The Express. — London, England, 1848-06-05 00:00:00

PP 1.1... THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 5, 1848. - von Gag. ru v.. , 19 elected president by 499 votes out of 518. M. %VII So.ron was elected first viee•president by 408 votes out of 613. 84 votes were given for M. Blum. M. .t.idlian was elected second vice-presi dent by 310 Notes our of 606 : on this occasion M. Blum received 110 votes. M. von Gagern, on taking the chair. t:eclered " From this day I will devote my sandeei"..iy t „; this Assembly.", AUS I ItlA.—VigNleA, MAT 30.—The Wiener Zei lung of this Cate contains a ministerial address to the c iti z ens. 1: is of great length, but cortains merely a denial of sit reactionary disposition on the part of ministers, and a repetition of the premises extorted from them le the events of the 20tli and 27th. Lettere trout Vittina, of the 29th, state that the barricales :ire being gradually removed. All, how ever, is .onielete confusion in an administrative point of view. Ministers have declared that they have ceased to be responsible, and a sort of Provisional Governee nt has been formed of citizens and students. Counts 11., . and I)ictrichstein have been set at liberty, and Count hlontecuculi has, fortunately, escaped. Bete he and Count nombelles, the advocate of the SitiV,lll:lllP, have been burned in effigy. 800 students lily. , arrived from Gratz and 11runn. It was assured on the 29dt that the emperor was on his way to, rata. PORTUGAL, AND THE SPANISH PORTS. The thieti.rd Company's packet Madrid, Captain John We k-, arrived at Southampton yesterday, and landed her nisi!' under the charge of Lieutenant erAmnriii, I: N.. Admiralty agent. Her dates are Gibraltar, ; Cadiz, 26; I.isbon, 99 ; Oporto, SO; Vigo, :it. The Madrid brings the unusual number of tit passengers, chiefly English from Cadiz, when. as well as at the other Spanish ports, the greatest aaviety prevailed respecting the interrup tion of fn. nol‘ relations between Spain and England. This anxiety was much increased in i onsequence of every Eng lira: le an in Cadiz having been required to fur nish the Spanish authorities with his name, profession and resident..., and to find security to be forthcoming when celled ~,thin 48 hours. The English imagined, of course, it. .• the British consul would be admitted as security, nut this was refused, not even the board ing-howir -keepers where they lodged were allowed to become guarantee for them. None but Spanish citi zens, tinning,. cted with them by any ties of interest, were allowed to be security. This was of course tan tamount to titeir being driven out of Spain. The con sequence was the , every one was desirous of leaving in the Madrid. Nembers at Cadiz engaged berths in her on her ouwrard voyage, and paid the fare front Gibraltar t • England to ensure a passage. All the officers gave up their cabins to the passerigris still several candidates for berths were lett behind. It happens that a number of English families having been driven out of Italy, took up their residence at Cadiz, and that city was consequently more than usually full of our countrymen, Mr. Bak, r, ho British consul at Corunna, has been removed permanently to Vigo. This is significant, as Algol' the ei•eat military depot where soldiers are drilled for II .vir a, and where, if any disturbances between Spam and England were to take place, a person of ex eerience like Mr. Baker would be re quired. Two Spanish ships of war wete at Vigo. A special courier arrived at Gibral'ar from Madrid to Sir Hebert Wilson, governor of Gibraltar, with despatckes. Sir Hobert immediately sent off the Polyphemus to Ualaga and other Spanish ports, to pick up, it is said, any English who may wish to leave the shores of Spain. Gibraltar is now left without a single vessel of war. Great excitement existed in consequence of an order from the governor, prohibiting offieers from passing the Spanish lines in uniform, and from entering into political controversy with Spaniards. The news lion. Portugal is deeply tirged by the events which had so recently happened in Spain, as will be seen by our Lisbon correspondent's letter: Llelles;, May 29. . . . . . The successive of the actual Spanish goveitiment in the suppression kith of the Madrid , eremite and of the more threatening insurrection in Seville, have been a sad damper to the hopes o• the persecuted Portuguese liberals, who were all in eager exultation, whereas now the wont fears prevail. On the 19th inst. a detachment of Spanish soldiery, com manded by the Colonels Portal and Guittierrez, and consist ing of about seven hundred infantry, two hundred and sixty cavalry, and with two pieces of artillery, took refuge in Serpa, where they claimed the hospitality of the governor, and bid down their arms to the military commandant. They were ordered to the city of deja, where they remain await ing the deci•ein of the Lisbon governmcot as to their ulti mate destinati.in. Upon this point Mille difficulty exists, as in the really exhausted state of the Portuguese treasury the mere ex:CLIC of rationing them would become matter of embarnesment, while to hand over these soldiers to the ven geance of Nervier, would, apart from the infamy of the act, be • hazardous experiment. The recently arrived French charge craft:aims accredited by the republic has, I em informed, sent in to the govern ment on energetic protzst against the men being given up. To allow this tome to remain in Portugal would at the same time he the extremity of imprud-nee. The duke of Saldan ha's view of the matter is that the refugees will be shipped 'Alto some one of the Portuguese coloaial possessions, pro bably to the bland of l'ortoSancto, together with the 60 odd Spaniards, political prieoners, who, I informed you in my last, had landed at Sines, having escaped with the r awl that was convey ing them to the barbarous African coast. The retreat of the de (rated forces from Seville appears to have been of the most orderly de scription. They were halted at Huelva, where they remained three days, being the Lith, 16th, and 17th, without the Captain-General of Andalusia venturing to env k them. In a letter addressed by their colonels (and signed by the rest of the officers) to a Lisboa journal, a most interesting account of the whole affair is given. The failure is attributed to the non-appearance at a given point of a large body of armed civilians, whether through some misunderstanding of the plans, or origi nating in treachery, does not appear. The Portuguese authorities of Lisbon are of counts much on the alert ; domiciliary visits and search for arms are fre quent : cannecte4 with the former some scenes that would be droll enough were it not for the annoyance have in conse quence takea place. On the 19th of the month, some un usual bustle appeared to be going on within the palace of the Count des Antes, one of the most important of the liberal leaders the police were on the alert ; the avenues to the palace, front and rear, were watched by soldiery, and strong patrols of horse paraded the streets in the immediate vicinity. Towards mid uiitit the palace was surrounded, and orders were given to are, at all parties leaving it, when just about day break two suspicious-looking individuals in cloaks were pounced upon as they appeared to be making a stealthy exit ,• they were captured, and when dragged to the light turned out to be the family surgeon and the midwife, her excellency the county.* having but an hour previously presented her gal lant husband with a son and heir. _ . . . The new French charge d affaires is by no means likely to find his promotion a sinecure. As seen as possible following upon his arrival, a meeting of French citizens was held, for the purpose of claiming his interference with the govern ment,upon the subject of insults and outrages by the soldiery suffered by certain of their number. The cue of one of them may be given as a sample—a Monsieur Mourin, a print seller and engraver, and a very respectable man ; his shop was entered by some soldiers, who ordered him to take out of his windows certain prints, amongst others, I believe, lnis containing the portraits of the members of the French pro visional government ; upon his refusal to do so, his place was knocked to pieces, himself and family ill used, and the ob noxious prints torn to tatters and flung in his face. M. Mouria called to the police, his house being nearly in front of a principal police station but they refused to interfere. M. Mourin has consequently closed his shop, and now claims twenty mites of rein, or between four and five thousand pounds sterling as an indemnification for the loss of his establishment and the ruin of his business prospects : connected with these matters is the report that a powerful French squadron will soon be in the Tagus. The Estaralarte (Cabral's own paper) states that some slight change is about to take place in the ministry ; that the Duke of Saldanha will relinquish his post as home minister for the portfolio of ecclesiastical Waite and justice, while a list of four new cormorants is paraded as clamourers for the vacant seat in the cabinet—the names given are those of the Bishop of Viseu,Lopes Branco,Couceiro, and Ferreira Pontes. The Trafalgar, Rear-Admiral Sir L. Curtis, is yet in the Tagus, detained by our ambassador. The yacht Ariel came into the river the day before yesterday. As the Portuguese bondholder will naturally he anxious to learn the state of the Portuguese exchequer, I relate the following small item of news. When the Mindello, war- Steamer, was recently in the Bay of Cadiz, provisions ran short ; 'o re-victual the vessel became a matter of difficulty, ea the Portuguese consul would not advance the needful for supplies without some hotter security than a mere bill upon the Lisbon treasury. To meet the dilemma the captain of the Mindello and the Baron de 1. • oz, a peer of parliament, both pledged their honours that the draft for the value of the supplies should (if furnished) be faithfully met. The pro visions were consequently sent on board, an order given upon the Lisbon government for the amount, and this order when presented could not be met. The draft yet lies protested ! and the poor furictionary at Cadiz will loge his money—and whst do you suppose was the amount, the sum total of the order ? Why, four hundred and odd milreis, or about ninety English pounds sterling. So much for the state of the Portuguese exchequer ; and so much for the ho nour of l'ortuguese captains of the royal navy and for l'ortu. guese barons and peers of parliament ! Trade both in Spain and Portugal wee completely at a stand still when the Madrid left. The exchanges upon London were : at :31) days, 521 5 . 3; at 90 days, SS 031. In metals there was no alteration. LA PLATA.—By the Phoenix, Capt. Rooney, winch err:ved at Liverrool on Saturday, ve have Tv:rived 'deices from Monte Video to the 24th March. The ietten eommunicats the melaneholy Intelligence that on the night of lbw 20th Doctor Ravels, editor of the Comore,. del Plata newspaper, was brutally assusinsted as he was entering his own house. The only other items of interest are that Mr. Gore and Baron Oros, the English and French ministers, had arrived at the Uruguayan capital. THE AMERICA, Captain Jadkios, sailed from Liver pool on Saturday (or Rattan and Boston. Cbe Court. The Queen and Prince Albert, the ladies and gen tlemen of the court and the domestic household, attended divine service yesterday, morning in the private chapel in Buckingham Palace. me Queen Dowager and the Duke of Cambridge attended divine service yeeterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Queen Doweerr and the Duke of Cambridge PTUlVlliestaternliVit, wtlek Vise-wlminiatexed Bishop of ndon. The Duke of Wclliegton attended the early service. The Lord Almoner, the Bishop of Oxford, will preach on Sunday next in the Chapel IL..yal, St. Ji111104 . 11. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office. The ministers present were Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Oar Marquis of Lans downe, the Earl of Minto, Sir G. Grey, Viscount Palmer ston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland, Sir J. Il u bh ourk , th e Ri g ht H on . 11. Labou chere, Lord Campbell, and the Marquia of Clanricarde. The Committee on Education Qf her Majesty's moat Honourable Privy Council held a meeting on Saturday, at one o'clock, which was attended by the Lord President, Lord J. Haswell, the Earl of Minto, the Earl of Auckland, Sir G. Grey, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. J. Rood, Chairman of the Excise, had an in terview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Friday, at his official residence in Downing•street. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial-office from the governors of the West India colonies. lkspatcbes were sent off on Friday evening from the Colonial-office (or the governors of the North American provinces. Lady Popham and Count Does arrived at Black wall on Saturday morning, by the General Steam Navigation Company's steam.allip riton, from Ostend. THE COURT ANI) AgeoT.—ln conoequenee of the demise of the Princesi Sophia, her Majesty and the Prince• Consort have abandoned their intended visit to Ascot Races on the Cup day. The liuoen and Prince, accompanied by t►e youthful members of the royal Cannily, leave Buckingham Palace on Wednesday for Osborne-house, and, according to present arrangements, will remain there till the following Wednesday. Tux Intim PEERAGE, 'vacant by tho extinction of the titles of Lords Mountsanford, Allen, and IlartLind, hdus been conforrid on Sir Patrick Bellew , Hut, lord lieute• rant of the county of Louth, and a 'wiry councillor, by the name and title of Lord Bcllew, of Bitrineath. Sir Patrick is • Roman citholic, a moderate politician, and former)) represented Louth in parliament. LAW Arrottantaters.—The Attorney-General has appointed Mr. W. N. Webby, of the North Wales Circuit, to draw the pleadings, and to appear as his junior in crown ormeoutions in the metropolis, in the place of Mr. Wadding ion, appointed Under Secretary of State for the Home Hemtrtment.—Mr. Sinollie is to be Advocate• General Ciown Solicitor fur Southern Australin.—Observer. TILE CIIARTISTS' .. AND .. I . IEPEALERS' CON- FLICTS %WITH THE POLICE. Yesterday toe chartists and confederate's assembled at the London. fields, Hackney, Bishop Bonner's-lields, Bethnal-green, and other places it having been se esawed that public meetings should he held, for the purpose of eepreuing sympathy with Mr. Mitchel, and also tor the purpose of persuading the working classes to organise, so that by means of physical force the chartists aid repealer* might carry out their principles to a successful is.ue. Between 11 and 12 o'clock three or tour thoumuel persons mumbled on the London-field., hackney, and the leaders of the party commenced addressing the meeting in their usual lamina of violet:en. Shortly &Leeward, a body of police marched across the fields. No sooner had they passed by the mob than they were assailed with stones and brick-bete, of which there wu a plentiful supply, and ' , meal of the po lice received severe bruises. The police turned upon their usailante, and with their truncheons struck down the mob in all directions. Some fi II senseless under the blows in• Itictrd, some fled, but the majority remained in conflict with the police. The battle was very violent while it lasted, and ' during the remainder of the morning there were sundry en counters between the more refractory of the mob aid the police, a great body of whom had by that time arrived. Alter several spcukera had addressed the meeting, it was adjourned to Bishop Bonner's Fields, where a large number assembled, who were addressed by Mr. Jones, who cont. monied his address by saying —" Brother slaves, and men of the Tower Hamlets," and concluded by advising them to organise, and promising, if they did so, that in a few days the green flag would bloat over Downing-street, Mitchel and Jnhn Frost would be on their way to Englind, and Lord John Russell and Lord Grey on their way to Bay. Other speakers having addressed the meet ing, the leaders left the ground. After they had done so, the attention of the mob was attracted by the sight of a policeman crossing the field ; the crowd made off towards him in a body, evidently resolved to revenge the attacks which had been made upon them in the morning. From a newly macadamised road in front of the church they procured a large supply of stones, with which they attacked the constable, who managed, however, to make his escape, atter receiving nieny severe injuries. Their attention was then directed to the church, the windows of which were speedily broken, the mob having become impressed with the idea that the sacred edifice was filled with soldiers and policemen. The police in a body then made towards the mob, but their number was so small compared with their assailants, that they wero unable to quell the distil:Law:re ; indeed, in the conflict which ensued they were completely beaten, and were compelled to take refuge in the church. Many of the police received le rious wounds. They finally captured about eighteen of the mob, whom they lodged in tho vaults of St. James's Church. The wounded ("dicers were conveyed to the Rectory House, where their wounds were dressed. Meanwhile the horse patrols and a large body of police arrived, and commenced clearing the fields ; the mob offered the most determined resistance ; between 70 cad so were •ly wounded, and many were captured. Shortly afterwards a signal was given, and the mob moved off to btepney-green, followed by the police. The scene that took place in the neighbourhood of Beth nal-green yesterday morning will not be easily forgotten by the inhabitants. During the time public service was being performed in the various churches and chapels, the utmost confusion and excitement prevailed in the several streets. It having been announced that a meeting of the " nix point. men" would take place in an open apace of ground facing the. Birdcage Tavern, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at that hour about five hundred persons met together. Having selected a chairman, a man, whose name was said to be Paste, 'proceeded to address the meeting. lie said they were met together to show government that they were determined to rest neither night nor day, not even on the Sabbath, without the charter. (Cheers.) By that applause he knew the persons standing around him were in earnest, were determined to have the charter. (Cries of " And Mitchel.") Well, they could have both if they liked; they need only lee determined, and they would soon convince the Government that they would be obliged to recal their banished friend to his native god, and also that they must make the charter, and nothing else, the law of the land. (Loud cheers.) Ile admired their enthusiasm, but working was better than preaching. From what bad appeared in the paper,, he had no doubt that the milk,: would attempt to put down their meeting. Would they succeed in their vile purpose ? (Cries of " No.") '1 hen let them all be determined, to a mac, and show the vile police, if they came there, that they wero not afraid of them. (Cries of " We will.") Well, then, he would tell them how to do it. If they saw the police coming, instead of waging infernal awes of themselves by running away, let them form into a military square, and he would answer that not one of them would be injured. If, on the contrary, they commenced running away, so surely would they be butchered by the blue monsters. The speaker had hardly uttered the last sentence when Inspector Tar ' Teton, of the M division of police, came in sight with about 10 constables. In an instant the cry was raised of " The police! the police," and the mob, instead of forming the military square, commenced running in all directions. Here the matter would have ended, had it not been for the dis graceful conduct of some desperate fellows, who at once began to incite thecrowd,:shouting, "Down wtth the police," At the same time a number of them commenced throwing stones at the officers. This became a signal for the police to commence operations. From the open ground the mob re treated to the by-streets, and pelted the police who were clearing the thoroughfares. A brick was thrown at Inspec tor Tarleton, which caught him between the shoulders and knocked him down. At the same moment Sergeant Moore MY served in a similar manner. The police then went to work with their truncheons, and it was only by using them indiscriminately over the heads of the mob that the fellows could be driven back. In so doing many were severely injured. The police having managed to clear one street, those fellows who had escaped without meeting with personal injury retreated into Turk-street and Castle ' street, where they shouted " Down with the police." The houses there are tenanted by the lowest characters in Bethnal green, who began to throw out from the windows brickbat, and ginger-beer bottles at the police. Police constable N 169 was severely cut in the month by a brickbat, and was obliged to be taken away to the station-house. Though the mob received p very rough handling, crowds continued to assemble in Virginia-row and other places, when a party of mounted constables came up with swords drawn, by using the fiats of their weapons succeeded in getting the streets toler ably clear. They had barely done so, and gone off to another part of the neighbourhood, when,•being informed another attack was made on the officers, they set to work again, and many heads were broken before the mob would disperse. From 10 o'clock until one this scene of fighting and confusion lasted. Several of the birdcatchers and other low people living . in the streets were continually inciting the snob, and cry ing out, " We intend to keep up this work for two years, if we don't get the charter before." Three or four persons were Mem into custody, but unfortunately the principal ringleaders escaped. By I o'clock the neighbour hood assumed its usual state of quiet, and the police were taken off to a place close by, in case any further rioting took place. The Chartists and other disorderly characters belonging to the Victoria-park district were determined not to be behind their brethren in other places with their meetings, and commenced operations in Victoria-park se early as eight o'clock yesterday morning. Shortly after that hour about 300 or 400 persons congregated together, and a chairman having been chosen the proceedings commenced. One of the Chartist orators was addressing the meeting, and pointing oat the only way of making the government give them the charter, when a number of mounted policemen with drawn swords gallo i icii on to the groun . an Lleat ct.i ri an in.i an!. A most determined attempt was made at an cull pert of the afternoon, by • desperate gang, to murder two constables in Virginia gardens. They had forced them on the ground, and were pressing their throats, no doubt in tending to murder them, when a section of the K division, by using their truncheons, succeeded is beating off the mob, and taking two or three of the ringleadsue. The officers on passing by one of the houses in Virginia-row, had a pike pointed at them by a man, who said, "A little of this will do sou good." They were watching for this man to come out when they were so brutally attacked. Throughout yesterday the Hon. Artillery Company was 1 on duty at the guard-house of the company in tho City-road, ;:nder the ww‘ command 4 Ligrd Fitzrozfiginanagt -tea' pllitiO -were In toncant readiness in Me their services should be required. In Smithfield, arrangement/ were made by the City autho rities to prevent any meeting taking place, and during the afternoon and evening the panes were on duty in the mar ket. A strong force was 'bloat the Smithfield station-bowie. ELECTION COM MITTEE.—SATuRDAT. DU BLI N.—The committee decided that uon•payment of the municipal rate did not disqualify unless it could be proved that regular application had been made for it. The rrutiny was then proceeded with, and one vote was struck alt Mr, Reynolds majority. MR. MATHESON AND TIIE SUGAR COMMITTEE.—A correspondent, of the correctness of whose information we can have no doubt, assures ua that we are mistaken in the Ng:de:preyed in a leader in Friday's publication, that Mr. Matheson is or ever was connected with the sugar trade. THE PLAN Of FAMILY PETITIONS t.O the HORN of Commons is being carried out at Preston with great earnestness on the part of the reformers there. Already 784 separate p,titione from that number of householders have been forwarded to various members of the 'louse of Commons for pr. imitation. These 781 plea for reform ere signed by upwards of 2,100 persons, who give their names, ages, occu pations, and residences, so that the committee on petitions may know where to find every individual. The following is a copy of the petitions, which may be useful as a suggestion to others: To the Honourable the llouse of Commons in Pirasment As sembled. —The petition of the undersigned householder and family riniding In Preston, Lancashire, humbly ahoweth, that the present meant tbo country loudly for • greet reiluclion in the national expeaditure; to secure which your petitioner. pray that every boas.- holder in the kingdom may have the right of voting for members of parliament, with the protection of the ballot; silo that the members may be elected from equal illstriet• throughout the country, and for • period not receding three yeas. And your petitioners will ever P re y' rile committee of the Preston Retorm Amociation expect to get 10,000 signatures to their family petitions, which they despatch every night by poet as completed. I f every town would prepare similar documents, and send a number every night till the 20th J 000, it would greatly assist in convicang Lord J. Mimi'. REFORMATION OF JUVENILE OFFENDERS.— A quarterly general court of the governors of the Philanthropic Society was held on Friday evening, at the London Tavern, Itishopsgatestreet, W. Gladstone, Esq., in the chair. The usual account* having been presented, and the proceedings of the committee confirmed, the treasurer intotmid the court that the Duke of Richmond would preside at a meeting for the purpose of petitioning parliament to adopt more effectual measures for the prevention of juvenile delinquency, and the reformation of youthful offen•lers, by mean* of religious and industrial educatien. Some further munificent subscriptions to the Farm School were announced, and among them was the Marquis of Westminster, Sill, Lord Farnham. 301. ; Lord Dartmouth, 25f.; the Bishop of St. David's, 211. ; Mr. J. U. Hubbard, 211., &e. More full and definite powers were given to the managing committee, to which Lord Weetraiuster was cddeel ; and thanks having been voted to the chairman, the meeting separated. The report states that there are at present 130 inmates of the school, 50 having nee& admitted during the last live months from prisons, and on the recommendation of magistrates. PAUPER EMIGRATION.—The directors and guar dians of the poor of Maryli brine have petitioned the House of Commons to pan some general measure that will facilitate emigrati-n, and give power to the guardians of parishes and unions to promote the voluntary emigration of the able bodied poor, and of youth of both sexes above 14 years of age, and that provision may he made by legislative enact ment for the proper core and superintendence of such persona on their arrival to the colonies, and of responsible agents to regulate the apprenticeship of children to settlers in the co lony, and inspectors who shall frequently visit them during their term of apprenticeship, end see that they are fairly treated end provided with the means of religious and moral instruction. Yesterday, at a meeting of the vestry, it was resolved that a similar petition from that body be also pre pared and presented. ZOOLOORIAL GARDENS, REGENT'S-PARK.—The Zoo logical Society have made various excellent arrangements for giving effect to the " promenade days" of the present sea son. The first took place on Saturday, when the gardens were more fully and fashionably attended than could have been anticipated from the changeable state of the weather. The hands of the tint Life Guard, and of the Scots Fusilier I Guards were is attendance, and played a very good selection of popular music. The united bands gave the overtures from " La Syrene," the " Camp of Silesia," and " Oberon," with sr:silent effect. The scene altogether was as attractive as ladies, music, flowers, and sunahiue could make it. The next promenade day is fixed for the ISth inst. APPREHENSION OF GaMßLEna.—For some time put it has been suspected that a very extensive intent of gambling has been carried on at We, St. James's-street. During the last week the police having had private informa• Lion of the proceedings of the martin, hays been on the qui vire, and at about half-past 2 o'clock yesterday (Sunday) morning, Inspector Berieford, in company with a strong bsAy of the force, repaired to the 'pot, taking the newly invented apparatus for forcing the doors, &e., with them. Several persons were stationed in different parts of the street, evidently on the look-out, and a signal was given upon the appearance of the police to warn the persons within the building, in order that they might effect an escape. This, however, proved ineffectual. The police advanced, the machine was put in action, and the doors instantly broken mon, when the is hole of the p Mies were at once captured, there being 10 in number. The tables, dice-box, and other gambling implements, were also secured, and the parties were conveyed in cabs to the Vine-street police station, but were almost immediately released ou bail. Not '' withstanding the early hour of the morning, hundreds of persons assembled round the house in a few minutes. We were informed by Inspector lieresford that the parties have to appear this morning (Monday) at Marlborough-street, when the cue will undergo a thorough investigation. IRELAND. DUTLIN, JUNE 2. Dr. Gray, proprietor of the Freeman's .fournal, and Mr. Joseph Henry Dunne, an active member of the Repeal Association, were refused admission to the bar this day. After having taken the oaths, and sub scribed the roll in the Queen's Bench, before Mr. Justice Moore, the rejected gentlemen, with the others who were more fortunate, retired to an apartment in the new building, whilst the benchers deliberated. After a consultation of two hours, intimation was given that the memorials of Dr. Gray and Mr. Dunne could not be considered until Michaelmas term. The cause of rejection is reported to be the appearance of seditious articles in the Freeman and the delivery of a seditious speech by Mr. I)uune on a certain day, for which offences they were held inadmissible. After the Chancellor had taken his twat in the Chancery Court, Dr. Gray, in the presence of a very crowded auditory, asked his lordship why he was excluded from the privilege of all her Majesty's subjects—not disqualified by moral unfitness—not convicted, or even charged, with any offence—and after having complied with all the required forms i' To this the Chancellor replied that the memorial was merely deferred, and that he could not hear the doctor on the subject. This is the first time that the judges have taken cognisance of political opinions, and introduced a new test for the qualifica tion of candidates. The rejection excited very great surprise in the Four Courts. The open meeting of the Confederation which was to have taken place last night has been postponed, it is understood, to Tuesday next. With respect to the treatment Mr. Mitchel has received at the hands of the authorities subsequent to his departure from Dublin, it is stated, on undoubted authority, that, so far from having any ground of complaint on the score of severity, he has expressed his gratitude for the consideration with which his cue has been met. Upon his arrival at Spike Island ho was informed by the governor that he had fall permission to communicate with his wife, and to receive letters in return, the only condition being that neither party was to make the slightest reference in the course of the cor respondence to events of a political nature; and, for the fulfilment of this compact, the authorities contented themselves with Mr. :gathers pledge that the indulgence thus accorded would cot be abased, and that the terms should be rigidly adhered to. Ile has not been compelled to wear the convict dress, neither has his hair been cut, nor is he sub jected to the degradation of having for his com panions any of the other criminals undergoing their sentences in the same prison. It is but right to mention that the extreme delicacy of Mr. Mitchel's health is a quite sufficient cause for the difference that has been made in his favour, more especially as the fatigue of a long sea journey has still to be en countered. Although principally- in consequence of the new organisation, of which I advised you, the confedera tion, did not assemble this week, yet they felt the necessity of addressing their party, lest, I suppose, it should be supposed that they wens intimidated. Ac cordingly, the subjoined manifesto was issued this morning—posted on all our walls and hawked for sale through all our streets. Alibol.l OY Ttll COL NC= OF Tilt IIIIsO CONFIDZIIATIOX TO THE How Ccuuttrrmen,—Another crime has been perpetrated against t hits. • this country by the British government. Another is Waxman Lae Aden a victim to the muldnaticas of legal artifice, and to the lawleesnese of reckless power. UP offence has been-dove for Ireland a intense u was his hatred of foreign oppression. Deeply versed in the history of his country, he rend In that history one continuous tale of English perfidy and rapine. In the horrors of INT, In the desolation of 1849, he found the mime curse of misrule blighting a lend fitted by the hand of nature for the enjoyment of unrivalled felicity. Haddened end stung by such rctlectonn he vowed that he wonPI expel from Ms Native moil this mirk ofova, or perish in the attempt. We wet , not to discuss the prudence of his counsels, or the expediency at lani deigns. Though participating In many of hie sentiments, our code. deration never identified itself with all hie opinions; but even those who dissent from them most do not deny that they were dictated by the purest motives, that they were 'maintained with consummate "batty, and vindicated with heroic fortitude. Our complaint is, not by tbe British goventment ; but that in order to crush hitir Minentfinte.7 l and the aw have Men' violated. To tea him from ids country =khan , his family a medal enactment was framed. liven the sal cede of Ireland —that repository of iniquitous legt~tmll=aleu~l , not supply an instrument powerful cam" to_ntrike him darns "ft became necessary to forge a new weapon lot the man 11411 for the occasion. The enactment of this law, though a mom nntrege againet public liberty, hr been lea intoler able than the ofildsi crime. which have accompanied its execution. We will not OODOOILI from you, we will not conceal from the government, that nothing but the meet strenuous ezertiou of our council prevented the outbreak of an ineurrection last week. Thousands of brave men had res Over' that John Mitchel should not IMAM! the Irish More except aeries their corps'. We ap prehended that, tinder prevent eircumemmes, an armed attempt to revue him, and to free Ireland, might have ginned abortive; we, therefore, interposed, and with difficulty mamiled in preventing the *dame demi. in of blood. But, whilet we hesitate not to avow that ouch has been our conduct, we do not feel at liberty to conceal from you that the recent indignities offered to the Irish nation have greatly tended to remove from our minds the hope, which we bare hitherto desired to eherieb, that the questions at Issue between Einimil and Ireland will be set tled by amicable adjustment. We feel bound to tell you, without amulet., that them indignities and wrong. are rapidly bringing us to that period when armed neistanoe to the operators of our country will become a saered oldigation, enforerd by the ligheit amides°. of public duty. Catholics of Ireland! Bow down your Made in shame. You have been branded., unworthy to partake in the administration of justice In your native land. On We late trial you have seen every malefic inhabitant of this city atiaminiously chest] an perjurers front the jury box. Maas you are -alevey yon sad your children LICALTVe to remain, If you relent not as one man this Moult. We I retain here from recapitulating Mail. already but too well known. None will contradict us when we affirm that Mr. Mitchel has been found guilty by a jury eelecti d not to try but to convict him. By there nefarious ma a mundutay triumph has been con summated—a triumph, not near on obnolloue foe, but over the mend obligations of jnetlee, over the vinlated liberties of a nation. Hem there iniquities aublued your spirit? Mare they quelled your illitoontent ! have they abroimte I your raiolee I nave they schooled you to ties toe hoof which trample* and !Tuns* you! Them are questions which each man unman you moat mower fur hirusele For us, we &dare that our neuter, is not only unshaken, but bee confirmed and rendered more stem by these outrages of un ecnatmlous power. Under them impressions, vic cannot 'brink from We rap...alb:lily of misname you to name at owe for the protec tion of your invaded libcrtira. By the love which you beer to your country and your kind—by your attachment to your homes—by your regard for your children's weal—by your thirst for honourable lame, we exhort you to unite Ina holy league against usurpation and in. justice. Let no sielMk medals contaminate your purpose; let no radiate dear iumede the execution of your dodge. Learn to cm quplate calmly and lieroly the chimes of a du II struggle, and pee . pare for Wet struggle by furnishing yourselves with all suc h resources es may enable you to command swam. Above all, cease not to in voke, on Mated knee and with humble and devoted heart" the Moans and the MI and the guidance of Davin aloe efforts con• scented as the most sanctified of duties by the eternal principles of Justice. —el/ad on Millif of the enunal, WILLIAM S. tellates, Chairman. _ . . ildiveitr.t.—There is no doubt that this unhappy gentleman is on his way to Bermuda to expiate his crime. Ihe Scourge steamer sailed yesterday meaning from Spike Island hiving him on board. His family were made awsr• of his departure; a letter having arrived this morning, written by himself, in which it was announced. Mr. Mitchel wrote in good spirits. TRANSPORTATION OP MITCHEL—The following it from the cork Reporter :—" John Mitchel stands no more on Irish soil. He was removed, at four o'clock thu morning, to the Scourge steamer, which arrived in the harbour yesterday, and sailed for Bermuda this morning. If twelve months pus over ere he stands again, a tree man, on his native shore, Ireland deserves all the obloquy and disgrace that can be inflicted on her. Bermuda is one of the strongest fortresses in the Queen's dnminions—another St. llelena ; but this makes no diffetenee. Even in the summery way in which this noble man has been dealt with he has his triumph. Government dared not wait to transmit him with the freight of scoundrels to whoa level their baseness thought to sink him. But what will be thought of the duplicity of the authorities, who sent Mr. M'Carthy the following order to see John Mitchel, on presenting which that gentleman was told that he was on ' his way to his place of exile: Dublin Castle, Mar directed to acknowled te the receipt of your loiter . of the 29th Inst., and to acquaint you that It is not usual to permit umesa to prisoners under rentence of transNrtar Dun in a convict depot, carrot under peculiar circumstances; but his excellency has been pleased to ' , auction your having an interview with Mr. John Mitchel, In the presence of the governor of the depot, aa you propose.—l am, sir, your ohelient humble servant, T. N. KL1)::,(1. P. 11 . Carthy, Ewl., ac., pork. Bermuda is a mere rock in the Atlantic, but enjoys a splendid climate." SCOTLAND. JLNZ 3. A meeting of chartists and repealers was held in Glasgow last night, for the purpose of sympathising with Mitchel. The resolution passrd was: That the inhabitants of Glasgow, io public meeting assembled, be lieving John Mitchel to be • pure, honest, and dointetested patriot; and for expressing his honest conviction openly, the lose, treacherous, and cowardly wing government hove succeeded in transporting him, and coafiscating his fortune; in or& r therefore, to give expression of our sympathy for him, they pledge themselves to contribute to the national fund stout to be raised for tbe support of Ins wife and family, until be is restored to them; and also to memorialise her MA- Jesty Ids behalf. The free church has purchased Regent -array's house in the Cenongate for a normal school. This with John Knox's house, to be converted into a church, gives that body possession of two interesting' edifices. The Regent's house is pregnant with his toric recollections apart altogether from having been the residence of the official whose name it bears. A tree behind it was planted by Nlary, Queen of Scots; over the balcony, in front, the niece of the Marquis of Argyle spit on - Montrose, as he was drawn past on a hurdle to execution, her uncle and aunt soon follow ing him to the same spot. The house itself afterwards became the lodging of Oliver Cromwell, and in the later times the treatyof union was signed in an arbour at the bottom of the garden. The grants to Scotland by the committee of council on education amount since 1839 to 34,975/. In 1847- 48, the grants to schools connected with the esta blished church amounted to 2,4621.; to the free church, 5,394!.; to the Scotch episcopal church, 136/.; to geneal schools unconnected with any church, 462/. THE: POST.OFTICE.—II is supposed that on the temple ticn of the main lines of railway a general port-office for the north of Scotland will be opened at Perth. It will not in terfere with the local office at l'erth, but will assist or per haps altogether relieve the general office is Edinburgh of its diatributory functions. THE ENTAIL QUESTION.—MT. constituents in Forfar have sent a petition to the House of Commons re garding entail, which strikingly exemplifies the evils of the system. The petitioners state that : Lord Strathmore, who died about I t 2:, was proprietor of the estate of Glararniv which he held in fe" simple. Ile executed • settlement by whi ch he created n trust for thirty years, and his trustee% were directed to pureharc limo!, from the accumulation of the rental during all that period, and strictly to entail the old and acquired lands. Thew purposes have been acted on, and the trusters have made purchases to the extent of about 240,0501. sterling. The result ix, that this estate, which extends from within one mile of the burgh to twelve miles westward, and of a breadth averaging about four Is now under stria entail. The entailed estate of Carte, which bound, the burgh on the north side, has for nearly thirty years been under judicial management, and almost the whole houses and fences are going into a elate of decay, and improvements are suspended. Besides Game, the only . estate which WIN entailed vu wards of thirty years ago, and adjoining the burgh, is the estate of Pitseandly ; but within about that time all the lands eurrounding the royalty of the burgh, with two small exceptions, have been entailed. The result of this system i that the whole district around Forfar, and extend ing to an area of about six mats, is, with • trifling exception, under the fetters of strict entail, sod to the westward the property entailed extends to about eleven miles. TosuA en extent has this system gone, that within the last twenty years several hous.s and gardens within this burgh have been entailed ;• sod, about thirty years ago, a burgh proprietor executed an entail of his library and boo ar, sad also of hit ilarret oegun and guldirotcle. Irrespective of the mass of entailed surrounding this Lamb, there are three estates in other pert. of country, the valued rent of which amounts to about one fifth part of the whole valued rent of the county; and, although your petitioners axe at present unable to state the precise extent, it may be safely affirmed that four-fifths of the whole land in the county is held under entail. The consequence of all this is most injurious to the district, causing non-reiddeet proprietors, non-Improving estate% the unwarrantable cutting down of timber, the decay of houses and fences, and an extinction or estrangement of that community of feeling and of interest which it is so important to maintain between landed proprietors and all other classes. PROVINCIAL. TORKSTILE. THE DISTURBANCES AT BRADFORD.—The proceed ings of the authorities in the early part of the week hare had a salutary effect upon the town and neighbourhood, and during the latter part of the week a feeling of calmness and confidence has extended itself amongst the inhabitants. This feeling ha, been aurmented by the occasional capture and committal for trial of an illegal drill sergeant, to which the attention of the police seems now mainly directed. On Saturday morning a party of fifteen or sixteen men were apprehended whilst illegally training, with a number of pikes in their possession, and were lodged in prison. STAFFORDSHIRE. ..... BOILER EXPLOSION AND LOSS OF ELEVEN LICES.— For the second time within the last two months we have to record an explosion, attended by a frightful sacrifice of human life—a class of accident which has of late been of such frequent occurrence in the mineral district of South Staffordshire. It is very few weeks since some dozen men lost their lives by the coal-mine explosion at West Brom wich. On Friday an accident of a somewhat similar cha racter took place at the irouworks of Mr. \V Jefferiea, at Hart's Hill, near Dudley. This arose out of the explosion of a boiler in connexion with four puddling furnaces, all in work at the time. The details, so far as they could be ascer tained by our correspondent on the spot, are the. : it ap pears that th- men, who had been working during the night, had just left, and, fortunately, comparatively few of the day men had arrived when the accident occurred. The brickwork in which the boiler was encased was torn asunder and propelled in every direction; the roof of the works was blown completely away; several Lugo furnace chimneys were smashed to atoms; and the ruins of the whole fell upon the unfortunate men who were at work in the premises, or who were about to begin work. Portions of the boiler and brickwork ware thrown immense distances, and some of them falling into the neigh bouring workshoos rendered the whole premises a complete ruin. A portion of the boiler .vas bloei a oist:.t.ce of quarter of a mile from the sane of devastation, Hundreds • 4 • of persons soon assembled (rein the surrounding and, as may be imagined, the scene became one of t,. painful deuription, owing to the presence of the relatii, many of those who were supposed to be buried amongst ruins. Efforts were m ,de as soon as possible to estricat unfortunate, men ; these were going on the whole of Fr, and Saturday, se it was feared that the bodies recovered to that period did not include the whole of those w/ come to a violent death by the accident. Some were I,:d alive, although they died soon after being taken b ig saw :. who were brought oat dead were so mangl dijitigure v„ was with the gginoet difficuhy they ci recognised, even s'lllot.V. l' .. . 1 ~ li t yen , . :Z.' "v( them having had tile .en and °theft their completely eivered from their bodies.—The. ing are the names of the unfortunate men as could be ascertained : Samuel Roger., el hlem.-hill was blown a distance of fifty yards), has left a liffe and children ; D. Newton, of the Level, bee left a wife and children; Joseph Potter, of lieck'e hill, has left a wi' five children; John .1 effri.s, of Rock's-bid (cuusir proprietor, Mr. W. Jeffries), has left • wife am. Junes Jeffries (brother of the last-mentioned deceased unmarried ; Thomas Jeffries (no relative to the pr..ur of Dudley Port, has left a wile and child ; Wilhelm ' unmarried ; John Collins, unmarried ; Edwin Moore, bridge • and E. Jeffries (brother of the proprietor), us. Several other persona have been injured who were vicinity of the works at the time, and amongst these heard of a girl, who was 150 yards from the spot, brick slighted on her head, and hurt her very i Many persons also had providential escapee, and not a surprisieg of these was that of the stoker of the engine was in the slack pit, by the side of the boiler, when plosion took place. and yet escaped almost entirely Two m , tweed Bache and Lloyd, were at work in a smith's op, about 30 yards 'distant ' who also escaped out inj although portions of the boiler and the ' 1 tserk &Iced their way through, the roof of the dim). proprietor, who was in the works at the time, was se injured. Various rumours are afloat as to negligence part of the engineer ; these, however, if they have an dation in fact, will come out at the inquest, which tat on Tuesday, at Hart's, hill. Such was the forced the e , that the noise was heard a distance of two miles from 1 Another report says : "The catastrophe is said by . have been the result of en undue pressure of etcam, other. ascribe ,t to the want of water. It is said the was working at the time at the rate of 90Ib. to the it in the neighbourhood are agreed that great negligee isted somewhere. Some throw the blame' on Mr. J the master, who, we are told, had been repeatcaly by skilful engineers that some such catastrophe we sure to take place. I have seen individuals to-day oonsequence of what they regarded as the extreme it the boiler bursting, owing to its faulty construction, junction with the high pressure usually kept on it, never be indneed, though living in the mighbourhi approach within many yards of t'ie place. I have me; that public opinion is divided in the neighbourho, whether the blame tetriches to the muter or the en, The latter has been taken into custody, and was broug fore the magistrates; but, after put'ing a few queeti, him, he war remanded." WARWICKSHIRE. MIDLAND FREEHOLD LAND ASSOCIATION. society, which sprang into esietenee some months , Birmingham (mainly in consequence of the clefi at liberal candidate at the last election for North Wa. . i ire), has for its object to increase the county constitu by inluaing into it small freeholders, and It is been mensely euscessful. Nearly a thouerend persons li ready manifest, d their desire to secure a voice in , lion of representatives to the House of Commons, by ling themselves members ; and on Monday the fast of the emplo)ment of the capital raised was CT' Upwards of 100 of the members (mostly in Birmingham) took formal possession of the lan, entitles them henceforth to a vote for the count p. nom thus enfranchised are mostly artizens ; and appears to be a growing spirit for the purchase of 1 r / resentation of the counties both .1 Warwick and will very sum, lee rescued from the large landed prop. There was a procession to the site of the new propel Handsworthoirririug whereat thenew freeholders awt were addrersed by Mr. Councillor Smith, Mr. G. 1 and others, who set forth the political and pecuniary taps accruing to the artisan by the instrumentality societies, SIR JOSIICA WALMSLET has addressed . lowing letter to the people of Leicester : To Total IIAIBRAPiII or era DOROI 011 OF LVICMP.B.—Gent —An adverse deciilun of the select committee appointed by the of Common. to inquire Into the circumstances of the last elceti severed for a time my connexion with your hoeough. With t tiee of th.t decision, or the peculiar constitution of the tril which the inquiry was referred, it is not my purpose, oar woul becoming in me to offer • Finale observation, either of rens°, or cow taint. Under the innuence of this holing, shratic _ tmgraefous task of attributing motiv es to those who have rented d, bust only for a moment, in depriving Leicester of a voice in the teats. Lime. It may, however, be permiued to me to express my revet that the relations which existed between the borough and toyed should be sTatßupflfterminated. I may fairly refer to nip coed awing the brief period I have been your representative, that, iD desire to promote the 'astern' and load interests of the home have ln neu no distinction of party ; and in taking leave I en , preasively swore you that, whether in parliament or out, tb of Leicester will always and a zealous and sincere advocate amen, yours faUldully, JOSHUA WALXIILEV.-101, Westbourneo race, Hyde-eark, Loudon, J tine I, 1845. I . I:OGRE 4 SIrE iikEoll3l ASSOCIATION. A - meeting of this association was held at the Town- hall, ter, on Thursday evening, Mr. Harris in the chair.—M entered into details to show what he deemed the ev church astablishment, and alluded to the great which the English chutch possessed. The incomt clergy was estimated at upwards of 10,000,0001. per which, taking the population at twenty million. 10s. per head for each person. That sum of money provide 50,000 tcae.liers of religion at a salary each.—Mr. Beckley moved a vote of thanks ti Mr ter his address, anu ob,erveal that the clew of all 1. exclusive of this kingdom, Lad only an income of 7,000,000/. per annum, while the clergy of Britain about 12,000,0001.—Mr. Cox seconded - the resole'' A gentleman obierved that he had heard a good d about the bunkl influence of the church, also cogs every person 10s. per annum. He doubted of these statements. He should like proof of it. was the baneful influence of the church in Lei and where - was the proof that the church costs h. ad in Leceister ?—Mr. Finn replied that he say that this rum was paid directly, but that it was , one form or other. It might be said that the lima derived from land belonging to the church; but 1 , tended that the land was public property, and the had no right to it. Arming this it was contended t greater portion of the land was bequeathed to the ' for its use, and that laud held by private families as well be claimed for public property as the church I After some further discussion the motion was agreed ' the meeting broke up. SURREY. THE EAST SURREY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIA', held their annual meeting on Wednesday at Croydon. Smith, Esq., of Selsdon, presided. Mr. Lecke King, for this division of the county, was present, and said, that the British farmer had to oppose the whole wr thought it but fur that he should not be opposed monopoly, and that he ought to grow what crops be I or whatever he might think likely to prove most tegeous to him. He did nut see why they should n. tobacco in this country, that article at present entirely slave-grown. He also thought that the gros hops ought not to he under so many restrictions us at pre sent. home gentlemen might think there was a great diffi culty in the way in the shape of a Chancellor of the Exche. quer, but he believed this might be got over. He threw these out as merely crude suggestions at present, but he believed they might be worth consideration. On one point he believed they were all agreed—that it was absolutely necessary for something to be done to better the condition of the apical. Coral labourers, and the most eff, chill way to do this was by improving the land. It was all very well to talk of the benefit that was derived from draining, cutting down hedges, having proper farm buildings, and vat ious other things, but why should the tenant be expected to make all these permanent improvements to the land ? He called them permanent improvements, for he did not see how they could be looked upon in any other light; and, in his opinion, it was the landowner who ought to make them, and not the tenant. There was plenty of what he might term the raw material of improvement—the able-bodied labourers of Eng land (their country's pride)—to he obtained ; and he must say that the landowner who neglected to make use of it, under the existing circumstances of the country incurred a great responsibility. A FIRE broke out at Bath on Saturday afernoon. Immediately adjoining the goods station on the railway is an extensive range of tiour-mills, and it was in this building that the conflagration originated. Upon the alarm being given it was circulated in the city that the railway terminus was on fire—a statement which caused the utmost alarm, and induced many hundreds of the inhabitants to hasten to the spot. Engines were soon on the spot, and the mills being closely adjacent to the river Avon, there was &bountiful supply of water, to which circumstance may be in a great measure ascribed the preservation of the goods-shed, the window ' frames of which were charred by the flames labial poured forth from the roof of the burning mills. At langth by the exertions of the firemen, the staff of the railway rumpany and others, the fire was got under, but not until 011,11111lY1) damage had been done. SUSPECTED NIURDER.—Au inquest wan held at the New Inn, East Coker, a few dm since, on the body of klary Hain, the wife of a weaver, whose death had oe ctirred on the previous Wednesday night. It appeared from the evidence of three women, neighbours of the deceased, that they were called upon by George Hain, her husband, at half put 10 on Wednesday night, who told them his wi'h was dead. They found her in ea on her back, quite dead, with marks of violence on her neck, and her face discoloured. The husband was undressed, and had one of his children in his arms ; but the bed did not appear as if he had been in it. Dr. Nesbitt, of Yeovil, described to the jury the result of a post modem examination of the body, from which it appeared that congestion of the vessels of Ihe heart, lungs, and brain existed, and had caused dektbvind from the other appearances of the body it was Lir opiatik that this coal ia Zce not have happened without external 4k ; he had , not, however, observed any marks of" ce on the body, bat he thought these might have , p..iisible had the t ut ii il lifultea examination been made eartier.—The km after deliberat ing for half an hour, retuvnedarcrelict oW iltpl murder " against George Hun, and he was co , Wider the coroner's warrant, for trial at the next sass a ea rn estly protested his innocence, and aid he Illess the trial. It is said that the prliken..r is a rcan of vie e pee. His wife is deserk`ued to have been a very ins 0 wemap, about 30 years of age, and has left three ch ..--The Coroner explained that he held the inquest on Sunday c. ; .g to t. ex..item.ut that prevai:eu ii. the 1 I le., ,u,..: I the necessity or burying the body without further delay. .. ' • V 3 I t. r n oun H try. , I I if the meet elati ves of , . , nonget the tricate the of Friday I mvered up who had ; i TO entries- ten home; , angled and 'i I could be . several of limbs [err S. fatallgt......Asen. -, 01 ao far I. t i hill (who and eight and seven wife and an to the nd child; I i 1 lard), was , mnetor), i Wamall, , ofStentr- ! I' I • nmarried. re in the e we ban , when s A I I severely. 1 i l If t the least ll rine, who to the ex- y unhurt. n a black- li I ped with- i he brick- i • 1 op. The , severely .ce on the any foun- ate: plats explosion the spot. ! some to ( i . II an. while the boiler i inch. All i igence ex- *. Jeffries, 1 ly warned would be ✓ who, in il mger of a, in con- it, could irhood, to aentioned 1 ' icaxl as to engineer. i aught be- .e.tions to I 1 ' N.—This 5 since at at of the War w ick- it itueucy, , II • been im- I hove al- -1 the elec. by enrol- int fruits txh,lattd. . I resident nd ohich sty. The 4 Si there la ,d, the d Stafford roprieton. 'eptrty at sod othen . Dawson, ry advan- y of these t the fol- 1 Gentlemen, I the House elcctim i bas ith the Jos. tribunal to would it be 11 molUitlnCO II t ' ii. front the mended, I a the leers- • ll s my regret and myself il my conduct h.tt, in my borough, I I most ha- the welfare ate in, gen- bournc-ter. k public 4 1 w I ' all. Lees- 1.- , -Mr. Finn , , 1 , I etas of a s it wealth ~, 3:e of the I' ?r annum, Mils, was I . i, ter would i' p of 2001. , dr. Finn, 3 Europe, i 1 1 of about itain had . ulutiou.— A deal said I ' ' to that it the truth I • V. here Leicester, 1 10*. per did not LS paid in 0 mane was it he con- -1 th ec a l t " the . 1 he church lies might ch land.— _ :ed to, and OCIATION i . lea. G. R. ing, IMP. said, now world, he ed by any e pleased, nt !dean l not grow ?zit being growth of us at pre- 1 1 great (lA- he Exche. 1 crew these I ,e believed i a believed. ressary for to apical- his wan by talk of the rig down lows other p make all ailed them they . could I ipinion, it d not the n the raw rs of Eng- I he must of it under id a great Aernoon. railway is is building arm being y terminus est alarm, hasten to mills being iitil supply at measure a window- ch poured I zth by the i compa ny outlaws eld at the COLONIAL. CAPE , o f t, u t ;,:l HOPE. DISASTROUS [MORI!: We have received news from the Cape of Good llope. The dates are from Cape Town Aeril 13, and Graham's Town April 18. Sir Harry Smith issued a manifesto on April 13, in which he stated h:s deter mination to exercise authority over the emigrant Boers en Orange River. The authorities were making every effort in their power to acquaiutthe Boers gener ally with this determination. The tut accounts from Orange River were of a more favourable nature. It was stated that Protorius was urging the people to disaffection, and impugning the good faith of the governor; but on learning the truth the Boers were more placable and seemed dispoßed to be peaceable. Mr. Burton, the master of the Supreme Court, is dead. There had been dreadful weather eastward of the Cape, and along the southeast coast, between April 4 and April 6, resulting in several awful shipwrecks. The barque Joanna and the brig Martha, and it seems almost certain the barque Julian, were wrecked in Algoa Bay. The Waterloo, a coaster, was wrecked in Cawoods Ilay, and the schooner Barry, in Struiss Bay. The schooner Nancy was lost in Mussel Bay; on April 6, the ship Sutlej, from Calcutta to London, put into 'fable Bay totally dismastad, part of the cargo having been thrown overboard during the storm. The ince of Wales, from Calcutta to Lon don, and True Briton, also put into Table Bay much damaged; as also the Countess of Durham. Fears were entertained that terrible disasters had taken place at sea. News had reached the Dupe of a terri fic hurricane at the Mauritius, on March 8. Several vessels were driven on shore, but got off again. The vessels Mail and Duke had been blown out to sea and not since heard of. H.M.S. Euridyce was sent in search of them. NEW SOUTII WALES.—Advices received yes terday at the Home-tittle°, from his Excellency the Governor of New South Wales (Sir Charles Fitzroy), communicate the particulars of several revolting murders, alleged to have been perpetrated by Mr. Thomas Coutts, one of the moat wealthy settlers in the colony. The shocking transactions took place at Grafton, in the district of the crows lands, on the banks of the Clarence river, where, it should be ob served, hostilities have existed between the English emi grants and the aborigines for • lengthened period. It ap peared that for some years great depredations had been cow- spitted on the property of Mr. Coutts, and some of his adherents and a child of his had been murdered. These ' losses, coupled with the destruetien of their crops, and other horrible atrocities, led to • feeling amounting to revenge against the aborigines, and it is stated, though not clearly substantiated in evidence, that all means to detect the nngleadershaving failed, secret poisoning was had recourse to, and a great ninny, particularly ou Mr. Coutt's estate, fell a sacrifice. The number of deaths reach ing the ears of the commissioners of crown lands, they immediately proceeded to the district with a party of police, under the head constable, and instituted • searching inves tigation, the result of which led to the apprehension of Mr. Cuutta on the charge of being implicated in the eases of wholesale poisonings. In a camp on Mr. Coutt's land were discover. d eight bo ties, whose death, it was ascertained, was caused by the administering of poison. Several more bodies were found in other parts. It was shown in evidence that the poison had been mixed with flour, and Mr. Coutts was seen to distribute it to the parties whose bodies were viewed by the oominifaioners. The cases having been fully gone into, Mr. Canna was committed on the capital charge to the Sydney Criminal Court Sessions. On the 7th of February the prisoner was brought up before the Chief Justice of Sydney, and admitted to bail till the trial, him self in 1,0001., and two securities of 5001. each. The attorney-general there had received instructions from his excellency the governor to prosecute. The excitement the affair has produced in the colony is intense.—Swiday paper. JA"NIAICA.—GeneraI Santa Anna arrived in this Wand towards the end of April, where he and his lady pro. {writd to remain two months. The general has taken up his residence at Torrington-house, and attends the theatre and other places of public resort. s The Jamaicans continued urgent with Sir Charles Grey to convene the legislature; hut his excellency contrived to evade all their representations. Sir Charles is a manosuvrer, but he may manientyre too long and too much. He affects to coincide in opinion with the colonists as to what ought to he done for them tl keep them in good humour, and rre. vents the House of Asseml ly meeting in order to deprive public opinion of a centre of action. Such trickery never can do good. With respect to the general state of the island, Derardora's Mercantile Intelliyencer states The condition of our market has not undergone the slightest altera tion for the better since our issue of the:nth ult., and matters wear the mine features of meertamty and deprismon a• they presented at that period. We fear that this unhappy and distmming state of things is likely to be of some contintuince, and that there Is every probability of its becoming worse alter August. The crops which are now on the upland, and In the taking off of a loch some thousands of Labourers are employed, will then have been gathered in—the occasion ley their ser vices ceasing to a great extent, almost the whole of the operatives at present in employment will be throws cut of work —a large amount of money will be withdrawn from carculation, and every interest in the island will Puff, to an extent which its distressing to reflect on. . . HONDURAS.—From this settlement we hare no direct intelligence; but the following ‘tatement in that able wad respectable paper, the Jamaica Morning Juurnal, calls forinstent end earnest attention : . . . . We are in receiyt of Honduras papers, but they to not contain any political intelligence of importance, Mr. Fitzgibbon, the editor of the Gone 1 ne,, Moor, and fiery tr.', who had tarn deed 1001. and committed to gaol for six month, fora contempt of court, in publish ing various elocuhe nts connectril with the matter In disputa between the jurors sod the judge of the settlement, was still a prima. The merchante of Be:ire on behalf of, and Mr. iltag.bboulnowelf. we are told, petitioned the court, but without A petition had also been predated to the nuperintendent, who, whilst he de clined interfering, forwarded the acne to his Fnoellency sir Charles Urey. Tn. 04,. cc mentions the following as the restrictions under wheli Mr. /1 , agibbon is placed in the gaol : "To be ethtlned separately in a room, and not b • permitted to converse with the other prisoners • not be permitted to me his friends except in :he presence of the genie, or his maietant ; nor to be allowed the use ef wine or ',Orin, nor the use of pen*, ink, nr , p2per, except to address her Majeart's Superintendent or the gaol hood, and nut be permitted to receive any Inters or papers from without the gaol un less the contents were karma to the gaoler." We can hardly believe that Sir Cli ales Grey will permit the continued incarceration of a lirittah subject in a British colony, oubjet t to such restrictions, for merely publishing retain ilmements :end communications of per. Laps a libellous nature, for a single day longer than cannot be avoided. Os the merits of the cam we offer no opinion, not having seen the document. alluded to, or are Iwe lti•palled to justly c sn. duct of the juror. or Mr. Fitzgibbon. They may have acted very im properly and unjustifiably. We complain, however, of the cruel re strictions which have b en euperailded ti imprisonment -•rerrictione which are unknown in the mother country, and, we are proud to add, in this island. How far Mr.Tesnple's late visit to our shores wan con. nested with thle mutter we have no lacunae owertaining. We hope, however, he wee nitrified that the majesty et the law had nen suffi ciently vindicated, and willing that Mr. Fitretilchon should be libe rated. The Central .lesertenis Times of the :lard March mentions that "not em than ten individuals are now confined in prison for a contempt in having refined toe•rve as jurors at the February Grand Court. If the jurors persist, and the court is determined to mares them, there will be a scarcity of accomnioCe:ion in the gaol for the olatinate gentry, ads few more keeper. will be required." GUIANA.—The following are the leading item' of intelligence in the Review for Roma Readers of the Royal Gazette : We mentioned in our last renew, which was written on the thin ult., that in two days from date the Combined Gout would meet. That ariembly did, aecordingly, meet on the Zith ; and great was the curiosity of the community to know what would be done after the avo•ralS made by the unofficial section of the Court of Policy of the inability of the colony to nine supplies for the service of the year. Flu excellency the governor op enesl the court with an ahainnie addrria, at the conelw.ion of which he ordered the !secretary to lay the estimate, which, it will be borne in mind, bad been carried a few days before by his excellency's casting vote, on the table, and then, at the request of the vice-president of the Intends! College, adjourned the court from the 20th to the 2Gth ultimo, for the purpose of affording the mem bers an opportunity of preparing a reply. On the Bab the court again met, when the reply was read, by the minor elective member of the Court of Policy, the lion. J. T. Wkite. The proemial was then submitted to the governor for a renewal of the calming tax ordinance fur six weeks teem the of its expiratien, the lOth June, a proposal which was declared by the attorney-general, in the name of the government, to be inadmialble, but which, neverthelera, bin excellency was considerate enough to exprem himself unwilling definitively to reject, until he should hove given it mature reflection. For that purpose his excellency ordered the court to be adjourned till the next day, when he read a brief minute containing his ultiniatie which was that ho could not allow any tax ordinance to be renewed fur a lees period than three months; eves that was a great COWS- Rion. The members being unwilling to renew the ordinance for that period, and an they could, therefore, proceed to no benison at all, his excellent. v adjourned the court inv. due. Hut what, we may be asked, in the • pinion of the community! (*- canny in favour 'of the government decidedly adverse to the nom anejaanee by the elective members of the combined court of hie excellenc Oa sine Ina non of three menthe. By ineleting on their offer of six weeks, they have jeopardised the public revenue, und, as a morequence, the public institutions. The rink run is not worth the temptation. Mince cur last the following vessels have arrived with coolies, the Tamerlane from Calcutta with 210, the Appellee from Madr is with 271, and the Candahar from the Mine place with 300, making the cum total of coolies remind to date Iron the commence ment of thin year, 1,525. We are wary to say that there were six cams of email pox on beard the Appoint, which is still In quaran tine, and that fifty deaths from that names clocurrodon board during the panage. The Word Hungerford, from Moir., in now coming in. To-day the Una came in from sierra Leone, with Ib9 Africans. 210 were embarked, 51 died on the pining; and of the remainder who have arrived, 34, we are sorry to my, are to he sent to the hospital. none who are In health will bee at to Bernice on Monday monistic. There were 167 more in the African yard, who roused to go usi Mew. A very fine property (plantation Mulgretout), on the west bank of the Demerara river, WM ,old It few days ego at execution sale for 13 earl dollars. 'MI, estate formerly belonged oten firm of MCRITII. W S. Hamilton and Co., of Dublia, which win, to the great regret of the cotenant, one of the unfortunate victims in the fearful Went ludic cress at the close of last year. The price given for Malgretoul, hot as may be the time s, is, by general acknowledgment, far below Ito value. This rale cannot be taken its u eriter ion of the value of pro perty In the colony, became it took place under peculiar eircuro. names. The condition of the IWO was payment of the purchase money down on the knock of the marshal'. hammer. Had the usual credit of a year been given, the prier would have been, at the very least, double that actually paid. Indeed, the wonder Is, that in the present unexampled 0r... re of the mosey market in the colony, any person should have been inund capable of paying 13,000 dole. at a moment's notice. In the agricultural dietricts things are slowly, but eteadily mending. The opinion, indeed, of mod observers Is, that the dapper of the aisle le pun, and that, with Its almost =- rivalled natural advantages, the colony, like a brave vessel In a tempest, will right herself, and things go on well in the end. The weather has toen excellent, and tho relate, are once more busily $1 work. •s+ - . ';^z: •