The Express. — London, England, 1847-02-01 00:00:00

I latter function you . are well aware is pa by the mate rials destitute of ramie's. Both wheat rad beet vary much s the proportion of their eciadltaent , , according to their varieties. Flour, on an name, contiins 70 per ant. of starch, 5 per ear. et espir, and 3 of pm ; is all, 78 of matter garret ea the yawn a wawa haat. Beet has suss WOW of Or* grandly abort 8 per cent, and 2 per emit of Warr raw Mei fee die sere prria, id ail U 1 par ark Sm. iikeyrrilmilwo yaw of wheat compared with her he die iupafort papas ef rep- F eting animal heat is r 71110 : 1, (my in round numbers, 2 : 1). But the economic value can on ly be obtained by re lemma to prices. Now lame of wheat eats 2s. 10d. and yissivalent in micaargy value to 8 stones of beet ct,sting lima, so that in riot of view also, beet has a superior eassaiaie value. To redoes these calculations to a con. Mimi firm :—. One stone of wheat costs '2s. 10d., and is 1 sin value as true nutriment to 6 stones of beet, eating Is, std, ia respiratory value, to lees than 8 stones of east rag Is. 4d. In genera terms, the economic valise Si ilia as an article of food, at present market pricer, is be spa 2 and 3 times greater than the economic value of Gear. WASTING EFFECTS OF YEAST IN BREAD-WAKING. —la connesion with the above paragraph, we add another kw the k:nroomist, for no practical suggestion for ceo. spiking the national stock of had at this adhering aids area be overlooked : " It is a positive fact that through out Great Britain and Ireland a quantity of dour sufficient for the supply of many thousands Is every day destroyed, =bud, and lost utterly to human use. This is the le result of using yeast in the composition of bread. Aportion of flour becomes decomposed in the aeon of natation, and passes off into the atmosphere in the dupe it sarbonie acid gas. As it escapes it puffs up the tenaciom Spepk, and stakes it spongy and light. This is the only end hr which yeast is employed in bread-making ; hut the same 4get an be effected quite as well by other chemical pre` mar s whir de not occasion any loss of salaam's to the lisse. Dec. Aram Thompson has ascertained, by .experi soma ea a 'urge sale that in a sack of flour titers is a dif ference in favour of tined made without yeast to the amount of 30 pounds 13 ounces ; a is round numbers a sack of dour would produce 107 loaves of unfennented bread, and only 100 loaves of fermented bread of the same weight. Hence it appars, that in the sack of iloar by the common proem of elt. 7 loaves or 61 per cent, of the dour are driven into the air and lost. _ _ —• • - - --- -- -- Trte BOOK-TRADE AND THE FAMINE IN IRELAND. —The booksellers of Dublin having formed themselves, as a body, into a Relief Committee for th e purpose of oontribut- Us to the alleviation of frith diatrus, have addressed an =to the Publishers of Great Britain for assistance. is in the terms of the circular by which they invite •e so-operation of the London trade, • curious suggestion, 1p which the claim of human nature in her hour of real agony is made binding upon those who have so often profited in their business by the fictitious agonies that genius has drawn. They who have been fed by literary starvation are eilltd on to feed the actually starving. Out of the profits of OVe suffering a portion is demanded hark for the of suffering life. The passage is as follows : testimony of an eminent judge, speaking from the BM& of Justice, without prroudios or passion, is of illiesdal value at this moment. Writers of fiction,' he ob. wee, . have drawn the terrors., the desolation, the suffer rMim es ath ndant un the plagu of former times ; but these of the imagination, highly coloured as they may be, at equal those simple recitals of real misery and suffer • which the chronicles of the present hour present to us in Ireland. Robust men, worn and gaunt with famine— weak women and children, sinking down faint from want of food—famished human beings uttering the cry of hunger, until that cry is stopped by death! Even the decent forms of burial obliged to be dispensed with, and the unshrouded victims consigned unooffinisi to the grave!" There can be no doubt about the issue of such en appeal to the liberality of the English publishers. SHORT COMMONS FOR THE ARIBTOCRACT.—It is Rated in the Ti.”ea that the following document hat re mired the approbation, if not of the WO.* peveoeage of the realm. at least of a largo mother of the Memel ranks of our nobility:— " Wa the weictiPli Engle Mermen will Or debate which tannin a peat steseher dear allewasenwaryien In Ormt WM& sail Om dr yeti atneeeseary ennielesee, and ob. am** id the ef Oil ere dins, Mit It ow duty to pledge smile' le Twine In ear imam v ie r sap be neadican* the ref bind and lbeir awl we belie the mewed= of all the e= inay saner with as in Oar NNW. of the precast 0ar ...,,,.. We" observe that, when anything partisdirly stnpid w pea with reference to the condition of th. people, and the Mem of remedying that condition , it is as constant habit albs projectors to attribute to the highest personage in the realm a sanction of the folly. And in this special instance, whilst we can readily believe that her Majesty would, at any time, and under any circumstances, lend the aid of her influence and name to rebuke mere waste or excess, we give no credit to the suggestion that she has suctioned this ridiculous expedient for adding to the general stock—it Is too absurd. Fur what do the " highest ranks of our no bility " intend? Are they about to eat less than is ones vary ? or to CCOUOI2I6e at the expense of the kitchen pantry ? of have they been hitherto eating more than is necessary ? or suffering bread and flour to rot for lack of use ? Is another precept to be added to the code of nursery morals in the families of the highest nobility, and shall Miss Stiffback lecture on the piety of one half-round of bread and butter the less, for each juvenile lord and lady, in order to reduce " the distress which pre veils among a great number of our fellow-citizens In Great Britain and Ireland, from the want of necessary subsistence ?" Why what trash is this ! Our highest nobility hare a marvellous way of recording their here ditary claims by the exhibition of such drawling fatuity. It is quite in keeping with the little French Princess's short stake and sweet cake, as • substitute for a deficiency of black bread. They tell, in effect, pinched Great Britain and famished Ireland that pnoes may be kept down, and distress alleviated, by the w thy eating no more bread and flour than is necessary—for, of course, we cannot suppose they intend to eat Is.. A kindred folly is that of a correspondent to one of the daily papers, who, belonging to a club, lectures the members on the wickedness of keeping horses to eat that corn which the people want! Would he have the owners cut their throats ? To hear this, one would suppose we were reduced to eating them.-- Weekly Chronicle. MEXICAN OBTUSENESS.—The late Lord Cantle mph was accustomed to rail at the people in a very lordly way for their ignorant impatience of taxation. The New York Sun beat* the peer, Recapitulating all the American conquests in Mexico, it adds, rather complainingly : " Not withstanding our triumphant progress, however, our enemy 'till holds out the vain hope of recapturing the conquered territories. Such is the immobility of the Mexican charac ter. Long subjection to tyranny has blunted their finer sen sibilities ; and reverses which would persuade any other na tion to sue for peace, induce them to reject propositions of peace. With strange infatuation they persist in courting destruction. Stranger yet, the conduct atheir leaders, who impel them on to reattonal suicide I" This is charming. If their " finer sensibilities " were sharp, they would submit of course, to the invaders. As the are " blunted," it would appear that " they persist in cour ting destruction." As their leaden encourage the Mexican dart not to be conquered, the New York editor charges them with impelling them "on to national suicide.' If this moan anything, it is, that to resist the semen's knife, really is not self-lefence, but wilds.— Weekly Tines. THE LAND OF LIBERTY. The Hutchinson fa mily having advertised one of their concerts to take place on the 30th December, at the Music el Fund Hall, Phila delphia, they were warned by the mayor that if they per• sista in singing anti-slavery songs, and in admitting co louredper one, there would in all probability be a riot. The IL would make no alteration either in their per t:mimeo or in their custom of admitting coloured auditors. In corequence, the trustees of the fund had refused the use olds. ma, and the concert was abandoned. ONE THOUSAND CATS.—A Mr. Riway advertises in the CentreriU• (Md.) Tunes for 1 000 black cats, for which he will pay two cents a piece, on delivery at Poplar Wend, Talbot county, Md., or at the store of John W. Ridgway, of Hayaide. Here's a chance for speculation.— U. S. Gazette.—Mr. Ridgway does not explain for what pur pose he engages in this wholesale feline speculation. SUDDEN OEATIL—Capt. Francis lead, R.N., died suddenly at his residence in Woolwich yesterday. The de ceased or was seated at breakfast with his family, when he was Seized with a fit of apoplexy sad expired before me dical riddance could be procured. Capt. Fed was a justice of the Peace for the county of Kent. Fllta. —Last night, shortly before eleven, a lire Wm sot on the premises of Mr. Rouse, straw bonnet maker, Bermemdsey-road. The fire spread through the shop before the Inmates of the building, consisting of four or five farm net,could be aroused. The whole stock in trade was de stroTed, EMBEZZLEMENT BT A RELIEVING OFFICER.—At the Ilford Petty Sessions (Saturday), Mr. Samuel Richard son, the clerk to the guardians of the West Ham union& applied to the magistrates for a warrant for the apprehension et a person named Joseph Lindsay Barfoot, the treasurer to a temperance building society at Stratford, and formerly one of the relieving officers of the West Ham Union, for feloniously embezzling certain monies, the property of tho guardians. It appeared from the information of Mr. Richardson, that it was Barfoot's duty to pay sums of money to the out-door poor, indeed of doing which he appropriated it to his own use. MILITARY FLOOGING.—On Saturday morning at half-past eight o'clock, the whole of the troops in Woolwich turison were mustered in the riding school . to see the sen tence of ■ district court-martial, held on Wednesday last, on Gunner and Driver J. Beaty, of Capt. Grant's company (10th ban.), carried into effect. The prisoner was convicted 10 ** time since by a district court-mortal of the crime of desertion and of stealing half a sovereign belonging to Cor- Ponl Frazer, which the latter had entrusted him with to t changed. He was then sentenced to six months' jai- Divnenent and to be branded with the letter 1), This Inv tenet was carried into effect, and the prisoner was sent the military prison at Fort (licence, Chatham. Whilst in meanie:kat he attempted to injure his eyes, with the view of indurine a deprivation o f s ight f o r the purpose of being t d , i s m holted. Being detected, he was sent up to Woolwi ch 1 * tried for this offence, technically called " tampering," and the district eourt-martial sentenced him to receive 60 lashes. The sentence was carried into effect on Saturday rooraina, under the superintendence of the field officer on , d oty• The unfo r t unate man rece i ve d t h e 60 l as hes at the "ads of two d - umnieni. The prisoner, though evidently of a weak (rime of baiiy, bare the inßietint with flrruni ss, and at its cumin.' r •fused to slim any of his comrades to autdot on hi • clothes. On returning in'o the open "' became Rine, and sses supported by three mvii up the ‘, •• P , of the Royal Ordnance Hospital. held D (411 AnFtS Mans FROM BAD.—At an inquest th.t Waning in St. Giles's, Mr. Wale, to'd the jury badhs 4 4 discovered a manuilictory of oranges. cat which °e mitter could M m sit into apparently good ones. The proem employed was submitting unripe and inferior oranges to the action of steam, or parboiling them. This made them filled out their rinds, and made them thin, the usual external sign that the fruit was good. Tu give them the lest polish, and heighten their t utward attraction, they were rubbed with a gressy piece of damsel, ur with something more objectionable. bIQUEST, SATUIDAT.—SUICIDE.—By Mr. Mills, at the Victoria. Copland, on the body of Mary Anne Lambert. The deceased, who had been wealthy, was of a goculative disposition. and Mat June she purchased the Bull Tavern, Hoddesdon, wh:ch proved a decided fa lure, and where she lost the greater portion of the wreck of her pro petty. Since that period she was in a desponding state, &e -1 quently telling her servant that she would destroy herself. When her son-in-law told her of the late fatal accident on the Great Western Railway, she said she wished she had been one of the sufferers. She dined at her son-in-law's last Thursday, and returning home she lighted her fire, sod then tied herself to the MIS rail of her bed, not more than thus feet from the ground, and thus strangled herself. As ehe had locked herself in, her door had to be forced open, when she was found quite dead. The coroner thought that Mrs. Lambert was decidedly insane.—The jury expressed a similar opinion, and returned a verdict of " Insanity." IRELAND. DUBLIN, JAW. 30 . The Reproductive Committee have been busily em ployed in canvassing the ministerial measures. Certain approving resolutions were laid before the committee yesterday, and will be discussed, and, I am informed, adopted to-day. In the " temporary" scheme, speed in execution will be strongly recommended to the go vernment ; and in the " permanent," the most impor tant of all, the extension of the poor law will be fully approved of. This, perhaps, may be a yielding to destiny, but from the outset there was a strong party in the committee in favour of the extension. Mr. Godley, the intelligent author of " Letters on Canada," was at this progressive body. Lord Mountcashell has fallen back on the Mail for I sympathy. He states the impossibility of the Irish landlords to beer up against a poor-law which would involve the ruin of estates and rate-payers. When I I three millions of the Irish are removed to the col-- :ties, be expects prosperity and progress—not till then. The following statistical oompilations by his lordship, is prepared with the design of showing the destructive immure of a poor-law on land so bur thened An salads diastase's, usasesstlag hadb Inlai4 the rental a etiolt is, pot smuts, about /13,000,000 Bolds, aortesaa, sad alba judasmat debts. secured t a ic t the lad mask 11111100 i b tied Taro' Toot, £1110,000,000 Lima at S par oust tbasta, ia £3,000,000 tarry sad sess ibn liste: Is. lo a the pound, is t 5 5 0 0, , C00 I Joishiess, ismemileft et tam hums 650,000 I Z: why MOW sow gals yam, bona or Or Masa= all& 0,000,000 Pr al 4 l %l l rt alto rosa.sharda, par ram, ad assaly lass, say 110,450,000 Lard Portarlington, through his agent, has offered seeds of all kinds to his tenants, on condition of having the ground properly prepared for its recep tion. The Irish landlords generally should look to the seed necessity with more seriousness and earnest. ness. Mr. Monahan, the Solicitor-General, went down to Galway, I understand, last night. The " Irish Confederation " has denounced the " salaried official of a British government;" but Mr. Monahan will be in the House of Commons, and for the ancient burgh of Galway. Few could more worthily represent the capital of his native province than one of the most distinguished men at the Irish bar. Mr. Jacob Harvey, a New York merchant, and a native of Ireland, states, in a letter to Mr. Pim, one of the secretaries of the Central Relief Associ ation, that he had ascertained from five mercantile firms that within the last sixty days the poor Irish—it is not stated whether of the state of New York alone, or of the Unions—had remitted to their poor friends in Ireland 150,000 dollars, or 30,0001. sterling. The same houses give a return of similar remittances for the entire year, amounting to 650,000 dollars, or 130,0001. Mr. Harvey alleges these facts as a sufficient reason why the humbler of our countrymen in America are so dilatory in contributing to the General Relief Fund, their savings having already penetrated into every perish in Ireland. The markets have again receded in Dublin. They were fully is. per barrel lower yesterday than on the preceding Tuesday, on all kinds of grain, save barley, which sustained former rates. The supply at market was very moderate in all descriptions, holders re fraining from bringing in, in consequence of the de pression, and speculators holding off for the rise. An instance was mentioned to me yesterday which occurred towards the close of the market. A farmer held 500 barrels wheat and 200 oats, on Friday week; he was offered 495. for the wheat, and 24e. 6d. for the oats. He declined sales, anticipating a rise. Yesterday, at the close of sales, not wish ing farther to bear the expense of storage, or to trust the temper of the market, he offered the wheat at 47a. the barrel : ho could get only 465. ; he offered the oats at 233. ; but he found no purchasers, and he was obliged again to withdraw them. In Mullingar, the market seems to have been quite panic-stricken. Oats golden the 28thinst for 18s. which, iu the market one week previous, would have brought 255. to 275. Oatmeal is down to 203. per cwt. In farthest Donegal the fall in market prices equals 10 per cent STATE OF THE COUNTRY. I have great gratification in writing, what your readers will be equally gratified in learning, that the whole of the accounts from the provinces this morning are easier in their character, and present prospects of the future which enure ns that we shall scarcely have again to record the horror of Skull and Skibbereen in the south, and the equal horror of Bailing and Foxford in the west. Thee soup kitchens are in universal operation, and the utmost seal and anxiety are ma nifested by the managers to render them as universally v pliable to the relief of destitution. In this they are succeed mg ; for seal well directed always will succeed. In Belfast the relief committees are distributing coals at a cheap rate, as well ssfood. Robberies and thefts seem still the order of the nigh!, but even these seem mitigating in frequency ; and when the relief measures propounded by Lord John Russell become of universal adoption, there is little doubt that the interests of society, and the common feeling of the reredoses of pri vate property, will stimulate the well-ordered to suppress them altogether. Meantime there is, of course, much dis tress ; but the journals before me complain of its consequen ces in general terms, not fortifying their statements by any recorded facts. The Leinster Express of this morning relates the ru moured murder of a pay-clerk in the neighbourhood of Thurles, on the authority of a letter (run Maryborough, and adds that he was robbed of 500 f. The localities named are very di,tent, and I should say that the story very much needs confirmation on that account. The Tipperary papers have no trace of the rumour. The late Mayor of Limerick, Alderman Ryan, a repealer, has been appointed a stipendiary magistrate. IRISH PROSELYTISM. F6THAJID GLIII3I4, — FOUVTTVP7I;;;HIRT.—SiI: On late occasion Mr. O'Connell is reported to have used the fol lowing words—" It was mid the English people were sub scribing to assist the Irish people, but he (Mr. O'Connell) would tell them truly what they were then doing. They were offering bribes to effect proselytism; they were offering food to the poor Roman Catholics to induce them to become Pro testants. Now he would say, could the fiends of hell invent anything more horrible than this ? than to force ! introits to allow their children to change their creeds in order to sate them from death ? for such were the terms of relief." These expressions (slam explained) seem to me to be an justifiable on two grounds: —lst. The great mass of the sub scription, which are now being raised with so liberal a hand, are wholly out of the reach of such a charge, as Mr. O'Connell has, indeed, acknowledged; they have no refer ence, directly or indirectly, to the spiritual concerns of the poor. 2nd. That special fund, which does contemplate some religious agency, is in the hands of those who are incapable of acting on any principle which they do not think . strictly just. Still, with this allowance, and much as I esteem many who arc parties in this matter, I cannot but disapprove and deprecate every movement of the kind. If the same hand which deals out to the starving Romanist bread to eat, furnishes him with a supply of Scripture readers, what is this, to speak the fair and honest truth, but II to make his extremity the welcome opportunity of tampering with his religion ? It is quite idle to say that proselytism is I not the object of every society which invites the Roman Catholics freely and without restriction to read the Scrip- I tures. At all events it ought to be their object. It ought to be the object of even Protestant and every man to make as many converts as * he is able by righteous methods , and ingenuous means to the religion which he him self embraces, because he thinks it is the truth of God. But there are principles which lie deeper than the mooted dogmas about which theologians con tend and bigots fight. There are canons of everlasting righteousness which will live when the subject-matter of most controvenits has vanished. " I will have m rcy, an I not sacrifice," saith Go 1. 'fhis will stand for ever. And so will that g olden sentence which the same lips have spoken : " Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them; for thi. " imperishable truth, this is essential and not circum.tantial religion, "the law and the prophets." How should we feel if a large Protestant district were visited with famine, and such scenes of horror were acting there as are now in appalling exhibition at Skibberecu ? H nr should we feel if the French were to raise subscriptions for the relief of this distress, at the same time providing that no assistance should he given where the su ff erers should retain to act against what theft pastors had taught them as • principle of their religion? We might net say that the "Sends of hell could nut invent anything more horrible than this." But I think that we should agree it segued a narrow spirit ; that we should stamp it with the name of baseness; and that if one of the se poor Protestants were to ask our advioe, and say, " Shall I receive this bounty, brought to me by one who interferes with my religion," we should answer, " If God gives you fortitude aad streng th , endure your hunger, and keep your conscience clear." lt is mere begging the question to say, " Oh, the cases are not parallel, our religion is scriptural and true, and the Romish faith a mere !roman invention." If , this be our opinion, we may hold it as firmly as we please. But no man has a right to force his opinions upon another. The Roman Catholic may Tercet and my, "Mine is ex ' elusively the Church of God, and yours is • modern heresy." Who, then, is to decide ? There is no appeal. It must be a drawn battle, each piety agreeing that he should act to. wards the other as he would think it fair and honourable in that party to act towards him. Nor is it lea unfair to say, " the Scriptures are neutral and common ground." Allow that they are, and waiving all differences about translations and canonical books, yet, though the BaSle may be neutral ground, the question whether it should be sndieerinsinatelif read is not neutral ground. It is, perhaps, the most hotly disputed °jet of any. Well then, is it lair play, is it generous, is it likely to render our religion a miable in the eyes of the Roman Catholics, is it right, in it pleasing in the sight of OA, to enter a famished district and nffer the starving people this alternative, either death for themselves and their children, or listening to those whom in their conscience they suspect as unsafe and treacherous guides in the way of salvation ? I cannot help thinking that this well-meant attempt at doing good may be the instrument of much evil, and tempt many a man to act the hypocrite . , and at the time he most wants the consolations of religion induce hint, sooner than see his children starve, to do violence to the dictates of his heart, and to prefer the relief of their bodies to the interests of his own soul. But it will perhaps be said, " Oh, this would be very well if the two religions were on a par. But the ease is widely different." Allow, then, that if both systems were fully carried out, Church of England piety is as much above Romsn Catholic piety as the liberty of • son is above the trammels of a servant, yet will any one contend that the Roman Catholic* of this country have not in their dire extremity found a constraining and consoling influence in their religion ? A poor roan joiner: me on the road is the county of Mayo, about the middle of October last, sad entered into conversation with me. He spoke of the pas. .ailing famine and of his awn privations, and then exclaimed. " But patience is a tins thing. I had rather die in Hot ditch than do anything out of the way." And then, after some paw*, he added, " and if a man were to die patient, what could be better for him than that ?" Now, if any can think that such a reflection, under such circumstances, does not seem to argue a Christian spirit, however clouded ita apprehension may be of many important doctrine., all I can my is, that, in my judgment, to Airs belongs the charge of bigotry and superstition, and not the patient sufferer, at whose door he would be disposed to lay it. The country is full of such instances of meek submision to the will of • chastising Providence. The Rev. Patrick Poundal", d'l Westport, in the county of Mayo, thus reports: " Indeed, our people are patient and gentle in the extreme. I think they would rather die than commit a crime." It is impair able for any one who, like that respected clergyman, bee had an opportunity of witnessing the conduct of these psitkome sufferer., to withhold hie testimony to the bright example they are now setting, of (I will say) pious resignation to the hand that smite. them. And is it well to interrupt this process by the infusion of disturbing influences ? Shall we invite them in their miseries to lie down for rest upon the thorny bed of controversy ? When the vital spark is just going out, shall we demand of them to remodel the whole machinery of their minds ? To recall their hearts from all the channels in which they have been taught to move, to suspend their operations, and leave a naked field for mere intellect to act on? No; instead of saying with the promoters of this plea, " This is the time for such agencies to work," I would emphatically proclaim, " This is not the time," I would say to them, " Whatever your future plans may be, suspend their execution for the present The hand of God is upon the country, and our calamities ere producing at least one blessed fruit; they are softening down the asperities of party, and making men of various creeds feel like brethren in distress. Do not run the risk of spoiling all by this dash of cmtroversial poison. However right, however imperative upon us it may be at a fitting season,—nay, at every season but the very one you have chosen, to spread the light of the free unfettered gospel, yet, in the '.sine of Him whose gospel it ia, do not place the cause you would maintain under such suspicious &cum- I stances. Do not administer your temporal charities in such a shape as to appear like bribes to the omeeienoes, sad snares to the souls of the poor. You will not be unlikely, believe me, to check the free comes, of British bounty ; for if your plea goes on many will say, " No, I will have no- thing to do with underhand proceedings." Bat more than this; this ill-timed scheme will tend to thwart and counter act all the benefits of the happiest occasion which perhaps Providence has ever opened of endearing Protestants and Protestant England to the minds and hearts of Irish Roman Catholics. You would do more to recommend your religion to the latter by a generous abstinence from all interference with theirs at a time when they feel themselves in your power, than by all that societies or scripture readers could effect. Do then, I entreat you, suspend these worse than doubtful agencies. Wait till the storm of famine end pestilence is over ; and when the calm ensues, then will be the time for the still small voice to speak. The favourers of your scheme talk of employing temporal relief as an advantageous channel for the conveyance of spiritual instruction. And why ? Because when men see that you feel for their bodies, they will believe that you take a real interest is the welfare of their souls. Well, then, do not defeat this very object; do not extend your temporal bounties in such a form as cannot but excite a strong sus picion that you feel no compassion for the bodily privations of the poor, hut that all you want is to induce them to change their religion, and to embrace yours. H. WOODWARD. SCOTLAND. RDINBURGH, JAN. 29. The magistrates of Perth having doubts as to the extent of the Highland destitution, instituted certain inquiries into the subject, and the result was a resolu- I tion to calla public meeting of the inhabitants. Their information, however, has convinced them of the pro priety of great prudence being exercised by relief committees. For example, it was stated to them by the overseer of one of the railways now in course of formation in Perthshire, that he had lately been on a t< or along the west meats of Argyle, Inverness, and &rehires, in quest of labourers, and offered to procure permanent employment to 600 men at 2s. a day, and could not induce any to accept of it, on the ground that they understood they were going to receive a sufficiency of meal and provisions from government without any equivalent. The Stirling Observer has some interesting remarks on the Drainage Act, which we quote in an abridged form : --- . COMPARATIVE ENTERPRISE or SCOTCH, ENGLISH, AND IRISH LANDLORDS.—If anything wen wanted to proclaim to the world the vest difference which exists with respect to intelligence and enterprise in the management of theirestates between the landed proprietors of Scotland and the other divisions of the empire, it will be found in a table published in the Express last week. By an act of last session of parliament three millions of money were committed to the care of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, to be given in loan to landed proprietors, for the purpose of draining their lands. Two of these millions were intewled for Eric land and Scotland, and the other for Ireland. Now, what is the result, so far as it has y7et been known ? Ireland, not withstanding the dmdtul famine now raging is it, has hitherto applied for only 8,6011. ; England, which is not so pinched as Ireland, requires 80,1141. 13s. 9d. while Scotland, which in its northern parts i s suffering considerably, requires 309,8154. Bs. Bd. But the Scotch landlords have another and equally patriotic and humane object in view, besides the improvement of their estates and the general good of the country. They know that this sum of money expended on wages, at the rata of 301. a year—and the whole of draining =silts of wages— will set to work 10,327 able-bodied nten.„and that av erag ing families at five individuals each, they be able dire ctl y te support decency 61,656 persons, pang and old, at the same time that they Me impro estates, and adding to the general wealth of .ntry. Again, the arable sur face to face of 4ngland, a M'Culloch, is. as 29 is to 37 ; or in other word 17,000,000 of acres of which the surface of Eng ,Vales is composed, 29,000,000 are arable, or as ',dud it, if not in actual trainee \ tionceapable of be In Ireland the piersertion il as 14 to 20; while in rand, from the some 'ark/IY, it is.. 6 only to 19. This ode of showing the case, as i tebeta at I present, proves that e demand in Scotland for improve ment amounts to up ards of one shilling for each arable acre in the country, w 'le in England it amounts to only five-eighths of a penny, and in Ireland to the scarcely appreci ablerh amount of one.ei hth of a penny for each arable acre. Had the landlo of Ireland availed themselves of the million devoted to t improvement of that country, many of the people would h are been set to profitable employ ment, and 50,000 families, w hewer have nothing to depend on but public charity, might have had 201. each, honestly and honourably earned, which would at once have kept them from starvation, and from herrn, a burden to this country. Supposing requisitions for this moo .v to proceed at the same ratio in future, Scet:and will ha e appropriated about 1,550,000/., sod England only about 415.,.:::01., while the in capacity or indifference of Irish landlords will have allowed their share to remain oilmen unasked. In short, before they bestir themselves, the people will have been starved off by thousands.—Stirling Oburrer. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1, 1847. the partite having mistaken identity. The question whether the rev. gentleman wee liable to the conviction of ss. for being drunk was not entertai +ed. Tax BAPILFAIINTATION OF WIOAN.—The Manchester Guardian of Saturday sass :—There being little prospect of the recovery of Mr. Smndish from his pneent fen re illnese, the Conservatives of Wigan are on the poi raze at the pros pects of en approaching election to the borough. Mr. T. B. Crease, who is rarely seen in the town, wan, on Wednesday, closely engaged with some of the leading members of the party; hut rumour say., that, in the event of an election, he is not likely to stand a contest. Another of the Lindsay fsmily is also spoken of al likely to make an effort to share the representation with his brother; this, ho vever, 111 very doubtful. Should there be a vacancy, Mr. Thicknease in spoken of ea the most likely party to be solicited to come for ward on the Liberal interest. : 1 1;1itAC1F077);;F;It MMICUZIITS?..-A site hu at length been fixed upon to be converted tato a race °"4.1:; in and a few days the necessary lease w i ll be signed. place Amen is the low ground near Agecroft•bridge, in Pendleton. YO 8011186 THE Gaus-Lawa. Nriir Dewsbury, Jesse Senior, one of the gamekeepers of E. Haigh, Req ., was going to meet the other keepers, about 10 o'clock, and in crossing the fields had his dog shot, and wee then attacked by as.. parties with a sharp instrament and bludgeons, by which he was horribly cut and maimed about his had and arose. Nothing as yet can be made of the affair ; but the dog was found dead in one of the eel& and there is every appearance that • dreadful strugle ha taken plane. Senior was evidently left for dead _ bat he succeeded in crawling on hie hands and knees, and arrived near the house of the other keeper about one o'clock in the morning, when he was discovered by his groans. He now lies in a state of insensibility, without hope of ratovery • and hie arms and head are so lacerated that identity is illost impossible. It appears he was three boars in going about half • mile and had to crawl from three to four hundred yards in thii dreadful state of safferiag. MURDER AT fin armato.—At the second adjourned In quest on the body of Mr. T. Kiley, no further evidence was adduced, and the jury returned • verdict of " Wilful murder against mem person or persons unknown." TUB HISDIANCI TO IKPBOTIMIINT OP ESTATES, caused by the atereamis charges of parliamentary agents, teems the subject et an Miele is the Leeds Mercury. A ampiresider current piper : edles: les red= le all yew equidee le, le Ihe arellrat drips melee by re prlderedeed ewes rid erre le ellehiew es rt doerireer huret river area The 1111wrig re the Yrs of my ere. perer b as teeth erreiel milli es ANNI MUNN as WI WAISIA ty V i tte lA** ee rie; I code art de mire s et r el wester. wither etiOrbieg Ns sot et ii f o r peeper. lbw, the kilertef ft re dr dorm rowed br &rift >ti Or ew ab RNs Ilied WO: patismatory sw Ane AII,IBII. fee =rely a teer pees emir flee memboue I Tie Seem of w us. wits b mien lelmele remora; weey emesame hew male maim lie well be brit I 'NW US, irit din welt}, We Is we eclat edema Ow aidlueollepila Ale Ile laded pregeletees tele • gemmed trey meet abbe w private Mute M. wading mesollog Ile wades sem of LIMIT • fra.. eli time seto•ek pot/ram to wits lewd& le Me Omelet° otoaept to ob- bOL 11011D1k 01 • CHILD. LSD Arriurrip Satanz.—At lissom, on Friday, at the White Lion, an inquest was held on the bony of H. P. Taylor, aged eleven weeks.— Hannah Taylor, of Hanninghani, said; My husband b the brother of Jane Taylor. She was at my home on Thursday evening about five o'clock ; she had the deceased with her. When she went away she was crying very much, ald I understood that she was going to Leamington. I wished her not to go out, as it was quite niuseceseary, but she persisted in rung. My husband had told her that she must procure a fresh home, for be was unable to rapport her. We had notice to leave our house in consequence of her being there, which notice was up on Friday. We have but one room for myself, husband, and three children, and therefore had not room for her and the baby.—Phineas Page said: On the previous evening, as he was coming from the mill, he saw something floating on the water on the opposite side. Having procured assistance and got the female out, she then ejaculated, "Oh, m poor baby." Her dress having been unpinned, the was found clasped in her arms quite dead.—Elizabeth Tandy said that she at with the female all the night of Thursday. She asked her if anyone had pushed her into the water ; she replied "No ; I went in myself." She mid, "If my child is dead, I drowned it;" and she added that her mother had threatened to send for a p diceman if she did not leave her house some time bar-h.—Me coroner summed up, and the jury having consulted, they returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against Jane Taylor, who was fully com mitted to take her trial at the nest assizes. Ton CHSITIO ELICTION took place on Saturday, to AU • vacancy produced by li Lord Robert Grosvenor having accepted the Chiltern undreds, in order to enab'e his lord- ' ship to become a candidate for Middlesex. The only can didate who appeared in the field was his lordattip;=, Lord Grosvenor, son of the present Marquis of W who will probably be the youngest member In the Hones of Commons, being only • few months above twenty-one years of age. At ten o'clock J. Rogers, Esq., sheaf of the city (the returning officer), and a respectable body of the citizens, accompanied the candidate into the Exchange. The usual preliminaries having been com plied with, the mayor came forward and proposed the Hon. Hugh Lupus Lord Grosvenor, as • candidate. The nomination was seconded by T. Dixon, Esq., banker. No other candidate being proposed, the noble lord was de clared duly elected amid loud cheers. Lord Grosvenor then came foward to return thanks, and was very warmly re ceived. After observing that he should seek the advice and assistance of their late representative as a guide for his own conduct, he proceeded to observe that be was young, and, therefore, it would be unwise to pledge himself to any par ticular line of politics ; but he could more them that any measure which had for ite object the extension of our trade and commerce, and which tended to promote the social and moral welfare of the knople at large, should have his warmed support . (Cheers.) His lordship concluded by proposing' vete of thanks to the sheriff. Mr. Dixon then proposed, sad Mr. Alderman Brown seconded a vote of thanks to Lord Rebut Grosvenor for his attention to the interests of the citydedetr the time he bad been one of its representatives. This VW Lion was also carried by acclamation, and the rented= was ordered .to be .igned by the sheriff on behalf of the meeting. This terminated the proceedings. RIPWINTATION or gritClWiii.=The expected candi data for this borough, Mr. J. Biggs, has written to the Elec tion Committee, declining an honour as unsought as ." 'The committee voted an expression of t u ll e Nft d iggs should have thought himself compelled to come to such a conclusion, and their sincere desire that he may yet be induced to fcrego his determination ; and that the chairman communicate this to him." It was further resolved, that a copy of a tesolution, by which the delegates returned their trust into the hands of the electors, be for warded to Wynn Ellis i/ V io PpeliTILE. DILATH ACCILILATID iil;7liT.-011 Thursday, an in quest was held at St. Alban's, on view of the body of William Gilbert. The substance of the evidence was r' follows.—George Gilbert, son of the deceased, examined : My father was a shoemaker, and in his eighty-third year; he had been asthmatic, and suffered from occasional diffi culty of breathing for some time past. On Tuesday morn ing he was found dead in bed. I had not been able to pro- cure my father as much food as he could have eaten, but always gave him a full share of what I had. lie had been a rate-payer of the pariah for many years, and had lived in the game house in which be died upwards of fifty yeah. Deceased had previously, to twelve months since, repeatedly applied to the board of guardians for out-door relief on one occasion when he was ill, he was allowed by the board Is. bid. per week in provisions, which was discon tinued after two or three weeks. On the other occasions he was positively refined relief except in the union house. My father had a great antipathy to going into the union. During the last twelve months, but for private charity, I believe my father would not have had sufficient to sustain life. Since the 1.. 6d. per week in provisions had been discontinued ha had not bad so much food per week es that afforded. Elizabeth Oladman was for many years a neighbour at deceased. The old man was very badly off, indeed; believes that had it not been for assistance received from herself he would have been starved. Well remembers, soma months since, deceased telling her he had been so frequently to the board for relief, and had been refused (except the house), that he would rather die than go again. In her judgment. deceased was kept from applying lately from despair of getting out-door relief. On Saturday last witnees called to see deceased, when he told her he had had nothing for three days. The jury unanimously returned the follow ing verdict :—" That William Gilbert died from decay of nature, accelerated by previous want. The jury are of opinion that the refired of out-door relief by the board atf guar inns of the St. Alban's urine, to the aged and infirm, especially where there is an antipathy to the union house (all whi facts hare been brought in evidence in the me now under investigation) is unjustifiable and inhuman." The jury are further of opinion that the bye-law of the St. Alban's union prohibiting permanent out-door relief ought immediately to be rescinded. That the coroner be requested to communicate thin verdict, with the appendix, to the board of guardians at their next mledirig." SOMERSEISHIRE. Are BLOPIIKENT PROM BATH has given the gamer a that watering-place an amusing topic for discussion. The lady is stated to be the" grand-niece of a late eccentric in habitant of the vicinity of Bath, who, at his decease, be queathed to her a considerable portion of his enormous for tune, which he placed at her own unconditional disposal, alter her arrival at the age of twenty-one. Like her well known kinsman, the young lady was somewhat singular in her habits, and refined in her tastes, aad, as a matter of tonne, in a fortune-hunting place like the • Queen city of the west,' the heiress attracted much attention. The funds at tier disposal caused more than one needy peer and many a half-pay hero to vow eternal fidelity. Like Mina Burdett Coutts, she was pestered with lovers ; but had her face and form been her only dowry, she might hate been deemed a noble prize, for in the exclusive circles of the provincial toe she was universally known to be the belle of Bath." On Tuesday evening last she was mimed from the house of her guardian. Pursuit was defeated, and on Thursday it be came known she had been married at Exeter to—a tailor. By THE. DEATH of Slit T. C. BOOTY, BART., of FIAT ley Abbey, en office of Verderer of the Forst of Dean, the election to which is vested in the freeholders, becomes vacant. The Hon. Grantley Berkeley, M P., is in the field (probably with a view to feeling the:puhe of the county) arid will, it is expected, be opposed by Mr. John Probyn, A Moaoula RANTID at Bristol, if the following cane may be taken ao representing the general feeling of the in. habitants of that city. An inquest was held on Friday last on the body of W. Uvvings. H. Rite, of Pill, Interims, deposed that coming up the river on Thursday in a boat, they raw a dead body dotting, sod towed it to Rovreliam slip, but no one would take charte of it. He made it fast to a ring outside Jones's dock, and left it floating about till *even p.m. C. Mynett, a police ennstahle, deposed that be was on duty at the time, and went to the public-houses to take in the body, but all refused unleas they could be indemnified again 4 the expenses of burying it. Witness then got two min with pu assist rof trucks to 't him in conveying it to St. Pet. is Hospital, where he saw the master, who refused to take it in. Witness then brought it back to Rownbam Ferry, and then placed the body on the beach (still on the trucks and covered from sight) and left it there, the coustable on duty being instructed to watch over it during the night. Witness added that be applied to Mr. Bettershill, the relievingoffieer of the Clifton Union, and took the body to St. Peter's Hospital by his direction. Verdict, " Accidental Death." NORFOLK. WHO Au TO ■■ THR CANDIDATES ron NORWICH at the next election is now exciting much contention in that city, and it appears the liberal voters are determined to have • voice in settling the question. At a meeting on Wednesday it was unanimously resolved, " That the electors present protest against any arrangement being made, in refermseeln the candidates at the next general election, without the cen curre•ee of the liberal electors at a public meeting, to be convened for that purpose. That the compromise effeeted at the last general election was a violation of the comae tional rights of the electors, and that it is deairable dist measures should be taken to prevent a repetition of each pro ceedings." _ KENT. _ EMBIZZLIMENT or DlAMONDS.—Forrester, of the AlM sioa-housa detective force, has been in the neighbourhood of Dover, on the out-look for • party who has absconded, with diamonds of the value of 3,3001. in his possession. Owing to the pains that have been taken, says the Dover Chronicle, to conceal the whole affair from the reporters for the public prim, we are unable to lay before our readers so full parka lam an we could wish. We learn, however, that the indivi dual who has aboonded with the diamonds landed at Folkston about • week ago, from a vessel (of which be was the commander) belonging o to Greenock, bound from Monte Video to t having the precious articles in hia pommies ; thai he came to Dover on Monday night last, slept at the Hope inn, Pier, and started on Tuesday morning, per rail, no one knew where. The most vigilant search has been made to discover the fugitive ; but he has, as yet, eluded detection. The diamonds were contained in two bones, they formed part of the cargo of the vessel, and were regularly entered, with the amount of their value, on the bill of lading. A person connected with the Hope, who accompanied the cap tain to the rail, describes hint to be about 28 years of age, tall, and of ruddy compleziem. ISLE OF MAN. Ha somas or Flarcon : IsLe or Max.—A memorial, lipid by three thousand boat-owners, masters, and &her nia belonging to the late of Man, praying that some reme dial asestsures might be adopted for the improvement of the Fassut dangerous state of the harbours of refuge on the island, has been presented to the Lords of her Majesty's Treasury by Mr. William Kenniah, the Mane delegate. The memorial was favourably received by their lordships, and forwarded by them to the Tidal Harbour Commissioners for their immediate consideration. The following sum mary of casualties, copied from the official report of the Tidal Harbour Commissioners, and which have oc curred solely from the insufficiency of the present harbours of refuge, will show the necessity formate better accommoda tion being afforded to vestals seeking shelter in the above harbours. From the year 1822 to 1846, the number of vessels wrecked off the tale of Mae was 144. Number of lives lost, 172. Madames& MN ea vesela, tte., 249,7871. lint SM. SALE Or PICTURES.—Mews. Christie and Mattson sold on Saturday last, a miscellaneous collection of pictures, by ancient and modern muter'. The highest lot was a Linglebarh, which sold for 391 18c ; a Cuyp (so called) brought 241. 3s ; a full•length of Lord Halifax, in his robes (by . it Joshua Reynolds), 211. ; and a gallery picture by " The Dream of Richard III," dark and Caravaggio like, only 31. 15c If specimens of the so-called English masters alone are wanted, some at least are to be had cheap enough. ROYAL ACADEMY STUDENTS' GOLD MEDALS. — The subject selected for the best historical picture in oil co lours, is " The Young Men of the Destroyed Tribes of Ben jamin seeking their Destined Brides in the Vineyards;" the subject for the best composition in sculpture, " The Murder of the Innocents," and in architecture, " A Deign for a Gothic Church." The premiums will be distributed on the 10th of December next. The ART-UNION OP LONDON contemplates the publication of a volume of engravings oa wood, from designs by our best &nine, and engraved by our but wood engravers. This surely would be a change for the better, with the charm of novelty withal to recommend it. Shee's" Rhymes on Art" hu been suggested as a book likely to afford good material for illustration.—Mr. cossingham. the collector, has written a letter to the Art-0150N JOSINaI contradicting a statement made in that paper wherein he was reported to have said " that the whole British school of painting was a gallery of chalky absurdities." The phrase made use of in his letter was applied, be says, "solely to the works of Mr. Turner." Mr. Coninghara has recently appeared before the public in the controversy about the late so-called mal administration of the National Gallery. Ma. J. D. HARDING, the landscape painter, and Mr. Frank Stone, have withdrawn their names from the Society of Painters in Water Colour, and placed them on the list for election at the Royal/rdademy. Mr. J. P. KNIGHT, R.A., has been elected sub secretary to the Royal Aoademy, , ,Mr. Howard, the secre tary, feeling himself tumble trout age to attend to the in creasing duties of his o&e. PROVINCIAL. A et•ItOTMAN, AT BLACKIII.OI, the Rev. A. G. Edeuart, was charged on Friday at the pike-office in that town with a-ssauiting a woman in the streets at midnight whilst in an alleged state of intoxicaticn The rev. defendant made • cress charge against the husband of the woman for striking him. Two policemen spoke as to the condition of Mr. Fedottrt, who it appeared had been " dining out," and fur ther evidence harmir been heard, the magi-tutee after con sultation dismissed both Case% on the ground that the com plainant, Mrs. Bromley, had mistaken the man who had Insulted her, her evidence proving that he had on a brown coat, reaching to his knees, while Mr. Elouart's coat was a block one, reaching below th- knees. (Tbe coat was put on by the rev. gentleman, and reaches! about two inches below his knees.) Mr. Edouart WAS not, theretme, the man who had abused her. With respect to the other charge, the nas g:strates held that her hushana red acted properly an knock tog Mr. Edouart down, under the insprets:on that be had abused his wife. Both cares were accordingly diantiased, CLERICAL. New Hoa,a ,- 4 M air went S. be width re AMA* be ow kA, lard Ji Damen re *es bar err Wisp mark orb to IA beard le PO es Amble neer, owl be Sir Map** always erkheet ears. 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The SO 4 lbe Menai Ms be thin/ is be. lientheed b e . ebt see Ire I gibbet bac this be rinegr.—Tbe Osidga, YS le Mel bere, ele ril aggelS by re Bs the lbe ef si beraL—The S• haw, bobs b tabe est NIS b Wassmior. Jas. 111-7 Y Teetenie, mt. v., left this pelt ir Dor& I Po* le tar fa mg kr biog. TM Oils. IL v., ers rim kb On Bids robrilry. le be NM rearrylwr wag r biL wed= ire amplayid bar ears gm AO dr mg be milk t e := I llabrz " a b n=t e rz eh, h-1,-4ma r n" Mr, me It Is anklered, that, by gides Yr • larger mew , Yr god vrlll be rarierbay brioured. PIIIIIIIIO7PDXF AXD Arraiornmers.—Ananaaarr, Jas. 10,-J. Ilea bin, surgeon, Montt: AssikAgegeon T. Strati.. to be smigssn; AmbLAtergron B. Printing. le be 'wpm; J. WsII maw, Mores; B. Reim& werligt. Bliwiner. W. Millman, ass. err. rsza. Moyer, gm Miler. Arab ; A. Langlands, firet ; I. Madge, eerie( fese, Battler ; W. Marks. skit- I p te tri tro jeirk litiff .i ; ( i ble ar, meistaat, Oeses ;J. Mts. ; C. enamel. carpenter, Mariner. MILITARY. POWTIMOt. As. 31. —lt eteaderstly simmered that the fad Queen'. Betratest MI lane We perk= la a he dmme far bird by wny of I . o b , lbs aid Wined. Os it Old•ley man MU ele=m i ee=et Male elreillM kr the el aloft abeam mamba the e t-enamel ememellea reeltel ma t. Om et the Emma le meld le be foe risk. Is nes. mad ma aim egglideg Ow pammare miss a carbine= of way was pada* him lir mei resammedelles. Ti. Mama regiments and mews wthisgwelma arthae are to emaribute me day's pay each towards *sag et IMII and Ilsoleb. am Immeas mt Me tits Basauon hes, it la said, been placed under anal at Or hawlspartins et Mat caps. at Bury. lanawhim, fue the mend alma patimman Th eeholdi her Maj.sty'a commie , sir*, wr mien as a oilier. circumstances are mar the maalimmlem at lha Oimmisdite-tn-Phief. Miura= lenisousaama —The lamertor-Ormerat of the Panes tem, deem the last met. Imes mamied eumimara emadlames rr the case of schoolmasters 's the atm,. la the arm af hmt cri=b debates in parliament. Meshing caporal pendelimmot mum thaw or , hon. neither contended that, until the ruks were Iliad •ill a better edunatesi order or men, the British army would sites, n number Flameet Its betty members with by laptoper *math would at diameter. Asa lint seep to ntharmethom the arttlet at the r How Goods recently matheed r min thirty you. MM. of blemished thwacter, sad of good educed" One to be eikated to r , ek thelment. hdrertlathienta were Woth, and there are been nearly IN apple:ante be the eltattlano The pay he 17e. Mi. a week, soda arilloren, rethink 8",, awl a pension of not Isms this Se a day niter Om mere teeth& The military waboolometer is as rank with • le ttV e; Ba M"Mihna lt bell"°acen prey whs tia b a g .. Art i Ans c r . ws held the Mks of semi omplit to the lath Mika Amaletay. has aseeted thee ppallithli. OWL F. Offiff at wroth oommataide the at the ds tied at Man chester, has tomi apparl Ito aneard Datiehg, awl the lour will In alba the witted WINO% mennuiy. A Commode or seeddis at Oda. Ireara and Illatteek and three aims Oen ad at the Ilaridgeonlion Thus. day lad, he thepeggate ereamlidad a meaty tratand onitat, =s igned dd.* atealowe. ertslantad a emillabett lr einalry. ee aa A a Inimptigt he Manny. Ilduenaarna hula bum isealeed at Waded*. dim the Harm- Forge, mamba • Mani et altheellemmalftwemlitheleiesd °Moth and man. ninaged In the Farawahr babe the intention et aseemaget as mad add& le eßaapradY Sit var. lima wary alined= Ism been awarded to the met whe reed In ChM,. alit the arduous serried 'Mona +he Omit la that trying esca pism hew bean /nth* raidembed. • Illimeaanear was Imeed treat the Dow* Adfaihrt.Oserrare Ofte, Thunday hat, regarding the allsare la emennend at bam boo to Inman to the Deputy AirpraiMemagg, !halt who* conamitash the mar et irk rewsmaiderd saw rm. ea Ilasy way deem way arising verrimisikd he the m dralskty mi lniedd.adadea with the dirsitions datained la the inemeresdran etthe i sm wn INC to Ententacritt SPRING ASSIZES, 1647. Noneorg Cram - m-0a Saturday the Lord Chief Heron of the ...4z., En um, Sir Ere& rick Po ll ock., Ent., and Mr. Justice Coleridge, the J appointed to proceed on this circuit, Insily Surd the daps for the amine in end for the erseral countiee comprised thane— for re—Atßuckinghamshi Aylesbury. Moodily, Mooch S. Bedkedeldre—At Bedford, Saturday, March 13. If untingdeseahlre— At Sluiden, Wedneeday, Marsh 17. Cantheidgendre—At the flaunty Courts, Ounbridge, Friday, March 19. Sualk—At Bury IL. Edmunds, Wednesday, Mardi 34. Norfolk -At the Mlle of Norwich. Tuesday, Mareh SO. at, of Nereleh—At the oa.Udiall, Tunday, Much 30. EQUITY COURTS. sefxe Vkle-Chaecellor Xisiett Parse. MOXHAT O. Ixaaawtca —BI9ICITIC PIIIPOIIXANCE.— COVINANT RUNNING WITH rill 141.14 D.—This bill wee filed by two persons aamed Moxhey and Hyams to compel the specific performance of an agreement entered into by the defendant to sell to the plaintiff, Hyams, the ground inclosed within the iron palisade in the middle of Leioester-equan, together with the palisade itself, and the statue of King George 1., which stands in the centre of the square. The property was put up to auction and sold by Mr. Georp Robins on the 2,3 rd April, 18:39. Hyams was declared the highest purchaser at 4511. 10s., and he afterwards sold the benefit of his contract to Moshay. The particulars ofsele con tained the following caution "There is, malheureusement, a covenant, which restrains the possessor of the fee simple free building upon this grand and unrivalled open space. Al act of parliament might remedy the difficulty, end it will, perhaps, be difficult for an enterprising diameter to withstand the temptation." About a month after the sale, an abstract of title was de:ivered to the purchaser's solicitor. It was returned duly approved, and a deed of conveyance was after ward prepared and evroased. After theApgromment, how ever, it was discovered by the vendor's elicitor that there was no covenant in it against building. He then inserted a covenant of this nature in the deed, and the deed so altered was executed by the defendant. The plaintiff Mozhay, how. ever, refused to execute it with the covenant which had been so inserted; alleging, first, that the covenant agnimt building contained in the deed which was executed on the first alienation of the property did not run with the land, and therefore need not be inserted in sabeequent deeds ; and secondly, that at all events the covenant which had been inserted by the defendant was unnecessarily large and specific, the defendant himself having only covenanted to keep such covenants "as ought to be kept," and not, in express words, that be would not build, and that be would keep the getden in repair, and not deface the statue, &a, all which thine were specifically mentioned in the covenant which had been inserted in the defendant's deed. And admitting that these words, or some of them, were contained in the deed executed on the first alienation, yet the defendant had no right to force any more ex tensive covenant upon Monkey than he had him self entered into. The plaintiff, Moxhay, wee willing to indemnify the defendant against any action that might he brought against him for a breach of the covenant into which the defendant had entered ; and it was now sought to have the agreement completed on a footing of this nature. Mr. Russell and Mr. Roundell Palmer appeared for the plaintiff, Mr. Wigram and Mr. Miller fur the de fendant. His Honour directed a reference to the master to approve of a proper conveyance. He said that in a similar cage in which Lord Cottenhans had been pressed to decide whether or not a certain covenant should be introduced into a con veyance, his lordship tookiiiiiiraicouree. With that pre. oedent before hist, his Honour would not decide (till the case had been before the muter) whether any and what covenant should be introduced. Ream VioaChaaaellor anagram. Lars O. BLACKWALL RaILWAT C .—RATE OF COMPENSATION TO Rscvoaa or PARISHES IN LONDOIf TOR Loss or TITRES ix RESPECT or Houses TALE'S /OR TER PURPOSES or TEE COSIPANT.—The facts of this case were noticed un the argument in oar impres sion of the 13th inst. His Honour now delivered the follow ing judgment upon the ease : " The plaintiff in the lint suit la the rector of St Olave, Hart-street; and the defendants are the Blackwell Railway company. By a decree passed in 1646 the plaintiff is entitled to claim of the company 2s. 9d. in the pound upon the annual value of all houses in the =of St. Ohne, Hartotreet, in lieu of tithe. The de. te, under the powers of their act, have purchased or taken thirty-three houses within the parish : and the ques tion is, what render they are hound to make to the rector in respect to those houses / The answer to this depends upon the construction to be put upon the 33rd section of the statute 2 & 3 Victoria, esp. 95. This see tin, sitar referring to the prior acts of parliament empowering the company to take the houses, makes provi des fur iemnifying the rectors and impropriators of the several parishes (including that of St. Olave, Hart-street) through which the railway was to run against such loss es might otherwise accrue to them respectively by reason et taking down or using for the purposes of the said acts any hews sr building in the said parishes ; and for that pur = Yeses sr that "after the occupier or occupiers of any or building to be taken down, for the purposes or under the powers of the said acts, within the said parishes or either of them, 'hall have quitted the possession thereat in premium at the said acts, or of any notice to be left for that purpose under the powers or provisions thereof; and in the atiatiars and until new houses or other buildings shall be ersellni, sompleted, and occupied, on the ground whisk shall baithered under the provisions of the said acts, with in the esidpedass or either of them, °finch an annual value that the tithes sr annual payment in lieu thereof for the time being actually payable for such new houses or buildings, shall be fully equal to the tithes or annual mums in lieu thereof, pay able foe the houses or buildings so for the time being quitted by the occupiers thereof within the said parishes or either of them, the tithe or annual sum of money or customary byment in lieu of tithes payable in respect of the houses or uildings within the said parishes or either of them which shall be so quitted se aforesaid, according to the averment tiamadf, to the 25th day of March last, or an MIMI) aum of mewl Or customary payment in lieu of tithes whiz?' the said rectors and impropriators, their respective success:es, heirs, or soigne, may sustain by the want of occupier of, Of by the taking down of sueh,houses or buildings respectively es timated ss abrefaid, shall be paid and payable to the said several rectors and impropnatms their respective PAUMCOIOII, heirs, and snips, out of the monies to be applied for the purposes of the said acts." The question is, wnat construe don is to be pat upon the words " according to the last la saamound thereof to the 25th March lath" The ease made by the bill is this:—After stating the title of the plaintiff, it states the decree of 1545. It then states that before the giblatlr s time the annual vales of the titheable premises bodies msemsd by agreement between the rector and the seaspien, at an lapsed maul value of this houses ; and that the plaintiff, apes Wag iadostad to the rectory, tad col lected his tithes gem its of the existing assessment, upon a thongs el , when the annual value 111, 1 = 1101100 WM EOM ameesed by agreement; and that, la asking such smsommets, the poor-rate was usually SAM' to. The bill then states the acts empowering Ito sonapsen to oothentet the railway ; that for the purpose Owed arta, 33 bosom have been taken by the esmpany in the parish of St. Olen, and that 2,978/. ia the aggregate annual sum at which those houses have been assessed for the relief of the poor. The bill then states that the assessment of the houses agreed upon between the rector and the occu piers differed from the assessment to the poor, but that the aggregate amount was more. The bill then states that the occupiers have quitted the houaca so taken, and that part thereof ate still left standing, while others have been pulled down and new buildings erected in their place; and the bill then claims 2a. 9d. in the pound upon the old houses minas 2s. ltd. in the pound upon the houses lett standing, end upon the houses built and to be built by the company. The plaintiff admits that he did not collect 2a. 9d. in the potted van the annual value of any houses in the parish except 4, set which one was occupied by the Trinity Company, a seessed by the East and West India Dock Company ; a third used as Commercial Sale-rooms, and, lastly, the Excise. maw, in Crotched-friars, in the occupation of the de ausisists ,• and that upon them four, 2 e. sd. in the pound bad bras pia upon the annual value agreed upon between him self sad the occupiers. The plaintiff says that, for the mks et bensony and good will between himself and his parblehmes, he had remitted part of the 2s. 9d. in the pound upon the value, but that such remission was a volun tary act on his part, and not the result of a binding agree ment ; and he claims to be entitled to the full sum of 2s. 9d. The defendants, on the other hand, insist that the anneal sum actually collected by the rector reprettets the " assess ment " intended by the legislature in the clause et the act which has been mentioned. Th? first ques tion is, what is meant by the word atonement / And here it may be observed, that the plaintiff has not proved any assessment by earcement ex =pun the four houses en u m era t e d shoe?, and four which I shall presently mention. The plaintiff has aligned that the word " amesement" refer, to the assessment ter the relief of the poor as • means of measuring the annual value; and that Is. 9d. in the pound ought to he calculated upon that in the case of each house taken by the company. To the' argument I cannot accede, unless there is nothing in the nature of an assessment relating to the tithes by whisk the word in the act can reasonably be satisfied. Now it re lators to me that that is not the slate in which this case iii found ; but, on the contrary, that there existed before, and at the time this act passed, that which the I. gi•lature moat have intended to describe by the word as eement. The 24. 9d. in the pound given by the decree of 1.545 was a bead eid quantity, i to and the charge which each occupier was baths ed upon the annual value of his house ; and whoa