The Express. — London, England, 1852-10-07 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 7, 1852. Here the defendant's counsel protested spintt that letter being prodoesd in cook willt it was not proved Qit lad e'er teen deestoksi to its address. nett 3, on examinatioa, answered be did *notirtilm whethe it had beert sent or net: but that, it often hammed that diptcbes were written under the meeNre of the &Enegees, and then never sent off. To the decree directing that, instead of Leopold 11., the provisional government should be named in public acts or sentences, defendant stated that that decree was mused by the magistrates having abstained for two days from ',renouncing sen tences, not knowing in whose name to renounce them, and added, that by so doing they indirectly admitted the legitimacy of the provisional govern men:. The president of the court then rose, and solemnly denied that the Tuscan magistracy had ever acknowledged the provisional government as a legi timate one. The court adjourned to the follow ing day. GERMANY. ZOLLVEREIN. BERLIN, Ocr. 3. The representatives of the coalition governments have quitted Berlin. They requested that a sitting of the conference, fur the purpose of delivering the Munich declaration, might be convoked on tho 30th nit. This the Prussion government, after its circular despatch of the 27th ult., was obliged to decline. The coalitionists took their leave of tho Prussian commissioner, remarking that the Munich de claration had, under existing circumstances, become needless, whence I conclude that they have not delivered it at all. The Berlin conferences have thus irrevocably reached their end; and, though the channel of diplomacy is to be kept open for further negotiation, the Zullserein may be regarded as irretrievably dissolved. It seems that the customs union between Prussia and Hanover is in great danger of not being realised. Count Alvensleben has been sent on a special mission to Hanover, to try to maintain the September treaty. It is to be hoped that he is em powered to make the most liberal offers, not only in the way of guaranteeing any amount of customs revenue which the Hanoverian government may have resolved on; but also in making whatever reductions of the tariff may be necessary for reconciling the Hanove rian aristocracy and people to the union with Prussia. But still it is a question whether Austrian influence is not too strong with the court there. Austria is intent on completely isolating Prussia. And I need not say how much the influence of Austria is encouraged in its attacks on progress and free trade by the fact that a protectionist and retro grade ministry is in office in England. Were there a liberal free trade cabinet in England, its in fluence, especially in Hanover, wouldicertainly deter the government there from breaking the September treaty, if Prussia offered free trade concessions as a boon for keeping it. The Hanoverian ministry was occupied last week in discussing whether it be ad visable to execute the September treaty or not. It would, without much deliberation, have decided for repudiation, but that it fears thereby to cause a split in the Stenerverein, because the Grand Duke of Oldenburg, a firm adherent to Prussia, has threat ened, if the treaty is broken, to break off his union with Hanover. A few days must decide the affair. Prussia, however, is prepared for all events, and con templates with equanimity the possibility of re maining alone with the Thuringian duchies. What it loses in facility of intercourse, it gains in indepen dents, of action. BERLIN, Oct. 4. The Hanoverian government has recalled from Berlin its commissioner at the Zollverein conferences, M. Kleine, who conducted the negotiation of the Sep tember treaty. This evening, too, a telegraph de arch announces that the King of Hanover had ar rived at Darmstadt, on his way to Stuttgart and Munich. There are very inauspicious symptoms, from which one might augur the failure of Count Alvens leber's mission. The Kreuz Zeitung has been confis cated to-day, on account of an article repos:ling the government with being unable to keep any ally, or gain any party. Vbe Court. BALMORAL, Oar. 6. Her Majesty and Prince Albeit, accompanied by the Princess Hobenlohe Leagenbourg, the Prince et Wales, cad Priam Alfred, drove yesterdsy afternoon to Inver amid, ea a visit to Mr. and Mn. Farqsharson. The Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, sad the Priceese Ilelena went yesterday to Birk Hell, the residence of Sir Jame and Lady Clark. The dinner party yesterday included the Dashes@ of Kent and the Panels. Adelaide and Prince Herman& of Hoheelohe Lengeaboing. Sir John Pekoistou left Behmeral yesterday for England. Sit Edwin Landes(' returned to Mar Lodge yesterday. Mr. Secretary Walpole left town yesterday =mina for Balmoral, to attend the Queen. Sir James Emerson Tennent, Joint-Secretary to the Board of Trade, attended yesterday for the first time, and transacted business at the Board of Trade. The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town yester day from his seat, Ilughenchnt Manor, High Wycombe, Ducks. Bir John Trollopc had an interview with the right hon. gentleman yesterday, at his oflicial residence in Downing-street. Lord John Manners is staying at Cadlands, near the New Forest, the seat of A. R. Drummond, Le' q. BELGIUM. The ten days which intervened between the pro- mulgation and execution of the Presidential degree aggravating the duties to be levied at the Frew& frontier on coal and iron coming from Belgium were so well improved by the importers that on the Valen ciennes Railway alone 9,341,000 kilogrammes of coal and iron were conveyed in 1,680 waggons across the customs boundary between Sept. 24 and Oct. 1. This is at the rate of nearly 300 waggons per diem. The transportation of Belgian coal by the canals from Mons to Conde, and by the Sambre and Meuse, was very much greater, and effected with equal di. ligence• ITALY. PIEDMONT. TURIN, Ocv. 3. 250 apples cif M. Victor Ilmo's work " Napoleon the little bate been seised ea eoalleoated at Arma. TUSCANY. In its sitting of the 28th alt., the Royal Cast continued the examination of Guerra:4 An order of his was produced directing the Minister Adam! to pay 80f. toNioolini. Otterrazzi stated it wee the leis, of a carbine which Nieolini had made a went *lto his nephew, which he (Guerrascij diempteving he ordered the price to he paid. IteadisithatAdami had erreeesawly put that sum to the neseant of the public treasury, it being a private debt, which de fendant would have paid had he had fte to think of it. The decree by whisk the provisional u se▪ ddeplored itself coustituted and mord its ablators brag then read in smart, theserenel valid the attention of the bra to the hot that the prorated gavenunsat led rids every sett totarer so mai as of the constitutions' km et s led next rood pralaustion aiineesd by ` ' the prhismal d by G govorm tha d row to the n. rad col lectively slimeo n ases Tolso onto w orn meat. The armories woos mansto, sod the do ormat wee chiefly intssid to reeve soy nom& nem existing among the Mahan* es to the pew& bility of acts of violins, dim erldstlng pardon. Aa to the removal el the Grand Dud essatehre, Ounsui maintained be hid set adored, hot only stroostsd to its :serval in those giros whirs col& sirs right have ashes on osomot of it. Where- Eas Parini of the Overt listed him to ex a bar sikonad llardini. Minister of iga Amer. M the Ulattellee et Libor, di. resting his to osannitlans bis smirks to that depsetwont to the Irma r-adar spats, and to cured them to rises, the Greed Decal army. Onsethind anewseed that the said letter was no act of Me, nod saki Est be hid to his charge. To the =baying lewd the oath of fidelity to the upon the troop, defendant NOM thar :r a d l ast imposed that oath, since every one wee free to tete it or leave the service; sod that in as phiss• the taking of the oath wee figegisd, in eider to reveal the troops from die heading. The detement wee also borne out by the sett doesmat weed by the clerk—viz., a letter from the goverment delegate of Meals, under which "sr' written the klitswfig lines by Guerra :xi : My deer Prateet,-41eht est by all ;. do_ whatever C,Zur thilik Peg % a ril a b il. De li ars;• 4B . kad tit f t r s " si hearose. Mm be deeply eat that m Leopold I bee sbeadered die matey to eaarela) sad Invasion, with ad amead at ( - motive. Ile has taken r much esii eft him as pcsdhle, and Goths very utmost border of die ma be b siedlisoleglei UM with owe foot upon a bath word, DM the ear upsa lead. We will create ea way, ye will dad eit, mad If we tea do nothing we *ell ell be blows up rimuse ad' Ma). Ounossi implored this httor by striae that it was orders as the 14th st Fairry, sr of the most Impsolsson daps se th A at pssisC whir the is an sow many wls owi wee pair= klies et br the government width bad no ng de a the s wham it meld rely. So it that the adsh of the brim were constantly the rids. ter* imposing measures, and dictating Me *IL NEW CITY PRISON, HOLLOWAY. The ummittee appointed by the Court of Common Coosa to any eat the instructions in the erection of this edible havfag eamplfted their labours, and all necessary arreagamare having been made by the magistrate for ins. mouses imempaelea, the two bodies proceeded on Tuesday to the primes. where the emamittee, headed by Mr. Alderman Wire,their obelemsta, and attended by the City architect, reminal the lard Mayor, with Aldermen Humphrey, litmgeeve, FUN* and Cahill, and Meson. Carter eel Mak the -heel/, et the entrants& anillf viewed the several per of the building, the whale of the party smembileil in the magistrates' ream. the Led Mayor in the ask, sad the ester gees haviag bees Melted, Alderman Wire pressatod the key te his lordship, ia Mims of deliver ing up the peasessies 111 the prison treat tie banding com mittee to the City megiaretes, and in dales so expressed hie earnest here that While the prima week be found well adapted fee the pumiehment of evilisers, it would else, by the jealous mai home treating; and the moral and saimarel lestruetkm which the would receive, prove an Imaleulabie Merin la • perms. meat es that as a leppu s =mee vs members ry nosy midi Nam its walls to beams eel um. fel ef The Lard Mayer, es receiving the key, beaded it to Lint/mat Wright. appointed gement pre men, and ex pissetd the iiMilden ef the memben of the Court el Aldermen at martin the esamaittee epee the ecemisa, mad ceagratalated the essamiletee urea the eempledea et their arduous labours in the maim of es spesisse ad weitehle building, highly credgegrie es tt wee to the Wee nod Mimi of their excellent areithest. Mr. Banning.lb krieldp fulapathised with the abehema la the emilinents ex. by that gag trusted *et the peat ends azrrel wield he mot rselleed. 0a the meths et Mr. see-ded by Mr. Low, the unenimem thesis et the esmaillea were passed to Mr. Aldine= Wise fur his unwearied mad Mutual& era. Tian Si shakoes thraugh the whale pried of tbe taking in whisk the Ablemsea Mated thet im we make we t r die sambeie etas Ours of /Mums whim Sieve bed beta tbeessbeet the meet whet 00-optimal& Alla NM remoras fns Aliwes gWq, in favour it the aolitery system, la reply at sem einerratisms trom Mr. Low, who enterteisei veep egged* Mr. Deputy Memissa mew& and Il ia len aim ikevr emeaderi mere el drabs Is the Lard Mayor which dee Led /1 acknowledged. Mr. Aniterten wpm/est Akirs~a Wire mended meolutka of *sake at Mr. Dwain& to which 4 tar. tinamy ersa Wean to thet gadgets% ability in oat his sir may dillsaltise whisk pre senteiNaneselves Is the peeper el the work. Yeamsrem a great nine - ef primers ware resolved tato the New Poise, from Clampiwamest prises. The aesseamodstiaaelladel f. the a u; L ls es All VS ows : Female*, SO; luveuthie, 61 male reesption cells, 14 ; punishment cells, ; AcotDiox UM BovT EASTERN RAILWAT.— La .sheaf insane& it the Tunbridge Will. of Her they Wan& of liierailway w Shaft Wail. TilS heavy saris the day bad floodad the line Mines Tie Insetard aisle` away Milts lad rags ter a =read this so endisaly that the nigh, te AM he essideat aewraad, Ida the eine Myer. bed pond ewe ersto hese bane= at whisk eine al we rah. Os nioaiq hem bewiner, with she US p.n. trail, the water lad vises te woe Mlle stew the level of the rails, sad bodies the dmair we wesseheil the train wee shrews if the lee es its die. The ingise.drieer end flennen wen between the eagles sad tester, and there eaill eristesee smut be pawed. Mere wawa as penesigen is tie led guard left salient waren@ to go he sollitme regligly did - the was esseandate, that a *suit of a tins nilas had to be made te get at the overthrown trigs. ielegise-him lirenra were extriented so oseible. as& meneyed to the Tumbrils, W bea nary, where it was sessetaleed that tie delver hod 'swat with sone lashes of a sewage shaidag ; but he imam Beth are was len = i bex* enstaised a frestare Otis high. All treks were of wens slogged boluses Ilesiont and end he heft it b nemeitsili the lied bee • MIMI ossified esiereeed Vilna dm. silks MVO, 411 Asithril end WM& Vtit Ills adh o se lama wee • trek yeah pap fa the niessig was retuning Ma Iltratings. bee es MOB Madre Tassel it ran inn es bentenee body :f a = whisk ineLeilieeted there hem the bills, sad eine* ineashately ha the rails. Animism wee speedily preened eri the panangese retuned unhurt to Hastlage, where they remeined main sees of Sunday, when, the line bevies besa repaired, tiny were sesseyed safely to their denieetiers GMT WINTLIUt ItiILWAL—A serial to the Zed er Derby sod the Dowd el Trade, he presodatise to the wows, is big strioleesel sod stud by the tahrhatests of Devises sod jig nlaeltesAsed. Ise ea Wee the NW of des 'Molded Noss ef die Gnat W who rised is 184847 sod Be gym lisoesdlrd Westbury, F/1000. sod Tamotsu, to Basest, Isom es the Hungerford Ensuing. sod which wield manse the die. tens. between Loam sod Exeter by thirty olive, end also the sztoseleas beams Devises sad Bath mad Bristol. HER MAJESTY'S ROUTE FROM THE NORTH. Further information has reached us on the sub ject of her Majesty's journey from the North, and we are now enabled to state that the statement which appeared in Monday's Express was correct in every particular; the paragraph on the subject, copied from the Birmingham paper into the London papers, is iseserect. We observe that at a meeting of the town council of Wolverl.amnton, on Monday, tho Mayor requested the Town Clerk to read the announcement referred to, and his wor ship corroborated what therein appeared relative to the Queen's passing over the Stour Valley line, by intimat ing that he had received • telegraphic message front the officers of the company, announcing the feet. We observe that, after copying our paragraph, the editor of the WoSeerliaseptun Chronicles intimates that there is "a mistake in the last sentence, as the Stour Valley Railway is not yet connected with the Bristol and Birmingham." We beg to state in reply, that there is no mistake whatever. The connexion is formed by means of the London and North-Western Company's " Birmingham Estension," which, although not yet formally opened, has been tra versed daily by engines for months past, and is little more than a mile in length. On her Majesty's arrival at the Wolverhampton station, an address will be presented by the Mayor. At Chester, the Marquis of Westminster, and all the magnates of the district will be on the station to receive the Queen, with troops from the Castle, and artillery outside, to fire a salute. ROYAL VISIT TO ma BRITANNIA BRIDGE.— BAN4OI, TIIIIBDA7.—The approaching visit of her Majesty and Prince Albert to this city, on their return from Bel moral, is the theme of general conversation, and great pre mations are being made to welcome the sovereign on this her first appearance in the principality. An extensive suite of rooms are engaged at the Tentlyn Arms Hotei for her Majesty and the royal party. According to present ar rangements, the arrival of the Queen will take place about 6 o'clock on Wednesday evening. The royal train will leave the London and North Western line at Warrington, proceed to Chester by the Cheshire and Birkenhead Junc tion, and then take the Holyhead line to this city. On Thursday morning her Majesty, with the Prince Consort and several members of the youth ful royal family, will visit land inspect the stupendous Britannia railway bridge over the Mend Straits. The return journey will be re-com menced, and on reaching &shiny Junction, near Chester, her Majesty will make her first trip along the Chester and Shrewsbury Sue. Passing Shrewstntry on to Wolverhamp ton, her Majesty will retake to the Lo n d on an d N ort h Western, and, arriving at Birmingham, proceed over the newljoopened line to Oxford, sod so on to Windsor Castle. BANOOI, WIDNISDAT.—A public meeting was held last night in the magistrates' room in this city for the purpose of con, idering what steps should be taken to evince the lop alt y of the Welsh on the approaching vi s it o f h er Majesty and suite to the neighbourhood of the Menai and Britinnia Bridges, The Hon. Col. l)ouglas Pennant took the chair. It was decided that, of the stay of the Queen must mecum rily be brief, and as her Majesty would doubtless wish to be se private as possible after her fatiguing journey, no addresses or other formal proceedings should take place. The chairman suggested that, among other signals of rejoicing, the Carnaryonshire mountains should be illuminated by brilliant fires, the hills of Anglesey being also lighted up, the beautiful effect of which would be visible from the windows of the Peurhyn Arms Hotel, the temporary abode of the royal party. A Imamate', was then appointed, and a sub scription entered into in order that the poor of the locality may be amply regaled on the occasion. 601. was instantly subscribed, t he hon. chairman heading tho list with 201. A correspondent, writing front Cheater last 'vetting, says : —Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the youthful minnben Royal Family, will leave Edinburgh on the morning of Wednesday nest, at eight o'clock . The Royal p ar ty will travel by the London and North Western line, to Warringtoo, thence by the Birkenhead and Cheshire Junction to Chester, when her Majstesty is ex pected to arrive soon after 8 o'clock. It is probable that she will remain in Chester a short time for refresh ments, and it is more than probable that she will receive an address from the municipal corporation of that ancient city, which gives the title of earl to her eldest son. This will be the first visit of the Prince of Wales to this earldom ; the Queen last visited Chester when Princess Victoria, on which occasion she opened the magnificent one-arch bridge over the Dee, the Oroevenor-bridge. WESTMINSTER FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY.—THE LATI DISPKANCHISING DICUITON.--01ring CO the recent eatreordinary decisions of Mr. Shaded!, the revising bar rister for Middlesex, whereby great numbers of the -Fm hold Land Society voters have been disfranchised, the mem bers of these bodies have determined on taking steps with • view to redrew the injury dune them. A public Meting took place, in connexion with the Westminster Society, at the School rooms, New Chorch-street, Paddington, at which the subject was mooted. Thu. Pitts, Esq., pro dded, and stated that, owing to the great incresse in the members of the society, it would be necessary for these who had hitherto transmitted their subscriptions through him to appoint an agent for that purpose.—Mr. George Rug 'oft, the secretary, gave a detailed ezplanation of the prin ciple' and operations of the society, and stated the progress it had made. In the tonne of three year' five estates had been purchased, containing in all about 72 acres; the total receipts from the establishment of the society had been 15,6101. On each estate, the shares entitled thereto had risen to a considerable premium on allotment. In reference to the recent decision of Mr. Shadwell, de claring that • plot of land did not confer the beaches unless it had cost 501., it was to be regretted that this being • modes of fact, and sot of law, there was no appeal from his decision to the Cuurt of Common Pleas ,• bat it was hoped that something more effectual would be done. It was astonish ing that the learned gentleman should display such l ignorance of the value of propMy as to adopt the arbitrary rule which he had laid down, which was ridiculous in the eyes of practical men. Everyone knew how rapidly property increased in value in the neighbourhood of Lou. don, and that without any reference to the price originally paid for it. He knew a gentleman who, fourteen years ago, had bought a small freehold by auction for 201. ; within ex mouths M the purchase it was let for 141. a year, and had been so let ever since. (Hear.) In the last year, this society had bought nine acres of land at Kilburn, at 540!. per acre. A few months after they wished to extend their purchase, and add four or five awes of the adjoining land, of precisely the same value ; but so greatly had the Mee of the property increased in that short interval that the price then demanded was 1,0001. per acre. Belgrave enure a few years ego, was let to • market gardener, and the value of the land was than &beat 3001. an acre ,• now it was ad short of 30,00111. Oa the East Moakley estate of that society, an allotmeat whisk had wet 23L 10s. had been let for ever on a chief met of 706. • yeas; and there we no doubt, if that chief-rent was pat ap at Garrawers to-morrow, it would fetch 1004 (Sear, hear.) Es _ftweested that the extraudinsey suns emend II Amid be set fintir la • mentedel is the Lett Ode Judea of the Queen's Bench, with whom Ho appourtneeat at dm revis ing barrister@ Mind, reenentime his lenbidp to dieseatlnse the pfo appointmeet of ths lama Eadommo. A Neolgibm r r op tand the temiles at the &dim= was sad 'grout to, sad el the else. at Os promsdisis a amber slam ossaben won enrolled. Histstarenuss.—The widen tar ads meaty dosed os Monday, at th. Mom Mr. Boehm he the MOWS; and Munn,. Pamlngham ; Shy& •21.: 1 ,1 he the Wm. The Mamie la the par rank la Weed is lo No assets oa bolhablos, hat tie ollsothas Jowled° Oho wawa of many who did est Me at the him elections, ad dm shim jade& amid who woo gm* on in other Is a Sow days • dam nib* will ha mad*. i ror b y l raln ber on sie e ; ditio okesolisse. 1111: total, SAL Li en chins, 1164: Entss 11111 oldostisas, total, NW la favour of Wu, a Eumxisiars lx Rion lss.—lsfacmation has Just maid Umiak by *hot* tolognplt. that Mir Blair, a wad is Illhassay, mad a she heir" between BOK satil 1,0001. a yam algal r i d e s with Oman O'Mara. Dn. of so What maid kayo Wand tits pathos to dere It is dank to bogie% as the maw sari alogilathar—with whom The 011osso was NI a attia.Wiell faiaseabie to the swab. no,* swills*WS the • Nibs le the bead that ths hen asosallsa would not limit is tho ber Vs. wlait t _aellor no r.sige flit ilmilmillul askieffset la "I ge dimag *al of his wilt's. as $ will, to AlVnas is wash warrigo to the thildeen, Ths Mikan sanity his fits affair has minted the gmatost ozoitentaat at Taunton, and amongst the lady's ralatiess in London. LONDON AND SOUTH - WitaTlll.ll RAILWAT.--. Amount of Walk on the London and South-Weston Rail way for the wash ending Oet. 6, 1662:—Paaaimgan, 10,0091. lb, Id.; goods, 2,8241. 71. 04.-13,8991. 18•74. STAFF EMPLOY IN INDIA. At the present moment there are uo • leas than 160 officers on the elective strength of the army in civil employ, as it is designated. Of these only 25 are engaged in duties which are not purely of a civil or political nature, so that there are 135 so-called military men whose employ , ment bas nothing of a military nature about it, and must, consequently, utterly unfit them for regimental duty, when , ever the attainment of higher rank, or other casualty, shell eans* them to return to their respective corps. These oaken are distributed as follows:—To the artil lery, ten; engineers, eight; Cavalry, six; infantry, one hundred and thirty-six. Of these, three artillery, five engineers, and straenteen infantry officers are employed in situation: in some way connected with their duties n, sol diers, or of a merely temporary nature, anal might wi•liout any glaring impropriety be continued upon the strength of their respective battalions; but to retain the others upon the returns is not only a palpable absurdity, but involves an injuatice to the regimental officers, who are compelled to do the duty of the absentees—an injustice which ought to be, but we fear will not be, abolished. Were these gentlemen, as they ought to be, transferred to a staff corps, the number of officers permitted to he with drawn from any one regiment fur military staff employ might fur the future be restricted to five, two captains and the. e subalterns, which would tar more than suffice to provide fur all the departments, and the irregular and local corps, although in the Bengal army their name is legion ; for the witha.rawal from the strength of their regiinotits of the officers in civil employ would reduce the number of staff emp oyes by considerably more than ono per corps, the number being 136, while the battalions amount to only 103. The proportion of civil empoyja taken from the respective regiments es very unequal ; fur instance, out of six in the cavalry, three belong to the sth. Again, the folle.wing in fantry corps the Bth, 37th, 41st, 42nd, 48th, 56th, 61 s t, 71 s t, 72nd and 7 4th battalions, have nut a single officer in civil employ, while the 4th, 63rd and 74th have five each, and several others have three and four. Nor is the distribution of staff employ generally leas unequal, for including offici ating and acting appointments some regiments have seven, eight, and even nine officers absent, while others have only two and three away, and many four and five, so that there exist, no Depravity fur ever exceeding the number laid down by orders of the Court of Directors—viz., six from each regi ment. While Lord Ellenborough is bringing forward resolutions striking at the very existence of the Count of Director., as a political body, he seems to us to be only using the army as a eat's paw, nut to have the true interests of the body at heart. It would certainly be a boon to the young officers of the tinny to have a chance of being transferred to the civil service, particularly if the appointments were thrown open for competition and given to the best, not left to be disposed of at the whim of a Governor-General. But we are surprised that it should wit have occurred to bis lord. ship, who, with all his faults, is one of the shrewdest men in the House of Lorda,that there is a civil service open to the officers of the army, that every one in political or civil employ is de facto a civiliin , and what ii required is that all such should be made civilians de jlere, and struck off the strength of the army. Let the ex-governor propose and carry this mailman., and we shall cease to accuse him of being only the soi-dssiiiit friend of the army. If he wishes to do the thing completely, to secure a real advancement in the efficiency of the army, he must add a proposition fur a staff corps, to include several of the de partments, for instance, the government secretariat, four officers, the Judge Advocate General's eight officers, the Auditor General's four officers, the pay department, thirty cfficers, the military board, five officer., tim commissariat, twenty-nine officers ; the scud, nine officers ; the clothing agencies, three officers; making a total of seventy•five officers. Then the number allowed to be taken from each battalion for toe residue of staff situation' might be restricted to four—two captains and two subalterns. Superannuated clerks, lawyers (God save the mark), ac countants, supervisors, purveyors, horse dealers, and tailors, are useless, if not worse, in the army. "Let the cobbler stick to his last," is a proverb equally applicable to all trades and professions, and the soldier should stick to his cannon, his musket, or his sword, or cease to be a soldier.—/furkaru. ROYAL SOUTH BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AGRI- CULTURAL ASSOCIATION. The nineteenth anniversary of this society was help at Slough, on Tuesday last. After tho conclusion of the ploughing matches, and the distribution of a vast num ber of premiums to deserving labourers, the members dined together at the Windmill Inn, Salt-hill, under the presi dency of Edward Wanklyn, Esq., of Fulmer, one of the county magistrates. The vice chair was taken by Major Bent, of Wexham, and amongst the company present were C. T. Gaskell, Esq. ; R. It. Clayton Esq. ; R. B. Harvey, Esq. (all of them county magistra tes) ; and the leading agriculturists of the locality, o the numb. rof nearly 100. Last year Mr. Disraeli was peek nt, and delivered one of those long and mysterious speeches by which he gra dually disencumbered himself of protectionist pledges, and prepared himself for office. On Tuesday the Chairmen announced that the right honourable gen tleman had written to say that official business would prevent him taking part in the proceedings. In consequence of the political character of last year's meeting, more than one of the original members threatened to withdraw, but their scruples were allayed by the adoption of a resolution condemnatory of such topics at future anniversaries. Not withstanding this resolution, the chairman said he found it difficult, if not impossible, to avoid all political allusion, especially when he was addressing a body of gentlemen who had been so materially and prejudicially affected by a recent actor the legislation. He condemned the measure of 1846, not for its principle, which he always admired, but ' for its precipitation whic hl he knew would bring on great and dire distress. He pointed, not to legislative measures fur a remedy, but to the adoption of improved methods of cultivation, and the more extended use of machinery. In order to provide against the threatened scarcity of labourers, be advised his hearers to educate the rural population to a higher pita", as to make their exertions more valuable. After all, he observed, the main dependence would be self-re. fleece; their only reward, the general prosperity of the community. file Rev. Mr. Kewlcy, the officiating minister of the parish in which they were assembled (Farnham Brit), said his was truly glad to hear that the agricultural interest no longer designated itself the sinking interest. The policy of 1846 might have been injurious to the farmer, but his own espetience told him that the condition of the labourer had been considerably improved since that period. The agricultural labourers had now the necessaries of life in abunclanoe which be (Haar.)The institutions of the country were based upon the contentedness of the labourer—contented hearts formed a better national protection than all the armies that could be brought into the field. Mr. Joseph Trumper (an exten sive and intelligent tenant farmer), in speaking of Mr. Disraeli, said he had the utmost confidence in the talent and honesty of the right hon. gentleman. He hoped there was something rod looming in the distance. (Cries of " Walker," and boisterous laughter.) The proceedings I were continued with unabated spirit until a late hour, and the distinguishing character of the meeting wee the final and deliberate abandonment of protection by the farmers of South Bucks. ROTAL DISPENSARY FOR DISEASES OF THE EAR.— The half-yearly meeting of this institution was held yester day at the diapensary, Dean-street, Soho-square ; the Bev. NT. Charles Williams in the chair. The secretary read the amount of subscriptions, from which it appeared that the institution had been aided by contributions front his majesty the King of the Belgians, Robert R. Wood, Esq., and a portion of a legacy of the late Joseph Roberts, Esq. Al though tbo funds have been augmented of late, they are not commensurate with the increased demand for relief. The dispensary had afforded treatment to an increased number of applicants during the last half-year. The sta- Salleel accouut of Mr. Harvey, surgeon to the institution, stated to the meeting the new admissions were 698, cured 386—consisting of cues of deafness, combined with noises in the bead and other diseases of a kinilred nature. THE BRITISH PENITENT FEMALE SOCIETY.—The annual meeting of this benevolent institution was held in the school room of the society, Cambridge-heath, Bethnal- green, on Tuesday. The Rev. Mr. Olanvill read the re port, which stated that the society did not give temporary refuge to the inmates, but that when admitted they received s a ltter to ood m b o s r p al urou d t to obtain educa ti on, donist eai an tua d ti w on e s te , or We a rs sent home to their families. There were now fifty-four insides in the house. Daring the last year twenty were restaged to their families, twenty were placed in situations, two were sent oat as emigrants, and only five left, two of them having bee, dismissed . From many who had le ft in dude= yams the most favourable account had been m isdeed. All the meociatioas auxiliary to the society conti nued be speedos. The financial state of the charity was olatiaitiog to progress prosperously, and there was an M orsels over the income of last year of 1881. 4s. 7d. But this wee obtained by legacies and donations. The income amounted to 2,0801. 116. 9d., including 1,0711. 3a. 7d. dona tions, 3641. 14s. balsam of hat year, 2521. legacy, Re. ; and, after paying all expenses, there was a balance in hand of 3351. 2a. 2d. The report concluded by thanking the auxiliary associations for their assistance, and the medical gentlemen, with the clergymen who had preached sermons on behalf of the society, for their services. The report was received and adopted. SOUTHAMPTON RAGGED SCHOOL—The number of children admitted into the Southampton Ragged School sine* it opened two years ago is nearly 500. The average attendance daily is now about 100, and, on Sundays, be tween 60 sad 70. Articles of clothing were given to the most deserving, and books, such as bibles testaments, dn.- tionariss, and spelling books, are distribu ted amongst them. During the last year a ragged school fur girls has also been opened in the above-named town. A free hold site has now been purchased, sad, if funds sufficient can be procured, a ragged school and dormitory will be built on it, in order to avoid the expense of hired buildings. The Rev. Dr. Wilson and Messrs. Fanshawe and Wsgram, of the established church, and the Revs. Messrs. Adkins, Wilde Hunter, and Trussed, amongst the dissenters, have all cordially co-operated in promoting I the success of ragged schools in Southampton. Lard Ilenry Chohnondely, M.P., has also been most realms in promot ing the same object. Oa Tuesday last a public meeting was held in that town in aid of the ragged schools, at which hie lordship presided. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—Return of traffic for week oadint o itspt. 28, 1662 . — Passengers , parcels, ear tarhones, and mails, 7,488/. 18s . 91; merchandise minerals „1121. Be. Ild. ; cattle, 6341. 13.. 9d. Total, 14,1961. Is. 6d. Co rres p on di n g week, 1861, 12,8881.115. 11d. EU, 6rpreoo. TO CORRIBPONDINTB. • feeeLa lank& .1" it. Lames." imartaulaa game eartab`a Gasetty," . la puhual, d imy Tanday sad friday olight. La tire Mt pm:- llitmtvama...lairtalta tar "Tle !swan." Lai 'as Iltatatag Tom as to be al tte (No% faavetioaanal, Iwo Velma ea lb. day at 711011 IVATIO; AT LONDON BRIDGE. T. nav—Voralwi. 714.2%. Atgarasoo. Ilk. fai. T.susauw—Aussixv. Annum, M. =a. LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7. Ittniouis are current that Parliament will be called together dining the last week of the present month, for the Lespetch of important business. And with an immediate reference, no doubt, to the trial of the gicat issue which that event is likely to hasten, Lord Drum . is evidently preparing to exhaust every expedient, however questionable or hazardous, that promises to afford his desperate case any temporary aid. The lure is held out to Lord DALHOUSIE of the Wurdenship for lite of the Cinque Ports. The noble earl is but posed to be not over-burthened with patrimonial wealth ; and as snag sinecures of thousands a year arc becoming scarce, they are not likely to be thrown away on doubtful or wavering adherents. If Lord DaLtiouste, there fore, should upon his return to England assume the grave responsibility of keeping up Widmer Castle as a marine residence, we shall be at no loss to under stand the nature of the tenure by which he has con vented to hold that notable political benefice. His Lordship was a member of Sir Roam PreL's admi nistrati,.n during its more liberal period; and upon its dissolution he was regarded as a politician who in sentiments so nearly approached the standard of Whiggism that he was one of those to whom seats' in the new Cabinet were offered by Lord Jolts Res- BILL. In common with the Duke of N xwearrt.E, Lord r: N S. anti in her inernbersof t he former Govern insot,he supported in the Upper House the measures of the Whirs and severed himself both by speech and vote front the followers of Lord DERBY. In this course he seems to have thriven rapidly, for% hen the Governor-Generalship of India became vacant, that most splenuid prize of all in the oligarchic lottery fell to him. That be knew its substantial worth, and how it might he turned to the greatest econo mical account, few will be found to question. The Whigs consoled themselves with the unprecedented sacrifice they had made in alienating so highly.co veted tin Hike from their own immediate connexion, by the wild conviction that they had thereby shown the w-rld they were above family predilections, —that they were as ready to recognise and reward the liberalism discovered at the eleventh hour as that whose inherited fidelity had been tested throughout the beat of the day. But what will they my or think if, after all, the liberalism of the noble Earl shall be found to have beeu all exhausted in the space of five vice regal years in Itindostan ? What if Lord DAL. HOUSIE shall return to England Warden of the Cinque Porte and a Derhyite P At first it was an Mewed by the government organs that this singular sinecure would be appropriated more waives° by the Pans Ikiimsrea us his own peculiar perquisite. Mannured cries of shame! were heard from gui les quarters at the greediness of a man pas seared of Lord DERBY'S fortune, monopolising the revenues for life of such an office. And now the sass organs will doubtless be struck with a sense of the PREMIER'S magnanimity and tree elevation of soul in surrendering for the benefit of his party the lucrative custody of Widmer Castle. If a truant Tory of decent average abilities can be won back to the ancient told at such a cost, what generosity of heart, what largeness of understanding, does not this 5 l -like self-denial on the part of Lord DERBY lay ? To more sceptical and common-place fothe question may nevertheless assume a dif ferent form, and men may be tempted to ask one another whether the chances of the great game of ministerial power must not begin to grow desperate indeed, when tho chief gambler &up down as stakes the costly jewels that heretofore have always been regarded as unsuitable far such a pur pose P To break up the remnant of the Peelite party, would, it is imagined, tend to diminish Lord DERBY'S difficulties, and to postpone for a season his inevitable overthrow. And as lord DALHOUSIE is OM of those who were formerly acknowledged as soonest its most conspicuous officers, it is easy to divine the heroic and chivalrous motives that, at the ,orrt crisis of the ministerial fate, have inspired el DERBY publicly to proclaim the fact of his having made Lord Dautourts the offer in question .--many weeks before his answer can be known. Bat other and far different stories are in circula tion which in people's minds will not unreasonably be connected with the foregoing. Renewed proffers, it is said, have been made to Lord PALMERSTON. A Secretaryship of State and the leadership of the Common, are stared as the bidding. of bankrupt Toryism for a men of talent and experience. Any money for a man of ability and information ! Through. out the idle summer and the lazy autumn the empty Cabinet has rumbled on, and yet it is ready to break down at the first rut in the winter's road, if some old hand " who kens and can " will tot mercifully mount the box and take the reins. Even Mr. DISRAELI'S particular admirers say that "it cannot be expected he should do every thing ;" and they add, in • piteous under tone, that "there is nobody else who can do anything.' And besides, the great soul of the great conjurer has been all this time devoted to finance: and look at the result! Free-trade had well nigh beggared this unfortunate empire, when, one flue; morning in the month of March last, the Right Honourable BEN JANLN took his seat at the Exchequer. What an altered empire see we now ! The funds fluctuate between a little over and • little under par; the harvest has been abundant; manufactures thrive; even some of his friend Mr. HUDSON'S railway pro mises occasionally look as if they would be realised: and cabinet colleagues after dinner declare that there is nothing further caa possibly be does to heron the condition of the lend except whet the ilamers ought to do themeelve. All there Moslem have manifestly been wren& by Mr. he been in the Itersiga, or Cokaial, or Homonlies, all would inhume have right there. Bet be cannot be everywhere, Bo or theeyh he be. But what will Lag numeral dot We are disposed with a sonimperary to think that no blandishments or UMW will ever prevail upon the noble viscount to matemplate a step so irreconcile able with the elotienst phone se his best years, aad so suicidal of Ms !me. We ban learned um:i deate weaseled with most election seems in whisk the part taken by lord Pnionerat la snip pet if the isiaisteriel aniblates mimed uneesson. able. Bet me ban ism slimed the %position M lad a photo stoney our @amine that wee eternises attaehment is that libiseihm ilsab J Creat hems and ahead et whelk Le he se keg s: s eresinset sad a champion. Is e ablest el KALIMOBORTS, PARINOTONS. and Enarosts, what hoeserable pkce could he And P UFOFFTIFO or LAO' M OF Buciands P*ui lona Boar.—latell* hes horn undyed of the sp ot swan of sobs life bean, whisk woe sish stanifet by as flonteess a len of No as the WM trip of a elasilas bort at Lydon. sear Litel e t ati le . okresfy knows, Beerldwg Anima Ohs Doke of lielesers peke of MIL iha sesslntafiss the nog Meisel beat, es& didhoont OW of dr some hove bon ir sop i zir ash of shows poem% hwiliL Ose of then, to be seseknol Man. Goateed at Car wives es Thonfair weenks,:sad on the tellowirs now teg Mr. irises, the tth asever esia o port of Clannevoe, sinisapsaied by wend frost Poet M.d. pessestel Se ley lee Is the Mani Iltadas. They pseud off "mils the lows. sad wisp own three ironies of tin dimness nor the oliesnd. a squall eased the hod. whiteselied at the dime a large tweed sail the was domes ea Ist be.. owl& The shmi wr triowtoi wry In* Ma the sesen week sail Mom sin fils euesior igeo ll edholi Is den Ohs beet Adak sad deo heel 'swank The somentese Wog =Me the pier sod diem anietines warp speedily dugatibef es the new of the evietorsed boat, who yore of rto low Ad.. The tiny erausor end the liflobsele pen. wilt Mbar sob. ask ell hoses tots mese, sod amenity essissied is *. Mime , who bed sawed soh bon awl Ova of it ors semi Ulan* whoa Ulm ins eon. *lds eWesselid,lnt prow ressuretiese his egglist, he eses mewed. Not he the paeans help_essilsead Ifssweeo.lisy would el have pedisL Wok ther , ✓ase woo sewed ohms; owl ins sialed, with wise Ira* wi elm IMF. vim ifielies...• two ad dplesms kg worses Ira FRANCE. PARIS, WIDSMIDAT Beasts& The Pays, in an article heeded '"The charaotee of the President's tour," esdar , ges upon thou" gkeiotr.:l exceptional eireuinstanves' alluded to in it Psr signy.'s jar.; circular to the prefects, as justifying the continiation at the public expense of a gigantic vo haft, to contain with the minutest particularity all the sayings and doings in the remotest degree con nected with the Presidential journey. The above- named paper says: Ile idea of this collection has naturally proceeded from en intelligent appieciatke of the true chsn mr and men. iug of the tour, which resembles the marches of a conqueror aseeoduig the capitol aerate the wavy beads of the people, and amidst a concert of acclamations rising up to heaven like so many hymns of gratitude and devotion. Other sovereigns have put themselves into com manication with the people to study their wants, and desires. But the grand and exceptional character ut all Louis Napoleon's visits to the provinces consists in this, that they have been so many interrogations addressed to France to know from herself her wishes with regard to her irrevocable destinies. Ile has desired before acting to feel the throbbing ~f the heart of France, to learn her fres and spontaneous will (rum the pulsation, and then to do it. When after the election of December ISIS, Louis Nepalese observed that the people did not cry " %lye " ass " lye la Constitution!" but only " Vire le President," " Vivo Napoleon," he learnt to make no accosat of either the Assembly or the constitution, and he acted ups. the boson. After the 20th of December, 1861, he went to Strasbourg, and then he beard the voice of the people tracin: out for him a new path of duty, by crying Vivo Nspoleoo," Vise l'Em aereer." During his present journey he finds the shouts of " Vive PErapereur universal. From these facts the Pays, judging of the future by the past, shrewdly draws the conclusion that the resurrection of the empire is nigh at hand. But,— and this to those who place implicit reliance upon the Pays must be a comfortable alieurance,—it will be the empire minus the war budget, and plus the progress of industry. The Revue Brilannies states that an application has been made by the French government to the English cabinet fur the original will of the Emperor Napoleon. which has hitherto ramjet:l in the pos session of England. Another discovery of the clandestine manufacture , of gunpowder has been made at Nismes, but it was ' carried on only with a view to sale fur sporting pur poses. The Bordeaux affair is perhaps not of more importance. But a disclosure of a serious character, tending to show the existence of a conspiracy to assassinate the President has transpired at Moulins in a very singular manner. When the President passed through that town a chemist's apprentice, named Mettle, (the cousin of the well known demo crat of that name, now a refugee) approached the Prince to present a petition, and pressed so closely upon him as to excite remark at the time. Nothing more was thought of the circumstance until a few days since, when Maths was found dead in his room. He had poisoned himself with prussic acid; but he first wrote on the wall an unfinished sentence, in which he avowed his design to stab the President, but his courage failed him at the moment when he should have struck. He added that he committed suicide to punish himself for his cowardice, that he died a good democrat, that ho would not be an informer, " but search and you will find." Thu sinister injunction, coupled with the subsequent murder of D.untuartin has naturally occasioned a very uneasy feeling. The Minsigeur coatains the following telegraphic dooptithoe Toulouse, Oct. 4 four in the e The entry of the President siessiod estlesioset wing tea be inegirei. The upset of the altr oft were misers sal torioos. Upwards of MON poses= were se• stabled. The weatAse Oct. 6, Six in the nessios.—At the Ti Daum his High. sees was saluted with eatletsiestie aim of " Vint l'Enspe rest!" In passing beano him the municipal body cried emigeneally Vise l'ampereeT!" Vive Napollon 111 ! " The enthusiasm was we al. More than 1,000 ladies were resat is the Woes. of the prefecture. Men and women cried " Viva l'Empereur ! " Last night the town was brilliantly illumiisted. Eight in the morning. —The streets are encumbered with people._ Every instant brings fresh strums of the popula tion. TM omega of an are radiant. Oet. 6, two in the afternoon —The Prince has peeled through the town to go to the review at the Polygons. The (mottos has meeeded all that could have been anticipated; tie whole population uttered one cry acme of " Yin l'Est, poseur." At the Bourn the Four-and-a-Half per Nate. fell be., dosing at 103.33 ; the Three per Conte, fell 16, and closed at 78.33. The railway market was a little weaker than yesterday. THE NORWICH IMPOSTOR, or.itdh,e facing girl The girl Who recently visited Norwich tinder the name of Matilda Eliza Lyle, niece Chippendale, repe a s s g her trick of imposition ere she left the county . Our readers will no doubt remember that she fell down from pretended exhaustion in the early part of September, oponeite the hom e of our reporter, Mr. E. D. ltegers, who resides hi Denham. road-terrace, in this city, and who received her iota his house until she profected to have recovered, when she told him that she was the daughte rof a clergy Mills at Cambridee at the expirat y iei th i e u 9 f th w , h a i n e! d i gni that she lial e r wr a lh n oivi a : w rh s e y set f ed ro arnee m :::ors h :isco o nre n e i l i toa: i w n imtbs( d cri. i . r neitv g ai. e h i siestii,:uhuitt L awx : two v . i f e h w e o r o e f s t h t fi a r e ent statement, t i e satisfied himself that he r tale was false, he heee,„ e y %all " to the magistrates, who ordered her " d day she ion. an i i h ve is d li a a t ' l 9 i u ve T .hi h i 4 i the residence of Mr. Wiseman, a small farmer, who lives at what is known us " the ball-way house" between ri seu e 4 and Diekleburgh. Ilere she asked to be allowed to rest, and was so kindly treated by Mrs. Wiseman that elie made that lady her netfidante, telling her story for the meet pan the same as she had toll at Norwich ; of education and Isely.ike manners, Mrs. Wiseman telt greatly interested in her, wive full credence to her reinaatin history, and pitied her distressed condition. Whelk " tilde" was at Norwich, as will lie remembered from our re port of theca.e, she was subjected by one of the In iaistrates to a lengthened interrogation. During this searching in quiry into her motives for leaving home, and into her ids cutustancee while journeying on loot to Norwich, she wept bitterly, and the kind-hearted magistrate heeded to her a beautiful handkerchief with whirls to remove her fait fall. ing tears. This handkerchief she kept, and it affirded her a convenient opportune) , of " proving " the reelects. bility of her family connexions, for she informed Mrs. Wiseman that she belonged to the family of the e, re:ernaa who had thus befriended her—indeed be was her 'leek, and showed her the handkerchief on which his surname was written iu full, as evidence of the truth of her state ment. Havieg eaten and drunk at the expense of it, hostess, she told that lady that the clothes in which she was attired were lent her by her " papa's " cook for the purpose of a disguise, and she expressed great concern lest she should be found with the cook's dross upon her, as suck an , sect would bring down upon the cook, who had been very lead Ito her, the censure of her "papa." She should be mareed, she said, immediately on her arrival at line ich, near wash town her lover, who was a gentlemau of property, resit: , 4, and how nice it would tee if Met. Wiseman could lead las a suit of apparel until that tinie ; she weuhl, without when her bliss was consummated, return the clothe, with many thanks—indeed, they should certainly lie with Mn, Wiseman on the following Wednesday. Kind hearted M rs . Wiseman readily yielded to the euggesoon, and "Miss Matilda" quickly doffed the cook's attire, which site left with Mrs. W. as un earnest of her honourable u1t.:11604N and in a few minutes was decked out in her new frieras best, which :consisted of a black wonted shawl with a en border of red and green ; a gown having a lavender robed, with blue and white pattern of sprigs, a brown and plum shot silk drawn bonnet, and a blue net fall. She also exchanged umbrellas with Mrs. W., leaving an old article by no luau waterproof, and receiving in exchange what Mrs. Wiseman describes as a "new green one with a white kiiuh." Beieg entirely without funds, Mrs. Wiseman supplied her with 2s. yid. with which to meet current exneuses ; and as " Matilda" was evidently very anxious to be in her lover's arms as speedily us possible, Mr. Wiseman kindly uader teak to expedite the matter, and with this purp ose is slew drove her the same afterneon to the Bunton Railway station, and paid her fare thence by train to Ipswich, Mrs. Wiseman having first, at " hlatada's" suggestion, furnished her with a large two-handled basket, in which to carry her little black dug, so as to save a second railway fare, and lined the bottom of the basket with a small woollen shawl for the dog's comfort. On the following Wednielay, Mrs. Wiseman looked out for the expect, d arrival, but no clothes came on that day. " Well, perhaps they alight on the next." No! nor did they on the nexe—tor even on the day after that. Mrs. Wiseman, how ever, waited patiently for, eame days, fur her liaihnid being one of those unwise niece who does net Lae a newspaper, she was in Whale' ignorance of the character of her adopted frieud, and she could not easily make up her mind to divulge the secret wide which" Matilda" had entrusted her. At length, however, she "just mentioned" the affair to a neighbour, who astounded her by a narative of what had appeared respectin g " Mi ss Lyle" in the pub lic journals. What to do Mrs.W. knew not, but after reveler ing these things over in her mind, the idea of losing her suit of best so haunted her, that she resolved at let tegive information to the police and those gentlemen are now di. ligently searching out " Mee Lyle'," whereabouts. What Buena may attend their efforts time will show. It is highly desirable, hoe ever, that " Matilda'," rov i ng pro. penalties should be checked, and that a permanent situation somewhere or other should be provided for her. To assist in her Identification we may state that she is of rather 'host stature, has light brown hair, and a cut in ens of her eyes, which are of a greyish colour. Since "Matilda" was in Norwich, Mr. Rogers bus re eeiverl several communications from different parts of the country, from which he has learned somewhat of her parentage and history. She has been pursuing her pr at courseof life, with but brief intervals, tor these eight years past; and in souls instances bas induced the kindly (linseed to give her a home for many weeks together, b e guiliug ticse the while with the marvellous and romantic stories of leer (pretended) experience. The only ascertained truth ii the complicated story which she ultimately told at Norwich relates to her parentage. She is certainly the illegitimate daughter of a gentlemen of high position in society, vino, fur some reason or other, has diecarded her. Since we wrote the above we have learned that on Sa turday last " Matilda " was found in a street in Bedford, "in a state of exhaustion," and that she is now in the hands of the police of that town on a charge of obtaining money under Glee pretences. She at first gave her name u Hook, and said that she was the illegitimate daughter of a gentleman, near Oakham, Itutland, whose name we suppress: that she had run away from home to Ipswich to meet her lover, a young man named Charles Snit:afield, but that he had deceived her by not keeping his appointment; that she had since subinted upon what littl e m o ney she had with her, and what she had earned by teaching; and that she was then on her way home again. She afterwards gave her name as liellaway. Information of her apprehen sion at Bedford has been forwarded to Mrs. Wiseman, of Tivets-hall ; but that lady , having laid her case before Thomas Haven, Esq., of '1 helves, one of the county magi strates, has declined to prosecute, on account of the expense which she would necessarily have to incur in going over to Bedford to identify the girl. That " Matilda," has had abundant opportunities of ob taining an honest support for herself will bas seen from the following extract from a letter, addressed by a lady who resides in Oxfordshire to one of the magistrates iu this city :—" Four years since the woman lately before you was found, apparently in a fit, on time step of the door of a lease of a friend of mine, residing near Belgrave-square, Lon,:on, in which neighbourhood I was then living. Her pitiable story having excited the compassion of several ladies, we agreed to place her for a time in respectable lodgings, pay all expenses, watch her closely, and we agreed, if her conduct and acquirements justified any further patronage, to morere her employment. She then gave her name MatildaKellanah said her mother was burnt to death when abe was young, cod that she had been taken and educated in Yorkshire by Mr. Pease, late M.P. for Darlington. She remained six weeks with an old servant of my family ; and, on re covering her health, we placed her as junior teacher in a school. She aid not stay long, and represented the treatment as so bad that we removed her—her employers saying they had no fault to find, but that she was too nervous for a large a:hool. We then placed her aa nursery governess in a private Uraily. Hero her natural propensity showed itself; she ran away after robbing her employers. I heard no more till cheat a year afterwards, when, to my surprise, I found her in a respectable ladies' school as daily pupil ; and, on inquiry, I traced her to four schools, from all of which she had stolen books, and when I found her she had a good musical and a g n en d e re ral fer li e b ne ra es ry t . 3. Sh m e e e c n o te nf red ede t r h a e te se , schools Is in by al fo i rg a edt he le h t 3d en , different name. None of these parties would prosecute her, and she was again turned adrift, with the information that the polio* would strictly watch her, audit found in Lemke, she would be taken into custodC g . This morning (Friday) Mr. ere has received from the governor of the borough gaol at Liverpool, further informa tion respecting this girl. In September, 1848, she In.( e victed at the Liverpool borough sessions, under the nanwef Matilda Tremaine, and sentenced to nine months' item:eat aunt with bard labour, fur obtaining hooks under tsbe pretences. Her statement, as given by the then governor of the gaol, is as follows: Previous to her tenting into this gaol she lived with her mother at No. 18, Baker-street, Portman-square. Mrs. Tee seine was accidentally burnt there, and died on the Ilst April, 1838. Mr. C— lived with Mrs. Tremaine, and she believes herself to be their daughter. Mr. C—, however, disavows her as his daughter. lie plated her at a school (hire. Shaw's) in Yorkshire, immediately after her oar he death ; from this school she ran away, and was found on the road crying, near 0 reta- bridge, by a Cspt. O'Brien, who wilt her back to Mr. C—. She was thee placed at a .chew! is Holloway, kept by Miss Egg, at the recommendation of a Mrs. Terrywest, where she has been the last seven or o, bt year*. She procured a woman at a fruit shop near to wr ite a letter to her as from Mr. C—, desiring her to re turn home. She did not, however, go home, but went to No 7, St. Leonard-street, Pimlico. Miss Elrington, a teacher at Miss Egg's, gave her a letter to the people of this house., to whose children she taught French. She the.. went to Mrs. Underwood, at Lewes, where she taught Miss White, Mrs. oe h Whitmore, a n m n u e tc r . N e tf c t Lyne (Staffordshire). Captain Voting, after a month. sea. her to Liverpool, to find out Mr. C—, who she suppote 6 w U e n n a t e t r o w r a M . niece Young, F a r ; lived there." said, committed an offence for which she was sent to elm , After her arrival at Liverpool, " Matilda," as we h , r°, and the governor states that while there, she gave . r r, tsti trouble to the o ffi cers by feigning to be in fits.—.‘. " News. w e' tle•thui'aSthrei CHEAPNESS IN THE COURT OP CHANCERY. Hitherto large sums have been charged for enitrossiiw ' fid copying bills filed in Chancery, iu lieu of which punted bills are to be delivered; and by one of the new ruh. a considerable reduction is effected. It is ordered that " the payment to be made ,by the defendant to the plaintiff fig panted copies of the bill or claim shall be at the rate et ear half-penny per folio." BErruco LISTS.—A sporting paper states that the Homo Secretary, last week, gave his approval to the lir4t , of a bill, aiming at the suppression of hettiewhouses. remarked that the measure, as approved, is calculated give an impetus to betting, and 'o create a new offices for its conduct on a larger scale. I 1