The Express. — London, England, 1847-02-04 00:00:00

which so much mischief hats arisen of strengthening the hands 11( the rulers a n to enable them to oppress the people with comparative impuity. There matters had been Icef we the Durbrar on the Ilth and 12th, but no conclusion was ar rived at. The Queen was so frantic few she loss of her our as to be incapable of attending to business. kaanwhile the march of one of our regiments, and the brae of the order for the others to retire on Ferozepore, left no doubt as to the sincerity of our purposes. The whole of the 11th was spent in delibe ration. On the following day, on witueseing the arrangements for the abandonme or of Lahore, the hearts of the &niers failed them, and they repaired in a body to the tents of Mr. Clinic to c sass their inability to form a Government, and intimate the determination they had arrived at. A long an I interesting conference ensued, at which all the details were fully and formally arranged. On the 16th of Deetmber—twelve days after the deposition of the Vuzeer,—• meeting of Council was assembled, at which upwards of seventy Chiefs and high State ettieills were posent. Mr. Currie, Colonel Lawrence, and his sesietant, Lieut. Edwardee, were present as represent ing the Briii•la covernment. It was announced that the determination had been unaniosoutly arrived at, with the full and entire eon! urrenee of all parties concerned, that the Governor-General should be entreated to permit a fume of ten thoumed men to remain at Lahore during the minority of the Maharajah—the British Resident virtually to become the Veneer. For the maintenance of these, twenty-tyro lekhs of rupees—nearly a quarter of a million sterling—was to be slowed annually; a sum considerably under the entire expense of the force, but fully covering the total extra charge to which Government would be put for their m intenance. There was to be no Vuzeer and no Regent, even in name. The entire civil administna tion of the kittedem is to be vested in our hands each elerrtresent of the government is to be presided over by a Fetich Sirdar—Dewen Deena Nath having the revenue deputize itt, T. j feettgle commanding the army, &c ,—all under the authority of Colonel Lawrence, than whom no more ahle or upright representative could have been found for the British Crown. The Queen is to be allowed 435,000 a year for her private expenditure. Reductions in the Sikh army, and in usher eepartments where economy ran easily be introduesd, will enable the treasury to meet the addition el drafts expected t c be made on it for cane ing out the new arrangements. The new Treaty is to be reified et I'mritsir, betwixt the Governor-General and the Maharajah in person. The Commander-in-Chief is expected to be pr sent the day appointed is the 22nd of D. comber —the anniversary of the battle of Ferozeshah Thereafter Lord Herdinge will accompany his youthful sharp to the capital, and under the new order of things again see him re-seated on his throne as holding regal authority by a for more safe and tranquil tenure than any his own chiefs c cold have conferred. New cantonments for our troops have :already been designed, and their site marked out; and Lahore hereafter is likely to become a favourite. as it seems a healthy, and will be a well-regulated, station. Dhulleep Singh is at present seven years old : for ten or twelve years the country of the Five Risers will be controlled by British Mope, and ruled over Icy an English resident. It is needless to speculate on the events that may occur, or position our government may assume, before the year 18.h7. The much censured peaee.p they of Lerd Ilardinge has thus been main tained in all its integrity, truth, and uprightness, to the end. Commencing with an act of unusual generosity, neither fraud nor forte, violence nor equivocation, hes been re sorted to. We have shown no symptoms of regret for the magnanimous moderation of our proceeding in March, or the slightest desire to recall what we had promised, or meeify what we had undertaken to perform. The ceun try whiela might then have been legitimately seized, but could tint have teen conquered without cost, danger, and abundant obloquy, has now, by the spontaneous act of the people themselves, become ours. A people ac customed to the government of England for the space of twelve years, is little likely either to desire or to be able to revert to native rule; and the Durbar, doubtless, in adopting the step no unanimously resolved upon, were peril ctly aware that they were making over the country to our power. A case such as this has never before oc curred to we We may learn from it how little need we have to resort to fraud or violence—that we may safely abide our time to have the Potentates of the East at our 'let One excuse for our eleasion of Sande was, that if we did not d -- throne its rulers now, we should by and bye have occa- I Mon to do so when the operation might he less con venient for us! With equal propriety might we have anticipated a legacy likely to fall due, by shortening the life of the too ator ! We have on the present occasion waited the course of events, and the possession so eagerly coveted has been placed in our hands. The following troops have been ordered up to take the place of those who have so well maintained temquillity during the past ten months ;-11.11 10th Foot ; the 7th, 31st, 321, 38th, 514, 54th, 55th, and Gith Regto. N.I. ; 11th Irregular Cavalry ; two companies of Sappers' and Miners; 4th Troop 2d Brigade IL A. ; sad 3rd and 4th companies 3rd Battalion Foot Ar tillery. The conduct of the Governer-General has through out been most ably seconded in all his noble efforts by his as sistants, Mr. Currie and Col. Lawrence. If there have been blunders in the field in abundance to deplore, there have been. o .sets in the department of diplomacy we have cause to blush for. The Seikhe have spontaneously taken on themselves the charges of an army which we must at any rate have maintained, and paid—as most right, but most unlikely, they should—for the preservation of tranquil lity on our north-west frontier. So much has been said in disparagement of Goohiub Singh, that there seems no thing too monstrous to he believed against him, and it is doubtful whether anything stated to his advantage will obtain credit with his enemies, It is with no small mea sum of gratification Poet we halm been assured of the de ference he pays to the counsels of the British Gem rnment ie all thlogs, fled that, in conformity with our wishes, he has set Lis face against Infanticide and Suttee, wince will hereafter cease throughout his dominions. JULIA:9DI3R Trans-Sutlej affairs within oar own possessions we have nothing of any consequence to note. The or& is for the raising of the four new regiments may be expected in a very short time, and as the settlements arc proceeding with rapidity, we msy aeon know what the acquired territory is actually worth. The hill portion of the Jullundur Dealt cempoeing Mender, Koo'oe, Sm., has been placed under Mr. Erskine, the Commissioner of the Cis- Sutlej hill pros iness, and his salary has been raised from 1,500 to 2,000 rupees a month. The fair at Hoesheearpoor has, we regret to ray, turned out a complete failure, this year at least, and we do not know whether the experiment will be repeated. It is te be hoped, however, it will, as the disturbed state of Kashmeer must have proved a great draw back to its susses on the present occasion. Moe of the regiments ordered to the Jullundur Doeb have reaehhd their several destinations." • GWALIOIL—Murders were of frequent occurrence in the districts. The Assistant-agent had returned from his tour, which it is to be hoped would be productive of entree ame lioration in the existing deplorable condition of the eulti vetoes remote from the capital. NOUTII-WEST RIOVINCE3.—Lord Elphinstcme left Al lahabad on the th Nov. en route for Nepsul, having previously visieed the garrison.—The Commander-in-Chief, Lord Gough, was expected to reach Loodhinna on the 21st Wt., and Delhi about the 20th January.—The Lieutenant- Govemor left Ajmeere for Beawr on the sth December. His tour thromeh the districts was likely to be productive of much good, as rimy of the native rulers take such an op portunity of performing various acts which otherwise would probably never be thought of. He had found good cause of complaint in the wretched condition of some of the roads, and had ordered their immediate repair. A road from the seat of his government (Agra) to Nuwembad, had been ordered, and it is said that all the Rajahs through whose territory it would paso had signified their inter- , lion of forwarding its completion. Military movements continue to be of constant occurrence—reliefs moving backwards and forwards all along the frontier. Recent events in the Punjaub have removed all apprehensions of further aggression in this quarter for some time to come. One regiment of Queen's, seven or eight of company's in fantry, with a troop of horse, and two flatteries of foot artil lery, it was expected, would immediately cross the Sutlej for ILahore, as a relief for those mow cantened in the capital of the l'unjeuh. The Del'. i Gazette overland summary supplies us with the following items of intelligence : " We have to record that Lord Hardinge arrived at Kan nra on the I.3th of Nov.. and remained there until the 16th, paying a visit during his stay to the proposed Sanaterium at Dhurumsale, but such appeared the difficulties of access, and so great the distance from the plains, that his lordship is understood to have negatived the proposition for making it either a statton fur troops or a sanatorium, on the plan of Landour. Its natural beauties and elevation offer, how. vet, such advantages that we hope to hear that pri vate enterprise may one day carry out the original idea, and make Dhurumeala what Nainee Tal bas become. From Kangra the Governor-General reached Hoosheearpoor on the 21st of November, where he was joined by his camp. Ile remained to see as much of the fair as was to be seen on the let of December, and then proceeded rid Jullundur to the left bank of the Beets, opposite Bhairoowal, so as to be as near Lahore as possible during the important occurrences which have taken place. The camp WAS still there on the 16th instant, and Mr. Secretary Currie was expected in a day or two. -- The Right Honourable the Commander-in-Chief left Simla on the Bth of December, inspected the two European Regi ments at Subathoo (let Bengal Fusilier") and at Kussows lee (29th Foot) on his way down to Kalka, remained at the latter place till the 12th, and then moved on towards Load heeanah, at which station he will arrive this day. His subsequent movements seem to be so far definitely fixed that we ma expect kis lordship in Delhi about the 20th of January. Mr. Thomason is progressing through the states of Itajpootana, in company with Colonel Sutherland, and will doubtless do much good by his presence amongst the sovereigns of that port of India." SCINDE.—Our tidings from the banks of the Indus arc not much less important than those from the Sutlej. From home we some time since heard that the Court of Directors had requested the Governor-General to favour them with bin opinion as to the justifiability of the original conquest, and the expediency of retaining posses sion of a country ;which destroyed the strength of our; frostier, aid caused the annual sacrifice of some thousands of men and above a million sterling of money. It was well known to be the wish of a majority in Leaden hall-street that the country should be restored to its owners. Further accounts brought tidings that the Board of Controul h d agreed that the government would be abolished a e an independent one, and the ma nagement of the country for a time entrusted to the hands of a civil commission. The army, which bad amounted to nearly sixteen thousand men when the parlia mentary returns showing tho charges of the country to exceed its income Icy a million sterling were made, had sub ssquently been augmented by about thirteen thousand, emeisting of additional battalions to local corps, with nine thousand men sent from Bombay. The withdrawal of the Bengal troops reduced it once nacre by tight thousand, so that at this moment it musters above 21,000 men. Of these seven thousand were under orders for Bombay, when an alteration of the arrangement became necessary, a) that matters now stands as follows: —tier Ilajtsty'a 17th have just returaed to Bombay. The 14th and 17th N.I. are under orders for Karrachee, on their way to the presidency, the latter of those having no fewer than 330 men in hospital, though the season was considered unusually healthy. The 3d cavalry have also been ordered to the coast. The 10th N.I. proceed to Mandavie, from which their boats bring the 16th to Bombay. The 3sl proceed to Shikarpore, to relieve the 4th Rifles, under orders for Ilurrachee. Thi•her also the 7th, the Seinde Horse, and 2nd Belooch Battalion, proce.d. The 11th remain at Sukkur : the 18th end Ist Belooch battalion stand fast at Illydrabad. This is all we have heard as to the latest arrangement& for the reliefs. The boasted frontier of the Indus has since the seizure. of Scinde been some fifty mile in our rear • while our troops are well protected against the assaults of their brother soldiers advancine from India, they are own to those of the enemy. The various outposts along the margin of the desert and base of the mountain.% ore arranged as if the object but been to give the enemy every advantage—to permit them to burst down upon I. healthy and strong from the mountain fastnesses into which no regular troops could follow them, to assail us in the weakest possible pueitions, and with in general a moiety of our troops in the docuir'e hands. On these points any lee may satisfy himself by simple reference to the map, On the 10th December intimation t etched Shik irpora that the mountaineers were down upon us above a thousand strong, and had ravaged the country a. fir at Meerpore 'flee officer in command at the station having proceeded against them with fifty troopers, found himself so outnum bered that he was compelled to retire without anything hav ing been effected by him. The officer at Khangur, with a detachment of similar strength, had also attempted to *lack th, m, but was compelled t. retire. Ou hearing of these things, Colonel Stack, with the main body of the cav alry—consisting, however, of no more than one huldvil and twenty-flee sabres—instantly took the field, followed by two hundred of: the 4th N. 1. rifles. Detachments; joined them as they advanced, at Meerporo and .Mobarauck pore, and brought up their strength to two hundred and ten sabres. Advancing a mile beyond Houda the enemy were found drawn ue on a hill in close and dense array, with videttes on the hills to their left front. Their position was found inacemible ta an attack by cavalry. The officer in command felthimself obliged toretire. On the morning of the 13th orders were sent to Meerporef wthe return of the detach ment, cavalry and infantry, to Shikarpore, which they reached that morning, and in a few hours afterw;lrds reports arrived that the Doogties were again coming on. The Scinde Horse, under Capt. Jacob, and Camel corps, commanded by Capt. Fi•ogerald—both very efficient bodies of irregulars, under able officers—were instantly ordered up, and would, we have no doubt, quickly drive the robbers to their homes, it indeed they had nut returned thither before the troops went forth at all. There doubtless they will remain till weakened outposts or a sickly season again admit of their pursuing the trade of plunder with safety and advantage. Sr Charles Napier is said to have expressed himself in the last degree diseatisfied with the occurrences just narrated. It is underst rod that the consultation of the Duke of Wel lington in all thing* is one of the conditions on which the Whigs hope to hold office, and that the surest channel to his grace's favour is through Lord Elleaborough and the Nopiera—the hitter of whom are, it is said, ordered to be supported, at whatever consegu-uce or hazard. Isuione.—The most astisfnetory accounts continue to be received. The Resident, Mr. Hamilton, was on a tour, and intended crossing over into Bhopal, end from thence to Augur, a new station formed for part of the Greedier contin gent. He had presented new colours to the Bheel corps at Bhopawur. A Mr. Tweetland, connected with Mr. Ste phenson's railway, hail been in Malwa for some time, en gaged in taking levels of the country. AFFGHANISTAN,—We copy the following summary of Cabool news from the Delhi Gazette of the 9th December; from whi.l it will be seen that matters arc in a fair way of amendment : " We have received intelligence front our Central Asian news writer down to the seventh of October. From his letters we learn that on the twenty-third of September, a letter w...s received front Sultan Mahomed Khan, warning the Ameer to receive with much caution any information which might bear unfavourable ou the connection existing between Maharajah Goolab S ugh and the British authorities, as the Sirdar was fully convinced that the best understanding sub teisted between them. It is added that letters were for warded to Ahm d Khan, Meer Akhor, desiring hint to depute some confidential persona to receive the Vakeel of the British authorities, who was coming from Peshawar. The confirmed announcement of the arrival of such a Vakeel again caused considerable astonishment at Cabool, and it was believed by many that his actual coming be tokened a renewed and genre interference on the part of the British government in the affairs of Aflghani•tan. A rumour respecting the British Vakeel got abroad on tbisoc casion, to the elect that his chief, indeed his only objeet,would be to collect intelligence of what was going oa in B ikh.tra, Oorgunj, Turkestan, &c., and forward the same to his Gover n the 3rd of October a letter was despatched to Sirdar Mahomed Akram Khan, prohibiting his carrying out his previous orders to proceed into Toorkestan, and enj 'Ming his speedy return to Kabul after he should have realwed the revenues of Bamocan, &c. MOULMAIN.—Tyranny and oppression have mgt their reward; Captain Durand, commissioner in the Tenasserim Provinces, has been removed, and been sameelled by Mr. J. It. Colvin, late resident at Nepaul. The Eastern Star says :—" We believe there was no doubt that Mr. J. P. Grant was the first intended for the post, but his pre sence in the Mysorc territories continues to required by the financial dis:rganisation of the Itajah's treasury, and an opportunity has thus been given to the collectors, of singular coincilences, who have been jotting down he alternate successions of Lords Ellenbomugh and Auck land, to minute a bit of fact about the private secre taries of those noblemen. Capt. Darind, as we are told, returns to his regiment: to duties which he has before illustrated by active, zealous, and able discharge, and from which he cannot more than ourselves regret that routine patronage removed him to others that will furnish so un pleasant a reminiscence in his career. We have our doubts, however, if a political place will not be found for the late Commissioner by the time he prepares to join his military duties." THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1847. without some local claims upon your notice. I was born, bred, and educated in the very heart of the city of West =jester, and within the teemed of the Abbey bells, and i base endeavoursd to show my sense of what was due to that circumstance, by endeavouring to discharge the duties of a citizen. (Cheers.) These &Mee have been already too favourably noticed by the proposer and seconder of me nomination. But I am quite aware that if that were all bad to offer, and if my political conduct bad not been in unison with the feelings and wishes of the great body of the electors of the county of Middlesex, I should hove no right to appear before you on the present occasion. 1 am, however, gentlemen, hippy to think that I have POOP claims to your political confidence. I entered into political life twenty-five years ago, and I then found an unreformed parliament in no way representing the people of England. ( Hear, hear.) I found the criminal law full of anomalies • I found civil disabilities and penal laws in existence agains t our Roman Catholic fellow subjects. (Hear, hear.) I found laws in farce pressing moat unjustly and unsatisfactorily upon the consciences of those denominations of Christians who sincerely differ from the Church to which I belong. I found slavery existing in the colonies; I fount our trade and com merce fettered by the most unjust monopolies ; and I found —what was the worst of all—that it was impossible to obtain any redress of grievances, however clearly established, or in disputably proved. (Cheers.) I hesitated not to attach myself to that small but increasing bend of men who bad joined toeeler far the purpose of destroying that pernicious system and substitutieg the more whole some state of things in which we now live. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, during the whole of that period my conduct has been at least consistent. (Hear, hear.) At present, I be lieve that political consistency is somewhat at a discount; l and although I cannot say that time and circumstances have never modified my opinion upon political subjects, yet I can say, and I have reason to thank that the great secret of the confidence reposed in me by my late constituents may he found in the Let, that during the whole of that time I was never compelled entirely to alter my opinion upon any at those measures which upset the system to which I have just referred. (Hear, hear ) We gave the first blow to that system by aiding Canning in 1828, and wegave the crowning blow to it by assisting Sir R. Peel upon a late occasion. Now during this struggle, continued with various successes, I had the distinguished satisfaction of finding myself upon every occasion side by side a ith your late lamented and re spected representative, Mr. G. Byng. (Cheers.) That le the title, and the only title I have for appearing before yes on the present occasion. Bat do not suppose that I have the slightest disposition to repose myself beneath the taus* already obtained. There arc still many social, fiscal, male mercial, and educational reforms to be accomplished whisk will empire the most unwearied exertions to bring about, but which those whom I now address will, I hope, live to witness. (Cheers.) I am warmly attached to the working classes, and fed deeply what we all owe to them, especially to those of Middlesex. Mr. Cobden, than whom there is no more accurate observer, said, " that however great might be the industry of the working claws; of the manufacturing dis tricts to which he belonged, still he must say, that by the artisans of London and Middlesex they were fairly sur passed." I think they have been mot eaely negeeted ; and I can assure the electors of Mtldlesex, that any measure which may be brought forward Caving for its object their amelioration, will have my most earnest support. (Cheer's.) But whatever may be the opinions of the electors of Middle sex as to the reforms still necemary, I trust that all minor differences will be laid aside, that we may all unite to sup port the government and to support each other, in rodeo ouric g to enable the country to pass through the crisis upon which we have now entered. (Hear.) We must assist the government and each other; and use every effort of privets virtue to stem the difficulties we are sure to encounter, even if it should please God to give up, at an early period, a plentiful return of the fruits of the earth. (Hear, la ara I have now for a gee at length of time represented a large, enlightened, and influential constituency, where the suffrage is nearly universal ; and as I have been made the subject of a not very sparing or measured attack in consequence of a eertain opinion which I hold, I must beg permission again to say a few words about myself, especially as I have been told that I am on this occasion " the Pope.' candidate for the county of Malillesex." (Cries of "No.") I am sure that before so enlightened an audience it is quite unnecessary for me to say that I am not " the Pope's candidate." I am nobody's candidate; otherwise I should not have been chosen by the electors of Middlesex, who would have none other than an independent person. (Cheers.) Indeed, considering the enlightened sentiments of the sovereign who now fills the chair of St. Peter, I am not quite sure that I would not rather be "the Pope's candidate" than the nominee of the gentleman who applied that epithet to me. (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) You must be all perfectly familiar with the correspondence which has taken place between Mr. Hoare, on behalf of others, and myself—a cortespondeace of which they were so proud that they sent copies of it to every elector in the county. (Laughter.) Now, I must complain of the manner in which that correspondence has been dealt with; for in stead of publishing Mr. Hoare's letter to me and my reply thereto, they withheld my reply for three days, during which time they concocted a long and laboured answer to it, and then published the three together, giving themselves the very unfair advantage sear me of two to one—(cheers and laughter)—thus depriving me of the power sf laying simultaneously before the public any remarks or explanations which I might have considered it due to myself to make. (Hear, hear.) Now, I call that rather sharp practice ; for although I am quite sure it did not originate in any intention of unfairness, still I think they ought to have had a little more considera tion for a man who was on his trial before a constituency of the country than to publish a correspondence in that unfair way upon a subject on which the public mind is much ex cited, and upon which mneh misconception and maunder stsnding exists. (Hear, hear.) I cannot accept their ex planation of my sentiments upon that subject. I must beg to be judgd by my own words, and what I meant to say was that should any measure be proposed for endowing the Roman Catholic priesthood of Ireland, I would, having no religious objections to the proposition, hold myself at liberty either to consent or to oppose it. (Cries of "No church allowance," " Separation of church and state.") You may perhaps nay that such an answer is somewhat ambiguous. I a mit it. But that only shows the unfairness of putting questions to candidates on a measure which is not before the House of Commons; which has not been before the country for the last 20 years ; and which, to the best of my knowledge and belief, no one of those parties, who are likely to wield the destinies of the country, have the slightest intention of proposing. (Hear.) I du say, considering the present state of the country, the excitement which prevails upon the subject, and the defections which have recently taken place in the established church,—considering, also. the reiterated declarations of the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland that they will accept of no endowment; that deny minister were to propose such a measure my confidence in his discretion would be materially abated. (Cheers.) I am told that I was rash in the answer which I gave to Mr. Hoare's letter. (No, no.) Had I been inclined to tempo rise I might have framed a cautious diplomatic !eau. which nobody could have laid hold of ; I disdained, however, to do so. I never vo•ed for the Maynooth grant, and for the best of all reasons—the opponents of that measure never put the question to the vote; they never ventured to come to a division on the subject. Although I voted for the motion of Lord F. Egerton, I did it twenty years since under circumstances wholly different from the present. I have written a letter to Mr. Hoare in the same sprit in which I speak—in a spirit of perfect freedom, and in a spirit in which I always intend both to speak and to write. I am no political adventurer seeking to obtain a seat in parliament by flattering prevailing prejudices. (Hear, bear.) I have neither ambition nor private objects to serve. I am here to defend my own consistency ; and if I am to sit for Middlesex, I trust it will be on • satisfactory statement and understand ing of my opinions. (Hear, hear.) What I shall ask in I return on your part is this : I have twenty years' chit- racter from my last place. (Cheers and laughter.) Now which of pas can produce a better ? (Continued laughter.) I say, don't endeavour to tie and fetter my hands with pledges and promises, especially with respect to measures which are not before par lia ment. (Cheers.) If you agree with me inopinion, give me your confidence ; at all events, put a fair construction on my words and arguments. (Cheers.) You talk about "endowing uuth and endowing error;" but I ask is the state about to interfere in each matters ? I now approach the subject to which the latter part of the corm spondence has reference ; and I do so with very great un willingness, for I should be sorry if any expression whatever should fall from me which could be supposed to partake, in the smallest degree, of an irreverent character in treating so serious and so sacred a subject. It is far from my intention to speak of the opinions of my correspondent in terms of ridicule or disparagement, least of all 'tmid I feel inclined so to speak of a clans of gentlemen who, though I think they are grievously mistaken in this instance, I am sure considered they were doing their duty la putting forth such statements in such terms ; but I feel compelled to notice that particular part of the letter because I wish to point out, if possible, the dreadful inconsistency which those who support such views are attributing to Divine Providence. They attribute to Divine Providence by the inference they say we ought to draw from certain events which they have pointed out, that we have bon visited with the wrath of Providence for endowing lam College of Maynooth ; and they assert that, although We have for many years endowed the Roman Catholic de rp of Canada, and the college at Mayaooth in Ireland, and , been unscathed by Divine Providence, yet when in the pro em of time it became necessary to increase the grant of money for such objects, all those dreadful &amain have fallen upon us as a judgment. That assertion, if it mean anything, is equivalent to this—that it is the degree and amount, and not the principle, that constitutes crime in the eyes of Omniscience. (A voiw, "It is bigotry," and cheers.) I am told that in consequence of my entertaining these opinions, my connexion with the county of Middlesex will be very short. (Cries of "No, no," and cheers.) If that be the case, I shall undoubtedly be extremely mortified to lose the high and distinguished honour which you have this day conferred upon me; but I shall bow without a murmur to the decision of the electors, because I am well aware how very imperfectly qualified I am to discharge the duties of the high station in which you have placed me. But this I ever shall say, that the proudest hour of my existence was that when, after five and twenty years of public life, during which time I have never altered nor con cealed my opinions, I was called upon to succeed such a man as your late representative in Parliament by a requi sition the most numerously and respectably signed, by men of all parties, that was ever presented to a public man. (Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, sincerely thanking you for the very great kindness with avliieh you have been pleased, on such a day as this, to listen to me, and most cordially thank ing you for the honour you have conferred upon me—and which I need scarcely say I value most highly—and knowing that I shall vary shortly be called upon to tell you in what manner I have fulfilled the trust which you have confided to me, I respectfully, for the present, take my leave of yon. (Much cheering. Sir W. STIRLING congratulated the electors of Middlesex on the choice they had made, and expressed his isonfidence that the noble lord would always be found the advocate of pure and rationalliberty, and of those temperate, moderate, and liberal principles, in which he considered the true Sappiness of the community rested—and which were equally removed from the wild proceedings of democracy, and the grasping and cupidity of aristocratic dominion. He looked upon the noble lord as the faithful expositor of the feelings of the great balk of the middle classes • who, in his opinion, were the fittest depositaries of poli tical power, and the surest guides and guardians of the common weal. (Cheers.) Lord It. GROAVENOR then proposed • vote of thanks to the sheriffs for the manner in which they had conducted the proceedings which was carried by acclamation. Mr. Sheriff CHALLIS, in returnina thanks, raid, it was a source of congratulation to him that in the first set of this kind which he had had to perform he had been instrumental in giving the freeholders of Middlesex an opportunity of re. lecting ro excellent • member as his noble friend. He should be glad if the general election should fall within his year of office to find all of them at their posts to do their duty DS well as they had done that dor. (Hear, hear.) The usual ceremony of girding on the sword, end affixing the spurs,was then performed and the proceedings terminated. LORD GEORGE Bk:NTINCK AND THE IRISH RE PREsENTATIAEs.—A meeting of Irish members was sum moned by Lord George Hentinck, for two o'clock on Tuesday, the 2nd inst., at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's street, to afford his lordship an opportunity of explaining the outlines of a plan which he intends to bring forward this evening in the House of Commons, on the subject of railways in Ireland. Owing to some make eke in the arrangements no preparations were made at Fenton'e for the meeting, and the accommodation at Fendall's Hotel. Palace-yard, to which it was adjourned, being round insuf ficient, it was ultimately held at the committee-room of the newly formed " Irish Party," 8, Palace-yard. Lord George Beaten& addressed the members in attendance at consider able length, and explaint d with great minuteness the provisions of the plan which he intends to submit to the consideration of the house this evening, which, as we are informed, was warmly approved of by his attentive and deeply interested auditory, who promised to give it all the support that was in their power. The plan noised through town, is that of refusing all grants for permanent measures for Ireland, except such as are concentrated upon railroads, these to be calculated at four millions a year far four 3 ears. B.tL COSTUME AT CROCKFORD . S.—The first series of balls at the new assembly tunics in Croekfurd'e Club, concluded with the past mouth, and to crown that event a fancy dm* ball was given last evening. The entertainment was well supported and well arranged, a degree of order being preserved that is not to be found in the more wild revels of a masquerade, while, at the risme time, the amusements did not degenerate into the " slow," which is los frequently the result of good arrangement s—howevergood they may be. The costumes were numerous and varied, although not diverging from the beaten track of such disguises; indeed, it L surprising that habitlo4 of such places—persons whom one meets on every occasion, and who evidently make their daces a study, should not exercise • little invention in that respect. However, there was lee of this to complain of than usual last evening, when everything "went o 6" re markably well. The band was excellent, and did full jus tice to the new quadrille and polka composed fur the ocea lion by H. Jullien. CHINA. /toms KoNn.—No fresh disturbances at Canton; but the withdrawing of the steamer Nemesis has caused some unea siness. This is the lessen when fires are most likely to occur; TA whether accidental or incendiary, it is most de sirable that, in the event of such a calamity, a ship of war be on the spot to afford protection, and a refuge for ladies and children. Thefe arc seven ships of war—three of them steam-vessels—idling in this harbour; there is not one at Canton. THE BOMBAY MARKET. (From the Cie1:11:erolt.;;;e; ceOTerl;;;lPrice Coreent.) BOMBAY, JAN. 2, 1017.—Stnee the decorture of last mail there has been no improvement In the impel% market, either as regards extent of demand or increase of prices; on the contrary, the hater have had a downward tendency, more particularly those of cotton Wece frocAn of which large supplies have been thrown on the market in the atone, of demand, me( to which the tame Is chiefly, if not en tirely attributable, otherwise the recent arnmanta from England would naturaliv tend to produce an advance in prices, corresponding in some dewee to that established at Manchester owing to the increased mat of the 1:1•I m Aerial. No Marwarrie buyers have as yet roue forward, their absence being by the dealers attributed chiefly to the uncertainty prevailing us to the recent opium gambling bargain,, which are now about to become subjects of litigation in the Supreme Court. probably this mate of matters, while it lasts, may contribute to keep money, as it now is, pretty may. Mr ama—A very limited amount of business has been done in these during the pest f autistic. The only roles reported to us are - SS cwt. tile copper at Sara. per cwt.: 100 kegs Iron nails at 12 y on. per cwt. ; and 400 bundles damaged boor at 154 on. Corona MANUFALTIIOII.—The prices for Facet goals have ruled lower during the mod fortnight than they did before, generally in emmemienee of small demand, and the peculiar salmi above alluded to. The continued absence of Marwarrie purchasers weakens the market, aad renders it ill able to hear the heavy oaks which have been premed upon it. Altogether the state and prospects 'of the markets, for English pure goods are very unnuis factory. The principal sales effected base been of grey pueonets and domestics, and 45. inch long clothe, with a few white abirtiags. The demand for fumy goods of all kinds Is particularly ' languid, and mles cannot be made to any extent except at rates entailing heavy loss. There le Mill same inquiry for goad 45 inch grey sloth. White long cloths have been sold low, and the lower and middling qualities of white Mad:mono:in are unsaleable except at a sacrifice. YALNII.—MuIe and water are both pretty stationary, if anything rather under previous rake. Womars•--Nothing reported as doing. BNF.M.—A sale of Allsopp's to the amount of GO hhds., at Re. G 5 per hbd. has been effected. By this sale the stock of " Allsopp " 121 again ' reduced to a kw casks, and no farther supplies, either of this or Pars and Company's, will be here until the new make their appearance, which are nut looked for before the month of May, none having been s Mined at the date of the last amounts, and would not be for three weeks afterwards, the brewing having been delayed, owing to the mildnem of the weather at bane. Snore.—No chance in peke quoted, and no sales reported. fisrmosi.—A ask is reported to us of 1301bs. inferior, at It. i, be ing one rum/item than our last quotation. Coentsam.-24othing reported. • EASTERN BROOME Our cotton market ha. been very active, and the purehasm and shipments are ewnparatively large ; pia mar be quoted rose:- derably higher than last mail. The quality of stocks in the market Is very inktior. Accounts of the new crop are favourable both as to finality and quantity, and we understand contracts for new hove been making in Surat at about 95 rupees per candy. Subjoined arc the rates now current for this staple : Brooch and Sorat, 1t5.86 tu 87 per candy; Jumboceeer, 80 to 81 ; Dollera, 75 to 75; Oomeawuttee, 79 to 80; Harare, 74 to 76; Compta, 72. Woo,— The arrivals have been large, but the quality being very Indifferent, and holders indisposed to give way In price, little or no thing boo been done. Famoorra—These have varied Owe last mail, a vessel having thhi week been taken up at 40s. to Liverpool, although several engage manta have since been made at 835., and to-day's rates may be quoted as firm at that. London, 80s. to 825., whilst 10 to II re. per candy la obtainable for China. MONET ?Assam —The money market is tolerably raw, and the value of public stocks and government lts. 103 i ent securitkii pretty stationary. ant, loan d do 1 1 :1.33 „94 4 Do. do 1 833 - 36 „B7 3 Do. do 1841.42 4 Do. do 1842-43..... ,88to 90 EVIIAVOL may now be quoted en :London ' from at 2.01, with a tendency upwards, for good bills, at six months. On Calcutta, 97i ; Made,. 90; and Chins, 210—nominal. Bank shares are as follows: Bank of Bombay Oriental Bank, old shares 23 Ditto, dile°, new ditto .. • ... „„ 22 Agra Bank .............. „ St at 25-11telusive of the Itonim divirablo on 30th June. 1447, of 40 tns per there. Commercial do. ........... „ 2at 21—Lprem.,ast Sole but once reported 10 of fered out at lower num or RCI.LION. Soverri7o., ca,h Bank of lingl.trui onto,, per L. MIDDLESEX ELECTION. The vacancy in the representation of the county occasioned by the death of the late Gemini Byng, Esq , was filled up yesterday by the election of Lord Robert Grosvenor. The noble lord was escorted from his residence in London to the hustings at Brentford by a large number of the free holders of the north, east, and southern divisions of the county, and at Kew Bridge, according to previous arrange ment, several of those of the western division joined the pro ceasion. Notwithatandinz the inclemency of the weather, which was the less endurable from the business being carried on in the open air, there was a considerable body of persons present. At 10 o'cloca the noble lord arrived, and took his ' place on the hustings, accompanied by the lion. P. Bou aerie, Sir E. N. Buxton, Bart., S. C. Whitbread, Esq., the lion. F. 'lynx, Sir W. Stiring, Sir W. Clay, M.P., Sir Be Lacy Evans, M.P., and others of the electors. Lady Grosve nor and family were also present, and rtmsined until the close of the proceedings. The Sheriff's of London and Mid dlesex (Mr. Alderman Challis and Mr. Kennard) pi elided. The usual forms of reading the writ of election, the Bribery A, t, &e. having been gone through, Mr. Alderman and Sheriff CHALLIS, in opening the bard. ness of the meeting, said, it was impossible for them to beas acmhled on any matter more coon. eted with the interests and happiness of a people who are guided by wisdom and ex peri ..ace. It was impossible to attach too much importance to the opportunity given of electing their representatives ; and is the proportion that they sought integrity and pro priety of principle in the man they elected, so would their inte rests be eared for and attended to—by expecting and exacting the same honour, the same industry, the same integrity from him. . . Having passed a high culogium on the political conduct and consistency of the late memo' eshe observed, that, how ever much some of them might dal; r from the politics of the present noble candidate, in no measure which involved the benefit of the country had he ever been the last to lend the sanction of his name or influence; and concluded by calling upon any one prepared to do so to propose a candi date, and soliciting • fair and impartial hearing for all parties. The Hon. P. BM/TRATE came forward and said that the proposal he was about to submit was PO likely to be received with ;general and unanimous support that he need not detain them at any length. They were called upon to choose a successor to • man who had been elected by them fourteen or fifteen times, and had represented them more than half a century • a man who, having chosen his political creed In early life, had consistently adhered to it to the end. (Cheers.) During the whole course of his political life Mr. Byng had proved himself th friend of civil and religious liberty, and had always held that the well-governing of • country consisted in providing thr the welfare of the many and not of the few. The principles of the late representative the electors of Middlesex had adopted, and it now became their duty to find a person to succeed him who entertained the some vices, and would carry into effect the same practices. Happily fur them they had • candidate whose principles they could judge of not merely from his promises, not from any written address, to the electors, but from the acts of a long political life. That candidate was the noble lord beside him. (Cheers.) During twenty years that noble lord had shown himself the friend of civil and religious liberty, and had taken • part, always on the side of the people, in all the questions of social ameudmeot and commercial reform which had durine that period agitated the country. He entirely *greed with the sentiments of the noble lord, and haa no hesitation in re commending him as their representative. (Cheers.) He could not conclude without saying a few words as to a cor respondence which had been extensively circulated during the last few days, not with the view of entering into the sub ject to which it referred, but to mark the conduct of the noble lord in giving . a straightforward and hones' answer to an insidious question. (Hear, hear.) The person who wrote that letter was a particular friend of his, but he repu diated all the sentiments contained in it. (Cheers.) The noble lord, as he said, answered it in a straightforward and manly manner, without putting any gloss upon it, though he knew that that answer might create some difference of opinion amongst the electors. (A voice—" But ha can't smother it over.") There was, however, nothing so unfair to a candi date as to ask what he would do upon any question when you cannot state what are the contingent circumstances under which it might be brought before him. When they chose a man, the rectitude of whose political We they acknowledged, they ought to leave it to him to carry out his principles in the way most consonant to his own feelings, and not embarrass him with pledges. Such a man was Lord Robert Grosvenor, and he had great pleasure in nominating him as their representative. (Hear.) Sir E. N. Bexeox seconded the nomination. No one could be acquainted with the character aid virtaes of their late representative without entertaining for him the highest respect, and no man could throughout such a lengthened political life—extending over 56 years—have preserved such a cordial feeling with his constituents, unless he had been actuated by the highest, the best, and purest motives. (Lend cheer) When he heard of Mr. By itg's death he thought it would be • difficult matter for the electors, looking at the state of Ireland and this country, to find a man to supply his place, with equal satisfaction to themselves and to the coun try. They, however, knew:Lord R.Groevenor—they knew him to be the friend of the poor, and one who would not sanction any measure which ha thought inimical to the people or the constitution; and, although he might not concur in every santiment of the noble lard's, he was still of opinion that there was no man better qualified to represent them. No other candidate being proposed, and Lord It. Gros venor having, upon a show of hands, been declared duly elected, His LORDIIIIP (when the cheers, waving of hats, &c , which greeted him on his approach to the front of the plat form, had ceased) expressed his thanks for the warm recep tion he had received, and thus continued:—This, gentle men, is not the first time I have appeared upon the hust ings. (A Voice—" And it won't be the leaf.") I hope it will not. (Hear, hear.) Bat it is the first time I have ever had the honour to appear before you in a public character; and when I consider the extent of the constituency, and the importance of the county of which I am now the represen tative, I do say that I feel overwhelmed with a sense of my own insufficiency. Remember, gentlemen, that lam but a plain and simple man, having no pretensions to oratorical talent, and I must, therefore, solicit your indulgence even in the brief remarks which it now becomes my duty to ad dress to you. (Hear, hear.) I assure you that nothing would have induced me to obtrude myself upon your notice had I not been called upon by the whole united strength of the late lamented Mr. Byng's supporters, whose wi-lies upon the subject were conveyed to me by my_ friend Mr. Whitbread, the chairman of the committee. Nothing short of such an assurance from such en authority could have induced me to sever my connexion with my attached friends in Chester, who during a period of twenty years have ho noured me with unwavering kiedness, and the most im plicit confidence. (Cheers.) But, before I proceed to speak further of myself, permit me to say a wen( or two of the late member for the county whose memory is so dear to us all. (Cheers.) And, indeed, I do not know how I can better express what I feel in reference to that honoured and lamented gentleman than by the language of thine of his fti..nds who would inscribe upon his tomb this proud epitaph—that having for upwards of fifty years represented not merely the suburban portions of the county, but nearly one half of the metropolis duties a most critical and eventful period of our history - , he descended to the grave fall of years, without a single enemy, and with the respect and attach ment of 01l classes and parties amon-st his large and en , iightmed constituency. (Cheers.) Although, consparativly, a st:angsr among you here, I hope I am not altogeliser IRELAND. DUBLIN, Fen. 2. Charles Crawford, Esq., barrister, and third son of W. S. Crawford, Esq., has been appointed assistant poor-law commissioner. The appointment, I under stand, was wholly unsolicited, and the voluntary act of Mr. Twislcton, under whom Mr. Crawford had been engaged in making some returns connected with the poor law. Mr. Crawford was called to the bar in 1839. A Mr. Baldwin, in a letter to the Freeman, con tradicts a foolish statement made by Lord George Bentinck, that the steamers left Dublin, crowded with poor creatures, free of charge, on the certainty that they would be reshipped at full fare. Mr. Baldwin applied to the chief carriers of the port, the Dublin Steam-packet Company, and found that for the last three months the average per month is not 50, and these consist principally of persons recommended by merchants interested in the company to be conveyed to their friends in England—a very common occur rence in all shipping establishments. Eight cargoes of " breadstuffs " have been cleared out for consumption. free of duty, in the port of Dublin, since the 27th ult., consisting of 640 quarters, and 980 hectolitres of Indian corn, 500 quarters of wheat, 550 do. buckwheat, 2,823 quarters of barley, 1,144 barrels of flour, and 90 tons of potatoes. On Saturday and Monday last the central relief com mittee received subscriptions to the amount of .5001., in cluding 200/. from Messrs. Moffat and Co., of London. The awards on Friday and Saturday last were on the most extensive scale, exceeding 5,000/., which must leave the funds of the committee in a very low state. Of this large sum Donegal received 370/. ; Galway, 330/. ; Mayo, 3501. ; Roscommon, 325/. ; Tipperary, 2001.; Cavan, 1751., with various smaller sums to thirteen other counties. One of the chief causes of this liberality may be, to awaken the relief com mittees to buy in provisions in the declining state of the markets, sufficient to pass through the interval between the present system and the organisation under the new bill. The various savings banks in Ireland have a sepa rate surplus fund of about 11,0001., consisting of re alised property ; and in addition, at the end of each year, a large amount of unfunded property over and above all engagements to depositors. This sum is strictly confined by law to the management of the banks, for which it is far more than sufficient. The committee of the Cork Savings bank have taken up the subject; and with equal justice and charity seek for the appropriation of those surplus funds and property to the relief of the present distress. The property of the depositors would be wholly untouched andthe usefulness orsecurity of the banks not impaired in the slightest degree. The Cork trustees have authorised the Mayor to write to Lord John Russell urging his lordship to introduce an act giving a permissory power to the trustees to appropriate a part of their surplus property to the purposes of relief, subject to the assent of the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt. . . - In the Cork workhouse the mortality has increased from an average of one per cent. to two per cent. on the present number of inmates. In six days, accord ing to the Cork Examiner, from Monday to Saturday last, the deaths amounted to 102. This was market day on Burgh Quay, and the quantity of corn on the stands for sale was very con siderable. Little was, however, disposed of, as the holders would not sub miti to any further reduction. Whatever sales were effected were at lower rates than on Friday, but not so much as to warrant quota tion. The rates of the lower qualities of breadstuffs, including Indian corn, declined from 6d. per barrel to Is. 6d. There were vet 7 considerable quantities of the pro duce in the hands of the farmers on the Exchange to-day. MEETING OF IRISR DISTILLERS. The Irish distillers held a meeting of the trade today, at the Corn Exchange-rooms, Sir John Power in the chair, and Mr. Jamieson acting as secretary. There were very few members of the trade present, but it was understood that this arise from the number of them at present in Lon don, and who fully concurred in the object of the meeting. The purport of their addresses went to show that the Irish distillers could not continue to work under the proposed law with safety to their own interests. That consequently the trade must cease, that numben of persons, many thousands, must be thrown out of employment, and t hat a large and valuable home market for agricultural produce must be demolished. It was asserted that the duty to be levied on rum, while it afftcted to discriminate, would really enable the producers of that commodity to offer it to the consumer at a lower rate than the distiller could offer whisky, under the new bill, and the supposition that the new arrangement could, by possibility, save for the con sumption of the present year even one barrel of cern was scouted as a pretence under which the Irish distilling trade could be sacrificed conveniently to the interests of the West India merchants and planters. The aid and countenance of the distillers of England and Scotland avers solicited for a common interest, and the support of the Irish landlords and farmers was challenged as still more deeply interested in opposing the proposed law than the Irish distillers. Resolu tions and a petition in accordance with these views, were unanimously adopted, and agreed to be presented to the legislature forthwith. PROVINCIAL. BIEKERHEAD COXXISSIONERS.—Yesterday evening the usual monthly meeting of thin board was held in the com mon' ioners' rooms. The proceedings of the Market, Road, and Improvement, and Finance Committees were read and confirmed. A long conversation took place on various topics of merely local interest, when Mr. W. Laird said, I would wish to call your attention to a notice of the proceedings of this board, which has appeared in the London Daily Neva and the Express of Jan. 28. Among other remarks are the fol lowing : " A few years ago, when the Birkenhead commis mistioners refused to encounter the trouble and expense of supplying the town with those °ceramics (gas and water) Mr. Jackson came forward, almost single , handed, and took a lease of 75 years trom them." I &c. And again, " There appears to be something very like a breach of faith on the part of the commis *loners, who having held out to Mr. Jackson and his amo ciates the prospect of a fair remuneration for their enter prise, now, when these gentlemen have shown that the un dertaking is possible, seek to bilk them of their reward. Public benefit can never be promoted by private wror;:t The above are the two most prominent statemcli e s in article, the whole of which is written in the same strain. Now I think, that had the editor of the Daily News been properly informed, he would not have allowed nal a state ment to appear in his widely-circulated paper. It might bo sufficient for the commissioners simply to contradict these statements; but I would wish to go further, and through the reporters now present to express the design of the com missioners, that the fullest information should he given on this subject; and with this view I would move that *copy of the gas and water committees' report with the appeudires extracted from the books of the commbrioners, and the circular issue 1 by that committee be forwarded to the edits r of the Daily Ames, offering to give him every in formation on the subject, and to allow him to verify the Cor rectness of the repot. by personal inspection of the cern mimioners' books, and that a emy of this resolution be signed by the chairman, and forwarded to the editor of the Doily A ewe and Erpreu. The motion was not pressed, it having been considered infra dig to reply to every erroneous state meat which might app, sr in the newspapers. Mr. Towns end read a letter from Mr. Mallaby. in which that gentleman gged respectfully to feeder his resignation as law-clerk to the commiseioners The letter ran i n to some detail relative to the Gas and Water Commith e, but the thairman did not feel himself at liberty to hand a copy of it to the reporters. Mr. William I.aird, • seconded by Mr. Wed, moved that Mr. Mallaby's resignation be scented with regret, and that a committee be appointed to consider the duties of the future law-clerk, and secure the services to this hoard of a profes sional agent who will devote his time solely to their business, and who will not, din ctly or indirectly, be interested far er with other parties as a private practitioner,—the committee to consist of the chairmen of the committees, Mr. tt'ood, Mr. Thomson, and Mr. Denier, and that the parliamentary com mittee be r. quested to continue the service a of Mr. Mallaby fur the present bills before pas liament.—The board then ad journed; but as the members were leaving the room, Mr Potter said,--" Gentlemen, I shall beg you to appoint sun therchainnan for your next meeting !" A pause follewed —all were taken by surprise—Mr. Potter immediat.ly I, ft, and his ober ration was taken as a resignation of his office of chairman of the board.—Lireepool Courier. THE EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT AT MANCTIESTEII. , Thos. Smith, collector to Mr. Alderman Shuttleworth, charged with eraberiling money paid into his hands to the account of Mears. Struts, of Derby, was brought up at the Borough Court, Manch, ester, yesterday, for further examina tion. It was then proved that on the 2nd Feb., 1846. Messrs. Do Jersey, merchants, paid him a cheque for 1601. 125.; that on the 22nd May Wore. umpeil and Co. paid him a cheque for 511. Gs. ; that on the 13th June Messrs. Abraham Troos and Sons, merchants, paid him 1241. Ifis. ; and that on the 30th October Mr. Zolus, merchant, paid him 271. or account of Messrs. Strut*; end that he had accounted for none of these sums. At the conclusion of these proceeding , ' he was committed for trial. His attorney asked if bail would be accepted ? Mr. Maude intimated that 6001. would be as cepted ; but no bail was forthcoming, and the prhoner was removed in custody. DURHAM. CURIOIR SALE OF RAILA AV FROPERTY.—Thz Stock ton and Darlington Railway Company have announced a sale of various "articles from time to time left in the com pany's coaches and offices." They form fifty-one lots, and consist of coats, baskets, fishermen's boots, machinery, shawls, bundles, bags, bonnets, handkerchief., veils, hems, books, umbrellas, gloves, walkiugaticks, portfolios, brooches, pins, and plaids. DERBYSHIRE. A MURDER WAS COMMITTED AT DERBY on Tuesday. A gardener, named Cross, living in a court in St. Peter's-streets in that town, attacked his wife and nearly cut her head off. The wife of a baker, one Mrs. 0-borne, hearing cries of dis tress, ran into the house, when Cross stabbed her glee seiveral times so severely that her life is in danger. The emelt rer wiped his blood.stained knife, and attempted to escape, but was taken into custody. THE OLD GAME OF FOOTBALL FLAYED IN DERBY, On Shrove Tuesday or Ash Wechu slay, from time immemorial, has been declared to be illegal by the authorities of that borough. Measures have been taken to prevent peracns assembling on those days, and t'e pains and penalties of the law are threatened against all who ettempt the continuance of the ancient sport. The local paper describes the amuse ment as brutal in itself, unsuited to the feelings of the pre sent day, prejudicial to business, and productive of drun kenness. NORFOLK. CUMULATIVE SENTENCES FOR FOACHINO.—Thcse COM have already been several times noticed, and on Saturdays the 30th ult., James Barney was Lrouaht before the magis trates at Norwich for the third time, and charged with poaching on the 21st of Nov. last, at llonford, and a witness was called who said be saw him with a hare. Defendant was now out of gaol, where he bad been sentenced this day month for four weeks for a similar offence, On that occa sion, also, he was then out, having, fur another offenre, been sentenced to a fortnight's imprisonment. Mr. Stracey thought these cumulative sentences highly objectionable, especially as this off, nee was said to have been committed before the one for which the man had been RUH: ring. It was very unlike the prisoner's having returned to the prac- I lice after his punishment ; and be thought a month's impel 'moment at most would meet the justice of the case. The Rev. John ltumfrey and Capt. Bradshaw thought not, and agreed to give him two months. Mr. St racey refused to sign the conviction. If the government (soya the Bury Post) interferes with such eases, why bas it not interfered with these ? QOACKERT AND DEATM.—The village of Honing has been in a state of excitement in consequence of the sudden death of a person named John July, under very suspicious circum stances; and on Tuesday se'nnight Mr. Pilgrim, the county coroner, held an inquest on the body, which was adjourned to Thursday. It appeared that the deceased, on the preced ing Thursday, being in ill health, consulted a noted quack, named Staples, of Needham, and bad some medicine of him, with written instructions. He took the medi cine on the Friday night and died on the Sunday morn ing, in a state of great excitement. The medicine was analysed by Mr. Dix and Mr. Classes, who were clemly of opinion that it was not calculated to destroy life ; but they did not approve of Mr. Staples' treatment of the de ceased.—The jury, after considering, returned a vi relict, that the deceased died from natural caus.s. "It is astou:shing," say the local papers, " that in these days of enlightenment, persons should be found so simple as to put faith in such men as Staples, who pretends to cure diseases by charms and spells. In his instructions to Juby, after giving directions for the taking of the medicine, he said, ' Bullock melt to be applied to the feet; let them remain no for twenty-four hours ; when taken offs, bury them in the earth.' By this process he affirmed the disease would be drawn f:-um the body into the melt, and would remain in the earth when the melt was buried." ..... No FAMINE FOIL THE PREASANTE.—A correspondent writes:—" Much is just now said about the scarcity of pro viaions, but perhaps the public have no idea of the quantity consumed by game. I know a MIDJUILIC-sized estate, not many miles from Peter-field, where the keeper has 21 bushels of earn served out to hi= once a wcek, for feeding the phea sants alone; what must it be on a logo estate i" KENT. . _ AN ACCIDENT OCCUIIItED ON TUILiDAY IN AIIIIOTT'S CLIFF TUNNEL, on the South Eastern Railway, midway between the tertninus and the Folkestone station, by which Joel Rusb, the master of the electric telegraph at Dover, met with a frightful death. The unfortunate man was greatly respected, having been in the service of the company since the opening of the like. It appears that the deceased, hav ing experienced some difficulty in the course of the forenoon, in transmitting mersages per telegraph to Folkestone, it is supposed he determined on proceeding along the tine to in spect the wires, with a view of ascertaining where the defect existed ; and, on the 1 o'clock atterooonpsasengertrain leav ing Dover fur town he got on the engine w:th the driver and stoker. When the train had advanced about 30 or 40 yards in the Abbott's Cliff tunnel, the engine-driver saw him fall against the wall on the left hand side, and disappear benea•h the train. The engine was stopped, and the body of Mr. Rush was found frightfully mutilated lying arrow the rails. An inquest was held yesterday. Verdiett—"Accidental death." UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. Oxman, nab 2.—br Clowvocarion to be hoiden on the 4th of Mara, the teffrerteg tether redskin:es for Sir Robert Taylor's foondatics win he intendlled Y Ihe home Ihdise f oyraw., mi ditisonst.—Te= a um net eisseling 1,0004 in the ['archon of Melo kg the at the inativation. To employ a further tat wasalls. Lk rev in the psalm of booko—tho la be eggalehd, end at Ent for five yvare .sly, with the glll 7 Prehmsgellilidern Zumpain Lanspaseak . het to be re-eli. =To be rineemble el any thee with the emieurresse ant dye minden tar mewl et tidy, or hr ImmemellUr f a z beelhe or kobilo. Snub a slows with Ms dentrlnne se ef the itlmidi et Embeme. Te he a inember ef the et the lf time • fib silnimiro. Te tests an email =1 3 4.111. holy eras, la hse srechiel Merge daring the reddens hardiefter retsina ef Dories ef the Professor . To Mims Mr elbesamblememme one of the principal bur. inassisf le tur • mime loot leas than eight kebece in emblem.memispedmisl we to he university. libraries le ha by Neigh/ the etwelems. le he renting in the building, nod higilhe Aeneas& anprintehlsce of It, aubject to the direction nod andeil et gm condom To le hive netant attendance ; and to thew eta molester the Woke, am dered, in a reglatee. To receive in amid gaped et Mi.—Trackers to be appointed Snit .n Germs ealltaseb, and ler gee years only ; but to be metlaible. To le remenelie at any tine with the occurrence of at lent ▪ enentera. lb receive an emu al Move' each of 130‘. Duties of Theellee—ht be midget Is the Colverdte throughout nab leigh end to be at the dimpled of the curators, for the purpose of wog or lecturing in the Taylor building four bourn duly. Such tad isetaring to ha atada, and open to all member* of the Rol . Mewl le he* *percale. with the consent of the custom. we dies the=tedihne.. If British subjects by birth, is arahneile hi!le The plash d the rahl having been to a large amount ," suetelpsielleenehtglhe hafle& eel the entire resounre therefur not being snide he to se tee yews to mime, it bee ken judg , 4 are =pelmet le mho • emessemeelt as a ode tr 41 • esteol mew. The grime abort his fear te se es to Ism a biro gib eighaeble to the tgoidatlon °d. debt. Alm llee Noe Ihs ohms Y te le empleted ; the etl he. hese assn osmium Se le Ile weighs to aid ie ice ha wag be thetele spells& • luthee elven limn. that the =lent el the emesl memo et the Atta r be, will bale l am as eel, elemeetelly the ..../unent, hind amens* to* papule tithe Witte tutt of the FiCa• COMM:a; ism. a—The earabidlig- for will be bed in the Saiaateibbran,samildenelan 44 le vhmical tripoe nine o'clock. Candidates are repnled to re _ liondaY, Peb, IS, at of the ksamineram or Were tee seceding ge l i ntheir names to one Irraluy. Tor Blerefor or beams ha No"' prune A his Intentions of hoichng go moral ordinations fox the builder, Beptisubor ID; Sunday, Der Trinie3' blooday, Nay soli SiresEwa ov Marocsueerea.—We „A'..__,ee 19 . rumour, that th e Bev. J. Slade, be Rt . Waite) bare beardCheraw Cathedral, la to • VAt Aram—North., Rev. A. ISeachard ; s of. luelf_j• • Pot, th e ton C., :Norfolk of the Bishop of No. wleh, and pit T ows , Pompom', Monday caused but, at the trial owed, and the a.. provided :le holds ne, neani a he lazy. J. ItYile, v n, and Canon of eel, Ii to b. the s Air Brialiop oI Pdamehester. -North." R.» • -ir ate a - 0, Rashest.; value 150/.; pat. sard deuth of Rev. T. Price. Nut folls u aLchee. the of Norwich ; and Redenhall R. fr. In- . • SOU. . pat. the Duke of N or f.& Norwich tin the county of .t="Tr 11 0" . ..4 the death of the viig NAVAL. rF A .1 ; ' • 1 Faa. b.—The grnirsx.— •• • I the dpbynx to be moved •• • •*,. 1 is.et night, all endeavo urs • e • „.„. unfortunateship isagain • • •.t"' olds together so long.—Po 4 . gtikik fi .7.1-11 Re. II 3 0 1/ 0 0 Zbe Qroutt. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Anvil took their lima' early morning walk. The Earl of Lic erp ool and Captain Francis Sey mour left the emtle t o -d ay. A deputation from the distillers of Scotland, con listing of Mr. Fell, Mr. Gray, and Mr. Celeille, had an in terview with the Earl of Clarendon, yesterday, at the Office of the Board of Trade. A deputation of paper-makers, con sitting of Mr. John Cameron (chairman), Mr. Chalks Cowan, Mr. Edward Collins, Mr. Alexander Pirie, jun., Mr. Thomas Wrigli y, and Mr. T. B. Crompton, had an in terview with the Chancellor of the Exchequ , r, yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The deputation was headed by Mr. James Oswald, M.P. The Commissioners of Metropolitan Improvements had a meeting yesterday at the office of the Wow!" end Forests, in iVhitehaP-pl tee. There were present Vi.coutit Morpeth, the It'leit Hon. J. C. Herries, the Lonl Mayor, Mr. Alderman Ifurnpherv, Sir Robert Inglis, Sir Charles Lemon, Mr. Milne, the Hon. C. A. Gore, and Mr. Clnks; Barry.—The Ecclesiastical Commissioners tor England had a general meeting yeit,rday at their office in Whitehall place. Mr. H. F. Young had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial Office. Mr. Wilson Patton, hI.P., had an interview with the Right Hon. E. Strutt yesterday at the office of the Cnmmuaiones of Railways, in Great George-street. Mr. 11. Lushingtin had an interview yester day with E trl Grey. Sir Charles Napier had an interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson yesterday at the Board of Trade. Mr. Ward, M.P., had en interview yes terday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President of the Council), gave a grand dinner last evening at Lansdowne House to all the Cabinet Ministers (with the exception of Lord John Russell) ; and also to the Great Officers of State of the Queen's Household, and the Clerksof the Privy Council. During the evening the Roll of Sheriffs for the present year was se:tled by the noble: Marquis and the Lords of the Privy Council present, preparatory to its being pricked by Her Majesty in council. Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial Office, for the Gavernor General of Canada ; and also for the Governors of the other North-American provinces. Mr. Lambton, arrived at Farrance's hotel, tipper Belgrave-etreet, yesterday, from Brighton. THE NATURAL HISTORY Oh' THE COURT NEWS MAR.—Sir,—The Court Circular printed in your paper yes terday contains the following sen'ence : "Mr. Alfred Smee, the surgeon to the Bank of England, had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon at the office of the Board of Trade. yesterday, and exhibited specimens of the aphis vastator,' the cause of the potato disease, with the effects of the insect on the potato and various other plants." The " hall mark" with which the official character of the paragraph seems to stamp the more than doubtful theory of the Surgeon to the Bank of Englaad, may hove the dangerous effect of mis leading bitter naturaiista than even the court newsman. The "aphis vastator" has—in the opinion of much higher authorities than that quoted in the court circular—as little to do with the potato disease as the court newsman ought to have to du with anything beyond the chronicles of mere fashion.—A POTATO PLANTlL—lsleworth, Feb. 3.