The Express. — London, England, 1849-11-15 00:00:00

4,r.mr..l.catkvfltrtadv°: rea beer is erkilli theljenfle s to have hese yeamentled PO' 4P e illt; N‘M/ lid* diem r either g yre great rasp it oar being here, cr she some a ud io ' *bat Is generally treught joje workintei ellistaer.l"sa.Beer, beer.) I so et orgies Werth' represearadea existing is 'hddatilitrY ▪ the mord time is very Bide mere than this - w i. Here of Commons Is • Nam to *bleb a few mica have m ar who ma sad dais speak the sentimests of the people ; bet it h • hoses in *bleb of those who si. there a wis g reerty have air fide will to awry into ihd go e r - views which say making such extraordinary la the p•blis gala. They ere sot willing to eke Crapeepr of the Uinta %Medea that jut , aid equal, eel ass osadad goverserat to which the industry, and b.- res,forli the einem of that peep!, so justly cantle (Lead ebeerej I am not about to disparage the o gl e NIL, bat this I will say Mit, that the franchoe that res aleabliebra by that 101 l was established for the wo o shirr of embolism the rest mass of what is eilaravaly gelled the umetting ahem hem its exercise. (Seer, bear.) I say ses, boomer the establiheseut of a Iran abs whisk eihaitted ace we. tit a vets who did not live ha • mese of the wryly value of 101., besides paying rates sad gyre, was sersialy • hanchise by which, ander the areal sheemourese of the montry. it was atholutely imposlllol rat some meniens of grown, late ll iant men should be able I ingot within the pale of the eenstitution. (Hear.) Bed bear the worklag mem imagist' for • mouthed that thr HAM Bill was made moth senior the middle classes them k g tawm , al'koogh there has been a systematic are ' ores past to persuade the workbag susses that the gable& s hove were eed through the arum Bill, sal thee It was Ihe mists Awes who prereatod the farther externem el Mora sad the grant of pointed freakier to the people. Ira share you clearly that whererte the middle claws have bora onfraashhed by the Reform Ma, they have seed their privileges for the farther exteasioa of political sigh s, bat that ir the mar per the reassentation given to the middle dear is tenderer sad desolates, aid that they have b:en Oared oat of the power which the bill bad Frothed to glee them. (Hear, hear.) TAte • car. You en the labs biked/ of a Sewn sontaiiiing some 200,000 peas. nor ere not in the world 200 000 people Within sn 'goal spate • f :et industry or mere generally deserving ail favour protectom from their governat-et. (Lead cries of " Hear, 'hear.") You mend to parliameat two Min Mai le whom I set very constaatly in the home. sad with whom run on every division I go into the lobby, and generally, I am sorry to ray, in a minority. (Cheers and laughter.) I should net erre so much about brag in a minority if themes whoopposed me were aa notch the representatives of large and fre• comtituarieiss as onset. Islmold say that possiosy I was mistaken is lay views, or that the people of their pert of the country tad not sofa- Mende 'weird and needs up their lined' on the ques tion. ea which we divided, and that until they Lama mead to the opinion whet% I held, I should not cou rier it • grievear that their eepritimitatine voted against me. Bat whoa I me sitting opposite me every mea— -1 like to rto particular cases—fa laugh)—a noblemen, a mutiquit, the eon in a due-, end nest to him an old :finite. Rea, who was once, I believe, • Chancellor of the Exche gees, sad perhaps held power whoa aeb•s were accumu lated, when I see them two awn representing—whom de re m ,iak ?—net Liverpool, not tslasiguw. not Bor. lidesot the Tower Harims, but lihunterd— (Load tries of " Hear, hear ")—end not even Beaueoril, brawl tie 'lectors of that borough, in so smell ',umber, have petitioned the Goose of Commons that, unless they ert have the free right of electing members, they would rather he altogether without the trinehise—(load Ghee ro)— or repentant., Bteenford, but repro silting the Martini of Bastes—(sheen and laughter)—then I c ars that 1 feel th, pure are net fairly ri presented in parliament. (Hear, bees) I have seen a few marepaisee, a few dukes, tat. • Sew I ode of one sort or soother, and I refer that, with eery tartorable disposition, Tel b all oar amiable weakness in admiring men of high rank fur very terrosplate virtues—l Inver saw is ray of they mope anythi, g, either in their heads or in their bane, so superior to mot of oar ow. order in life as to ir deo me to feel that I was fairly dealt by, or at my l. limos in Manchester wire faWy dealt by, when th my collea tonsi gue sun I, 'ripe out into one lobby supporting the opinions of 300 OW perms", and I.e. n two getstenten got g on: iti.o an other, the latter nestrais.ng with tone two roes the wishes ' sad .•piaionsof the peopleof Manchester. (Crie s ot " thecae.") Our conetitation—for nobody is more contitutional thee am—oar eciastinetios recognises the sovereign on the throne, I sad the peers la their owe thumper of the legislature, tut it neconoes to • no less tette. the representatives of the Crime , s of England and none other is the Hoene of Comma. (Loud cheer.) Bet we have 'he peers in thrr own hour, and the ulterior ins if the peer to en over. win Imine :tent in the H tate of Common. Where is the proof ? Perhaps Tint of you have lucked over e (NAM Circular," and men it announced via a %Tinton council sat at two o'clio k, and that " the fell wits members wets preseat," followed by a het of 12 or 14 negro all estimable Mil in priests life, and lathy of theta u feel is publie, but of those thirteen, eight or sine would be' kit, r warn of the peerage, or In some way or ether ben tue title of toed before their came& Of HIM! who had not that title you would find that three or four were either ou the rt.) threshold of the p stage, or were allied by the very closest ties of blood, or oonneara, air pen of one rank or anmksr. (Hear, hear.) Now, if the Hour of Coomons were • fair npresentati in of the people, of the Natl. c.mses --ifor if you choose I +ill shut nut the whiz's clews in this illesontioa-11 the middle clew II were taint repre.euted, is it possible that they wool's se stultify thentieleas as never to fled among themselves 13 or 14 men to furs • govern lane, bat would Ines/rely leave it in the hands of the ar s. treritcy of the country. (Hear, hear.) When these 13 or 14 men I have arateused piker round the council tales you ' ro ally itemise their hell go when uked to legislate foe the mirth aid weekie Chaff . They will act do it, for May loss ao sympathy in thew hearts - they are net of the rr.., mid they wile ant legislate f ithfully for the pe (Loud Mom) Now • nate req. a line this may be, in some respells, better 'bra absolutism, bet is other reel etc it is wore. Maay themes have been doer by our chain re po* notives which so ale lute avouch who has Merl thee, latter days dent have attempted to do. No ab. solace wear* mold, toe thirty ye', have main tared a law for the express parp.oe of bee; leg thirty 'Million of people on the v ego of fame. (Ii no No absolute monarch could we lost, have resisted the dr mods of the people for the lib aetton of this law es our house of representatives did lead when that law MIN at Iwo &Wished, then were not one hundred and fisty men in the Hour of Commons redly and tray in fsvf,nr of Its and not tan ease in the House of L ods who did too burke the bill w tch they were. compelled to pro L Ha e r i bin.) The feet is, our constitution, as at present , sad as you re it working every s, tel's of sorbs meat, is a constitution "'most at a deed lock ; it an ouly with through some feerf.l pressure of rustic of intim, or Werth the thentrnine of *ems dire c .hunity, such as reeettly visited one pinion of the United Kutgdont. For all the reforms that we have gained for a gitteratioa both, we have sot to that k the peen or the crows ; we have not to thank our Coseitatios as it is, but we have to thank the dentoi:ratis element, which, being stirred up terror the whole Wirt, freed • reluctant p aliment to do that jetties which, whims hese, it sliver would have dose. (Hoer, hear.) And sow, if you inlet anything more, take say weed Ice it,—take the word of every man who site in paratati at to topeseent you, that it is imposible for you to get those changes for which you ask, and which the country en much requires, neept by pursuit." the same proms' as has been carried on before, that is, by tioncentrating the intelligent pnb:ic opinion of the coastry, and alarming the pastor,' of power into the concessioa of the necessary tbanen—(hear, hers)—no' the alarm of physical forte, but the slues welch will spread amongst them when th-y known that what thresher= has dour with regard to the freehold land Rheum is being does in a hundred other large towns I • ad when they feel that day by day their ill-gotten, the; usurped, and their still evil-used power amongst the county constituencies is being gradually sapped and undermined, sod destrcyed by Ins economy, the industry, the prker, and the liras moles of the great MUM of the people who belong to these societies then you will obtain what coormioas you require. (lonseass cheering.) Now, I tzar that all are not of my opini in. (Leughter.) limy of those who are net her. traight will read the speeches which are made 8 one gold easy people living at hoer In ere will fancy that all is going on well. Trade, they will on, is somewhat reviving—the people are not die eatisll•d—it is better not to disturb thing; abort all, don't embarrass • government which means well. (Lsughter ) Now, I would jest ask each people to consider what it is that we ask, and what are the mesas that we are using to obtain it? (Hear, hear) Is • mercantile' system good or not ? (Hear, hoar.) An we retest to lies ender as absolute government—(esies of "No, no")--or aster ea dilatable goverument—(mewed miss of "2•10 pee")--per us we resolved, being firmly convinced of its adirealsge, to live under an honest, fair, representative 'oysterman (Chem) It we ban cams to the last conclusion--sad I think se man in this country would declare that he pretend the &Nastier or the obligarchy—(hear)—if es have made op our Wads in favour of an Desist and fair 'ones averamint, let these persons ask themselves, and let as ask them, if there is say tbirg in this project of whisk the meet timid man shear be afraid ? (Hear.) Why, it appeals es all the virtues of the people. (Caen.) There is no Mahar, no outrage ; there is not a menace, nor the shadow of one, is the scheme. It simply says to that vast mar of our fellow countrymen who are now excluded from the franchise, yet who daily percent all the duties of social life, " Henceforth be moreindustrious than you have been; be more s Ater, more prudent ; spare • portion of your earnings, if you can spore them—and then are thoironds and teas of thousands of you who an do so—and deposit this portion where it will not be lout, where it will (notify, and not merely produce four or five per cent—that is bat a small pat of the advantage—(hose, hear)—but obtain for you those privileges fur which your tether vainly rm./RM. (Loud caters.) Thus, too, will you have the martian of Ithowiag that by every 50i. which yen deposit you will ban given an additional aureate, that whatever war fathers or younelves may have suffered, to your Gill dr,n at least you will Imre the harems of a good, as honest. and ea equal government. (Great cheering.) I behold in this sovement an argumeat of MOTS power than any other Ia favour of parliamentary reforms. Daring the last a era of parliament, whoa Kr. Haar moved some re sols• iOllll is favour of such reheat, I 'peke at some length on that elastics, and I prated out to the men who sat opposite to us, and to the entrusted, what were the points to he marked in this mthement, of which they already be. pas to be and& Let as hold latrines like this in every town in the United Kingdom. (Colon) Think you that the people who feel that they are kept out of their rights, who have to make such stir fres to get that which is fair and right, who listen to speeches some of which are not of the least exciting tendency—think you that the people, when they have THE EXPRESS. l71;1 R 15, 1849. THE RIGHT OF . . , • SUCCESSION. _ RAILWAY- MEWING. W. have been mutated to gin publicity to the SOUTH WALLIS. following docemonte• A ad this ormiss. inlinthol from the Tad To tho Marmon, Deputy Chairmen, and the Coat of = all a i Volgetial st 0611 mat WNW= BMW*, Director. of the East India Casper]. MairnnWO I. the akar. HotweabM The emotionalising(' that the mnamittell Miterekohlers Bigg f 4 I "T eettel t7 bit ism :::Gina L' Bls4 ' ballit l oB9l it that then amid be a farther ad mit to pa for yaw information, tranalation of kwywowal the I December, b 7. Feria 0611 7 mahratta atm., taaather w ith a s t a t ement , es th e WWI he salty wish whatever repoit may may essoldw right of enoseation byli.indoo Prison, which I have t h a k *it= to Wednesday, the 19th Dessisher, Hewwid tkenthee move that sink Written ocd sent to the native pantie and chide of t w = e d i. , Wig, is cossequanoe of the unprecedented proceed- Tee modest lining been seconded, was carried swat imp which have been adopted towascio my to and moiety. Ce s ti r t aj Sovereign Pertaub Shaul and Mao° Kr. Naas (a propastar) stated that metal shareholdme , Rojas of getters. I have the honour to remain, Holenrnhie Sire, rertinalfskliskimillothilinVakFhofwadwllbeenheteiktbpret:PaathWeeddetbtabusdarWatagiardbikti: partistaee t Your most obedient hatable &mot, the board of directors of the Booth Welts Company! RUNOO BePOJEE, The Citelltateli replied that the r time foe desessiag Taithe cbu l tbsp of t un s H , ighn ß ze of B sat hah tua, oo M n e o hn w thi. it wo e u tter se ld .i si be ittels brosi lka h i t baton ye t the • TM Miis esmWa med . smarse, receive the be t comahlegatioe. The pre. Bennis. 9, Blandfcgdzine, Regent's-park, Nov. 8, 1849. cent l ILimeas jate m a le u fli dag p r ha th dl e ia y s , g a i bi t bl i n t o would not b be fre au ft ines to "7"n tioned entor b i 6f y nto th a r bon. ar- - Tawalsoisa ad a Wrens 11.-drese gent by Range Bap*, to We the Princes and Chins of India. Farm Bungs Bspojet, Preach caked of his Highness Tit is t r otion for an adjournment having been again put, Shallot Maims, Raja et Salters, who is now melding is the the meeting "vacated. holy city of Begone, written on the 17th September, A.D. 1849, in London, the capital of Wiled: On the 26th September, 1819, a treaty was entered into on the one part by the Beet-India Company, and oa the other part by the flirter Of his Highness Pertaub Sittig blaharej Clamtraputtee, of Batters, and the said treaty was in full lone and operettas. In the year 1886 the Bombay , gevenweat, in order to appropriate to itself the territory of Setters, commenced all ems of plots and intrigues, by raising false aid unfounded reports swinge his highnees tee raja aforesaid, bat withheld from his Highs's, copies of all evidence taken secretly again I hies and deeded Mr justices Ultimately, on the 6th of Sepimaire, 1899, the ewe government rowed him Wm the throw of Saran, bandied him to Benue, mired his private property, miscue' him to much straits ter his eapeners, infi feted on his an sorts of distress and injury, and kept him a prisoner. Meanwhile, elloweernment Wind • new treaty on the 4tk September, 1 868, with his brother, Appa Sahib Manors) (reteidejg la form rit-c motels of the former teeny), sad Magi Ans Sahib oa Me throne. Ia this the wood treaty, Me Wadi* the eel the tales accusations against the WINN Raja, end In a pee. alienation issued at the time. it Is dhiattly stated that the Boglish giverawent had no latentionwhatear of taking the country, or of eneretsieg its elms efassessions by this measure. 'Whereas the same goverment{ lee sow taken the territory fate their oval hands. Having experienced this injwtin at the hands of the said 'overman, his highness Bomb Elitg limbered Cotter* puttee deputed me to bring his cause baton the Honourable Ent India Company, and the Right Honourable the Booed f Control, is England, where thin humble individual, sap. jorted by several it finential friends, endeavoured to obtW stles, but withcut the least effect. Toe answer always has been, " We have not taken the raja's e notry, but have tranafirred it to his leucite brother." They thus put us off with sixth like fake pretences. Tots government pretends to be ter the bent fit of the people of India, but I will now proceed to show how far this assertion is correct. Eventually the case was submitted to parliament, and at last the whole of the documents appertaining to it, that hail been laid before the awe amen in India, were printed, and became accessible to the Rajah's friends. By these it eppeend that false papers, with kap d seals, together with a paper of hints from the Governor of Bombay to the Resident at Sa tan, how to ensnare the Rajah .nd to obtain proofs of the Itsjah's criminality, had been received, and been accepted a evidence ; besides which money was offered in the shape of rewards and bribes to induce bad and wined subjects of his Highness to come forward as enthuses against him; and la order to prevent their being punished, measures were takes to protect them. There seems abundant proof, in the dam ments alluded to, to show that all this was for the purpose or taking tLe Rajah's country. Application was being made to parliament for the purpoos of obtaining an Impartial esounittes of inquiry when his Highness died. Then the teal object of these intrigues became apparent. The father of both the Rajas, Pertaub Sirs and Appa Sahib, was likewise the paternal uncle of Bella Sahib Sees putty, who wee consequently their first cousin. The son of Bella Sahib, Trimbultjee Rye, therefore, is squally related M both Rajas; and wording to the treaty is their heir and successor. Fur this reason his Highness Pertaub Sing, OS the 10th October, 1845, adopted the sail Trimbukjes as his sea, in contormity with the practice of the Hindu law, under the name of Shaba, Maharaj, and conferred on him, as his heir and successor, all the rights of the Raja of Sawa. La *Deformity with the forms of fr.endship, due infirmities of this Govenior General at Bererre, through when it was transmitted to the Right lion. the Goveraor General, and by him to the Court of Darectors in Ragland. This document was subsequently printed by order of parliament two years afterwards. The Rajah Pertaub Sing departed this life en the 14th October, 1817, and in the followine year, on the Mk April, 1849, his brother, and successor, Aopa Sahib, else died. On this occasion two general courts of proprietors eel It tat India Stock were held an the maths of July and De cember, when it WAS mooted that the nephew of the two Me Rajas, adopted by Rojeh Pertaub Sing, should be recognised as heir to the Raj. The chairman of the Court of Direckes mated to the Court of Prof Astor, that the directors had re solved no information from the Governor. General Utile an the subject to enable them to mow to a decision, but that the directors, ea the arrival of such information, would be prepared to ta ke the matter into their favourable onsideration. This was, however, a mere trick to deceive the Court of Pm rietors and the public. lieu it afterwards appeared that on the 30th of August, the Governor-General had communicated his senti ments and advice to the Court of Directors, recommending that no adopting shothd be recognised, and that the Seam territory should be resumed by the British government. Accordingly, on the 24th January, 1849, the Court of Direc tion sett an order to the Governor4ieneral to attach the ter ritory of Satter& to the British dominion,. On the 12th of May, 1849, the Bombs! Rover= at, in conformity with th above iastrn tions issued a proclamation stating falsely, and in violation of existing treader, that there being no heir to the late 11.-jsb, the territory had lepard to the British govern ment. Now what ie the eery wording of the treaty ? In the treaty of the 26th September, 1819, it is written that the territory assigned ti the tiepin is to descend in perpetufty to his Fursamdum (sons), Werra'. (heirs), and Kyain Mookaum (successors in perpetuity.) The Rust India Company's government, protesting to be the friend, the supporter, and the adviser of the Rajah, thus solemnly pledged itself to continue for ever, in eon I sideration of the antiquity of the family, this dominion to the house of Sateen.; but now, in violation of this most sacred pledge, it proclaims itself lord paramount over all the sovereigns of India ; and in virtue of such title has appro. witted to itself the said territory, because the adoption did am receive the sanction of the lord paramount. Did the lord paramount reject the adoption, when made ? No—he said not we word against is. This Bast India Company entered India originally as machines. Oa the seal allied to their treaty they style themselves the devoted servants of the Mustulman King of Delhi ; but now they proclaim themselves lords paramount over all the sovereign winces of India. They have disre garded the compact entered into by themselves with the ancient house of &awn, and appropriated its dominions is violation of the same, as lords paramount. Bat this treaty is in strict accordance with the treaties they have entered into with the natal other primal of India. The Governor-General (Lord D supparted by trandry of the East India directors, having abadoned the usual practice and form of adhering to treatise, has resolved for the future not to recognise the right of adoption to any Bindoo prince, but on all similar ememisas to annex the ter ritory of such princes to the British dominion. This is the manner in which they have acted towards the &tura family, and they have openly declared they will act so on an :hada occasions. I This declared= is probably not known to your highness ; it behoves you, therefore, to look into your treaty, and im mediately to salmi the puma-genera, to /snow If you are to understand whether by the treaty, according to whit& you: heir is entitled to seemed. you are to he permitted to lexcrete the right of adeptioa in conformity with the law and custom of the Hendee., or whether such law is to be I violated and to be henceforward set at naught. In this inquiry there is so treason nor conspiracy. It is Ithe ordinary ware that every palace is bond to snit for his own and his family's security. la case yen simnel doubt the statemast abowsiade. I have caned extracts from the men laid balers the English parliament to be translated, and I menden. herewith. Though I am the Valued of his Highness the Rajah of Satan do sot Imagine I address yes now on his part or in that enmity. If it becomes you to regard your ewe Ow ratter and assist as, well and rood ; if not, it must be left as I a matter not of thaw Bat lam a Hindus, and I address yes. whether Hindoo or Massabwe, with a view te pew ogee advantage, to prevent the Mare violate,* of tessilits end the nth of pour tantifisa. You, as an ally of the BMA =t , are boned to edhere to the treaty yes bees oito. end yea an entitled to inquire whether they dm mew to adhere to it in letter and spirit. My wish Is to ferewer• you, and to prevent your heist reined. Look to your risen as • Hendee, and require chef: nagnition, bat without say breech of loyalty or good faith. I I am in the midst of dA^Mtise, sad a foreigner in a I strange land, and have been induced to nines you from my own condition and despair. Do hat reject this appeal, bat Ist me Wrest you to seed an GOMM to it. It is sew two years since the elder Rajah of Satan died. hut has been paid to his family, not even to die charge ral expects,. He was coalised without haw Mg eammillsd any crime, and now the gmensient refuse to nmegoise the adoption of his sea, and starves his family. To jest* this fruity they staked* that the late rajah lett 'bananas ('money, *Met Is wholly false. Bat this is the manner is whin the rajah ' s family hos beta treated, and in which the Batt India Company have sated, whoa they have the power of dole a we_tLtieepealte. WATIII7OIO, WICILLO. AND &hectare of the oompaay are proesedini to parliament to legalise this proposal of Momenta/ the line, sa4 redeems the shares , which is opposed by the Mani:olden, who seek a dhooln doa. Tbe eserstary's salary has bees reduced. The share holder's atoomittas, midribs eadetasee of Kr. C. Noah, ham ban allowed to plead to the attics' for all timpseatilag the promedings for fraud, sint tie Comm of Itzahrquer has pealed a nib to azsaalaa ulaanos abroad and in Inland for the shareholders. GMAT WIST3III OF BlNOAL.—Yesterday the wind tog up of this comiony'• affairs, ander the provisions of W Joist *kook Companies Act, dud on for hewing before the Masts, in Chancery, Dowdmwell, at his ohasaben, In Bonthampionibuildinas, Chancery-Lae. Tins petition in support of tits proposed preemie, verified by siliddit from Raja. Cl-aersi hi'Ltiod, ofCl Ron- plaos, Hyda Park Gardena, the chairman, and Robert Wolealey, of Guildhall-chum bus, lissingleallitetzost, the secretary to the ounruiy, sets forth, that the undertaking was projected and provision. ally registered in April, 1845, for sarrying oat railway dam mutilation fres the river Hoogloy, near Calcutta, to Raja& hal, on the Odm, with a branch to Bardwan, propmed ..pits! 4,000,0001., In 80,000 shares, al 501. each, deposit 51. per share. Shame was allotted to a lugs number of parsoas who paid the deposit, which wore applied in the affairs of the company, sad in August, 1845, • subscribers' deed was executed, to which Major li•Leed sabecribed to the extent of 1,0001. The directors deferred making any spplicaiion to parliament for an Act of 'now poratioa, not finding it practicable, and on the 30th of July last, at • meeting of the Gideon, at which the chairman presided, a resolution was passed to the effect that the company be wound up under the provisioas of the Joint Stock Cetopanies Ad, and the solicitor was authorised to present a petition to the court and employ connect for the purpose. Yesterday t h e martens parties were in attendance ror the appointment of an °EMU manager to superintend the winding-up of the affain of the estate. There were lone propoutier • Hours. Frestfield, who appeared for a number of shareholders in the Rant India Railway Company, with which the G. eat Western of Bengal has been audits. Mated, nommen d Mr. Coleman, accountant ; Mr. Wo. Galswerthy, on behalf of several allotted, proposed Mr. Quitter, accountant. Mr. James, for the petitioners, pro posed Mr. J. H. Norris ; and Heeds. Fry and Loxlsy, Mr. Ernest. After a dtsconsiou, tile , master adjourned his dui non as to a selection. DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE LANCA• BRIER AND YOIIIEBOI/01 RAILWAY. Yesterday morning an inquest was held before W, S. Ratter, Req , of Mancauter, county coroner fur the hundred of Salford, on the body of a young man named Thomas W , who had been killed en the railway be. twetn B &au and Manchester on Monday afternoon. The foil :wing are the eircuostanceo of the shocking fatality : The Bolton Railway, as it is generally called, was con cruired about ten or twelve years since, and though the works are generally of a substantial character, there is one feature about the bridges which tarty the various turnpike aid other roads over it which has often raised apoteloensious in the minds of thoughtful persons Lae tie safety of pas sincere. These bridges consisted of stra'ght horizontal beams of iron Faeroes the line, supported upon cast iron pillars. Rows of these pillars, at ach bridge, were flied between the various bee, of rails, and were so near to the carriages as they pasted that any person leaning thoughtlessly out of • carriage-window was liable to bale has skull fractured by coming in contact with them. Strange as it may appear, however, with this danger in the wa on one of the railways haying the greatest amount o passenger traMe of any in the kingdom, for flu or siz years there were fewer accidents on this line than any other. A few years ago the line came into the possession of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company, who have sought to remedy this objection to their line, sod commenc ing atthe Bolton end they have removed bridge alter bridge to sitheiitute others of a hatter construction till the work of nesonstruction had reached Pendleton, near to Manchester, where this atcideLt took place. Thomas Thornley, • companion of the deceased, and a witness at the inquest, descrised bow the accident took place. He said Weaver lived at 72, Chapel-street, London road, Manchester, ar.d on Sunday he and deceased went by the railway t Bolton. They took tickets at the Pendle ton scrims, and deceased had a gun with him of a novel con struction which he showed is the railway porter at the station before they started. They returned to Manchester by the train which left Bolton at three o'clock, on Monday after noon, in • third-class close carriage, and as the train did not stop at Pendleton, deceased (who was anxious to let the railway potter know they were returning) said to witness— " Jem, I'll pop (point) the gun st the porter." Deceased got his gun out of the window, and then put his head and shoulders out also, to do what he had stated. In a few mo ments they passed the station•house, and in another moment —for the bridge at Pendleton is not many yards from the station—the unfortunate man's head came in contact with one of the pillars supporting the bridge. Wastes said W 's head rebounded from the pillar against the *pro site side of the carriage window, and he then sank back upon his coat in the corner of the railway curiae*. In a few minutes the train arrived at the Salford-station, white is the Manchester terminus of the railway, and witness per ceiving thst his companion was insensible, and that his heed was dreadfully fractured and his brains scat& red about the carriage, ealle I for the assistance of the railway servants, and Weaver was carried to the Salford Dispensary. The surgeon of the dispensary said, though Weaver was insensible when brought to the hens*, about 4 o'clock, he continued to breathe till about half-past 10 o'clock the same night, when he died. The porter at the Pendleton station was ermined, and said he saw the heads of two men out of one of the carriages as they approached the station, but the motion of the train was too rapid for him to recognise them. lie waved Lis hand and gesticulated with a view to warning these parties to draw their beads into the carriage. He looked after them as the train passed under the bridge, and no longer perceiv ing them supposed all was right. He did not hear of the arkiderat sill afterwards. The jury found a verdict (after bearing a statement from the coca any's servants similar to that above given of the gradual removal of the pillars) to the effect that the fatality was accidental, but expressed an opinion that there had been imatousary delay In completing the work. FORTUNATZ ESCAPL—Abont eleven o'clock Thursday night last, as James Wa!Wen and his wife, who ()envy Mass about the middle of the row of beams in Nibs- ant, Blackbura, were sitting at the fire, with a lodes named William Cowburn and his wife, the whole floor, eluding the fire pima, tastantaneemdy gave way, and fell ieto the cellar beneath . Of the fear occupants of the room, who fell with it, the first to extricate Wawa wes Walkdes, who immediately got out of the cellar window ; and, having procured emistanee, the three others were dragged oat of the memo( rubbish. The parties who have sustain ed the greatest Warne am Umber's end Walkden's wife, the former Wic ket had one or two of his ribs broke', and his right arm below the elbow merely scorched; the latter has beta finedfally burned. The two others have received some severe scratehes and contusions, which are not, however, of sack corpequoos. MODEL 118'L THE EXPELLED WeBLETAIt hillteirturui—R pub lic meeting wu held on Tuesday evenina, at Bristol, for the Impose of rectiving fru' lite Rev. Messrs. Dann, Everett, and Griffiths, en account of their ezpalsion by the Wesleyan Conference, and of queasier sympathy with them. VOI &Deadest* gee very numerous, tie large rublis which is capal of accommedating between 3000 and 4, persons, bei, g crowded almost to sufseetion. The sodium MOH d unanimous in the •:prsadea of feeling against the proceedings a the Conferanoe, and is &NOW of the expelled Walston. quest lizaitaticia a the number of mientisements ageravetes the evil of the stamp day, they being the most profitable setae of newspeper income. The advertisement duty is else more widely felt than Oa stamp day, not bean un fined to sowspapen, bat effecting al periedissis. It has been eammeed that is 1847 there appeared is the United States, where there Lao MI, as many as !Inn millions et advertisements, whisk is fire times as many as are published in England and Sudan& The number of adesetisentents —suing in the United Kingdom, wtfcb, bikes the ream fler-• tion of the duty (in (}teat Brae: fro m 3 :: 15 ; " 6 1 ° ,,, f -: , is , and in Ireland from 2s 6d. to le " " 11 ' ), w .'„ i , " 3 1• 18, i• 1848, 2,109,179; and it cannot be d ou bt e d tru:7 t•°sailiotts especially in ouptaction with the stamp, would tea..:. to a farther and very large inereme. Beast and dearly-bought repeats's has proved that the establishaent of low-pawl newspapers cm runasseating terms b, ander present guinnatenoes, all but tesposeibk. ' Is any cue, capital toe oonsidenble amount is required to be .tank to mat the Semi cautious. At the Meet the pro beton of a newspaper are required to give security to the government in a large amount. If the paper Ins • circula tion of 12,600 par diem, there must be pad a advance, for a month's stock of paper and stamps, 2,6601., 3464 of which Is for the duty, and 1,2001. for the stamps ; while the expense of printing the paper be that time probably would not amount to more than 6001.9 The result is, that the supply of newspapen, instead of increasing with the increase of po paellas, remains sbaost stationary. When the stamp duty wu reduced in 1836 from fourpenee to we peony, the un stamped journals which were published in defiance of the law bad a weekly drealetion .1'200,800. These were all &emitted, tad sow Ise have, not mil more daily London newspaper than we had theist In Paris tier* are upwards of thirty daily newerpors, nee of thataread at aft 101 l a peke is two sow. In London thew are but eines, all, with exception, b.ing published et atls The teal somber of tawegapers in the United Kingdom is about GOO ; but in the United &Tata there are eippeeed to be published 200 daily, 1,400 weekly, and leo at ediseitterrals. • la thoOktrenel lain* also, nearer home, gooey, thneekat peony, and tweepenny no-trumps's are aphid, aten„largely %escalated. la Ragland, she most F t oment pertumed le newspaper pew is a the bards of , ur capialists, and be as devoted se the interests of the pained iliotione L Ls ?alloyed to uphold a domestic why fled antelem 1 is menifyi lia=7pai li lalle n Is eation likely to be led to ae aa rials/A at en opportune time by the recently it Newspaper Stamp Abolition Committee. The origi- Aston of the movement belong ro the art lan class, but it is we which involves the interests of the whole community. The immediate audition of the bnowledge taxes ought robe quenially denuded by-1, the kinds of popular eduettion. If ignoramus is to be successfully grappled with, and what are sidled the lower orders are to be elevated in the metal scale, the full power of the press must be employed. If tkey are to to supplied with weoles, me knead of ebbe. litera tare, the press must be as free from taxation as it Is from musonhip. Our rulers are I Mot boldly hypoereerel or miserably shoresighte el, when they veal 226,0001. a year for teaching ti • people to read. and at the same time limit the supply of books and paper by taxing them to neatly fly times that amount. 2. The trade g classes should demand it. The intro numerous the ehunels et communieetiAl be tween the manefeetwer or shopkeeper and the public, the ouster will be the facilities, afforded for the tweaction of business. Buyers are likely to be multiplied when sellers can put forth two advertisements at the price they now pay for one. The printing butane, in putteuler, would profit largely by the increase of peablications which would tellow.e 3. Reformers should demand it on political no less than on other grounds. It is too bad that tax , s im posed to carry en war in the days of Que.', Anne should re main unrepealed in the peaceful reign of Victoria. All re , forms have to be wrung from our legislators by ' , glaner, end the prus is the great agitator. We cannot afford to tlht wit h one had tied. The unenfrenchised cla-aes are now, to a large extent, denied representation by the press es well as in the legislature. Three apologies are eflered ter the continuance of these taxes. They resent, it is said, our being inundated by a " licentious prem.." This, however, is an assumption only ; and, even if It were not, society can protect itself be other and leas questionable means than financial restrictions, which fail to suppress immoral while they limit the supply of a healthful literature. The newepaper stamp is drien,ted on the plea that the public 'setae an equivalent by their exemption from postage But a large number of newspapers are not polled at all, and A is unj.ist to make the penile pay for abenefit which is not sop) eu.i It would be as easy to have stamped copies for posting as it now is to have stamped editions of periodicals foe the same purpose. But then the amount derived fum these ears cannot possi ly be spared from the revenue. T is obj, ction, hitherto all sufficient, wilt not i--re much boaster. The time is coming when chancellors, of the exchequer will have to di'pense with taxes, the injurious effects of which they are compelled to ad. dr. Wren •' of the six millions which our navy costs us, one million and a quarter is wasted " ( Times), it is sheer pretence to say that the taxes on knowledge which yield just that sum "cannot possibly be repealed With almost equal praise we could speak of the Farmers' Almanac and Calendar, so indispensable to those to whom it is addressed. • Speech of Kr. Edward Edwards, Secretary to the Laudon Society of Competitors, ate meettna fur advocating the removal of the dunce. t When the alinanak duty was repealed, 210 new ammonite ap. pared. • It appears that W tree trimentimaimt of papas by the post le erit In all come a full equivalent for the stamp, memo& as they can be sent by rail to Liverpool at the rate of tte-qdrd of a Lathing each ! MUSIC. LONDON WEDNESDAY CONCERI S. Having already given some accounts of the plan and management ot these concerts, we shall continue to notice them when they present features worthy of reticular remark. The chief attraction ot last even ing was the appearance of the celebrated violinist, Herr Ernst, who has been brought to En‘lend at this season solely by an engagement to Fvferm at these concerts. He played two pieces ; the first was a fantasia on themes from " Otello ;" the second was the famous " Carnival of Venice." The fantasia from " Otello • was a performance of the most ex quis to description. It was the very poetry of music; the utmost beauty of tone and the most perfect exe cution being employed to speak the language of ima gination and feeling. The romance, "Amin al pid d'un salice," was literally sung with a pathos and sentiment which could not be excer ded by any vocal performer on the opera stage. The "Carnival of Venice" had all the grotesque quaintness that used to be given to it by Paganini, end all the surp-ising feats of execution which he used to achieve. Ernst 's reception, it is hardly necessary to add, was enthu siastic, and, if he continue to perform at there con certs, he will materially contribute to their success. The concert, on the whole, was agreeable, though most of its mat, rigs were of a familiar des cription. An overture, by Macfarren, entitled "Chevy Cosse," was a novelty. It is intended, of coarse, to describe the famous battle commemorated in the old ballad; and it accomplishes its object as well as such things generally do—that is, not at all. With the title to serve as a key, some relation may be discovered between the sounds of the orchestra end the din and contusion of battle ; but the sounds themselves, with out this aid, would never call up any such idea. The overture, however, is an able composition, and ex hibits Mr. Macfarree's skill and ingenuity in orches tral writing. The hall was full; and the applause was as vehe ment, and the encores as frequent as usual. These encores are a positive infliction; three-fourths, et least, of the concert being performed twioe over. The calls for repetition ought not to be complied with, unless they are evidently made by the unanimous voice of the audience; but, at these concerts, things of no remarkable merit are constantly crated, in consequence of very partial calls, and in spite of strongly . expreseed oppositon. The pra ctice , indeed, is becoming more and more prevalent in our theatres and concert-rooms; and it is really time that it was pot down as a nuisance. leleasse possessed of the brain, after ell this omens of seitatioa and training, will be isms severe against stases which sake, or iostitutioes whisk see valueless than they would be if the franchise wove freely imtended to them 1 (" War, bees," sad amts.) I have this liommlatfra he all the delay whisk will take place, that by going on from Mop to step lentil vision Is Owe, se it emnreellp will lio--freiterited cheers) —We Nell area &rough the math sad breadth of the politiesi kehrintieltte which the people tare hitherto bees he aim* dig*. sersaine; we shell sake them in feeling thee Musty .41tell pest itharby—bi slack we live is the true Obi is be bee seed red otaterved by goventehest, and seta gissdared sad wronged by the legisla tive al istaillibee. powerful slam. (Cheers.) Now this ossessted Y the alifeassit argument Is favour of the MOW sty peellesseeisey edam. Ir it parable that the people eras take up a steuemest like this sad carry It est miesses fully sable their feelings have bee. straw with the laillef that they have lees denied that to which they have a right; sad further, that the denial of that right to them is productive of the evil Mee glessee to which they are amassed. (Hear, hear.) If parliament some that throughout all the mensties of Reiland these moieties are eatabhekeil,—(bear. beer)—and that at every /*Ono-idea court they will watch the returns of thees registration acne—(" Hear, hoar," said lasehter)—we are gaining ground ; if they see that whoa a chance vacancy occurs la one of the counties, nit sitbmiseive fermiers only, but indet artisans--workers is wood and 'roo— f laughter ap te give their votes, sad that the scions of great houses are set aside, sad prudent, liberal, enlight ened, and just meet of basinees are eabstitued for them, you will find this all at once, on wise gee morning, confessing Hat they are beaten, probtbly atteasptiog some cola - (laughter)— and Was we are very wide awake, so doubt they will lone a compromise use as. (Hear, hear.) I have been requested to propose the seemed resolution, and I am afraid that when I read it you will say thit my speech has act had quits so much to do with it as it ought to have had: et That, in order to promote the extension of freehold lead sovietise, it is desirable that a panel sailn of the friends of tie freehold movesseet be formed, as which shall devolve the duty of taking such steps se may appear necessary to spread informatien as the subject, and to encourage the for- maim of societies as monad principles." Tee nest resolution will go more tat, detail as to the mom which should be takes foe this purpose. Before lit down, however, let me snake cue or two observatlone. Da set let any one suppose that It is any advantage to me, or to aay of sty (deers around me, to advocate this scheme. We have over sad over again spoken sad voted, and we are ready epic to Talc sad v-te ea favour of a very wide extension of the franchise. But when yea cease' attain what you are • idolise at by a short cut, it may sometime , be desirable to go a little round about—(hear) ;—ad if there be in the minds of the people one hall of the seal for parliamentary reform whisk we supplies there is from the elismicr which leas one raised about it—the union which a prepared to be formed, ad of which I trust the metre will be Birmingham, will • bring into oommunication throoghoot she country all per , earn who are engaged is the establishment of three societies —will stimulate the lukewarm, and will give every imam regent's% which is necessary to the speedy ask saceerifed formation of these societies; sod whin we shall see this ; work goi gce nuttily throughout the country, and be led • to hope that the day of the political regeneration of the country is at hand, I trust we shall, every one of us, have , the satisfaction of nil alai that while the work was is pro , grime we did sot sit at home No, bat that by oar .;.lace and our purses we diet all is our power to advance this great ob. jut—the grew eat to which the people of this country an • direct their attention' to. (land cheers.) AN ENEUTI AT .--RIGHT OP COY- sm.—Tide eery quiet borough, was last week the scene of a disturbance whisk bat already sailed f.r mains MAW iutereosition, and will no doubt tame the attention of the wigs Gad gowns at the approa hiss quarter sessions of the puce for this county. As far as we, the Devonshire Chronicle, can understand the merits of the cue, they are these : —lt smears that about the)e ar 1260 • gift of 300 sacs of commonable lend as made to the inhabitants of the borough of Okehnapton. This land, which is extremely good pasturage, was enjoyed by the inhabitants without distutbseee or molestation until about tort' . years ago, when an isnovation ciannenced. It is Wilalll the me mory of persons now living that the lord of tha manor sesamenetd to dopamine@ on the c =mon during the summer halt of the year which he has since defined to do as a right. Fee the last forty pus it is evident that the Inhabitants hive been onatent with the restriction of their right, to a departure= daring Os winter half of toe ye ir only. Unfor tinily for the peat. of Okehampton, some how or other measures were taken to bring the common under the operation of the In. 11110111U0 Act, and the Intel of the mum (the Rev. 8. B r an. thaw) having, on account of rte forty years' wane before alit ed to, calmed halt 01 the crenate es hie, it w. a under stood that the other half would be appropriated to the et r• potation, to be by them sold or let as Decision offered, and the no any administered for the benefit of the to en. The tensity of this arrangement, by which the advantage cf this au come= would be for ever lust to the inhabitants of °huh- nepton, we will not now disews. It will be sufficient to Ka se that ads delay took plea in the etropletion of the enclosure, sad the day arrived when, sceorditg to annual condom, the rights of the blabit..nts to the winter pwturage would eoallaellea. A notice was however issued ty the valuer, in accordosee with the t-r •• of ties ace, sus pending ail be sommonable rights. This was net heeded, and sheen were drives to the common as wine,. Ationg the inhabitants who thas acted is maintenance of tit• it rights, real se suppmed, was Mr. Ludtek, • r• sot et tiole resident, when proceedings in this way motored hit. highly p-pulu with his p.orer neighbours. Whatever may be said to the costrely, it is evict. rot' that Mr. Ludiek's hiving an acted rendered him partksdarly °bunions to these who wert employed to enforce the valuer's crier. Several attempts were therefore made to impound his sheep (those of no otter person appeared to have Isms sought for), std accordingly, at a very early hoar on Friday morning last, 57 sheep of hum flock were " distrait:id" by the servants of the lord of the sawn, and plead in the poled. This was • climax, of what is called, among the suf ferers, a great public oppression, and a number of men hav ing been drawn together, they proceeded to take the sheep oat of the pound, in doing whisk it is alleged • row or riot was got up, for which the following Samuel Lateliek, George Palmer, Joha krcet, William Freer, Thomas Hodge, John Jimmie., Odes LiLyerep, Absalom rainier, Stephen Redo, teed J+mss Squawm, were sammoned before the magistrates of Okehampton, on Thursday , lest, and held to bail, to appear , et the new quarter aortas for this county. How POACHERS All DEALT WITH IN MANUIPAC- Tolima Towns.—On Twenty surning at the police c art for the Manchester division of the hundred of Word, New Bailey Prima three youths deemed like mechanics were brought before : Capt. Whittaker, magistrate , 03 summonses, charged with using dogs and t respassing la search of game in the township of Pendlelsury. The names of the young ma are Thomas Pries, Charlie Valentine, and Charles Maye r it appeared that they had n previously sum , with five others, fir the same off ace, but the case W broken down in consequence of the information stating that the nave= was on the grounds of • Mr. Buck, whereas it turned out that the land was in the oempation of • Mr. Westbrook. Thy were sow swam mod on the prow ration of the same party, hut with the correction as to the snoopier of the bead. Mr. W. P. Roberts attended to defend the young men. Georg Wilson, an elderly man dressed like a farmer or a bailiff, was the first witness, sad stated that on Sunday. Oct. 28, he saw the prisoners hunting in • turnip field belonging to Mr. James West brook. Thu* wen • doun other pertt ',men and boya,about the place, and he told the defendants they were trespusing and had no business there. Some boys said " throw him into the eeaaL" There were eight dogs with the party, wed soon afterwards a hare started up and the doge followed. He did not see what became of the its= or the dogs, but he heard some one cry " she's done foe." He sew Mr. Westbrook coats up, and some other persons. The dogs were not birea&—they wove what he should call rabbit dogs; half bred. On Crtela-filaliaa , /011 the witness ad mitted there was a culvert in thi field, running under SW sand, where rats might be aught. Jelon Westbrook, dap mod that ea Seaday, the 28th October, there was • great cry of doge heating below his father's home, in • turnip field, and he went out sad raw eight or nine dogs and three or four men in the field hunting. Re saw • hare get up out of the twigp fi-Id, and go dews into the field when the culvert was. The last witness pointed out the =boners and four ether men, and witness put their names down in • hook.—Mr. Roberts contended that the perm= shamed were rat Imatieg, and not in per m& of seem amt =laddered it very hard test they should be twice beeneht up elier with the same Wetter by different witarwessaadlemeatedMesat magistrates. Whether they were trappeamMermet was easalmet question ; the chage was poach- log. Affiareemsidembie Mammies on the legal pouts involved, hems= If t. Deamdt, tattler magistrate, who came upon the hem= &deg tha regress of the proceedings, and Mr. Bob" it was &sided that without going further lato the Mr the =imam Waist pay lb. each towards the expenses, t Mr. Deana wiling die oldsatinfts to know that the court did net tesemidertbma =llat he hoped the cue would lead them to adept a way of spending their Sun- I days. One oldie defendants, se they left the court, said they , went oat widest= the slightest idea of hunting for pate, sag he did not think they Mould be made to pay anything telssetkit were proved. CRUELTY OF THE PORTER. OP Tint LINCOLN IJsrtow.—At the Lincoln City Polls curt, on the Bth inst., Thomas Cunt, porter at the Union, was charged with se verely beating Charles Slack, a poor half-imbecile creature. It appeared that the poor creature had been out of the house, sad that he got in by climbing late at night over the wall, and went into lie vagrants' ward, getting into one of i the beds; there the porter found him, and unmercifully =him with a rope whilst he was is his shirt, his shoulders and loins, end b-eakise the shish The complainant was then taken to the master of the Umiak Mr. Finley, who permitted him to go back to the bed Is which he had been beaten by the defendant, gave his his breakfast the next morning, and discharged him. The maa's bask was exhibited, and bore marks of bruises. Mr. Fraley said the beating took place by his directions ; parties wen in the habit ef toiling the walls, and he gave the porter orders to drive them with • stick or cord, and he woe= mosey that the order had fallen 03 Slack, for he cm :aged them trespasses with impunity, had been excessively' troatelemme lee the last twelve years, and persisted in going out of the hems irregularly, without an order and defier the wetlsoritiee.—Mr. Marshall asked if the board gave Mr. Feeley power to inflict chastisement on th • inmates ?—Mr. Fishily replied that they did not, but this man was not an inmate at the time, he was ea intruder.—The nissistester amid the cue was one of gross mann, not justified by the set done ; there were modes of punishing par- MN who did wrong by appealing to the law. Fined 11. and 79. tiOstu. EIFLAND. Dosux, Nov. 14. RESULT OF THE CORK ELECTION. B y ponulor apathy and popular division the liberal i n t end bas b ee ; &hated in Cork. The polling took place yesterday, wd cocadocted taroughout the day without the slightest symp:- I st of excitement, au,: bolt-pant famt Jut before the darting of the mail, the numbers were : Cbatterton BBO )11.1arthy Majority for the tory candidate 293 At that moment the polling was proceeding lan guidly, so that there seemed no likelihood that the above proportion would be disturbed. The con servatives made a bold start in the morning and eerily sustained their place throughout the day. At the Cork city election in 1846 the numbers polled were : Ma*PbY Callaghan Chatterton What will become of the properties to be disposed of by the Inoembered &totes Commission What kind of prices will they bring, or will they fled any wavier@ whatever? These are questions which everybody asks, for however ill-founded it be, there is no doubt that the failure of the recent great sale in London has caused considerable alarm on this had. Sundry fertile minds are occupied suggesting plans to meet the juncture. A correspondent of the Emil," Poet, for whose opinions that journal expresses re spect, suggests that the bast course would be, Not to sell now, but to endeavour to stake the estates pro duce a well-paid ritual, to divide maggot the creditors, lentil the principal debts or a fair portion eon be obtained ; and by an sabotaged of the present ownipiers' rent on • fair het live principle, the energus of the people would be put An haws, whtlat for their farther ineoursgentent the" aught be Inibtad to purchase the tee on payment of the fined legal piss in annual tesealmeats. The writer further suggests a ready prepared ma &beery to work his plan ; for would make the slicers of excise, or inland revenue, collect the rents for the Commissioners of Incumbered Estates. 1,486 THZ CONNEMARA ligTATEi.—From the Mayo Con- Migtatiow, a ceneenative journal, we copy the following as to the real value of the properly, and the priers brought at the males shied! had:—" We perceive that some of our contem poraries who have copied the bill of sale, complain loudly of the hardness of the times, and the very low figure at which land in Connaught is selling. Now, we apprehend they are under a mistake in a doable point of view—in the first place the land of Connemara is not that elms of land which could be expected to bring a ling price —it is principally moor and improvable mountain; and in the next place, the price had well a Tfg fair one, taking into amount the depression of the times. The valuation, it appears, was made in 1847, !ram the rentals then made, and it we assume, es we may fairly do, that the rents then paid bad bean agreed for prior to the famine, at d when a competition for land existed, we may calculate that they are about the average yearly value Taking this view if it, let us now see what thl sales have been, We shall take them almost in order as they were put up, leaving out the lots that were bought in by valuators— Lo:s. Truly rent. Bid to or Equal to . No. for Years' purchase. No. 2 £129 6 2 Bid L 2,750 21 3 197 0 5S Bid 2,700 14 g 66 0 0 Sold 800 1111 7 26 6 0 Do. 400 16 9 GO 9 9 1)o. 800 13C 11 15 12 0 Do. 300 20 12 76 0 0 Do. 1 800 24 13 32 11 6 Ds. 800 25 14 11 15 0 Do. 460 40 It will be said, no doubt, that these biddiims were made in the hope that on the falarg in of lemes the value would in crease; bat that it is witizh iotioences ell purchasers, end in them cases much of the land is let on lease fur lives. 0.. the whole, we think there is no reason to despair so (Sr as third bidding, give earnest of the future ; and we think the mortgagees did well not to allow their property to be sold on low terms. At the same time, we mutt say the bidders ate either very lent siglred or fool-hardy who would venture to make each offers in the teeth of tt:e enormous poor rates, county mu, and low price of produce." ARMS.—The Loid Lieutenant Du revoked license grated to carry or have arms to William Drury, of Pottle reagh, County Cavan ; James Malone, of Waterstown, Kil dare ; and ratrick Kigney, of Ito , core, King's County. LITERATURE. Praide's Pocket Boat; The COIlliC Alesamee; Ti Re fonner's AMU. iC The Eesi•trant's diseassos; The Protestant Dissenter's Atnsnisste, for 1850. The first almanacs for 1830 which appeased on our table were Punch's Pocket-Book and the Comic Almanac. The merry fellows were the first with their greeting; natural enough, that the light bodies should rite first. Yet Punch has a deal of serious matter in the book ho hoe prepared for the pocket. A judge or a c metier, f.r all their gravity, might mike nee of it. Some of the headings and 'ketches are admirable Lord Brougham sits heading the " Home of Peers," as the British lion does "the state." The House of Commons has no heading, not even of Peel or Sibthorp. This is a political reflection on the nullity of the heads of pectin. The Bank is typified by three Californian diggers, going venire a terre. The army is repre sented by the Duke. Public offices by the most veracious and epirittll sketch in the volume. Hackney-coacher, admirable, by Punch paying his fare. Health of Towus by the grey and juvenile Morpeth. Public amusements by Habilis en action. But we can go no farther; the reader may pay and peep for himself. The Comic Almanac boasts Cruikshank and Mayhew, and recalls poor Hood. " Before and alter Marriage" are worthy of him. But Quilt/thank ought to cut his pencil and grow young again. The Reformers Altnanac, so excellent last year, keeps np its character. It contains, amongst other things, excellent and separate accounts of all that was dune in the last parliament or in the country during the year en the subjects of financial reform, ecclesias tical reform, and colonial reform. The pith of Blue books will here be found ; and, u a stink l?, we give the following, entitled : Tlia TAILS ON INOWLIDON. It is time that Englishmen tither ceased to bout of their intelligent)e and glory in their free press, oe abolished the financial restrictions which check the progress of the one and practiosily inv.& the freedom of the other. As it is, they allow that to he done by a tax which they would indig nantly denounce were it effected by a law ; and that which the Attorn ey -Cieneral may not ctanapt on the plea of " pub. lie order,' the Chancellor of the Eschequer aecompliehee without difficulty on the plea of " public us." In the year 1848 upwards of a =Mien and a quarter of the public income was derived from imposts acting both directly and indirectly as metrical , ns on the interchange of thought and the diffusion of knowledge among the people, viz.— , Duty on ferries books £7,647 13 7 N on papa „ on advertisemento 183,016 19 0 Newspaper stamps £1,266,733 15 6 The duty on foreign books chiefly affects a eomparatively small slum, and pens only a small sum; but te levy a tax on the brains of foreigner u at the best but • pitlfel expe dient for eking out the resources of • greet nation. The paper duty necessarily Increases the cost of publications of every class, and that cost le still farther ineressed by the duty on the advertisement* required to give them pubfiaty. A newspaper circulation 10,000 copies a day, pays probably 3,4501. a year for paper duty alone. The cost of the paper used by the Messrs. Chambers in their series of cheap tracts was 26,7681. Of this sum 6,4311. DEAR Po6T+oll.—At the Wolverhampton police wes for paper duty, being nearly tour times as mutt as was wart, on Monday, Mr. John Rims, a respectable farmer, paid for authorship, end nearly half as much as the cost of living at Upper Ganal, appeared to answer to an informs, printing. Meows. Chambers state that the government, tion, preferred at the iostance of the Post.office authorities, which underwent neither toil nor risk, has reaped a greater charging him with refusing to pay the sum of Bd. being share of profit from the enterprise than they themselves the amount of the perinea of an unpaid letter , p osted at have, and that, but for the paper duties, they should have Landoa, directed to Mr. Bitson, at Gana Mrs. Maria followed it up by another periodical plan equally beneficial Cartwright, postuistress at Oornal, stated that she received character. the letter in the usual way on the 26th of August, and rent The **wasp's' press has to bear the burden of the paper, it by the letter carrier, Mary Evans, to Mr. Aileen. Mary the advertisement, and the stamp duties combined. The Evans said she tuck the letter to Mr. Ritson's house, and paper pays • tax of lid, per pound—every newasper has delivered it with another letter to Mr. Riteon's servant to pay • tax of a penny for the stamp—and every advertise- girl, who took it into the house. She (wham.) waited at meat which it contains a tax et Is. ad. These exactions the door from five to ten minutes, when Mr. Rayon came are enforced by rigid restrictions and severe penalties. Any to her and put the letter into her basket, saying she must publication sold at lees than 61., or occupying lees than two take it back to Mrs. Cartwright, to send to the dead large sheets, and published at Intervals not exceeding 21 letter office. She (witness) did not know whet was In the days, and containing any public intelligence, or comments letter. It was in a petite* state when she delivered it ; not on public events, is deemed to be a newspaper, and mast open as it is now. Ann Haycock, servant to Mr. Ruyan, pay the triple tax. Any one possessing • single copy of said she took in the letter, which ked very dirty, as if it ea uneseutoed paper is liable to a penalty of 201. ; and for had been carried. in the pocket, and the corners had been dletriliwthig espies, t a penalty of 601. A printer, for pos- were • good deal. It was not more than two minutes ssering aOW may have all his presses seised and units. before the letter was returned . Mr. Ritson felt it in his Gated, his dun being brokea open for the purpose of hied • he did ant break the seal, nor did be epee it at all. COLSTON'S DAT IN BRISTOL . — The anniversary of sank. To& limning from the Bench whether Mr. Ram attempted the piens and benevolent Edward Colston, the founder of so In this instance, es in others, the middle and working to open it, the wham answered more than ones evasively. many excellent charitable and oduatioaal establishments in classes are more heavily tined than those above them. The Mary Evans said that when Mr. Ritson returned the letter the city of Bristol, occurred on Tuesday, and wee observed duty on paper, while it minuet the cost of expensive works the end was opened, bat not quite all the way. Mr. Ritson with the usual respect the bells of St. Mary R aicli ff sad All in so slight • degree as to be scarcely appreciable, forms so himself said one of the corners protruded, and he pushed It Sams' churches ringing muffed peals, and the various so. large a proportion of the cost of thee? publications, that, as In with his thumb. Mr. Fleetwoo d, who appeered for the entire formed to commemorate the virtess ead imitate the already shown, it affects their very exuarn&Ve. Anima of a defendant, erns examined Mrs. Cartwright, ter the purpose 'crumple of the deceased, dining together at the lisysl penny on • newspaper published at finpence is a tax of 25 of showing that the letter bad been written at Sedgley or in Gloucester, White Lion, and Moategue Hotels. The Anchor per neat. ' but on one published at twopence would bee tax its n.iehl.ourhood, and s e nt to London and thence to Gor- Society (liberal) wag pr skied over by John Mercier, junior, of 60 per cent., or at a penny of 100 per cent., which, with nal, for the purpose of annoying Mr Ritson. She said she Esq , and the collection amounted to MI. 10s. 6.1. The the paper duty, amounts to an absolute prohibition. thought the direction wes written by the husband of a right worshipful the Mayor, J. E.. Htherfield, Beg., took The advertisement duty is equally diaprcportionate. All woman she knew, because she had reerived letters sent by t • chair at the Dolphin (wry), where37ol. war collected advertiser, pay alike, irrespective of their means and their him to his wise. They were now in London, bat she knew for the general purposes of the charity, and a special fund wants. Five lines pay the same tax as a column—a servant nothing of the letter ; nor had she spoken to the w^man of 1501. for the relief of inaderen by cholera. At the Grate- girl seeking for • place, as her ladyship offering a reward tor more than two or three times. The Bench were of opinion fill Society (neutral), presided over by Joseph Leech, Req , the recovery of her jewels—the penny pamphleteer, as the that there had been an appropriation of the letter by Mr. MI. was raised, making an e snit collected for .huh author of the wetly quarto—the struggling trader peeing Rhine , and directed the postage to be paid, and expenses, asualeat purposes of stu vir dy 1 .his Wen% ere the inillionsint tolling his estate,. The emu * amounting in the whole to 11.45. 2d. . . . . . . . . -BATHS AID WASS HOVBES.—Tke court of imistaate of the Grocer's Cimino, have contributed an edditional ass of 1001. [maims WOO in aid of the funds of the Coussittes for Frosseedag the netabliehment of Baths and Waahhoases for the Labouring Clumps, towards the completion of the model establislun at, fionistos square, Whiternapel. We learn with satisfaction that the first and seeendulems, is number 94, have been go to work 'gain, but trilling dung, having been done to this put of the establishment daring the meat fire. The repairs Tethered necessary to the washing department will be pr,- °elided with as rapidly as possible fa order that this im portant branch of the establishment may De re-opened early in the miming year for the aeomamodation of the numerous poor who reside is the locality of fipital fields and Whitechapel, and by whom the partial closins of the establishment is greatly deplored. It is the desire of the committee to complete the whole of the southern ranges of the washbasin, with the drying, manglios, and ironing compartments at the suns time the repairs are proceeding, And so soon as the funds to be collected for this purpose wlil warrant the °ors:nines incurring the liability. • 30 Skill . a 6 I '..7 vr t r. -::4;4j2Lef I