The Express. — London, England, 1851-01-02 00:00:00

Ttt Al'xprt 1 No. 1,3b9 ] Zvery BATI7RDAT Ahereses wal be published, THE EXIIIBITION EXPRESS, Olin OP • DAILY MOONING D 0011.2 P•PIA, PRICE FOURPENCE, COMTAIIRI6 !TWIT IPOSSISLB IDPOILDATIOS ZILATITZ TO Tlll GREAT EXHIBITION OF 181, m OITICTS, lIIIIRITOW TILOGPICTS, INTIM/MD CON TINTS, ♦►IANOIDANT•, APPIAIANCI, Tloollll/11, PAST AND TUTU/LI. THE enormous another of persons interested in the f rthcout.og Great Exhibition of the World's Isdostry haying hitherto tad no satisncory representative In the Press—no Paper sufbc sully large, and with mechanism comprehensive enough top rasp and exemplify the forthcoming Ispoeitioa with fulness WIN*, of so Frond as event—tb• Froprelton of AO EXPRES " have determined upon Untie', every Saturday afternoon, a doublet sheet of that Paper, to contain Ms tallest and latest information relative to the Eakilition, together with • mass of other matter etteeptahle to the multitude of persons interested either as Osserel and toed Committ,emen and Secretaries, Ddemben if Proviscial Treveairm Clubs, Exhibitors, Friends of Exhibitors, Rives of Exhibitors, end the sull larger sod wider circle of Mose who are to be the hundreds of thousands of Visitors to the Hen .polis durins the f.rtheoming Con gress of Industry of all Nations. In ed lition to everything /111SliVe to the Exposition, this D nage Sheet will give Osmond News, mid will. moreover, especially attend to all Ossetat !TORN Is Musters, Seines, sad Art. Os every day eserpt Satirday the price of the EXPRESS Will be Threeptuee, u bentofore. ADVERTISEMENTS. The newt valea et die 111.11181TION EXPRESS " r a median, nest he evident to selvertieern ill edvertieeintsto meet ►e at die Oia in Waitaltitts at Or befog. ER►t in the 'mine of sash Friday, to secure in. sorties is ties smoke d the Whining ley. WARMTH and VENTILATION COMBINED. cvmurs nom rams WAIMAIIt VENTILATING te DOW CAI Ma olhoifreo owl shop* In the market tar dikachook,edmoul.., palate sod pelvaho heildioge. Cramer.: Towne& 10,040 tulmc legit,6..; 30,101,51 Os; lel‘lloo, Slf 12s. 711k1 the animal oprs Ire Wm, iolheirehog the esisrosl seadming kthreeteh the Merrier Poole of iettlehl woe), awl Paroles It la he peewee. there., IoppITMI • modosert earn of pure worm Am A pecepettee terworded am 11.011.A03 I. J. IL D0W6071, 121, Oz belletrert, whore It thee bo otos I. eyeratio a. DEOISTER AND ALL OTHER ST()VES.— WILLIAM IL rualows grocK of REGISTER sad other in„ tinkles Wag the larrst as the amid. is unelawalleal In welt, sad variety et dip, and unnereasood in erivisitesesa warkmansilp. lambi Rhos" 'nth Armed ornaments anal Monts el ban, LI 11.. to CS Oa; ditto, yeah ormolu cream. Iva sod two N o ol ha., low to 111 the.; Wowed feeders. oanriete, oath elandorts, ham 7.. to Meal Venders, hem SI 1.10. to Rfi; data, 010 fhb ormolu nnuments, from L. 13.. to L 7 7e.; llm Isms, fro an Is. Sd. the a 1 W L I eti avows's and oilier rote sled Itaahatang Moms, red Racks R one. anvil, lose. CUTLERY. WARRANTED.—The mat varied aratrureat el TABU CLTLEILV Is the world, all ,nested, to &way. 11,•41 id WILLIAM M. BernN'S, at priors that are trundle nate only Immure el *bele:green tithe talc *lards itory-lisallled lehle home ; with WA elrwidere, Ina. per doers; &merle, to match, Ile; it to inhatek taper amen r,rerra 3a. fid. per pair : larger Wash ws meet ~ones, to 21a. pre doers; if 'etre line, with War amulet. her lie.; whits bone tale hales. from ti.. per deers; atm% ; in pew; Mack hors tame from Oa pa *we ; eery Y ; torten ; Ss. 6d. ; table Keels, from la seed. Ma kW* ftek lie plasoldsusrt Ulm sod Sark; Wane and attar vier. lid it the new pared be earisss, b eskissrs. Aho • langs etwortorwt at mom pwalolven, Weer; k., et the beet quality. Wailed Calatiqpins with espy few stew, Iressnserrysttitiv, eli Os, pun M.. WI LUAU S. warm (Ws Lisps mai Ilerlis) 3111, 01101 W. MM. soma et Newsms.4/s wdh. re ; sad Me. I. SLwr.ut-ssatirr. arroadmi ..e, ISM EARLY THETH.—ROWLANDS' ODONTO, r Drat Dentifrice. A white powder, elimpouniled of the awl mien rreierelnf la weillente of the Oriental be-tel, et la. elegekla %slur In r•reftreuie and gutsfetag W tee* l amest.. be de end an refl./meet brelen mat mod pure. IL eittle. lON Swum. .11ter •nr. the t.eth. arra tonnes a pearl-AM i▪ ibe se th.,... nw in.4 eueteee It. entlepp9a awl nots.wirbede . . • pngsniri orreg progreso deny of the watt. awl tame •baktry also a tor guts^. pm boa. Cowan of t he laa. grnolne .cle tta. the oraido„ "Zootia us t uttbon v. JO, Ilanair. Usk% OM* Obolobto sad psi imen. REPEAL OF THE DUTY ON PAPER. A meeting of paper manafacturers was held m. Tuesday afternoon at the Clarence Hotel, Spring Gerdes., Mancheeteir, in order to comelier what were could be taken to secure, in the course sit the next erosion of parliament, the abolition of the paper duty. Mr. T. 11 . CROMPTON was called to tha than, and said that at • "meeting held about • month since, be was re quested to ascertain, as far es possible, the probability of getting, is the ne st see Ma of parliament, an abolotine of the paper duty. With this view, he had had inter views with lord John Russell, the Chancellor of the Bechn in, and • great number of leading men, bole In and out of paliameat, sad of all political sou. aunts. The rind' of those iwerviews was • conviction that Da the exertions made by the riblic and the trade, bat emanating from the latter, would entirely depend whether they were to sawed is getting this obnoxious tax repealed or sot Toe neat step he took was to have • circular issued by the " Ancet4tiim for the Abolition of the 1) try on raper," which existed in London, and also himself to cone • pamphlet on the subject, lie did this because he tot that they could never hope f esteem, ludas they informed the public of lin true nature of the paper tax, and the extent to which it affected awe . . every individual in the community. He bad that day met with an individual who was commune 1,0001. worth of paper yearly, but who said he " had not the least id. - 1 that paper paid any very series duty," and was perfectly astounded when he (the chairman) informed bias that paid nut less than 40 per cent. This was not all some el. wriptions of paper were toed to the extent of 120 Off cent. on the cost price. lie believed that if the public, now almost Moonlit on the subject, were made fully aware of the nature of the paper duty, not only woad they be able to secure its speedy repeal, but, in feet, to mate it • pan of the next budget. ltsey would find in the public press, he believed, a most powerful organ in aiding their movement; and through the newspapers, and other channels, the sasiciatioa in London would take cars that the bearings of the tax were fully expand to the public. The paper manufacturen were, of course, the tint to feel the effects of the tax. A man could not conk mance snaking paper without first applying to an suns officer to y his premiers, to number every room in them, and also to mark, by letter or by slumber, every imple ment which he (the atanumeturer) proposed to use. the act now in force, as amended by committee, was called " A bill to consolidate and amend the laws for collecting and securing the duties of excise on paper made in the United Kingdom; it was passed on the sth Jul 1339, sad contained 69 clauses, • pest number of w hich were penal. Section three required paperaisken, before commencing bunaers,to mike ' • true and perimeter entry in "Fritts g' of all their mills aid premises, and every implement they used in the manufacture, flte. "of paper of any deectiption, or buttooboard, sailboard, pasteboard. or aceleboard," and to deli en the mine to the excise °teen in whose the mill and premises might be situated ; in which entry every " engine, cheat, machine, vat, and press shall be distinguished by • particular number or letter, or number and leiter or listen ; ' in default of which, for every ma tented mill or implement, the manufacturer shall forfeit 2001, " together with all paper, button.board, tailboard, pasteboard or sceisboard, and all materials found therein." A similar penalty was imposed in cue the masks upon the several things mentioned did not apes with the entry given is, so that if the number or letters were erased by seadent, the excise officer could declare the premises as unuttered, and enforce the penalty of 2001. The chairman proceeded to read and comment upon section 9, remarking tint under it the labels issued by the commissioners of excise, to be seed in the tying up of piper, were made equal in value to bank notes; as there was • fine of 101. imposed for every label delivered to any manufacturer, "and for which a receipt shall not be given, or which shall be cancelied, ohlverated, or destroyed, sold or dispsed of, or improperly used, or sot produced or accounted tor," when demanded by the excise officer. It was often neceeasry to entrust a *whim: man with 1,000 of those notes at once (non seating to the nioatietarn 10,0001.), and the manufacturers were of coarse always in danger, as some of the labels might be destroyed Of removed through malice, or ev.n through the iliAbttst negligence or inettestion. By section IS, • period of b i hours was consumed, after paper wee ready for delivery iato the market, before the manufacturer could send it out, is coesequence of the notice required to be given prior Mod to elapse alter the weighing and charging of it with duty. This period, daring which the paper was kept in the mill. wee a loupe one than sou requited fair him to buy the raw materials in Manchester, send them to his mill, 'manufacture Paper, sad transport it to any part of the kingdom if he wen not Muter. dwi b. This regulation crippled the cos 'unpin of paper to an almost incalculable extant The thainno, after referricg to other restrictive and peal dome in the bet, pointed out the extent to which, despite tee tipilancs of the excise, frauds were eoustaatly bob g committed, aid said that of this the government was lay aware, and ocknowledged Um difficulty of collecting the duty. Seethinee for paper were being man ital., pro duct ci nearly Meatiest in their astute that euteemsa toad ant detect the difference sail told of it ; but all these Mite allowed to go duty Ina. He h i mself, within ten days, plated in the Ma& of • government officer • specimen Ma new material, whisk the ofaier aakesitatiaely pro aremeed to be peMebeard ; bat he would not, nevertheless, doff_ Is Winans tens of it, although he (the chairman) told UM Where it wee lying. The chairman next referred to the Ilinteofobstoirofoons who depended upon the amnia*. taro of paper, either directly or indirectly, and urged the immense minutely* which must result to them from the abolition of the piper duty. Mr. BALDWIN &lathed the injurious operation of the paper duty on the trade of Birmingham. The meeting was afterwards sidressed by Mr. C. Potter sad other gentlemen; and resolution was agreed to for the easinsucensent of • subscription, to aid the L.r.doc association ; directieg the secretary to COMMUL ie MA with similar associations in the country; and urging paper manu facturers to solicit aubscripticies from their friends g‘nerally, and to endetwour M soak• ►nown the injurious opervioc of the tax complaisel of. Abeetllool. wee satneribed by thine present at the seestier. A ROMAN CATHOLIC • MIRACLE.' [From C dignerres MeliMiref of the 30th of December.) I. tee already bees stated, on the authority of a Lyon paper, that an alleged miracle recital, trek place in th. church of Saturnin, canton and arrondissement of Apt, department of the Voucher, consisting in the flowing of blood from a picture r•pretenting t►e descent of Jesas Christ from the cross. The Pourerr puhli.hes a letter, dated the 24th, from the sub-prefect of Apt, id Grave, en the sat jeer, 117 which he makes the fothiwieg vcreordiaery state. :- About the middle of the month he learned that the po pulation of the district ware greatly occupied by the trate meat that a girl of Salutes, named Rosette Tawnier, long uoted for her piety, bad, while segued is prayer lc the chapelof Sr. Efahareis, martyr and Aeclibishop of Toulouse, seen, touched, and kneed blood which flowed from the wounds in Christ's body, in the painting placed above the al'ar, re• presenting the deerent from the eroes. it was addetethat supernatural feet' bad been repeated on three follow lag days. Shealy after the sub-pretest waived through the mayor the copy of innate' drawn up by the lieutenant of gedurmerie, in which that functionary states that leaving me the 16th, et the invitation of the curd, gone to the church, he, having with the cure get on • table clues to the picture distinctly saw ' blood flow from the wound by the side, and those of two hands and the kft foot.' The blood at the right side conusted, says the lii stenaat's report, of 'e!glet drops in the form of pearls, of the else of a little pea; en the right hand' it formed a Hai of six centimetres is length, ending in a drop; at the left hand and the left loot the blood' wee lea abendant, bet still sufficient to trees a line from the two points of three or four centimetres, also termi lianas in a drop.' Six or seven hundred pathos were present at the time anl saw ell this. The ewe then asked Dr. Clement, who was present, to wipe the blood away with • piece of white lines. This wee done, and II marks of blood remained on the kW O. Afterwards the flowing of the Wood recommenced, but was allowed to coagulate on the painting. That 'co doubt might exit as to the reality of the prodigy,' the lieutenant caused the upper part of the altar and the painting to be removed, and ascertained that ' it wee abooluuly impossible that the least thing could have pens. trued the Interior of the altar or behind the painting; more over, the wall behind the painting was covered with a cement perfectly fatal in all parts.' la consequence of this mar vellous status, at the sub prefect went on the 17th to Bt. Setwain. The and wag absent; bat, la company with the mayor, Dr. Clement, sad Y. sy, advocate, he visited what he calls ' the nairesuleas *nen.' These gentlemen atat-d to him that they bad whinnied the oozing of the blood, as stated by the lieutenant of gendarmerie, and caused him to remark the coagulated blood on the 'stinting. At this the sub-prefect mays be felt prifound Hv thee went to visit the young girl; he found that apes lived in an kin kept by a female cousin. ' She wee in a state of stiffens, ; her appearance was sickly ; ha eyes rolled mysteriously in their mach developed orbit, and see mud to lose themselves in a cloud ; their expression was lull of melancholy, her body eyraordinarily thin; her attitude I xcessively m odest;radest; humility was piloted in all her movement., and reproduced in all her words: she es. pm eel hereon with great i ropriety, and spoke French ma. °areal, than meet outlasted persons. To all the nab prefeet's question, the damsel replied with great ' Clad,' she said, ' bed effected this miracle for the oseverisoa of einsen, and He lad specially ehoeea St. Satur nia, became, fora years ago, this locality was the witness of a pest weadel. Her cousdues,' she added, ' bad beta cut =earawaisteed, se also that of a priest; bat she had elided reparatioa from tied.' On the 20tb, the sub prefect, scessepaniort by M. Ouillibert, 'lnge d'lnstruetion, sad At Jaques, subnitete of the Procures, of the Reliable , luau* lit. Saturant; the Archbishop of Aviation had arrived on the previous evening. After paying his respects to the prelate, the cab prefect went, an sompeny with Dr. C. Bernard, an minas( physician of Apt, towards the church. As they were ascending the hill on which it Untested, they hearo the bell Irmo : ' this,' says the functions's, ' war the signal of the commencement of the manifestation of the prodigy.' Us was much vexed at it, as be was desirous of being in the chapel ' before the appearance of the oozing of the blood.' but they hurried on. A number of pera:c, were assembled around the church. The curl met nim ; he anoouaced that the ocs ng of the bleed had commenced, .t that he c Ala not open the church until the arrival of :he Archbishop. However, the sub-prefeet retired, and, at lay, the cure let him in; he took with his Drs. Bernard and Clement. The high altar was lighted with was can dee ; at one corner was Rosette Towner, kneeling in prayer, with her hands crowed, and her head leaning on the altar. She appeared completely absorbed in de• Awn. ' I ascended the table of the altar,' aye the sub-prefect, ' as by Dr. Clement. 1 examined the wound by the light of a was candle. I ascertained that from those of the right hard, the two feet, and heart blood oozed. The drop .it blood which was on the right hand visibly Increased; it appeared to me like a drop el blood each as anises on the end of the finger un being pricked by a sharp instrument when the lower part is lightly pressed. It war at the moment at which the drop of blood of the right baud was about to fall or flow that I wiped it three several times with a piece of linen. The first two operations gave two very red stain of blood. In the third lbs stain was clearer. Alter this opera. non the wound remained windy cry. I 410 wiped see erel times the two wounds on the feet, and I remarked that the drops were clearer, and the easing lees sensible. I dad the WWI to the 'wound on the rigat side • there were there a doses drops of blood, which nearly fa med the design of a heat. That of the middle pros/Bud the same phenomenon sei that of the right hand, sad it was of a darkish colour. Those that were around resembled, cm the contrary, the drupe of the feet. 1 took away the drop of the middle, and one or two on the right. At this moment the arch. bishop entered the chapel. 1 accordingly lett untouched the other drops of the wound on the side, and Untamed tram wiping the wooed on tie left hand, from which no blood Lad oozed, 1 desceoded from the altar. The archbishop, followed by a numerous body of the clergy, knelt at the loot of the altar, and after a short prefer examined the drops of blood which 1 had left at the wound of the heart, sad he wiped them with a piece of linen. This piths of linen and mine were covered In all with about 30 drops of blood ; and they were exhibited ft the clarion. yof the population, who filled the chetah. The clergy and a body of young girls sang hymns; and we waited th expec'ution of a new wain, but none came. The girl Rosette Tamisier, who still remained absorbed in prayer, we. sated ethers' ti m er if the blood would flow again. A , brit time she did not answer; a woad, she and she did not know ; a third, that she did not believe it would. After this last reply, about an hour alter the arrival of the archbishop, the cure (hL (head) canoed the picture to be displaced, and *oilmen turned It round. We examined it with a good deal of care, bat I saw no particular mark. Tie canvas was perfectly dry; a thick coating of pitch covered all the bark, sad it was placed against a very thick wall This was all the part I had in the event. The archbishop then proceeded to eel, brats masa, and I went away to draw up an account of what 1 had seen. I then visited Rosette latareier, whom I found suffering and greatly discouraged. She announced to me Blatant believed the prodigy would be recewed. And in fact, I have since received a report from the Mayor of St. Saturnia, announcing that at nine in the morning of Saturday, the 21st, there was again an abundant coring of blood." In • postscript to this letter, the suteprefect states that a gendarme tumid Briol, who after his retirement from the chapel had Wen placed to p the crowd from approach ing the painting too closely, bad remarked two drops of blood ooze from the right side that he bad wiped them two or three times with his pocket handkerchief, and that four or en stains still remained on it. He said that be had not at tint gives say soma% of this, hatiess be feared that his pocky handkerchief would be taken from him, and he wished to mod it to his mother. The Cormier de Lyon states that this blood which is said to have baud from the wounds in the side t f our Saviour, as represented is the painting is the church of St. Saturnia, DM boom wiped by two medical men, who h..ve decl►red that its chemical compositioa ezeetly corresponds with that of Dumas blood. DOG TRAINING IN MONICH.—One afternoon J. told me that she heard a tremendous noise, the shouta and streams of a asp, sad the terrine howling and yelling of a dog. Out darted the gentleman from the studio, and oat rushed J , and there, in the large adjoining held, through the mud—for there had beta a heavy fall of snow—a man raced along, punned by an esormous dog, the fiercest brute imaginable ; it sprang upon him, it tore him, it shook him by the hair of his bead, it dragged him along the ground, the man screaming and the dog howling! Then they were up again, and careering round and round the field, man and dog. lake wild beasts. J. was horrified beyond words, and to .'s indescribable indignation the gentleman looked quietly on and smiled. What could it mean ? To her it seemed a fearful murder. Bat no ! it was only the training ef a watch deg ; and a very frightful business it must have been, although very grand to Vitae'', the patleman declared. The man wee all bound up, so that the dsg could sot pistol, injure him materially; but hie head sad face, with their frightful bandages, suggested no other idea than that of wooed', which made him look all the sore dreadful. These Germ dop, thus trained, us necessary as secarity against Hibbs,: many people keep them ; there are two at the studio, but I have noticed nothing very ferocious about them. He.. this mode of training dogs is act at all sassoal,although the trade I should think not particularly agreeable.— Dithases ilotastAoid N ords. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, 1851. THE MANCHESTER SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OP ANCIENT FOOTPATHS. The tor?. of the soil have a strange passion for keeping everybody off it but themselves and families. Glen Ti. and Arns.del are extreme cases ; but every now and then oce hears of some ancient too•path, across some plea rint meadow, or roand some shady wood, stopped up, or attemp•e t to be stopped up. Nobody—not even the poorest mechanic among us—grudges our nobles and gentry their broad acres. But there is a profoucd conviction in the breasts of the " lack lands" that the rural pathways trodden by their ancestors are theirs by u good • right an that which gives his demesnes to the squire. This is • coovietion that curet to be cherished, for it preserve. • mate for healthful exercise anima our town popu lations, and the mass of obtaining it. It is unwise in the gentry to prowl@ the feelings to which this cowrie. Lion gives Rise. Thera ,re are associations for the protection of ancient footpa•ho, especially in lug- manufacturing towns, of all other associations the most truly co ive. They prevent OCCailollll of q ,arrel between the " haves" and the have-now." Ono of the oldest of these associations, and one that bas been most useful and active in its day, is that of Manchester. Mr. Archibald Prentice, in his pleasing and pra'nble volume, Irons which we lately culled his account of his interview with Benthem, has recorded the origin and first achievemens of this society. Here is his umouot of It:— "In the year 1826, in which the deep distress of the poor sad the timely benevolence of the wealthier deuce were alike memorable, a society was established having for its idlest the preservation of a right of considerable import ance to the former. The volumes of smoke which, in spite of legislation to the contrary, eootiauelly Usu. from fanny 'hempen, and form a complete cloud over Manchester, certainly make it less desirab:e as a . place of residence than kilos& place of business ; and the enjoyment of the inhabi tants would be greatly inenesed, could they breath* a purer atmosphere, and have a brighter and more frequent sight of the sun. Bat, to counterbalance the disadvantage, they have the privilege of walking unrestrainedly through the hoe hide of the vicinity; and thousands sod tens of thousands, whcse avocations render fresh air and exercise en absolute necessity of life, avail themselves of the right of footway through the meadows, and corn fiel fa, and parks is the immediate neighbourhood. There an so many pleasant footpaths, that a pedestrian might walk completely round the town in a circle, which would seldom anted a radius of two miles from the Ezchange, and in which he ' would scarcely ever have occasion to mounter the liaise, bad*, and dust of a public cart road or paved street. The beautifully undulating country between the valley of the Irk and Cheetbans Hill; the floe valley of the Irwell, with its verdant meadows ; the slope from Pendleton to :he plain, which, commencing between the extremities of Holm. and Chorlton•upon-Meoletk, extends eolith and west over the greater part of Cheshire; all this scenery, which in any cottony would be admired, but which has a handfed addi tional charms to him who is condemned, day after day, mouth after month, and year alter year, to toil in the dirt sod smoke of a great town—all this delightful scenery lies open to the pedestrian • and while he strays along through the open hold, or wooded park, or the narrow and retired lane, and breathes the pure air of heaven, he feels that all these gelds, sod parks, and lanes, are as open to him, and to those who hang on his arm, or play by his side, as if they were his own, to have and to bold, as long as trees grow or water runs. "But there are' tyrants of the field '—men who imagine that that which rues through theirs mut netts be theirs ; and they must be withstood. About some twenty years before the period of which we write, a Mr. Ralph Wright, of FORM'', a pariah a few miles south-west of Manchester, possessed en estate partly purchased and partly inheri•ed, which had the usual complement of hedges, along which ran commie footways, and by which they were concealed from his house. Being desirous of giving to his property, which did not consist of more than fifteen or sixteen acres of land, a more park like appearance, he levelled she hedges and fences; and boding that this brought the footways m ire i't eight of his meinitn, he began to use means to prevent the vulgar part of his neighbours coming between the wind and his nubility. One way, which went right across his little park, he shut up altogether, without the lormslity of any magistrate's order. Another, which formed pan of a church road for several farm.houses, he diver ed to e distance considerably farther from his house. To these encroachments his neighlature, unwilling to be tl ought quanelsome, peaceably submitted; but another effort met with determined resistance; this was to divert the roads to beyond the boundary of his own grounds, so that his pro perty might not be traversed at all. He was a magistrate, and he obtained orders signed by two brother magistrates; but, without waiting for the confirmation of the orders at nest quarter sessions, he stopped op the entrance to his grounds, ploughed up the old footway, and sowed the land with oats. Mr. Samuel Wood, a farmer in the parish, like the spirited old shoemaker of Bushy Pant memory, was un willing to hue the world worse than he found it, and, misted by his neighbours, broke down three several times the obstructions that bad bees put up, and restored the ethical road to the public br treading down the oats. "The muistrate proceeded hesitatingly. In 1824 be obtained another order: this was appealed union ; but when the applicants were ready with their witneres, it was abandoned. Another order immediately followed, but it was (loathed on a point of form. A third order was more eacceseful, being cos firmed at the spring quaver sessions. All this was attended with expenses which were too heavy to be borne by a few persons of the class of country farmers. Thomas and Richard Potts r had aided; but it was desirable that some association should be formed for the purpose of preventing this and similar encroachment,, and removing from individuals the persecution to which they might be exposed in resisting the encroaching spirit of powerful country gentlemen. A meeting was accordingly held in e Town H.ll, November 18, 1526, at which was formed a Society for the Preservation of Ancient Footpaths, and the following gentlemen were appointed a committee to carry its object into ell , ct ;—Joseph Armstrong, Thomas Heywood, Edward J. Lloyd, Archibald Prentice, J. B. Weeklyn, Edward Baxter, Thomas Hilton, Robert Milling too, John Edward Taylor , George Wm. Wood, Robert Hyde Greg, John Kenworniy, Richard Potter, Robert T. hbuto A pleasant association this of tories, whip, and radicals, and one which, in the successful results of its resistance in many attempted cues of encroachment, spread amongst the lountry gentlemen a wholesome terror of transgressing against the right of the poor to enjoy their own, without any one to make them afraid. "The Flieton people, having now the 'archon and coun tenance of men holding at least as good a station in society as Ralph Wright, E.q., resolved to make another effort for the recovery of their right of road. They sued out a certiorari and removed the case into the court of King's Bench, and after many motions and counter-motions, the order of the sages of the quarter session for confirming the order to stop up the footways coveted by their brotherhoood of the bench, was quashed; and oar Monday, the 14th of Juee, 1827, several respectable inhabitants of Buxton , accompanied by some of the Manchester Society, who wen desirous of witnessing the renewal of a privilege of which the public had been for two years deprived, went in procession to open the roads, end the application of a saw gave them ingress to Mr. Wright', perk.' The ground was covered with a very fine crop of grass, nearly ready to be cut; end the path, consequently, was not very obvious, but here and there it was indicated by the growth being shor:er, and it was sully traced. The party having craned the park, cut down the fences on the other side, and having thus asserted their and the public right, 'Aired peaceably. I happened to arrive a minute or two after the procession had crossed the park, but, though I mimed the satisfaction of seeing the unlawful impediments out down, I experienced a higher pleasure in observing the fresh marks of the saw, the little two fut wide opening, and the newly-made track through the tall grass than Inch sights might be thought capable of giving. They spoke the triumph of an ancient law over the grasping end monopolisiog spirit of modern times. When I reached the middle of the large field which, by the destruction of two or three hedges, had been raised into the dignity of a ' park, I could not help being struck with the bad taste, to speak of it in the gentlest terms, which fought a solitary greatness by the exclusion of every mark of rustic neighbourhood. " These contests coat the appellants nearly 6001, and, as they must hay* been equally expensive to Mr. Ralph Wright, it might have been supposed that he would desist from any further attempt at encroachment. Bet the ma gistrate w...s bent upon hie purpose, and on the 14th of September four orders were signed by Robert Fielden and Jos. Delaney. Hop., foe stopping up these path,. The perm. meted inhabitants of Flixton entered another appeal. 1: was tried at the quarter session, on Monday, October 29, luting nearly all day, and entice in the final discomfiting) of Mr. Wright, but at a cost of 7501. to the spirited vindicators of a public privilege. "I may have occasion again to mention other contests for right of rood. In the meantime I may refer to one where the opposition to encroachment arose directly from the result of the Flizton ease. About a mile from Bromegrove resided a Dr. Collett, sea whose house a footpath crossed between two parallel roads. About the year 1814, he, without any megistnee's order, diverted this cross pathway to a greeter distance from his house, and formed a paddock on the sits of the old pathway. Dr. Collett, having thus driven the public to some distance from him, now wished to drive them out of sight altogether. Mr. Wright wanted to have his ' lawn' b himself. fret from public gene; and Dr. Collett wanted to have his ' lawn ' m exclusive sight as wall as exclusive occupation. He found two clerics: magistrates ready to forward hie wishes—the Right Hon. and Rey. Walter Hutchinson, Lord Aston, and the Rte. William Vernon, who, on the 6th of June. 1827, signed an order to shut vp the road es 'useless and ant eassery." An appeal was w de to the Worentenhire midsummer seniors', but the enlighteners confirmed the order of their clerical brethren. Mr. Blinn, one of the appellate, was not disposed to dlow a public right to be lost. lie had heard of the nines ease, which much resembled his own; he visited Manchester; consulted Mr. Richard Potter; had Mr. Charles Worst, solicitor to the Footpaths Prone:ion Society, back with him to Worcestershire, and ow the 20th of May, 1828, a motion in the Court of King's B each, for quashing the ceder, came on to be heard. The order woo quashed, on the ground (bat the reverend magietrates who signed it did not state, as the set required, that it having been on ' view ' bound to be useless, it should be stop pee, but 'as it appeared' to them. The fact was, that they could not have viewed the road. The road ordered to be stopped was not the diverted but the old road, and to view it they must have broken through a garden wall, sod cut through a plantation which had existed for fourteen years. At the opening of the road, on the 26th of May, a portion or the wall was razed to the ground, part of a gm obtuse wee destroyed, several cf the trees in the plantation were eat down to the ground, and, as at nixing', a procession was formed of public epirital individuals who exercised the I rescued right, and rejoiced in the triumph of the law over the grasping Cesigcs of another' little is rant of the field.' "In the beginning of 1827, Mr. Thomas Bargees, one of the members of the Footpaths Protection Society,' called my attention to another attempted encroachment, and I find the following notice of it in my Gazette of the 17th of February :—' Every inhabitant of blinchester must have observed, with some degree of pride, the wide and noble approach to the town from the Liverpool and great north r. ad, and they will learn, with feelings of indignaVon, that the apace between the houses, and what is strictly the public road, from the Crescent to Pendleton.pole, has been, or is to be, !eased by the Chancellor of the Duchy to an individual whe will have it in his power to erect cottsges in front of the elegant mansions which have be en built in the faith that his Majesty, the Duke of Lancaster, would never per mit that noble eppren.ch to be encroached upon. When eo much has been expended in the purchase of old buildings to widen cne short street in Manchester, we cannot mention with any tolerable degree of patience, this permission to cover with buildings one of the finest outlets from thin greet. eensu W. stonily think , Ow , 4101111,11 of the duchy could' not 'have devised any means more likely to make the chancellor unpopular; and it is astonishing to us, that any inhabitant of 'the township could be tempted, by any prospect of profit, to make a bargain which he must have known would be a most odious one in the eyes of his fellow townsmen. A meeting has been held at Pendleton, at wh• oh Mr. Burgess brought forward a draft to the chan cellor on the subject, and at which Mr. Q. Jones acknow ledged, or rather avowed, that the lease conferring on hies such odious powers was already granted. We trust, how ever, that the chancellor has it still in his power to arrest ns.vsares which, we are confident, our gracious sovereign the Duke of Lancaster, would be sorry to permit against the wishes of the inhabitants of this, the second town in nu kingdom.' In addition to the Pendleton memorial, one was sent from the police commissioners of Salford, and the result was, that Lord Bexley, th' chancellor of the duchy, refused to complete an arrangement into which he had been led by false representations of the nature of the property." THE ENGINE DRIVERS ON rne NORTG WESTERN R►ILWAY.—Tbe directors of this line yesierdey gave 14 tier , ' notice of di.charge to 10 dtivere, in addition to the 12 to whom sintilu notices were given oa Monday. CRO:ISING rIIOIIOI:GIIFARES.—The terribly crowded condition of our great thoroughfares renders the crossing of them at all times a difficult and slow business, and sometimes even a dangerous performanc . Permit me, through your medium, to suggest the expediency of threwicg light cut- Won bridges over the most frequented crossings. The Lridges might he divided longitudinally by • light fence or railing, to enable parties to pass to and fro; and access to them might sully be gaiaed by a double spiral staircase. By this means our thronged street might be crossed in s►fety, and without exposure to the unctuous mud, while those who preferred rioting their necks by thr.ading the gea, etc., to losing the few moments of addiiional time required for ascending and crossing the bridges, would still be at perfect liberty to do so.—t:. R. WELD.—Royal Society. CAFTI:RE OF STARLINGS IS THE HEBRIDES.—The following amusing paragraph i. from the Inverness Adver tiser:—There are immense flocks of starlings in Ural, and up to this year they found their roosting place in the reeky eaves which abound along the shore. They are excellent keepers of time ; for, if watched, it will be seen that, at a given hour, they leave their roosting place, and at a certain hour they are to be noticed at different resting , places on their way to the end of their daily tcur, of some ten miles, for food. At a given time, almost to a minute, they are to be peen again at certain points, on their return homewards. This year they found out a new night asylum, mere comfortable then the damp caves. A lake of considerable extent was drained Fonts years ego on the west side, between Belalone and Soolpek, and the reclaimed land was converted, by the Enterprise of Dr. Macleod, into good pasturage. For this the Highland Satiety voted a handsome premium, and the worthy doctor built a small tower on the enclosure to commemorate the work. The top storey of this tower was made into a pigeon house, and we. well stocked ; but the pigeons are now few in number, owing to the ravages of the many large hawks which are to be teen everywhere. The starlings took &fancy for the almost untenanted pigeon-house, and they might have erjoyed possemion if only they had been quiet. But their restless, ceeseless noise and chattering attracted the attention even of the almost deaf and now "old Ewan Oar," who lives hard by, and who takes charge of the tower. The news spread abroad, and on a hapless night the dovecot wiadows were stuffed. The youths of the neighbourhood were next day summoned to the exploit of capturing the starlings. The ladder of the pigeon -house was speedily scaled, with a light foot and a Ight beset. They found a motly crowd of noisy occupant., who perched on their ahculders and caps —very many hundreds, perhaps thousands. They might have bad the whole, but thinking some three hundred sufficient for icodly pies hr all the party, the rest got their liberty. Very army foolish starlings still continue to go every night to this " Castle Dangerous. AFFRAY WITH POACHERS AT EASTWELL.— On the morning of Coristrau.day, at about half past two o'c:ock, as William Peach, head gamekeeper to Lsrd Winching", with hia son, Thomas Pesch, accompanied by a young man named Scott, who was on a visit to Peach, were on the look out in his lordship's preerves, Eutwell.puk, they heard the firing of guns. They went in the direction where the shots were firing, and soon cams up with a body of men, about nine in number, armed with gun,. Young Peach seized one of them, who had • eon in his hand, upon which a sodas mud, the poachers endeavouring to rescue their comrade, whose name is George hues. The old man Peach, wba if GO years of age, endeavoured to keep the gang back, by intimidation, bet to no purpose, and upon calling upon them to stand b ack al times, to which they paid no heed, Peach, who carried a bayonet on the end of a suck, stabbed two of the prowlers, and threatened to shoot at the gang if they did out desist. This had the desired effect, and they decamped, leaving Ranee in custody . Superintendent Gif ford soon received information of the affair, and in the mune of the day apprehended a man named Darrell, at Wye, who was wounded in the hand, and who had in his possession a loaded gun. He also searched the boas. of a man named Edward Rana, of Withersden, brother to George, and there found a smock frock, jacket, and tremors, smeared with blood, and flutes wires used in soaring hares, also a powder flask containing powder. Ranee and Darrell were examined on Thursday, at Mr. Furley'a olfice ' before W. Buena, Eq. and the Rey. N. Tcke, and sentence d to three months' hard labour, and at the expiration of that time to bud securities to be of good behaviour fer the following six months. From directions which the superintendent gave to the constables of Wye, they succeeded in apprehending the whole of the remainder of the gang, who were examined before Dr. Carter and W. Burn, Esq. ; four of them were discharged oa recognisance., and two of them, named Barham and Rum, were remanded for farther evidence. Runes he a bayonet wound in his thigh. Some of the gang are noted poachers, and great credit is due to Superintendent G.fford, for the exertions which he has used in causing their apprehension, and for the assistance rendered by him to the constables. PARLIAMENTARY APPLICATIONS FOR THE ENSU ING SllllBlo:l.—Yestexclay, from the returns made by Mr. Hawn, the registrar of the Private Bill-cffice of the House of Commons, of the applications in connexion with joint stock undertakings, deposited in the House of Commons, up to Tuesday, the 31st of December, the lest day allowed by the s•aading orders, it appears that the total number of applications to parlianteat for the ensuirig melon for all classes of bills amount to 216, about one-half being for railways, end the other hall for miegellaaeoue companies, showing that the joint stock enterprise of the country is by no mesas daunted by the drames now daily enacting under the Joint Stock Companies Winding-np Act. There are the following applications for new water companies: Metropolitan Water Supply Amor:Mien (fir the control of the representative body); 'Wandler Water and Sewage Com pany; London (Watford) Spring Water Company • Metro. politan Waterworks ( Henley - on-Thames and ' Londe. Aqueduct) ; East Lancashire Waterworks; Cambridge Waterworks; Leicester Waterworks and Sewage; St. Helens Waterworks; Whitby Waterworks ; But Stone house Waterworks, making four applications for the metro polis and five for the provincial districts. There are five pp int ions for new electric telegraph companies—viz Tree United KingdomElectricTelegraphCompany (Allen's patent), the European and American Printing Telegraph Company (Jacob Bretts), the Submarine Telegraph C .mpany between Great Britain and Ireland (J. Bretts), the Submariag Tele graph Company between England and France, and the Magnetic Electric Telegraph Company. The Electric Telegraph Company also apply for amendments of their present acts. There are several applications for the municipal and other improvements of Liverpool and Manchester. The Great Central Gas Consumers Company apply for an incor poration of their company. There are also several spplica. tints for local gas companies. To rapine de the" Smithfield nuisance" measures are proposed, called the Railway Insurance Cattle Market and the Metropolitan Cattle Market, the object of the latter being the removal of Smith field and Relegate Markets and the prohibition intramurally of slaughter-houses. The maintainers of Smithfield as it is also have a bill entitled " Smithfield Enlargement," one of the objects being the removal of the dead meat market from Smithfield, and the levying of tolls, manages, and dies for the proposed purpose. L Latin UN I O N RAILWAY.—It is proposed to apply to parliament in tha ensuing session to wevert the o:d Ulster r canal into a railway to unite with that between Armagh and Belfast. RAILWAYS. THIS DAY. Two o'CLocc. Although the operations in shares are on a scale by no means extensire, they are chiefly in an upward sense, and the general feeling of the market is de cidedly b. tter. Prices in owe. cases are higher than yesterday. Great Westerns are buoyant, and 1 nave reached 781; whilst Larcashire and York shires hare been uealt in as high es 58; ; London and North Western Stock, at 124; ; South Western.. at 74; ; South Eastern., at 231; and York and North Midlands. at 22g. Clo Avg prior Yeircrlay. [THREEPENCE. MONEY MARKAT. THIS DAY. Two o'CLocz. The English stock market shows a slight increese of movement to-day, ecaompanied by a feeling of more firmn:ss, and prices are now quoted at an ad vance of k. Consols were first called, as thee left cif yesterday, 964 to a, afterwards improved t, 96f. and are cow quoted 96Z to j ex die. for Jan. 16, at which rase the market appears steady. The Redact d Three per Cen's.have b: en transacted at 974 and 4 ; and the New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cente. at 984, 4, and Bank S:ock marks 2131. India Stock, 2674. Exchequer Bills remain at yesterday'. prices, but tho market fur this would y and also fur India ionds is accordingly firmer. Tt a large Ills have met with business at 60e. prem. ; Jiro small, nt 37.. and 60s. ; India Bonds, under 1,0001.. at 76e. prem. The foreign stock market is still &most entirely deserted, and the business is limited to the execution of a few chance orders. Pik...l show very little change. The rates realised to-day, according to the official list, are as follows :—Du:ch Two and-a-Half per Cents., SS, 514 ex div.•, ditto Four per Cent. Certificates, 91, 904. Grenada One-and-a-Half par Cent. Bonds, 31. Mexican Bonds, for the account of the 15th January. 35Z, 4. Soanish Three per Cents., 381, ex div. Vent zu,la Twr-and-a Quarter per Cents, 311; ditto Deferrel, I. The Banker's Magazine for this month pursues the subject of the issue of 11. Book of Euelard notes, and their effect in referenco to tie question which has been raised by the Ecomanist tee to small notes re taining their par value when inc , nvt rtihle. The latter has adduced the case of the Ink of France 4!. notes (100 f.), and the hander's Migraine is re examining the evidence afforded by the Bank of England issues. The question is one of great im portance, and the new form the discussion has taken excites much interest. The establishment of a sugar refinery at Southamp ton for refining tot eign sugars in bond for reshipment ' to the Mediterranean and other pats im another proof of the extension of enterprise in that town. The re finery is established on the Dockland, and wharf, so uto rmive cargo from the ships, be ref , aded, and save cartage. Active oper..tions began 4.4 week. This proceeding will be viewed with interest, as the arrangements will be followed in ether ports. The adoption of p •stage 'damps in Spain has had the best results, and it is gratiiyit g to see that the monthly receipts continue to increase. Those for January were 2,117!.; and those for October, 5,1581. About half the correspondence is now stamped. Messrs. Itailton's special el: cuter c :mem with inte rest at the present moment. They give a continua tion to the 26th 1) eember, of the statement of that portion of the unguaranteed cipital connected with twenty-three lines, etubracirg r. p.id-op capital ot 95,937,717/. The total out liy for oi.e ♦hare each in the twenty-three lines amounted, on the 26• h of April last, to 733/. 16s. 3d.; and at the close of the week ending with the 24th ult. inclusive, stood as follows: a gain of 18/. ss. on fifteen lines. a loss of 41. 2e. 6d. on five lines, and without any variation on three lines, being a gain of 11. 17e. 10d. la•r cent, on the previous week's transactions, and en addition of 2571. ss. 3d. to the sum of 7331. 16s. 3d. above referred to. The subjoined calculaTtion;;ll;etheTate per cent. per annum yielded by the various securities cited at the average of the prices which ruled this day. Where the asterisk (•) is plite.d it is to be under stood that the share rate of dividend is less the in come tax. It will be seen that in etc , ry cane we take the rate of dividend last declared as the basis of our calculation : Three per Cent. Console average price *I0( yield per cent. .13 2 0 Three per Cent. Reduced 97) .1 , 3I RI Three-and-a-Quieter per Ceara 3Ol e 3 3 9 Bank stock (die. 7 per cent. per ans ) 213 so 3 5 K India Stock (ille. 101 per cent per an ) 267 f 11 S IS 5 Exchequer Rills (int. 1)d. per day) Cho. pot. .. 2 4 3) Eastern Counties Shares * ( heir-yearly die. 2a per oh. of 301., equal to 1 per cent. per ans.l Om! Western* £lOO oh. (dl.. at the rate ot 4 pee cent. per ann.) . i ancoaltirn an d . 1 orkahira £lOll Moth* (dlr. it the rate oft per sent. per ann.) London as South Western* Stock (di% at the rate of 3 per asst per ass.) 72 London and North Waters* Stock (dlr. at the rate of 2 per cent.' per ann.) 121 Midland* Stock (dlr. at the rate of it. 12a. per et. per ann.) 47 South kestern• Stock (div. et the r to at 3 per rent. per ann.) The directors of the National Brazthan Mining Association have to-day i-sut d a report to their shore holders, in which is fully d the actual position of their affairs at the mines. It appears that while the different works had been advancing, with the view of enabling the miners to sink to any depth that may be required for the putpose of produce or dis covery, they have acted with a twolold disastrous effect on the present funds of the atemciation ; and with an increased expense, and diminution of pro duce, further means are required to carry on the mining operations for a full di velopment of the mines. Otherwise, the directors state that they will be com pelled very reluctantly to adopt the painful alterna tive of bringing the affairs of the association to an abrupt termination. Ucder these circumstances, they have determined on issuing 3,300 Pre ference Shares, at 31. per share. The first instalment to be paid on or before the Bth January inst. The second instalment to be paid on or before the 10th February nest; end the third in stalment to be paid on or belOre the 10:h April next. These shares to be considered in al. respects the same as the others, with this advantage, that in case the association shall be wound up, or measures taken for its being wound up, within two years of this date, say the Ist January, 1853, the whole 'f the 31. per share, with an interest at the rate of 51. per cent. per annum, shall be repaid in full out of the sales of the property belonging to the association; and in case of a larger surplus than 31. per share being divisible upon the other :shares, these preference shares shall be entitled to participate in an equal ratio. “ 310 2 3 n 4 0 71 3 9 I Bahia• RAILVATI. ITdeen Do. Preference Amberg., Nottnj., Bodo. end haw Junction ... Berk', ft II ugh Bat. (Ct. Wert. perpetual 3 p.Ct.) hinniughanntonfortUune calludulypd.,orwithgnar. Do. without • guaraata • hole., and Dudley calladulypd., orwithguar. Do. without &guarantee filrunlVoly.n Stour Valle) Briatol and k.neter Do. ano Chester and Holyhead .. Do Preform*. ... Dublin and Belfast Jana... Bat Anglian . Da. (SIS Do. (71.17 a.) 7p.CLEWL Do. 131.105.)6 p.CLPtif. Do. Now Prot. b p. Ct... Do. Bit, 3 p. CL, No.l Do. do. No.! Do.N. & East.ll par Ct Do. New intern Bolin. elan A Line E. E. Oh.) Do. elan B. and C ditto ,Itaat Lancas Do. Scrip (hgire ua. 6 p. (X) Ifitatlancolusb.guar.6p.Ct Edinburgh and D :WHIR Eiliehtfrgh,Perth,Dunfin Enter, hotly,* Doren& • Enter and Exmouth ... Great Northern Do. i shara,A,Defornd Do. i shares, B, 6 p. U. Do. 333 per Cent ProL. OL Fuuth.and West.(ln.) Do. New LIT Hull and Fe:by Lansaw. and Cnfiale Do. Thirds Lancaster and Preston ... Laiinshire and Yorkshire Do. If L2O . . Do. CI. toth Do. West Riding Unloo Leeds and Bradford Lee& and Think Do. Pref. Gunton, isis Lindon and Blanwall Low, Brighton,* &Caw Do. New Bur. d p. Ct.... Do. guaranteed sy. Ct. late Croydou Thirds Do. Pref. ) per Cent ... Do. taint. ) p. Ct.,16.53 Landon and Greenwich... waDo Do . . d riutt . LOIII:013 North.Wcatern I Londonlt South.Weatern Do. New, CM Do. New, AlO „. Do. New Preference Lownsoft o , etr. I lyre-cot ono Motlock Igancb.,Slief.,&Lincolneb. Do. 1 Mum, No. I Do. New gin Pref. be. ti Preference Do. Man.!. Luml. Unice Eire idiana Do. !gem. and Deity.- Do. Com. B. lk B. S p. Newmarket ... Norfolk Do. New Do Extension Do. Gowan. bf per Ct. North Serial) Do. Preference . North Staiferdshfre . .... Oxford, Wore., It Mime. Preston and Wpm i shares (A) Read., Guild., and li;lgMe Royston and Do. Shepreth gatensine Scottish Central Scottish Rif land It Bina., Cdr . A Do., Clota Do., New Ciao alueestairy and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Do. Ralree Do. Gauntry Du. New ... . „. Do. X per cent. Rik Shropihire union south Devon _ Do. Preference South disffordskins Mouth Eastern ... South Wales -. South Yorkshire It Rivet Dun law Vale Extension Waterford and Limerick Waterford and taWionny— Weer Valley, fi p. Ct. gm. Ditto Ditto Wilts, surnerset, NWeyos York,NeweasUe nßerwick Do.Ezt. (Yorkk Newm., Do.G.N.E.ParehorPref Do. Ditto .., Do. Ditto York and North Midland. : Do. Preference FORM.. RAILWAY,. Anglo-Italian Date Italian and Austrian) Boulogne and Amitaa LP-fat:al France (Vierson) . Dutch Rhenish _ • Indian Great Indian Peniaium Do. Namur analogs Northern of France.- Orleans and Bordeaux Pert. and Orleans .„ Paola and Rouen Pods cud Strasbourg Rouen and Haws Sambre and Mews Tour* and Nantes e 7 I 01 s ex cliv 101 101 u.. Si 3 1 n i 1 Da 29 30 27 28 $ 9 pm. 7 99.. 104 114 70 77 171 ill 10 1011 f 16 17 131 14 20 23 Ms 31 3f Is 6 1.11 l I Pm A d"6#6" 4 i psi 1 11 7 Is I:1 II 12 Si 121 27 29 6 7 i It 11 I 10 111 It 111 NI 40 i Pa 7 78 41 3104 99 101 42i -► 21 23 ii fo P 4 2 , i 17 581 676 lot luf 7 7 al& If 16 148 133 „ 6 36 db. 94_ 97 121 181 4 I PS 104 63 $74 la Ise 101 111 31 60 37 OP 114 12 U 1 141 123 124 4 4 4 4 1 pm l 1 1,6 24 22 pox. 774 764 12 II 101 91 dlc 13 1 1 2 34PaL 4f 441. 231 :61 104 114 01 IN Si 39 di 461 44 114 19 di 94 1 1;0 130 21 II II 14 lb. 18 17 4 1 4 1 db. il l i s 17 17 41 4q r.l 1 7 7 7 1 Pa 1116 14 : 6 1 4 die. 8 4 We. 1% 10 11 13 6 6} 9 10 li 1 die 11l 14 1* 1 IG 4 3i ells 11 13 3/ 3} dla 224 23 23 23 3 33 dim 9 7 dip 201 211 44 45 12i 19 6 6i eils. 3 21 du. 16 17 21 1 2 4 21 1 dl.. 2 21 e 1 9 151 16 41 41 Co. I 1 pm Pla• 1 PI& 1 1 21 62 15 :3 11 44Lid S 4 26 26.1 27 1 61 31 dim 0/ 11 3i 21 914 V ad. 1 1 10 10 $ BIRMINGHAM, January 1. Bronx Excitioros.—This market was steady to-day, but there was very I.ttle Misuses* doing. Shrewsbury and Bit. mingham D's were done at 41 dis. PARIS. December 31. BOURSE.—Versailles (left bank), 163 75 ; Paris and lioness, G7O; P. men and Havre, 267 50; Strasbourg and 8a1e,136 25; Orleans and Bordeaux, 395; Nortb, 477 50; Paris and Stra.bourg, 351 25 ; Tours and Nantes, 248 75; bloaters's' and Troyes, 92 50, LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAT.—Return of traffic for the wutk adios Dec.Psesengers, parcels, carnageo, home, and mails. 26,3161. 10•.3d.; merchandise, 15.6201 ss. 51. ; 61 1 71. 4.. 6d. total. 41 , 6531 Os. Id. .„.-- . _ _ Efoirespondlne week in 1849. 37,1831. 2s. Aggregate; 1849, 1,126,4431. 17s. 51. ' • 1850, 1,281,4921. Os I Id. LONDON AND SOUTH W UTERI( RAILWAY. —Traffic for the wink ending Dee. 29: Pmeengers, 7,66.51. 9s. 84.1.; goods, 2,0211. 14s. 41d.: total, 9,5871.4.. Id. MIDLAND RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the week ending Dec. 29, 23 8081. 13.. Bd.; corresponding week in 1849, 23,9201. 17s. Aggregate: 1819, 597,3161. 4e. 4d.; 1850, 602.4381. 11, 74. LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.—Traftle for the week endi, g Dee. 29. 13,4561. fle. Id.; corresponding week in 1849, 10,0201. 15e 10d. NORTH STAY FORDSIIIRR RAILWAY AND CANAL. TrAlc for the week endiog D,c. 22, 4.6281.; c3rreeponding week in 1849, 3,9421. The above is exclusive of the receipt. available ender the agreement with the London and North Western ItaillestFempany. BOILING TO . DlEtiu.LSome of Tour correspondents hare commuoicsted instances where 'burning to death wu inflicted as a punishment ; and Mr. Getty suggests that it would proe: an ineeresting subject for iaquuy, at what period each barbarous inflictions ceased. In Howes Chron i cle 1 find the two fallowing notices :—" The sth of Aprill (1532) one Riehsrd Rye, a Gale, was boiled in Smichtielde, for i.oisoning of divers persons, to the number of sixteen or more, at ye Bithop ot Rochester's place, amongst the which Benet Cnrwine, gutlentan. was one, and bee intended to have roil tied the bishop hionelfe, but bee ease no potsge that day, whereby bee Heaped. Marie the pooee people that este of them, many of them died."—Howe'. Chronicle, p. 559. The 17th March (15-12) Margaret Deny, a maid, was boast! in Bmi,htielst for poisoning of three boosetoldo that shoe had dwelled it.."-11,we's Chronicle, p. 693. Q. 1517, was this punishment peculiar to cooks guilty of poisoning? And when did the !Mast instants caw ?—Nola and Queries. 'Sava to-day on to I o'‘lsek. S O SO 43 23 V XI 131 'iu 10+I 6i 1 1 4 i Ili 12i 171 1 V 121 I 39 7 si I i i 374 Bj 7j 1233 43 2 ti 3 79i i 4711 i 14 131 7# 61 dis U „ 23 3 i 3 ENGLISH FUNDo.—Tors 144. Rank Stock 213 14 I 3 pa CLIJoo Ace.. 5,1 t 3 per Ct. hot Amu.. Alt i *41.., 110. 'AI i Sow elcoo. Anus., Alain &whitlow *W. 570 to 6li. tOk[10: I ger Ot. itustean Bowl N pot Ct. Bel[. Ltoods. 90 2 s t i.76.iii;.flug. ea, to 9 vitto New, 85 7 a ffttl; L CA ß irta a nli... i t ". 1 .021 U Ditto Vuluinb. IX ' . Coltuat.ton &pawky.. lids.. 34 3 Der (N. Danish lids., 75 8 24 pet Ct. Dutch 574 84 4 pat Ct. Dutch (Wm. 00 1 IN IfUNDS. 1 par Ot. (MOWS WI.. 1: 18 armada Peterrol Itrla 4 t 6 per Mex. 1161 e.. 36! 4 pet Ct. ;.'ettriaa nu.. 79 60 Perineum erns . .. 34 6 3 per Ct. K. B t0..11 , 12 I:itto Spaniel) lk 173 3 Der Ct. Spaniels Ma. 34 3 14ferred Ihtta P.)..tre 11.1.., 3$ I 0 6 Per Venereal) 14.1*. 31 3 betteruent BefurreJ Bowls, 11 12 COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS. MINCING-LANE.—THIS DAY. Scoot.—The public sales, conflating of 100 !lie,. Bar- Woes, 400 bags Mauritius, ar.d 2,000 bags of Bengal, went off well, at the prices which ruled prestun to tbe holidays: Btrbadoes, 41s. to 411.; Mauritius, 395. Gd. to 41.. ; Bengal, 41e. to 465. Kbaur bought in at 31s. Gd. to 33e. Iltfin•d : The market hu a steady appearuce ; grocery lumps, 50s. to 62q. COYPEE.—There line not boo a public sale to-day. IC, transactions reported by private centric.. St: x.—Previous quotas loan are supported, but we are with out transactions to report. COCHINEAL—The public sale of 170 bags was chttlly bought in at full pricer. Tae.—The market can scarcely be said to De opeced, but common Congos is quoted Is. to Is. TALLOW MARKET.-THIS DAY. The market remains steady, without particular al:eration in the quotations, which continue u nada Town Tallow, 365. 6d. ; Petersburg Y. C. on the spot, 37e. to 38.. 93. ; Jan., Feb., and Much, 38e. W.; last three months of 1851, 38e. 9d. SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—THIS DAY. Mean. Cooper and Davis report Meadow Hay in short supply, sad trade rather better, at the following quotations : Prime Meadow, 765. to SOL ; inferior, 60s. to 68s. ; Rowan, fa)a. to 655.; Clover, 704 to boa.; woad cut, 60a. to ids.; Straw, 21,. to 2ts. BOOTIE WALES R•lLWAY.—Treflio for the week aridieg Dee. 29: P-ssengsrs, 8111. 6s. Id. • ptre.ls, 691. ISt. 6d.; goods, 971. 4i: total, exclus,va of alas, 9781. de Md. , • r,"7. • I{ S 101 3 4 0 ,