The Express. — London, England, 1848-10-24 00:00:00

atty. Sam .ro so far as to accuse Rossi of being in con nivance n ~li the Cur, and that he is not averse to a loin of four million dollars from the coffers of the Kremlin, on the principle laid down hers lty Veep,- sin lag ago that oohs retains no smell. But these who know Rossi better are fully aware that he looks to quite another source for the rescuing of our embo wer hem bankruptzy, and that be is for bringing to the limner a huge slice of our inerimain lands, and ingsing free a quantity of broad acres, national pro =hut vosesined by that class in the nation ce ded 'I he amount of this property is calculated at axty millions of dollars, and, as the national debt is bit thirty-seven millions, there are still abundant roo mer within the Roman territory to pay Hainan Hague, How far he can prevail an the Pope to sanc tion this measure I cannot foresee, but already the g n i step .• taken, and what has just been mortgaged stay as well be sold outright. As the name of Rossi seems destined to figure in papal history, it may be right to give a few biers pineal notions of this personage. He was born in the Stile town of Mama Carrara, at the time it was by the Archduchess Maria Beatrice, about reli r , ill ett hence was ushered into life an Austrian subject. In 1808 a decree of Napoleon made him • Frenchman, by converting Carrara and the duchy into a Aepartua , nt of the empire. We soon find him at Balms a practising lawyer, and in 1814 a subject of the Pope, but having cast his destiny with Joachim Warm, w.- Suddenly discover him at Naples a natu ralised N. „politic, and joined with Sabi in a revalu- Pwiese. tempt. After Murat's discomfiture he ti.. Alps, and settling at Geneva, married a wife, and became a naturalised Helvetian in 1820. He got a seat at the cantonal council board and the Head diet, and sowed the germ of " central authority," out of which sprung the Son derband. Having made acquaintance with the Due de Brogli. at the Chateau of Coppet, so famous for the various great men and women who have met there, he managed to negotiate through him with Guizot fot a professorship of jurisprudence at the Sorbonne. and Rot it, becoming naturalised at Paris. Hi' chair was not a bed of roses at first, being pelted by the law student', and requiring the presence of rg'innerie to carry on his lectures. But his cru ised method, and genuine ability, soon tri umphed over prejudice. He was a constant contri butes to the press, and wrote the " summary of poli ties" in the Revise dm deux Monde,; was made peer el France for his successful embassy to Rome, where the Cantle intriguers, and fanatics, threw every °b abel* in his way, not sparing calumny, of course; be bad a hand in the election of Pio Nano; and is now his prime minister. What next ? FRANCK—Tag ADVERTISING SEMEN IN THU rum Pass Some ehanres have been taking place in the system of advertising in the French press which de some node . a• they are a step in the direction which has ken 7 been given in Ragland towards the reform of this de mimosa eljearnaliess. In Prance advertisements of a kind whisk engin to preclude their publication are habitually put Y. The rich company, which desire. the extra share of PublVto be attained by capital letters, does so at the ea psnies tho small advertiser, who cannot afford to pay for ie eemerary space. All these abuses are now done away et* ia the Purse ; and the reform is dm to the spirit of its =k, .R. de Girudin and M. Loynd, his agent, the latevilog 311 written a pamphlet on the subject, which may tame other journals to follow the example wt by the Pram The reforms of M. de Girardin democratises the Mof a.! earthing by unity of type and similarity of price. 0C11,41110t capital letters are abolished, and the ad-1 sertisements are classed as in the London journals. This is a step in the right direetiou, sod the more praiseworthy, as ' it mast at first entail somewhat of lises to the first advocates of the system. SWITZERLAND.--The legation of the German empire in Seitz:Baal has addressed a note to the Directory, remeatim i to send instructions to the cantons! govern ments to cause all persons to be arrested who are seepected of having talon pert in the murder of Prime Lichnowsky sad Heir vim Asermald. These persona are 20 is number, end *Oil names and desaiptiuns have been circulated. The supreme federal authority has intimated the above to the states, who +ill know how to make a di-Ail:dim between an. intimate political rehgees, to whom awl- anima never re tests an asylum, and infamous manias, who taut be mover reproba. sal ted §ERBI.I.—DEATII Or THE SHAIL—The Journal Js Cautantueople has the following : " Letters from Persia, via Ttebisood, which arrived here, announce an important event. The King of Persia, Mohammed Shah, died at Te heran from a violent attack of gout, to which he had long been subject. Mohammed Shah, son of Abbas, sad grand son of Fent Ali Shah, who died in 1834, and whom he sue muted to the throne of Persia, was the third sovereign of the moiety of the !Inkier', founded in 1704 by Art Mo hammed Khaa. He was born in 1806. sad his heir, Naibus &inmost. governor of Ausbaidjaa, is eighteen man of age. If the sows of the death of the King of Persia be emanated, it is probable that the Baler, who is in arms near Khorasan, will march upon Teheran, whale the princes, who have taken refuge on the fron tiers of Turkey, in easamseser of events which have taken place in Persia at different periods, and among whom are Amefed Dewlet, the Shah's maternal uncle, and Zail-ua %oldies, who reigned for several months after the death of NW AU Shah, under the name of Ali Shah, will probably make some attempt on the southern provinces, where they have numerous p.irthans. These two last princes are at this time at Hanka', living upon a pension granted them by the Ottoman government. It is said that the communications between Tawas sad Teheran are already intercepted." !Mt Court. WINDSOR, MONDAY.—Prinoe Albert enjoyed the apart of shooting this ationieg. The royal diarer party at the Castle this swain/ will include the Beckon of Ken, the Prioress of HokeolohoLaagenbouri t Lady Anna lima Dawson, &mine de Bpeth, Lord sad Lady Rutheeo, sad Mr. O. B. sad the His. Mrs. Ansa. The Earl of Claremdon had an interview with Lord 3. Rama yesterday at his official 'widens* in Downing. street. The noble earl had also an interview yesterday with Sir G. Orey. The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town yesterday OV•13/111 from hie meat, Hickleton.hall, Yorkshire Mr. Viryld, M.P., had an interview with Sir 0. G e re yesterday erd at the Hemetalce. tau* were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial office foe the Governor of Bt. -Helena. TUE Otrearstot or Jausica.—We understand that lettere have been reenived from Jamaica, from Sir Citable Greys family, stating that his tall from the mule was by no MIMS es seism as woe reported, end that there is no truth in the story of hie having bad the yellow fever. DEATH OT But ROBERT D. HOES &THIN @TONI, BAILT.—We hart to record the demise of the above venerable honest, who expired • ifsw days ethos, at Logic Elphinstons, Aberdeenshire. The late Deanna was second son of General Robert Dahymple, who married the heiress of the late Sir imam Elphinstese, of Logic, and who on the death of her kthsr assumed the eases of Horn Ziphinstone. Hs was ben 27th ,•b. 17014 and had eon. seqaenlv nearly attained ths advanced age of 83 yeses. In May, 1800, he married Him Grams, ditagbtar of Coionsl David Hepburn, by wham hts leaves a anmarons family. The deceased was created a barons! in Dia, 1827. by the same designation as his mat rest graadither and has been for many years a depetrileatensat of Aberdeenshire. The late baronet to sureseded la the baronetcy and large estates by his second son Janes:born 20th Nov., 1805, and married 27th April, 1838. Mary, fourth daughter of the late Limit.. O. for John Hama Maxwell, Bart. The deceased was Cat:n of Lord Dunmore, and a collateral member of le boors of Stair, and was nearly related to the Dasher de Coigny, the Countess of Csaapardown, Sir Henry Hamilton Dalrymple, Lady Barnett. &a MIDDLESEX REGISTRATION. 'The lists mimed yesterday wen those at Edgware, Finchley, Ornt and Lit tle Btaamores. Barrow, Hendon. Kingsbury, and Pinner. In the Harrow new claim list a Mr. Whiteliend claimed as the of an estate, without describing whether it was old, eopyhold, or leasehold. The barrister said such a description w E. clearly bad in law, and intimated that had there teen any person present to object (the agents on neither side were in attendance), he should certainly not allow the claim ; bat as there was no objection raised, he should consider that his attention bad not been called to it, and allow the name ft stand.—The court sits to-day at t►e King's Head, Enfield. - REAL DM. MONIS 111241 . .10 ASSOCII7IOI4.—A west lag of :he directors and proprietors of Shia company was held yesterday at their ellen iss Duke-street, Adelphi, foe the of confirming or dissenting frost a resolution adopted on the 25th nit , whereby the comp. ay was 'greed W be eleioased.-8w R. Prise hook the chair, sad after thu notice Convening the meeting had bees reed, Sited that it had been hoped by the dew the preset meeting would as- male the reket from Means would have wrived, but en fist wee not the ass, is sad hie brother directors w re of /risks the enostiag, which was far the purpose of agreeing M a Anal dismantion of dm sempasy, ought to be adjourned he ewe week la order to Word time for the packet to arrive. —3le. Borne Twigs, Q.C., accordingly wined that the wa mist* be adjourned nada Woodsy, Oet. 30, et three rds, whisk wee anaidasously erred to. WESTERN 'man alma' FREE BcflooL—'lts mewl sauna' nualaaties of the pupils of the above charit able Jesting:l-a took plea, rends, at the new school room, 30, Deaa-street, Soho, the Dake of Cambridge presiding. • report was road by the secretary, from which it appeared that the progress of the school since its commencement had he.. most satisfectory. The number of pet hod increased boa 13 to 6.3. and 11 of the children who bees - Used oat had girls the utmost satisfaction to their as. The committer had bow obliged to draw 601. of the reserve And from the sailer beak, but trusted that future sub• soriptions would enable them to replace it, and to *Mead then spier, of usefulness. TM report having hew adopted, the chiLren were emairml by the chief rabbi is aripturs history, Hebrew, and the use' trismeagen branches of an English education, attar whish ea esserkeel ode was recited aWs meth preggien of mobs& by Bawds* Phillips, one et een tr a mpile, sad the pairs bentai hem distributed and a ade, the preessdiege tonalsated. Tee Cdeadde.—Oue fatal yea wee repotted to the tisane' Bend of Health se having occurred la the Lanka lisepbaL Peon the rebus loose sew nee end Owe lade at patinae blare reported. Two huh arse at Newhaven mad bee dodo. roar at Leith rad sae death. A use has oureesodi at Ilwomes, and cue at kioitaseeetruth. Oer Weald& assoupeadeat mites that the two woe relined te yeeloodei, those of the convict on baud the Bahl hosphol 044 Wedwiek, sad Maly, the rime, beiseake telteetwish Deskyord, leave both brad.. sued fatally; Foressately there have bees ao aew coals the tows, sad it has bees awertalsed. ia additica to the facts stated yesterday, that Mealy h bees oa various occasion previously attached with dysentery. Then have bees se freak doubt is board the fauvist belts, but emend sow cues, three or bur of which are stated to be very desseroas. The system of hulking, eves in the hospital ship, is so bed as hardly to admit of proper natilatioa, sat on board the Julitla there were many of the berths into which the analit sever could enter, whilst is others the only aperture for the admisaion of air was a few square lashes in area. The mortality is not nearly so great now as It was in April, 1841, when brow. chide sad pneumonia prevailed in the hulks, and when at cm* time nine ingrate were held on convicts in one week. At that time thelocal papers pointed out the propriety of abolishing the system of hulking. a suggestion which unfor tunately was not attended to. The first fatal case of cholera on board the hulks occurred just three weeks since, and since that time thirteen deaths have occurred out of between forty and fifty persons attacked. The town is declared by , all the medical men to be man healthy than it has been for years past. THE MILITARY AND NAVAL EXPENDITURE OF ENGLAND:IOV few people ever realise in their own minds what is the meaning of a sum of mosey such as 18,600,0001. a year, spent for the support of a warlike establishment It was well observed by Mr. Henry Drum mond that such sums convey no more idea ordinarily of what is meant than astronomers do whet they spea k of the distance of this planet from the sue. The beet way of impressing it on people's miods is by coesperier it with something that they come in contact wills in ordinary lite. A Manchester man will understand us when we my that the above sum would pay for all the buildings in this borough—that two years of such expenditure would devour • stun equal to the whole of the capital employed in the cotton trade. A fanner would comprehead what we meant if we spoke of • fund which, if employed is egeinelture, would pay 10s. • week to more them 700.000 labourers throughout the year —as mach as is paid to ell the peasantry in England and Wales—or u much as would drain every year upwards of four million acres of land. Now, it this uge outlay to w nsessary to preserve our shorn from being invaded, our destroyed, and our fertile fields ravaged, then it cahoot be called unproductive; t n the contrary, it would enter into all production, since ti/1 capital and labour would depend upon the seeuri , y afforded by our armaments for their safe employment. But every soldier not for defence, and every ship of war more than Is require for our security, are a pure waste and destruction of capital, yielding no return whatever; and the real and only ques tion before us is—whet is the amount of danger, and to what extent is it nenerary to provide against it ? Every /kashmir has a right to • voice in the solution of the guestioa. For our parte, we should be willing to risk the gradual reduction of our armaments until they were breacht down to a out not exceeding 10,000,000 i. a year, ad to trust to Providence fur our safety, whilst offering the first example of a partial disarmament. This would with savings in other benches of the exec ad'inte, anon pre; about ten millions of revenue at the disposal of government for the reduction of taxation ; and we are of opinion that mere real strength and consequent security would accrue to the nation from the prosperity and contentment that would to spring out of the remh eim of excise and customs duties that amount than In any expenditure, however great, upon soldiers and sailors. It is of course understood that each a project involves the necessity of remodelling our colonial system, and of reverting to the old constitutional mode of government at home by the civil and not the military power. —llanclirster Tuna. Lows BLANC'S FATHEIL—M. Louis Blanc has addressed the following letter to a morning paper, respecting a paragraph which also appeared in the Express :—Sir,— A libel, published at Paris, and copied into your paper of ' yesterday, asserts that my father died last week in extreme destitution. This, sir, is an infamous falsehood, and under it is toweled a most odious insinuation. fin years have pared sines my father dii d, and all who were acquainted with him are perfectly well aware of the deep affection, of the tender areL and of the devotion with which his children always attended him. Then are some talacenite so vile that an honest man is apt to hesitate in lowering himself to the level of his calumniators in order to confound them. In this instance, however, I find myself obliged to overcome the disgust that mash villanies inspire, to demonstrate the low degree of basemen to which political hatred can descend.— I have the honesty to be, sir, your obedient servant, Lords BLANC. Londou, 128, Piemdilly, Oct. 22, 1848. FREEHOLDS AND Votes FOB WORKING MEN: —Sir.—" The 40.. freehold " u, after all, the only laver upon which we can rely to overthrow all opposition te legitimate reform. The "Birmingham Freehold Lind Society" is paving the way for an extensive and vigorous attack upon the monopolists of the counties, and which I am sure will speedily be followed by other influential towns and cities. We have been in existence 13 months, number 987 members holdiag 1,438 shares, and had not trade so long been lan (tithing, I verily believe we should now have numbered nearly 5 000. We have given 195 allotments to our mem bers at • con of a sam averaging 191. each, each alot meat containing 7 yards front and 60 yard. deep of eligible building land. Each of the allotting is qualified as county voter; the annual value of their plots of land being placed beyond all doubt, some having already let off on a building lease of 99 years, for 50s. per annum. Here, sir, is a mode of extend ing the suffrage that admits of no question, and has enabled us to give the franchise to more men in nine months than all the agitation has given them in aim years. Ths power of union is also manifest. The leading features of this misty being to buy building land at the wholesale prim, and Man it to the members at the same price. The difference *slat ing between wholesale and retail prices of land is alarm latredible, and requires some facts to convince parties unaccuainted with them to believe it. Land which was asked and worth 3s. 4d. per yard retail, his bees purchased wholesale et Is. Id'. per yard, This has been done by our society. Had our ellottees individually made their own parakeets, each allotment, lasted of averaging 19f., would have been about 571. Who, then, I ask, will not have a piece of freehold, and • vote for the county into the bargain ? I conjure all professing reformers to immediately turn their attention to this subject. West Yorkshire and South Lancashire were easily subdued by individual tanks brought to beer on those important dile& none; and I am as fally onvinced as evident. can make me, that the whole of the 62 counties may be before the next magnesia' electior, by the means of " frnhold land socie ties," placed in the heads of the friends of civil, religious, and commercial freedom. To this nun, then, I implore the aid of the influential and affluent. Let "county qualifies. tics" societies be everywhere formed. Working men, who really value their " charter," will join them. We, in Biming. ham, with our allies, have meteor " evil intentions"upen three county divisions, via , North Warwick, East Worcester, and South Stafford, and " win" them we certainly shall ! Hur rah for the day whim my fellow working men shall exercise their maiden vote, and defeat those who have had posse alen ta i t g i u tr of these counties! North Warwick will be the first weaned st from tory thraldom. I long to see the day come (and acme it Infallibly will) when we shall meth to the polling-booths with our banner floating gently In the breeze, with the Inscription in gilded characters "Qualified free holds!' and totem through the instrumentality of the Free hold Land Society," the band plavint in triumphant metes " See, the conquering heroes come." That every county di vision may enjoy the pleasures of such a day, and such a soma* Mr. Editor, the ardent hope and firm belief of yours faithfully, Elscarraxv.—Birmingham, Oct 23. FRENCH NATIONAL GUARDS IN THE METRO-' erotic— Last night upwards of 400 of th e Parisian National Guard, attired in their mileage sad wearing ithearms, arrived is the metropolis, aid the Beath Linea Seaway. From Lotdon.bridge a awaked* of assthusse sad Wei eon. veyed them to the foreign hotels fa the vialskF of Limner. square : • great number marching in data red gages at• traded eonsiderable curiosity as they peeled thrash the thoroughfares. The hotels in the ninthly at the Hey market, Leicester-square, and Regent-ferest, were maned to overdriving by the =expected influx, an d essay of them were compelled to put up with very indifferent assimmoda tion. 600 more are expected to-day. A Illajodillas of officers will, before their departure, wan on the Lewd Mayor and aldermen of the City of Leaden, to invite them to a grand banquet in the city of Park. One pan, mode dais way on to the Seven Dials. nets appetraaso on this spot soon created a great crowd, ameassl whom were two of the Coldstream Guards, who limit hands with the Pensions, who in their tors ex claimed " Vive TAngleterre !" at which the crowd seemed highly delighted. About 9 o'clock a disgraceful act was committed by two other grenadier guardsmen. Two' of the French national guards were passing up Fleet street, when they were accosted by the two grenadiers', in a friendly manner. They invited the grenadiers into the wine-vaults, to cement the friendship by a glen at the bar. A sovereign was tendered by sue of the aatioual guards in payment, and upon the change having been plated upon the counter one of the greasdien to up • por tion of the money and placed it in his pocket This did sot escape the notice of several weans at the bar, who immediately interfered, and demanded that the money should be returned, but the de:inquests refuges, the polite were called in, and the fellows conveyed to the station house in Fleet-street—not, however, before the police had been very roughly handled by the prirmen. The national guardsmen, through their interpreter, begged in the strongest terms to have the men sent to barracks, and no more notice taken of the matter, but this the inspector on duty most positively refused to accede to. the amount pin. loiaed, 125., having been found upon them. They were locked up, and will be brought u" to Guildhall this dn. Some of the omnibus conductors also behaved very ill to the 'tauten by overcharging them In some instances the dis pute. which arose la consequence had to be settled by the P olice. SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAVELLING.—The queen, in her late journey from Scotland t: &veiled over .500 by railway, and when it is known that over this distance her majesty was conveyed, without any previous notice, at the rate of 35 miles an hour including stoppages—at a rate amounting to but sot exesieding at any time, 50 miles au hour, over a country rising twice to an el-cation of 1,000 feet above the level of the sea, and descending, at interme diate stations, nearly to the level of the sex, and so coiveyed, without the fthtest cause for alas:—we may be per mitted to say that the railways of &Bale, under their present systems of management, have reached an meant of perfection. Mularity, and security, unanzpassable end Qum aaMmid for.famoir Oaserier. THE HUNGARIAN QUORTION.--liiir.—ld dime" tuna of the manifold tepreeenqUess boned forth by the Times, I beg that yea will Mum the following. In cite of their yteadea ce pertiel Owes end fed.. infermees, maistado IBM the Reaprien Dist w sad ham been always reisgairlir as few& the Iseparti. I say skywards the , _he Ide art *ilk Mu they (struggling for Men own aerdersalltylmight um to have melded la the Italian war. They, ea the misery, ought rather to have at aloe withdrawn Male teeMingem (some 20,000 men), and that dime, Smionad e walk all big 'opener generakship, scald never have meimmemed lb. Nidsmese. That wee a political crime whisk summta yam unavenged and their punishment has bum, that while their eatinel troops In Italy were aiding to direst bask Medea Albert into Pledstrat, the Ban J 41.- chiefs, by the geomytlags of treacherous eamariNa—Oce the idiot emperor h may a tog in the lamb of knaves and Beds) —with a figarealan faros of Creak fisevien, and birder troops, withdrawn ham the Todd& trestier, ammenesil a AM-diarist lidamsden imaneellea ovine the opmendes of Use Hanarimis l New es the political engine of s Gawp moms been so mash and as is thin asp for, Ice feet, no epyromlos =bed whatever. Let am Malt a little to show low Hungary Mead io reseed M freedom, even Were the ravolatimos The p d the kingdom of Buggery ( • larger proportion et Mears Mon maally mg= oso of some 12,000000 moan. Of these Magyars ; and then also am Lull 1,000,0173 Cierames who sympathise with them. Next come about_ memo et Wel- Mauna, who are of Italian origin; 300,000 Jews; sad the raid,. composed of Sclavonians vie., .em 2,00,000 tiLowacks to the such, 600,000 &mitotic' la the Notre and about 1,600,000 Croatians and Serviette in the smith. ' The old constitution was decidedly aristocratic, the only sneers being 260,000 nobles of the tree cities. Yet they of them selves abrogated the law, which did not impose any tax on the nobles, end likewise, in 1840, placed all religions upon an equality—Romaniet,Oreek, and Calvinist, of which creed nearly 2,600,000 of the Magyars are, and the same also for the Jews. Such being the case when the nvolution of March took place at Vienna, they wrongfully, as before stated, agreeing to support the Emperor against hely, obtained from him, when a fugitive at lanspruck, his assent to their having a ministry separate from Vienna, in width ministry Kossuth has since taken so prominent a part. The List then (Alban chised all males of 21 years within the realm, and a most .tended tenant right we. given to all the farmers of that fertile soil. Thus end all the fictions of oppression practised by the Magyar on the Bcl-woolen race. They have offered them p.rfect equality with themselves; and, bat for the in. trim'a of the court party, perfect contentment would have followed. Such is the people and such the present constitu• tioo, which the camarilla seek again to reduce to the bu reaucratic domination of Vienna, by means of Jellachich and the Croat borderers from the military frontier.—Poiro- MAOYAa.—Oct. 21, 1348. MARBLE VENEERING, OR SLATY PAINT.—Ice Ohio, according to a New York paper, a Mr. Blake, of Akron, has discovered a minims mineral, soft at first, and like indigo, but hardening in a few days lot., a airy stone. On analysis it Is found to consist of shout one-half silica, one-fourth alumina, with magnesia, oxide and sulphate of Iron, li me , and carboa. By reducing it to fine powder, mi x i ng w i t h linseed oil into thick paint, and applying it with a brush to , wood, iron, tin, Cm, or brick, it become., after a few month s ' exposure, perteetly hard and indestructible. As a protection , against fire, it is said to be invaluable. In the west it is in large demand for covering roofs of buildings, for bridges, and fences, &c., all of which it protects from weather m well as from fire. School slates are manu factured by applying it to thin wood or paste board. On wooden mantel fronts and tables its appeal-mos, when polished, is held to be not inferior to the finest Egyp tian marble. Mr. Blake has procured a patent for his die covery. Would not Portland cement, in fine powder, and thus applied, a ith linen d oil, produce a slaty veneer over similar surfaces We maks a present of the suggestion to foe Portland cement manufacturer,. Parien cement mixes web oil, and might thus, we think, be usid as paint, or for !Amy veneering ; and certain'. the surface of blocks of Port landsmen' reminds one a good deal of slate; the hardening, too, Gem a soft or moist state very much adds to the mem blame which it hears to this new worla's wonder. By the wsy, sibs, with lime, has been found, if we mistake not, to forte a bon of glaze well adapted to give a story veneering, like this, to plaster. —The Builder. A MEDY:O-LEGAL QUESTIOIL—A rather puzzling use of allegel re . suicide is ported in the Alumna d'flygirae. A woman is tosno asphyxiated by the fumes of charred, end her husband sties that he and deceased had agreed to com mit suicide, but fiat he had survived the of ma of the car bonic acid gas. Now the question was to ascertain whether, in the eireanistatices qi which he woe placed, he could have resisted aephyzia, as he maintained ? Wm it not likely that he destroyed his wife by she coal fumes, and placed himself In such a way as to simulate a double attempt at 'snide ? The medical men consulted on this ma tt er r eso l ve d to place everything in the nom in the manner pointed out by the I prisoner; to produce the same evolutioo sh e g as , cud t „ sae the effect it would produce on the identical lamp which swig continued to burn whilst the supposed attempt at asphyxia was going on. They expected, moreover, thus to discover to what extent the air breams deteriorated In a ghee time, and thereby to judge of the yoke of the prisoner's es. motions. Now it bapoeoed that the lamp went out is a much shorter time than the alleged attempt at suicide—es. cording to the prisoner's own matements—lasted, and Oat 'the air became so soon deadly that it would have been in possible for the husband to do certain acts which he snood having performed, a much longer time after the charnel was lighted—namely, the descending into his shop Ow vas a grocer), the reaching down of a Jar of alcohol, and she getting up again into . the room with the jar in one hand sod the lamp in the ether. The prisoasr stated besides, that le had swallowed three large glares of alcohol, but nothing, when he was found, pointed to the ingestion of so enonneu an amount of spirits. The medical witnesses therefore es slimed the following question in the negative—Can the pel. saner have been placed in the same asphyxiating circus. stances as his wife, and not fall a victim to the fames d charcoal as wells herself Lama. A SHERIFF'S WIFE ROBBED. Oa Sunday last the lady of Mr. Oaodhart, one of the sheri ff s, was robbed of a pans containing several sovereigns and some silver. The lord mayor and the sheriffs and their ladies attended the charity sermon at the church of St. Catherine Cr.., is Leadsnhall-street, and on going to their carriages alter the service a wall-dreoesd boy, who stood behind Mrs. Goodbodt, whipped the passe oat so cleverly as to get out of t before it was mimed. Of late the depredations committed by well. dread boys and females who look like respectable mothers of families have been innumerable. The cleverness with which the robberies have been committed is stated by the police to be very remarkable. ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. —Yesterday evening, on the approach of the half.pest 6, P.n., train, towards the Shoreditch termini, of the above railway, Richard Ellie, a man employed in the telegraphic depart ment of the line, inoantiondy attempted to stsp oat of tho I caoriags on to t he platform, whilst the train was in motion, cm doing which his km slipped and he fen under the wheal. The result was instantaneous death, hisbody being mutilated in a most horrible manner, and his head nearly severed from It. No blame can be attached to any person but himself, him oompaaions in the carriage having ineffectually rinnonatrated with him on the folly of tits attempt. THE GREAT PRISONS OF LONDON.- WHITACRqBB:STRERT. Whitecroos. strwe prism. II has been built at different time., but always with the some purpose. It has never been a place of confinement for cried. nab, and consequently it presents a totally different aspect to the eye of the visitor from any of the gaols which we have hitherto inspected. This is observable in the character of the building as well as in the characters of its inmates Then ion° work of any kind going forward. No attempt to offer or afford the unfortunates any sort of instruction is visible. Many of them, of course, do not need it—and others, who do, would not avail themselves of the privilege if it were held out to them. But probably numbers would. There is, however, a religious service once a day, and twice on a Sunday. A majority of the &terms —it would sound harshly were the term prisoner ap plied to a debtor—attend upon these occasions; bat no one is fouled to do so, and many exercise the Englishman's right of pleasing themselves in the matter. In point of fact, the governor and officers of this gaol have little or no power over their charges beyond what is absolutely nsorneary to their safe custody. Whitecrossetreet prison is divided into six distinct di visions, or wards, respectively called:-1, the Middlesex ward; 2, the Poultry and Gilr-street ward; 3, the Lud gate ward ; 4, the dietary 6, the remand wad; 6, the female ward. These wards are quite *operate, and no eamanniestion is permitted between the inmate, of one and amettage. Before commencing our rounds we gain from osassostion with the intelligent and civil governor an item or teas elussfal preliminary information. The establishment is engable se holding five hundred pstus• It is, however, very idiom that half that number is confined within its walls at tee time. At this period last year it had 147 inmates; the pressure of the times has sines considerably increased the total. There are now 205, of which number 8 are females. The population of this prison is, however, very migratory. Last year there were 113 lets than 1,143 commitments. This shows an advance upon previous yeah, the result of the operation of the Small Debts Act, • part of the building having been set apart for persons committed under that act. Many debtors we now sent hither fora fixed term, mead ten days, at the expiration of which they are This punishment is principally inflicted for contempt of court. A woman was recen.ly locked up here fa ten days, for contempt, because u' able or unwilling—it was difficult to say which—to &rasese a debt of Deserver).* ! In all such cases a more penal discipline is enforced. The person incar cerated is not allowed to maintain him or herself, but is compelled to accept the oounty allowance. However, as the pion dist is very good, this is so very great hardship; and as their terms are always shoet,these are not the most unfor tunate of the inmates utWhiteero!svtreet. _ _ Now te us enter the first or kliddirsez ward. It is appro priated to the use of debtoe from the c oun ty— w h ence its name—bat not from the City ; and this being a very largo ereimdfaency, it has a very ecomidsrable sad diversified number of representitives here. We come suddenly Into a spacious yard, nagged, kan, and airy considering the dense part of the City in which the prison stands. Its now visit ing boor (10 to 1, sod 2 to 4), and the yard is con sequently crowded. We may as well state, for the in'orms lion of such as have no knowledge of the police of a debtors' prison, that within Ve visiting boon auy person can enter the gaol to see his friends and acquaintance with out restriction. The scene, though not wit►out great inte rest, Ind even EOM touches of the picturesque, is suggestive THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, 1848, One most melancholy thoughts. The •eirea is filled with men and women—many of them honest, and all unfortunate. ' No one here bat has a sad tabs to tell. The world has gone wrong with all of them ; but hops has not leR their per. turbated hauls. Their wives and sisters ppesrrhapseom,to see them daily, and they go on In a daily dalliuee with hope of deliverance which does nor fructify. Round the yard a number of benches are placed : moo and women are seated upon them. Though clearly husbands and wives, there is • palatal mark of distinction about thug. The dear ermine have evidently &seed themselves in their best and brightest attire that they may look more cheerful than they are ; to add no wei g ht of sed refieetioa to that which already preys upon their lords in duress. There are smiles—but painfully sad ones—on their faces, and a forced sprightliness of manner, which probably answers its considerate aim. The men look for the most part stricken and woe begone ; their dress is neglected; them' clothes ill put on and disor derly; some of the Menus are smoking Inc pipes with the resigned and settled air of Orientals—they have app :sanely ceased to struggle with their fate. They seem to be alone— unvisited. Several of these persons have been locked up here Ave, six, or seven years—and are no nearer their release now than at their first crossing the threshold. Others of the motley group are lounging jauntily about wi t h a reckless and deed-may-ewe manner; many are engaged in low and earnest whisoen with their visiters, doubtless resolving various pleas for effecting the one great object—liberation. Whether meat to pity those wb• seem most dejected by their position one knows not. For how much a person must have suffered —how very dark must the wort I be to a man—before he can cease to struggle to get tree, ere be can grow reconciled to a living grove like this ! One had much better be trans ported than seat to this prison for seven or ten years. In Australia, by indenty end good conduct, • convict may re deem himself, may recover a position, and amass wealth. All that it quite impossible here. The poor debtor can do nothing but waste his time—which, to an active nature, con sumes the brain as well. Looting on these polo and passion less faces, where the brusque energy which can alone com bat sod conquer the obstacles which beset every man's path in lite, seems lading away into utter supineness and idiom) ; one can comprehend the siguificance of that strong phrase of the relentless creditor—too often lightly spoken by those who know not its terrible meaning—" Let him rot in gaol !" Round this yard are the lofty walls of the prison, 'mild- Inge several stories high. On one side is a large board, con taining a list of the benefactors of this portion of the prison. There are similar benefactions to each ward. Am oigst others, iNse from Nell Gwyune, whieh is still periodically distributed in the shape of so many loaves of bread, attracts attention. Them donations us now employed is hiring some of the poorer of the prisoners to make the beds clean the floors, and do other menial offices for the rest. Paining through a door in the yard, we enter the day-room of this ward. There an benches and tables down the sides, as in some of Unclose, coffeehouses in London, and a large fire at the end, at which each man cooks, or has cooked for him, his victuals. On the well a number of pigeon-holes, or small cupboards, are plated, tech man having the key of one, and keeping therein his bread and butter, tea and coffee, and so forth. These things are all brought in. and no stint is placed upon the quantity consumed. A man may Lye in the prison who has been ac customed to good living, though he cannot live well. All kinds of luxuries are prohibited, se are also spirituous drinks. R-ch man may have •pint of wine • day, but not more; and elm, cards, and all other instruments for ga m i ng are strictly vetoed. Chess is, howeter, permitted, and to a chosen few serves to relieve the tedium of • duresse which has no time ' consuming occupation. This day-room—the best, perhaps, in the whole establishment—is anything but agreeable. Score-room, cooking-room, sitting room, dining-room, read ing-room, and smoking-room for about forty to sixty persons : it is necomnly full of many scents, and is a:11 but as foal as the streets of Cologne. Yet every man who is sent hither, answering tone condition of the ward, is compelled to take his share of the desapriments. There are no private apertmeats—no means of getting either quiet or privacy. The bedrooms are above, and arranged in long chambers in like manner, sixteen or eighteen in a room. 8o that between the public dormitory, the public yard, and the public dayroom, • man hat his choice ; in one or the other he must find his retirement. And yet some of these men are gentlemen, The bedrooms are all badly ventilated. When the prison is full it must be horrible to sleep in them. And the water closets are in a disgraceful condition. The sanitary com mission should instantly look to this particular. There is abundance of water; yet, fir want of • little machinery, there is only one flushing a day—sometimes not that. The stench is exceeding disagreeable, and some of the drive's, complain of it very much. The defect might be remedied at an e x,.ense of ahw shillings, by adopting the apparatus now in use at the Badmen and at several railway stations— by which the opening and closing of the closet doer causes a flush of water to fall into the pan. The other we:dears in general character much like the Mid. diem:, and the one description will therefore serve for all. We will notice only the difference. The Poultry and Gilt spur -street ward is occupied by city debtors who arc not freemen. The Ludgate ward by City debtors who an free. men. There are very few in the latter ward—only seven at present; and it is the wealthiest in donations. In the dietary ward those persons an placed who are unable to maintain theausleec Here is the saddest sight of en. Most of thus persons are to for very small sums indeed, and the het of their acc , pting the prise. diet is the beet proof of their poverty. The county allowance, le, how. ever liberal, coexisting (for males) of 10Ib. Bon. of wheaten bread ; 11b. 0 tz. of cooked meat, without bone; 211,. of potatoes, cooked ; 3 pints of soup; and 14 plots of oatmeal gruel p. r week ; the total out of which is 4s. 3d. p er h ea d. The females have rather less bread, end cocoa instead of gruel, the cost being 4s. Id. per head. This ward is lull of miserable objects, and the effluvia of tobacco, cooking, and confined air in the day-room are almost overpowering. These day-rooms ought to be improv. d. The cooking in them should be done elsewhere, smoking in them ought to be pro , hibited (let the disciples of the fragrant weed enjoy it in the open yard, where it would be less offensive to non smokers) ; and the floors and tables should be scoured more frequently than they appear to be now. The remand ward is the most strictly kept in the gaol, The inmates are compelled to take the prison diet. Re mands, commitments for fixed periods for contempt of court, and fraudulent debtors, are sect hither. The diet is the same as that last described. The female ward is attended by a matron—and the debtors therein have not permission to ree ceive the visits of their male friends or relatives. They may, however, speak with them through an iron grating. There is nothing like order or discipline in this prim. The inmates de much as they choose : No restraint, except in extraordinary cases of insubordination, is placed uoon their acts or conversation. The governor is responsible for their personal safety, but nothing further, except—and he has no authority to deal with them unless their laf:trentepclacemesstalibearefruttr:l,:tod imperilled— as patty u when i a b . f ° i h solitary s a a l da's c in o p n o fi w e . x e e r: Mai, in a very cold, unpleasant, underground cell, for forty-eight hours, giving him for nourishment only bread and water. This is seldom necessary. The defense have eo mush latitude allowed them, that they can have scarcely a wish he sere. Letters are sent out for every post. Several =the month* journals me taken in, and books are el Mines. There is a workroom in the dietary lward far enele es prefer to work at their trades. Very few do ao. People be net like tli sead their week, tailoring, noe ta, lan a poi; mai Shoes who try to support that smelly ha. EPPING FOREST.—CURIOUS DISCLOSURES. A verderer's court for the royal forests of Waltham, Epping, and Hainault, otherwise the Essex Forests, was held yesterday, at twelve o'clock, at the King's Head Inn, at Chigwell. The court was one of attachment, not a swain. mote the difference being, that at the former offences against forest laws are presented, whi.st at the latter they are heard and determined. The verderere present were, Mr. Conysre, lir. Maitland, and Mr. Geo. Palmer, jun., the fourth verdicts, Mr. Lockwood, being absent. Mr. Cutts, solicitor, attended as varderer's steward and clerk of the court. This gentleman is also lord warden's steward, y ab. virtue of appointment of the Earl of Monington, who the hereditary rangership of the !brut; and he is understood to have a considerable personal interest in the estates nomically ipossemed by his lordship in Emmy and elsewhere. . The circumstances under which this court was held were somewhat peculiar. By forest law and siege the verderers of a forest should hold an attachment court every 40 days, three of such courts in each year being also swainmotes. In msence, however, of remarkable circumstances con nected with Waltham Forest the courts there have been =sally few and far between. Up to 1843 no courts wrat ever had boas holden there for 17 years. From that time there were courts until the month of August, 1844, when the last meeting was somewhat curiously and hastily brought to a close. The commoners and freeholders have been ex tremely anxious for the renewal of the verderers' meetings, but no step to assemble those officers was taken from 1841 until August in the present year, when they were called together under some pressure, it is understood, - from ths Commimioners of Woods and Forests. It soptan;howevar, that at that court the stewari m clerk declined to act unless paid fur his attendance, and that no one was prepared with Inn& either to meet such demand or to defray other necessary and incidental charges. Under them ciscamstances a good dell of talk ensued, but nothing was done, until some days vim a communication was re ceived fro, the Commissioners of Woods to the effect, that they would bay all the wets of holding the court, provided it was held. These circumstances having given some ielat to the mission, the room in which the meeting was held, was yesterday tilled with gentlemen interested in the (meet or in the property adjacent to it, among whom are some of the moat influential persons in this division of Essex. Then was Mao sleep attendance of forest officers and pu mas interested in the rights of pasturage and common. The Commissioners of Woods and Forests were represented In the court by one of the clerks from Messrs. Pemberton, Crawley, and Gardiner's office, who took laborious notes for the use of hie employers. The court having been opened by the usual proclamation, the clerk was called upon to reed the list of forest officers. Tnis first proceeding showed the state into which the forest affairs have fallen, for it appeared that the majority of master keepers whose names are on the roll were deceased, and that consequently the different walks have been for Pale time under no respowible control. The under-keepers were then severally called upon to make their presentments. Most of these officers were aced — in some instances they were decrepid—men. Few of them were fitted for the duties of forest-rangers, and probably one active poacher would have " the entire hody. The first presentments were for encroachments and tem p.'s. They were all of an extremely trifling character. Generally the complaints were of enermehments by reason of h. dieing, tensing, or ditching, and there was not a single represeetation of trespass by reason of erecting villa or cut ting down timber on crown property, practices welch ap pear by the n pert of Lord Duncan's committee, and by the result of a recent legal investigation, to be very rife in this royal demeans, The second clam of present:nests was for poaching and hamming the deer. The priecipal charge ender this bud was against Mr. Forster, jun., a gentleman connected. we believe, with the firm of Sir J. W. L u bb oc k an d C o. , baskerii, who was presented for sporting without notice given on several days in August, September, and October. Mr. Fonter, who was in court, denied the chair, which ori ginated, he mid, in the malice borne to him by certain keepers whom he hadpressated to the Woods and Forests and to the magistrates of the county on several different occa sions, for killing gams without mesas themselves, and per mitting their relatives and friends to sport over the tenet without proper leave. For himself he had dose nothing which his deputation from the chief commiselorier did not en title him to do, and he could prove by his gams-book that he had not killed a bird on several of the days presented by the keepers, and that he b a d never gone out without either sending a written notice to the keeper of his intention overnight, or sending a verbal message by his servant early in the morning. He admitted, however, having killed rabbits without giving notice, and sail he should do so again, for although, as he understood, the keepers claimed the rabbits as their property, he denied their title to them, and believed every one had a perfect right to kill them who might meet with them. Mr. Forster then produced a letter he had received from Mr. Gardiner, the solicitor to the Woods and Forest., intimating to him that if he would represent to the office any keeper who did not do his duty, the salary of such keeper would be stopped by the commiuionere and Mr. Forster stated his intention of making several such represeatatione forthwith. This announcement led to a scene of some con fusion—the keepers being apparently not a little surprhed. The verderen next proceeded to all upon those gentle man who had deputations from the Woods and Forests to shoot in the forest to produce the 'Arne for the purpose of enrolment. Several gentlemen handed in such deputations, among others Mr. W. Cotton, Mr. Vigne, Mr. Mills, Mr. Forster, Mr. Palmer, and Mr. Howley, of the Mint —The commissioners then retired to a private room to consider the same, and on re-appearing their clerk announced, with some formality, that they had directed all of them to be enrolled. This enrolment we understood to take place upon the pay ment of a fee of some amount. It was cated in court that the affectation of the verderers to decide upon the deputa tions was an assumption of • right which is not vesfed in them, as such documents have been decided by the court to have full force despite anyobjection by this body, although to enforce their due recognition is, of course, a proceeding attendee with expense. The next proceeding was to call upon the forest-keepers to give an account of the deer in their respective walks. Not one of these, however, was able to give any account, except by guess. A very rough estimate was made by one keeper that there were 100 brace of deer in all the forest, and ano ther said ho thought he might have 70 or 80 brut in his walk ; hut they all admitted that they knew very little of the matter. A verderer then inquired if any of the forest reeves (or re- ganders, as they are elsewhere called) were present. The verderer's steward said they ought to attend, but he could not call them, for he did not know who they were. A copy holder remarked that it was of the highest importance to the body be represented that these officers should attend to make their reports. They were elected by the parish vestries to guard the rights of commoners, and to see that no cattle were improperly permitted en the forest.—A verderer asked how they were appointed.—Tbs steward said after election by the vestries . they were presented to that court, and then, atter being sworn, received an appointment by warrant of the lord-warden. It was here intimated that several of the reeves were present, and they wee: requested to come forward . The first who appeared said he had acted u reeve, but bad never been presented to that court, and had never been sworn —Steward : Then take hold of the book and I'll re move the difficalty.—The man was sworn accordingly, as were some others in the ume predicament. The reeves being ' , lied if they had any presentments to make, said they had none. A man here stood forward aad said, in a loud voice. " The reeves are afraid to do their duty. They are afraid to say anything. Why don't they present Mr. Conym ? He has enclosed land opposite my house, so as to narrow the way so much that I en d my children are afraid of our lives every time we go into the road. My name is Ben. Jenkins."—Mr. Maitland: "If you state the facts quietly, the reeves will protect von " ' Jenkins continued to attack Mr. Conyers on account of several private as well as public grievances. At last, Mr. Conyers, addressing him, said, " Why, my dear Jenkins— "Jenkins : " Oh! don't dear me. But I say no more. I'm afraid of you." Thine sane concluding the routine business of the day, ' Mr. Davie, a county magistrate, residing at Leytonstone, said that he wished, before the court broke up, to call atten tion to a matter which he considered of very serious import. sane. Within the last few days a very extraordinary notice, headed with the ral arms, and signed by the thre e C om - mis•ioners of Woo d. and Forests, had been extensively circa- lated. He read it, u follows : WkI.IILAX, HAINAITLT, Oa Erelllo POLlOM—Nolice is hereby even, that the information of The Attorney-General e. Rafted_ ha been inv. rt..(wad v.. ...•••• on the ard end 4th ultimo, and a verdict found em the Crown - an ie..... claiming encroachments on the add forest made prior to the itt day of January, 1847, are hereby requited withbs one month front the date hereof, to Inunotit to the Oommiesioners of her Y s Wood., Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings, at their amoa, No. 11, Vebitalall.plice, Westminster, the full putionlare of such encroach- MOMS, terms.. with an offer to purchase the rights of the crown, in and over the same, at • fell and fair prim' and any person or persons Wam or claiming enamebmente on thr said forest, who Mall refuse or neglect to amply with this nodes will be tvict.d from the poems. don thereof. And mace is hereby further given, that any person or persona who Mall hereafter presume, under any pretence, to encroach upon any portion of the waste of the said forest will be pre...muted, and the knees of the encroachments so made, or attempted to be made, together with any mellow thereof, will be prostrated.—Dated thin 30th day of dept., 11118.—Moarerw, A. Mims, amuse A. Goes, Oommiseloners of her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenges, Works and Buildlogs.- of Woods, Re., 2, Whitehall-piaor, Wesuninster. Now this notice, Mr. Davis said, wee to him very extraor dinary, the more so as he believed it to be entirely illegal. He had been at scone pains to try and discover precisely what were the powers of the Crown in the Forest, and how far they possessed the fee simple of it. He had arrived at the conclusion that they did possess what was called the vent, bat that that was subject to the powers of the act 10Geo. IV., e. 66, by which the legislature bad directed that the proceeds of forests were to be applied in a particular way, and had expemaly determined how all easel of encroachment and trespass were to be treated. Under the 100th sec ion of that act it was declared that all encroachments were first of all to be presented to the Attachment Courts, and that in case the party proceeded against should dispute the boundary, tLen that the verderers shall not proceed to conviction, but shall certify the presentment to the Attorney-General. Now the Woods and Forests, by their notice, threatened persons in possession of land, which they might claim, with immediate eviction, unless within one month they offered to purchase the rights of the crown. But this was not all. The crown could not tell its rights without also selling the rights of the copyholders and commoners, and those rights the verderers were especially elected to guard and protect. Mr. Com missioner Milne, in his evidence before the Hoare of Com mons, had admitted that the settlement of the question as between the crown and the trespassers, would not settle the question as between the crown and the oimmoners. He concluded by calling on the verderers, whom he coquette lated on again assembling , to protect the rights they were elected by the freeholders to guard. (Cheers.) Mr. Conyers said he did not see what they could do in the matter. It did not come formady before them in any shape. Mr. Palmer, jun., said he had a letter from Mr. Commis sioner Milne regarding trespassers. Mr. Conyers.—Well, that's a letter to you. No each letter his bean sent to me. They think it's enough, I sup pose, to send it to you ; you're the great man. Mr. Mills suggested that• it was probably cent to Mr. Palmer to be lead berme the verderers. Mr. Conyers—Well, there's a gentleman here from the Woods and Forests—perhaps he can tell all about it. The gentleman referred to said he knew nothing of the. notice or the letter. He had not sees them before that morn ing, and they did not come from his dt partment " You must be aware, sir," he remarked, " that many things are done in the Woods and Forests that do not come under notice in our department." (Great laughter.) Mr Palmer, jun., remarked that he really thought the eerdtrers might fairly be called on to prevent encroachments as well by the crown aa by any ot" era. The crowe's light to alienate the land at all was a great question. Mr. Conyers.—The question is one for a judge. lam not a judge. (Laughter.) Mr. Archibald Watts urged that it wee the verderers' duty to protect the rights of the commoners against the crown as well as ageing others. The crown could not forego its rights without injury to the commoners, and the commoners must be proterted. Mr. Mills said the rights of the lords of manors would be equally infringed by the course now attempted to be pur sued by the crown. A Commoner remarked that the lords cf manors them selves infringed the rights of commoners by eniranchising at their Homage Courts. Mr. H. Palmer, recurring to the question, again urged the verderers to do their duty by protecting the commoners. Mr. Maitland thought the application_ to the verderers premature. Mr. Conyers.--So I say ; it is pr?mature, certainly. Let the Woods and Forests evict anybody, an i then come to us if you like ; but at present any application i. premature. Mr. Bingley.—But what arc the commoners to do in the meantime ? Mr. Conyers—Aye, that's a question I caeca answer. (A laugh.) Here the conversation dropped, and soon after the court adjourned for forty days. IRELAND. Deaux, Oct. 23. Lord Clarendon is to have the veer: A garter, and never has that distinguished honour h ,ern bestowed em *. tiat distinction, or who had earned it by prouder • a statesman who more deserved •IT higher servic.s to the empire. The lord Justices sworn in on Friday were those usually c harge ? with that high responsi bility, the Lord k , P:ancellor, the Archbishop of Dublin, and the O' Jmman d er o f th e Forces. Lord Clarendon is "prated to be absent for a few days only. It is stated that the government have it in contem plation to argment, at an early date, the concabwary force in Ir.:land to 30,000 of all ranks. This formi dable bPdy are to be emplcled, .n addition to proent constabulary duties, in all descriptioLs of service f or which the regular military are now !Ignited; and be ry the uni l r a oesi tt r e ce r uw f po or ilin ce bee w Apt i l l moae l h ra oLr froonins. greate th r Tiihe oar c i m o cur f eisedt ed upon a new footing, and comprise cavalry, infantry (Including rifle corps), and horse and foot artillery. dinary t w h i e th w d At a Privy Council held on Thursday last, an order was made for the discharge of several prisoners in custody under the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act. The following parsons have received notice, that, on theding bail for their appearance " when called upon," y will receive the benefit of , that order: Charles Taaffe (barrister), Justin Supple, William Mathews, Patrick Morram, James Coothy, William Walahe, James Baker, C. Rocbfort, Owen O'Neill, Francis Oabbett, and James M. O'Ryau. The whole body of the catholic clergy of the diocese of Clogber have signed an address praying for clemency to Mr. S. O'Brien. The other Roman catholic dioceses will adopt a similar method of moving the mercy of the executive. The established clergy of Limerick have adopted a memorial for the same object. The inhabitants of Clonmel have held a public meeting for the purpose, and the quarter ses sions jury of Cavan have added their prayer for the same purpose. Lord Farnham has signed the memo rial on behalf of Mr. O'Brien. Teoaut eviction proceeds in the south with a most determined regularity. Not a journal is published in which we do not read of one or more of those proceedings which however legally authorised, and even though socially their ultimate effect may be good, produce much present hardship. Yesterday several houses were levelled in the imme diate vicinity of Limerick, and preparatory notices have been served on several tenants of Lord Clare, in the west of that county. All these levelling. are effected in the presence of the police and military. A Limerick paper states that a Mr. ('Ryan, who is at present a political prisoner in the gaol of that county, owes his incarceration to a neighbouring gen tleman who was desirous to obtain the succession to some land agencies held by the prisoner. No sooner was the victim in gaol than the transfer of the agen cies was applied for by the plotter. He was not so successful, however, in obtaining the advantage as in raising the suspicion. Of course one is prepared to hear such stories in all such conjunctures as that which we at present feel, and they may or may not be true. The subject of the continuation of the services of agricultural inspectors was brought before the last meeting of the Agricultutal Society, and the result of the disAissien on the pro• position was not encouraging. Tho valuable results which followed from the instruction given last year under tle plan suggested by Lord Clarendon, induced his Exn!lency, with a view to per petuate these advantages, to offer a contribu tion of 1,0001. towards a fund far the pay. ment of an adequate number of instructors for the several districts of Ireland. It appears trom the pro ceedings that the fund is not likely to be much aug mented by the gentry of Ireland or the Agricultural Society. Lord Clancarty, speaking the sentiments of the general body, in a letter to the society, plainly in timates that the proprietary of the country will not contribute. In those districts, says his lordship, where the instructors are moat wanted, the people who could contribute are but few or none ; in those more favoured by the residence of the gentry, contri butions for the purpose of sending instructors gratui tously to those districts may not be expected. There is assuredly not overmuch generosity in this, and notwithstanding all the pressure of the times, the gentry of Ireland might, one would think, be a little more patriotically liberal. As, however, the society desire to make Lord Clarendon's subscription reach as far as possible, it has been resolved on to appoint instructors at fifty pounds per annum, which Lord Clancarty thinks persons might be will ing to accept, as, if found useful, they might be per manently engaged. How valuable a permanency of that kind would be is rather questionable, as also whether competent persons will offer on such terms. The instruction of any others had better be done without. The Board of Works, anxious to promote employ °Dyeintnein pl e r il arler — ogr,t ',tee want of it , and alno laudably desirous to encourage habits of industry and energy in the fishermen on the coast,have made a grant of 5501. towards the construction of a pier at Burren in that anion, on condition that the sum of 275/. be subscribed in the distr;ct, and a like sum levied on the division. It is to be hoped that this advance will not be lost for want of promptitude or a little gene rous liberality on the part of the proprietors. A case was tried here on Saturday before the ma gistrates, of interest to maritime and mercantile parties. Miles Dunne, a seaman, shipped at Dublin for a voyage to Quebec and back to some British port. At Quebec he left the ship, aid the commander was compelled to engage another seaman at greatly ad vanced wages. Dunne returned to Leblin , and was here proceeded against by the master, will Whom engaged for the voyage out and home. The magi., trates ordered Duane to pay 131. 10s, the difference of wages, and in default sent him to prison for one month. - . Mr. Serif. Howley has sentenced four men to im prisonment for two years each, and to be kept at hard labour, for having pikes in their possession after Tip perary had been proclaimed. Two parties charged before him with having assaulted witnesses for the prosecution against the prisoners accused of treason, were sentenced to six months' imprisonment each. An investigation into the recent accident on the Waterford and Limerick Railway has resulted in the conviction of Webster, engineer of the train from Tipperary, of gross neglect. He has been fined 101. It appears he disregarded the signal of danger shown from the rear of the other train. It is gratifyiug to find that all useful progress is not &meted, even in Waterrord. An iron steamer was hunched there on Thursday from the Neptune foundry. Mr. J. B. DILLow.—We have authority for stating that this gentlemen has landed safely in New York.— Wexford 111 9°P en ! I ra - . MITCRIL.—The Limerick Chronicle states *hat it is iteneraly rumoured, by a letter from one of the 42nd, that Mr. Mitchel has died at Bermuda. Txa MURDEBA AT BANARA.—A due has been disco vered to the perpetrators of the horrible murders of the three caretakers at Bansha. It appears that th, coaspiretors and assassins concerned in the murder of three bailiffs placed in care of property seized for poor rates in the neighbour hood of Belisha, have been discovered. This case has proved the wisdom of the taxing provisions in the Crime and Out rage Alt. The murders were perpetrated on a Sunday morning, and the following Wednesday the Lord Lieu tenant sent down ten policemen, five to be charged upon each of the two townlands where the murders were at tempted and perpetrated—the bailiffs having been folbwed by their assassins from one townland to the other. On the same day warrants came down from his Excellency fur the immediate levy of a rate upon the occupi. n of the two towulanda for the expense of the ten men teethe coming three months. This rate sinoun , ed to 18s 4d. per acre on one, and 81. 7d. on the other, in addition to the poor rate then in collection of Bs. 94d. in the pound, a musty cells of Is. Bd. per acre, and the moiety of the Labriur Act rate. This caused much discontent amongst the farmers, which was further increased by the knowledge of the feet that if the murderers were not brought to justice within the three months a further levy would he made for the expense of the additional force for three months more, and so on. The lower class was also m►de to suffer, for the board of guar ' diens stopped all out-door relief until such time as the con spirators ant perpetrators were made amerable. Tt.e con sequence of these proceedings has been that such informa tion has been communicated to the authoriti e s as has led to the arrest of the criminals. The perpetrators wen• strangers to that part of Tipperary, and, having been hired fo- the work, were brought. 20 miles to perform it. PRIBONIIB IN lISLAND.—There are 12,328 prisoners in the several vat 1. throughout Ireland. A Scortinatt cast a Isrge stone from the railway s oee , o bri thir2Bienea d ltid g efonyi e fth:webt i o : wkpei ' ;p0 11 :: ,I:cif,h., and aly.ttalbeih.h:aeoiiugthtruehthatirb.,ig.autepitrot:n,im:ee::::ire.,chl,..tsled.oathaenhinottdblisi.et: kil lut io w sf ra rau th ru e sts e I price I t o th is i 6 2 f said country i 6 t at per"ud pot atoes lCP i Ca d d n ' sf the best gwaity. lso At this rate of purchase such potatoes mi ght be viola in t in D2w .6bAlintetbOnisaytliare,:el:uimfiwer°:.:ll6d.e'be.:::Peapbrillyne l o to l f :ln pota p —e roc —o t r u o r c e l s 4 . l. ye a . : 4"\Ve maa supply, of good and wholesome Woes Fro m " in both countries a 1... 6 w 'bey ond SCOTLAND. ACCIDEN't ON THE EDINBURGH AND NORTHERN Rati.we.t..-00 Friday merning, while the 7 o'clock train Prw'4esdinjr at its u-eel spied from the of Marne. the (aige of one ot the wheals of the engine gave way. The , Alf,ine started off the ;Me, and ran down a f or emoank inset. The couplings a the engine luckily mapped, 60 that ' neither the tender i.or any of the *terrines were displaced from :be rails. Mr. M Olashan, the chief manager of the goods department on the line, at.d Mr. Thnohon, who has charge of that department at the Perth statics, u , re on the snaine with the driver ai.d stnktr. Dlr . 'Thomson jump. oil augins, and tamped with a few blight brunet. The