The Express. — London, England, 1846-09-25 00:00:00

El leueseeew — ______ case,—Mr.eech Wansey submitted that this was a sufficient tender. It had never been called in question by the person to whom the money was tendered.—Mr. Arnold said he was cl ea rly of opinion that this was not a tender. In the that sees o f this description which had arisen his attention had been drawn to the remarkable manner in which the authority was wo • rded• The 80th section of the Reform Act enabled e party whose name was not on the rate to make a claim to be Wed, but it annexed the condition that he should actually pad or tender the full amount; of rates then due. It was n t h r' the iutention of the legislature that an actual pay ment or' bone fide tender should be nude. The wording of the authority was singular, for it did not adopt the words of the 80th section, and authoriee Mr. Sidney Smith to " pay" or "under" the amount of the rens, On but merely gave an authority for " tendering payment." the evidence given by some of the claimants, that they understood this to be an authority to pay the rates, he had given effect to that autho rity ; but what be had now heard made him extremely regret having done so; and he was afraid he had admitted a great m any persons to the register who had no right to be there. , It was obvious, from Mr. Aime's evidence, that it was in tended merely 'to make a tender, without any actual pay. • ment. On a former occasion Mr. Smith had stated that, if ! ?dr. Aime had paid an y money, he would have been repaid from some other fund, and that, although he considered ' himself retitled to call on the claimant for the repayment, , ' he should probably not have done so, as a matter of feeling. , That, certainly, was a suspicious fact; and hulled now elicited , another —that Mr. Aims was instructed to make a tender, but , should probably have withdrawn the claim, had the overseer stated the amount due. And on finding that he had actually ' done so on more than one occasion, he was bound to come to the , conclusisa that the tender was not made bed fide with a , view of paying the rates, if any had been found to be due, , but that it was altogether a fraudulent and fictitious tender. 116 was decidedly of opinion that the assnBoh section of the Act bad not been complied with, that it ot a tender made , by the party or any authorised agent on his behalf, and that therefore the name must be omitted.—Mr. Wansey hoped • the court would grant a case.—Mr. Arnold : Certainly uot ; because if I did, 1 should state to the Court of Common ' Fleas that it was fictitious and fraudulent. —Mr. Wansey, after some discussion, handed in a written notice of appea ho l, and said he felt it his duty , o n the part of the claimant, w , was dissatisfied with the decision, to give this notice.—Mr. Arnold: I have already said I would not grant a case. I cannot hear you agam.—Mr. Wansey : Unless the court grants a case, 1 shall certainly make an affidavit of the facts, and apply to the Court of Common Pleas fur an order. —Mr. Arnold : Perhaps you had better apply to the Queen's Bench for a mandamus ; but it is not for me to suggest what you ought to do.--Mr. Wunsey : I consider no justice is to be had in this court, if such decisions are to be given.—Mr. Arnold: I trust I shall net hear an observation of that kind again. Hitherto we have gone on not only properly, but pleasantly. But if gentlemen so far forget themselves as to make observations of that kind, I shall decidedly make an order that they be not admitted into this court. This court is a court of justice, and its pro ceedings must be conducted with some order and propriety. Mr. Arnold then returned the notice to Mr. Wansey, ob sereing, e I have written an obsery %ion upon it." No other case of interest occurred yesterday. Some amusement was created, just before the using of the court, by the circumstances in which Thomas Wright, a claimant in St. Mary-at-Hill, 'presented himself. In his anxiety to possess the franchise, he had signed two printed forms of claim, one of those supplied to him by either party; and the overseer stated that he had made a " verbal" claim in addi tion. The claim being allowed, the voter hope d r the " worthy barrister" would allow him " a something, as he had been kept there all day, fortifying his application by the state ment that he " was very dry." The ward of Aldgate and Billingsgate was concluded, and one parish in the ward of Bassein's , was gone through. The result of the four days' revision of the householders' lists is as follows: Liberal objections, sustained, 42 ; failed or withdrawn, 83: Tory, sustained, ;8; failed or withdrawn, 125: double, sustained, 33; failed or withdrawn, 13: Libe ral claims, sustained, 32; failed or withdrawn, 49. PROVINCIAL. LEEDS. Yesterday, William Gray, Esq., the barrister appointed to revise the lists of voters for the borough of Leeds, and several other of the West Riding boroughs, opened his court fur that purpose, in the Court House at Leeds. Mr. Bertie Markland, solici tor, and Mr. Autey, their Registration agent, appeared for the Conservative electors ; Mr. Chutes Naylor, and Mr. T. Morgan, Registration agent on behalf of the Whigs and Free Traders. The number of objections made was not very considerable, and as several of them had been with drawn, the attendance of spectator , ' was small; and up to the hour when our express parcel was sent off, no point of general interest had occurred. STEPNEY ANTI-TITHE MEETING. The parishioners of Stepney, in accordance with a requisition put forth by the Stepney Anti-Church-rate and Parochial Reform Association, hell a public meeting at the Temperance Hall, Mile End-road, yesterday evening at seven o'clock, to take into consideration the best means of frustrating the proposal of the Tithe Commissioner, and the representative of lirazenose College; to introduce a local act for the exaction of garden pennies and Easter dues in the parish of St. Dunstan's, Stepney. Mr. Thomas Hoary Fry presided. The Ceentmeet opened the proceedings by saying that be would not go into details with regard to the measures adopted by certain visitors, the Tithe Commissioner and the repre sentative of Bruenoze, who came into the parish to feel their way, in order to discover the steps they should take to compel them to pay towards the support of an ecclesiastical establishment. This meeting would, however, act on the broad principle of religious liberty, and show that that they detested the compulsory support of any ecclesiasti cal establishment. The government and the legislature had no power to interfere with their consciences or compel them to pay for the support of any church. As far as he was con cerned he was a loyal subject, but when the government came to infringe on his right of conscience, he would become a staunch rebel. (Cheers.) Mr. Put seer proposed the fleet resolution, and stated that the rector of the parish of Stepney having failed twice in ex acting Easter dues, now attempted, by bringing forward Mr. White, of Brasenose-college, to compel them to pay them by a local act. He believed, however, that they could not be compelled to do so by act of Parliament; he already called for the production of such an existing act, which could not be discovered. He called upon Mr. IVhite, and asked him what he would do if the parishioners refused to come to a , composition of their claims by a local act, and he was told 1 that litigation would be tried. That test they would have tried before they paid a farthing. It was for them now to decide whether they were to be frightened into acquiescence by such extremes. The resolution he begged to propose was : That this meeting cannot but express its surprise that an attempt should be made in this parish to enforce those obsolete and objection able imposts, garden pennies and Easter dues, especially after the defeat of two church-rates within the last fourteen months. Mr. GLENVILLE seconded the resolution ' stating that he would ever oppose the system of any chur ch being esta blished and supported by . act of Parliament. He warned the people of Stepney against being a party to this local act; let them take their stand on the defenuve, and try whether there was an act in existence to compel them to pay these unjust dues. If garden pennies or Easter dues could be exacted by any existing act of Parliament, they would net now try to force a compromise. He believed that if they took their stand on the broad principle that re ligious liberty should be- left unfettered by the state, and that each religion should be left to tight for itself, the matter would be sooner settled than they imagined. He called upon the meeting to send in their adhesion to the Anti-State Church Society, or some other similarly organised body. That church which cannot stand ' by the voluntary contribution of its congregation should fall, and if the minietere of that church could rot live by his faith, he should live by the sweat of his brow. (Cheers.) Mr. Baooaxs said that this claim arose out of the failure of an attempt to levy a church-rate in the parish. The Tithe Commutation Commissioners came among them in a most insidious manner, by entering into conversation with some of the parishioners in a tavern in the parish, in order to break the ice; he was never suspected until he brought with him the Brasenose gentleman, and then they were both put down as vagabonds. (Laughter.) He would tell them that there was no existing act to compel them to pay garden pennies. He wished to warn them against a•••ffing to this commutation, for every inhabitant having a garden would be obliged to pay this modus instead of the garden penny. The commissioners stated that the next time he came amongst them he would compel them, and they ought u soon as possible to take steps to intimidete him, and nothing short of an agitation from one end of the parish to the other, and a combination of entire parishes, would beat him on this question. (Cheers.) He cordially supported the resolution, and he hoped that they would be prepared to enter into subscriptions in can the question might become one of litigation. Mr. HAI:ORTON then entered into a detailed account of his interviews with the resident tithe commissioners and the re presentative! of Brasenose College, who at one meeting stated that the Easter dues amounted to 900!. per annum, but if the parish would come to some arrangements, the college would not press that amount. He, himself, was opposed to ant arrangement. The resolution was agreed to. Mr. Oreolt proposed the second resolution to the effect : "That the e.aims .et up for Easter dues and garden pennies had is origin in the voluntary offering of a dark age, and from absurd custom, which ought never to have been attempted to be enforced by law; sad in the present enlightened state of the country, ought nut to be sanctioned or perpetuated." Easter offerings were originally optional from their very name, but those who refused to pay them were liable to be deprived of a christian burial, and in every way to be treated re a heretic, but in the present age, their payment should net be made in any way compulsory. The sooner they cut off those payments, the sooner would they be bound together by one common bond of christian brother hood. (ch eers. ) Mr. DI:NNE seconded the resolution. They should not acquiesce in this local act; they should leave the legislature responsible for such acts, if it thought proper to enforce then. They should object to this mode of exacting dues. They owed nothi ng t o the monkish clergy who instituted tae mor to their state-paid successors. It was then unani mously agreed to. - Mr. flames proposed a l ' o ' ce ntt et this to eting meet earnestly deprecates the attempt to inflict tmardg it as enfo rce the payment of Easter dam and garden pennies, a violation of the great principles of religious , "a, coils leon every inhabitant of Stepney to aid in frustrating it." thetta.as seconded by Mr. lize,and carried . After wich meeting separated. POST -OFFICE IMPROVEMENTS.—It is rumoured that, inconsequenc e of the many earnest entreaties on the part of the public f or increased Post-office accommodation, in the course f k w days a series of improvements will be adopted. Pude% ofletters and newspapers are to be more frequent, and deliveries more numerous than they now are, both in town and in the provinces, so that the letters to and from 'n north of England, and those to and from Ireland and Ileallead, ere to be sandiestel Extra post-oftlese are pdenidy appointed in many towns and villages. Fees of all Mil are to be abolished eveassidly. and the subordinate uses,, who have hitherto been the ddefreeipients of them, M. paid asemadag to length a eireitade, according to l a ms mole emer Whet the Lords of Her Nsosety'lt Treasury, of a most need end considerate eharaster. When the new Money Order Moe in Aldermen:Hama is finished, the whole of the business sithis importaat department will be trans. famed thither, and the rooms now used be taken into the da trielpiatailles, which, in consequence of the increase of business, much requires enlargement. Sorts SEA HousE.—Yesterday a quarterly Gene ral Court of proprietors was held at the company's house in Threadneedle-street. Charles Franks, Eoq., the sub-governor, in the chair. The minutes of the last court were read and confirmed. An amount of the company 'a bond debt was read by the secretary. The committee of bye-laws were re-elected, and there being no other business, the court adjourned. PUBLIC NUISANCES.—A vestry meeting was held yesterday evening at the vestry-room of St. Paul's Church, Shadwell, in pursuance of a numerously-signed requisition, to consider the best means of abating several r uisances exist ing in the pariah, highly injurious to the health of the neigh bourhood. Mr. Taylor, the churchwarden, presided on the occasion, and several parishioners and members of the vestry addressed the meeting. The nuisance more immediately complained of was that of a soap-boiling establishment, earned on by a Mr. Cohen in New Gravel-lane, and where putrid carcasses of cattle that died on the passage from Holland or Germany, were boiled up, causing a dreadful stench. The beasts were brought in this foul state in carts openly through the streets to the premises. The medical officer of the district had reported the nuisance with others to the Board of Guardians, who had threatened Mr. Cohen with proceedings, and Mr. Cohen had promised to abate the cause of complaint. Mr. Browne, the promoter of the meeting, said that his whole family as well as himself had been made ill by the vicinity of this establishment, and be had written to the Secretary of State to complain, who re ferred him to an act of parliament that would afford redress. After considerable discussion, resolutions were agretd ta, declaring the existence of the nuisance and the necessity of adopting means to remove it, and the meeting separated. THE LATE LORD VISCOUNT TEMPLETOWN.—This nobleman, who died at his seat of Castle Upton , i n t he county of Antrim, on the 21st inst., had nearly completed his 75th year, having been born on the Bth of November, 1771. The family is origically from Devonshire, and the first member of it who settled in Ireland was Henry Upton, a captain in the Earl of Essex's army in 1698. He married a sister of Viscount blassareene, settled in the county of Antrim, and sat in the Irish Parliament for the town of Carrickfergus. His son, Arthur, intermarried with the Beresford family. Clotworthy Upton, the next head of the family, joined the standard of William 111. at the siege of Limerick, at the head of an independent company he had raised, and in the assault was taken prisoner, after his fol low .rs had been nearly to a man cut to pieces. His first wife (but by whom he had no issue) was the only daughter of Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery. Ilia brother, John, who succeeded him, was distinguished at the storming of the citadel of Liege, and at the battle of Almanza. In short, the family belongs to a class tolerably numerous in the Irish peerage, descended from right Protestant English soldiers, and esta blished by a succession of generations all sturdy fighters, with a sharp eye to the main chance. Of the two or three last generations there is little to record except that (len worthy Upton, Esq., was elevated to the Irish P erage in 1776, as Baron Templetown, for such services as were then rewarded by such elevation; that his eon, the late lord, transferred the baron's into a viscount's coronet by much the same process. The late viscount is succeeded by his eldest son, Henry Montague, now Lord Templetown, born in 1799. Ile leaves three other sons, and a daughter married John Eden Spalding, Esq., son of Lady Brougham by her first husband. COUNTERFEIT GOLD.—The public are cautioned against counterfeit half sovereigns, with which the metropolis is at this moment inundated. They are electrotyped, and so admirably executed that it is very difficult to detect them. WANTED A SF.XTON.—The vestry meeting of St. Botolph, Aldgate, yesterday summoned amongst other things to elect a sexton, was obliged to separate without completing its purpose, there being no candidate for the office of sexton resident in the parish. CARRIAGES FOR THE SIIERIFFS-ELECT.—Our attention has been called to two new state carriages, in tended for Mr. Alderman Challis and Mr. Kennard, sheriffs elect for the ensuing year. They have been built by Messrs. Home and Co., and to be seen at their establishment. The carriages are less gaudy, than others of their kind. They are, respectively, bine and silver and green and geld, and adorned with the City arms and those of the Skillings' and Carpenters' Companies. UNPLEASANT DISCOVERY.—On Tuesday afternoon a man named Smith, one of the crew of the Emerald Graves end steamer, observed a brown paper parcel in the cabin; and, as no one applied for or claimed it, he took it to the booking-office immediately after the vessel reached Graves end. There being no name or address upon it, after a short delay it was considered advisable to open it, when it was found to contain the body of a newly-born female infant. It was shortly removed in the custody of the police at the Town-hall, and awaits an inquest. THE METROPOLITAN TESTIMONIAL TO Mn. COB. DEN, M.P.—The metropolitan contribution to the national tribute to be presented to Mr. Cobdea now amounts to nearly 13,0001., making the grand total but little short of 80,000/. — Globe. DARING TAVERN ROBBERY.—Yesterday, informa tion was circulated throughout the Metropolitan and City Police divisions of a daring robbery having on the previous morning been committed at the Hand and Sceptre Tavern, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, by two men who slept at the house the night before, and who stole and carried off with them the sum of 1501. in Bank of England, Lewes Old Bank, Tun bridge and Tunbridge Wells Banknotes of 51. and 101. each. One of the men was about forty years of age, flae feet eight or nine inches high, very full faced, slight whiskers under his chin, stout made • dressed in a black drew-coat, satin waistcoat, and black trousers, cloth half-boots, and half mourning neckerchief ; the other thirty-six or thirty-seven years of age, and slight made, dressed in black, had a thick brown Taglioni with velvet collar and cuffs, and lined with plaid drugget, and a silk umbrella with ivory handle. DARlNGBCRGLART.—Yeaterday,information was re ceived at Bow-street, that on the night of Sunday last, the house of Mr. M. Kennedy, watch and clock-maker, Chester gate, Macclesfield, was broken and entered by thrcing the gate at the back of the premises, and the following valuable property stolen therefrom, viz., thirteen silver watches, a number of watch movements, two secret link gold gu ard chains, a breqnet ditto, a French curb ditto, two curb ditto, a very fine curb ditto, eight silver watch guards, 40 pairs of jet earrings mounted in gold, 16 ounces of coral beads, &c. ACCIDENT.—DEATH FROM DROWNlNG.—Yeaterday morning, about two o'clock, a fatal accident occurred to a young man of the name of John Matthews, a printer, em ployed at Beaufort-house, Strand, who, along with a fellow workman named William Evans, had been spending the evening with one of the men employed on the Bee steam boat, and with whom they were going to sleep on board the vessel, on account of the wetness of the night. On passing from the pier to the boat, Evans slipped and fell overboard ; John Matthews instantly jumped into the river to save his companion, but unfortunately struck his head against the paddle-box, immediately sank, and was drowned. Ills body was not found until nine o'clock yesterday morning. Evans, more fortunate, clung to the chain of the pier, and was hauled in by the engineer. The deceased has left a wife and four children. INQUESTS.—ALLEGED DEATH FROM POISON. — The inquiry into the death of J. Brockwell, at Shadwell, mentioned iu Wednesday's paper as involving a suspicion of poison, was concluded yesterday. The post mortem exami nation proved that death was caused by a disease of the heart of long standing. There was a little opium found in the stomach, but not sufficient to cause death. Verdict, " Natural death."—DEATH PROM FEVEIL—By Mr. Carttar, at the Salutation Tavern, Woolwich, on two con victs. The first, B. Talboys, 76 years of age, had been sen tenced at the Gloucester assizes of October, ISO, to be trans ported for seven years. He was seized with fever and in flammation of the lungs on the 7th inst., and died from those disorders. The medical man proved that every attention was paid to him, and that a post trityrtem examination had es tablished the nature of his death. The jury observed some diacolorations of the body, which the medical man explained to be the results of violence. The second, William Smith, 56 years of age, sentenced at the Gloucester assizes to transportation for life, died of a similar disease, but of • more severe character. Several cases of this disorder have occurred at Woolwich. In both cases the verdict was " Death from natural eauses."— DEATH FROM SUFFOCATION.—At the Globe, Lower-road, Deptford, before Mr. C. J. Carttar, coroner for West Kent, on the body of Mr. Robert Wade, an extensive builder, who was found dead in a water tank at the rear of his pre mises, Broom-fields, on Wednesday morning. Deceased was seen that morning a little before six o'clock, by one of the workmen, and at nine o'clock was found, after having been missed for some time, drowned in a tank not more than two feet square, and four feet nine inches deep, the water in which at the time was only two feet two inches deep. Deceased's head was in the water, and the body doubled up. It was conjectured that he had committed suicide. It is possible that he may have fallen into the tank, having gone to examine it, and being subject to giddiness. After some discussion, the jury returned a verdict, "Suffo cated in a tank, but how deceased came there, there was no evidence to show."—DEATH BY THE SWELL OF A STEAMER.—By C. Carttar, Esq., at the Fishing Smack, Deptford, on the body of William Lake. Deceased, with two other men, was on the river, in three wager boats, as the 12th, and were returning up with the tide, and who nearly opposite Limehouse the City of Aberdeen came put, and the swell upset the three boats, and they were all im mersed in the water, and deceased was drowned. The jury ' were of opinion that no blame could be attributed to the persons in charge of the steamer, and returned a verdict of "Accidental death."—DEATH AFTER A WEDDING.—By Mr. W. Baker, coroner, at the Clay Hall public-house, Old Ford, on the body of Elizabeth Johns, aged twenty. The deceased was married on Sunday last, at the parish church of All Saints, Poplar. In the evening the bride complained of severe pains in the chest, and returned to her father's house, Old Ford. On Monday she appeared worse, and the surgeon who prescribed for her at once said her case was hopeless. She died on Tuesday morning. Verdict, " Died from natural causes."—DEATH FROM REMO RUN OVER. — By Mr.l'ayne, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of Abraham Polley, aged 71, of North-place, Gray's-inn-lane. On the 12th of August deceased, while crossing Snow-hill, ran against a woman walking from the opposite side, and, before they could get to the foot-path, two vehicles, a gig and a dray, came upon them. The woman escaped unhurt, bat the deceased was run over by the dray , . Ile died on Saturday last. Verdict, " Accidental death,' THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1846. MUNIFICENT BEQUESTS.—The late Mr. John Ashton, of Newton Bank, near Hyde, in Chester, a wealthy and extensive cotton manufacturer, of Manchester, has bequeathed to the Manchester Royal Infirmary a legacy of 6,0G0e, and, after making large bequests to his family and others, leaves the residue of his personal estate, which is considerable, to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, for the reduction of the national debt. The residue is augmented hy the falling in of a legacy of 20,000 g. left to Mr. Wm. Wright, his confidential clerk, and whom he had e instituted an executor, but who died only a short tine previous to the testator, leaving a wife and family to deplore the loss of their sole prot,ctor, and the promised reward which seemed within their grasp, f.r a whole life devoted by this persevering man to the interests of the several firms enumerated by the testator in his will, through which this trustworthy manager hail conducted the business. It is to be hoped that this intended bequest, as " a reward for faithful services," will' meet with favour from the Lords of the Treasury, as the sum coming to the government independent of this lapsed legacy has been estimated at loo,oool.—Another less patriotic, but more usefully benevolent testator, J. Whiffing ham, of Ashstead near Birmingham, has recently bequeathed to the Queee's Hospital at Birmingham, 1,0001.; Gene ral Hospital, 1,0001.; Birmingham Diepensaly,l,ooo/. ; Deaf and Dumb Institution, Edgbaston, 1,0001. To the trustees of Ashsted Chapel, 2,000/., the interest to be expended in bread and clothes far the poor of Duddleston and Nechells, in the parish of Astnn • also bequeaths 2901. for the erection of a clock to Ashsted Chapel, and that his executors shall invest 1,0001., the interest to be expended in bread and clothes fur the poor of Wybunhury, Chester; and by his will expressly directs that tablets shall be erected in Ashsted Chapel and Wybunbury Church, descriptive of these gifts. There are numerous other bequests to his family and friends. NEWAPAPER P.:ICE.9.—stR,--As the Times news paper has been recently attempting to enlighten (or darken as the ease may be) the public on the subject of the price of newspapers, I addres-ed the following queries to that jour nal, with the hope of receiving some explanation respecting them : " Why do the daily papers, both morning and even ing, with the exception of the Daily News and the I.:xpress, all cost precisely the same ? Is this the effect of combination, or is it not ? " " Also, are not these newspapers, excepting in the alteration in the stamp duty, as dear to the public as they were five-and-twenty or thirty years ago ? ' As no notice was taken of my communication, I am induced to a-k from you or your correspondents, that information for my self and friends which was obviously enough denied me by the Times."—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, LUN DI N assts. Sept. 23, ISM. DEATII AND IMPRISONMENT FO:t DEBT.—QUEEN'S PRISON.—Sir,-1 beg to inform you that a Mr. Schneider, a young man of property, died here to-day, in emscquenee of illness produced by his being imprisoned, only four days back, in an ac , ion on a bond, which it was dishonorable to put in suit. He was able to pay, but objected for this rea son, and hence his exasperation, which led to his melancholy end. It is expected that all the facts will come out, from the evidence of the respectable individuals who watched his lard moments. The inquest may be held to-morrow, most likely iu the afternoon ; but this depends upon Ow arrange ments of the coroner, Mr. Wm. Payne.—W. Conns.rr. COLLIERY STRIKEi.—Mr. Editor,—ln one of your articles of the 12th instant, on the necessity and importance of education for the masses, you refer to the late lamentable strike in the Northern Collieries, and state that the pitmen thronged the Primitive Methodist Chapels to invoke the blessing of heaven on the strike. This s-atement is net quite in accordance with fact. When this strike occurred, I was labouring in the Auckland district, which is the centre of a large coal-field, where we have a great number of chapels, and I eau assure you that not one of them was ever thronged for the purpose you state. So far from the pitmen being " led away through their best feelings," it is well known that through these religious feelings they were restrained from those acts of gross violence with which former strikes have been accompanied. To a great extent the last pitmen's strike was a chartist movement. Its leaders and fomenters were chiefly of that school. Very few of the old pitmen took any active part in it. They were mostly new men who were the prime movers in the affair. Far, within the last few years, to supply the numerous new pits, men have flocked from all parts of the country. Many of these were restless and unhappy spirits. The late strike has educated them, so that you need not frighten your readers with the promise of another in a short time. A secret system of terrorism was established, and carried to a great extent to compel the religious and well-disposed men to unite in the late strike. ltebecceism was practised, men's tools mysteriously remeved, or secretly destroyed. It was not the ignorant and religious, but the educated and vicious who influenced these things. It is also well-known that these movements originated generally with petty coal-pits, far removed from the market, where the owners have not capital or facilities to compete with their neighbours. You may thank the Wesleyan and Primitives fur the superior moral character of the northern miners. In their self-denying sad arduous labour:, they have been encouraged by some of the most respectable coal-owners. At the head of the list place the Teases and Backhowses of Darlington. Drunkenness is not on the increase in the pit district, though the facilities fur getting drunk are too common. Some of the coal-owners are large brewers, and they erect public houses near their pits, and thereby promote druukenneas. lam not accustomed to write for the paper*, but y our unjust insinuations respecting the religious pitman has tempted me to try aafew lines in reply. If I had time and inclination I could say much on some of the points hinted at above. You will probably allow a corner of your paper foe this note, or any parts of it you may think necessary.—l am, yours most respectfully, WILLIAM EmziteLLL.—Sept. 16, 'Three Elms, Weardale, Durham. COMMUNICATION WITII INDIA.—SIR,—IrI your ournal of Saturday was a communication on the selection to e made of the proposed additional route to Alexandri s, in hich a preference of Venice, as the notJaern sea terminus, advocated. As the statements put forward in support of AM preference are very incorrect, and the article calculated to mislead, I offer you the following remarks for insertion, should you be of opinion that they are sufficiently per tinent to merit the space which they will occupy in your columns. The assertions which it is my purpose to controvert, are, that Venice is a more eligible port fur the purpose than Trieste; that it is nearer in distance to Alexandria; mad that the passage eats be accomplished in a shorter period of time. To relieve myself from an imputation of presume tion, in undertaking the refutation, I beg to state that I speak from an experience of the navigation of the Adriatic, through a course of severaiyears, as well as from a perfect knowledge of the two ports in question, and of their respect ively adjacent coasts. It is, therefore, that lam enabled to advance the assertion that your correspondent has either been misled, or that he has spoken from imperfect maps and charts, without having any personal knowledge ofthe localities en which he treats. That portion of the eastern coast of Italy which extends from the Legation of Urbino to the Isonzo, its northern boundary, nearly at the very head of the Adriatic, is low flat, and shoaling very gradually tea considerable distance from the coast ; insomuch that the objects on this range of coast', which first become visible to those who approach it from seaward are, the church spires, the houses, or the trees ; many of the former standing some miles inland. Between these limits, there is no other port for vessels, drawing five feet and upwards, than Venice; and, higher up, the small port of Lignano, situated about 40 miles to the E.N.E. of Venice, in the swamps of the Frioul. From La Cattolica, on the confines of Romagna, which is the nearest moderately high land to the S.S.E. of Venice, down to Ancona, the shores still shelve so very gradually, and to such distance from the land, as, likewise, to present no port acces sible to anything above the size of the small coasting vessel. Venice is situated about midway between the Isonzo, and Ancona. It is hemmed in by an extensive range of sand banks, right and left, extending a long way seawards. The port is entered at three or four points, the entrance by Mala mato being the only one which is practicable by vessels exceeding six feet in draught. This entrance is narrow, and the approach to it is by a narrow tortuous channel between the sandbanks outside of it, and which are covered. The depth of this channel is very various ; but, in some places, towards , the outer entrance thereto, there are no more than thirteen feet of water in the fair way, although there is a depth of 3.5 to 88 feet, within and between the castles. The prevailing winds in the Adriatic range from the north east to the south-east, rendering the Italian the lee shore ordinarily. Owing to the low, swampy nature of the land, to the numerous lagoons, and to the extensive ranges of shallow banks, fogs are prevalent in the vicinities of enice during the winter, in the absence of strong winds. These fogs being extremely dense, render a navigation within narrow winding channels, to say the least difficult, as they also render imprudent any attempt to approach the coast at such times with vessels of heavy draught. The entrance to Malamocco, nine miles from the city, is by an opening in the " Murazzi," or, sea-walls, with forts on either hand. It opens to the E.N.E., and, whenever the gales prevail from the N.E. to the S.E., a heavy sea sets in, either right on the entrance, or into, or across some part of the winding chan nel by which it must be approached, rendering the attempt at an entrance, or at a departure, hazardous in the extreme, at such period;. But the difficulties of the navigation do not end with achieving the entrance. The canals from Malamocca to the anchorage at St. Mark's, present such difficulties, by their sinuosities and narrowness, and, especially, at the point where the canal of St. Spirito branches from that of Poveglia, that large steamers may never avail themselves of much steam power, and at times must trust to warpsto effect their approach to St. Mark's. It will be clear, from the preceding state ments, that Venice, even as a port, does not present inter nally the necessary conditions of eligibility as a terminus for large steamers, tied to the utmost possible certainty, and despatch. The distance, between Alexandria and Venice, may be a trifle less, as the crow flies, than be tween Alexandria and Trieste. But the distance, by coarse, is not so short ; for by reason of the prevalence of easterly winds, and their occasional, nay their frequent terrific vio lence, as well as the nature of the Italian coast, all good sea men will hug the Dalmatian and 'striate coasts, if bound up the Adriatic to Venice ; 07, admit the necessity of gaining a good offing, or, in extreme cases, of stretching across to gain the eastern coast for shelter, if bound down. Hence, the vessels would have to run down two sides of an obtuse angled scalene triangle, in place of taking the long side alone, whereby the distance becomes actually greater. Thus, superadded' to the difficulties already pointed out as attend. ant on it, a material increase in the time required for the passage will be the inevitable consequence of a preference of Venice to Trieste. The eastern shores of the Adriatic are high, bold, and clean,. with deep water close in, and smooth water with easterly winds. The port of Trieste is free from any difficulty or danger, and may be entered at all times,. and under any circumstances of weather, by vessels of any draught of water. Its landmarks, as well ea those of its approaches, are distinct, aid recognisable from a distance. Under these several circumstances, the caution given against money misspent through a wrong selection of the sea terminus, will, I conceive, be admitted to apply forcibly against the scheme which your correspondent developes. With the land route to be selected between whicl is England and the sea terminus, I will not, although pea ' seised of some knowledge of this part of the service also, pretend to deal. But I would offer the suggestion that, as a route to render us independent of France as a thorough fare, and to be equally expeditious, is sa properly nought, policy would dictate that we should select that one which will afford us the best assurance of its remaining uninter rupted on the death of the present ruler of France. Many of your readers would imagine that the railway to :genre, concerning which there is • slight flourish, would forward the traveller considerably on his way. They will smile on being informed that Meaty. was the land-gate of Venice, towards the Tyrol, where travellers embarked on, or disembarked from, their " gondolas." In conclusion, if any of your readers remain in doubt on the matter, by rea son of the contlicting statement now before them, allow me to recommend to them an attentive inspection of the splendid " Carta di Cabottaggio," published by the Imperial govern ment, from the surveys of the marine, as well as the" Porto lano," when their doubts will be resolved in favour of Trieste, which will be found on the average to be twelve hours nearer to Alexandria, to a large steamer, than Venice can ever be made to be. I enclose my name and address, that yon nifty be satisfied your time has not been trifled with.—A CONSTANT READER. THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAM-SHIP ASHORE. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 24.—Great alarm was excited in this town this morning, by a report that the Great Britain Lad been driven ashore, and gone to pieces, on the northern coast of Ireland. Fortunately, this turned out to be an ex aggerated statement. Great Britain left the Mersey on Tuesday morning, about half-past eleven o'clock, having on board 1 . 26 passengers, and a crew of 90 hands. The wind was in her f.ivour, and she appears to hare made most rapid progre-s. Through some inadvertence, not yet explained, either in the reckoning or in mistaking of a light, she got six miles out of her course; and at half past eight o'clock in the evening, the passengers were alarmed by a sudden concussion, as if she had struck upon a rock The shock was rep .ated, and they rushed upon deck. It was then ascertained that the vessel was aground. At this critical moment, Captain Hosken exhibited, it appears, the greatest self-possession. He apprised the passengers that the vessel was on shore, but that there was no danger. It was blowing hard at the time, but not so violently as to cause any apprehension. The signal of distress was made, the boats lowered, and assistance arrived from shore. Captain Hosken inspired all around him with his own conadeuce, and his order were strictly obeyed. All the passengers were landed in safety. It was ascertained that she had gone ashore in Dundrum Bay, a little to the westward of the sand-bank c.dled the Cow and Calf, on the eastern coast of Ireland. It was the scene a few years since of one or two dreadful wrecks. It lies almost immediately opposite the southern shored of the Isle of Man, and is about half-way between Belfast and D.ogheda. At ten o'clock yesterday morning the vessel had received no damage whatever. A letter from Captain Hosken reached Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and . Co., this morning, detailing the calamity, and briefly giving his opinion as to the probability of getting: her off. The sea was making a breach over her, but the ship was perfectly tight. The majority of the passengers having proceeded yesterday morning by such vehicles as they could get, to Belfast, arrived in Liverpool and Fleetwood this morning by the Sea King and Maiden City steamers. All of them arc ex pected to reach here to-morrow. The Sea King brought back the Great Britain's mail bags, which will be despatched to America by the next steamer. Capt. Hosken remains with the vessel, and it is believed here that at the next spring tides she will easily be floated off by lightening her of the 800 tons of cull now on board. As yet, the only intelligence we have is derived front the passengers: and as they are ignorant of nautical affairs nothing posi tive can be ascertained of the cause of the disaster. The passengers represent the scene on board when the vessel struck as one of great confusion. The ladies rushed from their own cabin into that of the getrlemen, and some of them are described as " huddled up terrified in a corner." The Great Britain made extraordinary way aft.r clearing the harbour of Liverpool ; indeed, all accounts agree iu showing that she went at the unusually rapid rate of I3j knots an hour. In nine and a half hours after leaving our quays she struck on the Irish coast. FROM A PASSENGER. The ship left the dock about 11 o'clock on Tuesday morn ing, and after clearing the Bell buoy, bore away under con siderable canvas direct in a course for the CAI of Man and the scene of the disaster, and at from 4 to 5 o,clock in the afternoon the island was distinctly visible on the starboard bow. Shortly after it set in to rain, and the wind increased, the ship making excellent progress, and the passengers un commonly delighted with the vessel and her admirable qualities as a sea-boat. Night then closed in, dark and wet, and the wind gradually freshened into a half•gale. The log was repeatedly taken. About half past 9 o'clock we were startled by a cry and active movements upon deck, and a general fear prevailed that the ship was in collision with some other vessel. The ship how• ever had stranded. The night was dark and stormy, the ship beat incessantly upon the sand ; the breakers repeatedly breaking heavily over her, and one of the life-boats was car ried from its fastenings on the quarter. Alarms and cries instantly pervaded the ship, and apprehensions were general amongst the passengers that the ship would break up during the night beneath the force of the breakers which constantly burst over her decks. Throughout the emergency Captain Hosken behaved with admirable self-possession and energy ; and immediately after the ship struck went down below; and, by his assurances, quieted the excited apprehensions of the passengers. His efforts were successful. A portion of the passengers returned to their berths and slept until morning. The anxious hours of darkness being passed, towards daylight preparations were made to land the pas sengers and their luggaage, and then it was discovered that the chip had struck upon the soft sandy beach of Dundrum Bay, near the watchhouse of Tyrella, a little to the west of the Cow and Calf Rocks. Providentially the vessel cleared these 'dangerous spots ; for, had it been otherwise, it is more than probable that few, if any, would have escaped. The landing of the passengers was accomplished between the hours of 5 and 7 o'clock on Wednesday morning, and from the protected position of the ship, and the nature of the beach, with perfect safety ; and a number of them afterwards, with their luggage, which was protected by the arrival of a magistrate with a body of police, departed, and dispersed to the neighbouring towns of Downpatrick, Dundalk, Newry, and Belfast. Several of them have since returned to Liver pool by the channel steamers. The Irish on the spot behaved hke savages. The steamer is high on the beach in but a few inches of water, in an oblique direction, heading north-east, and would appear to have sustained little damage. No leakage has been observed, and no particular injury is ea far known to have been received, excepting the loss of her rudder and the bending of her propelling fans. No effort will be made until the next spring tides, early in October, to get her off ; but meanwhile every effort is being made to render her position as secure as possible. The absurd statement eireu• lated in Belfast, that her " coals" were " floated out" through her bottom is wholly . untrue. These are the principal features of the disaster. Of the captain and his vessel I and the passengers unanimously can speak in no other than the highest terms. The ship, pre viously to her striking, displayed in the gale the most admi rable qualities as a sea-boat, and the captain, subsequently to that occurrence, acted as well as man could act, placed in a situation such as his. But the cause of the disaster we can not explain: and though many surmises and statements are aloft, yet it would be wrong and injudicious to give these unfounded statements credit. The following is the agent's letter : " Great Britain steamship, Landrum Bay, Sept. 23. " Sir,—l reached here in consequence of an express having been forwarded to me at Warrenpoint of the Great Britain steam-ship being on shore off Tyrella, and close to the watch house. I have only time to refer you to Capt. Hoaken's letter to Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co.—ln haste, &c. , " LEONARD MARTIN. " Mr. Court, Underwriters'-rooms." The Great Britain's letter•bag was brought back to Liverpool by the steamer Sea King, and will, in the usual course of the Post-office regulations, be forwarded to New York by the John, R. Skiddy, to sail on Saturday, unless the postmaster receives instructions to the contrary from London. Gore's Advertiser, of this day, in a second edition, pub lishes the following account:— " We regret to have to announce that a very unfortunate accident happened to the steam-ship Great Britain, about eight o'clock on the night of Tuesday last. The partit ulars, so far as they have yet been learned, are extremely meagre, but the facts we are enabled to pnblish have been derived from the most authentic sources. ‘• It will be recollected that the Great Britain left Liver pool for New York at eleven o'clock on Tuesday forenoon, with the largest number of passenger (upwards of 180) that every crossed the Atlantic in any steamer. She sailed south of the Isle of Man, the intention of Captain Hosken being to run up the Irish Channel, and to reach the Atlantic by the northern coast of Ireland. She made extraordinary way after clearing the harbour of Liverpool ; indeed, all accounts agree in showing that she went at the unusually rapid rate of 131 knots an hour. There can be very little doubt that she steamed most rapidly, for in nine hours and a half after leaving our quays she struck on the Irish coast. " Many rumours prevail as to the cause of the accident. Some say that the reckoning was badly kept, and others that the light off Dundrum Bay was taken for some other light. We believe, from what we have heard, that the latter was the real cause of the disaster. Certain it is, at all events, that at the hour we have mentioned (about 8 o'clock, p.m.) she ran on shore on the main land near the Cow and Calf, as it is called, in Dundrum Bay. This bay is situated on the eastern coast of Ireland, and was the scene a few years since of one or two dreadful wrecks. It lies almost immediately op rte the southern shores of the Isle of Man, and is about halfway between Belfast and Drogheda. " The passengers and crew, we are rejoiced to say, were all landed in perfect safety. By means of jaunting cars, horses, carts, sad other conveyances, the maprity of them reached Belfast, and several of them arrived in Liverpool and Fleetwood this morning, by the Sea King sad Maiden City steamers. More, if not all of them, are expected to reach here to-morrow, sad in the mean time prompt communica tion will be had by Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., the Liverpool agents for the Great Britain, with the directors in Bristol. The Sea King brought back the Great Britain's mail bags, which will be despatched to America by the next steamer. " There was naturally a very great confusion and conster nation on board when the vessel struck, but through the active exertions and timely counsel of Captain Hosken, all fears for personal safety were quickly subdued, and the pas sengers, as we have said, were quickly landed, and with as much expedition as the unexpected nature of the circum stances would admit of. " The Great Britain, it is thought, will be got off, but as yet nothing very positive on this point can be stated. A let ter from Captain Hosken reached Mews. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., this morning, detailing the calamity, and bi ietly giving his opinion as to the probability of getting her off. The sea was making a complete breach over her after she struck, but the situp was perfectly tight. " The intelligence of the accident created a great sensation on 'Change to-day, and those of the passengers who had come over by the Belfast steamers were egerly sought after to learn the particulars from them. We are happy to have it in our power, by the publication of this edition, to satisfy a multitude of inquiries, and to allay the apprehensions of those who had friends and relatives on board. " [There is no truth in the report which prerni!cd in the town about an hour ago that Captain Hoskeu had anis cd in Liverpool by the Newry steamer.'" ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN _ RAILWAY. FARRINGDON, THCIUMAY EVENING. This being the day to which the inquest on the bodies of James Bonner and Paul Broome Sergeant, who w, re killed near this station on Monday evening, was adjourned, the Coroner, on the assembling of the jury at the Prince of Wales public-house, at eleven o'clock, a.m., informed them that he had caused a gentleman of great skill and experience to he summoned, to give evidence upon those points which the jury had expressed a desire to be informed upon. That gentleman was Mr. Bash, of the firm of Bush and Beddoe, of Bristol, engineers, and he would now go with the jury to see the locality at which the accident occurred, and exa mine the carriage, van, &c., concerned in it. The wheels, springs, buffers, and all other underworks of the van, were piled together in a heap, several of them being broken, while the body of the van, which was comparatively little injured, was placed upon wooden supports. The pas sengers' carriage preseuted at one end a mass of debris, the two first compartments having been en tirely destroyed. The edge of the broken roof was stained with the blood of one of the deceased, who, as appeared from the evidence had been absolutely decapitated. The position of the carriages at the moment of the accident was this—the engine and tender were detached from the rest of the train, and were proceeding slowly to the platform of the station, which i- about sixty yards from the bridge where the shock and the accident took place. The van which had been attached te the tender, not by chains, us in the ease of the carriages, but by a screw only, was more perpendicular than horizontal, the front part, or that next to the tender, being on the ground, and the hind part so much raised as to come in contact with the bridge ; while immediately behind and under it lay the fatal carriage, containing the lifeless bodies of Bonin!. and Sergeant. None of the witnesses could undertake to explain the cause of the separation of the engine from the train—once separated, it was easy to perceive that the engine might iret a little in advance, be suddenly stopped, and then be run into by the train, which still preserved its progressive movement. Oa the return of the jury the examination of the remain iug witnesses was proceeded with. Mr. H. Stevens said—l am superintendent of the Farring don-road station. I was on the platform of the down line on Monday evening when the train was coming in, and was sufficiently near to see what happened. Just as the train passed under the bridge, I heard a crash, and immediately ran forward to the edge of the platform, saw the fire flying out at each side of the train, and the luggage van raised upon the first passenger carriage. The engine bad run about twenty yards ahead of the train. I did not see it break away at the moment of the crash, but I have no doubt it did. The whole of the van, except the partitions, is composed of iron. The entire body of the passenger carriage is made of wood, having no protection but the buffers. The van con tained about fifteen cwt of bullion, judging from one box out of ten which was left behind, together with passengers' lug gaee. It was nearly full. Mr. R. Fuller, a dirk at the Farringdon station, was also on the down platform at the time of the accident, and saw, ut the same moment that lie heard the shock, something rise in the air, which he afterwards ascertained to be the van, the off sire spring of which was broken. The effect of that would be to tilt the hind part upwards. Ile knew of •sothing which could account fur the breaking of the spring. He was quite satisfied that the entire accident, including the death of de ceased, occurred instantaneously ; and, without having any erientifie knowledge of the construction of these vehicles, he assumed, from general observation, that the breaking of the spring caused the van to sink in front, and tilt up behind. Ile could not say that that alone would raise it to the height at which be saw it, being about six feet in the air. lie should say that the bridge was about five feet higher than the van, when in its proper position. Robert Matthews, the policeman of the station, was pass. ing under the bridge, to go to the signal post, at the moment of the accident, but was so instantly enveloped in smoke and dust, that he could not see, and could not at the time tell what had occasioned the shock or the accident. Mr. W. Barker, the surgeon who was sent for on Monday night, said that Bonner's desh, whose body he saw in the refreshment room, was caused by dislocation of the vertebra of the neck. He found Sergeant in the passengers' carriage, in an erect posture, with his back to the engine, his arm ex tended through the roof, and his head severed from his body by a force acting from the front backwards and upwards, or in other words commencing under the thin, and passing thence to the upper part of the occipital bone. The head was some distance on the outside of the carriage. Mr T. Bush.—l am a partner in the firm of Bush and Beildoe, of Bristol, engineers. I have examined the line from beyond the bridge to the platform, and found for about twenty feet a slight indenture in the permanent timbers, caused by two wheels being off the line. I have seen and elmely examined the passenger carriage, the van, its buffers, springs, and iron-work, with the exception of one connection, which more properly belongs to the tender. The front and back of the van is iron, the sides wood, and it is similar to many in common use on the line. Sometimes they are meet: of all iron, sometimes of all wood, and having generally, like this, only four wheels. I found the springs and iron work in a sound state, and could not discover any appearance of blow or old fracture. The springs are composed of spring -steel, fastened in an iron box in the centre. I did not observe that anything connect ing the spring. was broken. The axles attached to the springs is wrought iron, and sustained no damage. The I hangings which were broken are made of cast-iron, and are often used in luggage vans and carriage trucks, but not in passenger carriages. Wrought iron is no doubt safer than east iron ; but I do not attribute the accident to the break ing of the hangings. If I were going to make a van of the description in question, I would undoubtedly, if the expense were not to be conside red, make the hangings of wrought iron. In the event, however, of the cast iron hangings or brackets, as we call them, breaking, the only result would be that the carriage would drop on the axle box and run without springs free from danger. As far as lam able to judge from the examination I have made, I would say, that the springs of the van did not give way in consequence of the weight upon them, but that from some cause which I cannot explain, and could nut without having been present at the accident, the screw connection between the van and tender gave way, the engine and ender then went off together, and on being stopped or checked, were run into by the train ; and as in all such eases, the vehicles are likely to override each other, or to rise just as would a stick if pressed equally at both ends, so I can account in no other way for the van rising from be hind, and coming in contact with the bridge. I am strengthened in this opinion by the apjearance of the springs and brackets, as they have been broken by an action directly the reverse of that which would have been used if they were broken by the weight of the carriage or its contents. 1 attribute the whole accident to the breaking of the screw connection between the tender and the van. Between all the other carriages there are chains, but it has been thought unwise to pat chains to the engine or teuder, as in the event of its getting off the line it would drag all the carriages with it. The van could not have got against the bridge unless it had been tilted up as I have described, and the mere break ing of a spring could not have done that. If the engine had been suddenly stopped just as it was coming through the bridge it would not have sufficed to produce such an acci dent. How the screw was broken it is impossible for me to say. Unless I knew the previous state of the screw con nection I could not undertake to say that it was purely accidental. That connexion might have been broken at the tine when the steam was first let off, and, on the engine being checked at the bridge, the luggage van, with the train of carriages, following by the force of their own weight and impetus, might have run into the tender, and thereby raised the van into the air so as to strike against the bridge and produced the crash which has been described. How the screw was broken it is impossible for me to say. It might be done by the steam being suddenly turned on. Mr. J. Gibson, of Paddington, superintendent of the car riage department, said that every carriage and van is screwed up, greased, and properly examined at Paddington, before the train starts. They are likewise greased and examined at several stations on the line, by men appointed for the purpose. The connecting link between the tender and van would also be examined in a general way, but is is not greased. If anything were wrong with it, he thought it would have been seen at Didcot. He agreed in opinion with the last witness as to the cause of the accident, but wished to state in addition that in vans and trucks having east-iron hangings or brackets, the axle guard is formed to touch the boxes at either side, and lead or drag the wheels, so that no lateral or longitudinal strain could come upon those cast-iron brackets. He wished also to observe, that all the carriages of the com pany were of such a construction, that if every spring were broken from under the company's carriages, they would still proceed without danger, and only become less easy. The coroner having summed up the evidence, and express ed it as his opinion, the opinion, however, he observed, of a man ignorant upon all railway matters, that there ought to be some protection to the first carriage against the chance of being thrown upon a heavy luggage van with iron ends and sides. Even if, in this case, the passengers' carriage had been fronted with iron, it might have resisted the shock. The jury then retired, and in a few minutes returned a verdict of " Accidental death." In addition to the officials who attended on Monday, there were presentto-day Lord Barrington (one of the Direc tors), and Mr. Gooch, superintendent of the locomotive de partment. IRELAND. DUBLIN, SEPT. 23. TAE CASTLE.—DEPUTATION TOHE LORD LIEUTENANT. —A deputation, consisting of th e Chairman of the Town Commissioners, the Rev. Nicholas Power, and O'Brien Dillon, Esq., waited on the Lord Lieutenant this day at the Park, and presented a memorial for the construction of a canal from Nenagh to the Shannon. The deputation was most graciously received, and. as far as lies in the power of the Viceroy, the prayer of the memorial is to be taken into consideration. They afterwards had an interview with the Chief Secretary, at the Castle, who promised that the works remaining unfinished should be immediately resumed, and that all other works presented for, should he carried forward a with the least roads delay. The Board of Works recom mended that, if possible, the canal should be effected under the Drainage and Navigation Acts, as thereby a special act of parliament would be rendered unneceasury for the levy` of tolls, &c. GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. COMBINATIONS. The following notification has been totted by the under-secretary; lteport, hawing been laid before the Lord Lieutenant, from which it appears that persons seeking employment on public works have interfered with the management of such works by the °Meer* en trusted therewith, and attempted to dictate to them what number of persona should be employed, what rate of wages ahookt he tet id, yid who should be employed as stewards, ate., his Esc:lle:ley desires that it may be generally known that he will not permit any sorb inturfer ence to take litu.r, and that, wherever it is attempted, the ~left CUR only be to injure the misguided persons who rimy join in such im. proper conduct, and to defeat the anxious desire or .7 .verniaent to afford all practicable relief to the really destitute. lie, FAcelleney will feel obliged to duvet that the WOlllll shall be stispendel where such conduct shall be emevered in. Any Berson guilty of n,Us of intimi dation, directed either against the °lacers supenimailing the works, or aainst the persona employed tinder them, will be moss., uteri wad punished. (Signed) T. N. ItLIIINuTtIN, "Dublin Castle, lath September, 1846." RESTORATION OP REPEAL MAGISTRATEq. DUBLIN CASTLE, Sept.l9.-The Lurd-Lieut. has been pleased to approve of the following gentlemen being re-appointed deputy-lieu tenants, viz.:—Edmund B. Roche, Esq., fur the county of Cork. The lion. Thomas Ffreneh, for the county of Galway. John J. Bodkin, EA., for the county of Galway. Sir Valen tine Blake, Bart., fur the county of the town of Galway. Maurice O'Connell, Esq., M.P., for the county of Kerry. Morgan John O'Connell, Esq., M.P., for the county . of Kerry. Thoinas Lloyd, Esq., for the county of Limerick. And Robert Dillon Browne, Esq., fur the county of Mayo. LABOUR HATE ACT. Proclamations for holding special presentment sessions in the following baronies, appeared in the Dublin Gazette of the 220 d inst. : A11V.4011.--Barony of Upper Fews, at Newtownh.uu Barmy of Upper Shier, at Bullyhut, Oct. 2. CAVAII.-11arully ufllyhuw, at Itallyeonnell, Oct. 3. Lus.—Ltirony of luehiquin, at Coronet, Oct. 2. COWL—Barony of lmuculy, at M,thtkton , Oct. 6 ; Ittrony of Kin- Pule, at Kineate, Oet. 5; litrony us Barrynture, at New tiltnnure, Oct. t ; County of the City at Cork, at Corp, Oct. 2. Fauna...um. Barony of Clunkeliy, at Alagla.ravoely, Oct. 7 ; Barony et Cilenawky, at Shanmuiligh, Oct. 2 ; liarcuy sit Lurg, et Keith. Oct. 5. Oct. 3 ; GAawar.—Countyof the tow of Galwar at Galway, Oa. 2. KCACT.—Barulay Ontaguiney, at Difit;te, Oct. 3. Coctrtv.-I.l.wony of Clunlisk,,at tOntoronc, 0%1.1; barony of liilootwary, at liars, Oct. 3; Barony of Itallybo, at Fr..uatont, Get. 2. _ _ - LIMIOUCK..—Darony of Lower Cowielloc, at ItatLkeale, Oct. 2 , Wrong of eubbleorten, at Patrick's-well, Oct. 3. Lorca. —Barony of t'pper Dundalk, at thuttla!k, Oct. 2. MEATII.-13.1rwiy of Lower Notou, ut Satan, (A L. t Barony of Skretw, it NAVAII, Oct. 3. . . TllVE.KAllY.—ltarouy of Elickg.uty, at Thurtco, Oat. 2; ILtrony of '.ilneutanatch Lower, at I)undrum, Oct. .5. Warcur;ao. -Barony of liaultic . r, at CulagLanc, Oct. 5 ; Barony of (Benahiry, of hannaoulaaa, (kt. 2. WKATM.l.ll.—Barony of Nloyeasbel, at Mullingar, Oct. 2; Barony of Moyproirl, at Itatlio u, W.. 3. Wunroun.—Barony art ISargy, at Dwtcormac, 0.1. 7; Barony of Gorey, at Gorey, Oct. 2; Barony of Shealkalier Wc,t, at Tarlanon, Oct. 5. kOtenie.—Coonty of the city of Kilkenny, at Itilkenny, Oct. ; Barony of Ida, at Itodercont, Oct. 3, CUItIi.—BEKEHAVEN.—The special presentment session for this barony was held at Castletown on Friday. The chair was taken by Lord Bantry, Presentments to the amount of 36,86;3/. The by-play at the meeting was curious. A great number of persons had collected at un early hour, sad at the time appointed the Catholic chapel where the ses sions were to be held was crowded. The officer of the Board of Works had just read his list of recommendations, when Mr. Samuel Ilutchin, J.P., entered and objected so strongly to binding the sessions in a place of worship that they were adjourned to the Court-house. The list of the ottieer ei the Board of Works having passed, the relief-committee of the town presented a road from CasUctown westward through Berehuven. Captain Reid, comptroller of the Berilitiven mines, moved, as an amendment, the construction of u road which would be serviceable to them, but would pass through a scarcely inhibited country. Mr. Hutchins supported Captain lteid, saying, " that, instead of making roads to pass through village., the object should be to create new villages." Captain Held and Mr. Hutchins were out voted by a large majority. A road was proposed which, appearing to pans through Lord „Gantry's demonic, was peremptorily objected to by him. '1 ke line was altered to as to avoid the demesne, but rejected ou being put to the vote. A presentment was applied for to remove a bar at the entrance of a small inlet frequeuted by 41 fihermen in the pariah of Boca, which had olten occasioned destruction of these poor people's only property, their boats, and sometimes loss of life. A statement signed by the Bev. Mr. Sheahan, parish priest of Kilkaskin, was produced in support of its utility. The application was granted. At the moment the chair was vacated, and previous to the separation of the meeting, Mr. Shea Lalur entered the court for the purpose of eliciting u formal coudenination of the act under which it was assembled. As, however, cir cumstances denied him the opportunity of delivering his sentiments upon the measure, the reporter of the Examiner was favoured with the subjoined computation, upon which the geutleman intended to rely in the course of his speech, and the use of which may be retired. it refers to the barony of Biary. Rent: I, according to the l'uor-law valuation 110114 fide ltvistal /11,000 17,001 County Coss, adeuletal ulMul am swage a the lest two years -yam Probable increaw therm for the meintenanee of new rowls, pawed, at 2 per cent 2OO Interest at 3i per cent. Oil 20,(WIUL kat anated Pour-law tax fig tne test year 5OO Initalment upon the loon Agency WWI LAW extrenues at h per cent Prutrable 'rum allow:owe to the tenant.' bSO Average intcrrut Oil incunibrances in the district 4OlO IWLLI deduetwu Wont ikuital — 11,100 Leaving i'S;JIU MAYO.—emit:A.—The special presentment sessions were held in Castlebar on Monday last, Valentine O'Connor Blake in the chair. On the motion of Mr. O'Dowil, it was resolved, us a prelimiuury, that 80,0001. should be granted. The presentments were then gone into, and by the time the meeting broke up (ten o'clock at night) presentments to the amount of 7:),3b81. were passed ; leaving about 100 pre sentments unheard. The proceedings of the (lay opened with an interchange of civilities between the Rev. Mr. Fleury and Mr. Larmiini, the former gentleman stating that the latter " had nut 'hunted the cards properly at the ballot of the ceas payers;" the latter "treating such insinuations with contempt." In the course of the day Mr. O'Dowd proposed a road to the chapel at Casticbar. Mr. Ormsby objected that it would be on the grounds of Lord Lucas, which the ceas-payers had no right to inter fere ;with. Mr. O'Dowd rejoined that the town was not Lord Lucan's, and called upon Mr. Brett to prepare an application.—Mr. Ormsby was sure Mr. Brett would not do so, and he was certain no magistrate or me-payer would vote fur a presentment interfering with the rights of property, and ' force the carrying of a road through a nobleman's property contrary to his wish.—Mr. Brett said, " lithe court directs me I will be happy to do it."—Mr. O'Dowd • " Mr. Brett is not the official of Lord Lucan ; he is our official ; and I say, the tees-payer will vote for it, as they fear not the threat of Mr. Ormsby."—Mr. Ormsby : " I say there was no threat, sir."—Mr. Ormsby was assailed with groans and hisses. With much-ado a vote was taken, when 16 voted for and 12 against the road. This result was received with cheers, and groans were given for the opponents of the presentment. TIPPEUABY.—LowEtt 01010ND.—Tbe adjourned special presentment sessions for this barony was held at Neuagli, on Saturday last. The magistrates resolved to address the Go verment, calling upon them to continue the works pawed last year, under the 8 and 9 Vic , under which act one-halt the amount presented was given as a free gift from the Cen. solidated Fund. The Rey. Mr. Nolan, a Roman Catholic clergyman, thus remonstrated with them : "Are you to de viate from the usual course, or from that laid down in the Act of Parliament? Will you permit the impression to go abroad that you arc dilatory in carrying out the intentions of Government, by throwing technical difficulties in the way of administering relief to the people ? And should it, fur a moment, be said that you are not determined to carry out the spirit of the act?" The following resolution, proposed by a magistrate, was adopted unanimously: " That presentments for public works, pursuant to the let Victoria, ch. 2!, and bth Victoria, ch. 1, having been passed under the Beadiest and nioarnmendation of government, we conceive that the government is fully pledged to the carrying out all these works, and that their de clining to do no would much shake the confidence of the pcople in all. future measures propoecd for their relief, and materially impede the effortil now making to provide kibour and food, and insure that tran quillity which is no necessary to mitigate the suffering,' consequent upon the Impure of the potato crop in this district. We therefore feel constrained most earnestly to the art...cam:et" under the let Victoria, ch. 21, andntli Victoria, ch. I, and u that ounfidenoe in the ettertli of government and the local authorities, with which it is our ansieus endeavour to inspire the people." - - - - - - After a very strong remonstrance as to the price of Indira meal and the wages contemplated to be given, from the Rev. Mr. Scanlan and other gentlemen, the meeting separated, the sum of 11,2;191. having been first voted for public works within the barony. IPPA AND OFFA.—The special presentment sessions for this barony were held on Monday—the Earl of Glengall is the chair. The county surveyor having stated that there was 3,0002. available for instant use, presentments were passed for 4,0001. more for new works, and the meeting adjourned till the 23rd of October. Captain Osborne, M.P., in the course of the proceedings, having used the expreasions " the people must have food," was responded to by loud cheers. Lord Olengall rose in a state of great excitement, and threa tened to dissolve the meeting if such indecorum was re peated. Captain Osborne apologised for having drawn down his lordship's wrath on the meeting, and proceeded to deli ver a long diatribe against the gevernmentplan of relief. LOUD ULENGALL, AND Me. JOHN O'CONNELL.—IIIe fol lowing letter appeared in the Moil of this evening : "Glitz*, Sept. 22, ISO. " Sir,—At the meeting of the Repeal Awaciation on Monday last. Mr. J. O'Connell is reported to Live stated that at the Cashel sessions at which I presided, no presentments for the relief of the distremed, tee., were meted, Mr. J. 'Connell has been misinformed a sum of 1,5010. was voted, in addition to the 3,2001. already in hand; thus amply presiding for the wants of the poor of the barony for a month. The sessions were then adjourned for a fortnight, in order that the county surveyor niMht select and report on the most useful works to be undertaken for the future. With respect to the °Mena i thins personal to myself which Mr. J. O'Connell was pleased to make, I have merely to observe, that I trust I shall long continue to merit the exceedingly bed opinion he entertains of me. I remain, sir, yoar obedient servant, " 01.1.v05ia.." --- • SiMuLTANEOCS Met:rms.—At the last meeting of the Killarney Board of Guardians, on Wednesday, says the Southern Reporter, Mr. J. O'Connell, in the course of some remarks on the appalling condition of the poorer classes in Kerry, suggested that the High. Sheriffs of Ireland should convene their respective counties on a given day, in order to devise measures for the prevention of outrage and perhaps bloodshed, the probable result of unalleviated destitution. There was nothing, in his opinion, to prevent the Sheriffs from assembling together in Dublin, in order to give weight and force to their united representations. In the event of no immediate compliance with their remonstrances, Mr. their r equests ell sg atested the foot of a deputation to the Sovereign, to prefer nglish throne. Me lug' -ilf •