The Express. — London, England, 1847-05-15 00:00:00

t. '"------I " N egatlte fun ro the Paris Bourse, where the ma mime of large a mass of funds would :r hive caused a progressive depreciation in their Tee operation rendered France a service, as it came •17„oac P ne remedy for the danger arising from a rirtuthe reaction of which would be felt in evcry °- o f i n do4r) • • by calming the anxiety which paralys e d inoc e • • • a commerce, by re-establishing confidence., and rise in the funds. Owing to the intir e me re _ Foos beteeen the different motu y i n s ou r, the triasartion had a salutary effect on •',n, racial oaten of England, where a monetary C . 6` . .4 equally pre. n e e d and the result was an immediate r ' -tae in the British As regards the advantages ~. telllllls to Russia 'dais VOW tMn the Journal of tit. retersburglt fras.:: : "i n a purely lineal point of view, the c c ", u . ' i r mi of a mass of foetal forming a reserved m_ pant : 0 1 r a m ble rent's, was. in itself, a real advantage. Not a *ieow of doubt can be thrown on the shinty of France to sad there is essereoll no payment more certain than n o t& debt of that co y untrzt. The Imperial Treasury the moochers when the It retch Fives were as low as HA N& They cannot remain always so low ; in the pre may were quoted at 122 f., so that independent's' tellhB . !gar a anal re venue of more than 2,000,000 of francs, and o we, Rosie will draw from its prewnt investment, t e e imperial Treasury has the chase, of selling out ri o t a net profit of some millions on the capital ieveted. But thcm sort of advantages are but se wave to the catnniercial interests favoured by this mim eo. It is known that the scarcity of grain in macs places it in the necessity of importir.g large quan tain or corn from other countries. The inconsiderable s weat of the exportations of Femme to Rusin, -lapels it t i psy the Keenan corn it imports in coin, and it is exactly a west Of coin which embarrasses France so much. This eirsam t e efe was of a nature to induce Franco to turn tirade the United States fur the importation of grain, its sport com merce with that country b ing eight or nine t• • that of its comae-rend traneactions with Russia. Tot Imperial Government, by fecilitating the payment of the grain bought by France, naturally attracts the cotiennee of that country to the ports of the Black Pea ast 1 the 11.1 tic, procuring a market for Russian earn. and promising high profits to the agricul• ural industry litho Buirien states. Thus was this teams •hon &dean tageoui to n e u ral, country, ar.d to the money markets of Europe on g which suffered more or less from the monetary crisis in France." After passing in review the iiffenjet oleetions ntied against the transaction in Bus:di, the l e arna of St l'eteaburg concludes as follows Our maned mem does not allow us to analyse the political consi derations which the different party organs of the press have endeavoured to attribute to this transaction between the govenonent of St. Petersburg and the Bank of France. Some of duel pretended to discover in it the interpo sition of Russia between France and England to widen the breach between them, the first step towards a change in the political relatioes of the Russisn mad French cabinets. Other, attributed it to a concealed plan of the imperial go wn:pent, to have it in its power to dictate the law to the Piril 'dicer. by throwing this mass of fifty nil lions upon yet market at a critical motnen• , so as to cause the funds to ink, which, in plain language, would be as much as to say that Sinai would go and sell far forty or forty-tivo =Thom stock which she bad paid for with fif y millions, thus supp tree Meg loss of five millions, for the mere pleasure of doing harm to France. We shall not enter into a discussion ,a 1 the erro neous opinions which have emanated on this subject from the periodical pr ess. The common sense of the public will, how seer, hamalready estimated theta at their foal value." The Inralede Reuse, says the Frankfi»l Journal of the 11th inst., announces that the Gustinoi-Dr or, or bazaar dßriese-Litewski, which contained 126 shops full of mer chandise. was completely burnt out the 25th and 26th Feb. last. Twelve persons, in endeavouring to save their wares, were suffeested. The amount toed has not as yet been es timated. The edifice was insured in a Russian fire insurance compare. BGYPT.—ALEXANDRIA, APRIL 30.—The Viceroy mired from Cairo on the 25th, with his ordinary suite, and was received with the usual honours. Hi+ Hig turns, since his arrival, has gone twice every day, to visit the works of Billies Bey, which are admirable. In less than six months Alexandria will possess fine roads, and a boulevard which wall surround the mei within the rarnparts.—The corn har vest is Upper and Middle Egypt has been got in, and the produce is very abundant. The viceroy estimates that there will be about 4,300,000 hectolitres of cora for exportation about the month of July, at the rise of the water. of the Nile. HAITI.—By way of Havre we have news from this republic to the 10th of April, four days later than what we received by the Tory. General Soulouque had appointed N. Paul his competitor for the presidency, minister of weir, and the navy. On account of the ill-health of M. Detre, minister of finance, his portfolio had been given to General Dupoy, in addition to the portfolios of commerce and foreign affairs which he sireody held. The president had appointed a muter M. J. J. Andre, and a member of the House of Representatives, H. F. Aclogite, to act with full powers in the negotiation with the consul-general. of France respecting the payment of the arrears of the in demnity. Two conferences had been held, and it was agreed to appropriate a fixed proportion of the customs to their discharge. It was expected that the instalment for 1817 would be paid forthwith, and some time given for the years in arrear. The president had set all prisoner+ routine d for political offences at liherty. This is the meet title telous amnesty on record, and carried into effect with the least ostentation. All transatlantic steam-packets are to he allowed to land their goods (which are to be ham thately forwardotl to the custom-house) without being subjected to the pc•li minor, formalities or visitation imposed upon vessels anchor iag is port. UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. We yesterday published a brief account of the news by the Cambria. The following is a summary of the meat important intelligence. The additional intelligence from the seat of war relates to the operations of the Americans and Mexicans from the Zith to the 14th of April. Ac cording to the latest accounts, Santa Anna was in considerable force in the neighbourhood of Jalapa, and the invading army rapidly advancing upon that town. . _ C.ilonel Harvey's detachment took possession of Antigua, with little resistance. The expedition against Alvarado was productive of an incident which appears rather to have shaken the equa nimity of Commodore Perry. The steamer Scourge was sent on before to blockade the mouth of the lagoon till the squadron under the commodore, and the land army under General Quitman, should arrive berme the place. When the Scourge reached Alva rado it was found that the Mexican troops had eva cuated it, after burning all the public vessels and spiking or burying most of the guns. Upon receiving this information, Capt. Hunter, of the Scourge, with due solemnity summoned the place to surrender, which was done apparently by the port-officer, for want of any superior authority. The gallant captain thereupon garrisoned the town and fort with a passed midshipman and five sailors, and sailed up the river, where he took possession of four private schooners, burned one, left another as not worth carrying off, and bad the other two towed down. He next summoned the village Flacotalpam to surrender, a summons with which the unarmed inhabitants of coarse at once complied. The gallant victor, flushed with these conquests, returned to report his proceed ings to the commodore, who had in the mean time come up with a frigate, three steamers, and a whole fleet of brigs and schooners. Captain Hunter's sum mons-s and orders, and the reports of his officers, are all mum les relgles, and sufficiently voluminous to have embraced a similar set of operations for the Amazon, supposing that river to have been obsti nately defended. The ridicule of the affair was too much for Commodore Perry, who forthwith ordered Captain Hunter to be suspended from duty ; and the newspapers have installed that officer a hero, and in dite yriumes on his heroic victories. Commodore Perry was to sail on the 12th to attack Tuspan. The main army was unable to commence its move ment from Vera Cruz upon the e Taal till the Bth of Apil. General Scott had found great difficulty in Minting a sufficient number of beasts of draught and burden; and even as it was, the troops were but in differently provided in this respect. The second iivision of regulars, under General Twigg, marched from the camp, before Vera Cruz, on the morning of the Bth ; they were followed twenty-four hours later by two brigades of the division of volunteers, under General Paterson. General Worth's brigade marched on the 13th. It was found that the Mexicans had fallen back from Puente Nacional, leaving that strong post undefended. On the 12th, General Twigg was informed by Capt. Hardy, who had been ordered out with a party of dragoons OR a eeronnois sante, that the army were in force before him at Encerro (Cerro Gorda, the Americans have christened the place). An express was immediately despatched to the rear, and had the effect of quickening the steps of General Scott,who only left Vera Cruz on the 12th, and accelerating the departure of General Worth, who, on account of indisposition, had lagged behind his brigade. It was believed in the American army that Santa Anna had collected 13,000 men about Encerro. He had strengthened that steep and rugged part of the ascent to the table land by a succession of breast works. General Scott was understood to have been Dotty well satisfied, before he left Vera Cruz, that Banta Anna was in the vicinity of Jalapa and pre- Wing to give him battle before he reached that town. A skirmish had taken place between the Mexicans and General Twigg's advanced guard in front of the breastworks at Encerro, and Capt. (or Col.), Johnson, with mine other officers, had been severely wounded. The Mexican guerillas had killed no less than 30 of the Americans in three days. One of Gen. Twigg's "Prows was cut off. fhe actvunte of the state of health among the American troops are difficult to reconcile. One report says that though the weather was oppressively sultry, " there was as yet but little sickness ; " another, that " great numbers were sick of diarrha,a ;" a third, that the yellow fever had made its appearance. Almost all the generals have had attacks of sickness. Encerro is regarded as the upper limit of the mato prick region ; and perhaps Santa Anna's object in making a stand there is to keep the invaders as long as pos sible below it. At Saltillo Gen. Taylor was making arrangements for sending back to the coast the volunteers whose time of service had nearly expired, and replacing them by the new levies as they arrived. On the 31st March he issued a proclamation to the effect that ho had hitherto refrained front throwing the burden of the war on the inhabitants in the hope that they would remain neutral, but that finding his troops cat off and the provision trains intercepted by irregular armed bands he had arrived at the conclusion that his leniency was not appreciated by the Mexicans. He had, in consequence, resolved to demand indemnifica tion for the loss of the trains and their contents. "An estimate will be made by the proper officers of the entire loss, and this loss must be made good, either in money or the products of the country, by the community at large of the states of Tamaulipas, New Leon, and Cohahuila, each district paying its just proportion." A rumour had reached Austin in Texas, that General Lamar, attemeting to join General Taylor with 80 or 100 men from Loredo. had been attacked in the difficult passes beyond the ltio Grande, and after losing half his men, compelled to yield himself a prisoner. The latest accounts from California are to the 25th of January. They do not confirm the superseding of Commodore Stockton by Commodore Shubrick, but they plainly intimate that he ought to have been superseded. The conduct of General Kearney is also blamed. A despatch from Col. Price, the officer in commann at Santa Fe, (New Mexico) dated the 13th of Feb ruary, is published in the Washington journals. It appears from this document,that Governor Bent, after having, as he imagined, frustrated the projected rising of the New Mexicans in December last, left Santa Fe for Taos on the 14th January. On the 19th there was a simultaneous rising against the Americans at Taos, Honda, and the Rio Colorado, in consequence of which fifteen of them (including the Governor) were killed. Colonel Price, immediately on re ceiving this intelligence, gave orders for con centrating all the troops within his reach at Santa Fe. On the 23rd of January he marched, leaving a small garrison behind, with the bulk of his troops and. four mountain howitzers. He fell in with the enemy at the town of Canada, on the Rio Norte, on the 24th, and beat them. On the 29th (having then with him 479 men) he forced the pass of Embudo. On the 2d of February he assaulted Taos. The enemy, numbering according to his estimate, between 600 and 700 men, were entirely defeated. Of the six principal leaders, " Tafoya was killed at Canada, Chavis at Puebla, Montoya was hanged at Taos, Tomas was shot by a prirate while in the guardroom ' there: and two are still at large." It is pretty evident from these transactions, both in the south and north, that whatever the governments may decide to do, it is war to the knife" between the two races. The Washington government are evidently anxious about the state of affairs is New Mexico. The governor of Missouri was instructed, on the 25th of March, to raise new lines of volunteers without loss of time, and march them upon Santa Fe. In the letter which gives these instructions, it is said—" It is much to he regretted that Col. Doniphan was 'sent down the Rio Grande to Chihuahua." The govern ment appears to be wincing under public criticism. A semi-official statement in the Union attempts to make out that General Scott would be able to advance with twenty thousand men against Mexico, and that in the course of April General Tay lor would have 10,000 under his command. General Scott's own estimate was 11,000; and according to General Taylor's return he had before the battle of Buena Vista 4.073 of all arms, which after the affair had sunk to 3,806, of whom 436 were wounded. His most sanguine expectation is to bring 6,000 together by the time mentioned. President Polk has been put in nomination for a second time by some of the adherents of government. The whigs have set up General Taylor against him. The Virginian elections to Congress have gone against the government party, five whig members being returned to one democrat. The legislature of Massa chuseets had passed resolutions condemning the war with Mexico. The Governor of the state of New York issued a proclamation ou the 26:h of April fur the apprehension of the anti-rent ringleaders. The main topics of conversation in the union when the Cambria sailed were the projected ship-canal across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and the treaty of commerce with Hanover, Oldenburg, Mecklenburg- Schwerin, and the Hanse Towns. Breadstuffs were flowing in upon New York and other shipping ports, the canals and rivers being all open ; but vessels for freight were in very insufficient numbers. COLONIAL BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.—Orr dates by the Cambria are : Halifax, May 3 ; Montreal, April 26 ; Toronto, April 26 ; Hamilton, April 27 ; St. John's, New. foundland, April 27. The letter of our Montreal corres pondent in another column, contains all that is essential in the inisllinenoe from Nov.s SCOTlA.—Public attention In this colony was en grossel, to the exclusion of almost every other subject, by the contested election. At so early a period of the struggle it would be diffteult for those on the spot, it is impossible for those at a distance, to prognosticate the issue. New BRUNSWIC6.—The provincial legislature was pro rogued on the 21st of April. A Parlsh-sehool Bill was passed, and received the governor's assent. The assembly placed 3001. at the disposal of the executive, for the benefit of destitute emigrants during the ensuing session ; and voted 2001. for bringing the English moils from Hall's: by express. NEWFOUNDLAND. — The; new governor, S;r GI. Le Mar chant, was received with all the honours, and sworn in, en the 22nd of April. Sixty-eight vessels had returned from the sealing, with, in all, 132,530 seals. Several vessels had not been reported at the despatch of the mails. - -• • -- • CAPE OF GOOD HOPE—Our dates from this colony are,from Cape Town to the 19th, and from Graham's Town to the 13th of March. The commander of t-e forces took his departure from Graham's Town on the morning of the 10th of March, on a tour of inspection to the several frontier forts. His intended route was by Bathurst, and the mouth of the Kowie to Waterloo Bay, and thence to Fort Peddle, where there wan to be a general muster on the 17th. The governor was to leave Graham's Town on the 15th of March, and proceed by Waterloo Bay to Fort Peddle where he was to meet the com mander-in-chief and other military officers. The frontier settlers continued to be pleased with their uew governor; and kin operations, without being rash, had so far been characterised by promptitude and judament. In a proclamation, heated on the 3rd of March, he intimated that on his arrival at Graham's Town there had appeared good reasons for re-establishing martial law in the province, which had been discontinovii by his predecessor from the 22nd of April. Fearing, however, that such a step might excite groundless alarm, he bad resolved to rest satisfied with warning the settlers to keep on the alert and ready for action On the 9th of March, a government notice was iuued reminding all public officers that it was of the utmost import ance that all communications respecting the Kerns, fur the information of the governor, should be made on the most positive grounds, and not on vague and ungifted rumours ; and that the unreserved opinion of the communicator should be conveyed. For this reason the governor gave notice that he would always be prepared to issue the most explicit orders for the guidance of officers, mid to relieve them from all responsibility when they furnished him with proper informa tion ; but that he could not relieve them from responsibility when they merely transmitted idle rumours. On the 11th of March anothergovernment notice intimated the mode in which the governor end high commissioner bad resolved to deal with petitions, &c., addressed to him sines his arrival on the frontier. He had arrangedthem in three classes. The lit, 2nd, and 3rd classes, relating to claims for pensions on various grounds, are to he transmitted,' when arranged, to the executive council of the colony, to he dealt with acco rding to former practice and usage. Class 4, consisting of applications for payment of the value of wag gon', cattle, &c. lent or pressed into the service of the army, had been referred to the commander-general, who had ee -1 plied :—" All claims passed by the board are at Cape Town,' and will be paid according to priority." The sth clam coa -1 silted of petitions for compensation for losses by the enemy within she colony ; and the 6th, for compensation for similar lanes beyond the frontier. As claims of these classes have already been referred to the home government by the Albany memorial, no reply can be given to the several peti tions till an answer has beer. received from England. In the mean time a commissioner of claims has been appointed to arrange, record, and inquire into all specia • claims. The governor makes known that any applicant refusing to answer questions, or discovered to have made groundless or exag gerated complaints, will be excluded from further considera tion of his ease. Serious embarressment was felt throughout the colony from a scarcity of the circulating medium. Oa the eastern frontier a paper currency was urgently called for. The issue of commissarial drafts for small sums had proved inadequate, and notes issued by government, and declared to he legal tender, were wished for, At Cape Town, the South African THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1847. Commercial Advertiser advocated the adoption of the Beat& banking system with cash credits, as the best way of meeting the emergency. The Port Zlisabefh lisrakl reports that all the emigrants who arrived by the Gilbert Henderson hove "met with im mediate employment at highly remunerating wag si." A man and his wife had refused 70!. per ann., with a cottage. NEW ZEALAND.—The Driver, steamer, brings intelligence from Auckland to the 28th of February. The colony was steadily, if not rapidly, progressing. Tito native' in the Auckland district were indu triously opening roads, squaring stones for buildings, and clearing land for wheat. Zbe Wow!. The Queen gave a state ball last evening at Buck ingham Palace, which was very neencrously and brilliantly attended, the company including the royal family, the mtm bers of the diplomatic corps, the foreigurs of distinction at present in Lowe, the ministers and officers of state, the ladies and gentlemen of the royal household, and the principal nobility and gentry. The suite of state saloons and the Picture Gallery were all opened fez the reception, and were most brilliantly illuminated with magnificent lustres of cut glus filled with nax lights, and else with chandeliers and cande labra ; the two ball-rooms exceeding the other apartments in splendour and brilliancy, each of these rooms containing numerous gold brancht A, with wax-lights round the sides, in addition to several large cut-glass lustres. Choice exotics and plants, of the greatest beauty and rarity, were arranged in the recesses of the different saloons. The grand stair case was lighted up, and the Library, Sculpture Gallery, and Grand Hall were prepared for the accommedatioa of the company. Soon after nine o'clock the guests began to arrive at the palace. The Royal Family alighted at the private entrance in the garden ' and were conducted to the yellow drawing room, where her Majesty and Prince Albert received their illustrious visitors. The Foreign Minigers,C ibinet Ministers, Ladies and Officers of the Household, and Privy Councillors alighted at a temporary entrance in the garden, extending across the terrace of the palace and leading into the library. The general company *lighted at the equerries' entrance in Pimlico, where an enclosed platform had been er, eted in front of the lonic portico, sufficiently capacious to admit of three carriages setting down at the same time. Ail the visitors, with the exception of the Royal Family, were con ducted up the grand staircase into the green drawing-room and the picture-galery. The Queen wort a very magnificent dress of blue gauke over blue silk and tulle, and was trimmed with roses pun chers; white and pink diamonds were inserted in the rues, and tho there was also ornamented with brilliants. Hrt Majesty's headdress was formed of • wreath of roses, similar to those on the dress, and also ornamented with diamonds. The gentlemen appeared in uniform or court dress. The diplomatique corpa wore their respective national costumes, 1 the members of the administration, and the officers of the royal household, their gala costumes, ear red with valuable gold embroidery, the officers of the army and navy, the lord-licutenanta of counties, the deputy-lieutenants and the officers of yeomanry, their different uniforms. In all caws the members of the several orders of knighthood were their respective insignia, and several of the principal knights dis played their ensigns set in brilliants. 11.1t.11. Prince Albert wore a field-marshal's uniform, with the ensires of the most noble Orders of the Garter and the Golden Fleece. H.R.H. also wore the stars of the Order of St. Patrick, the Thistle, and the Bath. H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, and the Duke of Wel lington, appeared in field-marshal's uniform, the latter wearing the riband, star, and jewel of the Garter, the riband and badge of the Golden Fleece, and the Waterloo medal. . _ . . Among the earlier arrivals were the Belgian Minister and Mad. Vas de Weyer, Mr. C. Dreamt, the Netherlands Minister, Mr. Stratenus, the United States Minister, and Mr. Broadhead, the Portuguese Minister and Baroness do Moecorvo ; M. de Morass Sarmento, Chev. de Ribeiro, and M. de Saveral, the Spanish Minister; M. and Mad. de Tacon, and Cher. de Pedrorena; the Brazilian Minister sod Mad. M. Lisboa; the Danish Minister and Countess H. de Reventlow, and M. de Beilke, the Wurtemberg Minister; and Baron and Baroness de Linden; the Prussian Minister. and H. 8.11. Prince Lowenstein, the Sardinian Chargé d'Affaires and Count d'Aiglie, the Swedish Chargé d'Affaires and Baroness de Rehausen, the Bann a Ayrean Minister, the Peruvian Minister and Madame Iturregui, the Russian Minister and Baroness de Brunnow and altdemoiselle Olga Jr Lechner, the Earl and Countess Delaware, Captain the Hon. M. S. West, the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury, Sir H. Smith, G.C.8., the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, the Earl and Counters of Morton, Lady E. Douglas, Vis count Mahon, Sir H. and Lady Wheatley, the Misses Wheatley, Viscount and Viscountess Comlermere, Hon. Miss S. Cotton, the Attorney-General and Lady end Miss Jervis, Lord and Lady Beauvale, Sir J. and Lady Clark, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, the Countess Spencer, Vis count &Aeon, Sir T. D. Acland, Lord Dalmeny, Mr. Tufnell, M.P., Countessof Minto and the Ladies El:int, Sir E. and Lady Disbrowe, the Misses Diabrowe, Mr. and Lady B. Balfour, Viscount Emlyn, Sir G. and Lady Grey, Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Mr. C. Smith, Earl and Countess of Itmehery, the Ladies l'rimrose, Earl of Radnor, the Ladies Bouverie, Right Hon. J C. and Miss !ferries, Sir Do Lacy and Lady Evans, Sir F. and Lady Pollock, Mints Pollock, Earl and Countess of Haddingten, Earl Somers, Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh, Earl and Counteas Howe, Viscount Bereefori, Lord and Lady M. Hill, Lady C. L. Gower, Earl and Countess of Jersey, Lady C. Villio re, Viscount Duncan, Hon. Sir E. and Lady Cust, Sir E. and Lade B neater, Earl and Countess of Kinnoull, Lady S. Hay, Earl of Cawdor, Marquis of Flimsily, Earl and Countess Brownlow, Duke and Duchene of Buccleuch, Sir G. Ansan, Lord end Lady Sondes, Sir F. and Lody Thesiger, Mr. and Mrs. Herne, Earl of Li verpool, Lord and Lady Langdale, Sir J. and the Mien igrain, the Lard Mayor and the Lady Mayoress, Earl De Grey, Lard Heyteabury, Mr. H. Reeve, Right Hon. Fox Maule, Lard and Lady George Lennox, Right lion. W. E. and Mrs. Gladstone, Lord and Lady John Hay, Colonel Cavendish, Honourable C. C. and Lady . Cavendish, Mr. and Mrs. Brand, Earl of Warwick, Marquis Headfort and the Ladies Taylour, Sir J. and Lady Macdonald, Mr. N. Macdonald, Col. and Lady C. Buckley, Lord Elphinstone. Col. and Mrs. Bouverie, Hon. Mr. and Mier J. Talbot, Viscount Falkland, Earl of Lincoln, Sir L. and Miss Shadwell, Lord F. Fitzelarenee, Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, Lady Martina, Re A. Barnard, Major Hon. R. Boyle, Earl Pitsbardinge, Margins of Anglesea, Lady A. Paget, Earl and the Ladies Fitnoilliam, Sir J. and Miss Hobhouse, Earl and Countess of Wilton, Marquis and Marchioness or Aileaburr, Sir A. and Lady Clifford, the Misses Clifford, Lord Cantilupe, Lord and Lady Byron, Hon. F. Byng, Ein of Aberdeen, Sir R. Gordon, Col. and Mrs. Cornwall, Hon. Mr. and Miss Lyttelton, Right Hon. T. and Mrs. M. Gibson. Sir J. and Lady Parke, lion. Miss Parke, Hon. C. Hos ard, Earl and Countess of Fingall and the Ladies Plunkett, Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, Earl Dude, Lord and Lady G. Somerset, Right Hon. 11. (fouls burn, Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn, Sir J. Maelonoll, Col. Sir W. Davison, Mr and Mrs. R. O. Gore, Capt. Hey nell, and the Earl of Sheffield. At a quarter before 10 o'clock the Queen and l'rince Albert, accompanied by their RR. Mi. the Ducl.es of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and l'rince George, nod Ills Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, left the yellow drawing room and entered the grand saloon, which was nearly filled with company. Peeing through the grand saloon, the visitors dividing on either side, her Majesty and her Royal Consort entered the hall room, the hand play ing the National Anthem. The Mistress of the Robes and the Lady and Maids of Honour in Waiting tollowedtbe august party, and, with the distinguished assemble, also entered the ball room. The Lord Chamberlain, by her Majesty's com mand, formed a quadrille, and at five minutes before ten o'clock the Queen opened the ball with H.R.H. Prince George. H.R.H. Prince Albert and the Duchess of Suther land were the opposite couple. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar was also in the quadrille. The company continued to arrive without intermission until half-past ten o'clock, thronging the whole of the spa cious saloons. Upwards of one thousand visitors were pre sent, the invitations exceeding thirteen hundred. Atter dancing had been continued for some time in the ball-room, it was commenced in the throne-room, which was also pre pared for dancing. Refreshments were served to the com pany during the evening in the green drawing-room. The supper was served soon after 12 o'clock, in the state dining room. The range of tables displayed a gorgeous as semblage of gold plate, end in the center of the end of the apartment was a buffet, al-o filled with articles of gold plate, hut of a rarer snit choicer kind—more of the class that would be properly denominated objects of taste and rirtai than ap plicable to the purposes of the banquet. Along the table B were massive centre pieces, candelabra vases, wine coolers, and epergnes, some of them from the designs of Eiseman, displaying forms the most classical and beautiful, all of them of great elegance and the most admirable workmanship. To relieve, as it were, the mass of magnificence, at certain distances along the tables were placed the most beautiful flowering plantain gold Taws. The appearance of these bright flowers among the mass of gold plate had a meet charming effect. On the buffet surrounding the centre shield, were ranged rues, cups, chalices, tankards, and salvers in profu sion, some of them glittering with precious stone.. others enriched with exquisite earrings, all of them objects of great interest independently of the costly materials of which they were formed. Wax lights were skilfully interspersed on the buffet, and contributed much is the brilliancy of the display. Amidst this most superb collection, in which the genius of the artist and the stmost skill of the workman were concen trated in a material the most beautifhl and valuable, were Placed two simple water-lilies, in reduced copies of the Warwick vase in gold, with an effect which it is very difficult, if not impossible, to describe. H.R.H. Prince Albert preeidedyesterday afternoon at a committee of the communion fur promoting and encou raging the fine arta in the rebuilding the Palace of West minster. H.R H. united at the new palace, attended by Capt. the Hen. A. H. Gordou, shortly before three o'clock. The commissioner, present were the Earl of Aberdeen, Vis count Mahon, Mr. Hallam, and Mr. Wyse ; the secretary, Mr. Eastlake, was in attendance. The meeting broke up at six o'clock, when Prince Albert took his departure. The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen at Buck ingham Palace yestetday. General Prince Casteleicala, the Neapolitan Mi nister, was prevented attending her Majesty's ball, in conse quence of the death of the Archduke Charles of Austria, lather of the Queen of Naples. Mr. T. Browne had an interview with Earl Orey, yesterday, at the Colonial office. Mr. G. C. Levria had an Interview with Sir G. Grey at the Homonflice, yesterday. Mr. Watson had an interview, yesterday, with Lord Cla rendon, at the office of the Board of Trade. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo nial-office, from the Cape of Good Hope. SUBURBAN POt3T FACILTTIG3.—It is in contempla tion to give, very shortly, to about 20 of the largest suburban viragos, an additional daily despatch to London. (From last night's Gazette ) Count' Mounsuic.—The Gazette of last niet con tains orders for the court's wsiug into mourning on Sunday next, the 16th inst., for his late Imperial Ilighares the Arch. Duke Charles of Austria, uncle of the Emperor, viz.:—The ladies to wear black silk, (ringed or plain linen, white gloves, necklaces and ea. rings, black or white shoes, fans and tippets. The gentlemen to wear black, full trimmed, fringed or plain linen, black swords and buckler. The court to change the mourning on Sunday, the 23rd inst., viz.:- 1 The ladies to wear black silk or velvet, coloured ribbent, fans and tippets, or plain white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuffs, with black ribbons. The gentle men to wear black coats, and black or plain white, or white and gold, or write and silver stuff waiateoata, full trimmed. coloured swords and buckles. And, on Wednesday, the 2Gth inst., the court to go out of mourning. BUCKINGIIAM I'ALACK, MAY 13.—This day, had audience of her Majesty, the Count elo Jarnee, to deriver his letter of credence from the Km,; of the French, as his e jesty's Minister Plenipotentiary in the absence of the ambassador; to which his excellency was introduced by Viscount Palmerston, (},C. 8., her Metesty's Principal Secre tau of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Col. the Hon. Sir E. Cust, her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies. FOREIGN -OFFICE, MAY 11.—The Queen has ap proved of Mr. E. 11. L. Preston, as iee•Cousul at Great Yarmouth fur the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin. WAMFFICP Mar 14. Ind Drag. Ode.—Lieut. C. R. Walker, from 6th Drag. to be lieut., Moe Carter, who each. nth Dram Ods.—Liens V. Carter, Rom Ind Drag. Gds., to be lie t., vice Walker, who each. let I , .—Ens. R. G. Cotes to be stout., by pur., vice Gordan, who rct ; C. 11. Fenwlek to be ens., by per. ard F.—Capt. the S. Jerningbam, from h..p. Coat., ta be taia., vice J. T. Liston, who emb. ; Lieut. C. W. Green to be capt., by per., lice Jeruinuhani, who mt. ; Ens. R. O. A. Luard to be lieu., by pur. ; J. Lewes to be rim., by pur. ; S. Romsdge to be ens., without pur., viee byobo, prom. in Ceylon Reim Rh F'.—Lieut. J. 11. etude, from 47th F., to be held., vice Moore, who each. _ . 21. t F.—Lieut. A. .tudrews to be capt., without pur., vice King, who mt co f..p. • Sec. Lieut. P. C. Deere to ix tint lieut.; J. T. Dalyell to be we. lieut. 36th F.—.1..1. Peek tote our., without pur., vice Low, who ree. 40th F.—'lt, Ix Copts., by per.: Lieut. J. W. Thome., vice Smith, , who ret.; Lieut. It. Corey. vino Seymour, who rot. To be Meuts., by pur. Ens. 11. T. F. White, viec Th al.; Ens. B. J. L. Gu e. vice fitrey. To be E'L.S., by per.: It. P. llibbert, vice White; T. W. Gardiner, vice Coore. To be Adjutant: Lieut. S. Snelling, vice Thomas, prom. 414 F.—Ens. F. G. 11. G. Williams to be lieut., by pur., vier Neville, who ret. ; C. V. Palguy t $ be ens., by pur. WM, F.—Lieut. 11. Mono, from SW F., to be Haut., vim Chade, who exch. 69th F.—Lieu'. W. IL H. Carmichael to be cart., by par., vice Rhodes, who ret. ; Em. G. U. Alington to be lieut., by pm. ; C. 6. Nicol to be ens., by pur. 10th F.—Capt. W. If Leroy, hoot Unat., to be ealW., Vice J. FL Purses, who ; Lieut. I'. lentrick to be capt., by pur., vice 9l'lnroy, wits rel.; Ems. T. Harvey to be lieut., by pur.; E. U. Padre to bents., by pur. 70th F.—Lieut. A. J. 0. Rutherford to be adjutant, vice Alm•, prom. 74th F. - Lieut. F. W. L. Uancock to be emit., without par., vice Campbell, who ret on f..p. ltide Brig. -Lieut. the lion. It. Clarterb to been - it., by pur., vice Reyrtud, who mt.; Sec. Lient W. e. Colville to be first lieut., by pur. ; F. W Balfour to be MO. IiPLIL, by per. 2nd W. I. Itcgt.—.l. Itobertuon to be layman. Sc,! W. I. Itegt.--1 ieut,-CoL A. Ma.&as, Imm h.-p. Coat., to be lieut.-col., vice C. 11. Done, who each. RI. Newfoundland Comp—Lieut. A. Menzies, from h.-p. Sc,! F., to be lieut., vice hunt. prom. Coo TACllllD.—Major A. Maclean, from 9rd W. I. Regt., to be lieut. not.. without pur. Baavgr.—Capt. the lion. C. W. S. Jerninglum, of 3rd P., to be major In the tinny ; Capt. W. Alitiroy, of tigth Foot, to be major in thearroy. ADMIRALTY, MAY 13. The following promOtiOn..;ii:;eClii.s .-- Ly taken place, consequent upon the death of Adm. S. Point: —Adm. of th • Blue 11. R. Glynn b. he adm. of the white; Vice-Adm. of the kted the lUght Lion. Jame. Murmi. of 'llvervind, G.C.H., to be Wm. of the blue; Vim-Adm. of the White Sir E. D. King, Knt., K.C.IL, to be riee.mlm. of the red ; Vioe-Adm. of the Blue M. Buckle to be vice-Adm. of the wkute; Rear Adm. of the Red the lion. G. Elliot, e.B„ to be vim-adm. of the blue ; Rear Adm. of the %bite J. Ayeeough to be rear adm. of the red; Ibeor Adm. of the Blue J. W. Ll. (Medea, C. 8.. to be renr Adm. of the white; Capt. E. W. Ileare to be rear WIS. of the blue. MAT 10. —RI. Illarinee—llret Lent. S. N. Lowder to he att., vice Langley, pm.; Sm. Lieu t. F. H. (:ratan to be Snit hoot. Gent. CAdeta to beßezalgette r . E. G. fd`Callum, b. T. Ansel, G. H. We lied, end J. Item NEW ZEALAND COMPANY. The annual general court wee held yesterday at the house of the company, in Broad-street-buildings. 11. A. Aglionby, Esq., N.Y., presided. The report of tne dir.cu re was read by Mr. Harrington, the secretary. The following is an ahstraet. _ _ "The correspondence with her Majesty's government had put the proprietors in possession of the negotiations in which the directors have ba-rn engaged on their behalf, or at bast of that portion of them which had led to a practical rend% That eerrespondenee apprised tnem so fully of the general nature of the negotiations, and Lord Grey to clearly states the grounds on which he desired to enable the company to renew its operations, and the means by which he propos,' to carry that object into effect, that any comment upon the de tails was superfluous. In their reply to Lord Grey they had stated that the arraagemesto proposed appeared to afford a fide prospect of auccesa notwithatanning the difficulties by which the later stage', of the enterprise had been attended ; that in this belief they were prepared to devote theinseives to the continued exertions indispensable to the realisation of the prospect; and that, subject to confirm,tion of the pro- prietors, they acceded to his fordehip's several propo-,..1e. Upon receiving that confirmation they would lose no tin'e in adopting all necessary measures for the resumptio r cat active colonisation in Its original vigour; especially for the immediate and effective carrying out of the plan which Lad been so long in contemplation for the settlement of Ot Igo in connexion with the free church of Scotland. Since the last meeting Mr. Charles Boller ha I resigned his seat in the direction on the occasion of his becoming a memh , r of her Majesty's government. The committee would not fill up the vacancy thus created or that canted by the decease of the Lte governor until the arrangements under con sideration should he completed by receiving their approval and a sanction of parliament. In consequence, four oily of the directors retired by re'atinn, namely. Stewart Mar- Rribanks, Esq , M.l'.; John Abel Smith, Esq , M.P.; Sir alph Howard, Bart., : , 1.P.; and William Hutt, Esq., M.P.; all of whew they recommended fur re-election." The motion (Cr the adoption of the report was moved from the chair, and seconded by Major-General Batons ' who, however, was of opinion that greeter powers should be given to the company, and that they should be placed in a more eqsal state of competition with the government with regard to the sale of their lands; for it appeared to him that although government had expressed its conviction that colonisation would be best carried on by a private company, it was not quite prepared to support that view entirely, but rather to carry on a simil , r system of colonisation in the northern pro vinces of New Zealand,—a competition which he did not consider fair. He would also prefer that the company should have the same participation in the appointment ',fib, officers governing the southern colnniee, as in the appointment of the commissioner in London; and else that any governor going out should be nominated in co-opera tion with the company; and that any instruction to such governor should go out through the medium of the company. It was not his intention to oppose the adoption of the report in any way, but he thought it his duty to state his impressions spun the subject. The CHAIRMAN, while admitting the right of Major- General Briggs to state his opinions, as well as the justice of those opinions, did not believe that the company had any ground of apprehension in snaking the arrangement. There could be no doubt but that a great improvement in the go vernment of the colony had been obtained; and tho mi nisters were equally interested with the company in the pro tection of their property. After some further discussion, the report was adopted unanimously. The CHAIRMAN then pot the formal resolutions ap proving of the acceptance by the Court of Directors of the government proposals, and empowering them to take all necessary steps to carry out the arrangements therein men. tinned, which were also adopted, end the retiring directors and auditors re-elected. Thanks were then voted to Lord Grey, Governor Grey, Mr. Aglinnby, and other gentlemen. The CHAIRMAN, in some concluding observations with reference to the prospects of the company, made especial allusion to the part which had been taken on the New Zealand question by the public press, a question to which they had devoted considerable attention. It was then agreed, on the motion of one of the pro- I prie tors, that Mr. Charles Buller be invited to resume his office of director, the chairman, In putting the motion, ob serving that there had been precedents for the holding of ' such an office by one of her Majesty's Ministers. The pro oeedings then terminated. The receipts of the company during the past year amounted to 105,6061., which included 80,0001. loan loom the government; and the expenditure to 83,1101. 19s. 4d., leaving a balance of 22,449 7s. Id. The total liabilities amounted to 385,3451. 18s. 3d. ROYAT. YACHT SQUADRON. The anniversary meeting of the members of the Royal Squadron Club of England was held yesterday at the Tnatched-house Tavern, St. James's-street. The Marquis of Donegal presided. The announcement that an election for commodore, in the room of the late Earl of Yarborough, would take place, brought together eev+'ral of the more distinguished members, in cluding the Duke of Be►ufort, the Duke of Buceleuch, the Marquis of Ormonde, the Marquis of Blandford, the Mar quis of Conyngham, the E irl of Wilton, the Earl of Tyrcon nel, Viscount Exmouth, Viscount &ahem, and Sir Hyde Parker. A just tribute of respect was paid to the memory of the late Earl of Yarborough, who for so long a period filled the office e commodore ; and it was resolved that the sum of 2001. be given by the club towards the fund for the erection of a monument to the memory of the Earl of Yar borough, which already amounted to 9301. The meeting having proceeded to the election of a commodore, in the room of the deceased nobleman, the names of the Vice-com modore (the Marquis of Donegal), and the Marquis of Anglesey, were submitted. The Marquis of amegal was chosen, it being understood that the noble marquis would accept the office Relented. A ballot Dr new members sub sequently took place, when several were chosen. It was announced that the opening match would take place on Thursday, August 12. The proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to the chairman. _ FIRE IN CLERKENWELL.—Yesterdsy morning% shortly after eight o'clock, • fire broke out upon the pre mires belonging to Mr. Loe, a gold piercer, carrying on busi ness at 53, Myddelton-atrect, Clerkenwell. The Ihunee origi nated in one of the workshops, and in the space of a few I:Minitel; the building and the whole of the contents fell a prey to the fury of the fire. The workmen of Mr. Turner, paper stainer, next door, rendered gloat assistance and kept the tire from extending to the surrounding property, during the time infiannatiou wu being despatched for the engines. The Parish, London brigade, sad West of England engines attendee ; but the flames were not extinguished until cera utterable damage was done to Mr. Lee's property, which mem tunately wa• not insured. INQUEST, YESTERDAY.—MURDER OF A WIFE AT HSU HVEINAND.—By adjournment, before Mr. Baker, at the Grave Maurice, public-house, in the Whittehapel-road, on the body of Agnes Macdonald. The ease has been twice b: fore the public, first at the Thames l'olne Court, and after war's at the inquest. Mr. Nash, hove aurgoon of St. George's Hospital, stated that the deccas , d's death had evi dently been caused by violence, and apparently by her having been kicked and stamped upon. Sarah Gray st.ted that she lived in the same house with the Macdonald*. They fre quently quarrelled, and deceased had been struck ,and kicked by her husband. On Saturday last she came into witnees's room and wanted to creep under her mangle out of the way of her husband, who had threatened to kill her. At five o'clock on the same day withtss saw the deceased, covered with blood, lying on the top of the stain ; her clothes were torn. Deceased said, '' Don't let him come near me ; he has killed me." Char lotte Hookham said that she had seen the Macdonald* quarrelling, and the man afterwards persuaded his wife to go up stairs with him, she evidently being apprehensive of Li neage. Iler other evidence correhorated that of the former wimesa. Police conatahle li 313 deposed as to the state of the deceased when he was ant for, and that Macdonald, at the station-house, had owned to striking his wife, who, be said, was always getting drunk and spent all his =wee ; but he denied having kicked or stamped upon her. The de ceurd's son gave similar evidence, and the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against Gilbert Macdonald. IRELAND. DUBLIN, MAY 13. The bulletin of to-dav states that — The Lord Liettteuant hen had a quiet night, and feels somewhat stronger. The following letter, denouncing the perpetrators of the outrages in the Kruth, is published in the govern ment paper this evening : To Till NIIkILITANIS OF me COOXTILS OF C,aas ASS Intatairs.— The Lord Lieutenant has observed with regret, that evil and inisauitled per•ons are endeavouring, in various parts of the country, to pievent the diatributiou of foul to the destitute M the manner pros Bled LY the Temporary Relief act, sad he &Area to warn the people hY equenees of sunk peaceful. inlet. It is the determtnait v. of the government to carry on,, by every means in their ic•, the flew mode of relief sanctioned by pariiament, via the distr.hutien at ',lions of food to the &Mutate poor ; and for thi s object, or tonittees have been formed in tie different electoral diviskins, and i Ars eting °facers appointed by government, whew Mtyy it in I, can y the reguLatinua issued as to the quantity 01 food to be given, an i the mode of its distribution. It is with pain that his Facelleray has le.. red that the committees and °Macre thus employed inn heeiou of the poor, have, in many casts, been made the objects • 0 attack by deigning or misguided persons, mil he, therefore. desin , to point nut to the people the evil effects of soda conduct. In some indenees the articles lived for cooking fool for gratuitous te.on hive been wantonly destroyed—the foal itself has been (Am.'', aside— whi:e the imp •siMMg • cacti* and others engird in pro Ming for the wants of the people, have been threatened with injury sod death. Those who take part in such (mirage. will 0 OcutoteaUy bring upon themselves the lead intuashineat due to th i.e crimes, while they may unit molly cone thee to perish in miser. ed ,rant, who, but fur inch misconduct, would have received gram.. -OS relief. The Lord Lieutenant desires therefore to impress upon the ople the duty of abstaiong from such outrages, and inatintly aliand.inim all opposition to the relief commltteesend off Leas of rah • poem,. It who are nip.v.ied in adininisieriog the law by which paella. - .t IL— pro vided for the present !clef of theileatitute poor of this country. Lc. ex cellency trusts that ltsis Anti:ninon will liar, effect upon the c.,nduct of the people, and that the public leace, wbi. la he ism I id, by all means in his power, to maintain, tarry not Ire further di-t', bed. —By his excellency's intannand, T. 1. Itrutsoroir, Dublo Cattle, May 11, 1847. The accounts from the south detail no additional disturbances. The journals speculate on the punt, and seasart the "state of the country" with various rumours, which are immediately . contradicted. The military are more busy than during the tithe cam paign, moving in detachments through the country. (heir presence ensures tranquillity. The temporary relief committee of Galwuy have applied for additional extraordinary prescutrwmt ses sions. The Board of Works reply that - o relief through more road-making can be conceded undcy the labour-rate, the Temporary Relief Aet having been substituted for that objtet ; but that the most useful of the works under the past act, and now incomplete, may be shortly resumed ; whereat the Galwa gentry are very indignant, exchanging so very quickly the hot breath for the cold. SCOTLAND. EDINI3I.IIIGII,. 2.1 vr 13. The weather still continues unfavourable for vege tation. The wind is indeed westerly, bat ruin comes so often as to prevent that steady heat thnt is now essential to progress. Nevertheless, the trees and fields have a healthy and fresh appearance. Road reform will likely become a movement ques tion in Scotland. An influential meeting has been held in Ayr for the purpose of opposing a new road set connected with that county. There can be no doubt that the present method of levying assessment for roads falls heavily . on tenants, and that the toll system of collecting it is, in its incidence, , err from equitable ; and in process of time a tax on haute, er an impost fulling equally on landlord and toilet, will be substituted in lieu of the present cumbrous system. At the recent quarter cessions meetings, attempts have been made to grapple with the monoer social evil of Scotland—intemperance. The limitation of the number of licensed houses, and the strict regula tion of those to which license is granted, are at pre sent the points to which the magisterial mind is directed. The justices have not followed a blind plan of decimation, but have had regard in their work of excision to the purity of publican character. Thus the axe has fallen mercilessly on those boni faces whose personal indulgences are calculated to afford a Iliad example to the community. The nice point of Sunday tippling has also been taken up in Glasgow, and here are the fist f• airs:— Last Sunday (says the Chronicle) three was a marked change observable in the appearance of the streets, and is the conduct of those of the working claws in the poorer I localities of the city who have been aceustumed to morning dram-drinking. All spirit shops being shut for the day, scarcely a single person was to he seen the wore of liquor, with the exception of those of the middle classes who could afford to go to the better class of taverns. The p lice were more than usually watchful, and, notwithstanding that the hotels and taverns did a roaring business, the streets were quiet and free from rigs or disori:er. In the Gerbils district, we are informed that, although Superintendent Richardson and bis officers had been an the alert from six o'clo k in the morning till twelve at night, they could not find a single publican violating the rules laid down by the magistrates; and in Glasgow and the other distrirls, where espial attention was bests wed, no cases were mule out against the publican,. " A roaring business in the hotels and taverns," and the dram shops shut up—the middle class of burghers allowed to get drunk and the poor man kept sober, unless he lays in a stock of a Saturday night—that looks like class legislation. PROVINCIAL. LANCASHIRE. COMMISSION tee THE LORD LIEL:TENANs.—Hon. H. T. Stanley to be Col., vice the End of Derby, of 2nd Regt. of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia. EMIGRANTS AND Sniecownritv.—At Liverpool, on MOD day last, Mr. T. Feast, owner of the ship Lady Milton, wu summoned at the instance of Lieut. Hodder, government emigration agent. The facts of the cue were depireil to by Murtagb Brunti. He had paid la. 12s. 6d. for the passage of himself, his wife, and four children to Quebee. The vessel sailed from Liverpool on the 22nd April, with emi grants for Canada, and in consequence of damages received in bad weather, returned to this port, having been nine days at sea. She has since been refitted, and sailed, leaving the witness and about 143 other of the passengers behind. He went out with the train the second time. but some of the family being left behind to procure provisions, he rtturned in the steamer. Ho had engaged his passagii in Belfast from Mr. Pinkerton, agent for Mr. Slut, pas-e. , '1- agent of Liverpool, and had paid 4!. there, and the remainder when he came to Liverpool. Ha had asked the cap'.' ia when the ship wu to sail, and he told him ho did not know, he must ask the shipwrights. Mr. Rusliti.n, in his decision, said, " Tho emigrants mu-t go to Mr. Saul. who is brood to furnish them with board and another ship." YORigSlilltr. REPRISENTATION or Lanos.—On Thursday evening a meeting of the dissenting portieu of the Whig, or rather the "Literal," party in Leeds, was held for the purpose of considering what steps should be taken with regard to the representation of the blreu;it at the approaching election. A disposition was manifested to withhold their support from candidates who may be disposed to support tit, education grant, but no new candidates were named. As the meeting was a provisional one, the precise result has not been allowed to transpire. WAILEFIELD.—Mr. Loch, son of Mr. Loch, member for Kirkwall, described aA a young man of considerable talent, is a candidate for Wakefield. Tag HIONWAYB BILL AND TIIR HEALTH Or TOWNS BILL.—On Monday evening a public meeting of the inha- Want ratepayers or the township of Leeds, convened at the instance of the surveyors of the highways of Leeds, was held in the Court-house, Leeds, the mayor of the borough pre siding, "to determine whether any and what steps may be deemed nemesery to be taken in oppor.tion to the Highways Bill and the Health of Towns Bill now before wile ment." The Mayor, Mr. Councillor Brook, Mr. Conn- , tiller Richardson, and several other persons addressed the meeting, all of whom expressed themselves in favour of in creased efforts to improve the sanitary condition of the people. Resolutions were passed deprecating the principle of centralisation which pervaded the Highways Bill, and applauding the principle of local self.government. Several of the details of the measure rem also attacked, especially those which prescribe the mode of electing the waywardena The principle of the Health of Towns Bill was generally approved, but exception was taken to the centralising por tion of it, and to that part which charges the expenses of making new drains upon the occupiers, rather than up ut the owners, as under the existing Leeds Improvement Act. A petition with respect to each bill was adopted, and ordered to be signed by the mayor, as chairman, on behalf of the meeting, praying that Leeds may be exempted from tke operation of the Highways Bill and that the Health of Towns Bill may be amended in the particulars referred to. the meeting was far from being a numerous one. CIIEBIIIIIE. Mr. &MILTON, M.P., HAS !SNOW • PARZWELL ADDRESS to the electors of North Cheshire. He hat represented the division for fifteen years. ~.....r.‘ COMMISSION BY IRS LORD LIEUTINANT.—T. P. Hey wood, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Blaskistone, of Queen's Own Rola! Rent. of Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry. THE DISTIYEBA74CES IN THB MINING DISTRICTS.— Cp to vesterday afternoon no further outrages had bees committed in the mining districts, but many hundreds of the men have not returned to their work ; and the attPude they have assumed is a source of very considerable uneasiness in the neighbourhood.—At Kidderminster the poor carpet weavers are almost at starvation point, in eoneequenee of the scarcity of employment, and the high price of provisione; bat hitherto no disorderly proceedings have been mani fested, and the conduct of the poor creatures in these trying circumstances has been most exemplary. NORFOLK. THE CORONER'S INQIIIRT INTO THE POISONING CACBH AT TIBBENHAM was concluded on Thursday, when the jury found a verdict—" That Mary Ann Pearson and Elisabeth Everett died from the effects of arsenic, wilfully adminis tered by loins person or persons unknown." F/RE AT TRINITIFuirsc7i, oniiiainon —on There day eight, about 8 o'clock, fire was discovered • „, the roof of the kitebas of Trinity College, The AIM E given, the greatest owsternntiou prevailed ; the *".— the college speedily turned out, lino were • • .....CA - Ihr• Nevill'neourt to the river, and several e. 6 „.T., arrived were well supplied with water. The uok It fr A t e " '4 ir -49 4 P N;ein I THE MURDER AT AIRFIELD. In our 'labile:num el yesterday we gave a hasty sketch of the particulars, soder as our correspondent had been able to ascertain them, of the colibblu.xlell and atrocious murder of three persons. Mr. Jambes Wr.ith, aged 77 ; his wife, Mary, aged 70 ; and their female servant, Caroline Ellis, aged 21, who were killed about noonday on Wednesday, in Mr. Wraith's dwellic.g house. We are now enabled to furnish an account of the pr o ceedings at the inquest whth was held on Thursday, at the King's Head Inn, Mirfleld, before G. I). Barker, E-q., the deputy coroner. We stated yesterday that an Irish pot-hawker, named Michael M'Cabe;had been apprehended by the police of the dbtrict on suspiciou of being the murderer. After the jury had viewed tho bray, and re turned to the inquest room, M'Cabe was broughtbefore them. He is • stout, athletic man, apparently between 35 and 40 years of age. He paid great attention to the evidence adduced, and asked several questions of the witnesses in • cool, uncon cerned manner ' and corrected several statements by them with respect to his own obwrvatious after his apprehension, in which they were mistaken. The following witnesses were called: Joshua Green, a lad 13 years of age, living at Mirfield, said, I worked regularly f.r Mr. Wraith, the deceased. He was my great urcle. I used to work with him in the laud. He came to my fatier's house to fetch me between 11. and 12 o'clock. I sow him, and he told me to go to his house. When I went to Mr. Wraith's I went to the kitchen door. I saw the kitchen shutters were partly closed. I saw some blood running under the front d.m. I ran home and told my mother. My brother and John M'Kinnell went to the house. John M'Kinnell: I am an innkeeper at the King's Head, held. In consequence of wh it Mrs. Green said to me, I went to the house of the deceased. I lifted up the window, which was riot fastemd, and pushed open the shutters and went in. I found the deceased Caroline Ellis laid on the door of the kitchen. liar ,head was towards the door and her net in an oblique direction towards the window. Her face was much bloody ; a deal of blood was swimming about ' her on the fluor. I saw her skull was fractured, and the brain protruding. I did not notice anything else at that time. I then went along the passace towards the front door. Mn. Mary Wraith lay on her hack upon the floor; her head was towards the door and her feet towards the kitchen. Her head and feu were completely covered with blood. There was • deal of blood upon the ground. There was also blood flowing under the door. I observed that the had only one shoe on. She laid about the centre of the passage, or perhaps nearer the parlour door. I then went into the dlning.room. Mr. Wr.Mh lay there upon his back un the right hand fide on going into the room, with his feet rather towards the win dow. lie had his pocket-handkerchief in his left baud. His face was completely saturated with blood, and there was a pool of Wood upon the floor. I saw that he had had his thrust cut. It was dreadfully cat. The handkerchief was in his left hand. He had • razor laid across his breast ; it wits shut. The razor produced is the identical razor. The poker laid upon the floor on the left hand side in going into the room ; the poker produced is the same. The lower drawer was open ; the small drawer at the top nest the window was also open. The silver pint upon the table was also all bloody. There was a meat-pie partly eaten upon the table—two knives and two forks, a carving kuife, and one plate oo the table, and the other plate on the floor under the chair; two Gcrman-silver spoons were upon the table. The bleed upon the pint was out at the time. A little beer at the bottom of the pint was tainted with blood. I did not notice any blood upon the knife at the time. This blood was near the pint. I also noticed blood on oue of the spoons. The first thing I did was to send for John Howarth, the constable. We then sent for Mr. Watkinson, the surgeon. Everything re. 'named as it was till he came; Mr. He aartk got there first. The keys produced and the penknife were laid upon • chair near the detsca,:d. His breeches pockets were turned inside out. —By the prisoner : What time did I come to your house ? —I can't say. I recollect a man coming with a basket, but took no notice of him. It would bo about one o'claek at noon. I don't know who the man was. I can't swear to the pawner. I did not see the prisoner that I know of. H. J. Watkinson said, I am a surgeon, residing in Mir field ; went to the house of the dece ased, at about ten minutes past two o'clock. I found the three bodies exactly in the position and erudition described by Mr. M•Kinnell. The wounds upon the three bodies were nearly similar in character. The (lectures of the stun bad, in my opinion, been caused by &blunt instrument. The instrument mu-t have bees used with very great force. The fractures of the jaw were also prolueed by the same instrument. I should any all the trammel upon the body were produced by the Mlle instrument ' • repeated blows must have been given. The throats had been cut with a sharp instrument drawn from the left to the right side. Part of the wounds upon the head and face were, in my opinion, inflicted first, and the throats cut afterwards. It is not possible for any of the deo seed persona to have inflicted the wounds. They must have been inflicted by others, and very great forcemeat have been used. It is poesible that the throats may have been cut with the knife or razor. There is no question that the whole of the deceased persons must hare been murdered by some person or persons. Hannah Hallam, of Mirfield, single woman, said: I live near the house of the deceased J. Wraith. My house is near the road side leadietz to his huuse. His house is not far from it. The prisoner called at my noose at one o'clock yesterday hawking pots. He had • basket of pots with Man on his head. He came up the 'All in a direction to our house and Mr. Wraith's. He stopped a few minutes after the clock struck one; he talked to me a..d my mother; he maid that he would go to a few hour e, cell at Mr. Wraith's, and then go home. He then asked if we wanted any pots, and I said no. He then went away in a direction towards Mr. Wraith's. Richard Green, superintendent of police at Dewsbury, said-1 found the prisoner yesterday in the custody of Howarth and Leadbeater ' two constables, at the Shoulder of Mutton, about five o'clock. I told him that in consequence of some information that I had received I must search him. On one of his stockings I found something which I took to be blood; they were very wet at the time, but only about the feet were to. I examined his foot both on the toes and the top of his foot, and there were uo marks there that blood could spring from. I told him there were marks of blood upon his stockieg, and he said he could not t:11 how that could be. Hie shoes are so much in pieces that the wet stockings might be accounted fur. The prisoner made a statement to me. Soon after four o'clock he raid to me, " I wish to tell you how it was that I was at that house where the murder has been committed. I am a pot hawker; the people at that house know me well; I have often sold them pots, and yesterday, sometime &sneer as I can think, about one o'clock, I went to the back door and it was shut; I knocked, but no one answered; I waited a little while and listened at the door and could hear the trampling of feet on toe chamber floor. I knocked again • second time, and I could hear some oae coming down caws. I waited • little while longer, and I tappi d the door • third time ; I then heard some one crossing the floor as if going to the fireplace in the kitchen. Then a man came to the door, unlocked, and opened it. I said, "Do you want anything in my way to-day ?" and the man said " No, we don't want anything. [Prisoner—l told you he said, No sir.] I saw his face. He seemed a tall, good-looking man, about from 25 to 28 years of age. Then I asked the prisoner how he was deemed, and he said he had a jacket on with fustian sleeves in it. I asked him what he had on his head, cap or hat, and he said : " I don't know whe ther he had anything or nothing on." He stood with the door in his hand about three inches open, about three minutes. I saw a deal of blood on the floor. I felt alarmed and thought he wee going to knock my head off. I went up • class to M'Kinnell's, a public-house near to this place. I called there to ask if they wanted any pots. They seemed to be at dinner, and said they wanted none. Prom thence I went to a lit:le house about 400 yards away. I there received some rags which I had left in the morning Lwe there talked about Irishmen being great rogues. From there I went to Charley Fliiit's, a house in Robert-town. They told me something very serious had happened at Mirfield. I said that I was there and had seen something. I asked the prisoner how long a time it was from his being at the place where the murder was committed to getting to Charley Flint's, and he said about an hour. I said, " Did you tell no one what you had seen before that ?" and he .aid, " No, I did not ; I did not leant to expose the house • I thought they were killing fowls to be ready for Mirfieleleast, although I heard very serious groaning In the house at the time, and I thought the strange man who opened me the door was wait .ing upon the woman of the house who might be very rly. I asked him how long he had lived in this neigh . turhood, and he simmered about three weeks or a month, and that he lived in Huddersteld about ten years previously. The Deputy-Coroner, ou being informed that there was no further evidence in attendance, said that it would be desira ble to adjourn the inquiry to • distant day, and that in the meantime the police should use every exertion for the detec tion of the perpetrators of the crime. He also gave directions that the stocking timid on the leg of McCabe, which was stained with blood, should be submitted to the examination of an analytical chemist, with a view to ascertain if the stains were those of human blood. The inquest was then formally adjourned to Thursday, the 27th inst., on the understanding that if necemarr the jury should be called together at an earlier date. McCabe was removed in custody. f t 11; VI; w