The Express. — London, England, 1847-01-06 00:00:00

ROME, pre. 24. The grant of a cardinal's hat to the unpopular go vernor of Home on his late removal from office, (an unexpected measure, of which the peculiar motives were communicated in my last) has undoubtedly checked fora moment the enthusiasm of loyalty which had gone on cr escendo since July. Numerous pas quinades have circulated this week of a very violent kind, and full of gross personality against Marini. Ar rangements were said to have been in progress for greet ing the new dignitary with a storm of hisses and execra tion on the occasion of last Monday's ceremonial, but the boisterous state of the weather—unusually severe even for winter—cooled the indignation of the Romans, and by the blessing of the barometer, his eminence tot off unscathed. His evening kree was even bril- Bandy attended ; all the diplomatic body being pre sent in compliment to the Pope, and female influence having worked assiduously among the native nobility in furtherance of this demonstration. The British uniforms were especially conspicuous in the halls of reception, and much hilarity, considering the bitter cold, was occasioned by the display of the Scottish kilt on the person of some child of— ., ea!edon`..l stern sad wilL" trated into the latter, could see a month or two ago, scattered about the rocks, the bones of the innume rable victims who fell in the first massacre. But in one place there is an immense heap, which he conjec tured must contain nearly a thousand skeletons. Among these the tresses of the women, which the Nestorians wear in long braids down the back, were conspicuous. The story of their fate was narrated by one of the few survivors near this tragic spot. The whole village had taken refuge on the summit of a rock, inaccessible but by a narrow path, cut in the *leer face of a precipice several hundred feet high, and so extremely penlous, that nothing less than the dread of imminent death could have prompted any human thing to venture along it. One by one, along this giddy ledge, the villagers conducted their families to the top of the rock, where they lay concealed from their enemies. '1 heir hiding-place was betrayed by some accident to the Kurds, who, however, preferred besieging the Christians to following their dangerous track. After three days, iatolenible thirst induced them to listen to a rai-ve-iman, or solemn promise made on the Koran, by Bederhan Bey, to spare their lives if they would come down and surrender. They came down, put themselves in his hands, and were immediately massacred. The princess Ltuicclaiitinldel Drabro did the honours with inborn gracefulness, and all things passed off satisfactorily.—This being Christmas eve, will account for the brevity of my letter. The festival of this hallowed night is to be held with unwonted solemnity and liturgical magnificence in the basilica of St. Mary Major on the F.squiline. It is probable that the Pontiff, whose charitable donations have been this week on a scale of unusual largeue, and whose pre tence, during these sacred rites, in the midst of his people must endear him to all classes, will regain any amount of popularity which the shadow of this un lucky but may have lost him. FRANCE.—General Baron .11ergez, who died in Paris lately, in the 75th year of his age, besides being one of the few survivors of the early ward of the French Revolution of 1789, served with great credit under Dam pierre, Bernadotte, crud subsequently in the Russian cam paign, where he wus taken prisoner. He married the second daughter of the late Thomas Ilidcroft, the dramatist, who survives to lament the termination, after an affectionate intercourse of upwards of forty years. GREECE.—In a part of our impression yesterday, we mentioned a letter addressed to the Athens paper, L'Es. pemnce, of December 14, professing to explain the designs of n Gallo-German plot against the con stitution of Greece. The following is a summary of the letter above mentioned. The writer refers to the memoir of Prince Metternich fur evidence of the views of Austria toward Greece. According to these views, the ideas of constitutional freedom are, by no means, suited for a young nation like Greece, which requires peace and material improvements rather than discussions and dis turbances. An unsettled condition of government in Greece must be a continual annoyance to the allied courts, and, therefore, it is desirable that Greece should receive a consti tution like that of Bavaria and other German states. Owing to the general state of polities, Austria has hot met with any warm reception of her views in the courts of Russia, England, and France. But, lately, Austria, as a return for her kindness to the French court in its intrigue, is under stood to have received from that court assent both to the suppression of Cracow and the propositions concerning Greece, contained in the memoir of Prince Metternich. These propositionsare distinctly stated as follows: 1. Greece is to receive a constitution like that of Bavaria. 2. In order to establish and maintain this new order, and to suppress any revolutionary movement, a body of 8,000 Austrians are to be starioned in Greece for ten years. The regular army of Greece is to be incorporated with the auxiliary troops. To these propositions the British Government has objected, that it cannot consent to any arrangements resersing the government of Greece, and has added that it will per sist in this objection even if left alone in doing so. In consequence of this state of things, the English squad ron now cruising off Portugal has received orders, with an exception of one division, to make sad for the coast of Greece, under the command of Admiral Parker. At the same time, a considerable body of troops will be collected in the lonian Isles, prepared to show resistance if this new Gallo-German Alliance, in disregard of the British protest against it, proceeds to carry out the project above stated. COLONIAL. NEW ZEALAND. MOSUL, Nov. 15. Three years ago, Europe learned with horror that a Kurd chieftain, named Bederhan Bey, had massa cred 5,000 Christians in the mountains of Kurdistan. The claims of the surviving brethren of these mur dered men upon the sympathies of Christendom were disguised by the sectarian denomination of Nestorians. Who were the Nestorians? Some affirmed they were the lost tribes of Israel; others assigned a different origin. What appeared certain was, that they were the only people in Asia who spoke the pure Chaldean dialect; that their number amounted to between one and two hundred thousand; that their location was among the Teary mountains, the loftiest group in Kurdistan comprised between the two main branches of the Great Zab, which flows into the Tigris below Mosul; that they had a worship resembling the Ca tholic, but instead of acknowledging the supremacy of the Pope, were subject to an hereditary Patriarch of their own nation, whom they called Mar Shimoun. It was also known that the missionaries of Rome bad towards the close of the seventeenth century succeeded in establishing a schism among these Chaldean Christians, and that Pope Innocent XI. had in 1681 set up a rival patriarch of the converted branch at Diarbekir by the name of Mar Yousauf, which, like the other appellation of Mar Shimoun, continued to be applied to successors. The Church of Rome, at the same time, usurped for its proselytes, the name of Chaldean Catholics, while it fixed upon the elder Chaldean church the heretical designation of Nestorians, which is by themselves rejected. The new schism, although zealously promoted from poli tical grounds by France, made, and makes, but small progress- But the Nestorians, in proportion to the RI success of the importunate and vexatious inroads which are made upon their religion, labour under the misfortune of having given umbrage to France by the strict fidelity with which they adhere to the ancient traditions of their own church, and the independent spirit with which they decline the protection of that power. The massacre of 5,000 Nestorians, therefore, by a fanatical Mussulman, did not produce that uni versal indignation and sorrow throughout Europe which might have been expected from the shedding of so much Christian blood. But, in proportion to their religious independence, the Nestorians became naturally an object of interest to those nations, of which England is the head, which advocate the principles of religious liberty, and claim for the Christians of the East the unmolested exercise of their peculiar worship. England, accordingly, took the lead in those diplomatic proceedings which were adopted at Constantinople for inquiry, compen sation, and protection. Mr. Stevens,consul at Samsoun, was sent to Mosul. Ile had an interview with Bederhan Bey at Jesira. The result of his investi gation, one must suppose, could not have been very favourable to the Nestorians, as the Kurdish chief who had slaughtered them underwent no further punishment than the restoration of a few Nestorian captives. it was said the Nestorians had stolen some of the sheep of Nouralla, the Kurdish Bey of Hakiari. The Bey of Jesira, who had helped his brother Kurd to such signal reprisals for the loss of his sheep, remained at the head of his district, at liberty, when good appeared to him, to repeat the same bloody game upon any pretence of equal importance. I am aware that the Nestorian!' are accused in the begin ning of the differences between them and the Kurds, of having slaughtered some Mahometans who wore green turbans, and were called the descendants of the PropLhet, and that it is affirmed, in excuse of Beder hen Bey's cruelty, that Mussulman fury was excited to an ungovernable pitch by the sacrifice of a tribe to whom peculiar sanctity is attributed. But every one that has extended his Turkish travels even no further than Constantinople knows that half the porters and people of the lowest condition in that city wear green turbans, and call themselves the descendants of the Prophet; but that no one esteems them a bit more holy or better descended on that account. Besides, thii charge is denied by the Nestorians. This, then, is the protection which Europe grants to the Christians of the East. She leaves a set of defenceless Christians at the mercy of a savage, who has just massacred 5,000 of them ; and takes no guarantee against the recurrence of such a dreadful calamity. except some fallacious assurance from the Porte that nothing of the kind shall happen again. Such is the manner in which Europe redeems the precious trust which was bequeathed to her by the crusades. Every one who knows the East knows that, unless that trust, and the duties attached to it, had been recognised by . Christian Europe, and from time to time, as occasion called, acted upon, the Christians of the East must have been long ago exter minated by the fanatic fury of the Mussnlmans. What ought to have been done in this case is clear. The European powers ought to have insisted upon the deposition of Bederhan Bey ; a matter much easier to carry into effect then than now, when he has strength ened himself by a close alliance with Mahmoud Khan, the hereditary ruler of Van, and most powerful thief now remaining in Kurdistan. But so far from receiving any punishment, Bederhan Bey has been continually caressed and flattered by the Turkish government. He has figured in their official prints as the devoted servant of the Porte, while he was acting in utter defiance of their authority, and ex- Pressed the most undisguised contempt for the in structions which he received from Constantinople. It is not difficult to penetrate the meaning of this indul gence. It has long been a pet scheme with the Porte to lamp the Kurdish beyliks into one large pashalik, winch they might commit to the government of a Man whose fate would lie at their mercy. The reali sation of this project would bring them in 100/. "here they now get 1/. They would sell the pasha lik annually, as they do the pashaliks of Trebizond, Raul, Bagdad, and all to which the tanzimaat has sat been yet applied, for a sum perhaps little short of 60 , 0 001., whereas the tribute which they get at pre sent from the Bey of Jesira amounts to 50,000 Piastres. They regarded Bederhan Bey as the fittest tool for their purposes, and thought to cajole that ferocious chieftain into being their cat's-paw. In forming this idea they quite mistook the man's "" i nctor, which is not that of a traitor, but of !jangle. Even in his persecution of the Nestorians t here is the savage sincerity of a thorough Masaulman. Alter an interval of three years, Bederhan Bey has r "ldea fresh expedition against the Nestorians, and t awnered some more thousands of them. What pro- T ' elsLi °, they gave, whether by stealing sheep or the ,wise, is Lot yet apparent. But it is certain that 'thooroyer neither age nor sex. Ho sent t w ir i hi t° TaStoc a ri r s e l d oa, who conjured him to desist from , that he would take no slaves s timefor the English to trouble him with mes- Zg, " about ; but that he would put all his prisoners, et women, and children , to the sword. And his —4rl t '" • h I eters wit out any s eves was a fatal gn N ue. bad kept hi s wor d b u t too well. The tribe of . • h otel that he attacked this time were of Tek- I !" district nea r T ear y. A traveller, who pene- In our yesterday's abstract of the latest intelligence from this colony, it was remarked that the papers we had received slid not enable us to trace the movements of the governor from the time of Rauperaho's arrest till his appear ance at Porirua, after the capture of Rangitsaeata's pats. We have since received a New Zealand Spectator of the 25th of July, which enables us in great part to supp the deficiency, and also to trace with tolerable precision Governor Grey's I movements from the time of his quitting Wellington, His I excellency sailed from Wellington in the Driver, on Mon day, 20th July, and proceeded direct to Weikanae, where he landed, and communicated with the friendly tribes at Waikasase, Otaki, and Ohau. On the 22nd (not the 24th. as gated yesterday), the Driver returned to Porirun, where (and' not at h;s pats at Kapiti) Houpernha was arrested early on Thursday morning. Respecting the Cause of his arrest, the New Zealand Spectator says It is re ported that hie excellency has received information of a nature to convince him that while this arch-traitor was full of friendly professions to the government, he was in secret and constant corresponder.ce with Rangihaeata, and his messenger was seized in the act of conveying a letter to the latter chief, promising to send him a supply of arms and ammunition." On Thursday evening the Driver left Porirua with the governor, the troops nod sailors, and again pro ceeded to Waikanae. This movement woe believed at Wel lington to have been made to intercept the Wanganui natives under Napara and. Maketu, who were expected at Orewhenua. The expectation of these reinforcements from the north explains Rangihaeata's retreating in that direction before the expedition from the Hutt which captured his pah. 't he intelligence we published yesterday represented Rongib3eata an inclosed between the forces from the Hutt on one hand, and those with the governor on the other. But from this additional information it would appear that the governor's party might be placed between Rangihacata's and the natives advancing from Orewhenua. The reinforcement of soldiers mentioned yesterday as having been landed at Porirua from the Calliope, consisted of 6 officers, 8 serjeants, 7 corporals, and 162 rank and tile of the 68th and 65th Regiments, who arrived at Wellington front Sydney in the Levant on the 22nd October. . _ _ SWITZERLAND.—The Journal de Geneve of the let inst. publishes the project of the constitution, as decided upon by the commission of the grand constituent council. The following is an epitome of the first articles of the project. Art. 1. The republic of Geneva fnrms one of the cantons of the Swiss confederation: all political power emanates alone from the people the form of government is a representative democracy.—Art. 2. All Geneve'e are equal in the eye of the law.—Art. 3. Individual liberty is guaranteed.—Art. 4. Private dwellings are inviolable.—Art. 5. Property is in violable.—Art. 6. General confiscation or sequestration of the property of persons accused, or sentenced by default, cannot take place.—Art. 7 establishes the liberty of the press.—Art. 9. Freedom of worship is established.—Art. 10. Freedom of education. GERM ANY. —BERLIN, Dec. 31.—1 t is expected that a Prussian consul will be sent to China, in accordance with the wishes expressed by a number of Germans resident in Canton. The manuficturers of the Rhenish provinces have deputed Herr Diergardt to claim from the Prussian govern. went the sum of 240,000 thalers as an indemnity for the loses crested by the increased duty on twists. It appears that they have little chance of obtaining that request. — Cologne Gazette, Jan. 4. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 17. -- The Austrian internuncio had a personal interview with the Grand Vizier, in which he submitted to him all the acts relative to the incorporation of Cracow, and demanded an official reply. He made a second demand, to say the least, a singular one, namely, to be informed of the impression produced on public opinion by the act. Two Cabinet Councils were held upon this subject, and although the Porte has not as yet given a reply, we have full reason to suppose that it will be conceived in a tone of disyrrobation. A report was spread last week of some changes in the ministry. The Seraakier Kosrew Pacha is very old, and his capacities have sensibly diminished, and serious thoughts are entertained of placing himon the re tired I ist, and replacing him by a younger and more active man. Riza Pacha, and the Minister of Marine, Mehemed Ali Pacha, are both spoken ofas his successors. Chekib Effendi, appointed ambassador to the Court of Austria, is shortly to leave Constantinople fir his post. It has been decided that Chekib Effendi, who isto take Rome en route, is to congratu late the new Pope in the name of the Sultan. This is a fact unprecedented in the annals of Turkish history. On the other hand the Pope intends sending M. Esealon, his Consul- General at Marseilles, on a mission to Constantinople. These will be the first diplomatic relations between the Porte and the Papal Court. It is a fact which speaks honourably for Catholicism, and proves the liberal ideas which animate the Sultan and his ministera Religious hatreds are vanishing, and the Turkish State Gazette has of late in serted two articles moat favourable to the Pope, formerly the object of the execrations of every good Mtosulman, nod they give him absolutely the same titles as other crowned heads. Public rejoicings terminate to-day in honour of the birth of a prince, who has received the name of Mohammed-Zia- Eddin !light of faith). Without speaking of the number of his wives, which increases daily, the Sultan has at present ten children. Three of the princes are Murad, Abd-ul- Hamid, and Mohammed-Zia-Eddin. The eldest, Murad-Ef fendi, who is seven years of age, has commenced to learn French. The last steamer from Trebizond has brought the news of the death of the governor of Erzeroum, Bahri-Pacha, who met his death by accident. That functionary learning that Lieu t .- General Ahmed Paella, appointed to the military command of the province, and who was on his way to Erie room to occupy his post, was only a few leagues off, left the town on horseback with a numerous retinue to welcome and re ceive him. Bahri-Pacha and Ahmed-Pacha returned together towards the city, when traversing a plain favourable to equestrian exercises, the persons of the suite put spurs to their horses, discharging their fire arms whilst at full speed, by way of showing their dexterity, but, at the moment that a Circassian, in the suite of Bahri-Pacha, discharged one of his pistols, his horse swerved and the ball struck Bahri- Pacha, who was at a considerable distance. Death was in stantaneous, the ball having struck him on the temple. Bahri- Pacha, by birth a Circassian, was brother of the Minister of Police, Hafiz•Pacha. He had been recently appointed governor of Erzeroum, as a reward for the zeal and courage he displayed at the head of the troops of the province, during the disturbances of last July. The Porte has to mourn the for of an excellent officer and faithful servant. MEXlCO.—Private accounts from Mexico by the late steamer, state that Mr. Bankhead, the British minister there, had received an application from the officer in com mand of the United States squadron, off Vera Cruz, request ing his interference to induce the Mexican government to re-open negotiations for peace with the United States. From the authorities in Mexico, from whom this statement is derived, there would seem to be little doubt of the general correctness of the statement. Santa Anna, it is mentioned, had been freely applying his own funds for the pay and sup port of his army, which was daily becoming more efficient, and prepared for active operations. The Avon, the next steam-packet, was to bring away the two millions of dollars of the two conducts' on their way to the coast, to the ship ment of which at Tampico no obstruction would, it was said, be offered by,the United States troops in posaesaion. SAILING OF THE BOSTON PACKET.—LITERPOOL, JAN. s.—The steam-ship Hibernia, Capt. Ryrie, sailed this day at noon for Halifax and Boston, with mails and passen gers. She carriesout the Earl of Elgin, Governor-General of Canada, and suite ; vie., Lord Mark Kerr, the Hon. Arthur Egerton, son of the Earl of Ellesmere, the Hon. Egremont Lascelles, &c. On his Excellency going on hoard a royal salute was tired. The Hibernia takes out 400,0001. in specie, one half of which has been forwarded direct from the Bank of England. Mr. NVaghorn, accompanied by Mr. Austen, the engineer, end aasistants, left Trieste the 29th ult., for Ancona, Rome, Naples, and Brindisi. A TRAP FOR NEWSPAPER PLAOIARISTS.—The Maidstone Ga:ette, of yesterday, says: "The other morning pipers have combined in their foreign expresses to beat the Daily New, for which contingency the Daily News, being published at a lower price, must have been prepared. On Saturday, the Daily News, whose early in telligence bad been sometimes taken by its rivals without acknowledgment, obtained the India mail, okl Trieste, through Lieut. Waghorn, before any other paper, slightly altered some words of the Bombay Times, and was by this alteration able to detect the dishonesty of two papers which published the matter in second editions, without acknow ledgment. This piracy is very disgraceful." POST-OFFICE ROBBERY.—Yesterday information was received by the metropolitan police that two letters containing notes and bills of exchange amounting to 2,2291. 18s. 6d. had been abstracted during transit through the post-Mace, from the Brm of W. S. Cheetham, of Not tingham, to the Commercial Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh. All efforts at present, either to trace the notes or detect the guilty parties, have been unsuccessful. With the exception of thee± who had left Wanganui with Napara and Maketu, and who are described as "notoriously the most troublesome in the district," the Maori in that quarter are said to be quiet and well disposed. The lien. It. Taylor hid arrived at Wanganui from Taupe with the intePiirence that the natives of that inland district had no intention of joining Itangihaeata. and professed a friendly feeling towards the settlers. At Taranaki (New Plymouth), by the last accounts, the natives were quiet, and did not attempt to molest the settlers. A hundred well-armed Waikato§ had visited Taranaki about a mouth before, but after remaining a few days feasting with the natives of the district had returned to their own country. RF.VENUE.—The accounts of the revenue sea expenditure of the town and district of Wellington for the quarter ending 30th June. arc published in the New Zealand Spec tator of 26th July. The ordinary revenue amounted to 1,4281., of which 1,1311. was derived from customs' duties; a bill bad been drawn by the Governor, is aid of revenue, on the commissioners of the Treasury, for 2,5001.; an advance to the military chest of 1,000!. had beta repaid; debentures to the amount of 1,280/. had been received: these items, with the balance of 1,0381. in the Treasury at the beginning of the quarter, amounted to about 7,2 , 401. Per contra, the expenditure on account of the district had been 4,11951.; a remittance of 5001. had been made to the sub-treasury as New Plymouth; 1,0001. had been advanced to the military chest; and 1,5841. paid upon debentures. One way and another the balance of 1,0381. in the Treasury at the com mencement of the quarter had dwindled to one of 671. at its close. LAND SLIP At TAUPO.--The following details of this casualty are from the Neu, Zealand Spectator :—" It appears that the primary Cause of this ruin was an immense land slip from a mountain, neer one thousand feet above the level of the lake, which falling down, choked up the gorge through which a stream escaped from a little valley, and which, being converted into a lake, when it had attained a certain depth, burst its barriers, and carrying down trees, stones, and mud, swept away every vestige of vegetation, and, in its course, emptied several of the reservoirs of the boiling springs, which thus increased the evil. The dht.ince of the mountain from the lake is about three miles. Tho stratum of mud is now from ten to twelve feet deep, and at the time of the eruption, in its semiliquid state, must have been much more." The winter in the Taupe country is described as having been very severe, with much snow. _ _ ___ __ _ _ _ __ _ Quarter, ended Year 9 , ,----- 4, ------, ended Quarters ended Ye Year ended .1 rm. I, Quarter ended Jan. 3, ended 1 1047. 1817. A 1 6 4 5, July 5, OM. 10, Jan. ~ Jan. ~ 1 April 5, 1 1 54. Oet. 10, 5, .a ..--.., A 1646. 1345. 1343. 1844 1144.1 , 1846. 1546. 1544. 1 1847. 1447. 1 Ineresse. Demme. lneresse. Deerems. Cmtoms ........ ............_...... ........... _____ 41701,546 4,499,501 4,1146,363 4,354,7 18,143,21.11 3,961,916 4,523,391 g,310,913 4,514,721 14310,1631 2444630 ..... Excise Stamp. Taxes ... ... 143,943 1,000.567 i 201,27 1,876,051 4,223,842 1 146,142, 2,006,427 369,910 1,909, 4,272,408 i 48,546, 13.848 .. 1,905,711 909,901 1,823,883 386,97 3,021,370, 1,947,842 , 1.009,162 1,972,130 450,21 5,103,391 P 346,8211 63,234 Ir:sain t Tat 174001 155,000 :09,000 189,000 731,0001 vs,ono 161,900 217,000 2111,000 416,000 113,0001 14,010 ....... ... ... . . Crown lamb 71.6m11.1.08m. (esalislve et Mr lisety) 22,931 1 13,65 2 13,102 ,69,617 120,317! 91,32 2 10,001 177,91 0 , 29,677 517.090 1047731 P,955 TilleerXoo93 smorne - 10.330.639 12,411,31 R 12,842,908 12,031,678 47,1.34161 9,733,790 ' 11,373,187 13,590,1031 11,486,33 , 48,604.418 4.1411.057 314700 313.312 92,6,0 China 392,0431 450,000 3014639 1,144924 j 440,090 MAN imprat il =lll•o amp 11ogammis of Ahura ..... ........ ....-.. 2blll Immo 11,368,67. 3 12,623,1341 13,811,48 0 12,900,798 30,601,988. 10,343,173.13,196,793, 14,330,4411 12,820,671 , 30,613,020 1,944,9671 1,233,925 243,3311 323,459 Applied to Cassedid. TYNE exam se Adnarom 7,273,0771 8,233,342 1 5,800,973 7,459,997 32,2.78,009 9,40.33.5; 8,4713,131 7,617,433 8,615,893130,177,822 L236,923,Ded. Deer. 523,431 1 DM. Dem. 10110 applied as Admin.= 390,000 101,301 330,000 613,077 1,646,575 14%01 91,301 472,500, 1 837,500 1,341,601 13 - 1 1.... ,032 . . 11 ‘ s•s ble rears .•vian Quarter Do. appliedaspertetthewspakimmeseitbeyear 3,711, 4, 76 4 071 , 4 9391 1 .0 7 4 .37 3 ,77 4 1 6 1;96.801 4.4 1 16, 8 1 7 1 4. 6 31,046 4X9,509 3 .36 7 .17 3 1 1 . 993 , 697 I i Tuts) 11.366,676 12,0341341 14111,380 12,800.793 30,601,936 10,245,1721 13,193,733 14,350,4441 12,820,671 36,613.039 The INCOME and CHARGE of the CONSOLIDATED FUND, in the QuagrEas smiled Jan. 5, 1848, and 1847. INCOME 11116. 1447. CHA111:1 E. 1046. 1647. autos. Exam ... - ........ - ............ -..- ..... -...-...-... ....... ... 3,353,440 3,632,131 , Terminable Annuitim . stamps ..- .. 1,792,402 1,740,667 Intenwt oti F:xelaequer Bills hoed ft meist Chew on Ommildeled Fuld Tome. 7777 Property Tait 384,983 450,219 1 The Cis .1 Lint Post Office Crown lands .- 68,612 29 637 1 China Money 300,830 1 , Total Charge Imprent and other Moseys - 64,064 31,674 The Surplus 4.27.5,316 4,810,211 Repayment. of Advances «. _. - "407 . _ - 3°1 • 44° Amount of Exchequer Rills Mused to meet Chnreew C l4ooll d o ted F 9 64 13,015,400 12,634,667 12,815,400 12,534,647 for the Qu Irter ended Oet. 10, 1816, and paid off out of the growing 77,463 To Cash brought to this Amount to be applied to puy of Deficiency Bills 200,99 9 I produce of that Fund for the Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1847, after de 513,013,400 £12,434,1197 1 ducting £60,00) paid off out of the sinking Fond Amount i..u.al in the Quarter ended Jan. 5,1047, in part of the Soon t MOMS granted by Parliament out of Consolidated Fund for Supply Services 1 Surplus of the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1817 . ....- ..... 010.211 1,442,038 , , The 7urplus of Revenue after providing for thechargeson the Connolldated 1 1,383,435 , . Fund,and lorthe payments of Supply services, Quar. ended Jan. 5,1847 ABSTRACT of NET PRODUCE of REVENUE of GREAT BRITAIN, In the YEA'S MA QC/ARTOIS ending Jan. 5, 1846, and Jan. 5, 1847. I.,luartcr ended Jan. 3, 1817. WESTMINSTER ELECTION. —A meeting of the elec tors of Westminster was held yesterday evening, at the Two Angels and Crown, St. Martin's-lane, to receive Mr. Charles Cothraue's exposition of his political sentiments. Mr. Scarfe occupied the ckair. The candidate, who was cordially received, aftersome introductory remelts, said that if returned to parliament, he should go there wholly uncon nected with any party or clique in the house, and as ready to receive really sound measures from Sir Robert Pcel as from any other person. The test he should proceed upon would be measures, not men. He was for the utmost exten sion of civil and rAigious liberty, concurrently with the fullest advancement of popular education, believitig that the greater freedom you gave to au intelligent and educated people, the happier citizens they would become, and the bet ter subjects. He was wholly opposed to the endowment of any particular church or sect, and to the connexion of church with state, regarding such connexion as tending to the corruption of both church and state. He should earnestly advocate the introduction of the vote by ballot, and was wholly at a loss, in deed, why the aristocracy, who se universally employed the ballot in th-ir clubs for their own protection, should deny the people that protection at parliamentary elections. He was in favour of shortening tho duration of parliament, and of extending mcst materially the suffrage. He considered that all persons who contributed to the revenue, should be enabled to check its expenditure by their votes. He was favourable to direct taxation, so that all might know what they paid, and the poor man not have to pay the same tax on the necessaries of life as the rich. He should snake it a great object of his parliamentary life to effect the abolition of the new poor-law, the most atrocious enactment that ever disgraced a legislature. He wiz prepared decidedly to sup port Mr. Fielden and the Ten Hours Bill.—Mr. Rogers then moved and Mr. Baker seconded a resolution, pledging the meeting to support Mr. Cochrane at the next election. The resolution was carried unanimously, and the assembly broke up. Christianity, and humanity, and the justice and necessity, in conformity with the public sentiments of this country, for its immediate abolit:on ; in proposing and seconding which Mr. Rowton, the Rev. Mr. Carlisle, Mr. Vincent, and others, addressed the meeting; after which • vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, and the meeting separated. We understand that vassal meetings, having the same object, are to be held in London and its vicinity in the course of the present week. HAIRDRESSERS' ASSOCIATION FOR THE EARLY CLOSING or SHOPS.—A preparatory meeting was held at the Bedford Head, Bloomsbury, last evening, for the purpose of forming an association for the earlier closing of hairdressers' shops in London, when a series of resolutions having this object in view were agreed to. It appears that this class of tradesmen are in the habit of keeping their shops open until a late hour, especially on Saturday nights, and the subject of discussion was the practicability of their being closed earlier, both in the winter and summer months, (such a practice having been pursued in Glasgow and other large towns with success) and thus enabling the numerous journeymen and apprentices in this business to have time for recreation and the acquirement of general knowledge. It was understood that a public meeting on • larger scale, with the view of carrying out the ohjecta of the association, would shortly be held. THE ST. PANCRAS GUARDIANS AND THE POott- Law COMMISSIONERS.—Yesterday, at a meeting of the Board of Directors and Guardians of St. Pancras, held in the board-room of the workhouse, Camden-town. Mr. B. J. E. Wright in the chair. Mr. M'Gahey, the clerk, pre sented a summons he had received from the Poor-law Com• missioners, calling upon him to attend at one o'clock that day at Somerset-house, to answer certain questions which might Le put to him connected with the administration of relief to the pour in the parish of St. Pancras. Mr. M'Gahey stattl that he had informed the commissioners that his duties as clerk to that board would prevent his attendance ; and they had altered the time till one o'clock on Thursday next. Mr. Clarke hoped the board would not allow the clerk to take any books with hima. (Loud cries of " no, no.") He wished to know what would be the result of a refusal to attend ? Mr. Crouch said he believed the first penalty would ha SI. Mr. Morris Then let us have five pounds worth. (Cheers and laughter.) Mr. Douglas had no objec tion to the board doing so, and to the matter being brought before a police-court. There could he no doubt but the mode of examining a person secretly before four or five persons, with a short-hand writer to take down every word that dropped from Wm, was both unconstitutional and illegal. Their clerk ought to have a counsel and a short-hand writer with him for his own protection.—Mr. Clarke moved " That the Poor-law Com missioners having summoned Mr. M'Gahey, the clerk to that board, to attend and give evidence before them, adepu tion be appointed, to consist of the churchwardens and Messrs. Douglas, Pearce, and Clarke, to accompany him to the Poor-law Commissioners, and insist on being present during his examination." This motion having been seconded and carried unanimously, Mr. Morris moved, " That in the event of the Poor-law Conical/wieners not allowing the depu tation to be present, they refuse to allow the clerk to be examined." This was seconded and was about being put when Mr. M'Gahey read the 13th section of the act, which rendered it a misdemeanor on his part as an officer to disobey the commissioners' order. The motion was then withdrawn, REPRESENTATION OP MIDDLESEX.—A rumour has found its way into • Liverpool paper, that Lord Robert Grosvenor is likely to become • candidate for the represents. tion of Middlesex, on the resignation of Mr. Byog. - - SUBSCRIPTION BALLS AT CROCKPORD'S.—The pre vailing direction of public amusements has been manifested in a new quarter. The celebrated regions of Crockford have shared the fate of baths and scientific galleries, and become a temple of the dance. The first of a series of subscription balls took place last evening ; they are announced for repe tition twice a week during the present month, and from the specimen presented last night, there appears to be little doubt of their successful continuance. The rooms are well known to he unrivalled, and their applicability to dancing or any other purpose cannot be questioned. On the present occasion the whole suite was thrown open, the effect being most brilliant, albeit the attendance of guests was thin until rather a late hour, when they mustered in tolerable numbers. The amusements were then kept up with sufficient spirit, which r. as a relief to those who had innocently arrived at ten o'clrek, when the state of affairs did not seem at all flourishing. The band was excellent, as indeed was every arrangement whiAi could conduce to the gratification of the guests. The prices of admission are moderate, and will doubtless draw larger numbers when the undertaking becomes better known, although the association of Crockfords cannot fail to deter many ladies who believe that there is some signifi cation in a name, from venturing thither. FREE READING-ROOMS FOR THE LABOURING CLASSES IN THE Crry.—A society has been established, having Lord Ashley at its head, for " the purpose of providing free rend ing-rooms for the labouring classes in the city of London. ' GREEN PEAS FOR TILE MILLION. Yesterday a hawker stood with his barrow close to Temple-bar, selling green peas, just arrived from Holland, at 6.1. per quart, shelled. They met with a ready sale. A SUMMARY OF SKATlNG.—According to the esti mate made by the officers of the Royal Humane Society, the number of skaters and sliders upon the ice in the several parks and in Kensington Gardens, from the commencement of the frost up to the 4th instant was 240,009, and yet only one fatal accident has occurred. . and after sops routine business the board separated. SOUTH SEA COMPANY.—DIVIDEND MEETING.— The proprietors of South Sea Stock had their half-yearly meeting yesterday—C. Franks, Esq., in the chair. The minutes of the last court were read, showing that the half year's interest on the annuities amounted to 89,8141., and on South Sea Stock to 61,00081.: the general charges for the half.year being 3,2011. ; and;the Sub-Governor theu moved that a dividend at the rate of 11 per cent. fur the half-year be paid, which was agreed to.—A Proprietor asked why the South Sea Stock was rated at the sum given in the account. —The Chairman replied, because it must be paid at par if the company were dissolved—that was, the 1001. would have to be made 1161. 13s. 4d. for the Government.—After some further formal buainees, the meeting broke up. Tim SMITHFIELD NICISANCE.—At a late hour in the afternoon of Monday two accidents occurred through the still exiating nuisance of Smithfield market. The first occurred in High Holborn, opposite Kingogate street: a gentleman was knocked down by a very powerful bull, and before he could recover himself he was severely trampled upon and gored by the infuriated beast. The second ac cident occurred in Lang-lane, Smithfield : Henry Bonnet, a lad of scarcely seven years of age, in attempting to cruse the road, was knocked down by a bullock proceeding from the market, and before he could be rescued wounds of a most shocking nature were inflicted. FATAL COLLISION OS THE NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAT.—AbOut twenty minutes after one o'clock yester. day morning a coal train lrom the Claymose and Staveley collieries drew up alongside the platform at the King's Langley station, for the purpose of detaching some waggons of coal at that place. The morning was very fugr, and the driver not being certain as to the exact position of the " points," stopped the tralo before arriving at the signal post, and addressing the policeman on dut said he should be glad to know whereabouts the "po ints" were. The policeman then turned on the red signal and ran to the "points," with the intention of " shunting " the waggons, the breaksman of the coal train meantime detaching the break waggon and putting it some few yards back on the main line. Soon afterwards a heavy luggage train, propelled by two engines, wee running at a fearful speed directly into the coal train. The driver and stoker of the first engine attached to the luggage train fortunately observed the police man's hand signal, and threw themselves off the engine without sustaining injury ; but the two on the second engine were instantaneously killed. The two engines with their tenders were crushed together. Three or four coal waggons were knocked to pieces, and about the same number of lug gage trucks entirely destroyed. On the arrival of a party of men from Watford immediate means were adopted to extri cate the bodies of the unfortunate men, a work which was accomplished with no small difficulty. They were subse quently removed to a small roadside public-house, situate at the outskirts of the village of King's Langley, where they await the coroner'. inquest, to be held this day, Within a short time of the accident two lugwage trains from the north arrived at Langley, and both the York and Lan caster up-mails came within lees than two hours. As both I lines of rail were blocked up, all traffic was necessarily I stopped. The mail trains returned to the Bonmoor station, where they "shunted," and subsequently came on to Lang-' ley, but it was after seven o'clock before the line was clear at that station to allow any trains to pass. Mr. Bruyeres, the superintendent of the North-Western Railway, arrived at Langley, at all early hour, and with Mr. Bedford of the police department, was engaged throughout the morning in ascertaining the facts is cssanexion with the accident, arid superintending the restoration of the line. FIRE AT IRONGATE WHARF.—One of the workmen employed on the premises before and during the fire, has not since been heard of. Fears are entertained that he is burnt. COLONIAL BANK.—(WEST IN DI E s .) —The half yearly general meeting of the proprietors in this corporation was held yesterday to receive a report front the directors relative to the affairs of the bank, the declaration of a divi dend, the election of directors who have ceased to hold office, to fill up a vacancy in the court occasioned by the lamented death of 31r. P. M. Stewart, also to fill up an auditorship, and on other affairs. Mr. Andrew Colville was in the chair. Mr. R. Wright (the chief accountant) read the following re port, the chairman having previously expressed an opinion that its contents were of a nature calculated, after their former reverses, to inspire hope and afford even satisfaction. In conformity with the requisitions of the charter, the di rectors lay before the proprietors the usual statement of the debts and wets of the corporation, which has now been made up to 30th June, 1846, and also a statement of the amount , of profit in de by the bank during the half year ending at that date, which amounted to 19,486/. 13s. 9d. After paying a dividend of 11 per cent., for the half-year ending 30th Julie, 1846, (being at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum on the paid-up capital of the corporation, which will require 7,5001.), the sum of 10,9861. 138. 9cl. is left to be carried to the credit of bad and doubtful debt account, which will reduce the balance to 40,2451. se. Bd., being a total re duction or 7.5,700!., compared with the statement laid be fore the halt-yearly general meeting in January, 1844. The chairman then moved that the report be adopted. The motion was seconded and carried. It was decided that the dividend should be at the rate of II per cent. for the past half-year, or 3 per cent. per annum, to be payable on the 11th in,t. In the room of Mr. P. M. Stewart, deceased, Mr. Fletcher, who for a long period had acted as an auditor, was proposed and elected a director. It was proposed an d carried that Mr. Wm. Ellis be elected an auditor.—Sir Geo. Carroll congratulated the proprietors on the state of the affairs of the bank. Bat for the previous losses, the profits would hare warranted a dividend equal to 7 per sent. They might look, therefore, confidently to better times. He moved the thanks of the meeting to the chairman, the deputy-chairman, and the court of directors fur their ser vices. The proposiion was put, and carried unanimously, and after the chairman had returned thanks the meeting adjourned. SOUTH I.XINDON DISPENBART.--The committee of this institution reported to a general meeting, held last night at St. George's Cross, that during the past year the number of patients admitted was 3,020, at of these 2,380 had been cured, 470 relieved, 34 had died, and 136 were still under care. In the course of a conversation, which arose upon the application of three gentlemen to be admitted midi dates tor the office of surgeon, made recant by the resigna tion of Mr. C. Meymott, it was decided that no one could be deemed eligible who kept an establishment for the sale of PUNISHMENT OP DEATH ABOLITION. A public meeting was held last evening, at the Literary and Scientific Instirution, Leicester-equare; Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P. in • the chair, for the purpose of promoting the abolition of the punishment of death in all cases in this country. The chair man, in opening the proceedings, briefly stated the object of the meeting, arid said that front his earliest life he had been opposed, upon every principle of policy, religion, and hu manity, to the shedding of human blood as a punishment for crime, and he thanked God that he had lived to see, with one or two exceptions, the entire extinction of that punish ment in this country. The remaining case for which it was retained he hoped also to see abolished very goon, by means of such meetings as this, as it had already been in every other civilised country in Europe. He recollected, when he first came to London, having seen sixteen persons executed togs they in the front of Newgate, some of them for the trifling crime of stealing 40s. worth of property. This disgraceful code had been swept away, as had also the cruel practice of torture in the army, the soldiers of which he recollected were at one time liable to 1,000 lashes, reduced now to 50, even in the worst Wes. It gave him pleasure to preside on such an occasion as the present, and he hoped the necessity for such assemblages of the people of this country would soon cease, by the entire erasure from the statute-book of the last remains of this sanguinary code. A series of resolutions on which to ground a petition to parliament were then agreed to, declaratory of the inefficiency of the punishment of death to restrain from crime, its repugnance to every principle of policy, LNQUESTIS, YESTERDAT.—CRUELTY TO A SCR ' TANT-011IL.—According to adjournment, by Mr. Bed ford, at the Lamb Tavern, Vere-etreet, Clare-market, on the body of Mary Anne Campbell, aged 14, late servant in the employ of Mr. Levy, fruiterer, of North-row, Covent-gar den. The death a the deceased was alleged to have been caused by the gross violence of her mistress, a Jewess, who had been in the constant habit of ill.using deceased by beat ing and kicking her whilst in her service, a period of 11 weeks. The inquiry was adjourned for • post mortem ems rnination.—Mr. Brookes, surgeon, of 37, Bedford-street, Covent-g trden, who had been .ppointed by the coroner to attend Dr. Gill in making the post mortem examination avid that he had first attended the deceased on the 19th of De cember. She was then suffering from dysposes, and had re ceived a blow or a kick on the back—it was a superficial bruise, and situated towards the spinal column. She was then an out-patient at King's College Hospital, and con tinued so until the 28th ult., when witness was again requ ested med to see her. Deceased had then symp toms of lungs. This was confirmed at the post mortem examination : there were no marks of external violence, and, in fact, there was ample evidence to show that there was extensive disease of the lungs and heart, either of which was sufficient to cause death. The curve in the neck was evidently the result of an injury received some years ago Dr. Gill, house physician to King's College Hospital, ' then gave similar testimony. He could only attribute death to inflammation of the lungs and disease of the right side of the heart. After much more evidence, the coroner summed up, and the jury recorded the following verdict— " That deceased died a natural death of disease of the lungs sad heart; and the jury are unanimously of opinion that there was groat cruelty on the part of Mrs. Levy, in her conduct towards the said deceased Marj_ Anne Campbell."— ACCIDENT•L POISONING.—By Mr. Mills, at the Pakenham Arms, Lower Calthorpe-street, Gray's Ina-road, on the body of Grace Kirby, aged 43, who accidentally committed ',H- Idestruction with essential oil of bitter almonds. The des ceased was the wife of a gentleman holding an official situ ation, and she lived on her property, having separated ' from her husband in consequence of the eccentricity of her habits. On Friday night last about 9 o'clock, she returned home, shortly after which she was seen by her landlady,Mn. Howson, and stated to her that she had got some essential I oil of bitter almonds for her cough, and she observed that she must take but a few drops. She drank some in a wine-glaas in which was some porter, and shortly after she swallowed it I she became insensible. Mr. Watkins, ssaistant to Mr. ' Lovett, chemist, Clare-market, said that decease who used occasionally to cad, came on Fritts afternoon. She appeared intoxicated. After she let he missed from the shelf a phial. (It was produced.) He beliesed it to be the phial that was on the shelf. lie has at other limes, after she left, mused a phial which had con tained scents, ant he is of opinion that she took the phial, thinking it was similar to what she had before.—Verdict: That the deceased's death was caused by the oil of bitter almonds which she took while under the effects of some in toxicating liquor." THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1847. irbe Court. WINDSOR, TCEsDAi.—Her Majesty walked this forenoon on the eastern terrace of the Castle, attended by the Lady iu Waiting, the Marchioness of Douro. The Bishop of Oxford left the Castle to-day, His Excellency M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, and Madame Van de Weyer, are expected to arrive at the Castle to-day, on a visit to her Majesty. The Duke of Cambridge: visitediH.R.ll. the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday. The Commissioners for the reduction of the national debt had a quarterly meeting yesterday at the official resi dence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing street. The Governor of the Bank of England and the Deputy• Governor attended. Mr. Higham, Comptroller- General, was in attendance. The ratifications of a treaty of commerce and navi gation, negotiated and signed at Athens by Mr. P. Delgnuni, Councillor of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to his Majesty the King of Greece, and Dr. P. Colquhoun, Hanseatic Plenipotentiary at Athens. were exchanged on the 15th nit. in London, by Mr. Ralli, Consul-General of his Hellenic Majesty, and Dr. P. Colquhoun, on the part of the venerable Senate of Bremen. Mr. C. K. Murray had an interview with Sir G. Grey yesterday, at the Home-office. Lord Monteagle had an interview with Lord J. Hamel yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The iiidges and her Majesty's Counsel will not meet at the Lord Chancellor's re►idence on the first day of the ensuing term. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the governor of hew Zealand and from the governor of Ceylon. Lord and Lady Allan Churchill have left Far ranee's Hotel for Blenheim. We regret to hear that Mr. Byng, whose intended resignation of the representation of the county of Middlesex was so recently announced, is seriously indisposed. From Last Night's Gazelle. WHITEHALL, JAN. I.—The Queen has appointed Major-Gen. Sir J. H. Reynett to he Lieut.-Governor of the island of Jersey, in the room of Lieut.-Gen. Sir E. Gibbs, K.C.B. FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 4.—The Queen has ap proved of Mr. E B. Marache ea Consul in the island of Trinidad for the United States of America. DOWNING-STREET, JAN. S.—The Queen has ap pointed W. Lang to be resident magistrate on the Murray river, in the colony of South Australia. FURTHER PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—Last night's Gazette contains a royal proclamation proroguing parliament from the 12th to the 19th inst., "for the dis patch of divers urgent and important affairs." SURPLUS REVENUE.—The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury having certified to the Commission en for the Reduction of the National Debt, in pursuance of the act, 10 Geo. 4, e. 27, see. 1, that the actual surplus reve nue of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, beyond the actual expenditure thereof, for the year ended the 10th day of October, 1846, amounted to the sum of one million seven hundred and eighty-one thousand six hundred and fifty-nine pounds, two shillings and one penny. The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt here by give notice that the sum of 44.5,4141. 1.55. 6d. (being one fourth part of the said surplus of 1,781,6.591. 2s. Id.), will be applied, under the provisions of the said act, between the 7th day of January, 1847, and the sth day of April, 1847, to the following purposes, via.:—To be applied to the purchase of Stock or Exchequer (Supply) Bills, 44.5,4141. 15s. 6d. ; add interest receivable on account of donations and bequests, to be applied to the purchase of stock, 3,6151. Is.: total, 449,0291. 16s. 6d.—S. - HtoiLast, Comp.-Gen.—National Debt °thee, Jan. 6, 1847. Ansmtatrv, Dec. 21. Corps of Royal Marineamelee. Lieut. T. Magin, prom. to be Ent lieut, vice Lewin, dec. And the following gentlemen cadet. have been appointed to be we. Beats., J. B. Butcher, J. G. Timpeon, A. C. Steele, J. Grieve, and E. IL Starr. IRELAND. DUBLIN, J.or. 4. There is no news of the slightest importance. The only novelty in the shape of information is the account of the Rev. Mr. Townsend's mission to Eng laud on behalf of the Skihbereen population, detailed in the Southern Reporter of Saturday. The rev. missionary encountered, at first, some difficulties, which were smoothed away in the progress of' his benevolent labours. A formal coldness, generated by many causes—some well justified, some bused nn mis conception—was soon succeeded by more kindly dis positions. Iu the "Society of Friends" he experi enixd that sympathy with suffering which cha racterises that sect. Mr. S. Gurney, at the head of the list, with the munificent sum of I,ooof. Lord John Russell, in addition to a former subscription of 200/., tendered his name for the like amount, but on hearing the plain and affc..ting story of the rev. gentleman, the noble lord substituted 4001. —thus contributing to the relief of Irish distress, out of a comparatively small income, the large amount of 6001. It is delightful to add that the charge of ob duracy, on the part of the English people. to the com plaints of the Irish poor, yields to Duster impressions, and it is to be hoped when the slight muses of mis conception are removed, and the people of England arc made fully sensible of the horrors which impend over this country, their characteristic munifi, emu will return, and Ireland be a participator in that diffusive benevolence which has placed England at the bead of modern nations. The middle and commercial classes are doing their duty. The central relief committee is storing up a very liberal fun I, and large subscriptions arc an nounced each day. On the dismal intelligence from ilayo having arrived, the committee instituted in quiries, and, on the facts having been authenticated, I understand, subscribed to the local committees. Inquiry will, in every case, precede relief. The gentry in Cavan will meet on Wednesday next. Lord Farnham in the chair. I heard the re solutions to be moved are of startling strength. A short article in the Dublin Unirersity Magazine for the present month, entitled " Common Calamities make Common Burthens," has excited the hopes of the landlords. They required au argument or a plausible substitute tor one, and they have found it in the short and pithy brochure referred to. The I general meeting will take place, I believe, on the 12th, The Rhadamanthus, maim-frigate, had been en , gaged by the commander at Cove to convey a cargo of Indian corn from London to Tralee, for the Kil larney relief committee, in consequence of a mishap having occurred to the vessel which had been chartered by the committee. The secretary of the admiral, however, shortly after withdrew the services of the Rhadamanthus—in consequence of having been ordered for the use of Scotland by the lords of the Admiralty before the application of the Killarney committee. There has been a slight rise in the price of bread to-day, the price of the 21b. loaf having been raised from Cod. to aid., and the 41b. loaf to 101 d. The state of the markets indicates a further rise ere long. ROYAL AKSENAL.—STORES FOR THE PUELIC WOW IN IaELAND. —A very large quantity, amounting to severe thousands of shovels, suides, wheelbarrows. and other stores, were shipped a few days since from the Royal Arsenal, on board the ordnance sloop, Lord Vivian, for Cork and other porta in Ireland, for the use of the public works in that country. REPEAL ASSOCIATION. The usual meeting of the Repeal Association was held this day at Conciliation-ball. The proceedings were unimportant. The only thing render ing them worthy of the smallest paragraph being, Mr. O'Coneel " insisting " that it wu the duty of LoglaLd to feed, at the present crisis, four millions of Iriilincn. The rert for the week was 711. EXPECTATIONS or • LANDLORDS.—Mr. Richard Fox, a large landed proprietor in Longford, cirees a long letter to the Reproductive Committee, with the following requirements. Three months' tillage of the l•md by those now employed on puhlic works, A large grant for emi gration, on liberal principles, to he carried in operation immediately. An improved Labour Rate Act, mulcting absentees heavily. A bill to provide that all moneys ad vanced to meet the exigencies of the year, should be levied by a tax upon income, and not made a charge upon land alone. DERRY.—A most daring outrage took place on the night of the 29th ult., in the townland of Glennoek, near New townlimarady. A respectable firmer, Mr. Robert Hamilton, • bachilor, was buried on the 24th, after which the country rose en mane, and carried off from the premises seven large stacks of oats, a stack of hay, valued at 201., all his stock, consisting of seven mitch cows, twelve heVers, and four farming horses. They surrounded the house, and intimidated the persons left in charge of the property ►y firii s'iota„ No clue has as yet been discovered to bring to )untie•• the perpetrators of this daring outrage, which took place within one mile of the police station and half a mile of the resident magistrate's, and one of the most peaceable districts of the county. _ . _ WESTMEATH.—Seations for the barnoo of Moyashcl were held on Monday , when the sum of 1.92A1. was leoi•ol. Re solutions were adopted, of which the following is a sum mary: That the prevent labour-rate act hes proved to be inefficient t ',cure general employment to the deatitute pow. That the work carried on are, in moat canc.., reticle" while they withdraw Liboia from agriculture. . . . . . . Thar ihalation from grain should be suspended immediately That the ports aliould be opened for the free imwrt,tioa of pain ; awl that the operation of the navieutioo laws be sump , :;der;. That .e are of opinion that all the Irish members , :mould wet ha Dublin, early in January, to decide upon the Demureo renii,ite to be demanded from the legialature for the benefit of Deland. SEIBBEHEEN RELIEF COXIIITEEIL—The relief com mittee of this town met at tho grand jury room on Monday, to receive a report from the deputation, which had bt •-ti so kind as to proceed to England on their behalf, to solirit sub scriptions for the relief of the poor of this destitute di,•rict also to transact general business. The Rev. Mr. Townsend read the following report : We have to report to you our return. It has been rather au Men ; as unespeeted by ourselves so by others. In truth, Dm long an.l ;re tracted stay was occasioned by the very esaaperoteil state of pnhlio feeling which we found against us in c.xinequenee of many emanating cams: let The abuse of runner most -denying mmitlcence on the pert of all grader and ages of the Brinell emainualty. Rd. The state of trial, society, not ameliorated by plat kindneases— the continued &solemnised state and condltioe of the peaasr:try fa very many parts: sod their proem* to barn ever, manifestation of Emlich sympathy into vie .talon of !nasality, and toe trtniyal of political enmity. M. The purchase of arms, on pi icf of this, on so Mge • male as to be almost incapable of mistily. ith. That them sward to be no energy on the part of the people to meet a massing emergency., but a disposition to lean the load of their disto cm in full weight and altogether on the hard earned wealth of the industry of Inidand on every ocession. There was a fifth came Moo, winch we found In operetta% very auulian the impression against us, vie. --TIM everything was being done in the w.y of public works . by the 5...,. eat that could be dome, sod this under the idea that them welts were carrir ti oil by the thew, of the Deaf& mop* mil ot thole emsane! And teat already hit a million of their may had both arms In upon. And stattwalthregagh M i shima. The expithalth of all the matters scowled with tale semi seta NM be surprise them, and they wore Mat Wo a Mae part of the authori ties be dillereat dthselgoonts to If ethers would take a lead. Bat to get any to tithe the Ind IMISIMINS r nnpopuLs, seemed to be the difficulty to goompligh. ant k am sot until our well.authen. Mild miss of Maio his pat in gthloptition with the eaM shore km el the Mak OM of A. maky sad the ethiabitent and imbibe Mary that mike riseangay mit, that we produced any advantageous impreadon ma the gpeathatut upon the other aide of the water. The ammo or tho t i and Ind orotal deputation. which such • gad gehms selamity should hare sent forward, e'en to the gemed he bs a guaranties that things were not as bed s• sues pays r ead could not but feel tram this otherwathet spa ash • *a them who ought to have genaine and east Warmth& the of this country are often kept oils In the ark of the red este of the work ing and details of very matters. It Mei • eel that the grants of Public Works me there leaked se as a to • cry than any suck dreadful necereity of ow maim In Mile all clam* most inevitably be all alike sufferers, A. he !my different degrees. The moment, however, the had of the aim Department saw, and molly felt, we put oar an. in as haglith a shape as gm Aim op eigh ty of amide, tribe may things which we brought before tth right hosoarable ondale* sal emplaned of it, and that we bad, or appeared to Ma be bows, nu& just grounds for what we sagged, nothiag moil be them meipattetic and kind ; and be and the bead of Ms orranimat. Si we could learn, crime' all the anxiety postale be Oa itgasived to be within their power for the mitigation of A. sags of destitution ream muted by us to mist hem the of one along the This er nine bled, moat he Masi mat of Waterford. This we othreesiol se Oa sat ed admith. km the density et its perthatm maths Mikis be aide, Os mop now kot, as sothirandthe peastion, Soy O wen o ts re,. and he Misled, Mask we id nth man to exclude other partA of our potato lima stillayes le a area awful extent. Our object in putting earsives in aththankation more Immediately with tee government ens r gases a Queen's letter: an instrossont ei authority for oil rMlas Igaij side in all the solhead dasithea it bete seen lathe a Lae ea whom we Med m andinr, that t he eshunity was of nee twatimie, sea Mouth enntribouon on tho sale we were likely to sans elsormstmis fully proved to um the wisdom sal tnali d afterwards, mid by 'nay dopers reach. It is by little and YMs this ma ran of oar position se a deputa tion opened wpm op. mg es van nun gratifltd, on our own failure, to gia a tigisitha Apia Itht Lard Mayor, to call a public reastieg la lisehes. fwiish w mil must Orrin vele and Months thethly mar. and, es tee ontholoth NOM er at limt abate, the pee. =Wm Ws W l•Notinii suit our tuthitiny nation on the isle. int an lema ths doge eeoouecd by an In dlmalld wslllsi y the sreminwiy dm whom no ono aid dew genre mi W eastetum Is puma any measure that sisimai No* he Is the at* proheihe demi •• our poor people, Altar rasa .minor mg keg OW* Ilk woo Om* to be utterly tingessagehthas wmjedged in his • so der from allay - Ms mid he more adadsfadis • probubiy to weft d•colika is tad, • ? a- • vnient — Ido us Alma *Mkt —•- ••• • tii . = • . 41 ' ewe tt—reme =bail SYS M ak t h. ni. ll = l rem% ti t 66 2 those who, gram may • *bier . I. have ••oaths ;