The Express. — London, England, 1848-05-22 00:00:00

Ldard. the apply & id and long eau Red. The preski s id . - ,ded his tribune and the great irans s .s.. assembly, advanmd toward, his assembly be d ♦ en.t. put the pr o " , midst much chew_ brief addrc ht bo la teresting disc am ng the business d • of the 18th and filled with the districts as mem. imment and th e racy published cm ret to learn that provinces of the ig the citizens to Nmfident expects. bout to assemble anence to the free ,ty had remained the intention of 1 of the Prince of tt!, announce that dtsuersed thro ree in the neia. defeated and Is. the troops unde r army in the pen. ement. LENNA, MAT 14, state of anarchy to longer ; miniatpa authority. EMT streets, the houses of id in some cises Lissa a pastime ; they ar o and place are sped. t in such things aro and always muster it at such scenes, bet ,rs from i n t errupt i on, !ion. I 13 mink .arlo Theatre, a nom ie to the pork. Thera guards armed with awn up in line wig)* ke cause of the Mb* o increase the ssisrlaa a, with the exception e, and at some of the at prevent is the uni nds of the student,. I guard, who in their 'he student* hate all mil guards are, se far e mass of people, who hich results from long ents in the hands el *ranee of a barracks ,• ito guard.kouses, an d r into bureaux, where sl on. The capital of f a hundred or two of to meets these little the calfs • and even ,nging at their side!. • they swagger with a and public walke,the respectfully make way Ist school-room, where out. I have heard mlaercial men here as r that a national bank. e leaving Viennike ently on the eve of a s have no chi, f and no armed mob. They the univer:.ity, and things must end badly. magistrates, no police, ndoned to the students en 1i ft by railway for wan, stationed in the itt for lam and the hear, by electric Wo of the ISth, the ma d is the writs and demands was of the order so► Committee of the and total exclusion of nominees of the Ym e removel of the milli wai.ed on t .e minister Al in abeyance, but it E DUCHIES. ill, we learn that the red there on Sunday g• on Friday. The us the following : [alket, en rate with asserts that pesos tiled; this, however, a later train from übtful, Gen. Von d-quarters to Appe d received an official jeneral, stating that A thought it expe ty of the united Sweden, were en and even if troops it would not disturb ermany, unless those trfered with. May 17, we learn efused to include the of prisoners, further by Gen. Wrangel. MAY 3.—On the lehemet Ali Puha was puha. The satisfaction long duration, for at astounding intelligence 'ache, the grand vizier, terly di.graced. Russia nul,ian principalities to ,urg on the state of that demanding permission Turkish government of atp/i. Relit niche is a noy that power that he 11-informed perms said eh thing on the part of w down the gauntlet to arable for such an &t -oe time existed against ;ch was Said Pasha, the Bey, the Lord Chamber alit was dismi,sed, Said n, in which he employed his Majesty to dismiss mpoisible to appease the good Musulmano • that Europeans, and ;hat if art of Bahl in the cabi of the great causes of the increasing dearness 'icier, whose duty it was them the least attention. Hansid Bey and his up the blow struck rookies, and that with Sultan, breaking into :ant disgrace of his "- should be made pub morning. Said Puha, ?Orators, received, under gement that the Russian at Constantinople on the that the satisfaction the learning the dismissal Of e thought of its drawing lof Russia. There wee ;onstantinople who could rand vizier. M. de Titoff oresentativa of a properly certainly is not to be of his position. ho grace be:ng known, Mr. atary at Lonstantiuople, 'kb despatches announc borne, and to Sir Strat abe at Vienna. Unfor for Munich before Mr. ring, however, to think rinciples who has been s. Scrim Y ache is a Teti th European politics, se ich the people are min istate. ffPLoYEES.—An officer a and taxes, having bees last general electiott,and he cue referred to is 11 0 . t ing o ffi ces in the !risers. Ki the law by voting or members of the lions* sinners of the Tressarj et., directed that the op rmed that their loeuebips ato effect, as regards the log at election,. Pow' BRAZILS. FALMOUTH, MAT 19.—The Swift packet, Lieut. Lem Calls in this meraing, tram Rio Janeiro Ape 2, l i la& 8, Pernembireo 14. She Ism 18 presagers awl abut g, 0001. frvtgat. The horrid Irvine in slaves I. palmated by a oscapsisat kedividasl to be stunk en the inerease. It la stated that 6,000 alarm were landed oear Bahia in two Months, sad that daring the same period 7,000 were put on shore at Campos, Ito, °rends, and Rio Janeiro. 'rho trade is at peac es: so 11 ,urishing that many steamer, ire employed_ ; mad it is a ffi rmed that when a body of slaves see purebred cu the Coast of Africa, the common practice now adopted Is i n ew e of having sickly or very young ones in the lots ihkerd to throw them overboard on getting out to sea. • •Bwordfieh, of rh.d for Liverpool, was to sail from Pm iambus° on Feb, 16. The ship Helene, of and for Liver pool, from Valparaiso, had put into Rio with pan of her cu cgo of gesso thrown overboard. The Crane packet, next following, had not arrived at Rio to the date of the Swift's sailioft• The steamer Firebrand was daily expected from the River Plate to receive Lord Bowden, who intended to leave Rio for Eneland immediately. The Brazilian ministerial arrangements had cot been con cluded ; some of the poitfolios were yet held ad interim, ai d n•ports existed that there would be mother change. The news pithy revolution in France and of the establish ment of &republic was brought to Bahia during the stay of the Swift at port, but the information was received with little *overeat interest. tier Majesty's shim Acheron, Crescent, Comus, and Hes trel remained at Rio. Matters in the River Plate are represented u un changed. (From the Rio Mercontile Journal, of April 1.) • - . Rosiness since our last report has been restricted. Extorts. —Coff. e Nisbet's more active, unattended, how ever? by any change in prices, the supply at market con tinuing to b. abundant; the prices quoted—coat on board, p e r cwt., washed, 350. lid.; imperils?, 275. lid. ; lint good, .Ns. 44 The sales since our last report may be estimated a t 60,000 bags, and more business would probably have been done, but for a scarcity of eligible vessels ; 138.861 bags had been shipped during the preceding month, of which quantity Only one bag was entered for the United Kingdom. The arrivals of Campos Sugar amount to, all packages included, 450 canes, and the sales to 550, of which about 150 for export ; 2 r. d. 700 rein, to 2 r. d. 800 refs have been the current quotations. Exported from March 18, 602 oases. The business in Hides has been restricted to small lots of Rio Orsntle, but no sale of any moment could he effected ; the market is exceedingly depressed; on hand, 3.55,000. Freights have advanced 51. per ton. Some few vessels have proceeded to the north ; a want of shipping prevails, and 655. for llsmburgh, 60s. for Antwerp. MONEY MARlCBT.—Discounts are freely obtained, and money is abundant at 7 to 7i per cent. EvCHANOE.—The business transactions were unimportant until 29th, at 261 ; on the 29th, at 26, the more general quo tation. Sc Court. The Queen and nine(' Albert and the ladi?s and gentlemen of the court attended divine service yesterday morning in the Military Chapel of the Wellington Barracks. The Count and Countess of Neuilly and family came up from Claremont, and paid their respects to her Majesty and Prince Albert, at Buckingham Palace, en Saturday. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the Pnneetis R•tyal, and attended by the Hon. Matilda Paget and Colonel the lion. C. Grey, visited the Queen Dowager, on Saturday, at Marlborough House. Prince Albert, attended by Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps and Captain the lion. A. Gordon, dined with the dames of his regiment, the Scots Fusilier Guards, on Satur day evening, at. Ordlion's Hotel. The Duchess of Kent dined with the Queen at Buckingham Palate on Saturday evening. The Queen, ac companied by the royal duchess, afterwards honoured the performance at her Majesty's Theatre with her presence. The royal suite consisted of the Countess of Charlemont, Lady Augusta Bruce, Hurl of Morton, and Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey. The Duchess of Cambridge, the I)uchess Bern hard of Sane Weimar, and the Prinoemes of Saxe Weimar, honoured the performance at her Majesty's Theatre, on 94- Outlay evening, with their presence. Lieutenant Montagu O'Reilly, RN., was presented to the Queen at her Majesty's Levee on Wednesday, on his return from foreign service, by the Berl of Auckland. Charles Searle, hI.D., was presented to her Majesty at the Levee by Lord Duncan. The Quern Dowager attended Divine Service yes terday, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. A deputation consisting of the Rev. Thomas Dale (Vicar of St. Palters.), Mr. E. 8. Bigg, and Mr. Scudding, with an address to her Mummy, from St. Papers', bad an interview with Sir George Grey on Saturday, at the Home office. The Governor of the Bank of England, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer ou Saturday, at his official residence in Downing•street. The Marquis of Breadalbane had an interview with the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, on Saturday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Despatches were received on Saturday, at the Colo nial.office from the Governors of New South Wales, and New Zealand. Sir W. Magnay, Bart., and Col. Moore, arrived at Blackwell Pier yesterday morning by the General Steam Navigation Cimpany's steam-shin Triton from Ostend. CONFIRMATION OF SOLDIERS BEFORE HER MA JISTT A 311) PUINCE ALNEKT.—Yesterday morning her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Prince Royal of Prussia, the Duke of Cambridge, and the Duke of Wellington, attended the chapel of the Wellington Barracks, to witness the confir mation of about 197 nos-commissioned officers and privates of the Horse, Grenadier, Coldstream, and Suites Fusilier Guards. The bands on her Majesty's arrival played the national an , hena. The men who were appointed to be con firmed were placed round the altar, and after the usual church .ervice, the Bishop of London proceeded to perform the solemn ordinance. At the termination of divine service the men who were at chapel and in barracks were drawn up on the parade within the gates, and underwent en in spection by her Majesty and her Royal Consort, and Field- Marshals the Dukes of Wellington and Cambridge, and which lasted about a quarter of an hour. After which the Wm:nous party returned in the same private manner as they had arrived. Although the attendance of her Majesty was not generally known, there were from 4,000 to 5,000 persons present, the great mass of whom placed themselves from the entrance of the barracks to the pain.. None of the public were admitted into the chapel. With respect to the confirmation, it is a general practice for an inquiry to be in stituted of all the non-commissioned officers and men, whether they have been confirmed previous to their enter ing the army; and in those instances where it has not been done, the ceremony is performed at the place of worship connected with the barracks ; but on no previ .us occasion has it been performed in the presence of her Majesty. HORTICULTVRAL SOCIETY.—The first public prize thew of this society, ter the season 1848, took pl.ice On Saturday, at the gardens at Chiswick. Were it cot that the weath.r is always uncertain, or rather that it is certain to be showery and cold, this exhibition would be the most agreeable of the three fetes to which the scientific gardeners of London annually invite Each passing traveller that can pay. The out-of-door enjoy meats are much greater in May than in June or July, as far as the gardens themselves are con cerned. The flowering shrubs are then in their prime. The beautiful blue acacia that screens the wall to the right on entering from Chiswick-lane. the rhododendron., the hawthorns, laburnums, horse.chcanuta, and other of the later flowering trees are generally in full bloom about the middle of May, and combine, in scent and gayful attire, to rival the more delicate and gorgeous displays of flowers and fruit that are ranged under the marquees. Notwithstanding some severe showers in the early part of the day, the company assembled en Saturday in very considerable numbers. The freshness, tot to call it coolness, of the air, caused the visitors to seek the shelter of the flower and fruit tents, where, occasionally, highly interesting group" might be seen inspecting the prize plant., being themselves in turn the objects of marked tsnoeity. One of these groups comprised the Princess Met ternich, M. Guizot, his two daughters, the Dukes of Devon shire, Argyle, and Beaufort, the Duchene. of Beaufort and Sutherland ' Lord Worcester, and a numerous train of acces- Mira ; whilst in another marquee the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, Sir It. Peel, and others of perhaps equal lurk, though not so notable, attracted the passing stare of the Wintry gentlefolks. The b..nd of the let Life Guards, the Royal Horse-Guards (blue), and the Royal Scots Fusiliers, were sa attendance, and went through the same series of evolution., in revert to marching about the grounds, &c., that they hare of late 3 ears been in the habit of executing. The show 'Agent's and shrubs we. very unequal. In some respects fu exceeded those of former periods ; in others it fell ikon of them. The azaleas were, however, of se fine and deUeste a colour, form, and texture, as amply to atone for the falling off that was manifest in what, as far u semblance tonctrard, may be styled the sister-shrub, namely, Ike geranium, or pelargonium,. The marquee under which the azaleas were placed was the great object of attraction throughout the day. Next 61 point of beauty may be specified the families cryptogamous and orchidaceous plants, with all their curious imitations of mock butterflies hovering over their leaves, dragon flies, and other resemblances of living "lure. The heaths and cactuses were also very good, and a 4 ' ll y - introduced class of ornamental plants of various orders excited in sue spec i men great admiration by the classical u rangement of its leaves, which took the form of a cluster of i rMian volutes, wanting only the slab to complete the Itit7- The fruit and cut flowers were not in very large ~ '""ailits, but what there was of both was of very excellent ql. The roses in particular of Mr. Francis merit high !;:i-ee- The following is an enumeration of the names of .nexteaful competitors for the prizes at the disposal of the „7", • The list LI copied from the official announcements tatted at the garden tk? or rrtr I._F ummui , for which Yoram,- ir„:1•°. Pro ate grower exhibit independently of each . other t—Pe iliXVlm, rolls:twos of 12 new and lust-rate varieties, with per lb:s t colours, cultivated with superior skill, in 111-umb pots, Staines, Robinvo, Dotson, Gaines; Pelargoniums, in nx varieties, in 11-Inch polo, Megan. Parker, Staines Eb q in pate, in collections of I:: distinct varieties, Messrs '1. 6, 11. Francis Lane, Dohnon, and Paul ; Yellow Roses, best t, L'. Mr. Francis; Cape Heaths, in collections of 15 entirely ig;:,,,...±rv.ties, Hewn , . May, rairheina, flothason; Cape Heath& in " nine catircy distinct varieties, Messrs. Mylam, Taylor, Sesk Mirk Orws, Trmr, Awls Tanre, TimAett CI". Haag'''. sbrell=ass diplaybis airy superlstereation, nom Illnroo. Ifswp, Tear ; Wassidas, Sobs% la Gish g ls a, s z ee =ene. Otheelns elsensmis et . W irta iir swirbis es be sews Wher sr Is .seer, am tar rr% resnes, • Gui ° M2ark einslikii all psiuu ws sindlled to equal awardrwe—rowsr rwslisses Owe, Is wiessiims al SO plants, Mess. ham asi Disahl ; Stwo of re oberenWin sainnin" of le pissis Mown. Gras. Oils we lbws ;ewe or stswhown eato sillswlsse W 111= img Merne. Ours" Taw*, Aaiwti /MI l ier iga renr i hue, awl D Own EW ; Greenhouse llaseso, MOMeerlYars Meows liwrise, HIM% awl Imes Oredds, MI spode et war Me of leery likawn. Vetch, ass win ; IsseN Ofabils Is solisilwr of 10 =4l= lor muss WMlsaas, Ms" and Ouse ; sallsWass Innen. Bros, Dobson, and Green; Keels OribMblingisspelmss ." %playing very superior culti vation, Mr. het; haw Wimpaless,lissirs.Orines and Ambrose; New Hybrid Passisise Mr. Whirls; ex distinct midis, of tall Orli Is Sew, Mama Green, Brom ; lam of bu mistime Is hem lissems, amisiftst thee usser lbw ars in indom as to 'ark as be as ths ha tr bit of the variety, in ► varieties. Mows Paris arri ; Mindy Pane, Is 0011 . 0(1 . 08 of ten"Mt at very superb. snitlestices, Mama Tare, Walser; Seisrrlisk seas, M. Reap t weft introduced or ertremely rare ornamental pews is lower, Mows. leen, Vegas, and Myism ,• miaorlisneous autgreta, Mews. Omen, Waterer, Standliti and Malin Williams, htitnon Seedling lishrld kelargootuma, of entirely new mores, Mr. Gaines. Cara lll.—Faorr, Ihr which Market Gardeners, o. 'dowers, not Fruiterer", in the rem a the Market, and Private Gar deners, cabildt af sash other.—Umuaimon tropioal fruits, Mr. Deem— Is single apectmens: Queen, Mr. Lawrence; Providing/4 Memo , quo, Brown, and Lae num.—Grapes In pole, ISr. Iliad; grape" the heasiest single bunch, Mears. Turnbull end Doyle; peps, in three bunches for private growers, and sir Wachs* tor meglnt gardeners : Black hamburg, Black Frinae,Mciers. Fleming, Ingram, Turnbull, Davis, and Mitchell; White Muscadine., Sweetwater" is., Messrs. thins and Busby ; Frontignans, Mr. Davis. —P ia sizes, Mears. Gardena. and Ontoin.—Neetarinee, in sixes, Chapman and Gardener.— Choreic% in dishes of Db. each: Mask, Mr. Ingram of Windiur.— Strawberries in pots, Mr. Howe; ntstwherrisa, one dish each: British Queen, Meows. Davis and Toy ; ins sea' Seedling, Memo. Bruin and Toy.—Oranges, doom, to, in pit% Mr. Munro.—Melons, one speci men each: the Market, Mr. Drummond; the best flavoured, Messrs. Fleming and Drummond. DOTAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIKALL—The 24th anniversary met Ling of this society was held on Saturday, at the Hanover-square Rooms. The Bishop of Norwich, on taking the chair, expressed his satis. &aim at so full en attendance (it. however, consisted princi pally of ladies), and upon the fact that the society had a be lance in hand of 3301, notwithstanding that there was • deficiency on the year's income, owing to their having only reeeived • legacy of SOL, while in former years the legacies amounted to 3,000!. and 4,0001. They should not repine at that circumstance, because the leas they received in that way this year, the more they might expect hereafter; and many who had willed legacies were still living, and would, he hoped, live for many years to come. If asked what the society bad done, he would say • great deal, although not all that was to he desired. lie might say that they had put down bull-baiting and dog fighting, and removed in a great de gree the nuisances of that Augman stable, Smithfield market. It was to be hoped that in a short time that market would be done away with, at least for its present purports, and that abattoirs would be established in other parts of London, abating the nuisances now complained of, and the consequent cruelty to animals. They were informed on high authority that the merciful mallets* merciful to his beast. The right rev. prelat having enforced the necesaityof impressing, particularly on the young mind, a love of the brute creation, terminated his address by denouncing Wines. Those who praetised them did not so for the benefit of their health, nor the pleasure of exercise, but with numerous attendants forced the game into • small compass and slaughtered them by hun dreds. In his younger days this would have been called ui,- English and barbarous practice. Mr. Thomas. the secretary, then read the report, describing the lumen of auxiliary so cieties. A communication had been received from Brussels, stating an intention of establishing a gaiety there. A new bill was to he introduced into parliament, increasing the penalty of 405., which was most inaid quite to meet ouch acts of cruelty as that of Mr. Nunn, who rode a hors from Leamington to London in 111 hours, the death of the ani mal being the consequence. The report was unanimously received, after an addreu in its favour from Lord D. Stuart, M.P., and resolutions adopted expressing pleasure at the es tablishment at Devonport and elsewhere of auxiliary so cieties, and declaring the deficiencies in the last year's income, called for increased exertion to give effect to the objects of the society. Thanks having been voted to the right rev. chairman, the meeting separated. TORY I'ANIC.—We re-publish the following note of alarm struck by the John Buil on Saturday, without either vouching for or calling in question the averments made in it :—" UPFICAL SALARIES—TiIitEATENED HAVOC. —The special report of the committee on the miscellaneous esti mates will not be communicated to the public for some time; but we are enabled to inform our readers that the reforms which it proposes are of the most sweeping character. Messrs. Hume, Bowring, and Co., have been triumphant in the committee. The offices of Junior Lords of the Admiralty, Treamry, &c , are either entirely done away with or most materially cut down—the salaries of cabinet ministe rs wotully diminished! The obj.ct of the above-named gentle. men may be simply that of decreasing the expenditure of the country, but we shrewdly suspect that the clamour for retrenchment means something more than it professes, and that the blow they have now struck is the first and not the last to be aimed at ' things as they are.' " REFORMATION OF JUVENILE OFFENDERS.—The sixtieth anniversary of the Philanthropic Society's operations wu celebrated at the institution, St. George's. fields, on Satur day. The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, Lord Ashley, Lord Morpeth, Lord Courtenay, the Right Hon. W. o.oladstone and Mrs.Olubitone, and a numerous company of the society's supporters were present. The Bishop of (Word preached in the chapel of the institution, and afterwards ad dressed the boys and youths who were assembled. Among these were upwards of 100 who had been placed out from the institution during the lit two or three years, and who had maintained goad characters M their places. The boys were addressed also by the Right Hon. W. G. Gladstone (who presided in the unavoidable absence of the treasurer, Mr. W. Gladstone). Thri: looks and manner spoke well for the efficacy of the society's reformatory agency. In the report which was circulated, the following statistics of the society's operations were given. During the year ending May 1,1848, the kindness of the society's friends and supporters has enabled the committee to open the doors of their asylum, and to afford the opportunity of repentance and reformation to 126 boys recommended to the society's care from various prisons or police courts. Of these, 98 had been once, up. wards of 60 had been twice, and above 30 more than twice, imprisoned for their offences. Upwards of 32 have lost one parent, and 43 are entirely orphans, or have parents who have neglected and injured them. In the same interval, 96 have left the society's care—of whom 61 have been appren ticed to various masters in town and country, 11 have gone to tea, and 19 have been placed out under their friends' care, with assistance in clothes and money towards their after provision. Of 213 placed cut or lett during the last three year+, the committee have good reports of above 160. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND THE LORD BISHOP OF SALISBURY. MY LORD,—The correspondence between tour lordship and Mr. Borman, which has been published under your directions, was no doubt intended for the infor mation and opinion of the public. On those grounds, I submit 'he following observations. It appears by your statement that your income was in one year 17 , 6611 .; in another, 12,879; and in another, 2,4321. Now, this great irregularity could only have arisen from very gross mismanagement of the estates. The tenures of the church property are governed by acts of parliament passed in the reigns of Henry VIII. and Elizabeth, in all of which the dignitary to possession is most strictly prohibited from granting any lease " that shall in anywise alienate or give away any portion of the rent to the prejudice of the successor; " or " that shall cause either dilapidation to the estate or impoverish the successor; " end " that all lenses shall be utterly void, if made while three years of the lease in being is unexpired." By the report of a committee of the Home of Commons, appointed on the 3rd May, 1838, to inquire into the m ment of ecclesiastical property, we are informed that dignitaries in possession have persevered in granting leave which are in direct opposition to those statutes, until they have reduced the revenues of the church to "an utter and unaccountable disproportion between the value of the property and the income derived from it;" and that although the estates are called church property, because the fee simple belongs to the church, yet the actual interest and right of possession of the lessees in them are much greater than that of the church, which, in point of fact, has only a reversionary and in many cases a very remote interest in them." Te this forlorn and lamentable condition have the reverend trustees of this immense and most sacred property reduced it. Your lordship's prede cessors left it to you in that condition, and you, in your turn, by renewing the kisses, upon the fines rated, have entailed the like upon your successor. Custom is pleaded in excuse for continuing the spoliation of the church. Bad customs are generally kept up, in con sequence of those who ought to know better following the multitude "to do evil." The estates of the church, under the present custom, produce little more then one-fourth of their value—the average of yours for the last four years you state to be 5,1361. If your lordship will consult the state ments that have been made, for the purpose of settling the amount of fines, you will find the real value of the estates belonging to your see, to be upwards of 20,0001. per annum, about 15.0001. of which are lost to the church by the customs introduced by its dignitaries. This, if the leases are for lives, will in the last twenty-one years amount to a loss of the enormous sum of 315,0001. In leases for lives the loss would be much greater. This ie, indeed, destructive of the property, but the misapplication of what remains to the church may be said to be more destructive. In the " Liber Ecclesiasticus," page 52, three dignitaries are mentioned, belonging to the cathedral of Salisbury, as having received fines for leasing their estates to the amount of 7.9661. Their estates must therefore be of the value of 3,9831. a year. In renewing twenty-one years' leases, they would receive for fines 23,8981., besides 7,3241., the amount of their yearly incomes in that period (the loss to the church in addition is 59,7451.) The duties performed in the service of the church by the reverend dignitaries, as stated by them selves, are for one "to preach twice a-year," another "to preach in turn," the other " tho usual duties ;" altogether, for the twenty-one years, not equal to six months of that perforated by thousands of our working clergy, with incomes under 1501. nyear; and for this 90,8671. of the church pro perty is sacrificed. Can there be a greater mockery of sacred matters i -- - The eyes of the country are wide open upon the state of the church, but there is no hope of redress while the present system of trusteeship continues. 1 commend these facts to the serious consideration of all who would give a good amount of their stewardships.—AK OLD CHUItCHMAN. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1848. THE BISHOP OF EXETER AND THE REV. end had engendered infidelity, it had been the siding of Pry Papal. ipiseopelian, Witeleyao, independent, baptist, priests under every name with corrup tion, extravagance and untruth. (Cheers.) They heard a great deal in Christian clothe about the retrogradation of Christian principles. Now, as all men are brethren—all equal in the sight of Clod, all namable to the same low , all standing in need of the same benefits—he sailed upon them by ell that was sacred in scripture, by all that was true in history, to avoid the ranks of the oppressor, and to some to the help and the political emancipation of their fellow-men. (Cheers.) The rev. gentleman concluded by moving: That this ( meeting approves of the motion of which Mr. Buena has given notice, paci the pot suffrage on • ballot;morJust and equal tab; for giving aims the protectkm of the for limiting the duration of parliaments; and making a more equal ap portionment of stembers to the population. Mr. Bloom (a chartist), Au seconding the resolution, wished to congratulate the chartists at the detection of the tory handbills which had been sent out in the guise of chartisin. The tones were anxious to have their aid at the forthcoming election—sheuld they have it (Vehement cries of " Nu! no !" and cheering.) At the last election the melee tried to bay them—made a distinct offer of bargain and sale; bat that wee "no go." (Laughter.) Now, they had recourse to every artifice • they had tried to " per suade" them—that would not do; they had abused them, belied them, and now they had come to act the wolf in sheep's clothing. But sit would not do ; the chartists would be true to their compact and their principles. (Hear.) Seeing that the middle classes throughout the country were giving proof of their d e t erm i na ti on at least to move in the right direction, do not let them, as chartists, throw any ob stacle in the way. (Much cheering.) Even if they attained household suffrage, he (Mr. B.) would still remain unen franchised ; but then it will be a large advance, and secure a House of Commons which will much more nearly reflect the I opinions of the people than any elected under the present system could do. Let them get household suffrage, and in course of time not far di.tant they would have a firm step ladder to the attainment of the fuller instalment. (Cheers.) He did not countenance the abandonment of the charter, or the dissolution of committees, or the slackening of effort; all he contended for was, that whilst chartists should abide by their own principles, it was to their interests and to the interests of the great body of the working classes not to throw any obstacle in the way of the present middle class movement. (Much cheering.) lie had, on these grounds, great pleasure in seconding the motion. (Loud cheers.)—The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. °Lovett moved : That this meeting, while it would render every usistance in it, power to the constituted authorities in preserving order and pre venting anarchy, would armhole*, wish to imps upon the minds of the government and parliament their Ann conviction of the grass injustice under whiob the middle sod working eJases, suffer Iran the prevent unequal distribution of taxation—which Is in favour of the territorial arid propertied close as contradistinguished from the body of the nation —and the meaty that etthts for retrenchment in the public expenditure. The speaker dwelt upon the unequal distribution of taxa tion, and the hardship of the working classes. Mora than two-thirds of the taxes were up - in consumable articles, which the working classes were obliged to use ; and he contrasted this with the comparatively light taxation borne by the landed interest. On this question of taxation—indeed upon ell questions, the interests of the middle and working classes were identical ; and he did hope that a real bond of union would exist between them in order that they might, by con.titutional agitation, compel the parliament to do justice by the adoption of a mere equitable system of taxation, and a stringent reduction of the expenditure of the country. After adverting to the pension list, and to other items of ex pense, he concluded, amidst loud cheers, by moving the adoption el the resolution. Mr. floor) said he would simply confine himself to second g the resolution, which, like the others, was carried unani mously. It was also agreed that the chairman request W.Evanti,Esq., M.P., to present oopies of the foregoing resolutions to Lord Jahn Hawn and to Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P., and after three cheers had been given for roforro, the meeting broke up. LIVERPOOL.—There is in coulee of signature in this town • requisition from merchants and others to his worship the Mayor, requesting hint to call a public meeting to petition the legislature on the subject of financial reform. It is understood that the mayor will comply, and that the meeting will be held forthwith. Hut-L.—At a very numerously attended meting, held in Hull, on Weilne.day, an association was formed to be called the "Hull Reform League," to co-operate with other associations formed and forming at other large town., for the purpose of obtaining household suf frage, vote by ballet, triennial parliaments, and equal electoral districts. IRELAND. JAMBS BEIOBE, Bir,—My attentionZino ie;;;;Iled to an extract Inserted in your paper some time since from a letter of the Bishop of Exeter, published in the !hawks Cowrier. As the contents of this letter are calculated to mislead your readers, you will, I trust, insert a few lines from me in reply. From the bishop's letter, your readers may be led to con clude that, notwithstanding the indelibility of holy oaten, I should regain the status of • layman, if the bishop were to excommunisate or depose me from the ministry. I appre hend, from the case of Horne Tooke, this would not be the result. I should still be a clergyman, but under degrade tion. I could not enter parliament, and I should have no more legal riakt to officiate as a nonconformist minister than I hive at present. The object of the bishop's offer appears to be to keep the public in tne dark so to the real state of the law in this matter. It is quite clear that a seceding clergy man may be imprisoned by the bishop for contempt of court, if he persist in preaching the gospel as a dissenting minister. When I first seceded from the establishment, I wrote to the bishop, through his secretary, to know if I could do any thing more effectually to taco the status of a nocconformist minister. I received merely an evasive reply, and in the articles exhibited in the court against me, the Who, does not say one word about deposing me from the ministry for a few shillings, but ho prays that I may be re strained from preaching, rtc., and be condemned in the costs. To my there is no possibility of imprisonment for preaching, the gospel, is an unworthy quibble. Strictly speaking it is true, the imprisonment would be for contempt of court, but this contempt arise* from preaching the gospel contrary to its monition, and ti , erefure the imprisonment would virtually be for preaching the gospel. That your readers may the better understand the caw-, I enclose a copy of the statement made by me in Exeter-hall, which I shall be obliged by your inserting in your paper.—Jett.. SHORS.—Bridgetowa, Tatum', Devon, May 18th. THE REFORM MOVEMENT. MEETING AT DERBY. On Friday evening, in pursuance of a requisition very numerously signed, a meeting of the inhabitants of Derby was convened in the Guildhall, by his worship the mayor, in support of the new reform movement. The hall, which is an extensive building with • large gallery at one end, was crowded to excess. Hundreds went away unable t o , gain admittance. It was, indeed, one of the most flume ' roue and most unanimous meetings ever held in theborough. Mr. Mon in the chair. Amongst those present were several aldermen and mem bers of the town-council, several leading manufacturers, and • nuralwr of professional men and tradesmen, The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said ;—•With out entering into the particular questions that would be brought er fere the attention of the meeting, he was bound to state his belief that the time had arrived when • further reform of the constitution of this country was needed, (Loud cheers.) It was because he was a friend to order in the strictest sense that he considered it of vast importance to the welfare of all classes that there should be an extension of the rights and privileges of the working classes. Every one who hod witnessed passing events, said who had at all applied their minds to a consideration of the subject, most be aware that there were anomalies existing in the consti tution of this country that required to be removed or repaired. (Loud cheers) Possibly, constituted as this country was, we could not have a better system of government than a constitutional monarchy, provided the rights and privileges of all classes of the penile were respected It was because he was a friend to colorant tional monarchy, so reformed sed so improved, that he was there that night to preside over their meeting, and he was sure that there was no true friend of freedom present who would d:sturb the meeting, or who would not support him in the chair. (Hear.) Those who wished for improvement in our institutions would do well to let their enemies see that they could meet as peaceable persons, disposed only to promote the welters of all climes; that whilst they sought to reform the constitution they would not de grade themselves by having recourse to violence or disorder. There was one caution ho would give them. Certain hand bills had been distributed in the meeting, without a printer's name, the object of which was to create disunion and dia. effection. No doubt those bills had emenared from the enemy's camp. This, however, was a time for unanimity, for co-operation, when each shade of reformers must give • little in order to obtain the beet practical thing that was attainable. Ile rejoiced to see unanimity once more bringing together the middle and working classes of the country; and sure he was that, as the principles of right, and truth, and justice, were eternal, so in the end they must pre vail. (Cheers.) The Rev. N. JONES proposed the first resolution. They were assembled that evening to take into consideration the hest means of supporting certain friends of liberty in Y. forming the House of Commons, which had been tried in the balance an I found wanting. The foundation of the re presentative system proceeded upon this one principle—that the people have a right to express their feelings fully awl freely as mpects all those laws they are called upon Is obey, and to have a voice in the making of those laws. This was, in fact. the one great principle of seltgovernment; it was the only way of saying there is no legitimate power hut what is the action of truth, justice. and righteousness and that the laws ought to be the expression of the people's mind. Now it was taught them 16 years ago, by the reform then introduced, that the people would be left this inalien”ble right, and that they would have free management of their own concerns. The great leaders of the reform party told them that the result of that measure would be to secure to the working classes a great increase of the blessings of life. They were told that it would secure to the nati o n "good and cheap government." What was the state of this country after 16 years of " re form "1 What was the state of the working classes? Where was the promised " cheap government "? lie believed that the expenditure of government was large as at the present time. He believed that upwards of 30,000,000 had been added to the national debt, and fist the estimates this year were ;beyond all former precedent. (Shame.) A great deal of this arose from the increase: expenses of the army and navy—readers ' necessary, it had been argued, on account of the state of the continent. If they had no other means of checking revolts tionary tendencies than by force of arms, then, indeed, he feared they might look forward to troublous times. (Hear.) But surely there was a way of averting this, and that was to do justice one to another. (Cheers.) After ad verting to the state of many of the labouring classes, and to the amount of their wages seized by the tax-gatherer, he said it must be miserable legislation indeed that could not apply itself to a remedy, by curtailing the extravagant expeneiture. He then adverted to our inequitable system of taxation, which presses tightly upon the propertied and territorial classes, but falls heavily upon the industrious ; and he did be lieve that if the people had a fair share of the representation they would elect members who would support better laws and a more equitable distribution of taxation. (Cheers.) There were certain clauses in the Reform Bill which gave tremendous power to the aristocracy and largo capitalists in the counties and the small constitueaciee ; tt was to break down thin unjust preponderance, and obtain a redistribution of political power that the present movement had commenced. He had Crest plenum in moving the following resolution: ' net the fundamental principle of the British comtitutioo meg- Mug the right of the people to a full and fair representation in the House of Commons: sod that, in the opinion of tins meeting, the Home of Commons, as at present coastituted, does not fairly represent the population, the property, or industry of the country, from which hue arisen great and increasing discontent in the minded :a large por. Lion of the people. Mr. Sec no eon seconded the resolution in a speech 'home length. During the last four years he had come in contact with the working dames, and found that there was quite as much intelligence amongst them as a body as amongst the enfranchised ; and he for one had resolved on helpin them to attain their fair position in the state. (Cheers.) He did not recommend them to adopt the practices so fashionable upon the continent--no, he recommended them to seek their rights in a peaceable and cons'itutional man ner, so that their worst enemy could not deride or oppress them. (Cheers) The resolution was carried unanimously amidst loud oheers. The Rev. W. F. Ports moved the next resolution. He commenced by reading two anonymous hand-bills circulated in the meeting, whereupon Mr. Biggs (a leading chartist) stated that a person near him saw a man bring the bills from the tory printer's. This announcement was received with loud cheers. The reverend gentleman then proceeded to say that he did not stand there as a party men ; he stood there, en he ever had done, and as he ever hoped to do, an unflinching advocate of the principles which Le held. He stood there as an advocate of cooperation without compromise, as an advo cate of order, peace, and liberty. o.der had unhappily been too frequently assimilated with despotism, and peace with corruption, and liberty with anarchy. He was an advocate of order without despotism, of peace without impurity, of liberty without anarchy. The cause which had called them together was the extension of liberty, the progress of truth and righteousness. Now if he had read the history of man with anything like correctn' se it taught him this lesson, that two parties had principally governed, princes and priests. Primoa had bound men by physical power, and then endea voured to teach them that they had received their mission from the Almighty, and therefore they must submit to them. They had taught passive obedience. Mankind had not bean governed by . truth and righteousness, but by ruthless mill. ' tog oppress ions and dictation (Cheers.) If the country told the aristocracy of the country it was the right of the whole people to hold the franchise, they would re;dy, "It is very right to bestow it upon certain classes who are pre pared to receive it, but the great mess of society are not fit for such a privilege." Very beautiful logic this, no doubt; but very fulsome to his taste. (Cheers.) He went to a lower grade in the scale of society, who had no long line dame*o tral progenitors, but who, nevertheless. were posasesad Of large property, derived from relations or friends, or amassed by their own industry. These were termed the middle ' Many of these were gentlemen both by education and nature, and who had worked up their way in the the scale of society : but let them not forget the clothes they once wore ; do not let them forget the cottages in which they were born. Now, • great many of these middle class gentlemen had ne glected their duty to themselves and the people. (A , voice " Not all.") No. not all, but far too many of them. Did they doubt it? Why, the present House of Commons proved his assertion—their present taxation proved it. He maintained that a great many of the middle classes bad neglected their most solemn duty; and if same who were now advocating the moue of right and justice had done so earlier, • the people would have been enfranchised ere this. (Cheers.) He was most anxious that all men calling themselves:Christians ' should act with Christian consistency ; that they should carry out their principles, not only iu the pulpit and in the prayer-meeting, but also in their social relations with their fellow-men. If there was one thing more then another that I had taken off tee sharp edge of God's truth in the world, I STATE. TRIALS. CHARGE OF MR. BARON LEFROY IN THE CASEOF MR. MITCHEL DUBLIN, MAY 20. The commission opened this morning in Green street. The judges are Baron Lefroy and Judge Moore. A strong body of horse and foot police were stationed in and around the court, and in all the sur rounding avenues, while chains were drawn across the street and numerously guarded to prevent the in trusion of the multitude. I reached the vicinity of Newgate about II o'clock, and found a singular tran quillity. There were not one hundred persons in the I neighbourhood of the court, and nothing indicated en thusiasm or even common excitement. 'I ho bills having in the meanwhile been prepared, the learned baron proceeded to charge the grand jury at S o'clock. He said : II sin now in a position to address you on a case which was not ripe for your consideration. The cue as on the face of r the calendar assumed an ambiguous 'hope—the cue was de , scribed on the calendar es "John Mitchel, charged with I publishing a seditious libel." That might be a miedemeanour or a felony. We now know that it is charged as a felony . under the late act. His lordship then addressed himself to explain to the jury the principles of the late act and their ap plication to the facts. The case they had now to try was so , cleany deified in the late act as to leave them no difficulty in deciding on the bill before them. It was quite differeat from the difficult and embarrassing question of a seditious libel. The act in °melon was passed on the 22nd April in the present year. His lordship then read the third section of the act, which, after referring to two other acts which were heretofore in operation, went on to describe as felonies the compassing or intending the deposing her Majesty from her royal style and dignity, or to bring war upon her so as to compel her by force to change her councils or advisers. Here his lordship quoted the third section of the act, and proceeded. The indictment wan framed upon the first pro. vision of the act, that, namely, which intended the compass ing and imagining depriving her Majesty of her royal name and dignity, and also to compel her Majesty by force to change her counsels and her ministers and measures. The made in which expression is charged u having been given to those intents are certain publica tions in the United Irishman newspaper. There was also a count charging that before and after the 6th dos of May, the first publication charged, and subsequent to the passing of the act charging, that these intents were urged in other pub lications before and after. He would observe that the pro visions of the present act were to be found in other acts, but different: in matter, and in the punishment in tended for them. In England, at least, they were high treason, and punishable with death. His lordship referred to tho 37th Geo. 111., the provisions of which were trans pond to this act, but which was never enacted in Ireland. In 1817 that act was made perpetual by thes7th Geo. 111., but as the former did not apply to Ireland a doubt arose whether the act included Ireland. The present act, howeeer, there was no doubt applied to Ireland, extending those provisions to this country, but as a felony and not high treason. There was not, therefore, anything new or harsh in this act; on the contrary, the provisions of the law materially mttigatecl, and there was, therefore, not the slightest ground for any charge of novelty or harshness. They would observe the act did not require that the intents charged should be car ried into effect, bat only that there should be such a mani festation of those intents as the act required. Not that any party should be in danger of conviction in the dark, but that they should be manifested by writings or by acts, leaving no doubt that the party accused entertained the purposes and intents contemplated by the act. The in dictment, hie lordship continued, having charged the intents contemplated in the act, proceeded to charge the prisoner with having published speeches made by himself, openly avowing that he did contemplate, by force, depriving her Majeety of - her royal dienity, and of levying war against her. They would have to be satisfied, first, that the accused had those publications brought home to him, and, secondly, that he had left no doubt by his language that he had the put-pores and intents contemplated by the act. They would have to read over the several pub lication. brought home to the prisoner, and then to be satis fied whether they contemplated to deprive the Queen of her right and dignity to the kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land. His lordship, as illustrating the poin's to which they would have to direct their investigation, called their atten tion to a passage from one of Mr. Mitchel's letters, in which he concluded by stating that he contemplated " an Irish re public.. one and indivisible." Before repeal meant net any , disturbance of her Majesty's dignity—now repeal was to mean a republic. If they could entertain any doubt that the establishment of a republic was compatible with her Majesty's retention of her dignity of Queen of this em- pire than they would, of course, hesitate to say that the prisoner contemplated to deprive her Majesty of her dignity of Queen of Ireland. He had not time to look through the voluminous publications, but in the next sentence he found these words, " And how are we to meet that day f—in arms, my countrymen, in arms , " If they found any expressions in those writings to qualify that language, they would give the prisoner the benefit of it ; but if not, then he apprehended : there could be no question as to the intentions of the writer. The 'text point to which they would have to turn their attention to was the charge of levying war upon her Ma jesty to cause her to change her measures. It was not necessary that this should be done by an army re- gulary equipped and officered, but u Sir Michael Poster, the most humane judge that ever presided on the English bench said, it was the contemplation of levying war whether or not it were carried into operation. His lordship read • long passage from Sir Michael Foster 's works to the above effect. Therefore, if they should find in ' the publications now charged any passages counselling, or ad vising, or contemplating any rising up and forcing the Queen to change her measures, then they came under the operation of the act. It was not necessary to contemplate that an army should be marched to London ; bet if an in- Junction or rebellion was contemplated, so that under I the force and proms of them twos the sub— jects of her Majesty, so as to make her in pity to their pain and sufferings to change her measures ; or if it was contemplated that large bodies should arm, then it would be for them to say whether it was not intended " by levying" war to compass that her Majesty should by form change bey measures and counsel.. It would also be • subject for their omaideration whether or not he had in those publications not only counselled and contemplated levying war, but had not also advised how it I might he done. The summary of what be had said was, that the publications should be brought home to the pri soner. Nest, that they should be of such a nature as to bear out the intents and purposes contemplated by the act, the wise and merciful latent of which was to arrest treason before it ripened into all its awful and mischievous effects. And in this light, so far from an act of severity, it was one of mildness and wisdom. His lordship having repeated his view of the operation of the act, and stated that it was much better that the man who counselled treason should be ar rested and punished before he involved other., in his guilt, than that the country should be involved in blood through his counsels, concluded by leaving the question to the grand jury. It being now 6 o'clock the grand jury were allowed to separate until 11 o'clock on Monday morning, when the bills in the above case will be submitted to them. The court then adjourned. It is understood that the crown will apply to fix Thursday next specially for the trial of Mr. Mitchel, who still holds by his determination to defend him self. The intended procession of the clubs on last night was prevented. Early yesterday the police commis sioners issued a prohibitory notice, cautioning all per sons against " assembling and marching through the street', obstructing the thoroughfares, and shouting in a disorderly manner." About six o'clock last even ing a strong corps of infantry was marched into the College•square, together with a division of the city police, who were stationed in the Park. The Council of the Confederation having bad notice of the intention of the authorities to disperse the pro cession, issued a circular of postponement at 5 o'clock. The people, however, crowded to D'Olier-street at night-fall, andlormed a dense mass on Carlisle-bridge, and the northern end of Westmoreland-street. At nine o'clock the police marched out in great strength and drew up at both ends of D'Olier-street, in which the Confederation-rooms and the Nation office are situated. They formed in double lines across each extremity of the street, and suffered no one to pass, while patrols of horse-police moved back wards and forwards, amid tremendous hooting from the idle and disappointed folk who came to witness the " silent demonstration." The temper of the police infantry was much less steady than that of the horse, for a shout from the multitude was sure to be followed by a charge from the police, who made numerous prisoners, about 50 in all, and lodged them in College-street office. On the charge being entered they were let out on their own bail to appear to day. At eleven o'clock the crowds had dispersed, and the police returned to their stations. Dr. Hurtle, it is reported, will be the probable suc cessor to the late Bishop of Cork. Nine o'clock, p.m.—The city continues perfectly peaceful, and there is no apprehension of a renewal of the scenes of last night. Several of the parties ar rested by the police in D'Olier•street were set free, the charges being dismissed; in some cases, however, per sons were bound to keep the peace. In the United Irishman, Mr. Devin Reilly winds up by declaring for a republic. and threatens that, in the event of a jury being hardy enough to convict Mr. Mitchell, 50,000 armed men shall release him from the felon's cell. Here are the words : Last November there was growing in Ireland (says one of Lord Clarendon's statists) ample food for 20,000,000 of men—for two and one ha..l times our population—and now that is gone; but one poor half of us have one meal per diem, and thousands on thousands not even that. Yee, to live at all we must live in freedom ; and there is but one shape freedom can take amongst us—a republic. To that wo are all hastening under the one impulse of national latelreservation —some blindfolded, some stuttering inarticu y, some bombastically enough, tome even wrestling hard with the power which drives them on—but all to that, my friends, however little they know it. And into that glo rious type of national power John Mitchell shall walk a free man from his gaol. If by a jury of his countrymen, then so much the better ; he shall have proved the truth on which he started, that English rule here is unreality —a vile, horrid dream—a mere goblin of the sense—to which we too long stupidly shrank submissive, thinking it " government," and its airy mumblings " law ; " which needed but that one man should spit upon, and laugh at, to exorcise it for ever. And if not by a jury, then by the verdict of some thousands of armed citisens, ready to back the defiance he will burl from the felon's dock—and by fif les of thousands throughout the land, wherever want has been, and tyranny. Never ,—oh ! never again —shall the faults of '9B bring down the just hand of an avenging God, in reigns of terror and tyranny, and famines, upon a people ungrateful —upon men so bewildered or depraved, as not to know that " to be brave is to be truly wise." The subjoined resolutions emanated from a full meeting of the Grand Lodge of Ireland, held this week in the city of Armagh : That we consider the legislative anion between England and Ireland as essential to the security and welfare of the Blush empire and the maintenance of the Protestant insti. tutions of this country; and are therefore determined to re sist to the utmost every attempt which may be made to effect its repeal, as, in our opinion, such attemp.s virtually involve • treasonable design to separate the two countries and esta blish a popish ascendancy. That, as the strong and well-founded feeling Of insecu rity as to life and property, and civil and religious privileges which exists amongst the Protestants of Ireland, has in duced a general desire fir a closer union among themselves, and, as the Orange institution has been long endear, d by historical recollection to a large portion of our Protestant population, we, the grand officers of the Grand Lodge of Ireland, having reconstructed the Orange Society upon a strictly loyal basis, in reliance on the blessing of Almighty God, confidently recommend it to our Protestant brethren who have not hitherto joined it, as supplying the fittest bond whereby to unite them in perilous times like the present, and the best means of forming the closest and most effective confederation, based on pri ciplcs truly constitutional and religious. That, considering the disastrous consequences which have resulted from the treasonable and wicked practices of evil-minded men ; the serious loss and injury sustained by the peaceable, industrious, and well disposed portion of the community, from a general stagnation of trade in Dublin and throughout the provinces, we press upon her majesty's government in Ireland the absolute necessity which exists for executing the laws with increased energy and vigour, until public confidence and peace be restored. That we view with alarm a bill now paying through par liament to extend the franchite in Ireland, the effector which bill would be to place the representation of this country alto gether in the hands of Roman catholic priests, and afford a precedent which may be disastrous also to the interests of England. THE ARREST IN THE COUNTY OT CAVAN.-011 Wed nesday last, about three o'clock p.m., the house of Mr. Hugh Maguire, of Kilsub, Templeport, was visited by Cnostable Rea, of Swanlinbar, with 20 men, who arrested Mr. Maguire on a charge of sedition. It appears that on the preceding Sunday, at the chapel of Templeport, a document was exhibited for the purpose of enrolling the names of those who were willing to join the National Guard, advised by the confederates. Mr. Maguire signed the paper, as did several others. Subsequently the piper was removed to Mr. Maguire's house, as being convenient to the chapel. The police having heard of this, proceeded, as before stated, to Mr. Maguire's house, and arrested biro. They brought their prisoner before B. W. Holmes, Esq., R.M., who committed him to Cavan gaol, refusing to take bail for his appearance. ?done ARRESTS—Mr. John M'Huoh, of Belturhet, was arrested on Tuesday last, and committed to our coun'y gaol, for having a pike in his possession. Another man, named Michael Gray, has been arrested in Ballyjameeduff, under this new penal law; but we have not yet heard the exact charge preferred against him. CALLING OUT THE PENSIONERS ON PERMANENT DUTY. I—The government have directed the staff officers of pen shiners throughout the country to ascertain whether the men under their command were willing to volunteer on permanent duty for six months. On the order b: ing read for the men on parade last week, the pensioners of this dis trict, to a man, offered their services, and were enrolled by Capt. Hoey. It was gratifying to witness the prompti tude with which theyeteran: tendered their services to their Queen and country. The organisation of this force in Ire land will give 15,000 effective men, besides a large reserve of about 30,000, who are liable to be celled upon to do gar rison and other duty. The government have transmitted to the several garrison towns a large supply of arms for the use of the inhabitants, should disturbances take place. To this town 500 stand of arms were sent, with a proportionate amount of ammunition, which were deposited for safety in the barracks.—Carlow Sentinel. SCOTLAND. EDINUTROW, MAY 20. The forenoon diets of the established and free church assemblies were spent in devotional exercises. In the evening a meeting was held in the established assembly of the Lay Association for promoting mis sions ; and at the same period the reports of the Board of Missions and of the Jews' Committee were brought before the free assembly. PROVINCIAL. DIFIAPPEARANCE OF • A COLLECTOR OF TAXES.— W. Royle, who for some years has filled the situation ci collector of the assessed Mace and the poor rata for the townships of Ramage, Rusholme, and Withington, has absconded, and it appear. that he was deficiust in the amounts reoeired for poor-rates sad tam, to the extent altogether of about 7001. His relativ: s express a beltei that he has drowned himself. The late Macs. B. and J. Mot train, who were uncles of Hoyle, became his sureties to the extent of 6001., and this awn is legally recoverable from their executors. In the case of a deficit in the ameesed taxes it is understood there is • power to collect the whole amount so hut, by levy upon the township. In the mattes of poor. rates, however, the cam is somewhat different, there being, it is stated, a personal liability on the overseen to sake good any deficiency caused by the misconduct et their collector. In this instance, however (ea in meaty others, doubtless), there is this anomaly, which would make the ease one of con siderable hardship on the overseer of Withington for es. ample,—vis , that, though the overseer recommended the appointment of the collector, he had no power to discharge him, the collector being, in fact, the servant or agent of the hoard of guardians. It is rumoured that Mr. Hoyle specu lated in railway shares, by which he is said to have lose about 3001., and that the remainder of his deficit is supposed to arise from the repayment of money borrowed on his in dividual account. A GANG OF SWINDLERS.—The Gardeners' area els o tutions agricultural implement maker% hop and seed merchants, and the public generally, against a nest of swindlers, apparently an organised gang, who have opened establishments in the city of Manchester, and profess t. carry on business in various lines. Several orders have bees received by various implement makers for ploughs, harrows, dibblers, clod-crushers, carts, Imagoes, chaff cutters, and chalk mills, from such parties, having reall y . no ennui riot with agricultural pursuits, and,destitutir of capital, not having the slightest pretension f.r setting themselves up es agents for the sale of agricultural implements. It is well known that where these worthies have succeeded in procuring imple ments they have been immediavely sent to some auctioneer and sold to the best bidder at half the cost price. Honestly intentioned men, who commence business end require credit, ought to be able to give satisfactory reference to some well known party, not to each other, as the practice is, with the partite above alluded to; and implement-makers, hop and seed merchants, at a distance, should refuse to part with their goods until they have received answers to their in quiries from persons on whom they can place implicit reliance. • NEW SYSTEM OP POTATO-GROWINO.—MY. Menem; formerly curator at the Leeds Botanical Gardens, and long and favourably known in the horticultural world, hea published a communication on the importance of de• {aching all the superfluous shoots from the potato eats. "By doing sc," he says, " I have found a very considerable in crease in the weight and sire of a potato crop in eomporison with those growing near. of the same kind, on a similar soil, where the tops had all been left on as they sprang up and, as they frequently do, with six, eight, or ten stems. The detached shoots, if taken off with Can, will be toundl perfectly well rooted, and to need no further support irons the parent tuber; and, therefore, if each be separately planted with care in a coiled position, leaving just the top above the surface, about six inches apart in the row, and about from two to three feet between, according to the kind and soil, and watered afterwards to settle the soil about them, and then trsated as the others, excellent mope will be produced, little inferior to that from the original set, bad the whole of its shoots been left on it, and the crop will prove finer." He adds " Where manure of a rank nature is applied to the sets it ought judiciously to be laid over, and not under the sets. I have seen the evil effects of Pei@ proles ice too often.' BANKRUPTCY OF THE MAESTIO IRON C*MTANY.--. Saturday being the day appointed for the last examinatioa of the bankrupts, at the Bristol &strict court of bankruptcy. a great deal of jets rest was manifested, and a number of cre ditors appeared to prove their debts as well against the sepa rate estates of some as against the joint estate of all the part ners. The assignees are Messrs Renshaw, of London; flampton, of Maestig ; and C. B. Tripp, jun., of Bristol. Some discussion ensued in reference to some of the proo& tendered, but the last examination could not be proceeded with, inumach as there had not been time for the plaintiff, to prepare their balance-sheet. The total amount of &hes proved against the company is 67,0001. Two large claims to prove, one for 19,0001. and anothe. for 6,0001„ it was agreed should stand over fee` discussion till the next meeting under the fish The following particulars of this important bankruptcy hag been furnished to our Bristol correspondent:—The true • debts amount to nearly 70,0001. ; the liabilities ea note given to partners, but now in the hands of other parties, s 13,0001.; rents, wages. and salaries. about 40001. Tb works have been carried on for twelve months under deed of inspectorship, which expired on the 25th March last. the fiat bearing date the 27th of March. There are in the company seven partners—namely, Mr. WM. Stothert, Mr. George Wood, Mr. John White Little, Mr. J. C. Speeder, Mr. W. Brunton, Mr. J. Rusher, and Mr. W. H. Buck land. The available usets amount to about 63,0091., and are as follows:—Plant, estimated value, at cost price, 52,000/ ; horses, tools, &c. 4.0001.; stock of minerals, 5,0001 ; mans. factored stock, 2,0001. Besides this the Maestig iron Com pany has a claim against the Vale of Meath Brewery Com pany, of which company they are partners, for nearly 70,000/ for which sum they hold the bills of the latter company as security fur cash advances. The official assignee, Mr. E. M. Miller, has paid a sum amounting to nearly 1,0001. totes. workmen employed upon the iron works, to whom a very large sum is still due for arrears of wages. The statute on", requires that 40.. shall he paid to each workman in full, and should that provision be rigidly adhA red to the poor fellows will be minus to, for them, a serious extent. Ihe creditors have, however, been applied to for their authority to the of ficial assignee to pay the remainder of the wages due in full. The last examination was adjoureed till the 29th June next. ANOTHER ABUSED CHARITY.—At a reocrA vestiri meeting at Cheltenham. Mr. W. H. Gainnett intro duced the subject of Pate's Charity. He Said some years ago a committee had been appointed in vestry to watch the affairs of this charity, and they, were is structcd to report at every Easter vestry. They bad not re ported for three years. but had this year drawn up a does meat, which he would read. Mr. Owinnett then read the report, which stated that the gross rental of the property in 1844 was 792/. 2a. Id., and the expenditure:ma account of the charity 7401. 181. Id. The last of the old leases would fall in in 1855, when the funds applicible to the charity would be greatly increased. It was estimated its 1822 that the annual rack-rental, wren the old lessee fell in. would amount to 4,2001., but more recent estimates reduced the probable amount to half that sum. At all events the inc. me of the charity would be double the amount at present realised. He trusted the intentions of the founder with re spect to the alms houses and the grammar school Would them be carried out in all their integrity.—Mr. R. S. Lingwood said, before any improvements could be introduced they must co-operate with the trustees, the masters and 'fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He thought if those gen tlemen were memorialised by the parish, some good might result. He begged to propose the followingrettluti.m That the system of education at the Free Grammar Reboot is not adapted to the general wants of the inhabitants of Cheltenham, and that it would be mac advantageous to those who are mooted to avail themselves of the charitable intentions of the founder, if the course of inatruccon given in the said school were enlarged sad extended to other branches of literature and science and to muimercii.land gene. rateducation, and that, inarmuch so ample powers ore given under the act of 3 Si 4 Vic. cap. 77, for improving the con litlon and extending the benefits of grammar schools, it is the ni.ition of tide meeting that a provisional committee of rate-payer -old be sp. pointed to consider if any and what stir ought now to ha taken by the Inhabitants of Cheltenham to soul themselves of the mean. afEnted by the raid act, to extend the benefits of the Free Oratimaa School in this town. Mr. G. Rowe seconded the resolution, which was unani monsly agreed to. LITERATURE. Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowl! Buxton. These memoirs will teach the world to do fa, justice to the character of a true English gentleman. During his life Sir Thomas enjoyed an extensive re ; putation as leader of a respectable and powerful party ; but, as he appears in the narrative of his life now published by his son, he will command the love and reverence even of those who are indifferent or hostile to the objects which were the great aim of hie existence. The life of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton divides it self naturally into three epochs from his birth in 1786 till his selection by Wilberforce to succeed him as the leader of the anti-slavery movement in 1821 from the latter date till the passing of the act emancipating the negroes in 1833; and from that time till his death in 1845. it is in the middle period that we find Sir Thomas displaying the full energy and power of his character as a public man. He had succeeded to the leadership of a movement already matured as to its aims by the co-operation of many minds, and possessing numerous and enthusiastic supporters iu all parts of the king dom. What was wanted in a leader was that neogs nised integrity and sincerity which commands respect, that benevolence of disposition which seeks its ends without endeavouring unnecesearily to wound or irritate, and that inflexible moral courage which no blandishments or intimidation, either from men in power or from the multitude, can compel to stop, or even pause for a moment in its on. ward way. 1 hese qualities in their highest excels lenco were combined in Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, and to that happy combination was mainly owing the passing of the Negro Emancipation Act in 1833. In the first period of his career these high and cont mending qualities could not, of course, find scope to display themselves. In the third his want of en larged philosophical views rendered abortive his at tempts to originate further advantageous movements in the course he had chalked out for himself. But in both of these periods, quite as much as in that to which we have already adverted, the noble qualities of the man rendered him uniformly lan object of admiring love. The predominant natural features of his character were courage of the very highest order; an ardent and inflexible will; the warmest and tenderest be nevolence; and a constant flow of playful good humour. The judicious course pursued with him in youth by his mother had allowed the healthy im pulses, which led him throughout life to relish so intensely rural pursuits and field sports, folly to de velop themselves. His own energy and perseverance enabled him to earn the highest honours at college, and imbue himself with a good classical and literary education. The benignant influence of his early and intimate association with the Gurneys and their circle, purified and