The Express. — London, England, 1848-11-08 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 8, 1848. ----.-------- _ do &Mimeo desired them to retire, they were to wager I death without benefit of clergy. la rejoicing that the times s 4 po sed dos to the hone ur.ll moms or Moss who, when the task was Tore dangerous than now, had stood fonrard as the 1 auspices or popular rights, and had spore:op themsolves s t i u , pewit of a corrupt eosin rimming s wank by pronouncing a verdict of" Not guilty." It was ir is s am pietism' that he prnpos'd the tout, " Trial by set, the great bulwark of British liberty.' The toast was drank with mach cheering. TM Cottle/WI thee gave, . The Memory Hardy, 3, Ilmoe Tooke, T. 'Heelers% J. A. Boany, Stewart Kyd, 8, Rodgers, T. Holeroft, J. Joyce. T. Wardle, Id. Moore, j . New , and J. Ritchter," which, contrary to cus ps eras 'also drank with loud chum. " Tito= 0( the Scottish martyrs . Thomas Muir. J. iii, Margaret, ryshe rimier, and W. Shining ; " 0 The memory of the London Coreerponding Society ;" 0 TM memory of the three jeers who aequitted Tooke and ths rest of the accused, and of Bnkirie and Oibbs, their able sad erateifout coons.' ;" " A radical reform of all clangs lad • true r epresentation of the British people in the Com mons' Home ot Parliament ;" " Success to the nations of terope in their to to obtain constitutional liberty— may the pour My enlightened public opitti•nt attain sad wore t o their people the poseessioa of equal political and tint rights;" and " The redid.d party in the Rows of Cum. mons, and the healths of Mews Losbington and Williams:* were subsequently given and acknowledged, and after the eastomary compliment to the chairman the meeting sepa rated. ClictAn b.—Yeetteda, the Broil of Health re mind repine of the following men : Lambeth, 7, 1 fatal ; blinittoo, 3 fatal : Camberwell, 6 fatal ; Wandsworth, 1 ; Ediebursh. 25, 13 fatal; Leith, 24, 4 fatal. Total new mos. 61..7 fatal. NIOSTALITY IN LONDON. —Tbis Res rep istive...Genera. rt, i..uet Ted/clay, 'Wren that the mortality of the week, chilies Saturday last, Nov. 4, wee contideratily under the aversve tat the meson. The deaths in the w estructiveeek were illy 1,115, the averse* befog 1,151. The s he w dime& s at the present time appear to be searlotins, typhus, and cholera. In the themes , of fat.,l cans of tit:. erect l A tter disease the following re marks by the olleas who regist the deaths indicate the k:nd of places where cho'n Hacke proves mos t dangeroes. Mr. Montaigne, the mistier at ney, says: " 'fhat the death r ing rA cholera was that of the daughter of • poor !labou man with a wife, and eight other cLibleva, and only two rooms for the whole family. The river Lea is is feast, and a block Oath runs cl we at the back of the house, whWi comma the *ewes , from the terraces on the top of the hill to the. river. The ditch is uncovered, and at times the stench is wiry great." M Beueca.l, the mistrar of St. Olave S sothwask, says : Two nes in a house *intend at 6, Fineman's- Rissellstreet, Soethwark, by the aide of which =no pl ac e, an open 'ewer, which receives til.) d'eryett offal of a fell. merger's yard is the atighbouthood ; and it is the opinith of Dr. to the imedicel attendant, Mot this c j i . c . a m aace 'rented to produce the disease."—Mr. Nukes, the reeistrar of Woolwich -dockyard (sub-distr:ct), says: *. Up to Thurs day kit so sew eases of cholera had occurred among the I Mee% nor were any deaths registered, bat since that time three convicts have died from diarrhea awl Asiatic dolt' I, and would have both libeled's! in the week': retorts, but the it quests have not yet been held. Two died yestm day and one tO.aar (Nov. 4). One of the git-rds end ;Mir persons employed is the canict ship have been scathed with the disease, but ere coovelement Ido nut hear of • single care in the tows." Pour fetal c am of chola* ere re tuned as having occurred in Peckhitn.honse Lunatic Asylum. PILISTCRS . PENNON SocliTT.—Lest tight a ge ment' needed et the committee nbeeribers to this society was held at the Laudon Tama, Mr. Unity Ploy, of Bangor bee, in the chair —The report for the past year was stated to be of ths most evidence, character. Although at the eon cf the last e I ction there were .1.5 pensioners on the funds, 5 beyond the original number contemplated, the &u -sual subscriptions hid been ni wo than sufficient to meet the expenditure, which was partly attributable to the unusual mortality which ha canned am mot the mishears, no infer them 12 having died with in the year, all at an meted age, the Wirth of time they had been reliceed by the see sty very* fro m t 6 month. to 19 jean. making an =env d 9 peme seek. A further addition of 4:101. fe.. 103. had, th the Let year, been made to the landed property of the meaty, making • total amount of 6,0141 . 4s . 61. The num ber of petrebesn, includiug the Whittingbans pensioner. is 62 ; sod dote the formation of t he society upwards of 150 aired and inks aser..birs of the Dodo have been relieved. The total meow° ni the receipts for the last year, from all wenn, was 1,3781. 35. 93., leaving 1171. 12s. 91. balance is hand. EARLY CLOSING AnooCTATlON.—Yeatertbiy a eery Wee sad respectably-attended meeting of the niellbeff and Meads of this association, wee held at the City of Loudon Litevary and Scientific Institution, Aldersirete.street. The Lord Mayor took toe chair, end was attended by WYVIIiaI in liseetial gentlemen arid traders of the metropolis. The remedies+ were oper el by a short address host his lord ship, who stated hiv perfect accordance with the views of the arociation for putting an 'mil to the late hears of btuinees. Mit lordship further reminded the meeting that he had pee sid•ii over • similar one at Enter Hell in March Ltd, and in oonelusiqn elllrmrd his belief that he could not devote the last evening of hi year of afar* to • better purpose the& that which had called them together. The Secretary (Mr. Lilwall) them read several letters from tradesmen, noblemen, and others, all of whom expressed their approbation of the objects of the emaciation. Amongst them were letters from the Bishop of London, Baron Rothschild, Mr. Mastermith, M.P., and Mr. litchi, of Leadenball.street. A series of resolutions, dicier. story of the axial rights of the shorkeeping claws, and explanatory or the Lu4(lllu of visidiu eh= three rights, were thee pot by the Rev. Mr. Branch, On. Lankester and Guy, and severa l other gentlemen, whose addre.ses In support of the different molutions were highly applauded by the audience. —The resolatioas were unanimously weed to. METROPOLITAN 811WAGL MANORS (kiDI PANT. — Yesterday the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of this oonspany . were held at the offices in Waterloo-plan, Mr. Fowles an the obair. The secret ary reed the report, which, after referring to the feet of the emuspeny having commenced actual and effective operations (es deseribed in the engineers' report given below), west on to state that— modeThem would works already laid down are calculated tome* an area whom be competent to cover th e entire cost of the =OM eetalMehmeat, and yield a surplus of profit. But se the centaal me pewees wan net increase with the enlargement of the area of them= opnelleen, it is evident that every =tendon will large =mei Tour directors, however, do not proper to preened brearil l me i ttesurt area in any directed!, Weft they eh= pes. dm* Nee ft a rettatere esterase' that they will bon aid. edit sumbren Is the new district to yied a =red pelt epee fine met of the additionsl works required for iteireggly. Is seesolme she this evolution, they are making the seareray kr quires to satin whether en extender of their m a ne at DMus= will int • aMoinat support in that district to iusely the 110 apes the respietary for that purpose; 'wt It is their MilseMes weft underlie hunk= award that • certain and easagambla port MB reed to the thartlirklers from the investment. Onlemperenesmilr =hike am works your directors proceeded to mks*, nemen anelpeleille with the commissioners of sewers for rider the sir tese twi the teem given to the ci . o=y o l d tbsie bat the emememeem thst they was more alterations et dr sere Is the wish Warm district, a..d that it lieu= sr be direshr he the wawa: to ecestroet the erodes alowmay lee esuyt g the amp to their ration and reamterestst bed derevalsol epee *de plea. Year =WI= swift id= FPWIOOF Of Odeon___ thst =ode but emir di berseas thee/mew teemptey ask witleb laths lbssmobille laloff the orbs= el Os ONO= Omsk Ossr, _old& adds dr gorge allearede et • wing weeds dr Ng the rid dr db. mit • rah were dr helpers *obi dr dm trees the past sarolors B=the or st eraser uses% Os peorteddlir et the earrilits e7dlrelbellea s~oe amp dretpdss et bra sod to rap Idol d peerp asap awl r lowaseestamay el baled Me or her kr the weler.sert •• segsdrbret. Ms abet Our et Moak Dr. Osa bi• belbee Isar board *Ng erbbsetry ardsres tegare. Irish so metre sr kerbs hush err esnatieedire bud mein go Mom thet year roses bar best d aleimbla reeler rice le be plod dr rterallee la • Asap hem` seeks et thee old he bremor• to the vereiree• Or abuts raise , 711 15 essapmg. astothieredlig - ritsargled dliesides re las% le rootme wasssolltd. tor Ur erre , r eels bow less art Ira wry eseenslibe - reortuality, ad the smut el N. tars dab toe at the bet meting his elm helneelmeele Thal directors, however, radar It their duty to stale dint the who being completed it is thersiely worry that if mews et alb doer be paid without farther delay, acct the oillskore haw been b. etioatei to take mommy legal stem to resew then strum At this Wig few of the directors pa oat try rotedesam :-6. C. deart, Lea, et,T. Knee. Esq., F. . J. Wanes, Who brft eligible elese gb =erim reelection. with the eiceptiou of Mr. Orson, who reeks from the dbeetion. The directors taring taken Isle remidention the rat embrence to be derived from the reran en the based d• nimas ebemig, and J. F.. Deem" like., Demonstrator of Chadian es macs College, Wig ewsdeed, erl bares =premed Ids willignien to - jan, it la recemmeeded dot he Mental • director Is the plane et lir. Grant, who ie melee= One of the auditors, O. Jere,Oq., deo In rotariesretires from fien, but ei die, otters -meetre-eleeket —The report tort the melees (Mr. W. C. 111111,0, dated Om. to, odd: " Ors ths bat direr striae, en Mrs sad hefty knee eri rude Ire boss error at the Smoky. WWI= radon, god W wee Ms been =eke= by a briek wall on pwesd purchased fee that pop= on the beak of th+ )(eminent authorised by your am el parlimot• end a sufficient mien. Ipipes have teen ladle theseveralreadeletereseting the Daher to encompass a diarist dabout TOO new, the pipes Ming so tuted that the cultivated mhos may be meshed h= the vari ous veleta by means of bole ce other plprod ea average range of =out tel garde, and this es be effected under as average pressure shout 63 fret. The Wag of the engine having been completed, it has been set to work, and the sewage has been sal silted Into all the main pit= and =vice% nod several satisfactory experiments have taken place, the quantifies Avowable d being raised and distributed being about 300 tees per ha= The roam from which the mirage is dented be that or the Kensington Canal, through • Iti-inch pipe, obi* alter math modem, ivy with the , Ondosers of Sewers, was weed to be placed in the bank for the porpoise of supple.= your works. It may, therefore, be considend then the prcpmed scheme for the sup ply or the Fullein.lielde district be been completed, with :be excepti , en of a small extent of pipe .= am at pre u rat aquired. The distnbut ion of the canal water my, therefore, be appiied, during threesome season, In such a mauler mosey helmet deerahle." The auditor's teport, showing the reeetpts to bamboos =deposit account, 4,1741. ;ali flirt call, 2,v121. ; mond mO. et, ; third tall, 5,47014 gagmen= in advance of galls, 1,073/. • seemeee account, Ma; making • Pale: 300351. 3a; =I the =pieta= (inisive of pleb. mentarymemmem. 7,7531. 13e. 10.1, perehme of lend, plant, ea, 7,1701. Se. IL), 111.3, 3e. 3d. ; leaving atelenee la head in favour of thee:mew at 1„ 31 310/. la. N. The lishilinee el the ocempeng ollonnt to 10,1991. Ifs. gd., and tie mete to Imbrue et orb 1,2604. la 91. • Weir trot wO, with Interne shoe" 1,301. Gs. 10d: ; ditto, at mead edl, 4,4377.95. id. ; t= 6 l: . third oil. 4.04 I= Id.; rent doe Me led, 134. • 12,092 f. 12a 3d. ; bilk, was to be added the vibe )al m s o mes. Lure, neutermine, bed, pip= kn. (Ises i r =WM. ; maktag • teital of svna. lb. SL ; • Wismar Mt= meow el 14,32 M. 19s. 9d., Or S i te tahr"fftd rwitingent liabilities :—had at Kew-bridge, . ; COM. Iniesiows WeettellVleT improvement claim, ; Miner of t , ,5a41.19....k1. a net The consequent motion that the report be adopted was fol lowed bv a very le sthened and stormy discussion, in the coarse of which it was elicited that the recent misunder standing between the directors of the company and the so= miationen of sewers hod been completely cleared up, and that both parties were now on friendly terms. A question was mooted as to whether the directors bad not acted iltc- dally by seming to a compramire with the commimionen of owns reeputing the Kesmingtem Canal, and the pipes laid lbws nee fiessingshthier in theammines Creek Bawer ; and It wes mated that a speed mast*: would be called within • , menta, he the mum paws se disenselng this quesetem. ' The rt wea then aewed im l e s: duals hubs hem uln Ma he eitabusa, Gse g e p gra t.s. AhOillSOM or CHIIIIIMAa XlB.—Last night t s Ammothis of deputatisas et tradesmen of all trades from M. Lake,Mile-ead. Bt. Pancras Clare-market, Southwark, lie representing several asso ci ations in thaw neighbourhoods, held at the London Coffee-boues, hill, for the purpose of affording tradesmen, in MI puts of the metropolis, time and opportunity for uniting Szais , suppressing t he custom at the insular Christmas, OM ID I adopt measures to carry that object into effect." I tt ine ll conversation took place as to the best plan to be when a resolution was agreed to unaainsously, "that the custom of giving Christmas hoses is Lajas% in principle, in jurious in menu, sad entails =eh a heavy tax upon iv:da wn that it ought to he abolished." PUBLIC CHARITIES AND PUBLIC AND NOToRIOUS ABOISIL—ST. CROSS. NUM —ls this institution to be reformed or not ? For the last half century, at intervals of ab .ut seven run, public attention has been drawn:to the subject, and forthwith there has been an out cry, which honest simple people supposed nothing could re sist. There, however, it stands, bold sad shameless as ever ; and I am only induced ones spin to test the public feeling by the zeal sad ability with which the Erprcer has grappled with like abuses of like institutions, and. in the hope that a voice so powerful may make itself heard in high places ; and even in parliament:—and to narliament we must appeal. St. Cross, as you probably knew, is situated about ono mile and a half from Winchester, in one of the moat delightful spots in the vale of Itches. It is not only • noble institution, and one of the most interesting and beautiful relies of ancient piety and munificence in the kingdom : there is, besides, • home and maintenance for pear brethrn, as they aro called, now greatly reduced in number. The poor and weary traveller can still demand his horn of ale and slice of bread as he did seven centuries ago, when village alehouses were weary distances apart, end poor-laws and mei.dicity societies wereittot eves imagined. The hospital was:founded by princely prelates inthellth and l2th °pigmies, and richly endowed to maintain a number of brethren, to adord partial support to • vast number of poor, and to fur nish rein aliment to the multitude of pilgrims and travellers journeying in the south of England. The officers of the hospital consist of a master, to be elected, I believe, from the poor brethren, a chaplain, and steward ; and the salary of the muter was, it is said, fixed at one-fifth of the income of the hospital. If any increase took place in the value of the endowments, the number of poor to be supported was to be increased. The hospiail property would uow, if properly managed, yield about 10,0001. or 12,0001. a year, and the amount expended in charity is stout 1,0001. • year! Part of the income arises from fines for the renewal ot lease.; and a short time since as much as 12,8001. was pail for the re newal of a lease. The present muter is the Rev. the Earl of Guildford. Out of every fine he receives Ifs.lod. in the pound. Thus he received nearly 10,0001. out of the 12,0001. just alluded to, so that his income is more than four•tiftlis inidesd of onstlith, as originally in tnuled. Many en roans imagine hem the large sum which the master appropriates, and the small sum devoted to charity, that Ho mastership is an ecclesiastica benefice; but that the hospital is in every respect • charity is evident, because the Earl of Guildford claims exemytion from the income tax, Inc the proceeds of its eudowments, on the ground of its being • charitable butitation. The earl is reputed to be wealthy, and holds setael valuable prefer ments in the church. Now I ask, through dou, of the members fur the county of Hants, of the members for the city of Winchester, shall such abuses continue ? lam terry to ray that so far as the natural guardians and protectory ot the poor in this locality are concerned, I seem not wait far apply. Their abuses have continued for ages, and they will continue. I thereLre ask the quanion of the in dependant members—men not bound hand sad foot by local courtesies ant influences—l ask Lord Duncan, who has done on much, and with such reneveriag ability,towards unearth• ing the foxes in the New Forest—but, and louder than ell, I ask you, sir, who have no boldly aide! him and have so nobly exposed abuses, wherever you have Lund them — and I maw, r, with hope and satisfaction, they shall not — U., Wumliesier. SALE OF THE RtGENT-STREET COLONNADE. — Yesterday, the elegant fluted east-iron columns whit fora the colonnade in the Urgent-street Qoadrant, were brought to the hammer by Meyers. leverstield and Horne, at the Cali de Pane, Vine-street, by order ot Mr. Belk, the contractor for the Quadrant improvement. The sale was well attended, and the columns, which are of the Unman Doric order, and stand 16 feet 3 inches high, were disposed of in lota of s:z, f ur, Lod two each, at mires from 71. 6s. to 71. 10s. per column. The large granite plinths upon which the pillars rest, were also sold, and realised 225. to 245. each. By one of the conditions of sale, the whole of the coloonade is to be cleared away within 12 days. TESTIMONIAL TO THE POLICE.—The inhabitants of Bothnal•green on Monday presented Inspector Waller with a handsome ewcrd, in acknowledgment of that officer's efficient services doting the chartist disturbances on Boi.ner's fields. The sum remaining after the purchase of the sword was divided among the men who served under the inspector on the occasion referred to. LXQUILOT, lESTEEDAT.—WIIITCOMB-STREET, LEI CUT ak-11QtAllt.—lieSare Mr. Mlle, at the Builders' Arms, Comptu.strest, Burton-crescent, on the body of J. Lock, aged 63, a Garen nter, who wan knocked down by an omnibus, the propertyßennett, Chelsea, while coming up Whitcomb. street at • speed of be tween six and seven miles an hour, by which his right leg was fractured. In a few days disease of the chest manifested itself, of which disease he died en the 27th of October. The witnesses said that the driver might have prevented the acoi dent lf he had only stopped a minute, and that omnibuses went up Whitoomb•street In • reckless and dangerous man ner.—Deeemed's so observed that the inhabitants informed him that they were every day in danger of their lives by the omnibuses.—The Coroner remarked that it was a great tho roughfare and that he thought the Commissioners of Woods and Fores ts should have taken steps to have widened the street " That the deceased died from a disease of the chest; thatthe jury ere of opinion that the street in which the saiil accident happened is • dangerous and unsafe tho roughfare for omnibuses, which daily pass therein, and that we recommend that some means should be adopted to prevent omnibuses and other vehicles from travelling along that street as they are at present accustomed to do."—Mr. Milts suggested to the inhabitants living in the street, then in the Lamest room, to memorialise the Commissioners of Police feithem to place a policeman there on duty, for the purpose P' of checking the speed of the omnibuses. M' THE SYSTEM OF TAXATION. The Liverpool Financial Reform Asetciation have issued another of their publications in which they proceed to consider more in detail " The effect of our present system of taxation, as especially illustrated by the Customs and Excise duties, on the physical condition of the gnat bulk of the ehmmoht, more especially on the industrious and labouring einnees." The adopt. 14 • text on this subject , the follow _ hi smash) from Porter, on " Pablio Revenue and Ex =" page 476:—'' It has always excited dinatishie. tit part of the public to be colledeinf - r the payment at =or,bout which they have net the power to protect thew hy abstaining from the use of the tend commodity. h is this ooniideration which has always made our flames Whalers prefer indirect to direct taxation, and which led, Mobs the progress of a long and enplane war, to the im peilkint of duties that weighed with destructive fume upon Nl=of industry." as the above extract is (say the Liverpool helium) ft ft becomes, in its plain meaning, rank nonsense: he where useld be the use of calling upon the public to pep teem hem which they have the power and the right to' hem* themselves ?—and where would be the wisdom or the hems of the finance ministers in always yielding to this eseddleastion ? With the alteration, however, of one word, it h t of ensuing, and will open up to us the man na/lawhich the defenceless, bemuse unrepresented, though and producing dames, hive hitherto been For the word public, substitute lawmakers, M ad* all those who have a voice in the choice of their reresentatives ; and it contains a truth se impossible to deny as it is to defend the gross dishonesty it diecleees. Read it curling to this wording, it implies that all who have had any voice in imposing the taxes have hitherto endeavoured to place them, so that they themselves may escape from the hardline, and that this consideration has always met with the *equines°, and support of our finance enni,ters, who have aceoespiiihed it through the medium of indiree. Mx scion. Now, as we know from experience that the ministers have always raised since that period (1797), to which this 'e tyma originally bad reverence, yearly revenue ranging from Z,000,0001. as in that year, to 58,000,0001. and upwards, as In the year ending Jan. 5,1847, we are constrained to eon , jecture that there must have been a (nape . ..my power of • heaths somewhere ; and that though the voluntary system was here introduced in favour of those who thus displayed an " Impatience of taxation " (though not an ignorant im patience), it was so blended with the compulsory system, that those whom it embraced could not = , but at the enmities of life ; or, in other that the minister, in allowing the richer portion of the cnamitnity the privilege of escaping taxation, was compelled to sacrifice, even to the death, a greater num ber of the poorer people. And in this conjecture we are bogus out by the concluding sentence of this extract, " and whisk led" (a preference for indirect todirect taxation)" der- DC=es of a long and expensive war,to:the impositio n weighed with destructive force on the swings efladasizy;" and we are confirmed by the fact that suet d these du ties, after a peace of nearly 34 years, still remain, mad that their , " distractive force on the springs of inden try " are becoming every day more demonstrable, as nume rous parliamentary committees of inquiry indisputably prove, amongst which it may be mifilcient at present to spec fy the mommlttee and its report on our commercial relations with The Jumociation do not us the strong emression "to sit • alike, even to the death, • greater number of the poorer people,' without due coast leration and ample justification, as will be a ppa rent when the item, of indirect taxation are I specified and examined. Taking them from the return be lore quoted of the " Public Income and Expenditure of the United Kingdom for the year ending the 6th of January, 1847," they Sr. as follows, namely—Spirits foreign, 1,201,3921. ; rum, 1,219,5361. ; British, 5,949,1511. • making • total .18,376,0781. Tee, 6.112,0054 ; malt, 5,084,6504. tobacco and Nand, 4,319,0881. ; sugar and molmore, 4,080,4181.; wine, 1,892,2421 ; timber, 1,133,8721 • excise ii4lllll 1,088,153/. ; amp, 965,8381. ; paper, 790,8141. ; coffee, 4 58,8381. ;. cern, 723,6001. ; bricks, &a., 638,4221. ; currants and mains, 470,2631. ; hope, 286,2651 ; silks, 255,3771. ; poet horse duties, 179,8321. ; butter, 1364431. ; candles and tallow, 89,8881.; cheese, 88,2891. ; glass, 18,8221. ; miscellaneous, 845,706.1. ; total, 37,288,8031. The first necessuits of life—indeed the very ementiale— without which it anon be maintained, are food end shelter. n ei c r i e t e t t ojoartieulariee fuel and clothing. And how are theme by the above list of taus? All an enhanced in prim, end by it placed beyond the reach of millions—bread t cheese, butter, sugar, currants, end rates, in the wil y di food: and as drhilte—tes, coffee, beer, wine. As recants P - shelter, the materials which famish it 'nape not, es witness the tax on timber, bricks, ite. With which of these an the poor, can any man, dispense, without material want. incon &tent with the intention of the Almighty, as exemplified by his bountiful euppliee to all creatures? while to dis pense with the use of all would be inevitable death, sod amount to self-murder. Yet such in the alternative to the poor, it, like their richer brethren, they wish "to protest themselves by abstaining from the nee of taxed commodities." Secondary to these, only from the fact that they are not essential to life, are tobam, Pap, Paper, the taxes on which articles bacons, after those on food, the most objectionable that can be cones iveil to large clones of the eommuuity. To what, under such a crushing lead et taxation, has the poor man to look for comfort and happiness? Shelter, food, fuel, all taxed, all put beyond his reach, except the almost spontaneous productins of the earth, potatoes, water, and end. Oo the two first be may, perhaps, hold together in physical existence his body and soul, and with the last build himself a miserable cabin ; but what the ultimate result of such a state of millions will be, let the present and recently past condition of Ireland answer. And yet to this state is the present system of taxation hurry us. rheas evils can only be removed by the present lavish ex penditure being reduced, In conjunction with an entire change in the mode of raising the necessary tales. The in terest on the debt must be provided for ; but the three great war establishments of army, navy, and ordnance, may be, and mast be, cut down. It 'hey are maintained on the present footing, the people will know at what cost to them selves, &pining thousande, nay millions, of shelter and food, the two essentials of life, to my nothing of the simplest comforts. If the ruling classes are determined to persist in such a tonne, they must expect to hear the question asked by those whom such a spit n alines to the cern, "What is the benefit of such government to them ?" They might as well run all risks of foreien invasion and its consoquences, ter rible as they are, as be thus pushed out of lite, by taxes imposed against the occurrence of soy such contingency. To them the one is remote and uncertain, while the other is sure and always present. conservative policy points out the necessity of removing such sourcn of discontent, which, however, before they can be removed, must be known; but the governing chts.es, placed as they are, so much above the suffering millions, with little sympathy with, sod leis know ledge of, their wretched state, are not likely to make the discovery, so that it licourni the imperative duty of en asso ciation, such as this, to place it on record, and bring it point edly under the consideration of all classes—the represented, the representatives, the nobles, the executive, the sovereign. The association propose, in the next part of this section, to ermine more minutely every individual artless contained in the list just given, with a view of illustrating more perfectly the effect of the system es the social sedition of the people. certain TOMS in Pepper Barrow mamba, Pepper HMOS. park, in the parish of Pepper Harrow, within the county of Surrey,. did on Wednesday, the Ist of November, 1848, de stroy kw own life, he being at the time in a state of Wspo rely insaan.7." COVENT•OMMEN.—Leat evening, Mademoiselle Nissen made her ant appearance on e English stage, in the character of Norma. This lady (who is a Swede, and, it is said, was a fellow-student of Jenny Lind) is not altogether unkaown in this country. She sang, some four or five years ago, at some of the principal London concerts (the Ancient and the Philharmonic in particular), without making any ' remarkable impression. Since then she has betaken haul( to** stage, and inlaid considerable continental reputation. To appear in A'orma was an arduous undertaking, after the great perform re to whom the English public have been accustomed in this character, especially Oriel, who may be said to have made it her owe, and with whoa Jenny Lind herself wee unable to stand a comparison: and certainly Mdlle. Niesen's powers ere inadequate to the put. In person she is rather tall and well formed, with considerable grace and dignity of manner; and her features, though not handsome, are expensive. She acted with intelligence and feeling, but was unable to give the idea of terrible grandeur and deep, concentrated passion, which Debi conveys with such unrivalled effect. As a singer, with many beauties, she has many defi eta. The quality of her voice is not naturally good;, it is hard, and deficient in sweetness. By means of cultivation she has acquired some fine and powerful high notes, which she turns to the best account ; and she has ac quired great skill in execution and florid embel lishment. But the lower and middle parts of her voice ere destitute of tone and resonance, and her intonation, though not positively false, is sometimes very uncertain. tier principal air, the famous last& diva," exemplified leek her good qualities and her defects She produced some high notes of exquisite purity, and sustained them (longer perhaps than was necessary) with great effect; and she in troduced a number of florid passages, which would have bees excellent, had they not been at arisen with the cha erecter and expression of the melody. Her reception by a tolerably full house was what may he called triumphant. She was boisterously applauded, repeatedly encored, and called hi fore the curtain during the opera, as well as at itaconcluaion. Such receptions sometim as have a auspicious appearance; they are like those arguments which fail to convince because they "prove too much." Time. however, will show. The part of Adalyises was admirably sustained by Mrs. Donald Kiog, who acted with great sweetness and simplicity, tad in her execution of the great duet between Norms and Adalgisa t did cot in any respect fall short of Mdlle. Nissen. Harrison was the l'eflio, and Burcani the 011.00!(). Both parts were respectably performed. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL OXVORD, NOV. 7.-A Convocation sr a holden this after noon• for the purpose of netting a 'ripensr law bedel, M the Moll, of Cm late W. Miller, M.A. The eindidde. were two only—via.: W. w.iiurrisoe, 8.A., Holroe's Ealvlstimer, al lir.r.senose, and 11.131), - th, 8.A., orminist of lisfelolen; when the former was elected by a mu. Only of s6--the numbers being, for Mr. Harrison, 117 ; Mr. Blyth, J 1; mjurity, li. Cast itui ohs, Nov. 7.-A list of persons who hays passed the y rummy Theolculoal Exantinstine : -W. B. Allen, Christ's B. W. Andenon, 'trio.; W. Armitage, Trim ; W. Barnard, Trio. • B. J. Batsman. Cahn ; 8. Beal, Trin.; F. J. Bell Cath.; Be ' rty, (nre ;W. Bird, Trin.; IL T. Megrim, St. Jo in's; D. Blan chard. Tr in.; W. T. Blathwayt, Trio.; P. B. Menhirs. Calm ; It. Eleek;roll. (-twist% • J. Belle% Q.WWW • ' R. Boyer Trio.; IL 11. Bridgewater, Mae% C. Broth, Trio.; H. V. Br ook, Trin.; T. Brocklebank, King's. W. J. Bull, ,• A. Bum St. J.ho's ; E. Car, tit. J4ll/111; C. W. Can, Itmm •R. Chilton Tr i o ;E. A. Cob bold. 'Pen.; W. J. Cook, St. J ohn's; A. Cooper, Perch; P. 8. Currie, Emm.; A. 0. °Star, Jews; E. N. Other. Trio. ; J. J. Cumming, Calm; F. L. Carrie, Christ's ' • E. it. Daniel, Corpus ; C. Device, Christ's ; J. Damao, Peerb. ; T.Doaltry, TM. ; A. Dower Queen'; P. 6 Dobree, ;U. J. Mirror* fiWney ;W. Dr.: Demme, Jesus • W. J. Edith TrLL ; G. Eubank, Caine ; F. rime Mom. ; M. Fthmley, BR John's • ; T. V. Fe .Eubank,, The. ; H. W. Ferrier , Owens ; R. H. board, TM. A. Frost, tit. John's ; P. Frost, St. John'. • J. Puller Clare ; J. li. (Wady Trio. ; W. One, Kt. John's; C. (Albert, Ilidaej• J. D. Glemle, Christ's ; J. Gorham, lit. John's; It. 0. Gomm tit. John's; J. Grainger, Calm; R. Craven, W. John's; J. limn, ; T. ()remind, Corpus; W. M. Gannon, Christ's; It. (Min, Nag& ; 8. Hamm. Chins; J. F. Hardy, ; u. L. Harkness, fit. John's; L Hahne's, St. John's ; W. Hang, Magd.. W. R. Hastings, Trio. ; H. J. Hatch, Mold. ; E. Haynes, Trim ; J; W. Hayward, Trim ; W. U. Hearth, TM • T. Medley, TM. ; Heasley. Trim ;J.W. D. llonsaman, St. Jo hn's; 0. Hervey, Clare , T. Y. litigate, Querns'; J. S. Hildetusad, Elam. 11. R. Moue, Tip.; A. W. Hobson, Bt. John's ; J. liodthon; TM. ; W. Elodpon, Ceti. ; F. 11. Hodgson, Corpus ; E. L. Horsley,' Jesus ; E. B. llowell,C;rpus ; J. Hughes, M. John's; J. R. Johnsen. TM.; C. W. Jones, CAM. J. L. Joynel. King's ,• H. Kempen, St. John's; T. L Kingsbury Trln.; 0. It. Bo ugh, Clam; J. Ethane% Trio. k • J. IL Lee, It John's; J. Leighton, St-John's ; J. D. Letts, Trin.; T. Lloyd, kg. Joh-.•.; D. rye. • W. Lutener, St. Jo be; J. Lyon, Queens'' R. Male, Mom. ; P. Marillier, Trin. ; C. Marston Coins; W. 0. Martin, St. John's ; W. Maule, ; T. E. Meredith, HAM; tl. N. Misklethwait, Maqd.; Mirlett, ;W. 8. Momnieff, Din. •T. Montane°, TM. •W. Na,, nbaso, St. Jobs's; H. Newport, Prlmb.; 0. P. 0111 M. Venm.; V. 11. IWe/, Christ's Pm.gethy, Corpus; T. R. Petty, Trin. •J. C. rook, Pet.; 11. L Potts, Trim ; Pratt, Trin. ;IL J. Pye, 'Mrs. ; • D. Pins, Ems.; R. B. Random, Corpus; F. B. D. Ilamodge, Coins; T. Rawlresom Thu.; W. Reece, Queens' • F. 8. Richards, Queens' ; J. Richards, Christ's; W. N. Ripley, egos ; A. Roberts, Trim; R. Roe, Corpus; G. B. Romem, St. JAM.; C. W. Rosa, hush; J. R. Rummy, U. John's; 0. U. Sawyer. Trio. U. W. Soon, Sidney ;0. Smoothes, Trim; C. W. Simons, Comma ;3. Smith, Trin.; J 0. Smyth, Trin. • A. W. Snipe, St. John's; C. Boon" Calm • P. Southgate, Erni. ; J. 11. Sperling, Trim. ; It R. P. Stanley, barn.; A. Stewart, Clue; J. D. Meutfeild, Christ's ; A. J. Street. Queens'; B. Swift, Qweirs ; W. Sykes, Errs.; U. W. Topicr, St. John'. ; J. C. Thrim, St. John's' T. H. Tooke, Trin. ; V. &Sethi, Corpus • C. Treaty, Kum.; J. R. Turing, Trio.; 11. Twills, Pet.; B. F. Teri* Lem; 11. B. Thud, Trim 11. Walmisley, .T..Lbwd.";wreo.Bt. Jahn• . Wood, Clare; 11. I/. Woodhouse, Christ's; H. Woodrow, Colas; W. R. Wrath. Pill= • 0. E. Yak , 84 John's. List of Persons ;rho have passed the llebrew Examination :—W. J. IL Cuth, M. John's ; C. Danes, Christ's ,• T. L. Kingsbury. TM.; 0. B. Krogh, Clare; P. 8. D. Rareartge. Mos ; O. B. RM.." Sr. John's ; C. W. Rora, l'emb. ; W. Barnard, Trim ; Denyrr Queens.; J. Graloger, ; W. Reece, tautens' ; T. Trio.; U. J. Hatch, regd. Tog Romulus Pares—The Northam Profeesov has given notice that the subject ler ohs present year for the English prose essay is, The Internal endows Worded by the historical books of the Old Testament that ths amoral writers of them were Inspired by the Holy Olson." Any splYea eimmorl in the essay of a candidate for this pet= esetrary la dr estimation of the appointed judges) to thorn artlnss of this at England which rebate to our saviour's dl. - s-413. awl V. perscastity of the Holy Spirit, is to disqualify such r.—Rev. C. Turner to the Chaplaincy of St. • Smirk& NAVAL. Yin KONST.—Tits WARP.—Last night's Gazette giVes =dor d a ihritaatioa of mire 'Money for the captare of the Brasillan trig Osage. es the fedi et 1040, will be made at 39, Charing mos. en nod Air tin 11th Met. —The Klsurtmes —Notice Is alas r esi t: diobsowles dace tar the septum of the Brazilian schooner, a s ea Ilea wan& beak will be paid at 39, Charing-aces, on lab is I, Thme *aunties are she paysble to the erew of the liengeo's plwarom—Notles Is also give to the officers and witeser at mut sleep, entitled M share for the capture of the ledges ithaarr Os* sa the Sib of Apra, Me, that a distribution et beat, sill be modem sod after the, 25th that, also at 39, Marini/- Men Woorancm, Nov. 7.—Jaaas ot..v. fitting as a tog for molar at fltbrattir, Is ordered to be armed irith two 10-Inch guns of SI 0w1.111.41a. am pivot ands and carriages, end two S2-pounder a7g;;;Ili . _ HDIIIIALTT. Nov. 7.—Arrocermyets—Lientanant G. M. P. Mehreworlia, to Wellealey. Bugeon F. B. Pritchard and Acting Amistontasmone C. F. A. Courtney, to Plumper. Clerk in.eharge Z. W. N. loom, to Dasher. Midshipmen : C. Johnson, to Victory, T. L. Ward, W. H. lidge, and H. M. Nurse to Amason. Master mokaimit J. to San Josef. Naval ;mitts : W. Moriarty, to Vielary ; B. T. CYrp to Daphne. BoaMwahts : J. Mama, to Growler • J. Catantbia, to Daphne. Carpenter W. Herring, to tato intelligent& EQUITY COURTS—TU=BE4.Y. Before the lord Chancellor. WARD V. WAILD.—COSTODY OP INFANTB.—Mr. Stuart, referring to the Lord Chancellor's statement last Thursday that he would give his judgment in this matter next Thurs day, said all Memento at compromise were ineffectual. but he was pressed to request his lordship, before giving his judg ment to see the eldest child—a girt of the age of 10. She was with bee father, residing in Warwickshire, within three horns' journey of town, and would attend when his lordship would appoint. She would give his lordship an accoult of the establishment which the father kept for the children.— Mr. J. Parker said, in answer to a question from the Lord Chancellor, that he was counsel for the children, sad had no objecticur to the propmel.—The Lord Chancellor said he would see the eldest child, and appoint a time. MOORI AND 01111118 V. Onion AND OTHIIIB.—EGUIT ADIS MORTOAORI OP A Luna NOT LIABLI TO Till AN ASSIONYINT or tr.--This appeal against ea order of Vice , Chancellor Knight Bruce allowing a demurrer to a bill, was argued last Fry_by Mr. Rolt and Mr. Rd. Webster for the plaintiffs, sad by Mr. R. Palmer for the defendants. The bill filled lest May stated that in May, 1842, the plaintiffs granted a lease for 21 years to Mr. Taylor (a defendant) of a cotton mill and premises at Balliwell, 11031 . Bolton, in Lan cashire, at a rent of 2001. (after the first four years, during which the rent was 300/4 ; that Taylor agreed with the ether defendants, who are merchants in partnership in Manchester, to deposit with them the said lease as security kr repayment of advances of money, and price of cotton wool supplied by them ; that abut 860/ became due to the plaintiffs for rent of the premises in May, 1846, and in October of that year they put in a distress, which was taken off upon Taylors giving a replevin bond, in which one of the other defendants was surety, and the defendant after wards paid the whole of the rent then due ; that Tailor quitted the premises and let the defendants into possession, sad mortgaged to them certain fixtures which he had an. armed to the freehold, and which they sold or took away ; that the defendants exercised several acts of owner ship, so as to lead the plaintiffs to suppose the, were assignees of the lease. The bill prayed that at misfit i ti: declared that the defendants became liable to the it the rents of the premises and for the perform ers/ friths rievenants in their lease to Taylor, and that they were Woad to take an amignment thereof from Taylor, so as to be legally liable to the plaintiffs for the rents, &c., sad that Taylor should be compelled to execute such assignment. The demurrer put in to the bill for want of equity was allowed by the V ice-Chancellor. The cam chiefly rend on in the argument on behalf of the plaintiffs was " Lucas r. Comerford" (reported in 3 Brown, c.e., p. 166; 1 Vas., jun., 235; and also 8 Simons, 499), and also " Jenkins e. Port man " (1 Keen, 435), " Flight e. Bentley " (7 Simone, 145), and " Close e. Wilberforce" (1 Lleavon, 132), were referred to among other MM. The Lord Chancellor now, in giving his judgment, stated the allegations and prayer of the bill to the effect above s tated, and said the main question was, whether the bill snide oat a ease for the interposition of this court. The case made was that the defendants entered into possession of the demised prerniaes, and that they bad paid certain arrears of rent; and then it woe sought that they with whom the low' was deposited merely as a security for • debt due to them from the lessee might be compelled to make themselves legally liable for all future rents,by taking *legal asaignment of the lease from Taylor. The rents, it appeared, wen paid up to November, 1847, so that none was duo when the bill was filed in May, 1848. The bill prayed that these parties, who were only equitable assignee*, might be decreed to take an assignment from the lessee, and that he might be decreed to execute such assignment. The ease, in short, was that these defendants took a deposit of the loess as a security for a debt, and the bill preyed that they may be held liable to the rents and to take a kgel assignment. There is no doubt that it that was done they would be liable at law to the rents and covenants. Then the first question that occurs ia, what privity is there between the lessors and the defendant's depositaries of the lease ; end what, if any, liability have they incurred 1 They bays accepted a deposit of the lease for the purpose of securing their debt, and it is asked that they be made legally liable to the rents and covenants in the lease. That, it allowed, would prevent any person from ever taking a deposit of deeds. Ills lordship said be could not think a court of equity could exercise its jurisdiction to place a party in that situa tion, which he never contemplated at the time the deed was de/salted. the present case is not one in which the' court is called upon to deal with the equitable as signee to compel him to become a legal usignee. The : 1 whole question raised by the bill was whether a party hold- ing a deposit of a deed was to be put in the place of the legal sasignee. His payment of rent on behalf of the lessee amounted to not ring. He paid the demand for and on be half of the lessee, and it was contended that that was an& dent to make him liable. The argument used by t-.e plau tids on this point would put an end to the distinction be tween an assignment of a lease and an under-lease--an under-lessee was never held to be liable to the covenants in the original lease. Ns point in the cue, taken separately, could be held to subject the defendants to the liability con tended for ; and, if not separately, they all jointly . could not subject him then to it. Then another important point to be considered wan the applicsbity of the cases to the point, and it was said that " Lucas v. Comerfurd " (3 Bro., c. c. 166) was a distinct authority for the plaintiffs. That case was subject to a great deal of observation ; and it was agreed by all that the report was defective. His own opinion was, that after all the searches that were made as to the facts, something was still lett out. It. did not feel he was at liberty to say that the ease was wrong ; but it appeared to him, in the report, that the point raised in this cue was not brought before Lord Thurlow in that cue. The prayer of the bill there, as ap• peered in the report, was to make the defendant Friona covenants to build a house, &c., and not, as in this don ' to accept en assignment of a lease. Lord Thurlow said he would not compel the party to perform the covenants ; and said, all be could do was to compel him to accept an with That was not the relief prayed by the bilrVo ca-s in point was referred to in the argument. That of " Flight v. Bentley " (7 Simons), wan on a differ ent state of facts; and the Vice-Chancellor, in " Moores v. Choat," expressed his surprise how he came to make the decree in that case. His lordship, after referring to the Vice- Chancellor's observations in " Moores v. Choat" (8 Simons) observed that his Honour very properly disclaimed the doctrine laid down in " Flight v. Benthi." lie not only disclaimed that doctrine, but decided the case before him quite contrary to it, and d.ssistently, as he said, with the grounds of " Lucas v. Comerford." Anothercese re ferred to was " Close v. Wilberforce." His lordship stated that ease, and in conclusion laid, in this state of the authori ties, and as " Lucas v. Comerford " was n followed, be was of opinion that the demurrer in this case was properly 'newel, and, consequently, the appeal should be dismissed with costs. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V.WILBOEL—LADT HRWIRT'B CHARITT.-1 he hearing of the sppeol from the Vice-Chan cellor of Hithland in this case, was, cn the applicotinn of Mr. Bethel!, and with content of all arties, pat uff to the first -v of Hilary Term. Wore the Vioe-Chencellor of Fagland. Kr tout O. MOKHALL.—PAILTNE3BIIII. Amor Nre.— STATUTII OP LIMITATIONS. — It appeared in this case that • partnership had been formed in the year 1814 between seve ral persons, for the purpose of working certain coal raises in Shropshire, and a person named Thomas Jones, who was one ot the partners, was appointed the manager ot the works. In 1823 the undertaking turned out a failure, and was discontinued. Janes became • bankrupt, and his assignee Sled the present bill against his copartner' for the usual partnership account•. The defendants set up the Statute of Limitations, and also contended that as there was no agreement in writing to prove tho partnership, the plaintiff was not entitled to have the accounts against them. —The Vice-Chancellor considered that the partnership had been sufficiently proved, and that being the case, it followed that there was an obligation on the partners to contribute, which could only be avoided by a special arecraent. There must therefore be a decree for the ordinary partnership aeoonnta. Before vioaChanciettor Wigram. Gum e. Pillt.Liroun.—BlLlSAell or Till:ST.—His Honour delivered his judgment in these:suiu, the hearing of which took place previously to the long vacation. The original suit was instituted by one of several cestuis que trust, complaining of a breach of trust, alleged to have been committed by the trustees by landing 2,0001., part of the trust-fund, noon the personal security of one of the cedilla que trust, and also by advancing 2,3001 . , other part cf the trust fund, upon the mortgage of certain houses at North. &lepton, whicn had proved a deficient security. The bill sought to charge the trustee with the loam arising frees such investments. The cross bill was filed by the trustees against the cestuis qua trust of the fund, aiming acquiescence on their part is the investments made by the plaintiffs in the cross suit, and praying that the mort gage security might be realised, and the trustees indemnified Ikea less.—Hil Honour directed that the mortgage should be realised, and the proceeds, together with the 2,0001. lent to the cestui qua trust, should he brought into comet, and that the income arising therefrom should be paid to the tenser for life, at whose death theparties were to have liberty to apply. HOLLOND V. TEZD.-130aaaNTEE.—Ilia Honour made an order in this case, the facts of which appear in the Ex press of Monday last, to the effect that the exceptants were entitled . to prove for the 1,9751. which they had paid after the death of Mr. Felix Ladbroke, on the four bills accepted by them prior to thabevent, minus a sum of 1,2201., which had been paid to them by the testator in his lifetime. The executors of the testator were not to be credited with the balance standing to the credit of the Messrs. Carruthers at the expiration of the guarantee, but such balance was held to have been discharged by paynien's eub.equently made by the bank on account of the Messrs. Carruthers. COURT OP QUEEN'S BENCH.—Tzereanasw. Sittings In Banco. BUBDTROS Or Tan COURT.—Lord Denman stated that the court did not intend to take the special paper until after the term, and that the new trial paper would be taken on the days usually devoted to the special paper during the term. JRNKINS AND °TRIM 17. BROWN AND OTHIIRO.—LIEN. I —Mr. Watson, Q.C., moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict for the defendants in this case, which was tried at the last maims at Liverpool, should not be set aside, and • new trial had. It appeared that the action was brought to recover three cargoes of corn, which had been shipped at New Orleans with bills of lading delivering to the order or assigns of Messrs. Brown end Shipley, of Liverpool, and sent by the house of %Engender and Co. for Jenkins and Co., of London, the plaintiffs, by whose order the corn had been purchased and ahippsd. Annexed to the bills of exchange drawn by Klingender and Co. on the plaintiffs were the kills of lading, which Mesas. Brown and Shipley, as their agents, were to hold until the bills of exchange had been duly honoured ; hut the invoices were sent to the plaintiffs,and stated that the corn was consigned to the order, and ter the account and risk of the plainuffA, which showed that Klingender and Co. had purchased it with their own money. The bills of exchange were duly accepted by the plaintiffs, and placed by the defendants with their bankers, lawns. Denison and Co., until they arrived at ma turity. The bills became due on the 17th June, 1847, and on that day the plaintiffs tendersd the amount due, via., 2,6131. 9s. 4d. They were first told that the bills [had been tent to the calling house. This, however, was subsequently discovered to be au error, and payment was again tendered twice, but it turned out that one of the partners in the house, who was out of town for the day, had locked up the bills, and they could not be found. The cargoes were afterwards sold by the defendants, to make good a claim which they had on Klin gender and Co., for advances made to them. The learned counsel now contended that the verdict for the defendants must be set aside, as after the money had been tendered to meet the bills of exchange, the lien which the defendants had on the corn was divested, although the debt might not have been extinguished. The effect of the tender of the I money was the only question for the consideration of the court.—Lord Denman said they would take time to con ' eider it, BAIL COURT—YEatuuDAY. nittlap in Banes—Before Mr. /canoe Putteson. Tna QUEEN V. HADLIT.—LIBEL.—The Attorney-Gene ral moved, on behalf of a gentleman named Heaney, and seven other magistrates acting for the Cheltenham division of the county of Gloucester, for a criminal information against the defendant, as the proprietor, printer, and pub lisher, of the CAeltessisani Journal. When his lordship had heard the libel read, he would be of opinion that the charges were of ouch a nature, reflecting as they did on the conduct 'of the magistrates, as to call or the intervention of that court. The libel appeared in the newspaper in question on the 31st of July, and was the report of the speech of a Mr. Linwood, an attorney of Cheltenham, which was delivered at a meeting of the Cheltenham Conservative Association. He would now read to the court a portion of the speech. Gentlemen,—lt is not maiden.. to return a conservative member for the town of Cheltenham. We must have a few of our ogees here filled with men of our own colour. We have bad the yellow Wei long enough. ( Llughter.) And I think, lf sou owe to dimwit them, you would find that they also poetised yeliow hearts by this time. (Laughter and applause. ) I speak disrespectfully of so man be his individual character (that everybody knows); and if they don't I know it, and I do not like to End fault with others. PAU' officers are however Imbue property, and so long as I am • padie pricer , if I misconduct myself I shall expect to be found fault with. Therefore I do my that this applies to every public oflicer from the beach of magistrates—(hear, d e ist the bum twilit! that lades his distress on your goods. (ApWsw.) Oestlemen, I feu no man, and I lope I shall never Isar d ez 3 ensa as long lam doing my duty. (Applause.) I feel I am my duty to say, though lam wry to say it, that the magistrates this town do procitute their dike to political purpons. (Applause, and cries of That's true.") I say it fearlessly boldly, and publicly, and I defy them to gainsay it. I But, gentlemen, hope our as.ociation will be the means of letting these gentlemen know that when they get upon that magi.- teriel bench, they bare a duty to perform, and If they don't know their duty before they get there, we must teach it them after they get there—(applause) — at d we will teach it to them. (Bear. bear.) Bub pray do not let any man in this room suppose that I speak this for the We of finding fault. No, geed:men, Ido it upon the defensive. We have been set upon, and we moat attend our selves. (Cries of "On we must and to we wi) Wecan only defend ourselves by uake and strength. We cannot do :tut cur own mai- IRELAND. Demur, Nov. 7. Tie Royal Agricultural Society held its ordinary meeting yesterday, when several communications were read conveying salneriptions from various quar tets. Lord Cork gives 251. His lordship or his agent would have done better to encourage a locally raised fund. So also would Lord Bandon, who gives 101. But we all know that it will be very difficult to com plete the necessary 50/. from Bandon. Mr. Forteacue of Louth, one of the best farmed counties in Ireland, gives 251. Balling (Mayo), Ballinaaloe, will make up the necessary fund, and accounts of progress wire received irom South Leitrim. Ardfinan, Lismure, Bandon, and Rathdown. Thus much has Lord Clarendon's munificent contri bution towards the reintegration and extension of the system of practical instructors already done, and doubtless the exsmple of even so much activity will enable him to do more. Dr. Tighe, Dean of the Chapel Royal (Castle), will, it is said, be named to the vacant bishopric of Down. Should this be so, an excellent appointment will have been made. The dean is a worthy man and a tolerant Christian. Dr. Cane was discharged from gaol on Sunday morning, in compliance with a memorial on his behalf, presented to the lords justices, to enable him to attend the funeral of his son, who died two days pre viously. Mr. Govan Duffy, in a letter to the Freemnn's Journal, explains the circumstance of his bankruptcy, which was, he say a, caused by a creditor who would not be satisfied with the arrangement vesting his property in trustees, though these will pay all his debts in full. Tits Assiut TO MOBUBB Mn. MOORB.—The follow ing letter gives full particuirs of the attempt to murder Lord Anne,ley's agent : " Cavan, Nov. 4.—On Friday, the 3rd inst . William Armitage Moore, Esq., of Amore Lodge, Cavan, le ft home at half past nine o'clock in the morning, to proceed to Miltown, abut eight miles from Cavan, to receive rents on the Earl of Annesley's property. Ho had written to hisbailiff a tow days before, stating that, in con sequence of the bad state of the weather, he would not give the tenantry the trouble of coming to his office at Cavan, but would go to Miltown, and receive the rents there. He was accompanied by his clerk and a lad named Maxwell, who drove the car that conveyedthem. On arriving near Baker's bridge the car-driver and the clerk observed two men stand ing close together in the centre of the road, and called Mr. Moore's attention to them, as very suspicious looking fellowa.' As the car still proceeded on its course, one of the men dropped off to the side of the road ; the other still stood in the centre, with his hack turned to the party on the car, and maintained that position until the end of the shaft wee almost parallel with his shoulder. He then wheeled suddenly round, and presented a pistol to Mr. Moore's breast, so close that it almost touched him. He held it firmly with both hands to ensure a steady aim, and pulled the trigger. Happily for the intended victim the pistol mimed tire. The ruffian immediately turned and fled. The morning having been extremely cold and damp, Mr. Moore had swilled himself in two outside coats ; this was unfortn nate, as he had a cue of pistols in the pockets of an under coat—each pistol had 6 barrels, all were in excellent order, and loaded with ball. llad it not been for the impediment of his clothing he could have abet the ruffian dead in a ma mma. He mped off the ear, however, as likewise did his dark, and both pursued the flying miscreants. The clerk snapped a pistol at one of them, but it did not go off. During the chase Mr. Moore extricated a pistol from his coat posket and fired. The villain at whom he aimed then turned from the main road that leads over Baker's-bridge into a narrow road or lane, that leads towards Butler's bridge, called Hacket's-road. Whilst ascending a little bill on this narrow pass Mr. Moore fired two more barrels at the fugitive, bat without effect. There are two or three cabins an the top of this hill, and at this point Mr. Moore and his aaapan*on lost Bight of the fugitive. Whether he was skel tend those cabins, or threw himself into a ditch at this not known. There were many persons at short from the scene of this outrage, but not one of them would give the slightest assistance in endeavouring to arrest Use amens. There th oug h n particular five men working is a field close by, and oug called on by Mr. Moore for armies Immo, they would not stir, declaring they had neither MB* I the men nor heard the firing. Mr. Moore, finding he had no asses of aid from the people, immediately got on his ear, ' mai proceeded towards the police station of Milieus. On Ws way thither he met three constables, whom he took on ifie wisp and returned tolls cabins on Hacket's-road, whence seenmeasseing the search, they scoured the country round. They wooed in capturing the man who was NMI in com pany with the person who attempted to fire at Mr. Moore. This follow has been fully identified, and now lies In Cavan pet; his name is Kiofßlo, or M./Tiernan ; he is a tailor by ersilis, and resides in that neighbourhood. Inconsequence of ids outset* a meeting of magistrates was held at the court beam of Cavan, on Friday, Lord Farnham in the chair, to sadder wtst steps may be meet advantageously pursued to bang the perpetrators and abettor of the crime to justice. We bow nth yet learned the result of the deliberations held aswaeasfon, but we may safely trust to the wisdom, esperienco, and determination of the noble lord and his coed ',awe magistrates, to imam a prompt and effectual remedy for the evil." SCOTLAND. no MURDER IN AYR9IIIRE.—In this paper of the 28th ult., the execution of James bi'Wheelan, at Ayr, was detailed, with a statement that he had made a confession, implicating another man as being the actual murderer of Young, while he himself had participated only in the rob - Hill,beryTh individuel in question named Edward Steuart has been apprehended, an d conveyed to Ayr for exinknation. PROVINCIAL. TUE ROYAL MERSEY YACHT CL1113.-011 Monday, the members of this club presented to their commodore, Thomas Littledale, Eq., a massive gold snuff-bse, u a me morial of their admiration of the gallantry and humanity he displayed on board his yacht Queen of the Ocean, in saving, under eirennutanoes of great difficulty, the lima of thirty two of the crew and passengers of the emigrant ship Ocean Komarek. ATTEMPTED ASSASMNATION AND SUICIDE.—An in vestigation has taken place before the magistrate' of Ross, elucidating the following facts : A discharged servant named Samuel Oarras occasionally lodged in the Full Moon public house, which he had been forced to leave by the landlady, Mrs. Phillip', who conceived a dislike to him on account of his leaving his wife and two children in distressed circuit• stances a few miles from the town. He subsequently, however went there and demanded • pint of beer on credit, whichwa" refused. Oa the last °cession she told him he was drunk, and that he only came there to annoy her, upon which he pulled a pistol from his pocket, and find it Iser. She fell to the ground, and it was thought she was wounded ; but, however. Ole ball had missed her. Re then discharged the second pistol in his mouth. The ball passed horizonta ll y along the roof of the month, and lodged In the back of the neck. He was removed, under the care of the polio, and the latest accounts announce him to he still EY living. TfIE SURR. INQL - EST ON LORD MIDDLETON.—The inquest on the body of this noblemen concluded on Monday evening, when the jury returned the following verdict:—" We find that the Right H7ll (*gorge Allen, Viscount Midleton, in a victual capacities, we cannot do it tingle-handed, bat we ran do it by means of a moiety like thle. And, gentlemen, I think we most and will do It, for it is my intention, and I ask any one to Join who is willing to do so, to present a =merit' to the Lad Chancellor—the man who sits apes the woolsack—embodying in that memorial the conduit of our Cheltenham magistrates. (Paptutosie applause.) Now let was tell you that I consider that a man who congeals to a bad thing is as guilty as the man who him self camas it; end I far one, will not stand It. I will not allow any Aloe, if I koow it, to be prostituted, as I before said, to political purport ; and until we really do get lonise indiffe rently adesisinered, I gay that we an not free men, but we are titres. ("Meer, hear," and applaute.) That is one thing which I wish to see amended through the instrumentality of this areociatinn. When I speak of the bench of magistrates, I also speak of the Mikes subor dinate to it. lam sorry to my that It has some to my knowledge that par men have come and complained to me of the hardships that they have matained. I will put inform you of one Maumee, became I think it equally doe to you and to our poor neighbour', as well es to ourselves, tome them righted in this matter. 1 have had a poor man come to me and say, "what am I to do under these cir cumstances I I am summoned adore the magistrate ; because I hare not paid my rates =di em poor and cannot. pay hat am I to dot because here is my neighbour summoned under similar cir cumstances, be I keep has money, but I have wawa; and Moose he happens to bee yellow his rates are excused—loner, best.)--r.butbe muse I happen to ho a conservative I am made to pty"—(Yes hear, and applause.) Gentlemen, if I thought, if I believed that woo not the truth, I think you know sufficient of me that I would not state it hex; but 'know it to be the truth, and lam neve r ashamed to date the truth. Well, that is not all, we are now laming to the man important partof the business, the man who was ezeuscd Ms rates was put on the pest register of voters, and the maw who paid them was put off. (Cries of " Shame.") lie Atha Attorney-General) thought his lordship would consider that this was a most scandalous attack. He had en affidavit of the eight rig Antes, and they said it was utterly untrue the.: hay ar had ever was p like rosti- tuted their office for party purposes; id it wise false that they had excused persona from paying their rates on account of their politics. He had clue the affidavit of the moistest overseer, which proved the state ment of Mr. Lingwood to lie untrue. Mr. Justice Petition : la this motion against the person who spoke ? The Attorney-General—No, my lord, it is against the pro prietor and printer. He had said enough to entitle him to a rule under ordinary circumstances. Ou the 7th of August another number of this paper appeared, in which reference was made to the present matter. Mr. Lisawood wrote a letter to the editor, which appeared in that number of the paper. It was to the following effect : ftir,—ln consequence of several inaoeur idea in the report of the speech made by me a' it fleeting of the Chelterisam Conservative Aareciation, on the 24th of last m inth, which ap .eared in your paper of last Mon ay. and re the mean rig of my obsee,tion, as applicable W the benched magistrates, has been much misunderstood end per verted, I bare therefore addressed the following totter to the chair man of the bench of magistrates, which I will thank you to intert in your next paper.—lt. S. 1 inueotio. Then came the letter Mull : Sir,—liaving read the speech which was report.' In the Clirl:ean barn Journal of last Monday as haring been mule by me at a meeting of the Comerrative Aerociation, held on Monday, the 24th, I find Se vers' great inaccuricies in thatreport, and I do rot consider urisicll bound by what is therein re ted to have lalkn from me, but I feel that I ought not to tie ay in assuring the bench of magistrates thatif at that meeting I mid anything derogatory to them, my intea tam le notunly to withdraw it, but to apologise lee it.— it. h. Lisa woof. He did not in that letter condescend to say what part of the report was incorrect. The bench of magistrates /aurae& through their clerk a letter. iu which it was stated that the magistrates could not tell whether or nut he meant to state that the report regarding the znalversation and prostitution of the magisterial office was substiatislly correct or not. Suberquently a statement had appeared in the paper alleging that the report was corrci.t, which was evil, oily a planned thing ; and it was under three eircumstemom that the magis trates were desirous that a court of justice should inquire into the matter. His lordship granted the application. COURT OF CO MM ON in PLEAS.—YESITEIWA Y. Sittings NUE°. DATIDeON V. Boll'S.—Mt:elCAL COFTRIGHT.—This ac tion, tried before Mr. Justice Williams, lost Guildhall sit tings after term, was brought for the infringement of a copyright claimed by the plaintiff In three ••onge, which songs, he complained, had been newly given to the world by the defendant, in a publication called the Musical Gen. The first of the three songs, " Said a smile to a tear," the music by &ahem, was originally published in the opera, " False Alarms," in 1807 ; the second, the well known air, " Home, sweet hcme " in the opera of " Cluj, or the Maid of Milan ;" sod the t hird, "Fill, 11:1 the glass," in " Der Freischuts ;" but the words of the songs in which, and not in the music of them, the plaintiff claimed copyright, were respectively written by Kelly, Howard Payne, and Some. At the trial the plaintiff showed a prim& facie title to the copyright in the words, by producing a registered assign ment of the copyright of the songs, in " Cumberland's British Theatre,' from Cumberland to himself, that collec tion comprising the songs in question. But by evidence offered for the defendant, it appeared that there was no assignment by deed, or in writing (although there was a sale), of the words of the first two songs, from the writers of them to Cumberland; but as to the third song, " Fill, fill tho glass," an assignment, attested by one witness only, from Some to Cumberland, was proved. A verdict passed for the defendant, leave being reserved to the plaintiff to move to enter it for him in case (amongst other points) the court thought there was sufficient evidence of title. Mr. Serjeant Cnannell now moved accordingly for a new trial. The publication complained of was before the recent copy right act, and thcrefcre tho question tutee" noon the etruction of 8 Anne, c. 19, s, I, and he contended that an author could, before the recent statute, assign his copyright in his works without deed or writing. The court were of opinion the plaintiff had not shown a good title as to any of the three songs. The statute of Anne did not give copyright In terms, but secured egsiust publication, except by the con sent of the proprietor. attested by two witnesses. The proper eonstraction of that statute led irresistibly to the conclusion that no exclusive right of publication could pass by the law alit then stood, except by an instrument so attested.—gale refused. BKITH O. PRITCHAUD AND OTHEUS.—LIABILIIY OP HIGH BAILIFF OF COUNTY COGILT.—This was an action for trespass and false imprisonment, tried last Middlesex sit tings after term, before Mr. Justice Williams, brought against William . Pritchard, high bailiff of Lambeth, and Rosner, his under-bailiff, and William Pritchard, high bailiff of Southwark, and Jones, his under-bailiff, when a verdict was given—damages, 101., for the trespass, and 601. for the against the two un der-bailiffs, leave being reserved for iu plaintiff to move to enter a verdict 'against one or either of the Pritchards for the whole or the smeller amount. Mr. Sergeant Byles now moved, iii pursuance or such leave re served. It appeared that a warrant against Thomas Smith, the son of plaintiff, was issued by William S. Pritchard, the high bailiff of Lambeth, to take him into custody, but he being in the Southwark district, the warrant wee backed b the high bailiff of Lambeth to the o ffi cer of the Southwark County Court, according to the provisions of the County Court Act, the two under-bailiffs taking with them this war rant, which was previously stomped, as required under the provisions of the act, by the Southwark County Court officer, and went to the plaintiff's premises in Southwark in search of the son. There they commenced to pull down some railings, and fi nally took the plaintiff himself into custody, and before a magistrate, upon pretence of en assault upon them in the execution of their duty. The learned counsel now contended the high bailiff for Southwark, where these acts were committed, was clearly liable, and also that the high bailiff of Lambeth, whose warrant was in course of exe cution, although not within his own district, was also liable. In support of this twofold proposition he relied upon the 33rd section of the County Court Act, which puts the re sponsibility of a high bailiff upon the same footing as that of sheriffs with regard to the acts and default, of his officers. But in case only one of the two high bailiffs was held re sponsible under that rection, he submitted such high bailiff was likewise liable for the false imprisonment of plaintiff, the officers acting at the time under colour of executing the warrant, and being under the 114th section entitled to arrest any one committing an assault upon them in the execution of their duty.—The court was of opinion there was no pretence for charging the high bailiff of Lam beth, who could not be identified with the un der-bailiff of Southwark, the person having charge of executing the warrant in the Southwark district, and there fore refused the rule as to bins, but granted the rule applied for spinet William Pritchard, the Southwark high bailiff.— Rule nisi accordingly. The days fi xed by the court to hear registration appeal eases are Monday, 13th; Thursday, 10eh; and Monday, 20th inst. MELVILLE AND ANOTHER V. DOITCH.—ACTION AGAINST • BERETV.—This was an action against a surety, upon his covenant to indemnify, tried before Mr. Justice Williams last Guildhall sittings, steer term, when a verdict was given for the plaintiffs, damages 4471. The covenant by the defen dant was made with the plaintiffs, as trustees of the National Provincial Bonk et Bideford,to indemnify that bank against loss through the negligence or misbehaviour of Charles Deitch Cheadley, upon their taking that young man into their employment as clerk. It appeared that Cheadley was sent on horseback a distance of some miles, to receive the amount of his audit from a Mr. Vinton, a cue tomer of the bank, who had written requesting some one should ha sent over for that purpose. He left Mr. Damon's to return home at seven in the evening, with the money in a bag, which he put into his outside greatcoat pocket. In about half an hour he returned back to Mr. Demoa's with his pocket torn out, and the bag of money gone, which he could only account for by the weight of the money having torn away the coat pocket in riding. The jury found the money was lost by the negligence of Cbeadlcy, and a verdict was entered in consequence for the plaintiffs. Mr. Ccekburn, Q.C., now moved to set aside the verdict, and for a new trial on the ground of misdirection and es against evidence. Be submitted the young man wee not acting within the scope of a clerk's duties in fetching this money, end, secondly, that the money received by him never be came the money of the bank, it never having reached their coffers ; thus on these two grounds there had been no in fringement of the terms of tke covenant. And, likewise, he submitted the verdict was contrary to the weight of the evi dence in the cause.—The court were of opinion as to all the grounds that there was no reason for disturbing the verdict of the jury.—Rule refined. - ( 7 II , COURT OF EXCEIRQUER.—YUTIRDLY. Blaine In Banco. Outworn v. BOSSILL.—The decision upon the motion in this cue (reported in this paper yesterday) was postponed to enable the leaned barons to communicate with Mr. Justice Mettle, before whom it was tried. the lordship having en. pressed his satisfaction at the verdict, the rule moved for by Yr. O'Malley was reflood. ILORRRTB (CLERK) O. Tcceca (CLIIRI).—CONTRACT BiTWEIX TWO CCILATE6.-13TATETE or FRAUDS.—MT. Serjeant Shee moved fora rule calling on the defendant to show cause why the nonsuit entered in this case should not be set aside, and a new trial had, upon the ground of mis direction. The action, which was on • , was tried at the tut usizes of Colchester before Mr. Justice Coltman. The plainti ff was curate to the defendant, who was N tre, curate of the parish of St. Botolph, Colchester. The ration stated that before the making of the probe*, so! thereinafter mentioned, there was and still is IV' p t . • • t I 1 i 1 11 1 i i i 1 I 1 i 1 1 I ! l' i , 1 l i ' I I Ili 'i l l I 1 i ' 1 1 1 i M' 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 ! 1 ' , 1 ~+ ;f.