The Express. — London, England, 1846-11-18 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 18, 1846. evading his person in eusteely also. Besides thee:peeve. the fi rst meet d ye e cer tiorari is, that in place efthe indictment being tried due it will not, in all Ind tbe P re " ni "' nth ' s Ma J probabili ty, eve giO rPr tiT u it 'd ' ew e on for trial until a out t y or an s o, u s e me w, the turnkeys have in he meanwhile, as g o as li cense fir g y e t of Darkish Armen, to knock people aut as they like: for it eeee y t o say, that Magna Charts ei not pie peneed with in its very Mils (repeated every day by rote) that "We will not delay or sell justice," and that "no man shall be taken and deny, • Lo pes. ned or digester& of hie freehold, or any otherwise destroyed, y0 011:I the Judi= °l ia r: e jects or the law of the land." As the certiorari as officers in the ex mt°uthtion t o n f rn du keS ty s : It has been long a Mgt grievous oPereanion, that attorn eys wider indictment for mal.praetke or almost for any o ffe nce hoe „m ewe d the game thing as a sort of privilege ; bat then thid ge , ban when they could pay for it, fo r ~ even the privilege Is unit to the poor and unfortunate defendant ; or when the prosecutor • opulent and powered to be able to command the trounce of W law. But I never before heard of turekeye, gaolers, or sberiffs such a privilege recoguised in legal proeeedinge to punish taring kr extortion or other crimes in the abuse of g rou nd e , Nor bits the ground in this instance . I believe ; hut the is, that t h e y were employed in execu ting the regulation of the Secretary of gate. Now, supposing they were, why should not this sort of j esti ration be judged of ad o well at the Central Criminal Court as in the Queries Bensh? They not •apply for a trial at bar ; the judge le or, if not, is not the Reconler v ery ekely to be the same, competent, and if he is 110. why ie he not! But he is; and a.. to ca mel, the barrister who obtained the certiorari practises only in the ••MAlO:etre and followed the eve for this express pureone. Atoll gr ate sir, as this matter is put :safe on the shelf for several months, se e v ery likely for ever, as a seminal prosecution, I beg to remove it or similar mimes which have mese% and may arises, before you and your traders. Asa:ceding to or under the reeithitione referred to, the per. or Ili' deputy have, during the last two jeans, put from 50 to gtp difkrent persons late solitary confinement, m strong-moms, for periods of 14 or 2S day' ; and after that into solitary confinement, hem sie ors ight o'clock in the evs ningto eight or nine in the morning, he period. of one or two monk', in other etrong-c oma •Thie is d o ne without oath of compleinant or informant, though entries in a book se e a geed, but not as tot to ;mend an indictment for perjury or gesvpiraes. The keeper or his deputy thus holds a sort of petty court, bke a finsliep'e court, or seine old feudal tribunal, where great scre ed, ye done exitheut much noise. In face there is no appeal ; be what can to the use of writing to the Secretary. of State, who has made th • osculation which his officer is enforcing? However, It yew he been of any use in nay one inetaece, even inn caeo of abso mei stay •tain of a Cliancery prisoner, for whom, therefore, a m cly" weeus , obtained to order lien th e allowance tons, hh' he was m e t ed by retirees vet of partials'. nt. Such reguLiti eir t are quite aew; and 1 eleeild like to know whence game the function o the Ceres to rector punishments in any ease. Ithe thouicht that merc not they and recniseion of seatences was the province of Crown, and admen; awl executing of them. This is too well understood and too Law. , over the whole world to admit of a word; or. at least except from the iiiithoritice, who are es numerous and full that the mere enumeration is oat of the question, and would fill your paper. But here the ultra of jury, judee, and sheriff are all cumulated —nay, of Ittrislatnr, too, for these regulation+ p u rport to be made under an act eet hassiee this making of regulations to be laid on the tables of both Wailes of parliament. Is this the " law of the land" ? I think it is very mush like dispensing with the law of the land, which el, amongst other things, the any statute Made contrary to Magna Cherie ...lien be holden for nought.' But let 1111 see how the statute in question (tee seu vie., c. 22 s een. 2) was brought about to be passed. In a b ou t July, 1811, die then ministry (being principally the present n eedle Laid on the tables of both hawses, lav the Queen's command, a report or counnireionere of inquiry on bankruptcy and insolvency, by which report it was Mattel mid proved on very full evidence, that imprisonment in ouch cases was useless and miechiesolus, and ought to be atelishel, awl etibetituted by • shorter, more remionshle, and more efficient meteod of enforcing payment ef debt+. The very next calendar month that ministry went out, and the present parliament e rns ,ununorwd, and the 22nd chapter of its very first erasion was out one Ket • ch, and in the teeth u; the report ore the subject to which I allude, alai o f all other reports or evidence that have over bran made on the abject Ni weer, the+ act was procured to be fumed by eir James G r euin, teen Secreting of State for the Home Depertmene and is being enforeed without mitigation by Sir George Grey, both of whom I would ask, what' the use or meaning of the Bill or Rights, if the same thine a declares illegal and prohibite are to be brought Aunt by different means? They have got the " coneent of parliament," to be Jure ; but does any one forget that the consent of parliament must be according to the law of the Lula, and that the :sentare.. who procure it must do it on their personal responsibility I And does any one not ere that h o se who have advined the officers of the prison in putting foricaril tae regulation , . as a justilieution for violence, and in procur ing this justitleetion to be tried in the Queen's Bench, are raising up a conetitetional question of no small magnitude for that. coact to determine., end are courting it declaration of principles which they would not much like to experience? The vital importance of the matter will, I hope. excive the lecgth of this Co from, sir, your mod humble aud obedient serrate, W. ome:re—Queen's Prison, Nov. 14. THE L.ci E SIR. ALSAGER.—The lamentable decease of Ibis dii.fingitishNl amateur has cause d universal regret in the musical circles. Mr. Alseger was the founder of the celebrated " Beethoven Quartet Society," the influences of which in the advancement of high art have been incalculable. For many years Mr. Alsager invited to his house, in Queen square, the ilite of the musical profession, native and foreign, for the practice of quartet playing. He was equally the friend and supporter of the rising native artist as of the most accomplished foreigner. It is to Mr. Alsager that the credit is der of having removed many prejedices as to the later pro ductions the immortal Beethoven; and the system of con version. commenced in his own private circle, was rapidly ex tended by the matchless performances in Harley-street,where the sociei v was duly organised in 1815. Vieuxtemps, Sivori, Sainton, feria Jlilauuilo, Hill, and Rousselot were the artists who interpreted lacetheven's inspirations, after series of the must careful rehearsals. Mr. Alsoger was also a steady supporter of the Philharmonic Society. His loss will be severely felt, and a gap has been left in musical patronage difficult in& col to be tilled up,—Morning Chroaicic. EN LliniT EN MEN T OFTIIE GUA R DS. —Sir: On looking over your roper otelontley Lest, my attention was attracted by on extract from the ~ 4 4.1 • y Moor, headed, "Improvement in the Army," which states, voila siouunendie.le pride, that the 2sl bate Grenadier Guards , now lying at nt. John 's -scud, leis a large library, a coffee-room, and certain fecilitiee for the mental improvement of the men, among which—rather incidentally I thought—is motel a school. The writer has, hoe ever, forgotten to etate, that, with regard to the establish ment of libraries, coffee-rooma ice., this battalion is about the last in The field, so far, at least, as the household troops am eine-med. lean state., Irma my own personal knowledee, that the id Life Guercle has hale flue library of its own for many years ; and there is one of the battalion., of the Coldstream.., (I believe the 2ricel which bas laud a enkindid library for the last In years, which has been from time to time. chiefly through the munificence of the ofßeers of the battalion, enriched by the addition of many hundreds of valuable work+. Coffee. rooms and reacting-atoms are old established things with them.— Oesseeee.—Nov. 14, 1846. Rills reef lON IN THE PRICE OF BREAM Yesterday I most of the full-priced bakers at the westend of the metropo lis the price of the four-pound loaf from 91d. to 9d. 1 Many of them charge no more than 81d. for the same quality. The bakers who send out bread in barrows and carts have 1 taken alarm, and have adopted the precaution to send out a pair of scales in each cart or barrow. According to the Act of Par:Ma-tent Gth and 7th William IV., cap. 37, section 7, the penalty for non-compliance in so doing is 51., to be reco vered by conviction before any magistrate. POST-OFFICE REVENGE.—Sir, When Rowland Bill first propounded his cheap poetage plain, we combined to defeat it ; are proved fy figures that it would not pay, and demonstrated that it would bankrupt the department, in attempting to work it out. In fact wa denounced it as a emitter scheme. The Titters, and the other portion of the daily prow, dexpieed our arithmetic, sneered at our prophet . ", and demonstrated the fallacy of our demonstra tions. Well, they proved correct: diem 'postage has turned out a blessing to the community, mad yields a handsome income, when al expenses are paid. In our rage we said to ourselves, " Why not cheep newspapers as well as cheap postage?" Yet how the high prieed newspapers would rave if any one were to advocate cheap inure:diem! la the extensive circulation, and complete !success of the Daily News, we hare our revenge. The lempenny combination press have received an Oliver for their Rowland, and we arc delighted to sec the frerineer of Printing llowse-square hoisted by his own thiuidering petard.—Tan G. P. O. 01fICIAL11, St. Martin's-le-Grand. OCCUPATIONS OF SOLDIERS IN QuAnTEns.—We believe that a healthful source of amusement might he found for the European soldier at those stations favourable to hor ticulture, by government allowing a large plot of ground for a regimental garden, small portions to be allotted to such of the men as might be disposed to cultivate them. Some years Sulu the late Col. Hamilton, of H.M. 30th Foot had, we remember, such a project in sieve, though, whether it was carried out we know not; but we understand that H. M.'si 63rd have now a capital regimental garden at Secundera bad, in which many of the men take great pride I I and interest. The garden is, we bear, under the auperintendence of an officer of the regiment and the appearance of its crops, we arc told, does great credit to the skill and exertions of the growers. The officer commanding the corps is very favourable to the un dertaking, and bee given every possible encouragement to his men by extending indulgence to those employed in the cultivation of the garden. We know not whether anything of the kind exists m other cantonments, but the like might easily be practised at every station of the army during the cold season ; and how much more conducive to the health of the soldiery would be occasional employment in the garden, morning or evening, than a monotonous drill or roll call, from which those men might be occasionally excused who were known to be so employed; any abuse of the. indulgence being of course punished by its withdrawal for a time from the offender. The expense to government, were the arrangement even made general, would be a mere trifle, as a gang of convicts might be allowed for the more laborious work of enclosing and form ing the garden, and the expense of a pair of bullocks with a man and a boy for irrigation would be all that is requisite to maintain it in order, with the assistance of the soldiers morning and evening. The men would take pride in the success of their labours, and the garden would be a favourite resort for their wives, who in possessing such a place wherein to take evening exercise, would thereby be in some degree reminded of their own dear native land, instead of having to tramp about the dusty roads and bazars of a cantonment. —Bonalkay United Service Gazette. PAT OBTAINED BY THE BREVET.—Officers under the rank of General Officers who obtain brevet promotion receive an increase of pay amounting to two shillings per diem, if on full pay, and one shilling per diem if on half pay. No person on the retired full-pay is eligible, nor any individual who has gone upon half-pay, receiving tho differ ence. These are two of the principal impedimenta to brevet promotion. The selections are made by the Commander-in- Chief, or by the officer at the head of the army for the time being.— United Service Gazelle. INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—DEATH FROM DESTITU- Twee —By Mr. Payne, at Bakers'-hall, Harp-lane, Tower-street, on the body of Robert Craddock, aged forty-two. The deceased was a labourer, who cc casionall; got employment at the Custom-house-quay. On Monday the deceased was suddenly seized with illness, and he shortly afterwards expired, from, what the surgeon who had seen him believed to be, disease of the heart —The wife of the deceased, who bad an infant at her breast, said she had two other children at home, and that she believed deceased had died of a broken heart. She was unable to find him proper nourishment; he was only occasionally in employ, and when he was he could only earn 3d. an hour. He was a kind husband, and a better tether could not be found. He had often complained of a burning pain in the chest, fur which he had some time back received medical assistance. —The Coroner said it appeared that deceased had suffered from insufficient food, but he had not made any application for relief, which was to be regretted.—Verdict, Natural Death." After which, the jury made a collec tion for the widow.—SVICIDE AT LONDON BRIDGE. — Also, by Mr. W. Payne, at the Newcastle Coffee-house, St. Mary-at-hill, Thames-street, touching the death of Ellen Baugh, aged 22. On Saturday night, shortly after twelve, a man of the name of John Farrell, a labourer at Billingsgate, bearing a cry of " Police " near the market stairs, went there, and saw two men with the deceased in a boat. They said they were bargemen, and that they had picked up the de- ceased near London-bridge, and that she had \hreWn bilinear over ; but that they could not come or stop on shore, as they had left their barge, which was floating down with the tide. Farrell conveyed her to the Newcastle Tavern, where she was put to bed, and the usual means resorted to to restore anima tion. Deceased became sensible, and stated bet name to be Ellen Baugh, and that she resided in Devonshire court, Houndsditch. She continued in great agony, however, and expired at two o'clock. On examination, it was found that she had sus tamed an extensive wound on the top of the head, a fracture of the right knee-pan, and extensive laceration of the leg and thigh, which, together with the shock to the system, were sufficient to account for death.—Robert James Smith stated that the deceased had lived with him as his servant, and that on Saturday night, shortly after eleven o'clock, she suddenly put on her bonnet and shawl, and left the house in a pet, owing to his complaining of a person calling to see her ; and although she (deceased) had complained of being unhappy at having been deceived by a young man, he did not believe she intended to destroy herself. lie had since written to her friends, who reside near Salisbury, [ apprising them of the deceased's death. The inquiry was adjourned for a fortnight, to obtain the evidence of the bargemen, and for further inquiries.—SCl el DE HT A SWORD. —By Mr. W. Payne, at the George, Beech-lane, Barbican, on the body of Benjamin Croots, aged 59, who ran himself through the body on Sunday. His ser vant heard him fall, and on going to him found a large broad sword stained, and still wet, with blood, for the length of a foot flora the point; and also a knife stained with blood near him. Deceased had been in business as a pu".[liimi, and subse quently was clerk to a distiller, and latterly a great change was observed in his manner.—Mr. John Bellingham said, Visit the deceased had recently given up a situation in the house of Messrs. Ilarmer and Pearson, in order to go into partnership with him (witness), and was for the last few weeks in a desponding state.—Verdict, "Temporary Insanitv."--- DEATH PROM STARVATION.—By Mr. Baker, at the Halifax Arens, King Edward-street, Mile-end New-town, on the body of Mary Ann Ryan, a widow, aged forty-five years. The body lay in a parish shell at the house, No. 5, Spring gardens, King Edward-street, a narrow row of houses be tween which ran a black muddy ditch. The room was on the ground-floor, about six feet square, and destitute of every article of furniture, bed, er bedding. The body was found lying doubled up near the fire-grate.--Elizabeth Sim mons, widow, said she occupied the room in which deceased lay, fur which she paid one shilling and sixpence per week rent; the deceased had lodged with her for some mouths, and paid her sixpence a week for the accommodation. She obtained a few pence per week by making us men and boys' cloth caps for a person in the same street. Could not obtain more than would get her a cup of tea and dry bread, and was frequently without that. She had no bedding, but lay on the ground beneath some rags, her head being supported by a wooden box for a pillow. She owed witness 2s. for the last four weeks' rent, having had but a few caps to make dur ing that interval, and very little to eat. Her apparel con sisted of only the remnants of an old chemise and ragged gown, without stockings or shoes. On Sunday night wit ness went to her own bed, which is only a heap of rags, with scarcely any covering, witness obtaining a scanty living by vending nuts in the streets. About two o'clock in the morning she awoke and found deceased stiff and cold. Verdict, " Found dead, death being accele rated by long-continued privation and starvation." — DEATH FRONI CULVADLE NEGLECT.—CONDLIT OP A MEDICAL MAN.—By Mr. Carttar, coroner for West Kent, a the Olive Branch, Greenwich, on the body of Robert Smith, an engineer, who was drowned in the river Ravens bourne, on Saturday night last. The jury proceed:4 to inspect the place where deceased had fallen in. The path way running at the side of the river has for some distance no railing. Notwithstanding numerous instances occur of persons falling in on dark nights, no notice has ever been taken by the Kent Water Works Company, or the parochial authorities, notwithstanding repeated complaints of the dangerous state of the place. It was proved that the de ceased met his death by accident, a few moments after parting with a Mr. Coleman on the night mentioned, and when in company with a man of the name of \Wainwright, in consequence of falling into the river where there was no railing. Thomas Coleman, landlord of the Ravensbeurne Arms, deposed that be went to Mr. Dashwood, a surgeon, residing at the top of the street, and knocked—a person poked his head out of a window, and witness told him that his assistance was wanted to a man who was pulled out of the river—the person said he could not come out of h house at that tinte of night to attend drowning men ; wit is - told him it was a case of life and death, and offered to pay him 11. or 5/. before he left his residence, if lie would come ; but Mr. Dash , —el refused to attend. Witness sent for five medical me.., .Ir. Hatch alone coming, who be haved in a most prompt and praiseworthy manner. The Coroner said they could not compel a medical man to attend. All they could do would be to censure, in strong terms, such want of humanity. A. long conversation ensued between the coroner and jury as to the notice which ought to be taken of the dangerous state of the pathway to the parish authorities; it being stated by one of the jury that he had pulled out no less than nine per sons from the sonic place ; end another juror having taken six persons out, all of whom expired. It was ultimately agreed that a deputation should wait on the parochial authorities at the next board. The conduct of Mr. Dash wood was next brought under consideration, and after some strong remarks it was unanimously agreed that the coroner should convey the opinion of the jury, viz., "That Mr.D.0 . 111- wood's conduct deserved the severest reprobation," which the coroner said he should communicate to Mr. Dashwood in the most forcible terms.—A verdict of " Accidental death" was recorded, and a subscription entered into for a witness named Cole, who had behaved in a most gallant manner. IRELAND. DIII3LTN, Nov. 16. MELTING Or THE ROMAN CATHOLIC 13P4HOPS.— EDUCATION.—The annual meeting of the Irish prelates has terminated, after a session of five days. It will be remem bered that a statement was made in August last, apparently ou archiepiscopal authority, that the College of Cardinals at Rome had unanimously and unequivocally condemned the system of collegiate education for Ireland, and-that the sen tence only awaited the ratification of his Holiness to with draw the confidence of the clergy from the " godless " semi naries. In the synod just closed, a studious silence has been observed; nu communication impeaching the principle of mixed education, has been received from the Papal Court, and though resolutions have been adopted on various sub jects,— the Bequests Act, mixed marriages, Catholic education for the children of Catholic soldiers, and the removal of penalties from the regular clergy, to which they are now subjected: yet not a word has been uttered against the colleges ' • no modifi cations proposed n o improvements suggested. The liberal character of the Pope, the anxiety of the government to pro mote the welfare of this country, and a desire on the part of the prelates not to add to the existing embarrassments of ministers, are supposed to have influenced the synod. The friends of enlightened education are rejoiced at the result. STIPENDIARY Ild s o t avasres.—The Limerick Chronicle of Saturday states that on the return of Lord Besborough six additional stipendiary magistrates will be appointed. I am enabl.d to state that there is no foundation for the ru mour, which, perhaps, originated in sonic changes now un dergoing the attention of the Irish government. REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—THIS DAT. The usual meeting of this body was held to-day, in Con ciliation Hall, which was crowded to excess. Among the incidents which gave a character to the proceedings may be noticed the attendance there of the Right Rev. Dr, Browne, Roman Catholic Bishop of Elphin. It was known that he was deputed to attend by several of his brethren; and lie was the first Roman Catholic prelate who ever entered that hall at any meeting. On the motion of Mr. O'Connell, the chair was taken by Alderman O'Brien, M.P. The secretary having read the minutes of the previous meeting, Mr. O'Cosisnti. said he was happy to have the high honour of introducing the names of the prelates of Ireland in that hall, and to inform the association that they had dosed their synod, and had before doing so, amongst other things, felt it their duty to adopt petitions to parliament for amendments in the Bequests Act, the Marriage Act, and for relief to the religious orders in the country. (Hear, beer, hear.) He was proud to he able to say that they were not only unanimous in adopt ing those petitions, but in selecting 'him as their organ to present them to the House of Commons. Ile (Mr. O'Con nell) was proud of this honour, because it showed the world that he had not lost the confidence of the prelates and clergy of Ireland in his old age, when assailed by false and treach erous friends. (Hear, hear.) The learned gentleman then moved that it be referred to the committee to prepare peti tions to parliament, which he would have signed b) two millions of persons, to back the petitions from the Irish bishops. (Cheers.) This motion having passed, Mr. O'Connell stated that he had also to report from the committee as to the ensuing municipal election, and to men tion that they had approved of Mr. Andrew Russell Stritch. as candidate for Saint George's ward upon the repeal interest, a selection which he (Mr. O'Connell) could not but express his approval of. (Hear, hear.) He had also to report from the city registry, and state, that the repealers had a majority of 48, and would double it before it was over. (Hear, hear.) —These reports having been received, and some money har ing been acknowledged, Mr. O'Connell again rose, and said he wished to say a few words for a matter personal to him self, in defence of his conduct as a landlord and an Irishman. (Hear, hear.) He (Mr. O'Connell) liked the truth, and dis liked all kinds of lying, and particularly such lying as was practised by the Times. (Hisses.) There were several kinds of lies—lies that were partially false—lies that were false to some extent, and true to some extent—and lies that were false, " lock, stock, and barrel" —and such was the Times lie he complained of. (Hear, hear.) Having said so much, he would read the lie for them, which was published in that paper on the 13th of the present month. (Mr. O'Connell here read the paragraph in question, in which it was stated that hundreds of poor people had usem bled on a particular day to look for work ; their locality was " a Mile East of the town of Cahireiveen," and their destitu tion was depicted in these words : " Several persons of un doubted veracity had declared that for the last fortnight many, nay, the majority of those who collected had not eaten an ounce of wholesome food, their chief sustenance during that period consisting of nothing but cabbage. Indeed their gaunt looks and tottering steps indicated more clearly than any language could express, the horrible state of desti tution to which they had been reduced by the failure of their o nly support—the potato."—The paragraph purported to be a quotation from the Cork Examiner . , and was headed " Ma. O'CONNELL'S TENeINTRY." Having read the paragraph at length the hon. gentleman proceeded. Now, he (Mr. O'Connell) wished to state, at once, that there was no such paragraph ever published in the Cork Exa miner. (Shame.) A similar paragraph, no doubt, appeared in it, but it was not headed " Mr. O'Connell's tenantry," nor was it intended to apply to them: a falsehood was therefore wilfully concocted and propagated. (Cries of " Hear, hear."! It was not written to apply to him, but even if it was, it was a fe el lie. (Cheers.) What was the tact The paragraph in question was written to apply to an absentee landlord in the neighbourhood. His (Mr. O'Connell's) tenants were, thank God, not obliged to live on anything but wholesome food; and he trusted in Provi dence that he would be able to preserve them through the present distress without hunger pressing upon them. (Hear, hear.) Why should the Timer dare to head this paragraph " Mr. O'Connell's tenantry ?" It was said, he was told, that it first appeared in the Packet under that head, and was copied by the Times from that paper; new, such might be the ease, but it was no excuse to him. He had not boasted of what he had done for his tenants, nor did he wish to do so, but he believed that it would be found that lie had done as much as any landlord in the country, of his means— if not more. (Heat.) It was not his desire to mention what he had done; but, attacked as he was—(hear, hear) — ho was called on to exculpate himself. (Cheers.) Last year he bad purchased nineteen tone of meal for his tenants, and, he was happy to say, that not owe of them ever wanted food throughout the entire season ; and, inde pendent of doing that, be had raised their wages. (Hear, hear.) When he went down amongst them, he found their wages but 6d. a day, and he raised it to &1., and subsequently to a shilling ; and as long as it was necessary, and he was able to preside for them in the same wa y, he would do so. (Hear, hear.) He had likewise given 100/. to the Cahersi- Teen fund that year, and nine tons of meal for general distri bution, and this year he had done his utmost to provide food and employment. In the first place be gave 1001. out of his pocket for employment, and added it to 1001. which Lord Cork had subscribed ; and he had also purchased ten tons of meal, for which he was to pay 1701. (Cheers.) Now he would ask, was it not too bad, that such a paragraph should be published in the Tinier, and met all over Christendom ? (" Hear," and cries of " Shame.") Probably the Times was excusing itself by throwing this lie upon the Packet. He (Mr. O'Connell) did not know whether it was or not ; but all he would say was, that if there were any honest men connected with it, they would publish his contradiction. There was another matter he would allude to to show what a bad landlord he was—(loud cries of " hear," and cheers) — be had made an abatement of 25 per rent. to all his tenants whose rents were under 51., and twenty per cent. for rents above that sum ; and he forgave the rent of many altogether, although he did not parade his conduct in the newspapers as others had done, Thus it appeared that he had given no less than 370/. out of his own pocket, had afforded an abundance of employment, reduced his rents, and yet he was to be attacked in this way. (Shame.) He was doing all - he could; and his son Maurice was engaged constantly in affording employment ; and he wcald challenge the Tunes to name any family in Ireland that hail done more to alle viate the existing distress ; and he would, therefore, in jus tice, call upon it to contradict the parag ra p h he complained of, and to place the truth before the world. (Cheers.) Mr. O'Connell then acknowledged 2001. from Boston, after which, The Right Rev. Dr. Br.owez, Roman Catholic bishop of Elphin, addressed the meeting. He said that he was the last bishop to join the association, and was happy to be the first to attend Conciliation Hall. (H. or, hear.) It would be his wish to live in retirement ; but, at such a time, he felt called upon to come forward and prtelaim his undeviating adhesion to Mr. O'Connell and moral force. (Cheers.) The right rev. gentleman, in conclusion, stated that he was the organ of the hierarchy and clergy of his church, and he knew that they were fur the Liberator, and looked with disgust upon the puny efforts of the Young Irelanders. (Cheers.) Mr. U ChTli, barrister, having handed in 83/. from Water ford, Mr. O'CoNNELL made another short speech. He first said, that they should petition parliament to make an alte ration in the mode of selecting sheriffs, and then proceeded to refer, a second time, to the ri.111(.3 of the 13th init. He stated that there appeared in that paper a letter signed " A Member of the Shannon Squadron," which he wished to notice, because it was a most disgusting exhibition of Eng lish bigotry. (Hear, hear.) The writer, although he (Mr. O'Connell) did not know whether he was a uavv officer or a marine, had attempted to give a 'sample of the Irish charac ter, and he would read what he had said—" This is a sample of the starving people : work they will not, steal they will, beg they do, and gratitude is not in their nsture." (Groans.) Now he (Mr. O'Connell) would ask was it uat horrible to think how any man could have the audacity to write such a libel ?—or how any paper should attempt to insert it ? (Cheers.) It would, however, be a matter for him to refer to at a future time as the writing of the Englishman, when the Irish were abused for vilifying the English. The learned gentleman then announced that he could not reply to the Cork repealers, owing to the illness of kis second clerk : and said he would do so next Monday, on which occasion he would also move to refer it to the committee, to prepare bills for presentation to parliament, ou the following subjects : A bill to augment the parliamentary representation.—A to incretu-e the elective franchise.—A bill to amend the present re esu of registry.—A bl 3 for ruwdeipal ref irm.—A bill to procure fressium of education.—.l bill to establish the tenant right.—A Lill to comaensate tenants for lows), vernents.—A huh to diminish the stamp duty on lenaes.—A bill to take away the power of distress.—A bill to abolish the power of grand juries ; and a bill to tax absentees, at least 20 per Cent In conclusion, Mr. O'Connell stated that the council of the. Agricultural Society met daily, and said he hoped they would do some useful for the country, and expressed his anxiety to render it all the assistance in his power. The week's rent was then announced to be 3721. 2s. 2d. The Lord ?slayer was then called to the chair, and the meet ing adjourned to Monday next. RELIEF ON PUBLIC \roses. The Kilkenny Journal publishes several documents relative to the relief of the poor on public works, and the principle on which the selection Is to be made by the local relief committees. Mr. Redington says: That hi- Excellency's ctuntion having been caleil to the class of 'arsons who have hitherto been employed on relief works, he desires that instructions may be gives lathe offlcers of the board, that as a general rule nu persons should be employed whose tenements are sallied under the Poor Lose at per annum or urrvards. unless in undoubted destitution, nor the sons of persons m eiremustanced. His Excellency further desires that the officers will report to the board all canes in which the payments have not been made weekly as directed, and that no person employed under the board should be engaged in the 'truck' system, or in the sale of spirits or food in the neigh bourhoud of the works under pain of discus'' h." Mr. Walker, Secretary to the Board of Works, has issued the following circular, to correct one of the evils incidental to a system of public employment : " indict of Public W mks, Oet. 29.-11 being represented to the Board of Work* Ord great incimvenience and ate,." had ro t,n from the difficulty existing in many cases of obtaining labourers fir occasional employment, and the indisposition that exists on the part of labourers to go to private soaks, even at high wages, ill the expectation of getting work on the public roads, the board approve of allowing far mers and others requiring labourers to apply to the stewards on the public works for them; and, in case the persons ealected by the ,tewarils refuse to go on being offered the same rate of wages they are receiving on the roads, that the stewards should be required forth with to discharge them." Lieutenant Galwey, inspecting officer, has furnished the I following points for the guidance of relief committees iu making ep their lists of the destitute : All applicants to be registered in a book surliest for that purpose. 2. N hen the engineer in charge of works requires a certain number of men for any particular work, the relief committee will extract that number (being the most destitute) from the registry, confining them selves to the locality where the works are to be executed as for as possible, and forward the list to me, in order that I may supply the neccaairy tickets. It should be stated at the feet adult list, the num ber of destitute still requiring employment. 8. The strictest scrutiny should be observed in the selection of the actually destitute, and as to whether they can procure employment by env other means than on public works. Relief committees have DO control over the detail of the works. REPRODUCTIVE LABOVR.—DRAINAGE.-I[ll reply to an application from some of the landed proprietors of the county of Wexford, as to whether, in availing themselves of the Million or Drainage Acts, they could free the electoral division from taxation, the Board of Work. say no part of the barony can be relieved from cep for coy works which the board may execute, except in cases where, under Mr. La&mehere's letter, the whole sum required for any electo ral division shall have been taken for draii.se, and thereby become charged on the land drained. But if one or more proprietors in the barony apply for drainage works, either under the General Drainage Act, or the Million Act where it is suitable to such an extent as to employ the destitute people in the barony, then no works under the poer employment act will be proceeded with, and consequently no cess will be levied. Or if under the drainage acts or by private works, the proprietors afford a considerable extent of employment, or any employment, then works under the poor employment act will only be proceeded with to the extent necessary to employ the residue of the destitute in the barony, and thus the eerie will be proportionably reduced. Under the drain age acts, the time for payment may be extended to 20 or 22 years. We cannot hold out any prospect of the repayment under the poor employment net being extended at furthest beyond ten years. A correspondent of our own (says the Mai/ of this even• ' lug), dating from the western division of the county of ; Limerick, thus writes : There are In this barony nearly 4,000 men at work, and the pay ments amount to about 800/. a week. How this system is to be cars i ried on, I do not see, for even already the engineer is beginning to experience oonatierable difficulty in finding work for the immense numbers he has employed. It may go on for a few months, say Lwow three, but the idea of keeping up working at roads, new or old, fee the time that will inevitably be required, is preposterous. 3 hey speak of calling a new sessions here for reproductive works, but the gentry in this county arc not in a position to burden themselves individle an y with the sums which would be necessarily made charge ab on their properties in that war. There is not a labourer employedt of the in the county, except on public work s , a nd there ft every prospec labourers lands remaining unfilled and unsown fcr next year. The can earn from Is. to Is. lid. a day at task-wet' and from the number employed, there ought to be no one in want in this barony. But un fortunately the relief committees put many persons on their here lists who are not in absolute need of it , and the consequence is, that t are many families entirely without work, while others are saving money to a considerable extent. STATE OF THE COUNTRY.—Severe herds, who had been collecting grazing money and rents for gentlemen in the neighbourhood, have eloped with the money confided to them, within the last few Jaye.—Bogle Gazette. EMIORATION.—The country people are still emigrating hundreds of them take their departure from this port by every steamer which leaves for Liverpool. But a few days ago the Richard Watson, passenger-ship, left our quays with her full number of passengers, bound for New 'York. Such a thing was never heard of before in this part of the kingdom. Nothing could have induced those persons to venture across the Atlantic in the depth of winter, but the conviction that if they remained in this country, they would be exposed to the horrors of famine—more appalling than the dangers of the deep.—Sligo Champion. PLENDES OF FLOUR. —Friday night, between nine and ten o'clock, as Thomas Byrne was bringing two drays loaded with flour, the property of Mr. Kennedy, of Trim, to Dub lin, he was attacked by upwards of forty men at the Cross Keys, seven miles from Trim,who feloniously stole flee sacks of flour, which they carefully emptied into sacks and bags of their own, and having impartially divided the contents lse tween them, they departed, and permitted Byrne to resume his journey. He swore an information to these facts at the Head Police-office on Saturday morning. DAY OF HUMILIATION AND PRAYER.—The following circular has been addressed by the Lord Bishop of Meath to the clergy, requesting them to set apart a day of humiliation and prayer, in their several churches, on account of the ira- pending calamity caused by the failure of the food of so maey millions of our fellow-countrymen : AIDBILACCI,N, NAVA", Nov. 10, ISM —ln consequence of the great distress which prevails so generally among the poorer classes by reason of the destructive blight of the crop on which they principally depend for aubsisteneN a wish bas been expreserd by misty members of the church that a special day should be set apart on which public prayers should be offered up in ssknowledgmeut of the Divine IL-nd which has sent this cala mity. I therefore request (in pursuance of the advice and exampled the Lord Primate of Ireland), that you will celebrate divine service in your church on Friday the 20th of November, In t h e manner fol lowing :—After riling the accustomed and preseribed form of morning prayer, together with the special form set forth by the authorit)• of the Lord-Lieutenant in Council, for the present time, to be read before the Litany, you are to read the prayers In the comminution service, from the beginning of the Stet Psalm to the cad of the service. I re women.' that a sermon be preached suitable to the occasion ; and if if there be Ringing in the church, that the Penitential Psalms be selected:F.l,watt', Menu. New HOLYHEAD PACKETE,—The Irish RailwayGasette of this morning, say : " The Admiralty have contracted for four new steam packets for the Holyhead station. One to be built by Messrs. Ditchburn and Mare, it is understood, on the line, of the Surveyor of the Navy, engines by Messrs. Seaward and Co. ; one of wood, on the lines of Mr. 0. W. Lang, with Penn's engines; one, engines and vessel by Messrs. Miller and Co. ; and one vessel by J. Laird, the en gines by Forester, of Liverpool. They are to be called the Caradoe, Llewellyn, the Kathleen, and the Banshee." FESTIVITIES AT BESSUOROUG H.—Since the return of his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant to his princely mansion at Bewborough, a succession of festivities has Veen kept up daily, to which all the gentry of the surrounding country, as well as many distinguithed individuals from several distant parts of Ireland, hava been invited. Prince George of Cambridge is expected to arrive in the course of the present week. SCOTLAND. EDTCATION or PACPER CHILDIMN.—At the last monthly meeting of the parochial board of Wick, Kenneth M•Leay, Esq , of Reiss, rose and moved the rescinding of that pert of the minutes of the previous board which referred to the edu cation of pauper children. He did not by any means object to the education of pauper children, but he thought that in the present circumstances of the parish, when many of the rate-payers had such difficulty,in paying the assessment, and when there was such a vast amount of pauperism in the parish, it was uncalled for that an additional assessment should rac imposed for educational purposes. After a long pro and con discussion, the meeting came to the following result:—For Mr. M'Leay's motion, 27; for Mr. Thomas 's ditto, 24 ; majority 3. This vote censequenUo rescinded the resolution of the previous meeting. Mr. 'Thomson gave notice of a motion for the next meeting of the board, to re scind the resolution just passed telative to education. - "AFIRE TOOR PLACE AT GLAsGOW on Sunday morning, in the bakehouse of Mr. Stirling, Carlton Court. It did a great deal of damage, destroying not only the premises in which it originated, but those occupied by the Friendly Bread As sociation, and by Mr. Bowman, pianoforte maker. The fire had got a strong hold of' Mr. Stirling's ba'a..house before it was tliseovered, and notwithstanding the exertions of the firemen, the other buildings being under a common roof, the flames spread with great rapidity, and in the moue of two hours the whole was consumed. lair. Stirliae, in addition to other property, lost 200 bags of flour, the 'Friendly Bread Association likewise lost a huge quantity; but it is stated that the property destroyed in Mr. Bowman's premises far exceeds the value of all the rest. THE STIELINO Brasov.—Them appears to be as great an agitation here as if we were on the eve of a general election, or if a vacancy had occurred, and a new writ issued from the Crown Office. Mr. Spiers and Mr. Alison continue to go the rounds of the burghs, and to address the electors and non electors.—Cakdonian Mercury. Startetors CASE or DROWNTRO.—OR Friday night a man named Neil Campbell, residing at St. Ratios, reported at the Police-office, Glasgow, that his sister, Ann Campbell, had been missing from Wednesday last, and that from her hamlet having been found hi the Canal on Thursday morn ing, it was feared she was drowned. He likewise stated that she had been last seen on Wednesday evening on the Canal bank in company with Stein or Stephen Davidson, farmer, Belearnoek, near Springburn, by whom she had lately had a child. After inquiring into the matter, and Campbell's story being found correct, a posse of officer: were sent off to Belearnock, where they apprehended Davidson in his bed at six o'clock on Saturday morning. The canal was dragged en Saturday forenoon, and about 12 the body of the unfortunate woman was found near the east side of St. 11011 ex-bridge. The circumstances which gave rise to the suspicions against Davidson, and which caused his being taken into custody, are as follow : Campbell, it appears, at one time was in the service of Das bison, and about three weeks aeo she had a child. of which he is the reputed father. On Wednesday, he called upon her at her lodgings in Shuttle street, and she afterwards went out and met him in Duke ' street. Here they both went into a gig, and, after taking a drive round by Provan-mill, he brought her back to Duke street, and then clown to her lodgings. Shc went out again in the evening, and about seven o'clock they were both seen together on the eanadhank, within ten yards of where the body VMS found, apparently quarrelling, end shortly alter ward., it is stated, a private watchman in that locality heard some cries and then a splash in the water. On Saturday, Davidson was examined by the sheriff, and committed for farther examination. It nppe irs, from a mt./dot-tem exami nation of the body, that death had been caused by drowning. The deceased was about twenty-five years of age, and Davidson is a man between forty and fifty. HERIOT'S HOSPITAL, EDINIICROH.—Fifty-two boys, or nearly one-third of the whole number living within the walls of Herbst's Hospital, have be en ejected for insubordination. The distinct nature of the grievances that led the youths to rebel has not been clearly ascertained. When drawn out in the hospital lawn, the Lord Provost, who is one of the go ' venters, invited the malcontents to follow him into the chapel, and inform him as to their complaints. The griev ances enuateratecl were of a trilling description, and, as it appears that n quarter of a century ago . a similar outbreak took place, without the Mll , l . o sr , being able to (licit the cause from the teachers, the present officials have resolved that on this occasion the onus of the disturbance shall be thrown on the (jetted pupils. We drawly suspect that the monastic habit of living in the hospital predisposes youths for melt ebullitions. if it be:not indeed the procuring cause. But let the governors also see to their teachers, as "there is never smoke without heat." THE NEW CATHOLIC CHAPEL at Murthly Castle, the seat of Sir William Drummond Stewart, Ban, of Grand tully, has been opened for divine Knit:: with all the ceremo nisi. of the Catholic ritual. that they discontinue to grant relief to poor belonging to any township within the union who are not residing in the union; and have direc;ed their relieving officers not to visit or re lieve any poor who do not reside in their own respective dis tricts. They have also resolved to discontinue is future to giant out-door relief to all non-settled poor who may be legally removed to their respective places of settlement ; and to discontinue to relieve any poor for or on account of any other union, residing within the Manchester or Salford union, as the case may be. These resolutions, which are adopted as in accordance with the best legal construction of the new law of settlement, it is probable will involve in the two unions the removal of some 300 to 400 paupers,—some from Manchester to Salford, others from Salford to Man chester, and so on with respect to almost all the townships in the two unions. The directions to the relieving officers will also greatly facilitate the discharge of their onerous duties. A relieving officer of Manchester, for instance, will no longer have to visit and relieve a pauper living iu Pen dleton. If the poor person has gained a five years' settle ment there, he must in future be relieved by the Salford howl; if not, he will be removed into the Manchester union, and relieved there. The Chorlton board of guardians have taken another view of the new law. At their last meetinff a copy of the resolution of the Manchester guardians was laid before them, and excited considerable interest. It was unanimously resolved— That this loved cannot but exprewo regret at the girsdians of the poor of the 3l•inchentee Union having come to the sletremination expressed in the foregoing essolutions, cirl tied it be an initruction to the Monied officers of this union P. vi.it and relieve mi usual all removable pauper. , belonging to this onion, who may be resident In the Mantitmtor Union; as it is considered were the offieers to act otherwise. it would be attended with serious inconvenience and un necessary hardships to the recipients of relief. _ ...... —.— COMMISSION nY THE Loan LIEUTF.NANT.—R. Milward, sent., to be cornet, vice 8. Surplice, of Southern Yeomanry ' Cavalry. WILTSHIRE. FRUITS OF THE GAME-LAWS.—Last Friday a most gross , outrage was committed at Burderop-park, near Swindon, the seat of J. J. Calley, Esq. At about eleven o'clock, when ,Ir. Calley was retiring to bed, be perceived from his bed room window the flash of a gun, and heard firing in the plantations near his house. lie immediately called his men servants, and, followed by them, went in search of the tres passers. The servants took different directions, and in one of the plantations the gardener met two men armed with guns, one of whom pointed a gun close at his breast, and bade him go away." Being then alone and unarmed, the gardener thought it prudent to follow this advice. Pre sently, howeser, he joined Mr. Calley, and they proceeded in a direction where firing had been heard, and just cors,,the outside of the park, on the turnpike road, they fell in *ith two men with guns. Mr. Calley bad merely addressed them, sayieg, " It's all very well now you arc on the turnpike road, but I know where you have been," and had not quite finished the utterance of the last two words, when he heard a man's voice from behind a hedge call out, " Fire at him; eh sot him." Immediately afterwards Mr. Calley received a vio lent blow on his hewd, which felled him to the ground, stunned and senseless, when they commenced kicking him severely. The gardener, hearing come of the poachers calling out " shoot, shoot," began to make his escape, when two guns in succession were elisehargiel, the contents of which severely wounded him about his loins and legs. By this time some of the servants came tip, and the gong dis persed. Mr. Calle) , received no serious injury, although he was very much bruised. The police apprehended seven men on suspicion the next day. The prisoners were taken before the bench of magistrates at Swindon, when one was discharged from custody, and, in cons quence of the gar dener being unable to attend from the serious nature of the injuries which he had received, the other six were remanded. nusTm6rioNmintE. RAILWAY LAROVRER.V WoRKINO: ON SFNDNV. —At the Ramsay petty sessions, on Saturday last, before the lion. F. Baring, Benjamin Vs'ootliudule, foreman, and Several rail way labourers, appeared to answer a complaint laid against them by the pollee, for exercising their worldly calling on the Lord's day, contrary to the Act of Parliament. The case having been proved, they were severally lined sa. each and discharged. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. CoMMISSIoNS BY vita Loins LIEU rEMANT.—W. Jenney, Esq. ; J. Key, Esq.; H. T. Worley, Esq. ; and W. C. Clayton, Eaq., to be deputy-lieutenants. SUSSEX. COMMInitON BY THE Lorin LIEVTENANT.—T. Walker, Gent., to be ensign of Royal Militia. ESSEX. NEW 1111.Tal FOR NEAT SERSION. — Eg . ex and the neigh bouring counties promise to be very productive in new bills to employ parliamentary committees in the next suasion. The Eastern Counties Company aloae have given notice of as many as nineteen ; and though several of them are for confirming arrangements with other lines which they take by lease or purchase, the majority are for n w brnneht in cltiling a line through Rockford Hundred, another through a part of north Essex, so as to connect Braintree, the capi tal of that division, with the Stour Valley line and Suffolk in that direction ; and the other lints are principally for emrolidating and extending their interests towards the north cf the trunk. Besides these, there are in the field, in immediate connexion with this county, the London and South E•sex, and its opponent, which proposes to branch off at Hatton, the Thames Haven Dock, and the Ch, lnns ford and Norwich line; so that next season we may expect to have railway communication extended in Essex. and ample employment marked out for the pour in all directions A New DODGE.—At Kingston, on Saturday, a dealer named Goddard, who had just sold a drove of sheep and gone into a public-house, was joined by some of those gentry who attend fairs for the purpose of plundering the unwary. The strangers wish, d Gaillard to purchase 300 sheep for them, and represented they were net judges of such animals. They agreed to give him a hoyen.ign a hundred for the pur chase. lle accepted the offer. The strangers then repre sented that they had a very fine cart horse to sell, which was said to be worth 501. The fellows offered him a trial, requiring a deposit of W. Goddard handed over 36 sovereigns, and took away the animal to try, when he speedily discovered thatfit was, from some material defect, not worth a quarter of the sum he had deposited. As soon as he had mounted, however, the others themselves off, and he was left minus his money and tlic job promised him in the purchase of the sheep. hart DENY ItonliEltY.—A man named John Worsfold was yesterday brought :before Messrs. Frecker and Night ingale, at the Town-hall, Kingston, charged with stealing a puny, value 91., the property of a Wi Isheattle-dcaler, named Rees. The prosecutor had attended Kingston Fair on Saturday with a drove of cattle and panics, and those that remained unsold were heinz taken by one of his men, named Jones, and a boy also in his service, to a field in the neigh bourhood of Kingston fur the night. The boy was , riding the pony in question, when the pri-uner went up to him, knocked hint off the pony, and thin jumped upon the animal, and galloped away at full speed. Au soon as the parties had recovered from theirastonisbment, they started in pursuit of the prisoner, and after a long chase came up with him at Tolworth, the pony being still in his possession. lie was committed to take his trial. 4lkrttal. SCE or Sr. AnAPIL—The Gazette of last night contains an order in council cam inc into effect the recomswndatem of the Ecclesiastical Commissiimer• that the Bishop of St. Asaph do pay in to the credit of the Ecclftniatical Cormissioners with the Sank of lingianil, the fixed annual sure of I,SOOP. by half-yearly payment , . that being the races of the income of the see over and above the .um of 1,2001., which the Commissioner. , believe would be asuitable average income fora IlMop of St. Asaph. the recom mendation is made in consequence nf the provision for uniting the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor not having yet come into operation ; and the appointment to the bishopric, though made, is not yet completed. • eda V. 1.. I kcr let; an; arta re .uld 14 ui era ty l ate. ant; odg.• ack- 7 I nt's I ticy • idy; ten- - 19 so at trtoll rick. .11 lee; . I . • „ight ores bee 'and ig to erm. said, Inuit m to with- sub- .se,' • ' His n the very • pro- d co ir r t • . " c l • WAY IM I T- Vice- dein- I and hare- Com- a and nage- then, • said nugc- pany, pay I. I lwen at tho 'dents I id Mr. those COTlSC- kintiffs shares. area to defer'. s'-deed ere On ommit- y their come- c. But all in- x them 9 shares aid, in or's de- endants ud that .Look up t of the 1 share- tat they • in this I nn partners There or that de, who them, to share- in muse- iirectors, hat fraud act of tho all liabi wee° ' no part- reholders, • from the t course ? voviaional . r, or con- atntrship he prayer is became to them, dust those as of great sIASTICAL instituted 91 t, formerly his estates t the expi- amulations ham Mea- tject to the • The tea- el in July, it Muster, endant of WWI taken WALES. ..---- THE ToLLowiNq LETTER appeared in the Leeds 3 ferettry of Saturday hat, and as the subject is one of scientific inquiry, we transfer it to our columns • Tue Mtisai SMUTS TUBULAR ARTIWM.—The interesting experi ment, nosed at Tarioua times in your columns, relative to the in tended bridge over the Menai Straits, apps ir principally to have been directed to determine the capabilities of the iron tube to eudain the weight of the train intended to par.) over it. No experiawnt having been reported showing it espial to redirting the action of the wind when blowing a hnrricane from 31.75011i5. to 4G•9751b5., or probably up to fi2.on3lbs. to the eitpertiiiial foot. In the autumn of last rear I was en gaged on the sections of the then intended London and Ito `.vhead di rect railway, end I partieularly noticed at various places the immense masses of rock that had been blown by storms from the mountains, and several in the Snowdon Pass from a moot terrific height ; one of which, by measurement, weighed upward. of 700 tons. I also re marked that the beautiful suspension bridge over the Si rails ;about In chains from the intended tunnel, awl near the same level, designed by the late eminent engineer, Telt. ad, bad been injured by the vibra tion of the chains and roadway in the many konns It has withstood ; and cross-braces bad been flied to the chains, rendered necessary to prevent the piers being further injured, the very siu.ill surface ex posed to the action of the wind being euilicient to cau,e injury to such a stupendous structure. The immense surface of the intended tunnel, exprreod at the same level (say 110 feel. Ugh in the centre of he tube de- ), to the action of the tremendous storms that rage to the Strait., mands the greatest caution as to the tubular form being adopted.—l remain, &c., J. Rozsecx, Inspector of Works, Huddersfield and Man chester Railway.—Nsr. 10, 1846. PEHRIWEB , RIRE.— COMMISSION 1W THE LORD LIEU , TENLNT.-0. Owen, Esq., to be deputy-lieutenant. PROVINCIAL. LANCASTIERE. THE MANCHESTER PERM PARIS DnerMENTi.—On. Wednesday last, the whole of the books, plans, papers, and other documents bcloaginr to the Public Parks Committee, were lodged in a chest in the Town-hall, which was provided for the Firpo-c, and arc placed under the care of the borough treasurer. Th. documents include the printed circulars of the committee, the plans for laying out the parks, a vast number of h tt,rs ; receipt, cheque, bank, minute, subscrip tion, and cote. ting books ; a complete list of all the sub scribers, printed addresses and receipts. A century hence these may he curious and interesting documents in connexion with one of the noblest and most successful and munificent subscriptions ever raised for the free benefit of the people at EN DLET ON . —PROPOSED IMPROVEMENT BILL.--IL is posed to make application to parliament, next session, for an improvement act for Pendleton, giving to commissioners, to be elected under it, powers to drain and sewer the township, to establish gas works, and to build a town-hall. A meeting of the rate-payers is to be held, that their sanction may be asked to the steps which have been and are proposed to be hereafter taken. VALUE OF Lk:in.—TEE CORN-LAIVS.—The estate in the township of Samleebury, known as the " Braddylls," or " Old Hall " estate, has just been disposed of by auction. It was divided into 23 lots, all of which met with a ready sale. The largest lot, amounting to about 13,000/., has been pur chased b Mr. J. Cooper, cotton-spinccr. The valuation of th whol e estate was 43,0001. ; the amount the 23 lotsfetched is 60,0001. A small lot, valued at 5,0001., was bought by J. F. Hindle, Esq., for 7,0001.; a fact hard to reconcile with the dolorous speech that gentleman lately made, as chairman of the Blackburn Agricultural Association, when he lamented so grievously the mischief that would, in his opinion, result to the country in general, and t he a g ricultural interest in par ticular, from the repeal of the corn-laws. LIVERPOOL AND BIRKENHEAD united are more than un usually prolific in their APPLICATIONS for PRIVATE BILLS. Liverpool has producod four notices independent of railways. Birkenhead no less than eight ; making twelve altogether. Chester furnishes three one of which o the payment of a chairman, •judge of th , c quarter sessions out of the county rates. Manchester and the neighbourhood about half-a dozen. A saw CLUB is stated to be in progress of formation at Ashton-under-Lyne, to be named, an admiration of the distinguished wit, " The Jerrold Club," its object being to concentrate into one focus the intellect of the town, that each individual may be benefited by the in telligence of his neighbour, and, by frequent association, rub off the corners of each other's prejudices, well knowing that in the process all must be made wiser and better." Loan SANDON has us t c ommunicated to David Hodgso n Esq., the ex-mayor o f Liverpool, that, at the uest of hi• Royal Highness Prince Albert, Mr. Hodgson h req as been ap pointed a county magistrate. REMOVAL OF PAUPERS.—The Manchester and Salford boards of guardians have adopted resolutions to the effect Cabo Enttlitgence. NAVAL. (From lad ni gh t's Gazette.) ADYIIIALTS, Nov. 9.—Doe. G. King Ml)., Dep.-Inspecto ;r of Naval , Ho-phial. and Fleet', to he Inapectew 'of Naval Hospitals and Flecin ; J.Mortimer. Fog., and H. Parkin, Esq., Retired Deputy-Inspectors of Naval Honpitals and Fleets, to he Retired Insiwn.torn of Naval Itoepi tab and Fleets; Doc. J. Witch, M.D., Mr. W. colain, and Doc. J. Scott M.D., surgeonßoyal Navy, to be Retired Deputy.lnspec. , torn of Naval HOP/Witt& and Iheeto. COIPPS or ROYAL lanarivas.—Col. and Smond Corn. T. Aslett Col. GM., sire .lone., prom. to be Major Gen. in the Army, and E. S. Mercer to be Cod. Can., vice 13. atty, prom. to be Major Gen ; LicuL Cols. W. Ferguson to be Col. and Second Corn., Lice Aslett, prom., and R. Swale to be Col. and Second Corn., vice Mercer, prom.; Capt. and Preeet Major J. Wilson to be Lieut . Cel., vice Ferguson, prom., and Capt. IL Mercer to be lieut. Col., Mee Swale, prom. J. First Lieut. J. IL Gascoigne to be Capt., vice Wilson, prom. and J. Urquhart to be Capt., vice Mercer, prom.; Second Lieuts. T. C. Gray tote First Lieut., vice Gascoigne, prom., and W. G. R. Mastees to be First lieut. vine Urquhart, prom. Nov. 16.—The name of Capt. J. N. Tayler, C.B , has been added, under special circumstances rerrewented by him, to the list or C,lptains of the Royal Navy who have accepted the rank of Retired Rear Admi ral of her Majesty's fleet ; and with reference to the announcement of in the London Gazette of 2nd Oct. last, respecting the admimion &Boers now residing abroad Le the retired list, the Lords Comniin- Moneta of the Admiralty have been pissed to fix the 15th December next, as the day on which the list will be finally closed. Foirream - rw, Nov. 17.—The &aurae, Coin. Coffin, left last evening to render waistance to ships becalmed in the xtel. As the wind has now shifted she will probably return to Spitbead. The Terrible, a. t., has put into Plymouth from inability to reach Portsmouth. The Gorgon, P. R., Com. Crouch, arrived this morn Rat ing, and will proceed this evening to Slieernem to be paid off. The tlesnake, Capt. Owen Stanley, In ordered to be fitted out with as much expedition as possible, and will be ready for sea before the end of the month. Extra hands have been put on the Ajax, steam block ship, to get her ready; the engineers having all their work for her prepared. The office of comptroller of strati machinery, ted by the appointment of Sir W. Parry to Hadar and Weevil, wall not be filled up, but the bu.sinere of the office will in future be carried on by a committee appointed for that purpsee. The Janus, Lord Dundonald. will be reedy by the beginning of the year to make a final trial, the Admiralty basing granted 10001. to make the necessary alterations. MILITARY. Gavvrawm, Nov. 17.—This morning a detachment of the 37th re giment arrived by the Gravesend and Rochester railway, for embark ation on board the ship Castle Eden for Celton. Its strength con sisted of 11 aeleants, 7 drummers, ' and 25. rank and file, with the regular proportion of women and children of the regiment, unter command of 3fajor F. blallv, with 1 captain, 4 lieutenants, 2 ensigns, and I aMistant-mageon. *hie head -quarters of this regiment, under command of Lieu. -Col. the Hen.. A. Spencer with 2 captains, S lieu tenants, 2 ensigns, and 1 surgeon leave th; garrison at C 1.1.1111112 to morrow morning, to embark onboard tie hip Minerva. Tbe strength of the head-quarters are 17 noncan ., 8 drummers, and 287 rank and Ale. Lieutenant-General Sir Benjamin D'Crban will, It It is under stood, according to the present arrangements, proceed to Canbda BA Commander-in-Chicf in the room of the Earl of Cathcart, who held that appointment with the Governor-Generalship. Major-General Brotherton, formerly of the 16th Dragoons, will, we arc informed, receive the appointment of Inspector-General of Cavalry, in the room of Lieut.-Gen. Lygon lately promoted. and not Prince George of Cambridge, as reported. Major-General Sir Ilene Pottinger, the newly-mmointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief at the Cape, whose departure ban been so often poseponsd,will, it appears, embark in the iladdington, expected to leave Southampton on the 3th of De- I cember. CapL C. 11. Edmonstono, of the 81st Foot, died last week ' at Edinburgh. This officer, thoughbut 35 years of age at hie demise, bad been in the army for upwards of 18 years. The government are about to erect a district military prison at Cork, and it is ex reitstd,at the erection of such buildings will extend to tithe[ puts of LAW NOTICES.—THis DAT. Cotner 07 Gammen% Westminster, at 10.—Appeals D Ake of Leeds v. Earl Amberwt, part heard; Prendergast v. Lielington ; Lacy v. bitty; Miner v. Miner (2). .Vica-Cmisc-mamas' Cover., Weatmiuster, at 10.—Before Sir 1.. ShartwelL—Povey v. Gregory, to produce wil'. G... x, &e.: Parker v. lhty (2); 1011.11/011 T. Forrester; Terry v. Wacher ; Sint;eon Y. Holt ; Garrod v. Mare ; Sings v. Itickfonl (2) ; Pe.smek v. Kennet; Mormon v. Watkins; Wright T. BUIICICIIn Greenway v. Ilwitanan; Walton v. Morritt ; Dobson T. Lyall. Before Sir 1. Knight Moos— Coward v. Coward, to be spole to. Bankrupt petitions: ex parte Fletcher in re Phillips; ex V. omit te ; ex Winterbotham re Parker; ex Phillips re Phillips; cu Hildrew re Hildrew ; ex Gould re Elliott; en Clark re Ma) bey; ex Bramall re Bra:nail ; vx Stevens alias Green re Morena alias Green; ex Morris re Williams. Equity Causes: Francis v. Francis (2); Edwards v. Browne; A nonmy-Getteral v. Gardner ; Taylor v. Thomas; ; Hulbert v. Hulbert ; l'.llard v. Bate man. Before Sir J.Wistram —Causes, : BLiir r. liremley, part beard; Preston:Y. Wilson, ditto; Emerson r. Emerson; Hammen v. Sedg. wick; Warner v. Hodgson (2) ; Kirby v. Mash; Pennington v. Buck ley ; Tapperell v. Taylor. ROIJA COLIN, IcTstialllfbrT, at 10.—Chase'. &e., Teistei v. King's Cutler; Attorney-General r. Ludlow; Hopkinson v. Ellis; Utley v. Gray; Willes v. Douglas; Howard r. Howard; Lockhart v. Hardy; t Kitley T. ATharatlCT ; Hubbard v. Young ' Stratford v. Kit son ; Ken dall v. Granger; Thompson v. Clive. Notive Atterney-General v. Magdalen College will stand at the head of Friday's paper. 'flue Courts of Queen's Witch and Common FICAs will sit in HMO at :Co e" il unin"e t , ist . IL; En Co ;Q ine :n o l st y..yl P to r e s sert. m o o, u.: Gu . Guildhall , at 10 . — (mean 00M111011 Juries: Macey ,. itlytai v ida( .4; p,, Tho .; Wes Inch tminster, ji y ths, ;; ;..i. unk•; Barter e. Ke s. mp; evicts- Coler or L he s ch Betta(h;n l etaremt t c: : :::h o i td m oir. isaottT:o introduction i dismissing rnaßgnntd appeal Al letters f x pos fa betweenti ra.ait t psu N nu i .1‘ argued t e ty . r i "d b o t. h c ja ra l l el ; ‘, .E: rat h e tl)l 1 1: n ee l t i e ) B t. ,pt:lyYthl filed o n4 at t i E T i E f i i tu lt S ff lin; i l t d : ni : r 0 : i n This was an appeal from an order of Vice-Chancellor Knight early f this iw e nn ment ers ). specific performance of an agreement alleged to have been defendant for purchase by the former of a farm belonging to 'The Lord Cliencellor now, in giviug his j..dgment, said, it must be a simple acceptance of the terms propose], with out sub stanceshitphtehil.ann r g e u ad ag t e w 0 0 0 f f L t;: rdi : na l ee sl e *ll ti lh e t:t r oo s inrn `a nSe: c n i .:ll i l l: : : .an'l pL dnhe:ll:hnee."w lf ay t wl w reei e ;. e lle a eßige th: I agent?, Sad observed that they were deficient in the very first requisite, a simple acceptance of tie terms of the pro petal to sell ; and in conclusion his lordship affirmed order of the 'Vice-Chaucellor, dismissieg tho bill with of the appeal. BELL v. LOUD MEXPOILOCOH AND OTHEILS, RAILWAY SHAILEROLDERB.—LLANILITT OF PUOVISIONAL COMMIT TEEMEN.—This was Ln appeal from an order of the Vice- Chancellor of England, allowing a demurrer he the plain tiff's bill. The bill was filed by Robert Courtney Bell and Robert Chadfield, on behalf of themselves and ml other share holders in the Direct Leaden and Exeter Railway Com pany, except the defendants, against Lord Mexhorough and others, who were members of the committee of manage ment, and against Adolphus Capel, John Allen, and others, who were members of the previsional cc:roulette of the said railway company, but not members of the cormui .tee of manugc ment. • Thebill pmyed an account of the matte of the company, and that each of the defendants might be compelled to pay up the amount of the deposits on 130 shares, which had been ailotted to each of them, anti accepted by them, and that the same be held to be meets of the company. The defendants Capel and Allen demurred to the bib. Mr. Hunt and Mr. Hetherington supported the bill. This was one of those r..ilway sculatio pe ns which failed in its object , in conse quence of the misconduct of the directore. The plaintiffs were shareholders( who paid up the deposits on their shares. The defendants had allotted among themselves 150 shares to each, but they did not pay up the deposits. All the defen dants except Allen and Capel signed the sulocribers'-deed end the parliamentary contract. Capel and Allen were on the list of the provisional committee, but not on the commit tee of management; and, on them grounds, they, by their demurrer, insisted that they were not liable to the conse quences of the acts of the committee of management. But they must be held to be partners with the plaintiffs to all in tenis and purposes, and the object of the bill was to fix them as shareholders, liable to pay the deposits an the shame which they accepted.—Mr. J. Parker end Mr. Daniel, in support of the demurrer and of the Vice-Chuncellor's de cision, admitted that the names of the demurring defendants were in the prospectus as provieienal committer:ten, and that shares were allotted to each ; but they never took up them ellen*, and did not interfere in the management of the company. The Lord Chancellor: The bill alleges they were share holders ; that shares were allotted to them, and that they accepted them. Data not that allegation, which in this matter must be taken to be true, constitute theta partners with the plaiutifts ?—The counsel tor defendants : There are several decided cases at law to show that the directors could not compel these defendants, who never took the shares, to pay deposits on them, Tithe directors could 'not enforce the payment, the share holders could not. The echensu fell to tie ground in conse quence of the frauds and misconduct of the acting directors, and the demurring def. admits were as innocent of that fraud and misconduct us any of the plaietiffi. The conduct of the directors operated us a release to these partite from all babe lity. The ultimate decision in " Walstob v. Spottiswecele (in No. 15, Lam Jeurnal), 'lowed that. there was no part nership in this case, and that all the innocent shareholders, who paid, were entitled to get hack their deposits from the d:rectors. Why did not the plaiutilie adopt Coat course ? The entry of a man's name in a prospective es a Provisional committeeman, was not enough to fix him with unless he was shown to do someact in that character, or cor firm or recognize some act of the directors. Mr. Stuart, in reply, insisted that there was . a pertner ehi between these defendantu and the plaintiffs, and the pray( of the bill was grounded on that. The de fendante became partners by met pting the shares that were allotted to them, and that formed the strength of the eroc made ;iodine! them in the bill.—The Lord Chancellor said the case was of great importance, and he would take time to consider it. _ . Before the Mmliv tithe Rolla PERRY e. ItEADOWCROFT.—DECULEJN ECCLESIASTICAL COCUT ANNCLLtao Ileitatees.—Thia suit was instituted to administer the °Mateo( Mr. Jamie feleadowerolt, formerly a solicitor of Gray's-inn, who, by his will, gave his estates to trustees to atountulnte the income for2l years, at the expi ration of which period he gave the estates and accumulations to the male lineal descendant of his nephew, William Mea doweroft the younger, and in default of such object to the male lineal descendant of Edmund Meadowerolt, The tes mho died in July 1821,and the accumulation ceased in July, 1t42. A reference having been directed to the Master, whether there seas any male lineal descendant of Meadoweruft the younger, a claim was taken in before him by one William itleadoweroft, who chimed to be the arm of William Meadoweeoft the younger, by one Mary Gregory. The muster received in evidence a decree of the Ecclesiastical Court made in July, 1816, declaring an alleged marriage betweett William Meadow erott the younger and Mary Gregory sull and void, as obtained by fraudulent means, and he theallewed the claim. To the muster's finding on this point William Meadow croft excepted, and, for grounds of exceptis' he contended that the master ought not to have received in evidence the decree of Jaly, 1816, forasmuch as it was obtained by fraud and collusion between the perks to the suit ; and that the marriage was a good marriage. It appeared that the mar riage took place under the following circumstances:—ln 1814, William Meadowcroft the younger, then a minor, was en articled clerk of his uncle, the testator, James Meadow croft, and he then met with Mary Gregory, who was the widow of an officer in the army, and about' years of aac. An attachment grew up between them, but their marriage being distasteful to the testator, Mr, James aleadowerett, from whom William Meadowcroft the' younger had large expectations, it was put off. Afterwar4s, without the know ledge of the testator, their intercourse was resumed, and a marriage by banns agreed upon. It appeared that Mrs. Gregory sent written iestructions to the parish clerk of Clerkenwell for the publication of the bonus, and that they were copied by him into his private beok, and from thence into the banns book, and were daly published. But the name of the gentleman was written." Widoweroft " in stead of " Meadowcroft," though whether tlsis mistake was in the instructions sent by Mrs. Gregory did not appear. From her statement it appeared that when the parties met in the vestry to be married, William Meadowcroft remarked the mistake in the name, and that some scruples were enter tained by Mrs. Gregory respecting tbei sufficiency of the publication of banns ; but her scruples being removed by the clerk, whose representations were confirmed by the clergy man, and who stated that such mistidtes often arose, and were immaterial, the name in the banns book was corrected, the parties were married, and the names correctly inserted after the marriage in the register. The parties cohabited for a time, but disputes having arisen, Mrs. Gregory com municated the fact of the marriage to the testator, who expressed great displeasure, and took active measure , to set it aside by procuring the father of W. Meadowerott the younger to institute a suit in the Ecclesiastical Court for that purpose. This suit was prosecuted, and M the a Gre- bove decree was pronounced, annulling the marriage, Mary gory being at the time enceinte with the present Mead cla owero imant.ft After the dissolution of the marriage, William married a second time, but had no issue, and, on his death, his widow applied for letters of administration to him. Her application was opposed by the present claimant both in the Consistory Court,and on appealbefore the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, but without success. The case of fraud and collusion in procuring the decree dissolving the marriage was attempted to be made out by evidence that Mrs. Gregory, by her proctors, Messrs. Nichols and Bishop, took active steps in the first instance to defend the suit, and also expressed her resolution, so late as March, 1816, to defend it strenuously, but that she was afterwards induced by her husbhand, he with had large a view to pectaroptioitianste, the testator, from whom exp to withdraw her opposition on the promise of a second marriage, after a decree, and before the child with which she was pregnant was born, and that, accordingly , no effective opposition was offered to the sentence of the court. It appeared that after the decree, William Meadoweroft refused to perform his alleged promise, and there being no appeal from the decision of the court, it was acquiesced in by Mrs. Gregory. The case was argued at very considerable length beMeolis. Walpole and Daniel for the claimant, and Mews. 'Turner, Kindersley, Hodgson, Spence, and other counsel, for the other parties interested. The Master of the Rolls , in giving judgmeat, went through the facts of the case at great length. Be commented on the conduct of the parties in procuring the marriage against the consent of the testator, and on certain acts of Mrs. Gregory, such as her assuming after the marriage a different name from that of her husband, which argued improper concealment on her part. He could not infer, to from the change of mind which she was alleged .t have shown in her m ode of defence to , after March, 1816, that any such fraudulent agreassa was liaD f 01(1 ati eWk 0.11 0 a •••-; Left G' I t he ] wiTtd tiA t 'kola Ka U r ''' the tr' l e r. lir tbstt2::,' d y b l NOD , a‘ ding iving of .1, doytf:hi : 41:1 0T . , 0 " ion M s 7d. bed_,.., t° I IT. J. -- ero or L b - all ' hir• %.cato l° ll and 010%2 ' ' o3 the 0) 1 1 „gyjiti l Arn :"" I nuap ow% id to it, It°