The Express. — London, England, 1847-07-15 00:00:00

THE TRIAL OF M. TESTE. COURT OF PEERS, TUESDAY, JULY 13.—At the t itling of the court to-day, the documents, consisting of the roe,: rerlielf, &e. prepared last evening by the autho rities of the police in the prison of the Luxemburg, the wee of the attempted suicide by M. Teste, were read. The sathe d epo sitions commissars . of police of the Luxembourg, d taken by him, proved the attempt made by g. Teste to commit suicide, and the results of the search wide in his chamber to recover the caps ; the balls and the pistols were stated. The commissary declared that In found M. Teste perfectly calm ; that he (M. Testa) con hoed that he had attempted to commit suicide because he bold honour more dear than life. He declared that he would am tame the person who had supplied him with the pistols ; that it was not his son ; but that if it were he would mu d it as an act of filial piety. The declaration of the physician, that of the officers of the prison, and that of those who had first run to the Chamber on the report being bard, creed • in proving ° that M. Teste was calm and ars, that his physiognomy indicated no agitation, and that his pulse was not increased. A letter was then read, addressed by M. Testa to the chancellor, to the effect that he would refuse to present him self in the court to-day. The incidents, said he, which have occurred in the court yesterday, leave no room for contradie boo. So far as regards me the debate is aimed ; my presence is useless ; the court will not wish to constrain me, nor to triumph by force over a resistance which would be desperate. An officer was then sent to summon hint to attend the K art He refused, however, protesting, at the mune time, his respect for the court, and declaring that, in the face of the evidence of the only act of meekness with which he had to reproach himself in his whole prefeasional life, andt which he must expiates* cruelly, his attendance in the coure would be uselem. The Chancellor then ordered that thf trial shoald proceed, notwithstanding the absence o H. Trite. U. Delangle urced the accusation, and demanded the con demnation of all the accused. His observations did not oc cupy ten minutes.—M. Baroche spoke in defence of General Cubikes. He endeavoured to throw all the responsibility of the attempts at corruption upon M NI. Parmentier and Dehout spoke a few words en the part of M. Trete. the object of which was to protest against the e a tty which mixed up in this sole act of weakness the name of an innocent son, who was ignorant of the whole ve reedine. The advocate terminated in adjuring the court to lean towards mercy.—M. Benoit spoke for M. Parmen tier, whom he sought to justify without throwing blame on the ether parties accused, except, perhaps, M. Pellagra. At the time our reporter left, the sentence of the court bad not been pronounced, but it was expected in the course of the evening. THE BANKS OF GERMANY. So little is known in this country of the banking economy of Germany that the following brief notices of the principal banking and other monetary [eta blishments of that country will no doubt be accept able. They are taken from n Belgian paper, into which professed to be extracted from some German publication, the name not given : The Bank Royal of Prussia was founded at Bettie in 1765 upon the model of that of Hamburg. So it existed until 1816, when it was re-organissd under a new charter by which more extensim was given to its operations. In accordance with this new constitution, which has been in force since.lst Jan. last, the issue of notes has been carried to 15 millions of thalers (the dialer equal to 2s. 101 d. sterling). Is 1856 this issue is to be raised to 21 millions of thalers. The capital of the bank is always to be, in proportion with the notes in circulation, two-sixths is silver, three-sixths in bills discounted, and the rest in loans on securities. The bank notes are from 25 to 50 thaicrs each. The share of the go vernment in the bank amounts at most to 500,000 thalers. The shareholders are entitled to an annual interest of 31 per cent. upon the capital, and, after deduction of the sum set apart for the reserve or rest, which is not to exceed 30 per cent. of the capital, one moiety of the surplus profit, is apportioned to them in addition, the other goes to the treasury. The bank has branches in a great number of cities, as Breslau, Konigsberg, Danteic, Stettin, Magdeburg, Munster. Cologne, Menial, Posen, Stolpe, Elberfeld, Treves, Ai: !a•Chapelle , Dusseldorff, Coblentz, Minden, Erfurt, f rankfort. sur-Odcr, Stralsund, K cst in, Liegnitz, and Oppeln, and thus forms a vast network of financial operations through all the kingdom. The private bank of the noblesse of Pomerania was founded at Stettin in 1821, by an association of noble pro prietors, with a capital of 1,000,000 of thalers. After the crisis of 1830 this capital was carried to 1,534,500 thalers. The operations of this bank embrace discount, loans upon lodgments of merchandise, loans upon public and private securities, current accounts, and deposits with interest. Formerly it issued promissory notes to bearer; but this privilege was withdrawn from it in 1835. There is a circulation of about ninety millions of thalers of mort gage notes in Prussia (these are in fact for 105 mil lions). They have been issued at different periods by associations of proprietary nobles in various parts of the kingdom, and carry interest at 31 per cent. The national Bank of Vienna was founded in 1815, to re-establish order in the finances of Austria, and more par ticularly for the repurchase on the conversion of the paper money in circulation, the value of which was become almost zom:nal. The different creations of shares have raised its capital to about 89 millions of florins. This capital is divided into .50,621 shares of 1,500 florins each. The actual opera tions of the bank are diocount, the issue of bank notes, a privilege which it enjoys exclusively throughout the Austrian empire ; loans upon deposits, and nego tiations of loans. The bank pays an annual inte rest of 6 per end. upon the primitive capital, and a dividend, after deduction, of the reserve fund. Its privilege or char ter extends to the year 1866. It has breaches at Prague, Erman, Troppau, Open, Tameswar, Kahan, Lemberg, Trieste, Inspruck, Goritz, Linz, and Hermanstadt. The bank of extraordinarycredit of Vienna was constituted in 1846 by imperial decree, and has for object to devote a part of the sums destined for the redemption of the national debt to the purchase of certain shares in railway and other enterprises, in order to sustain useful undertakings, and com municate a greater impulse to them. The loan and exchange bank of Bavaria was founded at Munich in 183-5 by shares, under the surveillance and control of the government. It is pririleged for 99 years. The original capital was 10,000,000 florins, with liberty of in crease to 20.000.000. In 1846, there was a new emission of shares of 500 florins. The net profits are divided as follows : 3 per cent. as dividend to the shareholders, and of the surplus three.fourths as extra dividend, and the remaining fourth ' carried to the reserve until it shall reach to one-tenth of the capital. Three-fifths of the capital are employed in loans on mortgage. The other operations are discounts, loans on securities and ingots, the pane of hank notes whose amount is limited to four-tenths of the capital, and three-fourths of it to be covered by a value of double the sum in mortgage credits, or in silver. The bank has a branch at Augsburg. The Royal Bank of Bavaria, first established at Ansbach, and now at Suraberg, is one of the oldest establishments of the kind. Its operations are discount, deposits, loans upon personal and other securities. The governmentlis entitled to half the profits. It has branches at Ansbsch and Bamberg. The Royal Bank of the Court of Wurtemberg, founded in 1102 at Stutgardt, limits its operations to discounts and loans. The Bank of Leipsiz was founded in 1839 ander the swim of the government, with a capital of 1,500,000 thalers, divided into shares of 250 Hasler., receiving 3 per cent. in terest. Its operations are deposit., loans, and discounts; it has the right of issuing notes of 20 and 100 thalers each, of which the two-thirds should be guaranteed by values to the amount in specie or ingots. There exists, besides, at Dresden, a loan bank, which makes advances to land proprietors and farmers for the pay ment of taxes, tithes, &c. Leipsiz has also an institution of this kind, under the name of " Union of Credit for the hereditary lands of the Saxon nobility." It was in agitation, in 1846, to found at Dessau a great central establishment to answer the purpose of a vast bank ing system for the north of Germany. It was proposed to endow it with an accumulation of capital, to the extent of from 50,000,000 to 100,000,000 thalers. But this gigantic project has resolved itself into a private enterprise, esta blished in the beginning of 1847, under the title of the Pro visional Bank of Anhalt-Dessau, with a capital of 2,500,000 thalers, divided in shares of 200 thalers. This establish ment issues notes of 1,5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 600, and 1,000 Melees each. One-fourth the value of the bank notes in circulation should be covered by an equivalent sum in specie. The bank of Hamburg was founded in 1619. The minimum deposit of a member desiring to open an account is 100 mans banco in bar silver, or in a bill for the same sum dote of the members of the bank, which is then transferred from the account of the latter to that of the former. Trans fers cannot take place for a less sum than 100 mares, except some days before Christmas, or the middle of July. Until sow, for each mare of fine silver of Cologne, the depositor was credited with 271 mares banco, whilst in withdrawing his money fora similar sum he was debited with 271 mares bane°, so that the simple usage of the operation brought a cost of 9.20 per cent. A new regulation, which is to come into force on the 15th of next August, im ports that the mare of fine silver of Cologne shall he credited 271 mares banco, and debited at a similar rate after dedue• non of 1 per mills. Independently of this sort of business, the hank lends upon Spanish and American dollars, and oometimes also on copper. These are its only operations. The association of the new loan, established equally at Hamburg in 1839, possesses a capital 01100,000 mares banco, end does business prohibited to the bank, principally loans cw weuritia, public funds, &c." On another occasion we may give some interesting details about the German loan and land banks, which are quite a distinct class of institutions. ITALY.—ROME, JULY 9.—The council of ministers assembled yesterday, for the first time, at Cardinal Girgre. Besides the ordinary members, the Roman princes were also our9cated. The Progressiste have sent deputies into the Pounces to collect signatures (or the petitions they intend to present the Pope. Yesterday evening several individuals Pissed through the streets, singing the hymn of Pius X., uttering at the same time threats and maledictions Watt the gendarme,. The police has taken energetic b *ustes against all pertuthators.—Augsbury Gazette. SWITZERLAND. —BERME, JULY 9.—The Gazette I ` .4 vategives the following particulars of the note the French k l9 seador, M. Bois lc Comte, was directed by M. Ouizot to v!t to M. Ochsenrein, president of the Vorort. The 1 0 9 le expressed in the most precise terms relatively to the loglvous situation of Switzerland, and distinctly seta forth !.*Position of France, and the principles which that country ' tends to adopt. The right of Switzerland, as an inde lintlent state, to choose her own government, and to modify i t 22 express ly recognised ; but at the same time the inha ,L.Att are advised in the mod era t e l anguage of a friendly r"e; 10 profit by the experience of France herself, not to • make an ill use of the federal power, and not to restrict some of the Swiss republics, now enjoying en independent existence, based upon history and treaties, and recog nized by Europe. It refers to the dangers of civil war end the perils to which the prosperity of Switzerland would be exposed, as well as the interests and the tranquillity of the great powers. It quotes the example of Chutes the Tenth, who lost his crown by violating the constituti o n of the state ; and advises Switzerland not to make an ill 11/13 of the federal pact to oppress the separate cantons. It observes that the neutrality, so advantageous to Switzerland, granted her by the powers, strictly depends on a confederation of in dependent republics: and all Switzerland, before she adopt another organisation, should first examine the position she would assume relatively to these powers. The powers, either in the case of a civil war between the cantons, or in the calm of a violation committed to the prejudice of one of the can tons, contrary to the engagements of the federal pact, will reserve to themselves, like France, the right of watching over their own ioteee.ts. France will then act scantling to her own interests, and her relations with all Switzerland, or any particular canton. SANDWICH ISLANDS.—We return to the file of the Polynesian, from which we presented to our readers on Tuesday a brief abstract of the commercial movements of the Wands during 1816. The most remarkable document in these papers is a " Register of Foreigners residing in Honolulu." The names and occupation of 353 men are given ; to these must be added 52 females and 112 children, not named—in all 517. Making allowance for parties who have escaped notice, there are in all about 600 foreigners iu Honolulu, of whom 146 are naturalised subjects of the king. Among three we find : Mr. Judd, Minister of Finance ; Mr. Richards, Minister of Public Instruction ; Mr. Wyllie, Mi nister of Foreign Relations; Mr. Ricord, Attorney-General ; together with the sheriff of Oahu, the district attorney, the collector general of customs, the director of the government press, several justices of the peace, and teachers. In short, it is obvious tbat the " foreign residents" are the main springs of government, and the nucleus of Hawaiian civilization. The number of naturalised foreigners in all the islandsis 472; of these about one-half were American citizens, one-fourth British subjects, and the remaining fourth French, Portuguese, Germans, Chinese, Tahitians, &c. There are two protestant ministers in Honolulu, the Ist with upwards of 1,400, the 2nel with 1,188 members; a Roman catholic church with 2,000; and the Chapel Bethel with 20, in all 4,614. The attendance of tho foreign residents on Divine worship is very limited. There are 28 native Protestant schools in Honolulu with 28 teachers, and 1,017 scholars; six Roman catholic with six teachers and 1 , 56 scholars ; one royal school with 16 scholars, to whom the higher breaches of education are im ported ; one charity school with 50 scholars ; one select school with 16 acholarswho are instructed in all the branches of an English education ; Mrs. Gummie's school with 25 scholars; and several sabbath schools. There are two weekly journals, the Polynetian (official), and the News; two Tem. perance journals, the Friend (semi-monthly), and the (hobo Fountain (monthly) ; one journal (semi-monthly) in the Hawaiian language, tke Messenger. There are bible and tract societies, temperance societies, and mason lodges. There is a supreme court in which the king and chief justice sit with several assessors : it holds one session at Honolulu and one at Lahania every year. An inferior court with native judges sits permanently at Honolulu. There is also a court of record at Oahu, for the trial of cases in which foreigners are concerned. The sheriff cf Oahu is es officio prefect of police. The police corps con sists of two officers aed 34 ono. The total of persons punished in Honolulu for offences between January 1 and D..cember 4, 1140, was' 75 men and 152 women.l,Of these, no less than 126 men and 127 women were punished for adultery, &e. Next in point of number came: theft, 43 men, 3 women ; gambling, 35 men, 3 women ; reviling language, 12 men, 2 women; working on the sabbath.day, 30 men, 8 women. This catalogue of offences is very small, when we consider that 25,000 sailors go on shore yearly, and have free access to the liquor-shops. The following facts are indicative of the progress of produc tive industry in these islands. "Mews. Rhodes and Co., have made sale of 12,000 lbs. of their Kauai coffee this sea son for the California market. They expect to realise not far from 30,00-1 the. this year, the results of their nit crop." " e have seen a plaid-figured blanket, presented to the king, made in Kauai from the wool of the sheep on that island, which does much credit to the manufacturer, and shows that the fleeces of native flocks can be turned to good account in making blankets, pouches, &c." " The ship Charles, which sails this week for New Bedford, takes the most valuable cargo from this place, amounting to between 350,000 and 400,000 dollars, ever laden here. It consists of whalebone end hides. Besides these she has a large amount of exchange on board, and a very bulky mail." 03LONIAL. BRITISH NORTH A3IERICA.—CANAD.t.—Our Canadian papers add little to the able abstract of public affiirs in our Montreal correspondent's letter. The financial statement of the inspector-general shows an income oy 512,9931. in 1846, against 524,306/. in 1845, and on expendi ture of 505,2281. in 1846, against 600,3891. in 184.5. The difference, however, arises from no cause that indicates 1058 of prosperity in the province. The returns from tavern licenses which were formerly appropriated to the general are now reserved to meet local expenditure, and so on. The Mon/resl Herald states: seven German vessels have arrived in the river and at Montreal, under the provisions of recent British statutes and orders in council. These, we believe, are the first vessels hearing a foreign lag that have ascended thi St. Lawrence since the conquest. The emigrant. who daily arrive here cease in dreadful plight. The deaths at the emigrant sheds are fesrfulle numerous • 25 deaths a day have been about the average at the sheds. Great dlesatbfaction prevails at this pouring out of paupers noon us, and, however reasonable this feeling cer tainly is, it has given occasion for a great deal of nonsense to be talked out the cruellies of the English aristocracy, Sr. However, ' the thing, to say the least of it, is most dlagracefitl. A remonstrance from the Hours of Assembly to to go hoc., LJ this mall to the nu ' pedal authorities. Nawyousnuoen.—'llic dates from this colony arc to the 25th of June. The new governor had set energetically to work to improve the sewerage and supply of water of St. Jelin's. Fever was on the decrease. The Morning Post (St. John's) of June 22 states: The saddest and extreme transitions which have marked the wea ther daring the few past days have struck even the &AI Inhabit-oats as something extraordinary, bat for the last chance, from cold and frost sad Mitt, to the mildnesa, warmth, and belmineasto which the month of June has a legitimate claim, we are confident all feel peculiarly grateful. The frost on the sights of Friday and Saturday loot was very severe, and we regret to learn that the opening vegetation re °rived a check from its effects, the potatoes having in several Jost moes been blighted, tia well aa the beans, which latter, we are sorry to state, have suffered also very severely from the effects of the grubs. On the 24th it stated, on the authority of a letter from St. George's Bay, that The straita were full of ice on the let of June, and a French brig was on shore at POlt-11-POrt. A letter from the name party and place, dated the 4th of June, further mentions, that on the 2nd inst. a heavy gide was experienced there, equal in violence to that of the 19th deptember last,—that all the remelt were driven ashore, and It was almost impossible to get them off, owing to the difficulty in obtaining help, the physical energies of the people being campietely pro-tested from their want of food. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—Our dates from this co lony are to the 14tk of February. The legislative council resumed its sittings on the 2nd of February. There was every prospect of the session being a protracted one. A bill to charge the governor's salary on the general revenue in stead of the customs was read a first and second time on the 3rd of February ; read a third time and passed on the 622. A bill for the naturalisation of a number of German settlers was introduced on the 3rd, and passed through committee on the 6th. The Lunatic and the Impounding Act Amendment Bala of the previoussession were resumed. Some technical amendments have been mail e in the former to meet the views of ' the home government as indicated in 'despatch on a similar subject to the authorities of New South Wales. Both bills were advanced in committee on the Gth. Company's Clauses, Rail way Clauses, and Land Clauses Consolidation hills, on the models of the English ones, have been presented by the governor. The council, after meeting twice, was adjourned to the 17th of September. fThe Court. Mr. Charles Buller, Judge Advocate General, had an audience of the Queen yesterday, at Buckingham Palace, and submitted to her Majesty the proceedings of some courts martial. The Queen and Prince Albert left town yesterday afternoon, for Osborne, her Majesty's marine residence in the Isle of Wight. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were in an open carriage and four, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal. Prince Alfred, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helens. occupied another carriage and four. The Countess of Mount Eigecambe, Hon. Miss Murray, Hon. Miss Macdonald, and Major. Gen. Bowles were in an open carriage. The Earl of Morley, Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Colonel Buckley, Lieut.-Colonel Seymour, and Dr. Meyer occupied two car riages and four. Her Majesty and Prince Albert were con ducted to their carriage by the Master of the Horse, the Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert, the Treasurer of the Household, the Vice-Chamberlain, Viscount Clifden, Mr. R. 0. Gore, and Captain F. Seymour. The royal party left Buckingham Palace at two o'clock, for the terminus of the South Western Railway, at Nine Elms, and took their departure by a special train. Prince Waldemar of Prussia honoured Lord and Lady John RusseU with a visit yesterday, at his lordship's residence at Richmond. A deputation from the Central Board of Scottish Dissenters, headed by the Rev. Dr. Taylor, of Glasgow, and introduced by the Right Hon. the Secretary at War, had an interview with the Lord President, at the Privy Council Office, yesterday, with refer: nce to the recent minutes of the Committee of Council on Education.—The Lord Advo cate of Scotland and Mr. G. Craig had an interview with Earl Grey, yesterday, at the Colonial-office.—Mr. J. Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an interview with the Chan teller of the Exchequer, yesterday.—Sir T. Fremantle, Chairman of the Customs, had also an interview with the right hon. baronet, at his official residence, in Downing street. Despatches from the Governor of Canada, and from the governors of the other North-American provinces, were received, yesterday, at the ColoniaToffice. Despatches were also received from the Governor of South Australia, The Right lion. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., left town yesterday morning, accompanied by Lady Peel and family, for Drayton Manor, Staffirdshire, for the season. WIIITEIIALL, 10.-11 e Queen has directed letters patent to be owned under the Great Seal, appointing Vice-Admiral 8;r e. Adam, K.C.8., to be muter of her Mejesty's hospital at Greenwich, in the county of Kent, in the room of Admiral the Hon. Sir It. Stopford, deceased. Also, greeting unto Sir G. Martin, G.C.B. and G.C.M.G., Admiral of her Masty's Fleet, the office or place of Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Lieutenant of the Admiralty thereof, in the MOM of Admiral the Ron. Slr If, Stopford, deceased.: THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 15, 1847. WHITEHALL, JULY 12.—The Queen has nomi nated and appointed the Right Hon. John Earl of Stair and the Right lion. James Earl of Elgin and Kincardine to be Knights of the most ancient and most noble order of the Thistle. DOWNING-STREET, JULY 10.—The Queen has appointed S. A. Rawlins, Esq., to be ber bilesty's treasurer for the island of Nevis, and W. H. Holmes, Esq., to be provost marshal for the colony of British Guiana. PARLIAMENT WILL RE PROROGrED, it is now Con fidently stated, by her Majesty in person, on Thursday, the 22nd inst.—this day week. ROYAL SANTIAGO MINING COMPANY.—The half yearly meeting of shareholders was held yesterday at the offices, in Broad-street Buildings. Baron Goldsmid presided during the early part of the proceedings, his place being sub sequently occupied by Mr. Alderman Thompson. The directors commenced their report by alluding to a statement made by them at the last meeting with regard to a slide and change of strata which had suddenly been encountered in the ludo in St. Andrew, by which the affairs of the Company had been materially changed. The raisings of ore had been limited to the reserves in the mines, from which 899 tons bad been extracted in the half-year ending on the 28th of February last. Of this quantar, G3B tons had been sold, and produced, net, 7,0801. 3s. 3d., and the remaining 201 tons were estimated at 1,4001., which, together with the in terest accruing on capital, eke., make the total receipts 9,2891. 24 6d. The expenditure during the same period, in cluding law charges incurred in the sanctuary gro used . suit, and the income tax, amounted to 8,7131.6 a. 5d., leaving a profit of 5751. 16s. Id. The directors announced that they had re solved upon operations for the discovery of ore in three of the rerlenencsas of the greatest promise, and as about 1,605 tons of ore had been obtained from two of them at shallow levels they considered that at a greater depth the lode would be found of a larger and more regular character. The directors regretted that the affairs of the company were not yet in a condition to warrant them in declaring a dividend. The report was adopted.—Baron Gold,mid was re-elected to the directorship, sad Mr. Alderman Thompson to his post of auditor. UNION BANK OF LONDON.—Yesterday, the eighth annual general meeting of the proprietors of stock in this bank, was held at No. 2, Princes-street, Mansion House. Sir Peter Laurie occupied the chair, and a report, from which we take the most important paragraphs, was read by the secretary. The report stated the net profits of the year to amount to 47,5981. 16s. 7d. Ample provision had been made for bad debts, and 25,1451. Is. 101. had been paid to customers for interest on their current and deposit accounts. The directors considered that they were justified by this prosperous result in increasing the rate of dividend, and they therefore declared a dividend for the last six mouths of 31 per cent., which, with 21 per cent. paid in January, would make the dividend 6 per cent, clear of income-tax, for the whole year. "After providing for the dividend, now amount ing to 25,3741., fur the year, and appropriating 5001. as usual, in gradual liquidation of the preliminary expenses, there remained a surplus profit of 21,7211. 16s. is ., of which 16,6961. ss. sd. had been carried to the reserved fund, now amounting to 40,000/. sterling invested in government secu rities, and the balance of 5.0281. 11s. 2d. had been carried to the profit and loss new account." The report concluded by stating that "the directors had considered the subject of the appropriation of the reserved shares, and had resolved that they should be offered, in the first instance, to the share holders only, in rateable proportion to the shares held by them, and on such terms as should be equivalent to a liberal bonus." After a brief discussion, in which several proprie tors took part, and in which they were unanimous in the expression of their confidence in the discretion and ability of the directors, the report was unanimously adopted, and or dered to be printed and circulated among the proprietors Mr. P. Laurie anal Mr. J. Farquhar, who, in accordance with the provision of the deed of settlement, retired from office by rotation, were unanimously re-elected ; and Mr. J. Chapman was chosen a director in the room of Mr. W. P. Crawford, resigned. THE ALFRED LIFE. ASSURANCE COMPANY held their annual meeting yesterday, at their offices in Lothbury, Sir David Scott, Bart., in the chair. The report stated that the Annuity Fued remained unaltered, save in the diminu tion necessarily arising from the payment made to the an nuitants, and the small sum contributed to the general ex penditure. Tho Assurance Fund account exhibits en in- COMP, arising from interest and premiums, of nearly 18,000/, 2,9431. 13s. sd. of which results from the new policies issued during the year, which amount to 101, averaging 7501. each. The chief payments from this fund have been, for claims on decease of lives assured, 4,633 f. lii. Bd.; for premiums returned on dropped policies, 1,1171. Ils. 5d.; and for expenses of management, 2,279/. 12s. 11d. After making prevision for these and all other demands, a surplus of 9,2151. 18s. 7d. has been carried to the credit of this fund, which now amounts to 55,218/. 19,. sd. The society continues to be fortunate in the sanitary condition of its members. Amongst the large number now on the books, only four deaths kayo occurred during the year—much less than might reasonably have been expected. This fact testifies to the discrimina tion exercised in the selection, as well as to the general prosperity of the association, which was further shown to the annual increase of the assets from the commencement. These, in 1815, had progressively arisen to 72,9751. 17s. 24., and now amounted to 99,788/. Its. ld. This progression gave promise of the importance which the Alfred might, at no distant period be expected to attain. The directors wished it to be borne in mind,that as the accumulated capital augments, that contributed by the shareholders becomes proportionably of less moment. Thus the assured will have practically all the advantages to be obtained in a mutual office, while they have all the security afforded by a sub scribed capital. The balance-sheet showed that the total expenditure was 286490/. 3s. sd. On the other side, among the items were, paid-up capital, 17,5501. ; assurance fund, 55,318/. 193. 5d.; annuity fund, 27,0191. Is. 81.; total sum assured, 176,800/. 13s. Bd. Tho report was unanimously adopted, the chairman observing, in putting the motion for its adoption, that the directors, in order fully to carry out their operations, required the assistance of the shareholders. IRISII WASTE LAND SOCIETY.—A special general meeting was held on Tuesday, at the King's Head Tavern, Poultry, to consider the propriety of proceeding with, or ar resting the operations of the society. The Earl of Devon, having taken the chair, Colonel Robinson, the manager of the *states in Ireland, read a etatement wherein, after alluding to the objects of the society, he described minutely its estates, four in number, viz., Balmakil, in Galway ; Gleneaske, in Sligo; Kilkerie, in Galway ; and Taligoline, in Limerick. The system which had been pursued for the improvement of these lands was said to be as follows :—Practical experienced agriculturists were employed u stewards, and to instruct the tenants. the estates were surveyed, valued, and laid out into compact farms. Occupation-roads were laid out, opening communications with all the available lands, to be completed as employment might be required. Ex ternal boundary fences, with double ditches to act S 3 drains, were made, and also numerous internal fences and ditches to divide the farms and serve for main drains. Cottages were constructed far many of the tenants, and compact farmhouses with convenient outbuildings for the dwellings of the stewards, and the use of the model farms. Practical instruction to the tenants was given on those farms, which were about 10 statute acres each in extent, and there also such improvements were tested as appeared applicable to the peculiar soil. They are let to tenants at 31 year leases, at rents either fixed at a moderate average rate for the whole term, or at progressive rents rising Iron small amounts. Loans of seed, at wholesale prices, were made to needy tenants in the spring of each year, and repaid by them in the autumn. Prizes were annually given by the society and the head landlords for various departments of agricultural improvement; and school-houses were estab lished (without expense to the society) on each estate, for the instruction of the children of the tenants. He then pro ceeded to detail, at considerable length, the progress which had been made by the society, and the improvements which it had effected for the last few years, as shown by the in- creased value of the property, and the ameliorated condition of the tenant-farmer', down to the period of the potato blight, the effects of which bad been reported in February last. The society had sought to relieve the deep distrem which that disaster eccsaioned, by continuing such reproduc tive worksas would permanently improve the country, by which means the lives were saved of all those who, being connected with the society, chose to work. Thus, about 28,000 perches of draining and other works hod been completed since October last. As the season advanced, it became indivpensablc to supply the tenants with provisions and seeds of different sorts, on loan, to enable them to cultivate their lands ; and by this means he believed that the foundation had been laid for enabling the tenants to recover their loss.—Mr. Birmingham made some observa tions deprecatory of the operations of the society as in sufficient, and complaining particularly that the accounts were not published. Col. Robinson and the chairman explained. and a resolution was carried in which the meeting re gretted the disadvantageous circumstances which had hitherto stood is the way of their operations, and pledged themselves to use their best exertions towards the future support of the society. A conversation then arose with refer ence to the arrears upon calls due from shareholders, when it appeared that of the last call, 630 shares remained unpaid upon, amounting to the sum of 1,2501. ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.—The half-yearly meet ing of this society was held on Tuesday at the office, 3, Tra falgar-square, Mr. B. Hawes, sen. in the chair. The fol lowing cases were considered, and silver medals to the actors in each granted: —To Lieut. Woolridge, R.N., and Mr. Brutwhistle, mate of H.M. sloop Spike, for having saved Stephen Box, who fell overboard at Sheerness, June ft, 1845. To Mr. Ralph Bates, for having saved, at night, on the 12th of last February, Arthur Willow, who fell through the ice whilst skating, in Lancashire. To Lieut. H. W. Hire, of 11.14. sloop Ilecla, for baying saved W. Richardson, sea man, on the 12th December last, washed off the forecastle in the Grecian Archipelago. To Capt. Archibald Cameron, of the Prince, river steamer, for saving, by daring personal exertions, tho crew and passengers of the Sirius, in Bally cotton Bay, on the 20th January last. To Capt. Bernardino Camp, and his chief mate, Mr. Villary ide, for their humane and noble conduct is saving 79 persons belonging to the steam packet Tweed, wrecked in February last. To police-con stable Brown, of Clonmel, for having rescued, on the 10th of May last, a man and a boy from being drowned is the Suir during a flood; in attempting to save a third party, the constable narrowly escaped drowning himself.—Mr. Chiseller stated that, since December last, 13 persons had been taken out of the Serpentine by the society's men, and 12 out of the 13 resuscitated. The total number of persons during the period mentioned coming within the sphere of tie society's exertions was 72, 7 being attempted suicides, and 6 out of the whole terminating fatally.—Thanks having bren voted to the venerable chairman and treasurer, the court broke up. THE AGED MASONS' Asytt'xi held their annual meeting, last evening, at Radley'e Hotel, Blackfriare, to re ceive the report fur the past year. The report showed that zeasures were in progreu to obtain a site, within 4 short distance of the metropolis, to erect an asylum. The receipts amounted to 7391. 21. 11d. ' including 3751. 15a. 10d., and the balance of the last audit 3631. 7s. hi. and after paying the necessary expenses the balance remained 3931. la. 91. ; while the funds invested amounted to 4,0331. Os. Bd. The reports were received, and a resolution approving the steps of the committee, and requesting them to continue their exertions to obtain a site, was agreed to. THE MODEL BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES, WHITE CHAPEL.—Yesterday that portion of the building intended for the men's baths of the Model Bath and Wash-house establishment in 0 oulstorne-street, Whitcchapel, was opened fix public inspection. The entire erection covers an area of about 4,000 square feet, and that part opened yesterday forms the north division. It contains about 200 separate bathing rooms, each 10 feet by 6, formed by solid blocks of slate, fitted with the necessary requisites, and supplied with hot and cold water by a powerful steam apparatus, placed in the centre of the building. These baths are divided into first and second classes, each having a distinct entrance. They will be opened for public use on Monday, and will, it is hoped, be duly appreciated by the class for whose especial benefit they have been erected. Want of funds has delayed the comple tion of the waah.houses, and of the baths for females. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY,—At the , 1 office,'in the Strand, we were afforded, on Tuesday, an inspec tion of a variety of models of various inventions for the transmission of intelligence bv means of electricity. Some new, others old, and many modifications and improvements of existing methods. The means for ensuring the safety of railway travelling become. every day a more necessary and critical question ; and the facility of transmitting informa tion is an inseparable element in Its consideration. For this reason, amongst many others, it is satisfactory to observe the I large degree of attention which has been directed to so important a branch of the railway system. The inventions, di•played yesterday are tlio work of various gentlemen, and, we believe, the property of the company, who propose. by means of one or two of the principal plans, to establish a complete system of communication over the entire king dom, for the information of subscribers, who will, in London for instance, be mule acquainted with the prices of stock and shares, the state of the markets, and other commercial intelligence from every part of the country, by means of elec tricity, in a very short apace of time. The intelligence will be communicated to, and be printed at, the office by one operation. it was stated that the machinery is being pre pared on a great number of lines, and it is expected that the system will be in complete operation at the end of the year. AMERICAN VENISON.—A vessel arrived from the United States of America Asltimore) has brought, with a general cargo of provisions, packages of venison—a novel importation from that quarter of the globe. PINE APPLES AND BANANAS.—Yesterday a sale of about 1,000 pine apples and a number of bananas, ex Medway, mail-packet, and Trinity Yacht,. from Nassau, took place in Monument-yard. There was a numerous attendance of buyers, who purchased freely, the pines selling at from 10s. to 404. per lot of 20, and the bananas from Ba. to 10s. a bunch, _ THE ST. STEPREN's BILLS OP MORTALITY.—We re gret to state that the week's returns exhibit an awful mortality among the infant bills. An increase in the number of these deaths is always to be expected about this time, but this year the advance intthe rate of premature dissolutions is appalling. Much of this is to be attributed to the extreme carelessness of parents, as well as to the constitutional weakness of the bills themselves, and the overcrowding to which they are ex posed. There i., in fact, so part of Westminster which stands so much in need of stringent sanitary regulations se St. Stephen's. The system of its legislative offspring will never be healthy until both houses are thoroughly drained of the noxious stuff that is allowed to accumulate there during the session, nor, indeed, until they have undergone general purification and enlightenment. The state of the Committee Rooms is especially disgraceful to those to whom the comfort of " the working classes ' is entrusted.—Punch. LOUIS PHILIPPE AND AN ENGLISH SEAMAN.— The following has been forwarded by the Consul-General of France to Richard Fuller, captain of the Queen Victoria, be longing to the port of Rochester :—" Sir —I have the honour of informing you, that by a decision, dated the 2Sth May, hia Excellency, the Minister of the Navy and Colonies, having given to his Majesty the King of the French au account of the devotedness and humanity which you evinced in taking on board your Tend, in the beginning of last December, the crew of the French brig LE.perance, from Dunkerque, commanded by M. Rouille, and in showing them every pos sible kindness which their sad condition required, has ob tained from his Majesty's benevolence an order for a ' gold medal of honour,' to be given you. This medal will be forwarded as soon as it is struck. I congratula a myself, sir, on being the bearer of these just and benevolent sentiments of my government towards you." TIME IS MONEY.—Sir,—In your observations on the comparative prices of the Times and Daily News you appear to have overlooked one very important position, viz., the saving of poor eeaders' time, which, to business men, is of far more consequence than the difference between 3d. and bd. I have taken in both papers, and I found it took up double the time to read the report of the same case as in serted in the Times that it did in your paper. This is an indisputable fact, of which your readers may easily convince themselves, that after the perusal of the report in each paper, one occupying half a column the other not a dozen lines, all the facts and information (and in many instances more) which occupy the Timm' half column, are compressed into your twelve lines. The public, therefore, would be gainers if you charged themlod. instead of 3d.—l am, &c., CifEA eJ out. [Our correspondent is quite right. It is not in price, merely, that the Daily A'nes differs from its contemporaries. The principle of the old acre sheet is to present to the public the raw material, the wordy rubbish sent in from a hundred different localities, in each of which the facts assume an im portance wholly disproportioned to their general and national importance, and the writer of which to paid addi tional for mere verbiage; whereas in this paper that same raw material is prepared and condensed with great can, and of course at sonic coat.] MR. WILLIAM ConnErrr.—Sir,—The famed liber ties of this country would have been long since abrogated if Englishmen had not at all times resisted the bringing in of illegal precedents in their individual cases to abolish these liberties. I have been seven years imprisoned for alleged contempt', without ever having been committed or tried ,• although I have been publicly offered my discharge several times if I would consent to bring no action, I have preferred any loss and inconvenience rather than suffer a precedent of such mischievous public consequence being made in my person; and I have by myself, my wife, or my counsel, made 74 motions for my discharge ; have paid newly 1001. chancery fees on ha6eas corpus; have been entrained in four actions which I have brought to recover 22,0001. belonging to my father's estate (of which I have never reci ived a farthing) ; have brought two actions for false imprisonment, one of which is restrained by injunction, and the other obstructed by force ; have brought two actions for false returns, one of which is ncasuited on a question of pleading, besides three actions for assault and false prosecu tion and imprisonment ef my wife. We have also almost exclusively managed the cases of the poor chancery pri soners, and have procured 27 discharges for irregularity, and though last, not least, have procured a mandamus to compel the keeper to pay county allowance to chancery pri soners. I think it will be obvious that p^ople so employed continually to their utmost in resistance of oppression must be to all other intents and purposes " destroyed " in viola tion of the dearest enactment of our rights • and under such circumstances, I take the liberty for myself and my wife to communicate these few particulars to you, sir, and to ask con tributions from those of your readers, who resist that sort of " social progress " by which the good laws of England are re versed ; and I beg to say that our friends, Mr. and Mrs. Cop land, of 26, Upper Park-street, Greenwich, will be happy to receive such contributions (on the principle that pence make pounds) from their neighbours of that high-spirited borough.—l am, lice., W. Coenzrr.—Queen's Prison, July 1. INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—APOPLEXY MISTAKEN FOR DRUNKENN6BB.—STATION 1101:78E REGULATIONS.— At Bt. George's hospital, before Mr. Bedford, on the body of Thomas Smith, a vagrant. On Friday evening the de ceased was found lying insensible in Sloane-street, Chelsea, was conveyed to the Pimlico station house, and was charged with being drunk and incapable of taking care of himself. He was soon heard groaning in his cell, and a surgeon who was then called in advised his removal to the hospital. Ile was there treated for apoplexy, but never rallied, and died on Sunday. Mr. Cowell, one of the surgeons, made a post mortem examination, and found effusion of blood on the sur face of the brain, and a clot of blood in the substance of the brain. The former was probably the result of a fall, and the latter of natural causes. The coroner said that the present was the fourth case under his immediate notice in which a mats suffering under apoplexy was confined in the station house for drunkenness. In all doubtful cases a surgeon should be called in. The inspector said that the circum dense should be represented to the commissioners of police. Verdict—" Died from apopIexy."—MANSLACOSITER 121 LAMBETH.—BetbreMr. Carter, at the Windmill, High-street, Lambeth, on the body of Mary Allsworth. On Saturday night a man named James Bruce, a bricklayer, went into a grocer's shop kept by a person of the name of Bagweed, when he suddenly caught hold of a youth named Jas. Blake, and dragged him about by the hair until they both reeled into the street, and Bruce ran against the deceased, who was knocked down, and fell with great violence on her head. She was taken home, but died on Sunday morning. Mr. Yellowly, a surgeon, who .had been called in, made a post mortem examination of the body, and was of opinion that the death was the result of a rupture of a vessel of the brain arising from violence externally, which would be likely to result from a blow or fall. The jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter " against James Bruce, who is in custody. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. BEDFORDSUIRE.—Lord Charlem Russell retires from the representation of this county upon the dissolution of the present parliament. Viscount Alford will, no doubt, offer himself for re-election. Mr. T. C. Higgins, of Turrey, has addressed the elector., but his principles are not altogether in consonance with those of the farmers ; consequently, it is expected, a requisition will be forwarded to some other gen tleman in whom they hope they shall be able to place more confidence. The borough is likely to be the scene of another severe contest. Sir Harry Vernon, the late member for Buckingham, has canvassed the electors, so also have the sitting members (Messrs. Polhill and Stuart). Tho friends of both parties seem very sanguine. BRADFORD.—The attempt of the extreme section of the liberal party of the electors to drive Mr. Busfeild from the field, in order to make way for a candidate more acceptable to them, in conjunction with Col. P. Thompson, has had the effect of rallying round the hon. gentleman a numerous body of his old supporters, at the head of whom is Mr. C. L. Kaye, a former member for the borough. Upon the invi tation of these gentlemen Mr. Busfeild was expected to address the liberal electors last night., in the Odd Fellows' Hall, when it was hoped that he would be able to give such explorations as may re-unite the party, and that he and Col. Thompson may be returned triumphantly. Nothing more has been heard of Mr. waking, 'tad it is thought that a declaration of principles put forth in his name was etere feint to annoy the supporters of Messrs. Hardy and Wick. ham, who are still prosecuting their canvass. B tuna Xoll7ll.—Sir J. Easthepe has addressed tke electors. The two sitting members are Mr. Whitmore, of Apley Park, a large landed proprietor, and Sir Robert Floor, of Patchall. The former is a Peelite, and the latter a follower of Lord G. Bentiuck. A correspondent says : " The late proprietor of Apley, and father to the member, exerted, and successfully, his great influence to return these two gentlemen at succes sive elections, but it is whispered considerably to the disad vantage of his pecuniary ease. His son feeling the effects of it, and being indisposed to follow in the tame path, has in formed kis tenantry that he will expect one vote for himself, and with the other they are to do as the? please." CIIELTENIIAM.—Mr. C. Berkeley is, It it said, threatened I with an opposition in the person of o(Lord Pelham Clinton. son of the Duke of Newcastle. Mr. C. Berkeley's speech on the Health of Towns Bill appears to have given rise to a very general feeling of hostility towards the boa, member. DultLIN UN ivEtotrr.—All parties are working with mar vellous energy. Wherever votes are to be had, von see the joint conveners of the "alien" members crossed by the " natives," whose representatives hunt in single leashes. Mr. Napier, it is said, has a good chance, and the recorder looks " sore afraid." Professor Tl'Cullogh refused to advo cate a separate grant for the Church Education Society, which will weaken his influence in that quarter. Another candi:ate has offered to-day. He is a Mr. Edward S. Power, a graduate of the univenity. Mr. Power puts forward a long address, but his great reliance seems to be that he " is the sou of a clergyman." DUNGARVAN.—Some of the good mid independent electors of Dungarvan appear to be quite determined that the Muter of the Mint shall not resume his seat for that ancient borough without exhibiting " her Majesty's picture." The honest men of Dungarvan, like the good men of Pontefract, are used to contests at elections. Seventy-two electors have convened a meeting to consider the propriety of putting ." a Conciliation Hall repealer in nomination." Dowsironacx.—This snug borough, in which the Kerr influence once reigned paramount, is likely to be contested by a more liberal representative than the brother of the present member. The chances of a successful issue are now being canvassed, and, if a hope offers, a good whig will take the field. DEMFIIIESSIIIRIL—Mr. Hopo Johnston has announced his intention to retire from the representation of this county, on the ground that the "present disruption of parties leaves no prospect of a government which he can support, and also because his private business has so largely increased as to en gross the greater part of his time." Dr sr rates AND WIGTOWN. —The MI pnfries Courier says : "Our burgh member, Mr. Ewart, will have the satisfaction of being returned without the neces<ity of a poll. Mr. Maitland will renew his connexion with the stews:try of Kirkcudbright. GALWAY COUNTY.—The Hon. Denis Daly, eldest son to Lord Dunsandle, and nephew of the Bishop of Cashel, is up for Galway in the conservative interest. GLOUCESTER, IVEir.—A requisition is in course of sig nature, requesting Sir Martin li. Crawley Hovey, Dart., to come torward on the conservative interest. BADDINGTON BURGHS. Si( James W. Drummond, Bart. of Iforthornden, has withdrawn from the contest for this district of burghs, owing to the late period at which he offered himrelf as a candidate. KILDARE.—Mr. R. S. Bourke, son of the great light of the Irish party, Mr. Bourke, of Hayes, offers himstlf for this county, "unfettered and unbiassed to secure civil and religious liberty, and a just administration of the law." This is the very intelligible principle on which this gentle. man solicits public favour. KINSALE.—Mr. Watson, who has served the electors of Kinsale so well, again solicits their suffrages, and with every prospect of success. He is alone in the field, notwithstanding the legislative passion of Mr. Dixon. KNARESBOROUGH.—In an inverse ratio with the number of electors the electioneering heat seems to prevail in parlia mentary borealis. As we have already noticed, a good deal of prsonal sparring has occurred here, and it seems to be come more rife as the election approaches. Mr. Westhead has again visited the electors ; and though nothing certain can be predicated of the result, the chances would seem to be in favour of the candidates who reside nearest to the borough —Mr. Lawson and Mr. Lascelles. LANCASTER.—Mr. Martin (Tory) retires. Mr. Greene, the other member, is again in the field, along with Mr. Gregson (Liberal), and Mr. Salisbury (Tory). The borough his been canvassed by all parties, and there is little doubt of Mr. &dist ury's entire discomfiture should he go to the poll. LANAIMSIIIRE.—Mr. W. Lockhart, the present repre sentative of this county, has is ued an address to his con stituents, in which he announces his intention of again soliciting their suffrages. The political opinions of the hon. gentleman are conservative. MARYLLBONE.—A meeting of the electors of this borough was held last night at the Lecture-rooms, George-street, Euston-square, for the purpose of hearing from Mr. Serjeant Shoe a statement of his claims to the representation of Marylebone in the ensuing parliament. Mr. Willis having been called to the chair, addressed a few sentences to the meeting, and then introduced Mr. Serjeant Sher, who addressed the meeting at some length, and answered several questions satisfactorily; after which a resolution approving of Mr. Serjcant Sheen political doctrines, and pledging the meeting to support him at the approaching contest, was proposed, and carried by acclamation, alter which the proceedings were brought to a close. Another meeting was held at the Marquis of Camden, Priory-- street, Camden Town, which was addressed by Lord J. Stuart ; after which, a resolution was passed, declaring that of the three liberal candidates for the borough, the most eligible was Lord D. Stuart. Luntow.—The promisedopposition for the representation of this borough has commenced. Atpresent Ludlow returns two conservative members, one of whom (Mr. Acker') has declared his intention to retire at the dissolution, while the other (Mr. Botfield) solicits re-election. To supply the va cancy two candidates are in the field, Mr. H. B. Clive (con servative) and Colonel Solway (liberal). Mr. Clive declares his political principles to be identical with those entertained by the retiring member, being attached to " the constitution under which this country has so long flourished," and having " a firm affection for the church established in the land in which we have the happiness to live." Colonel Sal way (who formerly represented Ludlow) reminds the electors that his name is associated with those arduous con flicts for the promotion of commercial freedom, on the tri umph of which he congratulates them, and expresses his earnest desire to see the principles of free-trade fully carried out, "believing that those principles are the great founda tion of international peace and general prosperity." Col. Salway also declares that ho will consult the local interests of the borough, and use his best energies towards the exten sion of civil and religions liberty. A close contest may be anticipated. NEW Ross.—The present member, the Hon. Mr. Gore, takes his farewell of the borough, on the ground that, as he could not support repeal, he will not weaken the liberal interest by a contest. NEWPORT, URK AND ItIONWOLTH.—Mr. Blewitt, o. Llantarnam Abbey, is safe in his seat for these united boroughs, there being no opponent in the field, and no opposition contemplated. In the county there is a struggle. The Duke of Beaufort has sent his son, Capt. Somerset, as his nominee, into the field, against his (the Duke's) own brother, Lord Granville Somerset, who has for thirty-one years represented the county. The opposition is attributed to his lordship's votes during Sir It Peel's administration, (of which he was a member), on the corn and other mea sures, by which it was foolishly prophesied farmers were to be ruined. The dissenters, who promised to support his lordship, when the contest was first announced, have now discovered that they have a right to break a TOW which they afterwards thought an improper one; and they have an nounced their intention now to be—not to support Lord Granville Somerset; while the high Church party having discovered some sign in his lordship of a desire to support catholicism, have also resolved not to support him. Never theless his re-election is generally considered safe. PAIPLEY.—Mr. liastie has issued an address. He has no opponent. PLY)1011711.—It is now evident that a coalition will take place between Lord Ebrington and Mr. Crowder, in consequence of which Mr. Calmady's committee propose to bring forward another candidate. The railway gunge is to form an important ingredient in the present contest. Mr. Calmady's committee, by a placard just issued, accuse their opponents of bringing forward Mr. Crowder to serve the in terests of the Great Western Company. On the other hand, thechairman of Mr. Calmady's public meeting is one of the South-Western directors, and among his committee are to be found some of the most fervent admirers of that scheme. It is to be regretted that a port like Plymouth cannot find one candidate practically conversant with its great and increasing shipping interests. PONTEFRACT.—As we intimated on Monday, •requieition has been numerously signed by the electors calling upon Mr. Charles Winn, of Nostel Priory, to offer himself as a candidate on independent principles ; and it is said that, in came he should decline, Mr. W. Hepworth, of Ackworth lodge, a magistrate of the West Riding, and long a resident in the borough, will be called upon to make a tender of his services. WAILEFIELD.—The canvass for Mr. G. W. Alexander not having been quite so satisfactory as his friends could wish, they have resorted to the holding of district meetings, at some of which their candidate has attended, and addressed the electors; though Mr. Sandsrs's supporters express them selves confident of success, they seem to be alive to the move ments of their opponents. IRELAND. DUMAN, JOLT 13. Many faces are looking blank at the approach of the poor-law extension, and the cessation of the un expensive Temporary Relief Act. At a former meet ing of the Fcrmoy guardians, the distressed condition of the majority of the ratepayers was represented by memorial to the Poor-law Commissioners, and the reply, which was read at a meeting on Wednesday last, partially acceded to the prayer of the memorial. A higher rate than 3s. in the pound on the expendi ture of the relief committee will not be demanded at present. While admitting the great difficulty of col lection, the commissioners urge the guardians to do so at all hazards. This letter, very probably, has been communicated to the boards throughout Ireland. Besides the 3s. rate, the guardians are directed to strike a new rate for the commencement of out-door relief on the 15th of next month. To both these injunctions is added another from the under-secre tary, ordering the board to pay on this day the first instalment of the relief expenditure, 8051., and a similar sum on every succeeding Tuesday for twelve weeks, or within three months a sum of 10,4801. At a meeting of the general assembly of the pre.- , byterian church in Ireland, held in Belfast yesterday, a report was read detailing the success of the deputa tion in having a special grant made for the maiate nance of four professorships connected with the education of their clergy. The conduct of the govern ment, and more particularly of Mr. Labouchere, was the theme of general approbation. Mr. Maurice O'Connell, M.P., proceeds by this evening's packet en route for Southampton, where the remains of his father are expected to arrive by Sat ur day next. Mr. O'Connell will be accompanied by Mr. Steele; and some others cf the personal friends of the family are expected to join. The body, on its arrival, will immediately be removed on board a steamer placed at the disposal of the deceased's friends by the Peninsular and Oriental Cimpany for con veyance to Ireland, where it will probably arrive on Tuesday next. SCOTLAND. EDINBOROH, JrLY 13. A great sanitary fact is at present being exemplified in Glasgow. While fever rages around, the prisons, containing about six hundred inmates, have not one fever patient. This is at once a reward to the friends of prison discipline, and an encouragement to those of sanitary advancement. In Edinburgh, there is still a want of bold effort in dealing with the epi demic. For instance, at the parochial meeting there, it was stated that ten women could be accommodated at the House of Refuge, and that numbers of con valescent females were ordered to be removed from the infirmary—but will small measures like this stay the plague? In Greyfriars' Churchyard the tariff has been raised, and soldiers, paupers, and all beyond the royalty, refused sepulture. If the inhabitants are therefore annoyed by further interments, they will have this consolation, that the ground has been well paid fur, and that the bodies are those of persons who " lived within the burgh." Following the example of Edinburgh, Glasgow is doing honour to the Scotch political martyrs, a monu ment having been erected to the memory of Baird and Hardy to one of the new cemeteries. ACCIDENT AT GILEENOCK.—WhiIst a vend, called the Portia, was coming down the Clyde yesterday morning, some spirits took fire, and the captain's wife and several of the crew were severely burnt, the captain himself having died in consequence.—North Briton Mail, WALES. CLERICAL ENCOURAGEMENT TO EDUCATION.—A core spondent of the Carnarron and Denbigh Herald callt atten ton to a proceeding on the part of a el( rgymaa which is little in accordance with the educational spine of the time. For the het forty years the parish church of Llanrhychwyn, iu Carnargonshire, which is said to be but little u5..11 as a place of worship, has been employed as a Sunday school; but a recent ingtnry having been instituted by the Her. John Jones, rectorof Llanfachraeth, it w.ts admitted that though the school was commenced and ended each Sunday with a prayer, the church catechism was not taught ; upon which the churchwardens were strictly commanded for the future not to allow the church to be used as a place in which to keep a Sunday school. The writer observe.—" Thus, in June, in the year of grace 1847, was a priestly extinguisher put upoa a Sunday school that had existed for forty years." PROVINCIAL. LANCASHIp.E. THE SYSTEM 07 "Txenmo AT ELECTIONS has been severely censured by the National Temperance Society in an address to the people of Manchester, wherein, after descant ing upon the enormity of the practice, the committee states its opinion that as " in every constituency, electors will be found who are abstainers from intoxicating drink, these should cletrmine,and make that determination known, to withhold their votes, unless the candidate of whose general principles they approve will conduct his eketion without re sorting to the dcbasing practices referred to." A commission de lunatic° inqueendo, held in Carlisle on Friday week, adjudged that Sir E. Marmaduke Varasour, But, of Hazlewood cestle, aged 32 years, was of unsound mind, being a furious lunatic, and amongst other delusions fancying himself Jnliun cßslar. De THE BIRKENHEAD Di7Cl4.-A memorial to the Commis sioners of the Wood. and Forests, signed in two days by not lees than 6,000 of the inhabitants of Birkenhead - and the neighbouring townships, was forwarded to their lord hips on Monday night, respectfully %aging upon them the advan tages which a ili result from completing the Birkenhead Docks. MONSMUTHMIRE. .... ..... DISCOVERY or ANCIENT REMAIN4.—The railway eXCA vaton upon the Monmouth and Hereford line, now engaged near the old Raman city, or " Isca Silurium," known to moderns as Caerleon, in the neighbourhood of Newport, have dug out from their ancient graves two massive coffins of stone, in which were found the remains of two human bodies, and, in one, an antique stone bottle containing a thick liquid, upon which village practitioners in ctemistry and medicine have not yet pronounced. The coffins resem bled huge and rudely-fashioned troughs, with lids of stone almost as large as the coffins. From the fact that a stone coffin was found near the same place by excavators some time since, it is conjectured that the field was at one time used as a general burying-place for the inhabitants of Caerleon, whose boundaries, some 500 years ago, extended near to the spot where the coffins have been discovered. iffne arts. THE WELLINGTON STATUE.—Sir,—Yon, at least, have done your part to save us from the solecism at Hyde park-corner, which it seems is to remain a warning of the danger attending the first false step ("ee n'est que le premier pas qui mile"), and one more praof of the irresolution per vading the measures of the present government. I trust this is their worst sin on the present occasion, and that they have not been parties in the duplicity evident throughout the pro ceedings of the committee. If after the promises repeated so often by that moot excellent min, but most inefficient first commissioner, we are to be told to-morrow that the statue most remain, in compliance with the unfounded prejudices of the Duke of Wellington the duke has, in my opinion struck a blow from which art will not soon recover. To thii he may perhaps be indifferent—be may not value the culti vation of art as contributing to the glory and morality of a people ; or ho may place confidence in the assertions of his flatterer in the House of Lords, and of that economist in the Commons (who so severely criticises the mural doled out by the government to museums), that the prejudices of the public have been overcome, and that they now glory in both statue and site. But what are we to think of that House of Commons which has so often allowed such a libel to pus =- contradicted 1 Yet out of them are committees of taste formed ! And one of the mischievous effects produced by the continuance of this abomination is, that the uninformed, seeing the principles of taste acted upon for ages thus violated, may be led to consider all rules as naught, and that every crude designer may safely venture " to snatch a gram beyond the reach of art." You and all those who hive made due in quiries are aware of the deep feeling of disgust which the success of the cabal will cause in those who are exerting themselves in behalf of art generally, and who have quietly left the declaim( in this matter to the ordeal so faithfully promised so a final one. Such is the end of their hopes. It may be vain for the present purpose, but you will still, I trust, record your protest against this most " untoward event."—A LtveuAL, /Ad constituent of Lords J. Russell and Morpeth. Aufsic. THE MIIBICAL WORLD CONCERT.—The Musical World, following the example of the two leading Parisian musical journals, La Gazelle Musicale and La France Musi cale, gives an annual concert, to which its subscriben have the privilege of a gratuitous admission, while the public generally are admitted on the usual terms. The " Musical World Concert" of this season was given yesterday morning in the Hanover-square Rooms. It was very well attended, and a great number of the musical " notabilites " of the season were present, either among the performers or among the audience. Among the latter we observed the illustrious and venerable Spohr, who sat in a front yew before the orchestra, and listened with great apparent pleasure to the whole performances—not excepting, of course, that of a quartet of his own, for two violins, viola, and violoncello, which, after all, was no quartet at all, but a mere violin solo with accompaniments, exhibiting the brilliancy of Sainton's execution, and the artist-like self-denial of such men as Joachim, Hill, and Rousselot. A quartet ought to be a conversation ; but this one was like the after dinner talk of some squire, expatiating on his horses, clop, aid game-preserves, to two or three toadies, who swallow his talk and his wine with equal complacency, chiming in occa sionally with " Ali, very good indeed! Ha! ha! ha' You don't say so!"—and so forth. It was not in this way that Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, carried on the conversation of a quartet ; nor has Spohr himself always done so ; and we think the Musical World paid him a poor compliment by treating him with one of the moat frivolous of his own compositions. This quartet began the first part of the con cert. The trio by Macfarrea, for the pianoforte, violin, and violoncello, played by Lindsay Sloper, Sainton, and Piatti, which commenced the second part, was en entertainment of • much higher order. It is • beautiful work, equally re markable for sweet melody, vigour, originality, and richness of combination—a work which ought to stand side by side with the trios of Beethoven and Hummel in the library of evert amateur. M. Oodefroid performed some of his own studies for the harp, with the beauty and finish for which he is distinguished. Beethoven's famous sonata in C minor, for the pianoforte and violin, was played by Sterndale Bennett in a manner that could not be surpassed. The adagio (which the composer afterwards used as a tenor song in his music to Giiethe's " Egmont ") was expressed with exquisite reelinit. Among the vocal pieces we were especi ally pleased with a duet by Mr. Henry Smart, " Summer to coming," sung by the Miwea Williams; a charming compo sition, which ought to find its way into every drawing-room where it can be sung by two young ladies who have sweet voices and a cultivated taste. On the whole we have to thank the proprietors of tho Musical World for a very In- T. treating ooneert. ; .....si ' ~,,_ .e ll t HULLAH'S CHORAL MEETINGS. The last pnt!,,e ... performance for this season of Mr. Hu 'ii tipper Singing. - Schools took place last evening in Ex r Hall, which, ea -lii. usual, was crowded by a most latent and delighted .r. I .., - .! .. ...t. I r . ''• • • . ~_