The Express. — London, England, 1848-08-07 00:00:00

Of May, has been received at New York. The Indians at r a t Benton were quite hostile towards tech other. About the midd.e of April a war party of 20 Crow or Upsaraqua Indians, made an incursion into the Blackfoot country, for the purpose. mainly, of stealing horses. They committed tome petty depredations, and were about retiring, when they were overtaken and surrounded by a large party of a band of Blackfeet, called Ores dee Ventres of the Plaine, and en tirely "wiped out." This hat given rise to retalia tion, and the Crows were preparing for a preda tory warfare ageing their powerful neighbours. The Bet above referred to is represented as having t en place near the confluence of the Maria and Upper Teton rkers. The officers of the steamer Martha, which brouaht the news,wwed that on their upward trip they experienced come mole.tation from the Sioux Indians. When the boat arrived at the site of old Fort Lookout, near the mouth of White Clay River, a large body of Yancton Biota were bound congregated on the bank. It was won aseertaine ! that these Indians were there in expectation of the receipt of an annual present, whish, rince the expiration tf their onnohy in '42, they laser been in the habit of receiv ing. On this oculist,,,, however, the agent had nothing to give them, and the result was much dpcunteut. As soon as the hoit sea, secured to the bank about ono hundred armed warriors marched on board, and soon became very inso!ent. Obw rviog the position of affairs, Captain La Barge ordered the boat to be put under way ; hut on the he was threatened by the wily savages, who seizing the buckets, pat out the hr.,. A scene of tumult etsued, in which Charles Smith, one of the hands of the Martha, was shot in the hack part of the head and killed. Many shots were also firel from the shore, and *caveat persons were slightly wounded. With much difficulty the agent and some ingot ntial teal rs on boat.l succeeded in propitiwing the Indians, and the hat was at length permitted to pass with out further m"lestvion. These Yanetons have long been the lets of the government and traders, and this is but a fair sample of the manner in which, for the last fifteen or twenty year, they have shown their gratitude. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Now Tong. J 25 —Tne tales of stocks trifling ; Trea sury Notes cloned at 101. For the steamer Niagara there was nod. ride request for sterling bills at 1091 to 1101, which would cover the demands ..f all tee drawers. For the continent there was late in quiry. Motley continued to be in tequnt at as high prices as were pad the prevents meek. On call, secured by government loon, the rate was 61 to 7 per rent. At Cincinnati, on the lath, cheques on New York bed fallen to 11 presuiutn. lair etkinew. at 6 doll. for pearls and 5 dolt. for pu . s. Correa.—Market decidedly in brow of the seller since the arrival Of the Wainer. Fun a.—Goal Weetren broods stand at 4,75 to 5 dolt.; common lots Command 4.73: pure Genesee, 5 4 dols. ; totes Ohio at 5 dole.; old onuthern, 5.75 to 5,67 dots., and 6,12 to 6,25 dub.. for ; sales of all kind, 4,300 Rye hour, 3,50 to 3,35 dolt. Corn mtal, 2,50 lo 1,56 dol.. for Jane!. OWN Kill heavy. Ohio at 100 to 1. 6 cents.; 4,000 btuthels at 10 0 c.; amt stole new Starhern at 113 e.; round yellow corn sells et .511. and 59 asked; southern yellow, flat, at 56; good ehlrping even k not abun dant ; mixed corn at 52 to 53. Sales of all kinds 12,0. 0 btedieli. Rye at 60 to 70; oats, at 451 to 161 for northern; tome southern, at 38e. PailvisionA—Maas Ottlo pork in fate demand at 11 &Is., and prime at 11,57 dolt. ; 12,25 to dols. for city ale,. ; and 6,50 to 7,50 dolt. ler prune; lard, 74 to 71 to 7/ tier extra; butter, 11 to 1 ic.; cheese, 6 to Sic. Faateurs.—dome cotton fur Glasgow at 3.16. LA PLATA.—By an arrival at New York we are in po>seseion of intelligence fruit Monte Video to the 9tli ul June. We have stated that Boas had tent in his ultimatum to the etlect that he was willing to make a settlement when the parti , s sieve him some twenty millions as an indemnifica tion for elsmagi a done • ins during the war, and the English to merit to Los lie FALL au t Islnnile. 'These propositions, ua in mer ceurse. could riot be thought of for a moment. The town of Monte Video has been nhliEred to lay very heavy t sus upoz.. all provisions to sustain the troops. They have also laid • heavy tan neon land, the collection of which they are molting, notwithstanding many long and severe protests made by some of the foreiim consuls, The French Dave officially declared their intentions to re. blockade all the Boston Ayrun ports, as also those in the B. Oriental, in the liesseesion of Argentine troops. As many vessel , had gone into those porta during the time that the b.usiende of the ports woo raised, stud had not yet finished tilde loading ur discharging, 15 days were to he allowed to all still thi re to tom! lete their a. rangements and be off. The blockade was to be of the strictest nature, and no vessel to be al:owed C-. 1 pass in during the 15 days; consequently. liglvering from Buenos Acres to Ensenada, and rice Term, would be stopped, and this would effectually stop the loading of the 'earls, u during winter the only mode of getting produce to Eusenada from Buenos Ayres is by water, as the road, are then impassah.e. It was not known whether the English would join the Fritsch in the blockade. It is not stated whether M. Oros had left for France. llONDUltab.—Au arrival at New Orl.ans fur- Dishes the l'alsylots with a letter noted Belize, Jure 23, which s eys . —Th. re is neet:iiug new here. The difficulties in Gu eteunala till continue. The mails are entirely sus pended. and we are at !resent unadvised of the actual state of affairs there. Nothing from Mosquito territory. The refugees from Bacalar are still among us. Their condition is daily growing worse, and soon they will be reduced to actual starera•ioa. They are now living on the proceeds of their jewellery and other effects of value. We have an employ ment for user own people ; our mahogany cutters are dis charging their men, owing to the low prices of mahogany in England. They new fully see and deeply deplore the entire prostration o: all agriculture, industry, and commerce in the British West ladles. Those who have estates curse the emancipation of the negroes and the free-trade principles which allow the Male products of other countries to enter English market , on the soma footing as the flee labour productions of her own colonies. HAVANNAH.—A letter from Matanzas, of July 18, says the revolution in Cubs has been nipped in the nud by the eap•nin general. A General Lops r, who was to have taken the lead, barely escaped arrest by getting on beard a ves-el bound for Rhode Island, where he would no doubt confer with ex Governor Burr. Some arrests had been made on the south side, and more were watched closely by the government. BOLIVIA.—Dates from Guayaquil are to the 17th of June. Quiet still reigned there, but its continua .ce was regarded as dubious in the extreme. A speeder rupture be tween the ministry of Glance and General Belau was pre dicted. THE INSURRECTION OF THE ST. CROIX NEG ROES. Oar Southampton correspondent has transmitted the following account', by an eye-witness, of the late hums. reetion, by which the final ernancipw im of the negroes has been pneipirated in this coLny: The insurrection which has just taken place was a well designed one on the o ,rt of the marina and the utmost teensy up to the breaking forth of the rebellion was ob served amongst them. On Sunday, July 2, the morning s ushered in as usual by the Sabbath bell calling the in babitauts to the house of prays r; and peace and tranquil enjeyment and religious feeling reigned triumphant through out the Sabbath day. In the evening of that day a coloured woman informed a planter's wife, to whom she was attached, that she had something of importance to reveal, and that she could nut 'shell peacefully until she had divulged it. This was no less than the astounding inteligeece that an insurrection was planned on the part of the negroes. The husband of the lady above alluded to, as soon as he hi art this, went to the chief magistrate, but that functionary was not at borne. Before the gentleman could return to his house the alarm sign al was sounding from a great numb rof estates on the nosh side of the island. The blowing of conch shells er,d ringing of bells were answered from one estate to another, until the whole island was in the utennst alarm Several moon have stated that they never meditated destruction of life or property ; that the only thing desired was emancipation; and for this purpose they msrehed into West send Town in the morning. Tee alarm inereasing duping Sunday night, hundreds of the inhabitants nulled on board the English ship the Bangalore, which for tunately hammed to be then in the harbour, leaving every thine they possessed behind them. The night parsed without any destruetim of property. At eight o'clock the fol lowing morning about two thousand manes from the north tide mareted up to the town. They first went to the tort and demanded their freedom, but were told that Governor Van Shelton would mon be down, and their emancip dim would I c proclaimed. After this, they march. d about in different parts of the town uttering the most hideous yells, armed w i th swords and bill-hooks; rumbers of them had firearms. The insurgents were now joined by about 3,000 Isom the south side and middle part of the island They all en tin thneentre of the town, and im mediately commenced the work of destruction. The police office and judge's house were completely sacked and torn down ; the floors wire torn up, and every document (many of them • f the greatest iscportance) destroyed. The court yard and rev t were covered with papers. The whipping post was uprooted, and carried in triumph to the wharf, and thrown into the sea. They then destroyed the house inha bited by the judge's resistant. After that they went to the fort and rote need the prisoners, and t Id the authorities that if te,ri r ei was not proclaimed by 4in the afternoon, they Ina:4 burn the tee n, and for this purpose Vu y had a quantity et intlamma.de matter in their possession. At this period the scene woo truly awful: about 5,000 of these infu riated deems, were in front of the fort, threatening to pull down the Danish flag, and substitute the British one, which they carnet: as a randard. Many of them bad killed hogs, and Mingled the blood of lie slaughtered animals with ram and gunpewdi r, and drank it, to madden themselves. At this titre not a shot had been fired at them, although they exasperated the soldis non the ramparts by calling them cowards and putting their hands on the murales of the guns pointed at them sad daring the soldiers to fire. A [gentleman. named Moore, was on the ramparts!, and said to them, " If you do not go away , Sou wi ll b e fi re d upon ." Thinking that he had given tic soldier orders to lire, they went immediately and laundered and destroyed his house. Old wine, in battles, amain 4,000 dollars value, and demijohns of braady belonging to him, were destroyed. Large quadtis ties of flour ' meal, paint, and oil, belonging also to' Mr. errapletely covered the streets for a long distance; a sate* amount of dollars, and five-dollar notes, and a splendid set of silver plate, worth 2,000 dollars, were carried off as plunder. About four in 0:7 afternoon the governor arrived in town. Be scrod en the ramparts and spoke to the mob of insur ft nits, rotaetLing wldch Deemed to pacify them, and they *cutaway. But still they were cliratisfied, and asserted that they had not been told plainly that they should receive their tnederm. From 6 to 7 in the evening the excitement in the town slated a little, but numbers entertained fears that the town would he find during the night The most culpable nesli true war now nanites'ed by the authorities. The militia was no' Witt' out, nor was there a guard set in any put of the town to prevent mischief, and to protect the inhabitants. In f act , the persons in authority seem to have been struck Inizioultss through f ar of the infuriated negroes, who had dttlei 'hem; suddenly at 8 o'clock at night a reflection of N4l 4 / ' Mg * aid* wen visible, and in & Tory short time the whole of the northern part of the bland was illuminated with a most terrific cotiflioration. A negro named Adam, from Rose Mill, had set tire to a dwelling situated on the Oxford state, which originated this dreadful lire. The alarm and excitement in the town at this tints was terrific, and the shrieks and tries of the people on shore, crying for boats and assistance from the shipping, were truly heart rending : the darkness of the night added to the horrible scene. For two successive nights tires were Mar in, In different parts of the island. On Tuesday morning the insurgents were again approaching the town, but learning that the military authorities had determined to fire on them they returned into the country, and commenced the work of destruct tion. They destroyed the allowance cellars, curing and dwelling•houses and, after plundering as much as they wanted to make use of, they scattered meal, sugar, and herring* all over the estates. On some estates the well-disposed biacks fought deep, rattly with the insurgents, to protect their masters' property. The estates that have suffered most are, Spreat Hall, Rose Hill, Con enrdia, Negro Bsy, Golden Gore, Manning's Bay, Di^unt Pleasant, Emny, Clifton Hill, Cooper's, Negro Bay, Para. dise, Mount S ewart. Mr. knight's honed at N., ro Bay has been sacked ; all the furniture broken, do horkeada of the best sugar scattered over the yard, snit 6,000 gallons of run thriwn away. Mr. Lucas's house at Mount Pleasant was also gutted, and everything destroyed. The destruction of property towards Basin has been greater ; and they would have entered the town, and utterly destroyed it, iI it ha.l not been for the courage of Mr. Cutchin. lie commanded a field-piece at the entrance of the town, fired on the blinks as they were approaching it, and killed two, and wounded nine, which territi the others. and drove them into the country. Upwards of a hundred negroes have been shot in the upper part of the island ; seven have been cond. mned, end two of the ring leaders have been shot at the fort gate. After trial several more will be also put to death ; most of the ringl aders have been taken. The principal ringleader, Irons Lagrange, who assumed the title General Budd*, is at large with a large number of followers. A provisional government has been appoint. din both towns. General Von Shulton has been deposed for his incapacity. On the 10;11 July a meeting of the planter. in Basin took place, and six of them were ap pointed to frame laws and regulate the price of lat.our In that part of the island. On a few ~fates the newton have commenced work ag kin, but in most others they have refused to do so except on their own terms. A much larger military force than is at present stationed here will be necesAry to protect the ;eland in future. The prosperity of the inland is in et rierably rained. SLAVE INSURRECTION AT ST. MARTIN'S AND Sr. EIATATIA.—The barque Polka, which arrived at New York Irons St. Martin's, 2Nth ult., brought the tull"wing re port of slave results and emancipation* in that vicinity :. The emancipation of the slave. took plan! , on the Tr cucb portion of the Wand of St. Martin, on the 3rd of June, and the whole black population, eta moue, paraded the street, with tokens of rejoicing. After several days a port of them returned to work on the plantations, while others remained unoccupied, but quiet. In consequent eof the emancipation of slavery on the Fr. neh port of the Island of Nt. Martin, the estate owners and ether proprietors oa the Dutch part had met and agreed to continence their treatment of slaves on the free principle, and to grant such amelioration as was consistent, end at once to ask the mother govern ment to complete the work of emancipation. Th s step quitred the minds of the people. and the work of gathering salt commenced on the June, with • prispect of a crop of three to four hundred thousand bushels. The want of water was interne, and small vicsals were kept running to SL Kitts for a impply, but were not able to obtain an adequate el.:entity. The Dutch p linters were in expectation that if the mother country granted the emancipation of the slaves indemnity would be made to theta. Three were no troops at St. Martin's, and inhabi tante were at t'.e mercy of the slaves, who did jinn as th-y pleased. A great nnmher of the inhabitants talked of leasing the island, At St. Eustatic there had been a revolt of the negroes, in repressing which several were wounded. The rin.deaders were taken and placed on board the Dutch man of-war Pyl, bound to C-araica, where they would he tried. It was also rated that four negroes were laded during the insurrection at St. Eustatia. Ebt Teurt. OSBORNE, SATURDAY.—The Duchess of Nemours arrived at Osborne ea a visit to the Queen on Thu...jay, and returned to Ulitrernot.t this furehoun._ The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, and Lord John Russell arrived at Osborne this afternoon to re main for a day or two. SUN DAT.—Her Majesty, the Prince (attended by the Royal Household), the Marquis and Marchiont as of Abercorn, and Lord John Russell attended divms service at Whippineham chm ch this forenoon. The royal dinner psrty yest-relay included Lord John Russell, the Marquis and Marchioness of Abarct.rn, and Sir James Clark. On Saturday commences were nom d from the Privy Ccuncil-office to the Cabinet Ministers and the °dicers of State to attend a Privy Council on Frid ov next, at htr Majesty's marine residence, (Morrie, Isle of Wight. The Duke of Cambridge honoured the performance at her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday evening with his presence. A deputation from the borough of Wakefield, con sisting ot hhi Worship the Mayor, Mr. Alderman Mel nell, and the 'Dawn Clerk, had en interview with Sir U. y on Saturday, at the II ane-otlice. .Mr. J. Wood, chairman of the Excise, had an inter view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Satially, at his lifficialresidence in Downing-street. Despatches were sent off on Saturday evening front the Colonial-office for the Governor of Gibraltar. The Duke of Buckingham had an interview on Saturday with Sir G. Grey. The Duke of NVellinirioa attended the early service yesterday, in the Chapel lt , yal, bt. The Baroness d'Eichsthal and attendant,', Colonel Bentinck and family, and Major Smith and family le It London en Saturday morning by tta,: General Stea'u Navigation Company's mad steam ship Ocean, fur Rotterdam, en route to the Rhine. THE END OF THE SE...MON.—Oa Saturday C'er Speaker gave to the officers of the House of Cemirone his customary dinner prior to the prorogation of par:iiment. The annual white bait ministerial dinner at Greenwich— also indiestive of the close of the session—is fixed for Sew. day, the 19th inst., and the prorogation by the Queen in person will take piece in the following week. The precise dev will, doubtleas be fixed by the Privy Council to be held at Osborne on Fri day next. PUBLIC HEALTH BILL.--Lord John Russell has signified his intention to propose (to.i.ight) that the Con. mons shall assent to some of the amendments ma le by the Lords in the bill fisr promoting the public health, and that they should dissent from others. We believe that the more important and censiderable of the Leslie' a.uendmenta will he agreed to by the Commons. Many of the changes recommended by the select committee of the Lords are most useful and important. Although in oae or two instilment their lordships have strained perhaps • little too far the checks upon the abuse of local authority, yet upon the whole the select committee has discharged its duty judiciously and prudently, and with a praiseworthy and proper regard for the interests of the poor against the meddliegs and the mm nopolies of local jobbers. l'arties interested in the continu ance of profitable abuses are making a last struggle for their selfish power in the lions, of Commons; but we trust that the government will be firm in maintaining the eflieiency of a measure for which the country is so much indebted to them, and that honourable members who represent open conntitueucieo will pay more regard to the health and clean line's of the public than to the pressing solicita.iens of in tweed contractors and water companies having a monopoly to preserve.— Observer. DUBLIN ELECTION COMMITTEE, SATURDAY. The legal arguments re specting the pipe-water rate occupied the sitting. ARMING TIIE POLICE.—After the usual parochial business of the Marylebone vestry bad been dispesed of on Saturday the vestry clerk read a letter from Lod John Russell's private secretary, in which his lord-hip declined receiving a deputation from the delegates of the metropolitan parishes, who were anxious to state their objections against the proposed inert:seed rate for the support of the police, his locdahip suggesting that the Home Secretary was the proper person to be communicated with on the subject.—Mr. Garnet waved the insertion upon the minutes otitis lordship's reply, and dec'arid that the icereeie of the police rate and the arming of that force hod created universal diteontent throughout the country.—The motion having becu seconded, Sir B. Hall, Bart., M.P., assured the vestry that be bail nut the least hope of any le monstraece bein g successful. The Secretary of State hod resolved upon having the rate, and he would enrol c: it. Last night i.e (Sir B. Hall) had given notice for the appeintment of a committee to inquire into the mist of the police, which be would press forward cally next session.—Lord Dudley Stuart also tie eight that it was uncon ititu•ional to arm tke police with cutlasses, and said that their staves were ,ufficienily formidable weapons for them to carry. He was happy, however, in being enabled to state that Sir G. Grey assured him that the arming of tho police with cutlasses would not be continued after the present popular excitement wasover.—After a few observations from Mr. Broughton, the magistrate, in defence of the poliee, the motion was put and carried, and the vestry adjourns& THE STRIKE OF ENOINE-DRIVERS ON TUE NORTII WESTERN ItAILWAT.—It appears that the cause of this pro ceeding does not arise from any dimatisfaction on the part of the men with the rate of wages, but rather from a suspicion that a new classification of payment to which they have re cently been subjected is intended to sikct their wages indi rectly, and to bring them in the mutter more completely under the control of their superintendent. Tbcy desire to be paid on what they call the old scale of remuneration , under which a driver had 6s. per day for six !maths alter ho had driven his engine for six months his paywes increased to Go. 6d per day for the uext six m nths ; to 75. for the year bellowing ; and afterwards he had an addisional 21. per day per annum, until his wages amounted to ea per day. A fireman, when he was promoted to the situation of driver, had bs. per day for the first six months ; Go. per day Sir the following half. year ; Gs. Bd. per day fur the next twelve months ; 7s. per day when he had been a driver for two years, and then 2d. per day per annum until his wages reached B s. per day. The new scale of classification and payment is SA follower —se Special - clan, number limited to 20 drivers, at Ba. per day; I first-class, limited to 4 0 , at 7 s. 6 d. per da y ; second class, limitedto 30, at 7s. perday third-class, limited to 30, 6s. 61 per day ; fourth class, limited to 20, at Ss. Hi. per day. There are 20 firemen at 45. per day ; 30 at 3s. 9 i per day ; 20 at 3s, 6d. per day; 30 at 3s. 31. per day; and 20 at Ss. Per day. Jr is stated by the authorities that the previous THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, 1848. average of an engine-driver's wages was 11. 18. 9d., and that the average under the classified system is 21. Is. 9a. ; and that the average wage. of the firemen have by it been advanced from 19s. 9d. to IL 11. The men admit that the average payment under the classified (new) system is higher than it was immediately before the introduction of such penises ; but they fear that the locomotive superintendent may. by the dismissal of men from the "special class," for alleged neglect or misconduct reduce the prescribed number, twenty, to ten, or five, or one; and that he may, at his discretion, reduce the prescribed thirty of the " first cla•a" in the like praportion. Another objection to the classified system is that it does away, in a great degree, with the old practice of increasing the waltzes of the men in proportion to the periods of their respective ser vices, and that a driver or a fireman may remain in the I .west clams, sad receive the lowest pee, for years. Their superin tendent, on the contrary, awns that the system has been de 'bled an much for the benefit of the men them elves as for tt:e proper working of the traffic. In the meantime the autho rities are taking steps to procure new drivers and firemen, while the old hands, who are err) , positive in their declara tions that a new body of of aent men cannot poesibly be secured, eppear to he determined to quit the railway at the terminstsin of their fortnight's notice. They had a meeting on Friday, which is reported in a flundsy paper, at which several statements were made, implicating the managers of the matte iu charges of trusting the locomotives to incompe tent hands. As these were made quite ez parte, we decline publishing them, in the hope that the ..flair might he amicably settled. In its worst aspect, it appears to be nothing more than a misunderstanding, by no means difficult sat being cleared up. THE CHARTISTS. KENNINGTON COMMON.—Yen terclay morn. g, nt 11 o'clock, a public meeting of the chartists and Irish confederates war held at S•ruth Lon :on Chartist Hall, Webber-street, Blackfriarwroad, for the pur pose of ad:trios measures to ameliorate the conditinu of the peoele of Eugland, and else to consider the grievances of the Irish people.—Mr. Nutt, the chairman, after souse other persons bad Addressed the meeting, protected against decla mation. Mat they required as working-men was fair and reasonable arguments to show the government that their policy was wrong and unjust to the people. Declematinn against the government only induced them to whip and spur the people re they thought proper. The A't .nary-U• n: rat said, on the trial of Ernest Jon. a, that all the chartists did when they assembled was to declaim against the government. They brought forward no reasonable propositions. Nave lie (the chairman) thought if they would only bring forward their grievances in a (air and reasonable manner reelrens would necesnarily follow. It WPII the duty of the legislators, a. governors of the nation, to lint' employment for the labeiuring popelation.—One of the nenthers, wheeler name was nut aanouuced, said that he entirely epponed the view tau, by many pi e-ent, viz , that education wet the most important question for discussion. He denied this. Ile thought the question of feeding the people was the most cenential arguincie, incatourh as it the peep:: were in • state of starvati n they (rennet nut be educated. i Cheers.)—At the close of the me rtit:e it was proposed ;hat the neat question fur discussion should be, " ',there any amelozy betwe. n the present free race of labourers and the 'laves of ancient Greece." A Log and stormy dircenari:m here re-urd, when at length It was prop o sed that the subject neat fur direr:lesion started be "Thu educe:ion of the people," which was carried. The meeting dispersed quietly.—Thi re wry 'o have been anorher "grand demonstration of clutch" a and repealer' yesterday on Kennington-commun, to snow government the amount of force those bodies could muster. A demonntration DIA place, but n point of both number and character the dieplay was even inferior to the gatherings of previous ocossions. ''his may he accountei fur by the tuts that the chartist leaders had advised their usual rollowere riot to attend. Jeri that the commissioners of uo: lice had issued no notice, prohibiting the riveting, 1. r it has been found t h e, the bits placarded in reicrence to the ides gait) , of the former meetings have had the effect of drawing a crowd to the common instead of keeping it away. At half post two o'clock, the time at which it had been no uonneed the meeting was to commence huaielese, there were not above 200 persona on the croiartroix this number gradually increasing until it became perhaps doubled, amongst them being a few policemen in uniform, and several in plain clothes. The majority of the persons preheat were mere eaters, evidently nuintivested enter r in chartisin or repeal the vender" of ginger beer, apples:and cocoa neve still forming as mean p mien of the assemblage. There was nothing like a meeting liar any political purprree hi nor even n attempt Towle to h^ld one, the only difference in the usual aspect of the common b, ing that from time to ti .ie .1 couple of min would 'tared together talking out then a crowd of listeners would stand around them until their convereetion was ended. Some amusement was treated by a juvenile chartist, well kronen by his conatent attend ance at all the meetings, collecting a crowd of b ye around him, and waking up and down the common, addressing them on the nix point) of the charter. As tea time ape preached the crowd gradually diminished, and Keimington common noon annum d its usual apoeartioce. DEMI! OF SIR J. R. COLLETON, BART.—Sir James Itimpell Collet:en ' Bart. expired on Saturday at his town residence. The dice see d baronet was born Dec. 2'2, 1783, and succeeded on the death of his fuller, Sir J. Nues..o Col leton, in Jan. 1815. He was formerly in the army, in which he obtained the rank of lir utenant-colonel. In Dec , 1819, he married Miss Graves, third daughter of 'Hear-Admiral Richard Graves, by whom, who died in 1831, he had a nu merous family. His eldest son, Frederick NIUMML, born in August, 1822, succeeds to the baronetcy. THE POTATO BLlcnt—The opinion is becoming common that the settee, deseaae in not making peepers in Ragland. Correspondents in Hampshire, Nunn Wales Hens, Norfolk, Berke, and Somerset, express this belief: founding it upon the small amount of damage whi-h in many places the inhere have sustained. "We( Gardeners'e lirmmele) hope they are right. It is impossible to say what may or may not he true of so aeysterious a calamity, and therefore e can only say that our own experience is unfuvourable to the (minima. On the contrary, we see it making progress, and we fear that. the unripe tubers, elthou th sound at pre rent, may become telmed • little later. The general es mre toms are those of 18-13 and 1816, and not at all those of 1817 ; and the weather does not reassure us. As to the late crop, so generally described as being safe, we moat ohaerve that its time has not yet revived; and that, while we are writing, a report his reached us that about Roby, in Lancashire, the :ate crop is fast following the early. This statement has been accompanied by potatoes diseased exect'y as in 1815. la the meanwhile, we see no object in enntinuine the reports upon the English crops. From Ire land our chi. f suers tome down to the 21th of July. In the southern diaorion the crop seems to be what it was ; in one place the failure is cella al partial, in another eat, naive, in a third (Kilkeuuy)decided ; in one place stopped, in another (Inistiogue) progressing; some of the Society of Friends think the crop in the morph in a mere satisfactory state ; in Ceuetry (Bellybee) the failure is very considera ble. In Skiblwreen ;he plants affected with blight were (July 24) reported to be r. covering, which agrees with Lord Oran more's observations in Mayo. '1 he new potatoes over all she southern dietrict are, upon the whole, described, as being sound and cheap. To the northward the disease is appear iog nose and there. In Meath it has become more general though not serious (July 23). In Dublin county, south, it is celled partial and unimportant ; Athlone re ports are not so cheering (July 22); suppewed to be extend. mg in Ileatiford (Thum, July 22); has appeared in most fields near Cestlerea (July 23); unequivocally appeared here wad there neer Ballearebe, hut not by any means extensively (July 22); ditto, Swinetard (July 22); very few instances, crop excellent, Westport (July 22); crop thought safe in the west of Galway (Clii2en, July V); nothing of any import ance in leo-common (July 22). The coups ire Antrim, Londonderry, and Doyen, not far enough advanced far an opinion (July 23), but wane reports .dl ma; about Retlimul lan, on the shore of Lough S silly, a few eases, but of no importance (July 21); L.dy p ;aloes of unusual excel lence. Against all this we have to set the very id Inn ing letter from Oranard, dated August 2 which aerseue in another column, and ',bleb, consider ing the sound judgment of Mr. Goodiff, must, we fear, be talon as a just description of the cute of things in his neighbourhood, which is in the county of Longford. When the potatoes are blighted, the Irish growers tat em to think it best to let them alone; and we agree with them. If the stalks are really dead, it is as well to remove them, as some advise • hut we never could discover any adv antage in it. To do so can, however, do co harm; and a man may, perhaps, diminish his epprohendons by the practice. At all events, it any potatoes are formed, they ere best in the ground, where, if they do not grow, they may ripen. If they have the ten dency to rot, <hey will do an in spite of any known precau tions. In the earth they will be cooler than in any other place, and that is a great rent to gain. Moreover, if the earth is trampled down tall it becomee hard, they are guarded trim the access of air." In addition to this, we learn from Belgium that the existence of the disea at is these spoken of everywhere : thus much is certeet, it has appeared in several fields, especially low wed damp grounds, but we have ninon to hope that the, fears are exaggerated, as the prices continue very low. FREE EVENING SCHOOLS FOR ADULTS have been established near Salithe Id with stacte.s, heaving b en pito niud by the majeeity et' the bithams, the deny and nubility resident in London. These institutions have beg founded with a view to throw open to all classes of adults who have been debarred them those facilities for moral and intellectual eiucation which young persons in hurablo life now enjoy. Trans Ov KhOWLEDGE.—The average price of advertising in country papers of a limited circulatiou is 41.6 d. to 53. The tax upon the former sum is 331 per cent. ; and this tax mustbe paid monthly on all advertisements, althoegh the price of many is never pad to the proprietor of the paper ; and many more are paid only in current accounts of twelve months, and often, probably, of two to three years. The average charge. cif advertisements In the better class of pro vincial journals may be Gs. to Gs. 6d.; and the tax on the gross profits e is, therefore, 23 per cent. But the difference between the gross produce and the cash proceeds, far bad debts alone, cannot be less th an 5 per cent. A prudent news paper proprietor will not set aside a less pry centage on this ' head. The payment of the tax monthly involves some la-s of interest; and we are certain that, in tile strictest establish ment,' the duty must be paid, an au average of cases, four months previous to rectivine payment for the advertisement. The net coot of the duty is considerably increased by these considerations. A provincial paper, with an average of 40 advertisements in each publication, pays 31. of duty for a charge of el. But the aleductioa for bad debts is 0e; and the interest for the outlay of money on that day's advertising t r eeseetions is Is., making thus a tax of 31. on 81. 10.., or a duty . considerably over one-third. In this case, as in that of all sunder taxes, the weight of the duty rest: heaviest on the weakest. The fatality of this tax antes from its being di rected mainly against cheap papers. It extinguishes the hope of cheap papera; because the penny wends se .iwit the journal, whether its cost be 61. or 3d. The Daily News pays the same penny for stamping that is charged on the Trines; cut the Noes Prils for 31., and the Tones for sd. Wo believe that the proprietors of the Daily News will readily allow that the taxes en the grow proceeds of their journal are equiralent to fifty per cent. We know that in the North Br, ith Daily Mail, taking into account the ne cessary reductions made in sales to the trade, and where a considerable proportion of the advertisements are short an nouncements, the absolute tax is not ten than forty per cent. on the proceeds. There is no justice to cheap newspapers under these circumstances, and quite so little to the public who want them. [he state of the case is, that " wealthy England" and " beer-shop England" does not object to the 4d. standard of price ; hut " domestic England" " family England," the homes and hearths of England, would greatly preier, would be cheered, and would be instructed, by any change that made the scale 2d. or 31. " The taxes ou knew ledge" undmesticate men. They make the heads of families frequenters of clubs, taverns, and public places at hours when they should he in their homes. Other Leila, and great evils, fulb,w from this cause. Ignorance of public affairs—and of matters more valuable than current intelligence, and that is very valuable—is perpetuated. The tone assumed in jour nals is often moulded to the taste of the localities where they are read. There are six months to spend before these taxes can now be touched. We hope to employ the time in accelerating their abolitha ; and the d.struction of all those fetters in the form of bonds and securities thct gag and bind, and keep down the free, the full, end wide expression of opinion. The Inb,ter may be deemed unreasonable by some, and unseason able by others ; but there is uo better season than the next ' year to do a good action, I xcept the present; and it is pos sible yet, by perseverance, to ii.duce the Chancellor of the Exchequer, hard as the task may seem, to blot out the taxes on knowledge from the budget of 1849, and to set thought and its expression tree.— Tait's Magazine. A Weill•N KILLED BY HER HUSBAND.—Yester day afternoons man named Merrick met his wife, with whom he was constantly quarrelling. in Cow-heel-alley, St. Luke's, and having inquired the resteon of her not being at home coeleing hi. , dinner, he gave her a violent blow under the lelt ear, which knocked her to the ground. In falling her head Came in coutect with the palings facing one of the tenements in the court. The woman, after making two or three convul sive terugeth e, was seen to turn black in the face, and was immediately carried into one of the adjoining houses. and • surgeon was sent tor, who pronounced life extinct. The husband, who obtains his living by jobbing at the Post office, was taken into custody, and removed to Fe.atheretone street station-house. A MEETING IN WESTMINiTER ABBE[.—The C'on sestu/iortNei has the following, in a lever from a London correspondent "Two French travalers, a gentleman and his wife, were lately visiting Westminster Abbey, when some one near them exclainstd, liens! east Grassot! (why, its Orman). Oraotot (the comedian, who has doubtless affiwded a hearty laugh to many of the readers of the Experts), no less surprised than flattered at being recognised in this glimmy place, politely greeted his unknown friend, who trinkly advanced, and esplaiutd to the Frenchmen the ' meanins of an epitaph, which he was not sufficiently au /nit in English to read. This done, Orassot asked whom he had to thank fir the kindness. ' One of your countrymen, less tirtutiate than yourself, Monsieur Oramot, for he may not again see hi, Country,' Tr,* the stranger's reply, as he de parted. It was the Duke d'Aumale, who, adds the writer, w.,3 taking his customary .maenads among the tombs of the abbey." THE DUKES OF BUCKINGHAM. , The dustiest road out of t..wn just now is the road 'to Stowe. There resort our halttrelensed legislators, self ernencipated hankers, elderly ladies, pilgrims to watering places, sportsmen err route to the moot., capitalists and carioeity-mongers, pCture dealers and connoisseurs, bargain boot n and Jew broke re—in fact, aU who have either money or curiosity—all who have either an eye to business or to a holiday—make Stevie their point of attraction or their halt ing place, or the scehe of their excursion. Without moralising upon such an event, of which within recent dates we hove hod two er three examples, besides that of Scree berry.hilt, it may be fairly ventured that there are few who silk! Stowe without some regretful feel ing that what are called " reverses" should have necessitated such an entire break up and dispersion of a great family as well as of all that it had gat ered together. Some particu lars about these Dukes of Buckingham may not be mal apropos, cspeciolly as their history is not to be found in the catalogue of the auctioneer. They are not to ha confourded with the aspiring subject to whom Richard 111. was ind,bte d for his throne, and who, in return, so unceremoniously struck off his head; nor with the favourite of Charles 1., whom Velma arsa,sinatea, nor with the witty and unfortunate ad herent of that mouser ifs son. The present family of Buck ingham, whose hooows and accumalations have, perhaps, be en us great, are no descendants of either, and have become exalted by means widely uifferent from those which led to the advancements of former inheritors of their distinguished itle. At the commencement of the last century there was mated at a small estate, celled Wootton, in the county of Bucks, a family of the name of Grenville, occupying the position of country squire., but not otherwise distinguished or remark able. They are said to have held lands in the county from the time of Henry the First. Une of them had represented Buckieghamsbire in the parlfunchts of the Common- " wealth, and once or twice a Mr. Grenville had been se lected to fill the office of high sheriff. The estate immedi ettly alljacent to Wootton was the pro perty of Stowe, possessed by the ancient and honourable house of Temple. This family 's ancestry trace back to Leofric, Earl of Chester, and the celebrated Lady Oodles, his wife, to whom the geed citizens of Coventry are traditionally de clared to be indebted for their privileges. Leofric was the representative of the Earls of the Heptarch kingdom of Merda, and his descendants bore as their arms the " Eagle displayed," which was the ensign of that division of Englar.d. . . . We are not Roing to discuss the virtues or peccadillos of the Lady Godiva— 116 Improving pull through every generation, Until it centered in an only von, Who had im only aintur." The " enly son " was a Sir Richard Temple, a gallant officer in the army of the Duke of Marlborough; the " only sister" was wooed and won by " neighbour Grenville," who doubtless considered the match a great one, though probably he was far from anticipating the honours of which it was destined to he the precursor. At the termination of the wars Sir Richard Temple wan created Baron Cobham, with the usual remainders; but having no heirs, although many years married, he obtained, soon after the accession of George 1., an extension of his honours under a new creation as baron land viscount, with remainder to his sister and her descend ants. Viscount Cobham dying soon after was succeeded in hie titles and elate. by Mrs. Grenville, who was cos:nosed of enfficient interest to obtain for herself another step in the peerage, being created Countess Temple, with reversion ul th- dignity of earl to her heirs male. The Countess Temple had two sons,—Richard, who succeeded her, and died without iesue, and George, who was treasurer of the navy in the reign of George 11., and Chan cellor of the Exchequer in an early administration of George 111. This Mr. George Grenville left three sons—G, orge, of whom we shall have to speak presently ; the Right Hon. Thomas, who, dying at an advanced age, left that ma,gni deent literary legacy to the rattion, of which Sir Robert Peel detailed the particulars on Friday night; William Wynd ham, who was afterwards the celebrated Lord Gren ville, the usuciate of Fox in the administration of 1806, and who died without issue so recently II.91831; and four daughters married respectively to the late Sir Watkin Wil liam, Wynn, Lord Carystoot, the Earl Puterscue, and Lord Braybrooke. Here may be said to have ended the line of Temple-Grenville, for the neat representation of this family obtained stili more distinguished honours. George, the eldest grandson of the Countess Temple, succeeded to her estates ' but can scarcely he said to have seteceerled to her name. He, like his grandfather, saw the advantages of marrying an heiress, and there was one appa rently ready made for him. Robert, the last Earl Nugent, the representative of a distinguished Irish family, had an only daughter. The Roe Temple married her, quartered the arms of Nugent with those of Grenville and of Temple, secured the privilege of piquing Nugent before all titles what *Geyer, obtained au Irith peerage for his wife, an Baroness Nugent, with remainder to his second son, and a step in the Brltieh peerage for himself by elevation to the Marquisate of Backiegham with remainder to his eldeet;son. Thin was the emily of Temple.Nagent-Grenville. 'rho fortunes of this family, thus twice raised by dist:lee guishel marriaues, were to be still further exalted by the next representative. Richard, the son of the Ist Marquis of Buckingham and the Baroness Nugent, eclipsed even his father and groat-grandfather in matrimonial allignee. The daughter and sole h. it of James Septets, last Duke of Chandos of the line, honoured him with her hand, At sixteen she came oat; preiented, vaunted, Rhe put all coronets Into commotion : At cabmen, though below her feet still panted A hecatomb of suitors with devotion, She had concealed to create again That Adam, c.tli'd " the happiest of men." More than honouring the Marquis of Buckingham with her hand, this lady b ought the royal blood of the l'hentegenets into the femily of the Buckingham ;hire anutre, far she was the sole deice:Want of floury Grey, Duke of Suffolk, and Frances, his wife, which Frances was the daughter and heir of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, by Mary, Queen Dow ager of France, the daughter of Henry VII., our king. The Marquis of Buckingham was, of course, raised to the duke dam: he assumed the additiooal names of Brydges Chandos, and died in 1836, leavir,g an only sou, the present Duke of Buckingham, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville. Thus, we s T that in the peerage of Great Britain laurels may be won by marriage as well u by war, or by wisdom. Three distinguished alliances, within a century, elevated the house from insignificance to the highest h , nours conferred upon subjects. Garters, University chancellorships, place, patronage, and preferments, have all been theirs for 'netts sive generations. But, still, as ever, "Man heapeth up riches, but cannot tell who shall gather them." ' It was the second inheritor of the dukedom of Buckin ham, who, in the days of the second Charles, wasted his sub- Every one rernem;:tn the ulasterlY character by Lord Gatdrdt stance, and sank to beggary as a consequence of imprudence. by Burnet, the fearfullysketch given of his the noble portrait drawn of him e ztrcastic description of his latest hours by Pope, and the living likeness handed down to us by Dryden : In Nuandering wealth was his peculiar art, Nothing went unrewarded, but desert • Beggared by fools, whom still he found too late, Be has kilo jesting, they have his estate." A second time has a second duke of Buckingham fallen from the high pinnacle to which wealth had raised him. None who examine the elaborated rooms or saunter through the shafted groves of Stowe, but must be visited with some sort of melancholy regret as the fart recurs to them. But adversity teaches wisdom; and we may hope that higher motives than mere agarandurment, more extended sym pathies than those indicated by persistence in promoting clam legislation, views Ile biassed by seltint•rtin, and toa eminently broader, bolder, and nobler objects, may lead to recovery from the fate in which the House of Buckingham appears to be engulfed. Unhampered by the care of the estates they have aggrandised—tree from the trammels of the display and magnificence which the Leads of their louse have thought it right at any cost to support—the younger branches of this family have done beforetime good service to the state; and therefore, whilst we cannot now feel other sentiment than cold pity for the resulss produced neither by misfortunes nor by accidents, we may express • generous desire that even an great a fall should not be utterly un supported. IRELAND. DCBLIN, Aro. 4. Dr. West, of Summer-hill, Messrs. Gilbert White, Francis Harvey, and James E. O1)onoghoe, lair clerks, and Andrew James Doyle, printer, were arrested last nLht. A journeyman baker, recently re turned from America, and a tailor, have been arrested at Dungannon for sedition. On Friday an effort was made to arrest the editor of the Cork Southern Reporter. A police l ore@ entered the office of the paper, and in quired for Mr. Barry, but he was not to be found. It was understood, however, that ho was subsequently taken at Blackwell by a sub-inspector of po lice, who, ou finding him absent from the office, had proceeded towards his residence. An evidence of the vigilant supervision exercised by the authorities, and of the accurate information possessed by them, is presented in the fact that two young gentlemen of a respectable class, named rlopper, who had only arrived from England on Saturday tae', and who are in the confederacy, were arrested in Bannaglier on Wednesday. The ill-considered exclusion—to use no lumber term—of all repeiehrs, or of persons who ever had been repeaters, from the special constable roll in Newry, Las been condemned, as I anticipated it would be, by the government. An application on the sub ject having been made to Mr. ltedington, the sub• joined reply has been elicited : The Lord Lieutenant does not consider that tbn.e who entertain the opinion that the act of uuion should be repealed are thereby neceara rily disqualified from acting in the capacity of apeci..l constables for the maintenance of the public peace and the defence of property and orber. Ills exttlienry dos. boson... consider that those who have joined in illeed dub wool:non. for that or any other object, should not be appealed special constables. ACOUST 5. The train from the south this afternoen brought ap ten additional prisoners. One of these is a Dr. Ryan, of Carrick, and another Mr. ()'Ryan, of Cashel, who was arrested in Carrick-on-Suir. The latest accounts received at Nenagti stated that a number of the people of Carrick had risen to etf,et tho rescue of Dr. Ryan, and were engaged with the military and police when the above prisoners left. Reinthreements, it is said, had left Nenagh for Carrick. 'lbis pottiou at least of the tale is inconsi:tent, for aid might have been had much sooner. Dr. Ryan has been lodged in Clonmel gaol. The police, in the course of yesterday, acting on private information, discovered in the rear of Bes borough-terraee, on the approach to tho park by Lord Palmerston 's property in Dublin, a box containing a gun, two carbines, a sword, together with some pike heads, 15 lbs. weight of bullets, and a proportionate quantity of powder. '1 he arms on the premises of a gunsmith named Walsh, who kept a shooting gallery on Lower Ormond quay, were carried off yesterday. The commissioners of police had refused him a license to pursue his trade. We could hardly, however, ba prepared for an an nouncement in the Carlow paper to-day that a refugee Pole, one of a race which has had sa much to thank England for, bad been in the south, teaching the mal contents the pike exe-ciee. This person, whose name is Sinowsky, is in custody, and avows he came nom Tipperary to pursue his profession in Carlow. The same paper gives the following account of a formida ble conspiracy, which, if true, displays the fearful dangers from which the country has escaped : Atter the mee'ing of the Irish League in Dublin, the " coal. deretes " met is secret conclave as an executive di rectory. Dublin being found too well garrisoned, they resolved to strike • blow is the provinces, and, accordingly, it appears, not only by inter cepted core( spondenee, but by actual iuforrnation in the possession of government, that Kilkenny, "the rity of the confederates" of old, was selected as the grand focus of rendezvous. Here it was resolved to proclaim " a provisional government," calculated on so success:ul ou out break as would overpower all resist time from that quarter, and from that point it was expected the flame would spread with such rapiditu through Waterford, Cork, Tippe rary, and Wexford, as to encourage other counties to rse simultaneously, end unfurl the banner of "Liberty, Equality and Fraternity." Attrr proclaiming • " provieional government" in Kilkenny, the rebel projects are asoertained to be of a moat wrocious character. These pro jects we shall not one dwell upon, as they will he clearly developed on the forthcoming trials; but we learn that, had th• y succeeded, a reign of terror was to be established—the property of th country confi-cated—a wholesale plan of rohlpry carried into effect—in short, every man in Ireland, whether Celt ortihixon, opposed to ire insurgents, was to to summarily disposed of, without the " benefit of clergy," and a " republic," one and indivisible, was to be erected on the ruins of the monarchy, by the deluded and short-sighted Lunation who composed this sanguinary confederacy. The governors of prisons where political offenders are confined have received positive instructions not to admit any persons to visit them except the officers of the prison and the chaplains. Mr. Jerome Lalor, brother of Mr. Lalor of the Felon, is an inmate of Ncnagh gaol. He is an en gineer, and had just returned from America. The peasantry of the south, the tanners in good cir cumstances more especially, are in a fair way to understand the difference between a protecting and a " patriot.' army. All the southern journals com plain that not a single night passes in which the Slievenamon rangers do not plunder their bullock fields, sheep-walks, piggeries,or roosts. The soldiers, on the other hand, if they want anything, pay well for it. The greater portion of the commissary stores are of course sent from Dublin. A fact is stated respectirg the peasantry which it is just to record of them, and is consolatory to the well-ordered. When the Thurles contingent of police uere proceeding towards the Commons of Boulagh, the peasantry on the borders acted as guides to them over the hills, point .. g wit the insurgent body in the valley. Peasantry, police, and soldier. are on excel lent terms. The last accounts from Bermuda left Mr. Mitchel much improved in health. lie was treated with great Mr. Meagher, M.P., father of the unhappy young outlaw, is, it is said, third on the list of special con stables fur Waterford. TiliB afflicted gentleman is said to have used every tffort, but unavailingly, to induce his son to abandon his inconsiderate, reckless course, and proceed to the continent, or America. ACCOUNTS FROM THE SOUTH. The subjoined extracts from the ftuperary Vindicator, Leitaster E.rpress, and Freeman's Joutuall of to-day confirm the accounts 1 forwarded yesterday in carious material details : On iVedneaday the Keeper range of mountains Wet the OCCUO of one cf the most extraoroacary movements inade I since the tiegi ning of the attempt on the pail. 01 the moor gent leaders to raise the people. At an curly hour on that day it was rumoured abroad that some of the leaders were seen in the direction of Kaloasmon ; and it rat further coofilently asserted that they had been malting the most earnest and strenuous ezerticas to exc . /Lathe people. A consi derablecesenurse, it hes be ell asserted, gathe red around them; but oleic eto the prompt appearance and intervention of the Rev. J. Msloney,P.P. Kileoinmon who hial beer ,t id of the cir cumstance, the n•tempt to r-use the peoplc-of that district was iintLatual. The leaders tried to address the peop! iin the press nee of the rev. geutleman, but ha tuterposed with a/1 the zealous persuasions imaginable, and p teat them from doing as they desired. He told them that it they attempted to make a derucentration It would only end like that at Bullingarry, in the slaughter of some and in the fight of others, and iu the disturb ance of the public peace. He thus dispersed the people in ever ) , quarter, for they had aheady abandoned their agricultural pursuits, ant ha e 'treated the leaders to fly as soca as they possib:y could for safety, because, he alleged, the army and police were closely searching for them, and there were enemies and spies among their pretended followers who wield, as soon as they had the opportunity, hand them over to the authorities The name of one of the most distioguehed, as well as one of the , honestest and most talented of the leaders, is montioned as having been among the p,rty, and it was enough to wring a pang from the most iron heart to witness the condition to winch he and those who were with him had been reduced. 1 have heard that one or taro of the party we re very violent in their demeanour towards the Rev. Mr. Maloney; but be pitied and deplored the sta.@ they were in V.O touch to say ant thing calculated to it diet pain. On Thursday mender, at a very early hour, the entire of the Keeper mountain, ail the Analesea line of road, and the avenues in every direction lesd.ng to that ‘a-t range of highlands were invested by a great quantity of police and military. Th.. military acre retained on the roads and I in the lower positioce; the police were sent to scour use mountains in every poesible di, ection, con a most wrsry and harassing pursuit they had. The police from Thurles, Tipp: rary town, Cashel, Cappewhite, &c., were twitched at 'silent from their several sta . ions to the points where it was considered their prevents you'd be effective; whilst the . police from Nenegh, Newport, Birdhiß, and Limerick, were marched from their etationt to the pointsw here it was thought they could be of aseieuece. Never did the mouetans wit tiest) so great a force asaemblea at or near !hem The ebne, 3 or pursuit, or by whatsoever name it may be designated began at once. In some eases it was stated that the e had gone off to the base of the mountains ; in other. it was confidently asserted that they had proceeded to the very apex of the Keeper; and that if the police pushed hard for that point there was no doubt but that 'hey would succeed in obtaining the prises they to eagerly *ought for. The Rev. Mr. Moloney mixed with the people all the day, most earnestly counselling them to proceed to their work, and to remain in quietness. Indeed the rev. gentleman's exertions were of the moat ardent and strenuous character, snd he succeeded in every respect in securing tranquillity. The search of the police continued 01 niwLtfa'l, hut without being able to obtain the object of their vigilance ; and, wearied almost to death,tbey descended from the mountains. On Friday the search was continued with un.ibstcd seal on the Fart of the police and military. INQUEST ON TWO MEN SLAIN AT BOULAGIL The inquest was held at Ballingarry, l,y Thomas O'Meara, Esq., Bouladuff, coroner, and a jury ot the farmers of the locality, on the bodies of Patrick Dl'Bride and Th.. Walsh, the two men who were shut dead by the party of police on Saturday, the 29th July, in the &tiny between the poliee and the insurgents assembled on the Commons of Boulage The inquest was attended by one of the Iced msai•tr:te . '. .Ir. Going, of Ballyebillip, by Mr. Fitzmaurice, }LW, as well as by General M'Donald and the officers of his shift. The coroner first took the evidence relating to the death of M'l3ride, and called John APBrider, bro , her of the &Teased, who deposed that his brother, who was a servant boy, was making hey at the side of the road, and when he saw the crowd he followed them. Anne Walsh, wife of deceased, deposed so follows .—My husband went to work at twee king stones abut six o'clock on the morning of ti.es oc us rune. About twelve o'clock, I saw crowds of people going to the cornmeal, and heard some chats, but cannot say how many. I teen went to the widow Cormick's house, where the shots seemed to be firiog, and saw my husband lying on the field outside the wall of the house. I wee Ruing over to hint, when two guns were put out of tat highest window of the house, and some persons inside cried out to me to go back, or they would let the light through me. There was not ► man near the house, or any other person except myself and my husband, and another men who wee tying by the wall of the house, struggling with death. The tier. Mr. Fitzgerald then came up, end I ask. d him to inter fere to get my husband's body, that I might bring it home to wake it. I have one child, and had n.e eay ot living, except that my husband earned a pound of meal a day stenebreaking on the relief works It is Smith O'Brien I blame for my husband's death ; he wcu.d not hero gone there only for him.—Dr. ktyan swore that the &Teased had got a guu.shot wound on one side of the chest, and an aperture on the opposite side, where the huilet passed out. The shot must have been fired by some person on a level with the deceased —that wound cirned death. The jury returned a verdict in both ernes, that death ensued from gunshot wounds inflicted by some of the police, who had retired to the %a sal 'w !Jot. mick's house, and fired in aelf.defence. On t h e augeertien of General M'llonald, Anne Walsh was called, and on being asked did she receive money from Mr. Smith O'Brien alter her husband was shot, she said that Mr. 0' Bi ieu Rave Ler a It. note before he left, expressing the great, rt sympathy with her misfortunes, and telling her to Lary her husliend with the money. Such is the statement of the Tipperary Vus dicalor. AMERICAN SYMPATHISERS.—We learn that wa , -rants ore out for the apprehension of more than one American spa pathir, of which class we understand it is known +hat t ere are several specimens now in Ireland. They—gen, rally ex- Mexican volunteers—are most of them Irish, eitn+t by birth or parentage. We have heard that some of them hay, been discovered to have considerab!e earns at money at their command.—Dublin Week:y Reqiittr. THE VALVE OF PEACE is being exemplified in Kddare, one of the most tranquil counties is Ireland, not es en ex cepting those of the North. The river Burrow flows thri ugh a conOderatile portion of Kildare, sad like oar other Irish rivers has been Buffered to run uncontrolled to its di bouche ment. Now the gentry and others are about to clear the channel of oietructions, by which they calculate on re claiming 80,0012 acres of alluvial soil now generally under waver. WALES. TnE DOUBLE :NlUkt LTER NEAR SWANSEA.—The high • herd!' has received a communication twin the i. cretary of State to the effect that the ileum)f the two min, M rtin and Leary, who were sentenced to death at the late assizes by Mr. Justice V. Williams, will be spared. 1/ley are to be transported for life. PROVINCIAL. LANCASHIRE. ma, named C a a b;tt a ai M ui t i S ta Tti a lit g ago, an YM an S accou P n A t T .r a u TTlL- give l4 :l — e t t li a e me .E. n who had fre-a: to America in the Niagara, steamer. having taken with him a considerable sum of money, which he :tad not accounted for to the overseers of Self rd, in whose em ployment he had been as collector of poor rater. It now ap. pears, from New York papers, that on his ar rival there he I was duped out of a considerable sum, if no: all .he monsz. by a follow-traveller, who had wormed himself re.to his friendship. Curtis had represented himself to be an emi grant English farmer, and parties not ac,naiuted with his previous charade r had expressed great sympathy for him and his family. The most singular part of tne ststement that the captain of the Niagara had generously offered Lim a free passage hack to England, and thnt he, under the lin ! eutostance f, had accepted it. Mat lihely this last part el** story will prove incorrect. A SEIZV RE or Plias was made at Mancheste . : on Saturday, by the police, eta place where the manutacturen ' had taken them to be ground. It is believed that they were not intended for a local marker, but we-e dfttined fur Ire land. The two men in whose powesaion they were found were net at liberty till this day on their own ri cognisance r. OPENING/ OF THE NEW NORTH DOCRS, LIVER. soot..—On Friday, five of the splendid line of new docks in I course of construction at the north end of the town wore for mally opened for traffic by Mr. J. Bramley Mess, chair man of the dock trustees. The foundation stone of these immense works, it may be remembered, was privately .aid, and it had been resolved that their opening should also take place without the least pomp or cere mono. Upwards of a week ago water was admitted into the five docks whichit was intended to open ; and on Friday, all ni cranny arraes,einents having been previously made, the Redwing, government steamer, with Mr Moore, the dock committee, audit party of gentlemen ou hoard, made its entrance into the first, namett . the Salisbury Dick. Having sailed round, the vessel sueseseively entered the Nelson, the Bramley Moore, the Collingw.M s and the Stanley Dock., and thus completed the opening. The aggregate of the five docks opined ylelda a water arane of between thirty and forty acres available for the accommoda tion of et ippiog. Th. ,- other works in progress at the rink end will not he completed for a year or two. They are the Wellington Dock, the Wellington Half-tide Basin, ar.t tas Sandon Dock and Basin. CTIF.SHIRE. _ COMM/SUOMI BY LTET-76NANT.—R. Erooke, E-q., to be deputy lieut.—T. Leon, jun., Esq to be capt. in the Kialt::ltitiHnt of Yeomanry earthy. - L prof. iL NeuzaL CONFEiVION OP baa been already stated in tide paper, that J. Travis , who was trite! and acquitted on the charge of murdering C. Copeman, of Kiruna, has, since his conviction for robbery, confessed the ( d e: that he did murder Cop man. On Friday his detailed confession was laid before the county magistrate. We pis, the material portions of the document. Travis states that he was accom panying Copeman to his house at Blyborough on the night in question, and they were am Acing cigars on the road; he then stater : "My cigar would not burn; I to.ik out my knife to cut and prick it to risk., it num. I kept the knife in my hand playing with it opening and shutting it backwards and forwards, and had not the lei . ist intention to harm Copeman. I felt in my pocket for my handkerchief ;it was not there. I said to Copeman, " Have you got my hankerchief out of my pocket ?" He said, with an nate, "Do you think lam a thief ?" I said, " I don't accuse you of being a thi, f. I thought you might have taken it in yoke." He said, " I don't like your jokes. I did not like what you said to me in HALadsn's;"—(io I allusion to a challenge to tight any man, given by Copeman and aceepted by Travis, as he states, in joke)—" and had Ned Woodhouse been there, I would have fought you in spite of George Furth. But I will now," said he, and attuek me in the pit of my stomach, and took my wind I fell, and when I g:t up (for I could not speak for some time) I said, " Copeman, I did not think you would strike me in that cowardly manner." " Yea," he said, with an oath, and ' , ruck use again with the stick and his hand ov, r the collar- bone, and with his left hand struck me again at the back of the ear. I got up directly, having the knife in my right hano,antl we began to light We had a severe scuffle, in which 1 cut him, but not intentionally, and my: elf on the back of cot halal. We both f.:11 down. We strugg:ed on the grounil I or 5 minutes; we then got up, and he struck inn over the crown of the Ivied with his stick. I said, "You mean that, do you ?" and in my pAssion struck him the Ltd blow to the neck. (li, this put of the accounc, Bays the gaol chaplain, Travis cried.) He then fell, and said, " Oh, Travis, you have killed me." I " What with," not knowing that I had struck him with the knife; but he made no reply. He began to kick with hie feet. Being in liquor, I was not conscious of what I hal done, but bein4 moonlight I raw the blood run as I thought from his ear, I then fell on my knees by his side and said, " Cope man, I hope I have not mortally wounded you." He got hold of my left hand and pulled my shirt wrist, and said, " Travis, go and fetch the doctor. ' I was not able to stir from the spot, hut presently recovering myself I said, "For God's sake, Copeman, tell me what I have done "—(Here, the chaplain says, Travis cried much)—but be never eras more. I then tried to raise him up, but life ass gone, and he was no more able to stir, poor ti flow. I burst into tears, and called out, "murder," and for help, but no one came. The dog then came up as I was on my knees, and licked both 'my and his master's face. I did not know what to do ; the dug's licking his master's and my face quite overcame me. I lay on my bode, perhaps half an hour, crying, know ing that I had sent him unprepared to meet his God, as I thought at the time. I then thonght of de stroying myself, but again thought I w an only adding to the sin. I then Cu' his face with my penknife, to make it appear that some cue else had murdered aad robbed him. I tore his tr users and waistcoat for that purpose, end toak from his pocket three sovereigns, 2 half-crowns, three sixpences, anil 13 or 15 pence in copper. We keys and knife I threw away in some field, on my way home. It was about three o'cloek whin I got home. I knocked at the door, and my mother let me in. She had no light. I said, You bad better go away ; I have a young mon with me,"--not wish ing her to we the state I was in. She then went up-stairs, and there being some little fire in the kitchen, I lighted a candle, and pulled off my things, and burnt the shirt in the tire. I then began to clean my trouser.; and, cost, —My.. mother came down and peeped through the kitehek-dock, . • ri 1 ,1 LI.; 3 • 1 rie •