The Express. — London, England, 1846-11-25 00:00:00

ter has j ust b ees of ragged khooli its where such en MM. my other part of th e rest, Mile-end New ed there a me tine ildinir in which it Was to rapirilpincrcuing ihErlY laurr premises pose, and the openi eg tea-party, hu e , t h e d as chairman, and of ining districts. The pee able, the greater !it tea was finished, a Champnevs ; and lie said that ose of celebrating the ea established in that essities of so lame a sure that the district egleeted one, and he . assemblage, beam good spirit in which d who had Mound ney in order to estab Ming generatMn from forefathers had been r,joiced to say this parts of the metre. se state of society is a given the name ri borne in mind that it was not meant ;es offered by these to the class called at in the present rate s of persons in con such a state of mon! Id not just now find their children. ,To been established, and sry purpose; bat and criminality con must those echooh re. to do their utmost is hey might rescue the egradation into which of poverty existed, as lam described, so long resent character. He of the Ragged Union, ce of this clue of with certainty that sl ; that in many fo greatly benefited of schools of a higher :1 which, within the children into aerie, deirraded, the son the metropolis - that he rejoiced ceseity for which sw is hands by the &M. : in which they then fich were occupied by ; of all the inhabS 105 attended public ided Sunday saheb; ins, there were only their determination. acentives to increased event, as they were a wlyance the MM. the following gentle . Champne7s, - Newlett. oral subscnptions were Lord and another at approving of the our pointing Lord Ashley f the institution, were to his lordship, which ns, and the meeting G AND INVESTUEST ig of this society err vs, BislifiPsgat eltle4 tic purpose of en 01100 issued, about 100 hr. ring on the 17th owing member. 1!:.t be i ng .2 4 , per sem , eof is. The as 00e half years, and share . will then receive 100 k will have subscribed. o whom advances hire ithin the slme peva. by PaYing Wri ~es. '1 he chief aelesie a similar chiiractee it guineas; thee il llG fines on transfer, INVESTSIENT COl g of this conljn r : 'offee-house, l'a" f 7 o meeting was c ' receiving su ,n bscrip formevae chairman t.s, the total amou nt of , 1. laugh.) In relell. chairman !mid that Lt f r unsuc cessful :P p e Vanc e money at fi re successful by the e 4 would do so. in eer2 nted, and where he necessary fornlitZ gone thro u gh he prizes, alerelqet",, V m . Palmer, the _•. .er fur 2.50/. The d reet: ,tions and to enrol ated. A public Meeting IrSl lons of the Western Law cster.square, to pelitl. leposea and exiled Western h illness) of Major-tiew to take the chair, called en t o p L i rmili ebusiness, gave a Ts o f the rajah's career, teen subjected, obseri+ against the authorities _ss accused rajah had 1 10 ; himself or his ate t N, r agent or empleYe _,„°' that platform was 01.'14 .ement ill reference toe': accredited representsr; tent, but being reprints he produced.a de7 case of the Rajah of ot by a gentleman 0.1.•. ❑ rue case have already .. . o . w st of our reitclem. are ...throned about E tour:: 1, of false rer,resentst?„7 1 that he IVA never "1 roduced against him, Ms; r. F. ltowiton moved _a. anon of the me eting trortled. At the clog!. ate hour, a petition to r t #lN terriew, sest a r, yesterday, Mr. E. w . j r . :!ta of th e .„ti!eit "e*rge GreFT, 7 and Lad y 36. at their retid omoe 4 ri g Part) . yetter t i ty its y estkrday fu .day evenin g fr om Ceylon. - TO C. La ce ., ' l ir Parser ye r r e - 7' div phew of the Bari to v.iseettt cla m , b *lng oa a Tim t a removed to he r h elm Ice Hes has had t e e we are so severe thee ti n thh : n a uh ► ed M u ir • COluat r i ts aszie e d,`•ift innum . The obey s wild at% khaki..? only Are hey bey P I , Tcau b e i nuneoit k th e i r i Ocu lar , and h int( rei e , 'Jill: fCC in 001, h a d at hequer et, ant i "aortal% w ith Earl ILS. 4111 .„ a dopted, we believe, unaninati oily oiling for 0 . tne case of the ' , jab. - ENTION OF TUE OVERLAND MAIL Nu' MALTA. inefficiency of the packets employed for the Gonvey sees of bindian Overland Mail from Marseilles to Melts, subject of complaint. Yesterday the Pest bildfieeonagemorities aprised_ the _publ with that the Orients!, „ Al ia o iled on the 25th of October the mails for India, Chinaand Egypt, vin Southampton, left Malta on the Bth lest without the mails despatched from London on the 27th of w e ber via Marseilles, the paeket conveying these mails Marseilles to Malta not having reached that island till logo ' tae 11th inst. To SEWAGE COMPANY AND THE CITY AIITIIO- m , Sir .—lt is not accessary here to enter into the practicability pia of the Metropolitan Sewage Manure Company, winch i a te questi y on for scientific men, further than by remarking that co nsidering the m hence of the eminent engineers ...yd. the select committee decided upon the plans of the cam- Cr reference to the other schemes submitted ; but I may be Ode, ask your correspondent "A. T. 8.," when and where the its laying the pipes of the company in the shore, " were care- C o nstand by the Navigation Canunittee I" There is, however, one yisi s g agrat whgb must tot be permitted to pass uarchited, as it spa swifts committee which could scarce l y have been more etMas i mmantra. The rals-ststenumt is—that amongst the threit . Prorrtus tot alone riroot one moteri nf o untouniled riarZeirljrs c ommittee was ever so regi'stered on ; not e . sw dor perrowdly at pecuniarily interested in the company itself, er it is &Kw wean to say he would have been disqualitied to act cs , me emmittee. The sole motive that influenced the more active bars of the committee in promoting its objects, being a sincere aosviction of their importime to the public at large ; and most lade ana generously did they discharge their duties.—A eosins:qt. bly Itgaer.a—Nor. 24. • INDIA SALT MONOPOLY.--We understand that no fewer than nine memorials have been forwarded to the Indian authorities against the salt monopoly. They emanate from commercial bodies in Cheater, Worcester, Blackburn, Manchester, and Liverpool. GREstLtM COLLEGE—Sir,—A late article in the Egress, on the scientific lectures in the Metropolis, finishes by saying, "in addition to these, there are the chimera professorships of Gresham College." I have had an opportunity of inspecting the book, in which are regu larly registered the numbers of persons present at each lec ture in that college ; and I find that, up to this morning, the v erge attendance' during the present term, has been 84 to each class. A MACHINE FOR PRINTING TWELVE THOUSAND SEEETS Hot:R.—We Were yesterday shown the model of a printing machine, which we have little hesitation in designating a stride in the already wonderful progress that has been made in the printing art during the last five and tweet' years. The steam press by which the Express is printea is, we believe, the fastest because the newest, and, consequently, provided with the latest im provements —at present in existence; yet, the average number of copies it produces within the hour is .5,000. The improved machine is calculated to print upwards of 12.000 per hour m ; and after a careful examination of the model, we have every reason to believe that the calculation is correct. —To persons unacquainted with the detail of printing machinery it will be next to impossible to convey a complete idea of the improvement, simple as is the principle on which it has been effected : a general notion mar, however, be given. For the benefit of the uninitiated, we must premise that the present printing ma chines consist of two principal parts; first, of a sliding table, the middle of which is occupied by the type, each end having a surface on which the ink is distributed, and from which it is taken up by soft elastic rollers, and imparted to the type ; secondly, of cylinders con stantly. revolving, to which the sheets are conveyed by tapes, impreied by the periodical sinking of the cylinders upon the type, and conveyed away again by the tapes, By the present plan, as the impressing cylinders revolve in one direction, an impression can only be taken at each forward tran sit of the t)pe ; the cylinders being lifted, to clear the type as it travels back again. In other words, the type posses under each cylinder twice to produce one impression. The new, or, as it is aptly termed, "The Double-action Machine," takes advantage of bath passages of the type under its cylinders, printing a sheet as the type passes backward as well as when it goes forward. This is managed by reversing the revolu tions of the cylinders at each stroke, simply by means or straight rocks placed upon the long edges of the table, in which work cog wheels attached to the axles of the cylin ders. In this double action resides the main ft ature of im provement. It not only shows of two sheets being printed for one, but—by disencumbering the steam-press of the machinery necessary fur lifting the cylinders that they may clear the table at each return—admits of the introduction of eight cylinders into the machine instead of four, the present maximum number. By this ac cession seven sheets arc printed in the time of four —the natural supposition would be eight sheets; hut a pecu liarity it would be impossible to explain in this paragraph prevents the double action being imparted to the two outside cylinders, which constantly revolve us of old, in the same direction ; and which reduces the ratio of production ono sheet per stroke of the machine. There are many minor advantages derived from the application of the new principle, that would, if described, involve the general reader in a maze of technicalitiess which would not be, to him, very. interesting. The inventor and patentee is Mr. 'William Little, publisher of the Illustrated London News. We are told that his first draught of the invention was so correct, that in making the modelf no t the the m i n utest alteration was found necessary—a proo soundness of the mechanical principle from which he started. PRICE OF LAN D.—Yesterday, by an order from the Court of Chancery, a piece of land, known as the Gospel Oak and Five-acre fields, lying between Kentish-town and Hampstead, so called inconsequence of the bishops preaching the Reformation at that locality, beneath an oak, which is at present standing there in the last stage of decay, was put up to auction at the Gray'a-inn Coffee-house,for the purpose of the erection of villas. The land was exonerated from land-tax and tithe free, save a payment of 4d. mr acre, end a pay ment of 4s. yearly rent to the lord of the manor of Totten ham ; it formerly being copy} old of inheritance of the manor of Tottenham. There were but little more than two acres, which sold for 1,4001., or 7001. an acre. THE FIRE IN CLEBEENWELL. The factory destroyed by the fire noticed in our paper of yesterday was upwards of 120 feet long by GO or 70 feet wide, It was filled with goods, some finished and others partially. Although the firemen laboured most incessantly, they were un ible to get the fire entirely extinguished until nearly six o'clock. Te save the contiguous dwelling., the firemen were forced to mount the roofs at the time the flames were playing around them, and eo direct the branches of their engines as to let the water run over the fronts and tops of the build ings. Although diligent search has been made, nothing teuding to throw any light as to the cause of the disaster could be ascertained. When the factory was closed the pre vious night everything appeared perfectly safe. We are given to understand that upwards or 100 men will be thrown out of employment by the calamity. The following is Mr. Braidwood's official report of the damage done : Meters. Palmer's factory, in Allen-street, burned down, and contents destroyed—insured in the Phoenix ; Nos. 1,2, 3, and 4, C,omptoneourt, let out in tenements—fronts scorched, and window-ell, demolished. Nos. 5,6, and 7, several squares of glass broken in buildings and damage to furniture by removal. No. GI, Compton-street, J. Holland, engineer's tool maker, back front scorched. N 0.62, ditto, Mr. S. Hill, watch and cluckmaker, similar damage. No. 63, ditto, like damage. No. 64, G. W. Young, licensed victualler, damage to stock by removal and some glass broken. Messrs. Hooper, blacklcad-mills, roof damaged by fire and cutting away, insured in the Norwich Union office. ACCIDENTS YESTERDAY.—EmiIy White, aged 18 months, whose parents reside at No. 12. Bermondsey-street, Southwark, had been placed in a chair by its mother, and during her temporary absence, a saucepan of boiling water fell from the fire over her face, arms, and neck, whereby she was frightfully scalded. She was removed to Guy's Hospital, whither she was conveyed in a blanket, in dreadful agony : and Rebecca North, aged five years, residing at No 1, Grange walk, Bermondsey, whilst standing on the fender, set fire to her clothes, and, before the flames were extinguished, she was sheckingly burned : she was taken to the same hospital. Sht hopes are entertained of the recovery of either. INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—DEATII FROM APOPLEXY. —By Mr. W. Payne, at the Red Lion, Aldersgate-street, on the body of James Wring, a hawker, aged 48. The body, when viewed by the coroner, lay in a damp under ground kitchen, at No. 2, Barbican-court, which in do. fiance of the new Building Act, had been let to the deceased and his wife for a sleeping apartment. Deceased, early en Sunday morning, paid a visit to a person named Carr, resid ing in Bullock-court, Whitecros.s-street. Whilst there he was taken seriously ill, and became insensible. He was taken home, hut medical aid was not procured until seven o'clock at night, when Mr. Cross, surgeon, of Aldersgate, taw him and sent him an emetic, supposing from the dis tended state of his stomach that he had been drinking. This he could not swallow, and about half-past nine o'clock the surgeon again saw him, and then bled him, declaring, how ever, that the case was hopeless.. Mr. Cross attributed death to apoplexy. Verdict, " Died from natural muses," the the regretting that so much time was lost before the deceased received medical aid.-- DEATH lay A BAG OP Hors.—By Mr. Payne, at St. Bar tholomew's Hospital, on the body of Benjamin Gunter, a porter at the White Horse, Friday-street. Deceased, on Thursday morning last, was walking up the yard, when a pocket of hops, which was being lowered from one of the warehouses, struck against a beam, on account of being pushed nut too far, and fell upon the deceased, knocking him down. Ile was picked up, and brought to the hospital, where he died on Monday, from compound fracture of the left leg. Mr. Mansell, deceased's late master, said be was a most faithful servant, and had been with him upwards of 25 Tome Verdict, "Accidental death."—DEATH WHILE OLEEPtNG.—By Mr. Bedford, at the Coach and Horses , york.strect, Westminster, on the body of Ann Taylor, aged 66. Deceased was an inmate of some almshousesbelongtng to the pariih, situated adjacent to the above tavern. She was last seen alive on Thursday, the 19th inst. She was disco !creel lying outside the bed, with her clothes on, and quite dead. Her countenance was placid. and it is supposed she had died in her sleep. Verdict, " Natural death."---Seo !JEN DEATH OF A SOLICITOIL.-1/ Mr. Carter, at the Bull 17, Barnes, upon the body of r. W. H. Cross , aged 66 , " .-inat°rnres' of No 28, Surrey- street , Strand, and the Terrace , at . . Catherine Brooks, cook in the service of the deceased, deposed that on Sunday morning, about 10 o'clock, she was call e d by h er m i s t ress i n to her master's bed-room, and she th ere f oun d hi m l y i ng i n bed in an apparent fit, his rice had turned black, and his eyes closed Before the arrival ' of a medical man her master was dead. He came home on Saturday night apparently well, and in excellent spiri — ts.— tff Rohkrt Willis said he had lately attended the deceased Lor e ? , acute gout and a very bad chronic convulsive cough. slo:Ztihilmninot present at deceased's dissolution, but be under- Mrs. Cross that he was seized with a violent it, and that he never recovered his breath, the conse quence was that he died of spasms in the glottis or windpipe. —Verdict, " Died from natural causes." THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 25, 1846. accusation that they had published a calumny respecting hies as a landlord. The answer of the Times was that Mr. O'Connell had not denied that the tenantry whose miserable condition was depicted hi the article referred to, were his. Mr. O'Connell showed from the reports inserted in the local journals, and from the government reporters' notes—a copy of which he Lad —that he had made that denial, and stated that thq were the tenantry of an absentee landlord. He complained of such unfair conduct on the part of the Times. Mr. Sveztit said it was quite consonant with the Times' refusal to publish Mr. O'Connell's reply to the attacks of the Times Commiseianer, even an advertisement. Mr. O'CONNELL nett proceeded to urge the Repeal war dens to activity in the co2leetion of the Repeal rent, and to attend to the registries. lie praised the activity manifested in Waterford, and recommended the example of Alderman Delahunty, of that city, as worthy of imitation. Mr. BARNETT BARRY, of Mallow, lamded in 31. from that town, and announced that no man had any chance before that constituency at the next election `nit an O'Con nellite Repealer. Some more money having been acknow ledged, Mr. O'CoethEtt said he was prepared to bring up his re port upon the disunion existing amongst Repealer!, and in doing so, wished to say that no man was more anauous than he was that the friends of Ireland should be joined band in hand to restore to her her parliament; but be beliz.ved it was impossible, for it would be seen by the report he was about reading that the question between the Old and Young Ireland parties was, in point of fact, should the am elation adopt the doctrine of " physical force" or not ? (Cheers. ) The hon. gentleman then proceeded to read the answers to the resolutions passed several months since at Cork. It was an extremely lengthy document drawn up, and signed by his hand ; the substance may, however, be briefly stated. Mr. O'Connell opened by noticing the fact that though the gentlemen assembled at Cork recommended that the resolu tions of the 13th July, 1846, against which the " Young Irelanders" protest, and which they say were intended to pro duce their secession from the association, these gentlemen had failed to paint out any particulars of phraseology or substance in which they should be altered. For himself he was not wedded to the words, but if he could find others to express his sentiments as contained in the re solutions more strongly, he would use them. But he could not modify any sentiment in them—it was unwise, and would be unsafe. Ile then went into a brief history of the agitation for emancipation, showing how he conducted it upon the policy of peace and obedience to the law to a suc cessful issue, and taunted his opponents for such a return for fifty years of public service, as was evinced in this at tempt to gainsay his successful policy and to depose himself. The Report was inserted on the minutes, and the rent for the week announced at £34185. 9d. Courtona;. solicitor, of Leeds, appeared to dispute the adju dication of Luikruptcy under a fiat issued against the Earl of Mexborenin., as a dealer in railway shares sod stock. Mr Smith, ' , elicitor, ot Birmingham, appeared for t2lc petition ing creditor, Mr. Jole of London. The case was a djourned till Tuesday in consequence of the alleged unsroid std. ab sence of a witness to prove the trading; acd yeaterd.l the petitioning creditor abandoned his adjadication. A NEW CEMETERY in about to be established in the Isle Wight. It is stated that a parcel of land in the parish of • Carisbrooke, known as the " White Pit," has been offered the committee ; but if the eject of their choice can be pur chased, a piece of ground on Stapler's Heath, and within a mile of the town, will be selected. 3PSSEX. BREAKWATER AT BRIORTON.—A town meeting was held at Brighton on Monday, the High Constable in the chair, to take into consideration a communication from the Brighton Suspension Pier Company respecting their intention to con struct a fixed breakwater at the south end of the pier, for its protection, and to afford shelter to ships, steam-packets, fishing-boats, and other vessels, and to facilitate the embar kation and disembarkation of passengers and goods. Mr. Charles Cooper, the solicitor to the pier company, having introduced Sir Samuel Brown and Sir Charles Malcolm to the meeting, proceeded to state the advantages a breakwater would be to the town ofßrighton, and read a paper handed to him by Sir S. Brown explaining the plan for the construction of a fixed breakwater, to be composed of an iron frame with ledges of granite, put together on the beach and floated out to its place in sections. Sir Charles Malcolm addressed the meeting in support of SiiafiTteliroWit ; Xli;;;;il;;;;;ti Mr. Faithfull proposed a resolution to the effect that the breakwater would be highly beneficial to the town, which was carried unanimously. 'l i ke expense of laying down the breakwater on Sir S. Brown's plan, is estimated at 15,0001. A bill will be applied for in the next session. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. CAMBRIDGE" Nov. 24.—dr. ANDREW'S Carrara Cou..—Eleeted to bursaries:—J. Duncan, J. Stewart, A. Campbell, IL Stott, R. Kerr. Parrmundirs.—Rev. T. Crawford to Drumcliffe V., near Sligo— Rec. F. F. MagraUt to Dunaford R.—Rec. H. Murphy to the Head Mastership of the Clergy Sou' School, Lucan—Rec. R. Sadleir to Rincurren, dio. Cork. VAC;;C;u7. l ginad-Town P.C., Wilts, dio. Salisbury ; by the pro motion or the Rey. E. W. Tulnell—lleighington Grammar School, Lincolnshire, a mastenhlp Dl nt.lsx, Tpeg;Day.— (C o nti nue d f rom THE OLDBURY COAL-MINE EX.PLOSION. into the o J p o i h t n ou ß F re r t i tt d. l ) l . , resterday.) last; sm inteheS7 v b e l y Q o w r in a g a d. ,g ate tdd Bras had of sulphur, and there was • considerable quanh.v of burnt sulphur in the " drawing " gate-road. I requite. 'd that the air-heads might be cleared out. I have ulways found more sulphur in the crop; if the air-heads in this mine Z , ad been =tried to the back of the workings the gas would have been carried away. I never knew (asin this ease) men wort. is the crop 120 feet from the air-headings. I examined all the old dams and bolt-holes ; they were all tree from sul phur, ex, 'opt a small portion at one pace. The air-hew.ings in the mint: are in the usual way ; they are seldom driven tothe wor ki ngs i i 4, - he deep of the mine. Mr.J.Yardley another mine ' surveyor, corre'borated the evidence of the preceding witness, and sa id, i n a ddi k 'on, that he considered the principal defect in working the mine was the side near the crop ,• that much dirt carne out in repairing the air-trough ; and that there might have been two tons of dirt in eighty yards of air heading. Haynes, the ground-bailiff, made • voluntary explanation as to why the workings had been carried on in the crop without more n.ir. The substance of this was that work would have been exhausted in a fortnight, and that it was expected there was .air sufficient to ventilate for that time. The jury, after a quarter of an hour's deliberation, re turned a verdict of "Manslauchter against Thomas Haynes, the mine-surveyor." OLDBURY, TUESDAY.—The I. Anil') here has proceeded to-day. The evidence adduced sea v chiefly that of the mine eurveyors who had been appointe. l to examine the pit, and of course varied little from that given by those gentlemen in the examination at Dudley. Charles Kennedy, a minor, said: " worked at this pit until within the last two years. The last side of work I was employed in was at the farthest end from the shaft. I can not say how far It was from the shaft, but the air-spout, in stead of being driven sufficiently into the wo.-ks, was stopped about one hundred yards from it. The w't-way should, in my opinion, have been carried round the back of the work. I complained of the sulphur many times to all the bottles. Whilst I worked at the pit, there was some times a flame of sulphur as long as my finger. It frequently happens that there is sulphur in one part of a wine and not in another ; and it frequently happens that men work in the part where there is no sulphur; but not in that where it exists • but this I consider to be very dangerous. I was twiceburnt in this pit. There is much danger in it, because of the want of ventilation. Mr. John Brettell, the mine-survevor, was next exa mined. The main points in his evidence will be found above. The additional facts elicited were the following : In me judgment there should have been a pair of doors at the top or the new gate-road, and the air-head continued up to the boundary of that side of work in the crop where the men were at work. It was the duty of the " bottle "in the pit to inform the ground bailiff if anything was wrong in the pit; that officer generally inspects the pits under his management once a week. The doggie" or the " buttie " would be most likely to kilo , : that the doors ought to have been put up, and the air-way driven to the boundary of the side of work in the crop. In making a survey of the pit, the ground bailiff would be likely to discover this, but not so much so as the " doggie "or the " buttie." The men at the work in the crop would have to " brush away any sulphur that might have accumulated there, as there was no air. There was only one fortnight's supply of coal in the crop. Mr. John %ardley, another mine surveyor, said that his examination had convinced him there had been fire in the crop, inasmuch as some candles which had been left stuck on a pillar were completely melted. lie considered Holland, the " buttie," to hive been a careful, steady, prudent man, and a good collier. Holland, the son of the late "bottle," being re-called, said that he never heard kis father or the doggie make any complaint to Haynes of a want of ventilation, or of as: exist ence of sulphur in the pit ; or the want of doors or air-heads —and from what he knew of his father's habits, he did not rot believe he would have worked in any pit where he knew there was danger. Mr. Stubbs, attorney of Birmingham, who appeared for the owner of the mine, next called James Stansfield, a buttie collier, who stated that he had been employed in mines upwards of forty-three years ; that he was at present engaged in a colliery half-a-mile from that in which the accident occurred; that on the morning of the explosion, his melt went down into the mine as usual ; but, after being down half au hour, they came up, because the work was full of sulphur. He after wards went down himself, and discovered a vast accumula tion of sulphur in the work ; the sulphur came from seven to nine yards to the mouth of the air-head, and they were not, in consequence, able again to work it until the following Saturday. The Coroner recapitulated the facts as detailed in evidence, and the jury, after an hour's deliberation, returned a verdict of " Accidental death ;" but expressed an opinion that they considered great neglect was to be attributed to the ground bailiff, for the imperfect ventilation of the works. There are two other inquests yet to be held; but the same evidence is to be adduced. Nark-31:111y of the witnesses speak of " sulphur " as being the cause of this explosion, and their phraseology has been in this particular preserved in our reports of thls inquiry ; it L 4 proper to state, how ever, that there is no such thing as sulphur in these mines; the explo sions arise from " tire-damp " only. IRELAND. DUBLIN, MONDAY, Nov. 23. THE EARL Or DEVON'S DEPENCE.—A few days past a letter appeared in the Mail referring to the condition of the Devon estate, and imputing to the local representatives of the noble Earl conduct unbecoming generous or considerate minds. To this the noble Earl has replied in the Mail of this evening : TO TIM EDITOR 01 vim ETTNINO MAIL. NEwcarn.v., Nov. 18.—Sir,—In your paper of the 13th inst. you put forth some statements founded apparently upon a letter written by some person not named, which re,er directly to the Devon estate, and contain so much of falsehood that I cannot allow them to pan uncon tradieted. If your paper was circulated only in this neighbourhood, I should have left these remarks without notice, ',mouse evet yone here, not excepting, sal believe. the anonymous informant, must know them to be wholly unfounded. But readers at a distance may naturally sup pose that a respectable journal would not give currency pointed ag 'Jost individuals upon authority not named, without intending to represent theta as just; and it becomes neoereary, therefore, even for your own sake, that you should receive more correct information. I can make a pretty good guess at the writer of the letter, but I will sot give even a hint upon this paint, lest I should be mistaken, and thus coat a suspicion upon some me undeserving of it. The letter-writer takes upon him to assert, that the entire of the March rents, and part of the September rents are paid, and insinuates that these latter have now for the first time been called in so early. It is wholly untrue that the whole, or even one-third of the March rents are paid, or have been called for. It is wholly untrue that any part of the September rents have been called in, or any part paid, except, perhaps, one, two, or three tenants (out of more than four hundred), who take a pride in voluntarily paying their rents as somas due. It is certain, on the other hand, that much of the rent due at September, 1843, as well as no small portion of previous armor, still remain unpaid. So much fur the writer's statement of facts. An insinuation is there made, upon the authority of a New castle man, which, from the context, must be taken to rckr to myself, that the only rents pant with satisfaction are those of Ma iientee landlords, who are "out of the way of suffering Personal vio lence." This is grounded either upon information wilfully false, or upon an ignorance of and criminal carelessness as to the truth. Since January last I have resided nearly six months at this place, and dur ing that time I have been constantly in the way of personal violence, both in crowded meetings of labourers, and in my solitary walks and rides through the property, supposing that apprehension was disposed to offer it—but I certainly have never had any of this, because I know the generous nature of Irishmen ; and I know that, during a connexion of more than forty years, I never experiencersnal Boma, much km personal lence. Crider these c d ircu pe matane o m, I trust that you will think it due to the character of your paper, after satisfying yourself by in quiry from some witnesses less partial than myself, to admit your mistake, and to disabuse your renders upon points respecting which you have tinged them. The position of an Irish landlord, or an Irish agent, is painful enough, under any circumstances, at this time; and It It, too had that theireonduct and character should be assailed bymis representations made current through the public press.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant 4 Davos. ARRIVALS OF I'OREION CORN AT CORK.—Nine vessels laden with foreign corn arrived at Cork from Thursday to Saturday last. Several of those before arrived at that port had departed for other stations in the south and west of Ireland. FALL IN THE PRICE OP FOOD.—The Sligo Champion says that Indian meal has fallen in the markets of Sligo from 181. to 161, per ton. The government also had pur chased a cargo of 400 tons from one of the chief merchants, destined, no doubt, for the relief of the poor on the north and north-eastern coasts, which have no convenient markets for the sale of provisions. IRISH PRIVATE BILLS.—In addition to the railway bills for the ensuing session, notices have been served for the promotion of thirteen private bills. Of these nine are for the improvement of harbours, lake, and river, navi gation. One in particular deserves some notice, namely, to incorporate a company for the purpose of draining Lough Neagh. This is the largest inland sea in the British islands, bordered by the counties of Derry, Antrim, Tyrone, Armagh, and Down, and its area estimated at 100,000 acres. It pre sents above 100 miles of coast in a country teeming with an intelligent and industrious population ; and by the Newry, Ulster, and Logan canals it is placed in communication with a large portion of the north, and promises to be the centre of an immense internal traffic. It is not probable the legislature will sanction the drainage of this noble sheet of water to enable the border proprietors to divide among them 100,b00 additional acres. THE LATE STORlL—Aecounts pour in from the country containing descriptions of the fearful ravages committed by the storm, more particularly on the sea-coast. The Reporter gives an account of the loss of property on hoard the Ajax steamer, which plied between Cork and London. She left Cork on Thursday for London, with a very large cargo, principally consisting of live stock and provisions. When forty miles from land, the storm rose with tremendous fury, and heavy seas struck the vessel with such force as to tear away the bowsprit and smash in the forecastle deck. It was found necessary that she should be lightened, and much of the live stock was thrown overboard. Out of ninety three head of cattle on board, only twenty were this morn ing landed alive. The fury of the gale continued till day break, when the captain put back, and arrived at the quays this morning,with all on board in &miserable plight. The deck passengers suffered the greatest hardships, and their appear ance when landing was most heart-rending, many of them being bruised, their clothes torn, and their limbs swollen from being crushed together during t he greater part of the time. SHIPWRECK AND Loss or LIPS.—The Jessie Torrens, Wm. Skead, master, went on shore yesterday morning near the coast guard station at Donny Cove, near the Galley Read, and will be a total wreck-11 or 12 men are saved out of a crew of 20. This vessel was timber laden, and bound from Quebec to Liverpool. Another vessel was seen near Clonakilty, at the west side of the entrance to that harbour, and is mvpmed to have gone down. REPEAL ASSOCIATION. —THIS DAY. The usual vieekly meeting of this association was held in Conciliation-hall t o -day. The body of the hall was very crowded. Michael Dunne , Esq., J.P., was called to the chair. Mr. O'Corizau, referred to the reply of the Times to his NAVAL. Pt.rmorrir, Nor. 23.—The BfenVe;; transport, Lieut. Edward Ward, agent, arrived from Wcolaich with a detachment of Royal Artillery, bound to Jamaica, in want of a topsail and topsail-yard. Captain M. U. Dixon, of the Caledonia, 120, is ordered to me his brat endeavours to procure first-class boys for general sersice ; mane but stout, tall, growing lads, from 16 to 19 years of age, will be re ceived ; preference to be given to thaw brought up to the sea, but agricultural labourers, who may give promise of becoming useful bandit and good seamen, may be entered. Fifty , tirat-class boys, in addition to those already ordered, are to be ',Recharged into the Scourge, Commander Catlin, for the disposal of Sir W. Parker; all sapeniumeraries for ships under the orders of the Vice-Admiral are aim Lobe discharged tothe Scourge. Queen, 110, Capt. Sir Henry J. Leeke, moved from the harbour Into the Sound this day (24th). Iler crew will be paid wages down to 141 months, after which it is said she will sail to join the squadron under the command of Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker. Poirrsisorru, Nov. 24.—The .Irnoyer steam frigate went out this morning to try her engines, and to ascertain whether she be in an effective Mate, tf required for service. The Ref ribgtion steam frigate will go out to-morrow to try bey engines, and some gentlemen of experience, ordered by the Admiralty, will proceed in her, to report on the question whether she be too weak for her engines, or the engines too weak in themselves in the various bearings. The Seaurqs steam vessel is gone out to Spithead to take in her powder, and will lease this evening for Lisbon, calling at Plymouth. The l'olyphoolis steam sloop, Commander M•Cleverty, is having her detests made good, and will shortly be ready for sea. The /Crab's/ brig, the pro perty of the late Commodore of the Yacht Squadron, has this day been surveyed by the master-builder of this yard, Mr. liocham, to determine whether she is a tit vessel for her Majesty's service, pre viously to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty purchasing her. The hetiad, coal depot, is taking in her supply of coals, and will soon be ready to proceed to her station. Wootwie•, Nor. 21.—The results of the late trial with the Ros ,, mond steam vessel, Commander Foote, was very satisfactory. The paddles were Immersed about three feet two inches, yet by the mile in Long /teach. an average speed of upwards of ten knois wm ob• tamed. The .Sidon Memo vessel, Capt. Henderson, is under orders for immediate departure, and it is expected will leave this port early on Thursday morning. It is not known whether she will stop at Greenhithe to adjust her compasses, or proceed at once to Ports mouth. Tim Erriers or Sitar ON IRON VEISEI).—The information reccived . - - • - ...„. .. from the officers of the Gorgon steam vessel, which has lately arrived from La Plata, gives a very alarming account of the effect produced on the bulls of the Harpy and Lizard iron steam vessels by the shot from the batteries of ROAM. It was expected, from the nature of the material, that env breach made by shot would leave a clean frac ture, merely curling up the lips of the orifice, as Is usual when fractures arc caused in iron by the application of an ordinary force. The results, however, are quite different trusteed of a clean frac ture, large splinters of iron flew about in all directions on the hull being struck, rendering the danger from this cause tenfold more imminent than that prothicel by the shot itself. Several splinters of this kind, struck from the hull ot the Harpy, have been brought home by the officers of the Gorgon, and, amongst the rest, the spline.' ham the angle iron which caused the death of poor Mr. Barnes, the clerk in charge, proving that the tendency to splinter is not confined to the thin sheet iron of the hull, but to the heavier masses which compose the vessel. These results are in accordance with those observed in the experimental trials on hoard the Acer/feat, and they constitute a sad drawback against the general use of iron as a material for vessels of war. Whether the Iron in question is not so malleable as it ought to be, or might be if better wrought, is another question ; for the present, however, the men are alarmed, and those who have wit nessed the effects produced on board the Harpy, declare that they will never go to sea in an iron vessel. PRIZE-MON) , X. -Last night's Getzrf te contains notices to the follow ing effect: that the officers and company of her Majesty's ship Partridge, William Morris, Esq., commander, will, on the loth of December next, at 41, Norfolk-stre,t, Strand, be paid their propor tions of money taken from on hoard the Amerceira, 30th December, 1040, her Majesty's sloop Fown in company; and the shares will be recalled every Wednesday and Thursday for three month,' to come, agreeably to act of Parliament. Distribution: - Commander, It/. 6s. 44d. ; second class, 101. Its. 3d.; third clam, 5!. Ss. 11d.; fourth clam, 31. 10s. Id.; fifth class, 1/. Iss. ; sixth class, to. 41d.; seventh class, Ile. tel. -11altord and Co., Agents. The officers and company of her Majesty's sloop Sappho, the Honourable George Hope, late commander, who were actually on board at the capture of a brigantine, name unknown, on the 22nd of January. 1844, will be paid their respective proportions of the bounty rceeivell for the said vessel, onFriday, the Ilth of December next, at It, Great George-street, Westminster, where the shares nst then demanded will be recalled fur three months. nag, 34/. Os. 31d. ; commander, 64/. 12s. 5d.; first clam, 19/. 16s. 94d.; second close, 111. 18s. Old.; third clam, SC 19s. 01d. fourth class, 31. 19s. ild.; fifth clam, 1/. 19a. lid.; sixth class, I !. fia. 3d.; seventh clam, 13s. 24d.-11allett, Robinson, and Co., Agents. The officers and company of her Majeaty's sloop Ferret, Josiah Oake, F.sq., late commander, who were actually on board at the capture of the Bratillin brig Conceicao Feltz, on the 6th May, 1845, will be paid dicir respective shares of the bounties received for the said brig, on Friday, the 1I th of December next, at 14, Great George-street, Westminster, where the shares not then demanded will be recalled for three months. Commander, 20/. Oa. 91d. ; first class, 8!. 9s. 34d.; second class, 5/. Is. 64d.; third clam, 2!. 108. 91d.; fourth clam, I!. 13s. 101 d.; fifth clam, 16s. lid.; sixth clam, 1 Is. 3d. ; seventh clam, ss. 7;d.-Hallett, Robinson, and Co., Agents. The officers and company of her Majesty's steam vessel Albert, Lieutenant !flood Baynes Cockeraft commanding, will he paid their respective proportions of a sum awarded as salvage, for services rendered to the merchant brig Ocean on the 6th December, 1843, on Thursday, the 10th of December neat, at 22, Arundel-atreet, Strand, where recalls will be made, oa Wednesdays and Thursdays only, during the three fol owing months. Commander, 121. 14s. 6d.; second clam, ed. 4s. 34d.; third clam, 31. 2s. lid.; fourth clam, 2/. Is. 3d.; fifth clam, If. Os. 81d.; sixth clam, 13s. 91d.; seventh class, Ca. 101d.-Thomas Stilwell and Sons, Agents. APPOINTNI-NTS, Nov. 23.-Lieut. Gamins. E. F. Roberts to Myr midon; G. Morris to Torch. Limits : It. G. Simpson to Rattlesnake ; S. J. Briclmell to Albatross. Act. Second Master J. Bobby to Urgent Master's Assistants H. G. S. Jackson and J. B. Haines to 'Birkenhead. Third Engineer W. Ibbett to Antelope. Cleric's Assistant B. Gray to William and Mary. Paomarroxs.-Gunner, lot Class, Thomas Westlake; Boatswain, Ist Class, John 31'Donald. Lath Entelltoence. LAW NOTICES.—Tme DAT. Corer or CHANCERY, Westminster, at 10.—For judgment : Chris tian v. Foster (2). Appeals: Come v. Lowndes, part heard; Walford v. Artie (2); Barfiett v. Green. Vies-Cetierminas' Covers, Westminster, at 10.—Before Sir L. Shadwell. Motions. Before Sir J. Knight Bruce.—Gapier T. New. ley, by order; after which, Motions. Causes, &c.—Vert v. Jones, by order; Pearce v. Pearce (2), part heard; Fuller v. Woods; Edging ton v. Sheppard; Taylor v. Sampeon. Before Sir J. Wigraw. For judgment: Blair c. Bromley; Jordan v. Jones; Pennington v. Buckley ; Porter v. Porter, to be spoke to. Motions. Causes, &c. — Ogle v. Hansard, part heard; Knight v. Knight (2); Lewis v. Tho- Mar ; Bell v. Alexander. Bows Coca?, Westminster, at 10.—Motions; after which, Gar land v. Littlewood, petition by order ; Perry C. Perryman, ditto; Harris v. Farwell, to produce will. Causes, &c. : Ottley v. Gray, part beard ; Willis v. Douglas. The Corals or QUERN'S Banal, COMMON PLR" and Exemancza will sit in Banos. SZCONDARTFA' COVlT.l3iDißahall-ftECCY, at 11.—Jackson T. Ladd ; Gardner v. Hill (2) ; Furze r. Hall; Moore v. Edney ; Saunderson v. Brewer ; Firth v. Hunter; Beck T. Hughes. SCOTLAND. - - - - -- - A LETTER Titom WORDSWORTH.—The following letter front the venerable hard of the Lakes, in reference to that late election of Lord Rector of Glasgow University, will he read with interest: Itydal Mount, Nov. 20.—Sir,--The intelligence conveyed in your letter, written at the desire of the committee fur my election to the high office of Lord Rector of the University of Glaleow, could not but be gratifying : and the more no, as it came upon me without my hosing been aware that I was to be propoied as a candidate. The University and the public will give me credit, I hope, for being less pleased upon this occasion by the honour done to me personally, than by the proof that the majority of votes, though the issue, from pecu liar circumstances, is contrary to the wishes of my friends, affords of the estimation in which literature is held, independent of political coneiderations, among the members of so distinguished an institution. To the committee, and to those gentlemen who nominated and sup ported me, I return my sincere acknowledgments. I beg you will also accept my best thanks for your communication.-11 have the honour, Sir, to be your faithful servant (signed), W. WORDSWORTH. To G. Colville, Esq., Glasgow. STIRLINOSHIRE. COMMISSION@ BY THE LORD LIEU TENANT.—T. C. Burns, Esq., to be Captain, vice Amory; A. H. Urmston, Esq., to be Captain, vice Hamilton—of Stirlingehire militia. AYESHIRE.—COMMISSIONS BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT. —Lieut.-Col. J. Fairlic, to be Lieut.-Col. Commandant, vice W. Montgonterie ; Major Sir C. Lamb, Bart., to be Lieut.- Colonel, vice Fairlie ; Capt. Sir. J. Boswell, Bart., to be Major, vice Sir C. Lamb, Bart. ; Lieut. C. Lamb to be Cap tain, vice Sir J. Boswell, Bart. ; Cornet G. M. Cuninghame to be Lieutenant, vice C. Lamb—of Ayrshire Yeomanry Cavalry. A MEMORIAL TO GOVERNMENT, in favour of conferring a pension on Mr. Sheridan Knowles lies at the bar of the Glasgow Royal Exchange for signature. WALES. THE GALE of Friday visitedtheprincipality. The North Wales Chronicle says blew "great gum" on Thursday night and Friday. Not a few of the wood huts connected with the railway works were turned over, and a great many unroofed. Two masons, when proceediug to their work at Penmaen Mawr, were caught by a whirlwind, lifted some feet high in the air, dashed to the ground again, along which they were carried many yards, just escaping being hurled over the wall down a precipice. One of them lost his pitcher, containing provision for the day, and the last glimpse he bad of it was at a great altitude. A serious mishap befell a company of itinerant actors en route to Conway fair. On this side of Aber, One of the vans was caught by the gale and blown completely over, scattering the was figures, proper ties, and " other groceries " to the winds. Another of the wooden houses must inevitably have gone over the hedge, but for the activity of the King and Hamlet in lashing it to a tree, an operation in which Queen Hecuba assisted, albeit " the winds of heaven visited the royal face roughly." PROVINCIAL. LANCASHIRE. REPRESENTATION OF MANCHESTER.—There is to be a contest for Manchester. On Tuesday morning a placard an. peered on the walls, telling the electors not to ' pledge their votes for Mr. Bright," as "a candidate every way more eligible will be brought forward immediately. ' The more eligible candidate is supposed to be Lord Lincoln. It has had the effect of spurring the friends of Mr. Bright to imme diate action, and it is understood that his friends meet on Thursday night to make arrangements for an immediate canvass. The opposition comprises, along with the Con servatives, some few of the leading malcontent Whip, but it is thought Mr. Bright is "safe" beyond a question. ACCIDENT ON THE EAST LANCASHIRE RAILwAY.—On Monday a very serious accident occurred on this line to the train which left Rawtenstall at 2 p.m. On reaching a bridge which crosses the Irwell, at Spring-side, Rams bottom, the engine went off the rails. It is said that there is an acute curve at this place, and there being pieces of wood fixed along the rails to keep the engine on, one of them had given way, and consequently the flange of the engine wheels came in contact with it, and threw the engine off the line with fearful violence. There were only five carriages attached to the engine, all of which were thrown off the rails. Fortunately, however, the accident occurred in a deep cutting. Several of the passengers were severely injured. One man had one of his feet cut off near the arch of the foot, and the other dreadfully lacerated. A policeman, who was a passenger, was also seriously injured ; it is said one of his legs was taken off, and the other much bruised. A third passenger was also much bruised, and a report was circulated that a fourth was killed. Three of the carriages were broken to _pieces, and the engine and tender much damaged. DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.—MANCHESTER, TUESDAY EVEN INO.—This morning a collision took place on the Manchester and Birmingham portion of the London and North-Western Railway, at Stockport, of a serious character, but fortunately attended with no loss of life. The forty minutes past nine o'clock train, which left Manchester this morning for Lon don, had just passed over the lofty viaduct which crosses the Mersey at Stockport, about seven minutes to ten o'clock, when the engine came in collision with a coal train, one of Lord Vernon's, which had passed the shunts to get upon the London (or up line), about nine minutes to ten o'clock, when the superintendent of the Stockport station stopped it, and told the engineer that the train from Manchester was due in a minute or two, and advised him to back upon the down line until it had Passed. The engineer had proceeded to do so, and the whole of the carriages had cleared the up line, when the passenger train arrived, and came in collision with the tender and engine. The collision was dreadful, causing the engines of the two trains to rear up almost on end, and fail off the line. The front of one engine and the rear ofthc other were broken badly, and one of the buffers of each were bro ken off. The tenders were also considerably damaged. Several of the passengers were severely bruised and injured, and one had three teeth broken. They were all conveyed to the Stockport Infirmary, a very short distance from the spot, and had their wounds attended to. Four of them were able to proceed by the train, which was not, however, in motion till about one o'clock, having been detained three hours. The shunts at which the accident occurred was only EQUITY COI:RTS.—YESTERDAT. seventy yards from the Stockport station, where the passen Before the Master of the Rolls. ger-train was to stop, and it appears the engineer was to FORDYCE O. BRIDOES.—DECREE NOT BINDING ON blame in not having slackened his speed sooner. Indeed, ABSENT PARTIES.—The Master of the Rolls gave judgment the signal was up for him to stop before arriving at the eta- in this case, which was heard last Easter term. The bill was tion, which he ought to have seen at nearly a mile distance. filed by Alexander Dingwall Fordyce, and prayed that it The engineer and guard of the coal train had both jumped might be declared that a decree made in the year 1833 was off their engine before the collision, and escaped unhurt. not bindingupon him. John Dingwall being possemed of Charles Winterbottom, the driver of the passenger-train, large real and personal estates in Scotland and England, by jumped off, and had his ankle sprained, and John Fox, the a deed of entail in the Scotch form, settled his Scotch estates stoker, had his foot caught between the engine and tender, on his grand nephew, John Dingwall, the heir of his body, and slightly hurt. arid on failure of such heir he limited the estates to the other ANOTHER COLLIERY ENPLOSION.—LIVERPOOL, NOT. 24. branches of his famil in strict entail. And on 13th June, —Yesterday morning a dreadful explosion of fire - damp took 180 8 , he made his w ill, giving his English estates to trustees, place at Harvey's Coppell Colliery, near Standish, Lancashire, to the use of his grand-nephew, John Dingwall, with the by which several lives have been lost. It seems that the man usual remainders in strict settlement to his issue, and with whose business it was to renew the fires below omitted to d o remainder over in strict settlement to the other branches of so, at three o'clock in the morning, and in consequence of his family, on whom he had settled his Scotch estates. And their going out, fire-damp accumulated. When he went the testator gave his residue personal estate to the same down at six o'clock, for the purpose of relighting them, an trustees, whom he appointed his executors in trust to lay out explosion took place. Three men were killed, several were the same in the purchase of lands in England or Scotland, as seriously hurt, and it is apprehended that six others in a they should think proper, and to settle the lands purchased different part of the mine have also been killed. TM, report in England to the same uses as his English estates were was brought to Liverpool yesterday morning, but, no other limited by his will, and the lands purchased in Scotland in particulars were known. the same manner as he had settled his Scotch estates. And YORKSHIRE. power was given to appoint new trustees, who were to have COMMISSIONS BY THE LORD-LIEUTENANT. , —Lieut. R. the same discretion, powers and privileges, as were given to T. Lee to be captain, vice Wharton ; Cornet "X. M. E. Mil- the old trustees. The testator died on 28th April, 1812, nor to be lieut. ; B. Markland, Gent., to be cornet, vice leaving his trustees and executors, and J. Dingwall, his Hives,—of West Riding Yeomanry. grand nephew and tenant for life under the will, him our- LEEDS, Nov.24.—CoNsecRATION.— Yesterday (Tuesday) riving. J. Dingwall entered into possession of the English the Lord Bishop of Ripon consecrated another neat little and Scotch estates, and the executors proved the will church which has just been erected. within his diocese, at and administered the personal estate. They had in their East Moor, a benighted portion of the parish of Wakefield. hands et arge residuary personal estate to be laid out under The church is to be called St. Andrew's. the tru of the will, in lands in England or Scotland. An RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—LEEDS AND BRADFORD. —On unlimited discretion, in this respect, waS given 172,4431.t0 the Monday afternoon, as the train which left the Bradford trustees. A ft er the testator's death they laid out station at four o'clock, was •,.”.eeeeding to Leeds, in con - in the purchase of lands in Scotland, and only a small sum in sequence, as is said, of some s iriama aagement by the points- the purchase of lands in England. For twenty yet.rs and man, the engine ran off the 'line and across the parallel rails, upwards the estates were enjoyed by the grand-nephew, whereby the passage of thc_ trains from Leeds was impeded during whose life all the trustees died, the last survivor being for several hours, but fortunately no person in the train aid- Alexander Crombie, whose personal representative became red fright. any material derrage, save what might be caused by tV.ed the trustee of the 1833, leaving an o nl y will. John Dingwall, t child, Johnhe grand-nephew Duff, the LEEDS COURT DP BANARUPTCY.—IN RE THE EARL OF Dingwall, an infant, seventeen year! of age. There was at MENROROUGH.--DIBpUTEDADJUDICATION.—At the sitting, I that time a large uninvested portion of the residuary t,er of this court ou Monday, before Mr. Commissioner Burge h hir. sonal estate. As things then stood, John Duff DistirraD bem instinited in consequence of A letter dated the 22nd of February, v. hfle the notice of metier had nut been given eel the month of June. But Mr. Lewis had stated, that in consequence of Mr. Ferrand's motion, Sir John Waltham, another Assistant Poor-Law Commissioner, had been sent down to Keighley at the instance of Sir James Graham, to examine into and verify the report of Mr. Mott. It was admitted that on the 28th of June, a select committee of the House of Commons had been appointed to inquire into the state of the Keighley Union and the reports of Mr. Mott and Sir John Waltham, and that on the 24th of July that committee made its report. All these inquiries Mr. Ferrind believed to be directed against him-elf for the purpose of fastening on him gross and unwarranted imputations. Im pressed with that belief he had written the letters which were now complained of. They contained charges against Mr. Lewis , which he unqualifiedly denied, of having sug gested to Mr. Mott to make a false report, and of basing conspired with Sir James Grahaen to crush Mr. Ferrand by means of that false report. In support of the denial made by Mr. Lewis, there was an atidayit by Mr. Mott, which stated that he had net received instructions from any one to con duct the Keighley inquiry in an unfair and partial manner, and Sir John Walsham's uflidavit was to the same effect. Now before going into tie affidavits in answer, and admit tine the importance, to persons in the situation of Mr. Lewis, of the remedy which he sought, one that enabled him, on oath, to vindicate his reputation, it was important to state that the letters complained of had not been written in per sonal malice towards Mr. Lewis, whose name even Mr. Fee -1 rani had not known before he saw it in August tat in the Times newspaper. That was a cireurosunee which would induce the court to think that this rule ought not to be made absolute ; and in that opinion the court would be confirmed by the fact that Mr. Ferrand had every reason for believing, when he wrote those letters, that he was inditing the truth. Mr. Lewis had not exercised the caution and care which the public had a right to expect from one in hie situation. He had stated that Mr. Mott's report was fully borne out by that of Sir John Waltham, when in fact the latter report did not touch on the most material allegation iu the firmer. He had confounded dates, and he had made other statements, founded in error, extremely injurious and offensive to other persons. Mr. Ferrand had entered parliament pltdged to use all his influence to effect the repeal of the poor-law. Early in the year 1812 he had attended at the Houic-office, at the re quest of Sir James Graham, and there, in reply to an in timation from Sir James Graham, that the government wished him not to continue his opposition to the poor-law, he refused to violate his solemn pledges to his constituenti, or to abandon the course to which his conscience prompted him. They parted on friendly terms. In the April follow ing an attempt was made to introduce new regulations into the administration of the poor-law, which were abandoned alter Mr. Ferrand had given notice of motion for an address to the Queen, praying her to order tlut they be rescinded. On the 17th of June a bill was introduced into the House of Commons fur effecting an alteration in the poi,e-laws; Mr. Ferranti opposed it, and was replied to bySir James Graham in a savage attack, founded solely on the report of Air. Mott, and not at all on the report of Sir Jolm Walshlun, the porn priety of sending whom to verify the former Sir J. Graham himself had suggested. That reply impeted to Mr. Ferrand, as chairman of the Keighly Union, sathenesty and partici pation in a job, which Mr. Ferrand now ON his oath denied. In the House of Commons Mr. Ferrand had on that occa sion risen immediately after Sir J. Graham bed resumed his seat, and had emphatically declared the report used by Sir J. Graham to be a false one. That it was se•now appeared from the report of Sir John Waltham, which it was but a natural and irresistible inference from the facts to say must then have been in the possession of Sir James Graham. The grievance inflicted on Mr. Ferrand was, that of two reports that one only had been used which was calculate I to justify or excuse unjust and gross aspersions on his character. The report used imputed to him and the guardians a :moss job in the employment of attorneys to conduct the business of set tlements; the report which had not been used did not con tain a single syllable on the subject, and further, ne commis sioner had made any report on that matter beforseMr. Mott received his instructions from Mr. G. C. Lewis. This report only had been used, and en used, contrary to the courtesy of the House of Commons, without notice to Mr. Ft rizad, who, therefore, could then give it no more than a general denial. How it was that this report only had been used was. not ex plained in the affidavit of Sir James Graham relied on by the other side. The report of Sir John Waltham was wholly silent respecting those imputations, and as he had been sent down expressly to inquire into the state of the union, that silence was strong evidence to show that the imputations were unlevelled. In the House of Commons, Sir James Graham hail denied that any written instructions had been sent to Mr. Mott, or that a record of them could be found, if any such had been sent; he said that a search had been made in the records of the poor-law commissioa-office, but that 110 trace of any such instructions could be found. This statement was wholly in correct, for the let•er containing the instructions to Mr. Mott was now, though not indeed until niter ve ry pressing inquiries had been made for it, produced from the office of the poor-law commission. A motion had been made in the House of Commons for a committee to inquire into the truth of these reports, and opposed by Sir James Graham, who only withdrew his opposition when he found that Lord John Russell was determined to support the motion. It was after this that Mr. Ferrand first knew how the report of Mr. Mott had been occasioned, and that Sir Junes Graham had caused Sir John Waltham to be sent to verify it. Sub sequently Mr. Ferrand delivered a speech at Leeds, inwhich he accused Sir James Graham of having taken steps to pro cure a report that was false, meaning the report of Mr. Mott, and of having afterwards dismissed the individual who had been his tastrument in fabricating it. In the next session, Mr. Ferrand was called on to justify that accusa tion; he did so to the extent of his power, and he refused to retract a single word. Notwithstanding the declaration of Sir James Graham th it no record of the instructions to Mr. Mott could be found, they were now produced, and the pro duction justified most of the assertions contained in the letters of Mr. Fernand. It was not unimportant to observe that the instructions to Sir John Waltham, which must have been in writing, which had given rise to so much heat and misconstruction, and which must at the time have been deemeil most important, could not be found. Mr. l'ower, one of the assistant commissioners, hail reported that the state of the Keighley union was eatisfactory ; the reports of Mr. Mott, with the exception of this one, did rot contain any complaint, and all the facts were known to the commis sioner.; was it not then strange that this charge had been brought forward so suddenly and so pr iminently ? Mr. Mutt had told a committee of the House of Cowmen* that he had not imagined that the report would inert the pul,lic eye ; their lordships, then, who had been advocates, and who daily heard advocates, would appreciate the effect with which such a document would be used in the House of Com mons, and would be able to make allowance for the feelings of him against whom that document had been teed, when he found out that it had not been verified but contra dicted by the individual who had been sent to test its accuracy, and that the contradiction was in the hands of Sir James Graham at the very moment when he used that [ document as a means of attacking him in the presence of the House of Commons. In the year 1846, a committee was ap pointed by the House of Commons to inquire into matters connected with the Andover Union, and as well Mr. Parker, formerly an assistant commissioner, as Mr. Chadwick, the secretary to the commission, were examined. Mr. l'arker, in the course of his examination, accused the commissioners of duplicity, and when called on to name an instance, referred to the statement that the visit of Mr. Mott to the Kcighlcy Union had been voluntary,.when it was notorious in the I'oor-law office that he had been instructed to go thither. Lord Denman inquired whether the instructions had been produced to the committee. Sir F. Theaigcr.—Mr. Lewis said that he had written a leter to Mr. Mott in February, 1842, of which he had not made a copy, that on it as instructions, Mr. Mott had visited the Kelghley Union and reported ' and that it was not until the 21st of October that he (Mr. Lewis) bad seen a copy of it.—Mr. Martin: And so Sir James Graham was en abled to make a declaration true in words, but false in spirit; for, though, as he had declared, there were no traces of this letter in Somerset House, where they ought to be, there was no doubt that the letter was in existence, and had been acted on as inetruettans by Mr. Mott. Wee it to be wondered after this that Mr. Ferrand, recollecting that on a former occasion a report had been virtually suppressed, and in an other which it contradicted the most offensive imputations against him founded, should be exasperated to the highest degree. Mr. Lewis was also examined before the Andover Union Committee, and waets.sked by Mr. Manners Sutton to state any explanation which he might have to offer on the evidence given by Mr. Chadwick with regard to Sir James Graham and the Keighley Union. Mr. Lewis answered that he had searched the debates far the expressions said to have been used by Sir Jame,' Graham, but could not find them, and that probably he had said that he was net cognizant of Mr. Mott having been sent to Keighley. But Sir James Graham hsd gone much further. Under these circum stances Mr. Fermnd had written the letters complained of, not anonymously, not published by stealth, but openly and with his name attached to them. They related to public matters; they spoke of the conduct of a public man in his public capacity ; and they were written in the most perfect conviction that they were founded on facts. If there had been any mistake as to the fact', the blame rested with the Poor-law Commissioners, who had shrouded the whole transaction in mystery, and, despite the express provisions of the Poor-Law Amendment Act, had. neglected to keep a record of the instructions to Mr. Mott. Whether the conduct of Mr. Lewis had been wilful or merely negligent, it had been highly culpable in respect of that letter. The court, then, considering the extreme provocation offered to Mr. Ferrand, and not regard- COURT OF QUEF,N'S BENCH. ing the precise words used in a moment of irritation; weigh- At the sitting of the court Lord Campbell, the Attorney- ing, too, the fact that it was not unnatural f . or him to suspect General,the oaths o r f - Solicitor-General, theen c o r i d seeand to M w r . h i . Charlese which th ey Bull er, have beentook meats, f e e • e h l e di re sp th o e „„d re h w ad p be ard en on su i e n h l o rre ne gu of lar m eo r ne F e i al r- - oud appointed in the service of hcr Mr. Majesty. Bancroft, the rand's warm and sa n g u i ne tem p er exhibitions of feeling that American minister, entered, the court shortly afterwards and might, under similar circumstances, have been manifested. remained throughout the faay. even hy men habitually calm and temperate. THE QUEEN (ON THU PROSECUTION OF G. C. LEWIS, Sir .l. Thesiger, Q.(:., in support of the rule, said that See Est.) v. Hl:seen-to VERRAND, Esu., M.P.—Caissistat had listened with the greatest dimppointmentto the addresses Istsmawsrlow. — A rale had been obtained, that called on of his learned friends• because he had expected, either &eon Mr. Busfeild Ferm ad to show anise why a criminal in- the opportunity for reflection which had been afforded n side. formation should nt,t he filed against him for the publication Ferrand himself, or from their sober advice, that some ,o caie _ of two letters in She Times newspaper, which appeared on meat would have been made by them to Mr. LCWiI. Not the Bth and 10f :a of August last respectively, and contained so, however ; they had endeavoured to leave the stir.g . in the libellous impu cations on Mr. G. C. Lewis, one of the Poor- wound, and to induce the belief in the minds of ea me lord law Commissioners ; against which Mr. Martin, Q.C., and ships, and of the public also, that there was some foundation Mr. Bovill / s ow showed cause. It was well known that Mr. for the calumnies which Mr. Ferrand had public reed. They Ferrand, who was chairman of the Keighley Board of . had altogether mistaken the grounds of tai, application, \ Guardimis, had entered the House of Common s a determined which • raised the question, not whether Mr. Mott had opponent to the New Poor-laws. To destroy his usefulness received instructions from Mr. Lewis or Sir James Graham for the.t purpose, an attack had been made o n him founded to report on the state of the Keighley Union, hut whether on a report to the Poor - law Commissioners, made in the year Mr. Lewis had been engaged with Sit James G ra ham in a Var. Lewis had distinctly stated before the committee to inquire House of Commons, and for that purpose had employed Mr. 184,2, by Mr. Mott, an AsaiatantPoor - law Commissioner. Now foul and infamous conspiracy to crush Mr. F err en d in the 'lnto the administration of the poor - law s in the Andover Union Mott V,, draw up a false report to be thereafter presented to that Mr. Mott had been sent to inquir e, and this report had and used by Sir James Graham u a true one. Whether Mr. been made in consequence of a not ice of motion given by Mii,tt's report was true or false had nothf.ng to do with that Mr. Ferrand in the House of Commons. In his letter, Mr. charge, because the gravamen of it sem tf,econspiring Wrath, Ferrand said that this was false, because the inquiry had $ and the employing Mr, Mott to latuicate a taii repoot was entitled as tenant in tail of the crates parches, d in England and of the estates purchased in Scotland ; he was the first heir substitute without power of alienation, with remainder to other persons in succession, As to the unin vested residue of the personal estate, J. D. Dingwall was entitled to have it invested, and the tru-ta of the will exe cuted for the benefit of himself and those entitled in suc cession, according to the laws of the two countries respec tively. He having no guardian, and the representative of the last surviving trustee being desirous of being disc from the trusts, it became n to apply ts h s ar Z court. Accordingly a bill was filed on behalf of the infant by his maternal grandfather. The bill alleged t ,Nat the trusts had not been properly performed by the trus tee *, who had invested a larger portion of the personal estate in I L vids in Scotland than they ought to have done, and it m i tes ,' for inquiries respecting this, and for investment of the res t o ,' the personal estate in lands in England, and for the a pp o i n t, vent of a guardian and new trustees. If the per sonal seta to were invested in purchasing lands in England, it would hay v placed the whole of it in the power of J. D. Ding wall when Ne attained the age of 21. But an investment in Scotch lends' would have given him only an unalienable estate. The l'teir-substitute, therefore, under the will, had a ma t er i a l inters , st in the question ; and there ought to have been such part, as before the court as would have secured •discussion of the question. Arthur Dingwall Fordyce, wbo was entitled as h air-substitute in remainder, and as tenant for life under the w. he insisted that was a party to the suit, and in his an swerthe purchases had been properly made, and ought not to be disturbed. But the suit was not so con stituted as to make it sure that the question raised by the pleadings would be adeq: lately discussed. In 1833 the cause was heard on bill and anat. 'Cr, and a guardian was appointed, and the representative of t. Nis last surviving trustee was dis charged from the trust, ana approve of new trustees ; it was referred to the master to and to was declared that the residu ary personal estate, which ha d been brought into court, ought to be invested in the airchase of real estates in England, having regard to the no . 'chases already made ; and that the new trustees and guardian at liberty to lay proposals before th of the infant were to be e master for the invest ment of it. The plaintiff alleged th at this decree was not binding upon him, as he was no party to the suit; ani that Fordyce, who died he ought to be relieved from the effect it. The proceed ings were carried on with notice to A. D. in April, 1834 ; and a few days after hi, `death the master made his report, from which it appeared t. Nat the residuary estate was of large amount ; that he had a %proved of new trustees ; but that no proposals had been laid before him for investment in real estate. By the order on furtL directions. 4th June, 1834, it was referred to the master t v approve of conveyances to the new trustees. On the 151. \ October, 1838, John D. Dingwall attained 21, and he escen ted a dis entailing deed, and petitioned the court for a transf, of the funds to him, which was ordered on 21st Novembei • 183 G. This order, it was admitted, must follow the fate of t\e de cree. J. D. Dingwall died in October, 1840, without i Niue, haying, by his will, given all his real and personal estate' to the defendant, Sir Henry Bridges, who proved his will Arthur Dingwall Fordyce, the elder brother of the plaintiff, having become the next heir substitute, tiled his bill to have it declared that he was not bound by the decree. But he having died, the present plaintiff then became heir substi tute, and he filed this bill on the 22nd July, 1844. The first question was, whether the plaintiff was bound by the de cree; and, if he was not, then, whether he had endeavoured to obtain relief in the proper form. He was of opinion that he was not bound by the decree. His interest was material at the date of the decree, and was not properly protected. The hill was in a proper form. The plaintiff did not seek to alter a decree made against himself, or those under whom he claimed. As to whether what was dose under the decree was right, the testator had given a dis cretionary power to his trustees, and he was of opinion that new trustees might have been appointed with the sanction of the court, and that they would have had the same dis cretionary power as the original trustees. But the power given to the trustees was such as the court ought not to have executed without the trustees. The only person having legal authority to act as trustee was discharged, and no pro vision was made for the appointment of new trustees is the manner directed by the will. The court took upon itself to exercise a discretion which the testator intended to be exer cised by the trustees alone. He must declare that the plain tiff, and other persons interested after him, were not bound by the decree. The defendant must pay the funds into court, and if he did not admit assets of J. D. Dingwall, he must account in the usual way. And he must also declare that the trustees were not properly appointed, and that new trustees ought now to be appointed, according to the direc tions of the will. And there must be an inquiry as to what part of the funds transferred consisted of capital, and what of interest. CAKPMAEL V. Ponta. ANNUITY. MISTAKV.. The Master of the Rolls also gave judgment in this case, th , facts of which are reported in this journal of the 7th instant. His lordship was of opinion that he could not order the annuity deed to be altered, by the insertion of an annuity of less amount than 1761., because it was not clear from the evidence that Miss Yowls, di, defendant, would have been satisfied with an annuity of less amount than 1761., or would have agreed to take leas, the inference from the evidence being the other way. But he thought that the plaintiff had agreed to grant that amount of annuity under a mis take arising from the misinformation of Miss Powis's own agent, and that, therefore, he was entitled to be relieved from the transaction altogether, and he decreed accordingly. Before the Vice-Chancellor of England. TERRY V. WACMER.—BILL FOIL AN Al COUNT AGAINST A GVARDIAN.—This writ was instituted fur the purpose of obtaining an account from the defendant of certain moneys said to have been received by him for the maintenance and support of a young man named Edward Edenden. The bill stated that Edward Edenden, who was a married man but separated from his wife, was in the receipt of an annuity of LOOM per annum ; that he was addicted to habits of ex cessive intemperance, the long continuation of which had greatly impaired his intellects; that his fsthcr,being aware of his son's disposition, had placed him under the care and con trol of the defendant John Washer, who was a connexion of the family, and the defendant was to receive 40s. per week for his hoard and lodging, and as a remuneration for taking care of him; that E. Edenden continued to live with the defendant till about four months before his death, when he went to reside with Thomas Fleet, at Harbledown, in Kent ; that after the death of E. Edenden's father an arrangement was made by his executors that the annuity of 1,0001. should be paid to the defendant on behalf of E. Edenden, as his guardian, trustee, or agent ; that the defendant consequently received the said annuity, and paid Edenden's bills out of the amount, but did not allow him to have more than a few shillings in his pocket at a time ; that the annuity was never spent for the benefit of Edenden, but that the defendant took the surplus for himself. It appeared that Edeaden died in 1812, having by his will bequeathed all his personal estate upon trust for his wife absolutely. This bill, which was filed by the personal representatives of Edenden, prayed that the defendant might be decreed to account for all sums of money received by him for the use and on behalf of Edenden. The evidence on the part of the defend ant went to show that he had in every respect acted as a friend to Edward Edenden ; that he had received his an nuity, but had regularly handed the money over to him, except when he was requested to pay any hills on his account; that Edenden had at all times exercised complete control over his own money ; and the defendant could not be said to have acted in a fiduciary character towards him, or to be liable to account for the money received on his behalf. Mr. Bethell and Mr. Boyle appeared in support of the bill, and Mr. Stuart and Mr. Lloyd for the defendant. The arguments were not concluded at the rising of the court. ux-maanoruor SCOTT V. BEALEY.—CON6T6UCTION or WILL.—A Mr. Adam Healey by his will, dated in 1821, devised certain pro perty in Birchin-lane, Manchester, to trustees upon trust, to pay out of the rent and profits to the widow of his late brother Joseph, for her life and for her children, such sums of money as were mentioned and stipulated in an agreement which he (the testator) had made with ber the previous summer. Upon the death of the testator shortly after the date of his will, there was found amongst his papers a me morandum in his handwriting, in the following words: " 1820. We agree this Ist of September to give to sister Joseph 271. on account of the last two years, and 501. towards furniture as promised to her, and 501. per annum or a few years till we see how things go." It ap pearedals°, that for some time before his deat h, the testator ad been in the habit of making advances out of the rents of the Birchin-lane estates, to assist his sister-in-law and her family, who were in indigent circumstrnees. The widow of the testator's brother, Joseph, died in 1832, the annuity having been regularly paid to her to the time of her death; and the present bill was filed by her children against the executors of Adam Healey, claiming to be entitled under the will and the memorandum, to have the payment of the annuity of 501. continued to them during their lives. Mr. Batton and Mr. Follett contended that thoy might look into the memorandum to ascertain the sum in tended to be given by the will, and that the gift by the will, taken in connexion with the memorandum, entitled the plaintiffs, either as surviving joint tenants with their mother, or by way of remainder after her death, to have the annual payment of 501. continued to them for their lives. Mr. Hominy and Mr. Glass's submitted tt,at the bequest amounted only to annuity to the widow for her life, for the purpose of assisting her to support and edr.cate her family. His Honour, after observing that, to arrive at the inten tion of the testator, the will should be read as if the memo randum had been inserted in it at length, held that the right to the annuity ceased at the death o: the widow, and dis missed the bill, with costs. -