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

se tdr. asoloz PHILLIPS'S widest*, the conviction eniessrs. Stereos and Sox, a neticetaWe firm at Leda Is the same month they seised tobacco at path, sad essisteseed Exchequer prosecutions against ▪ ef the largest tobacco firms in England, the s a e & of Devises. Ise the September k psieg, sneteased by the *video* of Pro'eseocs Gamut' and Mules, they nose feted, most sajmely, the MOWS. 'LITHO, of Shaftesbury t sad a few days &roods slop grocer reddest affeevil. Theme last w ide.e were absolutely oh ained despite the sel dom of Dr. UM who, is the moth of July preceding, bed lode the dissovery, which, to the shame of the Excise " chemists," we are about to serrate. The investigations made at the instaoes of the cons. sides and the tobaccoalste, were coadocted p ro . knot BRAND. Mr. COOPS", Mr : IllupAni, o f Eris_ • sad Dr. DU. flanzPire 01 !Gel tobacco, premed Gem differest casks Vint is the Queen's warehouse, it the Landes Docks, woes operated upon by mad them eminent chemists. They an sig rals secertained beyond a desist " the proems IV fiat. wade& super in variable gnasstities, both is diferset hogsheads , wed its the ease hogshead." la the coarse of the autumn following Dr. Uses ' sae farther investigetions—ell with the assents% ' Is daimon description, of tobacco he bead wars I varying is amount from # per ant. to 41 per cent Dr. Us" sir I have hosed in tobeeees fa bead Jl.l four end iliave =erair amt. of awjar. By wash the kat a to as now distineaish a seseheehee abases Mesa a to how that contains lithe or we esselweine wstele. In w eights tobacco thtre are blab data hem eel Mere epee the loaves, and it bee a eweetbh leste, which may easily be 'outmoded with the taste elf liguseise. This tabus° is pre ferred for "hewing. It is very curious that the only sample of tobacco in which these chemists were not able to detect amyl saccharin matter, wes a sample of the very tobases for the adulteration of wh'eh with sager the Excise commenced prosecutions apiestthe Mean. Animas, of Devizes ! In consequJnoe of this the Excise weal absolutely obliged to compensate the Menem Antrim 011 account of the expenses they bewared from the unjustifiable proceedings of the bosrd-4a act of jar tics more done by the Excise in any other case on record ! Such wee the complete beeek-down and overthrow of the "Excise chemist." and of their "prosecu tions for adulteration of tobacco by sugar." The authorities which are constituted for the protec tion of the fair and honest dealer, proved themselves in this came the persecutors and oppress:re of legiti mate and honourable trade. They drove the mate factors re to defend themselves at vast expense by employing chemists to test the very facts of which it was the duty of the Excise to be better informed than all the rest of the world together. And those chemists, men far above suspicion, proved beyond the possibility of quibble, that the assumption on which the Excise had founded all their prosecutions was absolutely false, and that those by whom they were advised and assisted were either men asserting a scien tific knowledge which they did nut possess, or men who suppressed the truth in order to promote a system which was at once a trap for the fair trader and a cover for the fraudulent. The " chemists" and the Excise have been obliged to abandon their ground. They admit now that they were wrong about the sugar. But the hope of re covering penalties is too tempting to induce them to forego proceedings altogether. They have therefore taken up a new position. They are now charging merchants and mann& .turers having saccharine to bacco in their st , .ck, with adulteration, not by sew, but by infusion of liquorice! There was published the other day, in the Gloucester Journal, the details of a meet wicked attempt to injure a respectable firm in this way : an attempt happily defeated, and of which even the evidence for the prosecution displayed the iniquity. Mews. Dices of Gloucester were sued for penal ties amounting to 8001. for having on their premise and for manufacturing, adulterated tobacco. 2,5001 b. weight of their tobacco had been seized by Mr. Moms Putturs, "the regular and confidential chemist to the board," on the ground that it " smelt of liquorice." Messrs. Blocs denied that they bad been guilty of any adulteration ; and when the usual op portunity of compromise was offered, to them, indignantly refused to make any terms with the Excise. The information spinet them was heard some days ago at Gloucester, and the owe rested entirely on the evidence of the Surveyor of Excise, who, of course, was the informer, and of Mr. (Mown PHILLIPS, the "analytical chemist to the board.* Now what do yen suppose the informer and the chemist together brought the cue to P Just this : ALFRED ALLCON, the surveyor, swore that he " lasted" the tobacco. It tasted of liqsorico. Genuine tobacco has & bitter acid taste, but that seized bad a sweet flavour. I did not app/y any other tat Mats 'imply tasting it. I believe that accord int to the quality of the tobacco *ore it sore or lan of aserharino =attar in it. Gamine Pauurs, the " analytical chemist," SWOOP, Os entering the store rooms I swell liquorice very strong. I Mated the tobacco, and found it so penis ently sweet that I said to Mr. Baps. " The Mate of this tobacco acestants for the difficulty a • have bad in Rotting into the warshouse."• I thea examined the whole of the lobster ea the premium sad told Mr. Biggs I should wins it se adulterated. This was absolutely the whale proof of adul teration ! It depended, therefore, on the state of the informer's palate and on "the analytical chemist's" power of nose. The one tasted and the other smelt. The informer, probably, just after screwing up his mange at a pot-bone with no small quantity of that porter in which liquifies is most plentifully in fused, walks into WNW& BIGGS'S WITIKOSID, and de clares that their Skeen tastes " liquoricy," and that he will lay an informaties 'The " analydeal chemist," only too sexism flee a lei at a dell period d the year, rushee AMPS IS MSIMISIS by express train, and amidst the fuels elf the tobacco in the ware house, sniffs the Ur/series se strongly, that he at once seises everything in the gam Tr uly, the senses of excisemen mast he main We should have fancied nothing more &Seek than to have tasted or smelt liqoarice in the leaf IL Aron_ Virginia tobasee. But what cannot tests sari man do when hem In also the hope of a reward is the OWN* and madras! In the sugar quads% "the awarded ebentist's" test was " heneslatios." la the %whim case he does not earry_hie elesedeel analyelk_wea to that extent of seining brandishes. lintled as it is. " With regard to Ilinerios," he ceps, "we have no dear way of it frees la ms% whim seized." The " analytical rsaylialliug test, than ks% is his strength of atetvil. He Eight well join 3a the exclamation of the entaik ssigtaker : " Num be who never Wad lobar, Nest' ! the plessare theses width d awe ? Knows be the titillating joys Whisk my wee knows? Oh, noes! I am so peed of thee As say mountain of its snows ; I pm at thee, sad feel that joy— A Roma knows!" Far the cause of justiias it is an exceedingly ha thing that there are other "analytical • in the wodd besides the lonrsoented " Chemist to the Board ',Enloe." In order to meet Mr. Pirmirs'a evidence the defendants called Dr. Uu. The learned doctor deposed as fellows: I have soaped these samples by wiry Amu& pretest in ny• porn, and I do sot believe there is LIMITNING thus vat pod, °annum Paacoo I Nos. 1 sad 2 are re. nuke!, ly pure, sad they have somewhat of a moat taste. No. 3 m Mains a little more salt or &Weise than the avenge. The sweetish Mete may ashy be makmaded with the mete of liquoric e. Professor HSRAPATH, of Bristol, swore to the same effect. After the evidesee of them truly acientille men, the pending =sheathes zatessite hews mealy, declaring that it was the &Sy et the Lie Ia sash a case to toddy them that the alleged 11811100 had been committed; that they wen net madded, and that un less three was Anther awl Miter peer, the information must be &mimed. The R. selisitor absolutely had the effrontery to give adios dame& di Appeal," indeed ! The Amiss end every one sow. cerned in such a case ought to be mesh& kr harm jug, persecuting, injuring, and, as they • imbeds the tobacco, we mxy even say, robbing a firm under such circomstanns as this rot dfiv.em Al irresponsible board proceeding me postire, upon the evidence of their ewer " amid' and othw OfaCeff, and then talking of " Appeal r Why what is this bat at a ta g of a government body to brook down nisei by the infliction of coats ? The Excise pay— the other hand, vast must have been the expenses incurred by Messrs. BIGGS in ProPoslog the 16 ; @utile analysis necessary to correc t the error s _ _°. the cupervitor's vitiated taste and the '7", chemist's analysing now And now they are to be • It wa• a/term:de ellablielnd that tlr vim■ la" giddy in Mr. PlllllOl dragged tato amber court, tad free& them perhaps to a third and a fourth, merely to satisfy the rave nous appetite of the Excise for pataltia! We commenced by saying that this was a matter affecting the honour ct government, the interests of trade, and the credit of seisms. We think that we bare established all those positions. It has also a soot important bearing on the lewd optima of the country, but that is a branch of the rabjeot into which oar present limit. warn as not to enter. LETTERS FROM THE HUNGARIAN BMW IN TURKEY. said .seas =Mkt since in At a great meetin; Ma { :more. , sz address to the Hunigariass and their 4 President was voted. A British officer, Lient. Case ment, offered to be the bearer et this address, and to pat his own expense. He accomplished his mission, bat wild only present the address at Widdin to Louth in captivity. Lieut. Casement has just re twee, ak and brought the following letters from Wid th. The and is a copy of the reply at an eminent chMlmain the Polish exiles, to a mem ber alibis 'Furkish government : WIDDIN, Barr. 111. During the month which has elapsed eines the fall of Hungary has driven a thousand Poles into the do minions of his Ottoman Majesty. we have had but to thank the benevolence and pro tection of the Sultan. We have expressed those Ir and in them I most fully joined. Alas ! why am I obliged to entertain other than ' these sentiments of gratitude, and why thus be forced to intrude on your indulgence by the language of remonstrar ce ? We had booed to become useful mem bers of the great family c tniided by Providence to the care of the sovereign of Turkey. What grief then was it for us to learn that our coming here has become the arse of an outrageous attack upon the indepen dent sovereignty and the bather, as well as against the traditional virtues of the sons of Mehemet. Na is it a lesser subject of grief to behold the councillors of the Porte falter in the task of supporting the Brit noble moire of their sovereign, and have recourse tor the solution of the difficulty to entreaties that oe should aid them by a deplorable act of weakness. These eminent men with whatever excellent inten tions, have fallen into a strange error. They counted, no doubt, and with justice, on the old affection of the Poles for the Turks, a reverence and affection which I share, founded on a knowledde of the many virtues which the Turks practise to a far greater degree than even Christians. Such knowledge has led me to re spect the religion of the Turks which inculcates these, mutes. But such sentiment is far removed frorn.the conviction or the state of mind required for an abju ' ration of religion, while such service would be an impiety in the eyes of the common Father of all men, and a cowardly lie in the eyes of those committing or ' witnessing such abjuration, sad equally injurious to ' both. _ _ _ Pardon me, if I say that one position here has not been appreciated at Constantinople by those whom we considered to be our tried Mend,. The succour accorded to us and the protection promised cannot blind us to the fact that we are prisoners, nor deprive us of anxiety for the future. Ikptived of freedom, and menaced by the vengeance of implacable enemies, we cannot still be guilty of a dishonouring act, vile, if not spontaneous, as if dictated by fear. Some individuals may cede to a conviction di which God and their conecienos will judge. But the change of religion by a body of men, en mossy, c old not be considered by the world as an ything else than a subterfuge, dictated by mere calculation and fear. Turks themselves would not judge it otherwise. And what would Poland think of her children, stained by such disgrace, or of Turkey, which con strained them to it? How could she count upon each sons? She would see nothing more than an unwor thy weakness and a low dikouragement. God defend the Sultan from following such a court*. Let him rather continue fairly what he ht gun glo rirasly, and cover with his arm the nnfortanee pests whom his officers received. Let him meet the unjust, inhuman, and nisgrareful demands of Russia with the dignity of the successor of Mehemet, and the world, as well as Poland, will repay him with killings of gratitude and ad mi ration . Should war ewe (and In that case, the protection of these refit =ill form but the pretext, not the canoe), the will be at the head of a nation proad of its conduct and its cause. And Europe will applaud the resistance and the courage of such a nation and such a sovereign. Poland will then not content herself with merely sending, as she did to Hungary, the purest of hor blood—she will rise as a man, for she will have faith in Turkey. And it is this faith, which Russia would destroy, for Poland and Turkey united can accom plish what Europe durst not attempt without those nations. Yet this faith, the sole preservation of Turkey hes the greatest disasters, would no longer exist, it wsuM perish, were Turkey to show itself so weak as to imand of the Po:es reposing under her hospitality the sacrifice of their rehgion to fear. Neither we'll this self ea this lie uttered, at tain the end desired. Russia would consider the thhig as minas, and would treat it as a mere sealsetege on the part of the Porte. Her exigencies valid sot ONO& And how could Mussnlmans be sailed on to display in the defence of this lie that esergy and sewage which they did not show in lap pet of their mages.nimou sovereign, wham he was faithful to the law, to the tradition and glory of his wee? The idea of abjuration thus appears pestle and incredible to the refugees themselves. They meet eau it, in order to put faith in divine kudos and is the words of a sovereign whose representative us by oath that oar safety was inviolable, cider the guard of Mussulman hospitality and the Sultan's protection. The mat letter is from a Polish ofber to Lord D— 8--. WIDDIN, Barr. 20. I seize the masks of one of your compatriots going home, to tell you what is passing. I send in Polish the events at Constantinople, which you will find resulted in an invitation to as here to conform to Islamism. I need not tell you bow such proposal was almost unanimously Tejo:tett. Oar danger is great. Three chasm are before ne t if, as is probable, the Turks Use, that of smug some thousands of Christians hosed to turn Mahanedane by the ame nds& el two Chnistian pewees. A mound chan ce mirg be tie visiesse Os - Turks, irritated by our re ams% sod blissi ea uto lied us for delivery up. This may peelase sans of resistance and blood one es Iselt pleat in Prussia in 1831, and the esesdal otwlielt_put an end to the cowardly project et ostradiass The third chance is that of a coup-de mi& against Widdin by the Russians. 01 them three possibilities, the two first would out =onanlty, the third would outrage the right of The demand of extradition made by Russia, soma panisd by a threat of war, is something so strains and so unusual, that it must have been done for the sake of degu . n _Teske, previous to crushing it. The isseesge eached us on the llth, and measures were taken, it wee said, to gain time till an answer arrived, before a definitive reply was made. But wond Russia wait the twenty days necessary for the return lf the officer, sent asfidsatially to us? This appears doubtful, aftA.r the wimiptesey conduct of Ridden. The Emperor, therefore, must be fully aware at this moment of the tergiversation of the Porte, and the proposal made to us by the laid cam ellias of the Porte. A declaration of war may thus be at this mamma dispatched from Warsaw, and orders given to the Russians to pan the Danube, whilst the 80,000 Ruesians in Wallachia can easily oversews the 30,000 scattered troops of Turkey. Russia would not, indeed, enter upon a winter campaign. But an expedition to carry us off is - passible; and as soon as this was achieved, the Emperor might declare himself satisfied. What could the European cabinets say? They have tolerated the an nihilation of Cracow, the occupation of the tains:li polities, the . treaty of Baits Liman, the occupation of Transylvaniafirst, of Ha -all after, without seeing how inevitable it wee that this must end in an attack on Turkey. European statesmen and your English press would vaunt the moderation of the Emperor without casting a thoht upon the disgrace flung upon Turkey 'Atha th e expedition, or the violation of its territory. Nothing can save us but some Smog step on the part of the governments of the west. I am sorry to mention that Beni alone has lietenset to the Turkish offer. It is not from fear he does this, but recklessness. Ban is a gambler in war; and his first chinas were lucky, us his last throw of the dice lost all. I need not say, that Dembinski and all hen repelled the foolish tem The following is a translation of a letter from Gen. Wysocki, commanding the Polish Legion is the 'ser vice of Hungary, now at Widdis, addressed to as officer sent by him to Constantinople, in answer to the proposal of the Divan, that the officers and , soldiers of the legion should embrace the Muesalman religion as a condition of the protection of the Sultan against the demands of the Emperor of Russia. WIDDIN, Sept. 19, 1849. " Dear Bielinskl,—l received your letter from Con stantinople, written visibly order the first impression, and when your thoughts were engrossed with the we slaty object of saving us. No ;it menet be ; we can not listen to the proposition of the Turks, for it la im possible to enter upon a compromise with our eon edemas. If we look upon a man as infamous who changes his political creed for the sake of selfish as Lives, what would we have to say of hiss who, for the sake cif safety, would change the creed of his fathers P _ . "Moreover, you must remember that we do not stand here in a private capacity, but that we e mot our whole nation. Are we, then, permitted bring, by cowardice, an sternal stair. upon the cha racter of our people ? What would say the world P What would say posterity? No! ones more, no! Happen what may, we bhall not tarnish the Polish name. I request you, in my name, and in the name of the whole legion, not to enter into negotiation with the Turks upon this subject; for, by such an act, the Turks would bring upon themselves and upon us an eternal infamy. "As regards your question, how you have to act with reference to the Sultan and to his government, do all you can to save this handful of men ; bat mind, that our country, the honour of our name, are foremost —our safety is a secondary matter. " I embrace you most sincerely, (Signed) "JOSEPH WTBOCKL seen begs gm the thteday. The aesl■s wee named by Vl* lager, l• onapilmace with • vsq.Wtioa *eel by as. atoll "Wet, who regard the proposed eltentisez e b= a Wedeln, to Mod to the delivery of letten la the os the thuidaY. sad a aeleslawd to easnrege • webs Mr repast fee the Minable &Math. The w t wee takes by the Weyer, who Vas nevesaled by wiss sataistsno sad geadmass :—Bay. Wm. Madan, of M. GeeeiVe March ; P.n. T. Williams g d s: leyes). Beads. IL It iow lt i e t rolds and G. W. Comber Eirta), Hobert J 8e5.1.. Jobe Jana, Jae" Seq., : Banes, Esq., J. W. Smith, MI, sad num nimbus el the Tows Orgeoll. The Nev. W. BlNCl e tut slur dam his 'plebe that tin roped wisely :eft mesa led laths aefiejnant of • llsle mosaw er slab sea petters is th• Mash% both in dm past•elltio and la samestila amahlblameas e lel Wane! deprive Inn be* oldie goat eel edvaatspe at the Ilahhath, aorta:--- That tbie lasedeg bee observed with regret and ahem the proposed regehtloa ha the General Poet oflke, by tat& a Imp mown of Banda, labour will be required is that EDWARD LINES, Eas e seeemied the prepaitioa, and called apes Mr mom to say 'Messina ef Slur day labour is the essami whisk from time is seemeMal hmi bees deed es the . The sues plea of mammiseme auk urge tie twain el the Custorn homs and othse deperamate of essameree ; sad be thought any alteration meilla mkt to be ia die appeeite direction. The Rev. T. WILLIAMS moved, sal the Rev. G. W. CORDER sosemied, the out rookies, width mu: That this waft Us that say plea which takes the malls into London on Samday mornings, and regains the attendant* of clerks sal kinot-sottors to receive, sort, sad transmit them, will ultimately load to the delivery of lettoss on that day is London also. On the motion of the Rev. H. R. RIIIIOLDS, _seteaded by ROBIZT JOWITT, Esq., a memorial to the LOINS of the Treasury, against the proposed alteration, was agreed to. All the resolutions were curbed unanimously ; and after thanks had been voted to the chairman, the mooting repa rated. TUE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 1849. glx Court. OSBORNE, Ocr. 9.—The Queen and Prince took their natal early walk this 'morning in the park and ground' of Osborne. The yonager members of the royal family walked and rode as wee. There was no addition to the royal dinner party yesterday. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Ledy Aana Marla Dawson, Barons"' de Bpeth, sad Sir George Cooper , left Tonbridge Welts at nine o'clock yester day morning, travelled by a special train on the 835th Rasters Railway to the Bricklayers Arms station, and 'Air wards proceeded to her residence, Clarence House, St. Junes's, where her Royal Highness arrived at eleven o'clock. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-Office. It was attended by Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of L otedowne, Bir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey the Chancellor of ' the Exchequer Sir Francis Baring, Lord Campbell, the Right Hoe. 11.Labouchere. and the Eel of Carlisle. The council at two hours. _ Mr. De Salie had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-Odloe. Mr. Charles Bury had an interview with Lord John Rumen yesterday, at his official residence in Downing street. . _ Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Co&octal•O®ce for the Governor of the Cape of Good Hops, and also for the Oavernors of St. Helena and the Gambia. THE QUERN DOWAGER.—We are happy to Say that no serious appridiensious ue entertained regarding the health of the Qum Dowager. It is will known that her Majesty has for years past suliered from a natossily delicate state of health, more particularly is the autumn. SUDDEN DEATH OP MR, GEORGE EDWARD Axiom —We deeply regret to have to announce the sadden denies of Mr. George Bdwd. Anson. The melan choly information of that gentleman'. premature deem' reached Buckingham Palace yesterday morning, the nits meager having fulled at that royal residence on his way to Osborne to acquaint her Majesty and his Royal Highness Priam Albert of the distressing 9•wa. Mr. Amon roes at his accustomed early ham on Monday morning, apparently in the enjoyment of his real health, and at 1 o'clock he was trued with a fit, and fterwards exhibited conscious- Ile died a little before 4 o'clock the same day. Kr. Anson attended the Qtren and the Prince Consort throughout their visit to Ireland, remained in the royal suite at Balmoral, and accompanied her Majesty r far as Derby on the royal return to Osborne. At Derby, the de creed gentleman took leave of her Majesty sad the Prince Comsat to repair to Needwood, Staffordshire, and it was at e tat x jarr his death occurred. Mr. G. B. Aron war sea of the Ron. and Very Ray. Frederick Amer, Dean of Cheater, end Prebendary of Southwell, and briber of the Rev. Canon of Windsor. He was for • lengthened pried private *orrery . to Vietnams Melbourne, end wee IMPIOWM by that lmeasia to • similar appointment is the establiehrent of his Royal High ness Prince Albert om his alliance with her Majesty. The families of the Earl and Countess of Lichfield, the Bon. F. sad Lady Anna Charters, Hon. Col. and Mrs, Geo. Anson, Lord and Lady Waterpark, Sir We. Anson, &c. will be placed in mourning by Mr. Assom's unexpected demise. THE ARCHBISHOP OP CANTERBURY hu contri buted the anoint:tot sum of 1001. to the Dembeth Anti- Cliolsre son Dwellings' Improvement Committee. (From last sires Oesett.) OSBORNE HOUSE, IsL■ OF WIGHT, OCT. 6.—Her Nest y in council was this day pleased, upon the representa tion of the Right Ron. the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education, to appoint the Roe. John Pilkington Norris, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Casabrido, to be one of her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools. POST-OFFICE SUNDAY LABOUR. MEETING IN SOUTHWARK. A meeting was held yesterday at the Town-hall, Southwark, to take into consideration the present intention of the Poet-office authorities to introduce Sunday labour in the Pest-office, and to elicit the public opinion of the beneath of &athwart thereon. The chair was taken by W. PRITCHARD, BK., High Bailiff, at one aciaely. Very many of the most respectable tradesmen of the borough were provntois also a large number of the local clergy. The body of the hall was tolerably full. The HIGH BAILIFF email the badmen OM* day by some appropriate observations's the pereasoest washy of preserving se much as pomade the eseethy of the Sabbath. Mr. J. PRITCHARD mewed she Ant resolution, to the effect that the meeting had einerved with great regret and alarm the peepeesd new regelations In the General Poet ether, milli weld comes a Lige amount of Sunday labour to be -_.g ia that estabildmest, while It would not di mktithnent et limas, We la the matey. The smile fia atmeggies Me smelaireg. anima liardt to be mmesed to my him, el lettere la Innis es Sundays. (Hear hear.) Mike was he gadded te led that there were 40 poet-dim employed thresahest the massy oa Met day. (Heran,ear.) It lambed - the 911111- day labour of WM poems, sad ia.his ephden tbet mormeassmeest of Whelk deeseratiss mlghthe avaidel (Hear, bear.) The hisses might be deviant es Seseeday everting, sae delivered the lift thing en Maim (Hear, bear.) He NOMA Met this quedea hal hem tated, as he thought thst the Alois resell wield be le pm a cheek ea liaday Ishtar thmeghest the reentry. (Hear.) Suppose a letter to arrive freer Castertimi cs Suaday mem tag, it might Ile in tie General Pes4alles on Sunday, and be ispeteltal cm Beads; night, when it would arrive in Narita* early ea Monday morals'. That arrange. meat weal, is hie elides, esswer 'all purposes, and would divpsee sf ono el the sees died by Ns authorities as proof of she sessesim of sum drags. They were told by the audio ' Ales that JO swim wive all that wield be arossary to carry i eat that new ensommert The peat evil et the preset Seim* lab= la Ore estratry pesbellie was that it set men of beim renywhem to writhe Mar Mhos ea Sunday—a ' peas*, whisk OW sot be tee awash depesesid._ He hoped and thought Mat the phut stmt be abilsemsd as le the ' intestine of the timed Peit-efies, as he mall sat Mink they intended to have a Imam delivery of Meet in Lemke. Mr. POTTER encoded the resolution, white wee aseried ae - e - sda;ott - sii. Mr. COMDBROY wed the eseoad ramktlea, ebb* adopted • ssemeriel to be pointed to th. Leeds et** Tramp, preying that th . Post-erase authorities night be prevented coryiag the proposed plaa of Sabbath labour tato eiseatioa. BIHPSON sseeadal the resslalkm, sad hoped that the remit Cl the present movement would be to abolish laady Pala-allaa ham all owe the matey. He re gally nob list Mr. H. Hill, who had done so alma geed tir the pall* should ham had w to do with the premed mom impepalar prepeeitioa. • Oa the Chairwea slaniodag to pet the resolution, the well-limess Omit Atesady attempted to obtain a hearing, and moats& esneklesahle madwisa. The sawassial, which was is maim* with the meolatiee, wet this seed, and A adopted rnead. A mie of thanks to t y he shams* haying been carried wianlopeady, the High Bailiff :starred thanks, and the swain separated. MEETING IN ST. PANCRAS. Led evening, a public meeting of the inhabitants of BL Pomo, woe held Ia the Natioaal ilohool-roosa, Booth amptowarest, Bartoa-maro, for the purpose of ablabOrigh• lag tie Lora of the Tommy aghast the cartomplated fa sotka of darolay laver poot•ollor.—tho Rev. T trod home Do* So rim. road iho Bosohatiais soadorias troy of Sho "Weed alroirefoo of fkusday labour won oar rim] 1111.11.1111 r, am/ s roinorki handed oa the rosolatioas adepted. MUTING AT LEEDS. A public mediae. soot numerously attomoled, was bold in the Imes Osnro.heurs in Kocdiy mobs& Is, she purpose of andissito mimed sitersi. 4 va la the Gessesi Post•oaloe, Wades to Os midi* sad Intisdniss 01 ths Intel moult of the hems tic eteltstion in the 11 its commencement =llit icTthe eth inst. Banno&—Tbe returns watiwe (avowable, being for to. day (Turley) ea follows: Mantes, 16 ; appeowitiag 'bolas, 1; abokora, 1 ; &alba, 3. THE CHOLERA. The deaths from cholera and diarrhoea registered on Monday mars tasoectively, 38 cad 20. Total death from Melon, togistarod from Sept. 17, 1848, to Oct 8, 1849 Ditto ditto from Joao 17, 1849 to Oct. 8, 1849 13,343 Gastazal Rogfater OMee, Oot. 9, 3 o'clock. TUB PRO Return of deaths from and the General Board of Rodin Ch. Dia. Alswiek Abridge (11i and Coogrisbary) 2 Bedminster 13,rwick.apas-Tweed 1 Birmingham B Ann 0 Bradford, Bowling, and Horton .. 1 Bristol _ irtaa-oa-Tnat.. 2 I Chaos Muon(Arh ley &stria° Clit6oros aOrlceriietiih snd Workington ... 4 Dewsbury, Dismal, _ and B , rkessbaw 2 Doncaster (Bens. b glt rou . 1 Dri (Balaton) 1 Dudley and &deer 6 East 13tuaeleou'e .. 7 Euless% Bigelow, - and Nortea, 2 Ikele afield, Wort brongh 1 E ppleg, Chiangll 1 Rastas Falaseatb(Pearayai 2 Fanny' ( Bannerab) 1 Gateshead (Win laton Gravesend and --- 2 Great Boughton 1 Havertordweat 0 Hayfield (Daisy) 1 Hendon (Hadar don) Hudd.nfield.Lock- wood (and Stalk waiw) Hull sad 317t0a 4 ituallet, Bolbeek, sad Whitkirk fete of Thant _ 2 Kiaderulsoler .... 0 Kli p ie= (Stoke 1 Kftereobeeengh (Seadond) Lords l9 Leighton Sward 0 Liverpool 2 Melba _ Manchester Milton next Sit- tiitgboiitii (Ike tingbounto) 0 Nantwich 4 Nubs* (Begslly district) 1 Ninth Cirstradiun- Newark 0 Newcastle - nadir- Newton Abbot (Torquay) 1 Northampton Dundee 2 0 Arbrosit St. Virus', Ar broath [lnverses, .. General Toisl—Lowden and 1 The Province Tot. . TM dant en Maned as Rtgislnes dlstoists, se it is run nary plan sonely. WINCES. Ler& and diarrheas reported to yesterday, October 9, 1849. Ch. Dia. North Witchford (Koch) Nottingham 1 2 Oldham 0 2 Pembroke 1 0 Pearitb 0 1 Peteabeassaii . 1 1 Myosinlt. Mary (Yealoptce) 7 0 Pontefract (Haot tiagley sad Yip Psi) Ponies Maud Laagport sad Portrea) 0 2 1 0 Peaces if;a7lo4 (SL Lw rett..) &Witold Rotherham Salford (Regent • road & Ormagats 8 1 St. Germans (An tony) 2 0 81.Noot's (Kienbol ton tad Raton) 0 1 &Wootton 0 1 Sheflield Woe, and Brightside 2 4 &nth Molds and Watts 4 1 Btocktat(liartsepool) 3 1 Stoke-upon - Trent, Malta& and Ran- _ - ley -- —2 1 Btourbridge(Yings vistaed) Bunderland(Butrup wearmonth T. ',dale (Barnard C Ade) Thrapetua Tura- _ _ mush atites and Dart- _ _ month _2 1 Tomostor Silver mtono 0 1 yeutabouth (Lnag- Mato* aadWalla- end— —6 1 Takefled (Alm tla) 0 1 i'als sad Du , _ _ - leatou _ _ 2 2 Watiord(Biakisans worth districty.. 1 0 West Bromwich, and Wradnesbury 4 0 West Derby (Beer ton andKirkdale) 2 1 Weymouth . 0 1 Winan,Pemberten, and A•hton .... 8 5 Windsor (Mower) 3 0 Wilbert& (Walac hia) Wohtanton ( run stall) Wolverhampton & Bilstan Worcester 1 1 York (Bootham) 1 1 T0ta1.... 213 84 Cbo - . Cho. Dia. Edinburgh, from Sept. 29 to Oct. 6 23 0 Handel 2 0 Cape, Fifa Total 32 0 CO. Dia. 'iolnity.. 38 20 213 84 32 0 283 r to t►e Superintendent intpeseamble to diatin- RETURNS OF HOUSE TO HOUSE VISITATION. Patens tor the 9th last. trees nineteen micas and pule's' HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WE Man the Itagidrar-Gemwel's 1et...) The lumber of deaths from all mum registered in the week ending last Saturday, is 1,290, and sofa exhibits an important decrease oa the previous week. Slam the first week of September, when the total deaths were 3,183, the mortality las steedily declined, end le now, happily, not much in tsar of the rate that usually prevails is the last quarter of the year. Cholera has tallea morel than is hummed, car claim lastwee the 4 sft were 288, a amber is the fear* week of IN whisk differs set mash from the =odor refused about eight weeks thin it admitted its greased fatality. Diarrhea sad dysenwry deo demean. bat mere 'lowly • it will be els served, borrow that the deaths from this two hems of disease last week , namely 146, an hardly Ws samosas them those of pert of the yes,' 1646 mad 1847, vim the periodical homers wee aaueselly great. In IS. Giles only one deeds fon cholera wee registered kg week in East Loadoe, West Landes sad City of Leaden, the deaths were 12, those in the previews week from dolma having bola 26 ;is Lambeth the the in two weeks bath fallen from 60 to 24. It lieges is Fulham, tad in some ether ditrib the moat impammest is sot remarkable. Odor agliendth with the empties of typhus, are war the average. With mimes to mei pm, Mr Roll stabs that he has regitered ally two deaths in th e . hospital for this dime* (fa Camden-town saithodet) to three :oaths. Wilda thirsted. the hems has bets seedy empty, at ems dm* there wee bet a dojo gallethe _smil all lie mere were of a mil hem. •amof Si Owe die d la ARgele of ' 1 &th inks " (eeeor le lie mama's miles). Tb• sees d the beromeeer la the week was 26.774; the mesa immoratare was 61 deg. 25., lest than the average of the same week fa seven years by &boat two degrees. The tempennue was eorssiderably lower than in Crweeks_ ; and on some days rein fell heavily. The registired in the week wire 1,182. LAND 111711011110 NT Act Imario.—According to • num Just Odd. tb• =weal of gainle, tae la the @avowal pare kw =taw la In land, the saw hod inorovimmt ad, was 3,038,6901., W eseseat r may sweelkosi by the treasury was 1,635,4031., ad the animal of aceseyeetasay minded was 619,2001. Await Macs dins that the fatal awed of all ths applioations reaalved by the Dead d 1 Wotb fa Irdandi under *eland Improvement ad, dud lata ad.LNtom gnat, Irma 90,1901.17.. Ad., wbils dr mead a/ tba Lana Vaned was 12 .0001. Mini al the Masses ware retold 11194=419fit Ito plods 'timid to woo mot fa the ahlehh. ADAM SMITH ON PUBLIC DEBTS. Tbie public fund" of the different indebted =fiats of Earops, portisalarly those of Ragland, hare by one anther b -so represented as ths aammulation of a great espied euperadded to the other capital of the country, by I metes of which its trade is extended, its manufeetures :mei tear! its leads cultivated sad improved much beyond could have been Ily means of that other capital =1 dees oessasier that Me capital whit* tke first itf pub* missiseed to f1410111~4a, was, /rem the asessent is whisk My mhaneeni st, a certain portions/ the menus' praises Awned Pray from serving in Me fuse tas fz ier eipitai. to save is that of a rilVfnele from laiseaws to maintain tosproaw ties mees,amilo rtilk es;:eat mod meted goneroffy in the cosies qf Ma yaw, cookout was th e : ri bes T g is agsy figure oduffism. is Mara ter the they &d -reproomed, than allemined, indeed, an =nutty in the public foods In mete mess of more than equal value. This en. = Lii no doubt, replaced to them their capital, end thaws to earry on their trade and business to the NM or perhaps to • greater extent than before ; that is, they were enabled eau to borrow of other people a new capital upon the credit of this annuity, or by selling it to get from other a new capital of ltsir own, equal or superior to that they had advanced to government. This new capital, however, which they in this manner either bought or borrowed of other people, mutt have existed in the eoutry before, and must have been employed as all capitals are, in maintaining productive labour. When it came Into the hands of those who had advanced their money to government, though it was in some respects a new capital to them, it was not so to the country ; but was only • capi. ml withdrawn from certain employments in order to be turned towards others. Tough it replaced to them what they had advanced to government, it did not replace it to the country. Had they not advanced this capital to go perms...4 there Would have been in the country hoe crys tals, two portions of the annual produce instead of °neon- Anted in maintaining productive labour. *ben for defraying the expense of government a re venue is raised within the year from the produce of free or unmortgagod taxes, a certain partite of the revenue of private people is only turned away from maintaining one species of unproductive labour, towards maintaining another. Some toast of what the pay in those taxes might no doubt have been accumulated into capital, and consequently em ployed in maintaining productive labour; but the part would probably have been spent, and consoquens; er em ployed in maintaining unproductive labour. The public expanse, however, when defrayed In this manner, no doubt hinders more or less the further accumulation of new capi tal ; but it does not necessarily occasion the destruction of any actually existing capital. When the public expense is defrayed by funding, it is de frayed by the urinal destruction of some capital which had Wore existed in the country; by the pweerasasof ems portion of the annual produce whic had Were been destined for the maintenance of production Maur, Amara that of %productive labor. As in this sue, however, the taxes are lighter then they would have been, hid a rums* safileieest tor defraying the same expense been raised within the year; the private revenue of iodividuah is se cesearily less burdened, and consequently their ability . to save and accumulate some part of that revenue into capital is • good deal lees impaired. If the method of toadies destroy more old capital. it at the same time hinders less the accumulation or acquisition of new capital, than thatof Se. fraying the public expense ba revenue raised wields the year. Under the system of funding, the frugality and Is dowry of private people can more easily repair the brushes which the waste and extavagence of government may oem' dually make in the general capital of the society. It is only during the continuance of war, however, that the system of funding has this adtutap over the other system. Were the, expense of war to be defrayed always by • revenue raised * within the year, the taxes from which that extraordinary revenue was drawn would last no longer than the war. The ability of private people to accumulate, though less during the war, would have b, en greater during the pesos then under the system of funding. War would not necessarily have occasioned the destruction of any old capitals, and peace would have occasioned the accumulation of many morosely. Wars would in general be more speedily concluded, and less wantonly undertaken. The people feeling, daring the continuance of war, the complete burden of it, would soon grow weary of It, and governmenr, in order to humour them, would not be under the necswity of carrying it on longer than it was necessary to de so. The foresight of the heavy and unavoidable burdens of war would hinder the people from wantonly calling for it when there was no seal or sad interest to fight for. The seasons curing which the ability of private people to accumulate was somewhat impaired, would occur more rarely, and be of shorter continuance. Those,on the contrary, during which that ability was in the highest vigour, would be of mach longer duration than they can well be under the system of funding. When funding, besides, has made a certain I regress, the multiplication of nixes which it brings along with it some times impairs as much the ability of private people to accu mulate even in time of peace, as the otter system would in time of war. The peace revenue of Great Britain amounts at present to more than ten millions a year. If free and uninertgaged, it might be sufficient, with proper management and without contracting a chilling of new debt, to carry on the wet vigorous war. The private revenue of the inhabit ant, of Gera/ Britain is at present as much encumbered in time of ;melee, their ability to accumulate it as much im paired as it would have been in the time of the most expeuswe war, had the pernicious system of funding never been odoPlod• In the payment of the intoned of the public debt, it has been said, it is the righthand which pays the left. The money does cot go out of the country. It is only a part of the revenue of one set of the inhabitants which is transferred to another ; and the natien is not a farthing the poorer. This apology is foucded altogether in the sophistry of the mercan tile system ; and after the long examination which I have already bestowed upon that system, it may perhaps be un necessary to soy anything further about it. It supposes, besides, that the whole public debt is owing to the inhabit ants of the country, which happens not to be true ; the Dutch, as well as several other foreign nations, having a very con siderable share in our public funds. But though the whole debt were owing to the inhabitants of the country, it would not upon that account be less pernicious. Land and capital stock are the two original sources of all revenue both private and public. Capital stook pays the wages of productive labonr,whether employed in agriculture, manufactures, or commerce. The management of those two original sources of belongs to two different 'eta of people ; the proprietors of land, and the owners or employers of capital sleek. The proprietor of land is interested for the sake of his own revenue to keep his estate in as good condition as he can, by building rad repairing his tenants' houses, by making and maintaining the seensary drains and inclusive, and all those other expensive improvement* which it properly belongs to the landlord to make and maintain. But by different his& taxes the revenue of the landlord maybe so much diminished; and by different duties upon the necessaries and conveni ences of life, that diminished revenue may be rendered of so little real value, that he may find himself altogether unable to make or maintain those expensive improvements. When the landlord, however, ceases to do his part, it is altogether impossible *oaths tenant should continue to do his. As the dittoes of the landlord Increesee, the agriculture of the country must neoessarily decline. When, by different taxes upon the necessaries and conve nience" of life, the owners and employers of capital stock find, that whatever revenue they derive from it, will not, in a particular country, purchase the same quantity of those necesearies and conveniences which an equal revenue would in almost any other, they will be disposed to remove to some other. And when. is order to raise those tun, all or the greater part of merchants and maaufacturers, that is, all cc the greater part of the employers of capitals, come to be continually exposed to the and vexatious visite of the tax gatheras, this disposition to:remove will soon be changed into an actual »mush The Industry of the country will nusesuily fall with the removal of the capital which supported it, and the rain of trade and sasoUutares will follow the declension of agriculture. To transfer kola the moan of those two great sources of revenue, land and espies' stock, from the persons immedi ately interested is the good condition of every particular ratio of land, and in the good management of every parti cular portion of mOtsl stock, to another set of porous (the creditors of the public, who have no inch parlicoW interest), the are ator part of th e revenue arising from either, must is the long rue Mean& both the neglect of land, and the waste or removal of capital stock. A coeditor of the public has no doubt a general interest in the prosperity of the egrienhars, manufactures, and Nu m* of the washy ; ssl emir gangly in the good erudition of its lands, end is the geed management edits espial stock. Should there be any general failure or dmAssika is any of those things, the produce of the different tales might no longer be 'ancient to pay hiss the annuity or inmost wrish is dos to him. But a creditor of the public, considered merely as sack, has no interest in the good condition of any particular parties of land, or in the good management of any particular poetics of capital stock. As a creditor of the pub lic he has so kaowledge of any such particular portion. He has no iampostioa of it. He can have no are about it. Its ruin may In mew cuss be unknown to him, and cannot directly offset him. The practice of funding kasprradually enfeebled every seats which has adopted it. The Italian republics seem to have begun it Genoa end Venice, the only two remaining which an pretend to an independent Meese, have both been enfeebled by it. Spots sums to have learned the practise from the Italian republics, and (its taus being probably hires judicious than theirs) it has, in p to its natural strength, been still more enfeeffied. T re r rebts of Spain are of very old standing. It was deeply in debt before the end of the sixteenth conni, about a hundred yetis before England owed a shilling. France, notwithstanding all its natural resources, languishes under an oppressive load of the same kind. The republic of the United Provinces is as much en feebled by its debts u either Genoa or Venice. Is it likely that in Great Britain alone a practice, which has brought either weakness or desolation into every other country, should prove altogether innocent ? SUNDAY POST-OITICE DUTY IN THE PROVINCES. —An order km boon issued from the General Prat .to discontinue making op Landon bags la the provinces for the day mans on Sundays. This will prevent provincial towns basing any undue iminntags over the metropolis. Com plaints hays boos ark that by the now regulations for ex pediting loth= through LOIMIOU about W ant into opera tion es Sung son a lottro minas is lAndon on Sunday sewn" wean set mach Liverpool ham Monday after ••=mewhilo • letter written in ProliMoldi 011 Sunda would. by being mut to mo o by the day and forwarded from thanes la ths k& yob verlmol al Maeda 'mai* By tin dissatissest:e; the Landon Senn yZv eg e P amai n , an d st other pt-, i• cannot posdbly ham say it n a g s ova these is MANCHESTER WATERWORKS. BURSTING OF THE WEIR, AND DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY BY THE FLOOD. In the Express of Monday we mentioned the °eminence of a violent mow and thanderctoem as having oomined on Friday last at Glossop. at the foot of some of the Yorkshire sad Derbyshire hills. Sines that occurrence the exceedingly heavy and continuous fell of rain and snow on the neassit of the hills In question has been productive of much more serious MIMI. Tbe Manchester corpora non has commenind a of works for We colleen= of the flee streams which flaw from these hills through the Leitrim&le Valley, peincipally fed by some powerlal wi=e near Woodhead, with a view to 'applying Manches ter with this beautiful water. The works are under the direction of Mr. J. F. Bateman, civil engineer. The cost of the =servo= and other works will probably be not =while* thane million of money, and their oonstruction has proceeded very satisfactorily up to Sunday largo/hen an arnidentoccurred which will probably throw the works back by several months. For about tan days there had bean an almost un interrupted fall of rain en the hills. The weather cleared up for some hours on Saturday, but about 10 o'clock cia Saturday night the rain commenced again, with • strong easterly wind, and never ceased till 10 o'clock on Sunday night. The water ensue down literally in torreuts. The Eden-brook and the river Etheron aro the principal feeders to the intendea waterworks, and are united at Woodhead. These streams were considerably swollen at this paint, owing to the fall of rain, and from comparatively shallow but rapid streams they became torrents of great bulk. The volume of water is estimated to have increased on Sunday to nearly 300 cubic feet per second. About 2 o'clock on Sunday the flood down the Eden-brook se completely over topped the new weir which the company have erectei across that stream as to completely carry off the coping of the im mense barrier of stone-work. In consteuence of the break ing down of this weir the new river course, for the purpose of carrying off the floods, was rendered useless, and the water, consequently, impounded into the valley behind the I aggloiLkmeate of the river (which had been raised to about 24 feet above the pipes), and collected there until at half- past five o'clock on Sunday evening it flowed over the top sad cut down and swept away the embankment itself. The Immense volume of water thus liberated from all control burst down the vele of the Etheron with fearful violence. sweeping everything before it. At Vale House Mill, three miles down the stream, where the spinning and weaving mills el Messrs. Hobbs and Sidebottom are situated, the flood is described as making its appearance, between six and seven o'clock in the eve.ung, like a we ll of water, fully five feet above the level of the ordinary stream over which it was r along with fearful rapidity. There is a village of e: a v l eVhundred people there, and such of the inhabit wen were on the alert ran screaming into their houses with terror. The lower story of the mills of Meten. Hobbs and Side bottom were ft waded in an ins ant, and with such violence did the water rush into this part of the building, that it lifted the stone flooring above the lower story completely up, and almost filled the room over it. From two to three thousand pieces of printing cloths and shirtings were entirely destroyed in this mill, besides • quantity of yarns, and the flood wane= down the day and Sunday school attached to the premises, and part of a warehouse. It also washed down • great num ber of yard walls, and the fences of the surrounding fields. A bridge for carriages across the river Etheron at this point was partly swept aw..y, and will have to be re-erected, seve ral of the piers being destroyed. The banks of the river were here sufficiently high to prevent the flood going over them in such a force as to destroy the village, but most of the houses were, for a time, under water, and on its subsiding the floors of them were left covered, as were all the surrounding fields and property, with mud and wreck. The fall of the river from Woodhead down to this point is estimated at 80 to 90 feet per mile, and the force of the torrent was so great that it burs down with it some of the huge blocks of Ashlar stone, two to three tons weight each, of which the works at Wood head are formed, for more than two miles. The loss to the Waterworks Company at Woodhead is esti mated at • little over 5001., but the damage to the mills and works down the stream is more serious. The loss of Messrs. Hobbs and Sidebottom is said to exceed 1,0001. The next mills the flood cams in contact with are a mile or two lower down the valley, being two spinning and weav ing mills belonging to Mr. Samuel Lees. The machinery is partly turn, d by a water wheel, and being in gear at the time would have been considerably damaged, but that the volume of water drove three or four sections of the mill wheel out of their frame, and thus brought its revolutions very speedily . to an end. The water is described as rising at ones to a height of eight feet above the previous level of the flood, and into the lower part of the two mills, filled with several hundred looms, in which is many pieces of alining were in the course of weaving when the machinery had been stopped on Saturday night. Great injury was sustained by the owner. The neighbouring cottages were flooded to a con siderable depth, and the damage at this point sustained by Mr. Lees alone is said to exoeed 5001. The print-works of Messrs. Dalton, called the Holling sworth Mill Print-works, still further down the river, were also flooded. The flood reached this mill a little before seven o'clock, snapping asunder the cut-iron pillars which support a bridge for carriages, and carrying away the whole fabric se though it were a feather. The inhabitants of the neiglp bowing cottages were taken by surprise, and the first floors of their dwellings being filled at once to a height of several Oat, they were compelled to seek safety, which they did with the moat pitiable cries and lamentatione, in the upper stories. The valley here spreading out. however, to a considerable width, comparatively, the force of the torrent was spent to a great extent. The printworks stand close by the river side, and the water ran into the lower stories, filling the vats and upsetting the colour tube, besides wetting and Injuring a quantity of cloth. A poor farmer, named Thomas Holland, occupying Woolley Farm, by the side of the river, had a quantity of corn cut and in sheaf, which the flood carried entirely away. Mears. Dalton sus tained a less of 5001, or 6001., and the farmer estimates his loss at something like 601. Messrs. Sidebuttom's mills at Waterside having been pro tected by • high mound of earth, escaped more lightly than the others. These mills are situated about five miles down the stream from Woodhead. A good many fences and walls upon the property adjoining the river belonging to Mr. Side bottom were prostrated, and the handsome suspension bridge erasing the Etheron to Mr. Sidebottom's residence, was Wand by a baulk of timber borne down by the stream, the handrail b-ing broken, and some of the ornamental work. Messrs. Sidebottom's loss, however, will probably not exceed 1001. The cottager, living by the side of the Etheron hays suffered considerably, though not no minally to a large amount. Many of them had yirotes, and other premises by the side of the stream ; and an addi tion to theme places being washed down, their pigs and other property were swept away. No doubt much injury was done which has not yet come to our reporter's knowledge, and 30001. would probably be a low estimate of the whole, besides the alarm and inconve nience sustained. Several of the mills have had to mime running through it, and thus the poor werkpeople will also sustain a further lees by remaining unemployed for • time. ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL.—IS has been reported that the proceedings against Mr. Whiston have been abandoned. This is not the cue. On the con trary, we have authority for stating that the Dean and Chapter have overruled Mr. Wnision's demurrer, prepared and presented, by the adrift of the Solicitor-Omura], and have given him notice to appear before them on Wednesday (this day), to make answer to the charges named in their filiation of Aug. 14.—Makieton• Jaffna,. IMPROVED DWELLINGS POR LABOURERS.—Let week the first public meeting of the Tunbridge Wells branch society for improving the dwellings of the poor, was held in the Corn Exchange in that town. Notwit hitandiag the extreme wetness of the day, which no doubt prevented many attending, the large room was well filled with • highly re spectable and attentive audience. The chair was taken b Lord Ashley, M.P. The report stated that the society had last year purchased about five acres of land on the London road, on which were at present erected six cottages for sepa rate families, as well as a lodging-house, capable of accommo dating 14 unmarried labourers of good character. To each cottage was attached a piece of land for garden-ground, of about the eighth of an acre. On the remainder of the ground the society contemplated building eighteen addi tional cottages. Among the rides to be observed by the tenants, were that the children were to be sent regularly to a day school, and a strict observance of the sabbath wee to be attended to, and a punctual attendance at some protestant place of worship. CABE OF SUSPECTED POISONING AND ROBBERY:. During the summer months, Jane Hamilton, a servant girl, resided with her mother in the town of Strathaven. She had been for many years a servant to a clergyman in Edin burgh, and had returned to her native place in a delicate state of health. She had accumulated upwards of 201. of her fees; and of these in her chest, along with • few loose pound notes, was a bank receipt for 201. She wee lattetiy confined to bed ; and her mother was assisted by Janet Len nox, who was married to Jane's brother, Andrew Hamilton. Janet prepared drinks, and the doctor's medicines for the use of her Siang slater; and both she and her husband were in frequent and clogs attendance, as became affectionate relative,. Jane began to show symptoms of recovery, so much so es to induce the medical gentleman to discontinue the usual visit. On the following day Jane's mother stepped into the doctor's shop. Mother : ThL is a 'Ridden change wi' Jane —Doctor : What way ?—Mother : She's awe' I—Doctor (in astonishment): Where to ?—Mother : She's dead!—Doc tor : Dead ! When did she die ? This is a sudden change, indeed.—Mother : But what way did ye no come yesterday, when ye were sent for ?—Doctor She was so much better that I did not think it necessary to call ; and to my know ledge I was not sent for.—Mother: That's strange ! Janet Lennox left my house o' her tun accord to gang for ye, and she cams back 'ey ing that you would be directly. This was the first ground of suspicion of foul agency. Jane had thus died suddenly, and death had been attended with retching and burn ing pains. Arsenic is alleged to have been purchased by Janet Lennox from a druggist's shop in Strathaven, and arsenic is alleged to have been found, on the body of the de ceased being opened. Before suspicion had been matured and legal steps taken, Janet absconded, but afterwards came back, when both she and her husband were apprehended. Jane's chest, on examination before relatives, was found robbed of all money ; and it is alleged that the sister, Janet, has been identified as the person who cashed the 201. re ceipt in the bank. Litters have been run, and the trial will shortly take place in Edinburgh. Remembering all the circumstances of Mrs. Gilmour's trial, this may be considered peculiarly fortunate for the female prisoner. Altogether, the non-publicity of this atrocious case of murder and robbery exhibits • striking centrist with the courts and press of our English neighbour..—Reformers' Gazette. 111 II