The Express. — London, England, 1849-12-10 00:00:00

THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICT'S. (room the Dilly lime.) MANCHESTER, Deo. 8. ieba defalcation of the late actuary of the Rochdale • Bask see likely to prove seek mere serious Is. NOPanticipated.Tao isvestigations already on& wee 1••• — _,,,, e ,, e placed this beytmet a doubt. Island of a deficit leaa• "" us e d ' oomentieicntion of tlis , Clad, 4 --, • •• dien eared that then m u at licit 80,0001. M ort et olowg with the 1111601 Int invested with 11 1 2 .0 . 4 0,woont diati London to meet the dogma& of de. TIMM ma people who awe% that the whole of oHaworth's defaleatios.• will reach the esteetnelg sus ae 80,0001., but it is set known that these state • 1 7. n• • aa ppieg better Ora vogue surunas. The =ive el the boas of deposators to the poet time, 7Z - .. solei Mithority torn:nog, Ke ith thh amnia at M, &ad it Is hand ce y that s will not be an, modem NM hang hick sad appear unwilling to eee ee d • tar • ir books. Biotite, uneducated. ill-isforneed coos ---• eeeole, malty of them are said to dislike parting with helievitg that by so doing they give up all the ainst the bsak. The muting of depo mall 01 ' 1 wormed to take pi ece at the Public in R iehdale dna •• wing at 10 took place, and was a very sorrow. ad ire tbsis, Yeas 180 to 300 people were there, of almost oho sod of both ems. But they appearthid, we tor re the must z, to have bat a goo notion of w h e tthey strew. sad of the mode of conducting business in a Imp ineetiog they seemed to have even less know- A considerable tone was wasoneted in atter appointinerher g a Asinine , the potions nominated an da w n ; the office; anti when at length they did g z er • • person competent and willing to act • ere" Mr. Edward Taylor, one of the managers of the wisp Beak. Mr. Hunt, the solicitor wader whose advice the snoop bad been coevened, thee rose sad said he had b a d as tonere., with Mr. Ttdd Pratt, since his arrival in tiandale, and from what had takea pine he wee led to the asoclusion that the present ninitie.g wee premature. Mr. bit ha t told him that the eausisatios et soloeuts at the woo. B the was yet going as, that it would occupy three mete to come, and that until this investigation was closed seals give no opioi.ot ea to the liability of trustee" or any s ow pesos& He hail told him the Maas/gel, were willing te, pee facilities for a full iovestigation of the accounts, and liff eeted the appointment of three of the most competent of the Owlets as • commit'ee to go into an examiostion with the eisaagen. Atter this st • torrent a good many questions, widens' to the object of the meeting, were put, and bonyieg the &Bair y of the questioners rather • to their ewe peso at pianos es depositors than that el the general body. Some of tins were person, t a dalog from their qaestions, who had contrived to plan in jasiimik an amount of mosey beyond the limit allowed by * s aw perdue's% 601 its one yea., and 1601. as a mai w w, sad they were anxious to leans whether that would pegjeneetheis legal claim; °then were member of sone res which had placed their feeds in the bank, whisk societies had see. rb. en enrolled sad ogrAlled by Mr. Ti-td Pratt, Webs, were desirous of ascertaining whether Mr. Pratt, m w lolled in to be the arbiter of their fate, would take ego ism, urn them lot &rowdies his authority. by settieg gilds their claims, Some were persons apparently who had rakes money to the bank on days when, by the rules, the atatitoomeat should not have been open Is? deposits, but which Mr. Haworth had nevertheless consented to reeeive ; sad them were oe thorns as to whether the managers and trestees, if they were debts even in the opinion of Mr. Tidd Pratt to maks good the late actuary's dobilnitons, would take advantage of this irregularity. Poor siestures—dit re was no one there with the voice of audio thy to set their doubts at rest ; no one to offer them • word fit esmfon. They will have to go ow three wee's, and pro bably many weeks more, amebae, doubting, and punting air ewe minds, sad teeing lawyers, in their sonny, to !sale them still more, with vain attempts to solve the saw eLesittes, and to give Impassible answers to all sorts of pawns. The el"..inttan was asked if the manages* and Wean want to make good the defalcations ? His reply was ast the tiseretio• could 11 , 4 be answered till after the inns =wese at an cud. Alter a Mathes sad useless a, which lasted something like as hoar and • ha, the proceedings were adjourned to the 4:b Ja asery. The people spleved to he excited, and =say of diem very eatable ; but they seemed to be somewhat at a less, with the absence of say 'retain isforma , ion as to their ultimate position to regale their money, how to give effete hve net to their peewee. la every quarter of the town ad eeighb urkesid the Habra still continues to be the ab samba thew of esawareation. Among such a elms el people se the deposits= in a savings bank, it may be readily interlard there are cues of iadi Waal hardenip deserving of the deepest sympathy. As old man told hie story. lie has an only child, who is a apple and anxious to place the poor creature as much as beyond the reach of want, and keep it hose the loathes. e, when his own free limbs should have ceased to pawn their wonted funceimas, he had laid aside and awed In the bank it .m very limited weekly earsines • sum el about 761. Tears rolled tows the poor fellow's face as he Isid the atery—for he It oks to the darkest olds of the use as t o what may be recovered of his savings. Welti a formed persona say that the late sateen's personal property will not realise more than 10,0001. towards meeting the deficit at the bash, and his Made creditors will, in effect, be paying so mach for that parries, by their own claims being set aside through the pretense, which to , law gives the depositors in then eases. At Mosoconage, the late actuary's residence, the landlord is /epoch d to have put is an imeation for rent, and the 'honk's elates had plaid a mark 'pen the amigos and lair of hones. lamed of 1,1100 depositors in the savings as theses Begun were led to believe by the late attuary's balance-slum, it appeals by the present invirstigaion that teen will turn out to be newly 3,000, and many of them are der sitars oilman assonsee—some of double tits sum to which the rules of tte bark should have restricted their dap sits. A morning contemporaryasks if there was no club at the bank to take comanar.ce of the late actuary's proceedings and who mast have been privy to his freed' Item's' that a young man acted as clerk there occasionally, and tnat he has acknowledged to the trustees that he had discovered the existence of frauds to some extent ; but this min was the actuary's own servant, aid was employed the greater portion of his time at his mill, so that prudence, or selfish fears, or some thing she sealed his lips. Tb- frauds extend back to somewhere about the year 1830, and as, it persona. liability either of a legal or moral nature rests with the mane gen or trustees, it will 'stead to all who have held the pri des over that period, the number is much greater and Includes many more names then those given in the printed apart of the bank for last year, which was copied into the Deily News of the Ist instant. It is said nearly Sim hundred gentlemen have received unwelcome circulars to attend • meeting to be held at the bank on Monday nest, and hat sore of then had never known, or Lad for gotten that they bed ever held the position of managers or trustees. Certainly their obliviousness, real or feigned, is so far apparently einctre,, that they are known to have been lusting up the manual printed reports of the bank in every direction, to ascertain it there is not some mistake as to their alleg d Not council n with the hank in that capacity. It would appear that the Iwo actuary named pines" fur this position at the annual meetings, and substituted others, and that they were "painted pretty much at his own discretion, and that many of them, Ks far from looking alter their late actuary as a servant, arid sera tinining his accounts, attended only when it suited his convenience, or policy, or prudence to ;end for them to pet their signature to some document—some return to the com miseionen—when he told them blandly that their name was all that he wanted (which there was more tenth in than they supposed), and they gays it without hesitatios. It appears the acouunts cit the deceased as secretary to the dispensary, are Wand to have been correct, hut there is a Wrier, in his accounts with the Lancashire and York shire Railway Company to the amount of 1001. The trustees and usenceers of the Manchester Savings Beak, with a Laudable satiety to repress any onaressNry alum in the public mind as to the security afforded by banks of the kind properly conducted, have put forth a statement, showing the system on which business is con ducted in that large establishment. It certainly leaves but little doubt upon the mind of the render that, by the system of checks and counter-cheeks prevailing that ugh the entire establishment at every step in the business, the depositors have every reasonable ground 6r confidence in its intnrity. Toe hat year's deposits in that bank amount to 770,0004., of which 610,0331. has been invested with the comminiouers, an increase upon the deposits of the previous year Invested, 0167,8321., a statement highly satisfactory as *bowleg the greater prosperity of the working people of this great town during the pest twelve months, in addition to the evidence it affords of the security of the money. The London sad North Western Railway Company appear to be taking vigorous measures to relieve themselves from the enormous rates levied on their property in all directions by overseen of the poor, and since the appeal against thr rate at .Manchester, ,and the appeal alpinist the rate at BIS. ton-upori-Irwell, they Lave appealed to the magistrates of Stockport against the rate for Cheadle Baulky. The cos was heard on Thursday. Mr. Pollock and Mr. Cane, barristers of Manchester, ap peared as counsel in the ease, the former for the appellants, sod the latter for the respondents. During the hearing ot the case, which excited much interest, the courtier crowded by heal gentlemen,—Mr. Ovens, in opening the case, quoted at considerable length several clauses from the set of par liament, bearine upon the matter in dispute, sad contended that the on la on the railway company to prove that the rate was unequal and sinjast.—/(itch discussion here ensued, as to the destrability of taking the ease before the Court of (aeon's Beath, and at the auggestion of the magistrates, the learned Renaming en i r.ged on either side retired to eadeseoar armies the matter for this purpose, but after MIN Use retuned, without having been able to ccme to an arnmeremei.t. Mr Jephson, the overseer of the township, was thea called, and stated that the gross estimated value of that portoi of the line on which the rate waslevied was 6,4644. 13s. 94. and** ragesble value 2,749 1 . 10 0. upon Whisk the ratio, Is. la the pseud, hada la oo.ober, 18-0, ememand to 1371. Os. 6d., and that the ammo y had paid tie nese upon this assessment ever einem the yew 1846. The emeebooks were then put in.—Mr. Ovens said that is the ewe as the part of the respondests • upon whisk Mr. ?slink at oistettlerab!e length, argued Witting reepe. diets had set abaft' ely MIN and that they were booed sap t e rate by other evidence.—After sea saw mint thole mod elecolveren on be h sides, the beach d' that she gay .laneeld go on.-14r. Pollock then rose =t ease ontetaded th-. the n•e had been imrropeny and in seemed of this view quoted several came that had been Ward at quarter sessions and in the ouper.or courts to eue• that the rate should be levied upon the amount tee property would preinee, if let to a tenant from year to pass Ile 'ht alt atop show, by a gentleman who he t examieed rue cempany's Media, the gross receipts tot that reds& al dr Us is *be reepeadsas issrasbip, sad the oz. paaditare irawdrid w praises Ow vasobassorbisk tbsy inn shooed by law se &dam—To this seam lb. Ovens said w had two 'blank's—Asst. as to tise_saaa,se . is waich Mss& sued the Te t; shieldl;; ; esimadly, to reeeiviag the midges* of say person woo had mislaid the book, who meld oily give the malt of hie ewe masmiaatiee, sad whisk his lemma [rime knew was set legal evideace.—Mr. Pollock said se he mid tot cell the evidence he desired, whitest the mama a the respoadeatc, he should request aa adjournment of the me, iu order to produce the clerks sad book& from the several railway eta hum—Wier much diseessioa is either side, it what Mr. Omac withal the beach to 00116111 the este, so that the cm might at note he carried to the Court of Qemat's Beech, Me magistrates ccaseated to stoma itiers tortaight. HOME TRUTHS BY A TENANT FARMER. At the annual dinner of the Leicestershire Agri tabard Association, which took place at the Bell Hotel, Leicester, on Friday, • few home truths were spoken which deserve special record. lar. 0. Krum, • tenant farmer, is allusion to the de ploring tuna in which protectionist agriculturists spoke of their prospects, said that things would assuredly !sunlit such worse than at present it the agriculturists acted cm the assumption that nothing but • return to protective duties could save them. The position of the farmers and government was like that of the waggoner and Jupiter in the fable. The farmers were making government to help them out of their mess, aad the answer was, " Flog your honer, asd put your shoulder to the wheel ; if you went, you an do it yourself." He thought the aoventment would not grant them protection until the had flogged their hours and put their shoulders to the wheel. Protective duties more too :emote. to be trusted to fur relief, and somethieg &unseat be done. It was • common Belie, at such meetings as these that landlords and tenants " towed in the seine boat " But, in his opinion, the property of the t taints w.s on deck, and was being swept away with every wave that broke over the vessel, while the property of the landlords was securely stowed in the hold. (Orvet applause.) What would th , y thick of officers on board • ship who refused to sacrifice any of their owe property, while that or their crew was being thrown overboard? That was just the position of the landlords sad tenants at the present time, and if they wished to save the vessel the officers snot make sure sacrifices as well as the crew—toe land lords must sacrifice • portion of their rents (Cheers.) He did sot wish to be disrespectful to the landed gentry; he be lieved the intern a of the owners and occap:ers identical. aad AO thought they ought to mark together, and nut allow ono one to &audios everethis and tie other nothing. (Itai sewed cheers.) Loa. at t he operation of the repeal of toe corn laws. The labourers of Liriesetenhire never received so much bread, meat, beer, sad clothing fir their labour as at the presets! time. There wu no nun for maudlin sym pathy about the labourer in this county. The lebower had not suffered • penny by the repeal of the corn law.. And how much had the landlord suffered ? lie was sorry to have to sty aaything that was unpleasant, bet he could not suppress truth the landowner had not suffered any loss. If • man rented 400 acres of land, aid paid 8001. rest for it, he was, according to the chairman's account, a lour of 2004 per annum. But the rents o. the county were no lower now than at any former period. Oa the other hand, the reduction in all kis& of produce made a difference in the cost of • gentleman's Wu bliehneent. It would, perhaps, be saying too much to fix the saving at one-fourth, but, if they said one-eighth, that would make 1001 to a gentleman tering 400 ecru, so that the repeal of the corn-laws was actually putting 1001. 'year into such a gentlemen's pocket. In conclusion, Mr. K. recommended the farmers to endeavour to ob.ain fair egresses% not to take farms "over each other's heads," and thus raise rents to an impetus' height, but to bid only a fair rent for land, and to roust on haling equitable agree mente. If they erected haildings upon their farms, they ought to take them away, or have an equivalent for thins, and when they math improvements in the soil, they ought to be rewarded for it, if they had to quit before they wen exhausted. They ought aho to take cue in their agreements to provide against bring eaten up with game, and being laced under the surreillance of • set of gamekeepers. (Applause.) The plain truths spoken by Mr. Kilby, continues the re port, were warmly supported, and responded to by other tenant tarsus present, and have excited great interest in RUMOURED REMOVAL OF Till LAW COURTS-- The following sate Miens the Evening l'oat:—•• The sou ahount rumours have obtained currency ot late with reference to • *apparel transfer of our law courts to West stiester, said to be in the contemplation of the government. Now we are in • position to give the most complete contra diction to this idle story. Such • measure is not, and never has been, thought of. It must lot perfectly evident that to transfer the Irish courts of law to Westminster would be about ae happy an arrangement as to transplant the Scotch courts from Edinburalt to Lmeols's isn. Tits NEW ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—We under stand that there are several volunteers for the command of, ' and for other positions in, the new @retie expedition to be organised to proceed, via Behring's Strait', in search of Sir John Frarklin ; but the whole affair is in the hands of th Treasury, and nothing, it le expected, will be done before /Sprit aunt. or until intelligent= is received from the Plover, now in Bs krisg's Swaim—Visaed Soren= Giudge. YEOVIL AORICOLTCRAL SOCIETY.—The annual meeting of this society, which Is one of the most important in thie county, was held on Friday. The show 01 stock wee very superior. The alteration which wu made in the rules daring the last year, throwing the exhibition open to all Eog land, app. ared to bale a most beneficial effect. It was also decided to have no prizes for fat stock, but to increase the number of premiums for breeding stock, the committee con thieving that to be of more importance to the interests of the agriculturists generally. Thee =petition for stock was very epirittd, and there app' ared to be • marked improvement in the Devon*, of which there were many good specimens exhibited. The Down sheep were of a superior quality, and creditable to the owners thereof. Upon the whole we may say that the show was very good, and so far as records the reticular kind of stock wu superior to previous exhibitions. There was • very good assortment of roots. The weather was most unpropitious, the rain pouring down in torrents during the whole day. After the business of the show wee over, • numerous company assembled at ate Townhall, where they partook of a good substantial dinner, under the presidency of Sir Alexander Hood, But,, M.P., supported as the right by W. Pinney, Req.. : Tug LATE COLLISION AT WOODHOUSE JCNCTION.— ' Thomas Owen, ot New Holland (remanded irom Monday). an engine-driver in the service of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company, was finally examined ea Fnday, at the Sheffield Town-ball, on a charge ot having caused a collision on the company's line at the Wocdhouse Junction, near Sheffield. The defendant's head bore the mark of • frightful wound, received at the time of the ate ' dent, and he was suffering from other injuries inflicted on I the same °anion, which had rendered him very lame. After a long inquiry into the circumstances ot the accident, the magistrate severely censured the conduct of the defend ant in having driven at an improper speed when approaching the junction, and fined him la, or to be committed for two months. DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE AT SANDAL.—Od Wed nesday in last week, a sad event occurred at Sandal. A friendship has existed for some time between Mr. Charles Fer 11104 1 ,14 a youth about sixteen years of age, and the mes-terrets of Captain Wood. On Wednesday morning young Fernandes obtained remission of a double-barrelled gun of his brother's, sod went out shooting email birds ; he returned to dinner and again went out about two o'clock. He called at Captain Wood's stable, where he found the groom, Michael Lynch, and a young man named Schorah, who out ✓ionally works there. Immediately on entering the stable, one barrel of the piece went off, as is supposed, from the hammer catching some part af te re clothes while he was in the act of glinting the don hist. The charge of small shot entered the right breast of the groom, Lynch, and passing near or through the heart, killed him almost iestantane only. An intuit was held by Mr. G. D. Baker, the deputy coroner, at the Castle Inn, Sandal, on Thursday evening, when evidence having been taken , the jury retur.ed • verdict of 8 ' Accidentally Killed."--Yorkshire Gawk. COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR WlGAN.—Accounts have been received co an alarming colliery ciplation near Wise*, a colliery bel 'aging to Henry WOWS, Esq. About I twent y men were near the pit at the time the explosion took plus. They all rushed to the eye of the pit with a view sea r . AS the Gage was being wound up, a boy about named Henry Howarth, gee caught, and his head emes sensed from hi. body. Several of the others in their attempt to escape were very 119111Iftly burned. SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. MARRIOTT, OF FLEET 111111211T.—On Soturaay, about a 9uarter past four o'clock, Kr. Henry Marri , tt, the extensive scalemaker an monger, ei Not-street, and who was formerly a member of the Court of C =mon Council, entered one of the carriages on the South Wr stern Railway, for the purpose of proceed ing to kis eountrphoue, near Kingston. in the course of a few minutes after the unfortunate gentleman had entered he wee setisod to drop his hind as if unwell. A friend, who was also is the earri-ge, went to his assistance, end found him speeehlrae, He was taken out ot the carnage just as the whistle was hi wing for the train to start, and was canted into the statics. Mr Seidel, surgeon, and another medical man saw him, and at ones pronounced life totally extinct. The body was forhwith removed to one of the private rooms at the Halo taf Waterloo inn, near the station, where it awaits ea lagaeet Flat AT UPPER HARE PARIL—About fire o'clock I oa FriJey evening lut a fire broke out in one of the old ! wings of the mansion at Upper timelier's, the seat of Gen. ! Or tumor, who, with the family, fa sow from home, the only persona re Wing then being a man servant and some limits, who are lelt in charge of the house. A dispa , ek was immediately sent to Newmarket for the engine, which was on the spit as soon as time would permit, and the tire was eenflord to the: portion of the house in wh eh it com menced, and whi n was entirely destroyed. Tne rest of the balding*, en 4 all the new part of the mansion, was feria ns 'ely preserved. Tits fi rs is supposed to have been caused by the overheating of one of the flues, by which in. nets some j tits and other wade/oft became Juiced. But tew pe-eons wet, then, ouin to tne fire not being seen through the err/ thick toe —Cambridge Chronic*. HENTRIICTION OP THE KILLILEAGII FLAX AND Canton MILLS av Etaa.—lnformation reached Belfast oa Wednealey Doming that these exteustve buildings were by destroeed fire on the evening before. The fire broke cut about seven o'clock, and was, we understanrs, of by the basting of a gas pips. The destruction of these mil s will throw oumher of prams out of r.. meat; met we neve to 1.-ent that tee property was o ly partially lasantl.--Northens ; — fidai d be oder this THE FXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1849. Draws, Dee. The Warder of this day contains the mooed and concluding part of the report prepared by the grand Osage Lodge. As the former portion of the volu minous document was a direct charge against the Irish government for some of those secret and mys terious proceedings about which people hear so many rumours in revolutionary times, and purported, 1• 1 fact, to be a revelation of the profoundest secrets, it possessed no ordinary degree of interest, and was anxiously sought after by the public. The part nowi given to the world cannot boast of the same ages& I tire materials. It is simply the Orange version of the atrocities of Brse, and of the singular proceedings of the Orange magistrates on the bench of Cmtlewellan, and may be looked on as a counter statement to the report of Mr. Berwick, the govern ment commissioner, and to Mr. Redington's letter to the Lord Chancellor. It will be perceived that this statement commences the narrative of transactions with the Orangemen so far beck as 1846, and it is besides greatly encumbered with o ffi cial documerts. The annua l meeting of the Royal Irish Agricul tural Society was held in Dublin yesterday, and the proceedings were of interest u throwing some light on the views entertained by men of intelligence and ',tending, and par eking of different politicil opinions, on the prospects or the agricultural interests of Ire iand. Political subjects being excluded from their discussions by the rules of the society, the opinions of the speakers, as developed in their speeches, were of cJurse greatly restricted. FINE ARTS. WATER COLOUR EXHIBITION. Mr. Grundy, of Regent-street, favoured ns with a private view of his very interesting exhibition, con sisting chiefly of water colours, with a few oil paint logs. They are by the favourite names ; and, indeed, many of the work, are an earnest of what exhibition loungers may expect to see in the ensuing season. Mr. Grundy is strong in Cattermoles„ Landseer., and Harding.. From To?ham's hand, there is only one, and that a companion to that he exhibited last year in the old Water-Colour Society, the "Irish Courtship," which will be remembered with pleasure by all who have seen it. The present composition represents what may be pre sumed to be the ',me persuntires, at a "holy well," and watching with mingled anxiety and fear the restorative effects of o. draft from its waters on the pallid cheeks of their sickly infant. Poesy atd pathos lark as much in the subdued harmony of the composition as in the depth of feeling tt conveys in the expression. There are three drawings by Edwin Landseer : •' A Hunter and Hounds," " Napoleon's Eagle," and a little sketch, in sepia, the first idea of the picture known as the " Coming Events." It has been said that Landseer can do what he likes, and this is felt as much in these three simple sketches as in his more finished works. Poetry is recognised in the closed wings and crest-fallen head of the eagle, as the profile of the Emperor is faintly discernible, relieved in white chalk on a coloured ground. There is senti ment most refined in the little sepia sketch of "Coming Elento," within a few hasty touches; the calm serenity of sky and the line of the horizon could not be rivalled by successive efforts ; while nature itself sways the admirable bustle and motion of "The Huntsman," as he turns round in his saddle ; the neighing horse, the dogs, and even the brushwood, are admirable delineations. There are two admirable sketches by Stan field, one a broad expanse of lake win from a lofty promontory, about which " chougu and crow " are disputing. Fidelity, admi rable dexterity of touch, and brilliancy of tone, are the too well known characteristice of this painter. There are some admirable bits by D. Cox, glowing misses of rock and blue distance ; some fancy sketches by Poole, which always sparkle when engraved ; and some sea-views by Bentley. The Magic East, by the pencil of I). Roberts, who has made Holy Land and its Titanic monuments his own. Hunt, Niemano, and Vaoher, with others equally excellent, fill up the list of this interesting exhibition. The chief pictures in oils are glimpses of Spen serian wood-nymphs by Mr. Kennedy, who seems heir to Etty's incarnations. H's bits of Southern scenery have quite an original harmony. MUSIC. PRINCESS'S THELTEE. A new opera, called " Mina." was produced at this theatre on Saturday evening. The composer is Signor Selves, a gentleman of reputation as a singing-master and orchestral conductor, but hitherto unknown (in this country at least) as a composer. Tne libretto is written by Messrs. Val. Morris and G. Linley. Such a piece was not calculated to give inspiration to the composer, and Signor Schira s labours have not been very succes‘ful. He has shown himself to be a skilful musician, conversant with the me chanism and technicalities of his art. His vocal phrases flow easily, and " lie well " (as it is termed) for the voices of the singers; his scenes and concerted pieces are con structed according to the most approved forms; and hie orchestral writing is brilliant and effective, show ing knowledge of the powers and uses of the various instruments. But he is destitute of originality. lie has no style of his own, and the opera constantly re minded us of the popular composers of the day,—now Rossini (who is Signor Schira's principal model), now Donizetti, and now Auber, with occasional German ism', as in the Weberish drinking song in the second act. To these varieties arc added the English ballad ri lu Balfe, a style of music which that composer found all-powerful in winning the plaudits of the gods of Drury. All this gives the music the appearance of mosaic or patchwork, instead of the homogeneous work of an individual. The BACH SOCIETY.—An association has just been formed, under the above title, for the purpose of cul tivating en acquaintance with the works of the illus trious John Sebastian Bach. The society has been organised by the appointment of a chairman ()Ir. William Sterndale Bennett), a committee of manage ment, and the necessary officers for transacting its business, all of them distinguished members of the musical profevion. The primary objects of the society are, in the tint pace, the collection of Bach's musical works, including, as tar as practicable, all the various editions ; also copies of all available au thentic manuscrints, and all Vographical works relating to him and his family, with the view of forming a library of reference for the use of the members ; and, secondly, the pro motion of a general acquaintance with the works of a writer so voluminous, and compara tively unknown, by all such means as may be found practicable. Tne tame of John Sebastian Bach is (amide: to every lover of music; but it is lisle more than his name. In this country, even among pro fessors of the art, an acquaintance with his works ex tends little beyond his fugues for the organ and the harpsichord; while his sonatas and concerted pieces for tnstrumen•s, and his numerous ora'orios, masses, and other musical compositions, many of which', for grandeur and sublimity, have never been surpassed, are as completely unknown as if they had never ex isted. To unite for the purpose of obleinieg and studying the works of this great man, and thus mak ing them eventually known to the musical public, is an undertaking worthy of our ablest artists, and one which ought to meet with every encouragement. UNPUBLISHED LETTER OF DR. JOHNSON.—The following letter, written by Dr. John's)* nine we. Its before his de.th, is published with a fac-simile of his hand writin.t, in the Literary Gazette:- 1 e To Mr. Bllaiid, merchant, in Landon.—Dear Sir, I am glad that so many could yet meet at the e'ub, where I do n..t yet despsir of some these fat hours. Tour amount of poor dear Payne makes me uneasy; if his diotemprr were only the true vs scurvy, it is ieeurred easily, and I believe infallinly curable. But lam afraid it is worts, not a vitiation of particular humuirs, inus a debilitation of the .hole fume, an effoct not of ciisuality but of time. I wish his recovery, and hope that ha wishes and prays tor mine. I have for some days, to apt ak in the lightest and solve language, made no advances towards Wealth. My breath is much obstructed, and my limbs are wells of yew. Hyvever, I have little cause to complain. My mind, however, is calmer than'. m the beginning of the le r, and I rotator! myself with hopes of every kind, neither despairing of tows in this world, nor of happiness in another I shall, I thiak, not return to town noisier than I loft it, as,'! unless I gain ground again, not much hatter. But God, I ) humbly Imp, .ill have mercy r 0 me.—l aro, dear elf, ,I yor most humble rerwrit, SAX. Jooseox, Lichfield, Oct. 6,1784. -CIRENCESTER AGRICULTURAL ABBO- 6iiiicii: The annual meeting of this *Deist] of farmers and sheep and cattle breeders of the Cotswold-hilh was held on Friday evening, after the usual exhibition of stook, roots, to. The pr othdings were of on unassally interesting character, and 200 were present at the dinner. The cattle show in the morning Iran rather above average merit; there were more sheep than had ever been brought together at previous anniversaries, and among the pigs was one which excited much attention, if not admiration. It belonged •es a Mr. Robert Newcombe, to whom was awarded the prize for the " best fat pig." E irl Duels took a stogie prise ; and the others were fairly diatribe ed amongst the most noted stock brooders and farmers of the hill district. At the dinner in the evening Earl Bathurst presided ; and after the introductory toasts, that of " the Bishop and Clergy of the Diatom" was gives ; an which The Bev. H. CRIPPS addressed the meeting and tamed I to the present aspect of agricultural affairs. He regretted he I could not congratulate them either on the aspect of their pre sent or tutees affairs, but he thought that, looking at what was occurring in the country, they had no reason to com plete. So long as they sent gentlemen holding certain opium' to represent their sentiments in parliament, and so long as there was a majority against them, it was their duty not to oppose the laws made, but to torn them to the best advantage. There were so many nostrums put forth for curing the present complaints in agriculture that it was diffienit to tell which to choose. One party proposed the abolition of the malt tax, and another was for throwing certain bent taxes on the government, but he could not agree in either of these propositions. sums set up the posi tion that Is. and others that 2s. a bushel on wheat would pay the grower's rent, but what was that when wheat was 15s. per bushel ? (" On, oh," and some con fusion.) For himself, he did not care a farthing about pro tection. He had sold wheat this year at 101. per load, arid had got as fair, •r even a better, profit than he had got last y. ar at leg. He was not afraid of the times. There were many present with a larger capital and more experience than him self, who had spent a large sum in manure and feeding. He had n spent a farthing, but had cenfiaed himself to in creasing Lis labour and he had by that means merle two crops grow wen only one grew before. He advocated an increase of expenditure in labour on farms instead of re ducing the labourers' wages. Tory all lived in luxury ; what was coast lend a luxury when he was a child was looked upon as a necessary how ; it was only the poor man whose comforts were measured ray the gunner* loud. 11 sobered the remedy fur agricultural distress wee in their own hands. From his 'opener ce as chairman of the board of guardians of the Cirencester Union, he could say that he had seen families 01 labourers driven into the meekhouse at a castor 501. a year who might have been kept I est for bile. If the wages of thews men had been raise.l 2.. , a week , they would have been kept off the poor-rates. The ' remedy which he sug.teseed was, that they should farm no' men land than they had capital to cultivate, and that they should make the most they possibly cc uld out of it. On the health of the members for the easti en division el Gloucerershire being given, apologies were made for their absence, the Marquis of Worcester being absent with his regiment in Ire teed, and Sir C. W. Co 'rington being in ill health. 'fee "Members turCirencester" were then toasted. Lord VILLIERS, eit P., reulied. He was aware that he was addressing them at a period when the greatest excite- moot prevailed on the present state of affairs. As to the mes sures which had caused the agitstion,they ought t o be discus-eel in a spirit haying regard not merely to the interests of th• minters as a class, but oleo to the general interests of the country. (Hear.) Halted never flinched, when called upon, 'tom defending the course which he had pursued, or intended to pursue, with regard to lelalletire measures put or pro -ytective, and he was fully prepared to du so when the tittiner nth close ; but he did not think Ora the present occasion was the right one for winning a declaration of opinion from him as to measure. coming before parliament, or matters re. hating to the agricultural hd.rest. (Ruch iuterruption.) But he would venture to say one thing—that those gentlemen who told the farmers that the ag ticultural interest was likely to be driven into a corner, and to be utterly destroyed, talked of that which they knew nothing about. Did they think that an interest which represented the mass of the wealth and intelligence of the country c told be so treated? He for one, should be sorry to see the day when that interest did ton see' int that doe attention which its position demanded. The farmers' present difficulties were to be met by their own exertions—(" Oh, oh ! ' and interruption)—aided by their landlords. Any system which would produce the greaten goon lily of corn tram the land would be doing the meat good tor the couatry. ("Do, no!" and disapprobation.) He was sorry to find that there were gentlemen present who ap peered to think that raising a Inge quain was not doing a great deal of good. (" No, no! ") nt of ty of cor n &denten to the excellence of the cattle show and the value of agricul tural smirks ; and slid, he thought that meetings such as these, where all parties met on the best possible terms fairly to discuss those question which were of s r mesh importance to them, must have a Read tendency. It would also tend to improve the breed of animals, and he slid tie thought they would el feel proud of the show which .hey had had in the yard that day. Mr. MULLINGS, M.P., in replying to the same toc.st said he regarded the full attendance of landlords and tenants' at that meeting as a proof of sympathy on the part of the former towards the latter in the present unfortunate state of their affairs, and he hoped it augured an intention on their' part to co-operate with the tenants in their eft:to to °bud , tnose rheum .s of relief from their embarrassments which ware called for. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Multlop made some ellusions to Mr. Pusey's Tenant Right Bill, the Juventze Offenders Bill, and the bill for throwing the expenses ec lunatic asylums on the landlords, all of which had his cordial support, and be hoped would be renewed in the next m aims. Mr. B HOLLAND, formerly M.P. for Worcestershire, drew a picture of a cl dh-making country in the far west, where, to keep foreigners out et the market, they put on an import duty of ss. per yard, their own cloth selling for per yard. Having done this, and beaten the foreigners out of the field, they raised the price of their own cloth to Ils., I upon which the landlords—the millownere, seeing what a I profit their tenants were making—mind their rents, so thee the manufacturers had to pry the =Moyne!, 2s. out of the 4s. of th eir extra profit, while the result of this state of things was that the rich purchaser expended so much less money in the purchase of other articles, the middleman wee obliged to content himself with using one-half the cloth he had formerly used, while the poor man soot. became only half-clothed. Additional pauperism fol. towel, and rates increased from the same cause. It the end, the du'y had to be • withdrawn altogether, and efforts were made to restore it ; bet puolic opinion was so strong against it that it was given up and cloth became cheap tram foreign o competition . , conse quence, of the withdrawal of that duty was rally near the same as the consequence of the withdrawal of the duty on earn in this country had been. A cautious men, who had watched the progress of event., and anticipated this state of things, had acted judiciously ; though increasing his income ander these changes up to the period of the withdrawal or the duty, he had not increased his expenditure, and having thus a good capital to fall back *ruin, he could meet the times, and he called upon his lanalord to theist hiss in in- creasing his produce to make up for reduced profits. Mr. D. BOWLEY proposed the " Health of Mr. Meehi," a a well known by name, and to all the agriculturists the oriontry. In the course of hie remark., in introducing the Mast, Mr. Howley said he should henceforth discontinue thee premiums he had been in in the habit of giving (in con nexion with this society) for competition by the agricultural labourers who had kept their families the greatest number of yews without having had recourse to parochial relief. The object of this premium was to keep people from the work hour., and his reason for discontinuing it was that some of the great landlords about him were doing their best to drive the labourers into the unions, by refusing to find them cot- loges to live in. In two parishes alone, to his knowledge, this system had cost the union in one year 1691., whereas an I opocoite policy would have cost the landlords a mere oohing. Mr. MECHI, in reply, said they had had a good deal of the doleful to eight, but he had no doubt there was a remedy for their complaints. Let them send men to parliament whose opinions were their own. A majority of such men would moon put the matter right. (A laugh.) After some remake on the supply of food grown in this country, Mr. Rectal urged the importance of increasing our production by every means, and thus avoiding dependance on the foreigner. which wou d give employment to their labowere, and would not reduce prices. Then, referring to his Essex farm, Mr. Kahl proceeded to give a statement of the results of his high farming system, by which he had doubled the produce of his land. (A V tice.—" But what were your profi.s? ") He must admit that as yet there had been no profit, but he expec ed 'tome. (" Hear, bear," and a laugh) He thought, teo, that at such an outlay as he had made there could be no profit on wheat at 101. a-load ; hat there were ways of :wilting u , .• fir this loss of price. They might depend on it that the lan t of England would not go oat of cultivation so ling as there was an increase o: population, and bidders for it at low rentals. Mr. MULLINGS inquired how it was that the farm tr the Cirencester Agricultural - College had never paid its rent, although admittedly in the highest rate of cultivation ? Mr. MEC HI replied that it was like his own. It would pay In a year or two more. It had not had sufficiently fair play yet. 011er toasts followed. EFFECT OF THE CHANGE IN THE NAVIGATION Lawa.—lt is stated that a new machine has been invented tor sawing ships timbers, calculated to have an it. fluence io cheapening construction whiet u ill be of some imp irtaoce in canntsion with the repeal of the navigation laws. It hes teen introduced irate the ship buildi-g establishment of and sisal: (where four of this m are row being put up), gad to have been fora u...0n trial to Ittodace tot only a considerable sating in wages, but ales in matetiels 11 construction is simple, and it cuss t e Con, the futtecke, and nearly every other put of the timben required in a ship, so as to render them cap this of brig at once placed in .heir p uition without any operati n of hated labour. — Economist. EXTENSIVE FlRES.—Yestertiey (Sunday) morning, shortly before 4 o'clock, a fire hroke out in theremises I oc cupied by Mr. Joseph Parting, a watchmaker and jeweller, carrying on business at No. 114. St. George's-street (late liatiliff-highway), which was not extinguished until nearly the whole of the occupier's prop , rty was destroyed.-8h: ttly before the above fire occurred, one of a very alarming cha racter happened at Nn. 19, Allred-place, Newierno-e%use way, is me tenure of Mr. Hooper, a linen -draper and silk• mercer; and the flames were Out en inguished until they had travelled completely through the building. Tt.e pre Mire of Mr. *Oho.. dear in deer. (No. 20), and Mr. Good, palmier (No. 18), ar e also damaged. RAILWAY MEETING. THE LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE EAI-WAYS. An extraordinary meeting of the sharehelders of the Belton, Blackburn, Clitheroe, and West Yorkshire Railway Company was held on Wednesday, at two o'clock, to take into consideration the beads of an agreement•posed to be entered into between this company sad the But Lancashire Railway Company, and wkioh unwanted to a proposition to leas* the Blackburn Railway to the Esst Lancashire Com sway for a term of 21 peen. The chairman, W. Hcmhy, Reg , thought the term arms proposed too long, and men tioned that a ptoposition had just been sent in. on the subject of an amalgamation, by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Re 1- way Company. After a long discus4on, it was resolved to refer both propositions to a committee of five shareholders consisting of Messrs. Potter, Parkinson, John Hargreaves, Hardcastle, and Barnes—three to form a quorum. LONDON AND SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY. The following communication has bees addressed to the shareholders in this lime " 118, York-road, Lambeth, Dee. 7, 1849. "Sir,—At the special general meeting held on the 28th ult., a charge was brought forward against the directors, affecting the integri.y of the management. After statements and explanations from the auditors and some of the directors, the meeting declined to appoint a committee to inquire into the fame, which was the come recommended by the chair man (Mr. Chaplin, M.P.) and by the deputy chairman of the board of directors (the Berl of Morley). As, however, only a small section of the shareholders was present at this meeting, and no public notice had been given that any such charge would be brought forward, the directors have thought it due ne less to their own characters, than to the shareholders at barge, that an opportunity should be immediately afforded, of instituting the fullest and freest inquiry into the charge in question. They have accordingly called a special general meeting for Saturday, the 22nd instant (this being the earliest day which can legally be named), at 12 o'clock, at Niue Elms Station, to afford the shareholders the oppor. trinity of appointing a committee from 'heir own booty to inquire into the facts. Having adopted this as the simplest and most straightforward course, they retrain from entering into any statements which might, under existing circum stances, be regarded as partiAl. They will content them selves by saying that the charge advanced is founded on • total misapprehension of the circumstarmes. The directors, so f.r as their personal interests are concerned, are only desirous that the facts should be dispassionately investigated they therefore trust that the shareholders ge nerally will feel it • duty to attend the meeting, or appoint proxies authorised to act for them, in order that • fairly con. stituted committee may be secured, and that, in the mean time, they will guard themselves against being influenced by reports or partial statements. To the advertisement call ing the meeting is appended a notice, suggested by certain shareholders, to consider the propriety of ordering to be printed, in the first week in January of every year, a list of the proprietors entitled to vote, together with the number of votes to which each proprietor is entitled, corrected up to the 31st December then best, to be sold at a reasonable price to every shareholder requiring the same. " I am, sir, your obedient serv..nt, " WYNDHAM HARDING, SCCTetAry." CLERICAL SOUTHAMPTON.—The Bishop of Winchester has licensed the Rev. Dr. Rather.ll, incumbent of St. James's, Weatead, to perform diviue service in a chapel at &Berne, a hamlet situate in that parochial district. By this arrangement ad. ditional version are provided for the inhabitants of an im portant hamlet in the parish of South Stoneham ; whence; as impropriator of the great tithes, the Rev. the Earl of Guil ford, rector of St. Mary's, Southampton, derives annually 2,0001. of his princely church revenues. This chapel will accommodate 200 persons, and be opened for the first time by the incumbent on Sunday evening, 16th instant. Half of toe number of sittings in the chapel ore free to the poor of the district. Tue Rev. Alexander Eccles Auchioleck, RA., Trinity College, Dublin, has been appointed by the Rev. Dr. Hatherell as his assistant curate, and will be Boomed by the bishop. VACANT PERPITUAL CCRACT.—Pemberton, Wigan, dio. Headwater ; value, 1501. Patron, the Rector of Wigan. Vacua by the death of the Rev. Joshua Paley. NAVAL ADMIRALTY.— APPOINTMIINTtI. —SIIONIb2/i. Master . le Asiieuint : W. J. W. Yelitind. Phation.—Mate: W. A. V. &tyre ; Naval Cadets: A. G. Perry and D. Price. Acting Gunner : M. Thompson. THE COURT OP INQUIRY on board the Eurydice, 26, Capt. Anson. terminated on Taurecley, when the results were ter warded to the Admiralty. No orders have since been received an the subject, anti the affair is molt likely ended. MILITARY. MEAKETS FOR THE ARMY —Lan week several specimens of improved muskets were submitted to Colonel Aaron et the Ordosace.othe , one of G. rman manufacture, another made by a Brussels gunsmith, and one made at Birmingham. SIAS? uE lltZLAND.—Colonel Spink, KA., who was the Assistant Quartermaster Or eral at Cork, has resigned that appointment. sad Colonel Pennefether, who formerly com manded the 22nd Regiment, is to succeed him. BARRACK ACCOMMODAIION.—New barracks are to he oonsatieted without curtsy at Prinotore, Galway, and addi tional accommodation is to he given for troops in barracks at Cabin. Fermoy, and Dublin. THZ GU•HDB AND THE Linn.—Last Friday's Gazelle announces toe appointment to a lieuteaant-eoloneley in the 37th regiment at Ceylon, of an officer from the Guards (Lieut.-Colonel Millman) whose whole military service is less than fifteen years. With this contrast the services of ' other lieutenaut-colonels in Ceylon :-15th Foot, commanded by Liew.-Colonel Drought, 36 years standing ; Lieut.- Colonel Skelly, 37th Foot, 23 years; Ceylon Rifler, L.eut.- , Colonel Braybrooke, 37 years; Lieut..C.donel Simmonds, 44 years; Lieut.-Colonel Cochrane, 43 years.—Narat and Military Gazelle. ' DECCAN PALED MONEY.—The rolls of the final distri bution of the prize money due to the 65th Foot have now been received from India. MEDICAL. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SCHOZONS.—The followiag me m- Son of this inatitution, having undergone the necessary exa minations, were admitted "Yellows" of the College, at the meeting of the council on the 7i5 instant :—Meson. Walter Oooayer Barker, Worthing, diploma dated October '2.5,1839; Frederick Jonn Butler, Winchester, May 8, 1840; George Washbourne Charleton, Gloucester, Jul; 3, 1835; William Druitt, Wienborn Micat'r, Doneisbire, July 30, 1841; Isia titanic John Datnoier, Woburn place, Russell-square, May 24, 1814; Tharp Mountain Girdlestone, Lincoln's inn.flelds, January 3, 1845 ; George William Hind, Aired-place, Bed ford square, November 3, 1827; Raymond Levi Haynes, Holioway, March 5 , 1841 ; Richard Hodges, Rochlord, Eiiti, July 31, 1843; Edward Charles Helms, Maisonette, Tome's, Devon, April 12, 1844; Robert George Moger, Highgate, May 15, 1829 ; E twin Morris, Spalding, Lin colnshire, April 22, 1839; John Mental', Crescent-place, Mornington-crescent, Aueust 9. 1844; William Potts, South Audl,y ,etreet, May 3, 1839 ; Augustin Prichard, Red Lodge, Briitol, October 30, 1840; E'lward Ray, Dulwich, Stately, April 5. 1839; Ebenezer Smith, Baiter-square, March 18, 1831; George Carrick Steel, Cbadwell.street, Islington, July 3, 1840 ; Henry Smith, Caroline. eeeee t, Bedford-square, April 21, 1846; John Wiblin, Southampton, June 2,1837 ; and Thimis Henry Wekley, Cluillord-street, Rowell square, July 25,184.5. Lord Roisadale's bounds, Wed: *slay, Barton Gate ; FA day. Eyford ; Saturday, Tangla7 - half past 10. Mr. D. ake's bounds, Tuesday, Boort= Village; Than day, Edgoott Village ; Saturday, Middleton Totl-bar—half prat 10. Mr. Fane's harriers, Thursday, Cot Mill ; Saturday, Ewe lane. Mr. Phillips's hounds, Tuesday, Stow Wood; Friday, Shirburn Lodge. High Peak harriers, Tuesday, Rowdale Bar ; Saturday, Parsley Hay Wharf. West Norfolk harrien, Thursday, Hale Dale (a deer) —ll. Norfolk stag hounds, Thursday, Mr. Gowen's, Trowse— half-put 11. Suffolk hounds., Tuesday, Stowlangtoft Hall ; Friday, Trindley Wood—quarter to 11. E tat Norfolk harriers, Friday, Strafi Id Bridge-11. Mr. Trelawry ' a hounds, Tuesday, Newnharn Park; Fri day, Kingston Village—half-past 10. Mr Furse's hounds, Wednesday, Roorough Mill; Fri day, Buckland Sir Henry Seale's hounds, Thursday, Futeeigh, near Ashburton ; Saturday, Holue Cot. Mr. Deacon's harriers, Wednesday, Cadaford Bridge; Saturday, Noeworthy Bridge-10. B'ackdown bounds, Tuesday, Hunters' Lodge, West Buckland ; Friday, Springroe Park—half-past 10. Baron Rothschiln's stag hounds, Thursday. Littlecote-11. Mr. S. Loweder's hounds, Wednesday, Linford Woodi; Saturday, Nash Village-11. Cheltenham Stag Hounds, Tuesday, Birdlip; Friday, Cleave Village. Albrighton Hounds, Tuesday, Himley ; Thersday, Chet wynd Park; Saturday, Sutton Maddock—half past 10 South Berkshire Hounds, Tuesday, Thatcham Gate ; Fri day, Bradfield—half-past 10. Sir John Cope's Hauade, Wrdnesdav, Farnborough Sta tion ; Friday, Lock's Farm—halt-past 10. Craven Hounds, Wednesday, 2dinal Borders; Friday, Crowood; Saturday, Lily—half-yin 10. Mr. N. Fallowes's Hounds,Wednesday, TwitchenVillage; Saturday, Kuowstone Village—half-past 10. Hambledon Hounds, Wednesitry,Westmeen Hat ; Friday, Presbaw House—halt-past 10. H. H. Hound., Tuesday, West Tieted ; Thursday, North ington Down ; Saturday, Windmill Hill—quarter to 11. Ludlow Hounds, Wednesday, Ashford Bridge; Saturday. Stanton Lacy. Mr. Lushinaton's Hounds, Tuesday, Shunted House; Friday, Leads Castle-11. Surrey Ueion, Thursday, Crawley Common; Saturday, tensely. Vine Hounds, Thursday, Malshanger House; Saturday, Pioe-appie-11. Col Wyndham Hounds, Wednesday, Littleworth Wood; Friday, Fiasco Park—half-past 10. Breeonahire Harriers, Wednesday, Upper Chapel; Friday, Pont Alltarnoe-10. Mr. Okeostr's Harriers, Tuesday, Hartiogton; Saturday, Ballidon. Lord Lonsiale's harriers, Tuesday, Broughton Farm; Saturday, Puttenhem-12. York and Amity hounds, Tuesday, Providence-green; Thursday, Itrandsby Bar; Saturday, Nahurn—half-post 10. Hurworth bounds, Tuesday, Dalton Village ; Saturday, Coteliff Wood—halt past 10. Sermingtnn hounds, Tuesday, Ricesl Bridge; Friday, Woolah-10. Hambleton hounds, Tuesday, ; Friday, Morton -10. - Cleveland hounds, Thursday. Stanley House. Captain H. Lewis's handers, 'Tuesday, Lower Silton ; Fri day. Ysttirth-11. Mr. Ilildyara's harriers, Friday, Tenholuse Ear half pals 10. llorpeth harrier', Tuesday, Longhowley Moor; Friday, Whalton Village-10 Bydale hounds, Wednesday, Wood End ; Friday, Sermon. Durham County hounds, Tuesday, llallgarth ; Wednes day, Newton Hall ; Friday, Stoney Gate—halt-past 10. lisdsworth hounds, Tuesday. Wenthridge ; Thursday, Hawaii& ; Saturday, Notion Wive—half past 10. Tindale hounds, Thursday, Beaufront ; Saturday, Lio nel Bridge—half•past 10. Ilaydon hounds, Wednesday, Ninebanks; Saturday, Stsley-9. Mr. Brand's hounds, Wednesday, Maulden Word; Fri day, Aston Burl half-past 10. Pueberidge hounds, Wednesday, Familia ; Saturday, Bandon—half-past 10. Cambridgeshire hounds, Wednesday, Warden Village.:- half past 10. Cottesmore hounds, Tuesday, Lanude ; Wednesday, Lang ford Bridge ; Friday, Gunthiape ; Saturday, Empingham. F. B. hounds.—Friday, Treads's-bridge—half-past 10, Esmont harrier. Wednesday, littnosen ; Saturday, Calthwaire—balf-paat 10. Dumfriesshire hounds.—Tuesday, Monknow; Friday, Clearingtord—ball-past 10. SPORTING. NEWMARKET CHAMPION COURSING MEETING. F RIDAY.—CH I P PEN HAM FIELD. PUPPY BTAILIIS.—Tuird tits—Pathfinder beat Tints; Renown ran a bye. ALL Ano n STARES.—Third ties—Bridesmaid beat Field Mental ; Rattler beat Toot. NEWMAIIILICT STARES. —First ties—Deceiving beat Dew ar.) I ; Ensues beat L ittery. ERRING STARES.—D. tiding course—Mr. Richerason'e V. rity beat Mr. Rviodefi's wket, and won the sakes. Borrienaw STARES.—Firot ties--Doron beat Jenny Lind; Baron beat Drift. CHIPPENHAY STARES.—Mr. Jenner's Pliable beat Mr. Dobede's D•arai Mr. f',) eon's Fortune-tell( r beat Mr. Richer& on's Vivid. SATURDAY. Pcort SreKcs.—Deoldine course—Mr. Rendelle Ren dell's Renown twat Mr. Inekip's Pathfinder, and won the stakes. ALL AGED STARES. —Deciding course—Mr. Buckworth's Brid.einsid best Mr H.lmes's Rattler, and won the stakes. NEWMARKET PI:PPT STARER —Deciding COULSC-..-Mr. Oillett's Glum,. beat Mr. Buckwordes Beeswing, and won the stakes. BOTTIBMAM STAKES —I) , riding course—Mr. Dobecle's Doron boat Mr. Bueswooth's Baron, and won the stakes. CHIPPENILAM STAKES.—D ,eiding course—Mr. Fyson's Fortuneteller beat Mr. Pliable, and won the stakes. MANCHESTER—F= I AT. No betting.-2dr. Wi.tismson has sold Waiver to Lord eland. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Berkshire Iretn.ls. Wednesday, Milton.hill; Friday, Tar Wood—at half past 10. Monmoistnshire bound , . Friday, Ragland—half-put 10. Mr. Morg .n's hounds, Thursday, Merrivale-bridge—half pa. t 10. Tiverton hounds, Tuesday—halbpast 10. V. W. H. hounds, Tuesday, Lydiard Plain; Thursday, S aoton House ; Silurday, Jack Barra. 's Farm. lA.:thirty hounds. Friday, Hope. end—half -peat 10. arrogate brinier., Friday, Yincliffe Top—half-past 10. Amnions hounds, Wed..tsday, Hints; Friday, Coombe; S iturday, R.dgace—quarter to 11. Ch. shire hound., Wydres ray, Astle ; Thursday, Tab'. y; Saturday, Crewe Hall—ktalt ;.a.t 10. air W. W. Wyna's bew.ds, Wednesday, Basehurch Sta tion ; Friday, ; Saturday, Oradineton— half paid 10. N ,Ch Staffordshire horn is. Tuesday, Leighlord ; Friday, Stahleford hndge—half-put 10. Soropthire hound% Tared'', Monkhopten ; Thursday, Sundoroo; Friday, Centid Hannele—quarter to 11. Lord Elt.ho'a hounds, Wednesday, Learmouth; Friday, H al ; Sartyday, B dtortt—o elf pas* 10. Pyt Mil hounds, 1 wader, Brigatock ; Wednesday, Mii•erou ; Friday, Finedini ; 13aturaay, S.lbertoft—quartir to 11. Rain iintelligence. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCII.-.-SATURDAY. BITTING% AT %II Pius.—RIMONA MIL JUSTI,II COLUIDDI AND • BrIECIAL JURY. POTTER AND ANOTHEICr7I , II3IViII::itAII.WAT LIAM LITII:S. This was an action to recov; r a sum of money fur money paid and for work and labour done for the defendant ce one of the directors of the Leicester, Melton Mowbray, and Boston Direct Union Railway Company. Mr. Scrjeent Shee and Mr. Bramwell appeared for the itplaintiff ; and Mr. Humfrey and Mr. Hcggins for the de fendant. It appeared that the plaintiffs were Messrs. Potter and Collingridge, solicitors in the City, and the defendant was a gentlemen residing at Nottingham, who had been one of the directors of the company in question. According to the plaintiffs' case the company was projected in September, 1845, and the plaintiffs were applied to to become solicitors . The scheme failed amongst others in the panic,and this action was brought to meaner 7041. lee., which they bad paid to Messrs. Dawson, the advertising agents, for advertieing, stationery, eke , tor the use of the company ; 151. Ids., paid for advertisements inserted in the Lontl6,, Gazette; and 111. for their own costs. The secretary and other witnesses were called, who proved that the defendant had ethyl in the affairs of the company, sod the expenditure of the money. In their cram-exammation it appeared that Meuse. Potter and Colliegridge were to have 800 therm and the projector, a Mr. Heath, 1,600 ; and that Messrs. Potter and Collicg. ridge were aho solicitors to the Calais, Duokirk, and Bruges, the Direct London and lias'inas, the Oxford, Wer er, liter, end Chester, the Southern Junction, and the Graves end Railway Companies. Fur the deft rice it wee urged that in the year 1815 the plaintiff. started a number of railways, beginning at Calais, Dunkirk, and Drupe, and ending at Gravesend, and em bracing Hattie" Chester, Oxford, and Worcester; and they agreed with Mr. Dawson, the advertising agent, in August, to put ill they could into his hands. Upon this Dawson wrote a letter to the plaintiffs to this effect --‘r We shell be happy to do the advertising, print ing, and statioaery of the Worcester and Chester Railway, or any other company with which you are oonneeted; and our plan will be to seed in our claims after the day for the payment of the deposits, merely looking ultimately to you." On ljth September a meeting was held, which was record d in the minutes, in which it appeared that there were present Charles Collingridge, Ent.,(one of the plaintiffs) R. C. Carpenter, Esq , F. Dolman. Esq., 'l'. U. Ileath, Esq., John Williams, Esq., G. R. It. Potter, Esq. (another of the plaintffe). At this meeting Mr. Carpenter's son was ap pointed enaineer by Messrs. Potter and CoUingedge, and these latter gentlemen were appointed silicitors by Mr. Car penter. At this meeting it was resolved that Meters. Heath sad Williams, the projectors, should have 1,600 shares allotted to them, end Messrs. Potter end Collingridge 800, in 'consideration of their services up to that time—no very great amount of labour or service. It was also resolved, ' that all parties should have no claim on each other for time and services, sod that each individual should bear all expenses ineureel on account of the scheme up to that time, or that might he incurred in the formation of the company, should the project ultimately fail." Messrs. Potter and Culling ridge then set about, getting together a number of the best names they could to put Mtn the prospectuses of their different companies, many of which were inserted with out any as hority. To many of these gentlemen they had given indemnities, among others to a Mr. Troup, rgaiost whom an actin wet brought by Messrs Dawson for adver tising. The action wee tried in the Court of Exchequer sad the fallowing letter to Mr. Troup was put in evidence oln consideration of your appointing us solicitors to the Direct London and Hastings Railway, wo hereby undertake to work the same and indemnify you against all preliminary expect., in the formation of the comp, ny." Upon this there was a verdict for the defendant, and the Messrs. Daw son withdrew several actions they had brought against other directors in MI ars. Petters' lines of railway, and came upon him for payment of their account. In the company which was it.vo.ved in the present action Mr. Potter had indemni -1(, d Mr. Pritchard, the high bailiff of Southwark, and Messrs. Dawson had brought an action against Mr. North, the prescnt defendant for their account, whim they had withdrawn. The plaiotiffs had sent in a bill for 8131 es for professional expenses, to Mr. North, which they bad rot pressed. The plaintiffs and defendant were clearly co-con tractors in this scheme, one as much interested as the other, and the defendant was clearly not liable to the present plaintiff'. The following witnesses were then called for the defence. John Heath Williams, a stockbroker at Leicester, proved being appointed to receive applications for shares ia several of the lines projected, which had been alluded to in the case, and attended preliminary meetings. At one of these it was sieggested that 5001. or 2.sol4theuld be subscribed by the projeeton towards the expenses. N. ne of them seeme d dispo.i d to accede to it, and they gragua'ly dispersed, and at the end of it I found myself with Mr. Potter and toms Wit rs. I remember Potter's saying it was au unfortunate affair, as he should lose 20,001 1 1. by his railways, and it would be better to proceed with the /theme till scme depo site were obtained. Croes-examin , d—l don't know if Mr. 111)th was there. I knew none of the committee. I wan not a member of the direction. I was appointed by Mr. Heath, crest at Leic seer, to receive applies:lens for shirrs. That was the only meetir g I attended. I have not seen Mr. Potter niece until to.d.y. Sir James Duke,did not give r.ny authority to put my mine es a member of th e cteomilee on the vertu' of this company, and did not know of it till my at tention was directed to it by the mayor of Boston. I %rote to Mr. Potter on the subject. Cress czamire—l received no answer. I was asked by some one it I bad any objection to come here to-day. I s eid I had been subs rimed. I was unfortunately a director the Authe rg eta line. The deposits del not come e - There were a great many liabilities, slid I had, Jl2 pay; 3004 or 4001. I was not aware that ,vo I• • • . -• pj i • • 4.. o4c , td • ' I • I.