The Express. — London, England, 1847-09-21 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1847. and town council, assembled at the Town-hall, and at about half-past three they set out in procession to meet the Prince. After the magistrates and town council (who were preceded by a band of music) came the six incor porated trades, headed by their convenor; they were fol lowed by the lodge of Freemasons, the lodge of Odd Fellows, and by the teetotal and other societies, and the rear was taken up by an immense crowd, which stretched to the extent of nearly a mile. In the procession was a body of 250 of the clansmen and tenants of Mackintosh of Mackin tosh, by whom they were headed. The Mackintoshes were headed by two pipers, and the chief was attended by two captains and four henchmen, all dressed in the full 114/11. land costume. On arriving at Ball:teary the Procession halted, and remained there until the Prince arrived. He was hailed with the most enthwiastic demonstrations of joy. The procession then closed round the carriage in which his Royal Highness was seated, and proceeded back to the Town-hell, where the Prince arrived at flee o'clock precisely. A salute of 21 rounds was fired from two six-pounders that bad been procured from Fort George, and were placed upon the Castle- hill, overlooking the town. On entering the Town-hall, Mr. Simpson, the chief magistrate of the borough, read and presented an address to his Royal Highness, which the Prince received and acknowledged iu a neat speech, in which he expressed himself highly grati fied with the reception which he had met in the Highland capital, and which he was sure would also be pleasing to her Majesty, to whom he would not fail to communicate it. One of the windows of the Town-hall was then opened, and the Prince prevented himself to the immense assemblage withAr, which was estimated to contain at least 50,000 persons, to whom he repeatedly bowed. The Prince then left the hall, and as he entered his carriage he was greeted with the most deafening cheers. Accompanied by Mr. /Untie, of Doehfour, and followed by the immense crowd, the Prince then proceeded to inspect the Castle, and the various public office* erected upon the Castle-bill. The Prince frequently and warmly expressed his admiration of the beautiful and varied scenery, perhaps unequalled in Scotland, which can be seen from the hill, and, after in specting the interior of the Carle, his royal highneen re turned to Doehfour house, where he was to dine. His whole stay in Inverness did not exceed half an hour, and ha was saluted en his departure, as he was on his entry, with 21 rounds from the two six-pounders. At the south end of the old bridge, which crewel the Ness, and along which Prince Albert entered the town, was a very beautiful triumphal arch of evergreens, interspersed with variegated flowers, which was surmounted by a crown of heather of ingenious construction, haring underneath, in large letters, " Hail Prince Albert, Consort of our beloved Queen." During the evening beads of music paraded the' town, and many were the bumpers that were quaffed in honour of the royal visit. At half put six in the evening, on the Prince's return to Dochfour-house, a deputation from the heritors, commissioners of supply, and justices of the peace of the county waited on his Royal Highness by appointment, to present an addresa from the gentlemen of the county. The deputation was headed by the Earl of Seafiel I, the lord. lieutenant of the county ; Lord Lovet, and Mr. D. Grant, of Bught, the convenor of the county. The presentation of the address, to which the Prince made a suitable reply, did not occupy many minutes. The leading members of the deputation had the honour of dining with his Royal High ness. On the following morning, the Prince left Dochfour house, to join the Queen at Fortwilliam ; as will be seen in our account of Her Majesty's departure from Scotland. WALES. THE MURDER AT DOWLAIS.—At the Dowleis Petty Sessions, held on Saturday, Margaret Davis, who stands charged with the wilful murder of her infant daughter, wu placed at the bar.—Mary Morgan deposed that the pri soner came to ber house to lodge at six o'clock on Monday morning; she brought her child with her. The child appeared very lively, and was running about all the morning. Witness went out at about 10 o'clock. She returned in ■bout half an hour, and found the pri soner bad gone out. In about twenty minutia the pri soner came back, carrying the child in her arms, and said it had gone to sleep in the field. Witness told her to put it to bed ; the prisoner did so, in the next room. Witness did not then look at the child, but sent the prisoner to fetch a pail of water, and after she had gone, witness went immediately into the room, and saw the child lying in the bed with its eyes open, and quite dead.—Evidence was adduced that the clothes were wet, an if the child had been held by the legs in the water.—Mr. White, surgeon, wu of opinion that the child's death had been caused from suffoca tion produced by immersion in water.—The prisoner, who appeared wholly unconcerned, declined saying anything in her defence, or putting any questions to the witnesses.—The magistrates committed her for trial. PROVINCIAL. LANCASHIRE. A NEW HARBOUR OF REFUGE.— Wil liams, of the Iron Duke, Dublin and Liverpool mail steamer, has written the following letter to the chairman of the Liser porl Underwriters' Association, pointing out a sew harbour of refuge near Point Lynes. Liverpool, Sept. 18.—Sir,-11aring ohnerred that Mort free roads, situate in itedwharf Bay, near Foist Lynn,. ate not frequented by steamers and wiling vessels so a ruadsuad during stress of weather, I beg leave through you to introduce the same to the notice of the captains frequenting the port, being fatly convinced of Ito advan tageous position and safety—the soundings vary from one to thirty fathoms—haring made use of the same.—J. I'. WILILY, CHURCH EDUCATION SOCIETY FOR IRELAND.— Yesterday sermons were preached in several of the Liverpool churches in aid of this society. It sppeared from the details given by some of the preachers that the society has 1,899 schools in operation, in which there are 90,000 children, 22,000 of whom are Roman catholic,. The system of instruc- Lion imparted is, as the name imports, scriptural. The income last year amounted to 45,0001., three-fourths of which, or 33,0001., had been contributed by the Irish clergy. That portion of the clergy of the establishment are now, however, rendered so completely destitute by the heavy calls made impossibility of them caused by the famine, and the of at present collecting their incomes, FO enormous ere the poor-rates, that, unless some extraordinary efforts be made and seconded in England, many of the schools must be closed, and multitudes of the children will have to be handed over to the teachings of the priesthood. The con gregations were called upon to evince their love fer scrip tural truth by adopting petitions to the legislature praying that some portion of the grant of 110,0001., now made to the Irish national board, be transferred to the societies for pro moting education in church principles. This evening is ap pointed for the holding of the annual meeting, at which the Rev. Chancellor Itaikes will preside, and the Rev. Dr. Singer, the Rev. Mr. Verschoyle, and the Rev. Mr. Mac Dwaine will attend is • deputation. Liverpool Albion. YORKSUIRE. THE FOROERIF.B ON TAE SHEFFIELD AND ROTHER HAN Bias x.—We glean from the Sheffield Times the fol lowing particulars relative to the issue of forged notes, which we noticed a few days back :—On the discovery at the bank, that • fain note had been cashed, the alarm soon flew over the town and district ; and early on Thursday moraine pla cards were exhibited containing the offer of a reward of 1001. for the detection of the offender or offenders. We have compared the forged with the genuine note, and must admit that the imitation has been executed with considerable skill. The circumstance which first raised suspicion at the bank was the difference in the quality of the paper. But this was not likely to raise suspicion in the ordinary business of the town, because the notes bore the data of the 30th of July last, and had therefore the appearance of recent issue. The notes of the Sheffield banks pus current over a large district, co -1 bracing Hull, York, Leeds, Halifax, Bradford, }ladders field, Barnsley, Rotherham, Chesterfield, Bakewell, Net , tingham, and intermediate places, and we are therefore pre pared to hear that the plans of the forgers wire sufficiently ingenious to adopt some means of operating simultaneously indifferent parts of the district. The plan seems to have been to commence the issue in the first instance in distant towns. At Nottingham, agents were at work so early as Monday and continued to per several sourious M. notes to various tradesmen. A man named Clough was apprehended in that town. charged with uttering one of these, and being unable to give a satisfactory account of himself at the police office was remanded. The issuers have also been at work in Sheffield, but without much apparent success. The forged notes have also been passed at Leeds, Huddersfield, Rother ham, and Doncaster: but in these places nothing appears to have been done on a scale to remunerate the forgers or issuers for the risk they ran. The authorised issue of the Sheffield and Rotherham Bank, under the late act of Sir R. Peel, is 52,9467. THE CATASTROPHE ON THE LANCASHIRE AND YORIMIIRE Rathwar.—On Saturday afternoon an inquest , was held on the bodies of Mr. Weston and Mr. Dillard, who were killed by the accident of which we gave full details yes terday, at the Royal lintel, Sowerby Bridge, before J. Dyson, Ex; , coroner, and a highly respectable and intelli gent jury. Capt. Bi•stead, R.N., the superintendent, Mr.' Hawkshaw, the engineer, and numerous other witnesses, were called, and subjected to a severe examination. It was ehown, from their statements, that no blame whatever was attachable to the officers of the company. The accident sp. peered to have been caused by the breaking of a rail, and the consequent oscillation of the conk, which was the last carriage of the train of seven carri ages; that the train was under the guidance of two guards and three breaks ; and that the former were duly at their breaks, which were applied the moment the carriage was discovered to be off the rails. The jury ultimately returned the following special verdict:—" Accidental Death. The jury cannot separate without suggesting the necessity of having a luggage or break van attached to the end of each express train, as an additional security to the passenger carriages, and to obviate the dangers arising from the great oscillation of the last carriage ; and they would also recommend that some mode of communication should be adopted between each carriage and the guard in charge, as the fatal result of the present accident might have been avoided if sach had been the case." DISEASE AMONG CATTLE.—A distemper of a very inveterate character, which in many cans bids defiance to medical skill, is raging amongst neat cattle in the neighbour hood of Chapel.enle-Prith. Several cows have already died of the distemper; one farmer has lost seven, and many are now lingering without hops of recovery. The seat of the complaint appears to be the lungs, and seems immovably fined, so as to defy the art of medicine. It is feared the far men are likely to be great sufferers. HUNTINODONSIHRE. THE FIRE AT NEEDINGWORTIL—The calamity which betel the village of Needingworth, on Thursday, has produced the deepest sympathy throughout the eatin county.—As already reported, the origin of the sad disaster was the work of a poor female of weak intellect, named Barnett Cousins, 30 year of age. She lived with her , parents in one of the small five tenements, known as Pitt's houses, situate at the 'apemen point of the village, and if any one was disposed to fire it, with a view of en tirely consuming the place, this certainly was the most favourable position to commence at, for the wind, which was blowing • complete gale, was in the direction to waft the flames over the village.—On Saturday the magistrates of the district, with the Rev. R. J. M'Ohee, the rector, met at the Rose and Crowa lan, to prosecute an inquiry into the circum stance attending the lamentable event. The female, Corinna, was present with her mother. The principal state ment, in reference to the fire, was that made by a woman of the name of Mansfield, who deposed that she saw the female leave the house by the back door with a quantity of red-hot ashes from the grate, and throw them close to some straw which had been piled outside against the wall of the cottage. ' It instantly caught, and the dames blazing up to a considerable height, immediately fired thereof. She instantly gave the alarm, and attempts were made to check the pro gress of the fire. Satisfactory evidence having been adduced BA to the state of mind of the unfortunate wom►n, the magi*. trat,• directed that she should be placed under proper care. By the official lists of the losses, made up by the several insurance agents, it appears that there are about 90 dwellinga consumed, the residence orb? families, upwards of 50 farming buildings, such as barns, granaries, &c., and nearly 100 stacks of grain and other produce. But a small portion of this propery is insured. Amongst the offices which have suffered are the following:—Suffolk, 10,0001.; Norwich Union, 5,000/. ; Phcrnix, 5,0001., and a similar amount in one or two others. Ponuant to public notice a meeting of the gentry and inha'.itants of the to emend neighbourhood was held yesterday'afternoen, at the Crown Hotel, to adopt prompt means to alleviate the suffering of the families rendere I des titute by the calamity. The board of guardians humanely rescinded orders, so as to render them immediate relief. A large number are sheltered in the St. Ives' union, and there they must remain until they can provide homes once more. Much sympathy was evinced in their behalf; and no doubt, now the subscription is opened, handsome contributions will pour in. FIRE AT MARCll:=A — lewciitiii . since a fire took place on the premises of • farmer named Darby, by the side of the Eastern Counties Railway, occasioned by a spark from the down train communicating with some loose straw round a thrashing-machine. The wind being very high, in an in stant the whole of the slacks were on fire. It is supposed that between duce and four hundred pound.' worth of pro • petty is thus destroyed. It was uninsured, the various offices having refused to do 'l in consequence of ito proximity to the railway. It was stated that the railway authorities had given warning that the stacks were in a dangerous posi tion. Farmers cannot he tio cautious in not stacking their various produce in•the neighbourhood of railways. Ft RE.—On Sunday evening the inhabitants of Cambridge were alarmed at the outbreak of a fire at Trurap ington, a village about two miles on the London road. It originated in a stackyard at the back of the Green Man Inn, the property of C. Pemberton, Esq. A wheat stack and two straw stacks were consumed. The wind blew very strong at the time, but fortunately in an opposite direction to several ether stocks in the same yard, which were thus saved from destruction. ONFOR THE CARE OF WHOLES.tLE SWINDLING AT OXFORD. —William Wilmehurst, some account of whose exploits has already appeared in this paper, was yesurday captured, and brought up to Oxford Castle on several charges of swindling and forgery. A gunmoker at Theme, named Tomlinson, caused him to be apprehended for giving him a forged cheque for 101,, in payment of 4/. 17s. for a single barrelled gun. The prisoner represented himself to be • brother to Mr. Field, of Little Milton, in consequence of which representation he gave him the difference on the cheque of 51. 3s. The cheque was upon Messrs. Robinson, Parsons, and Thompson, of the Old Bank, Oaf Id, and pur ported to be drawn by John Ellison, and payable to Field, Esq. On being sent to Oxford, on Monday, the 1 lth inst., the cheque was pronounced to be a forgery, and Mr. Tomlinson was apprised of it; in consequence of which he lost no time in tracing the prisoner.—Mr. Tom linson and Mr. Phillips, clerk at the Old Bank, were examined, and proved the above facts. The next charge. against the prisoner was for uttering a forged cheque at Meters. Robinson, Parsons, and Co.'s, Old Bank, Oxford, which he deposited there in order to open an account, but, on the cheque being sent to London, it proved to be a forgery. The next charge was for uttering a forged chrque for 3,7241. 10s., purporting to be drawn by Sir E. Filmer, But., on Meson. Overend, Gurney, and Co., Lon don, in favour of J. H. Brown, Esq , or bearer ; also another cheque for 3101. on the London and County Bank, drown by W. Taylor in favour of 11. Brown, Esq. ; also another cheque for 2.511., drawn by A. R. Plaisted on the same bank, and payable to J. M. Brown, Eq. These cheques be depo sited at the London and County Branch Bank at Ox ford, and obtained a cheque-book, 301. in cash, and a letter of credit for 2001. payable on the 13th inst. The cheques deposited by the prisoner have proved to be forgeries, and the cashier identified the prisoner as the person who deposited them. Another charge of a similar nature was mode by Herbert Williams, Esq., of the firm of Roberts and Williams, bankers at Dorchester. From his evidence it appeared that, in January last, he received by post a letter of credit for 3001., payable to W. J. Mason, Esq., and that three days after the prisoner, representing himself to be that person, called and received the amount. The letter of credit, purporting to be signed by Meson. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., afterwards proved to be • forgery. The prisoner was identified by Mr. Williams u the person who received the 3001. The magistrates, considering that other eases of a similar nature might arise, remanded the prisoner till Oct. 2. SUSSEX. A NOVEL MODE OF SWINDLING (says the Brighton Herald) has been recently practised to some extent is this town, by which the humbler classes have been severe sufferers. The property aimed at are the damer, which, in numerous bouseholds, stand ready, about 11 or 12 o'clock, to be transferred from the kitchen to the baker's shop The thief runs hastily into a hmee, and inquires if the meat is ready? The unsuspici'ms wife, supposing that he comes from the bakehouse, runs to get her dinner, and commits it to his charge —never, as may be supposed, to be seen again. The dinner-hour comes, but brings no dainty dub from the biker's and, on inquiry there, it is found that no dinner has ever beet' received or sent for. The cheat is discovered, but the dinner is gone. A STRIKE OF TILE STONEMASONS in the employ of Me'srs. Baker, the emtractors for the new steam-yard at Morice Town, has taken place within the last few days, in coosequence of two men being engaged on the works who did not belong to, and refused to join, the trades' union. A communication upon the subject has been made to the Ad miralty, who have consented to such suspension of the works as the circumstances may require, and the men will thus be frustrated in their object. In the meantime their places will be supplied by workmen front other parts of the kingdom— which increase of supply will tend materially to the injury of the parties strik;ng, and all not in the employ of the go vernment or public works, as a corresponding reduction in wages cannot fail to take place. LADY TIIIEVES.—On Thursday last two persons, of the genteel or lady thief class, visited the shop of a trades man in Plymouth, where they kept an account, to make some purchases. Circumstances had before occurred, which, as is said, •, were very strange, - but the Misses -- were beyond suspicion. On the day in question, however, the militant observed one of them coolly filling a pocket hand kerchief with tea from a scoop hard by. They were allowed to depart with a severe lecture, and an order never more to enter the shop. The Deronport Independent, from which we quote the above, adds Charity and mercy are highly c =mendable qualities; that they are possessed by the party attempted to be robbed in this instance, should be a subjsct for grateful remembrance on the part of those who have thus escaped the punishment which is not unfrequently dealt for far less offences committed under the promptings of po verty and distress. PHOSPHORESCENTEO; THE RIVER WYE.—A correspondent of the Monmouthshire Beacon says: " Having had occasion last month to return to Tinterne from the New Pataage after nightfall in a boat, I was much surprised and pleased at the luminosity of the river Wye, in certain parts of the tideway, where the water is permanently oozy and thick. The phenomenon, it is well known, is common at sea, and in all salt water estuaries. The curiosity is, that it should be discovered in the Wye. The lowness of the fresh water currents, and the proportionate influence of the tides (carrying the blackish and muddy contributions of the adjacent channel further than customary during neaps) will account for the fact, that the luminosity extended on several occasions this present summer, to that part of the river con- ' tiguous to the abbey. An old inhabitant of a cottage near the celebrated ruins went with her mop, one dark night, through the Watergate, to perform a very homely task, and not with the remotest idea of making a pyrotechnic display, hot to her extreme surprise, what would have been a whirl of dirty drippings at any other time, was converted into a very respectable " wheel." These coruscations are not universal in the Wye, nor, indeed, even at sea; on the contrary, they occur in sheets or 'heal. ; a 'hip may sail many a knot without eliciting a spark of phosphorescence, and then suddenly immerge upon a tract rendered wonderfully grand and interesting in the possession of this beautiful phe nomenon. I counted two such fields or shoals in my pas sage from Chepstow to the Livox Weir, above which the admixture of fresh water was too great to admit of the pro. peed being displayed. It is generally believed that the luminosity is attributable to the multitudes of minute meduciete, hydras, and incipient .forms of marine molluscs that undergo transformations, some of them, from being free rangers of the deep, becoming ultimately fixtures for life to the rocks and fuel. LITERATURE. THE LAW OF ELECTION ENPENSES.—In the Lord Mayo'', Court Dublin a cue was tried on Friday in which a Mr. W. White claimed 51. 10s. 9d., for travelling expenses from the country to Dublin to vote for Mr. Grogan, the member for that city. The claim was not resisted. The Lord Mayor was at first unwilling to award more than the mere ',pens* of transit from place to place, but the plaintiff said he had not the means of returning when he had gM to Dublin. Mr. White's better half deposed " that he was sick in town fora week after the election, u he got cold coming op in the fly-boat. We thought we would be paid every day, but we got nothing, only promises. My husband wrote a second letter to Mr. Grogan, and then he told me about the advertisement in the Saunders, and hoped Phil Upland, or the Country hitherto &signaled Port Phtllip ; its present Condition and Prospects, as a highly eligible Field for Emigration. By Jaws DUNMORE LANG, D.D., A.M. Cootsland, in North. Eastern Australia, the future Callon /14d of Great Britain; its Characteristics and: Capa bilities far European Colonisation. By JOHN DUNMORE LANG, 1).D., A.M. The emigration commissioners have announced that they are again possessed of funds for the depor tation of free immigrants to the Australian colonies; while the colonists have long complained that their agricultural and commercial operations are impeded by the scarcity of labour. The period, therefore, is approaching when that unsteady stream of emigration from the mother country, which had shrunk into a narrow channel, is agatn destined to set towards " the great Southern Land" in a fall and swelling tide. Hence it is that the works now before us present themselves most opportunely. From the author's position in the colonies of which he treats, as senior minister of the presbyterian church, and as a mem ber of the legislative council, his sources of informs- of 1141. worth &Prime M l = him that the Wow at tie would resliPe much more down," which ]4.O' , the coloey the It wet at that t Mhitif tordofrt;MOMrfrtitn. chporhed from New South W I llowMg Min • 143 ot the or bullock to - Mle" • lazy baile th promo, or • r , the trotted by thr of lb, Landon 71te Mod less aro fold either by weight or the number of sheep and cs• 01 Lima Ityet, a married woman, wno was mina • devised to art down the disturbers of drowned in the River Thames with her throat cut—lt . means could be p the Rev. Alexander Penrose' Forbes, M.A., incumbent of St. medical skill, ta raging amongst neat cattle in the neighbour- .....*P" - .."''I""'• `-""''....."".• "I ••••.,.. ••••.,.,,.. +-.. . Fowler stated that, on Friday afternoon last, be was rowing the peace in the south. Saviour's, Leeds, second son of the Hon. Lord Medwyn, one Several d alrea man dy y di .re ed LANG, D.D., A.M. use everybody else, however whose wealth mewated c,Cly Is - him that the tallow 01 the •Bileilai II ennmeed tie , :Iv ', . a boat down the river, when, on arriving opposite Me.an. Therm was a meeting of the corporation of Dublin of the judges of the Court of Session. stock, Mr. O'Bi ten felt the prewalle et the tame la the gloom Fergumn and Co.'. mast-house, Millwall, he saw the body y esterday at which an address of sympath, respect, SIONO or its Timks.—On Sabbath last the magistrates now lingering without hope of recovery. The seat of the The emigration commissioners have announced or IKA Men sheen and rattle bid Mks se Sew as to • -- " r ;0 7 ~.., that they are again possessed of funds for the d por worth Minns to aural; sad make about kr a , it.:" •, ‘• colonies; e would realise much mom In the lbelisi market tem _ of the demist d floating near the shore. He drew it into hisof Arbroath dispensed with the parade of red coats and hal- compliunt appears to be th e lungs , and seems immovably cation of free immigrants to the Australian boat, and conveyed it to the dead.house in Poplar. The bed; and y confidence in the Pope was unanimously passed • beets in going to and returning from church. They not fixed, so as to defy the art of medicine. It Le feared the far- wu very much decomposed, and had evidently been in the THE LAW or ELECTION ENparlsES.—ln the Lord Mayor's only chang their modes of procession, but th ey also changed mesa are likely to be great sufferers. while the colonists have long comßlained that their rattle them.elves in the mew. Reese the ;7,, , T,,,: b1 1 4," ... ,_, •-•,t water Some days. There were several large bruins found Court Dublin a case was tried on Friday in which • Mr. their church. They are, it is reported,. "to overleap the ntitcrfirODONsitißE. oov-o," which Kr. O' Brine et seeelbed. end et - —.... .;i.v - .... agricultural and commercial operations are impeded t e„ d t eet . the i re atee AMIN - ~,,.... '' . ( „:,,,i v... Upon the legs, and the body op dto have been ill-used. W. White claimed 51. 10s. 9d., for travelling expenses narrow barrier. of sectarianism," end visit every church in wh T ic li h t er y i l tb ßE . vil A i T age N o E r e N DLN a c i n e g • w o o ß n T h n: — The m l =4 by the scarcity of labour. The period, therefore, is it WY at dill critical massles s awe Pa • lbw il l '1 + ' .! •:" approaching when that unsteady stream of emigration e ie . bab i r d ' f r om er lr e ~,,,, th W. 1., Walla. Port • MA" ~, i.,..., :1 . The throat was cut in several plac—B. Rayment stated from the country to Dublin to vote for Mr. Orogen, town.—Montrore Review. on Thursday, has ear" rule. The Allearlee Is tee - ,s, , -•-• . • tattle was the eon of the deceased w ho was wife of a the member for that city. The claim was not resisted. Th. PRINCE ALBliar'S VISIT TO INvitasses.—it having be. produced the deepest sympathy throughout the eatiae rehred auctioneer, residing at No. 77, High-street, lioxton Lord Mayor was at first unwilling to award more than the come known in Inverness and the surrounding country that count already reported, from the mother country which had shrunk into a &AL: - the origin of the sad disaster . 1 me i mira : KM wt. 2ma , . ~ c. 4 'I, , O l d Town. On S•t ids ' th• 4thof first.last, the mere expense of transit from place to place, but the plaintiff Prince Albert would pay a visit to Invents.' on Thursday was e work of • poor female of weak intellect, named narrow channel, is again destined to set towards "the •a y evening, • sass 741811 • • ../..we • deceased was attacked with a fit, and remained insensible said he had not the means of returning when he had l ast , every preparation was made t o g ive kiss a truly High- Bartlett Cousins, 30 years of age. She lived with her great Southern Land" in a full and swelling tide. The tea m°. awning-6mm mmiteam - .ta in for three hours. On the following morning she left the ga to Dublin. Mr. White's better half deposed " that land welcome. Notwithstanding that the early part of the paren one of the small five tenements, known as Pitt'sasee or bullock to be Wad ,I net_ Hence it is that the works now before us present of me & vet • ei . he.use in heir houses situate atMad legs. to , i t k . S . baller or . • ,s. , , . 4 , . and was Stirrer seen alive afterwards. The deceased he was sick in town for a week alter the election, as he got day was very showery, crowds of people dressed t . , the extrensest point of the village, and .." a u her ~ holland lived together very comfortably, cold coming op in the fly-boat. We thought we would be Sunday attire fl ocked into the town from the neighbour - if any one was disposed to fire it, with a view of entirely themselves . -"," seldom Iled.—The inquiry was adje ed for paid every day, but we got nothing, only promises. My hood, and not a few from considerable distances in the ad- consuming the place, this certainl y . was the most favourable Peel most opportunely. From the author's the moon. of the roller .... ,_,. e , - work, for the purpose of my • the police an husband wrote a second letter to r . M Grogan, and then he , joining counties of Ross, Nairn, Moray, Sutherland, and position to commence at, for the wind, which was blowing a minister of the Presbyterian . &wok and as a mesas- ata atao dthor ar coarser or at ao _ ... : pt .. t o i f on th i e n leg the co ti l v o e ni co as un of eil. which his he treats , as senior k. tesvieo w.d..... - - by tbe Th aprl hi t .4 Im o: brat n m • 4.1 4.. ... ~....„. ' :O :. • SPP°rt " ii, of procuring farther evidence. FATAL told me about the advertisement in the Saunders, and hoped I even Coahuila. At three o'clock the provost, magistrate', complete gale, was in the direction to waft the flames over bee sources of informs- sae number tgaleep and cattle 5. • ^. ' Wl'. L. . I.RP ' .. . - 110 • i (j - ", -* 1 k ' . ..k..: e 0 / • skown in the return to parliament of . such true radical y e omen , u W. J. Foz, Colonel Tbompeon, George Thompson, and others, speedily become ea universal tr it is sure to become efficient for good. " By X L J. Humphreys Parry ; seconded by Mr. P. A. Taylor, Jon., "Our invited gust, W. J. Fox, M.P. for Old. kam, but one of the true representatives of the social and po litical progress of Great Bntaln—a man who fur nearly half a century has devoted head and heart to the general en. lightenment of the people upon every subject connected with their true intereste especially on all those relating to the welfare of the working doses—one whose eloquence is the cause of national rights has only been surpassed by his own lucid reasoning co behalf of universal freedom, knowledge, and happiness—may health Miss and sumer& crown his par liamentary career."—By Dr. Epps ; seconded by Mr. T. Cooper " May the radical members of the new parliament prove themselus the people's true representatives by main taining an independent position in the midst of party and faction—au honest band, zealously labouring . to free their cou ntry from the grasp of monopoly and p rivilege, it.tro ducirg and supporting such measures as shall tend to the elevation of the million., and, whether supported by few or many, proving themselves true to the principles they hold, by which wise sad prudent conduct they will again call forth the hopes and energies of all emus of reformers in a demand for right and justice that shall speedily pn.ve inevitable."— Mr. W. J. has, in acknowledging the sentiment with which his name was coupled, addressed the meeting at some length and dwelt on the tact that his present position was one which was the reward of past services, and under the responsibili ties of which be should sink, but that he was sustained by the reflection that his extrtions would be continued. The late election had been essentially one of popular progress, and not nno of party. It would be the characteristic of the new parliament that there were fewer men in it sent thither by the influence of old prestige," but more of those who were sent there by the MASS of the people, who were deterramed that their voice should be there tand would show thorn that they alone were the source of legitimate power. It was they alone who had made England what she was that should govern her—the millions and not the few, He rejoiced in tt.e destruction of parties, which were only the politica players who err d to make the people their tools while they lost or won the stakes of office. Ile hoped the people might yet win more triumphs like those they had won, and of which he waran instance. It was evident th►t the people were making great progress is the government of the country, and they would yet make more, and they e odd gain fur themselves a position which would enable them to struggle with the sinuusities of party. They should struggle for these jadvantages by the means which had already been successful—even through such a tortuous and dirty vehicle as the Registration Court. Encouraged as they were by these successes, let their words still be onwards—onwards toward universal suffrage—onwards in the cause of educa tion—in the cause of humanity—onwards with whatever tended to To fine the mind, and promoted the abundance of the land, and all those principles which tended to free•trade and the equality of intellect, until the peoples work was done by the men of the people." The hon. gentleman concluded a most eloquent address amidst great applause. StIAKOPEARE'S HOUSE.—By the purchase of this house for the amount of 3.0001., the united committees of Stratford aid London hare exceeded the sum already in band by about 2,0001. ; but se completely have they repre sented the national feeling by the zeal they have shown in preserving the birth-place of Shakspeare for the country of his glories, that there is no doubt the public will come for ward a-d supply the deficiency. Many persons have held back their subscriptions on the supposition that a large sum raised before the completion of the purchase would increase the expectation of the owners, and render the pro perty more difficult to obtain; but, now the amount is actuslly known, that objection is removed. Perhaps the theatrical managers of the United Kingdom may take the opportunity of testifying their respect to Shakspeares memory, and assisting those by whose spirit and energy one of the most interesting monuments in the country has been • preserved. THE GOVERNMENT SCHEME OF EDUCATION.—The following I«tier has been addressed, by the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, to the Lord President of the Council : Bhttifield, ,tag. 9.—My Lord,—A communication from Gobriel Poole, Eaq., of Bridgwater, in my diocese, has been laid before me, from which it appears that the promoters of a church school at En more, near Bridgwater, have been required to ln'ert in the trust deed of their school our out of certain clause. oubmitted to them by the Committee of Council on Education, and upon their objecting to the elitism, a pros lea to the same purport and amount on the clauses themselves, as a coed [ion of receiving aid at the hands of her Ma jesty's government; and that the promoters of the .chool have rig silted in a letter to the aemetary of the Ocenmittee of Council on Edu cation, bearing dale July 19, I a 17, that if this cenditoon be Instated upon, they shall feel it to be their duty to decline to melee any IL,- PiALIIICE front the Committee of Privy Clouricil.• I will not enter into the many grove quedions involved in the cored !elation of these dooms. It may be sulteient to soy, that se their open dam, in many most essential particular. connected with the management of church schools, can scarcely Mil to neutralise, or even eatinguirb, the autho rity of the clergyman, I should regain' the adoption of any one of them by the promoters of church schools with the very greatest regret. But the point to which I am more especially bound to call your lordships attention ia this—that to insist upon the adoption of any one of dine damsel as a condition of recetmg aid is to abandon the pledge peon by her Majesty's government, whereby the sole ea:indium towered by her Majesty o government. and meented to in behalf of the church, is the right of inspection. lam quite aware that it may be replied that her Majesty's government have beta in com munimtirm with the National Society on the subject, and that theeom mow of that society have " engaged to employ their influence in recommending the clauses in question to applicants for aid." From what I have slated above, it will be plain that I could by no means concur in any such recommendation. I should, indeed, be very glad to see the entrapment reconsidered with a view to its being annulled by the Nnti nal Society, who base already, in their cotamsnication to her Mojesty's government, " ceproned their desire that the promoters of education throughout the country should have the same liberty of choice, as to the constitution of their schools, which has hitherto been conceded to them both by . the National Pociety and the Committee of Council on Education. I would not be male rat oil as implying that the promotera of church schools, when in the position of applicants for aid to her 91ajesey's government, ' may not most reasooably and most properly be required to submit the trout deeds of their schools to the inspection of the Committee of Council on Eduration, with the simple view of ascertaining, for the mtudaeti.n of the committee and the public, that the tru•to are legally constituted; but anything beyond this—any thing approaching to a dictation of the ep eine terms of a trout, or of the persons in whom it is to be etposed, or of the manner and time. and condition of their election, oold, In my judgment, be most carefully and ocrupulowely avoided. I trust, therefore, that upon re consideration, her Majesty's government will be prepared to leave the promoters of church echoed, in this diocese wholly unfettered by the imposition of any new condition, and to contort theta selves exclusively to that on which the church has very generally and cheerfully acquiesced. I beg to add that I propose to forward a copy of this letter to the committee of the National Society. I am, &a., R. BATS ova WELLS. • Since the date of the communication referred to this condition . has ia.:Vi'le;ist;i:pon on the part of her Majesty's government, and fa eensequeme the promoters of the Enmore School hare declined to receive any assistance from the Committee of Privy Council on Education. TILE HAWKERS' TA X.—Sir,—ln your notice a few days ago of several unwise and inconvenient direct taxes, I was sorry that you omitted one which in addition is unequal and oppressive ; I mean the tax on hawkers and pedlers. This tax is so unjust a one that it is mach to be wondered at that it should have continued so long on our statute-books ; but it affects one of the lowest and therefore most helpless classes of the community, and there has been no one to raise a voice for them. This tax, as is well known, was first im posed in the year 178,5 by Mr. Pitt, as a compensation to the shopkeepers for the tax on retail shops, then first laid on ; but his first intention had been to suppress hawkers and pedlars altogether, a most arbitrary measure, which he was Induced, as he said, " by some of the arguments that had been used in the house," to change for one lees openly so, viz , a duty on their licenses so heavy that it must in many instances have the effect of the more direct prohibition. The next year the shop tax was almost entirely taken off, but the unfortunate hawkers met with no corresponding relief, though Mr. Windham spoke with force on the injustice of their case. The tax is 41. a year for the license of a foot' pedlar, 81. for one using a horse, ms, or mule ; the person applying must produce a certificate of good character from a clergyman, and the penalty for trading without one is 4111., to be levied by distress on his goods, the offender meanwhile to be committed to the House of Correction. Now, when it is considered how little the oeuteas of a pedler's basket is often worth, this tax of 41. a year appears out of all proportion ; but a still worse qua lity of the tax is its extreme uncertainty. I do not believe it is paid by one in ten. A poor man or woman (for it is a very commencecupation for women) is perhaps incapacitated by weak health or some accident from regular labour, buys a few books, threads, and handkerchiefs, and carries them to sell in the remote nooks and corners of the country. To pay four pounds for the privilege to do this is quite beyond his means. By economy and good lack he gradually increases the contents of his basket or pack . • but, still unable to pay the heavy price of a license, which would eat up so large a portion of his profits, he hopes, as he has hitherto escaped the eye of the law, that he may still have the name good luck. He goes on, till some chance, er the malice of a rival trader, draws the attention of the police on him—his stock is seined, and he is ruined, and left with a feeling of hatred against oppressive laws, and of exasperation against the exe cutors of them, which now makes him easily yield to any temptation to break the lawn more seriously. I hope, air, you will call public attention to an oppressive and unequal impost, which seems only to need it in order to be abolished.—H.H.D. RECOVERY OF 1,000/. WORTH OF BANKRUPT PRO PERTY —We have received a letter from Mr. Columbine, in which he gives a general denial to some of the statements in a paragraph with the above heading, which we yesterday copied from the Sunday papers. In June tact ;he states) the Court of Chancery granted an Injunc tion, restreining the salt of any portion of the property, and the mart of Boulogne, where part of it was claimed, has decided against the right of the assignees. Besides this, all the proceedings under the Bat are disputed, and a petition is now pending before the court 1.0, 1 the Purpose of Annulling it, sod which will probably come on in No vember nest. So far, therefore, from there being any foundation for the article in riuntion, the creditor under my estate cannot be interested therein till the flat has bent declared good, aad the settle robot bed, by the Court of Chancery and Court of Review respectively, which alone have jurisdiction mine case.—D. E. Cone Mains. INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—MYSTERIOUS DEATH.— Before Mr. W. Baker, jun., deputy coroner, at the Green Man public-house, High-street, Poplar, respecting the death of Elise Raymeht, a married woman, who was found drowned in the River Thames, with her throat cut.--R. Fowler st a t e d t h a t, on F r id ay afternoon last, he was rowing • boat down the river, when, on arriving opposite Mean. Ferguson and Co.'s mast-house, Millwall, he saw the body of the &craw d floating near the shore. He drew it into his boat, and conveyed it to the dead-house in Poplar. The hod; was very much decomposed, and had evidentl been in the water some clays. There were several large bruises found upon the leper, and the body appeared to have been ill-used. The throat was cut in several places.—E. Rayment stated thst he was the son of the deceased, who was the wife of a Yetired auctioneer, residing at No. 77, High-street, Horton Old Town. On Saturday evening, the 4th of Sept. last, the deceased was attacked with a fit, and remained insensible for three hours. On the following morning she left the hou..se , and was laver seen alive afterwards. The deceased and her hustland lived together very comfortably, and sehlom craarrelled.—The inquiry was adjourned for a week, for the purpose of affording the police an wePortunity of procuring farther evidence, FATAL the gentlemen of the committee would soon be home from this country to pay my husband."—The plaintiff having proved the serving of the summons at the how* of Mr. Grogan, Harcourt-street, on Monday, his lordship made an order for 61. 10s., the amount claimed. Coach ACCIDENT.--On Tuesday en accident, which might have been attended with se rious consequences, ace curred about a mile and a half from Comber, by the over turning of the Killikagh, Comber, and Belfast day-coach.— The coach was very heavily laden, carrying a more than usually large number of pateengers, with much weighty lug gage. When the coach arrived at the hill, opposite Mr. Adeir's, the near wheeler became restive, whereupon the guari got down, and ran with the horse, in order to " steady" him. In this effort the guard failed • and, so the coach approached the foot of the hill, it rocked repeatedly front one side to the other ; at length it overturned, pitching passengers, luggage, &c., on the side of the road. Several persons were injured—though none of them seriously. The Rev. Mr. Galt had hia shoulder dislocated, and his tight less severely torn. The rev. gentleman was with difficulty extricated from under the coach. Another gentleman, Mr. Brakey, received a severe shock, but was enabled to pro ceed to Belfast. Mr. Moore, of Tullymanows, near Kilhleagh, received a vt ry severe wound on the leg. A girl had her head much injured, and her wrist badly sprained.—A of tAern Whig, FATAL IyCIDENT AT A LAVNCH.—An accident, attended with loss o life, occurred at the launch of a brig in Belfast. The launch took place on Wednesday last in Itltehic's dock. Long before the hour appointed for the launch the shipyard and its vicinity were thronged by some thousands of epecta tors. All the preliminaries having been arranged, the word was given to knock away the " daggers," and the new vessel glided slowly and gracefully down the ways— ettrattett the wind, ogignet the tide, Steadied with upright keeL The Line is registered 227 toes, but will carry about VO tons. Immediately after the launch a frightful accitient, which has resulted in fatal consequences, occurred from the manner in which one of the pieces of ordnance used in cele• beating the event of the day was discharged, and partly from a want of caution on the pert of the ill.fated young woman who was the sufferer on the occasion. Among the cannon fired was along brass four-pounder, landed from a revenue cruiser undergoing repairs in the basin of the smaller graving dock, and stationed about midway between the dock and the ship yard gate. At the instant when this piece was being dis charged for the last time, and when much confusion pre vailed, if, consequence of the noise of the tiring, a young female, named Eliza M'Call, residing at No. 5, Earlatreet, and about seventeen yearn of age, paused within a yard or two of the muzzle of the gun, and re ' ceived the entire contents in the side and abdomen. On examination it was found that the whole left side of the lower part of the abdomen, the outside of the hip, and the upper part of the thigh had been carried away by the force of the explosion, and the entire surface of the wound fearfully lacerated and blackened by the powder. Every care and attention was fetid to the unhappy sufferer; but she never rallied, and died in the course of the evening. —An inquest was held in the old Poor-house on the hotly of the poor girl. The facts elicited from the witnessrs who were examined were the same es those previously stated, when a verdict of "Accidental death" was recorded. _ ..... ..... STATE OF THE COVNTHY.—The atonal of Mr. T. M. Us. borne, Limerick, a member of the family of Usborne, corn merchants, of London, fell to the ground on Thursday last, all but the upper loft. The stores were laden with corn. — Oa Thursday last, in the day tame, a man named Michael Connell, residing at Newcastle, near Limerick, was shot dead while engaged in his own " haggard," securing a bay rick. There is no cause assigned for this deadly outrage. The whole of the property of the unhappy man, together with that of his neighbours, was under seizure for rent.— An attempt was made to shoot a mats named Kelly also near Limerick on the same night. Ills life was saved by the clumsiness of the party who charged the pistol, which the intended assassin fired off close to his person. The charge was not " rammed home." In Tralee a number of persons, marching with a black flag at their head, forced their way into the workhouse, a few days since, while the guardians were sitting, and seized and carried away the paupers' dinner which was cooking at the time. SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, SRPT. tB. Yesterday, the meeting formerly announced re garding fictitious votes in Peeblessbire, was held in the county town, Mr. Grieve, of Noble-hall, in the chair. The first and second resolutions generally condemned the system of faggot voting—the third was as follows : That it is the duty and interest of tho electors of this county, as shoo( the other Scottish constitucncics—mere particularly ouch of then, as have suffered directly from the prevalence of the nominal and fictitious vote system—to afford every sodotance to Mr. Cahoon Car michael in the prosecution of the proceedings which (it lo understood) he intends to ifpuitute in parliament with the view of having hinmel seated for Iteeblevahlre as the pate wan obtained at the poll the suffrages of a majority of the actual and bona fide electors of that county. In accordance with this view, • committee was appointed to assist Mr. Carmichael, that gentleman having previously declared to the meeting his entire confidence of being declared member by the commit tee of the House of Commons. The parish schoolmasters are assuming an unhappy attitude in reference to the privy council minutes. Here is the last resolution adopted during the pre sent sittings : That it is with sincere revert the meeting find the scheme to be each on to preclude the parish schools from its benefits. 110 known that the whew mu originally framed with no intention to embrace the parish scheids ; and now that it is proposed to comprehend these I under lie operation, it is only on conditions which are either in their nature imprac.icable or which have a tendency to lower the character of the Scottish School Establishment. Under these circumstances the parish schoolmaster, have so alternative but to appeal to the public and the legislature, In the Ann hope that those who are friendly to the parochial institutions of Scotland will . not Mend tamely by and ...Unmet their deny—will not pal wally subm i t to seethe national (ands upended in mectreg and endowing schools of a decidedly sectarian character, whereby the outinuance or extension of our national et s tern will be rendered difficult if not impracticable—but thus exertions will he made to do justice to the parochial schoolmasters of Scotland, to maintain the sthoole In their efficiency, to increue their umfulnem and so to extend the Institution as to afford the bleseing of education to all. Considering the conciliatory spirit shown by the Education Committee, and their desire so often ex pressed to do justice to all parties, it is extremely uncharitable to assert that the exclusion of the parish schoolmasters was originally contemplated, and the proof of this rash assertion would be difficult. And as to the other passage, marked in italics, it is posi tively ludicrous. No man can be the teacher of a parish school unless he belong to the established church ; the examination, admission, supetintend ence, and dismiasioa of teachers, is entirely vested in the judicatories of that body, and, therefore, for the teachers of parish schools to sneer at " decided sec tarianism," is about as felicitous as if America taxed Ireland with repudiation. No doubt the minutes lean to sectarianism too much, but as the parish schoolmasters wish sectarianism sectarisnised, their amendment makes matters worse. In detail the parish schoolmasters furnish many instances of intelligence and liberality, but, en masse, the corporation spirit fearfully dims perception amongst them. A new martyr-mania is springing up in the shape of sympathy shown to people refusing to take oaths. The third case in this quarter, within a few months, occurred in Leith last week, and as the party was, as usual, sentenced to a month's imprisonment, a meeting was last night convened to commiserate his fate. All the offenders have been young men, of the debating society age, and glib in casuistry. A serious outbreak took place among the colliers at Beith, on Thursday. As formerly noticed, a collier strike has for some time existed in that quarter, and the masters, despairing of the old hands returning to their work, had employed new ones, and this arousing the jealousy of the former led to the outbreak. Two troops of yeomanry cavalry were called out, and repressed the disorder, no fatal consequences having followed. The new hands are not to recommence till Monday, when a force will be prepared to protect them. Jenny Lind has created a furore as great among the sober folk of Edinburgh and Glasgow as she has caused among the less phlegmatic lieges of the south. The critics seem to have run especially wild. One rabid rhapsodist attributes to her voice the wonderful faculty of harmony, or that of producing two or more sounds at once. Thus he raves : No silver bell ever gowned a sweeter intonation; and the style in which it la modulate 1. the pure gush of varied harmonies it an and does produce,. are rumuric—neither more ner ken Nightingale' choir of nightingales might approach the homey and the Wiliam, if anything save " the human voice divine" could accomptish the mae Ugly modulations of her ornaments. If another reporter's phraseology could be relied on, Jenny Lind's audience at Glasgow expressed their delight amongst themselves in a manneronly indulged in by persons in the last extremity of affectionate rapture. " The City Hall," he says : was crowded daring the eveningby an audience embracing many of the mAtltly and gentry of the nagAbouritood, in a4Adaton to mons. of the mart respectable citizens." Such is the power of song over the musical " critics " of the north ! Bisnornic OP BRECIIIN.—On Wednesday loot the pres bytery of the diocese aisembled for the purpose of electing a successor to the late Bishop Moir, and their choice fell upon the Rev. Alexander Penrose Forbes, M.A. incumbent of St. Saviour's, Leeds, second son of the Hon. Lord Medwyn, one of the Judges of the Court of Session. SIGNS OP THR TIMES.—On Sabbath last the magistrates of Arbroath dispensed with the parade of red coats and hal berts in going to and returning from church. They not only changed their modes of procession, but they also changed their church. They are, it is reported, "to overleap the narrow barriers of sectarianism," end visit every church in town.—Montrots Review. PRINCE Anarat's VISIT TO INTIIHNISS.—II having be come known in Inverness and the surrounding country that Prince Albert would pay a visit to Inverness on Thursday last, every preparation was made to give him a truly High land welcome. Notwithstanding that the early part of the day was very showery, crowds of people dressed in their Sunday attire flocked into the town from the neighbour hood, and not a few from considerable distances in the ad joining counties of Ross, Nairn, Moray, Sutherland, and even Caithness. At three o'clock the provost, magistrates, tion were numerous and authoritative, and although his zeal, as a dissenter and as a Scotsman, sometimes outruns discretion and even good breeding, we always recognise in what he writes the ardent inquirer after truth, and the honest exponent of the results of careful investigations. The government of New South Wales, at present, extends over the whole of the south-eastern portion of the island continent of New Holland ; and, follow ing divisions marked out by nature and the course of colonisation, is partitioned by the inhabitants into three districts—New South Wales proper, or the middle district, the capital of which is Sydney, tho seat also of the general government; Port Phillip, or the southern district, the capital of which is Mel bourne ; and Moreton Bay, or the northern district, the principal town in which is Brisbane. Tho limit of the Port l'hillip district on the western side is the meridian of 141 deg. east longitude; which senseless and imaginary line divides it front the adjoining colony of South Australia. The Mur ray river forms its natural boundary on that side, and must undoubtedly become its legal one also. The northern boundary is not yet definitively fixed; while Cape Howe, the south-eastern extremity of New Holland, in latitude 37i deg. south, is the eastern limit. Then commences New South \Vales proper, which extends to the parallel of 30 deg. south; and then the Moreton Bay district, extending along the coast line to such northern point u may hereafter be fixed. The volumes before us, adverting only incidentally to the Sydney and middle district, are devoted to the history and capabilities of the two districts lying one to the north and the other to the south of it. Dr. Lang's first desire is, that these immense dis tricts should have appropriate names, and he sug gests, with great propriety, that the name of the southern should be Phillipsland, while the other should perpetuate the name of its first discoverer, the great circumnavigator, as Cooksland. Port Philip, ho argues, should still be retained as the name of the magnificent inlet to which it was originally applied, though it can only lead to ambiguity and confusion if used as the designation of the entire province, for which Phillipsland would be more appropriate, con ferring a double honour on Capt. Philip, a highly meritorious officer of the royal navy, who was tho founder and first governor of the colony of New South Wei, and to whose self-devotion it was owing that the infant settlement was not abandoned in its very earliest trial. Dr. Lang has, indeed, to enter many a protest against the nomenclature which government officials have chosen to adopt throughout tho colony, in the attempt to itnmortalise ignoble names—Hopkinscs, and so forth—by appending them to the most noble naturalfeatures of the country. A study of the colonial map will reveal " comparisons, look you," that would have delighted the choleric Fluellen. We have a considerable range of moun tains dubbed the Mount Macedon range, "so called by Sir Thomas Mitchell because Philip was King of Macedon," and Captain Phillip, we know, was governor of New South Wales : " all one reckon ings, save the phrase is a little variations," would have retorted Shakspeare's Welshman. Next we get a River Campaspe, flowing from this range ; and all this to the too general exclusion of the native names, which are wonderfully sweet and liquid, as well as exceedingly significant. Phillipsland was principally settled, in the first in stance, so lately as 1835-6, by emigrants from Van Diemen's Land, attracted by reports of the fertile pasturages to be found there, and impelled by the increase of stock, and the consequent inadequate extent of land in their own island. How the colony has prospered is best shown by the fact that in De cember, 1843, the surplus revenue over and above the whole amount of government expenditure to that date was 20,0001. And yet the years 1811-2-3 had been a period of wide-spread calamity, producing a sudden and unprecedented depreciation of property, and in volving hundreds in ruin. Moreover, Phillipsland had been grossly defrauded by the diversion of the amount realised by land sales within that district to the purpose of emigration to New South Wales gene rally. But few immigrant labourers being thus in troduced into the province wages rose to a ruinous height. Employers were beggared, whilst, according to evidence before a select committee of the legis lative council, " every day throughout the sheep shearing season the shepherds would have several bottles of champagne; and rum they would have in by bucketsful, and deal it out." By the perverse blindness of the colonial government town allotments were run up to the exorbitant figure of 4431. each, and in the height of the land fever a single acre of building ground in the town of Melbourne realised 10,000/. Just at this time a stream of emigration set in in full force from the mother country; land rose, stock rose, provisions rose, wages rose; and, to add to the mischief, the colonial banks gave indiscriminate and unlimited credit, and all was a wild day-dream of El Darado. Then came the usual reaction, and to deepen the reverse, the immense profits expected from the rearing of stock had thrown mere agriculture into the elia&; no attention had been paid to tillage in Phillipsland, and the crops had failed in New South Wales. In the years 1839-40-41, the amount of insolvency was equal to 10!. per head for every man, woman, and child, in the colony. Many returned home dis gusted with their Australian experience, and their reports gave a check to further emigration, which is but now being removed. Those who by better ma nagement or greater perseverance, or perhaps from sheer want of means to shift their quarters, endured the storm, and finally weathered it, are now, even the poorest of them, rising fast into present competence and eventual opulence. The following personal sketch is an instructive example: Mr. John M•Millan is a native of skipnets, and his wife of Tarbet, in the Western Highlands of ficothout. leaving an increasing tastily. and no means of providing for their subsistence in either of this localities, be had cruised over to the lowlands, and become, like many other IlighLanders in the large towns of Scotland, a porter on the streets of my native town of Greenock. In this precarious sit - nolo* he had been for Rix years, supporting Lits foully with great difficulty, when be obtained a free peewee by the David Luke, one of the government bounty emigrant ships, for himself and faintly to Purt Phillip, In the year 1540. On his arrival in Melbourne he had may from awe to ten shillings in the world, and this snuff sum be hal earned by some petty service rendered on Ward ship t.' one of the cabin paneengers; but he bad nine eons and a daughter, of whom the eldest was about twenty years of age and the youngest in infancy. I About was high priced at the time, as everything else was, and tieing no mechanical reek. '4'7'7; ris hired sour whihrwelfreasfist atone-meson any kind were also hired at different rates of wages to different enamoyers. The earnings of the family appear to have been all placed in a common purse, and with their nut savings a match cow was purchased at 127, another and another being added enceetaively tbereafter at • somewhat Riniilar rate. Pasture for thew rattle, on the waste land quite close to the town, cost nothing. and there were alums children enough, otherwise unemployed, to trod them; whit* the seem and industricau wife and mother lent her valuable services to the CIONIMMI stock by forming a dairy. In this way, from the natural inerrere of the cattle, and from successive purchases, the herd bad Increasul so amazingly that In the month of February, 1846 it amoui.ted to $OO held; and as this wu much too large a herd to be vaned any longer on the waste land near Melbourne, • squatting station Iliad been sought for and obtained by some of the young men on the Mao ay river, about 200 miles distant. For such • station the tempur. ry occupant his merely to pay 10/. a year to the government, which insures him sn exclusive right of pasturage, fur the time being, over perhaps from ad to 100 square miles of land. _ M'Millan afterwards bought a small farm, of 121 acres, within six miles of Melbourne, at the rate of 71. an acre. The land is light and sandy ; but being well situated to nisi, it throws up:an exoellent crop of wheat,under good minagement—tm ro. duce realised by Mr. M•Millan having averaged from 30 to 48 Ismliels an acre. He had rented the farm next to hie own during thin 3,, sr 1845; and at the period of ray visit be had a math of 60 tons et cutest buy to dispose of In Melbourne : and be considered hlmmif worth altogether 1,100/.. which I had reason tx believe was a very low eel_ mate of the value of his property. The reader is made to accompany Dr. Lang on various routes through the interior of the province, which comprises 130,0110 square miles, an area con siderably larger than that of Great Britain and Ire land, arid thus becomes acquainted with the aspect of its different localities. In one of these journeys we are introduced to Mr. Henry O'Brien, " one of the patriarchs of Australia, the father of squatting, and also of boiling down, two most prominent depart- ments in the rural economy of that country." The rationale of this latter process is hardly known at home ; and the detail suggests a regret that for went of labour there should be immense tracts of fertile land subject to the British crown that yield a pro fitable return only by this wasteful and barbarous system. Like everybody else, stock, Mr. crßvlert felt ? STIAX-BOAT ACCIDEXT.—Before Mr. W. Carter, at the Nine Elms Tavern, relative to the death of J. Patton. aged 36, a drill and colour sergeant of the Scots Fusilier Guards, who, together with Wilson Emery, her Majesty's swan keeper, the inquest on whose death appeared in our paper of yesterday, were drowned, by a boat, in which they were, coming into collision with the Matrimony iron steam-boat. —George Franks, a mate of the Childe Herold steamer, de posed to finding the body of deceased floating down with the tide off Nine Elms pier on Friday last. He got the same ashore, and conveyed it to the above house.—Corporal R. Bye said that, on Saturday week, deceased and four other parties, including Emery, who acted as coxswain, started from Warminster-bridge, and proceeded up the river an far as Barnes, for the purpose of training for a match that wan shortly to come off. Upon their return the Immo night, when they arrived nearly facing the Pimlico pier, they law a steam-boat coming towards them. The coxswain stood up and shouted that there was a small boat a-head. They had not proceeded above five or six yards farther before • colli sion between the two boats took place, and the party sod denly became immersed. Witness turned round and got hold of the boat, and remained holding thereto until he was taken off, He saw Corporals Smith and Hopkins saved, but the deceased and Emery were drowned. The night was rather dark, and witness considered that the oc currence was owing entirely to the coxswain miataking the light of the steamer. Everything was done by the people on board the steamer to save them.—The jury returned a verdict of " Act ideate' death."—The whole of the non . cotnmissiOnedofticera ant four companies O 7 the together with the band, were drawn up in front of the User°, where they remained until the coroner issued his order tir the iuterment of deceased. The body was then conveyed to the burial-ground of St. John's, Westminster, the band playing the " Dcad March in Soil" through the principal thoroughfares leading to the place of interment. NEW ZEALAND.-COOK'S STRAIT SETTLERS. Since Mr. Burnand insists upon it, we give publi city to his second letter ; although, as our readers will learn from the nobs we have appended to it, it appears to us little to the purpose. As to his second letter, it consists mainly of personal attacks upon the settlers who sign the letter to the directors published in the Daily News of August 27 and 31, and September 2. Mr. B. we do not know, but some of these gentlemen we do know to be men of high worth and inte grity—gentlemen in the true sense of the word. And we are not going to lend ourselves to the publication of libels on honest men. . . We should be loth to suspect the directors of the New Zealand Company of knowing and sanctioning the mode of discussing this qua tion adopted by the writer of the letter which appeared in the Daily News of the 4th of September and by Mr. Burnand. It is obvious that a difference of opinion exists between the directors and at least some of the settlers as to their mutual claims and liabilities with respect to each other. Such a difference of opinion , toes not necessarily imply anything dis creditable on either site. It is a question of law or equity, which ought to be decided apart from mere personal consi derations. Personal imputations against men who have suf fered much, and think they have reason to complain of the directors, would not be a judicious way on the part of the latter to set themselves right with the public. We therefore assume that, as men of sense, they do not approve of the line taken by their self-appointed defenders. But we must be allowed to think their silence unwise. Unless they can give a perfectly satisfactory explanation of their conduct in the transactions on which the letter of the settlers is based, they can scarcely hope that Sootchmen will venture under their auspices to Otago. Ste: I am prepared to prove that the proprietors of the New Zealand Company have subscribed in hard casts (D 200,0001., and borrowed a further sum of 150,0901., which joint sums together make 350,0001. the directors have expended in the public service towards colonisation; viz., fur purchasing, surveying, and improving toe lands in the several colonies founded in New Zealand, for conveying and establishing the colonists, &c. &c , whose interests it is satisfactory to state have never been lost sight of by the directors. This expenditure has been approved by her Majesty's government, and is wholly independent of any sums of money received by the New Zealand Company for the sale of land, about 300,0001. niece also expended in the same service. (2) I will now give a few reasons why I do not believe the statement of suppressing the 500 copies of "the settlirs' complaints," or any part of them, which have been attributed to the directors of the New Zealand Company. (3) 1. Because the contents of these documents arc untrue (4). 2. Because the petition presented by Mr. &mimes in 1844-5 to the House of Commons has not a word of complaint against the company (5). 3. Because the memorial from the settlers in the Port Nicholson district, forwarded to and presented by Dr. Evans to Lord Stanley in 1845 has not a complaint to make against either directors or the agents of the company (6). 4. Because the petition bearing Or signature of almost every inhabitant of the southern settlement of New Zealand, presented to the House of Commons in May, 1846, does not represent • single grievance against the company (7). 5. Because none of the papers connected with the colonies h. vs noticed the existence of such a document (8). 6. itecause if the contents of this paper had been known before the annual general meeting of proprietors, held in May, 1847, it would have demanded an explanation (9). 7. Because I have, in common with the proprietors of the New Zealand Company, faith in the directors, firmly be lieving them incapable of the charges made (10). (Boyle-street, Sept. 12. W. H. IItitNAND. (1.) This is nonsense. People pay up in hard cash. Have all the shareholders paid up the full amount of their sub scriptions ? (2.) This proves the case of the settlers. They have been joint subscribers with the company towards the expense of colonising, and a proportional part of what has been granted by government on the consideration of celon6ing expendi ture is in equity theirs. (3.) No person has attributed the suppression to the direc tors, unless Mr. 8., by his precipitate exculpation of them before they were attacked, may be supposed to have pointed the finger of suspicion in that direction. We have simply said, that months ago we heard of the settlers' letter having been forwarded to this country, and that we had in vain attempted to procure a copy of it. We did ex press a suspicion that efforts had been made to suppress it ; by whom or to what end we did not presume to say. A correspondent, whose letter we pub lished on the 4th of Septemte r (and who is much more likely to be ass fait of New Zealand matters than Mr. B.), sought to direr: the suspicion of suppression towards the agents employed by the settlers. We care not who has sup pressed it: all that we had to do was—seeing that British subjects, induced by the representatimet of the company to emigrate, are complaining of the trt gement they experience from it—to ensure a fair hearing on the part of the public* for our distant countrymen. The statement that 500 copies had been forwarded to this country was not oar's, but the correspondent's now alluded to. He, the advocate of the di rectors, maintains that they were ; Mr. Burnand, equally a friend of the directors, attempts to show that they were not; to us the question appears of not the slightest consequence ; We only want to know, are the complaints of the settlers well or illfounded (4.) This is a mere assumption, and contradicted in part, at least, by Mr. B.'s own admission commented upon in aote 2. (5.) The petition referred to is one in which the directors and settlers were parties on one aide, the government on another. To have embraced in it the present question would have been complicating one controversy by introducing the details of another, which has nothing to do with it. (6) To this, also, the preceding remark applies. The settlers could not claim their due proportion of a boon from I government before it was granted. (7.) Ditto, ditto. (8.) This is untrue. The meetings at which the memorial was adopted were advertised and reported in the New Zealand Spectator. And though less strenuous exertions have been made of late to give circulation to the New Zealand papers in this country than was once the case, Mr. B. might learn, even from the columns of the New Zealand Journal, that the settlers have been recently what is called is London " nereuenable." 141.11TIMEMME.I.C. (9.) The existence of the letter is proved : by the copies now in our hands; by the notices in the New Zealand Spec tator; by the statement of the letter friendly to the directors, published in our paper of 4th September. That no allusion was made to it by any shareholder at the meeting in May shows, we agree with Mr. Burnand, that the independent shareholders could scarcely be aware of ita existence ; aryal, that it had been suppressed. (10.) For some of the directors now in office we have Ike greatest respect. In the original founders and directors we had great confidence ; but mob implicit faith as Mr. B. re poses in the present direction we place in no mere mortals. IRELAND. DCBLIN, SEPT. 19. Lord Clarendon has recently bestowed a reward of 201. upon an humble farmer of the County Clare, named Wil liam Crowe, who manfully beat off a party of armed plunderers who attacked his house in the early part of this year. This act of Lord Clarendon will pro bably stimulate others to imitate the firmness of Crowe. Resistance of • like manly character, exhibited in a higher social rank, obtained a fitting and a generous reward. Your readers will remember the brave con duct manifested by Mr. I. Carney, • gentleman of Clare, against a party who attacked, in the open day, his friend Mr. O'Halloran, while sitting in his own parlour. On that occasion he wounded one of the attacking party, who was subsequently arrested, tried, and convicted. Mr. Carney has just been presented through the Chief Secretary (Sir W. Somerville) with a cadetship in the constabgary. No more efficacious means could be devised to put down the disturbers of the peace in the south. There was a meeting of the corporation of Dublin yesterday, at which an address of sympathy, respect, and confidence in the Pope was unanimously passed.