The Express. — London, England, 1848-01-10 00:00:00

bt Court. WINDSOR, SUNDAT.—The Duchess of Kent arrived hem Pronmomhoese at the Castle yesterday afternoon, and visited her Majesty and Prince Albert. Lord J. Russell left the Castle yesterday afternoon ix his residence in Richmond Park. The ladies and gentlemen of the court and the demestie household attended divine write this morning is the privote chiral of the Castle. The Duke of Cambridge attended a meeting of the travoiss of the Bride)). Museum on Saturday. At the Chapel Royal, St. James's yesterday, the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Lord and Lady Ebnagton, Lords Sandwich and Canterbury were among the nobility present. MS APPOINTMENT IN PRINCE ALBERT'S ESTA. internee:VT.—Respecting the appointment in Prince Albert's household. alluded to on Saturday, we have been assured that our Windeor oorrespondent was in error, and that Dr. M e yer has been appointed librarian, and not domestic phy sician to his Royal Highness. HUTS OP REAR-ADMIRAL SIR THOMAS USSIIER, Y.C.H —The demise of tills distinguished officer, min amedevin-ebief of the Irish station, took place at the Admiralty-hose, Cove, on Thursday. He had attained the sge of nearly 70. CONFIRMATION OF T HE ES BISHOP OF MANCHER. OPPOSITION TO TILE PROCEEDING& The ceremony of confirming the election of the new Lord Bishop of tdanchester (the Rev. theta ames Prince Lee, M.A.) took place on Saturday, with ual formalities, in St. James's Church, Piccadilly. The commis' &losers ap pointed by the Archbishop of York and various other offi cials arrived at the church a few minutes, before eleven o'clock, where they were shortly afterwards joined by the bishop elect, who was accompanied hy the Dean of Manche,. ter, a nd attended by his chaplain , his proctor, Mr. R. Townsend ; and Mr. Binder, the officiating secretary to the Bishop of London. The commissioners present were, Dr. Bherrard Beaumont Burnaby, vicar-general of the Arch bishop of Canterbury ; and Sir John Dodson, Knight, master of the faculties—Dr. Addams and Dr. Twin attended as advecates for the bishop elect. Mr. Francis Hart Dyke, principal registrar in the province of Canterbury, and Mr. Barber, the apparitor.general, were also present. The vari ous parties having msembled in the vestry, The proctor for the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Manchester (Mr. Townsend) addressed his lord ship as follows :—.. May it pleuee your lordship—l exhibit my prosy (or the Rev. the Dean and Chapter of the Cathe dral Church of Manchester, and present to your lordship a certificate of your being elected to be bishop and pastor of the raid see ; and pray and once and again earnestly , request and entreat that your lordship will be pleased to give your consent to the said election." The lord bishop elect having read the usual schedule of consent, and Maud his signature to the same, the commissioners and other officers, with the bishop elect, proceeded from the vestry into the body of the church, where they took their seats in the pews immediately seder the reading desk. The church was unusually crowded for an occasion of thin description, probably owing to a rumour that Mr. Gutteridge —with whose appearance, a few weeks since, in the Court of Queen's Synch u defendant in a rule for criminal informs. Sion, applied for by the new bishop, our readers are familiar— intended to present himself and protest azainst the intended eanfirmation. This gentleman, as expected, was in attend ance, and excited no little observation. The senior church warden, Mr. W. Geed's, and other parochial officers, were present, and here end there, as if in anticipation of a die turbance, small knots of police constables might be ob served, evidently watching the proceedings with curious interest. The Rev. John Jackson, M.A., rector of the parish, read the morning prayers, commencing, as usual on similar ma ons, with the Litany. At the conclasion of the service, the Vicar General and the Master of Faculties, with the other officer., left their seats and proceeded to the plasm appointed for them in the centre aisle, where a table with chairs had been arranged for their accom modation. Having taken their seats, the Registrar read the license from the Archbishop of York for allowing the proceedings of the confirmioion to take place within the province of Canterbury.—The Registrar then read the cita tory letter from the Archbishop of York, appointing the fol lowing dignitaries commissioners for confirming the lord bishop elect:—The Vicar-General of the Archbishop of Can terbury (Dr. Burnaby); the vicar-general of the Archbishop of York (Mr. Granville Harcourt); the master of the facul ties (Sir John Dodson, Kt.) ; the official principal of the Arches' Court of Canterbury (Sir Herbert Jenner Fast) ; anti the Chancellor of the Diocese of London (the Right Hon. Stephen Lushingtcn.) Of these five gentlemen, only Sir John Dodson and Dr. Burnaby were present. The letters patent haring been reed, and the vicar-general having taken on himself the duty of confirming the bishcp elect in behalf of the commissioners, the bishop elect, who up to this perio I had remained seated in his pew, was here conducted to the table, and requested to take hi s seat oppo site the vicar general. The PROCTOR then, atandina by the ride of the bishop elect, said : I present unto you the Rev. James Prince Lee, elected Bishop and Pastor of the episcopal see of Manchester, and do herejudicially produce his lordship, and as proctor far the said dean and chapter do exhibit an original mandate, together with a certificate thereupon endors ed , touching the execution of the said mandate, ag ainst all and Morelia oppo ennobled do pray they may onpublicly Ladled. The VICAR-GENERAL Let the opposers be publicly , called. The APPARITOR-GENERAL then made his proclamation as foliose . " Oyez ! oyez ! all ye who shall or may, or will object to the cons. cration of the Rev. James Prince Lee, as Lord Bishop of the ep scopal see of Manchester, new come forward and state your objections, and you shall be heard " Mr. Games nee (who bad hitherto stood in the centre aisle, at some distance from the commissioners' table) here advanced, and in a firm voice, said : 1 am an opposer, and object_ to these proceedings. The MASTER of the FACULTIES, observing that Mr. Gut terridge stood outside a bar placed across the aisle, ordered it to be removed, and called on the opposer to come forward. Mr. Gutteridge having advanced to the table, and taken ,alt position immediately on the left of the lord bishop elect, ~ • The MASTER of the FACULTIES, addreme , g him, said — What is your name ? Mr. Orrrzatnos—Thomas Ootteridge. The Mama of the FACULTIES—Where do you raids ? Mr. GUTIERIDOE—In Cannon street, Birmingham. The MASTER of the FACULTIES—Of what profession or employment are yon? Xr. Gurreamot —I am a surgeon. itMamas of the FACULTIES—Do you object to the ooh of the Lord Elected Bishop of Manchester? . G UTT ERIDOE—I do. MASTER of the FACULTIES — Have you your objections up in what purports to he due form of law ? Mr. GUTTERIDOI-1 have. The MASTER of the FACULTIES—By whom are they taped a Mr. oUTTERIDOR—B7 myself. The Mairren of the 1. ace LTIEB—Let me see them. • Mr. ClurrEalooa here rend the following protest: 1, Thomas Gutterldge, a member of the united church of England and Ireland, do protest against the proceedings of this day for the confirmation of the Rev. James Prince Lee, bishop elect of Man chester, on the ground that it is unlawful to proceed to such oortar motion elsewhere than in the province of York, and a.so on the ground that due and soffhient nonce and publicity have not been Spend such in.ended confirmation.—Tuowas Ourraarrios, member of the Royal College of Surgeons, residing at No. If, Cannon-street, Birmingham, Jan. 8, 1818. The MASTER of the FACULTIES—We cannot entertain your protest. Mr. Gerraamoz—l object also to the confirmation of Mr. Lee on the ground of his immoral conduct. Mr. Gut. teridge hero placed on the table a document containing 'even articles, in which the charges be has previously urged *phut Dr. Lee were repeated in detal The MASTER of the FACULTIES, without noticing the protest, here read from a written document as follows: " We feel it to be our duty not to permit you to appear and oppose the confirmation of the Lord elected Bishop of Man chester. We sit here as commissioners of his Grua the Lord Aiebbishrip of York, for the express purpose of confirming the election made by the Dean and Chapter of Manchester; and we consider that we ere bound by law to proceed to the confirmation, without committing or suffering any let or hindrance thereto. The statute 25 Hen. VIII., c. 20, is im penttive upon this matter ; it leaves no choice. By the sth section of that statute the archbishop, upon the election being signified to him in letters patent from the crown, is required and commanded to confirm the election, and to invest and consecrate the person elected. By the 7th sec lion of the same statute, it is enacted, that if the archbishop, after such election should be signified to him by totters patent from the crown, shell refuse and do not con firm, invest, and consecrate every person so elected and dignified within twenty days nest after such signification, or if the archbishop or any other person admit, maintain, alto tr, obey, do, or execute any censur a, excommunications, interdictions or any other process sr act, of what nature, name, or kin.l, soever it be to the contrary, or let, of due execution of this act, then that the archbishop, and all other persons so offending and doing contrary to this act, or any part thereof, and their eiders, counsellors, and abettors, 'hall run into the dangers, pains, and penalties of the statutes of provision and promunire, made in the 25th of Edward 111. and in the 16th of Richard IL We are not disposed to run into those dangers, pains, and penalties, and we are resolved neither ourselves to do, or to allow, so far as we can prevent it, any act to he done by another which may be to the let or hindrance of the confirmation of the Lord elected Bishop of Manchester, or which may in any way contravene the provisions of the statute, and especially as you have not put your objection in due term of law. Mr. tierreamoe said—ln the full belief that I am acting in obedience to the law, I beg permission to plate on the table another instrument, containing the same charges varied i in point of form, which I think it is desirable that I should do, because of this case being a novel and peculiar one. Mr. Gutteridge here placed on the table another document, de scribing the same charges in more technical phraseology, the p r i n cipal difference being, that the first article set forth— " That by the eceletiastical laws and canons and ounstitu tions of the church of England all clerks and ministers in holy orders are required to be erave, decent, reverent, and orderly iu their general deportment and behaviour in every respect, and to abstain from drunkenness and any other excess whatsoever ; but that, on the contrary, they are enjoined to excel all others in purity of life, and to be exam plea to other people. And this was and is true, public, and notorious, and so forth." And in the seventh, which was se follows: "That all and singular the premises were and are true, public, and notorious, and thereof there was and is a public voice, f a me, and report, and of which wet proof be ing made, the party proponent prays you, the worshipful judge of this wart, that right and justice may be effectually done in the premises, and that the *leaden of the said James Prince Lee ma, not be confirmed, and that the petitions of the Doss and Chapter of Manchester, given in on this behalf, may he rejected until sack time as that opponent shall have had time allowed him to prove his said bel." The Manna of the FACULTIBO—Wa cannot receive it. Mr. Gorrzatnon—Then I will lay it on the table. The document was here placed on the table. The elm. firmatioa was then proceeded with, The Psocron saying —I accuse the contumacy of all and singular persons cited, intimated publicly called, and not =, and on pain of such their contumacy pray that t n i every of them be precluded from the mesas of farther opposing spinet the said election, the manner thereof, or the person elected in this behalf; and also that it may be decreed to be proceeded to further ante in this business of confirmation, the absence or contumacy of the persona so cited, intimated, publicly called, and not appear. iag in anywise notwithstanding, and I porrect a schedule, which I pray to be read. The Vio•seGimssza. having read the first schedule, and it, Paocroe proceeded—ln pain of the contumacy of all and singular persons cited, intimated, publicly called, and not appearing, I give this summary petition in writing, which I pray to be admitted ; and that it be decreed to be proceeded summarily and plainly, and that a term be aeldjned me to prove the same immediately. The VICAIL-ORNERAL ..aid—We do admit this, your sum mary petition, so far as the same may be by law admitted, and do decree that it may be proceeded summarily and plainly, and we do assign you a term to provethia your sum mary petition immediately. The Paocrun then said—ln pain of the contumacy of all sad singular persons cited, intimated, and publicly called, end not appearilig,. and in support of proof of the matters contained in my said summary petition I exhibit a certifi cate touching and concerning the election of the aforesaid Rev. James Prince Lee, Master of Arts, to the said election, and her Majesty's letters patent before read, and I allege that all and singular the matters set forth in the maid ea bibita respectively ware and are true, and so had and done es therein contained, and I pray all of them to be admitted, and that a term be meigneel me to hear sentence instantly. The VICAR-ORNBRAL—In pain of the contumacy of all and singular the persons so as aforesaid cited, intimated, publicly celled, and not appearing, we do admit these public instruments, and do assign to hear sentence instantly. The PRoCTOR—I pray all and singular the said oppose= to be again publicly celled. The Vicea-GcsattaL—Let the opposers be again pall* called. The APPARITOII-ORNIRAL then repeated the proclanur don given above, upon which Mr. Gurrnatnon again addressed the commissioners in the following terms: I do protest against these proceedings for the reasons already . placed before the court. r The M of the ecta:rum—We cannot hear you, sir. The Pawn's then said—l Wean the contumacy of ead singular the persons so se aforesaid cited, intimated, publicly called, and not appearing, and I pray them to be pronounced contumacious and in pain of such their contumacy, that it be decreed to be proceeded to the precouneive your definitive sentence, and I ;menet a schedule, which I pray to be read. The Vicsn.Gres east. then read the second schedule, and giT it. te i PROCTOR—The lord bishop elect is ready to take the oaths required in this behalf. The v loin-GENERAL—Let the oaths be taken. The Lotto BIOHOP ELECT kneeling, then took the oaths of allegiance, simony, and supremacy. as follows: "I, James Prince Lee, Master of Arts, elected Bishop of Manches ter, do sincerely promiseand swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to her Majesty Guam Victoria. So help me God. Ido swear that I hammock on ainioniacel payment, contract, or promise, either directly or indirectly, either by myself or by any other to my knowledge, or with my consent, to any . tartan or persons whatsoever he Or cancelling the procuring or obtaining the bishopric of Man. carter, nor will at any time hereafter perform or ratify any such Wad of payment, contract, or mimic, made by any others without y knowledge or consent he help me God Jesus Christ. Ido osier that lulu bun coy heart abhor, detest, and abjure, so impure sad heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, that princes ex communicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of some, may be deposed or tnurthered by their subject; or any other whatever; and I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate, bath or ought to have any Jurisdiction, power, superiority, pee eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this roam. Its help me God. , ' The Pliocron then maid—l perfect a definite sentence in writing, which I pray to be read and given. The Vics.a-GesiAtst then read sud affixed his signature to the following :—" We have amply found, and do find, that the said election has been rightly and lawfully made and celebrated by the chapter of the cathedral church of Man chester, of the Rev. Father in God, James Prince Lee, Master of Arta, as ell cted, a man both prudent and discreet, deservedly laudable for his life and v.mversation, of a free condition, born in lawful wedlock, of due age, and that there neither was nor is anything in the ecclesiastical law. that ought to obstruct or hinder his being confirmed Bishop of Manchester, by authority of her most excellent Majesty our Sovereign Lady the Queen." The Paocroa then said—The lord bishop, elected and confirmed, and myself, pray a public instrument and letters testimonial to be made out of and concerning the premises. The Vican-GeNraxL—We do decree as prayed. The proceedings here terminated. The present is the first occasion on which the election of a bishop has been opposed since the days of Archbishop Laud, whose nomination of Bishop Montague to the see of Hereford, we b.lieve, was op posed by the Puritans. The opposer then not having his objections set forth in writing was refused a hearing by the —csaionms.—Obsereer. THE BISHOP ELECT OF HEREFORD. The protest of members of convocation at Oxford in favour of Dr. Hampden has 346 signatures already attached to it; and the address of the clergy and others hos between eleven and twelve hundred. We understand that the list will be kept open up to the period of Dr. Hampden's confir mation at Bow Church, which is expected to take place some time in the ensuing week. The following is Dr. Hampden's reply to the address from his parishioners at Bwelme TO TIM PAYIIOIIOI4SIIJI OF SWIZZ& My dearly-beloved wish's:aura—Amid. the anxious thoughts of the present moment the exprearlon of your affection and sympathy bas been the greatest comfort to me. Happy in. deed is that parish where at cordial a union of feeling eab... as that which has prompted this your moat kind and 000eiderate address. I hare not been able to reed it without many tears, for it has made me feel throughout that your heart wain with my heart ; it only speaks indeed the fact that we have lived together as brethren in Christ, meeting in the House of 0.1 as Mende, and edifying one another in the pure faith of God's holy Word, and in that charity which is the hoed of peace. I bless God, my dear friends, that you join with this memorialof your affection a renietabrance of the lowan of Gospel truth which I have sedulously endeavoured, through God's gram, to iDetrOlte on you. Unspeakable. Indeed, will be the to blessing, both you and to me, if I th an have left folly and deeply impremed on your hearts the easing doctrines of the Gospel ; if this alone shall be chiefly recollected by each of you, that " I determined," with the Apostle c Paul, " act to know anything among you save Jesus and flan crucified," tint I led you to Him, your great God and saviour, the Lord, your righteousnees, for pardon and Justi fication, and for the sanctlfy lag grace of his Holy Spirit, to enable you to walk worthily of your holy calling, and to bring you finally to everlasting life. The Lord, the Divine Head of the church, is about to *end me, my dear brethren, from ywi, to tabour elsewhere in a wider field of ministerial duty, but never can I expect happier days than those I bare spent tunongst you. Greatly locked have I been indebted foe any success that may have attended my miniatry in the pariah to yourselves -to that kiodnere and respect, that support and encouragement, which I have received from you all; and In particular from the good example of those poreessing hi. thence among you, you have rendered my ministry truly a labour of love by your kindness and confidence. But though absent from you In person I shall not cease to be with you in spirit— often shall I be thinking of you, especially at the stated times of public prayer, when you will be assembled is our beautiful church — the n shall I be lifting up my heart with you often in your prayers and hymns of prate, though I boa them not so I have ever delighted to do when present in times mat. Often too shall I be • praying for you, nor can I doubt that I shall have the help and mmfert of your prayers in my behalf ; in these especi ally I would most earnestly desire ever to live in your affectionate remembrance. May, then, the gracious Load, of his Infinite mercy, bring to perfection the good Ned sown in year hearts by His Spirit, and so effectually keep us all la Distant' awl leve, that we may meet hereafter in His more immediate aster more to he sepa rated, as ow flock in the fold of the am lbspleerd, Jets Christ our La.& —Believe me, my dear tharkeisis heell..kyour faithfully de voted minister, and ever affectionate Mod. P. D. Harrow. Christ Church, °dud, Dee. 21, 1847. BATHS AND WASH-HODSES Loxx.—At the Maryle bone vestry on Saturday, Mr. G. Daniel regretted th, w ash `a the twelfth hour, the commissioners of baths and houses were doomed to disappointment. Raving affixed their corporation seal to all the preparatory measures le quilted, and having received the approval of the Treasury, they applied to the Board of Public Works for the loan of 3,0001., wbo replied that they could not advance that sum. The Bev. Dr. Spry. their chairman, then applied to Messrs. Claude Scott and Ce., their bankers, who instantly, and in the handsomest manner, cmsented to advance the required sum on the same conditions that they expected the loan from government. In conclusion, he moved that the com missioners be authorised to negotiate for the loan with their bankers. The motion passed. REDUCTION IN THE PRICE AND AVERAGE COST OF GAO.—The agitation for reduction in the price of gas, aided sa it has been by the spirited conduct of the Maryle 7 bone vestry, in calling in the aid •f a new company has had its effect. On Saturday the Imperial Gaslight and Coke Company issued a circular, giving notice that the price of their gas by meter will be reduced to 6s. per 1,000 cubic feet from 31st of March next. Turning to The Builder of Sa turday we find, by a single instance, bow well the company can afford to reduce their rates. The editor of that journal has obtained ,tom • private establishment near Leicester, which is situated midway between the coal-pit mouth and the metropolis, is return of the met of gas manufactured on the premises, and including every outlay in its production and management, From this it appears, that under disad vantages which render the return a high one, much above a fair average one of the kind alluded to, an article is pro duced, on a small reale, at 25., including all nece it the ssary and con ti ng ent expenses ; while in the same viciny, at on a large scale at same period, the same article was selling more than 7s. DROPOHT OF THE PAST YEAR.—The amount of rain which fell at Chiswick in 1847 was only 161 inches for the whole year, as appears by a table published in last week's Gardeners' Chronicle. This is aI. so quantity than 1111 fallen in any year since the commencement of the present century. THE CoNmcr M'Co7.—The capital sentence of the convict M'Coy, tried for the murder of Mr. Bellehamben, has been commuted to transportation for life. A VIOLENT EXPLOSION took place on Friday afternoon on the premises of Mr. Cuptt, • baker, close to the railway station, at Wandsworth ; the report shook the neighbouring houses to their foundations, and on the arrival of assistance the interior of the shop was a b mass of of ruin, under end amongst which lay the insensiblebodies THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1848. Xr. Oopit, bi wile, act dila They lien sees Idampi Ira dm mem et rvMMs la which they bed leek heeled, mil epee We. empeeed to the fresh air chewed due et awl maim, bat a efilliem were dreadfully islets'. Ilifithsasi lathe MOM IMP els *umber recently Wilt, sad was epees" ea latisiresg week. At the thus of the leeiss time wee upwards of five bushels at bread in it, whisk Mr. Ceps. and Ur wife was placing nay to take out, he& big behind the erreater, sad the hid In the emus Oahe drip; it was breed awl" rein there wee tbeeetere se waesmity be the gee, mad the ebeemelWese mime dle seeaneass seemore emmeediaary, town& es it was • gas explodes, and of a vast body, to judge friseathe damage done. The entire floor ing, under which there is ao cellar, was blown up, some of the hoards forcing their way partly into the first-floor; several joins of this floor were snapped in two, and the bonds forced tip. Both shop windows were blown oat, the two heavy folding•doors torn from the jamb posts, and the destruttion continued to the bakehouse, a distance of eighteen yards from the shop. The opposite house had all the win dows broken, and the damage altogether will awing to Mira hundred 'pounds. The es was only laid on from the IN. es Ikeda, last, and various opinions are afloat es to the sliskiasy of the work; the matter will, however, be investigated by the company (a local one). On Saturday Mrs. Cupit was declared out of danger. NUMEROUS FIRES ON SATURDAY.—During Satur day last seven fires occurred in the metropolitan district. Between nine and tan o'clock a number of children, who had been left in a room at No. 29, Marlborough-street, St. James's, were playing with some hinters, which becoming ignited the flames spndily communicated with the bed and furniture, and the children became surrounded with flames, but by prompt assistance they were all rescued.—Shortly before midnight a fire occurred at No. 9, Princes-court, Princes-street, London-road, in the occupation of Mr. C. Dram. It was caused from a spark flying out of the fire, which set a quantity of wearing apparel in a blase. Owing to the timely discovery the inmates escaped, and the fire was speedily exunguished.—finother outbreak occurred at No. 91, Fetter-lane, in the tenure of Mr. G. Lake. The heat of the furnace attached to Fetter-lane chapel was the cause of the fire. The damage done was inewsiderable.—A fourth fire broke out at No. 337, St. Mary-axe, the property of Mr. Cohen, diamond merchant. The cause was similar to the Int : the heat of the furnace connected with the adjoining baths fired the bond timbers in the back counting-house. —Another fire, supposed to be the work of an incendiary, broke out upon the premises occupied by Mr. P. Mills, a cabinet-maker, No. 41, Tottenham-court-road. When dis covered the contents of the workshops on the ground floor and the workshop on the story above were on fire; and the flames were not extinguished until considerable damage wee done.—The other fires were not of serious importance. INQUEST, SATURDAT.—A CHILD SUFFOCATED IN Ban.—Before Mr. Baker, at the Goldsmiths' Arms, Gold smiths'-row, Hackney-road, on view of the body of Williams Herbert, aged six Nneks. The deceased, on Tuesday night, was placed in bed by his parents, in good health. the next morning, about seven o'clock. upon his mother waking, she found her baby without any signs of life. He was put into a warm bath, and Mr. Chambers, a surgeon, sent for, who was unable to restore the vital functions. That gentleman stated, from observing marks on the :eft side of the cody, and the general appearance of the deceased, that death must have been the effects of suffocation. Verdict, "That the deceased was accidentally suffocated." LARGE AND SMALL FARMS. Such is the title of an essay, composed by Hypolite Pussy, the ex-minister, for the Institute of France, and which is now most seasonably translated and published in England. .the author begins by attributing to Arthur Young the pre ference of large tarots in England, fur which the reasons are toe well known to need repetition. Mr. Palsy say,: " But if well vouched for facts seized on the popular con viction in England, in other countries facts of equal authen ticity led to conclusions altogether opposite. Belgium, for example, had two V3llllls of arable country completely differ ent from each other. In the Walloon district the system of Large farms prevailed ; and, notaitheanding the natural ?Witness of the soil, the retsina from such terms was small. The district lying betwixt Ghent and Antwerp—the country of Wale and Termonde—wan, on the contrary, ;entirely co vered with small farms, and there, lands originally sterile, had become of an admirable fertility. Nowhere was the land let at so high a rate, was so much live stock reared, or was there found a more dense population in the enjoyment of so much comfort. At the sight of so striking a contrast it was perfectly natural fur Belgian agricultural writers to hesitate in &warthog the preference to large farms; indeed, some of them went so far Ills to denounce them as nuissame of which the country should be cleared ; and, in 1780, the States of Ilainault actually passed a law for their suppression. Nor did Italy end Spain any more furnish adherents to the doctrines of Young. This was because, in both three coun tries, small farms possessed a proved superiority over all others, In Italy, whilst the large farms of the Roman States are found to be tke receptacles of poverty and sloth, the terms of Lombardy, not measuring more than twenty-five hectares, and the metairies of Tuscany, that in general do not exceed three or four, are the seats of the most prosperous activity. In Spain there is nothing that cso be compared to the small possessions of the kingdom of Valencia and Lower Catalonia, a decisive fact that left no doubt on the part of the natives as to which system the preference ought to be awarded. " Finally, a cumber of eclectic' sprang up, who pro *minced great and small farms to be equally eligible, and, reserving their blame for those of middle sire, stamped the latter with reprobation. These last, it was said, possessed name of the adrenteeres of the other two; they were too large to admit of the minute attentions which give value to small locations ; they were too small to allow of the distribu tion and the economy of labour that insure high profits to large ones; neither the spade aor the plough husbandry could be profitably practised on farms whoa limited extefit would not employ • team. Nevertheless, in several parts of Europe were to be found middle sized farms in a very thriving condition ; but, in the heat of controversy, this fact was overlooked by all parties; and, in spite of the Essay of Shaw on Belgian farming, It was only in 1802 that Dr. John Ball of Etinburgh, in his work on the scarcity, produced a certain impression, by recalling attention to the fact, that In Flanders there were farms from fifteen to thirty hectares In the most thriving state, and that there forty hectares were looked upon as too much for one person to manage, so as to draw from the soil the greatest possible profit. The French revolution came to complicate the controversy, and to render it at onoe more animated and less professional." The controversy between large, small, and middling fermis, of course awoke when France was to be re-organised by the Bourbons in 1816. The English school of large farms and large estates perorated and argued, but could make but little impression against the equable division of i property made by the Code Napoleon. It was only in 1828 that a law was presented to establish entails and prim"geniture. It was rejected, and 1830 soon came to rout for ever all projects of the kind. M. Paasy gives a sketch of the division of agricultural holding in Germany : " Germany remained for a long time a stranger to the discussions of which, in England and France, the size of farms and the modes of cultare were the subjects. They were only taken up for a moment by the Germans, when Frederick IL distributed the lands in his grand Bsilwicks among 36,000 families, drawn from all the neighbouring states. This measure was disapproved of by Prussian finan ciers, who affirmed that the new settlers could not prosper on their petty holdings, and that the king would thereby lose a part of the revenues formerly drawn from the bailwicks. As remarked by Count Hertzberg, it was transporting, for debate at Berlin, the theories put for ward by Arthur Young. Frederick paid no attention to gash strictures, and the controversy died away of itself. In Germany, moreover, everything concurred to favour the breaking down of estates into small portions. " The end which, at that period, the governments of the north. both German and Scandinavian, had in view, was to promo for the inhabitants of the rural districts the advan ftes accruing from proprietorship; and, for the attainment el that object, many states did not hesitate to make great sacrifices. Hence arose the system of perpetual loam, which the great Frederick applied to the lands detached from hie grand Bailwicks, in order to consign them to families that cultivated them themselves; hence, also, came the ran soms by means of which Maria Theresa and Joseph 11. ren dered hereditary in the persons of the cultivators the recite due b the peasantry to the owners, from whom they held their lands in perpetual usufruct, and which measures they also attempted to introduce into Hungary. In our own times a similar policy has marked all the plans intended for the abolition of predial servitude in the various states where it prevailed. Betwixt the seigneurs and their pea sants—some tenanting on account of the landlords a rnetairie, but removable at will, others, real slaves attached to the sail, working under a steward or bailiff—have been effected, in sizes and under conditions varying according to local circumstances, subdivisions of the soil. And the newly emancipated occupants, in return for the lands acquired by them in absolute property, have merely to pay definite sums, or perform certain fixed services, annually. In fact, this bestowal of land on the poor cultivators has established farm ing on a small scale on all the points where these grants have been made ; lout no material objection has yet been taken to such grants; and it is without any predilection for the system which they create that the changes have taken plus, M which the progress of society every day discloses the ad vantages. At the present day a circumstance has been printed out in the north of Europe, which has sxrdted same umoselnees, namely—the breaking down and dislocation of small properties held by the peasantry, and the consequent want of uniformity in the cultivation. " Accordingly, several governments thought it advieable to edicts for the purpose of facilitating the reunion of the scattered parts of domains, and for preventing their dis junction. A project of a law, proposed by the Prussian go vernment for the Rhenish provinces , indicates the views which are prevalent in Germany on this matter. This pro ject, which the Diet rejected, required that for every species of farm there should be assigned a minimum extent of ground, below which ne parcel should in future be reduced. In this case, it will be seen there was no question about a system of great or small farms; the prop os ed law solely re garded a special inconvenience, for which a remedy was sought, and which in Germany at the present time menu, perhaps, more attention than anywhere else." Mr. Pasty seems to thinks that the nature of the soil has most influence in deciding whether farms should be large or small. " There are many sons, for example, which are neither suitable for farms of a small or middle size. These farms only thrive by raising delicate and high-priced articles with corn; they require a soil which can grow every variety of plants, and which can be easily adapted to the rearing of those that are most costly. The latter are not suited to tenacious soils, which prevent their long and spiral roots from penetrating deep into the earth. All kinds of land, on the contrary, where corn crops succeed, are suitable for large farms. On these are raised no vegetables that require much manual labour; all the crops consist of COUNTY OF LIMERICK. CAPIT•L CONVICTION. - Andrew Deo aged about 17, was charged with the wilful murder of Edmund Murphy, at Carrick-Roche, on the 9th June, 1847. The Attorney. General stated the case for the crown. It appeared that the father of Andrew Dee, the prisoner, was pessemor of some land in this county, from whieb he was ejeeted by the Court of Chancery, under which he held , and that a person named Noonan immediately became the tenant. This occurred either in the latter part of the month of May, or in the beginning of June last, and, as a con sequence of Noonan having been so put into possession, the Dem entertained a feeling of extreme hostility to him. In a short time afterwards the murder occurred. The prisoner, Andrew Dee, and his brother, Patrick Des, waylaid 'Noonan, and a person tamed Murphy, who was in company with him, about a mile from the town of Oalbally. Andrew fi red, and killed Edmund Murphy, and his brother snapped a pistol at Noonan, the crkcipal witness in the case. Patnck Des was immediately apprehended and brought to trial at the last assizes., convicted of the offence, and gen- Mooed to be hanged. The sentence was afterwards com muted to tranapertation for life. The prisoner now on trial, however, eluded capture, left the country, and it was only in November last he was arrested on board a vessel in Liver pool, bound for America. lie was then living under an assumed name. John Noonan was examined by Mr. Bennett, Q.C. llis direct examination corroborated the Attorney Generale statement. On croas-examination by Mr. Olira, there appeared some slight discrepancy . in his pretest evidence,and the account given of the transaction in hminformations before the Jabal aiia i le gan L , a blacksmith. proved that a few days before the murder of Murphy, Andrew Des, the prisoner, and his brother Patrick, entered witness's forge and gave him a pistol for repair ; witness handed back the pistol to Patrick Dea, observing that it met at half and full cock, and that he could do nothing better with it—but is not sure that Andrew was present at that particular time. Mitetholornew Frawley, a young lad, proved that on the day et the murder of Murphy , he was weeding in a garden saw hie own house, when he heard a shot. lie immediately Jumped up on a ditch, and saw the prisoner Andrew Des noldaa; away with a pistol in each band. The smoke was from the direction where he afterwards saw the body of de awed lying. Cross-examined by Mr. O'Hea : I was present at the inquest, but did not state then what I state to-day ; nee did I make any intervention to a magistrate, because I waa advised not to do so. I did not see Patrick at all on that day although I jumped on the ditch. To the Lord Chief Baron : I was not sworn or examined at the inquest at all. Sub-constable Cronin proved the arrest of the prisoner on board a vessel at Liverpool, when, on being asked his name, he stated it to be Patrick King. On cross-examination by Mr. Ogles, the constable stated that he never heard any• thing against the prisoner's character before the present charge.—The case for the proVeution closed here. Mr. O'Hea, for the defence, rested the case of his client on the possible mistake of the principal witness, Noonan, as to the identity of Andrew Dee ; and, as an ingredient to sup port that view of the case, said he would produce a police- Sortable to prove that he (Noonan) addressed Patrick Dea r " Andrew." This, coupled with the evidence of the boy, who oily saw one person running from the scene of murder, was, he contended, sufficient to raise a doubt in the matter. John Hayes, the police-constable referred to, deposed that en the day of Murphy's murder he was at Dea's house. He was present when Noonan came in and said to Patrick Den, " What a short time you were changing your clothes since you fired et me."—Mr. O'Hea : Did you hear Noonan &d -ame Patrick Dea as Andrew. then I—Witness: No, I did not. Noonan only said, " What a short time you were changing your clothes since you tired at me. and your brother Andrew killed Murphy." (Great sensation.) Mr. O'Hea immediately sat down, and intimated that the case for the defence had closed. Mr. Bennett, Q.C., declined making any observations in reply for the crown.—The Lord Chief Baron charged the jury in brief terms. They found a verdict of Guilty with out leaving the box. The prisoner received the announcement with much more apparent composure than any other person in court. In consequence of his extreme youth, and the generally enter tained belief that in the unfortunate transaction he was merely an agent in the hands of his elder brother (already convicted), much commiseration was expressed for and sym pathy excited in his favour.—The prisoner was then ordered to be remanded, and brought up for sentence et nine o'clock on Saturday morning. ATTACK' SO a DWELLING, AND ATTEMPTING TO LEVY CONTRIBUTIONC—CURIOUBCABE.—DenUityartwucharged with having, with others unknown, appeared in arms, and forcibly entered the house of a person named Noonan, in the month of November last, with intent to rob the said Noonan of his moneys. There were several counts in the indictment varying the charge in form, to all cf which the prisoner pleaded guilty. The Attoruey-General intimated that there were other in dictments against the prisoner—one of them for a capital offence, but that as he had pleaded guilty to the indictment on which he was now arraigned, the crown would not pro ceed with the more serious offence. The Lord Chief Justice passed sentences He had looked over the informations, and he was bound to say that a more audacious case of intimidation or attempt at intimidation never came under his observation. The facts wery very pe. euliar. It appeared that the prisoner was one of an armed party who attacked the house of the prosecutor. A man in his own rank of life, one of the small fanner class, and at tempted to compel him by threats of violence—they being armed at the time—to give money as a contribution, or aid to support the moat flagitious system of crime that could disgrace any country. Now come the peculiar features of the case. Ryan demanded a pound note, then 10s., and other BOWS, but Noonan having declared his inability to comply with the demand, they left the house, desiring that he should be prepared on the following Monday, at which time they should again call. What was the result / The prosecutor, and he felt bound to mark, and was glad of having the op. portuity of marking, the opinion of the court of the forti tude and determination of a person of his class of life. The prosecutor would not submit to be plundered by robbers and assweins. He gave information to the police of the circum stances, and at. the appointed time on the Monday night fol lowing a party of police were ready for the attack. True re appointment, prisoner and his associates appeared to demand the money, and a conflict ensued, in which one of the party attacking was shot dead by the police in self defence. This was not all; for the prisoner himself fired a shot and wounded a police constable, for which, but for the clemency of the crown, he might be placed upon trial for his life. Under these circumstances he felt bound, and in this he was ere tioned by the opinion of the Lord Chief Baron, to pass upon the prisoner the heaviest sentence of the law, that of death. The sentence of the court, therefore, was th at he be transported for the period of his natural life. FORCIBLE ENTRY AND DEMANDING ARMS.—Patrick Farrell and John Farrell were indicted for breaking into the dwelling-house of Patrick Berkman, at Tooaph, on the 13th November last, and for having then and there, with others, assaulted the said Berkman and demanded his arms. Several witnesses were examined for the prosecution, but none were produced for the defence. The jury retired (tor the first time since the opening of the commission), and, alter a deliberation of nearly two hours, came into court and intimated that there was some doubt entertained as to the identity of ene of the prisoners, though they were perfectly clear as to the guilt of the other. They were sent to recon sider their verdict. The jury were eleven to one for conviction of the two Farrells. Medical te,timonv was given to the court of the illness of one of the jurors. The Attorney-General consented to receive the verdict against one (so entry being made on the issue paper regarding the other). The sick juror was not the recusant one. Arreaniso IN Amts.—Thomas Ilinthy was indicted for appearing in arms to the terror of her Majesty's subjects at Kilronan, Nov. 30 last. The case was fully proved, and the jury, without leaving their box, found the prisoner guilty.—Sentence deferred. SCOTLAND. EDINBITRON. JAN. 7. The Highland destitution board is again in deep water. At a meeting of the Glasgow section held yesterday, all the reports yet come to band from their six inspectors represented that the destitution was already fearful, and that immediate relief was neces sary. In addition to scanty crops, deficient employ ment, awl other ordinary cause., the wants of the Highlanders have been considerably augmented : First, by the parochial boards not doing their duty to the poor ; second, by the deity shown by government in advancing the money for drainage, by which pro prietors have been prevented from giving employment to labourers ; third, by the apathy of proprietors in re gard to the poor on their estates; fourth, by the refu sal of proprietors to furnish labourers with tools even when work was supplied by the board. All these points were amply discussed. On the first a letter was read from She chairman of the board of supervision, which stated that it was the sheriffsand not the board who could enforce aliment to paupers when refused by parochial boards. The remedies of the Poor-law Act are indeed singular; if a pauper gets too much the heritors can complain to the civil court, if a pauper gets too little he must go to the board of supervision, if he gets nothing his remedy lies with the sheriff : granting all this, the supreme board has undoubted control over inspectors and other officers, and if they were to suspend these gentlemen on all occasions of neglect, some good would surely be done. With retrard to proprietors, their conduct has been highly discreditable. In some cases the people had to work on roads with no more efficient tools than their fingers, and in one Highland town in danger of fever from extreme filth the authorities refused to supply the mere implements for purification. In suggestion, landlords are not indeed so poverty-atrickea—thus we have the master of Strathallan modestly proposing that the board should establish manufactories in his district, an overture which the board had no hesi tation is rejecting. But if his lordship is really in earnest for Highland regeneration, he should rise in his place in the House of Peers and move the abolition of the law of entail. But besides the proprietors the people are often greatly to blame. Dr. Buchanan, one of the ministers of Glasgow, mentioned that in one instance a spirited landowner could not get men to drain his property. But whatever may be the exact amount of culpa bility attaching to landlords or people, or however much to laws and customs, one thing is certain, that, in time to come, no wail of Highland destitution, were it so loud as to rend Glencoe by its echoes, will ever cause the Lowland population to contribute another destitution fund. " Donald" and his master must learn to minister to their own wants by putting their hands to the plough and spade, in the self-same way that their benefactors do. Various corporate bodies have been making " moves in the right direction." The Earl of Airlie, Lord Panmure, and other proprietors in Forfarshire, have sent a requisition to the convener of the county to call a meeting for the purpose of petitioning for the repeal of the Bank Act of 1844. The town council of Cupar, as will be seen below, have done themselves the honour of petitioning in favour of their townsman's (Mr. Pagan's) plan et road reform. The Glasgow Council has petitioned for a revision of the stamp duties, and particularly for the abolition of inventory duty on estates of leap value than 160/. During the incumbency of the present treasurer of the Glasgow Infirmary,, 2,2301. of legacy duty has been paid by him. The Ayrshire Iron Company are not to carry on business longer than may be necessary for the realisa tion of the property. For the payment of the first instalment to creditors 101,5731. has been subscribed, of which 30,3491. 3s. 11d. has been lodged in the bank. On the kindred subject of exchange com panies, an " History and Defence " of them is an nounced for publication in Glasgow. As the filthy state of churchyards even in rural districts is a sanitary matter of great importance, remedial facilities should be made known. From a correspondence between the inspector of the poor in the pariah of Brechin with Mr. Smythe, the secretary of the board of supervision, it appears "that heritore are bound to provide additional burying ground, ; where, from the circumstances of the parish, it has become necessary. The ground, however, so pro . vided, must be paid for; and I sin of opinion." says Mr. S., " that the money must be raised from, and the expense borne by, the proprietors of lands and k houses in the parish, in proportion to the real rents of such lands and houses." Were the authorities ' to act upon this interpretation of the law, the nuisance would soon be remedied. grains, earn, end ibider; and the rile err, that only carry artificial grams, eltem renewed, ars by se mum unsuitable foe meek darer If they are heavy, sold. sal raked with wet during the had swan, they require roes phis& ; sad the inners& miller of hones that then rooms seesseary dose net provost berg extended over large =liege those labors whisk their draplisity renders easy ta Omit. Thus it is, that, as Asa as me 0111000011 Werner is derange the nailed errs of things, the guilder et the h•nd to be tieshiew of the eine of posisedoes. L i m sequin Ohtani where grain mops and a few vegetable* of tray Won Mae best to maturity ; end small farms diramd these p■sies of the territory where all sorts of crops may hi grown. hio In England even, whey. 00 many causes enngenste in brew of large farms, there are still a consider able gisiaber of Ina ones ; and it is upon wile of • silicious ramp mature that they have maintained their ground. lor 611 Mr. Porter (" Progress of the Nation," vol. I. p. 180) *Ma are in England 94,883 farmers, who labour their pennsiene without any other maistaace than that of *drawling. By adding to these an unknown number sub esq*sy may one or two servants it will be found that there ca n t in England a much number of middle or assalliiired farms than is gene ly supposed. In France, it is where the vegetable mould is of a clayey nature, as in Brie, Beaune, and Vexin, that large firms abound ; while in French Flanders the light and open soils have there given rise to small and middle-sired farms. No country surprise Belgium in an agricultural point of view, and none arm better than it how far the influence of the distinctive quali ties of the soil extends. Each sort of soil there gives rise to a different species of management. In the Walloon country, in the environs of teethe, .Todoigne, and Nivelles, the heavy and strong lands are let out in very large farms ; in Brabant, the lighter and more friable soils have given rise to farms of a middle order; and on the light sandy plains of St. Nicolas and Termonde, only very small farms are to be seen. Be sides, such facts are everywhere else apparent; for it is rarely observed that the striking contrasts which the lama cantons or even parishes present, are traceable to any other cause than the varieties of the soil in the different portions of the territory." The author oontradices the idea that the state of the law has so much influence as is generally supposed " It is not needful to go out of France for a proof of there being no necessary connexion betwixt the dimensions of estates and those of farms. What in our country distin guishes the greatest domains from others, is their being composed of a greeter number of contiguous farms; but of farms which, let out to different tenants, have each only the quantity of land usually let to one person in tbe dis tricts where they lie. That is true of the departments of the centre and the west, where the metairies and farms on great estates are not different, in any respect, from thews fiend in their vicinity. The like is also true of the rich departments of the north, where the proprietor know their own interest better than to unite, in a tripe farm, posiessions whose high rents attest their perfect aihresi. Son to the exigencies of the load consumption. In .a ward. the same thing holds good throughout; because, in every locality, the extent of farms depeuds on *muses entirely dies tinet from the amount of the fortunes of those who are the proprietors of them. " Neither the equality of rights in heritable successions, nee the free access given to all to the advantages of property, conduct, as so many persons have imegined, to the levelling of conditions and fortunes. If this regime communicates more mobility to fortunes, it still 1 room for the forms. tion of all the diversities of condition, without which society would cease to be progressive. It is now upwards of half a century since the destinies of France were confided to it; and the working classes Dave not ceased to increase in num ben, while the higher classes, far from being impoverished, have gained in opulence, and contain among them a greater number of large fortunes than at any forme( period. What is more, in spite of the subdivisions which the soil has under gone, the number of proprietors has not even augmented with the same rapidity as the total population ; fur, whilst the latter has advanced at the rate of 14 per cent. in twenty years, it is only at the rate of 8 per cent. that, within the same period, the increase in the number of proprietors has taken place. These facts„:easy to verify (and all other coun tries where the privileges of real property have been abo lished present the like), prove how powerful are the laws which, in all ages and under the most different institutions, have implanted the principle of inequality in the bosom of societies, and how mistaken are these who apprehend that France will one day resemble a draught-bred, where each family, reduced to its small square or patch of land, will be compelled, in order to subsist, to labour it with their own hands. The effect of the laws which in France have freed property from the shackles of primogeniture and entails, has been, not the gradual breaking down et private fortunes, but the disrersal of the estates of whirl they were made up. Two causes have more especially cow curred to break down more rare, than to recompose othen —the one is the divisions effected amongst heirs of domains formerly belonging to one person ; the other, and the most powerful, consists in the advantage which has hitherto at-1 tattled to the sales of estates in separate portions. Small capitals being the most numerous, are attracted towards all the investments that snit them ; and the smaller the lots are which are offered for sale, the greater is the number of competitors who come forward to raise the price. Hence, it is usual to break down, for sale, into al lots, properties, each of which formed one whole ; and this accounts fur those subdivisions which, in several departments, have been going on with so much rapidity. But whatever advantage may accrue to sellers by the breaking down of their properties, it would be a mistake to imagine that these sales in detail ne cessarily change or modify the established systems of farm ing. The soil and the management of it are but rarely united in the same heads; both have their distinctive causes et oresaimtion, sad, far from following property in its mu rations, it is, on the contrary, the exigencies of farming that give to these mutations their rules and limits. In fact, every proprietor, who disposes of his property, has one object In view, namely, to obtain for it the largest stun possible. Thus as soon as a piece of land or an estate cannot be divided without losing a part of its tearable value, he refrains from dismembering it. Mr. Pass, admits the great evils arising from a too great subdivision of property amongst a labouring, and in their peculiar circumstances, a pauper class, but he maintains that this evil naturally corrects itself, and that land being found worth nothing in such small portions and few hands, will in the nature of things be weld and agglomerated, and brought back to productive dimensions and productive hands. IRELAND. DUBLIN, JAW. 7. Ryan (Puck) is to die on the 7th of February, but there is some doubt among the lawyers whether the day may not be deferred in consequence of the change from the Bth to the 7th, though in all probability the sentence will stand. It is said, the Chief Baron having once passed sentence, wufunctus officio in that par ticular case, and had no power to recal the prisoner, who had retired from the front of the dock, to receive a net sentence. In many unions relief has been refused to pauper applicants, on the ground of previous non-residence. To correct this perversion of the Poor-law Extension Act the commissioners have issued circulars to the various boards, to the effect that previous residence in the anion is not a condition precedent of relief, the sole ground being destitution. By the recent act relief is to be administered to all classes of the desti tute, either in or out of the workhouse, and the consi deration whether a destitute person has or has not previously resided in the union cannot affect his claim to relief, although the mode of charging the cost for such relief, either to the union at large or particular electoral divisions, is to be determined by previous residence. If the pauper had not resided for thirty months in the union the expense is chargeable on the union, and not on the division in which the claim might have been made. The motion of Mr. Latouche to substitute money relief for bread in the South Dublin Union was lost on a division. The additional charge involved in the proposition was not agreeable to the guardians, with a debt of 7,0001. on the union. The Mining Company of Ireland held their half yearly meeting yesterday. No dividend was de clued, the gross profits having been expended in fitting new and extending old works. The future is more encouraging than the past, for, independent of greater produce, the company look to an amendment of the Mining Acts, which are now under the conside ration of government. The audited abstract of ac counts shows the company's assets to amount to 192,8071., less liabilities, 10,6631. ; making the net asset. 182,144/. A rate of sixpence in the pound has been made on the city for the maintenance of the police in the en suing year. The financial condition of the Irish unions appears to improve. The rate collected in November amounted to 131,558/., against 121,2551. in October. Total of rates collected in 11 months in 1846, together with a portion of December, 390,0711. ; for the same period in 1847, 801,4581. Of the aggregate rates collected in November, Mtn akordea NOnmAer 'natol Connaught £29,?M Total £131,588 For October 121,233 Uncollected at the close of November : Meter £143,720 Muneter Lebow Connaugbt — 230,379 143,868 Total— .. ... 2859,905 The inmates in all the workhouseww on the Ist of November were 98,219, against 83,183 in October. The greatest number within walls wee in January last-111,621, and the least in August-74,947. Of the 98,219 inmates in October, Ulster, with 43 work houses, contributed 25,427; Munster, with 35 ditto, 31,482 ; Leiaster, with 34 ditto, 12,726 ; and Con naught, with 18 ditto, 98,219. The total for which accommodation. permanent and temporary, has been provided is 121,818, so that nearly 25 per cent. is still required to fill the workhouses. SPECIAL COMMISSION. WALES. •- - - A MORMONITIL—At the Cardiganshire sessions, on Tuesday, Thomas Harries, an itinerant preacher, belong ing to the • ect called " The L atter-day Saints," or " Moe monites," pleaded not guilty to the charge of stealing an Eoglish and Welsh dictionary, the property of David Davies of the Crown public-house, LlanddewysAhemrth, on the 15th of Dec. last. The prisoner preached. at the prosecutor's house, and lodged there that night. On the following day he requited the prosecutor's hospitality by walking away with his book. The next day the prosecutor went alter the prithner, to • place called Ittlielastach, and asked him if h• had taken away his dictionary by mistake. The prisoner de nied it in the most solemn manner, calling God to witnen that he knew nothing at all about the book in question. On being informed by the prosecutor that his daughter had seen the book in his hard on the morning he left the pri soner offered to come and confront his daughter, and accord ingly called at the prosecutor's on the following day, where he again denied what the daughter said, but subsequently confessed that he had taken the book, intending to return it, and that it was then at a house is the neighbourhood, when he had left it. It, however, appeared from the prisoner's statement, which, after due caution, he made and signed be fore the committing magistrate, that the hook was in his pocket, both at the time he made the solemn denial to the prosecutor, at Ithywlasfach, and also when he subsequently called at the prosecutor's to confront the daughter. The prisoner said that he was in the habit of carrying a Bible in his pocket ; that he put the dictionary in that pocket by mistake, and thought it was the Bib'. e ; that when the prosecutor asked him if he hail seen the dictionary, he became confused, and denied it ; that as roan as the pro- , eecutor left him, the " Evil One " persuaded him to tear o ff the title-page, containing the prom tutor's name, and to hid* the book in a hole in the ground; but that whilst digging th hole, " God " suggested to him to keep the book and return it. When the prisoner was taken into custody he was at the house of a blacksmith, where he was engaged to preach that evening. Several witnesses to character were called, all of whom acknowledged themselves to be " Latter-day Saints."—The learned Chairman summed up very favourably for the prisoner; but the jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to two months' imprison ment without hard labour. \ PROVINCIAL. YORKSHIRE. THE EXECUTION OF REID THE MIRPIELD MUM DIMER, took place at York Castle on Saturday. A third edition of the For/rehire Gazette says:—" Since his condem nation Reid has frequently been visited by his friends. He leaves a father—a mother—a brother—and a wife and infant child, and for the latter he has expressed much concern. His contrition has come upon him too late. It is a painful fact to reflect upon that, in passing sentence upon the guilty, punishment is necessarily inflicted upon the innocent. At the same time, as was recently remarked by a high au thority, the justice of the country would always be defeated, if persons were allowed to put forward at the last hour, after the commission of their oftences and after conviction, thou pleas for mercy which they ought to have considered before they gave way toythe temptation of committing the crime. Therefore, the husband and the father should consider the wife and the child in the hour of temptation, for it Is too late to put them forward when the period of retribution has arrived. Being an Irishmen and a Roman catholic, Reid woe regularly attended, after his conviction, by the ministers of his church, and bia contrition and repentance were, we understand, com plete. Under these circumstance' the chaplain of the caetle, the Rev. Thomas Sutton, was of course as participator in the religious services which have been performed, and no "condemned sermon " was preached on the day previous to the execution, as is the case when the culprit 14a member of the protestant church. On Friday afternoon Reid was visited by his wife, father, mother, and brother; the inter view was one of a painfully affecting character. Long before day-break on Saturday morning the carpenters were busily engaged in erecting the scaffold, and goon after their work was completed' the criminal was removed sale customary from the condemned cell, and conducted to a room set apart forths purpose,close upon the spot where he was to expiate his offence. Durit g the forenoon he was attended by his epritual *risers, who administered tJi him the peculiar rites of that church of which he was a member. So intense was the intertst which the conviction and execution of this man had excited throughout the West;Biding that many thousands of per sons, particularly from the more immediate locality where. the murders were committed, arrived in the city—some by the early trains and others by various conveyances and on foot, to witness the sentence of the law being . carried into , effect. At'an early hour, there were to be seen en:the streets signs of *mid, table bustle sod excitement, and long before twelve o'clock, the hour of execution, crowds of persons were wending their way to the fatal spot, in order to secure the best positions for seeing the proceedings at the drop. Up to the latest moment parties continued to arrive in front of the castle. At all the stations on the different railways, especi ally in the West Riding, every available teat was eagerly engaged, extra carriages being brought into request; and the streets of the city from the railway station towards the castle presented one continuous mass of people. We should not over-state the numbers present on this occasion at thirty to forty thousand individuals, Leeds, Halifax, Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Mirfield, and Wakefield, had all contributed largely to this dense assemblage. Be tween eleven and twelve o'clock, the operation of pinion ing was commenced, and shortly before the fatal hour the under-sheriff, Nt . Gray, lierj . anived at the castle, and in the usual form demanded the body for execution. The cul prit being brought forth the procession was formed, and moved forward to the scaffold. The prisoner was attended by the Rev. J. Render, and followed by the under-sheriff, the governor of the castle, and the other officials. Reid knelt down on the platform, engaged in prayer with the mi nister of religion by whom he was attended. At the con clusion of the service he rose, and crossed himself on the breast He *en turned round and said, ' I wish to say that I alone am the guilty person ; that Id•Cabe is entirely innocent; and that no human being in the world had any thing to do with it but myself.' He then resigned himself into the hands of the county executioner, Nathaniel Howard, who adjusted the fatal noose, and the cap being drawn over his eyes, after a momentary interval the bolt was drawn. The culprit, who was a light made man, appeared to suffer much for a few seconds. The body remained suspended for an hour, when it was cut down, and placed in a 0101, to be interred in the precincts of the prison. The immense crowd behaved with decorum—_passive spectators of the , eerie." IRISH CRIME IN YORKSRTRE.—A barrister, at tending the last winter gaol delivery for the county of York, writes that he was induced, in consequence of the general conversation at the bar on the subject, to endeavour to ascer tain the amount of Irish crime committed in this English county ; and the following statistical facts are obtained from Mr. Noble, the governor of York Castle, and from the calen uar of the prisoners. Numbers of prisoners :—ln the calen dar, 119 ; out on bail, 7 ; total, 126. Of these 27 were Irish, or abort 25 per cent. of all the crime committed in Yorkshire and tried at the last winter assizes was committed by Irish men. Of these crimes, 29 were crimes of violenoe,—mor ders, manslaughter!, robberies, and assaults ; and of these crimes 19 were committed by Irishmen ; or about 66 per cent. of the crimes of violence in Yorkshire tried at York assizes were committed by Irishmen. Of these crimes of violence eight resulted in death—ia murder or manslaughter; and of these eight crimes, six were committed by Irishmen ; or 75 per cent. of the murders and ccanslaughters in York shire tried last assizes were committed by Irishmen. NEW WEST RIDING 111AGI8TRATE8.—At the quar ter sessions, which have been held during the past week at Kaaresborough sad Wakefield. several gettlemen, when ----) names bars been recently added to the commission of the peace, qualified as magistrates, namely : W. J. Ya . -*_i, v BK., Haslewood-hall, Tadeaster ;G. J. Jarrett, Esq 2 , r - „---.9./. field-house, Doncaster • E. Parker, Esq., AlkincoataLCotit, , • , . - 4„, gie T. Adana, E6q., Bahia-lodge. Clithero i T. st. A1r,W,.,. •"":- . ...:,... te _i . „...),. --. .. .tr • • 4. 41 : r'''' -t lg $ •*/ x 0