The Express. — London, England, 1847-11-13 00:00:00

'nog. he may get work on railroads ; but prison fare and silent quiet sedentary pursuit.. are a bad preparation for a an d .t life; so he walks o forth, with hunger in his belly and p.verty in hie pockets see wealth in every window, and welcome at no door, unless it be at those dens where wren hee like himself sell and spend the produce of their felonies." "Nothing could be better than the principle of the old system of assignment and ticket-ofleave, to ensure uniform ro d conduct. Under that system, each prisoner, if well conducted, after so many years of arignment—that is, labour without wages for clothing and food, if well conducted during that term—received a ticket-of-leave, which enabled him to hire himself to whomsoever he pleased, within a ter t,ii, district for wages. If that ticket was not forfeited by inirceinluet at the end of a certain other period, the prisoner obtained complete iiii;,rt:r within the colony. These regula tions were carried into practice in leww.e• unequal, and arbitrary manner, but they were founded on common send and c..mmon justice. Under them thousands, who in Eng• land o ,ulti have been the regular clients of magistrates and gaol. • became free, independent, and respectable. In the assirtocent system. the foundation of the prosperity of the colons was laid. 1 would have an assignment and ticket-of. leave ss stem carefully digested. I would make assignment a pri• it. ge afforded to criminals of superior conduct and char.. , ter. No assigned servants should be allowed in any town. .r within 2.5 miles of any town. No grog shopkeeper should be allowed an assigned servant. No master should be allowed more than a limited number. Under the old 'l van on some farms there were a hundred congregated to rther. teaching and desiring all sorts of wickedness." BRAZIL Sir.—l am led to make a few observations, from perceissng that the obnoxious act of the 9.1 August, 1841 (to wt„ h you allude), so galling to the Brazilian govern ment ond people, and derogatory to its monarch, instead of being revoked or allowed to remain a dead letter, is actually being put in force; for it was very recently announced that the crew of a Brazilian vessel. suspected of being engaged in ' the slivo trade, had been detained and brought to this port ; and on Thursday last a case was brought before the Admir ilty Court, of another Brazilian vessel said to have landed scarzo of slaves on the coast of the empire, and to have been set fire to, was captured within the precincts of the empire. and brought to this country for adjudication in our coons. These proceedings are the more extraordinary, since the present Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (no tn con.iilrible authority) and the Vice-President of the Board of Trad , . at the time both condemned the act, as militating against the right of nations, and opposed to all international law. It is • i be hoped, consequently, that in the approaching aessiot. her Majesty's government will freely and voluntarily repeal the said statute, or be induced to do so by the re monstronces and memorials of our merchants, manufacturers, and ship-owners concerned in the trade of that country, of which we at present enjoy so large a proportion, as proved . by Mr, 111• Gregor's " Commercial Tariffs," part the '2lst, presen•ed to the House of Commons in May last, a careful peruse; of which I would strongly recommend to all the members of that house, particularly those who, from not having had a seat ia it last session, may not hove had an opportunity of looking into that valuable compilation. They will thereby be made fully aware of the importance of our commercial transactions with foe rich and prolific country, and easel iced of the fob v of ruining or deteriorating them, from mistaken zeal or •Iliberal motives. , Therc is another object which will deserves the attention I, of the legislature, and it is desirable that some member ghoul.: ((Ting it under its consideration, namely, the very im , ' perfect .ind inadequate means employed by the Post-orrice l for the conveyance of the mercantile correspondence l between this country and the Brazil., and, through Brazil, with the Oriental. Argentine, and nearly all the other republics of South America, particularly ( at the present moment, , when the commercial intercourse I with th.• countries in the river Plate is exposed to interrup tion, and almost threatened with annihilation. The last mail from those states and the empire of Brazil arrived here on the 23rd of last month, and no other is expected to arrive between this and Christmas-eye! Hoping this may meet the eve and attract the attention of some member of the House of Commons, who has the commercial prosperity of his country at heart. such as Mr. M'Gregor, Mr. Ewart, Dr. Bowrine, ilke., I shall be proud of having been the means of binrii.:g closer the relations between Great Britain and Braz:l. ••y the repeal of an act so offensive to the one and in jurious to the other.—Ax Ateol.o-Bnaztualt DlEgefiaNT. VTR Court._ FitlDAT.—The royal family took walk ing an.] pony exercise this morning in the grounds adjacent to the c' istle. The Earl and Countess Spencer, Sir R. and Lady Gardiner, and the Rev. Dr. l'hilpott took their dew ture Loin the Castle to -day. Mr. )hllonnell, Governor of the Gambia, had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office. Lord .%. ley had an interview, with Sir G. Grey yesterday at the Home-office. The Rev. T. E. Poole, I) D., Colonial and Garrison Chaplain of Sierra Leone. had an interview yesterday with Earl Grey at the Colonial.office. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady M. Wood returned to their residence in Downingatreet on Thnratle;+ night from Hickleton Hall, Yorkshire. The Queen, Prince Albert, and the royal family are eau. cted to arrive at Buckingham Palace from Windsor Cuth on Monday, the 22nd inst., on which day her Majesty will hobl a privy council, when the speech from the throne, upon the opening of the new parliament, will be determined :pm. The court will proceed to Osborne immediately fter the addresses to her Majesty, in reply to the royal speech, have been presented. [From lard night's Gazette.] WAR OFFICE, Nov. 12. 6th Drag. Gds.—Copt D. If. Mackinnon, from 16th Lt. Drags., to be cant., rice Warrincr, who exchange.. Bth It. I )rags.—Cleat 11. Duberly, from the 68th F., to be psymast., vice D'Orley W. Watley, who retires upon half-pay. 16th It. Dragin—Capt. E. Warriocr, from 6th Drag. Gds., to be capt., vice Mackinnon, who cachanges. Stb lkw. of F.—Lieut. J. U. Vigor., from 9th F., to be lieut., rice Hawes, who exchange. 6th V.—Capt. M. Gunning, from It-p. 25th Lt- Drags., to be cap., repaying the differenor, vice Sullivan, dec.; Lieut. 11. Battu', to be =pt., by par., rice Gunning, who ; Em. R. Thompson, to be lieut., by par., vice Balguy; E. Lloyd, gent, to be ens., by par., vice Thomann. 9th E.—Lieut. G. Cubit; to be rapt., by par., rice Lushington, prom. ; Lieut. 0. H. Howe. from sth F., to be Sect., vise Vigor., who exch. • En. J. Whiteside, to be lieut., by par., rice Cubitt ; T. R. Hamilt on, gent., to be eec., by par., vice Whiteside. 18th F.—Lieut. R. Doran, to be adj., vice Bruce, promoted. 26th F.—Ens. D. 11. IlLbr, to be lieut., by par., vice Duff, who ret. B. W. F. M. Milano, gent., to be ens., by par., rice Blair. 42nd F.—Ens. J.W. P. Orde, to be lieut., by par., rice Barnett, who ret ; C. Maitland, gent., to be ens., by par., vice Orde. Goth V.—Lieut W. 11. Stirling, from h.-p. 9th F., to be lieut., rite Mitchell, promoted. 64th F.—Ens. J. Singleton, to be taut, by Doe., vice Stet:hen., who rel.; W. J. Chad., gent., to be env, by par., vice Singleton. 68th F.—Lieut. J. Csmidy, from h.-p. 9th F., to be heat, vice Dually, app. paymaster Bth Lt. Itenge. 71. t F.—Major Sir 11. Dalrymple, Bart, to be lieut.-col., by par., vice England, who sets ; Brev.-Major E. Foy, to be major, by par., vice Sir H. Dalrymple; Elect C. W. T. Rich to be c.a., by par., vice Foy; Ens. W. F. Segravc, to be lieut., by par., vice Rich; W. John. son, gent., to be rm., by par., vice Segrave. 72nd F.—Litait. 11. Rice, to be rapt., by par., See Pollard, who mt.: Ens. A. Wade to be lieut., by par., vice Bice ; T. C. H. Bat, gent, to be rm., by par., vise Wade. 73rd P.—Major W. Eyre, to be lieut.-col., by pat., vice V. Menlen, who ret ; Capt. W. L. Y. /taker to be major, by sour., vice Eyre ; Lieut. C. Littlebaks, to be apt, by por., vice Baker; En. F. J. T. Arnie, to be lieut., by par. , vice Littlehales; T. B. Bower, gent., to Wens., by put., vice Ami ck. 75th P.—Lieut. A. T. llotham, to be cant, bypnr.,vice Freer, in 3rd W.I. Reg; Ens. W. Sleysell, to be lieut.. by pur., via Hotham ; C. F. Barnett, gent, to be ens., by par., vice Meynell. 9•lnd F.—Lieut. C. M. Hamilton, to be apt., b y per., rice Miller, who retire.; Ens. A. Selan M'Donald, to be Heat., by pur., vice Ha milton ; D. P. Campbell, gent., to be ensign, by par., vice 3l'Donald. Rifle Brigade.—Lieut. P. C. B. Hamilton, to be apt., by par., vice Brev.-Major Riudsbraate, who ret. ; Sec. Lieut. A. W. Clifton, to be find heat., by par., rice Beckwith, who ret. ; Sec. Lieut. the Hon. L. Curzon to be 114 t Seat, by par., vice Hamilton ; the Hon. J. C. R. itingliain to be sec. Ikut, by par., vice Clifton ; Becher, beat., to be .a. lieut., by par., vice 3rdlWein India Kart —Major W. 4. Mills, to te lieut.-col., by per., rice Malmo, who ret.; Capt. D. G. Freer, from 75th F., to be inajor, by pur., via Mills. UNAITACIIK.—Lieut. T. Mitchell, from 60th F., to be cape., with- Out par. Batrer.—Capt. M. Gunning, from 6th F. to be major in the army 1 Brevet. Major M. Gunning, of 6th F., to be lieut.-col. in the army. OARIINON,—IIeat W. Jenkins, of the RL Newfoundland Companies, to be fort-major of St-John's, Newfoundland, rice Mason. who resigns. 110.PITAL Stare.—Assist-Salf Surg. N. O'Connor, M.D., to bested tare. of the second dare, rice Edmond...a, drained. Mewoeasns Ctiri.thut names of Sec. Lieut. Stephenson, of 87tb F., are Henry James. The 001111Diani011of C.a. J. S. shorty, of the 4th F., is to bear date the 2nd June, 1345, instead of 28th June, 11144. NOMINATION OF SHERIFFS. Yesterday being the Morrow of St. Martin,a meeting of the Privy Council was held in the afternoon, is pursuance of ancient custom, in the Court of Exchequer, for the purpose of proceeding to the "nomination of sheriffs" for the year 1848. There were present the Lord Chancellor ; the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment; the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Lord Denman, as Chief Justice of England • Lord Campbell; the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, the Chief Baron, Mr. Boron Alderson, Mr. Justice Coleridge, Mr. Justice Mauls, Mr. Justice Coltman, and Mr. Justice Creswell. Tire QUEEN'S REMEMIIRANCCR, as soon as the above named personages had taken their sesta, administered the usual oath, in Norman French, and then proceeded to read through the lista of nominations. Eventually the Late stood as follow ; ENGLAND. (exerrriso CORNWALL, LANCASHIRE, AND WEBTMOD.E. LAND.) BEDFORDAHIRE.—Thomas Abbott Green, of Parenharn, En. ; Richard Thomas Gilpin, of flockliffe-grange, Esq. ; Sir Charles Dillies Payne, of Blunham, Bart. BERK AH I HR.—John Hopkins, of Tidmarsh, Esq. ; Robert Allfrey, of Woke fi eld-park, Esq. ; Robert Gibson, of Sand. hunt-l odge, Esq. BUCK I NG fl ARABI E.—William Lowndqs, of the Bury, in Chesham, Esq. ; Jahn Kaye, of Fulmer, En. ; Samuel Jones Loyd, of Wing, Esq. CAMBRIDGE AND II CNTINGDONSHIREB.—John Mayer Heathcote of Coniogton, En. ; Emanuel Lund°, of Toesland, Req. ; William Wells, if Holme, Esq. C I Nt BRI.AND.—John D uncles Maclean, of Ls/onby, Esq.; Andrew Fleming Hudlestone, of Hutton John, Esq. ; Thomas Salkeld, of Rohn-hill, Esq. CHEs /II RlL—Henry Brooke, of Grange, Esq. ; Thomas William Tattoo, of Withenahaw , Esq. ; Sir Arthur Ingram Aston, of Aston. DEM/MI/IL—Sir Robert Burdett, of Forernark, Bart ; Jedediali Strati, of Belper, Esq. ; Robert Arkwright, of Sutton, Esq. Dzeohenint.—William Nation, of Exmouth, Esq.; John Sillifant, of Coombe, Esq. ; Henry Richard Roe, of Groton house, Esq. Doaarrantne.—John Goodden, of Over Compton, Esq. ; Henry John Reuben, Earl of Portarlington, of Milton Abbas ; Henry Ralph Willett, of Marley-house, Esq. DUISH AM.-Sir William Eden, of Windlestone-hall, Bart.; John Eden, of Beamish-park, Esq. ; Frederick Achim Mil bank, of Hart, Esq. ENRlX.—Beale Blackwell Colvin, of Maugham's-hall, Waltham Holy Cross, Esq. ; Charles Preston, et Luthen, near Seawardstime, Esq. ; Onley Savill Onley, of Shifted. hall, Eq. Gtoeceernaantitz.—William Capel, of the Grove, Pains wick; William Philip Price, of Tibberton.court, Eq.; Thomas Anthony Stoughton, of Owlpen, Eq. HEarSORDSHIRE.—Thomas Hill ; of Felton R. ; Robert Manikin Lingwood, of Liston., Eq. ; James ' Marlin, of Olii Colwell, Esq. HeareoaDantee.—William Parker, of Ware-park, Eq. ; Fulke Southwell Greville, of North Mimms-park, Esq. ; Henry Roger., of Stagenhoe-park, Esq. Kerr.—John Ashley Warre, of Weetcliffe, St. Lawrence, Thanet, Esq. ; William Masters Smith, of Meopham, Eq.; Matthew Bell, of Bourne-house, Eq. Lisiezareasunue—Henry Freeman Coleman, of Eving ton-hall, Eq. ; John Goodacre, of Lutterworth, Esq. ; Thomas Stokes, of New Parke, Esq. LINCOLNSHIRE.—Itichard Ellison, of Sudbreoke Holme, Esq. ; John Whiting Yorke, of Walmagate, Eq. ; Henry Vane, of Fulbeck-hall, Esq. Monmournautue.—John Arthur Jones, jun., of Llanarth Court, Esq.; Edward Harris Phillips, of Trosnant Cottage, Esq. ; Francis M'Docinel, of Usk, Esq. NOILPOLIL—WyrIey Birch, of Wretham, Esq. ; William Mason, of Recto's, Esq. ; Edward Roger Pratt, of Breton, " NO • IiTHASIPTONSHIRE.—The lion. Hear Melly Hutchie eon, of Lois Weedon ; Henry Neville, o f Walcot, Eq.; William Bruce Stopford, of Drayton-house, Esq. NORTHUXIIIIRLAN o.—George Burdon. of Ileddon.house, ; William Hodgson Cadogan, of Brinkburn Priory, Esq. ; Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, of Wallington, Batt. NOTTINGHLMSHINE.—John Whetham, of K.rklington, Esq. ; John Henry Manners Sutton, of Kelhans, Esq ; Robert Holden, of Nuttal Temple, Erg. OXPORDPHIRN.—SamueI Wears Gardiner, of Coombe. lodge, Whitchurch, Esq. ; Matthew Piers Watt Bolton, of Great Taw, Eq.; Henry Hall, of Barton, Esq. RUTLAND/MAL—The Hon. Charles George Noel (com monly called Lord Viscount Cempden), of I. litteris-park ; Henry Stokes, of Caldecott, Esq. ; John Thomas Spring thorpe, of Manton, Eq. SHHOPIIIIRE.—Wm. Henry Plowden, of Plowden, Esq. • Penton Corbett, of Longnor-hall, Esq. ; Ralph Meyrick Leake, of Langford, Esq. SONIERSETSNINN.—Edward Ayshford Sanford, of Nyne head-court, Eso. •, Thomas Kington, of Charlton, Eq.; George William Blathwayt, of Porlock, Eq. STA FPONDiN lIIE.—The lion. Frederick Gough, of Perry Barr; Charles Arkwright, of Dunstall, Esq. ; Josiah Spade, of Armitage-park, Eq. COUNTY OP SOUTHAMPTON.—John Wood, of Thedilen grange, Alton, Esq. ; William Garocer , of ltookeebury Wickham, Eq.; Frederick Richard Thresher, of Bentley, Alton, Esq, Su FEOLK.—Charles Andrew, Lord H unting field , of Haven ingham- hall ; Sir Thomas Gage, of Hengrave-ball, Bart.; Robert Newton Shaw, of Keegrave, Esq. SURNET.—Lee Steer*, of Jaye*, Dorking, Esq. ; William Gamiel Farmer, tf Nonsuch-park, Esq. ; William John Evelyn. of Wootton-house, Esq. Sussex.—Sir Sotherton Branthwayt, of fridge-place, Bart. ; Richard Shuttleworth Streathfield, of Uckfield, Esq. ; George Campion Courthope, of Whyligb, Esq. WA RWICKSHIRE..—Thomas Dilke, of Maxteke Castle, Esq. • Josiah Boultbee, of Springfield, Esq. ; Darwin Gal• ton, Of Edstone, Eq. WILTSHIRE.—Sir Thomas Dugdale Astley, of Everley, Bart.; John Henry Campbell Wyndham, of the College, Salisbury, Eq.: Graham Moore Michell Edicesde, of Monkton-house, Eq. WORCEISTERSHIRE.—Joseph Frederick Ledsam, of North field, Esq. ; Rickard Temple. of the Nash, Kempsey, Esq. ; John Gregory Watkins, of Woodfield-house, Esq. YORICRIIIRE.—George Lane Fox, of Bramham-park, Eq. ; Yarburgh Oreame, of Sewerby, Esq. , Octaviva Very non Harcourt, of Swinton. Eq. WALES. The nomination of Sheriff s f or the Principality of Wales is, in obedience to an act passed in the eighth year of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, e. 11, to take place' in the Court of Exeirequer in the same manner and on the same day as the English sheriffs are nominated. ANOLESEA.—Sir Harry Dent Goring, of Trysglaryn, Bart. ' • Richard Griffith, of Bodowyr-isaf, Esq. ; Thomas Bulkeley Owen, of Newad Condone, Esq. BRECONSIIIRE.—H.nry Williams, of Cefn Pare, Eel; ; William Pearce. of Itrwagrech, Esq. ; Thomas Lewis Lloyd, of Nantgwith, Esq. CARNARVONSHIRIL—George Augustus iluddßrt, of Bryn kir, Esq. ; William Henry Foley, of Bryn Erqr, Esq.; Samuel Owen Priestley, of Trefan, Esq„ CARMARTIIENSHIRE.—Sir James Harnipl Williams, of Eilwinsfnrd, Bart. ; John Meares, of Cluustephan-place, Esq. ; Thomas Darts Lloyd, of Llandilo Abercawin, Esq. CARDIGANSHIRE. —Alban Thomas Davies, of Tyglyn, Esq. ; Abraham Grey Hanford Battersby, of Pcterwell, Esq.; James Bowen, of Twedyrenor, Esq. DENBIOINKIRE.—Simon York, of Erdigg, Eq.; Richard Griffiths Parry, of Llangollen, Eq.; Thomas Griffith, of Trevallynshall, Esq. FLINTSHIRE. Sir William Henry Clerke, of Mertyn, Bart • John Whitehall Dod, of Claverley, Esq. ; Philip William Oodasll, of Iscow, Esq. GLAMOROANSHIRE.—Thomas William Booker, of Velin dra, Esq. ; Rowland Fothereill, of Heim' Castle, Esq. ; Sir George Tyler, Knt., of Cottrel. MONTOOMERYSHIRII.—Robort Davies Jones, of Coffrangdd, Esq.. George Meares, of Dollys, Esq. ; William Luteaer, of Dolmen, Esq. MICRIONETHSHIRE.—Hugh Jones, of Gwernddclwd, Esq.; Robert Davies Jones, of Cyfronydd, Esq. ; John Bird, of Plas-yn-Dinas, Esq. PrUItOKESAIRE.—Thommi Davies Lloyd, of Kilelew, in the county of Pembroke (residing at Bronwydd, in the county of Cardigan), Esq. ; Owen Owen, of Cromgloyne, Esq. ; Seymour Phillips Allen, of Creseelly, Esq. RADNOIUMIRE.—Richard Price, of Norton-court, Esq. ; John Abraham Whittaker, of Newcastle-court, Esq. ; John Williams, of Skreen-house, Esq. The nomination having thus concluded, the Council se parated. MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.—The following circular his been sent by Lord John Russell to his supporters in the House of Commons. . Downing-street, Nov. 8, 1817.—Sir,—I take the Liberty of informing yon that the House of Commons will proceed on the 10th inst. to the choice of a Speaker, and that the address In answer to the queen's speech will be moved on the 23rd inst. I hope it may consistent with your convenience to attend on those days.—l have the honour to te Lour obedient servant, J. itt,[l.l.. THE CONGE D'ELIRE.—The permission to elect a bishop arrived in Manchester yesterday. A chapter had been assembled on \Wednesday, in the expectation that on that day the document would have come to hand, and could have been acted upon. It is now probable that a chapter will be assembled next Wednesday, and go through the for malities of election. The first Bishop of Manchester, there fore, it is expected, will be consecrated before the expiration of the present month. TUE ARCIIIIIBIIOPRIC OP YORK is now authorita tively given by rumour to Dr. J. Sumner, Bishop of Chester. Other dignitaries, however, are still freely named as probable successors of Dr. Harcourt. Clerical gossip affirms that either the Bishop of Durham or the Bishop of Norwich will be raised to the vacant archiepiscopal see.—The Clutch and Slate Gazette says : The surmises (Lir they are nothing mare) mention the Archbishop of Dublin (Dr. Whitely;, the Biabop a Worcester (Ih. Pepys, brother of the Lord Chancellor), the Bishop ef Oxford (Dr. 8. Wilberform), who is lightly talked of ea the "emit favourite." The Bishop of Durham (Dr. ), art the Mord Norwich (Dr. Stanley), are also IMMO meliered. de are to dream of the Bieber of _Lades teerteled le deity ; sad we have beet bet ere ef Dr. HS" Me lesered Bishop of Lin coln. The latter patiate, we abse il s. rier trey, is destined for a higher dignity than that at haehlairp el Yeef s to the event of a vacancy °muffins to Ws life. ; wed we eke etertietore that there to no intention whatever of Ws ef the Bishop of London, at Fulham. We wlleteriwis lag de abbey of Ripon (Dr. Loogley, a whir WOE If et woobleadve a re late cam he said to bare my) hea, ter tar pars, perforated • great portion of the &Weed the tribliabsep redid to himself, satiate.- hon to his principal, aor whereas to the elterch. THE INQCIBY IN ST. PANCRAS PARISH into the charges against the workhouse authorities was resumed yes terday, and after a protracted sitting the proceedings were again adjourned. YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION,—The third annual meeting of this society was held yesterday everting, at the Freemasons' Hall. The large room was com lletely filled. The chairman, T. Farmer, Esq., congratu ated the society on the progress it had made. From the se cretary's report it appeared that the society had been founded three years mace by only eight young men ; but since then it had greatly increased. On New Year's-day 8,000 addresses were distrtbuted to young men in houses of business with the most beneficial results. Branch usocia- Mons had been formed in the various districts of the metro polis, all of which were well attended, and would be more so but for the pernicious late-hour system. The receipts of the last year amounted to 199/. 13r. 3d., being in excess over the previous year 3111. 18s. 1)d. ; expenditure, 570/. 17s. 7d.; balance paid to treasurer for previous year, 801. Os. 11d. ; balance in hand, 81. 17s ltd. The report was received with laud cheers. Resolutions in furtherance of the objects of the emaciation were then adopted. The meeting was addressed by the Rev. Messrs. Leifchild, Oldis, and Barret, and some other gentlemen, and the proceedings terminated. INQUESTS, YEATERDAY.—SI:SPICIOIIB DEATH AT Haeaxer.—Before Mr. Baker, by adjournment for the fifth time, at the Committee.rooms,Church.street, Hackney, as to the death of Mr. S: Nelme, aged 73, whose death was proved to have been the result of poison. The deceased's grandson, William Allnutt, a youth of 12 years, against whom a suspicion was raced, and who has since the last meeting of the jury been taken into custody on the charge of robbery, has admitted having stolen deceased's gold watch and the twelve sovereigns that were missing.— Dr. J. Letheby, chemical lecturer at the London Hospital, gave evidence as to his further analysis of the contents of the stomach. He had since his last examination by the coroner, analysed the intestines and their contents, and detected three grains of arsenic therein, which was alone quite sufficient to account for death.—By the Coroner • Had tented the brain also, and found traces of arsenic there likewise. Should think, from the quantity of arsenic found in the liver, and also the brain of deceased, that ho must have been labouring under its influence for some time; and, from the fact of its being discovered in the intestines, he must have had a dose within 48 hours prior to his death.— THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13, 1847. Mr. Toulmin entirely concurred with Dr. Letheby, and considered the deceased's death to have arisen from the effects of menial poison.—Mrs. Sarah Nelme, the widow of deceased, stated that her family consisted of 8 children, 6of whom were at home. Mrs. Allnutt, witness's daughterin law, and mother of the prisoner, had been staying at de ceased's house for four or five years. The boy, William Allnutt, was mischievously inclined, and had previously stolen ten sovereigns, which belonged to deceased. — By the Coroner: Could not pay how he had disposed of it; but he said that be had put them in his cap, and some per son had taken them out. Had not charged William with having mixed arsenic with the sugar.— By a juror: His mother had done so; but he denied it. Witness had been at the bureau sehere the arsenic was kept, and knew that it was kept for killing mice —By the Coroner: Had no sus picion of anybody being concerned in this affair. Suspected the arsenic was mixed with the sugar by William Allnutt, from the circumstance of the key that was taken from the f.ld the suspicion all fell upon the prisoner. He endeavoured to throw a suspicion upon the servant-maid with respect to the sovereigns, but without the least founda tion. There is no doubt that we should all have been destroyed by the poison, if it had not been discovered.—Mr. Ballantine, for the boy's friends, objected to the Coroner taking these facts down in the depositions, on the ground that it was not legal evidence. A rather warm discussion arose on this point, and likewise a conversation touching the propriety of calling Mrs. Allnutt; and the inquest was again adjourned to Tbursday.—MYSITERIOUS DEATH.— Resumed before Mr. T. Higgs, at the Bull's Head, Clapham, on the body of Mr. J. Orme, a retired draper possessed of considerable property. At the former inquiry, which ap peared in our paper of Tuesday, it transpired that an istrangement arose between the deceased and his children from his having, after the death of his first wife, married one of his servants, and it was only at long intervals the family saw or heard anything of him. His death was inti mated to two of the sons by letters from Mrs. Orme, who in one letter stated that the death took place on the Sunday, and in the other Monday was mentioned. The letters, which were addressed from No. 6, St. George's-place, Brixton road, the lest known residence of the deceased, informed the sons that if they wished to see their parent before burial they must gi o mmediately, and Aaron Orme went in the evening of Thursday week, the date of the letter. The widow said he could not see it except in the presence of the undertaker, and he was obliged to go away unsatisfied, Mrs. Orme, however, telling him that all the property had been made over to her. It subsequently transpired, that on that day the body was not at St. Geer/em place, but at a poor cottage at a village called Stock, in Essex, from whence it was brought tst town by railway on Satur day morning. This fact, coupled with the hasty burial and wasted appearance of deceased, led to as application to the hey. Mr. M'Gill, the curate, and the rev. gentleman's re fusal to perform the service. On Monday morning Dr. M'Donough, parish surgeon, made an external examination. The body was much attenuated, and deceased appeared to have been neglected. On Thursday Mr. M'Donough stated that a post modem examination of the body proved the general appearance to be healthy; the liver was, however, of a greenish colour, and there was inflammation of the omens tum and peritonium ; there was little or no food in the body. There was nothing upon which he could form a decided opi nion as to the close of death.—Mr. J. M. Edwards, a sur geon at Ingatestone, deposed that he attended deceased for the first time on the 15th u!t. He found him in a poor cottage, in the village of Stock, a woman named Rasehrook being the occupier of the house. Deceased was in his clothes, on a bed. Witness then thought he was a pauper. He was sensible, but appeared very much debilitated from old age On his third visit he found deceased insensible. A lady, whom be then learned was his wife, kissed him, and asked deceased if he did not know her. The old man murmured something unintelligible. His wife appeared solicitous of bin recovery, and desired witness to pay great attention to him. It was, however, impossible to save him, as nature was Deceasedexhausted. De:ased must have been incapable of taking food 21 hours prior to his death, which took place on the 31st ultimo, and was caused by serum on the brain.— Mr. Gilbert Orme, a son of deceased, and licensed victualler, entered into a long detail of alleged grievances his father had suffered ; but these assertions were not borne out by corroborative evidence, it appearing deceased had be come childish long prior to his decease.—H. Harris, a tailor, who lives in Mrs. Orme's house, deposed to uniform kind treatment on the part of Mrs. Orme, who, he was aware, had sent her husband to her mother's (or a change of air. Ile knew from deceased that he bad left his property to his wife, and he had himself taken a deed to a lawyer's to raise money on. lie had been to halls and to Gravesend with ' Mrs. Orme, but did net accompany her when she went dressed as a sailor bay to a masquerade.—The inquiry was then adjourned. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Nov. ii. The following most important document has been just issued from the Castle, and it is to be hoped will produce the desired effect. His excellency is deter mined to compel respect to law, life, and property, and subdue that atrocious and ancivilising spirit which agitates several distric's in the south and west. This proclamation only appears as a sort of precursor to more stringent measures should the modes of re pression suggested by his excellency be disregarded: The numerous outrages which have lately taken place, and the lawlms spirit which has Dern exhibited by the people in the distuthed district% make it necesstry that the lord-Lieutenant should announce his determination to exercise all the power with which be is invested by law, as well for the .upprersian of disturbance as for the prevention and detection of crime. Ilis eneellency deeply deplores the destitute condition of a large number of the people; but although outrages have bean committed under the plea of distress, yet it to noto- rious that the robberies of arm+ and the night attacks o ccesstantly occurring in the countks of Limerick and Clare, as well a, the atrocious assassinations which hare also dins graced Tipperary, King's County, and itcecommon, me not induced by the erasure of want, but are the acts of habit.' disturbers of the public peace, who web by the perpetration of such crimes to intimi date all other classes. The Lord Lieutenant, while affording to the well-dimmed the protection of the law and the support of the execu tive government in their efforts to maintain order, earnestly arks for their co-operation in auppreming ouch violations of the public peace as hare recently occurred in the county of Limerick and in ! other places, and in endeavouring to detect and convict thine who are engaged in the commission of similar crimes. There is no clam, rave the guilty themselves, which is not interested in bringing to punishment the highwayman, 1 the burglar, and the srammut, and the Lord Lieutenant hopes that • viico roue tam energetic co-operation on the part of those whom properties and lives may be sacrinecd at the Donis of these offenders will enable the authorities to carry out successfully the endeavours of the execu tive government to vindicate the law and protect her Majesty's peace ful subjects. The Lard Lieutenant, therefore, confidently appeals not to the gentry atone, but to the well-disposed farmers and industrious peasantry who reek to earn their livelihood by honest labour, to aid Ina efforts in supervening a system of terror, which he fecls studied is exercised by the few, but which may be overcome by the energy and determination of the many, whom it is intended to overawe. Ilia excellency hopes that the misguided people who are often led into crime by • kw wicked men may he persuaded to listen to better advice, and shun the companionship of the felon sad the murderer, whose course through life can often he traced by the misery which he has drawn down upon those who have unwarily joined him in a career of crime. His ex. oellency is resolved by every means in his power to Bumming the wicked spirit which DOW disturb. the public peace, and retard, the social improvement and the prosperity of the country. The constabulary will be increased in all disturbed districts (whereby an additional bur then will be thrown upon the rates), military detachments will be sta tioned wherever necessary, in aid of the civil authorities, and efficient patrols maintained; liberal rewards will be given fot information leading to the arrest of offenders, and ample protection to all who come forward and prosecute them; m short, no exertion shall be seared for rigorously enforcing the law against thane by whom It I. violated. The Lord Lieutenant, therefore, warns all who engage either in resiatance token! authority, or in attacks upon life and pro. Forty, to abstain from such crimes, which will be followed by the severest punishment ; • he enutionathe people not to join with the hake tualperpetratiws of outrage, nor listen to the evil connecte of men who encourage opposition to the law for their own ends, and who will leave those they have deluded into crime to suffer Its poalliment; above all, he thinks it his duty to make known the parades that will be incurred by secemories to mime, and that all persons are by law con sidered accessories who protect criminals against this parruers, who afford them the meana to escape, who aid in their dlngidise, who mis lead these who may be in search of them, or who hinhear offenders in their houses. The bend of every one should be NOM tbspametrator of crime, and the law will pursue with rigour, set Om the admit himself, but @entente to transportation or Ire prioseemewt all who give him aid, shelter, or proteetlon.—By his exec llesers ismasaaa, M. Sousse.... Dublin Castle, Nov. 9, tell. The protracted session of the " lords, commons, and gentry of Ireland " terminated to-day after a some what " long talk." The discussion on tenant right was taken up early and continued late. Various and conflicting were the opinions as to what tenant riicht really was. Even northerns differed in the definition quite as widely as the southerners, who practically knew nothing about it. One Down landlord be held the perfection of tenant security in the right, while another looked on it as quite a vision ary thing, and not at all to be compared with the more solid and substantial charms of com pensation. After some remarks from several mem bers, Mr. Crawford communicated some supplemen tary knowledge, in the shape of a written statement, to what his speech of the previous day contained— thus fixing himself to some points which the compen sation men conceived he had been shamming, and of which statement the most valuable portion was con-' nected with the management of his own property, and the beneficial effects to both himself and kis tenantry, of the agitated right. Various speakers followed, and on the side of tenant-right, it was remark able enough that the largest landed propri etors ranged themselves—among them S. Crawford Val. O'Connor Blake, late candidate for Mayo, and Mr. Fox, M.l'. for Longford. The vote was taken at 4 o'clock on the compensation and tenant-right ques tions, wilen the first was adopted by a majority of 2, the numbers being 21 to W. So far the Irish council has negatived the right; but you may judge of the importance of the meeting which adjudicated on such a grave question, when the whole meeting, including strangers, only reckoned fifty members. The land lords all stayed away ; and so did, with a few excep tions, the Irish members in general. The Old Ireland party were manifestly desirous not to mix themselves with Young Ireland and its policy at the Irish Council. INQUEST ON THE LATE MAJOR M kliON.—Terence Shan- ley, surgeon, of Strokestown, deposed that, on Tuesday, the 2nd of November, he was returning from Roscommon with the late Major Mahon, in his phaeton ; and when they had nearly reached the Bridge of Doorty, county Roscommon, a shot was tired from the right side of the road, the greater part of the contents lodged in the side and the breast of the major; one of the slugs or ball/ lodged in the arm of dv• poncnt. The deceased immediately dropped the reins and leaned back his Oat fell off. The deceased never spoke afterwards. Has no doubt that death was caused by the gun-shot wound and the internal haemor rage consequent thereon. Deponent laid hold of the reins as soon as possible after the shot was fired ; looked around and taw in a field a man with a gun in his hand and pointed towards them. The man attempted to fire, but the gun burnt priming. It was dark, and cannot de.cribe the appearance of the man ; but from the light caused by the flash of the pan, he saw it was a cap the man wore. Depo nent immediately after saw a man in the act of passing them on the road with a gun, who he believed to be the assassin that fired the fatal shot. W. Flanagan, coachman to Major Muhon, deposed that he accompanied Major Mahon from Strokestown house to Roscommon, and wasproceeding home. They reached Doorty about six o'clock. Major Mahon, up to the time of the attack, was in good health, It was then dark. Heard a shot, and saw a man rise from behind a ditch or gripe; del:latent stood up and caught Major Mahon as he fell back in his car riage. Deceased never spoke after he received the contents of the gun ;he expired immediately. On proceeding about two yards further another gun was presented at them ; it burned priming, and did not go off. Deponent saw the first man run away ; it was dark ; they were within 50 or 60 perches of three houses when the shot was fired ; when they passed there was light in the house ; the doors were open ; ssw no person come out of the houses ; nor did they take any notice of the shot being fired ; thinks the distance from where the shot was fired, to the carriage, was not more than three or four yards ; the horses were going at the rate of four or four and • half miles an hour ; the hood and dash board of the phasdon were perforated by slugs. The following verdict was recorded, "That the death of Major Denis Mahon was occasioned by gun shot wound., feloniously inflicted on his right side by some person or persons unknown, at Doorty, county Roscommon, on the 2nd day of November, 1847." There are ten persons in custody for the murder of Major Mahon. The remains of Major Mahon were deposited in the family vault within his demesne. The funeral was private. The body was deposited in three coffins—a shell, a lead, and, outside both, an oak one, covered with black cloth. He was carried on a bearer by twelve labourers; the vault was lit by wax candles, and the funeral service performed by the vicar, the Rev. Joseph Murton, in a manner becoming the awfully solemn occasion. Mr. John Mahon, brother to the deceased; Mr. Pakenharn, married to his only daughter ; the Dean of St. Patrick's, and Mr. D. H. Kelly, Castle Kerry, were the chief mourners. Lord Crofton, who had been there, and several gentlemen, returned to their homes about mid-day, as they could not travel after nightfall, nor indeed in the daylight, with safety. KING'S COVNTY.—THE RECENT ATTEMPT TO SHOOT Mn. GARVEY, J.l'.—The Kitty's C'our.ty Chronicle gives the following precise account of the attempt to murder Mr. Garvey, mentioned in the Herold of Monday last ; " The state of the country' is every day more alarming, and deeds of blood are becoming more frequent. A desperate attempt was made to assassinate George Garvey, Esq , a magistrate of this county, on Friday evening last, by some murderous wretches, but, owing to the providence of an over-ruling God, the life of that gentleman has been spared ; but we regret to add that an intelligent and active police constable, who accompanied Mr. Garvey, was very severely wounded. It appears that on Friday last Mr. Garvey attended the Moneygall Petty Sessions. On his return home, shortly after three o'clock, he was accompanied by Denis Mean, his bailiff, and by Constable Dobbyn, of the Moneygall station. On arriving at the lane known as Dr. Bindon'alane, on the road towards Laughton, Dobbyn, who was a few yards in advance, and near to the footpath on the right side of the road, saw two men looking over the wall on the opposite side, very close to which Mr. Garrey was walking. Dobbyn at once ordered them not to stir, or he would shoot them ; on which they replied, that they were doing nothing; they were only two poor men that were there sheltering themselves in the plantation. Dubbyn cocked his carbine, and advanced to. wards them. He attempted to jump over the wall, but he fell on his knees on a heap of broken stones that were alongside it. While in that position be was fired at; three shots were discharged in quick succession, which wounded the brave fellow ; eight pellet, were lodged in the left arm, two in the right hand, and three passed across his left bread, breaking the skin. When Dobbyn received the con tents of the first shot, he made an effort to load his carbine; but both his bands being dreadfully shattered, he was unable to accomplish it. He shouted to Mr. Garvey and Means to fight for their lives, and to assist him. Two shots were then fired, the powder of which blackened Mr. Garvey'd face, and his spectacles were blown off his nose. He and Mears, then quickly retreated. Mr. Garvey states that he saw four men inside the wall. Both be and Mean were armed with pistols. Rev. Mr. Gresson shortly after came up, and Dobbyn told him to proceed to Moneygall, and alarm his party. The rev. gentleman did so. The police at once proceeded to the spot, but were unable to obtain any trace of the assassins. Dobbyn was then con veyed to his barracks, where he was immediately attended by Doctor Bindon. It was very fortunate for Mr. Garvey that Dobbyn preceded him, or, in all human probability, not only he, but also hleara, would have been shot; as we have learned that it was known that an attempt would have been made on that day, or on a subsequent occasion, to shoot Mr. Garvey, and there is reason to believe that the four miscreants would have discharged their lire-arms at him. Mr. Garvey is agent to Lord Bloomfield, and has lately brought ejectmenta against several persons. This is not the first attempt that has been made on the life of Mr. Garvey ; and the only reason that can be assigned for such barbarous acts is, that he has become obnoxious to the ' agrarian legis. latore,' by daring to discharge the duties of his employers. In fact there is no security for the life of any landlord or agent who will dare to assert the lawful rights of property. Itraterday Constable Dobbyn was removed to the hospital of this town, where he now lies under the care of Dr Waters." STATE OF THE COUNTRT.—LANDLORD NEOLECT.—On Monday last there was a meeting held in Macroom, county ' of Cork, for the purpose of devising means of employment for the hundreds of unemployed poor now wholly destitute. Several gentlemen were present, but the meeting broke up without having come to any practical conclusion. Mr. White Hedges, a large proprietor, having refused to take the chair, or offer any suggestions, " because there was • .hort-hand writer present," the other gentlemen, sympathising with Mr. Hedges' difficulty, followed bins from the meeting. A Mr. Coppinger, however, fur nished some facts. There were, he said, 3.50 unemployed labourers in the pariah of Macroom. At the rate of eight peace per day, it would take TO/. a week to pay that number, or 2,7301. to provide them with em ployment until August next. There were 455 acres of land in the parish, which he said required draining, and at 61. per acre that would just require 2,7301. to complete. Mr. Coppinger called on the landlords to constitute themselves into a meeting, and apply to government for an advance to that amount, but his proposal was met with coldness, and had no response. The maintenance of those labourers in the workhouse, omitting all reference to their families, will be up to August 8, 1,0231. 15s. SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, Nov.ll. Parliamentary notice has been given of the two new bills for the municipal extension, and sanitary improvement of Edinburgh. The first simply seeks to make the municipal equivalent to the parlia mentary boundary, and to consolidate the police and paving boards in the town council; and yet these very moderate measures cannot be accomplished with out affecting thirty-two acts of parliament. The sanitary measure affects eleven more—so that for one city alone, there are no less than forty-three legis lative statutes. The opposition that will be encoun tered by disturbing the dust of so many eats may easily be imagined, and the task of fighting with so many interests is one in which some sympathy should be shown. The legislature proclaims its intention of taking up the subject of the health of towns, the press and public opinion applaud, and, in the spirit of the times, the magistrates of Edinburgh resolve on setting their house in order. But the moment they break ground they raise nests of hornets about their ears, and at much trouble and expense have to hew their way through the cumbrous forms of parliamentary usage. The Edinburgh Sani tary Bill seeks power to erect an efficient police court, to increase supply of water and public wells, to erect baths, washing and slaughter-houses, to take charge of drains, sewers, ruinous buildings and waste areas, pigs and other animals of offensive keeping, to regu late lodging-houses, and to remove all toll-bars from within the precincts of the enlarged boun dary. These objects are worth contending for, and in each a movement no compromise or abate ment should be permitted. The health and lives of all are involved, and there should be ino surrender. The only omission that we perceive is the non-regulation of the monster nuisance of the water of Leith. A mile or two out of town, that stream is seen carrying its clear waters by the nearest route to the sea; but, the moment it ap proaches the city, its channel is turned aside to drive mills, and then on one side is a narrow brown stream, and on the other a turgid river basin, filled with filth and abominqtions, poured from the hundred sewers of the town. The mill stream runs behind and un derneath human dwellings, and must carry damp and fever to those houses; while the parent course, receiving only the surplus water of the mill stream, has just es much liquidity as to roll down and diffuse the miasma, which might otherwise concen trate where the noxious matter was originally depo sited. The mill stream should be suppressed now or never. Mr. Fraser, sheriff-substitute at Fort-William, has published a letter on Highland destitution. As the testimony of an impartial and intelligent observer re siding in the Highlands it is worthy of attention. He says : I cannot hesitate to express my opinion, that those claws of our population who were supported by the relief funds during the past season, and who, without that support, or some equivalent support apartfrom their own resouree., would have been utterly destitute, will be in a situation equally dependent daring the ensuing season, and that to their number must be added many of those who, during • great part of the past season were able to support themselves. During the last winter and spring a good deal of money was ex. =ffby our principal landed pmprietons in labour under the Act. Do mount at thoss %Ways has not yet, 1 andontasol, r been advanced to them by the Enclosure Commissioners. they are not monied men, and I mush fear that in the prevent state of the money market it will not be found an easy matter to procure the means of continuing their outlays. Should this apprehension be verified, the estent of the destitution will be inereaseiL As to the surplus, he adds:— no 'emit* am I of the evils attendant upon the atiminLitration of the funds hitherto, and of the difeculte, if net impossibility, of avoid ing them, that I ventured, a abort time ago, to make the following suggestion to Mr. Sheer (secretary of the destitution board), though not without considerable hesitation, and some doubt of Its practica bility. I assumed that our present poor law provided for all those unable to labour for their own eub.htenee ; that the improve ment of tie land, by draining and trenching, would, betides eV other and ultimate advantages, afford, for some years to come, at least, staple employment for all the able-bodied male population, by which employment they, and the women and children dependent upon them, might be immortal. provided only the proprietors were able and willing to proceed with such draining and trenching, thus leaving to he provided for by the relief board only those widows and single women who have no suns or parents able to support them, and who, though able to work, can find no employment- I assumed, in the second place, that the money applicable to the improvement of the land, under the Drain age Alit, had bran a'sorlied by the numerate applbationsalready made for it, chiefly from districts other than what are called the distressed Highland districts, and that at any rate the delay in getting the command of that money, and t he ,, difficulty and expense of pro. curing Interim accommodation, made it no easy matter for many of our Highland proprietors to take advantage of the Drainage xot ; and I therefore suggested that the relief board should referee 20,0001. or 24,000 f. for the employment and relief of the class above referred to, of widows and single women, and to meet mnergenries, and that they should offer to band over the residue, my 90,imilf,, to government, on condition that government would undertake to ad vance a like amount, the whole 100,10 W. to he advanced to proprietors in the distressed districts alone, for the purposes and on the terms provided by the Drainage Act, with such matificatione as would give the proprietors command of the money with the least possible delay consistent with reasonable precautions for vas proper application. The roads in Ross and Cromarty have caused con siderable local excitement. The promoters of the un dertaking have given notice of a bill to authorise their formation, and two opposing meetings have been held. The dissentients allege that, instead of 1,6001. 30,006!. would be necessary for the projected work; This calculation may or may not be right, but the motion rejected at the original meeting ran literally thus: That the meeting recommend to the herltors of the combined coun. tics of Rosa and Cromarty end pmt of Nairn to amen themselves in proportion to the respective valued rents of mid herders in the amount of 1,6001., for the furtherance of making the Locinroom and Gairloch roads and that such earn be conaidered aa in full of the grant of said counties for tomb purpose. To take credit, therefore, for refusing this motion, on the ground that the counties might be called on to disburse 30,000!., is manifestly absurd. MEAL ADULTERATION. —1 EC follow ing statutory enact . cleat in reference to the adulteration of meal, flour, &c., was not (says the Glasgow Constitutional) brought under the notice of the late meeting, probably owing to the parties not being aware of its existence ; but, as it provides ample remedy for the public against all such practices as those re ferred to, it seems desirable that it should obtain publicity 6 & 7 Wm. IV., c. 37, section 9 : " And be it enacted, that if any person beyond the limits aforesaid (namely, ten miles out of London), shall put into any corn, meal, or flour, which shall be ground, dressed, bolted, or manufactured for sale beyond such limits, either at the time of grind ing, dressing, bolting, or manufacturing the same, or at any other time, any ingredient or mixture whatsoever, not being the real and genuine produce of the corn or grain which shall be so ground, or if any person shall, beyond the limits aforesaid, knowingly sell or offer, or expose for sale, either separately or mixed, any meal or flour of any other sort of corn or grain, or any other in gredient whatsoever mixed with the meal or flour so sold, or offered, or exposed for sale, in every such ease every person so offending shall, upon conviction before any one or more magistrates, justice, or justices of the rity, county, borough or place where such offence shall have been committed, on the oath, or in case of a quaker by affirmation, of one or more credible witness or witnesses, or by his, her, or their own confession, forfeit and pay far every such offence any sum not exceeding 20/. nor less than M.," &c. This act, we understand, applies to England and Scotland, there being a separate act applicable to Ireland. Roan REPORM.—At the meeting of the town council of St. Andrew's on Thursday last a communication was read from the town council of Glasgow, requesting the co-opera tion of the council in procuring an alteration in the mode of levying the funds for keeping the public roads in repair at the plan proposed by Mr. Pagan in his work on "Road Reform." The ecnneilreceived the communication favourably. A NEW ANOLINO FEAT. A blacksmith at Belladruns Bridge, Inverness-shire, had occasion the other night to fetch in a bucket of water. After eating it on the floor he went to bed, but was awakened in a short time by a strange noise in the room. Lighting a candle to enable Dim the better to battle with the evil spirit, he discovered, to his surprise, that the noise was occasioned by the attempts of his cat to capture a large trout which had been caught in the bucket. A REM.' ASSOCIATION has been established at Montrose, and the public are to be supplied with good beef at the same price as the members of the association. Such a society is much wanted, and we (Standard) hear that the gentlemen who compose it will be able to reduce the price of beef at least one penny per pound; and, at the same time, acco modate the working claws with pounds, half-pounds, and even quarters of pounds when wanted. PROVINCIAL. COMMISSION BY TIIIII.ORD-LIECTENANT. C. Proby, gent., to be Lieutenant of Royal West Mit!diesel Regiment of Militia. THE NIANCIIESTERI;IIOTI;TANT ASSOCIATION held its ninth annual meeting at Manchester, on Thursday even ing. The Rev. Hugh Stowell presided, and opened the pro ceedings by noticing the recent growth of popery, and re joicing that the country contained so goodly a band to with stand it. lie shaded to the present condition of Italy as a significant sign of the times. There was more in the present changes there taking place than was generally supposed. The pope was clearly a man of no ordinary calibre. He had the art of jesuitism in no ordinary degree ; and knew how to conceal the purposes of his heart. He knew when to speak like a lion, and when to bleat like a lamb; and, therefore, was a dangerous man. He was sot an old, superannuated, doting cardinal, but • man of action, and knew bow to act the master when it suited his purpose. He was not, therefore, the man to be made the puppet of the Propaganda --to be a toy, the strings of which were to be acted upon by others, and pulled like those of dancing dolls. Ile had taught the cardinals that he was not the man to be governed, but to govern. Never was there a greater master ', stroke of policy than that displayed by him in enlisting the sympathies of the liberalism of England on the one hand, and the liberalism of France on the other, upon his Fide, while looking at what was to become of the liberties of Italy. Never was there a greater master-stroke than the course by which he had won the love of liberalism throughout Europe. Him, the prince of despots, the advocate of liberty! But they were caught with the bleating of the lamb, and they forgot that it was the voice of the lion. Look at the effect of that master stroke : it had saved the church of Rome when it was totter ing to its all. He had gained the affection of the Italians, and the support of liberalism throughout Europe, who looked upon him u rescuing Italy from the despotism of Austria; but he (Mr. Stowell) suspected that that by-play with Austria was all a farce to deceive • the English liberals; that it was a game of fast and loose intended to answer a design. He concluded with an earnest appeal to the pre cedents of this country to use their best exertions in behalf of their faith.—Several rev. gentlemen adiresecd the meet ing to a similar effect, and a resolution strongly deprecating the " special endeavours of Rome to beguile, seduce, and entrap the young, the ignorant, and the unwary," was adopted. MR. EMERSON'S THIRD LECTURE was delivered to the members of the Manchester Athenteuin on Tuesday evening. He was loudly applauded on entering the lecture theatre by a very large and respectable audience—probably a thousand people--of both sexes. In introducing his sub• ject, the lecturer said he called these discourses "Lectures on representative men," meaning to describe in each one large and inevitable class. Every fact in the universe is re lated on the one side to sense, and on the other to moral being. The whole game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these tw.i sides to find the other. These sides are called, in the language of the philosopher, infinite and haat, relative and absolute, apparent and real. Each man is born with a predisposition to one or other of these sides of nature. One class has the perception of difference; is conversant with facts, cities, and persons : with particular works, Sic. They are the men of talent and action. Another class abide by the perception of Identity, and are men of faith and philosophy—of genius. Each class doubts or despises the other. The abstractionist and materialist thus mutually exuperate each other ; sad the scoffer, expressing the worst of materialism—there arises a third party, who occupies the niddle ground between these two—the sceptic, who holds both wrong, as being in extremes ; while he deems that human strength is not in extremes, but in avoiding them. He neither affirms nor denies, but stands balanced, to try the cause ; he was their skepteln, to consider. Who shall forbid a wise scepticism, seeing that there is no practi ' cal question on which anything more than a proximate solu tion is to be had ? This, then, is the right ground of the sceptic—of considering, of self.containing—not at all of un belief, universal denying or universal doubting ; least of ' all, of scoffing and profligate jeering at all that is stable and good. The wise sceptic wishes to see and judge all things, but mainly man ; and the ticket necessary fur his admission to this spectacle is, that he have a certain solid and intelligible way of living of his own ; for the acres of life are not shown except by sympathy and likeness; men confide only in their peers. These qualities meet in a singular manner in the character of Michael de Montaigne. [After describing his own first acquaintance with the works of this writer, and giving the opinions of others respecting them, he briefly sketched the chief incidents in the life of Montaigne, and the prominent features of his character.] Montaigne has anticipated ell flings and hits at French freedom; his book is a string of confessions. It was only to be pleaded for his free style that, in his time, books were written to one sex only, and almost all in Letin. He pretends to most of the vices, and if there were any virtue in him, he says it got in by stealth ; yet the opinion of his invincible probity grows in every reader's mind. His essays are an entertaining soli loquy; Montaigne talking with himself on every random topic ; allowing nothing to pass for settled ; trying every thing without ceremony, yet with the most masculine sense. There have been men with deeper insight, but never a man with such abundance of thoughts. He is never duU ; never insincere ; and has the genius to make the reader care for all he cares for. Montaigne talks with shrewd ness and knowledge of the world, of books. and of himself; he uses the positive degree, never shrieks, or protests; has no weakness, no convulsions, no superlatives. Has Montaigne succeeded in expressing the hitherto inexpres sible, in giving voice to the bat and inmost of man ? He was not a sceptic in that bad sense in which the world has loosely used the term. We are all naturally believers; truth, or the connexion of cause and effect, alone interests na. We reject a sour, lumpish unbelief; but the class which Mon taigne reprevents are not without their reason and value, and every man, at some time, belongs to that class; every superior mind will pass through this domain of equili bration, of inquiry and consideration, on his way to the heights of truth. The cause of things is not a fact, but a power; and the religion or philosophy by which we attempt to describe it is some fixed word or form, end is, therefore, inadequate to describe it. Our life in this world is not quite of so easy interpretation as preachers and school. books are accustomed to describe it. Shall we, then, be cause a good nature inclines us to virtue's side, smoothly nay there are no doubts, and lie fur the right? We ask, whether life is to be led in a bravo or a cowardly manner, I and whether the !satisfaction of our doubts be not essential to all manliness; whether the name of virtue is to bell barrier to that which is virtue? In such scepticism there is no malignity ; it is honest, and does not hind, r the man's being convinced, and, once convinced, he is worthy the pains, and will be a giant in defence of his faith. The true and filial answer, in which all scepticism is lost, in the moral senti ment, that never forfeits its supremacy. The faith of the generous mind argils to the whole emergency of life ; he can behold with serenity the yawning golf between the ambition of man and his power of performance—between the demand and supply of power which make, tee tragedy of souls. The lesson of life is practically to generalise; so hold all particulars lightly in view of the whole ; to believe what the years and c. , nturies say against the boors ; to penetrate to the catholic sense, which is really expressed (though occultly) , by every particular. While all these things seem to tea downward., to justify despondency, to promote rogues, to defeat the just, still by knaves as by martyrs the just cause is carried for ward. Although history teaches us that knaves win in every political struggle; although society seems delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set, as fast as governments are changed, and the march of civilisation is an endless train of felonies—yet general ends are somehow answered. Heaven seems to effect great results by low and small means. The needles are nothing; the magnetism is all. Through toys and atoms a great beneficent tendency irresistibly stream.. Let man learn to look fur the permanent in the mutable and fleeting ; let him leant to bear the disappearance of things he wu wont to reverence withoutlosing his reverence; let him learn that ho is here in the world a pupil, not to work, but to be worked upon ; sad though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displaces opinion, all ere at last contained in the sternal Cause. If my bark sink, it is to another sea. TOEKslii kE. SINGULAR DISCOVERT.—Asaome workmen were lately excavating under the floor of the vestry• in Northaller. ton parish church, for the purpose of laying down pipes for warming the church, at the depth of about six feet from the surface they discovered the remains of a human body, sup posed to be that of a female, who had been interred with her shoes on, the latter being nearly perfect, with the ex ception of the soles being parted from the upper leathtr, the toes if which hare been very long and sharp pointed, and have had high wood heels, one of which was nearly perfect when discovered. From the appearance of the canto around the said remains, it is thought that she Lin been interred with her clothes on, as no wend, or any trace of a coffin, is to be seen. The vestry is situate in the north transept of the old Saxon part of the church, aad is supposed to base been built in the time of King William and Queen Mary, as the royal arms of that period appear painted abase the dour of the vestry. LECCOLNEIIIIRE. GREAT ACTIVITTI4;%AILST; TILE NEIGHBOUR HOOD OF SPALIIINO, owing M the number ot hands employed on the London and York railway. Timber of all dimensions continues to tl.bat almost daily down the river: upwards of 30,000 diagonal sleeper, right inches each way, are already stacked up between Spalding and l'eterboro% and several en nines are daily at work in driving piles for the erection of bridges on the line near the town. . WO FLU I SIGN OF THF lireettler elmmicle says during the last week or two, " navvies" have tis en seen on most of the high roads throughout the country, in twos and threes, " out of commission," willing to work, but find ing no one able to employ them; and we bare been inform d by the overlook:vs of a line still in progress that the app' ca lions for work of late have been unprecedentedly numerous. A STRANGE STORY is related by the nn Towns Messenger. A man has been committed to take hi. trial at Stafford Assizes, under the following circumstances. Ile has for some time past hail to contribute a certain sum towards the support of an illegitimate child. A few nights ago he met its mother, and promised that if she would destroy their off spring he would immediately marry her. She promised com pliance, went home for the child, and returned with it to the spot where the villain awaited her, and then hastened from him in the direction of a coal.pit, whkh be indicated as the one where the fatal act was to be consummated. In a few minutes she returned to him without the child, and urged him to leave the country with her end fulfil h:. promise of marriage. But he pleaded an immediate engagement, and promised if she would await his return a few minutes, he would rejoin her to fly the country wi•.h her, and make her his wife. Half an hour having elapsed, the young woman left the spot. hastening to the place where she had left her infant sleeping in safety, having only seemed to fall in with the views of the miscreant in order to obtain the fulfilment of his promise. She then hastened home, and, as she was making preparations for bed, was alarmed by a loud rapping at the door, and the appearance of two police officers in company with his soi disone lover, who charged the young woman with the murder of her child. The latter was presented, the matter explained, and the confused and trembling miscreant, after receiving a good castigation from his victim, was taken into custody. CAMBRIDGESIIIRF- IT IS PROPOSEDIOEs7AIILISII AN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL AT CAIIBUIDOII, the main purpo'e of which is to find employment for, and to instruct in useful arts or trades, boys or young men who may be unemployed or untaught, and at the same time to afford such persons an opportunity of intellectual and moral improvement. Besides a grant towards the first expense of building, the government pro mise aid in hiring land for cultivation and in paying the schoolmaster, and moreover propose rewards to be received by the master for every boy who, in consequence of the skill acquired in the workshop of the institutions, shall have become a workman or assistant in an, craft or trade whereby he is earning a livelihood. The cost of building, Inc., is estimated at 6.50/., of which government will contribute 250/. ; and the annu,l expenses at 2SO/., towards which government will grant 301. It is said that donations to about 1701. have Men received, and annual subscriptions to more than 501. promised. HL NTINI ..... DISCHARGE OF RAILWAY LAnOCRERs. —About 500 of the labourers employed on the Great Northern rail way, in the neighbourhood of Iluntingdon, have been dis charged for the winter months. A large number gal remain employed on the heavier portions of the line ; and the opera tion of brick-making will continue to be carried on as rapidly as possible, that the works may be commenced in the spring with increased energy. • _.__..--- REPRESENTATION - 0 - 1 7 P00ITE.The Dorset Chro nicle says—" A rumour has been very prevalent during the past week, that it is the intention of Mr. l'hillips, M.P. for this town, en the meeting of parliament, to accept the Chil tern Hundreds. Certain it is, that within these few days Mr. Hutekins, nephew of Sir John Guest, and one of the unsuccessful candidates for the representation of the borough at the late election, accompanied by his agent, has been pay. nag his respects to those of the electors who supported him at that contest." TRANSPORTATION TO ENGLAND.—The Jersey Mfrs says George Bevies, of Chumouth, Donet, wu convicted before the Guernsey Court, on S►turday last, of having, from the 13th of Aupst to the 13th of September, stolen a bag and apples from a house at the Cotils, and a watt ring pot, apples, pars, and grapes, from a garden end green house, Well-road, belonging to lirriland Carey, EN. The court condemned him to two months's imprisonment, and at the expired ma thereof to be transported to England (!) for the term of three years. SALISBURY FEMALE TRAINING SCHOOL.—A gen tleman, named Cook, has been sent down by government to inspect the pupils under the instruction of Mrs. Duncan, in the Close, Salisbury, to qualify them for situations as gorse names for such schools as may be in their power to appoint. Re arrived on Monday last. In addition to the 20 pupils under Mrs. Duncan, 12 were sent from other training schools. The examination was conducted by the pupils being required to give written answers to printed questions sent by the said committee. The inspector has nothing to do whatever with the appointments, nor can he decide ; he lies to give in the written answers, which have to be submitted to the committee, and by them compared with other written answers which may have been forwarded to them by pupils from other training schools, and then the appointments are decided upon. FlRE.—On Thursday, an alarming fire, which destroyed a considerable amount of property, broke out in the malt-houses, brewery, and premises belonging to Mr. William Green, maltster and brewer, of East Choldertoo, four miles from Andover, At the time of the outbreak, and during the conflagration, the wind blew from the south east very steadily, or the destruction of property would have been immense. As it is, about 50 quarters of malt, several pockets of hope, and a large quantity of malt in preparation, was destroyed, as well as barrels, butts, and brewing uten sils, eke. The property, all of which belongs to Mr. Green, is insured is the Sun Fire-office. The outbreak is said to have originated through the overheating of a flue in the drying kiln. ESSEX. ATTEM PT ED Mrttrinst:Lieaterda3 - a lengthened in vestigation took place before Thomas Gibson, Eaq., at the vestry.hall of the Old Church, Walthamnow, teaching a charge upon which a man named David Adams has been some days in custody.—Mary Cressey, who was in a very weakly state from a wound which she had received in her throat and the loss of blood, stated that for upwards of 20 years she had lived with a man named Henry Challis, who died about 18 month. ago, and soon after the prisoner came to live in her house, but so a lodger only. For some time past he had evinced considerable jealousy, and on the afternoon of that day fortnight the prisoner charged her with having en improper intimacy with a young man. He made use of such violent threats that she spoke to a police man and asked his advice as to what she should do for pro tection against his violence, and his advice was to lock him out of her hou.e, which she did. Or. the following morning the prisoner called and took away some food belonging to her which wu in her house, but did not re turn to sleep there. On the Sunday night witness, her mother, and three of Ler children retired to rest. On the following morning between the houn of 5 and 6, she awoke by the filling of what she thought was the foot- e % 1