The Express. — London, England, 1846-09-15 00:00:00

them. .Zr. A. M. Uniacke and other Conservatives refused toll at of any change, because having already signed one a ddress, they said it would be stultifying, th.anselves to sign another. A committee was appointed by the majority of the meeting to draft another address, and report to an adjourned mee tn. Of , Friday, 21st August, the draft report was approved, and nix sub committees appointed to procure sig natures iu each of the six wards of Halifax. On Tuesday, the Ist of September, Mr. Uniacke and 84 of his friends (chiefly office-holders) met, and signed the original addles, The Mayor of Halifax, on recount of the dicisi u, declined to present either. Tile " original address" was presented the same day, at half-past twelve; the citizens' address, at one P.N. To the offl-ials, Sir John spoke as a man in office : " Permit me to say to coo, gentlemen, that the assurance of your support, now so Frankly and ki.dly tendered to me, leaves me nothing to appr,fieud es to the result of those endeavours which 1 on my part pledge myself zealously to devote to your service." To tae citizens with frankness and cordiality : " If I had sem- among yin altogether a stranger, and wholly un known, I might indeed with reason have shrunk from the difficulties of such a position; but hailed as my appointment has been by this community, cheered by welcome as I have found myself by all classes of the inhabitants of this pro- , Muci dcapital, I should feel myself unworthy of the marks I of coniidence and good will wt.ich have already been bestowed upon me, if I were to allow myself to entertain any doubt that my earnest endeavours to promote your interests will meet with that success which the hearty co operation of her Majesty's loyal subjects has elsewhere invariably conferred upon them. Gentlemen,—Hence forward we urn not strangeta to each other, but fellow citizens and tellow-sotjects, governor and governed, alike pledged to exert all our energies in the promotion of the object common to us all : the peace, harmony, happiness, and prosperity of Nova Scotia." SirJehn appears to have taken care not to have too much or confidential talk with the presenters of the " original stilt eat." Ile kept them waiting for a few minutes, and on enuring addressed them abruptly and good humouredly : s• Gentlemen, I am afraid I have not been so punctual as I usually am, and as I ought to be ; but the fact is, there is not a clock in this building, except one, I believe, which is in a dark corner where nobody can ac e it." This address had the effict of producing much merriment, and put everybody in very good humour, in which his Excellency joined, end immediately turning back, asked for the copy of the reply to the teldress, which being handed to him, he read it aloud. By the time this ceremony was over, the gentlemen with the citizens' address were at the door, and the officials were bowed out. Sir John is embarked on a sea that will require all his skill in steering. NEWFOUNDLAND. Our despatches from this colony are to the 25th of August. The newspapers are unanircuus iu their cordial expression of thanks to their countrymen at " home " and in the sister colonies for their prompt contributions to reli:vk the sufferer; by the late fire. The (Newfoundland) Times of 22nd August Pays : " We arc happy to learn, and our fellow-suffers rs will also be glad to hear, that arrange ments are being mule for the distribution (in the early part of nest wick) of the funds transmitted for the relief of the sufferers by the late fire. We know not at present the result 'if the deliberations which have been entertained durin7 the week respecting appropriations. The following are the names of the commissioners appointed for receiving applications for relief from the sufferers by the late tire, and after due inquiry to report on the same for the informa tion of his Excellency: Hon. John Kent, chairman ; Thorns's Glen, li q , M.0.A., Hobert Prowse, Erq., Ambrose Shea. Esq., J. B. Bulky, Esq., Henry Winton, Esq secretary." NEW SOUTH WALES. We have papers from Sydney of the 15th and 16th of May. They are filled with the debates of the legislative assembly on various questions of local intercat, mainly about the spealtership, and the increase of salary proposed. from the lengthened editorial comments on the two days subse quent, it may be aaaucued that tho address of the governor, on opening the session, was followed also by long and ani mated discussions in the house, but the intermediate papers, in which both were recorded, are wanting. Affairs, both commercial and political. appeared to be favourably pro gressing in the colony. The government land sales, which were held a few days previous to the dates of these papers, had been well attended, and the spirit of competition evinced spoke well fur the improving state of values and money. OLD ROMAN ART tersue BRITISII INVENTION.— The open area of the Royal Exchange, after unsuccessful trial of divers new material', is again paved with the " Turkish stone " that formed the pavement of the old building, and which, we cannot avoid saying, looks very coarse, inartificial, and unworthy of its position. Tessel lated pavement was laid in the first instance, and failed. This gave place to asphalt° ; nail then the asphalt° was cleared away to let in the old stones again. We look on these failures as something almost dis graceful, not to the architect of the building, but to industrial and artistical England. The Romans con structed magnificent navements here more than fifteen hundred years pg), which, when opened, as at Woodchester and Cirencester, lately referred to, or in Threadneedle -street, close to the building in question are found even now solid and substantial, brilliant and e ff ective. We, with what they have done before our eyes, and with all our boasted advances in knowledge and our improved machinery, make two at tempts to produce a pavement for the chief building in the City of London a little out of the common way (only very little), and failing utterly, are obliged to go back to the old atones of the former area! The occurrence is suozestive, and should induce consideration.—The Builder. - METROPOLITAN SOCIETY OF FLORISTS.—A horti eul:ural file took place yesterday at the Grecian Saloon, City-road, fur the benefit of the Royal Metropolitan Society of Florists. The exhibition was of a miscellaneous kind, consisting principally of dahlias, which were remarkable both for beauty and profusion. Prizes, varying from five pounds downwards, were disq.ibuted to the amount cf nearly 2001. The gardens were tastefully decorated with inscriptions and devices in dahlias. A large number of persons assembled towards evening. Vag Conn. His Royal Highness Prince Albert left Osborne boas- ,huitly before 10 o'clock yeAcrday morning, and embarked on the Fairy for Southampton. The Queen, attended by her suite, left Osborne house yeaterday at 12 o'clock, and embarked on the Fairy for Southampton. LOYALTY AT ALDERNEY.— A correspondent of the Guernsey Comet, at Alderney, under date the 7th instant, states: "A rumour having been circulated that it was the intention of her Majesty to pay a second visit to the Channel Islands on Monday, the 2nd inst., s. , veral of the heads of tho island commenced making preparations. The inhabitants also went to work in good earnest. Some hundreds of yards of hunting, cotton, and other materials were instantly purchased and made up into hags. The stock of these failing in the various shops, many had recourse to garments in which were found the royal colours; whilst others, who. were in possession of valuable articles of drapery—heir-looms, so to speak—for many a year pre served in remembrance of their ancestors, devoted these also to the purpose. Even some among the poorer class, whose means were not commensurate with their wishes, sewed handkerchiefs together ; so that they, too, might display their banners. Various kinds of frame-work were in preparation, to be decorated with flowers, ever grems, &c. ; and triumphal arches were to be thrown across the principal streets of the town of St. Anne. A new carpet, about forty yards long, was in readiness to be laid on the spot where it was considered likely her Majesty would land. On Wed nesday, about noon, some persons on an eminence descried fcur steamers at a distance ; and, concluding them to be the Roval squadron, hastened to town, to give information of the tact. The officers of the militia immediately ordered out their corps ; and in less than half an hour they were under arms, and in readiness to escort the Queen, should their services be required. The whole population was in motion —hundreds wending their way to the most elevated points, whence they might obtain a view of the harbour and road stead. Meanwhile, the Royal Squadron E haped its course din ct for the island ; but, on approaching the roads, bore away off the Mount, and proceeded through the Race of Alderney, to the great disappointment of her Majesty's loyal subjects. Mr. Abel Smith had an interview with Earl Grey ysti relay at the Colonial-office. Mr. 0. F. Davidson had alt's al interview with the noble earl yesterday. heron de INloncorvo, the Portuguese Minister, Iran acted business at the Foreign-office yesterday. Lord and Lady John Russell returned to town yesterday from a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Bedford at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor-General of Canada, and also from the Governors of the other North American provinces. Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governor of the 'Falkland Islands. Earl Grey returned to town yesterday from Roehampton. The ROYAL COMMISSION to inquire into the laws of the Channel Islands, held its first sitting, according to the Jersey Herald, on Thursday last. The immediate object of the Commis-ioners was to ascertain the legal acquirementa of the members of the Jersey bench and bar; and the herald 'IP that the inquiries were conducted with great courtesy lad urbanity. The office of President of the Royal South Backs Association having become vacant, in consequence of the decease of Lord Montagne, the Duke of Buccicuch has just mueated to accept of the office. ANTI-SLAVERY LEAGUE. A public meeting' of the members of this body and their friends was held last evening, at Exeter Hall, Strand, d ie purpoie of reviewing the proceedings of the Evan itcLital Alliance, at their late meetings iii London; in relation to American slavery and American slaveholders. There was " Y re G . attendance. The Rev. John Burnet oecu- Vtlie Chair. He was supported on the platform by Mr. r• L Garrison, of Baltimore, U.S., Mr. George Thompson , . rrederiek Douglas (the fugitive slave), Mr. George ergo. Dr. Thomas Price "' ilkington, and several other clergymen and gentle. ram The CusiumAN, in stating the object of the meeting, 4 "d to the proceedings of the Evangelical Alliance. and 0.0,, - e° 4 a resolution which had been submitted to that body, the effect that all might be brethren, though they held slaves against their will, and not for their own interest. This resolution had, after some discussion, been with drawn ; and hence it might appear to their Ame rican brethren, that English Christians were content to allow the question of slavery to remain in abey ance. The judgment of the Alliance, however, was not the judgment of the British public; and it was to prove this that the present meeting had been called. In fairness to the Alliance, the principal persons acting in it had been lurked to attend. Mr. W. L. GARRISON said he professed to be the advocate and representative of three millions of American slaves; and his only anxiety on this important occasion was that his strength might be equal to his duty. This meeting was for no sectarian purpose; all that the Alliance claimed as a re ligious body would be conceded to it ; and, when judged by its own standard, they would have to inquire whether it had been consistent with its own professions, or whether it was not to be universally condemned. The Abilence claimed to be regraded as a body eminently Christian; it aspired to a high standard ; and by that standard let it be judged. It would then be seen that they had assumed what did not belong to them, and that they were in Met eminently anti-Christian. (Cries of "No.") The Alliance proposed to comprise every sect and denomination ; but the Quakers, the Plymouth Brethren, and the Unitarians were excluded. While claiming to be divinely inspired, and ' directed, the Alliance passed by the three millions of down trodden slaves in America • and thus gave a more fatal blow to the anti-slavery cause t han if they had been a mere secu lar or irreligious body. Their object evidently was to exhibit the church in a new and united attitude; arm the conclusion to which they came, with reference to American slavery, was only the more melancholy. The Alliance had separated with the resolution that each should continue to maintain his peculiar tenets; so that, in fact, they ware as much Churchmen, Baptists, and Preshyterians, es ever th^y were ; and the world had been imposed upon by I a pretence of union, which didnot exist in reality. It had been stated that there were two million six hundred thousand persons in the United States connected with Christian churches ; if this were so. how happened it that, in that country, there were 3,000,090 of slaves ? Was it not because they countenanced and shook hinds with the American slave owners 1 Had the Alliance resolved, es was moved by Mr. Hinton, that no slave-owners should be members of the convention, they would have taken a proper course, and entitled themselves to general praise, instead of being, as now, the scorn and execration of all good men and angels. But they appointed a large committee to consider this diffi cult question ; and much prayer was offered for their deli berations. These prayers were no less than a mockery. (Cheers, and cries of " No, no," and "Shame," but the cheers preponderated, and were prolonged a considerable time.) Had the Alliance been mindful of the Divine com mand, to feel for those in bonds as bound with them, they would not have hesitated a moment in deciding this question. If any set of men more than others ought to have been decided on this point, it was the American members, who held the natural equality of all men ; and yet, because they wished to palter with the question, they proton fed to deliberate and to ask divine counsel. (Hear.) Ultimately, they expressed their confidence that no members would admit slave-holders to church membership who held slaves of their own choice and for their own interest. (Hear.) Was not this equivalent to asserting that slaves might be held, in certain cases, without any moral wrong ? (Hear.) But even this did not please the American delegates, who were determined that nothing should be said on the subject of slavery ; the cuestion was twice re-committed, and it was finally resolved that all re cord of it should be rescinded from the minutes of the Alliance. (" Hear," and " Shame !") The American sup porters of slavery had come over to England, stolen the garb of charity, and attempted to make pro-slavery men of their English brethren. (Cheers.) Such had been the conduct of the Evangelical Alliance; and if its acts stamped it is an unchristian, rather than a Christian assembly, taut was the fault of its own members. Many persons thought they could show from scripture that slaves might be held in inno cence ' • but if this could be proved from their Bible, he would put their Bible in the fire. (Cheers.) It should be stated that three Irish and one American delegate bad nobly done their duty. (Hear.) The Rev. halve PRR2TON, a Baptist minister, said he was a member of the Alliance, whatever they might call it. Ile attended all the 19 sessions, but he certainly did not approve of the way in which the slavery question had been disposed of. (Hear.) He had expected to hear the conduct of the Alliance on this subject censured; but he did not ex pect to hear Christianity undermined or prayer ridi culed. (" Hear," and interruption.) The results of the Alliance with regard to slavery were entirely owing to thc American brethren ; the English members were decidedly opposed to slavery. The Americans disapproved of the first report because it condemned slavery at all; the British because it condemned it so lightly. (Hear.) But he find been much astonished at the result: he considered that the Alliance had stultified itself. They had allowed the Ame rican members to overpower them. (Lsughter.) After all the Americans had fallen into a trap ; for it was still on record that no slave-owner should be admitted n member of the Alliance, until the whole of the districts in the Alliance were consulted. (Hear.) He denied that any such senti ments as stated by the last speaker had been sanctioned by the Alliance. . . . . . Mr. G. Titotthsox was received with enthusiastic cheer ing. The last speaker had replied to himself; even he had felt called upon to suggest, in the alliance, that the slaves should be remembered in prayer. (Hear.) The members of the Alliance must be judged by their own standard ; they had appealed to the word of God ; and, with that book opeu before them, they could have no need for deliberation and prayer on the slavery question. (Cheers.) In the very chapters and psalms, which were publicly read, they were plainly instructed what to do. If they came together for any purpose, it was to bear testimony against some of the prevailing .ins of the world, a which slavery was one; fur that they should come together simply to love one another did not appear at all necessary. (Hear.) It was evicieut that our growing connexion with the United States was corrupting the Anti-slavery sentiment of his kingdom; and rather than this should be the case, it were better that no more delegates should corns to us, or go to theist front us. (Hear.) The motto of the Anti slavery Society had ever been that slave-holding was an offence against God. (Cheers.) It was a melancholy fact th it not a single deputatiou had gone to the States from any Christian church in this country, that had not faltered with the slavery question, and compromised their body at home. Recently, a deputation trout the Free Church of Scotland had gone to America; they had com pletely fraternized with the slave-holders of the Southern States, had occupied their pulpits, sat at their tables, and commingled with the Christian denominations there, and had never lifted a solitary voice against American slavery. (Hear.) The result of this was that the Free Church, and all their organs now fiercely denounced abolitionists, and supported the slave-holding Americans by reference to scrip ture. (Hear, bear.) If every• member of the Alliance had made this question his own, and had asked himself how he should like to be a slave, trey would unanimously have exclaimed—" Let slavery be eccursed! " (Cheer.) The members of the Anti-Slavery League occupied no new ground; they held, with the Americo l're-byterian Church in 1794, that no man holding his brother man in bondage ought to be admitted to church membership. (Hear.) At the late meetings of the Alliance, when Mr. Hinton moved that slave-holders should not be eligible as memb: ro, there was at once division and discord in the body. The alliance bud first failed in its duty in not passing that resolution ; they had thus compromised the anti-slavery principle. (Hear.) If the British members, as had been alleged, were firm and consistent, here was their consistency then? There was an overwhelming majority against the Americans; and yet the latter appeared to hair led them by the nose like asses. (Laughter). By their ultimate resolution they recognised the possibility of men being slave-holders not of their own fault. Whose fault was it then ? (Hear). They imputed it, like the church of Scotland, to the providence of God. In the general assembly of the Free Church, in May last, Dr. Cunningham and Dr. Candlish hail both declared that the American slave-holders had been brought iuto their unfor tunate position by the providence cf God; and this senti ment had been loudly cheered by the assembly. (lieu). Talk of men being slave-owners not of their own fault, or not for their own interest—where was there such a man ? Would any one in Exeter-hall sanction the doctrine that God had put any man in a position which necessitated him to be a slave-hold. r? (Hear). The alliance had established a precedent which did not exist before; they had legislated for an ideal exception ; and by that very act they had com promised the abolition question. They had preferred union with the Americans to compassion for the slaves; and their hearts must have smote them while they were making that compromise. Already was that compromise condemned by the public. The American and Scotch delegates had pre vailed by numbers and by subtlety ; and it was a shame to the British delegates to have made that compromise. (Cheers.) The slavery question had been discussed in the Alliance more than any other ; and yet not a syllable in reference to it was recorded in their proceedings. By this course the members had destroyed their usefulness in the anti-slavery cane ; for if they were now zealous in that ckuestion, any one might get up and ask why they had been silent in the Alliance ? But, though Christians in England might compromise on this question, there was no compro mise in the southern States ; the slave-holding members of Christian churches held out for their undoubted right to chain and sell their fellow-men. The Alliance had been led away chiefly by a member who, in 1835, had taken the ground of the utter unjustifiableness of slave-holding under any circumstances, but who had recently sat in the chair of an assembly of men-stealers. (lieu.) None of these men had dared to appear in public ; or he (Mr. Thompson) would have confronted them: and, with any audience in Great Britain, he would have undertaken to obtain an ail but unanimous verdict against them. (Hear.) Mr. T. then read some extracts from the sentiments held by Dr. Cox on slavery ten years ago ; also a specimen of the sermons written by Bishop Mead, to be read by slave-owners to their slaves. In conclusion, he moved resolutions declaratory of the sin of American slavery, repudiating the doctrine that slaves might be held in innocence, and censuring the conduct the evangelical alliance as a virtual abandonment of the cause of the slave. (Cheers.) After a few remarks, the resolutions were pat and carried, with a very few dissentients. A collection was made, to defray the expenses of the meeting, and Mr. F. DOUGLAS gave some interesting details of the slave-system in America. Thanks were then voted to the chairman, and the THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING S SEPTEMBER 15, 1846. with the number of children in the neighbourhood who were not receiving any education, and who could not be received into the regular schools, took a room in the neighbourhool, and invited them to th e school, and were surprised at the readiness with which their &Ices of instruction were accepted. The school was open for the first time on the 3rd of alay, 27 buys attended, nine of whom could neither read n a write, since which time the schools had been in regular operation. The average attendance had been 35, and the behaviour of the children had, on the whole, been tole cable. The demands upon the scl:ool had now outgrown the means at their com m it'd, and thin appeal wa, made for assistance. Itemilutions were reed to, pledging the meeting to support the schools, non a liberal collection was made. TILE POLICE AND TII2 GAMBLING-lIOVSES. —For a considerable time past a number of gaming-houses at the west end of the metropolis have been placed under the sur veillance of the police, a constable being comit.ually iu front of the principal entrance. This simple remedy has had the desired ttrlVt, seven houses of this deserlpti.m having been abandoned within the last few day b in the vicinity of St. James's. _ _ REMOVAL OF THE MONET-ORDER OFFICE, CHARlNG CRose.—Yestertlay that part of the branch POA-office, Charing-cross, occupied as a thrting room by the Lindun district poet letter-sorters, was opened as a money-order office, wherein future ail such. orders will be issued and yiaid. CUUNTT OF MIDDLESEX.—SHERIFFS' COURT, RED LION tiQUAltE.—The following days were yesterday ap pointed fir the execution of writs of trial and inquiry in Trinity Vacation t—Thuniday Sept. 17; TLursday, Oct. 1 ; Thuisalv, Oct. 15; and Thunalay, Oct. 29. Causes intend ed for tria l in either of the above sittings must be entered for trial three days belore the particu:ar sittings on which they are to be heard. HACKNEY CARRIAGES.—The number of licences for hackney carriages at present in use it 2,6.30, of which only 100 are employed for the old-fashioned hackney coaches, which are now and then to be seen on the -tends, or lingering about the railway stations and steam wharfs. The remaining 2,550 are uoed fur " working" cabs. NEw IVELcit CHUI:CIL—A new Welch church was yesterday opened in Aldersgate-street, contiguous to the General Post Office. THE LATE BISHOP OF ST. ASAPII.—The Right Rey. William Carey, Bishop of St. Asaph, who died ou Sunday last, at his town residence in Portland-place, was in his 77th year. In 1784, when about fifteen years of age, he was ad mitted one of the King's scholars at Westminster; in 1789 he was elected to Christ Church, °shad. lie took orders in 1802. In 1803 he was made a prebendary of York, and re ir(ll, in the following year, the appoininent of head master of Westminster school. The Duke of York intrusted him with the educational arrangements of the military asylum at Chelsea. Dr. Carey was consecrated bishop of Exeter in MO, and of St. Asaph in 1930. Among other appointments, he held the vicarage of Sutton-in-the Forest, in his native county of Yorkshire. Dr. Corey published a volume of ser mons, f which the only one that attracted much notice was preached before the llouw of Common, in 1809. The late prelate was a staunch Tory. 11 fia LTII OF I'ILISONERS.—In answer to a question put vest' rday by 31r. Wakley to one of the medical officers of the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields, it was stated that the numb, r of prisoners now in that prison was 1,044, and that only four were on the sick list, one of the-e being a lying-in woman. The medical officer said that the health of the prieosers was cenerally goad. Au alteratiea in their diet, made about a year ar.d a-half ago, in consequence of facts and opinions arising out of an inquest held about that time, hail been beneficial to the prisoners. AN IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—On Saturday morning, whilst Mr. Seabrook, of the Cross Keys, Blackfriurs road, was busily engaged in the arm:Tomcats of his establishment, a young man, of g, nilc manly appearance and :nitwit tercel, and representing that he was about to forward 81. to a friend in the country, requested Mr. Seabrook to acenmeiri date him with a cheque on his banker, and he would huud him over eight tovereigns. Mr. Seabrook, being very busy, and having, no siispic'on of anything wrong, said he had no time to do so, bat he had uo doubt Mr. Hawley. the pruner, living close by, would accommodate him. The applicant instantly went there, mentioning Mr. Seabrook's name, and without hesitation the cheque upon his banker was filled up and handed to the impostor, who gave Mr. Hawley eight sovereigns. The fellow, on leaving the house, put an "0 " to the " 81.," and "y" to the " Eight" in the body of the eheque, and taking it to the banker's, he got it cashed instantly, thereby making a profit of 721. The gross imposi tion soon came to the ears of the above gentleman, who gave information to the police, with a description of the person of the offender, and the police are on the alert alter him. There is little doubt that he has practised similar imposi tions on the public. EDMONTON FAlR.—Yesterday the fair at Edmon ton, which, after having been discontinued for twenty years was recommenced last year, was again held. It was attended by crowds who e:mjoycd the follies and amusements of the steno without having engaged in any disturbance up to the time of our repartee's departure. As a sin of the times we may mention thatantan was detected t.teeding a "quantity of piue-apples." A very few years since thi, luxury was CU:y to be seen at the " rich man's table." Now, however, " quantities" find their way to fairs. DISCOVERY OF AN ANCIENT SWORD AND HUMAN RENtAiNs.—Yesterday, in the course of making excavations in West Harding-street, Fetter-lane, a sword was discovered in the earth opposite Trinity Church. It was at a depth of about lifteea feet imbedded in ground, in which it is supposed the owner of it had bete laid, as there was a quantity of human bones and a skull by the side of it. The Wale, broken at the point, was about two inches wide at the hilt. It was much decayed, and broken at the edges on either side. _ --- ACCIDENTS.—TIIREE LIVES LOST.—On Sunday evening, a pleesure boat, called the Miriam, went down the river to Etith, on an excursion. She was managed by Joseph Leonard, a Waterman, of "Rockwall, and another man conversant with the management of pleasure yachts. There were three gentlemen on board, whose names have not transpired. The wind freshaned in tho evening, and while the boat was coming up the reach one of the men went up aloft to reef the gaff hal) ard, and while he was doing so a squall of wind caught the sub, and the top weight of the man caused the frail barque to calzvize. Two of the party almost immediately disappeared. Leonard clung to the hatches for some time, but ultimately sank before assistance could reach him, and also met with a watery grave. The other waterman and one of the gentlemen were saved. The unfortunate event has created a great sensation among the owners of sailing yachts mad pleasure boats on the river. None of the bodies have been recovi red. Soon afterwards a boat, containing seven persons, which had been down on a pleasure trip, was capsized by a squall near the same spot; six of the party citing to the boat while Robert Hamil ton, a waterman, swam towards a sailing barge at anchor, and made kn Avti the danger of his companion.. The barge. men immediately put off in their boat, and saved the whole of the party, who were sent up to London in a steamer. - - . , . NtIVESTB.—DEATH IN PRISON. Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an adjourned inquest in the House of Correction, Culdl.ath-fields, on the body of Richard Homer, aged '23, cab-driver, sentenced by Mr. Combe, of the Clerkenwell l'olice Court, on the 29th ult., to 15 days' imprisonment fur not-payment to his employers of its. Juhnliomer, brother of deceased, and also a cab-driver, said that on Saturday, the 29th ult., deceased left home to attend the Clerkenwell Police Court, to appear to a summons on the part of Mr. Soliman Isaacs, of Great Ormond-yard. He had signed a paper, the witness believed , to pay I.lr. Isaacs fourteen shil lings per day for the hire of a cab. Ile was committed by Mr. Combe for non-payment of that sum, and fur two shillings expenses. (The warrant for commitment was here produced; it was not accompanied by any other document, and the signature to it, stated to be that of Mr. Combe, was not capable of hang deciphered by any one in the inquest room.)—The Coroner (to witness) : What is your practice in hiring cabs from their owners ? Do you sign an agree ment ?—Mr. Isaacs' men do. We pay when we come home at night. If we do not pay we are liable to be imprisoned, should there be an agreement in writing, not else.—The Coroner : Cabmen, according to this account of the law, are treated much worse than any other species of debtor. I thought that the act of 1844, abolishing imprisonment for debt for sums under 201., applied to these individuals. The warrant is issued under the Hackney Carriage Act of 1843, but I think the debt a simple contract one, coming under the provisions of the act of 1844, and I do not think an magistrate has the power of committing to prison in such cases. The warrant is here, but it is net accompanied by the agreement between the parties, nor has the governor of the gaol the agreement ; and if Lis proved that deceased diedfrom the effects of confinement, some one may be guilty of murder, for I do not know whether the commitment is legal or not. — Mr. Hutson, a solicitor,who attended on behalf of deceased's friends, went to the Clerkenwell police-court, to see the agreement or the depositions which led to the deceased's sentence. On his return he reported that having made his application to Mr. Combe, the latter said, " I suppose you are come for food for an action. Bring your action if you like." He would not give me any information, nor allow me to see the depositions or agreement—Several prisoners proved deceased's death, which happened suddenly in the prison infirmary on Thursday last, and also that both de ceased and themselves had every requisite medical attention. —Doctors Smiles and Boyd, who had opened the body, said death resulted from suffocation, caused naturally, and pro bably by spasms of the glottis, the effect of mat-formation of the upper part of the spine. —The Coroner (to Dr. Boyd) : Do you in the slightest degree connect the death of deceased with any treatment he has experienced in this gaol ?—Dr. Boyd : Not at all.—The Coroner : That is quite sufficient. —A juror : e are perfectly satisfied on that point, but I think we ought to express an opinion on the subject of his coming here.—The Coroner: I think not —After some further observations by Mr. Wakley, the jury re turned the following verdict :—" That deceased die d of suf focation, and that the cause was natural." The" appended to it the following words : " In passing this verdict the jury express their regret that the law should afford to any magis trate reason for considering that he could send drivers of cabriolets to prison and hard labour for debts under 201., when the almost universal public opinion exists that impri sonment for debts under that sum is abolished ; and at the same time they express their regret that Mr. Combe, one of the magistrates of the Clerkenwell police-court, should not know better what is the courtesy due from one gentleman to another, and from one judge of the law to another, than to send such a reply as he had done this day to an application from the coroner's court by John Hutson, Esq.,solicitor, and they agree in considering the answer of Mr. Combe to have been in every respect improper, rude, and undignified."— DEATH FROM DROWNI:IO.—By Mr. W. Carter, at the Bull's Head public-house, in the village of Barnes, on the body of George Strudwick, aged 44 years. Deceased was a carpenter residing at Barnes, where he had a wife and seven children, and had for sune time givenbimself up to drunken and dissolute habits. On Friday last be went over to Ham mersmith, from which place he wrote a letter to his mother, expressing his intention to destroy himself, and on his return to the Barnes side of the river he threw himself into the water. Verdict, " Temporary derangement."—K ILLEII BY A Ditty.—By Mr. Carter, in Lambeth workhouse, on the body of Frances Clara Watts, aged eight years, who was killed by a brewer's dray, on 'Friday last, in Regent-street, Lambeth. The particulars appcired in the Express of Saturday, Verdict, " Accidental death." —By Mr. Payne, at Guy's Hospital, on Elizabeth-Sayre, the second little girl who was run over 011 the same occasion, and carried 4r the Hospital, where she died. The verdict was the same.—Dram Fans( • CAET.—By Mr. Payne, at the same hospital, on John Ryan, nine years old, who was run over on the 29th uit., while playing in Park-road, Peck ham, by one of the c:rts belonging to the Parcel Delivery Company. Verdict in this case also, " Accidental death."— DEMO F/LOl.l EXHAUSTION.—By Mr. Carter, on the body of Mary Ann George, aged 38, who died in the workhouse of ;it. Mary, Newington. The deceased lived in Burdett street, Wulworth-common, with a family of six children, ever since the death of her husband, which took place on the Ist of May; and there was much want there, for besides five loaves and half-a-crown a week allowed by the parish, the mother and eldest daughter could bind but six pair of shoes between them a day, and for which they gg& a penny a pair. To use the daughter's words, they were " Men short, but then her mother went without to give their humble fare to the children." The mother was, unfortunately, enceinte, and was taken, with the family, into the work house . On Thursday night a child was born dead, and the mother also Med. The surgson was of opinion that t'ue death was caused by exhaustion, consequent on her state, and that the child bad probably been dead for two or three days. Verdict " Natural death." -- DEATH ratan DitOWNINO.—By Mr. W. Baker, coroner, at the Golden Crone, Upper East Smithfield, touching the death of William Kitchin, aged 16, an apprentice on board the Indus, lying in the St. Katherine's Dock, Oa Sunday afternoon deceased was playing with a large dog belonging to the brig, on F. quay, in the St. Katherine's Docic, when he fell into the dark and was drowned. The faithful animal immediately plunged in after and succeeded in recovering his cap, but was linable to save the deceased. The dog remained there watching fur scl eral hours afterwards. Verdict— " Accidental death." COLLISION ON TIIE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. —Yesterday, as an excursioa train, consisting of thirty car riages, impelled by two engines, was on its way to town from Ipswich, it came into collision with a truck which had teen hilt on the rail, and caused serious injuries to three persons. Mr. Taylor, the chief of the locomotive depart ment, was on one of the e:i3ines, tl:e train being unusually large. On retching the Brentwood incline, the gradient of which is I in 90, the drivers, on account of the immense weight of the train, shut off the steam, but had got only a short distance when they observed a truck standing upon the up-hoe. The breaks were applied and the engines reversed, but the weight of the train was so g: eat that it could not be stopped and the col:ha:et invented. The min upon the engine having done all in their power, thought of their own safety, and jumped off the engines, which utmost immediately aftercame in violent contact with the truck, which was I smashed to pieces. Ily the check many of the pasinngers were thrown from their seats, but none of them were seriously injured. The men who jumped off the engine were not so fortunate. Mr. Taylor, and two of the engine drivers, were seriowly injured ; Mr. Tujlor's thigh being' fractured. 'they were court yid. to town, and it is hoped may recover. The plate-layers it appears brought the truck containing the plates out of a "siding," and lett it on the Hoe in.tead of taking it back again. Information of the accident was forwarded to the terminus, at Shoreilitch, and several of the principal officials of the company pew* eded in the afternoon to the spot, and after a most minute investiga tion, they felt it their duty to give the parties who lest the truck upon the line into custody. meeting separated• RAGGED SUM°Ls.—Last evening, a meeting for the promotion of ragged schools was held at the chapel, Philip-street, Kingsland-road. About two hundred persons sat down to tea, after which the chair was taken by the Rev. Clement Dukes, M.A., the minister of the chapel, who deli vered an impressive address on the importance of the objects for which the meeting was held. Mr. G. Mead explained that these schools were not intended to supersede the regular Sunday schools, or to interfere with their operations. Two of the teachers of the Philip-street Sunday-school, struck BRITISH ASSOCIATION. SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY. This has been a great day for the Association, not to mush in regard to the importance of the business gone through, as its having been the ocasion of his Royal Highness Prince Albert taking for the first time a prominent pert in the pro ceedings of the several sections. The intention cf his Royal Highness in this respect was announced en Saturday, and great preparations were in the meantime made by the Also elation, in conjunction with the Mayor and Town Connell, to welcome their iduetrious visitor in a manner befitting his high rank and position in the country. The landing steps from the water's edge to the pier-head were carpeted with crimson cloth, and the building at the extremity of the pier was fitted up in a sumptuous manner as a reception room. The royal standerd was hoisted at the pier-bead, and at the top of Lee Mayor's, house. The numberless yachts and vessel* in the Southampton Water presented the appearance of so many pyramids of flags of all colours, and the Yacht Club House, the various hotels and public build ings, and even the shops and private houses, were adorned with the flags ot—judging from their variety of ceeour and dcsive ail nations, and their balconies and e Meows were crowded with elegantly-dressed ladies. From one end to the ether of Southampton, the ppulation of which, owiug to the great influx of members of the Asso ciation and others who have been attracted hither by busi ness or pleasure, far exceeds, at this moment, ite ordinary limit*, was the whole morning long in a slate of unusual bustle and excitement, which sueeidel only, when, on her return, the royal yacht ceased to be visible in the Southamp ton Water. The pier, the various seetioual rooms, and every spot from which glimpse of the prince could bct obtained. were, of course, thronged. At a few minutes before eleven, ' the roar of artliiery front the platform announced the ap proach of the Fiery at the pier -head, and utmost home (lately his Royal Highness, who was received on landing by the mayor, alitermen, and council of the town, Sir R. Mur chison, the president of the Association, and Captain Ellice, made his appearance on the pier, amidst the almost deafen ing shouts of the spectators. The prince, who was attended by Colonel Bowie rte and the Ilon. G. 'E. Anson, having entered tee reception room, aceeimpaniei by the mayor and council, and Sir It. Murchison, an address was pri stetted to him, which appeared in yesterday's Express, together with his itoyal Highness's reply. On leaving the pier, hia Royal Highness, se. ompanied by the mayor, Colcnel Buuverie, and Mr. Anson, and followed by Sir It. Murchison, and other members of the Association, cud the members of the town-council in other carriages, pro ceeded to the Long-rooms, where the section on 'mathema tical and pheeical science sue holding its meeting. On the entrance of the Prince, Sir Jelin Herschel', who was presid ing, immediately rose, and the President's chair was offered to, and accepted by, his Royal Highness. His Royal High t nese being seated, erofeesor Phillips read a long report on Anenome' ry, and the various instruments and improvements in them wh.eh had been devised for registering the pressure of the atmosphere, which, together with the discussion which followed, was listened to with treat attention by the Royal Associate. Plow section A, the Prince was conducted to the whale the sub-section of Ethnology was sitting, and where equal attention was bestowed by his Royal High ness to some very detailed Ethnological notes of Siberia, by ' l'rofessor von Middenhorf, read by Dr. Latham, and after wards to an explanation in the German language by the professor himself. By this time Lord Palmerston had arrived and joined with those who were in attendance on his Royal Highness. The party then proceeded to the section for mechanics, where his Royal Highness appeared particularly gratified with Mr. Fairbairres paper, illustrated by models and drawings of the results as obtained from the experi ments in connexion with the proposed tubular bridges across the Conway and Menei Straits, in which the lecturer shows the superiority of the rectangular hollow bridge, as adopted by Mr. Stephenson on the Chester and Holyhrad Railway over the chain bridge, or a circular or eliptical iron tunnel bridge. The next. section the Princ3 reeked was th .t tor the discussion of chemical science at the Polytechnic, and here, too, his Royal Highness bestowed considerable attention to the business going on, which was a paper by Professor Orrasted on the changes which mer cury sometimes suffers in glass vessels hermetically sealed—the general impression of the means appearing to be, that those changes were occasioned either by the quality of the mercury or of the glass. The last place the hence visited was the Victoria-rooms, where a paper was being read by the Secretary of the Geological Section on the Arctic currents, as exhibited in the distribution of the northern drift, by Dr. Forehammer. This paper was remarkable as bringing forward evicence to show that the separation of England from the Continent of Europe had taken place some time previous to the sixth century before Christ, or from 2,e100 to 3,000 years ago; and that the German Ocean was once a bay, in the innermost parts of which were the shores of Denmark. Another paper, by Professor E. Forbes, on some natural history phenomena bearing on geology, observed since the last meeting, and having some reference to Dr. Forehammer's lecture, followed. Leaving this room, the Prince entered for a moment another apartment, in which the zoological and botanical section was engaged, but here it was announced by Sir R. Murchison that his Royal Highness's time had expired, and that her Majesty was waiting fur him on board the royal yacht, which, after the debarcation of Prince Albert, hail made the voyage to Cowes and back. His Royal Highness accordingly proceeded at once to the pier to re-embark. In the Victoria Rooms, besides the president, the professors, Viscount Palmerston, and the civic authorities, there were, during the prince's stay, the Marquis of Northampton, Sir C. Lemon, M.P., Mr. H. Philips, M.P., Mr. IL M. Milne., M.P., and Sir James Clark. The Prince took leave of the civic authorities at the pier-head, but Lord Palmerston and Sir. R. Murchison accompanied his Royal Highness and his attendants to the Fairy, whither they were conveyed by the yacht's barge. Her Majesty was waiting on the deck, on reaching which the Prince presented her with a bouquet of choice flowers he had brought from the Victoria Rooms. Sir R. Murchison had the honour of being presented to her Majesty by his Royal Highness, and was received with marked attention ; Viscount Palmerston was afterwards honoured by the Queen with a conversation of tome duration. The noble lord and Sir R. Murchison having left the Fairy, at half-past one o'clock she got under weigh, and amidst the salute of' the guns on the platform and the cheers of the people, proceeded on her voyage to the Isle of Wight. Several other papers were read in the various sections after the departure of the Prince, amongst others one by the Very Rev. Dr. Buck land, on the applicability of M. Fauvelle's mode of boring artesian wells to the well at Southampton, and to other wells and sinkings for coal, salt, and other mineral beds. Mr. Vignolles suggested the propriety of sinking a shaft for the Southampton well, on the principle explained by him on a previous day as invented by Id. Fauvelle, but the opinion of Dr. Buckland appeared to be, that by the present boring they might get through the chalk into the lower green sand for water, and probably sneceeu in their object. This formation would be equivalent to that from which the Parisian well obtained its supply, and he illustrated the positions of the strata, by references to Mr. Saipe'e geological map. At three o'clock in the afternoon, a meeting of the general committee was held at the Town Hall. The chair was taken by the President, Sir R. Murchison, who announced the gratifying fact, that his R. r H. Prince Albert had condescended to become a meaner of the Association, and had that day gone through the various sections, and evinced a lively interest in their proceedings, and a considerable knowledge of the different branches of science they cultivated. He wan happy also to tell them, that her Majesty, who had arrived in the port an hour and a half ago, and had gone back with the Prince, had desired hint to express the great interest she felt in the Association, and the satisfaction with which she had received the report of its progress. (Cheers). Her Majesty had also desired to be tumbled with periodical reports of the proceedings and progress of the Association. (Cheers). A more practical, proof of membership on the part of royalty than he had mentioned perhaps Mr. Taylor would communicate to them. Mr. Tsvitha then stated that Colonel Anson bad an nounced that his Royal Highness Prince Albert desired to present to the Association 10U1.—(cheers)—and that without in any way directing the purpose to which it should be applied, as it was his wish to convey to them his entire approbation of their proceedings. (Much cheering.) An invitation from the kthinolean Society of Oxford, for the Association to hold their next annual meeting at that town, WAS read and advocated by l'rofessur Walker. Mr. Grove advanced the claims of Swansea for the year 1848, and' Dr. Robinson those of Belfast, for some future year. After some conversation, the invitation from Oxford was accepted. The DEAN of WEbnIINKTER proposed, and Sir C. LEMON seconded the appointment of Sir R H. ' 1 Inglis, Bart., M.P., as the President for the next year. Agreed to, nem. con. The Earl of Bosse, the Bishop of Oxford, the Vice. Cha ncellor of the Univcriity of Oxford, Mr. Esteourt, M.P., Pro -1 fessor Daubeny, and Professor Baden Powel, were nominated Vice-Presidents ; and the Secretaries and other officers having been appoi .tcd, the meeting separated. • This evening there is to be • discourse in the Victoria Rooms on the Valley and Delta of the Mississippi, and other points in the geology of the United States, front observations made in the years 1843-46, by C. Lyell, THE DAGENHAM MURDER. The coroner's jury in this ease re-assembled yesterday for the fourth time, out in consequence of the illness of one of the jutymen, the coroner judged it advisable again to ad journ the inquiry without their proceeding any further. On Isis making the announceme n t, M r . Itawlines said, on the part of Serjeant Parsons, he had to sub:nit to the coroner the necessity of proceeding at once with the inquiry. The posi tion of Serjeant Parsons was sue of great hardship. Ever since the last sitting of the inquest, now nearly five weeks, Parsons had been subjected, night and day, to the close sur veillance of the police. Why, or by whose orders, he (Parsons) had been placed in this position. he wasat a loss to conjecture. The Setjeant was prepared fully to meet any charge against him in connexion with the murder; and that being the case, without any charge being pre!errcd, it was extremely hard that he shauid be continued, as it wire , i n custody for any longer period.---The coroner said the fact was that Sedetutt Parsons had only himself to b'ame for the un• pleasant pec4tion in which he was placed. Wont took pace there could not affect the Scrjeant, so far as his being under surveillance was coi:cerned.--Mr. Rawlings said Serj cant Piu s xis wan perfectly ready to answer any charge brought against him, aim he (Ur. itun hugs) was prepared with witnesses to disprove all the statements of the police constables on the last occasion. He had beets in custody almost ever since the jury had last assembled; that eirettatstance had tended to create &strong prejudice tu the public mind against biol. His being co:Ahmed still under surveillance of the police would only tend to increase that prejudice.—The coroner said if any pm *dice had arisen ngainst Parsons he could nut complain, as it was his own act and decd.—The inquiry was again ad ynurned.- -Serjeant Parsons was not in attendance : he is so closely watched that he it not &lowed to go to sleep but in company of one of the NIA*. In addition to the blood stained handkerchief found in the field adjoining that where the murder was perpetrated, other articles have been dis covered likely to throw a light on this cruel and mysterious murder. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Sm.. 13. 8111 COLMAN 01.0011 LEN.—It is stated that Sir Colman O'Loglilen, Bart., a young and rising lawyer, who distin guished himself very much during the state trials in Ireland, will, in the event of a general election, offer himself for the borough of Birds. This is not unlikely, and if so, hew ill be returned without opposition, for the present member (Mr. Bridgman) would long since have retired in Sir Colman's favour, it the latter:had desired it.. _ OLD AND YOUNG 1 ItEL IND.—There wax a meeting of the Repeal Club of Meath, held on Wednesday last, when that body, which has lung had in its hands the represents. tion of Meath, passed a vote of confidence in Mr. O'Connell. —Mr. Thomas Lloyd, • Protestant gentleman who joined the Repeal Association in 1844. though he was never present at any Repeal meeting, has withdrawn his name from the Repealer*. Mr. Lloyd is nearly related to Smith O'Brien. Puume el erriaote.—Tuz DISTItI:m4.—At II meeting in the county of Donegal, Colonel Conolly and the landowners who eci-ce.erated with him stated their readiness to make personal sacrifices suited to the terrible emergency, in co op. ration with the Irish government, whose conduct was commended. Their plan is, to apply to the govern ment fur • loan for °Rept()) ment, to be repaid by the landed proprietors, and also to seek a gratuitous amount out of the money voted by parliament fur the relief of the destitute poor. At the meeting of the County of Monaghan Farming Society, on Thursday, Lord Crcmorne, who presided, con gratulated the anintry upon the appointment of Lord Bees borough as Viceroy, and Mr. Lucas recommended drainage and the improvement of the soil as the best remedies, although public works were more immediately applicable as a source of exteueive employment. There was a very im portant meeting of the Meath Aerieult oral Society nt on Tuesday. The Marquis of Ileadfort, who presided, de clared that " every landlord should be prepared to make sacrifices, independently of the Act lately passed by the Parliament," and urged that great indul gences should be extended to eottiers and email far mers. Ile recommended that the money to be raised should be expended in improving the soil, and that the peasantry should be encouraged to grow rye instead of potatoes. T he Archdeacon of Meath enforced the same views, in order that by improved systems of culture the labourers might find abundant emoloyment on the soil.—A letter has been addressed by Mr. Saunderson, of Castle Saunderson, vice. Lieutenant of Cavan, to the magistrates and ratepayers of that county, submitting • plan of relief which, he states, is gene rally approved of in the district. Mr. Saunderson gates that the holders of ten acres and upwards, from the high price of produce, ought to be able to pay their rents, notwithstand ing the failure of the potato crop ; but the smaller holders, he says, will require their entire produce to feed their fami lies. He expresses an anxious hope that the landlords wit' co-operate zealously with the patriotic nobleman who fills the olSee of Viceroy, in measures for saving the country at eueh a crisis. Mr. Siondereon's Flan of empleytee et is this—that at the Special Sessions a sum adeque.to for the employment of the poor should be presented, to be ex• pended by the Board of Works, chiefly in thorough-drain ing, a sum to be devoted to each townland in proportion to the canes it would have to repay—the Government to de pend upon an addition to the act next ses,ion, to sustain it, proceedings. THE NV COT or CLARE.—TIIP. DISTREsS.—A correspon dent of the Clare Eransiner writes thus from Milltown Malhay, county of Clare : "qt. is almost needless to mention that the potato crop Is gone I here, as well as in the neighbouring parishes • and the foment' I impression is, that the people, of whom himilreds arc going to bed suppiTlesk, will not have a potato in three weeks. Destitution has reached its utmost height, and it is greatly to be feared that even the prospect held out to the people, of employment on public works at 141. per day, will do but little towards mitigating their distress. This parish L distinguished from nearly all others in its scarcity of benevolent landlords. I am given to uriderstand that the resident landlords hove not subscribed one shilling to the Relief Fund during the pied wawa, with mar re markable exception, that of Francis Goold Moruney, Esq. This gentleman told such of his tenants as bad bacon and butter for sale, that he would expect them to pay their rents, but that such as hod corn only were welcome to keep it for their support. The principal cause of increased distress in this parish is Ito former character for abundance, in allurementce of which a vast number of paupers, the victims of landlord extermination from Galway, Tipperary, sod other part,' of Ireland, .have crowded into Milltown and its adjoining tricts, accumulatlue ten-fold the general distress at this critical period. Those poor people flocked thither from the idea that they could live ou the produce of (bouts shore; and hear it, ye considerate and humane landlords: your fellow.crestures are brill:lg the rai,', sea-weed and devouring it. At team fire hundred families will by I quite destitute in a tot tnight MANSION-HOUSE RELIEF` COMMITTEE, De utiN.—A fur ther contribution from India to the amount of nearly 1,1001. has been placed to the account of the Mansion-House Committee, in the Bank of Ireland, within the last day or two. Of this sum nearly 100/. have been remitted from Colombo, in the Island of Ceylon, by Major Parks, who is the humane Actuary there to the generous sub scribers with whom the fund originated. Eight thousand pounds have been received by the Mansion House commit tee from the Presidency of Calcutta alone ; one thousand of which was on Saturday lodged in the Bank of Ireland. In the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras, Relief Committees were in active operation, and subscriptions which, in the aggregate, will amount to a considerable sum, are in pro- gress of coJection. MEETING OF IKE GENTRY AND PEOPLE IN LIMERICK. —ln Saturday's number of the Express you published a notice, calling together an assemblage of the people of Lime rick to meet an the open air. The gentry, with great wis dom, joined themselves to this movement, and on Thursday last the meeting—a multitude of near 4,000 persons, includ ing women and. children—assembled. At one o'clock the Rev. T. Foley, P. P. of Stonehall, was called to the chair. He said the present meeting was convened for the pur pose of inducing the landlords to come forward, and as far an lay in theirpower to assist in ruitioating the present distrese. lie continued to say that the general failure of the potato crop was probably a wise dispensation of providence, and he hoped in the end would turn out for the best. He warned all those persons assembled to go home peaceably and quietly when the meeting was over, ant on no amount to drink intoxicating liquor. The rev. gentleman throughout was cheered by the multitude. —Rey. Mr. Tuomy, ILC.C. then proposed the following resolutioo " The. we, the inhabitants of the Barony of Kenry, have assembled here this day, peace ably, legally, and constitutionally, for the express purpose of sending our humble petition to our most gracious POVC reign the Queen, informing our sovereign and her &ma dness of the impending famine and the distress consequent thereon." llsonsas Rose, Esq., Court, proposed the second resoludon—"That we the farmers and labourers of the barons. of Kenry, moot respectfully call on the landlords of this barony immediately to meet their re ' spective tenantry, and to suggest means with them to alleviate impsoid !mg famine, and to give to their tenantry the means of support for themselves and families." Mr. Michael Potter, Spring Lodge, proposed the third resolution—" That we do respectfully call on the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland to order a baronial meet ing for this our barony, to adopt means to carry out the provi sions of the lOth Victoria, to give employment to a starving popula tion." Mr. Potter then said, he woMel nut oak a penny from any mau who had potato ground from him this year whose crop had foiled— (cheers) --nor would he see a neighbour of his want while he had • pound in the world. (Great cheers.) He knew the Earl of Bee ugh was inclined to do pot, and he corneotly hoped the land lords w ould co-operate with the government, and he would be happy In giving them his hearty support. (Clietes..sedtes. Mr. Foley, on leaving the chair, warned the people asscrnWed, in the most emphatia manner, to ga haute aoherly and quietly, which they all said they would ; and we are happy to sty they kept Pleir word for out of the immense crowd there was not one Man observed drunk. The Limerick Chronicle given this following record of another meeting in that county:— " On TIlumLY a large lt•semblago, chiefly composed of the lab log chimes, took place on the summit of lanocktirinoh, This • situated to the southward of the road leading front Craton by Bailin gamy, end about midway betueen those town& As this meeting was called by means of anonymous notictitt, some danger . to the peace of the district was apprehended, ant the 'mike under rub-inspector Smyth, were on the ground at an early how. No dispooltion, how. ever, to violate the law was manifested, and the Prc Parish retest, Ah deac:in ntsg,.nad, having appeared on the ground about two o'clock. prevailed on the assembled multitude to adJet with perfect unanimity the resolutions which appear elsewhere in our columns, and which oa the whole are characterised be gaol KIM and moderction. The meeting gare loud cheers for the Queen and Daniel VidounclL A TiPPEn tat' LaNDLORD.—A eorrepondent of the Evening Rut states that Lord llawarden arrive!, ou Satur day the 29th ult., at Dundrum, his seat iu Tipperary, from England, and that on the following Monday the tenants meived warning to pay their rent in a fortnight, though hitherto it has not lwen paid till November. On the llama day the bailiff distrain< d on two poor co:tiors, one of them a widow. The writer of the letter in the Post says:— . Poor widow Crowe, whose wheat is to be canted on the 14th into., to his t.rd+lii•io tenant during the last twenty tears; for sixteen yearn she paid V. sterling per sere, for two azivs and a-h.if and twenty pereues; and the last four years, Bina she became a widow, 21. lOs, per acre, though her hotting fro.n his lordslup is valued at only 41. 3s. GI., under the Poor-law. Ou the hound of the townlnd, on which this widow lives, the Misses Artbnr charge their tenants rely one guinea per ode for 1434 better than hens, sud, during the last four yenta, those ladles allowed their tewitioi a rolue don ul ltd. in the pound. Now, if his loniship would allow tide pour w idow ter all she has paid ors r the value of her Wilding, during the last twenty years, she would be dear with his lordship for a few tears to come, insteal ef ow ter hiat over 9f. sterling on last Mayalay. The cases of all his other teaairssatswill are %indite, and there are my rive or six leases on his issitattss, which contain about I:4000 statute amen." --- :•There have been more outrags," says our own corre spondent, " ou his lordships ertates iu Tipperary, than in half the country besides." GALWAY FIBIIEUT.—The Claddagli men had a area! take of herrings during the past week; they sell iu Galway tot 13s. per 1,000. _ _ PUBLIC MEETINGS to faciliwe the employment of the pour pa have been held in Galway town and in Tunas during the d week. Tint ALLOTMENT STSTF.M.—At a ine•Aing of the OLl castle (Meath) Agricultural Society, on Thursday Mr. Napper, of bough:co, a gentleman of large pr :petty, stated that his family had had a deer park round their residence for over a emtury, but he would now (re up hi, deer and apoorti ,, n the land in allotments to the labourers of the neighbouring villagers. SCOTLAND. SOLAR Srors.—We (Wasgete ratzen) arc iuformed thst there are now visible on the sun's disc one very Loge spot in N. declination, near the sun's western limb, followed by several large depressions of the luminous disc ; three spotlit S. declinatieu, nine digits advanced on the sun's disc; thy.* spots in low south, four digits Lilt anead on the disc; and a yr oup of seven or eight sp in N. declination, about three digits advanced on the sues disc. The leading spot of this group is very large, at.d several of the others likely 110A1 to be united into two or more large spots. POACH IVG S mum - a Alf le Y.—On the morning of Sab bath last, Alexander Bain and Matthew Kirkland, game• keepers to the Right Hon. the Earl of Eglinton and -Wiu tun, eliscavered five men on the farm of Lswthorn, parish of Irvine, in ptersu't of game, titer the destructive fashion of using a couple of dogs to scour the fields, and nets on the Gates to entangle and secure ill:, hares. The keepers en deavoured to apprehend one of the parties who carried a net; Met were immediately set upon by the other font, who forcibly rescued their companion. The keepers seeing that it was impossible for them rumen fully to contend egait,et so unequal a number, and being reluctant to make any attempt by which blood shed might ensue, prudently followed the poachers at a dis tance, in the hop 4 of olf lining sufficient assistince for their capture. In so doing they were subjected to considerable annoyance, being frequently threatened and assailed by the poachers, who ull carried heavy bludgeons, and one an open knife, and in one of these scuffles olio of the poachers' does was shot, and one of the keepers severely cut in the face. The keepers has iug been joined by a young man named Fisher, and by Mr. Dunlop, farmer in Lawthorn, succeeded in securing four of the five poachers, and the fifth was apprehended nn Wednesday morning in Kilmarnock. They are all in Ayr tiaol, and the case is now undergoing investiga tion by the authorities here. The whole circumstances hiving been made known to Lord Eglinton, we hstrie that his lordship was so mech pleased with the fortitude of the keeper., but more purtisularly with their forbearance, in refraining from using their fire-arms under such provocation, that he presented each of 1:1,-:u with let., and the lud Fisher with M. ; while to Mr. Deulep he tendered, in writing, his thanks for Mr. Dunlop's timely assistance, and sent it. to each of his men who a !listed in taking the poachers to I rvine.—A yr Adrertisvr. Centeus Sene - raet.e.—On Wednesday evening, about 7 o'clock, a rather singular procession appeared in Argyll equate, consisting of upwards of 70 " liaVitl," in lute, three deep, following a coffin, without n mortcloth, borne on spars by eight of their number. On reaching the top of the College Wynd they halted, seemingly at a loss where to deposit their charge, and stating that they wished to be directed to the dead-hent.e, in order that the hotly might under:o a coroner's inquest. The coffin, it app. ars, contained the corpse of a young woman who had died the previous evening in child-birth at Slateford ; but as they were impressed with a suspicion that she had not been pro perly treated, they had brought the body to Edinburgh. Citiniately they deposited the collie in a house in College Wynd, with a view to having an investigation made as to the cause of death. The men, who were dressed in working clothes, conducted themselves with becoming decorum.— Edinburgh Advertiser. PROVINCIAL. A COAL-NT ON FIKR.—On Wednesday, as the miners in the employ of Mr. J. King, of the ratrieroft Colliery, were preparing to descend the pit to commence their morning's work, they discovered that from some cause or other the pit was on tire. On descceoling the shaft it was aecertAtied that the lire was not very alarming, although, but for the prompt steps token to stop its progress, it would soon have spread to a cons . den.ble and disastrous extent. THR 131:2NINLI CARL AOAlN.—Yesterday, says the Liverpeel Mercury, John Ferguson was tried before the Recorder for burning Mary Cuhbin with a hot iron, from the cellar of a workshop in South Castle street. Ile was found guilty, and sentenced to pay a fine of 31. It will be recollected that, at the last session, Robert Jeffrey was tried fur this offence, and found guilty of aiding out alketting,, although Ferguson and the other parties who actually com mitted the act, swore that he wu not at all a party con eerned. The Recorder sentenced Jeffrey to pay a fine of la, hut the man who really (lid the act, and acknowledged that Jeffrey knew nothing whatever of the transaction, is h t off with a fine of 31. "It is strange," writes the local editor, " but true!" KENT. Eemeestve. Fins,—On ;ifidee, morning, just after the people had left church, a fire broke out on Gomel' Farm , Speedhurst, about three miles from Tonbridge Wells, in the occupation of Mr. Daniel Reed. The fire was first set nin a hay-stack, when the village was alarmed, and an express sent off for the fire-engine, while parties were engaged in pulling down the buildings between the fire and the dwell ' ineehouse, to prevent the fire communicating. So rapidly did the fire spread, that in less than a quarter of an hour five stacks, the barn, stables, outhuildings, dc., were in flames, and we regret to state the whole of them, with the exception of au outhouse, and nearly the whole of the farm produce, were totally destroyed. The origin of the fire is unknown ; but as it broke out in the hay-stack on the aide adjoining the hap-garden hedge, it is supposed that either some of the hoppers must base been there smoking, or that it was the work of some incendiary. Dovf.it, Sear. 13.—A lire took place yesterday afternoon, at Tower Hamlets, about a mile from this plant•, coosuining eight stocks of corn and three of straw, the seine of about 9001. The above were the property of Means Going Beal S. Finnis, merchants, of Dover, and were insured to about half the value only. It is understood that the conflagration was caused, as is too often the ease, by some boys at play near the stack igniting some Inciter matches, by accident. Sloth corn and straw were totally consumed.—Chronick. iNerNDIAILT FILM AT CllALK.—Early on Sunday morn ing a fire broke out on the Parsonage farm, atljoioing the high road at Chalk, near Gravesend, in the ocetipatien of Mr. Lake, which destroyed a large hare, contAining about gets quarters of barley that had just been threshed, together with a stack, containing firtlsixquarters of the same grain. ISCENDIART FIIIE.-013in;.1eiy night, shortly after eight o'clock, a destructive fire broke out at the farming premi,es of Mr. Brewer, near the town of Bricking and Braintree. It originated in a bean stack, and speedily communicated to two stacks adjoining. Powerful and well-directed exer tions rescued the dwelling-house, and by eleven o'clock the flames were safely got under. The same premises were partly destroyed by fire about eighteen m o nths since, for which four pi r-ons were tried, two of whom were found guilty and transported. The property is understood to be insured. rt • WILTS. ANCIENT COINS FOUND AT ANDOVER.—IN taking down part of the old, and dinging the foundation for a new wall approaching the church, in this borough, a variety of coins have been dug out by the workmen ; some of gold, others of silver and copper : two gold ones, about the size of half a sovereign, of the rcizn of WilTam and Mary ; several of Charles, bearing the date of 1672, in a very perfect state ; others either Saxon or Roman pieces, apparently of copper, but so much defaced, that the dates cannot be made out. The men at first set so little value upon them as to sell them for beer, but since it became generally known such were found, several inhabitants with antiquarian spirit have given good prices for those since found by the fortunate workmen. SALOP: Tns PROTECTIONISTS OF SHILOVSIIIRE, we understand from a correspondent, bad a meeting at Shrewsbury last week, which turned out a signal failure. The annual meet ing of the Protection Society was to have been held a month ago, but it being impossible then to collect the members, the meeting was postponed, and exertions were in the mean time made to collect a large company. Many arts were tried. The tradesmen were informed that the farmers would only deal with anti-free trade shopkeepers, and the farmers were invited by all the allurements of large type to swell the host of the Protectionists. In spite of all these exertions, only about fifty persons could be got together, and the whole pro ceeding was flat, stale, and unprofitable. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. REcollM or It LISTS.—I MIA think, writes a rtspondent of the Cambridge Independent, that .vme di e mm. 1111.• ■ ■