The Express. — London, England, 1852-02-07 00:00:00

glit Court. WINDSOR, In. 6. The following hail the honour of dining et the pied yesterday :—The Duchess of Kent, the Zed aad Cianter. of Mint °, the Marquis and Idarchionem et Illead &bane. the Marquis of Salisbury, the Marquis of Itselossy, L,d 7 . 5 tVaiting to the Duchess of Kent, Visional sot Mahon, Lord and Lady Ashburton, LaM Pen. ,• Lord Broughton, and the Bight lion. T. B. Xs. gaslay• land of the Royal Horse Guards attended in the Cagle during dinner and performed the following pieces: oscivirv, " /Vertuw. " rurrse tr" W Mr. " Crest, d'Erea" Lalate-y. Tuns.. ,eies . ninner Ilex Majesty private band afterwards attended and *yid the following selection; liven e. "t 'entree.' *Rink Pert ts rentante media sad hawk:M.N....rt cho pit mull:tour • ti a. •• I lons Meting" m ova "It nx loneness ClorrubluL In wow west. •• la hanneurn Ihe Q•ierii, with the l'rince of Wales, walked in the yhene-nark and Slopes this morning. The Nine,. Royal and younger members of the Royal Family took their usual w Ailing and pony exercise. Prince AN rt wont out hunting this forenoon, aceonspa- Med by Lords Ashburton and Portman, and attended by ut..Col. It s. A. Conlon. The Qin in had a dinner party this evening. The cont est.* included the Marquis and the Marchioness of Itreadel. hue. the M.tniuie of Anglesey, the Marquis tit Salisbury, the Eatl and Countess of Mint.), Viscount and Viscountem Illahoo. Lord and lady Ashburton, Lord Portman, Lord Diva.fht.m. nail Right lion. T. R. Macaulay. The band of the Grenadier (heard. attended during din air awl pl.i, ea the following compositions . ineflory. L• • Dimwits de tacos...es" Auber. Yen. 1014 (',.,ties, •• Daub, nes gesilah:ter" Prollisi• Wu Zr Sent end N.k Alf LINN Miefik) Leek Gratin 'NAL. Part I:wilds) Her Majesty bad afterwanb as evoilei party, who were finned to be present at a &markt tailor' of Shalt apeare's historinl play of " King Jo n," which was per fumed accerding to the following programme . RING 20d.S. Liss him Mr. Charles lima. Prim limey (hie see, afterward. Wag Mowry 11l ) Arbor ( erei of Ge grey, late fluiik 'eh lone. eller boolke of Wed Juba) Miss K tie Terre. Ifflinfm Loorwrord. Kurt .g usllsbarg Mr. lsinto %ming. lard nine, tut .of teurfoik Males alue.hall, Earl or Pembrebe Mr. Wynn. Osellery ntle d Fig = WI of Kern (Clietheat- Helmet ifbalat.l4l.4n to die xia, Mr. MAIM Painabridga owe on. rag RAM 1.1 easbroirel pbtry talronbriAp. due 11.1t.bretber. be teed *a to King Yichang 14... nap, hug of Eruct .......... Levi.. the lima Ma • wof Austria . Cardinal Pandioph GM Papa's liege) Mr. Combas. Cb .1.110 k( are de Newer. Osabtatakt hem rm.e le hug Jebel a weer de Melee.. Nue el Pomfret Mr. PaTEOP. Ct Lama .(amen VAIII4I ha got . gintlf4 Hers Mr. Ilollestw. Fusel !tread Mr. Y. Cute. Andulaisfs —it. Derr mud Mr. smiles. num .osi or of 10.. Hardy U v awl mem of hag J Soil (Owes , es Arthur) Charles Kees. Hsu &wetter ge Alphonse * Wag a Cairn tie. no en. to King Joh.) K... J. 41.... Rose- Mrs 3. LIM end Me Drupes. Altrod.int ea Onelmere—Mlee Ileerle. sad Mb* Cudord. Pinar r — . Mr. (few Ream Asowt,t Morns Mr. 60 Mins. Tut lb aue wedged eel the marry panted by Mr. Thomas The performance took plain In the Ruben, Room, where the anal arrangement. had been made fur this (the Mb) dramatic representation. Iler Man sty the Queen and Prince Albert, with the Nan of Wales, the Princess Royal, the l'rincees Prince Alfred, and the Duchies of Kent, accompanied by the illustrious company forming the royal dinner circle, and the medics and gentlemen in attendance, entered the room at eight o'clock. when the performances immediately cow fierneed. TM Queen's private bead attended during - the performance in an ante-nom. The following had the honour of receiving invitations to W.!OPSA the performance:—The Countess of Manallold and too Ladies Murray, the Dowager Viscountess Ashbrook, Lord and Lady Vain. the laxly-in-Waiting to the Duchess el Kent, the Barmen de Speth, Lady Frances Bruce, Le Marquis et la Marquise if Harcourt, the Hon. Mrs. Wry and Miss Butte'', Lady Caroline and Miss Barring ton, Colonel lion. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps, Lieut.-Colonel and Lady Emily Seymour, Ladies Maria end Louisa Idi?l,y -arm, Oa George and Lady Crumple, Mid Courier and Mr. R. Cowper. Licit. -Cieneral and Lady Isabella Wemyss, Colonel Bouverie, Commanding ',dicer, Captain Sutton and Licit. Baillie of the Royal lime Guards, Colonel Stan hope. Commanding-officer, Lieut.-Colonel lion. F. 0. Hood, end Captain Ross, of the '2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards, the lies. Dr. Ilawtrty, the Her. W. and Mrs. Canning. Mrs. Harcourt, Mr. Francis Cavendish, Mrs. Larabtou, and two Mine* Lambton, Mr. Grenfell and two Maas Crenfell, Mr. H. Seymour, Mrs and Miss Seymour. Refreshments were served to the company in the Throne mm. Earl Forteeenc bad en interview with Lord Jobs &well yesterday at his °Geist residence in Downing•etreet. The noble Earl had an interview with Sit George Grey at the lime-rdfire. Mr. K. Temple. Chief Justice of Honduras, had an later view with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-Alm The Marquis of 'Lansdowne (Lord President) is recover ing from an attack of gout. Lord Cremorne had an interview with Sir George Grey at the llonacutlice yesterday. D.spatches fur the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope wcre sent from the Colonial.oelce yesterday. Dengentbes were also rent to the Governors of the North Ameba& provinces. Despatcher were received i the Ceiemlal4See= from the Govvrnors of Hoes Loam Ceylon, i Gibraltar, and also from the Lod Hiet Comokseeeett the lonian Wand.. _ _ _ _ Yesterday a deputation from the ft« Church of Scot land, accompanied by deputati as hem the Protestant Alliance, and from the Scottish Reformation Seamy, had ea interview with Earl Granville at the Foreias Mee ea the subject of the recent expedites ef &Ma Mosionoriee from Hungary by the Austrlan/wee.pt The avow two from the Free Church of ifoodood Me Rm. A. Kianaird, Rev. Moody Illoort, Moe. Dr. Moldy ker. Dr. Lorimer, J. G. Woo& Deb, sod the espellW wiwionaries—Rev. W. Wiegage agul Ate L SW& The deputation from the Proterroot Allkstoo esalsisd of the Protestant Alliance eonaleted of the lad et Clime! Alettander, Rev. E. Andel, Rev. Dr. Nate Clok Ev en% Esq., and John Miwyreser. Esq. _ ; tam ftet the Scottish 'Reformation Footety, of Rev. Dr. Ilemit tea, Charles Cowan, Esti , James Nisbet, Frq., ad Rev. W. Chalmers. (Front le4 Writt's Gemeral FoREIGN-orrice, FEB. 3.—The Queen has boss Qreuou•ly pleued to appoint Lord Cowl, K.C.8., now her Maje s ty'. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo natiary to the Bern:mune Confederation, to be her Ma- Jetty's Anihawador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the French Republic. WHITEHALL, Fee. s.—The Queen has been pleseid to direct letters patent to be passed under the Groat Keel of the United Kingdom, appointing the Right Hon. For Maule to be her Majesty's Commissioner for the Af -6111.4 India. %nitLnALL, Fen. B.—Her Majesty ham been loa.ed to con.titate and appoint the Ri g ht H oe . R o b er t `'anon Smith to be her Majesty's Secretary at War. ART EDUCATION.—It in stated that the govern ment bare resolved le assamire • special department at the Board of Trade, he the of lamming the edleieney of the itsiatiag mink of drip and siding art education generally as applied to nosalbslume--vraata which the Gnat Kaki Mina ethos yaw r amde r m e amnifest, and it is added that they have offered a (Aye in mi neat to Mr. Heavy Cole, en of aging members:f a le executive committee of the Ealtibidan. HI PREsENTATION or PORTOMOUTIL—In the E , pr.ss, • few days since, it was stated that • ea on the eve of taking plate is the repsesentatin of a Z treough of Portsmouth. This has hew eildbmoll sumo 'tat r than was anticipated, Bit .. 0011, 11 1 1 8100 . 110 Bartone of the present representatives, Yeas innmamnaset has one. nee as of retiring at the dna:rimiest sifjpsollament. 11,. refiring addrese will he published to-day (nalmsdip) la th. pipers. In addition to Lord Irielissisk Mr John Bonham Carter, M.P. fur Wiesbater, is ra-ni, , m..1 a a candidate, he being desirous, it i mid, le 'hang. Winchester for Purtamos.h, in which latter glass talady have inductee. and mach property. Ai • WENT ON BOARD TEL CITY OP GLASGOW mak %.4.1111. — Thin steamer left Liverpool for Philaded- PL. edneselay last, at II a.m., the weather at the taa. t. :ns very emfavourable, and no other vessel, except ttic comooslore steamer, having departed from the Mersey ,"''Me the previous tinturelay. Upset reaching Victoria Ito' gale increased from the west, and the sea ran map 41) h ig h. Wh a l e t h e people oo b oard the City of .zsre sere employ.' in getting the anchors secured, • l'"7 'a broke user the ship's bows, washing away all °mi. leeward, and fon Mg two of them under the anchors, Ay y had the ir legs broken ; and the weather "m 'tnae el se tempestuous that there seemed little chanc e of t. mat "I' to desharge the pilot, and convey the two poor f'ltoe• ashore, until :a o'clock o n Th urs d ay morning, when ttae.torm in ~ 1 11 e Oh gree abated, and Capt. Wylie bore ' l ".a to Point Lynes, where he *unveiled in placing the ""made el men and the pilot on hoard pilot-boot No. 12, by whirl, Owl were eventually landed at Anillweh. During the nastier met of the gale, about SO bags of male were thrown ore 'bard. to lighten the ship forward. THE NIckl)Ell NEAR OClLOPORD.—Yesterday the man Keene, who a charged with the murder of his child, .r.r .1 three ye ors, by throwing it into a well near Abney .a t4tll, was amnia brought before the coroner's jary, who, t , eor heard som e w itiii.o.ea repeat th e evid ence w hi c h we v, given on former ocessions, adjourned until Tuesday week neat, THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, 1852. THE TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE AT HOLMFI&TII. To hove ao idea of this awful calamity, the raider INNS balli•• a body of water about 200 yuds wide and Ihng deep, rushing for stiles through • deep nu m" weley, thickly studded with mills, cottages, pops bahtSwM, and hamlets, over spies of many miles in with an inclination or fall is the nature of the gtaO sallcUnt to add an imeneaso impetus to the rush of the water. The town of liolatilrth contains • population of 6,000 souls on either bank of the river. The great bulk of the inhabitants were in bed—fur it was the dead hour of night; and the only warning given was by a few of the watchers, who started off when it was seen that the meet voir was rosily about to buret its bounds, running down the river side, shouting, casting stones through bed-roost windows, end startiisig people from their shop u but they could. But even this brief warning extended only to the satrattee of liulmtirth ; fur there the flood overtook them sat rendered further effort• of no avail. . _ The property over which the torrent tint rushed was Bil berry Mill, a woollen manufactory at the foot of the reser. voir, on the right bank of the River Hearne. It was a stone building of three stories, and something like 20 yards long, with • cottage at the gable and towards the river, in which C. Batty, the taller, resoled. The cottage and greater portion of the mill were swept away,with the heavy iron machinery of the mill, and the property was • perfect wreck in almost • moment. Rutty had been to convinced of what was coming beforehand that ho had sent his wife and family away from the hone, and had even removed his furniture. He himself had been one of the watchers on the embank ment all night. About a quarter of • mile lower down the river was the residence of Mr. John Funks., which, with • barn, cow-house, three cows, and a @Ludt of hay worth SW., were all swept awe; from the belt bank of the stream. Mr. Fuentes and his family had received warning, and hastened to a wood up the side of the valley for shelter. The !hairy woollen smile, the property of Mrs. Hunt, occupied both banks of the river, half a mile below the reservoir. On the right bank was a flue stone erection of four stories, forty yards long, fur scribbling and spinning, with valuable mule frames; and on the lift was an eztenove weaving mill, lac-house, and Mrs. Hunt's dwelling. All that now marks the spot is a tall chimney, which alone escaped the wreck. It is extraordi nary to think that the heavy machinery, steam-engine, huge boiler*, and everything, should have been boated away like toys before the torrent of water. Mrs. Hurst was warned is time ; but, either from incredulity or terror, would not move from the house till something more than gentle com pulsion was used. Her family also of course escaped. The destruction of this property is estimated variously at 20,000/. to 30,0004 '1 Ile Bank End woollen mid, the pro perty, or at least in the occupation, of Means. John and Willies Roebuck, stood about three quarters of • mile below the reservoir, on the left bank of the river Holrao. It was a substantial stone erection of four stories, with one cod abutting on the river. Some yards of this end has been carried away, the iron spinning mules and weaving loom. being torn asunder, and left pro jecting Irons the ruin. The damage will probably be from 1,000!. to 2,0001. At Ilolme-bridge, a little further, the church was inundated. The pews were lifted from their position and thrown transversely in rows across the aisles; the walls rotund the }aid were torn down; the grave-stones were swept away, and coffins with their corpses lifted from the new graves and floated down the river. The water made • clean breach across the bridge itself. and swept away its stone battlements entirely. Hincheliffe woollen mills, the property of Messrs. Butterworth and Co., a mile and a half below the reservoir, stand upon a firm, rocky foundation, and escaped destruction; but the water made • cleau breach through the windows of the drat nod second storey, and probably has destroyed and damaged property of the value of dOW. On the opposite side of the water was a row of ten two-storey cottages, occupied by operatives; these were on the left bank ; there is not a stone of them remaining. The houses and their occupants were taken away at one fell swoop. From one of thew houses 10 Lunn beings, composing one family, were *cot to their account es with • blast of wind. Altogether it is supposed nearly 40 persons residing in these houses, surprised in their sleep, perished in the flood. One man only was rescued, and he was floated down a quarter of a mile lower, into • mill dam ; his escape appears to have been almost • miracle. The Bottoms mill, further down, belonging to Meese*. Barber and Co., was inundated with water, but, standing some distance from the direct nurse of the river, it escaped destruction. Two or three mechanics wen at work in the mill, and had a narrow escape : ono of them resided in Water-street, and be probably owed his escape from the melancholy fatd'of his wife and family, who had already perished, to the necessity of working during the night. The Victoria woollen mill, belonging to the re presentatives of the late Mr. John Harper, magistrate, is a mile and three quarters below the reservoir. It was flooded, and • good deal of damage sustained. Four cottage homes on the opposite side of the river were swept away, but the inhabitants fortunately had escaped. Messrs. Dyson's woollen mills, also on the opposite side of the river at this point, occupied by Messrs. Roberts and Sendford, were flooded, and a goad deal of property destroyed. Jonathan Sandford, the engine -driver, lived in a cottage by the side of the mill, and that was swept away, Sandford and his two children, and servant girl all perishing in the flood. Their bodies were afterward, found three miles down the river. We now come to Prickleton, at the entrance of Holmfirth, two miles and • half from the reservoir. Here the extensive dye-works of Mews. George Fans, and Co. were carried away, and considerable damage wee done to the spinning machinery. Probably the lees will be 3,000!. The spin ning and weaving mill of Mr. James Hobson Farrar is on the right bank of the river. The engine•house,steast-engine, end immense boiler were swept down before thetorrent. Here also the water swept through • row of 14 cottages, known by the name of Scare Fold. The buildings consist of two storey cottages fronting to the river, with a second row of two-storey cottages on the top of them, frosting the oppo site way, and on a level with the highway. From the lower tier of cottages the occupants of the first escaped. In the second Richard Woodcock, aged 18, and his sister, aged 14, were drowned. The father and mother and two children broke a way through into the knees above and escaped. In another of these houses Joseph Helliwell's wife and five children all perished ; but he soaped in the second story by fleeting on the top of his weaving -loom till the water went down. The furniture of the poor people in all thus cottages was wrecked, and those who escaped with life had nothing left but their night dedies. Near the middle of Holmtlnb, at Upper Bridge, the And burst through the Elephant and Castle public-hows, and made • complete wreck of the furniture, bat the occupants 'soaped. The battlements of the bridge won entirely destroyed. A three-story house adloinbeg the bridge, with its owner, Mr. Miner Bailey, tailor, and his wife and two chil dren, were all swept away. Mr. Bailey was aftewards resened, but Mrs. Bailey and the 01111161110 perished. The nen bare, salaried by ltr. Joh o Sesth, was pertly het he and hb so os the opposite s a ite ll 2the river to thole Is • Meet the Hollow-gate. • wow of three storey bean ail Asp hen was gutted, sod the eatirest• are wer awn isms. Mr. li'Clellas, haler: m. "‘„ N. a thins. sad MI wan stock-in. wide was out of the "her by the Geed, not leaving him • • worth. The loon, window, window net ems, ad wevtlting was swept from the frost of the build. • Mre , oodhead, grocer ; Mr. Abraham Earley, pear ; Pir. Henry Swift', elecr e ; Ms. 21.8L111141M pear; and Mr . Joel "(sigh, , whe ere ether aempaata of these shops, all shared in the Assereetion of their property, bet they and their families ampal with life. In hot the debris of ruined boas" and peeperty hen shawl up the bed of the rhea, dieerisd the gig. rest, and Hollowptearat I sew the damsel he the waters of the Helms, The tellatteand tellbesee ea the opposite side of Melharrite, mks" to the liar, wen seeps away, and the gatekeeper, Smug Greenwood, to gether with his wife and child wall asehmi away with the ham, and ail perished. Mr. Pimps" a Agin, had his has' gated. but escaped with hie feasilahe header. Thu peteisee et Mann with sad, anise% wave swat awn e ri n gs bui ther with • setters ha bit eaves; who had of the premise. weideill. The sonatas% his wife, and all in which these cret w ell= atheirs. resedess. woe she swept we/ Kay and hie haat wege 111.111.1 id dews with the Seed, but • etish wee hal est te bin from • window *bin he Mina. MIMI we, seareed. 11 &tighter, grandchild, and another maim al the Mistily, however perished. Mr. Beaty Flab% slap was carried away, but he and his holly. uuseped. On ,the left bank of the river, the de*. stove, wage house, barn, and Ma k of Mr. Joshes - eerie, M were de stroyed : lose about The battlegesets of Victoria bridge wen next sway. The beaus ad shape is iessiaareet were shwa rim al Oen Mies steak to the amount of AK 1,111111. The settlers n abob Mr. Juba Watisete, drover; Mr. RAM Outs,- ridge besen esallederw ; Mr. Joha Hargreaves, asemaker; Mr. , demi* ; Mr. Edward William's, diaper ; Mr. herbs lieserk, gam; Mr. Lure" timer; Mr. Beetison, poem Ilene eattura at fosewbffier, Melatirth sow flooded, mil is one of then es ski sae man Jams Lee, was teed drowned. A swam of asp au he. were eampist* gaud. The it,., lUbble hue hill Ye the Holing. nodes:eh of Holman\ was Seeded, ha me great damage be... Several coats and bean IMOD Gatedost of die raveyerd. We could give a lit of wan ass 30 other shops, the owners of which 11610•611114 great less. Momse. Therein and Bower, spinaen is.d dyers, nuelsed damage to the en list of over 2,0004 we were informed. Sidney Hartley, who slept on the pesain, was carried away and drowned. Hides' Illiashkaa, his wife, and children, also living on the premises, wen swept away with their cottage, and perished. The wool warehouse of Mr. John Wood was swept away. The battlements of the bridge at Brigs were swept away. It is said that the body of water pasting through Holm , firth was at one time seven or eight yards deep. I have not inquired the amount of destruction caused by the flood further down the valley ; but it is said that three Polies had been taken nut of the river as far below Ilueldenfleld las Minield, Id miles hence. The loss of life is still eni mated at upwards of 100; but to this time only SI bodies ban bees recovered here, and four telegraphed as found at Hull. in the Heather, 70 miles distant, make 68. - - - The following is a list of the dead ; At Waggon and Homes,lrth : a male child one year old, and a female four years, both unknown, and both much mutilated. George Inn : Jonathan Cros.loud, Joshua Crossland, Mary IleHaswell and her children, George, Sarah, Elisabeth, John, and Ann, varying from one to ten years old, and a female unknown. Crown Hotel: Henry Hartley, Charles Earnahaw, John AsheU, Margaret Agt ell, Miss Sandford, • young woman and a child unknown. Oddrellows' Arms: Row Charleimorth. Golden Fleece: Abel Earnshaw and Jane Metterick, and a boy and girl. Jacob's Well, Honley ; Manna liartley, Charles Thorpe, Barry Heikki, and • boy unknown. Travellers' lan : Mazy Ass Hartley, James Hartley, end a boy and a girl unknown. Rock lan: Elisabeth Rellawell, William Met- Wick, and a girl named Pbeanee. RM. and Croon, Thong's Bridge : Anna Bailey, Richard Shackleton (a I I boy), and an infant unknown (horn in the water !). Royal ' Oak, Thong's Bridge : Joseph Earnehaw, Tamar Shackle• ton, a boy two years old (supposed to to a Absekleteo). a girl 2i years old, and a girl a year old (ssempeged be be Herilley's). King's Head, Ilinchliffe MOI: Abel Zan shaw (a child). Elephant and Castle Inn, Heimarth : Ann Greenwood, James Lee, Joshua Marsden, Milani Raley. Shoulder of Mutton Inn, Holmarth : Amelia Fearne, Joshua Charlesworth, a boy (unknown). White llart, Ilelmfirth : Ann Crossland, Mr. Sandford's housekeeper, a woman (un known), two boys (unknown). New Inn, Ilinchlitfe Mill James Booth, Nancy Booth, William Hetley, Betty Brook, Hannah Brook, Elisabeth Dodd, Martha Ilinchliffe. I have been informed that the act of parliament consti• titling the commissioners a corporation received the royal assent in July, 1837. The contract to make the Bilberry reservoir was let in 1840, but it occupied about three years a completing. An error was eommittcd, it has bees alleged, by the contractor in placing the embankment arrow a spring, so that the foundation was insecure from the hest. The embankment gave way . perceptibly, and the contract was taken from him, and given to other parties, which led to a Chancery suit, and protracted litigation. After that, a cofferdam was sunk through the embankment to the spring, and measures adopted in the hope of remedying the imperfection in the foundation. These mea sures were never considered very satisfactory. The perpec. dicular cylinder or funnel described above has given way, and got twisted, so that the valve at the bottom could not be lifted. Could this valve have been lifted on Wednesday night, to let off the water, it is thought the catastrophe might have been avoided. The whole amount of Ims has been estimated today at 600,01.001. And besides this, many families in wealthy and easy circumstances, have been en tirely ruined. The mills, it is thought, cannot be started again anywhere down the valley . for four month.; and thus great numbers of the working classes have been thrown out of work, and will probably be dependent un the pour rates. The bed of the river has beets in places choked up and diverted, and it is not known by whom or bow the carotene is to borne. Mr. Dyson, coroner, of Halifax, visited the town this sorniug and swore a jury, hot they have been occupied all day in visiting the bodies at different public houses over • distance of several milts, (or the purpose of proving ideu. tity ; and after that they adjourn until Wednesday the 18th inst. At the time our correspondent wrote last evening the town of liolmtirth was crowded by thousands of people from a distance poured in by railway, in pie sue parties, anxious to see the bodies of the sufferers and satisfy their curiosity. Though mostly such people conduct themselves with great propriety and feeiing, yet their ap pearance altogether strangely contrasts with the air of sadness and gloom which has settled upon the inhabitants, but few of whom have not a relative or friend to deplore the loss of. Bodies of special constables keep the roads, and keep the crowds back from the labourers who are en. gaged in removing the (kb. is and wreck from the street, choked up and impeded. The bridges and roads have been destroyed nearly in all directions. Great fear has been co , tenable,' that another reservoir, said to be in a dangerous state, would come down, but the water has been dis charged to the depth of two yards, and this course has much quieted apprehension. DESTRUCTIVE FLOOD AT HEREFORD. HEREFORD, FRIDAY EYRNINO. The river Wye has, from the continued rains, been flooded for a fortnight, but yesterday its sudden and swollen boundaries became matter of much anxiety to all the dwellers on its banks. Last night it enlarged its borders to a more than common extent; but this morning its im petuosity reached its climax, running for several feet deep along Bt. Martin's -street, Chain-causeway, sod Blackmer stone. Walls were thrown down, palisades choked the roadway, and an immense debris was lying promiscuously in the rued and street. The water at nine o'clock +ea up to a horse's middle, and the Mamppa day-coach t Ciloures ter made two ineffectual attempts to leave the city on its usual route to the Great Western and South Waleetermini. The Odle of the city has been stopped, and no intercourse could be kept up with the inhabitants in the above-named districts except by boats ot waggons. Up to twelve o'clock the water was still rising, and the Aberg y tram road is impassable from the flood. A quantity of Sour us the trams for delivery to South Wales is greatly dameard, the sacks being saturated with water belt way up. The bee-hives of that well known naturalist, Dr. Bevan, were swept away' early this 'naming, sad the boom is wholly surrounded by water, which is several feet deep in the rooms. No aid.can be given or seesaw, rendered to the imprisoned inhabitants, as hardly • boatman can be found to undergo the peril of putting out. Several hundred hurdles, camases of sheep and other animal., with farmingimplements of various sorts tell a tale " posing strange ' in their hurried passage through the arches of the city bridge. At Eign, Sent Mill, DI 'Milord, and Hampton, a similar scene of death to flocks nod destruction of valuable property presents itself to the beholders. A barge loaded for a voyage broke from her moorings at Bredwardine, and has just dashed against the bridge with a terrific crash, and the hull is now Riming about. Three empty boat, followed it, having also been drifted from their holdings. They appear to have come some miles. A poor old man and woman were nigh being drowned in their bed, at Eign. A float of timber, hurled from its fastenings, became jammed is one of the arches of the bridge shaking it to its foundation. Casks, timber, and valuable article, are con tinually floating through th e arches. Thousands of persons are passing to and from the most exciting scenes, the sun shining beautifully. Some begin to dread the security of the buttresses of the Town-bridge, the only one which spans the Wye. Not one of the five daily coaches have left the city for Oloseester, owing to the flood. Up to this time (half-past 4) them is no sign of the waters ebbing, and from the lowering aspect of the distant clouds, • farther fall of rain is not unlikely to add to the force and extent of the devastation. THE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY. Yesterday the court ric• wembled at o'clock to ascertain whether the arrangement that had been proposed by Mr. Roxburgh on the part of Mt. Geodeltap, the manager, for the delivery up by Me. Lbw% the solicitor of the company, of all books, popsy% deed., eel 411111111/11b, could be entered into. Mr. O'Cenew wet prosset, bat on befog told by the court that his siliendance would met be further required for the present, retired amid the thin:fag of the audience. Re. Roxburgh, after oonsultim with Mr. Wheeler ea==sel At kr. O'Coeser, sad Who', said the i missal ark se the pert of the resolved late tide—that XI. Bober% se Wives ever the kooks, papers. deeds end desemele, ids the bWe eft he edictal sireeldi neeke a Arms vediesekkg hes that W the alba that Mr. Solterste lieu or bill of aver k sagest of then argil he paid est of the ant assets kinks seder the atMe r the hi of awe to be subject to the tektite of the auk, ski be the aides account of it is Ilr. Moberte's amity se seileher sad tresearer to the Ile. wYeler *seta to the teem of the preyed in mese. Be omit set casual le the usenet kiss taken is tesseske with Mr. Basra se trosearer. It mkt be lint piked that be wee trunk& The babe keened that by the deed Mr. Rohn% wee appelelled trernser, sad he &ski Net seekles mg pro peed that did set kdede It,. =chores k that eapadly. Mr. Iflesaler thee laid that on the pert of his disk he newt dean the overture altogether. Seek a preseedlag slight he very veer k a west of ramee kw, but he wee Bet tap Ale seek ismonszy Priskelks in any court of ilie"Mooter—Thee I adjourn Ms mart eine die. Mx. Roatmegb—The wanness are all discharged, asd gel& Rides will be glees of the neat meeting. The smart then hike sp. ROYAL PRESENT TO *ETON COLLEGE—On Thurs day kis lls/si Highness Prince Albert preluded to the orholamelg.. College two remarkably floe stuffed birds, the awe • whiamailed eagle, which was shot in Windsor park as Ow Ord of February in last year, and the other a swain Ow, which wu shot at Virginia Wster on the eilw lop. Thu late Dr. Theekeray, Provost of King Osillegs. vs his entire and moist valuable *M IMI= at eleallid to the Eton boys. AMENDMENT or THE PATENT LAWS.—On Thurs day evade( a eseetleg of the United Inventon' Associa tion was held at the Institution of Civil Engineers, Great George-street, Mr. Apsley Peßatt in the chair, when relic). lotions were passed, pledging the society in support of the bill as originated in the House of Lords last Demon, but in opposition to the objectionable provisions subsequently in trodueed therein by the House of Commons. LONDON AND BIRMINOILUI EXTENSION AND NORTHAMPTON AND DATINTRT RAlLWAY.—Yesterday, after long arguments from Messrs. Hallett, Elderton, Bengallay, and Bouthgate on the part of the directors called to account for the disposal of 14,800!., with which they were charged by the official manager, the Master, in delivering judgment, said he should allow the charge as against all the directors, with the exception of Mr. Linnell, that gentleman nut having been made liable so • contributory, calling upon them to account for the 14,800/., minus the sum of 10,0001., paid over by them under an agreement with the Warwick and Birmingham and Warwick and Marlton Canal Companies, reserving to himself the question of their accountability for the 10,8001. until the suit in equity now pending, and which involved the whole question of " Bryson 11. the Warwick soil Birmingham and Warwick and Napton Canal Compa nies," was determined by the court above. DREADFUL AruIDENT.—On Friday, at liolywell Level Mine, near llolywell, the men were in the act of lowering • lift of pumps, when the vast weight of iron work, saapended by • capstan rope, in its progress down wards, emus la contact with some part of the pit work, or part of the machinery broke, and giving a lurch, whereby its weight (20 tons) became suddenly increased too much for the men to rt.-sir, they became instantly overpowered, and the capstan running round with great impetuosity, threw them of in every direction several of them being pitched high into the sir, and a distance into the field, re ceiving at the same time violent (and in three instances fatal) injuries. Two of the men were hurled into the fire, and were much burnt, iu addition to the other injuries they had received. THE FOURTH ESTATE. (From the Thus.) Nature has implanted in the mind of man genuine and disinterested feelings which refer all action. to an in ternal standard utterly independent of success and failu Si It is in this peresption of right and wrong, of dignity and worthleesneel, that we differ from all other animals ; and In its free and m an ly expresaiou we vindicate oar right to consider ourselves something better and more permanent than the beasts that perish. Whea great crimes are com mitted, it is according to the nature of things that they should fur a time remain unpunished, because their per petrators seldom ventures on them without the prospect of immediate impunity. But it is equally according to the nature of things th a t those crimes should m. et with im• mediate and earnest reprobation, and that those dictates of conscience which have been violated in art should at any rate assert their dignity and pronounce their sentence. Un successful crime is its own punishment, but there is no theme so worthy the hand of a public writer ae thee:pismire of successful treachery. When, in violation of his solemn oath, of the trust which ho had undertaken, and the assurances which he had re peatedly itiven, Louie Neapoloon seized on the supreme power of Franee, imprisoned her representatives, massacred her peaceful citizens, gagged her press, and, leaguing him self with the dregs of her people, d ec l are d war against learning, genius, eloquence, and valour, we did not atop to inquire whether there was anything to be gained by paring over these things in silence, we wrote as we felt, and held up such violation of all laws, human and divine, to the ignominy which it deserved. Had the plague been stayed hero—had the Dictator of France, after trampling metier his feet her laws, her liberty, and her renown, seri ously applied himself to the work of reconstruction, and de termined to exercise for the benefit of mankind a power ob tained by their slaughter, their oppression, and their degra dation, we should hare felt bound, according to our usual practice, to &Madan useless complaints, and to give full credit to the new government for whatever good it might have been able to effect. But, as if urged on by the inex piable guilt of the first crime, the ruler of France has pro ceeded to till u p the period of the two short months which have elapsed since has accession to power with a series of offences more than justifying the opinion which we at first expressed, and covering with shame the few among us who have advocated his cause. We find that the sours which we have thus adopted, however in accordance with honesty and sincerity, has incurred the cement of certain noble lords whose opinion in a case of less clear and paramount duty we should receive with every respect. Can it be said that our strictures have not been true, or that in seeking out an a l og i es f rum th e d ar k est pe riods of Pagan history we have at all exaggerated the repul sive features of military sway ? Or is it thought that we, divided by • mere thread of water from a land which groans under this Pnetorian tyranny, have too little interest in the matter to make it a theme of earnest and constant discussion ? We do not apprehend that any of these objections can be seriously advanced, and the only other ground of exception to the freedom of our strictures must be unwillingness to hear new looms truth told of a governing power, and fear that we are needlessly provoking • potent and unscru pulous enemy. For the first of these motives we enter , tain little respect. It may be very disagreeable for the forty-six titled and untitled ladies and gentlemen who recently partook of the splendid hospitality of the Tuileries to be told the real character and pretensions of the person at whose banquet they had the matchless con descension to assist. Cradled in the lap of liberty, nour ished in a healthy moral atmosphere, and habituated to freedom of thought, speech, and action, they probably have the sensibility to feel the dishonour though they had not the self-respect to resist the allurements of the im perial banquet. It can give them little pleasure to be told that their revel was decked out at the expense of a nation basely chested of its liberties, and of a royal house through whose matchless clemency alone their entertainer was en abled to celebrate • festival over its ruin. They cannot like to be told that they lent lustre to a feat inaugurating an era of spoliation, and that, little as they contributed to countenance their host, they did as much as possible to discredit their country. Possibly the two noble lords who have successively misgoverned our colonies may not be without sympathy fur a mall who has not only been able to oppress, but to silence all complaint of his op pression, and might willingly behold the press of this island reduced to the same decorous taciturnity as that of France; but from Lord John Russell we should have expected other sympathies, and we may fairly complain of a censor who turns out his foreign secretary for speaking well of Louis Napoleon, and quarrels with the peen for speaking ill of him. As to the provocation which it is alleged that we are giving to a powerful enemy, we confess that we are ashamed to be called on to notice such an accusation. In Francs crime succeeds crime without the possibility of a voice being raised or a line written against it. All that shows that a heart yet beats beneath the prostrate and apparently in animate form of the fettered giant is stifled ere it can find utterance. The moderate and cautious protests which a sense of intolerable wrong has wrung from the most timid opponents and the most ardent supporters of the President would die unheard and unrecorded, were it not for the echo on this side of the Channel, which catches them up and reverberates them in notes of distant but still alarming im port. Are we to bow to the same censure as that which has destroyed the press of Paris, or are we merely to printtheee things and abstain from the comment which they invite ? Is every action of ou r own statesmen to remain the subject of the forest and most unfettered criticism, and are we to abstain from offering an opinion on the rulers of foreign countries ? Or ere we to venture remarks on the conduct of powers weak or remote, but to be awed into silence when dealing with those nearer or more powerful ? Are we to fly at small game, and while censuring the irregularities of Naples or Portugal to view with tolerant servility the aberrations of France or Russia ? We apprehend nut. This island is the last asylum not only for the political exiles, but for the liberal and constitutional ideas of the rest of Europe. Here at least the truth may be told in safety. It has never been the practice of this country to hold her liberties on the sof (trines or forbearance of foreign potentates. We cannot a free nation by the will of Frans% but by our own, ad we trust the maintenance of oar tresdeni. meta the haserases of our neighbour, but to oar ewe streogria. That strength is fully adequate to its preservation. * hobo, and mom pctent =matey have neglected preparetions for war, but we have not fallen so low as to be anvil to fawn tor the sake of preserving peace, on eislition however suc cessful, or fraud, however triumphant. Int those by whom the administration a our aka andesta repair without boa of time the Essay wads a long pane has brought into our establishment% bat Ise then est, out of a feeling a( panic, created by ark own negligessin require the pia abLidon that taro of free ends.ei which is now shwa the only check to the amok at Massie ideas in Europe. Seek a fares would be es larditis et it is man • it would show that as spirit et tho seas is sewed by the real or isseginem arm by which it is surreada. Asian a cheap of teassinet des ibly proceed from andegisa, it would le isnaedletely end Justly attributed to tsar and a kat that should fns dienneign in Waft the rely leeetb et la nation's sesidiy woad be :Wea t easesegeresst es no hedge invader ha hitherto Is the del esessiseemen of 011, strength, faring noshing bet our govennasses re_ ea our own over Illealdissee, we eon idled to dims spa g and trimly the an*r at avant eel our powers et verbiage—to tell Imam truth ka see aluan, sad Nostra le the neat. We ere not disposed to surrtrear one-belt of this pd ese it to the lamp ligence and We Nagy of ranee to lilt led is his saaetasry of Media a wise whits yet dams to the man upploser. tlenoad in a halo lengags, and forbidden andesign into their own, our gam speed to the osessimee smetail say fell go masa be Its m ina to the ease we ash( wish it i• /11/8411, bet the I mil NM MONA vehicle of di may be eateded, and the mad et ea nation with the patellas et May and jets- ties, et en army of spies and a pram of police, will act milt a thousand channels of metal sad coed dential internam* upon the other. We owe it to the cause of liberty, humanity, and social order to do our beet to prevent the public opinion of this country from being denied by the spectacle of succeestal vice, or intimidated by the vicinity of !swim' power. We owe it to the lawny of our national character to prove that wickedness Is never noes odious to us than in prosperity ; and we owe it to the rest of the mad to keep this great lesson constantly before the eyes of the English people, destined to act so mighty a part in its instruction for good or for mil. We bare endeavoured In fain this mission, and we cannot believe that the national spirit is sunk so low as to wish us to desist front it froea a craves fear of the mighty criminal whom we have endeavored to drag before the unerring tribunal of public justice. Tin KArnie WAIL—A large meeting was held et the Athenaeum, in the city of Exeter, on Thursday evening, to consider the causes of the present war at the Cape, and the policy which had been pursued towards the frontier tribes. J. C. Sercombe, Esq., a magistrate of the city, pre sided, and the present war wu unanimously condemned as inconsistent with the principles of justice and humanity. Mr. Chamerorsow (from the Aborigines Protection Society) addressed the meeting at great length. He appealed tot he meeting to ask the government to return to the concilia tory policy of Lord Oleneig in the administration of the agars at the Cape. A memorial was adopted, praying government for a commission of inquiry, to Investigate matters relating to the war at the Cape, with a view to amicable arrangements with the Kaflin. A petition to par liament, founded on the memorial, was also carried. MAYNOO7II ORANT.—Under the presidency of Mr. W. F. Hutton a meeting was held in Bolton on Thurs day evening, in the large Temperance Hall, when the plat form was filled with ministers and gentlemen of ell deno minstion, several of whom spoke in support of resolutions condemnatory of the grant to Nlaynouth. A moat respect able and numerous audience listened attentively, and agreed to a petition to parliament on the subject, which is in course of .ignature. 1tr.1 , 01111 MELTING AT NEWCAMTLIL—A public meeting was held in the Newcastle Guildhall on Thursday, to consider the propriety of petitioning the legislatare fur a reform of parliament, based upon the principle of extend ing the suffrage to every rate-payer." The mayor (James Hodgson, Keq.,) having taken the chair, the meeting was addreaserl by Noun. Crawshay, Walters, Thule, site., in support of a memorial advocating triennial parliaments, the ballot, a better distribution of electoral districts, and the extension of the suffrage on the princi ple of giving it to every ratepayer. An amendment was proposed, but the [ original motion was carried by a huge majority, after which the meeting broke up. MB COMING REFORM BILL. (From tie Daily New.) On Monday Lord JOHN RUSSELL, is to submit to the House of Commons his reform measure, and the vital importance of the question involved demands a frequent reference to the subject. Now, the intimations of what Lord 'WIN intends to propose which have been allowed to escape are scanty and equivocal in the extreme. If, however, any importance can be attributed to the expressions of his partisans and confidants, there is but too much reason to apprehend that his bill may be de fective in more than one essential respect. This may be, as is apologetically hinted in certain quarters, owing to the opposition Lord JOHN has encountered among his colleagues; or it may be owing to mistakes in judgment of tus own. The cause is of little con sequence. When the bill is produced, independent liberals will ask what it is, not how it has come to be what it is; and will not waste their strength in straggling to promote a defective or equivocal mea sure. If the bill is a bad one, they will be inclined to leave it and its author to their fate, and " bide their time." We have already freely expressed the fears which were inspired in us by the diatribes against the ballot and triennial parliaments, in which the mover of the address in the House of Commons so wantonly indulged. Since wo did so, other rumours, the reverse of encouraging, have reached us respecting what is contemplated in the way of disfranchise ment and enfranchisement. One indication is obvious to all. Mr. IIAYTEIt, after giving notice that the new Reform Bill would be moved on Monday next, announced almost in the same breath, that on that day week a bill would be presented to disfranchise St. Albans. What is the meaning of this? Is there to be no schedule A an nexed to Lord JOHN'S now Reform Bill, that a spe cial measure is to be introduced to suppress St. Albans P If St. Albans can only be got rid of in this way, what is to be done with Sudbury? This last intimation of Mr. HAYTER'S does look as if ministers were afraid to assail the small, corrupt, or de facto nomination boroughs; that they have quailed before the tempest in a tea-pot that " roared like any suck ing dove " last week at Tamworth. But another report is abroad, relating to the dis posal of the small constituencies, as bad,—perhaps even worse than this, of their being to be left un touched. It is said, in the old law slang, that they are to be thrown open to the adjoining hundreds—i. e., that a scrap of the adjacent rural district is to be added to each ; that they are to be transformed by this &cue poems into so many little close counties. Let us examine what would be the practical effect of such an arrangement. One great ground of com plaint against the existing electoral system is the undue preponderance of what is called the landed in terest in the representation. This undue prepon derance is mainly owing to the mode in which the privilege of election is distributed among the consti tuencies. The counties return for the most part members of the squirearchy; the great towns return traders, or, at least, advocates of a rational and liberal commercial policy. The small boroughs would ap pear to form a kind of neutral ground; but, in fact, the most of them are subject to the neighbouring landed magnates, and their weight is consequently thrown into the scale of the landed interest. This evil will be made worse it the constituencies of these small boroughs are to be augmented by accessions from the neighbouring rural population. It is needless to mince matters. The elections in the small boroughs are decided exclusively by cor ruption or "influence," which latter phrase, being in terpreted, means intimidation. Their representatives, as a rule, do not represent the people, and cannot be relied upon by the people. But as matters now stand, there are two parties who have an equal chance of carrying the day in these constituencies—those old dead-weights the tory protectionist obstructives; and the free-trade, semi-liberal conservatives or whips. From the former the people have nothing to hope; from the latter the people can count upon concessions, though not upon full justice. To extend these boroughs by rural annexations, will throw them entirely into the hands of the protectionists. Their constituencies will in that ease be composed partly of the existing bribe-devour ing worthies, and of a number of tenants at will of neighbouring landlords. The latter will be—must be—the unmurmuring, implicit slaves of the protec tionists. Any candidate not belonging to that party, therefore, to have any chance, must, by buying or bullying, secure as many votes among the old briba bles as will neutralise the votes of the landed serfs, and leave a majority of the residue in his favour. Nay, more, the annexations may be so arranged that the rural serfs will in all cases form a majority of the constituency. This is no mere theory—no plausible hypo thesis, resting upon the presumable tendencies of different claims of voters. It is a plain state ment of the results of experience. Under the whig Reform Bill, every . nerve was strained by both factions of the landed aristocracy to have large rural districts included within the boundaries of parlia mentary boroughs. Their efforts were in too many cases successful; and the consequence has been that upon the rural districts thus annexed to boroughs the most extensive and shameless manufactories of fictitious votes have been established and carried on. Whole fields have been partitioned out by noble or wealthy landowners, and upon these partitions huts, pretending to be cow-sheds, pigsties, tool-houses, what not ? have been erected. These have been os tensibly let or leased to dependents of the owner, and apes these precious holdings the occupants (durante t ?Imitate) have been registered. Throwing open the swell boroughs to the adjoining hundreds, would be the eigeel for the immediate resumption of these operation' me a larger and mote shameless scale. To leave the small constituencies as they are, would be unjust to the people. To amalgamate them into groups of small boroughs would be little better. But to extend them by annexations from the ad joining rural districts would be to add insult to injury :—would be to " keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope." We are convinced that, with the existing distribu tion of the population among different professions and punning, a broad re-construction of the elec toral districts would be perfectly safe. By sub dividing the country into electoral districts on a broad basis, by keeping these districts suffi ciently populous to secure numerous coustituencies, by adopting an electoral qualification that would include all the industrious and intelligent classes, and by making the vote secret, a prudent, intelligent, honest representation might be obtained. But this is scarcely to be hoped for,—tho actual holders of political power will not concede it. Our next sire therefore ought to be to ensure that in whatever re-distribution of the electoral districts is conceded, a fair balance shall be preserved between the rural and urban populations. The non-agricultural population is mainly concentrated in large towns. Justice, therefore, which requires the abolition of the small conatituenoies, requires that the seats in parliament left to be disposed of in consequence should be con ferred upon considerable towns which are unrepre presented, or added to the representation of those which are imperfectly represented. These remarks are but another illustration or application of the principle which we enounced some time ago, that, let the new Reform Bill be what it may in other respects, it must be honest and real. Two things the l'aEntea has promised—to extend the right of voting to parties at present uneufmnchised ; and to remove all obstructions that lie in the way of the fair and free ex ercise of the elective franchise. The latter is included in the former ; there may he a purification of the electoral system without any extension, hut there can be no real extension without a purification. To give a non-elector a vote, which either he is not to be allowed to exorcise freely, or to find neutralised by the simultaneous concession of a vote to some man of straw, is no real extension of the franchise. The annexation of rural districts to the existing small boroughs would neutralise thegift of the fraiichise to honest men in this way, and ought, therefore, to be resisted by all means. MINOR MONEY ORDER OFFlCEn.—Notioo has been given by the Post•odlce authorities that Barrow-upon- Mutnber, Lincolnshire. will be opened as a minor order Ake, on the et of February neat. The lante t" :3 payment of money orders ha been discontinued at the minor money order office at Bodenham, Herefordshire; postmaaters will, therefore, cruse to draw order. for pay ment at that place, and will erase its name from the printed lists accordingly. IRELAND. Dentix, Frn. 6. A statement appeared in the . L. reenum's 'Journal of yesterday, to thu elect that counsel omitted to prove, on the part of the crown in the trial of Thorn ton and liodgens at the special commission, the pro clamation of the barony in which the prisoners were charged with having appeared with fire arms. Th. statement turns out, however, to have liken utterly unfounded ; the omission not having been made by the crown prosecutors, but by the repo r t er , w h o i n sending off his despatch by express to the Freeman, forget in the hurry to mention that part of the evidence, namely, the reading of the proclamation from the Dublin Gazelle. The Arnuigh Guardian gives the following eata loguo of outrages: In the face of the Special CO=ll4loll lawlessness exhibits itself, and the agent., of riblionaan ply their harbarous trade u it to challenge the authority of law, defying its powers, ' and apparently despising its terrors. Some few evenings since, as a man named Bradley wva returning from Belly bay to his residence in the neighbourhood of that town, he was waylaid by three men armed with " beetles," and beaten until left for dead. Ilia wife, by whom he wu ac companied, was oleo brutally maltreated. And nearly at the tame time and place, and it is believed by the same ruf fians, a man named Martin was likewise waylaid. During these occurrences, a number of persons, women as well as men, were looking on, end never interfered. In fact, Bradley's wife caught hold of one woman, and cried to her to save her; but .he was rudely shook off with, " You deserved what you gut." A number of witnesses, who saw and must Dave known the waylaying party, were examined before a local magistrate, but nothing was elicit. .1 except that a notorious character named Boyle, mho kept for years (until recently suppressed by the Ballytrain police) one of those places of ribbon rendezvous, a shebeen house, war one of the principals. On Sunday night last, and in the RAMC locality, there was a house burned to the ground; and the third and "last" threatening letter, with the °rui nous black cottia,hu, it is said, been received by Mr. Lucas, agent to Mrs. Lealie, of Bally hay. A requisition, already numerously and most re spectably signed, was on Tuesday placed on the Chamber of Commerce table, Limerick, inviting Francis William Russell, Esq., to offer himself a candidate for the representation of his native tits. The Limerick Chronicle says :—" Loti Arundel is slowly recovering ; his lordship intends' shortly to visit his Limerick constituents, It has not entered his mind to retire from the representation of this city." 'fho Hon. Robert Daly, brother of Lord Dun sandle, passed through Galway, on Tuesday, on an electioneering canvass. We have been told (says the Galway {indicator) that his political professions are rather liberal. The widow of a seaman named Doyle obtained, in the Court of Common Pleas, yesterday, a verdict for 2:,01. damages against the Dublin and Cork Steam packet Company, for the death of her husband, who was killed by a collision between tho Minerva, a steamer belonging to that company, and the brig William Rushton, of Liverpool. The action was taken under Lord Campbell's Act. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL. CAMBRIDGE, FEB. 6.—Sminfs Pluzzmex.--The Rev. Robert Smith, D.D., late Master of Trinity College, left, by will, two prises of 2M. each, to be awarded annuisy to those Questiontsta who should prove themselves most proficient in mathematics and natural philosophy. At a meeting of the adjudicators, holden this evening, the prises were adjudged as follows:—l. Ds. Tait, St. Peter's College, Senior Wrangler, 1b.52. 2. Ds. Steele, St. Peter's College, Second Wrangler, 18.52. NAVAL. PORTSEOCTR, FEB. 6.-7'hc Britannia, 120, Cap tain Goldsmith, was paid wages to-day at Spitbead. She will hoist the flag of Admiral Dundas, red at the wizen, to morrow. She will not sail for the Mediterranean till the wind, which is now westerly, changes to some other quar ter. Some supernumeraries were taken out to her to-day by the Sprightly, as also a quantity of Rear-Admiral Dundee's cabin furniture. The Gorgon, steam sloop, has been taken into the steam basin; and the Hecht, steam sloop, has been dismaoted. A letter from Gibraltar, dated Dec. 27, informs us that Captain Giffard, of the Dragon, steam frigate, with other officers of that ship, had gone down, a few days before, in the Janus, steam vessel, to Sale, to look at the place after its bombardment by the French. They went on shore, and were kept there five day. on account of the state of the bar, which is represented as being a very dan gerous one. They picked up a quantity of concussion or percussion shells, they could not tell which, as they did not open them, several Moors hating been dangerously wounded, and some killed, by trying to take the fuzee. out. They received much civility from the Pacha, who escorted them to a place (not named) which had never before been profaned by the foot of a Cnristiau. About 2,000 soldiers had to be taken as a guard, Christians being the particular abomination of the natives. The batteries at Sale were much knocked absut, but those at Rabat appeared to hare been hardly fired on at all. They received tho survivors (four in number) of the brig Violet at Tangiers, bringing them to Gibraltar, and sent them to England by the last packet. It was the opinion on board the Dragon that she would not return to Malta fur some time, but would have to go down to the Riff Coast to chastise the pirates. The Hydra steam-sloop, Commander Belgrave, will em- I bark Major-General Cathcart and stall, for the Cape of Good Hope, to-morrow (this day), and sail with them for their destination. She also takes out 50,000/. sterling for the payment of the troops engaged in the Kaffir war. This was put on board of her this afternoon by Mr. G. Allen, acting master, commanding the steam-tender Sprightly, and the treasury officers. MOVEMENTS.—Jan. 17 : 11. M. S. Growler, lying at Constaratinople.—At Malta, Feb. 26: 11. M. S. frigate Terrible, and steamers Spiteful, Spitfire, Medina. Ardent and Medusa ; Jan. 24 : H. M.'s ships Bellerophon, Ven geance, and Trafalgar, sailed ; Feb. 2.5 : H. M.'s steam ra vel Merlin, sailed for England.—At Gibraltar, Jan. 31 : H. M.'s steamship Dragons—At Smyrna, Jan. 20: the English brig Arab, steamer Queen of Scotland, and screws Grecian and British Queen. SPORTING. INTELLIGE DONCASTER SERI NOMINATIONS FOIL T 1 ;CE EXTRA. TO MEETING, 1832. E DONCASIER HAND!. The Ready Reckoner, 3 yn Finesse, 4 yrs The Proctor, 4 yrs Calculator, 4 yrs ch f by John o'Gaunt, dam by Belanassar, 4 yrs Hard Labour, 4 yn La Fiancee, 6 yes Bird-on-the-Wing, 3 yrs Knock Knoll, 4 y rs Simplicity, 4 yn b c by Irish Badwater out of Flower of the Tees, 3 yrs Selina, 6 yn Kilquade, 4 yrs Young Altisidors, aged Don Carla*, 3 yn Kathleen, 6 yn Little Fawn, 4 yn Cogia, 8 yrs b e by Red Deer out of Sister to Porto Bello, 4 yn Snowdrop, 3 yrs Hyacinth, 3 yrs lanthe, 4 yrs air Charles Napier, 3 yn Equal, 3 yrs Abd el Rader, aged Tom Pinch, 3 yrs Edward of Yor., 4 yrs Rhesus, 6 yrs England's 010,7, 4 yes Stafford, 4 yrs St. Michael, 3 yrs Farmer's Boy, 3 yrs Lissy, 3 yn Abbess of Jerneux, 6 yin Tom llolthv, 4 yrs Cleveland, 3yrs The Cutler, 4 yrs Valente, 3 yrs Melton!, aged Mary Ann, 3 yrs Ischia, 4 yrs View llalloo, 6 pi thuoanisn], 3 yn Dismay, 3 yrs The Twin, 4 yes CALLING OUT THE MILITIA. TO THE 'EDITOR OP TOL ITPRI/18. tits,—l am right glad to read your sensible re marks on the subject of the projected " militia " I trust you will bring all the weight of your able and influential journal to bear on this point. Most certainly, if there is to be a local force in the different counties of the land, that force should he the of •g of pure voluntaryism. The old militia system will not do for 1852, either in its form or in its priueiples. It may do very well for the 'Finve to advocate compulsion; but that journal though so extensively read, is nut the ex ponent of the opinions of the gnat bulk of Englishmen, I venture to think. There are, doubtless, numbers of men under 10 years of age who would not hrsitate to join volun teer corps, under proper regulations; and if suitable registrars and commanders are appointed, with the specified conflitious of sees ice, they may be expected to: come forward of oure. But the people have this matter in their own hands. They have only to will it, and the thing is done. Lot them remember the effect of their meeting, and protesting when the foolish rumour of an invasion was before current. They declared that they would not serve, if drown, and the government allowed their purpose to peas away. I call therefore, in the most earnest manner, upon the tm,ea other y 0 leadingt i s metropolis,‘. w he re Birmingham,t ther e i ‘) m f;: uc nc h ttilcies s mi pirit and manliness, to meet without aelay, and anticipate the government by their most derided protesta tions against calling out the militia. This done, amid the ministry must have recourse to the system you wisely and abl7 advocate. "We will have no militia." City, Feb. 6. "A FREEMAN." REPRESENTATION OT DAR Herbert has been timed upon R 4 presentation of the protectionists of 'rilE AUTHOR OF THE AMI German paper, hay left among b unfinished manuscript, entithal lion." 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