The Express. — London, England, 1846-10-14 00:00:00

---.--_ ----- wet to. To deprive thLo of that would be to introduce • new etc , - which would be atsoluuty unjust bil"gitseinif,toanadlrrobhardsti.ultimwiately injurious loth . e public also. The . Semt . may to the public is competition. and it is anu must DC, the m ay legitimate protection for all such undertakings, whether large or small, t heir Mae making no difference whatever in principte, but only infecting the length of time b fore competition is lassi e so y to commence; ad whenever the profits of a railway have large as SO in. die the formation of another, not only will another be undertdom with ev ery prcspect of sumess, but , probably the original one el y have outgrown its means o so r e and rapid ereteryanoe. I believe with the set ;ter that " the interest of the prcorietors of rail ways is much more nearly to accordance with the; of the public than is commonly supposed;' that is. I believe the true policy for them is to oo nvey s the largest number of =tors at ns near a minimum charge u patellae, and this will the I gradually, and no other wise m an gradually, bemuse in.rease of travellers by railways is gradual though rapid, and the minimum of one series of ream win not bo the mum of future aeries of years. But it this is d ie I go e policy, It will be meat assuredly discovered to be sa and self interest will Induce its practice, and legislation will be unnecessary and lethrions ; but I disagree almgether from the dictum of the committee, ' that in return far the monopoly, the com panies ought to solimit to a control over their charges . " because what ever approximation to a monopoly they possess is only a natural protection from the enormous risk they incurred, and became the equivalent from the monopoly, or rather natural approximations to a m onopoly, was given, and their part of the bargain fulfilled, when they subscribed their money and executed the undertaldng, and it is glaringly unjust to call upon them to pay It again, by giving up a share of the profits—P. Z. THE GREAT BRITAIN.—We See from the last num ber of the Londonderry Sentinel, that Captain Coppin, of that city, intends to offer his services to the proprietors of the Great Britain and the underwriters, to rescue that fine ship from her present position. The Londonderry &Wine/ says: o We have had some cuivereation on this subject with our enter prising and ingenious fellow-citizen, Captain Coppin, whose mecha nical ski 1 is well known, as it was proved in cases more any:gently boreks.s than this, ouch as raising the engines and boilers from the wreck of the Rambler, and in getting eff the hull of the Robert Napier from the shore at itallyeastle. Mr. Coppin intends to oShr his services to the underwriters of the Great Bra.an, and he is quite sanguine of being able to get her once more afloat, and that in a couple or three weeks (if his proposal is acce pted), and that at a comparatively mead met. His tlan la, to construct a machine by which he expects to be able to raise her out oilier present bed, and the time he would prefer for pitying it into renew , is that of ne..p tidea, and not spring tides, as the dif ference of tides along the moat does not exceed two Pct and sthalf, and the highest tides are usually accompanied by strong s ales blowing upon the shore. The experiment is worthy of trial. From the success which boa attended Captain Coppin's efforts heretofore, and the confidence he entertains himself on the subject, we arc persuaded that this attempt will not tail. The con. ',ruction of the requisite machinery will, of course, Involve an ex penditure. of a couple of thousand pounds; but what is that compared with the value of the vessel, which was limited for Itio,ooof. 1 She has not set been very seriously injured. but if she is allowed to re main in her present position till the spring. as appears to be contem plated, she will not only be useless in the %mein% but be liable to far more serious damage." It is said that Capt. Hosken is a proprietor to the extent of 30,0001., end therefore the underwriters, under the idea that he will leave no means untried to save the vessel, will not inter:ere with his managemen+. INDUCTION OF THE NEW VICAR OF ST. BRIDE'S. —The ancient and interesting ceremony of induction, or as Coke terms it, the giving persona impersonate, cr investi ture of the temporal part of a benefice, well performed yester day afternoon in the case of the Rev. Charles Marshall, the new incumbent of the vicarage of St. Bride's, Fleet-street. At two o'clock the Elev. Thomas Dale, the late incumbent, who has been present° I to the living of St. Pancras, the Rev. C. Marshall, the new incumbent, the churchwanlens, and other parochial officers, assembled in the vestry-room.—The Rev. Mr. Dale having briefly stated the nature of the very ancient tempero-eeclesiastical ceremony, the rev. gentleman, accompanied by the new incumbent and the ponshionera, proceeded to the ,outside of the church. Hating taken up his place in front of the principal entrance, he addressed the assembled parishioners. They had met together, he said, in consequence of a mandate issued by the Bishop of London to the Archdeacon, and by a further precept addressed to him (Mr. Dale), commanding hint to induct and give corporal possession of the church of St. Bride's, otherwise St. Bridget s, to the Rey. Charles Marshall, to the end that all the parish ioners may have due notice and sufficient certainty of their new minister—Mr. Cooke, the senior churchwarden, here banded the keys of the church to Mr. Dale, who having opened the door, led the new incumbent by the right band into the church, placed the keys in his hands, and formally delivered to him corporal possession of the church and parish of St. Bride's, with all the right* and privileges then-to belonging. Mr. Dale then retired to the outside of the church, and the newly-invested incumbent having closed and locked the door, the formal cere monial of induction was concluded by Mr. Marshall toll ing the bell of the church, in token of his possession of the church and vicarage. The rev. gentleman having concluded this duty, the parishioners were again admitted to the church, and proceeded to the vestry-room. Mr. Dale having taken the chair, said, the lam official duty he had to perform in connexion with the pariah of St. Bride's was to sign a for mal memorandum as evidence of the induction of his 11114.CCS nor. The document war accordingly signed by Mr. Dole, by the churchwardens, by Mr. Wood, ' the Father of the parish," and by several of the principal parishioners. Mr. Dale then vacated the chair, and formally introduced the Rev. C. Marshall, who, after thanking his parishioners for their attendance on the occasion, exprcs,ed au earnest hope that his exertions amongst them might tend to the honour of God, and to their eternal welfare lie would say nothing as to what he purposed to do among them; but he trusted that by God's blessing, his labours would not be in vain. The churchwardens then invited the company to partake of a slight refection, whi'h was laid out in the vestry-room, with which the ceremony ended. PRIVILEGES OF THE COOKS' COMPANY.—At an in held last night by Mr. Bedford, Mr. Scrivener, butcher, of Clare-market, who bad been summoned, claimed an exemp tion under the Act of the Cooks' Company, of which he was a liveryman, which was paned in the 2nd of William and Mary, a clause in which enacts " That any and all of the inistery and commonality of Cooks shall not be summoned to serve on any affair, inquiry, jury, or inquest."—Mr. Bedford having been handed the Act and read the clause, remarked that he was not previously aware of such an exemption, and it only showed persons who were not exempt the necessity of punc tuality.—Mr. Scrivener then retired. TREATMENT OF PAUPER LUNATICS.—An abridged report, which appears in another part of our paper, of an inquest on a pauper lunatic who died in Ilaverhill or Risbridge Union Workhouse, and whose case was thought by the jury to jus tify a severe censure on the guardians, seems an appropriate occasion to call the public attention, and particularly that of guardians and other parish officers, to the following plunge in an address of Dr. Conolly to his students:— " I entreat you to rams ::ber that the honour of your profession, and your own duty to God and man, will be best consulted by sour becoming the steady adrocite of these patients, and of all the wretched lunatics about to be kept attached to workhouses. Remember that the avowed motive for removing them from the county asylums is economy—a motive always to be suspected, and generally a mere mask of avarice and selfishness. Examine before von discon tinue your visits to Hanwell, the food, the bedding, the clothing of the patients ; look at their day-rooms and sleeping rooms. Everywhere you will find comfort, but nowhere will you and extravagance. You will see the poor paralysed patient sitting in an easy chair, out of which he cannot well fall ; in the summer, in the &mot air of a garden, and in winter, by a cheerfid fire. You will find that his clothes are warm and dry, and clean ; that he has a safficient quantity of wholesome food, carefully cut up for him, if he require It; that as long as he out walk, he is led about by careful attendants, and that when he can no longer walk, he is attended to like a ehlkl. Ile lies in a decent bed, or, if his state requires it, in a padded room ; as the infirmities of his malady accumulate upon him, every needful restorative Is administered, and evene variety of simple aid sick Met. He is protected from accidents, and screened from all roughness and violence, and though utterly helplem, be Is safe and even happy. .4/1//14 roots the parish less thanlOs. a week." AN OLD TRICK NEWLY REVlVED.—Yesterday two policemen, while on duty in the Blackfriars-road, has their attention drawn to a female apparently in a strong fit and foaming at the mouth. The men obtained some water and sprinkled her face, but she seemed to get worse ; so much so that it was deemed absolutely necessary to remove her to the nearest surgeon's, which was accordingly done, when the mediall man, after a brief examination, found a large piece of mottled soap in her mouth ; and when they searched her pocket they discovered a large quantity of coppers, The officers, at the advice of the surgeon, placed her on a truck and dragged her to the station-house, where she was instantly recognised as an old hand at similar tricks, and was locked up. A DIsGUSTING TRlCK.—Yesterday we were in formed by the superintendent of the Eastern Union line, that some fellow had amused himself by writing with a diamond obscene language upon the windows of several let class carriages travelling between Ipswich and London. It has been found necessary to remove several of the panes of glass, which are very expensive. The company have offered a reward of 201. to any person who will give infor mation of the party or parties implicated. We earnestly trust that we may have the opportunity of publishing the name of the unmanly scoundrel that could be guilty of eta disgraceful an act.—lpswicA Express. IIiQUESTS.-I)EATHS IN THE MILLBANK PRISON.— By Mr. Bedford, two inquaata at the Millbank Prison, on the bodies of Frederick Joao and William Radiant, etch aged 19 years. Jones, a factory labonrer, was received into the prison in March, 1845, from Salford gaol, having been convicted at the Saltbrd sessions of the previous month of larceny, and sentenced to seven years' transportation. On his admission he appeared in health, and so continued till the 24th ultimo, when he complained of shivering and pains in his head. He was wen by Dr. Bailey, the medical officer, who prescribed, but made no change in his diet ; and being no better on the 26th, he was removed into the infirmary, where he received such nourishment as jellies, beef-tea, wine, dm He, however, got no better, but, rapidly declining, died on Saturday last, his death being found, on a port- IrOftem examination taking place, to have resulted from dia. ease of the peritoneum and ulc:-ration of the bowels. Ver dict, " Natural Death."— Hallam, described as a groom was received into the prison on the 10th of March last , having been tried and convicted at the February amnions of the Central Criminal Court for highway robbery and lar ceny, and ~ e nteneed to 10 years' transportation. On the 28th ultime, complaining of slight fever and looseness of the bowels, ha wee removed into the infirmary, where ho died on Monday last from inflammation of the lungs, consequent on fever. In answer to a juror, Dr. Bailey said there were several cases of fever, though not infectious, but merely such PR were caused by damp weether following a hot summer. Verdict, " Natural Death." —A CIIILD KILLED By AN Ox.-13v Ur. W. Payne, at Bridewell Prison, on the body of Martha Kelly, aged nine years, the (laughter of a poor widow, now a patient in Bartholomew's Hospital, living in Duke-street, Stamford-street, an account of whose death appeared in our paper yesterday. The jury returned the speck. verdict, " Accidental Death; but it it tho unanimous recommendmion of the jury to the proper authorities that the dangerous practice of drivin; horned cattle through the g ublic thoroughfares to and from Smithfield Market be j ' e^ "tin"M•' M17111)7,11. tri SPITA LVET.DS. —By Mr. W. Baker, at the Grave Maurice public-house, in the Whit-casts:a-read, concerning the death of Daniel Crawley, caused by Nancy Ruffs, in custody charged with the wilful murder of the deemed. The partienber's ei!' this ease have be, stated in Our r. port of the proceedings a* Worship street, awl after the i nqu i r y was o p ene d by the coroner, And two ard, the inquiry was adjourned until Thurs- THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 14, 1840. To it the Female Penitentiary in the same city forms j a useful contrast, being, in the words of the rep:id, I " without exception, the best conducted penal esta- I bliehment in this country." The gross amour.t earned, in the latter, by the prisoners (the daily average number being 281), for laundry, kni,ting, awl needle-work, in ISIS, was hseg., cledu alma from which 171/ for ex lnses therm:, and 72/. paid to prisoners when discharged, eft a net profit to the credit of the public of 2431. So far lots return would appear satisfactory, were it not chat the governor, in speaking of the laundry work, which had inereastd from the previous year, and which produced 343/. of the above grass amount', gives it as his opinion "that the principle of congregating so many pri soners together of different characters and crimes under only one officer, who cannot possibly keep a proper inspection over their moral conduct, forms a sonata of many evils highly iujurious to the discipline of a prison and to the moral reformation of the prisoners, while it interferes with the industry of the poor outside, and of many charita ble institutaons which are supported chiefly by laundry work." Upon this paint, however, the report offeta no remark, further than the general one contained in the recommendation of separate confinement. On the day of insrsectien there were on the books of the Mar 'liaises or Debtors' Prison in Dublin, 110 persons, of whom 54 had been enlarged on baie to abide the judgment of the Insolvent Court: a mitigation in the insolvent law, than which, in the estimation of Mr. J. D. Mullen, the int 1- ligent marshal, none had pried more beneficial. That gentleman likewise thinks that the Bth section of 6 Vic., cap. 95, humanely abridging the period of imprisonment in the case of pauper debtors, and thereby le.erong the public expense, might be beneficially applied to the poor debtors in county gaols. The report speaks in terms of the strongest approbation of the cleanliness, regularity, and good manegement of most of the gaols ; oceasiunally pointing out imperfections, which it attribute; rather to a want of sufficient accommodatiou than to any neglect on the part of the local authorities. Every thing tending to impede the adoption, or at least the trial, of the separate system, is regarded es a great drawback upon sound discipline and the moral reformation of the prisoners; and to this ronelusion the inspectors have come from the experience they have had of that system in the Limerick, Carlow, end other gaols where it has been tried, in some instances on a small scale only, but in every instance with success. The gaols of the town of Drogheda, and of Leitrim and Roscommon counties, form ex ceptions to the general tale of Vie report—being described as badly managed and irregular, and as showing mush in discriminate mixiag together of the prisoner the most wretched and abandoned women being allowed to associate ' with those whom it is possible to reclaim, but In whose con dition the Inspectors General think it i fruitless to expect any amelioration so long as this defect exits. Even where the arrangement of the cells does not adre,it of the separation of prisoners, as in the case of Waterford City, and the counties of Louth and Antrim, the inspectors, nevertheless, strongly urge the necessity of erecting sheds, and fitting up workshops for their separate employment. The Antrim gall does not, they observe, possess one do gle requisite, owing to its structural arrangement, which would enable the officers to carry into effect any proper system of penal discipline; the number of cells being only 50, while the daily average number of prisoners is double that amount, and the yards being so narrow as to render it impnwible to keep the priso ners from communicating with each other. The gentlemen of the county Down are earnestly entreated to effect such alterations in tke interior of their extensive prison, as will render it available far carrying into effect the separate sys stem ; white the suggestion for erecting sheds, B:e., is pressed upon their attention with this additional res-on : "In the northern gaols a greater proportion of the criminals are found' to belong to trade, whereas the reverse is the case in the seuthera parts, and, therefore, every encourage- ment should be held out for employing the prisoners at the business which they 'have been brought up to." Here, as in nearly ell the county prisons, tke inspectors fouud several lunatics, who, they say, ;neatly interfere with proper discipline, order, and regularity ; sometimes being attended to by other prisoners, a thing they strongly depre cate, and in many instances deprived of necessary comforts he the sumo ratio as they arc deprived of their reason ; a fact which the inspectors comment upon as remarkable, when noticing the wretched appearance of twenty-two lunatics (fourteen males and eight females) in the gaol of the county Tyrone ; some of them being allowed to go barefooted in the yard on a cold wet day, and all to breakfast in a small day room, without form or table to lay their food on. The inspectors express their gratification at finding a manu factory established in the county of Longford gaol for making starch from diseases! potatoes, adding that the article produced is of rho best quality. Great improvements have been made in the county Dublin grub at Kilmainham ; and a system of employment for the male pri soners has been adopted by the governor, which yielded to the county in the year a clear profit of 541., after paying for materials and giving to each prisoner his legal share of one third. The inspectors suggest the propriety of appropriating the net amount of these profits to the use of prisoners on their discharge from prison. They amounted on the year. after deducting the cost of work, to 4,217/. The total expense of gaols for the year was 75,6571., and the total number of prisoners confined in them on the 31st Dee., 184.5, was 4,129, of whom 412 were lunatics (263 males, and 149 female) mid 391 debtors, (340 males and 41 females). IRELAND. DUBLIN, Ocr. 12. INSTRUCTIONS RELATIVE TO REPRODUCTIVE WOKILS.- " Board of Public Works, Oct. 10.—Instructions relative to Reproductive Works, which may be undertaken by limited Proprietors, as authorised by Mr. Labouchere's Letter of Oct. 6. " Landed proprietors, In the *nano( the Act 5 and 6 Victoria, cap. $9, applying for permission to expend the amount, err a portion of the amount, to be levied on any electoral district, in draining or submiling connected with drainage, must state the precise nature of the work proposal to be executed ; and It is to be observed that no works can be admitted which are not dimity connected with the per manent improvement of the soil. The lan& lowing been viewed and reported on by the officer of the Board of Worke, and sabaequently sanctioned by the Lords Commissioner* of Her Makara Teel. noisy, the works may be commenced, under the superin tendence of an overseer either appointed sr approved of by the Board of Works. Labourers employed will be paid at the cud of each week by the tarn-clerk of the lkiard of Work., in proportion to the extent of the work executed, the price for mei item of expendi ture having been previously determined ou and approved of by the Board. No contracts can be enteral into by the Board of Works with proprietors or other, for the execution of works of any kind; the wbok must be done by tank at fixed prices, It being expo:only under stood that the labourers to be employed shall not be limited to those who reside within the particular electoral district in which the work mar be situated, but may be selected from among the destitute poor residing within the limits of the districts allotted to the local relief committee; the particular labourers to be employed being fur. tingled with tickets by the inspecting officer of the Board of Works. When a pinall stream or drain forme a boundary between two electoral districts, which stream or drain is the natural outlet for the waters of both, the expenditure re quired for sinking or embanking (as the case may he), such stream or drain, shall be borne by the proprietors of both electoral divisions, In proportion to the benefit con issd, and the works shall be effected under the same arrangementis as those prescribed for ordiaary drains, Sec. When the coin to be expended can reproductive work is equal to the entire amount to be levied off the electoral district, such district will not be liable to pay any additional proportion of the general ' assessment for the barony in which it is situated. But when only a portion —say one moiety of the sum presented on the electoral district %hall be expended on drainage, Ac-, the entire of such electoral district shall be assessable for the remaining moiety, which may be expended on ordinary nods or other useful public works within the electoral district, or barony, as the ease may be, within the meaning et the , enactments of the 10th Victoria, cap. 107.—8 y order, "J. C. WALKER, Secretary." I DEPUTATION TO TILE COMMISSAUIAT OPFICE.-A demi tation on behalf of the population of Achill, had an inter view on Saturday with Sir Randolph Routh, commissariat general, at his office in the Castle. Mr. M'Donnell, on behalf of the deputation, stated the peculiar circumstances of Achill—the total destruction of the potato crop there ' and the ab , ence of grain crops in any quantity, owing to the exposed position of the island. The principal object of the deputation was to procure a supply of bed from the govern ment stores, for which the principal inhabitants were ready to pay. Owing to distance, and the want of commercial inter course with any other more favoured districts, the deputation stated that they were unable to procure supplies. Sir Ran dolph Routh replied that no supply of food of any PAW queue could be expected before the latter end of Novem ber, or the first week in December • and in answer to a question from the Rev. Mr. Monahan, said, that even then it was his intention to rs commend to the government not to sell the food at a price lower than that demanded by the merchants, as it was essential to the success of commerce that the mercantile interests should not be interfered with. The Rev. Mr. Monahan replied that last year the govern ment adopted a ditferent course, and sold at a cheaper rate than the merchants sold, fur the express purpose of bringing down the markets. Sir Randolph Routh admitted that such had been the policy adopted by the govern ment; but he regretted that such had been the case, as it gave bad habits to tho people. It had led them to expect the adoption of a similar course now, whereas the government was determined not to interfere with the merchants, but to act more in accordance with the enlightened principles of political economy. Mr. Monahan said he could net understand why the government was to be fettered by no Miens of political eco nomy at such a crisis as this. Political economy might bevery well in its way, but the people of Achill know nothiag about It. Sir R. Routh remarked that nothing was more owential to the welfare of a country than strict adherence to the principle of free trade, and begged to assure the reverend gentleman that had he read carefully and studied Burke, his illustrious countryman, he would agree with him, that it was essential to the success of any measure of relief that the strict rules of political economy should be steadily at• tended to. After some further conversation the deputation retired. CONCILIATION HALL.—Tits DAT. The usual weekly meeting of the repeal association was held at one o'clock, when Mr. E. D. Costello was caUed on to preside over a fuller atiemblage than usual, and briefly addressed them, thanking them for the honour conferred on him. Mr. J. O'Connell then read the following letter from his father : " Dcrrynane Abbey, feherciveen, 9th Oct., 1846. " My dear Ray : The objections made, though I think In many instances unwisely and natuundodly made, againit the labour rate act seemed to render rweeffmry the meeting of parliament, to give additional power to the Irish government. Rut the lord Lieutenant has wisely, and I would add bravely, determined not to wait for the tedious process assembling parliament, and debating anew bill, but to take upon himself the risk and reapoindbility of making use of powers sufficient to obviate every objection, and conciliate every interest, so as to be able to pmesed with increased and increas ing rapidity 1 t procuring wages and food for the people. It is quite true that an indednity bill may be refused when parliament assemble; but he is ready to incur the hazard, and to meet the danger in his anxiety to obviate the imminent 'writ In which the country is involved. Having taken this ra , NnsibiL4 +Ton himself, aryl assuming evert - species ef zwecavary clicutambip, there's no leer that he will ate !Omit in iii good work, or al.mt any hilt measure whdawvcr, fully committed ns he is; his course lies straight before him. It would be a confession of error to hesitate or delay in taking that crrre. We have, etterrPre, every riiiit day next.—Dr.arn IN A CIItraCHTAIRD.—By Mr. G. I. Mills, deputy-coroner fur Middlesex, at the Six Bells public house, Queen-et:eve Hammersmith, on the body of Eliztlecth Rogers, aged 60 years. On Thursday morning Lst, about nine o'cluele, the deceased was sit ing crumpled up behind a tembstione with her head re; lining on a child's grave, in a retired part of the churchyard. Decease.l had nothing on but a chemise, with two peaked*, and a night cap, but neither shoes tier stockings, and died soon after b.ing discovered. Mrs. Hamilton deposed to being sister-in-law to the deceased, who was respec:ably connected, and had been in attendance on her for several days previously. Deceased bad been indisposed for some time, and was iu such a very weak gate that she was at times considered out of her mind : 821 - her last alive at four o'clock on Thursday morning, when she took her up some gruel. Demised said then that she was much better, and requested witness to go and lie down on the bed, which witness did, and on going again to see deceased at five o'clock she found she was not there, and was nowhere to be found. It was witness's impression that deceased went to the churchyard for the purpose of geeing her father's tomb, whom she was very much attached to. —Mr. Roy, one of the parochial surgeons, living at Brook green, deposed that he had made a posemoreem examination of the body of deceased, and had found the liver very much enlarged, and considerable effusion in the chest. Witness considered deceased's death was accelerated by the exposure in the churchyard to the 11( verity of the weather. Verdict, "Died from natural causes."—Amemen 31teseett.— By Mr. C. J. Carttar, coroner, at the United Service Tavern, Woolwich, on the body re a male infant, aged three weeks. In this ease the child of a woman named Goldfinch, died (roma dose of syrup of poppies, given by a woman of the name of Simcock, who, on the discovery, used some words which led to a suspicion that she had caused the death of her own child in a similar manner. Under these suspicious cir cumstances the inquest was adjourned. The body of Simeock's child was ordered to be exhumed for pate-mortem examina tion, and Simeock and her husband were held to bail to answer any charge that might be brought against them. — SUICIDE. —By Mr. Mills, on the body of Mr. Merchant, aged sixty-seven, a mastersrnith and farrier, residing at Walham-green. For the last three weeks deceased ap peared exceedingly depressed in spirits, and complaiue3 of pains in the head. On Sunday morning lie was found lying on his back in the wash-house, with a wound on the left side of his throat, from which a large quantity of blood had escaped. A earvingknife was grasped in his right hand, and a large-bl ided penknife was found stained with blood near him. A verdic. of "Temporary mental derangement" was returned. THE ANTI-SLAVERY LEAGUE :AT MAN- CHESTER. A meeting was held on Monday evening, at seven o'clock, in the great Free Trade-hall, to receive a deputa tion from the Anti-Slavery League, on the subject of Ame rican slavery. The deputation was announced to consist of Mr. George Thompson, Mr. \V. L. Garrison, and the escaped slave, Frederick Douglas. About 3,000 persons were present, amongst whom were a goad number of the Society of Friends. Mr. W. Shutt!e worth was called to the chair. Mr. Geonos THOMI'SON explained 1.1:e object of the meet ing, which was to show that the members of the Evangelical alliance, recently held, offered, if not a tacit acquiescence in, a lukewarm opposition to slavery, inconsistent with Christian principle. Mr. WRIGHT followed. Speaking of the New School Geueral assembly of Presbyterians which met at Philadel phia, be said that it is a branch of the General Assembly of i the Presbyterian Church of America, which is divided into the old and the new schools. In 1794 that (March adopted the following principle—'. That all who ate concerned in bringing men into slavery, or retaining them; all who buy or sell slaves, are man4teilers, guilty of t'h'eft, and sinners of the first rank." This was the discipline •of the Presbyterian Church in 1794; but in 1816 these men-stealers had so mul tiplied in that Church that they got the erasure of that prin ciple. Well, there were more than 30 taco-stealers in the As sembly last spring. The following ease came before the Assem bly for adjudication. In 1844, Res - . W. Graham, a member of the Synod of Cincinnati, published a book to prove that slave-holding is in accordance with the word of God. He woe tried by the Synod, and deposed from the ministry for fathering American slavery upon God. He appealed to the General Assembly. So numerous and powerful were the slave-holders in that body, that, by threats of disunion, they brought the Assembly to condemn the decision of the Synod in regard to William Graham, and to request it to reverse that decision and continue him in the ministry. They also brought the Assembly to decide that it was contrary to the constitution of the Presbyterian Church, to exclude a man from the ministry because he considered slavery a divine in stitution, and fathered it upon a God of love and justice. Mr. ARCHIBALD PRENTICE stated his belief that 19.20tha of the gentlemen forming the Alliance had as just aud right ' eons an abhorrence of slavery as the gentlemen of the deputation. (Applause and disapprobation.) After this an altercation took place between Messrs. Thompson and Pren tice, when it had subsided, Mr.Geonoe l'uosseeoer called upon the meeting to affirm the following motion: .• That the conduct of Use Evangelical Alliance, first, in adopting a proposition declaring that men might be slavehuliters without any fault of their owe, and from disinterested motives, and then, to gra tify the proalavery spirit of the .Imeriean detentes, reusing from their proceedings all reference to the subject of slavery, in order to prevent a disunion, was at variance with the uncompromising spirit of Christian truth, and a virtual approval of the objects of those who, while they profess to be the followers of the Great Redeemer, make merchandise of the bodies and sou 6 of men." (Loud cheers.) Mr. Fast). Dora LAS seconded the motion. Mr. PaSNTICE, in the face of great disapprobation—the meeting refusing f r some time to listen to him—moved an amendment. He said, if Mr. Thompson would propose a revolution condcmniug, in every Whist, of the word, both slavery and slaveholders, in every part of the globe, instead of censuring a body of men in the bulk, amongst whom were many as strong opponents of slavery as any that could be found in the rinks of the abolitionists themselves, he would not oppose him, and he believed the motion would pas: una nimously. He threw out this suggestion fur the sake of peace. His amendment was : ' That this meeting expresses its utter abhorrence of slavery and slavc-bulding, under any name and under any circumstances; end thanks tbo friends of liberty in America (or their efforts to obtain the abolition of slavery in that country." —( Partial cheering.) Mr. Titomrsost said he should have hailed the proposition for peace, but the fact was, it was not they who had sought, the alliance, but the alliance who had made war on liberty by their virtual recognition of slavery at Birmingham.— (Hear, hear.) Mr:DOI:I:LAS again spoke at some length, and ultimately, about twelve o'clock, the intended seconder of the amend ment having let the meeting, the chairman, amidst some impatience and confusion, put the triginal motion, which appeared to be carried all but unanimously. The meeting then broke up. THE PRISONS OF IRELAND. The 24th Report (1843) on the general state of tho prisous of Ireland, presents a gratifying Oegree of improve. ment in the moral government and discipline of these esta blishments contrasted with their condition in former years— especially as regards the important points of industry and the minute classification of prisoners ; while it at the same time freely admits that much has still to be effected ; which, how ever, it is considered possible to effect only through legisla tive interference. The gaola of Ireland are described to be, upon the whole, in a high state of good order and regularity ; hut it is stated that, before they can bear a comparison with those of other countries, the Prison Act 7 Geo. I V., c. 74, should be amended in the following particulars: 1. The appointment and selection of prison officers to be given to a ceutral board, as in Scotland ; or to his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant. 2. The salaries of officers of prisons to be regulated perma nently, according to extent of duty and population ; and not left as at present to the discretion of grand juries. 3. The establidiment of penitentiaries for young criminal*, male and female. 4. The preventing by law the committal of lunatics to county gaols. 5. The removal of debtors from county gaols, when they occupy accommodation that could be alloca ted to separate confinement for criminals. Tile Inspectors'-General, from whom this report has emanated, observe, that as it will be their last, they deem it desirable to leave on record a short account of the state of the prisons in 1821, when the Inspec tors-General were appointed, what improvements had since taken place, and • hat still remained to be done. They observe, that in the year 1821, the county gaols of Ireland, with a few exceptions, such as Lime rick and Cork, presented for the most part scenes of filth, fraud, and vice; w 4 scarcely one good resident officer; without accommodation, clothing, classification, employment, inspection, school instructioa, order, or cleanliness; the law totally disregarded; male and female prisoners often not separated ; spirits sold openly in many gaols, and frequently by the under officers; the expenditure in the diet often amounting to 9L, and sometimes to Is., per head per day ; and the families of prisoners being frequently fed from the ovcrplus of fond issued to each prisoner, a manifestfraud upon the county. This and all such abuses having been swept away, a continual progress discipline and general improve ment followed; enabling the authors of this report to state, that every county in Ireland had, within the last twenty years, either erected a new prison, or added materially to the accommodation of the existing one, giving, in most cases, a cell for every prisoner at night, and as much classification of crime in day-rooms, and of work by day, as the law requires; —that the Act permitting total separation of each prisoner is in progress in some gaols, and under consideration in all ;—that in nearly all employment and indus trious habits, school instruction, and a prison dress, are now fully established;—and that the female pri soners are, without any exception, attended to by quail fled female matrons and assistants. They strongly recommend, in addition to the amend ment of the Prison Act, as already specified, the build ing of a national model prison in Ireland, such as exists at Pentonville, near London, and at Perth, in Scotland; with ample funds from the public purse to pro vide everything necessary to secure • full and just experi ment, as to the expediency of total separation, or any other improvement in moral government; adding, as a matter of justice to the county of Antrim, that a county house of cor rection has been erected at Belfast, at a vast expence, on the model of Pentouville Prison, and containing more than 300 cells, fi , ted up for separation; but that, considering the amount of funds necessary to carry out all the details of such a system, they greatly fear a perfect trial of it cannot be made without government assistance. They also suggest, as an obvious source of good, the building of a juvenile prison, similar to Parkhurst, in the Isle of Wight; and express their belief that the new depot about to be erected in or near Dublin, for the reception of convicts from all parts of the kingdo:n, previous to embarkation for ,112 will prove a grant improvement in our prison discipline. Descending from generalit'es to particulars, they describe the prison of Newg.lte in the ci'y of Dublin, what, indeed, it hoe long been acknow'edoed to he, as old and dilapidated, con taining many obtainer abuses and imperfections, and giving rise to the question whether it would not be better to abolish it altogether and erect a new one is some other lomlity. to expect prompt and efEcaeloui mast:tree —measures the mast i el'h.cloaa becalm the most prompt. The people want two thing* ; the gist, food, foal, foal; aid next, wages to enable them —to bay that f i 3.1. Food must be stared in demote in every emeritint 'Gaddy. Bread Muffs of emery Ifni must be poured It. Every one who can afford it should purchase foreign provision. I of every Mad. We must one and al; cooperate with the Lor.l.Lieu tenant. I hare no hcaltatkin in saying, that all portico ail nit that he I is a wise and a bold man, and everybody expects from him energy, promptitude, and decision, to srt the people at work, and to bring food within their reach. I shall be salted whether I bull that: that a ' Nati , nal Committee' should inert In Dtthlin. My anew is rc.olv : I decidedly think ao. Ido think that a national committee in Dublin would be moat useful In enabling the Lord Lieutenant to carry out his views; and I am happy to we that the formation of such committee has become the object of avowed consideration by men of rank and large fortune, who are nut connected with me by any induenem, ashy any'ennununity of policical opinions. The emergency in which the country is involved has compelled them to see that the combined energy and wisdom of the landed proprietors of Irehavl are abso lutely flees.' try to enable the people to manse from the horrible even which surround ma, and to make arrangements for the Incalculable dangers that menace us in the apprehension of another—and another year of pestilence and lamina. If there were a prove t of better times, by the antelioration of the seations in one, two, three, gee, or many mouths, then, indecl, matters might be allowed to take their course without any epecial intervention of the landed gentry. But one year newt, and many ; years may, perhaps, elapse before we have arrived at anything like the position of ordinary safety or security. It seems, therefore, the heiAht of absurdity, not to make arrangements for the coining to. getter of those landed proprietors who arc most interested in the I welfare of the agricultural population of Ireland. Men should meet without distinction of party or religious differences—cull points of dissension should tut buried in oblivion--we should confine ourialeos to discovering remedies for the present position er affairs—frarful as I they arc. Alt the meetings that hive lately taken place on the subject of rothrereacelapumetlrdnstihiliffeeotre"trenilifiberalingaces'ete.fb:lrfbantaereresastp,rist,deco4ht.c.ticopre: imer,:umprra:of:mwrrii.:„hie"inicl,hilittt:77;ntin.briosta:lacnthi:lolalny. measure, at present, instead of faaille.aing, would only serve to re- Lardthe moles of relief which we he m a right to loth to front the energy and promptitude of the cord Lieutennnt. But there are alauWant tepee for the consideraion of the National Committee, es cladve of casting for a se:aion tif Pariiam topics tlea involve the ire ninent danger of the lima of the entire agricultural population. It mry be said that are taking so perscrerind a part in suggesting the Urination of a national committee, may rather prevent than promote the meeting of ouch an saferubly —lint it has not done so hitherto. Many —very ma ay landed proprietor, have already taken up the mat ter as theta own, nor have they waited for the suMfestion of Mr. Rer. nal Warne, in order to show that they did not eldink (coin a partici padre in my views on the subject of therein:idioms diatrese,by reason of m; difference ofopinion with them upon important sobjeets of a different 'nature. Mr. Bernal Osborne, Indeed, has cmdeavoured to max them with a temp of Latin to eater talc my plane. Me has done me an emential Injury be his and:aside, bee-Anse hackneyed quotatice Fos et of host,. dace-i.' Yee, he does me griat wrong. lam not the marine of the Inaled proprietors of Ireland ; on the contrary, I conscientiously believe myself to be their atneereat friend. 1 believe that my tottaecis would most exseutialiy serve thorn. As to leatiaty, Mr. Osborne himself is a greater a.lept in that quality than I am, as Witnedzi his snappish attacks upon the Whigs--attazits which evince Lyme of piety than sound policy, lie may be quite sure that with all ha good qualities, end he has many, he • ill not obtain any respect (mom the Irish people by indulging in any ander-current of animosity. Much better, indeed, would it be for him to join with those who recollect that neither Whigs nor Twirl can ever permanently cure the heti:tare of Ireland, ea long as the Irish people are rayeludA from legislating for their own country. From domest;e legislation alone is a permanent andli.afeet cure tar the evils of Ireland to be expected. There is one thing certain—*hot no parliament Lou d pos sibly render tho people of Ireland more miserable, more wretched, or less able is stria:ode against the Area of even a eanSel calamity. let US, then, nem r lose sight of the persevering etruggie for the re. smration of the Irish parliament, by the repeal of toe anion. In the meantime, and during those pressing moments of horror, let us one and all combine to assist the Lord.lientenant in wedeln: out his plane of relief. Let uo c turbine heartily, readily, and perseveringly. There is one notion that should be earrected—it k that the lanais Late Act, an it parsed into law, sanctions 110 other than unprintable works. There never was a more atoned blundereommittcd by our new/tapers Van such assertion. It le true that in particular baronies, such as that with which Mr. Mansell, of eerme, is connected, Where there r ye alreely a full eualeieney of ro itt unit bridges, the Labour Rote Act bus those defects which the lorst-lentenant is about, on hie own authority, to comet. But that is the exception ; the trener.d rule is otherwise. For example, in those western baronies in the county of Kerry, the good muds are scant, and bridges f, w. Ilere the raid, and bridges, as oriented ut the special densiOnd, arc all pro dueive work, —dint ift, productive of the greatest advantage to the ; ; occupiers and rate-payers —I repent, they are emphaticully pro- ; cluctiye works. I cannot condole without regretting that the as-; bonding misery by which we are surrounded deprives us of leioure seen to remark how impossible it in for the moral force printipl^ to allow us to anuddamate m the Repeal Accoiiation with the men of the ,word. We do nut want to be hanged ourselves, or to allow tie people to be hanged, to gratify the puerile vanity of insane de , claimers; but we will only pee 'vote the more determinedly to link ; for the repeal by means that will involve no man in guilt or in clanger . —by means which can never ellaw the sacrifice cif property, or the sheddina of our drop of blood. With such principle+ and practice I every virtuous and wise man may join us in the shout— tturra for the Repeal. -Very reepretfully poindt, i• linens,. O'CONSru.." In moving the insertion elf this letter on the minutes, the • hon, gentleman observed, that he would only say in refer core to the present business, that the Lord.Lientenant hail proved the treat good that revolted from having Irishmen to ; fill Irish offices. (Year.) He had proved that last week, by taking en himself the whole responsibility of the law, to • afford relief to the people. (Hear.) The rent was under 1001. THE LABOUR RATE ACT. - WENFORD.—BARGY.—Ths extraordinary session, for the above barony were held on Wednesday, John Rowe, , J.P., in the chair. Mr. C. A. Walker, V.L., and formerly M.P. for New Ross, spoke in the following approving terms of the Labour Hate Act, as amended by the Lord Lieutenant's instructions. Mr. Walker said, the first thing they should consider is the amount of money necessaty to vote fur the purpose of giving employ ment E 3 the laboering classes for the period of three months He knewehat there would be distress till next harvest, hut they hadtie power, under the act of holding another See gess. es circumstances might watrant. Could anyone form an idea °fete amount that might be requisite for the baron fer the period he had mentioned ?--111.r. Greene Shil metier West thee, voted nearly 11,0001,—Me. Walker: In Gorey they were most 'Demi, having given acarly 14,0001. for the purpose. And hi fhiimager Ease a nom in the aggre gate of between 6,0001. and 6,060/. was voted. This included • portion for drainage under the act. Th e of fi cer tittle Board of Works would have tte sole superintendence, which was very important. as it would pm vent coy chance of jobbing on the money appropriated to relieve the nuhlic distress The, insinuation were most satisfactory, which set forth, that the most distressed should be Brat employed, and in regular gradation downwards, es the exigency arose. They were not Iseundis lay out all the money they propesed. only in proportion as the necessity existed ; therefore should they be liberal is voting full end ample means Tor meting the The repayment of the money wee most equitably wronged, far they hod twenty 'alt-yearly instalments to do' IN; and instead of the Lerner having to pay all, I t o w o uld lee called on (or only one half, smiler the poor law valuation,' the landlord paying the other half: the tenant% moiety having been averaged at ealy three-eighth'. Thic. arrange: ment would make the absentee landlord pay that portion, which duty and moral feeling alone should prompt him• volun tartly to do. There were four electoral divisions in the ba rony, and the total valuation was 27,&61.; no if they imposed a tax of ss. in the pound on that SU. s it would produce 6,964/., to be repaid in ten years, at 6d. in the pound, 3d. half-yearly; the landlord paying lid. , rota the tenant 4d. per acre. After stating that he cantle ed road work exclusively not the best moue of laying on. t t he public money, and approving of drainage in preference , proceed to sly, that he considered great main drain' ta n Gem the lowest levels through the country would be of th,l greatest advantage, and enable every man near whose lat ds they passed to drain his ferns. As to private drainage, he thought that the landlord should pay in the ratio of 11. :a personal advantages. The food is getting scarce with far - mem, and the reduction of the number of their work men will necessarily follow within a short period, so that, in estimating the number of hands requiring work, they should not forget this fact. Mr. Walker pro pos,:l that a sum of two thousand pounds be raised for tl:c purpose of oinking and levelling beds of rivers and streams, of public utility, provided the event rs of the pro perties affected pay the respective proportions assessed on them by the Board - of Works. Many would rather pay an assessment of is. in the pound for drainage than 2.1. for use less roads. This resolution was only contingent on the go vernment and proprietary agreeing. By the term, of the resolution, a discrimination between public and private ad vantages would be afforded. Mr. Tench : If a person gave a guarantee to pay his quota, would that free hint from his share of the general taxation ? Mr. Scanlan : Certainly not, nor should not. Mr. Walker: Surely this is a great boon to the landlords. Infect, it is a luau of money to improve their properties. 3lr. O'Neill How is a tenant without a lease to be affected ? Mr. Walker : In that case the I): nefi cial interest lies with the landlord, and he must pay all. WEXFORD TowN.—On Thursday the sessions for the barony of Forth, was held in Wexford, C A. Walker, Esq., V. L., presiding. The chairman stated the amount of the real property of the barony, was 49,7091.455., of which the town of Wexford was valued at 17,6001. The town, there fore, he thought, should receive a large dividend of the labour rate, and they should haw their estimates on a calculation of 600 families, who would be found destitute in the town alone. Application was made fur 3,0001. to erect a fishery harbour in St. Margaret's Bay. Mr. Nowlin supported this application. It was sustained by the resolu tions of a public meeting, at which the clergyman of the parish who was intimately conversant with the wants and necessities of the people, attended. Fish abounded on the coast, but could not be rendered available for the.purpows intended by the Almighty, in emosequsnee of no asylum being provided for the hosts necessary to be employed in its pursuit. He would gladly give 1,000/. out of his own private resources, if he should receive any per sonal benefit from the project. The Commissioners of Fisheries are empowered to give a grant to the extent of 5 ,0001., so that they have now a nob le opportunity of effect ing a great public good, that would be felt for ages at scarcely any pecuniary sacrifice.—A ft er some discuss ion the question aas carried that a fishery pier be built on such part of the coast as the Board of Works might select—the proprietors immediately interested subscribing a sum equal to the pre sentment (3,0001.). WORKING Or THE LORD LIEUTENANT'S INSTRUCTIONS. —The Evening Mail contains several communications from landlords complaining of the Lord Lieutenant's instructions. The following extracts coi,tain the material portions of them. —" Mr. V. Steuart, of Letterkenny, propounds the following objection to the instruction to assess the rate in proportion to the poor-law valuation. If 31,0001. be the sum to be again assessed upon the barony of Kilmacrenan, as has been already done, under the Relief Act, the proportion in round numbers applicable to Tullaghobegly, would be only 1,5471., while that applicable to the parish of Con well would be 6,2041. ; yet the destitution of the latter bears no proportion to that of the former, in which 1 ,000 families, at least, out of 1,700, will be wholly destitute. I Now the employment of one member of each of these drsti tute families, for nine months, at 9d. per diem, would require 10,11.1/., acd yet the sum applicable to that purpose, by the proposed mode of divkio.., would ba only 1,347/. ; a 4,1 its distance from the parish of Conwell, where some of its drill- tate labour could be provid.d for, is at least 20 miles—while ' the intervening and adjoining districts have an amount of destitution more than adequate to absorb the amount orth(•ir own assessment. The result, therefore, must he, that baronies circumstanced must be arees.sed to an extravagant amount, vu fly ~ :isproportiontl thew:lore Qf their ab- jute amts, iu order to secure the outlay of a sufficient we fa their sower localities, or so is atilt r node of extending relief to those dis tricts must be devised. And it is with that view that I now address you ; and, I ram sure, T0%11111184 feel that whatever is to be done, should be considered and decided on at once, before any further eirections are issued or arrangements made, and before many speeialsessions are held toearry them out. I would venture to suggest the following, at a simple mode of ob viating the difficulty, with perfeetjuatice and convenience t) all: and you will find it to be the only means calculated to secure an adequate out:ay in poorer districts, combined with a capability of repayment, without taxing the richer locali ties for the reclamation and improvement of the poorer. That when this disproportion necessarily exists in a barony, it should he grouped fur the purposes of this asseermeut into divisions (A, 8,C,) compo.ed of districts nearly similarly circumstanced as to relative destitution and value: and that the future repsyment of loans, necessary ter their relief (expended in r e producti ve wo rks), should be mule at a per eentage rate upon the value of the district, or the property improved by it, and not as at present at 10 per cent. upon the amount borrowed; by this the period of repayment in poorer districts would be prolonged, and (if it was thought right) could be shortened in the richer ones : an arrangement of which no one could complain, and by which the government could be no losers, obtaining, as they would, more certainty of repayment, by which all districts would pay at a rate uniform to their means, while the expenditure in richer districts nerd not exceed their absolute wants, and that in the poorer would be male come:team:ate with them, and the repayment rendered equally easy to both.—Mr. J. Iletnilton, n deputy-lieutenant, and presi lent of the Donegal Farming Society, says: 11 the excellent purposes of our Lard Licuteuant, who fins prayed himself " a friend in deed," for he has been '• a friend in need," be clogged and hampered with mane details of ideetire as to the kind of work, the pereons to be employed, the firms to be punctili ously adhered to, the tenure necessary to entitle a person to obtain an advanne or a presentment of improvement on his land, &c., then it will not work, and the well-meant change to productive employment will he bet a torture or Tantalus, bringing the d. sired draught to our Emilia without e mpower ing us to swallow it. The works for which preseutmentsehould he allowed ought to be of permanent improvement, namely, drainage of all kind., tulnoiling, fencing, and levelling old useless fences, slaying or gravelling hog land, liming newly broken hoe or moor, and the like operations within the power of the labourer. The works should be presented sub ject to Cm coal:Lion th it the of:. r appointed approves on inspection. The persons who c preseet should be the first occupiers of the land, provided they undertake the repay ment of the portion presented in such instalments as shall be required, and that the landlord does not object where the occupier is a tenant. Seceadly, the 1 .ndlord, being owner in fee, or by lease for ever, or renewable for ever, or lease fur above 60 years unexpired—or by lonic under a enrpnrate body, or by tolies geloties lease under another, hold ing such lease—(including in every case tenants for life, whose estates are settled by marriage or other deeds; excludieg these would neutralise the greater part of the proposed benefit,) the tenant's assent being necesaary, although in this case the landlord makes himself liable for the repayment of the advance, making his own arrangement with the tenant. Aetriculturtsts under the Board of Works should be appointed as quickly as possible in every district : speed is more needful now than anything else ; one, two, or more in a paor-law union to inspect, approve, and pass the works, and give weekly tickets anording to the work done, payable by a paymaster &Vending once a week in the dis trict. So sae public works should be set on foot in every dis trict, so as to ensure employment to every individual that might de-ire it. An 1 persona obtaining presentments on their land might be obliged t employ a certain number of those recommended by the relief committees, at such rates as should be mentioned in their proposal fur the works. BALLINA9I.OII Emits—Friday was country fair day. It was held fur the sale of milch cows, small stock, &c., anti is generally known by the designation of " the Poor Fair." elileh cows were in great demand, and brought prices varying from ten to fifteen pounds; the small stock went better then those of a superior quality. On the first day of the fair the Connaught Horticultural Show was held at the Agricultural Hai at two o'clock, p.m.; it was attended by nil the rank and fashion for many miles round, and ex hibited a very gay and brilliant scene. The show con tinued ler about three hours ; the tables were arranged in the form of a square, and were tastefully set out with geraniums and all sorts of dowers in season; in the centre of the square were two other tables that groaned und't the weight of grap,s, and a variety of other fruits. Tae great annual cattle market for: ISO closed on Friday evening. and though intimately conversant with the Baffin asks: fairs for many years (says the correspondent of a Dublin piper), I have never seen a fair to pass off so quietly ; all was order and temperance, nut a man taken up for intoxica tion during the entire week, and with the exception of four or five roulette ruffians that made their appearance the night before last, there was nothing to call fur the interference of a single policeman. The Dublin traders are of opinion they will not reap a golden harvest in Ballinaidoe this year; their prospects, I regret to say, arc very gloomy. Somehow or another there was not that interest about this fair that WWI felt in other years; the bustle and excitement were compara tively nothing, and the general feeling of the inhabitants re ,. arding it is, that it was a eery dull Air. Pi/51140E or Inaennn.—The death of Lord Viscount Allen, which took place at Gibraltar, muses a vacancy in the Irish Peerage, which enables the Goys rnment to make a new creation, a third title having become extinct. The two previous were Lords Hartland and Mount Sandford. The Erexing Meta makes the following sarcastic petition to the Lord-Lieuteuant 'We would respectfully sug gest to the Irish Viceroy that this occurrence pre sents a fitting opportunity of further honouring the ' favoured family' of O'Connell, upon the members of which so frauy marks of Royal, Viceregal, and Ministerial dis tinction have recently) been poured, by conferring upon its venerated head the dignity of an Irish title—Earl of Derry nine; that of Viscount Caheniveen, fir Master Maurice 'mould +mend ; while the senior is qualified to assume two " big beggcennen" for his supporters, the cap of main lenanceas his meet, and the motto, Pray, remember the poor; ' or should his fancy take a higher flight, or his ambi tion mg patriotism require loftier miaistrattou—in respect to the latter Prnwil has done the thing admirably in its last number : "fir r,liered his ecattry—of 12,0007. s-year.. AFL its oe' Hesitsta.—The patties in the affair nem tioned in m 5 co.unruaicatiqa of yesterday are Mr. John Shea Lawlor, to gentleman from Yorry, and Sir. John O'Con nell. 'Mr. - Lawlor had adopto.l the views of " Ynuag Ireland," and iu desiring that his name should he withdrawn from the association, rue leerned gentleman forwarded to thenont mittoe n letter, couched in terms citutmeterised by a resolu tion of the osinmistee (ordering its return to 'the writer), as exhibiting mot( unbecoebing dieenurkey:" Mr. Lawlor weertained that Mr. John:O'Connell was themover of that :resolution is committee, and beam it was that he sought to melee him personally responsible for the offence he aAeged to be contained in those words quoted above. Mr. Lawlor's Aril letter to Mr. J.-O'Connell is as follows : t' Imperial lintel, Dublin, Oct. 10, 1040. ." My dearF tr-14r. Lay has communicated to me that yen were the proposer in committee , of tie renabition of Use 24th uIL , lo con nexion with MN eummarieution of the 2uth nit, to the Repeal Associa tion. As 1 impomble to stow that renolation, the concluding mitesee of which stigmatism my original communication at one tootudied in team of most unbecoming disenartasyr to pas un estised, I have, ow the drat mamma at which I oadd disengage smolt from duties connected with the sre.cut distress in my mime d 'Mr .landity, case up to 101.11 for the purism. of growths your. atten lothat manic inn. With the &chic'''. of the committee, *a far rettlesk its kas - uut retained or rejected my orictinitt cumnutsicts st, , I knee nothing whatever at this moment-to my; nether wed. t >y Anse entes....l into mj conumplation to ham tough' to try, attached an personal respansibilit rto any oar ceirinected w ilt, 'hat prwatiecthg. But the caw Otngethor difera when arse g "rifleman tionertsites to adjudicate upon the promiety or ipt i e of the deportment of mother, and to pronoun. that ethss being indecorous ur " unbecoming." ikwirty tathierable, and the intercourse between mistletoes, even us pubre qu Miens, unsrie and ends: shag, if individuals weer allowed to suppose that, when nischarging what may appear to them public duties, they tare autheeised in flying wade them just and proper re strains t miu. mood by the ordinary rules of society, sod to OITOOree tO themselves In withats unsuited to their poetical or powers. This I cannot avoid I. Mot . g ynu hive dorm In my case; and thus feeling, and that • recordedregistered, registered, and not a mere prising censure Ito ri been pro „.. i „.. et. upon my conduct, lam desirous, but in a manner the least pus+ !biy embarrataMpe or distressing to you, to state, in the Not leutanee u, s feelings. und to await from ycurseif a communica tions" to the num. wre which Remy appear &qua these feelings can be mertely satin: last and redreated.—l am, dear hlr, very truly Loyal National Repeal Anemia s stirs L ' 1 " 44 " 60 .... T o .171m E 1 , 11 g, sine l li t s • totot t w is . , „ 3l tro Mr. J. O'CosNri.L reply.eoneudes with these words "if l um to iiti d eri t w sil v r4 let OA flz a personal quarrel omit me fur the di of a public duty towards the 2.0. elation, assoiled us it wan In • hitter Wended Lobe public, sad written fa • public rnpceity, I mat lkorther deny your right so to do ; and I would submit it to your go 141 Judgment whether it may not weur the appearance to the puhil- eyi t Qt . all 'Amin A Personal ietimida boo to Inn political d e g.. t • At Um same time, I have so hesi tation In saving to you, that i re will withdraw the offensive esprit...ions (have alluded to in y, ter latter of the 2eith September, I will at cans, and most cheerfully, 'disk the committee to allow the terms you templed:ll of to be canoe. 10 4 I 2 their record of the rem lotion moved by me on receipt of you' letter of the 24th of the sane month." Mr. Lawlor, in his rejoinder, tents Mr. O'Connell— " In any ordinary case I should have t onaldamvi a communication such as that now received from you in rep ly to my note of this morn ing, as eft:gushy closing anything in the ♦ay of correspondence be tween the parties concerned. In yours, hos •ever, for many reagms which I need not-refer to, I am willing to view the case otherwise, and I will not be deterred, even by what I tru.t jou may excuse for designating at not a very generous interpretation of my motives and objects, from making a last and earnest qfurt to prevent a fatality which i think but few could have been found to have im puted as an object of desire to the water of my communication of this morning. And in a P.S. he aids : ---.... "Pray do not misanderMand my motive in suggesting to Yen the propriety of taking every precandon--4 thing gamily done—for= venting this rmatter resetting the ear of our public authorities. an accidrr.t would be injurious and discreditable, and would place the party who might beeonmidered responsible for it in a very dlsarreable i portion. On my side, two gentlemen only are acquainted with the circumstances, and upon their eircumvectlon and caution I feel that I may implicitly rely." To these broad hints Mr. O'Connell replied: "Loyal National Repeal Association, Corn Exchange Rooms ' luAlin, Oct, 11. c•Sir,— AB from the tenor of your eemtml letter to me, which I have just received, I am eonfirmod in the imptc,sion that you are melting Ito Ix a personal quarrel upon me for the discharge of a public duty, I premed at mice to the nearest police office, to put the authorities in 'Jammu/on of your intentions. Th.. right of free comment upon the public SCLI of persons assuming a public capacity I have, even when I exercised. its it has been so frequently against myself, always mag i nixed in the fullest degree. I sin twit allow that freedom to he now s iolated, nor a precedent to be act for the in Initiation of men discliarging • p recedent but an imperative public duty. Your offemire--er, to the your cum words, • objecti.nable expri•- i Mons, were applied to the ammeistiou collectively, and to indi . vidails in it, as is phial from the extract. I quoted in my letter of yea- Veday. Yon ofrered these insult, in your public capacity "as a mem. 1 er of the amrcbtilon " (I quote your C.ll worth again) —I, in my mimilar inalla c4parltr, was the mmith-piece of the committee in resenting your mmilisti Your let;:e of last night's date I shall sub mit to ion I) sly ac thmim next meeting, :ss I did at their meeting of ye-oterua:: 1 rl.h that winch you vent me i , l 'he morning. rdo not dkipirdtla..- one to tin tor the interposition of the authorities between i fot and , 112— . 11t, nt% I have ndd , l pro :eel in inn= t m •tha apolioatkin. —I ara, Sir, your faithful ,errant. . . ...atm "John Shea Lsw:or, F eq ., i.e., tee., hoped il lia:cl."0 aUXIII.L. The natural and necessary cenewituence of such a letter was the (Mewing . sxne in the Lleary-atone Poliezeoffice. Informations haysn; been swore in this case on Satarder,tie parties attended this day before Dr. Kel:v. Mr. O'Connell was accompanied by Messrs. Ray and Steele; Can milers °llea and Clements were also seated by the honuarable gentlemen. Mr. O'Connell having been sworn, the letter complained of was handed to him, asd identified as th tt which had caused hint to tender informations. Dr. Kelly then in formal Mr. Lawlor that, in consequence of Mr. O'Con nell having s earn that ho apprehended a breach of the peace, he had taken his infurnotiene, ased issued a warrant, upon which he (Mr. Lawlor) was then brought before the bench. If he had anything to say in explanation, he was at perfect liberty . to do so. Mr. Lawlor said he would leave the elm wholly in his worship'e hands, as he wag 'stalled it would be entertained by him with the best judgment and impartiality. Ile was nut aware that the case would have :inquired such notoriety, or he would have come prepared v ith a professional gentleman—and that solely for the purpose of being enabled to leave that office withuut saying one word himself. Ile wished to he wholly silent upon the case. Dr. Kelly then said, as Mr. Lawlor did not deny the intentien imputed to him, he considered him self bound tohold him to bail—in two sureties of two hun dred pounds each, and himself in four hundred pounds. The usual course was to bind over parties, under circumstances similar to those in which Mr. Lawlor stood, to keep Use peace towards all and singular of her Majesty's subjects for tho term of five years. Mr. Lawlor would put it to Dr. Kelly whether, under the circumstances, it was fdr to call upon him to give such comprehensive bail. Dr. Kelly said there was something in Mr. Lawlor's rewon annex, and he would consider the r.guirements of the case met by holding Mr. Lawlor to bail towards Mr. John O'Con nell for the space of five years, and iu tl.e securities men , timed. Mr. John O'Connell begged perm:Nei:in to assure his worship that in coming there, he had not done sea to seek protection for himself, but to vindicate a gnat prin ciple, and to prevent that principle from being violated in the persons of those performing what they considered public duties. Ile sought to procure protection for all engaged in the conscientious discharge of public duties, whether the discharge of those duties he beneficial in appearance or reality. Mr. Lawlor then retired to the el. rut's room, to have the recoenisenees perfected, Picric Mahony, Esq.. and Healey, E.g., ex 3. le, b. lag his sureties. As Mr. O'Coneell was leaving the board room, Dr. Kelly, in the feteesomest I terms, complimented him upon the manner in which he had acted, on the moral courage he had displayed in appealing to the laws of the land instead of viulsding them, and he hoped the example of the honourable gentleman would be : genteelly imitated. Mr. O'Connell and his friends then Iretired. All the avenues leading to the board-room were crowded ; but the utmost good humour prevailed. SCOTLAND. Juarten IN EDINIWIWIL—The following paragraph, ex tracted from the Neotsnum, will show how Justice abused, rather thanadministered, in Scotland We understand that there are at present in the Calton Gaol about ISO per sons, committed fir trial on different offences. As some of them have been imprisoned for several months, it is surely time that stun were taken to have tl , ein brought to One anon fins been waiting his (riot for no less than eight months." Although an unusual number of pr:soners de tained before trial, iu the present instance, may have called forth the above paragraph, yet the practice of punishing persons by lengthened imprisonments, before their guilt is proved, hiss been systematically practised in Scct'and for 01110 time, especially- in large towns, where offendera are numerous. Our attention has been directed to a ease which occurred last year, and mentioned in the Scotsman at the beginning of October, 1245. In July of that year a boy about ten years of ag. , had stolen a rabbit valued at six pence. For this offence lie was not tried till the 2nd of October, when he pleaded guilty, and was icnten^ed to k wok's imprisonment. Thus, although his offence merited no more than a week's incarceration, the helpless child had been confined is gaol four months in addition. This cruel abuse is bad enough iu itself, but when its cause is ascertained the extreme injustice of it becomes the more apparent. Small offette,s are tried, in Scotland, before sheriffs depute, and their assistants, or sheriffs substitute. These officers hold their courts much to.. seldom for the due performance of their duties. In Edinburgh, for instance, they sit only once a week, seldom try more than a deceit prisoners at one time, and that not all the year round. Meanwhile, by the hard and niggard poor-law system, a coastaut supply of petty crimi nals is kept up from the full ranks of the poor, and such un justifiable accumulations of prisoners fur trial, as are re corded above, accrue. Why the Sheriff Criminal Courts are not held oftener, so as to keep up a prompt and wholesome gaol delivery, is explicable only on two grounds;—either that the number of law offieers is inadequate—a sup position quite opponed to the popular belief that Scotland is the most lawyer-ridden country on the fare of the globe —or, secondly, thnt the system is defective in allow ing sheriffs depute to continue their private practice, which must and does divert the most conscientious practitioners from their public duties. Except upon one of these suppoaitions it is difficult to understand why, in Edinburgh, which has one sheriff depute and several substitutes, a court for petty offences cannot be formed oftener than once a week. The abuse is not, however, confined to the petty courts. Pri soners in the provinces are sometimes ineamerated a num erous time before trial and between the circuit,. WALES. Rr.PREr:ENTATION or MONICOUVISITIUIL—A correspond ent bays: "The monopolists here have very industriously circulated a report to the effect that it is Lord G. Somerset's intention to decline becoming a candidate for the county at the next election, in consequence of the proceedings which have lately taken place here. The ruinous, however, is but a weak invention of the enemy, with the objcc!, if possible, of weakening their antagonist's cause." The gossip having reached Lord G. Somerset, his lordship hal just issued ass address to the electors on the subject, in which he contradicts in the most formal manner any such rumour, and re:tastes his intention of soliciting the suffrages of the electors. PROVINCIAL. LANCAsIII*F. _ AN EXTENMVE nits occurred at the cott m male of Nessus. Bayley and Co., Staleybridr, late on Saturday night. HAMERe to the amount of 30001. was done before the if ones were sabiaed. No life was lost, and both building and stock were insured in the Plicenix office. No LEss THAN THREE HUNDRED INPORMATIONB were laid last week against the owners of tenements in Lie, rpool for cellars which werceither defective a respects ventilation, er were of inbufficient eze for human dwellings. It wu proposed to dispose of this formidable array by hearing fifty summoners per diem. MMONSIIIRY. THE CHARGES AGAINST THE MASTRR OF T/IE EAST STONEwn - sz Wolin HOUSE are still in course of investigation before Mr. Graves, the Assistant Poor-law Commissioner. It is alleged by Lieut. Warren that the Union-house gover nor, William Evans, was guilty of inhumanity and ill treatment towards Wm. liorswell, his wife, and child, while they wire inmates of the workhouse; and also that he by 411 usage accelerated the deaths of three men, named Eddy, Doddidge, and Aisliton, who died whilst in his charge. The inquiry has occupied many days, and on Fri day List was resumed, when many witnesses were examined, and tke cow vats again adjourned, fur the matter to prepare hisdefence. One witness, William Iforawell, stated that he remembered a man by the name of Eddy being in the house about the • month of January, 1815. He wee taken very ill while 1 e was in the house. The doctor felt his pulse, and a aid, " Good God, he is very ill," and ordered him wit e, which the paupers considered was a death -warrant. ;Ye was pulled out of bed by the master when he was unfit for work. He died about seven days ' after. He remembe red a man named Doddridge, who we: in the house at the ea, no time as Eddy. He was in a decline, and was put into a dim sp underground cellar to chop wood. Duddridgc complainer ' to witness of the bad treatment a man na me d Will ; w d, o had been appointed to look after him, had showed toward a him, and he had complained to the I master of it, but it was of no avail. He was removed to the bed in which Eddy h ad died, by two men, who took him by the shoulders and es cried him there in a state of nudity: Mr. Evans was prase, it. The rest of the evid ence o f t hi s w i tness went to s h ow th, a inhumanity of the master towe"ds Doddridgc up to the ti me of his death, and also to another person, named Aishton, who had died in the Union. On Friday witnesses were exat tined, who spoke of the general character of Horswell as ' a man they could not believe under any circumstances. HUCHINGHAMSH Um. DEATIIs FROM OVES LOSES OF LAI 'DANtM arc frequently reported in the local papers. Chtldr, 11 are the usual vic tims, and "Godfrey's Cordial" the or 'Unary shape of the fatal drug; hut the death of an aged pa, tper from this cruse is reported in the last number of the L anbury Guordi,n. It appeared in evidence at the inquest t hat the dscessed, William Knibbs, aged Wi, hail been Rape, annuated nearly 20 years, and that he had been in the habit for many years °flaking laud spurn, Godfrey's Cordial, and spirits, to allay frequent attacks of diarrhea, bat during tic last twelve I months hail been persuaded to leave off the laudanum and spirits, and resort only to Godfrey's Cordial, which lie always purchased at the shop of Mr. Weston. a grocer in Madden ham. Oe the previous Monday he had a return of his old complaint, when a neighbour remarked she thought lauda num was the best remedy. Ehortly afterwards lee said to his sister, " I don't know which to take, laudanum or Godfrey's Cordial ;" he then started off to the old shop with his God frey's bottle, and on his return, observed to his sister that what they had given him was a dear drop, and nothing lake ,so much as what he always had before, and that he should not make two bites of it ; he went to bed after taking a dose, and died next morning —Mr. Lie, the surgeon who exa mined the body, said that no doubt whatever existed hut the deceased lost kiln& from the effec tsof an overdose oflaudanu m. The apprentice of the grocer who sold the poison deposed that he recollected deceased being in the shop; that a latle girl stood by his side at the time and asked for a pennyw( rth of Godfrey's Cordial, with which Le (the apprentice) served her; he also heard the deceased ask for laudacum ; he was certain that the two bottles were not changed whilst on the counter. Neitber he nor his master knew who the girl was, but had sedeobt die belonged to the village, which was v ery extensile.; Ikea the laudanum and Godfrey's Cordial av re kept es the some shelf and labelled; that — 4 ..., en der -••( d came there were several custome* in the shop, which some what accounted for their w 4 taking such particular pct :cc of the girl; every inquiry had been mad; but w;th •tit effect. The coroner then summed up, ; , , ,,,, i _ that it was a must lamentable and elide- ' ..•"'L1i . .::...771; 'en- Italy as there was no direct evidencef , ..."7" ..- 1 4 1 the mistake arose, the discrepancy 11 •• _, o ~,, . • whether the deceased inadrerteu '"- .... 1 , •-• " • . 71 z X