The Express. — London, England, 1846-11-20 00:00:00

2 Wiens after the service on Wednesdays, and the coatoot fell into desuetude chiefly on account of the ntmtber of curates who set up private schools, and wine thus limited in the time they could devote to tweaks' duties. Religion must be a part of education, because reli gion is part of a man's social existence, but in neither dee is its claim unlimited. Pushed to its legitimate consequences, Mr. WATSON'S; demand would lead to requiring that religion should absorb the whole cycle of social existence, and that we should become is' nation of monks and nuns. We do not reject hi/ woposition, we merely restrict it, and if he had cob descended to reason instead of indulging in yeses though polished declamation, ho would soon have discovered that his proposition needed restrictions. In one instance Mr. WATSON is so kind as to spe cify a secular subject which he points outas peculiarly dangerous if separated from religion. He and his fellows are not very_felicitoue in their illustrations; Archbishop MAC Haut pounced on anatomy as the most perilous topic to " faith and morals ;" the worthy Dean of AstDAGII seized on mathematics, evincing at the same time his profound ignorance of the matter by declaring that "mathematics would not be rendered impure by the introduction of religion r Mr. WAT SON fixes on history, which he defines to be " religion teaching by example." It is enough to say that books and lectures framed in accordance with each a defini tion would not be histories, but party pamphlets,. Like ourselves, Mr. WATSON is not quite satisfied with things as they are ; he more than insinuates that the educational results are not proportioned to the educational expenditure of the country. He de clares that parents do not appreciate the value of instruction for their children, and assigns some very reasonable, and a few whimsical causes, as explana tions of their apathy. To a great extent the nvalry between the church school an of the dissenting school, as in Ireland in the time of the Kildare-street Society, the struggle between the landlord's school and the priest's school, has lowered education in the opinion of parents. Committees take a great and not inex plicable pride in statistics ; it is notorious that recourse has been had to very unworthy means for the purpose of swelling the return of pupils; it is within our owe knowledge that a reduction of rent was proffered as a boon to those who sent their children to the school of an enthusiastic landlord, and ejectments actually served on such tenants as proved refractory. Even Mr. WATSON proposes to have recourse to the old armoury of Church censures, declaring that "having armed our schoolmasters with the episcopal license, they must be supported by the episcopal authority." But no coercion would be necessary if we were able to show the parents that education has a real and tangible value. In fact, we practically inculcate the very contrary. In; every part of Europe save England an educa tional test is imposed as a qualification for office ; there is not a clever child in any one of the primary schools of Paris who is not conscious that his success at school will be a strong recommendation for his appointment to any office in the gift of the govern ment or the municipality. No such inducement exists in England, except indeed on the railways, where the attention paid to moral and educational qualifications has effected more for education, by directing attention to its nature and its value, than all the voluntary associations formed by the admirers of BELL and LANCASTER. The education given in our primary schools has the great and obvious defect of being dissevered from the actual position of the children and from their future career in life. They are to live by industry, and yet their education is not industrial. Linear design forms a pert of primary instruction in every French school • boys are taught to draw diagrams even of complicated machinery ; the nature of the mechanical powers is explained to them, and their application pointed out ; they are encouraged to be •handy in the use of the chisel, the hammer, and the saw. 'ln many schools, girls receive instruction in the mysteries of plain and economical cookery and in needlework ; and no child is ignorant of the legal system of coins, weights, and measures. The latter is a subject utterly desperate in England. Having publicly stigmatised the utter barbarism of our divisions of coins, weights, and measures, we cling to them contentedly, because philosophy does not add to the popularity of a statesman in Britain ; and because an English legislator fears nothing so much as the puerile sarcasm directed against the Gregorian reformation of the calendar: "He has found out an evil which does nobody any harm, and stereested a remedy which will do nobody any good." There is no single remedy for the existing state of things; all parties must be called upon to perform their proper share in the work of renovation, and the state must especially be invoked, because it has been the most negligent, and it can be the most efficient. The Church has done something; dissenting bodies have done something ; individuals have done some thing: bat the state has done next to nothing. Let Church, let Dissent, and private benevolence continue, and increase their exertions; but let not the state abandon the most important of its functions. When so much is to be done, we would not discourage any from working ; but we desire an authoritative inspection and supervision of the labourers. Even Mr. WATSON grants that a commission ought to be issued to check the abuses and lavish waste of funds in our grammar-schools. We do not despair of con verting Mr. WATSON himself to our views. Like many good, and even clever men, he has allowed him self to be imposed upon by his own phraseology : there are few of his propoeitiors from which we would withhold assent, if limited by their proper qualifications. But the question of limits is the only one of real educational value properly before the public : nearly all are agreed that the work must be done, and it only remains to adjust the due propor tion of toil to the respective labourers. We court the aid of the Church in accomplishing oar great object; but we only beg of zealous and indiscreet churchmen not to claim for the establishment more than it can carry into effect, lest despair of doing all should lead to doing nothing. Tan Irish landlords are somewhat an overdriven herd.. They have fattened in years of plenty, and run riot in deep pastures. They are now turned out, and goaded along, obliged to exchange the green sward for the parched rm.d. And where they are driven to, is a secret more dreaded than divined. Blows fall thick upon them, whilst their resistance is of the passive kind. Whilst men goad, boys hoot ; and I though the conduct of the animal has been of the dull and the ruminative, rather than of any malignant kind, still the _general inclination is rather to taunt and be severe upon it, than to be either fair or merciful. Amongst those fun-loving people who have followed and tormented the Irish landlords, the Times has been the foremost. Armed with its tremendous cat, that journal, as is its wont, has stricken hard upon every laggard, and some have turned to bellow a complaint, or expostulate in a more classic tongue with the rude and wanton assailant. Commoners indeed have had their complaints smothered, but lords have more attention paid them. and their exhortations are not only presented to the public,but illustrated and adorned with cut and comment Lord WeaTMEATH was one of those who first felt impatient under the lash, and replied in a 'somewhat embarrassed strain. Lord DE4ART'S remonstrance is far more plain, energetic and rational. How such a noble should not be a representative peer, whilst so many nonsoches enjoy that honour, is unaccountable on the put of a privileged body, which ought, in these days at least, to better understand its interests and put forward its best intellects. But whatever the difference between Lord WEST MEATH and Lard DIMART, both are pretty much in the same tale. They have done everything they could—they could do nothing more. The Relief Societies they do not talk of. The Poor Employment Act they cannot makeuse of. All they want is to get rid of the population. To eject that great evil, to transport it—nothing is to be done without that ; and yet they see no means of doing it " that is not fraught with diffi culties," in ether words, quite impossible. So that the Irish landlord, like Captain MACHEATH, can neither live with Paddy nor without hint. If ever there existed a government willing sad eager to meet every wish, every feasible proposition of the Irish landlords, it surely is the present In the first pressure of famine they urged the formation of relief sovietise, and offered to contribute one half. Then aims the offer of work, of course for the genera benefit. Sot lo! the Irish landlord knew of not hi nig : th a t i p o uld be done for the public benefit. Irelan4 At seems; had been ea well cared for, that abthing • public was. left for the• engineer. But there were private works, the thinning ofl estates and a - variety of little improvements, most convenient to be done. Drainage repays its costs • often i 4 one year, always in three ; to be able to repay stuns, so kid co. merely as loans, was most d es i ra ble. The offer, therefore, of a public loan to private and reprodustive works, was readily accepted.l And yet the Irish landlord is not contente d. - The population is too great. One should expect that a new outlay of capital upon the improvement of land might lead to the employment of more hands.. Or, the great difficulty being too many hands, care might be taken to lay out the capital so as best to locate and employ them. But no—Lord DESART sees " great difficulties" in the settlement of waste lands. He sighs, like Lord WESTMEATH, after English farmstand farmers, forgetful of the capital that has been spent upon those, until the original rent is nothing, and the interest on improvement everything. He would have Ireland on a par with England, without any of the pains, industry, and wealth, that Englishmen have taken and spent. Lord DEssaT says, he cannot support m ore la bourers ; the utmost he can do, is to support the usual quantity. An emergency such as that of the present year finds him utterly powerless to meet it. What does this prove, but that a poor landlord, or a class of poor landlords, is incapable of recovering Ireland from the collapse into which it has fallen. What is wanting in Ireland is capital : the preliminary to introducing it is the peace of the country ; and with that, every facility for the introduction of a more new, more large, more wealthy class of proprietors. All the riches of England would not suffice to feed at once the peasants and the landlords. We have before declared the one to be as distressed as the other ; but the distresses of the higher class are not at all the kind that entitles them to call upon English aid, either in the way of gift, loan, or partial legislation. Lord DESART and Lord W ESTM EATH exclaim, thin the population fibres, for when there are fewer labourers, we can pay them better. They make this demand in a country . bot half cultivated, and in which all the population might be profitably employed. But the landlords are without the capital, and have been so longhabituated not to spend any of their incomes upon the land, that as they let but the naked soil to the tenant, so the tenant, who takes it, is naked too. The poor and the niggardly landlord has made the poor and the niggardly farmer. And the labouring popu lation, instead of being employed to take the full worth out of the ground, has been left to vegetate in holes and corners, divorced from the soil, and looking on its owner as one might regard the dog in the manger, neither eating the hay himself nor letting others eat it. The Irish themselves are now calling for fixity of tenure, as an indispensable guarantee to the tenant, who has capital. Bat of what use is it, where the tenant has none, except to protect him in exhausting the land ? Friends of the Irish here propose to make landed proprietors of the Irish peasants—a feeling of property being, in their opinion, the true key to industry. It may be so to spade industry, but, in the present age, we require something more ; we require an industry fed by capital, and guided by intelligence. If' Ireland was by itself in the midst of the Pacific, then we might indulge in plans, if not of improving or enriching it, at least of more equally dividing its produce, and of feeding all. But its vicinity to the greatest source of industrial and accumulated wealth that the world has seen, opens for Ireland far better prospects, a far wider and speedier prosperity. We agree fully with one of our contemporaries in the opinion, that It is desirable to enlarge the number of Irish landed proprietors. We differ from it, inas much as we deprecate seeing this enlargement effected by thelocation of paupers. Of the three classes upon the land, the landlord, the tenant, and the labourer, all require reform, all require being lifted up several pegs. The introduction and employment of capital can best do this by the two higher classes. Raise them, and the labourer will soon partake of the improve ment. But there is little use of plans for Irish regeneration, which are merely to affect the lower classes, leaving the upper in that state of poverty, and helplessness, and hopelessness, which even its mag nates avow. Oar Paris express of Wednesday has arrived. The announcement in the Augsburg Gazette of the intended absorption of the republic of Cracow by Austria has of course excited very indignant comments from the journals of the opposition, while those of the government denyjor doubt the truth of the report. A circular has been addressed by the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce to the prefects of the de partments on the subject of the subsistence of the people, for the purpose of tranquillising the public mind as to the apprehended scarcity. Its contents will be found at length in another column. La Preece states that the diplomatic note prepared by M. Guizot, referred to in our correspondence of the last two days, will not be despatched to London until Saturday next; and Le Commerce pretends that the politeness of Lord Normanby in offering his personal respects to the Duke of Montpensier at the Tuileries, has excited the high disapprobation of the Foreign office in London; and that journal assures the Parisians that Lord Palmerston has written to all the diplo matic agents at present in Paris, and their ladies, not to present themselves at any of the Ntes or receptions which will take place this winter at the Tuileries, until further orders. Galignanis Messenger has thought it worth while, in very energetic terms, to contradict this absurdity. A royal ordonnanee has been issued for the future regulation of all railways in France, an abridged account of which will be found elsewhere in our columns. The excitement amounting almost to a crisis pro duced by the causes alluded to in our former cone spondence, begins to be still more unequivocally manifested among the financial interests, and was rendered apparent by a . general decline in all species of securities on the Paris Bourse on Wednesday. In the share market it begins to be felt most severely ; all the railways without exception declined, the North falling from 636 f. 2Se. to 627 E 60e. ; indeed at one time during the day these shares fell to 625 f. Accounts from Rome continue to give the most glowing picture of the popularity of the Pope and the enthusiasm of the public. When he appeared, after the ceremony de possess°, upon the great balcony of the principal façade of St. John Lateran, with the triple crown for the first time on his head, a shout of enthusiasm issued from the multitude which filled the place and surrounding avenues. "I hear still," writes an eye-witness, " those bursts of enthusiasm escaping item a people intoxicated with joy. I still see Aoki mass of more than 50,000 persons waving their handkerchiefs and flags. In a moment every voice is hushed, and that multitude drops on its knees. The Pope standing erect before his throne, with extended arms, and demi on his head, has blessed Rome and the world ; and this solemn benediction, received with profound emotion, is fol lowed by a fresh burst of enthusiasm from the mixed with the pound of trumpets, the peal o people, nd the thunder of artillery, ranged upon the green of the holy cross of Jerusalem." It was announced the same morning that the Pope had authorised the execution of four great trunk lines of railway the first to pass from Rome to the Neapolitan frontiers, near Criprano ; the second from Rome to Porto d'Angio ; the third • from Rome to avita-Vecchia; and thefourth from Rome to Ancona, and thence to Bologna. • A gold medal of the value of 200 guineas, is offered for the easiest and least expensive expedient for mak ing a communication between the Umbria and the The Bordeaux mail et. Monday arrived at Paris on Wednesday, bringing the Maand mail of the 12th, but not that of the 13th, which wu due. Letters from Carthagena of the 9th, were received in Madrid, mentioning an unusual movement of the British ships of war. On the ith, the Vanguard, 80, had arrived, also the Polyphemus, steamer ; the Vanguard had come from Malaga some hours after the steamer IVirago, from Gibraltar, cast anchor, the commander of which, aster a short interview with the captain of the Vanguard, departed immediately for Malaga. Other ships were eapeeted at Carthagens. A committee of the bank of St Ferdinand had a conference with the Minister of Finance, on the 11th, to settle the terms on which the bank should advance the funds necessary for the half years expenses. Ano ther conference was appointed, nothing having been definitively settled. It was expected that the Madrid Gazette of the 13th would announce the days appointed for the elec tion of thedeputies. It was expected that the elections would terminate on the 16th, In that the representa tives might assemble at Madrid on the 25th for the opening of the legislation. . • ....„ MIS UP:ittsrlei;etaPneir}77laPl:tareitei—oP7n - , eb to r : yedis-th d be -Partlef- -etrmatusel:Pfebstair7ecthtopertede:i.—..allninuiLlgt7bliohClictrif:64:l°Wpinud. aabeelli!cs:hilloaennsoreednatiliwulasoptrafrinvutaesiltehe, Minister of Public Works. The repairs of the way and of the works depending on it, though evidently at the discretion of the companies, an to be made known to the government authorities, who can interfere when any thing is unsatisfactory. The crossings and passages on the line are to be subjected to government regulations, particu larly in what relates to the barriers required for the latter. High embankments, viaducts, and bridges over rivers and streams, are to be defe .ded by strong parapets. All sta tions, passages on the level, &c., are to be well lit up.—The Working Stock : Locomotives are in the first instance to be subjected to certain proofs of strength, for the bsilers, axle trees, wheels, &c. They are to be presided with an appa ratus to catch the pieces of coke falling from the furnace, so as to prevent their reaching the ground. Every means must also be employed to prevent sparks from issuing from the tunnel, whereby property along the line has, from time to time, been set on fire and consumed. The report regrets that the grating at present in use is not found to be efficient. Asle-trees are in all cases to be made of wrought-iron of the first quality.—Composition of trains: All companies are bound to furnish a sufficient number of carriages of every description to supply the wants of each station. The hours fixed by the company for departure are to be rigorously ob served. As the public, in a great measure, are dependent on railways for their mode of transport, these two regulations are absolute on all companies whatever; when any excep tion to this rule is permitted, as in the case of direct trains, it is the government authorities who must regulate the matter. In cases of file or extraordinary movement from one point to another, the company is obliged to provide an additional and sufficient number of carriages of every class ; the number of carriages fur a single train is not to exceed 24, and this is to be considered rather as the exception than the rule. Double locomotives are permitted, as otherwise trains would be multiplied to a dangerous extent. But whenever the second locomotive is employed, the cove of such proceed ing must be specially entered in a book. No matters liable to explosion are to be transported in a train in which passengers , are carried. A means of communication must always be esta blished between the conductor and the engine-driver.—De parture, circulation, and arrival of trains : A number of articles refer to the measures of precaution to be used in start ing trains at proper hours, so as to leave a sufficient time be. tween each, the maximum of speed, the precautions to be taken in passing through tunnels, &c.; they also regulatetbs passage of extraordinary trains ; the obligation of communi cating by signals; and the general superintendence of the line. Resisters are to be kept at every station for marking down the causes of all delays. No tram is ever to leave be fore the hour appointed in the printed lists.—Fares: The conditions of the concession generally regulate the tariffs, but a company may lower its prices, if it thinks fit, subject, however, to the condition of keeping them so for a certain time. As a general rule, however, no changes whatever can be made by the company without first submitting them to the government authorities. Railways that have been con ceded prior to 1835 will not he subject to these regulations until April 1, 1847. Equality of charge is to be strictly enforced, as otherwise the companies could become unjust to one locality at the expense of another.—Superintendenee of working: This section, which has been already in great measure anticipated by the Railway Police Bill, dwells on the appointing royal commissaries and their functions. It is un necessary to do more than simply refer to this part of the report, since its chief provisions are already known to the public.— Regulations relating to Passengers : All persons uncon nected with the company and the service are forbidden to enter the premises of a railway without permission, or to there stand or circulate, or to place there objects of any kind or to iatroduce hones, dogs, or other animals, or to cause vehicles of any kind to circulate there. Government autho rities are en exception to this clause. Passengers are not to lean out of carriages, or pass from one to another, or carry loaded tire-arms. or leave a carriage when in move ment; the other prescriptions are generally similar to those in force for common carriages.—General Arrangements: No person can sell any thing within the precincts of a station without permission from the authorities. When a line crosses several departments the attributions conferred by the present regulations on the several prefets may be con centrated in one. Every person employed by a railway company must wear a uniform, in order that the public may at once see, in case of need, to whom they are to apply. Signal-men, guards, and barrier keepers may wear a sabre. At each station a book must be kept to receive the Complaints of passengers. Copies of the present regulations are to be constantly kept placarded in an stations; copies are also to be given to each person employed, and whatever relates to passengers is to be hung up in each carriage." SUDDEN DEATIL—M. Very, son of the celebrated restaurateur, died on Sunday at Paris under extraordinary circumstances. He had been spending the day in the coun try •, and, on returning to Paris, complained of being rather chilly ; but having warmed himself at the tire, sat down to table, and made a hearty dinner. After dinner a rubber of whist was played, and, about eleven o'clock,' M. Very, who li.dhiawife for partner, was chatting good-humouredly with one of his friends. The conversation turned upon age ; and his friend remarked, that he felt he was growing old, as he was fifty-three past. M. Very replied : " At fifty a man is still young. I am filly, myself; and was never in better health !" Before finishing what he h .ri to say, his head fell, and he gave a convulsive laugh. His friend placed him on a sofa, but life was already extinct. On Sunday moat of the Paris bakers had baked mere bread than usual ; but the concourse of buyers was so great that many of them had not a loaf left at one o'clock. ITALY.—The i'ors Gazette contains a letter from Naples, which states that Sicily was lately near becoming the theatre of a revolution. Several chiefs of brigands had come to an understanding with the troops, and particularly with the 10th regiment of infantry, to make an insurrectional movement. Palermo, it is said, was the centre of the revolt, and several superior officers were compromised. The plot was discovered by the indiscretion of one of the conspirators. No date, however, is given for the news, and we are inclined to consider it a fabrication. The Prince de Chimay, Belgian Ambassador to the Papal court, has arrived at Rome with a numerous suite. BELGIUM.—In yesterday's paper wo published the substance of the commencement of the discussion on the address to the King's speech, when M. de Theux, the Minister of the Interior, was left speaking. M. d'Anethan, Minister of Justice, succeeded the Minister of the Interior, and explained the motives which the minister had, not to be precipitate in its resolution respecting the caricatures, arti cles in the journals, and songs lately seized. The ministry, not to depart from the line of moderation and prudence fol lowed in such eases since 1830, was unwilling to act, till it saw that the efforts of the malevolent to extend these publi cations more and more, not only in Brussels, but in the pro vinces, far from relaxing, seemed to increase. M. Verhaegen closed the iittin,t in a speech in which he blamed as dilatory the prosecution of the caricatures, &c. He also reproached the minister with not punishing the mendicity of the monks who have no need of it, while they every day condemn those who beg from necessity. ENGLINII Ccrnouos IN Bausset.s.—An English priest is to preach a sermon in English every Sunday, after the morning mess, in the church of St. Jaques-sur-Cauden burg, in the Place Royale. He commenced last Sunday, and preached to a numerous congregation. NETHERLANDS.—Tun Ilscus, Nov. 16. This evening his Royal Highness Prince Charles of Prussia arrived here from Amsterdam, at hslf.past six o'clock, by the train. His Royal Highness was received at the station by the Prussian minister at the Court of the Netherlands,where one of the royal carriages was in waiting to convey him to the old palace in the Noordeinde, where his Majesty the King was ready to receive him. His Royal Highness Prince Hermann of Sate Weimar has likewise arrived. Nov. 17.—The Roman Catholic Vicar of Gwenlo wss placed the other day on his trial at Arnheim, for an attempt to murder a woman with whom, as alleged, he cohabited. Up to this morning, the result of the trial had not transpired. The ship'arrivals at Texel on the 16th were the Jonge Catharine, from Newcastle; the Onderneming, the Ebenezer, the Zeldenrust, and the Paragon, from Sun derland; and the Germania, the Ilendrina, the Admiral de Winter, and the Thos. Answorth, from Hull. GERMANY.—ENGLAND AND TILE ZOLLVEREIN. —The Suabian Mercury, of the 16th, has the following: " The non-renewal of the treaty of 1841, concluded with England by the Zollverein, and the mission of an etivoye to the two Hanseatic towns on the Baltic, seem to indicate a change in the reforms of the Zollverein. It is natural that the system of differential duties should be taken up again on this occasion. The Zollverein wishes to throw off stipule, lions which impede its movement. The treaty of the 2nd of March, 1841, placed British Burr and rice on the same foot ing as the same articles of home produce. The result was that the commerce of the Zollverein with the United States was greatly restricted. This it was which impeded the Zoll verein from concluding treaties of commerce with the Brazils and the United States of America: the renouncement of the treaty will change the face of things. The Zollverein has succeeded also, through M. Paton, as convincing the Haase towns that their commercial prosperity depends on their adhesion to the Zollverein, and that the establishment of a system in common of differential duties is the may means to put an end to their separation from Germany." BEBLIN.—The following cabinet order has been published in the Berlin 011cial Gazette:—"To ensure the maintenance of authority in the measures to be taken for putting down disorders, I ordain as follow' on a report oe the Minister of State of the 16th Sept.:-1. The notifications 14n case of a dUtarbanos or tamult where the interns:las it an armed force is deemed necessary, are to be mob ania-t alvely by the civil and military competent antlaritiar 2. Those notifications can only be made by the governor and the commandant, and, in their absence, by the first military commander of the district; or by the head futictimpary at the civil administration, appointed by the local police and , the high functionaries. 3. The notifiestiona of other fens tionanes and authorities cannot be made but b the cans rat of the abovenansed officees. 4. When a psi ip*iaa . itos , been made, in cases of tumult, no Mbar sawn ips min i on the affair, or statement of facts, may be piblkhodi ht.; judgment is given, unless it be a repeakadas 'el tliw east publication. Given at Gross-Lins, Sept. 29, 1846. (Bigne4l FULDERICII WILLIAM," We read in a letter from SL Petersburg. of th e sth " Prussia is doing everything in her power to roronstlusts the political unity of Germany. She has just concluded a j Gcfnelk natemea of advance of Austrian troops from the Voralberg towards A Sill lS &duffer. EXPLODING COTTON.—A letter from Konigsberg of the 6th inst. says,—" To-day six ounces of exploding cot ton repared in the laboratory of Dr. Keith and of a temperature of about 60 degrees, blew up. One of the win. doers of the laboratory was smashed, and the window frame broken. We think it as well to lay this fact before the pub lic to warn them of the danger attending this material." A letter from Konigsberg, of the let, says: "A cabinetorder, dated Sans Boum, confirms the ministerial de cree, by which M. Strachowsky bad been declared excluded from the deputation to the States, because he had been a member of the Catholic dissenters. This conclusion is founded on the article of the organic law, which requires, as a condition to be eligible as a member of the States, that the candidates shall belong to one of the Christian beets which would not be the case of a dissenting Roman Catholic." The Cologne Gazette states that great distress is felt in meny parts of Prussia, in consequence of the high Price of provisions. This is particularly the case at Berlin, but the misery of the poor is there alleviated by the gratui tous distribution of soup. This distribution is an annual one, and generally commences on the 15th of December, but this year it Cu to begin on the 15th instant. A bakehouse has also been established in shares, for the supply of bread to the poot at a reduced price. A temble explosion is stated to have taken place in the quicksilver mines near Idria, in Illyria, by which a number of workmen have lost their lives. An accident occurred last week on the Manheim to OlTenburg Railway, wh . ch might have been attended with very serious consequences. A passengers' train, when pass ing near Arhern, at eight o'clock at night, ran into a goods' train of 50 waggons, which was preceding it on the same line of rails. The locomotive of the second train literally crushed to pieces the last waggons of the other train, and forced some of the others one over the other in terrible con fusion. Fortunately no person was hurt, though some of the passengers were much shaken. The cause of the acci dent is said to be the omission of placing a light behind the goods' train, u prescribed by the regulations. AFFAIRS OF BOSNIA.—We find the following in the Agrans Gazette of the 3d :—" The neighbouring Bosniac districts are in full revolt against their governor. The soul ot the rebellion is the Cadi of Bihac, Mehemed Bcy Rustau begowitz, who has before been at the head of a revolt, and whom the Pacha had vainly endeavoured to remove from Bihar. Lately the party in opposition to him had assembled at Coin, and summoned the Cadi to lay down his office, mid go to the Pacha at Trawnik. But the Cadi suddenly I appeared among the Bosnian, and convinced them that they were in the wrong. They thereupon abandoned their leader, who surrendered at discretion. On October 12, the Cadi marched, with a great number of his partisans, towards Choke and Zezeroko, and ordered each proprietor to send an armed man to join him. On Oct. 15 he arrived at Novi with numerous followers, and on the 20th had under his com mand from .5,000 to 6,000 men. Several Turks, who attempted to make resistance, were taken and thrown into prison, and their houses burnt to the ground. The Turks of Banyaluks, it is said, make common cause with the Cadi, but his real intentions are not yet known. At all events this state of things interrupts the course of commerce on the frontiers." Several German journals persist in stating that con siderable agitation prevails amongst the Polish nobles in Galicia, and that they even entertain projects of another insurrection, in which they expect—strange to say—to be aided by the peasantry. 'Pie Grind Duke of Mecklenburg , Schwerin has announced that, after next Midsummer, the tax paid by the Jews, under the title of protection money, will be abolished. Some other remedial measures with reference to the Jews are in contemplation. The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeit Nog (of Lei(ssic) of the lith inst., contains a remarkable communication from Chemnitz (one of the chief manufacturing towns of tne kingdom of Saxony) relating to the increase of duty on foreign twigs,. It would appear, from that article, that the increase of duty from two to three thalers has caused much dissatisfaction in that place, and that it was attributed not to any conviction on the of the Saxon government of the necessity of suck w it measure, but to foreign influence. The weavers in Saxony are already in great distress, and it is contended that the in crease of duty on twists will only increase their poverty. It is stated in the article alluded to that the weavers of Chem nitz had intended to get up certain articles for the English markets, but that, on account of the increase of the duties on twists, they had deferred the project. According to the Honorer Zeitung, Prince Frederick of Holstein-Sonderburg, Glucksburg, hitherto a cavalry captain in the Danish army, will shortly enter into the Prussian service.—Bavarian, Wir temberg, and Hamburg journals announce, in positive terms, that the protecting powers of the " republic" of Cracow bad resolved to deprive it of its independence and to incorporate it with the Austrian empire, to which it belonged previously to the year 1809, if lam not mistaken. It is scarcely pro bable, however, that the three " protecting " powers will be allowed by England to have it all their own way. SCHLESWIG, Nov. 12.—The Royal Commissary has sent in a note to the President of the Assemble, demanding • chsage in the order of the day, supporting his demand by instructions from head-quarters, and on sec. 50 of the ordonnsnce of May 15, 1834, in which, according to his version, there are paragraphs which only allow of in dividual motions being proposed when all the state bills are disposed of. This attempt of the Commissary, says the Cologne Gazette, which is contrary to the wording of the law and to established customs, would, if accorded, annul the whole right of petition of the states, and they will there fore energetically oppose it. Probably they will take no notice of it whatsoever. POLAND.—CONDITION OP TIIE JEWS.—WARSAW, Not•. B.—Eighty Jews, headed by their Rabbi, arrived re cently et Warsaw, to request the governor to allow them to n twin their costume. They were taken to the police, where their beards were shaved off and their long hair cut, and then sent away. They demanded their beards and hair, to place them in their burying-ground, but this was refused them ; they, however, received thebarber's bill, which they were made to pay. PosEN, Nov. 11.—A monk was recently arrested at Posen. To escape recruiting he had gone to Parma, and taken orders. The archbishop claimed him from the autho rities. The king decided he should remain in prison the whole time of military service, or quit the country. He pre ferred the latter. GItEECE.—A letter from Athens states that the mercantile navy of Greece has this year taken great develop ment, - and shown more activity than has been witnessed since the wars between Spain and Twkey, when the Greek vessel, used to enter ports with sacks of silver as ballast. The came of this activity is the trade in corn. It is stated, hut this must, we think, be an exaggeration, that there are 6,000 Greek merchant vessels employed, and that of these 1,300 are engaged in carrying corn from different ports. It is added, that the corn-trade this year has given to Greece not less than Cel millions of francs. ACTUAL STATE OF PROVISION SUPPLIES. PARIS, Nov. 17. The Minister of Agriculture and Commerce has transmitted the following circular on the actual state of the provision supply to the prefets:— Pa ant, Nov. 16, 1846. —My circular of the 25th of August last has informed you of the importance attached by government to the question of the supply of food, and the attention with which it seeks to watch over this great na tional concern. The information I have received, without being complete, enables me already to estimate the relative resources and the calls upon them; and I do not wish to lose a moment in communicating the result to you. Too many ehments of security have been rendered apparent by the In quiry to warrant my losing any time before disabusing the public mind of the exaggerated alarm which has been dis seminated ; but at the same time I ought not to neglect the adoption of any measures calculated to remedy the partial distress which may be impending. At all tinsel the difficulty of transport is a real evil ; in years of bad harvests the evil becomes still more serious. We feel this at the present moment, when the insufficient means of carriage occasion inequalities in the price of corn, which tend to create a belief to a non-existent scarcity. The last season has not been a favourable one : still the surplus of the harvests of 18834, and an importation of more than two millions of hectolitres of grain, will afford a supply adequate to the general consumption, without raising the average price throughout France (which has been 22f. de. on the ye tr' above 22f. 9 . 5 c.. At one time the yield of the harvest of 184.5 entitled us to expect a considerable surplus, but the failure of the potato crop, by increasing the con ic of cereals, has much reduced it. Nevertheless, the returns I have received in reply to my letter of the 2.5 th of August, state that there was still some of that year's crop ion hand about the middle of September, 1846, although the superior quality of the grain of the new harvest, by causing it to be sought after foe seed, brought it prematurely into the market. I am, therefore, entitled to assume that if the /ear 1846 has left no surplus for the use of the present year, it has produced no deficit to be supplied. The harvest of 1846 has been, from Use beginning, the subject of the most contradictory estitnates. A more close examination has led to valuations more nearly approaching to the truth. The annual consumption of France, for the nourishment tithe people and their cattle, for seed and for manufactures. may be taken at 120,000,000 of hectolitres of wheat, and other kinds of grain. The districts of the north-west, north, and northeast, supply nearly the half of this quantity, say 60,000,000 of hectolitres. The districts of the west, the cen tre, and the east, supply about a third, or nearly 40,000,000. The remaining three districts, the south-west, south, and south-eest, yield rather more than • sixth, or about 20,000,000. la the six first regions, which comprehend 47 departments, the harvest of wheat, mastlin, barley, and rye, has been generally inferior to an ordinary year. I should have wished to be able to state exactly the amount of the deficiency, but its proportion being different in each department, and its importance being relative to the importance even of the local produce, I cannot, Monsieur le Prefet., as you are aware, arrive at a positive result, but by the aid of the numerical ausistance which you have yet to send me. For the vest, the harvest has produced, in this great portion of France, a result of a superior quality. Tho weight of the grain has increased front 3 to b per cent, ; the return in flour and in . .. - •‘• •L _ .. ft —.i A.... . THE EXPRESS , F RIDAY L ' ...• G, NOVEMBERAUV,kB46. `N Ei. -. V• ' ' " '' . ithaisll s tate. 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Paine"nr" ; and Pneral "ISagenMlLni w Te • sre The tlepitny ape* contradicts the gatemen! , of • bread has been greater still, and in the whole of these six regions, the excellent quality of the grain qomperisatas almost wholly for the deficiency. In the three regions of the south, the reports state a much more decided inferiority in the harvest, and the grain seen II .of an inferior quality, except in the departments of the Dordogne, of the Landes, of La Corrine, of Lot, of the . Upper Loire, of Vancluse, of tie higher Rips, and of the Rhone. Thus, as it happened last year, the districts which have least slatted in the production of corn have been pre cisely those which produce the greatest quantity, par ticularly the second region, which forms part of the circle that supplies Paris, and the harvest of which may be con sidered equal to that of a good ordinary year. Indian corn, buck wheat, and cheaauts, which form a tenth-part of the general consumption, in a great part of France — the basis of the food of the rural districts—have this year pre sented quite different results. Everywhere these products are abundant and of good quality, but they are principally remarked in the regions of the south-west, of the youth, and of the south-east, where the wheat harvest has been the most moderate. Out of thirty-three departments in which the cultivation of buck wheat possesses same importance, tweoty-six announce a superior year. With respect to Indian corn all the reports describe the harvest of 1846 as being signally good ; in several departments the excess amounts to i more than one-half, and reaches even twice the quantity of a common year. The same may be said of the chesnut gather ing in the departments of the Limousin, of Auvergne, of Poitou, and of Brittany. A marked decrease of price is already apparent in these three different articles of produce. The ordinary price of buck wheat which in August last was 12 fr. 21 c., fell in September to 11 fr. 66 c. and in October, to 11 fr. 32 c. The price of Indian corn fell successively, in three months, from 17 fr. 56 c. to 14 fr. 13 e., and in October last to 13 fr. 40 c. It is at present below 10 fr. in the departments of the Upper Garonne, of the Arriige, of the Aude, of the Eastern Pyrenees, &c. As to chesnuta, they have reached tbo lowest price they can fall to. The potato harvest is generally better this year than last ; the easy mode of transport of this provision to the markets, and the maintenance of its usual price within tolerably moderate bounds, sufficiently prove the exaggera tion of the first complaint that was made on the subject. At this moment, the price at Paris and Rouen is 6 fr. the hectolitre, and at Lille 5 fr. 50 c. ; at Strasbourg it is 4 fr. 50 c., and in the south from 2 fr. 50 c. to 3 fr. 50 c. However, it must be observed that there are only fifteen departments in which this vegetable has not suffered in a great de gree, either from drought or from the disease of 1845. But, notwithstanding, the total loss does not exceed a quarter or a third of that of an ordinary year. The departments which have suffered most are those of Brittany, Lorraine, and Champagne; those of the south, on the contrary, have gene rally enjoyed a good harvest. The results which I have indicated cannot, under any point of view, cause or explain the rise in price which has taken place within the last four months. In fact, you perceive that the inferiority of the wheat harvest has been greatly attenuated by the good qua lity of the produce, and almost compensated for, in a great number of departments, by the abundance of the inferior crops ; and yet the general price of the hectolitre of wheat, which, at the end of July, was 2'2ft. 95c. has risen in August to 23fr. 95c., in September to 24fr. 89c., and in October to 25fr. 71e. We must, therefore, seek elsewhere for the causes of this advance. Amongst those which are pointed out to me, all the reports dwell upon the short supply in the market+, and the exaggerated pretensions of the holders, inconsequence of a false appreciation of resources in comparison with wants. Every year, at this period, the labours of the harvest, the sowing, and other causes, limit the supply to the markets ; the rise in the price of food is the natural consequence of this fact. R e then see, therefore, produced different prices analogous to those which we at present observe, either between the different regions, or between the departments of the same region. But every year the period of the payment of rent, which compels the farmer to thrash his crops, places a term to the rise of price ; the increase of the supplies suffices in ordinary yearn to establish the usual level of prices. It in these latter times, therefore, the markets have been not well supplied, that is only an habitual fact at this period of the year. But the influence which the uncertainty of the harvest this year may exercise on the public mind may be easily conceived. The exaggeration of the first opinion, the reduction of the stock of old grain, the superior quality of the new wheat, which caused it to be particularly sought for ; the erroneous information from abroad as to foreign countries, which came st the first moment, all contributed to lead the public mind astray. Hence the farmer's desire to wait for higher prices and the continued firmness of the markets ; but as I have stated already, the deficiencies of the late harvest were not of such importance as was at first believed. On the other hand we are now able to appreciate better the wants of foreign coun• tries, and it is now certain that those wants can be easily sup plied without interfering with our usual sources of supply. In fact the supplies in the great markets are at this moment very considerable. The harvest has been magnificent in the ancient Polish provinces and in New Russia, which supply Odessa, in the Black Sea, Taganrog, Rostow, and the other ports of the Sea of Asof. The enormous exportations in the years 1844 and 1845 gave, in those countries, a great impulse to the cultivation of white crops; and the extraordi nary temperature of the present year has been favourable to their development. The wheat of Poland weighs this year from 82 to 84 kilogrammes, and that of Bessarabia and the Sea of Asof is not inferior. As to the quantity, the people of Poland and Russia living on rye, and the people of Bessarabia on maize, nearly the Whole of the wheat may be considered as surplus, and for exportation. In 1845, nearly 4,000,000 hectolitres of grain were exported from Odessa; end the quantity disposable in 1846 and 1847 will not he less than 6,000,000, independent of the produce of Poland. The countries on the Sea of Asof may supply above 1,500,000 hectolitres. On Oc:ober 13th the prices were, of yellow Polish wheat, 14f. to 16f. the hectolitre ; red wheat, 13f. to 15f.; red wheat of Bessarabia, 12f. to 14f.; dried wheat, 10f. 50e. to 13f. The export duty is 20c. the hectolitre; freight, 4f. ; assurance, 21 to 5 per cent. ; and the charge for commission, 34 per cent. The harvest in Egypt is more abundant than in ordinary years, and very much exceeds the wants of the inhabitants. The annual exports amount to about 900,000 hectolitres. This year Alexandria may easily give us 1,700,000 or 1,800,000 hectolitres. At present the price is from 12f. to to 12f. 50e. the hectolitre. The export duty is 12 per cent. ; freight 2f. 75e. the hectolitre : assurance I to 1 per cent. ; the expenae of putting it on board ship from 25c. to 30c. In the United States the two abundant harvests of 1845 and 1846 have accumulated important quantities of grain dis posable for exportation, and an official report of the 30th September last estimates it at no less than .500 millions of bushels of maize, that is to say, 176 millions of hecto litres, and at 140 millions of bushels of wheat, being 49,280.000 hectolitres, equal to 28 millions of barrels of flour, representing 24,610,000 quintals. Already considerable exportations have been made for Europe ; others are preparing, and all advices concur in saying that the New York market is in a state to furnish all demands. American flour is already beginning to appear in the Paris markets, and much groin is waiting at Ilavre. By the last advice!, wheat was quoted at 121, 9c. per hectolitre. Ex portations free, and freights were from 3f. 60c. to 4L per hectolitre. The principal entrep6ta of Europe presented, moreover, on the 15th October lest the following resources :—Nice, 69,311 hectolitres; Genos, 73,6t6; Leghorn, 84,329; Amsterdam, 1,436,770: Rottertlam, 154.080; Hamburg, 61,000; Dant tie, 300,000; London, 499;000; Liverpool, 436,800 ; Glas gow, 179,092; Leith, 133,590: total, 3,327,58.5 hectolitres. There existed in the French entrepOts, on 31st October last, 26.778 quintals of wheat; 17,846 of other grains; and 16,669 of flour, independentlitif 630,000 quintals of foreign flour and grains which have been admitted for consumption from the let of August to the 31st of October, and more than a mil lion of hictolitres of wheat have arrived since the Ist of the present month in the ports of France. While I have ascertained the disposable resources, I have also endeavoured to compute the wants of the neighbouring states; the competition of which we shall have to fear on the foreign markets. Here, also, I have met with every ground for security. Eng land, which draws annually from foreign countries 3 millions of hectolitres of frains and flour for her home consumption, for the sugentatton of her naval establishments, and for the support of her commerce, has experienced this year a harvest average in quantity and superior in quality. The potato has yielded, it is true, an unusually inferior produce this year ; but already it has been discovered that this evil has Men excessively exaggerated, and public opinion begins to be reassured. The mean official price of corn, which had risen to 26 francs =8 centime*, has this month exhibited a very marked tendency to decline. Although the other states of Europe, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Spain, Italy, Denmark, have had generally not very favourable harvests, their demands on consumption are not very great, and they will find in their habitual re sources, and the ordinary commercial movements, a facility of supplying the partial deficits of the petato crop. A com parative statement of the price of wheat in the principal markets will enable us to appreciate the real situation of different foreign countries. Mame. Antwerp .. Ant -ecm Price of the French heetohtre. fr. e. 28 71 24 78 Rcessdasa. O. Mande Nev. Berlin 0K.—.....- .......... 24 18 Hamburg ' 23 73 Stettin Trieste ........„.......» New. Mayen'. Bremen ...... ...-.. ...... Orr; Genoa ., Hat. Moe ........-.-:- ..- .... ..Sem ... . . -.- ....... -- l lBl Ammo .... .....«.... OR ».........M lB 78 Rome - MON ter.l9 71 Legters»...-....-. OIL Comm. - 13 43 Malaga - l9 88 Bilbao Cadiz - Barcelona - London leri. Oopenbagen .... ......... 4111. .....-...- 11 99 Christiana • - tel corn fromaTo6ol4 to 18 00 lel do. 00. 13 to 15 00 °DWA ..... ..". tad do. Hamatubia 12 to 14 00 Hard do. do. 10 to 13 00 Mg* St. Petenharg Oct. ..-.,.- .............. 18 88 Alexandria. - ...,.«...«............ 13 50 New York TAMA of the Stow of Grain in the Principal En:repent of EUROPE in the lest fortnight of October :- Gra Ora. Moe ..........«..........«..: 03.793 Loodge 149,700 Genoa Leghorn • .........«....:t.... SMOG (dampow Armterdam ...a............. 431,024 Leith ..:. t 40,077 Rotterdam ......1. ..... 48,224 Ilandengh .. Dentine 30,000 - Such, Monsieur le Prifet, is the result of n at home and abroad. Evrrywherecor n is dem but the supply is as yet fully equal to the den especially can await with security and calm ii corn law. Alreauy, on all i:s frontiers, owin tion of price, its ports have been opened to foreign corn, and shut for the export of / Private commerce, urged solely by its own undertaken to meet the exigencies of the morn the Ist of January to the 31st of October last tatres of wheat were introduced into France tion being subtracted. During the present ry of hectolitres have been brought into our ports alone. Five millions more may yes a Ise need. The fall of price, so desirable, cant delayed. It would, indeed, have already take insufficiency of the means of transport, and tl freight on the Rhine, had nut interrupted 11 of grain from Marseilles and Arles, the inu ring at the san.e time. Government, however, did not wait for t.l law in alleviating the sufferings arising Iron of corn. The war department, which CUT quintals of wheat annually, purchased its sm. 1847. The marine department, which cor quintals, did the same. The administration gave every facility to the introduction of gra Minister procured the suppression or susperm or duty at the gates on flour or corn. la orthi corn-trade from the Black Sea, the quarantio was reduced to 72 hours for vessels engaged in of Public Works, also laboured to place the I work at the disposal of the population, en spect to railroad works this winter. Eery ri put in force to repair the effects of the late i general measures of succour basing been a ment is prepared to add measures put locality, on your recommendation. I cannot conclude without recommendil famine, the necessity of respecting proper Nothing, in the means of supply, can replai commerce. But this will fail, if it have iof runty, security to induce it to engage its c follow out its proposed operation*. Apply, I care to ensure in your department the tr, e cir land to make all comprehend that this is th the abundant supply of every market. Mt gam The Queen and Prince Albert walks day in the pleasure-grounds of o.borne of liforley, Lcrd in Waiting, arrived at 0, Wednesday afternoon. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of at Cashiobury Park, Herts, yesterday afterru sidence, Frogmore House, Windsor, ou a llr the Queen Dowager. His Royal Highness the Ifereditar of Mecklenburg Strelitz went from Kew, ce also to Cashiobury Park, and paid a rihit to Queen Dowager, and her Royal Highness ti line of Hesse. _ _ His Rot al Highness the Duke of Cal her Royal 'Highne.s the Ducheo, of Gloom The Mayor of Sunderland and Moore, of gunderland, had an interview Grey At the Home-office yesterday. Despatches were received Tester& nisi-office from the Governor of the Maur Despatches were seat off yeaterda , the Colonial-office for the Governors of Helena, and Ceylon. GRAY'S INN, Nov. 18.—T. A. Sat R. R. Pearce, Esq., were this day cello Barrister - at-Law, by the Hon. Society of G ORPHAN WORKING SCHOOL.—The bution of rewarls to those apprentices who school, have served their masters with err( prentieeship, took place yesterday at the se Asylum, in the City-road. Fifteen young t before the chairman, Mr. Alderman Chet warded with various sums of money raryin An examination of the boys on the establi place ; the subjects on which they were bible reading, English hieory, geography, the other branches of a juvenile educatio subsequently sat down to a good dinner, w to enjoy much more than the examination. PRIVATE GOVERNESSES.—A corms Morning Post, who signs herself " A Ret states that there are, is this country. 15,i profession who receive salaries varying per annum. BREAK DOWN ON THE NORTH N Newcastle Express Train, due at Eastc minutes be ore nine o'clock last night, did station till quarter berme one o'clock consequence of a luggage train breaking d up the line at Ullesthorpe, on the Midl but we are happy to say no further accideo THE CONVICT MAYNARD, who w the Central Criminal Court some time sine beries, though sentenced to transpurtatio sent out of the country, but remains in Millhank. He is allowed the use of pen and busily employs himself for several h writing communications to different rails which he explains how and by what mean. have been robbed; also the facilities with sengers can be plundered, and pointing o the prevention of such robberies. Mayne/ dmtly to obtain a commutation of punisbn OFFICIAL NOTICES AND DISSENT!: Sir : There was a law case reported in t days ago, respecting the legality of posting meetings upon the doors of all the ehu within each parish. I was in hopes that tl employed would have stated whether p dissenters' chapels are not included in the act. This pariah contains between three inhabitants ; two-thirds of the number at ing place of worship; and, as the pari...h to place the notices upon any but the c greater number of ratepayers are ignores at any of the vestry parish meetings. At that has agitated the public mind a good c bourhood, and being a subject of impo body of dissenters throughout the county der us a great service if you would gi' upon the point.—Taos. BaxewELL.—( Nov. 18, 1846. Tip. SMITHFIELD NUISANCE.—Sit ask, have you not alluded to that disgrace —the driving of cattle to Smithfield the thoroughfares ? Last Monday, about tw, about to pars into Grosvenor-square, I re with his clothes torn off his back and his blood flowing from a wound in the temp learned that a bullock had tossed him—a transaction described it—like a wisp of stint , further, I heard it stated that two oche similarly treated ; and in Park-street an had been most seriously injured by the was declared that two of the cases were f of the large crowd assembled should be m next gathering of these city potentates. every humble pedestrian, call on you to ass this very dangerous practice. If I rememl girl met her death only a few weeks since down by one of the animals either going to, City market. —A CONSTANT READER.—[ cannot be a very constant reader, or he that we have often not only alluded to, monstrous barbarity of continuing a cat heart of this crowded city. 3 AMERICAN SODA HISCUITS.—A import has recently been brought into America, called soda biscuits. Several eh ' made ; but, as yet, the demand exceeds biscuits are made very light, about ten and are of excellent quality, eating as free! left the oven. They am retailed in Liver pound ; hut as the supply has hitherto bey baker, a higher prier has been obtained t supplied at were there competition. We the maker of them has found the specu that he has resolved to build six large c trade. So far, he has been able to keep own hands ; but we learn that several V, resolved to try the experiment ; and, wk one barrel of flour will make three ban that the freight of a barrel of biscuits a are the same, there seems to be every n they will successfully compete with the and when it is known in the States that profitable shipment, there will be more ge consequent reduction in price.—Liverpoo . BCROLARY AT NOTTING-HILL.— ing, on the servants of Mrs. Anne Alexat broke Villas, Notting-hill, coming down the house, which had been safely secured previous night, had been burglartously en door at the back of the house, and, by fon staircase-door, the burglars had obtained of the house. The lower reams were in m from the examination subsequently ma thieves had carried a table into the cellar themselves with whatever viands they co on, including two bottles of wine. Ass stolen is a gold watch and chain, maker's Mary, three gold rings, three turquoise, pendent heart with four or five torque dozen of ivory-handled knives and forks, ditto, two carving ditto, four silver tat B. A. A., seven tea spoons same mark, three brandy, four sherry, three Bucellas, dresser-drawer in the kitchen. INQUESTS.—DEATII FROM ALLEG By William Carter, Esq., coroner for El Queen's Head Tavern, Amelia-street,' specting the death of Mr. Thomas Shears ceased, on Sunday afternoon, left home health, for the purpose of proceeding Lorimer-lane, Kennington. About hd turned home, covered with mud and filth and drenched to the akin with water. daughter, " Look, Jane, how they have s< He was bleeding from a wound in th much excited, having been attacked robbed him, and afterwards threw him in' Bee Hive tea gardens. He received p 1 medical assistance; but died on Mood evidence of his coming home in such a c berated, and it was proved that he had It when he left home, and only sq. wax foul he returned. Tho surgeon who attends 4