The Express. — London, England, 1846-10-05 00:00:00

MPIP expenses, the claim was rejected. Conscious of of his case, the baron petitioned the House of but this assembly soon got tired of the business. ted its discussion on all occasions by the process ag out." The baron then addressed himself to of Chancery by means of a " Petition of result was a trial at bar in the Queen's Bench, in the month of June, 1844, diet was found by a special jury in favour of the 164,2681. with interest from January Ist, 1819. h o wever, that the verdict of a jury ha d settled the was fallacious ; for issues bad arisen upon pleas of the Crown that the action had not been thin six years from the date of the occurrence on as grounded. In other words, the Crown was fend itself by pleading the statute of limitations! were given in favour of the Crown, and thus, baron's claims were fully admitted by a British aw permitted the Crown to shroud itself behind of limitations. In Deoember,lB4s, another trial in the Queen's Bench; and on this occasion Lord renounced against the baron, on the ground " that t shown that his property, which was confiscated the French Revolutionary Government, had been ifeseated." A writ of error on this subject has ed ; and notice thereof was serve d at the Treasury of August, 1649. It was presumed that the be argued before the judges . of the Common the Barons of the Exchequer in the course of the rm. Meanwhile, death has decided the question, he unfortunate b aron was concerned, although it course be contested by his executors. " The sovernment," wrote the victim of English Tinier, " has acted throughout most honourably iternational proceedings ; but it is to be lamented annot say the same as regards the British_govern fhe Times truly remarks, in a leader on Wednes ['his is a dignified position for a glorious empire— titution which secures equality of rights--and a law :pensive though it be, still boasts that it is open to collective state for these 30 years has been battling a every possible subterfuge against an unfortunate SO claim there is no manner of doubt would have wed but for a technical omission, which was cor time, and but for the greatness of the sum at stake. boon been a claimant only for 10,0001., who doubts erseverance would long since have been rewarded ?" ome of the time the baron was prosecuting hie was reduced to positive poverty, and was a pri debt in the Queen's Bench Up to the day of e his means were comparatively limited. His death idea, that an inquest is deemed necessary. It will - THE REGISTRATIONS. m.—On Saturday Mr. Arnold disposed of or three parishes,—St. Stephen, Walbrook • St. London Stone ; and All Hallo ws, London W all. uses were of the ordinary description ; but that of sch, of St. Swithia's-lane, who was objected to by Having proved his right to vote, Mr. N. said he ' objected to, four or five years in succession,—once as and on other grounds, all of which he had dis- ' Mr. Arnold said this was a clear case of ground don, and inflicted the full amount of costs, 20s. t of the day's inquiry was, that of Liberal ob)ec were sustained, and '24 withdrawn; Tory objections , 2S, failed 4.5; Double objections sustained, 6, n 2 ; Liberal claims established, 3, failed 23. JLNCIAL.— EAST SOMERSET. —IMPORTANT f.—ln our paper of Thursday week we save an fan argument at Bath, before the Reviung-Bar the Eastern Division of Somerset, J. Tyrrell, Esq., in which Mr. Richard Ainsworth and 49 others 6 right to be inserted on the register of electors, by their being in the rofi receipt of rts and p is ig to forty shillings per annum each en , arising out of large of 1001. a year, secured upon a freehold pro- Tiverton, near Bath, called the " Tiverton mills." charge had been purchased and divided, and the ,med upon the recommendation of the Anti-Corn-law sad on the part of the Tories several objections had en to the names being retained on the list. First, it ended that the property had been improperly de s being that of Mr. Wilkins, whereas he had can to the trustees of the National Bank of England. it it ought to have been described as " The Lower Mills." 3rd. Thatafter deducting the income-tax the 'rents and profits was under 40s. a year, and there erred no right to vote. 4th. That the parties bad not illy seized of the property for six months prior to lay of July. Mr. Tyrrell, on Friday, gave his judg tlus case. Upon the three first points he had no ad gave his decision in favour of the claimants. e last point he admitted that he had felt some diffi al he was gratified that his decision was not final, should it be incorrect, it could be set right, as he illingly grant a rase to be taken is the Court of Pleas. In interpreting the statutes, he felt himself xin to be governed by common sense, and applying attention he could to the matter, he was of opinion parties bad been possessed of the rents and profits ie held to confer a sufficient right) for six months the last day of July, and therefore he decided in f the claimants . This decision is regarded as one of ortance. Mr. Tyrrell subsequently granted a case CH WARWICKSIIIRE. — The Coventry Court for don of the voters' lists has ended in a clear gain to vale of 103. :NTRY.—By the revision of the lists of voters to vote for the borough of Coventry, the Liberals ned 36 votes. 70N. —Mr. Brandreth completed the revi le list of voters for the borough of Bolton on Wed norning. A great number of the objections were wn ; and althDu;h there were 76 names on the list of 21 only appeared. As far as the decisions of the ire concerned, no particular advantage was obtained r side, and the revision passed off very quietly. litit.E.—The Hon. R. Denman opened this the Flying Horse, Parker-street, on Saturday last. iton appeared for the Liberals, and Mr. Hunt for the Mr. Heaton objected to the notices of objections ythe Tories, because the objector stated merely his e, William Milne, for " Spring Side, top of Toad• miffing the town. The barrister, aft e r a little coital deeided the notices were not sufficient; the objector have stated the town he resided in. A majority of raj votes appear on the revised regi:ter. Ds.—This revision shows a gain of 28 by the n claims ; and a gain of 73 by the Reformers on ob- Deducting one from the other there is an apparent the whole to the Reformers of 45; but as some of ies struck off in one township possess qualifications titer, the Reformers' real gain will probably be D. rORALTY ELECTION.—On Saturday, the fifth he election, there was a small majority on the day's favour of Sir G. Carroll. The gross poll stood as fol -Wood, 1219; Carroll, A5B; Hooper, 260; Moon, 3; mb, 1. Mr. Alderman Wood came forward amidst ers of his friends and said, he felt great gratification ?string before them at the close of the fifth day in the hant position he held on the poll. He did not intend in them long, but a statement having appeared in one eadiug journals of the country, he felt bound to come 1. The journal did not vouch for the authenticity of tement. (Hear, hear.) Every public man was open ussion in the public journals, and the public were Uy gainers by such discussion ; but when means were misrepresent character in the public journals, the who did so deserved censure, though the journal itself be blameless. Ile had answered, on a previous day, instant, the statement made by Mr. Anderton sind ,ylor, with respect to the Irish Society, and one of the uals who made the charge left the hall without hear ) reply. (" Shame, shame.") Here the speaker 1 the nature of his connection with the Irish and denied that the fees which he received tinsel remained twenty-four hours in his pocket. Ippeared in the journal to which he alluded had been e believed, by the Deputy-Governor of the Irish So 'though they professed to observe the utmost secrecy. itively denied the assertion that he would pay all the n 1843 ; and he did not know how any person ling to honesty and fairness could make such an as- He said that he was ready to pay the fees that re unpaid when his account, which the society wanted ce, was settled. He was not, having so much to en s attention at the present time, prepared for an attack editable and so contrary to the fact. He could not, allow the aspersion of a moment, or the calumny of ant, to rest on his head without meeting it. He not rest till the question between himself and the ociety was disposed of ; and when he met them again, ed to able to tell them it was so. Ile hoped they suspend their judgments till Monday, when ho would a opportunity of fairly meeting the charge. It was n order to calumniate and prejudice him, and pub to the world before he had an opportunity of answer- He would only ask them to wait until they had the whole truth, and having done that, he would ige contradiction. (Cheers.)—Mr. Bennoch said, that resent contest originated in eircumstancea dis al to the City of London. It was not right ) certain irresponsible body should have the power ring a veto on the choice of the Livery of London. )r what reason did they exercise their power in the Alderman Wood ? Certain charges were made against enticman which he denied, and he said he would that they were unfounded on Monday next. It was le was mixed up with joint-stock companies. If as to be a good ground of objection, he should like to which of the Court of Aldermen was qualified. (Hear.) on. gentleman then alluded to the constitution of the of Aldermen, and said that they could not expect that Abe what they wished till they were elected for five or Sears, instead of for life, as at present. (Cheers.) —Mr. begged of the friends of Alderman Wood to come to )11 on Monday. By placing him in a large majority could test the respect which the Court of Aldermen r the livery. (Hear, hear.)—The hall then adjourned. .'ENTOE.s' AND MECHANICS' SOCIETY.—A public sg of this institution was held on Saturday evening at the sal Association, High llolborn, S. C. Horry, Esq., ter, In the chair. The object of the meeting, which sumerously attended, was further to elucidate the plc% on which the society proposed to benefit Indus inventors amongst the working classes. It was pro to remedy the working of the Patent Laws by the rig men contributing a small annual subscription, would secure to any mechanic an adequate, if not the hare in the profits of his invention. Several gentle ddressed the meeting in favour of the objects of the and several confirmatory resolutions were passed. RATI:3I.—A misprint of the word " freighted" bartered " occurred in our first leader of Saturday. tRE DIgENTOMBINC.—A report has been fur us of some cart loads of human remains, mingled with earth, coffins, and black cloth bombe Imo shot into the public reads at three di ff erent places, the bidabbasmimast of Eing'aeross, in the parishes, we believe, cl and Islington. We forbear to give the detail of proceedings : but we must all on the parish 011011 1" :1:= tutu inquiries into the matter, and bring before Ike psalm I magistrate all the parties concerned in such an outrage em public decency and public feeling. THE NEW RIVER CONlCANY.—Yesterday the plugi connected with the mains of the New River Company, throughout the district that receives the apply of water from that source, were pulled up, in order to al.bw a rapid flow of water to cleanse the piss—alqleagtit of new pipes having been recently laid down. IMlNwEll p = that it was the commencement of a system the cleansing of the sewers, and it bad that effect. A NEW MISCHIEF.—On Friday night, as Mr. Davin, the postmaster in Acton-place, liiimugge-wells-road, was re. thing about half-put 10, he perceived a strong smell of burnt paper; and on searching for the cause at length saw smoke iosoiag from the letter-box. He then found that a piece of ffghted brown paper bad been thrown in, and that one of the biters was burned, and several scorched . ' The fire was ex tinguished without further damage, and on the following morning the occurrence was reported to Colonel Maberly, Ilimintery to the Postmaster-GeneraL Mr. Davis can in no Ira/account for the commission of this vicious act. DARING STREET ROBBERY. -0n Saturday after noon Mr. Leila, of 9, Castle -greet, LOnraere, was passing through Argyle-street, Regent-street, when he was robbed of his pocket-book, containing an lOU for 51., a bill on Alexander Brunswick for 3001., and other valuable papers. The robbery is alleged to have been committed by a young man whom Mr. Lfi. immediately afterwards seised, but Ike delinquent was rescued from him, and escaped, and is described as apparently about seventeen years of ege, five feet six inches high, of fair complexion, and wearing a brown Oat aai sop.—Sunday Times. DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN. -011 Friday night, Mr. H. Harris, of the Jewish persuasion, who lived at - No. 5, Holywelbstreet, Strand, died at his late residence, at the extraordinary advanced age of 106 years. Up to the last t he months of his long life, he was able to walk about, and had the possession of all his faculties; about that time his aving sight began to fail him, and he was confined t o his bed, h been since con stantly attended there by his grand daughter, son, and other friends. His appetite was, however, always good nearly to the last moment. Mr. Levy, jun., of the Strand, with a few friends. as is the practice, were present at his death. His wife died a few years ago at the age of 93, and his eldest son is 73 years of age. He has dwelt above 70 years in Holywell-street, notwithstanding the alleged insalubrity of the locality, and where he carried on business many years. He has left a large family of grandchildren and great grandchildren. INQUESTS.—DEATH FROM STRANGULATED HERNIA. —On Saturday at the Weaver's Arms, John's-row, Goswell etreet, on the body of Mary Hopkins, aged 61, the wife of a sawyer, living at 7, Hull-street. It appeared that Mr. H. P. Ree, the parish surgeon, had attended and prescribed for the deceased, but that his medicines had been neglected, and Mr. Millard, a honuepathic doctor, had administered to the de ceased a portion of a white powder in water. Mr. Ree had intended to have performed an operation, by which the pa tient most probably would have recovered. Verdict, " Natural death from strangulated hernia."—Btrauen TO DEATH.—On Saturday, by Mr. W. Baker, at the London Hospital, touching the death of Ann Elizabeth Hollingdale, aged five years, the daughter of a locksmith residing at No. 1, Ann-street, Stepney. Oa Thursday a ft ernoon violent screams issued from the house No. 1, Ann.street.—Henry Read, on proceeding there, discovered the deceased standing at the top of the staircase, enveloped in fire. Ile immedi ately threw his coat over her and extinguished the flames. On his carrying her down stairs the flesh of the unfortunate child came off on to his clothes. She was conveyed to the hospital, where she died in a few minutes after her admis sion. The fire was extinguished before any material damage had been done to the premises.—Webb, the constable, stated that all the neighbours were complaining of the mother's conduct towards her children ; she was of very intemperate habits, and on the day in question was intoxicated, and had left the deceased and her twin brother by themselves. The deceased was lighting the fire against her mother's return, when her clothes ignited, and before any person could render any assistance, she was all on fire. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death," and severely admonished the mother for her shameful neglect.—Diarit BY PALLING PRONE A SHIPS' YARD.—AIso by Mr. W. Baker. at the Lon don Hospital, on the body of John Laxon, a sailor on board the St. James, an American ship in the L ondon Docks. On Wednesday deceased was on the main-yard unloosing a block, when one of the straps gave way, and he fell into a lighter lying alongside. lie was conveyed to the hospital, where he expired the following day. Verdict, " Accidental death."—Fam , PROM AN ONNIRI/B.—At the Three Brewers, Islingbm, by Mr. Mills, on the body of Ephraim Napoleon Fletcher, awed eleven years. The deceased had obtained leave from his parent. to fetch a dog from Holloway, and on his return he got on the lower hind step of the " Favourite" omnibus without permission. The conductor told him to get down, and while doing so, the dog, which he held by a strieg, pulled him backwards, and the lad fell with his neck against the edge of the step. The conductor instantly stopped the 'bus, and carried deceased into Mr. Dawisan's surgery, but life was already extinct, from disleca ' tioia of one of the cervical vertebrie.-11Ir. Mills ohs:Toed that one of the Metropolitan Police Acts contained a clause ren dering any person who lays hold of a carriage proceeding along the street liable to a fine of ss.—No blame being at tached to either driver or conductor, the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death." TILE GREAT BRITAIN STEAM-SIITP.—The following letter was received at the Underwriters' Room, Liverpool, on Saturday: "Great Britain steam-ship, Tyrella, Oct. 2. "T. Court, Esq.—Sir: I beg to acquaint you of the arrival of the steam-tugs Noss. 1 and 1, with anchors, chains, and hempen cables, from Liverpool yesterday. All have been run out from the ship in the beat possible direction, in orde4 to heave the vessel off the shore. Al depends on the state of the weather for a few days, In order to amen plush our intended object—that of getting the vessel once afloat. All hands are busily employed heaving the coals overboard, and carting them above high-water mark. The weather appears settled, and I trust it will continue so for a few days. We expect the Sea Nymph on Sunday, to our assistance.-1 am, air, yours respectfully, LionalLD Wsesoe." GREAT WESTERN MANAGEMENT.—Sir: As you have been pleased to admit a letter from R. N., in your paper of Oct. I, severely reproving and complaining of ladies on the part of the Great Western Railway Company, in respect to one trains' porsengere of the 28th ultimo, in justice to that company, whose number of throughout trains daily, both way!, perhaps reach near a score a-day, please ,aimit the testimony of another traveller, who, in the course of the twelve months peg, has travelled from 10 , 000 to 12,000 miles on that railway alone, and who can assure your readers in only one In !dance has he experienced a delay exceeding one quarter of an hour, on 120 miles journey each way. Fair play is a Jewel, and if you, or other journals, show up a railway by such letters as It. N.'s instances of delay, let It be known to be the exception of the general practice, and not the custom. I have no motive, but the justice of the case, to bear my most willing evidence to the almost =gown punctuality and gout management of the Great Western officials in their train.. How thankful ought we all to be that they do not gusd their engine-drivers to rash on to keep time, heedlees of the lives of passengers, and as passengers we cannot know what it is before our train that has hap pened to check our speed. Hard words break no bones, but hard blows will. Spare me, by the judicious judgment of the superinten dents of the Great Welders!, from the latter risk, I say. It is my im press! in the exercise of this judgment saved those of "R. N." on the occasion described, for it Is absurd to suppose anything less than neeeesity dictated the slow movements described by your complaining correspondent, and I congratulate him on the a whole skin by the prudence of those who regulated rs that evening, and who doubtless knew much better what they were about than those in the tntin. I, for one, regret the recent onslaught of the Times and other papers on the different railway companies, apparently forgetting that casualties 111114 !meter the movements of the railway companies, and dictate the slow as well as the quick march.—l am, sir, a Gloucester. shire Resident (and one of your subscribers), G. M. D. THE LABOURERS OF DORSETSHIRE. A public meeting was held at Ryme, in Dorset shire, on Thursday last, for the purpose of investigating the truth of certain statements made in a letter written by the lion. and Rev. S. G. Osborne, and published in the Dimes of the 24th of September last,in which he stated that the l i farmers have been in the ha 't of paying their men on the truck system, and palming u them articles of an inferior quality, for which there would be no other market, such as meat from animals which died of disease; and that the wages of able-bodied married men were but 7s. a week, with an addition of about 3s. a-week from task-work during the two months of mowing and harvest. This letter excited considerable attention, and the more so from its mentioning the fact that Ryme is the property of the Prince of Wales, as Duke of Cornwall. Some time after, a Dorset paper printed a letter signed by Mr. Daniel Brake, the principal farmer in Ryme, denying the truth of Mr. Osborne's allegations. Fi nally, after some recriminatory correspondence?, Mr. Brake demanded a public investigation. The meeting thus called for was held on Thursday, and was attended by Mr. Brake, Mr. Osborne, and several other farmers; the rector, the Rev. J. Blennerhassett, and his brother, were also present. Mr. Vining, solicitor, of Yeovil, commenced the proceed ings by announcing that he attended to take notes on behalf 1 of the farmers.—Mr. Osborne then proposed to call the labourers who had given him information; and, .if he had stated anything wrong, he should be most happy Ea give the farmers the opportunity of contradicting it. After some conversation, Benjamin Barrett was called in, and gave the following testimony: I am a labourer, working for farmers here, just as I can get employed. Last spring twelvemonth I was working for Mr. Brake. I remember finding a bullock dead in a ditch at that time; it was pulled out by horses. It was quite dead, and appeared to have been so for some hours. Mr. Brake was with me when it was found. Mr. Brake sent for a carving-knife, and Farmer Ring came and stuck it. Blood came out, but it was watery blood, not the same as when a live bullock is knocked down and stuck. Mr. Brake said, "he had no doubt it was good," and told me to go for butcher Dodge. I did so. William Bartlett told me he had some of the meat of that bullock.—William Bartlett said, on examination, that meat made him sick. Mr. Brake paid me 7s. a week wages ; that was what he paid me in harvest time. I was paid in money. I have a wife and three children, a son 22 years old, a son 18, and a daughter about 14. Upon cross-exami nation nothing was elicited to shake his evidence. Sarah Barrett, the wife of the last witness, deposed: I generally receive my husband's wages. I have never in any one year received much more than 2/. in money for his work, unless when he has been working for Mr. Blennerhassett. It is all ready money there. We are sometimes out of work a month at a time.—By Mr. Vining : I cannot tell how much I have received in one year for my eldest son's wages. I dare say I have taken more than Is. a-week upon an ave rage for each of my sons and for my husband. I have not heard of a bullock being killed in consequence of the " quarter-evil " for these three or four years I surpose. There have been some, but I do not mind how long. —Can you state now that it was within ten years ?-0h yes ; I suppose it was within ten years.—Just under derstand, woman, that you are bound to answer as much as if you were sworn. Yes ; hut I cannot answer that to a certainty. I am not here to answer all these things and I don't like it.—Then you should not make these THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 5, 1846. charges.-I know nothing about that, but I don't like it, and I won't answer any more of such questions, either.-A Fanner; There, that is the way they won't answer when easy drain like .- Mr. • Vining: Fell ; answer one question. inmses - weas it ?-I think it was Farmer Bishop's.-Mr. =it Now, don't let the witnesses that have been exa to the other witnesses.-Mr. Osborne c Appoint yon please to keep them separate ; I am as much as you. Will you go and take any precaution =L k: ?-Mr. Vining: No ; you are to do that.-Mr. : I will take any precaution you will point out.-(A A m was sent to take the examined witnesses to a cottage Aim Bugler, examined-I have worked for Mr. Brake Sig these dozen years, in and out, doing any kind of work. liar 24 days in the summer I had 9s. a week, besides cider; the rest of the year I have 7s. a week. That has been the weul amount of wages here. I take my wages out some in money and some in goods. I have not drawn as much as 21. in any one year lately ; the most I drew at once was 365., to pay for two pigs. We are not obliged to take our wages in goads, but certainly we are expected to do it.-Mr. Brake: Oh, no, no; you don't understand. Are you com pelled to take goods ?-Mr. Osborne: No ; my last question was, are you expected to take part in goods ?-Witness: Yes; Mr. Brake expects us to take some in goods. In times past I am sure I have given offence when I did not take some out in goods • and, if I did not, there was nothing for me to do. I have been told by Mr. Brake, that if I did not take some of my wages in goods, there would be no employ ment for me. I have had meat of him,„ It has not always been good. It was very bad one time, and made me ver y bad, very ill in my inside, and likewise my wife and chil dren. That was about two years ago. I gave 21d. or 3d. a pound for that; it was mutton. It made my fellow-work men, George Whittle and James Bartlett, very ill too. My wife is not here. She has just been confined. I had some mutton just before Mr. Osborne first came down here: but that war Food; I paid sd. a pound for it. Ido not believe any man in this parish has earned as much as 12s. a week for any one month of this year. I have known beasts killed when they were dying of the "quarter evil;' the meat is sold then at different prices, according to its goodness, some at 3d. or 31d. Some of it is very good. Mr. Vining (to a farmer) : Now, go out with that man, and see that be has no communication with the witnesses. I distrust that man. Samuel Capel examined-I recollect doing some draining for Mr. Read at 3d. per perch, along with W. Bogler ani G. Nichol; we were to take half in meat, but when he set tled with us he made us take more than half in meat. Mrs. Read, who is sitting there, said she could not find money to pay us any more in money. Mr. Read is a farmer, and keeps a huckster's shop. I have bad meat of Mr. Brake at different times. Some of it has been very bad indeed. I recollect one lot, eight or ten years ago, that I was not able to eat ; it was some beef, 15 or 20:b., that I gave 2d. per lb. for ; the bullock had had a very bad cancer in the shoulder; there was a great bunch of matter there. The bullock was killed, but I was obliged to throw part of that beef away ; and so was my brother, William Capel, and John Little, who had some of it. My wages are 75. a week, and have been so for these eight or ten years; in harvest, for about two months, I earn about 10e. a week, and have cider allowed me. I take my wages out in goods mostly. I have been working for Mr. Brake mostly this year, but left him in May. I have sometimes taken as little as 21. in a whole year in money, taking the rest of my earnings in goods. I have five children. I recollect finding a sheep that had been been dead a few minutes. I cut its throat; it bled a little. That sheep was sold to the men at four pence halfpenny per pound; it was a nice sheep. If we are accused of anything, Mr. Brake often talks of " putting us to hat ;" that is, making us hold our hats before us, and hope our eyes will drop in if we know anything about it. My son Mark is 16; he gets ss. 6d. a week and liquor. My son Frederick is 9-, he gets Is. a week without liquor. My eldest daughter is to service ; the next, 13 years old, works at the glove, and milks for 2d. s day. My wife works at the glove, and she and that daughter earn Is. 6d. or 2s. a week between them. I pay Mr. Brake Is. a week for my cottage; it has two rooms under, and one over ; we all sleep in the room over, except the eldest girl. We have no dinstoas or curtains in the room. I rent some allotment ground at 4d. a lug, and some potato ground of Mr. Brake at Is. My earnings in the past year have not averaged above Ss. a week. Charles Bugler examined.-Mr. Baton, the farmer, sent to me a year ago to do some thatching fur him, but told me " He should not pay me in money, for Brake did not pay his men in money, and he should not; it made a great difference, paying all in money, to what it was when it was taken out in goods; it made more than Is. • week difference." I took the job ;it came to 7s. I hail one c b i f th ee•• f him that was not weight by a quarter of a pound. l I 1. ree young children. A ,ppa Gill examined.-I am nearly 2 3 . I have worked mos y for Mr. Brake. I recollect being with him in the Batson field, when we found a sheep quite dead and stiff ; he cut its head off almost with his knife ; a little blood came, but scarcely anything. He offered me that mutton at 3d. per lb., but I would not buy it. This was about six years ago. My wages were Bs. a week last harvest; they were ss. a week in the harvest of 184.5. Ide different work. I was on the farm at four or five in the morning, and stayed till ten or eleven at night. In the dead time of the year I was there all daylight. I took my wages mostly in goods. Sometimes I have irawn money, and Mr. Brake has asked me why I don't take the wages out in goods ? and said I might as well have them of him as of any one 4se. Once when I asked for money, he called me " a riady-money chap, which would not do for him." When I was 16, my wages were 4s. a week.--Cross-examined . Before June in this year my wages were never more than ss. a week, except when I was net working for Mr. Brake, but at tut work for different people ' • then I got 6s. ; but they were jobs that did not last, and I found my own tools, and worked 12 or 14 hours a day. I know two young men of 17, N. Bartlett, and P. Barrett, who threshed oats for Mr. Brake, and working as hard as they could, they could only earn 3s. a week by it. Last year I did some tut work for Mr. Brake, at which I earned 7s. a week in fine weather. I have quarreled with Mr. Brake; lie threatened to give me a smack on the head, and I told him I would hit him again if he did. [The witness was severely cross-examined as to his wages in 1814 and 1845. The rector eventually suggested that he might not really understand when the dominical year commenced, and on inquiry he was unable to tell. Mr. 'Vining, however, dismissed him, rebuking him as guilty of wilful falsehood.] William Capel examined. -I have worked twenty-two years for Mr. Brake. I had some meat of him some years ago that was not good. I paid about 3d. per lb. I told him my wife would not eat it, and said I must not bring any more of it. I could eat it myself ; my stomach is not parti cular. Mr. Brake said, "If he had the hands of her he would make her eat it." I have known Mr. Brake some times kill a sheep that had not had an accident. I remember hearing of Mr. Brake and George Hallett " going to hat " about a young woman that both of them were said to be inti mate with. Master joked George about it, and George Inked master if he could go to hat ; master said, " Yes ; can you, George ?" They went to hat ; and each of them wished his eyes might drop out into the hat he was holding if be had had anything to do with the young woman. I think George had ; and a little while afterwards he lost one of his eyes. Cross-examined.-I have nothing to say against master, but he is a sharpiah man. lie has sometimes told me to help him out of his meat when he had had a lon, such as an acci dent with a sheep, but he did not compel me. I have my grist of him. 1 would as soon have that as money, because I have got the winnowing of it - (a laugh)-and I know it is fit to use. I pay Mr. Brake 31. 10s. a year for my cottage. I have no family. Itly wife can earn very little now; her sight has failed ; she does not earn Is. a week. Mr. Brake gives me 65. a week, and this year he gave me ss. extra for the harvest. I am rheumatic, and barn-work suits me best. I get my butter and cheese and bacon of Mr. Brake, and I dare say I get as much as Is. a week in money . on an average.-Re-examined : I settled with him for sixteen weeks last Saturday week. I had 13s. 6d. to receive in money. At the settiement before that I was in debt to him, because I had a quantity of barley for my pig. It is not very often that I draw any money between the settlements. I generally thrash by tut, and I then can earn nearly 7s. a week. I have earned 15s. in a week, but that was when bread was higher than it is now. Daniel Bartlett-Worked for Mr. Brake as a carter, at 6s. per week, and was obliged to take goods, or else I was not to be employed. I had a quarter of a sheep of him once, a year or a year and a half ago. He charged me Is. for the quarter. I could not eat it. I gave Mr. Baston'e dog some of it, but the dog would not cat it. It had been in salt some time. Benjamin Barrett had some of that meat, and his son William told me he 'gave it the pigs. I had no meat of Mr. Brake after that. -Croseexamined : 1 told Mr. S. Brake, who is sitting there, about the meat ; he laughed at me. I think I drew more than Is. a week in money. Mr. Osborne here observed, that if he called more wit nesses, it would be merely to repeat the same things. The statement made to him by Sarah Bugler, the wife of Wil liam Bugler, was that she bought cheese of Mr. Brake, at 31d. per lb., but that it was like chalk ; that she paid 3d. and 4d. last winter fur the meat of sheep that had died, and that she was obliged to take it; that the meat of ewes dying in lambing was charged 21u1. per lb. ; that some of it made her husband ill. It seemed that this person was not well enough to come out yet, and had not been churched ; but if any one doubted whether she made that statement, he should be happy to go with them to her cottage.-A Farmer: She will deny all that -Mr. S. Brake: Oh, yes, sir, she will deny it -Mr. Osborne asked Mr. Vteing if it would satisfy him to go to the cottage at once ?- Mr. Vining answered that it would not satisfy him any more. -Mr. Osborne had not written the letter to the Times with out getting corroboration of the labonrers on the leading points from thoroughly respectable men, in a higher condi tion of life, likely to know the facts ; but he had quite made up his mind not to disclose their names at present. He would expose no one to annoyance where it could be avoided. (Laughter from the farmers.)-Mr. Vining then rose to speak, but the Rev. Mr. Blennerhasset suggested that a discussion would only create a bad feeling.-Mr. Osborne : Oh, let him speak.-Mr. Vining felt that not one of the grave charges made in the letter to the Times had been sup ported, and that there was not a shadow of evidence on which those charges ought to have been founded. He stated that as • lawyer. He had never attended an inquiry . so disgraceful to the parties who promoted it. (Loud cheenng and stamp ing by the farmers.) As to the bad meat, the witnesses disposed of their own case by their contradictions ; for Bar rett called the unwholesome meat beef, and Bartlett called it mutton. (Laughter and cheers from the farmers.) Why did not Mr Osborne inquire bow the gentlemen treated the labourers in reference to cottages, permitting them to lire huddled together like the pigs ?-Mr. Osborne, after re marking that he had devoted much time and labour to that very point, observed, that he was willing to make every allowance for irritated feelings ;he came prepared for all this. He was satisfied with what had passed that day, and felt convinced that he had done what he had a fair and full right to do, when he wrote the letter. He had thought, and thought still, that good would come of it. He had had no ill feeling or personal animosity to airy man through the whole affair. He was quite aware beforehand that his motives would be questioned, but his conscience acquitted him.—Mr. Brake This is too bad; I cannot stay to hear it. There is no truth in it; it is too bad; there is no truth in newspapers. The farmers then rose and walked out, and the meeting broke up. The inquiry had lasted above seven hours. Some of the labourers came up to Mr. Osborne as he left the school-house, and thanked him for the trouble he had taken. lie addressed a few words to them as he passed on, entreat ing then not to let what had occurred make them less willing to oblige their masters, and do their utmost to give satisfac tion. The men were all neatly dressed, but t h ey had not the appearance of robust health. LE VERRIER'S PLANET.—A great triumph in then retical astronomy has been achieved by the ascurate prediction and discovery of another new planet. Sir F. Herschel writes to the Atheneum that, on July 12,1842, the late illustrionsastro nomer, Besse', convening with him, " on the great work of the planetary reductions undertaken by the Astronomer- Royal—then in progress, and since published—M. Bessel remarked that the motions of Uranus, as be had satisfied himself by careful examination of the recorded observations, could not be accounted for by the perturintions of the known planets; and that the deviations far exceeded any possible limits of error of observation. In reply to the question, whether the deviations in question might not be due to the action of an unknown planet ? he stated that he considered it highly probable that such was the case—being systematic, and such as might be produced by an exterior planet." These unaccounted-for perturbations became the subject of calculation, and. Le Verrier having resolved their inverse problem, pointed out, as now appears, nearly the true situa tion of the new planet. Other observations and calculations carried on by Mr. Adams, a young Cambridge mathematician, quite independent of those by M. Verrier, produced the same result, of the correctness of which Sir F. Herschel was so convinced, that, speaking of the indicated planet, he said, "We ace it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly infe rior to that oracular demonstration." This has at length been afforded. Mr. Hind recently announced in the Times that he had received a letter from Dr. Brunnow, of the Royal Observatory et Berlin, giving the very important informa tion that Le Verrier's planet was found by M. Gallo on the night of September 23rd. It is a star of the Bth magnitude, but with a diameter of two or three seconds. Mr. Hind observed the planet at Mr. Bishop's observatory, in the Regent's-park, on Wednesday night last. "It appears bright," he says, "and with a power of 320 I can see the disc. The following position is the result of instrumental compari sons with 33 Aquarii :—Sept. 30, at Bh. 16m. 21s. Greenwich mean time—Right ascension of planet, 21h. 52m. 47•15 a. ; south declination, 13 deg. 27m. 205." BRITISH Nos-COMMISSION ED OFFICERS.— Acs to the characters of the generality of non-commissioned officers at present, wisdom cannot be considered as forming their most prominent trait; but they possess a great deal of what is de signated cunning, which seems to be the peculiar forte of the class. Unlike the private, they are not independent of their superiors even while they do their duty ; and conse quently they are obliged to propitiate them by servility and meanness, and to mould themselves to their wills. Thus, from studying the passions and weaknesses of others, and being obliged at the same time to conceal their own, they become adepts in duplicity, and doubly dangerous to those beneath them who may happen to incur their dis like, and whom they will endeavour jesuitically to crash by indirect means. The exercise of petty power sharpens the wit, and stimuLdes hitherto latent pro pensities; and deep strokes of policy are sometimes made in a corps by the non-commissioned grade, which would do credit to a disciple of Machiavelli. In many instances, serjeant-majors, by sinister methods, exercise more real power, as regards the private, than the commanding officer, who permits himself to be influenced by his artful representations, personally, or second-hand through the ad jutant, whom he wheedles by " ear-tickling." So admirably skilled are they in this art, that they sometimes even procure commissions by means of it. In one instance, especially, which came in a measure under my own observation, a man who had been tried and convicted by a general court -martial for sleeping on his post, and was afterwards arraigned for perjury, receiving three months' imprisonment for the latter offence, was yet able to manage matters so, that he was re turned in certain official documents as of the most exemplary character; and finally, by flattering the foibles of an adju tant and others, succeeded in getting • commission.—The Camp and the Barrack Room. A MODERN HERO.—Many 'who rend romances about the days of the Crusades, and whose hearts beat over the romance of history—the narratives of heroes like William Tell, who waged a hely war against the invaders of their ' country—are unaware that as great a hero lives in our i day, and is conducting as holy and undying a struggle. How few care to read of Abd-el-Kadcr ! yet who will ven ture to say that William Tell was nobler? The Emir Abd-A-Kader is the indomitable foe of the French, who have conquered Algiers, and colonised, or attempted to cola nice, the neighbourhood. He is a Mahomedan, and hates the Christians. He is a native, and hates the intruders. He is a prince, and hates the conquerors of his country. Ile cannot drive them out; but he has done everything short of it. He leaves them no peace or rest. They in fact own no land but what they stand on. Every head that is put out beyond the cordon Is cut off. Every straggler from the camps disappears. The settlers cannot till the fields, nor go on commercial errand ; for Abd-el-Kader comes down upin them whichever way they go. A company cannot pass from camp to camp without its numbers being thinned. If there is a burning . sun, Abd-el-Kader pounces upon the troops in their hour of lassitude. If wintry weather comes up from the mountains, Abd-el-Kader comes up with it, as if he rode upon the blast. If snow blocks up the way, Abd-el-Kader issues from the thickest drift. If there is a drought, he drives the for far from the water brooks by harassing them flank and rear. He is always on the eve of being caught; but no man has ever caught him yet, nor any Christian touched his white ban ner. His tribes are dispersed, his stores taken, his supplies cut off, his horses shot under him, his allies bound over to deliver him up ; but he has always yet escaped. He is re ported dead ; but is presently seen and felt again. He has worn out and brought to disgrace French field-marshals ; and caused, destitute as he himself is, an expenditure of men and money such as no nation can long endure for the sake of so wretched a colony. Ile has now sent a summons to the tribes of the south to be ready to renew the war spinet the invader, ; and all but those who are within immediate reach of the French answer with fervour to the call. One cannot but look forward wistfully to see the issue,—to divine the lot and death of such a man—to watch whether his power of hope can sustain itself against such odds; whether he dies on I the field or in a cave of the rocks—as a warrior or a prisoner, or as one of Nature's princes in one of Nature's The only thing we know is, that the man himself— is —will never be conquered. Being well assured of this, it would be endurable that his country and native tribes should be brought under European sway, if there were a fair pro bability that it would be ultimately for their real good. But it is for their invaders is show that it would be so ; and till they do, our sympathies must inevitably be with the indo mitable Abd-el-Kader, before whose majesty—the native majesty of the soul—every Mahomedan bows his head, and every Christian quails."—Miss Martineau, in the " People's Journal." THE CENTRAL SUGAR FACTORY SYSTEM.—We passed under review some time since the interesting and in structive pamphlet in which Mr. A. G. Fyfe elucidates, with copious calculations of comparative cost, and pro forced esti mates of working results, the superior advantages which are claimed for the new system, over the present time-honoured routine, in the manufacture of sugar. It will insure economy of labour and capital, with a larger ratio of profitable pro duct, in bulk as well as in quality, of primary substances and accessory values. Mr. Fyfe, in connexion with various respectable West India proprietors and merchants interested in the prosperity ef the sugar colonies, who are persuaded of the soundness of his views, and the great practical utility of his plans, has been endeavouring to raise, by joint-stock association, the capital required to carry them out on a pro portionate scale ; but such is the depressed state of West Indian property, and consequently the indifferent credit which it enjoys in the money market, that capital, however in excess for enterprise and industry otherwise, cannot be tempted to flow in this direction. A fund of • certain amount has been raised from the almost exhausted resources of West Indian interest, anxious for the success of a system which promises a happy solution and redemption to existing difficulties, but the amount is understood to be quite inade quate to work out, upon any proper and enlarged scale, the objects of the sugar factory system, the machinery for which, with the buildings, must necessarily be of expensive construction. The heaviest outlay must be in the outset of the undertaking. In these circumstances a memorial has been prepared, and is now in course of signature by the " proprietors of estates, merchants, and others interested in the British West Indies," in this city and elsewhere, addressed to Earl Grey, as Secretary for the Colonies, in which after declaring their conviction of the " advantages" to be derived from the "operation of central sugar factories, and the consequent separation of the culture of sugar from the process of manu facture," they "declare that so paralysed is the West India interest that, without the aid and co-operation of the Go vernment, they feel themselves unequal to the task of raising the requisite amount of money to carry out the measure." The memorial concludes with a request that the Joint stock company may be endowed with a royal charter, and that assistance may be afforded by " way of loan, by the issue of Exchequer Bills, on the security of the proposed works, for such amount, and on such conditions" as the Minister might see fit. GLASS EYES NOT WARRANTED TO SEE.--A Teri curious cause has just came before the Juge de Paix of Neuilly. Some time ago, Madame Pluyette, a widow lady of fifty, but who still attaches much importance to personal appearance, had the misfortune, in playing with a lap-dog, to receive from it so severe a wound in one of her eyes that it came out of the socket. Having heard much of artificial eyes, and being recommended to apply to an expert manu facturer in this way, named Tamisier, she gave an order for a glass eye, for which_. Tamisier charged. her 100 francs. Refusing to pay this charge, the manufacturer summoned her be:ore the juge de pail. Madame Pluyette haying appeared, holding the glass eye in her hand, the juge de pais asked her why . she refused to pay the bill which M. Tamisier had sent ? " For a very good reason," replied the defendant, " I can see no more with it than I could be fore."—" What !" said the juge de pais, " did you really imagine that you would be able to see with a glass eye?"— " Did I think so ?" retorted the aagry dame ; " certainly, I did. Will you be so good as to tell me what eyes are for, but to see with ? I ordered the eye for use, and, until M. Tamisier makes me one with which I can see, I will not pay him a sou. I wear a wig, which is quite as useful as natural hair. I have three false teeth, which answer as well as those which I have lost, and why should I pay for an eye which is of nil use ?" The juge de pail endeavoured to convince Mme Pluyette that glass eyes were fur others to look at, and not for the wearer to look from them : but, find ing all appeals to her reason of no avail, he condemned her to pay the plaintiff the amount of his demand. When the defendant heard the decision, she became furious with anger, and, after dashing her glass eye on the floor, rushed out of court amid the laughter of the crowd. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Ocr. 3. NAVAL ARRANGEMENT. POlt RELIEF OP IRELAND. — The steamers of the Royal navy engaged in conveying Indian corn-meal to the various depots hate been augmented. The following is a list of the steasmaiskaady on or ordered upon this employment ; and to it is saMeisel a list of the hulks employed or *Ring up as floating d seln kiwi-or-wan Seasicsaa—The ftv—ailA deep, 280-hone power, Commesdar Ildese, employed ea the galena aides a the Nadas. ItbssfsmasoiseoMahstai pewee, Maw Comemier Spin, ear emepleg sod le swiss parts et the oeNt. cal la the awrimele dNum whet reNdred. The Dee, 1111141ana is = Peeler Onianderfther.oo3, ditto. The Hmodam, Per, tholonsiet Ommeoder Jenkins; the Plata Mhos power, dame Cammeider Lowe, and the Mao. 11114 s power, g of smolt dminght of water, sre emplogel k gamy. of the cora meal io the several porta tom gm larger =1 to plow op the riven to whale the Pepe not pressed. The Swallow, 'Morse power, Heim Com o ispesit. evader to the deed. "hip 1144peose. la the Ilsami. met, Moons , Lest Oenemaieder Joimeteme, esampeng foe sewed is Inks& Ms Tense% la.hona . Wilk, sews woopim te be aeoployea is the delis of the station. Inefht. Mime power, Cemseder Fraser. now sweeping Os Nalsoot basses Wexford mg Waterford, to be appropriated to the mama loam of the statics. The Blazer, 120. hone power, Canada ligadigtoo, now surveying at Harwich, to be dispatched to Ireland Immellstely for the conveyance of provisions. The Dasher, 100-hone wow, Captain Sherringhant, now sunning the Southampton Weaq be be sent from Portsmouth to Ireland, immediately, for the slime pewee. STORIARIM—The 11= , 44-gon frigate. 1,100 tons, Master Commander Burney, • vessel, moored at the Mend of Foynes, in the Shannon. the a 44-gun frigate, 1,100 tons, fitting as a depot at her NaSeity's adman, Devosport, sal reedy to receive the gear of the Sadegmer, Mls Islip* to lraiwL The AMAIN. maehe, a 20-gun htpM, TM am lie Nang or • duple at Deconport for Ireland. Thus we taw 11 mesa* war soseem ef 1,758 collect ive horse power, 5,864 tom sad 710 allows and rose, and shall have three depots of 3,000 tow Ed 100 ms. The above, together with two ordnance lighters also employed, make 17 sal of nearly 9,000 tom and above 830 see, on the oast of Ireland. doe - aed THE LABOUR RATE ACT. The following additional proclamations, ordering the hold ing of baronial presentment sessions under the above act, appeared in the Gazette of Friday night : ARMWOH.-Barony of Armagh, at Armagh, Oct. 12. Ceniow.-Barony of 'drone West, at Milford, Oct. 12. Barony of Saint Mullins Upper, at Clanton% Oct, 13. Barony of Saint Mullins lower, at Ballyinurphy, Oct. 14. Coax. -Barony of Cork, at Douglas, Oct, 17. Barony of East Mus kerry, at Coachford, Oct. 15. DON IDA L.-Barony of n lagoe, at Lifford, Oct. 14. Barony of En nishowen Bast, at Carlo Oct. 12. FEADASAOH.-Barony of Alaghenatephana, at Brookborougk, on Oct. 16. GALWAT.-Barony of Dunmore, at Dunmore, on Oct. 14. Barony of Leitrim, at Woodford, on Oet. 17. Barony, of Louglues, Loughrea, on Oct. 16. Barony of Tyaquin, at Decrees, Oct. 15. Knoisoy.-Barony of Craiiiigh, at Proliford, Oct. 17. Barley 41 Knocktopher, at Knoektopher, on Oct. 12. Barony of Cidlan, at Callan, ou Oct. 19. Barony of Oowran, at Gowran, on Oct. 14. Barony of Fasoidinnla, at Castlecomer, on Oct. 13. Kiss's CDC/CIT.-Barony of Geashill, at Geeslin!, on Oct. 16. Lorrii.-Barony of Lower Dundalk, at Rlverotown, on Oct. 12. ?dvarii. -Barony of Moyfernath Lower, on Oet. 12. Getea's Cousrv.-Barony of Clondonagh. Borrisin.Oroary, cm Oct. 14. Barony of Cullenagh, at Abbeyleix, on Oct. 16. Barony of Mary borough West, at Mouitrath, an Oct. 15. Barony of Upperwoods, at Camtletown, on Oct. 13. Trio:re--Barony of Clogber, at Clorther. on Oct. 12. Wasnaitacu.-11.irony of Brawny, at Athlone, on Oct. 16. Barony of Moyeashel, at Kitbeggan, on Oct. 15. Ws:roam-Barony of Shelburne, at Beall:Mown, on Oct. 14. W icwww.-Barony of Newcastle, at Newtowmblountkennedy, on Oct. 12. DUMAN. -Barony of Uppereroaa, at Tallaght, on Oct. 12. Barony of Nethererces, at Swordo, on Oct. 14. -Barony of Clone, at Cane, on Oct. 12. Barony of Con nell, at Kilmeague, on Oct. 17. PUBLIC Wougs.-The following circular has just:been issued:- "Relief Department, Office of Public Works, Sept. 29. Sir,-I am directed by the commiroioners to request you will inform me whether in making your recommendation for works in the different baronies of a district, you formed any calculation of the length of time the works proposed by you would employ the people. It is most important that Information on this head should be supplied the COMMWDOCICTS, that they may know how to act At present it is desirable that no more works should he undertaken than will be out:ticket to employ the destitute for three months, before which time (if necessary) the sessions may be re.aasembled, but there can be no objection to recommend the commencement of a new road, the cost for completing, which may amount to ley 2,0001., your present recommendation being connrcd to the ordinary drainage and fencing, leasing the metaling and bridges for a future.time. -1 am, sir, your obedient servant, Joscru C. WALULK, Secretary. " County Surveyor." CAVAN.-Lower Lottunrett-The adjourned sessions were held at Belturbet, on Thursday. The magistrates agreed to present the sum of 4,5781. to meet the destitution for the next three months. TI:I.I.YI4UNCO.-On Tuesday, the parish of Killishandra was disposed of; amount glinted, 3,5601. FERNIOT.-The magistrates and ceu-payers constituting the court of presentment sesslons for this barony, met on yester day at Csatletownroche , to pass works for the purpose of giving employment. The total amount granted was 46,916/., of which one item, 600/., was freely allowed for the building of a Catholic chapel in the town, the Rev. Mr. Fitzpatrick engaging that it should be expended exclusively in labour, as the materials had been already provided. The proceed ings were distinguished by the greatest unanimity and libe rality, evincing at once a considerable degree of alarm, and a determination to meet the crisis with energy. KERRY. - T OH P. 14 KMY. - An extraordinary pre sentment sessions for this barony was held in the Court house on Saturday last. There was a very numerous atten dance of magistrates, sew-payer,, and Roman Catholic and Protestant clergymen. The chair was taken by Sir Wm. D. Godfrey, Bart. The magistrates and cess-payers proceeded to grant presentments, but unable to get through the busi ness of the sessions in one day, the meeting adjourned tall Tuesday last On Tuesday the adjourned meeting was held is the Court-house, the attendance and crowd being as the previous day of meeting. The buuiness of presentments was again proceeded with, and alter a strict investigation of the comparative merits of the works proposed, the sum of 65,0001. was granted to supply the urgent demands for employment in this barony. CLaNCAVRICE.-In accordance with a proclamation of the Lord-lieutenant, a meeting of the magistrates and eess-payers of this barony was held at O'Dornsy on Thursday last. John O'Connell, Esq., chairman. Presentments were granted for this barony to the amount of 30,0001. KILLARNEY.-A baronial meeting was held at Killarney on Monday. The meeting was numerously and respectably attended. Among the several public works presented for, the navigation of the Laune, and the opening of the Maine, were particularly recommended. Presentments were passed to the amount of 3.5,0001., after which the meeting adjourned. K eN MAHE -The baronial sessions for Kenmore were hel4 on Wednesday last; James Dickson, Esq., in the chair. The exposition of the state of the barony devolved on the Rev. John O'Sullivan, R.C.C. ; he had taken some pains to prepare for the meeting the state of the barony; with re spect to the population of the parish, and as to the rental of each parish under the poor-law valuation, he should state that they were as follows: Tu.* ICilKarval. Nonuse g ........ 70.52 3988 1092 481 t Such being the value and population, be conceived the manner of taxing should be so laid as to be applied fur either by the value or population. The chairman, the Rev. J. O'Sullivan, J. D. Croker, Esq., and the Rev. Denis Mahony severally addressed the meeting. It was then proposed that the sum of 30,0001. should be allocated for the barony in sums proportionate to the population of the several districts. The meeting was adjourned to Friday. LOUTH.—Dcsnatx UPPER.—The baronial sessions for this barony were held yesterday, at the hour of twelve o'clock. The attendance comprised most of the respectable inhabitants of Dundalk, with the great bulk of the gentry and wealthy landholders of the county. A large number of the poorer classes also filled the galleries and other portions of the court. The chair was taken by Thomas Fortescue, Esq., Itavenadale Park, J.P., and with him sat Thomas Fitzgerald, Esq., J.P., Richard De Verdon, Esq., J.P., Lord Roden (who was greeted with applause on entering), Lord Jocelyn, &c. The meeting did not break up till a late hour in the evening, and therefore, says the I,otals Examiner, we have not space or time to give the details in this day's paper. However, we may state that the frightful representations of distress made by the Rev. Mr. Thackery, Very Rev. Dr. Coyne, Rev. Mr. Lennon, P.P. (Crosamaglen), &c., &c., were entertained in the most humane spirit by the meg . - strates and cess-payers, and large sums, proportioned to meet the probable wants of each locality, liberally presented for; together with an assurance from Mr. Neville that the works wul be immediately proceeded with. UPPER ORIER.—The extraordinary presentment sessions took place yesterday in the court-house of Ballybot, Newry, for the barony of Upper Drier. At the hour of 12 o'clock, the chair was taken by the Earl of Gosford. The meeting was attended by the magistrates, clergy, and respectable cess payers of the town and neighbourhood. There was a most creditable manifestation on the part of the noble chairman and all who interfered on the occasion, to do the utmost for the relief of the existing distress. The court was occupied to half-past 4 o'clock, when presentments to the amount of 7,.5001. were agreed to. LATEST FROM DutcOARvAN.—A correspondent of the Cork Examiner writes as follows: " DrecuAavAs, Ocr. I.—.t further supply of Hussar, arrived here Yesterday. There are now about 110 of the Ilu,-arA and 1 , 1 Royal dragoons quartered here, and I understand they are to remain ; be sides about 150 foot and SO policemen. Oar inhabitants are surprised that they continue to pour in troops, ireurad of cam- ' plying with the people's just demand of adequate wages for their support as the price of their labour. The wages offered would not half feed them at the prevent priors of privisions— and they say, Reduce our wager when provisions are lowered in Price.' Man instance of their peaceable intentions and honest pride, might be adduced the fact that, on Monday, a baker named Morgan, went to the multitude and invited them to his house, to give them what bread he had in his chop ; but they refused to accept his gene- mud offer; and that on the day that two men were shot, and many others supposed slightly wounded. On yesterday a Teasel bad been loading here from the stores of Mr. M'lwonald, of Liverpool, and they expected to be perfectly unmolested, as the fbbermen, who principally detained them, bad, on Monday, all gone to sea. No sootier was it known that they were loading the wheat, than the women determined to guard the provi alone; in the absence of their husbands. They came to the quay in a body and threw the plank over, and thus presented them from conti nuing, and have sinoe kept a watch, even at night—bodies of them relieving each other at internils. The dragoons, infantry, and police men were called on to protect the shipment of the corn. The pasedge was cleared of the women, and a few men were found hardy enough for a large increase of pay, to carry it from the stores. But no sooner did they commence than they were received with such a shout from their countrywomen, as they could not stand their gave, and desisted. As uo men could be found to bring the corn, the military dimmed, and the women continued their watch." THE PoLluE WoUNDED.—From the Cork Constitution, it would appear that the police, through theirown awkward- ness, or the awkwardness of their position, suffered from each other's fire. The account in that journal says: "At about half-pa.t seven in the evening, an attack IC IA made on the military and polio., in the street lawNng towards the chapel. Stones and other missiles were showered ipso them the a length of time, till at ,ength in their own deform they were übligel to tire on their amellsota. Two line young man, one from near kilinactliotnae, the other from Kill, Longford, were badly sounded, and It was only owing to the late period of the evening, and the existing confusion, that room were sot killed. One of the 67th is sloe wounded by a shot trans the as done of the constabulary—as the two parties end in diligent directions—and in the melee the gallant fellow re ceived %sabot in the shoulder, pe.maug out through his back. Great apprehensions ire feared for his recovery." On Thursday, mays the Walerfora Chronicle, "The following persons were committed to the county gaol for being in the late riots in Dungarvan they are to stand their trial at the coming quarter sessions to be held in Dungarvan this month:—Michael Neil, Michael Brennan, M. Terry Patrick Power, Maurice Crotty, Thouars Rosette, David Bombe, and William Barron. They wereoscorted by a strong body of police, and some of the Scotch (legs also accompanied them. " N ATION AL COMMIWEE OF IRISit LANDLORD,: —On Monday last there was read at the meeting of the Repeal Association, a letter from Mr. Daniel O'Connell ,reeommending the Irish landlords to calla meeting of their bcdy to assemble in Dublin, to consult fur the interest of the country, and convey their opinions, when matured, to the government, to guide them in their Irish legislation. The sugg..stion has already been acted upon, as would appear from the follow ing correspondence, which appears in the Mail of last sight. The conveners of the meeting, I may mention, are of various and extreme political parties : Ti THE RIOHT 0011. THE EARL OP LITAN. Dublin, Sept. 26.-We, the undersigned, request that you will allow your name to be affixed to the following requisition, and to direct your answer to Charles William Hamilton, Eisq., 41, Upper Sackeillentreet, Dublin:-M. D. Bellew, Bart., W. It Wade, It. Archbold, M.P., T. Seymour, R. Howell, T. It. Hardy, It. A. O'Don nell, Bart., D. Roche, hart, W. Monett, C. Doyne, W. J. Armstronif• C. W. Hamilton, W. Owen, H. B. Oaddlugton. Rviatedriore.-We, the undartigeed, request a meeting of the land ownersof Ireland, to be held In Dudek; ICI the day of next, to press upon her MajeffiregjOeffhtinset 'the importaner of at once summoning Parliament, ip er&i. that the provisions of the act, entitled the 9th and 10th Vie., limp. 107, may be altered so as to allow the vast ammo( money about to be raised by presentment under it, to be applied to the development of the resources of the land rather than in public works of an unproductive nature. Signature and ad dles,* to be attached hereto, and returned. Letters from Lord Lucan and Mr. Osborne, expressing 1 their approbation of the step. have been published. THE FAMINE.-MEETING IN THE 'ROYAL ER CHANGE. -Yesterday, a meeting of the citizens of Dublin was held in the Royal Exchange, at the hour of one, pursuant to a numerously signed requisition, addressed to the Lord Mayor, " for the purpose of applying to the government to advance money, by way of luau, to such Irish railway com panies as can offer satisfactory security for such loans, in order to enable them to give immediate employment to the able bodied population inhabiting those baronies declared by the Lord-Lieutenant to be in a state of distress." Besides a crowded attendance in the body of the round room, there were oc the platform Lord Milltown, Edward Grogan. Esq., M.P. ; Alexander Boyle, High Sheriff; W. It. Collett, Eeq., M.P.; Timothy O'Brien, Esq., M.l'. ; Thomas Birming ham, Esq., J.P.; Mr. Mulock, Mr. Brodigan, Mr. H. G. Curran, Isaac Butt, Esq.. Q.C. ; Alderman Boyce, It. R. Guinness, Esq., G. Hoyte, Esq., Thomas Mooney, Esq., T. M. Gresham, Esq., Thomas Kirwan, Esq., T.C. • Alder man Butler, Sir Richard Baker, see. The !tight Hon. the Lord Mayor was called to the chair. Mr. Jobe lteynolds acted as secretary. The proceedings were unanimously in accordance with the purpose for which it was convened ' • but the Earl of Milltown who seconded the first resolution deli vered the following remarkable speech. His lordship, whom name was received with warm expressions of approbation, said : I think I shall commence by apologieing and expressing a hope that I may not be eimeidereil an intruder here. (Cries of " No," and "Hear.") The words of the requisition um to "c ill the eitieene of Dublin." Now, though not a resident of your city, I was born within It. lam the son of a Dublin freeman, and it is my greatest Dome to say that, whatever be my position in life, I owe It to the honest industry of a Dublin merchant. (Hear, and cheek.) My Iced Mayor, in a cries like the present, I think it le the duty of every ' one, rm matter how humble, to conic forward and euthest whatever he thinks might be an improvement or a benefit at the present mo ment. I contem that it was for this object that I came here - It was to impress on this meeting, and through this meeting to impress on the government, the aboolute netvesity that Mists for the immediate assembling of parliament (or the alteration and improvement of as incomplete an act as ever emanated from a legislature. I spesh of what is caned the Labour Rate Act-ass act that will totally ruin the WO and impoverish the tenant, without affording due remuneration, or any concomitant advantapi to the labourer, or ultimate benefit to the soil. Let it not be imagined that I and others who dissent Iron, this measure wish to shirk the present deities., and exonerate ourselves from the raspone bility that we all feel we arc under to ;Mord due employmon to thole people who want the mean, of ouleistenee. No; we are willing to be axed--we are willing, tf it be necessary, to be impoveriehed ; but we do demand In the name of serve-In the name of common remit -that the tat shall be applied to remunerative and beneficial objects, and not to melees ones. (Hear.) My Lord Mayor, it has been the fashion to abuse the landlords of Ireland. Far be it from me toundertake the defence of that class; but their conduct on a late cessions, a n d at the present moment, is a nebk and perfect refutation of the calumnies with which they have beers mailed. (I tear.) They are willing, as I have said-nay, they arc anxious to be taxed ; but they demand that it shall be for beneficial purposes-in more concise wools, that it shun be to furnish food, not stones, for the people. 'While on this part of the subject, allow me to say that I go a great deal furtle r liertuipti than moot of my clam; and to prevent any mieconception arising either here or elsewhere, I may as well fully explein myself. I they lately publicly declared my conviction that Ireland and Irishmen were entitled to a perfect equality in the several municipal and isolitical rights of the subject with Englend. (Hear.) I now met emphatically decline my conviction that the poor of Ireland are fully entitled to, and will receive by an unproved measure of poor-law, the same pro tection, the same means of relief, as the poor of England de. (Mice, hear.) It has been said that the extension of out-door relief, on the admission of the principle, would amount to a conniption of We property of Ireland. No. I deny it I (Hear.) We know that thousands of ewes of Irish land is Imre claimed and barren ; we know that even of the improved land, with the exception of a few gentlemen's gardens and other places of the kind, there is not an acre within the boundaries of the kingdom, which might not be made to furnish two, If not three times what it now doe.. I ertateil that I would not become the defender of the land lords of Ireland, from charges which I believe, conecientioway, to be refuted and unfounded. But I may be allowed to obeerve, in panting, that amongst the various calumnies with which they are aseaded, them Is not one more fatal and more easily refuted than this - that. they, the landlords of Delimit -and mark you, when I speak of the landlords of Inland, I mean the proprietors of the soil -exact and receive more than un equivalent for the value of their land. My Iced, it could be proved, and racily proved, that the head landlenis of Ire land do not receive anything like the value of their wound, with a very few exception,. Take, for example, the humble it/Week:it who now addresop you. If my property could he let at the present moment, it ix not to say that the rental of it could be doubled ur quadrupled, but I can prove to the Kited:tenon of any one sceptical OA the subject, that it could be set for ten times it, present rental. I have land let for half a crown an acre that I know to have been let, and worthily let, for Itlf. un acre. (hear.) But why do I ono Mien this fact. Think you It is from any stupid eguthrtinal vanity in speak ing for myself! No, my lord ; it is to prove to you how easily tho landlords of Ireland tnay be accused of crimes and of effects over which they have no power. At a public meeting held in Blesseington last week, for the purpose of memorialking the Lord Lieutenant to call into effect the presentment act there (this will show how badly the labour art worke,, a certain minder of proprietors, inyealf in cluded, undertook that In three parielice where we nettled there should not be a single unemployed man who w""hl net re- I mice remunerative employment at our own not. We therefore memorialised and prayed of the Lord Lieutenant that in directing the execution ue the act in the places fur which it war re quired these three retrishee ehould be exempted from it one-radium. Ile perceived by a proclamation, and In fact by a muniiiniration front the seentary, that the whole of the barony was pro himed, red teat the eetimable nobleman who had the misfortune at that nement to held the reeponxible, and, LA It appeared to him (Lord elilitown), very onerous s ottoe of lord Lieutenant, had not the powerof exempt-Mg the Om e leinshee ; and coneepiently that these parishes is here full eni ',element would he given, would lo equally taxed with the other*. It s as a e'ell-known saying that "out of mil came mod." In Ireland the land had, in the find intoner, to support the heal landlord, wno in many emirs did not receive the interest of the money in iginally Mid out in the purchase of land -next the tenant holding Ilium Matey under hint-in short, three or fair chords had to be sum - suited in Idleness„ till at length, on the miserable occupier. the small faro er, descended the hopeless and helot-rending tick of suppor I g these ' various dames, and at the name time of attempting to feed his wretched family. In consequence of what had hdallen the potato asp there would in future be no leery of that fearful, that rumens, competition for land-that driottfill tenacity with which the people ding to the land. The middleman, wiz( ti he found himself nn longer able to get cattier tenants to take the and wider thn, would have either to give his interest in it to these aim could employ or become a farmer bit - node In fact hr mint descend from being a proprietor to becoming a farmer. Thee the individuals who were now small far mer., in a state of deetitusion and suffering, become happy and con tent. d laboueent There wile another pint which he would impress on them, which was, the necessity of establishing depots throughout the country for the safe, at remunerative hut nit marvationfirices of food for the people. He was convinced that the prevent unnatural pressure pro. ceded from what was a well-mart, but which had turned out to be a most unfortunate expression on the pert of the prime mini,ter, namely, that he would ant interfere with private enteoxis,. Dee perm diseases required desperate remedies. The prime minister and the gosernment should recollect that in the present emergency no private enterprise could supply the wants of the people. Where were the imam of transferring MA from one district to another! In the interior of such district so Connemara there were no corn merchants; there were only hucksters; and it was by persons of that ell-BEllst the present unnatural prices were kept up. Owing to that tact provi dons were dearer in the prevent month of October, the MOLT pi-estima tive period of the year, than they were in April and May loet. Nut- , withstanding the removal of tho corn duties - notwithstanding that there was some portion of the potato crop still left-and an elemilant corn crop stored up -through avarice on the one hand, connected with forestaleng, and a timidity on the other hand of threshing out or eons sliming, the people were driven wild with famine ' while the country was absolutely teeming with abundance. This was the un natural state of things, which should be put an end to by the concen trated efforts of the nation, directed by the government. Ile had to apologize for delaying them; but the subject wee one on which he felt deeply, being truly momentous, in consequence of tie scenes of lons of life of which they heard and read, as haying happened in con nexion with it. Ills lordship concluded by expressing a hope that the Queen would be induced to visit her Irish subjecte, observing that even the present destitution would not cool the rapture, the devotion, with which her footsteps would be attended." The resolution was put and carried. REPEAL AtiBOCIATION.-ADDRESB TO THE TURVULENT, -An address from the Repeal Association to the people was published in the Pilaf of yesterday. POPULAR COMMOTION, Kiso's Coe erv.-The following is from the Tipperary Vindicator : " An immense gathering of the populace, amounting to between Ave and iia thousand men, assembled in the neighbourigenl of Bon neither on Friday last, and had determined to proceed in a body into the town, for the purpose of making Moo II theirdistreex to the autho rities, and to demand that either employment or food should be pro vided for them, as they acre resolved not to starve. But their inten tion having become known, precaution was taken to prevent, so far as possible, such a formidable coucourse from entering the town, and although they stated that their object win peaceable, yet mute appre hension was felt that an attack would have been made on the Commie sariat precision store. There was a strong body of the constabulary, under command of Subdiepectors Duncan and Fortewee, with Neal Brown, R.M., who nnived here from Tullancore. Mr. Brown that morning rode out, and met this immense crowd of people about two miles from the Mem." The following is from the Tipperary rindientor : "It is our sal duty to record one of the most mysterious, at the same time one of the most atrocious murders, of which thiscountry has teen the theatre for a long period, and which was perpetrated in the Woad noon of Wednesday, on the person of a single:oly inoffensive man near Kilgathan, the residence of that excellent council- gentleman, Mr. Solomon Cambie. The particulars, as they have reached us, and I s they were subsequently elicited at the coroner's inquest, a hich was held on Thursday, before Mr. James Carroll, assisted he Dr. Demp ster, of Nenagh, were these:-The deceased, William Latchford, and a man of the name of Hogan, were going home from Kilgarvan, about a quarter past twelve o'clock at noon. Latchford Lod ben for some years gatekeeper at Bellview, the reddenee of Mr. Ed ward Biggs, and he was also employed a, tutor by some of the neighbouring gentry, and, le fact, was returning him Irish= sons at Kilgsrran at the usual hour on the day he met his death at the hands of the ruthless assassin. lee had gone - I for some time, when Hogan went a short way before ' • „, _:, x afterwards a man jumped out of a lane which was . • ,_, , E -.e ....._ rs.: ' - ... '• , ~.. ..." , „..,,,, • ~..... .., ~_, i r. If , 1 , , ' J ' 'r, ~ itr, L . •.• ::: Y: Z ' eau* • : 07 , Jo A