The Express. — London, England, 1849-09-27 00:00:00

gut Court. B•usoaut, Bern. Te. Her Mojesty and the Pucci went out thui masts, Mor rang i• • Psi Y ' , nisei. The Prlsse of Wass, som d i d by No Bad, rode to Lochosgsr. L a o eita Lay rats •ad the How. Min Portman will yee the Weer of dialog wit► her Yijiy Ws events,. Pfto3ging.—Her Majesty gad this Prime Corm% with the royal mite, were to liege Mt lid- MOW yeAsviley attersonn for Perth„where her Yid so pass the night at the Royal Gest.= TIM illetermiastiou, however. was, it is awed, elloged gasenaseses of the preyslenee of eholem in Per% Me games Fetus will **by be delayed gag TM royal potty will leave Perth by railway, it vhf. die mat h. At Berwick her Majesty will be noshed by the di mmer' el the Tork, Neweinge, sad Berwick Railway, who will Mind the wiyal party ewer the extent of their Mae. The flans will slight as the Little Mill &mime, sad prebend frees dna* Morriek•ball, the mat of Earl Grey, with vbma her Neisen med the Priam Cowen wt l hush. B. *Mai to the same ratios, the royal party will travel ea weld to Newcastle, when the QINIMI Will nadirs ea &know hem the moporetioa of the borough ea the High Level At Darlington her Majesty will reseive ea addles., t {die kid mayor and a mention aid* eity of Took will else MIP•11111 honour to moist their molirskabstiesui to the floversiga ea her progress that mist sky. Net Limy wi nub Derby so gosolgr, sad suseis three/ the e sigh! et the Milked yids\ boa bias Ohm for the seconatedadem et the royal party. Nut morning her Majesty will gem* vie Birosieghant, Glasser ter, Reading, sad Beelneeshe to Portmariatit, en made for Osborn. MaTOll Or DUST god the directors of the Minuet Bedew Osiay yesterday (Wednesday) r.- mind Arial esusegya, aaissuacieg that la cum were of the shakes haviag treks. at at Perth sad &Whose, her Majesty *saki act arrive in Derby null Fri day instead of this day. Tres *Ultimate of Darby age ell ea the yesi Mu, being meet sardou to sive vent to tisk stmobaseat to her Nsiery sad the role' family, in &dome* eirationt worthy of the occasion. At tree, a desire was expressed !or • panel illamisailm, bet the authorities of the viva keen. diekelties I. the up of a satisfactory ecumplishaisat of the demise go a grad reale, sad the idea wee, therefore, absodamed. The Mid. land hotel (several apartments ia wbi bees gaud up In a style of magnificrnce szpraelly fee the emille) is es be illuminated, and also the railway *Weal gems Ida he fired ; the bells rung, sad other loyal deseirlealiese be made. The directors of the Midlaad 'slimy, is 111116118 afford the public a opp triunity of seeing ht alight, and also depart from the Institut ea morning, have canoed a number of railed seats I. be l a on the platform immediately In connection with the spec where the royal carriages will be env's up. Briny arrangement will be made to prevent bregalsridee °staid* the Gemini; • company of soldiers, commanded by e wilier, and a splendid band, entered Derby last analog from Weed= barracks, and they, with the mistime of the pessimism sad polies, will keep the ground. In order to prevent sadden% sad facilitate the train, men with signal legs will be placed &Zoog the lime every third of a mile. The train itt @spirted to arrive about half after 6 or 7 p.m., sad leave Derby at Bor 9 a.m. OS the following day. The mayor will give a grand display of fireworks in the evening at Abbot's4lll. TER FUNERAL SERVICE Is MEMORY OF HIS Ma niere Karp I.IIIARLIO ALARM' took place yesterday, at the Bardhdin chapel, Lincola's-inn-iiisids. The genies out meneed at 11 o'clock. The goatlikel high mass "De Re quiem" was sung by the Right R.v. Dr. Wiseman, V.A.L D. The as Want priest. the Rev. William O'Ccemor, ILA., sad senior chaplain of the Eardieian 'nation. The demon, the Rev. Dr. Daldacconi. Toe entademm„ the PAT. Dr, Melia. The nester of the ceremonies, Use Rey. John Alsblis, M.A. The singing was nadir the direction of Manor Sato Peres ; the music was M, sart's short "Rim De Requiem." After the high mese the funeral motion wss made by the bishop; after which Mimed the Absolution according to the Romeo ritual. The whole terminated at one o'clock. Prince Maurice de Mootleart, half-brother to his Majesty King Charles Albert; Baron de lonia, Chug{ d'Affaires of Bar. disk; Coast Curti, Attest to the Leguien ; and the Chevalier Ruth, Cosset-Oueral, were stationed near the coffin daring the terries. Amu, eta* present at the cere mony were the French ambassador, throe and Barnum Montheret, and M. de Brenda, Secretary of the Embassy ; the Belgian Minister. and M. Droust, Pint Secretary of &plies ; the Brasili , n Owed d'Aifairee, sad M. Pinto, ANIMA he the Legation ; General Coast de Chabeanes, Aide &amp ; Prim Torreon." Bane Torreon. Bane end Bares.. Illiggibied. Madame Deposit, Count Avlgdor, M. Palliest, Nest and Count. n Pepoli, Dr. Granville, N. Clallings, Be The Diplematic C rps attend. I in their uniforms, the mesa hers of orders of knighthood wearing their respec tive sesigus. Bowel gentlemen from the Fogisighiotke 'Waded is private, and stood round the Cate Islip,. Others of the foreign ministers were revealed from being present at the ulnas rites by Acing oat of town. TII k• dim*, I wee fistonsed with black. The cello was of Meek velvet and silver lam, with the crown, the orb, and Mbar milieus* of verity pissed es the top. It wee elevated is feed of the chess, sad lad displayed at each swam the twat sad asthma stan dard s °needle's. The maraud the insignia of sovereignty were covered with crape spotted with silver store , and the colours were also loved np with mope Retreat\ the coffin were large eeeocheons of the Sardinian ono, entoreented by a crows, and e emotions were displayed in front of the gallery, bearing the *amigos of the Eindinien eiders of k‘iglithood. Above the whole wee a canopy of black drapery, suspended from a very large crown, which mas surmounted by a mom. After the ceremony the diplo matic's' go assisting wan severally intrAmed to the Right Rev. Dr. Wiseman. DEATH OF THE HON. AND REV. HENRY WATSON. —mis Gentleman eiyired st Canterbury au the 23d instant, hem the antsof an epopkede attack. The deeeseed woe ler.rn in 096, Wien third rep of ths mond Lvrd sonde, and con setineotly brother to this present peer. Re wee rector of Letterisg, Northampton. This living is of the vales of 7861. per 10011114 sad is in the gift of Lord Sondes. THE AUSTRIAN LOAN AND MR. COBDEN. TO 11111 =ROIL OP TIN 11.1.111118., Sta,---The enelossd letter from Mr. Cobden, on the subject of the proposed Austrian loan, is at your service for publication, should you deem it of suffi cient interest. I ;m, sir, your obedient eerevt. EDMUND FRY. 15, New Broad 'WO, Sept. 26,1849. Oaklands, mar Bedloseasabe,Bumx, Sept. 25, 1849. i My dear Sir —I have this moment read in a London paper Ihs prospectus for a new loan, issued by the Austrian government. Now is the time for 1 the friends of peace and disarmament to raise their voices in condemnation and exposure of the system by whi.:ll Austria and the other powers maintain their enormous armies, and carry war and destruction, not only into their own provinces, bat into the terri tories of their neighbours. A public meeting should be immediately called in London, to denounoe this attempt to levy upon the savings of peaceful industry the means of paying Haynan and his Croats for their o zei zrary butcheries in IBreson and their atrocities in H . There is not a friend or admirer of the and slandered Magyars or Italians who not press forward to swell the chorus of execration at this audacious proposal to borrow from the Bump.= public the money with which to pay the price of socceostul violence and injiirtice. It is a matter upon which every man is ailed upon to express his opi nion, for all of us are by the terms of the prospectus, invited to become sot:Ambers for the loan. Is there a Jew in London who will not be eager to attend such a meeting, to repudiate all connexion with the pro- jected loan, and to denounce the suthoes of those atro cities against his co-religionists at Bads.-Path— atrocities in which Haynes has surpassed everything that has occurred silica the persecutions of the middle ? I will be In town on Thursday, to meet a commit tee of the friends of peace, and if it be decided to hold a meeting, I shall be there to take a part in it; and believe me Faithfully yaws, E. Fry, Esq. RICHARD COBDEN. DETENTION OF THE INDIAN MAIL TO TES EDITOR OF TUS SITRISS. Ripe", Malts, Sept. 20, 1849. Sta,—Tim following particulars, respecting the detention of this ship at Alexandria, may prove aveptable.—Yours, dtc., W. H. BRADY, C.R.N., and Admiralty Agent. Oa the 13th inst., appnhenslems of ambient having *Waled the arrival at Saes of the Watts mail packet, were atessely telt at Almaden, bemuse the fall lima al the pashat's stay there would expire se the 14th, at 6.30 a.m. At 6 p.n.. however, et tka date lest maned, a talegraphie meow arrived, env yieg the lafermatioe, that the Compeers steam-puke' Preeareor had ea test morn ing vsesaad Sues. Her detenUon wm Oesallosed by smog heed winds, sad by having, ea Wang Sees, got agroaad ; and thus lost aboat AO% bears—.a kerma. in Maas days of rapid sommenieation ad exact essahlaatiems, rafiAvat to have lest the peewee of the mall to Thailand- Ms 11;pm left Alexandria at 9 am., 16th, and masked Melts at 6 pm., 20th. There are no news of importunes from leak or Okla& Toe ships Sarah Whitney and Par don, an reported to have been wrecked on the mat of adas--erews saved. On the 13th, Amin Bey, sad Mr. Darien, the spat of the Peninsula and Oriental Co.. Pay. left Alexandria for Carl, to moon se English cu riae* sod four hones from the company to Abbas Pasha. This were • is eej , ,yine himself at Cairo, at • greed festival, gives in annnur of cimusatising his younger 110119. Tau smile on the late Mehemet All Pasha anted • itranir sonatios smosgst the Aegl , •Alsisedriaas; and, I Lacy, ssolvel adruiraeoa rather from its mums. slab iag wide of .1, al le with the subjrst, thee from approbation, as it b e )nsid-red excessively sense ea the Eneepeans 'Sakti to. EAST INDIA HOUSE. Ye kertlay a quarterly general wart of the ten at Eat luta tax* was had at the soap is loiedemaellatreet. B.r ALKLAXDIA GALLOWAY is tba Tie misslis of the lest court wen reed and onsfined. T o 02.1111 IMAM misdated the .out that be bad re mind a Mb* Meg Dalbeesie, seirmowleding the d the Indelleme that were passed _ed and 24th et the end el die ssesee eel tbe gement en, es the &FL d —TM loner was reed as ews: M Simi, ose 4th To the Resestable Cams of Di Jneen%l ,161 Y. Ike. ' liemeneeble Sin,-1 ban bad the honour et toceiving the ensistfeem whisk were posed by yen hemesrable 'mut as the lisa, sod by the gamed end a k a the 24th ApeiL The neeistiese have bees wassesisated te the mead aeon refined se therein. sad ban in pahlkhed in ome n! niers se the army fait& Oa my own part. I bee Mai7lto impress see imp geadismien web whisk I .11 00thei Ile dbelogniabed emir et ihe apposhalies et these when heirs the Moen le men neel la b l ui ssimethe myself, Memorable der i c uov d ma ehaiset OffSeha) The =Anti is stud that nada esemoste wed penis welsh had Wm plowed to Pediment den die hit gnu* end, he laid ea the }reprises& hale.** die et widsb mod/ he read by no ark Tbe tithe weft real memedlegly. The Chairman seat mid, that is pew eon eta sodellem adsgied at • fresor seam vitals porn ramie to Me Oingemte rsie 7=ea Milberg OM AIM& awls wen hid ma the table. Mr. P 11212 OOR sell be legged to withdraw the bl!owisi esedion of whin he had gins modes ! • That in be laid betas ddeCiport anima of any press sug rZ N l =alk4l/2=lloll snide &Raines the min et of ear Holy Scriptures, within like miens ' of *ls °spiny." That a. be ma sell the ditties el the Insulin body to the state of oar gads is India." " That the sieiset or papers dm* lying on the Pro =table oeseeesing tee 'upsides of Captain Peter has Main. is 1826, —y ow be printed, and dosed he the Mai et the P The reams at his wkhdra:L issi tae resoletrons was that he had to "thud a seesmseslyaeet at Islington. He would Wog them imamd es the old Nun day. The =AMMAN mid ths bee. reprints might with draw has ressistiose altogether Mho pleased, bat he objected to the system of postponing seethse them out court to an other as It led Se very greet fammessiesce. Mr. GORDON then withdrew his resolutions altogether. Mr. PIRLDRR was glad that the chairman would no longer allow motions to be glass notice of and then with drawn or adjourned from time to time. Mr. LBWIN then rose to bring forward the following resolution : " That the Court of D:reetore be requested to take inch measurer as may be necessary to instruct the local govern ments of India to insert is the articles of war for the native army a claw, conveying the same privilege to the native array, of &minding aphis of the record, as is now enjoyed by the European soldiery ander the articles of war framed by the British legislature, 4th October, 1848." He would take that opportunity of stating that he could not bring on the following resolution until the next court day. " That the Court of Directors do lay before the Court of Proprieton the proceedings of the g 1 court martial held on Sheik Alli, • private of the B company of the 30th Regt. of Madras Native Infantry, held at Yellen on the Bth Nov., 1812, together with a copy of the judgment of the Marqui of Tweeddale, reissuing the prisoner, on the ground that he be bed been permitted to mans to his duty after the offence." Also : "That the order of Lord Gough, the Contreanderiin- Chief of the Army is Indio, pasted under date 13th Much, 1844, with the Baas eon , . sed with it, be placed before the Coact at Proprietors." The same proprietor has given notice of his intention to *bait the following motion at the said quarterly teener* cwt. via. : " That the Court of Directon of the East India Company do lay beton the Court of Proprietors a copy of the papers placed been the authorities of this country which led them, as stated by the late chairman, to cinfirm the proceedings of the military authorities of lliadno, ia the case of the Bth WO. of the Madras Light Cavalry." Mr. LBWIN then brought forward the first resolution. He stated that the facts to whisk he should call the attention of the court were briefly these—Seventeen soldiers of the 8* Regiment Madras Light Cavalry were placed on their trial, cheesed with mutiny and convicted, of whom two were shot, one acquitted, thirteen banished for life, and one pardoned. The mutiny originated in an order of the g nutmeat to withhold from the Semi their accustomed stipend, which order, it was alleged, originated in • mistake. No one, he said, bad however been called upon to account for that mistake. The hos. proprietor here went into • long history of the proceedings that to* place at the ocean us, and, in referees* to his other resolutions, he said he should withdraw them until to could see what effect a little further agit.tion of the matter would have in India. Mr. SULLIVAN, in supporting the first resolution, read long *streets from a mensorisl presented in 1848 from the parties who had suffered by the court- martial held on the sepoye, and eharemerised the whole i roceedioge as illegal, oppressive, and Indust. Capt. SHEPHERD (the deputy-chairman) said the whole queens was brought before the wart twelve ninths no. when the proprietors were swanned' in their opiates that the question ought net to be entertained. The Mo. pre prietor was vow going over the same ground, and behests' charge* alpine absent pumas who had no opportunity of defestignemselne. Mr. SULLIVAN mended the motion. Toe CHAIRMAN said he thought the whole wired= now before the wart had been fully met and completely answered 12 synths ago, when, instead of listening to 108'1 ezparts stateliest', the court ansainsously deprecated any further discussion, because • general feeling prevailed that such discussion was improper, .as it would tend to iaterfere with the discipline of the Indian army. Nothing could be more prejudicial to the interests of the ureic* than such 'pent ee es those which had that day . been addressed to the court. He would not go into the particulars of the case, as stated by the mover of the resolutions. If he did so it would be very easy for him to prove that every act of the Marquis of Tweeddale had been considerate end humane. H. thought the discussion of such questions should be deprecated, as calculated to disturb that good feel. lug that now existed between the native troops and the go verament of India. General BRIGGS expressed an opinion that the case was ono that called far public inquiry. The CHAIRMAN said the court had ns power to alter the articles of war, and therefore the motion was altogether useless. He defended the legality of the proceedings of the court-martial A PROPRIETOR said that a paper which had been re cently published la India sontaind • most complete nfuta tin, of all the charges that had been brought against the Marquis of Tweeddale. Mr. LBWIN, in replv, said he would never let the sub ject drop until justice had bean done to the parties whom he represented. The motion was then put and unsaved by a considerable majority, there being only four hands held up in its favour. Mr. LEWIN salted (as we understood) if the court in tended to oppose the bill that would be brought into par liament with regard to Sir Thomas Teuton's defalcations. (Part of this gentleman's remarks were very inaudible.) The CHAIRMAN replied that he knew very well the course the directors world have to take, but it was net his intention to go into the subject till the time arrived. Sir Thomas Tanen was appointed by another court, and not by the t one, and with the former rested the re. • Mr. SIITLIVAN rhea gave modes of a ladies for the prodeetios of espies et ell the nerespondence relative to the court martial Mid es the Mot Sept., 1844, on certain eepoys of the 6th Cavalry Begimein. The CHAIRMAN said the boo. proprietor had already spoken on the subject to which he now alluded. Re was at liberty to bring forward any mod* at any of the quarterly courts, but he hoped that mart would support the directors in their refusal to publish information of the kind now al laded to, and which could not bat be attended by the utmost WeiliTleieSee to every one Mee sad be pregnant with the unmet evil towards the nations el India whop nearest the has wain= now pre tended to advoclte. He amid tell Ms is. Mood thee he might rest strode that the native 'silken of ills wools* swim kiss or einem else is maids' use ewe Laing* es kail boon heed that day towards the Isaias ahem.. h was hie Inot 'plain that the soldkre here spin et wall rise to haw easing to do with either et the Me pude ow wits bed net win ea this as well as on a imerems lies. Re hoped this weed be an additional WOWS he the onet eit the inters in their retard to give Fin- MrWon documents. (Hear, hear.) . SULLIVAN unionised that it WY the plan of the orders to interfere whoa illegal Ws were committed by their invents. The CHAIRMAN agreed to the principle, but the court el Onsters were sot at liberty to inters» in the eases alluded to. Mr. SULLIVAN asked if it were understood that his seder el modes would sit be 'published in any way. The CHAIRMAN replied that the hos. proprietor could nisi it forwerd. Some slondies leek penis reaped to the bylaw which regulated the 'Meg sedoeseintlems, he whin Mr. W 151). Ins, Cepa. II . esPones. sod deers, he w : o k s ct ; bat no dr did Wmpess was gives to the ohainsma Midi nesse to pubs* the sedge of the has. proprietor, but es to the supplies*, perms required, • decided negative stprepitors Theythe uderity then present. CHAIRMAN adIG. Senna's motion had bees nosind, end ell he could my was, that everythisp consistent with the law wean be dose is respect to it. 4 I The cowl then adjourned. 11°4 LATDIO THE FOUNDATION STONE OP Till NEw Cm Pastes AM NOLLOWlLY.—Yestorday the arremesy of laying Iliv ihemitissi name of the New City PAWS, about Is be emsehil et Holloway in lieu of the 011tspar-street per, was peribimed by the Lord Mayor, mated b y the eidemes, mad several of the enemas essecil. Is Wof the l a m p growded state of Offrapar-strest MA the illinsuity o h slassifying the primmen ;he setra ef samosa ave determined to erec t a I sew mail eteardiggly • pine of graved of the extent of shoat 14 sires has teem selested et Park-road, Holloway. Tb==will cover sheet 12 sees of round, affording to 'best 400 prisoners, to be clasallsd Is sp, sad to be epos the separate system ; al ro re ▪ dli i um far the governor and chlain. will he a towe n r r of 140 feekitt be applied as a ap ventilating There shaft. The sztrenta length wla be 330 feet and the depth 'hint 400 feat THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1849. THE CHOLERA. The following is the Ritrar-Cfer eras re' ern of daub km eholne sad hen iaarAoe, meowed 4 Lades ea Saturday, Mouday, sod tuiday, the 2:ad, Mt, &ad 25:11, Seromber, 1849 : Fathomed populatior of Landes at the add le of 1849 PeFw tioa than rads. THE Pl IVINCES t Return of deaths front cholera nerd diarrhcet reported to the General Board of Health yesterday, September 28. Cho. Dia. Cho. Dia. Alnwick Altrineham Anglesey Ashbourn 1 0 tin bonne .... 0 Atherstone &insteple Bedminster - under. Berkbamostead Birmingham.. 1 2 Blackburn Bolton Bradford and North Bierley Brentford 1 0 Bridgnorth Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromsgrou 0 1 Cutorbury Caltele Cheadle Colchester Charley Ctiorltos Clifton (St. George District) . 3 Coventry Croydon Dmington Derby Dewsbury Dover 1 Daeenhein 1 Droitwieb 0 Dudley But Stonehousc Eeclesall-Bierlow 1 Edmonton Eppinor 1 Falmouth 1 Farehant Gateshead Gravesend end Hilton Hastinv _ 1 Haver brdwe st 1 Hayfield and Glos sop 2 Renamed Lyme Newtown 1 North Aylestord Northwieh North Witchford 4 Norwich Oldham Oroukirk 0 Ot ey 2 Oxford Pembroke 0 Peterborough Peatetrect 6 Pomo& Islaad Radford 0 Redruth Richmond (Surrey) 1 Rochdale Ronsiord Rotherham Aye Salford Gen Manta ll 11 and 1 South Stayning Stockport 0 Smckton Stoke Demerol.... 3 Stoke-upon-Trent 2 1 Stourbridge Taunton Teesdale (Bawd Owls) Tendring Tetbary Thakehara Thom Thentott 0 1 Talmo Truro Tyneisonth Upton-upon-Severn 0 1 Wakefield , 2 1 Walsall Warwick Wen 0 1 West Bromwich West Derby 7 2 West Dam Whiteltaren, Iron 191 s Sept lO 3 Wigan Wirral Wolverhampton and Sieedon Worcester 5 0 Wortli y York 1 0 Hitcbin 2 0 klolliagboorne 1 1 Holywell Howdoo Haddonfield Hull Rootlet l6 1 Isle of Thum.. I.le of Wig ht (Hydo)• 0 1 H‘ddenaluotor 0 1 Leeds 27 11 Lwerpool Luton 0 1 Macclesfield Models, Maidstone ..... 0 1 Manchu/a SCOT] Ch. Dies T0ta1.... 331 141 Perth Daubs 4 0 Abernathy Aberiera 1 0 Mamma 4 0 Arbroath 3 0 1 Haddlogtaa, from Ch. Dia. 12th to 23rd Sept 8 0 Edinburgh, from 16th Sept. 26 0 !Jaya 3 0 Total 57 0 General Totel—Loodion and I TM Province CL Dia. cdaity.. 331 79 141 33 67 0 Total 467 174 Nora.—The number of attacks :sported by this union allows ara—for the metropolis 80, and for the sonatry 442, but their returns do not in postal comprehend the oases that ere treated by !medical men is risme practice The deaths aro remelted according to the superintendermregistrar's district, u it is found impracticable to distinguish every BUIMICILIPTIONS rot Tan Surmise TROY Csouties.- The subscription towards the fund of the Awned= for pro moting the Relief of Deatitutiou in the Metrotolis appears already to amount to between 1,4001. and 1,6005 We un denten' that several large banking and mercantile fines have aspressed their aunties of °attributing. The society, whisk has the advantage of laving all its machinery is pre sent opseeks, has already made tracts we learn, to some of the Medea in whin cholera has prOdaced the greatest salimeg and destitution. Limatinons.—Three cease of Albite cholera having ter stinted fatally in this town, a meeting of the guardian of the Warn* Union was held at the worlds:one ' Warwick, ea Waisesday. Resolutions were tuanistouslyadopted in far - ear of an horse t, house visitation by an easiest medial staff; a dispensary to be opened tor the gratsitens 'apply of seedisine and advice; and, also, a bones o f range he the Arlm ef poor persona glinted with the epitlemis Lune.—We are glad to be able to report that the cholera, *Leeds, hu considerably diminished as tempered with Armes return, bat still a considerable number of same con tinue to near daily. Many of the more recent instances of death have been remarkable fur their rapidity. Many deaths from 'herbs a are also nearing, there being on Monday, is Leeds township alone, no km than 13 deaths. The re turns from Harmer' sad the otter est townships show some abatement in the number of fatal came, both from cholera and diarrheas. The following are the lest six daily returns for Leeds township of deaths from cholera : Thurston 26 ; Fridge, 12; Saturday, 25 ; Bunday, 27 ; Monday, 22; Ton day, 13. BIUSTOL.—From the subjoined return from St. Peter's Hospital this day, it will be sees that the increase in the IMO of Melon' noticed yesterday, ha' unhappily matins& The Mara is as follows :—Di ms, 74 ; appresolting cho las, 0 ; cholera, 7 ; deaths, 6. The inane is chiefly con fined to the plans I mentioned yesterday. At Stapleton workhouse there have been three mon deaths, and five more at Pill, situated about four miles from this city. The app.ale in behalfit the pros made at our various churches yesterday have been most liberally respraded to, no lee • nut than 1,0001, having been collected, in • 'alias to which the eminent firm of G,bbe, Bright, and Co., placed 1001., and Mr. Cole 501., at the disposal of our worthy mayor. 1118 H Hops. —A mewl arrived in the river from Belfast, has brought five pockets of hops, the produce of In• land, aa a portion of her ergo. This is the tint arrival of I this article from the sister eeoutq• —— 1631 1841 & Y. Co S. M. To. 1 i € Leaden, .. West Districts .... 301 711 13 3 4 4 1 i North Distr.'s ... 377 1 9 7 8 6 1 Castro' Diarist; .. 374 1. t 6 2 4 8 1 Bast Dietrich 331 393 36 21 12 9 12 , South Dislikes .... 41 603 6 44 31 19 18 8 1 — West Distriolo. In hokes adagtoa 2 2 2 1 C 3 1 1 , St. George, Haug , Mr-equare Weetmamer St. Mazda • ia - the• Yields 24 25 1 1 St James, West , Waster North Districts. Marylebone Elmwood Bt. Pancras 37 . Hackney 96 42 — 6 2 1 1 1 3 Central DWI& St. GM 64 1 1 1 Strand 4 44 1 1 Holbara Clerksawoll St. Luke 47 60 1 4 1 1 1— 41 Wee Lu 1 isa 1 31 1 Lambe Ow 67 • 1I 1 WM pktrillt. trhusediNk B4 13 8 3 3 6 3 aliduallieen •• • • 62 74 7 3 71 8 3 2 Bahadimpel George- in -the East 4l 2 2 — ' — 3 Stepuey Poplar 26 31 3 7 1 South Districts. St. Saviour 3 33 7 1 1 1— 1 St Oboe 2O 20 4 Bermoadsey Bt. George, South- wark Newiagm 46 66 9 4 2 1 Lambeth B6 111, 11 til 11 4 1 Waadswarth Camberwell .. - 1 It itherbithe i Greenwich 64 81 6 6 10 4 6 2 i Lewisham , Total daubs from Cholera, registered from Sept's'. I ber 17, 1848, to Sept. 25, 1849 Ditto ditto from Jane 17. 1849. to Sept. 26, 1849 12,768 • General Register Office, Sept. 26, 3 o'clock. CITY OF LONDON REGISTRATION. Illattrday Ensiling the Court was opened St 10 Abaft, when the reeki in of the list for Ridge, Candlewick, eel Wslbrcok, wards was proonded with. PARTSK or Sr. Many. Ascunacn —QOIIIrIION AI TO TKO Dtarntorton Derma= Cuoacnwanzart Ann Ovations. It appeared that the sekess Rif diadem lay the Comereue thee had bees toned open a Mr. Marshall , who was IA an memeser el the parish. sad the party serving the wan MI east upon Mr. Bwegeset, the shame-warden of Me =het, apes some rile= rellag as that newt= Illeefeelt Wee oily the eivorelawarirm, aid that Kr. Membell was die overseer, the seder were afterwards laved wpm the letter. From these prembee, /dr. Browse argued that the men calling on Mr. Swap in with the nodose, and holing sent by him se a puma wise was am an *veneer, could net be eenetrued by the goad late • semis* upon Mr. !Simpson. The court deckled enlist the objection. on the geeing that the stodge was not • good ow. Mr. BROWNE then untended that the seder serval the part of the liberals wire invalid, inasentri Is they had been toned upon Mr. Swaim., who was a einuchwer den and net an overseer. Is support of his segsment, he cited the Sib Viet., e. 18, a. 17, whisk enacted " that every person whose name shall have been hammed is cosy lit of voters for any city or borough, may object to say Mill pew son as not having been entitled on the last day OS* Met preceding, to have his name inserted la soy list of MOM he the Mee city or borosgb, and every person so otfeellogibe os err Were the 26th of August is that per, give et Miele be gins. • entire to the overseen who shall have Riede mat thellet." The 101st menial, which was the taterprelatim elanse,.west at full length into tie subject, bat it did .at fir clads the word charchwerden edible the moaning it the term overseer. This dame imaseed that " wherever emp safes is by this act required to be given or emit to the evemerem of say parish or township, It shall be suficient U sue MIN shall be delivered toasty oese of swirl overseers, or shell M left at his piece of abode. or at his office or ether plan kr trans acting panekial basin's*, or shall be sent by the poet ed. dram& to the winters of the particular parish er township to which the unties may relate." Up.. the wt ally them enactments he (Mr. Browne) eabsiteed =Am latnre drew a distiaaion between the oM so of and that of overseer. Their duties wire wade* &Oa and it was clear dust a 'trete* upon a elmotibietioden Mal not be entertained es a minim upon an oveimer. Mr Soma contended that under the authority of the 411 rd Elizabeth, esp. 2, the churchwardens were en #l. everemn. This net stated that the churchwardens d ay perish shall be called overseen of the poor et the IMO parish ; and it was quite clear from the iaterpeetellett dome of 6 Vic., up. 18, that the statute was Weeded le refer to any person who exercised the duties of O.IIIIIOL BUT he subunit d that the decision of the Court of WEIN& Plea in the ease M Beenlen a. Hockin" (reported is Latwyche's Registration Cases), wee ooneduaive upon the question. Chief JesCoe Wilde had there said (in reference to the UM point which had been raised as the present aeration) " The question turns apse the messing to be given to them words is the 17th section of the 6 Viet, c. 18, which say that styes of objection shall be given to the overseen who shall have made out the list. It is contended that service upon • churchwarden of the parish who had not signed the list was lead ; but 1 think an effectual answer has been given to that objection. The several section of the act which have been irederred to, beginning with the 10th, an general in their sermon, and apply to all those who fell within the description overseers of the poor." He (Mr. Smith) continued to urge that, upon the authority of the statutes he had eked, and also upon the opinion uprose - 1 by Ms Court of Common Fleas, the party now in question stood in the position clan overseer, and that Mentors the notices of ob i/miens lit re valid. Mr. 'UCH IRWIN hell that the services upon the church warden a ere good wordier to the authorities quoted. St. Behar, GRACICItreCtI :T LDNISSIDILITT 07 Hvi- DISCI. Samuel Jobe Nail, whom name appeared on the list as the oticupier of a onunting•lmuss at 10, St. Batet's place, was objected*, by Mr. Browse (for the maservatives) on the ground that his landlady resided on the prosaism. The clsimant stated that the building in vita* his siting-houss was situated had only one:street-door, and the couuting-house was on the ground-floor. He did not know of his own knewledp whether the landlady lived on the premises. Mr. Saowxa said he had a witness who was prepared to prove that the landlady's son had told him, on his going to the premises, to make inqairies into the .abject, that his wither had no other place of abode than No. 10,8 t. Betiet's place. He (Mr. Browne) thought that ander the circum staases the court was bound to receive such evidence, Mr. Nail himself being unable to give any positive information upon to subject. Mr. an obji cted to the reception of such evidence. Mr 'Cuathrie was of opinion that the evidence ten dered wss Inadmissible, and that Ike same must be retained. Tim court adjourned mail this erasing at 10 o'clock. BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND AGRICUL- TURAL SOCIETY. The sonata ploughing match of this society took Place yesterday, to a clover lay, in the occupation of W. J. Brown, BA., of Hseebury-oourt, litigations, Wilts, and exalted an unwonted degree of interest, partly on semen of the society being the parent of all the egrimltural moan time of &teen& and pertly from the circanistmes of nearly fifty plcsults bevies enured in compuitiou for its numerous sad liberel premiums. The day b log a remarkably line use, a very large concourse of 'penman, comprising many tit the principal families, and most of the farmers of the sur amain parishes, were on the ground; while some hundreds of the humbler mitt , les of the county Socked to the scene of action. In the first or labourers' class about 25 ploughs started, while the premiums off-red for farmers' sons were competed for b newly twenty young men. The long continued dry went operated very unfavourably on the ground, which was so herd and dry as to render the ploughing an op ration of exceeding difficulty. N uwithstanding this impediment, mat of the eimpetitors performed their work in admirable style, and it was remarked by several practical agricultariets that they bad seldom men such a vast extent of lead so capitally ploughed. By the rules prescribed, the competitors were obliged to be ready fur starting at 10 o'clock, each to plough his half we within three hoer. ends half, to work his plough with a skim coulter, making his farrows eight inches wide, and four illl6llo deep, sad mating his week. The beet men completed their teaks eoesiderably within the time. la the coons of the day many of the principal farmers repaired to Healebury-court to witness the action of a newly invented steam thrashing macein, end during the amnia' a liquid manure dibbling machine was exhibited at work in a field adjacent to those set apart fur the ploughing, and excited iamb interest. After the match lead been concluded, the committee and about 90 members and friends of the society sat down to dinner. at the Queen's Head. Major Pickwick, of Sanford, presided, and the vim chair was eMeiently filled by Capt. Leigh Lye, of Bath. Among the company we observed the Bev. Dr. nor lock, Captain Bieber ta, of Shoekerwlesk Home; D Gray, Esq., of Bathwick ; Dr. Lengwort - 4, of Illogedown House; Dr. Tunnel!, of Bath; W. Browne, En., of Haelsbury Court ; Ceptain West; J. Wiltshire, Fag , &e. rim, ems twittery loyal and other appropriate toasts wen gins from the chair, and drank with the usual honours ; tad ausesems excellent addresses were delivered ; and la the cause *Atka afternoon the award of premiums by the judges wig apportioning the ea follows :—The ow• p ar li t the best plough. Pf irt= " Fowle. Manager of ditto, Jan Asher. Manager M the semad Mot plough, John Snetirove. Manager of the third best ditto, John Commit's/. Manager of the fourth bast ditto, Flower Sawyer. The judges highly commended the work la Class 1, end recom mended bounties at 104 gad 7s. ed. each to Henry Wood ham, Jacob Smith Atha Wyatt, Thome Strattaa, Jame Watts, and Thomas flirt. Sod Ms: Pint prim, of a piece of plate, to the imusger of the best plough, not Min a farmer's eon, Mr. Joseph Turner. fleeced ditto, Mr. Jacob Craddock. Third ditto, Mr. Worthy Pritchard. 3rd fa Youths' Clam: Fint prim F. Williams. Second ditto, James Newman. Third ditto, Wm. Barton. The judges, in their report, warmly magratulated the society ea the general exemileme of ploughing. SHERIFFS' FUND SOMeTT.—Yeaterday UMW meeting of members of the above society tosik Pose at the Leaden OeStehense, Kr. itheriffFinnis la the oak. After sae or two uhapartut peliminaries, the sametwhicsa needed to read the rep width set forth that the width bed sawed the themetine of tle society be MN wes still the bud, and in ea Generated hem, la the arises prima sad Ober plasm mem the cogaimase of *salmi& of the elty of Leedom. Meth assistants had been gives to prisoners dbtharged from the various metropolitan pekoes, and aril' the but effects. Mar Isaides who had committed oal one effuse had bola re. etered to society be being seat he* to their Meads in various puts of the country. Othwe had been assisted to *migrate to Australia. With reopen to the Sean- Sid department, • legacy hal been reestred Rem the mu oaten et *elate Mr. Fingal, end an szehaper bill be 3001. width had been set aside for an Elizabeth Fry refuge, bad hes& restored to the general food. The total amount of wee only 8 71. 134., while the eatley had very mush• The feuded property of the society eon slated el 11,1001. in the 3 per seats., 1,0001.34 pas ends., 1,0001. reduesd, and ea sneaky of 1001. • ear bequalusd by the late Mrs. Stafford. The report having been adopted, the following, centimes were sleeted Moms of the society— Atrium= Hooper, Treaserer; Alders's& Sidney, ustee. Tanaka wen *ea voted to the ehainun, mad the ;proceed- MemthatedL Corm Piamtna.—The advisee by the pneeat me ear the mire Pester at be take., all Wass wan dered, es the met eatieleseery we have rushed kr very many swathe pet. We say this, sot Misr* became there has hem a eamihis advents ha the pries deer stank, bat because these en iedisatins on all bandana material change in the aspen MEN edhe nmelvt ea regards all the three polnta of prodeetfea, semenneptioa, end steaks. It may be reseemberod, per h aps, that we soma time ago ieforesed our Twain of OW faun the Javanese allowing mach of their coffee and cinnamon land to p out of ionisation for the sake of attending more freely to the culture of the sugar cane, whieb wee evidenty • more profitable occupation. Thia now appears to be borne oat by facts, aid we have as a malt a considerable falling off is the protest supplies of coffee from Java. What the decrease in the produtioa of spice say be we do not learn, nee shall we until after the next Da . ch sales io the autumn ; bat ere are told that in the markets of Europe the increase in the Ceylon produc tics is no more than sufficient to meet the short supplies of Java cetrae.—Colombo Exansitter, Atig.ls. FAIR PLAY. (From UM Guardia.) A daily oOnteinpecary is very Facers upon an ap peal which has a-prired in oar columns lately. under the title of A Cry fa; Help from Skorealtesh." &larding that parish, with Its immense population and its miserably small supply of shush room and clerical saperiateadeses, es a sample of a gessend evil Aron:host the gauntry, es it is, he draws from the feet this simple inference, that an opulent clergy ars rapacious sad (loss-anted, and that a poor atte nuated indigent laity have been equeesed till at last they have nothing more to give. Hems our parochial wants, be aye; bade the fact that the poor cannot and room in oar churches. It is not the laity's fault, they am tlb cal enough ; it is the clergy's. A truly edifying lemon, Indeed, to draw from a piston of distress I To est Gas order &Mast mother, with a grows bled to one of then to button their pockets. For one own part we have no mon affection than our contemporary for a number of sinecure dignities which sow exist in the church, though we might differ from bias as to the use to be made of *sm. But this is not a tile7stionof siuseerea It isaqusetioa as to the general way id which the subject of chards abuses and church wants is to be treated; whether the laity are to have it always diligently and atudiouny impressed upon them that they are not at all to blame in the matter—that they may make themselves qafte easy aad comfortable on that Kam, and entirely free themselves from any respossibility as to what fails to their share in the supply of remedies; unless, in deed, the duty of thinning a fat canonry here and there be celled a very arduous and weighty one—the only duty which our contemporary Kt= to allow now to rest upon a lay oonselencs. First, are the laity quietly to fold their arm' and say—We are the generous party ; we give abundantly ; but you clergy are stingy. What an indifference to notorious fact to mete suit a eamparima I There could not bee more unfortunate Oat wpm mid& is institute a comparison between the two sedum We bate amperisone, but, if others begin them, we meat be elbswed our oorrectkn. We are not, then, diluting eh emeseled merit for the clergy ; they may only do Sheering' their pinkies obliges them because society raped. it of them, bemuse dame Is nobody else to de it bat them ; but the fact emelt be gainsaid, that, go where you will over the country, the deny are the main given; the persons to be depended on dies the eepport of schools and the charitable assistance of the Far. Is the parish *drool to be kept ring ? the clergy men's purse has to open ; do the nick and the aged require rap, or wine, or jelly, or arrow -root, or pudding, or any little dish for their weakly stomach', the clergyman's kitchen and cellar, and store room, are the resort. Has a clergyman any more interest than other members of society in the education of the poor ? Yet, throughout the country ralthes, east and west, north and south, what is the rule? The squire, two guineas, or, if he is very generraus indeed, five ; bell • dozen farmers, five shillings each ; and the clergyman all the rest! that is to say, very often thirty, forty, fifty pounds& year, for the support of the parish sehoel. We are claiming, we my, no particular merit for the clergy here, nor throwing any particular blame upon the laity, except that of a melancholy ignorance of their duty. For ignorant they are on this subject ; that is to say, the idea has not once yet struck them, that it is the duty of all ri sen, to give in proportion to their Incomes. The duty of giving never can be wholly lost sight of in society; but we are grieved to say that the duty of proportionate giving is almost forgotten by the mass of society now; not neglected only, but positively not known; not known as a duty. There is melt a thing as society in general labouring under p,rtictder great mistakes ; and this is a mistake under which society now labours. A man with two thousand • year, and • man with two hundred a year both give —their guinea. Some splendid ezcepti ins do not disprove the rule. For souse, however, in its application to society at large, the duty of proportionate giving is still remembered in its ap plication to the clergy, and the clergy are expected, as a matter of NUM, to give more then others ; and they do give more. It is the last vestige of the recognition by society of a certain obsolete standard of charity. So much for the clergy's share of the charge of stinginess; so ter as stinginess is a cause of the present inadequacy of her administrations and of her fabrics for the superintend , once and the reception of the poor. Now for another point If there is one incubus which has pressed more than another upon the church in this respect, one obstaele which hes 1 operated more than manlier as a regular brick-wall be- I tween herself and the poor, it has been the pew-system . Go whore you will, and you will find that wretched sye• 1 tem desolating the areas of our churches, and driving I all the poor behind pillars and into damp corners and fragments of room here and there, where they can neither ) see nor hear, and are affected with the most uothinfortable ) seaution of extreme remoteness from the *erne of action— the clergymen, the reeding•dck, the altar, the pulpit. I We say nothing of the chances of theumati►m, which must thicken considerably in the firsts, damp, sad mouldy odds and ends of village church room. The pew-system is t►e mange of the church, operating very much on the fabric as that diseue does on the backs of clogs, leaving large bare places, where, as the skin is only seen in the one case, the woods only seen in the other. Now, what is it which keeps up the pew-system, against every principle of natural equity and expediency ? It is the prejudices of the higher and middle cl uses of society. In nine cases out of ten the clergyman is prevented from asserting for the poor their fair share of the sheath's area by his knowledge of the violent outbreak of °Wiest' selfish paation which such an assertion would produce on the part of its usurp.n. He knows, as well as he knows anything, that the knot of small men of substance who own those pews will fight to the death far every inch of them, though t►ey have ten times as one's room a. they ever occupy. He knows that that large pew, quite in the middle of the church, which would hold twelve people, and has one person in will, on the least report of den ger, bring out its proprietor foaming at the mouth. He knows that its very emptiness is an enhancement of the po semion in his eyes, for its want of utility only exhibits it more clearly in its er pea of an honour and a distinction. Ho is a man decori ; he has not an order at his button-hole, but he has a large pew in church : that pew is a co►t of arms ; it establishes the distinction bete' , en himself and his inferior neighbours; he carries the invisible emblem upon his waistcoat and his seal. What keeps up this di.greceful a'su•e, we ask, but the pride,and stiffen., and touchiness, of the middle classes in this country ; that love of petty excise:venom which, descending in regular succession from the first circle of hellion to the society of the large and small fanner, and the market town draper, grocer, and innkeeper, at last finds in the church-pew the material of its distinctiveness, and the subject of its perti• nations defence ? We have no wish to flatter the clergy, then ; hat we must protest against that adulatory fawning upon the middle clam a of this country which goes on, day after day, in some portions of the press; that ceaseless attri bution to them of perfection and wisdom, of obsolete justice and moderation, and virtue. We are w aried of this eternal, shameless, cuckoo note of flattery and falsehood. When will the middle classes of this country, if they are not by this time incapacitated by their fiattners from believing it, be told the truth, that they have faults, and those very consider able ones ; that they obstinately keep up some of the grommet and most invidious abuses that exist among us; and that, among other things, they are largely gaily of depreciation et the poor, and largely responsible for their escluaion from ear churches and separation from our clergy. FLORICULTURAL SHOW AT BIRMINOHAM.—The annual grand central dahlia show trick piece at Birmingham yesterday. The specimens exhibited are said to have been not quite so numerous, but to have greatly surpassed in splen dour those of former years. The followieg is a list of the prises awarded : For the beet stands of 24 Dahlias—Bweep stakes of 100 guineas and society! Si. prise: let prize, Mr. Tamer, of filvuek ; tad per, Mr. Harrison, of Richmond; 3rd pries, Mr. Bragg of Slough ; 4th prise, Mr. Drusassond, of Bath ; 6th prise,Mr. BUMS. of &owner/et. Amateur Prises for the best 24 Dahlias.-1. Mr. Howard, of Burn ham; 2. Mr. Praetor, of Bermondsey; 3. Mr. Burlsmy, of Coventry; 4 Mr. Hopkins, of Brantford; 5. Mr. Fisher, of Bath ; 6. Mr. Beaman, of Birmingham ; 7. Mr. Grundy, of Park Hall; 8. Mr. Whittaker, of Pinhole ; 9. Mr. More, of Birmingham Open Clue, Fancy Flowers, 24 varieties. —l. Mr. Turner. of Slough ; 2. Mr. Bread, ditto; 3. Mr. Branum:od, of Bath ; 4. Mr. Sisley, of Bristol; 6. Mr. Barnes, of Btowmarket; 6. Mr. Lodge, of Manchester, First Clan Certificates of Merit for New Flowers —To Mr. Turner, fee Mrs. Seldom, dahlias ; to Mr. Keynes, foe Sir F. Bathurst, Magnificent and Saowliska ditto; to Kr.Preetor, of Bermondsey, for Elisabeth ditto ; to Melisagg, of Enough, fr.r Lad Grenville ditto; to Mr. Turner, lea new Verbena Mrs. Mills. TEE ALLEGED POISOEDIOS AT CHELTENBAII. The iavestisation into the cause of death of Elisabeth and Samuel Groin was resumed at 11 o'clock yesterday MOTS lug before 11. Mayer, Bow., coroner. Kr. Brookes, surgeon, stated the result of &pose morrow exuniaatiou which he had made of the body of IBlisstoth Gregory. H. made the ex anainatioa sixteen hours after her decease. He Mad the body presented externally • healthy appanage, bat the brain wee congested. The stem& matained about 12 o unces of fluid, and the suocies seas ware mash blamed in two patches. He described the conflitien ef ether parts of the body, sad said that with the empties it the imams madam on the coats of the stomach Mere were me Meese of poison, bat this was not at all unusual fa ernes ef by arsenic. Caroline Gregory, sister to the deseesed, Pad = that when the deesseed, Bung Gesgery, ems to dinner, he said he did not like cucumber al b and Mimes, on which Barnett said to his mother,ve kin a dumpling, and take one yourself." Amordiagly Mrs. Gre gory gave the poor boy a dumpling, and he ate part of it, when be became ill. This whams also Mated that when the dumplings an* mede by her deemed sister some of the flour brought by Barnett was pat Leto • tamp ma reserved. When the surgeon came he asked far the remaining dum pling or some of the Saar, and on going to the clapboard for it, wises diseovered that it had beta takes away. Did not know who pat it away. Barents and witawe's inter had had some slight quarrels. Baraett's mem was kept looted by him whoa he he was at work. —lt wm expected that the pea reeding , would brought to a elope last woe. - - SOCIETY OF ANTIQI7ARTEB OF SCOTIARA—The Society of Antiquaries have just received valuable oddi ties to their extensive collection by a gift of assay forty different specimens of Danish antiquities, uses k en the Royal Society of Northers Antiquaries of Tbey include a cations variety of same Isaremse °ePis e, llll Ci knives, spears, dawn, axes. dm., lase et them of ea se usually large lies. 'There are also several rue pommel orna ments of great Wks( y, such as Unties, or raked keno collars, bronze armi,fte or braceles, alseutiful large bream brooch, copper hetet, of very similar form, a bream lease head, &a. The Scottish Society presented some time sines to the Royal Society of Copenhagen a wised= of the depli cat3 article in the Edinburgh - Museum, and the Desists antiquaries have testified their estimation of the gift by this valuable return.—Balinburyh Cowan*. THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTIONS LN LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE. The following report by Mr. T. Hop g, Secretary to the Laseastire and Cheshire Union of Marbanies' sad other Lit-racy and fleitrotiflo Innieations, has been presented to the etairal Maaelmater, August 26,1849. Gentlemen,--1. In compiling* wish your inetrnetimia, I beg to moat a repeat on eke Mate of dm menhanke tines in Lancashire and Cheshire. 2. No complete list of these inatitstioue has yet bees pub lished, and it was principally by reference to direetotia• and bypasenal inquiries, that I obtained the names of dat e Ave pions in the two counties; fifty of these I have whited 106 times is all (mulling altogether 2,876 mila); four I toned had been closed from want of adequate support, and regarding the remainder, I have obtained information ISM orlese complete. There may be some institutions that have escaped r i t te w ps. otiee, bat they must be few in number, sad is obscure 3. The fifty institutions whose Mahan I an enabled to give are established in towns which had in 1841 en aggre gate population of 1,236,430. Estimating the rate of increase in Lalonde** at 2 . 1t0 per cent. per swum, and in Cheshire at 1444, the population of thaws towns may be calculated as at present 1,469,426. 4. In Lancashire, forty-two institutions had 11,543 males and 862 female members; 87,632 volumes in the libraries, and an annual revenue of 16,7601. In Cheshire, eight in stitutions had 1,725 male sad 66 female member s; 11,649 volumes in the libraries, and an annual revenue of 1,3032. 6. The per tentage of the population above 16 and under 60 years et age attending these institutions, is, therefore, in Lancashire, 3.6 nudes and '26 females; in Cheshire, 41 males and 'l6 females. 7. It is in the mannfesturing district', almost exclusively, that mechanics' insitutiass aro found. It& line be drawn from Crewe northward, in the direction of the Orated Junction and NorthUniaißeilways,itwill be font* to divide thetwo waggles into two nearly t goal party ; on the tut side of tlt's line are nearly all the manufacturing towns and 61 institutions, and on the west are the aspects, the principl agricultural dis tricts, and 10 Institutions. If the ability to sign the mar riage althea be taken as some index to education, It wi;l be found that the population are better educated to the west than to the east of this line; but that where it pates through the great Lancashire coal field, in the Wigan district, the want of education is very masked. The proportion per cent. who signed the marriage register with marks was in 1846 t Leer/ire West of the line 28 men and 36 women. goat el the line 43 „ 74 „ chaidre West of %ti die r:De 4 " 83 3 , Saes of the line 34 " 82 8. In Canceshire, if the seaports of Liverpool and Eat wood are omitted, I do not know of any institution b teen this ;ins and the sea, except at Wooltoo, Present, and Ulcer eon. This district in :Jude. St. Helens. with a population of about 20,000 • Ormskitk, 5,000; North Mule, 8080 ; Clanton, 2,000; Kirkham, 3,000; and other pliers, with populations tug/ enough to support institutions. halt of the line in Cheeky, with a manufacturing population of 13,000. and Rade.uffe, with 5,000, the inaituttous had to be given op from want of adequate supped. In the district of Roesendale, with a population of more than 11,000, I found two institutions with shout 150 members each—o eat Becup and the other at Rewtensrall ; and the establishment of one at Newchureh was in contempla tion. There is an institution in Cane, with 130 members; and another at Pada:lam ; but there is not one in &meg ton. There is an institution in each of the villages of eddies den, Barkley, Yeileworth, and Lee', and one was recently opened, wit% Lair prospects of in Chowb.nt. In Olti. ham there are a lyceum and a mechanics' instil action ; the sta tistics of the former are given in the table, but the latter does not appear to be conducted with spirit or success. In Tod morden and Holmtirth, which are mud) in Lancashire and partly in Yorkshire, there an initinitione vital .h are, or were, in connexion with the Yorkshire Union. In Wigan, with a populati n of more than 25,000, the institution exists only * name. Its principal supporter for some years his been R. A. Thickilesse, Etei , M.P. ; and from all I could learn there is every probability of its being closed this year. I have not heard of the existence of any institution, in the mining val iges &retied Wigan, such as Kindler, 6,469 ; !main tdackerfield, 2,665; °rail, 2,478; Pernbutoa, 4,394 ; and Upbolland, 3,113. 9. In Cheshire, the institutions of Birkenhead and Run corn have been closed from want of adequate support, and very few of the agricultural towns and vtllaite s have institu tions. There ere no institutions in the following pieces : Sendbaoh, 4,687; Northwich, 6,000; Knuteford, 3,400 ; and Cheadle, 6,400. 10 It will thus be seen that in the mining districts, where education is most wanted, these institutions tea not east, or exist but in name ; in the manufacturing districts they are found in the greatest numbers ; and in toe agricultural die triets, where education is not is deficient, very few have been stablisbed • 11. In addition to mechanics' instituti .ns there arc in many of the towns enumerated other institu I ins of a similar setae*, but connected with some society or religious body. Teen are many courch institutes, Sunday-school institutes, (the ear =ben reing principally Sender school teachers), and literary institutes in connexion with lodges of Old , fellows. These u hilly embrace lectern, libraries, and evening classes. A building to be used as • temperance-hall and mechanics' institution has recently been opened at Cruinraal, near Manchester, and a simi u building is about to be erected in Chutes. 12. bearteurion BVILDINOB.—Of 55 institutions, 37 occu pied hired buildings, 9 buildings erected expressly tar the purpose, 8 buildings whose use was obtained free, and 1 building erected for a different purpose and afterwards pur chased for the institution. A new buildi g will be ready for the Presten institution this year, and the plans hare been prepared and nearly all the money procured fur new build ings at Bur. and Heywood. 13. In 21 al the proceedings of the institution are not eyrie dou under the same roof ; in tome of these the library and news-room are in one building, the lectures dtl.vered in another, and the evening classes conducted in a third, and all the 21 require to engage rooms apart from their hired buildings for lectures; the expense thereby incurred is con siderable, and in some places is a great preventive of the delivery of lectures. 14. Of 60 institutions visited, the buildings of 2i are good, 10 bad, mid 16 tolerable. 15. There ie nothing of more importance to a mechanics' institution then a good building, erected expressly for its proceedings. It is seldom possible, anti always espene:ve, to alter another building Do as to render it ie every respect suitable. On the ether hand, it is extremely difficult to raise funds for the erection of a new edifice ; but this dial tulip has been repeatedly overcome by the pens and zeal of boards of directors. Funds for the erection of in stitutions have already been and may be again obtained by public subscriptions, by polytechnic exhibitions , by b teem's, and by shares; end th ough the measures that succeed in one town may not in another, yet directors and members really anxious ter a suitable b uilding, will find ways and means for erecting it. Even though it is necessary to mort gage, yet, in many eases, it would be better to do so than to pay rent. For example, 10 institutions included in the shoes number pay, out of a revenue of '2,0142, no less than 2831. in rent, a sum representing the interest at five per cent. of 6,6601. 16. CLAIIIIIS, BY WHOK SUPPOBTID.—The alias already given, shows that a very small portion of the imputation are members of mechanic.' institutions, and I am sorry to say that even of that small number, very few belong to the working classes. By written returns that I have obtained from 32 of the principal institutions, I find that in only four do the working deneesgenerally take an interest in and sup port the institution ; in nine the members belong almost exclusively to the working classes; in five to the middle ; in five to tradesmen end shopkeepers; in nine to the middle and working; and In four to all elmees. 17. Ltanaatna —ln many of the institutions the library Is the most enteral department, and in all the books are ex tensively read. It was a general remark, however, that the volumes most in demand are those calculated te &turn° rather than instruct, while the more solid and useful works seldom leave the library shelves. The following is a statement of the average number of volumes issued each week, and the average number taken out by each member during the year 1848-9, at fifteen institutions : volume Wieldy to each beim asemeer. Amittoa — lO AS 24 CU*, IN 23 =leagaii . eles .... ******** 1,631 —.. ***** .... Allawwww ..... ...... 1,40 ..... ........... Oldham Panama MI neabials ......— ... ... 101 tv=l 110 N It is to be obprvettlin, ms all the nessbon d• not use the library, the real number of books imaed to each reader is greater than is indicated in the above statement. Allowance mast also be made for magazines and other periodicals, which are extensively read, but even with this qualification the vault shows how extensively the libraries are Used. 18. I have analysed the eatalogues of eight institution libraries, containbsg altogether 27,670 volumes ; of them there were in Theology :Ind Iretardpies History 9.342 Hiceralehr • Vamps and Travels 2,012 =g 0. 7 1 0 1 16 . , Aooollo9as lls 01 Salami 1190ry ina =tt= Natural awl 7 ns 1,111 Arts sal eslimes Pesreg MI the Deena l,l OlO Flolden Miesslhaseis. limheding Ineydometies, Palatka* CM laird ats. • The somber of day whoois is iamb greater in Wofortion to the Is the waters than in the sinters part of the two coultlea. firataedttelv correct statement ens be wade up from 'Meting mate dab, bat the f Mowing Is as approximation to the tenth : ropuladon In 1141. Day Schack.. Imaceehlre, But of the Lae 3,031,360 936 ~ West .. ~ Oa „ 1,727,1 "II Cheshire, &Si of the Lime ..... 199,767 West n 11,722 n On 67,193 311,682 411 This statement is quite eandstsat with the returns of those *ivies the marriage register with marks, and it will be seen in a suisepwa pert of the report that the inetrastien given in done is in a great shaman elementary, thus explaining to .onie es. teat why these institutions are esoa ly most nauserous where there ' sm leirsit day schools. 27,140 1,093 ~ F 1 d 1 ' 1) 1 o 1 z - ' - c