The Express. — London, England, 1848-08-30 00:00:00

so needlessly i n humane, that they have im to the public sympathy which A ve been accorded. Indeed, to their losses from Vie influx of migratory fairly apportioned among their on which we are at present com pretend to offer any alleviation. us bike the ease of a suburban union noisy in its complaints, and far more noted avow demeanour of its authorities than ne or St. Martin's-in-the -Fields. Let as not very populous or wealthy parish of to which, from the workhouse bring shil -1 is precincts, almost the entire of the in the W'anttsworth and Clapham union But we w:11 let the guardians of that it own case. Their clerk writes thus ...raw board on the Ilth of last July : Mardiluis of the Wandsworth and Clapha union dths e ,r. present to you that, wn the twelve lune lost, there were lodged and r.lieved in the of their workhouse not less than 15,317 persons, 729 were males and 3,565 females; that of the sr 2,526 were children under the age of 16 years, 7;10 of them !smiles ; that of the hoed in the first nine menthe more than one is the last three months more than were Irish; and that of the eatu.l poor above mentioned 332 were subjected 4.ce nt. at either at the w. rkhouse or at the .. e ver hospital, to the funds of which institution wly cuntributee, and to and from which mans iennard, at a great additional charge. • • • circuinstat,c,s shove stated an enormous expense cast upon the W an d s worth and Clapham Union, .11101. of which is chargeable to the patidt of indisidually, most of the applications for relief of made at the workhouse gate, and the work •to be I ca lly situated in that parish, • • ,y be incurred in relieving casual and way or p or who from any calve may be irremovable, stitute, the guardians think, part of the union ,nargis, and nut be thrown upon any single parish. is what Mr. Braves bill has done; but for 'oaths only. If at the end of that time the parliament be not obtair.c.l to the renewal , matters will revert to their previous ine and the parish of Battersea and many other will be grouni , to the earth simply because had the misfortune to be selected as !octal for the workhouses at the time the unions were -cis of formation. •rating regularity with which the pressure increases is strikingly illustrated by a cement affixed to the letter we have quoted. e months ending 20th June, 1848, the num ipplicants for casual relief at the Wandsworth workhouse was, in the Men. 192 ........... 2201 • 72411 .......... 3968 9962 similar increase from quarter to quarter is sub satiated by returns from different parts of England. rths Coristmas quarter there appears to have been g the whole a consithrable &crease. But the mac -2,2 since has been so constant that the number of tearing poor receiving relief at present must have ' it a pretty nearly to the level of what it was during famine of 1847. How much higher it will rise winter, if present forebodings as to failure of the west be realised, it is fearful to contemplate. - Orlt Brussels correspondent, writing on the 28th st, states that Loci; BLANC had arrived in Ghent, etre te was arrested on account of his having no I mport. He was, by order of the government, set at 'aerty on Monday morning ; and it was understood At he intended to proceed to England on Tuesday. re since learn, on ri liable authority, that he arrived iDaver yesterday, and is now, most probably, in FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY, 11 30 A.X. There are to news of general interest this morning. sis Blanc and Cauasidiere continue to be the lawn topics of conversation. It is doubtful nether the latter has left Paris, although some of journals this morning affirm that he has gone to Arlon. If so, you will not be long ignorant of his Pence. Count de la Marmer, an envoy of Charles gee, has presented to General Cavaignac the , !pest for the permission of government that Marshal *rend should take the command of the Piedmontese y. General Cavaignac has answered it is said ' much reserve that the present state of the tic negotire ions would not allow him to make engagement on this matter until the answer of • to the offir of mediation should arrive. The delay of three weeks, which has elapsed since is Eispetch of the courier to Vienna, with the offer (Olt mediation, is ascribed to the circumstance of I republic from which the offer has proceeded not lying been yet officially recognised by Austria. This Enition, however, has been, it is said , only de by the absence of the Baron de W e sernber g , • ter of Foreign Affairs. It is said that the fin ial recognition of the republic has already arrived a Paris. The measures adopted by General Cavaignac against 2 press are about to be brought before the assembly. The following proposition on this subject, made by 111. :impel de Li.touche, has been presented and referred u the bureau : Whereas the decrees of June 24 and 26, 1848, do not give and could not give to the head of the executive power the tehtm suspend or to arbitrarily suppress the liberty of the wis, and as the laws of the state of siege themselves do not soy ease deprive citizens of the guarantee of a regular nal, the National Assembly declares that to the tribunals Zoog belongs the righ', even in the period of a state of siege, u punkt offences committed by the press. I Messrs. I'. A. Byrne and James M'Cormick, two l ithe Irish insurgents, have arrived in Paris. Daring the lest week 1,493 insurgents have been zied, of whom 855 have been set at liberty, 612 "sported, and 26 sent before the courts-martial. Eight days ago the number of those transported ex eeded by about 200 those set at liberty ; now those at at liberty exceed the two other classes by 15 or A. The whole number net at liberty is 2,945 ; the um* of transported 2,735 ; and of those sent before sues-martial aboat 190. It appears by official documents that the total cost idle ateliers nationaux of Paris, up to the 23rd of lime last, was 11,174,981 francs. The Moniteur of today contains the decree for the postal reform, which is to commence the let of lumary, 1849. The rates of postage I have already . irtt you. The postage, whether pi epaid o r not, will x the same. Itegiatered letters will be subject to loable postage. Postage stamps will be issued in the line manner as he England, and may or msy not be wed at the option of the writer. The privilege of halting will not be abolished. According to the terms of the decree, the law will not include foreign letters. • been s o neto.. .letSilled that claim 1` p l ight p l ight have — es and loam r o r ti already ,:on, the bll or e t , be . not prel r l d get et us tyke I i s o noisy n tta ne dcni •, the huma e , bone '" ok7.the not Teri wive, to whic h , within its pr ,-. ; nal relief ia the es „a w e , But v to their owe i" is I board the POW , c odium of tbs Tb° • t u e represent to y n 72Oth June lost, ' al l' 'word. of their CO b„) were m horn 11,71. . :e num'er 2 , 526 t them mal , -67be°r so relieved in tl mid in ate O•t 'b" • were jr . • r wan d en ng poe m • luesheil treatise. .t igolen vcr ion largely contri gibes ere ferhuTed, boo the cercunistae.c is been cast upo n t duly the whole t intlie sin'ea • a se kind being mode h a ppeueng to be Mae Ibatever coot mei ; 1 7. jog poor, or p -or old constitute, the mutton charges, 103 this is what wive months only soca of parliame, jibe bill, matters I slay; and the pa u .shes will be grr ley have bad the u ,gs for the workhe . ..process of format the alarming rei vagrancy increa Oulu statement twelve months e . 0 of applicants fin id Clapham workl Boys Gals Warne& under I under Totals. 1; 16. 440 331 194 '26.9 421 399 467 3110 379 21 110 3431 1338 7% 348 033J0 2919 1707 79 MIT ITALY. Letters from Florence, of the 21st instant, an solace that the Marquis Ridolti had left on that day hr Turin, Paris, and London, on an extraordinary mission relative to the negotiations undertaken by France and England for the pacification of Italy. The Genoa Gazette, of the 24th, says: That the exabintd snuadrons of Sardinia and Venice were still it Malamocca, and that Charles Albert had sent to Venice a n,illion of hares. The Pierlmontese Gazette, of the 25th, contains a Tal ordonnance, dismissing Generals Salasco and Fiederici,atd also Count Bricheratio and other mill :art officars. GERMANY. AUSTRIA.—In consequence of the disturbances in Vienna, the committee of the citizens entrusted with tepoliee of the town declared, on the 23 rd inst. , its 'Wangs permanent. An article in the IVaner Zei -4,7ig of the 24th, states that there was nothing political in these disturbances, although some in cendiaries had endeavoured, though in vain, to im lot a politicaleharactertothem. The Oesterreichische 4 lyeneine Zeituny of the 23rd, states that some skir nulling had tsken place in the course of the day be- Neen detachments of the national guards and isolated bodies of wodra.en, but that the approach of night'! Dm put an end to the affrays. PitUts,SlA.—lt is stated in the Berlinische Nach- Ithtfn cf the 26th inst. that although groups of Pithetans continued to assemble, uhter den Linden, they were not numerously attended. The latest ex plosion on record occurred on the evening of the 24th, when one of the protective police, who had torn down • placard of the democratic club, was sur rounded and threatened, but rescued without trouble by his comrades. In the same journal it is stated that an English vessel, the Roseberry, was lying in the roads of Thissaw, near Stralsund, laden with American sugar for the Pomeranian sugar-refining. As the vessel ar rived before the blockade began, it is at liberty to unload and enter the harbour. But no Prussian lighters dare leave the harbour to approach it, and consequently it has been necessary to hire Norwegian coasters to receive the cargo. MADRID, Auo. 23. I drew your attention some time ago to the fact of the Duke of Olucksberg, ex-envoy of France, contiouing his reeidence a Madrid. At the present mument,when we have just read the speech of L PAUSerown declaring the in tendon of the government to embrace cordially the French alliance, it behoves us to demand frank dealing from the re. preerntativra of the French republic at C:reign courts. It is possible that M. de bleep* may be prepared to act in a spirit corresponding to those professions of friendship from the French governtuent whiek Lord Palmerston must have received before he could v, attire on his speech of the 16th. At the nine time the antecedents of the French jenvoy at Madrid as • zealous servant of the interests of the !louse of Orleans in put years, and the strict intimacy which is observable in his relations with the Duke of Glucks berg, one of the main agents in the transaction of the marriages, are not such as to inspire us , vith c nfl dence in the course of French elipbomacy at this met. We ere toll here that General CAVAigIIIIC is • frequenter of the salons of the Duchesse de Dec vs, the mnther of the Duke of Gluckshera, a favourite point of r.- union for the friends of the exiled royal family. It is difficult to reconcile these confidential relations. of the French government with the funky of the Decezes, both heir and et Paris, with the car cumspect jealousy which causes the French envoy a'. London to be recalled because he was sten crotsing the street on the arm of M. Guied. Greatly comfortable to depressed and persecuted liberalism in this quarter of the world is the speech of Lord Palmer. ston. 'I he is en in power here tremble and turn pale, while those two great powers, England and France, hand in baud, pate by, not deigning to r.otice them, while they pro ceed in their strong union to settle the Offetirs of the world. Excluded from pm ticipatioo in the great and honourable task of securing the peace of Blume, sod of snatching mantled Italy cut of the ver.geful gripe of Austria, they bigin to feel their pigmyism and utter nullity, and to be aware of the peril which menaces them from the indignant people whom they have misgoverned, misled, and worth d. The poor subterfuge of choking the phantom of anarchy as a scare crow before the eyes of the people, and bawling for ever that the reign of Jacobinism is the necessary alternative of their military despotism, is beginning to be no longer avail able. Nei her ee there any symptom of abatement in the cruelty of their rule. The first accents of free discussion which, after long silence, have issued from the press, have been gagged—the Clamor Publico has been seized two days following, and obliged to renounce the task of re viewing the measures ot the government; arrests area numerous as ever; the respctable progresista, Senor Baeza, was seized • day or two ago by two eh:eel, be cause • letter written by • political prisoner had en joined a friend to appeal to him to exert his influ ence to procure the liberation of the writer. A great number of persona have been taken up upon the pretext of being concerned in the dissemination of the Bayonne pro. elarnatione, which I mentioned yesterday. No improvement ha taken place in the morality of the administration. Bow should there, indeed, when the interior is committed to a subaltern like Sartoriue, who is calculated to have realised 60,000 dollars by the sale of offices? WU Court. OSBORNE, TITESDAY.—The Chevalier Bunsen and Prince Lowenstein arrived at Ovborne yesterday on a visit to her Majesty. The royal dinner party yesterday iiviuded the Doeh.as of Kent, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, and the Baroness de Speth. A deputation to Lord John Russell from the City of Lothian, on the subject of the Jewish Dissbilities Bill, bad an interview with the noble lord yr.terday at his official residence in Downing-street. The deputation enn sish.tl of Mr. .1. A. Smith, M.P., Mr. M. Forster, M P., Mr. A. Anderson, M.P., Mr. B. M. Wilcox, M P., Mr. W . J. HMI, Mr. R. Salomon', Mr. J. J. Travers, Mr. W. Hawes, Mr. T. Henkey, jun., and Mr. S. Smith. Mr. W. P. Robertson, Co u4ul General of Ecuador, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-uffice fu the governor of the Mauritius. Major-General Sir C. Palley had an interview with the Right lion. R. Labouchere yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Mr. Tidd Pratt bad an interview with the Chan c, liar of the Exchequer yesterdsv. The Chairman of the Excise had also an interview yesterday with the right hoe. bsrouet, at his official residence in Downing-street. THE QUEEN DOWAGER, it is understood, does not contemplate any foreign tour this winter, and it is moot pro. bable bre Nlaysty will pass the cold season at Mount Edgcombe, near Deronport. Tin OCEAN Mt:mutt:lL—Yesterday the inquest on the bodies of five of the unfortunate sufferers by the destruction of this vessel was continued before Mr. Curry, toe coroner.—Jas. Chein, Charles 1). Lock; and W. P. Gibbs, three seamen on board the Ocean Monarch, were all the witnesses examined up to the hour for the despatch of our report. They unanimously concurred in exculpating the captain from blame. In other respects their evidence did not supply any material facts to the ample information alre,dy given. The subscriptions in aid of the sufferers by the burning of the Ocean Monarch amount to 1,7301. REFUSAL OF SIR TILOS. WILDE TO SIT AT CIIAM BERS.—A correspondent says:—" In cons , quence of the continued refusal of Sir Thos. Wilde to sit at chambers during the vacation (although he is the judge in rotation), a total cessation of the business at chambers has taken place, to the great loam and injury of the suitors. The conduct of the Chief Justice has been represented to the government, who have promised to inquire into the matter, and it is ex pected it will be made the subject of conversation in the House of Commons. There has not been any judge in at tendsnce since the 21st, and it is unknown when any judge will attend." PROTECTION OF LIFE AND PROPERTY FROM FIRE. —Yesterday a meeting of the inhabitants of St. Pancras was held, at the Bedford Arms, to receive the report of a com mittee which had been appointed to wait upon the ministers with the view of ascertaining whether some better means than at present existed could not be adopted for the protec tion of life and property from fire.—Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P., occupied the chair, and said the subject was one the importance of which could: not be exaggerated. The cause of humanity and the cause of prudential econom% alike called for the adoption of the most efficient means for the protection of life and property from fire which genius and science could invent. The noble chairman then alluded to the kind reception which the depu tation had met with from the Home Secretary, and concluded by calling upon Mr. Fego to real the report. This was a vauminous document. It stated that the committee, which haul been appointed at a public meeting on the 11th February last, had directed their attention to the various moors at pre sent in use for the purpose of preventing injury from fire. They had examined Wivell's bre-eau:ape, and had proved it to be a most efficient instrument. They had also examined Phillips's patented fire annihilator, and had proved it to be a c' sap and ready means of generating steam in sufficient quantities to stifle large masses of throe. They had likewise investigated the properties of Payne's patented process. This simply consisted of the insertion of a solution of alum into the pores of the wood, from which the air had been previously extracted; and they found that wood which had undergone that process was far f,om being readily susceptible to the influence of fire. On the 20th of June last the committee, kindly introduced by Lord Dudley Stuart, had en interview of three-quarters of en hour's duration with Sir George Grey. The inadequacy of the Building Act of 1774, which enjoined the prevision of one engine and a set of three ladders to each parish, led to the question of a proper remedy , and it was propose that a system of stations throughout the metropolis should be adopted, for which it would probably be necessary to intro duce a short bill into parliament as an amendment of ho act of 1774. Sir George Grey entered earnestly into the details of the matter. The report having been adopted several resolutions were agreed to, appointing a committee and embodying measures for aiming out the objects of the meeting. CHARING-CROSS BRIDGE COMPANY. —Yesterday , the half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of this company was held at their offices in Villiers-street, Strand, to receive the directors' report. Lord Devon in the chair. A copy of the report was handed to each rroprietor aid it stated that the tolls for the half-year ending Jay 31 amounted to 3,0681. 31. 7d., sufficient, after defraying the current ca pe nose, to citable the directors to declare a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum. The receipts during the past six months have not equalled those of the corresponding period of tat year, this being attributable to the un favourable state of the weather. The report referred to the opening of the South Western Railway station in July last, the effect of which would be an important addition to the receipts of the company. An amicable settlement of all matters of difference has been effected with the Market Company, by which that company has agreed to take 1,0001. and taxed costa in full of all amends for damages against the Bridge Company arising out of the lease of November 2, 1842, in respect of the pier and float and the access of steam boat passengers thereto. The report having been adopted, it was moved and seconded that a dividend of four per cent. should be declared payable on or after the llth of Septem ber next. The resolution was carried unanimously. Several new directors were elected, in the room of those who had retired. GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.—Yeeker day the curoinery half-yearly meeting of this company was held at their offices, 71, Lombarl-street ; Mr. Wilkin in the chair. A report and statement of the accounts fur the half year ending the 30th June last were read. By the report it appeared that, ti notwithstandiaag the bid bled ness o che dif the times, th e e earnings on the company's Mons enareet a continue paying the dividend of 14s. per share, for the half year, free of income tax, and leave • balance besides. The dividend being declared, thanks were ated. voted to the chairman and directors, when the meeting separ THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1848. him resignation. The officers of the court then proceeded to take ° presentments" from the forget keepers. For the moat part they were of the most trumpery Mangler. One party was presented for trespassing by reason of an enclosure of alma three squats feet of forest ground; another for "taking away the droppings of some cattle to the detri ment of the forest pasture. Mr. Peto, Id P.,was pre sented for allowing some wooden sleepers to ie on the forest ground to the injury of the turf, and the Southampton and Dorchester Railway Company for an alleged petty en croachment, which one of the verderers said, that, of his own knowledge, he knew to be no encroachment whatever. The presentments having been duly signed, the keepers were all sworn that they knew of no encroachmeots or trespasses he and those presented at this or former courts. Mr. Compton then rose and said that he wished officially to give notice that it was the intention co u rt s the New Forest verderers in future to hold forty day courts throughout the year,; three of such courts being Swanimote Courts as will as Attachment Courts.. The neat court would be held upon the 14th of September; the Attachment Court first and the Swanimote Court afterwards—at least he supposed en. Mr. J. Mills then called for a rattan of the names of per sons paying forest dues. A return was handed in. Mr. Mills then said that at the last attachment court a return had been ordered of this description, end the sane not having been ready in April be had written to Mr. White, the war den's steward, upon the subject. Mr. White had replied that he did not remember such an order being given, and that he know of no authority on the part of the verderere to give such an order to him. He was the officer of his Royal Highness the Lord Warden, and was ready to obey his commands, but he did not know that he had anything to d with the vi rderers. Now he (Mr. Mills) wished to say that the verderets had taken this latter into consideration, and that they were clearly of opinion that Mr. White and ' every other Forest officer was under, and must be obeuient to their directions. As the return in que,dion had beet. pro duced the matter was now of fills cmsequehce, but be • thought it right to make this notification. Mr. White was understood to ouserve that Lord Duncan was in posses-ion of his books. Mr. Mills said that was not so when the original applica tion for the return was made. Mr. Compton said the vsrderers had taken the act into con sideratioo, and were decidedly of opinion that all Forest offi cers were officers of that court. Sir C. Hulse asked it Mr. White was not also a regarder, and the reply being in the affirmative, he observed that he had a double duty to perform to the 'orderers. Mr. Compton said the object of the venlerers in requiring this return, was to see who were the parties who were legally its the er.joyment of forest rights. Was this a return of Ouse who bad said dues, or only of those who were liable ? Au officer of the court replied that it was a return of those who had paid, and who were in the habit of paying when called on. Mr. Compton: Ae—l believe in consequence of the Mall nes, of some of the rents you do not collect regularly—only once in throe years or so. Mr. Mills said he knew a gentleman who had lost his forest rights by not paying for seven years. Mr. Compton said ho was incapable of deciding how forest rights were lost, and he hoped that question might be settled by some higher officer sent de.wn from London to inquire into those rights. lie wished to know what was done with the money when it was received. The officer, before.mentioned said some dews, &c. were paid out of it, and then the surehis was handed over to the steward. Mr. Stanley thonght that perhaps some better arrange ment might be made hereafter with respect to the mode and manner of payments. There being apparently nothing further to do, the court adjourned to the 14th September, and the (Mice rs proceeded to the Queen's House to partake of a venison dinner. THE CHARTISTS AND POWELL THE APPROVER. — Last night the chartists of Cripplegate (from whence Powell was returned as a delegate to the reconvention) assembled at Cartwright's coffeehouse. Redeems-street. 'toe meeting was addressed by several speakers, the whole of whom declared emph►tically that the delegate Powell had been returned to agitate peacefully and legitimately for the People's Charter, and for no other purpose. The following resolution was carried unanimously We, the chartists of the Cripple gate locality, solemnly declare that the man Powell was elected as a delegate by us for none other then a legal pur pose, but whilst we diesr° r all attempts at anarchy and con fuiion,we dictate our determination to use our best efforts to advance the cause of the People's Charter." About 150 men and lads were present, all of whom had a very die tressed appearance. FlKES.—Yesterday, shortly after two in the morn ing, great alarm was caused in High-street, Shoreditch, by an explosion on the premises of Mr. Spurway, an oilman. With the greatest difficulty the family elected an escape, and the firs spread furiously. However, but little time poised before several of the A and B engines of the Brigade from several stations, with those of the West of England and ..eunty, were set to work, throwing torrents of wale? on the burning mass The fire was at length subdued ; but not a vestige of property on the lower part of the premises was saved. This loss will be covered by insurance in the Sun and Imperial Offices. This was the eleventh fire in the me tropolis within six hours. No pet sonal accidents occurred at any of this number.—HoLßOUN•itlLL.—Shortly before two o'clock this morning • destructive fire broke out in King's Head court, Holborn-hill, upon the premises in the occupation of Mr. Johnson, machine-ruler. The themes spread with great rapidity, notwithstanding the efforts of a large body of firemen to subdu, them. The house was gutted, and several of the adjoining tenements were injured materially by the fire. It was stated that the prcmi•es are not insured. INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—SUICIDE IN A CAL — Before Mr. Ni ilia, at the University College Hospital, on the body of William Everett ?rothero, aged 27, • surgeon, whose suicide in a cob we noticed in our paper of Monday. The week Were last the deceased returned from Germany and embarked at R3tterdarn for England. On the way he was very much depressed in sprits, and spoke to his tellow teivellers of shooting himself or leaping overboard. On his arrival in L.milon he formed an nequaintanca with a soldier in the (jrnadier Quails, to whom he stated that he was in great di from the want of professional occupation, an who assisted him with money and food. lie endeavoured to vain. but being below the standard height, was rejected. He lodged several night , at the King's Head, James-street, and leaviug the house early on Saturday morning last hired a cab to take him to Gower-street, Bedford-square, and just as he had got into that street an explosion was beard in the cab, and it was foam' that he had shot him self in the mouth, the discharged pistol being found in his right hand. Verdict: s' That th.- deceased shut himself, but in what state of mind there was no evidence toshow."— Sueuussis CHILI, hinnusa.—Before Mr. Bedford, at the Malpas Arms, Charles-street, Oroavenoratquare, on the body of a mile child. J. 11,cker, 104 C, stated that on Soturdil night he round a parcel lying on the steps of the house, 60, Green-street, Leicester-square, which, on being opened, was discovered to Contain the ►ody of a male child. The cover, ing was • pieties of paper and an apron, and it was taken to St. George's workhouse. Mr. Sy 111tP, surgeon, examined the body, which era% that of a full-grown child ; and, upon opening it, found the lungs fully expanded, and the vessels of the head and heart gorged with blood. Ile was of opinion the child bad been burn alive, and that strangulation was the cause of death, but in wht t way he could not decide. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased died from suffocation, but how caused they had no evidence to show.— Yes:erday Mr. Bedford received information of the fin lice en two other bodies of children, which are supposed to have been made away with. whom receive per annum each, 3W. lle. 3d. ; fear miperan "mated receive in addition to this , salary, each per annum, 1114 • six yeomen hangers, each, in addition, 10 1 .; two yeo misn'bedgoen, 101. ; two yeomen messengers, 10/. ; eight yeo men tubers, at a salary of each, 491. lls. 3d. The office of yeoman was formerly purchased by fees to the captain of the guard and others, to the amount, alto gether, of 3301., but, by • very exce lent regulation, latterly made, these situations are no longer pnrchaseable by pay ment of fees or otherwise ; and as vacancies no.,- oeour they are filled up by the most deserving and well-behaved non commissioned (Aileen from certain cavalry regiments, who are recommended to thecommander-in-chief by their respec tive colonels. If offices of this nature were uniformly be stowed on individuals who have done good service to the country in some other capacity, and were dispensed without favouritism, it would more readily reconcile the public to the continuance of these otherwise wasteful and unnecessary remnants of feudalism ; master of the music sod band, aggregate salaries, 1,91 , 4. The state, band consist of a master, a cmductor, and twenty-four members, besides a sergeant trumpeter and eight household trumpeters. They receive the following remuneration :—The master of the band, 2001. ; the conductor, 1001 ; the twenty-four members, each, 401. ; the sergeant trumpeter, 1001. ; the household trumpeters, m 6,401. ; besides fees at eoronati Mond other date ocossiono, at which times only their services are required, although they are liable to be called on duty on other occasions, at the will of the sovereign. It appears that only a portion of their expenses are defrayed out of the Queen's Civil . Li , t, fur we tied the House of Commons, in July, 1847, voting the sum of 3851. 7s. 6d. for " triennial and other allowances to the sergeant trumpeter, and to the household trumpeters and kettle drummer, and for a new Paver trumpet," &c., being " expenses defrayed by officers of the household, dm, not being part of the civil het." In addition to the state band, her Majesty has a pri vate band, the t xeenses of which being defrayed out of the privy purse very great reductions have been made in it within the last three or four years. There are 25 members in it, and the conductor, whose salary is 2001. a year and per quisites. The members were formerly paid 1301. a year, bet now receive generally 801. to 901. oi,ly. The vacancies in the state band are filled up from the private bend, in whisk case the salary allowed for this former duty goes to thebenefle of the privy pure. In the Lord Chamberlain's offica the following officials are engaged : The comptroller of account., and mil eriutendent of the duties of the department ; chief clerk, superintendent of payments, inspector of accompte lint, second, and third assistant clerks. The salaries of these several officers range from 7001 to 1501. per annum. There arc besides a chamber kat per, office porter, and two office m stingers, whose situa tions arc worth from 801. to 1001 a year. All these appoint ments are in the gilt of the Lord Chamberlain. The average expenses of the department for salaries, (tr., are 3,1101. There is • sum of 7,1861. appropriated to retired and super annuation allowances for the various officers, clerks, and • thee persons in the household, according to an act passed in the 4th and sth years of the reign of his late Majesty William IV. intituled "An act to alter, amend, and con, solidate the 1 for regulating the pensi.ius, compensations, end allowances to he made to persons in respect of their having held civil offices in his Majesty's service." The allowances granted are from 3 12ths to 8-12 the of their sala ries, aecerdine to length of service. In this department, also, are included the salaries of the governor and lieutenant-governor of WinCsor Castle, the former receiving a salary of 1,1201., and the hitter of 1731. per annum. Total, 1,2931. The former office was, on the death of the Duke of Sussex, granted by letters patent to Field-alarshal, his Royal Highness Prince Albert. It in volved. at one [Ariel, great responsibility, all royal and dis• tinguished state prisoners b 'ing plat: l under the care of the govern"r. Now, however, there is neitherresponaibility nor troubl attached to the appointment. There are no duties to he performed, and the office is consequently a sinecure. There can be little doubt, were • general system of retrenchment adopted, that Prince Albert, who, besides an income of 30,0001. • year voted by parliament, is a fieM marshal, the colonel of one of the most profitable regiments in the aorvice of the sovereign, hes a large farm, rent and tax tree, and numerous other lu crative appointments would, in the exercise sal his well-known liberality, place the eatery sod emoluments he derives from this offioe to the credit aide of the natior.al accounts. The above-named particulars include all the salaries in the Lord Chamleylaiu's department, with the exceivion of the follow ing approprietions, vie.: Order of the Garter, 5021. ; order of the Bath, 4091. The salaries in the Lord Steward's and Master of the Horse's departments will next be enumerated. The Financial Reform Association now ;eel themselves in a condition to form a people's budget, involving . a saving of probably six millions sterling, without impairing the effi ciency of any department of the public service, and substan tially serviug the industrial interests of the country. WALTHAM FOREST TIMBER FOR THE NAVY. To judge by the evidence given by Mr. C. Muslin, deputy-surveyor of Windsor, Whyehwood, and Waltham forests, the &dryer& derive no more advantage from the last-named than from the New Forest ; and yet it is evidently mast favourably situated fur the purposes of Sheerness and THE NEW FOREST TIMBER ROBBERIES. PROCEEDINGS AT LYNDHURST. At the Magistrates' Court, Lyndhurst, on Monday, G. F. Bowles a keeper in Bolire-wood, in the New Forest, and Jeremia h Cates, his brother-ia-law, a wheelwright, at Gorel• y, near Furdingbridge, wi re charged before H. C. Compton, Esq., M P., and a bench of eight county magis trates, with stealing two Owe of timber from II ,Idre-wood. It was established on the evidence of two carters that they had, under the prisoners' joist instructions, removed two (Oleo oak trees from B adrrewood t i Coles's yard in the course of the month of June lam. One of the carters stated that he heard Mr. Bowles tell Coles that the timber was to be used in repairing a barn floor on the craven pro perty, and request him to prepare it for that purpose within as short a time as possible.—Henry Wareham, an apprentice of Mr. Coles, proved the delivery of the timber, and that it bad been sawed out icto planks and gate stuffs in his master's yard. lie deposed that a portion of it was used for railings at Effingham churchyard, another THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. portion for gate mending at an adjacent farm, and that a third portion had been carted off by a waggoner in the LANCASIIIItEi—The weather in the early part of employ of C o brother. Upon these points, however, the last week was wet and stormy, with high winds, character witnen's lvilence was muck shaken upon cross examination, eine of April rather than August. In the midd'e of the it not being clear that he was aesured sha ve h unbar so used week it was somewhat calmer, but, beyond enabling the was identioal with that supposed to ha been taken from farmers te turn the shocks of corn and shake out the the forest. Several other witeesses were called who also moisture, little prrgrees in harvesting could be effected. knew of the timber being brought into Colitis yard, but eho Some of the wheat at Withington has been in the fields foe carried the case no further. It appeared that the timber had nearly twenty days ; but, from the low range of tempera been put, when first brought to Coln's, on a green heft This tore , and the superior methods now used in piling up, it bee house, being one of the moat public places about it. This sustained scarcely any &image. Manehester Exonsiner, being the case for the crown, Mr. l'oceck, a solicitor Aug. 26. of Southampton, addressed the court for the prisoners, YOUKSHIRE.—In the neighbourhood of Leeds advantage urging that the re was nothing in the evidence appears to have been taken of the improved state of the against either of them. It had been the practice in weather, as much corn has been cut, and some of it housed. the forests whether lightly or wrongly he did not know, As to the state of the wheat crop, there appears to be a greet to allow the keepers timb r for repairs as it might be re- diversity of opinion, some parties describing it as thin and quired. He produced Woken) prove that this had been the much injured by rain, whilst others insist that up to the custom for a long tine past. In the present instance he present time no damage of importance has been done. But bh,uld ask the court to permit him to call Mr. James Reed, if the coming week should turn out to be wet and unfaveur the assistant to the deputy-surveyor o f the forest, who would able irreparable damage will be the result. Every swooped prove that he had given the timber i question to Mr. Bowles lug week supplies additional evidence of the universality el to repair the barn ti mr and gates at his lodge, which it the potato disease. Till within a very short period the must be renirmbered was crown property. There had been potatoes in the reighbourhood of Settle appeared no concealment about the matter, and absolutely Bowles and to be perfectly heelthy, and the growers there Coles bad conversed last July upon this very subject in the began to congratulate themselves upon the probability that presence of one of the police who apprehended them. their crops would not be visited by the malady Mr. Jas. Reed was then called. Ile appeared in the sus- which was en prevalent elsewhere. That hope, how tody of the police superintendent, having been arrested on ever, was very short lived ; the disease has unmistakeably another charge on Saturday night. Ile deposed tint he hau mannered itself, end, according to present appearance, at been 15 years in the forest, and that ever since be had been least one-half of the crop in that part of the country will be there it had been the custom to allow the keepers tim- lost. A paean who planted a field near Settle with tor for repairs. Generally an application was made to potatoes was very particular in the choice of his seed ; and New Park in the first instance, but that forma- adopted various modes of treatment. In the some field he lily had not always been gone through. He remembered used quick lime iti one part, salt in another, and followed the ' Bowles making some such application last year, and he had common practice in a third. There is no difference, how -1 had no objection to it.—Ctoss•examined by Mr. Coswela the ever, in the result—all are equally bad. Parties from the solicitor for the crown : Recollected marking off timber for neighbourhood of York and other districts speak of the Bowles, in consequence of such application. Could not say taint being general in the second earths, although as whether any application had been made to New Park on the yet they are not so extensively disased as the ash-tops have subject: thought there bad. Child not state what descrip- proved to be. We fear, however, that the extent of the tion of timber he marked. Marked more than one tree. mischief has not yet been realised. In one garden near Had been i n the habit of doing the same thing far almost all Leeds a gentleman planted two plots with ash-tops, one the keepers. Did so ty the authority he had had ever since PALACE EXPENSES. being situated under a wall, and the other in the very centre he bad been in the forest, and which his father had possessed The Financial Reform Association of Liver- I ande ground. The sets were all bought at the same time before him. Had made no return to New Park respecting pool, in continuation of their detailed statement of the Civil place, and planted precisely in the same manner and toe timber thus appropriated. It had never been the custom List expenditure, now Isy before the public the following the oely difference in the soil is that the plot in the centre is to do 80, Whenever a keeper applied for a little timber for additional particulars : stronger and heavier than the other. The potatoes grown in repairs he had considered it part of his duty to let bias have SALARIEO IN THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S DEPARTENT. the lighter soil under the wall are yet perfectly sound and it. Considered himself authorised co to do. His authority Military establishments of the household: expenses of this goad, whilst b far the greater part of those in the centre are was not in writing. He derived it from Mr. Turner, the department, consisting of a corps of Gentlemen-at Arms, sa- rotten and worthless.—Leeds Mercury, Aug. 26. late deputy-aurveyor, who died 12 years ago. Witness was lanes 5,1291. • corps of Yeomen of the Guard, salaries 7,1001.; WARMICKSHIRE.—The prevalence of rainy weather now 29. Me was therefore 17 years old when Mr. Turner died. —making 12,2291. during the creater part cf August, and the still unsettled Hr. Turner gave him the authority perhaps a year before The band of Gentlemen at-Anne was formed ( Gentlem en state cd the atmosphere, have caused the most serious appre he died Thought he bad appropriated trees in the same of Henry VIII., and were then termed " hensions or the safety of the harm at, not only to agricultet way in Mr. Turner's time, without his being present, but by Pensioners." Oa the accession of William IV. they re- bleeprist, o gre ss the public generally ; and although considera ble instructions. Believed Mr. Wise, who succeeded Mr. ceived their present title. Their duties are to attend Turner, had confirmed the authorisition. Mr. Wise died at coronations, drawing.roorus, levees, the funerals of wheats during the glimpse of sunshine and in the partial sine year. ago. Had had the authority Meet. Thornhill, who the royal family, and other occasions of state ceremony. At gleams of fine weather whith have occasionally occurred, and dMr. Wise, to allot trees for repairs to the keepers. drawing rooms they line the presence chamber, and also th e with scarcely an exception no corn is yet safely housed, and C▪ 01. Thornhill and his (witness's) father knew that he had interior approaches to the House F o ro, when tbe sove- nine-tenths of tbe wheat crop of the county are still ex done so without reference to' them.—By the Magistrates. reign opens or closes parliament. them important func• posed to the risk and damage which must necessarily Believed the timber marked for Mr. Bowles was intended to Lions 40 gentlemen-at-arms, with a captain, lieutenant,stan- ensue from a continuance of unfavourable weather. In Or! be used in repairing a barn floor. There never were any dard areger, clerk ot the cheque, and northern division of the county, more particularly where fatties made of trees appopriated for keepers' repsirs.—Re- axe -keeper found necessary : Twenty of these gallant the olelfashioned system of hooding or capping the examined : Generally, from the mode iii which he dealt with officers attend (when their services are required) during six 'hocks is practised, a less degree of injury will be experi hia superiors, conceived that he had perfect authority to moriths of the year, and are then relieved from tbe toile of eneed than in the Avon valley and better districts of War , meek trees for such purposes. Had never been called to duty by the other twenty for the remainder of the year. The wickshire where the practice has fallen wholly into di use. account for so doing. Had never mentioned having done so following are the salaries received by this corps: the captain Where addle ears of the sheaves are open to the drenching to Col. Thornhill, bemuse he considered Col. Thornhill was (who is invariably a peer, and, although ostensibly nominated rain the quality of the grain is much deteriorated, aware of the circumstance. Had any keeper made au ap- by the crown, is always superseded oil every change is the if even no greater injury be (tensed. No doubts now plication respecting repairs to Col. Thornhill he would have administration), 1,0001. ; Ilutenant, 500/. ; atandant-bearer, remain of the general spread and virulence of the potato referred him to him. 3801. ; clerk of the cheque (salary, with feas t- 1401. ; gee- disease : every grower is a voluntary witness of its tearful The prisoners' solicitor next proposed to prove that the tleown.harbinger, 701. ; forty gentlemen-at-arms, each, trent and destructive character; not even in the year 1846 did timber had been sawe T hat Coles's end sent back to Bowles's, 1001. ; axe keeper memenger,sol. the disease exhibit mite certain signs of destruction than are wtere it was now. witness to this fact not being pre- All these offices, with the exception of that of the captain, now everywhere apparent. The p rodu ce elanted, however, sent the court was adjourned until the next day, to afford are marketable, and may be purchased at a regular price by is this year cornet rable, and tho above an average ; time to produce him, any who are desirous to fill a place at court, or cowtdi r the .so that,evenallowing for great waste, probablybefore January 'The ::rown Solicitor then stated that Mr. James Reed, the salary a good investment for their money. The only excep- no serious diminution in the supply will be felt. The assistant deputy surveyor of the forest, was it custody upon Hon to this is, that the individual mint not be in any way markets being now entirely governed by the precarious two charges, and it was necessary for him to apply for a mi. connected with trade, as the pursuits of buying and selling, state of the weather, nothing positive as to prices can be vate hearing in this case with • view to • remand.—Mr. or getting gain, are, naturally enough, thought to be deroga- relied mo dem The value of old wheat must be enhanc , :d, and Brown, a soiicitor, who appeared for the pri•oner, said there tory to those who have purchased CORMllissions in this digs large orte arrivals of foreign grain will have consi were great objections to a private hearing, but he had no ob. tinguished corps. The last market quotatioes for the various dersble tubeb.flaece on future prices. But with regard to new jection to a remand if it were neeessary.—The hearing of o ffi ces were :—For , the lieutenancy, 10,0001. ; standard- wheat, it is feared that oa any favourable change of this case was accordiaely postponed for a week. bearer-ship, 4,0001. to 5,0001. ; gentleman-at-arms-ship, up. weather, the farmers, in their anxiety to rescue their crops, At the court yesterday (Tuesday) further evidence was ward' of 1,4001. will commence carrying before the grain is sufficiently hesrd in the Me! of George Bowles and Wm. Coles, the two The members, when ordered into the country, as at Wind- hardened for grinding, and by thus supplying the markets parties charged with timber -stealing, alter which the case sor, to do duty at the residence of the sovereign, were for- with corn out of condition will thereby create a tellingsmissed.Tne Chairman addressed George Bowles, merly allowed five guineas per day for travellng and hotel considerable downward tendency. Very little barley has him to resume hi. duti,s as keeper, and that the expenses, but this has latterly been reduced to throe guineas. yet been cut, the crepe of oats and peas have suffered much bench was of opinion, after patiently hearing the whole of They bare to provide themselves with a dress and undress from the wet hemsweathr. Gress keeps dri er , but the evidence, that lie left that court without the slightest uniform, which cost them between 801. end 901., and they the turnips would ch improved by and warmer imputation upon his character.—The bench deliberated for a have to pay the fallowing fees on the purchase and vender weather. —Birmingham Journal, Aug. 26. considerable time afterwards respecting Coles, and then do- of their commission:—To the captain, 621. 10s.; clerk of LEICESTERSHIRE.—Much rain has fallen during the week tided, as already stated, upon dismissing the case altogether , the cheque, M. 103. • secretary, 51 ss. ; messenger, if. 61.; but the intervals have been accompanied with drying winds, VERDERER'S COURT. commission, 11. 14. ' Total, 65/. 129. and a co,.aiderable quantity of wheat has been hewed in On Monday an Attachment Court for the New The yeomen of the Queen's Guard have duties to perform good condition. In many places the teams have been en- Forest was held at the Queen's-house. Lyndhurst. The very similar to those required from the gentlemen-at-arms. gaged nearly all night in carrying. On the 23rd a number verderers presided, four of whom —namely, 11. C. Compton, The corps was instituted by Henry VII., aud their duties ct trees were blown down in the neighbourhood of Lough- E.g., M.P.,SirCharles Hulse, end John Mill. and W. Sloane were to wait in the Wet room above stairs, forty by day and borough. The potato crop: appeared quite healthy until Stanley,Esqrs., were present. The court within the bar twenty by li ve r to bring up the dishes for his Majesty's from ten days to a fortnight txto, but since that s er i ou s a reat was filled with keepers and minor forest officers. Without, table, end d them to the servers ; and to attend the alteration has taken place. Disease prevails to a ex in ooneequence of the recent proceedings connected with King's person on going abroad, and on all occasions of tent —Leicester Journal, Aug. 2.5. the forest, the hall was crowded with co.intry people. The solemnities. Six of them, called " yeomen hangers," had leen or Mau.—From examination of many fields of po court was opened by proclamation. There appeared to be the charge of removing the tapestry from the royal apart- tames on this island, supposed to have been ruined by the some I.ttle doubt as to how the proceedings should be con menta when the King cbacged his residence ; and two of blight, a new feature has been discovered, much more fa . ducted. Sir Charles Hulse requested that everything might them, ceded " yeomen bed-goen," had the same charge vourable to the crop than was hoped. In many cases where 'be done in due form, and Mr. Comnton request:it to see the with respect to putting up and taking down the royal be. the tops are severely singed by the vi rus , the tubers remain acts under which the court acted. 'The officers were desired These functions, however, are now perfect sinecures, and sound and unaffected. The weather has ' been most hoiden to go through every ceremonial, and especially to call over their services CPO never esaled into requisition, except on the ous of late. The corn harvest has suffered considerabliad the roll of forest officers, omitting none. After some usual state occasions, to stand in the passages and receiving- much injury must have been sustained throughout the Ilittle delay the roll was read accordingly. The rooms of the palace,. at drawing-rooms, lenge, marriages, 8:c. —Liverpool o Mercury, a tilt . 25. this ne ighbourh ood ca list of officers was very cu ri ous, and disclosed the The core consists of the fo llo wing o ars, namely • a LOUCESTERAMIRIL— e weat h er i n this neighbouth names of some parties not nerally known to be •eaptain, salary, I,oool.—he is invariably • peer, and the ap- has lately been favourable for the harvest, and its operations connected with the forest. Vis eo uut Cannieg, and Mr. pointment has always been a political one, although nomi- have been carried on very extensively. The crops, gene- Andrew Drummond, of Cadlands, were called as rangers ; natty in the gift of the crown—lieutenant, salary, 5001. ; en- rally are in good condition ; though many fields were laid' Sir Frederic Theeiter as hi g h steward ; the Earl of sign, 3001. ;—these appointments are not political, that is, no by the neavy rains, yet the grain has not been injured. At Malmeebury, Prince Geo r g e of Cambridge, Viscount Pal- change necessarily takes place on the accession of a new ad. p resent there is no reason for despondency, at least as far as merston, Sir George Rose, and a number of other noblemen ministration—c:erk of the cheque, salary, 1501. ; also, a de- this neighbourhood is concerned.—Gloucester Chronicle, and gentlemen having property in and adjacent to the forest, puty clerk with a salary ,• four exempts, who command the Aug. 26. were called in other capacities. Colonel Thornhill was el led yeomen in the absence of the lieutenant or ensign, salary will Beek INOMAMSRlRE.—Considering the continued heavy ae wood warden, and it appeared tram the comments of the probably be 2501. to 3001. per annum, as the market value of storms with which this county has been tinted the reports verderers that they were not in any way officially apprised of the office is oon4uted at 4,0001. to 5,0001, ; 100 yeomen, 78 of are not of so disheartening a nature as might be expected. Woolwich : Do you consider that tho soil of Hainault Forest is very well adapted for the growth of timber ? Yes. I do.—Have you ever obierred trees come up of themselves? Daring the fence month, I see a good many seedlings came up in every part of the forest—Oaks ? Oaks and hornbeams, and tnorns.—l suppose those trees are generally destroyed by the cattle ? Yes ; they are destroyed by the cattle as soon u the fence-month is over; in one part there is now a portion of tine saplings, and there Las been from time to time ; they require much thinning; in fact, I thinned some the last season.—No navy timber has been furnished from the forest of late years ? ho, not since 1810.—Is there any fine timber in the for ? Yes, some very good timber.—Have you had any estimate made of the value of the timber in the forests? Nu, it would take a lung time to do it —Should you think it deli-able that an estimate should be prepared of the value of the timber in the fent ? Ido not know ; if you wished to ascertain it, it might be easily done —Should the Com mi:sioners of Woods think it desirable that the value of the timber should be ascertained, it might be easily ascertained ? Yes—ls the return marked L, a correct return? It is.— This return contains the names of the parties who have pur chased timber in different years ; who was Mr. Laver, of Rumford ? Either the father or brother of the woodward, for both of them purchased timber.—Do you think it de sirable that the relations of the woodward should be allowed to purchase tenser ? Ido not see how we can alter tbs..; if a man came to the public auction, whether he is the brother or any other relation of the woodward, we could not say that he should not bid.—Do you think that the prices realised in Waltham are generally higher than the prices realised in WineLor for the same description of timber ? We sell no oak timber at Windsor.—You are acquainted with the prices of timber at Whychwood ; are they the game as the prices at Waltham? They run nearly about the same.—You have not found that the price has been higher, so near London u Waltham is, than elsewhere I cannot put the timber of Waltham into comparison with any other timber which I have under my direction, it is so very inGrior.—ln fact, you cut nothing in Waltham Forest but very interior timber in deed No; nothing but what has been mutilived or damaged; we never cut any stood timber at all in Waltham. —b the umber that remains in Waltham Forest generally of a tine description? There are many parts where it is very good timber,—Could you furnish a large supply of timber to the navy, if suddenly called upon for it ? Yes.—The expense of carriage from that part of the world would , I suppose, be very slight to Sheerness er Woolwich, or any part of the Thames ? It is not very distant —You have water-carriage to Ilford-bridge ? Yes—And there are a good many rat.- way stations near the forest, on tke Eastern Counties Rail way, which comes into London ? There is one at Ilford, and another at Rumford.—And one at Forest-gate The railway could not deliver timber there, and I do not think they could at Ilford; they might do it at Rumford. About Aylesbury and Weston Tureille the crops are far front satisfactory; the wheat crop is decidedly inferior, in bulk and quality, to the last two years, and the weather has pre vented even an approach to a completion at caring. A few file days would safely house the crop. Barley and oats am good in quantity, but bad in quality, from the seed having come up at twice, and stained with the rain. Tie winter beans and peas are good, hut the spring ones far from pro mising, and backward. Turnips and mango d wartzel pro mise to ga a great way towards making up the deficiency of the potatoes. About Wendover and Aston Clinton wheat is thin and light, and much of it carted in a wretched condi tion. Barley will not be ready for a fortnight, and pro mises an average crop. Peas are hardly worth carting, and [hale in the fields are nearly all shed out. Beans are the same as at Weston. But little failiw will bo made in consequence of the wet. About Wicdsor and Eton things are more promising, the wheat crop is above an average one, and has not grown to any event, and, thanks •o the drying winds ear;y in the week, is well carted. The barley crops aro heavy ; oats are a good crop, peas in good condi , ion, and the crop heavy, and hems likely toy ield well. About Chet kern and Ameraham the wheat is under an average crop, sod peas are in • very middling way. About Buckingham, though slightly grown, no material berm has been done to the wheat, the barley looks well, peas are better than is the other districts, but the beans turning black and rather blighted. As to potatoes, there is hut one account—the disease is worse than wet ever before known in this county, and on many lands will not pay the expense of cultivation. — Bucks Herald, Aug. 26. OXPORDSHISIE.—The quality of the new wheat wal vary much, as exemplified in the Oxford msrket on tie 21-t, where one sample, which was considered wall bought, ob tained 141, 10s. per load, whilst another with difficulty made 101.; again, in exposed situations, from the low prevailii.g temperature and influent cold winds, there was no appe.r. sore of germination up to the 18th. Fine maltirg barley must be sought or from last year's produce, of which there is but little left, and will command a high price ; oho bulk of this year's crop, which is rath. r under an average, will be found coarse and low in colour,snd where the clover hos grown through it, a by no Canons uncommon occurrent,, it w i I lbe cast iflicult to stack without afterwards heating. Oats and spring beans are about an average crop, and have not a.. present sustained much injury. The whiter bean has bun most prolific, and the fortunate cultivator of this variety will again he in the ascendant with his sample. The i arty crop of potatoes has proved large and fine, but amongst those now in the fields on no former occasion has the disease been so general. It continues to spread so rapidly, that it would be sound individual as well as national policy to cause the im mediate consumption of those that are eatable. With scarcely an exception, both turnies and mmgold wurtzel are promising a h. avy crop, whilst hay is plentiful, and the grass lands are redundant of keep.—Jac/Jon's Oxford Journal, Aug. 26. WALES.—A correspondent, writing from Carmarthen, Aug. 26, says: "The weather is strangely variable in W.les, but the crops are as yet comparatively uninjured, and the yield in most instances excellent." IRELAND. DUBLIN, Aro. so. Although yesterday morning was unfavourable, the weather improved before noon, and we bad a beauti ful harvest day. This morning the sky is serene, and the weather all that man could wish at such a season —warm sun and a light dry wind. From all parts of the country the accounts assure us that perma nently-settled weather has set in, and harvest opera tions are in rapid progress in every direction. Several arrests have taken place in Clonmel. The parties are not prominent in political affairs here, hut are in easy circumstances, and of the class of com fortable farmers and shopkeepers. The names of the parties are John Preston, Edmond Maher, Jeremiah Kealy, John Linane, Pat Ormond, John Brennan, Stephen Morrissy, James Butler, James Day, En mond Kennedy, Michael Brien, and James Britten. Although the statement that the special commission would issue immediately was made upon good grounds it is now said to have been premature. The govern ment in fact is not yet prepared. In the first in stance the arrangements were rather delayrd than speeded, because it was supposed that Messrs. Dillon, Dohany, and O'Gorman might be made amenable. As this is now less probable it is no further considered in the proceedings. The crown solicitor probably was not able to go fast enough—or probably the proverb " slow and sure " was remem bered by those who have the direction of those affairs. This delay has, I also understand. not been uninfluenced by other considerations. 'the crown solicitor's office here is certainly unintermit tingly at work preparing the commission, preparing the indictments, and arranging the evidence —the letter being very embarrassing from the super abundance of the material. The preparations now have made such progress that the commission may issue this week or the next, or any day or week which may suit the public convenience. Unless some consideration not now present to the law authorities at this side should arise, the commission will have issued, the indictments be fund, and all preliminaries completed by the 25th September. Mr. Justin Supple, of Tralee, president of the Mitchel Club, and Mr. T. F. Gabbett, have been arrested. The fo:mer is a solicitor, and was taken into custody at his own house in Tralee ; the latter is said to be a Limerick man, and a relation of Mrs. S. O'Brien, whose family name is Gabbett. He is said latterly to have lived in America, from whence he has recently arrived at Wexford where he was arrested. Correspondence establishing complicity with the in surrectionists, and a considerable sum of money have, it is said, been found upon him. A discovery has prevented the carrying out of thu promotion of head constable Callaghan Foote, to a sub-inspectorship. A Mr. C. R. Mahony, of Capel street, in Dublin, whose proceedings in our recent political circumstances have caused him to become suspected by the authorities, happens to be a relation of Mr. Callaghan Foote. When Mr. Mahony was ar rested, there was found amongst his papers a letter, written by Mr. Foote, urging Mahony to write and procure insertion inethe newspapers for a letter com plaining of the neglect of Roman catholic(' in the pro motions from head constables to sub-inspectorships, and giving him instances in sustainment of the com ➢laint, of which the writer was one. Mr. Foote has, tt seems, been always an active member of the force, particularly conspicuous in 'fipperary for his vigilance la capturing offenders. His conduct at the recent out break manifested firmness and courage. After notice of his promotion had been given him—after he had pro ceeded to his new station, had been complimented and presented with a sword by the gentry of Templemore, his late station,the letter above referred to wasgot. Mr. Foote was asked respecting hie relations with Mr. I Mahony. He denied all knowledge of him. His let ters were produced—he was confounded and con victed, and sent back to his duty as head-constable. However the complaint respecting the non-promotion of catholics May have violated the rules and etiquette of the service, coming from such a quarter, the autho rities will probably remember it. The worst part of the transaction by far seems the untruth respecting Mr. Mahony. Another fire occurred in Cork on Saturday. The premises of a brushmaker were burned, and the loss sustained was several thousand pounds, only 2,0001. of which was covered by insurance. The Cork papers, and certainly with justice, exclaim against their corporation fur neglecting to get up a firs brigade, as it seems the destructiveness of the fire was owing to the want of a timely supply of water. The policeman with whom Mr. S. 'O'Brien shook hands at the period of the attack on the party in Mrs. McCormick's house,was yesterday at Kilmainttain, and identified Mr. 0 Brio]. THE POTATO CROP.—The Pilot publishes a letter, written at Carlow, speaking in terms of great confidence as to the preservation of the potato. The writer is a phy sician of some distinction. Your readers will recollect that in the course of my communications last week, I was ena bled on good authority to speak with confidei.ce of the com parative safety of the crop in Carlow indeed, of the little injury it had sustained. This letter cor roborates my account. The same eff.ct is observable in Fermanagh—that is to say, the h►uhcs are black and decayed, the tubers continuing sound. In , Limerick the same state of matters is observable in some degree. A letter from Galway, published in the Mail, states, however, that "the whole potato crop sown since May 1, about 9-10ths of the whole, is all gone; not a stalk to he seen." Would it not be well if it were seen whether the tubers were gone also WALES. DISASTER OFF HOLYHEAD.—The Cosmopolitan, Maxwell, from Liverpool to Africa, and St. Lawrence, Brown, from Liverpool to New York, were in oontact on the 27th inst. near Holyhead. The crew of the Cosmopolitan, except one man drowned, got on board the St. Lawrence, which put into Kingstown with damage to cutwater lom of jibboom. Capt. Maxwell rep - its that Capt. Brown refused to lend him a boat to go on board the Cosmopolitan to whether she would float. PROF INCIAL. LANCASHIRE. THE COLLISION ON THE PRESTON AND LANCASTER RAILWAY.—After the despatch of Mr parcel from Lancaster on Monday with the report of the inquiry in - o the accident on the above railway, and which appeared in on: paper of yesterday, several other witnesses were examined, whoa. evidence was mainly a repetition of that alredely given. The evidence of R. 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