The Express. — London, England, 1847-10-09 00:00:00

I THE EXPRESS, SATURD ..... i,,imextrairliar7reelairseol._...neameteineetene mstareels the, attendant on the patients at night time."--Cntaon or Maytt aissespearesewelasay—ar bar motel.. dutifig melleel refit dat= awaw. " "ill 'N, tar dblialat N soLkee Ai:raven. A Seraoson.—Before Mr. W. Pane, =Os Iwo ffilffiews aiffilmile• and ea Thek. e tait gas eg Yew ememittee see sele-fied the City Coroner, ' en siefeerelfsmer at emeity an essatterabte loyalty _ a ammitmeo mew me, he Awed in the mom • . ity oroner, at the Cock Tavern, Leadenhall-street, on amnt-eiebing me iermena fatty limmeteinemeerms midi; awl UM eke week after fallessibies. the body of Sarah Frowde Webb, aged 13, daughter of a rim mom* ai rim. sepelnlmont to the P2ry.mse= meg the emmeetha of We weeks city police constable.—fiarah Raeder deposed that deceased eat et the mews el thebee IlleeeM. I be war ea yea ; to *rem ' had always enjoyed excellent health up to within a few days =lee remsefireasaliense la year emellesey e fie vilaug dsAUSldse NNW _added. On the sulde of her death. On Saturday lest she bad two teeth drawn, dele Imola, till fogEris_mdl ow M." b°Pe ' ...s.HIPHISWISIWAS 100.116 Odd Pill 1. Pmetelalr 114.1°'•da whisk slightly affected her head. In a day or two after. l'immi'd •If •• Millse 4 thme to higismatice to the Isms ef the hal et Made ea the ma, mins _,.....„ Ester .. or moridioti sadr.,d,y.o , mow. is a, ;b75: complained of a sort of vertig' o, and a pain in her ;47Z end" bill"4,dia awl"riCe laiii"gte "CI .......y.0.7 6,7 bis ti...... ibei mama* *me mew. and on Thursday morning she became worse, still moseee idiom with lamb m 10th pisses Wee the relandoonftrmed their °oinks ef Ms expellese7 coin sing of the chest, wishing for the doctor. Witness be MOM latiet tellehe we see ISM 10 S dub.....p. earners. Lades the system which Me went to Mr. Merrett, a surgeon, next door, asking bins ihe OR and be SHISWO_JAWI sess, ef leerelekee P.m" do o.l°°.° °lll,l the •SWIWAY how node come and see a little girl echo was ill. Mr. Merrett said he •• 10ffi0........._____T twee la leLhes...._bieffs Peseeke tnoteknoes love net MOW Ho /Oleo The, demPE°°°l° could not come, and wanted to know if the deceased could be „,e,eee•eff "•ena"'"'"•marjereLeeeni"...."l"er me.; die ed. mama et esaveyearm taxa biseenet bola proportheraley brought to him. Witness told him that she had a niea'—'"—ne—enre.delagy— —e-------esseipmersaisee--- et redeeed oodesegli* elkieliest: "tow truaftsoneen einmalletegaat sevee eeimmul° the put* pain in her chest, _and they thought it was infiam- else a earessem per Imegeteeezef gee ether artistes earned on tae ~I ; esit they we =salon. He staled that he was not the family boa althea mai sod pokey to alleged, tbat, milkmen any furthts nffeedea el se= Le memos doctor, and witness had therefore better apply to some of heeMr4sette Pmeneent...,_mallioh___,.....ffiehde reared to tbs Menet one else.—By the Jury : Witness asked Mr. Merrett if he ,"E'Ltsne , :=.*. ~: el moll ee== k la Letlialeeennee end deivro7 elorod• I:titt could come in an hour hence, and he said so. Witness then en—eeteenefe— -22-".'ettition—ee ea* ..mageese theateaeat of esserha_ ... _ _fitew__,•4l"mou_. eels detemeeemmulamaratt or proceeded to another doctor, who was out, and would not re- ocesneive to that the es_ ~tta==i7ra"Zeeew' egeepepoomdeoggolop ogee turn until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Nothing more was present moms*. ealieideg :Lenges that Melees the main ammo( the Ares $t done, and deceased grew gradually worse, and died at 5 p.m. the fruitful mow el *see mieseles, oges] proerty. Yeas senunittee ado note bylsy may's ixalemplate the same day. Several of the jury exprea;ed themselves duct crimes poen/Mica hem Mss to time, e tee ertio'....- tmat the 'amid any° bli °''',lew ' 'ww %übs= strongly upon the subject. One, observing that the conduct which II" dblrd pr( dteteende b.,,,,,f.e..ineeyi;egereltheanoweataoseeeof itoodount- °fleytothereerrl'enelthey ae„. prie, of Mr. Menet!, living next door to the deceased, was the dwijdeliglYytnwt'eng"saioceoNel.hr eyeless most extraordinary he had ever heard of.—Decested's father migiand, between landlord and te pared to afford to all other parties. the same tow in thew °Ube cans: which they themselves will possess, at iow ratesof toneese. and other witnesses having corroborated the above tali- the former mainly dependent on f Tow committee are now in a rdtuation to recommend to the pmenle. mony, Mr. Merrett was sent for ; being absent from home, cumstances will permit, be inter tare tae immediete adoption of the proposed new ffiettleoesedez his assistant, a youth about 17, said that Mr. Merrett had a reason to believe that the impr gradually al the .1,er...t0m of tr lind sees """"" patient in the surgery when the application was made, the attention of her Majesty's gr , gng .the partyleft about ten minutes afterwarom. The palate 5, „„„, offer the greatest advantages to the =ne though which the government twofer funds at present on hand wi'd be 'efficient to make a your committee do not therefore set power to ram Say SWAHPOO4I lull again began to express their conviction of the coifs- country, the harbours eine! capital for the preeent. To entitle the company to teems, carriers, hint) attached to the medical man ; and the coroner said the boor, ehould be Mir gee otat to 0rt.,,,,, them to do en with advitetage, by arrangements as to case was one of a singular character, for although the death dortirtudes foe which they tolls on other nanftotio. it is 0wee..27 that the 00,01.011 .hold was evidently natural, it was impossible for them to say how free t° admit, that " ee' adopt the powers and provisions of two acts of parliament Weed ill it had risen. te .. seek for an equal dinsior u. He was, however, bound to say that he agreed lite 'Mauled "An Art to empower Canal Coalmines and the with them as to the neglect ,on the part of Mr. Merrett. emo'inieeieseas of Navigable Rivers to very their Tolle, Rates,Cloned in land, the. end merges, on different louts of their Navigatiota," and After come deliberation, the jury recorded the verdict,— money, not • single she An Act to nimble Canal Companies to become Corners of '' That deceased died a natural death. most probably from are aware of, andd that Geode upon then Canal..." A ispeetal general meeting being want of proper medical attention ; and it is a matter of deep are at Cove. heart wspepur fee that purPoei low comllettee. hove °lied you regret that Mr. Merrett did not attend the deceased, or send and some owernme' ...Laity of layinithis report before you. his vessels of war end together, anderateace the olio. AM assistant, when applied to for that purpose." 'They found that the (*mane a sets eont no authority to raise views which your r money applicable to a carrying trade. AP this went of power might unnecessary to poi prove a great otetacle in effecting the objects which you have In con- from • firm latter temptation roar committee applied to the Board of Trade, and sans- THE LONDON MORNING NEWSPAPERS. guided, ssmely.' tied it of the "justice and expediency of affording to canal companies the (From the Doily Nerd) with Engtand, r emeriti:Al means of giving effect to the general Oct authorieing them to which it ie at The Cumberland Pacquet prints the following with the under become carriers. The nut[ was, that a bill to eager the desired • ned on,uced Into parliament, and, notwithstanding the late fiction, premising: to the dictate, power was in dived the rand aseent. This important bill, That the facts may be entirely relied The Times tae per selves roic.dg eopfutc meas. ere, did not put The company to any expense. has very nearly perfected in its office a machineewhichwill"tenPa off tnli.coeffrwhiacth The noon went on to show that negotiations with the ten thousand copies within the hour ; and should this desideratum be :gannet° y achievni, its Dander will be bunted, from the commencement of 181 g, ertelleo7 proprietors of other canals, in connexion with the Grand atFourpence. The Monsine Chronicle, on the other hand, having Bret to be Junction, had bees successfully concluded, and that they bad tried the fourpenny effect, is by no mesas plesiwd with the results of without engaged a new manager, in the person of McGregson, of the tee ea,,,,kee, „peej„,,ot, end jojeoge to clop en tee additional penny fixed lie Leneastir Canal. at the same period. The Daily Nor, is on the point of changing recent PARISH OF ST. M Ar.vt.E HON E.—INCREASE OF PAU- hands, and will take its new flight at faurpenee. cont. mintss.—Yesterday, a meeting of the directors and guar- It is moot discreditable to some of the provincial journals ;411 dies of the poor of St. Marylebone took place in the board. that they are -ready—like the journal which we some ieue", room of the workhouse, New-road, for the purpose of time since forced to a public apology—to make after- hie tion of circumetances as within their "own know- hip considering considering a report on the alarming increase of pauperism lege," or, as in this instacce, to put forth " facts " which , e in the par-tab.—Mr. Low having been called to the chair, a deputation of ratepayers attended from the parochial corn- " may be entirely relied on" (which assertion, and facts 1 , mittee of St. Marylebone. comprising about 600 parishioners, affect the interests and character of others) in utter igno- ; offering to aid the board in an endeavour to reduce the large ran* of what they thus unhesitatingly vouch for. amount of pauperim at present rust he Garnet stated We pass such paragraphs daily without *comment ; bat they are sometimes forced on our and public attentios that at a very numerous meeting of the parochial committee by the unusual currency given to them by our comer held on the previous evening the subject was taken into con sideration, and a general belief was entertained that there Penuies. The above from the Cumberland Pacmi the Times and Chronicle may or may not answer ; but were many hundreds of impostors receiving relief on account ourselves., and so far as the Daily News is concerned, we of the inefficient inspection of the poor. They were anxious that the statement which " may he entirely relied that those whe were really entitled and deserving of relief ply is entirely false. Respecting the Chronicle we ha' should receive it, and that those who were impcetors should be opinion to offer : as we said at the time, it m exposed. With that view they had attended to request the foolish no-meaning movement when it came down board to furnish the committee with a list of all persons re and may find that changing its price has not eased miring out-door relief, and the rate-payers would form them- Lion. The half measure proved that it had no fa' selves into committees in the various districts and inspect the which the measure seemed to sauctien. The meet—Sir James Hamilton expressei his thanks for the aid lieshould at once have come down to 3d., and •• offered to the board, but expressed a fear that the plan would heartily and cordially co with the Doily News, MAR not have the cleared effect —Mr. Potter differed with the it rejected all offers of alliance and -operation worthy baronet. When the Vestries Act came into force ice Times reducing its price to fourpence, does , 1832, there were no less than 10,000 out-door poor ; the cast know that the Timm itself has proved thisto be ' for the half-year was 27,9041. The assistance, however, It was but a few months before the Daily which the board received from the parishioners in the way the conspirators, that the whole morning y now proposed, enabled them to stet rid of half and reduce the coat the next half-year to 13,',501.—Mr. Walter (a member were in treaty for the purpose of raisin, reachedse re lon since of the deputation) observed, that the greatest nursery for uconwiurllin!'g toport of th advert to is the subject hecaue pauperism in the parish was the employment of a large nom- that it cos true. The following, howe• her of persons during the summer months in dragging water time since in the Lincolnshire Vassal ing carts about the etreets. Now, when the watenag was copied into the Morning Post, frith done they came into the workhouse for the winter, or the general truth, therefore, may be um parish hail to support then out of it.—Mr. Carr said, as the one of the parties. deputation was not probably aware that the board had been 'specially summoned to considers report on this matter, ef"jiset Po,l,'iLm,f,,ertilsemerertidT took Nib' he would move that the report be now read.—The se- Ajorniag iftrard, aa lA, siddrei aeiee meter/ read the report. It expressed regret that the went did not succeed, the Morning Hen workhouse was crowded to the utmost, and there being So much for monopoly! If U more hi the house on Michaelmas-day this year than on come so inopportunely into the f Christmas day last year the board were prevented offering penny " was to have served as further admission on account of the insufficiency of the as price of all the London morning cocamodetion. With respect to out-door poor, the numbers exceeded those of lest year by more than 2,400. With a view to the investigation of cases, it was recommended that IREI lists of the poor receiving relief be printed and circulated. The next point was a recommendation to erect a shed where able-bodied male and female paupers, who were not other- The Earl of Clarendo, wise usefully employed, should be placed at oakum picking, Ballinasloe ;so has Mr. by taskwork of 11b. before breakfast, and 11b. between each from London. awl. After recommending the establishment of a day-room The effect of a go and dormitory for youths in the intermediate space between the school and the refractory ward, the report showed the PuwerfullY illustrate' • vast amulet of imposition practised to obtain admission into land, and no where the nightly asylum, and which each night averaged 220 per- urgent. You are r SOM. The committee had felt it necessary to order that no for the Relief of I relief be given after seven o'clock, unless in case of illness, the balance of 50 the effect of which had been to reduce the number of cases to south-western f 20, of whom not more than six were relieved as really legi timate ems. The report was adopted, and the proceedings full appointmer of the board shortly after terminated. many of the 1 SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SOClETY.—Yesterday the pressed into usual quarterly count of subscribers to this charity was held as well a at the society's offices, King William-street ; John Wilde, account, an, Esq., in the chair. It appeared, from the report, that the example._tt ' number of patients admitted from the let of July to the 30th Septemseer, 1547, were—from her Majesty's ship, 24 ; from evuelnen British and foreign merchant vessels, 644 ; on board, on the increased let of July, 177 ; total, 845. There are at present on board markets 174 sick. The number received since the first establish- been br meat et the charity have amounted to 5.5,396. The balance in hand at the last account was 61. 51. Bd. ; the total receipts balances r for the year amounted to 1,8761 lira. •, and there is now, de- 0, the ducting all expenses, a balance of 4741. 19s. 7d. in favour of ordet the society. The report having been received, and the ac- fors counts passed, the meeting separated. fin, THE OUTCRY FOR SANITIVE REFORM.—In a vast er metropolitan concentration of human life like ours, in which p occurs a whole sixth part of all the waste of health and life in ? the three United Kingdorns, and in which, from amonget 2,000,000 poople, nearly 50,000 die every year-900 every week—one every tenth minute—the mere destruction of 10,000 of these every year-200 every week—one every hour by means of municipal poison alone, Insidiously administer, along with the air which the doomed ones breathe, may, ' comparison, seem to be a matter of minor import ; yet, if estimate the value of a single life at the amount of popular outcry created by the scarcely more delibe though more designed, destruction of that one li domestic poison, what a mighty and eternal outcry on rend the welkin and the walls of every city, town, e lege in the empire, till an end be for ever put to t/ too well recognised and wholesale system of mans) —The Binger. INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—ALLEGED NE' PATIENTS IN THE STREET COUNTY LENATI —Before Mr. Carter, in the board-room of County Lunatic Asylum, Garrett-lane, Wendt body of a patient named Mary Cox, 7 Lawrence deposed that she wee day nurse termed the refractory ward, and of which . inmate. On Tuesday morning, shortly e upon opening the door of No. 3 dormitory, • sad two other women slept, she found hi, were hanging out of bed, and she was Sir Alexander Morrison, the physician, in and pronounced her to have been deal ness had locked deceased and the otly past seven o'clock on the previous appeared in her accustomed health. duty of watching the patients night nurse, who remaiaed 01 next morning. Deceased was Williams, the right nurse, the senate wards at night. ' deceased alive was when she ret' expeeted to visit such patients the night, but had received n teased, who, although subjec' more than a week past. He too frequent visits to the do the patients. If one Was up one of the day nurses. Ordered to look to a patie the greater part of the n the other wards she thee Joseph Holland, the amined deceased two t There was nothing to caused by deceased epilepsy, and so su' promptly turned or —The k oreman of proper to leave o'clock the prev, Mg, without es, juror said it w tend to more' situated on quite nett, nurses, one The Coror perintend doubt t' would 1 sent iv panel; whoa A OA des an at I THE EXPRESS, SATURDA' attendant on the patients at night time."--CHAItOII OF NEOLICT AGAINST ♦ SunosoN.—Before 311 r. W. Payne, the City Coroner, at the Cock Tavern, Leadenhall-street, on the body of Sarah Frowde Webb, aged 13, daughter of a City police constable.--larah lia;ster deposed that deceased had alwaysenjoyedrscellent health up to within afiss! days On eitme dinne repain win, tea Neter went, aseneweis re Maf h. gasprepair of the tare rad% ant will so ha dimirsh Ont Yew scarattee u• got • wrelhairia. erre My Ire elleeted in the rilleary serlamoosithe relit end open the wide, after fag weiders = = fret the reelneettea of the weelamlie eet me et Om veweines of the Arai edbrbinthe arum t getiweL On the subjeam, Wt greet rim k procuring antbentr Orr to the errs of the Ws et ear an the ma, sat es MY len arm et wireze s teLA t e:Lrehlng It prereble to Or gem dr Inas romiedsese in sh . a . = We- re= ordner their °pinks ef the ct ewwlsorl worees. Coder the systems wank taw gmegeder• prewar Or solreins whit* the as pang have mods In then rates brenst toriol miter They law disappeared In ~e men e at emedmagaviika Wert bens tromencrehly r edesed The dendror emserte• eit dive et gabam, reread ago et to the orris art starreers et grab er ether ribs ardsd ca eM err; end try i.e. N ebeed, thatorther angligther neirrer et re= Or magma hewer erred to the rd rear 1 1 1 1 0 0 7==ge emeserree end &IBM, Or gm& The the twat of wersdegllepasawalefem le the germs d mews w eg wig goresea Is the nerwasi wawa et theeweel•a•• 5d deft 4C mumble didni—ltis lesseglesterewsweweet ameba these g emsengm alir-- that basbiewhie erlarieueetthe presentinseespiessia a i med property. Teraremerres do not tf , NIT ecrergrim the retusior. from the westeteny public canter, or dry othergerip Odra of cutying caldera immena. °lithe eciamere, It will Wee* the menage et by others, and they are gor =ter'Xic ou.. r facilities in the we eftke seal wrier themseivearli power low nand = estrange see Toe •••• ion In n &nodal I* nosernend to a u emote* Adoption of the pried new ratans enrse= ...bay es gie appiloation dent t pr ied MISOMMI ▪ oro may alter the greatodilllll9ll le the The heed prawn on hand will be peffileet to inehe• • ermitir do not therefore ar pewee to err any capital for the cermet To Nines the ertpr7 to Wenn onion. end to tumble them to do so with se to tolls on other navintioas, it is a nsesi s ny ll % the comma, eheald sdopt the powers and provisions of two egret puliament pseud In lii4S 'mauled "An Art to empower Peel Comparies and the o ...l i i„,e,gers of Navigable Rivers to Try their Tolle, Ran, sa d charges, on different parts of then Navigation.," and " An Act to nimble Canal Companies to become Carriers of Coeds upon their Chisels." A nodal general meeting being rut purlieu, your coninettee . have called you aeseemmy far tat t ee opportunity of hying this report before you. They founa that the company's acts oontain no authority to raise money applicable to a carrying trade. AP this want of power might prOTP a yreat °tenets in effecting the objects which you have in con templation your committee applied to the Board allude. and satis fied it of the justice and expediency of Wording to canal companies the emend MellAS or riag effect to the general act aumoriong them to become carriers. the result was tbat a bill to eager the thine pee , nes:owed Into mrliament, and, notwithstanding the We period of the session, received the meal ascent The important bill, beng s public measure, did not put the company to any expense. The reeort went on to show that negotiations with the proprietors of other canals, in connexion with the Grand Junction, had been successfully concluded, and that they bad engaged a new manager, in the person of McGrepon, of tie Lenessur Canal. PARISH OF ST. MAr.YLERONE.—INCRF.ASE OF FAU- N:usu.—Yesterday, a meeting of the directors and guar dians of the poor of St. Marylebone took place in the bone& room of the workhouse, New-road, for the purpose . of considering a report on the alarming increase of pauperism in the pariah.—Mr. Low having been called to the chair, a deputation of ratepayers attended from the parochial com mittee of St. Marylebone. comprising about 600 parishioners, offering to aid the board in an endeavour to reduce the large amount of pauperism at present existing.—Mr. Garnet stated that at a very numerous meeting of the parochial committee held on the previous evening the subject was taken into con sideration, and a general belief was entertained that there were many hundreds of impostors receiving relief on account of the inefficient inspection of the poor. They were anxious that those who were really entitled and deserving of relief should receive it, and that those who were impostors should be expceed. With that view they had attended to request the beard to furnish the committee with a list of all persons re wiring out-door relief, and the rate-payers would form them selves into committees in the various districts and inspect the cues—Sir James Hamilton expressed his thanks for the aid offered to the hoard, but expressed a fear that the plan would not have the desired effect —Mr. Potter differed with the worthy batonet. When the Vestries Act came into force is 1832, there were no less than 10,000 out-door poor ; the cost for the half-year was 27,9041. The annulate, however, which the board received from the parishioners in the way now proposed, enabled them to stet rid of Reiland reduce the cost the nest half-year to 13,2501.—Mr. Walter (a member of the deputation) observed, that the greatest nursery for pauperism in the taorish was the employment of a large num ber of persons during the summer months in dragging water ing carts about the streets. Now, when the watering was done they came into the workhouse for the winter, or the parish hail to support them out of it.—Mr. Carr said, as the deputation was not probably aware that the board had been epectally summontel to consider* report on this matter, he would move that the report be now read.—The se cretary read the report. It expressed regret that the workhouse was crowded to the utmost, and there being more in the house on Michaelmas-day this year than on Christmas day last year the board were prevented offering further edmission on account of the insufficiency of the as With respect to out-door poor, the numbers exceeded those of lest year by more than 2,400. With a view to the investigation of cases, it was recommended that lists of the poor receiving relief be printed and circulated. The nest point was a recommendation to erect a shed where able-bodied male and female paupers, who were not other wise usefully employed, should he placed at oakum pickin g , by taakwork of Ilb. before breakfast, and I.lb. between each meaL After recommending the establishment of a day-mom and dormitory for youths in the intermediate space between the school and the refractory ward, the report showed the vut amount of imposition practised to obtain admission into the nightly asylum, and which each night averaged 220 per sons. The committee had felt it necessary to order that no relief be given after seven o'clock, unless in case of illness, the effect of which had been to reduce the number of cases to 20, of whom not more than six were relieved as really legi timate c MI. The report was adopted, and the proceedings of the board shortly after terminated. SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SoclrrY.—Yesterday the usual quarterly court of subscribers to this charity was held at the society's offices, King William-street ; John Wylde Esq., in the chair. It Appeared, from the report, that th; number of patients admitted from the let of July to the 30th Sectems - ..er, 1817, were--from her Majesty's ships, 24 ; flow British and foreign merchant vessels, 644 ; on board, on the Ist of July, 177 ; total, 845. There are at present on board 174 sick. The number received since the first establish. meat et the charity have amounted to 5.5,396. The balance in hand at the last account was 61. 51. Bd. ; the total receipee for the year amounted to 1,8761 lie. •, and there is now, de ducting all expenses, a balance of 4741. 19s. 7d. in favour of the society. The report having been received, and the sib counts passed, the meeting separated. THE OUTCRY FOR SANITIVE REFORM.—In a nal metropolitan concentration of human life like ours, in which occurs a whole sixth part of all the waste of health and life in the three United Kingdoms, and in which, from amongst 2,000,000 people, nearly 50,000 die every year-900 every week—one every tenth minute—the mere destruction at 10,000 of these every year-200 every week—one every hoer, by mains of municipal poison alone, insidiously administered along with the air which the doomed ones breathe, may, by comparison, seem to be a matter of minor import ; yet, if es estimate the value of a single life at the amount of the popular outcry created by the scarcely more deliberate. though more designed, destruction of that one life by domestic poison, what a mighty and eternal outcry ought to rend the welkin and the walls of every city, town, and vil lage in the empire, till an end be for ever put to this now too well recognised and wholesale system of manslaughter! —The Builder. INQUESTS, YESTEROAT.—ALLEGED NEGLECT Or PATIENTS IN THE BERRET COUNTY LUNATIC ArnAnc —Before Mr. Carter, in the board-room of the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, Garrett-lane, Wandsworth, on the body of a patient named Mary Cox , 31. Elizabeth Lawrence deposed that she was day nurse of No. 3 ward, termed the refractory ward, and of which deceased was an inmate. On Tuesday morning, shortly after six o'ol upon opt ning the door of No. 3 dormitory, in which d and two other women slept, she found her dead. Her legs were hanging out of bed, and she was lying on her face. Sir Alexander Morrison, the physician, immediately attended, and pronounced her to have been dead some hours. Wit ness had locked deceased and the other patients up at half past seven o'clock on the previous evening, and she then appeared in her accustomed health. After ten o'elock the duty of watching the patients was placed on the night nurse, who remaiaed on till sax o'clock the next morning. Deceased was subject to fits.—Julia Williams, the tight nurse, said she attended to all Or hears wards at night. The last time witness maw dressed alive was when she retired for the night. She was tapered to visit such patients as were likely to have fits in the night, but had received no instructions relative to de ceased, who, although subject to fits, had not had any for more than a meet past. Her instructions were not to snake too frequent visits to the dormitories, been d disturbing the patients. If one was violent in the night des should all up one of the day nurse*. On the night in pew*. dee wee ' ordered to look to a patient in No. 4 ward, and we wlrTtt the greater part of the night. Had there ban way main fa the other wards she thought she must have here it.—Mt. Joseph Holland, the resident medical officer, said he ex amined deceased two hours after she had been found dead. There was nothing to indicate violence. Her death had bees caused by deceased turning on her face while in a fit et epilepsy, and so suffocating herself. If deceased had bola promptly turned on her back again she might ban ban sand. —The k oreman of the jury remarked that it was highly fw proper to leave an epileptic patient from half-past seven o'clock the previous evening until six o'clock the next morn- , inty without ever once visiting her in the interval. Another juror said it was a moral impossibility for one woman to at tend to more than 200 female patients disposed of in wards situated on the basement floor and in galleries. It was quite necessary that there should be at least two night nurses, one for the lower ward, and another for the upper. The Coroner observed that the institution was under the su perintendence of the visiting magistrates, and he had no doubt that any suggestion that was made by the jury would be conveyed to them; but the object of their pre sent inquiry was not with regard to the attendance the patients received, but as to whether the patient into whose case they were now inquiring bad or had not died a natural death.—The Foreman said there was no doubt the death was natural, but he was not satisfied with the attend ance the deceased bad received. It had been stated that if any patient was taken ill the night nurse could hear her, let her be in what word she would. He considered it nothing but right that the jury should be left to form their own opinion, by being permitted to view the cell in which deceased s:ept, and the one occupied by the sick patient in 160. 4 ward.—The Foreman accompanied the jury to inepeet the cell, and on his return declared it was impassible for a person is the cell alluded to in No. 4 ward to hear any noise that might arise in deceased's cell in No. 3 ward.—The jury returned as their verdict, "That the deceased was aim dentally suffocated by being 'seized with an epileptic fit in the night time, and we (the jury) do recommend the visiting magistrates to consider the propriety of having more than one Nog fa phew yam mielbaspWo. ler M e at dutiful ad loyal :Slltrupes, dirs. smd lemperai at Chet. beg . Meal et SO lode en unalterable loyalty aid Mem& mono her pie arm; and —no*, ; h ew ate me wig rim iludalmaat to dr MP rase It has =LYe Mgr, le wade ea pea ; to mos lei AW MM. E saeywidiiaadl.ar M yea turederift lels n esk &pm& duelers/6 ids wries eel eve area begs lit parte* Mgemesineat prigibe ..L al e et roe WNW reelta, we Mirk It a peer Infaiesars Irma gbh le SS- I, and whisk reig Aire ter rasa hen re sem eristeil sersey rib ilia It bads Aare ea Alleere Prietereet to salsa films bet mitre re me barer te bar % b lag, eel drug es era p m err *rig et we mislam e = in maples* r term h whim lbe prameillen at me immeuree as tag sa l ameesey tire the hmmiumment thammillan et ear peed smidiseedm el seerry. lit the appolat mat et year sillesay to regrserertmtef resaeaW. we MOP nee • enlnen weft rier hemmiled t. rileallee. wet • hollhoh don of tre ride ad Meer twildldhelittre pad of her Mehelirs paeonmant, l =la thinned the sisportmer at the Earl of mes estates Mir yew ismnemay to be ber m . we maid reepeithille Ikea your anellemara atutittoa b gam saimentat whisk eff=l ..... e at modal, tended,* to that Bey the et the present amimshom Maier seimitine= ll. l mil lomat, the fruitful ewes et them mberiee whist hate ebbed am tural population der der le tire, se well me the ewer r r ime rg ul oe; crime. which have inmost pielleular tor Mee ; end we mate daftly trust, that wrier the Melee and are of year creme,. that (deadly and admirable mynas VW% cline to maw towered Digland, between landlord and team; rendering the Wa ti the former mainly dependent on that of the tatter, may, as ran Mr cumstarces will permit, be introduced him this *malty. We have reasoa to believe that the improvement of our harbour has the attention of her Majesty's government, and we do mart reepoill satenit to ytAir excellein7 that in carrying out that pallet lispeWslity which the government profess their desire to exercise towards thin country, the harbours of Ireland, particularly our own epiendid har bour, should be more generally converted into naval .to and dockyards), for which they are to admirably suited, and which, we are free to admit, that es between this country and England we do not seek for an equal division we cannot retard it except as unjust and unfair that, while We entire nary of Great Britain In built tad sta tioned in Eng Lind, thereby necessarily creating a vast circulation of money, not a single ship of war has ever been built in Ireland that we are aware of, and that at present, with the exception of a small sloop of war at Cove, bearing the flag of the distinguiahed Sir Theis Daher, and some government steamers we believe there are not hall'swelosen vemela of war atationed in Ireland. The liberal and enlightened view. which your excellency has through life entertained, render It unnecesaary to point out to your excellency the advantage to be derived from • firm adherence to the principles by which you have ever been guided, namely, the promotion of a perfect civil and religlemequality with England, and the removal from the statute bookof many laws by which it ie at present disgraced, which, however remotely , interfere with the undoubted right of every man to worship hi, God according to the dictates of Ma conscience. Varioas other topics suggest them selves which cur present limits prevent our alluding to, but though in Win congratulatory address, the first we have bad the honour of um sentingto your excellency, it will tbe to p erhaps more deferential to your excellency not to allude at any len gth a subject upon which we re gret to believe your excellency di ere with us, we cannot conclude without respectfully conveying to your excellency the expression of our fixed arid unalterable opinion (an opinion the vast extension of which recent events inconthelably demonstrate) that pet feet happiness and contentnent cannot Clint in thin country until the imperial legislature shall are fit to introduce the necessary law for restoring to Ireland full legislative control over her domestic affairs. That your excel lency may long continuo to administrate for the benefit of Ireland those high functions with which you have been invested, and that upon quitting our shores you may be followed by the blessings of a grate ful people, is the Assert and ardent idea of the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of Cork.—Aeinaw F. Rome, Mayor of Cork. Jowl B. Hum . , Deputy Town Clerk. Dublin Caste., Oct 1, 1147.—Sir, —I am directed by his excellency the Lord Lieutenant to acknowledge the receipt of the address of the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of Cork. The Lord Lieutenant dm sires to merest to that body his thanks for the Bettering terms in which they have noticed his appointment to the siceroyalty of Ire land ; and his excellency trusts, by an anxious attention to the in. terees or this country, and an impartial administration of the govern ment committed to his charge, he may continue to deserve the expreaden of their confidence. Ilia excellency is fully aware of the capabilite • of the harbour of Cork, and the attention of her Majesty's government will not fail to be given to its improvement.—l have the honour, Ice., T. N. REDOOTON.—The Mayor of Cork, &c. Fovea IN lastaen.—The Poor-law Commissioners have issued an important and touching circular to the boards of guardians, calling their attention to the state of the tempo rary hospitals which are hereafter to be maintained oat of the poor rates. The following passage conveys some very salutary advice: , The commissioners deem it right to call earnestly upon beards of guardians to direct their capetial attention to providing finance com mittee, with funds for this purpose, in the manner pointed out in the commesiosers' letter of the 20th ult. The number of inmates in these establisMuents is at present 13.000, and it appears to the comm:s sioners that the condition of those individuals bee the strongest claims on the sympathy and solicitude of boards of guardians,. The fever patients belong chitty to the most destitute portion of the popula tion, while Weir weaknese and beiplesenem prevent them from ob tniding their distress on public notice In the same way an destitute persona in good health. The commissioners appeal, therefore, to the feelings of companion, honour, and duty of guardians throughout Ire land rot to allow the inmate , of the temporury fever hospitals to limgabsh in unrelieved suffering, through the want of funds for mip plyitig them with the nourishment and care which their condition de mands. SimiLr considerations require that the doors of three esta blishments should not be shut against new applicants. It is a matter of notoriety, that without them there is not sufficient hospital accom modation in Ireland, and the effect of dossing them would be to pre. vent the separation of the sick from the healthy„and to render it ne. ca that fever patients, if they received metheal attendance at all, should be treated in their own dwellings, which arc too often over crowded, ill-ventilated, and dirty. The oommireieners have the an. therrity of the Board of Health for saying that the result would probably be a continued and increasing generation of malimmet typhus fever, a tainted atmosphere, and • wide-spreading of the contagion over the whole country. The conimimionere have to add that mere motives of self-interest, without regard to higher considerations, render it &defeats:a to make ample provision for the separation and cum of fever patients Although fever may commence its ranges the poorer classes, it scarcely ever fails ultimately to visit We amongst ; and it is to be *Nerved that the mortality mooned rich persons affected with fever in Ireland is nearly ten times no great as amongst thepoor under similar circumstances ;Indeed, melantholy instances will readily be called to mind by guardians of highly valuable mem bers of society amongst the upper Maass whose career of usefulness has been cut abort by fever during the present year. Now, it cannot be doubted that in the majority of cases the individuals adverted to caught It from infection &ft:eel by the poor—hence, exposes incurred for the cure of destitute fever patients may be re garded to a certain extent as a kind of life insurance to the rich win are in health. In coaclusion, the commie/liners have to express the hope that guardians will zealously co-operate with the relie f commit tees carrying out the arrangements under the Temporary Belief Act, and that no material embarrassment , will be allowed to arise from the cireumstence that relief commistees and boards of guardiana arc not constituted in precisely the same manner. The difficulties and danger of the present period are so great that they can be only ade quately met by the harmonic,s action of and it would he in the highest degree discreditable to the country if fever patients were not properly taken are of on account of jealousies or misunderstand. inut between the relief committees and board. of guardians.—l have the honour to be, sir, your very obedient servant, (Signed) A. Mum, for Secretary. Tits OSBORNE ESTATES.—Sir,—I regret that the columns of your highly . respectable paper should be open to anony mous communications before you had previously satisfied yourself as to the accuracy of the statementa and details nar rated. Under the head of " Eviction of Tenantry," a para graph appeared in your paper of the 29th ult. stating that " The clearance system had been extensively carried out on Mrs. Osborne's estates in the county of Waterford, and that the late agent had resigned his office sooner than be a party to the wholesale system of ejectment contemplated, etc." Both these assertions arc the fabrications of a malicious person. The clearance system has neither been contem plated nor commenced. Moreover, the late agent did not reign his agency for the reason as signed. On the lands of Rutsellstown, where fifteen families are represented to have been ejected, three tenants have been removed under pro. ' usedinga commenced prior to the appointment of the present agent. One of these parties owed upwards of five years' rent to the estate, and allowed his farm to remain totally uncultivated; the other two were removed under similar circumstances, receiving pecuniary aesistance from me to • conaiderable amount. I take this public opportunity of stating that the present agent is authorised to grant leases to all deserving tenants, and that an experienced agriculturist is employed, at an annual stipend, for the express purpose of 'girding practical instruction in farming to the tenantry, arid that every reasonable encouragement is held out to in duce both large and small holders to cultivate their lands.-- I am, &c., BALER OSBORNE. Clonmel, Oct. 6, 1847.—T0 the editor of the Tipperary Vindicator. FIRE IN DEBLIN.—A tire occurred in Sackville-street last night, which resulted in the total destruction of one house, and the partial demolition of two others. A consider able amount of property was consumed. Great alarm was felt lest the fire should communicate to the stores in the rear of one of the houses partially damaged, and which be longs to Mr. Hoyte, a druggist, as it was filled with most in flammable merchandise. The house derroyed belonged to a hosier named Burke ; he was, I understand, insured. of ber deith. Saturday last she . two teeth drawn, which slightly affected her head. In a day or two after wards she complained of a sort of vertigo, and a pain in her chest, and on Thursday morning she - became worm still somplaining of the chest, wishing for the doctor. W itness went to Mr. Merrett, a surgeon, next door, asking him la eons and see a little girl siho was ill. Mr. Merrett said be could not come, and wanted to know if the deceased could be brought to him. Witness told him that she had a pain in her chest, _and they thought it was inflam mation. He staled that he was not the family doctor, and witness had therefor% better apply to some sae else.—By the Jury : Witness asked Mr. Merrett if be could come in an hour hence, and he said so. Witness then proceeded to another doctor, who was out, and would not re turn until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Nothing more was dose, and deceased grew gradually worse, and died at 5 p.m. the sante day. Several of the jury expre ssed themselves very strongly upon the subject. One, observing that the conduct of Mr. Merrett, living next door to the deceased, was the most extraordinary he had ever heard of.—Deceased's father and other witneves having corroborated the above testi mony, Mr. Merrett was sent for; being absent from home, 'Ms emistant, a youth about 17, said that Mr. Merrett had a patient in the surgery when the application was made, liteogh the party left about ten minutes afterward,. The again began to express their conviction of the culpa bility attached to the medical man ; and the coroner said the awn was one of a singular character, for although the death was evidently natural, it was impoasible for them to say how it had arisen. He was, however, bound to say that he agreed with them as to the neglect on the part of Mr. Merrett. After some deliberation, the jury recorded the verdict,— " That deceased died • natural death, most probably from want of proper medical attention ; and it is a matter of deep septet that Mr. Merrett did not attend the deceased, or send I Ns assistant, when applied to for that purpose." STATE OF THE COUNTRY. The Limerick Reporter relates the murder of Mr. John Lowe, a gentleman of fortune, in the County Limerick. The papers of one day's tater date say nothing whatever upon the eubct. The Mayo paper as usual presents us with its hebdomadal picture of wretchednese. The crops, it states were seized on the ridges by orders of the landlord, the beiliffe following the reapers as t hey proceeded in their work. The law of last year prevents the seizure of standing or growing crops in Ireland. Thus the tillage is already taken into the custody of the landlords, and the farmers' barns and yards show no sign of harvest. The Roman catholic clergy around Castle bar have called upon the high-sheriff to convene a county meeting to represent to the government the condition of the county, so wretched and hopeless, where in a few weeks there will exist no means of paying rates, and where there is no independent labour. The prevalence of fever is of course alarming—it could not well be otherwise in such a state of physical and social misery, and what is to be re gretted, though we must expect such consequences, the usually patient and peaceful inhabitants are beginning to manifest a condition of disorganisation which was entirely absent last year, and a few nights since were guilty of flogging a bailiff, it it said, very severely. In the meantime the markets are reasonable; good new oats sell from ss. 6d. to 61. per cwt., and excellent potatoes can be had at 6d. per stone. But of what avail is this reasonable condition of the markets to men who have no money-wages, and conse quently not wherewithal to purchase The Limerick papers give the inquest on the two peasants, O'Donnell by name, who fell in the contest with the police. The circumstances appear to be these A " bene• fit" party, as it is termed. was given at the house of Loughlin, a smith. At this party the sergeant, commanding I the neighbouring police-station together with four of his men, were present. In the course of the night a quarrel arose between two of the peasantry, one of whom fell in the subsequent affray. That quarrel the police suppressed, not without an fry words and some blows. The police party staid some time longer and withdrew to their barracks. Some few hours after, and about six o'clock in the morning, three policemen returned to Loughlin's, armed and on patrol, a duty to which they had been regularly sent by their ser geant. Two of these had not been at the beaefit, one had been, and quarrelled with O'Donnell, one of the deceased. This person was at Loughlin's when the police returned there, and, on their entering the house, he invited them " to take a seat," which was ungraciously declined. The police called on their own account for three bottles of porter, and during the discussion of these, the altercation of the previous night was renewed between the policeman, who is named M'Cannan, and O'Donnell the former insisting that the latter should fight him. This, it appears, O'Donnell declined, adding that he would fight him next day. M'Can min, eager for the fray, then tookstruck him on th off his MlS belts, and making • blow at O'Donnell e THE LONDON MORNING NEWSPAPERS. (From the Doily New.) The Cumberland Pucquet prints the following fiction, premising: That the facts may be entirely relied upon : —The Tires newspaper has very nearly perfected in its °dice a machine which will run off ten thousand copies within the hour ; and should this desideratum be achieved, its thiinder will be issued, from the commencement of 1810, at Yourpence. The Morninj Chronicle, on the other hand, having tried the fourpenny effect, is by no mesas plowed with the results of the harardous experiment. and intends to clap on the additional penny at the same period. The Daily Nom is on the point of changing hands, and will take its new flight at fourpeoce. It is moat discreditable to some of the provincial journals that they are -ready—like the journal which we some time since forced to a public apology—to make asser tion of circumstances as within their "own know lege," or, as in this instance, to put forth " facts " which " may be entirely relied on" (which assertions and facts affect the interests and character of others) in utter igno rance of what they thus unhesitatingly vouch for. We pass such paragraphs daily without a comment; bat they are sometimes forced on our and public attention by the unusual currency given to them by our contem poraries. The above from the Cumberland I'acquet, the Times and Chronicle may or may not answer ; but for ourselves, and so far as the Daily News is concerned, we re• ply that the statement which "may he entirely relied on" is entirely false. Respecting the Chronicle we have no opinion to offer: as we said at the time, it made • foolish no-meaning movement when it came down to Id., and may Sod that changing its price has not eased its posi tion. The half measure proved that it had no faith in the policy which the measure seemed to 'auction. The Chronicle should at once have come down to 3d., and co-operated heartily and cordially with the Daily News, instead of which it rejected all offers of alliance and co-operation. As to the Times reducing its price to fourpence, does not the writer know that the Times itself hit proved thisto be "impossible "? It was but a few months before the Daily News flattered the conspirators, that the whole morning prey of London were in treaty for the purpose of raising the price. Of course a report of this long since reached us, but we were unwilling to advert to the subject, because we had no proof that it wi.s true. The following, however, appeared some time since in the Lincolnshire herald, and was thence copied into the Morning Post, without comment. The general truth, therefore, may be assumed on the authority of one of the parties. Last summer a correspondence took plane between the proprietor. of the Timm, the Morning Post, the Morning Chronicle, and the Morning Herald, on tic subject of railing the pi ice; but the move ment did not emceed, the Morning Herald having declined to accede. So much for monopoly! if the Daily News had not come so inopportunely into the field, the " only Iths of a penny " was to have served as an apology for raising the price of all the London morning papers. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Oct y. The Earl of Clarendon has arrived in Dublin from Ballinasloe ; so has Mr. Trevelyan, with Sir It. Routh, from London. The effect of a good example is no where more powerfully illustrated than in the south-west of Ire land, and no where is the necessity of imitation more urgent. You are aware that the British Association for the Relief of Irish Distress has applied a portion of the balance of 50,0001. to the encouragement of the south-western fisheries. A very fine frigate, with full appointments, has been placed on the station, and many of the local boats, well equipped, have been pressed into the service of the association, as well as taken the sea on their own account, under the influence of encouragement and example. Their combined success has been unpre cedented en the coast of Ireland ; and to stimulate increased exertion by opening up remunerative markets for the produce, Newfoundland curers have been brought over who are now preparing the fish in large quantities. The specimens forwarded to some of the chief English bosses have led to most extensive orders. A gentleman just returned from Valentia in formed me that whole acres are covered with the forest fish which the natives have already learned to embalm with all the science of the New foundland doctors. The success of the association has attracted other adventurers, so that nearly sixty vessels of all sizes are now along the coast between Dingle and Castletown. The frigate is oat to sea, looking for the fish banks, which hitherto have re mained unexplored. The returns on the investment already amount to 12 per cent. This is very gratify ing in the midst of the general gloom. The gentry have been alarmed, or rather assumed the appearance without the reality, at the expense at tending the preliminary investigation under the Drainage Act. To set all apprehensions at rest, the Secretary of the Board of Nt orks informs a Wex ford gentleman that the Board of Works would keep down the expenses to the lowest point, and that the general rate may be inferred from a single case—for a sum of 5001. the expenses will vary between 3/. and 51., the latter to be a maximum. Limerick, a mach smaller and more highly culti vated county than Cork, exceeds it in the amount of claims under the Land Improvement Bill, which amount to 24,6001. The poor have taken to meetings as well as their superiors. Agitation descends naturally from the higher to the lower strata. We find a meeting of the able-bodied poor of four parishes in the barony of Deltallow, at which they passed some rather strong aseisticas—inter alia—that relief must be had " three* some medium leas odious than that of a F=1:" that, considering the inability of the ; aid them, they are " fully entitled to the support of the landlords, who have ever enjoyed the fruits of their labour ;" and that " earned bread is sweetest, and employment would be pre ferred to any other system of relief." The last resolution is the most natural and just, and should pierce the ears and hearts of the Kanturk guardians: " That we are already suffering much from hunger that we cannot live many days I;ter unrelieved; and that we therefore, as the first l step, respectfully apply to the guardians of this union for something to keep us alive until some further provision can be made." The guardians appear to have put off the application with a promise. A Mr. O'Callaghan writes a description of the poor of Bantry in one of the Cork papers. The only fact of importance it contains—and it is important — is that two hookers had arrived from Berehaven, and landed 240 poor creatures for the workhouse. Heaven help the government ! how multifarious are its uses, and how numberless the expectations which depend upon it for life! Already it is besieged with cries for bread and general assistance of some sort or other. At a late meeting of the bishops of Connaught some resolutions were adopted, and a series of queries issued to the parochial clergy, of l which the chief are the following : What is the reduc tion of population in each parish by famine and epi demic disease since the Ist of Oct.., 1846? The present condition of the population as to num bers, clothing, and the proportion which might be enabled to support themselves out of the produce after payment of rates, rents, and all other charges affect ing the land? And the opinion of each clergyman as to the rela tive condition of the people in the present and the past year? These queries and the answers are intended for the use of the National Council. /WORM TO TRII LORD-LIBUTINANT.—The following addrau has been presented to the Earl of Clarendon by the corporation of Cork—with the reply of Mr. Redington, in behalf of his excellency : EVENING, OCTOBER 9, 1817. chest. The latter, who was alone, left the house, and meet ing some few yards from the house four friends, he returned to get what he called'• satisfaction " for the blow By 'hie time the police had come out on the road, armed of coulee, and the two parties confronted each other, O'Donnell haviag a stone in his hand. On coming up to *Cumin, the latter, who had his bayonet fixed, drove at hies, and the weapon passed through his heart, going out, it is said, at his back. He instantly fell dead. M'Caonan was in stantly knocked down by a blow of a stone, from the effects of which he lies dangerously ill. Another policeman then fired, and the second O'Donnell fell, pierced with three gunshot wounds. On the inquest the jury returned a ver dict of " Wilful murder.'• In the same county in which this tragic occurrence took Place, a man was brutally murdered on the same night. Re was a farmer, and, besides, acted as bailiff to a neighbouring gentleman. This man's name was M'Eniry. His house was attacked at night, and he defended himself as long as he was able, firing six shots, ineffectually however, at his assailant. They at last succeeded in forcing an entrnnce ; and, basing beaten him to the ground, dragged hint outside his house and fired not less than six slugs into his body. A man was beaten desperately with loaded sticks on Sun day last, in the King's County, because, as appeared by his ensaaate language, he bad distrained an undtr-tenant for rent, and had sold the distress. A conspiracy of a most de termined character has been discovered among the inmate. of Tullamore gaol. A party of soldiers are now in the prison. The cost of the rations supplied by the Relief Committee of the city of Limerick during three months was 7,8591., and the average of each 21d. The rate for repayment will be 21. 2d. in the pound on the union. In K &intik the guardians have, by a large majority, adopted resolutions ad vocating nen.exportation of corn. The debt incurred by this union is 24,8121.95. 21. A dreadful murder was perpetrated at Tyr agh, about nine miles from Ballinasloe, on Sunday night kat. An armed party attacked the house of a man named Kelly, a bailiff to Mr. Bernard O'Flaherty, the receiver (the property be longs to Martins', minors), and after entering the house most barbarously beat and mutilated every person in it Kelly was so dreadfully maltreated that his life is despaired of, and his wife is also very bad ; but the most dreadful attack was made on a man named 'Loran, who died yester day from tho effects of the beating. Mr. Ryan, R.M., attended there yesterday and took the information, but up to the present none of the ruffians have been discovered. SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, OCT. 7. The city and county of Aberdeen have been worthily occupied in endeavouring to remove several differential laws that affect Scotland and not England. The town effort has been directed to the vexatious system of exacting duties on the inventories of perso nal or moveable estates, and generally to the partial and oppressive character of the stamp laws. The hardships complained of are well explained by an Aberdeen councillor : By the existing law, the reprecentatices of every individual in Soot la= who at his decease is possessed of perceard props; ty beyond the value of 20/. are bound to exhibit upon oath, and record in the Com missary Court, a full and true inventory of all the personal and move able estate of the deceased. Such inventory must specify the parti curer amount of every one sum due to the deceased, the name of every person indebted to him, and give an account besides of the value and date of his concerns in every department of trade or business where ha may have a share. Now, as the confirmation which completes the executor's title contains an exact copy of the inventory, and Is re quired to be banded to the managers and directors of companies in which the deceased was interested, as well as to purchaser. of his stock, to show the executor's title, the deceased's whole affairs, as well as the sums selfish had been lent by him to others, come to be known to these parties, and if these men were imprudent, and given to much talk, the most private transactions might be made public. The hardship is still more, when it is considered that the executor is bound to give up and record such inventories, and pay duty open them to the full amount of the visible means, without any deduction for debts. Thus, if the deceased had 8001. of personal at de belong ing toht e a u t e te a time of his death, and yras h th ea e t n ; dsutll his executor would have a lot. inven the men tory stamp to pay, and, before he could woes r that surn, would be subjected to much trouble and expense. In a small case which lately came under his observation, in a neigh bouring county, where the personal means of the deceased amounted to little more than 1001., and bis debts to 140!., or thereby, the executor was bound, notwithstanding the deficiency, to pay an inventory duty of some 31. He had to go through the same forms as if he had been making up a title to a free property. He had some 101. of expenses to defray in making up a title, and, rather than adopt the tedious and expensive measures nexteary to recover the V. stamp, he submitted to the lose, which w. 13 a gain to the government, at his cost. It may be said that the statute provide. for a return of duty ; hut the fact is, rather than go through a tedious and vethtems proceas of the kind, parties frequently yield their sight, and submit to the love. Again, suppose an executor were to give up an inventory of a personal estate, believed at the time to be of the value of 19,000/., the stamp would, in that case, if a testate suereence, be 310/. • but suppose the estate should, through some ciraumetanot, yield 2;100/. additional, then the executor would have to writs his additional inventory on a new stamp of 3502. value, being the stamp corresponding to 21,0001., and would have, fur a considerable time, to lie out of the money he had paid for the first stamp, and incur much trouble and expense in recover. tug it. By tae Laws of England an executor required only to make oath to the gross amount of the personal estate, and did not require to specify sums and names. An alteration to this extent would be a great improvement on the present system, and it ts difficult to assign a good remon for the law in Scotland being dif ferent. The second branch referred to the partial amid oppressive nature of the stamp act. generally. For instants, in every succeed= to a moveable or personal estate above 201. value duty was payable; but, on a landed estate, suppose the mime was of the value of 100,0001., no duty whatever was payable—the same was transmitted from father to son, or to the nearest heir, or convey= by deed to a stranger, free of duty. Again, the same stamp was required for • deed of settlement to convey a 30/. heritage that was required for an estate of 50,000/. The law making a bill written on a wrong stamp null and void, or of no force as a legal document, was often a great hardship to parties, and was frequently the sure of great injustice and serious wrongs. And the law enacting a duty of 10 per cent. on legacies left to charitable and religious institutions was an anomaly and great grievance. Petitions to parliament, in conformity with these views, were unanimously agreed to by the council. The county proceedings in another matter will be best explained by their own resolutions, slightly abridged.: 1. That an act was parsed during the last session by which, amongst other provisions, authority Is given to draw from the consalidated fund a sum of money sufficient to defray the whole expence of main taining prlioners in gaol, which expense was previou-ly defrayed from local assessments on the land. 2. Thee this ace has been in operation in England for several months, but has not yet been extended to Scot land. 3. That, as the landed interests of England and Scotland will be affected ion sr. manner by the abolition of the corm duties, any raraßllre requisite as a oompensation to the landed interest in the our country ought to be extended to the other. In Edinburgh, the Chamber of Commerce has been discussing certain points connected with mail accele ration in the north, and also making further arrange ments for a simultaneous Scotch movement against the Bank Act. At the Edinburgh county meeting, the county and parish rates on railways were an nounced as having been fixed at 1,8001. per mile for the Edinburgh and Glasgow and North British lines, and it is likely that this rate will be assumed as a standard for other lines. It has been fixed on the principle that, allowing one-third of the income of a line as an eluivalent for working expenses, assessment on four-ninths of the gross income, or 56 per cent. thereon, is a fair taxable proportion. At the Perthshire meeting the principal topic discussed was the licensing of public-houses. It was stated, in re ference to an appeal case from Dunkcld, that in that town, including a part of an adjoining parish, there were 638 males and females above fourteen years of age, and for their accommodation there were fourteen public-houses, or a public-house to every forty-five individuals, men and women, in the town above four teen years of age, or a public-house to every nineteen men. And it was further stated that, notwithstand ing this, there were proportionably fewer alehouses in Dankeld than in the adjoining towns of Perth and Coupar Angus, and yet the additional licenses were granted on the ground that allowance was to be made for travellers. The Scotch dissenters are rather pleased at not being commanded to observe the Sunday fast in common with the Established and Episcopal churches, and they have resolved to set apart a week-day in October as a day of thanksgiving for the abundant harvest - - - Scientific readers will be interested in knowing, that according to an announcement made by Professor Nichols, in one of his Glasgow popular lectures, the Marquis of Breadslbane will make up the defi ciency in astonomical instruments for taking original observations in Glasgow University. Mr. Robert Chambers has also been exploring and measuring the various heights in the parallel roads of Glenroy. The Inrerness Courier says that Mr. Chambers has ascer tained that the roads correspond exactly in elevation with the lines of ancient sea-beach or mountain terraces throughout Scotland, and hence concludes that they were caused, not by some great inland lake, or by the action of glaciers, as M. Agana supposed, but by the waters of the sea, which had overspread the whole country. The different lines of elevation may be considered as so many epochs of the geological era. Mr. Chambers has been engaged, for some years, in investigating and measuring the ancient sea-beaches, and will publish the results of his researches. Glen roy has given rise to much conjecture, and his mea surements will be an important element in the dis cussion. AN ABERDEEN FAOTN.—William Campbell, an old man, who, at 'previous Aberdeen Circuit, figured most unenviably as a witness, and was sharply reproved by the Lord Justice Clerk, on the trial of five boys (called the " Copper Com pany"), who were transported for theft, was, at last assize, brought up for his share in that transaction, on en indict ment for reset. Campbell pleaded not guilty but it came out in evidence that he had received the property stolen by these boys, namely, 122 pieces of iron, marked with the harbour brand, and weighing in all between 4 and 6 cwt. The prisoner had long been known to the police as an habi tual natter and encourager of theft, and clearly reapon•ible for the thefts committed by these boys, and all other delin quents who knew that such persons as he were at all times ready to purchase from them the produce of their nefarious trade. The unanimous finding of the jury was guilty ; and the sentence, transportation for seven years. DEER-BiLLILING.—This sport, now nearly closed, kw for the last ten days been followed with great activity—a favour able change of weather having collected the herds to their usual corriet—and the result to sportsmen btu been many fine additinis to their collections of antlered heads. In the Black Mount forest, the Marquis of Bendalbans and friends had a splendid day's sport last week. The Duchess of Jlont rose, Lord Own Won, and the Hoe. Fox Maule, were of the party. They shot altogether thirteen choice stags. From his forest of Gleastrathisrar, Lord Lovat has selected several f►t stags with good heads; and Capt. Inge, at Funs, kyle, has also secured • number of fine antlers. In the woods of Erchleu, Mr. Boulderson and friends shot some large stags—one of their heads counted fourteen antlers. At Rhidorroch, John Hay Mackenzie, Esq., killed two stags, one with a royal head; and Lord Grosvenor, while on • visit at the same place, shot • stag with a fine head. Among the numerous parties who have been likewise fortunate, are the Hon. Messrs. de Grey, at Coignafearn ; W. 0. Jackson, Esq., Glendoe ; Walter Boyd, Esq., Stray, and Mr. Forde, Glenmaserin. Roe•deer are everywhere abundant; and, as a peculiarity of the season, it has been observed, that, while the red deer's antlers are in general of less bulk than usual, those of roe deer are particu larly large and well marked, Sidney Hadwin, Esq., Kildo nen Lodge, shot, on his shooting grounds in Kildonan, on Tuesday last, one of the finest stags killed in this part of the country for many years. The stag weighed 25 stone—bad a very beautiful head—and there was a depth of no less than three inches of fat on the haunches. Mr. Hadwin shot another fine stag on Friday last, very little inferior to the former. A fine young stag, weighing seventeen stone when clean, was shot by Donald Horne, E:q., on the Longwell preserves, on the 25th ult. PROVINCIAL. MIDDLESEX. SOUTH-WEST MIDDLESEX AGRICULTURAL SO- CleTT.—Yesterday, the eleventh anniversary meeting of this society, established for the encouragement of good plough ing and other agricultural improvements, and for the giving rewards to servants for good conduct and long service, took place aeUxbridge. The principal feature of the day's pro ceedings was the grand ploughing match, which took place on the farm of 'Richard Henry Cox, EN , of Hillingdon Park, which, from the brilliancy of the weather, was nume rowdy attended, nearly the whole of the neighbouring gentry and farmers being present. At eight o'clock the ploughs commenced arriving at the ground, and by nine o'clock seveuty-two had arrived and were set in operation. In the ploughing field were erected several handsome marquees, and numerous flags were exhibited about the grounds, bearing appropriate devices. At twelve o'clock the premiums awarded by the so ciety to male and female servants in husbandry, bearing characters for honesty, sobriety, and general good conduct, were distributed in a large tent by the chair man of the day. They consisted of ten classes and eighty-five recipients. At two o'clock the plough men, &e., lined together at the Three Tuns Inn, Uxbridge, where they were plentifully supplied with food old English cheer. At four o'clock about 120 of the pnuci pal gentry, farmers, and leading agriculturists, in Middlesex and the adjoining counties, sat down to an excellent dinner, tastefully laid out in the large public rooms in Uxbridge. DIE NEWTON FARMERS' SOCIETT.—On Thursday, the third annual meeting of the above society took place at the village of Newton, the show being held in the timber yard belonging to Mr. Recce. The number of cattle ex hibited was not very large. The show of horses consisted principally of the cart breed, but they were not very numerous, nor of • very superior kind. Of bulls the number was also limited, and they were of a mediocre kind. Of dairy cows and keifers a great number were entered for com petition, an& many of them were of a very superior order. The display of pig. was also very small, and those brought forward were very inferior, one of the judges re ' marking that the breed of pigs in the neighbourhood of Newton required improving very much, and recom mended the farmers to pay a little more attention to that part of their stock. The finest pig in the list of competition belonged to a cottager. The vegetables were very fine in deed. No seeds or implements of husbandry were in the yard, and this was attributed to the very unpropitious state of the weather during the early part of the day, but which, for tunately, cleared up, and towards noon became beautifully , fine. After the prizes had been awarded, the members of the society adjourned to the Horse and Jockey, where about two hundred gentlemen eat down to dinner. The Rev. B. Loather presided. THE EXPLOSION OF FIRE-DAMP. —On Tuesday last the adjourned inquest on the body of William Rutter, whose death had been caused by an explosion of fire-damp, at Mr. Eccles' colliery, was held at the Balcarrea Arms, Scholes, Wigan, when a verdict of " Manslaughter " was found against Peter Rutter, the brother of the deceased, through whose negligence in leaving his lamp uncovered, the acci dent occurred. The brother, Peter Rutter, still lies in a very dangerous state, from injuries received at the lame explosion. PCI3I.TC SOIREE 01" .-. TIIE — fiR.ADFORD MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. — On Thursday evening, the second annual soiree of the Bradford Mechanics' Institution was held in the zooms of the institution, under the presidency of the Right Hon. Earl Fitzwillintn. The oratorical and musical portions of the evening's entertainment were prefaced by a public dinner in the Athenteum of the Institution, the Rev. Dr. Acworth, of the Horton Independent College, presid ing. In the evening letters were read from Viscount 'alorpeth, the Rev . Dr. Scoresby, and Charles Dickens, ' Esq., apologising for their unavoidable absence. Earl Fitzwilham opened the proceedings by expressing the pleasure which he experienced at having an opportunity of meeting so large an assembly of the inhabitants of that town—a town which in the course of his memory had grown 1 from a veryjordinary-sized market town into such a large city he might almost call it. If one looked to what bad been the cause of that great change it could not escape the notice of even the moat superficial observer, that it was entirely due to the industry of the inhabitants of the district. To those who had been active in the formation of the institution in which they were assembled, his lordship was sure that a large debt of gratitude was due, whether they considered simply the sources of intellectual enjoyment which it af forded to those who became connected with it, or looked to the ' still larger influence which it exercised upon the destinies of industry. Besides the ornamental advantages, if he might so term them, which were to be derived from institutions of this description, there were, he apprehended, many sub.ran tial advantages in the advancement of manufactures and commerce, not but that, in kis lordship's opinion, they were the more valuable for being calculated to open the minds of those who were engaged in the dry pursuits of industry ; but, at the same time, it was impossible to shut their eyes to the advantages of such institutions, especially of schools of design, for the improvement of those manufactures which were to attract the attention of the trader and the con • sumer. —Mr. Busfield, M.P., moved the first resolution, which was seconded by Alderman Rand. It was as follows : flat the intellectual nmessities of the people are better understood at the present time than they were at the period when Mechanics' Institutions were fret projected ; and that such aseicties as are framed to meet those neomaities have en important career of useful. nese and prosperity now opening before them. The Rev. Dr. Burnett, vicar of Bradford, said he had great pleasure in moving, That a provi,ien for elementary instamction must enter largely into the plans of all societies designed fur the education of the people, as conett tuting the only basis on which real knowledge can be founded, or its extension hoped for. After alluding to the benefits' of mechanics' institutions, he went on to say thathe harr paid great attention to their working, and believed that there were two things which they should carefully avoid—religion and politics. Let them steer clear of Scylla and Charybdis, and their institution would succeed. He believed that object had been diligently attended to in that institution. But whets they advised the steering clear of religion, they did not wish that institutions of that kind should pander to any description of infidelity. The rev. gentle. man went on to urge the formation of classes, fur want of which many institutions had failed ; and the instruction derived from them was far preferable to that derived from lectures. Lectures were very well, but they gave rather railway views of knowledge—they afforded rapid and extensive views of the subjects treated on, but they did not admit of that steady application of the mind to the tracing out, step by step, of the various processes of nature. By lectures the fancy and the imagination were fed—but only for a while—and the mental powers were not strengthened. There was no royal way to learning. Young men coming to the classes should look upon themselves as apprentices Inc information. Lec tures were only the sweetmeats—not the solid food of the mind. Plato said. "General ignorance is neither the greatest evil nor the most to be dreaded. A mass of ill digested and unasserted information is much more perilous." That should be the motto of all institutions of this kind.— Mr. W. R. C. Stanfield, M.P., seconded the motion. It was supported by Mr. G. S. Phillips, of Huddersfield, and adopted.—Col. T. P. Thompson, M.P., moved : That It Is of the utmost moment that those to whom is Nalsoist the application of the great discoveries of science, should peons a knowledge of the principles on which they rest; and that ci sash knowledge should be sought from the highest and meet eallusiis Karon. The gallant colonel spoke briefly in rapped of hits resolution, in the cows) of which he soninii MD concurrence in the observation' which had Weft Ikea the vicar of Bradford, espe c ially with repot Is the separation of their intellecesa meeseibes hen paled or religious investigations, as that was limit lb' ady conies to !secure unanimity, and the enstin se tank Institution. —Mr. J. W. liudian, of Lenin insairi, the motion.— The meeting was subsequently solkessed by the Mayor of Bradford, Dr. Acworth, the president elthe institution, Mr. Beaumont, one of the vice-presidents, sad other gent'emen ; and other resolutions were adopted in accordance with the objects of the meeting. THE SWINTON MURDER.-011 Wednesday after noon last, the third adjourned inquest respecting the murder of Caleb Barker, was held at the Canal Tavern, Swinton bridge, before Thomas Badger, Esq., coroner, and a jury.— Mr. Thomas Raynor, the superintendent of police at Shef field, produced a lead pencil which WAS taken from the pocket of Sellars when apprehended at Sheffield. Since the adjourned inquest had conversed with the prisoner. He stated that he had come down to Swinton by the train on the night of the 4th of September, and that he had a con versation with Mr. Ravnor, of Bolton, and with Mary Tay lor, of Mexborough. 3e went immediately by the canal side from Swinton to West Milton, where he slept all night in Mr. Brooke's hayloft, and several subsequent nights.—Mr. Johnson, a bookkeeper at the pottery of Mr. Samuel Barker, of Swinton, had known deceased, Caleb Barker, some years before his death. He was employed as awarehouseman at Mr. S. Barker's pottery. Knows nothing of the pencil now pro- duced. Deceased generally carried one or two pieces in his pocket, but witness could not identify the piece now pro duced as belonging to deceased.—William Athorn, _junior clerk in Mr. Barker's counting house, knew the deposed Caleb Barker. He generally tarried a piece of lead pewit is his pocket. Did not remember ever to have seen the piece now produced.—The Coroner here stated that the roma he had ben thus minute in his inquiry respoetiag the peen was to see if it could be properly identified, ill thil Oleo wig* had been seen in the possession of the deceased, and if so, tt would bare formed a very strong ease of circum stantial evidence against the prisoner Salem, and the establishment of which, by leading to a further investigation, would have probably brought other more important particu lars to light. The coroner then stated that he hod written to the Secretary of State, requesting that he would order the prisoner Sellars to be brought up before him (the coroner) the Sheffield magistrates having refused to part with their prisoner. This Sir George Grey replied he had no power to do. Mr, Badger then resumed: Although very strong suspicion attached to Sellars, sufficient evidence had not been adduced to warrant them in saying that he was the man who corn. mitted the murder; therefore, in the absence of additional evidence, the only course which remained for the jury to pursue was either to return an open verdict, or a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown. Ho would state to them, however, that after they had delivered a verdict, if any further evidence should be elicited tending to implicate the part now suspected, they bad still the power reserved of pr eferring a bill of indictment against him. There being but few other parties in the room, they retired until the jury bad considered their verdict. In about twenty minutes Mr. Wood, the foreman, banded in the fol lowing written verdict to the coroner : The jury find that on the evening of the 4th of September last, Caleb Barker was brutally beaten with some heavy weapon, and hit skull severely fractured by some person or persons to the jurors un known, In consequence of which the said Caleb Barker died on the fol. lowing morning. The jury have to express their strong conviction that if the shelSeld =mannas had sot (as they conceive) improperly inter fered and prevented a party strongly suspected of the murder being brought before them, they would have now been in a position to re turn a different verdict. They are of opinion that the ends of justice are detested be collinons between the coroner and magistrates sa to the qunttion of jurixliction, the county put to extra expenses, and also that inquiries of this nature should not be conducted in the compul sory abeence of Imp:Witted or suspected parties. Mr. Wood, the foreman, added, that before the parties left the room, he was desired by the jury to make the following statement, which they had intended to have appended to their verdict: "The jury cannot but express their surprise at finding an impediment in the way of eliciting infor mation respecting a crime of no less magnitude than mid night assassination should have come from that quarter to which they conceive they have a right t 3 look for the main tenance of every facility for the protection of both lift and propert" Tyrn y. us FEVER of a malignant character has be gun to show itself at Balby, in the immediate vicinity of Doncaster. In one bowie lest week two children died of that disease in two days. The medical men who attended them, on examining the premises, found a sewer running underneath! the house which emitted the most noxious ettlu view ; and Dr. Shearman, of Itotherham, stated his belief, that the fever was caused by the sewer, He ordered the parties to leave the house, and every particle of clothing in it to be burnt. The sewer is also to be tilled up. CIIEBIIIEI , - A MEETING OF FACTORY OPERATIVES took place on Wednesday at Stockport, on the subject of the late turn out at Moseley, and the threatened reduction of wages at Ashton, and with a view to considering how the extension of similar reductions to other districts would be best avoided. The chair was occupied by Mr. Wm. Hibbert..—Mr. Pilling, an operative from Ashton, then moved a resolution to the effect that it would be mutually advantageous to both masters and operatives to agree to a general cessation front labour for a time, rattier than reduce wages, and strongly deprecating all attempts at reduction. He spoke at great length, strongly tinting the meeting to contend with all their might for reducing the time, and uphold. ing wages. The speaker was loudly cheered.—Mr. Peter Devenah proposed a resolution to the effect that they should pledge themselves to endeavour to carry out a general cessation from labour. The resolution was carried unanimously, amidst cheers. A. resolution was also adopted to enter into subscriptions in support of those who are or may hr thrown out of employment in resisting a reduction.— Mr. Councillor liarner then addressed the meeting, and gave an account of his mission, on Friday last, to Moseley and Ashton, in favour of the turnouts, and stated that he had had interviews with the Mayor of Stockport, Mr. in°. Maryland, Mr. Relit. Gee, and Mr. Thos. Penalty, on the subject of the proposed reduction, and they were a 1 strongly opposed to it. The other business being disposed of, and a vote of thanks given to the chairman, the meeting separated. LINCOLNSHIRE. DEALERS IN TREMENDOCS SACRIFICES."—Tho people of Lincoln, during the last two or three days, have been amused with a choice specimen of temptation for the million. Sealed papers, looking at first like income-tax papers, have been left at the houses. When opened an.im posing coat of arms appears; but un a closa inspection what seemed to be the royal arms turns out to be only a crown placed upon the shamrock, the rose, and the thistle. Then follows the announcement of an " Eventful Distribution of Confiscated Foreign Manufactures." The whole clap-trap is so got up as to make it appear that the sale is by order of the Commissioners of Customs. The goods include costly shawls, which are " perf.ct wonderr," " chameleon satins of imperishable dye', manufactured chiefly for the court of Russia." All sorts of costly goods are offered at " nominal prices," to cover the fine and duty paid to the crown. Frauds of this nature have been successful in many towns in the north of England and in Scotland. A corps of swindlers who made a great eclat at Edinburgh some months sineo ended their visit by some very disagreeable transactions with the police authorities. IminEsrr ON A FIRE.—Mr. Hitchins held an in quest at Coleby on Menday last, respecting the cause of the fire on the premises of Mr. Lister on the preceding Thurs day, by which two fodder-stacks, a large hay.atack, a barley 'tack, and a wheat-stack, were entuely . consumed, great injury being also done to the buildings, involving a loss of not leas than 7001. In the barn were seventy quarters of thrashed barley at the time of the fire, and a large clipping of wool, which, by the exertions of the persons present, were removed and saved. On viewing the premises, it was clearly apparent that a mat awful destruction of pro. peaty had been intended, same straw being laid from tho stack-yard to six large stacks of wheat, but which by the wind bearing towards the stack-yard were saved from destruction. After an inquiry, which lasted from ten in the morning to eight at night, and after examining nearly 20 witnesses, it was quite plain, from the areas discrepancy in the testimony, that • party on the premises must hays been the author of the burning, although there was net sufficient proof whereon to base a specific verdict against that party. The jury, after considerable deliberation, returned • verdict that the fire was wilfully caused by some person or person unknown. Sir C. Tempest, Bart., the landlord of the pro ' perty, subscribed 1001., Charles Msinwering, Esq., 501., and the 'Yorkshire Fire Insurance Company 1001., towards a reward ; and meetings were held in the adjoining parishes to add to the amount. MELANCIIOLY StICIDE FROM SHAME.—An inquest was recently held at Monntsorrel, on the body of Sarah Thompson, aged 13 years. The deceased got into an apple tree in the garden; she was seen by an elder sister, who re quested her to get down, and offered her assistance. In at tempting to reach the ground she slipped backwards, and hung by ono leg from a bough ; she was released from this perilous situation by two men, who were at work in a shop close by, and they remained a few minutes in consequence of the deceased appearing in an unconscious stute. After they hod left, the deceased ran away, without speaking, towards a deep pond, which bad once been worked so a stone quarry. Her sister, hearing a splash, ran to the water, and saw her sister in the pond, waving her hands. She went into the water and caught hold of her. The two men who had be fore assisted her from the apple-tree rescued the elder sister, but the younger one perished. From the evidence of tho surgeon it appeared that great excitement of mind might have been produced from the girl's situation in the tree, as also a determination of blood on the brain, which had ren dered her partly unconscious. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death." THE WORCESTERSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY held its annual meeting yesterday. The proceedings com menced with ploughing and digging matches, on the farm of Mr. G. Smith, of Wick, alJout a mile and a half from Worcester, on the Malvern road. Five premiums of 31. each, and the same number of 2 !. each , were awarded for excellence in the several descriptions of ploughing, besides angler rewards to the ploughboys, drivers of the successful teams. The competition was spirited. The exhibition of stock, implements, corn, roots, fruit, Se., was held as usual in the new cattle market. The show of bolls and of neat cattle and pigs was good, but There was, as at all the pro vincial agricultural societies' meetings this year, a falling off in the show of sheep. There were some good specimens of fruit and corn. The show of agricultural im plements was one of the finest, perhaps, that has ever been got together at any provincial meeting. Every description of implement was contributed, and samples Mall the recentimprovemeats were shown—ploughs, harrows, carts, liquid manure pumps and distributors, tile machines, chaff.cutting mactunes, winnowing machines, thrashing machines, turnip-cutters, sauifiers, rollers, drill., dibbling machines, et hoc genus ovine. A good deal of interest was excited by the worging of two rival tile and pipe machines, of great utility and ingenuity. Mr. Chamberlain, of Bredicot, near this eity,and Mr. Swain, of Pembridge, Herefordshire, were the inventors, and the latter took a prize, Mr. Chamberlain having taken two prima for his machine at previous meetings of the society. The premium of 10!. for the best collection of implements was divided between Messrs. Proctor and Ryland, of Birming ham, and Messrs. Webb, of Worcester. The annual prizes for horses, sheep, cattle, pigs, roots, corn, and fruit were awarded, and also others to agricultural labourers and domes- tic servants for long servitude, honesty, and industry. One of the winners eras an aged man of nearly 70 years, who had worked on the same farm 45 years. Some of them had brought up families of twelve children. There was a close competition for the prizes for corn, which were awarded to Mr. Herbert, of Powick, Mr. Walker, of Whittington, and Mr. Dunn, of Cropthorne. A numerous party sat down to dinner at the Crown hotel, at half-past four o'clock, under the presidency of T. C. Horrogold, Esq. ANOTHER ACCIDENT ATTENDED WITH F TAL CONSEQUENcas, happened on the works of the Oxford, Wor cester, and Wolverhampton Railway, at Norton, on Satur day last. A youth named George Ayland, aged eighteen years, was at work " driving tip" with another person named Henry Hooper, when he slipped and fell immediately in front of a waggon, heavily . laden with soil, which, lousing over his body, crushed him in such a manner that he died almost immediately afterwards. An inquest was held and verdict of Accidental death" returned. KENT. EXECUTION OF HUTCHINGs. -- THE ELECTRIC TBLOARHthings, the man found guilty and sen tenced to death for poisoning his wife, was to have been exe cuted ea Maidstone gaol at twelve o'clJek on Thuday. Shori:iy before the appointed hour for , : a reyina the se ntence should be sent by We e lec tri c) tele g ra p h instructing the m reoe cc,. i.; eq . u a es t t t in be do g io th n ata n n -b o n ie dg e e r Winatoirittsectiroam mther4g-tteomwe" all