The Express. — London, England, 1847-04-10 00:00:00

otrc y as I should be incredulous as I am, yet, when such I t hi t eP are put forth as argument , I am forced to sa y , I muly cann ot much care. (Loud applaus e .) We are church men here. It is thought that church schools will gain by the new arrange me nt . If so , it will be because t h ey mat , . it with aruwenng e ff orts. ( R enewed applause.) B ut I disclaim any such grounds for our proceedings. It is because I know that out of the pale of the church—beyond the i m am of the denominations—there is • vast dee tinge, neglected mass, festering in our struts and f e y, with every sight and sound of contamination, choking the srcesaes to every sense, without any sense of duty to soh or to heaven, upon whom no word of instruction ever an t , len whom no breath of love ever settles ; these, itr,. c um, by Lambeth, unknown to Geneva, unconverted, b y g n me I would invite, I almost wish I could core , ,,el, to woe in. (Hear, hear,) Ido not so much care to which fold, so that there was a hope of teaching them that man is their brother, and that " God is love." (Renewed cheers.) Then there is another class I would for a :non:tent allude to, u specially connected with this propeomi. those who are to be taught, there are ttv.ee who teach. Both rum to me occasionally rather ovetlooked in the heat of the which is carried on between the rapporters of co mpetition oppoon z systems. Now, I feel tempted sometimes to wish that I could gather together the teachers themselves—the actual schoolmasters of some of the most successful and vaunted schools of the different denominations; for it is, after ell, upon them—and not upon the worthy patron, or the re rpectable minister—that the main part of the burthcn and of the glary of the successful teaching must rest—(hear) sad having them together, in a place apart, I should like to pat it to them whether they were so satisfied with the amount of remuneration they at present receive—with the place they hold in society—with the superiority of the ad 'wars it confers—to what they might obtain as a clerk in ease opulent warehouse, or as a superintendent at some ',Away station, that they . think the managers of the schools tee altogether right in rejecting the offer of a lditional remu neration, additional help, additional distinction, which the state is s.licitous to offe r them. The wants and delicacies at which I have now imperfectly hinted, are those which I conceive the scheme of the government would go a great way, as far as it can gee at present, to supply and re medy. I have not been able to refer to • speech which I made in this city, on one of these occa sions • year and a half ago ; but I remember that I. men honk deserving the immediate attention of the country, otose specific points, the insufficient number of schools, the inadequate Wanes of schoolmasters, and the propriety of fishier them s ome retiring pension in their advanced age. This was when I was neither a member of the government nor of the legislature; and, as they are the precise points em braced in the recent minutes, I have the satisfaction of thinking that I have only become a party, in company with m y c olleagues, to provisions for which I had been anxious in an unofficial and private capacity. I will just add thus much. I have more than once referred to the manner in which those measures bear upon the Church of England. Now, it has nut always been my happiness to concur in the course which the Church thought it right to adopt with re ketriee to education. At times I have thought it too !X -claire, at times too timorous. I rejoice to witness the atti tude she has assumed during the recent discussions. I pre emie not to sound all the motives in which it may originate, nor to divine all the results it may aim at; but I see that she is patting forward no exclusive preten tious—that she is not seeking to keep back from others what she is willing to compete for with them. And let the best friends and most faithful children of the church feel well assured that she will not derive half the credit from her long prescription—her wide poseesions—her august architecture—no. not even from those solemn and beautiful towers that rise immediately above as, as she will do from her willingness to descend into the equal arena of a gene rous competition—to discard all mean jealousies and abets him msnopolies—to reserve her antagonism, not mainly for diluent, but for infidelity—to wage her warfare, not so much against errors of opinion as against viciousness of life--and to accept the part which falls to her in enlightening, elevating, evangelising mankind. (Applause.) I believe that such is the spirit and such the career which will make the Church of England strong and beloved, and perhaps immortal—for her support will coals from • people whom she has shown no disposition to distrust, but whom she has strained every nerve to educate and to improve. I have now only further to remind you that all real liberality and all real charity begins, though it does not end, at home; and though you have borne patiently with me while I have entered into this rather long digression into general matters, remember that we are met here, and that it is -or special business to for ward the utility, and to increase the credit of the York Yeoman School. His lordship sat down amidst loud cheering, which was prolonged for some time. ABSTRACTS OF THE LORD ADVOCATE'S REGISTRATION AND MARRIAGE BILLS FOR SCOTLAND. BILL FOR REGISTERING BIRTHS, DEATIfe, AND MARRIAGES IN SCOTLAND.—OFFICES AND OFFICIALS. Clause 1. Tho Crown nay, from and after the passing of this act, provide an office in Edinburgh for keeping a register of births, deaths, end marriages, and appoint a registrar general. 2. The registrar-general may appoint an assistant to act in the event of his illness, subject to all provisions and penalties contained in the act, and having all the powers and duties conferred by it, except for making regulations or dis missing officials. 3. The commissioners of the treasury or the registrar general may appoint and remove clerks, officers, and servant'; the commissioners to fix the regis trar-general's salary (not to exceed 8001. per annum), and regulate the allowances of superintendent registrar', &c. 4. The expellees of the offices, &c., not otherwise provided for in the net, to be paid out of the consolidated fund. 5. A principal secretary of state or the registrar-general may make regulations for the office and officials; a copy of all such regulations to be laid before parliament, if sitting, within six weeks after they are made; if not, within a month after the commencement of next session. 6. The registrar-general is to transmit once a year to a principal secretary of state an abstract of the numbers of births, deaths, and marriages during the foregoing year, to be laid before parliament, if sitting, within six weeks, if not, within a month after the commmemeement of next evasion. 7. Every county in Scotland, and the towns of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, Paisley, Leith, Greenock, Perth, and Dumfries severally, shall form a district, and be under the superintendence of a superintendent registrar: the bounda ries of the parliamentary burgh to be the bounder, of each town for the purposes of this act. 8. The sheriff clerks of the counties anti the town clerks of the towns, to be superin tendent registrars. 9. Each superintendent registrar may name a deputy, subject to the approval of the registrar general ; the deputy, in the event of his principal's death, to act till another is appointed ; the principal to be liable for the acts or omissions of his deputy. 10. The parishes within each district shall constitute sub-districts ; whets it is expe dient to subdivide a parish into more than one district, it shall be dour by the parochial board administering the poor laws, subject to the approval of the registrar-genes at, or fail ing the parochial board by the registrar-general ; each of these sub-districts shall be a registrar's district, and distinguished by a name or number, and the parochial board subject to the approval of the registrar-general, or the registrar general shall appoint a registrar to each ; where a parish extends I into two or more districts, the sub•districts shall be so made as to include within each superintendent regis trar's district all the part of the parish within it. 11. Envy registrar, subject to regulations b the registrar general, may appoint a deputy, who shall h old office till the appointment of another registrar. 12. No parish school master shall be appointed registrar sr deputy registrar under this act. 13. Every superintendent registrar, registrar, or deputy registrar, shall hold his office during the pleasure of the regist.ar•genertl : removals must be advertised in some newspaper circulated in the district no superintendent regis. tear to be removed without the approbation of a principal secretary of state. 14. Appointments of superintendent re gistrars, Ac., and certified copies of registers and certificates under this act to be exempt from stamp-duty. 1.5. The offices of the sheriff clerks and town clerks respectively shall be the register offices of the superintendent registrars under this act, and the superintendent registrars shall have the cus tody and management of the registers therein deposited. 1G The registrar-general shall supply the superintendent registrars and registrars with iron boxes to hold register books the registrars' boxes shall have one lock and two keys, of which one shall be kept by the registrar and the other by the superintendent registrar ; the register books, while in the custody of the registrar and not in use, to be always locked in the box. 17. The books, documents, and papers in possession of any superintendent registrar, &c., es ;superintendent registrar, (Pc., at hie death, or on his ceasing to hold office, to be delivered up as eon as conveniently may be to his successor : the sheriff may hear complaint. of non-delivery sinn- T amely, and enforce delivery. 18. Registrars and deputy registrars moist be resident ; must have their names and offices conspicuously placed on their house or place of busi int ; and every superintendent-regixtrar shall mete a printed list of the registrars and deputy-registrars in his district, with their places of abode, to he affixed to the door of every known place of worship in the district two consecutive Sundays in November, 1847, and in July of every subse• quest year. 19. The stationery office is to furnish to the registrar -general all books, certificates, notices, and forms necewary in the execution of this act. CTI ES oF REGISTRAR:4.-20. Every registrar (subject to the registrar general's regulations) is to inform himself of every birth and death that shall happen in his district from and after the last day of December, 1847, and to register as aeon after the meat as possible, without fee or reward (except in cases after 9otilied) the muticulara required to be registered as in the forms in Schedules A and B, annexed to the act. REO INTRA 'MN or 81ZT1121.-21. The parents of any child born, the oe. copier of the tenement in which the birth takes place, the medical attendant and midwife present at the birth, are to rye notice of the birth to the registrar within eight days after the event, from and after the last day of December, 184 7 ; the parents under • penalty of 40e., the others under a penalty of 20e. ; no penalty exigible if other persons give notice. 22. Any person finding 1 new-born child exposed, to give notice forthwith to the inspector of the poor • or a dead body of any child exposed, to the procurator-foie], under a penalty of 40a., tits inspector under • penalty of 51.; and the procure tor-Sucal to give notice to the registrar; the inspector to sign the register as informant. 23. After the last day of Dec., MI, the parents of any legitimate, or the mother of any il legitimate child, or in case of their inability from death, eic., the occupier of the tenement where the child was born, or medical attendant or nurse present at the birth, on a written "Personal intimation, to give information of all particulars required, and sign the register within three months, under a Penalty of 51. in the case of an illegitimate child, it shall not be lawful for the registrar to enter any person's name as fithm. 24. If any child of a Scottish parent shall be born at !nee on board a British vessel, after the last day of D. c., 'NI, the captain shall make a minute of the particulars fte far as known, with the name of the vessel, sad Qa arriving at any port in the United Kingdom, or by any earlier opportunity, transmit the same to the registrar general, who shall cause it to be filed, and a copy, verified by his own signature, to be entered in a book to be called the" Ma rine Register," and kept with the other registers. 25. After the expiration of three months no registrar shall register a birth mitres the parents or lawful . guardians of the child make decl ar ation of the requ isite particu eulers before the superintendent registrar within six menthe after the birth, and the superintendent registrar in Presence of the person informing, give authurity to the registrar to enter the birth and sign the entry along with him ; a fee of 2s. 64. in such cases to be due to the super intendent registrar, and one of 5s to the registrar, unless the delay have been occasioned by his default. No register of birth made after a longer interval than three months, to be admissible in evidence, unlesa the entry is signed by the superintendent registrar; and any person registering the birth of a child after expiry of three months, except as pro vided in this clause, to forfeit 501. 26. No birth to be registered after the expiry of six months, under pe nalty of 501. ; and no register of birth after six months to be admissible as evidence ti prove the birth of the child, except in the case of children born at sea. 27. If any child receive a name or a different name from that by which it was registered within six months after registration, the registrar or superintendent registrar in whose custody the register is, on production of a certificate from the clergyman who performed the rite (as in schedule D), may enter the name without any erasure ; the certificate and a certified copy of the entry to be transmitted to the ' registrar-general ; a fee of le. to be paid to the superintend. ent registrar or registrar. 25. In the case of persons not recognising infant baptism when a name is given to the child within six months, according to the usage of the sect, may, on producing , a similar certificate, have au entry made in the same way on payment of IA-REGISTESTION or Drente.- 2 _9. The medical attendant, or other person present at a death, or the occupier or the inmates of the tenement where it takes place, after the last day of December, 1847, to give notice to the registrar within 48 hours under penalty of 40s. 30. The same parties, on per sonal or written requisition, to give the registrar the requisite information within 14 days, under penalty of 51. ; in the case of a precognition the procurator-fiscal shall, with approba tion of the Lord Advocate, inform the registrar of the result, who shall sign the entry, naming the procurator-fiscal as his informant. 31. A marine register-book for deaths is to be kept, as well as for births,and the particulars to be transmitted and recorded in the same way. 32. Even registrar is to deliver to the informant a certificate of any death registered (according to a form in schedule E) for the person conducting the funeral, who is to give itto the person having the manage ment of the burial place, and if any dead body is buried with out such certificate, the undertaker or church-yard keeper shall give notice to the registrar, within 48 hours; the pro curator fiscal may order a body to be buried before registra tion, and his certificate of anthority shall be communicated to the registrar; undertaker or church-yard keeper failing to give notice within seven days incur a penalty of 101.- How RBOISTERS ADMISSIBLE AS Evioneen-33. Except when the procurator. fiscal is the informant, no . register of births or deaths admissible as evidence without sumature of informant.-Remuegnartosr or Reoneriteas-34. Every registrar to make out half-yearly accounts of the number of births and deaths, to be verified and signed by the superintendent-registrar ; and the parochial board to pay the registrar 2s. 6d. for the first twenty entries, and la. for every succeeding twenty, and such further sum as they think fit.-ReoisraertoN or MAERIAOES. -35. Per sons contracting marriage in Scotland after the last day of December, 1847, shall, at some time within two months of the contract, sign, along with two witnesses, the entry of the register-book, or they may require the attendance of the registrar at the contraction, or within two months there after, to have the entry made. Parties attending to register shall pay a fee of Si. within ten days after the marriage, and of 10s. after ten days and within two months. Parties requiring the registrar's attendance shall pay a fee of one guinea, and sixpence of travelling expenses for every mile he ,bas to travel within !ten days, of two guineas, and sixpence per mile thereafter. Parties contracting marriage, and neglecting to register before the expiry of two months, meur a penalty of 501., and in default of payment a month's imprisonment. 36. In the event of one of the parties dying within the ten days or two months, the survivor, and in the event of both dying, any near relative of either may obtain registration, on attending with two witnesses and paying the fens. The registrar to enter the death of the party or parties, and the name of the informant. 37. no registrar, with approbation of super intendent-registrar, may register a marriage after two months, in such form as the registrar-general shall prescribe. 38. Every officiating clergyman, every secretary of env Jewish Synagogue, every registering officer to the Society of Pricnds, shell send notice by post to the registrar of the district, of any marriage in which they were officially concerned, within ten days, under a penalty of 40s. ; such notice to he according to a form given in schedule 11.. and to be delivered half-yearly by the registrar to the superintendent-registrar, for preservation with the other registers. Gesteuee Pito- VINIONS ItESPECTING RROISTERS.-39. Certified copies of all entries of births, deaths, and marriages, are to be Pent ball yearly by the registrar to the superintendent registrar, the registrar to keep each of the register-books until it is filed, and then deliver it to the superintendent-registrar, to be kept in the records of his office: under penalty of 101. for non-delivery, within a month after the book is demanded. 40. The superintendent registrar is to send the certified copies of entries half-yeaily to the registrar-general, to be kept in his office. SEAM:NEB.-41. Registrars and deputy registrars are to allow marches of any regieter-book in their hands, to be made at all reasonable times ; searches extend ing over a year for Is., with 6d. for every additional year, and 2s. 6d. for certified extract. 42. Superintendent-regis trars are to cause indexes to be made to facilitate searches; for general searches of register-books with the superinten dent-registrars, a fee of ss. ; for any particular search, Is. • and for certified extract, 2-s. 6d. 43. The registrar-general to have indexes made to the books in his office • the fee for a general search there, 205.; for a particular search, la. ; and fur certified extract, 2s. 6d. 44. A seal to be kept at the registrar-general's office, and certificates, stamped therewith, to be admissible in evidence in all courts within her Majesty's dominions. MISCELLANEOUS Paovnitons.-45. The registrar-general is to account to the commissioners of the Treasury for all moneys received under this act. 46. False information respecting a birth, death, or marriage, to obtain insertion of a fictitious entry, an indicta ble offence, punishable by transportation for not more than seven, nor less than two years. 47. Any registrar refusing to register, or carelessly losing a register book or certified eopy thereo4 to be fined 601. 48. Destroying or falsifying register books punishable with transportation for not more than seven, nor less than two years. 49. Provision made for correcting erroneous entries. 50. Corrections may be made before signing. 51. Provision made for recovery of penalties. .52. Summary prosecutions must be commenced within three months. 53. The correspondence of the register-general relative to this act to be free of postage. 64. Nothing in this act contained to interfere with registrations of baptisms t Nurials, or marriages in right of Kirk Session'. 50. The registrar-general is to furnish the superinteadent-registrars, within five months of his appointment, with notices of acts to be done under this statute to be affixed on church-doors. 56. Notices required under this act may be given by post. 67. This clause con tains the interpretation of some words used in the act is a restricted sense. 68. The act only extends to Scotland, and not to marriages of the royal family. 69. The act may be amended or repealed during the present session. BILL TO AMEND TILE LAW OF SCOTLAND AFFECT ING THE CONSTITUTION OP MARRIAGIL—CIAWIe 1. No marriages contracted in Scotland after the last day of March, 1848, shall be valid or effectual unless registered in terms of the preceding hill. 2. Marriages solemnised by a clergy. I man not to be affected by this act. 3 . The word " clergy man" shall include all clergymen or ministers of religion authorised to solemnise marriages, whether belonging to the Established Church or any other sect or denomination. 4. This act may be altered or repealed during the present session. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Aram 8. One would imagine that the terrible crisis under which the country staggers would leave no ream far acts of blood and murder. During the last six months there have been cases of individual atrocity : but never before in Ireland, and nowhere except among say. has a more revolting murder been committed than that which took place in Croom (Limerick), and the horrible particulars of which will be found below. It is rarely that such acts of unmitigated savagery are anywhere recorded—not even in Tipperary. But there is very little difference between the clistrica of both counties, which abut on each other. The same sanguinary spirit is as rife in one as the other. Croom, however, is not a border district, and it is probable the murderers came from the land of blood and turbulence. _ ' • ' --- The renewal of complaints through the provincial press is no. doubt well founded, by the distress in which many of the reduced labourers have been involved ; but the pressure also, in some measure, is traceable to an anxiety on the part of the clergy . to get the Relief Act into operation, which finds reinst anoe—pusive but effective—in the shameful con duct of many of the gentry. So far from seconding the government, they obstruct; and the longer relief is deferred, the lighter, it is reasoned, will be the rate. The representatives of the govern ment, however, are taking vigorous steps to complete the committees which these gentlemen have left imperfect by refusing to act, or inoperative by staying away. Orders have been forwarded to the inspectors, which may conquer the obstinacy of t hese gentlemen. The relief commissioners afford every facility, and even exceed duty in their solicitude to execute the law ; but if they be obstructed, what can be done, and who are to blame ? In Dublin the act came into real operation yesterday in the south union : soup will be issued for two days and the more sub stantial rations according to the taste of the applicant during the remaining five days. The north union will be in working order on Monday. The progress of cultivation, under present cir cumstances, is exceedingly consoling. In one large district in Wexford the spring business will have been completed by Saturday next. In Carlow there never wu so large a breadth of land in cultivation ; and even is Oalway ouch is the progress made, that the Galway Vindicator states the cultivation of the land is much farther advanced in the country than near the towns. STATR OF TILE COUNTRY. The Limerick Chronicle states that on Monday m .rning last, about eight o'clock, immediately after three poleernen had left the house of P. Hourigan, for their station at ('room, three armed men entered his habitation in search of Hou rigan, who was out, having gone a little before that to the house of a brother. The intruders turned upon his wife, as she sat by the fire to prepare breakfast, and deliberately fired at her, inflicting a mortal wound in her breset. Not content with this barbarous deed, they struck the dying woman on the head with their guns, until she lay apparently dead upon the floor. They next turned into a room where the son of the unhappy couple lay one sick bed, and dragged the lad, about 18 years of age, about the house, ar d then commanding bins to stand against the bed past, another shot was levelled at him, which entered his head, and he fell at once a victim before his murderers. Having glutted their vengeance, by the immolation of mother and eon. these ferocious miscreants departed, regretting they had not got the husband and father, to complete the tragic spectacle. Hourigan's little daughter would os,uredly have teen the third victim, as they were determined to spare no human being in the house to tell the catastrophe, only that she, pro. videntially, was in the out-offices milking the cow for her poor mother. This little girl came in as the murderers de parted, and saw them going oil, but unperceived by them, and suspecting no harm, the first objects she beheld in side the door were her mother iu the agonies of death, and her brother a naked corpse. The affrighted child gave the alarm, but before any friend or neigh bour came in, Hourigan's wife breathed her last. The afflicted man, Philip If ourigan, at last as sizes, brought to conviction four persons for having, in November, 1846, attacked his dwelling by night, and assaulted him barbarously in the presence of his w ife end children. They broke his skull. These fellows were en tenced to seven transportation, the judge having first designed to double that penalty, so gross did the outrage appear to him. Hourigan's life was threatened since this prosecution ; and the magistrate found it requisite to have police in the house at night for his protection. But the un fortunate man was doomed by those who regard not law or mercy, and, watching the departure of the police on the above morning, the murderers accomplished their infernal purpose • and as they could not sacrifice Hourigan, they butchered in cold blood those roost dear to him, the un offending mother and son. On Wednesday, in the vicinity of Limerick, not four miles from that city on the Clue side ofthe Shannon, an attempt was mule to acuminate Mr. Joseph Wallplate, a magistrate nel resident country gentleman. The Marchionem of Waterford is supplying the smaller tenantry of her husband with seeds for corn and other crops oat of her own private purse. May her example be imitated by hundreds ! Amongst those landlords whose benevolence is recorded in the provincial journals to-day, I find Mr. J. E. Redmond, of Wexford; Mr. G. O'Reilly, of Kildare ; Mr. Usher and Mr. Down, of Waterford : the Marquis of Lana , downe ; Mrs. Mahony, Castlequin, and Mr. L. B. llsrtop, of Leicester, proprietors in iefry. It is said the latter gentleman has not had a single sixpence of rent from his Kerry property this year. Colonel Palliser, Tipperary, has despatched his son to New Orleans to pur chase Indian csrn for his tenantry. Mr. 0. Moore, of Mayo, not only supplies his tenantry with seeds but has bestowed a mileh cow to such of them as are without one. Mr. Rut ledge, Togher, in the same county, is also supplying seeds to his tenantry. The Earl of Lucia has sent lit to the poor of Kilmeena, Mayo, in which parish he is a principal prupnetor. A few days since I noticed, on the authority of the Roman Catholic clergyman, that his lordship had not replied to an application for a donation. Since then this SLIM has been forwarded, and contains 101., his lordship's subscription, and 61. from Earl Spencer. SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, APRIL 8. - • Letters from Scotland received te-day advise of a moat extraordinary event. The lord lieutenant of a Scottish county, and a member of the Scotch peerage, has suddenly absconded, leaving behind him a mass of bills and securities bearing the forged names of his own son and other relatives. The signatures have been repudiated by the respective parties. It is reported that large amounts of charity funds are involved in this wreck of the party in question. At a meeting of the Free Church Presbytery of Edinburgh, held yesterday, Dr. Candlish introduced the subject of the government scheme of education, and, after a long speech, moved the appointment of a committee to consider and report by the 16th inst. on the minutes of the Privy Council, the objections of the voluntary dissenters, and the answers or expla nations of the council thereto. In the course of his observations the rev. doctor objected to the mode in which the proposition came before parliament, which afterwards elicited from another member of presby tery the remark that although this might be a dis advantage at the outset, it was compensated for by the subject being kept open every year when the supplies were voted. Dr. Candlish clearly incul cated the right of the state to educate, and the duty of the church to accept assistance in the work. He admitted the difficulties which the government had to encounter in legislating, so as to satisfy the differ ent sects throughout the country; and he and the seconder of his motion deprecated the idea of the Free Church acting as " obstractives. even if they could not approve of the measure." In the course of the discussion the parish schools were referred to, a matter which, if agitated, will turn out an apple of discord. At present there are about 1,050 of these seminaries, and the whole of the teachers are members of the Established Church. The severance of the connexion would be resisted to the utmost by the church ; and, possibly, the eligibility of dissenters to hold the office of parish schoolmaster may as rigidly be insisted on by the Free Church, as the condition of their adherence to the government scheme. Public opinion is setting in in favour of the Marriage and Registration Bills. To-day the Edinhurgli Cou rant, which has long borne the distinction of exhibit ing the quintessence of caution in all matters of disa greement, pronounces the opposition to be founded on '• misconception ; " and Dr. Candlish, who is rarely on the same aide with that venerable print, declares the " misconception " to be " monstrous ;" and, as in the case of the education scheme, the doctor moved for the appointment of a committee to consider the mea sures, and to confer with the Lord Advocate, or some other legal authority, as to the real interpretation of the disputed clauses. With the view of calling public attention to the state of lodging-houses in Glasgow, the following statistics have been published :—ln one contiguous locality 268 houses of this description were found, in which the number of apartments was 647, and the beds, such as they were, 960. The acknowledged lodgers were stated at 1,096, or about 1 1-10th lodger to each bed. The return, however, shows that in one house 17 lodgers were proved to occupy four beds, so that the above proportion would, on rigid examina tion, probably be found to be much understated. Another tenement mentioned by the Constitutional, and apparently overlooked by the officials employed to collet information, is fitted up in steam-boat fashion with tiers of beds, amounting in all to 60, each wide enough to hold three persons, and so, in the aggregate, capable of accommodating 180 bodies. The returns in question do not include houses of a disreputable character, their dark statistics being re served for separate detail. During the year terminating March, 1817, the ad minions to the male classes of the Glasgow govern ment school of design have been 697 ; to the female, 111 ; being a gross increase of 232 pupils over the preceding year, and showing, according to Mr. Sheriff Bell, that this is the best attended school of design in Britain. The banks in Glasgow have con tributed 5501. in support of the institution. Mr. Fox Matile's constituents in Perth wished to give him a public dinner when visiting that quarter during the Easter recess ; bat the hon. member was obliged to decline the honour for want of time ; and he accordingly left for London oa Tuesday evening. PERTHSHIRE AORICULTURAL REPORT.—Spring seeds throughout the county have hitherto been got in under very favourable circumstances. The dry weather throughout February has been followed with weather equally dry in the month of March, in which month the fall of rain only mea sures la inch. Nightly frosts have been frequent, with keen north or easterly winds and clear sunshine throughout the day. The soil as, in consequence, sufficiently dry for receiv ing the spring seed/ ; end from the protracted frosts since the ground was ploughed a tine mould has been easily obtained on the most stubborn lands, and a fair braird may be ex- Ti. In the early districts sowing of beans commenced the end of February. That operation was generally concluded by the middle of March, and oats are now all sown, and sowing of barley has commenced. On gravelly lands early sowing is generally followed by a short crop, and on such soils few oats are so yet sown. The soil is in general in a very favourable plight for being cleansed of root-weeds, and cross-ploughing on barley and turnip ground' is going forward. Potatoes will occupy little time an planting this sewn ; but Swedish turnips will, in many instances, be more extensively sown than usual. It is pleasant to observe, that some benevolent proprietors are offering prizes, and giving seeds and instructions for raising red and sugar beets, parsnips, Belgian and other carrots, red and green kohl rabie or turnip-rooted cabbage, as substitute+ for potatoes, of which tubers for planting cannot be obtained under from 31. to 51. We hope such well timed benevolence will become general amongst our landed proprietors. Young wheat is suffering a little front the severe frost that has prevailed since the 24th of March ,• but from the dry state of the soil, and the powdery state of its surface, the tender roots will not be exposed nor the plants thrown out. Fallow wheats, which were over luxuriant, are receiving a salutary cheek. The frosts are very bard upon the early blowout of stone-fruit on garden 'Falb, and the clear sunshine is for. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 1847. warding the blossom buds of pears, which may be injured, as they were last year, before expansion. Prices .f grain are looking down. Cattle, from scarcity of keep, are unusually low-priced. Horses continue to bring high prices. La bourers are in request, at high wages.—l'ert/i Courier. PROVINCIAL. LA\CASIIIRE. ............. ~..... MEETINO FOR TRY EDUCATIONAL SCHEME.— A public meeting of the Episcopalians of Manchester was 'held yester day morning, in the Town-hall, which drew together a nu merous and highly respectable auditory of both sexes. The Rev. On Wray, Vico-demi, took the chair, and the Venera ble Archdeacon Ruston moved the first resolution : That vo luntary efforts to meet the educational exigenciesof the na tion, great and magnificent as they had been, were totally inadequate to accomplish the proposed object.—The Rev. Mr. Brooks seconded the motion, and it was carried, with only three or four dissentients.—Tho Rev. Canon Clifton moved, That it was the unquestionable duty of a Christian go vernment to see that an adequate and scriptural education be provided for the poorer classes of the community. He denied that the nonconformists had any right to complain of this measure, for if any party made a sacrifice,it was the church. The object of the government was to see that religious principles were taught in the various schools, but not a farthing of their money was to go to religious teaching, properly speaking.--The Rev, H. W. M'Grath, in seconding the motion, contended that on scrip tural principles the government was hound to provide for the religious education of the people. The nonconformists had asserted that this principle was contrary to scripture, but he knew not from what part of it they drew their argument, except the solitary expression of the Saviour that his king dom was not of this world, the meaning of which he denied that they applied in its true sense. He appealed to the effort made in London six years ugo by the bishop and clergy there, and followed by the (haunters, to raise money to meet the scriptural and educational waists of the people, as showing that the voluntary efforts of the country could never accomplish the desired end, for it had been proved, he said, that after all, they bad not been able to do so much as increase the means in proportion to the increase of population. The Rev. Hugh Stowell moved, That the meeting hailed with pleasure the ',Noosed extension of the minutes of 18.39, regarding thins as equit abie towards all parties, and well fitted to !observe instead of suppressing private exertion, and desired to express its astonishment that the proposition had met with such unex pected opposition. He expressed his entire satisfaction with this measure, which he should has e been ashamed of him. self if he had rejected because of the men it had come from. He hoped government would persevere with it, and not, like the government of Sir Robert Peel with the measure of Sir James Graham, after they had given it their hearty support throughout, turn round and desert them. He was satisfied that, though he had raised 2,0091., and built a school for the children of his congregation, it was im possible for voluntary effort to meet the requirements of the people. The nonconformists opposed it, because they said the church would get the lion's share of the. money. Well, that was because she raised the most money. Let dissenters do as mach by , voluntary effort as the church did, and then they would have as much •, but, after all their bout about their voluntaryism, he denied that they had done so much as the church. Besides, he thought, though a good deal had been done lately by dissenters, it was only a kind of spasmodic effort, and he did tot like to trust to those mere gusts of wind, which, after all, might leave the bark of edu cation becalmed and stagnant: he would prefer the regular trade-wind of government aid, which would always keep her afloat and her sails well filled. He characterised the objec tions of the oongregationaliats as unreasonable and quixotic: they seemed at a loss for arguments against the measure, and yet would not support it ; and they reminded him of the old doggerel : I do not like thee, Dr. Fell • Thereupon why I cannot tel But this I know full well, I do not like thee, Dr. Fell! (Much laughter.) Mr. W. Townend seconded the motion, and it was agreed ta, like the others, with only three or four dissentients. A LIVERPOOL CHARACTER: THE ASSIZE MONOMANIAC. —The old lady whose vagaries in court we (Liverpool Mer cury) have so frequently noticed, did not make her ap pearance at these assizes till lost Monday morning, when she entered in breathless haste, and took her place in the witness-box before his lordship arrived. Looking across to the reporters' seat, she said, somewhat abruptly, " You short-band writers, put down my words exactly so I say. I don't want to be misrepresented any more. Put down exactly what I say." hating said so, she retired until Mr. Baron Rolfe took his scat, when she again stepped forward, evidently bent upon making her wants known to the bench. One of the officers of the court attempted to remove her, but some of the gentle men at the bar, who, by the bye, are all on the best of terms with the old dame, interfered, and she was allowed to pro ceed. She said, "My lords and gentlemen, I hope you will give me my rights.' The judge: " What rights you have will be duly attended to. Now withdraw." " Yes, I will," was the answer; " but will you give me my rights before you leave that seat, and let me know the position I stand in ? It.has been delayed too long already, and I expect you will do me justice." His lordship again assured her that her rights should be attended to, and she immediately re tired, although her voice, denouncing the " law's delay," could be heard for some time, as she threaded her way through the crowded court and passages. YORKSIIIRE. COMMISSION ET THE LORD iii;iztiArer.—E. S. Cayley, jun., Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant. THE EDUCATION QuEartox.—The agitation at Leeds, the centre of Mr. Bainea's influence, on the subject of the minutes of council relative to education, does not appear likely yet to terminate. W. Aldam, Esq., ene of the members for the borough, has been staying at Leeds during the week, and is understood to have expressed opinions in favour of the scheme, upon which, with a view to influence, not to say coerce, him, a private meeting of the requisitors for the late borough meeting on the subject has been called. ANOTHER DOUBLE SUICIDE.-011 Thursday morning the bodies of two young persons, in comparatively humble life , named Joseph Watson, aged 18, and Maria Wilson, aged 17, were found drowned in the river Aim, near to the Low Fold, at the Bank, in Leeds. The unfortunate couple were tied together by a handkerchief, as was lately the case with two young persons found drowned near Wakefield. It appeared I that they had some time ago become attached to each other, end of late both of them had been out of employment, which, it would appear, had preyed on their minds so far as to lead them to the commission of suicide. An inquest wail held on their bodies, before John Blackburn, Esq., coroner for the borough, when a verdict of "Felo de se ' was returned. VITEN.= I DP A RAILWAY ACCIDENT OCCURRED ON THE GRAND JUNC TION LINE to the Express train on Wednesday night. The train left Crewe at its usual time, and proceeded towards Liverpool at the speed of about forty-five miles the hour, when, on reaching Whiteford, it met with an obstruction on the rails, and the engine was thrown violently off the line. The first and second carriages from the tender were also forced off the rails, and dragged by the engine a considerable distance. The accident happened in a cutting, and from that circumstance the lives of the passengers were in all pro bability saved. The cause of the obstruction is not vet ascer tained • but it is supposed that sonic points on the rills where it occu rred had been disturbed, al a branch line, leading to some salt-works, is situated at the spot. The engine-man was seriously injured, and the driver was also much hurt. Fortunately, none of the pawengere austaincd damage. They were all detained on the line for several hours, and did not reach Liverpool till after three o'clock next morning. The engine-man and driver were too ill to be removed. WARWICKAIIIRE. THE FOUNDATION STONE of the Leamington Proprietary College was laid on Wednesday by Dr. Jephson, amidst a large concourse of spectators, attracted to witness the cere mony. The procession to the ground intended for the new edifice was formed of the resident clergy and principal inha bitants, together with the several masters and pupils of the establishment, which has been hitherto conducted in a tem porary building. THE SANITORT GUERTION.—THE INQUIRY IN RIR MINGRAH.--Mr. Austin, the poor-law commissioner, con tinues in Birmingham for the purposes set forth in this journal on Monday. The last four days have been chiefly devoted to the examination of medical gentlemen. The fol lowing is a summary of the evidence thus obtained. Oa the subject of the eligibility of the site of thepresent workhouse for the erection of a new building, Mr. T. Hodgson, a sur geon of twenty-eight years' practice, said, that his opinion was adverse to the present site, and his reasons were, that it was situated in the centre of a dense population—contained a large number of the lowes arm - of inhabitants, living in billy-ventilated and undrained courts, containing a vast accumulation of filth. It was also in the vicinity of numer ous works and manufactures, which emitted vapours render. ing the atmosphere impure. These causes, though, not per haps, productive of any specific diseases, gave rise to a state of low health, which he considered detrimental to the general health of the neighbourhood. He considered that it would be essential, supposiag the new workhouse to be erected on its present site, that there should be a complete reconstruction of the drainage. He was adverse too to the proposal to erect a new workhouse on the Heath—the situation was too cold, In reply to a question as to whether he did not consider the officers appointed under the Sanitory Regulations Bill would remove the whole of the evils in the centre of the town, arising from the load state of ash-holes, Mr. Hodgson replied, that he did not conceive such would be the result. As one of the medical officers under that bill, he considered it very defective in its powers. It would not allow of any great improvement ander its provisions. The inspector, al though empowered to lay informations on the com plaint of a householder, could cot, under this act, seek out nuisances himself.—ln this observation, Mr. Austin (the commissioner) expressed his concurrence. He had himself found, that although a locality in his own neigh bourhood was of the most unhealthy character, he had no power to lodge a complaint under the provisions of the bill, not living ,in close proximity to the nuisance in question. Mr. Hodgson, in continuation, said that he was acquainted with the provisions of Lord Morpoth's San'.tory Bill, but he considered that a vast acceleration of speed in carrying out the drainage of such a town as Birmingham wan essential to the preservation of the public health. Recurring to the salubrity of the present workhouse site, he said that he was of opinion that two-thirds of the whole of the persons who died in Birmingham were buried within a quarter of a mile of the workhouse. He considered that the horrible state of St. Philip's and St. Mary's churchyards, must prove inju rious to the health of the immediate neighbourhood, and that steps should be taken to stop the further burial of dead bodies in those places. He considered the Bluecoat boys, though not positively unhealthy, were pale-faced and spindle legged, and were suffering from what might be considered a low state of health, which predisposed the inhabitants of Maras generally to sickness and general ill-health, tending to dyspeptic, hypochondriacal, and similar diseases. Mr. Joseph Iliithesden, a surgeon, spoke to the exceeding mortality amongst Ills infants, which was referred to in this paper on Monday.—Mr. P. Smith, the town surveyor, gate a detailed account of the state of the drainage of the town; he admitted that it was defective, and said that it was now in contemplation to re-construct the sewerage of the whole town, the minimum depth of the whole of which would be four teen feet. Re was of opinion that in the ordinary course of things the neighbourhood of the present workhuuva would not he drained under five years. The inquiry is still pro ceeding ; a great number of witnesses have been examined, and the whole of their evidence goes to show the very defective state of the drainage of the town, and the vast amount of disease arising therefrom. WOUCESTERSEURF. DONATION TO A PUBLIC INSTITUTION.—A large portion of a very fine Roman tessellated pavement, found about eight inches beneath the surface in Bays Meadow, near the town of Droitwich, has been presented to the Worcestershire Natural History Society by Mr. M'Caul, the engineer, and Mr. Tredwell, the contractor of the Oxford, Worcester, arid Wol serbampton Railway. On the 3rd inst. the interesting relic was removed ; it is about three yards long by two and a-half wide. This pavement not improbably belonged to a Roman residence, and if so it is an interesting historical fact in con nexion with the ancient Sallow. Another detached frag ment wits found near the same spot. PUBLIC FOOTTATHS.—Now that approaches and people begin to make excursions into the green fields and lanes, the inhabitants of some of the provincial towns are bestirring themselves again to prevent the uncen monious encroach ments upon the public footpaths which of late have become so fashionable. But while the inhabitants of smaller and lees important localities are spiritedly exerting themselves to protect the public rights in this particular, we do not find a corresponding feeling exhibited in our own city, so cele brated for the picturesque character of its suburbs. It is notorious to all who aro in the habit of seeking recreation and health in the green fields, away from the smoke and dinginess of the city, that within the past kw years there has bees a considerable mal-appropriation of those public conve niences to which we here allude, a very serious proportion of the pleasant walks of the environs of this city having been blocked up without leave or license. We may specify these on a future opportunity should circumstances call for it.— IVorcester Journal. OXFORDSHIRE. CoMMISSIONB BY Tiii — iZI;;;I;;TYYSIYAIIT.—Major J. W. Fane to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Bowles, promoted, of Oxford shire Militia; Major the Right Hon. F. G. Baron Churchill to be LituL-Colonel, vice Bowles, resigned, of Ist or Queen's Own Oxfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry. WILTSHIRE. ..... AVESTBORY ELECT-TUE.-111 consequence of the sudden decease of T. H. H. Phipps, Esq., of Leighton House, on Sunday last, all operations were immediately suspended in reference to the contest for the representation of Westbury, which have been actively prosecuted during the last three weeks. MR. GRANTLET BERCELEY AHD THE ELECTORS OF WEST GLOTTESTERSIIIRE.—An extraordinary address has just been honed by Mr. Grantley Berkeley. It u addressed "to the electors of the western division of Gloucester, and especially to the inhabitants of the Forest of Dean," and runs thus:— FTien~le and constituents,—The time is arrived when we ought to meet together. The freedom of your elettive franchise reattached and attempted to be oppressed in my person ,• and if we du not stand shoulder to shoulder, your independence is lost. The interests of re ligion, the fair and even righui of civil and religious liberty, arc in peril, by the proposed government plan of education. We must not slumber at our posts. I have much to tell you, and but little time to say it in; I, therefore, propoee to be at the epeech bowie on Monday next, at 3 o'clock, p.m., and if you will attend me there I will address you on topics in which I deem you all to he deeply interested.— thearerrxr F. BEILIV.LIFf..._. PRICE OF LAND NEAR BOETON.—The Great Northern Railway Company have lately made purchase, of houses and gardens in Skirbeck quarter, and, for little more than a teeth of an acre, they have given 3001. The inhabitants of Boston exhibit some anxiety where the railway terminus is to be : the above purchase' point out that the terminus of the Great Northern ltailway will not be in Boston, which it is said will save the company at least 60,0001. rounds, shillings, and pence, have considerable influence, even over railway empanies.—Lincolnshire Times. THE CHOPS.—Notwithstanding the severe weather, the young wheat plant looks healthy in the district around Lin coln. On the very low lands the plant looks here and there starved, but on the whole we may pronounce the appearance, so far as we can judge, to be promising. DEVONSIIIHE. ..... FELONY BY A RICH FARMER.—At the Exeter Sessions on Wednesday, a "gentleman farmer," named Trowt, living at Askull, near Ilminater, Somerset, and who rents land to the amount of 4001. a-year of one person, was in dicted for stealing • veil, value 2s. 6d., the property of Elizabeth Rundle, of Plymouth. The prisoner on the Ist of April was at the terminus of the Great Western Railway, in a second class carriage, which had just arrived from Newton. William ' , arrant, one of the Great Western porters, told him the train did not go any further until half-past-five. Seeing a veil lying on the seat, the porter I said he would take it to the office as he might get an owner for it, but the prisoner interfered and asserted it " belonged to his lady." It was given up to him and he left the car riage. Shortly afterwards the prosecutrix, who had come up from Plymouth, rid Newton, in the carriage where the veil woo seen, came to the station and made inquiries about it, having discovered her loss on arriving at her hotel. The inspector of police, being aware of the circumstances, sent for Farrsnt, and he soon afterwards pointed out the prisoner who had by that time returned to go by the half-past five o'clock train to Taunton. The inspector then called Mr. Trowt on one side, and asked what he had dune with the veil. He took it from his pocket, and said. " Here it is, and if any one wants it they can have it." He was taken into custody, and he subsequently stated that it was only a slip of the tongue, and he should not have owned it but he thought the porter was going to keep it. For the defence it was con tended that the prisoner was "fresh "—(this was denied by the porter)—and that he owned it, thinking Fermat was about to appropriate the property, not intending to find any owner, but in the flurry of going to meet the train he forgot all about it. The jury were locked up for four hours, when they agreed to a verdict of Guilty, and at 10 o'clock on Wednesday night the prisoner was sentenced to be imprisoned in the House of Correction for ens month, and to be kept to bard labour. CORNWALL .... BODMIN EuscrioN.—Mr. Wyld, - the map-seller at Char ing-cross, is canvassing the electors of Bodmin. in anticipa tion of a speedy dissolution of parliament. Mr. Cockburn and Mr. Butt, both of the Western Circuit, are also spoken of as candidates. ELscrtox RVXOl3lO3.—The Chendeford Chronicle says " it appears that J. Round, Esq., one of the members for Maldon, has determined to retire into private life, and that D. Waddington, Esq., the Vice-Chairman of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, is intended to be proposed as his succemor. In fact, an active canvass in some quarters has already commenced on his behalf, and on Thursday a special meeting of the conservative club was held at Maldon, for the purpose, we believe, of taking dens ta promote the hon. gentleman's return for the borough. A requisition is now in course of signature, inviting him to come forward ea a candidate. The hon. gentleman has never yet taken any very active put in the arena of political life, but him princi ples are what are called conservative, and are, we believe, an most points, in unison with those of his colleague in office, G. Hudson, Esq., the hon. member for Sunderland." 111.188 EX. The lambing season on the Down' may be said now to be pretty well finished; and, with very few exceptions, it has been& very successful one. There are plenty of twins almost everywhere, and where the feed is not very short the sheep are healthy and in good condition. The wheat, notwith standing the cold nights and mornings, continues to look well, and certainly rather improves. —Brighton Gazette. FORBIDDING THE BANNS. —The Maidstone Gazelle says: " On Sunday morning last, on the Rev. R. 0. Lemon, of Eirenchley, publishing the banns of a marriage in the parish church, 'for the third and lut time,' a young woman sud denly rose and exclaimed, ' I forbid the banns.' On the clergyman inquiring the reason, she said, ' Secants I want him myself.' " 'et ST. lAMEleB.—Mademoiselle Duverger, from the Thidtre du Pakis Royal, made her first appearance, last evening, in the vaudeville, " L'lmage," a clever little piece, well known to the frequenters of this theatre, and also to the public, through the medium of it. English version. Mdile. Duverger is a very pleasing actress. In her representation of the young lady of rank, disguised as a country girl, her assumed rusticity and native grace and elegance were felicitously blended ; and she gave interest to the part by some natural touches of feeling. A one-act piece , eall‘ d" Un Roman In. time; on, Les Lettres du Mari," was then performed for the first time in this country. It is a very slight affair, consisting only of two or three scenes between a young married couple, personated by M. Rhozevil and Mdlle. Itose Cheri. The wife, it appears, is of a somewhat giddy and romantic turn, and the husband undertakes to correct her by writing billets-doux to her in the character of an anonymous admirer. This hopeful expedient produces some mystification, followed by the &aired effect. The thing was essentially absurd, and afforded no room whatever for the dis play of Mdlle. Rose Cheri's talents. She afterwards performed in two other one-act pieces, "La Protegee sans le Savoir' and " Genevieve," neither of them new. We do not much like the practice—too much adopted at present at this theatre—of making a whole night's entertainment consist of a collection of scraps. Any one of the above pieces would do very well to precede or follow a play of some pretensions—one possessed of plot, interest, and character, and giving scope for dramatic power on the part of the performers. But a whole evening of little more than mere chit-chat, however agree able, is but an unsatisfactory entertainment. AND CLERICAL NEWS. ivraarrr --- &tiaoa: vainahis law litaso4 of the late Minima Blsokbarn, Bag., of uueola's3nn. has been presented to this college by his slater, lima Emmert BW3burn, of Bloomsbury. spare. The oouneil of the college have lately appointed Dr. Parkes, and Dr. Caurcel, amidant P47drLoa, sad 14'. J. P. Potter, mdataiMeur. gems, to the homitaL Planarians—Hes. O. Halle, 111. A., to "81. John order the Curie ot Lewes' R.; val. 2501.; dia. of Chichester ; mint by the 'vivanta of the Rev. P. G. Crofts. who to also the pstron.—}ter. A. Evans, ILA., to Somerford Parrs IL, Wilts; dio. Glow. ; rake 2411.; void by E lic death of Rev. H. Wightwicit, on presentation of I. Che= 6, Warminster, at the request of Rev . H. Wight wick, rector of Oodford, H. Peter, Wilts, and Sarah Amato/se *le. NAVAL Dreams; Ann 111, b ben inspected this day bL the Adoiltsl-Buperintendent, prior to bar being eommiasioned. Tar. taim, navy lighter, arrived from Falmouth this morning, with re turned stores. D. Dent, Eaq., late secretary to Vice-Admiral hir 8- Pyrs, hes been appointed storekeeper of the new steamyard at Xeybam. Snlasnrcs. Aram R.—Tta Cranet has arrived to k paid off. Ils. Apollo boa [meant of dock Into harbour. YAM/ n, APRIL la—The &Ailing of the Faprere packet for the Brants, vac delayed yesterday, owing to eontnary whdc. Whether shemay proceed today or not in uncertain. T e Eapres will pro ceed threat for Rio de Janeiro, touching at Madeira and Tenenffe, and return by Bahia ann rernamboro MI LITARY. FORTY-MID Rio.—The L.terick Chronicle gives the following statement of the cireumataneew which led to Lieut. Proby beingsaper. ceded. "This °Kiser rejoined at the expiration of four months' leave and applied at the end of three days to Lieut.-Col. Felling for two months' additionsl leave, to Viotti an invalid brother nt Itome this inquest being of course, relneed, Lkut P. applied to the general of& ter commandaig the di-71M tutu is oho colonel of the reginient) to be allowed to go to London next day fur the purpose of obtaining leave from the withutint-general. With thin request Lirut.-Gerp.r.il Fakers ham complied, being in ignorance of the fact of leave baring been rchmed be !dent-OIL F. Lieut. P. mturned to hie commanding °Seer, and apprised him of the leave grante,l be the general, on which IP. marked hie ranee of the insult, by placing Lieut. P. in erred. from which that otbrrr made his i.cup.• the ..woe night. leaving on hm table a clip M miter, on which these words were written : • Illy address will be Poeta Reamine, Hume.' Lieut. Proby it is said. he reinstated, with permission to retire (rum the service, remising the value of his COMMilt6ioll." SPORTING._ NEWMARKET CRAVEN iiETIRC";:fBETTING ON THURS. DAY NlGlli. Tilt For erases-2 to 1111T1101•111Atill IttAkft.-7 to 2 apt Clermont, 8 to 1 .tret Jenny Wreo, LO to 1 apt Wolkiag, 12 tel 1 Liget Ruh. it). Titt TIIOIIII.D orator—Even on Kont'e lot, 3 to 1 apt Clentilt, 3 to 1 apt Planet, ',nominal), 7 to 2 apt The liberator LW, to 1 apt Conynghairt (t), S to 1 Christopher i t). A notice ems pasted to the effect that it in Do ubtful which of lient'a lot will Mart. Cnzkraa Cr, —l7 to 1 apt Dulcet, 23 to 1 apt Mendirant Lt), 23 to 1 apt Leetronart (t), 28 to 1 apt Princes. Aline (t). 28 to 1 apt The Lamb, 33 to 1 apt Otintr, 40 to 1 apt Plaudit, 30 ti 1 apt Ann . . . . . Prior:cm Alice was hacked for a good deal of snooty at it !J I, 10 to 1, and no on up to 23 to 1, by the owner, aho abo large tams against hit other more, the Lamb, driving her from 19 to 1 to LOW to 311 ; her last price waa LIM to 35, t h e general opinion being that the, after all, it the real Simon Pure. Distorr.-6 to l apt Monet, 7 to 1 apt V.ta Tromp (I), lOW I We The Lsberator, 17 to I art Glentilt, 17 to I soon F.virote, 2.9 tot apt Wm Eagle. 30101 apt Cony-wham, 33 to 1 art Wanota, 1,000 to 1$ aro Itlack Dwarf (t), 1,000 to 10 apt Will o' the Wigs it;, 2,090 to 10 apt Lionel t).. liocuteAr'S•rat.r...of . l3 !am each, 103 ft. T.Y.( Mr. Me'rton—c-A3;iccul—Tilitedii.l.6l-p7.. .(W. Able. Lord Eleter's Gain sot, 6 ere, fiat ...... ......(J. Sharpe 2 Mr. T. Molt ' s Ills of Rrmirora's Cob, aged, Sig 21(E. Edwards Mr. BynleaCarry Owen, aged, tot 71b. (NY 4 Mr. Cutbbert's Banana, 4 yeti 7,44111, .. "....(Myers Savers. of 50 son. eat, h ft, for three.yr * shit. D.M.. (4 scab).) Mr. 1. S. Douglas's Marie tanks, 34 Ilb (P. Butler) I Lord Chesterfield's Lady Lurewell, e.t Ilb Mann, A. V., 200 II ft: Lord E. Roirell's Reminiscence, 6.1. 71b (X dcliener) Mr. Moore's Wolfilog, 9s: (V. lisSer) 2 Even betting. Won in a canter by two lengths Rut, in 2 min. 14 teen Betting —7 to 4 agat Garry Owen, and 3 to 1 each age African and Cocoa Nut African made the whole of the running, at a strong twee, and won by ball a length; the cob a bad third. Run in I min. 10 sec. Swan:Perms of 50 sous. each, b. ft., for 3.yr olds. D.ll. g Pubs. Mr. J. N. Doogna's Marie lonise, get 21b (F. Butler) I Lord Chesterfield's L.4y Lurewell, tat Sib ( 'cat) 2 The following also rota —Bella Dimas, Tannin, Sorrel, and Maisel. letting —5 to 4 against Manacling, 2 to 1 agst Belo Bonn.), and 4 to 1 apt Lady LurewelL Bella Donna, Marie Louise, Lady Lorewell, and Nor eel, went away Ina line, and ran abeam to the cords, where Lady Larevell, Mork Louise, and Mouscling singled themselves out, and =idea pretty rata home, Marie Louise winning by half a length; Mouaellng • good third. Run an 1 min. 51 sec. Mantle, F., 100, hR. Mr. R. Boyce's Colleen Bawn, tat 710 (J. Maroon) 1 Duke of Bedford's Leopard, est 3416 (P. Butler) 2 2tol on Leopard. Won by a head. Ran in 2 aaa. 17 secs. PORT STARE, of 100 son f3CI. b ft • for oohs, SA 71b• fillies, est4lb; the second to save his eleM. Ste. (triMbs..) Lord F.. Russell's Sting ' ........ (2. Maroon) I Mr. W. Scott's Sir Tattoo Sykes: . ..(W. Scott) 2 The betting on Thursday night time of M l ea Ming; and in the ring on the heath this afiernace lia Mends heamme so eine - nine that 4 and 5 to I was tad en him, an Inoweseettawidence fully borne out by the manner m which thence are elf. Sir Tait n nykcs went away with a strong Ir.', made as the run ning at a great puce to the gap, eel although it afterwards slackened, went railing along at ;rag three leggebss-brad, until near the route; hr then declined altogether, westeal to the left, and Sting. galloping on= the post eight lengths bars kink. Time 1 rain. etc. The *4 . with which Sir Talon Sykes gain up the racc sur prised many of the spectators, owl some strong remarks were made on the rider; we When, however. the truth to I.• that the borne was not half prepared, and iliat be stopped simply because he was run to a eland seal.. enemas Cur.—The only bets bid this morning were, 1,000 to 50 NM the Lomb, who was spin M loser; and 1,000 to 60 agnt Mendicant. Enttlligentt. SECONDARIES' COURT. Wore Mr. Secondary Jamey WOODOATB O. ALLEN.—CILISA CON.—This was a writ of inquiry, to assess the damages in an action for Critit. con. The defendant had suffered judgment No cvidenc, of the facts was adduced. The plaintiff is a stationer in Coleman strett, and the defendant is a news-agent in Doswell-road. They were related to each other, and the defendant was a constant visitor at the plaintifl's house, and hence the im proper intimacy. Heavy damages were not pressed for, and evidence being given that up to the period when the cause of action arose the plaintiff and his wife had lived happily together, the jury, after hearing the summing up of the learned secondary, assessed the damages at 20!. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. Before Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque. IN THE BANKRUPTCY OF W. L. WOOD.—This bankrupt , a furnishing ironmonger in Gracechurch-street, applied r his certificate, which was opposed on behalf of a creditor, who complained that the expenses were larger than the profits. The bankrupt said that he had been as economical as possible in his private expenses, and had devoted his whole time and attentioa to his business. The education of his children formed a large item in his expenditure. Mr. Com missioner Fonblanque said, that however proper .t might be for a parent to educate his children, yet he had no right to do an at his creditors' expense. In this cuss. a.; in sit others where the expenses v. ere disproportioned to the profits, he should suspend the allowance of tha certificate. The bankrupt's conduct generally appeared to have been free from any great cause of complaint, and therefore the suspension would only be for three months, with protection in the interim. IN TIIE BANKRUPTCY OF BUCHAN 47 , 1 AND El/E.—Thole bankrupts, who were merchants at Calcutta, appeared to day to pan their last examination, and the accounts bein satisfactory, they were passed. An application was made to name a day for the consideration of the certificates; but Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque refused to appoint a time until the creditors in India should have had an opportunity of preferring any complaint they might have. The 10th of August was accordingly named. IN THE BANKRUPTCY OP THE ROATON AND BIRMINO RAY DIRECT RAILWAY COMPANY.—This was the day ap pointed for the passing of the accounts in this case. Mr. Ashurst, the solicitor to the fiat, said the directors had only that morning been put in possession of the materials necee. easy to enable them to make up the accounts required by the Court, and consequently were obliged to ask fur an ad journment fur a month.—Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque granted the application.—Mr. Ashurst asked if the Court would, if applied to, g . r . ant the ordinary protection to any director of the company e—The learned Commissioner said, not to any director, but to any of the directors who had been ordered to prepare the accounts in this court.—Me Ashurst The ordinary bankrupt's protection ?—Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque; Yea; they are quasi bankrupts.—The last examination was then adjourned for a month. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. Before Mr. Conunindoner AORICULTURAL SPISCULATIONP.—James Abbott applied to be released from hie debts. He had Teen the proprietor of the &lett* and Agricultural Journal, which failed. He afterwards rented, with the avowed purpose of es tablishing an agricultural college, a house at Walhureb, of Lord Omntley. He then started the " Benevolent Land Association" in London, under cover of which, added to his representations that he was about to have an appointment of ' 1,6001. a year, he contrived to get credit from various trades. people, who now opposed, together with Mr. Nichols, on behalf of Lord Grantley.—The learned Commissioner thought it a case of gross fraud, and adjudged the insolvent not to be discharged until he had been in custody for six months from the date of his vesting order. TOWER HAMLEIS COUNTY COURT. _ . Before Berjeent mienine. This court was opened yesterday for the despatch of busi ness for the first time. The number of plaints and sum monses to be heard were no fewer than 146. _ _ COOK ['Jim CULBERT O. CONSTLYDINE.—THE COPT OP A COURTSHIP. —This wsa u action brought by Mrs. Cook, ! wife of a policeman of the If division, who entered the force under the name of Colbert, to recover the sum of 41. frs, alleged to be due by the defendant. Till within a very recent period, defendant bad lodged in the house of complainant ever since the commencement of 1843. Dar ing that time he had been very persevering in paying his addresses to a sister of Mrs. Cook, who also resided with her. He suddenly, however, broke off the con nexion, left the house, and wu now about to be married to a young woman at Gravesend. Considerable merriment wu excited in the court by the production et the bill, from which it appeared that the greater propor tion of the sum claimed related to certain patches and repairs done to the nether garments of the defendant. The items extended over the whole three years, and the reason assigned for the amount not having been claimed before was, that complainant considered Constandine about to become one of the family. Alice Waters, sister of the complainant, proved having executed a great portion of the work, and entered into a long detail of her grievances. On her crossexamination by Mr. Vesaey, who appeared for the defendant, witness admitted that she had received 41. from Constandine, but said it was nut on so count of work done for him, but a present. An thony Donlevy proved, for the defence, that a n item o f it. 16s . for board and lodging, in the bill, was not incurred by the defendant, but by a deceased brother of his. and that he had heard Mrs. Cook say, after Constandine had left her house, that he had paid her like a man.—serjeant Minnie thought the bill, with the exception of the 1/. 165., had no/ been disproved. He should therefore snake an order for the balance, '2l. 101., to be paid in monthly instalments of 11., the first instalment to be paid ea the 15th inst. ASSIZE INTELLIOENC? OXFORD CIRCUIT.—OLOCCESTER, APRIL 9. Caen, Sim—Before Mr. Justice Mauls. BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—TOWNSHIND to. Stus.—Mr. Alexander, Mr. W. H. Cooke, and Mr. Sons; appeared for the plaintiff ; Mr. Berjeant Talfourd and Mr. Godson for the defendant. Mr. Alexander, in stating the e.aintirs case, said she was the daughter of a cattle dealer and the keeper of •