The Express. — London, England, 1846-09-10 00:00:00

DETENTION OP THE FamilESS TRAIN ON THE I NORTH WHITRAH RAILWAT.—The express train from Liverpool, which usually arrives at the Easton-station of the North Wi stern Railway, at 11 o'elosk, p.m., did not arrive till half-past 12 a.m., being 'mellow sad a half behind its time. Ihe cause of the delay we understood was the break ing down of the engine at Coventry, slid the necesity of sealing back to Birmingham for anothesengine. CAUTION TO JURORS.—At an inquest held yester day by Mr. Carter, the coroner for Stymy, the court was de eyed for a considerable time by the absence of a gentleman who had been summoned on the inquest. The serving of the summons having been proved Gn oath, the coroner fined the absentee 405., and said he would take care the money should be pail INQUESTS HELD YESTERDAY.—Before Mr. Baker, at the Castle, Castle-street, City-road, on the body of Mr. J. IdeteaU, aged 37, a merchant, who was found dead in his bed-room on Tuesday evening. A surgeon was called in, who, after a post-mortem examination, found the heart ex tensively diseased, and gave a certificate accordingly. Sub sequently, an empty phial was found under the bed, labelled hydrocyanic (prutenc) acid. The conteuts of the stomach were analyzed, and the presence of that acid in large quan tities was detected. It was proved in evidence that the de ceased had occasionally taken prussic add for his disease, and the jury found a verdict " That the deceased died from the effects of prussic acid, which may have been employed i to allay the pain caused by a disease cf the heart, the de ceased being in the habit of taking such medicine for that purpose."—By Mr. W. Carter, at the George and Dragon, 114%h-street, N auxball, on the body of Miss Mira Cowper, aged 42, a single lady. On Sunday last, whilst the deceased was in the act of dressing for dinner, one of the vessels near the heart gave way, and she died almost instantaneously. Verdict—" Natural death."—By the same coroner, at the Clayton Arms, Kennington, to inquire into the death of Abraham Mona, a well-known omnibus driver, on the Ken nington and Vauxhall-roads. It appeared from the evidence of the widow and daughter of the deceased, that he left home on Saturday morning to attend his employment, but returned about half-past three in the afternoon complaining of a violent pain in the back, and died the same evening from apoplexy. Verdict—" Natural death."—By Mr. T. Wakley, pursuant to adjournment, at the Elephant and Castle Tavern, King's-road, Camden-town, to inquire into the circumstances attending the death of Mary Anne Jones, aged 19, late inmate of Sc. Pancras Workhouse. The in quiry occupied upwards of eight hours. The finding of the body in the Regent's Canal on the sth inet having been primed, Jane Dowling, a girl about deposed that she was living in the workhouse, and knew deceased, who had been at a place since the 2nd of Juno, and had been obliged to leave her situation because she ha d not enough to eat, nor did she like to return to the workhouse, lest she should be put into the " shed," by order of Miss Stone, the matron. The shed is a place of confinement in the workhouse, wherein the paupers are placed for misconduct. There are upwards of 1G in it now. It consists of a dark room of about 26 feet long and 18 wide. Witness met de ceased about five o'clock in the afternoon of the Ist inst., and in answer to witness's question, deceased said that she could not return to her place, as she bed only two meals a day, consisting of breakfast and tea. She also said that she had been so ill-treated by Miss Stone, the matron, that rather than return to the " house" she would drown or poison her self. Witness had been in the workhouse five or six years, and had been kept in the " shed" for five months at a time, without going to any other part of the place. Deceased had been ten months in the " house," and fourteen weeks at her situation. In the shed we pick oakum and feathers. We have four ounces of meat three times a week, but I haze had none for a week, sir, because I left my place. I have had nothing but salt and potatoes since last Thursday. Not a morsel of meat, sir. And when I went back to the " house," the matron put me into the " shed." The coroner: Did she take you before the board, or anything of that sort, before she desired that you were to be sent into the " shed 2"—No, sir ; my wages was a shilling a week, which was given to the nurse to lay out for me. Deceased has never been put in the black hole. The coroner: What ! Is there a black hole too ?—Witness: Yes, sir, and I have beta put in it. I was once kept there for 48 hours, and was all night by myself, having nothing to eat or drivk but bread and water. James Hill, a waiter to the per sons in the " shed," corroborated the last witness's statement. The Coroner: What food have you given to the last witness to-day ?—Witness : Nothing but bread and water. After an examination of the matron, Miss Stone, and Mr. Lee, the master of the workhouse ; and after the surgeon of the workhouse had stated that he considered the " shed " an unhealthy place, the jury returned the following verdict: "We find that the deceased, Mary Anne Jones, drowned herself rather than return to:the workhouse, she being driven to distraction by the thought of the treatment to which she would be subjected in the ' shed,' and we cannot eeparste without expressing an unanimous opinion that the discipline therein is unnecessarily severe." CALLAO AND 1.131. t ItAttwAY.—ln reference to certain remarks under our railway head, the following letter has been received from the secretary of the company : Sir,—As your sole object is, I feel assured, to convey correct In- Amnation to your mad. re, I beg to state that your city reporter was grossly imposed upon by the person who told him that the concession for the Lama and Callao Railway bad been granted to Mr. Wheel wright, as named by 3sau on the led kat., and therefore that the company bad faded in its object, and was consequently bound at once to break up and return the deposits. I will not dwell on the bad taste of prefacing a subject of this nature with a reference to the alleged forgery on Messrs. Coutts and Co., by the chairman of the Worcester, Tenbury, and Ludlow Railway Company, with which the Callao and Lima Company bar as little to do as yourself. My object is to point oat that • deception has been put upon you la the assertion that the concession had been granted to any one up to the time of the last paniet leaving Callao. I beg Rather to add, that so far from th.. company having failed in Its thJect, it has every proved of obtaining the concession on terms which will be found highly beneficial to the shareholders. Trusting that this letter will prevent your respectable journal being again made the vehicle of putting forth the false assertions of this ill-disposed or ill-informed person, I remain, Re.—G. Veers, Secretary. In reference to this letter it is proper to draw the writer's attention to the circumstance that the concession of the line to Mr. Wheelwright was alluded to only as a report in com mon circulation, and not asserted as a fact. As, however, Mr. Upton, acting, it may be supposed, under instruc tions, has chosen to state in such positive terms that the com pany "has every prospect of obtaining the concession on terms," &c., it may ho as well to mention that we have seen letters from the highest quarters in Lima, which expressly state that the propositions of Mr. Wheelwright had been entertained, and that most probably the grant would be made to hint by the government. It is, however, not worth while to waste words on a question which, according to the secretary, can be so readily decided by the documents or advices received at the Company's office by the last mail from Callao. The exhibition of these at a general meeting of the parties interested must set all misconceptions at rest. Itis proper to add, that Mr. Upton's letter is entirely silent about the return of the agent, now some four months since, who was despatched to Lima to negotiate for the concession of the line. Some explaration was certainly due to the shareholders on that event, the proper place for which would be at s general meeting, when the causes of past failure, and the prospects of future success, might be fully entered upon. It maybe " bad taste "in the shareholders to take alarm about the safety of their funds, on seeing the reported malversations of a person, who was not only a director of the Worcester, Tenbury, and Ludlow Railway Company, which is a sufferer, but also a director of the Callao and Lima ; but it is not at all extraordinary that the connexion of the party accused with both lines should occasion some anxiety as to the possible results of such con nexion in the Callao case. A distinct assurance on that head is wanting, and would be best given to the shareholders at a general meeting. ANEURISM IN THE CITY. Among the diseases incidental to the City of London, it is a wonder that inqui ries into the sanatory condition of the metropolis should have entirely failed to notice aneurism. Aneurism is a disease of an artery, requiring, for its cure, that the artery should be taken up. A disease of this kind is continually occurring in all the main arteries of London ; so that their b ing taken up, and consequently all circulation through them being impeded are matters of constant occurrence. The vessel most frequently attacked is the main trunk of Fleet-street, and so numerous are the operations upon it thus necessitated that, for all practical purposes, it may he pronounced imper meable. It is well known in surgery that when an artery is obliterated the circulation is carried on by collateral or anastomosing vessels ; but this, though a beau tiful provision of nature, cannot occur without great dis turbance of the economy. Thus, when the Fleet-street artery is obstructed, the circulation is maintained by the anasto mosing branches of Chancery or Fetter-lane, though, when Fleet street is tied up, it has to take a very circuitous route, proceeding from Catherine-street, or some other ramifica tion of the Strand, in a meandering course through Drury lance and its connexions to the great channel of Holborn. The economy. of the passenger is hence very much dis turbed, for this great extension or vagary of the circulation necessitates a corresponding augmentation in the fare of cabs. Anastomosing branches, too, enlarge in the body natural, but in the body civic they do no such thing. When Fleet street is tied, Chan:cry-lane becomes no wider, which is a manifest inconvenience. An alarming confusion and die turb.suce are thus produced in the circulation, always attended with danger—sometimes with loss of life.—Punch. BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR TILE ADVANCE MENT OF SCIENCE. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY.—The general com mittee held its first meeting this morning at the Town-hall. The chair was taken by Sir John Herschell, the president. The Marquis of Northampton, Mr. Justice Williams, Dr. Lee, the Mayor of Southampton, and other distinguished members of the association, were also present. Jonx Pluturs, Esq., F.R.S. (the assistant general-se malty), read the minutes of the two last committee meetings at Cambridge, and the report of the council to the general committee for the present year. From the latter it appeared that the resolutions of the magnetical and meteorological Conference, adopted by the general committee at Cambridge In 1846, were submitted to Sir R. Peel by the president, Sir John Herschel], and had obtained the favourable considera tion of the government. That the recommendations of the conference connected with the British observatories at. home Ind in the colonies, were being now carried out, and that their recommendations as to the East Indian observatories and the India survey, had received &pal attention. That the magnetical observartry at Greenwich was permanently continued on en extensWe and efficient scale. That the EARnetical and meteorologicel branch was made a permanent part of the astronomical obivvatory at the Cape of Good acPe, Si also at Bombay and MaCraa, and arrangements were to progress for carrying out the some object at Paramatta. That the Ordnance observatory at Toronto and at St. Helena were to be continued until the close of 18 , i.5. A magnetic II:my of the East Indian Bea, by Lieutenant 'Elliot of the gal engineers, had received the sanction of tie Directors w the East Indian Company, and arrangementa w re in i' l lress for carryi ng ' it out—Lieutemant Moore would pro m thi , summer, under the direction of the Lords of the 6 dn'tralty, to Hudson's Hay, for the purpose of courildiPc THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, the ebserratioss of the Cammikst survey with throe at Rh ,Is Franklin's expedition In the seas at the meth of the Almisan mmillsent. That with regard to the as4pimMins et tanks mognatical made b ohnevatlatts raper amialan bed lima made by Lard Aberdeen*, he Emmen- LEnds ntimils, Assn* smil ~sea, from id Serhe mynas bed bass reeel That tbs Mew laden pens& by the general temmittm te mesenrage, by direct peenniary reward inmesmassats in aslf-recordlag magnets:el apparatus had lisea loanikt tithe ths no tice of the government, sod annegaimanta had ism made co shes the mormmendadme the com mittee tea shim ; and that the loyal Mighty had 501. hem the Wollaston Darden Fuel to Mr. he kh stif.reghtwisguagmetio apparatus which was new hi progress daameialisa at the observatory at Kew. That the general e.Uttes at Cambridge having resolved that it be referred to the council whether the Kew observa tory should be discontinued, a committee had been appointed to collect information as to the scientific purposes which that establishment bad served, and as to its general usefulnese— the result was a resolution by the committee that the esta blishment be maintained in its present state of efficieu7, because it afforded to the association, at an inconsiderable expense a local habitation, and a convenient repository for its books, papers, and apparatus—because it had been the means of prosecuting many physical inquiries—because the grant of occupancy by her Majesty was a proof of the interest her Majesty took in the objects of the association, while, if it were now to be relinquished it might never again be available for the purposes of science, u well as for several other reasons—with this resolution of the committee, the council concurred; that the council had received a letter from the Secretary of the Scientific Insti tute at Cheltenham regretting that circumstances had arisen which would not enable them to give to the British Association that cordial welcome they would wish to give them, should they determine on visiting that town, sod which they could have given, had such 'fait taken place in the present year. That the council had no invitations from the towns of Oxford, Norwich, and Swansea, for future years. The report on the motion of the Marquis of NORTHAMP TON, seconded by the MAYOR, was received and adopted. Joni( TAYLOR, Esq., the General Treasurer, read the amount of the receipts and disbursements of the part year, Si follows Da L s . d. Ca. L a d. Life communism re. Balance due last year.. 360 10 3 mined at the (7am- Sundry disbursements, bridge meeting sod ts . = of Cam shaft lB3 0 Annual subscriptions 181 0 4Z - em i r:re: l t 203 11 3 Association tickets 467 0 Printing lath report. Ladles' tickets 172 0 vol. II Book tompositkies es 0 Salaries of Assistant- Dividends on funded General Secretary pt opr. ty Sole of 1,0006. 3 per Paid by the orders or cent. stock Cambridge Weal flood count of grants for committee Portion of a grant, not fully tarried oat, and returned Balsam against the et, count tetrad on 125 3 C 2,549 0 2 t 2,549 0 2 The amount of the Government grant stood : Da. L s . d. C.. a d. Balance from last se- Paid on amount of count 634 2 catal og uca, La Landes and La Calle's Balance In the trea surer's hood on this Lund •I 1 7 £631 2 0 £634 2 The lists of members for the various sectitnal committees suggested by the committee of recommendation, was read and adopted. Sir It. I. MURCHISON (the president elect) said—lt has been generally understood that his Royal Highness Prince Albert intends to honour the association with his presence on this occasion. That such is his intention there can be now no doubt—(applause)—and I propose that weshall confer on his Royal Highness that only honour which we have to give—that's, to create an especial place for him, and declara him to be the one and only honorary member of this asso ciation. (Cheers The Marquis or NORTHAMPTON seconded the proposition, which was put by the President, and carried by general acclamation. The town is rapidly filling, but owing to the admirable arrangements made by the committee, no difficulty has yet been experienced by the numerous visitors in obtaining suffi cient accommoiation. Prince Albert is not expected until to-morrow afternoon. ROYAL BUCKS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. AYLESBURY, WEDNESDAY ; EVENING.—The annual festival of the Royal Bucks Agricultural Association took place to-day, at the George Hotel, and the attendance was more numerous than on previous occasions. The day commenced with a ploughing match, and a dis tribution of prizes to meritorious labourers and servants. The prizes for ploughing were competed for by 24 ploughs; and three ploughmen who had obtained prizes last year, competed for the trial stakes . The da. was very fine, and the performances of the various competitors gave great satis faction to all present. The trials took place in a field belong ing to Mr. Morris, one mile on the Wendover-road. For the dinner, the large room at the George was hand somely decorated with various devices. Shortly after 6 o'clock the Duke of Buckingham took the chair, supported by Mr. G. C. Dupre, M.P., the Hon. Captain Fitzmau rice, M.P., Mr. Rice Clayton, M.P., and several in fl uential neighbours. After the di nner, which was of the usual description, " Non noble, Domino" was sung, and the routine toasts were given and responded to. Captain HIRRERT then proposed the health of his Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chau:idea. The Duke of BUCICINOHAM-I beg to acknowledge, with the deepest feelings of gratitude, the friendly spirit you have just manifested towards me. For many years I have devoted myself to the promotion of the interests of agriculture, and of agricultural associations, such as that over which I have the honour now to preside. This and similar associations were founded at a time of great peril to the farmers of this country. They were formed for the protection of the farmer in a time of great exigency, and I certainly look back with I sincere pleasure on the time since which I commenced my labours, and to the circumstances by which they have been attended. I am proud and gratified to find, that, at our successive anniversary meetings, we have nit diminished in numbers, nor declined in strength. We have exerted ourselves to the extent of our power, and though we have not been entirely successful, we have averted much threatened mischief. For myself lam bound to declare that I never feel so happy as when I am engaged In the promotion of agriculture, because I am fully per suaded that it not only tends to the advantage of a large and influential class of the community, but also to the benefit of the country at large. I will not detain you farther on the present occasion than to express to you my deep sense of thankfulness for the honour you have thus conferred upon me. (Loud cheers.) After some songs, The Duke of BUCKINGHAM again rose and said—l now come to a tout which is a very important one, and after that will come the chief business we have on hand, namely, the distribution of prizes to the per ons to whom they have been awarded. I cannot introduce this toast to your notice with out making one or two remarks upon it. The society was founded in 1832, and was intended to be a means for the promotion of the agricultural interests. (Hear, hear.) It affords me unqualified gratification and delight, to inform you that the amount distributed this year to the labourers, for whose benefit the society was founded, was 1,0031. 175. Cel. The number of members has increased to 1,100. When I remember that the primary object of the society is to relieve those industrious families who by honest industry have rendered it unnecessary for them to apply for parochial assistance, I feel thankful for having been allowed to take so prominent a part in its affairs, more particularly when I reflect that our proceedings this day will teach the labouring man that honesty is the best policy. It is with deep regret I allude to the occurrences of the past year—a ye sr which will never be forgotten by the farmers of this country. To retrieve the errors of the put, and to regain our former position, will probably be a work of time ; but we shall assuredly gain the victory at last. As far us my humble abilities will permit, I will strain every nerve to prevent the party who recently . betrayed us from ever being in a position to do the same ag ain. The noble Chairman concluded by proposing "Prosperity to the Royal Bucks Agricultural Association. " The health of the county members having been proposed, Mr. C. G. DUPRE returned thanks, observing that under existing circumstances it would be better to do so without any harsh expression of feeling towards those by whom the " diuders "of the late session bad been created. It was a matter of sincere regret to him (Mr. Dupn"..) that there had been found so many men in the House of Commons, who had violated the pledge which returned them to parlia ment" and power, and who had betrayed their constituents. He deeply regretted that they had intrusted themselves to the keeping of at least one man, whom they . supposed the true pilot who would have steered them safely into port, but who, on the contrary, had falsely and treacherously ran them amongst the breakers. Other toasts having been drunk, and the prizes distributed to the successful competitors, the company separated at a late hour. IRELAND. DISLIKE OP THE LANDLORDI TO THE DUBLIN, Sm. 8. PLAN or RELIEF.—Mr. Denis Shine Lalor, a gentleman of considerable property in Kerry, a repealer, and a magi strate dismissed by Sir Edward Sngden, has, in the Killar ney Union, open Isat Wednesday, denounced the plan of Lord John Russell for the relief of the distrmeed. Mr. Labe, in proposing for the consideration of the board a smile of resolutions, embracing his views and remedies, and which were afterwards adopted by the guardians present, mid : Ho had drawn up a set of resolutions declaratory of tglion on the visitation, and if they did not meet with the nnailmows= tlow of the meeting, they wo afd, gt least, have the all* of Its opinim. The bard wwll agree with him, that Is Mt a brantsbie ere, d thbip, nothing but lIINIIIIIIO-11111111111/1114 tall aed apple, es the pet at the aavarest, Mei by the hailumb ad the berm said we the wary her the ravages et la arl prevail raki, KIM brig tont sr= anweby and Imberleatis flue reisena army druid srazesemest, led they timid be wrnirgif and limmelvvil by el perdu he the orrarby. The brad err slew a gessees relemose tem& the Irret. sal the tier rest *et Mend Mier. re pal haft by blaleir beart, arA gerwera embet lessemb the rni.--Mler )—tart, 1. both wee deprelte yard= saar Pei* tam& mob other, wadi be •le eel mire se the aim 'Ma misses, ermsaisL 21 woe be riumh, be regratapd. ton eg Teellitter sol Mr rpm le same he ilia =al regeriele Melt brier/a. (Hem hear.) They Y while te Met a weldhd et tenths se this Isda► arises ire, whbh It etre at, in Its mat heathy eanditlea, abaci. loW bitilel TOW apace anal& sentry i its pow pa. Mem 'mingle relates 6: I V's.; but ill they' were not poor breethate meggikents en baldl y tag IN" ea= pine:lb* ens—oldes fa get pert et OM et erb• robbed thins. aim. hiss) Medal net nest them to Min weepthe husdlerklrarer; Inealdr. Jews O'Crenall.) Bs timid ask the gentem eed pellagra at the board. wlntwes the sene rern eanditkaetthehids Mined ! intanymembot at hts here beak, for venal& only provides was bletent,sed MIME of the Sri& Saber& was is pay et semtpene ant debts. There were many Widened • Mis emieley lime bad- herd% mind went to the papmeet et benneeme en lemelneble intrieen—whme the entire rent eMseS neat eat et the misery to the shememe mid ether !uplink who Misilis emeely avails to the burdens at dm eematry, or Se n n el its per. In his need the peeing danger In this sees wee' tlist It wend pard cuiarly bony an the Wooer, and when peel en Me *nese, le moat peen on the Snbard. when ilehilbles would net elm him to forego one ye:Warne. engebe; ant aing wall an be able to meet hie ensgeseeM er le theadiemeles et the poor. Then it was not area Sh Me eseptsyment Is the Mame and pro vide him with fool (Mangy be wend Udine *me to be a smemetat consideration)—that he troll Mtn subject. but, are, to obtain an equitable and *dr emelbeedia be the Wan of the farmer and the Imam/ In teds semeseeseserids (Ileac, beer.) lie (Mr. Later) bad diet spiel's stabs tenants et din pest county, that they wend sum Ineed and delersdendly, and face this amps and dined and ably, ing that ellennes be tisk I=. veldt permeld= demanded. Meer, bed.) Ito Mt he wen delniOng sheen tee long. (No, sal Then es they wanness' le MGM flab hulegpme to ham, be vend way So the mercers serried eft by the geresseent for the aleinadesi Mae panel end appending Olds wen peen badman and nallallest. (Hear, bear.) The wire memenren to penmen emblem rebut—(hmar, bar) — which mum end In the ocodeenden et all property in Ireland—dot at the farmer ea well as the lendiont (Una, hear.) It wand not be limited to than ; It mould extend to all specks of real or percmal property. nes were neenues nide he thought would not be pronounced mind Is the peen* aria (War.) mum were the meusures of a government, a paternal government ; and he was sorry that they were mot such es a government in this emergency ought to paw The bee government imported food at a time when it was certainly wanted; but not to ma th an extent as it was now ; but this govern ment seemed detenidned te let the people starve, perish, or famish, without the aid of the hoportathe of foreign food. They are lent depend upon the mercheat• of this country to furniah them with a supply of ionise provinens. (Rear, bear.) At such a time, and ender such he thought that this government should an as the Sneer d in Importing toed to meet the ex traordinary and uninusl requirements of the people.. (Hear, hear.) Then they were to give no grants this year. They thought that it was quite enough for theme give an advance, which was to be secured by mortgage on the land, and repaid by the farmers and the landlord., of this country. (Dear, hear.) He thanked God be was not a Whig. (Hear, hear.) Lf they could not forte the government to give them all the good 11101141relt that were required for the coils. try, they could at least call on them to afford such measures as would employment among the labouring classes, while it would ten the burden on the farmers, and lean the la nd lord, in a coodi. tiro to meet their legitimate engagements, and afford relief to the ' indigent. This would not only prevent starvation, but anarchy and cootusion throughout the country. (Hear, hear) He would not detain them longer than to read the Wowing resolutions. (Hear.) Reeolvoi-1 hat it is the opinion of this Dowd that the potato crop for this season has almost totally Gilled in this union; that there is no probability that the potato will be available in any portion of this union, as food Ix man or cattle, beyond the tire of December ; end that this board regards with intense anxiety this most Wain/thus prospect. Iteaulved—That in this crisis It Is the duty of the people, the land lords, and the government, to give their combined attention and assistance, by mutual oonperation, forbearance, and pecuniary aid, to withstand the general distress. Resolved—That the farmers and landlorla, no lees than labouring and artisan thanes, are threatened with the difficulty, and equally require assistance. Iteolved—That the measures prepared by the government To the speech of Lord John Russell, and now carried into law, are inadequate to meet the emergency, and that this Board pray for melamine of a more liberal and elective character. repudiate, the covert introduction of a system of out-dour relieL attempted by this act, as unsuited to the circumstances of the country, destructive of all agricultural prosperity whether in tenant or landlord, and calculated to make ail Ireland one immense workhouse of paupers and officials. Ltesolved—•That while taus Board declares its willingness to sub mit to all reasonable taxation that landed property can legitimately contribute, with a view to relieve the pi bind (Warms, it respect fully suggests the justice of an absentee tax, as one of the most direct and equitable sources from which to succour a national misery. Restore I —That all rates levied for purpose:4 of relief should he charged•proportionably upon all intereets accruing from lands, or the tuads, renttharges, uthe-rent-charges, annuitants, mortgages, Inesulinee communes, and Matures. Beeolved-1 hat while this Board has knowledge that England draws more than two millions annually from Ireland to support Imperial interests, this Board is indignant at the grant of Suomi/. offered to meet the wants of the perishing people, and revectfully urges upon the Government the necessity of pecuniary aid more just and generous. Resolved—That this Board suggests to the Government, the land lords, and the farmers, the necessity of making early provision for the nest year, by the cultivation of other food than the potato, and by the importation of en early supply of seed, especially of rye and barley, for human consumption, and that of turnips and rape, for the sustenance ant fattening of cattle. Resolved—That the clerk of this union be directed to transmit a copy of these resolutions to the Lord-Lieutenant and Lora John Rummell. Mr. Labor's propositions were supported by Mr. John O'Connell and Mr. James O'Connell, the brothers of Mr. Daniel O'Connell. The former declared that though dis agreeing with the government measures, he was satisfied go vernment meant well ; and stated that he had been a Whig- Radical all his life—but no more; while Mr. James O'Con nell pronounced himself as having been through life &decided Whig. HELPING THE Pooie.—The Cork Examiner publishes the following report illustrating the dimeanour of some Irish landlords at the present juncture. Happily they are but few : The Queen at the prosecution of Thomas Sherlock, of Band on, attorney, against James John and Catherine lienned ,y brother and A sista r. Joe Fitzgerald, a bailiff. proved that he wired the effects of the defendants, for rent due the 25th of March last, out of part of the lands of Orange, in the county of Waterbed, and on the 10th of August instant, was about to sell them, which the defendants rescued, not having the rent to pay. The magistrates said they were coerced to take informations, and as the defendants had sot the price of the ball bonds to enter into secu rity to stand their trial at the quarter sewiona, allowed them a fort night to give the necessary ball, and regretted they had not the power of summarily adjudicating on such a awe. It appears that these poor people have not a potato to eat—that the little corn they have would not feed them ter three months. It was generally suppmed that Joe Fitzgerald di trained without the knowledge of Mr. bherlock, who resides upwards of SO miles from the hinds. EARL ERBIIOEOEOIO3 INSPECTION OF THE IRISH REFE REE CRUISEILS.—Iiii Excellency Earl Beiborough has, as I yesterday announced his intention of doing, inspected the revenue cruisers ox the station at Kingstown. AU Dublin had followed him. The following is a detailed account of the proceedings from a Dublin journal of this day :—" Yes terday having been fixed for the annual review of the effec tive fleet of cruisers now attached to our revenue depart ment, his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, accompanied by the Ladies Harriet and Kathleen, and the Hon. Gerald Ponsonhy, Mrs. Captain Williams, Mr. C. Connellan, Private Secretary, and two Aides-de-Camp, arrived at the 'Westland row terminus of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway shortly after two o'clock, where they were received by George Roe, Esq., George Pim, Esq., Directors ; and Jan.es Pim, Esq., Treasurer of the Company. Colonel Browne, Commissioner of Police, and Major White (Town Major) were also in attendance. At a quarter past two precisely the special train proceeded to Kingstown without stopping at any of the intermediate stations. On arriving at Kingstown the her boar presented a most cheerful and gratifying prospect ; the cutters were all gaily decorated with flags and ensigns—the ! weather most delightful—the jetty and piers crowded in every part. A guard of honour from that distinguished corps, the 26th, or Ciuneronians, under the command of Major Whittingham, with band and colours, were stationed at the Royal Shp, where his Excellency and suite embarked on board H.N.I.R.C. Kite's boat, manned by eight oars men—the Commodore, Sir James Dombraine, steering. The viceregal patty were received on board by the Vice ! Cimmodore, Lieutenant Bowie, R.N., and Lieutenant Burke, Commander of the Kite ; soon afterwards the yards of all the cutters were manned, and a royal salute fired. The effect of this was most picturesque. Alter the usual number of guns were discharged the signal to hoist sails was passed, and in a few minutes the whole fleet was under weigh, and bore off in the direction of Dalkey. The sea was a little rough outside the Eastern Pier, as the wind was from the south-east. The signal to return was given ; the Kite led and lay to off the mouth of the harbour, when the respective cruisers passed under her stern, saluting with cheers the vice-regal party as they passed. A visit was paid by his Excellency to the Royal Kings town Yacht Club House, and the noble earl was pleased to express himself highly pleased with the magnificent apart ments and ample accommodation the building affords to its members. At a quarter before four o'clock a special train was in readiness, and the viceroy and his suite left for West land-row, where their carriages were in waiting to convey them to the viceregal lodge. His Excellency, family, and suite, honoured the Portobello Gardens with their presence lad evening, anti all expressed themselves highly gratified with the entertainments. IRISH RAILWAYS.—The fries Railway Gazette informs us that an amalgamation has been effected between the Wex ford, Carlow, and Dublin Junction and the Great Leinster and Munster Companies, under the powers contained in their respective acts. The amalgamated company will henceforth be known as " The Irish South Eastern Company." Five shares in the amalgamated company will be given in ex change for one share in the old Great Leinster and Munster Company. A call of 11. 10s. per share has been made on the new shares. Holders of Wex ford and Carlow scrip are to pay a call of 11. per share, and thus the amount paid up on all the shares being equalised, the Irish South Eastern shares will be credited with 31. paid up. The lines of railway embraced by the Irish South Eastern Company arc from Carlow to Enniscorthy, and from Carlow to Kilkenny, with a power of extension to Clonmel. The works on the line ftom Car low is Kilkenny are rapidly advancing. GREAT SOUTHERN •Nl. 'WESTERN RAILWAY, IRELAND. —Open to Carlow, 56i miles. Return of traffic for week ending Saturday, the 6th day of September, 1846. Passen gers only, 7901. 7s. 4d. FATAL ACCIDENT.—AI Mr. Colhoun, of Carnone, near Raphoe, was bruising flax with a stone on Saturday last, he had a fine little boy killed by the stone going over him.— Derry Sentinel. SCOTLAND. AN ACCIDENT OP A VERY SINGULAR DESCRIPTION is recounted by the Glimpse Cowritr, as having occurred to a native of that city, when recently bathing at Ardentinny. The gentleman in qnssffien, while swimming at some distance from the shore, was arioasnli attacked by a large medusa or galley fish, which so dogged his movements that he was in imminent danger citing deseneed, and it was with difficulty he disencumbered limner Mfr se to admit of his diving, by which he freed himself fee the moment from his unwonted &reliant. Unfortunately, however, on rising to the surface, he again tem in eanlent with the animal, which this time =irk ram walk bin , and had it not been for the ota ilthormam, who, attracted by his cries, rowed hastily to the refuse, the malt might very possibly have been fatal. As it was, he was for some time confined to bed, and is still suffering from the feverish effect produced by the stings received in his strange encounter. This accideat is the more worthy of notice, from the size of the medusa, which is rarely found so large in those latitudes; being, so far as the observer's agitation would permit him to judge, at least in feet in circumference. R 10, 1846. PROVINCIAL. LANCARETRE. FISHING MATCH.—At Warrington, on Monday, the dis ciples of 'seek Walton were all on the essi vise for the settle ment of the long-pending match for 201., between six mem hen of the Salford Piscatorial Society and six members of the Warrington Fishing Club. The conditions were, that they should fish in the river Weaver, between Aeton-bridge and Winsford, from six o'clock in the morning until five o'clock in the afternoon, those catching the greatest weight of fish to be the winners. The greatest order and regularity was kept during the whole of the day ; and so systematically was everything arranged, that two umpires and a referee were appointed, and also a telegraph fixed to convey the in telligence every half hone to the head-quarters, Acton-bridge Tavern, a distance of three miles from that pa rt of the river selected f.r fishing. At the close of the day, and on the fish being weighed up, it was found that the members of the Salfurd Club had caught 54 lb. weight, and that the members of the Warrington Club had caught 361 lb. weight. The Salford men thus winning by 171 lb. weight. Tne comp. titors and their friends afterwards dined together. WILDERSPIN NATIONAL TRIBUTR }UND.—The sub scription fur the relief of the chief promoter and improver of infant education, now amounts to about 1,0001., of which Manchester has contributed upwards of 3001. The sum already raised, however, is only one-half of what is the minimum required to fulfil the object of the fund,.which is to secure for Mr. Wilderspin comfort and independence during the remainder of his life, and a suitable provision for his family, in consideration of his public services. Many towns have as yet taken no part to this movement, and there are many friends of education in Manchester who have not yet testified their sense of Mr. Wiliderspin's benefi cent services in that good cause, by contributing, according to their means, in aid of the effort now making on his be half. Some persons have thought the pension of 1001. recently granted to Mr. Wilderspin, renders any further subscription unnecessary. This sum is not sufficient for the support of his family, and to place him is those circum stances of ease and comfort which his life of laborious and successful exertion has so fully earned, and which his failing health renders equally desirable and necessary. The pen sion, also, secures no provision for his wife and family, in the eyelid of his death. The smallness of the sum granted should, perhaps, be attributed to the very limited fund at the disposal of government (1,2001.) and the many claims upon it, rather than to an estimate, too lo w , o f th e va l ue of his services. The liberality of the public must complete the work thus left imperfect. THE COMMITTEE POlt PROMOTING THE COBDEN TESTI MONIAL met in Manchester on Tuesday, when it was an nounced that the total sum subscribed up to that day was 72,300/. 'THE PEEL PARK WAS FORMALLY TRANSFERRED on Saturday to the Salford corporation. The mayor and the parks committee of the Manchester town council, with a number of the corporation, met at the Town Hall and pro ceeded to the park, where they met the mayor and nearly all the corporation of Salford. They, together, perambu lated the grounds, and afterwards adjourned to the refresh ment rooms, where lunch awaited their presence. Several speeches were made on the occasion, and the greatest plea sure was expressed by all. The Salford police immediately took charge of the ground, and have con•inued their attendance ever since. Some of the rougher visitors broke through the rules with respect to the gymnasium on Sunday at this reirk, but we believe it will be altered before another Sabbath comes. It is against the provisions of the trust deed, to allow the use of the gymnasium on Sunday. CORNWALL EXTRAORDINARY AGITATION OF TEI SEA.—From a paper read at a late meeting of the Penzance Natural His tory Society, by Mr. R. Edmonds, jun., it appears that, on the Ist ult., the day on which the awful storm occurred in London ar.d other parts of England, about four o'clock in the morning an extraordinary agitation of the sea wu ob served by the labourers employed in excavating Penzance Pier, the tide being then about fire hours' ebb, and the sea very calm. The water suddenly returned towards the shore to the depth of between one and two feet, and after an apparent pause, rushed back " like a river ' to its former level; the time occupied in the influx and the reflux, includ ing the time of the water appearing to be stationary, was about six minutes. The influx and reflux was observed only once. It appears from the same paper that, with only one exception, all the shocks of the earth and extraordinary oscillations of the sea in Cornwall during the present cen tury, whose dates are known, have happened nearer to the moon's first change, or quarter, than at any other. DERBYSHIRE. SUPPOSED MURDER AT CHESTERFIELD.-0O Friday the deceased's partner, J. Platte, with his mother and brother in-law, H. Knight. were apprehended on suspicion of being implicated in the murder. A watch which had belonged to the deceased is said to have been traced to their possession ; and it is stated that on the night when the deceased was last seen the noise of blows, followed by loud groans, was hoard in the shop which Platte and the deceased occupied. It is added that shortly afterwards Platte washed his hand, which was bloody, a circumstance which he attributed to his having cut his finger; and at the same time appearances were observed which indicated that he had fallen down upon one knee. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE NOTTINGHAM AND LINCOLN RAILWAY.—NOTTINOIIAM, Wednesday, 4 p.m.—An inquiry commenced yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon at 4 o'clock, at the General Hospital, near this town, to ascertain the cause of the death of Henry Glover, mentioned in our paper yea. ' terday as caused by an accident on the Nottingham and Lin- I coin Railway. The jury having viewed the body which I was identified, the following evidence was taken : Thomas Smart, of the Trent Bridge, Nottingham, road pur veyor, said, I was in the train on the Lincoln Railway on Mon day last ; we left the station at Nottingham at ten minutes after twelve o'clock; we travelled at the rate of twenty-four miles an hour ' • I looked at my watch just after we arrived at the L owdham station, and made the remark about the rate we were travelling : we had been twenty minutes going; immediately after wards I heard something break; it was a dreadful smash; we still kept going on. I think I was nearly in the last carriage. As soon as I heard the smash, I jumped out of the carriage; I believe I was the first that got out of the carriage. I saw the engine which had been drawing the traiu in the ditch, and heard a dreadful cry. It was not overturned, but in the ditch, by the side of the line. I went up to the spot. The man was between the engine and the tench r, and it appeared as if all the weight of the tender was upon his thighs. The tender was partly raised up, and in a falling direction ; the hind wheels of the tender were quite off the rails. One truck was off the line, but none of the passenger carriages. We could not do anything to release the man, but we got eight horses with ropes, and attached them to the tender to draw it back again. I should think forty minutes elapsed before this was completed. —William Howitt, Carlton-road, Sneinton, lace-manufac turer, tail,—l was in the train, in a second-class carriage, when the accident happened; I had not noticed the time we were going, but it was at a very moderate pace ; we stopped at Lowdham, and in two or three minutes afterwards I felt a concussion from a check of the train, and was driven with my knees under the seat opposite, and my heed struck on the opposite side, which broke my hat ; I got out of the car riage directly, and ran to the ditch where the engine was, and I found the engineer lying crying for help, and wringing his hands; I help what? and the engineer pointed to Glover, and i s iw him betwixt the engine and tender, with a complete , ':ower of steam falling upon him;i he was squeezed then by the thighs, between the back part of the engine and the fore part of the tender. We ex tricated the poor man in about half an hour ; all the labourers on the railway came to our assistance. I saw him brought to Nottingham on a truck. Every body in the train seemed to think that the whole arose purely from accident—Samuel Elkton, of Lincoln, engine -driver, said : I was on the engine and we were going at the rate of 17 or 18 miles an hour; the first thing I felt was that the engine appeared to lift itself up off the line. We were about nine miles from Notting ham, running on a curve. I believe the line was in very good order. I perceived no more shaking than usual. The line there is a little elevated above the surface. I believe the engine got off the line through a spring underneath the engine breaking. The engine run ten yards from the rails before it got into the ditch ;it then went with the head down the bank. I was thrown into the ditch ; as soon as I Lot up I found Glover between the engine and the body of the tender, quite fast. He isas about half an hour before he was liberated. I did not examine the line then, but I did yesterday (Tuesday), and I cannot find any thing in the line of a dangerous nature. I had been in the habit of driving over that part of the line. The spring under the engine which was broken supported a great portion of the weight of the engine. There are six spnngs; two to each axle of the' wheels. I only observedveaterdaythatthe spring wsabroken. In cadent a spring b-eaking, the weight of the engine would I be supported by the ether five. I am certain there was nothing on the rails. I had examined the springs that morning at Derby. As soon as I perceived the shock, I shut off the steam, and in a moment she was on her side. Our time to leave Lowdham is 27 minutes after leaving Not tingham.—Portions of the broken spring were brought into the room and were examined by the jury ; the first piece was found about 700 yards from the place where the accident happened. The spring consists of eight plates of iron, about one-third of au inch each, welded together, all of which had been snapped nearly in the middle. Some further corrobo rative evidence having been given, the inquest was adjourned to Monday next. VCTITO MIDDLITHORPE, NEARALFORD, Sept. 7.—A truly melan choly accident occurred at this retired watering-p this afternoon, which has thrown a universal gloom over this and the surrounding villages, and plunged several respectable families into the deepest dietreea. Mr. Rogers, the master of a . very respectable boarding-school at Zenith, brought his boys (an number between 40 and 50) to this place to-day for the purpose of giving them a holiday, and up to four o'clock in the afternoon they were in high spirits, playing at cricket and other manly games. About that hour several of the boys proceeded . to bathe in the sea, and five of them got out of their depth and were overtaken by the tide. Of these five, two were saved by the exertions of Mr. Rogers, who, at the risk of his own life, rushed into the sea, and, la mentable to relate, the three remaining were drowned. The unfor tunate sufferers are children of respectable parents belonging to this part of the county, of the names of Mackender, Gun - - nem, and Wakelin, and were of the respective ages of 17, 16, and 15. The latter is represented as being the ouly child of very fond parents. Tuesday Morning.—The bodies were found at eleven o'clock last night, very near the spat where the accident happened. SILNATOIIT CONDMOR OP C•m samoz.—Wen the Tana ble doctrines of asaissftaral chemistry coma to be better und ers t oo d, we (pageleigire Advertiser) bans that agri cultural ismairommit wad smailary Ms= mill re Nod ka hand. Thrift wig pailast as vdmot paeglarra. Noah hot already been asamplibsii in the hapariutt province. Our cities are no loafer absolute accumalslissis of the filth of centuries. Yeas, as they roll *a, is act, as they once did, deposit in our streets successive strata of unwholesome soil. We know one or two eases in which it has been actually ascertained that causellays had risen in the &aurae of sue suasive yes, till the mend floors of the houses on each side had actually sunk down into cellars. This is no longer the case. The scavenger has in some measure superseded the doctor. Much of the refuse of our towns enriches our fields. And it must be confessed, that though not practically carried out to any greet extent. juster Mesa on this subject are beginning to prevail. Still there is much to be accomplished. Much that is valuable is still thrown away. It is not only lost, it is permitted to contami nate the atmosphere which we breathe, and to pour down a tributary pestilence into the streams whick we drink. How many millions of money are thus annually wasted ! Why should a source of national treasure, equisalent almost in annual amoun• to the interest of the national debt, be per mitted not only to lie waste—to remain unproductive—but even to poison the very air and water—to fester disease—to destroy, instead of nourishing, life? Those very substances which, in a state of decay and putrefaction, exhale a periodi cal plague and destroy millions, might in the hands of skill and science, and good husbandry, sustain millions. There is an old Scotch proverb which says—and who can deny it ? that " muck is the mother of the meal-chest." Manure is a treasure. Why should this treasure be permitted to accu mulate around us—to stagnate under our houss--to disgust us in our streets—to smite us down with disease—to gene rate an everlasting though insidious plague by actually and constantly diffusing death around us and swel ling our tables of mortality, when a little thrill—a little common sense a little wise precaution and very little science would transform it into the golden fruit of an overflowing harvest? Guano indeed! We have guano in our sewers—we are guanoed to death ; and yet we traverse the ocean to import what, in another form, is killing us daily and by inches in revenge for being neglected. Let it not be imagined that Cambridge is positively a pig-sty. It is, we presume, much upon a footing, in point of cleanliness, with other English towns—though labouring, of course, under the peculiar disadvantage of being locates in a dead Act. Though a classical city, it wants the Acropolis of Athens and the seven hills of imperial Rome. Its learned atmosphere is little disturbed by the invigorating sea-breeze. The more public streets are tolerably swept, and though the Castle-hill has been incarcerated for some time within the county prison, the College walks and one or two pleasant pieces (so-called) discharge pretty well the functions of public lungs. But the pestilence is beneath. It is a sub , errancous calamity which we lament ; and we must agitate the institu tion of a sewage company to pump up this pestilence, and, with the touch of Midas, to convert it into national wealth and the staff of life. SUSSEX. LORD G. Betcrtwei's HORSE " APRtcmc."—A few days alive, a person, giving his name S. Bale, cime down to Goodwood to inspect the racing stud of Lord G. Itentinck, which is for sale, and eventually agreed to become the our-. chaser of "African" at the sum of He paid 41. in gold, and gave a cheque on (we believe) a Norwich bank for 1961., and was permitted to take the horse away. The cheque was presented and dishonoured, the drawer either having no effects, or being unknown. Immediately on this being known, a warrant was issued and placed in the bands of Mr. Pasco, who returned to Chichester on Thursday with the horse in question. SUFFOLK. THE ROMAN REMAINS on the RIVER WAVENET were brought to the hammer on Wednesday last, when the auc tioneer knocked down what eighteen centuries have been un able to conquer. The lot wu thus &scribed : —"About twenty eight acres of fine arable land containing the magnificent remains of the ancient Gariononum of the Romans, a vener able relic, surpassing in beauty ■nd preservation the famous fortress of Itichlmrough. This fortress is in exc. Hoot pre servation, and contains within its walls 5.5. 3u. 3Se. The castle lands around it contain 13s. On. 6r. of ar,ble, and Si.. 3a. 72e. of pasture land. These lands being of the finest quality, are adapted for any cultivation, or for p'ea sure grounds or gardens ; and their extensive deep water frontage to the navigable river Waveney, greatly improves their value. The castle itself is flank, d with massive towers, and is the most complete specimen of a Roman en campment in the kingdom. It Lss stood for eighteen cen turies upon an eminence commanding the present confluence of the Waveney and Yaro. • Whose town% as yet Unniodemired by tasteless art, remain Stilt wumbdued by time.' Within and around the walls large quantities of valuable urns, coins, and Roman relics are frequently discovered. To the antiquary, the pouession of this national relic must be Inestimable. To any person desirous of residing in or near a spot so classic, the gradual declivity of the Waveney hills offers a beautiful and picturesque site for a residence at the foot of the rrretorium, without ioterfering with the classic beauties of the encampment." It was pu: up at 8001. A thousand were offered; three more bidding. brought it to 1,2001., when a spirited successions of bids was given till the lot realised 1,5001., nt which price it was knocked down to Sir John P. Boileau, Bart, President of the Arebarological Society, in whose hands it will hapily obtain a further respite from the modernising spirit of the present day. SOUTHEND.—This retir;ilwatering-place is now crowded with visitors. The cliffs which, unlike those of many other watering-places, incline obliquely to the shore, and are over grown with shrubs, form a favourite resort. On Tuesday a grand dahlia show was held on the enclosed ground in front of the Ship Tavern, and drew thousands of the gentry from the surrounding villages. The prizes consisted of silver cups, and several small sums in money. The show of flowers was excellent, and many of the stands came from the neighbour hood of tile metropolis, the prizes being open to all England. SUPERSTIIIION.—A correspondent states that a day or two since, a gathering, as it is technically rolled, was made at Southend for the benefit of a young woman, residing at the neighbouring Ti:luge of Pristlewell, who having re ceived a coup de solid, whilst working in the fields, has since been suffering under paralysis. On making inquiries as to the merits of her case, the writer was gravely informed by a respectable female, that the current opinion was, that she was bewitched by an old woman in the Tillage. It was also further stated, that she was under the advice of a wise man, who had promised to make " the witch burst," or in other words, to remove the spell that very night. How the exor cism succeeded, the writer did not hear, but it is to be feared that this form of superstition is but too common. ENT. Coeraon ALLormenva.—ln such a delightful village as Minster, it might have been supposed, says a local paper, that every cottager had a garden attached to his house equal to his necessary wants, but this was not the caso until the present incumbent, the Rev. F. V. Lockwood, came into the p ,rish. He soon ascertained the fact that many of ha poor parishioners had not a garden, and that others were but scantily provided with one. To meet their wants he, there fore, apportioned two acres of glebe land, in lots of ten and fifteen perches ; and witnessing the great benefit resulting therefrom, he made a further apportionment of a third acre, thus providing for upwards of forty families a p!ot of land, where they can grow all the vegetables they require, at the small annual rental of 4d. pe. perch. pm farts. TESTIMONIAL TO TAGLIONI. —We hare been favoured with a sight of a testimonial in silver, to he pre sented to the celebrated dancer Taglioni by the Earl of Pembroke and other subscribers to the Opera. The subject is " Diana visiting Endymion," and the artist's name Mr. Edmund Cotterell—the modeller of several of the Goodwood cups, to which this bears in size and general appearance a very considerable resemblance. This is perhaps the best of Mr. Cotterell's works, who have hitherto been confined too closely to Arabs in the desert and Arab horses. Here, how ever, he treats a higher class subject; creations already familiar to us by the classic models of antiquity, and the endeavours of the higher schools of modern art to work in their poetic spirit and beauty. The group consists of Diana and Endymion, a Cupid and a deer. We like the Endymion the best, and though in some respects it reminds us of Canova's well-known figure of Endymion, at the Duke of Devonshire's at Chatsworth : this is more from emulation than imitation. The Diana is a little stiff, less airy than the dancer she is here meant to commemorate, who has always appeared to us to realise the following beautiful descripti on 1 in Ben Jonson : e , tier treading would not bend a blade of gram Or shake the downy blow.ball from his st.dk ! Rut like the soft west wind she odic,: along And where she went the flowers took thickest rota t, As she had ao w'd them with her odorous foLt." The testimonial maiGese;Witiii.darrara 7 ;;Fanton-street, Haymarket, where may be seen at the mine time other works by Mr. Cotterell, with something more than mere promise about tkem. _Musk. - - - THE HEREFORD FESTIVAL.—This Festival com menced yesterday, with much prospect of success. It is the 123rd meeting of the three choirs of Hereford, Gloucester, and Worcester; and its net receipts are applied in making additions to a number of small benefices within the diocese. The preparations have been judicious. The principal singers are entirely English ; Miss Birch the Misses Williams, Miss Dolby, and Messrs. Lockev, Hobbe, Hatton, Machin, lnd Phillips. The band and chorus, compared with the host assembled at Birmingham, are small; but exceedingly select and effective. On Monday and Tuesday evening there were two very careful rehearsals ; the one for the miscellaneous =laic of the evening concerts ; the other for the sacred music to be performed in the mornings. These rehearsals were very satisfactory ; it being found, from the compactness of the choral and instrumental bands, and the talent of the indivi dual performers (most of whom are from the metropolis) that the conductor's task was comparatively easy. On Tuesday a sort of musical performance was joined to the morning ser vice of the cathedral ; Spohr's overture to " The Last Judg ment," Handel's " Te I)eum," Purcell's " Jubilate," and several anthems, being mixed with the service; a practice, which, though it has always been adopted at the meetings of the three choirs, is of questionable propriety. On Tuesday a dinner was gives by the principal gentry of...the neighbour hood to the principal male performers • and on Wednesday the dean gave a dejeimer to all the firsts of orchestral depart ments. Mr. Townabend Smith, the able organist of the cathedral, is the conductor of the performances; and the orchestra is led alternately by Mr. T. Cooke and Mr. Willy. Cbt Drama. PRlNCEss'e.—" Love's Telegraph" is the name of a new pion what& was produced at this theatre last 'ilea. Its sums, was eemeiele ; and therefore, instead of deculing the plat. we "Weld_ probe to lay before the reader on account of the athlect which tar thaw has treated, and the manner of his handling it. liwthellosthely, however, the play is nothing Willis*, and it is ea, bytheeribingthe action with minute mos that we may hers Is Olavey an idea of it to others. In I that part of Germany views princilities used, in the days of hoops and wigs, to depend to ladies by bequest; dwells a Princess, who has just quitted a convent to ascend a throne left to her u a legacy by an uncle. She has brought from the cloister her companion Alice, and both ladies await the arrival of letters from Rome, dispensieg with the vows takes by them at the commencement of their neviciate, to choose a husband. Alice has cho•en for lover Arthur its theyt 64l6er arn, but g .g thehtat o secre t aryl e se rs e te feel that, f t h l th a b e t e , Puerintinqtceftilitethtt'ecanodfdistt is inst e co be urt tiloovne' p lar re in v n ea vre-es ta , Re. m from speaking to ono another, except in the presence of the princess, and the young lady Rice:fore sends a note to her admirer ' which contains a s c h eme f or convers i ng in t h e pretence of others. Whatever she shall utter with un furled fan, though addressed to others, is meant fur him; and whatever lie shall say while waving his glove, she will understand to beispokea to her. The l'rincess and Alice made their appearance on the stage; the telegraph is set at work, and a rendezvous for nine that evening in the garden is arranged. The young secretary, in his joy, is silly enough to let the fact that he has the assignation become known to a thick-headed courtier ' Baron Pumpernickel and hi s nice, Marguerite, who, on his refusing to counsel the princess to se lect for a husband one of her own nobles, no other than the high and wdl-born Pumpernickel himself, tell the prin cess out of sheer spite. Then it appears that she is herself in love with Solberg. She resolves to send him at once on a mission to the court of Heinalt, which is not far off, to attend the assignation herself, accompanied by Alice, and so to die , cover her rival. When the order for his departure is coat i municated to the secretary, he is of course in despair; but it turns out that one Count Theodore, an old university friend, whom he had that day presented to the princess, is the Prince of Heinalt, and it is arranged between them that Solberg shall keep his appo:nuucut, and the prince receive and answer the letter where he is. This scheme, however, is so far defeated, that the princess sends off her secretory with Pumpernickel as his companion, and orders the sup posed Count Theodore into arrest ; and so ends the first act. At the opening of the second act, the Princess is all joy, for the letters have come from Rome, and .1/ice has watched at the trysting-place and has reported that no one cane. Soon however the Baron appears all covered with mud to relate some disaster, and to complain of treachery. Before he can tell his tale the Secretary arrives also, and utterly confounds him, by telling the Princess that the Baron got so drunk at a castle on the road, where the travellers had stayed to supper, that he had been carried to bed insensible, and on his recovery sent back. As he also presents the answer of the Prince, he is believed and made a count. The Baron, however, lets the Princess know that her favourite had left in the carriage in which they had travelled the miniature of a lady, whose features he hod not keen ahle to recognise ' as the ('oust had demanded it ba c k b e f ore he had had time to examine it. Solberg is sent fir, and accused of treason by the Princess, who requires him to Ore up all the papers on his person. lie obeys, but refuses to part with a miniature case which, in his hurry, he has exposed to view. The Prince insists; and Alice snatching it from him, dexterously substitutes a miniature of the Princess, which in an earlier scene she has received as a gift from her. The Princess believes herself beloved ; she dismisses all her attendants but the secretai y ; then dictates to him a letter, in which she acknowledges her love fur him; tells him be shall have the portrait; and leaves him, calling him " Arthur." Before he can recover from his confusioa, Alice brings him a deapateli, which he is ordert.d to give to the Prince of 11,itiall, whose incognito, on being accused of treason, 'he had betraved. It contains the refusal of an offer of marriage made for him to the princess, by his minister. Before he e.n reassure Alice, both the Prince and the Princess appear. Solberg gives to the former the letter which the Princess had dictate I : keeps the devatth in his pocket; and thus leads out his sovereign, who has already announced to her ministers that lie is to be her hus band. Marguerite, however, has found and holds up the note which contains the plan of the I 'errs' telegraph, and she declares that Solberg shall net marry the Princess. So ends the second act. its the third act, the contents of the note are communicated to the l'riticess, from whom the Count has kept aloof : she watches the lovers as the telegraph is at work, and finds that she has hein decei, ed. After a tempest of passion, in which she has ordered Su/berg to be arrested, the Prince to be turned out of the house, and Alice to be sent back to the convent, she yields with a good grace to the adi lee of the man who will not flurry her, and, consenting to the union of her favourites, gives her hand to the Prince. The msrit of this piece lies chiefly in the complication and distress of the personages ; in the selection there is no art, in the motive which operates the relief no probability. The idea of the lovers' signals is so happy and humorous, that though the telegraph was clumsily worked, the effect was telling and complete. Mast notable was the absence of any attempt to adorn this interesting talc with any graces of language. Neither wit, nor eloquence, nor even sustained propriety of diction seems to have been thought of by the author; he has relied on Ids plot only; and though- he has abstained from ' sentiment, sarcasm, jokes and puns, he has been successful. Madame Vestria as the Prihress, and Mr. C. Mathews as Arthur de Solberg, received the applause which the ease and finish of their performance well de served. Miss Emma Stanley as Jlarguerite, sited with the point and spirit which are so peculiarly hers. To Mr. Compton, however, who played the part of Baron Pumpernickel, the author is indebted for the PUCCVMS of the piece. But for Mr. Compton, who gave vitality, reality and I caustic significance to the part Pumpernickel ; who made a character where the author had not conceived one ' • the piece could not have reached the scenes in which it became in teresting, and engaged the sympathies of the audience. The costumes and properties were gorgeous; so loudly, more over, was each new dress and piece of upholstery appinudid that we expected to hear the makers of them tolled fur at the end of the piece ; this compliment, however, •ats cue lined to the actors. etleritaL Yoerrry TOR PROMOTING 11111 rO rI.OVMSMT or ADVITImIAL Cr itATIVI IN Poi. Cwt. PL..rk.-1 be folloring is an snalysts of sixty app:iw. tiltss made to thia society since January 1, 1' II ; tom, 41 applie .tions fur aid towards the maltiLenatce of curates, and 17 fur maws from tow endowment fund, of which M are for assistance In the erection ut parsonage Amman The poptdations of these CONN NIT as follos. :- 2 that 10,000 to 12,14.10 II front 3,000 to 1,000 1 „ 8,000 „ 5,001 „ 2,000 „ 2,0•0 I 5 „ 11,000 „ 7.000 10 „ 1040 „ :,000 6 „ 3,000 „ (I „ 200 „ 1,600 ,„ 4,000 5,. 05; „In one case the annual value of the thing slightly exceeds 4001., and in another 3.0 f., but ail the rem:limier are below 2.10 f. per atimmi, and sweater 12.1!. cacti. The incembents wier to contnbtite was, varying from Illf. to SO/. making a total of 1,0101. to tuna grants tor the styport of curates. 7A^ "ion; Maisel in local ountritoutions amount W 10,501 f. to meet grants In aid of endowment. Of West at applii,4ollS, wily 13 have been aided at percent. NAVAL. MANNINO TIIE NATT.—We are glad to perceive that the present Board of Admiralty have resolved to adopt mea sures to obviate the dillicult) of procuring seamen fur vessels fitting for sea. That the last maritime resources of this country will eventually be made available fur the navy with out having recourse to the objectionable system of impress ment we have little doubt. The Secretary to the Admiralty has already announced that apt in is under the consideration of the Board, by which it is expected to realise this object. In the meantime, in order that the seamen already in her Majesty's service may not be lost to it when their respective ships are paid off, the fuilowili.; circular has been issued from the Admiralty, dated September 1, 1846: e In all future caws, when any of her Majesty's ships is about to be paid off, their lordships dc-ire it may he &Madly explained to the men that, if they choose too:mu/me in the "mice, they may have a mouth or six weeks* leave of absence, during which time their lane and pay will go on, and that they will be at liberty to join any of her Mape,ty'a ships fitting out at any of the purls upon their return from such hove. Their lord.hipa further i.e , ere that every fatuity may given to the men to deposit their hammocks, clothes, ate., in the dockyarda, during their duty on shoes, in the manner presenheo cv their memorandum dated Apri! 13, I ai2, the object of which the it iordshipa desire may be fully Improved upon the men, and the T, lotion strictly attended to.—By aunumuid of their lordehipa, "ti. G. WAIW. To a ll nag.officera, Commando rehin-Cbief, Captains, and Com manders of her Majesty', Ships and Vessels." WooLWILIT— IVilliana and Mary yacht, Myrtle, Swallow, GrappAr, Dwarf, and Con fl ict steam vessels; Adrcnture and Dili gence, naval tranport-, in harbour. Acheron and Monkey, steam vessels, in duck. Amph ion, 36 guns, Sphynz, a. v., Geyser, a. v., Mara, a. v., Ariel, a. v., Vixen, a. v., Eclair, a. v., in the basin. The rowler, s. v., was towed to Deptford, on Monday, to be docked at that yard. The Acheron, a. v., is ordered to be paid off to•day for re-com mission. Lieut. A. It. Dunlap is appointed to commission her with a crew of 60 men. The Conflict, a. v., 1,000 tons and 400 horse-power, arrived in the river on the sth. She is to be propelled by the screw ' • her engines are being pre pared by Messrs. Seaward and Capel ; she is ordered to be docked at Deptford. In consequence of the marines, at present quartered in the Royal Artillery Barracks, being required to leave, and the new Marine Barracks not being yet completed, the Lords of the Admiralty have ordered the Helm receiving ship to br pupated fur their reception until the barracks are ready. She was laid alongside the wharf yesterday, and will be prepared as soon as possible. The Swallow, s. T., Master• Commander Bryant, arrived at Wool wich last night. ROTAL NAVAL BENEVOLENT Some - re.— The reported withdrawal from the Royal Naval Benevolent Society of Admiral Sir Robert Stopfrd, its president, has given great pain to, and caused great sensation amongst, its members and the profession generally, especial!y as the gallant admir.l's withdrawal from it is attributed to an offence offered to him by an official, when he icter:ered in behalf of a young lady, an officer's orphan, who has been deprived of the benefits of the charity through that official's hostility. Admiral Sir R. Codringtoa has, for a similar reason, given notice of his re signation, and many other officers will, it is said, also resign for the same cause. Arroommxters, Sept B.—llidshiyman : R. Bateman, to Ercer, ,t. Lieutenants: S. S. More and J. A. liudgskin, to lieragation. tantsSurgeons H. (Magas; M.D., and J. E. Guyon, to Clerk, Z. Slaney; and Second-Maa.er, W. I. Harris, to -far, Master's-Assistant : E. W. Grant, to Caledonia. Surgeon R. McLe ( Superintendant of Tory convict ship. Sir J. G. Sinclair, ad tonal, Victory, to superintend packet service, Southampton. PIIONOTIoN.—Mr. G. Parier to be Lieutenant, and appointel a Ile tional of ilidernia. SPORTING. LATEST HEWING AT MANCHESTER. BT. LEGER. 7to 2 apt Sir Tattoo Elyko , t; 12 to 1 apt Tato to 1 Riccardo 14 to 1 ('ranebrook Bto 1 Trarereer 13 to 1 Free Lance 9to 1 Fancy Boy (t) 30 to 1 Torn Tullio. b 1u to 1 (irinuton GREAT YORK.I4IRE HANDICAP. 7 to 1 apt Quadruped (t) 6 to 1 apt Dow' I. 7 to l June (t) j 10 to 1 Bravimicao 6 to 1 Morpeth ROCHESTER AND CHATHAM RAO'S.— A ILextizekr of 10 sots. each h ft, and only 2 if added. The second to ease Ida make. • Mr. J Bentleys Pimento, 7st . (Garnell) 1 A '*: • Mr. Dockeisrs Lady Charlotte, t 2 Mr. Smith's na Tell, fet 81b le • Mr. Knowles's The Widow, 7st bib ;.6 4r Mr. Jackson's Syntakiza, bet Kb . Feat beat won by a head C.:fi ; the sewed, added Ada fllAlg to and Lady C'hariotte ; the third, wan an the pea b 4t. t fourth by two lengths ; and the Mb nay Sy la • n 7144; 41:figil 1