The Express. — London, England, 1851-01-08 00:00:00

rbe Court. WINDSOR. TrMAT, Emr. 7. The Clues end Prince Albert took their usual early limiting walk. The royal totally took walkisg af.d posy extreme is the filers rid Wisels.r.puk. The Doke Of CambriJg• went out houtiag this morning. Ms Royal afghan. woe attesded by Major-Oeseril Wasps and Lissy-Colonel P. H. Seymour. Lord sad Lady Jobs liarlaU, and to Spask-r sod Alm Stow Lefevm, ars =posted to arrive at die Carla today, on a visit to thy Clasen and to Priam. The royal Caner pary at the Castle tics evening wi I include the Dockers of Kant, the Maks of Cambridge. to Dodoes of Satherlasd, art Lofty C. Lite.oll Gower, Lord sad Lady John Reese% Lady Farm Reward, Russo" de Smith, the Night Hen. the Speaker and Mn. Shaw Leteme, sad Colima the Hon. Charles Grey. A deputation, consisting of Mr. William' Burton, clerk to the Contesiesionen of St. Leonard, Mr. J. M. Cla. boo, agent fcr the West liatticgs Improve= nt 11, sad Mr. P. B4llltP, had as antereaw with Lod B.yin mr, today, at the ofLe of her blejetty's Cornsisfiosere of Woods sod Forests, is Wh.tchall place, as the subject of the spplicstion oftheHeolth of Towne Act to Ratting*. LOr r d and Ltdy John Ronal left their residence, Pembroke Lodge, Riakmoml Perk, yesurdsy, for Wasisor Castle. _ _ _ Despatchea from the Governors of Canada and the other N •rth Anieriein e and ale from the 0 Jeer noeof toe Cape of (iJoct 11.4 e, eras received yeeterdey at the Colu4.ul•• Viz*. _ . _ I)eepa•chee were sent off last evening from the Coloeint•titile for the Ooversore of Crites sal HOU/ Koeg. TIIE NEW NIATOIALTY.—The Lord Maycr $Ld the Lady May ran have taki.n up theirresideas at the Illanaioa Boum. Ilia lostalsip trossessed the new year by receiving • family parry at dinner on New Year'a-Jay, and Cu i•eued Garda in invitation tu. a dinner to be given to the aldermen and their ladies o• the 31. t of January, sad for au evening pa►ty on we ease day. The usual housch.zil ulster will oe held, moonlit" to amiatt custom, on ri .w Monday. 103.1111.410 N SHINED BY TIIB LOED•LICOTENANT or Proazok EAutaa. —Aldan N cholas Leto Stokes, B q., to bs Depity•Litutsoast —Gazette. DECLARATION AOAINST_T FIE ENACTMENT GI RELIGIOUS DISABILITIES. We, the undersigned, deem it one duty at the pre sent juncture to declare our unalterible alubmant to the principles of Civil and Ittlisions Liberty. and our detami. nation to oppose by every edestitatiewal steam any e•sour, toadies to interfere 1:y legislative enactment with the uie rdplise tr doctrine of any pence sf the Qama's subjects. M. J. Bloke O. 11. Musket Castlereagh J. O'Brien M. E. Cuban) , T. O'Brien W. Sqa.racr. Crawford M. ()Tumuli .1. T D.eereu: J. O'Connell W. Fagan A. O'Flaherty J. Pagan The O'Cionnes Makes It. M. 0. Ouseley Hirer 11. Cranes M. Power J. Grit's' N. Power It. !Ostia,. E. Burka Bombe C. L►wless J. Reynolds W.Turreas M'Callagh J. Beeleir N. V. Matter Pres. Bally W. Moniall J. E. Talbot T. Meagher CARDINAL WISEMAN AND MR. R. CLARKE. We have been requested to publish the following letters, which have passed ledgers Carohal Wiseman and Mr. Rocitfort Clarke, relative to the speech of the latter at the Oxford county meeting: Onldse-rguare. Jan. 4, 1851. bir,—A letter in this dny's CArenscfo, sighed "Gentili' Homo," has called my atteatim to some expressions in y.. car spsch at the Oxford county meeting, on the Zed instant, Inspecting my birth, which I cannot with decency tra,:,cribe. 1 have for the I.st two months boene *fleetly much calumny and railing against myself; and I am ready to go on .adoring, personally, more still, for what I believe to be the c suss of lied. but I cannot allow to pass enaotieed Bay el ieder of one to whom I owe all good la life, mot who. Ood•eronamasdaeats enjoin ma to kossur, and ecnr.quesily to shield Irons dishonour. Although molly aa octogenarian, my venerable parent, against whom you have pot hely %uteri d • most :evoking irrinestioa, retains still lull possession of every loyalty. sad es keen a same of the honour due to aa nob.siomed life as others do in earl's". yews. After having I:7t.sr days rri , lt the revpees said einem of all Mot know u 1 oless the kind em of Meads shall keep her in igno• saner of the blow you have struck at his honour, God only knows what the effect of it may be span her mind or her life. As it has bees the first, so it asy peon a last and fatal Wok.. 1 therefore earnestly and misery call upon you, as a Ckrislan, as a gentli Nita, and as a rye, publicly to retract and apologise for the on f ,unded impaYti.mawhien you have cast upon my pnrent's honour in your sp-eeh at Oxford. I em. sir. your obedient &&&&& ar, nottifott Clara', Esq. N. CARD. WISEMAN. 2, Spring Garden-terrace, lan. 6, 1651. Sir.—A initlsasa, representing himself r Mr. Hoary Earpilieue, and year attorney, delivered us me in the afterawn of this, Jsattry GJI, a letter from you, dated January Ith. I stated at the Oxford emu" meeting that, by our awn at common law, it was high trevon for • subject to introduce into this kingdom • foreign power • that oar Kind I. !ward the Fast ordered oats ut his subjects to be drawn and hanged, ace rii.ag to that eJatmon law, for baring published • pope. bull, excoramnaicatiag another Engli.n *abject; that Illwkitone and Case both declare this to be the c.imuson law ; that it is a minden'• anon, at common la v for a subject to enter into the seryis of a tor.-ign rine., ,Le., wittiest the Q4II4WS keense, eves is pest., but if he eaten into du envies of tko Owen's enemy it is high trowels. each being the sea mos lite, it became important to eossiiler whether any person who to part in the Popes recent aggremions was an ale el, or Behar' sibjea, for what might be an Weals in • eel et might be none in as abut. I thee said that you were some AMOS represented as • B,maish alien; somntimen b4ll in Spain of Irish parents; soma:imeaash.i.gde vended Inman Irish geindmother and Spanish grandfather ; but th.t I had not the least knowledge of any eircurn•tance reLiting to your birth or per. stage. It is no f ink of mine this your injodicioui " Osulb Homo" and the 11T1 . 3f of the article in the Morning Chronicle of Jan. 6th, whilst, by °minion Ms whole of my legal argument and gimp a couple of sentence., contrived to suit their purpose of destine nit injustice to me. They have held me up for a bubo wl.iie to the disapprobstiou of their reader., hare at the ..me t me placed you under the di -agree ,lole ne cessity ..f appealing to me to rehire you from their impotati ins, not mine. It it, though I em in no way Wiled to interfere, and heel nothing to retract or speiogias fur, an you seem to tater, end though from your use of thaw tortes. as also " slander," of which I have wit been guilty,—nor " revoltiag i taiau Woo," aor "unfounded imputations," &a., I am very apprehensive you do not intend to make a generoes use of this I-tier—and, though such • letter was pet into my hands by your attorney, y.t 1 will chseefally do my beet to nentrelue the folly of your oat and hasty friends. I, therefore, assure you that 1 n: etc in:.aiod to make say insianatim snidest your mother, es you seem to suppose. Oa the euntrary, my ob. jeer wee to show that we none of us knew scything good or bad ab mt your 'birth or pareatege,except that you were supposod to be • Spaniard. But I will do more to ming you agaiserthe Chronicle—l will puhlish my speech so as I. be moat satislectory, according to my judgment, to your feeling. on this point. And if you will send me a short letter to explain your birth and pulatage, and state whether you are a subject of Olsen Victoria or.not—ead if I ii ad your letter of such • charaver as to ja.•ify me in doing so, I will add it to my pamphlet, and effort you this opportunity of placing ynur birth and pareatagi truly bef..r e the public, wish* we It salaams.' are &aurally anxious to have explained. aro the posturlpt on the other side. I am, air, your *hilliest eernat, Cardiaal Wieenna. G. ROCUYORT CLAIM& C.S.—(Jaa 7.)—1 soot a letter very mush to the above effect to the editor of the Morning Chronicle. on Jaa. 4th, in sumer to the disgraceful letter of •• Gentili' Homo." I have +sited tilt this, mornirg to Si. it it would appear ; hitt the editor, with uabrud.of injusiet, not only hu sot in sorted I', but had it in his hand, long berme he published hie Übe leading article carrying on the attack ageism me, making the malice men appareat. 0. B. C. T HE lior e ( Maidstone Gazelle) are happy to find that the plenten of Sussex and the Weald of best are ceruntenciag an active and determined campaign spinet this °jmmies tax, at least as regard. the war dal and the 5 per coat. oddities. We rejoice at this, ler it is mere ehtld's °lay to try to get the the postponed and remitted when due, if imperious attempt be made to attars its abolition or reduction. Means are being taken for ma early mamba. between the planters of litre: sad Suers at Btapleharet, 10 concert measures for the coating maim. We believe that an effort will be made early in the melon to get a committee of inquiry into the effect of the duty. With a view to this step, a pamphlet will be placed in the bands of every member of bite houses, before parliament meets, showiag the object table near, of the tax. We have little I doubt that if anythieg like a unitod mtvemmit be mate arnosgst the low-priced growers, on whom the I tax falls most oppmesively, that government would make the reduction. It is to be Wiped, therefore, that this extent of reduction, which has received the sanction tf so very Lute a portion of the planters, will command their united support The whole M u bed • bat to get off half of it would be a prat point pained. The duty of 1348 hr beta petty erserally paid, but we her that some pante. are still defaulter,. After the various intimations which we have ventured to give, sr to the po sib:* results of nonpayment, sad the way in which the duty has been since paid by most, we must eappoee that such eon-payment her resulted fres ivablity. We Mill urge defaulters to make a new effort to meet this liability, r we bre reason to believe that alter Thursday neat (Jan. 9), the collector at Maidstone will not et deice any farther duties on this aceoac, the col lection of which will then par lato the hands of the solicitor to the /Ward of Zack', who loin Immediately issue proems. THE CASE OF MR. SLOANE. THIS DAT. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. ISSIOI2 MR. Jana PAITU.ON an Ma. JCSTIII TA/SOLID. Mr. Clarks*, said that, in the eau of two perusals, named Sloane, against whom the grand jury had, yesmday irreales, returned a true hill, tor usaisituu and otherwise ill-treating a servant is r.eir employ, ho had to make as ap plication foe the pewpoaemeat of the trial to the nentst talon. Tho applicatiu was gronadtd soma an sill limit made by the attorney for the male defendiat, which stated that, in consequent* of the groat public excitement which hal been wished upon the subject, the defendant wag used' to A abroad without rub of personal violence, and, indeed, danger of his life, and he was consequently p vvvvv tad even from isoislog Is the rein to consult his ty.statel. In addi tion t s this cireumstsoce, he might alto state that the in dictin•nt was of a my peculiar character, and he had not yet had an eppAtuaity of reading it with the proper atten d= ; and upon thus farts he treated the taut would only tibial it reaenaable that the trial should be postponed. Mr. Masidlestnne said he was Lae ratted by the B 'Led of Oeardi ma ad the City of London Cation to prosecute !hi, elm, and they wen very mistimes that it should be disposed dam speedily as possibk, sad he weld not cor.sent 1 I the application. lie should, however, madily bow to any e.g. Arai, rs that might rase from task lordship, 'epos the sense: ; bat hs sabzi.ted Met the defenders ought to vr....1 , at all greats, and plead to the indictment. Mr. Jostles Pattation sa:4 it was one of the diflieslties of the can, that the defendant could not go about toe streets without duper of personal vi deice. In answer to a question by the court, Mr. Clarkson said that he appeared fo the male defendant only. . 1 Mr. Ilnddleetone 'mid it we. understood that when the bill was total by the grand jury Mrs. Sloane ',Ali our. ' render to telt* her trial. Mr. Cl rktos denied that thus was any each under- 111iliuddlestone said that he was cortainly informed by Am, the officer. that whoa hs was endeavouring t.. he wcrr •et upon Mrs. Sloane, he was informed that she would surrender it the gr tnd jury Mend a true bill egaiest her. tile suggested that if the indulgence prayed for was granted, Mr. Sloane ought to enter into sureties for the production of his wire. The &leaden% moat know perfectly well who,. his who wee, aid there was a. doubt the•. she was und.r his centroul, and ►t appeared to him that measures should he tetra to 'enforce Ite; -. Oppearance. --- Mr. C:arkson sail that the course pr 'resod was quite natousl. He bAieved Mr. Sloane did not know where his wile was, and that, in point of fee., she was not at present in this cosine,. If his harried friend had been a married sea, be would have been aware that a wife was not always under the control of her husband. (A laugh.) Mr. Justice Pat'eson, after eoesulting with Mr. Jostle* Tsltnurd, said he did not see how, upon the feet% and after it was stated that the defeadattceuld not ga about or consult hie c meet) without endangering hhiifie from the violenee of the people, they could refuse the application for a postpone. ment of the trial, and they ent.idcred It w,ul4 be hardly consist. nt with the interests of justice to refuse such an application. The court at the saws time would have been glsd if any steps could be t,ken to secure the attendance of the other defendant; bat at she had not been hares into custody they had no power to order any recognisancts to be entered tato with that otjeet. The trial, tilt refore, woul4 stand vete upon the bail renewing their recognisance* for the appearance of the defendant at the neat lemma The bail shortly aftetwi.rds went through the neeeimary formalities, and the me woo chow ordered to be postponed to the rest session, sad it was arranged that it should stand Grit in the judge's list. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. THIS DAY. MARLBOROUGH BTRIRT. CONTRADICTOST STATZMIXTS —l l l.O medical students, who rave the wishes of George Jamison, Charter Grew, Robert Lames, Henry Watson. and Henry Mealturst, were charged, the three Sumter with Ming druo k and riotous, and the two latter prisoners with attempting w rescue then ifolll the custody of the poliet. Policeman 181 C, stated, that about three &click this morning he was on (ley in the Haymarket, when he saw the de tend sots turned out of the sal 'on They then vent to tea bleak Horse, at the owner of Jereayne•reet, and elm minced knocking at the door with vi d.aee. Witeies went up to them and requerted them to desist and go quietly away, but the thaw Ent-named prisoners, who were very drunk, refused. He then procured usittanee end took them into custody, and, on the way to the station, the other prisoners came up and attempted with some (crew to rescue them from eustody. Is tim mall the primmer Jack ass 'truce him the breast. In defence, Jacks's+, Grew, and Lyme, denied the charge of drunkenness, and the other two prisoners said they made GO resistance whatever to the Office fl, and, in corrobiratton thereof, celled Mr. Bennet, a medical student, residing at No. 18, Cecil street, &toad, who stated that he was a friend of the defendant, and wttneued the wh , le transaction. The three flrstnumed prismen were perfectly lobe., and the oth' re offered no resistance to the vlice. Several other witnasee were called, who endeoveured to prove the same. Poliee.oonstablo 321 A, who assisted In conveying the orieoners to the station, proved the Jackton, Grew, and L Imes were decidedly the werse for liquor. Inspector Whall, C divicon, who took the charge, also proved the• such was the tact. Mr. Hardwick said the defeadaats had acted very foolishly in denying the charge, and fined them 7s. each. The money was immediately paid. THE IarARTER-MASTER DERMAL'S DEPARTMENT. —lt is generally understood that no one will be appointed to succeed the late Bic J. W. Garden u Qsarter.agaster General, and that some arrangessen• will be 'sade by which the duties of the deparneent will he carried an wader the control of the Assistant QoarterAlester Geseral, Colonel Preeth, 1(.11.. The tats Sir J. W. 0 'ethos receive, a. lasarter-Master ()salmi, Fay emanation to 1,3931. per 'anon, and au allowance in oddities of 6001., making to gether LEW &year ; by the abolition of this appointment a saving will accrue to the public to that extent; unl.sa, on the other hand, C Ploael Fri eth should be considered entitled to some additional pay for the invents of du, to which he will math, the proposed arrangement become subject ; even then the public will still be considerable gainers. Mantiatll..—TilE DCKS OP WriLLIlloVON.—It will be in the recollection of many of oar read re that • very re 11117k4bill correspondence took place in KAY Ise, be wee the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports sod Mr. Waddingtoa, carpools, of Margate, relative to the capture of a whale by cow peer fisaermea on the Leg Sand. A few day. eau the boa Duke" remitted, throech the registrar of the Ciagae Pets, the sum of 2W. 2s. Gd. (11i• net proceeds received by his Brice), with directions "that the amount be divided equally anima the old widows of seafaring m, n on the late Mrs. Barak Rideau's b mot! list." On Wednesday, air let of January, Messrs. Waddington, B ooke, Ride's.. aad Rowe, leer of the trustees of the benevolent deceased, met at the London Hotel, and distributed to each of 33 poor widows 12a 21. from his Or co the Bake of Wellington, is addition to 21. 14.10 d. from the bounty fund, oltodetber sash. — Canterbury Journal. MR. Si KAELL, the refiner who was tried for receiving stolen goods, and aegeitted, has, it it said, commenced legal proceedings *geese Mr. Lund, of the metropolitan detective force, for campeneauon for lees occasioned by reason of closing his premises. MR. WAKLEY AND THE ST. PANCRAS BOARD OF OttnItIMANO.—A meeting of the Board of U nudism of the St. Paws, was held yesterday, Churchwarden parish of in the ekes. Notice was given by Mr. J. Clarke that he _purposed noticing • subject prsonal to Mr. Wak'sy, M.P., sad proposed an adjournment until • quarter to two, whoa it was probable that gentleman would oe present. Oa Mr. Wakley's entreat* it soon appeared that some remarks made by his son, Mr. H. M. Wales', deputy isotope, at a recent inquest, were the chief subject of complaie.t. Mr. Watley stated that Ism son had that morning received • letter from Mr. Cook, the vestry clerk, complaining of remade alleged to have been made by him at the Elephant and Castle. He also found, by • newspaper report, that his son had been charged by Mr. Cook with • corrupt diaeurge of his functions, with patties illegal ques tions to witnesses, and e.ictating to the jury. II any 'spree ,ns had been used by bas tea, they had thus not been without cause. Mr. Cook was sorry to say that the questions to which he had alluded were illegal questions, ruck as ought never to have been put, and when he suggested questions for Cr... examination through the court, they were not pot in the form in which he intended. lie repeated, that Mr. Wakley, jun., put words into winsome' IX MOM Mr. Billet raid be had been present at many legman', and he mast say, that Mr. Welder, jun., caudal: ed cues I. a way different from anything he had ever beard of before. le • newt Cu. he asked corer witness such questions as : —tt Do yea have enough to eat ? I. the meat hard ? DAM Bate& ?" If the answers did not Suit him he went on : " Did you ever bear any oats complain of it ? Did you ever hear that it stone ?" and so on, and that when there was no allegation whatever about the provisions. Mr. Watley was here compelled to leave to attend an ingeest, the hoar ef which had arrived, and the matter was adjourned for • week. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE WEST INDIA DOC& AND BLACRWALL JUNCTION RAILWAT.—A n accident of a very dreadful and fatal character took place oa the lee of the But aid West India Dock and Blackwell Junction Railway, on Monday night, agar the viaduct crossing the Great Northern Railway at Maiden-lane. It appose that Ia poor fellow named Hoary Harris, aged 33, residing is Alpha Console, Maiden-lane, was employed on the line as Iwatchman ; about half past 10 o'clock be left his post for the purpose of going house to yet his supper, which had bees prepared for him. Wallet proceeding won't the line, which at this spot is • considerable incline, be was knocked dews by a pilot engine, which passed over his body and mutilated it is • frightful manner. The skull was dreadfully fractured, and death must have bee instantaneous. The night was rather fogy, and from the Circumstance of the pilot engine being without carriages attached to it, and the spot being an incline, it is believed that it made so little noise, that the unfortunate man was not at all aware that the ecgine was I. inch close proximally to him, and that his back was towards it when he was struck. The deceased has lett a widow and fear young children, and the poor widow is I. a fraatio state at her sad bereavement. Mr. Welder, the etwoner, • held an inquest oa the body at the Forma. of War, Maiden. r lane, yesterday afternoon, and • verdict of Accidental Death was recorded. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1851. REPEAL OF THE WINDOW TAX. MEETING AT ISLINGTON. A public meeting, convened at the instigation of the committee of the B'. Mary Islington Parochial Reform Auxiatmo, was held lut night, at the Denmark School , rooms, at the rear of White Cmduit.houe, for the pow ea of concerting measures for obtaining the immediate, total, and unconditional repeal of the window tax. It appears that much dissatisfaction tests in the parish in consequence of the authorities having rerlected the invitation of St. Marylebone t sprint &legatos, in cmnroon with other partaker, to wait upon Lard Ain Russell, to urge upon his lordship the repeal of the aforesaid tax; and consequently the Perechial Reform Association bad taken upon them ealses the office of utileg a public meeting on the , subject, at which they requested the presence of several members of parliamen., and of the delegate who bad been appointed by gime of the principal 'Beira poPtan parishes upon the subject of the win-low tax. Deo. , talons and delegates attended from various metroooliten pari.hes, anion; which were S•. James's, Westminster; ' St. Georg-'s Soulaw,rle ; Clerkenwell, Greenwich, Pad• dint" and II kaey. Toe deputation from Maryleb ens was a numerous one, consistiez of the following g Mn,,..s Free* Boning, Marchmoet, Hodges, Shields, Glover, J 0.1111311, Cason, Thorpe, Drool. y, Thaw, S:eveus, Br 'wee, Temple, Crowther, end Munro. Bt. lames'., Weetmiast r, represented by Mr. 0- coin, its well known churchwuden, and others. Mr. T. WaVey was present, and eat by the chairman. -- Yr. J. WYLD, M.P., took the eh iir at 7 o'clock precisely. He said that for OM, year. he had been the opp moot of •he wiud.,w tax, an d lately bad voted against it in the Home of Commode. (Hear.) 11. was the mars gratifiA at the privilege of now taking put ia these procsediags. becalms he believed that this wa, about the i..t meeting en the milli ct which it would be necessary for him to anent. In former times various excuses had bees mule for retain kg the tax; and one Cbaacellu of the Exchequer, when applied for a repeal said it was too ear:y, and another ple,Jed th-t the budget WY mods up, and the refore ths application was too late. (Hear.) But now i. c he shown to the governs:vet that there was a surplus of more than three million*, and therefore the people had a right to ask the government what taxes they meant to remit, and to tell them that the country, ana London mere especially, now demanded that this tax be repealed, and that a portion of toe surplus Magid ho applied to that purpose. This was sesentially • metropolitan tax. Mr. DAVID HARRIS, the hon. secretary to the Islinir• tea Parochial Reform Aseocistion ' here read the corre spondence which had taken place betwren the entries of the d.fferent parishes en the subject of the window dtry. and oleo a letter from Mr. Hume, dated from Brotaley-hal, PI•A .Ik, giving bis hoary adtirsien to all a4itation for toe repeal of this odious and oppressira impobt. Mr. T. (MBES than moved the first resolution, pledging the meeting to eaery effort for the imusealate, total, and un conditional repeal of the window tax. Mr. VOUSLEY, of Southwark, seconded the resolution, adeiring ttsm, as the festoon was ao leanly approaching, to lose no time in pressing forward the agitation against ail Tile tax.. Rererel gentlemen basin, addriesed the roieetin, Mr. I DANIEL HARRIS read the peti.i.n, *Lich Was proposed to be adopted and presented to the House of Commons for the total, immediate, and uceonditiinal repeal of the window tax. A resolution, grounded on the petition, was then proposed by Mr. Titheas Levels, ro the effect that the petition he adopted, and that Mr. Thomas Biingsby Buncombe lie requested to present at ; and Mr. Thomas Wakley and Mr. Wyld be requested t support it. The resolution having been put and carried unanimously, Mr. WAK.LBY then rose and was r 'mind with repeated volleys of cheers. He assured them he had anticipated • great deal of pleasure from attending that meeting, but stilj had not entertained a conception that his enjoyment would have extended so far. Among other things he bad received • most useful lesson. (Courieg and laughter.) An admo- IlitiOtl had been conveyed to bite in a spirit of kindliest,' and generosity which if it were lest mon him he should be the most ungrateful aad ucrefleYing of men. He bad already received tokens—one or two—of dissa•isfaction, but ha thought that the exploration or statement he had now to offer would be so kindly received that he should be at once acquitted of all blame with respect to the particular occasion that bad been mentioned by Mr. Nichotay, of Marylebone. Mr. Nitholay appeared to be • lover of jusice : be spoke in that suhrlued and quiet tone which every now and then marked the judicial dignitary, and he had appeared there, according to his own deeeription, in a variety of forma and Protean shapes. (A laugh.) Oee of the apparitions or hues he had as. nomad was that of a commissioner 'of uixes, and in teat capacity was doubler just. But he might haste been • little more just in reference to the mode in which he had treated the poor members for nether) , for their conduct upon the question of the window tax in the last session of parliament, mil Le might have remembered what those members had done in times pest. (Hear, hear.) For the 15 years be had th. indescribable honour, and the inexpressible pleasure of representing them in parliament, he could truly say that be had never, to serve himself, given one volt, or done one act in the Hoene of Commons. (Hear, hear.) He had never given a Engle vote, or done • single thiug in th:.t mum. bly which was hostile to the interests or advantage the people he had the honour to represent. (Cheers.) lust. ad of flinching or dreading scrutiny, he would say at once that he (Mr. Nicholay), in making the allusion he nod to has conduct, had acted with the moot strict propriety. (Hear, bear.) He commended him Lr it. It was this kind of notice of the conduct of public men that 'rented them on to discharge their duty—which kept them up to the c0i1..,; and if they flinched from it, or dreaded to give explanation, then the inference was that they deserved the casti gatioa that was inflicted upon them. (Hear, hoer.) In the last session, when the question of the window tax was moved, his hon. colleague, Mr. Duacombe, was almost it might be said on his death bed—(hear, hear) ; and be was now Do ill that be (Mr. Wakley) did not like to refer to it, and would only say that every man must deplore his state; tat it meat be hoped that they would sublet appear a gala in health sad spirit., fora more faithful, more Ands fatigable, or mauve able representative was never seen in the House of Comment. (Hear, hear.) For himself, he (Mr. W.l had only to say that raise was not strength. Once, indeed, he had ;got strength, bat continuous labour for may years had struck his nervous system, and rendered bun incapable of performing hie deity; and he bad already intimated that if in the coming tension he found him.elf still incapable of attending to his duties in Parliament, he should resign his seat. (Hear.) He was b-and in honour to take OW course, and did riot shriek from the avowal of it. (aloe, hear.) If he had beau 'bust on one occasion without reason, and had not voted when the question was brought forward, Mr. Nicholay might Manse him; bat that had' not occurred. When Lord Duncan—who had fought the battle bravely— brought forward the motion, he (Mr. W.) had msee wkst was called in the house almost an indecorous speech, on account of its violence; for the opinions he expressed were that the window tax was one of the moot odious that could be imposed—that it was absolutely a brutal tax, and that no words were too strong to indicate theobjeetione that would be raised easiest it. He said that the fault of it not having been repealed laid with the eon. std admire, with the people, and cot with their representa tives. They hid now raised • goodly reform association; it was like • young Hercules in the cradle, and he hoped they would be as *Genetic, and manifest as much ant as he had for the thirteen years Cl hard service he had passed is I his parliamentary duties. He had proclaimed in the house his hope that all the parishes is London would rise against this odious tax in the next session of parliament. And after all, what bad been done 1 floating. Lord Duncan bad stated that, if they would only set, repeal was certain ; that it was doomed by the Crystal Palace. Burt he (Mr. W.) would tell them that it was not doomed, tut required the most powerful exertions from the moment he was speaking till the enemies was again brought before the House of Commons If the parishes of London had been properly organised, and if there had been so strong an expression of public opini , n that there could ban been no mietederstanding of it by the m.niater, the thing might have been done. Bat there had been a great deal of gentlemanly delicacy and scholastic lorbesraace in the matter, and if they had only spok n out. and raid w• will have it, the result might have been different. He said, call tee representatives of London together, sal ask them whether they would vete fey the repeal of the tax—put it to them directly, not as a mere paltry financial saving, but as • question of morality and health, anti let them say— We will have it. The question 'of the nature of the tax was decided. All was decided as to its sta tistics, its militia and operation, and its evils. The only practical question was how to get rid of it. Some people thought that petitioning parliament was of no use ; but that was a mistake, for it was of use when conducted properly, but it was not one or two or ten petitions that would accomplish an object, for ministers asked how many petitions there were, and when this for example was produced, although it represented the opinions of ‘O,OOO men, it told in the House of Cow mons as the petition only of the single man, able or influential as he might be, who bad signed it on b-half of the meeting. (Hear, hear.) What they wanted now was • petition from every mon who held a house. (Cheers.) He should like to see that plan adopted, and if it was not he should say the inhabitant' of London were not Wears, and so would the minister. (Hear.) But if he saw every man maxims to put his petition is the hands of his representative, le would admit it to be a manifestation of public opini io which he timid not resist. The hon. gentleman concluded a long and able speech by professing his determincion to exert hsessAf easiest this tax in parliament to the utmost of his power, if his health would permit, and he would at all times discharge his duties as he had does on previous ores . . . . Mr. HODOSHINS proposed a resolution declaring the explanation of Mr. Wald= to be satisfactory. (Cheers.) It would be only justice. The resolution was carried unanimously, with cheers. A rots of censure on ea parish authori iss of St. Mary, Islington. wu then m4v:d by Mr. 0 CIDILLI and seconded by Mr. Etatag, and carried sunlit mtly : and thanks having beds voted to the Chairman, std acknowledged by him, the meeting separated at 10 •'clock. A NEW METHOD OF STOPPING RAILROAD TRAINS has recently bean discovered in the United States—else ricil is the means used. T6s plan contemp'ates the arranounint of a galvanic battery oa the locomotive, under the eye and kind of the engineer, with a rod running thence to each Wheel in the train, ronssedad with the different afore or brakes, ad to be connected with the battery by a touch, to sato apply sinahwously and inniatly any desirable amount el ratan le ovary dog. REPEAL OF THE PAPER, STAMP AND ADVERTISEMENT DUTIES. THE THREATENED STRIKE ON THE LON- DON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWA)7. The following is the reply of Mr. Glyn to the letter of Mr. 1.4T4.1nr11, foruarding copy of reso!uti vs timed at a meeting held on 2nd January, and already noticed in this Pam:— "Umber.'.-scree t, 4th Jan., 1861. " Dear Sir,-1 have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3rd instant, ineloa ng a resolution pasted at the meeting of the eneinemen and others, held at Camden on the night of the 2nd fast. I most eincerelyrepr it the pat. Lion in which these men now And thentselvu involved by their obdinsto retusd to attend to the warning and adrift which 1 gave to the di pu , etiou from them. At that inter. view, in the pre•once set Mr. Stewart, I prated out to them the blindness sad impropriety of their proceedings :—Teat, I without • sine'e ruse of complaint touching them patron. ally, they wire srreying thern“.lees against their employers, to the estriment of the point° service, to the poe Bible ruin of themselves and famlicr, and to the annoy-:ice of the directors, and reminded them bat I hod on • form r occasion later ered to serve them :—They admitted teat my promises and mrimetements made on tt: at oceasiat had been fairly and tul'y carried nu', and that they were entirely satitiled with t^ .ter situ violas; nevertheless, they not on:y hesitated topers me an asiuretics of their wild/moms to continue in the quiet and emu's'. performs:tee of their duties, but, on the clutrary, Vey gave me clearly to understand thte u.sliss the "Muncie set the engine:nee an the northern division were complied with, the drivers on the southern dishion must, and would, make common eau•e in opposing the reguletier.3 aff‘cting new mm no the northern division. I t Bid these men that the cons, gamete of their proceedings would to the caga.eusent of new hand, and the lass of choir situations. The unsatis factory remit of the interview was reported by me to the c-airman -'1 the locomotive cmumitts e, by w':om new men (plenty were found most eager to come to us) were flame ("'ll'lstli and I feel that it would be an act of great inias•lee to these men were I to ark the locomotive committee to disease them, in order to hoop I. the employ of the com pany men, who, by thdr owe acts, alter warning., have exhibited • spirit destructive oral' con 6 fence ant subversive of all ordee and eisciplice. I must, therefore, decline to take any farther step in the matter, mart to bring before the I .c smotiere committee, through you, the asparre eats of the men, in the helm that the committee may, shoal I they see fl: as opportunity occurs, replace them oa the staff of the c canny. It is to be hoped that the consequent:fa of the late proceedings may serve as a warning to the gener.l body to shoats from a similar course in future ; and in ord.r to show the men with what unwillingness ann regret the direc tor* h►ve cereal in this matter, I shall r quest the secretary to have printed and handed to you, for ettculteion amongst the men, • letter addressed to me by the chairman of the m motive committee, with my reply, ender date 27th inst. 1 requt at you will annesunimde thts letter to the enginerneu from whom you received the resolution enclosed in your letter.-1 mosaic, dear Sir, years fai•btully, GEO. CUM. GLYN. J. E. M'Connell, Bq " The following is a copy of a letter addressed by Mr. Smith, Chairman of the Locomotive Committee of the Southern Division, to Mr. Glyn, Chairman of the Company "31, Olourestersquare, London, Vitt, Dee., 1950. " My dent Sir,—The engice drivers who waited upon)) 4u nn Turn lay, having confirmed the statements made to Mr. M'Connell, to the etf,ct that the men on this division had been solicited by those of the Grand Junction to join them in their opposition to the emulation witch requires from new men enh ring the service • notice of three months, in place of a fortnight as heretofore, and that it had been molted upon, should the directors not comply with the deem:, as set forth In the resolutions of the Grand 'section drivers, to make common cause for the abolition of the obnoxious rule—in other words, to join in a general striae, I, as the euairman of the locom , tive committee of Ice mothers' din. Dion, have felt constrained to anticipate the possibility of such a step on the part of the driven, and to consider the measures of precaution necepary to Leann the inconmoience to be apprehend. din such an event. Acting in coojonetion with the principal officers, I have caused inquiry to be made as to the points from which aseistanes can be obtained, and to this end, agents have Imo despatched to different roerts of the north of Eogland, as also to Scotland and Ireland, and, I em glad to my, with remelts highly eatisfectory. Lists of me., with all particulars, are being prepared so as to be available the moment their pmeoce here becomes necessary. To steno extent, in order to secure the men, I heve been obliged to reaction the engagement of a limimd number of atom who have offered their services, hut det e r any pallier neon until after the interview which I undentand the drivers are desirous of having with you tomorrow, when I trust to find that they have, upon reflection, come to a more correct view of their duty to the company, and to the interests of thtir families. At the same time, I think it right to say that the department is suffering very seriously front the present unsettled state of the staff, and however much we ehould regret losing the services of a Lily of cot e, who for the moat part are fully competent to tni ir business, yet, baying to prnvido for the proper working of the line, I feel that it would not to compatible with the interest , of the proprietors and the safety of the puidie, that meters should contieue mach longer in the present state of uncertainty. These nightly meetings of delegates Irm all puts of the line mutt inevitably produce • dice irganii,tion, which is its cons, quences would prove most injurious to the effiticiny of !he service, and ultimately more detrimental to the interests of the proprietors that. the conwque nen to be apprehended from even an entire change of staff. I wait, however, the determination of the men; they have had the matter under consideration for several days; they have had, elan, the benefit of your advice, and the assurance that the directors do not contemplate any change with a view to reduction of wages, or advent to their interests; and should their &ellen result in the permanent loss of their situation, and digress of their families, they cannot justly accuse us of precipitation if they are now required to elect and say whetter they desire to quit the service of the company or to remain in it. It is unnecessary that I should dwell upn.t the fact that the men entertain no ground of cow plaint, as 1 understand from Mr. Stewart that they have already suited so at their intirview with you on Tuesday. I am, dear Sir, truly yours, Til())1A1 8/II TH. George Can Glyn, EA., M.P.' ... • - - " Lombard-street, Dec. 27, IMO. "My dear Sir,—l beg to thank you for 'our letter of yester day intima• ing to ins the measures of precaution taken on the part of the loesmstive committee in consequence of the proceedings of the coginemen. The men who waited upon me on Tuesday expressed a desire to sea me again, and men tioned this as the du upon which they would probably ask fur another int, reit w ; but I doubt their doinit so at present, as I ace by the amount of the proceedings at their meeting held last night that they have adjourned the further considera lion of the question for some days. 1 regret that • different result hu not bun produced by the assurances which I was enahled to give the men that there existed in the minds of the directors no intention of making any change with • view to the reduction of wages, coupled with the tumble that if, by sending in notices or otherwise, they lost !heir situations, I could give them no hope of their being restored to the service of the company ; sad that the men, still having no personal grievances, cnotirue their coon. of agitation and meetings. At the same time I feel with you the responsibility to which the L icomotive mitten and the executive officers are subjected by the present unsettled condition of the staff; and that it is inconsistent auks with the maintenance of the discipline essential to the safety of the lice, and with the ultimate well being of the men them elves, that matters should eootinue much longer in their present state; and though I shall greatly regret the necessity, should it arise, of parting with any consider able number of our old servants, yet, having warned them of toe inevitable consequecces of their proceedings, I mutt now leave your committee to adopt such measures as are necessary, in your judgment, for the sate and tfficient conduct of the line.—Believe me, faithfully yours, Lino. CADA assn —Thomas Smith, Eeq.' THE BURGLARY IN SUSSEX.7APPREHEN- _ -- SION OF THE BURGLARS. --- No less than six of the gang of slaws supposed to have been concerned in the robbery at Doweled-house have (says the Sussex Advertiser) been taken into custody. A Burglary is Sussex The apprehension of three of them was accidental, and took place on the evening of the burglary oe another charge. The slimes of these men are John H.milion, John Smith, and J. Smith. They were at a village called Oroombridge, where Hamilton gave John Smith into custody, on a charge of having taken a sovereign from him. In the mean time the of of the Tanbridge.wells district baring rec e i ve d intel ligence of • burglary committed at • Mr. Kenward's, at Haraldl, and thinking the whole party s us pi c i ous ate. ratters, proceeded to search them, and found upon them a 61. note of the Lewes Bank, • coat, umbrella, and mask. Thew wets taken to Doweled', and the coat and umbrella wire at once recegnised by the butler and housekeeper of the Misses Farcacombe. Two more, named Ilillyer and Morgan, Iv re captured, after a desperate resistance, by the Guildford police, in a beer-shop in that town, and leveed of the articles stolen from the house at D 'lrelands toned upon them. Another men, named Joseph Carter, was taken at Woking, on whose person was also found pert of the steles property, and • pistol loaded with slugs. Morgan has been identified by the butler as the man who knocked him down with the pistol, and Carter es the men who kept guard over MAL CAPTAIN J. D. CONNINOITAM, TUN AUTHOR OF TOO HISTORY 01 , THE SIKH.," OICALLID TO PUBLIC EIiCLOYMENT.To the LAO/ Of the Exprests.)— Sir; Your readers, a nd all haters of spiteful sod petty tyranny, will learn with pleasure that Captain J. D. Cunningham, the author of the excellent history of the Sikhs, who was dis missed from his political situation at Si,opel, by orders of the C mut of Directors, for having published (after the example of many others who have dose and are doing the same thing without being in any way punished (or their ia discretion) an official correspondence, without the permission of his immediate superiors, has been recalled to public em ployment by the CilJvemer General of ladle, Lord Dal housie having just appointed him general superintending engineer in the north western provinces. His Ctiele of " pub lishing official letters" leould, therefore, mem to be expiated, much to the emit of Lord Dalhousie. I enclose the extract* from the Calcutta ErigtisAssaa, announcing this julicious aid we:come act of justice on the par: of the authorities, BSLITANNICUIL—OrientaI Club, Jan. 6, 1861.—• " We are right glad to learn that Captaia J. D. Curningham, of the Eoglneen, who was brzairly deprived of his appointment is Bhopal because he published in his book somethiag agreeable to Lord Harding*, has been appointed to act as superintending engineer is the teeth-west daring the absentee 41 Lieutenant-C*loas! &Sess. Thie would look as if 'overawes reeling' and prejudice were not eternal."—Col. cattu Eregfistimore. THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS. PROPOSED NEW PLAN OF EDUCATION SUITOR USD BY LOCAL RATES. MANCIIESTER. Jan. 7. The keen discussion which has been going on in this district es to the ',emit, of a in , re c.inpreheasive scheme of education b-ing given to the townie of this country, has not been wholly without fruit. I have the satisfaction of infer meg you theta very large audit-Mien:eel meeting of clergy, lacy, aol dissenting minis ere w s hold here yeetsrday, ut which a scheme was breached iu the shape of " sugges:ions and marginal notes for • bill" to be brought hi•fere parliament, "to enable the fehobizanta of the boroughs co Manchester and Sa.ford, by means of local ritr , , to promote sad stisulce education therein, and to render existing echo- is in the said bo rough more effineies, and to provide tor the repair of school billeting. therein, au4 rtfecually to supplement voluntsry efforts is the said boroughs, in the pup:notion of education." In other worlr, it is an attempt "to show the prarierbility of coon racung an effeenve system of telecatain en the basis of plans now to op:ration." The plan, tb :ugh it has bete, priwed, has only been pri- Tafely distributed, rid I am no' enabled to s ere you a copy. as the p as r or. would be chareesble with a breath of con fidence at present is comotuniesting it. A sk-tch, however, appeared ui the Mancliester Umord a* 04 deture.ay, from winch it appears to itsopetticO la sums se.specoi to the pita propalia.ls it by tie Public Schools Associate in for adoption In L •nesshire. T*.e /viewing is the eu•line : "la the tint phew, it secures tile light of free edues then to Leery inhabitant of toe two boroughs, casting too contingent sagentell on local fo!ia, Will= are never :o ex ceed livepence in the ponied per annum, anti are to toe ma naged by committees elected out of their own ntembi rs by the municipal tout tees of the . .wo torque:es. In the second piece, it provides that the religious e.nvictione al all par ties are to be respected lad equally protected,' in guarantee of which it is proposed nest, in ell :eating echoula admitted into nuian with the district cotunddee, no creed or for mulary shall be taug'3, to children, to wh.ele their parents or lawful guardians rr..ty in writing object—while, In new schools erected by the education commi . .tee, no distinctive creed whatever is to be taught within the erdinaty school hours, although the daily reading of the scriptures is to be provided for. The management elan of the latter class of schools is to be in the hands of exclusively lay putout , . A third fundamental principle is that the assistases of her Majesty's tospeaton is to be obtained in estimating the educatioaal wanted any bewail y ; and that no whoa is to ba ereeteel by the dirrict committers, and no land to be par chimed for such purpose, without the sanction of the n , mmsttee of privy council on education." How far each a scheme will be received with general fa vour here, nr bow tar it well hear compdri.on with the system propounded by the Public Stool Association, I cannot pre tend to say. It will not be fair to discuss its write, perhaps, till we have the whole detail. before us, and these contiseedly have not yet been licked into chapel to the satisfaction of the propounders theenelver. The meeting yesterday wag held in the mayor'. parlour at the Tuna ball, and was strictly Fivate, the only reporter admitted bring employed by the premoters of the meeting. The followidg names of pertains present, however, will sufficiently indices, the par ties, Seth In religion and politics, who have takes it up, and the intilitel.C• which is likely to o• brought to bear en ita favour. James Hea wood, Req., M.P.. James Kershaw, Esq., Richard Deasy, Eth H. R. Riney, Esei , J. C. Oat. ' ter, Esq., It. Gladstone , h.q., W. R. Callender, E q., Col. Clown, W. M'Connebl, E. 1., D. Shod', Esq , P. M. James, E q., the Very Rev. the Dean of alanchestee, •he Rev. Hush Stowell, Rev. C. Itichson, Itev. J. O. Vanes, Rev. Mr. liuntiagthe, Rev. Mr. Marsden. leer. Mr. Hutchinson, ltev. T. Ditch, Its,. J. W. fel•Oratis, Rev. W. lkrley, 11ev. T. Pocklington (clergymen); Rev. J. L. Poorer and Rev. J. Gaither (ladependents); it.,. Oro. Osborne (Wesleyan). In ell there were upwaida of a hundred per sons preheat. ta; Very Bev. the Doan of fioxcnesma was called to the chair, aad tku followit.g resulaticne were adopted, alter the Re. C. Richson h‘d read the bill : Mr. Rousse (itatnrono iniviZ • and the Rev. J. L. Poona seroadel, the tint resolutim " That consider:mg the amount of unOcCepied room in the schools of various religious denominatiora in MancLester and Salford, it is de sirable in any eff,rt for txten,llug education in itaaso two borough• to provide for the bringing such unoccupied school room into daily us!."_ Moved by the Rev. J. Owrrttrit (Independent), ie. conded by Mr. C. CAWLIT, C.l , That the principle of a locel rate for providing free eilueviust ie evable of being app&d to the above purpcao with perfect equity to the rate. p., er, and with due regard to the r.ligiona convictims of all who desire the education of their children in calatiog scho,le." Moved by the RAT. lITOR STOWELL (CIWIT7011111), ••• conded by the Rev. Ono. thisioutea ( Wealeysn minister) — "That TOW meeting deems the general principle id the scheme enbreittetel to theta deserving ot consadcra.ion, and resolves itself into a committee fur the putpuse of devising the details of a measure hi reafter to be hrtudht before the public, and, if approved, before parliament." These resoluuons were carried with one or two dissentients to souls points referred to; but the parties did cot nicee any amendme.its. J.:sena Pre!, E.g., blvleg consented to loccome the honorary secretary, the to-tting revAved i'self into a general commune, and a Oeputotion was appointed to wait upon the Lord Bishop of Manchester, to request that his lordship would übligiagly assist the committee in its efforts to carry the resolutioia into effect. A sub-committee was appointed to consider the details of tho measure r and report thereat:. The sob cm:nisei:tee to c:neist of 11. sue, W. }Laterite', (banker), Richard Birk y. T. P. Bunting (s,licitor), D. Maude (moderate), R. J. Jones , Hebert Hampton, a. Reelia, Simnel Fletcher, J. A. Turner, 0 R. Caapp.ll, Robert Brandt, Rev. C. Itichsun, Bev. W. Ilrley, with power to add to their number, ThiprOesediiip7a of ihemeeringiasted three hours. The authonhip of the bill has been attributed to the Ric. C. Rittman, but I ant informed that in fret Mr. ICehson has only put together the stucea•iosu of a number of th. lmaing persons present at a preliminary inciting. Flet.o•MAaauet GROSVENOR. We are glad to stag that this •: 'terabit officer, who was last w. eh so unwell, has recovered Item his attack. INQUEST ON GEORGE DRUMMOND, ESQ.—Last night an inquiry was tsk.n by Mr. Beritord, at the Turk's Head Tavern, MntcAnbe street, Ildgrave-aquare, as to the death of George Drummond, H.q., who expired under most awful circumstences on Suuday, some particulars of which have appeared. Lieut. E. At he ky Drummond, It N., of 2, Bryauston square, stated that the deceased wan his cousin, and as his 18th year. On Saturday he saw him at the bulling house at Charing•cross, when he appeared in his usual health and spirits. Oa Sunday he culled on him at 2 o'clock, at 11, Wilton.crescent, to luncheon, and found him seated as has arm chair. After a few words of ordinary cco variation about witness's stator, who was also expected to lunch, the deceased suddenly pat his band to his head, sad exclaimed, "Oh, dear! oh, dear!" His head then fell on one side, hie eyes became fried, and be breathed with a heavy snore for about two minutes, when he appeared to expire. He had not partak. nof any luecheor. Ile fre quently complained of pain in his side. Dr. Spin stt, of IG, Baton-terrace, said he was the medical attendant of the family, but he had not seen the deceased prulesaionally for some months, but called on him on the 2nd instant, at Cbaring-croes, when he was very ohs, rfuL Witness had always thought something was wrong with the heart, and anticipated the sudden result. the defused ofen wished his death might be su den, and said he should prefer it to be so. Oa witness's arrival at the house on Sunday he was quite dead. A post modems examination of the bed, has stone been made, and the viscera were found to be genera lly healthy, but loaded with fat. Toe heart was also loaded with fat, very pale and flabby, sod the blood in a fluid state. The Cause of death was fatty deg ion of the heart, the muscular part being worn to the thinness of a sheet of paper. 'The death might occur at any moment. The jury returned a verdict of " Natural death from disease of the heart." SCENE BETWEEN A JUST AND A MEDICAL rms.—LW evening Mr. H. H. Walley held an inquest at the Lord Nelson, Mary street, Hampstead-road, St. Pancras, on Mary Turner, a widow, aged 60. The jury were horrified at the appearance of the filthy hovel in which the body lay. The place Lad not a stick of furniture, aid the miss rable corpse, covered with filth and vermin, lay is a corner on a bundle of rags and fifths—Mary Ward said the deceased supported herself by I egging, in addition to a small weekly parochial allowance. She was exceedingly filthy, never washed her person or her room ; always slept in a chair, and was covered with vermin, which crawled over and rem her person. She went out between air and seven in the morning to beg, and returned at 12 o'clock at night. She was taken ill on Wednesday, got worse on Thursday, when Mr. Todd, the parish asegeon, was called on, and she died between five and six o'clock on Friday morning.—Mr. Todd, district parochial surgeon, stated that he visited deceased on Thursday evening, when she wu dying. Her whole body, and the rags that covered her, were full of vermin, which were no Dank upon her that at first he took them for dirt. He never before witnessed each a spectacle. He preurited nothing, for she was too far gone. He could not say of what she died, for he had not examined the body internally or externally. Foreman If it were your brother, .iud he was even as filthy as deceased, would you not proscribe for him ? Mr. Todd : I deemed it a hopeless case. Coroner You ought to have applied vus tard poultices, and prescribed, even if it were only to phut and satisfy the public. You should remember that while there is life there is lave. Mr. Todd: lam not to be ..ic tated to by ignorant people. Foreman: That is a great insult to us, the jurors. We have a right to ask questions, and you are bound ta answer them. Coroner: I hope that Mr. Todd did sot apply the word ignorant to the jurors. Mr. Todd lam not here to be spoken to by parties who know nothing of medical science. Coroner: If the jury have any complaint against Mr. Todd, they had better forward it to the board of guardians. Foreman : In the name cf my brother jurors, I call upon Mr. Todd to withdrew the often : sive expression. Mr. Todd not having apologised, the jury declared that they would not sit again on an inquest at which Mr. Todd was a medical witness. Verdict, "Natural death." SAVAGES AT SEA.—Osptain Daley, the commander of the Jeremiah Garnett (watch arrived yesterday at Live pool from Shanghai), reports that on the 7th September . fell in with two canoes, which contained 19 savage, of copper colour, tattooed all over, and In a state of nudity.. sips and other means of interpretation it was gathered fro them that they had been blown out to sea 13 days previousk from the Islands of St. David's. They were receivtd on beard the Jeremiah Garnett and fed, bat one of the poor wretches died the same evening. Captain Daley bore up for StDavid's (which liftoff New Guinea), and thee; landed them MEETING AT lIIHMINGIIAXL BlitellNGHAbi, Teethes. At a meeting of the town council, held this morn ing, Mr. Alai, roma BALDWIN Moved the &thine:on of a petition to parliament for the repeal of the paper, Silver tiotment sad stump duties on newspapers. Afar some prefatory obserratioes, Mr. B i'dwin said—Tee mne ceneideratien I have given to this ',Oleo the more jive fled I feel in hinging it forward to-day, bovines: I sin coaviceed that the canons taxes which this petition prays may he abolished, ars imposts' that ought to be done away with, seeing that they are in every shape injurious. I shall make no spol'gy on the ground of being myself • paper m her, insomuch as I consider that I have as moth right to carry cu my trade without any restraint or inteetrences on the part of the excise or any ~her efficor, as ptrsons in any other itisiness; end whilst I Min in jU5i l / 3 0 state that I have never had the slightest ground for cnoaplault against any °die. r o: the Board of Ea.:it , I have an undoubted right to cosup:iin ..1 toe aystan—to point out i o hindrance are d ate drawbot k upon my teed*, as well as the fully of raising re. venue by ouch • means as • paper tax, especielly when there are other easier, cheaper, and much I less iniquitous methods of acoomplehing the same teed. I need scarcely point out to you that whirl many of you nave so much cause to know, namely, the unfair us inner in whieb the paper duty presses upon na• rehanu, osenulactur, rs and other tradesmen : also, to bow great an extent it op.. rates in preventing the employment of I may say thousands ' of persona; for, it this duty was repealed, I ant convene •r: :hat I could myself be the means of finding employment for at least 600 persons within 12 months after sorb repeal had taken place. Now, most or you are aware that the pope duty amounts to nearly 151. per ton, and by far the great hulk of the paper that is manufactured does no: sell whole sale fir more than 3il. per ton ; so that you will see the duty amounts t r neatly one-half of the pries paid for the article And, as I sou anxious to confine myself to feet*, I thin cite my own cue. Last year I paid 9,6101. In the shape of duty, whilst the paper I manufactured did 001 111.11 for more than 24,0001. And whilst I am pretty well convinced that I did not make them one third of the paper that was consumed in Birmingham, I think that I manufactured is weight as much as was used in maxice, wrapping, and re-wrapping the goods that were exported from this town by our merchants, so that this would be equal to a tan of 10,0001. per annum on the Birmingham m. faints be.idel that when three goods Mite in America there is a Una' to be encountered of Rhein 30 per cent., which would raise the tax to something like 13,0001. sitar on the manufacturers and merchants of this town alone; but, going a step beyond this, and keeping in view my esti mate, whth I believe to be accurate, it will be sun that there is a gross tax on the people of Bamingbam on all the paper consumed in it amounting to something like 30.0001 per annum; inasmuch as there is no town in the United Kingdom wherein, in proportion to its population, so large an amount of paper is consumed ; for, according to our populati - n, our fair share of the tax, with the rest of the country would be, instead of 'AOKI., which we do pay, not more than seven or eight thousand. I know mere cheats rayselt who use 20 tons of paper annuelly in iv wrappine th eir goods ; and keeping in view that the duty is 15/. per ton, the tax paid by each of them an the article sal paper alone is 3001. per year; and in putting this, I have not put an extreme we, because I know that there are men consuming a much larger quantity than that which I have named. I wish the council nearly to uadenrand that this is not a mere random statement ; I have taken pains to be accurate, and to obtain something like • fair averse. of the quantity of paper used by cur merchants and minutee wren connected with the foreign trade; also of the quantity of pasteboard, button board, and card board, that is need, and a very little inquiry will matisfy you that my estimate is • correct one. Take the steel-pen trade, for ire'ance, and see the vast amount of pun boards and paper that is used is carding, and in making the paper boxes; so with the honk eye and the pin trade, I could not myself have believed that Co eoneumptien of piper was so large as it is, if I had not had undoubted information and facts befur• me. In fact there are few branches of our menufactures wherein paper is not required. Now, one word on the suhject of the taxes which affect the newspapers: of course the book trade "Mien imnicestly in eons, queue* of the paper ditty. Well, I say abolish the penny camp and abolish the rider, (teeniest duty; the last is s tax on the poor, whilst the rich are comparatively untouched by its operation. The *dyer. /0: meat a column in length pays no more duty than that of the poor girl who wants • place as housemaid or cook. its peal the stamp duty and you free the newspaper from • great burthen : the reduction of the stamp from tourpence to one penny has more than doubled the circule ion of all news. papers; wholly repeal it, and you will get • first-rate news paper for two pence, and • very good one for a penny, thereby Piecing the newspaper within toe mica of every wivking man—bringing it to hie own fireside, and thereby do you contribute to his mental culture end improvement, and do more than anything to eli Tate him in the social stale; without taking into consideration the other great cone weal/ 01 repealing these duties, that you will be providing for your population a vast amount of employment which is now debit dto them. La the United Stens of Ame rica there is scarcely a town of ten thousand inhabiunts without its daily newspaper; in England there is not one that I know of out of the metropolis Well, whet do I deduce from all I have s..id to you? Wny, that if the labourers and the working people could effort to buy books end newsmen, as they weuld it these MESA were abolished, that education and enlightenment would be extended to their children; and what more pleasant than to witness the mechanic or the labourer, when his day's work is over, hither' by his own fireside, in a vastly its, roved dwelling, in c inequities of the rep al of the glass and brisk duthr, with a glass of sparkling, home-brewed, untaxed ale before him, lhtening to one of his children reading the cheap sad un taxed book or newspaper, and findirg in the untaxed laver ! Live:lents that there are plenty of situations for those who want them? (Applause.) The worthy alderman concluded by moving the adoption of the following peitioto : " To the honourable the Commons of the United Kiordom ' of Great Britain, in Pritharnent assembled, the humble Petition of the Meyer, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Birmingham. "That your petitioners are deftly imprered with a tense of the injurious effect of the cocci w duty on paper. "That the imposition of such duty has crippled the energies of the manufacturers; interfer.d with the conduct of the trod.; fettered the enterprise of men of capital im barked therein ; deprived thousands of softens of their means of rapport, and injuriously affected the export trade of this country: whilst at the same time the mode of levying such duty is unnecessarily harassing and vexations. "The: your petitioners are also convinced that the stamp duties on newspapers, and the ides rtiscment duties are highly objectionable in principle, and operate as a tax upon know ledge and unequally preys upon many classes of the com munity. "Your petitioners, therefore, humbly prey your house to take the premises into your consideration, with a • ew to the total repeal of the above mentioned duties. And your petitioners will ever pray. Re," Mr. CHARLES STUMM seconded the adoption of the petitioo, with a declarstion that he thought the penny etemp more ohnentions than the paper duty. Mr. Alderman MLRTINE&U (brother of Harriet Mar. tineau) deprecated the introduction of such questions at town council meetings ; It was like converting them into a minor H 'use of Commons. He should oppose the petition on that ground aloes. In this view Mr Councillor Meuse concurred. Mr. Alderman SKIT II was opposed to the paper duty, but declined to support this petition on the ground that it was meagre as regarded facto, and because the eabje t was OHM fitting for the eonsideration of the merchants and manufacture's of the town than the corpor►te body. Aldermen Room, PALMER, and ILAwiie, and Council lore KNOWLES and ALLOAT, supported the petition. Mr. Alderman MUNTZ said the paper tax was an abomin►ble tax ; its operation on this town was strongly (At ; it often added 20 per cent. to the coat of manufac tured articles. He did not concur with Alderman Martineau in thinking that the council should ►loogether give up the 1 discussion Vouch questions as this, although he was opp,sed to the too frequent ia•roduction of matters of • politickl tendency into their diacuesions. Mr. Alderman MARTINEAU then endeavoured to get rid of the petition by • side-wind; in this spirit he moved the adjournment of the council, bat his motion was negatived. Mr. Alderman BALD WIN, In his reply, intimated that, is addition to what was done by the town council in this matter, he should take care that the merchants and manu facturers of the town were called together to take the sub ject into their consideration. Tits petition and motion that it be signed by the mayor and presented to the House of Commous by Mr. Schole. ti.ld, waa then put, and carried almost unanimously ; Alder men Martineau and Councillor Co: only holding up their hands against it. MEETING AT LEEDS. A meetiog of the paper-makers of Yorkshire was held at the White Horse Hotel, Leeds, on Tummy last, for the purpose of considering the proprie ty of aidind the agi tation for a repeal of the duty on paper. Mr. SMITH, of Morton Mille, near Rio*ley, occupied the chair, sod there were present Mr. Mayfield of Hull; Mr. Crompton, of Manch ; hlr. Garn e tt, of ' ().ley; Mr. Martin, of Leeds; Mr. Neill, of Leeds; Ur. Mellor, of lineudet ; and other gentlemen. Resolutions eondemnatory of the tar having been passed, the sum of 6.51. was subscribed at tte meeting, and after thanks to the chairman the meeting separated. Tun Mumet oN BOARD TIM SHIP KELSO.-16 the Expritss. Nqw. 25, the public were istarmed of a most daring e.se of piracy, ic tempted by some Amt.:Jest, seamen, on board the ship Helen, of L ,radon (the property of Sir John Pinto, But., of &robin lane), while on a pausge from Sus Francisco to Chios. The ship wu supposed to have on hosed an immerse amount of gold dust, and prior t 3 her sailing from Ban Franeisco, a plan was cueocted for taking the ship and acuminating the muter and officers, by a gang of desperate wretches whom the commander engaged to work the ship in place of those of this e•ew who had run off to Coe digging.. The ship had run • full third of her voi ag• before the attack was male— ' providently, the master having become aware of the murderous design of the wretches by the laCrifiA of two of the principals who were shot dead by the Captain, the ship, and his men, and officers were used. The trial of the ring. leaders has sines taken place at Singapore, when they were convicted and sentenced to transportation for life. ivor. r he of a . By frogs ouely ton poor up 2dtd t‘ • • i t"; -w ' • • • 1