The Express. — London, England, 1849-12-21 00:00:00

'51.. Th .one e.ai. * *IQ 4, he Kum ro mo s; but the J. 46 4 44 rotris that Enwliad. pl mo s tiro-, 6 4 11,i See . unto pe e , woo eons i 4 lova" PurPtso et .o'6 to th i pima. B.l ff t 3:so R ou nd Ilcoutioost Tbo no of P e t 391113 13 • 10,734 4 $ 29,143 $ 0 06.747 4 10,73. S 4 • 00,011 0 of deotholl 524 died. r the leaps teceibeg Nisbet, l ag ed with tbia I Wallgaiall bent to fees Itch Icenlity netalliterele establidb. ?corded by w the imp). i. Will the &wad he I native gel. g natives et 'signed, they nge, notwOb• be sonsewbft is alteration. ✓ 18.11, al. the view ioc Bay, sat s as desire to n a detach wunld be sr- Moral land at )0 acres; the treatil g, state viten a is earl. raver, and OM 1.n,1 to 19.000 ▪ wet, of establishing to supply the lure was mat at.. T'e idea Sm. nt Las for • rte c.locy, 4 ry appear *o avert the .e govern./ at the company's owesl was net which it was h the hasty ex .rs, who, is the iept. 21, " look as I.ntthe pre- e•-ablt•bint y maw ielt •spit•! Al • wilt at Wok wily develop/. aLd N• win Actin a ow weld appear As giiik proms rTre advertise. .v% mutest really ch ha. bees se rhos deeply ia. tt puseresoar, se ad rad Amid the eistvet shy idol/mat et Its at the MIMI et the Groat d or 'streets free v.,1816 (early is re Council el :fru to tr.* rirkias p► 11111.1cstios steer Me W ef obtaining • VOSS mime repro'. sig IS peal. i r, aid Jo a would be, as jog wet touts, It:demean of but* by the mast watt this line is supporta by this totonstwa 'ton mantillas witk of the ow. w ,sid I p u s al CJlDOlliiiik not rigid invihtie an opinion urns ith their own uds• Ingapre. with reference to communicatiall by hat the ilfetere en England est in tht rats of 123 6,100 ~ties is WO% NO mike is b &Ike be obvious tint evil and • bean see. it bra DT isivr iibie ' tee 2 matelot iitn teem the Cif* 10' refers is by "14 asd (New Zesiss!) i 3. l . .l. son except at tM D ia ' eg tee ezIPIT. o " s 1 prohibition. ass "" could oily 118.1111 t PS by that routs mesa is sad Csiss ists mad be 'WWI 17 clear that the .1s r id SlipPl l4 _, a t were oilier 40 on, they would ea% e commercial intend' LUSTRALIENSII rasone ni HOW semi at Neee-seele. ,y woo found la firdoOM in lone is ealeog ewer ii. *NO wr se a o and elicited tM tie seeds'. Wb on ,eolately refused to On says, however, 00 1 .warded, or a: aY whose nano Mr r o; l a b oure r is the a sad Book of ring the renewal. WV y the Meyer ei oa Mouth es • :LI: sa d dietatereetea losias 00 .00000° Sadao to tkie, ▪ tito Seesaw, bl • Y. —Bi i —m yes tekr l enom a v *sties tassel of thoM Ms 'WSW: i ng Plarb.la t....C:4411117. minis *SD e 1100 41 . 12 BOW* kat ono of -Si ••I m o, =, myth. *a ~..,"" oortirgor IWO E— lko bosA from OW irose' etc Court. 0‘801.411. DEC. 21). , 51400 y sod b's K 3ral Ili k bares Prime Al. b p i slot. d .o.iy stir oar romp or Ike park rod gewoodest n 01 ° 1 0. 49. p os er of Wrier sad youger broaches of the ltrpol tog gelid rod 'ode or wrst. /ta r so so rldttio• yr egg to the Royal dimes h -- 4 10061 lightens's the Duke and Meilen of cow er *a hie 111..e.iss gifikliffll Primes Frederick of g o . , ?wi t Jr it Li i t i t: s chi.ese the Dashers et ti.euerreter fil: ; e r:lioe W oniett sod Mr. W. 0. Sanders had si . o pee with Kul Om yerterdey at the Cotonial- OIL to Ittileetastical Comisinionera foe Ragland Whitehall had spertel meeting pleurisy at their odic* is /I . Irishmen, from Canada, had an interview reerier et du C o l os ial-ottic• with Hal Oren. Dictratebes f cu the Governors of Hoag Kont. tsoi,estiCetioe. were received yesterday at the Colo -70- j o . Despatches were also 'waived yesterday at the Os re. ill:v nom the Lord High Commissioner of the /.., i s hieds lad stela the Oevrraor of Maw. 1.09 131* F. COLLI99.—The gallant admiral ow . * m ut me prem. - ley imamate& nee midshipman ot *gagatrd, at the NM ; of the Fiadreyaat, at the mp g. d i tint Otatrtaz and Guillaume 'Cal (Men he we. lall4lllol is Egypt; ea lieutenant of the o, waved cm thore et the %Minn of Si. Lucia Sod To- N A *ltem in chive of • prim., with 16 men, captured ow r m I gun and 46 a ; and In her galla n t settee L'lityptiehee privatise of 36 num ; while oemmand gi One. atost2d 7 the Amaranth. and Stork, eon ).1 the Cygne of 16 gam and 2 aztaid schooner, mitt Me batten's of Martiaque is 1808 ; eoteissaled the Ire la the petitions opium that Weed is 1809 ; while oppoinelat ON Liverpool wee mometfally employed m aim tat plume is the Persist Oaf. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL A writ' wrist was held yesterday, at the at The Ned ROIL the LOILD MATO& 1110 k the chair lIIIITICTIVLD NAZIS?. A mod WO intlight cep by Mr. U. L. TAYLOR. on behalf If* makets committee. IMPOST OP lifiltLlTll COYYITTI3. "In tki. aticenioni it was stated that a deputation from 1 1 $e Makes improve:seat Commits e attended the royal g egieseitos on the subject of Setithfieli.market, on Tuesday, she Ilth of Deermber, and was courteuusly received. Al *P quest or Um deputstioe, the oom mthiat esion the was read by Os chai rma n, who expressed a wish corporation weed lay before the comeAsTosers • statement of their bpi tem to e markets of nt thin the City, and anyr to make for explanations sig wept the ethos which they t hin k prop er 00 improvemeat of the marten, by enlargement or other. who, if A way their opinion that improvements were re pine. The CAW Mint cipteesed • %WI for • e py,OT el tracts, • ;be semmasiun, sad likewise desired to be !tarnished with &Immo dogma tof the several mitten on which the • w ith t required informatics, and, at the same tante, Wane eeminiatioaen that any information on mat ted of fact It it might be required to advance the purposes el the ixqairy would btu eerlully /Wen, hat that the dept. eines, au.l the eummit which they repe. seated, would ad feel t ...elves at bberty to offer any sageestions in re thence t. the sesprovenitnt of the market or otherwise, withou . outhirity trout the Common Cood( le that effect. The chairman assisted to the request of the fiepetstioo, aud further stated that A wee the intention el We semiutestonere to proceed forthwith with the inquiry, sad. spr.i•ed an opinion that it would he the important tot the &potation to übtain without delay powers irons Cel Comm .0 Cotes il, to reprt sent the isternts and opinions of the evart•Aos on the l asettese in der consideration. The en put.oion r. commended the committee to apply to the *art et C ,moron Count,' kW Stitinni.3l to appeal torten the MEW icon. re, an 1 to D rees% the object. and intentions of the seep/anon, in rt gird to fbaittfi. Id Market in ounfor fatty with the principles laid down in the reau ots time tion of th to e eleamittee at its last meeting, and to report tr Wes to tee Court of Cum. mon Council, subject to the express unterroading that an piss that might be suggested, either by the deamiisioners, by the committee, or by the &peti t*, should be takes es bieditse Witt e oorporation until the Mme eneuld have been fi rst reported to the mutt." Mr. TAYLOR said he believed that the en•jwity of the Nest were et npinios • bat it wee destrab'e • i•lx retinues to the piddle interest that Smithfield Market should he re tained The court had, bossy , r, by delegating its points to the Hearts Improvement Connitte• for the purpose re ferred to, !immured the suthonly of the eostizabiltan waft p . panted by the down. The object of that step erse to afford inform: too cod earistance iu the inquiry. lie was of op- Lon the. os the' question nothing shoal be withheld or kept secret, and the fact that the pa l laboured under very erroneous impressions eonstitated • strong reason tor feruo , hkoo comet Usloresetioll. it was supposed hj inset that the eorpovatios derived ea eacemons rowans flora the ma o the City. The very reverse was the feet. The entire •op .eat received is the year I role SmitbSeld Market wae 7Si ; the austral elpeeres wen 2,000 x; and, 'Sowing for the list. !Net of the nada', the Corporatilla was nib, r a loser than • seiner. lie troacluded by moving the adoption el the report The motion baying hew* eirernaed. Mr Aldermen SIDNILY ewes el it. He condemned the prieciphr of &deleting sea an important question to a depu. taws as the &tertian to d or s et gentlemen of alt the peens of the summon council. A cioe.tion boar Mt. Bee Porte elicited as official state ant that teas numbere Ha le the &pluton were Mr. H. L. 'lnput, Mr. Ik e al Hake, Mr. f. H. Hall, and Mr. T. Wm.. Mr BENNOCH said it was impossible that the court cede he il.lter twee add. With reference to the removal of Saxibt Id make; he ohs reed thot it would render &valor), • Cite kw establisking the most magnificent dead mars. la the ...rid, and that such a s.ep would feed to au increase of levees', which would go tar to wards providing mother I've market Is • couvenieut situation. Mr. NORRIS maid the Instructions of the esommisetri deebtlese inclisted the Moline, it cow' ba t a better site. Th• are :omit eat be To by any bat those who had • pocket i .terest in it. To the corporation it WAS an annual bra Tt.e cunduet of the nuttiest intoner was arha . rary ass limiest, as spewed from the testimony of min. Aft., some further discuri .11, Mr. TAYLOR replied. and the Genet adopted the report. There were two diseratieata. The court thou adjourned. -----------. MIDDLE-3ZZ HOSPrtAL.—A special court of U... garrison tit this licopttal was held yeste o rday in the on ing the board rows of the institution, .or the purpose f sa realise the ncti sale of so m uch of the fended capital **moult its of 7,0001., to dalrey the balance due for the alterations sad improvements of the hospital. Thomas blunt, Foci., was in tee chair ; sad the report read by Mr. Shwiden, the sec tceil retary, stated that those improvements had been sails wwitn sorted by 12 isoothe esperienoe, and that but few additions or alterations, and those very trifling. bad b en required. The total cost of the works was 20,6361. 31. 9d., and the betimes required was thus shown : cash received under Lady lilurray's will 1,6001.. mote sold hymen of the court 12 OCOL, sum n ow required 2,0001., leaving • cripti balance of 2361. 3i. 9,1„, which was met by a special subson. The report Wag adopted, and the amensary order for the sale of stock made, the coon adjourned' ARTISANS HOPE, STITALYIELDS, 31016 C 01231001- Ote 'swam 0011) Paivaest liwitt.ure andOn h am. u basetnef , t nom, we And the engine-room, r charge of an engineer, who is also to superintend other matters relating to his department; there is also the washhouse with large troughs, supplied with abundance of water; them troughs me ea usual divided into cemperiments, and there is beinen; side. a small divi.i in t o each compartment tor the boiling of l this smaller division contains about seven 'Odin of water, which is he by means of a seal pipe leading the steam from the male pipe to the bottom of each tub ; we found, by su s be that seen gallons of water could by this mous be brought to • gailopping boil in tea Minnie'. In this washbouse we skis found, an hydro-extractor or drying machise,wissistias of a cast iron cylinder, containing a wire framing, .N.ll a space between the frame and sides of the cylinder ; the wire framing being made to revolve with int amiss velocity, espels the water from the clothes placed within it, without the slightest injury, the clothes being sub jected to neither pressure nor wringing; neat to the wish bones, there is the ironiag-room, supplied with • large iron. ins-board, end a patent matigle, to be worked by steam. We understood that the accommodation here offered, is to be obtained for two-penee fee say time midi, two Yours, and oae penny for every hour over. There are also on this floor three bath rooms supplied with hot and cold water by two different cocks, instead of the two-way endu ed and Bradreg Operortio. StllloUS MAMA *Gitlin A CUIFTOM-HOCBE Oman —On Tuesday, a young sea aimed W. J. Nicbcil ra, a ode's/alter la the Commas at Liverpool, was chargid totes the mattistratre with felony. The evidence was substan tially to rho following effect :—That last =oath the prisoner was ta charge of the Heroine, a vowel lying in the Saltiest Dock, and pound for Africa. A quantity of tobacco in hogs heads wt parehased for the owner', Mums. Batton and Cookson, sad shipped op board the viral, the prisoner being respoaaible for its safekeeping. Whilst the venal la?Lher bark • hogshead of the tobacco was beckon into some wken it was on board the vimmel and t a Clotted & and silty poop weight az from it. Cir came a seispicious character led to an inquiry being mad rae's of e, add it was sought by the pummel= to Os the guilt tats untiving at the remora of the tobacco on the prisontr. Two Wier *ea, named Jams and Sammond, N ang in Paripleme, were Unpainted Is the same affair. 8, 901 this event took place booms ht bees flood 1001. for smuggling, bet Sassasosi, who has been a assons-houss racer, is still at large.—Lierrooril Timm. DE A TH TOOK NOT Grim • COUNTIMOON. — A most melanchol y cirmunsmacie 'marred Imre reeently, WM& &Fired en botegenerias Odd's)/ of life. A d'al Jew, above eighty yews of ego, Oa* evening pared ow: Vail of the camle sear the Bersediner amok without reply lag to the e ill. The matiod sailed again , but the Poor alerted man west quietly soil anal 0.. itip might, per haps, as the sentinel maintsins, tare usoonicionly tree- Woad on the pour I prohibited the public. The saatiaal, kowsver, did not wait long, sad tired ' the bell took amt., end the old man fell. He died a taw hours after. —J Chroftiel.. lA. •lil6ll. BANK OF AUSTRALASIA. .Yeeterday the half-yearly tweeting of the pro pours of this bask tau p'aes at the odes of the coo.- peaty se Austin•friser, Leaver Farrar, Eq., is the chair. Tlee lestleering state meat of the dreamt was reed by the seersagy: 8 The Craton, la aeserdance with the precedent este. bibbed he the past two yeses, submit to the precut mew tag the Mewing Wel elabillagat el the affeisa of the bank. The hacking speadene ell the eloyieradmi have proceeded steadily, and the dimiless harm that kw, if say, bad debts have bow maid dole( Vie ban ear. The reels:Won of th e peeped a bald by the bec k continues to engage the solos amentiss of Ike fibeeters. but they regret that wa ss t= appeetnaity has yet offered itself lee the t el se desirable aa objet - , oesselemed, WNW .the grams, by the aniseed &ra sh* la %Moles of stack. and the lup peatity opested he fond upon the market. The comanuelal and sins 'sherd affairs of the eslusies still hold oat the prospers of lagarranent *Weed I. the last report ; at the same time it must be borne in mad that the beneficial Mammas of the memos is the prim of wool in this cowry, sad of salvation, had sot prodosd any very sensible eff et a 91,11 doteof the last advice*. The directors have in staining, that the subject of steam communieatka pleasure this country mid the colonies has been taken up by the govessinent, who bays invited tenders for c detracts fee that prose; sad it is coofidently expected that that mos* la =t object will soon be curled into eff et. The Lipka of the debt due from the Beak of Australia has net provessed so satisfactorily as the dowers had anticipated; at the same time they we no mama to doubt the ultimate recovery of the whole claim. They have felt it their duty to take legal proceedings against some of the shareholders he Ragland who have not thought proper to avail thesis:Use of the offers repeatedly made to them, of coming to n rens of compromise ; sad the instructions they hoes given to their superintendent, meet, they aspect, lead to an milt settle meat of the debt. The sane received, &moon, in England, up to tt le time, to 66,2361, and at Sydney, up to the date of the last return, to 09,2371., making together 126,4721. In accordance with the wishes impressed by the at the last yearly meeting, the opiates of coon eel has taken feta . ive te the appoiatment of auditor, ~sal the maw, with the (vision, will stow be read to this asedag." Themes submitted to counsel was based upon • resolution peeled at the meeting in June last, to the effect that it was hi es s rm lhe of the meeting that audinss should be ap• lee the purpose of esamining the bank easoante. resslalisa was seat to the legal advisers of the cupola- Moe, is seder that they might decide whether or not the peoprieten bad the pacer, under the deed, of apprintiag auditors, and the answer returned was, that, according to the present constitution of the company, the eppeinunent of atieliturs weuld be illegal. It was, however, in the power of a , the shusholden to a.l a special meeting g for the purpose , making neck an alteration in the deed ea would enable them to appoint auditors it they desired to do so. This opinion having been read to the meeting, The CHAIRMAN made • few observations in reforests to the statement of the directors. Mr, Sereant GAZELEB then addreeard the meeting at some length, contending that the app dateeent of auditors was absolutely necessary ; ha would therefore move a remota- So to this effect : " That the commissioners for the strainer the Treasury be requested by the directess to appoint some pram or persons to inspect and Instable the amounts of the beak, from whielithe last half.yesrly statement was prepared." The resolution having been seconded, The CHAIRMAN reminded Mr. Serjeant Onetime that the directors had no authority to ask the g..vernment to' appoint auditors. The government bad the power to all 1 upon them to produce their books ; and the directors would be ready to produce them at any time. As to the "mos which had been brought forward by the learned servant it was not sompetent for them to pus it at the present 'sleeting The oaly eons they could adopt would be to give due ner ice a a special meeting, for the purpose of ulnae the ell , Tel feeling of the shareholders as to the propriety of 1, lathing an alteration in their constitution, which would ea power them to appoint auditors. A long diet:oo4on then rood, and at the segrestioa of the CKLIIIIMAN the motion of Mr. Seiko' Gueles was withdrawn Mr. JOSIAH WILSON th. a moved — "feat it being the opiates of this =settee that it would be desirable to have auditors appointed, it is resolved that the (limbo be requested to take musette for th e purpose, by the ai.erratim ot the deed, if necessary." The CHAIRMAN awed that he could not, ie the ro er exercise of hie tunetioa, put thi s resolution upon the p preterit ocemion. Mr. WILSON mid the motim was a perfectly legal one. and as the chairman would not rut it, be would move that the meeting be adj ,urued. Tee mottos was seconded by Mr. Serjaant Guano, but coated with a eras ii.ltatived, and the meeting ultimately sep vote of thenhato the chairman. TIIR Np;;EsS. FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1849, There is a curious story . in Worcestershire and S-affordahite, that Mr. Rennie lett Kidderminster in consequence of private information that he was " bold" by some of his priueipal supporters. Any thine, however atrocious, may be believed about Kidderminster; but we are biund to say that cur inquiries in the town give us no reason to conclude that there is any stronger foundation for this rumour than the circumstance of Mr. Rennie's having suddenly and somewhat mysteriously with drawn. His friends, thus left in the lureh, procured a candidate to take his place, in the person of Mr. Samson Ricardo. This gentlyeaso, of course, came forward tinder all the disadvantage of being late in the field. His friends, however, made up for this de ficiency by authorising a lavish expenditure of money. In three or four days 3,0001. was expended, princi pally amongst the publicans. Mr. Gndeon, to whom, as au expectant barrister, election in 1841 was poli tical life or death, made corresponding exertions, and incurred corresponding expenses. Mr. Godson's cal culations of success, huwevt r, ware on this cccasio* over confident. At the poll, Mr. Ricardo took the lead, and kept it. At 2 o'clock he WU cani.do ably ahead, and there was every appearance of his winning easily. It was at this period of the day that the Godsm putt' began bribing. They paid 3.51., 401., even 60/. for a vote, to men well known not to be worth 61. On previous occasions the bribery had been covert : at this time is was open and avowed. The bribes were paid in gold and tome, and Mr. Godson is said to have given the money with his own hands to the parties who administered the bribes on his behalf. C3oping, drugging, and abduction of Toter* were also resorted to. Anything indeed more scandalous than was this election it is impoesible to conceive. The town had now reached the lowest pit of electioneering degra dation, and its due reward would have been complete IRFA.AND. Donors, Dec 19 The people are b g ti• in::: to ern tneir eyes to Ore true nature of the protect' *rf inivemeut. They only want opportu i to • spree, their epieioes— circumstances to esti tnem forth—and it would soon be perceived how well they naderstand the selfish agi tation of the reek-rents g, hrefc, sod. Low ruined landlords. The pch-ular journals are beginuitg to speak out more plainly. 'file people themselves would do so mnet effectually it on, e aroused from the apathy into which national calm ties of the moat depress ing kind have sunk tto tn. The first symptom of an awakening spi•it was manifested at a county meeting held in Longford the day before yesterday. The m. clang was called by the p.otectiooiats to petition against free trade, and was pretided over by the high sheriff. The landlords thought they had it all their own way, and that they could ride roughshod over the peciple as they acre wont to do in the weed e.d times—the times teat were very good indeed for them, but in - initxly worse in every respect than the ',recent for the people for whom they express so much sympathy. Seine popular orators boldly expressed their opinions, and it was soon seen that the whole bulk of the meeting—all, in fact, but the little knot of cres - fallen advocates of high rents, who sneaked off when they saw hoe things were going—was opposed to the landlord interest, dear bread, and nigh rent object of .he requisitionists. The Mail says the " priests alio the rabble" crried the day. I: would be better, no doubt, were priests to refrain from mixing in any political matters, but when they do it is wel! to find them on the right sole, and, in Ireland at least, we generally see them surrounded on such occasion" by the bulk of the p epulation. Au account of tee meet ing from a correspondent of the Evening Mail, is the only one which has reached town ; it is as follows: Oar meeting, thongs to the exertions of the priests, turned cut the contrary of what was suucipated—their reirtrances having packed the building with the lowest rabble. The fir.t rtsoltition spinet tree trade was met by an amendment without any refereccs to that subject, and stating the eases of agricultural distreas to be high rents, and eel tug upon the tandiords to reduce them. A Mr. Fleming proposal it, and it was 'poses to by Father fet*Gaven is a violent speech, in "Bich be denounced the landlords as the reuse of the pre mani to which the country is reeioced. The Chair (the Ruth Sheriti) retosed to put tLe amenement, as not being relevant to the object or the meeting, as :- pressed in the requisition and the r. solution; this tireu t ;ht on such an uproar that Mr. Sleator moved the sheriff to dieriive the meetrig, which was seconded by Captain Musters; upon which the sheriff left the chair, wnen every gentlem , n, except Mr. Fox and Major Blacken, len the court. A peewit named Mullin, a shop keeper in Balymation, was called to the chair, when the meeting passed resolutions of a most inflammable na ture. the priests throughout were the commeodants and luglemen. OUR REPRESENTATIVE SYSTEM Tll6 NAVIGATION ACT CONDEMNED A CENTURY Ano. —Although this ant is billeting to as under our pee. Ma Simms. in rule, bat would be noodle* were they 6,0'1 remedied, yet it is even now not without its Moore steno*. For a law that confirm iu say degree, oar im ports or exports to particular ships or men, gives a whichwheellsframed, Ibis e.se Is tither the tavigation of the countries whose grow he we import, or else our own. /Lad this as .nopoly ie e ry prejudicial to our nissulactures ; for it is enacting that a yeral secretaries and materials of nianufecture shell net be imported by the cheapest navigation, but by a dear one. and of omens that they shall pay dear freights, which must raise their mile; and it the manufacturer buys his greenish dear, he must sell Lis manufacture in pe .p or tioa.—Sir Matthew Decker (1744.) THE FIRST IRISH BLEACHED SEWED 'MUSLIN 1112 NT re min Mi.lstisi's Count.—Probablyit may sewed strike rime of oar rea ds* with surprise to learn that the le yids sneaufectunve of this town have been accustomed to i send all their goods to Glasgow, in order to undergo the mars of bleachiag, and that, in this +ay. thousand. of p ands have been enunalty **neat ted to Scotland fur work woich, i• might be primmied, could hare been finished equal y well at home. there is no acco t unting lot tast e'pnifi e but w• undev to ake way that el sc o t magn mess of embroidered needlework, shown us as menutestured by Mr, Felling, of Academy. street, sewed by a young fermi. named Rib n Officer, if I, nimbly lane, and bleached by thi; Mews. Bragg, all of this town, are no; only equal in every rat ape* to the best specimens of similar work " done up" in Jr sister country, but that they will have the effect ot re moving the prjadiees which ezist among some parti es egi.inst even our &in bleachers. The ladies of her Usjeedy's court are still forwarding oilers for some of the p sad royal cake-plats coven p res ented to her Majesty. incushion Those which we have described have been made up tor her Ms j sty's Olen.— Banner of Ulster. REIIoVAL OF COSVicre.—Dnring the last ft* weeks no fewer this silty three convict', under sentence of transportatiou, have been removed from E linhurgh prison to the prisons at Millbank and Wakefield. Forty sa t that number belong-A to lidioburgh, and the remainder to other countiss, whence they had been brought up to E linburch for trial, or re rode kr transp,rtesion. We understand that there is still a site number of convicts both from this and other counties remaining in prison, waiting the orders toe reintval.—Scoftwom e i . MANSLAUGHTE R IN A BEER-lIOUSIL—At the Birough Court, Manchester,on Tuesday mo rning, Matthew Sean, a brickmaker, was charged with having committed matislmehter, by killing a women, named Susan Hppeared earn. From the evidence of the different witnesses, it a that between seven and eight o'clock on the ' , hon.*, previous even ing, a number of persoes litre drinking in a bes As h ton Old-road, Ariwiek. Among the company were Trio** Hearn and his wile, who wets rending in the ',p roem, before ofd fire, at the time that the prisoner entered, ia • state ntoxication. Alter remaining seated tor a abort time, the prisoner walked up to the fireplace, and, without the least provocation, knocked off Rearn's cap, and then commenced pulling his hair. A arm named James Hall called out, " Don't touch the poor tall*, he n sad a word to you ;' upon which the prisoner re treated towards the noor. He instantly re o turned, how ever and thereupon Mn. Hearn threw her arms round her husband, interning, "Oh, dear, don't hit my husband," and at the same moment (as Hall rates), "be saw the prisoner's fist fall upon the deceased's forthead," the blow being a gleneine one, and the prisoner's hand passing down the woman's facie. The stafortunre woman appears to have immediately left the rem and gone to the landlady, ooseplaining that " amen in the tap-rocs had killed her." She then went up stai farr, bat came down again in a few minutes , and staggered as as the bar; shows' then foaming at the mouth, and appeared to be in convulsions; and after faintly calling "Tnostu," she fell to the ground. A mica was imuiernately sent for, and some of the company set the deceased on a form, frm which she almost instan tl y tell dead. An essistani to Mr. Barlow, surgeon, of Pinmill Brow, arrived in a very short time, closely lollowed by lir. Barlow himself, but they could render no assistance. The prisoaer, who declined to say anything in his datum, was remanded to Thtirs lay, In melee to allow time foe a post sorts= examination of the body of the deosessid. On Tuesday evening, the borough coroner held an inquest on the body at the Royal Infirmary when, after the esamisetion of • poLos officer, the proceed ings ware adjourned to Thereon morning next.—Mine Mese* Guardian. Flats AND EIPLO6IO2IL—Last evening, shortly after 6 o'clock, an ezpbsion erearriell esti* premises bel to Mean. D. and IG. Disk, Coventry-street, Ilaysearlagt em armed through a hey playing with gunpowder, selfish ISA with such violence, that a number of betties of =of glass la the shop_ hoot, as well as the , were demolished. No person was hart.— Iffiertly Wore 3 o'clock,_yisteeday morning' the family of Mr. Ellis, shoemaker, No. 61, St. James's street, Oxfoed• street, had a narrow escape fro be m ing burned to death.— At an o nly hour, yesterday morning, a fire broke out in the beloaging to Mr. H. Owes, 21, Noble-street, sireled".ion-square. The inmates having been aroused front Then amebas, they mosseded is seesping into the street The flames were extieguished. but not - before the whole of the stock and fixtures were *early ciessiamed. A abort Moe previously an implosion hippried at 68, Great tisnen•street, Limobes-tan•Fields, belonging to Hr. W. Willem ternitsterdoeler. It appears that Whilst NMI prism wen employed reparing the gas the gss mewed. Coming In contact with aMight, it exploded, sad Mew op the_ noorir.g boards, forced down the toiling, end demolished a meat many squares of glees in the back put of the shop. F ortunately, in this instance, no one woe injured. KID DERMINSI ER (Coterie can). The elec ion of 1t132 wee oily the first act in the drama of Ki cd -1 ivies. er corruption. The contest was so clog ~ and Itl.. 0 elson's success appeared to tIYTe rebutted !rem so tier.. an accident, that Mr. Phillips wee easily induced to come again. Accordingly, on the dissolution in 11334, he e-appeared as a candidate for Kiddermiesere. Mr. Godson, although elected as a Po,iticsl Uni ii St. IV d almost as a Clutist, had in the season immediat ly preceding exhibited unequivocal symptoms o' tory tehdenc es. When Sir In,bert Peel came in, he r.p:t ly declared himself. He no longer staid as a mite mer ;he was now " a moderate conservative." It might have been supposed that such an unequi vocal case of rotting would have estranged from the booed/able member very many of his old supporeers. In almost any other town such doubtless would have been the use. But Mr. fideon knew his men in Kidderminster. He knew that p i eth al eoeskissee tams were very little regarded smog them; that the passions to be excited and played with did net tern upon considerations of the public weal. Mr. Gongola accordingly cams down hilly prepared to brazes it out. He found no diminutioa of hie po nlarity with the multitude. The unthinking semen ith him Mills more strongly, perhaps. thaaheaase, hav ing fought tor biro in 1832, they. poor creature s, were too honest to be deserters from their colours in 18.35. And herein a e see the striking weenie between the trading politician and the home non elector. Toe one is ignorant, but faithful ; the other informed, but prepared to employ his abilities at the command of the highest bidder. Thos • who talk of the working classes being unfitted for the franctase— le t us ask them which of the two they would prefer to wet. them ? However Mr. Phillips may have calculated that his position would be improved by the change which tad occurred in the politics of his oppouenis, he toms found that he bad nothing on that account to reckon on. The result of the canvass proved that the two candidates stood pretty much as they had stood in 1832. Mr. Phil ipe's friends, however, were deter mined he should win. They outbid their opponents at the beer-house., and flooded the whole town with ale and spirits. Toe publicans became exalted into an important electioneering class. They were linty nu merous, and the unlimited orders which were given to them became a most important consideration to them. Ever since this election, the publicans el Kidderminster have shown themselves he most cor rupt. part of the constitueucy of the town. Nothing but an order will ever induce them to give a pro wise. And "an " order " i a bribe" of s little lees to a hriedred r a h them than a pr und ofit, red or in other words, and fifty pounds. By this tremendous tublic-house expenditure, by a system of suppers, and by a great deal of direct oribery, Mr. Phillips's friends succeeded in ebtaining his election. The numbers were for Phillips, 197; Godson, 124. Toe cost of this colter to the losiogl candidate was estimated at 3,0001. Mr. Phillips l bills are said to have amounted to between 8,0001. 1 and 9,0001., nearly the whole of which west in abso lute corruption. It would have been well for Kidderminster if with' this corruption the iniquities of the contest had ter minated. But a system was now introduced by Mr. Godson's friends, unequalled, we believe, in the elec tioneering annals of any town s in England. This system was an organ ised p lan of blocking." Gangs of men stationed themselves around the dom.: of any s hopkeeper who had voted against Gods in. They refused to permit the entry of his custonere. Women they frightened away : men who attempted to eater they bullied or assaulted. In manufacturing towns it most usually happens that the purchases of the working classes are made on Saturday night. Every Saturday night the " blocking" was put in force in Kidderminster ; especially against those ehopkecpe's with whom the poor were in the habit of dealing for articles of the first necessity. The system was prosecuted for many mon hs after the election. Matey an honest tradesman was ruined by it, especially those whose commodities were perishable. It will be asked why did not the authorities interfere? Why, indeed! Unhappily, we must attribute this with everything else to the wicked and debased spitit prevailing in this town. What was death to one man was sport to soother. Many a man whose shop was blocked attributed such blocking to the instigation of a rival tradesman, who perhaps P as wofas a Mr.inbe m e mber Gordon's e t l h ec e ti l o or c l ora go m ve it e t n ee men A t, n a d e what was more scandalous still, this blocking system was openly and avowedly sanctioned by mem bers et that committee. The scoundrels engaged in the task were treated afterwards at public houses which were known to be in the Godson interest, and there can be no moral doubt that members el Godson's committee paid them for their work. Such was the state of Kidderminster in 1835 and 1836. The expenditure Mr. Phillips had incurred for a seat, which was only occupied two years, .wars enough to disgust any man. Just prior to tie disso lution of 18 i 7 the hon. member paid a vi-it to his constituents. He found the rate of things in no degiee improved. O n the contrary, the lavish ex penditure of 1835 had raised expectations which it would be difficult to satisfy. Atter a short examina tion, Mr. Padilla accordingly withdrew. He avowed, in retiring, that he saw the coming electios was only to be won as the last had been won, time at d that he was not prepared to sit a second upon such terms es those. This gentlemen certainly left Kidderminster far worse than he found it, but it is to be recorded in his favour that he was cot the individual who commenced the corrupt sy stem which at both his elections disgraced this base con stituency. Mr. Phillips having resigned, the party who sup ported him had some difficulty in procuring a suc cessor. At last they found Mr. Bsgshaw, the present representative of Harwich. There which we shall not further refer. No one of properly constituted mind would have thought of using teem as a weapon ' in an honourable warfare with an antagonist. But Mr. Godson was not delicate. He raised • cry against Mr. Bagshaw upon these prism:al matters. Mr. Bagebaw's prospects were no doubt injured by it. He braved the storm, and went to the poll manfully, but the result was foreseen before the no mination. Mr. Go-son polled 198 votes, Mr. Bag shaw 157. This election cost the former gentleman 3,0001., the latter about 1,8001. There might have been a slight lull at Kiddermin ster between 1837 and 1841 bad it tot been for the existence there of a paper, which, without a single exception, was the vilest provincial journal that ever was known in Ragland. This paper was called the Ten 7owne Messenger. No individual was tree from its attacks; the more respectable, the more he was traduced in it. The concern came b e fore the public se the organ of Mr. Oodsoo and Hs Mends is Kidderminster. We dare say it was —it was worthy of them, and they of it. Daring the greater part of the time that this concern was carried es, the town of Kidderminster felt deeply the ill effects of its noxious influence. Those who only know the value of a free and independent preen can scarcely conceive the curse of a vile and scurrilous public print. In a small town such a publication is an en l ed gine o f mischief and oppression perfectly unparalle— and such an engine was the Ten Towns' Messenger. It was, perhaps, the desire to triumph, despite this paper, that excited the independent party in Kidder minster to make a strong exertion at the general election of 1841. They resolved upon that occasion to not to win; and they selected for their champion ' Mr. - Rennie, who afterwards got in for Ipswich. The canvasses at Kiddermiester have by some unfortunate accident always been remarkable for their duration, Mr. Rennie's canvass was longer than usual. It tho roughly sitkened him of the town. The bad feeling which he found existing; the brutal coarseness emotese attacks to which he w as sub j ected ; system upon which it was evident that elections were expected to be conducted; the profound depth of the corruption, and the infamous electioneering practices in which even the most decent of the townspeople are sunk ; —ell these things thoroughly nauseated Mr. R en nie, and made him most desirous to escape the itillietion of association with BidatiMintlt el% Three dap before the election he suddenly re signed. His resignation was a great blow to his supporters, who had determined to win by the sane seats that they , had won in 1835 They stood to win, and their ~natives were more than favourable. They bad a candidate who, they be lieved, would not care few the expense ; and they themselves did not care a farthing for the means. chsfraucturement. Mr. Godson wu returned by a majority of 12, the numbres being, fur Ciadeon 212, Ricardo 200. The lezmn•iiture amounted to nearly 12,0001. between the (To to continued.) TO THE AGRICULTURISTS OF BERKSHIRE. GIEtrrLENEN,—You have been induced to take np a' false position in your hostility to the name of " free trade." For just consider a moment an what it is in this land of freedom to complain of "free" ything—we assert in our persons, press, and institutioos the fullest freedom, and to object to it in trade surell involves a marked inctutsistarcy. It caner) , then be in the ingerlient of freedom that the fault lie, bat la some accessory. No—it Is not true ' free trade" that re iojet ions to you—but it is the partial one-sided •• free trade" which is now in operation. For what is your grievance ? It is that foreign produce, competing with that wtice you raise, is admitted duly free, while all other arti cles of import pay a considerable. and some of teem sn ex orbitaat daty. A farmer cannot turn his own brrley into malt, tO hie own tallow int woo or (audits, without paying a heavy duty. A farmer dines if his own untaxed pro tut tioas at en ordintry—but he cannot have his glass et brandy and water and his pips afterwards, without paying the tol lowing taxes: The glass, is protected by a duty of 10 per cent. The silver erica pays a stamp cent. duty of The sugar, a customs duty of 5O per cent. The brandy, a customs duty of ert cent! ! And the tobacco--• customs deity of 300 p cent!!! Aod when he takes tea for break faot, he pays • duty of about 250 per cent. For his coffee he pays 3O per cett. _ And for his glass of port or sherry, 100 to 200 per cent. from The fault, therefore, is not in the principle of " tree trads , ," but in the unfair exceptions from it on various pre texts, and in opposite directions. It "free trade " were really in operation, its effect would te, that every article of import whatever would pay a customs duty of, s ly 10 or 20 per cent—and if that were done, call it by what name you please, the agriculturist would have little to comp loin of, seeds it moult give him the very "fixed duty " he contends for. Fir " tree trade" does not mean the absence of all dirty, bat only that the daty should net be such as to be pro hibitory. Is knot, teeref ire, most imp olitic to shroud your lair and just claim under the odious and exclusive rot " protection," when " free trade " fiirly applied would give "freel you ask for. I re al,, , i-steed ot appoint!, go tor trade ;" but for a impartial, and uniform " free trade." I ash gentlemen, your fellow. sufferin it and faithful friend, A BERKSHIRE LANDOWNER. Piedmont% doom, 1.).e. 14. DRAMA. NBW ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Oa Wednesday next the New Royal Olympic Theatre will be opened to the p ubli .. It is to be regrett that this new edifice ha• been built so exactly on the site of i.s predecessor, the burning of which wilt be in the reeollec tion of our readers. There wee en opportunity of widen hfsre,ing a dirty, narrow, but nevertheless crowded thoroug which lies been lost. Setting aside that i hji tine, we have none hatever to the theatre itself. It effords ample sec. in all w parts for the requirements of the eyes and ears o f the audience. The gallery —lor while is the 013mpis . we must g ive to the gods the first plate—is spaeious in th e extreme ; it will hold full 800 person.; the pit will contain 1,000 ; and the boles, public and private, and the stalls give room ler about 460 more, so that the theatre will bold with comfort 2,200. Each of these departments is reached by a special entrance awl staircase, I tof whieh are fir. .roof. Great . attentson has been peid the ventilation of the house, and which will, It is said, secure at all times, and under al circumstances, a perfect circula'ion of air ot equsble tem• _e peniture. NOM, from these matters of arrangement, we must now speak of the deenrivions, wl ich ;deities high rain. They aye very simple and affective the two principal colours employed being white and gold. The following description is conveyed in better terms that. our want of anti-tie ski.l would enable us to employ, and we therefore extract it from the official actiount: " Tne ce iling is divided into fear compartmenoLts, ef the in each of which is represented • figure emblematicel of e four seasons. Spring, a young female crowned with flowers; Summer, • youag woman crowned with wheat; Autumn, d a i male in atti t ude with the produce of the g er rape ; an Winter as an old m an flying from the blustirg wit n`. These four oompartments are separated by ornamental divi sions in the Arabesqu style. The front of the gallery tier is divided into compartments by gold-reeded columns, each compartment decorated with various groups of Arabesque uniaments,divided by chiaro-scuri Cupids on a blue ground; the compartments cuntain • varied centre of masks end at-ical instruments , with cameos. The boa tier, corresppids ond- :ng with the above, and connected with figures of Cu, in the same style. Old an r i chlyze columns supporting them, and each compartmentdec rated. It has limn a p rticular plan of the artist to keep the proscenium in its decoration separated so aslto form on 4 a frame to the deco rating of the stage. Toe prsdi minims colours are white and gold, and the cum ements principally of the arch are chia ro -scuro,, in the ce ntre of which is a group Muses, with their attributes." The blue ground on which the fi..sh-coloured Cupids are pourtnried is somewhat of • blemish ; it wears • heavy and patchy look, which certainly arrests the eye, but in an un pleasant manner. The employment of a ground tint in better harmony with the &Lures displayed upon it would have had a more pleasing effect. The drop scene is a striking re presentation of a section of a oortile of • palace, more in the Moorish style than in the Italian, as the bill anLounces It has great merit, and re ceived a tribute of applause from .he numerous party se mbled in the theatre last night. The decorations have been principally entrusted to Mr Aglio who has well performed Lis task. Thesplen chand piece elieot r, w hich is lighted by 300 jets, is • very did wor kman: hip. ROBBERY BY A CLERE.—On Setortlay Win. 11. Branson, a young man of genteel appearance, was charged before the in•gistrats at Liverpool with stealing 2.501. from tee esublislimeat of Meters. Jeffery and Mulish, draper', Church - street. Church-street. It appeared that the prisoner was employed u a clerk in the cashier's ,Bice in August, and 1.4 11111111 time previous. It was not his duty t' money. On Saturday evening, the 181 of August, the prisoner as sisted the cashkeeper to remove the books, Itc. from one countinghouse to another, and to deposit a large sum of money in the safe. There were two bags, me of which our tained 150 sotereiens, aid the ether 250 sovereiins. Throe the pritoner took, and as r e tr i terh thought at themee, poduid them in the sato ; but the following day It I wa g dieurred that the bag with the 2.501 •.% as sniseing. Tce I primmer, who lived in the house, went swayers the &tufty trig% lut did not return. A short time no be sent a letter to Mg tonna employers ackuowledging that he had taken the sun, and b. gging their forgiveness. He said be had WO at various places on the be and teat all his Moor was spent. Subsequently be reacbedLoadow, where, after finding th.t the pats. s were determined to proscenia, he adeslUed his offence to • friend. and gave himself up. i T e i ste e rimer held down his Itud and appeared mach dr daring rip inquiry. He was committed for trial 1101JOEBIZAXII40.—On Sunday last the shop of Mr. Pinney, grocer, Worcester, - as entered and robbed, while the impure of the hones were attending divine see' Use. By foreleg the gutter at the back of the premises ae os was eerily obtained to the shop. The thief was how ever disturbed by the arrival ot Mr. Pii rosy' , lodger, who, pereeg the shatters open, and the gas lighted in the —sit wood shearestasee ea a Sunday eveslap—olled she sheg—et ens essaral tisese for Mr. Pitney. The robber of course hessisaMp aside MI t h rou gh the front door, the fastenings .1 dila be bed previously undone in order to facilitate his sinpo. Alan mining all the drawers in the shop, the chic , leek been liie liff two eternises and a comity of upper, egawailiss Issether to about nine shillings ; and at the Mad dills interruption, had lighted a candle to prove ed to title Mu roonas, where it appears Mr. Piereey had placed a quantity_ of mosey. On Monday a young man named Edward Ed wards , well known to rove. pol, was cppre beaded for the robbery, at Bromegro— WoreesteriltOs Chronicle. RAILWAY MEETINGS. BRISTOL AND EXETER. A meeting of shareholders in the above railway was held en Tuesday, at the Comae:lid Rooms, Bristol. Mthunitt C l3-q.. ii the chair. TheCHAIRMAN stated that this wetness had been wa vered to receive the r. port of the eub.conneittee appointed at a meeting of shareholde rs in this company, hill on the 10th inst., ter the purpose of investigstieg the management of the line, and lairs suet messurn thereupon as they should deem adviaable. That sub oommittee bad mat sedu . lowly and anxiously proceeded to discharge the duties el-- volved upon in and toe result was, its determination to emonamend to shit meeting to address • letter oontainieg the views and opinions of the sithcommittee, which he (' he Chairman) believed to be the views and opini. us of two 1 shareholder penally upon several matters in cliff rent de partments of the line, and upon the minion ot the ininsios of new blood into the dim:ou. It would be unnecessary lot him to comment on the did topics mentioned in that letter. Re should merely call upon the secretary to nth the letter, and it would then be for the meeting to take snob course as it should deem most expedient. Mr. HENRY BRIT TAN then read this following letter: " To the Directors of the Bristol and Exeter Raiiway. " Goetlesten,—Although extremely reluctant, as well from • feeling of respect towards a body of gentlemen into whim hands we, in common with our brother shareholders, have easninitted • most important and onerous trust, es from a regard to our own interests, to do any act which might in dicate, in the slightest degree, • want of confidence in you as directors of our company, yet, surveying the pest history, considerieg the present position, the aspect and In ming ot 1 the times upon,. and the future prospects of, railway petty, and having had, at this important crisis in the affairs of our company, Oar attention called to various statements prejudigimly affectiug the management of our reliever, we deem it • duty, no less to you than to ou sel,. e, ts call your attention to the subject matter of these statedienta, in order that, if the evils compleined of really do exist, they man be removed, or, if they do not ilia', that the statements in question may be refuted; and, in either way, any canoe of aietrust or complaint on the put of the slants lden may be obviated, toe hands of our director' strengthened, and the interests of our undertaking advanced. With these' views and feelings, therefore, we take leave to solicit your attention to the tullowiag matters : —The first is one which has, for some time past, caused general shesatielanion, not only among the shareholders, but to the public at large in the localities noon end connected with our line. We allude to the rebate et • pertain per onstage on the summit of tonnage carried on the railway—a sycein the effect of which most neatly is te facilitate the creation or perpetuate the existence of • monopoly, not only to the prejudice of the traders and public at 'ergo in the western district, but, both dinitly and in its mon remote einstqlences, to the loos of our own proprietor; and, as it is well known that the monopoly so encouraged happens o be In fevour ot two gentlemen having seats in the dire t ctory, the system in question not only militates against the pecuniary in terests of the proprietors, hut create, • feeling of dis trust on their part, as it is tainted with the far from desirable appearance that parties having theta at the board have an undue preponderance of influence in the executive to their own advantage. We think that, upon I commercial principles, the demand in the wester n district will always regulate the traffic on our lice, and that, whether each demand be supplied by one, two, three, or more persons or firma, the amount of carriage t r tett& on Our railway will be the same, and that, therefore, no rebate should be made which can opera*e to the benefit of any one or two individuals to the prejudice of others. The next subject to which we would call your attention is that of tie very heavy engineering expenses on our line. We cannot hut think that the present staff is too numerous, and that the salaries paid are too large under tee circumstances. A eatery of oue half the amount now paid would, we cone lee, be amply !efficient for our head engineer, who, instead of re siding in London, should reside upon, and give his whol- time 1 , and attention to our line, in which case, even it nut at pn seat, some of the subordinates might well be dispensed with. The solicitors' bills is another matter which has been • frequent object of complaint. We do urge upon you that no further payment to this account be made until the bills already delivered have undergone a proper scrutiny, and we suggest that for the future an arrangemeet, similar to that made by other companies, even some much larger than our own, be made with the solicitors, namely, a payment by salary. Akin to the solicitors are the surveyors bills, re 'venom which we would urge a similar request, and with whom we would suggest • similar arrangement for the fu ture. We now come to • subject upon which we rewash with great deference, admitting that it tea point which may, perhaps, be considered as not rightly within our province. We allude to the tact that in the distribution of the laboun of the board, according to its own orrangi mint between its members, a committee has been formed bearing the name of the " finance committee," be fore which committee we understand many important exe cutive matters first come, and are then by that committee reported upon to the general bond ; coming before that board stamped with the authority, and supported by the influence, of that committee, an authority and influence 1 which we know in practice elation always ensure the car eying out of what such • committee recommends. We are 1 of opinion that no ouch duties should be devolved upon, or 1 powers given to, such a committee ; but that the board, as named by the sharehol. m, should take all ma:ters of ,finance and general manspment into its own hands • ih et no sub-committee should originate any matter, out thould be confined to the ordinary duties of such a c imMittee—that is, merely to matters of inquiry, or to the carrying out of meatuses devised by, and the directions, of the general board. Another matter which we have heard frequei tly cauvassed, and not unfrequen ly condemned, is the esteblsh meet of the coke wens cud workshops of our company at Bridgwater. With nspect to the former, we thaws we in cline to think the directors have formed • sound judgment —that Bridgwater may be the most convenient, as well as economical, position for our coking establishment; but we are at a loss to conceive why our work-hope, melted of being established in the metropolis of the West, where labo=ur and materials, booth in abundance and goodness of quality are to be found, should have been nth- Wished in • comparatively small erovintipal town. whet- , the must be cal necessity both a paucity of wo.kmen and • dearth of materials as compare t with tither Bristol or Exeter. In addition to this, we understand that Bridgwater is also made the depot of our stores, and that some por.iou of those stores are purchased in that town. This we conceive to be highly improper ; u Bristol, the principal port ot im port in tom part ot the kindom. mutt be a bete r market for the purthave of our stores; and the depot being seta blisbsdthare, the stores would be, as they and the worathops ought to be, under the immediate supervision and coatrel of the board, and secrt tart' of the company. The lest, and although the last—perhaps the molt important sub.*: to which we wool i toren is the opinion we entertain in conse mon with a large body of our co-proprietors, that the re should re an entertains and substantial change in the direct rate of our c .miney. We think it unneeneary at present to state the 'anew grounds upon which we form this opinion, or to adducts all the arguments which we might bring forward to prove the expediency of such a change. We would simply refer to the provisions which legielative wisdom has made in all railway acts for a change from time to time in railway directorates, and to the late precedent of the Great Western Railway in this respect, by balloting out tour of its director in order that lour others might be sup plied by the shareholders, and add that we believe the peat est interests in this railway are now held in Bristol and tne western district, and that it is enentialy a western district railwa • and that as its beed.office, its board room, is in Bristol ' it is vitally important that a large proportion ot its directors should be Bristol and Exeter men, particularly the former; living on the spot, ready to do the executive part o f the duties devolve d upon a 'die. ctorate at all times and at all hours of the day, securing punctual and ready attention to .he butincsa of the company at little expense, and avoiding the d Mho:ties which necessarily arise from • non-retident directory. Teeth are the principal a n d upon which we deem it necessary to address you_,_ and to which we invite your most sttious °onside/snow We do w t approach you in either • (odious or a hostile spiel:—our interests as shareholders in this line are identical with your own. As men of business 1 we address you no men of business, upon the subject and for the advantage of oar common property. There are many coesiderattons known to you which may avidity Or toia . ly alter the opinions which we entertain in r !lotion to toe man agement of this our property. It you are wrong, we may t ours- of action on y our p en. If we are wrong, you may by nor euggestions induce a different wad more ben. fi.iel convince us of our erroneous views, and tus right ; at.d enable us to do that which you cannot so well do —satisfy others that their oujectioas to an d complaints against your management are groundless. In either way the minds pour thermic/den would be set at rest, public confidence re of stored, the character a. d efficiency of your directorate fur ther establithed and increased, and the proeperity of our company promoted. ti We have, therefore, 'sanest laid our opinions and de .ires before you, to beg the favour of year appointing a time to meet • deputation from this committee, to receive your reply to, and, if neceseary, confer and discuss with you on those opinions and desires. " On benalt of the meeting, I have, gentlemen, the ho nour to be, your most obedient servant, " MICHAEL Cwerws." Mr. C. E. BERNARD thought it should ttee be stated that that letter having been read, the sub-commi considered their duties at an end. well approbi Mr. J. DOW ELL expressed his entire anon 1111 at the sr .riosis topics touched upon in the let t er , in at the and moved that it should be unwed by the meeting, and signed on its behalf by the chairman. M r . BOUCHER having seconded this moti o n , it was tone and temper in which it was written, carried. Mr. J. J. MOGO entirely concurred in the views of the subomm Writes, and moved that the chairman be revisited to transmit the loner to the b teed, and that the following gen tlemen, vi:: 1i sirs Michael Castle, Wm. Fri to Wm. CTOSII, T. W Hill , and Rosy n Britten, be a dep utation wait upon the directors ethane their re. ly, and, it woesaary, outer and diem.. with, them thereon, and report the t resul to the genteel committee. Mr R. B. IdANNING sw oodat the motion, which was arid• Thanks Wen th.n voted to the chairman and the sub-oola. mitts., and the meeting separated. RUMOURED RESIGNATION OF MR. JOHN O'CON- ItlLL.—i• is laid .0 ix, , he intention of this g entleman so To tto appear *gain In the parliament of the United Kingdom. his s aguain - anc , a he steal that his motives for witndrawal are the iSen ire inactrntion of the Roam ot Commons to I.i. very best speeches. and the imperfect way in which they were repotted is the L .udon papers.--Eorning Paper. CLERICAL. THa BISHOF OF IBANcIICSTea holds his nett ordination on Sunday, Feb. 24, 1550. The LORD Blaliol . of CHEoTall has issued a licence for the solemnisation of a &Triages in St. Paul's Church, Wer mak, in the palish of Stockport, in the county of Chester. Toe Luau BISHOP of CHEWILIt has licensed the Rev. William Clarke, M.A., t i th , perpetual curacy of Firhank, in the parish of link'iy Lonset, le, in tne ounoty of West moreland, on the nominivion of the Rev. John Button Fisher, vicar of Kirkby Lineable, the patron. ComikcwartoN.—Un Wednesday, the 19 li inst the Lord Bishme of Manchester mustarded the new church of St. John's, Little Bolton. The chuich is a handsome structure, and has been erect , d mainly through the instrummtality of his race the Arebbiihop ot Canterbury. The Bishop of Manchester Cooleeflou the new church at Whitworth on Thursday, Jan. 3, 1330. Pnamotrahreve.— Rev. B. RIM, F.S.A , to be Chaplain to the Bishop of Norwich. Vela. T. J. Ormerod, Archdeacon of Suffolk, to be Chap lain to 'he Buila,:p of N-rwich. C. %Volley, B A., Fellow of Ring's Coll , Cumbridge, to be an Assistant Master a'. Eton College. lint:Age —Belleau It , Lincoloshir , , dio. Lincul I ; value 3901. ; patron, Lord Williughby d'Ereaby : vacant by the ,1 ralh of the Rey. Wil:ouphil J I'. Burrell.—Lowestoft C., i Sutlolk, with a title : pat , It-v. F. Cunningham. NAVAL. Abumatey, Dec. 20.—APPOINIMENTS.--:riveatigefor Surgeon : Sir A Armstron.4 ; As•ilit.-SlifirOG: H. Piers; Mau: H. W. Sainsbury. Poiciatte —Ansiat•Surgeoe: D. L. Horgan. Filard Assim..Eagirobe : H. Brume, Afr icon —Auld. Engineer J. T. OWee. • PROMOTIONS. —Tai be acting boatswains: H. Hill said K. L►l, ion . l'outsuonvt, Dec. 23 —The Fairy, tender to the royal yacht, yesterday, to returning to net mooring', rim into the Contest, 12, Commander the lion. J. W. Spencer, and mused roots slight daollgts, which will.letAin the Contat here I. r a week longer than intended, in orate that she may have the injuries 'wade good. SPORTING. TATTERSAI.L'S —TnURSII.IT. CHESTER CUP. 50 to 1 apt Capt. 11erte).0 Lcsutabago 5,000 to 75 Mr. Disary's it Itiv ch eani 2,000 to 90 Mr. Merry's Chouti (t) 1,000 to 15 Mr. tturphOs Mirth (t) 2,000 to 25 Mt. E. Part'A Idle Boy (t) 2,090 to 20 Mr. Mt iklawe. ltaby (t 1 1,000 to 10 Mr. Godwin's liotepar (t) I,louo to 10 Mr. buinhy's (t) 1,000 to 10 Mr. Otheldteton . . , Fuelerean 1,000 to 10 Mr. S. Ounerat'. Ismninglon (t) 1,000 to It Mr. MeikleWe Emma 11l tie tram• 'lke above quota:was c J a.prabett . l the whole of actions. DERBY. 4to 1 eget Kent's Lot 11 to 1— Lord Eclinton'i Knight of Avenel ;12 to 1 tto 501.) 17 to 1 Mr. tiretwiekeN The Nigger (t to 5C1.,1 aftt wards offered) 20 to 1 Lord Zettind'e Voltageor (t to 7514 25 to 1 Mr. Jaquee's Mildew (t to 1250 SO to 1 lord Egtisiton'e Moore (t to ASO 1,000 to 25 Mr. Bower's Brother to Wrote (t) 1,000 to 20 Lord J. tieott's Windhound (t) Mon to 15 lord rulmendin'e Yew Tree 3, _WO to 25 Mr. C. Breton'', ryttion (t) With the exception of a bet ot 2,000 to 100 laid against the Nigger early in the atter noon, the above summary includes the whole of the business trrisaved. The Nigger and Vel tigeur were the only hones in demand. Ni prices were gieJted against Bolingbroke or EPSOM SPRING MEETING, 1840. We are gl.d to had that the Itcenseil victuallers of the metropolis are actively exerting themselves is obtaining sub scripttonv, end that there Meyers , yrospect of the stewards being able to announce that the bonus to the Me l tropolitan Handicap, which clos es on tke let of January, wil be of the same amount es usual, viz., 5001. ILau) Intelligence. EQUITY COURVS.—YESTERDAY. BuOIL VICIeCHANCLU.OI KjIIOHT BRUM Be TRostAtt hors T's ltt ninatoNis.— SIDNEY-SC , SEE COULEUR, CAMBRIDGE. This wu the petiticn of two undergraduates of Sidney- Sums Coliege for the appoit.tment of new trustees of the property appropriated to the abtee exhibitions, which (who were founded by the Th om as Lovett, of Nottingham died in 1776), for the benefit of two scholars, who were to be the sons of clergymen, and whom fathers were to bo living, or, if dead, must have been in priest's orders, and graduates of Oxford or Cambri,lge. Toe scholars, on their application for the exhibitions, enISSt eogsge, by themselves cc their friends, to take deacon's orders st 23. Preference is given to scholars from Grantham thereinar ; or g there are no qua li fied cendidates to scholars from Oak ham Grammartchool, in Ru landshire ; and tail ing scholars from either for three years, the master and fellows have the apoolltment. The representa tive of the surviving trustee of the prr petty wss 40 years of age, and there was no powi r vie tr: by the founder to appoint new trustees. The petition st.,-t, , 1 that it would be difficult to find proper paeans to set as trustees other than the master and fellows of the college, who were willing to take upon themselves the trusts, an 4 the prayer was for the appoint ment of the muter and four fell,wt as Watts', witn posits to nominate successors. Mr. J. B. Allen consented on behalf of the mssta and fell;We: The Vice-Chancellor esti 1 there was on objection to wart the p ra yer of the petition. In the rase tf private trusts the did not give a power to arp •tut %.w trustees, but it might be done in the case of a cher;:y. Venom VIINXIIANAILLOt %VIOLIN. GRIFFITH IP. LI:FIEL.—.CORTER•OH. BuRHIOUT delivered his 'advent in thin wine. which was argued for s venal days curly in the present month. The snit was inati..uted by the deviagea of the real estate of a tesutt,,r, named Griffith, te red.:. m certain freehold estates in Wales, which had been mortgaged by the testator in the year 1800. The defendants cl.ivie , l under the mortgagee, and contended that they were entiqed to hold the mortgage premines diacharged from t-c cqu;ty of redemption. They objected also, that by a deed executed in 1810, the mort gagor had shown an intentio , t i convert his real estate into personalty in favour of t ., a penional repreeentativi, and that, coniequently, the title to the equ ity cf vdcmption, it any, au vested, not in the plain t ,as deviates of rcal estate, but in the personal reptestatatives of the mortgagor. w hn ...re not made parties t° the suit. T h hey insisted that the bill ought, there fore, to be dismissed wit coats. 11