The Express. — London, England, 1847-03-02 00:00:00

pops of government with • view to relief appe ar open to no cavil or objection. With regard to the future we suspect there may havo been undue timidity where boldness would have been service age, and sanguine anticipation where little good can be done. To all suggestions for permanently relieving the distress of the highlands sad islands by migration to the lowlands, where there is plenty of employment, m by emigration to the colonies, discouraging s owers have been returned. On the other hand, the improvement of land by the instrumentality of the Drainage Act has been held out as a panacea. We much doubt the efficacy of the latter, and can give good reasons for thinking well of the former remedial In measures: agn cilltural improvement the soil is only one, and often but a secondary, element : the climate, too, m ost be taken into account. No matter how good the soil, or how favourably circumstanced for drain leg and other operations, if the climate is ungenial, the labour is t h rown away. In the raw and moist air of great part of the weir ern highlands and Wands the produce of the most improved soil would D ot always ripen. And, what is more, the soil in D eist of the mountain straths is too scanty and meag re to admit of being fertilised. Thorough draining will improve the natural capabili ties of that pasture country for pastoral Four pores but cannot make a tillage country of it. b r . .MACKENZIE, writing to Lord JOHN RUSSELL, till him, " I sin in the process of instructing the poor cotters thoroughly in Belgian agriculture." Ile cannot, even though he had the climate of Belgium. The markets of the rich commercial cities of Belgium taught the surrounding peasantry agriculture. If Dr. :%lACKENZIE could create a Ghent or a Bruges in the neighbourhood of Eileanach, he could thereby teach his cotters to make, not perhaps a Belgium of it, but something incalculably more productive than it ever has been. He might work some such change on the land as Glasgow has done upon the naturally sterile lands in its neighbourhood, now in high and productive cultivation. But what is there about his country to attract commerce to its shores? By position. soil, and climate, the western high lands and islands are destined to be the seat of pas toral industry, and for that they are over-peopled. Captain POLE, writing to Sir E. COFFIN, says of the island of Reese,- :—" The former heritor derived half his rent from the success of his people in fishing, which resource has lately deserted them in a great degree." The Lord Advocate, with reference to the whole of the distressed districts, says:—" The manu facture of kelp, while it lasted, created a surplus population quite beyond the proper means and wants of the district" These poor wretches, it is evident, so long as kelp-making or fishing were remunerative, paid the landlords high rents for hovels in which to shelter themelves. The rents were not proportioned to the fertility of the moil—they were not a remuneration for the temporary use of its productive powers— but the rents of habitations, paid out of the tenants' earnings from other sources. Wherever these other sources have failed, there has been a protracted struggle between landlords and tenants : the one striving to keep as much of what they wrest from the niggard soil us possible for sus tenance, the other to extort as much of it as possible in the name of rent. This points to migration and emigration as the sine qua non of any efficient system of permanent relief. Experience corroborates the inference. The earliest emigrations of Highlanders to Canada were often compulsory and harsh ; but their descendants are prospering beyond the Atlantic, and the straths and glens which their departure lett untenanted are being filled up with a new race, prosperous and mul tiplying, as their herds and flocks increase. Again, the establishment of the New Lanark mills drew many Highlanders from a state of starvation in their native glens to earn independence in the lowlands. The excessive drafts of a new branch of industry on the labour of the lowland district attracted High land emigrants, relieving those they left behind, by diminishing the pressure of a surplus population, almost as much as themselves. The present time is favourable to relieving the Highlanders both by migration and emigration. The railways in the course of construction in Scot land have created an extra demand for labour in the lowlands that will be permanent. When the rail ways at present making are completed, others will be begun, and the impetus they give to all branches of productive industry will create a dema.4 for more hands. Again, a growing sense of the benefits of emigration is visible among the highlanders. Young men of the better clam have contracted an adventurous desire to try their fortune in the colonies. Clergymen of the Secession, the Free Kirk, and others, are momentarily roused to a state of enthusiastic self-devotion, that renders them ready to cast in their lots with young colonies. By judicious and kindly encouragement. little communities of neighbours—" gentle and simple," as they say in Scotland—might be induced to cluster round their "ministers," and plant new parishes in strange lands. Thus, by a little active benevolence, the population of these straths, where poverty is perennial, might be reduced to an amount commensurate with the means of subsistence they offer. But a gentle stimulus will be requisite. These people are strangely apathetic and unenterprising. They have not even been able to keep the hold of a labour market they once poeaessed. Within the memory of many scarcely pest middle-age, the harvests of the South of Scotland were reaped by bands of Highlanders and Islanders: the Irish have now fairly jostled them out of that employ ment. Could we believe that apathy and in dolence were inherent in the Celtic race, their case must be regarded as hopeless : but the truth is, that it is difficult to decide whether certain inflated orators, who would make the Celts all that is great and good, or some pragmatical scribblers, who write them down a race doomed to go to the wall before the Teutonic, are the greater coxcombs. Cukulus non tacit mums chum : a Mos or an 0 does not make a Celt. There is many a genuine Celt hid under a Saxon patro nymic, and many a Sassenagh dubbed with an un-euphonious Celtic denomination. There are more descendants of the Norsemen than of the Celts among the western Highlanders and Wanders. Their sluggish apathy is the result of position and circumstance. They have been brought down to a ve getating state of existence. Transplantment to new scenes is requisite to shake them out of their apathy ; the invigorating influence of collision with strange men and manners is necessary to improve the tone of their morals, and better food, the produce of a lees churlish soil, to strengthen their physical man. FRENCH and English are engaged in making simultaneous efforts towards a reform of convict dis cipline. Oar neighbours have at home, at their own doors, a more awful system of demoralisation, arising oat of their penal legislation, than we have in Van Diemen'.. Land or Norfolk Island. They have their Bagnes or Galleys, in which the mere end of utilis ing the labour of convicts by rigour and coercion, has produced a set of more ferocious and accomplished ruffians than any other country has yet bred. Hun dreds and thousands, liberated or escaped from this government university of crime, find their way to the capital, and to every town in France, where their deeds and example terrify and pervert the rest of the population to a degree almost incon ceivable and intolerable in a civilised country. The French, however, are slow and considerate in making a change. That proposed at first was the more severe system of cellular confinement practised in America. The hum me repudiated it, not only as over-rigid, but as peculiarly unfitted for the restless and sanguine temperament of the people of a southern dime. On the other hand, there is a strong desire to abolish the punishment of death; and to do this without providing some substitute equally intimi dating, or somewhat satisfying the pop ul ar feeling of the justice and necessity of retribution, as well as of security, is impossible. The French legislature, therefore, hesitated to adopt ' the bill proposed to it; whilst the French ministry also hesitated to enter upon the enormous outlay of rebuilding and remodelling all the prisons, until some certainty was obtained as to the precise system which was finally to prevail. The bill, accordingly, which was voted by the Chamber of Deputies in 1844, and rejected or adjourned by the Peers, has been referred to the judges of the Supreme Criminal Courts, as well as to the prefects, magistrates, and law-officers of most experience. It has now come back, and was presented the other day to the Chamber of Peers, modified to suit the views and objections of so formidable and !eighty a body of legal and administrative audio nties. ►mmemetej The chief objection of this body to the proposal of substituting mllular confinement for all other se condary punishments was, the want of gradation in the system. They found that it visited crimes and treated criminals of very different magnitude and culpability very much in the same way. It is, there fore, sought in the present bill to remedy this, by establishing different degrees and places of confine ment, and settling what proportion of his earnings shall be allotted to each prisoner at his liberation. In all this there seems to be no allusion or reference to the conduct of the prisoners under sentence ; all pro ceeding simply from the nature of that sentence. If this he adopted, the systems of France and England will be directly the reverse of one another. In France, the plan will be to exercise the vengeance or retribu tion of society on the criminal, and avoid the extreme of bodily pain. In England, this aim is comparatively lost sight of, the object being to save and to reform, and to fit the criminal for pardon. We do not object to this so much with respect to juvenile offenders; but if punishment be lost sight of with regard to adults, and persons guilty of heinous crimes, not only the abolition of the penalty of death will be impos sible, but it will be found necessary to enforce it more rigidly and more often. If the absence of any principle of retribution for past crime be a dangerous tendency of English penal discipline at present, the total want of even au attempt at reformation in the French plan is deplor able, and renders their cellular confinement a mockery and a tomb. There are most conflicting accounts of the effects of solitary confinement. In Pentonville no bad effects are found. Of course not ; for there the lamp of hope is lit up in the solitary cell. If the present be shut out, the future still lies open—the future of this busy world. But if we were to turn to reports of prisons, where the separate system was enforced without hope, we will be bound to say they would be found far different It is gratifying to think that we are in a fair way of making great and good experiments, of which a few years will afford solutions. They are not merely experiments of how convicts are to be physically dealt with, but how they can be morally treated with most advantage to themselves, consistently with the rights of justice, the security of society, and the proper reprobation of crime. The French, we are sorry to say; seem neither bent on a philanthropic ex periment, nor likely to solve it. Police, its aims and prin ciples, seems their exclusive object, which may easily be accounted for by their having the horrors of thelorfat system under their own eyes, whilst hitherto it has been hidden from oars by the intervention of half the globe. On the other hand, we trust that our new establishment of convicts at Portland Island, or else where in this country, may be so perfect in the way of security, that none of the dreadful results of the French galley system may be experienced in our metropolis. One of the provisions of the French convict law is to establish prison establishments for the most har dened offenders in Algeria, which will thus be trans formed into a penal colony. It was in some respects that already. The Journal des Debate fears that the threat of being sent to Africa may, instead of exciting the terror, on the contrary, tickle the imagination, of criminals and culprits. With the desert in their neighbourhood, French convicts in Algeria will be pretty sure of final escape, provided they can get be yond the walla of their prison. Our fugitives in New South Wales, who have taken to the bush, and taught the natives to steal and eat mutton, have caused us an immensity of trouble and loss of life, whilst they have marred all hopes of reducing many tribes of natives to quiet life. What will be the effect of in troducing the French forgot as a new element amidst the Arab population of the desert, is certainly some thing "to excite the imagination." It is one way of communicating to the nomadic tribes that promised civilisation, of which the French are so lavish in words, bat which will be more likely to develop itself in deeds and in characters, worthy of EUGENE Sun, as a historian. THE Globe is a devoted worshipper of political ' economy. The principles thereof are venerable and sacred in its eyes, bat like many venerable objects of idolatry, these principles are not fit for use. So smith the Globe. Political economy, the Globe defines u the science by which a state becomes rich. Now, charity does not enrich, and the saving the lives of seven millions who have lost their annual subsistence, with the wealth or produce that sixteen sister mil lions can spare, is not the means of enriching either. To feed the hungry and clothe the naked is clearly against the principles of political economy, which are only good, when consistent with practicability, expediency, humanity, and, we might add, Chris tianity. Had the Globe left the argument here, it might have been well. On the contrary, it goes on to ex cuse the government for disobeying the laws of political economy, by pleading that some superior power forced it to do so. ' The science of government," writes the Globe, " is how the intelligence and will of the ruling power may be hest applied to the doing of those things, the doing of which is, for the time being, deputed totbe government." But what can be deputed to a government, but the care of the lives and properties and interests of the people ? If the science of political economy runs counter to these, or cannot be allied with the science of government, of what use is it ? If it only cares for the purse, and is ready to sacrifice the life and the soul to it, what is political economy, but the lowest, and most material, and sensual of sciences, that which ought never to be listened to, as long as the higher views of morality, of religion, or humanity, can make themselves heard ? " Political economy," says the Globe, " takes no cognizance of the pauper." It would blot him from the earth. And yet the Globe tells as, that govern ment ought to adhere to the principle of political economy, as constantly and as nearly as possible. The excuse for its not doing so, is assigned by the Globe to be the will of the English people, the chari table determination of this country, that its wealthy, out of their superfluities, shall supply what will keep the poor from starving. The government, we are confident, would not con sent to hide itself behind any such excuse. In suc couring the Irish, the government cannot deem itself obedient to faulty or popular prejudice. It would be unworthy of its station, if it acted on any other prin ciple than the belief, that its acts were as just as they are humane. Such a defence, as that of the Globe, is diwraceful to the government, and damning to poli tical economy. And we may conclude by asserting, that neither would be entitled to one moment's respect, were they such as the Globe represents them. The subject of discussion in society and in the press, on Sunday, in Paris, was the interview, mentioned in our correspondence of yesterday, which was brought about between Lord Normanby and M. Guizot at the Austrian embassy. According to the letters of our correspondent re ceived to-day, M. Guizot, on meeting the amblisador in the salon of Count d'Appony, commenced by ex plaining that he never had any intention of reflecting offensively on the character of his excellency. Lord Normanby listened to this with a cold politeness, merely observing that he would continue to represent his government at Paris, and that he accepted the excuses offered. M. Gnizot repeatedly promised that he would take every opportunity of rendering homage to the honour of the noble lord, but has not pledged himself to give explanations in the Chamber. The Gazette de France, on Saturday evening, gave the following in conspicuous characters in its lea di ng article: " On the 20th February Lord Palmerston gave notice to Count St. Aulaire, ambassador of France, that the treaty of the Quadruple Alliance had ceased to exist." Letters from Malta, of the 11th ult., say that the Porte is preparing a new expedition against Tunis, and that it mamma on the support of England. The Sultan has jest sent Ahmet Chekib Effendi to the Pacha of Tripoli de Barbere, on a mission which has reference to measures directed against the regency of Tunis. This envoy, having landed at Malta, was em barked on board the English frigate Spartan, which was put at his disposal to continue his route. The Spartan set sail for Tripoli on the 10th. The Spanish mail with letters and journals of Ma drid of the 23rd ult. was received in Paris on Sunday. The demonstrations of the Car lista in the provinces have driven the government to the adoption of vigor ous measures of repression. The Minister of War laid before the:C'hamber, on the 23rd, projects of law, authorising the government to raise an additional force of 50,000 men, and to contract a loan of 200 millions of reale at 3 per cent. General Bluer WU sent to the Maeztrazgo at the THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 2, 1847. head of considerable reinforcements. General Enna was ordered to Barcelona to act under the orders of General Breton, who sras maintained in the office of Captain General of Catalonia. A report wee spread that General Armero was named Captain General of Madrid, but nothing official bad transpired. In the Chamber, M. Pidal continued his speech in defence of the late cabinet. The following is the substance of that part of his speech delivered on the 22nd, which has reference to the Moutpensier question : I think this question, which has been treated of by If Cortina, of great importance for Spain ; but not of such colossal dimensisns as he has stated. The questions treated on this subject between France and England were questions of fair dealing; and, not fulfilling its engagements, the French government may have deceived Great Britain more or less. But what is that to us ? Our position and our rights are in nowise affected by them. A conference was held at the Chateau d'En, in which it was agreed upon by the two governments that the marriage of the lufaira should not take place till the Queen of Spuin bad a child. This engagement has been broken. But are wo to blame ? Is not It. Cortina aware that conventions bind only the contracting parties ? It is true that we thought it suitable to celebrate the two marriages together, and I glory in saying it; for we tlurebr conferred a great blessing, not only_on Spain, but on all Europe. (Cheers.) El Espanol states that letters from Saragossa con firm the news that Cabrera has entered Spain. El Heraldo denies the adhesion of Prussia to the views of Lord Palmerston respecting the Spanish marriages, and also of the arrival of Cabrera and other Cachet chiefs in Spain, of which it declares the government has received no advice,. El Etperanza gives it as positive that Queen Christina intends coming to Parts in the course of the month of March. FRANCE.—TRIAL OF MADAME IIAHNEMANN: HOMEOPATHY. Madame Hahnemann, widow of the celebrated founder of Hommopathy, was summoned on the 20th ultimo, before the correctional tribunal at Paris, for haviag illegally practised the medical art. The prosecution was directed by the procureur du roi, on a complaint laid by M. Orfila, senior member of the faculty of medicine. Madame Hahnemann declared that she had received a diploma as Doctor of Medicine, in Pennsylvania. She able stated that she never received pecuniary reinnueratioa. M. Deleau, M.D., of Montpellier, confirmed the latter fact, and stated that he often consulted Madame Hahnemann. The court pronounced judgment thus: " Whereas, Madame Hahnemann had, without diploma or certificate available in France, illegally practised as a doctor, and at the same time impounded and sold, without legal authority, medical pre parations, offences provided against by the law, the said widow, Hahnemann, be condemned to 100 francs fine, and to the expenses." NETHERLANDS:—PROPOSED ALTERATION OF THE COILT4 LAWIL—A royal message, accompanied by a pro ject of law,for the revocation of the corn-law of Dec. 29 1846, and for the alteration of the duties on corn, was laid last Saturday before the Second Chamber of the States General. The project of law, which ia a farther step towards free trade in corn, was referred to the sections of the chamber. The report of the commission appointed to examine the commercial and navigation treaty concluded with Belgium in July last was brought up and read. It is probable that some questions respecting it will be addressed to the govern ment, at the next sitting of the chamber. The new penal code has also been submitted to the chamber. ill—The Orend Council of Berne has adopted the principle as the future basis for the flaancial system of that canton of establishing an income-tax. The amount of taxation is to be fixed annually. ITALY.—The Pope has abolished an ancient cus tom, according to which, on the first day of the carnival, a deputation from the Jews proceeded to the capitol sad pee vented to a senator seated on a throne a purse of mil, soliciting the permission to be tolerated for the next year. The request was granted in ungracious terms. In future the tribute is to be paid, but the ceremony dispensed with. FLORENCE.—Lettere from Florence, 16th ult., speak of the Manna the Prince's Luitpold, which, however, is not described as dangerous. There had been some (lister ' hence in the Theatre alla Pergola, on account of some poli tical invectives being distributed in the boxes. Some arrests took plate; but it appears to have been only one of those trifles which, in some French papers, are magnified into political events. G ERM AN Y.—AusvuLt.—Letters from Milan bring alarming accounts of disturbances on the frontiers of Trews.). I They state that an army of peasants had marched upon Lecco, and driven the soldiers from the town ; that many thousand measures of corn had been thrown into the lake. All the transports for Switzerland • have been stopped. It was said that politics were not unconnected with this move ment, as the price of provisions is nowise exorbitant in Italy. Austrian troops have been ordered there from Mantua and Monza. The peasantry make a show of resisting them. BAVARIA.— On a proposition of the board of health, the Bavarian Minister of the Interior has issued a decree, prohibiting the application of ether, except under the imam diate superintendence of medical practitioners, from which are excluded the members of the board of health and the surgical operators of the 2d and 3d class, under the penalty of a heavy fine. M,VIVICH.—So many petitions of all sorts have bees poured Into the house of Lola Monte., that she has S emi orders stating that she cannot attend to any more requests, as ebe understands nothing about them. This notorious lady, after having been expelled from Paris, War saw, and Baden, has arrived at almost imperial power in Munich.—The Dusseldorf Zeitung conveys a hint, in a cir cuitous style, to the effect that a very high personage in Bavaria is labouring under an indisposition which causes considerable anxiety, and has occasioned messengers to be sent to the crown-prince, who is staying in Italy." PRUSSIA.—We are glad to perceive, from a German paper, that the King of P:wisia Is following up his liberal measures. Permission Ins been given to form a sort of national or civic guard, for the purposes of police, in owe of disturbances Another law gives to the Prussian Filmes Minister the control of calls made by railway companies. FRONTIERS OF GALICIA, FEB. 18.--The owner of estates in several districts have been ordered by the 'Who rides to send certain quantities of earn to market, and to sell it eta given price. Great misery still prevails in Ga licia, principally on account of large tract" of land not having been cultivated last year. RUSSIA AND POLAND.—Advioes from Konigs berg say, " It is cer:ain that the customs line between Poland and Russia has not yet been suppressed, as the exportation of corn from the former is still prohibited, whilst it is per mitted from the latter. Great distress prevails in Poland, but it would be equally crest even if corn were not half so dear as it is, for the poor people have no money to purchase it."—[lt appears clearly now that the late accounts of prohi bition of corn exportation from Russia had no foundation.) WARBAW.—The accounts in foreign papers, with regard to the assembling of Russian troops on the grain's' of Cracow, have been so contradictory as to justify the re mark of the Allgemeine Zeitwsg, that ' some correspondents of newspapers appear to write only for the pleasure of seeing their statements contradicted." The Warsaw Gazette, Feb. 17, denies the reports given in other journals. These reports, however, have been too fully confirmed in the leading journals of Germany, and in private communications, to allow of any doubt on the subjeet. The counter assertion in the semi-official paper of Warsaw wears a very suspicious appearance. The portions of the royal speeches (delivered in London and Paris at the opening of the respective legisla tures) which refer to the occupation of Cracow, were not allowed to he translated, and the peragraphs in question were carefully cut out from the foreign papers which ar rived in Warsaw. Even that part of the speech of the King of the French, in which the commercial treaty between France and Russia was referred to, met with a similar treat ment, It being a constant rule with the latter to keep Poland as much as possible in the dark with regard to the (*reign relations of the Muscovite empire. ebt Oat. The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the per formance of the French Plays with their presence yesterday evening. H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent also honoured the French Plays with her presence last evening. H.R.H. Prince Alber rode out on horseback yesterday. T.RR.HH. the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice took their usual walks and rides yesterday in the royal gardens. Viscount Clifden has succeeded Lord G. Lennox es the Lord in Waiting to H.R.H. Prince Albert, and Col. Douverie has relieved Capt. the Ron. A. H. Gordon in the duties of Bguerryin Wailing to his Royal Highness. H.R.H. the Duchess of Cambridge and 11.8.11. Prince Frederic of Hesse arrived at Ceshlobury Park, Hats, the re sidence of H.H. the Queen Dowager, yesterday morning, having travelled from town by the London and North West ern Railway. The Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Frede ric of Hesse partook of a dejeune with the Queen Dowager. In the afternoon the Royal Duchess and hie Serene High ness took their departure on their return to town. Lord John Russell and the Chancellor of the Ex ' chequer, accompanied by the Lords of the Treasury and the Secretaries of the Treasury, received yesterday morning the gentlemen from the City of London on the subject of the new loan of eight millions. Mr. J. B. Heath, the Governor of the Bank of England, andthe Deputy-governor, attended the meeting. Lord Macdonald and Mr. H. J. Baillie, M.P., had an interview with S:r George Grey yesterday, at the Home office. A deputation from the South Lancashire Coal Pro prietors had an interview with the Right Hon. Edward Strati yesterday, at the office of the Commissioners of Rail ways in Great George-street. Mr. Colquhoun, Diplomatic Agent for the Manse Towns, bad an interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. A deputation of the Directors of the Water ford and Kilkenny Railway Company had an interview with Lord John Rumell yesterday, at his official residence in Dawning-street. Sir David Brewster, Rev. Dr. Buchanan, and Mr. Dunlop, bad an interview yesterday with Sir George Grey, at the Home-office. Despatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial-office for the Governors of the West India Colonies, and also fur the Governors of New South Wales, and New Zealand. SUDDEN ILLNFSB OF THE DUKE OF SOMERSET. --His Grace the Duke of Somerset was suddenly seised with a fit of an alarming character on Sunday afternoon last, at his residence, Wimbledon-park. His grace, who is seventy-five years of age, had been In the enjoyment of excellent health up to the period of the attack ; on Sunday hi partook of luncheon, and afterwards, u cmtomary, reclined on a couch. The exact period at which he wee attacked is uncertain, but on the valet entering the apartment between four and flee re..lock, he discovered his muter in a state of syncope. Dr. Chambers and Dr. Ferguson were in attend ance at an early hour in the evening. His grace remained, during the night, in a very precarious state, end yesterday afternoon the report of the medical attendants was very far from encouraging. LONOON CORPORATION REFORM. Yesterday, the committee of the whole court an aembled in the conned chamber, Deputy Peacock in the chair. Mr. ASHVitat particularly celled the attention of those who were determined that the rights of the citizens should not be lost to the matter which he had to bring before the assembly. In the confusion and hurry of the last committee they had fade I in agreeing to a r solution involving the essential principle fur which they contended. There would, he believed, be an unanimous acquiescence in the sugges tion that, if anything was to be done in the way of reform, the time had arrived for an attempt to effect that object, now that the Lord Mayor openly declared and proved that he would not put any question in the Court of Common Council of which he did not approve. Let them look to what had marred with respect to tee long•con tested subject of the freedoms. The Court of Com mon Council had given instructions to the chamberlain not to prosecute any retail trader until a certain question should be disposed of. That question had been decided on a certain day under the guidance of the Recorder, himself the officer of the corporation ; and it was quite evident that a reconeruction of the corporation must follow, so that the constituency might embrace the most respectable portion of the community of the city, instead of being influenced by publicans and fellowship porters, in whose hands lay so mon strous' an authority. It was him intention, if the committee agreed to the resolution, to follow it up with an instruction to the Chamberlain not to pay any sum upon the order of the Court of Aldermen, which that body were not legally en titled to draw ; and with other motions calculated to show the citizens of London that the intentions of their represen tatives a ere not vague or capable of misconstruction. (Hear, bear.) Mr. Ashore% then moved — That the committee agree with the sub-committee in their opinion es reported to the committee on the 2Sth February last, that the cm potation requiem reform, which can only be done by the Mel of parlia ment, and for that purpose it be referent to the sulacommittee to prepue such a bill for such reform and alterations am they shall see at, the same, when prepared, to be submitted to the committee for comideratims. Mr. ANDEKTON seecnded the motion. Mr. EAGLISTON, after a few words, moved as as amend ment : _Thai before the committee seek the aid of parliament. the centers plated Worms he printed to the comideration of the member', that they may pagewhether or not it be mammary to p to parliament. Mr. HA aTIJIT seconded the amendment, u he considered that without the opinion of the law officers, the committee were all at sea. _ _ Mr. R. TAYLOR and Mr. ASHURST said the opinions of the law officers had been all in print long ago. and were every one to the effect that nothing could be done without the aid of parliament. DIMITY Stevens said it was the conduct of the Lord Mayor that induced them to think of going to parliament at all. They had supposed that they possessed the power to bring forward a bill for their own reform. The Lord Mayor said they had no each power, and refused to put the question. What alternative then had they . but to go to parliament to ascertain the extent of their p rivileges? After wine discussion, Mr. Eagleton's amendment was negatived, as was an amendment by Mr. Low. Mr. ASNURST then moved resolutions to the effect that notice be given to the Chamberlain, and that it be recom mended to the Court of Common Council to give similar notice to the Chamberlain of the 22nd standing order, and that he do not pay any sums of money by order of the Lord Mayor, or Court of Aldermen, or Committees of Aldermen , to whirl they were not entitled by some act without the order of the Court of Common Council. That the Town Clerk be instructed to apply to the Court of Aldermen for • copy of the case and opinion lately prepared by their direc tion; and that it is the right of the Court of Common Council, in common council assembled, to regulate and con trol the business and proceedings of that court, and the order and course of its proceedings, and to emulate its paper of business. These resolutions were carried, and the last was agreed to unanimously amidst cheers. Mr. AIIk(URST then wee, and said, the sub-committee, during his unavoidable absence, had agreed to certain ques tions, which they recommended should be submitted to the several officers of the corporation. In the propriety of putting some of those questions he entirely concurred. With respect to others of them, be did not concur. He should therefore move that the first on the list should be adopted. Mr. BURN contended that the committee needed informa tion upon the important matters in controversy between the two courts, and that the law of oers of the corporation were the proper persons to advise them. He should therefore propose such of the questions as Mr. Ashunt might not think proper to adept. Alderman Snorer said that the course now proposed was a highly judicious measure, and he should cheerfully sup port the proposal for submitting all the questions to the deliberate consideration of all the legal staff of the corpora tion. He hoped the result of their opinions might lead to • better state of feeling then for some time pest had appeared to exist. _ . . . Some of the members opposed, and others approved of patting the whole of the questions. The Ca AMMAN a-id that Sr the questions had been pro posed by the city solicitor it would be perhaps expedient to call upon that officer for an explanation of the reasons why he thought thei-e questions ought to be put. The city soli citor had no objection to afford the committee any explana tion they might require if it was their pleasure to call upon ' him. (Hear, hear.) A resolution was then pissed to that effect. Mr. ASHURST moved the adoption of all the questions. The questions were then unanimously adopted, and the following officers were then requested to give their opinions upon all the que.tions The Recorder, the Common-Ser geant, the Town—deck, the Comptroller, the Remembrancer, the Solicitor, the Pleaders, Messrs. Ryland, Randolph, Laurie, and Lock. The committee then separated. REPRESENTATION OF WESTMINSTER. A meeting of electors of Westminster—friends to Mr. Charles Lushington—was held last evening at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, to give that gentleman an op portunity of declaring his political principles, as candidate for their suffrages at the next election—in the place of Mr. Leader, who has announced his intention of retiring. The Hon. E. P. Bouverie, M.P., in the chair. Mr. LUMINGTON commenced by explaining the circum stances which bad led him to offer himself as a candidate. He had received a communication from the Westminster Reform Society promising their suffrages if h; agreed to certain principles which they laid down. To this he returned an answer in the affirmative, provided the libe ral interest was concentrated. The name of Mr. George Thompson was the only one then proposed besides his own, but Mr. Thompson withdrew and generously lent his in fluence towards his (Mr. Lushington's) election. Mr. Page Wood, who had been also proposed, had acted in a similar manner. He (Mr. Lushington) accordingly stood there as a candidate unanimously recommended by the Westminster Reform Society; and would without further pre face proceed to a detail of his general principles. Thera had been ten propositions submitted to him by the Reform So ciety. The first had reference to vote by ballot; the second was as to the extension of the suffrage. The third was the repeal of the 7th clause of the Reform Act. The fourth and fifth propositions were for triennial parliaments and the reform of all corpora tion abuses in the United Kingdom. The sixth was the repeal of the window and con tales. He (Mr. Lushington) suspected that the latter proposition was of somewhat ancient date, and that those who put the paper into his hands had not expected the repeal of the corn-laws. The CMAIRMAY suggested that they were not quite repealed. Mr. I.I7BIIINOTON hoped, however, that they were in their last agonies. The seventh proposition related to the abolition of all pension which were not for public services. The eig hth m was for the removal of all impediments to knowledge and and in particular for the repeal of the stamp d u ty on newspapers. The ninth proposition was for a reform in the church establishment. The last subject was that of national education. To all them propositions he accorded his unqualified concurrence. Mr. Lushington, after enlarging on the above subjects, con eluded amidst continuous and enthusiastic cheering. An ELECTOR wished to know the candidate's opinion with regard to military flogging. Mr. LUSHINGTON had no in avowing his opinion to be on the side of humanity. (Cheers.) With regard to another question, on the subject of the Ten Hours Sill, he observed that that question would doubtless be disposed of before he entered parliament. He had, after a long delibe ration, on one occasion voted with Sir Fowell Buxton on the subject. He would now avow himself of opinion that the hours of labour should be left to the discretion of the em ployed, and be very much doubted if he could vote for any restriction on the subject. (Cheers.) Mr. PAGE WOOD then proposed That the opinions !elated by Mr. Lushington as thine on which be will act If elected a member of the Commons' House of Partianient, entitle him to the support of this meeting ; and we pledge ourselves Individually and consetieely to use our best endminsurs to promote his election as a represeatatlee for the city and liberties of West °Litter:- Mr. Groans THOMPSON baring seconded the resolution: Mr. Sa ELTON proposed an amendment— That the mvoatke• pet fanned by the Westminster Reform Association are not nosuorta whit ma lead to the mammal mama. alinement of the people. Mr. Skelton was received with ooneiderable eppodtion, and his amendment eventaslly lost, having but one sup porter. The original motion was then carried with acclama tion, and the proceedings terminated in a vote of thanks to the chairman. TIIE SOCIETY Off ANCIENT BRITONS.—The one hundred and thirty-third anniversary of this society was celebrated last evening by a public dinner at the Freemasons' Tavern ; president of the day, the Right Hon. Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P. The fint toast was the health of the Dowager Duchess of Northumberland, whose name stands I st the heed of the list of lady patronesses. The amount of subscriptions announced during. the evening was 8691. is. There was some professional singing, many of the being encored ; but by far the meet successful piece o ft evening was an ode sung by some of the children of the school, which was beautafelly executed, and was deservedly encored. --- OFFICIAL CHARGES tN BANKRUPECT.—Sir,—As improvements in the law of bankruptey and insolvency are again " talked of," I beg leave to draw your attention to the great injustice of robbing the creditors under small estates, of the sums paid to the secretary of bankrupts and the com pensation fund. I rend you the following list of deductions out of an estate that yielded about 3001., viz..— To the reeretai7 of bankrupt on tessenk sod the eat £lo 0 0 To the eompesetion toad lO 0 0 To lothetary of bookrupth 29 0 0 To otheith eththsee 22 0 0 Rent 02 warthog's for books (about but) 1 10 0 L 73 10 0 This is a pretty good amount to take out of a small estate. The creditors not being sufficiently losers, the law steps in and punishes them still further. The rent of warehouse charged by the official assignee for a few books kept by the bankrupt, appears perfectly ludicrous.-11. Souceroa.— Feb. 27, 1847. SHIPS' REPORTS.—IMPORTANT CHANGE IN THE LAW.—By the 10th section of the 9 and 10 Viet., passed In the latter part of the last se -glen of parliament, cap. 102, an important change is made in the law with respect to the im portation of silks, and other merchandise of value, and levi able with high rates of duty, which coons into oprration this day ; and as it is of very great importance to the importers of the valuable description of goods mentioned that the altera tion should not be disregarded, and thus cause the detention of their property, we give the section of the act alluded to, which is as follows:—" And be it enacted, that so much of the said act (before mentioned) as enacts that the master of every ship arriving from any foreign place in Europe at any port in the United Kingdom, shall report the general denomination of the contents of every package containing cambric& or lawns, leather gloves, manufactures of silk tobacco, cigars, or snuff, shall, from and after the lit day of March, 1847, be extended to ships arriving from any place ' whatever at any port in the United Kingdom ; and that all suit burtmeitioned goods not so reported accordingly to the beat of the knowledge of such master, shall be forfeited ; and that the master 01 every such ship falling to make such report shell forfeit the sum of 1001." POST-OFFICE DIRECFORY.—Sir : Many of your readers are delighted with the expose of the above ill managed and imperfect publication, which, instead of being an useful source of reference is considered as an incumbrance on the table. Streets, terraces, and places by numbers are omitted therefrom, although trey have existed for several years, and that there may be no question of such a fact I will refer to all those streets, rows, terraces, and places north ward of Portland-place, Regent's-park, a perfect district of itself. There are many who do not covet the " popularity ?" of having their name and residence published at the cost of purchasing a copy of this lumbering book ,_• but if it be con tinued under the protection of the post-office authorities it should be a correct inventory of the inhabitants, and not omit the names, etc., of hundreds of persons who have been resident in the houses they now occupy for several years past. Perhaps by giving this subject further publicity you will be rendering your readers a still further service,—l am, your's obediently, lOTA. COLLISION NEAR GRAVESEND.—A SCHOONER RUN Dowie.—A collision, involving, it is supposed, the loss of seven lives, happeeed on Sunday morning in the river off Old Haven, ten miles below Tilbury Fort, on the east side, a schooner being run down by • powerful steam-ship. The vessel which is lost, appears to have been the Rose, of Exeter, Mr.Webber,master. Shetookherdepartureon Fridayeeening from London-bridge, end reached Old Haven Bay on the following evening, where she brought up for the night She was, it u said, moored well in the bay on the Essex side, and remained quite safe until about a quarter to four eels& on the following morning, (Sunday) when a• three-muted steamer was seen bearing down at a of about 12 or 14 miles an hour, having the ebb tide with her. She exhibited the usual lights at her bow and masthead. Whether the ordinary lookout was kept on board it is difficult u yet to state. Certain it is, however, that she continued her course, and on nearing the anchored schooner the usual cries were raised on board the steamer M " poet," " ease tier," " stop her," " turn her astern," hat - before those orders could be complied with she OW in contact with the vessel with tremendous force, the steamer's bow carrying away the schooner's foremast, and cutting her bulwarks and hull down to the water's edge. It being evident a few seconds after the collision, that the schooner was rapidly filling, all hands on board the steamer ran aft in order to save the crew of the ill-fated craft, ropes and other means of rescue wens thrown out, but only one man was seen, and him they succeeded in preserving, and he proved to be the master, Mr. Webber. They had barely got him on board before the vessel went down, with the remainder of the crew, five in number, and it is supposed two passengers , who all perished. The ;rash was distinctly heard in all parts of the bay and by the officers on duty at the coastguard station at Old Haven. Boats were put off in the direction from whence the cries proceeded, but their aid was of trifling avail. The steamer remained near the spot where the Rose went down for some time, with a view of picking up what might be cast from the wreck. Little appearing, however, she proceeded on her voyage, the damage she sus tained, not being so serious as to prevent her completing the run. Mr. Webber having lost all his attire, remained on board until suck time u he was properly clothed end more composed, when the first vessel for London would be spoken with, and he would return by her. The Coast Guard have ascertained that the wreck lies in 6 fathoms at low water, leaving many doubts as to whether she will be raised, or the bodies got out. The unfortunate fellows being asleep in the forecastle at the time of the cannon, there is every likelihood of their having been crusoed by the bows of the steamer. The occurrence has excited much sensation in the vicinity of Old Haven, it being alleged that the steamer was not in her proper course. Her cargo was valued at several thousand pounds. The Trinity have placed a buoy over the wreck, and application will be made to the dock-yard authorities for the use of chain lighters to raise her. The steamer's name has not been satisfactorily ascertained. It is said that she is engaged in the Lefth trade. FIRE AT THE LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL.— Yesterday afternoon, between the hours of two and three, an alarm was raised near Bettie bridge, in consequence of the outbreak of a fire in the London Fever Hospital, St. Paneras-road. The flames first appeared at the northern end of the building. Owing to the precautions taken by the heads of the institution, not one of the patients woe hurt in being removed. As soon as the information was received at the fire statioas, the superintendents started to the scene with six or seven brigade engines. When the first engine arrived, the flames were mounting most fearfully, and it was the general opinion that the entire range of premises was doomed to destruction. The firemen, however , by carrying the hose to the top of the building, prevented the conflagration from travelling further; but it was not entirely extinguished until the roof of the nurses' ward was burned off. -• INQUEST, YESTERDAY.—CHILD MURDER.—By adjournment, before Mr. Carter, at the Bull Inn, Limps field, near °oilstone, respecting the death of a child named William Hatfield, aged nine months. The mother, who was present at the inquest, is apparently about 20 years of age. Sarah Berke, living at Limpsfield, was first examined, and said she knew the deceased, who had been placed by his grandmother with her to nurse, so that the mother, Caroline Hatfield, might retain her place. On Monday, the Bth of February, the mother saw her child, and then went out to get some Godfrey's cordial, which she gave to the child. After that he appeared very sleepy, and the mother said she would go to the union -house, as she and the child had no borne to go to. The child appeared perfectly well when she left. On the Friday following, the 12th, she again came to witeetes house with the child, who was then very ill, and in a dying state. The next afternoon some medicine was ordered by a medical gentleman, who considered the food had not agreed with it. Some paupers from the unien-house were called, who stated that the child was very unwell, but the mother would not remain. The coroner questioned them as to whether the mother had made any observations, and it was found that on one occasion she had said, alluding to the child, " I wish the breath was out of his body," and, at another time, " If it was not for the child, I should have a good place to go to." Mr. Atkinson proved that ow the morning of the 9th of February the mother purchased of him a pennyworth of laudanum, saying she had had the toothache all night. She bad two drachms, bat was told it was poison, and to be care ful of it. Mr. Tomlinson, surgeon, was called, and said he found the child in a dying state, and apparently labouring under the effects of some narcotic poison. On the post merlon examination of the body, the viscera of the chest and abdomen were perfectly healthy, but the vessels of the brain and dura meter were excessively congested. The coroner: What shoold you say was the cause of death ? Mr. Tomlinson: From the absence of all other disease, and the great congestion of the brain, I should say that it bad been cowed by a narcotic poison. The jury consulted for about twenty minutes, and then returned with a verdict of " Wilful murder against Caroline Hatfield, the mother." The mother, who denied having given the laudanum, was then taken under the coroner s warrant to Honemooger lane Gaol, to take her trial at the next anima. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Fee. 28. A meeting of landed proprietors and occupiers in the counties of Down, Antrim, and Armagh, was held in Belfast on Friday, to consider Mr. Laboaehere's bill for the improvement of lands and property in Ireland. Various objections were taken to the men ' sure. In the first place, the leaseholder or occupier would be compelled to bear the burden of injudicious improvements made by en improvident landlord without any capital of his owa. This objection ap plies to the different parties described as "owners" in the bill, from the proprietor in fee down to the leaseholder, with an interest of two lives ; secondly, the advances are to be expended under the Board of Works, which had power to increase the rent on the occupier, although the expenditure might have been made without judgment or econo my; thirdly, the liability of the occupier in the Brit instance was a great hardship, because the law gsve him no claim for compensation even for his own Judi cious improvements. The bill, however, was praised for many excellent provisions, and though such a measure as would enable the landlord and tenant to act in concert was of essential importance, yet it would not be fair to bring it into operation until the law secured compensation to tenants for improve ments. The chairman, any Stone, Esq., of Comber, claimed the attention of the government for the meeting : " A meeting of Irishmen ; yet, strange to say, they are not met to auk an advance of money, they would prefer having their own capital secured to them." The sanction of the law to the custom of tenant right was all the meeting required. The farmers of Ulster would find the capital and labour The contemplated revision of the poor-law was inci- . dentally discussed, but the Rev. Dr. Montgomery brought the question more prominently before the mating, and proposed a series of resolutions which was unanimously adopted, to the effect that no poor law can be a permanent benefit wiles, it contains a law of settlement, a vagrant act, a provision for ex tensive emigration, and the compulsory support of its own poor by each electoral division. VALVE OP LAND IN Kitawr.—Freehold estates in the county of Kerry were exposed for sale by auction in several lots, in the Commercial buildings, Dublin, about ten days ' ago. The lots appeared to he let at their full value. The ' competition was spirited. The average rate of purchase was twenty-ieven years, and no lot &tenet' lees than twenty three. The purchasers were, with one exception, gentlemen of the county : J. Ileckson, Esq., D.L., the Grove, Dingle ; John Leahy, Egq., South Hill, Killarney; Rev. A. B. Rowan, Belmont, Truce ; James Butler, E•q., D.L., . Waterville, Cabircireen; and E. B. Hartopp, Beg , Dalby House, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. TLis is the beat evidence we can have as to the power of resident Irish capitalists to make investments, and as to their op:niou of the eligibility of investing in land. PROVINCIAL. SUPPOSED POISONING OF • Five CHILDREN, AN, OV THIS MOTHEIL—Tn the following case we yesterday alluded On Saturday morning n report was circulated in Preston that a woman of respectable family named Leadbetter, residing at Walton-k-Dale, about one mile and a half from that town, bad commined suicide by drowning herself in the river Ribble, alter having adminis treed ponon to her five children. It appears that Mee Leadbetter, whose husband is • sharelsoker in Manchester, has for the last 12 months been residing at Walton-le-Dale with her children at the house of Mr. Livesey, ber father, a highly respectable man, who some time ago retired from the cotton trade. About 8 o'clock on Friday evening lest she left the house of her father, unknown to the family, niter having &misted an attendant in putting the chillers to bed : previous to which she administered a dote of what she called medicine toeacb, in the presence of the servant About ten o'clock in the evening, all the children complained of ilium, and soh appeared to he affected in a similar manner. This circam stance alarmed the inmates of the house, and Mrs. L better not having returned, information was given tt the neighbours, with a view of making inquiry for her. It should he stated that for some days previously the nnforti, nate woman hid been exceedingly low-spirited, and the fact other leaving the house on Friday and not returning, taken in connexion with the children's sudden illnere, induced the family to suspect that something was wrong. The whole of the evening was spent in the village in a, fruitless search for Mn. Leadbetter, and towards morn ing a fisherman on the river Ribble went in • boat in search of her ; and after some time he discovered bet body in that part of the river called the Walton Salmon Fishery. It wta immediately forwarded to the house of Mr. Livesey, there to await a coroner's inquest. In the meantime tho children had continued to get worn during the evening, and • surgeon was sent fee, who applied the usual remedies, when four of them began to improve. One, however, gra dually got wpm, and eventually died about four o'clock on Saturday afternoon. The other children are considered to be out of danger. An inquest was held on the bodies, w hea • verdict of " Found deo* ned" was returned, as regarded the mother, but the inquiry relative to the death of the child was adjourned, that a post mortars examination might be made. - - CONCERT FOR THE RELIEF OF THE DISTRESSED HIGHLANDERS —The Grand Scottish Concert for theatres* purpose, under the immediate patronage of the Queen. Prince Albert, the Queen Dowager, the Ditches, d Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and • large body of the nobility and gentry, is to take place in the Hanoveraquare Rooms, on Friday evening next. It wee originally fixed for Thursday last, but was postponed on account of the performance for the relief ot the destitute Irish and Scotch at her Majesty's theatre. The programme of the concert, which Into be conducted by Mr. T. G. Reed, ta exceedingly attractive; and those who attend it will gratify themselves sa well as contribute to a most benevolent object. THE SOCIETY OF BRUISE! MeSICIAN4 have an nounced a concert in aid of the funds for the relief of the distressed Irish, to take place at the Hanover-square Ronnie, tomorrow (Wednesday) evening. The orchestra is to con sist of above seventy performers, and a numbs of the most eminent performers are announced. The committee and members of the Irish Society are to give their patronage and assistance ; and we trust that the public will do their part towards rendering the concert productive. drama. FRENCII PLAYS.—Lest night, after " Le Demon de la Nuit," M. Lafont appeared in a new part, Maurice DO-. rose!, in " Un Mari qua se Derange," which was played for the first time in this country. The piece is a comedie• vau deville, in two acts, constructed with that skill and can for which the French dramatists are eminent. It is full of amusing equivoque, and admirable alike for its situations and pointed dialogue. Lafont was inimitable as le Mari qua se Derange, and the scene with his wife at la maison d'ar. was a finished piece of comedy. Cartigny, also, as the quiet domesticated husband, Bertholin, the very antithesis of Duro:vet, acted with his usual excellence. Altogether, the present performances are an agreeable change from the horrors of th • Porte St Martin, to which we have latterly beam accolicuted. AND CLERICAL NEWS. Orre Males I.—ln a congregation holden this morning, the &greed in Divinity was conferred on the Bev. W. Fletcher, of Braemar Coll., hoed matter of the College Grammar benixl, houthweil, Notts. The Bee. E. Cardwell, D.D., principal of St. Alban-hail and Comb - den, Professor of Ancient History, ir.ot this afternoon elected by the focally to the cake of Examiner, under the provision/1 of the new statute IM Discipline Theologise. AT AN ORDINATION MUM. DT TR BLIIIOI , C. 7 Premnosatioe, m the Cathedral, Peterboeough., on Sunday last, Feb. 28, the following gentlemen were admitted Into holy orders, via.: Duatios.-0. Pldenek, 8.A., Corp. CM., Cam.; C. A. Dolma, &A,, Cate. Hall, Cam.; H. Clark, 8.A., Corp. Chr., Cam.; R. Le.:l ard, B A., Trio., Cam.; A. I'. Qtrey, 8.A., Wadham, Oxon.. R. 3. Baker, 8.A., St. Mary 31.1, Com. • J. Hamilton, 8.A., Christ% Co.;m J. H. Gray, &A-, Mint's, Cain T. Burnaby, LA., Tin., Cam. ; 8. Stodulale, &A., Jeesis, Caro. • E K. Lovell, &A., St. Mary Han, Osoe.• I. G. F. Brume, IA Bee's ; C. G. G. Gambier. &A., Rt. John* Oxon., sod B. K. Faylr, 8.A., St. Mary Hall, Oxon by letters dinissory from the isihop Gloooseter ;C. I'. Humble, &A., St. John's, Cam., by letters dimbaory from the Bishop of Exeter ; J. H. Chewer, B.A, St. Petefe, Cam., and J. Matey, 'Quern's, Cam., by kttters dimiewory from the Inabop of Worcester; P. D. Frearnis, a Literate, and S. T. Brandrun, Wadham, Oren., by *Urn dimissary from the Whop of Winchester; T. Goddard, AA., Sides, Barnes, Cam., and S. Rogers, Exeter, Ox., by letters diarnsory from the Bishop of Lichfield. Pause-..-0. C. Peue, • Magri. , Cam. :W. IL:A., Pemb., Caro. ; r.•, Ater, 8.A., et. lobo's, Cans ; It. 3: 8.A., Wor cester, Oxon.; P. H. Brett, 8.A., St. John'a, Cam.; H. Prwc, &A., St. John's, Cam.; H. D. Hilton, 8.A., St. John's, Oast.; J. L. Uallward, &A., Worcester, Oxon.; J. Clark, &A., 7110., Dub.; It. B. Dundee, M. Th u ., Cam . ;J. L Gilbarne, 8.A., Trig, Dubl. •F. S. Bent A A., A., Chelsea, Cam.; J. C. T. Stretch, &A., Nagel. ; Oxon.• G. P. Penne ll , 8.A., Trinity, Cam., byletters &enemy from the Biebop of Oirmewaier. Tea vouatrure uomen To comma have been granted by the Bp. dfblerbass vies :—Rev. R. Ledlard, to Rittlades, C.; Rev, J. H. Gray, to , C. ; Rev. A .F. Carey, to Anenexanz-Borbage, C.; Rev. G. to Stonesbv. C., In Lekailemitire ; Rev. C. A. Holmes, to loam' • Rev. L. a P. Broome, to Stoke Brurne„ Fartkamptearn.: Vey. H. COL to All Saints, Northampton, .1. Haffdlloo, C.; Rev. R. S. Beker, to MMIMIns. Sew. Berleelle, lalsoham ; WV. S. eleekdele. le Dewar,. O. end Bev. E. K. Loren, bORLIdIe, C., an la Tan ike lat a =l; Lessee held • general ordination at the Chapel Prwel. le. Josue% ea Bards y last, whenthe following gen , Hems were allekled boll orders : Dminna—C. F. ILL, Trio., Caro. • W. 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Scarlet, to F firj. W. alliban. t 3 Vaal , . ?weer : J. C. tittle, to Volans., ( ram bsilmay, be Ocean ; Rev. C. L. Bell, to Rodney , Ret. A .1 'atm, to Vanguard. Sewed Master : J. Y. Media and liar 0,11 . \