The Express. — London, England, 1847-10-11 00:00:00

fry the Scourge, steam-sloop, Commander Coffin, to lAshors, where the Queen Dowager will land and make a short skit to the Queen of Portugal, then re-embark on board the Rowe and sail for Madain, the Scourge continuing in tom paoy with the Howe. The Vixen steamer, Commander Eyder, it is said, will follow, and join the royal cortege at Lisbon, and will thee be despatched onward to announce that her Majesty the Queen Dowager is on her passage to the island from Madeira. It is arranged that the Scourge shall communicate frequently with the island of Madeira. The royal cortege on board the Howe consists of 4:1 personages. 'The Scourge has her Majesty's horses and carriages on board. Pour additional lieutenants have been appointed to the Howe for this voyage only , a s two will be in each watch durin g the whole time of Queen Adelaide's sojourn afloat. MINISTERtaL MOVEMENTS.—The Marquis of Lans downe (the Lord President of the Council) to expected to arrive at Lansdowne House, from Bowood Park, IVelts, this evening or to-morrow morning, to preside at the cabinet council to-morrew.—The Earl Grey LI to leave Howick hall, Northumberlaed, to-day, for Hatchet, near Windeer,whenco his lordship comes to town to morrow.—The Marquis of Clanricarde came to town yesterday, accompanied by the Marchioness and Lady Emily de Burgh, from 'Will], the Earl and Countess Cowper, at P sash anger, Herts.—The Right Hon. Sir J. Cam Hohhouse returns to London to-day from Erlitoke Park, Wilts, in order to be present at the meeting of the cabinet.—The Right Hen. T. B. Macaulay has arrived in town.—The Lord Chancellor is to arrive in Park-lane to-morrow, from Copee.bill.—Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston leave Broadlands, Hants, this morn ing, for London, and proceed to Windsor Castle an a visit to her Majesty, the noble Viscount intending to return from, Windsor to-morrow forenoon with Lord John Russell, who, with her ladyship, arrived on a visit to her Majesty at the castle on Saturday last —The Right lion. Sir Cl. Grey, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland, Viscount Morpeth, and the Right Hon. 11. La houchere, ere already arrived in town. Tut EAra. orMINTo.—The subjoined is an ex tract from a private letter, dated Turin, the 2nd instant : The Earl of Minto snd L ad Elizabeth Elliot arrived at the residence of his excellency the Hon. Ralph and Lady Mary Abercromby, from Switzerland, after a brief sojourn at Berne. The Countess and Lady Charlotte Elliot had pre viously arrived from a tour of the German Spas. The Earl of Minto had an audience of the King of Sardinia and was received by that sovereign with the greatest dis tinction. It is understood that the noble earl, who will be accompanied by the Countess of Minns and daughters, will not go to Rome until he reeadves further despatches from England. _ . _ BANQUET AT THE MANSION - HOUSE TO THE DUK E OF CAMBRIDGE. On Saturday a grand entertainment was given in the Egyptian Hall by the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress to the Duke of Cambridge and a number of dis tinguished and fashionable guests. Upwards of 260, of whom a great number were ladies, sat down to dinner. Besides his royal hiehness the Duke of Cambridge, there were present Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart, M.P., the Lord Mayor, the American Minister, the three Polish princes, Saiiietra, Ladislau, Czartowske, and Adam Sapietra ; the Lord Chief Baron, his eleellency W. Brooke, her Majesty's Commissioner for Borneo; Count Zamoyski, Mr. Master. man, H.P., Mr. Walter, M.P., Mr. Archibald Hardie, M.P., Mr. Waddington, M.P., Mr. Cubitt, M.P., Sir Peter Laurie, Alderman Farebrother, Alderman Kelly, Alderman Humphery, M.P. ,Sir W. Mammy, Bart.. Alderman John eon, the Hon. C. B. Law, AI.P., the sheriffi, &c. After the usual loyal toasts, the Lout , MAYOR proposed the health of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and the rest of the royal family. The continuance of the esteem and affection which the royal duke always entertained for the City of London was proved by his royal highness's appearance that day at the board of its chief mutistrate. Ile trusted that his royal highness would long continue in the full enjoyment of health to honour the citizens with the patronage from which they derived so much credit arid advantage. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE returned thank, for the very flattering manner in which kis health had been drunk, in connexion with the health of the rest of the illustrious family to which he belonged. He assured the Lord Mayor that be could not adequately express the satisfaction he felt upon the present occas on. Upon many occasions he had attended in that hall, before many of those by whom he was surrounded were born, but at all times, and under all circumstances, whatever the politica of the chief magistrate might be, he found the royal family receive the warmest support. He therefore felt the warmest gratification in coming to the Maneion.house to visit the chief magistrate of the greatest metropolis in the world. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE proposed the City of London and the trade thereof, which he trusted would continue to prosper for ages. The LORD Alavoit next proposed the health of the Ame rican Minister, who represented the thriving empire whose trade was diffused through the whole globe. The toast was of the greatest importance, because it was the interest of England to cherish and uphold the good understanding which existed between the two countries. The AMERICAN MIN NT ER said that although not long • resident in this great countzy, he had already become ac quainted not only with ismighty resources, but its bound less hospitality. lie expressed the high gratification which he felt at the reception which he met at the dinner given by the sheriff a few days ago, and declared that it was the wish of his government, and his own wish, that his resi dence in England might not be a mere holiday residence, but that it might be distinguished by drawing closer the ties of friendship and amity between the two countries. He wished, in conclusion, that the prosperity of London might last as long as time half. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE then proposed the health of the Lord Mayor, whom he had the happiness of knowing for a considerable time, and f. r whose excellent qualities he had the highest esteem and respect. The LORD MAYOR returned thanks. The LORD MAYOR then proposed the health of the Lord Mayor elect, who be was convinced would distinguish him self in his year of office by the able performance of his duties. The LORD MAYOR proposed the health of Mr. Brooke, her Majesty's Commissioner for Borneo The company were well acquainted with the merits of this distinguished gentleman, who not only wan remarkable for valour in war, but showed himself capable of the most successful exertions in the great art of civilisation. (Cheers.) His lordship par ticularly alluded to the labours of Mr. Brooke in reforming the Malays, who, when be went amongst them, were in the most lamentable state of ignorance and immorality, but were left by him industrious, moral, and religious. Mr. 13aooeit said he could not adequately express his sense of the honour conferred upon him ; but he considered it an epoch in his life to go into so august a company and to be received as a guest at the table of the chief magistrate of their great city. If any efforts he had made in distant lands were deserving of approbation, he was more than repaid by the tout which bad been just drunk, and the praises of his own countrymen. He begged to be allowed to state that his opinion of the Malays was different from that expressed by those who were opposed to them. He did not consider them treacherous. He considered them capable of being raised is the wale of civilisation. and becoming as polished, industrious, and respecta:de as there who reereminted them as abounding with bad qualities. He was sure he was ruled by good intentions in all that he had undertaken and per formed and by the same steady principle he was convinced he should continue to be guided. The LORD MAYOR proposed the health of the three young Polish Princes, with whose company he was honoured. Lord DUDLEY Course STVART returned thanks for his noble friends, who felt it a high compliment to he so distin guished by the chief magistrate of the City to which their unfortunate country was so muds indebted. The Lorin MAYOR roes with infinite pleasure to propose the health of Mr. Walter, member for Nottingham, the son of his lamented friend. With that toast he would couple the press of the country, to which the community owed such • vest debt of gratitude for the support which it invariably gave to the weak against the strong—to the oppressed against the oppressor. Mr. WALTER said if anything had been wanting in the City to complete the strong expression of public feeling of respect to the memory of his father, it was supplied at the present meeting, by being uttered in the presence of royalty itself. For himself, he could not express the deep MIAMI: Lion he felt at having his name associated in such a manner with the press ; he trusted that the name of his father would not suffer in the course which he should pursue in following such an example. The party broke up before 12 o'clock. MENDICANCY. On Saturday a meeting of the Marylebone vestry was specially convened, to consider the following resolutions, of which notice had been given on the previous Saturday by Mr. J. F. Standford : Whereas mendieity in the metropolis has reached an alarming height by reason of the mongmforcenterit and erasion of the laws against ragranta and beggars: And whereas, ea professional luridl y:ants may be estimated at no tom than 60,000, who are for the most part thieres, t r the accomplices of thieves : and whereas it is sup posed the sum of 1,200,0001. a year Is In this way wrung from the obese! benevolence the pob& to the maintenance in idleneas of a Class of trading impostors, who do not costribute• farthing's worth of labour to the common good; and whereas each corn of 1,200,0001. a year is thus diverted from proper objeetsof charity—the industrious poor: and wbecas mendicancy is knows to be a fruitful source of till vice and crime, and In that way augments the expeaditore for Wee and criminal prosecution.; It is proposed that a deputation from this roomy be appointed to watt on her Mojerty's Secretary of State for the Ifonte Department, for the purpose of soliciting him to give instruction. to the commisoloners of peke* and stipendiary ma gistrates to enforce the laws for the suppression of mendicancy In the metropolis, and amend the same if nermeary. - - - Mr. BTANDFORD said the subject deepl y effected the interests of the industrious poor of arylebone ; as, indeed, of every parish in the kingdom, but more especially of them in the metropolis. He bad no desire to confound the really deserving poor with the ' degraded and despicable dais to which his motion re ferred. He was about to wage war against the numerous body of hardened, incorrigible street beggars, who continu ally infested every part of the metropolis and its suburbs; who assumed every possible guise of poverty, disease, and misfortune, which craft and ingenuity could devise. He had estimated the number of vagabonds who thus levied contri butions on the public at 50,000, and he thought he could show that he had some authority for the calculation. lie found that the Mendicity Society, in 1845 and 1816, reported no less than 10,986 cases of legging letter. and front 80 to 100 parsons per day asking for - relief. The committals of vagrants last year were 18,000, the refugees amounted to 6,000, and there were upwards of 4,000 relieved by the Mendirity Society ; altogether, they fell very little short of 50,000. Many of these mendicants obtained from ss. to 6s. per day, and few less than 2s. ,• and, therefore, in stating the yearly sum thus wrung from the charity of the benevolent at 1,200,0001., the estimate was rather under than overrated. So lucrative was the trade that foreigners of every description came over here, and entered the lists, and the evil was becoming greater daily. It was opposed in England, as well as all other countries, to all na tural law, that a large class of able-bodied persons should be suppotted permanently in idleness, at the expense of the hardworking and industrious. In China it was a maxim that if a man was idle he should suffer cold and hunger; and they had even Scripture in opposition to the maintenance of idlers, for St. Paul said, " If any man would not work, neither should he eat." He considered that un questionably the primary and sustaining cause of mendicancy was indiscriminate and ill-judged almsgiving. If no ens yielded to the clamorous importunities of the beggar, no beggars would exist or would be found. In the opinion of Colonel Rowan and Mr. Mayne, the commis 'loners of police, in order to prevent mendicancy . it was most desirable that it should be made penal to per sons thus encouraging and fostering mendicants. Ile did not concur in this. He thought it was only by convincing the public of the mischief arising from such ill-directed charity that a remedy could be applied. If the public would indulge their charitable feelings let them no so in a manner that would tend to the alleviation of real distress, and not give their pennies and their twopences to the undeserving vagabonds infesting our public streets. There were secon dary mixes aiding the contientnce and increase of mendi cancy. These were the supineness and neglect of the autho rities in allowing Or existing laws against vagrancy to be evaded, and the defective state of those laws. Unless a police man actually saw the beggar in the act of begging he would not interfere, though the Vagrant Act dechn,d, " All idle or disorderly persons liable to be taken up as offenders a-seinst gold order and blemishes in the government of any kingdom, and punished by one month's imprisonment in the House of Correction." Even the magistrates themselves, from tives probably of mistaken charity, leant to indulgence, and the government advised lenity to such authorities. A rigid enforcement of the present law would go for to remedy the evil ; but he thought it might be rendered more simple and much more effetive. So tar se the parish of Morylebone was concerned, that vestry had, to a great extent, a remedy in their own hands, for by the 3iith of Gee. 111., c. 73, they hail the power of employing constables to take up vagrants, and all other parishes in the metropolis having like powers, the practice of mendicancy might be considerably lessened. It was satisfactory to know th .t in no instance had a vigorous effort to put down this intolerable evil failed. Cities on the continent which had bcoome unsafe from the number and audacity of their mendicants had been cleared of them, and now not one was to be seen following the demoralising voca tion. In Munich 3.603 bold and sturdy yrs./rants and beg - were in oe week " into abandonment of the gars were in one - dragooned act, and sent to the public works. In Paris, Vienna, or Dresden, no beggars were to be seen, nor would they be seen in Loudon if the benevolent would abandon their misguided practice, and the government would interfere to enforce the law. As it was, the metropolis was a disgrace to the country. It was the hear-house of Europe, and would lead foreigners to suppose that, instead of by law paying five millions a year to the actual support of the poor, and two millions more in charitable establishments, they allowed all their unfortunate brethren to drag out their existence dependent on the casual charity of the benevolent. Later in the discussion, Mr. Standford showed himself an authority for these statements by adding subseqtently that he had resided twelve months In Vienna, fire months in Dresden, and three years in Paris, awl had been in every hole and corner of those cities. Mr. Josses( seconded the motion. It was a most de plorable thing to find that the sturdy and incorrigible vagrant received more commiseration at the hands of the public than the really honest and deserving poor. Nothing had more completely laid bare the system of trading in vagrancy pursued in the metropolis than the minutes of evidence given during the last session of parliament before the committee of the district asylums. There was one fellow examined who proved that these mendi cants travelled in gangs throughout the country at stated periods as regularly as the judges attended the anizes. (Laughter.) He himself belonged to a gang called "Spavin's gang." They had all the dietaries of the various prisons in their possession, and if there was one where they got more meat than another, they would commit an offence in the district where they got beet treated. For instance, a fellow would travel over to Southwark to commit • robbery or break a window, because he knew be would get more meat for dinner in Brixton than in Coldbath-fields. (Hear.) This was an encouragement to vagabonds. There was a great difficulty in getting the magistrates to convict for vagrancy, and thus the law was rendered inoperative, whereas it ought to be carried out in such a way as at once to discriminate be tween honest poverty and idle imposition. Mr. Batt, as a guardian, had no doubt that half the able bias& who came to their workhouse for relief were idle vagrants and impostors, but they were compelled to relieve them for fear of the consequences. After some further conversation, a part of which was sus 'deed by Mr. Soder, who opposed the motion, Mr. Ci. DANIELL said he had attended and given evidence before the parliamentary committee last session on district asylums, and his great objection to those asylums was that the prison was the proper place, and not the asylums, for the vagabonds they were proposed for. There was one vagrant who gave evidence, who proved that he was in the habit of committing offences in a certain district, because in the prison attached to that district they gave cocoa for breakfast, which he liked in preference to the gruel of other prisons. It was, therefore, clear that prison regulations were bad, and only induced, from a want of a stringent and uniform system, rather than diminished, the commission of crime. He con sidered it was no use going to the government in this matter without being prepared to make out a strong case; and there fore he thought the appointment of a committee to collect evidence should be the first object. Eventually Mr. Daniell's proposition was adopted, and e committee appointed. THE INVENTION OF THE PRINTING NIACHINE.— There is an article in the " Philosophical Muazine " for October, from the pen of Mr. Richard Taylor, F.S.A., F.L.S., denying that the late Mr. John Walter, proprietor of the Times journal, was the individual who furnished Koenig with money, for the purpose of maturing his invention. Mr. Taylor says the statement is a fable. Mr. Walter never fur nished the means; he never assisted Kcenig with a farthing. He merely ordered two machinate be erected, when he found that Kmnig was successful. It seems that one of the four patents beam date, March 29,1810, end was taken out in the name of Frederick Kmaig, and was assigned by articles of partnership to the firm of Hensley, Kcestig, Woodfall, and Taylor. THE LATE DP.. LYNCH.—Sir,—Allow me to offer fire shillings in letter-stamps as a tribute of respect to the memory, and mite towards the assistance of the bereaved family, of Dr. Lynch. Will you permit me also to propose, as a further mesas of benefit, the publication of a little week, cheaply get up, containing a short memoir of him, and • collection of similar short lives of the most remarkable persons, both protestant and catholic, who _pave during the last twelvemonths fallen victims to fever caught in the per formance of their charitable duties ? Besides there thought worthy of a short notice there might be added as full a list as can be collected of the names merely of those of whom nothing more can be ascertained. I think that such a work might tend to do away with much prejudice, both in Ireland and England, the profits of the publication to go to Dr. Leach's hmily. Allow me to contribute the name of one lady, whom I know to have died of the Irish fever, though the circumstance is not mentioned in your obituary: "July 31, at Donmanway, Harriet, wife of Major-General Shuld ham." I have no doubt that, among your numerous con nexion and correspondents, some one might be found willing to compile a small work such as I have described.—A GLoccesrzasulas LADY.—Oct. 8, 1847.—[Tbe money his been paid as requested.] ANALYSIS OF A PINT OF ALL—Taking up a pint of ale, we find it to consist of three distinct parts—spirit, water, and extractive matter. By the application of a moderate degree of heat, and the aid of a retort, the first may be separated and preserved ; and by the application of an increased heat, the second, water, can be driven up the chimney in the form of vapour, leaving all the third com ponent part of the liquor dry at the bottom of the vessel. Now, each pint of ale of average quality weighs about 18 or., of which 2 os. am alcohol. No one will contend that this contains the nourishing property, else whisky or rum would be the thing most desirable. There yet remains of the pint of ale 16 os., of which 16 are nothing at all but water ; of course it won't be contended for a moment that this contains the nourishing principle of beer ; we are therefore con strained to look for it in the remaining ounce; and here sure enough it is. Each pint of ale contains one ounce of ex tractive or solid matter, and this alone can impart nourish ment to the system.—Douglas Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper. REInarED NEw PEEits.—The Irish paper which ainv.uneed, with " inexpressible pleasure," that - Sir Charles mote, Bart., Chief Justice Doherty, and Sir John Cam Hobbouse, Bart., were to be raised to the peerage, was, at- 12,820,6711 10.648,6•4 I 14,243,21 , I !•!% 1 1. 6 ° 8 1 9,912,813 • 744,311 199,9 m! 22.972,36! -. 637,5001 3,367,213 1,940:0661 3,01,1961 1;724,31. 7,113,6981 '398,1 3,12f1,: :Lookup j2,420,5n FUND, 12,834 M 917,168 5t;774031 11.10U..a4l 13,760, CHARGL Tor Advances ^ —.. „ _. Total Mary The empbsa. , cording to the Observer, misinformed. "We regret," says the latter journal, "to he obliged to cut short the joy of our Dublin c mtemporary, by informing him that the elevation of the respected gentlemen named is the creature of his own imagination no more." INQUEST, SATURDAY.—HEALTH OF THE ME. TROPOLIS.—Before Mr. Wakley, M.P., at the Turk's. head, Turnmill-street, Clerkenwell, on Sarah Berridge, aged Eve week., the child of poor parents, residing at No. 5, Cock court. The mother stated that she had found the c'.ild dead at her side, and that she had a short time pre viously lost another child. The coroner said, that he had never before witnessed a more offensive appearance than the locality in which deceased lay, presented. It was impossible to exist amidst such filth and wretchedness. A juror ob. served, that there were many other places in Clerkenwell more (Intuiting and more dangerous to health than Cock-court ! where the houses had not even a privy. The coroner hop ed i that government would lose no time in putting an en to I such a frightful state of things; indeed he was sure it would not. Verdict, " Natural Death." ice: 1. Demean eatheyear 18,467 DeL Incr. Deereare ea Quarter in the Queursas ended Oet. 1e,181{., ned 1147. Permanent Debt Terminable Annuities Intension Exchequer Bins issued to meet Clow tti poongiaind rpm leaking The CHI U Pend • M Other Maria on the Oinsolkisted Puri 3,340,730 1,320,402 703,118 98,282 460,933 472,300 11,7096,077 5,782.370 £14,560,447 Exchequer Bills boned to meet the charm on the Corot. Fund lur Qr. ended) July 5, 1817, and paid off out of the growing produce of that Fund for Qr. ended Oct. 10, 1917, after deducting g 6 70,000 cancelled by Sinking Fund The Amount issued in the Quarter ended Oct. 10, 1817, in port of the mums t 3,126,232 granted by Parliament out of the Cues. Fund for Supply nerrisea The a s sgpig a of the Consolidated Fund, Quitter ended Oct. 10, 1847 8,962,868 Surplus of Revenue, after providing for Mammon the Consolidated Fund, and to the 1 payment of Supply Betakes In the Quarter ended Oct. 10, 1811 h,316,598 1,323,526 98,199 454,905 396,084 7,i YI,YtiS Ti:774,031 536,13 t 729,193 . DOW supply will be available early m the ensuing year." The " ensuing year" being the fifth during which works have been in progress that might have been well completed in two year ?, and whi c h would, perhaps, have been made to creep along for an entire decade, but for the recent providential drought. GREAT FLOOD IN THE TAY. In the North British Mail of Saturday we find the follow ing disastrous intelligence from its Perth correspondent, under date Oct. 7 :—The weather here has suddenly changed for two months previous to Tuesday evening last there had not been a shower more than sufficient to lay the dust ; since that time till this forenoon it has not ceased to rain for a single quarter of an hour. The millers thought that it would require a week's heavy rain to give them water in quantity to keep their machinery in full operation. Two days have proved more than sufficient for their purpose, as the whole of the mills in this neighbourhood have been stopped with the flood. So heavy and so general has been the rain, that the Tay is now at a height which every one, even octogenarians, say has not hem equalled in their day. In 1816 there was a greater portion of the town under water, but that was caused by the bridge being partially closed with large blocks of ice. Never, it is thought, has the same quantity of water been in the river; since yes terday morning it has risen 16 feet perpendicular. Those acquainted with this locality will have some idea of the effects of a rise to this extent from the following facts : The two Inches are wholly covered, the water being over the parapet wall between the one on the north of the town and Rom Terrace. In the shops in North Port and west end of Castle Gable, and all the places upon the name level, the depth is about five feet. The Edinburgh road, which passes through the South Inch, being raised two or three feet above its level, is yet passable, although it also is partially covered, The damage up the country must be fearful. The contrac tors for the bridges across the Almond and Tay, new con structing for the Midland Railway, must be lame losers, as the quantity of wrought timber which has floated past the town is immense. A great number of men have been employed the whnle day in catching it in its progress towards the •ca, and they certainly have been very successful; hut with all their exertions, what they have brought ashore is not a tithe of what passed them. Carcases of sheep and cattle, trees, stacks, apparently in as good order as they stood in the stack. yard, have all been observed in the course of the day in their progress seaward. It is alto reported that a great number of Memel logs that were to be used by the Dundee Railway Company in erecting the bridge across the Tay, have been floated off Monereiff island. One good effect of the flood will be to show the engineers what they will have to provide against in the construction of their bridges ; a number of practical men thought that they were not enough alive to the importance of having them of the most substantial des cription. Sinoe the preceding was written, the water hu risen fully another foot, sod no appearance of it commencing to subside. Parts of the town which it was thought would be safe from all inundation are getting under water by the bursting of the common sewers. The sunk flats in Rue-terrace and Barrossa-place are now nearly filled to the ceiling. The Blair Athol! coach, which should have reached this forenoon, has not yet arrived. It is supposed some of the bridges must have fallen. The Aberfeldy evening coach came about an hour after her usual time. Some parts of the road were so flooded that the water covered the seats inside. It is reported that the whole of the scaffolding erected for throwing the arches of the bridge across the Tay, at Kin eleven, has been Blurt away, and that one of the piersjus gone along with it. A person says that, among other things observed floating part, wait the carcass of a horse, saddled and bridled. . . _ At half-past ten at night the water wu still rising, and one part of the Edinburgh road was nearly three feet under it. HORRIBLE TREATMENT OF A WIFE BY HER HUSBAND. —Mrs. Fay, the unfortunate woman who was confined for several months in a back closet by her husband, as recently reported iu the Mail, died on Thursday morning in the Town's Hospital, Glasgow. It was arranged that the interment should take place yesterday, at 3 o'clock ; and, a little be fore that hour, the husband of the deceased and a few friends arrived at the hospital, in two mourning coaches, to attend the remains to the grave-yard. About the same time, however, orders were received from the Procurator- Fiscal to delay the interment until the bo of the deceased underwent a medical examination. Drs. Easton and Mac gregor were appointed to discharge this duty ; but owing to the secrecy in which a.l such inquiries are conducted, in Scotland, it is impossible to ascertain the particulars of this investigation, or of the previous ones which were insti tuted on this painful case. Great surprise was manifested at the liberation of Fay on a paltry bail-bond of 151. ; and the decease of the unfortunate woman has increased that feeling to a very uneasy extent. Unless tome circumstance trans. I pied in the course of the examinations which gives the case an entirely different complexion from that which it has assumed in the eyes of the public, the acceptance of bail for any amount, and especially for the small sum of 161.. is cer tainly a very extraordinary proceedin. We will watch with anxiety the steps which the woman's death and the post mortem examination may induce the crown agents to take. Sronrs.—During the early part of last week a south-east wind has been making havoc on the eastern coast of Scot land. On Wednesday all the vessels, including the steam ship Perth, for London, leaving the Tay, were obliged to put back for protection afforded in the South Ferry roads. Off Montrose two vessels were wrecked, the Patriot, of Aberdeen, and the Prompt, of Sefton Sluice. By the courage of the crew of the life boat and the manner in which it was managed, the crews of both vessels were saved. THS CONVICT LEITH.—The local papers detail the parti culars of a phrenological visit paid to Leith before his execu tion, in which the specific character of the craniological system is well brought out. He had previously been exa mined by other phrenologists, who gave a favourable diagnosis, but the gaol visitants, ;having other grounds of evi dence besides external organs, pronounced him deficient in " conscientiousness." Hie son has published a letter denying that either he or any of the unfortunate family were, as alleged, present at the execution. Ortneast TERMINUS, Psarts.—The foundation stone is to be laid with great masonic ceremonial, by the Bight. Hon. Fox Mauls, M. master of the St. Andrew Lode, Perth, on Wednesday next, the 13th current, the Provincial Grand Master, Lord Kisnaird, having granted permission to the St. Andrew Lodge to preside on the oocasicia. tillartallnabtlied livartern ended • Jo. 11, April 2, 1 July S, 00. 10, 11101 1446. I lB4B. lB4B. 4334,789 2,961,9181 4,323,791 3,310,433 8 4 328,837 1,626,438 3,101,711 4,101, ..... 1,792,402 1,682,466 1,730,03 1,771,36 ..... 1,876,031 146,112 2,006,127 209, 386,943 1,963,02 1,009,162 1,9741 ~,, 169,000 213,000 181,000 217, 23,000 45,000 43.000 42,612 91,32 2 lB,OOl 177,91 12,031,676 9,735,790 12,273,187 12,899,103 440,000 227,611 64,061 22,909 73,939 0,91 401,179 420,173 111,607 199,118- ........ „, 11,00,06 10,243,17 2 13,195,733 14,350,41 Ittlolgis 7,838,997 9,468,333 8,476,134 2,617,433 813,077 149,000 91,301 472, lottbspear 4,323,12 4 4,630,817 4,831,09 8 4,260, 12,900,796 10,03,172 14198,738 11,250,444 The INCOME ood CHARGE of the CONSOL /MIL 1848. £5,310,633 4, 4,191,929 3, 1,774,384 209,940 1,974129 217,000 45,000 • 177,940 ....... 227,644 33,415 199,682 14,380,447 12, being the Further totthoeet 111,340,117 £l2 1 ear ended One. 10, 11146. 18,150,933 13,231,932 6,983,124 4,238,560 6,332,137 r?-C2 Quarters ended JUL 5, Ist?. A r i,i 47. 5, July S, 1647. Catena Facia Scampi Tu. =e l'az (Vas Told unary mime Improg illa Zellher Mow' Reparatuts of Advances App. to Us. Irsell a laifts.BlllLeftlelars Data an- 40 Ua upartafllimesiamsattboyearl eadoras Excise gums Tau. l i 'm 4 p N riat ..... Crown iamb Chios Impest lik Zother llooeys lieporfoonts of Advances ABSTRACT of NET PRODUCE of REVENUE of GREAT BRITAIN, in the TZARS and QUAIRTIMi 4.M4,721 11,6011,135 1,740,867 qii:iiiii 201.0001 -i):6)6 1 29 637 -2-1 1;486,5m 1 1,417,ff 190,392 3,033,072 219,040 37,000 10,430,377 i 14,8591 164./41 IRELAND. DESTRUCTION OF LISSANOURE CASTLE nY GUNPOWDER. —AWFUL CATASTROPHE.—An awful and almost unpre cedented occurrence took place on Tuesday last, at Lulea noure Castle, near Ballymoney. Mr. George Maurtney, the proprietor of Lissanoure, previous to the reduction of the yeomanry force was captain in the body, and was in the habit of storing large quantities of gunpowder in the castle for the use of the small staff when called out to prac tise. There were from eleven to thirteen barrels of powder lying in the mansion fur a considerable length of time. It was usually kept, as being most out of the way of dan ger, in a dark and narrow passage leading from one wing of the castle to the other. In this passage—very little traversed at any time some of the gunpowder had become damp, and was ordered by Mr. Macartney to be laid out to dry. What quantity was taken from the barrels is as yet unknown, but it must have been considerable front the effects which ensued. The pswder had remained for some days spread out in the passage. On Tuesday . morning Mrs. Macartney, the lady of the proprietor , having occasion to pass through the passage, took with her a lighted candle. %Vhether she knew that the destructive material war in the situation described, no person can tell; but she had scarcely been a minute in the place when an explosion took place, the roar of which was heard like a burst of thunder, and in an instant, with the exception of the oppo site wing from the spot, the castle was a mass of ruins, the unfortunate lady being blown to atoms ' It is impossible to know how the melancholy event primarily ensued. Whether Mrs. Macartney had stumbled and fallen with the light among the powder, whether a snuff had fallen from the candle, or whether it had accidentally dropped from her hands, are matters that will in all human likelihood re main a secret for ever. The state of mind into which Mr. Macartney has been thrown by the lamentable occurrence, the strongest terms for the deepest agony would be week to describe—reason for the moment seems to have tattered under the weight of the calamity. Although there were • number of servants in the castle at the time of the explosion, no one was injured save their lady, they being in the wing situated at the other extremity of the building. The lady who met so sudden and violent an end was universally esteemed. SCOTLAND. EIIINBVION,.Ocr..B. A meeting of the Excise Association was'held here yesterday, for the purpose of considering the Act 10 Viet., cap. 23, which practically, although probably not intentionally, prohibits Scotch merchants from sending foreign spirits to England. The prospect of relief was gloomy in the extreme. The board of ex cise, the Attorney and Solicitor-General have all de clared against them ; Lord John Russell has had two letters sent him which remain unanswered ; the Chan cellor of the Exchequer has had one, and is equally silent. As a last resource, a deputation is to wait on the Lord Advocate and Mr. Gibson Craig to learn their opinions, and afterwards to correspond with Glasgow and their ports as to a combined movement against the grievance. It were well if something were done in this matter—the act in question is an un doubted shackle on commerce, and as the association is daily gaining electoral strength, which they will not be slow to using, their just complaints are cer tainly entitled to consideration. Whether government be willing to relax the excise system or not, the inci dental remarks of some of its members are strengthen ing the agitation against it. Thus, at a recent interview with an excise deputation, the Lord Advocate ad mitted that he experienced great difficulty in con ducting cases before the Exchequer Court, hom the complicated state of the laws, and instanced the case of one distiller, wherein, aft er exerting all his in genuity, his lordship failed in obtaining a conviction, and yet the prosecuted party had to pay 1001. of costs. The contemplated parliamentary investigation of the Peebles election has caused a temporary consoli dation of the scattered liberals of Edinburgh. At a private and preliminary meeting, held for the purpose of assisting Mr. Carmichael in unseating Mr. Mac kenzie, the Lord Provost was in the chair, supported by other well-known members of what is locally termed the clique, while Mr. Cowan, 'M.P., moved the first resolution, and one of hie chief supporters seconded another. Since the palmy days when Jeffrey, Moncrieff, Cockburn, Abereromby, and Gib son-Craig were in their prime, the clique, or liberal party, have fallen off sadly—these relerans of famous service never having been adequately succeeded, while change of circumstance' has gradually peeled off portions of the section on whom actual service de volved. Thus, the free church party represented by the Witness threw off their allegiance some five years age, and the voluntary dissenters, of which the Scot tish Press is the exponent, have cautiously been doing the same for the last two or three years. Stereotyped in their views, the old liberals either did or would not see this, and, mistaking their remanent strength, al lowed Mr. Macaulay to be defeated. Formerly, municipal contests were a species of training for par liamentary electioneering ; but now, Mr. Cowan has thrown town-council honours in the shade, and red cloaks and chains are looked at askance, instead of being coveted. Time was, when an aspiring citizen would contentedly burrow away at a commissioner ship of police, " creeping, creeping where no fame was seen," trusting in due time to become councillor, dean of guild, bailie, and even casting a daring thought at the provostahip itself ; but the " unprecedented leap " of Mr. Cowan from his counting-house to the floor of St. Stephen's, has thrown all intermediate greatna's into the shade ; and rather than hazard a comparison with him, eligible men will prefer the laurels of pri vate life. In due course there will be a reaction, ' but, at present, this is the state of Edinburgh burgh politics. The adage, " that it never rains but it pours," has been but too forcibly verified in Perthshire, as will be seen by an account of the overflowing of the Tay, which we quote below. Perth has had its sufferings, as well as Edinburgh, from want of rain, which has now, however, descended in such torrents, that parts of that "fair city" are a half-fathom under water. F.dinburgh could, however, from its elevated situa tion, withstand a deluge ; and what has been a curse to Perth has proved a blessing to the metropolis. The recent showers have relieved its citizens from much privation and expence, and have increased the supply of the indispensable fluid to the inhabitants from about 750 to upwards sf 1,800 gallons per minute. A local paper remarks : " It is fortunate for the community that this is the last time they are likely to be subjected to the privation to which for the last month they have been e the directors of the company being confidentTrettß PROVINCIAL. 4,519,118 1,181,052 1,881,484 9,013,001 1,918,517 815,000 7,4111 13,013,614 WA , 137,944 1344001 I IS,dq 43 189 736 •~;~ i 1,172,141 fBOLIDATEI 30,593,147 2 1+.V!..??! 1,319,0781 19.834,148 50,593,1471 4,936,644 3,552,393 1,707,945 213,883 1,918,643 222,000 73,126 41,337 187,486 INCOMIL To Cooh brought to this Account, being the Further !flat:dome eel Loon of kight Millions THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11, 1847. Oct. II feu waded I Oa. up, I 1647. 16.410,157' 12,044,016 I 7,135,570' 4,319,677 5,436,463 lit?' 141,242,320 217,912 792,447 49,532,479 ism , . n d Ott. 10, IE4I. 1 ear nodal Oci. 1:: 1147. 1147. 44.41441 it i5e;914~ Deemer., 374,191 641,960 66,419 46,000 153,103 — IZ - I,lFs 989,303 31,033 379,094 1,116,144 i 6730381, 1,285 Bs7 227 844 12,396 1,521,897 16,667 1,1,07,230 suffeued sash injury both from Ere and water. The only tenantsthe hall were three groom:, eeeePyjelt the upper deephs, mom, and they were awoke by "we", tint gems' tion arming (nen the smoke. They tried ma ke their way down stabs by the principal staircase, but tisi!tiaft oral that way cat oft; they escaped by the windows se scaffolding erecter. b y the bricklayers, and from the. 7.4 descended by ladders which had been left reared against the scaffolding. The neigh. of the disaster is attributed to the joiners on the previous ni s ht having left a very hot lire in one of the rooms, which Esc; ignited some pegs, the ends of which in one direction communicated with the dues, and in the other with the skirting beards of the room. SALE OF BREAD BY WEIGHT.--A strong demon stration has recently been got up in Lancashire respecting the irregularities in the weight of bread. Au association has been formed which holds public meetings every Monday evening, in the Town-hall. The magistrates are affording every assistance to the association. In answer to a memorial, a notice to bakers and bread sellers has been issued, expres sive of their determination to enforce the law, and the mayor has graxted the use of the Exchange as an office, where an inspector, appointed by the association, sits daily to hearcom plaints of the inhabitants, and, if needful, lay informations. The borough scales and weights are also placed at the service of the society, for testing the loaves brought for inspection. These measures are proving so far succcwful, that nearly all the respectable bakers of the town are weighing their bread, and giving 41ba. to the quartern loaf. YoRKSRIRE. GRAND ENTERTAINMENT GIVEN BY THE LADY MAYORESS or YORK.—On Friday evening the Lady Mayoress gave a magnificent entertainment to • distin guished party at the Mansion House, in honour of Earl De Grey and the officers of the Yorkshire Hussars. The com pany, which comprised upwards of 600 of the principal nobility and gentry from that and the adjoining counties, began to arrive shortly after nice o'clock, and were received m quick succession till near midnight. The supper was Nerved in the Guildhall, and is described as ore of the most splendid entertainments of the kind ever wh itened. To provide ample accommodation • consider able portion of the Sessions Court was taken down, and revers were laid for about 600 persons. The principal aces table was on • dais at the west end, and other taiges occupied the entire length of the noble Gothic hall. The great west window was lighted with gas on the outside; and at either end in the interior were splendid devices in gas, representing the emblems of the mayoralty, as also the royal initials the white rose of York, an imperial crown, etc. The flood of light thus introduced had a very beauti ful effect in this splendid banquet-hall, which probably cannot be excelled by any similar building in the country. Over the entrance a temporary orchestra was erected, in which were the band of the Dragoon Guard, in their rich military uniform. The Guildhall was approached from the Mansion-house by an awning, which was also brilliantly • . lighted. At 12 o'cloek a flourish of trumpets announced the hour isf supper ; Earl de Grey escorted the Lady Mayoress ; the Lord Mayor conducted the Countess of F x. The military band performed a variety of popular airs during supper, and at the conclusion the Earl de Grey proposed in appropriate terms the health of the Lady Mayoress, which was duly responded to, and numerous other toasts followed. The Lord Mayor, accompanied iy the gentry around him, then left the Guildhall and returned to the Mansion-house to participate in the pleasures of the ball-room. 11AREWOOD AGRICULTURAL SHOW.—The first ex hibition of this society, established by the Earl of Harewood, for competition amongst the numerous tenantry of the Hare wood estates, took place on Friday last, and was numerously attended. There was a large show of hones, many of dent very fine animals, and also a good exhibition of cattle and sheep. The show of pigs was not numerous, but there were some very superior animals on the ground. After the prizes had been adjudged, the company, to the number of nearly 300, dined together in a spacious temporary pavilion, which had been fitted up for the purpose, and was beautifully deco rated. The Earl of Harewood presided, the Hon. Arthur Laseellcs being vice chairman, and the Hon. Edwin Las celles, M.P., being also present. During the proceedings some additional premiums for nest year were announced ; amongst them prizes for the best hive of bees, for the beet collection of vegetables from a cottage garden, for the best poultry, &c.—Lord Harewood said that a good hive of bees would pay the rent which he received (2/. per annum) from his cottage tenantry for their cottages and garden allotments, and the expense was not great if the hive failed. DURFIAM. . EXTENSIVE FORGERIES . AT SUNDERLAND.—The Newcastle Guardian says : " Considerable sensation has been occasioned in this borough during the present week by a report, which has unfortunately proved correct, that Mr. Charles J. Humble, a share and ship broker, in a Arm recently dissolved, has committed forgeries to a great amount, and decamped. Our correspondent states that three or four bills for 1,0001. each have been discounted at Sunderlsnd, which the supposed acceptor. have pronounced to be forgeries ; and it is rumoured that there are forged bills to the extent of 10.0001., but probably on this point it rosy Ls found that there is some exaggeration. Mr. Humble is a young man, respectably connected, and we be lieve engaged extensively in spreuiation during the railway mania.' fhe Durham Chronicle gives a circumstantial ac count of the parties who have been defrauded by Humble and who, we may state generally, are Ms relatives. It , adds : " There is too much reason to fear that Humble, who is quite a young man, had got some unfortunate connexions with swindlers at a distance, who were victimising and goading him to his ruin. • • • A warrant has been granted for Humble's apprehension ; but there is not much probability of his being caught, as he has gone about a week. It is supposed he has sailed for Monte Video.' EAST RETFORD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The eighth 'nasal meeting of this society was held on Thursday at Rut Retford. It is scarcely possible that the weather could have been more unpropitious. Shortly after nine o'clock the rain began to fall h t ,,, , jly, and continued, with little intermission, until late to the l aernoon, It was the general opinion that the exhi quantity and quality of stock. The In would bear comparison with that of any previous year, s b b bi ii ,; 7: t ! h th ' e .ega . „ r w d u to particularly good, as also was that of o. seellent cart-horses, as well as several fine cows ""'' '• were exhibited. The ploughing • ar e ' , us dry weather they young blood animaa., to have taken p arc on Monday matches were tineoweee.• last, but, on account of tLe *•-• • - - postponed. At haft-past tfir.'• o'clock about Do gentlemen Lord t_,,,lway, who, in ropoting . served up in :%c Town-ball. sat down to a sumptosissoollation; t T h h o e toso cha t ir of w th as o or oy up — ied ,. mo hy ooosito the, .Eut flatbed A e tend Society," said—lt may, gentlemen, he almost unneces sary for me to mention to you that I mustier these meetingt beneficial, your presence at once bespeaks it; but I must say a few words upon the subject, as the rases and other papers appear to me to be endeavouring to write these socie ties down. I read an article the Wins day in the Times, in which it stated, after sundry cavilling at these societies, that "a fat beast is better re warded than a meritorous labourer." You must all see the absurdity as well as the unfairness of this usertioe. Im plements, which form a most important feature in these societies, are left totally out of the question. I venture to nay that these societies have conduced to good farming as much by the improvement of implements and machinery as by any one thing. This shows you the unfairness of the Times' assertion. With regard to its absurdity, I think the Times must see that at these societies we no more pre tend—we have not the means, to begin with—we no more pretend to give an equivalent to a meritorious labourer than we pretend to dive the full value of an animal to the owner who exhibits it. In neither case do we pretend to give an equivalent; hut I am sure that, if tho Times will place a sum at our disposal for that purpose, we shall be proud to bestow it. In thee* societies I believe that, by the interchange of opinion among ourselves, by generous rivalry, by competition, and by the removal of pre judices, we lead each other on to the attainment of a must important result—namely, the production of the greatest quantity at the least cost. That, gentleman, is what, as farmers—and I see there is great stress laid upon it at the agricultural meeting held at Sir Robert Peel's, at I)rayton— Wis the great point at which we shoul4 aim. Let us re collect that this is what will enable us to give higher wages to our labourers—though the Times supposes we are lowering the position of our labourers by these societies—l ray by this means we shall be enabled to give higher wages than we otherwise could do, when the struggle really takes place between ourselves and the foreign growers of corn. I must not trespnia on political grounds; I could say something more, on that subject, but must not. Ido regret to see a paper like the Times using its vast influence to create dissension between the tenant-fanner and his labourer. I believe that in this district the labourers are well attended to; the pigs well illustrated this point to-day the show of labourers' pigs would have done credit to any class. In many of the southern counties, where the labourers are not well paid, the landlords and tenant-farmers do lay them selves justly open to the censure of the Times and of the press generally. 1 need not say more than that I think if you, as farmers, choose this society to be carried on, and carried on in the spirit of this meeting, having men of diffirent shades of politics, free-traders and others, neither I the Times nor any other paper will ever put us down. I give you, and I jun with you in drinking most cordially, " Success to the East Retford Agricultural Society." (The I toast was drunk with enthusiasm.) The usual round of toasts were drunk, and the list of premiums announced. CUMBERLAND. TIM RECENT MURDER—DEATII OP THE MUR DERER.—We last week Rave the particulars of the inquest upon the body of Mary Hanlin, the wife of Peter Hanlin, a travelling potter, who died from certain wounds inflicted on her head by her husband, on Saturday, the 25th September. The proceedings before the coroner at Carlisle were not concluded till Friday afternoon, when a verdict of "wilful murder" was returned against Mullin. He was at that time in gaol suffering severely from erysipelas, pro duced by a blow which it was believed had been given to him by Charles WHinnis, in • ',tulle to ascertain which was "the better man." The symptoms gradually ueumed a more dabgeroua form, and terminated fatally at twelve o'clock on Saturday—just within a week of his wife's death. LUNESDALE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The ninth annual meeting of this thriving association was held at Kirkby Lonsdale on Thursday last. The show of all kinds of stock was excellent. The horses and bulls, in particular, were deserving of special notice. The dinner took place at Mr. Breithwaite's hotel, shortly after the judges had con cluded their labours. Win. Moore, Esq., of Grimeshill, oc cupied the chair; and on proposing Prosperity to the Lunesdale Agricultural Society' said that when he first began to take notice of agriculture it was a rarity to find a crop of turnips in the whole district, end those few that were grown were generally full of weeds. But now they were quite common, and brought to a high state of cultiva tion. This showed that farmers were beginning to take care of their business more than they had been accustomed to do, and that while every other interest in the country was pro. greasing, they were determined not to be left behind. He then drew attention to the nutritive qual i ties of mangel wursel, and strongly recommended its culture as tending, when given to cattle, to produce milk and butter of a superior quality. It hat an important advantage over Swede and other turnips, in being of a less watery nature, and would be found a valu able substitute for the potato, in case of another failure of that vegetable. There was likewise a plant called the Gold of Pleasure, which had been highly spoken of as beicif excel lent food for cattle, and he recommended a trial of It. In alluding to the improvement which had taken place in the district during the nine years the society had been in exist ence, he did not mean to attribute it to the society altogether. He believed that part of it was to be attributeritto the better spirit of the farmers themselves, arising, as he had stated, from resolution to keep pace with the times.—The usual round of toasts were duly honoured, and a large number of premiums announced. WORCESTERSHIRE ADRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—At the conclusion of the meeting on Friday (which we noticed in our publication of Saturday), about LA of the principal agriculturists dined together at the Crown Hotel, Wor cester.—C. E. Hornyold, Esq., of Blackmore Park (presi dent for the year), in the chair. After the usual local and appropriate toasts, T O Corder, Esq., rose to give "The health of the Members of neighbouring Agricultural So cieties." In the course of his remarks, introducing the LANCASHIRE. tout, Mr. Curtler urged the neceesity re of increased exertions THE MANCHESTER COMMERCIAL AS SOCIATION ,h Iv - b e i ng ma d e b y the farmers in these a lt ered times to increase ing taken into consideration the question now a g itating the the produce of their farms. It behoved the landlords also, country, relative to the effect of railway calls on the commerce he said, to aid their tenants. They were now thrown upon of the country and on monetary affairs generally, have ea- their own resources, and the time was arriving when the bodied their views in a merits of resolutions, of which VM fol. landlords must go without their rents unless the produce I°*is a eear .. : of both corn and stock could be considerably increased be .eleeemblem elm" with the Ildooddbot• bee- yond what it now was in that county; for it was impossible ssess t• 11tM10 1 1 0 .,..... MOM._ ._ak• lisge aw ____a__ 6( that they could go on as they now were. It was, how ever, impossible that any considerable increase in the pro -811-111.111d 111011M1640 - liissiisr tsar aliiiis teedmM .. - 711. 8 - duce of tke land could be obtained unless the landlords time ern see assess ; and it is useteulhees took measures for assisting and encouraging their tenantry. ad sews mew dada be eaglet whereby the praiser' be baby Unless this was done, when the effect of the present position Rr re••• 7...... _ream dada be relevtd. That It Is the owe akar of the agricultural interest should come to be fully felt in taq auhailla *mil be ede l lted . Th. ' le *1 MM.. that the course of two or three years time, the land must of ne th."." nem ' eallwe r a le. ekeeee 'l ha mi deg / • .d rable extent (and especial! the hea id.*sib Oa badag model et eamity , t o aloe gebendoe •••• , t7 , to • nona , . 1 t vy ide sal eneweee, 100 ammo. land) , go out of cultivation. He cordially concurred in he db obit tera aresebi to dab eY 1111111111111,110 remarks made the other day by Lord Listelton at the Stew monnyn.the ea el dams et be eentralla, tbrombi ear egeratbes poney meeting, on the subject of the ridicule which was at iodommied dollebtabb. tobblitt POO( • Ott° the •••7 tempted to be passed by a certain portion of the press on the akaaas "aniallP o rama r kk a t u. s la "b rip bes the md amselr . i . i . ille ..... eeil • I t rewards to agricultural labourers ; and contended that much =A divadablwarbeed ewe UM* e a menmen h aaa aaa might be accomplished through the instrumentality of these et Mutes le de is breibbly. Oa associations to advance the condition of the agricultural la trlth deem the le dee pare etthe bourere, and especially if the legislature would assist in that satirplent worthy object. The lot of the honest labourer was very de isinn th plorable, for, after alt their long and faithful services, they — ""w '''' gibm :Z d ir were left in their old age to share the common lot of the Ikrllnumallut lee= dire ear • mob r m Isatz m per et ket edb bra most despicable of their class in the common workhouse. He dim the mrer i ntr d nal== i st sal tantataerga ll uedebts thought dud if the parish had the voluntary power of erect amedeliek be vend be alerdea et Ore sue- Mg a number of cottages by degrees throughout the country, " 80 = a cir e = ei r ie larmat Ewa sea That and spreading the cost over a number f years, they might bourne ramie the honest labourer from that fate.—Mr. Foley, M.P., inasillineasse, sad doe b bar dtbdregebramet. in replying to this tout, said he concurred in Mr. Curtler'sre- BROUGHTON OLD HALL, wear Manchester, was marks, and he also spoke highly of the allotment system—. partly destroyed by fire on Saturday_ morning, and damage F. Woodward, Esq. (one of the guests at Drayton Manor a was done to the extent of nearly I,oooi. It was, to within a fortnight age), also replied to this toast. After some re few years ago, the seat of the late Rev. Wm. Clowes, and on marks on the application of chemistry to agriculture, Mr. his brother Col. Clown, the present owner, coming into pos. Woodward addressed himself to the question of tcnsnt.right. session, he removed the furniture for the purporte of subject- Generally speaking, he agreed with the system of lessee, but ing the building to some extensive alterations. Owing to there were exceptions to it, and, therefore, he was foe the this circumstance the lima has been trifling compared with adoption of the principle of remunerating au off-going tenant whet it would have been if the hall had been occupied by for the improvements he bad effected and the money be had the Welty. The hall is situated about two miles from Man- laid out oa his farm. Under the present system he might theater, and the alarm did not reach the police till some con. take a farm, and, in the first two or three years. lay out as aiderable time had been lost. The fire was entirely subdued many thousand pounds; is iMproventeats ; but his landlord in lees ek an two boon, after destroying a large portion of might at that time, if he chow, tarn him out without a the roof and of the cupola over the smith front, besides the farthing of compensation. He hoped that this question upper part of the grand staircase. As the walls and coili • were in the coarse of rectlfi'.4 onlbollisbnioAlg they also attention of the legislature in the ensuing baba DP would be taken up by the farmers and pressed upon. the Oct. 10, 1647. Tr. -- E:! 1,911,1 .SUSSEX. COLLISION ON THE I.ON :'. DT/N AND BRIGHTON RAIL ' war.—A collision of a fearful character between two pas senger trains occurred on Saturday morning, on the London and Brighton Railway, by which several passengers were seriously injured, among whom may be mentioned Mr. Wynn, the medallioniq to the Royal Mint, and Mr. Driver, the lund-surveyor of Parliament-street. It occurred soon after nine o'clock, at the junction of the Keymer branch line, situate between, Ilayward's heath and Hassock's Gate stations, and about nine miles from Brighton. The trains that met with the disasttr were the first down, or parlia mentary train, and the morning express train from Hastings, the former leaving London-bridge terminus at seven a.m , and the latter Hastingsat minutt s put seven. At the junc tion the company have ploced a code of signals, and the in structions were exceedingly explicit as to trains passing from the branch on to the main line. Both the trains are due at that point near the same time, and the custom is to signal the down parliamentary train to wait until the express has passed over. It appears, in this instance, that when the parlia mentary approached the junction the signal was given that all was clear, and to go on, and it did so at the usual speed. On nearing the points, however, the engines-driver perceived the express coming up, the driver of the engine of which also laboured under the same impression as to the signal indicating all clear. The moment tiny saw their dangerous position the steam was shut off, and those on the parliamentary train engine perceiving a collision must Merl tahly ensue saved their lives by jumping off. L;nfortunately neither of the trains could be stopped in time to prevent the lamentable consequences, and at the moment of the express creasing the junction it was cut in two by the canine of the parliamentary down train. The crash was tremendous, and the consternation and terror that prevailed amongst the passenger was shockingly painful. From the fact of several of the carriages being partially demolished, and others turned on their end, a belief was entertained that several of the passengers had been killed. Many of the passengers es caped from the carriages as they could, bleeding from wounds in various parts of their bodies. As soon as practicable the guards proceeded to make a careful search of the carriages, and happily asetrtained that, no life had been lost, although most of the passengers were more or less injured. To these more seriously hurt than the rest medical aid was promptly obtained, and as soon as the trains were extricated, which occupied nearly two hours, they were forwarded to Brighton. The accident is to be attributed, in the hest place, to the down-train being behind time ; the second, and the more immediate cause wu, the inefficiency of the tender-brake. How this inefficiency arose we are unable to state ; but it is somewhat surprising, as the engine was a new one. It was made by 'laughter and Co., of Bristol, and the principle of applying the brakes on their engines of that kind is, we are informed, somewhat different to that ordinarily in use. OPENING OF TILE - GIPSY SCHOOL AT FARNHAM.— A substantial building, the foundation stone of which was laid in the parish of Poole, in 1845, is now complete, and was opened a few days since for the education of orphan gipsy children, and for the younger branches of those gip. sies who have large families. All will here be taught to read and write. 'lhe girls will be trained to the various household duties, and fitted to go out to service. The boys will be carefully instructed, and when arrived at a proper age apprenticed to some useful trade. Both sexes will thus be made respectable members of society, attention being more particularly directed to their religious education. The building is a very convenient structure, capable of accom• modating twenty-four children, but as yet rooms are only fitted up for one-half that number, and it is so arranged that to make it perfect as regards its outward appearance an other wing should be added, by which accommodation would be provi2ed for double the number it is now capable of receiving. It is built on an elevated position, near Farnham. The meeting was most numerously and respectably attended. The Rev. R. Moore opened the proceedings with prayer. The Rev. C. B. Coney (the acting hon. secretary) followed by reading the report of the financial affairs of the school, from which we extract. The receipts to the end of September were 1,1361. 141.5 d.; amount promised by the Committee of Council on Education, as soon as the committee are in a eitua tion to claim it, 1001. The expenditure, as far ascould yet be estimated was, for the building, including printing, pcetages, and every expense connected with it, 1,2131. 16s. 14., leasing a balance of 221. 18s. 4d. towards the furnishing. To this amount must now be added 501., which Mr. Glyn bad since handed in towards the latter object. The annual subscrip tions, which had been received for the purpose of education, and had been kept separate from the building fund, now amounted in hand to 1041. 3e. AND CLERICAL OXFORD.—ELECTION OF TICE.CHANCELLOB..—On Satur day morning the Chancellor'. letter of Dalitrildoll to tithe int meant oftke was rend and approved of in sonvocation, when the her. B. I'. Symons, D.D., warden of %Wiliam Coll., was for the fourth year wont in vice-cluneetlor of the tiMveralty of Oxford. The vice-chancellor then appointed the hallowing head. of homes ma po nce chancellons who are to termite his power In ems of Ms Blame or necessary Minna from the university, vie.:—E. Hawkins, DA., provost of Oriel Coll. ; P. Wynter, DAY, president of St. John'. WI.; J. Radford, D.D., rector of Lincoln Coll.; P. C. Plumptre, D.D., master of University Coll. QUEEN 8 COLLEOC.—An election of an exhibitioner on the Michel foundation, at diN WNW, will take place on Tuesday, the 20th bust. Candidates must be natives of the provinee of Canter bury, and from I 3 to 78 yeas of one. At the same time there will be an election of two exhibithmers on the Bridgman foundation, open to natives of the counties of Lancaster, Chester, and Wilts. l'ilOCUitATOß.—The Dean and Canons of Christ Church hare elected Ur. Barnes, rrolatiesn and one of the monsoon procurator ts represent that body in the approselttng convocation. The Regius Professor of Putoral Theology intends to begin his course of lectures of the Michaelmas Term on Monday, the 23th of October. Ouch members of the university as are qualieed become Kiloton, in theology, mad are diagram of attending theme lectures, are requested to call upon the profemor on Saturday, the 23rd of October, between the bows of eleven and two o'clock. THE CONVOCATION. —The BAT. Canon %MOE, ViCILE of Esitham, in the county of Mean( ; the Rev. C. A. Thurlow, tector of the hither rectory of Marne*, in the county of Cheater ; the Rev. It.. Georgia, ineuent of Bunton, in the county of Chester; the Rev. J. Brook% Milat rector of Liverpool; and the Hes. and Ray. H. Pena realer ef Warrington, have been elected innageee of the =wadies Wefts Wnwee of Chester. ... - C:OIISOCRATION Or CHRIST CHCiCH, WRITZILAVIN.-011 the IS* ou a wow *noth, which baa been meshed* awe of the met populous awl poor dielthes within the town of WlLitteado. w 4011. eiwalat Who Lord Milos of Cbeetee, In the presence of a wow is cesswarso ef ponses. lhs swieutes Farm haetaiLtezat o t i e=to hwy. J. Iftseet the twesshoot of the district, the • mom sgrogriato t• the swell. • punkin of the tows of While. haws seseemsdift the ehomilt win boome • saw peel* tor lbe name of the path! of Moot Plesetat, prowlekse of Sir Hobert Peal% set. CONSECRATION or ST. PAWS CNIIRCII, WEST LIIIOE, L•ae•sente.—The Lewd Bishop d Moir amterated anew set de. Rant duo" orested at Wait as the ill het, he liras at • ecosahaiss bone Ids Oros Ohs la Arehlithip of Talk hi M peasme et a Imp aweetay ear dew •od dolmoll). et gr..' *few ch i team ." vim et oho Itermar.—Par. A UAW I M. lab Rev. W. J. DIM 11 IL W. iamb MME ; i l o alsa"isnB4ff°34. ll l6"l"lb;aa' 11111100111. ▪ ammity Was OM gm ••••• ""--- ▪ tir ma , ft wal w erai .swi pries wg the am zgymy, as r.—The Prt.Themas VOW- eMasmillome; Ma Dad J. IL Surese. is Meow P.M., • 1• 1 =1: 1311 = 2 ; 101 , leand I rt ERUOGI ; MiMaMer. , • ; I'X P.C., DMlNOrtrara. 7. e' J 1 :ii,iiil 13,483 45,000 104,784