The Express. — London, England, 1847-11-15 00:00:00

desire, the former from York and the latter from London. The relatives who attended the Normal were fire of the sons of the archbishop, three nephews, and two sons-in-law. .MARYLEBONE VESTRY. MENDICANCY AND VAGRANCY.--011 Saturday Mr. S tand ford brought up the report of the committee appointed to a dopt measures for the suppremion of vagrancy, which stated that the committee hadwaited upon the Home Secretary, who promised to second their views. They had no dependence for assistance from the polio. magistrates, who only com mitted two-thirds of 42,000 vagrants brought before them. Amongst other measures the committee recommended the appointment of special constables in private clothes to watch and envy vagrants. The report was received. PAROCNIAL FINANCES.—Mr. Flood, vestry clerk, re ported that the demands upon the parish figured 12,4381., which would leave a balance of 1,6001. in the bankers' hand , . SANITARY CONDITION or THE PARDIII.—Mr. George Daniels brought up the reports of the committees of the five districts nominated to inquire into the health of those dis uicts, sad suggest the best mode of improving their sanitary condition. It appeared that the five districts com prised 583 streets and ways, the cleansing of which for the last ten years cost 43,0771.; and their light ing, which was effected by 3,150 lamps, cost, for the name period, 11;2001. ; and the paving, 6 :e., 178,1171. It also ap peered that the small buildings in the parish were erected without any regard for either the health or comfort of the inhabitants. In some instances 24 rooms, containing 121 inhabitants, had only one privy and one cistern for their general use ; and in other cases the houses had neither back windows, yards, nor back entrances. In 280 streets the sewerage was all but neglected. The several committees strongly recommended a reform in the mode of sewerege, supplying water, lighting, and ventilating; and also that burials sitould be done sway with in the pariah. The amount of mortality, which, although greatly diminished, still con tinued treat, they attributed to the influx of paupers from Ireland and the rural districts, who carried with them fever and other contagious di•eues. The report was adopted, and thanks wr re voted th the committees who prepared the report. STONE YARD LA1101:11,—Upon the motion of Mr. Daniel, the stone-yard committee were empowered to exercise their discretion in presiding employment for the shoals of able bodied pauper, that were crowding the yard and demanding work or fo.rd.—The vestry adjourned at half-past two. MUTINY OF CONVICTS. In some of the daily journals of Saturday there appeared a brief allusion to a riot which broke out on Wed nesday evening last on board the Warrior ecnviet hulk, attached to the dockyard at Woolwich, concerning which the following particulars have transpired :—Mr. Mtsterman, overseer of the Warrior, issued an order for the removal of one of the wardsmen, or heads of the chum s of twelve into which the convicts are divided, the men of each class sleep ing together in one cell. When the guards went to the cell to enforce the order and remove Graham (the wardsman referred to) the prisoners at once began to resist them, and, accompanying their threats with the most horrid oaths, swore that Graham should not be taken away. Finding that the guards were about to remove their wardsmao, three of the most determined prisoners demolished a tabl that was is the cell, and, arming themselvee with the legs, dared the guards to interfere and remove Grabens, who Mao threatened the guards and brandished a knife. The guards retired from the cell, and as one of them, named Frazer, was p i•sing the bars, Graham struck at him through them with his knife, which touched the man's clothes as he drew tisck. Mr. Golden, the chief mate, then went down to the prisoners, and remonstrated with them, advising them to allow Graham to be removed, and if they had any grievaace to complain m to . go up to the quarter-deck and state it to the overseer. This the prisoners peremptorily refused to do, and, after abusing the overseer, a rid if he wanted to say anything to them he must come down. The guards then retired, and represented the case to Mr. lefesterman ; but no further notice was taken of the matter that night, the prisoner Graham being allowed to remain in charge of the men. On the following morning the refractory prisoners were allowed to go to their work as usual, and from that time to the present no punish ment has been inflicted upon any of them, and Graham still remains in charge of his class. As it was alleged by the overseer that the men were in liquor, they were questioned by some of the guards the nest day as to the fact, when one of the most refractory, named Ward, declared that they were all sober, and that they still adhered to their determination not to allow Graham to be removed. So the matter rests till Capt. Voules, the newly appointed superintendent, has in vestigated the cireumstances. Two other instances of insub ordination are worthy of mention. At the dinner hour on Friday, a guard named Williams, who had received some provocation from a quarter-master, named IVhite, under the influence of his irritated feeling., committed a violent assault upon the latter as he was ascending the brow of the ship. This was observed by all the prisoners, who were mustered outside the ship for afternoon labour, and the assault was immediste!ygreeted by them with loud cheers. Mr. Field, the chief inspector of the dockyard police, who happened to be near the spot, immediately repaired to the ship to 11/10ertftill the cause. Williams was suspended, and will be discharged. On the same day a convict, named Buckingham, who was at work with several others, on board the Unite convict hospital ship, which is at present under repair in the basin, came on deck with his face streaming with blood. On inquiry, it turned out that he had some time previously reported a fellow prisoner, named Bilis, who had been slightly punished in consequence, and who had taken this opportunity of resenting the injury. The guard in charge of the prisoners sent them both to the convict ship in charge of the sentry. Shortly afterwards the offender re turned with the sentry (the injured man having been sent to the doctor), boasting to his fellow-convicts how he had served Buckingham out. Ilia punishment consisted in the addition of another iron or chain round the leg. PENSION TO THE WIDOW OF THE LATE. JAMES Ildsztax.—The Board of Ordnance have, after repeated ap plications, awarded a pension of 201. per annual to the widow of the late J. Marsh, whose test for the detection of minute quantities of arsenic and other discoveries in chemistry, had ' given to his name an European reputation. CHARING-CROSS BRIDGE COMPANY.— A special general meeting of the shareholders in this company was held on Saturday, at the offices, Villiers-street, Strand. Mr. W. Hawes, the deputy-Chairman of the company, presided. The object of the meeting was to confirm the resolutions of a former meeting for rescinding a contract for the sale of the bridge, and for raising 20,0001. by the creation of 3,200 quarter shares. About thirty gentlemen were present. Resolutions carrying out these objects were snored by the chairman, seconded, and unanimously agreed to without re mark.—The Chairman then stated that the amount of tons up to the 13th of this month was greater than for the cor responding period of last year, and was very satisfactory, lbs. 24. Of the one-eighth shares, 698 were yet un appropriated, and would be again offered to the shareholders by circular. After a little conversation as to the issue of the new shares the chairman was about to declare the business of the meeting concluded, when Mr. Brown complained that the directors had not informed the shareholders of legal pro ceedings having been commenced against the company on the part of certain shareholders—The Chairman admitted the receipt of a communication on the subject, but declined to state what had been done in consequence.—Mr. Brown c3ntended that 1,2001. or 1,5001. had been spent in useless litigation, and said that a very heavy bill of costs would have to be paid out of the 20,0001. about to be raised. He wished to have a committee appointed to look into the mattes—The Chairman repelled the charge which had been made against him of unduly biassing his colleagues; and in reference to the law charges, referred to the last printed accounts, in which the costs were stated to be about I,oool.—The pro ceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. REFORMATION OF JUVENILE OFFENDERS.—One of the two anniversary meetings of the Philanthropic Society was held yesterday, at the Institution, St. George's fields, on which occasion • sermon was preached by the Rev. William Harrison, lately preacher to the Magdalen Hospital, before Sir G. Grey, Secreter_y. of State for the Home Department; the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Sir Richard Vyvyan, the Earl of Denbigh, and several other noblemen and gentlemen interested in the institution. The unusually large collection of 16.51. was made. Upwards of ninety lads placed out from the institution during the last three years attended an the occasion. They and the boys now in the institution, amounting to 114 in number, were addressed by Sir G. Grey, Mr. Harrison, Dr. Rice, Mr. Gladstone, and others. CLEANSING AND FORMING THE DWELLINGS OP Toe Poon.—At a general meeting of the Committee of the Baths and Wash-houses for the Labouring Classes, held at the institution in George-street, Burton-square, on Satur day, it was resolved, in addition to the benefits conferred on the poor by the baths and wash-houses, that the poorer classes in the north-west district of London be 'applied by the society with disinfecting agents, lime-wash, brushes, pails, and other necessary means to enable them to cleanse and purify their dwellings. The report respecting the baths and wash-houses states that since the opening of the establish ment, in August, 1846, up to the present period, 131,968 males and 14,377 females have bathed, and that the present average of women and their families provided with clean linen, I y means of their washing, drying, and mangling, and getting up the same, is 4,000 weekly, or nearly 40,000 articles of clothing. FATAL SHIPWRECK.—Captain Wheeler, of the ship Fanny, belonging to Chepstow, arrived at Gloucester on Friday, from Milford, and reports that on clearing out of that port on Tuesday morning last, when off the Crown Point, he fell in with a quantity of cork, evidently part of the cargo of some ill-fated vessel. On making towards it, he discovered a man floating in the water, lashed to three bundles of cork, and much exhausted. Captain Wheeler took him on hoard, and learned from him that he was the mate of the brigantine Deaden, of London, from Faro in Portugal, with • cargo dank ; that the vessel had suffered severely from heavy gales, and for four or five days and nights the crew had been working hard to keep her afloat, when at last, on Monday night, she foundered about ten miles west of St. Ann's Light*, and the captain and his wife were drowned. The crew, five in number, finding the bri gantine breaking up, got on the cork, which was floating near the ship, and in a few minutes afterwards the vessel sunk The men then lashed themselves to the bundles of cork, and remained at the mercy of the waves during the night, being near enough to hear each other speak for some hours ; but after about two in the morning the mate heard no more of his miserable companions. He, however, requested Captain Wheeler to look out and see whether any of them were alive. The captain, in consequence, continued his search, and in about half an hour he discovered one of the crew about half a mile to the eastward, to whom he bore down and took on hoard. The sufferer was greatly exhausted, and had no clothes except his flannel shirt and drawers, and. his naked feet were bleeding from the bites of fish. lie was warty insensible from cold and exhaustion. Both the suf form had beat Seating in A. water for sixteen hours. Captain Wheeler continued to tack about the cork during the whole ads. night, but sew nothing of the other semen, who, like the captain and hie wife, no doubt perished. The two whom be had taken oa beard he supplied with clothing and nutriment, and brought thence toGloncester.—Sunday Paper. THE AMERICAN LECTURER Sivas,ram, THE POET.—On Thursday evening Mr. Emerson delivered his fourth Atheneum leture, on " Sikakspera, the poet." The attendance was as numerous as on the previous occasions. Of this discourse, which ap peared more suited to the tastes of all parties than either of the three preceding one., we shall present our readers with • somewhat more extended outline. The lecturer commenced by saying that if we studied great men we should nut find them lo much diatinguished by ori ginality as by range or extent of thought.. If we required of them that originality which consisted in weaving like a spider their web from their bowels, or in finding clay and then making bricks and then building houses, no man was ever original. The great man wee the one who was at the centre of things—in the thick of events; and who, seeing what men wanted, shared their desires. There was no choice for genius ; the great man did not wake up some fine morning saying be was full of life, and would go to sea, and find out some hitherto unknown shore ; but he found himself in the river of the thoughts and events—in the forest of words, ideas, and necessities of his contemporaries ; he stood in such a position as to be a go between from the want to the suiting of the want ; be stood where all the eyes of men looked one way, sod where their hands all pointed the direction in which he should go. The power of every great genius lay in his sympathy for the r o o p t l e e i ,i i o ri skal his oto e of t t o e to materials ai in, had w h o OMUet hi, si o n o cl he entered into their labours. Great original power, one would almost say, consisted in not being self-willed, but in being in every degree receptive; in letting the world do all. The history of Shakspere and of the Eng lista drama, which had been prosecuted with such eagle eyed research ever since the time of Malone, had yielded very unlocked for results, and precisely in accordance with this view Shakspere came at a time it seemed when the people were importunate for dramatic entertainments. At that period the court took offence easily at political allusions, and attempted to suppress them; the Puritans and religious among the established church saw in dramatic representa tions sedition and sin, and would a"so suppress them; but the people would have them. The people tad tasted this new joy; and as we could not hope to suppress newspapers in the present day, neither could power or authority then suppress the organ which was at once the newspaper and Punch of Shakspere's day. This secure position which the stage held was el the fine Importance to the poet who worked for it ; he lost no time in making idle experiments, and after a little, finding that he did not prosper; but here was his audience and expectation prepared for him. Mr. Emerson then alluded to the manuscripts to which Shakspere must have had access on his entrance upon his theatrical career at the Globe. Shakspere evidently thought the mass of old plays corpus rite, on which any experiment could be fairly tried. The rude warm blood of the English character circulated in the plays as in the street ballads. The poet on every account needed such basis supplied to him from with out—the basis of popular tradition on which his art might work, and which, again, might restrain his art within the due temperance ; otherwise all his powers and elegancies were superfluous. Thus did the people supply him with solid ground and foundivion for his airy devices. lie (Mr. Emer son) conceived that the value of a popular basis to the new poem, was precisely analogous to the dependence of sculpture I on architecture. The inestimable advantage which the sculp tor found in architecture, the poet found in the existing dra matic materials of the theatre. Hardly* single drama of Shsk spere's could be deem, d to be of his own original invention. His basis he found in prompters' books, and an that circle of histories, foreign and domestic, current in England; and he was wise enough to snow that tradition supplied a power ' superior to that which invention could. In that day the petulant demand for originality was not so much premed as in these days. The great poet who appeared in barbarous, igno rant times, had this advantage—he absorbed all the light that was anywhere radiating in this sphere. Every intellectual jewel, every flower of sentiment, it was his office to bring to the people; and, therefore, he was little solicitous whence his thoughts bad been derived; they would be equally welcome to his uncritical audience. Such was the happy position of Homer; and Chaucer, like all gay geniuses, was a huge borrower. The poet stole with the apology that what he took was of no worth where he found it, and of the greatest value where he left it. Indeed, it was coming to boa practical sort of rule in lisera ture, that a man haying shown himself capable of original writing was at liberty henceforth to make whatever he found his property. It seemed that thought WAS the property of that man who could adequately place it. Thu., members of the legislature represeuted the thought, and spoke for thousands. So Shakspere's works were not one man's labour, but the sentiments of thousands concentrated in one. Our Bible was a wonderful specimen of the strength and music of the English language, but it was made not by one man, or at one time, but its execution extended over long periods and generations of men, till it was brought to its present perfection. There never was a time when there was not some translation in ex. istenee. So with the Liturgy; it was not written at one time. So with the explicit language of the law; it was the work of all the sharp-sighted and strong-minded men that had li eed in all countries where the l.sp governed. The world took liber ties with the world's books. He who was not ashamed to owe his originality to his age, stood in the next age as the true recorder and repreeerimile of his own. Mr. Emerson then alluded to the meaty particulars which have been handed down to us relative to the life of the great poet. It was a matter of grave comment whether he robbed an orchard, whether he ',inched, or whether he left kis second best bed only to his wife. Whilst he had recorded and illus trated to tediousness everythiog relative to Queen Elizabeth, King James, and other individuals of the court—beings we should never have missed, had their names not seen the I light—the founder of another dynasty, which alone would cause the Tudor reign to be remembered,—the man who carried the Saxon race in him by the experience which fed him, and on whose thoughts the eyes of the world, were to be nourished—was pined by unnoticed. No body suspected that he was the poet of the human race. Bacon, who took the inventory of human understanding I for the times, who recorded both what was done and what was deficient in science, never mentioned him ; and Ben Jenson evidently considered himself the better poet of the I two. If it needed wit to recognise wit, Shakspere's times must have been capable of recognising him, for his times were prolific of great men. Since the constellation of great men, at the time of Pericles, in Greece, never was such so ciety in the world, and yet the genius of the men who com posed it failed them to find out the best in the universe. (Applause.) Our poet's mask was impenetrable; his incog nito was complete. It was not possible to write the history of Shakspere until now. He was the father of German litera ture, and Colridge and Goethe were the only ca Ulm who had expressed the impressioneof his times with any fidelity. The lecturer having further blamed at the scanty materials of Shakspers's history which have come down to us, said that, at all events, it appeared that he was a good husband, with no reputation for eccentricity or excesses. But we had no clue to that which gave the particular direction to his powers ; no light at all was shed as to the origin of that which had so much interest for us. It was the very essence of poetry to spring like the rainbow daughter of wonder from the invi sible. Mr. Emerson spoke of beauties of the poet which the player in his hemisphere knew not of. One golden word sprang out immortal from wretched mortality. He re membered once going to hear the Hamlet of a famed per former—the pride of the English stage—and all he then heard and remembered of the tragedy was that in which the tragedian had no part ; it was simply the magical expression to the ghost— " What may this rneen, That thou, dead come again, in complete steel, Itevialt'st thus the allmrees of the moon." The dissolving power of Shakspere's imagination would, in a moment, reduce the big reality to be the glimpses of the moon. This magic dispelled the poor illusions of the green room and the actor. After some further remarks, the lec turer said Shakspere was the only biographer of Shakspere ; and though our external history of him was so meagre, we had from himself really the information which was material —which, if we were about to meet the man and deal with him, to be the companions of his sphere, would most import us to know. We had his recorded convictions on those questions which knocked for answer at the heart of every tboaghtful man—life, death, love, wealth, poverty, the prizes of life, and the ways whereby to come at them; all those things were unlocked and opened which affected man's for tunes, as also those mysteries and demoniacal powers which defied our science. What mystery had he not signified the knowledge of? What office or function, or district of man's work, had he not remembered ? What counsel had be not given ? What maiden had not found in him finer delicacy ? What lover had not found himself out-loved ? Whom had he not instructed ? Mr. Emerson then pro ceeded to make a few general observations, stating that Shakspere surpassed all other distinguished persons, parti cularly in his omnipresent property ; he was also strictly impartial ; having no peculiarity he had nothing particular to tell, but all wail duly given. The great he told greatly ; the small subordinately ; he was wise without emphasis or assertion ; strong as nature was strong who lifted the land into mountain slopes without effort by the same rule as she floats a bubble in the air, and likes as well to do the one as the other. (Applause.) The lecturer thought there was nothing comparable in literature to Shak spere, for expression, for strength, for delicacy. Men had existed who affirmed that they had heard the language of angels, and talked with them, but on their return to the natural world, though they retained the recollection of those conversations, they found it impossible to translate those things that had been said into human thoughts and words, but Shakspere, like one arrived into some heavenly sphere of sensation and existence, had learned the superior diction, and when he returned to this world he retained the fine veal power which had been opened to him above. The poet's I sonnets, though their excellence was eclipsed by the splen dour of his dramas, were equally inimitable. In him was to be found no trace of egotism. One more royal trait he would stop to specify ; he meant Shakspere's cheerfulness of thought. His name suggested joy and emancipation to the heart of man ; if he should appear in any company of human mule, who would not march in his troop ? (Applause.) But how stood the account with this great benefactor when pon dered over in solitude and silence? As chief poet of the world, he might well draw attention to the wonderful problem which rendered the poets and the mystics en one side or the other. As long as the question was of the comparative talent and intellectual power, the world of man bat not his equal; but when the ques tion was one of his (Mr. Emerson's) life he found he could spare him. What signified the Twelfth Night, Mid summer Night's Dream, or the Winter Evening's Tale. It was plain to him who meditated these things that they com prehended merely half views, that the world still wanted its poet and priest in one—ons greet reconciler who should not stop short with Shakepere nor with Swedenborg, but one who should see, and speak, and act with equal inspiration. If there wee knowledge which would burn the sunshine, there wee light which wu more beautiful than private affec tion, and there was love which wu compatible with universal wisdom. (Applause.) IRELAND. DUBLIN, Nov. 13. The month still continues troubled under the opera tion of the Poor Law. The Rathkeale guardians, to the number of twenty-four, have resigned, alleging as a general reason, the difficulty of the emergency and the increase of responsibility. The Listowel board (Kerry) have fallen into a more agreeable temper, and agreed to impose the long-withheld rate of three shillings. Concord is thus restored between them and the commissioner,. On the other hand, the neighbouring board of the Killarney Union ferments with indignation against Messrs. Redington and Twislcton for having issued a circular' calling on the board to provide for the relief advances, notwithstand ing the three shilling tax. Even the industrious North shows symptoms of disorder on the poor-law question. On Thursday last the Ballymena workhouse was besieged by a crowd of paupers demanding work or out-door relief. They were offered the accommodation of the house—but thia V was ---- rettoKtell — reft;:cl, -- ancl they departed, i threatening plunder to the bread shops, The menace, however, was not put Into execution. The weaving trade is said to be in a very bad state in the neigh bourhood of Ballymena, coarse cloths having declined more than one halfpenny per yard in the last three weeks, with very few purchasers. Weavers in conse quence, after sale of the web, have not more than a shilling for the week's labour. Repugnancy to the workhouse in the north springs from a feeling of in dependent self-respect—elsewhere it is associated with a vagrant love of liberty, and a violent dislike of workhouse restraint The Evening Mail announces the resolve of the Dublin conservatives to prosecute a petition against the return of Mr. Reynolds. Mr. Baldwin, the assistant barrister for the east riding of Cork, has accepted the inferior county of Louth, in consequence of ill health. The emoluments are leas by 5001., but so also are the trouble and time. Cork will be offered to some senior chairman, an ' office requiring great temper, tact, and a reasonable degree of knowledge. A struggle is about to begin in parliament between the citizens of Derry and the Irish Society, relative to the charter of the latter and the rights of the former. The Derry corporation is also to apply for a city im provement bill. One of the persons arrested for the murder of Major Mahon, and lodged in Roscommon gaol, has died there from fever. The conduct of Mr. Ormsby Gore, an absentee and extensive landed proprietor, to his tenants in Leitrim has provoked some harsh comments in the English and Irish press. He was charged with evictions under very cruel circumstances, and loud, in conse quence, was the outcry. Hie agent, Mr. Lawder, makes out his case in extenuation. Charge the first : That where a year and a hells rent, up to September last, was due, he refused to accept less than a fall year's rent from any person holding less than twenty acres.—Answer : That not one of them offered a single shilling ; and though threatened with eviction, " never showed the least desire to pay anything." Charge the second: That the aged and persons in fever were dragged from their beds.--Answer: No single sick person was turned out; and the only " aged man " whom Mr. Lawder saw, walked quietly oat of his cabin. Quiet implies contentment, and surely there could have been little peace of mind in the breast of the aged man in leaving for ever his humble roof-tree. In several instances Mr. Gore's Leitrim tenants are stated to owe from twelve to fourteen years' rents, a proof of singular clemency, misery, or mismanagement. As a general reply to the imputa -1 tion of cruelty, the agent publishes a notice by Mr. Gore, dated the Bth inst., in which he offers to the evicted tenants, as well as to those who may hereafter be in a like state, to enable them ti emigrate next spring, and " in the mean time to provide for them the mean. of procuring habitations.' A benevolent quaker, Mr. Robinson, of Clara Mills, among other remedial measures of which he has a large store not usually in the best working order, suggests, among other thing., that when parliament legislates for the labouring classes, they will specially enact that five labourers on every hundred Irish acres shall have one acre each at the rent paid by the prin cipal tenant for the remainder. The operation of this wholesome provision would be a better acquaintance between landlord and labourer, bringing more comfort to the latter, and making the former more the pro prietor. The Central Board of Health has been recruited by the appointment of Sir Henry Marsh. The other me dical members are Sir Philip Crampton and Dr. Corrigan. ENFORCEMENT OF 11l POOR-ILATE.—The commissioners of poor laws in Ireland, carrying out in its full sense the te cent pledge of his Excellency Lord Clarendon, that the poor law should be rendered so fully effective so possible, have issued instructions to the several inspectors of unions through out Ireland, enjoining vigour in soliciting and enforcing pay ment of the rates by individual rate-payers without fear or favour. SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, Nov. 14. Fever of a type more than ordinarily virulent is prevailing in Perth. A correspondent of the Mail says that four individuals employed in coffining a physician who died of fever were all seized with the malady, two of them having fallen victims. In another fatal case the medical attendants recom mended that the dressing of the body should be dis pensed with altogether. Built on the margin of a river, and surrounded on all sides by hills, the posi tion of Perth is not, perhaps, generally salubrious, but still its freedom from manufactories, and nu merous public walks, should make it healthy were sanitary facilities in existence. But it seems the police commissioners have no fund, at their disposal, and that their duties fall on the magistrates, who do not appear to regard this part of their functions as of direct obligation. Stirling, at the head of the Forth, is no better than Perth at the bead of the Tay. "So crowded is our churchyard," says a local writer, " that there is not room to get down between the tiers of coffins on each aide of the grave being dug., Hence with every shovelful of earth there are thrown up fragments of coffins and other paraphernalia of the dead? Such a state of matters is disgraceful in a small town where ground is both plentiful and cheap. The recent local elections have excited the usual amount of quarrel on general and temporary sub jects. In Perth the changes in the magistracy have set the church and dissent by the ears. It appears that ever since the reformation the provosts have belonged to the established church, and consequently they and their brother magistrates have been heralded to church by the town serpents halbert in hand ; bat last Sunday, the new provost and three of the bellies being dissenters, the town serjeants walked to chunk alone, and took their seats behind the empty Innis terial pew, the Sabbath meditations of the good burghers of St. Johnstoun's being greatly disturbed by the novelty of the proceeding. It would seem that for some time past it has been the custom to elect the Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow for two years, and as Lord John Russell has held office only for one year, it is reckoned unhandsome to bring forward an opponent this ses sion. In ordinary times the honour is not of much consequence ; but at present, when there is a like lihood of the subject of university tests being probed to the bottom,the vote and influence of the Lotd Rector ' is of some moment. Lord John Russell would be for abolition as probably as his opponent, Mr. Mare, would be for retention. Mr. E. F. Maitland, late editor of the Yorth British Recietc, and brother of the solicitor-general, has been appointed an advocate-deputy in room of Sheriff Davidson; and Mr. P. Shaw has been appointed sheriff of chancery under the Lord Advocate's new Service of Heirs Act, which comes into operation on the 15th. EOIIOE COUIKSHANICS BOTTLE."—Lord Robertson, one of the ordinaries of the Court of Session, has granted an interdict against the sale of a pirated edition of Cruakshank's famous work. SUPPOSED 1111:6DEIL—WS, Edinbu•gh Adrertiser, un derstand that an individual, who followed the vocation of an erant vender of gingerbread, was apprehended in town on Monday forenoon, on suspicion of being concerned in the supposed murder of the woman whose body was lately found in the Union Canal. It la said that she was last seen alive in his company, and several other circumstances have tended to fix the suspicion of guilt upon him. The case is at pre , scat undergoing investigation by the authorities. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, 1847. PROVINCIAL• IMPORTANT TO TUB V7HOLI IS understood, that on the opening of the Tract Valley Railway for the post-office service on the let et December, the North Western railway company and mete other& will introduce wnforns time at all their stations ; that is, all the clocks will be set by London time, regulated by Oreenwith °teem tory, and the trains be despatched accordingly. Unless the public be fully prepared for such a change, its introduction will be productive of great inconvenience ; if they are pro pared, they need not anticipate any inconvenience whatever. Should this uniformity of tune become general on the rail wap in England, an will doubtless be the caw, it must quickly be adopted by the nation. Manchester time is nine minutes behind that at London ; and the inconvenience that must necessarily result from the railway clocks there being eight minutes before all the other time-pieces, would be quite insufferable. We (Maw/tester Courier) think that railway companies should spare no pains to make the subject understood, and the proposed change known ; and we would suggest to the public authorities in every town in the king dom the propriety of recommending the adoption of uniform time. Such a recommendation might very properly emanate from the railway department of the Board of Trade. In Manchester the change would be perfect and quite imper ceptible, if, on the evening of the 30th instant, every correct time-piece were put forward nine minutes. The only incon venience would be the loss, for one night, of nine minutes' sleep. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A POACHER.—The following narrative is given in the Chaplain's Report of the Preston Rouse of Correction, for the present year. It was written at the dictation of the poacher himself; and we have Mr. Clay's unquestionable authority for its authenticity: %Tien I first began poaching, I lived with my father, and we had a dog that was much given to catching game; and sometimes when I was out he killed me a hare. One time a man saw him kill one; this man kept a beer-shop; he said be would pay me well if I would let him have it. I was to go to kis house at night; he gave me a glass of ram and le 64.; and he wanted me to bring him another 'hare. I stopped drinking ant,' I hail spent the money. He told me that I ehould get name marts, and he brought me come to look at, and showed me bow to vet them. I caught • bare that night, and took it to him ; and I had it all in drink but • and that I bought some wire with to make snares; and then I got going to thin home constantly, sod taking bares there, and drinking ale and spirits of all hinds; and I think that beer.shep was the ruin of mc ; for there I met with some young men that were following the same game, and we got to shooting pheasants. That night we ehot twenty-flee pheasants, and we sold them to a gentleman, and he was • --, and we got es. a maple for them (before the Aide of game was lege/hard). I was caught taking up mares, and got sent for three months to the Preston house of correction. The gentleman that seat me to prison wanted my father to turn me out of the house when I Mille home n ; and because he would not, the gentleman went to the landlord, and the landlord doubled the rent that year, and he gave him notice to leave; he, however, got it for another year, but he diet before the year was up. Our geode were sold off, and we were obliged to leave home, and get work where we could. I got a job at a farm, and sent hie keeper to the farmer, and told him that be was to turn me away; so he poul me my money, and told me he must not employ me. I had not been po thing then for more than twelve months, for I thought about giving it up, till thisoentienum sent word to all the farmers not to employ roe; and then I was so angry that I thought I would have some of hie game, If he would not let me get my living by working. I bought n dog and n gun, and got a lot of snares and net and I fol lowed poaching all that winter. All the gentlemen were against me, and would not let their tenant's employ me; and I did net care what became of me. I got to drinking; and got along with more poachers in other parts of the country. Once we went to —, In Yorkshire, and we stopped two days and two nights, and had nothing to at; we slept in a barn In the day-dose, and at night we went out poaching. • We got so much game as we could carry away, and we brought it • into Lomhire, to a man that we bail sold game to before. He paid to for It, and then we went to a public house, and staid there till we had pmt all the money. The other man fetched his clothes from home, and pawned them, and we spent that; then we pawned one of our guns, and then we asked for trust ; but he pushed us out of the house, and said, " You drunken blackguards, get off home—what do you want here without money !" I went part of the way home, and laid down an the reed and slept tin morning, and was almost starved to death. The oast sight I borrowed 10.., and the other man fetched kis clock oat, of the house ; and we got our gun again. We went out that night and ggit eight pheasants. We got Sea fee them from the same man; and than we went to this same public honer, end we were welcome when he saw we had money • and when it wee all gene, he said we might go to bed ar a few hours; and we got op at three o'clock in the morning, and wo shot fourteen pheestote by Ix o'clock, and we sell them for 11. I Se. and then we wart to the polthothouse sobs, and stopped there till we spent it ; and my wife came after me, and the landlord put me into a hack place, and told her I was not there. We Weak all that week, till all my mosey was gone ; and as I was sitting by the fire, the land. lord end, "that dont thou do here without any money? Be off home to thy wife; thou lime had no ale since dinner time." Then I thought, this is the way that poachers' money goes! no I thought I would leave it oft, and try to get mine work. do I went to • farmer that had some dearth* to let, and he said he men not let me have it, unless I got a note in writing from the steward, for he had orders not to employ me. I went to the steward, and he told me to go to the squire; and I went, sad be said I should hare no work on his ground, and he but. me be gone. I ems very badly off, and I began poaching again; and in theca a month I wee caught, and I went away, and woo away from my wife sad family three I years. Then I cane home, and got work at some waterworks, and I wee at home nearly two yarn, and did not go poaching at I but the mune seemed me all the time, and I was a.s innocent of it as • • child ; and he would not allow any of his farmers to give me work ; and then I began Poaching again. I should have given it up many a time, if the srentleman had allowed the farmers to give me work. I carried on poaching all that season; and when the game was out of the man would not buy any more dead game, but be said he had a l rge order come in for lire barer, and he would take as many ea we mulct get alive. And this employed the man at the game shop to get men to go into other people'. preserves. We were in • preeerve one morning catching live phearante, and one man said, "There le a deal more pla/anus dd. morning than ever there was ;" and I looked back, and mid, " There is • deal more keeper," Three of us got aw,y, and one got took, and rent to Wakefield house of correction for Mx months. That season we aught above two hundred live hem besides lire phea sants and partridges, and lots of pheasants' eggs. And there was another that we caught a deal of lire game for, and we took t ham to Wm marches. and be paid us for them, and made on as drunk as pip ; and at that time we were getting some harm for some gentleman near —, that kept a lot of greyhounds. They came to my home for the bares once a week, and we kept them in a room till they came for them. We caught them about sixty ; and I think that money did me more good than any that ever I got for poaching, for they always paid me at home. I hare caught hundreds of live harm and pheasant, and sold them to ; and now they hare turned their backs upon me, and east roe Into prima. But for the time to come I mean to give It up, and not go poaching any more ; for I • think this three mouths will do me a deal of good. A ktILwAT GHOST.—A ludicrous incident hap pened near Stockham, on the Lancashire, Cheshire, and Birkenhead Railway, a few days ago. It is pretty well known that the operations at this railway have been stopped for the present. A few men were left for the purpose of carrying on some minor excavations which were thought necessary. About a month since a man was unfortunately killed by the falling in of the tunnel near the place where the men were set to work ; and the men heard, or thought they heard, most distinctly, the sound of a pickaxe on the very spot where he had been killed. The wind had been rather high for three or four days; but still they heard the monotonous sound of the dead mane work in the tunnel. At lest it was agreed that one of them should descend, and ascertain how matters stood, and if there should be anything to fear, a signal was to be given, and the adventurer drawn up again. One of the party imme diately consented, boasting that be feared not man nor devil. Accordingly the rope was fostered round the waist of the hero, and he was let down the shaft, his companions ready, on the least notice, to draw him up. The bravado had not reached the bottom before a cry was heard from below, and such a twitch was given to the rope as plainly bespoke that something was the matter. The man was pulled up instantly, I with a countenance pale as death, on which terror and consternation were strongly depicted. To the almost gasping inquiry of" What is it ?" " What bast a seen ?" he related, that no sooner had he got to the bottom than he plainly saw the white pale face of the dead man, which went backwards and forwards as if he were at work, but which be recognised immediately as the countenance of his late friend. The news was quickly spread in the neighbourhood, and the " railway ghost " was the theme of every tongue; several persons went to hear the sound of the ghost at work, until a tipsy man, in • pot-valiant fit, would be so obstinately bold as to go down and fight the ghost! Willing to see how such a one would fare they let him down, and in about five minutes drew him up again, with the innocent cause of all their terror in his hands. It proved is be • large new tin powder eso, which had been left there by the men, and which had been placed in rather a ricketty position, on a projecting stone. It was splashed with mud in such a manner that it somewhat resembled a man's face, and the wind through the excavation had caused it to jolt from and against the side of the tunnel. RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR ALNWICIL—The express train on the York and Newcastle line left Edinburgh at 10 minutes past 7on Friday morning, at the usual speed ; but when it arrived at Nswhambog, near Alnwick, a singular modem was dissemed by ths elegies driver, caused, it is be lieved, by sue Odle siestas pins giving way, which causd the piteeglisk Iliset Oahe - eagles to tear ap the sleepers, b whisk mom the tails wan weeded ken emir pieties, and theestiselsala, in whisk woe smog herbsigisseses, was * thrown et, line. The pesswens ampeetiag every minute that the !twit would be dueled to pieces, serail attempted to gave their lives by jumping out of the carriage,. The =gime was emir* bwied ia - the beg, only a portion of the %mg rimailse *ibis. The tier was above it, and on= wen:, caused the the carriages to give way, and the train was tely etopped. Assistance was immediately procured, and search made for the engine-driver and fire man, when, from the faint cries, it was ascertained that they were buried in the bog. They were dug out with every possible expedition, when the fireman was found to be so dreadfully scalded and bruised, that not the slightest hopes are entertained of his recovery. The engine-driver was leas injured. A person who was on the break van was also Knottily hurt. The passengers were dreadfully injured about the face and head, one gentleman had his eye cut out, by being thrown against the glass door of the carriage while it was oscillating. At the time the accident occurred, the train was going at the rate of forty miles an hour. The passengers were forwarded by the mail train to London, and arrived as half-peat four on Saturday morning, instead of nine o'clock on Friday night. WARI DISCHARGE OF RTIER:AI:LA9OI7RERS.—A further discharge of navvies, to the number of several hundreds, took place on Saturday, on the various lines in course of exe cution at and in the neighbourhood of Birmingham. The works In that district, especially the Birmingham and Oxford Junction, hare for some time proceeded very slowly. ALLEGED LICENDIARY FIRE.—At Nottingham, on Saturday night, great excitement pervaded this town in con sequence of a destructive fire having broken out an hour be fore midnight in one of the densest parte of the town. A policeman on duty in Bridlesmithgate saw &dense volume of smoke issuing through the crevices of a shop-door in iligh-street, occupied by a young man named Spicer, a hatter, who bad resided but a few months in the place. The neighbourhood was soon alarmed, a crowd quickly collected, and the door was forced open. The men were, however, unable to enter the premises, in consequence of the fury of the flames. Opening the door had the effect of increasing the danger, and soon the shop and the whole of its contents were one mass of fire ; the hats, the shelvings, and counters, the partitions, paper, and the gas emitted from the melted kw, created a flame that extended in one compact body across the street (only about five yards wide) and set fire to the doors, shutters, and signs of the houses opposite, including the New Black's Head, Mr. Hindley's, perfumer, and Mr. Staveley's, bookseller. The company enjoying themselves in the various rooms at the Black's Heed, quickly turned out end lent a helping hand to the neighbours, who poured a copious supply of water on the buildings opposite the blazing house, and this prevented the danger spreading materially ere the engine arrived. In ten minutes after the first alarm the chief constable and the fire brigade arrived on the spot. A large volume of water was soon poured into the shop where the fire originated, and upon the surround. big premises. The effects of this were quickly visi ble, and by half-past eleven all danger was over. People of all classes crowded to the spot, snd some of the mob were se unscrupulous, that at one time it was feared the neighbouring premises would be sacked of everything valuable. The shop of Mr. Brownsworth, jeweller and watchmaker, at the corner of High-street and Pelham-street, was forced even, the shutters were taken down, and the panes smashed in, to enable the mob outside to carry off much valuable property from the windows, consisting of rings, chains, watches, seals and clocks, many of which it is feared will never be recovered. Efforts were also made to get into Mr. Staveley's shop and ethers, but the proprtetors wisely kept them secured. The shop in which the fire com menced 1.1 part of a large range of building., formerly used as the Old Blacks Head, now converted into shops, and divided in the interior principally by wooden partitions. In one of these shops, facing upon Pelham-street, a fire broke out on Friday morning, destroyed everything contained in the upper rooms of a hat-making establishment, and created the greatest alarm. This was quickly subdued by the fire-police. Mr. Foster, the proprietor of that esta blishment, was uninsured. The singularity of a second fire occurring in the same range of buildings within two days, and both in premises occupied by hatters, created much sus picion after all danger was over. Mr. Spicer, • very young msn, had, it appears, closed his shop earlier than usual. After the shop was shut, the errand boy said he smelt fire, but the master said all was right, and dosed the place. The boy has also spoken of certain alleged suspicious preparations. These and other facts—such as the recent insurance of the stock for considerable more than its alleged value—induced the apprehension of Spicer, who jnow in custody. ATTEMPT TO MURDER A WIFE BY HER lIUSDAND, AND HIS OWN BODADIL—The inhabitants of Reading were alarmed on Friday by the report that the wife of a black smith, resident in East-street, had been cruelly murdered by her husband, and that he had himself committed suicide immediately afterwards. On inquiry, it appeared that the culprit was James Hersey, for some years past in the employ of fitr. Rimell, shoeing smith, Friar-street, in that town. For some time past Hersey bad entertained a suspicion of his wife's fidelity. His accusations were always emphatically denied by his wife, and it is ascertained that there never was the slightest ground of suspicion against her. However, quarrels have frequently arisen between them, and it is only a few weeks since that the deceased was brought before the magistrates, and held to boil to keep the peace towards his wife. During the past fortnight, the wretched man has almost entirely neglected his work, stating, as an excuse, that be was unwell. On Wednesday the keeper of a beershop next door to his own house, having heard that he was poorly, inquired how he was, to which he replied, "There's nothing the matter with me, Mrs. Nutt ; bat I have seen things that are wrong, and I have staid at home to find them out." On Friday, about 4 o'clock, the wretched man and his wife were heard quar relling by the neighbours ; and, during the altercation, de ceased sent out his son Charles, who had just come home from school, to fetch his brother then playing in the street. The poor little fellow had just descended the flight of steps ' in front of the house when he heard a great noise behind him, and, looking hack, he saw his mother rush out of the front door, followed by his father, who, at the same instant, felled her to the earth with a poker which he held in his hand. The woman fell senseless outside, the man retiring within the house, and closing the door after him. The boy ran immediately for assistance, and finding a police-constable re turned with him to the house. The woman was found lying on the door-step in a pool of blood, which was flowing copiously from wounds in her head. A surgeon was imme diately sent for, and she was removed to the hospital in an insensible state. The constable proceeded into the passage, at the further extremity of which he found Hersey, lying on his face, covered with blood. After groaniag heavil y . twice, he expired in the officer's presence. A medical examination discovered that he had inflicted a gash eaves his throat, ex tending from ear to ear. The appearances were such as to leave little doubt that the wretched man, after having kaocked down his wife, closed the door, and supplying him self with a razor, went into a shed or outhouse in the back yard, and there inflicted the first gash. From this place he appears to have walked halfway aerate the yard, where, from the large quantity of blood which has escaped, he is supposed to have made the final cut. The wretched man then threw down the razor on the pavement, and attempted to return into the house, but in so doing be seems to have stumbled against the door-sill and fallen headlong into the passage, the position in which he was found.—The wife, though still alive, has continued in an insensible state, and is in a very precarious condition. The deceased had four chit. dren, the eldest of whom is 16 years of age. AN INQUEST ON SCOTT, TILE TRAINER, has been held before R. Clarke, Esq., of Reading. Scott was found dead, lying on the floor of his sitting room, on Tuesday last, at his residence, close to the heath. Mr. Brown, surgeon, of Sunning-hill, who was called in as soon as the body was found, early in the morning, having given an opinion that apoplexy was the cause of death, the jury immediately re turned a verdict to that effect. The deceased had attained his 63rd year. KENT. A WIFE MURDERED Alf lIER HFSEAND. An inquiry, which has occupied the attention of Mr. ',Linde, one of the Kent county coroners, and a jury for several days, was brought to a close late on Saturday evening, at the Falstaff Inn, Gad's-hill, respecting the supposed murder of Mrs. Sarah Brown otherwise Errington, aged 27. On Taesday, the 19th of l ast mouth, she was delivered of a child, which is still living.—Mr. Wiblin, a surgeon residing at Strood, attended her, and deposed to her having gone on favourably. On Friday the nurse, Anne Cauah, noticed a remarkable change in her state, and Mr. Wiblin, on seeing hrr on Saturday, found her in a ststo of collapse. He ordered her such medicines as he deemed advisable, and saw her frequently during the day. She died on the follow ing Tuesday. It was elicited that the nurse generally gave the unfortunate woman gruel when she required it ; but thy husband, in the course of the Sunday night, helped her to some, which she took. Previously to this Mrs. Fisher, her mother, had wr tten to Mr. Holmes, uncle of the deceased. On reaching Mrs. Fisher's residence at Gravesend, Mr. H. found the husband, to whom he immediately proposed that they should see the corpse. They accordingly went, and on the uncle viewing the body he remarked to the husband, in consequence of its general appearance (having, as an under taker, seen many bodies), " Why, she has been poisoned." The coroner was not communicated with until the Friday, As ohs dtrested a Pay to be called for the .at Iserning. eon as the Diced heard that a jury bad been summoned be decamped. On the application of chemical tests, at a poet marten examination, oxalic acid, to the amount of a drachm and a half, had been discovered, besides what had been absorbed in the system and what had posed by vomit ing.—The coroner summed up.—The jury found • verdict of " Wilful murder against William Brown."—The coroner having made out the usual documents the inquiry closed. THE LATE ME. ROOKE.—A committee of the pro fessional brethren and friends of the late Mr. Rooke, taking into consideration the destitute condition of his widow and family of seven children, have announced a concert to take place at the Hanover-square Rooms, on Thursday evening, Dec. 2, on which occasion • selection of the most admired pieces from his various operas will be given. ligy Brame. THE SHAKEPEARE House.—The performances to redone the balance which the London and Stratford-on-Avon committees rendered themselves liable for on purchasing Shah speare's house will take place at Covent Garden on the 7th of December. The committees have circulated a programme of the performances, leaving the actors' names to beed up by those who intend taking part in the various scenes, which are ea follow The Episode of the Clowns and their Play "A Midsummer's Night's Dream."—ll. The Death of Henry IV. : Second Part of " King Henry I V."—III. The Story of Prapero : " Tempest." —IV. Falstaff's Re cruits before Justice Shallow : Second part of " King Henry IV."—V. The Balcony scene : " Romeo and Juliet." —VI. The Statue sane: "A Winter's Tale."—Vll. Ka therine and Petruchio : The acting piece entire, as taken from " The Taming of the Bhrew."—The performances will be under the patronage of her Majesty. AND CLERICAL CAMBRIDGE.— EMMANUIL COLLIGE.—T. B. Power, 8.A., btu been elected a Foundation Fellow, and F. G. Donne a fel low, out Mr. Gillingham'. foundation. 00211.1LLE AND CAIVB COLLEOE.—The Rev. C. Clayton will ■oeeeed to the tutorship of this college, on the tenseastion of the Bee. J. J. Smith. YRKPERSaNTB.—Rev. W. Bowyer, to Clapham K. Sur rey: dio., Winchester; 1,2751., with residence; pat., W. B. Atkins, Dal, rice Ven. W. Deeltry, dee—Rev. T. Broo ke , to Miami! V., Salop db., Lichfield; 450!., with residence; pa, 0. BrwokA . E 2 9. — Rev. W. A. W. H. Brunton, to be chaplain to the Earl of Governor-General of India.—Rev. P. W. Bryan, to Little Maples= C. Foes.—Rev. FL G. Bryan, to be Vion.Prfneipal of the Protestant College, Malta—Rev. t\. Cookson, B.Lk, Hester of St. Peter'. College, Cambridge, to Girton 8., Rutland: dM. Peterborough; KW., with residence; pat., Bt. Peter's College, Cambridge ; 'lee Rev. M. 1 lodgion, D.D., des.—Her. S. N. Dalton, to Foulness IL, Farm : din. Rochester; 3001., with residence ; pat., G. Finch, Pogo—Rev. G. Diem, to Egton P.C., Co. end Arcbdio. York; 1214.; pat. the Archbishop of York . — Rev F. D. Pyre, to be chaplain to the Union workhouse, Faversham, Kent, and to the curacy of that parish.—Rev. J. F. Fenn, to Stc4tfold V. Beds : dio. Lly ; 1851., with noidence ; pats., Trinity Coll., Cambri d ge; vice Rev W. A. Chatfield, promoted.— Rey. T. Floyd, to Castle-hall, P.C., Stockport, Cheshire: dlo., Chester; 130/.; pats., truetees.—leer. T. U. Citron, to Berton V., Wedmore land dio., Cull/de; 1301., with residence ,• vita Rev. A. Wilkin pro. rooted.—Rev. E. Ileele, to Al! Saints Chapel, Jersey : dio„Winehester 50/. ; pat, the R. of 8L Ililier'..—Rev. W. Lee, to be bead master of the grammerachool, Billericay, Face:.—Rev. H. J. Maddock, to 'tallow C., Warwickshire; dio Wormster.—Rev.lll. Pardngton, of With -linos-Hearne., Yorksh ire, to the lectureship of that palish.— Rev. L. Poyneler, to be an &satsuma-chaplain in the Bengal Presidency, H.R.l.C.S..—lter. T. Robinson, D.D., Master of the Temple, to the prebend of Mora, In the cathedral church of St. Peal, London ; ROIL ; pat., the Bishop of London; rice Yen. J. H. Port, des—Rev. W. J. Sheerly, to Chrlet Church P. C, Heaton, Woohey, tiontemetshire: do., Bath and Walla—Re,. F. Aowden, to Somersal-flerbert C., Der byshire din., Lichfickl.—Rev. J. L. Spencer, to Barheynone R. Kent: ardbdio., Canterbury; 182!., with residence; pat., fit. John's College, Oxford; vice Rev. J. Gillman reigned—Rev. J. Steward, to Penny. Stratford P.C., Baas: dio.. Oxford; pat., J. Willie, Rap—Rev. 1. b. Varner, to Ilarswerth V., Doak*: filo., O rford; 1364, with readence pats., Trinity College, Cambridge ; vice the Rev. 1. L. Smith resigned.. —Rev. R. VI att, to Cheadle R., Stagordthile: dio., Lichfield; 4194 with madame ; pats., Trinity College, Cambridge; vice Rev. R. bons resigned. Vschisetse.—Little Beckham R., Surrey ; dio., Win chester ; IW., with residence; Rev. G. P. B. Pollen des.—histhon V., Wormier. : dio., St. David's; 3164 ; pat , Bishop of St. David's; en. cant by demise (SO. Reece. NAVAL. MOVEMENTS OP Mel Marine - e'er Slitre. —Lt mote, Nov. 9.-11. M. & Vesnnpgeeaamnora,, Capt. B. LuMingten, sailed hence for Malta, to ,Min the Medlteeroean squndson, under Vice-Admiral Ste W. Parker, Bt., G.C.8., which order arrived by H.M. steam, Hecate, on the nth inst. Arrived from Madeira ILM. steamer Mange, Capt. J. C. Came, woo I. superorded en hie prornetion by Com. W. 11. Writ ers.. From England lI.M. steamers Hecate end Amphlon. The Scourge left the Island of Madeira, having preceded MILS. Howe, 120, from Li th o& with the Queen Dowager's bosom carriages, and tentage, ice. Oil Lisbon her going into the Timm H.M.S. Howe, Capt. Sr J. Stirling, Knt., from Madero, haying arrived at that bland from Lisboa on the let inst., !meted he Queen Dowager and ratite, all well, oa the following day the 2r61), end M noon sellel again on her return to Lisbon. lI.M. ate.imer rolyphemon, tom. J. J. MtCleverty, leava the river Douro to-day for Gikaltar, beinft relieved at Oporto by Lievit-Com. G. Western, In the steamer larks!, from Lisbon.—At Lisboa H.M.S. St. Vincent, 120, Rear-Ado. Mr C. Napier, K-C.8., oomenauder-imeltie Capt. A. Mile, ; Caledonia. 120, Copt. N. H. Mon; Omen, 120, Capt. elr H. J. Locke, Knt.; Cane. poe, et, Capt. F. Moresby. C.& ; and steamers Odin, CapL Hon. F. T. Pelham; Drama, Capt. W. H. hall; Avenger, Copt. A. C. td acres; Scourge, Corn. W. It. Wingrere ; Hecate, Com. R. Moorman (b.) ; and Amphion (meow propeller), Capt. W. J. William. POkragOttirti, Nov. 14. Waterwitch, 10, Commander Birch, arrive,' this afternoon from the coast of Africa; the left the Penelope, Actaeon, Hound, and Heroine at Kabenda on Aug. 71. Wan, witch left Amension OR the 30th of Aug., when the fever bad broken out on board the Tortoise. The officers' sick quarters at Awieneion were °erupted by the !surgeon and his lady, in conaequence of which the officers bane been pat into the sick ward. Waterwitch has recently captured three slave-vemels ; she sailed this morning for the eastward to be paid off. Comet R: v. sailed this morning for Lisbon, to he employed in keeping up a communication between Oporto:mid Lis ten. Bellenle, troopship, is ordered lobe ready to receive the 6th regiment on the 22nd loot. Asia, aI. Capt F. It. Stopford, is waiting the arrival of Rear-Admiral P. Thereby, to hoist his flag ; she will sail an soon aa ready alter the 26th inst.. Beretta Junior, tarp., hoeing embarked bee troops at Cour, returned to Spithead yesterday. Un dine, at., sailed yesterday tor Dover. Amason, Capt. T. Shopford, it ordered home from the Mediterranean, to be paid off. Oberon, pocket at Chatham, I. ordered to Spithead, to embark Mr. More OTerraff, the new governor of Malta, for oronveyenoe to that -Ships In harbour : Victory, Remittent, Victoria ant Albert, mid Belleropboe; Terrible, Fairy, Lightning, Myrtle, and Echo, steamers; Belleisle Blenheim, and Maria Somee, tramport.—At Spitheed Asia, Princess Royal, and Barrett. Junior, transports. DPIORPoRt, Nov. 13.—Tartarus, et., Licut-Com. Sir G. Webster, arrived here yesterday afternoon from Portsmouth, and, after embarking a few supernuraerary *Mem and seamen, soiled same day for the Mediterranean. to join the seprodrce under Vice- Adm. Sir W. Parker.—Fly, 18, Cam. Oliver, is nearly rely, and wit Nil about the middle of nest week for New Zealand.—Alert 10, Corn. 11. Dunlop, is progressing Lot in her equipment —Diligence, naval tr., 31r. Martin, Muter, is alongside the dockyard taking in Mores for Pembroke. ooLw wit, Nov. 13.—HtreMboli, •t. 31., was commis aioned on Thursday by Com. Lord W. A. Resucierk.—Janus. st..v. (the Earl of Dundrinalers vessel), is to be tried on Monday, to test a re- writing gear invented by Mr. Robinson. Monkey, ordered to be in attendance upon bee.—Triton, iron it ordered to be rent to Chatham, to be brought forward for commirsimi.—Maracurrer, barite, left todaywith storm fur Deronport—Unite, conslct Losp..sh. s baring completed bee fittings, Ina taken out of the baain, and towed down to the Royal Anecal by the Monkey, at.-tug.—Garland, Closer st-packet, Master-Com. L. bmithett, arrived at Deptford to-dar, to be overhauled and repaired.—Lieut. J. It. Thompson mu onlered to study at the Steam factory here. ADMIRALTY, Nov. 13.—ArrotwnttxrA.—Liestenants: W. Leslie, to Penguin ; R. E. Dollen, to Victory; C. O. B. Hall, con firmed to'nerew. Surgeon J. P. Burke, and Amdst.-Surceon G. Yen. to Stromboli. Surgeons: W. R. Dalton, to Cygnet; P. J. Whipple, to Alert. Masters: C. Pope, to San Jane(; J. B. Tucker, to queen. Acting Amist..2lurgeonit: T. B. Forster, and C. K. Ord, to Ada; L. Carey, to Porcuptoe. Master's Arntaths G. PolglnJa, to Comet; A. !Abetter, to Itirkenbesl; IL W. Gillian, to Stromls.:l; W. Lead, to Crocodile; J. F. .(y en, to Rhsd onantbua; W. Long, to Comet. Clerks: F. C. Ilusantry, to Stromboli; G. Hooper, to Fly. Nara! Cadet F. C. 1). Schimberg, to Hibernia. First Clam Assisb-Frcgdwer W. M. Janes, to Fire Queen. Second Clam Andst.-Eaffiorer R. Drummond, to Fisganl. Third Clam Assist-Engineer W. Pitt, to ilsgard. Asskit.-Engineers: J. Oliver, to Ts ; J. NVertherley, to Oberon ; G. Trireme, to Sidon; J. 1L Krause, and C. A. Byiljer, to Puurard ; J. Justice, and R. Williamson, to Sidon; G. Ilitchingraan, to Terrible; B. Barber, and J. Chureher, to Fisgard. Acting Ikr.b. meant IL Shearer, to Poictien.—Pat,orion.—B. Scott, to be Pay muter and Purser. MILITARY._ l'onTsmorrx, Nov. 14.—The 69th Regiment is to ens balk it. baggage on saturday nest in the Bellende, and on the fel. lowing Monday the battalion will embark. The Bel:ri•le a:ao takes oat Assist-Conn.-Gen. Williams, Lieut. Arnett, R.E., .tes.st../Surds. Power and Colton, R.N., and Dr. Wingate Johnston, deputy in ventor of the West Indian wittadron.—Tye Maria homes and Blen heim, transports, that convey the Znil battalion of the 69th to Malta, will at that place receive on board the 97th Regiment. wWeb will be coneryed to Jamaica: (tom thence they carry the 33rd Regiment to Manta, where the Shad Regiment embark for England. MEDICAL. APOTTIECARIEV HALL.—The following gentlemen reseed en emminstlon In the science and primUce of medicine, and received certificates to practise, en Thursday, Nor. II :—W. Thomp.on, lan dos; W. Brsithasite, Plymouth; W. Pearce, Hinkley, Yorkshire; T. Watson, Bristol ; C. Brad, J. B. Hicks, Lymington ; n. B. Rob Ms. J. G. Whisteme, Bouvetie.street; B. French, Beath; J. L. Green, Flintaldre. tats Enttlltgente. EQUITY COURTS. Bt tae the lot;1-6anteliOr. Ex PARTE BUTTERFIELD. PROOF IN strerxer ow TRUST PROPERTY ADVANCED TO FIRM W111,.11 BECOMFA SA-VERCPT.—This was an appeal from an order of the Court of Review, directing the admission of a proof, which had been rejected by Mr. Commissioner Holrocd. A testator, named Thomas Butterfield, who had carried on business as a draper at Royston, by his will directed that it should be lawful for his wife to retain in her hands, and employ in car rying on the trades or businesses in which he might be en gsged at his decease, any part of his assets not exceeding 6,0001., so long as she should think fit, dein should continue his widow; and he appointed his wife and son as his exe cutrix and executor, together with another executor who re nounced probate. The testator died in June, 1832 ; and in August, 1832, the widow took the son into partnership in carrying on the Wallies, of which the son thenceforth had the entire management. In December, 1845, the mother and son became bankrupts, and at the time of the bank ' ruptcy their receipts, in respect of the testator's estate, exceeded their xpenditure by 8,9211. sa. 9d. It was in evidence before the commissioners that 6,0001., part of the above sum had been sued in the partnership trade. A proof was tendered under the fiat of the whole sum of 8,92141x:9d. ; but the commissioner, considering the sum of 6,0001. as having been invested in the business, in conformity with the trusts of the will, only admitted the proof for the balance of 2,9211. is. 9d. This decision was reversed by the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, sitting in the Court of Re view, on the ground that the direction in the will tv the wife to retain and employ 6,0001. in the testator's trade d:d not entitle her to take her son into partnership, and entrust the fund to him, but meant that she should carry on the trade alone. From the latter decision the assignees appes led, land the case was argued by Mr. Swanston, Mr. Russell, and Mr. Cheadle's, in November lan.—The Lord Chancellor now gave judgment, and s as of opinion that the rejection of the proof by the commissioner was right. In "Es pane Garland' (10 Vesey, 110), an executor wan directed by the will to carry on the trade with a limited por , tion of the meets, and there were questions which did not exist in the present case ; but Lord Eldon in that case con eluded by expressing an opinion that the property declared to be embarked in the trade should be answerable to the creditors of the trade. The employment in the trade here was what the will authorised, to the extent of 6,0001. • and the respondents were only entitled to prove for the ba lance. The result was that the decision of the commissioner most be restored, and the order reversing it discharged. MANN V. STISPHENS.—INJUNCTION.--ORDER TO COY- MlT.—The Lord Chancellor gave judgment in this matter, which was a motion argued last April, and then reported in this paper, to discharge an order of the Vice-Chancellor to commit the defendant for breath of an injunetion granted by his Honour to restrain the defendant from building • brewery, or house of entertainment, in a place called the Windmill, at Gravesend. The question was, whether the covenant in the defendant's lease permitted such a building in a place called the " Dell," and what was the boundary of that place. His lordship then ordered the injunction to I stand until the plaintiff brought an action at law ; and now giving his final judgment, after stating the evidence as to the locality of the "Dell," has lordship was of opinion that the injunction ought to be discharged, leaving the plaintiff at liberty to bring his action. Moonset:us v. MORRISON.—THE OPENINO Accot NTS REPUICED.—The Lord Chancellor gave judgment in this cue also, which was argued before his lordship last January, upon appeal from an order of Vice-Chancellor Wigram, made in the petition of William Morrison Wyllie, and his infant children, praying for the re-opening of consignee's accounts in the cause. George Morrison, by deed dated in 1813, and by will dated in 1811, conveyed and devised certain Wert India estates to trustees, for the bene fit of his son and four daughters. Mr. Edward Ellice was one of the trustees. A bill was pled for titeraisidalatiation of the state in 1813, and a decree was made thereon in 1817. Settlements were after wards executed on the marriage of the daughters, and in two of them Mr. Ellice was appointed a trustee. In I°l9, Mr. Ellice was appointed consignee to the estates, and he continued so until 1830, when he was diecharged at his re quest. In 1831, a petition was presented by the parties interested in the estates, complaining of all the acts done since and under the decree of 1517, and praying that the accounts taken under the decree of 1519 end another decree in a suit instituted in 182-5 might be again taken against Mr. Ellice. No objection being made by him, a reference wan made to the muter, who again went through the accounts, and reported on all except the accounts of the con eigneeship. The present petition was presented in 1846 (in a new cause instituted in 1844), for opening the accounts once more, on the ground that the peti tioner had not been a party to the taking of the accounts before, he being then a minor and for some time afterwards in want of means to move in the matter. The Lord Chan cellor, after stating at great length the various suite, and pro ceedings taken in them. since 1817, wu of opinion that the petition should be dismissed. His lordahip after giving judgment in another matter of no general interest proceeded to bear appeals. Before the Tice-chanosdor of Gcrxxs r. Ltutn.-IN.ic:cl7ios. s -t i rcatoisr.. — Mr. Ilethell and Mr. Southgate moved in this case for an inju no tion to entrain the dellendant, who was the proprietor a publication called the Gardener, Florist,. and Agricultural Magazine," front pirating certain II articleidpublished in this "Horticultural Magazine." The plain bad been the proprietor of the latter periodical up t June last, sines which time be bad been the editor, but had retained the copyright in certain articles, which had been copied in some in,tances verbatim into the defendant's publication, sad wiliont acknowledgment. The plaintiff had.mitaplaig the defendant of the coo Ine ', but since the eetrielietawe