The Express. — London, England, 1847-10-12 00:00:00

MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES. A court of the magistracy of the county of Mid dlesex was holden yesterday at Hirka's-hall, Clerkenwell. The chair was oecupied by Mr. H. Formal. According to the list, the business for the day was to receive from the various parochial officers of the county returns of the annual value of the property in each parish, upon which the justices were to act in laying a county rate for the ensuing year; bat, instead, the court proceeded to receive and consider the report of a committee of justices, appointed in 1545, to pre pare a fair and equal county rate, which report was pre sented on the 7th of September last. After reciting the powers under which the committee acted, the report stated that The eommitree prepared a fair and equal county rate, a ropy of which was printed - and sent to every acting justice of the prate for the ...guy, and to the overseer= of the poor of every parish and Orme in th epty, county Ortele to contribute to the county rate. Objections to the mewed rate were received from twenty-one parishes end three extra onmeldal Idyls, and the committee met at the Sessions Gorse and hardin public such of the parties making objections as desired to he beard, mil Incing taken into their consideration the objections and the evidence and atutementi in so of them, the committee cot reeted the proposed rate in of six parishes and three extra cowbird rOlee. by making dealoothste he the amount in the whole of ar.il confirmed the other ;wiped aseesements, and In several instances with the assent of the pieties interested; and the com mittee anal) Approved the proposed rate so corrected, o amounting to the rum of being an Addition ........... 24386,874 to the present county rate of £6,367,456 The rates usually assessed annually for county pupped amount to three pence and one farthing in the pound, and which, under the assessment now in operation, produce the sum of 841,225/.; but In the event of the rate now proposed both^. allowed and confirmed by the Court of quarter Sertion% the future rates will probably sot ex. teed annually two pence and three farthin gs in the pound, which, upon the assessment of 7,734,330 r. will prawns the sum of 05,0101., being 2,62.0'. more than Is now collected under a rating of 31d. In the pound. The committee had tested the importance of the system they had adapted by calculations which prove that while the rateable value cd the property in each of forty-two parishes is creamed at sums exceed ing their proportion of the last raw, yet by the general assessment and glring to those perishes the benefit of an equal rate, they will re meetuely contribute in a reduced proportion to the proposed in. erased rate. As is of the effect of the propoeni system It mac be mentioned: the parish of Saint Martin -in-the-lields is proposed to increased 14,3701 » in other words, that in future the rates shall be charged upon so much more than the amount on which the pariah's mw charged being an increase of nearly 6 per tent.; but the effect of the equa:vatton is to cause that pariah to pay toward the proposed rate a nuance proportion of 519 parts of 1,000, or more than one half per cent. The parishes of hilat Gilts-in-the-Melds and Saint George. Bloomsbury, are increased 31,818/., or about tic per cent. tat they will contribute to the proposed rate by s reduced proportion or rather more than one quarter per cent. The pariah of Saint Pan eras L. increa(ed 50,810., or nearly 16 per ceps.; hut it will pay • re dated pr portion of nearly one half per cent. The parish of Saint Ilarylebone incensed :147.337.1.,:0r about 174 per cent. ; but the comparative proportion will be less by morethan one half per cent. Following the report, there is a table showing the value at which the property in the several parishes has been assessed, and the value at which the justices propose to assess it under the new system. The parish of St.Oeorge, Hanoser square, is now assessed at the annual value (according to the parish returns) of 627,220/., while the justices consider that it might be fairly assessed at 828,732/. The pariah of St. James shows a still greater discrepancy; it is now assessed according to the returns of the parochial authorities at 240,9.)61., and the justices in their abstract represent its annual value as 421,9481.—near1y double—and at which sum it is proposed to rate it. There are many other parishes with variations equally striking. Mr. FItEANFIELD, chairman of the committee, in a long speech moved that the report and the proposed rate receive the sanction of the court. Mr. BENJAMIN HALL seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. The VESTRY CLERK of St. James's informed the court that the churchwardens and overseers of that pariah were in attendance, and were prepared to submit to the court the usual returns of the annual value of the rateable property in that parish. They took this step as they were greatly dine hefted with the estimate of the justices, and if the court re. ' hued to receive such returns, it would be made one of the pounds of appeal against the new rate. The CHAIRMAN said the court could not receive the re turns. The information required had been otherwise ob tained by the committee, and it would be acted upon, at lean at present. Mr. Buzzelth, the clerk, again urged the court to receive the returns, but they were positively declined. After a vote of thanks to Mr. Freshfield, the court adjourned. LORD HOLLAND'S Parut.—Mr. Bodkin, attended by Mr. Brown, agent to Lord Holland, was in attendance, to apply, on behalf of his lordship, for the sanction of the court to certain alterations proposed to be effected on his lordship's property at Kensington. His lordship is desirous of divert ing a public footpath which runs across his park from the Great Western-road to the Uxbridge, by constricting mother road in a direct line from Earl's-court.lane to the Csbridgeroad, by which his lordship's park would assume a much more private character. A similar measure was pro peed some years ago by the late Lord Holland, but it failed before an active opposition raised against it. However, the present proposal, being a more liberal one, had met the approval of the vestry and of the highway board of commis sioners; but in consequence of certain notices being signed otherwise than directed by the act of parliament, the appli cation wu withdrawn, until the technical defect be remedied. That theMemTertigais of this manias am n% Sad bfftby 'Wine ps'a• et Omit Bitten and Infra. ter it Ws sod ea sel MEM same' e 4 int wisessto Mlle Pins Ms senstem he he golleheismesMatien et lessismied pmts. The meosedlngs era, Ming by a vote of thanks to the chairman. who, in Menne testimony to the virtues and high as ttaiimmle of Dr. Whisme, observed, that he believed the time we met very tar Meant when that distinguished stele sir& meld be greeted by them, not as the Vicar of Lon don, bat es Arabishop of Westminster. (Loud cheers.) lodged, be bed been favoured with the perusal of a oommu niceties *OS !tense which justified him in almost stating it as a fut. (Renewed cheers.) ARRIVAL OF Ma. CORDEN.-Richartl Cobden, Esq. M.P., arrived in London yesterday morning by the General Steam Navigation Company's mail steam-ship Countess of Lonsdale, R. S. Steanack, which vessel left Hamburg on Saturday. LONDON PHILANTHROPIC E•OctErf. -A public meeting of the friends and supporters of the London Phi lanthropic Society, established for the relief of deserving poor during the winter season, was held yesterday evening in the great room of the Hall of Commerce, under the presidency of Mr. tinder-Sheriff D. W. Wire. The chair man opened the proceedings of the evening with an eloquent speech, in which he strongly urged the claims of this to the support and sympathy of the public. The o = annual report was read by the Rev. J. B. Talbot, on behalf of the secretary, and from the document it appeared that the distinguishing feature of the society wan that of extend ing relief, in bread and coals, to those who are reduced to poverty and distress. Every subscriber was, under the rules and constitution of the charity , , his own almoner, and was supplied (for distributiou) with tickets for 41b. loaves and 561 be. weight of coals, to the full amount of his subscriptions, and an additional num ber arising from the contributions of benevolent donors to the charity. To show the progress which the society bad made since its first establishment, the committee submitted the following statement of its annual increasing income :- In the first year its finances amounted to 271. 6s. 73d. ; in the woad year, to 2.5/. 18e. 31d ; in the third year, to 12.51. 120.; in the fourth year, to 1811. 164.; and last year to 2761. 140. During the past winter the committee had dis tributed among the subscribers 4,700 tickets for bread and coals, sad had endeavoured to extend the benefits of the charity as far as the funds would permit. The balance-sheet for the past year, as audited, showed the amount of the re ceipts to have been 2761. 14s. 61, comprisiag a balance of 5/. 153, at the hut audit, and 2701. 19s. 6d. arising from do nations and subscriptions. The disbursements were stated to be far relief administered in bread and coals, in casual relief of the poor, 2411. 17s. The expenses were 321. Ss. ; leaving a balance to the credit of the charity of 21. 19s. 6d.-On the motion of the Rev. Flood Woodman, seconded by the Rev. Joseph Brown, M.A., the report was adopted and ordered to be printed, and the committee and officers were reappointed. The neat re solution was moved by the Rev. James Mirams, of Kenning ton. It was to the lfect-" That whilst deeply deploring the state of suffering to which so many thousands ore reduced from comfort and independence, and which there is reason to fear will be greatly augmented during the approaching winter, the meeting could not but rejoice that through the continued and increasing favoar shown to the London Phi lanthropic Society, there is every prospect of the charity being enabled to distribute its benefits throughout a largely extended sphere, in alleviating the sorrows of many thou. sands of those who are doomed to suffer; and that the objects of the London Philanthropic Society were entitled to the con sideration of the humane and benevolent, and the meeting pledged itself to cooperate with the committee in carrying oat its laudable objects."-The resolution was ably seconded by Dr.'Abrahams, and passed without a dissentient voice.--On the motion of the Rev. J. B. Talbot, seconded by Mr. Thos. West, the last resolution, " That the thanks of the meeting be given to the committee and officers of the society for their services during the past year; to David W. Wire, Eeq., for his kindness in presiding on the present occasion ; and, also, to Edward Moxhay, Esq., for his liberality in allowing the use of the Hall of Commerce far the meeting free of charge," also passed unanimously.-A donation of 10/. was ancounced as haring been received from Baron Rothschild, M.P. ; and it was also stated that Lord Dudley C. Stuart, M.P., had consented to preside at the next anniversary festival of the society. THE HEWLETT FUND.-Yesterday a meeting of subscribers to the fund for the relief of the family of the late Rev. J. T. Hewlett wan held at the Freemasons' Tavern. Rowland Alston, Esq., M.P., in the chair. The meeting was convened by public advertisement, for the purpose of appointing trustees to manage the fund, and to authorise the transfer of all the money collected into the hands of such trustees ; but in consequence of some of the London sub scribers having declined to sanction the meeting so convened there was a very small attendance.-The Chairman, Mr. Eden, Mr. Welsby, and others present, addressed the meet. ing to the effect that their only object was that the whole money collected should be placed in the hands of trustees, who would apply it in the manner most beneficial for the children of the diceued. For this pur pose active and working trustees should be appointed. They had no objection to the appointment of Dr. Russell and the Earl of Devon as two of the trustees, as had been suggested by Mr. Meinwright, but were of opinion that younger men would be more suitable. The Essex subscribers and the Freemason subscribers were ready to fraternise, and it could arise only from some misconception that the London subscribers did not come forward and co-operate with them. They felt no jealousy towards any individuals, and would concur in the appointment of any eligible trustees. Their only desire was that the subscriptione, which amounted to nearly 3,0001., should be invested to the best advantage for the benefit of Mr. Hewlett's children. They did not think it would be advisable to place it in the Court of Chancery, es that would not be a profitable mode of investment. A resolution was therefore proposed by Mr. Welsby, and seconded by Mr. Alston, jun., adjourning the meeting to the 15th of November, in the anxious hope that all gentlemen who interested themselves in collecting sub scriptions would attend, and 'proposing to submit to such meeting the propriety of lancing the whole subscriptions under one fund. It was also proposed and seconded that the Rev. Dr. Russell be requested to take the chair at that meeting. SUPPLY OF GAS FNI THE SOUTHERN DISTRICTS OP LoNooN,-A meeting of the inhabitants of Lambeth and Southwark was held yesterday evening, at the Elephant and Castle, to receive the report of a committee recently ap pointed to inquire into the comparative rates (per 1,000 feet) at which gas is furnished to consumers in different districts of the kingdom. Mr. Brown having been called to the chair, Mr. Savage, a member of the committee, proceeded to cam-' municate to the meeting the information which had been I obtained on the subject. lie stated that the committee, of which he was a member, had been appointed at a former meeting held at the George, Camberwell, to inquire into the cause of the high prices charged for gas in the southern dis tricts of the metropolis. The committee had ascertained the prices of gas throughout the kingdom to Le : Wakefield, 44. (id. per 1,000 feet ; Manchester, 4e. 6d. ; Birmingham, 61. Bel., proportionally less to consumers of large quantities ; Devon • port, Brighton, east end of London, and Canterbury, 6s. Bd.; Dorchester, Norwich, Yarmouth, and Hull, 6s. Bd. ; city of London and west end, Deptford, Ipswich, Exeter, Welling. ton, and Taunton, 71.; Itamsgate, 7s. 6d. ; London street lamps, ss. ; while in the southern districts of London, Southwark, Lambeth, Camberwell, &c., the charge is equal to Bs. per 1,000 feet. The price of coal in London had been urged in justification of the comparatively high price of gee ; but as the products of the distilled coal defrayed its first cost, that could not fairly be adduced as an argument. Mr. Savage proceeded to quote an extract from the Daily News of the 27th Sept., showing the refeirmation which had bees effected in Manchester in the rateage of gas lights. He thseghtthat • deputation should be appointed to wait on the three itmetpuilee which supply the southern districts, to state the Mt. he bed osuaterated, and to urge upon them the I mreessity of a vediestime fa their prices.-Mr. Dowling said that one of thaw companies charged Ss. in the borough, I while dawn at Greenwich they only charged 65.-Mr.Ward said that the commercial company supplied their customers at 65., and still were enabled to pay a dividend of five. and-a.half per cent. Another gentleman said that living close to the London Company he paid 81., while as he understood, in Leicester-square, the other side of the water the same company charged only 7a-Mr. Savage stated that in North Shields the inhabitants had saved ' nearly one-half by establishing gas-works of their own; and in Canterbury a threat to do the same bad reduced the price from lls. to 6s. per 1,000 c. feet. A deputation was then appointed to wait on the companies to urge a redaction to 7s. per 1,000 c. feet, and the meeting separated. TILE TREASURY AND TILE COUNTY COURTS.-It appears, from a Treasury circular to the judges of the county courts, issued on the 21st ult., that it is the retention of the government to carry into effect the provisions of the 29th and 40th section' of the act 9th and 10th Viet., c. 95, for the more easy recovery of small debts and demands in England, by placing the ju dges, clerks, and other officers of the county courts upon salary from and after the Whist. We sincerely hope that the government will order that a sufficiently remunera tive salary be given the sub-bailiffs, whose duties are really very laborious and difficult, and some of whom, especially in large agricultural districts, have had to travel a distance of 20 miles for the paltry pittance of ls. 81d., the high-bailiff pocketing the other ls. 81d, ; 3a. 3d. only being allowed on a claim of 20s. fur that distance. This is too bad, and the Lords of the Treasury ought to see that those men who do the hardest and most work are the best paid. THE FATAL COLLISION ON THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAT. - The better to avoid the recurrence of acci dents on this line similar to that which took place at Wim bledon recently. the following instructions have been issued from the secretary's office, sad are now in full force " That every engine-driver and every guard of the mail, goods, and other night trnies, communicate by an exchange of signals withevery station and gate-keeper, whether the trains call at such station or not ; and that further, if flues sarb additional men be appointed to that duty." FIRE IN WATER-LANE, BLACKYRIARS. - Laat evening, at a quarter past seven o'clock, the premises belong 'se to Messrs. Whitaker and Co., furniture brokers, of 28, PUBLIC MEETING TO SUPPORT THE POPE. A public meeting of Roman catholics was held last night, at the Albion, Aldersgate-street, for the purpose of misting Pope Pius IX., fits. The Rev. J. Howie, on being called to the chair, congra tulated the meeting and all lovers of rational freedom on the happy change which bad taken place in the critical position dthe Pope within the last five weeks, having, without the me of a single be onet, but by his magnanimity of heart and his undaunted courage, risen superior to every difficulty sod triumphed over the foes of his country and of constitu tional freedom. (Cheers.) He had shown himself worthy not only of the glorious title of spiritual father of Christ' es. dom, but grand prototype of even , monarch in the world, his fostering care and practical advancement of civil as SA religious liberty. The following resolution, were then unanimously agreed to, having been proposed by the Rev. Mr. KELLY, who lauded the political conduct of the Pope, observing that his desire was to establish just laws and equal paid. loges ; by Rev. Mr. KYNE, who eulogised the personal and literary character of Dr. Wiseman, and congratulated the Roman catholics of this country on his appointment to the London Vicariate u Bishop of Mello us, at the present moment so eventful to the interests of the catholic church ; by lie. OEI•WOOD, who likewise made some remarks on the ad vent/4ns to be derived from the appointment of so eminent a nun—a man capable of defending their rights and privileg es , and of securing justice at the hands of the government to** Roman catholic', not of this country alone, but of our colo nies: by Rev. H. ITEMS, who spoke for some time to show that the Roman catholic church was essentially liberal, awl OM that it, by the teachin g . of its divines, reprobated despot. Ism in every sliape—despounn being, in the words of St. Thomas, no government at all: by Mr. Sutra, Dr. DZEPoEY, &C.: That rope Pius the 9th has woo for himself the admiration and osbourde I esteem of every lover of rational liberty, by the commie bnisisenres of his policy, the practical wisdom of his views, and the renal impulse be has given to civil, social, and national ameliora tion . that, as the free citizens of a constitutional state, and feeling, as we de, that rational liberty and religious freedom are the McAllen alrabirthtight of every man, no matter what may be Inserted, dims, manor, we deem It our solemn duty to proclaim before the wQW oar watiinenta, and to aid and anise Pius the 9th by every lawful IBMs In OUT power in his present arduous' but glorious straggle Vent the abettors of tyranny, civil and religious, and the foes of Nueltuticrnal governesest. 11 led, •hfle we are ever ready to receive with : T ernivive.r.rpost ruler • 4to , tad reverence any apiritstal .....er rest us by the holy we, well know. . , were disoovered to be on Hie. The b irth , *Pedal guidance sine it from above, still the appeinunent Waterline , Bina — Mari . 0/ the illustrious Bahop Wiseman to the ectleciastical government building, which was three floors high, contained in the lower tettar. e tion vicariate at Ode particular erica of the catholic church portion a great quantity of furniture. At the t ime of the Lbw... . peculiarly gratifying to our feelings and movie- outbreak .Ir and Mrs. Whitaker were from home, but one OW we cannot help thus publicly exprewing our gratitude and that. to the holy father for his prompt and auspicious ap. of the lodgers and her three c hildren were in one of thethat. Ointment. upper rooms, and it was with great difficulty that they ee. That while we congratulate his holiness on the maw of his efforts taped . With as little delay as possible several e= la repelling the unjust agirrewions of Austria, we cannot conceal from arrived ; the flames, however, continued to travel, theorise* the fact, that thew noble efforts must have ooradderahlY upon everything of an ignitable character, until the added to the embarrasaments of the papal treasury; that, therefore, miles were nearly gutted. The damage must be ooeelilß we all upon all the catholic of the world to unite with us, by their ~, !Mimi, mil pecuniary contribution, in freeing the holy see tram ay.., the , en ire . f stock in trade being . destroyed. Yam 'I. 6, theivil embiumeamenta so nut the s upreme p e va of the Whitaker 's loss will be covered by an insurance in the NM earth on earth may be free and unsbackted henceforward in manor. Fire Office. How the fire originated could not be akar- Ina the affairs of the church, and dealing with the diffemvt govern- rained. The fire has been attended with fatal consequences 'Amu' r't the world; that, to °°Dardwiee with ' hew ' W. ' and sent!- to an elderly female , who lod g ed in the upper part of the !mu, 0 collection be now made, and that the Bev. Wm. Kelly, of house, and known as Miss Purday, a teacher of music. At vulva., ..hauld be appointed treasurer • and that he and the Be.J. *Me be requested to l o ge forard the 'to our holy t ab.., with &II twenty minutes past nine o'clock, whilst Flemming, one oil *kW uptiosin ot OW oan andrias attaeanest. the brigade nun wu removing the furniture that had not sm▪ •swase.—The Overseer pleaded in extenuation that he had rot been able to ascertain who was the returning officer, change basing taken place since last year.—The Barrister mid that such an miasma in some of the requirements of ss . might have disfranchised all the voters. The 7 sste " a we must be fined 21. The *veneers of Saffron b in we re tined 21. for the same omission. In none of the parishes were there any objections : the number of dua l s allowed was 2,. At the close of the business the turned gentleman examined the account, of the overseers for their yips-noes in preparing the lists. In the bill of St. An. , so y Holborn, was a charge of 41. 10s. for refreshments, w hich the learned gentleman at first questioned, but after wardps allowed, on being informed that it was not at the rate fa p enn y each, conaidering the number of voters on the list. A c harge of 21. 10s. by the overseer of Stoke Newing ton, for attending the revision. wu disallowed. Some bills included an item of 2/., m paid to the collector of amassed ta us for returns of defaulters I the barrister intimated that th i s c h arge w as not legal. n Si. Mary, Islington, the c harges for a ttendance were also disallowed, as well as some professional charges fora solicitor and clerk. In St. Luke's bill, 191 was charged for refreshments and attendance at the wa rt; and the overseer said the money had been actually paid, ten colleetort bad been occupied; and if of this sum ea • disallowed, the overseers would be so much out of pocket. This sum had been allowed in firmer years by Mr. Movlan; and a similar item had been allowed l as t week for the Middlesex list. In all, eighteen persons had been engaged in preparing this list, which could never have been completed in time if they had not sat continuously at the workhouse and had refreshments there. The Barririer said be should only allow 101. for the ex perms actually ineurred.—The Overseer said they had ac tually paid to the collectors 141. 13u. Ga., and 11. 10s. to men for watching the lists:on the church and chapel doors. Ul timately the learned gentleman allowed the whole. lqinntEsEx.—The lista for the following parishes, comprising the Westminster polling district, were re wised yesterday by the barrister (Mr. Shadwell), at the Vic:- Chau:4lu% Court. Westminster, viz., St. Anne's, St. Cle• ment Danes, St. George's, Ilanover-square ; St. James's, St. John the Evangelist, St. Margaret, St. Martin-in-the- Fields, St. Mary-le•Strand ; St. Paul, Covent-garden ; and the liberty of Luicoln'r-inn. The revision involved no point of interest. To-day the barrister will sit at the Chandoe Arm., Edgware, at twelve o'clock, when the lists for the Edgware polling district will be taken. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12, 1847. been totally destroyed in the flames, he found the body of a ferule most shockingly burned, so much so that none of the features could be recognised. She lived in one portion of the second floor, and when the alarm was given she was in her sitting -room. The poor creature was told by one of the females that a fire was raging below, and that she must make the beat of her way down. As Mn. Hambleton's family were leaving, they met the deceased on the staircase, sad told her not to ascend, or she would be burnt; she, however, made her way to the upper Soto, where she was discovered. INQUEST, YESTERDAT.—DEATII FROM IMPURE AlL—Before Mr. W. Baker : At the Doek-house, But India road, Bromley, on the body of Martha Jones, aged, five months, whose death was accelerated by impure air, arising from an undrained ditch. The deceased had been suffering from hooping.cough, and had partially recovered. She had several fits, and her health was impeded by an obnoxious effluvium arising from two undrained ditches on each side of the road in Quay-lane, Bromley. They were full of decom posed matter, and all aorta of filth was thrown into them. the stench was meat dreadful, and the inhabitant, could scarcely live in the houses. Mr. Blew, a surgeon who at tended, was of opinion that her death was accelerated by the impure atmosphere. The Coroner said he had held several inquests during the last month on the bodies of children who had died in a similar manner, and he should write to the board of guardians, who, he hoped, would adopt some mea sures to prevent the nuisance. The jury returned a verdict of natural death," and added that the death of the deceased had been accelerated by the obnoxious state of the atmo sphere, arising from an offensive drainage, which is calculated to do serious injury." THE CURRENCY. TO THE EDITOR OP THE MANCHEATEROL'ARDTAN. • Sir,—ln your paper,which I have just received, you say with great justice as well u good sense, that we have heard enough of the badness of Sir R. Peel's cumnr7 mea sures, and that it is now far the currency reformerl to pro duce a practicable plan, which the public will prefer to that of Sir R. Peel. And, in soliciting the favour of your laying my views before the free-traders of Lancashire, I would have you to remember that I also am a free-trader, and that my opposition to what you call free trade was principally canned by the nature of our national currency. I objected to what you call free trade, not because it is free trade, but because it is not free trade, until we abolish the gold standard ; or, in other words, Sir Robert Peel's bill of 1819. I believe that the bill alluded to has been the sole cause of the degradation of our working alum in the past, and must be so, in a ten ' fold degree, under our new system of free imports. ELAN OP A NATIONAI CURRENCY. . _ Let the present debt of the public to the Bank be made the general limit of a government issue, to constitute equally with gold and silver a legal tender, viz., fourteen millions; the act, however, also providing that the government may, on an emergency, or when the circulation gets down to twenty-one millions, grant a temporary loan to the Bank of England, not exceeding seven millions more, in order to secure the public always getting the security of government in the worst times, and always having a circulation, by the Bank of England, of never less than twenty-one millions. The Bank of England would be guarantee for the notes of the government, and rice terse. The Bank of England would also he permitted to issue its own notes to the amount of its paid-up capital (which may COME to be increased), say, fourteen millions, than giving the Bank the power to issue, in all, twenty-eight millions; but when the circulation should arrive (if ever it could arrive) at this most extended point, the Bank would have seven millions of specie in its vaults; for the plan I am recommend , ing lays down that the Bank shall at no time part with over one-half, or seven millions, of the fourteen millions of go vernment paper constituted a legal tender, without holding specie to an equivalent amount. Here we have propounded, for the first time, the principle of compelling the Bank to hold specie, while the foreigner is prevented forcing specie out of its vaults, seeing that the Bank could at all times get hack sufficientof the government notes for its specie, and also the premium or appreciation. Two great practical points will be attained by this reform, or rather revolution, in the currency. 1. The export of gold will only cause a rise in the price of gold, instead of, as at present, a rise in the price of money or interest, and a fall in the price of all ether descriptions of property and commodi ties, coupled with a most cruel diminution of Bank facilities, at the very moment they are most wanted. 2. The restric tions on the Bank issues will not only prevent depreciation, hut by preventing the banks making credit too cheap for business purposes, will secure a fair proportion of the busi ' peas being carried on by real capital. REMARKS ON Till ABOVE PLAN. The foregoing is the least that I think we should ask the present parliament to agree to ; but I go on to show how the principle may be afterwards developed for the advantage of the public, as securing it at once a gradually enlarging cit.. culation, and at the same time saving to the public exche quer one-half the profits of the Bank of England. Let me remark, that what the London petition goes for ie neither more nor less than an extended issue of paper, which, by making money more plentiful, would just be cheapening the price of money, and thus precipitating the increased exporta tion of gold. My position, on the contrary, is, that as we cannot avert the export of gold, we should not lose a moment in arrang ing that, in going out of the country,lt shall go at its market price, the same so any other commodity, which can only be effected by the repeal of the law of 1819. I wish to be guarded in my currency revolution, for I desire to retain the wholesome principle of restriction, as embodied in Sir H. Peel's laws of 1844 and 1845. I think that an intelligent community, in receiving our bank paper, when it is avowedly redeemable at no particular standard (being only a tender in the purchase of gold at the price indicated by the state of the foreign exchanges), will insist on some guarantee against its depreciation hom over issue, or from the fear on the pub lic mind of its over bane. That depreciation of the bank note, as compared with gold, which arises from the exporta tion of Fold, I call only an appreciation of gold. The bank note being depreciated is only an indication that all other commodities are depreciated as compared with gold, i. a., that gold is scarcest and most in demand. I may, however, explain that it ie a reasonable and just limit, and not an irrational restriction, that I advocate ; in deed, I would go the length of at once arranging (in order to meet the increased and increasing demands of the trade, and to prepare for the, at least, partial disappearance of gold from circulation in the country), that a gradual increase be permitted of the circulation of the joint-stock and private banks to double the present amount by their being allowed each year for the next five years, to issue 20 per cent. additional, if they could. And I wish to see the Bank of England's circulation also gradually enlarged. In fact, my idea would be that we should sell fourteen millions of government funds, and put the amount into the Bank of England, as an increase to the capital stock ; the public thus being interested to the extent of one-belt in the advantages given to the Bank, while individual noteholders and depositors would have the guarantee, not only of the public, but of the Bank of England. Thin, I think, would do away with the public's jealousy of the bank profiting entirely by the circulation, and pre vent the objection to the public being bound for the even. Wad payment of all the Bank of England's circulation, which I think of the last importance to create and retain the public confidence in the entire circulation throughout the country. I would provide, however, that the entire management of the Bank should remain, as at present, with the merchants or private stockholders. The foregoing propoeition is, that the Bank be allowed to issue notes to the amount of its paid-up capital. And the Bank of England, under my ultimate measure, would be entitled to issue twenty-eight millions, besides half of the fourteen millions of government notes, based on the amount due by the public to the Bank, and, therefore, made a legal tender, if ever the general wants of trade should-come to require, or its occasional necessities to demand, so great an issue. THE NATIONAL OBJECTS IN VIEW. The objects which I have in view are :-1. Eventual 's carify to the public. 2. Such a judicious restriction of Lames by the Bank of England, and all other banks, as will prevent the bank-notes from being depreciated. An excessive issue of paper is the only cause of a depre ciation (properly so tallest), and our object is to arrange that the rise in the price of gold be altogether of the nature of an appreciation, caused solely by the : increased export demand for the precious metals. My object is to make the bank-note (which is a legal tender) as good as any property in the country, but not better. At present it is better, and hence the high rates of interest, which are neither more nor less than a deduction from the working man's wages. I may mention that the most intelligent view of the but lionista is the following, but to which (though it allows gold to rise in the market) there is the serious objection, that (like a dock warrant) the value of the note woul d rise as at present with the value of the gold, and this would require to be expressed, as at present, by the money lenders getting more interest for their paper . money. This last and bait proposition of the bullienists is that the go , vernment (or the government and Bank united) should issue exchequer-bills of one pound each, payable at twelve months, without interest, to the extent of the quarterly ex pentee of the government, redeemable in gold at a quarter of an ounce for twenty shillings, hut in the mean time a legal tender. I may have an undue or paternal fondness for my own offspring; but, as a friend of the working classes, never could submit to this proposition any more than to Sir Robert Peel's plan, under which the whole currency hinges on the Bank of England, while that institution is practically without any real capital (as we find, to our cost, in bad times), its whole capital having been lent to the govern ment? Without any increase of the (*MAU capital of the Bank Or England, beyond what it is allowed to lend to the:govern ment, no system will work. And, if any apology is required for my thus propounding a new principle of currency, I hope you will recognise it in the deep impression that you know I feel, that, under the present system, no large and extended house, depending on bank facilities, would be in existence a year hence. You will observe that, by my plan (as ulti mately perfected), the holder of a note not only would have the government security which there is to en Exchequer Bill, but he would also have the security of the paid-up capital, say 28,000,0001., of a government bank. I am, sir, yours most 11=ft1117, ISAAC BUCHANAN. No 15, America-square, don, Sept. 13. IRELAND. DtBLIN, OCT. 10. The tenant-right agitation is rapidly spreading through Ireland. The presence of the hon. member for Rochdale in the south, seems to have operated power fully in quickening the energies of the farmers, habitu ally slow to move. There is to be a meeting to-day at Thurles, and a monster one at Waterford on the 24th instant. So mach for tenant-right agitation. In 'Limerick, at a place called " Jackson's Tiara," on the I Cork side of the county, the labouring peasantry assembled last week to represent their neceea ties, or, as the modern phraseology goes, "to take counsel with each other, and represent their wants to the " Great Manitto" in Downing street. Slight symptoms of a turbulent feeling have accompanied some of these assemblages which have never resulted in good, and often in evil. Had all who have influence over the public mind displayed the same prudence and patriotic firmness as the Ikv. Mr. Fitzgerald, parish priest of Ballingarry, the peasantry would have abstained from vague and use less meetings, which unsettle their minds and inspire bad thoughts. He boldly told them to keep to their homes and abstain from all such demonstrations. One meeting was sufficient to acquaint the government with their necessities. "My parishes," observed this frank and intelligent clergyman, "have always occupied a prominent position in the benevolent considerations of the government, and that government, always alive to the claims and petitions of Ballingarry, should not now have reason to change their favourable opinions by such ill-judged manifestations." He declared in conclusion his solemn determination to denounce as enemies to the cause of the poor , and unworthy the benevolent intentions of =meters, all who would attend at Jackson's Turret. He was obeyed. Not one of his parishioners attended. The spirit of excise reform has passed north-east to Ireland. They have set up a small cauldron of excise agitation in Belfast, and the "distillers, brewers, maltsters, paper-makers," with all who have an in terest in excise revision, will keep it warm. At a meeting of these varied interests on the Gth, at which Mr. Tennent, M.P., presided, numerous resolutions condemnatory of the present excise system were adopted, and an association formed, to be called "The Ulster Auxiliary Association for the Reform of Excise Abuses," in connexion with the parent society in Edinburgh, The objects of the association are thus stated : let. That man's:ileums of home-made articles subject to excise survey be placed on as favourable a footing ite thaw of our colonies, and other places; and that no more than the quantity actualli t r a r: duce! by them be chargeable with duty. god. That when chargeable with excise duties are bonded they shall enjoy the same privileges an foreign and colonial predate. 3rd. That thee:eine sur vey on the stocks of traders be abolished, and that permits for spirits be no longer required. 4th. Thatthe present system of Excise licenses is very objectionable, by putting traders to a great deal of ussocemary trouble and expense, in getting annual renewals of certificates, and otherwise, and should, then fore, be changed. sth. That in all trials for offences against the ender laws the defeated met,. shall pey the costs of both parties. That the whole of any penalties decreed, or of the value of goods oonflecated, be paid into the Treasury, witbout de duation ; and that, generally, the practice of the excise courts be assimilated to that of other courts of civil law In this country. MURDER OF MR. ROE-MEETING OF MAGIS TRATES. As I have already notified to you, there was a meeting of the magistracy of the southern division of Tipperary, held on Thursday last at Cashel, the High Sheriff of the county, Lord Suirdale, presiding, to take into consideration the course that body ought to adopt touching the assassination of Mr. Roe, of Rockwell. There was a very large attendance of magistrates, not fewer than forty-two being present. Among them were Lord Glengall, Vice-Lieuteuant, Lord Hawsrden, and Mr. N. Maher, M.P. for the county. Lord SUIRI/ALE, on taking the chair, adverted to the oc casion which called them together. He described the cha racter of Mr. Roe as one of great humanity. He had main tained during the late season of destitution a soup kitchen at Roekwell, whence the peasantry were supplied with food. The Mines Roe, hie sisters, attended at this institution, superintending its arrangements; and the result of their labours superinduced fever, by which disease both ladies were severely attacked, though both are happily recovered. Mr. Roe, however, amerted his rights as a landlord. He had a tenant who owed him two years' rent last May ; his holding amounted to i acres, and Mr. Roe offered him 101., toforgive him the arrears due, and to allow him the tillage on one acre, which was all the man had cultivated this' year, if he gave up possession. These terms the tenant refused, and Mr. Roe ejected him from the premises. "It is believed," said Lord Suirdale, " that this man was Mr Roe's murderer." The noble lord contended that the landlords of Ireland had done their duty in the recent circumstances of the country ; and, referring to the difficulties of residence, said—" A great deal has been said about absenteeism. It is an evil. (Hear, hear.) The absentee but hears at a distance the voice of affliction— the havoc made by famine—the desolation of pestilence—he is removed from the scene of these miseries; and the worse that may happen him is that his agent may be shot. ( A laugh.) But look at the man who stops on the spot—see the position he is placed in. If he ejects the tenant who pays no rent, and who does not cultivate the land—or if he introduces a system of cultivation—he is murdered." Lord GLLNGALL proposed the adoption of a memorial, setting forth the condition of the county and the suggestions for remedying it. He eulogised Mr. Roe's character, and said he regretted to think he must adopt the conviction that he had been murdered by persons resident on his property. Mr. Roe had been in communication with the board of works to effect drainage on hie property and to afford employment, and the day after his death a letter came to his address from the board of works, agreeing to advance him the money. Lord Glengall, in reference to the circumstances preceding Mr. Roe's murder, said, no person doubts that on this pro perty of Boytonrath a conspiracy existed to deprive Mr. Roe of his claims on his tenants. It appears, from strong proof which we have, that several other tenants owed large arrears of rents ; and a determination existed amongst some of those tenants not to pay—in consequence of which resolution some of the parties met and considered what steps they should adopt to carry out their schemes. It formed a subject of considera tion whether Mr. Roe, or a gentleman who acts as his agent, should be shot. They admitted in their hellish committee that Mr. Roe was a kind and liberal man, and that it was better to shoot his agent. But when they came to consider the whole case is all its bearings, they thought it better to shoot the landlord. (Sensation.) The reason why they selected the landlord was this—they were aware that Mr. Roe's children were very young indeed; that the affairs of the property would he placed under the Court of Chancery ; that a receiver would be appointed under that court ; that that receiver, as is general is such cases, would have no in terest in the well-being of the minors; and that these scheming tenants would obtain great reductions of rent; and that thus these fatherless minors and the widow would be plundered of their dues. (Hear, hear.) That, gentlemen, we believe to be the cause that led to this melancholy event. (Hear, hear.) I apprehend else, gentlemen, that there is another melancholy feature connected with this dreadful event. I fear there is too much reason to believe that the tenants had very bad advisers—very bad counsellors —that aided and assisted by the advice of these scheming counsellors, they did all they could, instead of meeting Mr. Roe's claims by honest industry, to avoid the payment of their just and legitimate obligations to their landlord, by every chicane, quibble, and quirk of law in order to deprive Mr. Roe of his rights. (Hear.) The noble earl then touched upon the condition of the peasantry, the anxiety of the land lords to improve it, and other matters referred to in the me morial which he proposed for adoption, and which is as follows; TO hie F.acellency George Earl of Clarendon. Lord Lieutenant General and General Governor of Ireland. &c. We. We, the tendersipodmegistrates of the wady of Tipperary, this day aseenlikel it Cidid. at a any short *lee, beg leave respectfully to Adele preirendOiney, that it le with thenngs of the deepest hared we Wine yew did es estarday, Se Sa inrt., at eleven ebidt line ft, Ir. Willem Bee t • tribleste of this co u nty, was ammelentsd =Se blt re* at de knit et Hogonrath, in the Wow at leillseftk Ina= or person who And at him. nit aneisee mkt wee am the imam of the an. keenees eel ain yids of were hats The hie nr. Beeves es with* englelesle, • Mei sad entilente *d ie* seat eisibdiete Sr peer, imp meet geodes end ha Se aseserie he pied le veils ampleynen br E the l perentry m his peparty. Per Wt pan= he wee Yon coot easein, in oddities' to Inds= web, es estinthe s = of deinge ; and Maim( the We rend et Menem In a hilt of food at his own spa* whisk ins gandlendr to the destitute woke the sersdelninse et hie eine; loth of when Innovational lev einit le the Menem et then nee taint duties. the perrelly *port 111111.101616 weir that Ile. Roe had eltuteders et his Monts who hat sees saw et lend et a moderate she. Ile owed Mr. Roe We ,sere{ rent nit Iday s eh sat of an. edge were totally wade* eneeithelled. YYrr dee edbridlea IS. Wag* all saner, end to he han hoe the pews Bathe an nee he had tilled, Hbe geiddykid peedielon of Ills puma the tenant ream* eddied, sawn to WI Om, pond erlasiskssykr rest. We have 1 to Wien tint a asupiresursilst to &stirs Mr. ]hen et hie hpl claims amen ellen at lis Ismis, sad that Sit elm hes* • portion of he plott. We id le sir duty to ..tin Sege partied* to your coosiksay, loommit of lisie It lee bus las In of again poem. —Wei-- I is is tas We piettlan In *kb very any of the Ininnen ere nell7 pleen eta Men to their twin%M ithgerele We eimiste talar *St a* ens" air WIN dannellelle nelhon n b ins te the *il l* and Inwit—lhe War allostboos ins doo and easily led stray by oilmen, Seeds. we feats* nen that the great =Sdee hnisis of Ms part of the we* hare done their s* Oak avecially vim the album which h. issispeeidena ere seseidded. W bade thet It nniverselly the peogie inn the e Int dellana foes which the lo▪ wed order were the greatest sudden, the landed pntry did all In thek power to mitigate the alliittSgil of the destitute, although &wired of their usual renames by the general new payment of rent. We are aware that year ezieltroey under. stand. the state of the ociantry, and that yea an adalowly occu pied in mil:Midas to its walk eettivenleg to am upon all chose of the seueunity the wasilOl t atiallog dissolves with determination We energy to taste the Wed eel asses of the moron. We mire your easeilemy We vs Nast sislossis to your sent** •; we pp etelese inn, ant elitir you our humble la di mite work yea ban undertelien; we le= =he int mein wit mown our finned farts, and ash es Sae *II net to future stain 09.7 =MIL We eoloweledie es Maly I. spay *latest portion of them ad gra my be spired; sad we pledge cierester to r every mass In or pow ft siege the edited* of rasa ter did *pc* It le mob , mostowoory le venial your wary that thew pose kw has lege* en isomer Sart* re the owners and occupier*, lend Ink** It le not our *kiss on tide melan choly mania io ante t o yet oar °pinks of the manure; L the it kw of the We se each we are bound to respect it, and tarry eat be P salters to the hod of our abilities. But while oar nepertir see ieseembrely tided ler the pumas of re grZyk• Jed debt,. We Sr the More eoppert or the destitute, a that our hod !moor will only end to talon and ruin tooi i selves, if we ere gra** by helm gotten, and opposition to l desande tram seinehlog *past tts wer rrer peeper*, and - tradming seek lespressants as ma ybe arrossmy, to mak the land to meet the Inereend Ilatilides Imposed ao it We eon it our duly, CM fib meat sweet nedoe to to yen agniney that end leneadty le mile , arises tram the lenserineete einem; by wry lowed eh* tithe Cl idal etteetien amen We lekenre ere W.Wdby W int deinelei tineelen—lien annies ere paWeM; thevedie, we trot, that eraser veneffe wig he elniel tennedlythe aeo. We an fully etude* too W *ohm b y refe me= cm severalsisitedialles skirl In Setevery will be made WSe le Wog leJestne Veentreens t this foul ass*, sod Mad that neendS le Ids We p nese. sari Sz Os IMMO If aft glee Vail INF!, A lengthened discussion arose upon the portion of ] the memorial which has reference to the poesenuon of fire arms indiscriminately by the people. Mr. Massey, who said he was formerly an advocate for an arms bill, opposed that portion of the memorial. Ile thought every man had • right to be able to carry arms, unless be used them against the government. Mr. Maher, M.P., thought that all per sons having land or other property to defend ought to have the privilege of carrying arms, but he thought that parties were now possessed of arms who should not possess them. Mr. W. HERBERT : As I was coming up to my son-in law's residence • few weeks ago from Carrick on Suir, I saw eighteen or twenty persons together in one group em ployed in shooting. This was on a Sunday—in fact, nothing but shots are heard every day in:our neighbourhood. Mr. Quirce, Loghloher : They shoot men on Sundays and birds on week days. (Laughter). Lord SUIRDALE: No; they shoot birds on Sundays and men on week days. (Renewed laughter). The memorial was ultimately 'adopted, it being under stood parties agreeing to it were not bound to tke principle of an Arms Act. It was signed by the high sheriff and 39 other magistrates. MURDER OF MR. Rog.—Sir,—Your paper is PO exten sively circulated, and your notices of Ireland and the Irish are, for the most part, written in so fair a spirit, I trust you will lend me a small place in your columns, in drawing the attention of the English public to the late dreadful 11.311115i nation which has taken place in this vicinity, and the diffi cult position in which that proscribed class, the Irish land lords, are now placed. In doing so, though a small land holder myself, I am not about to enter into any apology or defence for my more largely acred brethren. I fully ad mit their general want of energy and ability, and that mor bid feeling of pride which confines their ideas to local preju dices and petty notions of exclusiveness, more especially in this county ; but this can form no reason why they should be held up in England to public hatred, and cut off in de tail by the bullet of the sausain in Ireland. Long experience has taught me that, in the county of Tipperary, in proportion as a landlord endeavoured to improve his estate, and to in troduce a regular system of cropping, and rent-paying ; so was his position one of discomfort and peril; whilst, if he were content to allow his tenants to proceed in the old sys tem, permit weeds and arrears to grow up together, he ran no danger from " the finest peasantry" in the world. The late Mr. Roc, of Rockwell—who was waylaid and shot down on Saturday week last, at a quarter past 11 in the morning, having only arrived in the eountry on Thursday evening, to visit his aged mother—had the misfortune to be " an 1 improving landlord," his tenantry, through mistaken kind ness on his part, were allowed to run into arrears of rent (and it may be as well that the English public should know that in Ireland one year's rent is generally allowed to remain unpaid). Four years back the suspected assassin held fifteen acres of land under Mr. Roe, but as he seldom payed any rent for that quantity of ground, Mr. Roe gave half of the fifteen acres to a brother of Lonergan's, the suspected murderer, and excused the former arrears which had accrued. However the tenant in question managed no better with seven than he had with fifteen acres; the ground was not properly tilled, the rent badly paid ; accordingly, two months since, Mr. Roe offered to excuse the payment of three years' rent, and also give ten pounds in hand, provided Lonergan would leave the place. This offer was steadfastly and con temptuously refused. There was no alternative. Lonergan was ejected, It then became whispered through the country that Mr. RPe was marked as a " wild duck ;" the term in Tip perary by which a man is ticketed for assassination. A meet ing took place at Holycross for the alleged purpose of peti tioning parliament for ' tenant right." You have recorded the sentiments propounded on that occasion. The chairman of that meeting, holding no land himself, was the brother of one of Mr. Roe's tenants, and all Mr. Roe's tenants in the townland of Boytenrath, where this Lonergan resided, attended that meeting. To men owing large arrears of rent, the doctrine of the perpetual holdings bas great charms, and to those who had been ejected for non-payment of rent, Mr. Doheny's denunciation of Mr. Roe would not have blunted their feelings of revenge. Doheny, "a rising barrister," holds a few acres of townland Irons the corporation of Cashel ; he had been previously brought out by William Longhuane (the chairman), to visit the scene of Lonergan's ejectment, and Mr. Roe was held up as an "ex terminator" at the Holycross meeting. Now it has been said this meeting was a " failure." Undoubtedly all the priests and respectable repealers set their faces against it. Nevertheless, the doctrines enunciated were too well calculated to inflame the minds of ignorant men, to allow those who know the country to look on this meeting as a " failure," in arraying the tenant against the landlord. Mr. Roc had been denounced, and was shot in broad daylight ; and though severs! of the tenantry must have seen the murderer almost in commis sion of the deed, none moved to arrest the murderer ! further, when Mr. Roe was carried to his grave this week, net a single tenant from the townland of Boytenrath paid the relics the tribute of respect usually paid in Ireland, by following the funeral procession. Indeed, it cannot be con cealed that the public sympathy goes with the assassin, who is regarded as the champion of the Holycross version of " tenant-right." Now, sir, I am an advocate for " tenant right," though not of the " Lalor Doheny school ;" but I would ask, Whilst our indigenous brawlers are crying out for justice for Ireland, what justice is to be given to men chained by the ties of property to the spot, called upon to give employment and pay heavy rates, and shot down if they ask for the wherewithal to give employment and pay rates ? Is this justice to Ireland ? Already it is broadly insinuated that Mr. Roe's murder is but the precursor of other attempts of the sort. Even the gentry, with that callousness which men attain by living in Tipperary, joke that " Mr. such a one, the agent, wilt soon be shot." The provincial press points at the victim, and you may safely calculate that not long after some of these journals have held up an unfortunate landlord, looking for his rent, as an "advocate of the clearance system," and an "exterminator," that the next paper will contain an account that he has been accordingly shot at. In the case of Mr. Roe this was literally true. I ask how long will the English parliament and public permit this state of things to continue? Will any man maintain that the county in which such scenes are enacted can be fit to be ruled by ordinary laws ? Depend on it, concede what you may, the time approaches when no thing short of a resettlement of this blood-stained county will make it habitable, or banish the reign of terror which now prevails.—A SQUIREEN.—CasheI, Oct. 9. DUBLIN CITY ATTACIIMENTS.--Sir : In the communica tion of your Irish correspondent in your paper, upon the question of city attachments in Dublin, I have read with surprise the following sentence:—" It may be hoped that the government will no longer leave with the corpora tion a bad privilege of this nature, which they do not desire to retain." As this is not the first time I have noticed mis statements made by the same writer, apparently with the view of disparaging the corporation of Bublin, I must beg of you to allow me to state that the corporation have no more to do with this " bad privilege " than the editor of the Express. The corporation endeavoured to obtain, in the last session' of parliament," an act for the improvement of Dublin, which, amongst other things, would have forbidden for the future the issue of these attachments from the Re corder'a Court, over which they have no authority or influ ence, direct or indirect. It is, therefore, as much a mis statement to say that they do not desire to retain this privi lege, as that they possess it. The truth, and what your correspondent, as a well-informed inhabitant of Dublin, should have written, is, that the Recorder possesses this bad (and to his court profitable) privilege, and that the corpora tion do not desire that he should retain it. But your cor respondent was one of those who lent a hand to write down the Improvement Bill of loot session, and thus afforded the tories an occasion for rallying the disjointed sections of their party, to prevent the passing of s. measure which would have been another step in the progress of municipal and sanitary reform in Ireland, where both are indescribably needed. —Frnatis. " Fidelis" complains that I should have said the pritdege of city attachments was a privilege of the corporOthn, which body, he says, I should have known have nothing more to do with it than you have. Let us see. Every attachment is founded upon an affidavit of debt. That affi davit is sworn before the Lord Mayor, who is, I suppose " Fidelis " will admit, an officer of the corporation. For that affidavit a fee is chargeable, and paid. Under these circum stances, I think I was not incorrect in designating the " bad privilege " of city attachments a privilege of the corporation. I stated in the p hto which "Fidelis " refers that the proceedings after a ffi davit were taken in the Recorder's Court, so that, upon consideration, he will perceive I am not miainfenned upon the nature of those pro ceedings. Of course the Recorder receives fees, and so do his officers, for such proceedings as are con ducted in his court. But whatever law shall abolish these attachments, must, you will perceive, interfere with a power enjoyed by , the Lord Mayor, as at officer of the oorpo ' ration, and thus, I think, that my communication was not ' incorrect. I believe you are perfectly aware that lam not politically an admirer of the Recorder, and that I do not regret the demolition of the old corporation ; but allow me to state, for the satisfaction of " Fidel*" that there is no citizen of Dublin who would more cordially maintain the first privi ' leges of the reformed body than—YounConasseosinzur. EITATE OF TIIE COUNTRY.—The story of the murder of Mr. Lowe is, as I anticipated, pronounced to bee fabrication. That gentleman is alive and well, and no attempt was made upon his puce or safety. Indications of the unsettled tem per of the populace continue to be manifested in almost every journal we receive. To-day there are several cases of authenticated outrage; none, however, fortunately involving loss of life. The principal outrages. occurred:at Ferbane, King's County, at Caherbane, County Clare, in both of which the object was to possess arms three of the perpetra tors in the former case were arrested. At Kenmore, Lime rick, a gentleman named (dubbin* had seized on the property of certain tenants to compel payment of rent. The persona in charge, two in number, were fired at from behind a ditch as they were inspecting the seizure in the evening, and one was slightly wounded by a pellet in the back part of the bead. At Newport, in Tipperary, a Mr. Young had made a seizure for rent, but the peasantry assembled at the period of the i sale in such numbers that he was afraid to proceed. SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, OCT. J. Lord John Russell has announced his intention of being present at the opening of the University of Glasgow on 27th of this month, for the purpose of being formally installed as rector—an office to which he was appointed last session ; but, from official duties, the inauguration was postponed. The Dundee papers record the death of Mr. Honseley, dean of Brechin, and senior minister of the spissoopal chapel in Dundee. Mr. Horsley was the sidastion of Bishop Horseley, and edited the posthu mous works of that learned divine. The frequent meetings of the presbyteries or infe rior judicatories of the three leading presbyteries de- 1 nomination* in Scotland give a promptitude of ez pression to clerical opinion that does not obtain in the ecclesiastical bodies south of the Tweed, and this pri vilege is exercised with great liberality. At last meeting of the established presbytery of Greenock three topics were introduced. The first was the dis puted question whether certain chapels of ease be , longed to the established or free church, a subject on which some latitude of opinion is admissible, but in this court there was no doubt. One speaker said It wae his humble opinion that it would have teen far better had .he government interfered, for he reganled it as the sacred and bounden duty of the government to protect the interests of the church of Scotland in every respect. Instead of throwing the onus of rem. ening the property of the church on its ministers and prolix, he thought the government while giving no much for a system of educe. lion in Ireland, and supporting other institutions, some of which were equivocal in their usefulnem, the Lord Advocate should have been in. atructed tadefend the church of Scotland in every case. Ile thought tzl i se . e g n i leg e itled to this o church ScOt o lat e d r ti r r r id not fought the if b t hat attle m miw th re e; did, that church would have most inevitably gone down, followed by the church of England, by the downfall of the anstoerney, and the dismemberment of the empire. It was only by viewing the subject in that large light that they could properly estimate the labours of throe fathers of the church who stood in the breach. Ile would not leave the chapels In this town in possession of other patio. It was a leered duty on every member of presbytery to adopt every means within his power to recover every item of their property within the boundary of the presbytery. He war extremely anxious that they should all be unanimous on such a subject. Ile trusted they would never rat till means were Liken to recover the three cha pels in this town to the church of Scotland, to have a good and dent minister placed in each of them, and Khoo!, attached to each for the education of children. . Next came the late commission on English mar riages, when another member said that The qtlC.tiell of marring, and births, lac., was not vet settled is parliament ; a commiasim had been appointed, of which the Lord Advocate and a bishop of the church of England were members, to settle the qur'.tion. The Edinburgh .Idrert ire, put forth • warning in regard to this commiasi.on, but It afterward. declared that it had been misinformed ; but he (the speaker) found, from statements of more informed and influential quarters than the newspaper prem, that that eimmiasion did apply to Scotland, and he was nut sure if it did not apply to it exclusierly. rnder these circumstances, be thought the attention of the church might be judicially and beneficially di. meted to both of these objects. After that followed the education scheme, when again the first member spoke out distinctly. e= b t . ed o t t hat the remli t irons were nw framed br rs e la d, and to throw n every porsith alkd 7o — bstacle Y their way. He might mention, fur instance, in regard to the parochial schools, that no additional grant would be given them, except the heritors over and above their asserament came forward and gave a sum voluntarily tosupport the echools. Now that was not only practically impossible, inasmuch as the Writhes ge. meaty were not dispoeed to do it, but be held it was unjust and wrong. ! Then another reason why the church should more in the matter was that its these regulations, from beginning Mead, there was • Mudious exclusion of anything like church influence and church authority, even over theirown reboot*, and the plain and obvious bearing of the minutes was so toget the parochial sehm, taken from theirjurlselietion. The examination of the teachers was entrusted to an inspector. This tended to destroy the influence al the church, and these regulation' ought, if possible, to be modified. In contrast with this, here is the deliverance of the • whole united presbyterian church on the scheme The Committee on Education stated that they had transmitted a memorial to government expresairg their continued and insuperable objection to the Minutes of Education. They had also obtained an interview with lord Dtmfonaline and the Lord Advocate, who had received them with great courtesy; and the committee were anxious that memo should be taken to dents the attention of the church to the subject. In conclusion, a iv:elution wan submitted, to the efllet that the synod, understanding it was the intention of government to ex tend the system embodied in the minutes of council, of date August and December, late, to the parochial schools already. =mune in Scotland, are of opinion that It is a measure which ought to be strenuously resisted—that a thorough rtformation in the parochial schools Is loudly called for, such a reformati as would divest them of their sectarian spirit both n. to superin tendence, and 04theres from which the teachers are erlected—seyuring their efficiency, and adapting them to the necessity of ,e community, and that without this the propored extension of the eyetern, and the augmentation of the salaries of the .hoolninsters, would neither ea. tisfy nor broefitthe country. A writer in the Bth-flay Journal, reviewing a treatise on the law of roads, makes the following sug gestions on road closing : 1. That Puniness, commisaioners of supply, and road trustees being generally more or le, inlet ested, peen "tally, or tarot their connexions, in the chasing or changing of routs, rho be dirested of any such important power over public rights.- 2. That power to case or change any carriage. horse, er footway should brims to the Lord Adweete alone, after 12 months' notillcas tion in all the county newspapers of hie intention to exercise that power.-3. That the lord Advocate, on hearing all having interest, should allow a proof in open court as to the in-utility of the road In question, or its substitution by another equally gaud and suitable ; he ehould also, under proper cheek,, have the disposal of the Foil of disused roads fee the public benefit.—And, 4. That the cl,ing, has poling, changing, or injuring any road, or attempting to do to, by private Dirtiest, should be criminal and punishable at the suit of the procurator-Lied, no in eases of theft or fraud. Although Glasgow fever is decreasing amongst the masses, it is still lingering among officials ; two in spectors and a surgeon being now seriously ill. PROVINCIAL. THE OLDHAM BANKING COMPANY lB understood to have made a proposal for winding up its affairs, on Saturday, to one of the larger concerns in the neighbourhood ; and yes terday, at Manchester, the news was current that it had stopped p►yment. The statement did not create much sen sation, it being known to base done but a limited business. The company was formed in 1836, when there were about 60 partners ; but, according to the return, published in Feb. last, the list contained but 33 names. The bank had no branches, and the capital is said not to base exceeded 20,0001. The immediate cause of stoppage is understood to have been that they held bills to some considerable amount of De Jersey and Co.'s upon John Thomas, son, and Lettere. From the number and respectability of the partners it is con jectured that the public will leso nothing by the stoppage, BERKtiMRE. ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.— As one of the porters attached to the Reading station was ow Friday crossing the line with a box heavily laden on his back, he observed a train coming up, which be endeavoured to escape, by passing, as he imagined, to the line different from the one the train was traversing; but, instead of so doing, be took the line on which the train was, and was struck, it is supposed, by the buffer of the engine, which came in contact with the box he was carrying. The box was driven forward upwards of thirty yards, and the train passed over both his legs. The unfortunate man was carried to the Reading Infirmary, where it wan found necessary to ampu tate both his feet above the ankles. Although he is in a very precarious state, hopes are entertained of his recovery. SURREY. SmorLAR DEATH. — An inquest was held by Mr. W. Carter, at the Black Lion, Kingston, on Saturday even ing on the body of Edward Waller, aged fifteen. Sarah WOod, the first witness, deposed that on Wednesday evening she was in her own house. which is opposite to that in which the deceased resided, when she heard his father say, " Here are pretty doings ;" and, at the same time, there was the sound of blows, She went across, and saw the deceased lad, who appeared to be very drunk, and his father. The latter had a small stick in his band, and struck deceased with it once or twice, but not violently. The father of the deceased said that he had been brought home drunk ; and almost at the same moment the deceased's younger brother was also led home in a similar condition. She did not see the deceased any more until the next morning,when she found he was dead.— By the Coroner : The blows given by the father with the stick were not at all violent ones, and could not have in flicted any injur y . upon the deceased. He appeared in a helpless state of intoxication.—Martha Waller, a sister of the deceased, deposed to his being brought home in the state described; and she said that after her father had struck him two or three blows he desisted, and she then undid the deceased's shirt-collar and laid him on the floor, where he went to sleep almost immediately. She looked at him seve ral times during the night; he always appeared in a pro found sleep. and she thought it was better not to disturb him. On the following morning one of his companions came to call him to go to work, and, on raising his head, he gave a deep sigh and immediately expired. The witness added that her other brother was almost as drunk as the deceased, but he vomited, and brought a quantity of brandy off his stomach. —The Coroner asked the witness why she did not send for a medical man ? —She replied that she did not think there was any danger, and she considered it the best thing to let her brother sleep away the effect of the liquor..—The Coro ner remarked that thin was a very erroneous idea, and he said that if a doctor had been called in the life of the de ' ceased would, in all probability, have been saved.—Thomas Waller, the brother of the deceased, was next examined. It appeared, from his statement, that as an omnibus was pulsing through Kingston • large stone bottle, full of brandy, fell from the roof sad was broken, and the spirit ran into the gutter. The deceased, himself, and some other boys, stooped down and scooped up the liquor with their hands, and continued drinking it till he and his brother became quite drunk, and he did net brow what further happened. He could not give any idea of what quantity of spirit his brother drank.—The Coroner having addressed a few remarks to the jury upon the peculiar nature of the case, they returned a verdict that " the deceased died of apoplexy occasioned by drinking an immoderate quantity of brandy." HAMPSHIRE. . ----- ROBBERY AT WEYBILL FATR.—Dosing the tem porary absence of the shepherds on Saturday, some persons dressed as sheep-drovers went to the pens, containing 101 wether and one ewe lambs, the property of Mr. R. B. Hart, of Wisbford, near Salisbury, and drove them away. Up to yesterday the stolen sheep lied not been traced. SUSSEX. THE LATE COLLISION ON THE LONDON AND BRIGHTON AND Nor Tit COLT BAILWAT.—An investiga tion into the air- . ,stanoes attending tbis accident was made before aboard of directors of the above yesterday at Brighton —.ore a railway. The result of their inquiry is understood to relieve the signal-man from any charge of criminal neglect ; but for the better satisfaction of the public it is believed a judi cial inquiry will follow. The accident, as already stated, occurred at the Keymer junction of the branch line to Hast ings, which is situated a short distance from Burgessthill, the second station on the main line from Brighton to London. This branch, which has only been opened for passenger tragic about a fortnight, approaches the London line by a somewhat sharp curve, and on this account, as well as from the het that all up trains from Lewes have to cross the main down line, great care and attention is at a ll :tinset required. The direc tor, of the railway, when the branch was opened, maw to a determination to adopt the Semaphore code of din& (the peculiarity of which is, that by one movement. bold to and signals are properly fixed), m the beet mloabted to avoid accident, and these were in me when the oolUsion took place. Mr. Wycni was a passenger ia the London down train, and, with his son and daughter, wail mated in a second-class carriage. His injuries, though Ativ w virimhaPril e i: l y th . e w c .. . ity9nYeerneO,fepartinjc.:::aus!raeuedoid'adifsnredodocrmingadunkngmuadhtakiciiuwt ei t i on ngthr he e r thce n lre e thin a u f d ri o e bun compartment a ]Mss a en ve ry trachea.wronin