The Express. — London, England, 1847-03-01 00:00:00

were distributed tut autumn, in the presence of many gui ldsman, who remarked with pleasure the increased number of conpetitore and their general improvement; and prism would also he awarded in the present year. Several applica tions had been received from persons desirous of becoming tenants, but they had not been encouraged to take land until they had capital to provide fOr their families. Treaties had been entered into fur several additional tracts of wane land is Ireland ; and one tract had been selected for an extension o f the company's operatiens if deemed expedient. The report concluded with a detailed statement of the Condition of the various districts, of which the following are the principal features. In Ballinakil 17 new tenants had lest their entire crops ; the remainder had lost from 25 per cent. upwards ; and the average lows of the whole number was 75 per cent., being in value from 360/. to 11W!. For some months several tenants would not work in their farms, and it required very vigorous measures and exertion to being them to a just sense of their own situation and duties. In Gleneaske there had been an average lose of 90 per cent. ox the potato crop ; area it would require 1,9601. to supply it. An effort had beta made by some tenants to ishtain con tinued support without continued work, but the remainder were progressing very satisfactorily. In Kilkerrin the crops of twenty tenants hail totally failed, and they were wholly without fond. The remainder of the crops varied in Ins, from eighty to ninety per cent. Several persons having expressed a desire to know the method of cultivation pursued fir the successful crops, w ithout offering any opinion u to its general efficacy, he explained that the soil producing those crops was undmined, mane, shallow, peaty bog, or rough peaty mountain, vary ing from very wet to to arty dry, with is sub-stratum of granite thrown up with narrow lan , beds or ridges, manured with a very thin top deeming of sea weed spread on the amlug surface, over which was placed a layer of about an inch of coral (nullipora pulymorphe, or nullipore, the coral of fishermen) dredged in the adjoining hay in six fathoms of water, free from broken shells or other extraneous matter, and differing considerably from the ordinary shells or (viral sands thrown up on the western coast of Ireland, planted / early in the sprits( with " lumpers," rattlers." an 1 r , reps". The system was the same as bad malted in ex tensive failures in other soils. The report having bean read, the CHAIRIII.N, in answer to a question from a proprietor as to whether the directors contemplated obtaining powers from parliament t,, purchase • Instead of renting the land, acid that they conceived such a measure to be very beneficial, and would take the subject itao consideration. The meeting not being competent to tranuct any of the business which remained to be brought fareded, adjourned offer some further conversation. THE NORFOLK ESTUARY COMPANY.—The first half-yearly meeting of the shareholders and directors of this company was Neld on Saturday, at the British Hotel, Cock spur-street, Le.--1 George Bentinck, M.P., in the chair. After making a statement relative to the accounts of the com pany, his lordship inte-med the meeting that the engineer, Bir J. Rennie, had very liner illy consented to a reduction of one-fourth of his account, and that their other claimants had consented to a reduction of one-fifth in the sums due to them, which he could not but regard as very liberal con duct on their part. These reductions. left 9,450/. as the whole sum due; and his lordship stated that a all upon the shareholders of Is. or Is. 6d. per share would be quite sufti. find to meet all the exigencies of the osspany. Owing to the present state of the money marker, the directors had come to the determination not to take any farther steps until the next half-yearly meeting, to be bald in the month of August next, unless anything should occur in the meantime which might render it expedient for them to Call a special meeting. He regretted to have to an nounce that the corporation of Lynn had imposed some restrictions upon this company, which restrictions they did not at present appear disposed to remove. The noble lord then read the report of the directors, which was very brief, and contained no fact of importance that his lordship had not stated in his speech. He afterwards read the statement of accounts, by whiih it appeared that the exposers up to February of 1847 included, among others, the following Items: to the engineer, 8,1891. ; to the parliamentary agent, 1,329/. ; to the solicitor, 4,222/. ; and for printing, naps, it, 514/. On the other side it appeared that the sum paid in on deposits, &c., was 25,1501. A very protracted discus sion followed', chiefly from the misunderstanding of certain points in the repsort ; several amendments and resolu tions were proposed, but they were eventually withdrawn, and finally the meeting unanimously agreed to the adop tion of the report. After thanks had been voted to the chairman and board of directors the meeting sepal:ital. Da. CRONIN BAILED AT JUDGE'S CHAMBERS.—OH Friday Dr. Denis Cronin was brought in custody, by writ of habeas, to the Judge's Chambers. Rolls-gardens, Chancery-lane, to make application to Mr. Baron Parke, the sitting judge, to be allowed to put in bail for his appearance at the next general sessions at the Central Criminal Court, to stand his trial fur the manslaughter of Miss Sarah Ellen Collyer, by having caused to be administered to her a poisonous dose of prussic acid, in the bitter almond water which he had prescribed for her. Mr. Baron Parke accepted bail for Dr. Cronin,—the doctor himself in the sum of 804. and his friends, Dr. Venable, and Mr. Harding, in the sum of 401. each. Dr. Cronin was then discharged. Amongst the measures adopted for the ex tirpation of banditti, was the establishment of the guarding ririles, • species of gendarmerie, dressed upon the French model, and who, front their stations in towns, patrol the roads and wander about the country in the same prying and important style observable amongst their brethren of the cocked hat north of the Pyrenees. Spaniards have a sneaking regard for bold robber., whom they look upon as half-brothers of the contrabandist—Ova popular hero of the peninsula; they have also an innate dislike of policemen, and • still stronger one for every thing French. They have bestowed upon the Frenchified guardias the appellations of polizones,—• word borrowed from their neighbours,—and of kens de Luis Felipe, sons of Louis Philippe. " Spaniards, saith Richard Ford, " are full of dry humour ; he might hare added, and of sharp wit. Nothing escape' them : they are ever reedy with • sarcasm oa public men and passing events, and when offended, es pecially when their pride is hurt, they become savage in their satire. When it was attempted to force Count Tre plug upon Spain as a husband for the Queen, the indigna tion of the people burst out in innumerable jokes and cur rent allusions, anything but Nattering to the Neapolitan prince. Ever7thing filthy and disgusting received his name, In the Madrid codre-houses, when a dirty table was to be wiped, the cry was invariably for a Trapani, instead of a frapo, the Fp atilt word fur a dishclout or rag used for the most unclean purposes. Since then, the Duke of Mont pensier has come in for his share of insulting jests. The Madrileune got an unfounded notion that he was short sighted, and made the most of it. At a bull-fight where one of the bulls showed the white feather, and ran from the picador, " The crowd instantly exclaimed, ' Fuera el lora Monpeaseer ! Freres Monpenseer ! Turn him out!' They used to call every lame dog and donkey a Trap:mai; and now every blind aninvil is sure to be christened a Mon penseer. '—Blaclitcovers Maginioe, - • ACClDENT.—Yesterday, an accident occurred in the Camberwell-road to a rirty on a pleasure excursion to Norwood. It consisted of bre individuals, who were pro ceeding in a small chaitetart. One of the wheels by some means coming off, two young men of the party were vio lently thrown into the road, and much injured; a third being caught in the seat strap was dragged along the road some distanee, and much injured; the horse having taken fright, and only stopping when in contact with an omnibus. The two first mentioned individuals were severely wounded, and one of them, having his arm broken, was conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital. FlltE.—On Saturday, at No. 9, Ward's-buildings, Woodstock-street, Paddington-street, Marylehone, by who-h an aged female, named Mary George, loot her life. Mrs. George, 70 years of age, occupied the second-floor front room, the floor above being occupied by a man named Ryan, his wife, and seven children. About a quarter-past twelve, Ryan was awoke by a sense of suffocation, and on rising found his room full of smoke. I hiving secured the safety of his family, he proceeded to the deceased's apartment, which he found in flames, rapidly extending upwards. He raised so alarm, and the engines were speedily on the spot, and got to play. The flames being subdtud, the deceased's apart ment was entered, when her body was discovered lying hud dled up on the floor, literally burnt to a cinder. It was I placed in a shell and conveyed to Marylebone workhouse. The deceased was very eccentric in her habit., and on a table in the room, not destroyed, was found two or three bushels of old bones, and a quantity of half-crowns and other money, tied in an old rag. INCIrESTS, SAITRDAY.—ALLEGED CIIILD MURDER. —By Mr. Payne, at the Three Nuns Tavern, Aldgate, on Mew of the body of a fine full grown newly-bons male infant, name unknown. in. Baker, No. 1, Carter-place, Rate Jiff, said, that on Thursday evening, about seven o'clock. he was in' the Crescent, in the Minories, when he taw a parcel on the sill of the Seamen's Register Office. He Bled a policeman, who found the contents to be the de ceased, who was wrapped in a piece of flannel and a strip of black cloth. The policeman teak po.session of it. Ball, a surgeon, had made a post Markin examination of the body, and from the state of the right lung, he was of opinion th at ' the deceased had breathed. Ile had known infanta to live hours without the lungs being completely inflated. Verdict, " Found dead."—AL LEOZD CHILD MISHDER.—By Mr. W. Carter, at the Rose, Russell street, Bermondsey, on the body of a fine male child, which was supposed to havebeen murdered. On Wednesday last, as a shipwright was at work on • vessel at the Rut-lane tier, Bermondsey, he observed the body of a child to rise np from under a floating stage attached to the side of the ship. He got it out, and found it was the body of a full-grown male child, quite naked, and very much de composed, having been in the water some time. Mr. Per raison, a surgeon, who had examined the body, said he fond no external marks of violence ; the child appeared to bare been horn about a fortnight. The longs were filled, and the child had breathed ; they also floated in water. He thought the child had breathed after the birth, but it was difficult to my accurately. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased wan found dead, but they had no sufficient "'at" an to the cause of it.--SeDDEN DEATH.—Before Mr. Bedford, at the King's Head, Kniehtsbridge, on the body of Richard Owens, aged 38, private in the Royal Rome Guards, blue. On Thursday night the deceased was theist without leave from the Hyde-park barracks, where Ms troop was quartered. The next morning, at 6 o'clock, he rationed to the barracks, cleaned his horse, and went into the riding school for the usual morning drill. After the Creep had halted to later the ride to sit at ewe," he dis mounted, and was unable to ride any longer. Cornet and itAine.master Brunt, seeing him ill, immediately sent him to Ike barrack hospital. The regimental surgeon was in 'natant attendance, but in less than half an hour the de „ecmcd bade farewell to his comrades, and died. Mr. .olliver, the surgeon, made a post marten; examination, and found the cause of death to be bronehais. Exposure to the cold. on the night he was absent, had probably hutemed his death. Verdict, " Natural death." DISTRESS IN SCOTLAND. The offlei;icorrespo ---- tide;;;;laii;rtTthe destitu tion in Scotland has been embodied in a " Blue Book," for the purpose of being presented to both houses of parliament. We believe we shall be doing an aceeptible service to our Scotch readers by presenting them with a sketch of its con tents. That they are lees overwhelming and depressing than those of the corresponding collections of official correspond ence relating to the destitution in Ireland is owing to one circumstance alone. The destitution is as entire in the dis tressed districts of Scotland as in Ireland. The people in the suffering districts of Scotland seem at hopelessly inca pable of seil.help as of Ireland. Society . is as imperfectly organised for purposes of mutual aid in cases of great emergency in the one country as in the other. But while t • • • this applies to the whole of Ireland, it applies only to a long narrow strip of Scotland, ettending from the Mull of Cantyre in the south, to Shetland in the north. This border of suffering is everywhere accessible from the wealthier and mere civilized part of Scotland ; it has con stant communication with its lowland neighbours. The dis • • Lensed districts in Scotland are only less hopeless than Ire land because they are of less extent and more accessible. hopeful effort breaks down beneath the martnitude and ex tent of Irish distress. Scotch distrea. is appalling, but human powers are evidently commensurate to its relief. Prefixed to the correspondence is an interesting outline by Mr. Henderson, Queen's Rernembrancer, of the territorial divisions and Inc d officials of Scotland, which must mate rially have aided government in its efforts, and which will throw light on the Scotch civil administration to ordinary readers. Of this paper we only desire to note that it explains bow Scotland has hitherto been ah'e to get on with its shadow, or mockery of a poor law. In its counties, burghs, and other territorial divisions, are numerous staffs of local officers, ft r administrative and judicial purposes, who, in times of extreme necessity, have always been made available in the dispensation of relief. The established kirk likewise overepr ads the country with a net-work of official characters, whose functions as distri buters of the voluntary charities of their communicants, especially qualities them to assist in such a service. The numerous and intelligent bodies who have from time to time seceded from the church, have retained its organisa tion, and their office-bearers are quite as effective. Ameng these ready-made committees the new Poevlaw fun* tionaries, whose duties began nearly at the same time with the present visitation, look rather inefficient; but they may grow more useful as they grow older. And they will be for everyday service. In raising and supplying funds for this machinery, and in searching out the localities most in need of them, and indi cating the best means of applying them, government have found able and trustworthy auxiliaries in the country. Those are well described in the following letter of Mr. Trevelvan's : Mr. tarvatras to Sir F. Cars.—Fes. 17, Isl7.—lt has been decided that we are to depend upon the Edinburgh 13mantittee, and the committees and individuals in connexion with it, for carrying out the detail of relief in the numerous cases not provided for by thee:et nom of the proptietwa. The Edinburgh Committee is believed to re rment inn very &Jr dMeree the intelligence and Innen:deem of Soot /and, which cannot he spoken of ton highly. and this committee certainly appears to poems the confidence of all parties. The Free Church Committee hes been sheathed in it. The Lou-on Committee band over their Made to the Edinburgh Committee, to be managed by them without rest:rinks of any kind. The Olrisgow Committee has bet mew alike= is then ; sad what weighs with us more than any thing else, they sea onantly command the services of those persons in every pert of nuntry who are bes• able to alfonl mangoes* on such as ennin, marl whom I mu, instance Mr. Fraser, the sberiSteabedhsteet Peetwilliam, and Nu. Shaw, the sheriff-aub•tinCe of Manainadire. ',heir plans ago apprar to have been well devised and anyomedel Mee Abet. Ur saying whirl, I allude to the earlier pro. ceedhep el dr lne KM; Committee, which now forme part of the Edtaborphdennettee, as well as to the mom recent exertions of Mr. Fraser. Ms anlentood that the Edinburgh Committee will imme diate! emel submit a plan for the detailed organisation of the dies...mime for relief purposes, combning of the appointment of • moderate =tuber of local committees, which will act in concert with the peoperton,and with you and your officers, and will take care that the relief given by them is confined to persons who have no legal provision under the poor-law. respect to Mr. Trevelyan's share in this correspondent* we pause to observe that it has impressed us with a strong sense of his efficiency as an administrator. His letters are brief—evidently the curt communications of a man who has no time to my one word beyond what is absolutely ne ' Many. Yet they always indicate a comprehensive under goading of the whole subject, a minute acqusintance with It. details, judgment in selecting a course of action, prompti r tude in following it out, and withal considerate regard for the feelings of others. Among the letters of other officials, we may mention those of Sir E. Coffin and Capt. Pole as eminently distinguished for their fulness, distinctness, end soundness of judgment. In the letter wo have quoted, Mr. Trevelyan alludes to the praiseworthy efforts of the Committee of the Free Kirk. A very pleasing idea of the efforts of this body is convejed in a letter from the Lord Advocate announcing its earliest efforts : The Lard Advocate to Sir G. Grey.—Edinburgh, December 10, ISHI.—I have just had a very intercom, interview with a deputation of the Free Kirk, entrusted with the manarement of a °Amities made bat Stmday for the relief of the poor in the Western Highlands and • Islands. It will amount, I believe, to upwards of 'Suet/. There has been nothing like it before, and, in some of the congregation. here, It has exceeded what the same preachers were able to command when they belonged to the Establishment. tad in the height of their in fluence. Nothing has occurred to the history of this movement that has impressed me more with the deep hold it has taken of the test affections of the people, and the eatraordinary tower of Its leatkos for purples% in this 'colonise at least, of great benevolence. To their great honour, they do not propane, in the distribution of thin fund, to consider those only of their own party, but look solely to the sufferings of their own countrymen to whatever persuasion helonging, with no other anxiety than thaothe means of food tuns put into their hands should be employed in the best direction with the strident economy, and above all, with the lead danger of permanent evil—a danger of which they are not U32.3olol.—Tney wok to be pot into some comma nicaticio with the orators to whom you have entrusted, In the matter of relief. the superintendence of their districts, not with a view to my joint action, which would lead only to embarrassment—but in order, beet, that they may not counteract in anything your operations, and, secondly that they may have some guidance for their own conduct, entertaining a conocientious distrust of their ability of a Imimistration. One thing they were desirous to ascertain immediately whether merriment woold assist them in transporting from the Western highlands and Islands ta the low Country, as they call it, individuals who are wilbog to come down for ordinary labour. Tney have been ' very active, and have already made arrangements with some at the railway companies for the employment of about 3,000 labourers, and their clergy alone—the clergy of the Free Kirk—have influence to move them from home. I should think it of the lad importance to give all ,de encouragement and assistance to emigration fi ono thous thatrwts to the labour market, and it don not appear to me that it would be of bad eon equence to provide, for a low weeks, by govern ment reereb% the means of transport. The nelson of the year itself gives apology fur this interference, and prevents the abuses that might reasonably be apprehended from furnishing gratuitously passages in ordinary dates of weather. The other point on which they are immediately solicitous in of more didiculty. They wish to know the position of the governmact &tido, and waetber oorentment will sell to them (I moan the Subscription Committee) at the same prices at which Meal proprietces or the people tbemeelves would be allowed to purchase; and in the event of the being thought objectionable, whether government will enable them to 'testate their means by providing transport for the provisions they may buy in Clyde or • other convenient ports, and transmit to depids of their own selection. I have nothing to suggest on these points for your consideration. You are infinitely better able to judge than I MU; and at this distance, and with little information as to the detain of your arrangements, I am unable to be of any use. The matter, however, requires immediate • attention, and it is well deservesl by the spirit in which thew men ap. l • pooch you. I advised them to put thermelres in commonication with Sir John M'Nelil. They wish also to be put in communication • with Sir E. Cain, or any other officer employed by the government in these districts. Is not this right! They will keep me well informed of what they are doing, so that I shah have it in my power to inform you, and make any ouggestion that moms. In justice, however, to the rest of the community of Scot ' land, we must give as a pendant to the Lord Advocate's generously enthusiastic statement, the shrewd comments of Sir John M'Neill think you add that the Free Crumb committee proposed to ex tend the relief afforded from the funds at their darnel, to the demi. tute of all wets and denominations of Chetah.. without distine. lion. This part of your plan appears to me to be conceived in the true spirit of benevolence, and to be as wise an it is liberal. Not Oily the legal provision for the par, and the :memos adopted by the vovernment at the coat of the nation, but also the eff meta of the proprietors to maintain the people on their scoperties, are directed to the relief of all, without distinction of religious opinions • and I can not help thinking Mat a very unenviable responsibility w ould red on any large and influential body, which In a season of stomal deettn- Oast, should set the example of an exclusive system of benevolence founded on Minium distinction. You stated that you intended, as • general rule, to avoid the gratuitous distribution of relief, and to require wlesie relief was afforded, that It should be paid for Miter in money or by labour. That it was oho your intentiou to refuse relief to all, who being in a condition to avail themselves of the offer you would make to provide them with employment, should refuse to take advantage of it. This part of your plan ai founded, 11a I believe, on the only principle on which relief to a destitute population eta be made conducive to their weitov, or to the accompbahment of the object. proposed. You informed me that you had entered into an arrangement with Mr. Stevenson, by which employment hall been secured for above 2,000 labourers to be brought from the &mewed districta in the Highlands. That they were to be stationed In one body on a continuous portion of a railway One set apart for them. That they were to be pul at Own, while inexper kneed rind untrained, a low rate of wages proportioned to the work they might be able to perform. That the rate of serest 033 to ricer they became emahle of doing more work, until at length Ulm who might be found tom. Me of doing full work, should receive the maxlmtun rate of wages. And that arrangements had been made to have enlimiemarim placed amongst them, to afford them religious and moral isuitruetion and gui,laiwe. It ban, I krow, teen objected to this waif your plan, that employment on rallwnys would expose the moralise a simple people to great danger of sorrophon. The may be trek bat I armies it appears to me that the dangers Of 000MMOS MI greater than those of railwm Your. FM peered te =spry brie seeter of people, united by diem rmeerft armrests" rase, me ry stork that keep them is aster& emoogitrii=es, Me leers to tome rea. soluble objections; awl If it were fr th om e destitute Ilighlandess to seek emsh foe biome is the err= market the of his labour, it would. le my opinion, be preludes. But If this can . nut be done to ear se extent r to alba say user it relief in the present den ea, thee. I think the lima Worth trying, whether, with the of proper isd et relistoto and moral bressema ad eiddisee, ism met la • iptest issesure he protected hem re satemerdes et re. sod Sum the seller which ' the mode of Mb ise bred by Melt eirsomerser to oder, is believed to tE id ers , spewed • hspe rid the fade rd. , matey to be et lie Meisel of ree ohmmeter, would mosont • 1 to about drab sourly e,MM lir rowdy been estestred. Too asset Yon m waft relief into the drafted direr, you ore draft se to essehiet Your proccnthigia that they W& not orstenet t ee Wren Irk the 0101300. adopted far a eitailer pm ! yen by the gewararsi, by theynerron, et byettier p •rties. h Maryher to dr iron re tar reedy lord by • prima the efturoity fee Ode berersmt Garet le es aseldeniblo, and le hie these and the °lbw him& writ ray be applied r a like purism ems. tribute m largely as be the relief of ibis", far whom they are destined, it is dmksble that each of SW various parties who take a Mare &this pod work, should so Gonad their proceed- Mon that they may set ametemet or interfere with each other. The field is unhappily wilt 'mush to eye ample room for the exertions of aO Be it kept in mind that to the bodies enumerated in Mr. Trevelyan's letter—to a few of the large Highland proprio tors, and to the gentlemen on the Highland borders—not to the Highland proprietor' as a body, are the efficient exertions made in Scotland awing. Sir E. Coffin ban too often had just cause to complain of the apathy and inertness of the High land proprietors. The following letter to one of them—whose name in mercy to himself we suppreu—shows that the tone adopted to them by Bir E. and his employee has been ex actly what justice required: 'Sc F. Codin to Ohm, January 23, la IL—Since my letter of the 20th honant was addressed to you, I have received Captain Elaynton's and also an account of Captain Bow's conversation with you at Tbkrnnoey. The former fully confirm my worst Goes nopecting yondition of the people on your property, and would. in the event of your continued "Men. and disregard of their wants, have made It my duty to ham interfered on your behalf As you ham at length personally informed yourself of their destitute state, and taken some steps towards relieving it, t hope that any interposition of Ude kind wiU be rendered needle., by the further measures which you hare expressed your Intention of adopting; but es 3ou seem, in your conversation with Captain Ram, to have disowned in some degree the mond obligation to pror:de for the aunts of the people dwelling on your property. It is proper that I should state to you dies finally, the vtrw taken of Wit obligation by the government, and the course which I am instructed to pursue; the former tieing, that the Obligation is complete ; and the tatter, that in any ease of omission, I am to take the no:emery roe...sures topreeerre the people from starva tion, leaving to paritanieat to decide when the cam is brought before • it, whether or not the proprietor in default, shall be merle legally as well as morally, responsible for the consequimem or his failure. It ia, of sour-e, not pretended that be is to maintain in idleness those who ' easy refiwe employment at a retainable rate of remuneration, nor Lit • Intended to sancta', is • claim of right, on the pin of the people themaelre., any' Ming beyond -rich employment, accompanied by :rearm to proper supplies of fowl, purchasable by their Labour or by the wage. of it ; but it is deemed that to this extent they ha, a Jost claim on his aasidmice under their present calamity, and that it is incumbeut on hi n to show, that when fairly offered, it has been neglected by them, before he can be exonerated from such a duty. All prutimble facilities ere afforded to him for the fulfilment of it, but from the ditty null he cannot be absolves], without throwing the borthen nn others, who are alreadr acting indiacharac or their own proper share of this general We will return to this subject. SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, Fan. 26. We understand that the drainage grants applicable to Scotland are exhausted, but as many proprietors have been disappointed in obtaining them it is said that government contemplates a supplementary fund. Food rioting is still breaking out at intervals in Ross-shire. A detachment of soldiers has been sent to Wick, where, as before-mentioned, disturbances were apprehended. THE BUNDLE. TRADE, OE WEE PAWNS.—Bundle shops have now sprung up in Aberdeen and other provincial towns. Every description of family articles is brought to these shops. They are mostly kept by individuals who were formerly Aanikera. No duplicate or ticket is given, and so the regular Pawnbroker.' Act is evaded. The pledger's name and the articles are entered in a book, and this is called buying it; but a promi.c is made to the woman or man, that it will be kept for her or him so many cloys—say eight. If she can manage to come within the time she may buy back her gown, pot, Bible, bellows, or blanket ; but if one day late, then she is told it has been Fold. By this sort of trick, poor people are soon stripped of their little property—poverty, intem perance, and ruin soon follow.—Curresponsient of Aberdeen ' Journal. THE PULPIT DlVlDED.—Theiblley-EllniTh or Paisley is collf giate. In the forenoon one of the ministers preached in fa vour of Sunday trains on the Edinburgh and Glasgow railway, and invited the congregation to go into the vestry and Iran au address to that effect. In the afternoon the othor minister lectured against the trains, and intimated that he also had an address in the vestry. The Glazgoio l'ost says that the pro petition received most signatures. PAUPEItS . ALLOWANCES IN SCOTLAND.—An unpleasant statute for Poor-law Boards has been invoked from the dust of the sixteenth century. The act. 1579, chap. 74, directs that " those who neccessablie mon be sustained be almes be maid content, of their own consents, to accept daylie, to live unbeggand, and to provide quhair then remaining shell be, be themselves or in house with others quhair the midis pure people may be Nat lodged and abyde." The parochial board of Gorbals, Glasgow, when adjudicating on the case of a widow and three infant children, placed them on the roll of paupers at 21d. each per week.; but provided no lodging or clothing for them, and refused to do to when ap plied to. A complaint as to the inadequacy of the allowance was made to the board of supervision ; but as that board, in its usual way, declined to interfere, the pursuer in the action intimated that he had procured a lodging for them, and would hold the board liable in the expenee, and in being summoned before the sheriff the board gave in. It tarns out that the excerpts from the old Szots acts, which we lately quoted from the Glasgow Citizen, are really genuine —it solid, therefore, be well to act on them also, if still force. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, 1847. PROVINCIAL. —..-.. ..... EDUCATION AND REPRESENTATION.--A petition is in course of signature at Manchester to the Rouse of Commons, and has already received some highly respectable signatures, calling upon it to make education the stepping stone to re presentation, as an encouragern,nt to the voluntary system, and in preference to the government measure. The petition 'IL your petitionem are deeply imprewed with the advantages to be derived tress the wide extension of educition smonipkt the people. That they mjahe in the voluntary cum . :ion. which have been made for the attainment of this great object. That they fear that the effect of • government Interference may be to retard the proem-s of colun ; tary effort, which is gradually advancing to the full supply of calome -1 tional wants. That they earnestly desire to are the intelligent and in . duatriou. claws of the community more fully represented in the Home of Commons. That they fully believe, that If an tat were pawed to confer the elective franchise upon all males who can read and write, and have attained the age of 21, the people would educate themselves without the aid of the Mate. They therefore pray your honourable hour to make such enactment, and thus promete at owe and the same time the education of the people and their better repre "entail. in parliament. THE MANCHESTER yaw RACE COUR.SE, it is said, is to be twenty yards wide and a mile and eighteen yards in length The turf is spoken very favourably of, and will not he so hard and injurious to the horses an the ground of the late course. The new course is nearer and more convenient to the town, being only about a mile and a half distant from the Exchange. Measures are about being taken for the im mediate erection of booths and a grand stand. WEALTH OF LIVEKPOOL.—It se stated that nearly ORE half of the half-yearly dividend of the London and North Western Railway Company is payable in Liverpool. It it now in the course of payment, and the portion to he received by the Liverpool proprietors amounts to 220,0001. every six months. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Thunday morning two of the workmen employed at the St. George's-hall, Liverpool, named \Yawn and Loughlin, whilst engaged on the scaf fold at the highest part of the balding, wiuting to receive a atone, the bolt of the shears broke, and the poor fellowe fell from the scaffold to the bottom (more than 100 feet). and were frightfully smashed. Their death wee instantaneous. THE RECENT FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE HELL AND SELBY RAILWAY has given rise to much eonvenation in this county. The Hull Adrertiser says—" We have received several complaints from parties who were pae.engers by the mail train at the time of the accident, and who express great dissatisfaction in not having an opportunity afforded them of giving evidence on the inquest. One gentleman states that he felt the °sell lition of the train soon after it left the !lull station, and that full en hour and a quarter elapsed before any eminence was rendered from the suthoritite at the depot. A letter, of which the following is a copy, has been forwarded to the Secretary of State: Hull, Feb. 25.—Sir On Sunday evening last I was proceeding by the mail train from hence, whets an accident of a serione enure oc curred, by which one man was deprived of life, and another died the following day from the effects. Th e whole of the peeengers were mayor Ids injured, and net one of the carriage , and trucks of which toe train remised left on the line. I wee wishful to attend the inquest as a witness, but when informed solo, n and where it wan opened, it was too late, It being all closed and done, bringing in h verdict of accidental death, instead of adjourning it till some of the Penengers were able to attend (rain here, it bring held at these, tire mile, from this, by E. li. Conyers, Eat., of DI Meld. I should, therefore, take it as • great favour by your requiring a further and stricter invistigation into the real cause of the accident, If it falls under your dena , Sneak than seems to hove taken place during the short time of the Inquest, by which much evidence coit ear pans o l f il w r i i=ae l gives, erxcept not c., by the cortris o o .o wn ,n aa i r i ean ten t the hon, the oommlseloners of the Board of Trade on the above sub ' Ject. Any farther information yon may requite I shall be happy to furnish, and have no doubt of being able to produce such as to show n,cligenee on the part of the company's servants. If the foregoing request does not belong to your deportment, may I crave the favour of • reply to whom the communicat es should be addressed.—l remain, Geo. Bee,. THE Tam HotEa litirt.--A memorial to Lord John Russell, thanking him for bin advocacy of this measure, has I been framed by the Huddersfield Short Time Committee, and signed by the chairman on its behalf for presentation this week. A similsr document has been forwarded front Leeds. A FATAL ACCIDENT took place on Saturday evening last. Mr. George Whitelock, of Cogden Hall, on his returning from Richmond market, in attempting to cross the river Swale at a ford opposite his dwelling, was drowned. The hody was found next day about three miles below. DEATH ST VIOLENCE IN A LUNATIC ASYLUNL—On Thursday, an inquest was held at an asylum, Great Helms ley, on the body of John Fowler, an inmate of the institu tion. It appeared from the evidence of two of the keepers, named John Kettiewell and Frederick Topham, that the deceased was put to bed on Moeda) , night between six and seven o'clock, his left hand being confined by a strap to pre vent his breaking the windows. The keeper fastened, as he expected, the bed-room door, but next morning it was found open, the lock having slipped. On going into the room the unfortunete man was laid on the floor, quite dead, and co vered with a little straw. There were several marks of blood both on the floor and on the wall of the room. On an in ' Tee:lotion it was found that a patient named Wood, who slept in au adjoining room, exhibited marks of having been engaged in a violent struggle, and marks of blood were ob served on his shirt, and his hands were much swollen. Mr. Atkinson, of Renwick, surgeon, examined the body of the deceased, and found extensive injuries, especially on the bead, which appeared to have been inflicted by repeated l blows from the hickle of a strap which was found in Wood's bed-room. Wood's account of the transac Lion was that the deceased had gone into his room, and made an attack upon him, when he ( Wood) seised the deceased by the hair of his bead, and dashed it against the wall, and that he used the strap to make de s:nosed lie still, and left him in his room covered with straw snarl a rug to keep him warm. The jury returned a verdict, " That the deceased came to bis death in a violent struggle with a certain lunatic named Wood, confined in the Great Helmsley Lunatic Asylum, who inflicted divers and severe wounds upon the head of the said John Fowler," and the jury recommend that the lock of the door in which the de ceased was lodging, should be replaced by a more efficient one. DAIIINO ROnnERT.—On Friday afternoon, as • man named Heald, a messenger in the employ of It. H. Brandling, the owner of the collieries at Middleton, was returning from the coal depot in Leeds, where he had been to receive money to pay the wages of the collier', he was attacked, on he wee walking along the tram-road connected with the pits at Belleisle, very lonely place, by three men, who assaulted him meet furiously, and s ucceeded in robbing him of • canvas bag containing 1171. 10s. in gold, 501. in five pound provin cial notes, and 51. is. 2td. in silver end copper, after which they decemped. One of them, named Exley, previously known to the police, was apprehended near the spot, in con sequence of the Asian's given by Heald, Exley was examined before the •utaatr on Saturday, and Wll2 remanded for a few days, in the hope that his cora-rogoes would be appro. hendml. A HINT FOR OTIT•• PLACED.-:lizroitYlNG • Faze- Ileitoot.—An outline of a scheme for the future manage ment and control of the lands, possessions, and revenues of Dorton's charity, has been scat to Loughborough within the lest week, by a Master in Chancery, for inspection by the elturchwardent overseers, and select vestry. Th, scheme provides that the trustees shall be empowered to borrow a maatof money - not eareeding 6,0001., out of which two new selsonls are to be built, one for boys and the other for &is, with houses for the head master and head mi-tress. When these are completed, the bn's at present taught 1 the Grammar school and the High school, are to be moored to tke one for boys, which is to be called, The Free Grammar School of Loughborough." In this, and ' doo in the present free school, there is to be an annual examination of the boys, and prizes are to be awarded to the meritorious. The instruction is be given in the frog school is to consist of reading, writing, althmetie, Engliek grammar, and such other matters u the trustees and master of the sch ool shall consider proper. The boys are each to pay a sum to be fixed by the trustees, not to exceed two. pence a week, except orphans, who are not to be charged anything. The boys in the grammar school are to be taught the Greek, Latin, and French languages, mathematics, general English literature, composition, sacred and profane ' history, geography, reading, and writing, end such other 'moves, arts, and sciences, as the unite, a from time to time may tee expedient. The head master of the grammar school is to be a graduate of some univer-ity of the United Kingdom, and approved by the muter in chancery, to whom the case stands referred. In the girls' school the instruction is to consist of reading, writing, arithmetic, English grammar, geography, biogr c rizt history, astronomy, a knowledge of botany, singing a Mg to the plan of Mr. Hullah, and such other branches of education as the head muter and mistress shall think fit, Every girl is also to he taught needle-work, and to make up her own clothes. The sum to be paid by the girls is to he fixed by the trustees, and not to exceed threepence per week. As in the boys' free school, orphans are not to be charged anything. An annual examination is to take plate, and prizes to be awarded. The trustees, it is proposed, shall let • portion of the land in plots to be formed with public walks, provided that the income of the charity he nor decreased. The public are to have the privilege of using such walks sub ject to rules to be made by the trustees. Provision is nude for the repayment of the money to be borrowe I for building the schools, and after such payment, the trustees are to be empowered to build twenty . alms-houses on the site of the present alms-houses. The ululates are to be selected horn the poor and aged, and are each to receive 101. per annum. LINCIIL-ISIIIRE. TIII GOYA:1070E8 or THE LINCOLN LUNATIC ABTLUM have issued a thick pamphlet, containing a report of the Commissioners in Lunacy, with the reply of the board to that document. The board still contends far the association of patients as far as practicable, so that lunatic life may as nearly as possible approximate to life on the outside of the wall. ; and the modifications in the system of nut-door classification are stated to have been attended with great WAR THE WHATIMR. correspondent writing yesterday says :—" Another fall of snow has taken place during the night. The cold was this morning most Intense, and now, 11, a.m., the mow in two inches deep upon the ground." tr 17.2.• PRINCE ALPERT HATS7OIIII , IED 1118 INTENTION of lay ing the foundation stone of the new hospital, to be com mented early in the ensuing summer in Portsmouth. The building is to be erected on land liberally granted by the ordnance. Her Majesty has graciously bestowed her patronage on the institutbm. .I , •VoTTUCtIt 1-• BRISTOL.—The final examination of Miss Onteridge on a charge of setting tire to five rooms in the house of Mr. Lang ley, Cumberland-street (the particulate of which have appeared in this paper), took place on Saturday, when evidence was adduced in favour of the accused, which tends greatly to increase the mystery of the atreir. A main point relied upon for the prosecution was that of the accused hav ing entered the front parlour while a lady named Johns and the housemaid of the family were la it, and having remained there for a short time alone immediately before the window-curtains were discovered to be on fire. The evidence brought forward on Saturday disproved this state ment. Miss Johns denied having seen Miss Outeridge in the parlour at all, and not only so, ant a respectable trades man of the neighbourhood, named Lewis. proved that the amused came to his house immediately after the third room was tired, and that when the small drawing-room and the front parlour wire set on fire, she was sitting iu his shop. The magistrates considered that this testimony materially altered the case, and they discharged Miss Outeridge from custody. THE PAUPER INVASION from Ireland, so heavily felt at Liverpool and other places, has extended to this county. The Gloucestershire Chronicle of Saturday says : " A great number of Irish are now passing through our city. Most of them come from Newport, to which place they were attracted by the hope of obtaining work in the construction of the South Wales Itailway,while others are wayfarers from Bristol, Manchester, Birrainghavi, and Liverpool, pursuing the im pulse for wandering which is • trait of destitution. The daily average of twenty poor wretches are now provided with food and lodging by theaty authorities, vino have resolved to fit up a temporary refuge for the applicants, instead of giving them money to pay fur Indgiugs. A stove is, therefore, to be placed in one of the large sheds in the cattle market, and the destitute will be allowed to rest themselves there for the future." _ . - • IN NW BIAOISTRATES.—It is stated that S. Brown, Esq., of Bedminster, and K. .7. P. King, Esq., have been added to the Commission of the Peace for the City of Bristol, by the Lord Chancellor. REPIZSZSTATION Or WEST GLOUCHSTERSHIRE.—Mr. Clrantley Berkeley has issued another address to his con stituents, containing an account of the political delinquen cies of his forefathers, and some further particulars re lathe to the representation of West Gloueesterabire. To the independent electors of the western division of Gloucenter. shire—Gentlemen,— From the wenclui that have hien put forth affainst me by the Castle party of late, I find it impon.ible to remain silent, or to refrain from carrying the war into the ramp of my ene mies. I have been falsely accused of all tarts of political delinquen cies, and, as you know, commanded by lard ettabardinge to give up my seat for the county in favour of hie nominee, Mr. Grenville Berke. ley. The enemy carry their mock inventgation into my former conduct in pariiament ; let us look at the political education and pro bable conduct of the nominee they wish to represent you, or rather the Ilsgattalf of the Carrie ; for se no hag turned more completely round than the man from whom Mr. Grenville Berkeley may ham hem suptated to have seabed his polities! bias, the Idea dais airy representatien" la not an Inapt one. In the mat cornet fur your counrybetween Berkeley and Chester, me father spent about bouord, in returning his brother; he proposed a Liberal or Whig candidate and supporter of Mr. Fox'. principles. The Tory adversary spent a like sum, and terminated his life by his own hand in consequence. Admiral Berkeley, therefore, eventually came in as the Whig repre eentative of the county, at the enormous cost afforded by my father. The very moment he reached his scat in the house he turned round on Ids brother and his party, and at once became the avowed sup porter in soy vote of Mr. Fitt. This Is matter of fact; but it might have slept in oblivion, save from the vile and false attacks which are every day made on me. The elder brother of Mr. Grenville Berkeley ' le a Tory in every Senile of the word, thouth a better soldier or gentle man I tea not think by any ponsibility exists. You, my friends, should therefore be carefelhow you trust a roan, his pre eon and himself, at the moment time alike open to suspicion. For years Mr. Grenville Berkeley has been dodging at the feet of Lord Fitzhardinge, to be returned for wane place sr other. I well to hear the information from Lord Fitabardinge. If is political line to be whatever his lord ship dictated. When there was an apparently serious and violent difference between the present member for Cheltenham and Lord Yitshardinge, and when the latter palmed we strong an opinion an the political capabilitice of the former, I expected no leas than that, at the next election, Mr. Grenville Berkeley would have been nominated to the borough. The member for encitenhatn's quarrel bang nude op, the nominee is to be (avid on the county instead ! I run assure you, my friend., it mine me thus M be forted to me the lash, but if Ines wfll assail no they must expect to meet with a return. In everything I have dated to you I have hem borne out by truth and sincerity. Lamy former lettere, when I alluded t o " the advice I bad given respecting the clearance of the old family mansion at Sprisig-gardens, ere Lord Fitshardine n present establishmeot wan domiciled there ; toy co partner in that advice, Mr. lime, could hare tome me out in all I stated. Nothing that I hare advanced has been dewed; therefore, for the present, it only tamalna for me to assure you, gentlemen, that If I am still further constrained to requite my sasailants, it is yet in my power to clinking transactions ea base that &don could not add to their defonnity.—l have, Ice., Gaertner F. Baartemr. Beacon Lodge, Feb. 21. nornsnam IT REPILEsiNTATION OP - 14;;T - 1111TEVON.—We have heard, from a quarter on which reliance can be placed, that it is the intention of Sir Thomas Acland to retire from the cares of parliamentary life. We are not aware who will be chosen to succeed him in the representation of North Devon, The liberals of North Devon, rem►mbering Lord Forteseue's early services, and arduous battles in the cause of the people, look to his house for a representative. But they are not unmindful of the services of Mr. Buller, and would rather have both than neither. We do not, however, anti cipate that any difficulty would arise in selecting a sue eieasor. The cordial unanimity of the liberal party in Devon is not likely to be disturbed by any contingency of this kind. In giving this rumour, we give it merely a,such. Lord Ebringtoo is member for Plymouth; • post of great honour in itself, one indeed to which any public man might wire. In referring, as we have done, to the here of Fortescue, we have only recorded the grateful recollection of past services which the yeomanry feel, and the desire which some of them express to acknowledge their obligations, by honouring the son of their old leader with their confidence. —Western Times. ______ _ FEMALE POACHERS EXEMPT FROM PENALTY. A de cision, which opens a wide field for the exercise of the ingenuity of female poachers, was come to, a few days mince, by the magistrates for the Reading division, Meting in petty sessions, in: the case of a woman named Mary Egerton, who was charged with having taken game enigma a certificate. It appeared from the evidence, that Oh her husband was leaving his cottage in Padworth yank to proceed to his work, he observed in • field by dr road-side • fine hare snared. The man, who k would appear from the result was not wholly U. ware of the omission in the art of parliament under whisk the information was laid, returned home for his wife too the needful, via, to walk off with the hare the honied himself quietly walking off to his work at the sour The woman, however, was seen by • third party tstrbtb hare from the wire, sad return with it to her TM 1 'magistrates, after hearing the evidence, and Mr the act, dismissed tho case, upon the ground that, as no Notate only related to male offenders, the information Lainsa female could not be sustained. The wow ait , w diseharged. NORFMK. INFORMATION 1711D111 THI POOR-LAW ACT.— A °MAR DIAN IN FAULT.—At the Police court, Norwich,, on Wed nesday, John Colson, a fanner, and guardian of the Cont emn Union, appeared to answer an inforinruen un d er th e Poor-law Removal Act, for removing • pauper his wife and family, chargeable to the parish of Roydon, near Dist, from that parish to Norwich, under eircumstsusees which rendered I him liable to the penalty of dl., and not less than 21. Mr. Halley, clerk to the Norwich Guardians, supported the in formation. The pauper was called, and gave a very confused account of hie self, and of his removal from his parish. He was a shoemaker by trade, hut out of work ; orilicatly he belonged to this city, and the guardians of Guiltcross Union hud for some time given him relief weekly on behalf of the Norwich guardian., till the late Pour-law Act came into operation, when the relief was stopped, and he ' having resided in ROydun nearly nine years became charge able to that parish. Ye received relief fur several week* and at last had a note to enter the union with his wife and family, for which he had prepared himself and them. He had received a sovereign, but from whom he was unable clearly to state. The over.,eer for the union persuaded him that he belonged to Norwich, and though he had a note to cuter the house, by an arrange ment between the overseer and Mr. Carson, he, with his wife and family, were to be conveyed to Norwich, be agreeing to pay :is. for the conveyance ; but he never paid the money. The family were conveyed, by the defendant, to Norwich, on the 18th January last, left at a house in St. Martin's at Palace, and ever since they had been chargeable to that parish.—Mr. Cainon said the pauper had told a false story, but admitted knowing that the man had a note for the union-house; he admitted, also, that he, being a guardian of the union, conveyed the paupers to Norwich.—Mr. Palmer slid it was one of those cases which the poor-!aw commissioncrs ought to prosecute with the utmost severity; to throw the burden of a family of paupers on the city, and to keep them out of the relief to which they were legally entitled.—The defendant said, the man had received relief, anti had an order fur the house. Mr. Springfield said, the defendant being • guardian of the parish, and knowing that the pauper had en order to go into the house, brought him and his family to Norwich contrary to law; it was • clear cave. Defendant's own statement was quite enough to convict him. Mr. Lock, relieving officer, proved the facts of the pauper having become enargeable to this city, and having received weekly since Jan. lSth.— The magistrates, having consulted, decided to tine the de fendant in the full penalty of .51., including costa. Mr.Caison asked for time, hut was told that he nitwit pay the money immediately or be detained. ESSEX. _ AN ALLEGED DEATH PROM THE ETHERIAL VAPOUR.. —The friends of a patient upon whom an operation fur lithotomy was performed while under the influence of ether, and who subsequently died, having attributed his death to the application:of the vapour, are now calling upon the offi cers of the Essex and Colchester hospital to institute a post-mortems examination. AnUfa* HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Verdi's " Nino" was performed on Saturday evening, with considerable altera tions from the "cmt" of last season. The part of Nino, performed last year by Fornaeari, was now sustained by Coletti, whose engagement a few years since., as successor to Tamburini, produced the memorable "Tamburini row.," the upshot of which was, that the manager was compelled to engage Tamburini, and pour Coletti, though he had made a very favourable impresaion on the public, was shelved for the remainder of the season. Since that time it has bees understood that he has been rising both in talent and continental reputation. His psrforinanee of the 'lvry rian Monarch, on Saturday evening, was admirable. His high dramatic powers were exhibited in his representation of the king's madness, in his pathetic supplications to the obdu rate Abigaek for his daughter's life, and in the monolo rue, in the last sot, where Ninma, after his troubled dumber, awakes to returning reason. Coletti's haritone voice is fin- proved both in power and quality since we last heard it, and his vocal execution is finished and beautiful. His reception throughout the piece was most cordial. Mdlle. Sanchioli per formed the part of Abioaele with the same energy which she exhibited last) car, while she certainly appeared to greater ad vantage as a singer. Mdlle. Fagiald, who assumed the cha racter of Fenena, was not inferior to Corbari, her predecea sor in the part. Her air, "Oh, slischiuso 2ii firmamento," was loudly encored. Signor Borella, who was announced in the tenor part of /gripe, did not appear, but his place was supplied by Corslli, without any notice bring taken of the change. The choruses were exceedingly well sung, and the favourite "Va pensiero " was encored. It is the easiest thing in the world to demonstrate by the most orthodox rules of musical criticism, that this chorus, which is • simple melody, sung in unison, is good for nothing ; but all the cri ticism in the world will never prevent any audience from being both delighted with its beauty and messed by its expression. The orchestra was lest satisfactory than in "La Fasorita." It had km precision and smoothness. The house was respectably attended, but by no means crowded. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL. _ . Osiroan, Pus. V.—A meeting of irroduates in the facdtyof theolouy will be holden in the Commition House on Monday nest, the let of Meech, .t ten o'clock, when the name of the Rev. Edward. Card well, D.R., principal 01 tit. Alban Hell, who has been nominated by the vice-chancellor to the case of examiner under the provisions of the new statute, De Diseipliew T.te•itogico, will be submitted to the approbation of the faculty. Aso .. Hamm' amen,. TO nut Nave Balton has been cement during the last few dap It ts DDT/ Mated that the new aspoint mauls will probably include Archdeacon Manning, Dr. Hook 01 Lade, and Mr. Bennett of St. Paul's Knightsbridge. Leeds twill, • it is said, be one of the new soca It is also murmured in Cambridge that the Rev. Edward Mick, WA., rector of Rotherldthe, and for merly fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, is to be one o. the new bishop. Mk4TINU or me Risme AND Cuter AT Nawcasm.v.—The lord bishop of the dimese, with the Yen. Archdeacon liaison, and a numerar body of the clergy, held a meeting in the vestry-room of the parish church, Newcastle, on Tuesday morning, in furtherance a the object noticed two or three weeks ago, of providing spiritual in. struction for the excavators on the line of the North tiMffordthire Itailway. The object is one which meets with the general approlia . tint of the clergy, as also of the directors of the railway, the latter having eignilied their intention of giving 3001. towards currying itouL One part of the plan is to provide lay agenui, or ecripture readers, who are to act under the direction of the clergy in the various diseziells where they may be appointed. Tee 131.u0r of ',snore ordained flee gentlemen as prieste, and three geetlemen as deacons, at the early eervice in the Chapel Hopi tit. James's, yeaterday. P./WM If. Armstrong to Whialey, P.C., Wash. :dim Ripe. 82/. with residence; pmts. the Goss. of 'fanered's Charities; mad to AUertou Mauleerver, P.C., ES!. pat. Lord Stourton. Rev. W. T. Bullock to isulliboum R. Eases din. Rochester 2671. with residence : pt. J. Bullock, Rest. Rev. D. S. Hallett to Newchurch C., Hyde, I. of W.: dio. Winchester. Rev. H. D. Harper to Vie ldaMerthip of &abridge Gr. set., Gismorgannhire. Rev. J. H. Jones to M. Au/endue'', P.C.. with ehapelry, Ererton. Lemma. : dio. Chester : 200/.: pat., Traders-Rev. 0. Martin to be Bodleian Lecturer at Bt. Exeter. Rev. 11. E. Miles to be Chaplain to the Sheriff of Hertfordshire. Rev. J. T. Pegot to a Mioor CArroory in the Cathedral Church of Rochester. Rev. It. 11. WllliAm.ol,l to lamesley, P.C.: emend dio. Durham : 138/. pat. Lord Reveriserorth. Rev. C. Worthy to the Bodleian Lectureship at Trinity Church, Exeter pats. the Traders of St. John'. limPtaL VACANCINS.--Eloroughbridge C. Yorksla. : Pat. D. and C. of York. : by the promotiem of the Rev. It. Armdrong. Kleon ' P.C., Hants dio. Winchester : 301.: pat. the It. of Alveratoke by the death of the Rev. P. W. Smith. Horksiey, Little C. &sex: dio. Rochester by the promotion of the Nev. W. T. Bullock. Manton C. Lincolnshire. dio. Lincoln by the death of the Rev. J. Bird. klarylebone, AU Souls C.: din. London : by the promotion of the Rev. 1). S. lia/ketL Osbourn, St. Andrew V., Wilt., : dio. Salisbury 160/. pats. the D. end C. of Wineivot : by the death of the Rev. It. Heighway. NAVAL. roannsorrit, En. 23.—The officers and men of St. Vincent and Victory have given one day's pay towards the Irish and Sookh ; Ex cellent, gunnery ship. h. siren 1001. fur the wee purge.; and the °Meer* and men in the dockyard have given • Minder sum. The Coast Guard, ashore and oficost, at the Portimouth district, have given • day's pay she. Kestrel (formerly belonging to the late Earl of Verborough) has been brought into dock to be Stied for conuniesioa.—Paim yacht, returned yesiterday from Blackwell, sad will be ready for Her Majesty's .e on Wednesday nest, when the Cowl will remove over to Osborn. The Vengeance, Si, with the Ist haft. of the 97th tegt. on board, to relieve the 12nd Highlanders, arrived at Malta, from Gotta, on lath lime. Vanguard, 00 arrived at Malta on the lath from Gibraltar, and mulaed thereon the 17th with the Reel my, 95, Altman, 90, Vengeance, el, Natant, LS, Spartan, 2s, Heel; Donate fbmearch, and Athol. troopship, The Incoutent was or dered to Plymouth to be plid oC, sod the Hydra ordered to Spit- bead. Trident, M. v., is ordered to Eagiand to be repaired. Dili gence., transport, was at Malta, loading with meal. Vengeance was to mil on the 21m for Berland. Dauntless, screw et. ingote, cheese of Mr. 14• Donald, muter of the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, with a crew composed of about 30 riggers and 60 or 70 hands from the Victory, after loading with the prodigies' quantity of &JO tono of meal and other provialoot, from the Clizenee Viet calling Yard, for Scotland, was towed out of harbour yullardey morning, sad sailed to Tobeneoree, Isle of Mt& *kw there landing the meal, else will pureed to Glasgow for her agrees, sat return to this port to be copper god Stied kr solooduka Dotson, Oar. fty, having kid temersarey repaired, and ferried trandy for as ea W ,to wawa to earl. srlikar our of oral and other preekler, seaverate to Ireland. rd Ida 11111111•111110 keasse ea Naaasg (thine ay). the &tory, a went hired et thk part, was init. whit reek gad egged es Total, he I eludes, w esesity Osiwey. Fear ease wee* ef tows" far op the Maw rivers of for 1. hsw else bees hka! sal whir Sled with provisions will be ger is ar erg ether tikes se the relief ianmittee may=serouggy. Weemenew, Fr Us. . Yesterday the N gems left her moorings at tall-par drag , sad preerdell " = Sei dyer to try her engines. A eariisside wake et gegen ambeeked bard to witness the tete', semitget whoa IMO Cannella, 111. J. J. Gerdes Bream ; Mr. Uoyd b ille= a e r t Weelethingend; Yr. tag& Wel slliPirright Wks Nei W i PPM the inventor of earre; . Mr. mg a amber Welber award in studying at the Mom iheleeyst Wisehrith. The Amphis resealed only as far as Owasaligha wfere the War* to nod did set sews to Woolwich the are inerag, se, emerrare We be is the eandssarr. sal eke sem Irk la Oa seasarties arbor iso the sneer warber at bee treble= or net more thsa N. thee. et see tire the arms made It readslisaa the serlke IMO set tried at the erearsl wile is lasg-tesela, es with imp vende It khaki to be haseadess aka ken ia ties pert of Ws Wiwi bet= tlitiar rent kg was yawls The =ef the trial wee 17 het II kola foe s , at 4 kir att. trial will take row la the cour eta flew dips kesisee, Tr. W—Dalgido, beigentine, ie ordered to to paid of et Ms pod. War internal irks, en sot Co be d aubed. The Gor ges, et.-tr., ewes into turd:whet analog. MILITARY. Pomeroy's. Pm. IS.—The two cowponies of the 43rd Light In fantry at Gosport will remove co the 1 it proximo. one to Portsmouth, and one to 'Now mogssine. The company of the god Foot at Tipnar will remove to Gosport on the soma day. The regiments in Ports mouth have given to the lvisti and roots ls rheum fund the sumo se placed against the.. 2n4 Regiment, 6)1. 9. 2d- ; 27th irt': 14. 4.. ; Royal Artillery and Engineers, 111. lee. Id.; Sh glowed, wooed who:WOMB, U. 64. Orders have been given to bald =risen m this garrison. in lieu of the one nay awe tY snithees lab) Ent, Mania. EQUITY COURTS. Before the Lord Chancellor. MORRIS O. MOkuta.—TENANT FOX Lt►l.—WseTa.—ltt auStcrlox.—Thu wu an appeal motion to discharge an order made by the Vice-Chancellor of England, to restrain the defendant, Sir John Morris, from cutting down orna mental timber on a property called Graisebrook, in the ' county of Glamorgan. The plaintiff is defendant's eldest son. The defendant's father took a lease of this property from Mr. Vaughan, the owner, in 1770, fer a term of 99 yarn, built a mansion and other houses, and planted the farm with young trees. He occupied the inanuon and pre mises until about the year 1816, when he removed to the house of his son, the defendant, at Bketty, which was his own estate, where he died in 1820. By a deed of settlement executed by him shortly before his death, he conveyed his property, including Onosebrook, to trustees for the use of his son, the defendant, for his life, without impeachment of waste, remainder to that son's eldest son, the plaintiff, for I his life without impeachment of waste, with other re mainders not necessary to be mentioned. The defendant, soon after the *color's death, took down the mansion-house at Oraiscbrook. The plaintiff was then only seven years of age, and no objection was made on his part. The defendant lately began to fell the trees, when the plaintiff objected, and filed this hill to prevent him; and on his application the Vice-Chancellor issued the injunction as shove- mention ed. Mr. Bolt and Mr. ltssch, in support of the motion to dis charge the injunction, said it must be assumed that the settlor had abandoned Oraiacbrook as a place of residence. That property being held under • lease which would expire in • few years, and which, it wee well known, Mr. Vaughan would not renew, there was no reason for keeping up the house or the timber. Supposing the senior had originally planted the timber for ornament, he could not have intended at the execution of the settlement that ornamental timber should be kept up after the plane became unfit for residence and that it had become no in consequence of the approach of the excavations for mines belonging to Mr. Vaughan and his lessees or assignees, and of the smelting furnaces that grew up in the neighbourhood, was fully shown by the affi davits which the learned counsel read. On these grounds, and also on the ground that the defendant was made unim peachable of waste under the settlement, they submitted that the injunction ought to he dissolved. The Lord Chancellor, without hearing the counsel on the other side, said he agreed with the Vice-Chancellor in lament ing the unhappy differences between the father and his son, and also in the propriety ofgruntingthe injunction. The defendant had no right to cut the timber or to take down the house, being only tenant for life of property of which the legal estate was vested in trustees. This cies fell fuliy within the rules of courts of equity in the preservation of property for the persons entitled in remainder. His lord.hip dismissed the motion with costs. BUTCHART I. • DRRESER.—JOTNT-RTOCX BANILS.--Pt MAC RKOIBTEREI, OrFICRX.—The bill in this case was tiled against the defendant, es the registered public Meer of the Yorkshire Joint•stack Banking Company, to restrain him, as such officer, from proceeding with an action at law against the plaintiff. and also for discovery of certain accounts in aid of the plaintiff's defence to the said action. The Vice- Chancellor had granted the injunction, and on the defend ant's answer afterwards coming in, admitting that certain documents and accounts called for by tie bill were in his possession, and that be was ready to produce them if the said bank permitted him, he added a list of the documents and accounts to his answer, by way of schedule. A motion was then made before the Vice-Chancellor, without prejudice to the injunction, for an order on the defendant to produce the scheduled documents for the inspection of the plaintiff and his agents. That motion was resisted, on the ground that the defendant WAS no longer the public officer of the bank, and that a Mr. Scott was substituted in his place. And the Vice-Chancellor, on these ground., refused the motion with costa. Mr. Rolt and Mr. Begvhawe now moved the court to re verse the Vice-Chancellor's decision, or to make an order that Scott be substituted as a defendant in place of Dresser. The Joint-stock Banking Company were the real defendants here, and for their and fur the public convenience, they were represented in this and all other courts by their regis tered public officer. Dresser had been-that officer at the filing of this bill, and he put in his answer as such efileer. That answer extended to 2'.11 folios, and it would be a great hard ship if the plaintiff was obliged to proceed de nova against the new public Oki r. The Lord Chancellor: And so tonics quetie► Just so. If this subatitution of a new officer were to be allowed, a wit against the bank, the substantial defendants here, could never be brought to a hearing unless such new officer wu also substituted as defendant in the suit Mr. J. Stuart, (or Dresssr, said that the plaintiff wm informed by Dresser's answer, that he wall no longer the offi cer of the hank. He had no control over the documents that were called for. They l*longed to the banking company, who were not served with notice of this motion. The learned counsel having made reference to what the Lori Chancellor did in a case of " Mostyn r.Burdeken," a pub lic officer of the Manchester Joint-stock Bank, the further bearing waa adjourned until inquiry could be made as to the order made by the court in that ease. Before the Vice-Eaancellor of England. WATSON O. BIRCII.—STATUTZ OP LIMITATIONS 4 AND 5 WILLIAM IV., C. 27.-• In this ease it appeared that a bond had been given in 1793, by a person named Samuel Birch, for 13,0001., to a solicitor named Rudd, in payment of a bill of co.ta for professional cevices. There were two endorsements upon the bond, one wan a receipt for one year's interest on the bond, dated the 20th of April, 1794, and the other was • receipt in 1798 for 3181., " in respect of costs taxed under • decree." Judgment had been entered upon the bond. This suit was instituted in 1817, by in cumbrancers upon Samuel Birch's estate, for the production of certain documents. The obligee of the bond died in 1826, and the present petition was subsequently presented by hie representative, that he might be declared entitled to the sum so secured by the bond. Various proceedings bad taken place before the master, who had reported in favour of the claim. The matter now came on upon exceptions to the master's report. Mr. Bothell, ..nr. Spurrier, and Mr. Ellis, in support of the exceptions, contended that the claim was barred by the statute of limitations, 3 el 4 Wil. IV., e. 27, by which it was provided that no action or suit, or other proceeding for re covering ary sum of money secured by any bond, judgment, or other security, should be effectual, except within twenty years from the time of such debt being contracted. unless there should have been payment of interest in respect of such sum, or an acknowledgment thereof in writing. Mr. and Mr. J. Parker appeared in support of the Master's report. The Vice-Chancellor said it was evident from the words of the statute of 3 and 4 Will. IV., the legislature intended that there should be no proceeding upon &judgment after the lapse of twenty years ; and this matter would therefore be concluded unless there had been something in the proceed , hags under this suit, which was filed in 1817, to AOw that the party bad an incipient right. The decree asked was that directions might be given for taking the accounts of the estate of Mr. Birch, and for the administration of the same in the usual manner; but there was no acknowledgment in the Emings under that decree of any right in the petitioners. opinion, therefore, was, that the language of the statute was imperative, and wee binding in the case ; and conse quently that the Muter was wrong in his report. Before Plea-Chancellor Knight Bruce. GILLAY O. LONDON AND NORTH Wessex RAILWAY Comr•xtr.—laJunc-riox.—Mr. Temple and Mr. W. R. Bigg moved ex parte for an injunction to restrain the defend ants from using a road made by them over part of the plain tiff 'a land, or using or passing over any part of the same land. It appeared that the defendants require, for the purpose of ex tending their railway to Navigation-street, Birmingham, four houses and a piece of land near Canal-street, Banbury street, Birmingham, forming part of some property in which the plaintiff had a term of 75 years. On the 30th of Decem ber the company gave notice of their desire to purchase, but, before any agreement had been come to, they broke down • part of the bank and boundary, and formed a road across the land, which road they had since used, much to the an noyance of the plaintiff's tenants. The Vice-Chancellor suggested the propriety of an interim order being taken, but as the plaintiff's counsel pressed the granting of the injunc tion, it was granted in the terms of the prayer of the bill. Bober Via-Chancellor Wigram. KIRWAN V. DANIEL.—APFROPRIATION OP CONSIGN MENTS IN THS HANDS OF CONSIONREE.— M a tthew Kirwan, the plaintiff, claimed to be entitled to en annuity of 3001., charged upon estates and plantations at Montserrat, in the West Indies, of which his nephew, the defendant, T. F. Kirwan, was the owner. The Means. Daniel, the other defendants on the record, were the consign, es for sale of the produce of the estates in question, and the object of the suit waa to obtain payment of the annuity out of the con signments in the hands of the defendants. The hill stated that, in March, 1841, the estates 1111011 which the annuity was a charge, belonged in equal moieties to the plain ti ff; and the defendant, is nephew, and that, in that month, the former conveyed his moiety of the premises to the latter, is otuederation of the annuity in question, which was made a charge upon the property and its produce by Use deed of conveyance. Soon afterwards the plaintiff came over to England, and, in October, 1841, signed an sgreernent as agent of his nephew, by which tho Mews. Daniel, merchants in London, were appointed con signees of the produce of the states in question, in consi deration of which they undertook to ship the nerceteary sup ple. for the management and cultivation of the estates, and to provide for the payment of the rent thereof, and of the plaintiff's annuity. From that tens the produce of the es tates at Montserrat had been regularly consigned I. the de fondants the Daniels, who had paid the plaintiff's annuity down to the month of October, 1842, but had then ceased to do so, alleging that the consignments in their hands were not more than sufficient to provide the supplice wee-wary for the management and cultivation of the estate. The bill prayed an account of what was due to the plaintiff foe the arrears of the annuity, and that the defendants (the Daniels) might be decreed to pay what should be found due to the plaintiff on taking such account, and also to provide for the future payment of the annuity. The defendants (the Daniels) demurred generally to the bill for want of 0, 1 ,, iY• Mr t . Itch and Mr. Dickenson, for the demurrer, con tended that upon the face of the agreement the plaintiff tohave acted merely agent ofhis nephew, and appea red there u was consequently no privity between him and the Daniels, rendering them liable to his demand • nor had such privity been created by any subsequent wet on the part of the defendants. No consideration had passed be tween them and the plaintiff, so as to render them liable at law • nor had an act been done by the creditor, uin Ouriiird o. Lord • •• 3 Simons ; and eases of that class, to render the defend ants liable in c ity. Mr. RemMy and Mr. Headdiebt, he the tiff, em teetted that the natere et the tramastien sly 'hewed that the spsement wee mete en WWI t i d ti t o 4dstlff who bei mid the meets in embiseatlem et the , iii condgmemets had ban essehel soder the teethe Danish, who bad mmensmieeeed the het the p*INME , • That me eatheisse to meals • hut he the pleitiWte the extent, at all manta, deg aessignmante them iOn Use of the dafedente vdi tie lilt alleged te be eglident meet the payments prayed. Km Mama In mg*. His Hamer mid that i temetlene ilhe he preesst, tt Tag often difileult te whether there was a trust he el parties, or atm* the authweetthe deed. The eseetima before him to fall roam the mead dam; and the question was whether the meaty had • Mght te see t The decision upon that yeadien, when again* the meditee, Lore , needed generally upon the ground th at the *men bed • right to object to exeunt to an 7 but the author elthe Myst. In the present ease the plaintiff appeared to ham bed Mall authority to enter into any agreement he phased. Bain i ;