The Express. — London, England, 1847-12-01 00:00:00

inte the restriction impeded upon the Bank. He felt that it gee the bounden duty of the house not to go into committee without giN mg some mamma to the commercial world, that s ub a paralysis of credit as that which had lately befallen as , should not main occur. It was perfectly clear t hat while 8 per sent. was charged for interest, no foreign trade could be earned on. On the motion of Mr. BLEWITT, the debate was then adjourned. Oe the motion of Lord J. RUSSELL it was ordered that the hones itself, on its IRISH rising, shouII STRESd adjourn until Thursday. DS. Major BLACKALL moved for a return of the amount e i na dy wended oat of the 8,000,0001. rained by loan during this year far the relief of Irish distress, and the manner in which it had been The CHANCE OR the EXCHEQUER said that, se he had directed a full account to be preparedpi the whole of thempeaditumjwith WWI intention of laying it onthetable alba home, and as he had reason to believe it would be ready on Thursday next, he hoped the hon. member would think it convenient to withdraw his present motion. Major BLA.CKAI.L acquielood in the suggestion, and the motion was by leave withdrawn. COMMITTEE ON PRINTING, &c. On the motion of Mr. PARKER, the following members were appointed a select committee to assist Mr. Speaker in a ll matters which relate to the printing executed by order of this house. and for the purpose of selecting and arrang ing for printing returns and papers presented in pursuance o f motions made by members of this house :—Mr. Parker, Sir Robert Harry highs, Mr. Putty, Mr. Vernon Smith, Mr. John Young, Viscount Mahon, Mr. Hume, Mr. Cardwell, sad Mr. Loch. MEDICAL EDUCATION. Mr. WAK LEY, in moving that a select committee be appointed to inquire into the registration of legally qualified practitioners in medicine and surgery, and into the laws and charters relating to the practice of medicine and surgery in Great Britain snd Ireland ; and to report the evidence, with their opinion thereupon, to the house, observed that this was amen reneges' of the committee of last segaion. He regretted to say that the late general election had made iad hasoc amongst the members of the last committee, for of 15 who bad sat last year only 7 had been returned to the present parliament. He had also lost the invaluable aid of the chair man of the late committee (Mr. Macaulay), but iu the hope that that right hon. gentleman would shortly have a seat in the house. be (Mr. Wakley) should, in the event of the hum agreeing to his present motion, postpone the nomina tion of the committee for some days . Hear, hear.) The motion was then put and to. RAILROAD ILLS. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE QUER, the • following members were appointed a select committee or railroad bills :—The Chancellor of the Exche quer, Sir J. Graham, Mr. Hudson, Mr. Hume, Marquis of Graeby, Sir G. Clerk, Mr. Scrum Mr. Moore, Mr. Glyn, Mr. Ellice (Coventry), Mr. Labouchem, Viscount Barring ton, Mr. W. Browne, end Mr. Brainston. The house then (quarter-past 12 o'clock) adjourned to Thursday next. gh, rs.oo. MAILS, sound state of the trade of the country as regards corn, and the instable character of the great houses which subsequently went down. He thinks that the fall in the price of articles of food, undue confidence in weak firms, and 'the abstraction of capital for our extra imports and for railways, mast amply and entirely dissipate any clouds of mystery which may surround the problem of the recent and present dinrens. We do not for a moment say that these causes have not had a moat powerful influ ence upon the complexion of our commercial condition since the beginning of th e We are not aware that in any quarter their importance has been dented. But this again is not the point. The urgent demand is to settle whe ther or not theme natural evils have not been greatly embittered by a vicious sods of banking jtuispra dence. We say they have, and, taking Sir C. WOOD'S own line of argument, the facts in support of our assertion are as conclusive as they well can be. Has the range of failure been confined to the rotten and ricketty members of the system? Have none been swept away but those whose tenure of existence was obviously only a question of time ? By no means. The Times newspaper, which, among the rest of its recent mischievous prac tices, has taken great pains to make the most of every instance of default, wee at the pains on the 10th inst. of collating a tabular statement of 20 of the most im portant cases of insolvency ; and oat of these 20 how many were there upon which the estimated dividend was the contemptible fraction left by a long career of secret bankruptcy? Let the facts speakfor themselves. Out of these 20 firms, 10 were put down as paying 20e. in the pound, 2 as paying 155., and only two of them as likely to pay less than 10s. ; and upon the aggregate liability of 4,598,0001. the average dividend was 133.6 d. The truth of the case really is that there have been few periods of discredit when the number of really solvent firms sweptaway has been greater. And this has been precisely one of its greatest aggrava tions. That the ruin of the great should affect the small is natural, but it is not natural that an artifi cial state of things - should be induced, in which a man with abandance of mound, valuable property should be reduced to the same ruin with the man who, to all intents and purposes, is a beggar. At present we refrain from any detailed criticism on Sir CHAS. WOOD's account of the reasons which induced the government to hold back the iaterfe rence of October until, according to his own admis sion, the real crisis of the fever, and therefore the real utility of interference, bad been surmounted ; nor upon his defence of, or his apology for, the imposition of a rate of interest so high ea eight per cent. These are points which will be better discussed at leisure ; and to the same period in advance we will postpone whatever is to be said on the argument, on which he laid so great a stress, that if the law of 1844 was not a cure, it was at least a prevention—that if it did not carry us over one danger, it saved us from many. But in the mean time we will not permit any delay to take place in the reiteration of our regret that the government should have resolved to encounter all the risks and all the unpopularity which will inevitably attend a fall and rigid revival of the exploded statute. This is a course for which there is no possible necessity, and we entirely agree with Lord ASHBURTON, that before it is finally resolved upon the sense of parliament upon the subject ought to be decidedly expressed. The Went India Ildb. Whew Remade, Nam% Hombuss, New Weems, Tem Ceme, Tampico, and Perth rer =Wing Mom for bistherie I SIMS !font!.. Charm ransom, Wnal Gosit Or= l inal SS. isinde meseregue, will ,e meth wawa@ ennthigof the Intl Dementer. 71te omerhopt master Mina' Natn.Oweets. an Isles bismin Ilpppq Aden, Ceylon. bills.B.M.4sater Man. sin thentlimpeon eal mmle up on the nthenlesettbe Desember. TM mails for Mlle Mirth Amiska aid tlie 17..160 Ingana will be ,uedsuramtharmsen sift adDl. The mile for the Bealla, as am riata,lllale Woo, Pntane. Woo, of teni. D N.n th MA MOM Ayr», win be ma• up on &a evening the eth embr. &The mails for Vigo, Omni. IMO" Madsdri., Cadiz, and Oibrabst vfli b. made up on lie iesenleer of IM 7th December. The OVerillfri Mona via Mernithis, to ties Meditemenann =Wen, erne Wile Wm& Ike., will be made up on to at the 7 Demeter. ______ WPO L. AaveltllMtst• 1.•11 ° W I Th. IDZ Lead= se we, le el the end*, Deuerie Amt. ly sidiadt CO the des Of puleee,re" HIGH WAY'S £T LONDON BRIDGE. T.T. D." —Honing. 10 W. pa* I, Lltuattau H We. put 9. To.ll os sow —llandap. , 4l past 1; Pnae.a,7o nu. put 10. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 1. WE friends of Ireland have fallen, from long habit, into a mode of dealing with the rights and in- I termite of that country, which, however expedient at one time, is, we think, altogether misplaced at pre sent. This is to make a kind of bargain with the ministry of the day, and consent to any curtailment of the people's privileges, on condition that this be accompanied and counterbalanced by a future conces sion to popular rights. This may have been a useful mode of wringing just conceseions from reluctant and weak govern ments. But surely there is no need of such pacts with Lord loots RUSSELL. Let what is necessary in the way of coercion be proposed and discussed upon its own merits and its own necessities; and let what is just in the way of concession stand also upon its own justice and its own expediency. We have no right to suspend the constitution in Tipperary, in order to extend and perfect it throughout the rest of Ireland. This disjunction of subjects and considerations is the more feasible from the generous part taken by Sir ROBERT PEEL in the debate of Itlonday night. I He waived all vindictiveness, and even self-defence, for the past. He refrained from taking any ad vantage of the certainly weak position of the whige, coming to demand measures of ever so slight coercion for Ireland, and stepped forth as the member most independent, and most untram melled by political precedent might have done, to give his frank support to that mixed policy towards Ireland, from which in the main there is now not a dissentient voice. „„ I From the high reputation of Sir ROBERT rERL, his influence, however, is even greater as a friend than as an antagonist. And it is necessary to beware of, 1 as well as to respect him in the former, as in the latter capacity. From his conduct lastyear,and his speech on Monday night, Sir R. Pm appears to place far too much reliance on the efficacy of coercion. Although he supported the present bill, he evidently thought it milk and water. He would have much preferred a law for registering and branding arms, nay, more, for registering and branding persons. The expression is not exaggerated. He proposed, according to some reports, registering all persons; to another report, " regist ering all dangerous and suspected per sons." • Not only in Sir ROBERT'S opinion should the 'regime of coercion in these districts be perma nent, but it should be worked by a detective as wall as a protective police. Now, a detective police is neither more nor less than a system of spies—a sys tem of inducing members of that vast peasant conspi racy to betray it—perhaps to enter it for the purpose of betrayal, and thus re-establish that class, so well known and notorious in the history of Ireland by the name of informers. Now, with all deference to Sir ROBERT Pm we do not know that any system could have been dev ised or sketched in a few brief words so aptly calculated to augment and perpetuate the frequency of murder, the habits of aasasemation, the corruption of justice. the rancour of the population towards the govern ment and all omneMed with it—nothing in short fitter to Sag back Ireland, its undisturbed as well se its &tonal districts, into that charnel-house state which V IM in . that country during the last year' of the Aocording to Sir ROBERT PEEL, coercion is of very little value, unless carried to this pitch and to this perfection. The assertion is certainly one of the =egtarguments against coercion that we ever 1 If, in its mildest state, as proposed by Lord CLARENDON and Sir Oaoaoa GREY, it is not to be successful ; but to recjaire,fas we are told, all the strin gency, all the arbitrary powers of a general re gistry and passport system, with all the tactics of a detective police—which, taken together, may be called the French system—then we can only ex- 1 claim against any, even the slightest, introduction of coercion into the statute book. Let us have mar tial law, when it is required, and let its applica tion be severe, sweeping, but brief. But let us have no permanent nor regular regime of the police. Better send a NARVAEZ at once to decimate the popu lation, than establish a loi des suspects, and a tribunal of which the witness box is to be occupied by the detective police; and a judgmentseat, whose sen tences, because procured by such means, will appear the award of vengeance, not of j ustice, to the flighted , perhaps, but ever irreoonciled and unsubdned po pulation. We will do Sir ROBERT PEEL the justice to as , that we do not think he clearly sees thus inevita bl e tendencies of his proposed system of extended coercion. The most dangerous and unjust use might be made of it, and under many lord-lieutenants of his own party such a coercion bill would soon be applied to the purpose of clearing estates by the I aid of the police, and relieving landlords of both poor and poor rates, by a rale of terror, which might indeed root out bravo and assassin from certain spots, but which also would have the effect of scatter ing such ruffians and their principles over the whole surface of the island. CANDOUR compels us to say, that the object of Sir CHARLES WOOD'S speech of lest night is quite as likely to be unsatisfactory to the country, as the force and coherence of its arguments are likely to disappoint that happily expanding class of persons, who think that between the exposition and the adoption of a most Important line of conduct, there ought to be some close and convincing relation. We have nothing to allege against the temper or the completeness of the right honourable gentleman's explanations. Hs was very courteous and very diffuse. But a certain thing was to be done, and he must permit us to say, that it still wants consummation. The country expected a full and direct reply to that mistrust of the act of 1844, which has been forced upon it through the medium of a most distasteful ex perience. There is a belief very current, and resting upon a broad basis of personal experience, that the effect of that act has been very greatly to aggra vate the pressure perhaps inseparable from a state of things so extraordinary as that which has prevailed since October, 1846, by bringing the Bank of England as an irresistible competitor into the money market on all occasions—by leading through I that competition to frequent and violent actions of the Bank upon the state of confidence and eredit—and by multiplying . the points and the chances of collision almost indefinitely through the utterly unequal division, which it prescribes, of the total stock of bullion between the department of brae and that of banking. There is also a most reasonable complaint that by its gratuitous restraint on the coun try circulation, it has subjected the Bank of England and the general commerce of the country to a purely factitious aggravation of its difficulties by raising up an internal call for specie at a moment, when the central fund stood in need of the speediest and the amplest replenishment. And finally, there is a most resolute conviction, formed upon no narrow or hasty that by its utterly inflexible machinery, hounds, a season of greet emergency and peril, it obliterated the healing functions of the Bank, and left the 'commerce of the empire at the mercy of a dark ana devastating hurricane, without" hope or alleviation ; and that it did this at a moment when, except for the obstruction of the act which binds it, the Br eak was in a position to render, with the greatest safety to itself, a broad and effectual shelter. These were the opinions and the facts with which Sir CHARLES WOOD RAH to contend, and we cannot, under any gums of impartiality, flatter him with the assurance that his last night's exposition is likely to be accepted, even as a respectable answer. His argument was very ample, and exceedingly transparent. He professed to prove that to the end of September there could be no inconvenience fairly traceable to a banking source, because the circulation of notes in the hands of the public did net undergo any serious contraction. Thus he pat his finger the difficult periods of July and August, and with great oomplaoenoy, what was meant by fin= preen= with a circulation of twenty millions. Is it possible that the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could seriously . persuade himself for a moment that the question in debate could be settled in any each manner, or by any each weapons of argument ? It is about as much out of date to talk about the Vi n lt ty y o i f n e tre u r i tn o e n y l artha e t it th e e r p o roe f esfie ripe pros pe rity of the country is measured by the quantity of gold and silver procured through a favourable balance of trade. Sir CHARLES WOOD spoke of the circulation with the same sort of confidence, that a philosopher of the sixteenth century suddenly restored to the society of the present day might speak of alchemy or the Ptole maic astronomy, utterly ignorant of all that has taken place in the meantime, to consign the former notions of mankind on these subjects to the category of ancient errors. The circulation—in the same way es the phi losopher's stone—may, possibly, be the prodigious agent which Sir CHARLES WOOD represents ; but. previous to settling a great and vital question ander the rale of so obsolete a formula, it would, at least, have been a wise precaution to have attempted some ' justification of its character from the very preva lmt disrepute which his befallen it. Under the guidance of a similar illusion Sir C. WOOD conceived himself authorised to use a trim pliant tone, when he pointed out that the accommoda tion rendered by the Bank in August and Sep. timber was something beyond the average of years. The fact never has been disputed. But the question does not turn upon that fact. The difficulty lies in this, — that one day the Bank directors were very liberal, and the day following they were almost inaccessible to in tercession. This was a state of things totally new, and this is a state of things which the public desire to 1186 explained. Will Sir C. WOOD undertake to say ▪ yes or "no "to the matter-of-fact isqdry, whe ther the act of 184 4 has or has not placed the Bank of England under strong inducements and obligations to adopt a policy which involves so many sudden and violent oscillations P Throughout the whole of his three hours' oration there is not one line of allusion to this paramount topic. But, after the satisfactory test of the circulation, Sir CHARLES WOOD is of opinion that the re cent pressure is fully accounted for by the un-1 • Xcadat Clucekie. The Paris express of Monday has arrived, but con tains no French news of general interest. The Madrid mails of the 24th have arrived. The journals and despatches bring no striking intelli gence. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1, 1847. The journals said dope received from Switzer land to-day bear the dale et Bile, the evening of the 27th. The diet ha a maim ea the Silk at which three commiaskeent, Kern, Battier, end Latour, were appointed to gnus& to Lucerne with instruc tions similar to thous given to the oommiesioners sent to the other cantons Or the Leave which have sub mitted only with the beast ameba that the funds and military stores belonging to the Confederation, which were seized by Immerne, should be restored in substance or in value. Immediately after the surrender of Lucerne, General Dakar summoned the cantons of Uri, Schwytz, and Unterwald to submit. The cantonal government of Schwytz had sent • flag of truce, which, however, was sent back with the reply, that if the canton did not submit uncondi tionally the next morning Si. e., the 2Sth), it would be attacked on that day. This was officially announced. A report was afterwards circulated that it had capi tulated; but this was not authenticated. The sub mission, however, of the three cantons was generally looked for on the 26th. The Zurich Gazette of the 26th says that after the affair at Gislikon, General Sigh; Saglio returned to Lucerne, where he found that with the exception of M. Ruttiraau all the members of the government had fled. Whereupon the general of the Sonderbund de clared openly that he would never have accepted the command had he believed that he would be connected with such miserable creatures. The Vorort had received intelligence from Tadao of the retreat of the tionderbtind troops from Branca, Oeonia, and Irania, by Fondi. Since the above was written, we have received the Iletritie of the 27th. That journal says that it was at three in the afternoon of the 24th that the federal troops entered Lucerne. Three battalions of the Lucerne troops were made prisoners. The Sonder band General, Sonnenberg, was also made prisoner. The Luoernese lost six pieces of artillery, two dis mounted and four captured. The loss of the federal troops is reported to be 70 men. The Helatie announces in a postscript that the federal troops had entered the March of Schwytz, and that that canton was already occupied. The following letter has been addressed to the Constitutionnel by a correspondent writing from Berne on the 26th : My letter of yesterday has put you in possession of facts up to the day before the entry of the liberal troops into Lu cerne. I now continue my recital. In the evening a depu tation from the municipal council of that town reached the camp, to solicit an armistice. Gen. Dufour replied that it was too late; that the gates must be opened without delay. This was eventually agreed to, and the next day a part of the Ziegler division entered, about one o'clock, the chief town of the league, the military band of the place, and a great number of the inhabitants long su ff ering under the yoke of the Siegwarts and the Meyers, serving to their es cort. Flags with federal colours were displayed from the windows of a great number of the houses. The municipal authorities had already taken proper steps to ensure lodg ings for the troops. The same day, about four o'clock, was seen to debouch at Krieuz, a village about half • leagea to the south of Lucerne, the vanguard of the Ochsenbein di vision, and soon after the division Well appeared. After al most continual engagements, either with the regular troops or with the landsturmers, this division had succeeded in turning the strong positions of Sonnenberg and Gutsch, by entering intrepidly the defile of Renggioch. They were not aware of the fact that Lucerse had surrendered, and it is evident from this bold march, conceived and executed with the utmost ability by Col. Ochsenbein, that if Lucerne bad not been already taken, it would have fallen with the greatest facility six hours later, in consequence of the advantageous position which this column bad taken up. From verbal accounts given me by several persons present at the attack of Gisikon, tt appears that the loss of the federal troops was considerable. They suffered, in particular, from a body of riflemen belonging to the primitive cantons, posted en a little wood. It was at last found necessary to surround the spot and kill the greatest number of them ; the rest were made prisoners. As to the troops of the Donets division, they arrived on the morning of the 24th, without meeting with any great resistance, at Eschenbach, about two leagues from Lucerne, on the north-east; those of the Bourckhardt division, after having bivouacked near the bridge of the Emma, moved forward, and a part of them entered Lucerne yesterday afternoon. The inhabitants of this place (Berne) were agreeably surprised this morning at seeing the mail ar rive from Lucerne in a char-it-bane. The post-office admi nistration of Lucerne wrote word that they are delighted to see the former relations resumed between the two place*, and empress a hope that the intercourse may not be again inter rupted. The accounts received from other parts are also favourable to the liberal cause. An official despatch, which arrived this morning, states that a linutian column, which had attempted to march on the 22nd on Bellinsona had been forced to retreat before a body of Tesinisu troops. The Italian journals afford some ground for the hope that, notwithstanding the events which for several months have excited the indignation of all Europe, the King of Naples may be led into a course of less benighted policy. The Piedmonlese Grzetle, and official journal of the Sardinian government, affirms that the institution of the customs league between Rome, Tuscany, and Piedmont, the reforms in these states, and most especially in the latter, and the re signation of M. Pietra Catella, which, as we have already announced, wu accompanied by a solemn de claration of his opinion that nothing but a system of reform can save the country, have conspired to work a change in the mind of King Ferdinand, who 11111 commissioned M. Pietra Catella to form a plan of general reform. That minister has consequently held conferences with the envoys of the three Italian states and the British minister at Portici. The heir apparent is to be Vice roy of Sicily and to reside at Palermo. The adhesion of Naples to the custom league is positively announced. The arming of the national guard of Tuscany is in rapid progress. Nearly twelve thouaand percussion muaketa have been already distributed. French sub- Tcts resident in Tuscany have, with the advice of the Trench minister at Florence, entered the civic guard. COLONIAL. BRITISH NORTH AMERICA. Our dataTi;itieCileeinii; are Montreal, Nov. 11 ; Halifax, Nov. 18 ,• St. John (New Brunswick ), Nov. 13 ; Charlotte Town (Prince Edward's Island), Nov. 9 ; St. John's (Newfoundland), Nov. 11 ; Bermuda, Nov. 2. CANADA.—The disgraoefully callous manner in which poor Irish emigrants have this year been shovelled out to Canada continues to provoke the indignant comment of the Canadian prem. The political news contained in the imils received is scanty. Rua oun of the approaching dhss of the previa dal parliamentcontinoed to eiradate, bat aelltleseertain was I known. The Constitutional Committee of Balm at Ow I bee had published an exposé of their ohloole Lithe Cmdises. These are stated to be electoral reform; tispaulide govern ment as recognised in 1841 ; free trade and the free nano den of the Bt. Lawrence ; the gradual nsdesaption of the provincial debt; the concession of wows Ma at lower ra g i ,..,4 e .g., c o nditions. in small lets. to selnel Mem "To all except the first of these two reforms," we the Chen. seroadoe Montreal Herald, "we give our cordial sapport." And the reason maligned for the exceptions is, that the writer considers them mere speculative questions, the dieteention of which can lead to no practical improvement. The news received from England by the Caledonia is said to hays oast a deep gloom over the mercantile oseentunity, and the news of • similar character received by the Washing ton increased the apprehensive feeling. The Witness asserts that it never knew " commercial prospects so gloomy in Montreal or Quebec ;" that " the glut of timber and staves in Quebec is great," and that " prime are so low that no one will be warranted in lumbering this winter." It is admitted however, that though confidence is shaken, and great difficulty found in realising or obtaining advances on any species of property, the banks were conducting a ff airs with as much liberality as sound discretion would permit, and that few failures had occurred. The Herald states that the bank of Montreal had declared a quarterly dividend of four per cent., and the city bank • dividend of three per cent., both payable on the Ist of December. Preen the mum scarce we learn that at the last meeting of the Meat real Building Society 28 per cent. bonne was Om ter shares of 1001. The Great Western Railway wee oommatood on the 27th of October at Toronto; mad goverment having sanded to the construc tion of a anal between I& Bt. Lamm mad Lake Champ lain, have ordered the and Medea of that important work to be himadiataly aaatmenaoi NOVA SCOTIA.—Mace surprise has been ex premed that nneenoment cones/ng meeting of the new begh no e isture lad emend. v The Kona' Chro nicle meets that the hems will meet bare the middle of Jemmy: Mir mown an slobs ltr. Jdorace, abbot* la a Meek la the esswiler. bays swam* grtanmot bon. It is amtany Soh weseseer be seriseitswwwwlolllolßage poets mina le Ike agbloss sal bloods al • tut angarity 4 the adatimai wld Masa sat to Ow vary I Ist*. Salblabg cars of Mils at tbs mat It sea Wad* be imossald Oat tho Learstallob Ilia* oil la la sarebil la Ike sr Isaiat iss w• to melba awsbory ki Ilio= at Ss tom. wit to patalrmM *sib* poll. —*a Ow Ira all rimas Mr. kiwoloa Ma solblocas Ss tbs attbs awl atoryillag ts Yaw Main live sir Jona al siraia Ike ssl, kabob Ow NE* via lko sown wLn bp Mod *ea Ms ,and lit gamy *where' to another Felon The Chronieleemehrlo *Alf with the relseMen erS *Os revenue laws ere are perismasat, and tam Me lawenlalld must in a few maths ease down to the me.. end ask for supp lies ." " If it ware atkorwise," praised' the jour nalist, " and Mr. Johnston bed his own way, we much doubt whether we wail We mg ma= at all." Meanwhile the Inaprsoissora m aldheaded, which is gaining grou nd, that So John Harvey has made bp hie mind to throw in his lot with the old tory party is mateeisily altering the feeling of the colonists towards hie's. dial end amesrved coalitioner, for the Nova Scotian' knew his aateeedents. Bat he was received as a man dime, likely to oonform to the times with deference and respect. Every allowance wu made for his old preporemoss, and time allowed him to investigate the state of affairs in the colony before he took a decided coune. If, as seems to be the grow ing opinion, Sir John has only been trying to gain time in order that he may re-establish the anti-popular party he will find himself in a grievous error. A public meeting held with a view to promote the work ing of the Londonderry (N.S.) iron mime, is stated to have been a failure by all parties. NEW BRUNSWICK.—Frota this colony, as from Canada, come loud and just complaints of the resider mea ner hi which Irish disuse sad desrestitade base bees ewe upon Ark shorn. 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NEWFOUNDLAND.—The mislaid' are iasking forward with considerable appraised= W the impeding winner. The St. Jolue's Monti*, Ache's: Wean achmoche ant his here& at Www•mtre, art thiourea tos, time he, bus mawaily EDI art we law r mho to sumo he whims we so are will earmaa tasly la donor tram inlet het mem phinge Y to Iftwhmilltee4 sad therelbes vs thil hi vs -telly NINA othAlthe ail el- Wiling ow hen thefts w ove ad Ohm amtt whir wet b• h•—wwehe—gsebe this Ih• getwmest dam sr tlipate, or will the h••• tla psd ssiwlr. MOMS hob eh vtali de ahoy be e emmet elral. aid Ss t width Whirs rank we mu ser am m a r those who bla telex Ila Mod public mar mg he sit cm hot a fre *swig • toad: hich, ts whet lir soy ben la weer to give, will orbblhaatelbil be Wirt miehlhe ihgewaileg Ye. quote relief to the rbarring naltitrlss the aleerb at Newham& land this whiter. BERMUDA.—A petition from the merchants and others of Bermuda has been presented to Governor Elliot, representing the utility of embracing New York in the rout* ot the mail steamers between Halifax and Bermuda, for which government haa contracted with Mr. Cunard. Cbt Court. Mr. Winch, Mr. Mann, and Mr. Hassell, a deputa tion from the Walluey commissioners, and Mr. Fletcher, had an interview with the Commissioners of her Majwity's - Whitehall. Woods and Format, yeeterday, at their office in Whua,.- 01.00.—Mr. W. Beane, M.F., had an interview with the Right Hon. E. Strutt yesterday.—Mr. Wilson Patten, M.P., had also an interview yesterday with the right hon. gentle- man, at the office of the Commissioners of Railways.—Lard Crofton had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday.— Mr. Evans, M.P. for Haverfordwest, had also an interview yesterday with the tight hon, baronet at the Homeoffice.— This Hon. Mr. Roberts, from Jamaica, had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday.—Mr. William Hutton had also an interview yesterday with his lordship, at the Colonial office. The Lord Chancellor passed a good night on Monday night, and was better yesterday. A number of plans for new lines of railway were yesterday deposited at the office of the Commusionen of Railways at the Board of Trade. Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governor of New South Wales. (From last night's Gazette.] DOWNING-RTREET, Nov. 27.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint James Brooke, Esq., to be governor and commander-in-chief in and over the island of Labuan and its dependencies. Her Majesty has also been pleased to ap point Samuel George Bonham, Esq., to be governor and commander-in-chief in and over the island or Hong Kong and its dependencies. Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint George Rennie, Esq., to be governor and corn mender-in-chief in and over her Majesty's settlements in the Falkland Islands and their dependencies. NV HiTgruLL, Nov. 19.—The Lord Chancellor has appointed James Leighton, of the town of Montrose, North Britain, gent., to be a Muter Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery for that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called Scotland, PUBLIC INCOME AND EIPENDITURE.-An account of the inoomeand expenditure of the United Kingdom, for the year ending the 10th of October, 1847: Balances in dm: exchequer, and the funded and unfunded debt, has just been printed, on the motion of Mr. Baring. The following are, the items under the head of ordinary revenue and receipts -Customs, 20,535,8171.55. 6d, ; excise, 13,284,4931. 2s. 10d. ; stamp, 74710,0801. 2s. 9d. ; taxes (land and amemed), 4,329,6771. 13e. 7d. ; property tax, 5,438,4521. 6s. Id.; post office, 914,0001. ; crown lands, 67,0001. ; poundage on pen sions and salaries, 4,4761. es. I Id. ; hereditary revenues of the crown, 24,0701. 7e. 74. ; surplus fees of regulated public offices, 108,6091. les. Bd. ; imprest and other moneys, 102,6241. Is. 104. ; money received from the East India Company, 60,0001.-total, 52,579,0011. 2s. I Id. Excess of expenditure over income, 327,6081. 84. Against the receipts there are the following dis bursements:-Interest and management of the perma nent debt, 23,809,7861. es. 7d. ; terminable annuities, 3,902,9391. Bs. 9d. ,• interest on Exchequer Bills, 435,8671. ; total of funded and unfunded debt, 26,148,5911. 14e. 4d. ; civil list, 393,6821. 10s. ; annuities and pensions for civil, naval, military, end judicial services, 630,4121. 10s. 3d. ; salaries and allowances, 282,9611. Be. 4d. ; diplomatic sala ries and pensions, 1751,1461. 14s. 54. ; coolie of justice, 1,024,497 L la ed. ; miscellaneous charges on consolidated fund, 378,1641. 11d. •, army, 6,844,4041. 15s. ; navy, 7,618,2931. Be. 4d. ; ordnance, 2,7781. be. 64. ; misoelh neeus, chargeable on the annual grants of parliament, 3,171,2411. Ils. Bd. ; distress in Ireland, 1,525,0001. ; total, 52,846,9641. 14e. Bd. - unclaimed dividends mon than received, 59,1641. 16s. 3d. ; grand total, 52,906,1091. 10s. Ild. The account of balances of the public money shows balances in the Exchequer, on the 10th day of October, 1844, 8,359,1901. le s. 41d. ; contribution to the loan of 8,000,0001., pee act 10 Viet., c. 9, 7,387,8001. ; Exchequer Bills, per 9 ind 10 Viet., e. 15 and 19, 18,009,6001 ; total, 33,766,4901. 16s. 4td. The disbursements ere-to the Com misnomers for the Reduction of the National Debt, to be ap plied to the redemption of the public debt, 2,663,2611. 3e. 44. (from this item there is deducted 1,870,0001. applied in re demption of Consolidated Fund Deficiency Bill) •, to pay masters of Exchequer Bills, for payment of unfunded debt, 18,231,5001. ; advances for local works, &e., under various acts of parliament, 914,4961. es. 10d. ; special advances for local works in Ireland, under act 9 and 10 Viet., c. 107, &c., 5,738,0001. (from this there is to be deducted 1,188,8961.45. 14. for repayments of advances for local works). Krone of ex penditure over income, 326,6081. Ba. Balances in the exche quer on the 10th of October, 1847, 9,021,5211. 11. 114.; total, ' 33,756,4901. 15s. 444. SCOTTISH HnenTAL.—The uneasy annual meeting of subscribers was held yesterday, at the holm of the Scot tish Corporation, in Crane-court. The Chisholm presided. The following report of the financial condition of the society was read :—Donations (for the past year), 6391. 51. ; pro ceeds of the Caledonian ball 1751. ; legacies, 1351. ; annual subscriptions, 4671. 16e. ; stock sold 4551. 12e. 6d. ; dividend on 39 , 6001 . 3 per amts., 1,1661., which, with rents and some other matters, amounted to 8,4421. 68.9 d. Oat of this sum 2,6831.12 x. had been disbursed far the naiad the pew, and after the payment of all a harm ramaied of 1901. 6s. 6d. The last et** seised Thad amosated to 1671. 14s. 4d., of width a masked et la Us. 2d. The report having _Ursa the meatiag pro model to the de*ra at enema for the ensuing row , and of tea cosdessen to fill vacancies as fee ' Mild wwwattase. ballessa. gam swapilmsatary rotes to the ' ellisemeembsid the —Tbs Cheirman thers . toil veer le a qualm crthis bad whoa at the last th mod to tbe rem& et the spaidiltatedsal= It hat home arrn thst the aim dialed hod this alarm should be divided - blame& the Widening Ilealerraml the Scottish Hospital ; but ea yet the greater part at the pro ceeds, and sometime the whole of th bed hem *at up to the Caledonian Society. He (the ) bed, is com pliance with the wish a:premed of the het simisfag, commu nicated with the Caledonian llosisty, sad pampasd for the future a division upon equal tooses of the fan= in question with the Scottish Hospital. The proposal had met with immediate assent ham the Celestes= Asylum, which he had hearty plums la reporting to the meeting. The hon. gentian= used a resolution to that effect, which had bed pawed, owl width was adopted and ordered to be lammed hi the Wastes. TM ateratag sepa rated after a vote of tamale Is the dladrwas.—The mutual festival of the society took pima lh the awoke( at the Lon don Tavern, where about tit gesth men eat down to an excellent entertainment. Lord Deem Stuart presided, and, after the usual loyal and patriotic damonstratioas, proposed the tout of the evening. Rejoiced as he was at the wide benefits worked by the society, theist:osta of which he was sure must come home to the bosses of every gentleman present, he could set but regret QM Own was sot a more numerous attendants era that Calladlhi; Weed he could have wished the ball is have boat 111111111 . 111 . 104, for such inceavisisam maid lave aced tor t h e ir cause. But for the roma that they ware It numbers, it was the more incumbent =those present to make increased exertion in the geed are. The object of the Scottish Hosp ital must rearms= ite•U strongly to any reflective mind. Its com mittee expended 2,70 W. annually in charity, a sum which must nocersar ll y afford very greet relief. The rums spent In charity in the metropolis were indeed enormous. It had been askelated that to the mendicants alone a sum of not Les them 1,200,0001. was annually given; and it was masa. &sly to think, even if that statement was exaggerated, how large an amount was bestowed upon the undeserving. This however, did not exist in the Scottish Hospital, where ' relief was never ministered without the strictest en quiry. His lordship cordially recommended the charity ' to their heartiest sympathies. The toast was drunk with enthusiasm, end was followed by a long round of similar compliments in beam of various individuals. The sub scriptions announced daring the erasing amounted to 2201, which included 501. from the Dualism of Sutherland, and 101. from the chairman of the day. The children's band of the Caledresisa Asylum stleaded, sad played a losai national airs ; tlardr Mid= slilate, es =off eit the anft of a Highland tokbellsed them applause as = . O it was well reserved. The vocal arreageasents were under the direction of Mr. W. E. Itsastord, In addition to whom, Mr. Shonbridge, Mr. Tarter, sad Mr. Kench lent their aristance. HUNOMPORD-MAIIK CT COMPANY.—The haltlearly ordinary general meeting of the shareholders in this com pany was held yesterday, at the company's office*, Villiers• street, Strand, for the purpose of receiving the directors' report, for declaring a duidead, and for ether badness. Martin Stately, Esq. chairman of the board of directors, prodded, sad eregratillated the shareholders on the inert's- Mg peewit, et the company. lie had acutely ever met ilea Misr sere favourable auspices. Notwithstanding the West illeredion which had taken place in all trades durltay the bat half-year, he could say that which few cons paths eleld tell their hareholders at the present time, issztaly, that they were enabled to increase the dividend, sad If their affairs went on as well for the next half-year, he had no doubt but that they would be enabled to give the proprieton a dill larger dividend. The report referred to the failure of the Charing-cross-bridge Company to obtain power' from pediment to sell the bridge, and to the re- Wading of the contract for sale and purchase thereof to Maim Jaakm, Wabnealey, and others. The directors tuogratalabad dee shareholders on the satisfactory state of the staticat mapany's affairs ; the earnings for the put year bed lir ezesected those of env former year, and had en- *bled the directors to increase the dividend to 21. ss. Bd. per share. The report was adopted, and a resolution fixing the dividend at 21. ss. Bd. was puled. A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors closed the proceedings. KINO'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL PORTUGAL -STREET, LINCOLN'e.INN.—By a return made at a meeting of the committee of management of the above charity, of the num ber of patients received during the present year, it appears that since the Ist of January, 1847, upward; of 15 000 patients have participated in the benefice of the out-door treatment ; while, during the same period, the resident pa tients numbered 1,121, being a very considerable excess over any year since the establishment and opening of the hospital. THE ROBBERY OF 8001. AT THE GREAT WESTERN MILIIINOB.—On Monday morning u some carters were coming along the Bath road, leading from Boonelow, their attention was attracted to a large substance in the water of one of the branches of the river Colne. It was found to be a sack oontansiog some weighty substanoe. On being exa mined, it was found to be the sides and all other parts of the iron chest stolen a few days since from the Paddington ter minus, containing a large sum of money, the property of the Bank of England. This discovery is considered as likely to lead to the detection of the guilty parties. IRELAND. DCHLIN, Nov. 29. Roscommon has again been stained with murder. Yesterday the Rev. John Lloyd, rector of Anghrim, was shot as he was returning from celebrating divine service. Another victim has fallen in Mayo, named O'Donnell, a bailiff on Lord Lucan's estate. The facts of these sanguinary murders will be found below. The principle of paid guardianships is working its way throughout the country. Instead of waiting for the peremptory order of the poor-law commissioners, the boards themselves are now considering, whether a paid direction would not be more economical, while it would entail more responsibility on the govern ment, and less upon the guardians. The Galway board, over which Lord Wallsooart presides, has given notice of motion to resign their functions, he adding thathe would willingly accept from the government ten shillings in the pound on his property—he did not add—from a purchaser who might take him at his offer. If the property of the country be swallowed in taxation, such men as Lord Wallscourt are to blame, who forget their duties in their love of ease. MORE ASSAISSINATION.—Accounts reached town this morning of the assassination yesterday afternoon of the Rev John Lloyd. The rev. gentleman was rector of Anghrim, and read service yesterday ax usual in his church. On his return home he was shot not far from the church. The Rev. Mr. Lloyd was a small proprietor, but was understood to have considerable money wealth. He was very unpopular in his district. A correspondent of the Moil thus announces this frightful outrage : —Mr. Lloyd was accosted on his way by a man, who walked up to the reverend gentleman, and coolly informed him that he had not long t 011,,. Mr. Lloyd said he wee not aware of ever having injured any one. " 410 h, yea, (responded the assassin) you have dispossessed a tenant on the Leitrim estate ;" and then pulling a short gun from under his coat, lodged the contents in the victim's body, who expired shortly afterwards. Another murder was committed in the district of Island. eady, Mayo, one of the most afflicted of that county. The account I have from a private source, but which I am sure may be relied upon. The victim is a person named O'Donnell ? a bailiff in the service of the Earl of Lucan, on whew business the unhappy man was engaged at the time of his murder. O'Donnell has recently been brought much into collision with Lord Lucan's tenantry. His lordship's agent, it is understood, has been served with a threatening notice. BANI DlPi__ munication in the Pilot of this day, I take the following : "A complaint was preferred by one of the officers of the branch bank against a junior officer of the establishment for gene ral insubordination and insolence of manner. An inspector was sent from Dublin to investigate the charge. In the course of the inquiry some circumstances transpired which led to a strict scrutiny of the books, &c. &c., and you may judge of the astonishment of the bank officer when he found that frauds had been committed with im punity for the last four years to en incalculable amount by one of the officials, who has since absconded, and for whose apprehension a warrant has heed placed in the hands of the local authorities. All the officers have been dismissed, with the exception of the sub-manager, who, it is believed, has been instrumental in bringing the matter to light. It is said that several persona have been seriously compromised by the parties implicated having been in the habit of ac cepting bills, &c., for accommodation'-uthe. There is no knowing where it will end, as several persona who had made lodgments with one of the officers found oa inqairy that not a penny had been placed to their credit. All the books of the establishment have been carried to Dublin by the bank officers and you may form an idea of the magnitude of the mistakes, deMencies, sad errors, when a new set of books have been ordered for the Ballinadoe branch, a thing unpre cedented in the annals of banking." Summit is Dontia.—Mr. Wall, cashier in the house of Richard Williams, banker and stockbroker, 32, Dame-street, committed suicide this afternoon about 3 o'clock. Mr. Wall continued to transact business as usual up to that hour, when he retired to the water-closet, where, shortly after, he was found with his throat cut almost from ear to ear. Such is the story which has reached me. An inquest is now holding on the body, when probably something may tran spire as to the motives which may have prompted the un happy gentleman. .1 con- SCOTL4ND. EDINBUROII, Nom 29. Sir George Grey hu intimated that the Paisley petition for relief to the able-bodied poor " has been referred in the first instance to the board of super vision." Time alone will show whether this is sig nificant of intended alteration. Meanwhile idleness and starvation are on the increase. In Scotland, it must be remembered, gold scarcely circulates, hence every one of our pound notes, it is cal culated, is turned over once in every ten days, or three times per month, and so a 11. note is in the course of a year employed in transactions to the extent of 381. But Peel's Bank Bill operates as a clog upon this circula tion. Like Ronald of the Mist, grasping the throat of the Marquis of Argyll, it admits of such a flow of life-blood as tolerates existence, and no more. Let the currency Ronald relax his hold, and the Scotch bankers, who know their business thoroughly, would set the Glasgow and Paisley mills agoing in a brief space of time. The return of Highland railway la bourers is another instance of social retrocession, and still continues. The arrival of the steamer at Wick, early on Saturday morning, brought us, says the John CY Groat Journal, another immense batch of dis charged railway labourers. Before breakfast time the 'streets presented the appearance generally witnessed about the middle of July, when the Highlanders arrive to enter upon engagements for the herring fish ing. One feature of those who arrived on Saturday is worthy of remark. All we saw were not only re markably healthy looking, but exceedingly clean. About Aberdeen the navigators will have a better chance, as the Herald of that town contains three ad vertisements soliciting contracts for trenching and draining. The Highland Society, too, at its first monthly meeting in December, is to discuss, amongst other interesting agricultural topics, that of the im provement of waste land ; but, instead of reading papers, it were well if the society would lay out some of its ample funds in purchasing and reclaiming some given block of waste ground, in order practically to exhibit what could be done in this way. The question of fever in Edinburgh is just now merged in the extensive prevalence of influenza. It has prostrated the capital much in the same way that it has done Dundee, Perth, &e. The churches and schools have well nigh been swept out. Yesterday the church attendance was half its usual amount, and to day some of the principal schools and academies were closed. The John O'Groat and other journals contain nu merous aoootints of shipwrecks in the north of Sooty land. Tees RAGGED SCHOOL, AT BDIXIIMMI/L.—A wad of gook tt various ehanicter, inedadiag grades of wearing appeal, and others of a fanciful mad enoiseatal character, have arrived from the United Stens at awe of the Ileetliela pods, white are intended to be mid, asd ry = ap plied to tee beseat of the ragged Kiwis at sad we believe that application la be sole, it wilt wet alio* been done, to the government aolhorittle, kr the stdalive of the azdeUe for Me beaevolent rupee . PROVINCIAL. THE LIVERPOOL BA;HINO7OIIIPART.—Yesterday afternoon, a special ffeneral meeting of the shareholders is this bank, which, it will be remembered, suspended payment about five weeks ago, wee held in the Clarendon Rooms, at Liverpool, and was pretty numerously attended. Alfred W. Fowles, the chairman of the director*, presided, and at MOB called upon Mr. Wilson, the manager, to read an address, or report. The report stated that events familiar to all had mated a revolution in monetary affairs, which would account for the present position of the bank. Te resume business there could be no doubt would promote the interests of all concerned. As the first step in that direction, the directors had made a call of 21. per share. The capital of the bank was too small, and the directors were of opinion that powers must be asked for ate general meeting to be duly convened, to increase the capital. The best mode to effect this, in the opinion of the directors, would be the creation of 12,000 preferential shares of 201. each—to call up 121. per share by instalments, that they may equal those already created—to exempt them from all liability for transactions of the bank previous to their creation—to secure to them a dividend of 6 per cent, per annum, by the guarantee of pre ferential payment, and allowing en equal participation with the original shares in any advantage which might he I( ilium,' above 6 per cent. This would make the capital 400,0001., of which 240,0001. would be paid up. A statement of the amounts was in the hands of every shareholder. Pram this it appeared that the liabilities on bills at the time of the stoppage amounted to 320,0001., but of this 100,0001. had run off. No large accounts were outstanding, and all were secured. The present amount in hand, how ever, was only 12,0001.; whilst 36,0001. was owing on deposits. Various questions upon items of detail were asked by Mr. Hatton and Mr. Cookson, and the report, on the motion of Mr. Mawdsley, was adopted.—Mr. Ward moved " That the proprietors present should express their entire confidence in the directors, and request them to continuo their exertions to carry out the views expressed in their report."—This was seconded by the Rev. Mr. Dixon, and carried with but two dissentients. CHESHIRE REPRESENTATION OF STOCKPORT.—Both parties are now fairly in the field, and the committees of lifr. Ker shaw and Major Moreland have nightly meeting., preparing for a hard stand-up fight, whenever the speaker shall name the missive for that purpose. Mr. Kershaw, at the solicita tion of a body of upwards of GOO electors, has readily con I mated to come forward again, and his address to a large body of his friends on Tuesday night exhibited great confidence. HAMPSHIRE. INTERESTING EXPERIMENT IN NATIONAL EDUCA TION.—I am just returned (earl • correspondent of the Atheruruni) front a visit to King's Soubourne, a village near Stockbridge, to which I was led by a desire to see what I Gould in so short a space as • single morning of the work lags of • national school opened just five years ago by the Rev. Richard Dawes, the incumbent. I had had the curiosity first to inquire into the parish statistics gi nerally, and found they were pretty much on • level with a class of agricultural parishes neither the best nor the worst that may be found in England, but decidedly inclining to the latter. The population may now be taken at about 1,125; the area 1 included in its boundaries being 7,500 acres—chiefly distri buted into large farms. About 800 of the inhabitants are congregated in • village round the church—while the rest are widely scattered abroad. There are no resident gentry to assist or take an interest in education ; and the farmers are so little inclined to co-operate, that Mr. Dawes declares he has never known " an instance of one of that class encou raging a labourer to send his children for • longer period to school, however trifling the work for which he might want them." Knowing beforehand these rather discouraging facts, I was curious to learn how the worthy incumbent of this pa rish had contrived to carry out his idea of establishing schools uniting the employer and employ ed , which should be fit to meet the wants of the occupying class of farmers, and there fore justify such a charge as might reasonably be made to that class—while at the same time they enabled the child of the labourer to obtain at small cost what he also requires— no distinction being made in the school-room, and only that in the end which is the necessary result of a position requir ing in the one cue the labour of the hands at much earlier period than in the other, and therefore curtailing the time given to education. Not to enter too minutely into detail, I will briefly state what my companion and I saw at King's Sonbourne. The buildings—comprising two large school rooms, a clam-room, and a dwelling for the master and his wife—are handsome and convenient ; and were built from the plans, and in part with the assistance, of the council of educatioa. The site (an ancient palace of John of Gaunt) was given by Lady Mildmay. We first visited the girls' school-room. Here we found a number of tall, intelligent looking, neat and modest, well-mannered girls—ranging from the ages of nine to fifteen. The ge age, we were told, is from ten to ten and eight months ; which consioned us some surprise, as it appeared to us below the stanched at this particular period. About 174 pupils may be reckoned as the numbers for the united schools; in addition to which a dame school of forty children exists in the village, serving in some degree as a practising school for the young pupa teachers now under process of training. A clam of girls being called up by Mr. Dawes, we had the pleasure of hearing good English reading, such as in every grade of society is rare, and among the lower orders scarcely to be met with. It was distinct, intelligent—more free from provincialisms, we suspect, than the reading of many young ladies' schools— yet, with here and there an exception, not laboured and pedantic. Great pains must have been taken to bring about such a result. Poetry was well recited. Questions bearing on the lesson were *eked by Mr. Dawes—both as to the meaning of words, the grammatical construction of sentences, and the subject of the lesson with its bearings. The answers indicated thorough comprehension, and were given in an easy yet respectful manner ; the tone of the whole striking us as admirable. The writing from dictation which was going on meantime in other parts of the school Appeared good. Needlework, being the employment the afternoon, was not produced ; but it is, I am assured, equally well taught with the rest. There could be no doubt, in short, that the general instruction was far superior to that which the daugh ters of small farmers and tradesmen can in general obtain in the country—and that the superintendence of the excellent clergyman and his lady must have • most beneficial effect on the whole. We then passed on to the boys' side. Here also we heard lessons given and questions satisfactorily answered. We could not find that any single thing was taught - • that there might be toe many things attempted is possible. But the capital and leading fact about which we had been anxious was fully ascertained : the employer and employed are taught together. No evil appears to be the result. The school is highly popular ; the state of morals is improved ; many young people have already been placed in situations of usefulness, and more are under training. The expenses are brought within a very moderate compass by means of the higher pay of the richer class; and y et the poor are contributors to a larger amount than is usual—purchaeing without apparent difficulty all the clam books used in the school. For my own part, I came away perfectly satisfied that similar painstaking alone is required to produce the same, or a better, result in many an obscure village. There will be differences of opinion respecting the desirableness of commu nicating so much general and silent., knowledge—and some will &drone** the introduction of more manual labour—but the principle is established , and the multiplication of such schools as Mr. Dawes's, uniting two different classes hitherto I kept almost distinct in our educational arrangements, will do more to civilise the people than any means that have yet been ,„evised for their improvement." RECENT DISCOVERIES AT EIVELL.—A paper, by Mr. Diamond, was read at the Society of Antiquaries, Nov. 25, on some recent discoveries made at Ewell. They con aimed of a great variety of Roman pottery, excavated from deep pits sunk in the chalk on a rising ground. The paper was illustrated by numerous drawings, and by an exhibition of the objects themselves. Among these was a glazed ribbed Teem], which appeared to be of medieval work, but the posi tion in which it wee found, and the total absents of any , thing of undisputed middle-age date, seemed to justify Mr. Diamond and others in considering it Roman, or Romano- British. Mr. Diamond referred to similar pits discovered in the vicinity of Roman towns and stations which had bees considered ae mere rubbish holes. In the Ewell wells Mr. Diamond noticed a degree of arrangement or order in the deposits, which led him to conclude them to bo of a sepulchral character, and that they were used as receptacles for common people and foreigners serving in the Roman army, whose remains had been exported, the vessels used at their funerals being par. pally brakes and they buried in these pita as memorials ; none of the Semi= and Romano-British pottery he con sidered to be of an exclusively domestic character. From the distance of Ewell from London he was disposed to suggest its being the site of the Roman Novicsnagus. Mr. R. Smith remarked that Noviomagtts was Laid down in the Itinerary of Antonious on Avery different route, most of the other sta tism' in which bad been pretty satisfactorily determined, sad that Ewell was on the line of a road leading to Chichester (Regnum), which, although still traceable at intervals, was • not mentioned in either the ancient itineraries. 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