The Express. — London, England, 1847-10-27 00:00:00

I pslterowns or shilling'. And, moreover, these crowns will be another hindrance to a decimal coinage. For a crown e o multiple of a rupee ; and if ever these two-shilling v iew or rupees do come into use, and the proper subdivi- L o os also, and men learn to reckon by them, it so plain that t h e crown piece will have no place, and must is the end dis i" ; war from the coinage. Would it not be as «ell that the Master of the Mint, be fore orders arc given for any new issue of coins, should con sult emo cho,ly who knows something of commercial erith teetic ? What is the use of appointing n a commission to report asu bjtet, and then utterly n eglect g their advice ? D. • THE RIGHTS OF TRADESMEN. VISCOUNT BURY CLARK. 's attorney in the above cause, I Sia,—As Lord Bury have abstained:from noticing the letters addressed by qr. cloth, the decadent, to Ow t, ,,- •re of the various new,. P egs, giving his own Teraina of the ease, and I did expect I that, having allowed him " the last word," even at the ex- • peen of truth and justice, the matter would have dropped, t ad the public would have been no further troubled on th e s ubject. I ores, however, greatly astonished to find that a ga ble meeting has been advertised, and held, for the pars pm e of eynipaihising with Mr. Clark, and that not only is a ;memorial to be presented to the Lord Chancellor, hut that a pablic subecription is to be attempted, to reimburse Mr. Club his damages and expenses. • strict to that public to whom Mr. Clark boo appealed, w h o have in these times so many legitimate claims upon their sympathy and generosity, and have at all times a right to claim a due and equitable administration of the law ; d el , to my client, Lord Bury, whose conduct and motives I canna allow any longer to pan misrepresents d ; and in jus nee to the learned judge, whose judgment ought not to be wrongfully and indecently impugned by a party who elected to leave ha cause in his hands in preference to submitting to this verdict of a jury of his fellow-tradesmen ; I find myself mat reluctantly compelled to break the silence I have pre served upon this subject since the trial, and to give a true and unbiarned version of the case, in their pe that the public will be no longer deceived as to the conduct of the respective % Ales, and that blame may be allowed to attach where bless alone is due. The facts really elicited by the evidence will, I think, sa tisfy ill reasonable men that Mr. Clark unnecessarily pro voked any hasty and angry expression that fell from Lord Bare; that he had no reasonable excuse for the assault he committed. and that there is uo shadow of a pretence for charging the judge with arbitrary and despotic conduct, or of arriving at any but a just and equitable decision. Lord Bury, a perfect stranger to Mr. Clark, the defendant, in posting a letter at the latter's window, was attracted by some pea-holders exposed fur sale, and 'which he thought were sine; he entered the shop to examine them, and make a purchase. Upon closer inspection,. he found they were only sixpenny articles. lie asked Mr. Clark if he had none of a letter description ? Mr. Clark answered, tartly and unnecessarily, " Better ! what can you expect for six peace!" His lordship replied, quietly, "It is not a question of price ; I want a better article, and am trumpery things like these." The word trumpery, pro voked be Clark's offensive and uncalled fur ohaervat ion, was merely descriptive of the article, and not applicable to Mr. Clark himself. Mr. Clerk nevertheless replied, "Trumpery, indeed you are a trumpery fellow ! and I desire you to leave my shop ; if you don't, i will come round and turn you oat." Ilia lordship, taken by surprise at this extraordi airy attack, threatened to give Clark a " —d knock en the brad" if he ventured to lay hands upon him, and Mr. Clark this sent his buy to fetch is policeman. His lordship, scorning to sneak away like a delinquent, quietly awaited at the shop door the policeman's arrival, to see if Clark would venture to give him in charge, and, if not, to remonstrate upon the impropriety of his conduct in the presence of a third party. His lordship was thus standing at the shop door, when, seeing a policeman approaching slowly, and considering it was the one sent for, he went up to • told him what had passed, who he was, and that he slid act want any disturbance, bet wished him to accompany him to settle the affair. Lord Bury returned to Mr. Clerk's door with the policeman at his heels, and was quietly re entering the shop, followed by the policeman, his lordship being at the time perfectly cool and collected, when Mr. Clark, be a state of high excitement, and without a single word passing between the parties, rushed from behind the counter round to the shop door, and laying his hands suddenly on Lord Bury's cheat, thrust him siolestly backward.* out into the street. His lordship recovered himself, and telling Mr. Clark who he was, and that he should hear further from him, w: !keit away, the policeman, who had been standing by the shop door, and who witnessed the whole occurrence, proceeding upon his beat. Mr. Clark's shop-floor is upon a lower level than the pavement ; vehicles might have been passing, and the assault might have resulted in very serious injuries to the plaintiff's person. Lord Bury and the policeman swore most distinctly to the fact* as above stated, and most distinctly contradicted the wholly unsupported representation of Mr. Clark ; that he (Clark) complained first to the policeman of Lord Bury's conduct ; that the policeman then wallecd away ; and that he (Clark) having then repeatedly and ineffectually re quested Lord Bury to leave the shop, at length, without any unnecessary violence (his lordship not making much resist * =co), put him out. It was distinctly proved that there was not a shadow of truth in this statement; had it been other wise, the case would have justified a very different c inclu sion, and have merited the comments that have appeared in the public journals. I am timed further to state, that Mr. Clark's shophoy, whom he scat for the policeman, and who did not return until after the assault, admitted that be had wit nessed several previous contentions in which Mr. Clark had been implicated at his shop. Also, that Mr Clark, after first cross-examining the policeman, to shake his testimony in vain, then declared that he was not sober at the time ; and further, that the policeman swore, that shortly after the occurrence, Mr. Clark had accosted him and said, " Oh, you heard me tell his lordship several times to leave my shop before I touched him ;" that be (the policeman) " No, Sir, I did not, for not a ward passed between you• ," whereupon Mr. Clark rejoined, " Then you will be no use to me." It will be seen how completely this contradicts Mr. Clark's subsequent assertion in his letter to the papers, namely, that the policeman wcut away and did not witness the occurrence. I trust you will consider my previous silence, notwith standing Mr. Clark's letters and the various comments which have appeared founded upon his 'Trion of the case, and which might well have provoked same observations on my part, sufficiently indicative of my disinclination to trespass upon your valuable space, and that you will in justice to all parties find room in your next publication for this letter. I • flatter myself that its perusal wiU eradicate from the minds of the public the prejudices that have been sought to be created against the learned judge and my client. Mud I publicly replied to Mr. Clark's first letter, it would have doubtless saved much waste of time and space, and spared one the present painful duty.—CetARLES Don, 16, Great Marlborough-street, 25th October, 1847. THE MURDER IN BIRMINGHAM-THE INQUEST. 1 - - -- -• The inquisition in this case of quadruple murder proceeded after our parcel was despatched on Monday night. , The following is the substance of the additional evidence I adduced . Wellings, the policeman, said when he first saw the dead bodies of the children large quantities of blood had dis charged itself from their throats—that the woman herselfwu in a sitting position, the blood gushing also from her throat very profusely, There were no marks of blood upon the chairs, nor any indication whatever that any other person had been in the house; a candlestick was upon the chair be tween the two beds, but no marks of blood upon it. The witness, Banks, having been recalled, said that he had seen the woman, Wilkes, almost every day during the last five months, and had known all about her circumstances ; she had been much embarrassed 1 and distressed, and had been compelled to pawn her wearing apparel for subsistence, her husband having died six months since and left her destitute. She afterwards endeavoured to obtain a living by keeping a small shop, first as a huckster, and afterwards u au eating house keeper, but did not suc ceed in either. She was occasionally much depressed in spirits about the privations she endured- was a woman of temperate habits, and very much attached to her children. Witness recommended her to apply to the parish officers for relief, at the same time expressing an opinion that they would give her Is. Gd. a week far each of the children; but this she said she could not submit to. He bad been unfor tunate in his own circumstances, and on one occasion Wilkes said that rather than go through what he had done she thought she should put an end to herseif and children. Ile her not to think of such a thing ; upon which she 1 beamed replied that she had more than once thought it was better she should put an end to them all than submit to destitution. He (witness) did not mention those expressions to any one, because he did not think she had nerve enough to kill a eat, much less to kill herself and her children. He was nut aware that she had once made a personal application to the parish authorities for relief ; nor that her mind was affected, save that on several occasions during illness she had been deli rious. In reply to questions by the jury, the witness fur ther said that he was not aware whether any man had been I " paying attention" to Mrs. Wilkes lately; and that after 1 her husband's death she received about 201. from Odd Fel- : lows lodges. Mr. Joseph Hinton produced a plan representing the I state of the apartment at the time the murder was disco- weed. This has, however, been already sufficiently de scribed in this paper. The witness also produced various articles which he had found in a pocket under one of the pillows in the bedroom, including 12.5. 3d. in money; and he stated that on the mantelpiece in the kitchen be had found 1 a small copy of the play of " Hamlet," which was open at the page where Horatio utters his last soliloquy on the death of the Prince. Mrs. Jane Green, the mother of the unfortunate woman, was next called, but the feeble state in which she was almost incapacitated her from giving her evidence. She stated that 1 she was a widow, residing in Newhall-street; that on Wednesday se'nnight she went to the workhouse, and I sew*the assistant-overseer ; she represented to him that her daughter was ill, and that she wished to put her children iato the asylum. lie gave her a card to take to the reliev ing officer, to whom witness went on the following morning, 11,:ving previously obtained a letter from her master, Mr. Ree ley, a button-manufacturer, The relieviog-officer pro mised to call upon her daughter the following Saturday ; but she (wit.less) did Lot know whether he did so. She had reason to believe, however, that her daughter had not re ceived any t eller from the pariah. She hail been labouring under an into nal disease for three years. Thomas Ruttp:rferd, the relieving officer, deposed that be called on Ann Wihkes on the 15th inst. Saw her, and told his business, enquiri."g what was the nature of her appli cation. She replied the she wanted the whole of her Ail dem, t o be t a ken into tile asylum, in order that she might t go to *nice. She claimed it on the ground of her hue- band's birth, settlement, and spprenticeship, To this be (witness) replied, " Why, yours is no ordinary application, Mis. Wilkes. Could you not manage if the guardians Wok two or three of the children, and left one or two with you ?" She rejoined that she could not; and he (wit ness) then told her that the board met at three o'clock the following Wednesday, and that he was sure the guardians would do what they could for her. She did not, however, attend, and the officer added that the jury would find, on reference to the pariah books, that the application was duly entered, and that the name of Ann Wilkes was ticked sit as not attending.—ln reply to • question by a Wilkes, the witness said that, at his interriew with Mrs. he asked her if she wanted anything more of him, and that she replied, she did not. The witness Green, haring been recalled, stated that she had frequently ass!sted her daughter in einsequence of her distress, and that on the Saturday night before this act was committed she had sent her a sovereign, having pledged her OWE Ships* in order to do so. Mr. W. 8. Coo, protestor of anatomy in Queen's College, next gave a detailea statement of the nature of the wounds inflicted upon the children, and upon the person of the woman herself. She had been re moved to the hospital, and the wound closed up, but she was still is • critical state and scarcely able to speak. The wounds on the children might have been inflicted by one person, and were of such a chi,- teeter that they would be speedily fatal. In reply to ques tions as to the state of thi prisoner's mind the witness said that she was calm and placid, and that she replied to the simple questions which he put to her coherently. The Rev, J. C. Miller, rector of St. Martin's, Birming ham, said I Dave had a conversation with Ann Wilkes since she entered the Queen's Hospital. Nothing occurred between us which could lead me to suppose that she was 1 convinced she would die, that she was devoid of all hope in this world.—The Coroner thereupon said : Then it is be yond all doubt that I cannot hear you: Milks replied that he wished it to be understood that he had called at the hospital in consequence of a message he received to the effect that the woman wished to see a clergyman and mike a con fession. lie accordingly attended, but he could not say that she was apprehensive of immediate death. The coroner having repeated his determination not to hear the statement the rev. gentleman had remise I briefly summed up the evidence, and at 11 o'clock at night the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against Ann Wilkes, who was accordingly committed for trial at the next Warwick assizes. IRELAND. DrBLIN, OCT. 23. This is in trath a gloomy diy in Dublin. Professor Nl'Cullagh is dead : he perished by his own hand. At an early hour this morning the melancholy intelli gence was diffused through the city, and the College square was soon crowded with anxious inquirers and mourning friends. All the facts are set forth in the inquest which is subjoined. No event for along time has created such a sensation. All is profound and sincere sorrow for the lamentable end of this most illustrious man, whose transition from life to death was so sadden and so appalling. Of all human beings, he was perhaps the least to be suspected of a suicidal tendency. There has not been a suicide in the university for many years. The preceding one was committed by Lord French. He blew out his brains in his son's chambers. As a tribute of respect to the deceased professor, the quarterly examinations now in progress have been suspended. He was 40 years of age, and entered college as sizar in 1821. He was soon conspi cuousboth for his scientific andclassical acquirements. Scholarship and the science gold medal were among his early prizes. He was twice a candidate fur fel lowship. At first he sulked, and was unsuccessful. In the second, his answering was peculiarly brilliant, especially in mathematics and physics. Ile was ap pointed Mathematical Professor some years after, and on the elevation of l )r. Lloyd to theseuior fellowship, he succeeded to the chair of Natural Philosophy, in which he gave the most unbounded satisfaction to the few fellowship candidates who attended his lectures. The learning of this illustrious man was not confined to the severer sciences. He had read profoundly and accurately a general course of literature, and took especial pleasure in languages, with ninny of which ho was conversant. Ills contributions b the transactions of the academy, even before he ob tained a fellowship, brought him a European reputa tion, which was not diminished by his subsequent exertions in the cause of science. He had an exten sive correspondence with the learned men of Ger many, and took much pleasure in referring to the testimonials to his erudition which appeared in the German journals. I may add that his friends ex pected for him the provoatship of the University, in the event of his surviving the present provost, and the present ministry, or a ministry of similar prin ciples, being in office. The liberals bares mores have sustained a deep loss in his death. Ile was their leader and rallying point, and will be missed in the days of future struggle. DEPUTATION OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBVIHOPS To LORI) CLARENDON.-At one o'clock this day a deputa tion, consisting of three Roman catholic archbishops, toge ther with the Right Rev. Dr. Cantwell and the Right Rey Dr. Derry, who, as junior member of the body, acts as secre- • tary, waited upon his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, for the purpose of presenting the address alopted at the recent meeting of the synod. On the receipt of his excellency's answer, the prelates re-assembled at the Presbytery in Marl borough-street, with a view of taking the Lord Lieutenant's reply into consideration, and, as we arc given to understand, founding thereupon further resolutions. It is not expected the document will he made public until to-morrow, but it is not understood to be acceptable to the majority. THE REPEAL AssociaTtoN.----This body met to-day, but the great topic which occupied it being the proceedings of yesterday's meeting at Kilmaethomas, I need net further notice. The repeal rent was 911. Mr. Samuel Lawacted as chairman. Tite Lim Ma. LrcAs.—The following letter respecting the late Mr. Lucas appears in a morning paper of this dry Mr. Lucie was tot a magistrate, but an extensile farmer and good landlord. In March, 184 G, he forgave all his tenants on the lands of scoridult half a year's rent, and in March, 18 17, he forgave them • quarter's rent, and offered them an abatement of Sc. Gd. per acre If they would pay him; but be could not by any means inducethem, although there was upwards of 500 f. rent anil arrears due on the townbend. Under these circumstances, he was faced to bring eject- Men. at the June quarter sess.ont, and obtained decrees, and in July be got lsweranon of 18 homes. He allowed them all to take away their crops, and to remain in their hoars until they had their corn disposed ot, andinvariably gore his tenants privileges which no other landlord, under the circumstances, would have done. Touching bit character, he was humane, generous, and charitable, obliging and condescending to everybody, and generally beheed, except by hacruel tenantry. Ile was in the habit of mending part of almost every night in the house of hi+ ploughman in the village of Baena; and, a lthough repeatedly warned against doing an, he persisted until the event which has deprived him of life, his widow of a fond husband, and his children of an affectionate father. There are eight persons in gaol on eilepit. On. TENANT-RIGHT MEETING AT KILMACTHOMAS. KILMACTHOMAR, SUNDAY EVENING, OCT. 23.—This meeting, which Mr. John O'Connell was !specially invited to attend, and which was convened by requisitions signed by not fewer than 90 priests, took place to-day at this village, 15 miles south of Waterford on the Dungarran route. There was a very large assembly of the tenant-fanner class, num bers of them having come several miles on horseback to be present. The numbers probably amounted to 7,000, but multitudes of them were of the labouring classes. Several persons, apparently in the rank of gentlemen, were in and around the platform ; and the number of Roman catholic clergymen present probably amounted to 60 or upwards. The day was fine, interrupted by a shower or two, and the scene, enlivened by an occasional banner and musical band, was animating. A considerable body of the 34th Foot, two troops of the 4th Light Dragoons, and • large number of police were on the ground to maintain order ; but their pre sence was unnecessary, as I never witnessed a more peace able, orderly, or apparently a more interested, assemblage. The meeting was held in a large field; on which a platform was erected. Mr. O'Connell, on his arrival, was very loudly cheered. Mr. SICHOLAR M. roWER, M.P. for the county, a gen tleman advanced in years, and one who it is said pewee's very considerable property, was called to the chair shortly after 2 o'clock p.m. Sir 11. W. BANNON, lato M.P. for Waterford city, pro posed the first resolution. He said be had great pleasure in proposing a resolution recognising tenant-right. It was a right he had always respected on his own property. It was not only just to the tenant, but was the sure means of securing the improvement of the land. No just landlord would re fuse to recognise tenant-right, and the proprietor who did so was a fool as well as a knave. A fool to his own interest—a knave to the tenant. It was a principle of human nature not to do any act of which another was to reap the advan tage. And acting on this principle the tenant would not improve that of which he could not hope to enjoy the benefit. Those principles of land tenure he had always maintained and always would maintain. He had, in accordance with this feeling, on the last occasion he had voted in parliament, voted for tenant-right. (Hear.) It was the interest of the landlord to encourage the tenant to improve, and unless the tenant was assured of the full benefit of his outlay, end even more, he could not be expected to do so. Another advantage would arise from the establishment of tenant-right—it would induce the tenant-farmers to impros*: their holdings, and would thus supply employment to Lite labouring population. Sir W. Barron observed upon the improved agriculture of the continental countries—Bavaria, Lombardy, and Belgium, as well as England—which he attributed to the security enjoyed by the tenant class in those countries; and to its non-exiatence in Ireland he traced the defective cultivation of the land here. After some further observations, the hon. but. proposed the following zuelution : That tho present state of the relations between landlord and tenant is marked b, contention, insecurity, injustice, misery, outroge, and, alas, sometimes by blood. Mr. J. LitINHAM, a tenant farmer, seconded the resolu tion, which, having been put from the chair, was passed rem. con. Mr. It. L. KEATING, M.P., proposed the next resolution. Ile attributed the ruin of the country to the legislative enactment of 1800. That was the commencement of the ruin now overwhelming them, because, by that measure, and the policy of which it was the accomplishment, they had lost their manufeefures. The object of that meeting WM t the (Notion in ouch a shape as to make it under, stood, and to impart to it auek imporunoe u would make it obtain the sanction of the imperial parliament. Their object was, to obtain for the tenant compensation for improvements, and, so long u be paid his stipu. lat,d rent, fixity of tenure. (Hear, hear.) The land. lords of Waterford had shown, by their absence from that meeting, how little they sympathised with the tenants; yet surely their interest in the qatstien at issue ought to have brought them there ; fur though the law now gave the poor man a first interest in the land, and though the cultivator should have the sec3n4 interest, still that of the landlord was more valuable than either. The bon. gentleman hoped that other counties would imi , ate Waterford, and he promised for Tipperary. Ho concluded by moving the second resolution as follows: _ . That these distractions are in much the conmequenoe of the disas trous, competition for land rendered inevitable among our people by their deprivation of all other resources for maintenance since the ruin of Mali manufactures and trade under the blighting act of union. And that the effects of that competition have been cruelly aggravated by the constant trattensinn of the imperial legislature to the interests; wants, and the rightful demands of the tenant-class in Ireland. Mr. P. POWER, a tenant fanner, Seconded the resolution, which passed. Ald. SHERLOCK proposed the third resolution, which was seconded by Mr. WALL, a tenant-farmi.r, and passed. It was in these terms : That it to most just, equitable, and imperative, that the landlords' rights of property should be respected and protected, but that it is to the full as just, as impersUre, and as necessary that the tenants' rights should be equally respected and protected. Mr. W. O'Doxmatt proposed the fourth resolution, which was seconded by Me. J. Power, tenant-farmer, said adopted. It was as follows: 1 bat the ru elect and rioistion of the just rights of the tenants directly owia:e to check industry and repressawriculture, and thereby to impede oral diminish the accumulation of national wealth. Alderman blaaniteit, Ml'., said he supported tenant right because be was anxious that the landlord should be secured in his rent as well as the 'insist in his holding ; and both could be done only by establishing tenant-right. He need not say how much the non-existence of settled relations between landlord and tenant injured trade, for they all knew how much the limited trade of the country depended on the condition of the tenant-farmer. The establishment of the tenon =right would give the tenant-farmers prosperity, and would remove the matusl distrust which now exists between those climes. lie proposed the fifth resolution, which was seconded by Mr. Thomas Sherlock and passed. it wu as follows : . . - - . That the custom of tenant right has given security sod prosperity to mery district of the nor, h of Ireland in which it prevails. That the most prejudiced witnere uguutst it admits that it fully wares the lanMord in his rent, while( it encourages the tenant, by the security which it gives him, to lay out his capital and give his beet labour to the improvement of his holding. Mr. thrititroca then proposed the sixth resolution, and Mr. J. Powsuseelndad the same, when it pasied. It was as follows : - - • • " • - That the main feature of the custom of tenant-right Is that the occupier cannot, whether he be a tenant from year to year, or on tease, be ejected from his holding without being allowed to Kell the taxa paney or pomession (including his interest Many improvements made by bon) to the highest bidder, due notice being first given to the land. lord, that he may have an opportunity of competing fur the purchase, and the latter being also secured in payment of all rent due to him out of the proceeds of ate sale. Mr. J. M. Itivensi proposed the next resolution. The tenant who laid out money on a farm should, when he was leaving it, get either compensation or leave to sell his good will. That was tenautright. But to withhold the land lord's rent was not tenant-right. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Rivera thought they ought to look for roprat first—tenant right would follow. Ile proposed the following resolution : That this meeting do petition the legislature to e.tabliob by statute the custom of tenant-right not only in the north, Lot throughout the rent of Ireland ; and that the said petition do respectfully but urgently prey for the immediate establishment by legislation of this all important object. It was seconded by Mr. I'. HAYDEN, tenant-farmer, and passed. Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL, M.P., here stood forward to ad dress the meeting, and was received with great warmth. lie said that Mr. Rivers advised them to look for repeal that they might get tenant-right, but they should not avoid seeking one good thing until they got another good thing. Ito was for tenant-right and repeal. (Cheers.) " Itith were best," as the peasant proverb had it. (Cheers.) His object in seeking tenant right wag to afford labour to the able-bodied, and to leave the workhouses to the aged, the impotent, and those who had none to take care of them. He would thus have con tentment for all, life and property would be secure, find hap pieess would bless the people ; and crime, which now stained the country to so great an extent, would be stopped. (Hear, hear.) Mr. O'Connell proceeded to explain tenant right as it may be collected from the resolutions and petition. The tenant-right would enable the poor man, if his landlord wanted to mine his rent, to say to him I will not pay any advanced rent, hut pay me the value of my improvements and of my occupation-right, and you must have the land, and the landlord could not have the land without it. The desire of the leaders of that meeting was to act in concur rence with the landlord; to raise a combined shout of land lord and tenant. (Ilear.) There were some landlords on the platform, excellent landlords. Three cheers for the good landlords (Cheers.) Unless they got tenant-right, the whole of the C:.153.1 who occupied land er owned land would be ruined, and the poor man would be starved. The poor rate et its present amount would crush them all. It had been stated, to be sure, that the rations for a grown man had cost only I id. per day on an average ; but how were they fad? Not lit fur dogs, (Hear, hear.) And there were at one time three millions on the rations. Now three millions at lid. per day would be 6,800,0001. a year, or more than the landlords had of rent after the mortgagees were paid. And with the ab sentee drain end the surplus revenue how could the country stand it? Hew could all this be remedied? By granting tenant-right. Let the landlords give tenant-right, and the farmers would employ the labourers in improvements of which they would have the advantage, and there would not be an unemployed hand in the country. Mr. O'Connell continued at considerable length to addros the meeting, and • concluded amid applause. 'the Rev. Dr. BERKE, R. C. Dean of Cashel, proposed a petition to the legislature ; and the proposition was seconded by the R9Y. NICHOLAS CANT YELL, P.P., Tramore. it was in the following terms : The petition, /te., showeth : That the agrarian illaturbances eo lamentably prevalent in Ireland inn only be obviated by giving the Irish tenantry security in their holdings, and in the profits, of their Labour and capitaL that, without this most legitimate advantage, it is idle to expect that the tenant will exert himself to improve, or that between hint and hie landlord there can spring up that harmony and concord so necesaary to the piece and prosperity of the country. mat in the land conimissiom.ral report, recently presented to your honourable lionise, it will be seen, from the concurrent testi mony regarding the custom of tenant-right, that the Landlord is under all circumstances cure of his yrent, and that • peace and good order prevail wherever it exists. That the few evils, which ere rather conjectured than to any extent proved, to be inherent therein, rare unworthy of consideration when compared with the known adventures resulting therefrom, or when contrasted with the crying evils prevalent in those provinces where • tenant-right is not err ',,mined. That in a country wholly dependent on ne - sicultural produce, which is daily diminishing in value to the producer, from the total decline of a home market, consequent upon the ativenteeism and the ruin of our manufactures, which render it ne cessary to transport nearly the entire produce at great expense and di,advantage to a foreign country, every security consistent with the right of property is absolutely necessary to ambit, Use land holder to meet the growing burdens pressing spots land—burdens pressing upon his diminished means especially Ailloo the support of the three millions of paupers in Ireland has been mainly thrown thereon. That, for the sake of peace and order, of justice and hu manity, we humbly implore of your honourable house to take these premiss into your consideration, and by statute to establish such tenant-right as will secure the interests of both landlord and tenant, and promote Nave and good feeling between them—And your peta -1 tioners, &o. An address from the repealers of Carrick-on-Suir was then presented to Mr. John O'Connell, together with a sum of 821. repeal rent; after which Alderman Sherlock was called to the chair, and thanks haring been voted to the prior chairman the meeting separated. INQUEST ON PROFESSOR M'CULLAGH. At two o'clock Dr. Kirwan, one of the city coroners, pro ceeded to hold an inquest upon the body, which was lying in the bed occupied by the deceased, in his rooms in the college. The Bret witness examined was an old woman named Margaret Healy : I was in the service of the deceased. Saw him last about half-poet eight o'clock yesterday evening. He was lying on his side upon the bed. He did not dine at home. I was not in the room. I only opened a little of the door. When I opened the door he asked me what I wanted. I said I begged his pardon, I did not know he was there. Ile told me that would do, and desired me to go away. He came in at six o'clock in the evening. I left his tea for him, but I believe he did not take any. I brought him his tea about seven o'clock, with a mutton-chop. I thought he looked unwell. I thought his eyes looked full and large, and that he stared at me with a wild look. I thought this. I saw him afterwards upon the bed. 1 saw him again at ten o'clock. It was my business to go to him at half-past nine. He allowed me to go to bed then, and called me at an early hour. I waited in the drawing-room to see if he would call, but he did not ring the hell. I waited for half an hour, and then I went up stairs. I heard him going through the house after I left him first. I heard him slapping the doors and prancing from one room into another. His slapping the doers was nothing remarkable. About ten o'clock I went to the bed-room—this was a second time that I had gone-1 called at the door, I got no answer. He was lying behind the bed, but I did not sec him. I then I went to search the house for him. I went up stairs to the closet, and I called at a distance, thinking that he might be there, but I got no answer. When I called and got no answer, I ventured further, and went into the closet ; he was not there. I returned to the bed-room and saw a black thing (the skirt of his coat) near the bed. I thought he was in • fit, and ran down stain; his hat, cap, coat, and boots were there, so I knew he could riot have gone out. I ran for Mr. Butcher. I thought ho was a doctor, as he sent for him one night that he could not get Dr. Stokes. He was not subject to fits. I had no notion that he had com mitted suicide. I thought he was in a lit, and that Mr. Butcher would bleed him. I thought. also, that he would lift him, as he was too heavy for me: Mr. Butcher came with no! him. I was not in the room at the time. I did not even know that he had committcu melancholy deed. A porter and Mr. Butcher got in before I did. Mr. Butcher had him raised before I got in. It was the porter who put him into the bed.—To a juror : I could not tell whether he was excited when he asked mo why I came into the room, as he was a hasty gentleman. He went out at 12 o'clock. As soon as he came out of church he prepared and sent me for a car. I don't know where he went between 12 and ii. Rev. Samuel Butcher, examined—l live in college. I was a particular friend of the deceased. A few minutes before eleven o'clock I was going to bed, when I was called and de sired to come over instantly to sec Mr. M'Cullagh, who had fallen all the bed. That wan the message that was given to me. I asked what the matter was, and they seemed unable to say. The late witness and me servant came together. I do not know which of them spoke to me first. I came over with great baste. I came into the bedroom, and saw the body lying between the bed and the wall—tire head towards the top of the bed. I raised him. There was a large pool of bleed in the corner. Ile was quite dead. The razor wee THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 27, 1847. on the floor. The porter came in. Looked for the iastru meat, and found the razor in the bleed. He was quite dead, I nearly cold. This was at eleven o'clock. lam not aware that it was one of the razors he was in the habit of using. With the assistance of one of the porters I raised him and put him into the bed in the position in which the body now lie. ; the razor was farther from the wall than the body. I saw him last alive upon Saturday, at eleven o'clock. lie has been in low spirits for the last week, at least mince Mon day. He was not more desponding and low spirited on Saturday than on the previous days': I don't know that I can use the word deepoudioF ; I will say low spirits. He appeared to be somewhat excited in his mind ; he was often low spirited. I do not know any reason of his low spirits ; I cannot tell that the late college election had any effect upon him; he had a constitutional tendency to melancholy. He was a delicate man, and worked very hard. I am not aware that persons who pursue mathematical studies are subject to melancholy. It was generally remarked in college that be was gloomy the last week • he was subject to gloom. I do not think the bed was teemed as if it had been lain in. Had CeneerMtiOn with him, and he laboured under an impres sion that there were statements in circulation respecting him : he thought there was some charge against him. Dr. Stokes examined Deceased was one of my oldest and dearest friends. I think I never had occasion to prescribe fur him till last Monday ; he generally enjoyed better heulth than m st men who lead a sedentary life ; he called upon me in company with a friend; the friend said to me that he was not very well ; that his breath was heavy, and he was de pressed. led not prescribe for him then. Upon Tuesday meriiing, I received a note from him; he said he was not well though not in pain, but was afraid that something in his manner had excited the suspicion of his friends, and that persons might suppose he was ill. He did not say mental illness, but he wished it to be inferred. I told hint that he was labouring under dyspepsia, derangement of the stomach. He had a foulness of tongue, and heavy breath ; but he was not feverish, though he looked like a man who might get fever. Ile was melancholy. Ho said he had been working very hard at a difficult mathematical problem. Upon Monday I gave him a blue pill and a rhubarb draught lie mentioned to me that he had been drinking green tea, which evidently had deranged his stomach very much. Ile was a man of strictly temperate habits. I saw hint three times on Wednesday and Thursday. I told him to give up his mathematical studies and go out. He ar ranged to go to a friend in the country. He was wonder fully better on Thursday, and still better on Friday, when he prJmised to come end dine with me. What he chiefly com plained of was, lest, during has flints!. persons might have conceived that his mind was not all right—" Even you," said he, " are looking at me." " Why," said I, " one can not look cheerful to see you ill." He did not dine with me on Friday. He dined in the country, but he drove about town with me on Friday. I saw him oa Saturday. He was better, and his natural manner had returned. Ile was then apparently much better, his tongue was cleaner. He steadily improved since Wednesday. lie spent Saturday evening with me at my own house. He was perfectly well to all appearance. He showed no aberration of mind snore than as to natural. despondency. Ile asked me would Igo to the college chapel on Sunday. I slid," Yes." He said, " Then you had better come and breakfast with me, and we will go together." I did so. The only thing remarkable was, that when I came he had breakfasted. lye had break fest prepared for me. His habit, he said, was to breakfast upon getting up. There was nothing about him then to draw the attention of any person who had known that he WF.Siii. Ile acknowledged that he had been ill—that he had been in a dreamy state; but he felt the illness was passing or had passed away. As far as I could ascertain about his depression, it was that his manner had excited suspicion that he was not right in his mind, and that this would go out and damage his character and prospects. I assured him that his illness arose front physical causes, and that his depression was merely the result of those causes. Ile said that medical men might think as I did ; but that others would misinterpret it into mental illness. There was nothing extraordinary in his state ; the only thing unusual in his case was that he had improved so much, and then re lapsed. I think that his former hallucination returned stronger than it had been ; upon the Thursday he said to me "My s.rvant thinks me very ill, and she watches me." Upon one occasion he went to the door and shut ir, and said that she was listening. I think his disease was melancholia, arising from dyspepsia, which originated tram over applica tion of mind to a difficult mathematical problem, while he neglected his bowels, and was drinking strong tea. 1 believe him to have been a very religious man ; on Sunday morn ing I found him reading Butler's Sermons, which he said it w his habit to read ;he asked me if I had ever r cad them; I said I had not, and hesaid, tapping mean the shoulder, "My dear friend, I could not recommeud you a better book." He often seemed labouring under despondency ; but I never saw him in such health and spirits as he was in since the College Election. I heard that two years ago he had an ulcer on his leg. Ido not think that the stoppage of that ulcer affected his mind, because he was in excellent health. He stated in his conversation that his object was to bring a still stronger bearing between natural and revealed religion. H. 'West, barrister-at-law, examined : I was a very parti cular friend of the deceased. On Saturday week last I came to his rooms here. Some time previous he hod paid me a visit at my father'shouw,Loughlinstown. I elute to him to fix a day to come down. lie told me he had been working very hard, and with great satisfaction. I remarked that his breath was heavy, and his manner was not so joyous as it used to be whoa meeting his friends. He appeared to be ill. lie agreed to come with me. He walked along by Killiney hill. I poiated out objects to him which he did not appear to see. On Sunday ho went to church, and his manner was very abstracted. In the evening we retired early to the drawing-room, and he said, " You know I am no good until I get my tee." Met him in town upon Monday. He said to me, " Did it ever occur to you that persons bare some particular formula to test if you have committed any crime; you get red and they get red." I told him that nothing of the kind could be. I thought, as he used the word formula, his mind had been deranged by scientific pursuits. He was wandering and incoherent, like a person in a fever. I thought upon one or two points that he was peculiarly minded ; that was when he had dyspeptic symptoms. He placed great reliance i Dr. Stokes. The peculiar views I speak of had reference to his college studies. Went with him to Dr. Stokes, and I told him I did not think he was well. Dr. Stokes told him not to study so much. . _ . Dr. Leeson examined : I found on the neck of deccued a large gash, about six inches in length, and three in breadth, cutting deeply; in fact, as far as the spine, through the carotid artery and jugular vein at the right side. The wound also opens into the mouth, just above the trachea. There was one gash, but visibly three incisions. I think the wounds were inflicted by a razor, which was found in the room clotted with blood and hair. There cannot be the least question that the wounds were the cause of death. I think, after he had received the wound across the carotid and jugular Win!, that his death was instantaneous. . . . The Coroner then said after the admirable testimony which had been given by Dr. Stokes, there could not be any doubt but that the deceased had committed the act while labouring under melancholia, produced by dyspepsia. Every one would deplore that the melancholy event had taken place. There could be no doubt that persons who pursued mathematical and abstruse studies were subject to melancholia; and cases of insanity and melancholy resembled each other so much in many instances, that no one could tell where one began and the other terminated; and Dr. Stokes had known persons commit suicide while affected with melancholia. That tieing the case, it wax quite clear that the deceased had committed the rash and most deplorable act arising from melancholia, brought on by dyspepsia, which had been caused by an over worked mind. If the jury agreed in this opinion, he would record it an their verdict. The jury expressed a wish to retire, and draw up their verdict in their own words, which they did accordingly. They returned in a few minutes with the foVowing verdict: " We find that Professor James M'Cullegh died of wounds inflicted upon himself while labouring under temporary insanity."—Dublin Everting Mail. SCOTLAND. EDINCIPIGH, OCT. 25. The Edinburgh police surgeon and one of the in firmary physicians have both been seized with typhus. Such is the overstocking of the medical profession, and the eagerness for position, that the duties of the latter office are performed gratuitously. Matters are certainly come to a strange pass, when we find gen tlemen, at the end of an expensive and laborious edu cation, daily ministering in pest-houses, where the chances of infection are a hundred to one, and all for nothing. In the military profession, the risk would not be much greater, while at the very least a drum bny's pay would be certain. If physicians were true to themselves, such anomalies could not exist. How fever is keeping in the provinces there is no exact means of knowing, but, if it have not already done so, there is every probability of its paying a visit to the picturesque town of Jedburgh, so well known to tourists by its gothic abbey. A correspondent of the KrAn 31ai1 says: There Is not a single sewer in any one of the streets to carry off the erurfeer water, filth, and other impurities; and the nece?sary conse quence is that few houses hare water closets, and the contents of the open &voids of the carets are mostnoxious; so much so, that as the evening seta in, it is impossible for the inhabitant' in some of the streets, to keep their windows open, for the effluvia. But this is not the worst; at the back of the house., on each side of the streets, the in habitants have dung heaps. in which the filth, night soil, fir., are de posited, and remain there for nearly a whole year; Indeed the prac tice Is to clean these places only annually. As might be expected, their condition is disgusting, and there are to be found many In stances in which the night roil, &e., may he seen oozing through the lanes to the front of the houses, musing an intolerable nuisance to the cleanly-disposed people. As railway operations cease Highland labourers ate returning home for want of employment, and as the harvest is over, there is nothing in the shape of ;!-- u -^, in their native dis rept, em..? iv.. •V• il/Clll • trieta. The :surplus funds of the Highland board will steel the general public against further appeals, and undecided as to the exact method of disbursing the money actually in hand, much individual suffer ing may be experienced while the board ponders and parliament delay the enactment of a stringent poor law. Except in the multiplicity of subjects calling for legislative interference, government can have no pretence in postponing a comprehensive Highland poor law, since the Treasury officially declared that the social state of the Celtic territories was so well known as to supersede the necessity of appoint ing a parliamentary commission. But, however the legislature may dispose of this question, there are ordinary as well as special reasons why the lowland or commercial part of Scotland, will. not burden itself in relieving the highland or semi-agri cultural portion. Already some of the Glasgow fea r tories have been going at half time, and this week it is expected that some of them will be workiug only five hours a day. City distress may therefore come to be more clamant than rural penury yet has been. The recent high price of bread has led to frequent comparisons between the relative prices of wheat and the quartern loaf, and one statist brings a charge against the Edinburgh bakers of having made profits of 45 per cent.. during the last fourteen months—the calculation is based on tke assumption that a sack of flour yields ninety loaves, and that pure flour has been used throughout. It is hardly possible that such calculations can be correct, as the necessary competition of trade must have kept the profits down to a lower mark ; however, it is in the meantime be lieved in many quarters, and amateur baking is threatened on all sides. COMMISSIONS BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF AYRSHIRE. —W. F. Hamilton, Gent., and G. J. Campoell, Gent., to be comets in the Ayrshire kteniment of Yeomanry Cavalry. PROVINCIAL• __ LA.XCASIIIRE. A CHARGE OF KIDNAPPING'''' under the in vestigation of the magistrates at Manchester, yesterday, of which some of the circumstances will be read with interest. The charge was brought by an Irish pedlar named Crania, and the prisoners (who, however, were not placed in the dock) were a Mrs. Jackson, wife of a beer-hoiee keeper, and her two maiden sisters. In 1839, Crimes wife had two children at a birth, both of which were boys, and one of them, in a very weakly state, at the age of seven weeks, was taken by Mee. Jackson (with the consent of her husband) to nurse. For a couple of years, or rather more, Crinan held himself liable to a payment of 4s. per week for the child, but being very poor, and Mrs. Jackson being in more thriving circumstances, she offered to reduce the charge fur the child to 2a. per week, and this was accepted. At the end of about four years the Jackson. having grown very fond of the child, and the child exhibiting more affec tion fur them than its parents, they (having no chil dren of their own) agreed to adopt it, to excuse any further payment for it; . ; and the parents appearing satisfied the child, now eight years old, has been regarded by the Jacksons as their own, and well attended to and educated. A short time i.iuce, to the astonishment of the Jackson', Crinan laid claim to the child, and they, with the fear of the law before their eyes, suffered it to be borne away. Taking courage, however, after a week's reflection (and probably some legal advice), Mrs. Jackson sought out the child and enticed it back again. The father took it away a second time, and, to prevent further difficulty, was taking it to the station of the Birmingham Railway on Monday evening, intending to place it under the care of some person in the country, when, strange to say, the imaiden sisters of Mrs. Jackson set upon him with such energy that he was obliged to relinquish his hold and let them carry away the child. Subsequently he got the assistance of the police, and it was for this act that he brought the charge of kidnapping.—Mr. Harding, on behalf of Crinan, attempted to support the charge of felony.—Mr. Pollock, in defence, examined the prosecutor, and showed, by his evasions and falsehoods, that he was not trustworthy, but failed in showing ground for belief that the parents were not able to identify the child from its being taken from them at such an early age. He contended, however, that there was no ground for a charge of felony, denying that the magistrates had any jurisdiction.—Mr. Harding : Then do you mean to say we have no remedy ? Mr. Pollock If you have any remedy, it is by habeas.— Mr. Harding: That will require money.—Mr. Pollock Which I sincerely hope you will net be able to raise. The object of attempting to reclaim the child is one of the greatest superstition ; and one which, for the sake of religion, I should not like to state in this court.—Mr. Maude, the chairman of the magistrates, intimated that he agreed se.th Mr. l'ollock in thinking there was no pretence for the charge of felony, and dismissed the ease.—The reporters, when the can had been dismissed, were anxious to learn what the super,titious motive seas (alluded to by the learned counsel) which had impelled Crinan to reclaim his child and mani fest so much affection for it, after the passion had lain dor mant for eight years, when a paper was handed to them stating that Cnnan's wife, who is a catholic, having let it slip at confession that the child was in the keeping of Pro testants and was receiving a protestant education, had thereupon been dismissed with the threat that no absolution would I.e dispensed till the. child should have been reclaimed and should have been brought to the true church. llow far this statement was worthy of credit our correspondent had no means of ascertaining. COLLISION ON THE MERSEY.-011 Sunday night last, a strong northwest breeze caused an extraordinary swell upon the Mersey, and fears were 'excited fur the safety of numerous vessel lying at anchorage, detained by adverse winds, from proceeding on their outward voyage. The Patrick Henry, one of the New York line-of-packet ships, was lying at anchor off the Prince's pier, with another Ame rican ship, the Brooklyn, belonging to Boston, ...tern, whew, from the violence of the wind, which, early on Monday morning, had increased to a tempest, the former vessel drag ged her anchors and came in contact with the Brooklyn, car rying away her bowsprit and m tinstay. From the force of the callision the Brooklyn sustained considerable injury, her bowsprit being completely tarn away, and her stern much crushed and mutilated. Early on Monday morning one of the Steam-tug Company's vessels was called to her assistance; and, steaming against the wind, the stress which bore upon the Brooklyn's cables was much diminished, the fears enter tained for the safety of the vessel's mashfrom the lons of the mainstay were alleviated, bringing her, ultimately, in a posi- Lion of safety. CHESHIRE. Bus' . --- •••.neement Nee An-AlRS.—me (Liverpool Mercury) made on Fr.dsy has been confirmed, and "something more." It is now understood that the docks are to be finished by Mr. Itendell, and according to big plans in their entirety; and it is rumoured that the chairman of the new board of commis‘ioners, who is to be nominated on the part of the crown, will be Mr. Jackson, M.Y. This is deemed highly probable in the best-informed quarters. _ _ CUFFOLL EDUCATION.—On Monda y a large meeting was held id the Town-hall, Ipswich, for the purpose of suiring the funds of a society formed at Cheltenham, for the purpcse of training and educating young persons for schoolmasters and mistresses, in connection with the church of England, under the government patronage. I.V. Long, Esq., of Hurts. hall, was called to the chair, and was surrounded by the clergy and gentry of the neighbourhood. The ILev. F. Clore delivered an address, in which he detailed the rise and progress of Sunday-school and day-school education from the time of Raikes to the present period. He complimented the present government for their honesty and intelligence in bringing forward the hest scheme that was ever propagated, or could be propagated, for the education of the people, and more especially for the training system. After giving a his tory of the institution which had been formed at Chelten ham (the building belonging to which would cost 9,0001., one-third of which would be given by the government), he informed his audience that the education would be scrip. tural, evangelical, and protestant. FlRE.—Yesterday, soon n after seven o'clock, an express reached Oxford with the intelligence that the home stead of ldr. Gale, a large farmer,residing at Cuddesdon, was in flames. In a short time two engines were on the spot, but before they could arrest the progress of the flames, four large ricks of corn were consumed, sad other property was also more or less destroyed. There is too much reason to believe that the fire was caused by an incendiary. a'nzatute.. DEBTORS TREATED AS FELONS.—At the Michael mas sessions for this county, Mr. Smith said he had a sub ject to bring before the court with reference to the treatment of persons committed for non-payroent of orders made in the new county courts. In visiting the Marlborough Bridewell, he had seen that some of the persons had been cropped by the gaoler, just in the same manner as if they had been felons. This he thought by no means right, and he there fore requested the gaoler to write to the Home Secretary for directions as to the manner in which these prisoner. ought to be treated. He had done so, and a letter was received, directing him to apply to the visiting justices for orders. He (Mr. Smith) thought he had bettter lay it before the court to know the opinion of the magistrates. The clerk said that he had a copy of the regulations for the treatment of persons committed under the small debts act. They were to be treated in the same manner as ',emus committed under the bankruptcy and insolvent laws, similar to those convicted of fraudulent or dishonest conduct, under the previous acts. They were to be kept separate from criminal prisoners, they were not to maintain themselves, but were to be restricted to the prison dietary, they were not to receive spirituous liquors or tobacco, and were made subject to the various other restrictions placed upon the class of prisoners.—Mr. Smith : Then it's no use to send them to Marlborough, for we have no means here of putting them into separate confine. ment. We have had six committed, and there is one here now. That which called my attention, was seeing their hair cropped off. In bringing it forward, I am not at all blaming the governor, only I wish to know if it is right they should be sent out of the prison, as if they had been common &lona. In Salisbury it had not been done so ; I do not know bow it is at Devizes. Mr. Haywood said they were treated there just the same as untried prisoners —their hair not being cut nor the prison dress put upon them. They never cut the hair of untried prisoners, except it was found absolutely ne necessary for purposes of cleanliness. Lord Radnor read the act, directing them to be placed in different confinement. —Mr. Smith : Then it is no use sending them to Marl. borough.—Lord Radnor The act says they must be kept apart, " so far as the cis/let - ruction of the prison will allow." —Mr. Smith said he did not read the act in the same way as Lord Radnor. He read it that they could not put them with common prisoners at all.—Mr. Sotheron : Then an order r a t e be matte itst they shall not be sent to Marlborough.— Mr. Jacob said the same difficulty existed in Salisbury ; they had there no means of keeping them apart.—Mr. Smith : There will be no difficulty in requesting the judgce to send them to certain places, and not to send them to others. I do not see that they can be put with the other prisoners.—The Chairman said he looked upon it in the same way. His opinion was, that the practice of cutting the hair was not in conformity with the rules laid down for their treatment. Although he considered them as fraudu lent, and therefore, to some extent, criminal, yet that was provided for by a certain amount of punishment to meet the justice of the case. Beyond that he did not think they had any right to go.—Mr. Goddard : If these men are not to have their hair cropped, why should it be done to a man who is committed for an assau lt?—Mr. Smith I think no person ought to be treated as a felon, when his offence is such as can be satisfied by paying a certain pecuniary amount.— ' Lord Radnor expressed a strong objection which he enter- Mined towards " cropping," under any circumstances what ever.—The matter was then ordered to be referred to the ommittee fur conferring on the dieters. question. GLOUCF.STEItsIi I lib. ....... A SPECIAL MEETING OF . TILE BRISTOL TOWN COUNCIL was held yesterday, for the purpose of considering the report of s committee specially appointed by the house to confer with the council of the - Free Port Association in reference to the adoption of a scheme for transferring the management of the docks from a private company, coiled the Dock Company, to the corporation ; and for the reduction of the dues upon shipping and merchandise to the lowest pos sible points consistent with the maintenance of the works. The report recommended thut the city should take possession of the docks, guaranteeing to the shareholders 21. 12s. 6d. per cent. upon their shares, and the noteholders 5 per cent (the amount at present guaranteed) upon their notes, the council to have the option of purchasing the shares at 25 years' purchsse, that the sinking fund should be abolished, and that a rate not exceeding 41, in the pound should be levied throughout the borough, so as to es able the corpora tion to reduce the tonnage dues upon some descriptions of foreign ships from 31. to Is. per ton, upon others from 2s, to Is. per ton, and soon in proporion. After an animated dis cussion the council conhemed the report by 42 to 4, and directions were given to the law officers to take the neces sary steps for going to parliament with a bill to carry out the agreement. Fine era. NEW STATUE IN Sr. PAUL'S —Mr. Behnes has just erected in the wrath transept of St. Paul's a statue of Major- General Sir John Thomas Jones, of the Royal Engineers, a distinguished otticer in the Peninsular War, and known to civilians as well as military men by his valuable wo:k on the " Sieges in Spain." The statue is a standing one, and emy enou4h in attitude—the left hand resting on the hip, while the right is holding or rather dangling the hat and feather of the corps. The head is not deficient in intellectual vigour. and the buttons and orders and trousers ripe. are manager& with considerable skill. Of its kind the statue is meritorious, and perhaps as good in the Chantrey style of statuary as Mr. Gibson's newly-emu.' statue of Huskuson is to the style of the ancients, as revived by the elder Bacon in his admirable statue of Dr. Johnson in St. Paul's. THE NEW ART-UNION PRINTS.—We have received several letters on the subject of the new Art-Union prints. Our correspondents complain that the prints, in point of ex cellence, aro not what they expected. Fur our own parts, we are free to confess that they are exactly what we had been led to expect from the character of the committee, and the general tameness of every print which the society has giveu to its subscribers. The following letter, one of many, deserves in , ertion : Sir,—l presume that the copies of the Art-Union prints for wanled to your office acre o specimen " copies. The copies which I have received to-day are in a state which would be utterly disgraceful to any printaeller —indeed, is which no rmpectahle tradesman would issue a print. They are corn- Idetely worn out—mat in the condition in which tiny would be oaf end for sixpence in a low print-shop. If you will tell me when to send them I should like to give you an opportunity of jutting how far the orgies you receive are • sample of the society's ordinary Witte.— A T 2110.“.. Our correspondent is right. The prints we praised so sparingly were proofs. We hare seen the common impres sions since, and they indeed are poor enough. Vbe Drama. HAYNIA T am i ng ‘• samtng of the Shrew" Ina " revived "at this theatre last evening. The comedy has been rarely produced on the modern stage in its entire state. The scenes which contain the principal plot were separated about a century ago from the rest of the play, and performed under the title of " Katharine and retruchie," and we are not sure, after all, that this is not the best thing that can be done ; for, while these scenes arc most lively and entertain in,g,the others, whatever maybe their merit in some respects, excite little interest or amusement on the stage. None of Shakspeare's playa have given rise to greater contrariety of opinion among his editors and commentators than " The laming of the Shrew." Some regard it (or, at least, a large portion of it) u spurious. Others estimate its merits at a very low rate, and place it among his earliest works ; while others, again, speak of it in terms of high praise. The two latest editors, Mr. Collier and Mr. Kni,elst, are quite at variance, both with regard to the history and character of the play. Without admiring it so highly as Mr. Knight teems to do, we conceive that the hand of the great master is visible in every scene; though there is no doubt that it is only a rifacimento of an older play under the same title, from which Skakspeare borrowed not only the subject, the double plot, and most of the incidents, but also the march of the scenes and a good deal of the language; re-writing, however, the greater part of the piece, and enriching every scene from the inexhaust ible treasures of his own genius. The "induction," espe cially, n almost entirely taken from the older play, though the character of the drunken beggar, Christopher Sly, is heightened by many admirable strokes of humour. Gruntio is entirely a Shskspearian creation ; and the characters bath of e'etrudeio and 'Catharine, derive from him the features which render them attractive. The second plot, which occupies more than half of the play—the contentiou of the rival suitors for the band of nausea—has been praised for its ingenious junctiou with the principal plot ; but beyond this it has little merit, for the lady is a nobody, and the lovers are a set of uninteresting personages. The trick of Lucentio, moreover, who passes off an old man whom he finds in the street for his own father, on the father of his mistress, is absurdly extravagant. Nothing could present a greater contrast, during last night's performance, than the gaiety ar.d spirit of the scenes of l'etrashio and 'Catharine, and their exhilarating effect on the audience, on the one hand, and the heavy movement of the remaining scenes, and the dreary silence with which they were received. To be aura the acting of Webster as Petruchia. of Mrs. Nisbett ss Katha rine, and of Keeley as Ornmio, was capital, while that of the other characters was very indifferent ; but no acting could infuse vitality into such characters. The perform-nee of the induction did not, to our feeling, heighten the effect of the piece. The mystification of the drunken mendicant, whe, surrounded with all the appliances of luxury, is at length convinced that he is really a lord, and not Christopher Sly, is amusing in itself, but it was badly acted, and went poorly off ; and then the beggar and his party sitting, as audience, at ore side and close to the front of the stage, and looking as dull and inanimate as a set of wax figures, became perfect eyesores, and it was quite a relief when Mr. Sty was carried off at the end of the fourth act. A party of spectators sitting on the stage was well enough in Shskapeare'a time. Fashionable spectators, in that day, were as much in the habit of sitting on stools on the stage, as they are of sitting in the stalls now; and such things did not annoy the general audience. Besides, dramatic pi rformanoes were a common entertainment in the houses of the nobility. But we are not accustomed to such things ; and the sight of per sans on the stage, who are not engaged in the play, confuses and disturbs the action in a very unpleasant way. There were other attempts at imitating the antique mode of stage representation. There were no changes of scene ; the differ ent scenes being indicated by the primitive expedient of exhibiting a placard ; the actors made their exits and their entrances by withdrawing a curtain at the back of the stage ; and the " act-tunes " consisted of quaint aad pretty melodies of the sixteenth century, which had a very pleasing effect. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL. X FORD, OCT. 26.—1 n a convocation holden thin morning, the Rev. T. 11. Haddon, S.C.L. Fellow of Exeter Coll., was unani mously Coxed to a law fellowship on the Vinerlan foundation, in the room of Mr. Rogers, late of Oriel, resigned.—At the some time the nomination of M. But' an French teacher, and M. Fridenolorff an German teacher, on the Taylor foundation, was approved of. THE NEW BISHOP OP MANCHESTER WAS garotted last night. The official notitm will be found In our column of Court news. NAVAL. Paue MONEY.—Last night's Gazette gives notice to the officers and company of ILM.'s ship Cygnet, H. Layton, cam., that the proportions arbiing from the bounty money on the Manage of the Wave ship Ram, destroyed Sept. 24, 1045, in company with ILM.S. Alert, will be paid to those entitled to share, or to their representa tives,. on Nov. 4 nest, at No. 3, ClUferd'sinn ; hat the shares of such of the onionn and crew who would have shared for the ships Mes. chant and Sansone will be subject to • deduction forespennes incurred • ty the detention of those Tenets. Proportions due to each elms : Commander, 991. Ba. OId.; let eL, 981. 9a.. 2d. ; 2nd cL, 231. le. W. ; 9rd cl., 111. Ms. 94.; 4th d., 71. 13*. 10d. • Sib ci., Si. 16a, lid. ; Gth et, 2/. Ils. 3d.; :th d., 1/.3e. 7.44.—W. ;ad E. Cos.°, agents. MOVEMenTe OP HIM NAJEBTT'II Melts harbour, Oct. IS : ltlberala, Vice-Admiml Sir Wm. Parker, Bart. : Ceylon, Rear.Admlral Sir Lucius Cant,, Dart ; Vanguard, Rodney, Superb, Albion, Trafalgar, and Thetis, fgs. ; steamer. Gladiator, Ylamee, and Spitnrc. At Gibraltar,Oet. 20 : dsop Virago. Pognimourn, Ocr. 26.—The wind having shifted to N.E., the C•mbrian got away again this day at noon, and sailed for Bombay. The Dolphin, 6, arrived this morning from Sheerness, and will be paid advance at this port previous to sailing for the coin of Africa. The Amphion, st lg., is under sailing orders, and conveys In Lisbon Mr. Miller and his foreman engineer, and Mr. Smith (inventor of the screw propeller), who are to be joined by Mr. Dionent, naval engi neer, for the purpose of trying the mictunery of the Amphion, The Recruit, 12, Corn. Rad P, came into harbour yesterday to have her copper covered with " Clay's " solution. The Arab has been paid advance wages, and will sail to-morrow for the Cape of flood Dope. The Sidon, at. fg., is making good her defects, and completing a few alterations required for the reception of the new Governor-Oeuvre of India. The Mann Sornes, test., sailed this morning for Plymouth to load the troops brought home from Quebec. The Comet sidled yes terday for Port Patrick with a dredging machine. The Nautilus, 10, Linn. Rivers, has completed her refit and awaits orders. The Can. tour, et fg., preparing for commtrion at this port, it is said, is to re place the Dragon on the Lisbon Madan. A party of riggers from the dockyard are to non igate her to Lisbon, where the °films and crew of the Dragon would he transferred. DEVONPORT, OCT. 25.—Seagull (6), Lieut.-Coro. H. P. Dicken sailed this morning, for Falmouth . — Midway, coonctchip, Mr. &Ism, master, put back yesterday, from stress of weather. WOOLWICH OCT. 26.—Hecate, st.-doop, Commander Moorman, left WOOLWICH, for Lisbon, called at Spithead foe oriers.— ffiegaull (42), Commodore Sir J. J. IL Bremer, C. 8., will be =docked to-morrow, and the Blazer at.v. will be taken into the came nkek.— The officers and mew of the Shearwater st.-v., Capt. Robinson, wads was employed on the survey of the wmtern most of Scotland, arrived here today, ria Liverpool, the toilers of that steamer being out of order. It la expected they will be paid off here. ADMIRALTY, OCT. 26.—APPOINTMENTS.—Lieut. and Commander C. O. Regge to Onset ; Naval Instructor W. in. Harvey, to Bellerophon; Midshipman C. Standish, to Bellerophon: Naval Cadets: R. Walker, to Acheron; O. Rhington, to Penelope ; and IL. D. Grant, to Eagle; Gunner J. A. Boit, and Carpenter C. G. Fold. confirmed to Contest; Boatnwains: T. Caw, ceetirmed to the Medea; It. I'. Morcombe, confirmed to Itlngtimc. SPORTING. NEWMARKET HJI7I7IfIiiIiiMEETING. NEW -r, Mosuay /flour, 12 o'clock.—The Cam bridgeshire Stakes betting Itsa been very Sat; and beyond a marked improvement in Queen Mary and Blackbird, and a decline of several points in Patriot and Collingwood, does not show many changes. The general prices up to the protein hour are u follows: setting: 8 to 1 apt Queen Mary, 10 to I apt Siselle, 11 la 1 apt Geraldine, 12 to 1 apt Hydrangea. 12 to 1 apt Blackbird, 15 to 1 apt Patriot, 15 to I apt r.11:1.7b tO 1, apt George Hudson, 20 to 1 apt foreclosure, 20 to 1 opt Collingwood (30 to 1 laid once:, 25 to 1 apt Lady WaPar, 21 to 1 apt The Cur, 30 to 1 apt Wanda, 33 to 1 apt War Eagle, 33 to 1 spa YiMiaaa (t), 83 to 1 apt Dulcet, 29 to 1 apt The Walow, 35 to 1 Nod Sagacity, Sal to 1 opt Deriadea, 1,000 to 15 apt Valiant, 1,1300 to 13 apt Pain of St. :dowel's 10110 to 10 apt Butte