The Express. — London, England, 1849-12-31 00:00:00

P.....'' ....--_ ~.....-------- q pog THE WORM OP COLONIAL GOVERNMENT. , tbs above title the followic g proipectas is i lo O sgd ' O O ope of the society is Is aid in obtaining for which it a tine Wes, of England, the lassillolegresest of all local sinks by the colony M ot **disposal of the waste loads, and the Ogits in ime lconstitutios at pliteauth. or t_h2 v iews of the society, thie pot sl uoki im oo , thy ..tire rills( of distant slake from ItetTnigg a sand is local matters by a &pertinent r_asogies is L o f instead of being isscompati- IMSass to the crown of Erglesd, is really salmi. nO, k r stowing disaffection. sad for the pre il • disatemlurment of the British 1111110 fr, a good attachment co tho part of the ooleni• s to w sober country ; and oleo to promote the adean. mil th oin sod mos r country, by reatosiog the opeSiteLen t and affordiag a new and power ful ca me to colonisation proceeding frem the United Nhe a *Ms object of the society's endeavours to ,sitbef Oasts" from the whole expense of the local ....1 of colosies, escort only that of the defense of ;Woos summon by Amiss powers at war with the L oo s by wliob the sttisty will endeavour to smut • oboes we: ~... oriwed am vision, in the United Kingdom, : 0 o wn yd t he aba lu e osisioss, with a view to ietlil lopes and die:union, as well as cs-operative and — oll amnion ; and, mare special's,. with a view to ii mi a c 30..t.0.t peepers i 4 ,11 VI prOftaitltS in pulls. aineststances way sequin. drat,: c rg oust cl Cl> Operlitinli with the col - sies. which d. sir, • to obtain the c.f operation of t . ,...... w i t , / to squire wet ociltraltell , in its local 0:171: 1 4tod teeth et as agent in Engla• il, who may be of NII 16111.1 is secret ited aomerusiaavora with the PP . s o is the meantim e, the heat arrapeemeot p ...id. ' 7 '...aery cemspo'swes with the color lee will be te AO - if sa•g . ir so oty sill be eo wp'ed of all 'sconce who shall eon- I wo obstriptims of out pound to the fund which will be e nd ter the tapes, 9 of the ant yes?. imool diags of the me UM ti• aty g of laid be condueted hift ; by lnd the a coos oi r op a by a s anal its in , !s oil Lo y soluble at least olio a week doting the version ntiasest. t o sidoeiss gentlemen has already consented to form I Int eve . B • Franits Wring. M.P.. Chairman elewilldth lon. A. Stafford. Fag . M P . R B.w. ti G ib son J. Napier. BA.. M• P. W. *holt f,b, . sm. i Simeon, BA . M.P. C B. Addevl.y, Beg , 6 T M.P. I, agligE et : bl F. li. KeT & B leer.q., Da P Soh • Pli Y. M. J. li=oriao, Lea. .dtbdia, .. MP. Y. A. bl'Oesthey,ll..q. Ilwsso.l-q.. ILI'. bow ssoalstioes is the should of the society's oodlegt, end the rep whim\ should be lowastlistely me g Me /wain,- of the maims. will be 'molted by the meranril iv rly in denies sad their reeohti oris ist:t I. ▪ aro, so ii they can be submitted to a general meat us/ ilaa seelei s tn approval or alteloaliata. 401•41120 i s 01. stis4 to he seat to J. BFi ster.ild, hessitls Colonial I:bon/. 6, Charism-scow nay bewail' to Mown. Cocks sad BRldalyk. ow. Cbriatcress; Mann. limos s ad Co., Poll sill lig; oil Kam Curio ea Co., GAUD!. ------------- VESTRY. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1849. INCENDIARY 1) , INVI T O;I r 'ION OF FARM The inhabitants of Girton were, en Thursday night shortly after II o'clock, mused from their beds by the cry of 1 e fire. It was soon discovered that a fearful conflagration ' was raging is a tiara on the premises of Mr. Elliot Smith, of Cambridge, his own propert , sad which comprised, as will be sun below, a very large hummed. The occupation upon whir& stood the property consumed was purchased by Mr. Elliot Smith about three years ego, sad he MS sines that time expended a largo sum of 11101147 ia improve ments, both upon the farm and the buildings destroyed, which were, consequently, in a state of thorough repair. The flee was first discovered by Mrs. Thompson, the win of Mr. Smith's bailiff, who perceived the light through the bed-curtains, end immediately awoke her hus band ; and so rapid was the extension of the fl imes thst they had barely time to escape in a state of semi-nudity before the house in which they resided was on fire; and Oil., it may be stated, with every article of fueni•sue belonging to the occupants, their clothes, and a watch, were consumed. The barn in which the fire commented stood at the extreme nd of the yard . It contained a qaaatity of barley ree d y f o r deeming, and was lennuidiately in thew of the wind, then blowing a hurricane inwards the north. The fire extended thence to the house of the bailiff, and to the other farm building., eonsiding of two large barns, • fins range of new stables, bullock sheds, piggeries, cart-lodges, cow lodges, and machine house. Six new carts, drill, chaff cutting machine, weighing machine, rollers, and other implements, together with • quantity of harness, were consumed. The worst pert of the &flair, however, has yet to be recited ; eight fine horses (for one of which 4M. was refused a few days hack), three bullocks, two calves, twelve cows and heifers, twenty - seven pigs, and • large quantity of poultry were consumed. The cries and moans of the poor animals, which were beyond the reach of human aid, were frightful ; and if the villain who was the cause of this frightful destruction of troperly were on the spo', must have exciti d • feeling of something like compeactica even in his bosom. Tots at any rate is certain, that bad he been re cognised he would beyond a doubt, in the excitement of the moment, have met • fate similar to that of his poor victims, at the hinds of the bystanders. The yard-dog succeeded in saving himself by an almost supernatural effort, for he made off with his k-on.l (a very heavy one) at his heels, end was afterwards found at some distance. The valuable stacks on the east side of the yard were fortunately (for the greater part) saved ; but a large stack of clever, a stack of hay, and • stack of were consumed. From the dwel ling-house of the bailiff the flame spread to a cottage ea the opposite side of the road, and this was quick y dn. steered. Its Mutate, an aged woman, named Carter, was with difficulty saved. She was rescued by the intrepidity of Mr. Creefield, who carried her in her night-dress to a neigh b dn's house. The whole of this poor old lady's clothes, and the whole of her furniture were destroyed. Her hoe has been temp racily 'spoiled by her neighbours. Mr. Elliot Smith's loss may be estimated at 2,0001., sad there is no doubt that it is to be attributed to the vile head I of an incendiary, whose meaning is rendered doubly insets-' table from the fact that Mr. Elliot Smith heats • high ohs ruler in the reighbourhood, b.iug regarded by all classes as a liberal, kind, and in ulgent master. The feeling enter tained by the labouring classes on the question WS, well exemplified at the fire in their conduct and exprenians they worked most inde'algaibly. It is therefore to be pre sumed tin' the incendiary was instigated by a spirit of wanton mischief, aid that Lone; and it is gratifying t know that even it this were not the cause, he has fallen short of his aim, as Mr. Smith's loss is fully covered by in saance in this Nor oich Union, for which be is agent for the district. Messengers Were despatched to Cambridge for the engines as soon as possible, ai d the N nwich Uoion end It lil FJ ams suceeesively arrived ; but from the strength of the wind they were of comparatively little use beyond preventing the fismes from spreadimr to the stacks. There werewee also re a few gowosmen presto', snme of whom prscerded he fi •• as the crow fins." Tome, as usual, renderid efficacious service. A reward has been offered for the discovery of tne incendiary.—Cambridge Chronicle. DEATH FROM DES lI IT TION. OFFICER —NEGLECT ' I OF PARISH S. Considerable sensation has been caused in South ampton in consequence of a poor wourso, in the last stage of pregnasey, Laving been literally starved to death, in consequence, it is alleged, of the inhumanity of the parish ' officers. The officers have all been di-reined, end the mat ter has been submitted to the government by the coroner. i Southampton is not under the poor law Deercommi.sion. After much deliberation, the juey returned llowing verdict: " %k e find that the deceased died rpm starvation and exposure to the told, and the went el the comm n ne eessaries of life ; and that there bar been peat anti culpable nsglect en the part of some of the officers connected with the administratiLn of the poor-laws at Southampton, in not re ceiving the &ass. d into the workhouse, at ' d providing proper lodging end nouroshinent en the nights of Friray ants Saturday of last week; but no sufficient evid nee doth ap pear es the said jury as to who are the parties actually \ to believe they were mistaken. The present depression, trust, is but temporary, and the natural and uscal mum queues of very high piers. To the Irish farmers who have consulted me, I have always said," Do your utmost—your rents, upon an average, are little more than one-half the rents paid ut England foe land of the same quality—if rents come down in England, I will take cam that yeur's shell be at least a third less, and wish eQual industry and frugality, you will get on as well as the English farmer. The English termer, you may de pend aeon it, will be taken care ui ; he cannot Ina moment become a cotton spinner, or a machine maker; England cannot affotd to ruin him, and you ate in the same boat. As to Mr. Cobden, you need not fear him—he is the paid advocate of the English manufacturers ; but his Jan page is not their-, any more than the coarse blustering v the Old Bailey practitioner is the language of the client wt motor him. The English insnufac t are your bite friends; their prosperity is linked with yours; and they know well that if the supplies of 'urn at home were greatly to fall short, their position would he full of danger. There is no where that a famine is a wore serious thing than in a manufacturing district ; manufactories are more combus tible than land; and the manufacturers we well aware that although it may be a very good thing to get some of their corn trom abroad, yet to rely almost wholly on forsiga corn would be more dangerous than to rely on the Irish Potato. Eapttience has shown that deficient h sssss it are in a great degree general, not local, as some have supposed, and y e recent rs senates in Climatology have pointed - the cause. If, therefore, but little corn was reised in th„. United Kingdom, a scarcity in the csragrowing countries would be a famine in England ; even without foreign we fdreitn war would be a great aggravation ; and as to Ir Cobden's prophesies of peace. false prophet as be was France, with civil war under his very axe, the English mnnufact would no more rely upon him than they would trust to his " unaderned eloquence," as a income against foreign war, should foreign nowers t e disposed to' gage In it. I therefore feel confident, that should gloomy . apprehensions entertained by many—gloonel trust, without sufficient came, be realised, there will I du' yon foreign corn, and ttat with the fud concurrence the English manufacturers." This is the 'assuage of encsuragement which I have Minified, on every occasion, in bolding out to the farmers who have hocoured me by asking my opinion. I perfectly concur with the petitioners, that the law requires amendment Over a very large area the law is dimetly and palpably defeating its own object. prevents the poor from being fed, because it makes it font bible to crop the land and raise Teo I. It is also indirect defeating its own object by creating a feeling of uncertain as to the security of property, and thus t reducing a state things not very unlike that to be round under the worst f of Eastern despotism—like cause producing like effect. From the first it was evident that a poer law alone inapplicable as a remedy, where the agricultural lab a " were worse ted,:worse clothed, and worse housed than any other country ;" and when, as the cotomusionen suet have added to connect cause and effec. they had soccer in the lest century three times as rapid li as in England To have assisted the able-bodies to emigrate was tl vi,us collateral remedy, as stile bedied emigrants, once in America, can easily find meats to take out families ; and the sum Ireland if 11.0.1 patirg back, dere d unfortunately in making roads where road•wort not required, would have b: en amply sufficient for the pose. That, in the cistressine circumstances in which Land was placed, nothing was done by the legislature tc mote unigtation, w 11, I sin putative, be regarded by ages as the moat grievous error the h gislature Mole committed. That no effort. however, was made to c the waste lands, as fume have urged, sad arc still uri am not surprised—a Ii tle, pi rhaiw, might have been e in some localitiea, but to construct p .uper cetinies on scale, on lauds which have resisted cultivation under sure of population, de se to suffocatton, stimulated tiou by war prices, weuld, I pprehend, have been a‘ hopeless an undertsking as s t construct the flyiri of Law,. There are a few other points in the petition, i importance, in which I find myself unable to cone where the question is sinip"y whether one nat e added to the long list of divingu , stied persons wl already expressed their concurre nee in your lordship' a question so utterly unimportant, it 'scold be u. , pai det ,in your lordship longer.-1 have the honour' lord. your lordship's obedient sue ant, 'rho state of the l)ublin corn market doe all corre pond with the outcry raised by the tionists. A few weeks since the pricy were , Law, but there were temporary cans- a in opera; produce that result, which, it was easy er understand, could nut be of long duration. then there has been a very palpanlc advance, that advance prices have sebum% el a degree tiers which might well afford the farmers The Press in its mercantile article of I says: This day's corn market fully sustain. d the pm servations. The supple of home grown corn, as , late occasions, was mot.erate, and the prices, partici wheat, looked di cidedly upwards '23-. ter issue) wheat was freely given. The quota , ion fir the sr be stat. dat from 19s. to 23..—an improvement, seen, up ,n many previous markets during the • quotations of which were from Dis. to 210 The Cork Reporter publishes the followit of a letter from Father Mathew, receive brother in that city, and dated l'hila delpliia, The el iron about my health is totally untoundel in much better health than when I le ft Irelani stinding the 'moire fatigue 1 have been obliged; The hot air from the stoves does not agree with to leave Philadelphia next Tuesday morning, for 1 and acr a day's delay in that city, shall proceed Charlest-wn, south C crolino. eV ere I shall cep atmosphere of the sunny south. The mistake committed a few days since the Dublin protectionist journals, by mixt' name of that really national and high-i bleinan, Lord Cloncurry, with the signal Glengall Address, has drawn forth from I a long letter of comments upon that dex'ut referring to several passage it, which nett historical associations in his mind, and might give a conditional approbation, Lore thus refers to a portion of the address whi eta real gist : The paragraph contains another propositi any sense that ems to me applicable, 1 caner says that Ireland's "industry demands support, a,ricultural interests protection." This I dr dustry and her agriculture suffer, indeed, a we the want to be let alone. The tirst object o apart f,om the attainment of wtil.h ie roam. exist, is the production of food for the sustenance tivator. Irish agriculture is not only capable it has actually produced threefold the quantity eery for the support of k e n hole people ; sod a f iurth of that peop—arly the entire cultivators—is perishieg of want. is it thi to restrict the importation of looil that hi The absurdity of suc h • supposnion is m. is the superfluity of laws int. meddling wi and restraiuing the free use of the bled that aura of that miserable anomaly. The re 7 land has celled into existence • flick of vig her own peculiar wreants—and has speedily with the deulation of the soil ; no portion of if from one man to another unmutileited by if left unguarded for a moment they acid , perhaps for years, waste and unproductive ; of their presence oaten so accumulate as possibility of its culture. There arc 1. burthen agriculture with • tax which, last to within a fraction of two millioas ot pound which has been employed by the English subsietising an army of placemen at the cost the people and providing fur their removal ' slow starvation. There are excise laws free use of the land, that will not allow the a head of tobacco or to malt a peck of b heavy prohibitory duty upon the conversion beer or spirits, or into the most advantageous for his cattle. It is to be placed upon other interests, by the abrogation of such these, that is the real want of agriculture ; eke would cony on her naturally restricted protected manufacture uninjured by foreign and would never fail to fiad a. profitable su perfluous produce. And neither, I belielve, so liberated from the grasp of the lawyers abject of agriculture be eluded, as it raw the soil, and an abolition of the vert u 'the property in tenant's improvet would reduce • system of farmie q thi imposslble to snatch from tie lips of. the share of the crops. All the exportable would not continue to be exchanged with o f 'tamped paper, if the law would pet the aughout the island of a large body o cfite ir and small proprietors. Under such sadden &direction; of the food of the 1 English secretary would not (as one di reply to my propcsition to enforce the powering porttLert and tout and the ex of grain, ` that if such a absentee owaers of Irish lands would i couple of woks. The death of the President of ti at Galway is thus mentioned in the last night : We have beard with deep regret the yesterday announcing the death et We President of Queen's College, 06,A et his residence, Oughtetard, of whir) For some time }devious to the openii Kirwan had been in a declining .ta.e some weeks past he had been afflicted disabled nim from taking any active • betted with that institution. It is very generally thought Berwick, the Vice-President, higher office thus left vacant ; anti vices he has already rendered to actro.l as secretary to the preside! existence, and since then pertorr The presidency in Galway durirc ind:kposition, scoria natunilly cation, for which, it mrle be and -abilities amply qualify s,: ere frost„ h ag set i n , ncrt'll-west. 7BE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS. TBE POST•OFFICE SUNDAY DUTIES, soffit Miforfrehentior tilde eesperiing the awe Y Su 'trade dirty sersermestr. Timue provincial they tht oatie. have bees made forwarding offices have not Mid oil additions: duties impelled oa m.. n soli gala on Safsittlav sight the bundle. of Load's ora stub they receive (ram to the thou ir offi own L ich do not am rake sp far Luc ruins ba,s, sal Twine IPS Sendsy alit t to the local bats the bundles g Wen hit n s' g to them from their own London bags. &me base lee of letters are not disturbed at the for esaw/ dims, bat are merely trineferred if , us one b ig to steirert Its plot whisk hat e s contempl ate bour whd to r. i c h a • iron_ the pnk .o. *gal de e m from the Sanday la tua o it arvis awe. arid y.t to render Sued ty ely is lb. Omura Posttolfier unare-istry, is to Om railway pot-nage on every trunk line ostf mlemy sensosted with Liedon, is which prtvincial p clerks are to be stationed on Saturday riahts. t son rslerers e fleeted es their lines during the r j tansies to l ea fy, Gni ino seeds and then cn eertuin offices sltua eat sabot tea; ard, on their rotors to the country on Sun day eights. to in .ke up begs for every office or the lines ow eliatkey travel. It this "Pula aecompl.shed, the set el; sl ibis* claw. would be 60•41 soon after Ste nre ay ®fought:mie..ieh, la woad merely commence before Sundvy ad thus the ;rad communication between places shunts(' ingtosite sides of Linda would be uninterrupted, and th. Sudsy lahcar, wbnti a flank day necemardy imp. sea on lere mineral offices, 'foliated, without any Sunday duty in the Sutra Pea-. See. Tke followitur wilt nun. the modesoverhadi el tbe railway Pee. tfi• scheme intelligible. The van ity Pcuotfiu A. oat the Gnat W. stern, I. r in ternee, ir..1.111 tint separate all the letten thty collected their Ire ea Strain sight according as they were ad reed to place" cm .he other trunk lines, then re- can the I IMO foe places es the 14 ads-Western for example he ly tn.lll Ludas and Trivg on Tying for places woes be • Us, and Walurton on Wolvertus, &c. The North- Tatars lt.ilwey Put . nice eletka ea Sunday night would, woo" as their train started, open the Trine bag, sort the lifts, end maks up b.gs tor Harrow, Watford, King's Leaky, B l lktillipbl.ll , l, for et pleas, in Mt facfat, the betwboeen Lod. IMlTrica ; and so on with the ps. leers 6,r pl.cis at a distance from the line, would e sent foreard on statiu• from *hone. mail arta or coat hes *tat t, sere an could he again re.sorted auto the ration. note Itl.natog to the &Crest post towns. Should •uch a 'dame ft carnet out the present art .sgement by which the Wane tfa s /S, made so on Saturday nights, have been re fute, *mild be to de available. It must be remembered rat the L reds bag atuld not be dune away with at any font odic. nolew some time elapsed between the arrival at the Litnem mai tram at the f rwarding office, and tu m or parture of the mail f that local office, because of thethe in et bundle' from one bag to another, cons.questly eulogy P,et.oibce clerks to whom the saving of time wo the uld be of Or protest importance so account o f the wed of train, could tort all the letten for certain loc .1 offices on a im'rudise office, sod bags far a diminished number of plan. would only have to be made up on the rail. The isles thee imposed on the forwarding offices would not in ner, with the Sabbath, becalms they would be performed by so night on Swanky, and would not be commenced be ton midnight on Sunday. MONET ORDER' granted daring the month •f October Raabe promoted for payment to day or they De mme lapsed alien ; ant all mosey orders grated before the let of 'many, 1319, most be manned for payment to day. or the data to have them embed le forfeited. 11IREL BOYS DROWNILD.—Aft inquest was held at Nee Aar altos, ea view oldie bodies of Richard Clough, Gnats Whittaker, and Jortathaa Chambers, who ant with am deaths nectar the followialt circumstances Sherry Air I ceche% on Sandal sdnettoca, the three boys left the town of Air parents, lac the purpose of attending the Sun day KUM, bat appear to have been diverted fain their Wien by the a unties of a pond of water, which had bees from over, sad upon which a number of leds were 144 .4. Alter remaining a short time, the deceased late', Soled their lateati a of proceeding to another she et 01 satedwter lath Leisb Awl% cid, but were advised not to go by named Hobert Bindle, who told them that the ice on that peed wodd not bear, His attempts to dissuade them, how fur, wen amending, and they immediately pr. ceeded in the direction of the place in question. About 3 eelick the tam annaceet, • witness, named Jaws Walmaley, was PePtor sear the goad, and was attracted to the spot by beaten tries of distre 5; and as proceeding to the aide of the water. he ens Iv. cl that the ice had given way, and two of the tabu orate tiz,ys were struggling is the water, rise of the tine huhu ..ady disappeared. Waltman, Moused to a aevlibeseiafe hedge, lid tore down some Whop ; out ea In mere, OA water wee closing over the little lellswe he the last An alarm was aims; and, • neastspr or Pimpts evince:rime, a " creeper" was procured, sod the Unte ihastia•te o.j. • were dressed 010 ..f the males. VII" die," Auidutel des b."—Marwhessir Guardia). linocrosn. -On Christmas-day last, a party of I°ug Sea, hew Aaltes.upearKeney, went out with' gun, whin use owned by a young man named Jahn lloatock. Alter they hat been out for some time, Hassock told his remade+ that if he I,und nothing to sho ot at very soon, he [ eroa:d have a shot at one of them ; and some, w were Warmed at this remark, left fie company. In a w ho es 41 br‘tr! . . Baton pointed the gun at and *hot a yowl; an, awned Jolla Dediey, In the thigh and head. A meth- [ tal mss wee immediately rammossed, and he dressed the "mrals, ht.t the stat had listeied too fee into the sole part 61 ,„ t tul . °oil% to be . dratted. We end. stead the young ens fs on T. iry veal . and then is no d AAA of his red only. I --ileediester Guardian. A GANG or Itutinuns.—Soon after 12 o'clock cm Inday sight lour m. n tweet to the faun-house of Mr. Taws- [ serf In* re,sdes bete's& Monte' and I , OIM, end baying 1 , sunlit the occupant, ol the hoses, requested an audienee with Mr. Tanner, stating that they were mamben of the " a "... balmy and wanted to speak to him; M r . Taverner, "worm, sospethyr tome to be is pursuit of every dif. rent o j• et t ° °int fefornented, fetched his gun a nd advhem.ised them to rlifo psoceably. er threatened to tire upon tAt trot they ealy ridiculed kin, and seemed bent upon effecting sa eatranes : but the fint discharge thought it br been to tf ,Bl l , - The setae at party then proceeded to the Imre of Mr. Smith, Mont.'', end three of them having hid in ambush' me an the inmates, imploring their mistime. awl astute ttat his hover MLA fallen down in the toad; the ow st Mr &kith Itaiinu op. aid the door, f ou r men, with their Gees mewed with lit ► k nape, rushed in, demanding money. he Series that man be overpowered by number, Mr Smith, In** en o ff ered ao resistance , and number, haulers nnvelnd the rows, Wing from the hutch a U. sot, of the Ewe bank, with shad 34. in gold anti silver; they also to lc sway a "Ate 'We., a hat, and some breed lid meet, and tti,e'e'thel,eesue There is no doubt these men form 14.10er. ul est ,Ifdteperadoes who hive been the terror 01 .Le neighouttrio,.. • for a Ion; time, sad who a short time sine" attempvtl a hishway robbery upon Mr. Taverner, but which they failed to accomplish in cassequellter of the lady cries of that path:nen for maistance.—Esees Mandard. ins ato to ,in' I.t'i. THE FEMALE EMIGRATION MOVEMENT. A meeting of then M21710)011* Vestry was held on Saturday, in the Court Howe, the Rev. Dr brae, the sector, in the chair. Ater the traaseetion of some formal business, Mr. H. C. WILSON said he rem to cell the attention of the board to • subject of very geed hapmtanos. He bed no doubt that all must had read with the attention which it deserved • letter written by Mr. Battey Herbert, some talne ago, bit► regard to female emigration ; s risoition which had previously occupied the atteutioa of the hosed They were & Isl, daubtli se aware that • committee had been f timid to Gerry out theliuggeetions coatattied in that valuable letter; that subscripiuns to • ler.• animist had already been collected; and that there appeared to be • disposition on the pert of the public to sid so important an object. He (Mr. Wil-oe) had not been unobeerv.nt of pas: events by several years ; Lnd be ventured to my that amoapt all the public question. welds Lad been discussed at different periods there tied never been one more fraught with public benefit than that to which he referred. (Hear, hear.) Up to diet time th- subscriptions in aid of the object Lea been limited to the upper claws of society; but he believed it wee only nowseary for • body of genth men like those who= tie had the honour ot addictions, to put their shoulders to the wheel, and is °wee pushes essociatii ns would be formed similar to that whteh he should ask them to amiss in tormiag in the parish of Marilebone. (Hear, hear.) The object wee a national one, and he ;mud that its promoters would receive from the different parishes 'ha aseistmce to which they were entitled. (Hear, hear.) Tnete were many parties who were greatly interims din the quecion. The first party was that large portion of the commune y, the iudustrious and well-dispiesi women who, in come. quence of the pressure oar the labour market, and of the die prop:rtion et the sexes in this country—a disproportion so mai ked that then were from 600,000 breaks in excess ol males—sere exposed Weevers hardsh pi and privations. The imsgination of the poet, the ingenuity ot the moralist, and the wit of the eatirist, had torn aside the veil from sults:dog, and pourtrityed the various hardships to welch this large clue of persons was now capon d ; and there could be no doubt that the (MIAMI! of the ptiOl . e preee bed made a deep ins pre eioa upon the public mind. The scanty preance which ea' earnest did not deserve the name of remuneration; it hardly enabled the parties to ltist; and, even if the quer 'ion sere left to the severe test of political economy, it must be admitted that the rem .val of 20,000 secopstreeste, who were now e' badly paid, would be • most effectu it insane of enabling these who remained to take their labour tu a bent: market. sad to obtain • remunerative peke toe it. Wne, tioiv it was remembered that in the Autitralien colonies the disproportion of the sexes was equally great on the other side, end the fearful evils resulted from that diaprupor ii', it must be evident th .t the emigration of thousands of te rasles was a =mare pregnant with beusheitil results to tbose e 'Louie% as well as to the Mother country. (Hear, laser.) lie concluded by proposing the following imitation: " That the Ye of this baud-room be allowed to the under signed petiti eters, for the parpues of enab.iiig them to tire a parochial aseociation, in aid ot ,ha committee vetted, sp. pointed to carry out ea disc:ties system of lomat: emigre tuns." The following names wire appended to the risuluti .n : the Hee. J. H. Spry, DI) (Rector), George .4 allsffue iChurchwerd•u). _Henry Charles Wilso. , T. H. Bridgman, H. °green. Edward Joseote Thomee Potter, R. Hoek man, O. Wotan. Joon Lovsii4ir, J. H. Dark*, O. S. Et weed.. William Fist • !W Oeorge A, J Ain B.Liue, William Wee:, James Davis. Jacob Bell, George Rowuey. 'ikons@ Powell, Jam.' Hakes, Sampson H degkiasoa, 1). R. Watt., J. D Kitt , Atehtbeld pietie s F.eurrick Charles Ward, t. heats Server, Oeorp Gioia Martin Thealt.-roy, JIM'S Nob t, Peter Matthews, Bisset Inner, Fronds Calder, slam Joha Hamilton, Bart, Jon ph Wiagfield, Peter tirdham, William Williams, Jo. SIP Emily, W. lieu's, Chutes Carr, Jonathan Soden, Robert Tarupp. Sir JAMBS HAMILTON seconded the rec.latios Mr. MICHIB, who was steely inaudible, was utelcrstood to say that the vestry ought to pause before committing itself, as needlewomen were hardly the sort of emigrants well o were required in toe cslowes. They were not say e tined tor form service, or fur domestic oeeupations. Mr. JOSEPH said, he welenti.oi Mr. Michle to mean that se ediewossen would not make the best vie s tor coldnial agracueurists. Ile horrid that the present movement would be • &tamable, nut so much to the esaiiration of a sea or • clam, as to smigratica in general. (Hear, hear.) The CHAIRMAN *did, that ia a conversation which he had he with a gen - ettasis who bad been commercially cote nteted with Sydney, and who was well acqu iintsd with the -tats snit p *Mee of the i habitants, be had asked him who. thee nee-Wolves• a would be an acceptable chat of persons i the colony. He Posh trod he was not at all prepared for the &uses? which he toe. teed. The gentleman said, " I assure yeti bola pi mobil obarvation when I was there, that these us eillewonien are exactly the doss of women who wouel be beat restive , :: they to wanted r ry much, an I you are mush mistaken d yin suppo e that on leeching the colony they wouid not bud employment; if they are virtuous and ievectaLle they will be well employed and very comfort etre. (Hear, hear.) Mr. JOSEPH said it was most erroneous to suppose that all the poor nemilswomen bad been brought up to their pre sent etup.uyannt from infancy, and that teey were fit for nothing es.. The truth was, the needle ass the dernier resort of servants and others who had been uriven from tb,ir burner employments. Mr. SWAIN, in supporting the resolution, mentioned the case of two girls who had emigrated from the metro pal, in cane queuce of lo.ii g their father, and on arriving in Ault . retie, had obtain , d situetione as dome-tic servants, one at 301. a year, and the other at 201. When 26,000 young women, under eighteen years of age, were employed in the suetrople in making shirts at lid. oath, it sway wee nee-beery to make same alteration (Hear, hear.) Mr. SODEN also supported the resoluti o n. He said the board art guardiaes had already acted on the principle in vole. d n this movement. Most of the iempstreesee lived by their needle because they could obtain no other kind of employment. The streets were crowded with ilea who ould be glad to obtain some useful occupation. Mr. DELL earnest d a Lop e that proper care wi ad be liken to p. ev. nt the emigrant ships employed in carrying out the object from being ether burnt or wrecked, and gene rally to provide for toe escurity and comfort ot the emi grants. Mr. GLAZIER also supported the motion. The resolution was then put and carried unanimously. A undo ion was also carried on the of Mr. OAR- Imre, seemeled by Mr. Butbostee, with the view of securing tree services o' the rev. chairman (Dr. Spry) a. the chairmen of the association ; and one requesting Mr. H. C. Wilson,:he mover of the remintim, to act as secretary. Mr. WILSON 'aid he should be happy to render every 'mistimes in his power. After the despatch of some formal business, the vestry wParliod• (from the Daily Nara.) MANCHESTER, Dec 29. The appearance of our trade market continues to be enemeraping, and there is evidently mush busieess doing both in yarns and in cloth. The advance is the market for the raw material is one c •use of this. Moreheads as well es .91Ablifacturers now appear to have toms to the conclusion that there in no fear of the cotton market giving way, sad stocks of goods being unusually light, buyers for the home trade and shippers to all porta a-e inelned, as it were, by a common impulse to make the best of the rsuonable Tans at pria•nt prevailing for I:crating orders on hand or to mph- Gish exhausted stocks. Twday's os aket fully bears oat this report. Not only it the demand from all quarters but it is almost universal in its !application to the counts of yarn and varieties of (Mode. Even T cloths and domestics, which have so long suffered from depression, are rapidly disappearing from stock, awl are to some extent ?Wing in pries. The tendency of mines, generally, is upward. is yarns, 40's mule, fee India, which a variety of circurr.stanees have conspired to render scarce in stock, have advanced to the event of Id. per lb Fine numbers of yarn have gone off well, common& g advanced rates, and the lower num bers of water and mule twist for export, as well as home use, are is demand at iumeating rates. In clans, 36 and 40 inch a` trine', and pr wing moths, have been in much re quest and in the form. r an advance of about 31. per pins has obtained. In jecconet mudins there ha been an advance of nearly three halfpence, since the does of last week. The demand in shirtinas and printing cloths and in the finer counts of yarn continues to prepon derate, and some curious Cale-la ions have been put forth by the trade as to the saving effected in the consumption of cotton by the tendency of the market in th is direction. This laving his been estimated at upwards of 6,000 bales, or nearly two million p.unds of cotton per week. Respecting the defalcation in the Rochdale Savings Bank nothing more has transpired of any interest since my I.st letter on the subject. The amount of the probable driloit, placed in that letter at 71,0001. to 74,0001., is likely to be about the mark ; and the amount subscribed towards making it good still halts at 13,0001. —no steps having yet been taken to appeal other public. Some extraordinary statements have appeared in your London contemporaries, wherever picked up—extraordinary fibs —reflecting on theists deceased actuary of the bank The writers have probably calculated the chances in their favour that no oae will come forward as champion for the deed on whom sack a heavy weight of infamy already rests, and perhaps they ar irreet so hr. The parties most to he sympathised with are the readers who have been unwittingly Induced to abates ismanyhich absurdNes. The main fiction in these matements one w tends to keep alive a notion that Kimono has left behind him a board of moot y somewhere, which may yet be traced and app:ied to tie liqiuidatien of the bank's liabilities. The ,arses most likely to form a correct V least* of the value of these stories treat them as simply ridiculous inventions pat tor'h by ignorant gossip-1w ngers. The movement in progress in this county and the West IR:ding of Yorkshire for giving the payers of county-rates a i control over the expenditure of their money seems to be pee -1 ducine come fruit etre edy. The county magistrates appear to los tatting to work to reform themselves so far as Las molar* is concerned. and at their next meeting an attempt is to be made to economise their expenditure, as well as to correct abuses. There is reason to fear that the re form party may not b' •troog enough to effect their object, bur if they can not effect rood from within an exposure ma• result from it which will help the movement without. Since the couwy meeting of boards of guardians at Newton, to prowls- the he out door reform, Mr. 11.-berts, the secretary, has reciived hallowing iateressing letter on the result of that meeting from Mr. Joseph Hume. M.P. : Burnley Hall, Great Yarmouth, 20th Dec , 1849. Win. Robber% Esq., Dear Sir,—l am favoured with your letter of the 18th inst., and hasten to inform yon that I entirely concur in requesting Mr. Giloon to take charge of the bill "for the establishment of financial boards for the assessing of county rates, and for the administration t f county expenditure." I would have nothing to do with any other county metier foreign to the existing rates, and the expending of existing county funds, as my object was, and still would be, to place, by statute, the counties on treacly the same looting in ream et to tie. control of their financev, as all boroughs now are by statute. In 1837. when my bill for these objects was milimirteir to Lord John Russell, the then S tretary or Sate, Mr. Bethune, 1 1 the then law adviser of that department, stated to his for `- ship in my present'. aft , r going ough t th the bill Mouse by clause, that he bad always teen ot opion ht the " tin ineeel of counties should have been placed on the same footing as the fineness of Fermate.. were, and that my bill would effect that object." Mr. II ywcod, by the course he proposes, is taking ex e•ly t e same means as Sir John Pakingion and the oppours of the bill did, to shelve it for another session, and to raise questions that belong to the judicial department of counties. I always intended, if pressed by the house, to agree to a committee on the bill after its second reaoieg, as there no recorded (valence would be taken or any delay allowed. The submitting the hill is, in het, an agreement in the principle and object of the bill ; and for the purpose only of makieg the establishs ent sod means suitable to carry out what is required by the bill. Mr. Disraeli and his sup porters will gladly avail themselves of such an inquiry to defeat your bill. Keep, therefore, I request you, to the single ohj•ct as exr essed, and I should thenas hopes of RUCCIMS. I need n ot add that in any way tha t I y can assist the bill, I shall willingly do so, and remain your obedient servant (Signed) Josnru Hume. lIIIPWRECKS AND LOSS OF LIFE. LORD DENMS.V.—It is with very great satisfaction that we .Ti enabled, authoritatively, to contradict the para graphs which are going tae round of the papers. and which we have ourselves quoted in another column, re- peeing the health of Lied Denman and his retirement from the bench. His lordship has been for wise time past at his coon' ry re. licence, Stoney Il.ddleton, in tbi. county, where the salubri ous air of the Berbjehire kaiak .scuntributed,alang with rest from his high and arduous dutee, nearly to restore him to his wonted health and strength ; and from whence it is ex pected his lordship will Minn in the spring to that mat which he has so lon• filled with honour to himself and to his country.—DorbyeAire Courier. REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH NOTTINGEAMSEIgg , —Another vacancy is likely to occur is the mpresntation of the southern clivisi , in of the county of Nottinell of lire conseq uen ce, it said, of the intended 1114111160 Broml y. the recently elected MCCHIBOT to Colonel Bollsh icton. Mr. Bromley is suffering fro m confirmed bad health, wh is s areal,442 of his contemplated retirement. Tie are already on the aler . , and Mr. W. Barrow. of S e outh well, Mr. E. V. P. Br , mell, ot Winkblurne, aud Lira John Manners, save been nveraill mentioned as likely to be nominated to sunned Mr. Bronavy. Barrow, however, is the leading favourite, especially amongst the tenant farm ers, because, in addition to being a protectionist. he has deeared himself in lavnur of • material reduction of the national expenditure. Ye ith the view of aiding this election, sad harshen' , • the reactionary movement, two county meetings have been called, to be held towards the latter end and the other at of the ensuing month—one at Bingham, Bast Raiford. THE SIIEFFIF.LD FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY.-- The tint purchase of land to be offered in lots to the mem bers of this society, has this week teen m aw l sde. T h e l as i is situated near Crooke*, and about a a rom the centre of the town. It eospists of two fields adjoining the lanyard , and having a frontage to Bckool-lane, and com prises • trifle Ism than 4i acres. It has been bought for 7001. It I. prop seed to divide it into from 30 to 35 lots, so that the cost to each 'Hotter will from 201 to 231. Cite land, however, will be improved by the making of • wad, and by draining, essential preliminaries to its convenient and healthy occupation, which will materially e mem nha rcbers a e the f value. It is expected that the purchases by the their allotments will be completed before the 314 January, •o that such of them as may be in a poeition to pay be pima chase money at once, with,itit requiring a limn from the society, will be able to claim to be registered as freeLoldf re next July. THE NORWICH FINANCIAL REFORM ASSOCIATION commeaces the new year with a neat and we 1 netiocical t o &diorite their views. It is eutit;el the Reformer. The following explains how it is the ans re m roll of Norwich is so limited, and points to a me ot tending it:—" We have often been surprised on se, ing that the number of burgesses qualified to vote ar the municipal elections for the city of Norwich has been so lin.ite.l ; not exceeding, we believe, 2,800, allhough there are more than 14,000 houss within the limits of the city. The municipal has gererally been regarded as a household franchise, sod, therefore, after making due allowance for house' occupied by females or standing empty, many thousands of oceopieis are deprived of • vote who were intended by the legislature to eafraw•ised by the Municipal Corporatilr Act. We are ge glad that this impnrtant subject has remind the atten tion of to Norwich reform committee, and .hat they have traced the evil to the system of compound rats!, by w nit the landlord's name exclusively appears on the rate book. But they have also discovered that by serving a notioe on the overseen, the was% say become fully entitled to his vote without any saran or liability of any kind. Thin equally applies to vvting at parish vestri a. We in und in our neat number to give pectic-1 dlrcv 04s, ea- &Ming all who ,',sire i• to obtain the fran hire I ves c cal asks. All occupiers will be e nable to go to the Easter lei aimless their sentiments on many laterestiag point oat aziospling that of church rater.' ----- The recent snail from the United Statesbroucht tidings . he loss of another e migrant ship from Liverpool. The un fortunate vessel was the Stilor Prince, Captain Wltachner, muter, bound to per so nreans and at the time had upwards of four hundred pe on bOard, of whom three hundred and seventy-five were emigrants, men, women, and their children ; the chief of whom were fr,ent the winlaud counties. 'the wreck took place on the night of the fi rst of last month, on a rcpt of r eke near the island of Caneum. The weather is rep , rted to have been hazy at the time, in the midst of which she got on the rocks, wherein a few hunts she Inc erne a perfect line. The crew, who acted with great humsaity, contrived to land the whole of the emigrants on to the island in safety, but there their sufferings became frightful. andani fi t Little or ns setting provisions tia i npplayed e e d r e s got b out ha , 0 0 c f the among unfortunate creatures, that within twenty-four sno e t el he kern than thirteen had perished. The ship h o ur as tons barthen, and was insured to the amount of 9,8001. The loss of the parka-shipnes •is made k om New nown at Lloyd's, oft Friday. She was b ro ad to Bremen fr York, wish a general cargo and fifty paszenge rs. Off the Gout of Testi she encountered heavy gales, which drove her ashore on that coast. Oily seven of the passengers saved 'their lives, as also twelve of the Crew. T ne remainder all I met with a grave in the deep. Another wreck is reported in the North British Mall. Information having been received that the wreck of a large vessel had come on shore near S emburg Head Lighthouse, on the west side of the Shetland hits, about thirty miles southward from Lerwick, the prin. profit officer ot that place, accompanied by another officer, .edi d there on the following mornirg, and ascertained loom Mr. Sutherland, Prussian Vice Consul for Shetland, who had taken charge of the wreck, that it was the Prussian vessel kiechelet, from 300 to 400 tons register, Vollrubt, master, which vessel had sailed from Dantaie on the bth, for Portsmouth, with a cargo of oak plank* and deals. The vessel is a total wreck, .and irateo be feared that the crew have sU met with a watery g, as the decks were found to be swept, and the poor deck, in which the cabin "wasniPsliettu6altei d, was aost entire y swept away, not a single soul being found onboard. Several vessels hive put in by stress of weather to vat inns parts of the coast, and the mail packet, which has recently arrived in Lerwick, had brought the only mails which had been received in Shetland for up • wa rds of three eek. TEE NEW COFFEE DETIES.—By the Customs Act of the last session, entitle'', " An act to amend the Laws ye lating to the Customs" (12 & 13 Viet., chap. 90). the new duties on cog.* will come into operation to-morrow. It is enacted that on and after the let day of January, 1850, the dutio on coffee, kiln dried, roasted, or ground, the pound, shall be, of and from foreign countries, 84. ; of and from , British pooessione, 6d. The 30th section of the act sap that goods in the bonded warehouse at the commencement of these duties shall be deemed to be subject to them ; there fore all coffee, kiln dried, roa-ted, or ground, which is now in warehouse, equally with such as shall be imported, on and after to-morrow, the Ist January, will be entitled to admis 'ion for home use at the duties mentioned. These duties on coffee are not an alteration or reduction of the previous existing duties on coffee, which are and will remain 64. and 4d. the pound respectively, but are new rates of duty imposed on the article in a kiln dried, roasted, or ground state. We believe we are correct in stating that they are entirely new rates of duty, no such rates of diry having been provided for In any previous table of duties. PROPOSED lONEMENT TO SIR JOUN BARROW.— It is stated at Ulverston that the Lordto the s of the A Sir Johndmiralty have fixed upon a site for a monument Barrow, on the Rill of Road, sati s faction ve cottage. The determinetion has given greatto the inhabitants of Chariton, many of whom have subscribed to the monu ment The height is to be 130 feet, it mast therefore form a very striking and widely seen object from every portion of Ilorecombe Bay except the west. From Pile Fondry, from portions of the sea northwards to Whitehaven, from Lancas ter, Fleetwood, and • considerable way towards Liverpool, from all the principal hills in the lake distriin s,from Ingle borough in Yorkshire, and Black Coombe Cumberland, the monument will be seen. GALLANT RESCEE.—A correspondent of the Nautical Standard communicates the following incident : Tne Rattler, while shortly after leaving Ascension lately, and when in lat. 2 deg. 5 min. S., long. 7 deg. o'clock, p.m., as the hands were aloft reefing topsail, a second clams boy fell overboard. The commander (Cumming), who was on deck at the time, quickly observed the accident, and without a moment's deliberation bounded over the eters, seized the boy as he passed under, and with the aid of •• few omen, who speedily followed so l au dable an example, kro sup.portel the boy until a boat was manned and seat to his souta n e.. This act is the more commendable in consequence of the hazard incurred by the gallant commander, for the Rattler, at tbe time alluded to, was going at the Tile of tour knots throsgh the water, and the sea in that locality abounds with shuts, which are remarkable for their voracity. Tint CANADA, C4tPiftio Harrison, sailed ort Satur day front Liverpool lot Halifax and Now York, FRUITS OF THE GAME LAWS. LORD BROUGHAM. —A letter from Cannes, of the 19:h inst., in the Monitore du Solt, says: " Lord Brougham has been making some interesting experiments on light here. which are just terminated. At eleven o'clock at t irht, on the 14th, Liu members of the Royal Society of London cave to our popuht.on a ravishing •pectacle ; at the top of the towers of the noble Into the .pperatus 01 the el• ctri'sl light was placed, and at Me same instant a luminous point sh one from he Ile delete Margutrite, and its hielliant line displayed to t all ey. P the beauty of that exchenteug sit.. same rays were afterwards directed en the a.agniflcent misery of the Csp-R . p d us, and on the picturesque roadeteed of Agai. The cau tesil at such an hoer was so b e autiful that applawe suddenly broke forth from all parts. The next day Lord Brougham, in the midst of a numerous aid chosen Lucie, gave a detailed and very interesting account of experiments on light." THOMAS 'NIOORE.—The poet is in the enjoyment of good health, physical and intellectuel. at his coney. , at SI IFF. erton, takes his daily walks along the tenses which borden his pretty girder, end driv , r. as usual e.ch day in a email pony carriage ; he is not living in more than t en he ordineightary retirement in which he has posed the last se or years of his li.e.--Arto/ournol. THE LATE QUEEN DOWAGER'S STUD has beer re moved to Carlton House stables, and will he exhibited on Friday at Tattersall's, previous to being brougnt tc the bete V er. THE MISTERIOUS CASE IN OXFORDSHIRE. — The sudden disappearance of Elizabeth Stanton, of lencett, att. vent to Mr. Coates, fernier, of M distan nrcott, and whose heel was found in the fiver Ray, shortdistance below Fe y was on Wednesday last, has already been mentioned in This paper. An inquest was held on Friday. before W. Brawler, Esq., at the Crown Inn, Chaidon O on-ttmoor, and, after a prot ra cted inquiry, the jury retuned a verdict of " Found drowned." ACCIDENT AND SUICIDE.—A frightful accident occurred during the last week at Sobre le Chateau (R 4.1), in the sugar menutactoey of M. Ruttier. A lad, 12 years of age, employed in t he factory, approached too clue to a por tion of the machinery, when his head was wneht by a cog wheel and the body drawn into the machine. The head was fearfully crushed, and several other limbs fractured. Strange to say, the lad Whenuv end hopes are entertained of his recovery. the lad's father, Philipp Fonteville, an merrier, was told of the accident which his son had met with, he was seized with a kind cf melanchdoly mani on a, and a few days afterwads he coolly sought hisdeath the ep 4 on which his son had been so dangerously wounded lie placed himself in contact with the very same wheel and was instantly seized by it, drawn into the machine, and crushed into a lifeless maw. QUACKERY AND SUPERSTITION IN THE NINE TEENTH Cum:me—A correspondent says : " A shockicg ease of death of a child has just occurred on the borders of the Forest of Dean, in Gloucestershire, through Some the pre chys- lent* of quackery , superstition, and ignorance. il dren of a shoemaker named Revue, living at East Dean, were at play together, when one of them, 'MOPS, aged 4 years, heated the tong., ; and seized a younger sister with them by the neck, burning her seriotsly A proper ap plication of fiour, linseed oil, , was used, and the wounds were pealing, when two quack doctresses, named Mrs. Milliner and Jane Temen, persuaded the parents to let the child be under their treatment. Milling applied some ointment spread on cabbage leaves for two days, but this caused great inflammation ;and then Tinian took the case in hand, professing to have a miraculous power of cure by the pronouncing of ' a charm.' Accordingly ber sister, Ann Bradley, prepared • salve which Temen ap plied, at the same time pronouncing the following impious chum' Three owls came out of the what, One cries fire, another Host. To Father, Nen, and Holy Ghost. The poor child gradually got worse, the sloughing and in flammation increased, but the infatuated parents, believing in the supernatural powers of Torten, and puving implicit faith in the charm, suffered their offspring to linger is tom tut e for five day! longer, when the little creature died. At the inquest the jury hesitated whether they should not return a verdict of manslaughter against the three women, Teruo, Bradley and Milling, but returned a special verdict finding all three guilty of rashness, and especially Teman, for per sisting in her ' impious and presumptuous charm.' 'l6e ; jury also blamed the parents of the poor child for their eredu lity, and 'erased a lupe that this occurrence might lead to j a discontinuance of the system of quackery, which greatly prevails in the Forest." IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONDITION OF TREPEOPLE. I . —lt affords us great pleasure to state that, during the 'airs season, there has been a most abundant ply of fish alg the coast of Donegal; so much so, that it eurede anythin ou g heard of for the last tan years. We have lately been in• formed that the potato disease has scarcely affected • tuber in many parts of the county, and that owing totem Mecum stances a great changi for the better is taking plue in the social condition of the people.—BanyeAannote Herald. ATTACK ON DOVEHILL Housz.—A party of seven or eight armed men, on Friday night last about the hour of nine o ' clock, went to the residence of Joseph Crawley. Earl , at Dovehill, near Thomastown , and demanded admittauce. When Mr. Crawley heard the ' knocking, he went into the hall, and having asked what was wanted, he was told to open the door ; refused to no so, and was then ordered to charge from his employme.4 his present workmen, and to employ ethers ; ease he did not comply, they told him they would find him at another time. At that moment, Mr. Crawley fortunately s epped gems the hall, nod t w o op three shots were fired through the door; the contents shattered a table, a clock cue, and tare railings of the stairs. About the hour the attack was rode, it WAS Mr. Crawley's habit to accompany his herd.tO see i t t he s t ock was all safe.—King's County ChronMlr. A OAMILIZPIR Snot NEAR LOWTTIER.- Aaothey 0: those shackle, emote, entitle out of the opera. time of the vote laws. of which we have had such fatal es lately in this part of the country, tack place near night last. A gat.likeePer. peened Colitallbr Lows Col', the sest of Biel of Lormiale, on Mooday meat of Lard Lonwide, was shot at, anf, it is feared, fatally in the emploe wouaded by seine peee,:ken. Try.e men belonging to Pen - rich, named Nelson, Vickers, and Varab, were apprehended 4,11 TuaSOay, charged with the crime. On their essmins• dos be.ore the magistrate', it was gloved that they had been ow p met i oo Monday niaht, and for this offence they were committed to Appleby gaol ; but there wee no ctor's:re to show that they bad shot at the keeper. Anothe r peewee has siuee been taken into custody charged with being concerned in the disk. Dr. Jackson, of Penrith, who is at tendieg the gamenseper, has, we are glad to hear, strong hopes of his recotery. A cotrespondent hes furnished as with the Jul/emit/8 details :—About midoight on Monday, the day pr. ceding Chnstmas day. Lord Lonsdale's game keeper. were on the alert, having neard the reports of gent in different pare of his lordship's extensive domain. At about the time a,tokret of, two of the lie pen came up to a roue el fire p ocher's, neer Bemy Gill, each carrying la gun, with two degs tanning near them. Two of the poachers being a little .ay operated from Meer companions, the two keepers made towards them, when one or them deliber ately levelled his gun, fired, and shot Orphan, who fall pauseless to the ground. The other keeper made towards them, when the other poacher levelled his gun, and wart about to fire, when the keeper celled out to hint and said, " Yon will surely not be such a coward as to fire at a man summed." At this remark the poacher lowered his gun and took to his heels, together with his companions, turning row and then to three stones. Our turning back to Orphan, who was shot, more keepers came up, and he was taken to his home. One of his eyes was eh an shot out, and the side of his face much mutilated. He still lives, and ropes are entertained that he will recover, but at present hie life comet be welled for. Mr. J. Been, ou being made acquainted with tr. e sad catastrophe, gal loped off to Penrith and roused the constable*, who pro ceeded to the different inlets into Penrith, in order, if from Pe rich, to apprehend them. At between two and three o'clock on Christmas morang three men were ap pretended at Himont Bridge, and on searching them five pheisauts and two guns were found upon them. Their names are hiNtekers, Nelson, and Vat.h, the two former notorious pothers. It turned out, however, that there bad been two distinct sets of poachers, one from Penrith, and the other from Bolton, near Appleby. The party sppre he nded are from Penrith, and were to Botkeaut Wood with three or tour more The Raton parry .re the party wee shot the Ile per, and who have been apprehended also. In Beckham Wood, which isnorth of Lowther Castle, two more of the kee l en cerise up with are or *even of the pots hers with guns. They succeeded in capturing It'Veckers, but the party seeing there were but two keepers, returned and rescued their comrade. A parley then matted between the keepers and the poachers, curing which two of the poachers k.pt their guns levelled at the keepers, close to Mr it breasts, so dote tb.t one or the keepers had to tinted it by several times. Tine parley ended in the poachete saying tbat if the keep n voted err pur ue or nuke them they would walk off toe grout d. This they did, aid three el this party were taken by the Penrith c• eatables, and hair reties been inden• titled and contented to the gaol at A ppiety for the t &um. —Carlisle Journal. DaerxwTe AFFIL&T WITH PO•CitettS.—On Christina' day three poachers named Jobe Jones, John Price, and John Morris, colliers, all resident at Ma. ste p , were brought to the police-station, at Bridgend, having reien found on the fright art cite 24tu instant to the hlsrition preserves, arm. d with loads r guns for the purpose et killing game. It ale pear. that on to above night the Kann k a 1 era were w etch lug the game, when they heard the ri port of guns; they ,e e et in the diteetim of the sound. and sew the three above perems, each corryicg a gun The poechers then ...tempted to rue, when the keeper. toll° sce. John Jones tuned and said to der keeper William litubhs, Stand b.ek, or I will shoot 3iiu,'• The keener still pressed towards him, and he then teamed round emit rau awe• tied rig the keeper was gaining upon him be turn u soon .—plieced his gun to his ehuulder and fired being wi. bin tire yards of his pursue r- —the charge ludged in a stick which the keeper held in his hand—oozed has huge re and some of the powder ..nit scut Truck him in his face, esusing blood to flow freely from his mouth. The atelier then knocked the fellow down with a stick, took his gun from him, and tuck him into custody. Upon szausisi-g him he totted the poacher's arm had been broken II tae affray. At the came time one of the w ',where ...reamed towards John Muni-, who finding 'oneself ariout to be taken, rose his gun over his heed tor tee purpose ut striking the Wat Cher, who thereupon imme oiately struck him to the ground Tait, y closed and fought Wept' at. ly up and down tor some time ; at last et e keeper o verpowered his man ante took him into custody. On taro:wiling his gun the lock one found to have been receutry Moen off, aed on searching the prisoner it was round in ha pocket. The other men, Price, wan taken we e nut trey eminence. and his gee goterom him. They were all plentifully tarnished wide powder, shot, caps, and Jour. bad in is possession a store marble and a lec'.en bul ler. On the 26th inst., they were brought before the Rev. It. K ight, Rev. U. L. Bless*, and Richard Franklen, at liridg. na. Jones and Morris were committed to ti Segues. Rouse of Correcti n fur three months, with hied labour. Price eva• committed for tie werks, with hard la bour—the oriole of them to find euretres, at the expiration of their imprisonment, nut to be 'privy ot the same offence foe twelve months; in default to be teethe r imprisoned ter sin months. John Jones was agoin charged with felouiowly shutting at W 'llion Stubbs, with intent to do him a grieve ue bodily tone, and tul:y committed to take his trail at tin neat wiz sto be holden at Swansea. A ph:usent was found dead the where/trig monies/ the near spot un which the affray had talc n place.—Cardier Ouardime. IRELAND. DUOLIPI, DEC Th. position of the Irish prottc.ionists is, I believe, much worse than the public generally suspect. In deed, what was conjecture a few days since, now amounts almost to a certainty, and I have no hesita tion in saying that the promised demonstration in Dublin on the 17th of next month will, if possible, be avoided. Swine of the party already regret hav ing committed themselves to the invitation; ana Lord (Lowell feels himself excessively awkward in the position of leader into which he has thrust himself ; but they have gone so far, and the requisition has obtained such publicity, that it will be difficult to escape from getting up some ostensible show of a meeting, Public discussion is the thing thy fear. Unfortunately we have no leading men of very conspicuous ability to take a eland ag-iost the protectionist orators; nor is there any " organised" opposition whatever prepared against them ; and yet they perceive that it would be impossible to awaken public discussion on the sub ject in Ireland, agricultural though it be, without eittir beaten out of their position. Hence, it the meeting of the 17th take place, it is sure to be a close one, where all the votes must be one side. The Evening Post says: — Now, when tne pronectionists of England talk .o much about the Irish moveast nt, let the people of England be made acquainted with its real chancier. There it, u odoubtechy, a great landlord movement in Ireland, and if it wars dabie sup ported by the ten ants and the people, a very formi movement it would be. But it receives no such support. On the contrary, tie counter-cry 's raised fur a reduction lit rents, and an absolute abolition of fiat's, known at pr. sent in this country by the name of rent-charge. 'the following letter f rom the Earl of Rome, in re ply to Lord Glengall's circular, is important, and will be read with interest in England as well as in Ireland Parsonstown, Dec. 27, 1849. Mr LORD—I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your lordship's letter of the 2lst, enclosing a petition to her Majesty, to which I perceive many landed proprietors of hiih rank, and great influence, have already . attached their sigaatures. Concurring with the petitinners ia many of the leading facts, I feel bound, in common. courtesy to your lordship, to make som e statement of the grounds upon which I have felt reluctantly constrained to withhold my signature. Had the ; etitioners confined themselves to • simple statement of facts—for instance, had they said that there was great agricultural depression—that large tracts of d land e we re lying waste — that th e breadth of land prepare fo corn was much leis than usual—frets, I believe, perfectly notorious -1 should have at once affted my signature to the petition as an additional witness. If, as a matter of o pi n ion, they had stated , that, the present prices eon tinuinr, it would be impossible to raise cerea ld l c verops way upon the poorer lands, that corn rowing wou gi to graz ing. that the race of farmers and laboweonrs of the best would gra dually dwindle away—that being the opini practical men I have met—l shoal at once have assented to it ; and if the petitioners had added, that the question war, rather a farmer's and a labourer's question than a landlord'i, to that I should h ave been dispose/ to assent, seeing that there are several proprietors in this neighbourhood who bold large treats of land in their own hands, and can realise!, by acarce4 said to have corn or tenants, and yet have grazing, rents about the same as others. I cannot, however, concur with the petitioners who say that Ireland is unable to " compete wi.h the foreigner ;" further evidence is wanting. My present opinion is, that prima will gradually improves, and that upon the average they will be fairly remunerative. Tnat opinion, however, I sin bound to say is based coon the opinions of others ; as I do hot pretend to that intimate acquaintance with the con dition of the core-growing countries whinh ailswjustify me in firming an independent opinion I have visited them ; and, regarding the corn law question as one to be substantially decided, by the Rouse of Coto:nons, I have an t g iven up the time which would he necessary thoroughly t master the published statistics. No dotebt the leading men in the Douse of Commons who adrocastad the repeal of the corn laws yknowiog well that theta is no principle of pol a i tical economy which can safely be acted upon without careful reference to other tionsidsarations to which that prin ciple is often second in :importance) took care, as it was their bounden duty to d;, fully to assure themselves that corn could not on er,erage years be sent from the corn-growina tautly" at troth a price as to throw the poorer lands out or zultivation , and ruin, as a class, the farmers and agricultural labourers. It was clearly their conviction that prices wi be fairly remunerative, sad, as yet, I Sot no sate-tent mown. ea - tee go, roe tal i 'ell dc- ent ind m. the 1111. g of rho Nat hey ttly ere in a C• 11. raq s of 411 risk are reed, out • the tries ear; Mr. as in Wish they urity a en• the I Y, I be a ice of re felt Diets poor POO, •t. It impor irectly rtainty tate of .t form c. ne was t , urers than In mould creased the ob- , when a their squan- °Hi was he pur- ich Ire- @ to pro- lay atter ild have colonise • irging, I affected n a great r • pees- to ter- n almost rg island of minor war; but shall be e e • e i e e leßtns;h:o4lpeeubfn views, a r nc g h o u fi :t t a h mb e c r l certainly eration to to • Since .ce, and at courage. yesterday (ceding ob- is on many rticularly of rel for good article may :, it wi I be winter, the ing extract • ,vtd by his ia, Dec. 10: [led, fur I am nii, not w ith- id to undergo. 1 / 1 me. lam or Dalri , nore, red a; uuce joy the warm et) by one of tint; up tho -minded no- atures to the his lordship Ament. After tut ally raises l to which he red Cloncurry hich contains Son, which, in not accept. It ippon, and her dray. Her in- want; but it is • of etriculture, anifei•tly cannot aince or the cul- ible of this, but ay of fund rat ces- id yet more than , class of actual ne went of laws Itit , caused this? ninifest. No; it with, burth, ning t is the pregnant !newel law of the igilent harpies— ly. c harged them it it can bra passed by their talons ; ciao and hold it, c ; the foul traces • to prevent the poor laws that last year, reached uncle s riling, and oh government in oat of demoralising A by pestilence arid :s that restrain the ;be farmer to grow barley, that lay a ion of his corn into geous form of tood is as equality with rh vexatious lairs se re ; if thus set free, rieted and naturally foreign competition, sble market for her sieve, if the wet revs, would the first iw it: a tree trade in custom that attaches rats to the freehold, that would reviler it e cultivator his proper e agricultural produce th absentee sloe a slip permit tho existence f inilependent i•IMS111, :freumstaness, were a peasant to occur, an did three years ego) he Irish statute tn- uncil to stop distillation a thing wire done the put out his parry in a the Queen's . . College the Eveniug Post of Ist lettere reached town the Rev. Dr. Kirwan. away, oa Sunday last, ich he was narish priest. fling of thicoller, Dr. are o' health, and for • teal with paralr.is, which e part in the duties con ht that Mr. Edward will succeed to the and the important ser- o colleges, hating len..;al board during its • . Irm ,- .1 all the duties of big Dr. Kirwan's fatal ent.t le him to the tle , • oburvtd • ,inir , . 7 ' , • C IC" R, • C tis • \\ .l, • ,