The Express. — London, England, 1851-07-24 00:00:00

Film VINSAILD, a workbag engraver, one of the depu tation, next addressed the meeting, and was followed by Dr. KIVUTSWACRI, from Frankfort. Mr. C. GILPIN thee moved the 4th resolution : " This ussigresa, regarding the system of negotiating loam for the prosecution of war, or the maintenance of warlike arma ments, as inunend la principle and disastrous in operation, Mews its emphatic condemnation of all such loans." Mr. E. Musa seconded the resolution, and Mr. S. was supporting it when we went to press. THE TOWER HAMLETS AND MR. GEORGE TILOMPSON. Yesterday evening, a meeting of the Shore<litch district electors of the Tower Hamlets borough, was held in the large room in Cowper-street, City-road, to hear from their representative. Mr. George T ' hompson an explanation Of the coons which had led to his Ounce from the House of Commons for a considerable portion of the present ses sion. The chair was taken by Mr. Churchwarden Pick ford. The room was crowded, and the majority of persons present appeared to belong to the trading and operative classes. Mr. 0. THOMPSON, who addressed the meeting at inane kook said be lid been to the United iliac% where he hni nail dapped fur pleasure, or profit, or reward, but to miter labour, to encounter opposition and even tois life. Up to the present session be had bee n of any wrong to the electors of the Tower Hamlets. Ile had arrived at the United States at the time of all others when he was likely to be worst re ceived by the people of op:alone country. Unexpectedly to himself he arrived at a conjuncture of circumstantial which made millions of people suppose that his mission bed NOW spkCi.ii object rehiting to the vexed question of slavery On that great continent, although ho had then no intention of interferina with that question. But it was soon bruited abroad by 404 papers through the Union that he was a hired emissary of Lord Palmerston, that his pockets were lined with !latish gold, and that he had come there to set man against man, and interest against interest, and eless against class, with all kinds of representations contrary as fact. His friends, however, knew very well that he went to the United States as the agent of no one, and that when Lord Palmerston wanted to scud a spy abr oad: the member for the Tower Hamlets, was not the man he would be most Mely to select. (Cheers.) Having stated the course he Lad pursued in America, and the places at which Le had declaimed against slavery (minced from time to time in the columns of the Express) the honourable gentleman said that from Canada he received letters by the hundred exhorting him to support the moral power in America against slavery. Still he resolved to return to England on the Pit of February. They might now condemn him if they thought fit; but he confessed he did feel proud fn vindicating from day to thy the first great principles upon which human government should be founded, and he did believe it to be probable that he might obtain absolution from his constituents fur saying awhile to proclaim those principles. Even if he were now condemned by those he saw before him, they would nut brie Bono principles less, and he would proclaim thew still. (Cheers.) But they must now let him confess his faults. (Hear.) His first duty was to them, his constituents. (Hear, hear.) The engagements he bail entered into with them were solemn. His duty was clear and obvious. Ile had been appointed to the House of Commons, and he admitted that the re was the pith he ought to tread. (hear, hear.) Before be left England, he was nut the mom to contemplate a stay in America of more than one month during the sitting of parliament. He had nut sinned against them w the pur pose lie at first resolved, but it might be he had shined against them iu yielding to the force of circumstances and taking too much for granted, and supposing that they would enter into and sympathise with him us the sublime features of that struggle in which he was to bear a part. (neer, hear.) However, be took at last the first steamer that was to start in June, and hastened again to his native land, and now, before them, he called God to witness that he bad not during his absence devoted a single hour to personal objects or to profit. (Hear, hear.) lie candidly admitted that, lover as he was of liberty, he was nut merely a geographical lover, but his hope and aspi ration was to see her spreading her beneficent in fl uence over the whole world. (Cheers.) Mr. Thompson concluded a speeeh of coneillenible length, by saying that hebad in every ease Mated himself with the people of this great couutry. To them he belonged, among them he was burn, iu station he was with them. With their hopes and interest, he was bound up ; while theyswere enslaved he was in bonds, while they were unenfranclused lie bad no vote but for them. (Cheern.) But whether be went forth as their representa• five or as a private man, still he would pour out his life as water in the holy cause of liberty. (Cheers.) They might find a member wore arietocratie, with more money in his pocket, or with more talent to serve them, but this much be would venture to say, that they would not find one more honest than himself, ono more incapable of corruption, one lees likely to sell them, or one less likely to be guilty of flattering them to their own hurt. The hon. gentleman sat down amidst prolonged cheering. Mr.:tit/01lb rose in the body of the meeting to propose a resolution expressing the confidence of the electors in the Unites of Mr. Thompson. Mr. I'OI'OCK seconded the resolution. Mr. DAVIES, of Old-street-road, complained that Mr. Thompson had been absent lecturing in the eauntry when Loud Duuciires annual motion came on in the House of Commons, and he there fore proposed an amendment, that Mr. George Thompson was nut a fit person to represent the borough. Mr. U. THOMPSON explained that he had certainly been absent last year, when Lord Duncan's annual motion for the repeal of the window tax was brought on. But he was not exactly lecturing, but engaged with his hon. friend fir Joshua %Volatile} , in attending meetings in York, Man chester, shrtheld, and Leeds. 'I hese meetings bed beta arranged lung before, and they bad ecen with regret that Lord Duncan 's motion had been fixed for the same day ou which one of them was to take place. Mr. ROBINSON seconded the amendment, complaining that the absence of Mr. Thompson and other liberal mem bers had enabled the government to impose an oppressive house tan upon poor people and a pour class of houses that had never been so taxed before. Ile thought that the hon. ISClllbtr bad better look to the iuterests of people at home than abroad. Mr. SAVAGE defended the conduct of Mr. Thompson as a true friend of the people, and reminded the meeting of his former services. Mr. Savage also vindicated the app.). eitemeee of his cognomen by the ferocity of his strictures upon the iniquity of the newspapers in suppressing the re ports of Mr. fhonspeon's speeches. Mr. P. EDWARDS rose to vindicate Mr. Thompson from an insinuation that had been thrown out that he had been lecturing in the country when Lord Duncan's motion was before the house, and had been paid for it. Now, as one of the council of the National Reform Association, he asserted that while Mr. George Thompson had consecrated his time and labour to that association, he had not received a single sixpence for his SWAMI. At this point a voice front the back of the platform called out "That is false," and great confusion ensued, in the midst of which Mr. G. THOMPSON rove, and said that Mr. Edwards bad stated the truth in saying that he had never received a Single e ix t ence for his services; andhe challenged that permit, Mr. Jennison, of Huston, to come forward and prove hie assertion a falsehood. 1 he uproar continued, and several persons on the platform endeavoured, by a practical kind of persuasion, to induce Mr. Jennison to emerge from his obscurity to the part of the platform in view of the meeting; but for some time he very strenuously resisted their efforts. Mr. George Thomp son again challenged the unseen speaker to come forward, if he bail a drop of manly blood in his veins, and avow whether he had used the word false or not in relation to hip not having been paid for his services. Mr. Jainism was at last convinced that the best way was to show himself to the meeting, and say something m explanation. His words were nut very intelligible, fur lie spoke in sonic trepidation ; but we understood him to say that he eared nothing about the matter himself, but that a conversation had been going On all about the town which he had heard, that if a man did his duty he ought to be paid, and he had no objection to Mr. Thompson tieing paid, or any other individual, for doing his duty in parliament. But improper conversation had been going on, and he had been induced to state what other people boil said. The explanation was received with a terrific volley of up roar, and cries of "Oh, oh ;" and Mr. Jennison retire-el rather hastily, afterwards apologising to the meeting for the interruption. Order being restored, The amendment and resolution were then put from the chair. No hands were held up for the former, and the row , lution was carried by exclamation. Mr. THOMPSON having thanked those present, The meeting dissolved about ten o'clock, giving three hearty 'cheers for their representative. REPRESENTATION OF FLINTIIIIIRE.—In anticipa tion of a speedy dissolution of parliament, the protectionist gentlemen of this county are orguni.ing a formidable oppo sition to the present members for the county and boroughs. &vend candidates are spoken of al likely to come forward, among whom are the Hon. It. T. Rowley, of Roydorddwy ; P. D. Cooke, E ~ of Gwsauey ; and E. Peels, Esq., of Bryn y Pye.— s' Journal. THE SUSPECTED MURDER AT NORWICII.—The eitement caused by the recent discoveries of human remains in Norwich and its neighbourhood, and which had in KIM degree become lulled, has been renewed by a diseovary which was insole on Saturday last. On the afternoon of that day, as a man named Henry Layton, was employed In mowing the grass in the churchyard of St. Peter of South gate,'he found a human foot (the idiom), which had been Concealed in the long grass. It had evidently, from the appearance of the grass around and other circumstances, lain there for some time. It had been ant off at the ankle joint, and the toes were contracted in the same manner as Wee of the foot previously 'hemmed at Laksaham. The feet, in size and general appeara nce, correspond exactly, and they are evidently those of the female whom fate is in volved in melt mystery. — Nortek? , Mercury. Two CHILDREN FOI'SID NICRDERED.—At ancorly hour, yesterday morning, the mutilated body of a newly born child was discovered by two boys in the ruins of some old bosses in Lambeth-stroet, Whitechapel. The deceased was tied up in an apron, but tbe head and ether parts were bat tered lb from ezternal violence. The boys gave the body to pclice-constable 27 /I, who carried it to the Leman-street station, where Mr. Memo, the surgeon, made an exami nation of the same. He was of opinion that the child bed been born alive, and its death was the result of great brutal siolence. Since the discovery a female living in the neighbourhood has been taken into custody by the police on suspicion of causing the death of the infant. Another body of a child was found by the police the same morning on the step of a door in Loudon-wall, City. The child had been recently born, and marks of violence were visible on the head and neck. KING EDWARD STREET RAGGED SCHOOLS AND EASTERN REFUGE, SPITALFIRLDS. Yesterday afternoon the opening of this institu tion took place in the presence of the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Duke of Grafton, Lord Radstock, and • very large number of ladies and gentlemen interested in the moral and industrial training of the thousands of aged Ta children that abound. in the east of London. The b uil ding which is henceforward to be dedicated to this philanthropic pur pose, has been erected in the pointed Rlisabetluus style, in Albert-street, Banton - street, fipiteltlelda The Germout lay, including a large plot of freehold land, has amounted to about 3,500 , , hut it is estimated that 2,0001. additional will have to be spent on furniture, fittings, &c., in order to render the working of the establishment compete. About 2,2001. of this sum has been subscribed, leaving 1,3001. still to be provided fur. The school and class room will accommodate ZOO children. The basement story is in tended as a school for infanta, and a scullery and laundry for the girls. The first floor will be devoted to the pur poses of general education, and the upper story will consist of workrooms and dormitories for 40 youths of both sexes. The building, which has been finished in a substantial form, is eminently adapted for the purposes fur which it it de signed. It is expected that its annual expenditure will range somewhere between 7001. and tSOOI. Ihe celebration of its opening was presided over by the Earl of SIIAFTESBCRI, who said that it could not but be a matter of joy sad congratulation to hint that they were assembled there that day iu a building so spacious and commodious, and dedicated to a purpose so holy and so useful. He heartily rejoiced to see another instance of the progress of that movement which was taking place throughout England and many countries on the continent, and which had for its object the rescue of the poorer classes of the community from the depths of ig norance, poverty, and crime. Ile was glad to see on the face of the prospectus of the King Edward-street schools that the committee had announced that their ragged schools were also to be industrial schools. It had always been his opinion, and ho had never failed to urge it, that such schools would fail in their object if there were not indus trial schools attached to them. It was essentially necessary in institutions such as these, where they took children from a vagrant and lawless life and communicated to them new habits, that they should give them the means of honest industry, and thus eaible them to raise themselves in the rank of citizens, and in the higher sphere of true and sincere Christians. This was no hopeless effort. Ile could instance many cases in which children educated in ragged schools had gone to service or emigrated, and in both respects had elevated themselves to a better position than that now occupied by children of a higher grade. Ile would, however, only point to the expe riment which had been lately tried in this metropolis in proof of his position. They had all seen " the shoeblack brigade " engaged in their active and honest avocation. Let them take the history of those boys. They had all come originally from the very depths of ;human filth, vice, and misery. They had becu carefully trained in the rwreed schools, and th, y bad been selected for their good char 'eters to go out as shoe-blacks. They were now mak iug by their daily labour 1,0901. a year. They brought home—and he believed they brought home every farthing they received—sums varying from 41. to 10e. daily. They were under a good system of discipline ; they met for prayers in the morning, and every evening they were re viewed. Part of their earniugs wect to the institution; another part was deposited in the savings bank; and the third part was given to themselves; and, as soon as ever they made money, they all left the filthy dens in which they had been reared, and every one of them went to the model lodging-houses, and paid for nightly accommodation there. (Applause.) One of them the other day produced out of his own prisons] savings a sum of 31., and with that, added to his moiety of ' the sum in the savings bank, he proposed to emigrate. Mr. 11. 11. WILLIAMS, the honorary secretary, then, read the report, which set forth the cost of the building, as given above, and the extent of its accommodation. The Rev. T. BINNEY proposed the first resolution, to the effect that the meeting, having heard the report, re- joiced in the success which hail attended the efforts of the committee, lielieviug that ragged schools were eminently calculated to ameliorate the conditiou of those for whom they had been established, and that industrial pursuits were highly conducive to the reclamation and future usefulness and prosperity of a large class of the juvenile population of the east of London, who are now the objects of destitution, vagrancy, and crime. The Duke of GRAFTON seconded this resolution in a brief speech, expressive of his sympathy for such insti tutions. - Mr. B. GURNEY supported it, and, in doing so, pro mised, amidst loud cheers, to give per annum for the nest three years towards the maintenance of the King Ed ward's School. The lie,. H. ALLIN moved the second resolution, to the effect that the meeting, while acknowledging the di vine goodness, in the establishment of this institution, re commended that, in order to ensure its permanent useful ness and prosperity, an immediate appeal be made for the fonds necessary to the speedy discharge of the heavy out standing debt still remaining upon the institution. The Rev. Mr. HARRIS seconded this resolution. LOrdRAIPITOCIL supported it. Upon the motion of the Rev. A. J. ERWAILPS, seconded by Mr. T. B. PROCTER, and supported by Mr. C. PEAR SON, a vote of thanks was passed to the noble chairman,and the proceedings terminated. In the evening a large number of the friends of the new institution sat down to tea, and another public meeting was held to celebrate the opening. THE BRIGHTON (hem tin Daft New.) ITE CASE. Have our readers "marked, learned, and inwardly digested" the decision of the Ecclesiastical Court at Doctors' Commons, delivered on Thursday last on the Brighton church-rate case ? They ought; for it constitutes another great and serious encroachment on parochial franchises and popular rights; sad, as such, it forms a new resting-p la ce in the history of • question on which the law has rapidly descended from bad to worse; and on which public opinion has gone on slowly butsurely improving. So that now,opi- Mon and law are utterly and violently at variance as to the means andthemanner of maintaining thefabrics of our churches and of providing for the decent celebra tion of divine worship therein ; the law violating conscience and overriding our constitutional system; whilst one section of public opinion is ashamed and the other indignant at the law. The decision was given in this case by Sir HER BEST JENNER FUST, a judge whose infirmities are occasionally an obstruction to the due, and regular, and orderly performance of his duties ; whose family relatives and friends, infesting his court much as rats do corn ricks, are a heavy burden on its suitors ; and many of whose leading judgments—the CORIUM ease, for instance—have been signally and most be neficially overruled by appellate authority. On the part of the churchwardens the case was a very simple one : it was a libel promoted against a respectable trillium en of the ecclesiastically troubled town of Brighton, for the substractioia of a church rate laid on by a very small minority of a public vestry against the decision of a large majority, to which rate the tradesman in question had of course many and serious objections, and because of them op posed the reception of the libel. The arguments thereon were heard on the 11th of January, in this year, by a court having, comparatively speaking, little to do; but it was not until the 17th of July that judgment was given by the lightest worked judge in the United kingdom. For this delay of six months in deciding on the initiatory stageof a cause, Sir HERBERT JENNER FUST thought it eto a swif ter and better administration of ins- Lice at Doctors Commons to offer some explanation; it arose, he said, from an expectation that mean while the House of Lords would have heard the Braintree case, and have definitively settled the law ; an excuse to which respect and assent might be given, were the ordinary course of justice in his court speedier or more satis factory; but not being either, the delay of six months in this case is to be accepted as the usual standard of promptitude in a court the scandal of which is really much greater than that of Chancery itself. In the Braintree case, our readers will recollect, k was held by a very slender minority of the judges tithe Common Pleas and Exchequer,sitting in error nem the Queen's Bench, that the common law obli gation of parishioners to uphold the fabric of their church, and to provide for the celebration of divine worship therein, was so strong that a rate laid es them by a minority assembled in vestry was • legal and valid rate such as the courts were bound to enforce. Lord Chancellor Talmo, Lord Chief Justice CAMPBELL, and Mr. Baron PAUKE, than whom the common law of this realm has now no greater expounders, we all know, think otherwise; two of them indeed . exressly dissented from that judgment ; but, a majority of the Court of Error so ' ruling, until and unless reversed by the House of Lords, such is the law. _ In resulting the minority rate of their vicar, the dissident parishioners of Brighton, knowing this to be at present the law, were not, of course, so foolish as to rush into unnecessary litigation on the exact points so temporarily ruled iu the Braintree ease. In order to avail themselves of the ultimate judg ment of the House of Lords in that case, if against the validity of a minority rate, they included those points in their objections ; but they raised this addi tional and novel one : admitting, they said, that a minority rate can be supported at common law for the purposes of maintaining the fabric and providing for the ordinary celebration of divine service, it can lnot, they contended, be supported to defray the ora mental and sanitary accompaniments which modern I taste and sense of comfort have introduced into our churches ; and, inasmuch as their minority rate had been laid on for ornamental as well as necessary church purposes, they hold that such an excess of the common law obligation vitiated the rate. That, as we understand it, was wherein the Brighton differed from the Braintree case ; and the distinction is obviously and patently one of very great importance. For, it has always been argued on behalf of the church that the mainteuauce of the fabric and the ordinary celebration of service consti tuted not a tax in the ordinary sense of the word, but that the church had such an interest in every man's realty as was necessary for those church purposes; they being indispensable for a church established by law. But, though a water-tight building, and pews, and seats, and vest ments, and sacramental bread and wine, and books, and cleanliness, and bell ringing, are necessaries of a church and public worship, and may, therefore, form such a common obligation as a parish cannot escape from, it is very clear that organs and organists, professional singing and singers, warmth and stoves, handsomely clad beadles with great brass nobbed canes, are not church necessaries. They are useful, desirable, pleasant, and comfortable; but not indispensable. They are all very proper things to be paid for by those who use them and enjoy their advantage in their devo tions; but things it is very hard to make those pay for who either object to music in churches on principle, as do the English dissenters and all Scotland, or who never go to church at all. The law obliges us to support paupers, but not to supply them with tobacco and pipes; it compels us to maintain country roads, but not as highly metalled as if they were turnpikes ; and so with churches, to maintain them and service therein is an obligation quite sufficient, without adding thereto their orna ments or decorations. UNQUALIFIED PRACTICE OF :MEDlClNE.—Yeater day an inituest was opened by Mr. Baker, at the Bell, Ratcliffe-highway, on the body of Henry Steward Davis, aged 13. Deceased, whose mother was a lunatic, being in closed to idiocy was placed under the care of a married wanes mimed ilisabeth Wanstall. On Monday last as he estelphaseil eta pain in his bowels, Mrs. Wanstall gave hint ads powder obtained for one penny , at the shop of aXL Zia Stephens, " medical botanist , " potato mer chmit.mii avant to Dr. Coffin. On Wednesday evening whams saw Kr. Stephens, who prescribed another dose of the powder. The same evening Mr. Stephens administered an enema to the deceased. Witness was present. This was about ti o'clock at night. Lie seemed to be relieved by it, and exhibited no symptoms of suffering pain. The fallowing morning he appeased lower. About twelve &clock that day he had the rattles in his throut, shortly anti' which he died. William Richard Croker, ahopman to Mr. Stephens, said that be had supplied Mrs. Wanstall with the composition powder. It is Kept in a coffee-canister. When Mr. Overton came witness guessed at the quantity he wan to give. lie did not mention either to the constable or Mrs. Wanstall how it waste be administered. Witness recollected Mr. Stephens, es het Wednesday, making the injection fur the deceased. It was made of the composition powder, with some 'Merle and sabclia. The latter is caned a poison, but it is sot. The injection is always composed in that manner. The whole was about a quarter of an ounce. It was not weighed. Witness does not know what he added to make a liquid of it. Mr. Stephens visits his patients and witness makes up medicines from his prescriptions. Witness has seen him camp and medicines, when he has taken them out or they have been sent for. Mr. Stephens has no diploma, end 'lima believes he has received no education for medical purposes. Witness has no other knowledge of medicine than what he has picked up from Dr. Coffin's book. If witness found a difficult cue he would consult Mr. Stephens. Kr. Garrett stated that in the deceased's condition= clan astringent character ought to have bees ' M the deceased. The Coroner, after commenting upon the elrcumstance of Mr. Stephens practising without a diploma, stated that be should adjourn the inquiry, in order to have ea Yalysis of the contents of the stomach, and he tlincted that Dr. Letheby should be applied to for that purpose. The inquiry was then adjourned. BRUT,U. MCRDER IN MANCHESTER.—In the Express of Tuesday we ppvs a brief amount of the murder of a female at Keaisster by a mesa named Wick. About half-put six o'clock en Monday mining a police man on duty in Back Istediestreet heard a wee of fighting in a cellar. He listened, red heard a mesa gay, Wdl you give me my money," awl a woman sod " ' Yes." The sound of blows immediately recommend. and the officer pushed open the door of the cellar, them be eaw Wick just getting up from a mum who wee Ibis on the floor, and whom be apparel alms bus beaSing - .The policeman esksd Wick wheels led bees yam, sod the latter replied =haw eghled Ise of her .emmens, sad then they le pit me out." Rhea aid whet he had been lemilhealet tome fur, he said Imangeell le get bis this The lemma was very nue bushed, em 4 was - ies es heed and face. the a muvil bed the officer thud estaihar woman, who aced Mires bow beaten, eml who only just breathed. ponied the el another admit, and leek the am into cus tody. women were CalaVart M tlo Royal WM'S, es soon Ypowible, when it ajaallalli that the women who was found lying on the bid wee quite deed. The prisoner was brought up at Se Manchester Bo rough Court the same morning. bat was remanded. On Monday obsesses the depesteles at the we. whom the policeman' heed as the Om at the cellar, was taken, in coneyuuo at hen hie ethitheised that she wadi not survive. M mid /mg was Helen Farms& aid that of account was likettlek • ...The] 1ina. 62 , 0 * thee in the aft bi Bak BrIPID4W•et. Tea a•Mearra west out late on SOW" al^ ails M ama with IrL wisaer about 4 skink is Os =Nth* Dammed said was an old aspaintinee at brisit,ffini asked him to treat thew Wick puithied theha mead pay for breakfast for them all mat wasakti. Weis tem la bed when they came in, ii hr er t up mid sopa Ida Am o ff some pickled and mass bees,al which they all had rather too ' Ithimemds went to bed. He gave each et they then went out for a walk. timed is half an hoar, =Wick seized end them both saying they had him. Wilms ethumbeeed u• mere at the shatter. Oa Tessiz o tto was wit bismobt up st the 111.11 .4 1thithz= d tbst ali t ill tsd made 7 1 ,t:'Zru: 's body. He found an extensive hemailt eglhe limp. _with effusion of blood on the &Uk ases vsems aides were fractured, and one of FiLsors bra. lbws were also several contused dldigend pat se the body, with great appear. ✓ind Moog ikilMOD IMO by external blows. Them =IMO lift ammo to account for madam Ad bin hem eaused from the feet or knees el po Ma the prisoner. The prisoner was opM re Re swath, in order that the other woman, who is now expected te_ _Rawer, may attend and give evi dence. Mr. Herford YM an inquest on the body of Mar garet Firling yesteV. bet no additional credence was adduced, it was Well, that being the point in the Brighton case, Sir HERBERT JENNER FUNT has advanced the law of the Braintree case to meet and embrace it. Yes ; he holds a minority rate is supportable at common law for church ornaments, comforts, and luxuries, as well as for church necessaries. This is clearly a tremen dous decision for the clergy. if it be law, we are at the mercy of them and their churchwardens, and may be taxed for all the gilt and frippery of St. Barnabas in every parish in England. For where can any line of demarcation be drawn if we once get into a legal liability' to provide church ornaments and decorations, and if a minority rate can be en forced for ecclesiastical elegancies? This is a step in advance with a vengeance ; one that the very squires will feel, for it affects their pockets desperately. Yet this is the _principle laid down by Sir HER BERT JENNER And he justifies it by the common law. Now the common law we laymen arc told by lawyers, is that law " whereof the memory sf man runneth not to the contrary." But most of us can remember churches without stoves, churches without organs, churches without paid organists and choirs, churches without beadles with gold laced hats, churches without screens, without gilt, glitter, and pomp; and remembering those good old rural churches where we were first taught to pray by our good, pious, and affectionate mothers, without any such frippery, we can't understand how at common law the new-fangled vicar, with his strait-standing up collar, and his unbending bigotry (so unlike his kind-hearted, rather slovenly, but jolly predecessor!) can make us pay for these and such other novelties as he has imported. Judge Fu T, we know, tells us to object to them at the vestry. But to what end? There the vicar, encouraged by him, won't listen to us ; there he is deaf to all our objections there ho refuses to put any of our amendments ; there, flourishing the Braintree case in our faces, he declares his rate carried whether we will or not ; and, dissolving the meeting, walks away, threatening us with the terrors of the Ecclesi astical Court. Nay, not content with even that ; next Sunday he libels us from the pulpit, taking for his text the apostolic words, " God is love !" teaching us that "love is the fulfilling of the law," and insist ing that the Braintree case being law, we are lost moutons if we do not pay what he has assessed us at. Then, to shame us, and to . proclaim our iniquity to the world, and to raise funds wherewith to prosecute us, he prints the sermon. That, of course, brings our worthy ally, the dissenting minister, into the lists ; Mr. CONING HAM naturally follows with his heavy artillery ; and, when the smoke has cleared away a little, Judge FEsT, at Doctors Commons, is heard recommencing oar troubles. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 24, 1851. And Judge FeaT says that, though this is judge made law, the beet law in the kingdom is of the same order. Probably it is; but, though of the same order, the quality , may differ. Lord MANSFIELD when he laid the foundations of our commercial law, did so by judge-mude law. When Lord CAMDEN held general warrants to be illegal, it was by judge made law. When the slave SOMERSET was dis charged, it was by judge-made law. Lord ELDON enlarged the scope of our endowed grammar schools, and introduced the humanities of scholarship into them by judge-made law. And Lord COTTEN HAM relaxed the severity of settled property by the same authority. But, to compare Sir HERBERT FUST'S judge-made law with that of those giants of jurisprudence ' is to compare Hyperion with a Satyr. They adapted, enlarged, liberalised, and ennobled the law; fitted it for the growth of men, of manners, of society, and of learning ; they used it as an instru ment of human improvement. He narrows, eon fines, cribs, crimps, and compresses it. They im proved their fellow-creatures by the use they made of the law; he torments and plagues them. Hap pily, however, there is a Judicial Committee of the Pnvy Council to disprove his self-complacent com parisons, and to correct his decisions; and thither, it is to be hoped, the Brighton case will be carried. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL THE FOUNDATION STONE OP A ISiEWEIIAPEL, tO be dedicated to St. John the Evangelist, at Cronksz-Noddy, in the parish of German, was laid on Thursday, 1, th mast., by Mrs. Frances Amelia Hall, relict of the Yen. John Cecil Hall, 8.C.L., formerly archdeacon of the diocese, in presence of the Lord Bishop, several of the clergy of Sailor and Man, and a numerous assembly of the laity of the island. . ..... Rev. Jenkins, to Michaelstone-le-Vedw Rectory, Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire; value 4001., with residence; patron, Colonel Tynte. Rev. J. W. Knott, to St. Saviour Vicarage, Leeds; patrons, Rev. Dr. fuser, and other truitees. Rev. E. S. Phelps, to be Chaplain to the dockyard at Portsmouth. Rev. E. Thomas, to Llandowror Curacy, Carmarthen shire. Rev. V. Blake, to be domestic chaplain to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. Rev. H. J. Burfleld to St. Thomas Curacy, Birmingham. Rev. T. 11. Bushnell, to be chaplain to the Earl of Romney. Rev. J. Comilla, to Ashburton Curacy, Devon. lkv. 11. A Dixon, to St. Anne Vicarage, Wandsworth, Surrey; value 7001. and residence ; patron, Bishop of Win chester. Rev. J. Ford, to the Chaplaincy of Maidstone gaol. lter. J. P. Hardy, to St. Thomas Curacy, Stockport, Cheshire. Rev. W. Harley, to Sterenton Vicsrage, Berkshire ; value 2601. with residence; patrons, Dean and Chapter of Weatminater. _ _ Rev. W. A. Hill, to St. Barnabas Curacy, and Afternoon Lectureship, South Kennington, I..tmheth. Hey. H. W. Hodgson, Perpetual Curate of Irton and Drigg, Cumberland, to be a surrogate, diocese of Chester. Rev. E. Mansfield, to Holy Innocents Perpetual Curacy, Ilighnam, Gloucestershire; patron, T. Gambier Parry Esq. Rev. It. A. H. Norman, to St. l'aul Curacy, Derby. Rev. W. S. Pari , ll ' to Cherry-Ilinton warage, Cam bridgeshire; value 1614 and residence; patrons, St. Peter's College, Cambridge. Rev. F. Thorp, to Smalley and Morley Curacies, Derby shire. Rev. J. Vallee, to Cowley Curacy, Staffordshire. Her. J. Blanchard, to Rolleston Curacy, Staffordshire. Rev. W. Brookes, to Itiddings Curacy, Derbyshire. lion. and Rev. A. Byron, to Clown Gurnee ' Derbyshire. Rev. D. Cutlner, to St. John Curacy, Wolliug, Surrey. Rev. C. S. A. Dickenson, to Atulley Curacy, Stafford shire. 11ev. W. A. Dixon, to Lee•Drockhuret Curacy, S.dop. VACS NC I ES. Worthy Martyr Rectory, Rants, diocese of Winchester ; value, 3131. with residence; patron, Bishop of Winchester; Rev. Sir IL Rivers, Bart., deceased. Thornton Perpetual Curacy, Yorkshire, diocese of Ripon; value, 1601. ; patron, the 'Vicar of Bradford ; Rev. Thomas, promoted. Chaplaincy of her Majesty's ship Britannia; Rev. E. S. Phelps, promoted. Chaplaincy of Norwich Castle; patrons, the ma3istrates of Norfolk; Rev. 3. Brown, resigned. THE PATENT LAWI3.—MEETING AT BIRMINGHAM. —An influential meeting for the purpose of considering Lord Granville's bill on the subject of the patent laws was held in the Town Hall at Birmingham, on Friday evening, the Mayor in the chair, The meeting was specially of au interesting character, as containing a very large proportion of the most skilful artisans of the town. The chairman was supported by Mr. ()each, M.P., Mr. M. D. Hill, Q.C., and other gentlemen interested in such matters. Mr. Hill de livered an address explanatory of Lord Granville's bill, and of the reforms it would effect in the present law. Ho didered in opinion (he said) altogether with Lord Granville and those who thought that no patent law was necessary, and he would have preferred a measure that would have enabled the inventor to obtain a patent at even a less cost than under the new hill, and which, after a cer tain period, should have made the patent unimpeachable ; the new measure was, however, a great insta lm ent of a debt long due, and won therefore worthy of acceptance.— Mr. Oeueh, said that there were plenty of people who would be glad to take advantage of any opposition to Lord Granville's bill that proceeded from Birmingham, and to make it the pretext fur an attempt to throw it out of the Commons. Such a proceeding would be most mischievous, because by rejecting this bill they would be throwing away a chance of an instalment in the shape of reform that might not again occur.—After Mr. George Edmonds, the clerk of the peace, and other gentlemen Lad addressed the meeting, a resolution was unanimously passed, generally approving Lord Granville's bill as a step us the right direc tion, although it does not altogether supply defects in the existing law. By a subsequent resolution the borough and county members and Mr. Geach, M.P. for Coventry, were requested to watch the bill and give to it their support. _ _ lIEROIC CONDUCT OP A MINER.—On Saturday week, as a miner named William Lester was engaged " putting in a shot " in a pit at the Willingsworth colliers., a quantity of coal fell upon him from the roof, whiCh knocked him elf the ladder, and he fell to the ground in sensible. The match was burning but a few feet above him, and an explosion instantly expected. Two men who had been working close to the spot declined to render any assistance. At this critical juncture the "doggy," William Turner, who had been engaged in another part of the workings, hearing of the accident, ran to the spot. A single glance was sufficient to show the danger, and without further hesitation he rushed into the gate road and brought the poor fellow out. lie had not gone more than four yards when the shot went off, and upwards of thirty tons of coal fell upon the very ground where the injured man lay but a few seconds before. We are happy to state that Lester's injuries were but trifling. Turner, who acted so nobly on this occasion, is the man who st ands commited to the next assizes on a charge of manslaughter, a boy having been killed iu the same pit in March last, through some alleged neglect —Birmingham Mercury. POLICE, INDUSTRIAL, AND °TITER STATISTICS OP MaNcriEsTEß.—The annual report of Captain Willis, the Chief Constable of Manchester, has Just been published containing, as usual, some elaborate and useful tables, which, besides showing the activity of the police, give a good idea of the progress of the borough in population, in material wealth and resources. By this return it appears that the population has risen tram 235,507 in 1811 to 303,358 in 1851; and the gross number of habit able houses has increased from 44,462 to 53,697. One happy feature of this part of the return is that the inhabitants living in cellars have diminished from 22,921 in 1841 to 20,399 in 1851. The total annual value of the property has increased in the same period from 811,6641. to 1,201,2411. The gross number of all buildings is now 58,384, of which 103 are cotton mills, 7 silk mills, 3 wonted mills, 18 smallware mills, 7 print works, 3.5 dye works, 15 hat manufactories, 49 machinists, 38 foundries, 4 lead works, 3 paper works, 27 saw mills, 11 corn mills, 77.5 workshops, 1,619 warehouses, 6,262 shops, 109 places of worship, 413 public and private schools, 12 banks, 10 markets, 2 theatres, 7 rail way stations, 3 public waslahouses, 8 infirmaries and hospitals, 14 public institutions, 33 public buildings, 53 livery stables, 176 breweries, 121 slaughter-houses, and 511 buildingsused as offices. The total new buildings within the last year were I,ss6—comprising 2 cotton mills, 4 saw mills, 21 workshops, 11 warehouses, 1,338 dwellings, 118 shops, 8 churches and chapels, 1 bath and washhonft, 3 breweries, and 2 schools. The total number of reputed thieves residing in the borough within the knowledge of the police is 30), and 267 persons known occasionally to steal. Houses where thieves resort 231; houses for the re ception of stolen property, 141. TUE STEAM-SAID ATLANTIC LEFT TILE MERSEY yesterday afternoon at three o'clock, under the command of Captain West, having on board 145 passengers and a fine freight. The new screw steam-ship City of Manchester, belonging to the Liverpool and Philadelphia Company, will sail on Friday for Philadelphia ; her berths, we are informed, are already nearly all engaged. DISTRESSED NEEDLEWOMEN'S SOCIETY.—YentST , day a special meeting of this society was held at its house, 1 75, Newman-street, Oxford-street, Alderman Farebrother in the chair, to consider the position of the body in relation te the secretary, Yr. Roper. The meeting lasted four hours, ! and at its close it was resolved to dismiss that officer, and Ito attempt to ft-establish the society, which has laps ed into a state of languor and inefficiency. I A NUMBER OP POLES engaged in the Hungarian revolution, and who have recently arrived in this country from Turkey, left Southampton for Havre on Tuesday night. The expense to the English government of those Iluugarians and Poles who have been recently released from captivity in Turkey through the interference of Sir Stratford Canning is about 2,0001. This expense has been iacurred in preserving the refugees from starvation while , , in this country and in shipping them to America. Many of the refuge officers hare not been under the necessity of ' receiving assistance from the British government. Two ' more hatches of Hungarian refugees are shortly expected from Constantinople. Amongst the but party will probably be Kossuth and his family. IRELAND. Denim, Jets 23. Lord Arundel, it seems, will not have a walk over in Limerick: Mr. F. W. Russell, the wealthy merchant of that town, is resolved to contest the representation with him, and has already addressed the electors, offering himself, as "an Irishman and fellow citizen, in preference to "an Englishman and a stranger; and claiming their suffrages as a "friend of civil and religious liberty, without distinction of class or creed." Mr. Russell is a protestant, but he and his family are very popular in Limerick. 'the Lord Mayor presided, yesterday, at a meeting of citizens convened by one of the societies recently established here for the promotion of native manufac ture; the principal object of the meeting being that of co-operating in the efforts now made to obtain the establishment of a transatlantic packet station in Ireland. His lordship, in addressing the meeting, said : He attended a meeting in London on the 3rd of the month, at which between sixty and seventy members of the House of Commons were present, and he never saw at any meet ing more enthusiasm than was manifested by those gentle men, withview to carrying out the great work of an Irish packet station. They had certainly been, he must say, un fairly treated by the commissioners. He did not tax them with any wilful unfairness; but it seemed to him that they had forgotten altogether that Ireland was an inhabited country. (Cheers.) They entered into calculations as to the time occupied in transmitting individuals or goods from New York to Liverpool, and from New York to Holyhead ; but they appear to have last sight altogether of the fact that Ireland was inhabited, and that there were Irishmen and Irish goods to be conveyed to America. They considered which was the shortest way, and they considered British and American interests, but they Lott Irish interests out of the question. Several highly respectable mercantile men ex pressed their opinions on the subject under considera tion, and it was agreed that an aggregate meeting of the citizens should take place to dismiss the ques tion . An amalgamation of the two bodies into which the Society originally established for the Promotion of Irish 'Manufacture was split is about to take place, the secretary of the original board, to whom the fault of the division is attributed, being, by a resolution adopted yesterday, dismissed from his office. The Earl Fitzwilliam appears as a petitioner in the Encumbered Estates Court for the purpose of selling a property in the King's County. In opening the Tipperary Assizes yesterday, Judge Moore addressed the grand jury in the fol lowing terms : I regret to have to state that the calendar now before me presents an appearance of crime serious with respect to the number of persons, there being sixty individuals upon the crown book, and although I uucleistond the number to be less titan at former assizes, yet the cases to be disposed of are considerable, when we look to the very recent departure of the assistant barrister. I regret to perceive that you will have much business to discharge, and as regards the nature of the crimes with which parties stand charged, many of them are of a very serious nature. There are no fewer than six distinct cases of murder, but I have reasoa to hope with regard to some of them, that they ntuy not turn out to be offences of such an atrocious class; and with regard to one of them, you will have nothing to do, as the bill was found at the last assizes, and the trial postponed until now; but there is another case to come before you, gentlemen, to which I feel it necessary to call your par ticular attention. It appears that a female, Ellen Machen, stands charged with the wilful murder of two illegitimate children, and John Phelan is accused of being an accessory before the fact to the murder, and charged with having in stigated and procured the commission of the munler by that woman. I understand from the informations which have been sworn by this woman, that it is the intention of the er two to accept of her as tut approver, in order, if they can, to bring home guilt to the other person. Now you will, iu considering this very serious case, bear in mind that there is no species of evidence more open to suspicion, or requiring more carefully to be investigated, than the testimony of a person standing in the situation of au approver; and you could not safely act upon the testimony of an accomplice unless corroborated. I ant not aware of the corroborating circumstances of this case ; but if there should be no suffi cient evidence to set uo the testimony of the actual perpe trator of the murder, then you ought not to find the bill. There are no other murder cases upon the calendar to which it is necessary to direct your attention ; but, gentlemen, I am sorry to find 12 persons charged with a most serious offence, namely the burning of houses. I have read over the informations, and find that no less than eleven of the individuals accused are females; but I have reason to think that those offences have no connexion with the agrarian outrages which used to disgrace the county, but have origi nated from personal motives and for personal objects. CIIARGE OF CONSPIRACY TO MURDER. The very singular trial of Mr. William Blood Smith, and one of his retainers, for a conspiracy to murder his mother, was still proceeding at Ennis when the last accounts left. Mr. Brewster, Q.C., addressed the jury fur the prisoners en Thursday evening, his chief de fence being the extreme im probability of the charges brought, which would amount to this, that Mr. Smith had, with very little effort at concealment, employed some men to go themselves, or engage others to go front the county of Clare, to Kantwnek, in the county of Cork, for the pur pose of shooting his aged mother, merely because she wag in the enjoyment of an annuity which was drawn from his property. It would appear front the evidence that the projected murder was spoken of in the presence of several persons, that it was di:cussed in an office to which various labourers had access. The conspiracy is stated to have been entered into so long back as 1816, and a letter was produced by one of the witnesses that had been written by Mr. Smith in the following year, urging him to get back a sum of 20'. from another of the alleged accomplices, which sum they swore had been paid beforehand as the price of the intended murder. Mrs. Smith died a natural death since the period at which the present charge hail been first brought against her son. The case was thus detailed by the counsel for the crown. " The prisoner, Mr. Smyth, in 1816 suffered in his cir cumstances ;from the general pressure ; his estate was burdened with a jointure of 200!. a-year fur his mother, and that lady was in possession of house property in Dublin, amounting to 4001. or 500/. a-year, as of her estate fur life, with remainder to the prisoner. At the period named, an extensive combination for the commission of crime existed in the prisoner's neighbourhood. Whiteboy outrages, and even murders, had been contrived without regard even to secresy. This state of things had been happily put au end to by the special commission of 1848, but while it existed the prisoner would appear to have availed himself of it with a view to carry out his design on his mother's life. The case resolved itself into four periods, the earliest of which was in 1817. It would be proved that in that year the prisoners llelin and Smyth jointly soli cited ono John Corbett to commit the murder; also, that Melia, with Martin Mliamara, already mentioned, solicited two other persons named Thomas Corbett and Patrick Mickey to perpetrate it. The circumstances of these solicitations and the meetings of the parties would be fully deposed to as to establish a conspiracy ; and it would ho proved that Melia after his arrest made a formal admission before the magistrates, fully acknowledging his participation in these transactions. At this time, however, the design was not carried further. The second period was the months of December, 1847, and January, 1848. It would appear that at this period a sum of 201. of Mr. Smyth's money was in the hands of Martin M'Narnara, and it was alleged by the crown that it was given him in order to procure the assassination. At all events, he and Heins would be proved to have made the proposal to two persons named Michael Rowland and John Callinan, and to have mentioned the matter to several, offering money fur the purpose out of the 201. At this period Mr. Smyth was in Cove with his daughter, who died there on the 14th Jan., and it would be proved that ou the same night that she died, or on the next morning, he u - rote a letter to a tenant of his named Doulerty, urging him in the most press ing and extraordinary terms to apply to M'Namarn for the 201., and to make him return it. The construction which the crown put on this letter was, that he, for the time, re pented of his design, and abandoned, or at least suspended, its execution. The letter did not contain any expression which directly bore upon the charge, but the Jury would find that in some particulars it tallied in a remarkable manner with tho facts to be proved against him. The third period was May, 1848, when it appeared that Smyth and his confederates resumed their plan, and hired two men, named Connellan and M'Cormack, to carry it into effect. Mrs. Smyth, the old lady in question, resided with her younger son at Kanturk, in the county of Cork. The two assassins went thither on the 10th of MaMay, having tra velled through Limerick, where they purchased pistols. At Kanturk they failed to obtain an opportunity which they thought sufficient, and they returned without effect ing the murder. Witnesses would be produced who saw them together on the road when they were going and when they were returning ; and it would be shown by cir cumstantial evidence of the strongest kind that they were actually in Kanturk at the old lady's house, as upon their return they detailed certain particulars of the movements and occupation of the inmates on that particular day, which would be shown to be singularly accurate. The fourth period was August, 1818. Michael M'Cormick, one of the alleged conspirators, and one of the persons who actually attempted to commit the murder, became troublesome to Mr. Smyth. lie had retained possession of the pistols, and was very importunate, insisting that ho was promised payment without reference to success or failure. lie was the only one of the conspirators who was not a tenant or servant of Smyth's; but he was quite independent of him. Smyth ac cordingly contrived to send him out of the country. For this purpose 61. war advanced by a cattle dealer in Quin, of the name of Pat Moylan (Barrett), which sum was advanced on Smyth's credit, and repaid by him. l yt h g e e jlistols were given up to Smyth, and M ' Cormick was ship at Galwa for America. It would be shown that Etin himself took an active part in this negotiation; and it would appear, if the approver, Conaellan, spoke truly, that before u'Cor mick wu sent away, an attempt to take his life by poison was actually made, with the connivance of Smyth. This was the leading outline of the ease." The trial was brought to a close on Saturday night, at Ennis, by the jury returning the verdict of is'et Guilty. By the evidence produced for the defence it appeared that, during the very time when it was alleged that Mr. Smyth wee aerating the conspiracy, he was actually at gaged in proceedings to evict some of the pence; who have sworn that he instigated them to commit the Grime. The learned judge, in charging the jury, said that be never knew or heard of a charge supported by witnesses of so bad • character. _ . . The prisoners were forthwith discharged from custody. SPORTING. GOODWOOI) RACES. If at the ensuing meeting, as at many that have pre ceded it this season, the fi elds fall short for some of the principal events—aud that such will be the case is snore than probable—there is no reason to fear that there will be any decline in the character of the sport; that there will be no lack of it, we gather from the length of the pro gramme in the Sheet Calendars, extending to upwards of four columns, irrespective of the plates, &c., to close its the course of the week. The meeting commences on Tues day next, with five stakes already closed, the Craven Stakes, and a couple of plates. The standing engagements are the Ham Stakes of 100 son. each, h ft, for 2-yr olds, with 29 nominations, a perfectly open race; the Gratwicke Stakes of 100 sots. each, h ft, for 3-yr-olds, 37 nominations, Her nandez the favourite at odds against the "field," whisk is represented, however, by Miserrima, said to he a certain starter; the 300 Son. Stakes, h ft. for 4-yr-olds, with 5 nominations, but reduced to a match between Nutshell and William the Conqueror, and, as the second saves his stake, almost certain to produce a contest ; the Levant Stakes of 50 Soya. each, h It, for 2-yr-olds, with 21 nomi nations like the Ham Stakes a s-cry " dark " affair, but from t h e spirit with which the Goodwood homes have been backed for the Derby, looked upon as next door to a cer tainty for either Hoinebrewed, Maidstone, or Houlakin; and a Sweepstakes of 50 Sues. each, fur which Arista has only Kekietos and Midas to beat. Oa Wednesday there is a prospect of nine races, including the Stewards' Cup, and four others yet to be named fur. The great event of the day will be the Goodwood Stakes, for which 41 stand out of au entry of 116, but not above fifteen or sixteen at the out side expected to run. The Drawing Room Stakes of 25 sots. each, has 17 nominations, but %COIL, to be lett to Hesso Homburg, Mida.e.:and Mountain Deer. A Sweepatakcs of 300 sove. each, II ft, for fillies, looks like a certainty for Anspach, as a similar stake for colts is for Hernandez. Tho list for Thursday is very strong, comprehending as it dues, besides the Duke of Richmond's and the Anglesey I'lates (to be entered on Monday) the following valuable prizes :—Tho Goodwood Cup. with 30 nominations; the Molecumb Stakes of of 50 son. each, is ft, for 2-yr olds, with 19 nominations, including Chief Baron Nicholson, Frantic, each with a 51b penalty for winning, and the two G oodwood Derby favourites, Homebrewed and Maidstone • the first year of the Bentieck (Triennial) Memorial Stakes, of 10 sous. each, with 76 nominations, but, from the extraordinary ease with which Bay Itomlind carried off the Chesterfield Stakes at Newmarket, not likely to attract many starters; the " field " includes lied Iliad, winner of the Two-Years Old Triennial at Ascot, and all the Goodwood Derby favourites. The Racing Stakes of 50 son, each, for 3-vr olds, the nomi nations, 13 in number, embracing Midas , Harpsichord, The Confessor, Hippolytus, and But khotim, penaltis attach ing to Mi das as winner of the Prendergast and Newmarket Stakes. A Sweepstakes of 200 soya. each, p.p., for 2-yr olds, with 9 subs is a very open race, C.averhouee, beaten fur the July Shiites, being the only public runner. A p.p. lOU SM. Sweepstakes for 3-yr olds, 5 subs., is an apparent " certainty " for The Squaw, and the SIMICX Stakes of 25 soya. each, with 5 nomina tions, for Chief Baron Nicholson. On Friday, as the list stands at present, there will be only six races, one of them, a Sweepstakes of 100 son. each, h ft, fur 2-yr olds, being a walk over for Officieus or William the Conqueror ; the principal events will be the Nassau Stakes of .50 son. each, fur fillies, 19 nominations, including Aphrodite (6 IN. extra), The Squaw, and Anspach ; the Itiehinond Stakes of 25 son. each, 10 ft, fur 3-yr olds, with Iris Mlle extra), Hesse-llomburg (511 w extra), and The Squaw, as the pro bable starters ; the Chesterfield Cup (handicap), 33 entries ,• the Nursery Stakes (liandivap), of is mats. e a c h, ft, and 200 added, for 2-p olds, 31 entries. Most of the plates close on Monday evening next. The railway arimigements at the London-bridge station include specials and express trains every morning at ten o'clock, on Wednesday and Thursday at nine o'clock, and on the two lastmentiuned days cheap trains front London bridge at 7 am., calling at all the principal stations be tween London uud Brighton, and returning from Chiches ter at 7.30 p.m. Ample acemutuodation will be provided fur the visitors at Brighton, Worthing, Littlehampton, and Bognor, and special trains will run at one o'clock on Satur day next and two following days for the conveyance of race horses and carriages. MARLBOROUGH RACES.-Tu &MAT. 31mitma's rLATE 0(21 110•3., added to a SWeepIItOILCS of 3 sous. each, fur 3-yr-ulds and upwards ; the sirond to save his stake, and the winner to be sold for SOt. Heats, 1 mile and a distance. (3 subs.) . . . Mr. Laud's :Sb,htcap, 4 Tr. (3e L) (Trees, hut.) I Mr. Jones's Ambrose, 3 yrs (3411.) Mr. bbrimidou's Arlette, yrs (td.) 3 dr Won cleverly. Lames' PLATE of 23 son., added to a Sweepstakes of 3 sons. each, fur 3-yr-olds, &c. The winner to be sold fur 00 sots. Heats, three-quarters of a mile. (3 maim) Mr. Warnes Guam. 3y re (601.) (Vrease) I I Mr. Lautra Nights tp, 4 yen (301.) ....... 2 2 Mr. Judd's Sally p , ,/ ton, aged (101.) Won by there parts of a length. SA,VBSTAKE FORENT 2`.;TAKE/4 of 10 BOVi. each, 5 ft, and 3 only if declared, with 50 added. Quo mile and a half. (27 subs, 11 of whom declared.) air J. Hawley 's gam hanal.an, a yn, 7st fib ()teraden) 1 Mr. J. Day , mt Agis • yrs, 7st 410 3 Mr. J, ad lone, 7st Won by a length; the same between second and third. SWEEPSTAkkd of 10 sues. each, h ft, with 2.1 added for two and :3-yr-olds. Three-quarters of a mile. The winner to be scAd i?r . 300/.,.&e. sulT.) Str J. 11.wley's It...CU. 2 yre,6st I lai (Mermen) 0 1 Mr. Outliner 1....dy Biwiche. 2 no, 6et 1110 Mr. Whieldon's Grand Duke, 2 yrs, ist, and Mr. Jones nd Volante, 2 yrs, Gst 11th, also ran. A line ' , two between Pluck and Lady Blanche ended in :t dead heat; the decid ing heat was won by a length. fowN STAKES of 5 says. each, and 25 added, the second to save his stake, one mile and a distance (3 sulw.), wen, won in two heats hy Arlette, 4 yrs (Burns), beating Night cap, 1 yrs, and Sally Sutton, aged. GUILDFORD ItACES.—WEDS ES DAY. llErt MAJESTV'S PLATE of 100 Guinea+. lleata, 2 miles. 111 r. tarr.uace's bk c by Cardinal Puff. uut of Peggy 3 } rr, 7st 5,D (toner) 1 1 Mr, J. 9. Douglas's Don Pedro, 3 yes, 7st (Abr.abams 2 3 Mr. Iturusbuttocres Berber Dim% b yrs, Set 11. b (Duckera) 3 3 31r. Myttou'slll‘ss Nipper, yrs, lOstll3 . (A. B.ut) 4 4 Both heats won by a neck. Alsien : 10 sues., hR. Mr. W. Taylor's Princess (owner), beat Mr. White's Miss Frimley (owner). CHELMSFORD RACES.-MESDAY. (Come'A:urn.) REVIVAL STAILEB of 5 move. each, and 50 added. Half a mile. (6 cube.) Mr. Morris'r l'olgetty Girl, I rra,l4 131 b ( Itberton) I Mr. Joiuu.ton'.. aitea , ,..m , , 2 ITN 44 1111) Lord W. Powlett'n Fochabero. 3 yrs, 1.4 131 b 3 Alice Bray, Julia, and Prima Lonna tibia rau. Won by a length. WEDNESTAi% Cup STAKE 9 of 10 sore. each; the winner to be sold for 300 sows., ale. Three miles. (3 subs.) Mr Barrow'. A`4B'l.llLi yrs, o.t :lb (8. Roger.) I biz. T. Tyrrell ml the I Aronae, 5 yrs, bA 13lb (..• morn) 3 Taylors Michael Brume, S pa, sat Sib (11.,..act) 3 3to 1 on Abdallah. 'Won by two lengths. Ilea MAJESTY''. PLATH of 100 guineas. heats, two miles. Captain Haw rtlfe, Humus, 5 yre,Ost 111h...(eimpson) 0 I 1 Mr. Taylor's %chart Brunton, l ;re, Sat llb (Market) 1 2 Mr. Raymond's be m, seed, lOst elb . ..... . (May) 2 u dr Mr. Montegue's Wanderer, 3 )re, let 510 .. (E'harlh a) 0 0 dr Mr. Shaftu's Weelow. 3 yrs, llb (How re) fell 10 to 1 on Wcstow, who slipped up in rounding the top turn. Each beat won by a length. MARKS 11ALL STAKES of .5 54)% 4. each, end 25 added. The second to save his stake. Straight mile. (8 subs.) Mr. Yoster'e I'irebolt, 3 yrs, 1.1 631 (3(.1.) Lord W. Powlett'a Fuebaleere, 3 yrs, ht llb (1001.) (Hammond) I Mr. Johnston's Aitchbone, 2 yte, est 121 b (1001.) (tilterwood) Mr. Drewe's Swordplayer, 6 yre, est 31b (Arthur) 4 Mr. J. M. Wilson's Itodyn, wind, rat alb (Mt) (Wee) 3 BETTING AT 3IANCIIESTER—TuEstur. GOOD WOOD STAKES. . 7 to I apt Grand Duke (7 . 1 1; to T abet Dorton (t) 8 to 1 Nominees (t) 18 to I Windieclignitz (t) 9to I Presto (t) 20 to 1 Cothtail 9to 1 Iluesplarey Dalai I 03 to 1 British 1107 10 to I) GOODWOOD CUP. 7 to 2 apt Cariboo (1) 12 to 1 apt Landerwe (t) 9to 2 Nancy (1) 1 3 to 1 Choker (t) 8 to 1 Cossack (t) ST. I.[GER. 4to 1 apt Hernandez (1) 1 11 to I apt Newmiaater (1) II to 2 Aphrodite ID ..0 to 1 PreneMintater(t) 9 to 1 Miaorriza(t) 20 to 1 Viral /rails HACKNEY CARRIAGE TRADE BENEVOLENT INSTI TCTION.—Last night a public meeting was held at Exeter Hall in furtherance of the objects of this institution. Mr. J. B. Carter, M.P., occupied the chair, and, in opening the proceedings, gave a brief sketch of the rise, progress, and present position of the hackney carriage trade. lie said that at present there were 8,000 men connected with tho trade. These 8,000 would represent a population of about 40,000, and it was therefore of much importance that they should possess an institution such as that which had just been established. Ile did not think that the cabmen de served so much abuse as was heaped upon them, for although there might be "black sheep" amongst them, yet the cabmen of London presented a very in telligent and respectable body of , men. According to Mr. Mayne, of the metropolitan police, the character of the cabmen, was gradually improving, .and there appeared amongst them a strong and growing disposition to elevate themselves. This sort of elevation was the best of all im provement. The object of the institution seas to secure for the cabman, when he:should fall into misfortune and po verty, the benefit of small savings which he might deposit in his more prosperous days. Such an institution was not only deserving of the support of the trade, but one emi nently entitled to the encouragement of every benevolent mind. A number of addresses were afterwards delivered by Mr. Cochrane and others, encouraging the cabmen to use their utmost endeavours to raise themselves in the scale of comfort and morality; and a number of resolutions were adopted declaring the institution to be worthy of the sup port and confidence of the trade and the public in general, and pledging tho meeting to do all in their power to pro mote the prosperity of the institution. r.`r :jab -1-ettJ AA - OS )06 aro• ;aft I ( •