The Express. — London, England, 1848-09-09 00:00:00

; T EO Cat ME. el lb Nib Pm .141 id. 11111. ■M 17 2 • eily, ie dr a• he Ilk e iitest dirt riTtq ir in le SI rid o Cia• ri: pow pos al, k * lost OS dews at eighty stilton. of tholes Four vessels be l ong ing to that port were taken; by Danish s o of war peudicg the negotiations fur the trace. Thew vrevehsliart h ft an English port (in which they had takes shelter) on the understanding that the truce had been finally agreed upon. The finance and tax committee of the Constituent moonibly has negatived the proposi• ion for a repeal of the wine •ax. In IMO parts of Silesia the peasants Ines estasedto pay any feudal does. The cholera is making . considerable program at sagdeburs, porticalarly in those posits of the tow s which border on the Elbe—portions in which the spithmio committed great havoc in 1831. In this capital about fifty fresh cases occur every day. The reser its are but few. AUSTRIA. —We have Vienna papers of the 9rd. The Metter Zw-lang pufblishthe ninees the fin months ancial account of the Austrian empire, or ended July 31,1848, and also for the rep rate month of July last. It appears by that scoonut that the receipts during the former penal amounted to 91,298,833 florins, and the expenditure to 119,664,204 florMv, thus showing a deficit oi 28.231370 &wine, instead of—as anticipated when the &rise% for this year was struck—a sirplas of 3,687,730 firms or those nine mouths ; so that, for , all practical purpose!, the deficit for that period is muss 31,013,120 &Irma It must be borne in mind, however, that no revenues have ban derived from Lombardy and Venice since the middle of March tam Hungary , sinc e the beginning of April • ; or from Liebobti,ger since the 24th of June. Those circum stances will moan for a deficiency of about twenty millions of &sins. The revenues from other parts of the empire have sensibly diminished, in conse quence of the @salvation of commerce, and there has been an i ncre a s ed war expenditure. During the month of July last the resi amounted 7,213,267 florins, when " t h e expenditure to 14,276,M twins, being a of m .re than seven millions of florins. On the 29th alt. the eats of the notes of the A 1114/11111National Bank in circulation was 202,71/0,163 ' and of the convention coin and silver bars in deposit only 32,236,098. All kinds of plagues appear to be let loose on =- fortunate Hungary. The Arrant Gazette now an nounces that swarms of locusts (ffesischreckels) have posed over the frontiers from Tor. ty, and that they are *mammies frightful ravages in munevans Seem The Hungarians are still corning off second best la their engagements with the insurgent Croatians, and begin to wish for peace. The Bann has taken pompa nos of Rukowar. Tee Prague Constitat Blatt as serts in p More terms that the Raman ambassador in Constantinople has ordered his Bag to he taken down, and is about to leave Constantinople. It adds that Gen. I ieder has been instructed to march into Mol dais with 60.000 Ronan troops. Ampording to the last accounts from Hungary, the Sanaa have burned the town of New Moldowa. BRUNSWICK.—The Brunswick pipers announce in terms of satisfaction that the extraordinary diet of that duchy has vo.ed the new laws rotating to the re presmtation of the people, the mode of election, the piple's gaud, and the abolition of th.., privileges of beihira Oa Thursday next the diet will be dis solved. It is certain that the new legislative assembly will speedily repeal that part of the electoral law mid* makers the franchise only on persons paying a softie t=aunt of taxation. HAMBURI3.—Our oorreepondent writes : MAJOIVRO. Warr. 6.—The raising of the blocked, was re tarded firg two or thaw days by the boisterous weather, the Mews, Ilk, which took the Danish °dicer on board on Seholay mooning, being obliged to put back; nor was she men nn Sunday. Yesterday, how.ver, she got est M eta, sad melted the Danish men•obwar at belt pmt les is the morning. like returned directly, and reached the shy at eight o'clock in the evening, when the merchants' committee announced at the Bormakallo that the river was ass glistually free. ['waren as this news was we could get gaiety it, receiving at the sem time an aeconat from Kiel, stating th .Le Assembly of Deputies bad, is their reeseday's meeting, ananimagsly deflated the armistice as ' ea gad void, and theasselm as the maly sostreiga power. The Previsional Goveramoot Is to be kept on, the lases me is be paid up to the 31st Dee. only to sack authorities es asamd by them. This resolution is to be announced forth with to the Central Power at Frankton pad to the Fowl. steed Dominant. The Lag of Prussia, by whose order the smiths was signed, is attacked with great vitalism in lighten, mbaUy as well as is print; sad probably the NOY W dens in Schisms, from whines we haws had ao accessats Wass the terms of the anaktios were known there. It ap pears that the lickileavrig-Holstain soldiers, who are cow mailed by Prussian °Soars, Wass to obey their orders sow. Last night there were riots at the sabot b of St. Peal, themgh without soy po Meal cams. Oar city is quiet. The dabs meat own evening to discos the projects of law which the masts will lay before the mama on Thursday next. MADRID, pill.T : 2. The discussion in the Lords relative to the imprison meat and expulsion of Colonel Bristow, bee drawn an an swer from the Herokio of today, which, ea it probably em bodies all that the Spanish minium can present by way of spelagy fur so violent an outrage, I shall give the substance «t - f. The impulsion of Colonel Bristow was effected at a me msst of gnat irritation, when other English colonels was are* our south coast, seditiously fomenting political die ted:own ; and than who so bitterly repro.aeb en with thla step consider so very holy and rod the provisions of the Alpo Bill, which authorise the English government to ex pel from the country all suspected foreigners. Acting upon them dispositions, Vega. government has not only expelled hem Eagle.. some foreigners,in which it has acted with sense, bathos peoeesdad to arrest and imprison others, among whom me AnglosAwricens, who were suspected of going to Imat the Irish rebellion, sad will be doubtless transported. If the lot of these be compered with that of Col. Bristow, idea ,her a few hours of inspieument, leaves Madrid, and Mew the ountry in • com forta ble post-chaise to the tram. tiff s liken he is set at liberty, we believe there are few lift timid choose the Eng punishment in preference la Ss Spaalsh. II the English government finds itself 111.1 to adapt each severe measures with meild,ing Sedgmers, who stir up satiny, why is the same right denied WI. Sponi,la prominent ? Is there less weseity here for Iles two of order t Does corder net NM on surer than in England ? As to the Immaculate mono. ma st Col. Bristow we have already said all that there is I‘Make this head. It is sufficiently apparent that the gasernment would not expel him out of pure his, uor beeline he was en Eoglis..man. Titaness& of Milk English lire in Spain, some of worm ere the state's aim ha sums sqmewlist more considerable than the sup. Pali debt due to Colonel Bristow, and have never had to ingilla of being in the least degree molested. Their ad mercantile Interests are mach better guaranteed ate linear of the country, and the appreciation of than by all th e squadrons of England. And all Lord B Beaumont says =this heed is • rdiculous tames psi, which could not be supported by • single feet, how l. Magnificant. But between this respect towards the plinne and properties of foreigners, and the toleration in spas st disturbance of a foreigner, who, under the asillaSse ss, insigntficant debt, never justified, resides among mii sips* proteming Hess hostile to the govern /Mut, spouting them in &es and resorts of habitual Seamen ; of a foreigner who has two distinct leigler i l v a:t i capital, at a distance from each other, and sits from his Winery domicile on nights of donde, then is a vats diffsee. which no pendant govern ment...neglect. The notoriowees of these fats is the MN •Oligirta justification of the Spanish government in the ere of the Eaglish. If greater energy his been resorted to ties is ordinary times, at ts because those momenta were not it. the estatainment of timid scruples, as England ber serk showing us, and because we too have oter alien bills, anima beeline we hare wished to fail in the courtesy due le &Rhea nations." Illetallermosa's resignation of his double office, an mayor and political chief of Madrid, is announced in the Gazate. its iniaisterisl papers say that he is to be succeeded by the lisr‘sie ei PineAarida, who exercised the saw office two years ago. Vistallermoss's resignation was occasioned by the inflie- Iles ef the peso ulamiarste of crowing the bull amphitheatre la sweet on Pallet's, the impresario, fur giving the public Ist bulls. This imprudent castigation compromised the pneusent, infamous penalties being prohibited. I beard last night that E'l6•o was 1410 to in dismissed be its direction of police. Me brats a very questionable dinner as to official probity, and Men, I understand, has eitimered, that as lung as Nervy z, Senorita, and Encino soi is dies, to. regulation of the triossury Is impossible. It is eleesd that Miss his discovered a detains:ion of 20 millions is lie pot% paw MYasistiley for sad Catto-alonia.day emuiderable bodies of troops have Madrid FRANCE—Fento AT BOULOGNE AND BABE.— • rend_ fees, which is as last three dare, and to comm e nce 00 10 e WM int, is as to take place at Boulegme for 160 401r a mszf a riving a national and (mental demonstration guards al the surrounding towns and to fo 31..LTke demonstration will be on a large scale, and empries • regatta in the harbour, races and other 111111 .1 Min• A_ stood fees I. also to take place at MMus ea the 10th. The fifth legion of the Parisian selfinal guard will fraternise with the fifth legion of the ems matioual guard at Horns. Great peafowls! ions are Molrfag for an entertainnuntof tome thousands in the square al ifrafirs. This %eternisation is about to take place in con tagious of the 11th legion of the H sere national guard firwfwg marct , ed to Paris daring the Insurrection in June, Salasatrihuted towards preen ing the capital sad its inha bitants from destruction. Faxotrrii, SEPT. 7.—The puska* Crane, Lieut. Parkue, mem to-day for Intik TM German vevelle, cheat lift. i. nonahcr, which have b. en here for a loin Mint on account of the Wars have COLONIAL NEW ZEILAND.—We have accounts from New Zealand, which extend to the &h of March, at Which data all was quiet at Wangenal, and had bees so for some time previous. Some Mann 4.1 the 65th Regiment ►.d explored the river as far as Pukspika without meeting with soy hos tile demenstration tram the natives. News had been re. mired there from the Nay of Islands of a suspicious charac ter. The natives bad estabialisid a mast lesgue, and drawn up writhes easapents, the terms or which were kept with ex traordinary matey. It was said that the notorious Hell was the mainspring of the 1110WIlltai. fix apart. - - The Prince of Mine returned to town on Thursday fre Kew. --- Via7ootakt Palmerston left town yesterday afternoon foe his seat, Woodlands, Rants. Despatches were received yesterday, at the Colo nial-snot, from the Govanor of thq Disoritins. Deepatehre were sect off lut evening, from the Col•misl•otace, fur the Governor of Canada, and also for the (overawe of the other Not , h Am.fican provmecs. Oaps et RI. Kerbs vise °sieve. magas& (From last night's Chaotic) ADMIRALTT, Aro. 28. •H. tlewstt, to be first lieut., At. 31. Tbet limb sad (loannina. H. T. P. bbewen, to be apt. aloe tesattla, rat. on 1111. p ; bee.-Lleet. M'Arthur to bu hot lieut., vise Means, THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND. PROORFSS or INC ROYAL SQUADRON. The announcement that her Majesty did not in tend penning the voyage till Wedoasday, the squadron beingisg tap for the night (Temday) at the Nure, led to sway mistaleeletiens as to th probable time the royal lint went pees the different points et the cast, and hence atom eland& peetreldingpoistintut. TLe passage of the Vic toria end Albert appear- to have been most rapid. Accord ing te all meennte received trim the Coast. Guard SOILLAIS, the average speed oiler Majesty's yacht wee frees 13 to 14 keels an beet. Her course across the Boston Deeps was N.N.W., keeping the outside panage off the herdiarid of Fleasboneugh,, ease 7or 8 miss distant. Hers the was m -t by a strap o/ w ar of the Frtneh government, which bad rua out that mining from Scarborough for the purpose of meeting the squadron mid solution the English sovereign. At kalflast 1 o'clock the royal yacht posed, the com moner of the French sloop of war tiring a salute, hoisting the Hagfish edam above those of the French, and the crew masidag the yards. liar Majesty was on deck and gee. dandy acknowledged thil compliment paid by the Franca — jillesabereso, u at inseentem, every preparation was Node te de ell honour to her Majesty a, sea passed. The Grasheuteieweles wore drawn out, and the gum at the Cesenerd wale allerged, seedy for saluting In the after noon Imo demon were cbterved about ten miles distant bens the Gust, making to the northward, but the command. fag asst, relying on the report that tho royal yacht would heavy at the Nom ea the previous night, considered =Wile that We stamen er,uld be reetlythose of the Alter many hunts' watching, the French voael of was, whisk had gone out that morning, returned anti reported the lest that the Queen had passel, and that the steamers ssaa were no Mbar than those of the royal fleet. Farther northward the ns, al yacht was paned by the New castle steamer. As soon as the yacht had toms within hail a party of sailors and others mounted the tormastP, and ra. luted her Majesty with three cheers. Neither the Queen, Prince Consort, nor the royal children could be observed either on the deck or is the cabins. As the yacht steamed pest her pace war very rapid, and only two of the steamers of the (our that started (the Vivid and Virago) could keep up with ker. The Black Eagle wan p ‘seed about an hour interwar& ; the fourth was nut seen. The weather W. 16 de lightfal, with every appearance of its continuance. The royal squadron was abreast of Robin Hoed Bay, Whitby, about tow o'clock. Notice having been given to the gunners on the estate of the Bal of Mulgrave, of the approach of the Victoria and Albeit, a royal salute was thundered forth as she putted- At alive% o'clock on Wed nesday sight the squadron was meshy the London (Dundee) steam.ekip, Capt. Being, outside the F , m Islands. Al though dark it was a Sae night, the wind blowing from the W., and the coarse of the squadron almost due N. The Fern Islands from Woolwich are about four hundred miles, end some idea may be formed of the speed of the yacht when it is stated that she accomplished that distance in 30 hears. . BRION= (FORIAIk i TIIIIRADILT MORNING, 10 o'CLock. —TM Coast.Onard at ontr,ero observed the approach other e mkt before daybreak this morning. Apparently ete jn am the outside passage of the Bell Rock Light helm. Mae ins tame die awe off, and from the rate the was gobs weal reach Abatises before right o'clock. PAIWPAAATIONS AT ARIADIIIN. The AbereheaJoterytal says :—" Suitable preparations have bola sae& for the landing of her Majesty m Waterloo quay. By direction of the local authorities, a very tasteful triumphal OA has been erected. On the top of the extreme piers at task side is a large crown ; and front the cornice over the centre arch hang festoons, carved in wood. Taie extreme height of the centre portion to the parapet is 37 ft. trom the ground. In statesmen with the other arrangements an im mense annshitheatrical stage, for the accommodation of nearl 2,000 persons, has beau erected, with a view to the grata of the loyal feelings ofa potion of the thousands anxious to behold the porton of the Queen. At the sane lime, _the most cusiel arrangements have been made to facilitate the comfortable progress of the royal cortege through the city, which will take such a coarse as to enable bar Majesty, at a glance, to mark its mat prominent and distinctive architee .ural feenues. When her Majesty shall have puled beyond the boundary of the city, she will Framed direct to Balmoral, accompanied by the hearty greetings of the numerous dwellers on the banks of the Dee. Her Majesty's visit to Aberdeenshire, at this time, partakes not of the character of a state emotion. All unneeemary parade has been dispensed with, as blind's:Med by the smallness of her attenuant re tinae. Let us, therefore, for the credit of the county, see that every undue encroachment upon the tranquil retire ment and esclusiou of her Mej.aty be studiously avoided ; so that we may cherish the anticipation of many an after visit of oar sovereign." MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES. Yesterday, at the meeting of the Middlesex magis trates, Mr. Maude, the deputy clerk of the peace, read the Poison RIPORTS.—It appeared that the House of Cor rection, Cadbath-fields, contained 955 aide and 260 female haute, besides 14 children. The Westminster House of COfffeetiell contained 666 male, 217 female rieOUSTS, and 16 children, sad the Hones of Detention, Corkenwell, con tained 118 proem% en &log a total in the three prisons of 2,125. The total number of prisoners received in the Hones of Detention since its opening in October last, was stated in the report to be 7,648. Casa Of ALIAORD Polsontuo.—Mr. Maude laid before the court the report of the committee for accounts and geseral tummies. The committee recommended the pay ment of 4331. 6s. to Mr. Watley, for fees and dishnnements to 147 inquests, and 4691.165. to Mr. Baker for 140 inquests. The report directed the attention of the court to ea item is the seeount of Mr. Bedferd, the orooaer for Weitiniester, regarding the leanest held upon an inhat named Mary Ann Theresa Dec. ' in which case the pay returned a verdict of wilful murders/caret the mother and grandmother of the child. Is the vouchers of the die bureemeate the oramittes observed a charge of four guineas, paid to a medical wham for " malty analyses" of the sto ma of deceased, and al-e a charge of two guinea paid to another medical witness for spent melees examination. By 6& 7 Wm. lff e. 69, the latter tam was the fixed allow ance, for a pose worn examination, with or without ana lyre, end the committee therefore considered that the larger item e'er not to be slowed. They recommended the court to Mae eat that item, and fee 64 inquests held by Mr. Bed hmil sessmemeered the mart to order 1661. 3s. to be gaide-110 OM* appeal re MISOISM, niation, and ordered Sleek moved that two of the Ineellbeheele le the Hem se Correction be removed, and the epees eseripiel by the. be tweed into workshops, at an ex- C a rl erreedlni 1891. The boo. magistrate observed tithe latedwheel had for some time been shellicrerr : rni demides were concerned, and. as he confi ding', wish nu emirs' effects. At the present time *see wee mere " peednides " labour foe the formals pram ell than meld be mellwated by them, and it was to enable Mem to be awe lbw Owe additional workships were re quisieL—The miss was eteonded and carried, as was a preerMysiledhe ems,made with regard to two treaclwheer in the Westnidelfas Mouse of Correction. Now LUNATIC ASYLUM AND ice COUNTY ASIMISMiNT. Botch then _proposed that the court should execute a for 10,0001 on the county rate, for the pay= s of tultrffritional he lum at C olney Hatch—Mr Freshdald said lunatic that he would take this opportu nity to say a few words upon the subject of the county rental, and es the subject was of some importano to the rate payers generally, he hoped what he said would be laid bef re the public. In 1846 n committee, of which he was chair man, was appointed by the court, to inquire into the county rental, with the view of aessaing a more fair and equitable county rate. That committee pursued its legacies for two years, end the malt was that the court made a smaller rats upon a much larger amount of rental than before. Thus one perish might have been assessed at too high a rate, and could show that the rental upon whleh the *easement was made was not so large se estimated. He would instance the ease a Bt. James's, Westminster, under the new amiessment. That parish was rated at a much greater rental than before, and the parish authorities, with the view of protecting the raw payers, protated against the rate. Inquirio were made, and the result was, t let whilst the parish contended it was far overrated, it conceded that it had not bees rated equal to the rental ham the new asectsanee was made. Under these eircumetances no alteration could be made in the asesement of that parish without a general re asseememls m ad he therefore urged upon the court the great necessity Mt existed for the magistrate* to be empowered to slat the sesesemser in particular districts where the &war mest made was subsequently found to bi either hew/equate or too heavy.--84 Peter Laurie interrepted, and sold Mr. Preshfield was out of order in going into them deals now. —Mr. Feshileld said the importance of the subject weds him hope for the indulgence of the court. He would not continue. A noire of motion was afterwards given upon the subject. The mortgage was then inward. Asairr•as CNA/LAM—Mt. H. Roes moved that aa aminant chaplain to the W-aminster house of correction be appointed, with a eatery of 2001. • par.—Captain Sagas THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1848. seenoned Ike neetion.—Mr. Roieh o p posed it. Re Noi *RI Mr. Hind, this peseta chaplain, had in the Bret lamas asked for an *ream of galore, and at that time he mid nothing whenever shoat the duty being too heavy foe eau chuplaut. Mr. Hind received 4001. als tar, and had the overt increased it to 6001. there would hays been nothing beard about an assistant chaplain. 4001. per annum we, quite an ample salary fora gaol chaplain, and if Mr. Hind could perform the duty for one salary he could for another. If an insistent really were required why did not Mr. Hind ask foe one at first, instead of increased pay ? 11r. Rash, is conclusion, adverted to the adoption of elyerat• cells as the best reformatory system that mold be *stab Sir Peter L iurie said be had not intended to speak upon this subject, but he must say a word or two in answer to the last observations of his hon. friend Mr. R itch. H. seemed to think that there were not solitary cells enough at the foment time. 8 .liiary cells ! Why, they were nanerise of insanity. He held in his hand a paper which showed that in five years, from 1843 to 18i8, titers had been sent from the Ks:think Prni.entiory, where mitosis, cells were in vogue, t r Bedlam, 19 lunatics ; from the Pentonvill• Model Prison, 10 ; from the hulks, 20; and 1 from she Westrain seer Rome of Correction, making a total ut 60. In the same time not one hid been tent from the Co.dbath fields Prison, and from all the Cher prisons in linglaed only lie. Ther , were seen the eif• ete of the sqlitary and seperaewell system. - Mr. Wiles's, Mr. Kempshsw, and other masistram epok spinet the motion —Mr. Weir recommended la withdrawal —Mr. Roes said be would withdraw the motion.—Copt Hague said he was the e minder, and the motion could not be withdrawn without his a-nrent. He had retreated from anything he hart und.rtaken in his life, end he would bring this qu scion to the vote.—Mr. Ro oh said his hon. friend wa rather out of order. Though he hod retreated from cts,non bills, be must retreat before the standing orders of that court.—After some further discus sion the motion was earn. d by a majority of 4.—lt was then ordered that the situation should be advertised the visiting justices to redoes the number of candidetes to three, one of whom will be sleeted by the court. The committees were re-appointed, and the court ad journed. KING'S COLLEGE HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday, at a meeting of the gee. roars of unsnap meat of the above hos- pital, holden in the board room of the iustitut.on, it wis reported that all the teds :it the various wards were fully occupied (the number being 120), at d that mane deeming ce , ee are r. jested for want of room. To remedy this evil a building fund has bees estab:ished for the purpose of purchasing an adjoining pie of ground on which may be erected an additinnal wing. Tng SALES AT STOWE watt continued yesterday, and exmaieted of the plate, the whole of which is now disposed of. The only lots woittly of 'cities were 779 and 780, te-o beautiful stands for flower, with female flows supportine a shell-shaped basket on rich gilt fee , in which are inserted re. lisle at Cupids la the richest old taste, sold at 67e. per oases. Their downed excited the greatest inter,st. Their weight exceeds 120 ounces. They have been added to the Queen's collection. To., rale will be resumed on Tuesday next, whoa the Int parties of the collection of pictures will be offend. THE CONDITION OF THE SERPENTINE " Myna" HTDIFIPAIIK ti sow 80 bad that that part of the park in which it stagnates is comparatively deserted by the usual bathers and promenaders. The total number of per sons who bathed in the Serpentine througbout the year 1846 ex waled 3.10,00, according to the dady,returns made by the superintendent of the Humane Society. Acmes pontlent ass s: 8,1 great is the Wino off however, that the daily number of bathers has not throughout the present season on an average exceeded 60, which, even reckoning for the six summer months, is only about 1-15th part of the nuaber previously quoted. The medical men residing ia the neighbourhood have strictly ordered the families whom they attend to avoid this great tank of malaria. Another instance of the extent of the nuisanoe, and of the nec city for its speedy removal, is afforded ;it the cue of a lady who, on passing over the bridge at the eastern end of the river, found the tillaviunt from the water so power fal that she did nut lase the imprsisiog of it fir several diys, and suffered in censequenes a severs attack of ill health. With suck startling facts as these before us, it is to be hoped that as Noon as Sir John Rennie (to whom the subj. et has been referred) bar disco vered a remedy for the evil, no time will be lost in applying It." _ _ CtirIONEOUSE MaNAGEKENT.—Hir,—The public are under great oblig dans to you for the perseverance with which you foil ,w up the scandalous jobbery in the Now Forest. Other state departments are no doubt quite as full of abuses, and if you continue to devote yourself to toe Herculean labour of cleansing the Angolan stables of the state, you will have abundant end useful work for years to mato. The Customhouse and the Admiralty, I warrant you, will afford ample sport. I will my a few words of the former. Lord George /Sentinel' hoe puzzled the Chancellor of the Exchequ‘r with queries about the strangely con tradictory returns of toe quantities of sugar im ported. Now, I wish he had put this pertinent gestation r. veining the mode of verifying all such returns. cis. :—Whether her Noisily's government, or her Mojeaty's Commisainere of the Customs have ever ascer tained how much sugar then has been at any given slate, say the let of January of any one yes,r in the bonded ware houses of the Tinned Kingdom ? Unless this has been ascertained, it is impassible to know whether the quantity re. turned as duty paid is the true quantity or not. And so little is knout about this matter, that on the Ist inn. two eminent Mincing lane ()rakers differ u much as twenty thousand tone in their estimates of stocks of sugar under Queen's locks. Now, I venture to predict that, wen the Commissioners of the Customs to obtain a retail of the bawd Ads stocks some fin umn back, sad were they to add to that all the sugar they have reported as Imported, and deduct all reported as exported or duty paid, they would find en amount of sugar min to be accounted for far exceeding that which is really in existence. In other words, as in the ease of the New Forest, it would be found that a vast deal of illicit trafficking has been carried on under the very honourable noses of the honourable oom mirsioners. But I wit further predict, that were parliament to ask for en accurate return of the stock of sugar extant in the bonded warehouses now, or on any other given day. the honourable commissioner will reply, that it is quite int presible to furnish the information. And I will further more predict, that though such will be the insonslate reply, yet that in two years from thin day, if you will but per-evere in your labours, the return will be obtain. d, and that it will disclose a system of negligence and fraud little dreamt of by the honourable commissioners, or the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, or even by Lord (Margo Bentinck.—l em, &a, Scar/veto& CHELSEA HOSPITAL AND THE THAMES EMBANK anNT.—A purchase recently concluded by the government is likely, indirectly, to aid the progress of improvement in pant adjoining Wintonhuger. The Royal Maury Asylum in the King's-road, Chelsea, was built on a very short lease —much too short,—and in about twisty years from this time would have reverted to the freeholder, Lord Cadogan. The government being desirous to retain the property, and his lordship willing, • bill to facilitate the purchase of the reversion was brought into parliament and passed (showing how noiselessly things of this sort may be done when re• gaind by those who have power). The pries to be paid was left by mutual arrangement to the decision of Mr. J. W. Higeins (the late elided referee), and the whole matter is, we believe, nearly settled. One result of this transaction unless we are misinformed, will be the early conunenoement of the embankment of the Thames at Chelsea, Lord Cado- gen intending so to appropriate some of the mosey received. We lock anxiously for the commencement of this meet desir able improvement.— TAs Builder. THE New YORK TRIBUNE,-Sir,—ln the News of Wednesday, 13th inst., your generally somata New York correspondent, writing of the editor of the Nets York Tribune, toes the following language :—" He is a cow monist, a 'exotic, an unbeliever in animal food, an aati slavery, and an anti-capital punishment man." Now I beg leave, as a personal friend of Mr. Oreeley's, to state that he is neither • communist," nor "a sceptic ;" but that, me the contrary, both communism and scepti.ism—meaning, by the latter expression, infidelity—have always experienced from him, and the paper which he conducts, the most eon leant and consistent opposition. That he is "an unbeliever in [alias non•coasumer of] animal food," and Is also open to the charges of " anti-capital punishment" and" antidavery" is as true as that in one of the latter respect; if not both, he is in the same condemns lon with the Nene.-11. C.—Lon don, Ber.l3lB4B.—[As an act of common justice , we insert I this note. t strikes us that no reproach was attacked by our New Talk correspondent to the editor of the Tribune for the ooinions he sincerely entertains ; but simply a fair joke broke upon him tor sympathising with pike Warren tions while he opposed capital punishments. In respect of communism our impreosion (the result of regular perusal) Is that the Tribune advocates the doctrines of Fourrier ; cer tainly it took part with the anti-rentallers of New Pork.] LIEUTENANT EDWARDES AND THE LATE INDIAN VICTO&T.—The Journal des D4ots does Zeeland the honour to devote two columns of its space tea rempitalation of the details of the recent triumph in Moulten. It Otsego= up its article:—" The English newspapers we tilled with eulogies on the conduct of Lieut. Edwards,. Thou manila are well merited. That officer, by his audasity and &maw, has saved his country the expiates of a campaign, that is to say, several millions,—and without taking any account of the honour which he has conferred on himself, he has added • brilliant page to that history of the Indian army, whose ▪ interspersed with romantic ev. nu discoverable in no other history, are as glorious as those of any army in the world." EXTINCTION OF FLEE.-OCEAN MONARCH.-Bv, —You dif me the honour of inserting, in your widely eine latcd paper, a plan which I conceive perfectly &innate to the purpose it was intended for, namely, the certain and im mediate extinction of fire at sea, a few days since. Looking our the pages of the Builder of last Saturday, I ob serve a letter by " Philanthropist," on the Fire Annihilator (of which, more, on another ootasiot) is which the follow ing sentences occur : " It" (the Fire Annihilator's) " stated moderate cost, and easy use and convenience, and also its safety are satisfactory, but I am sorry to And, on Inquiry. that although this useful and desirable object has been patented several years, it is not yet to be purohsaed at any prim." And further, would even pat it to him" (the in ventor) " how far may rest upon him the responsibility of every disaster from Ere that, through his negligence or übi. trary proceeding, ocean nighty in the kingdom." Permit me to remark that my plan is patent to all, without further *emus than a merely anneal conautation fee, and a fee to my assistant for supenatending and directing the distil bution of the pipes, and giving the proper instractiens and directions, so that the plan can be folawed out by the mean est espaeity. I am prepared to 'how its efficiency to any per r son or committee of genCemen who denies to witness it at 24 hours' notice, and so long as the elements remain such as they are now determined by the first great Author of all --so a s or own supports_ ossalanstioa Mos as eurbsois odd ondigolliss taY met id woe the megrim of smataastio• N se the toudwahmersion dike vessel wader water would pr nee Mt same offset. It is much to be questioned (however amiably pidiseakeepie the propositioa be) how far blame is to be unheard to tho discoverer of soy important application of ideate m tho mass of humanity for the non-immediate applimeisa slit is a practical bearing. Taws is, biased, • general magnum is mankind to lay out money (however small tie osm) ...dart • prospecdve crontingesey--againet • something which may happen er may not happen. How many Mariana% nay, tau et thossande, moos their limn gaily to the &woe of death by drowning, even fa smooth water, In the nameroas steamboats that now ply mowed our Isle ? Yet the small expellee of some Be. or 100. would se ears to every individual the positive security of being able to float some twenty or thirty hours. I don't suppose one in a thousand is provided with • ills-pressevir. But in plain Impose the mass of mankind have so hatable an idea of them own calm that they do not rate it higher than Ba. or 10s., although our political otathdieians average the value of the life of a common working man, somewhere between 1501. and 1801. sterling. We wanes' the awls principle in a different form daily, also illustrated in the aversion which thousands show to Mooring their life for the inks of their offspring—a saying of something not above a shilling weekly w Adducers Meal :viable benefits to the family of • laboarlog man on hie decease. Now, here is an acted certainty—lnd yet how little do we provide against it! I tear the matter becomes tedious; however, it L but equitable in support of disouverers to remark, that any honour which accrues to thee is generally from posterity ; the mom, the Muukition, the Lou of fortune, and, strange enough, even fame, are the luinartial awa rd to thn beam &Ores of mankind. To our carbonic acid gm now. By a very simple modifintim, I 8.41 that the exposes may be reduced to onentnird that was .t seed in my first letter, and therefor, pending the uncer tainty of the obtaining to plan alluded to Sy " Philan thropoo," for general we, the present one walks only the command of the public voice to be immediately put in «emu tmn.—l ens, &a., WILLT4U Raw, M.D.-4, Salisbury street, Strand, Sept. 7, 1848. Tao MlNiTgllot7B FINE Ito FISTIMN-LaNE.—lrset evening the inquiry into the cause of the fire at the home of Mr. Thompson, King's Head-court, Fetter-lane, was m ourned rotors Mr. W. Payne, hot no additional evidence to show bow the fire originated could he olmaiaed. The Jur, returned the following verdict:—" That the house No. 17, Hine'. Head.court, Petter-lane, was earnt on the morning of Wednesday, August 30, hat there is not sufficient evi dence to enable the jury to say how the fire originated; and they cannot separate without censuring Mr. Thompson for having brought so many bock shavings from the house where he had previouely reeld-d, and leaving them in a loots state in the room in which the firs broke oat." _ MURDER AMD ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. —Last night u th.i steawboat Leedom Pride was pasting Brooles-wherf, Wog between Queakithe end Paul's-wharf, a female pat se:_ger took up her "add, ■pparsntly about five years of age, and jumped into the river. A wetness'& rescued the woman, but the child was lost. Her name was stated to be Ann Truisms ROEBEEY OP 2,000 SOTEREIONS.—On Tuesday afternoon last a string deal fins, about flight inches square and iron bdund, containing 2,000 sovereigns, was sent from the firm of Mums. Pried and Co., Fleet-street addressed to Tweedy and Co., Woken, Truro, Curnwa ll . It was for warded. in the first instant*, to Chaplin and Horne's offices, Ewan with Two Necks, Lad•lane, to be by them conveyed in the usual course to the Paddington -station. On the next morning It box which wee sent by the mail train, directed as above, was received at the establishment of Mears. Tweedy and Co., and, on its being opened, it was found to contain nothiog more than a quantity of melted pewter and other rubbish ; it turns out that the said box was of somewhat I rger dimensions than the one sent from Pend's, but that the address thereon was a very good imitation of that on the original 1 ox, for which the other had bees in so artful end extraordinary a way substituted. INQUEST YESTERDAT.—DEATH OF A MlSElL—Be foreMr. W. Cuter, at the Fountain tavern, Walworth-road, tousling the death of Robert Pitt, aged 75,0 f No. 3, Motor , plies, Walworth road.—The evidence went to Floes that the deceased was a superannuated officer of the East India Com pany, and for many years he had been leading a life of great parsimony, not allowing any one to enter his apartments, which were always kept in • most filthy condition, and filled with bones and rags. On Tuesday morning last the deceased left his sitting-room. and shortly afterwards one of the tikes discovered him lying on his bock In the yard. He was seen by Mr. Hingeton's assistant, who pronounced him to be quite dead.—Mr. liriekerman, who lodged in the de atemd's house, stated that the deceased subsisted on soup, which he made from stale bones that he purchased from Vic small butcher.. He had a salary or income of 21, weekly, and also other means of living in affluence.—Cooke, the constable, call deceased's rooms contained property, chiefly emulating of silver plate and forks, to the vela* of 2001. Upon making further search he found four 1201. shares in a building society, and deeds referring to a numlwr of house, at Kennington and Claphamroad. He had no doubt that when the room was more minutely searched a quantity of other valuables would be found. The who:* of the witnesses, who had known the deceased for many years, concurred in an opinion that he had died from the want of proper nourishment. The jury agreed to a verdict of "Natural death, accelerated by the want of proper food." The einerekwarden gave orders that Mr. T. Cooke, the ollion,shonld take charge of the property until farther Lenity had been mad*. THE SALARIES OF PALACE OFFICIALS. The Financial Reform Anexiation of Liverpool now give a further eonttnaatiea glib& detailed Oatmeal of the Civil List expeditors : LOUD lITZWAIteII DEPAMIIIIXT. - - - • - - - Tito salary of the 10;11K;wiri,isix;Tailler Majesty's accession, is 2,0001. Ia the reign of Geo. 111. it was only 1,4501. ; it was afterwards augmented, up to 1831, to 2 4361. 10s. In that ear a select committee of the House of Cowman recom ed in their report that it should be re duced to 2,0001. per annum, at whieh it has since continued. The appointment is entirely a political one, being renewed on each change of administration, and the duties of this °Moor are to rule and govern the estate of the Queen's household according to his discretion. All his commands in court me to be obeyed. His authority reaches over all the °Maas and senaats of the Queen's house, eaceptirg those of the Queen's chamber, stable, and chapel. He has autho rity, also, to hold courts for admiaisteeing justice and set tling disputes between the servants of the area. Although the office affords to its holders a sonsiderable patronage, in the appointment of many of the inferior officers, clerks, and domestic sensate, its duties seldom require his Matthews at court, except es Mate occasions, as the details of this a mint are chiefly left to the supervision of the Master = Household, who resides in the palace. In doe, this dace mar be regarded as purely an honorary one. Pbs Treasurer Ce the Household, receiving a alma of 9041., is an allow of pretty numb the same character. • is the Lord Steward's deputy at state ceremonfasia the absence from court of the fanner tunotioauy; and, if the principal has next tone duties to discharge, it is not difficult to esti mate the amount of services performed by his deputy. There being, however, a celery attached to the oak*, it is useful in enabling a minister to reward political friends. The salary in pending reigns was 1,2001. per annum. The Comptroller of the Household naives a eatery of 9041., for which he has simply to examine and check the ac counts connected with toe expenses of the household in the Lord Steward's department, and his salary wes formerly 1,2001., bat was amskailated to that of the Treasurer when the latter wee reduced to 9041. The appointment is strictly a politica cao. The Master of the Household bas a salary of 1,1681. To this officer belongs actually thework which the Lord Steward is paid to perform nominally. In addition to the surveying of the accounts of the household in this department, he has full control over the whole of the domestic establishment of her Majesty—pays the wages, and inquires into all com plaints of neglect or misconduct. The salary wits formerly only 6001, but has bees considerably increased., until at the accession of her Majesty it was fixed at the present &meant. The Muter sf the Household dines at the royal table. The aloe of Secretary to the Master of the Household was created fa 1838, sad the situation is considered worth, including salary, board-wages, &c., about 3001. The other ° mesas in this department receive altogether, for salaries, a sum of about 2,62 W , out of which the clerks, &e., of the Burn of Green Chat are paid. The whole of the accounts of the extenditure for the household in this department are kept by the clerks of this baud, who oomist of a secretary to the baud, three clerks, secretary to the garden accounts, messenger, and a messenger to the Lord Steward. There is also a pay Aloe connected with this department, for the liquidation of the claim* of tradesmen and others, in which there are a paymaster (whose salary was 5001. per annum), a deputy, and an artaistant. These situations are all in ton patronage of the Lord Steward. The board itself, consisting of the Lord Steward, Treasurer, Comptroller, sad Muter of the Household, has the power of hearing and deciding on offences committed within the verge of the palace. In this Ake of the kitchen department there are the fol lowinge auto : clerk comptroller of the kitchen, first, third, and fourth clerk., and a messenger. The pre sent clerk comptroller has a salary of 7001., his predecessor having been in the ree ipt of 6001., and in George the Third's time it was only 3001. He is considered the" working man " for the Master of the Household, and has great power our the members of the establishment. U. always attends during her Mejesty's dinner', and makes himself " generally useful " on such OCClAiaaa. Tee four clerks, whose salaries are from 701. to 2601. per annum, keep all the aecounts, check the we:ghts, &c., of all articles realised from kudos saes, and Was the orders to these parties. The nies.eoger's wages an about 701. per annum. The appointments are a 1 in the gift of the Lord Steward. The amount expended in this depart:neat, including the clerks of the kitchen's office, domestic somas in the urry,eine and beer cedars, kitchens, cenfectionam pastry, table-deekets, Its. is 9,9831. The kitchen staff censista of a chief cook, with a salary of about 7001. ; three master cooks, receiving about half, or 3601. each, and having thi privilege of taking apprentice., with a premium of 1601. to 2001. recrivable from each. Two yeoman of the kitchen, two routing woks, two lankier, mad storm, a storekeeper, two green-ofiloe men, three kitchen maids, ask two nail to superintend the steam apparatus, with wages and salaries ranging from 251. 1734. par annum. In the confectimary department there ma first yeoman confectioner, with a aliry of 3001.; second ditto, 2501.1 as mend man, 801. ; and Vree femate Leis tints. Alio a chief pastry cook, 24W., with one male and two female assistants. A baker and his assistant, with wages from 501. t o 631. a year. In the wine and beer cellars' department there is a gen• denim of the wise and beer cellars, receiving a salary of 6001 ,wham duty it is to eel. et and pillehliee all the wines fur her . " Majesty's table, to superintend the decanting and sending up of the WIWI required, besides undertaking the whole supervision of the department. There are, in addition, two yeomen of the wins and beer cellars, receiving eme 1601., and a groom, at a salary of 8 ft. The dwy of tit table denten is to superintend the arrangement of her Majesty's table, gluing everything in order previous to the serving of dinner. There are three of them, with so assistant and a vv.,' fitter. Torii, salaries average as ; First table decker, 2005 ; second ditto. 150/ ; third ditto, 90', ; assistant ditto, 625 •, wax fitter, 621. Them are also in the awry, a yeoman and first end 'frond female assistant, who have the charge of all linen belonging to the Lord B:eward't departm mt. The pawns filling these offices receive but small Werke. and are geo,raliy relected from these filling more subordinate situa tions in the household. The three yeomen of the pantry have the can of the whole of the Queen's plate, estimated to be worth nearly two millions sterdog. Their siderite are: First yeoman, 1605 ; stoma dit:o, 1505 ; third ditto, 12.11. a year, and, is addition, board wage and lodging money. • The first yeoman also has the greutties given by persons who have the privilege of inspecting the Queen's late. There are also seven assistants and a groom belonging to the gold said silver pastries for washing and cleanaine the plate, I with salaries of about a guinea awe k each. Tee situations in all these departments ate in the appointment of the Lord Steward, who enjoys thus a most intensive patronage. In the steward's-room there are a yeoman, with a calory ail about 1001, and fire assistegits, at about 601. a year each. They have the charge of all the plate sad linen required f, r the steward's-room ; they lay the t eble for all meals, wash glasses, &.o In the servants'-hail, there is a'- usher of the bell, with a salary of 901. a year, wens, duty it is to keep • correct return of the number dicing doily .n the ball, to be funnelled to the clerk of the kitchen. He pas two eag‘tants receiving a guinea a week each, who prepare the tables fir • servants meals, clean knives, eto. The state porters conaist of a mejaant porter, salary 1505, five y, omen peters, 601. each, ass d four under porters, with salaries of 601 each. Their services are only required on state emsaalions, when they attend on the passages, and on the staircases leading to the ante ao.,rtmems. They have neither table nor rooms provided for them in the tam. There are also gentlemen porters, whose period, of attendance at the palace where the court resides are one week on and oat week off duty. They wait from eight in the morning grail eine o'clock at night. They con•ist 01 a first gentleman pester, first and second yeoman porters, three groom porters, and an assistant por er, with salaries ranging from 1601. to 1901 a year. Besides toese there are the toll twiog subordinate officers in the domestic, departmeat : Five night porters, who attend from nine o'clock at night until sight the nest moraine, receiving a guinea a week each and their food. Four night watchmen at the same salary, and in attend saes at the rme honer, in the grand hall and other entrances of the palace. Two lamplighters and seven assistants to attend exclusively to tholemps in the royal re sidence. The first lamptighter's salary is all tot 1001. a year, besides an allowance for board wages and lodging money. Two coal porters and ten assistant porters, whose duty it is to see to the °meet delivery of all cords sent in by toe mer chants, and to keep up a supply from the cellars for all th e rooms in the royal residence. Also, to attend to the loading and unloading of marriages belonging to the Qu• en or her visitors. All the above eituatioue are in the gift of the Lord Steward, but in some eases the Master of the House hold or clerk of the kitchen recommend, IRELAND. Dusan, Sere. 8. Several places in the county of Cork, and the nioen tainous district between it and Kerry, were searched on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday for Mr. Richard O'Gorman, jun. The vicinities of Dunmanway, Bantry, Cutletownsend, and Castlehaven, were all subjected to scrutiny. It was suppined to be certain that Mr. Dohecy had been made amenable the other day at Baltimore, Cork. A person answering the description of the " man with the coarse red face like one given to drink," was seen on board a ho;tker just arrived from Cork, and the police immediately took him into custody. The per eon, however, turned out to be the son of a gentleman from a distant part of the county, and he was there fore released. Mr. Pennington, a ship agent at Cork, and in charge of the vessel on board which Mr. liPManus was found, has been arrested on a charge of aiding in that person's evasion of justice. Two respectable inhabitants of Karnali, county Clare, arc charged with having solicited a man named Curtin to assassinate Col. Vandaleur the owner of the town. The gentleman has rendered himself obnoxious, rs well by his activity in searching . for Mr. It. O'Gorman, as because of sime recent evictions on his estate. Curtin is, however, a man already known to the police as an informer, and his veracity is much doubted. The Right Hon. James Grattan, brother of the member for Meath, thus states his views of the move ment in favour of ambulatory Parliaments: fiir,—l have received a circular from the committee of a society in Abbey-street, to be slgued by all persons adapts : tiny periodic al sittings of parliament in Ireland. As I believe the 'senefit to be doubtful and the object impracticable, I deem it of no use to sign the circular. It seems a partial repeal of the union, to which England (at whoa. fest the late paltry attempts of the Repealer' flu planed us) would never agree. It seems another of those visionary measures by which Ire land is ever duped and deceived, and which only end in making her the laughing stock of Europe, showing how Wally incompetent she is to effect any gnat practical measure. Are we to have a society in Abbey -street attempt ing a feeble imitation of Coned's , ion -hall, and, like it, effect ing nothing but discord throughout the country ? Far better for those gentlemen who sign the circular to draw up a statement of our impoverished and neglected condition, and submit it to Lord John Russell, who is now in Ireland. Let them show how all public works are neglected or mis managed—the navigation and drainage of our rivers, our fisheries, our harbours. How our elective franchise is cur tailed, so that our counties are mere potkat boroughs, one thousand electors jobbing away and pocketing the rem sentation of 100 000 persons. How our priesthood, who educate our people, are left in a condition in which no other priesthood are left. How the commercial benefits which were promised at the union have been taken from us by late acts of parliament in favour of foreigners. How a great portioa of our people have been sup port ed by Indian cora, the tribute of charity, unable to purchase Irish meal. How our substantial farmers are leaving the country for America, and our middling gentry, frightened by alarms—founded or unfounded, n s one knows weidt—are emigrating elsewhere, while those who remain barricade their houses, or sleep with loaded tame beside them ; and let them aid that, so far has his lordship carried his anti-protection principles, that no person can now protect himself without a license from a police-officer, permitting him to have a gun is his house. Let these gentlemen refer to the late trials, and 'tate the ruts, and sin him then doss he expect that any person will live in such a country who can afford to live out of it ? and if they do not get a favourable answer, let them turn repralen at one*, and thus make their conduct intelligible to their country.—Believe me, with high respect, younote. J. Gaatrate.—Tinniehineit, Sept. 7. CORK, Size. 6. In whatever cause Lord John Russell's visit originated it is certain that his arrival in the country has given great pleasure to the rational men of all parties. The cir cumstance of a prime minister coming to Ireland is unpre cedented, and the fact is taken as an omen of incensed attention to this country on the part of the authorities. The only case that seems like a precedent wu Fox's visit in 1777, which was attended with important eoerquences. At that time Fox was not in office, but he was the leader of the anti-North opposition, and expected coon to be at the head of aff .in. He came over with - Lord John Townshend to the Duke of Leinster's, add made the personal acquaintance of all the Irish whirrs ' including Grattan, who was then striding forward to the first place in Irish politics. The re volution of 1782 was undoubtedly ameliorated by the inti macy subsisting between the leaders of the English and Irish whigs ; and more personal knowledge of our Irish influences will, no doubt, be of advantage to our premier. In point of tact, Lord J. Russell has leas actual knowledge of Ireland than his immediate predecessors in the premier ship. From the time of Lord Goderich to the present ca binet the prime ministers with the exception of Eitel Grey, had all served in the Irish Office. The Duke of Wellington was our Chief Secretary in 1807, under the viceroyalty of the fourth Duke of Richmond. Sir Robert Peel served in the same post from 1813 to 1817, under Lords Whitworth and Talbot. Again, in 1827, Lord Melbourne (when Mr. Lamb) was Chief Secretary under the latter part of the Margtve Wellesley's first viceroyalty. Even though Earl Grey did not serve in the Dish office his intermarriage with th e Ponsonbys gave him Dish in fluence arising from family consideration. Thus our present prime minister has been less penknally connected with Ireland than any premier wince the days of Lord Goderith. Even from 1812 to 1827 the leadership of the lower house was in the hands successively of two Irishmen—Castlereagh and Can nine—the latter of whom was eventually at the heal of the Trea-ury. Surely the want of that personal intimacy with Irish politicians which his predecessors enjoyed might go tar to account hr the visit of the Premier. Lord John has had two ancestors—the fourth and sixth Dukes of Bedford—who were Lards Lieutenant of Ireland respectively in 1737 and 1805. It is only juain to toe house of Russell to my that at all times it wee zealous in good offioes to the oppressed catholic' of Ireland. The tourth Duke of Bedford, while viceroy, laboured hard to relit the anti-catholic code. His policy towards the, catholic' is v-ry remarkable, now that so many rumour. are afloat about the intentions of his descendant. Rio plan was to give up conniving at the catholic religion, and reeognise by law its actual existence, placing the catholice undsr the powder' of authority. It is very im portant thit he wanted to coat set the priests with govern ment, though Irina protestant opposition he wee defeated. lilt own words on the measure of lieensieg the catholic clergy are of much significann now. " The priests to whom by licence you grant ch., exercise of their religion most, on ziking the oaths to government, be in charity presumed good subjects; at all events, they will then be amenable to government, and having dune( their good behaviour a kind of freehold in their pulsing', they will be bound in ink's* An keep foreign interlopen out, and will be mach more resp onsible than at present for the obe dience of their A aka' (Are we reading of 1757 or 1844 ?) He defended his favourite measure for licensing the prie.te in the following question: " lie was told that it would be estatrlisitieg ry by law, bat was it not de facto esta blioted a " [Vide "Bedford Correepondente," vol 2, p. 16.] Lord John Russell is a man notoriously prone to ancestral feeling, and with mach historical spirit. He is subject, like all the leaders of the whip, to traditiosary politics, ai.d the remarkable policy of his ancestor has obtained his spinal notice in the publication of the duk'e's eornapondenee. The second volume of that work was pub!ishal in 1613, the repeal year of monster meetings, and L ird Jahn ;rioted a preface in which he complimented the frith catholic. in the follow ing terms. After describing how Dr. O'Connor mil the Irish catholics gratefully thanked the Duke of Bedford for his goad will, Lord John writes!—" Such has bee* on re peated reunions the conduct of the cathollea of Ireland. While they have felt acutely the injury and degradation to which they have been subjected by English laws. any relaxa tion of moderate severity, and even any dawn of a kindlier di=porition towards them, has been met by a warmth of gra titude and a zeal of attachment which a , em to have no me mory of past injury, and no suspicion of future injustioe."— (eorreapondence of 4th Duke of Bedford. Preface to vol. 2, p. 18 Notwithstanding the dastardly abuse which was heaped upon the prime minister, because, forsooth, he could not ar rest the flit of Provideuco, and avert t .e famine there are thousands of the influential catholies who do not forget that the Irish people were nobly served in other times by the Russells; and, though it is vain to expect that the lower clams could have much of tLis Puling, assuredly there are many influential dignitaries in the Irish catholic church who oink the better of the Premier because he is a Russell. The iptorarvine c,nt about " spoils of the reformation," and " Woburn Abbey, the jackal's share of Henry the Eighth's plunder," has no influence with the real heads of the eatholie church, though such stuff did weal enough for base deem przue, panlerinz for a fraudulent popularity. A prepos of Irish popularity, that commodity is now (to use Lord id istfield's words) " gained without a merit, and low without a fault." Lord George Battle& had scoured ;or himself a good dud of it by his praoosal to aid tin rail ways, but his strictures about the expediency of dealing with the convict Mitchel in the severest manner have suddenly bligntAll his name with the disaffected and discontented putt , . "His cavilling about where Mitchel ate his dinners nsa meted on his Irian popularity like the small black spot on the potato-stalk--ominous of rot. Lord Gouge's grand father, the third Duke of Portland, was Lied Lieutenant of Ireland under the Rickiogham snag ministry of 1782, and it is only doing him his torical justiee to say that he was as slippery a politician as ever held that office. In the " Malminbury Diary," end in Grattan's " Life of Grattan," there are some singular revelations of his grass dishonesty. With his feeble mind and his false heart he was a jockey amongst statesmen, jolt us his grandson is a statesman amongst jockeys. Very dif ferent indeed are the antecedents tf Lord John and Lard George in the politics of Ireland ! It Is whispered on good authority that the reconstruction of the Irish lib. rd party will be one of the subjects pressed strongly in Dublin on Lord John's attention. The famous measure wnieh he himself moved in March, 1831, and with which his name is so proudly associated, wise mild by the votes of the Irish members, a fact which makes Ali son, in his voluminnua history, espies a grave doubt of the policy 01 the union inessurs. There were 211 English and Scotch me-hers for the bill, and '266 against it, making a maj wity 01 15 cleat against the measure ; but the Irish. M.P 'a turn, d the tide by • majority of 16 amongst them selves, 37 voting arsine, and 63 in favour of the bin, • fact which I feel mach pleasure in stating in times like these, when our national character has been so discredited by the sayings and doings of certain parties. Fox, to his 'tint to Ireland in 1777, obtained much popu lar:ty by his hearty good humour. Many traditions of him are still current in social gossip. Amongst others, it is said that when he wu at Killarney, tie ascended Mangerton as far as the "Devil's Punch bowl," a tarn at the summit, in which the guides told him that no human body c.:uld fl at. " Say ye so ?" cried Fox ; and stripping his clothes, ho swam three times round the " Bowl,' to the amazement of the guides. i'ox was, however, • more athletic aristocrat than Lord John, who will, yrobably, not be inclined to imitate Fox's example in all respicts, if he should visit Killarney. lie must content Maisel with drinking "Justice to Ireland " in a bowl of punch smoking hut, and not " cold without," like the lake in Mangerton. Lord Castlereagh, when Secretary for Foreign Affairs, visited Ireland in 18/0, in attendance on George the Fourth. And Mr. Canning, whsle leader of the House of Commons, visited Ireland, in 1824, on a enamel visit to hit daughter, the Marchioness of Cianricirde. These are the only prece dents of the klinistees shit to Ireland. Pale ha3o opprobria vows Et dad potulare, non poluareo PROVINCIAL. LANCASHIRE. BOLTON ELECTION.—Mr. Peter Ainsworth has re tired. Mr. Richard Gardner, lately unseated for Leicester, and Mr. Richard Ashton Yates, have been spoken of in the liberal interest ; and it h prob a ble that one of them will be put in nomination. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT LANCASTER.— Between eight and sight o'clock ou Thunday evening lam a fire broke out in one of the extensive establishments of Mean. Dann and Co., railway carriage manufacturer* Lancaster, which raged with such fury from the combustible lemur, of the materials, that all efforts to save the budding and its contents were useless, although, in addition to the public and private fire-engines of the town, engines were fetched from Preston, a distance of '22 mil. e. Tne Hamm were subdued about two o'clock yesterday (Friday) morning, after causing damage to the suppr sad extent of between eight and ten thousand pounds. Messrs. Dean and Co., ore reported to be heavily insured, bet not to the full alumna. Nothing but the Wakened walls of the fabric in which the fire ori ginated were left standing. The glare of the confi Testi= was so vivid as to be visible at the distance of several miler. Five railway-carriages ready for removal and an immense quantity of expensive timber were among the property de stroyed. There is reason to believe the fire was the act of an incendiary. In consequence of the frequent disputes of the sawyer with thew employers a steam saw-mill has lately been established in the town, to which Messrs. Dunn and Co., in common with other master" resorted. Many or the sawyers have , consequently, been thrown out of work, end it is suppos e d the destruction of Messrs. Dunn and Co.'s premises was revived on in a spirit of diabolical revenge. The police are actively investigating the agar. APPREHENSION OP MORE CHARTISTS.—At Hyde, near Ashton-under-Lyne.on Wednesday, Mr. Little, special high.cor.stable, apprehended a number of chariest dubbin' upon wsrrmita charging them with having taken part in the riots on the night when Bright, the Ashton policeman, was shot. Their names are Peter Maddox, Thomas Schofield, Samuel Shaw, Peter Collier. and Robert Markham. Charles Sellers was also apprehended on a charge of drilling. They were taken before the magistrates at Hyde on Thursday, and were committed for trial at the next Chester anises. Da. REYNOLDS, ONE OF TUE CHARTIST LEADERS of Liverpool, has, it is said, successfully eluded all search, and shipped for Averica. CHARGE OF FELONY AGAINST • RBOISTIAR OF BlZTlth.—Yeaterday C. Chubb, jun., of Vauxhall-road. Liverpool, the registrar for the Great Howard street district in that town, machined before the magistrates in the first instance, with having obtained mousy under fidget pretences. • The government inspector, we believe, was *truck with the much greater proportion of births, alto., in the district over which the prisoner was registrar than in say ether, and, thinking he bed laid hold of a curious statittleal feet, he ' made inquiries, the result of which was the apprehension of the prisoner on a charge of manu'aituring seines for the purpose of obteming the fee payable by the parish for each birth registered. The charge against the pri soner resolved itself into one of felony, under the eard section of the Registration Act. Mr. Snow ball said he had been instructed by the solicitor of the Treasury to appear in support of a ohm's made against toe prisoner of having made various false re tries in his registry book. The 28th section of the set of par liament (the 7th of Wm. IV.) said that" every persoa by whom information shall be given of any birth or °oath, 'hal sign his name, occupation, rnd place of abode in the register." The charge *grin/I the prisoner was, that in several instances (seven of which he intended to bring forward that day) he had made false entries. The whole of those seven entries had been made in one day—the fled of August ; and all, with the exception of marks, in the prisoner's hand writing. He thought that, upon inspecting the marks in five of the PAltt'S, Mr. Rushton wou'd be of opinin, from a peculiar bend they had, that they had all been made by one individual. The registers book, taken from the prisoner that night, contained instructions from the Registrar-thmeral, ass of which was, "Every entry is to be made at once, the registrar and informant signing in presence of each other." On the 22nd el August . , in the pro sent year, seven cousecutive entries of births had been made in the bo ok; the names had been pat down by the prisoner, and the number of houses also given. He (Mr. Snowball) would show that there was not a single individual of the name alleged living in those houses, in.d that not a single birth had occurred in any of them. Four of the cases were put down as having occurred in Raton-street, at numbers which he would prove did not exist in the street. With respect to cue of the cues there was this ipeculiarity. It was entered as 11, Eaton-street; in Mote -court, be hind that street, a woman, tut down as Elizabeth Id•Renna, had been confined on the 21st of July. She had gone, it appeared, to the prisoner; her name appeared In the signature book, but an untrue register had been made. The child called James was regi-termi as Patrick, and the father's name James was pat down as Thomas. She had never signed the register book, wig the entry of her mark, therefore, was of itself a forury.—Mr. Radium said he supposed the attempt was to defraud the overseers.—Mr. Snowball answered in the affirmative. By the act of parliament the registrar was entitled to halea.crown each Ter the entry of the first twenty births a the commence • meat of every year, a shilling each . afterwards.—On the pri inner being asked what he had to answer to the charge, he stated that he had been called away nit xpectedly by the officer Lat morning, and had been utterly unable to have professiosel advice. He added that he utterly denied ray fraud or dishonesty.—He was remanded, bail being refused. PUNISHMENT OF A RAILWAY SeaveNT.—On Wednesday, u a train en the Ashton and Stalybeidge . braneth of the Lanciehire and Yorkshire Rail* ay was passing the Ashton station, by the neglect of W. Howard, the pointa man, to lock the points which should have allowed the train to go forward to Stalybridge, it ran into a siding. The engine and vane carriages were injrared, but there was no lose otlere or serious injury to the pusengers. Howard wee , takes before the magistrates at Ashton next day, and eons mined for trial at the amnions for neglect of duty. RAILWAY ACCIDENT.-011 Thursday evening, be tween tbjrty and forty railway labourers on the Bury branch of the Lincathire en' Yorkshire line were returning I gone to Heywood, their place of residence, whe t esm atonable practice was resorted to of pushing 04 - 0 •rp • along before the engine. without linking thin& • as incline about • mile from Hey wood the end paw, when the carriages in front west fort . the melbas, till, coming in contact with some dier • •.*: in the way, a collision took place so violent as • • •••