from beneath pass without no tice, but those on the surface, and even those that assail the senses, often escape observation. In the course of our in quiries we have frequently found that the residents of ex tremely filthy courts and houses, in which the closeness and stench to the visitor were most offensive, have declared that they seldom perceived any disagreeable smell. "In many instances," says Mr. Lovick, "for PO long a period and so constantly have the emanations been given out, that smells which are highly offensive to strangers are not noticed by in• mates, or even perceived until increased in their intensity by a change of weather." " It was no uncommon thing," says Mr. Bowie, " to be told, in places smelling abominably, that there was no dis agreeable smell; and b y . the most sickly - looking persons, that there had been no sickness. In many instances, where the most miserable localities were greatly belauded, it was plainly to be discovered that the fear of the landlord was the influencing dose, the truth only coming out when some evil pre ssing hardly upon them was adverted to. Au to good health, Ido not believe it exists among those who have resided any length of time in such places. Life may last for years under very unfavourable circumstances, the human constitution often bending, instead of breaking altogether ; but the re sults are seen sooner or later in the sickly looks of the parents and the stunted forms of their offspring. A mist se cloud has been represented as hanging over and enveloping certain districts of London ; where not visible it may always I, be detected by the unmistakable smell with which it want be accompanied." Many persons are insensible to the noxious odours that pervade the atmosphere close to parliament itself, and which are constantly breathed by its members. Speaking of this want of power to appreciate the true nature of an atmosphere to which we are accustomed, Dr. Reid says, " I can give you what I think is perhaps as notable an instance of it as can well be brought forward—that is, that the air in the interior of Westminster Abbey was considered so pure before it be came the subject of special investigation, that it was pro posed to supply the houses of parliament from it, taking in fresh air by the towers ; but if any person will go to the north doer of the abbey on a fine day when there is only a gentle movement of the air, and stop when the door shall be opened, a rush of cold air will take place outwards which is perfectly funereal in the odour which it presents; and I I merely adduce this as an example of the fact, that people in general are really not aware of the nature of the atmosphere with which they are surrounded; and that, in consequence of being habituated to the Westminster at nsosphere, they actually consider the air within the abbey pare, instead of merely allowing for the refreshing effect produced by its coldness in warm weather. Were means taken to permit air to enter freely into the abbey in fine and warm weather, by opening the doors freely, and by permitting an equivalent interchange by the roof, the oxyda tion of the condensed exhalations with which the walls are saturated, especially if assisted previously by some gaseous chemicals, would soon place the atmosphere in the abbey in a much more wholesome condition than it is at present." The existence of any emanations from the contiguous grave-yards has also been denied by some persons; but respecting this matter Dr. Reid makes the following state ment. Being asked, " Have you ever seen any persons at ali who have distinctly perceived, and have you perceived yourself, emanations from the burial-ground of St. Margaret's Church 1 "—be an wen, " Times without number. I crossed the churchyard from two to eight times daily for several years, and I have been repeatedly called by the members attending on the committee. opposite, or in the house, to the state of the atmosphere, and I have taken them to the very spot from which it was perceived. I received the information on these occasions from members anxious to let me know the truth. On one occasion I noticed that five graves sunk in a day to the depth of 6 to 9 or 12 inches, from the subsidence of the body ; and there was a committee of the House of Commons at which the librarian and others gave evidence in respect to the grave-yard. The librarian said,' When I have left the house very late at night, and have gone across the churchyard, the smell has been very offensive, so muck so as to make me rush out of the churchyard.' I have brought with me the report of a committee in the year 1808, which recommended that the churchyard should be removed on account of the same cause.. Stating their perception of its noxiousness ?—Yes. Residents say that they believe the place to behealthy, they having had general good health, and few particular ill nesses ; but the pallid aspects of many of them give unmis takeable indications of the character of the place. Occa sional residence in the country improves the hue and in creases the general tone of health and vigour of the robust, and for the time restores the weakly ; but the effects of im pure air upon children and susceptible persons on their re turn home are as sure a test of the quality of the air as litmus is of the presence of acid, and these effects are seen in pallid countenances, weakened appetites, and reduced strength. The fever that has lately visited the spot in question would not be regarded as an unusual or very severe attack in a court or alley, where sometimes every house and even every family is infected, and where the usual proportion of deaths is considerably higher than in the instance bet ire us; but had it in these times occurred in a prison, it would have been considered most extraordinary and as affording pre sumptive evidence of some mismanagement. Out of 36 cases there were four deaths; or the proportion of deaths to attacks was about one in nine ; the average proportion being about ore in six. The visitations here are only occasional, but fever has never been absent from some of the poorer places of the neighbourhood. Dr. Aldis, physician to the western dispensary, states that there were, in the eight weeks from April 1 to May 25, fifty-nine cases of typhus attended to by the dispensary in the parishes of St. Margaret'. and St. John's. He states also, on the authority of the regis trars, that 79 deaths from epidemic disease occurred iu these parishes between the beginning of February and the latter end of May, which would imply at least 600 or 800 attacks in leas than four months. Further, the cases of fever ad mitted into Westminster Hospital from the beginning of the present year to the 20th of May, amounted to 69 and the tutul number admitted in 1847 was 223. Both the Dispen sers and ileepital returns show frequent coincidences in the localities where the greatest number of cases are found. T hu+, Old rye-street occurs in both returns, and shows 13 CUM The deaths from epidemic disease in St. Margaret's and St. John's, in 1841, amounted to 346, implying several thousand attacks. Of this number, 9 are described as of the class of gentry; 47 tradesmen; and 264 artisans, eke. Com pared with the population this mortality is about double the mortality from epidemic in Kensington, Islington, Poplar, and Marylebone. CAUSE OF FEVER IN WESTMINSTER. [From the Third Report of the Metropolitan Sanitary Commission.] The case which we have now been considering is one that displays the necessity of placing all the parts of one and the same system under the control and management of one and the same authority. Little good is effected by attend. ing to the main trunks without paying the like attention to the branches, or by cleansing the large sewers and ne glecting the houm.drains. The combined aiea of the smaller conduits of the system of sewerage is greater than that of the trunks ; as the area of the capillaries of the body is greater than that of the main arteries. To flush and cleanse the great trunk, and to allow filth to stagnate and putrefy in the smaller conduits, is to remove the distant danger and to looter that which is closer and more potent. The dean doubtless felt that he was accomplishing a great deal by emptying and cleansing so many cesspools, amounting in all to eighteen ; he did not know that directly underneath the public school, directly underneath several of the houses, in close proximity with others, and communicating more or less remotely with all, there existed and had existed, (or years an immense depot of filth, fourfold more extensive (taking only the p►rt already explored) than the entire sur face which bad been cleansed—an accumulation of filth on the dangerous nature of which all the medical witnesses strongly insist, of whose existence the residents had no sus• picion, and which was as entirely unknown even to the offi cer specially charged with the care of the sewerage of the place, that he declares its direction, its extent, and its con di,ion, to be all "a mystery." Under such a system as we contemplate, and of the absolute necessity of which we regard this as a striking example, this degree of ignorance would be impossible the position of every conduit, however small, of every house-drain u well as of the larger branches and of the main trunks, would be recorded, and the preservation of this knowledge would not be allowed to depend on the traditions of the work men, superintendents, and owners, but would be secured against the possibility of loss or error by plans carefully kept THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. Many of the beat journals now chronicle the ap pearance of the crops and the state of the weather in their various localities. These accounts will be read with inte rest as afforiing some indication of the prospects of the har vest : . . . . BEHILSHIRE.—The sudden change which has taken place in the weather during the last week has been of the most cater giro benefit to the agriculturist, and enabled hi n to proceed with carrying his hay in tolerable condition. The wheat is fast ripening under such favourable auspices, and the increased value a week of such brilliant sunshine adds to the crop, and consequently to the wealth of the country, is almost iucaloulable, besides its advantage in bringing har vest-time leeward. There are as usual very conflicting accounts as to the probable yield, and even the best authori ties differ: some pronounce it to be far below, others a fair average one. We are inclined to believe that it will be • fair crop, and, if the present weather holds, of excellent qua lity. There are few complaints of summer cora, but the crop of barley is not equal to that of last year. Reaping is expected to commence on the forward land in this neigh bourhood in a week, but this must of course depend upon the weather which may intervene.—Berkshire Chronicle. CORNWALL.—A sample of new barley, says the {Veal Briton, was exhibited at Truro market on Wednesday last, and a field of oats has been cut near li,nwyn Chords, be longing to Mr. Cradock. OTTINGHAMBIIIRE.—The Notting/lam Journal states that the weather still continues propitious, and heavy crops are expected. The hay harvest is almost over, and good supplies will be laid in for the winter. Wheat looks healthy and strong, the heads being large and full, and the reeds tall and firm. Barley and Oats have sprung up amazingly, and look very heavy. The turnip crops are expected to be fine in proportion as they were bad last year. The - potato plant looks healthy. .110! - ir!1.2111 WARWICKSII/11.E.—The harvest prospect, up to the pre sent timras delightful as can be desired throughout the whole dict. During the last few days we have had a good deal of rain, which rather retarded the hay-cutting; but the weather is again exceedingly fine, and a few days, if not hours, of such sunshine will enable the farmers to save all. The potato crop, respecting which much anxiety was beginning to be felt, is also going on well. The wheat har vest is also promising, and the fields throughout the entire county are luxuriant. SCOTIAND.—The Edinburgh Witness says : The cold and ungenial weather which far none time prevailed gave way on Sunday, and was succeeded by an increase of tempera ture and by an atmosphere more deliciously blandand balmy than we have had since May. Sudden fluctuations in the barometer, however, indicate n•settled weather, and it is possible the interval of drought will be of short duration. It is difficult to add anything to our report of last week re garding the appearance et the crops. If an excep tion were to be made from • prospect as uni versally favourable as we ever remember, it might be in regard to barley, which, when it is minutely examined, seems, in numerous instances, thinner on the ground than usual, and certain!y thinner than wheat and oats. There seems to have been no recent failure amongst the potatoes. Turnips are spreading out rapidly, and so great has been their progress that en many farms difficulty has been ex• perienced in obtaiaing a sufficient number of hands to single them out. Much of the bay crop is cut and secured in good condition. The second crop is aiming forward with great luxuriance, and shows an unusual quantity of clover. MID.LOTIIIAN.—The North British Mail ssys:—Since the refreshing showers of last were, the crops of every description have improved in a remarkable manner. Tao wheat has improved, even in those patches which were al luded to last week, beyond all expectation. The stunted and unpromising parts of fields have taken on them a more vigorous growth; and even that "badly-rusted" field we named is looking more healthy, and with a fa better promise in the yield. The winter-sown is still in flower, but the spring-sown has come out to ear rather back ward. Barley and oats are in luxuriant YiNOLIT, promising abundance of straw and no lack of grain. Barley is well in tar. The potato crop seldom or never presented • better or a more promising aspect. There is, in fact, every prospect of an extensive, an abuniant, and an excellent quality crop this year. 'The turnip crop promises well also ; thinning is proceeding rapidly. Some farmers we know have very judi ciously repeated their custom this season of ploughing up their grass-sown land, after taking off their hay crop, and laying it down immediately with turnips, instead of taking the after.growth f grass. This is a good practice, for they not only improve their land by the additional ploughing, but enrich it, and secure a second and more profitable crop; besides being enabled to clean their land for • wheat crop next year, if they prefer it, which, in the ordinary course, would have been oats. iRELAND.—Since last we (Dublin Mail) touched upon those themes, the weather has undergone • most beneficent change. The high and cold winds have given way to warm and gentle zephyrs; and the atmosphere, surcharged with moisture, has become dry and genial. Since Monday morn ing the temperature has been most propitious to vegetation, to the filling of the grain moor, and the growth of the potato; and the gradual ascent of the mercury in the baro meter, together with the profuse dews which, in the evening, refresh the soil parched with the fervour of the mid-day sun. proirriosticates a long continuance of this blessed wea ther. After so lengthened a succession of rain and storm preceding the rainy season, it is to be presumed that St. Swithen, exhausted of his watery elements, will lack his usual supplies of moisture, and will forward the hopes of the husbandman by hastening the proeress of the crop towards productiveness and maturity. IRELAND. TRUE BILLS AGAINST MR. MEAGHER. DUBLIN, JULY 16 Yesterday true bills were found against this gentleman by the Limerick grand jury. Mr. Bennett asked whether he was prepared to take his trial. This, however, was contingent on the form of the indictment, of which Sir C. O'Loghlen, one of Mr. Meagher's counsel, demanded a copy—Mr. Butt is the leader. At one o'clock today, Mr. Meagher stated he would either plead or traverse. If he should adopt the timer course, the trial will be placed at the bottom of the, criminal list, and come on probably on Wednesday or Thursday. From the loose manner in which the police take notes, and the difficulty of fixing the exact language of a speaker at open air meetings where the transcriber is not a professional reporter, it is not unlikely that Mr. Meagher may be acquitted. A long statement connected with the arrest of Mr. Doheny and the charge against him appears in the Tipperary Vindicator. We learn from it that Mr. Doheny is anxious to repudiate the idea that he con templates a republic in Ireland—on the contrary, we are told he denounced the notion in the speech which is charged as seditious. We are also assured that, and the fact does not say much for his fecundity in eloquence, " he has made the same speech on two occasions, when government reporters were present, and was not molested on account of it." It is added, sy way of corroboration, that the policeman will not swear positively to the words used. However cautious Mr. Doheny may be and he is the shrewdest—far the shrewdest—of his party, it is not impossible he may have indulged some little enthusiasm extra, perceiving that no short-hand writer was present to record the eloquence. Mr. Doheny was to have attended a meeting of several parishes at Slievena '1 mon mountain to-morrow, but as he is yet in daresse, he will probably forfeit his recognisance to the " Tipperary boys " in that quarter of the country. There is an odd discussion between the Castle and I the Repeal press, touching the simple matter of fact whether the grand jury of Wicklow did or did not ignore bills sent up against Messrs. Magee and Holly wood. On this subject there appears in the Evening Post the following letter : TO THE EDiTOI OF ITIE DIYISLIN EVISITNO MST. 95, Upper Gloucester-street, 15th July, reference to an article appearing in some of the Dalin nesmpapers, with respect to the ignoring of bale of indictment against Mears. Magee and Hollywood, by the grand jury, at the last assizes for the county of Wicklow, I beg to state that no bids of Indictment were preferred against those gentlemen, and consequently could not have been ignored.-1 am sir, your obedient servant, Joni( 5111snom, Clerk Crown, County Widdow. The Nation and Felon have appeared to-day—the Tribune standing over until Wednesday or Saturday, in consequence of incomplete arrangements. I have seen them offered for sale and purchased in the pre ' sence and without the interference of the police. he Nation leads with an article on the clubs by Mr. Duffy—dated Neu gate—and the very strong senti ments of Mr. Duffy are backed up in another leader by Mr. Magee. Should the government attempt to put down the clubs by any existing or future legisla tion, Mr. Duffy recommends a provisional council of all the chiet officers, and to resist, if necessary, with ands. Messrs. Martin and Reilly address the Earl of Clarendon in the Felon. Mr. Reilly concluding as usual with an immortal hatred.—A notice has been served by the police at the residences of all the news venders in Dublin, cautioning them against the sale of any felonious or seditious papers such offenders will render themselves liable to prosecution. This caution will check the sale of the Felon and Tribune, which are now being worked up in their respective offices in expectation of a large sale on Saturday. The Waterford men are growing "fast and furious." They are all running helter-skelter into the Wolfe Tone and other clubs. As many as 700 were enrolled on Thursday night,aad it was not until the secretary got a temporary paralysis of the fingers that the in scription ceased. The only place in the north where a collision be tween the Orangemen and repealers was feared is Castlenellan, county Down. There is an eminence outside the town on which the deputy-master de clared his men would hoist the flag of Antrim. The repealers declared he and they should not—and, true to their word, the repealera entrenched themselves on the summit on the morning of the 12th, all armed, and counting some 6,000 men. No attempt was made to dislodge them. A military force was at hand to pre vent collision. The New York correspondent of a northern paper has a curious piece of intelligence—that the secret committee is contriving means for tbe release of Mr. Mitchel, but the exact nature of the agency is not known. It appears, however, that a fleet of fast-sail ing schooners is being fitted out with an experienced officer at the head of the expedition. One division is said to have actually sailed in the last week of June, commanded by Richard T. O'Connor, of the Irish Volunteer. Another is ready for the beginning of July, under Messrs. Robert Emmett and J. Tyler. The committee of the Repeal Association have again confirmed, by their resolutions, the " peaceful and constitutional" doctrine, and postponed to an in definite period the extinction of the main body. The committee of the League, on the other hand, are de termined to go on briskly. There will be another meeting on Wednesday to deliberate generally as well as to provide means of defence for the incarce rated, to which the country is invited to contribute. It has been stated that the government has resolved to suppress tbe clubs. This is the day of meeting ; and, should any active suppression take place, I will send you intelligence specially. THE SLIGO ELECTION.—Tke poll opened cesterday morning. At three o'clock the numbers were—Somers, 93 ; Bartley, 82; Ball, 80. An express received in town this afternoon states that Mr. Somers was returned. CLUB OROBNLIATION IN TIPPEHART.—The government have sent down Mr. Gore Jones, an experienced sti;en diary magistrate, to take Owned' Carrick-on-Sur district, where the club organisation has become formidable. It must be gratifying to the friends of order to know that Mr. Ilarneberry and Mr. Power, cathol , c priests in the vicinity, denounce the system. The Rev. Mr. Ryan, of Cashel, has also publicly cmodemned it. Mcnosa or td.troa MAHON.—Patrick Hasty, indicted at Roscommon for conspiracy to murder Major Mahon, has been found guilty. The origination of the plan to murder the unhappy gentleman was clearly traced to the prisoner. There were eleven Roman catbolico on the jury. The pri soner challenged twenty jurors ; the Crown, two. MEEDER or THE REV. Me. LLOTIL—At the same assizes Owen Benue was convicted of the murder of Mr. Lloyd. WALES. MEETING TO PROMOTE THE CAUSE OF EDUCATION IN WALES.—A public meeting was held on Friday, in Man chester, for the above object. The Rev. U. Jones in the chair. Amongst the other gentlemen present were the Rev. H. Richards, of London, Mr. E. Davies of Breeon (deputed by the committee of the biermal College for Wales), and the Rev. R. Jones.—The Chairman, whose address was in Welsh, in his introductory observations alluded to the want of education in Wales. Though much bad been said of the ignorance and degradation of the Welsh, he believed that people equalled in natural intelligence those of any country in the world, and presented an excellent field for the efforts of the educator.—The Rev. J. Williams proposed (in Welsh) a resolution sympathizing with the efforts now put forth for the promotion of education in Wales.—lt was seconded by Mr. J. Hughes, who alluded to the establishment of normal college in Brecon, and urged the meeting to support it. If the undertaking were properly sup ported, he had no doubt that men would arise giving a stamp to their country, and placing it in a high position amongst civilised nations.—The resolution having been agreed to, Mr. Evan Davis, principal of the normal college, Brecon, gave (in English) a brief history of the rise and progressof that institution. The college was supported by all denominations, and thus formed a real " evangelical alliance." The number of schools now in operation, con ducted by masters trained at c7llege, was upwards cf In some of these there were as many as 260 scholars ; the avenge number, however, was from 90 to 100. The avaatte attendance in winter months was 100, and in summer 60 or 70. During the two and a half years the establishment had be in operation, between 5,000 and 6,000 children had been instructed by teachers trained at the college. Not withstanding the great amount of good effected by the institution, its promoters met with nothing but frowns from the Welsh ariay.cracy. But in spite of their opposition. the cause of education was fast progressing. At Milford, 6001. had been subscribed for the erection of rublic schools, and in Glamsrganshire much interest was now manifested in the cause. A new college was to be built in Swerve*, instead of the one at Brecon. At the present college, they were only able to accommodate 23 or 24 in the house, and these they could only keep for a twelvemonth. Ground had been pur chased for the erection of the Swansea College; they pro posed accommodating their 60 students, and to keep them for three }ears. After giving an account of the daily course of education at the Brecon College, the speaker concluded by proposing the following resolution : That this meeting, deeply convinced that the foldable training of teachers constitutes the very fountain-bead of good and sound educao non, eirnestly rejoices to hear of the establishment and progrve of the normal college, at Drew t, anu would espros its determination to du all in its power to encourage an I suetJin an institution of so much practical value to the best moral and spiritual interests of the principality. The resolution was seconded by the Rev. H. Richards, who advocated the claims of the voluutary principle, and ex pressed his unwillingness to entrust education into the hands of government. Pie concluded by an earnest exhortation to the meeting to support the aorta of the promoters of Welsh education. The meetin: was addressed in a like strain by the Revs. R. Jones, T. C. Evans, and other gentlemen. A committee was then appointed to obtain subscriptions in fur therance of the objects of the meeting. PROVINCIAL. YORKSHIRE. PRINCE ALBERT IN YORKSHIRE.—This royal visitor to the cattle show was sot idle during his short stay in York. After his reception at the judge's house en Wed nesday afternoon he visited , he show ground, and at six o'clock dined at the Guildhall. On Thursday morniug he again visited the show grourds so early as six o'clock, making a two hours' examination of the stock, and after wards inspected the Cathedral, the Yorkshire Museum, the grounds of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, ft t.Mary's Abbey, the Wilberforce school for the blind, and other puffins institutions. About noon he again visited the show grounds, and at four o'clock dined with the company in the pavilion, where he remained till nearly nine o'clock. On Friday morning he left York on his return to London. WARWICKSHIRE. THE REFORM MOVEMENT.—Mr. Hume, ham sent the following letter to Mr. Ashford, the secretary of 'he Reform League at Birmingham, in acknowledging the vote of thanks transmitted to him: Sir—ln acknowledging your letter of yesterday,..l beg rott will areure the committee of the Reform League that I consider the divi sion on my motion a very strong index of the tavocrable oeittiou of the house on that subject, when you consider the formation of the home, and the extent of the motion: mod that there are very sienna* hopes of berets by the continuance of our v Sorts in that came. When in 1829 I first proposed te the House of Commons the tepeal of the nom laws, and the eutetitution of a fined duty of Ills per quarter, to abate Is. yearly until the trade should be open, I had only 13 mem bers out of .48 to vote for that motion. I trust that each community will consider that ultimate end catty success will depend on its awn organisation and efforts, Dot only to secure within its own limits the power of sending to the House of Commons men who will support my views on tact and other reforms, but I trust that the Birmingham League will set the example (as Birmingham did on a former and memorable occasion) to the country how to forward the eau,. The reform committee of members of parliament will meet on Wednesday. to determine on their future course of proceedings; and your com mittee may depend on our persevering with dl possible energy to secure that efficient reform which my motion, if canted, would pre. My confirmed opinion is, that nothing less will do, should be de manded; and ea the demand is one of right, of justice, and of policy. we must succeed.—J uly 8, 1849. OBTAINING MONEY UNDER FALSE PRETENCES. — At the Quarter Sessions, at Birmingham, on Saturday, a man named Dummelow was indicted for obtaining money under the foil •wing circumstances The defrndant, who is not on the rolls as an attorney, has for some time past pew,- Used in Birmingham as a sort of 's hedgelawyer," and it seems that some months since he wrote a letter toe person named Shakspeare, also resident in Birmingham, requesting him t 3 pay torthwith the sum of U. 2s. due to an individual named Cox. The latter purported to be fr ,m the office of a gentleman named Watts. an attorney at Gloucester, whose clerk Dummelow professed is be ; at the time, however, that the letter was written, Watts was dead; and the amount of the debt having been paid to the deft nda: . ,t, together with his charge of 3s. 6d. for writing the lever, the indictment was preferred for obtaining the last amount on false preten ces. There were three other counts in the indictment for similar offences, hut these having been withdrawn, the de fendant was found guilty in the case above narrated, and sentenced to twelve mon , hs' imprisonment. HEREFORDSHIRE. TRAINING OF BOYS IN AGRICULTURE.—The Gar , deners' elvonicle reprints a communication on this interest ing subject, made to the Iferefind Times by Mr. Batson, of Kynaston Court. Thatigt ntleman nays It is now nearly three years since I first f armed a gang of boys, taking them merely as daily labourers, and pay irg them at the rate of 3s. per week in winter, and 4.. ditto in summer; but finding I could make no certainty of their attendance, and that there was considerable difficulty in adopting a regular s y stem of discipline, owing to the want of education and badlnanage mint at home, I made the necessary aceommodatioa for the reception of 20 boys on my premises, about 15 months since, and took them under my own care entirely, for a term of four years, boarding, clothing, and edueatina, them, is lice of their daily lab,iur on tke farm, their ages averaging between 9aad 14 years. The svetem that I adopted was this: Each !soy was to be provided with two suits of clothes—one for working io and the other for better use, also a complc:e atcck of linen, oboes, &e. ; and at the end of four years I send them hack with a like equipment. The working hours are from six till six in summer, and during the winter they work while it is light. The meal titan s are at nine o'clock, when they have halt an hour for breakfast; at one o'clock, an hour for dinner; and at six o'clock, when they have half an hour tor supper; and the evenings are spent an education until nuns o'clock, when prayers are read, and they retire to rest. Toe food consists of bread and milk, or bread and broth for breakfast; bread, meat, and vegetables for d nucr ; awl bread and cheese for supper, with the addition of coffee and pudding on Sundays. According to the rule universally observed on my term no bear or cid. r is allowed, excepting during the hay and corn harvests. The labour consists of the general farm work ; but I may more particularly observe, the planting or dibbling of wheat and other corn and root crops, and the hand-hoeing of corn, turnips, &e. The evening education is Gnat of reading and writing, arithmetic, &c., and such religious and other in struction es time and opportunity will admit, in which, as well as their daily labour, they are superintended by a young man for the purpne, who was four ye. is at the Woburn National School, and six years at the Duke of Bedford's farm, where he also warked in a gang ; to which I may add that I make it my duty to attend personally each evening to as.ist. The enclosed calculations wall show the cos. of clothes per year and per week, and the e st of food per area, attend ance, &c. : Gntulation of C.otbcs, linking, and Attend 'see: Bone for Year. t s. al. 34) yards of moleskin (at Is. 20. per yard) 414 yards of cord (at 11d. per yard) 3 yard, of mars, 'at Td. per yard) 0 1 9 3 gross of buttons (at la. Cid. per gross) ..... ...—..... 14 tb. of throat (at 20. Ind. per lb.) ...............--.. A 4 3 IGO yards of cation (at 3d. per yard) ___ I n 0 2 dorm pairs of deekinp (at 9a. per doses) 1 10 II Ames and 1134 nding per e rntraet Making 20 suite (50 dasa. at 2s. 6d.) 6 5 u Mending (ray 25 days, at 2a 6cL per dug) 29 pairs of braces (at 6,1) ; 20 bandkarabide (red.) 18 lbs. of soap (at sd. per lb.) 20caps(at2a);20WMAatla) - ..... ..... 3 1 1 0 2 0 6 20 araock.trocioi (at 45. 6d. per frock) — 410 Attendance Xt2 I 61 Being 31. 2s. 71d. per boy per year, or lg. 20. per week. This calculation does not inanee the perwin who work, with the boy,. Twenty Boys' Keep per Week, taken at average Market Priem, as per Amount consumed. X a. d. 3 bu.hels of wheat flour (at 7a. Bd. per Inalsal) 9) 166. of ebeeee (et W. per 16.1 14 Ire. of treacle (t 4d. pre lb. '4 lbs. of dr.pplog (aged. per ) 3 , 1 Iba 0. 1 • 3 lb, of fresh and tat pat (at IL pet nu) 0 17 6 jbushel of potatoes (at Gt. pr ....... 0 9 0 3 oz. of ouffee (at 2i. per lb.) 0 0 4i Or 2s. 91,1. prr week, per boy. AI IS 7 Each hors I=r week ...... 46s d. 2 Total expense for each boy per week......... 34.11 id. I shall now proceed to show some of tee advantages de rived from the system ; and, in the first place, I may mention, as a general rule, that rhea work is much more carefully done than any man can do it, working by the piece, at the prices usually given, and as shown by annexed statement: Dore. mi . ,.. Wheat planting, Bor 7 boys, at Bd. per acre, I Not done in this 4s. Bcl Wheat hoeing, 6 boys, at Bd. per acre, 4s. Men, per acre, 10. Turnip hoeing, 5 boys, at 8 , 1. per sere, 6 .1. 4d. Ditto, La , (4 p ic y- n , - "....,,,.. Do. noon! time, 3 boys, at bd., 2a. -.-• s - 1 , i Mangold Vivant, 6 blys ana I man plant! acres mt . , ~, . , . • fil per day, my Is. 3d. per acre ..- Cleaning and heaping swedes, 6 boys, at 64. per Diu ) 05,,-: - : I ,' • ''; , l 4 acre, 40 — You will perceive that this statement is in favo u r PC the' I: •: -.--) boys very considerably. In planting corn there is acne- ~, • - ij siderab'.e saving of seed (which wi,l, of course, varf awl/. '.... ": ins to the idea of the farmer as to quantity mists:ad) { the . .k. . _ • , ~.v; J 1 i ~ ~ ~j'