The Express. — London, England, 1851-11-27 00:00:00

1/)111) DUDLEY STUART AND KOSSUTH. Lord Dudley Stuart has sent ns a copy of a lengthy letter, in which, after disposing of Mr. Chisholm A nstey's (Alper ions to the honours paid to M. Kossuth at the P o b e h H ill. he proceeds to state his reasons for considering that H. Kossuth'. conduct in reference to the vote of Hungarian tree?* fee Italian service in 1818 was not only justifiable, but prais..weetby. lie says: " Consider for a moment the w‘tare of affairs in Hungary at the time when M. Keiteuth delivered his celebrated speech of the 20th July, 1818. At that period Austria had made all the concession. which had been so twig and so earnestly sought by Kuesutli and his partisans. The great measum fur the commutation of the curries and for the eetablishment of an Hungarian ministry responsible only to the Diet, had not merely received the royal assent and been confirmed by the Emperor King in person at Freeburg; but in the very speech from the throne ij on the 4th July, 1448, to which the vote in question was an s i V alfef —:1 speech delivered by the Archduke Stephen in the swot of the K inr —those persona had been branded as ealum- Dieters who dared to hint that the consent of his M ejesty to these laws had not been voluntarily given, or that their vueatien was nuelLated by his Austrian advisers. Wu it' not, then, incumbent on the men whom the King of Hun gary had appointed hi. ministers in that country to take care that, whilst the king appeared on the one hand thus r e ady to meet the wishes of the nation, the nation should an tee other perform with loyalty and exactitude the duties which it owed to the king? Now, the Pragmatic Sanction why h became a law of Huugary m 1723, and by which the ancient constitution and liberties of that country were wile:wily and specifically confirmed, has always been interpreted as imposing on the Hungarian nation the duty of delending from foreign aggression the here ditary states of the House of Austria. This was the view taken in 1741 by the Hungarian Diet when the queen of Hungary, Maria Theresa, by virtue of the Pragmatic Sanction, claimed their aid against the com bined, toms of Prussia, France, Saxony, and Bo eerie, who had entered into an alliance for the purpose of depriving her of her hereditary dominions. Could hi. Kossuth, at a moment when the sovereign had not only eontirmed rII the existing rights of the Hungarian nation, but had restored others which his preelecessers had taken away, have refused with any propriety to aeknewleslge the obligations generally admitted to have been imposed upon llemaary by the Pragmatic Sanction ? Would it have been either justifiable or prudent in him to do so? It is true that doubts were rife as to the good faith of the government at Vienna, hut no overt act of aggression &gated Ilungary bad at that t o nal been committed. Although Jellachich was turn in arms for the purpose of extorting from the jleegari in government a repeal of the union which had sub sisted for many ceuturies between Croatia and Hungary, still all partieipation in his designs was strenuously denied by the court. It was not till the 4th September, 1818. that he was reinstated in his dignities by a des tee of the Emperor, a few days before he crossed ti.. Drive awl marched . upon Podia. Sorely wisdom as w.-el as loyalty required Kossuth to afford no pretext W the A us•rian ministry for declaring that Ilungary had violated tle.eempact which bound her to the Ileum of Hapsburg. he. II though such a step might have been morally justified Ay the iiitrieues carried on by the court of Vienna with J. ilachielt uud the Serbian. it would at that period have nbo ditlieult to famish evideuce of those secret transactions. And what edict would an apparently unprovoi;d eleparture .. ou the part of Hungary, from the terms of the l'regniatic Sanction, have produced on the more moderate politicians in Hungary i What impression on the rest of Europe ? Ad mit ecru that stied a departure was not merely justi fiable, but that the justification could have been m a d.. minift•st, still 1 ask whether it would nut hair 1)0'11 1110.4 culpable in Kossuth, by refusing the demend bir assistance, to have risked a rupture with Austria? It is true that on the I Ilk July the Diet had olio ro id unanimously a levy o. 200,090 men. But cad the 2011 i, note itlistanding the unparalleled activity of Komuth's administration, this army must still have existed upon paper only. Besides, the Cleats and the Serbs were in arms on the southern 'randier, whilst on the northern the fidelity of the shivacks was stilt doubtful. Will Mr. Anstey venture to assert that it would have been an act of ' patriotism' on the part of Kossuth, surrounded as Hungary then was by enemies, to have peremptorily refused the do toand of Austria, and thus have precipitated hos tilities with another and still more powerful op ponent? If I have succeeded in showing that the in terest of Ilui.gary required Kossuth to adopt some such Tune cat policy as that which he pursued, it only remains to he maisidered whether the Italian patriots had just ground to complain of it. And here I would hlea ries that it is not correct to sp.nk of the inhabitants ni Lombardy as lacing in arms for the independence of their country in July, Paid. Un the 'land of March the in habitants of Milieu had gallantly expelled from Milan Leh:L.4 unil the Austrian garrison who occupied that city. The example of Milan RYA speedily followed by other cities. But subsequently to that period the brunt of the war in Lombardy was sustained by Chares Albert. The uaupu of Lomusardy with Piedmont had indeed been pub liely proclaimed; but a strung party in Lombard y openly disapproved of that measure. Un the 7th of July, Lord Poiasamby wrote to Lord Palmerston that the Austrians acre persuaded King Charles Albert ' had great difficulties to appreLeud trout other causes besides the Austrian army.' The war was already stigmatised as • a king's war a very few wee-ks later, on the .1511 of August, Charles Albert was saw, al with difficulty from the fury of the mob in Milan. And therefore there is reason to believe, that if the peaaet of Kossuth, so much reviled by Mr. Anstey, (iii,tiaol of reinsuring OA it did a dead letter), bad been sawed into enact, If utter the establishment of tranquillity and pews in Hungary, it atter its moral and physical ikneleuee had been secured, a Hungarian army had en ter 1 Italy tar the purpose cat promoting a tri.ndly com promise which ehould maintain uu the one hand the honour cal the throne, and on the other equally accord with the colostitutsmial ireemona and reasonable wishes of the Italian leva—there.; to ground, I nay, for believing that such no ArTAIMVInt Ilt, nut me rely obtained through the media tion, but guaranteed by the power of the constitutional am anarchy of Hungary, would have been not leas in accord ance with the wishes and the interests of the people of Lombardy, than the unnezation of their country to the domi unto cat the limp of :Sardinia. What then becomes of the chase urges anti such an air of triumph against M. Kossuth —that he prupon-d u vote of 40,0U0 men to cut the throats of the Italian patriot. Aud what becomes of the charge which luou brought forward much more frequently, and Slate Ito commanded probably touch more general belief, that In . mated himself, induced by motives of personal am !min, as heist minister of the King of Hungary, to effectuate • paration beteeen Hungary and Austria, and to wrest ti, crown cal Hungary from the house of Hapsburg A careful exantinetiou of his conduct during that brief atlmi ulurrhou shows that he was more 'crapulous than even so sauna a btrt..quau as Count Ludiales Teleki to preserve tuauipainal the provision. of the treaty which regulated tae relations between Austria and Hungary ; that tle.ugh strongly urged by Perczel and the democratic party to come at ohm: to an open rupture with Vienna, and though exasperated by the underhand correspondence kept up between the Austrian cabinet and Jellachich, ho deter mined to retain Hungary in a position strictly defensive. lu short, that his policy, under circumstances as ember familia as can well be imagined, not only exhibited loyalty to his sovereign, coupled with a duo regard for the interests of a foreign people, respecting whose destiny he was called upon in some measure to decide, but gave proof of firmness, nualeration, and prudence, such as would have added repu tation to a minister grown grey in the service of a constitu bead sovereign.— E:tra-t-litrium liiiiiUdienit.—Al the "meeting of the vestry of St. Paeans, eateseley. lge. (Mattekwarden Baker in the chair, it was Meted tilt the pemement had abandoned the procosedmeesume ha eatmeatetel iattementi. Mr. Brettinpham was glad to lad that the had given up the id ea of b e nembeg This wee an admirabl e mOiWiw il C i tt i s warp le take the matter into their own hand• lealthisat the irewded state of our churchyards, it woe MO time that something was done. It was ultimately unealmeresly Weed that the vestry should memorialise the pavammeat Me power to tau ground for extra-mural inteemeut pupates. 1N FANT ORPHAN ASYLUM. WANISTEAD.—Yeater du the annual meeting and election of the institution was held at the London Tavern, B. Bond Cabbell, Esq., M.P., in the chair. The report stated that the number of chil dren maintained in the asylum at the date of the last report, in 1830, was 333, and 83 had been since admitted ; of these, G 7 had left in rotation, and the diminution by death and other causes had been 10. Therefore, there remained 341, I which would be increased by the election of this day to 38'. ' The establishment was in a most healthy state, and the annual subscriptions of the past year had far exceeded in amount those of any year in the history of the charity.' The total receipts of the charity during the year bad been I 11,276/. 10s. 10d.. while the expenditure had been so far 1 within that sum, notwithstanding a very heavy special out- I lay on the enlargement and alteration of the building, as to permit of the investment of 1,8001. in the Three-and-a- Quarter per Cent. Consols, and the purchase of an Exche quer Bill fur 11,0271. 2s. CU ELSEA BENEVOLENT SOClETT.—Yellt(Ttlily the thirteenth anniversary of this institution was celebrated by a dinner at the Commercial Hall, Kings-road, Chelsea, Dr. W. V. Pettigrew in the chair, supported by several clergymen of the district, and many other iaduential par sons interested in the progress of the charity. The usual routine toasts wi re disposed of on the occasion, and a high tribute was paid to the institution and to those persons more immediately concerned in promoting its welfare. Amongst other facts disclosed in the course of the evening it appeared that the society derived its origin from the circumstance of the death of a poor widow, who preferred starvation to • separation of herself from her children, as than enacted by the new poor law, had she sought shelter in a pariah anion ; to obviate the recurrence of so dreadful a calamity, some few benevolent men, who formed a part of the inquiet jam sought the assistance of their neighbours, framed laws, and upon the system of district visiting, founded the "Chelsea Beuevolent Society." Since the commencement of the institution no lees than 7,394 individuals had been relieved. During the past year the committee had found it expedient to assist to their utmost 130 families comprising no lees than 620 individuals. The do nations and subscriptions since the month of November last had amounted to 63/. lls. 3td., and the expenditure (in eluding the sum of W. 3e. 10d. paid for relief, to 561.116.1 d. The general statement of accounts showed that the total amount of receipts sines the 21st November, 1838, was 8091. 10s. bd. ; and that of the expenditure, 7951. 7s. 6d. ; leaving a balance at present in the treasurer', hands of 141.25. 11d. In callin g attention to these facts, the chair man observed that the parish damn had informed him that there had been less pauperism n iV the last year than for a long period. past, and he t this circum stance might be eimin a fa omen for the society. Zbe Court. OSBORNE, WEDNESDAY. The Queen, Prince Albert, and the royal family, remain at Chborne, and have not left the garden' and grounds. Mr. G. M. Gray had an interview with Earl Grey yester day at the Colonial-office. 'The Governor of the Bank of England and the Deputy Governor had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer yast , rilay. Sir John Ilt mild had also an inter view with the right huu. hart., at his official residence in Downing-street. The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's Most lion. Privy Council eat yesterday in the Council Chamber. The lords preicnt were—Lord Cranworth, Sir J. Knight Bruce, the Judge of the Prerogative Court, and Sir Edward Ryan. An appeal from the high Court of Admiralty. " Wilkinson v. W dhoti" (Buonapartc) was commenced. The case was adjourned. FOUNDATION OF A MECHANICS' INSTITU- VON AT BURNLEY. On Tuesday the foundation stone of a new building fru a mechanics institution was laid at the rapidly increasing town of Burnley, Lancashire. The whole of the mills of the town were closed, the shops remained un opened, and everything wore the appearance of a holiday. The intended building, for which the estimated cost of 4,3001. has been subscribed, will have two principal fronts, of the Italian style of architecture; the principal entrance , from Yorke-street has a portico of four Corinthian columns, with entablature and balustrade, in all 21 feet high. The I first-floor windows will be enriched with Corinthian attached columns and pilasters, 'upturning the entabla ture with triangular and segmental pediments. The in terior arrangements of the building will comprise, on the ground storey, spacious entrance hull and staircase, news room, 32 ft. by 28 feet ; reading room, 28 ft. by 23 ft. ; library, 28 ft. by 18 ft. ; also committee rooms, and two ' shops, fronting Market-street. The first Hour will be wholly (I. voted to the purpose of a public hall for lectures and assembiies, and will be 72 ft. by 51 ft., exclusive of la dies and gentlemen's ante and retiring rooms, over the whole of which will be a gallery for orchestral purposes. The hall will be decorated with Corinthian columns and pilasters, 42 in number, supporting entablature, with en riched mmlillion cornie.:. Thu room will be 25 feet high, and will have a coved and panelled ceiling, highly orna mented, with a lame circular dome light of stained glass in the centre. Spacious class rooms will be provided in the basement storey, under the whole of which will be store vaults, made entirely fire proof. It would be difficult to estimate the numbers in the crowd of people who assembled to witness the foundation of the new building, hut it was very Lome ' probably 21,000 to 30,000. The Right Hon. the Earl of Sefton, Lord Lieutenant of the county; thu !tight Hon. the Kid of Carlisle, Sir James Kay Shuttleworth, Bart., John Wilson Patten, Esq., M.l'., James Heywood, M.l'., L. Ileyworth, Esq . ., M.P., and Colon(' the Hon. Yorke Scarlett joined a proces sion, which met them at the gates of 'roarieley Park, and escorted them to the site of the building, when the ceremony of the day was performed amid loud demonstra tions of joy, and Mr. Towneley afterwards delivered a brief address, congratulating tho town not only upon its rapid growth, but on the progress it was making in education. There was a dinner at the Hall Inn, and after it a meeting at Salem Chapel, over which Mr. Towneley presided, and which was :addressed by Mr. Wilson Patten M.P., Mr. J. Heywood, M.l'., the Earl of Sefton, Col. Sc arlett, and The Earl of CARLISLE, who was received with raptur ous applause, and who said, I feel that in coming before a Lin. =shire audience we arc no longer living in the times, so elo- Tuently adv:rted to by a late speaker, when the names of urk and Lancaster 'muffled different factions and differ ent parties ; but now, on the contrary, we arc in a happier err, when either our red rose has paled, or our white rose blushed into one common colour. (Cheers.) And instead of contending for rival causes or for opposing dynasties, we may now only try to boast liming each other which has the greatest number or the best supported and best conducted mechanics' institute. (Hear, hear.) Now, in a place and district like this, I consider a mechanics' institute to be a must appropriate appendage. And when I say it is an ap propriate appendate, I feel that I understate the truth ; but that it is a must desirable and almost indispensable one, because, although the pursuits which are followed here are peaceful, and useful, and honourable, we must not forget that primarily and in themselves they are conversant only with what is material and with the ways (to we a homely phrase) of making money; and that they may have a tendency, if unchecked and unbalanced by anything in an opposite direction, to crush and enchain and beat down some of the more delicate tastes, or the loftier aspirations of the human mind. (Hear, bear.) Far he it from me to speak slightiugly of cotton—(" Hear, hear," and laughter); but you must acknowledge that cotton and calico, though they Make admirable stockings and other equally indispensable articles of clothing, yet do not in themselves furnish up the whole man. Now, I have observed that a most acorn'. *Med and able person, whom I may call a fellow lecturer, Dr. Lyon Playtair, in a lecture he recently delivered, gave It as his opinion with respect to the modes of education pursued in this country, that in our schools and colleges enough attention has not been given to scientific in struction and regular industrial training. He complains that too much labour may have been bestowed on classical students and dead authors and bygone poets, and that the faculties have not been enough exercised on the open page or nature and the living wonders which are around and about and above and beneath us. Now, I think that he is probably' 'm the right in this, but at the same time I ant convinced that almost every prevailing direction, both of the individual mind and of society at large, ought to be ready to have administered to it some thing in the way of reaction and of corrective. It may be very well, in the quiet of academic bowers, as my friend Mr. Heywood would probably remind me—it would be well that the dim cloisters of Oxford and the still shades of Cambridge, retaining, as I hope they ever will du, their old appropriate sources of learning —not ignoring (to use a modern expression, which I might be told in those clas sic regions was a barbarous one)—not ignoring the accus tomed voices of their muses ; yet it would be well that Obey should reflect still more—as I believe they are beginning le do—of the aspect of the century and the society in which they are placed. (Hear, hear.) But on the other hand, it is We that in a district like tins, where the pursuit of wealth h tha habitual ride—where the recurring routine of labour thaskily life—where the steam engine and the power-loom sed meehahism and machinery stem to be the lords of time awl space, of the body and of the mind,—it is well that there such a tendency, I say, that without neglecting, on the Oestrary while you are directly encouraging, those subjects which are congenial to the place—while you are promoting the study of the laws of nature and inquiriag into the pro perties of matter—at the same time the means of access should be given, and opportunity of hearing, at least af forded, to claims of general literature as well as to those albs sober muse of history, the fervid accents of oratory, OWL the sublime inspirations of song. (Applause.) An d' elle these reasons I rejoice, therefore, that such an in ideation as has already existed, and which it is now pro =to extend, to diffuse, to embody in a more worthy to spread further than genial influence' all around pa which exist in your town. I rejoice that it is proposed is suabine with it lecture-rooms, classes for drawing and sash awl for languages, together with a well assorted library ; and that it is proposed not to be wanting in the =of external architecture ; and I true' that you will yourselves alive to the occasion which opens itself thus before you, and that when the offer is made, and the brick and mortar—l beg your pardon, for I believe you have ex eallent stone of your own in Burnley—when all this is brought together, ands goodly edifice is raised, you will show that it has the support of the inhabitants, and that the mind which has to be developed within it will make the real glory and honour of that building. (Cheers.) Mr. L. Heyworth, M.P.,and othergentlemen also addressed the meeting. Sir J. K. Shuttlewortb, who was present at the the ceremony of laying the foundation stone, was ex pected to speak at some length on the subject of education at the evening nseetins, but the delicate state of his health prevented him. REPRESENTATION OF WEST KENT.—" We have authority to state," says the 31041110/14 Journal, " that in consequence of severe illness in a member of his family, Mr. Stoddart Douglas has found it necessary to relinquish his intention to become • candidate at the neat general election for the representation of West Kent." _ _ StDDEN DEATII IN BEILMONDSET.—On Tuesday evening Mr. Payne held an inquest at the St. George Workhouse, Mint-street, borough of Southwark, relative to the death of Owen Jones, a brewer, late in the employment of Courage and Donaldson, Bermondsey. The evidence showed that the deceased, who resided at No. 3, Little John-street, Hovel down, left hit home to go to his em ployment on Monday morning, about a quarter put four o'clock, and about six, as Mr. William Featherstone was walking up the Bermondsey New-road, his attention wee arrested by the howling of a dog, which he found standing over the dead body of his master, whining most piteously and caressing the body in the most affecting manner. Mr. Featherstone immediately obtained assistance, and the body w.O brought to the workhouse, where life was pro. pounced to have been extinct for some time. Sipa the Wl ' happy circumstance the faithful animal has refused to take any food. No marks of violence were found on the diseased, and the jury returned a verdict of Natural death." BCDI/Eli DEATH AT RESTON STATION.-Yesterday monsin; maw the passengers arriving at the Easton sta tion to take their departure b y the third class train, was a woman, apparently in the last stage of consansption. She was accompanied by a little child about three years of age, and on alighting from a sort of cart in which she had been brought from the neighbourhood of Wapping, the poor creature was assisted Ito the booking caw, where she paid her fare to Liverpool by a third clam carriage, and then proceeded to the platform to take her seat in one of the car riages. Her weakly state was observed by Mr. Spencer, the superintendent of the company's police at Euston-square, and he at once went to her assistance. On speaking to her he found she war in a very unlit state to travel, and while misting her back into the refreshment hall with one of his caters the poor woman fell dead. The body having been conveyed to the workhouse of St. Pancras parish, and the little child taken sharp of by a porter named Haines, in the company's service, some inquiry was set on foot with • view to ascertain the Identity of the deceased. It was sub sequently found that she was the wife of a mate in the merchant service, of the name of /Ling, and that he had only a few days since sent her Si. to pay her expenses to LiverpooL It is said that the deceased was addicted to drinking. She had three or four bores with her but only I a few halfpence were found span her parson. THE EARL OF MALMESBURY AT CHRIST- CIII:RCII. The annual meeting of the Sout't Avon Agri cultu ral Society was held on Tuesday, and in the evening, after the distribution of a numerous list of prizes to ploughmen and others for skill in their various occupations, and to firm servants and labourers for long and faithful services, the members of the society dined together at Ilutuby's Hotel. The Earl of MALMESBUItY, as patron, filled the chair, and in giving the toast of the evening, " Success to the South Avon Agricultural Society," said—l conceive that upon this society we can graft further prizes for the encou ragement and the prosperity of that agriculture in the pur suit of which the labourer is the chief material instrument. Within the last ten years I have seen a most striking change essomplished in the face, not only of the country generally, bat of this locality especially. Speaking of my own rotate—and I appeal to any of my tenants who are pre- Mit to say whether it was not so—ten years ago M hedge-rows were charged with timber much owe than they are now. (Heir, hear.) At that time, too, the fields were much smaller, in some places as three or four to one. The meadows were not divided, but lay for common pasture, and thus produced very great inconvenience, whilst tin kind of draining whatever was . resorted to. But now, although lam not come to flatter, hut rather to tell many of you that there is room fur still gre attr—aye, much greater improvement—l may say this, that even here, in this quiet, remote, rural spot, apricot tura! improvements are making most rapid strides. (Hear, hear.) I want that pace still to hasten. (Cheers.) I want it to he quickened with the spur and stimulus of competi tion—but of competition between ourselves. (Cheers.) I want it to be stimulated by such prizes as we offer the agricultural labourer; and it is my intention to offer, ou my own part, nest year, a prize for a peculiar sort of produce I with which you will by and bye be made acquainted. think that until we have brought this , suc iety testa a position as to offer prizes for praluce ' as well us to the labourers, we shall not have perfected the object we have in view. At the moment at which I am addressing you the agricultural interest is thus peculiarly situated. It has hail to pan through an ordeal which, perhaps, no race or class of men has had to experience during the last century. At the time I am speaking to you. atter three or four years of immense depression, a vast sacrifice of private property has undoubt edly been made (fir the general good of the country, as many allege and believe) ; but, whether for good or for evil, certainly a termitic sacrifice. (Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") That sacrifice having been us-ids, a beam of !Un .liiue—though nut much more than a beam—seems to have burst forth upou your interests and your hopes. The prices of some of your articles of production are a little better than they were. (Ilear, hear.) I say that prices of some of the articles of agricultural produce, if they could he maintained at present prices, are nearly as good and as profitable as the prices which these articles stood at fifteen years ago, because the cost of production is lighter. Thus, if barley is ns. or tie., and can be main tained at that henry, it is as good a price to us now as was 325. twenty years since ; and for this resale—it costs less to produce it, and the taxes you have to pay are far lighter now than they were then. Again, if we luokast the prices of wool, we find that these, too, arc not such as to make us despair ; and if we look at the prices of stock, they also have improved. Therefore, as I have already said, this year, fir the first time, I do see a ray of the sunshine of hope, after three years of despair. (Hear, hear.) On the other hand, however, the staple produce of England —the great and most important produce of all-1 mean wheat—is lower than ever, so low, indeed, :kis., that I believe it to be impossible, it that price continues, for the English farmer to afford any longer to grow it. Cries of " Hear.") Certainly not on a great portion of the land in Great Br.taia and Ireland. We know well that we are so constituted that we do nothing in the way of trade and commerce for the love that we hear to one another. Profit is the stimulating motive which makes men work, and if profit be not realised, the occupation in which you invest your capital must be changed fur another, and thus your capital, if any remains, must be shifted from one pursuit to another. But ask yourselves what would be the inevitableresult of a great tailing-off in the quantity of wheat grown in Great Britain and Ireland? Why, it has already fallen off. if, then, the destruction of that particular trade, the raising of wheat, should ensue in this country, in that event we must trust entirely to foreign natiuiis for the supply of our staple food. This will be well enough in time of peace. Then we shall have plenty—they can send us as much as we please. But in war, what shall we do? What is the state of the Continent even now 1 Dues it look so very peaceful ? May we riot any year be suddenly plunged into war, and then, tn three or lour years, with a diminutmon in the growth of wheat in this country, and being obliged to have recourse to foreign nations fur a supply, consider fur a moment the immense expense of maintaining, perhaps, double the number of armed ships that we required in the last war for protecting those nubs pensible convoys of wheat which must still come to WI for the purpose of supplying our population with food. I say, therefore, that any policy which goes to discourage the growth of wheat, though it dues not prove ruinous to the firmer, who may perhaps find som• other more profitable investment fur his skill and capital, will nevertheless hereafter prove most expensive and ruinous to us all as an empire. (Cheers.) Besides these, there are one or two other considerable difficulties under which you labour, and which meet your untiring in dustry at every step. These are in the government of your country, and agricultural prosperity depends alone on just and fair government. These' difficulties are the tares and the thistles which you should weed out, as you weed out thu tares and thistles in your fields; and think that you will find the great body of your country men ready to assist you, as well as to listen to your com plaints on this score. I speak of those local burdens which press with peculiar weight upon the farmers of England—l speak of the poor rates. (Hear, hear.) When I tell you that you are paying 10 per cent. upon the average throughout England for the maintenance of the poor of England, do not suppose that I ant running up the charges and payments of the agricultural interest us against the manufacturing classes. lam doing no such thing, though Lord Grey once mistook me in the House of Lords, and charged mo with doing it—fur the householder in the town and the manufacturer are quite as unfairly used in this respect as you yourselves are—what I want to do is to charge with the payment of the poor rate not only real pro perty, but the capitalist, the man with a fixed income, and the owner of that which is commonly called " personal pro perty." (Cheers.) I do not want to deduct from you one far thing of the cost of the poor; but I do want to see contributing to the common purse the millions of money which are now exempt from contributing one farthing towards that object. That, then, is one of the weeds which it is your duty to root I out of the political field. Youshould insist upon those burdens being made common which ought to be common. Tho prisons of this country, too, ought to be paid for by the country in common, because personal property is stolen as ' well as real property, and much more easily, inasmuch as a man can carry off the grass when he cannot take away the field. You ought to insist, also, that the classes to which I hare referred should pay towards the support of the lu natic asylums, because God may visit any man with the in fliction of insanity as well as a farmer. At present, however, real property alone maintains these insti tutions; and it is most unfair that it should do so. 1 am told that the repeal of the corn law has had able esault, that I abour is plentiful, that wages have ere muck fallen, and that the poor rates have very ems& deceased. Now, I am perfectly aware that the poor rates have very much decreased in money; and I be lieve that, is this locality, the state of the poor is peculiarly sedshaeasg; but without going fully into an inquiry as to de met mum of this, let me remind you that the great mar talky in Ireland, and the enormous maignitioa from Vat 'Gantry, have saved many an English ee Imo rat Influx§ of Irish labourers for harvest and other yowls. which in former years was so generally niedenced. Much has been said as to what we ought to do al as agri cultural body, whose capital and whose interests are em barked either i n letting or renting and cultivating the land.. There are two classes of persons who address the multitude at this moment, and whose opinions with respect to the sys tem of policy upon which I have dilated accord with then I entertain. The first of those, embittered by undesired lasses, and undeserved and wanton abuse by the free-tab press, will tell you that nothing can save you but an ab solute and entire return to the protection which you mum enjoyed and which was secured to you by Sir Hobert Peel s bill of 1842. Now, I deem it to be my duty to say that they who either entertain or promulgate such opinions are deceiving themselves, and deceiving those who listen to them. (Hear.) In the first place, we never sec upon the occurrence of a reaction that the legislature of this country returns to a law exactly similar in detail to that which it had altered or changed. The natural coarse of events is changed, and if say approximation is made to the old law, it is only by eatablishieg a new law upon the di pheiple. And, therefore, I tell you that, if we now or hereafter, for an exact return to such a law, we should be both disappointed and deceived. (Hear, hear.) Dot there is another class of men on our side, and profess ing our principles and opinions, who, weary with discoed titre and impatient of resistance, wanting in fixed pumas and a set spirit, tell us these principles must be sbaudeasd —that no more can be heard of them—that they are entirely forgotten by the British people. Now, if the first class of persons I have alluded to are deceived, I am quite certain that the opinions of the second aro equally fallacious — (hear, hear)—when they us we have no chance of re covery from any of those anomalies which have been fixed upon us—no chance of recovery from the injustice under which we labour—no chance of recovery from the burden of any portion of that unjust taxation to a part of which I have directed your attention. They are insulting the justice of the English nation at large sad tbejesties el parlia ment, and are also insulting the ineemeassemsaell immenged Englishmen, who never will be, In issi s parties to play. (Cheers.) All we require is Mr Ow, sad we are reedy to bear our burdens with the met dde asnimunity in support of the country's erode sad government. You have had five or six years of expellent", and you know what it has led to. Upon that five et Me years of expe rience the English nation can now jaip of the value of the new principle in comparison with the old, and upon that experience they are about to have an opportunity of pro nouncing a constitutional and a positive verdict. (Loud cheers.) At a general election that verdict will be given, and the nation will judge for itself whether it will abide by the new principles of action, or whether it will return to the principles of our ancient policy. LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. — Return of traffic for the week ending Nov. 23 :—Passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, and mails, 20,7671. 17s. 7d. ; mer chandise, 17,792/. 10s. 7d.; cattle, 1,6161.31. 4d. Total, 40,1661. 1 ls. 6d. C nding week 18 50 , 39,6061. 18s. Aggregate: 1860, 9967=105. id.; 1861,1,206,1981. 17.. 7d. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 27, 1851. THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY AND THE SHORT TIME QUESTION. On Tuesday evening the Earl of Shaftesbury met, in the Town-hall of Ashton-under-Lyne, a number of dele gates front the factories of Asliton-under-Ls ne Staleyhridge, and the neighbourhood. The room was crowded, and the meeting was of the most enthusiastic character. On the platform were—the Mayor of Ashton (Mr. Metlealf), Mr. Charles Hiudley, M.P., Mr. W. Frurbains, Mr. Philip Grant, several clergymen, &c. An address to the Earl of Shaftesbury having been moved, seconded, and agreed to, The Earl of SIIAFTESBURY rose to return thanks, awl was received with loud cheering. After a few pre. lisiaary re:narks with reference to the address, the noble lord proceeded to ray, that it was prefectly clear that all Lancashire was unanimous upon the short-time question. (Hear.) Manchester, Bolton, and Stockport, which places he had visited, and at which he had addressed meetings, had spoken out, and he rejoiced to find that in those towns nothing could surpass the unanimity of the operatives. (Hear.) And he deeply regretted to find that that unanimity —he was going to use a species of Irish bull—he regretted that that unanimity was disturbed by a difference of opinion on the part of some parties who withheld from co-operating in the carrying out of the great remedial measure so dear to the factory operative. (Hear.) He deeply deplored this; but at the same time, thank God, those who so acted were but • minority. Let them remember, however, that that mino rity was capable of disturbing the general peace, and of perilling the general interest, and it was their duty to do all they could by moral, and if they liked, persuasive argu ments, to induce those who formed the minority to look into their own interests and into the rights of the factory operative ; it was their duty to exhaust all moral means —the most earnest supplication if they would—to persuade the minority to • sense of their duty and to a sense of the rights of the factory operative. (Cheers.) But if, after that, they would remain obdurate, then they must resort to stronger measures—they must seek the internosition of the law—(ehteees),—and all he could say was, that if that were necessary, and if they wished him again to take the lead of their ranks, moat joyfully would be take the lead, and God grant that they might have a successful termina tion. (Loud cheers.) Ho would say little or nothing more about the minority ; but let them, heart and soul, tender their thanks to those masters, to those employers, who had come forward to give effect to this great measure—who, having at one time differed from them and their views, and having thought it necessary for the preservation of their interests and consistent with their duty to offer opposition to the measure, now that it had become the law of the land hail suppressed their differences, had treated their hands fairly, faithfully; and who, he might say, efficiently carried this measure into effect. (Hear, hear.) Then, how would they turn to account the advantages which they enjoyed? How would they spend their leisure hours? How would they respond to the intentions of the ' tare and of those who had laboured iu their cause ? now would they best improve their own social and moral condi tion? How would they best rise to the assertion of the dignity of the working men of England? (Hear, hoar.) They must look at the nature of their own houses—not only to the moral arrangements, but to the sanitary arrange ments. Let them take care that their houses were decent and cleanly, and supplied with everything requisite for domestic decency and comfort. (Hear.) if they had not command over all these things, they must apply to others who had. (Hear, hear.) To Improve the drainage, to reconstruct nos house, or to furnish it in every way to make it tit for the habitation of a reasonable being, is not in the power of every working man. But it was within their power b y . talking, thinking, and speaking of these things, to beget in their districts u public opinion ; and, sooner or later, those who were most indifferent and most opposed to them must yield to that opinion, if that opinion were founded on the laws of God and based upon the first principles of common justice. (Hear.) Ile intreated them likewise to consider the better manage ment of their finances. (Hear, hear.) They were now in the receipt of good wages ; they were now enjoying a mighty blessing in a great abatement of the price of pro. visions. (Hear, hear.) This was a day of prosperity, and the time when they must make provision for an evil day, for it was the lot of humanity, that we must have evil along with good, and God sent the good that we might be prepared against the evil. (hear.) In the next place he begged them to look at the path open to them for mental improvement. Many of those whom he addressed, he dared say, owing to long periods of toiLhad had no opportunity of culti sating their tastes or improving their talents. (Hear.) Now they had, ' and Ire wanted to see the working man study; he wanted him to leave the ribaldry of the ',unloose, and to give up the noneense, and trash, and trumpery of penny pamphlets. (Hear, hear.) lie wished them to begin all and to end all on (11141 . 15 word, while they pursued with closeness and as siduity round literature, science, and the mathematics. (Hear, hear.) He believed that there were many powerful intellects among the working classes, and that they would tend to the honour, the strcugth, and the greatness of the realm. (Hear.) He fur one could entertain no jealousy of the working classes—(" hear," and cheers)—it was the great honour and glory of our constitution that everything was open to meat—(hoar, hear)—that the highest situations in the realm might be obtained by the working man who had the requisite ability, talent, integrity, applica tion, and perseverance. (Cheers.) Therefore he thought that their entering into this race of competition would do immense good to every one—(hear)—to the class above them • for, he thought, it would tell them that, if they wished to keep their position, they must make the same ef forts as the working classes, and if they (the working class) strove very hard they might distance them and take their places, (Cheers.) And he would not be afraid of that, for the more complete the working man's understanding the more would lie be satisfied with the constitution with which this country was blessed—the constitution of Queen, Lords , and Commons—under which it had pleased God to place this happy and thriving country. (and cheers.) Le[ him impress upon them that the law had dune for them as much es it could do—the remainder rested with themselves. It was for them, with God's blessing, to keep themselves from sinking into the depth of abasement from which they had been rescued. (Cheers.) Let him impress upon them this more and more, that while the law had done for them what it could do, the law could remove obstacles and give facili ties ; but alter all the working man himself must be, under Clad, what we were in the habit of calling the architect of his own fortunes. The meeting was afterwards addressed by Mr. CUARLILS HIN uLzy, M.P. THE OLDBURY BURGLARY. OLDB URY, WEDNESDAY. The men concerned in the late burglary and out rage near this town, and who since so desperately resisted capture in Hertfordshire, were brought up for examination here this morning, before John Green, James Hunt, and Edward Moore, Esqrs., magistrates acting for this division of the county, and on the bench were Messrs. Badger, Williams. Piney, and other Worcestershire magistrates, who did not take any part in the proceedings. The names of the prisoners are George Hanks alias Rock, and Thomas Jones also. Moss. The prisoner Hanks was formerly an apprentice to Mr. Lowe, bookseller, of this town. The prisoners were now charged with having committed • burglary on the premises of Min Nicklin, in the Portway road, a short distance from this town, on the 23rd ult. Miss Nicklin, the prosecutrix, who is a lady advanced in years, deposed to the following principal facts . .—That on the night in question she saw all the doors of her house fastened between seven and eight o'clock. She went to bed at ten o'clock, and at two in the morning was awoke by a noise in the house; anticipating that it was caused by the arrival of a relative expected from Devonshire, she called to her cousin David,who slept in another part of the house, to inform him of the circumstance. Shortly afterwards, • man entered her room, having in his hand • dark lantern, his face was blackened, and he wore a chemise over his dress. He turned the light towards witness, and said, " Where is your money ? It will ho better for you to be still; if you do not, I shall blow your brains out." The man showed her a pistol, and raid it was a double-barrelled one. Wit ness told him that she had very little money, and that if he must have it, it was in her pocket on the floor. He took the money therefrom, but witness did not notice where he put it. The man said that he did not want coppers, and asked witness if there were any more in the house than herself and her relative. Witness did not reply, and the man immediately went round to the other side of the bed, and examined the drawer of the dressing table. After re her niece, who slept with her, he left the room. Her cousin David's room adjoined her own; there was a drawer in a looking-glass which the prisoner opened, but witness could not say whether be took anything therefrom. Witness identified the prisoner Hanks so the man who came into her room. After he had quitted her and reached her cousin's apartment, she heard the prisoner say, " Shoot the devil ;" and immediately afterwards heard the report of a pistol three times. Immediately sat up in bed and saw her cousin David lying on the floor; he groaned • great deal ; and the two prisoners then proceeded to search the house. The witness next described the pro ceedings of the prisoners (one only of whom she saw), as they have already appeared in the .isprost. After they had gone she sent her niece out for assistance, sad examin ing the premises down stairs, found that the burglars had effected an entrance by taking a pane of glass out of the parlour window. On examining the premises, she missed, amongst other things, some silver spoons, several of which were produced to-day, and which the witness identified— they had been found on the nervous of both prisoners. Superintendent bl'Crokon, of the Leominster police, moduced two brace of revolving pistols, a life-preserver, a flexible saw sufficiently small to be introduced into a hole perforated by a nail-pamer, several bullet moulds, and a quantity of ball cartridge, all of which had been found on one or other of the prisoners at the time of their apprehen _ - Mr. David Nicklin, who wu shot at by the burglars soon after they entered his cousin's premises, and Sarah Nieklin, proeecutrix's niece, were also examined ; and the superintendent of the Leominster constabulary detailed the particulars of the desperate resistance made by the pri soners on the occasion of their arrest. Corroborative testimony against the prisoners having been adduced, they were fully committed to take their trial at the next assizes. The inquiry lasted seven hours. Loss OF A COLLIER AND ALL HANDS.—A terri ble accident happened off the Tees on Sunday night. A large barque was com • ng down from the south with the ' fleet of light colliers. About seven o'clock in the evening she was crossing the Tees, when she came in collision with a loaded collier (supposed to have come out of Hartlepool), which went down at her bows, and all hands perished. The name of the collier is not known. DR. WHEWELL'S LECTURE AT THE SOCIETY OF ARTS. Some time since it was suggested to the council of the Society of Arts, by Prince Albert, that they might yet materially promote the objects of the Great Exhibition, by offering to the members a aeries of lectures upon the influ ence which it might probably exercise upon various branches of the arts. In accordane with this su g•cion they. have u. made arrangements with several eminent scientific men fur the delivery of leztures upon special subjects. The first of these by Dr. Whewell, Mager of Trinity College, and author of the " History and Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences," was delivered yesterday evening. The lecturer commenced by apologizing for the position in which he stood as a critic of the great display of the world's arts, both on the ground of his not having been in any way connected with the management of the Exhibi tion, as well as from the difficulty . of writing or speaking after any great drama. In art, as in literature, work must precede criticism. This succession of Science to Art is riot fantastical and arbitrary. There were great artificers in metal before the laws of chemistry were known—wines were made before the phenomena of fermentation were understood—great archi tectural works were carried out before the laws of mechan ical force were discovered. The earlier ages did—the latter explained. The lecturer then proceeded to draw an analogy be tween the state of art iu the middle ages and the growth of science out of that, and the late Exhibition, and the scienti fic moral to be drawn front it theoretically by the subac quent lecturers, stud practically in its actual effects. lle then pointed out that, in spite of our boasted superiority over so-called barbarous countries, our manufactures are inferior to theirs in beauty and elegance of design and ornament, instancing as examples, the tissues of India, Persia, &c. Re considered that this difference consisted in the fact that there the arts are ter the few, with us they arc for the many. lie had been told by a well-known writer on machinery and manufactures, that More commencing his inquiries, he expected to find the most delicate and beautiful machinery employed in the making of fine and costly wares, but Maud the contrary to be the case. The greatest refinement of machinery was found to be applied to the manufacture of those wares which were con ' Bunted in largest quantity, such as cotton tissues, Here the tnachiue, with its millions of lin e gers, works for the whole community ; there tens of thousands of fingers work fur one. This apparently anomalous fact dues not therefore at all interfere with the reality of our superiority—does nut affect that mighty idea ins nation's life progress. The classification WAS the neat subject touched upon. After alluding to the successive different attempts of the French commissioners in arranging their expositions-Ist, according to a geographical method ; 2nd, according to the nature of the materials; 3rd, scientific; and Rh, that of M. Dupin, in which the objects were classified according to their relations to man it, life, he gave a long description of the classification of our late Exhibition, and highly eulogised the admirably practical characters which he considered would be still of very great service to manufacturers by tending to introduce a settled common language ; he illus trated the possibility of this by reference to the sixes cf the teeth of wheels and screws, fice. On taking a general view of the classes into which the objects of the Exhibition were divided there were found to be some remarkable characters. For example, the first class, mining and mineral products, contains materials which have been used in an art known since the earliest antiquity ; the second class, or chemical manufactures, con tains products of the most modern art. Tuba' Cain was an artificer in brass and iron long before it was known that the extraction of metals depended upon the separatiou of the oxygen and sulphur of the ore ; and art is still in some respects in advance of science in this department, as in the case of the Swedish iron and Damascus blailss. In the second class, art is the daughter of science. All the immense factories of Liverpool and \Vales owe their exist ence to science, which was built up in the laborabsries of Scheele, Kirwan, and Lavoisier. The material used is still the same as were used in antiquity ; the discovery of new arrangements arid combinations is the only kind of pro gress. Gold and iron are still the rulers of the world ; the progress in connexion with them consists in finding new deposits. But in the vegetable world it is otherwise. The collection of imports exhibited by the townsmen of liver pool show that its wealth is far from being exhausted or even known. Caoutchouc and gutta perdu& wets instanced us striking examples of the capabilities of this class of natu ral production. The lecturer concluded by expressing a hope that the assemblage of men from all parts of the world might have the harmonising and beneficial effects which it seems to premise. SPORTING. WARWICK AND LEAMLNOTON NOVEMBER MEETING—TtEsuay. SWEEPSTAKES of 5 save. each, and 20 added ; 2-yr olds, 7st 3lb ; 3 yrs, Bst 10lb ; maidens allowed3lb, and fillies and geldings 31b. The winner to be sold by auction fur 1001., it entered for 701. allowed 3lbs., if fur 50/., 71bs.; and it for 301., 1 tlbs. Five furlongs. (14 subs.) Lord Lumen's Trghtwalat, a yrs (3OL), 75t 71b (J. Arnold) 1 Captain Powell's b c by t othersteme out of loyla, I yes (Jut), Gat (J.W sum) 2 Mr. Taft's f by Din John dam by Mundig, 3 yrs (lad.), Set 710 (K. Denman) 3 Mr. N. Darling's Stratagem, 2 you (34.), Gat 31b (E. Ann r) u Mr. Damon, tad l'Aney Pres, 2 jra (301.), OM (carried G.t 2(b) Mr. Theobald's f The Ferret, 2 yrs (301.), Sot 1 ilb(Alsicoll) 0 ((Sliver, jun.) 0 Mr. Winch's Herschel. tyrs (.10/.), Est 31b (from) 0 Mr, Wering's Glean, S yr* (3W.), 7st 7lb (Prince) 0 Mr. B. Austin's Brawn, 2 yes (70).), Ost 111 b (Knott) 0 Ur. Sayley's Once mare, 3_yrs (301.). 7st 71b (W. mbarpr) Betting : 7 to 4 agst Tightwaist, and 4 to 1 agst any other. Won by a neck; two lengths between second aid third. Run in 1 min. 13 secs. °NEAT WARWICK HANDICAP of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft, with 100'. ad,lesl; the second to save his stake. Two miles. (18 subs.) Mr. Williams's Cider Justice, 4 yrs, 7st (including Gib cartes) (T. L e I Mr. (mbaldeston dJohn of Berwick, 4 yr*, Gst lib (carr but 31o) (11leto 2 Mr. Palmer's Doubt, S yrs, 7st 31b (including Glb extra) n 3 Mr. Meiklam's Italian, 4 yrs, let 21b (Ar (K no o l (Knott) ) U Mr. W. Sounder. nd Trieketress, 3 srs, but 10Ib (Alticrolt) 0 lord Waterford's,The Marquis, 3 yrs, 6st 91b (D. 1.1.4 le) 0 Capt. Ilay's Little George, 4 yrs, Ost 21b (J. Wynne) 0 Mr. Austin's Miss Julia, 5 yrs, list lib Mr. ChaLiner's Master k'nday, 4 yrs, Get 21b (Wells) 0 Mr. Isaac Day's Waterfall, 3 yes, fat bib (carried 4st 10. b), (011iver. jun.) 0 Betting: Even on Doubt, 3 to 1 apt Chief Justice, 8 to 1 apt The Marquis, and 12 to 1 apt any other. Won by half a length ; a length between second and third. Run in 3 min. 57 see. SWEEPSTAKES of 5 son. each, and 20 added; for3-yr olils and upwards. One mile. (18 sub..) Mr. Wad's Young England, 4 yrs (Sl.), 7st alb I Lord Lurgan's Tightwiust, 5 yre (AUL), Is; Illb (J. brown 2 Mr. Winoh's Flytrap, 4 yrs (M.), Mt 1110 ( Wells 3 Mr. Oliver's Colocynthua, aged CUL), 7st 91b ...(Oiliver, jun.) 0 Mr. Ism Day's Mignon, aged (NI ), 7st 910 .. . ....... (Arnold) 0 Mr. Owen's isms Somum, 4 yrs (IOC), Got illb (tarried lot Ilb Lord Warwick's Grief, S yes (1301.), got lib Lord Newport's Lady Bibina, S yrs (1 (1 .), 7st Sib (W. rils ape) 0 Capt. Powell's Aromas, 3 yes (201.), Set I alb (J. Wynne) 0 Yr W. Cooper's by Pantaloon out of Kite, 4 Ira, Mt bib (Preece, 0 Mr. Dawson's Joe Sutherland, 5 yrs (201.), 7st 31b . (T. Lye) Mr. B. Darling, jun.'s Exhibition, 3 yrs (JWL). Set 1 (lb (car ried. let 1310) SR. Archer) 0 Betting: sto 2 agst Amereen, 3to 1 agst ightwaist, 6to 1 each agst Joe Sutherland and Flytrap, and 8 to 1 apt Young England. Won by a length. Run in 1 min. 53 sec. (Full particulars of tho remainder of this day's racing ap peared in our last.) WEDNESDAY. FEES] HANDICAP (III:1111LE RACE) of 5 SOTS. each, and 30 added. Two miles, over five hurd les. (16 subs.) Mr. Carew% BaLlicch, 4 us e MAIM (Boyce) I Lord Lampe* Fugitive, s, 10at (bib (8. Du ling) 2 Mr. Paws d ale Mobs" 4 )es, bat (lb (R. lily, Jun.i 3 Mr. Motets Melia; 4 yor. gat Mb linker) 4 Mr. Damming ad BaNan4Hal4 lost 1010 Mr. C. Illegliela Made Manly 10M 210 ( lamer) 0 Mr. H. Dwelt 1000 0' At y ps, 10st Lb (Yates) 0 Cautidn (late Pander), 4 yrs, 104 0 Mr. eannitimi ft rnp e.a fear-Debts. 6 yrs, gat Illb :..(Bradley) 0 Mr. William% nut. - Oft Nth (J. Holman) 0 Mr. C. flbsokrds Potad lia6, gat. IWb (airtad Nat) ...(Fnaby) 0 Betting: II to 4 apt Half-and-Half, 4to 1 apt Ballet Girl, 6 to 1 each agst Fugitive, Sir Robert, Maria Monk, and Bullfinch, and 10 to 1 apt Pay-your-Debts. Won by a length ; Sir Hebert a bad third. Ballet Girl fell at the sat hurdle. HUNT Cur STEEPLE CHASE STAKES of 10 SOTO. each. The winner to be sold for 1501., Three miles. (10 subs.) Mr. C. 11. Carew's Proceed (31:11.), lest 1310 (Oliver) 1 Mr. Theobald's (301.), lest bib (Burrows 2 Mr. Price's licilltlncber (301.), lOst ISIS (Frisby 3 Lord Waterfoes's The Piero (501.), Ilst 71b .. (Mr. Hamilton) 4 Mr. Linclow's Auctimser (1001.). list 710 (Owner) 0 sto 4 apt Proceed, and sto 2 apt Hinton Won easy by two lengths ; half a length between second and third. Auctioneer fell, and did not jpasa the chair. GYAND OPEN STEEPLE CHASE 1 KEE HANDICAP of 20 sore. each, 10 ft, and 100 added, the second to save his stake. Gentlemen riders. 4 miles. (26 subs ) Captain Forster's Omar, b yrs, get 410 (Wynne) I Mr. T. 011iver's Maurice Daley, aged, gst. .. . ... 2 Lard Waterford's Lord George, 6 yrs, 12M 41b . (tyan) 3 Mr. Carew's British Yeoman, aged,l ist 410 (litiyee) 0 Mr. W. Barne t 's Sir Peter Lamle, aged, 114 4lb (Inclu ding 71b min) (W. Holman) 0 Lord Largess St. Illeßer, 6 yrs, Inat gib (Darling) 0 Mr. Csrew's Mies Morbray, aged, likat 615 Mr. Booth's Term, aged, lOst (J. /Vo lli irean 'e l 3 Mr. A. Itouth's Itscrolt, 9st 11th (carried 71bs sates) Mr. Thcaapson's Hardwick,' yrs, lot 12Ib (H. Bradley) (Manning) 0 0 Mr. Land's Defaulter, 6 yrs, get 101.0 (carried Lbs over) (Owner) 0 Mr. Oath's Metre., est lib (Fowler) 0 Betting : 2 to 1 agst Mies Mowbray, 5 to 1 agst Hard wick, 6 to 1 eget Victrees, 6 to 1 apt Oscar, 6 to 1 agst Sir Peter Laurie 6 to 1 agst Lord George, 7 to 1 agst Oscar, and 10 to 1 agst B. Yeoman. Won by two lengths, half a length between second and third, Victresa fourth, and Sir Peter Laurie fifth. Hardwick, Recruit, and Loddiugton were hers-d• combat early in the race. Faam HANDICAP (Stusrix-citasz) of 5 sore. each, and 26 added. Three miles. (8 subs.) Mr.Click'snabeate (SOL), Set fib Mr. Pewee Baglisales (1101.). Om . (2=l Mr. J. Bell's Lima Syse (301.), gat Sib ',Fowler 3 lanre lONE (OIL), get ILb (Owne r 0 Mr. Beilimmesßansath, aged (SON.), get gib (Burrows 0 Ismaingrfe Therege, yrs (so sem) gat 6lb (Wynne 0 CILUTBS COP Bzrzure.-1,000 to 15 each taken about Piteford, Le Julf, Black Doctor, Trickstress, Grand Duke, Ringleader, Boh-l-noor, Merry Bird, and Cardinal Wisc. RAW intelitgence. JUDICIAL COMNit i this OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL-1 , :F.STERDA Y. The judicial cominitiecassenthlid --- ifiis morning at the Privy Couch Office, Whitehall. The leannat lords prevent / were Lord Justice Cranwortb, Lord Justice Knight Bruce, Sir Herbert Jcnner Foot, and Dr. Lushington. The eases / which will be submitted to the council during the ensuing sitting, will consist of five appeals tram the High Court of Admiralty ; three from Bengal ; one from Bombay ; one from Madras ; two from British Guiana ; and one from Jamaica. SL.vi cal petitions for the extension of letters pa tent will also be heard during the present sittings. WILKINSON D. WILSON.—TILE BUNAPAKTIL—BOTTOMRY. The question raised in this case was the validity of a bot tomry bond. It appeared that a schooner culled the Bona parte was on a voyage from Gottenburg to Hull with a cargo of iron and deals. She put into the South Custer Bay, in Swede'', on the 22d of November, 1848, in conse quence, as it was alleged, of injuries sustained through previous bail weather. On the 24th of the same month the master, it was also alleged, communicated with the managing owners of the schooner, and requested them to supply hint with the funds said to be accessary for repairing tut schooner. The owners, it was alleged, in formed the master that he must get the vessel repaired at a pert twelve miles disbsut, and that he must borrow the money for that purpose. The master, ul.on that in formation, on the 3rd of December, applied to W. Torrcn, who finally lent the sum of 81121. 15s. lid., on buttomry of the ship, canto, and height, at the maritime premiunt of MI. 17s. 5d., and the whole sum, namely, 4511. 13s. 4d., was made payable after the safe arrival of the schooner at Hull. In the court below, Dr. Lushington said the ques tion raised was whether or nut the bond was invalid by the general maritime law upon the ground that it hail been granted in the country of the owner of the ship, and that notice hail nut been given to the owners of the cargo. lie was of opinion that Ate principle, as far as it extended—for it wits not a universal rule that a bond should not bo grant:it iu the country of the owner of the ship —was a principle directed rather to the proti•ctims of the owner of the ship than the owittAr of the cargo; and that principle depended upon the facility of communication with the owner of the ship or of the cargo, if resident in the country in which the bond was granted ; and when the owner of tho cargo was resident abroad, the principle could not apply, especiaby in this ease, where the owner of the ship was a consenting party. It had been objected that the cargo ought to have been transhipped, or communication made to the uglier of the cargo. It was quite clear that there was not a general obligation upon a muster to tranship. It was front Dr. Lushiugton's judgment that the present appeal was Mad:. Dr. Addams and Mr. Willes appeared for the appellant. Dr. hinter and Dr. Twig. represented the respeudent. The arguments, which were only partly heard, were ad journed. COURT OF QUEEN'S BFANCii.-YEKTEIWAY. efITINIIS IN BANC:O.-8.4'1M )411...J1.111101 CIL.ItIVOIK AND ML VOICE Eats. The court sat to-.lay by appointment to hear some ap peals from the county courts. Ititimas r. lt.twkrowourit.—Juinotasr.—Fului:ro BAN K-NOIE; Mr. Justice Patteson COM; into the court to deliver judg ment in this ease, which had been heard at the sittings alter last term. The plaintiff was in the shop of the de fendant, near Charing-cross, when he found on the dad a parcel of Lank-mots, of the value of bit., which he handed to the defendant, until the rightful owner should come for them. Nu person, however, applied for them, upon which the defendant advertised them. Nu notice having been taken of the advertisement, the plaintiff desired the de fendant to give the mites up to him, uttering to pay for the cost of ad tertising, and to give security in case the owner should eventually be found. The dednitant refused to part with the notes, but offered the plaintiff 2/. 10., and subsequently 51., for his honesty, both which autos the plaintiff refused, but suggested that the money should be put into a savings hank :aid divided between them ; the defendant, however, refused to secede to this proposition, upon which the plaiutiff brought an action to recover the amount iu a county court, when the plaint was dis missed, the judge ruling that the notes belonged to the de fendant, because they were found in his shop ; the plaintiff had appealed against this decisiun, and this court was of opinion that tile judgment of the court below must be reversed. The plaintiff found the nutes on the four; evidently they belonged to somebody ; and the general right of the finder was well established. %Viten he delivered them to the defendant, he did not intend to give up his right to them, but only that they should be delivered to the owner, if he could he round. The single point which the • learned judge seemed to have decided wan that the notes, having been haunt in the shop, belunged to the defendant. There was no authority on this point, except that of " ley and Lee" (7 Wesel' and Welsby); but that case differed in many respects (*femme present. If the defendant bad a right to the tunes, when did it accrue? It must have been antecedent to the finding by the plaintiff, fur that finding could not give the defendant any right. If the notes had been accidentally kicked into the street, they might have been picked up by any one, and the defendant would not be entitled to them, nor would he be liable to any action ; the defendant, in fact, hail nu responsibility, except that which arose by the plaintiff giving the notes to him, and his having advertised them. By the general rule of law, a tinder was entitled, in the absence of the real owner, against all the world. The court was, therefore, of upiuiun that the judg ment of the county court must be reversed, and that the plaintiff was entitled to the value of the notes, and the costa of his legal proceedings. CUIPPINGDALE c. Tole LANCASIIINE AND YORKPOIDE RAILWAY CUMPANY.—L/ABILITY UV RAILWAY COM PANIES. In this cue the plaintiff was a dealer in cattle, and the defendants had been sued as common carriers for hire. On the 29th of May last the plaintiff's drover took 12 head of cattle to be conveyed by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, and plaintiff having paid the faro signed a docu ment called a pass ticket, winch contained a clause to this etfkt, " subject to the owner taking all risks of convey ance whatsoever, as the company will out hold themselves responsible for any injury or damage, however caused, to live cattle," /Sc. It appeared that upon the journey the cattle became frightened, and the carriage in which they were placed Suing unfit for the purpose, some of them es caped, and two were killed un the line. The plaintiff then brought an action in a county court against the company to recover the value of the cattle which had been destroyed, when the judge held that he had catered into a special con tract, by which he might be bound, hut took the opinion of the jury as to whether the truck in which the cattle were conveyed was defective or nut. The jury were of opinion that it was, and found a verdict for the plaintiff fur 21/. The defendants appealed from this decision, alleging that it was a matter of law, upon the special contract, which ought to have been decided by the judge; and that no question of fact should have been left to the jury. Mr. Cowling now contended, on behalf of the plaintiff, that the defendants, as common carriers, were liable for any defects in their carriages, there being a condition pre cedent that the truck should be properly constructed, and fit for the purpose for which it was used. The court,without calling upon the other side, were of opi nion that the plaintiff was bound by the special contract which he bad entered into, the effect of which was, that he would not call on the company for any damage arising from the conveyance of his animals during the journey, one of which, it appeared, he had seen put into the truck by which they were conveyed. The verdict of the jury must, therefore, be set aside, and entered for the de fendants. Smote' ar Soso Mt. JUSTICI Wien N AND A Coates Jets. PARIS O. SPUltillEtt.—Cßll4. COX. This was an action to recover compensation in damages for a criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife. Mr. Watson, in opening the case, said the plaintiff In this action, Mr. Paris, was a mate on board an lase Indianian belonging to Messrs. Green and Wigram, tits ealabested shipowners of London, in whose service IN had been ever since 1842, and the defendant, Mr. Spurrier, was a gentleman of property, a member of a fashionable club at the West-end, and also a wine mer chant in an extensive way of business at 168, Old Bond street. Ho was, in fact, a person of considerable position in life, and mixed in the best society. The plaintiff, by this action, sought ti recover compensation in the shape of damages for one of the most serious injuries which one man could inflict upon another—the seduction of his wife, and consequently the destruction of his happiness and the ruin of her character as a virtuous and chaste woman. Ile should briefly state the facts as they were presented to him, and then leave the jury to estimate the wrong and injury which his client had sustained, and the amount of damages he was entitled to under the circumstances. The defendant had taken advantage of the plaintiff's absence from this country first to secure his wife's affections and then seduce her. In 1839 the plaintiff was not in any business, but was maintained by his father, who had since died, but was then a perfumer and soap manufacturer in the Strand or Fleet street. It was in that year that ho first became ac quainted with the unfortunate lady who was the subject of the present inquiry. She was then about 20 years of age, and possessed considerable beauty and charms, and there could be no doubt that a strong attachment and love for her induced the plaintiff to make her his wife, as she possessed no fortune, which was sometime* considered a necessary or agreeable quabecatioa by persons of riper years than the plaintiff, and it appeared equally clear that there existed great fondness and attachment on her side, as the plaintiff was no richer than herself, and was to a great extent dependent on his parent for the means daub. name. The marriage took place in 1839, and they lived as happily together as man and wife could do until 180. The event was entirely unknown to the father, and it would seem that the plaintiff kept the marriage a secret from his family, as he expected some fortune on the death of an uncle, and thought his prospects i n th a t respec t m i g h t b e injured if his marriage were known. Not having, there fore, any means of supporti ng himself, he was obliged to live with his father, who kept a country house at Egham i and, in 1842, he pl ac ed his wife with a respectable family of the name of Warren, in Roupell-street, Lambeth, and agreed to pay them for her support. In the same year his father obtained him a situation as midshipman in a ship of Messrs. Green, and on his return to England he visited hie wife at the Warren's. The plaintiff only made short stays in England between his arrival and departure from hie different voyages, and did not sec his wife on every occasion. The plaintiff's salary was ex tremely small, and he had little or no money to c send to her while absent abroad. In 1848 ho received ma anonymous note, and this gave rise to some dissatisf , _ in his mind ; but, like most husbands, he was the lan ~T.:ol- C iTr.` , suspect his wife's dishonour and guilt, and it was n r:,/ - X,., --.,:, „ow 1849 that the truth flashed upon him. 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