The Express. — London, England, 1848-10-14 00:00:00

espolientle MOM Or einilmse mat. salety at the 81 ; 0 1:l i reethe memo to M. my IBM s year hurnehWs Mahon J. A. Farms Freileat le the Royal Oallop et rhysidens.— ge the ha ass. the Lord 11 His lerdshithr n. ferwar the kW, to Ilse City Cam et gaT Tao CoLLSOd Or PHYSICIANS AND 2111 BOARD pp gornom—air,—la the Epee, of this evening, yen bans draws the attention of Me pulthe to the reams 5pr515571t 01 a committee, consisting of the mwt emisent Members of Me College of Physicians, who should take fatomesideration the adoption of such measure* as may be deemed exp edient for tearing the puhlio safety during the Fenian of cholera in this country. Now, as • member of that eommittee, I lar ppm to know that it was their luten ist' to lay the &comsat cantabiles their n one °M before the gementli. e previously to giving it any birth yallicity. A. hemmer a ptotioa of elite views ha. by some aseena teeth. d the pub'k prim, as that portion o. their views is at verbose, with Mar et the Board or Health, and, as it may he map• aimed, nn'eft the public la d:sahusid, that is other r spect. iheirnin en motors with that of the Boarded Het W. I think it xpedient that certain ott.tr points of difference atiogd at ..es be tontine/Awed through your means. The assertion e ntaiaed in the reports of the Board of Health, that Old ea is almost slwove attended by premonitory s ymptoms. Is by re deemed incorrect. If ineottect it mast be darger • as the dimmoottdet that impression. tatty be the les. pe Raptly teczgaised, when oapreceded by . these emept....... 'Cho treatment with le t kat the public Is en trusted b. the Board of Ilealth, of the symp.eir„. deemed premonvo , y, k oonsidered by the committee of the College of iheeici ne unsafe in nommedical heads; f. " slight " diarr'•ms ay Mien depend on muses which o;:iates elves and repeat might rataer miaow than remove. These differeuer. between the eorentiotee of the Colloge of Phy xiciens.e..: the Board of Ilealth aro of meat importance. It the puld'e .ok why, at a moment of pain and pied from the ntr.,vaa or an awful disease, they see thus placed in a state of incertitude as the su'iect et its trea•ment and maaagement I -why the Callege of Physician+ has - not been Oar ..11 by et verameat in direct conuann.cetion with the Bonrd of Health, or doss not, it self, constitute that board ? —I am to ally unable to supply a satisfactory sneerer. I inclose my card, trusting that you will allow toe to subeeribe myself, A PILLOW or 751 ROYAL COLLEOII or PUTAICIAIIII.—Ott 13, 1843. BUCCEssFUL TRIATIIRIY OF 1111 CllOULL—tiir,-- I beg to give you the following cue, whica, through the ant.. sed treatmd,t, we. euceismol. On feriday, the 8:h Retain, I was rated to me Mr.. Morgia, of 8, B -entrt, Bear-lane whom I found to be la • bonder nader the mat diaresaing aginy from cramps is the 00 mit, feet, and t Its, cats-ing the gmteat restless ness of h depremio a and coutr-ctlon at the features of the fat:, it the mealier and chormtnited house rem in the T ote, indica eye, perfectly blue gin, chimes of palm at the a.:4 et scarcely perceptible, with sold 'dimity swzats, ib hands, feet, and taco gaits sold, with all the sytuptutes • hat characterised the &saw of 1832, save that the di.arl...e i cad vomiting were n-4 as exemeive, nor the ejections • that ricy ch .r ,cter. I imecediat. ly arbninistered a pcirrrtui ',meths comisting of the (allowing: II Ant. rot. tart., four rains pule. ip ease , one le; Op^ f 14144, two 6one e, R. heist; at the nano time admiakteelatt large euaati . f hot water as fro I , l•At yas it was p-mlb.e for die path., to drink it. I then applied external stimulants ef mast..nl, and med trio:fon, the bony b log closely ea vtle;,ei 1. blaAste. The charge effected by this mode of treameet. ..as rapid; Is half as hour, the hoods Ince, end general 'Jot ditto body beeline warmer, the fate assumed sued ap.•tonne*, the manna became lees Dittmar, and in the ais!.t the same day 010 vol .1 amassed its via d ton., mg pa., became &tined ; and of al those torsi fable systr , ce r =thud sato the crimps is • Intl/raid term, when by the next day were relieved by • pill being given ceer: how composed of one gram of calomel, halt • Erik of e. am, sad two of eapsimme. lam gretified to in tent ) ett . ten: In the space of 48 is auto then pat ient was cum valesetnt —CI/ARAL* BRADT. I near pines OM be* aides of the rim WINO laid sada water, lathsdisso the low parts of Benumbs 7, ItAlsothithe sad Lusheth, this side Sowing ova Biehoserw4k awl the tholonskfue treating Lambeth Pasco, Fore area ,r sad ifigh-ritreet, se also Hangedord and the Adolph' Wharfs. At a gnat many of the temporary luting steamboat piers extra acetormerLtion was ?squired to land and 'shah pas eugen. The Woolwich, Balsam, Wandsworth, and Petersham surmises wort covered at 3 o'clock, at which how the tide ebbed, and the waters subsided. Should the wind untiase Nil., a such higher tide is anticipated this 'thermion. INQUEST, YESTERDAY. —TREATMENT OP TI! Pool im Ir. P•wanas WORILHOUSW.—BracIAL Vac- Dtor.—By Hr. O. I. Mills, at the Elephant sad Castle, King's.ruad, Camden Town, on the body of J. Smith, aged 61, • pauper, who bad died from the t Recta et his alleged eapukion in a state of sickness from St. Pancras workhouse. —B. Perdu deposed that aka was nano nt No. 4 ward of the workhouse iciirsnary. TM deceased died at 11 o'clock on Sa'nrday mammies last. He was brought to on the previous Tuesday apparently in a dying state, an 1 combatted light headed until his death. Understood ho had lose from the eased ward.—l. Somerton said he was swierintendent of the casual ward of St. Pancras woekhous,. lie last saw the dr awled alive an the 2nd October, when he left after haring slept there the previous night. He had altpt in the casual ward 32 eights between the 20th of August and the lad of October. Understood he bad been pr.viously in the workhouse, and had been tumid out. It was usual to give them who slept ia the casual ward a breakfast, ift worked fr it. The work had to be done first. De ceased never would stay to breakfast or do any work. Did not know where he spcot the day.—by the Coroner: I do not consider deceased was in • fit state to do hard work, suck as stone breaking. A man of &menu ii's age would be put to picking oakum or coil. Deceased complained to me that he bad been hardly dealt by in bring turned out of the hems. Could by no mean reckon him as an able bodied man.—Mr. John Bassett said he was a smith, and residad at 10, Cumberland-ruw. He had ben a ratepayer of St. Pancras for 31 ytars, and had 'moved dreNued as • ratepayer tee nearly 30 years. He was • gunsmith by tide. He last saw him alive on Monday week, when he name to him shiver- I lag with cold. He had no shoes to ha feet, the subs being' eatintly gone, and he wee so i 1 that be was glad to lie down en the ground in his smith's shop. Deceased tit witness that he had born turned out of the work house, and that the committee t , 13 him to go and work. —Mr. Robinson, the workhouse surgeon, deposed that the deceased first came under his notice on the 2nd of October, when he was in a very low and catenated state, and textur ing under bronchial Cu se. His death was from brow chitia—By the Coroner : He was not in a fit state to work when I saw him. He was very i'.l. He was in such a eate that alas only thing that could be done for him w is to give him every medical are. lie was in such a condition that without such care any man must die. I should say that he could not have bees in • fit condition to go uut th., house, but I think it was his own feat, at the did not e After some further evida es the jury returned the &Sawing epeeist verdict : We end that Joseph Smith Wed of a natural thyme ; that there ass net appear to be a *mold diNerettun excleutati by the diseharge emennittee la roman a art inmates fr m khouw and that tin evidence given at Ibis Monroe tends to show that Jomph Santo, thowits be was an amd, feeble, riclOy meta, was allowed or ournnelled to leore the home without his bring provided with ad....mate IIIeJAIS Le lodated and maintaining blmftlf out of It. end that ;nob Mly it would be adriw!.ir for the Committee to obtain the medical opinion of the saingoon rf the workhouse on tha C.AICI that come beim° them oo ail ttatare and Wanton oecnaloan Kr. Pitt was requested by the coroner, on the part of the ury, to lay Ws terdiet befnro the hoard of directors, which he premised to do, and the proceedings torahs ited. THE “ IICON())1IST" ANII THE FOREIGN EXCIIANOES. • The editor of the h'con.ow , st has, at length, produced the first of his promised a-ti.s act attic:, s on this branch of the eurreney quer ion. We r.hret our itaollity to auger th 4 re from the addition of any material light on the subject; but are compelled to anticipate an increase of that misappro• hension and perplexity which are, unfor noately, so peeve :es.% perhaps through the dissen•ination of opinions by a filen more th.ovricaUy than practically qu.dilied for the diecuaion of such topic.. That, by the last observation, we do no injustice to the writer of the oriel. under entice, the following extracts from his last week's pop.r will, we hope, render sufficiently apparent. The first of which la as follows: • Willi we are so anxious to eatabliah as the foundation of the diteusions we have in view is, that rises and tolls of prism rest upon a principle slog ther iu lap nil.mt of any system which has been or es .y be cdnptcd for regulating the ex:harges of a country, either foreign nr domestic; and that the UVIIC changes would take place io the relative values of different commodities in the rudest stale of barter and in the most perfect and advanced modms system of exchanges." Hach, then, is the plait:lon con'endol for as the foundation of the forthcoming discussion on the foreign exchanges in the pages of the E onotnist. Oar hest inquiry now mutt be, what that " system which has been adopted for ver,latieg tha exchanges of this country, (organ and domettie, contemporary with " the fall of prices" which ha. recently annihilated perhaps one-third of the entire capital, tixid and Chating, of the country ? To this question, we presume ' the reply of Sir Rotert reel will be cmclusive, at least to the editor et the Economist, namely, that the system now in operation is an imme diate and in• ckurical contraction of the availably domestic currency in proportion to tie abstraction of the If ink's stock of bulletin under an adverse state of the foreign ex Tae Ni MOLES) Raolsrawrie.m.—The r.-vision of the Ls!. t Totem tor Ode e ant: ahatilenited petard. y, when Me 4 bodwell, the bassist r appedated to revise, 11.1.1 Ws tour .t tho Three Tbgete.s lan, Brenhord. he lila ta n * . w . those for the retitle. of Aston, Holing, Ish mael), II :on, Old sad New lireatford, Hanwell, Perelealle, sad Twickenham. Mr. W. 11. James iLt-reel: 1 as the sgeut of the liberal perty, and Mr. J. Payne f 4. the somervativee. av the cowl will sit to metes tea lids for the pedant poldag district, at the Black Dog, Belt n t. kW-AMA'S HOSPITAL SOClETT.—Yestorday, n quer tidy iteleral emit ct the governors and surorters ot this hatimitioss was held at Vs: °ale s in King William-street, City, J .10 Wyiele, Esq. (vice-pr,iderst) 11 the chair.—The Inermalwasernent for tee :Ist quart. r stated the balance at the ha era to be 1,2031 17s 114. There bad been ed hy &nit. as 1311. 16..10d., wi list the sena of 6421. 4.. had lies derived from animal sulecriptions. The toted receipts mnonatel to 1 7711 14s. 3.1., and the szpenelitere to USK 4. 3d , which lett a balsams in hand of 3821. 10s. Ste aa...h.r of Delta's from the 14 of July to the let of September was 31. The number that had been on board her Alviesey's ship trait 6211 ; British and Foreign merchant Meath, 10l ; whereas, 58,100 persons had been benefited by the mei, ii since its foundation. It was then stated by the secretary that the attention of the committee had If:ea drawn the equipment of vessels by her Majesty's govern ment, for the purpose of providing against any ease that might appear in this country of cholera. 8 - . me other meths. bossiness hadag been disposed of, the meeting separated. WILLIAM Sarni O'Butr..v.—A meeting was held lest evening at the Circus Royal, Circus street, foe the puF of adopting a petition to the Queen, t way lug for si on of sentence in the as , of Smith O'Brien and also the n; lids &artist prise:seen. The chair was taken by Dr. Webb, nho lammed his ho-e that se the govercment was Moog, so it would be mercitul ; and sainisten might depend Rpm it no better means could be found of conciliating it* .rtibl/1 than a show of leniency W the unfortunate ma who ware at present in their power. He bad been theism's of (be dot metier in favour of Frost, Williams, snit Jones, and he hoped he should he equ dly sot cessful in the object of the motet meeting. Them was no danger ot insurrection bees. The people had too snitch sense, seeing, as they did, that the people of Paris were much worse off after all the blood that had been shed than they led been boron. Go vernment, however, might take a lemon from the French republimus in the moderation with width they had treated their political opponents. Oar or two speakers then ad (Boma ti.e reeenn;, • petition fur pardon wee adopted, and the met hog se/armed. Wei.oa CURATES.— Willi for a period of three years cure.te of a pariah in this neighbourhood, of which the incumbent was non-reeident. After some time I happened to meet with " Steer's Perish Law," in the 91st page of which I found laid down the scale of stipends .worded by an act of parliament, 1 & 2 Vie., e. 106, a. Si, to curates of non resident incumbeuis ; name)y, where the parishpopulation of the parish is leas than 300, SOL per annum ; where above that number, 1001. per annum; where 600, 1201. per annum, de. I found in the " Clergy List " that the populision of my parish was 003 . Now,' had been re ceiving 231. for the firo year, and 751. for the nee, and for the third year 801. Hereupon I applied to the bishop for an ince, me of stipend, which request was net acceded to. I reiterated my application, with a reference to the law of the ere, ant ming site a letter from the late Archbishop of Canterbury (to whom I hod written), confirming my view dew matter. The answer of the bishop (Llandsff ) ww, that he sew no reason whatever fir increasing my sipecd, Inaba should not do so. boon after this he gave perniesion to my vicar to give me notice to quit my curacy. The set of parliament above mitered to gives permission to bishops; le appoint stipends el a smaller amount than those named, is epte'l cases ; but the rearms for ea doing must be as dried in the license, and the 'insect of the archbishop of the yrnvinei he given in writing. It was to eseertsin whe ther this had lane done in my ease that I mete to the arab hWhop. Hie craw's answer was, that his rioneent had laver been asked. Neither were any reasons assigned in the lissnN er appointing anytlde.g lits than the full stipend, nor did soy such wag in tact, for themots the vicar is In the !whit of talkies of himself its "poor,' yet his poverty is men ly that of an extravagant man, sines he keeps seven denacgMe, three or four hones, &e. Such is • true and quite Itneermisted amount (one, iudeed, which omits, for brevity's take, several strong eirtura4anees in my favour) of the treattnect which I hoes me, teed from one of the beads of the abuse. I also know of another ere, in another diocese, where a awes receives bat 764. from ht. non-resident in- cuebent, where he should bats at lams 1201. (according to the ahoye reol.), and where three is no wawa wha why OA fall sum should not be snowed, foe the incumbent has a greets elturch income of 10301. per annum. Thus you see, while t Mops (Durham, &c.) ere sad to have managed to get wore than the incomes allotted them by act cf p Lelia meat, they, or at least some of them, unite with incumbents fa ineetshably and unisodelly lowering the incomes a-sorted by Us^ legialsture to the mif wtonnte men who do so much of die we At . (the church.-1 have the honour to be, Sir, yours meet Wadi:nay, Chewers LLANDAYIIIII3.—Oet 10,1848. 1.1f.e or RAnAvAr ArcnEs.—Yeeterday, the Lam beth ',fast &Sod was rem' Ind from the old rchool-rooms, be Chistela alien, to the ar:h a to , South Western Railway wilder, sambaed 193, faeieg Doughty-street. which has been fitanl up, and teems v ry well a...speed fur the purpose. BOLO of the licensed vietaallers add scent have converted the mekes into drinkitsgeroonts and skittle-alleys. Several of them h..ving coscmandirg frc.:.tices in the principal thcs sought/fres are about to he -.treed into skein. A popular preacher is also in twery with the company to convert one ot the antics into an Independent chapel ; whilst a society of philanteropists have it in catemplation to fit up one or two as shelters for the homeless daring the approaching Mee money of the winter. litIIOVAL OF NClOANCES.—Sir,—Without wishing to repteas the present x-a( f ir the removal of nuisane, cannot bat suggest th it this is not unattended with some de gum of risk, and that oar seal must be tempered by greet pt,.dance in the manner in which we attack old nuisance.. I have now wider my care a family, all of whets havo beet subjeet,.l to severe attacks of fem., apparently from the empty . i• g of an offensive e se; crd. The f Mowing points I think of some importance:-1. To remove nuisances, where tl.ere is an option, on floe cold windy days rather than on • arm, damp, mom days—n concentrated missal be far wore dangerous than a diffused one, even as regards the, ebbed • extent of the mischief ; a house infected may bel mom a En oh matte of evil.-2. To remove as far as may ts possa-I, sib individuals, especially children, from the evil fa. lass :41.-3. To warn inhabitants in neighbouring house. especially such as from the direction of the wind, are calmly exposed, and to employ freely the used disinfest eats, red, the best of all, fr,t-h water. At the Fitment time it is, I think, especially iir.porttnt that we should the every precatqoes, lent what will be a good groand for ultimate safety 'hoed be a source of immediate conger.—M. D. HMI! TIM IN T!IC TllAMES.—Yeaterday after- Mail the river Thames Quid •wed its beaks, and a great The ee assertion el the writer before no, then, will amount to this—that the fall of prie.s, coincident and proportioned to the rise in the value of money under contraction of its available quantity, is analogous to e Lat would occur under a system in which " the rudest state of barter" prevailed. Toe point of this allegation Is, that it goes in the teeth of the providing public complaint that the present ruinous de preciation of I - raperty (so at from its or'inary partial inn. dental depreciation through the common variations of supply and demand) has arisen mainly from a simple but violent contraction of the previous available go intity of the circu lating medium and consequent arbitrary and oppressive en haecemeut of its value. And the absurdity of the alleged m lies in the assumption that it is possible, und, r a fluetuatiog standard of value like our present one, that the priors of property should be liable to no other fluctuations then those to which, without any standard or measure et value at all, they would be liable under the " rudest system of barter." This argument may be summarily and eoneinti,ely re solved by asking the writer in the Economist this question— With the interest of money settled at 4 per cent, what price wend you think it reasonable to give for property, whether beneeheld, r.titwey, or any other, which was as certain to Aldan annual return of 10 per etre as money was certain its eomeinat 4 per ant. ? Any tyro would answer " that tie Irk value of every 1001. so invested in such property seheening 10 per cent. per annum, would be exactly 2601." Again, supposing the property still to return with equal , scetiaty 10 per cent. per suntan, but that the inter, st of /seem/ became settled at 10 per cent. also, we ask the ace writer, what price would you now think it fair or prudent to Rive for each 1001 of such property, though returning still 10 per cent. per annum ? The only answer, of course, is that the true value of such property now would be exactly 1001. instead of 2501. for each 1001 invested therein. Here, thee, is a fall of prices extending over the whole fixed property of the country unconnected with any chance whatever in the annual return or circumstances of the pro perty, but occasioned solely by an arbitrary variation in the value of the standard. A pins of cloth measured by a yard of 72 lathes meld muesli metal* so many yards as it would if measured by a yard of 36 inches. The glum tity of cloth would truly be the same ; bat the lots of capital would be jut 60 per cent. to the seller by the long yard, who had bought by the short one. And a home or railway stock, for which 2601. was paid, because money was at 4 per cent., would entail a loss of 1501. upon the buyer, if he were afterwards compelled to sell at only 1004, bemuse meneybell risen in the interim to 10 per cent. Now, under a state of barta' no fall of prime could ever mar except through some natural variation of supply and Mom& If wheat, for instance, were a short crop, its toloa would rise; that le, it would exchange for prepallen. :211ter Asentities of all other conmest lbws b: a so Itß of prices Of such ether sammitim oda log so equal be. of capital. There would tin* be a abm in the value etas egmetedity—wheat. We wit Isar, bow we, that the aim of the Kmeoesia dem set eampeeheml this tralem—dist a else in one commodity may see.., emt in the simple rise itself, any fell of MIMS ill solar os, salsas that one commodity, as is whets. mak ow the ewe, be the measure or standard which deter• mime the mitre of all others. Chas mosistsat, however, with the errors of this writer, le =Wm allegation " that the Bank of England Ms no pewee om the circulation of its notes "—has ne pewee "to aostreet the circulation, so as to effect prima" It cortaiely would be no easy task for a logician to ceps with an oppen.nt who, in a disetalsion en the prismatie colours, should, ander the powerful rays of a meridian sun, smart as a first peinciple in the &cuestas that the sun does net slime et all. Bat what are the facts here denied by the sew of dr Isoarsoiot I First, by implication, that the lieriWes tithe 76th October last was a nonentit y, ellitlue tweed by the government to mails the Bank of Bogland to forbear the proems, so fatal be ssmmeaiaf credit and exchange, of contracting the siseiselig medium by taking up its now through Am min it its secuntlee, and by the refusal to is... wise in discount to replace those called in by the /11mk ea the mattering and payment of commercial bills km its portfolio. Under this double proems of contraction of 1844 preventing the re-issue of notes until its iagisa returned), was anything more natural than the ate legolest panic amongst other bankers, with the certainty Wig them in the face that whatever essergesey or seem elly might arise, the proems of contracition mass ge en to peelest the convertibihty of the notes ? Or, nadir the as eneemee that they would get no more notes, was it =rm. swat& that those bankers should hoard all the now they mold hasp in their hands, thereby creating the greatest known amity of such notes, even when the apparent cir culation was what is called a full one ? Had the Bank then " no power to contract the circulation so as to affect priors ?" In other words, what was the rate of interest (the measure and standard of the value of all flied property) before the contraction of the circulation was relaxed by the issue of the Trearury letter? We gins the reply in the words of the F.corsonnef: "Twelve per cent. was charged by the Bank for loans on the security of Con nie sad Exchequer Bills, and the discount on bills ranged from 10 to 12 per mat." if such, then, was the frightful rise of interest, how was it possible for the country to escape the depreciation of pro perty necessarily attendant upon the simple fluctuation of its standard ? We entreat the writer of the article under con sideration simply to ask himself what he would give for property yielding 10 per mut. per annum, with interest easy at 4 per cent., and what he would give for the same The Financial Reform Association of Liverpool has presented to the public the result of their examination of the eateries and expenses of the Howse of Commons and the government °filen. At present it is scarcely eorsible to discover the actual expense of any branch of she givern ment, for "barns every one Is paid ion thne different ways, namely, out of the eonsolideted fund, by annual parliamen tary grants, end by fees. The association cannot discover any advantage in separating the expel:der of 'ovens 'sent lute the d.ffereut accounts of civil list, consolirl it. el fund, end the annual estimates; though th. y perceive that the consequent complexity of the lingoes *mounts Ie• quently prey .nts the detection of extravagance. It world be • great impr,vement (and by no means a difficult to-k) so to draw up the optimum is to thew at a glance the separate expenses of the royal, civil, judicial, colmial, and military and naval branehts of tha goverment. Concerning the public Wile. s, the following evidence was given b.fure the Colain.ttee en Miseellanecus Expenditure, by Sir C. Trevehus, whom official position would give him ample op; ortunities of ferns ieg a trustworthy opinion I Walt there is • crest deal of work is the public departments which is superfluous, arisine out of the perpetuation of old forms. There are • number of alleys w:dch are completely effete as priciest CACA tor the transnoion of business, and txi merely for the preservation of antiquated forms." The preservation of patronage is, fe chaps, a more probable remon why tie se unions 06k-es are not abolished. There is scarcely any r uble trust more misused than the power of appointing to relic a. Toe ceiemon practice of mekine such appintnents on account of the rank and conaexicou of the parties, without regard to their coneeeteuey, is deeply injurions to the state. it be trays a leasentsboi ab..cnce of moral principle, when a public "Steer, to whom is entrusted the responsible daty of appoint ing others, is it deencd in the exercise of that high trust by personal and selfs-h considerations. The committee above Waive' to recommend, in their report, • gement revision of all salaries, in order that they may be made oniteble to thealtered c.numstanossof exnenso and condition of the cowry since they were originally fixed. They say that, in the course of such an examination, it would be tensed advisable, also, to establish • more 1141111 rate of payment foe similar a Trims In dare rent departments. It Is to be hoped that this excel lent recommendatioa will be at once acted upon, as the for ouch n viicn is ver, appareot. It is a painful fact that the expeuditure of the Rouse of C irnmone is at pre. sent on a most morovegant scale. There is some hope, how. ever, of a than. e, since the committee on miscellaneous ex peuditure hate suggested many importaut reductions is these expense", though even thtse suggestions do not No eo far as iu the opiLion a this esseciatiou is practicable and ex pedient. The following is a tut of the officers of the House of Com mons and their present annual salaries : Speaker, 5.000/. ; chaplain, 400/. ; secretary to the speaker, 6001. ; oreusel to the epeeker, 1,5001. ; his clerk, 150!. ; examiner of standing orders, 1,7001. ; taxing officer, 1,0001. ; librarian, 10 , 0/. ; evident librarian, 250/ ; messenger, 1401. ; four Vote-office clerks, 8001., 3001, 1801. 1201.-1,4001. ; four clerks at the table, 3,5001., 2,5001., 1,0001 ,1001.-7,1001. ; seven publie bill clerks, 1,9001.,8001, 8001.,5001., 4001., 3001., 2001-49001. ; seven iournal clerks, 1,3491.,1,11301., 1,000!., 9281., 6911, 3391., 2011., also for extra work, 1,090 L-6,5311; thirti en committee clerks, 1,1001., 9001., 8001., 7601., four at 5001., 4001., 2501, and three at 2000 —8,8001.; three engrossing c'erks, 84101, 550 e, 2001.-1,6501.; six private bill clerks, 8001., 4501., 3601.. 2.501., VAL., 1501.-2,2501. The chief duties of the head clerks of theta offices are to make minutes of the decisions of the house and the committees. At the Vote-table a register is kept of all papers printed by order of the hens.. The journal cleat, compass a journal of the proceedings. The inerossing clerks crake copies of bills on our meat Sergeant-ntoiram, 1,5001 ; deputy ditto, 1,0001. ; as. 'Want ditto, 0251. Their duties are to maintain order (wide the aid of the polio) in the lobbies and panages, and at der command of the house to order the mess 'memo" take persons into custody. Three door-keepers, 8741 ,400 t, 2001.,1,4741. ; four memengeas, at 3001. each-1,2001. ; four extra ditto, three at 10.55. and one at 1201., 4351. The messengers' duties are to wait In the lobbies end galleries, and take person/into ' custody when commanded to do so by the sergeant.at-arms„ Deputy housekeeper, 5001., and in lieu of apartment*, 1001. —6OOl. The duties ut this office toe thus described by himself —"I have the charge of all the stores, the ordering of the stationery, and the coals and candles, and the housekeeping in general, except the eating and drinking. I have nothing to do with that." The present deputy heusek.s, per is also secretary to the privy purse, at a salary of 3001. a year. Superintendent of waiting room, 2001. ; assistant and porter to do., 1321. ; at tendant on ventilation, 10,51. ; watchmen, &e., 1,0021. ; temporary messengers and potters, 9001.; retired allowances and compensations, 6,3991. Conaneriog that the bregoing officers are only employed during the parliamentary session, or about a*: months in the year, and that ,tons of the work requires more than ordi nary intelligence, and much of it is mere copying, it is evident that meat of the salaries are grossly exorbitant. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 14, 1848. property with interest difficult seas at 12 par eat/ Then as to no doubt that his owe intimate would be Pre cisely @Lair to tir t of the public, under which all property has &UM in so appalling a degree. The malt of this depreeistion is a proportionate loss of capital to every one holding such property ; and what will yet be the conecq males to the country of this state of things remains still to be seen. But this is not the only effect. The dillculty of ob•ainlog money for long periods during the contractioe of the available quantity of currency, sad the subsequeut alarm of the owners of mammy at parting with it far imp periods, bars ametedtheuesial proemial buildings, the railway works, and thew outlays of capita which a ff ord employment to artisans and labourers on a far wider scale than would result to the manufaettiring operatives from any ordinary irisl moment of the foreign trade, a branch of do mestic industry to which, though even more important than the foreign trado, the Bcommi,t seas to attach no importance whatever, although it is matter of indisputable fact that when the creation and improvement of fixed p.oyerty , is the moq actin, the demand for all commodities td pro duce and manufactures is necessarily the greatest, in sense queue of the increased employment an income of the point- I latices. On the causes of the cninnercial and general il:stresa, we perhaps cannot do better then comm. od to the writer in the Ec monist an ui.prtjudiced pausal of a really pn ticil and intelligent work on the subject. lately published by Longman and Co., entitled, The National Distress; Its Financial Origin and Remedy ;" where, if we 'mistake n o t, asaumg other corrections of fatal economical errors, will be found a complete refutation of that writer's imposing theory of capital, in a section devoted to the enasideration of The Trimmer of Floathsg Capital to Fixed Capital." her Majesty's prerogative of inerey may be exercised by your excellency la favour of Mr. O'Brieu. The report which had gained a'rength during the forecooo, that the sentence of the law would be immediately executed on Mr. O'Brien, was set at re',t by the deputation to the Lord Lieutenant. His excellency, the Lord Mayor stated on his return to the meeting, was happy to my" no warrant had issued, and he added emphatically that he was (gully happy to my there was co truth in other stones of the same nature circulated by malicious busy-bodies. His excellency referred doubt less, amongst other tales, to one which accused him of harshly refusing to give audience to the aged mother of the unhappy prisoner. Lord Clarendon has assured the deputation that he has not even had official knowledge of the conviction, and that in what ever be determines neither policy nor humanity will be forgotten. The following is the official announcement made to the meeting of yesterday of the interview with Lord Clarendon : Mr. (Sharman Crawford havieg retaken the chair, stated the result of their interview wit.. his Esoelleocy. lie said : We were detained a coonsiderahle time in ccusequeece of the Lord Lieutenant being oat ; but as Irma as he re turned, we soot up the memorial which was adopted here to day, end he immediately reeeived us. I ex plained to him the mason why we c .me so prompt)y— that our apparent urtmey arose from a report which had been stated at the meting to the effect that a war rant had been issued for the execution of Mr. O'Brien—that for that reason the deputation which then waited upon his Excellency was appointed ftr the purpose of Inquiring—first, whether there wee any truth in that report ; sad secondly, whether his Excellency would be pleased to receive a deputation at a future day ti present that =sectorial after it had received mere exteir i e aiculturs ? Ills Brea lency, in reply, said, first, he had n.) hesitation in ...sting that the report of any warrant having been mat down to Clonmel was utterly false and unfounded ; sad, secondly, that he should be reedy to rec.dve a deputation to present the memorial, when he was informed that it had obtained algal , tures to the extent which the promoters of it desired. The following is the official programme of the pm ceedings of the Scrod of the Roman catholic bishops, upon the topics of which I shall take occasion in my nest letter to say a few w,.rde: At a meetiLd of the catholic archbishops and bishops of Ireland, held at the Presbytery, 31arlberough•street, Dub lin, Oct. 11, 1848, the following resolutions were unaui meusly adopted : Moved by the Most Rev. Dr. Slattery, Alchtdshop of C.shel, and seconded by the Right It.v. Dr. Form, of Waterford: Resolved—That on contempt ate with grief, anxiety. end alarm, the ltnisndinr lamina, and the noacries which at:other year of deetitut on must meowoily entail on our already Impoveridsed people, many of whom will Inevitably perish of want during the approaching Kasen, if SAW general and comprehensive measure fur their relief be not adopted with out elt lov. 2—That whilst we tenderly sympathise with our flocks In their afflictions, ant exhort thorn to patience and emPinatiou under the Mary calamities which Providence permits to befal them, we deem uorselves bound, as Chrietin t ltieltope, to raise oar voloto ten be half of the poor of Christ, and te Impress earnestly, but teepee tally, the perforrnanw of what the highest authority in Ude land has already d. chard to be "the meted and paretthant dutyof government, the preservation of human life." 3—That the poor of Ireland burin ben again deprived, by the failure of the rotate crop, of the food which alone they amid reserve fur their support, and an amount of dough:ion h omit thus been created to meet which experience has proved that all exleting bird end ad. mitastrativo means of relief are Inadequate, we implore the govemmesit to take tell eueh other steps a- the gaming coral lion of the country domande ; to employ, teethe 1 mediate re. bet of the pear, all the resources at Its disposal, and to use all Its Wm one to eget each an equitable mite-Mout of the relation, between IAP•11 ed. and tt nines as shad atlfoute, an outlay of capital, ensure the envelopment of the ehle-balled, end Increase the agricultural mo dem sable rats 1. that having obmved that a notice has been gieen of a patliamatreary motion regarding a state prate-a for the catholic eicerty of Ireland, can d.epervate such a procerllng. That having shared lathe properity et their tallith' flocks, the dergy of Irelend sac wilting to share in their privadon% and are determined to resist a wasters caltalated to create vast discootent—to weer the people Iron their pastors, and uldinatgly to endanger cothellelty in this COWILTY. . . . - . Moved by the Right Rev. Dr. Browne, Bishop of Kilmore ; , n 1 wooded by the Must Rev. Dr. Crvaly, Archbishop of Arrasoh : 5. It...And-71W we and our clergy will continue to promote the pear., the placard. and the brownout of our country, by the prr- Firmanee of the social and Christ/ au duties winch our military Im poses on us. . _ Moved by the Right Rev. Dr. Cantwtll, Bishop of Meath; and seconded by the ILieht Rev. Dr. Brown?, Bishop 01 Flo , ' in : 0. Resolved—That we deeply regret the many difilcultlis with which oar Doty Father Pope Pius IX. has had to con teed; that we Unmet the amenerou. attempt of evil-minied persona to interfere with the due exercise of that mover, 100 uuthoritv which his holiness, with equal wisdoms and goodness 11.14 "'tax his elevation to the pontifical throne, uniformly directed to promote the wvifare nod happinese of Ins people ; that we enter our solemn pro t of this u.dust lavasion of his right. ; Hilt we moiler to his holiness the esprervion of our warmer sympathy; that we recom mend our faithful peopleto unite their prayers with ours In his be half, and wet •We three that Inoue respective dim ism the col lect Ikea Omnlom Fidelitun " fur the Pope be addid in the ream to the thee orations of the day. Id D. MURRAY, Chairman. JOHN DERRY, liishop of Ciontert, Secretary. FINANCIAL REFORM. THE GREAT SEA SERPENT. The following report respecting the appearance of the extraordinary animal soon by some of the officers and erew of her Majesty's ship Dar us, has been forwarded to the Admiralty by Captain Pel'QuEse : " Her Majesty's ship Die talus, Esatouta, Oat. 11.—Sir, —ln reply to your letter of this day's data, requiring infor mation as to the truth of a statement published in the Globe newspaper of a sea serpent of extraordinary dimensions having been seeii.rom her Majesty's ship Daedalus, under my command, on her passage from the East Indies, I have the hoover to acquaint you, for the information of my Lords Commissioners rat the Admiralty, that at 5 o'clock p.m., on the 6th of Aug. tut, in latitude 24 deg. 44 min. S., and longitude 9 deg. 22 min. B , the weather dark and cloudy, wind frsh from the N.W., with • long ocean swell from the S.W., the ship on the port tack beading NE. by N., something very unusual was seen by Mr. Sartori., midshipman, rapidly approaching the ship from beim the beam. The circum stance was immediately reported by him to the officer of the watch, Lieut. Edgar Drummond, with whom and Mr. William Barrett, the muter, I was at the time walking the quarter-deck. The ship's company were at rapper. On oar attention being ailed to the object it was discovered to be en enormous serpent, will head and shoulders kept about four fest coustantly • bore the surface of the sea, and as nearly es we could approximate by comparing it with the length of what our maustopsaillard would show in the water, there was at the very least 60 feet of the animal (liter d'eau, no portion of which was, to our perception, used in propelling it through the water, either by vertical or horizontal undulation. It passed rapidly, but so close under our lee quarter that had it been a man of my acquaintance I should have easily recernieed his features with the naked eye ; and it did not, either in approaching the ship or after it bad passed our wake, deviate in the slightest degree from Its team to the SW, which it held on at the pace of from 12 to 16 milts per hour, apparently on some determined par. pose. _ The diameter of the serpent was about 15 or 16 inches behind the head, which was, without any doubt, that of a snakt, and never, during the 20 minutes that it continued in sight of our glasses once below the surface of the water • its colour • dark brown, with yellowish white shoot the th root. It had no fins, but something like the mane of a horse, or rather a bunch of seaweed, washed about its bock. It was seen by the quartermaster, the boats *flints mate, and the man at the wheel, in adAtion to myself and officers above mentioned. I am having a drawing of the serpent made from a sketch taken immediately after it was seen, which I hope to have reedy for transmission to my Lords Commie arisen of the Admiralty by to-morrow's post —I have, Se., Pm& lltQun.st. Captain. " To Ada. Si/W.11.04e, 0.C.H., Davenport." IRELAND. Drums, Ocr 13. The meeting called yesterday to promote a public petition, that the recommendation ot the jury in the case of Mr. Smith O'Brien should be conceded by the government, wns composed of representatives of all parties, save perhaps the extreme repealer. and the extreme tories. Mr. Sharman Crawforfl, M.P., pre sided. In conseqaenoe of a report prevailing that the warrant of execution of Mr. S. O'Brien had been for warded, an immediate deputation was appointed to wait on the Lord Lieutenant to ascertain the fact, and arrangements were made to have a memorial signed as extensively as the time would permit, which will be presented by deputation. The following is a copy of the memorial : To his Excellency the Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, &e. May it please your Excellency, we, the undersigned, eKsisting principally of the inhabi tants of Dublin and its viccaty, respectfully address your Excellency as the representative in Ireland of her nest gra cious Majesty the Queen. We fully concur in the recom mendation ot the jury. by whom Wdliam Smith O'Bren hat been found guilty, and we humbly and earnestly entreat that ris guilty of high tresses by levying war against the Queen in this realm, and of having dons. e within the true meaning of the 'Won) of Edward 111., m der which the indictment is founded; and they bunt that all the acts took place in the last week of July asmeunted to a levying of war; and, if they amounted to a !min g of wale and that the prisoner was present and took a part in these traussetons. he le guilty of a levyme of war, and if guilty of s levying of war he is guilty of hid' treoeon. Gen lemon, it is important to tell 3ou what is meant in point of law bye levying of war. That has been distinctly de cided by the ablest judge*, and a train of consistent end un interrupted authorities. If you ate of opinion that there was an insurrection with force, and that it wee for the purpose of accomplishing some genteel object t h at would amount to high treason ; but if it was for a pononal object exclusively, that would not be high treason. However, it may not bathe less high treason where there Is a general purpose, because auditory to it there is Ironed to cows's' a personal object on the part of the prisoner. Au authority has been referred to, welch is so clear upon tee sueject teat I shell reed it for you, Insurrections and risings for the purpose of 4ffecting by form and numbers, however organised, premise d, car ar ranged, any innovation of a public nature in which the par ties had no special interest Of concern • have been deemed instances of the actual levying in war." On the put of the crown it is irnisted that, loekieg at the restore cf the occurrences in this diets rein week In July, they clearly establish that the part of the country where these trams.- tions took place wee in a state enacted insurrection—net for any particular and personal object, but fora general purpose, end although there might have been superadeed the personal object of protecting Mr. O'Brien, whose norne has been to frequently introduced in the course of this trial; Set as tee mevement was intended to effect some general inuovati ir, it was not the less high treason. If you, underlain come to the conclusien tha: these moo. inents wire intenderi to effect a private object, that they were exdusivtle fur the protection of Mr. O'Brien, and that these masts of the pone* were marshalled, arrayed, collected tooettirr, tend drilled trine day to day for that object only, then the offence does not ansunet to high treason, and you will be boned to acquit the prisoner- But I repeat once more, if you bo of sminten that the eccurrences in 1.13 . 114 ivies , of rely were in furtherance of a general en gem of a puehe nature, it is not ne e. - eery you 'Louie! believe that the in- surrection was intended to take place iremedietely and in that particular place, you must find that the prisoner is entity if be panic:Tend in those proceedings. No attempt has been made by tee able adymetes who have defended the prisoner to contend that if the movement in which the pri soner has persicipatee, or the act- winch occurred in his ab sence, amount to high *Tenon, the prisoner would not be guilty of that crime. He is respontiblo for all the acts of the persons with whom he was associated ; and it is for you to decide what is the true nature of to, re transactions. and whether they amount toe levying of war against the Queen in her realm. It is my ietentieu to read aver my nuke, whine I believe are full and actuate; and then your duty is to apply that evidence, and that is a duty to be 4 xt re i se d ex elusively by you. It in the progress of the case, I should tate the coulee which is usually adopted, of accompanying the evidence with observations of my own, you will not ply any further resod to them than you would to the oburva. thine matte in the coarse of the trial by the re:lvor:lt. s for the prisoner end the coaesel for the crown. is your privilege—nay, it is your duty—to reject any of the oteervations that you do nut think well• roundest, and to adept any, come from weatever flouter they may. which yen may think are wIl found, d. It is usual fer the judge to sum up for this puritan—ter t'.osn who arc habituated to the proceedings of courts of justice, an !, who, I nut in God, are not :tenoned of haviug nay leaning, one way or the other, but to hull the scales of jus tice evenly between the crown and the accused—in it their solemn duty to present such observations as flew tee:orally (rem the case to the consideratioe of a calm and dispassionate jury, not wiabing that they should carry one jot of authority beyond what tbe jury thick right to attach to them. You wid approach your duty odenly and dispassionately, and *wider tee transactions which have been proved in eyieence as rational men. If you we any around for diecreditine any of the witnesses, of coarse you will reject their testimony. If you see sty grouud for qualifying a particular statemeat, it is year province to do so; but if, when you weigh the evidence and look at the entire teeniest mom rational and conwientieus men, you come to the conansion that war was levied at that time, and that the prisoner at the bar wee not only present but wee actually participating in the prcecediage of the last three du s—if you wine to that conclusion it will be your duty to find him guilty. Oa the other hand, if you be of opin;on that the prisoner was there croperating with parties who were actin.; ter the linntee and private purpose of pro tecting Mr. O'Brien from arrest, you ought then to find the prisoner " not guilty." I will now read my notes; and, if I do nen occupy your time with many commeats, Neil may account for it by the able manner in which the case has been spoken to on either side. All that ingenuity and talent could suggest was preseood to you on the part of the prisoner ; all the string Yin!. which could no taken cf the rase wore laid before you by the counsel for the crown. As ' to the facts then is little controversy, and I may say, in passing, that the prisoner's counsel have wisely and pm ; dently abstained from civ:lling at the proofs; but while • they admittedethe general facts, they contended that all was • reconcilable with the view that these movements were pre. paretory to a contemplated insurrection at a distant time, but did not amount to en actual levying of war. I feel bound to toll you, that if once you come to the conclusion that there was a general and public object beside the personal one of protecting Mr. O'Brien, the acts at Mullioahone, Killenaule, and other place!, did amount to a le• vying of war within the meaning of the sitatine. The learned judge then proceeded to recapitulate the evi. dence of the various witnesses produced in the course of the trial. As regarded the arrival of Mr. M'Manus in Dublin on the morning of July do, and his having left the uniform of the 'B2 Club in the pa cket, his lordship said—lt moot gentlemen of the jury, be said that this uniform was that of a general, and mule to be worn by the prisoner whilst acting In that capacity ; for we hod it proved by respectable gentle men, whose testimony is beyond impeachment, yesterday evening, that the uniform was that worn by the members of the 'B2 Club—a club which hat been in existence for some years in Dublin. But at the same time, gentlemen, the fact of this uniform hiving been found, is matter which may form the seamed of consideration when you come to ask yours, lees what motive the prisoner could have ha' in leaving Liverpool on the 24th of July end corning to this country. And you will consider whether any satiatectory amount lets been given you as to the purpeso fie which the prisoner came over at this particular time, anti brought these things with him — Mr. O'Callaghan: In another part of histattimony you will find, my lord, that the steward says that Mr. M9lianns was In the habit of coming over to this country frequently. Chief Justice Doherty : I will read it. Yes, he Lays thot Mr. M'Manas had frequently been a passenger w i t h him in the Iron Duke. Chntlemen of the jury, no doubt the pri soner at the bar was engaged in the forwarding trade in Liverpool, which was extensive and prosperous. Gentlemen of respectability from different parts of Ireland were produced, and gave the prisoner a very high character. Some of th•m said they had seen him in Ireland, his business being, as you must naturally observe, one that would lead him occasion ally to this country. Gentlemen, I miy, in passing, say that if there were any specific reasons for the prisoner's coming to Ireland on the 24th of July, was It not i i the power of Mr. M'Manus, when he saw the se circumstances to which I have alluded relied on as be .ring sgeln.t him, to explain the elem.- of his visit t As thou things had been proved again, him in evidence, it would have been very easy for him to show what btninees brought him on that putt cuter occasion to Ireland, and how he occupied himeelt sub sequently to his arrival in Dublin. [His lordship having road the evidence applying to some movements of Mr. O'Brien, continued . ] Gentlemen of the jury, evidence re lanpg to Mr. O'Brien may become of very great importance in Ike case, for if you find that that gentleman was joined by the prisoner at the bar, it becomes necessary for you to investigate the nature of the trarsaction in which Mr. O'Brien was engmed. If Mr. wet engaged in levy ing war, and that the prisoner joined him, he hi to be held guilty of the same acts as Mr. O'Brien is pressed to have committed. If Mr. O'Brien were engaged in levying war for a general purpose, and that the prisoner joined him is that he would he guilty to the full extent o f high treason. I shall therefore observe, that if you believe Mr. O'Brien assembled those person' whom he hod about him for the particular purpose of saving himself, and if the prisoner joined him for that purpose, then Mr. O'Brien is not guilty, nor is the prisoner. Gentlemen of the jury, in reading for you the evidence of the wieners Burke, I may observe that the absence from his first information of some facts sworn to by biro subsequently boa been commented on by counsel for the pneener. Now, gentlemen, the duty of taking down in formations is performed by a nrigistrate, and he may tete down in the written information so much of what issworn by the 'Mans as he think+ materiel. Therefore the magistrate who t :ok down the first information deposed to by Burke may not have thought the facts alluied to material until the party on trial had been fully implicated ; and the witness swore that the addeional facts teat appear in the second in. formation had been stated by hint to the magistrate, though it was not in the first instanoe taken down— Mr. Butt : T would resnectfully remind your lordship that Burke himself took a part in the transaction, and was armed with a pitchfork. He would, therefore, I submit, my lord, require corroboration. Chief Justice Doherty: Sa far the witnees must certainly he contisiered an emomplice ; but his evidence is admlsible to go before you. If the transactions in question depended on the solo testimony of Burke, the court would direct you to use great caution In receiving it ; but if yon believe, gen tlemen, that there is a corroemation of the main lams sworn to by the witnes, that is a corroboration of all he has told You— , Mr. Butt.—Will your lordship forgive me if I make one ' ohaervation ? The dashing in of the doer, and saying :hat the people should burn the house, rest solely upon Burke's evidence. Chief Justice De arty.—The winless coed not be corro borated in ever3tbing. If ho Le c irroborated respecting the to say chat he requir:s corroboration in eve y parucuier put presence of the prisoner la these places, I will not ipso ter as of his testimony. But I do no: consider this story of hunting in the shutters very important in this ease ; for it does not depend so much on =Jeans features as on the broad features that characterise It. 1 now come, gentlemen, to the evidence of Heal.constable Wdliems. When you come to Peaty was to screen him from apprehension, or was a pronounce whether the object of Mr. O'Brien and his general use, you will compare this evidence with the lasts put forward in support of the former view of the else. You wilt see whether Mr. O'Brien was oppesing the government cf the rotuttry in samoauuing a party of police to surrender their arms, and holding out an indaceineut to them to do so. If you believe he did these things, It is not necessary for you to believe that he was actuaily going to attack a puny of 500 policemen,. for if be wed the ex. MOioos attributed to him as a threat, to show the name his force and compel Wen to snrrondm their arms, it is the Mr. lu.Manus was placed at the bar, where he stood with the same firm and composed demeanour which so r characterised him during the whole progress ~f his !rim'. Tho Cleric of the Crown, having read out the names of the jury, to which they respectively aaswered, asked • " How say you. is Terence Bellew Dl'Manus guilty or co' ?" The 1 7 07+ , 1121n, in a low voice, replied at °lot—Guilty. The Clerk of the Crown—The jury have ride t the fal lowing recromeniati " We earnestly recammeni the prisoner to tho merciful consid•ration of the crown.—For 'Wand fellows, SAMUEL W. &shim, Foreman." Chief Ju►tice Blackburne—Let the prisoner be removed. Mr. M'Manus extended his hand ova the tars of rile d. ck; and having shaken hands with hie junior counsel, Mr. Cre When (Mr. Butt was net In court), he made a sli.eht nation of his head to the court, and was taken into wi.tody by the turnkeys and removed to the eon?. menu beneath, preparatory to his transmission back to prison. TRIAL OF MR. O'DONOLIOR. Mr. P. O'Donohos was placed at the tar. T':e Clerk of the Crown then called over the long panel. Mr. Meaoher—My lords, out ot the first tilt or seventy names on the panel, two juries have beet selecte d. It follows, then, that amongst them are the challenged jurors of the two preceding trials. I therefore submit to your lordships, and the Attorney-General, that it would net be reasonable to put my client on trial before those jurors who were challenged on two former occasions. If your lordships think there is anything unreasonable in my objection, I will not press it; but I do not thick you will deem it unreasonable to com merce with the r.ame immediately following that of the juror who was last sworn on the previous trials.—Attointy- General : My lord, I really never heard of such an applica tion as th's.—Chief Justice Blackburn.: Oh, I cannot accede to it. The Clerk of the Crown then read the Indictment for high treason agalnet Mr. O'Donohoe, which was exactly similar to that of Mr. O'Brien and Mr. M.Matins. Mr. O'Donohoe pleaded not guilty. Mr. Meagher—My lord, I am unwilling to have any ugh ' meat on an application which lam now about to make. It is for a postponement of tho trial of my client, and will, presume, meet with the Fame rule as was made in the other cue.. Mr. Meagher handed the plea to the Attoraey- General. The clerk of the crown then proceeded to swear a jury to try Mr. O'Donohos. Several gentlemen were set aside oa their own representations that they wc:se not in pod nealth, and would be unable to endure the fa:ioeut of serving on the jury. Mr. William Hunt, of B sllynonty, on being called, said he had an objection to serve on the jury, as he met people on the road the Jay of the row. and seas acquainted with all the circumstances of the case. Ho was aoconingly set aside. The jury was then sworn. It was composed entirely of protestant', as follows: Mr. W. C. Bennett, Mr. W. Murphy, Mr. M. Studded, Mr. 0. Birch, Mr. C. W. Massey, Mr. W. Price, Mr. It. Smith, Mr. C. Miochin, Mr. Young, Mr. A. Carew, Mr. 0. Roe, and Mr. G. Ss:lichen. On the application of hf.s. Meagher, Mr. Butt, G C., was assigned with him as counsel for the kvisoner.—Mr. Lynch opened the pl.sdings. The Attorney.Generol stated the ease for the crown. The prisoner, Mr. O'Donoboc, Was charged with two de criptions of high treason, but ho thought it would ho clay n.....essary tot them to direct their attention to one of the charen—that of levying war. In eons goeuce of two trials that had already taken plain in that court, the nature of the charge a..3ainst Mr. O'Donohoe ws now very well known He (!he learned Attorney-Generel) thought be should he able to satisfy thus of this—that Mr. Smith O'Brien was the ac knowledged leader of an insurrection. The ;retool evade man then proceeded to detail the eircomAanees e inneet, d with Mr. O'Brien's visit to the provinces imetedinteli pro ,:ding the affray at Ballingarry, and was Ana to quot- Iron one of the speeches delivered by that gentleman alter he left Dublin in July, when Mr. Mia..;her intemieted him. He objected to any speech delivered by Mr. O'Brien before the alleged connexion of Mr. O'Donohoe wish him, b in. road. At that state of the trial they could not tell whether any of these speeches would be admitted in evidence. Chief Justice Blackburno decided that the Attorney-Ge neral might read them, which he did. The Attorney General then spoked the circumstances that took place at the police berraec in Mullinahome, and stated that it would be proved in the coarse ot the trial that Mr. O'Donohoe was present armed with a gun when Mr. W. Smith O'Bien called upon the polite to give up their arms. After entering into tartacr details, which bars already been siren on tho former trials, the learned couasel pneeedeel to say that it would ba prowl beyond all doubt that Mr. O'Danohoe was present at all toe trans actions from li..llietilione to too commons of Ballingarry. Ile believed, tao, that he was also pre sent aKthe attack on the Widow Cormick's house, though he was shit to move it by only one witness. That, however, was not lostaiel, b:canse if the jury belieredthat his obeot, nag of a revolutionary character, they world be t 'uy the teamed judge who ores to charge them that one overt act WOO marten; attcl as cmclnsive In establish guilt as we bandied. The judge would also tell them that there was iv, met thing lu high arta." , as an ae‘es WRY. bat th.tt all were responsible for the acts of their oestealtoes, even *omit n..t present at the titge the acts were mnamitted. Therefore, if they found Mr. O'Donohoe present at the other treanetions, it was per teely is different whether he was present at the attma on Saturday or not. It would, appear that Mr. was accompanied by anotaer--4 yowls gentlear„ greatly atm THE SPECIAL COMMISSION. TRIAL OF MIL. bi'MANUs. CLONMEL, Ocr. 12. The judgestook their s eats on the bench this morning at a quarter to ten o'clock. The jury hsving been brought iota court, and counsel for the crown and the defence being pre sent, the proceedings in this case were resumed. The court presented much the same appearance as it did at the early part of yesterday, the number of persons present being corn partitively small. We have already gives what era believe to be the men reasonable and correct explanation of this altera tion in the aspect of the cart. and in the feelings of the people relative to these proceedings. There was no visible change in the appearance or demeanour of Mr. hi'llaniss. He still continued to display the utmost cotlams, firoineu, and composure of manner. Their lordships Laying taken their orate, Mr. O'Callaghan stated that when commenting y esterday on the speech at Muliinahone, attribated to Mr. O'Brien by constable Williams, and in which he said that any man who would not show Warms for fear of two years' inicsonment, was unworthy of the name of an Irishman—he Mr. O'Cal laghan) omitted to cell the attention of their ler hips to the circumstence, that two years' imprisonment was the precise maximum of punishment which could Ls inflicted under the met sgainst drilling, the Ist of Geo. IV., is 1. Chief Justice Blackburn—That is upon those who might be drilled ; but those who drill are liable to be transported. Mr. O'Callaghan—Just so, my lord ; Mr. O'Brien by dell , ling the people, would be liable to transportation; but those drilled could be only imprisoned for two years. The ffelicitorGenual then thee to reply on the part of the Fosecutien, and after some general observations on the lino of defence:, taken by the prisoners counsel, proceeded to com ment on the partwhich the prisoner tcek in these tea:sections It wu clear that be was present at them, and took a very pro m neat part, next to Mr. O'Brien himself, as one of the prime movers in the matter. Identified by no less than ten witnesses as having been present at several of the principal events of that with, the mater would resolve itself beck again to this question, and this alone—the character of the rising. The sodeitor-general then quoted from Foster 211, to show that all risings in order to effect innovations of a public or general character by armed forge were, in the construe. tion of the law, high treason within the clause against levying war. He would then come to the movements of Mr. O'Brien. The Solicitoeoeneral having re:erred in detail to the pro ceedings of Mr. O'Brien at Mullinahone and Billingarry, proceeded to say that Mr. M'Manua first appeared on the scene on Thursday, the 24th of July, when he joined Mr O'Brien, and co-operated with him is all his subsequent movements. With what object did Mr. hi'Mmes---• Liver. pool merchant in independent circumstances—neglect his business and come over to this remote part of Ireland, where he was first observed riding about on horseback with a double-barrelled gun, and idling large masses of the people, with Smith O'Brien at their heed? The jury might reasonably inquire of themselves what had made Mr. Whisaus leave Livery) ,1 in such a hurry ? They found the prisoner remaining in Ireland, and going down to the interior of the country to connect himself with an armed force, as if be actually courted arrest. A witness had been cross-examined respecting the question of tenant right, but the prisoner's visit to this courtry could hart had no Immo , diate connexion with that subject, or why should he have proceeded to Tipperary to join Mr. O'Brien ? He would lay no stress on the uniform found with the prisoner, further than taking why did Mr. M'Man Is carry it with him at that particular juncture ? Ile would ask, was the prisoner's conduct consistent with the notion that he went to Ballii garry merely to protect his leader from being arrested on a warrant of the Lord Lieu tenant ? Mr. Whlsous was not accounted for by any one from Dablin or Kilkenoy, and this was recomeelab:e with the case of the crown. Mr. M'Manus It id shown his me nexion with the insurectloury party, by paying (or the tweed that was purchased for the people tt Mullinahone. And if these proceedings at Mullinahone did not involve a levying of open war, he did not know what open war was. After some further observations on the evidence, the Solicitor-General concluded. Their lordships then retired for a tow minutes, and, after returning into court, Chief Justice Doherty proceeded to charge the jury. He said—Gentlemen of the Jury, an apprehension seems to have been excited that it was the intention of this court to trespass on your peculiar province, or that we were about to interfere with the undoubted privilege of the jury of dealing exelosively with the Credit of the witueues, and deciding upon the facts deposed to by them. Now let me at once set your mints et ease oy assuring you that it is not the wish of any member of the court on this bench in the slightest degree to interfere with your province and exclusive duty. And, gentlemen, it ever there was aces where I think it was unnecessary, by anticipation, for counsel to suggest such a course, it is the present ; because there is this peeuiiarity in the case, tha - if there be any dlfieulty in it, it will only be in applying the law to the facts, and the facts to the law. As to the facts themselves there is no material controversy, or as to the credit of the witnesses. Long es this trial has been protracted, end I am far tram saying it has b. en unnecessarily protracted, 1 think theirs has seldom been brought before a jury a case in which there was less impeachment of the ere dit of the witnesses, or has dispute about the facts that have been established. Gentlemen, the prisoner at the bar stands indicted for the crime of high treason, and it may sim plify the consideration of that charge to tell you that the indictment contained six counts, but that one of them is, by the admission of the crown, altegetber removed from the case. It Is alleged 'oy the crown that the prisoner same thing. It is stated that he alluded to a display that had taken place on the previous night, and it is for eon to say whether Le did not do that in furtherome of a design to oppose himself in arms to the police, and whether this nett wee taken solely and ex clusively for the purpose of protection, or in lureb. ranee of a design to take the arms and ration of It.. police, with the in. tent of peaces:in; to other places and do ng the same thing. You are to consider, gentlemen, whether this was intended to give IaIOCUS to a general movement; whether his attemp'iag to turn the police from their allegiance, and strain them to his own service—his telling them to march to Cellen, where he would place them under pay—was consistent with tee ob ject of saving himself from array, or was not a step in pro , cress to an outbreak for revolutionary purposes. It has been observed that the marching and other such matters alluded to, were only a looking into the condition of Mr. O'Brien't fore 5 for a distant period ; but a witness has seated that Mr. O'Brien slit, "Nos is the time to rue," and this is worthy of your notice when you come to consider the observations mews wills refer, .ce to the proposed intention. His lordship then reed the evi. dente relative to the attack upon the Widow Cerelick's house, and told the jury that the question for their con sideration was, not as to who fired the first shot, but whether there was what in law amounted to a Inni ng of war. [The le =reed jutge here read Mr. Smith O'Brien'. letter to the Miring Company, a• d costinusdl —Gentlemen, this letter is a rem of evidence different from the rent. It is cat the evidence of a witness liable to be deceived by fergetful noes or any other cause—it is a lett r of Mr. O'Brien Wm self, his handwriting proved by a whams, Mr. Fear klfa, awl the letter itl. entice; by Cadcn a , the one which Ms. O'Brien I ended him. To persons of your intelligence I need scarcely offer any observations beyond what the perm sal of that elecutner.t would convey. C mole that document with the positioa token up by Mr. O'Brien at the Widow Cormick's, h out to the police indue events to give up their ernes, and *Tering theta protectien if they weeul-1 aid him—reaming about in arms, end assuming, In this lee.er, power and authority to dictate in the event w the BUCC,INI of the Irish revelation. It will be fory uto soy, leek:rig at this and the r, at of the evidence whitey and dispu.i nately without prejudice, whetl.er you can give to these trans- actions the character of a mere asisocieUen, a:elusively for the purpose of protecting Mr. O'Brien, or wheher ft does not augg s' to tea eenable, Intelligent, a eat observant men that of a war Ivied with moro be less inteasenears during these five dare ntleraeo, that is exclusively toe your considera tion. The ',firmer has not produced any w itness, 'eve to give a character to the uniferm, the nature of etiek has been already duped of. And with respect to his mercan tile character, I em unwilling to offer any entree tioaa; but I feel it my duty to remark this, that the character th it has been given :s net a chareeter appli cable to the offence with which he stands charged ; it is but a repetition et what has been given by some of the wit &ems for the crowu, though coming now from persons of the highest position in society. It repreeents him as a person of high integrity and intelligence as a men of nosiness. But I dare lay yon arc familier with tlai4 remark, that the charge ter a man stets on such an occasion must be applicable to the offence with which he stands chargt 1. For instence, when the offence is troason, to prove that he is in Melt credit as a inercen tile man is scantly an ,newer to the emerge no n laid against him. It would be better if they had &eked their wit ness with respect to his general loyaity to the Queen, or at tachmeut to the institutions of th: coutetry. It would ba much more setts( Jittery if he had produced some friends to tell for what purpose he leld come to Ireland at this partim lar time. Gentlemen, let cm cot:elude by sayin; that all these matters are fee your c3ntideratent oda ively. The facts of the cane 'on have heard ably commented upon by this prisoner's counsel, and the counsel fee the crown, and I again tell eon emphatically, not CO place the slightest yahoos upon a single observation that may hay., dropped from me in the course of my charge in respect to this momentous ease, fur her than your own judgments, and your own consciences ratify the same. I meat toll nothing to what has fallen from the counsel at both rides, as to the I:spent:moor the ultimo charged. A more &well or emcee teat one there could net he advanced against any human being stn :ding at the her of a court of justice. The public Interest end public sefety are deeply involved in it ; but eou art net to swerve one atom to the riget or to the kit on that it 'WWI% You own &nand beide, your own good hearts are to guide you ; and I have no duubt from the patient attention with welch you have listened to the use that you will do justice, and teat your verdict will therefore be one satisfactory to your coneeieuois, and therefore satedaetery to the crown and to the prisoner. The jury then retired at lino minutes to two o'clock. , Mr. Bu't: My lore, there is one observation that occurs to me to make, but if the jury already understand the charge it would not be necessary. There is. however. the possibility 1 of a misapprehension as to the way your lordships left the law to them in t: c celemencement—namely, that to cerstl , tote the guilt of the prisoner it w:uld be necessary that I he should concur in the Funeral object. Non, if Mr. , O'Brien had a tteneral object, and that he did not caneur in , it but only in the personal object, then the offence charged sgainst him would not be complete ; I would, therefore, a•lt , your lordship to tell the jury that they must be satisfied that . the prisoner at the bar had knots of and concurred iu the , general object intended by the others, before they can And him guilty, the intention beine tin esser.tinl ingredient in the . mime end existineinthe prisoner's own breast. Chief Justice Cle‘kburne: We think the charge of the Chiet Jon ie° bat left it as distinctly asp:usage upon the ge neral intentinn. Some further maceration sorted on this subject, which was intarapted by the return of the jury in•o tour.. The foreman handed down the issue paper, and the most atxir•us suspense and excitement at mace seemad to permits the court. r~ , 'I I .1 4