The Express. — London, England, 1848-08-03 00:00:00

the nation by President Herrera, upon learning that Paredes bad obtained possepion of Ouan ,junto : "I cannot tamper with the revolution, northing* my course ea account of danger. In the extremity to which affairs are reduced, there is no middle course. if our abuses, our missaangement, our disorders, and the immorality which involves evert thing with elements of disaulution—if all these must be continued, if they are not this day grepoled with input:arable energy, then the republic is lost; and, as our name ~appears front the catalogue of nations nothing will be saved from the wreck. This cause is not my canoe, nor is it that of certain men or of a certain party ; it is the cause of the nation, of everything connected with it respectable or noble. I rely, then, upon all to save it. It is the cause of every honourable man who seeks to enjoy in peace the fruits of his labour ; tat the republican who relies upon order for the c. nsoltdation of Wheel institutions ; of those who have shed the it blood for independence, and will see it lost by the sec ens of these crimes ; it is the cause of all who know that should it now fail they cannot call their de scendants Mexicans. Thus susta . ned, with a cause so righteous, with the support of all natioual opinions, with the co-operation of the states, with the va.our of the national guards, time huudieds of men without discipline cannot wrest from the nation its levet, nor snatch from it its last hopes. In accepting power I declared that I was eonsecrat ing to my country the remainder of a life ennobled by its confidence. My only prater to Oat' is that my country may become great, free, and prosperous. June JOAQUIN REIMAN/4." The latest accounts which reached New Orleans on the 13th ult., were to the eff,et that arevolution which was to have broken forth in the city of Mexico on the night of the 25th, had been deferred in consequence of the arrest of five of the leaders of it, and of a dis covery made by the polite of 2.30 muskets which had been secreted by several members of the Puro party, front the time o: the occupation of tho city by Amer ican troops. These muskets, as well as some sabres, ammunition, and clothing, were all of American manufacture. Paredes has addressed a manifesto to the states, calling upon them to furnish him with aid in men and money to complete his revolution. The Monitor says that the negotiation with the house of Manning and Mackintoeh, in reference to the bonds for tire millions of dollars hypothecated to them by Santa Anna, had been concluded, by the go vernment paying only the six hundred thousand dollars originally advanced by them to Santa Anna. The Nonif ,, r says this affair confers great credit upon the government of Pena v Pena. Several emissaries of Jarauta bad been arrested in the city of Mexico, and the papers complain of incen diary handbills and circulars tieing placed in conspi cuous stations about the stn eta by these men. Important rumours have been received from Tam pion. The Mexican government having sent a force to take possession of that town, the citizens opposed its entrance. No further particulars given. From Yucatan we learn the state of matters by a letter from Laguna, dated the sth of June, which says : ITith regard to the preprint of the Indian., whose ex termie titian ravages are the tetror rf t er inhabitants through out this to-Liam:a, by the latest "deices they were gradu ally concentrating their fonts more immediately in the vicinity of Campeche The town of Hopelchen had Leen taken, and before one week shad have elapsed, Tixeauchy and Cnolul will undoubtedly 101 l into their possession, in asmuch se they wake it their peculiar policy before attack. lag large cities, to destroy, not only the small town• lying adjacent thereto, but also ranchos and haciendas, making complete their devastating operations. The forces of the Indiaus are divided into three principal divisions, each of which follows its own line of operations, taking care that in no ineance a single opportunity shall escape them of annihilating every vestige of civilisation. But their barbarity is more particularly shown forth by the fact of their leaving their own wounded and sick to die upon the scene of their conquests. Their proximity to the city of Campeche hos Unlockit ninny of the •sealthy iambics of that place to sell their elf, cm and remove to other ports—New Orleans, Havanoab, end ma• y islands of the West Indies.re ceive them. Many rime to this play, which is already over flowed with these unfortunate refurecs. In the short apace of three hours, no less than 3,000 people landed at Cam peche from the miasmal coast, bringing nothing with them but poverty and tales of the most agonising woe. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, J lax 19.—1 n the money market there is unexpectedly quite a pressure, and from l i to 11 per cent. a month is paid on good paper. 'this rise in the rate of interest has had the effectof checking the mown,' tendency of foreign exchange, and billion London. which were brisk at Ito and had sold ut 11101, closed hes s ily, and good bills were obtainalge at 9/. C.S. stock and treasury notes also Pelt the effect of the pressure—the latter were offered on the 15th at Si, without tlnihns takers. Considerable sen..ation had been coca. aimed by the failure of a small bank In Albany, one of the safety fund ' institutions—the Canal Back. The whole circulation of this tank does not exceed, as will be seen by the annexed statement, 189,000 dole. The capital of the bank was 4.10,000 dole. The whole of this, and of the depocts equal to 113,000 dole more, will be Net , and even then it seems doubtful whether the circulating notes will be paid. Corron.—Thers has been a fair demand for export, and prices are Arm. Th.. sales for the Last three days reach 4,400 balm, viz.: Cord. Flo. Mob., N. 01..0 Tex. 2,500 bales 1,900 balm. Interior 4l to 51 Ordinary to good ordinary Middling to good middling.... 6 to 61 to CI Middling fair to fair 6l to 6 61 to 7 Fully Lur to good fair 7 to 7 7 to 8f Fine nominal. nominal. FLOUR, &c.—The receipt. of flour in thin city rinse the opening of the caned, amounts to 553,290 barrels ; the receipts now exceed the demand, and priors have a downward tendency. Sales of common brands and lots in poor order, made at 4 dole. 57 ie. to 4 . 1 01 s. 9 lei. ; Oswego, Michigan. Brooklyn, igic , at 5 dole. to 5 dole. 121 e., and 5 ads. :c.; pure Cieneftee, S dohs. 50c.; fancy Ohio, S dole. 50e. to 5 dolt. ‘l2's. 'the market was dot well sup. plied with common Southern flour, which wee held at 6 dots. 200 barrels rye flour sold 3 dots. 621 c. CO barrels corn meal were taken at 2 doLe. Sic. What in good supply, but the de mand wan limited; Genesee offered at 1 dol. 20e.,with only Idol. 15e. bid; •ales of Ohio made at 1 dol. 121 e. Corn in good demand for the eastern oi,,..sts, and .0 lees quite firm; NR:OA of road yell iw made at .54c. to 55c.; flat yellow, 520.; mixed lids, Suc. Northern oats in fair request at 43c. to 41c. ltye, Cie. to 65)c. Paovisions.—A speculative demand exists in the provision market, and priors have advanced; sales of mew pork have been made at 11 dole. to II dol.. 121 e., and of prime at 8 dole. 75e. to 3 dots. 94c., which price was refused at the close foe 500 barrel.. Prime lard (in barrels) brings 7.e. to 71c. Bei fie grin at 6 dole. 50c. to 6 dots. 75c for prime, and 12 dole. to 13 dole. for mess. Naval stores remain inactive. The last sales of crude turpentine were at 2 dole. 37jc. to 2 dole. 50c. Spirits of turpentine is held at 35c. to 3Gc. Ashes are firm, and good demand. Pots, S dole. ; pearls, S dots. 871 e. per 1001 b. Whisky is rather heavy. 100 barrels of Ohio sold at 22c.; states prison Nirrels and drudge/maks ate held at 23c. The rates of freight ore to Liverpool, for cotton In square bales, 5424. per lb.; flour or,' turpentine, Is. 6d. to Is. 9d. per barrel; grain, Sit. to 6d. per bushel. To London, 2.1. per barrel for flour, and other articles in proportion. To Havre, nominal. COLONIAL. BRITISH NORTH AMBRICA.—The journals we have received from these colonies, by the Cale donian, contain favourable accounts of trade and the Prospects of the harvest, but little or nothing of po- litical interest. Almost the only exception is, a meeting at St. John's, Newfoundland, to promote the introduction into that colony of the system of re• sponsible government establi,hed in Nova Scotia. ?!'hr court. OSBORNE, WEDNESDAY.—Lteut.-001. Seymour left Osborne }esterday, and eras succeeded in his duties, as Equerry to the Prance, by Col. Wylde. Col. the Hon. C. B. Puipps has succen , ed Ocn. Wemyss as Equerry to the Queen. IRISH AMELIORATION SOCIETY. Yesterday a public meeting, to Corm a society under the above I tile, was hi Id tit the Hanover-square Rooms.— Lord lle MAI:LEY presi , :ed, and in o, ening the proceedings expressed the pleasure which he felt in coming forward to submit to the assembly a project for the establishment of a society for umelioratint the condition of the Irish people ; and bin regret that the preisure of public business prevented the attendance of many Irish members of parliament, who he was sure would othi Twine have lent their support upon the occasion. It might seem somewhat presumptuous for a party 01 private gentlemen to come forward to effect such tmportsnt objects, especially when it was remembered what governm-nt had failed to do la , t session. Bus he was of opi nion 'bar Ireland was more likely to derive benefit from pri vate than Worn r uhlic moistener ; b canoe, when it was known that government was at work, private individuals too often considered their exertions to be unnecessary. He had not had experience of the merits of the plans of the society, and therefore could give no decided opinion with re gard to them. But it seemed to him that carbonised peat, the preparation of which was a principal feature of the plan, was likely to be an article of general utility, and to meet with a geeeral sale. If, then, the plan succeeded, there could be no doubt that a vast field of labour would be opened in Ire land which would prove the best means of ameliorating pre sent evils and raising the tone of Irish society. Having been called upon recently by his sense of duty to support the go vernment in the measures of severity which they had found it necessary to adopt, in order to suppress the disturbances in that country, he was the more happy to have the opportu nity of coming forward with a view to its benefit. Mr. Hoorn then read a statement of the plans of the society, of which the fallowing are the main points : The society i+ to be called the Irish Amelioration Society (to be in corporated by royal chaster), to employ the peasantry in the prepara tion of peat feel and charcoal; and, by removing the peat, to effect the full reclamation of the bog hinds; the surplus profits to be ex tended in improving the social condition of the people, grounded on the report made to the Relief Commissioners of Ireland, by Japer W. Tr.. btq., C.F.. The prospectus says: The report made to the it e Cowmtrsinners of Ireland upon the preparation of the peat of that mushy, and its conversion into charcoal, shows from the ex p!rieace of eminent practical authorities, that It possesses most desire "' qualities for affricultursi, manufacturing, household, and general purposes . After describing the twee to which peat charcoal can be It proceeds : The peat bogs of Ireland extend over 3,000,000 acres. It is the object of the society to prepare from these, by means of the overplov labour of the country, an article whirls must command almost unlimited sale • while general employment will be given to the inhabitants, and 'the land reclaimed for profitable cultivation. The dfainage of the hogs is shown to be neither difficult nor expen sive, by the reports of The Commissioners appointed to inquire into the nature and extent of the several bop in Ireland, and the pricticiinlity of drainlag and cultivating them ;" and the society bare already agreed with the Marquis of Sligo and Lord De Preys* for Wee tracts of bog land, admirably minuted In the mantles of Mayo and Roscommon ; and are In communication wtN landed fawptietors la several ether ootuitlee on the 'abject. It b. intended that the plan of operation shall be upon the prin 'hilt laid down In report to the relief commissio ers—namely, by task-work "and " money payments•" The satiety pummels esta blishing, in dedrable position throughout the country, stations foe the final drying and preparation of peat. and its conversion Into charcoal; having at each one confidential officer, to be aided by a suf. &dent number of labouring &militants, paying at once in money a given sum per Ineitalre for all peat brought in for sale by the pea santry on their piling It bi the drying houses. And with the v ie w more fully to promote the objects of the society, it is proposed to rent or purcha, hog land, on which the peusantry shall be employed, to be paid manner; the society providing every neces sary faciaty, and a ample apparatus for cutting and pre aerving the pest, in any weather sufficiently dry for out-door labour. It is intended, as kinds cleared of peat, to divide it into holdings, of an ext-at suited to the district, buildings .4 improved construe tton ; and to let some of these farms to those whose Industry hue been most conspicuous at each Mattes, provided they have saved sufficient capital for undertaking the culture; and in process of time It is also intended, under certain restrictions, to provide the deserving labourer with a cottage and small garden. In all ewes power will be reserved to take immedmte possession should n div.sion of holdinge be at tempted. It . estimates! that one million or messy will be paid en. rurally for Latour in cutting peat dare, to the now but half employed laboring claw, in addition to large sums for carriage, kre., and from 2,000 to .1,000 acre. if the most valuable land may be reclaimed yearly particularly fitted for the culture of flax, which tray be made tn dis tribute at least an equal annual amount. All expenititure for building reading and lecture-room,, salaries to readers, lecturers, Yee., and purchase of books, li to be defrayed out of the '• Amelioration Fund ;" also, of macho:lee and ad other aliphatic., fur the prem.:ion of gas ; and the not of reed supplied to those desirous to commence Its culti vation is to be repaid out of the produce of the crop. l'enions will lie employed at each peat stet on perfectly competent to teach the whole !mere. wa of rowing and montriacture; whom bu•ineas it shall be to instruct the peasantry, according to fully prove I peOeeideee which have been already carried inbi effect elatwhere ; and when the ameliora tion fund exeeede in amount the necemary outlay for the.. purport% it is intend.) tlvit the helivoe shall he applied to eWablich at each motion a loan fuel, and an efficient dispensary, under the "Loan Fund" Act. Mr. Rooms then made some additional explanations of the plan. The frftMll that the peat Jidda hod not be, n made use of was, that there had been no proper means brought forward for preparing the fuel. Thepest as at present prepared by the leasants contained 30 or 40 per cent. of aqaeous matter, which rendered it comparatively unfit for fuel. By the plan pronosed to le adopted be the society (which he described with some minuteness), this evil would oe avoided. The ',hanger the peat would be conducted on proper principles, and it would be dried and press d through the medians of machinery prepared fur the purpose. The lte•. Mr. STODDART then MOT, d That tie, meeting Ia of opinion that the discontent in Ireimul iv greatly attributable to the miserable conditioner its people ; and that the moo effectual mode of removing it M. by providing them eaten. aively with the means ot remunerative labour. Mr. FITZWILLIAY having briefly seconded the resolution, and Mr. Rogers having satislactorily answered some ques tions relative to the walking out of his plan, the resolution was ado,A, d unar,iinously n Unions then moved! That remunerative latxiur may be found for the Irfah perinantry by employing them far cutting the peat for its converaion into charcoal, for agricultural, dome-tie, sanitary, and manufacturing purpoitem ; while the removal of the peat will render the laud tit for immediate cultivation. G neral 11'1,Eon seconded the resolution, which was also adopted. Mr. G. THOMPSON! M P then moved • Tint the principle on which the Mill Amelioration Society is found. d will afford practicable means for the continuous employment of the fete rwawintry ; and that Chia meeting pledges itself to give it every araist.inee, whether by sulywription to the aunchoration aid Fund, by taking shares, or incueing others to do eo. Without being able to state from practical experience his opinion of the plan of the society, he thought the advantages which it Aired were of a character that entitled it to the cons . deration of the pub ic. He points I oat the connexion bet** n physictl and mord amelioration, and the recessity fur effecting the one before the other could he secured. The present condition of Ireland rendered some measures neces sary in order to secure that content which could tint exist white so large an amount of destitution prevailed.—Mr. PINNED seconded the resolution, which wt.a carried una nimously. A complimentary vote to the chairman brought the pro ceedings t, a close. ELECTION OF SHERIFFS, YESTERDAY.—CLOSE OF THE SECOND DAV'. Pont..—Alderman Finals, 149; Good. but, 143; Bewley, 4; Dyce, 3: Lawrence, I. A BANQUET TO LIEL'T.-GEN. SIR CHARLES J. NAEntu. lam Governor of Seinde, was given yest e rday, by the members of the Junior United Servicr Club. Tte Earl of Ell. nhorough, Lieut.-Gan. Sir J. Macdonald, Major-Gen. Sir W. Napier, and Major W. Napier ('2sth Regt.) were the guests invited to meet the gallant general. Captain Boblero, M.P., presided. The banquet was most sumpt u o us , and served up in the saloon of the clubhouse, with remark able elegance. Covers were laid for upwards of GO persons. Col. Pennefather, C. 8., filled the vice-chair.—Sir C.. 1 Napier, 0.C.8., on rising to return thanks on his health being drunk, was cordially greeted by the company. He said he could not b.: otherwise.than highly gratified with the tlatteriog testimony of theif approbation. He received this mark of their regard as he received all compliments, as due to the bravest of troops. They bad fought two battles— Maeanee and Hyderahad—in a manner which required no eulogium. The young,soldieN in their advance were met by fire and awor l—(cheers.)— and their steadiness was admir able against the overwhelming toe. He could not separate the Queen's from the Company's officers, for their conduct on those occasions was meritorious beyond all praise, (or they were always to be found in the front cheering their men on. (Cheers.) He could not arrogate to himself that which was due to them, and he was sure they all would agree that these battles were desperately fought and desperately won. He saw before him a brother officer (Col. Pennefather) who had led on the 22nd Regiment in two successive engage. ments, and he could hear testimony that that regiment had been severely tried. The gallant general then adver'ed to the commerce of India after 30 years of peace in Europe ; and claimed the attention of the company to paint out what had been done for commerce in Indic while that country was under the governorship of the Earl of Ellenborough. Sir Charles, at considerable lem:th, said that up to the period of the noble earl going to India the Indus and its tributaries, forming an inland navigation of two thousand miles, was closed by the ameers, and all the r towns and harbours were strongly fortified against friend and foe. Scinde, during the earl's administration, was attached to the British dominions, and in doing so he opened those 2,000 miles and all toe nations on the lett bank of the Sutlej to British commerce and er terprise. (Cheers.) The gallant general then minted out the great facilitit that Scheele stforded for the enterprise of the merchants of this country and India; and, after asaertiog that he had made those observations as the policy of Scinde was not generally well known, he concluded by drinking prosperity to the Junior United Service Club, and all their very good healthe. —The party broke up about 12. SANITARY STATE OF ST. MARTIN IN THE FIELDS. —Yesterday the adjourned vestry meetinv of this pariah, for the purpose of receiving the state of the poll on Mr. Coch rane's amt ndment (see the Ea-press of Friday last) with reference to the appointment of a committee to inquire into the sanitary state of the pariah, took place, the Rev. H. Mackenzie, the vicar, in the chair. The numbers announced were, for Mr. Cochrane's amtulment, 32x9: against it, 979; majority, 6-50. Mr. Brookes moved the following amend ment to the original resolution, proposed by Mr. Staunton on Thursday last, which was seconded by Mr. Laing and carried: That a petition be imreedintely presented to the how , e of parlia ment to pass a bill for improvang the sanitary condition of the metro polis or, if time will not pm mit such a mea , ure. thee temporarily to renew the Act 9 & 10 Victoria, cm. 96, to coalb'e paving boards, or boards of guardians, with the assistance of the magistrate., to pre vent and abate all nuisances detrimental to the public health an speedily, extensively, and effectually, as the urgent circumstances of this parish and the metropolis remtire. A committee consisting of the vicar, the churchwardens ' and Messrs Staunton, Leonard, Breokes, and Lamm', havincheen app tinted to draw up the petition, Mr. W) Id, M.l'., con tended that the proper persons to attend to the sanitary state of the metropolis were the metropolitan commissioners of sewers. He moved the following resolution : That this meeting is of opinion that the boot of commissioners for the regulation of the metropolitan newers ehmild be composed of representatives chosen from the different 'metropolitan boards. That the accounts of the metropolitan sewers eommheion should be audited once every Pia months, and that &statement of such accounts should be .1 rat to the vestry clerk of every perish within the mewed.- Rion, for the inspection of ratepayers. The , a petition founded upon this resolution be presented to both houses of parliament, praying that this principle be embodies' in the bill introdneed by Lord Moe loth, and now before parliament, entitled, " A Full to consolidate the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers." —Mr. Brookes seconded. this resolution, which was carried. After some discussion, it was moved and carried that this resolution should be referred to the coma ittee named above; and also, that the boards of other parishes should be re quested to assist the committee in their endeavours to obtain good sanitary measures. MEETING OF CIIARTISTS , AND REPEAGERS.—Lint night a meeting of the allied chartists and repealers was held in the Milton-street Theatre, for the purpose of consi dering the present unhappy state of Ireland, and also the impoverished and degraded state of England. Government. reporters were in attendVnee.—A Mr. Thompson, who was duly vat, d to the chair, slid he had he and that that was the last tim., they would have an opportunity of meeting in that theatre to consider the important question before them. Ile was informed that the proprietor of the building had determined on not letting it for any more chartist meetings. He went on to say that the poor had asked for reform in every shape and way. They had asked for Mr. Hume's reform, for the charter, and yet they fouad them selves just in the same position as they were years ago. After denying the right of a comparatively few to the session of the land, he said the people would never be sa - tie. tied until the principle was granted, that every one had a right to be fed. If they were only banded together they would, backed by the middle clastee—(groans)—yes, he would say backed by the middle classes—they would be sure to succeed, as they did in 1832, when they got the Refor Bill : the poop)' refused to pay taxes. If tne two hundred thousand special constables who were out en the 10th of April had only demanded reform, all this excitement in England, and bloodshed in Ireland, would have been saved. He concluded by stating that the government was basking the Irish landorda to starve the people, and mods the latter by soldiers and policemen, who only entered On tho duty becauie they_ could get no other employment sad were starving. Mr. Lidding moved the first resolution, which was: That thin meeting is of opinion that the conduct of the pressed ministry towards our sister country is nejoet and tyrannical, and therefore pledges itself to assist her by every means within its power; and, fur th er, se they hold in abhorrence the shedding of human blood, and bold that Ireland may be easily governed by just and righteous leeielation, hereby call on the ministry to withdraw the military and naval times from that unhappy country. The resolution was seconded and carried amidst deafening cheer.—Mr. Mullins moved the second resolution : That, in the opinion of the meeting, the present frightful condition of Ireland is solely to be ascribed to bad legislation, and that the system of m4orernment Ls being daily more and more intruded to. wards England. and we hereby tall upon the men in power to turn aside the tide of civil war which now rages, toehange their measures of government towards England as well as Ireland. The resolution was carried by acclamation ; end after • little more speaking from the platform, and a great deal of cla, THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3, 1848. moor from the body of the meeting, the assembly dispersed, cheering loudly for the charter and repeal. ANOTHER MODEL LODOING-1101J8L—The Society foe improving the condition of the labouring clams have taken an extensive range of premises at the back of the Lon don and SL Katharine. Dock Hotel, East Smithfield, which they intend to open as one of t►eir model lodging• houses on Saturday next. The building is sufficiently capacious to afford aceommodatiir for 100 persons. TSB POTATO ROT Ili AMERICA.—The Newbury port Kerald states that the potato disease has made its sp. pittance in that:vielniry. The Herald says : " Its advent is earlier this year than last, and thus far with greeter viru lence. This is the first intimation we have seen of the breaking out of this disease, which we hoped had ceased its ravages." A NEW Poocess OF SILVERING GLASS and other materials has recently been patented, and now challenges competition with the method horetofore in use. The new process appears to be a vs ry simple one, the basis being the known properties of nitric acid to dissolve pure silver, which being held in solution is subsequently deposited on the glen or other substance to be silvered. The old material (naer eury) is thus dispensed with altogether. The agents for pre cipitating the onzolved silver are understood to be certain essential oils. Some experiments, tried yesterday by the inventor, Mr. Drayton, in the presence of a numerous circle of spectators, were successful to a most satisfactory ex tent; and further experiments, which the scientific world awaits, are promised. The result will, it is anticipated, prove the great utility of this ingenious invention, the value of which, in a decorative point of view, promises to be very r groat. Tile REAL FARINA.—A famous distiller (if not the famous one), Jean Marie Farina, died several years ago, and left his receipt and his business to two daughters, both married. The husband of one of these only carried on the business, and his establishment is at No. 129, Hoch Strasse. It is certain that the name has been multiplied in some cas.• at Cologne by hunting out persons named Farina in Italy, who were made use of to give a pretext for putting that name on the bottles. But no descent will secure a supremacy in a manufacture which depends both on the quality of the ea sen ial oils used, and the proportions in which they are mixed, circumstances in which it seems likely that no two batches made by the same hand can ever pertoctly agree. There ore at least three manufacturers who stand pretty much alike in favour with the public, and altogether we believe the candi dates for that favour number fourteen, of whom ten hear the name of Farina. Several receipts have been published of this fatuous water ; one by Dr. Ure was said to have been obtained from the inventor, M. Farina. According to this, sage, mint, thyme, admits, angelica, camphor, rote-leaves, violets, lavender, orange-flowers, wormwood, all the spices, and no lege than eight ethereal oils, combine their flavours to produce the unrivalled scent of the water. Another re ceipt names only the essential oils, leaving out the herbs and the spices. These are mixed with alcohol, and the whole gently distilled. There are now distillers of eau de Cologne in every large town, and every considerable chemist's estab lishment makes its own. Still the quantity made and sold at Cologne is very large. We did not hear a positive state ment respecting it that could be relied upon.—Banjfees Industry of she Rhine. ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT BY OFFICIALS.—A cor respondent at Ringwood, on the borders of the New Forest, says :—The following, I believe, are the particulars of the malpracices in the official management of the New Forest, and the origin of their detection. A young men, a son of a land surveyor and timber auctioneer, who resided near the New Forest, and was usually employed to sell the forest tim ber, having obtained a situation in the Woods end Forests, through the ineuence of Lord Duncan, " peached" upon the dishonest practices pursued by the inferior officers be longing to the forest. It appears that at the periodical sales of forest timber, when the purchaser came to clear away he found about double the quantity cut that he had purchased. Of course he took the extra qui.ntity at his own valuation, aad:the money was divided amongst the officials. About two years ago there was a contest for a regazdership, and the successful candidate spent 7001. Special trains were employed from Portsmouth and Southampton to Winchester Ito convey the freeholders to vote, and taverns were made open houses to provide refreshments for the voters ; in fact. the excitement and the expense were as great as at a county election upon the small scale now. The ostensible aalary of a rewarder of the New Forest is about 201. a year ! Lieut.-Col. Thornhill, who held almost the highest office in the New Forest, under the Duke of Cambridge, has resigned. There is not the slightest suspicion that Lieut. Col. Thornhill was cognisant of, much leas profited by, the malpractices above described. It is believed his age and feebleness would render him incapable of enduring the fatigue and annoyance which the institution of • searching investigation would subject him to. IMMORAL ADVERTISEMENTB.—Our contemporary, the Scotch &farmers' Gazette, is refusing to insert a certain clam of advertisements, to which it is not necessary to make • more particular allusion. "We have," says the editor of the above paper, " been offend two entire columns of these this week, and for six weeks ensuing. But we have set our faces against them as we have uniformly done, being dew mined that our readers shall not be imposed upon by spurious and indelicate advertisements of any kind.' The Gazette goes on to observe that by such refusal they " may perhaps lee several hundreds per annum," and trusts that the public, who have respectable advertisements to spare, will not forget to send them. In this wish we heartily concur, at the same time we do not believe that any newspaper proprietor, or any other person, can ever be a sufferer by refusing to circu lase indecency. A newspaper ought to be met with in every domestic circlo, and we would wish those newspapers who insert indelicate advertisements to consider to what extent their circulation is cramped by such a practice. We have, over and over again, met with parties, with fathers, with husbands, with brothers, who have said " I would take in the newspai.er, but for those advertisements." With out wishing to assume the part of a censor, or to impute motives to any one, we respectfully submit the above re marks, fully confident that nothing would more elevate the general character of the press than a bold stand against in decent announcements.— Trade Protection Circular. SUSPECTED VISIT OF IRISH CONFEDERATES.—For several days past the authorities of Liverpool have be'zn on the qui vise regarding the 'An R. Skiddy ship (from New York), in which it was suspected several repealer from the other side of the Atlantic were coming as passengers. She arrived, at length, early yesterday morning, and was boarded by a number of detectives, who were disappointed iu th ir expectations, for no one answering to the descripti:n of " confederates " were to be seen. Fanners of this branch were also styled drivers, and re quired to perform the same duty, expressed • wish to see it exemphfied ,• whereupon, after manceuvring for some time the whole were halted, and the gunners changed places with the driven: the maaceuvring was again continued equally as well.. We ask, could the Horse Artil lery ever do it ? We distinctly say, No; it is not their sys tem to teach both duties. There is much esprit de corps in the horse Artillery no one will deny, and that they are smart soldiers also; but this is what we tom. plain of—it is obtained at the sacrifice of eleven twelfths of the regiment. It is impossible, then, from what has been shiner), to expect, under present circum stances, anything like a comprehensive or powerful field artillery. We shall now compare expenses; and having done so, we will leave the matter, on this point, to rest between the finance committee and the country. For the three troops of hoist arti.kry, there are as many horses as for t • four field batteries. What is the result? On the day of the last review taere were six guns of the former, and sixteen of the latter, though only twelve exercised. Ask any cavalry officer which he would choose, the six or sixteen guns; and what would be the effect of these forces in opposition to each other, and attached to an army? Suppose a fire was sustained for half an hour, and each gun during that time fired fifty rounds independently the result would be that one army would sustain the shuck from 300, and the other front 800 pieces ! No. Da away with this penumbra of a horse artillery, and reor plain tee whole regiment into brigades on an equal footing, and unite the interests of all (or the general good, not only ut the service, but of the country. The borie of the horse artil lery, when merged into a general br;gade,would afforded the additional instruction at present required by the battalions, and save the expense to the country of further outlay at a time when it can least affard it. Thus at Woolwich alone there are enough horses for eight field batteries: this would be ample for the instruction there, and present also • formidable front of thirty.two guns at a field.day or review. These properly equipped would have a far more imposing appearance than the pre sent disfixta membra. The horse artillery costs an. nually not less than 60,0001. If tkey be continued now we shall nit cease to insist on two or three points—viz., their being put on the same pay and allowances as the battalions, which is, in tact, the actual pay or our cavalry; next, their being dressed like them; ard, lastly, to take their tour of colonial service wherever they can be employed. Major-General Sir Robert Gardiner has printed a pam phlet, addressed to the chairman of the finance committee, and circulated it amongst the aristo cracy, with the object of taking John Bull by the horns. We protest against such an unfair proceeding: tee public have a right to judge in this matter so well as the interested parties for whose benefit the publication would appear to be intended. Sir Robert dreaded that the unre stricted publication of his pamphlet would expose to hi, countrymen the nakedness of our colonial and home de fence; he never could have intended it against our continental neighbours wilt are better aware than most of ourselves of our state. Are they not ashore in every port of the Mediterranean and the West Indies as much as we are ? _ _ _ Tne present limited number of seven troops of Horse Artillery does not afford sufficient patronage fur the sons of the more affluent of the aristocracy ; so three more troops were demanded by Sir Robert, and an increase of five bat talions. Ho has raised high hopes in the great family circle. All the young captains are to be imme dia.ely field officers, and the country is to provide for 2GO more sons, who are wavering which of the two professions will fall to their lot—the army or the church. Such wtta the coup de main to be effected in our slumber ing dreams of economy and retrenchment. But the . . ,entinels of the country, " Hume " and "Coladee," in whom we have high hopes, are, we trust, not asleep on their post. S:r Robert Gardiner bases his hopes for an augmentation of Horse Artillery on the ex ploded principle of attaching to them 6-pounders. We expect that the experience of our last campaign in the Peninsula and France has annihilated for ever the mention of 6-pounders. Sir Robert would give his hobby corps playthings, and, what he terms " brigades," the heavier pieces—those is fine who have the harder work the less pay. He forgets that those who are competent for heavy work are the more able for the light. The Duke at Waterloo dismantled the " flying artillery," and gay* them 0-pounders : and we require no better data than the battles of the Sutlej, where the frightful effect of the Sikh artillery on our troops and the puerile attempt of the 6-pounders to make any impression was so manifest. On this occasion oar brave cavalry and in'antry with frightful loss rushed not to the breach but to the mouth of • mighty volcano, pouring its undiminished resources on the unco vered but determinedad vaace, and the Sikh guns were silenced only at the point of the bayonet and sabre. This terrible lesson cannot be effaced, and ought not to be forgotten. The advocates of such a protective sys , em should quake for the consequences. Why is it that our naval and military officers are in such fear for the safety of their country ?—they are unceasing in their efforts to obtain further extensions, it is their con tinuous policy, and our taxes have been increased from time to time to meet these demands. It is impossible to look upon the promoters of such schemes as disinterested indivi duals. Five more new battalions would make Sir Robert's son, now a second ciptain in the horse artillery, a first cap tain, and probably give him a troop—what would it not do for Sir Robert himself ? Make him a commandant, er nearly so. Sir Robert would have us find artillerymen for all the new guns and mountings the Ordnance may think proper to create on all the insignificant places we might take a fancy to. It may be the interest of the Ordnance to create guns ad libitum, and then find some disinterested individual to show the public how many guns are lying idle. We de not deny that there is a want of artillerymen, and it is immaterial to us whether the number of Infantry be decreased by five thousand and added to the artillery • bet this much we know, there are more than 5fK; officers in the artillery, a number sufficient far 15,000 men at least. There are 20 full colonels that (with the ex ception of two or three) are never required to join the regi ment. Sir Robert speaks of the old age of the captains ; but did he ever tell the reason ? No. We must. The artillery, ' contrary to the principle of the army, have first and second captains ; but it rarely happens that more than one captain is present. Hence the old age e.f the senior captains. Sir Robert did not mention that the junior captains were not more than 28 years of age. It it be necessary then to create new battalions, abolish the second captains which will give 80 officers for the purpose. It cannot be denied that there are many respectable and educated men enlisting now into the artillery. We ate not content, theref.re, that the aristocracy should too. nopolise the entire officering it. We could recol lect when they were all from the ranks, i.e., before the establishment of the present exclusive system. Many of those recently commissioned are mere boys, who have passed a few months in an academical transit in the Royal Military Academy to qualify them for nomination. Respectable men having their sons enlisting into the army have In clear a right, and probably more so, from their tried conduct meriting it, to commissions in this service ; and so long as we find the present unjust exclusion of respectable and talented non-commissioned officers at variance with the rest of the army we shall continue to advocate their cause, and we :now we shalt be supported by the public voice ; and we hope some member will take the opportunity to make a motion, and elicit the intention of the government on the subject. THE HORSE ARTILLERY. Our remarks on the ably-written article on the Ordnance in the Quarterly Eeriest', we have every reason to believe attracted attention to the extravagant expenditure of that department, and the comparatively inefficient condition of the art illery service, arising from a combination of causes. That this branch of the service requires a thorough reform, and to be placed under the immediatecontrol of the highest military direction power (the Horse Guards), no one, we expect, will deny. The divided in re rests o fthe corps imperatvely demand it. A house divided against itself cannot last. It is not to be wondered at that alter a lapse of thirty years' peace we should be without an adequate field force, when we find the best energies of the service, the real work• ing part of the corps, stifled in the best endea vour to raise it to a general standard of per fection, and this is effected by the influence el a dominant fraction of that arm, for the sole object of keeping up a pet ()err' that offers better emo luments and exemption from foreign service for relatives and iriends. Yes, ruined in efficiency and degraded in appear ance when mounted. we find the great bulk of the corps, owirg to the partiality awl attention bestowed on that inte gral portion of the regiment denominated the horse artillery. We ask why it is, since the formation of the field batteries under the Duke of Wellington's system, they have not met with the same encouragement as the hone artillery ? If they have been found nut to answer, why have they been continued so long ? Unfortunately,b is grace left the Ordnance before they were quite established, or we should have seen probably further changes. We ask again, why it is that a horse artillery officer is kept for so many years in command of the field batteries ? lie is doubtless well adapted to the purpose, but it says very little for the qualification of the sixty colonels of the ten battalions, if none could be found to take his place, which is that entirely of a battalion officer —we are quite unwilling to believe it, and, in fact, we know to the contrary. A more indefatigable officer never com manded the field batteries, but he is otherwise occupied now, and it would be against human nature to suppose he would depreciate that favoured branch to which he and his son belong. The commandant of the garrison happens to be also commandant of the horse artillery, and indeed so was his predecessor. Tne Deputy Adjutant-General also hos always been a horse artillery officer, and his son is so at the present time. It would be unnatural then to suppose they are particularly interested for what is t rmed the field batteries, since the more rapid and perfect their movements the more does it hazard the existence of the horse artillery. It plumes itself on the rapidity of its movements, but it has never yet entered into the heads of any of its partisans to prove they are so in fact, if fair play be shown to the field battteriee. It would indeed be difficult for them to show that four horses in the field bat teries were unequal to move with a six-pounder with the same celerity as four horses in the horse artillery, simply because differently styled. This is the gist of the thing, in point of fact. The horse artillery detachment' for working the guns are mounted on horses in front of the gun, those for the field batteries on what is termed a limber waggon, drawn by the same number of horses as the gun, but in rear, and con sequently haying nearly three times as much ammuni tion. As the movement of the detachment is regulated entirely by the pace of the gun (for it cannot be lett behind) what difference can it make whether the detachment is in front or rear of the gun ? What are the advantages now com pared to the disadvantages, almost in every point, under which the horse artillery labours, viz.—nearly double the number of horses to forge, and two-thirds less ammunition, added to which is the overwhelming expense in comparison to the field battery system ; and then they are not ready to take the field. In their present state they could not take a morsel of camp equipage ; on the contrary, the field bat teries are ready to march and encamp to-morrow, wherever ordered. Despite the fact that the field battery horses were the day before (and are, indeed, nearly con stantly) in heavy straining draught, dragging timber, bricks, and mortar, in the Arsenal, and the men some of them only four months attached to field batteries, they did not on the last review do much discredit to their manccuvres, and this but proves what they might be under a better system and the same paternal care as the " denomi 1 1 - nated" Horse Artillery, with leas carting of bricks and mortar. By the by, we recollect a cood many years ago. when the field batteries could bout of better training, being present at a review by his late Majesty Sing William IV., when his Iflijesty, on learning that the IRELAND. An outline of part of the following appeared in last evening's Express. DUBLIN, Avo. 1. The following caution has been issued to-day by command of the F.arlof Clarendon : Catrow.—Wheresa William Smith O'Brien, Thomas Francis Meagher, John B. Dillon, Michael Doheny, and divers other persons, stand charged as being guilty of the crime of high treason, and being engaged in rebellion against her Majesty : now, this ie to gine notice to and warn all pencils that all those who shall protect against their pursuer+ any of the at care-named persons, or others whom they shall know to be engaged in similar treasonable practkes, or who shall afford them the means to escape, or who shall aid in their disguise, or who shall mislead those who are in search of than, or who shall har bour or shelter them by receiving them into their dwellings, or other. wise, are themeglre.l guilty of the crime of high treason. and will be dealt with accordingly.—Dublin Castle, Aug. 1, 1818.—By Ms Excel lency'soommand, T. N. item NOT ON. Lord Hardinge arrived this afternoon, per the Banshee esamer, at Kingstown, and immediately proceeded by train to Dublin. The noble lord, accom panied by hp+ aides-de-camp, the Hon. Capt Hardinge and Lord Foley, drove direct to the Coale from the Westland-row station, where he had an interview with his Excellency. It is understood that he pro ceeds to the south by special train to-night. The Cork Examiner mentions that a letter had ar rived there from Killarney, written by a respectable merchant of Cork, and containing intelligence of the death of Mr. Richard O'Gorman, jun. The extract in which this is mentiowd states that two gentlemen had seen his body at the police station. Another rumour, more likely to be true, states that the police were in pursuit of him since he had reached Cahir moyle, Mr. O'Brien's seat in the county Limerick. His route, however, if he proceeded southward, would be through Killarney. Four hundred marines arrived to-day at Kingstown per the Birkenhead steamer. They will join the fleet wider Sir Charles Napier. The indictments and evidence against the Newgate prisoners have been printed, and will be issued to day by the crown solicitor. The trials, as you are aware, commence on Wednesday. Some will be for high treason, the first in Ireland since 1803. Accounts from the south state that the catholic clergy of North Tipperary were successful on Sunday last in preventing their flocks from joining the insur gents at Slievenamon. Tnough hundreds of them went armed to prayers, with intent to leave for the camp, they left for home. The Cashel trains at half-past ten and three o'clock brought no intelligence from the theatre of disturb ance. All is reported perfectly tranquil. This is confirmed by a private letter I received to-day from Thurles, in which the writer says thet the excitable district, of which Thurles is the centre, is exceed , ingly tranquil. Rumours of an opposite tendency, however, pre- Tail The public delight themselves and are de ligl.ted with variations of all aorta. One gentleman with a very serious face informed me to-day that he was told on the " best authority" that Smith O'Brien is at the head of 10,000 men ; that the " army " made a raid on Sunday night on the de mesne of Lord Hawarden, and carried off a supply of fat beef, like King Ed Nyfed, of Cymric memory, and subsequently, that the host encamped on the western ridge of Slievenamon, where they were Been at 4 o'clock on yesterday morning. In addition to this novelty, all the stories about the escape of Meagher, Dillon. Dabeny, and Co. are e•tated t 3 be a ruse—that these chiefs are scattered in various directions, c lecting forces, and ready to fall upon the troops when they come to close quarters with the host under S. O'Brien. Another rumour places O'Brien in the mountains of Galway, on his way to the wet-tern isles, having escaped through Woodford over the Shannon. A higher and more trustworthy authority than either of the above "reporters" infutmed me to-day that O'Brien did contemplate the passage of the Shannon, but was intercepted by a strong party of police, and forced back on his former ground. His arrival by the Cashel train this evening was expected. When the heads of the insurrectionary party were scattered in the metropolis, and placed at once under ban of law and society, Mr. I)evin Redly wended his way to the north of Ireland, visiting first Dundalk and then Newry. His " last appearance in public " was at Warrenpuint, seven miles from the latter town. This is the locality which has produced Mr. Martin, of the Felon, and here Mr. I)evin Reilly met with some sympathisers, whom he enrolled in clubs. Hence the proclamation of the " Barony of Newry, in the county of Down." The local authorities seem to have been roused effectually by this step, and yes terday, having received the proclamation by special train, a meeting of magistrates was held to swear in special constables. The following resolution was adopted as the test of fitness : That every man before taking :he necessary oath would be required to make a dacha - Athol that he had not been a repealer for the two last years, nor was he now, or ever had been connected with any club, body, or society which bad for its object the repeal of the union. Mr. D. C. Brady, who formerly represented the borough as a repealer, declared against this step. The excluded speak of appealing to the executive. Yesterday the pensioners attached to the local corps were called out for permanent duty in Athlone, and loca•ed in the barracks, the troops of the line having been removed to the different guard-houses and bat teries on the ramparts, which are now powerfully manned. The artillery and engineers fme been engaged during the past week in working the guns, in order to have them well prepared. Tents and canvas equipage are strewed about in every direction, and everything bears the aspect of war in that strong fortress. Athlone, as you are aware, is one of the most important military positions in Inland—com mands the Shannon and isolates Connaught from the rest of the islan& Sir Michael Creagh reached Csstlebar on Friday, and assumed the command of the district in connexion with the Farl of Mean and the other authorities of Mayo. Sir Michael inspected the powder magazines. barracks, military stores, &c. A call is to be made on the loyal of the county to come in and be sworn as spee'al constables. The troops of the line and police are kept constantly under arms. For the wounded policeman a subscription has been commenced under high auspices. This determination is no less just than politic. The arrest of Dr. Cane, of Kilkenny, is mentioned. The following appears in the Do/din Erening Post to-night :—" The army concentrated around the dis trict where the rebels are located were to have moved this morning, under the command of Generals Napier and Macdonald, to scour the country, and effectirlly crush the insurgent movement" CORK, JULY 30. The rebellion in this quarter has entirely blown off, and there is not the slightest chance of any insurrec tionary movement is this city (-r county. The dis affected party was confounded at the celerity with which parliament suspended the habeas corpus, and many supposed leaders of the rebels are the sincerest rejoicers at their escape from a perilous responsibility. The unsounded depth of the movement made it alone very serious ; possibility was confounded with proba bility ; and it was argued, because our modern incen diaries could write like Wolfe Tone and Arthur O'Connor, they could also act like them. But the event prows that their rhetoric was stronger than their resolution ; the rebels have only been guilty of a siseculative rebellion and sentimental treason. there will doubtless be much ridicule of the rebel renegadoes in your English journals. And, after the language used, and preparations made, no one can be surprised at these would-be;Wolfe Tones being treated with derision. But, though rebellion is out of the question, there is a vast deal of disaffection through the country ; and in very powerful classes of the com munity, I am sorry to say that there is great alien ation from English rule. The evil consequences of the French revolution have done more to scare the middle class here from violent courses than a sense of loyalty or any sympathy with the government. If the change from monarchy to a republic in France had been effected without the grave consequences which ensued, you may be certain that the revolu tionary party in this country would have been very strong. You have passed heavy censure upon the mode in which government have conducted the Irish parlia mentary business. In doing so you have only antici pated the feelings that prevail here, almost univer sally. lam sorry to be obliged to add, that even the catholics of the upper ranks have been much irritated at some parts of the Irish administration. They say that Lord Clarendon has leaned too much upon the protestant ascendancy, and that his government has followed the old plan of ruling by division. I will not examine the justice of this censure, bat it is certain that the complaint is made in quar ters well worthy attention, and something must be done to soothe the feeling of the catholics upon this point The ascendancy party are lavish in their praise of the viceroy. Their cant phrase is, "lie is the best Lord Lieutenant since Camden"—a compliment to Lord Clarendon, ominous and signi ficant. The exclusion of catholics from Mitchel's jury has helped to increase this feeling of discontent ; and the trial of Mr. Duffy is looked to now with intense inte rest. All parties here are most anxious to know what government will do about jury-packing ; whether they will continue or abandon the system. At the time of Mitchel's trial you blamed the course of the Attorney-General. In doing so you stood alone in the English press, and the result has shown that you were right. The feeling of soreness issuing from the Catholics stand aside ! " grievance, is unmistakeable, and ought not to be unnecessarily provoked. There is a good deal of sympathy felt in some quarters for Mr. Duffy. Apart from the principles he inculcated, his conduct as a journalist was in many respects praiseworthy. The ferocious personalities of the Dublin newspapers he never imitated ; be avoided spa all attacks upon individuals. It is remembered also that he laboured hard to obtain more toleration for p .litical antagonists than has been customary in Ire land. In his own party he was by many degrees the ablest writer. One result is anticipated from recent events. It is supposed that a rebel press will never again be tole rated by government. The mischiefs resulting from it have now been made palpable. It is now felt that to circulate such journals is to create a rebellion. How to prevent them without trenching on the liberty of the press will be a very difficult question for the ruling powers. No part of Lord Stanley's conduct, when chief secretary, made him more unpopular than his vigorous prosecution of incendiary journalists. But in such a state of things as is witnessed here, can any government permit the missionaries of anarchy and treason to labour unmolested by legal authority ? To give the press unrestrained liberty here is to give up government. Your contemporaries will doubtless congratulate their readers on the subjugation of the Irish rebel party. But without any pressing danger here, the state of things is very serious, and even disheartening. It is a bad thing that a vast portion of the growing generation of Irishmen should be debauched from their political allegiance ; that such numbers of the intelligent youth should be infected with the spirit of spurious nationality, created by the writings and speeches of Young Irelandisn. It is a bad thing that the popular mind should be so estranged from moderate and rational courses ; and, though all im mediate alarm has subsided, in a moral point of view the Irish question ueems as difficult as ever. The worst way of all to treat it is with levity. It will be, I am afraid, a lclng time before we can look for a wholesome %tate of public opinion in this country. Judging by whit we see before nu, one would be apt to say that, as public opinion becomes more " racy of the soil" in Ireland, so it is more revolu tionary and retrograde. SCOTLAND. ACIMIT 1. Chartism is proving itself a nuisance here. IM followers are so very few, that it is quite discreditable for the town to be so frequently thrown into excite ment by their 'movements. The leach re are now almost rill in jail, and there should therefore be an end cf meetings. Special constables are getting thoroughly tired of endless callings out, immurings in churches without result. They are eager for action end woe to the mob on whom they first fall. Lasi night the streets were filled for several hours with stragglers going and returning from an assemblage on the Calton-hill,and as usual, alter tedious marchings up and down, there was a quiet and gradual dispersion. The imprisoned leaders comprise the principal contributors to the Niirth British ExpresA, which is henceforth likely to have but a ricketty existence. The " Victim Fund" for the families of the captives is mounting so slowly, that little can be left for publishing expenses. Our church war still cmtinues. Bailie Stott and another citizen have beenApprehi nded and lodged in gaol for nonpayment of the annuity tax. To-night a meeting is to be held of the Anti-Annuity-tax League, in order, if possible, to devise measures for the aboli tion of the tax. During the week various proposals have been made, but none appear to be very feasible. Some statistics brought forward by Bailie Stott are startiing, and demonstrate that some change is neces sary. In the case of three churches (says this move ment magistrate), the incomes are 671., 181., and 71., the losses to the city being 1,5821.,1,6011., and 1,092/. — giving • total loss on ecclesiastical property of 16,162/. While in the country districts the church is supported by teinds, it is not fair that in F.dinburgh it should be sup ported by a grieding tenant tax. The nnex handed teinds in Scotland are valuable, and might easily be converted into a fund for the payment of the Edinburgh and Montrose clergy. By last report the teinds belonging to the church in the nand& of the crown, amounted to 15,711/. 12s. 3d., but, as in all similar cases, the sum actually tangible becomes won derfully small on investigation. First, there is a de duction of 5,559/. 7s. 9d., and then it is added that from the system of management "very much less" than the balance of 10,1821. ss. Bd. reaches the trea sury. But in the hands of others than the crown, there are of one kind of unexhansted teinds 138,1861. 17s. 6d., and of another 153,2981. 9s. 11d., and on these an onslaught could surely be made. At present it is illegal to apply unexhausted teinds to extra-parochial purposes, but a slight legislative effort could obviate this. As the sum necessary for the pur pose in view would not be large, a liberal commuta tion could safely be made with the impropriators. Among all classes of dissenters movements have com menced for the more liberal payment of their clergy, and therefore the present is not an inappropriate time for adjusting the incomes of the established teachers. The parochial schoolmasters are towage determined war against the Marriage and Registration Bills in the House of Commons. In the House of Lords they have been very successful in getting the measures moulded to suit their purposes. The teachers are to be the registrars in every parish, subject to the con currence of the registrar general. The parochial rate in Glasgow is to be raised from 2; to 4 per cent, means and substance being the rule of charge. It is calculated that the resulting assess ment will amount to 70,0001. Two years ago the amount was 25,000/ A new feud lies broken out between the univerFity and town council of Edinburgh. The aenatus ho.ds that it is the function of the council to present to va cant chairs in its patronage, and that of the senates to admit or induct. The council holds that presenta tion involves induction, and that both pertain to them. WALES. MURDER AT TIIE BRITANNIA BRIDGE, IV! ENAI STRAITS.—A murder was perpetrated on the night of Fri day last at the works of the Britannia Bridge. The murdered man, John Rowlands, apparently thirty years of age, a watchman in the service of the London contractors for the bridge now in progress, on Friday evening comagenced his rounds at the usual hour, John Pritchard, another watch man, employed by the Manchester contractors, having entered on similar duty at the same time and place. It was arranged that the two watchers should meet at a given point every half-hour, ring a bell, and report all right or other wise. In the course of the night the murdered corpse of John Rowlands was discovered and reported; and between two and three o'clock a.m. a gentleman connect, d with the worlui roused up Lawrence, railway police officer, stationed at the bridge, and Lansborough, sup , rintendent at Bangor, both of whom forthwith proceeded to the spot indicated, and there bound the dead body laid on a stretcher, the brains having been literally beaten out through a deep wound in the side of the head. The recount rendered by John Pritchard was to the following effect • Connected with the carpenter's shop on the Manchester stage is a privy over hanging the sea-water, and to which he had occasion to re sort. While there he perceived two men attacking his com rade, who resisted; whereupon two other men were called to their assistance, the language spoken being Welsh. Panic stricken, be divested himself of his coat, let himself down in the water, and remained there in concealment a considcrable time, It was clearly this man's duty to have raised an alarm, and taken part with his comrade. For the present Pritchard remains in custody Funding the inquest. Robbery does not appear to have been the object of the murderer, for, although a hut containing hides to make straps for the en- I pines had been entered and two of those hides deposited out side the door, none were abstracted. PROVINCIAL. WORKING RELAYS IN FACTORlES.—Yesterday, at Manchester, an information was preferred to the magistrates under the Ten Hours' Act, at the instance of Mr. Horner, fectory inspector, against Mr. James Kennedy, and Co., for an alleged infringement of the provisions of that measure. The information charged that on the 28th July last, Sarah Overend, " a young person under 18 years of age,_" was per. tallied to work in the factory for a longer period than ten hours, as calculated from the time at which, according to the notice posted up in the mill, work commenced on that morn ing, which was half-past 5 o'clock. The girl was called in support of the case by Mr. Cobbett, barrister, and she stated that she was htteen years of age, and began to work on the morning in question at half past five o'clock, and left off in the evening at half-past eight o'clock ; but that in the course of the day she was absent from the mill from t. n minutes before nine o'clock to twenty minutes be fore two. She had worked in the factory about ten hours on that day, in the whole, and never exceeded three hours. —Mr. Erie, for the defence, contend d that as the party was not worked more than ten hours, the act had not been infringed, and he quoted the 26th sec. of the 7th Vict., which said " that the hours of the work of children and young persons in every factory shall be reckoned from the time when any child or young persow shall begin to work in the morning in any factory, to he reckoned by a public clock placed in a public situation where it can be seen by the pub lie, under the certificate of the inspector of the district." These words, he contended, were net to be taken literally, but that the aim of the legislature was obtained if a young person" was nut absolutely employed more than ten hours during the whole of the working day; so thatin this instance, as the girl had positively sworn she was not employed more than ten hours, there was no case. lie urged that as the relay system was expressly provided for by the act, it was preposterous to suppose that the legislature did not contem plate the adoption of a similar system with respect to persons older than mere children ; that in fact it wan absurd to sup pose that children under thirteen years of age were to be allowed to work relays, and persons of fifteen were not.— Mr. Cobbett replied, and the magistrates, after a consulta tion of three quarters of an hour, stated that they had come to the resolutnin of convicting. After r. careful readiso of the act they had come to the conclusion that the 26th clause must be interpreted literally ; but they sup pared that the proceeding in this case was not for the purpose of inflicting • penalty, but with a view to getting the opinion of the court recorded for the guidance of the public—Mr. Cobbett said that was certainly the principal object —The Court then inflicted a fine of 20s. —There was a second information, but it was withdrawn.— Mr. Erie requested • written conviction, bearing upon its. face the facts of the case, in order that if the defendants should make uo their minds to resist the penalty, and a dis tress warrant should is issued, trey might be in a poratiori to b•ing an act of replevin, and so to take the question before the superior courts. RAILWAY CASUALTY. —CHARGE AGAINST THR ENGINE-DRITER.—W. Bake, an engine driver, in this ser vice of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Camway, was brought up at the New Bailey, Manchester on Mor.daylast, charted with a neglect of duty, in not obeying the sign al light.—Mr. Simpson, assistant stationmaster , Miles Plot ting, etated that Bake had been driving the Heywood train on Sunday Lid; and he was coining to Man•zrester about a quarter- tlO o'clock at night, when, as soon as his engine appeared under the Three-arch Bridge, bout 900 or 1,000 yards from the Miles Platting station, the red signal light was turned towards him, to warn hire to stop, in conse quence of the train from Ashton approaching towards the station, on its way to Manchester. 'rue night was wet an d dark, and neither engineer could see the other train until they were both near the station 'where the Ashton branch joins the main line. Bake did not take notice signal, but passed it without slackenii consequence was that his engine str Ashton train, and broke the back I but none of the p assenge r...re h u g . Mr. Riges On prisoner's solicitor, 01 7 he could no:. tell whether the reversed, o: his brakee were on, lei the traiL, because of the darkness night; but they were se when he weak De=Kt, who had charge not take not . ipiLd the k e eni i tr re 6kesi of • ek We jut - hua. sower 7; itiSAJ prisoner . * =grins ‘••s; 00. orheellis ,engine 14".1k• re aid wetness of thoF -71 • exalkineel *au after. , of tile Opel post, sit • i tlh till I t 4 her ,m -the not 7th des awn ded ails Lion rho a it. ) or Lent refs. , pot ,has that apes. the Ld .te I te 1