The Express. — London, England, 1849-08-04 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY AND FINANCIAL REFORM. HEFTING AT ROCHDALE. On Wednesday evening a public meeting was held, I. the People's Icstitsm hoot isle, fur the Purpose of con. ' be g rime the above quiet:kin. Upwards of 1.300 persons were reset. J. TIRIDALO, Esq., chiefeonstable, occupied the clear Mr. PRENTIrE pointed out some of the greener abuses which prevailed our present system of government, and mete seggestiros far their ,start. Mr. Prenles went on to onomorme tnerasae of shameful extrevapnee is It. army and navy ezpenoiture, when Mr. Brght boniest mi tered the hall amidst mush spplause, be thanked the meet. kg fee the anentie.wi h whist. at had listened to his expotl the et abases. Be thought be had proved the Roomier ot museive reform% and to wee sure they would listen with *mere to Mr. Bright, while he showed how inch Worms night be effect. d. Mr. BIUOHT, wile was roe it'd with hearty cheers, said, I am este, arty lead to be here to-tight to most so many of s y add ecqesiatanose and fellow-townemen, on • matter of ggek great importance an that which has been the subject of the lecture of M. Prentice ; sed there fa a great mire:time _.tea additional sa• isfaction —*het the object for which we are assembled is one about which it is almost impossible that wean disagree; and this sea leads to one etnecl.mi en, which le, if possible, more satisfactory,—tbat, being agreed ups what we are ant mhled shout, in all probability we shall be wadi more likely to be 'umlaut than it it was some knotty and doubtful point over which we quarrelled by the l ig. The •annuttertaret of the meeting was tor a Ware on the question of fioantial and pealiamentary rearm. I she aid be very sorry to see the finan cial brought forward re• • meetleg like this, and the parliamentary excluded ; and I think it would limbo the beet way of diecureleg the parliamentary tin Ira something also were to be mil about the financial. Fortunately, there is scarcely anything which goes more to prove the necessity of parianeentary reform than the total absence of an like economy, regularity, sad honesty, k the expeditere of the pablictexem. (Chosen) Now , in Reoltdade, as well as in most other p ire of the canary where Imply'', live, en opinion is eatertaised by them who think upon these subjems, that governments ere made for the people, and not the people for the take of the governments. (Bear.) Beta very contra,. opinion a ppears to exist in certain e ther quarters; and front the emeduct of the ruling clues. in Miscount/ for a long period past it would appear thee they thought they performed ell the dative of government if they ermined from the people the Ligiteet amount of tuition which the people would quietly pas; and if they mansged tee vry on the government geocraliy without transgressing the limit of that amount of tares which they wield safely Collect. Now, I am happy to sly that public &use net has been es turned to this go/elem. that they ate to f inale, to consider how it is possible to retrench their ' erudite/es. In fact, they ere being driven to a' seine into which a great many of the people in th , s room bare been driven within the last four years, that of asking their extreme considerably km, because their income hod fallen off to a considerable extent. Bat I will not go into the qu , Mien of extravagance here, for that hes been sufficiently dwelt upon in detail ; but I will merely state that, for many yews past, there has been a continual Wrenn in the expenditure, and, although it was stated in parliament--elontstless many of you One moo it in the speeches of ministers—l think I have heard Lord John lessen say it—that within • pertain number of years es any millions of taxes have born given tap, you said find , that the actual sweat of money ?<caved from the country b not only no! diminished, but his setually been Ineeettsed sad very rapidly, from the year 1113 i to 1848. It is on , 1 MOM to so, woo eoesp'sla of oxineagenat, that a certain' evi has been remitted if a certain other tax has raised so meek snore mosey. (Chan.) It is so answer to the tax. mere of the tummy that the government S. not extrava- Tepee, if we end they are 'pending more than they were speeding before. It Ise satisfactory thing to find that taxes Venom equally levied, or levied in a more scientific man see, so that a wrest sum is paid with a lees drain upon the peo ple; and our question is not anemia d at all, and our demand is not answered where government persica still in spending • lamer sum then is mammary; because, rely upon it, ear ry pound goveraesset e :prods more than is neeemary for their wants, is so much taken from the funds out of which luhour and WARM are found, and does so mach to drive honest men to the workhouse—and Moo who suffer most, to crime, to exile, and to the miss basses which follow of of employment and poverty in this end ell countries. Now do not imegine that lam one of those who believe that perliaternt can do any extraordinary things for anybody here. I believe that when parliament liss given perfect freedom to the twittery of the people, and whin it preserves life and propery within the kingdom, almost all that it can do beyond that, is se to carry on the deportment% of government, so that it require as little se possible of contributions from the people is the shape of hem; that taxes shell b bait en equally according to the ability of the people to par them ; and that the sums thus rosined shall be expended with that economy which is possible, so that you eta obtain an efficient discharge of the puhlie service,. I have no idea that parliament can raise wig's, or can gin sly improve trade by any peti ole? legislation—sleep: knits, it alone. It cannot make istimesbwor, or better intni.hed. It eannet make noes sneer; It cannot make them educated ; it cannot make thou moral and industrious; it cannot, in fact, gine them era's; and you map rely upon it that what every man can &for biros( It is it. oitely Rester th in sr hing that per itonea can do for I. jut (Louder:eon.) But, admitting this to be tine—and say min who tells the workiag-classea or any ether classes to the contrary deceives and betrays them— admitting a is to ba true, there I. cimething that parliament ma dO, and we hays a rigb• to demand that it shall be done. Well, it can do the. It can make that amount of retrench. Mal which we believe to he necessary, and which paths seat itself mow eeknowledies as rot only necessary, but to a stasiderable extent nreetizable—(hear, bear)—and it can shay a great sod prevalent discontent throughout the meaty, by battier one institutiors upon the affections sad Minn' of the erect mew s of the people, instead of hew, ea now, a system by which mix out of omen of all the grows nits fa the United Kingdom are entirely excluded from say participation in politeal power. (Chen.) Now, I fin morally certain that, via in the a. xt Ave yeass, by au Male co-operation with each other, we may so change the representatme system in this country as that there shall not be three men thereafter the; will ever meet together to pea lion pardament in Leone tf a reasoaellieg of our Tertian- Me system, or complain that they are unjustly excluded fen political power. (Cheers.) But then, in attempting to do this, we must take into mesideration the opinions which are prevalent—opinions whisk are altogether against soy eisissipolitkal proceeding in this sanely. Ws mart Wake by what means we era brag tegether be largest smaaat of influence, in • rder diet we may sit directly and Memel, open the goveromint ; and we mot discover by what pawns we may, (Lot force ouradves, at least worm ourselves within the pale of ;he constitution to such an ex tent that, being there, we may open the doors for the ad makes ef a v:st number of others to follow us, (Cheers.) Yea are aware that, during the last stoics, Xe. Buse ham suhmitted resolutions similar to those which helms submitted I. previous se,sions. I am not going to dhow any points of them hers—that is, how far the "sifter, shall be extended ; with what alterations or undet what pee is drunistanees ; but li thick it I. desirable to explain, wry briefly, what these reso'u.ions wen, in order that we any judge how far they who were parties to them are really IlliSaS to wafer political power %pop the people. Thais realities' weal to Ibis extant : —That the franchise should be conferred upon all householders ; and in our Cale, that landed all persona who were in lodgings to distinct that they claimed to be rated for the poo-. It was not intended that the payment of rates should be made a point to entitle a au to the hematite, as it is now, but that all pereons liable to be ran d—on the hocks as rani—should be en titled to the franchise. The principle apes which it was Used was this—that, nnhai poly, in this country then is atlas which is not rated for the support of the poor, b cause it is itself the poor and the pauper clams; and it was thought that if out of ten men, eight persons, or nine, or seven were called upon by law out of their industry to sup port some other peon who wee in idleness, at least it was right that thees persons coo called upon to pay out of their industry should have a voice in the Reeking of the laws by which, if they an good laws, the pauper ears is small ; sad if they are br.ii laws, the pauper class is liable to be very namenne. Well, there is one great difference between Ibis sad the system that at present 'sins. Notbirg, pelhaps. was aver devised ap re absurd in principle than a 101 su ff rage. It purposely tee odes almost work ing man. When the &Ilona Bill was being diaeuesed by the cabinet in 1812, it was kr a considerable time a question whe ther the saffraje should he 201. oe 101; but finally a 101. suffrage was fixed woe sad eked upon know ing that it would exclude five out of every six of all the "gown men in the United Kingdom. It was a purposed sad intentional exclusion of the great mama of the population. (Rear, bear) Well, now, the penpaieitio Mr. Hume ash ratted does sot 'meted" any class; whatever exclusion these is, is see that operates as mesh Waft the rich as ups* those who are less rich ; sad it would @Wade the sea of a peer who had not a house, and was not rated, as much as it would exclude the son of a peasant. Than fore, whites'r be the exclusion—be it wise or unwise, I ea not now d'scuring it—it is an Cla . UPlioll equal to all clams ; and none mid osv it was unjust, or levied against, and imposed om, a particular clay. But to pun on to the freehold, which I viola to explain, as I have heard it to fairly represented. We a:snot now discussing whether that is the poetise suffrage we will have, or one more extended or more hated. Wren the p tity in favour of a wide extension of the suffrage becalms* piiwerful enough is the country and is parlastneat to have a mii lery in "Moe who declare, es Lord (key declared in Ib3o, treat " he was prepared to move for a Lase mann of parliamentary reform," then will be the time when all honest and earliest reformers wiU pre for each a settlement of this question as shall meet wits the largest amount of peblie support and madam. It is use of the great remelts of the Reform 8.11, that having ma's a great move seventeen years ago, none sea ray that it is non reasonable to make another more sow. When the sera qu stisn was discussed, men opposed ae ea •t a mend that we were wrong is primer pie, sad that the pita; we thought of would rain the mantra ; bet 'oboe', soya we are wrong in principle sow; and whoa we ask that lateiligan t, industri prod. at, and end uly rem of business—a thousands tt rionhout the country—Anvil be admitted within On. pen of cur constitution, from whisk they are at pre.eot exidiled, we support this apse • treat ventage around, with good hope to work ker that which a its sty der. *ln nether deny ; and all that is wanted is Lois. With t. ? .r. to theme two gnat dive. • se? s—t', • two eltv!si In of h: with niih sr a if p so -.l • an. nt i o it, t e p id to the topintrig. ; it .6 also to be h.p d that to the bor.itighs is Laneashire the same attention . ill he paid. Now, looking at the resells of attention to the registration, essay will re collect that the elections in this b)ronah, SOWN 25 leen ago, were dieereerfal to the common seam and morality of the town. Lock at the enormous expeaditian of money—loak at the return made to parliament, which was notoriously against the almost unanimous votes of the populietion of the borough. But wha- ha. been taw result sines this time ? Why I can pain* to Mr. Walku, who si • there • he accom plished it all in working the rt gistrations in th e most ad mirable mincer, until, at the lest elution, I tight the whole espouses were ab0u..151. k awl I have uu doubt that at a future el Pion you will fad a majority in favour of thorowtheoiog hlanl pinions doubly, If not trebly, that by which Mr. Crawford was first returned for this ha reuah. This, then, was dour, m •sit than anything else, by a , constant m i nu te atter 'too to the regi-tration. Well, sue r we intend, in our tour in Laticashim, to pay this attentive. I and we hope in the coigne of no very long time to wipe ofl from this cow.ty the disgrace that we have so J• 701• new bee of men unrepreseoted. But we Lotted further to extend our esti beyond the limits of the county, and cuter Use eorreepenideneo with the committees at Lords, North Cheshire, with the people of Birmingham, as well as with the association formed in London ; and thee, through all pelts of the country to stimulate and ottani.' • system of ' attention to the regi.ter such as we intend to parole in our own county. Then we come to the question of the 40e. , franchise; and here two things are to be done. The Sot or one at least, is to cell up in el those persons , whose opi nions are roppoed to he in harmony with our own, and who are able at once to qualify themselves for toe county ; to ask them to do so upon the same s cum —l do nut mean in the same hasty and shan't convu lsive manner in which it wee done in the year 18444. on purpose to abandon the corn law—nor that men should join together, g e into a neigh bouring panty, and buy large prepeny there, for the sake of qualifying themselves—but that we should ask them in their own county to spend tweuty, thirty, forty, er fifty pounds in cu ltivation, and thus pay the county in which they live. In Lanca shire there are thousands who are qualifying themselves, and we hops to establish ie all the awes, in this town, the example, what is called a freehold Inn! society, upon the pinciple of the s :ciety ehtablished in Birmingham, and which has had followers in a great many other towns—a society composed of a great number of men, principally men who lip upon wages. Prudent, saving, and sober men, awe liiipat and political is their feelings, shell be invited to join this society ; paying ia subscription., se they are able, somewhat upon the prineiple of your own building societies ; but with the serves object of qualifying every member. In Birmingham, in Coventry, ante in some (Misr town, the directors of time societies have purchased pl-4s of land close en the borders of the towa-8, 10, 14, of 20 acres. Getting all these plots of land at once, they obtain it at a price which hi very much lower than if a party of person were to cocas in and each boy a plot. The land being bought, a street is run throughout and across it, thus dividing it into such shim se will asks each plot woe th some 40s. or 50r. a year. Then by some niede-1 suppose of drawing lots—these pieta come into the poesemion of the various subscribers to the society. If a man can rakn as much money, he may build a cottage, or he may let the land to another on lease, the land being worth to him 40.. a you, clear. He becomes thus • frerlholder of the cone", entitled to be registered, and to vote as mach as it his estate extended over half the county it elf. I have heard object-Hoes to this ; I have heard men say, " I won't go and get a vote in that way ; I ought to hive a vote as a man, sad I will bay, a vote that way or not at all." I cannot help a man like that ; he will not help himself. There are very few good things in this life that men would give no: if we make any progress in the world we must make it by our own exertions. Teter are obstacles at every step, every die of our lives, whatever position in life we occupy ; and to it is in the obtaining ,1 political rights. We know that there is a party in this country, a large and powerful one, that is very much afraid lest the people should get their political rights, inasmuch a. they know that, whenever this takes place, the people will have a governmeht tarried on not for the sake of clam in, tenet, but with a regard to the welfare of the whole people, and they tear, therefore, the admission of the people to poli tical power. Well, you cannot coax them to give up their ponies' power, and by soft words induce them to surrender it. The asexietion which has been formed in Man. cheater hopes to have branches is all the surrounding town sad vill.ges. Why 'should it not ? The men who are concerned is it are well-intentioned and honour able. Not exclusive in their objects, they ask nothing fur themselves which they are not freely willing to give to ethers. By going round and visiting the variGus ly,rou•ks in this county, they will he able to form a committee in each for the purpo.e of combining for registration and the esta blishment of freehold land eccieoes, by which vast numbers may be invited to purchase themselves into the franchise. Suppose this was to go on in Laneashiu and Yorkshire; there are mere than three mihims of people in the two counties, and not a more industrious population in toe kingdom, nor one mord able t e exereise great political in- Hoene... Why should it be that from there two counties, there should go a sirgle man to parliament who is rot in favour of ngid economy, and of the admission of the poop!s to political porer ) (Cheers.) It con only be because we do not use the instruments that are in oar heads—because we are divided, to some extent, end don't put shoulder to shoulder, tor the purpose of carrying hoe effect them principle. which, nntoriously, the vast mein rity el the people hold. It is because I wish to express these opinions— to state here, as I have stated them else where, in the House of Commove, and not less boldly than in this hall, or on any platform—it is &those I hold these opinions, and that I believe the very safety of capital, of industry, of profits, of wages—the safety of everything which I. valuable in this country—depends upon our going on in secordatue with the intelligent opinions of the public : that I have come here to-night, foe the purpose of be seeching those men, every one who may hear roe, to give his cordial and hearty support to what I believe to be one of the moat honest movements that ever was set on toot by honest men is any free country. (Loud cheers ) Mr. BRIGHT having taken his seat amidst a hunt of cheering, Mr. is,Con Saloon, jun., moved, and Mr. LP/a line seconded: . . . " That this meeting resolves to co-operate with the Man chester Financial and Paliamentary Reform Assiciation, and that the to:lowing pentltmen be appiated the cum mittee to carry nut the shave objects: Mr. John Petri., chairman; Mr. George Ashworth, Mr. James Twiedale, Mr. Jao.b Bight, fun.. Mr. John Hoyle, Mr. Thomas Ashworth, Mr. Thomes L'vesey. Mr. Charles Walker, Mr. Robert Pagan, and Mr. Henry Lag." The resolution was carried. Votes of thanks having. bten given to Mr. Prestift, and to the chairman, the niceting separated. MEETING OF LABOURERS AT SWINDON. A meeting for the promotion of !Ws object was bed in a field at Swindon New Town, tsar to the railway am-' patty's factory, oa Monday lut, and was well attended, from three to fine hundred persons, chiefly of the working claws, being present. The chair wee taken by WILLIAM SPACM , MAN labouring man, who exilained the obj e ct of the in I .aailig in a eleu and sensible address. He was followed by a person of the name of WATSON, who recommended his brother workmen to join the London same:lotion, as by hr. biting thumelves, u universal suffrage men, they would not be so likely to attain their object on by gradually getting it thrush thou who, although they do sot go so far u them selves, yet are travelling in the same direction. Mr. MORIU. SON, a chartist, next spoke, end also expressed his willingness to assist the Londe n easociation. & vote of thanks was given to William Bushmen, and with three hearty cheers for him and for the cease of reform, the meeting separated. NARROW ESCAPE ON THE MIDLAND LINE.—A correspondent hes •oretuded to us the following statement, to show the importance of time ready means being prnided for ralway passengers, in cases of danger communecatiug wi b the guard :—" On Wednesday week I was a passenger by the halt-past seven sm. train on the klidland line. All went on well until we had palmed the Royston station. I soon after observed the carriage in which I sat was filling with dust. I changed my seat, and opened the opposite window, in the hope that the dust would blow out. I then said to a person in the seine compartment of the car ris e s that the dust came from underneath, and soon aUsr I felt titers was something wrong. The carriage began' to shake, and the oscillation increased in triplet:toe until I could not keep my seat. It i. impossible to convey any idea of the strong motion which in a short time it Required. I immediately showed at the top of my voice, Btop, stop.' Being in the carnage next to the luggage van, in which was the guard, I succeeded in making him aware of our danger, but he could ant make the engine man hear hint, though he shouted until he woo mutually hoarse the next day. We remained in this terrible eta*a for at kat' five minutes, the train the while goiog at from 26 to 30 stiles an hour. Eventually the train was stepped. We Rot 0111' • end on examining the carriage I found that the hook which connects the springs was gone, sod the tire of the fleet wheel es the right side was also gone, whilst the carriage itself was off tha line." It has long been suggested —among others by the late George Stephenson—that a tem porary be:l-wire would, in the majority of seek eases as the above, answer the perms: it might with ease be conveyed from carriage to carriage, and also be constructed in such a manner that it could be removed almost instantancondy in sue mews were taken from or added to the train. We trust that railway companies will turn their attention to the matter.—Derby Afereww. SMUGGLING AT 800TIIAMPTON.-At the beginning of this week a small vessel ease up Southampton-water aka was overhauled by the °Serra, but nothing liable 11 s duty was Clod on bawd. She then &mimed a few yards off Southampton for two days, this IBM on board of her ap parently unconcerned, and no one suspected that anything sets wrong on board. On Wednesday she was »Iva very deliberately up Itchen Creek, when she was pounced upon by the us °Roan, and nearly 130 tubs of eontnbend spirit were found on board of her. It app.», that daring her quiet stay at Southampton some of the sailors got drunk, and wan overheard to say something which caused suspicion. Incormation of this circumstance was given to the revenue officers, which led to the seizare. The smuggler escaped on Ending the officers coming towards their vessel is the Itchen, but four of five per-on- have been apprehended ea suspicion of being ones , reed in the translation. SUNDERLAND DOCK.-RIVAL CLAIMS. We Un derstand, says the Sunderland Herald, that the sum of four vausand puede nu been awarded by the referees as , ' the value of the sea beach and part of the town anon re quired for the dock. The proportioes of this sum are to be litigated between the Lord Bite/ of Dorhans, who is lord of she man", and owner of the aril and minerals, and the freemen and stalling/re, who e aims to be owners of the 'AI and h..rh.g. of tha town minor. We he sr also that nine thow.and out& h :a b. to award. d •cr the freemen a; d I scr. ten hat chrtioo of the rao.a rola...red far the Pensnk r Breach Railway. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4, 1849. DLSTILIBUrION OF PRIZE MONEY. The Gazette of bat bight contains an order in council regulating the future duftributiven of pis, money, which it states to he expedient " in consequeace of severed new ratings and denominations of office re and others having been introduced into our naval service sine" the dates of former prociamatiots." Prise money itt in Uteri to be dis tributed es follows : kleetes OFFICIAL—The flag officer or officers shall have One sixteenth part of the w ale eat proc eds arising from prizes captured from the enemy, and from all other cap tures, seizures, es aforesaid many by any of the ships or I meets under his or their command, and of the rewards con; eared for the same, accurdiug to the Liaoning conditiune and ' modite..stieres—save and tempt as hereinafter provided and directed ; that is to say; when there is but one flag officer, be shell have the entire oseeeixteenth ; when two flag otheers shall be soaring together, the chief shall have two-thisele and the other flag ethos: shall have the remaining on -third of tae one-sixteenth part; and when there shall be more than two 66g officers, the chief shall teeniest one-half of the said one sixteenth, and the remaining half shall be equally di vided among the junior flag cffieers • stommodorm et the first sines erd captains of the fleet to than se flag officers COMMANDIIIO OPTIC/M.—And we hereby direct that the captain, commander, lieutenant commanding, or master commanding, or any other officer commanding say , ship, sloop, or vend of w tr, singly making a capture or seizure, or otherwise entitled to the distributive benefit arising from any proceeds, rewards, grant, bounty, salvage or awartl, as stoma' s ; that is to say, the officer actually in command at the time, shall have one-eighth of the remainder, or if there is no flag, ems eight of the entire net proceeds; and it more than one comm Indies cffie, r of the same rank of con? mane shall be entitled ushers ask:teat captors, cane , the au to/nth shall be equally divided between them; but when c eptaine,.commanuen, lieutenants commending, and muter. eocantseding, respectively, our ships, sloop, end uvula of war, shall snare together, ia whatever verity of combina tion the one-eighth Atoll be so divided into parts for a graduated apportionment as to provide for each captain receiving six parts, each commander of a sloop three parte, and each lteuteoant commutable, or master commanding a venial of war, two grans, which we hereby direct shall be cue proportion in which tney shall respectively share ; earn- Deodorise of the second class, and field-waiers of marines, or of land forces serving as marines, doing duty u field o ffi ars above the rank of major, to share as captains ; and field Akers of marines, or of land forces serving as marines, and doing duty in the rank of major, to stare as commander. of stoop.. Uruen PE/SOM.—Find Clus.—Commandeps undereap tains in rated ships, master. of the fleet, medical inspectors, inspectors of steam machinery afloat in or with any ship or ships above the sixth rate—forty shares each. Second Mar.—Vint lieutenants in rated an i s, not bearing commanders, secretaries to admirals of the fleet, er to ether tale commanding in chief, deputy nuelicel inspectors, inspec tors of steam machinery afloat in or with any ship or vessel be ow the fifth rate—twenty-five shares each. Tel rd CI s sten ants, masters, captains of marines, of marine artillery, or of land fovea doing duty as marines, ehether having higher brevet rank or not, secretaries to ad mirals or to commodore" of the first class not commanding in chief, chief engineers of the first class—twenty shares each. ' , teeth Class.— Lieutenants or quart/musters of marines, lieu.ecants of marine artillery, lieutenants, quartermasters, or ensigns of land fumes, doing duty SS marmes, secretaries 4t commodores of tt.. second class, chaplain', surgeons, pay masters 'nu pursers, naval instructors, mates, assistant sur geons, second masters ' chief engineers of the second and third classes, gunners, boatswains, carpenters, assistant en gineers, engineers not yet on the establishment as regulated by the order in congeal of 1847, clerks in charge, pared clerks, 12 shares each. PIM Clus.—Midshipmen, meeter's assistants, clerks (not pawed), naval cadets, assistant clerks, seven .bares each. Sixth Clase.—Seamen's schoolmasters, masters at arms, chief boatswain's maths, admiral's end captain's commodes, ship. corporals, quartermaster., gunn-es, boatswain'e, and carpenter's mates, captains Os the forecastle, of the after guard, of the hold, of tee maintop and of the foretop, eat sweins of the launch, sailmakors, rope maker., caulkers, lead ing shiers, ship', cooks, blacksmiths, pilots, sergeants of uterine*, of marine artillery, or of land forces doing duty as marine* six shares each. tiaveoth Class.—Captains of the mast and wizen top, yeo men of signals, eOnsweies of the berg*, pinnace, and cutter, second .aptains of the forecastle, of the main-tip, of the fore ' ;op, and el , the afterguard, satlmaker's 2nd caulker'. mites, paymeeter's and purser's stewards, musicians, coopers, armour. rs, corporals of mutinies or of land forces doing duty as marines, bombardiers of marine artillery, bead kraal's's., —four shares each. kiihiliCas.LAble seamen, cirpenter's, sail:maker% sad cooper's crew, yeomen of store rpm,, ordinary seamen, pri sates and fifen of manors, or of land forces doicg duty as marlins, gunners of marine artillery, painters, rotten, coal trimmers, second head kroomaos, sick berth attendan:s, bandsmen,—two shares each. Ninth C.ass.—Cook's antes, paymaster and purser's rew rd's meter, paymaster and purser's steward's boys, admiral's domestics, the stewards and cooks of admirals, of captains, of the ward room, of the gun-room, and of sub second class ordinary seamen, ruanittnt stokers, b abets, tailors, lu.damen, ship's boys of the first class, engineer bays, first and second class knomani, aupernume rues borne for victuals only, not specially authors• d to do duty, persons 11,mi merely as passehgen, and not declining to ender ani•tance on any occasion of i apture, seizure, &c. —one share and one quarter of a ewe each. Tenth Class.—Ship's boys below the first class—three quarters of a share each. Stamen gunnels to share in all etpturee, seizures, rewards, &c., as aforesaid, is the class immediately above that in whch their rating is nosileasd. BOTANICAL /SOCIETY OF LONDON. iRISH BOG. Yesterday a meeting of this society was held at the rooms of the society, 20, Bedford-guest, Strand, John lin , treasurer, is the chair, for the purpose of hearing an added' from Mr. Rogers on the applicability of peat charcoal to the purposes of manure. Mr. RoGEM c,mamiteed by reminding the meeting that of late years the farmers throughout England had become fully alive to the superior properties of carbon as • manure. Hi, attention having been directed to the subject, he had proceeded to Ireland fur the purpose of making experiment, upon the bog of that country. Peat charcoal, Mr. Rogers explained, porsereed several ad vantage. over wood charcoal. The small quantity of pyro ligneous acid, originally contained in the pear, was entirely clop din the preparation ; hence, no acetic odour arose which ie comply ned against in wood charcoal, and produces severe headache. Again, its light and pun blase gave a greater extent of calorific effect, because it extended itself generally over the outsize to be heated, and carded with it no smoke. Peat charcoal emitted a toles, which wood ober. cool doe+ not. Oair of ita great advantages was the power of fertibettion In its individual state. But the mein and grand advantage which peat charcoal possessed in so singular • de gree, was ha- of perfectly deed wising end disinlecting animal xeretie. The same capability did not exist in wood char tal gi air illy, and in several descriptions not at all; for in steam , the charcoal of lignum vine, task, and hard oak had, in fact, nn iteodorising power. This capability increased as the wood became softer and more p roue, and that which ze had found to have most effect was the charcoal of the willow. In addition to peat charcoal, rip chilly prepared fur deo dorising, being icfinitely more porous than that of wood, it perhaps contained some property not yet discovered, for he bad no hesitation in 'eying we were all, as yet, strangers to its eminently useful power,. It had long been known to science that the excretive of man kind contained • greater amount of the propel ties essential to the fertilisation of plants titan tny other substance To its careful preservation and ire, China owed the capability of supporting • population, alma' incredible with reterenee to the extent of the soil under cultivation; and in the ratio of the introduction of excrete es a manure on the confluent of Europe had been the increase of agricultural profit. Thi re its use was now almost universal, while we of Bog lend neglect th it which, perhaps, at in most other things. we should have led the way in using. But there had been many diffl-.ulties to contend wilt in its introduction as • marketable Meta ger ; Ist, its colleeti , . n without sni. noyacos and evil; tad, Its derdorizetion, so as to admit of convenient transport; 3rd. its preeervation in • moaner to retain its velueble quakties as • manure. To obviate these evils several chemical decelorsere bad been produced, but, being liquid., the advantages pro posed to In obtained became neutralised by the isiereened difficulty of reducing the matter to a sufficiently dry Mats for transport. Nature, however, had provided, by a product tion of the vegetable world, a simple remedy for this did . culty in rat charcoal. It was perhaps the greatest absorbent known ; it would take up and retain above 80 to 90 per coat. of water, and at least 90 to 100 volumes of those noxious pasts arising from anise' i :unseat and other putrescent matter. Hews its grew: value for effecting deodorization, and fur re te into z all the vales of the liquid is well as its volau:e products. Equal porta of prepared peat charcoal and excretive would under almost every circumstance accomplish this, if properly intermixed—producing a manure of almost incalculable value. The average of 'aerator yielded by a !lumen being per annum was 10 cwt. Six would therefore yield 3 toss; add to this, say 3 tons of charcoal, and you would have of manure 6 tons. Now, although thientanare mast be infitiital, sap► nor to guano, which sold at IW. to 121. per ton, estimate it at +Mealy, the gross value of the manure would be 30L per animas ; deduct the wet of the channel, say 21.10+., and 71. 10e , with the expense of oollecting and intermixing, would be the whole deduction from the 301. Suppose 71. 10s. for these expense', end the smallest possible vela* of the household produce would be at beam 151. per annum. The I average number of homes within the district of Loudon, 'seeped above 101. per annum, might be assured as 200,000; consequently, the total of assessed taxes of that class, might be taken at 2,000,0001. It the inhebt:ante,:deteranined on ridding themselves of the evils that encircle us, by our present sewage system, saved that whisk nature intended as • means to produce food in abundiusee. they would not only confer • great boon upon the population se rally, but the profit to be bad to money would amount at ltd. per house to 3000,0001. per annum. The thanks of the meeting were given to Mr. Rogers for his valuable communication. BEQUESTS OF THE LATE SIIROEON CARMICHAEL-- Surgeon Carmichael bstpieithed 4,5001. to the Medical Be nevolent S misty, in addition to the monficent donation of 6001. which he presented to the same admirable champ dar ing hit lifetime. lie also left 3,000/. to the Royal Coll. go of &moons in Ireland, the interim to he applied in prahlana qnadr leis! prise 1 r the enreorag teem of me Kcal acieoce, and he has endow,: t e Rithm ...,1 If ..oit .1 S..h° .1 of M • dici o and itager) with bet+ tea 3,00 J/. nd 6,oool.—Dublin Heraki. THE CHOLERA. The Board of Health Wood the following rotas ct cam of cholera yesterday, August 3: Attacks. Dreha. In London and vicinity In Hoglund and Wales 305 13t In Scotland Total 676 COTANTET, ELS! STONIROVID• DIMON, AND Lotomrrin. —Last nielit's Gamete contains official notie. s, tamed by the 13 lard of Health to the poor law authorities of the above towns, authorising certain steps therein mentioned to be taken for improving t h e public health. D OP • HPSDAND AND WIPIA—Hr. W. Carter held an inquest yeshxday at the Artichoke, New-tut, Lam beth, on the holy of Henry Hopping, aged 49, and Jane, his wife, aged 48, who were found dead in bed, at their lodgings, No. 35, Lower.morsia, some particulars of which have already appeared in this journal. Samuel Chard, a police.sergeant of the L division, said that on Wednesday morning but, item certain information forwarded to Tower street statioixhoum, he proceeded to the second it 'Cr belt of the premises belonging to Mr. Headman ' a tea-dealer in the L o wer - sash , when on forcing the door he found the deceased lying in a bed on the floor. There was • part of a broken sofa against the door, and witness had to use some force to get the door open. He then went for Mr. Sewell, the surgeon, who attended, but owing to the bad smell in the room, the apartment was obliged to be fumigated. The window was open, and witness examined tce sill of the same, and from the dust en it he considered it imp4seitle for any one to have entered the place and committed an act of violence.—Mr. John Sewell, surgeon, of 9, Lower Marsh, raid that on the morning is question he was sent for to roe the deceased. Pie attended immediately, and found the email in the room very offensive. The man was eitt . og upright, but the woman was lying on her hack. The countenances of both were distorted, and the nails oa the feet quite black. He found a chalk mixture in a glee' on the mantel piece, but nothing to lead him to suppose that they had caused their own deaths. He had since opened both bodies, and was *edified that the deceased had died from Asiatic cholera,—Sophia Jeffries, a lodger in the next room to the demoted, yid that she first missed the two parties on Tuesday last. She mentioned the fact to the people in the shop, but no inquiry was sada about them. The next morning (Wednesday) she again mentioned ths circumstance, when Mr. Heldman sent for the pol•ea and bed the door forced. She saw the woman on Monday morn ing sod the man the same night, but neither of them spoke to her. She was at home all day on Tuesday, but heard neither of them vomiting or speaking. They quarrelled, however, on the previous morning for some time.—The Coroner said it seemed to him to be most extraordinary, that people liv ing in the next room should not have heard some noise from the deceased, unless they immediately fell into a state of col. lapin—Verdict, "Deaths from Asiatie cholera." BakDPOßD.—There hats been M attacks of premonitory diarrme t and confirmed cholera, and 36 fatal cases rep rted in this union. It Is gratifying to bs able to sive that since Monday no deaths hams been reported. . . . Bostow.—The cholera is committing great raysges in Boston. BRITISH ARCH4EOLOOICAL SOCIETY. i CRZSTER, THURSDAY. This nlorning, Mr. F. W. FAIRHOLT, F.S.A., deli vered a dissertation on guild preelesions and observances, in which he trusted of their crigin and history, and narrated those ceremonial observance:, curious sager, and public processions which marked their ancient state, and greatly atiracted the attention of our sight-loving ancestors. The subjects of the other papers were on the brass of Sir Wdliaa blolynenz, in Sefton church, by Mr. J. G. Weller ; and the other at the Cheater mysteries, by the Rev. Dr. Huss', F.S.A. During the emeani in of a portion of the thereon and visitors to Liverpool, a meeting was held in the Caester Museum, for the purpose of hearing several pipers read ; Sir Wiliam Bather's, F.S.A., presiding. The first paper was read by Mr. Dillon Cream, commu nicated by the President, Lord A'hert Conyagbatn, " On the Coinage of Chester," which asserted that from the reign of Athel•tsne to a comparatively recent period, mints had been established in Chester, and money issued. During the civil war a mint was established in Cheater, end a mint was in full operation here in the reign of Witham the Third. The coinage was called in in 1697, and the issue of money from the Chester mint was stopped by authority of act of parliament. The Rev. W. B. MARSDEN read a short paper, containing particulars of the widow of the poet Milton. The promo:hogs closed with • lecture from Mr. C. IL I Ssnith, "On the Roman Antiquities of Chester." RAILWAY MEETINGS. WATERFORD, WEXFORD, WICKLOW, AND DUBLIN RAIBWAY. The half-yearly meeting of this compuny mu held yester day at the offices, West Strand ; the Earl of Courtown in the chair. The report stated that the coital which the company was authorised to reims mounted to 1.500.0001., that the North Wales company had suiscribed 2'20,0001, 'awards th 3 under taking, and that 52 1921., including 11,160/. for land, had been expended on the works at Killiney and Br a y Bead. The distance from Kingstown to Wicklow is 231 miles, beyond which place they do not intend to carry the line. The estimated cost of land and works is 300,2711.; of remittent way,loo,ooo/.; stations, ece , 20 0001.; total cost to Wicklow, 420,2711. ; already expended, 62,1927. ; balance in hand, 13,3 '9l, leaving 354,7491. to be provided for. They state that 70,8561. wt uld be sufficient t) carry on the works 'testily for the next twelvemonth. The amnia' to the Ist of July shoes that 144,16 6 1. had been received, a n d 130,8371. 'traded, leaving a Wane, of 13,32 W. in band. Tie directors have strived at the conclusion that it would sot be desirable to proceed with the line further than Wicklow, aid, looking to the local traffic, they believe it cannot fail to prove remunerative ; that in the event of the total abandonment of the scheme the compensation which the company would have to pay to landowners, contractors, and other would probably amount to a large proporti n of the rum that would be suf ficient to cemplete the works. The directors propose to reduce the capital from 1,500,0001 to 600,0001., the 75,186 shares already subserib .6 for to 50,000 shares, and the nomi nal sinsunt from 201. to 101. per share. There are at present 18,137 sharer, upon which 31. per share has been paid; 7,944 shares on which 21. has been paid, and 49,105 shares upon which only 30s. per share has been paid. By this plan they state that the holder of three 207. shares with V. paid on itch would have his present liability reduced from 511. to 111. The director. propose to reduce their *Bowater from 1,0001. a-year to 6001. a-year, the salary of the secretary from 1,0001. ayes, to 8001. a-year, and corresponding reductions in the engineering and other departments. The Commove moved the adoption of the report. Mr. Neon proposed au antendmene to the effect that the meeting adopt tie report of the shareholder' commi•tee and confirm the resolutions of the meeting. of the shareholders Mild on the 4th of May, 1849. and 24 h or Yebinary, 21st of March, let of 111 .y, and 2nd of July, 1849, in lien of the report of the directors; that the report and accounts be veneered to a committee of iftvestigation, to report thereon at a future meeting. He mid the scheme of the directors was a grew delusion, and that the shareholders would not support it. He thouget it very improbable that they would get the 60,000 shares subscribe l for, when it was considered teat the last call bad only been paid on 7,000 shares cut of 100,000 snares. Unless the direct drs came to terms with the oissentient shareholders, it was impossible to go on with the works. The S nth Wales Company were not legal share hol leer, they bad not paid their subscription and ,hey could not be athelloi to pay the calls. Anothe r fallacy in the report was that the directors ca'culated upon receiving 73,0001, being the arrears on 49,000 shares. A great deal of money already had rein expende .„ and very little done for it. The accounts laid bevere tee per psi. ton did not tally with the books of the eirnp.ny. He &fled the cbairman to prove that they had a b dance of 13,3291 in hand—[The CRAIIuItATI.--.• There ill. as shown in the accounts pre sented to the meeting. He could assure the meeting, having Inspects* the beaks of the chnpsny, that may 4 2631. of the Wastes was in cash, and that 8,6001 of it had been lent to the Great Western Company. The balance Is hand was, therefore, erroneous. altnru g h the auditors had signed the statement. 130.0001. of the com pany's funds had been expended, but only 62,0001. of it en land and works, for wiiick there was very little to show. The dinners had refused the committee appointed oy the skareholdtn access to the books, and they were taking legal proceedings egoism thoehareholders fur the recovery of calls. He thought the dissevers should meet a committee of pripriett.ls, and molar with them as to the 'domicil of some middle come, sad sot to persevere in the present arbitrary mode of peroemdiag. Mr. Baziow said that the Stith Wales Company had paid on their shares. Mr. FamODY seconded the amendment. A oonnereadea issued, in the course of which )(jot COORS proposed an amendment, to the effect that the further co:on:radon of the report be poetooned until after the me tinge of the Great Western and South Wales Itailwav Companies. Mr. Naak's amendment having been put, there appeared 9 In favour of ir, and 13 'gained if. Ott biejor Court's amend mint being put, there appeared 16 in savour of it, and 11 against ire, and consequently it was declared to be carried. A poll on both the amendments having been demanded, were appointed. No pr ;Mee were used on this occasion, and the result was, 36 verse in favour of Nash's amendment, and 167 against it; majority, 132 ; in Wow , of hunt Court's amendment, 46 voter; against It, 167; mej-roy, 111. Mr. Nash protested against the mode adopt. d in taking the vette, by which he alleged that *en sal I votes were rejected which +mild have gin n a majority in ' favour of his emanate-et if they ha 4 b'en admitted. The original, unties for the adoption of the report was then declared to be carried. The proceedings coccluied wilt a vote of thanks to the chairman. NEWRY, WARRENPOINT, AND ROSTREVOR RAILWAY. The half year melting of hi. comminy was held ye.trr at the ode. M l ,r es t r str►et. Ltd Ne.er the th it T e rt *AL e 4 the' , h lin • tr .ns Ne •t y to War...l'point w hr 18 h of M L, . tw pees. og r-in .flit. Toe ig g. pug .g y a•m e , ..: d r e .ctor shortly to he .hie tr.utmit t. rats for the wo.kins of the traffic. They recomraend the confi:ma , .on , f the for feiture of 270 shares in c mowers of the no.-payment of exile The ca!i•el •e aunt showed that 111.02 it. had core eeived, and 110,0781. expended, leaving a balance of 9471. is hand. The revenue ►ccount from the Zith May to he 30th of June state♦ that 2571. had b, en reaeind, and 1311 u• ended—le av,ng a profit on the worLing of 661. The report of he directors was received, but not adopted, and e.rdered to be entered on the minute?. _ . The meeting was then mode and a committee was appointed to inver.t.pata the affairs of the company, and ppm thee, on to an &clowned meeting to be held on the 24 h inst. The meeting then adjaurned. LEICIPMEN AND BWANNINOTON.—The junction of the Leicester and Swainington line with the Midland Railway was opened for traffic on Wednerdsy last. Ilithtrto the Lticestenhire coil at to be carted from on, line to the other, but now the weapons will be loaded at the pi.- mouths, and drawn to the stations without further tremolo or espense,_ GRIAT NoeTnaate.—We have every reason to believe that the line from Doncaster to Retford will be opined early its September. The company Lave now taken the manage mint of the station at Doncaster, and will alto work tots portion of their line. Tan COLOSSAL TI7SCLAIR BAIDOII AT TUB MENAI SIMAITB.—The Liverpool Mercury s.qs :—•. We will endea- your to give our readers a sketch by which they may judge of the daring and magnitude of this work. But at the outset we may otesrve that the word • tune' dues not convey to the mind an secure.. conception of the hollow pessnse terough which the r0i1..., is to proceed, at an i levativa el m 40 than 100 feet above the level of the sea which it is to crow. The passage is a ?rewriter hall, formed of boiler plate iron ; it is an iron box, in fn., to b, suspended in air, end of prodigious dimensions, as will be conceived from the following homely but pelisses graphic suggestion :—Middle clan houses in Liverpool and other towns are often six yards wide in front : they are familiarly known as six-1 and boons. Al dozen such houses form a considerable row or block of build. logs, bat it requires a street of 26 houses of that kind to represent tne length of one tude; and the breadth and height will be pretty accurately imagined, if we suppose all the front apartments of those houses (palest., drawing roses, end upper bed-room) to he formed into one, through. oat the entire length. A long and lofty hall it would cer tainly be; and yet it would only represent ode of the iron b nes, several of which Sr. to carry the railway from the summit of one tower to another over the Menai Straits. They will be suspended from tower to tower, throughout a length of 460 feet, without any centre' support whatever. Two tub. e of this leegth, and two of a shorter length, form one line through the air ; and if we imagine a similar series of hulls, formed of the back rooms of a oaf Went number of such houses as above supposed, we shall have a tolerable idea of the double line at railway (for the Om: and coming train.) thus conveyed over a specs which seemed to forbid the progress of any such means of triune Thee:set length of each of the four principal tubes is 472 feet, the exterior height nearly 30 het, the interior breadth 14 feet. Numbers of perms are docking down the railway (the m. et picturesque line is the kinsdom) from Chester, by Flint, Moen n, Rhyl, Abergele , Conway, Aber, and Bangor, to see the works, and well they are repaid ; while numbers are also arriving by the steam-vessels from Liverpool to &tsunamis, &e. for th e same object. From Landon the journey is perforined by rail within eight hours. TRAFFIC RETURN FOR THE:PAST WEEK. Mins opeursL 1 Namur Railway. Rea ista. --- 1848. 1549 1848. I 1849. - -- BRITISH. - 1, - 31 31 Aberdeen - C -374 374 Behest teed Ballymena 16 19 Birkenhead, Lane., & Cheshire 93 993 14 14 Bolton, Blackburn, and W est Yorkshire 854 856 Bristol and Rimer 1374 154 Caledonian 4,431 6.043 594 84 Chester and Holyhead 356 356 Dublin and Drogheda 77. 818 71 7 Goblin and Kinest mu 474 47 4 Dunder,Perth,AberdeenJunc 1,333 1,265 576 914 East Anglian 634 726 314 764 Bast Lancashire 295 322 Eastern Counties and Norfolk 51 78 Eastern Union 674 674 Edinburgh and Glasgow 3,768 3'927 49i 78 Edinburgh and Northern 1.913 2 493 74 1024 Ohagow, Paisley, and Ayr 2,603 3,235 224 221 Oiesgow,Paisley,snd Greenock 1,439 1.252 - 126 Oreat Nor , hern &E. Linoolnsh - 2,385' 130 1684 Great Southern andWestern(l) 4.046 3,611 2061 2304 treat Western* ....... 70 70 Lancaster and Carlisle 2,113 2,600 1274 2064 Lancashire and Yorkshire 11,927 14,396 - 13 Liverpool,Crosby, & Boutbpor - 254 435 465 London andNorthWestern 4 64 London and Blackwell 1624 170 London. Briuhton, and B. Coss, 14.4.54 11,797 196 2164 London and South Western 144 144 Londonderry sad Enniskillen 163 165 944 1576 Menche.ter,Sbeff.,&Lineolush. 3,200 5,640 4234 471 Midland 23,498 22,722 364 60 Midland GrestWeitern.(l) B6l 1.122 36 36 Monklands 725 824 110 North British 454 454 Scattiih Central 23 48 Shrewsbury and Chester 651 1,531 - 30 Shr,pshire Union 343 60 574 ,South Devon 1 778 1.920 1651 1851 Mouth Eastern 38 38 Taff Vale 36 36 Ulster 749 - - 13 West Cornwall - 300 12 12 Whitshavrn Junction 175 216 269 269 York, Newcastle, Berwick 13,346 12,334 234 2534 York and North Midland 9,420 8.474 FOREIGN.! 68 764 Amiens and Boulogne 1,394 1,435 - 26 Dieppe 674 574 Duch Rhenish 1,480 - 714 714 Mmtereau and Troyes 211 211 Northern of France 10,795 15.637 1074 1074 Orleans to Bourget (Cen.t.) 1,982 2,839 72 72 Orleans to Tours 2.320 2,787 82 82 Paris and Orleans 85 85 Paris and Rouen - 691 Rouen and Havre • Exclusive of the Bristol sad Exeter: IRELAND. THE QUEEN IN IRELAND. Deanne, ACOVIT 3. The town h?re looked gayrr yesterdaT than I have seen it this many and many a day. Ile people in the streets have recovered that animated, happy look that was so much the characteristic of the Dublin population. The MO, one would say, appear to be themselves again, elastic, joyous, and mercurial; and in the height of their spirits turairg everything into fun. The Lord Mayor comes in for a fair stare of quizzing. It is said that he was very anxious to ride by the side of the royal cars iage in the grand proces sion ; but an official letter from London received yes terday announced that the Commander of the F,rces, Sir E. Blakeney, should ride at one side, and Prince George of Cambridge at the other. The mayor and corporation are to follow the royal carriage in its train. At the city gates, the marshal of the corpora tion, Mr. Thomas Reyaolds (the brother of the mem ber for Dub'in), is to make a speech to her Majesty. The anxiety of ladies wishing to be presented to the Quern hes reached the greatest height. In all all directions everybody is looking for somebody to present them, and thedifficulty is mach greater than was firs' anticipated. It has been notified by the Lord Chamberlain, and the officials, that no one can be pre sented here except by • lady who has already been presented at the Court of St. James's. Consequently the numbers at the drawing-room here will be more limited than was supposed at first. The Evening Post of last night was again peremptory on this sub ject; to wit -- TER LIVES AND DRAWINO-ROOK;WII beg to impress upon those desirous of being pres.nted at the Queen's levee and drawing-roost, that it is necessary, as specified in the sotillesion from the Lord Chamherlain's Alm, already pub lished, that they should be presented by persons who had previously been presented to her Majesty, sad whose per sonal attendance at the levee or drawing-room will be ii.dia pensable. although they will not have to take ran in the ceremonial of p er•enttliOn. The Dublin snobocracy are quite feverish at the ides of so many of them being ezcluded from the drawing-room, and I could give you some striking facts about the lengths to which applicants for being presented have gone. It is said that the Countess of Clarendon his been besieged for tte last few days with applications. CORK, AUGUST 2. Immediately on my arrival in this cty, last even ing, I received practical proof of the lively interest felt by all classes in the anticipated visit of her Ha i jesty, by finding it almost impossible to obtain apart metre of any description. The inns were all crammed and their doors surrounded by disappointed suitors for admission, whose loyal enthusiasm visibly cooled under the probability of spending a night in the street. Having at list succeeded, by dint of the most reapee ful solicitations to a compase.osate waiter, in obtaining shelter, I proc eded to collect the facts, conjectures, and prepirationa connected will this the first progress of a British Queen thraugh the moot wrsterly division of her im peiial territor:es. To ear 'bet the "beautiful city" is all in a bus would give b r a very faint idea of the meet that is p i•cep tble whichever way you turn y. ur ps. Eveiy hi use is literally. nc-usted 'situwi.ii! :-(.1 arcre sru yni..t. re, en I u. e ch p in- I eipa 'tie tthe runtA of thehammer is conataLtly goirig in the construction of triumphal arches. The city, in fact, exhibls the appearance of (ice vast rehearsal. Ma) ors anal corporations I re retie. rsing loyal addressee, and couje. toting gracious a , . we: r.; the ladies are e hoarsiog graceful positioos in the temporary bah °oleo, many of wtich will aseuredly c.-sme down ; and ever and anon the strains of a m•litary band indicate tnat some regiment of toe garrison is rehearsing the duty it is to perform on the all-important day. To day it was the 26th Cameroni►us, who, at half-past seven in the morning, march. d through Patrick-street t 3 the air of "Gol save the Queen," end rehearsed their position in the pag.aut. Tne general expectation, amounting almost to cer tainty, is, that her Majes•y will reach the harbour to-marrow evening. Passing through the nom•rous fleet of pleesare yachts oollected to honour the royal progress, her Majesty will land at Cove, where a handenne menace pavilion has beers prepared for her reception. There tte sovereign will receive the loyal addre-s of the inhabitants, and give forth (as is ex pected) the royal mandate that Cove shall be a cove no longer, but rejoicer in the more respectable and un equivocal title of Qicenstown. Flags of all nations and of all colours will wave from every eminence, pinna.l., and chimney; andat night the threa villages of Cove. Monkstown, and Passage will be radiant with illuminations. Even the waters must have their loyal drspity, as on two berg, a moored between Cove and Spike bland a metropolitan arti t will give a pvrotcheic exhibition. On Saturday her Majesty is eats eteei to com.. up the river cn b and the Fairy tender, and, having landed at the Custom-house, is to r,ceive the loyal address of the corporation of Cork. The royal progress through the city will then nom. mence, and her Majesty having passel through the principal portions of the city will return to the royal yecht, and the squadron will weigh miner for Dublin. Such are the main features of tho intended pageant, but there are other impor tant questions a ill under discus:ion, and which are warmly canvassed in the press and the various local centres of public opinion. ll:wnination is truly a vexed question. Winn about to close my letter, I was obliged by his Worship the Mayor with a copy of the tollowin; communication, which he had just received from the Home-office : Whitehall, July 31, 1849. Sir,—l am directed by Saretiry Sir George Grey to a•- knowledge the receipt of your letter of the 27 h inst., and the copy of the address to be presented to her Msj!sty by the corp 'ration of Cork, which be baa no doubt will be very gra ciously received. Sir G. Grey is uweblo to state with cer tainty the timo of her Majesty^ arrival, as it must depend on the state of the weather, which may oecaiinn esmieferible delay ; bat, if the weather should be favourable, Sir G. Grey thinks that the royal yacht may possibly reach Cove on Friday evening. Her Majecy would, however, delay the reception of any address nuul the following day. Sir G. Grey is not aware that he can offer any suggestiens which could be of use as to the arrangements for her Majesty's reception, as the information which has reerhed him leads him to believe that nothing will be required which has not already been fully provided for by you and other 1 - eel authorities. He will, however, be happy, e n his arrival at Cork, to afford any in formation winch may be ul use. I have the honour, alts , W. WADDIXOTON. SCOTLAND. HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO GLASGOW. GLASGOW. AVOL'ST 2. A communication from Sir CL:orge Grey was re ceived here to-day by the Lard P.orost, rating that her Majesty may be expected to reach Scotland in the course of the week alter next. The letter went on to Bay that, Ou arrivinz in the Clyde, her Maji sty will probably re main on board the yacht for a day And a ni..ht h fore pro ceeding to Glargor, daring which time the would wish to avoid any public reception or demonstration. If the tide should salt, her Majesty would, on quitting the royal yacht, go up the river to Glasgow in the m .rniag in the Felt), on board of which veasel she will receive the addres,ta to be presented; after which her ilisjesty auk] proceed by the route proposed by your lordship, visiting the univrrsity and eathelnl, and ending at the railway station, wheel her .Majesty would enter the railway (unitee and proceed to Perth. But the time will not allow of her accepting the in vi,ation to a <Weiner, or is specting the various manufacture, of Ghe t to+ and its ntighbourbood. The dxament eonel ded na follows: I am comma• ded to desire that your lordship will convey to his Grace the Duke of Hamilton, and the menthers of the Western Club, her Disk sty's thanks far their offer of the club bottle; but her Majesty's stay in Glasgow will not be of tafficient length to enable her to avail herself of it. TEEHESOARIANs.—A preliminary tneetirgwasheld on Monday evening in the Merchants' Hall,Edlnburgh, to con sider the propriety of holding a public meeting for the pur pose of expressing sympathy with the Hungarian na'ioo in the contest they ire now waging mei= Ruesia stud Austria. Among the gentlemen present we observed Count Krasinski, Rev. Dr. hil'Crie. Rev. Dr. R. Lee, Rev. Mr. Jonneton, James Simpson, Req , advocate, Councillor Fife, Mears. Macfarlane, Wy tock, M'Crie, Cruirkshenks, &e. A com mittee was appointed to make tho mecca:ivy arrangements conceded wilt the public meeting, end, on Tuesday night, the committee dicb'ed upon holding the public meeting ou Monday evening nest. TILE CROPS IN GALLOWAY. A correspondent writing from GI ,Iloway says ;—" The crops in this district look exoeedingly well, having been much improved by the recent propittuu. weather. The y ield of potatoes is enor nrms, though the market is still kept bare, and the priee op to Gd. per stone 'Turnips appear all that could be desired. Farme rs are busily engaged securing the hay crop, which has turned out much better than was snticipamd. Cattle continue very low in price."—Olcsagoto Daily Msii. CLERICAL rItItIERYSNT.—Rev. J. M to West Bedew P.C., nett Retford, diocese Liocolasttire ; False's, John Barrow, NAVAL PRIZE MO NET.—Notice is given in last night's Gazette that an account proceeds of hull, &c., and tonnage hour iss far the Brazilian schooner Thenthria, seized in the Vatti of August, 1847, by her Majesty's sloop Mariner, Casrles M. icon. Esq.. commander, will be deposited in the registry of the 11:gh Court of Admiralty, on the 27th inert, agreesbly to act of parliament —J. O. and T. Stilwell, & t ent& Notice is abo given, that an account of a sum at money to ba distributed in part of the tonnage ft unty re e:ved for the capture of a schooner, name un known, by her Majesty's ship Larne, on the 6 h day of July, 1846, will he delive r ed into the registry of the High Court of Admiralty on the 10th day of August next, Nero,- ably to act of parliament.—Ommannsy, Son, and Co., aflosta• MOVEMENTS.—The Janus was at Gibraltir on the 24th of July. The screw at.-fr. Arrogant went up to Llabon on the evening of the 26 h, and sailed again on the morning of the 270. Form:worn', Aro. 3.—Lightning, St., arrived yesterday from Portland, having oonvoyed thither the Lords C.onmis simian of the Admiralty. Niger and British, at., arrived this morning from a trial eruise ' ard came into harbour. A court-martial was held today on board the Victory, when Joseph Payne, private marine of her Majesty's st.-v. Blazer, was convicted of drunk, tines., and of uttering ma tinous lanxuage to Lieut. Smith. The prisoner was adjudged to forfeit all the pay due to him, and to be imprisoasd rod kept to hard labour for sir month.. MILITARY. (rlOl3l bit alirts'a Casale.) WAR.OPPICE, Ano. 3. Ist Regt. of Dreg. Ode.—Car. O. H. W. Caney to be lieut., by put., vice Fester, who vete. 3rd Light Dregs—Oar. F. °KAMM to be lieut., without pur., view Xacqueen, whose prom ham been cancelled; Cor. T. C. B. Be. Gamma to be lieut., by par., vice Chaplin, wh.re prom., by pot., bee been moaned; Ow. 0. T. Menem to be lieu.., by pur., eke OCOMP, whose prow., as July 2U , boa been cancelle d. 7th Dreg. Ode.—Oar. W. 311 nut &TON to be lieut., by pur., riot Pier tow, who Ma 10th Light Drsoni.—Cornist Z. J. 8. Buis to be lieut., by pur., vies Wardrop, who retires. 17th Lt. Drage.—Cornet J.H. Reno to be lieut., by put., vice Andes ton, who retiree. 6th Rev. of P.—Lleut. the Hon. A. (3. C. CIUMERIL to be mt., by pur., vice Finlay, who tete.; Ens. A. Dania to be lieut., by put., vice Cliktweter. 12th P.—gas IL Cots to be lint, without our., vice Perim, des. 23rd P.—Cept. H. U. enure& to be motor, by pur., vice Granville, who ret.• Lieut. P. L. P 1111.1.111. ht Capt, by par., vice moo t , ; Bra Llecit. J. C. BIADT, to be gra lieut., by pur., vice Phillips. P.—Bs C. H. Iluicure, to be lieut , by pur., vice Count s. 111varola, who ret. 30th K—Pao. H. PIXSZIATILLII, to be lieut., by pur., vice Greene, wbo ret. _ _ Itith F.—Capt J. ertyrosa, from 33rd F., to be mpt., vice Talbot, app. to 53rd F. 36th F.—Brev..Maj. W. R. Mauna; from 93rd F , to be maj., by por., Mee Smyth, who reta 45th F.—Capt. 1. Evros ' from k.-p. mutt, to be apt., vice Brea.- Maj. C. Geoentra, who each.; Lient W. M. Brans to be apt., by par., vice Elba. - who rete.; Ent. C. L. Charm to be Ucut., by par., Mee &wee. 48th F.—Lieut. F. War to be ay*, by par., vice Bow, who Teta ; I. W. R. CAIRMS to be limit, bypar„ vice Itainbrigge, who ; Fan 11. 0. Brass to be lieut, by par., vice Went. 63rd F.—Capt. W. L. T. 4110; from 34th F., to be cape., vice Miaow, 'mato 34th F. 65th F.—Payntaat. J. E. Emma, from the Ceylon Rine Rest., to be pommel., vice Womb, alp to the Ceylon Meat. G7th Y.—Ataing Aseitt-garg. J. Dtm, M.D., to be amiat.aurg., vine fillatherwitik, app. to the a aff. 74th F.—Copt. J. P.OIIIITX, from b.-p. matt., to be apt , vice W. McDonald, who etch , receiving the difference; Lieut. J. H. Ens . yew, to be apt., by par, via Roberta, who ret.; Fan. and Adj Jt. J. Townetaa to here the rook of beat.; Ems. W. W. J. Bever, to be Ikea, by par., vice Boma. tILL F. Es.. W. DZEKIIOND, tobe lient, by bur., vim William., who Via.Fna. E. A. Dawes, km the 62nd F., to be me., vice Drum- VW Y.—teat. F. Ilocaboa to be apt., by par., vise Gordon, who rent; Ens. C. Carron , to be beat , br pur., vice 'Jarboe:. 93rd P.—Loot 0. 91.1700 Car. to be nag. by pur., cite 114,141.2 y, Irma. to 341 b F.; Era. W. 0. A. MllAnitaa, to to tout., by put., vice bluektert. Rect.—Lieut. 3. AGOAR, to to rapt, trit'lett etas V, dcc ; FAA 0. 0 Simla to he , 3rd Vi. loaar Irrad.— Quarter-31..4er Serjcaat A. L. ()RANT, t be quartermager, ‘ipx Megratb, due.