The Express. — London, England, 1847-08-27 00:00:00

1,950 discount. Exchange on London, 30 days, 641 4; 90 don 56. OPORTO, JULY 30. The General, Don Manuel de la Concha, left this city the night before last fur Spaia. The liberal party rye gret his departure, for while he was here the people enjoyed some security ; whenever any complaint was made to him of abuse of power on the pert of the Queen's authorities he tried immediteely, and with succest, to remove the evil, and thus he acquired considerable popularity among that class which might have looked at him as one of their oppressors. I f u lly suspect that diplomacy was at the bottom of his amiable conduct. He invited to his table Joi.e da Silva Passes, jare Vice-Preaident of the Junta, his beJther, !deflect da su n p u s" and other leading men connected with the Name jams he entertained likewise the directors of all com mercial compeniee, and I know that in convereetion the question of the union of the peninsula was broached by some of his aides-denamp. The Duke of Saldanha has also left this city for Lisbon rather abruptly--anne say in consequence of the Cabral party trying to wrest the power from his hands ; others evert that he was called to re-organise the ministry. The truth will soon be known, we hope. The CON alistas, who were not able to get admission to the ball which took place the night before tile departure of the duke at the Assembla Portuense, in honour of his excel lency, amused themselves, aided by the brave soldiers of the Queen, in breaking the es of the liberals who hd the imprudence to pass near t h e neighbourhood of the a room. Frequent scenes of this kind would occur if all the Spanish poops were to return to their country ; but, fortunately, five battalions of infantry, Ilk cavalry, and sit mountain pieces of artillery remain at Oporto, commanded by General Betties, anti, it is said, they will stay here three months. The account* from Alto Douro are unfavourable; never theless, the casts rly wind ha.. during the last few days, burnt" the grapes considera bly ; and it is asserted that in 'erne parts of the wine district a quarter part Iris been de stroyed by the heat. Ihe Indian cora, which app, erect so promising, will be quite a failure, should this hot anti dry weather continue. The 'hipping of wine for England con tinues brisk, nod the freights hold at 501. per ton. FRANCE.—PRF.SS PRCiSECUTIONS.—M. Cartagne, grant, and M. Antony Milray, ri , dacteur of the Democratic p rk -ifigar,rummaned at the (' our d'Assisse fir debt de passe, applied for a postponement, on the ground of the inability of their counsel to attend. Their counsel would not retina to Paris until the end of September. The attorney-general strongly op posed i the poteponensent, and the court went with him. M Cartagne and Mlray then declined pleading, end retired. The other business having been disposed of their me was again called on. M. Bresson, the attorney-general, stated that M.M.Cartagne and Menu were prosecuted fur a delinquency outraging public morality. The latter as the author of the articles condemned, and the f enter as laving signed the two numbers of the papers in which the y appeared. M. Milroy had declared that, although the two numbers were pigged by M. Cartagne, that gentleman had not lately had the immediate management of the journal in his Ith . .ds, and that he was not cognisant of the contents of the two numbers that had been seized ; that the manuscript and illustrations had been seen and objected to by him, that he required them to be modified, that the alterations bad been in some sort agreed upon, and that it was not until after such alterations had been made that the publication took place. The court would have to judge whether it were possible to admit that a portion of what was objectionalde in the articles and illustrations had been suppressed. The jour nal was divided into the political department and the /twine. toes. Doubtless the journalists though t that much would be per mitted them in this latter department ; but it seemed to the authorities that in the two numbers in question they had exceeded al bounds. They seemed to have collected Innen. of the most licentious character, and most injurious ynuth and to manners generally. After reading the prin cipal passages in the two cendemned articles, the attorney general went on to remind the jury that they had frequently to reprises the publication of engravings , calculated to esreupt manners; but they must recollect that the writer could alto offer to the eyt a of his readers scenes of the most dangerous kind.—The court then passed sentence,—" That M. Car twee being guilty of an outrage against public morals, in having published in the journal of which he is gt , rani, an article entitled ' I.a d'art des Femmes,' and Anthony Nem being his accomplice, they are, in accordance with Articles 8 of the law of Meg, 1819, and GO of the Penal Code, sentenced each to six months' imprisonment, and a fine of 300 francs, together with the expenses of the trial. The imprisonment to take place within a year." PRUSSIA.—It was stipulated by the convention of the 31st March, 1831, that the central commission for the navigation of the Rhine should be bound to present annually to each of the states bordering on the river a statistical re port of the commerce and navigatien on the Rhine. It was In 1836 that they succeeded in getting the first report ; since that time one has been pro eented each year to the respective governments. In its number of Thursday last the commer cial official organ of Prussia publishes a statement of the commerce of the Rine, from 1835 dawn to the commence ment of 1846. Thin statement contains some interesting data ea to the history of the revenue of this river and its ad ministration, especially with regard to the toll, from the time of the German empire down to our day. The number of l'ruaian boats in this line of traffic has increased between , 1835 and 1840 from 276 to 916 ; of these 19 were steamers. In 1845 the number of Prussian steamers was 31, of which 23 belonged to the Cologne Company, end 8 to that of Dusseldorf. The number of passengers conveyed by the first of these companies, in 1845, was 680,000; by the second, 231,000. The number of passengers conveyed by the beats of the Cologne Company had increased, in 1843, to 620,000; hut it has subsequently decreased, in consequence of the COM petithin raised by the opening of the railroads from Mann beim to Strasbourg, and from Bonn to Cologne. The Due. alder( Company has suffered a like decrease from the open ing of the Belgian and Rhine Railway. SAXONY.—LEIPSIG, AUG. 16.—The abundant harvest is now almost all gathered in ; and as for the potato disease, which in many parts of Germany is said to follow like a spectre in the very steps of the magnificent harvest, we know nothing whatever of it here. The price of corn has again fallen in this market ; but in our mountain district* the high price is still maintained. On the whole the price of provisions has never been so high in this town an else where, because there has always been a plentiful supply of work. The great number of public buildings which are now in the course of erection have given employment, more espe cially to that class of mesons who live tram hand to mouth, and to whom the last winter was more especially trying than to any other class. int Court. ARDTEREKIE, TUESDAY, AUG. 24, 1847.—The Duke of Atboll called yesterday to pay his respects to her Majesty and Prince Albert. Her Majesty and the I'rince Walked in the forest to-cloy. The royal children walked out attended by their governess, Misr Hillyard. The Marquis • of Abercorn will be the only addition to the royal dinner. The Earl of Nlinto and the Lady Elizabeth Elliot arrived in town on Wednesday from :dint* Castle, Row barghshire. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial ethee from the Governor of Gibraltar. BIRTHDAY OF H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. Yesterday being the anniversary of the birthday of H.R.H. Prince Albert, who then entered his 29th year, the morning was ushered in by merry peals from moat of the metropolitan and suburban churches. There was a holiday at all the public offices, and at one o'clock the park and Sower guru fired a royal salute. Notwithstanding the absence of her Msjesty and her illus trious consort from town, the congratulatory calls made at Buckingham Palace throughout the day were most numerous, and the names entered on the visiting books embraced those of the cabinet ministers, the foreign ambassadors, corps diplomatipsc, dignitaries of the church, and two universities, with nobility and gentry at present remaining in town. In the evening his royal highness's tradesmen dined together, and at night their houses, as well as the clubs, were bril liantly illuminated. At Windsor also, royal salutes were fired from the corpo ration ordnance in the Bachelors' Acre, from the battery at the Belvidere, near Virginia Water, and from the vessels on the lake. In the evening, J. T. Bedborough, Esq., the mayor, presided at a public dinner, which took place at the Town-hall. A very large party also dined at the Royal Adelaide Hotel, in honour of the occasion; the chair being taken by Mr. Samuel Minton, purveyor to her Majesty. A splendid display of fireworks took place in the grounds of the hotel during the evening. Three bucks from the royal park, and a liberal quantity of fruit fr. m her Majesty's gar den at Frogmore, were supplied to the two banquets by command of the Queen. The bells of the pariah church were ?tug at intervals during the day; and in the evening time attic houses of the royal tradesmen were illuminated. SHAKSPEARE'S HOUSE. - - A meeting of gentlemen anxious for the preaerva bon cf this national relic took place yesterday, at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's-street, and wan very rupectaMy attended. Mr. J. P. Collier presided; and there were present—Mr. C. Kemble ; l'rofessor I'. Taylor; Mr. W. J. Thorns ; Mr. Charles Knight; Mr. P. Cunningham; Mr. C. H. Bracebridge, Secretary of the Stratford commit tee ; Mr. B. Bernard; Mr. Vandenhoff ; Mr. Bartley; Mr. T. K. Herrey ; Mr. T. Amyot ; Mr. F. G. Tom li ns ; Mr. Cockerill ; Mr. But.erworth ; Mr. Rodd, &c. &e. The Chairman regretted the absence of Viscount Mot- Seth, the Earl of Ellesmere, and other distinguished indi vidz;;,, hat coeoratulated the meeting on the object of their .. `Z * .aellage. totters cf invitation had lto--zr, ,-;,,L1;„„mo to ~ , lord Lieutenant of I re land (a vice-president of the "atthethe Society of London), and Earl Howe (ano ther vitt-president), but they were unavoidably absent. The Eel of Ellesmere, the president of the Shakspeare 8:11_„ regretted his inability to attend, sent a subscription 07 . and expressed his belief that a single copy of Shake- Um in the backwoods of America was a more enduring atonement to the genius of our immortal dramatist than toy strot , ure of marble could possibly be. (Hear.) The reatha sa to .bether Shakspeare was born in the house in leyatreet, Stratford, or only resided there in his youth, Insperfectly immaterial. There was abundant evidence sa to latter;the and there was no doubt that the two houses to be told., _tient month were the ho u se s th a t h a d b ee n bo ug ht by makspease's father from the Halls in 1674. (Hear.) The 1 " 4 , me of these tan houses was not the only object con tated ; if sutlicieut funds were rai..ed, ulterior object, . t be aocomplish e d such as the assistance of dramatists hoise u "ksiT , dedMing year s ', by the erection of a college or alms as the spot which gave birth to Shakspeare. 1,7'0 The exertions of the Stratford committee had atat Mli.-eworthy ; and L ite Landon committee would gladly give effect to the wishes of the subscribers for this i noble project. Had a day been selected for this meeting, no day more appropriate could have been chosen than the birth day of Prince Albert, a liberal subscriber of 2601. (Hoar.) Professor T. TAYLOR moved the first resolution, declaring the expediency of raising a subscription for the purchase of Shakspeare's house, to save it from removal and demolition, sad preserve it as a national monument. He remarked that the system of degrading showmanship of which Skskspeare's house had been made the centre was most disgraceful ; and the present opporturity ought not to be lost of doing away with it. Ho read the advertisement of sale which Mr. Robins had issued, and commented on it in a humorous strain. ee•—• Mr. C. KIMBLE, who was most enthusiastically cheered, seconded the resolution.—Mr. George Jones suggested the omission of words in the resolution wnich expressed a doubt as to whether the house in question was actually the birth place of Shakspeam. Such a statement might injure the suhscription.—Mr.C. IL Bracebridge said the Stratford com mittee had felt hound to tell the public the truth, and the whole truth. (Applause.) There was a probability that Shakspeare had been born in that house ; but the committee would not represent that to be • certainty which was not one. (Hear.) Mr. Jones repeated his objection to the words " traditionally reputed to have been that in which Shakspeare was born." After some conversation, in which Professor Taylor, Mr. Collier, and Mr. C. Knight, took part, the resolution was put and agreed to, Mr. Junes being the only dissentient. Mr, C. KNIGHT ; in moving the next resolution, said the object was one of universal interest. For nearly a century, ever amen Garrick's jubilee, the house had been treated as Shakspeare's, and had been the object of universal reverence not only with Englishmen, but with our transatlantic brethren. (Hear.) He moved a resolution, approving of the previous purchase by the Royal Shakspearean Club of Stratford, and recognising the propriety ot extending the sub-.criptiun, not for the exclusive purpose of purchasing the remainder of the property, but for a further expression of the public reverence towards Shakspeare's memory. 'the subscription in Stratford had already reached 1,2001., though contiued to 54 persons. The tirst object of the present com mittee would be to secure tree access to Shakspeare's house to the universal English people for ever ; and then to be able to place in that house some deserving veteran who must venerate the relict amidst which he lived. (Cheers.) If 5,0001., 10,0001., or '20,0001. were raised, it would not all be given to Mr. Robins. (Hear.) The future guardianship of the house was not • matter for present discussion; all they had now to do was to raise subscriptions. Mr. P. CUNNINGHAM seconded the resolution. Already 54 noblemen and gentlemen had subscribed 1,1921. to the Stratford Club; and yestexlay nearly 1201. had been put down by different individuals—The resolution was put and carried unanimously, as was each of the succeeding ones.— Mr. W. J. THOM 3 moved the appointment of a committee to' assist in procuring funds—Mr. F. G. Tomlin mcontled the resolution.—McVandenhoff moved a resolution recom mending the corporate authorities of London and other towns to call meetings on this subject —Mr. T. K. Hervey seconded the resolution, and expressed his confidence that the subscription would become • national one.—Mr. Jones said that a similar recommendation had issued from a meet ing over which he had presided some time ago, and he had no doubt the meetings suggested in the different towns were now holding.—Mr. T. Amyott moved a resolution calling on the proprietors and editors of newspapers for assistance in this deserving object —Mr. B. Bernard seconded the resolu tion —Mr. C. H. Brae:bridge alluded to the suggestions which had been made by various subscribers as to the way in which the funds should be applied, and expressed a hope that the committee would adhere to the object as already de tined—to purchase tho property for sale on the 16th Sept., without deriding on the ulterior objects.—Mr. Jones put it to the chairman whether the present meeting would not think it better to co-nperate with that which had been already held, and which had resulted in the formation of the people's central committee.—Mr. T. K. Hervey *aid that several independent efforts had been set on foot in the metropolis , ; and it would be for the promoters, if they were so disposed, to render assistance to the committee now appointed.—Mr. Jones said' the people's central committee had been the first in the field, and th , refore the present committee ought to co-operate with them.—The Chairman said he should be most happy to co-operate with any party; but knowing no thing ot the feeling of the gentlemen present he could not slate how far Mr. Jones's otter would be acceptble.—Mr. Cunningham said the best course would be fur both to co operate with the Royal Shakspearean Club.—Mr. G. Barley, the actor, moved, and Mr. C. Knight seconded, a vote of thanks to the Royal Shakspearean Club of Stratford, which was acknowledged by Mr. Braceb-idge.—Ttie proceedings then terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. NEW PP.OVISION IN VIE BANKRUPT LAWS.—There is a provision in an set of last session, which will come into force on the 16th September, of some importance to trades men. The present jurisdiction of the Court of Bankruptcy emends to 100 miles, and in fiats obtained against parties residing a distance from town, the expenses are greatly in creased, and by the increase the expectation of a dividend by the creditors is diminished. By the clause, the commis sioner and other officials can proceed to the place of trading, and hold a court for all necessary purposes. The act alluded to is the 10th & 11th Vic.. c. 10.1, and the provi sion, the 14th, is couched in the following terms •—" And whereas it may be expedient that the Court of Bank ruptcy in London should hold sittings in matters of bank. rintcy at some place or places within the district over which the jurisdiction of such court extends, at which such court hath not hitherto been used to sit, be it declared and enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor, at any time [ or times whenever it shall appear to him to he expedient, by any order or orders to give the neccss....ry directions in that belt lf, ordering any commissioner, registrar, official assignee, messenger, or usher of the Court of Bankruptcy in London, to sit and attend and act in the prosecution of any flat in bankruptcy at any place elsewhere within such district than in the City of London, and every commissioner, registrar, official assignee, messenger, and usher so tittinF, attending, and acting, shall have the like rower, jurisdiction, and au thority so if sitting. attending, and acting in the prosecution of such fiat in London." MONUMENT TO JOHN HUNTER—The committee appointed to consider the propriety of erecting a monument to the memory of John Hunter, the physiologist and founder of the Hunterian Museum, have just had a meeting at the Royal College of Surgeons. The learned Dean of West minster, the Rev. Dr. Auckland, the president, and vice presidents of the college, and a large number of the sur geons to the metropolitan hospitals, attended. It was stated that the original suggestion to erect a monument to Hunter's memory was due to an eminent geologist, the Rev. the Dean; of Westminster who, at the last anniversary of the birthday of Hunter, held at the Freemasons' Tavern, offered to the members of the medical pro fession then assembled a site in Westminster Abbey for a commemorative bust and mural tablet. The movement excited by this offer naturally engendered the desire that the memorial to John Hunter should be com mensurate with the pro-eminence of his name and labours, and should form a befitting exponent of the sense enter tained by the members of the medical profession. An appro priate site far the memorial was a subject for consideration. As ft appeared that a space adequate for the display of a statue or other larger monument could not be had in the abbey, it was suggested that the Hunterian Museum, or hall of the college, would afford better situations ; but this was left to be decided by a public meeting, to be held early is the ensuing session. FURNITURE BROKERS' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. The seventh annual meeting was held yesterday at the Free masons' Tavern, Mr. James Winter, treasurer, in the chair. The report stated, that after paying pensions and expenses amounting to 871. Os. 7d., there remained a sum of 1,2211. be. 9d., of which 1,1071. 10s. 2d, had been invested. The report was adopted,and an annuitant was elected on the institution; and after the re-election of officers for the en suing year the meeting broke up with a vote of thanks to the chairman. NAUTILUS LIFE-PRT.SERVER.—Under this title the attention of nautical men and others, whose pursuits or tastes are aquatic, was challenged yesterday by the manager of a company which seeks to obtain public patronage for an invention by which it is proposed to avert the danger of being drowned, or the swamping or submersion of - boats. ; The advantages of the apparatus were manifested by a series of crucial experiments, which took place at the lower river entrance of the London-docks, near llhadwell, at high water. The apparatus is of two kinds One form is that of a tube, competed of oiled silk, with a valve similar to the tongue of a bellows at one end, which admits the air when re quired, and thus forms a light and buoyant belt, which is fastened round the Waist, and enables the wearer to support two persons in the water besides himself. The other form of the apparatus is also an oblong tube, longer and of greater diameter then the belt, which, being filled with air and placed under the thwarts of a ship's boat, will prevent it from being submerged lower than the level at which these ear tubes are placed. The experiments were conducted with tolerable fairness, and appeared to give satisfaction to a numerous assemblage of seafaring and other persons who were stationed round the dock entrance ; but the real merits of the invention will be far better tested by experience ; and the suffrages of those most interested will be more surely obtained by this means than by any ad cap lanthim recommendations on the part of persons who, at the beat, can only offer a hasty opinion upon an invention such ea this, which is out of the sphere of their ordinary pursuits. FIRES: IN BARBICAN.—At a quarter past three o'clock yesterday morning, a fire broke out in the back pre mises of a Mr. Heine, a paper box manufacturer, Beech street, Barbican, the premises abutting on the extensive mahogany and timber yard of Mr. Ingram, and in the im mediate vicinity of Whitbread's brewery. In a few see mds enjeoes from the brie station, Whitecrowit : were at work ; the inmates in the meanwhile effected their escape from the upper part of the house into the adjoining one, Mr. Jones's, eating home-keeper, which was also found to be on fire, as well as a portion o' Mr. Ingram's timber-yard. In a short time the Farringdon-street and Watling-street engines arrived, followed by the West of England and the County, when a plentiful supply of water being obtained the Be. was got under, but not before the shops of Mr. Haim and Mr. Jones, as well as the contents, were destroyed Ix Flo LIMBIC—Just as the engines had finished working at the above fire, which was about halfpast (our o'clock, infor mation came that the Cocoa-tree Coffee-house, No. 119, Holborn-hill, in the possession of Mr. Kirkland, was on fire, to which place the several engines proceeded. Upon their arrival the first floor was found to be enveloped in Limes and ascending with great fury throutjh the house by the stairs. The fire, although burning with great rapidity, was confined to the first floor, but it was not extinguished until the whole of the contents were destroyed, besides doing con siderable damage to the upper part. The family happened to be up, and a lighted candle was left in the first floor, by which dive:o64nm the fire originated. The damage dose is very considerable, but, it is understood, is covered by an insurance. WItIaki.—FIFTEEN LIVES LO3T.—Lettera have leen received from the political agent at Aden (Capt. Haines, It N.), communicating the melancholy loan of the barque Welcome, of London, 500 tons burthen, on the rout of Yambo, with most of her crew. The vessel had been chartered by th a Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navi gation Company to convey coals to their depot, at Sues. On the 14th of last April, by some unforeseen circumstance, the weather being moderate and still water, the vessel ran on a reef of coral rocks, known as the Shoal Subad, S.W. of Yambo. There being no appearance of the vessel haying sustained injury, there being no leak, the sails were imme diately hacked, and the usual means adopted to get her off, which soon succeeded, but the moment of clearing the reef, the Teasel settled down by the bow, and in three minutes went down in one hundred fathoms water the depth ascertained by previous soundings. So sudden, in fact, was the catastrophe, that there was no time sufficient to launch a boat. Tho =Slur, mate, a geAni.u, and an Arab, contrived to save themselves by clinging to the sides of a small boat floating bottom upwards, which they cut adrift as the vessel foundered, and which fortunately was washed back to the reef. The remainder of the ship's crew, 15 in number, met with a melancholy fate: they were drawn down in the wreck, and all perished. The survivors even- 1 tually got the boat upright and clear of water, and made for Yambo, which they reached in the course of 43 hours, but in a very exhausted state, being without food or water. On landing they were kindly treated by the governor, who, in a day or so, obtained them a passage to Aden. The names of the unfortunate persons drowned ale not mentioned ; moat of them were from the river Thames. The vessel and cargo are only partly insured. NEW ZEALAND.-THE COOK'S STRAITS SETTLERS. Several months ago we learned that copies of a printed " letter to the directors of the New Zealand Com pany from the resident purchasers of land" had been for warded to this country, but till within the last few weeks our efforts to obtain a eight of one have been unavailing. The difficulties we have experienced in the search can only be explained on the assumption of active exertions to sup press the letter. Several other circumstances have conspired to strengthen the suspicion that this assumption is well founded. If it be correct, we can on'y any that the policy of suppression was quite as unwise as it was unfair. On the validity of the complaints urged by the settlers, and the justice of their demands, we will pronounce no opi• nion, till we have enabled them to tell their own tale in their own words to the English public. This we hope to be able to accomplish at this season, when little news of general interest is forthcoming, in the course of three con secutive publications. Thus much, however, we may pre mise, that among the thirty-two names of leading settlers in the Wellington district appended to the letter, we see seine who have been conspicuous in the brief history of the settle ment as among the most energetic, intelligent, and every way respectable members of their little community. Among others we may enumerate the Messrs. Clifford, Feather,tou, Boddington, Mein Smith, Daniell, Lyon, Deans, and Bell. The letter or memorial woo prepared by a committee ap• pointed at a public meeting held in Wellington on the 29th of July, 1818, and deliberately adopted by another public meeting held in the tame place on the 18th of September following. It consists : —Firstly, of en introductory state ment, explaining why the appeal is made, and why it was not made sooner ; second:y, of a comparative review of the inconveniences and lossia which have been suffered by the company and by the settlers ; thirdly and fourthly, of state ments of the two principal conditions upon which the settlers purchased land, and entrusted the company with the expen diture of their monies. The first of these heads we pass over at present. The second we publish is-day, and the third and fourth shall appear in as quick succession as pos sible. The settlers thus address the directors : In making this appeal, we mast at the very outset declare, that we come bobire you, not as suppliants of your bouuty —not ax men suing for favours at your heed, out as parties deeply and grievously In jured..as men protesting againat great wrongs ildlicted by you, and, as each, demanding redrew. First, then, we claim oompemmtion for the lons we have incurred from your inability to fail the (torrent made with ua Seven yews ago and in order that you may be the better enabled to understand the nature and extent of the leases we have suffered, we invite you to compare them with those sustained by the New Zealand Company. According to your own statement& the NewZetilandeompany have ex. emoted 260,000 e of paid-up capital, 70,8001. borrowed on the security of their remaining unpaid capital, nod have fit ell liabilities to the extent of upwards of 60,0091. since 1041, they hare burn engaged in a harassing and angry contest with the Colonial-othee, with respect to the lands awarded them by Mr. Pennineton, under Lord J. Pausell'e agreement —of which (with tho exception of 400,000 acres at Otakou), they hare never yetobtalned a crown grant. Although for the first three yearn they received dividends to the amount of 44,6911., yet, since 1843, they have been not only unable to declare div idends, bat have been compelled to euepena their payments, and to stay their colonising operation, By the arrangement, however, concluded with Lord etaraey, in Aug., 1815 their claim to 1,300,000 acres hes been ac knowledged—the cordial tesistanee of the government promised to enable them to c onplete their purchases—aed any none pad to perfect their tithe are to be returned to the to in land, at the rate of an acre for every sa. so expended. Now, although we can well appreciate the mental toil and anxiety which the directors mum have endured dur ing these disputes with the ColonLdaatice, and are reedy to admit that the affairs of the company woull have been in a very different state had them differences never green; still, bearing in mind that the mini. mum price of crown loads in the colony is 11. an acre, it is Unfeasible to deny that 1,30 1,000 acre, of land afford a very ample remuneration for the capital expended by the company ; and If the antengenents re cently concluded be fairly carried out (however serious:and harassing the natation in which the company has hitherto been placed), it will reap an exceedingly handsome profit, and its affairs soon be in a state of great prosperity. A, however, gentleman, In your reply to M. drama, you exert that min have been inrolved equally in ruin with ourselves, and, as you seem to imply, that your enthaerasenients have been in some measure atteibutable to as, or to your alvocacy of our cause, we must call your attention to the state of your affairs at the time when the formation of this settlement may be maid to have been completed. In your third report, permuted to the shareholders on the IA May, 1841, some time utter you had ceased to ell land in the that and principal settlement. you state, " The arrangements that have been made with respect to the repayment in land of the company's past outlay place its affairs in a state of great present prosperity. The cm:unity of land to welch the company will be entitled by the agreement with her Majesty's government, and the award of the arbitrator under that contract, amounts to at least 997,038 acres, for which no further payment to the crown will be reqnired. Of that amount 187, 780 acres have been allotted to purchasers; and there now ripper - ain to the company 809,246 acre, U this land were sold on the same terms as the land comprised in the setiement of Wellington, the company would reap an exceediugly handsome profit upon its capitaL" Again, in your despatch (dated 20th April, 1811) to your principal agent, you ray, " The remainder (alter deducting the whole of that which the company Me engaged to deliver to purchasers), 600,000 acres, Urns& tatty a property which cannot be estimated in ultimate money-value, according to the lowest price at which the crown has determined to sell public Imds in New Zealand at less than IL per acre, or 800,0001. This sum the directors het satisfied that it wield be in their power to melee in the COUTPt of time by gradual sales, and without further con tributions by the company in respect of these lands to the emigration of people." 'Thos, gentlemen, by your own statements, it appears, that as far tes this settlement was concerned, your epecutation had been neat fortunate—you had with a capital of 104,080?. obtained a pro petty which you valued at 600,000/. All thepectiniereembanmementa in which you ettbsequentlytecame involved are therefore attributable, not to or, but to your own unwire precipitancy in founding other set tlement, Bad you abided by your pledge to us, not to form another settlement until three yearn after the eetabliehment; of this, there cannot be a shadow of a doubt but that you would have molded all your subsequent difficulties. But supposing, for the Fake of argument, that the whole of your capital had been lost—that you never received a farthing back of the sums advanced by you—would any of you be seriously in. jured in your fortune or cloture pr./sects, or even materially inconvenienced! You have again and again stated . , that pole never had pecuniary objects in view—that the emitting " of the individual stakes showed that you mad be actuated by no hope of considerable gain ; and Mr. Buller, so recently as April, 1845, in his letter to Lord Stanley: . Mated, " Most of those who hare any consider able stake in the company are mercantile men, who have long ago written off their share as a had debt ; and the directors do not look to gain anything at present;" so that in the worst poeible view of the affairs of the company, it is evident that few, it any, of the ehare holder, would experience any injury that would seriously affect them • --but we have already shown, that having been awarded 1,300,1100 acme of land, you cannot he said to have incurred any km whatever, but, on the contrary, to have made a most profitable investment. Look now at the other side, and contemplate the sacrifices we have made. Relying on your representations - feeling ooniklent that men such as are at the head of the New Zealand Company would never lend the sanction of their names to any scheme which might by any poeibility tnvolveothere in ruin, without beingat any rateprepared to take upon themselves enyreeponsibilitire they had fairly incurred, we purchased land to which you said you "add give an a good. tide, and of which you assured as you could put 110 in quiet and peaceable pos. session—we severed all the ties of kindred—abaotioned our occupa tions—sacrificed all oar prospecte in the soother ceuntry—and planted ourselves amidst savages In • country almoet unknown, bringing out with us 3 capital which has been Minuted at from 1,000,00 W. to 2,00e,000/. Ante what have been the results? To not a single 'meat the present lime have we a crown title t —and of all the land selected we have only obtained a precarious pommeion of a few thousand acres. For six yearn we have been doomed to inactivity—instead of employing our capital productively, we have been obliged to oubeist upon it—we hare during nearly the whole of this period been exposed is the outrages and aggremions of hostile savages—we have seen armed bands of natives for three daps taking possession of the meat populous agricultural district in the settlement, driving the Fattens into tho town, and then plundering and destroying all their property; we bare seen houses destroyed—crops burned—and recently we have bad to mourn over the murder, in open day, of some of our Indus trious nettiere. For months and years the whole settlement, including the town itself, hay been kept in a state of perpetual alarm and into. curity—the whole community has been obliged to arm anal defend the lives of themselves and fondles. In short, there are few wise are sot irretrievably ruined. Many have already left the colony, IL several irmanece eo utterly destitute as to have been compelled to am cept some menial office on board the vestal in which they returned. Of them whi remain, many are without the means of leaving; and, even if they had the to return, how vela would be their attempt, with Nu* gnke lesf, and oonnexiom broken, to regain their originslpeaftiluent hems! Such, gentlemen, is a plain state ment of fasts, which Mad be disputed. We need not now dwell upon the privations to which many have been subjected daring this painful period, for you have depicted them most vividly and most faithfully, when availing yourselves of them to obtain the favourable terms recently conceded by government. Can, then, your Imes (estimate them as high as you sill; fur one moment be compared to ouch as three ! And to what muse are the climatal, whish have than befallen as attributable ! You may reply, if you choose, that they are owing to the "jealous rivelry"—to the "unhappy differences"— to the 'thitter contentions between the government and the can piny ,•" but you eannot and dare not & ny, that the inmatdiate and proximatecause of our ruin has been the uomtullilment by you of the contract formed with us mean years age. V thee, ' °4 "'" ci " 3- °' l2 *°B3 enituoa to compenaa. Con fur the loss you have incurred tree having been kept no long without a crown giant to the lands awarded to you by Mr. Penning ton, under Lord J. Russell's agreement, is not our chum to molten eaten for the whams and suffering, we have experienced intirutely stronger and snore just, fleeing that your twee, compared to ours, are but aft a drop to the ocean . BotTnommeh as you hare sought compensation from government for the teitipany, we submit that you hoes virtually admitted that compoivat ion ie due to in. Nay, we think we may gather from your reply to Dr. Evans, that you do not be one moment deny the imam of our claim, but deny your liability. The question, therefore, at issue between us, le not our title to compensation, but the party upon whom It is to be preferred. We centreee that this is the very last Pont upon which we &Maid have expected any demur on the part of the , directors 01 the New Zeeland Company ; for the grounds upon which , we bold, and can hold you, and you only, liable, appear to us se clear and out as the ground upoa which you demur appears untenable and unworthy of honounible men. If a merchant sells goods for which he receives payment, and fails in delivering them at the time attpulathl, no question sari ly could arise ax to lama liability to make good to the purchaser any lose aue tale• d by him from the nonaktlivery ! Would the fart, that a third party had, by his interference, prevented the vendor fulfilling his en mgementh be any bar to the purchaser's right to compensation f Or, summing that the vendor sold goods which he believed he pos. sewed, but which subsequent events proved he never did paces, would he not still be required to make good any loss seeming to the purchaser from DU inability to complete his contract I We appeal to those members of your court moot oonvenant with mercantile alfii4re, whether the Liability of the vendor to make good any lose accruing Dom the breach of his contract (snot a principle upon whirls ell me, cantiin transactions are h seed—a pet:Leith° which had again aid again been decided hi courts of LAW, and without which there could be no security in carryingon mercantile afhiirs ? Examine, now, the nature of the transactions between no —The New Zealand Company (a Joint emir association) profeAred to bare certain wares (we use your own terms) to sell —it did ita utmost to attract the attention of buyers, " by (it would be wrong to say puffing) asystem of advertisement cud wide-spread agency." Our attention was aitracte.l—we instituted in quiries reepectiag the company —we looked to the list of tnedirectors and finding there names of gentlemen of the highest character and station, we became purchasers of their wain—we paid for them oa condition of their being delivered to us on our amval in New Zea land—we arrived, and found that the goods were not, and never had been, in possession of the vendors —we potently waited ad years, and Kill delivery of the wares never took place. What our twee, have been in consequence, we hare already Mated, and they have been admitted by the vendors ; but, ia spite of all thiN the moment we Ohio com (variation, they turd round upon us—deny their liability—and refer ten 4, a third party, whom neither we nor they have ever recognised in the transactivas between us. Now, geatietnen, amity the same rule which guides you in your every-day m duds of businese, and you cannot, withaut violating every principle of justice am/ common honesty, refer us to a third party. You do nut deup having sold us lurid, mil having received payment for it—you do nor deny that you have never yet stem us ion —Kill lessyon deny that our [score, In consequence, t c a ' re " :cen utterly ruinous ; we maintain, therefore, that whether the noncempletion of your contract has mien from your having sold that which you RCM pueeCoeed, or from ths interference of Some other party, your liability (without regard to your own profit or IoM) to make us menpaura'son remains as indisputable as ever. Put gentlemen, you, above all others, cannot dissent from thin princtils, seeing that you arldrened D.rd Stanley in Feb.l3, 180, in the following terms : " The crown, like any other party emceed.- ins with another, may find that it has made stipulations which it cannot fulfil ; but monthly and equity bind the crown, like any other party, having by such inadverteinte misled another, not to evade its engagements, by lishUy aseuming the impossibility of fulfilling them but, on the contrary, to du its uUnost to eneeate its utolertasiwg; and in the event of finding that impossible, to make emote compensation to the other party u" and you proceed, "If, in the preerot pee the crown really noels Well unable to stake such a grant of puruuns of the land in question as it has engaged to make, it .4 nevertheles bound, on our request, to grant us all the interest which her Majesty has in these lands, if we are content to take such grmit as a esum.etion of the engagement to us—or supposing ne n it to be content with each a grant it wou d he bound, at our request, to make us comrensation for the damage done to us by the non-fulfilment of its age eement." Such being the line of argument adopted by you—such being your views ut morality and equity, when pleading your own mar againsa the govern ment, we can scarcely, gentlemen, bring no' selves to believe that the letter written in reply to Dr. Evans was ever really authonsed or sanctioned by you. But, gentlemen, you have In truth admitted your liability to make us compensation, eren at a time when our claim to it was 'Whitely less Wong than It now L. In your third report, preented to the shareholders in May, VW, after explaining the arrangements made with respect to the repayment in land of the company's past outlay, you state, 'The directors ere strongly impressed with the °onyx:ion that the circumstances under which it hasobtained this position, and the cordial confidence with which; in reliance upon its firafession of public spirit, it has been treated by her Majesty's guvernmeat impose upon It the obligation of demonstrating, by its future measure, that it boa tiler and btgher motives than those of merely selfish profit, and that, while it does not pretend to disclaim a due regard foe its own interests, it is also powerful'' , actuated by an enlightened and gene rous desire to promote to the uttermost the concurrent benefit of these who have undertaken, under its auspices, the bold enterprise of plant ing another scion of the Anglo-Saxon race, in a remote island of the eouthern hemisphere ." • • • " thin principle shall govern their proceedings." You then mention two projects for our benefit—els., monthly communication with England by tee lathnius of Darien and the eitabLehment of a colonial college, and you allude to other great object. which you say "the directors feet that the relations o the company to the brave men who have led the way to the eoloniestion of New Zealand render it morally obligatory upon them to undertake," Then again, in your despatch ~dated April 26, 1841), to your principal agent, atter steting " that justice and policy require that the best assistance of thecompanystiould be extenderatoall the settletnt Me, with out partiality ordisunctlon," you say, " lathe some time it appears to the directors that the company is under punitive engagement. to the ettffers at Port Nicholson to endeavour by all means in their power to confer nem their settlement the character of the commercial metro. polio of New Zealand. Tbie is the least that the company, after all its promises and engagements, can do for the men to whoa• courage and patience and admirable discretion the British oulouisation of New Zealand Is chiefly to be attributed. And surely the performance of LIM duty should teed the settlers at Nelson and New Plymouth rather to rely on the company's tai: nem and attention . to their interest.than to Imagine that thee will be unjustly set ma or in any way W E I TIVe not here a distinct admission that you were bound not merely to fulfil the letter of your contract, but also to discharge cer tain mornl obligations ;especially due to there who had incurred all the risk of the adventure! Da you not here affirm, in terms as strong as you could wed employ that von were under positive obligations to compensate us for all suffered in the bold and hazardous, en terprise of planting a colony amidst armed ravages? And are lb, se moral obligations—these posit:se engagements -eo fully admitted in 1841, less binding upon you at the present time! If our sacrifices were great in lel are they not infinitely greater now? Ilas• not our privations and sufferings gone on increasing every year? have not our means been diminishing yer by year, until at last the: may be mid to be completely eithrateted 1 And shall you, gentl, men, to whose breach of contract this loss is eoleiy and entirely attributable, be permitted to repudiate your liability to make it goal? Do you seriously men to dispute your debt to ue, at . the very moment that, b p t a tX i arran n gementson to con liquidateee ;7t th Ar i fVettß y igt ae b" l:ng bee m n our sufferings and sacrifices were profitable to you—aa lung m they afforded you a formidable weapon against the Colonial-office, our claims upon you were admitted ; hut that the very . instant you have eueeeeded, by means of our eufferiogs, in wringing from govern ment important advantages fur the company, you are mimed to turn round upon to, and premising upon the etate of helpless nese to which you have reduced tm, to deny all your liabilities tous f . . . If such, gentlemen, be your Intentions, avow them openly, and do not endeaeour t. conceal your injustice from the world by at tempting to throw vour engagements to us upon a third party ; but above all, do not mock nod insult us, by telling UT to prefer our claim for compensation upon the government. You know that it would be just as reasonable and honest in you to tell us et once to ap ply to the natives; for you emmut bare forgotten that you have, by your own acts, relieved the govermocut from all res . racibility to us, and hare precluded to from making any claim upon it. When, on our arrival in New Zealand, we found that your proceed ings were openly denounced by the government, and that there was no prospect of your putting us in possession of the lands you had sold to us, we sent three of our fellow-settlers fin 1810, as a deput lion, to Sydney, for the 'impose of submitting our case to Sir G. Gipps, and asking for the protection of (Sc government. Sir G. Gipps, oiler fully acquainting hirneelf with all the circumstances, agreed, on the part of the crown, to recignise the title of the settlers to thewlands, °waning them to one continuous block of 110,060 acres. In this arrangement Sir U. Gime "adopted the principle of acknowledging the Ultimo( the individual settler, leaving to the government here the task of looking to the state of accounts between the settler and the company." The effect of this arrangement would have been, not only t hat we should have obtained crown grants, but would hare been entitled to the pro tection of the government ; we would, in fact, have become the Ica mcilite charge of the crown, instead of having teen for six years the victims of the "unhappy difference" between the °neaten,' and the Colonial-office. That, 'weever, we may not be accuscl of exaggerating the benencial character of So G. Gipps agreement, we would remind you of the opinion expressed of it by the principal agent, in his Gespateh to your court, dated the 26th of February, tall, in which he toys, " The proposition of Ids Excellency Sir G. Gipps was mrdially accepted, and the *entente-mond of their titles to their purchases in the preliminary sections, proceeded vigorously to lay out their capital. It remains with sir G. Gipps to deckle, and there is no reason to anticipate a whist!, whether the subsequent purchasers of land from the company shall rmsetve the tome protection and privi leges in other blocra of land now in props-as of settlement in the company's possessions;' and further on he adds, "An impetus to enterprise had been given by Sir U. Gipps' decision, and • union of purpose bade fair to push forward the settlement at a rate unantici pated by the mat sanguine." Such, gentlemen, Recording to the testimony of one who may bctowndered your own witness., were the fair prospects before us; wht.n you stepped in—set aside the arrange ment fraught with so many adoration n, which we had made for our • w ith government, and cousultang your own interests, enter. d into Lord J. Ittuuell's agreement of November, 1810, by which you not only upset the crown titles assured to on by Sir G. Gipps, and in sisted that our titles should be derived through the company alone, but also relieved the government from all responaibility to us, and took upon yourselves the sole and entire liability to make good your contract. and engagements with your purchasers. Clause 12 of the Mi=t rune thus:—" The company having bold, or contracted to to various persons, her Majesty's government disclaim all liability fur making good any such sales or contracts; it being, never theless, understood that the sompany will, from the lands to be granted to them aforesaid, hilflt and carry int, ef f ect all such their sales or cestract.." We ask you, gentlemen, how, after such a Winn lation as this—how, alter having thus overridden our arrangement with Sir G. Gipps—(an arrangement by which we repeat our claims upon the government were recogniaed—our titles to our lands guaran teed, and the support and protection of the government secured to us), you can now deny your liability, and attempt to throw it upon the government, whom you hare so expressly reliored from it / You say, Go to the government! Why, gentlemen, the only appeal that we can make to the government, In an appeal to it to interpose between tis—to compel you to act justly, and to force you to faltll your contracts. With what reluctance we shall make this appeal, our pest forbearance affords ample evidence; bat if you render it necessary—if you insist upon our suing at the hands of government for that which Is due from your justice, we are 0311f1dent that our appeal wilt not be made in vain, for cony conension that has been made to you during the last six years has bond made by the govern ment with a view to our relief; and Lord Stanley has declared, In the most unequivocal manner, that her Majesty'. government was in duced to grant the company the recent favourable terms, chiefly, it not entirely, on account of our ma We bare thus, gentlemen, exp=rthe grounds upon which we claim from you comprioation ; and in making this exp:anation, we hare endeavoured to prove, almost wholly by your own evidence 'ally, That, whatever temporary inconvenience the company may have suffered tinting the period of Its contest with the coloalal.ollke, yet that the amount of land now awarded to it, without any further expenditure In ret of It being required, aft* i.ll amok return for It. capital, If Wd In worth aio.tourth part of the ram at which you have WWI% odd Se. fah% That we, on the other hand, bare lost led IMO bun spud to down of no o rdinar y MO, yids dolma vales your lands possess is de nstt ably Ison joymol onhopdan 111 the disasters which have Wolin os ars anitholy owls. ha the assaompletiOn of your contract, and that therefore we sok by priori* Justine and equity, entitled to so!ayieloation in yyourlea4 4thly, That you distinctly admitted. in MIL ea mason soar positive and moral ohligations iWoMn, add es Yob pima by government at your =Sal as s samlglnlaMMlt Mr die siodlhos mod lanipo to which we thailloodoolho anhatqaont privations which we have =ow boned an dim to such compensation at • the grand ifinaln a n=w 11111110 pd. And, lastly, that you ham )1 7 nSPlnf t, to hise ll=eattoi , l i tase government 14011316 t all old yourselves lit, sera liability of making good your its of to. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1847. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Alio. 25. I communicated to you a short time since the statistical facts of the South Dublin Union under the Temporary Relief Act. A similar statement with reference to the north union, for Dublin has only two, will complete the history of the metropolis under that act. The total ^- ••uuivrt ut •- 18 weeks, i. e., from the commencement to the masa ition of relief, was 400,458, or a weekly average of 22,164, at a total cost of 20,3201., or an average of somewhat less than 11d. for each individual. The excess of persons relieved in the north over the south ' union, was 2,083, and the excess of expenditure was 1,2821.—the whole expenditure in the north union being 20,3201., and in the south 19,038/. The saving in the cost of each ration was one farthing in favour of the north union, while their committee supplied a far better description of bread, and disease conse quently is far less prevalent. Population in the last few years has increased more rapidly sad extensively in the north than the south union, which is in a great degree accounted for by the contiguity of the former to some districts containing the poorest population in the kingdom. Meath, for instance, which is a grazing county, with but little tillage, and that of the most inferior de scription, pears a constant tide of indigence and labour into the north side of the city, from which the south aide is comparatively safe. But there arc other causes at work to account for the inequality of poverty be tween the two unions. The south side is constantly improving, being inhabited by the wealth and rank of the city, no inferior houses are being built, while the north aide decays from the decline of business; and as rats crowd to empty houses, so does the mass of wretched tenements in the old lanes and alleys give harbour to poverty. The Galway assizes, which have just terminated, have been among the heaviest in Ireland, there having been not fewer than thirty-five persons sentenced to transportation, or more than one-half the convictions. The terms of imprisonment were also unusually heavy, varying, with some few exceptions, from six months to two years. The army in Ireland in the beginning of this month consisted of ten regiments of cavalry, two troops of royal horse artillery, with nine companies and de tachments of royal artillery, thirty regiments or bat talions of infantry, with two companies of marines, giving a total efiective force of 28,000 rank and file of all arms, with 21,682 enrolled pensioners, militia staffs, and recruiting parties. If to these we add the constabulary—nearly 10,000, rural and municipal —we have an imposing force of about 60,000 men. An interesting case came before the Lord Chancellor yesterday. A person was brought up on an habeas corpus. The return set out his imprisonment by order of the seneschal of Mary's Abbey, which had juris , diction in civil and criminal pleas, by patent of Charles the First. This raised some knotty points in consti tutional law and the doctrine of kingly prerogative some two centuries past. The monastery to which the right is attached was dissolved in the reign of Henry the Eighth, and the chief question now is, whether Charles the First could resuscitate these ju risdictions. A good deal will depend on the wording of the Statute of Dissolutions. The prisoner was re manded until Friday, when the matter will again undergo discussion. From Mayo we have to-day in the local paper cor roboration of the unpleasant rumour of yesterday, respecting the development of the potato blight. It has assumed, however, a far less malignant appear ance than last year, or that of 1815, and as yet is net general throughout the county. From other quarters the accounts of the harvest are most cheering. In Louth, scarcely a blade of corn remains standing, and the yield will be one-third beyond an average. MR. SMITH O'HateN.—There A no longer any doubt that this gentleman will remain member for Limerick. He has published an address, announcing the fact. He states in this that " he does not know, as vet, to what portion of the constituency he is indebted for this signal mark of confi dence ;" but further oa he says, that " having spontaneously invested him with the character of representative, he is not disposed to shrink from the responsibilities which belong to that important trust" ATTEMPTED PIIISOM BEEAKINO.—A daring attempt at prison breaking was made, on Monday last, in the gaol of Kilkenny county, by three men, named Larkin, Daniel, and Walahe, under sentence of death for the murder of Mr. Prim. Larkin had suggested to his brother convicts a con spiracy for that end, and they, though unwillingly, entered into it. A turnkey named Lee had the daily duty assigned him of releasing the convicts from their cells, for the purpose of taking the air in one of the prison yards. On Monday, when he had done this, the three convicts, together with the turnkey, stood in one corridor. Larkin immediately set upon Lee, and a struggle ensued. This continued until the stone staircase wag reached. Larkin's comrades showed' no alacrity in joining him. One, however, Wsishe, did at length do so ; be was knocked down, but still he struggled, and the scuffle continued until the foot of the staircase was reached, when Larkin picked up a paving -stone, and striking Lee on the head therewith, stunned him, laying him bleeding and prostrate on the ground. All three then made for the doorway of the yard, but were stopped by a pri soner named John Forbes. Tney instantly turned and ran in another direction, but were encountered by a number of prisoners, some of whom stopped them, and by this time the governor of the gaol having been alarmed, the guards were called out, and the convicts secured. Larkin and Daniel are to be executed this day, and Walshe on this day se'nnight. On Tuesday these wretches confessed to the conspiracy, which they had only accidentally been prevented from at tempting to carry into execution on Sunday last while at prayers. Their Intention was to seize and-murder the guard while prayers were in progress, and then escape ; and Larkins plan was on Monday last to murder Lee with the aid of the other convicts, to murder the next turnkey when tie should come to look after Lee, and, if necessary, the governor after bath. They could then, it was thought, escape with ease. This horrible plot would seem to have been dc fes'ed by the remaining human feelings of Walshe and Daniel. Three of the other tonvicta in the gaol had, it is said, obtained the stones for these murderous convicts. SCO'I'L,A.VD. EDINBUROII,.AIIO.. 25. Fever again threatens to be in the ascendant, but it is so far consolatory that external causes alone are likely to rekindle it. Irish immigration is the great evil to be avoided; but as the shoals presently crossing the Channel come for the avowed purpose of assisting at the harvest, the same treatment cannot be applied to them as is applicable to mere mendicants ; yet some thing might be done. From Jane 15 to Aug. 17 the number of Irish which have arrived in Glasgow amount to 26,335. Of these, since the 18th of August, 301 have been infirm. Of 1,150 fever patients received into the Glasgow hospitals, 750 are Irish, 380 Scotch, 15 English, and 5 foreigners. As usual, too, the brave men who voluntarily, or by office, stand in the gap to stay the pestilence, continue to fall victims themselves. An excellent catholic clergy man in Greenock, Dr. Sinnot, who for greater useful ness had received a medical education, died of typhus last week. The returning officer for the Glasgow board has also been taken ill, his being the foartecath case of attack in that establishment. The proceedings of the Edinburgh town council yesterday present a few salient points. The lord pro vost and several of the magistrates and council are to resign, as much apparently from choice as from rotation, and the results of the Macaulay rejection, as indicating changes in the electoral mind which will cause local disturbance, are said to be the motives for these movements. The thirst for municipal honours teas considerably abated since the passing of the Re form Bill, and it is possible that bailies' chains may be had cheap next November. Abstinence from ge neral politics, and religious tolerance, are the only recipes for the revival of the faded ermine, and were local senators to keep their creed civil and religious somewhat in abeyance during office, they might do the city some sanitary and general service. The cog nate offices of " doomster " and executioner for Edin burgh are to remain vacant. The former will live in the pages of " The Heart of Mid Lothian," and when the functions appertaining to the latter office shall unfortunately require to be fulfilled, Cathcart will likely be sent for. For the completion of the Scott monument twenty four Waverley figures still require to be placed in ex ternal niches. The cost of these (2,000/.) is forthwith to be defrayed by a Waverley ball and by other such projects. Tue PROVOST OF DUMBARTUN.—The following is the speech of the Provost of Dumbarton, in reference to the precedence given to the Provost of Glasgow when the Queen landed at Dumbarton: Provost Risk, in replying to the toast (his own health), said it was well known that the ma gistrates of Glasgow bore no goodwill to those of Dumbar ton; and why ? Glasgow has become a great city, and has looked with a covetous eye on our privileges and immunities. Like the unrighteous king, she is not content with her own, but will unjustly take the poor man's vineyard. We have reason, however, to feel proud that with the energy we have displayed, and the justice of our cause, we have taught them a lesson which they qught to remember. Ile (the Provost) was not disposed to take much notice of the Provost of Glasgow's statement. It proved too much—it refuted itself. Ile would leave the matter in the hands of any unprejudiced spectator or reader, and he doubted not, when the wreath had faded with which the calumny was garnished, and it stood forth in naked deformity, that even his own minions would see that his remarks were hasty, and, as a consequence, unfair. The magistrates of Glasgow stole into our waters without our permission, or putUng them selves in communication with us, and, with equal presump • tion, they ru.bed forward to lead, whets,' in commies honesty, they ought to have followed. They disingenuously omitted to acquaint her Majesty's Secretary that their jurisdiction only extends to the Clyde ; for, had this been done, the presentation of the magistrates of Glaa ;;;:w 1 "": "Aithin tn: Pounds Of LiumbartOn might have given them leas cause of exultation. It is now over, however, and, as loyal subjects, we have bad mud reason to be gratified. It is nearly 300 years since Due. Parton was honoured with a royal visit. Some of us may be privileged to see another visit—many will not; but it will be the duty of those who take an active part in the next pageant, to profit by the lemon they have already been taught. Let me rather sit down, hoping that the royal pleasure will again point to the Clyde, again visit her ancient fortress, and again give our magistrates and burgesses an opportunity, not of retaliating on the boasting of the purse. proud civic dignitaries of tilasgow, bat of vying the one with the other as to who can raise the most exulting about, and give the most heartfelt welcome to the greatest and best sovereign that ever swayed the British sceptre ! PROVINCIAL. ALLEGED MURDritArriDDLEY.-011 Monday morning the adjourned Inquest commenced on the body of Thorpe, some particulars of whose death appeared in this paper last week. Martha Thirsted, of Dudley, deposed to Thorpe leaving the Angel Inn, in that town, at twelve at night, at which hour two men, the one being the prisoner Grady, cams in and asked for drink, but were refused. They left the house, and when outside she heard a scuffle and this cry of murder. On looking out at the front door she saw the two prisoners, who were using the mast revolting lan guage, and ono of them intimated that they had "given" it the deceased.—Police-constable Page was on duty in Dudley on the night in question; between twelve and one he heard the cry or murder in the direction of the Angel Inn. Went to the spot and found the two prisoners, and a man having the appearance of a boatman, with a straw hat on and a waistcoat with sleeves. This person had his fists up, as if in the act of fighting. He went up to him, and touched him with his stick, and the man went away. He then told the two prisoners to be off, and they immediately followed the man by the castle wall in the direction of Tipton. He then returned to the town, in con sequence of soother disturbance taking place there, and heard no more of that occurrence.--Henry Ellis, a boatman, residing at Moor-lane, Kingswinford, stated that he was on his road towards Tipton and when he arrived at the castle wall, be saw three men beating another shamefully ; heard the man call out for help. Witness became frightened, and went back towards Dudley ; it was then five minutes to one o'clock. Did not see sticks used, but, as it was then dark, the party might have had them.—George Law stated that, between one and two o'clock on the morning in question, he was on his way from Dudley to Tipton, when he got opposite Mr. Barnes's gate in the new road, opposite the castle-wall, he saw a man lying on the ground with his head in the gutter. lie went over to him and lifted up his head, titian which the man requested that he might be allowed to lie. He hail a straw hat on. I thought he was drunk ; there was a man with me named Charles Burton, and he thought the same. Soon afterwards we met a man in a dark dress. He appeared to be peeping and watching about, near the end of a street called Birmingham-street. His knee was bent. I saw a patteu attached to his leg, sad I believe the man to have been the prisoner Grady.—William Seymour said that on the Sunday morning referred to he was in charge of a brick-kiln on the Tipton side of Dud ley. Between ono and two o'clock the deceased came staggering into the brick-yard, and slipped into a drain. Ile soon got out, and came up near the kiln where witness was, who thought he was tipsy, and said, " Master, drink has made you bad ;" to which he replied, " 1 hope the Lord will have mercy on my seul—l shall die." On this he put his hand to his head; it was then bleeding. Witness said he bad been fighting, but deceased answered, "I have not." He then asked witness to get either a policeman or a doctor, on which he told him that he had better go to Dudley. The deceased then went out of the yard towards Tipton, and seemed steadier than he had been with witness for about an hour preceding.—Mr. H. Hai, surgeon, who had subsequently Made a post rnortem exami nation of the body, said that the deceased hod come by his death from the ethos of injuries received by the infliction of several severe blows on the head by some instrument such as a stake. One of the blows on the left side of the head must have been a dreadful one, and he (the surgeon) was surprised he had lived so long after its infliction.— Thos. Hawthorn, tunnel-keeper at Tipton, saw the deceased about a quarter to two on the Sunday morning, being at tracted by hearing some groans. The deceased was lying on the bridge not far from his boat. He spoke to the deceased, and perceived he was very id. Thorpe requested he would take him to his boat, hut witness took him to his companion's boat, because there was a fire in it.—The prisoners then called the two following witnesses, for the purpose of proving an alibi:—J. P. Dunn, a shoemaker, of Dudley, stated that the two prisoners were in his employ on the Saturday night in question; they had brought home wilds to his shop as late as eleven o'clock, and were paid for it. Malony might have been there even later than that. When they came the last time there were two men with them. —J. Doyle, a shoemaker, living in Dudley, stated that the prisoners lodged in hie house. Between ten and clever' they left to take home their weak. They had not returned at twelve on the Sunday night referred to, and he went to try and find them. Between one and two o'clock be found them at Catherine Lynch's, and two other men (Caverner and Reardon), who had been previously seen in their com pany, were with them. The proceedings occupied upwards of ten hours, and resulted in the committal of one of the prisoners, Patrick Grady, on the charge of " Manslaughter." John Malony, the other prisoner, was subsequently brought before theWednesbury magistrates, on the charge of being an accessory, and both prisoners, who are Irish shoemakers, late working in Dudley, will be re-examined this day (Friday) before the bench of justices. CHARTIST INVASION OF A BELIRV.—The Gloucester Journal states that on Monday the chartists at Redmarlcy, being desirous of having a merry peal of the parish Mils to grace their " demonstration," applied to the proper quarter, but were refused. This exasperated some of them, and they imprudently determined to carry out their wishes by force. On repairing to the church tower for that purpose they were encountered by the ltev. Octavius Goodrich, the officiating minister for the incumbent, the Rev. Mr. Commeline, and who peremptorily ordered them to depart. It is stated, how ever, that they derided his authority, broke open the door, and assaulted the rev. gentleman. For this assault, three of the parties, James Rawlings, Edward Rawlings, and Henry Goode, were subsequently summoned before a magistrate, when James Rawlings was convicted in the penalty of 51., and in default of payment was ordered to be committed to Worcester gaol for two months. The two other defendants were admonished and discharged. GLOUCESTERSIHRE. ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO RILL.—At the Cheltenham police-office, on Wednesday, H. J. Field, a young man car rying on business as a mercer, in one of the principal parts of Cheltenham, was charged with wilfully firing a pis tol, with intent to kid his emit, Mrs. Eliza Boulton. Front the evidence of witnesses on behalf of the prosecutrix, it ap peared that they had attended a Kte at Pittyille.spa on the previous evening. They returned about 10 o'clock, and on proceeding through the gate, near the hridge, they perceived the prisoner. As the prosecutrix and her party passed they heard the report and saw the flash of a pistol, end, on turning round, perceived one in his band. The prisoner im mediately moved away from the spot, hut he was followed end given into custody. At the police station he was searched, and there were found on his person another pistol, a powder flask, and some percussion eaps.—The solicitor for t the p ri so n er c l i e i p j i i fi he injured i Tk a n aeeh i n. n d epc e t t vn k h s h e — a ra a ee t t . the defence contended that it would be utterly impossible -to as Mrs. Boulton wore a veil, and the prisoner was only about a yard eiiatiksoh.rodlpo f .o: t o omi: m mtnhetd:o h r edfvtv e ede r ul Tot :s f bei o Num, e rhiten t iatt h ogodines e :b ! ga isto itegneirdze l coito t .th o ni: reprimand,gh i n r .tr lia d i rectionful, without in peace for six months. .-- ---- ---- A PUBLIC EXECUTION PREVENTED.—At the late Somersetshire assizes, Chief Justice Wilde left for execution a convict, named Maurice Perry, for taking part in the wil ful murder of John Bailey, a police-constable, at Bathamp ton. The unfortunate officer was endeavouring to suppress a fight between two railway labourers, at which seventy or eighty persons were present, and whilst so engaged be re ceived such violence as to terminate in his death. By many the evidence was thought not inclusive enough to warrant the conviction of the prisoner for the capital offence, and the jury, after considerable consultation, found the prisoner " Guilty of being a party concerned, but we have no evi dence of his having given the fatal blow." The Chief Justice said—" Guilty of being concerned in what, gentlemen ?" One of the Jurors : "In the murder, my lord." The Chief Justice said, " If he was there with others having a common object to prevent the peace officers from putting an end to the Light, that amounts to the crime of murder." The jury then again consulted, and returned a verdict of Guilty, and the wretched man was sentenced to death. Imme diately steps were taken to induce the government to spare his life, and no doubt to strengthen. the grounds for thus seeking the royal mercy, one of the jury which tried the convict sent the following epistle to him at Taunton gaol : Burnham, near Bridgewater, Aug. IL 1047. An one of the jury on your trial, I hasten to inform you that the verdict was returned without mecum deliberation, se there were many i doubts which were impresull on our minds in the address, on your behalf, of the learned counsel, which I um sorry to say owned our memory, and winch the Lew allow P end which I believe would alter the verdict given, which I shall lay before the proper quarter. 4.4/110, TIPP:7I,, This letter and other documents were laid before the Se cretary of State. A minute inquiry was instituted, and the authorities of the gaol received a communication fr . ‘m tti. Home-office to the effect that the Crown had directed the reprieve of the convict. Whether the punishment of trans portation for life will follow has not transpired. DEBBY SWEEP9.—Ihe magistrates of NVindsor bare expressed their determination to put down " Derby sweeps," and lotteries of a similar nature, in every public-house with in their jurisdiction. Yesterday, being the general annual licensing day for that borough, Mr. Robert Blunt, who pre sided on the bench of magistrates, at the Town-hall, stated to the whole of the licensed victuallers who were present, that unless they promised to discontinue the species of gam bling alluded to, their licenses would not be granted; the reference being made especially to two houses, the Adam and Eve, and the Crispin. It was also stated by the bench that their licenses would, fur the future, be immediately sus pended in the event of its being discovered, after the notice they had given, that the system was suffered to prevail in any of their respective houses. The required promises were made, and the whole of the licenses were then renewed. LITERATURE. Travels in Central America, being Years' Residtnce in Me Cow the History of the Republic, Productions, Commerce,.- . Our information on s very sea Lt., American traveller, Mr. Thomson's work worthy guide we p ante of his volume, fidence of the merchant been given to the pubs' the work now under press. Mr. Dunlop • suits. His mind . consequently, his observations kind. His powers of obeer his opportunities ample comprehensive. Hence, formation. This constitutes Our readers are ety nial system of Spain five states of Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Costa l' nerica,bcing a Journal of nearly Three !the Country, together with a Sketch of tcpullic,anal an Account of its Climate, serce,-4-c. By ROBERT 0. DUN on the subject of Central . . .. , r, 4. inmerfect. Before : * ~ . .*" • - 1?. s, II ~i- •. ."-' :4 >4 ~ went over pan • • , rk was almost the , . I . ...,"I possessed. Since .• ' Is ?.- WI ne, nothing “. .• ". ,•• • ---. 0 1 pi merchant or the .. •:. • . * e public on the • .;„, ~ .7 . , _ , ) NI ander notice issued '' .. .. v .-1, ) was engaged in comm. Mr aZil: was eminently yrtoticol , ''. ~_v hr Re >serrations are chit fly of the . 4k . . -- -. 1 -t—vi s ' es* of observation were oonsid. N , .., .- 2 - 1 .... ? ,.... „v_s 31 ,h, ; his preliminary' km , I,' ''' .;:e . , . ::: - t enee, his book is replete wi . ~.• ..1W... ..,, astitates its character and v '. •,...:* - r'i-fs..:. '.- /0 4 aware, that when the - ' 7, ,, :.., 4 . .7.' , a was broken into fr.., .. It - A,.. 'At il!: emala, Honduras, t . ... , V, l '.: - r - ,,,, ;,.,,,„ ~..,•0 eta Rica, entered into a . t ' - . i ''v ' V W CC 111P._ 7.di