The Express. — London, England, 1848-04-25 00:00:00

_-~--~ THE - EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1848. street: ROBBERY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER. —Yesterday a robbery eras committed on the premises of the Glasgow sod Leith Wharf, Wapping, by three men, who afterwards attempted to murder the night watchman. About two o'clock in the morning James Blassett, the night watchman, had been into the counting-house to warm himself, and was .• returning along the wharf towards the water side, for the of securing the premises, when three men sued e purpose upon him and struck him with life-pre servers. lie endeavoured to give an alarm, when they seised him by the throat and placed their bends over his mouth, and again struck him several violent blows upon the head until be fell exhausted. One of the ruffians then de manded the keys of the gate, and said, " if he did not imme diately deliver them up they would murder him." Blassett, who could scarcely move, handed to them the keys of the Alter Ne • bei trie er lL a ys, th e : l y W com th m e el at : d i ni y itgi s ng along tar wharf until they retired at the cellar stairs, when thy threw him headlong down into the cellar. The sea Immediately proceeded to the gate and opened it with tieheys, and instantly decamped. Blassett was rendered inemonble, and when he rec , ,vered he found himself int .. wag in water which had entered the cellar from the 0 liver , lie with , great difficulty succeeded in reaching ea iron grating, which admitted the light into the allar from Wapping High street. lie remained there ma time, suffering the greatest agony from the weed he bad received, until a labourer pared the whom he immediately called to his as . • . The man found the gates open, and with the sflalaee solitaace of several other persons, carried the unfortunate .011 to the London Hospital, it was found he had 'indeed eight lacerated wounds upon the head, and braises about the body. lie was stripped and placed in a warm bed, where he remains in a very precarious state. Mr. , Adams, one of the partners of the Glasgow and Leith Wharf, ' id several other persons searched the premises to ascertain gag property was missing, and in the counting-house they dissevered that an iron safe, which contained upwards of M hundred sovereigns, a 5l. note, and mportant popery, had Ina removed. They searched further, and in one corner of like wharf they toned the iron safe, but all the sovereigns I bri been extracted, with the exception of two. The 51. mote and the papers were all sate. The ruffians had pierced a large hole in the back of the safe, and then held it tip until all the sovereigns tell out. Bassett is unable le identify the three men, in consequence of the wharf l . very dark. They were d res sed in dark clothes; two them were tall and wore bats, and the third was short and wore a cap. Several of the detective force are in search of them. Blassett is upwards of 40 years of age, and has a wife mid several children. His recovery is very doubtful. EASTER AMUSEMENTS. DRURY.LAKE. Fmneoni's equestrian troop still continuing to occupy this theatre, the only novelly presented last night was some slight change in a portion of the performance , in the circle, and the introduction of one or two new comic scenes by those holiday favourites, the clowns, Messrs. Leclair and Auriol, and M. Newsome. Perhaps the most semarkable part of the entertainments provided for the even ing's amusement was the startling performances of M. Biegrist, properly denominated in the bills " the juggler," who, upon a horse going at full speed, performs a series of tricks with balls, ring, and rods, which it would be difficult for many of those wk.., are wont to astonish beholders with each feats, to execute even when resting securely on terra Bros. The whole appeared to give great satisfaction to a home which may be called " full," even for an Easter Mon day. HAYMARKET. The Easter novelty at the Haymarket consists 1 of that time-honoured tale, the Castle of Otranto, fashioned Into the most extravagant of extravaganzas. The piece follows the story in construction, and in dialogue is literally a shower of puns from beginning to end. A lew which had the "specials" for their theme told wonderfully; and one scene in which Masf red arms his guests with staves to attack the enchanted helmet set the house in a universal roar, Keeley, as Manfred - e xhibited a most amusing ferocity ; and Bland, as the Marquis Vicenza, "coining nobody knows how from nobody knows where," fully sustained his repute !van as the King of Burlesque. Theodor e, the genuine ' 9tranto's lord," found a most gracelul representative in Mus Horton, who gave two or thri e good songs with excel- lent effect, and was loudly encored. The remainder of the drameatis persona, with the exception of Miss Reynolds, who win arch and piquant as Isabelks, do not require especial notice. Altogether this novelty satisfied the audience; and the success of the Castle of Otranto will, we have no doubt, be complete when the actors shall be quite " up" in their Parts, and the carpenters more alert in their transmutations. PRisicEars. The entertainments at this theatre commenced with "The Nightingale," a comic opera in one act, being an English version of "Le Rossignol," by Louis Ulnas= labroli a popular French composer about the end of the last century, It is an agreeable little piece, as slight as possible in is plot and incidents, but a vehicle for some sweet and graceful music. The hero and heroine, after the fashion of the pastorals of that day, are called Lubin and Phatis. The damsel's father him no objection to the young love? , but the Bailli el th e v ill age i s also her admirer, and the father, of course, prefers the wealthy old gentleman, who n , of course, a ridiculous animal. The subject COOSilti of isertain mystifications to whist' be is subjected by the those who reported to this institution yesterday, but, not young couple, who are at length united with the father's withstanding, there were very mass thousands of visitors consent. Madame Anna T who personated PAWS', who thronged in and out of Its doors between ten and four was a very captivating little shepherdess. She acted with o'clock. The principal objects of attraction were the g ale. her usual archplayfulnees, and warbled the musle of her ries of Egyptian and Grecs= sculpture, the arrangement part d e li g htfully. Barker, ten, was v ery suee s asful in the which is now fast approaching completion. It is ve put of Lubin. The music wee well suited to his sweet to be desired that some more accurately numbered teaor voice, which was nut taxed beyond its limited powers. synopsis or catalogue of the numerous objects in Weiss and Bodda did justice to the parts of the Barth and these galleries was placed at the command of t thos e e the girl's father. An air, sung by Madame Didion, with a who visit them, for the catalogues fi Indio accompaniment, in imitation of the nightingale, door are very erroneous, and tend rather to Nat' was rapturously encored ; and a trio and quartet, exceed- lead than to guide. Up stairs the Zoological and DlL lagly well sung, were much applauded. The music, neraloeical galleries were thronged with spectator', sod in the simple and flowing style of the Italian the admirable collection of Egyptian still life in the Mama? composes of the last century, with its smooth awl delicate rooms also attracted no small share of curious obeenatient. instrumentation, so unlike the garish and wounded man- The visitors chiefly consisted of the humbler classes, lied a nor of the modern French school, had a pleuing freshness, large proportion of them were the youth of both sexes. and much of the charm of novelty. The whole perform- Nothing could exceed the quietness or orderly demeanour anne was cordially received, and the piece will, we have no of this vast moving body, and it offered a subject of pleas doubt, continue popular. It was followed by " The Sultan," log reflection to contrast the present management of this in which Madame Thillon's lively performance of Itozaland national institution with that of past years, when the system was as successful as ever. Then came the interlude of of holiday keeping would have excluded from a rational and "Gammon and Mammon; ' and, lastly, there was the praiseworthy amusement the multitudes who yesterday ballet of .. Esmeralda," prod uced originaly at Her Majesty's thronged its halls. NATI ONAL GALLERY, Theatre, and in which so great an effect was produced YOE by the exquisite dancing and pantomimic acting of Despite the unfavourable weather and the " Conh- Carlotta Grist. It washers got up with considerable splendour. rine demonstration," attracted vast numbers of the holiday The heroine was personated by Mlle. Auriol, a donseuse of makers. The succession of visitors was kept up until the more than ordinary merit, who, in her performance of the hour of cluing, and we learn that no less than 8,000 pawns part, sedulously imitated the inimitable Carlotta; sod she viewed the pictures. E TOWER OP LONDON. did wisely, for, though she fell far short of her model, TH yet she produced a pleasing and successful copy. Pierre The regalia and armoury were yesterday inspected Gringoire, the part which Perrot rendered so entertaining by 1,400 persons. St. Peel's Cathedral, the Monument, and was very cleverly sustained by Flexmore. The corps de Westminster Abbey, were also inspected by many holiday ballet was numerous, and some of the scenery very pretty. makers. At the United Service Museum, in consequence of LYCEUM. the disarrangement of the collection, admission could only be The subject chosen for the periodical burlesque, obtained by a MADAME member's ordeUr. W A X FIGURES which is always expected and seldom missed where id admire TUSSADE . Vestris reigns, was the beautiful classical story of Ariadne. Among the exhibitions bidding for public favour In Mr. Planche's version of the adventures of the lovelorn at the present SeLlOO, Madame Tussaud's collection of wax- daughter of Minos the principal pointa are faithfully pre- works must not be overlooked. But of so old a public served, from the arrival of the G recian hero at the Wane of f avour i te lengthened descrip tio Crete te the marriage of the Indian god with Ariadne at n would be superfluous. It is enough to say that the visitor will find, in a saloon NOICI. Dadaism plays the part of a chorus, explaiuing, as resplendent with gilding and decoration, an illustrious oom- 1 the various scenes develop themselves the incidents pony of the worthies of all ages, modelled with life-like 1 to the audience, in the usual vehicle which the writers fidelity, and costumed correctly ; a late addition is Coin. of burlesque from time immemorial have been entitled missioner Lin , m odelled b y a native artist, and accompanied' to convey their thoughts—namely. doggrel verse, which by his favourite wife, a pearl of Chinese beauty. The Na under our author's treatment often approaches very poison room is replete with historical interest, and the tolerable poetry. Mr. Charles Mathews play. d this authenticity of the various relies with whichabounds is 1 i character exceedingly well, and sang o ne son g , which, a ffi rmed with satisfactory accuracy. Altogether it ab the exhib , it is no exaggeration to say, is the best of the class that has tiro is one likely to plume been written for a long time, and it commanded, as it well LEICESTER- make holiday-rs. SQUARE. PAN ORAMA, deserved, an immediate and unanimous encore. This, in The views now exhibiting by Mr. Burford are point of fact, is the hit of the piece, which, to say the truth, " Vienna" e w e n o " Himalaya blountains," both repe ls not so brilliant or so effective as the previous efforts of the sentations of high interest, and the former more particularly author had entitled his auditors to expect. It must, how- so, in reference to passing events of a political character. ever, be said in extenuation of the apparent flatness of the The view of Vienna comprehends the entire circuit of the , dialogue and the bang-fire of the incidents, that the actors capital of the modern Caesars, with the splendid country were not by any means well-up in their parts, and probably around, looking, in one direction, towards chivalrous Hun when this somewhat dangerous deficiency is remedied the viry The panorama is well worth an attentive visit. blemishes adverted to may disappear. The scenery, pro- • THE DIORAMA. perties, and dresses were admirable; the Port and City of The Diorama in the Regent's-park attracted • con- Reracleum. in particular, presented a singular combination of tinual succession of visitors during the day. We made some arehitectural and marine beauties. Of the actors, it is only nunnery further to sped Mies Kathleen Fitawilliam, who mention of the two new pictures not many days ago. The view of Mount Etna exhibits efforts of considerable beauty sup o r the part of Ariadne with great spirit, and sang and interest ; the change from night to morning, the gradual the very numerous airs assigned to her extremely well. disappearance of the moon and stars, and the breaking of Madame Vestris and this young lady were called before the day, are almost perfect realisations of nature ; and indeed curtain. when the performance was over, to receive the may be contemplated with greater pleas ire, as it involves no plaudits of the andit nu. late sitting-up or early rising to enjoy them. ADELPIE. --._ Torn Moore has sung— Tne EASTER FAIRS at Greenwich, Stepney, Wands " There is a fount on 'lea's tale, worth, and Chalk Farm, were bold as usual ; the fist, how- Round which, in soft luxuriance, 'mile ever, appeared moat attractive, for notwithstanding the All the sweet flower *, every hind, On which the sun of Greece looks down ; unfavourable weather thousands continued to pour into Pleased as a lover on the crow. Greenwich town and park throughout the day, the mile/ay His mistress for her brow lath twined." trains arriving"every five minutes, and steamboats every 10, This " Fount on lea's isle," reproduced on our less crowded to excess with passengers. classic shores, gives occasion for the Adelphi's Easter piece, written for Madame Celeste by Mr. Stirling Coyne. It seems that in early ages the nymphs of lea were wont to assemble oa May morning at the tountain, there to collect the water which on that anniversary was supposed to be en dued with a peculiar charm. But this Greek spa, like the Badens of our own age, had about it its evil spirits; and Tenagor, one o them, haring become enamoured of Aglea, a child of the air, and knowing that a good spirit who once touched the ',Mtn became sub- servient to the will of the fountain gnomes, contained • plot by which, on the anniversary, on which the store *pens, the maidens of L.* are put to flight, and Aglea is Made his cap tive. The remainder of the drams is constructed to represent Aglea's vicissitudes whilst under the spell, sad her efforts to escape from the Gnome King's authotty. She is cast into the digesn, and fished up by a Greek fisherman. She falls in love with a young painter, and drives to desperation a Turkish pacha. In fact, the audience are gratified with two hours of stage vicissitudes, until at length, to their infinite satisfaction, a second dip in the fountain affords a cold-water cure, the spell is broken, the Spirit of the Air resumes her wings, and the demons are defeated in a.' grand denouement," All this is neatly con trived,well put upon the stage , and p la y ed with the strength of the company • but, as is tolerably evident, there is entire absence of originality in the design, a defect that is not redeemed by env remarkable point or vigour in the dialogue. The principal part is played by Madame Celeste, and the Gnome King by Mr. 0. Smith ; Mr. Wright is the Fisherman, and Mr. Boyce the Artis t " the one living by the net, the other by the ;" and h iss Woolgar manages to give much nest to the performance in the nice little part of a peasant girl, in alternate love and dudgeon with the Fisherman. The spectacle was well received by a very Intliried house. OLYMPIC. The novelty at this theatre is entitled " The MM. I Ike illi Borneo, or the Second Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor." The Rajah of Sarawak, of course, constitutes an element of the plot, but Sinbad, the sailor, the is the leading per w ho, accompanied by a foolish vizier, makes voy Roe e i r li a forth in the " Arabian Nights," being carried by the into the Valley of Diamonds, and so forth. lie is, however, carried out of the valley . by a twopenny bus, under the pro tecting care of the Getout of Chloroform, whose connexion with even the burlesqued' nary we did not collect, but who ia represented by • very good looking and rather clever young person, a Miss Bromley. After Sinbad's departure from the valley there is, d propos de riot, • va riety of dancing of a singularly mediocre character. Mr. Davide, is very absurd as the Vizier, and Miss Kate Howard not particularly elegant as Si n bad. As good a thing es any in the piece was some singing by • man who ac companied himself on the banjo, and who was encored so often that he was fain at lest, to take rest on a chair. The bur lesque is the production of Mr. Knight, who has crammed it full of political puns, more or less effective. There was a crowded house. SADLER'S WELLS. Shakspere, last night, gave place to Mr. Love, the polyphonist, on the boards of Sadler's Wells ; and never was there a less noisy or excited audience than that which wit nessed the drama put to rout by ventriloquism at this theatre. We are, however, quite ready to admit that Mr. Love's powers are various and extensive ; that he seems to have complete control over his vocal organ ; and that his variations of costume and character are rapid and amusing; that his coadjutor, too, Mr. Roberts and Mr. H. S. May, executed some airs on the Welsh harp not and fo pirbearano, which were deservedly applauded ; yet we can the observation that the whole affair was out of place and time. ASTLErS. The chief attraction at this popular place of entertainment, which has been newly fitted up, was the re. appearance in this country, after an absence of five years, of Van Amburgh, with his collection of trained animals, for which purpose "a grand romantic s pectacle," calle d Sue's . Morok el, the Beast-tamer," founded on a passage in Engine nov of the" Wandering Jew" was announced. The performance consisted of encounters with wild beasts, displaying the ex traordinary power which Mr. Van Antburgh bun acquired over the savage natures which be has rendered so wonder fully docile. The piece opened with a r epresentation of a French village and a merry party of peasants. A love affair is of course introduced, and a few incidents arising out of it conclude the first scene. In the secoad we find the villagers F rench to India, where, in endeavouring to establish a French colony, they are betrajed by the natives, subse quently taken captives, and when about to be devoured by wild beasts, as a sacrifice te Bramah, Morok (personated by Van Amburgh) is accepted as a substitute, and displays his power over the animals of the forest. The drama, which it full of stirring incident, went off with great rola. The play was f o ll o wed by the sc enes in the circle, comprising some of the most clever and daring equestriao feats, which sustained the ancient reputation of Astley's amphitheatre. reputation After a short recess, this theatre re-opened yester day. It has been redecorated, and presents a cleanly and cheerful appearance. Novelties were not announced by the management, but the established favourites, Messrs. Hicks, Saville, and Dale, all re-appeered, • b n:I met a eirdi. I wel come. A Pantomime, founded on the legend of Cinderella, introduced Mr. T. Barry to a Surrey Theatre audience. and he succeeded at the late hour of one o'clock in securing an encore. VICTORIA. The performances here were more highly seasoned than usual in honour of the holidays. The first piece bore the interesting title of " Rose Clinton, the Victim of Circum stantial Evidence." Mr. J. T. Johnsen ec n pers ec yo i ted ayoung mechanic, the "victim" in question, who s throughout the piece for a murder and one or two robberies, of which he is innocent. His troubles, however, end—er when be by Miss Vincent, with her usual success Mr. W. Searle b is guniin'tear t?ardthineghteoro°Pininie.millilthattethrecharlasatctsceernise'supported rendered a villain of the conventional cast with the re quisite breadth of effect ; and severalr talents comic ge ntl musical drama, entitled " Jeannette and Jeannot, or the Conscript's Bride " followed. It is founded upon the recently-pub lished " Songs of • Conscript," which are so well known throughout the metropolis. It is, of course, a love story i the the heroine expreemes in her farewell song to him her fears hero, a peasant of Picardy, is drawn for the conscription, and temptation oof ght. He withstands , , and " that he'll forget all the promises he made" directly he is evutentually her si is united to Jeannette, who has meantime however refused end brilliant offers. Considerable amusement was created, and no ba the little confusion, by • noisy and which • pathetic appeal from that sustained demandy gallerY of a hornpipe from demand, gentleman, who repre sented the incongruity of suc h a proceedin g . in a F ren ch subject, scarcely sufficed to silence. The audience were as . part of the theatre, not only within sight of the stage, but to numerous and noisy as could be desired, and occupied every p l.". w here no part of the performances could possibly be seen BRITISH MUSEUM. The rain and consequent diaoomfort of the day pro bably opeated considerably in dieniniabing the numbas of under the first net. By die sureaa Miennount any ea pet prietor could obtain was Hadted to 10A191. We quote the following passage from aL made in 1110 . 1..at0 Magazine hie F•henary last: As s= we may meadamjthit In etothima.the Dote et BMW. land be 50,0101.; ;Mari et Glenthith the thlhiliel.; the Dune oe alsaread, r 30,0001.; des Merl i Mr. Jill. Is e,SoaL; Amin the NMI Menthem. Nut. ; larads lbs, i and Sir J. T.P• Nalindo. ; mem einsimg boa 16,0001. damn Wei. en aumai tiy=T ex amealsis Zees* atha. memi el thalweg akesel. ; under the act ; em thostyn, 13,0001. ; th imt e a ne Illathetheed, 18,0004•; the Dal hi 47,1331. ; the Eon of Leraeib. AWOL a hir E. Y. V. 01 %.70 16,9171. ; Ur. John Bowes, 13,3a11.t Mr. B. Errington, 31,4061. ; many have demanded sundler sums. 01 course the three millions have long since been spro printed, and the settled estates of the kingdom are almost as far from being drained u ever. The sum, though a large advance from the public revenue, is a mere nothing when divided amongst the owners of land requiring to be drained. Of the policy of the act the article before referred to thus 'peaks : The policy of this measure la, to say the least, questlonek* ell seems likely to misdirect the attention of landowners NON* *se knows anything of the actual slate of landed property willr= meat assert that the three millions tobe ad.need will drain perhaps set a twentieth port of the entailed lands which regalia be drained, though it will assuredly prevent landowners front imkee. l ing into ouch permanent arrangements with their tenants as trill In.l duce them to drain their farms. Nee is there the slightest necessity for any such advances, which operate as a premium on entails, at this moment one of the most substantial ban to an unlimited im provement of British agriculture. if the landowners could restrict and unit the productiveness of their land without detriment to the community, they might perhaps be sickly permitted to indulge without challenge the family or class pride which Is eerved by settlement* and entails. But every restriction on the mo nomial use of land le a positive Ices to the public. But then they rhouid balance the benefits against the disadvantages of restricted ownership; and they ran have no right to seek the inconsistent ad vantages of the two systems—the fettered and the free enjoyment of land—at the expense of the national treasury tors That landed proprie tors are folly justified in asking the legislature to relieve them pee tattle from the fetters of entail, we admit; for so. posing the opini of their elan, not as yet to be rips for the entire abrogation of entails, every such partial relief Is a public benefit, inasmuch as it tends to promote improved husbandry. The proper mode of affording this parted relief, however, would be by enabling the tenant fur life abso lutely to sell or perhaps mortgage so much of the elute as would raise money millirem to improve the remainder. This, and the Lewd power to grant teams at yearly retie (excluding fines and pre mium.) for tong terms, extending say to 30 years, are the only mea sures by which, ookiesteutly with sound principle, the legislature can aid the improvement of entailed lands by acting upon the larellOrtre menet. In the positions of this extract we entirely concur. But the principle involved in these draining loans is of more importance than the actual transactions; it is this, that the state is to furnish the landowners with the capital required to drain their own estates, which capital, from the . system they have themselves created or their own want of providence, they cannot obtain in the ordinary way. It is said in defence of these advances, that they will be the means of employing productively many rural labourers, and of increasing the supply of human food. But why are the funds to be furnished by the state—funds, be it remem bered, drawn from the industrious classes of the community ? And if the state is to be called upon to improve the land of the landowners, why not also to make advances for im proving the machinery of the manufacturer, or " organising" ' and setting to work the operatives of the nation ? We lament with justice the error of Louis Blanc and his colleagues, when they attempt the impossitee task of finding work and wages for all the labouring population of France under the direction of the state, and denounce the class domination whence that error proceeds, while we quietly submit to an error similar in principle, dictated likewise by clue domination. What has the state to do with fielding capital for draining the estates of our great landowners? Why cannot that essential improvement be left to private enterprise and individual prudenee or industry ? If it is the law of entail which prevents the owners of land from so improving their properties, let the law be altered. The land owners are all powerful in the legislature. Or is it the practice of primogeniture, the heaping all the wealth upon one child, the "making one hand of the family so strong that he can compel the public to keep all the rest," that stands in the way of this the first step to ' good husbandry ? If so, let the landowners adopt a more rational, and, we may add, a more just practice. But against the scheme of improving and reclaiming the ill managed and waste lands of our dominant landocracy with the national funds a firm stand ought to be m►de. And bad as is the principle of these loans, the practice is still worse. In Ire land, the unfortunate labourers employed to drain the land find a large portion of their wages carried over to the account of rent and arrears of rent, and thus, besides getting his land drained at the public cost, the Irish landowner pockets his otherwise unobtainable arrear of rent out of the treasury loan. And in England many of the landlords who have ob tained loans charge their tenents with an interest of 7 per cent. on the amount expended, while they pay to the tree- I sury only 61. 10s. per cent., thus putting in their own pockets 10s. per cent. on the government loans to themselves with out any other trouble than that of asking for the loan. Is this to be endured when the people are writhing under the weight of taxation 1 And this is but a sample oi the things we owe to the preponderant landed interest in the legis lature. -- - LOANS TO LANDOWNERS FOR DRAINING. One of the remnants of the protectionist system is the grant by government of loans to landowners to enable them to drain their own estates, We have lately shown the rise and progress of the modern plan of land-draining, by which, at comparatively small cost, greatly increased value may be given to immense tracts of wet land in these king doms. 01 the importance of such improvement to the owners and occupiers of wet land there can be no doubt, and though, even at 31. per acre, the outlay in draining a large property is great, yet the benefits derived are • o numerous and immediate, that, to all who do not know or consider the ac tual condition of landed property in this country, the slowness with which draining proceeds is matter of sur prise. Tenants, when men of skill and ca lon pital, will readily drain their farms if secured in possession by g leases ; but the English landlords generally . refuse to grant leases lest they should lose that political influence over their tenants which they have hitherto exercised. Such icing the case, the landlord ought himself to undertake the draining of his property. But here again another cherished class preroga tive interferes. The law and practice of entails and pnma geniture have so operated as to render nineteen-twentieths of the landowners to a great extent nominal owners of the land they apparently poetess. Their estates are heavily charged with mortgagee and incumheanoes imposed to meet the family or personal exigencies of former owners, and, while they have only the power of further charging the property with small sums of money for the uso of their younger children, tho estate ot each trust go en- I tire to the eldest eon. Now, to suppose that many landlords so situated will or can lay out 31. or 41. per acre to drain their wet land is absurd. They cannot do it if they would. Few of them save anything, let their available in comes be ever so large; and the few who do nave money need it for the advancement of their younger children, and are naturally indisposed to invest it in the improvement of theestate which must goo the eldest son. Thus, between their desire for political influence, which prevents the grant ing of long and rational lessee, and their anxiety to uphold the dominasey of the landed interest, by the accumulation of all the family wealth in the hands of one individual 01 the family, the economical value of the land as an instrument of production remains unimproved. An attempt was made by Mr. Pusey to remedy this state of things, so far as reg ards draining, by an act 3 and 4 Vic., c. 55, to enable the possessors of settled estates to charge such estates with money to be expended in permanent drain- age. That set recites " That much of the land in England and in Ireland would be rendered permanently more produc tive by improved draining ; and nevertheless, by reason of the great expense thereof, proprietors, having a limited inte rest in such land, are often unable to execute such drain ing ;" and also" That it is expedient, as well for the more abundant production of food as for the increased employ ment of farming labourers, mad the extended investment of capital in the permanent improvement of the from soil, that such propnetors shall be relieved this disability, due regard being had to the interests of those in remainder." And the act then enables tenants for life to apply by petition to the Court of Chancery for leave to make permanentimprovements on their lands " by draining the same with stones, tiles, or other durable materials, in a permanent manner." Notice of such petition must be served on the " person or persons be neficially entitled to the first vested estate of freehold of in heritance in remainder after the estate of the tenant for life" ; and where such person is an infant, or under any other disability, the notice of petition is to be screed as the court may direct. The particular scheme of mprovement by draining is then to be laid before the master of the Court of Chancery, and if be approves of it, the court will autho rise its performance. The tenant for life is then authorised to charge the estate with the allowed sum, w th i in defined Cit at five per ce nt., but he must pay off the principal by annual instalments, which are to be spread over 18 years. Now, assuming that the landowners are determined to retain their injurious law of entail and the practice of primogeni ture, nothing can be more reasonable than the provisions of this act, which seem to meet then.essity of the case. lis t it has proved practically inopee, for since its enactmen not more than six or seven petitions have been presented. And the reasons of this are obvious ; first, the landowner, being tenant for life, does not like the payment of the the instal- court ments and the cost of the application to of chancery ; and secondly, if he has not the money to ad vance himself, it is not easy to find a lender who will take back his capital in driblets. Besides which, our law of real property is such, that the title the lender would obtain under the act would seldom prove very satisfactory. While, therefore, landlords will not grant leases, and will not or cannot charge the estate with the cost of draining it, the int. provement of strong wet land is at a stand-still. Some o the protectionist landowners next hit upon the no table ac erne of getting their estates drained by means of ad vances from the Tt?•11117 ; and, accordingly, w h e n Si r Robert P eel, in 1846, proposed to repeal the corn laws, he offered, as a kind el sop to Cerberus, the advance of three millions sterling to mein the landlords of the d United Kingdom in draining their estates . By 9& 1 0 Vic.,lanow noes who desire to obtain a Treasury loan, are to make applica tion to the lncloeure Commissioners, who are, in tact, the Tithe Commissioners, stating the particulars of the land pro posed to be drained, the manner in which the drainage is proposed to be effected, the estimated expense, and the esti mated increase in the value of the land to be produced by such drainage. On receiving such particulars, the commis sioners are to judge of the expediency of further pro- ceeding in compliance with the application. If the commissioners entertain the application, they cause the plan, estimate, and specification of the proposed drainage, or the land itself, to be inspected by an asaistant commissioner, or surveyor, or engineer, who is to report on the application ; and if he be of opinion that the erainage will effect an improvement in the annual value of the land, which will exceed the annual amount charged by the act in respect of the advance, and that the work is to be properly executed, the commissioners certify Lo a n e treasury that • certain sum may be properly advanced, then as the work proceeds two-thirds of the actual expenditure will from time to time be advanced. This is sailed the provisional certifi cate ; before the issuing of which two months' notice of the application must be published in the London, Edinburgh, or Dublin Gazette. This is to afford notice to persons who have charges on the land already, who may dissent from the ad vance ; and if they do en the landowner Whe must firs th t e obtworkain an is order from the Court of Chancery sufficieat, the commis . n completed, and has been reported to be sinners forward a certificate to the treasury, and then the full advance is made. On f the issue of such certificate the lands are charged with payment ta the norm of a rent charge o 61. 10s. on the amount advanced, for the term of 2'2 years. This rent -charge is payable haltiearly at the same times, and is recoverable in the same way as the assessed taxes, and is to ta k e precedence of all incumbrances. By act 11 & 12 Via. c. 12, the objects for which such advances might be m ade were extended to making outtalk; through other lands, and open drain s and water courses,f and l for " fencing, trenching , and clearing the surface o waste ands intended to be drained." Some notion may be gathered of the extent to which our great landowners conceive their es ' tatea to require draining from the some they applied for THE CROPS. No slight derangement has been occasioned in the operations of the farmer by the great quantity of rain which has fallen throughout the kingdom during the last three months; and already the aspect of the wheat crops in many extensive districts is regarded with great anxiety. February was an extremely wet month, and was marked by unusual depressions of the barometer. There were no less than nine teen wet days in that month, and the actual amount of rain was nearly one-third greater than the average; yet February is commonly a wet month. March, until the 27th of the month, was also continuously wet, so much so that on all the low lands and the ill-drained clays the wheat plant had assumed a very sickly appearance. Smartly any prepare ' tions for spring crops had been at that time made. Though I farmers were not without anxiety then, there were several circumstances of mitigation, if not of hope. In the first place, for full nine months previously to February, far less than an average of rain had fallen, so that the soil being un usually dry, had capacity for absorbing a great deal of moisture. In the next place, the wheat bad been well got into the ground in the autumn, was generally sown early, and, having re ceived scarcely any check from frost, was unusually vigorous and forward, without being too luxuriant. Up to the second week of March, therefore, though the rain which had fail .n was somewhat redundant, the wheat had suffered less than it has frequently done in winter from far smaller quantities of rain, when the previous autumn has been more wet. The temperature, too, bat been mild throughout the winter. By about the 10th of March, however, the land in many places had become saturated nay, supersaturated—with mois ture, and the health of the wheat plants declined ex cept on the light lands with porous subsoils, and the tho roughly-drained strong landi where there were sufficient outtalls tor the water. On the low lands and the wet clays the wheat was in serious peril. About the 27th of March the weather beams fine, and continued, in the main, dry up to the 7th of April, and some six or seven days of that period were extremely hot. In a meteorological account we find it stated that, on the Ord of April, "the thermometer at 1 o'clock, in a southern aspect, stood at 110 degrees, at the house of the head-keeper in Richmond -park." T • effect of this change upon the wheat was prodigious; so that, by the 10th of April, the plant had uni versall recovered its healthy hue, and looked, even on the co y ldest clays, stronger and better than at the corresponding period for some years past. But on the 12th the rain recommenced, and on the nights of the 13th, 15th, and 17th instant, enormous quantities of rain again fell, and the land having still retained much wet, the deterioration of the wheat has been considerable. We passed through a district of strong and wet land, of many miles in extent, on Monday the 10th inst., and having returned on the 16th, it was im possible to avoid astonishment at the great change for the worse, which, during that interval, had taken place inLiert the wheat. This applies to parts of Midliesex, Amex, and fordshire. Spring corn and pulse have likewise been but indifferently sown, and in many places the HMSOII has been lost altogether. There has also been great difficulty it, making the land ready for marigold wand, which ought by this time to be planted, but so yet we have not seen or heard of an instance in which it has been done. On the other hand, there is every prospect of an abundant crop of grass. a matter of no little importance to the com munity, when we consider the high price of meat. Of sheep stock in particular there is a decided scarcity, and though the docks have this year been remark ably prolific, such extensive tomes of both ewes and lambs have been sustained from the wet weather of March that it is doubtful whether the increase wid, upon the whole, be more than an average. For several y ears past there has been an increasing scarcity of sheep, aring partly from the deli. ciency of food two years ago, which causes an immense number of sheep to be hurried prematurely to mark, t ; in part to the large consumption of in , at which has beer, ping on for several years by railway workmen—for the first luxury a well paid agricultural labourer indulges in a full quantity of mat; and also to the change which has of late years taken place in sheep farming. Farmers have ex changed their breeding flocks for dry fatting sheep, for the sake of the improvement of their land consequent upon fat ting stock. We find a point noticed in the report ot y spring sheep fair (Berkshire), where it br is said th was t " th e e g eneral opinion expressed by many large eederst the stock of sheep in England is getting very short, and that without large importations from the continent or other 1 . countries mutton must go still higher. Although in some districts the increase of the season has been good, yet there are many hitherto breeders who have now changed their breeding into dry flocks, the very high price giv e en for fat sheep being the chieuse for such chang" The remedy for this is tha f t cause for such chan The remedy for this ii that farmer' should ad op t the more improved method of sheep farming, which combines on the same farm both breediag and feeding, and under which breeding stock is kept in nearly as high condi tien as fatting sheep. The adva nta g e gained by the early maturity of young animals, which are allowed from r theiro r birth a full supply of good food, is very great to the p of meat, while nothing but its more ex tensive adoption can supply the consumers of meat at reasonable prices. The I same deficiency of sheep is noticed in the amounts of the wool markets, and one writer attributes it to the sacrifice of their stock made by farmers under the influence of the pro tectionist-created panic, when Sir Robert Peel's measure for rm peitting the importation of foreign sheep became lahas w. We believe that the deficiency of stock provender which (scuffed several times since 1842 has had more to do with the high price of sleep, and the consequent inducement of farmers to send all they can to market, than the importa tion, That wag soots found out to be no injury to the Bri tish fiockmaster. And the farmer who fears competition with the foreign sheep which may be seen weekly in Smith field-market must indeed be a novice at his business. The present abundant prospect of grass is favourable to the in crease of neat stock, whielt, like theep, have bath allowed to get too low. 1011& -MURAL B UR l A LS.—Yestertlay, at • vestry so w s 'held in St. Clemen t Danes perish, Strand, it was mod that the clerical co mmittee appointed to adopt mea burials is atlas and towns had nominated • lONmen, whose names were to tulle to Lo an td d twenty raorpe th la , y for his lordship to arpoiat a ...Aimee from those gentlemen for the purpose finally ..:"sg burials in Ging and towns, and that the fo low. rntlemen were semi' seed toe the perish of St. 4gmeent Danee, vie. :—Mr. Mackinnon, M.P.. Kr. G. A. "yams, Mr. Twining, and Mr. Sambrook. ..• ELECIIvE FitAscuisv..—Sir,—Now that the ques ass of the estansion ot the suffrage is to some extent ma - king es ey with the thinking portion ot the p ublic, it ma y be not "Advisbe to show how even the 101. house occupation hasehise has been contracted. The effect of the rate paying i n iaa a is well known; but I believe sufficient notice has not bees f the contraction of the franchise by the payment par• ish rat e d by the landlord. The parish of Camberwell m ed by • local ac t, in which On re is a clause em boso . ...ring the landlord, should he wish to do so, to compound t h e payment of the rates for houses under the value of The action of this clause is to distranchise more meat cne thousand 101. octopi eee aa the overseers e a set place such occupiers on the voting list whiht they remain under the compound. There is a clause ad which permits t he occupier to claim to be rated hie then he has to pay the full rate, and as this interferes with the landlord's compound, and causes much trouble, it peaknown that the landlords endeavour to change these blesonth tenants as soon as possible. To those who have *ached the question of compounds for the payment of rates %the landlord, it is well known that advantages are equal. the fewer losses to the yarish from the changes of residence, sad the psyments made by the landlord for houses whether w ooled or sot, the allowance mafort him hy the parish can p lace be looked upon as a discount cash on a wholesale in p of a retail transaction. Were the overseers willing there could be no difficulty in giving the occupiers their just place op t h e e atiog list, as the local act states that when the lan dlord applies for his compound he is to give the name of the occupier, which ought to be placed in the column of the rate-book intended for such purpose, which should thin be considered as a sufficient rating for the pur pose of the frinchises. In th e neighbouring parishes of L a mbeth and Bermondsey I understand this is done. I may here mention another !emus evil arising from the pro pound system as now carried out. On all parochial busi nem, when a vote of the p arishdners is required, including the election of guardians, the votes of the whole of the otecpiers of compound houses are lost to the parish, whilst the plurality of votes given to property by the 'Vestry Act, always gives an unjust preponderance to the views of the wealthy inhabitants, who cluster thickly in the centre of the parish of Camberwell, and the adjoining district of Dulwich, and who only appear at vestry when called upon to give their support to the officers of the parish, when some ques tion of interest has aroused the pari.hioners to require a poll. I trust you may be able to make some use of the fore sang rema rks.—J. A. LYON, St. Mary•le-Strand House, Kent-road. SEIZURE OF ILLICIT STILLS.—EXTRAORDINART CAP'S:EX.—On Saturday night a seizure of an illicit distil lery was effected by the officers of excise. Mr. Edward Thomas, accompanied by Messrs. George Fenn end John Edward Joy, officers of excise of the Hoxton district, pro- Deeded to a house, No. 66, Wenlock.street, City-road, where from certain appea r ances, by which they had reason to be lieve illicit distillation was carried on, Mr. Thomas went to the front of the house, while the other two officers watched at the back. After knocking at the front, a woman made her appearance in the area, and to questions as to her hus band being at home, site answered cootusedly in the nega tive. Mr. Thomas then informed her that he was an officer, and requested that the door might be opened. She imme diately disappeared, but only for the purple is, of ordered still further fastening the door. Mr. Thomas, upon th other officers to force an entrance at the back, which was effected with considerable difficulty, during which time a man was seen going upstairs to get through an upper window, and run along the tops of the adjoining house.. An alarm being given, and all parties on the alert, the man was kept in his lofty situation for an hour, not teeing able to get down, although making severa l bold and perilous attempts. One of the officers then went for a police officer, whir, after various ; stratagems to take the delinquent, eventually got into an unoccupied house, and by this means was close upon him. Further retreat was now hopeless, and, u a last resource, the man ran to the back, taking a leap of the most frightful description. He soon recovered himself and ran away, and after a lung chase was secured by Mr. Thomas, and handed over to the police for safe custody. The man being thus disposed of, attention was directed to what had become of the woman, and it was discovered that daring the confusion that prevailed in securing the man, she had, unperceived by them, made her escape, which she IC compliatvxl by leaping through a window on to a shed, from thence upon a wall, and finally into a back garden. It was the opinion of a ll p ersons who witnessed the affair, that two bolder or more dangerous exploits had seldom been attempted. Upon examining the premises the of fi cers found two stills fi tted up , each capable of working fifty gallons, with molasses, fermented wash, and the usual utensils used in distillation. In fact, everything sees prepared for carrying on an extensive trade. They also found a small quantity of spirits made from molasses wash, but there an be no doubt that a large quantity was oa the premises when the officers went, but that it was thrown away before they catered, as the room had every appearance of such being the case. The man gave the name of Davies, and said he was a bricklayer, and had merely called there for money owing to him. The officers, having procured vans, moseyed their prize to the excise warehouses in Broad- IRELAND. Deamir, Aram 23. The idea of a " national guard," lately started by the confederates, and which occupied their club meetings on Thursday, has failed to make the least impression on the general body of citizens. Papers were freely handed about yesterday soliciting sgna tures to the enrolment list, but they passed wiihout notice. Not 50 names altogether were appended to the invitation. Nowise discouraged by the fate of the Ship-street and Cork recruits, a few of the Dublin Rifle Brigades repaired as usual this morning to the North-strand. The police, who were on the alert, came up just as practice was about to commence, and arrested one of the warriors in embryo, who, with rifle in hand, was marched ignominiously through the streets to Henry street police-office. lie will be brought up before the magistrates to-morrow morning ; and, as the evidence is rather conclusive, it is probable he will be com mi•ted for trial at the ensuing commission of Oyer and Terminer. The magistrates of Limerick, considering the ex citement prevalent in the city, and the probable effect of those incentives to violence so incessantly applied, have, at a meeting of their body, determined to call for an increase of the police force of 35 men. The military there have also felt the necessity of more exhibition of force, for the soldiers have received orders to carry their side-arms when off duty. At the same time, it should be known, as a matter for congratulation, that the ardour for rifle practice has cooled down ; very few now follow up the shooting exercise, and pike making is on the decline, as the manufacturers cannot obtain a market for the stock on hand. There are, at this moment, in the gaol of Limerick, four hundred prisoners, notwithstanding the clearance it must have had in commissions, assize, and quarter sessions. Of these, however, one hundred are under sentence of transportation for various periods. The Cork Constitution contains the following. It is necessary to remark that Captain White has been the most active of the magistrates of that city in enforcing the law against rifle-shootinuand drilling : T HREA TENING LETTER TO CAPTAIN W HITE, J. P. — Private assassination is, we suppose, to open the cam paign of the " Confederates." Every instrumentality by which "an enemy" can be got rid of is included in their plan of operations. Among the letters left on Thursday by the letter-carrier for Captain White. J.P., on the delivery of the mid-day mail, was the following : Tyrant WWI you are at the present crisis as ambitious for notoriety as To* were in the year of your ahrieralty, when you entrapped the poor simpleton, the aged Roger Ileffernan. But, villain, you have had • long time to repent of your evil doings, and yet have not. Your days are numbered —you had • marrow escape some time ago, and were emulously waited for by three determined men, hut, fortunately for you, • different way home saved you then. You will have the hardihood to appear again in hostility to the people. Beware: death hair not the terrors for the sunken down and oppressed peeple that it had some twenty or thirty yearn past, and it in not impoorable that poor Rafter's pereecution and death will be avenged by Curtly ridding the world of you, • tyrant and Imre limning villain. a ff a i rs —the time is short This** no hoar-settle your tempora l —tyrants must be got rid of—an accursed government cannot protect you from the people's wrath. If you are looking for place by your opposition to the people, you will :Ina it in the warmest corner o f hell, for thither wilt the people send you. Wzi.u.ut lizerszreor Wrenn., Ore of the Enemies of Tyranny. Cork, AprlllB, 1848. Wm. Preston White, Esq., Patrick's-hill, Cork. The run on the savings banks has somewhat abated, notwithstanding the unfortunate defalcations of two local officers in Tralee and Killarney. Col. Wyndham, a proprietor, who has made great efforts to remove a superabundant population from his Irish properties, and who has been subjected, in con sequence, to much censure, is about to enable 130 persons to emigrate from his Clare estates, at a cost of 3,0001. This is a humane and kindly act. RECENT RIECETIONS.—Within the past week there have been four executions in the south, two in North Tipperary yesterday, two in Limerick on Thursday. At the latter the clumsiness of the hangman was again manifested. The two men died in the utmost torture, one of them having exhi bited signs of life, his body being convulsed, even atter he had been suspended half an hour. All this torture seems to have been produced by the position of the rope, the knot havini . in each case reached beyond the neck to the aide of tee head Da. Morton, well known in Ulster as an agricultural chemist, was elected by the joint boards Professor of Chemistry, is the room of Dr. Andrew*, raised to the vice presidency of Queen's College. Ma. MITCKILLL IN DILOOREDA.-011 Monday es'nnight en extraordinary meeting of the Drogheda Confederate Club was held, for the purpose of receiving their recently ap pointed president, Mr. J. Mitchell, of the United Irishman. Mr. Marron, after having procured silence, moved that Mr. Mitchell, m president of the Drogheda Confederate Club, should take the chair. This being carried, Mr. Mitchell pro ceeded to say : Gentlemen of the Drogheda Confe derate Club, to you I must first address myself. My first duty is to thank you for the high honour you have oonferred on me. I thank you, gentlemen, for your just sedition; I congratulate you on your most holy treason. To stand up for Ireland to day is a misdemeanor ; next week it will he felony or treason, punishable with transpertation. It will be my lot, I believe, and that of some others, to undergo an imprisonment for two years, the penalty now, es the law stands. The time has come when, in the face of danger, we must win our liberties or perish. It may be that many are ignorant of the principles of the confederation too, and I will, with permission, endeavour to lay these principles briefly before them. The confederates are a body of Irishmen who have confederated to put this island into such an attitude of defence, that the English ministry will not attempt to treat us as they have hitherto done. The first rule by which we are bound is—that no man shall take a place under the English government. I am sure there are men—respeetable men in . your town, who differ with us for the lake of some of their friends, for whom they hope to procure a respectable way of living ; and be cause they have so kind and efficienta member in parliament as Sir William Somerville, who is ever at the minister's ear, and who is disposed to prove very kind to those who used their influence to elect him. And as long as he continues to get places for the scions of respectable families, I am sure that he will be returned again and attain by you unless you have made up your minds not to be bartered over the counter any longer. We have no secret societies in the confedera tion. The Lord Lieutenant, if so disposed, may go witness their shooting or he may send his detectives in his stead, if he pleases. T here is no concealment, as I told you th before. And let me caution you against secret societies—against e use of pass-words, or anything of that description ;it will be time enough to resort to secret societies when the government endeavour to put down such meetings as this Another thing I have to tell you : lam not acquainted with what they may be doing in other districts, hut in every part of the south of Ireland the people are procuring arms with as much despatch as their means will permit; those who can not buy rifles get " pikes ' made. I must now speak tat the due relation of the clubs in the country to that in Dublin. Eech club is to attend to its own business, and conduct its affairs independently of the council in Dublin.—The learned gentleman next referred to organisation. Re said-1 hold that the organisation should be a democratic movement. It was not by following the aristocracy—t at class who call themselves the leaders of the neople—the democrata of France won their rights • it was not by petition ing the Chamber of Deputies—nor was it by en tering into negotiation with the minister Guisot—nor by silky addresses to King Louis Philippe. No; but I'll tall you how they woo it—by having their clubs well orga nised; and by another fashion—(Here there was a cheer called for the " French fashions," which was well responded to) —by barricades—by entering the palace—and by burning the throne. When I speak of the conduct of the people of France, I do not wish that you should imitate the people of that country. When I 'peak of you winning your rights by force, 1 do not want to alarm men of property, to moue pro. testants. or to take from them anything which is theirs by Tight. Why should Idoso ? All the personal connexions I nave are on the protestant side. But I must say, t: tat if men of property wish to have a share in the new nation we mean to create, the time is nearly up for them to com e in and join with us. Some of the fastidious aristocrats sre heard to say, "Oh would you put the government into the bands of the mob ?—see the horrors that base been committed in France." I answer by saying, we have had horrors far worse in Ireland under the present government. It never happened in any country that one mil lion of human beings died of hunger in any place but in Ireland. And shall this state of things be allowed still to go on ? Better, I say, have death, anarchy, or anything el.e. I have been placarded in many parts over Ireland. It was said I was a ruffian and a miscreant ; that 1 have urged, in my written addresses to the populace, inducements to plun der shops and other places where property was; Lord Cla rendon has also sent placards which the police were ordered to put up in the dark. I aver that if Lord Clarendon at tempts to say that I ever counselled robbery or deltruction of f any man's property, or injury to a single hair of any man' head—l tell him that he lies most foully. I am very happy to tell you that I have had a vast correspondence with the military. Some have sent me their names as vouchers for the truth of what they wrote. I have published some of these letters and find they have given rite to much discussion in the bairacks; and what is. singular, too, the more that are published the greater and wider the growth of these discussions MC= to become. lam happy to tell you that, should we have occasion to stand upon the defensive, we shall not meet with much resist ance from either of these (the soldiers and police) bodies. After a few words from Mr. L. Devin Reilly, Mr. Mitchell again rose, and referred to the chartist body in Englan to d, stated that they were engaged equally with themselves overthrow the present English government, and were fa vourable to the Irish people obtaining and having Ireland for themselves. Re thought they should assist them to obtain their charter, which they looked for, and they would in return aid them to obtain repeal. The meeting (says the local paper), after giving loud cheers for O'Connell, Mr. 8. O'Brien, Mr. Thos. F. Meagher, Mr. Mitchell, and the United Irishmen, quietly dispersed. A Burr FORTHEItEPIALEtta.—Sir,—Permit me to offer, through the medium of your paper, a suggestion connected vrith the present distressed state of the Irish peasantry, and their inability to crop their lands for want of seed, The re peelers profess that the welfare of the people is their aim welfare be beat promoted if the t to the purchase of wed, to would not that • • rent " were to be appropriates' be distributed when most wanted ?-1 , 01 Erouen WOMAN. SCOTLAND. EDINBUROI4, APRIL 23. A movement against the system of indiscriminate licensing of public-houses is taking place in different parts ot the country. In one district of Aberdeen shire (Garioch) a special meeting ot justices was held when it was found that many licenses had been granted in quarters where they were not required, and that others had not been properly conducted, and it was resolved that fifteen licenses should be withdrawn. at first meeting, and that other three should be re stricted to the sale of ale, beer, and porter. The reso lutions, with the names of the parties whose licenses are to be withheld, have been published in the local pepers. Measures of like stringency are talked of for Morayshire, and apparently not without reason. D RUNK ENNESS IN GLASOOW. — A paragraph on this subject which appeared in a communication from our Edinburgh correspondent having excited some dis mission, we have made exertions to procure an official return on the subject, and by aid of an intelligent and respectable Glasgow citizen, have succeeded. Our correspondent, we find, has been misled by a state ment in the Glasgow Herakl to the effect that 150 individuals were, on the night of Saturday the 25th of March last, lodged in the central police-office charged with being " drunk and disorderly." Our Glasgow friend has obtained from the supenntendent of police a " Return of drunken per sons taken to the several police-offices in Glasgow between 6 p.m. on Saturday the 25th, and 6 a.m. on Sunday the 26th, of March, 1848." It ia as follows: ?Wee. Central dace ll Vonalea. ... 10 fioutLeta ............................. ~\ Mss .............„.._....... Clyde ....._......... 13 2 real 3l 11 To this return, the gentleman who took the trouble to obtain it adds the following comment: I conceive it is not difficult to account for the discrepancy of the two statements. The Herold says that 150 indivi duals were lodged in the Central Police Office with being drunk and disorderly. This phrase is a stereotyped one with many of the subordinate officials by whom the oases are reported, almost the only one in their vocabulary, and the category of " drunk and disorderly " will be found to comprise all cases of quarrelling and disorderly conduct, many of them of a very ve nial description, and in which drunkenness forms but • small element. Police cases, too, often include persons per fectly sober, who may have been involved in a disturbance commenced by some drunken person ; and the general charge I have mentioned is made against all the parties The paragraph in the Herald is loose, and without the usual discrimination of that journal. Were I not afraid you might suspect me of national partiality, I would remind you that our city abounds with poor and uneducated Irish, "unstable as water," and of migratory habits, to whose so . count no small proportion of the equivocal reuse which has been attempted to be attached to the aborigines of right belongs. - Great complaints are being made here as to the cost and trouble of keeping down disturbance caused directly, or indirectly, by popular meetings. Every time that the pensioners are called out in the Edin burgh district, it is at a cost of 601. per diem, while the cost and annoyance to special constables is beyond calculation. Franklin was not wrong in saying that the voluntary taxes of the people were greater than those imposed by the state. The Perth papers supply information regarding the letting of the toll-bars in that county for the ensuing year, which, in consequence of the expected opening of the Scottish Central and other lines of railway, is rather interesting,as being the first occesion on which the influence of railways on existing turnpike-roads could be properly tested; and the result shows that that influence is to operate unfavourably. None of the bars in the Cane of Gowrie were let at all, the offers being much under the current rent. The same was the case with the Muirton Bar and Bridge of Earn Pontage. On the elicit and Stirling-road, the bars were all let, but at a reduction, in some instances, of nearly one-half. On those roads, on the other hand, communicating with branch railways, such as those in the Dunkeld and Blairgowrie districts, there was a slight rise. On the Crieff-road trust, the arrangement come to with the Central Railway Com pany is, that the latter are to make good any de ficiency upon an average of the rents for the three years preceding the opening of the line. On the o th e r trusts, a money composition was accepted in fulls In Ayrshire there has also been a general falling off of rents ; and in that county the farmers are com plaining of the decision come to by the commissioners of supply in favour of the present system of road ad ministration. It does, indeed, seem strange that in a county, containing 731 miles of road, there should be • bar for every two miles and a halt; and a debt of 90,0001. paying five per cent., and that this should be deemed so satisfactory as to require no change. In supposing that 9,000/. per annum could be saved in the Ayrshire roads, the road reformers of the district are perhaps going too far, but undoubtedly there is safe middle ground between the extreme parties. PROVINCIAL. TENANT RIGHT.—The Gardeners' Chronicle of Saturday make' the fol l o win g remarks upon the in teresting subject of tenant right:—" There can be no doubt of the impolicy of allowing the capital employed in agriculture to run all the ricks under which meet of it at present lies. There can be no doubt that those who own the land in which it is invested would benefit by the more ready and abundant investment of it which its greater security would insure; and as little can there be that the cultivator would himself reap more abun dantly, were his means more liberally applied. Tenant right—the right to this security—is unquestionably a reality ; and the general acknowledgment of it is greatly to be desired by all classes dependent on agriculture. All, how ever, are not agreed upon the justice of these propositions, or the acknowledgment of tenant right would be immediate and universal; the fact being that there is such little pm,- pect of unanimity on the point, that the moat zealous of its advocates contend for legislation to bear down the opposition they encounter. We referred last week to the difficulties which lie in the way of legislation—to the power of l opposin landners—to the difficulties, in framing • bill, g of a ow valuation between landord sad te nant, which should be just to both—the continual arbitration and litigation which would be sues to arise from any attempt to determine the award before the outlay, and the certain arbitrary injustice of any dcei • lion atter it. On this laver point we have some further remarks to make. The following is a passage from the report to the Law Amendment Society, which refers to a valuation of tenant right feunded upon the increased value e of the land at the close of a tenatenancy. " The tenant w by it, so far as his acts are coneerned, be held bound to restore the land in as good, but in no better condition, than it was in when he took it; and for allincreau of value, arising from his acts, he would receive an equivalent in money. But this method is unfortunately lees easy of application than it is just in principle. In acting on it, the following data would be necessary, in order to come to a conclusion. I. The annual valise of the land at the commencement of the tenancy, which might, perhaps, be obtained by referen.le to the rent, and t e poor. rate assessment. 2. The annual value of the land at the end of the tenancy, which would require a special valuation. 3. Proof of the fact that the improvements were made. i. Proof of the extent to which the improvemeets alone, as slistinguishei from other co opetating circumstances, have affected the value. Now, without taking into consideration the three former requi sites, this last proof alone it would be almost impossible to give. In a country where the state of trade, the waking a road, canal, or railway, the building or extension of a town, and many other things, ere daily changing the value of land, how is it possible to eliminate ell such con siderations, and to attribute to the improvement just so much of the increase of value as is due to it ? It may be added, that so long as population continues to t advance, the science of agriculture to improve, and the means and expe dients of practical husbandry to increase, laud must, as a general rule, become more valuable by . the demand upon its resources, as well as by the extension of its capabilities, without any extraordinary expenditure on the part of the tenant." The difficulty of this mode of valuation then arises from the impossibility of extracting from all the MIMS of improved value, and their total effect, that and the result of it which the tenant may have put in action. Clearly he has no right to the whole difference in the value of his farm at the commeacement and close of his occupation. That may have arisen from the increase of population, and of prices perhaps, from the improved social and physical condition of the people, f ro m the neighbourhood of a lately mnstructed canal er ra ilroad, or from the settlement of a manufacture in its neighbourhood. From these causes, in which the enant las had no part, as well as from the fact that at such a date so much was spent in drairuna, liming, or manuring the land, has its increased value arisen ; and who is to eliminate that portion of the result due to any one of its MOM? It may be true, as the report already quoted states, that " there is no ChM of men who place more entire reliance on their own skill than those who are in the habit of being summoned to decide as arbitrators and um pires on questions of this kind. Yet they who know them beet will be the most ready to admit that a large proportion of them are far from b-ing posse seed of anything beyond a most superfical and empirical knowledge of the s - valved in the questions which they are i $. "*"• . tide ; and, even if it were admitted thatiin .01 0, 0 10 T.4 /. e til familiarity with agricultural details mighlreparorttae ~... a single survey, to form a tolerably accurate , change in the condition of the toil, yet it ii ekes the foregoing statement of the points Whicis.., ...., arise, that much more than this would be n . order so to fix the fair amount of compousaticE ..J . - .. - general satisfaction, and preclude . turther . lj. !sad the fact is that the problem mosariat fleesoisdido). • . : • ,..9., • a on the 20th, ea. rincee. •g and Alton for I than 30,000 men 10th corps of the 10 Prussians, who but sent by the this would account rk to seize at sea :nter Holstein, but nd Flensburg and to be attacked. )ril 20, says :—The Ay are proceeding Awithstanding the es of the most ro t the top of the list Claussen, Nickels, se also heard the !nze, and Professors it so courageously en-of-war, has been Mary. At &kern re been strengthened great alacrity. The with cannons; every teamuch as it affords to strengthen their inspected the entire troops continue to to April 20, the re. icheort is so far car• relese approaah to e lie:wed with s train ;nnpo‘rder exploded. opily no life was lost. airy (about 2d men) and requested to are he had quitted the inhabitants required nd as the Danes were .t them, aed one man instant►y commenced ne on the pert of the !nee of the Danes the near Rendsbarg had 3s to much forward I INOPLE, APRIL 7. ions and massacres, of abling to ruin, brought er, ha 4 atlength begun eamy arm quiet-loving st unusual agitation is Nlussulman as well es until now unthought e the subject of conver ad bath throughout the ;ions as popular move to rouse the spirit even targic of people, as the assess a power greater sight to consider the The Turkish govern mptoms, and deemed it revent their spreading. le editors of the Turkish assert the news of revolt lying from Europe; and the public mind into ing their flocks that that the hand of God he news from the princi inhabitants of Wallachia, xer to the scene of revo- Le shock of the moral elec and wide, giving life and sing ruin and desolation. it can no longer aid them, same problematic. In the llospodatti have appealed een given to form a large ',ervia, a position almost seas that province and division of troops is also ae south eastern part of listance of Galatz. It is itary demonstrations ars of the principalities sea of the other parts of the aye of late years made .isation and refinement; ,unication with the neigh hose manners and ideas - assuming. With the rernment of their princes despotism which exists in naturally dislike the rule preserve in full vigour their isors, the Turks. Between, ons and theirprinces on the 4; attitude of aTurkish force I to suppose that some dis c the reiult. It is to be paratively friendly attach e Porte will undergo a dis- Luence of the presence of a • territory. Couriers are in he Porte and the principali ncreasing lest they become outbreak. • w days resembles a town in f• troops protect the streets appearing out at nightfall by the patrol before a cadi, : please that functionary he t the request of some of the these police measures have ?ode. Great numbers of I Germans,are in the habit of rehouse in the main street of meted with the revolutionary Some of the representative s been already insulted, and persons who composed these the cause of these police tat an alarming appearance it between th 2 Maltese and ounters which they have had hree days several lives have Court. is indisposed at her residencel '• Wilke had an interview with at the How office, and greet and esea magistrates. d own e left town yesterday, tot d. e i ve d yesterday at the Colonial of the West India colonies. Kid had an interview yeaterda: Mr. Arthur Helps had also an late' right hon. baronet. --'------------- cSTKIt DlNNER.—Yeaterdas' 01 - r Masoress gave the grand Efate ,rid distinguished perty. The tab' Ay delicacy of the ecusen. m oue , derquis of Clanrcarde, the Plat Mi n ister and his holy, Baron ter, the Dean of D urh . P ., Colon am, mr,' M.P., Mr. Rich, M m the Deuty Chairman of th Mr. Ma y termanp, M.P., Mr. Turtle 1.P., and Sheriff Bill. After dine a round, and the usual loyal toss ed.—The Lord Mayor, in proposi ters," said he was convinced that '0 of the government to prose th all the countries of Europe. ricarde said that ministers had ha d. :s of no ordinal class, to Meet w rd ,ort of all classes of her Majesty su the differences of opinion which ut t country hue this, he felt that the . to look for the general suppOrt trine 60 long es they served their cones sell the health of the Lord Mayor,* sties of his high official station._, acknowledge I the toast, end mi. inxious endeavour to fulfil the duties dy. The Lord Mayor next pro oichem.x, with thanke to him foe halt of the hopital."—The Bishot mledging the toast, expressed his rendered by the educutional ha ight rev. prelate spoke at great were le ran ee at which th e reporters pl even the hey were unab le to collect — S ome further toss "! ts f o llowed , sou . rminated. F 'MILITARY PESsI()NEAS.--lle I to encourAge the emigration of ou! - P Hospital to British North Ainerws e debateable land ner. the United Su therance thereof a detachment a ii 9 c hild re n, leave the river for (3111 week.