The Express. — London, England, 1851-05-10 00:00:00

Three travellers had !tin waylaid, near 1)c Bruin's roart, by it party of Jlotittitot banditti. Mr. H. Outing. killed. Mr. severely wounded, most hrtunately mar...ged to creep a way aria ! ) . served, aud reach a place , afety : the third, Mr. Trolhp. got off maim t. party of in?unt,d rangers, bad followed the trail of the miscreants and disco vered their place of a nacreous. hut finding them atronz:y Fa.tol. had seiit ler re-inforet ments before attacking, and hoped to nuder a good account of them. Aitigl!er pate of teas c'kr-. proceeding front Gra ham: Town Vert Ilart. had a very narrow escape, after leaving I.ccuw FOUtt in.—and this road, which had ben einetidered open. appeared to be again in fested with Kaffir in:nitwit... EDUCATION AND THE NATIONAL SCIIOOL SOCIETY. mom the AI Aily Sees.) We have already referred to the struggle in the National School Society, which will conic to an issue at the anniversary meeting ou the 4th of June next. Hut as the question it involves is by far the most practical application which has as yet been given to the Tractarian theory of what the Church of Eng land is, and what its privileges ought to consist in— as the point in difference really is, what constitutes the Church and what arc its rights—we propose, as briefly as possible. to state the case of the two con tending parties, that, at least, timely warning may :b e given to those whose supineness, indifference, or mismtelligence,has, in past years, allowed this in• stitution to become the medium of carrying out designs hateful to the public of England, and utterly !opposed to all their traditions of constitutional prac bees and to all their habits of ecclesiastical freedom. In distributing the parliamentary grants en trusted to their care, the Committee of Privy Coun cil on Education have laid down two great princi ples ; Ist that the schools assisted shall be inspected by offit-ers of their own religious denomination, in order that the State may have some guarantee against any improper application of the aid it has furnished ; 2ndly, that the lay subscribers to these schools shall participate in their management, so far at least as secular education is concerned ; and it is out of the latter of these two rules that the present I discussion arises. That principle is with the committee a fun damental one, rigidly and strictly applied to schools of all religious denominations. It has been over and over again stated ; but never perhaps so forcibly and plainly as in the latest correspondence to which it gave rise---viz., that between the Committee of Privy Council and the Itonian catholic school committer, for therein we find Mr. LANI.OALE, the stout ussertor of the exclu sive edueational power of the 'Loutish episcopacy, in formed on the Ist of June, 1419 : It is not comistent with the principle, on which the Com mittee of the Privy Council on Education have invariably administered the parlimarntary grant, to allow the spiritual authorities blrolute control over the schools aided from that fund ; and, in settling the terms of a formal instrument, r very power is to be considered absolute which, by the letter of the deed, is capable of becoming W. • • • It would not be consistent with their lonlships' slew of the civil in terests of education, fur the maintenance of which they ire responsible- to parliament, to provide for the absolute su pnnucy of the spiritual power. The Committee of Privy Council has not, fore, given either to Human catholic. or to ditsenters a freedom, which it has denied to the Church; though of the parliamentary grants nine-tenths of their amount have gone to the establishment. Let us see, thou, of what it is, in the application of this principle of not "providing for the absolute supremacy of the spiritual power' in education assisted by the state, ! that the tracturians complain. It is, our readers kuow, principally through the National Society that church schools have remind state assistance. Now the National Society, being incorporated by royal charter, with the QUEEN fur patron, and the archbishops and bishops for president and vice-presidents, and once every two years pro ' muted by a Qt LEN'S Letter, to a certain extent I actually represents the church, is popularly accounted I to represent it more completely than it really dues, and, whether it represents or misrepresents the esta blishment, cannot be destroyed by those who dissent from the principles it is founded on, but must remain an instrument for if nut wielded for good. Fur the last dim- or four years the society has been the chief field of Mr. G. A. DEmmix's charac teristic agitation. By constant clamouring during, the year, bythe most unscrupulous statements every, where and at all times, by raising that most senseless apprehensions, and by the bold assertion of the most trims principles, the notorious Vicar of East Boot has lava able to muster his own partimuM in the Central School ut its annual meet-1 hip in great lone; has succeeded in gaining a large majority on those occasions; has supplied the, 1 v44%11161.'14 whieh unnuallv occur in the committee of • tnannzement with men imbued, like himself, with a • 'tarnish antipathy to all lay iiiterference in educa tion ; and has carried resolutions to the effect that the proceedings of the Committee of Privy Council '• are to the education of the pour in the principles of the established church:' And this , opinion, or rather judgment, bus gone forth to the world us the voi c e of the National Society and of the ('lurch. This is the return Houle, apparently, by the Church for the half million sterling grunted by • the Committee of Privy Council to church schools is I eleven years! Ingratitude, such as this, is bad enough; but ia gratitude is only the lesser part of the vice of this censure of the state, whose money it has so freely taken, by the National Society. Fur, to support the opinion so expressed, Mr. DENISON has, on these COIIIVIIded that the clergy are the Church ; that the education of the pour is vested solely in the Church. and. consequently, in the clergy; that the management clauses of the Privy Council an the deeds of selosds aided by state grants, 17 giving the laity a part in the work of education, are an un • justifiable interference with the rights of the clm Of, as he calls them, the Church; and that to these clauses compulsory is an act of tyranny 17 the state over the Church. Ile has likewise denounced the system of inspection, of pupil teachers, aug . nwntation of masters salaries, and grants of books, as so mane means of making the schoolmaster more cart-fur of cultivating the goodwill of the Com ' mitten of l'rivy Council than of the clergyman, and, therefore, hostile to the church; in all of which ar gument the tracturiun theory of the church is ob viously and impudently pushed to its fullest extent; and, in adopting a resolution lefunded on such views, the National Society lois, of course, endorsed the traetarion theory. 'fo Mr. Dr.NtsoN's arguments, his opponents on these oceusions have, in vain, replied that the- Commit- The wte.t intelligenet fr.m Cape Town bring.; news publi+hed as follows by the Urnhqns's Town J 01.171.71, of the 29th of 31anli. - - " Despatches reached town yesterday, from head omarten. (King William . Town), and also fmm Fort From the francs place the date is up to the 20. th March, giving the details of some very tine and surereiful movements by the troops under the im mediate command of Sir Harry Smith. His Excel lency's mode of fighting the * Kaffir. is rather of a novel nature, for instead of moving along the road and keeping tlw level country, he takes pos session of the heights—the strongholds of the enemy —forces them into the opt n ground, and seatteni and drives them like a flock of -beep. His Excellency having swept the Tax ndodo range, halted after nightfall at Fort White. The next day, by a series of mastent movements, he swept over the rugged country about i.'ort Wiltshire, and reached the Odu Rock with sone VP) head of tattle. At Mount Coke and at Fort Murray, considerable alarm was felt —a w ir boil) of Inetiit• Kuffirs Luting shown themselves in the vicinity tit these places and Veto having expressed wane doubt, as to his men being able to keep open the road, as hi retufore. 1. tweeu head-quarters and the punt of Ea.' lanalim. a point of the highest mo mem tu future opecatiens in the Kaffir country. Im mediate steps were to be taken to keep, if pstsible, this part of the country dear. The band of Her man...as, the dispersion of ma hieh was reported by the furies snail, has been puriully reformed, and it wan nuppred that it would be completely rcoastructed, and uguin cause much untioyanee and bloodshed." llu only political rc. nt iinuired to be noticed is the departure of Sir Andrles Storkenstran fur Loa dom. too his relleague of the colonial deputati.m. Mr. Fairistim. A e1...W.41 meeting of the inha bitant. of Cape Town and the vicinity astwinhled at the Town !lull on Satindive. the 22nd ult., when Sir Ambit, reteived from the secretary to the muni cipifitv immense. Int . l.lLll. to the Queen and par liam. et from various ports of the (*loom, and after nesting, in reply to an address from the ibairman, a shill which ems enthasiastically cheered. was ac. companied by a large con. ours.. to the jetty, mull Gout thence Wag attended by a number of butts to the Maid stone. in which vessel he embarks 1, and sailed oe the following day. tfi' oecurremis. 4111111 SW importame then an• very few eliich respire to be mentieneil. The Gunny., with Pi female emigrants on bounl, writ out by the philanthropic association reently formed in London at faro. arrived on the Loth ult. The reports whidl prevailed of misio•ntlact on bitard during the voyage led to the appointun ist of a govermin nt comt nessioa, whch nude si laivate Met-dig:o'nm. and will, it is understood. transmit the minutes home to the o•••• 'rim.' lath r will, it is expected. he thus inducts' to make hen r arrangements for the maim il!tendence of the emigrants during the pas,ige, if sinj more should i.e sent out. Mei. of War at the Cape—Castor. Commodore. Wvvid ; Hermes, steamer. Com. K J. Fishhourne H.M.S. Herald. Capt. Kellett, Cll., Nailed from Sinita's Bar, Mardi Ls,. for St. llekna, Aseension, mod England. The first exhibition of works of fine art which has over lus-11 held its the colony clued 1.111 22nd uh. ll camprimrd about too WM It % mussily E unquun , but a consideruble nun d e•r 1.3 artists re,ident at the (pr. In the mix weels , iluring which the s xhibi tion remained open, it was visited by about :Limn r•nrn:.. As a first yaps ranent, of a novel character, Ass coussidered highly siteee,scul„ Ti..- lighthouse tat tape Iteurife, Aigun Ray. has been e'unpleted, and i, he lighted up thi. night (Apiil I). It is shunts d :n lat. 31 th-g. 1 win. S., long. 411:. -In min. 7 ,ce. and is no feet above au•an water-bowl. It is a white molving light, and is ol►ened from minute to minute. Just heron• the departure of the Ilellevont from Sierra h.nn, the NCH? by Il k , pm+ clew to treat with the chiefs of the Nunez and INamo ri+ers had sot-meth-II in their negotiation+ with the chiefs of NUM./. b u t thOSC haig., had sot yet accepted the prop.sitions of the cmtnni+- Nioner+. The hueett.fitt result of this col 1111 l unieation laid:4.ly to be attended w:tl, l cut ad% outage to that, British merchant+ who trade un that part unite roost. .%4.1 Icir:11 1144111tElt1' Vl' Tilt I At the 4 lielmstited rivillity Coml. on Thursday. an instil.' it nt t..nnwl Johu Itakt.r. who was dtrerih,,l A . a .hip and liver .urveyor. Ira* hy Mr. Sanrouol, for John attwooil. Fest- the formir member foe the lairouith, anti lit. I . miki-iiipportivi. Tin. clanplaint no. that the insul i vent lids indebted to Mr .Ittivissl for law riot, to a con- I Milershile amount in an nit, which was brought in the Misdient•s name a..rainst that t:t iitleman to reeover penal- rig . for allelic.' brila•re at It,rwieh election in 11117. A emits, via. siren for Sly .%itivissl, anti the insolvent wed' lion 111 prison for the ...sits Ilse point nto that the ins ett hail incurred the del t ahi it he kid n.. !Mall% of pit meld, anti hail allowed h.- name to be u.”l shin he was si Men. 1011141.. It %tail that Mr. .ttirri•Xl was lIii.1111.• to attend. Ilse judei• Mr.tiunldmi considered that a d 'at 113.1 1.4,11 inerniperle conte.ictill, and had Mr. Att W 1I in. u abbe to attlial h r vitetd.l have remanded the in salient tot a Fund I .•rind As the ease +toad, it was u ease l fm tie diwretiiinary fur the in.ulti.ut'a eunsluct in tli ae'iou to rei,irer ;setriltito. ',nil he thi.refiire adjudged hint to an imprisonment ut tuouth. from the TiNting gosh r , I teeof PriryCouncil has nutdeeveryconctusion required IF %A; iN E IN THE lIII.III.ANIK—The directors of tile! by the National Society save one, showing thereby Fotrioto snit Industrial Stality of Scotland have issucil th : !Ws desire to conciliates and co-olicrute, and that the riro.7'..ii i ii ' l i th" e ! ' ,t n .:weld . A d ' es ' ll i Zlie l :b? " L n irie t re or: demand refused, involved,to repeat the words already tlii Is.: ito in Intit. was supported Inn.. that period until , twits...quoted, " the absolute supremacy of the, piritual & Ptisoils r last upon ratans .1 tow or one and a-half pounds power: . For the National Society requirtd, that, in of Meal is , r day. in return for their whole labour upon roads all cases of dispute between the school committee awl s,imlar work sine,• the exhaustion of the Highland Re bel Fund, mint thew • n.l p.rsons, livin g in re ~,,, le High-' and the incumbent, the bishop of the diocese . should had at., Islam districts. hare been in absolute Wall, of the be the site o arbiter. This the C ommitter o f Privy hi ....aro-. of hie. and are now reillleell to the nesessity of l'outicil conceded on all questions eimnected with tr. lbs.zsoof a villwivtence--is dying from starv a tio n , where llamas teaching; but, on matters purely secular,' A_ y issus. the Men. of tranvit—or are tempted to the ruled that the appe.il should be to a court composed' sumnicuif hat order to sustain hi add that ou " o In t irone r instanees estates . er :. in T t b y l of the Inspector of Schools and a beneficed clergy loud. oe tnisiteev, anal in others, not on ly wo u ld t h e man of they diocese. aided by a justice of the peace, rental he inade q uate to maintain the destitute and laity selected by the two; thus reserving to the a1.:.-' , di. 3 por. but ill sou,iiva.iiii . oi the proprietor. bate some power in the management of church advameel very latlte +um , it, the susteitan.s.• of the people m .l iwo l e. la v.m.l the whole illemill• 41. Isis id from their estate* Mace ; Mr..l) . ENt4AiN's opponents in the society further tem Entiarstsm its. been extensively resorted to , and sat still ailed a useful o u tlet, b u t it is n o s genera ll y e d . s argued that the management clauses, if not compul- anted that, the• most practicable means of administering sory. would be nugatory ; and that the system of teb.r. and of grappling sal the destitution, which other- pupil teaching. inspection, ~:c., adopted by the coati- Iris. i. likely to be la plans in the Highlands. is by ear - cil. is highly beneficial in its practical operati o n, a nd Tying out the plans of fund industry deviloixd and 'alto. 14010 . 411 y approved of by all who really under- meted by the Koval Patriotic and Industrial Six•iety. and greatly in beneficial operation in several districts. The bland it. able holi. 4 though di-glean: pour. not twine entitled to pa. I Such is the question, and such are, in brief, the lochial relief in Scotland. the first and most imperative ob. ' arguments. which have thrice conic before the annual Jill . 11 w "w•la • • of iii ., • *hid , dm' 'lir" i°t• Will leek meetings of the society, and been resolved in accord to eft tif provOled with the requisite fund.. They f u rth er „..,,,,, with . . a views. Mr. 1/xxis-os . That these views, Mete thst. jallieilaillit an etbeient but ergo sally conduchd ''''" Mucutive, with gratuitous orx•nisations in the Hebrides even though affirmed by large majorities at those eel other Highland districts, the society i. militias to ad- meetings. are r.ot, however, the views of the National lalla , tur pre% ut aid. leadesig to perinainnt amt liurrtianu, Society, still less of the clergy, and still less of the . 1 by . arrying out its great primer of . helping the poor to Cliurvit compared of clergy and laity conjointly, has help themselves' They w . therefore, a• r rg 4 " 6 at last been established by the result of Inquiries pro.l sucessitou. mortices in possemion of land, endeavour to scented during the last twelve months, with equa l' peotur,. (or such as will engage to follow a better Elston of husbandry, the cancelling of arrears of zeal and judgment, by the Her. EDW.tRD GIRDLE. .a lent., at. adequat e te nure , an d t h e y w ill a d vance . ma ll loans quyir., Vicar of Denne, in the diocese of Manchester; to Is 1..4 a. was,* fin tin cultivation and improvement of i which results are given in a condensed form', their croft. ; 01,1 will also extend similar encouragement to in a paper at assent largely and usefully fishermen. and organise, for the benefits of the juvenile : ......,_, popolatimi. model school farms, for which land has tarn cleeu""eu, and already inserted in the Deity Sraaasady offend to the scanty by several proprietors. News. And, what is even more important, Mr. Gut- A.. regards the miew.h.its ribs( of those able bodied, but Dt.xsroxx's exertions have produced a very general destitute, persons, who neither c r oft , nor employ - . movement to repress Mr. DENISON'S principles in the ' meat ' the ' iwkt Y win ' ir:l77"em PP° ll4ll take certain qu'ul - !eoeis tv , for members of the National Society have lei , •of waste lead ow lc .to be ', rated as industrial i'. : ' JI A 8., • . p ar ti en w e t y wi th a v i ew ea th e raising tee grsr .l p l e dged themselves to come up from all jputs of the ervi..• tuss i ze u ms, gas, or heap, sad by reefing dairy pro., country to the meeting on the 4th of Jun e , an d re duce and . reader the sew waste land add labour of , cord their votes against them ; and multitudes who 6, 4,41 t.b itigithind diairicu . tats, that s a y contribuFrodoctly la Posgb 6 . The dir e ctors i were not member. have become so, or intend be dir e ctors stion: with which in' g such, for this purpose, by sendin g th e i r gu i neas airy may he en t ruste d will be applied, with a ll ids economy end elleiesey, towards the immediate relief, to 6,, Linrninnn-tlelalh wed, at the rune time, the p ermanent amelioration . of the At that meeting Mr. Dx.ntsoN will endeavour to Smashing but lojal and Rosett a ' population of various till the tir e vacancies i n th e comm i ttee o f t h e soc i ety districts of the Islands and West Irtedaads. As dual with his own partisans, and to repeat the resolutions Lad has remained uncultivated ever since 1.,16 for went °. d e seed to crop it, contributions of good garb of amatory of the proceeduigs ' of council. On the 1 1,3 ""L " D ' I c o ' :h ill er hand. an attempt will be made to supply the heart. garden and other wed s , will b e , hardifuli . .frei•red a t d i e s oc i e ty.. D epwee , 43, p ae b.....".. u .„ e. L eede‘ ,.... vacancies with men of moderate principles, and to • corn offer an example of erimin l tiegli;isK,, which is a re ; poach to the religion which they profess turd the country • in which they live. At Wigan the same negligence was oli‘erved. 139 chil dren under 5 years of age died; and 25 were left destitute of medical advice. In Burnley 179 persons died; the cause . of death was not certifi.4 in 40 instances, and 31 had no medical attendant. Small-pox, scarlatina, measles, typhus, or influenza were prevalent in Manche.ter, Preston, Ash ton, and Oldhmu. The same zymotie diseases prevailed in many districts of Yorkshire. The mortality was above the average in Bradford, Leeds, and Sheffield. I In the Northern Division we observe the loss of 27 lives lb). what it has too long been the practice to call vaguely an accident. The explosions in mines arc now tolerably well . understood, and with proper care and good arrangements I could rarely or ever happen. flooring-cough and bronchitis (apparently influenza) have raised the mortality in New castle-upon-Tyne: Bedlington and Moryeth have suffered from scarlatina and typhus: more than od persons suffered at one time from the latter disease in the lower part of Bedlii.gton town. The mortality in Wales was generally below the average. Scarlatina and measles prevailed in Newport, Cardiff, Nerthyr-Tydfil, and raised the mortality. Scarlatina also prevailed in the didrietsof Pembrokeshire. IS persons died of small-pox in Holyhead, Anglesey ; only 2 had been vac cinated. ONE WORD OF GRATITUDE. GREECE AND THE lONIAN ISLANDS IN TIIE GREAT EXHIBITION. 70 TO! EDITOR OP 7118 DAILT NEWS. the thousand acclamations that, on the glorious Ist of May, rang applause in the ears of tho illustrious Prince, to the spirited impulse of whose philoso phically enthusiastic mind the energies of a hundred na tions have responded in the Exhibition of the world's In dustry; amidst the unanimous prais, of an idea as grand in its conception as practically great and wonderful in its exe cution—let one voice, loud as its gratitude, yet sweet and clear as its poetry, be heard—that of my mother country— °recce. We appear for the first time—we of the Greek race—for the first time for centuries, in a congress of nations—and doubly joyful is it that our first manifestat• of revived nationality should take place at these grand Olympic games of industry and skill. Like the young heir of an old family restored after an almost obsolete lapse of time to the honours of 1114 lineage, Greece steps modestly tiorward gst nations whose In dustry is of many hundred years' growth, and whose ener gies have accuntulated upon years of development. Her re rived honours, her new age but of 20 years' growth, she brings to the world's show only her natural produce, her mar bles, her minerals cannot yet tell the tale of her nascent industry, her nascent marine • she cannot bring into the building her ships or her Mild sailors, ready to du the bidding of the world's commerce ; she can but say, in the expressive motto with which, in the spirit of her old poetry, her division alone is illustrated, as if—as of old— Greece alone could give voice to heart-spoken spirit of sill the human race, and claimed her ancieut privilege, even at the young world's meeting : HAPSEIN XPH . . TAX ATPION MET' AMEINON. ZHAOI AE TE ['MONA CEITIIN LIZ A•ENON ZHETAONr. ArAOH Li EMI Hag SPOTOI2I4 For your fair readers' sake I subjoin a translation of these lines, which, I observe, occasioned them much in quiry on the day of the opening. In the first line (which is from Theocritus), Greece, speaking to her own children, encourages them not to be daunted by their own manifest inferiority in the present competitiim, but to look forward to time, which will render the result of their efforts equally ai'inirable and prosperous. " Take courage !" she ex claims; "soon will there come for us a better morning." Then, in allusion to the spirited enterpriso of the In dustry of all Nations, she delivers a sentiment whose truth and beauty will be recognised by all the supporters of this festival of peace: " When neighbour t ululates neighbour in the development of mutual resources, this indeed is a contest worthy of man." Meanin; thereby, in using these words of Ilesiodus, that if men must engage in emulation and strife, let them show their excellence and MIIK dimity in what may udvance the happiness of all. A motto indeed worthy to be written iu letters of gold over the entrances of the Crystal Palace. Of the lonian portion of this Great Exhiltition,j would that I could say more than that, as it has been got up, as your dramatists would say, "at the shortest possible notice," and without the authority or assistance of my countrymen, or even their knowledge (constituent upon the total neglect of their interests by their Lord Iligh Commissioner, Sir Henry 0. Ward), depending too ns it does solely upon the generous contributions of such noble men and gentlemen as have served her Majesty iu the Is , lands, and who , with their families, have with v e ry ami a bl e fooling forwarded, at my solicitation, such articles of lonian manufacture as wero in their possession, that the lonian name might not be left out of the catalogue of nations, contributing (according to the wish un luckily too late expressed by the executive c 0 , ,,.. mittee) taking, I my, all these circumstances into consideration, I may only express the hope that it m a y j not be regarded as what the lonians could have shown under more favourable circumstances ; but that, looking at the disadvantage of Si: 11. Ward's discouragement, and his de termination to banish the I .Man Islands from the Exhibi tion of the World's industry, the few specimens I have been able to bring forward on their part may serve to re mind the English visitors, when gazing on the small lonian counter, iu all the consciousness of their own capital, skill, and knowledge —may remind them, I say, that although nothing came direct and purposely from tho Wands to be displayed in the Great Exhibition, still, that counter will serve to carry out the feeling described in the lines of your poet, as written on the tomb of his young hero; Snne noble nein, iwiguyt from , . ,be a m ss ,,, May yot con enure trial we might have been." I have the honour to be, your obedient, humble servant, AN lONIAN. Erechtheum Club, St. James's-square, May 3. PROTEST OF MANCHE-BTM CIII:IICHWARDENS AGAINT PLCUALITIEs.--On retiring from an office they have held for the last two years, the churchwardens of Man chester feel it to he a duty w hick they owe, nut merely to themselves but to the parishiouers at large, to reconl their entire concurrence in, and approval of, the protest of their predecessors, Messrs. Brooks, Masson, and Crutteuden, against the retention, by the Bev. It. Parkins...it, of the presidency and incumbency of St. Bees, with the eniolu ntents arising from his prefenuent as out. of the ca no of Manchester; and th e i r deep regret that the loud and general expression of public opiuioo, un the part of the clergy and laity, in favour of the sentiments enunciated in that protest, have had nu effect upon the apparent determination of the reverend gentleman to retain both those preferments. The churchwardens cannot but regard, with still deeper regret, the annquakeenteut that the example of the Bev. It. Parkinson, although thus condemned, is about to be followed by two of the remaining three clergymen holding canouries in the cathedral of this parish; the Bev. C. 1). Wray has ' accepted the valuable rectory of South Ituucton, in the county of Norfolk; and the Bev. it. C. Clifton leis expressed his iutentiun to retire from Manchester to the living he holds in the county of Oxford (the duties of which have hitherto been discharged by a curate) ; so that this parish, with its vast and rapidly increasing population, its spiritual destitu tion, its need of every means w Well can be devised of im planting moral and religious principles in the minds of the people, and attaching them more closely to our protestant iustitutions, is to be almost entirely deprived of the per , bona! services of three clergymen holding high preferment in the church, and deriving large entolininuts from the revenues of the wish, whose position neeessarily invests ' them with commanding influence forgoud or evil, according as their tuitions and line of conduct are in accordance or at variance with the obligations of their sacred office. Although Mr. Parkinson might have accepted Ft. Bees under au impression that the act of 1810 released hint troll his duties 144 one of the rectors of this parish, and placed the dean and canons of Manchester its the twine position as most other chapters in the kingd o m, inutile and convinci ng p roo f has since been given, that whatever duties attached to the office of warden and fellows are still due from the dean and canons ; and that the cure of souls of the parishioners was at the foundation vested in the College of Christ, its Mauthes ter, is now placed beyond unreasonable doubt,and is admitted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Manchester, and the eminent counsel, Br. Addams and Mr. Badcleley. But apart from the requirements of the law, and the foun dation charter of Charles the First, it might have been expected that the claims of such a emmuunity as this, espe cially in times like the present, would have been felt by clergymen of the Church of England, and could not have been so lightly discarded. Believing, therefore, that the course pursued by Mr. Wray, Mr. Parkinson, and Mr. Clifton, is in direct violation ut the spirit, if nut of the actual law, of the church, as it indisputably is of both the spirit and letter of the foundation charter; that it betokens a lamentable indifference to the spiritual wants of the parish ; that it diverts the ecclesiastical property " from the course its original bestuwer intended it to take ;" that it must prove a fruitful source of danger and scandal to the church, damping the hopes and paralysing the efforts of her mem bers—the churchwardens conceive tle,y would be guilty of a dereliction of their duty were they to retire from office without entering upon the books of the parish an expression of opinion as to the injurious consequences which must in evitably result from, and a formal protest against, such a course of procedure :—Resolved— that a copy of this me morandum be forwarded to the dean and canons, the Bishop of Manchester, and to the Archbishops of Canter bury and York.—Mariehester Guardian. Tun Burma MUSEUM. — The total number of visitors at the British Museum last week was 53,912—vic, 31,110 on Monday, 3,649 on Tuesday, 9,873 on Wednesday, 2,471 on Thursday, and 6,770 on Friday. The gallery con taining the sculptured antiquities from Nineveh was the chief object of attraction. The Museum will be open to day, but it will be closed during the remainder of the week, for the purpose of having the whole of th e i n t er i or th oroug hl y cleaned. The trustees have issued a notice that it will will be again re-opened on Monday, May 5, when also, for the first time, the public will be admitted into the library. The Assyrian gallery, which is now encumbered with scaf folding, will then have the whole removed. The days of admission will be on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from 10 o'clock a.m., to 7 o'clock p.m. The public should be cautioned, particularly visitors from the country and , foreigners, that children under eight years of age are not admitted. From ignorance of this order it frequently hap pens that parties are pat to much alcoaveuieace. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 10, 1851., re-unite the society, in the work or education, With the Privy CounciL Whether the National Society shall be resolved into an exclusively tractarian organisation such as no protestant can support, or adopt u course more liberal, and more congenial to public fei:ling, depends almost entirely on how the vacancies in the committee are filled up; for by it the business of the society is exclusively conducted. And upon the adoption or 1 1 rejection of Mr. GIRDLESTONE'S conciliatory resolu- I thin depends this society, and the church which it is supposed to represent, being rescued from the false position into which Mr. Dtsasosi and his party have plunged it. The question at issue is, therefore, one in which even persons who do not approve of the exclusive principles on which the National Society is founded may, nevertheless, well take interest and part ; fur it is a question affecting the protestant or the ltomish character of an almost national organisation, the ex istence of which is a great fact, not to be got rid of, because we don't approve of all it may do even under more favourable circumstances. It is a question whether in that society, and in national education as I promoted by it, the absolute supremacy of the spiri- , tual power has to prevail, or whether the laity have not to share iu the labours and the 'super vision of education ; whether church educa tion is to be tractarian or protestant ; whether the clergy compose the church or whether the church be a society of faithful Christian men ? It is, there fore, the especial duty of laymen to assist Mr. Giato..EstoxE in the contest he has entered on, see ing it is their battle he is fighting. For the struggle Mr. DENISON and his party aro putting forth all their strength. Let those who arc for a more liberal and moderate course do the same, and the National Society will be easily rescued from Tractarianism, its follies and mischiefs. ne court. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince awl l'rincess of Prussia, and the Prince Frede• rick William of Prussia, left Buckingham PuDec at two o'clock yestenliy afternoon for Stafford-house, to honour the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland with a visit. The royal suite consisted of the Ce.untess of Gainsho h. the Counters' A. de Backe ' Colonel the lion. Charles Grey, Lieut.-Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour, nod Count Oulu. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, too honoured the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland with her company. A select circle, including the Marquis of Westminster, the Marquis and MarchilMlC. of Bread dbanc, the Countess (Dowager) of Carlisle, Earl Granville, and the lion. Charles Howard, had the honour of meeting the Queen. Luncheon was served to her Majesty and the august circle, after which the Queen and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the Prince and Princess of Prussia, and Prince Frederick William, were conducted through the picture gallery awl state rooms to view the valuable collec tion of picture.. The Queen and Prince Albert, the Duchess uf Kent, and the Prussian royal fatuity, took their departure front stallord-house at four o'clock. Prince Alhert, the Prince and Princess of Prussia, Prince Frederick William and the Princes. Louisa of Prussia, visited the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations yesterday morning. The royal suite consisted of the Countess A. tie Backe, Countess Oriolla, Colonel Hon. C. Grey, Lieut.-Colonel F. IL Seymour, Count Puklsr, Major Von 'Dye'', Count Boltz, Colonel Fischer, and Lieutenant Heinz. The Queen, with the Princess Royal and the Princess accompanied by the Princess of Prussia and th,, Princess Louisa M Prussia, took a drive yesterday attemoon in an open landau and four. Prince Albert, the Prince of Prussia, and Prince Frederick William of Prussia, rode out on horseback. Colonel the lion. Charles Grey and Lieut.- Colonel F. 11. Seymour were in attendance on horseback. The Prineesses Helena and Louisa took an airing yester day in an open carriage and four. Prince Edw.ard of Sane Weimar visited the Prince and Princess of Pru-ma yesterday at Buckingham Palace. Her wrajesty and Prince Albert, aceompunied by the Prince and Princess of Prussia and Prince Frederick William of Prussia, honoured the performance of the French plays last evening with their presence. The royal suit,. consisted of the Countess A. de Backe, the Count,. Griolla, the lion. Eleanor Stanley, the lion. Beatrice Ityng, Lord 11 - aterpark, Count Pokier, Count (jolty, Colonel harles Grey, Lieut.-Colonel F. IL Seymour, and Licute nant Von Ileum The Duchies. of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, and Lord Jane. I'. Murray, also honoured the pertUrtunuee of the French playa with her we - wenn., List erenirg. Despatches were sent off yesterday from the Colonial office to the Governor of the Canada, and the governor; of the other North American colonies. (From last Mahe. Garth,' DOWNING-sTELET, 9.—The Queen has been ',feasts' to appoint James Douglas, Esq., to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Island of Van couver, and its: deiwndencies ; her Majesty has Ldso been pleased to appoint John Rainier, Esq., to be Resident Ma gistrate at lliversdale, in the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope. WHITEHALL, Mty 7.—The Queen has been pleas.' to appoint John Montgomerie Bell, Esq., Advocate, to be sheriff of the shire or sheriffdom of Kincardine, in the room of John Cowan, Esq., resigned. WHITEHALL, %l.ty B.—The Queen hos been pleased to nominate the Rev. John Watson to be the Of ficiating Minister of the church of Newbonmoh, in the counts. of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, the same Lying void by the resignation of the Rev. Christopher Carr. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the Foreign-office, in I /owning-street. The ministers pn'sc•ut were Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Moto, Sir George Grey. Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, Lord Broughton, the Curl of Carlisle, the Right lion. Henry Cahoot:here, the Marquis of Chuiricarde, and the Right lion. Fox Maude. The Council sat one hour and a half. THE COVENTRY I'.VRI.LIMENTARY AND FINANCIAL Rs:roust AASUCI ATION held its annual meeting of members in the large room of the Temper:mei, lintel, Dishop-street, Coventry, on Tuesday eveuing. The room was inconve niently crowded with the attendance of members on the occasion. The object of the meeting was to hear the ac counts fur the past year; to consider the best method of electing the committee for 16.11; and generally to secure a better organisation of the reformers of this city, upon the principles laid down in the bill of rights issued by the National Association, or free trade to all its integrity ; financial reform; economical and equitable, parliamentary reform, immediate and complete. ILOYAL N.tVAL SCOOOL.—Last evening. the anni versary festival of the subscribers to this institution took place at the London Tavern, Bishopsgateetreet, Vice- Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, presiding, supported b 7 the Earl of Waldegrave, Admiral Bowles, Admiral Sir C. Malcolm, Mr. Montague lion., Admiral Falcon, Dr. Cham bers, Captain Clarke, tee. The chairman, in proposing the toast of the evening—" Prosperity to the Royal Naval School - -observed, that if there was one thing more than another which this country ought to be proud of, it was the extent of its charitable institutions; and he Ixlieved he might truly say they were not only efficiently maintained, but were found to be well adapted to the purposes for which they were designed. It was an interesting fact that in the charities of the City of London alone, a sum of no less than 1,700,000! or nearer two millious, was expended annually, and th at amongst tivo hundred different establishments. In stating this he believed he might add, that the benevolent institution, whose anniversary they were now celebrating was not ono of the least beneficial of those charities. There might be many here present who remembered the lung and glorious war- Farr in which they were some time since engaged, and who were aware that officers had retired subsequent to that period with no more than or 6s. per day—and som e o f I them with wives and families to support from this small stipend. Within a few years after the war to which ho alluded, a benevolent officer, who was now no more, sug gested the propriety of (orating an establishment like the preseut, and he himself contributed the sum of 10,000 i. towards the institution. 'this was the origin of the society, and he (the chairman) was happy to say it had completely answered all expectations. Its object was to give educa tion to some at " cost price," to others at a reduced scale, and to a certain number gratuitously. It was worthy of remark, that 1,000 officers had been sent out from this institution since its formation ; and during the last year there were two young men who had distinguished themselves at col lege—the one at Cambridge and the other at Oxford. The Lords of the Admiralty, he was happy to observe, had taken a tavourable view of this society, and had assigned two cadet hips annually to young men of the establishment. The benefits of the institution had hitherto been confined to the children of officers of the navy and marines, but owing to the long-continued praise which bad existed in this coun try, the patrons of the charity were anxious to extend its operations, and they now proposed to admit into the esta blishment the was of civilians and of officers in the army. He did not doubt that this extension would be beneficial in its results, inasmuch as it would command the attention of a number of persons who had heretofore been strangers to the institution.—Admiral Bowles expressed sf• miler sentiments upon the subject, and said there was no reason whatever why this school should not in time become u highly distinguished as that of Rugby, Winchester, or any of the other public educational establishments i n this country. Admiral Bowles concluded by proposing the health of the chairman, who briefly retorted thanks; and many other touts were given in succesaion, having for their object the advancement of the institution and the well-bo iag of its presnoters.—The announcement of a long list of 1 subscriptions and donations terminated the pro—w4.inp of the evening. THE FATAL, OLLISION ON THE CHESHIRE JVNCTION RAILWAY. After the despatch of our report on Thursday, the proceedings at l'restun Brook continued up to near six o'clock. After the driver of the engine "'the Druid," with the first train of the three which came in collision in the tunnel, had been examined, Mr. Nicholson, the coroner, said he thought it would be eery satisfactory to have a train of the same size and weight as that attached to the Druid on the occasion of this collision attached to the same engine again, so that the jury might be enabled to judge of the capability of the engine 'to draw such a load, and it was arranged that the experi ment should be made this (Saturdav) morning. Thomas Leech, a fireman, and if. Blackford, a guard, in the service of the Cheshire Junction Company, were the next witnesses examined, and they detailed the circum stances connected with the accident, without, however, adding anything novel to the evidence already adduced. The jury again assembled yesterday morning (Friday), being the fifth day of the inquiry, at 10 o'clock in the morning. David Evans, engine-driver of the second train, said— We left Chester at a quarter-past seven, with No. 16 engine and train of 13 or 11 carriages. John Doyle being guard. I had taken in a supply of water a quarter of an hour before I lett, and filled the tender. I had been upon Nu. 16 engine about a month, and had made a good many trips upon her. I saw Mr. Bragg° un the engine before I left. I had sceu a train leave Chester ahem three-quarters of an hour before we left. I was assisted up the Monte incline by another engine besides our own, and we travelled after that 20 to 25 miles per hour to Frodsham. We stopped at Dun-1 ham and Frodsham. I had not keen a train before us till then, but there I did see one. We stopped two minutes, and were started again by the station-neater, and I moved on. The train before us was still in sight, and about a mile in advance of us. We approached the other train on nearing the tunnel. When I reached the Sutton viaduct the train before me was enter ing the tunnel. I cannot say if it was 500 yards before me, but I was doing my beat to overtake it before it entered the tunnel. It was going very slow. As the lust carriage of the train before us entered the tunnel we were about sixty yards haul& and before this I had observed the guard of the train hetUre hold up his hand and beckon me to come on. No previous signal had been made. One of the rules, No. 15, is that engines shall keep 600 yards apart froni each other unless specially summoned, that is to say the engine shall not approach within six hundred yards of the other engine unless specially summoned. Rule Nu. tf says, no engine shall push another train on the main line, but shall in all cases draw the some after it, except in the ease of any engine disabled on the road, when the succeeding engine will push the train slowly to the first siding or crossing, at which place the engine will take the lead. By this rule I considered I was justified in going as near as I safely could, but I should nut have gone nearer unless I had been beckoned. We were travelling at the speed of four miles an hour. I did not see a policeman at the entrance of the tunnel, but I had seen one there ou ordinary occasions. had not travelled on that line for a week before the racca,l but I had seen a policeman there when I last travelled there. lle slid nut give any signal to me when I passed him on any occasion, and I do not know what he was there for. There was nut a pOlieelll3ll at each end of the tunnel,l but the same policeman was sometimes at one end and sometimes ut the other. Before I entered the tunnel 1 had sounded my whistle several times to caution the engine driver before me. No time was stated to me before leaving Chester that evening what time we should go to Manchester in. One of the rules, N 0.6, is that the engine driver helms, starting be told the exact time he will be expected to run the train, and must endeavour to run the ename at au uniform speed, from which he will vary as little as possible. I have received instructions front Mr. Bragge by printed time bills as to the times at which trains leave and are ex pected to arrive at their destination. On the Wednesday m question I had seen the advertisement of trains ut the races, but I had not one in my possession. That advertise ment as to the return trains is as follows : " The trains will return from Chester after the races, commencing nt 4.30 Wm., and continue ruining so SOOl/ as filled, up to 9 pon." hen I was within 70 yards of the other train the fireman, Edward Mansfield, was with ine,and hail hold of the break. I came up to the train in advance whilst in the tunnel, some 20 or 30 yards alter entering. I might be travelling two miles an hour or her before I got up to it ; but L then put out increased sped and went to help it. The rails were middling wet, and when I got up to the other train we begun to slip. The inquest was proceeding at two o'clock yesterday, when our report left. . . . . . Amongst the persons injured by the collision, besides those whose names hove been published, are the following —Mr. Biddulph, grcer, Manchester, who had One leg broken, nod Mr. Stidrow, joiner, Barkodrcet, Ilulme, who had blood Mrced from his cars and was otherwise injured, 1,0 that he is still confined to his bed. Mr. Wagstaffe, of Warrington, had his nose seriously cut a n d was otherwise injured. The other parties most seriously suffering (rum fractured limbs and other injuries are going on fat uumbly. TWO CIIILDREN POISONED. Another addition has just been made to the long list of itutances already afforded of the fatal results of the present lax system of administering pecuniary relief by illeattS of burial clubs. The victims in the present instance are two children, named Sarah Auu Bare:roll and Ellen Mills, the former aged 11 months ' and the latter 2 years anti 3 months. The deceased Sarah Ann Barcroft was the child of Jonathan and Ruth Barcroft, residing at the Hague, near Montrain. This child died suddenly on the afth ult., after a few hours' illness, about I I o'clock in the forenoon. Shortly afterwards Mr.. Mills, the mother of the other child, who resides at a short distance front Bar• croft's house, was sent nor hy Mrs. Barcroft, to assist her in laying out the dead child. Mrs. Mills took a ith her to Mrs. ftarcruft's, Ellen Mills, and another of her child's n named George, about 13 months old, and also two children named M.Gleclan, who lodged with their fotth or at Mrs. Mills'. house. Mrs. Bancroft then requested Mrs. to go to a place called Tounnylowe, about two miles off, to fetch Mrs. Barcruft's mother, lettering to take care of the children till she retuned. Mrs. Mills aeconlingly went to Mrs. Dar croft's mother, and returned with her at about '2 o'clock iu the afternoon. Soon after she returned, soma porridge, which had been prepared in her absence, was given to the children, who, in about five mi. mites were seized with vomiting. Ellen Mills became rapidly worse, and expired about half-past 10 o'clock that night. The other children recovered. Information of these circumstances having reached Mr. Little, special high constable, at Hyde, he visited illarcrofez house on the fol lowing morning, the 30th ult., to make inquiries as to the cause of the sudden death of the children. Mrs. ftmerott then told him that on the Moouolay eight, when her husband was from Im,nne, she weut to bed with her child about o'clock. Her husband came home during the night, she could not say at what time, there being no clock in the house. Sometime afterwards the child locator rest less and began to cry. Mrs. Boweroft woke her husband and he went down stain and brought up some Moue por ridge, which the mother had nude before she went to bed, anti put on the hub by the fireside. She gave the child some of the porridge, and in about five minutes it begun to vomit, became very ill, awl died about II o'clock the next morning. Jonathan Bancroft, the father of the deceased, t Mr. Little that on the Monday he was at a beershop in Mottram in company with a man named Fairhurst, till about ten o'clock at night, when he went home to, bul. In the morning he went to his work, and diet nut hear of 116 child's death till some hour. afterwanls. He gave the re mains of the porridge to si man named Cooper, next door, fur his hens. Cooper said he had given the porridge to dais hens, and it had done then, no harm. Ott Saturday last an inquest was hold on the bodies of the two ehildren, before Mr. Hudson, coroner, but nothing of importanni transpired, and the proceedings were adjourned. On Tuesday lust the inquest was resumed, when Messrs. Alcoek and Sidcbuttam, surgeons, of Mottram, stated that they had made a post-mortem examination, and had found arsenic in the stomach. The inquest was accordingly ad journed again, and Barcruft and his wife were apprehended that evening on suspicion of the murder. Mr. Little, an making further inquiries, learnt that on the day of his': child's death Bareroft went to the registrar of deaths at Glossop, and stated that he lived at Littlemore, about four miles from the Hague ; that his child had died of the Moping tough, and obtained from him a certificate for the interment oh' the deceased. It also appear% that, on the 23rd ult., Bareroft, who was employed 34 a washer at Messrs. Ed. Potters' print works, hinting-vale, obtained from Thos. Marsden, who has the care en the drugs and colours at the work+, 2 oz. of white arsenic, and about the same quantity of sugar of lead, stating that he wanted them for a person at the Hague, to put round some plants. All the five children were members of the hinting-vale Burial Club. Barerott received 21. 10s. from the treasurer of the society, OP showing him the certificate which he had previously obtained from the registrar. The parents of the deceased Ellen Mills also receives! 41. from the club. In consequence of the suspicion which rests upon Bar croft and his wife. Mr. Little has received authority from the coroner to exhume the bode of a child of which Mrs. Bareroft was delivered on Good 'Friday last, and which died about six hours afterwards. The adjourned inquest on the bodies of the two children will he held on Tuesday next, at the Griffin Inn, Broad bottom, near Mottram. HARWICH ELECTION COMMlTTEE.—tcstcrday, this committee resumed their scrutiny of votes. The committee decided that they would not insist upon Sir Walter Hid den, the revising barrister, giving reasons either for his allowance or disallowance of votes, but that they would re • ceive any evidence other than that of the revising barrister thereon. After considerable discussion, the committee de termined on allowing the totes of Mr. J. C. Cobbold, 31. P., and of his father, Mr. John Cobbuld, which were objected to on the ground of nun-continuous evidence. Tho vote of Mr. E. L4WfAllee, solicitor, of Ipswich and Harwich, im pugned on the ground of non -continuous residence, was also allowed. Ihe vote of Mr. John Attwood in respect of an estate near Harwich, and objected to on the ground of non-residence, was next taken. Mr. J. Baker gave evi dence on the point of non-residence, and complained that ,the notices of votes objected to at Harwich, were stuck so high up inside the church door, that it was next to impos sible to read them. (Lauf hter.) The witness, in his cross examination, created considerable merriment by admitting that, as regarded himself, he could hardly read at all. The committee, at 4 o'clock, adjourned to this day. Of 8 votes out of 23 already gone into, o ne on l y, an undefended one, has been established, or struck off. . QUARTERLY RETURN OF MARROLES, SIHTHS, AND DEATHS. The official return was issued on Thursday. This return comprises the births and deaths registered by 2,189 registrars in all the districts of England during the winter quarter ending March 31, 1851 ; and the marriages in 1110117 than 12,000 churches or chapels, 2,809 registered places of worship unconnected with the established church, and 623 superintendent registrars' offices, in the quarter that ended December 31, 1840. . . . . The return of marriage+ is not complete ; but the de fect+ ore inconsiderable, and have beeu supplied from pre- ViOUS years. The results of the returns from the whole country are satisfactory. The mortality i, low ; the births and tho marriages are much above the average. M A RIG AO ES. 45,2% marriages were celebrated in the autumn quarter, ending December 31. The marriages are always more numerous in this quarter than in any other quarter of the year. The close of harvest, the genial season of Christ mas, the termination of the ordinary periods of service, and perhaps the old practice of anticipating Lent, swell the marriage roll at the end of the year. So there is nothing very remarkable in the distribution of the marriages over the quarters of the year 18)0, although the marriages in the last quarter exceeded those in the first quarter of the year by nearly 15,000. The marriages of the whole year exhibit an extraordinary increase; in 1811) the number was 1223385; in 1850 it amounted to 152,235. In the 4 years, 1817-8-9-50, the marriages were 135,845, 138,23t1, 141,488, and 152,235. The first (1817) was a year of great depres sion and great suffering; the last (1850), as the marriages testify, was a year of prosperity, which showed nu symp toms of decline in the last quarter. The increase extended over 8 out of the 11 divisions of England and Wales. The South Midland and the eastern divisions exhibit a marked decrease in the proportion of marriages to population. The decrease was greatest in Saltblk ; but was also evident in the counties of Hertford, Buckingham Oxford, Cambridge, Northampton, Hunting don, Ibllfbrti, Essex, and NortOlk. Income of the otli r divisions the marriages did not keep pace with the 111111UI ra tion. In Wilts, Lincoln, and the North Riding of York shire, the numbers &dined. Thu marriages increased in Berkshire, Devonshire, Gloucestershire, Warwickshir:, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, the East and West (tidings of Yorkshire, Durham, and South Wales. The increase was the greatest in London, and in the north western division comprising Cheshire and Lan cayhire. The marriages increased at St. George, Hanevor ,quare, St. Martin-in-the-lields, and St. Janie,. ttt itt stet. ; and at all the watering places, at Gravesend, Ramsgate, Margate, Hastings, Brighton, Worthing, Bath, Clifton, and Cheltenham. '!'here was a great increase in the pottery districts of Wolstanton and Stoke-upon-Trent. in Walsall, Dudley, awl Birmingham, in Coventry, in Hay ford and Nottingham, in Shardlow and Derby, in Stockport and (treat Boughton (Chester), in West Derby, Wigan, Holton, Ashton, Oldham, Rochdale, Blackburn, and Wes ton. In Liverpool and Manchester the marriages, though more numerous than in 'AMC previous quarters, exhibited no increase on the corresponding quarter of 1850. Brad ford, Leeds, and Sheffield exhibit a remarkable increase. The marriages decreased, were stationary, or increased slowly in many agricultural districts; and this implies a certain degree of depression iu those parts at the close of the year is 51. In many of the manufacturing 111.'60ts the increase was remarkable. In the country generally, the great increase in the marriages indicatii that thy great body of the people were in proven'''. eircomstances. The class, a who live on wages should now husband their re sources, and with their surplus earnings provide against the periods of depression which according to past experience in. variably follow years of prosperity. 1111.1,711 i. 137,371 births were registered in the quarter railing March 3lt, 04.31. This is a greater number of births than was ever registered in any previous quarter ; and the in t' IVA.: is distributed over all the divisions of the country, although it was greatest inCheshire, Lancashire, and York shire. In a few counties the births exhibit au increase ; in the majority the increase is considerable. INCILEA4E OF I•OI'L'I.ATION. As 147,374 births and 1.0.1,116 deaths were registered in the quarter ending March 31st, WI, an excess is left 01.11,928 living. It is the natural increase of the population in three 1.11011t114. And as all the deaths arc registered while all the births are not registered, the difference is less than the actual increase. The variations in the in crease of population from fluctuations in the births and deaths since 1817 have been considerable; the cocas of births over death. was 19,701 in the wader quarter ending March 1818, and 31,928 in the corr,pouding quarter of 18.51. 'lns emigration in the rptartar ending 'March 31, 1811, from the ports of the United Kingdom a: which there are gm eminent entig at i ~,, officers, 46,072. The emigrants front English pints antonuteil to 48,929; namely, 1,51.1 front Plymouth, -Law from London, and 42,912 front Liverpool. 2,339 entigr.ints sailed front Ghogow unil Greenock; I,SOI trout Irish ports. It is well known that many Irish emi grants sail from Li% erpoul. STATE a' THE PUBLIC HEALTH. 105,116 deaths were registered in the quarter ending March 31st. This number is leas by nearly 15,000 than was rigistered in the cornsponding quarters of 1517 and 1818; and more by 7,1881 than was registered in the March quarter of 1530. faking the increase of population into account, the mortality wan slightly below the average. It was at the rate of 2.365 per cent. far annum ; whereas the average rate of the quarter is 2.137 per cent. The highe s t rate of mortality experienced in any winter quarter since 1539 was 2.831) in the cold winter quarter of 1517 ; the lowest was 2.114 in the mild winter quarter of 1516. A previous table shows that the average • al rite of mor tality in winter is 2: per cent. nearly (2.137) ; the mortality being above this range in town, and below it in country districts. The mortality in the March quarter was what lower than the average in the 117 districts including the thief towns ; and considerably below the average in the 306 remaini n g country districts. The mortality of the towns war a fiftieth part, and of the country districts a twelfth part less than the average. The country districts are therefore enjoying more thou their usual immunity, white the mortality in the town districts is scarcely reduced at all; yet it was in the town districts that cholera was most fatal, wad according to a comm on th eory cut tiff the weakly lives in 1819. The returns show that little impression has yet been made on the mortality of towns, which have prac tically liven left unimprused. The drains, sl`WerS, slaugh terhouses, and churchyanle are much the same as they were, and their effect. tlwrofore are the same. The mortality Wits h igher in !London than it was in the corresponding quarter of last year. Influenza war epidemic, and the mortality was ruined during the weeks of March. 201 deaths were directly ascribed to this diseatie which in ordinary 1N.,01011, is not fatal to more than 10; and many of the 1,612 deaths, ascribed to brunt:hid, were the result of influenza. The epidemic has ceased, and has been slight compared with that of 1817-8. Measles and hooping-cough have been more, scarlatina less, than usually fatal. Small pox was Natal iu 273 cases, in the greater port of which vac cination had been neglecter!. Diarrheca was fatal to 2'23 'mams, dysentery to 30, cholera to 7. It is worthy of note that the winter diarrhtca shows no disposition to decline. The deaths referred to cholera in the five quarter. ending I Marth 1517,51, were. 3,9, 511 i, 8, and 7. Typhus has been more fatal than it was in the March quarter of 1830. The deaths by poison were 29, burns and scalds 100, hanging and suffocation 71, drowning 70, fractures and contusions 163,. wounds 31. The mortality was low in the South Eastern, South Mid land, Eastern, and South Western divisions. Typhus raised the mortality ut Maidstone, scarlatina and houping cough at Brighton, where the mortality was much above the average. The mortality was generally low in the Sur rey and Sussex districts. l'ortstutnith and Southamptou were unhealthy ; at Southampton scarlatina prevailed. Measles and hooping-cough raised thy mortality in Abing don : measles and typhus in Wallingford. The mortality of %Viudsor, which has recently been drained, was much be low the average ; the deaths us the rive quarters ending March, 1817-a, were 132, 100, 114, 103, and 86. In the South .Miuland counties, Brentfurd, Edmonto n , Ware, St. Albans, Aylesb ur y, and Oxford were the chief districts in which the mortality was higher than usual. Small-pox prevailed at St. Albans among the poor " who live in great numbers in ill-ventilated houses. Measles, hooping.eough and typhus prevailed iu Waddesdon, Aylesbury, in Winslow, and in Witney ; measles and hoop ing-eough in Oxford. In Huntingdon low and intermittent fever prevailed. Seven deaths in the parish of Kings !Lipton were ascribed to typhus; three-fourths of the A supu.• !alum suffered from it. the want of drainage, an bad sanitary arrangements, are supposed to have pr o d uce d t h e disease. In the su b-district of Wisheach St. Etter the births registered were 81, the deaths 107. 51 deaths took place in the union workhouse; 16 from measles, 18 from typhus, and 17 from other causes. 'lbis great mortality in a public institution requires investigation. In the eastern division the mortality was high at Sud bury, Colchester, Yarmouth, and King's Lynn, where measles and scarlatina prevailed. At Stow, 67 births were registered; the registrar observes, that 20 still and prima -1 lure births occurred duri ng the quarter. Still birth s are not registered. Plymouth, remarkable fur its insalubrity, is almost the only district of the South Western Division in which the mortality is hi pier than in any previous winter quarter. Scarlatina, typhus, and hoping-cough have continued to prevail. At Morice in Stoke Damerel the oldest inhabitant of the town is said to have died in her 103rd year. Such instances of longevity should never be admitted without scrupulous inquiry ; they are rarely supported by valid evi dence. Scarlatina raised the mortality in Taunton, Chard, and Wellington, Somersetshire. The mortality has been high in many districts of the West Midland Division. bcarlauna, measles, small-pox, typhus, hooping-cough, and bronchi (influenza i), have been prevalent and have often terminated fatally. The mortality was low in Here fordshire, and the southern part of Shropshire. Vaccina tion is neglected in Shrewsbury, and several deaths from small-pox have in consequence occurred. Wolverhampton, West Bromwich, Birmingham, Aston, and Coventry expe rienced a considerable mortality. The deaths in Birming ham were 1,2.52. In the North Midland Division the mortality was low in Lincoln, although scarlatina and typhus prevailed there; it was higher than it was in the previous winter in Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, and Chesterfield; measles and hooping cough prevailed in many parts of those counties. The people of Stockport (in Cheshire, North Western divi sion)have their children vaccinated with a most laudable regu larity, and the result has been an almost complete immunity from small pos. In the same sounty the people of Run- ti