The Express. — London, England, 1846-09-17 00:00:00

1 other gentlemen prement, and after a prayer and co the company separated at half-past six. METROPOLITAN BLOCKADE. During the up of the city thoroughfares, which promises or reatens to be permanent, arrangements will, we A, be made fur doing the city business west of ar, by opening temporary offices on the—speaking .i r ally—cis-portal sae of the metropolis. Booths acted in the large unused space from St. Clement's Temple Bar, far the accommodation of the Bank d, the Royal Exchange, and other large estab• The Stock Exchange will have a tent appropri hh use in Trafalgar-square, and the lame ducks the run of the basins. By this mode of managing he city may be left entirely to the paviers, as no ill hare any occasion to come into it. The public resent virtually excluded, few will find any mean rem the blockade being rendered complete, instead —Punda. 'Ew NUISANCE Ac'.—A case at the Mention :May led Mr. Ald. Wilson to notice the importance passed in the last session, entitled " An Act for pertly removal of certain nuisances." He said it :crmination to use all his own influence to carry visions of that Act, and he trusted that the intel- I public spirit of all classes would be combined for bject. Under the first section it was competent en council of any corporate town, or for the less of police, or the trustees for . the saving, or cleansing of any town, or in case there ea such town council, commissioners, or trustees of borough, city, or place, then that it shall be law guardians of the poor, upon receiving a certificate from two duly qualified medical practitioners, of nd unwholesome condition of any dwelling-house ,uilding, or of the accumulation of any offen ions matter, or of the existence of any foul or Ain, privy, or cesspool, to lay a complaint before who shall summon the owner or occupier, and tient cause shall be shown to the contrary, shall make an order in writing for the removal or of the nuisance in the certificate described. also a provision in the act, giving the magistrates muse an occupier on the ground of poverty, and as consequent necessary expellees of the removal out of the poor rates. The legislature had done passing this excellent act, and he trusted that bodies entrusted with the execution of its powers, neglect theirs. ATE NIL JUSTICE WILLIAMS.—Sir John Metter known by his judicial title, died suddenly y, at his temp mars' residence, Livermore Park, St. Edmund's. A short time before leaving town nplained of an affection of the chest, but the apparently too slight to occasion any alarm. On orcung the symptoms became more serious, and t, a neighbouring practitioner, was called in : they swever appear dangerous to that gentleman. Sir John complained that he felt worse, and y Williams, who was entertaining some friends in ng apartment, could be summoned, he was a se late judge was born in 1781, and received the part of his education at the Manchester grammar teeding thence to Trinity College, Cambridge. In 94, he obtained a scholarship the first time that r. Williams took his bachelor's degree in 1793, his undergraduate course he obtained several the chief object of his ambition was a fellowship. wined, but very modestly acknow:edged that he ecess over a competitor superior to himself in olarship. That gentleman was obliged to strugg:e as he best could on the scanty pittance which man receives, while a more favourable fate awaited s ; but to his infinite honour be it recorded, that , ssioaal success and considerable opulence re labours, he generously remembered his college considering him hardly used by . fortune, he 1 an annuity in aid of the scanty income which ble person derived from a small church living. rstood that the annuity has been continued low. Sir John Williams was called to the Society of the Inner Temple on the 15th of June, I rare industry soon gave him a position, snitation as a junior counsel was the cause ing retained in that capacity for Queen a opposition to the Bill of Pains and Penalties. was appointed a King's Counsel ; in 18:10 Mon t for Queen Adelaide ; as.l in 1831 a Baron of acr. He received the honor of knighthood the and in May exchange(' his seal in the Exchequer he King's Bench. When going the Northern Williams was considered peculiarly happy in a jury in what are called horse causes. He was islied scholar ; more addicted to the metaphysics English judges generally are. It is probable that views, approaching &most to crotchety, which ro cases of political interest exposed him to corn owing to this turn of mind. But he was a judge tteness, and popular among his private friends. tE OF A BANK DEFAULTER.—DanieI For- Mansion-house officer, was a short time ago em race out and apprehend William Thomas Power, charged with having with others defrauded the ational Bank, of which he was en accountant, of in amount of upwards of 13,0001. The officer, el by Patrick Enright, a Clonmel constable who person of Power, proceeded with the warrant he Lord Mayor of London, to the Continent, and the object of his pursuit was at Munich, to which , nt as rapidly as possible. Power had assumed ' Thomas Ptak, and was suddenly captured by rho will bring him to this country, and will con cnce to Ireland. The prisoner had absconded ,nk in December. NTS.—DEATH FROM NOT BEING ABLE TO sterday morning, between 8 and 9 o'clock, a young d George Day, a bargeman, with three other per avigating a barge, laden with sand, up the river. , Day was walking from the stern to the head of when he stumbled and fell into the river. His ntly threw a rope to him, but he did nut catch they then endeavoured to reach him with a long which he caught, but was too exhausted to hold, umediately afterwards. The body could not be NOM THE BEEAKINt. OP A BssM.—On Tues on, a labourer named John Wood, was in the hold a Hardy, a brig, lying in the West India Dock, mne bags of coffee, when a large beam and the the cabin gave way, and fell on deceased, crushing ghtful manner. An hour elapsed before he could ed from the rubbish, when life was quite extinct. TS. I)EATH FROM OVERTURNING A HAISE.—By . Mr. Bedford, at the Adam and Eve, met, Westminster, on the body of Amelia Ann 1 three years. On Friday evening deceased was child's chaise, drawn by a servant girl, when in utter the chaise was overturned, and the deceased on her head. In the evening dangerous symp , ar (1 a surgeon pronounced deceased to be labour. iaralysis and compression of the brain, of which in a few hours. Verdict, "Accidental Death." Mr. Bedford, at the Three Spies, Windmill market, on the body of Thomas Lloyd, aged 81, North Wales. Deceased had come to London to a master tailor, residing at 9, Panton-square. he went about to sieve the various sights in the and retired to rest about 11 o'clock, apparently health, but next morning he was found in bed a ring ruptured a blood-vessel of the heart. Ver tural Death."—Also by Mr. Bedford, at St. oa the body of John Clarke, aged 47, a OA the afternoon of last Monday week the as riding on the fore horse of a team drawing an ber carriage, when in passing through Ebury lorse suddenly shied, and deceased fell off into the he near wheels passed over his lower extremities. moved to the above hospital, but mortification of ; set in, which caused his death on Sunday last. Accidental Death." OTES OF ELECTORS' REPORT. :.port of the Select Committee appointed to te the alleged facilities afforded to vexatious and objections and fraudulent claims by the present registration of county voters, and also into an rgauised system of fraudulent and vexatious to the v otes of duly qualified electors, has ntly published. The appointment of the corn iginated in a motion of Mr. Newdegate, the fur North Warwickshire, founded on a state de by the honourable member that a large f notices of objection had been served through the 4' the poet, on the very latest day allowed by the on Act, on electors of North Warwickshire, alifications in many instances were notoriously un ale ; and the whole, or the greater part, of which re signed by a particular individual, who was subse roved to he a person of no means to meet any costs tht have been awarded against him, in the event of re of objections, and who had not even signed to portion of the notices himself, but had anether person to do so for him; and hat these notices were the acts of the n-law League. It was cLo alleged by the hon. that the same system was extensively pursued by Corn Law League in other counties, and that that actively employed in creating votes for counties by :of granting rent-charges to the amount of 405., phtting up property into small freeholds of that The committee consisted of the following members: rdegate, Mr. Craven Berkeley, Mr. Adderley, Mr. :olhorne, Viscount Sandon, Mr. Charles Wood, Mr. Wortley, Mr. Charles Buller, Mr. Walpole, Mr. Hr. Hodgson Rinde, Mr. Parker, Mr. Bankes, Mr. Gibson, Sir John Walsh The witnesses exa m principally revising barristers, solicitors who had agents to different associations fur attending to the ion, and Mr. George Wilson, the chairman of, ra connected with, the Anti-Corn-law League. smmittee decided that upon the evidence before them, old be no doubt that as the law now stood great existed for creating votes by the grant of 40s. rent and that advantage had been taken by parties of all increase their electoral influence by placing persons bed on the register ; and that by a decision of the t Common Pleas such a proceeding is not illegal ; suPeelited that, in order to check the practice, the n of the act of 7 and 8 Will. 3, c. 25, s. 7, commonly he Splitting Act, should he extended to all con s, grants, or holdints, made or given by the Ity out of the lame tenement, for the purpose of 'lying voices in an election ;" notwithstanding that rreyances shall have been made bone Jule, and the e•money paid, and though the possession may be ransferred without any secret reservation or trust for On this part of the subject the committee have it proper to state " that after a full investigation of 4 , that in the case of numerous small freeholds of this Which had recently been created under the influence THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1846. don as he could accommodate. The Admiralty barges would be placed at their disposal. The party ould leave , Southampton at half-past nine o'clock, and reach Oespart at half-past ten. The minutes of the previous general committee meetings were read and confirmed. Mr. TAYLOR read the following account of the number of tickets issued at the Southampton meeting:—Old life sub scribers, 241 ; new ditto, 10. Old annual subscribers, 67 ; new ditto, 19. Associates, 266 ; foreigners, 19 ; Ladle+, 198. The receipts were—new life members 1101.; new annual members, 781. ; associates, 2&61. ; ladies, 1981. ; Prince Albert's contribution, 1001.; sale of books, 81. 4s. 84. The recommendations of the Committee of Recommenda tion were then read as follows. Recommendations involv- I late meeting in Cork, and which we give in another oolamn, relative to a man, whose death, according to medical authority, was occasioned by the use of diseased potatoes. It is useless for the government to tell the people now they do not wish to interfere with private trade, and will, there fore, leave the private trader to meet the demand. If this be the determination of our rulers, we tell them they may as well attempt to stern the tide with en egg-cup as pre serve the peace of the country. Indian corn meal is now one shilling and eightpence per stone, an advance of two pence a stone within the last three days. If other pro vision., therefore, rise at this rate, wo snould like to know what family can support themselves, we speak not of the labouring classes alone. The oat crop is not at all pro ductive—the yield is not anything equal to the past year, and therefore if the people are left without a supply of Indian corn meal, as they had last season, they will be totally unable to live. We think it our duty to speak out thus early, for it is by timely exertion en the part of the government that the privations can be met, and that out rages can be prevented. If the Indian corn meal is freely sold at a shilling a stone, and beyond this we consider it over its value, the peace can be preserved ; but if the country be left to private trade or speculation, we may dread the worst oonsequenees. The people are determined, if such supply is not afforded them, not to allow the corn of the country to be exported, and, therefore, nothing but anarchy and con fusion may be looked kr." THE TREASURY MINUTE.—The Relief Committee of Bandon, in the county of Cork, have come to the following resolution with respect to the impracticability and inatie qu icy of th. Treasury Minute, which the Daily News 6111 ESprell were the first to publish : ing grants of money Kew Observatory, 1501. MATHEMATICAL AND POSSIC AL Scrrecca.—Fxman, E. Computation of (Mussian condants ",continuation), SOL Birt, W., Itescarclus in Atmapheric Nave., 101. Robinson, Rev, D., Construction of a new Anemometer, 10!. Committee, completion of .datomies of gto .res, for which Government had granted 1,000 f., but whth required 70!. to conrolete, 701. SCIENCI.—Percy, Dr., Researches and Report on Crystalline Drugs, &e., 201. Shunt - , Professor, on Colouring Matter, lid. ZOOLOUY ANDBerr v.-v.—Rt./41=d. It. E., on Vitality of Seeds. IM. Padlock, Capta i n, on the Marine Zooicegy of Corfu, 101. Lemon, Sir C., Marine Zuslogy of Cornwall, 10/. Forbes, Profewor, 31:triue Zoology of Britain, 101. Egerton, Sir P., Habits of Marine Animala, 101. Spencer, W., Scorpion, ditto, and Arachnids. Owen, Professor, Tabular Forms for RegistwriWg Phenomena, 10/. Psysomociy.—Blake, Dr., Physiological Action of Medicines, 201. Total grants recommended, 410!. Recommendations not involving grants of money : Remain To or waist oa coerverso. —On the Theory of Move ments and Displacements of the Earth's Crust, by W. Hopkins, Eat., M.A., Ice. On the Static and Dynamic Fact., which have been ooh-- served to be the results of Earthquakes, by It. Mallet, Dsq., Pres. G. S. of Dublin. On the State of Knowledge of the Acalephre, by Professor E. Forbes. On the State of the Science of Naval Architecture, includ ing Steam Navigation, by John i. Russell, IN., M.A. On the Recent Progress of Analysis, by R. Ellis, F.sq. Rastas:ads—With the actinograph, by R. Hunt, Esq. and F.Ronalds, Esq. ; on the influence of light on the growth of plants, by It. Hunt, L.,,,h,g,0n the corrosion of iron rails, by It. Mallet, Req. Dr. Wherell be requested to draw up brief instructions for tide observations by voyages'. That Dr. Whored and Sir James Ross be requested to draw up a plan for a naval expeclitian . for the purpose of completing our know ledge of the process of the tales. ' That the following communications presented to this meeting be printed entire in the transactions of the association —lie, Forchammer on sea currents, and Professor Owen on cranial vertebra.. That section G be re-united to sectka A, and that the section be denominated the Section of Mathematical, Physical, and Mechanical Science. That application be mate to her Majesty's government for a careful Purvey of the so-called parallel roads of Glen Boy in reference to hurt. zontaiity, parallelism, elevation above the sea, as. That application be made to her Majesty's government to have pub. fished the neteorolnzicai Gh.erVatiCAll which have bars made be the officers of the Irish TriFOIROMILLiCaI SUIVVy at islountjoy and the l'izeon-house since the year 1834. Resolutionsadopting these recommendations were proposed and carried. On the motion of Col. SYKES, se conded by Col. SEADWELL CLEKXE, Col. Sabine was re-appointed General-Secretary, John Taylor, Esq., Treasurer, and John Phillips, Esq., Assistant-General-Secretary for the ensuing Tear. The following list for the committee of the London General Council was also resolved :—Ansted, lie la Hectic, Sir 11., S. Clerke,Forbes,Graham,Grover, Hamilton, Leonard Horner, Heywood, Herschell,Sir J., IbbOtson, Latham, Hopkins, Hut- ton:Lemon, Sir C., Northampton, the Marquis of, Richardson, Sir J., Itoget, Robinson, Ross, Royal, Strieklund, Sykes, Thompson, Wheatston, Williams, Willis, Furter, and Tooke. Auditors—Amsted, Willis, and Clerks. The PRESIDENT, in closing the his-iness of the meeting, congratulated the Association on the harmony that had prevailed during the whole of the Southampton meeting. Not a single point of dissent had arisen, nor had nytYng occurred to interrupt for a moment the pursuit of science. He had now to declare that the business of the meeting sous adjourned to Oxford, where they would amenable on the 2-sth of June next. A vote of thanks was passed to the President, and the That whilst we fully admit the necessity of using every safe and wacticableprecaution, by which labourers may be prevented limn limning their ordinary employments, fur those on public works, yet, considering the vastly increased price at which the food of the labouring chose. must necessarily hew forward be procured, eonse. quent upon the change from a cheap, and in most uetances a self ! raised food, the potato, to one procurable by money only. we deem the rule laid down in the Treasury Minute, "That no perste should ' be employed on any relief works, who may be able to obtain I empkiyment on other public works or in fanning or in ether private , operations in the neighbourhood," as one, which. in the present pent ' liar circumstance; of the country, it will Le inexpedient, strictly ' or IPA a general sue, to observe ; inasmuch as iu the great matority of ea-tea the wages whic:l must nee marily be given, in order t ; enable the labourer henceforth to obtain food, WA grneraliy speaking; exceed the actual return which that labour will yield, and cannot, therefore Le expected to be ordinarily given by those who must look to receiving a profit from the wages which they may pay. That on the game grounds, we consider the Rule whkh directs That the wages given to persons on relief works shall, in every instance be, at least, two gene a day less than the average rate of wages in the district. is one altogether deitruetirc of the principle of relief, and is one which cannot even tar an hour be, with safety, pat into opengion in this district. That we have ,atialied ourselves from calculations made by us this day, that the usual rate of wages in this district, six., eight-loner per day, will, so soon As the people shall have cowed to use potatoes as food, do little more than stAoe to give feed to two adults, at the ChL.allVot rate in food, which we consider, we can safely calculate UpOil, and we coasiderit as rather a low rate to estimate in this district, that three adults will hare to depend on the labour of each labouring man for their support. Hence it would appear that eleven-pence per day will, as an average rate, be required as wages for the purpise of snpyl)iaf fwd only. That under curb circumstann'is it appears to us to be indispensable, either that the rates of warns stud: he raised, in all cases where the tabourer shall be found dependent un his Lthuur for support, to • standard equal to the rise in the price of the food on which he is to ire supported; or, that that food shall be sea cared for him at a price equal to the wages which he ran earn ; and thus view ing the case, we cannot but consider that "The Rule," which " haste /sew-ably" directs "that relief tensing tees shall not yell meal or otter food provided by them, save as ;mark I s possible at the market prices which prevail in the neighbourhood," shall be modified, to us to leave a discretion to the local committer to act, in this respeet, as circum stances may require. The Darer of the 89th, or Connaught Rangers, stationed in Castlebar, has been just removed from that station, and replaced by a party of the 79th Highlanders. There are very many Mayo men in the 88th, and this act is looked upon with great suspicion by the people, as they gay it has been done with a coutemplatiun of the probable action el the military against the people in the ensuil season of scarcity. TIIE MARKETS IN THE WEST.—YNIWTJay I forwarded to you a statement of the market prices of piovi,ions in Sligo; the following has reference to the neighbouring county of Mayo :—Provi-ions have risen enormously in ttis town and county. Oatmeal, which was selling at lie. during the worst part of the famine consequent upon the failure of last year's potat 7es, has this day risen to las. fah per cwt., in the teeth of an abundant corn harvest. Tic government stores are besieged by applicants (principally wu:nen) seek ing to purcha-e Indian ince' ; and, in consequence of the faulty arrangements of the police, are kept incrowds waiting for one, two, and three hours before they can get half a stone of Indian meal (the largest quantity given to any one per son), thouili paying, for it alull remunerating price. OCTILLOE.—About eleven o'clock on Friday night, as a car, laden with corn, the property of Hugh Singleton, Esq., of Ilazlewood, county of Clare, accompanied by two care takers, was proceeding to the market of Limerick, on reach- ing a place known by the name of Moll Ryan's Cross, situate between Knoppou'e and Rathluha, the men were pelted with stones !row behind Carat!. While they were running to the opposite side for shelter, a shot was tired from the same direction that the stones came from, and the horse wounded in the side by slugs. The men immediately turned the horse and brought back the load of corn. AUDACIOUS PRUCL INIATION.—A notice was petted up at Miltown, of Clare, last week, offering a reward of 501. to any person who would shoot • young gentleman of the veinity, whose name was given. COL. BLACK Blacker has had the honour of an autograph intimation from Lord Besboruugh that he should be restored to the commission of the peace, a circumstance which has given consideralde umbrage to the Repeaters, in asmuch as none of those repeal magistrates had such distinc tion permitted them. FACTION FIG man named Brahma was killed last week, in a faction light, or tight between tire opposing parties of peasantry, at Kildysart, county of Clare. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday last an accident, termi nating fatally, occurred at the brewery of Mr. Samuel Lane, Cork. A man named Daniel Ford, in descending into • vat where foul air had accumulated, became overpowered very speedily, and fell to the bottom. A fellow labourer named Sullivan went dos n for him, but he also was overpowered. In about an hour both were taken out, but Sullivan never I recovered. _ _ _ meeting broke up. There is to be a concluding general meeting of the whole society tonight, at eight o'clock, at the Vic•oria Rooms. The sectional rooms were moderately well attended to-day, but a room called the model roost at the mechanical section, where arc exhibited some clever models by Mr. Wilde, one of which, a model of Alen, formed of common rouTh clay, is curious, as showing from the position of that town and its fortifications natural and artificial, that the report which appeared receirly in some of the London papers that the Arabs had approached to the very gatca of Aden must neces sarily be incorrect. There arc also in this room working models of Ainslie's tile-cutting machines and some sped meus of poplins, embroidered with gold, sil:er, and coloured silks, into the most novel and beautiful p. - stems. Those which are manufactured in Ireland it is said have been ex tensively patronised by Iler Majesty. The public dinner of the members of the association yes terday was very fully attendcd. The chair scoo tilled by Sir It. Murchison, and near him were the Marquis of Northamp ton, the Dean of Winchester, SirJ. Herschel!, Sir C. Lemon, and most of the distinguished professors, English and Foreign, who have been present at the Southampton meet ing. A rumour prevailed up to the dinner hour that Lord Palmerston would dine with the association on this occasion : hut this turned out to be unfounded. The toasts were "The Queen, Prince Albert" (special r. ference being made by the President to the patronage which her Majesty and the Prince bad extended to the science and the arts, and to a declaration made by his Royal Highness that it was by these unions of scientific men that the great ohjects of science were promoted), "The Navy soul Arinv," " The Mayor mid Corporation of Southampton,' and "'t h e President." The three latter were acknowledged by Col. Coleby, Capt. Allen, the Mayor and Sir It. Murchison respectively. Sir It. Wool Nos, in returning thanks, expressed his deep gratitude to the association for heving elevated him to a position to which he had not dared to aspire—that of their president. He assured them he felt the value of the testi. mony of their approbation of his conduct. Some there wen., he knew, who said that the British Association was a failure ; if it could be truly alk:red that those who presided over it in the various di liniments were not capable of demonstrating those branches of science they cultivated, he would admit that the associatinn was a failure; but lookiag at the results, at the many great names enrolled among its professors, and the claims it hail established in discoveries and improv:ments in science, which but for the society probably never would have been made, he would say to those persons, there is uo ground far their criticisms. (Hear, hear.) Truth was strong, and would triumph. The British Association stood forward upon a great principle, and must prevail. " Tempora inutabuntur." (Cheers.) He had one toast more to propose, that was the health of all the eminent foreigners who had attended the meeting. The toast was drunk with three times three, Professor Oersted acknowledging the compliment; and the party separated at eight o'clock. Later in the evening Mr. Groves lectured upon the Cotton fire, and exhibiting several specimens, showed its applica bil,ty to all purposes for which gunpowder is used, it being more certain of igniticn, producing little or no smoke, and leaving no residuum. This was followed by an explanation of the Professor's discovery of a mode of dissolving water by heat, and separating and attaining, without combining them with any other substance, the hydrogen and oxygen of which that fluid is composed. MALICIOUS Fine. The little haggard of a Roman Catholic curate in Mayo ' containing a few small stac`...s of corn, suflicient to feed his horse for the winter and himself with oatmeal, has been maliciously set on fire and consumed BALLOON ASCENT.—Mr. Hampton is about to make his second ascent this year, and has fixed the hour at about 4 o'clock to-day. The same hour was fixed for his ascent last week, and having been punctual to his time, he apologized the next day by puldie advettisement for that unusual cir cumstance, ,sagely stating that it was in consequence of the presence of the Lord. Lieutenant, whom he did not like to keep waiting. We have therefore very little hopes of his ascending to-day before post-time. as he will no doubt make amends for his previous punctuality, more apecially as thousands are already thronging to the scene, both sides of Sarkville-street being at this moment (half-past 4 p.m.) lite rally a moving crowd. Windows of upper floors are filled all down the street and neighbourhood, and the gallery at the top of Nelson's Pillar is crowded with spectators, one adventurous individual having perched himself upon the remaining arm of the hero of Trafalgar. It is rumoured that Isle. Hampton is to be accompanied by two gentle men of distinguished rank. We can answer for one of them. The distinguished individual drives a very high gig, with a dangerously high seat, covered with a dark buffalo hide, edged with red vandykes. A huge Newfoundland dog runs underneath the preposterous vehicle. The gentleman keeps a dashing tobacco and cigar shop in Grafton.strect. Who the other gentleman of rank may be, we do not at present know, nor what the fate of the parties may he. The sky, however, is tolerably clear, and there is but little wind. Five o'clock—The halloon is up, IRELAND. DUBLIN, SEPT. 15, DISTRESS IN MAYO.—Under this head, a correspondent of the Freeman's Journal furnishes us, through the columns of that paper to-day, with the following information: " Castiebar, 12th SepteirNT, late. " A very numerons meeting of magistrates and deput e .lieutenunts of this county . we, held hem this der, in the grand Jury room of the courthouse, in pursuance of a circular addressed to them for that purpose by the Lot of Lucan, lieutenant of Mayo. Anvmgnt those who attended I dawned the Marquis of Sligo, Earl of Lucan, Colonel Knox Dare (lieutenant of Sligo county!, Sir R. A. O'Donnell, Fart., Sir William O'Malley, Knight, Valentine O'Coaor Blake, Andrew Crean Lynch, Geottry Martyn, Michael B. Bermingham ' John Brown, Courtney Kenny, Colonel John Browne, Walter J. Burke, Denis Bingham, Thomas V. Clendenning, John Garvey, Bowe. and about forty other magistrate, from all parts of the county. The meeting was held it ith closed doors, the reporters for the public press and all other persona being refused admittance. The object of the meeting (es stated in Lord Leon's circular) was to consider the dia. tressed state of the county, in consequence of the loan of the potato crop. One would imagine that upon a subject of so publicly and vi tally important a nature, in which the lives of million. were at stake, all ;caret deliberations should have been avoided, and there were not wanting persona who, in consequence of the were.- observed. denominated the proceeding as a meetirg of landlord.; to consult with each other as to their men intermits, which some of them have only Mat dimoyered are likely to lie seriously affected by the recent legislative enactments for the employment of the labouring population of Ireland. The magietralt . continued in deli beration fur nearly three hours, and the nublesta diseu...l, as well as I could ascertain them from some of the magistrates who were pre sent, in casual conversations subs-equent to the meeting, were to the following effect : First—That the landlord who might be disposed to swill himself of the recent Drainage Act, by borrowing money from goverment, to employ his teramtry and improve his property, and thereby increase its value, would, under the subsequent act, called the Labour Rate Act, be placed in a worse position than the landlord who declined to avail himself of the Drainage Act, and of course gave no employment to his tenantry, because the repayments to govern ment were, by and under the Labour Rate Art, charged alike upon the lands of the improvitie and unimproving landlords, thereby in effect emepelling the improving landlord to pay an in ereatiea proportion of these re-payments in consequence of the in creased value of his property, while he had at the same time to repay government toe monies advanced to enable him to effect these imurovemente ; thus doubly teeing him, as it were, as a penalty for giving employment to his teriantry. Secondly—That the libeur rate act, if put in execution to the extent which would be requisite to give employment and fond to the enor mous number of families who stand m need of It, would in its effect, be an almost confiscation of property, mid be productive of di.aetrous eeneequeneen to all landlords, but particularly so to those wh,,se pro perties are encumbered or embarraseed, and it was added the tenant must suffer accordingly. `v—That government did not seem to be fully aware of the . and just rising over the tops of the houses, and the aeronauts, 01 the two " distinguished :um of rank," are now launched on their voyage. SCOTLAND. Tux EARL or MANSFIELD has consented to act as Preses of the Royal Caledonian Hunt Meeting, which commences on the 6th of the ensuing month, at Perth, and Viscount Duplin, of the let Life Guards, and P. S. liier, Esq., are to officiate as stewards on the same occasion. SCHOOL-1 FOlt FEEDING AS WELL AS TEM lIING INDI GENT CHILDREN.-A meeting was recently held at Dundee, for the purpose of forming establishments somewhat similar to the Ragged Schools of London, but more akin to the In dustrial schools et Aberdeen. Of these their founder, She riff Watson, gave the following account society was formed at Aberdeen, for obtaining subscriptions, to be applied in paying school fees for vagrant children, et any ,e -miners themselves might select. fhe plan only partially succeeded; and after investigation it turned out that that arose from the poverty of the parents, and that offering their. children education without tood, was giving them a stone instead of bread. In fact, it was found that food was neces sary to carrying on the operation successfully. How to maintain so many vagrant children was the question. lie (Sheriff Watson) proposed to opon a school for feeding and educating them. The scheme was generally con sidered a benevolent but an extremely absurd one. The question generally put was, "Do you mean to feed and educate ail the young beggars in Aberdeen i" After talking over the matter for about a year, a few of the friends of the scheme met and subscribed 1001. Of that SUM 60/. was raised at the time of subscription. It was proposed that they should commence operations immediately by opening a school for CO boys. This was agreed to, so they told the police to send them a dozen or two of the worst boys they could catch, and in five hours they had 7d scholars. Of these only four could write and fourteen read. This was a miserable state of things. The children were kept at school all day, during which they were fed three times, and told to go home in the evening, and to remember that, if_they did not come back - - • in remove that dass from one temptation to the commission of crime.--In accordance with the resolutions put and agreed to, a society was f,rmed for extending the blessings of these schools to Dundee. I DISTRESS IN TEE WESTERN HIOKLANDS AND ISLANDS OP SCOTLAND.—Durino the last week we (Scottish Guar dian) had an opportunity of witnessing, in 'tome measure, the extent of the failure of the potato crop in the Western Highlands ; and the rnsult satisfied us that so far from the evil having been exaggerated, it is impossible for any one who has not seen its devastations to form an ade qua t e idea of its extent. The truth is, that throughout the Western High lands and Islands the potato is extinct. Some of the people are reduced to one meal a-day of the coareest fare. Others are living on shell-fish, and eking out their wretched meal withsea-weed. Many are parting with their pigs, because they are unable to feed them; and the pittance they receive for them is all that stands between them and want. Poor peo ple arc selling their cows for the same reason ; and some are reduced to the sad alternative of disposing of their boats. In some of the islands disease has already appeared in the most aftlictiv,: forms, but too evidently resulting from inadequate or unwholesome food. Inthe island of Tiree, this is already the case to an alarming exent ; and there is no disguising the fact, that unless something be done immediately with the view of affording supplies of food to the inhabitants of the islands generally, consequences will inevitably and speedily ensue, which it is revolting to every humane iniad to contemplate. The Free Church Synod of Argyll sent a deputation last week to the Lord Advocate, to urge upon his attention, and, through him, that of her Majesty's government, the clamant state of the Highlands and Islands. GAINS OF IkIINERS.—AinDnIE.---We believe that there never was a time when the mining population had such a golden opportunity as they have just now of providing both for present wants and laying aside a little st.we to serve for future contingencies. We are called upon to record an instance in proof of this assertion, which may he favourably contrasted with the inebriety, im proli,ience, and consequent poverty that prevail to an alarming extent in this populous locality. A steady re spectable miner residing in a village not far from this town, with the assistance of his three sons, one ct whom is but a boy, hag earned during the four weeks ending sth September, the sum of 30/. is., besides having a day or two of idle time. The total amount of their united earnings is alw , vs paid down in hard cash by their masters, who hove all along adopted this method both for preventing murmur ings amongst the men, ana avoiding the infringement of the laws.—Glasgow Herald. TOURISTS.—INCIDENT ON BEN LOMOND.—The number of tourists visiting the hills and lochs of the west of Scotland is: this year uncommonly large, owing in a great measure to the fine weather, and to the material advantages of hotels, inns, and conveyances of all sorts. A few days ago, not fewer than from thirty to forty, including tourists from America and from the continent of Europe, well us from every one of the kingdoms of the United Empire, were at one time ascending Ben Lomond. On Saturday last, an American lady and gentleman hod been on the bill, and the latter had stopped a short time to make a sketch, while his companion proceeded downward. In • few minutes he followed, hut was unable to make up with her; and having gone down some distance began to tear an mistake had occurred ; ha again useended, and searched, lint could find no trace of her, and ultimately hurried dwelt to the inn. Immediate measures were taken, and numer ous parties were gathered from all quarters around, includ ing tonrista, villagers, and shepherds, and they set ut in search of the lady. They ascended to the spot where she had been last seen, and then divided into small groups, setting off in every direction. The search wan continued during the whole night, and she was at last discovered by one of the guides about seven o'clock on Sunday morning, fully twelve hours after her friend had parted with her. She hod during the night, after discovering that she had lost her way, most prudently kept herself awake by throw ing stones, and although very weak whe• found, no fears are entertained of her suffering materially. The satisfaction felt by her relathe on her recovery may be conceived.— Gree neck, Adrerliaer. PROVINCIAL. LANCASUIRE. THE COBDEN NATIONAL TESTIMONIAL.—During the week this fund has increased from 72,300/. to 73,400 i. To this increase the Manchester district has contributed 2•0/. Is. fid.; Huddersfield, 620 g. lbs. ; Wigan, 271. ; Mali. fax, 901.; the miscellaneous contributions amounting to 711. The total increase since our last report has been I,lols. Ifis. Gd. The subscription from Huddersfield was accompauied by a subscription 01100/. to the Bright Testimonial. Among the subscribers during the week arc Dr. Andrew Combe and George Combe, Esq. of Edinburgh, each of whom has con tributed 101. to the furl. Three hundred and seventy two places throughout the kingdom have now been supplied with collection books and cards. There seems no doubt whatevet that the Cobden tribute found will amount to 100,000!. PRESENTATION OF I'LATI: TO THI: EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OP TIIE LENGUE.—At the hut meeting of the general coun cil of the League, the following was one of tne resolutiota unanimously agreed to : "'that the members of the executive council of the League are en titled to the warm,t gratittii:e of the League and of the country, for their high principkv, Ishorimei rind most iweeessful exertions during the sever, rears of our emptitutiinal agitation • and that a committee be appoiraill, condsting of Jo.eiolt Itrotherun, Esti., M.P., and such gentlemen as he may aonuciate to Itiot..ll; to di•ternum spoil mine outt.s , ,le 1,ti0t.r.,31 to be in..seuted to those gentienien out of the funds of the Leagni.." During the interval that has elapsed since the great final meeting, steps have been taken for the purpose of eirrying out the above resolution. It was decided that each member ' of the executive council (except Mr. George Wilson, ti whom 10,000/. was voted at the great meeting in the Town Math) should be presented with an appropriate piece of silver plate. The executive council, including Mr. Wil son, chairman of the League, consisted of eight gentlemen, and the order having been completed it was fixed that the plate should be presented to the seven gentlemen for whom it was provided on Saturday last. Accordingly, a *elect party sat down to tea on that evening, in the council-room of tie League, Newall's Buildings, Market-street.—The chair was oecupiel by Joseph Brotherton, Esq., M.l°. for Salford, and amongst the gentlemen present were Mr. A. Prentice, Mr. W. Evans, Mr. W. Ilickham, Mr. S. Lees, Mr. H. Rawson, Mr. W. Rawson (the treasurer), and Mr. T. Woolley, all members of the executive council, and in whose honour the meeting was convened. Tea over, the chairman, after alma appropriate observations, presented to each of the nix first-named gentlemen a tea and colfee service of silver plate, consisting of a kph:maid tea urn, tea pot, coffee-put, eugar-brein, cream-jug, and salver. To Mr. Thos. Woolley, whose Id ly shout four or five years ago received a present of a silver tea service, in consequence of her exert, ne at a bazaar, held about that time in Man chester, were presented splendid silver candelabra. The gentlemen who received the gilts, acknowledged them in becoming :addr.!sses. On the plate are devices, representing wheat sheaves and ships, emblematical of free-trade. The tops of the covered pieces of plate are formed of elegant sheaves of wheat, and look remarkably well. The salver presented to Mr. Prentice, contains the following inscrip tion : "Preentell by the National Anti-Corn-law League, to ARCHI BALD PRENTICE, IST, a member of the executive council, in acknowledgement of his patriotic and arduous laloirs to the struggle for commercial frervimm—ttantliester, July 2nd, TSl6."—(With a tea urn and clifee servims) On each of the other pieces of plate presented to Mr. Pren tice were the initials A. I'. The inscription upon the other presents was the same with the exception of the name. The value of the plate given to each of the gentlemen is 1251., or, in the whole, 8711. AN INEORSIATIoN UNDER THE FACTORIES ACT was heard at Hyde, on 'Monday, against J. Worth, a self-acting minder at the mill of Meows. Ashton, of Naughton Dale, for allowing a boy, named Grim haw, to clean between the fixed and traversing part of the machine while it was in motion, by which means the youth narrowly escaped with his life. Mr. Trimmer stated that while the boy was cleaning on the lot inst. he was caught by the machine a little below the cars, rend s e as very severely hurt. The space between the machine where his head was held fast was only five inches when the mule bad run up, and he was assured by the our peon that had the lad been caught a little more towards the middle of the head he would most certainly have been killed on the spot. The inspector called the boy, who suited that the defendant compelled him to clean while the machine WI/ , in motioa, by threatening to send him home. This ee , denied by the defendant. The boy stated that he had t o clean four times a day, and the defendant very seik mai and costs; and as he persisted in declaring that he would stopped while be did so. The bench ennvicted h i m ; .n 21, never pay this sum, he was committed to Knutsford f or e a weeks. THE NIIIIIER OP VOTERS on the Manchester be rgesn mu of last year was 10,015. This year 633 additiona' burgesses have been placed en the list, making the number for the next near 11,148. There are no objections, the overt aces omitting the names of all parties whom they know to T disqualified; and about thirty new claims. The revision will take place early next month. CHARGE OP ASSAULT AGAINST A CAPS' UN o p D RAOOON . s . —On Tuesday, at the Borough Court, ianchester, Captain Lowe, of the 4th Dragoons, was elm - ;ga d w i t h an ... mi l t upon Thomas Garner. It appeared fee ,m the statement of the complainant and a witness whom he called, a rat, and three that, oa Monday week, they went into the barrack-y dogs coming round them, the re t ard with was put down and killed by the dogs; that the defendant twenty yards dawn the bare* . followed complainant about ck-lane and beat him severely with a stick. Complainant which exhibited marks evere punishment.—'the captain did not attempt to deny t' that he did strike the our i pl a i nan t s everely. He was dress left ing, he said, when the r anphainant and his companion came .tte. nen stripped assault, but thrai'n shoulder, admitted into the yard, Gad W mated in enticing a favourite terrier out of the stelae, thee igh he (defendant) shunted to them to go about their bus.inr„ss. As they would not be off, but set the - " with than, he ran Thirdly— , government 0111 shn ......,. __ extent of the existing and forthcoming dostatution, ./ hadiatM.ltic again and --- - ---- ---, - - - ---•--- -- --, - - n were found begging in the streets, they would be .—.. dogs upon a rat , which they brought suMcient provision to meet the calamity. , subjeet to the same treatment. They all came back joyfully, down from his "dressing room, which was about 15 yards Fourths —'That In order to enlighten the government upon these ana from that day (19th May, 1845), not a child had been from the stably door, and caught the complainant just as several ts, and to induce them to grant additional reßef in the shape o some great national works, such as railuaYs, fs:e, Ku, a seen begging in the streets of Aberdeen. The ladies of Aber- he got out o', the yard.-Mr. Maude said, there was no deputation should proceed to London immediately, to wait upon Lord deen established • girls' school on the same plan, which doubt that the men had no business in the barrack-yard, John Russell an.l other members of the government. contained 60 pupils, whose only claim of admission was and that The deputation named were-the Marquis of Sligo, the Earl of their destitution, and he would venture to say there upon the they • went for the purpose of setting the dogs defend- Lucan, the High Sheriff (P. C. Lynch, Esq.), Colonel Knox Gore, and isnot better conducted A • adschool in Britain. After a tter conauct_ . . . rat they took with them ; still, when the Sir Richard A. O'Donell, Bart. The deputatMn will not prooced towarned them off and they were going, he svas not London mud alter the adjourned county meeting, to be held on these SUCCeSSIAS the Sheriff presented a petition to the just ed in assaulting the complainant in the manner stated, the l7th. Lord Provost to call a public meeting of the inhabitants, to Led the bench must mark its sense of the offence, by fining STATE OF CLARE.-The Clare Journal, a Conservative consider the subject. is lordship consented, and agreed to 1 I :e.rt defendant 20s. and cost,..-The money was immedi itely paper, thus speaks of the condition of that county, and of the preside. The meeting was numerously attended, chiefly by paid. prospects of the people: "We feel it absolutely necessary, the working people, who appointed a committee of HP BREACH OF PROMISE OF MAItItIAGE.-OR Thursday last from the present state of the country, to call upon the persons to manage the getting of subscribers and to act •as an inquiry of damages, in an action for breach cf promise of government to take immediate and decisive steps to satisfy collectors. In a short time they had on their lists 4 ,000 marriage, was held in the County Court, before Mr. Brandt, ' the clamours of a starving people. Provisions are rising in subscribers, and the sum raised was 2601. This wet ',cot up assessor. The action was brought by Miss Harriet Cooke, price every day. As for potatoes, there are very little indeed in small SUMS, in shillings sixpence!, and pent,, One daughter of a gentleman residimi at Chorlton-upon-Medlock ; in market, and it is almost dangerous to make use of those working man, on b e i ng cu ff e d u p o n and asked to become a and the defendant was a Mr. Samuel Turner, who, a short offered for sale. Not one stone of potatoes can be obtained, subscriber, gave ..uswer that he paid Bs.a-year et, his minister time since, carried on business as a silk-dyer, at Collyhurst, without some of them being found tainted ; and even those without a gru d ge , an d w ithout feeling hit:yell any poorer but is now superintending an establishment in Manchester. bring eevenpence-halfpenny. Indeed, we are strongly in- for it , and he should not g rud g e to g ive 4s. to the su pp ort of The p laintiff is about thirty years of age, and the defendant dined to believe that, for the sake of their health, the people the industrial schools. Let every workitg man in Dundee about forty. For twelve mouths an intimacy existed between should not be any longer allowed to use this diseased fwd. be animated by the same spirit, and they would find suffi- the parties, whicheventually ripened into love. But although We direct attention to a circumstance mentioned at the cient funds to educate and feed the destitute, and thus the defendant had promised the plaintiff marriage, had League, the', Lad no reumkto believe (although the freeholds were miquired avowedly for the purpose of obtaining_ votes for a particular object) that they had been paid fur otherwise than out of the funds of the purchasers themselves. The League had, however, contributed to this object by affording, in many eases, the assistance of their agents to facilitate the negotiations and purchases; for which purpose, also, the sums paid by persona desiring qualifications in various coun ties, had been collected into accounts with certain bankers, to the credit of certain agents of the Anti-Corn-law League." The report then goes on to deal with the question which had mainly occupied the attention of the committee, namely, the power of making objections ; and, after noticing the recent changes in the mode of objecting under the Registration Amendment Act, 6 and 7 Vict., c. 18, which enables the objector to leave the notice of objection at the place of abode of the person objected to, as described on the hat, or a dupli cate notice at the residence of an occupying tenant, and makes the production of a duplicate notice stamped by a postmaster conclusive evidence of service, proceeds to state that an alleged abuse had arisen out of this facility of prov ing service. That it appeared that the agents of the Anti- Corn-law League posted at Manchester, on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th of August, but principally on the 21th, the last day permitted by law, at least 2:1,000 notices of objection to voters for North Warwickshire, North and South Cheshire, North Staffordshire, South Lancashire, East Gloucester shire, and Buckinghamshire, many of which were not sent until tinplate, their number being so great that the post master was unable to despatch them. The consequence was that, the objections not reaching the persons whom they were directed to in sufficient time, many persons of undoubted qualification were struck off the list for want of appearance, while a very small proportion of the objections were, in fact, valid. fhe persons object d to were, in most instances, deprived of costs by the objector declining to sustain the objections, and thus relieving him self from liability to costs, or by reason of some trifling amendment in description, when, by the rule of the Registra tion courts, no costs are allowed. The agents of Vie League were said to avail themselves of this rule to shield them selves from costs, their objections being directed to the de scription. Invalid notices were also created by the objectors hanng employed other persons to sign the notices for then, and this invalidity was held to deprive those persons of costs who appeared to defend their votes, although their votes would have been lost if they had not appeared. Upon this point the difference between the two parties sloes not appear to be as to the number of objections, but on the proportion claimed as successful, which would show how far the course taken by the League was vexatious or justifiable. On the one hand the League claim as successful all objections which ter minated either in amending the description of a vote, or expunging a name, whether upon an investigation of the qualification, or from the non-appearance of the voter ; without reference to either being at the instance of the over seer or of the League. On the other hand, it is argued that the League are entitled to take credit only for those votes which being really had were struck off on the hearing of the case, and through the interpo-itic n of the agent of the League. One party claims the right, as strictly in accord ance with the terms and spirit of the law, to object to every voter in whose description of claim there is any, the smallest error; while the other maintains that it is u great hardship that a voter of undoubted qualification should be compelled to prove his vote every year, upon trivial or technical grounds, without the power of obtaining costs from the objector; for if the parties do not appear, he is successful, and if they do, he can avoid the payment of coats by with drawing his objection, thus placing the bond fide voter in a position which might from its vexatious nature deter him from coming forward to defend his vote, while as the law stands he has neither protection nor redress. In order to deal with this the committee have em bodied in their report the following suggestions : " That when a voter has cstubliahed his right to vote, the word 'proved' shall be written against his name: but every one intending to prove his vote, shall have the words ' claims to prove his vote' inserted in the list, on giving notice to the overseer. That claims to be registered, and notices of objections sent by post, shall have toe name of the post town from which they are seat inserted." " That theobjector shall reside within the limits of the same polling place as the person objected to claims to be registered. That a double entry of the same name for a different qualification shall be a ground of objection. That objectors shall state the nature of his objection, whether on the merit,' of quali fication, misdescription, or double entry; on the first, he shall be confined to questions arising out of the third column ; on the second, he may point eut errors, omissions, or mis takes or inaccuracies in the first, second, and fourth columns, or any mere verbal error in the third column, but not go into the merits or nature of the qualification ; and that objections on the ground of double entry shall he confined to that head." That every one objecting to a voter already on the register shall deposit with the overseers 2s. 6d. with every notice of objection ; and that every " proved registered niter" whose vote is objected to on the merit of qualification shall be en titled, on establishing his vote a second time, to recover 40s. from the objector over and above the 2s. 6d. deposited; while every voter not being " a proved registered voter" whose claim is similarly objected, on establishing his vote, shall receive the 2s. GI. deposited, and such burn not exceeding 40c, as the court shall award. That where a party has been objected to on the ground of misdescription, and an alteration or addition is made to his claim, he shall not be entitled to coats, but where there is no alteration or addition he shall recover the 2s. Gd. deposited, and such additional sum under 40a. as the court thinks tit.—" That persons objected on the ground of misdescription may make a declare ion of the proper description of their claim to vote before& magistrate, and that on the production of the magistrate's certificateof such declara tion at the revision, the claim may be amended, and the vote allowed without further evidence. That the name of a party objected to on the ground of double entry, may be retained on the register for all or any of the qualifications on which he claims to vote, but he shall be bound to elect at which p-aling place he intends to vote, and he shall not be permitted to vote elsewhere, and whenever his name occurs on the register no entry shall be made against it to this effect. That where a person is objected to on the ground of double entry, and the objection is sustained, no costa shall be given, and the objector may receive back the 2s. Gd. deposited. That in all other respects the power of the reusing barrister as to costs shall remain as it is under the 46th section of the 6th & 7th Viet., c. 13, except that the limit of the sum shall be forty shillings instead of twenty. That to the list of persons on the register or claimants to be trans mitted to the clerk of the peace under the 6th & 7th Viet., c. 18, sec. 9, shall be added a column containing the names of those persons who claim to prove their vote, and in the list of persons objected to be transmitted under the same section, shall be added columns specifying under which of the three heads of objections, in the suggestion relating to the nature of the objection, the parties are objected to; and the clerk of the peace for each county shall, before a certain day, file the same in alphabetical order, and retain it till produced at the revision open to the inspection of any registered voter." Such are the suggestions offered by the committee as the foundation of such future legislation as will meet the evils which they consider to have been proved to exist under the law as it now stands. The report concludes with stating an opinion on two points well worthy of consideration as materially tending to the correctness of the registers, namely, that the registration should be a matter of official duty on the part of responsible and competent officers to be employed in forming and correcting county registers., and that some alteration should hike place in the mode of remu nerating revising barristers, as the present plan appears to have led to a greater hurry of business than is compatible with that minute and deliberate investigation, which is neces sary to ensure a complete, clear, and accurate register. BRITISH ASSOCIATION. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY. Four of the sections met to-day and proceeded with the papers which stood over from the lists of the previous days. The following are their titles, as given in the printed paper published by the association : SECTION FOR CHEMICAL St lENCE, INCLUDINO rrs APPLICATION TO AORICY Mitt' AND THE Aare.—On the Nature of Lampie Arid, by Professor Connell. On the Connexion between the Isomorphous RC- batons of the Elements and their Physiological Action, by James Blake, M. 8., FALC.B. On the Chemical Action of Oxalic Acid on the Blood and Tissues of the Animal Body, ity Dr. Letheby. New Facts ' bearing on the Chemical Theory of Volcanoes, by Dr. Daubeny. tin certain principles which obtain in the application of Matures, by W. C. Spooner, Esq. Colon important chemical Law in the Nutrition of Anisnabs by Dr. It. D. Tbornirein. SECTION MR ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY.—Report on the Perio dical phenomena of Plants and Animals, by Professor Owen. Compa risons of the periods of the dowering of Plants in the early spring of Mt, in the Botanic Garden of Belfast, and the loran des Planes at Paris ; —also Notes on additions to the Flora of Ireland, by Mr. W. Thompson. On Mould containing Phosphorescent Vegetables, by the lion. W. Fox Strangways. Notice of the application of the Fibres of the Tree-Mallow to Manufactures, communicated by Capt. llsbetson, by Capt. Peterson. Report on the Vitality of Seeds, by Mr. Strick land. Note on Figures of Birds observed on a Tomb at Memphis, by Mr. Joseph Bonomi. Additional Notice of Alderia Modesto, by Pro fessor Allman. Exhibition of some Zoological Specimens from Africa, by Mr. Frazer. On the Structure and Physiology of the ryenouonitlic, by Dr. Carpenter. On the Crania of two Species of Crocodile from Sierra Leone, by Dr. Falconer and Mr. n. Thompson. On certain Peculiarities in the Anatomy of Limax Sowerbii, by Professor On the Dissimilarity in the Calcifying Functions of Mollusks,—whose orronisation is in other respects similar, by Mr. Lovell Reeve. On the Development of Vegetable Cells, by Mr. A. Ilenfrey. Description of a Fruit ;—aLso Notice on the Economical Use of s he Bu tt er Candles, by Mr. Duncan. On proposed Substitutes for the Potato, by Mr. Morriss Stirling. SECTION roe Mr:ens:cum.—An Account of the Construction and Performanceof two Sailing Vessels built on the Ware System, by Dr. Phipps. Description of an Apparatus for Storing and Preserving Corn in large National Granaries, by Mr. J. G. &diner. On a New Plan of applying Atmospheric Air to the purposes of Locomotion, by W. Bevan, M.D. On Vulcanized Indian Rubber, by Mr. Broeke don. An account of some Experiments on long and Short Stroke Engines, by Mr. Bodmer. An Exhibition of a Model of a new Atmospheric Railway, by Mr. Clark. SECTION FOR GEOLOGY AND PHYSICAL GRODRAPHY.—On the Phy sical Character of the Table Lind of Abyssinia, by Dr. lice. Synopsis of proposed Physio-Geographical Survey of the British Islands, by W D. Cooley, Esq. On Zanira Cigna, by James Yates. On the * Microscopic Structure of Shells and the application of Photography to the Delineation of Fossils, by Dr. Carpenter. A joint deputation of the geological and mechanical sec tions, headed by the president, proceeded at one o'clock to the boring on Southampton Common. After hearing the report of the engineer, and examining the evidence of the strata, the president observed that there was every pro bability, on their reaching the upper green sand below the chalk strata, that a sufficient supply 3f water would be ob tained. Whether or not it would rise to the required level, would depend, however, upon the level at which the upper green sand entered. He advised, however, the continuance of tho work. It appears the well already gives 15,000 cubic I feet of water, the supply required for the town being 30,000 to 3,5,000. At three o'clock a general meeting of the committee was held at the Town Hall, at which The PRESIDENT announced, that in reference to an invita tion which had been given to the foreign members to visit ' Portsmouth Dockyard to-morrow morning, he had had a correspondence with Sir C. Ogle, who had invited all the foreign gentlemen and as many of the officers of the Associa- of the LITERATURE. actually published the banns in the Old Church, and invited the wedding guests, he suddenly broke off the connexion, without 'seignior,' any cause 'whatever for his conduct. This took place in January Last, and on the 4th or sth of Feb miry he married another lady. Verdict for plaintiff damages 150/. YORK3ITIRE. FIRB AT LEEDS.—On Tuesday night, soon after eleven o'clock, a tire, which at one lima threatened seri .u. 4 conse quences, broke out in the mill premises of Messrs. York and Sheepshanks, known u their new mill, ou the be- , .is of the River Aire, near the road leading from Leeds to Kirk stall and Bradford. It is supposed to have been ocea.ioncd by the ignition of same inflammable materials in the wool and teazle drying-room over the boiler-house attached to the engine. By the prompt attendance and ettic iota working of the various tire. engines in the town, the flames were confined to the small building in wh ch they originated. The damage may perhaps amount !!! shout 5001. . .... --- ANNIVERStRY 111C1.71:iii OF WALWICK,III2.I: As- SOCIATION.—The anuiversary meeting of this eieueiation for the promotion of improvement in the breed of 'dock, the en couragement of industrious farm-labourers and servat.ts, and for the other useful purposes of these societies, was held at Coleshill yesterday. The meetings have been hitherto held at Warwick, but at n meeting of the members hell at Coventry, a short time since, it was resolved to hold the anni versa7 in the nerthern division of the c 'linty. The 'stock exhibited was more remarkable for the exc. Hence of its quality than for quantity; but, uyou the whole, the ,how was at least upon an average with those of former year!, asal the awards of the judetss gave general satisfaction. Amongst the prizes awarded were, one for the best witch cow, to Mr. Nike, of Maxtoke Castle, and the second, in the same class, to Mr. 'Thomas timbers, of Wep. penbury ; for a long-horn cow the first prize was awarded to Mr. Twyeross. of Canley ; Mr. Dilke also obtained the prize for a short-horn cow ; sod the premium for the best cow in milk, of the pure Devon breed, was awarded to the Right Hon. the Earl of Aylesford; the prise for the hest pair et heifs-rs was obtained by Mr. Firmer , of Stoneleigh; and the second by Mr. Dilk e ; fur the best fed cow, the same having produced a living calf, the premium was awarded to Mr. Thomas Oldham, of Leamington. The bulls exhibited were somewhat inferior in quality, so much so that the first prize was not awarded, but the second was given to Mr. Barbary, of Wroxall. The sheep were remarkably hue ; and prizes were obtained by the Lai of Warwick, the Earl of Ayles ford, Thomas timbers, amid other of the leading agri culturists o the district. There were several eleughing matches in the comae of the dove ; the ground was iu good condition, and the men severally executed their wore well; the only matter for regret in connection with this, was the smullneie of the amount awarded to these poor men its the shape of prizes; too pounds being the higliest sum awarded to the best plouglintau. The company on the ground was numerous; :slid included most of the nobl...men and gentle men of the district. At three o'clock, the annual meeting fir the transaction of the Society's btedness was held at the Swan Hotel, the Earl of Aylesford in tae chair; and amongst those present were the Earl of Warwick, Lord Brooke, h1.1'., Mr. Newdegate, M.P., Mr. Dugdale, M.P.. Mr. C. B. Ad derley, M.ll'. Sir Francis J.awley, 13.. rt., Captain Dilke, de. tic. The statement of accounts shoe out a email balance only is the lianas of the treasurer ; and the smallness of the prizes given, showing us it does the limited means of the Associa tion, would wcm to indicate that the tenant.farmers take little interest in the existence of such societies. The show of agricultural implemen's was not large; the be. , l eolleetion was that exhibited by Messrs. Proctor and Hyland. of Bit miagham ; and a winnowing machine manufactured by Mr. Choyee, of Siloam, Leicestershire, attracted much attention. At the time our report was dispatched the Weiler wits about to take place. WORCESTERSIII itE. NAILORS' Srontr.-11 we take any district of the king dom, and classify the varying rates of wages of the di:. rout employments, and inquire into the fluctuation, as his it nave taken place, we shall find that potion of the sOlf , lllUltil , of any given loc.ility, which is worst p.iid, is the hot to o: • r:tin an advance of wages, and the first compelled to submit ro a reduction. Such is the case of the tailors—the worst paid o all artizans in the locality in which they dwell. During perbals of depres,ion the Tonkin htvariably suffer to an ex tent unknown in other trades of the district, and throutli the late one, which began in IS3O, a reduction amounting to CO per cent. on the hat of prim by which their work was reckoned took place. l)'iring the past two years they have been ,:nidaully reihning the rate of discount, which has been alit Mot ed some months, and new the men have tent to the masters a new list ol• prices, and }AVM a fortnight's notice that they will not work unless the c prices are given. The notice expires on Saturday next. The new list will advance the rate of wages from 10 to 20 per cent. Whether the men will obtain this advance avi ry short time will shear. We think they will; for though great numbers of stoloie will now be returning from harvest-work, which will iner. see he supply of labour, yet the dernin.d for men rt the Ina works and mines is so great, that should they fail to si,tairt their demand at once, many of them will be enabled to ob tain other employment, and to *rat till their request is ac ceded to.— I I 'urcestershire Chrowi• le. CHRISTIAN BIntIAI7.-Th;ifi; , :iir. Armstrong, incum bent of the parish of Wallsend, nceutly refused to erform the burial service over the body of a child, bee:west it had hell' baptised by a Wrsloyou mit:ister. The father of the child latrine t the Bishop of Durham of the eirtunt-tance; and his lonlihip immediately replied, stating that, " It Mr. Armstrong has refused Christian burial to a child be, it bad been baptised by a Dissenting ntinistcr, ho has ae;ed un worthy of his railing, and rendered himself liable to punish ment in the ecclesiastical courts, if Mr. Giles or any other Nis!; to prosecute him." A few days ngu, say , t; .Ceti , castle .Idr:rtiser, a deputation from the hotly parish ioners waited on the rev. gentleman, and obtained from liim• promise that idich an occurrence andl not again Like place. CHEAP TAILOILISu.—Two men were rest-nay ad I.itt,,d at night into St. Mary's Workhouse, in Itetding; oud upon the master going the following morning into the room is which they slept, they were both found denuded, with their eh rims Unit lute shreds and render: d wholly tideless. They were provided, much to thi ir disappointment, with large sugar hags composed of matting (inite:el of a more fashionable description of costume), of al ich, with the aid of packing needles and twine, they manufactured two pair of trowsers to cover their nakedness ; and in this attire Itt.l were introduced to the sitting tmmistrate, Mr. Willats, by Mr. West, the master of the workhouse. They ware orde.edi to leave the town. Memoirs of the Reign of Kin, George The SerowL By Houses WALPOLE, youngest son of Sir Robert ‘Volgole, Earl of Orford. Edited from the Original MSS. IVida a Preface and Notes, by the late Lord HOLLAND. 3 vols. Colburn. In this pleasing and welcome republication, Mr. Colburn has, with his usual attention to the public convenience, stepped forward to supply a demand likely to be created by the appmrance of Horace Walpole's Menvdre of the Early Part of the Reign of George the Third, recently brought out by another publisher. But why has he done mole. Why, in reproducing an old work, has ho done every thing that was possible to conceal the fact that it had been printed before, and to give it the attraction and interest of a new one for the MOO) unsophisticated. order of readers and purchasers? Why, to beg'.n with, was the book announced, un der the head of " New Works" as the "Completion of the Walpo'.e Memoirs?" The title-page actually pre fixed to ; A the reader has seen. Nobody could guess from eif:ner title or announcement that the work is the Mine which was first published, in two volumes 4to, in the year 1822, with the title of Memoires of the Last l'en Years of the Reign of George the 8 (Tow!, by Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. IFront the Original MSS. Substantially the same, we ought rather to say ; for certain other alterations besides that of the title-page would seem to have been rendered necessary by the design of the publication, and have accordingly becu very quietly made. Thus, where Lord natant:, in Ins preface, writing twenty-four years ago, observes that ten years have elapsed since the period fixed by Walpole for the inspection of the work, and mote than sixty since the last of the historical events commemorated in it, we have a foot-note added, gently intimating, " that some years have elapsed since this was written." The fact that the passage had been printed before, is withheld. 'flue reader would naturally infer that, as the Memoirs were left in manuscript by Walpole, so the preface had been left for posthumous publication by Lord Holland; and, although the note is in fact an interpolation, there is nothing to indicate that it was not affixed by Lord Holland himself. The ori ginal edition of the Memoirs was accompanied by a number of designs from etchings furnished by Bentley and Mintz, impressions from which were found bound up with the manuscript. Tlhe se decorations, certainly not being very ornamental, ere not reproduced; and we do not object, therefore, to the omission of the explanations of them drawn up by Walpole himself, and of the passage in Lord ilolland's preface which states that they appear in the printed book : still we think the fact of the omission should have been named. We will not quarrel with the substitution): chapters for the old dates, summaries, and margins.. references—though we think distinct intimation should have been given of that also ; but we cannot see why peculiar spellings should not havebeen retained ; and we regret to see the altered paragraph about the suppressions which Lord Holland thought proper to make in committing Walpole's manuscript to the Here one long sentence is cut out at the =inning, another shorter one at the end of the paragraph, and two more from the middle of it. One of the latter runs thus : " Such liberties would be still more necessary if the remaining historical works of Lord Orford were ever to see the light." It seems to have been feared that if this sentence had been allowed to stand, the fact that the present pre face and the work to which it is prefixed had been printed before the Memoirs of thl Early Part of the Reign of George the Third, would have beta 3 ie banns in the Old Church, and invited he suddenly broke off the connexion, I cause 'whatever for his conduct. This y last, and on the 4th or sth of Feb- another lady. Verdict for plaiutiff YORK3ITIRE. —On Tuesday night, soon after eleven at one time threatened seri .us cease- • the mill premises of Messrs. York own as their new mill, on the books of • the road leading from Leeds to Kirk- It is supposed to have been ocea.ioncd tote inflammable matelials in the wool en over the boiler-house attached to the opt nttendance and etre ient working of • cs in the town, the flares were confined in wh eh they originated. The damage to strut 5001. W.IItWICK:sILIRE. :ITINO Or VII: WALWICK,III9I: As- itecteary meeting of this aseeelatiou for roveinent in the - breed of stock, the en- trious farm-labourers and servant!, and • urpoces of these societies, was held at The meetings have been hitherto held meeting of the members hell at e since, it was resolved to hold the anni- ern division of the c 'linty. The stork rein:irked° for the exc. lknce of its tity; but, seen the whole, the show woe age with those of former year!, amid the • gate general satisfaction. Amongst 1 were, one for the beet mulch of Maxtoke Castle, and the second, I • ; to Mr. 'rheum' timber; of Wep. : horn cow the first prize was awarded to • iley ; Mr. Dike also obtained the prize sue the premium for the best cow in Non breed, was awarded to the Right reeford; the prise for the best pair of V Mr. Farmer, of Stoneleigh ; and the fur the best fed cow, the same having Alf, the premium was awarded to Mr. Leamington. The bulls exhibited were quality, so much so that the first prize the second was given to Mr. Derisory, Irep were remarkably fine ; and prizes Eirl of Warwick, the Earl of Ayles- s, Eat., and other of the leading agri- trio.. There were sees nil eleughing • of the der ; the ground was iu good ten severally executed their wore well; -egret in connection with this, was the mat awarded to these poor men in the pounds being the highest suet a earded 1: a. The company on the ground wasd L ded most of the noblemen and gentle. At three o'clock, the annual meeting the Society's hu.iness was held at the of Aylesfor•d in the chair; and amongst ' I L. Earl of Warwick, Lord Brooke, Id.P., , Mr. Dugdale, M.P., Mr. C. B. Ad- ,iscte Lawley, Bert., Captain Dilke, &c. if accounts show out a email balance only °usurer ; and the smallness of the prizes • floes the limited means of the ASSOCia- indicate that the tenatit.farmers take sietence of such societies. The show of l's was not large; the bel eollee:ion • Messrs. Proctor and Hyland, of Bit- mowing machine manufactured by Mr. eicestershire, attracted much attention. rt was dispatched the Weiler wits about • i A'ORCESTERSIIIItE. .—lf we take any district of the Ling- varying rates of wages of the di: - ;rent 11 moire into the fluctuations w alit it lave had that poetien of the iieeinunit, of Well is worst p.dd, is the last to . a, and the first compelled to sui me to a he case of the ,sailors—the worst paid o t locality in wt. teh they dwell. During a the milers ievariably suffer to an ex- !l' trades of the district, and throutli the in 15:11), a reiluction amounting to 20 it of prim by which their work was Ibiring the past two years they have Sag the rate of discount, which has brew this, and new the men have sent to the prices, and OVCII a fortnight's notice irk unless the e prices are givem The ardor next. The new list will advent. mlO to 20 per cent. Whether the advance a vs ry short time will ahem, for though great numbers of ma'am t from harvest-work, which will fine see yet the dernaed for men re the irea so great, that should they fail to netate. ere many of them will be ambled to 'k- at, and to welt till their request is ace •shire Chroni , le. OttEIII'3IIIEItLAND. tl..—The Rev. Mr. Armstrong, ineum- NVallsend, recently refugee" to perform ,er the body of a child, beleitiet it had Vieleyan minister. The tether of the ishop of Durham of the eireunetsime; lediatcly replied, stating that, " If Mr. ed Christian burial to a child his - suss it i a Dimentiog minister, ho has acted un- , and rendered himself liable to punieh- itical courts, if Mr. Odes or any other dm." A few days ego, say, t; New- : deputation from the body of parish- rev. gentleman, and obtained I rum him a occurrence sh dl not again Like place. .I.—Two men were recently ail eked at 'a Workhouse, in Reeding; cad upon ie following morning into the room is they were both found denuded, with Au shreds and rendered when,. useless. , much to their disappointment, with imposed of matting (instead of a mere in of costume), of el ich, with the aid id twine, they manufactured two par of heir nakeduces ; mil in this attire tky 7 the sitting malistrete, Mr. %Valets, by rof the workhouse. They were orde.cil r..ITE.RATURE. ion of King George The SeeonfL By youngest ton of Sir Robert eVielpole, • . • :silted from the Original MSS. With tea, by the late Lord ROLLAND. 3 vols. g and welcome republication, Mr. a his usual attention to the public pod forward to supply a demand ted by the appearance of Horace a of the Early Part of the Reign f ! , recently brought out by another why has he done more? Why, n old work, has ho done every- possible to conceal the fact that sited before, and to give it the Lterest of a new one for the mows )rder of readers and purchasers? rich, was the book announced, un- New Works" as the "Completion of toirs?" The title-page actually pre- sder has seen. Nobody could guess r announcement that the work is the 9 first published, in two volumes 822, with the title of Memoirea of 'ti 'ears of the Reign If George the race It'alpok, Earl of Orford. d MSS. Substantially the same, we say ; for certain other alterations the title-page would seem to dered necessary by the design .n, and have accordingly becu very Thus, where Lord liofland, in Ins twenty-four years ago, observes that 1 elapsed since the period fixed by inspection of the work, and mote , • L the last of the historical events in it, we have a foot-note added, g, " that some years have elapsed written." The fact that the •• been printed before, is withheld. add naturally infer that, as the left in manuscript by Walpole, so been left for posthumous publication I; and, although the note is in fact there is nothing to indicate that it )y Lord Holland himself. :The ori- 1, die Memoirs was accompanied by a . f• rom etchings furnished by Bentley 1' ; cssions from which were found bound It : iscript. The se decorations, certainly I Thamental, are not reproduced; and et, therefore, to the omission of the them drawn up by Walpole himself, ingpear in the p Lordilolanted b d's preface fa7 stii aiii i w eh pe o of the omission should have been 1 not quarrel with the substitution a old dates, summaries, and margin gh we think distinct intimation given of that also ; but we cannot see ellings should not havebeen retained ; ) see the altered paragraph about the ich Lord Holland thought proper to •IL tting Walpole's manuscript to the ,e long sentence is cut out at the I S her shorter one at the end of the ft two more from the middle of it. er runs thus : " Such liberties would eceasary if the remaining . historical Orford were ever to see the light." I ; been feared that if this sentence had stand, the fact that the present pre- irk to which it is prefixed had been the Memoirs of (At .Early Part ,1 ieorge the Third, would have been 4. WAIMICKSIURE. NOKTIII'3IIIERLI , p.