The Express. — London, England, 1846-09-14 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1846. hardly understand why be seas thasheiller having bad as appestunity ghem ta e elpeWeipag in an* ef the mod espaalliellS let hed Me hit:mewl. D or Wherhunrran also his grad tia7b9Al la "Mialkofillfni=lontsoiVrae, Webster, the e by CUTlZialliksirsiart es extending world that ribm4l l ll,4l ever a area Prance, existed idols the Isle of t :f r e r t. 7 Mr. 116= who *id *wilted the ei wa g! z ' . Ma to Seotboapten at about half-past Mile , Vie evening, highly fied at the day's •DM subject of a= p. bail the some he peovideass en based- the Lady 2Lop,k. Id. ached, ta themeaseammiss days, Ise thigh fora dinner said Meat, bread, sad arias. Ile section foe steeled,* met is-day, and die beim was gone through. A Viper by Mr. W ea tbo mortality of children, in griddle Ise shekel sel bete elicited were, that of 10,071 . 2,357 ;Ned under the age of 21, nearly camehilf of the deaths or =ander the age of one year. Oettegions, epidemic, end diseases of the nervous upbeat sad respiratory , were the most fatal children. In 87 yeah ;Mr there to had been admitted into the Foundling H= WS children, 1,645 of whom were males, sad 1,420 females. The mortality amongst these was greater than amongst children in private families, and the greatest mortality was in the months of January and October. The paper also stated that, in 1,208 oases of which returns had bean obtained, in 618 the first child was a son, and in 688 it was a daughter. The neat pare wee a table by Mr. Howard on the extent of the plate glass manufacture in which It was stated that the great dema nd for the artisle had hitherto deprived the public of the benefit of the reduction of the duty, At present the home manufacture eoeld not keep pees with the demand; int it was probable that it would soon be enabled to do so, and that, instead of importers, we should become exporters. Some returns were then read by Liest.-Cal. Sykes, P. 8.5., is redwence to the administration of dent sad criminal justice is India, the purpose of which was to show the result of the *age by whoosh, fifteen years ago, natives were first allowed to sites gidges. About 98 per ce nt. of the judicial duty was now rmed by natives. The pleaders were aim natives, had pkedings were carried on in the native language. Thin was hues appeals from the declaim of the native than ot Ib l :et a judges. Of the decisions about one sixth Fere _ against, and in one - third of the appeals the ofiginal t was reversed or modified. The time • mit esespledlusil diminished in the court, answering to oar , lee s one year and seven months, in 1841, to one ;17V,“; sad in the inferior courts the time had been reduced from seven to five months, and from five to four. In the criminal courts the severity of the sentences was gn dually diminishing. In the Bengal Presidency there had *he Map twenty-six sentences of death in 1844. Al appal woo allowed in India in certain criminal cases, end in ninety cases in Bombay, in which that eight lhad been exercised, the sentence had been The cause of the improvement here described suds the improved state of education and knowledge in the esustry. The supposition that the Land - tax premed wi t h maw severity on the people of India, was in a great nes smadigeoved.by thefact that in Bomb ay there were, in 1843, egle five persons in prison for non-payment, and, in 1844, say two. The proceedings concluded with the reading of a report of the committee on the statistics of sickness and mortality in Yorkshire, in which it was shown that in ten per cent. of the death s in that county, the parties had no medical attendance. The Botanical Section, accompanied by several of the foreign visitors attending the meeting, visited the gardens of I the Dean of Winchester, at Bishopstoke, this morning, and enjoyed the very rev. doctor's hospitality. On Monday Prince Albert is expected again to visit the town, for the purpose of attending some of the most impor tant of the sectional business. At a meeting of the corpora tion this morning, at which tke Mayor presided, an address was agreed upon to be presented to his Royal Highness, on his landing at the pier. THE WEALD OF SURREY AND SUSSEX AGRI CULTURAL ASSOCIATION.—This association held its annual meeting for the exhibition of stock and distribution of rewards to deserving agricultural labourers, on Friday, at Bear-green, Capel. At the dinner W. J. Denison, Esq., M.P., took the chair. There were present about a hundred of the principal gentry aid fanners of the district. C. Bar clay, Frq., hiving proposed the health of the chairm en, Mr. Denison, in returning thanks, said that in this was the first time he had met them since the termination of a long and tedious session, during which an agricultural measure of vast importance, as affecting their interests, had become the law of the land, he would take the opportunity of explain ing why he had voted upon that measure contrary to the opinions of that political party with whom he had acted for fifty years, and for many of whom he personally felt the utmost affection and regard. He considered the measure proposed by the government as having a most danger ous tendency, and when he saw that party, with whom he had so long acted, joining Sir Robert Peel, and assisting him to destroy the protection afforded to British agriculture, he felt himself called upon to a separate from them. He had listened attentively to the statements made by Mr. Cobden and by Sir Robert Peel, and so far from their convincing him that it was advisable to remove the protection afforded by the legislature, when he looked at the peculiar burdens upon the land, the poor-rates, the highway rates, and the tithes, from which personal property was almost entirely exempt, he considered that if any part of their system required to be protected, it was the land. He thought so then, and he thought so still, and therefore he was obliged to vote against his old Mend. He was glad to see that under the Divine Providence they had been blessed with a most beautiful harvest, and he boped that the increase of the population and the demand for labour would enable the farmers of this country for the present to keep their heads above water, but be must say, he did not think it possible for them, taking into consideration the heavy burthen of taxation they had to bear, and the amount of wages they paid, eventually to compete with the comparatively untaxed foreign farmer, who only paid his labourers sixpence a day. (Hear, hear.) He hoped he might be mistaken, and if i should turn out that he was, no man would more readily admit his error than he should ; but he mast confess that he had great fear for the result to the agricultural interest of England. HONOUR TO ART IN FLANDERS.-A correspondent of the Athenaeum writes as follows The good old town of Louvain is just now all agog with the erection of a statue to Quentin Matsys. For ages the Antwerpians, ever conten tious for the honour of giving birth to noble painters, had the credit of the nativity among them of this great ornament of the early Flemish school. But at length it was discovered, and placed beyond doubt, that in this particular case Ant werp must cede the honour to Louvain. In consequence • committee has been formed, and subscriptions are coming in to celebrate, in fitting style, the fact that Louvain is the mother of Matsys. His statue is to be erected there in a conspicuous situation ; and ne doubt the ceremony of inaugu ration will be splendid—as was that of the installation of the statue of Rubens in the Place Verte, at Antwerp. It is something singular and pleasing in that very enlightened end prosperous country, Belgium, that all ranks and classes of the people have the mind to honour the great works of art and literature. From the noblesse to the drivers of the Vigilantes, all have a word of unfeigned admiration for these bright evidences and effluences of the soul. When will the like obtain in wealthy England ?" IRELAND. DUBLIN, Burr. 12. Tue DISTREBB.—COVNTY MEETING IN CORK.—OR Thursday, pursuant to requisition, a greet meeting was held at Cork, to consider the best means of relieving the present and increasing destitution. The Southern Reporter, speak ing of the assemblage, says : At one o'clock today a meeting was held at the County Court House, which may be, in a word., described as the largest, the moot Inluential, and by far the most Important meeting held in Cork within the memory of the present generation. The object for which this meeting was convened was to consider the present condition of the labouring and farming claims consequent on the failure of the potato crop, and to point out such measures of relief as might be con sidered moat advisable to meet the pressing exigency of the occasion." The Earl of BANDON was called to the chair, after which Lord BERNARD, M.P., addressed the meeting at considerable length, the hurdlers of his speech being, that the government of England ought, of justice and right, as well as humanity, to expend upon improvements of nms various kinds in Irelloans, and, w ithin the present year, large sof money, not as but as grants ; and he contend ed that the landlords ought not to be called upon to contribute anything. He called for the construction of harbours, the extension of fisheries, and the establishment of manufactures. Lord MOUN'ICASIIEL next addressed the meeting at COD/li derable length, and in the course of, his observations said, he had taken the trouble to examine a potato field, which he had given to some of the poo r people upon his own property. He ;saw the potatoes dug , and therefore no deception could be practised. He observed that, in the first place, the potatoes were exceedingly diminutive, and on a closer ex amination, he found that the la rger potatoes were all tainted, and the smaller only appeared fit for ehristian food. This was the ease universally, and he believed that before a month expired. a sound potato could not be found. To return to the subject of the landlords. He expla ined at Cove that the Irish landlords, after the deduction of various charges, derived from their estates only about's,ooo,ooo l . an nually amongst them. Now, the number of destitute people in the country, owing to the recent calamity, would amount t o about five millions of individuals, and if the whole of the rental of the landlords of Ireland were divided among the suffering population, it would relieve them only to the extent done pound per man. How far would that go to carry the individual thronqh an entire year of destitution ? Therefore if the landlords lived on air, and the whole of the rents were appropriated to this purpose, there would still be a vast defi ciency in the ameunt of relief required. (Hear.) But the landlords could not do this—they had to fulfil their obliga tions as every man was bound to do—and which, if they did not do, there were ways and means of compelling them —they were unequal to the pressure of the present year. (Hear.) And as had been remarked by the noble saker who preceded him , if the English govern ment now understood its own interest, it would lay out large sums of money in this country.— In support of this demand, his lordship a dverted to the mil lion and a half borrowed by Canada, which England guaran teed, and to the twenty millions given the West India planters, as well as to the guarantee given by England for the Greek loan. He (Lord Mounteashel) would take that opportunity to remark that of late they had been compelled to pass so many presentments, that when the time came for the rates to be levied in the different baronies, both landl girds and tenants would be astounded at all they would have to pay. They should keep that in mind—hut CO matter whether they kept in mend or not, d i v ided would be re• minded of it. (Laughter.) Ireland wa into about 690,000 farms,aad it was a remarkable fact that out of that number 310,000 fame did not exceed five acres of land, and the elm of pumas holding these ware is mesh a siewase-- that ha questioned whether they mold be able to pay more than half their rent this year. The next elms were farms of from fifteen to thirty sores, or which there WETS 252,000 in Ireland. These he oentelied ought to be in a better situatlen, and should be able to pay something mese • much depended, however, on the quality of the Mil. question, those who held their at a reek-rent would not be able toabove . don, If any part of their rents. -(Haar.) should show a kind feet tma towards their , flef the utmost to make ea alsatilealat Id mesas . Mpg he believed the tensely well 014 Milled the pay their rents, but they wild ]ilk ollf# to themselves under the excusing* Putillnit Welk Crewed neighbours, and by =admit poor mitaths emlismen to get out of the serape. Those who had the aroma of the property in Ireland were the mortgagees and the o rgealeA ereditors, and they should art with some degree and forbearance this year ; otherwise it was unpossidg e ll classes to go forward in that smooth and easy manner which was so much to be desired. Major Beanum, in relerenee to the distress, said—My Lord, it has been said that the distrem is exaggerated ; and h very well for thaw en*, y ensconced in cities, or safely lurasekui their suburban villas, to take up the papers at their miming meal, and say the distress is exaggerated; but, un fortunately, we have too many well-authenticated fiats be fore to to sheer that the disarm is real, hosful, and extensive. I hohla:s! hand, this tiamplatt, an asthmatic document to show • hal= w ell brr"=mspe l"lir ose= a r i= a s it w*A sm i et wg.a." otmmemise and Immo; sl i tmo ot fin s implies% wougs am 4d- a daT Thom am sna eat awns as I* dame to the laloWalls pittenee pmay.woesh of most pr Mg, as a provision air on Weir wsnia. He was opposed to aiding railways in Ireland by loam of public money. Mr. Ronne, M.P.. said, if assistance was not af forded it would be impoosible to preserve mks mainais the rights of property is this country. 04wernment Inge I bou. first to teed the people, and thee to Insialain the law, and if the people were not fed the law would not be main tained, and it was therefore their duty to hod the people In order to maintain the law. (Cheers.) And new am the consideration what sort of relief had England peopoled to them M their present difficulty. He would at once say, that it was who and totally inadequate. (Hear, hear.) It was tettirely wadies& to the present petition of the country—and it was handed on a false and vicious principle. This was said to be a tax on the property for the support of the poor of the country. Now, looking at it in that way he would agree to it at once. But let them recollect it would be, to all intents and purposes, a permanent one, and they should make up their minds in time either to adopt that tax or another and a better one. He laid downthis proposition, that the poor of this country had a clear right to be supported out of the land, and he would call on the landlords of this country to consider whether if they went that length with hint, that the poor of the country were entitled to be sup ported, they would take the Road Jobbing Act as a means of affording employment for them. (Hear, hear.) He would say for himself—without mincing the matter—that he would rather see the 43rd of Elizabeth enacted in Ire land, than to see the country wed itself for ever to this Road Jobbing Act. The principle of the 43rd of Elizabeth was simply this—that the poor born on the land had a right to be supported on the land—(loud cheers in the gallery)—end that the proprietors of the soil had the option of employing the poor, and thus supporting them, or, if they did not, they were obliged to support them idle. Now he would go the length of that. (Cheers.) And speaking as the repre tentative, but not the owner, and he hoped it would be long before he should: see that day, but speaking at present as the representative of a property of 26,000 acres, he would say he had a strong leaning in favour of such a bill as that. A memorial embodying those sentiments was agreed to, and the meeting then adjourned. Ma. O'CONNELL'S FELOCIREB9 TO DIRETNANE.—The Southern newspapers, received to-day those published in Nenagh and Limerick are filled with reports of gratulatory meetings, addressee of confidence, and expressions of attach ment to Mr. O'Connell in his progress homewards to his residence in Kerry. Both the repeal journals published in Limerick are strongly tinctured with the leaven of Young Ireleadism, yet both concur in stating that the reception given Mr. 0 Connellthere was most enthusiastic. Vindicator —The reception of the hon. and learned member for Cork in Limerick is of much mire importance and is much more indicative of the extent of his influence. Limerick is the stronghold of Mr. Smith O'Brion—he represents the county he has numerous and powerful local connexions there, yet even in Limerick, and at a public meeting called by the mayor—a meeting which m own local knowledge enables me to say fairly represents the repeal party of that place, an address continuing the following passages was unanimo usly passed to Mr. O'Connell : Of those who are opposed to the volley by which you seek to achieve this important end, we do not ei , bh to express the foelings that suggest themselvm to us. Were it not fur one, we would deem any allusion to this party totally unnecessary. William Smith O'Brien is that one. We admired, applauded, and loved him. We let pus no fitting opportunity of proving our feelings towards him honest, ardent and sincere; and if he comes to-morrow, those sentiments shall con tinue. But we are bound to tell him, and to tell Ireland, with the woke of stern truth, that O'Connell our Liberator, seal he our pro- Met and our guide." Mr. O'Cons zw. in returning thanks referred to the die poise la a "'miler strain, and then rohrred to Mr. O'Brien: " Yoe de well to make an exesetica bowels Om weds* of those ' 1 sat Xr. & O'Brien. His Map et Mirsties. histserPOP d psspme, his asol asst dovetionWo tem ipastios et. I have stempot sodaq thatheshoutd)ala e ras soda (alimmes)—but same as I Manila menake, Medi los synced at his aides WHO TEEM wwswiO w, I hepeodble that ethers can ever spas join use-thme ~Si ere melielat sosselsis wins—lnwil who In the public prom parametin ~NM whidoem ortleship *mein their estimeare, lino Win not adopt soy Mr. M. J. O'ConnELL, M.P.—The Tipperary Vindi cator designates the rumoured appohttmont of this gen tlemen to the office of Poor-law Commismionse so one of the "lies of the Nation." " There is," soya the Vindicator, "no truth in the fact." Dr. PHELLN.—Dr. Phelan. formerly an Assistant Poor law Commissioner in Ireland, is ineetioeed as likely to succeed to the office of Inspector in Lunacy, PUBLIC DESTITUTION IN lEELANlL—liumble but intel ligent men are those who in ell countries and in all emer gencies can best appreciate and describe the sufferings of their fellows. For this reason, therefore, I venture to solicit the attention of your renders to the following nerrative of the condition of the poor in the county of Cork, as described by an humble farmer of the district : " The alarm of want of food induced me to visit a few houses to ascertain thesude of their food. My first was to a poor man's house on Sunday night. There were eight in family partaking of some roes kale (which has abundantly substituted the potatoes in the gardens), and eDuut a dozen black potatoes. 1 proceeded to another house ; there were seven in family, their meal was not more savoury than at the last house; it consisted of some cabbage hashed up . with sour milk and salt, and about a plate full of potatoes not bigger than marbles, which I think were sot fit food even for the pig.. What were not black of them were yellow, soapy, sour, and disgusting to the taste. I visited a third last Monday morning; there were nine in family ; the children told me their father and mother went providing for them, for thee had no supper lad night. The potatoes gigot black within the last ten days, as that when they ace boiled you could not stand with the smell from them. I saw the pigs refuse to tad some of them." MOVEMENTS AMONGST THE PEOPLE.--I forwarded to you on Thursday a notice posted in the county of Limencit, calling upon the people to assemble and protect themselves in this pressing season of distress and destitution. The Freeman's Journal of this morning gives an oecount of a movement of like nature which took place at Ballinadoe, Mayo, on Tuesday. CLONMEL Etscrion.--This election takes place to-day, and the Hon. Mr. Lawless will be returned without oppo- sition. AMOUNT OP TEE LABOUR RATE. The Evening Mail says :—" We understand it is the intention of the Lord- Lieutenant to sanction the assessment of a million and a half, to be employed under the provisions of the Relief Aet." The 3fall is anxious to cheer the landlords, by fixing this sum at a limitation ; but the Irishilandlords may be very well con tent if they are only call e on to pay their proportion of a levy four times as large. SERJEANT MURPHY.—The dinner to Serjeant Murphy is fixed for Monday next, at Cork. MR. SMITH O'BRIEN'S LETTER TO LORD JOHN Rue• SELL.—The Fallon of Saturday contains a long letter from Mr. Smith O'Brien to Lord John Russell. lie states that the failure of the potato crop will have derived several mil lions of their wonted supply of food; that already in many districts people are eating unwholesome potatoes. lie mks whether the legislature or government have taken measured adequate tothe crisis ? He maintains that an Irish parlia ment would have acted more vigorously. He admits that neither Sir Robert Peel nor the British parliament can be charged with insensibility to the distress of last year. Re tells Lord John that the calamity of the present year is of much greater magnitude • and insinuates that the present ministers have not provi ded sufficient resources to alleviate it. Now that the minion is closed, those sets only can be looked to which are already on the statute book. Of the act authorising government to apply 50,0001. in aid of public works he says:— " rm• appears to be the only direct contribution on the part of the I, state, authorised by parliament to be applied as a subsidy in mitiga non of the calamity which has befallen us. English etatenuen fre quently speak of payments from the imperial exchequer, as if England alone contributed to the public revenue; and we are told that it is unreasonable that the people of England should be taxed for the relief of Irish diatress. Nothing is more abhorrent to our feelings than the sentiment of dependence upon England. Give to us the management of our own revenue, the care of our own resoumee, the protection of our own people, and we shall t riudly relieve the parliament of Eng land from the duty of prov iding for our neemalties ; but, until such restitution shall be made, we are under no obligation to forego our claims upon the revenue which is drawn from the Irish nation. The means of subsistence and employment destroyed by the failure of the potato crop cannot be valued at lees than 10,000,01 ed. sterling. We may fairly question whether, under similar circumstances, an Irish parliament, though unas sisted by the Exchequer of England, would deem a Nun of 50,0001. an adequate contribution on the part of the state toward, the e mployment of the poor in useful and reproduc tive works." lie charges the present government with breach of faith in their application of this act. " If we understand rightly the meaning of the Treasury minute dated the 31st of Augast, 1056, we have reason to complain that the present government have c ommenced their operations by a rem breach of faith. Individuals and public bodies were induced by the late administration to commence public works, upon an agreement that a moiety of the expense of such works should be contributed by the State. By this Treasury Minute we learn that, in violation of these agreementA, the government now propose to withhold such por. tions of the moiety granted on the part of the State as remains un expend4 and to compel the contr actin g pastes either to leave their winks unfinished, or to complete them at their own sole expense. To ouch a proceeding I can remember no parallel in the financial opera tions of modern tams." Mr. S. O'Brien proceeds to state that the Ad 9 and 10 Victoria, to facilitate the employment of the labouring poor in the distressed districts of Ireland, is the only one upon which any reliance can be placed. He argues that the tax to be levied under this Act, partly on the tenants, partly on the landlords, is unequal and unjsut. "Now, these are medals , the tßochimes of society which will suffer most severely from the failure of the potato crop. As fox the ladders pia sted ex the swains mass of this day, pm mil at sees he aseribe Moir detentes to the yroQnr seam.-1 sue r *, Eimamilivt &mat, Jong Emsam.-- . ma. aril 00 8,18,ote rr s tr a r giete IkillIer embieu esir s e t. alma is 1760 milisteibserie be diesppefteelboftbstr popmslor sr an alas el time, tOas to snossigfty as they had set seat all those ap be tb stietintosent lbet were resolved brim, as the men we busily, awned mean Sawa roes at es as i l y mbse ware pet aloe with Shit pea , , I emaplela at their writing ei edam Omit' t rillnwimtbdigoirtriaylelagtZetbar bo r a al e du lho linsu i d from them, sad lave sa opoertasiv, email, V:: Fosainek and esphisigibs own to swag of tbe parties. Thirdlyj emit's n ot Woody heated &sir Lehigh' the 'memo* then sot Wag doss go, cos haiithey have nails be& to sio.ftstre Imo verY Many I mad bare sod seaway, meek . 1.41., and the swab sod elbserresold base retedved themithe same morn ing. the Impose let mbilft wield have bola setidag umpired with tike essiatisasahmerpopees rendired useless through not reaching thdidlidiasties is peoperthse. L. WILD. REMEDIES naft PSUPSSIOL-4i4— All eyes are now tuned towaris id =r oentsdrisesse ; they will sow strive to moire asd Wee", if mill rocceed. But lam AM those who tklak that all ataftipte to manage the peer dhisegh more pablegente are vale, sal must promote fearful arils teboth riebasd poor. Tbitelle is now well suited for watching the welkin of the roma mtsm, keeping, at the same time, is vklerldie idea of admea, that the poor cannot b a i t impunity be disposed of by only the payment of rate, that it is the duty and the interest of every_ man n to care for the things of others as well as his own. Selfishness, no doubt, reigns triumphant at preset; and many do not think of the poor, just because they tree' to the present system. Let it be seen and felt that God's piss-law includes and demands individual exertion and spur pathy ; love on the one hand, and gratitude on th:thisr and • new spirit may yet perva de societ y on the subject, the fitting agency may appear, and funds too. The condition of English able- - bodied labourers, in many smilite (as compared with the same chases in Scotland), sand to to be attributed to their own want of enterprise be to the neglect of their superiors ; but then are not Loth of these evils aggravated, if not almost created, by the habit of look ing to the poor-laws, in place of looking to their individual and relative duties and interests P-1 am, sir, &c., Id. DISEASE IN POTATOES.--SIR,--I. have bes much interested and 4nPresi" D . 67S of ? Bth UlT ie ti Ma 44 . which appeared in the that from his pen in the of 7th inst., on the absorbing subject of the disease. His views es entirely coinciding with my own, I am encouraged to call all possible attention _ to them: Surely nothing Just now so well worth our inestipsikes—nothing of grester impor- I tease than is attempt tie vestaratios et so viduable a root. Mr.• Munro s letters see ha 411 ls eir=ical I would suggest end big f bit to his = lsk asisavours to eelighten the pails as the est drat dads oesehobused root. Marvellous, iodised, has been the 1.111.611", and great the cupidity dieplaymi is its treatment; MISS itlll evil and its punishmletWor ewe rod, I believe, retire thas that of provides" is ebasthing no. Mr. Mares pities milt salmon to his oppement, Mr. John ston, would boobs= slrespero bad be Erma attention to last year's sairmstillmey cold aid wet, sad this year's oppo site extremes, se paw aessimating croses. In the pro gressively degenerate state of the potato, bow probable that an unprecedented withering should resell from such trials. Would that every potato grower would assort to the only alternative, the last rename left to dhow* the seed in the ground till the propm timed t wadi eay, plant what have been - room* gist up sea set pettegether— plant whole, and atleaet middle once —plant wide, and plant early—thus erelong—of course not at once—wouldthis most valuable of all roots be restored to he former vigour and wholesomeness, greatly to the relief of millions of our fellow-creatures, whom it has so long done much to support. —I am, Sir, your obedient servant, .141138 CAWLEY.— Winwick, near Warrington, Sept. 10, 1846. BRITISH ACIATION. SOU S TH SO AMPTON, SATURDAY. By no means the least interesting feature of the Southampton meeting was tho geological reunion round the Isle of Wight to-day. Perhaps no spot in the United Kingdom, with equal facilities of sense, presents such afield for the contemplation of the geologist as the Isle of Wight ; and certainly it would be difficult to get together as Mures tors a body of professors of such eminence in the science, and possessing at the same time equal power of communicating in the most agreeable and lively manner their knowledge to others, as were assembled this morning at seven o'clock on board the Lady Saumares, bound on this expedition. Amongst the first on board were Sir Roderick Murchison, the president; Sir John Herschel, the ex-president; Sir Henry J. De la Beche, Dr. Robinson of Armagh, Captain Ibbotaon, Dr. Hoyle, and Mr. Prestwich; and by the time of starting (half past 7) there were present between 200 and 300 geologists, proforma and amateurs, most of them armed with hammers and chisels, and provided with huge wallets, evidently intent upoa bringing off from the island fossils and minerals sufficient to stock • goodly museum. The day was remarkably propitious—not a cloud obscured for a moment the bright sunshine—not a wave ruffled the surface of the sea. The course steered was, after leaving the Southampton water, to the eastward, by Spithead , and so past Ryde Bon church, St. Catherine's Point, and the Needles, returning through the Solent. As the vessel neared Sandown Bay, and afterwards proceeded along to Yarmouth, Sir R. Murchison, Mr. Prestwick, and Captain Ibbotson a lt ern ately grati fi ed the company by the most amusing and lucid explanations of the various strata and peculiar forma tions of this romantic coast. The substance of these ex planations, which were rendered, if possible, still more clear by the exhibition of • geological map by Mr. Knipe, the correctness of which was generally admired, is as follows: WSpithead forms the trough of the basin betwee n the Isle of ight and Hampshire ; the chalk forming the base on which is deposited the plastic sands and clays, the London sly, and on the north side of the island a still more recent deposit, vii., the fresh water, on which is situated the house and grounds of her Majesty at Osborne. The chalk of the Foreland, with the clays and sands, are well defined, and ha beneath them appear, towards Sandown Bay, the upper sand, the gault, and the lower groan and, but •tlLaaing off towards the centre of the bay, where the wealden formation is laid bare, and forms the axes of the island. These various strata are again repeated further along the coast. The undereliff or terraces are formed of rock, which has been broken away from the parent rock by the un dermining of the base—hence arise the wild, romantic aspect and irregularity of the district on which the new town of Ventnor is built. The whole of this part of the southern coast is strewed with the debris of all the formations superior to the wealden, in large and rugged masses. Beyond this there are excellent sections of the beds of green sand, gault, &c., until the wealden again presents itself in Brixton hay. The superior strata again succeed each other, until the lk alone re-appears, continuing' onward to the Needles, and rising perpendicular to six or seven hundred feet. At Allum Bay, from a mighty convulsion of nature, the strata assume a complete vertical podtion—the chalk, with all the variegated beds of sand and clays of the tertiary formation. This convulsion is very local, the strata again assuming their proper position beneath Meadow-hill." At Black Gang Chine the geologists, headed by the Presi dent, debarked, and scattering themselves in various direc tions, commenced their attacks upon our motherearth, and so intent were they upon this unnatural warfare, that many of them, neglecting the summons to re-embark,were left behind to find their way across the island and get back to South ampton as they best could. But if a few stragglers were thus cut off from the main body, the party were more than com pensated by . a prize which, in their search for fossils and other ecolog y specimens, some of them had unexpectedly discovered in the person of Dr. Buckland, who was found in the Chine walking with a couple of ladies, and who, while, unconscious of danger, he was explaining to them the geological features of that romantic spot, was seized upon, with his fair companions, and brought off in triumph to the steamer amidst the cheers of the whole company. The rev. Doctor was scarcely on board ere he was surrounded by a crowd of congratulating friends,and so far from exhibiting any annoyance at the man ner in which he bad been made captive, he immediately, in compliance with what appeared to be a general wish, pro ceeded to open a large blue bag which he carried, and &s -played to the curious the various geological specimens he had collected. These consisted of • travelling spirit flask, which appeared to have been not recently added to his store, and of the contents of which he invited all who had had the honour of being his school-fellows to partake ; and of • mem ber of the crustacke family in the shape of a fresh boilederab, which the doctor said would furnish him and with orded two dinners and two suppers at an expense of sixteenpence; having aff considerable amusement by • most humorous account of the natural history of crabs, the very rev. gentleman concluded by impressing upon his audience the roguery of all fish mongers, and advising them in all their dealings with that class of trader' to deduct at least 25 per cent. from the prices demanded. At Allum Bay there was a second debarkation, and a second onslaught with ham mers and chisels innumerable upon the devoted cliffs; and here, under the able direction of the president, who went about from spot to spot, explaining in the clearest pos sible manner the geology of this remarkable locality, where the various strata, upheaved by some great natural convul sion appears vertical, side by side with the horizontal forma tions, the wallets were soon filled, and the desire for the possession of Isle of Wight geolog ical specimens was grati fied. The party being safely embarked again, a matter of no slight difficulty, seeing that the space between the steamer and the shore had to be traversed in small boats, Mr. Daaw, • member of the local committee, moved a vote of thanks to Sir R. Murchison, Sir J. Herschel, Sir H. De La Beche, the Dean of Westminster, Captain Ibbotson, and the other distinguished individuals who had honoured the company by their presence, and contributed so much to their amusement and instruction that day ; and in • brief speech, took occasion to contradict a report that had appeared in one of the London papers, to the effect that the South Western Steam Company had voluntarily placed their vessel, the Lady Saumarez at the disposal of the committee, for the purpose of the present excursion. pa d, wad not the fact, for the Southampton local committee paid, sic paid highly, for the use of the vessel, and it was with much pleasure that they did so. The resolution was seconded by Mr. Woolridge, and having been carried by acclamation, Sir R. Mosenumo acknowledged the compliment, and o bserved that he was one of those who thought that English men never met better or with more effect than at • good dinner. (A laugh.) He had been invited, as President of the Asiociation, to sit at the top of the table on an occasion of that kind on Tuesday next, and he hoped those who had favoured him with their presence , on the geological excur sion would be in attendance on that l occasion. (Cheen and laughter.) Dr. Eznecant, reef Lo to the Tote, said he could pc cant. EVENING.—Her Majesty_ is be Carib natal Friday sr Be..day . . t it le ac 4 the ideation of the fOrthgelmelhuisi mina Hai*, iht wesllles keekt readier , for firemiesaf the flow way lbw Ake slay at Omberse.—Oieerec r . the Mem et Preseisuseived ellealei by iiiiiOmesteas bier. mitt Berea litliken. frees tad Pree Abe flaw* of her IfietW e te bias= we iseelved at the *Tel *soled by her wi kg* Abbey, the witer, oaf weer Hell. Her * west to the regimes of the Ontlemberaie Twee% uhsgs ▪ Priseem etteerbil by bee mite, o'cloek, travails by the Lesion away, on her retain to Caddo/bury wane the Duke lad Duchess of Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand r Strelits, returned to town on War ier Majesty the Queen Dowager, at i. Their Royal Highnesses proceeded beet Grosvenor had the honor of at Osborne House, at dinner, on ton, Deputy Chairman of the en interview with the Chancellor of rday. Colonel Moberly had also en t hen. gentleman. wn on Saturday afternoon, on a at his residence, Templeton House, interview with Sir George Grey me-ofilce. xt had en interview on Saturday the Exchequer. radon returned on Friday evening Park, Herts. Sir George Grey left town on Tunbridge Wells. pondent.)—Viscount Palmerston !arty hour on Saturday morning from ving the previous day received highly from hie Excellency Mr. Buiwer, at riscount was busily engaged up to the (ship retailed to his seat near Ramsey thampton. he Austrian Ambassador returned Thursday night from Captain Mount ag-box, Stow-hall, Norfolk. The returned to the Embassy on Thurs.. 1-on-Sea. 'riday night contained a Treasury 'ates of postage between this country is now reduced to 6d. fed each letter ounce, with the option of prepayment nder ; newspapers are to be charged estenlay a sermon was preached de, of the Weigh-house, in behalf of s island of Raratonga, in the South last, were visited by a severe hUlTiOllle of all their property, and, with the rthrew every building on the island understand, amounted to about 1001. CHURCHYARDS.—Thirty-thm in s's, Westminster, have signed a requisi ardens to convene • vestry, to consider hg the burial-ground. HE LONDON AND JOINT STOCK afternoon, between the hours of two met barefaced robbery, to the amount of nutted et the London and Joint Stock nen named Gatlin, firm of Clarke and -end Mailings, Fulham, =dieters. Mr. it the time mentioned, attended at the e bank, for the purpose of paying in ' the firm. While standing there, he coat, and turning round he observed ug man, attired in a shooting-jacket, of the bank, but he unfortunately circumstance, and gave no alarm, though r in the money he found that his pocket- Uy abstracted, with its contents, which d gold, &c., a mounting to 3241. 2s. 1 1 d., 1, and sundry letters and memoranda. a of Russian leather, with a steel clasp, me Bank of England 3001., No. 37.54 1 , 6 ; 201., lid . A' dated May 5, rns, and 2s. Ild. A reward of 301. has apprehension of the thief, and no portionately to any portion BALL FROM A SCAFFOLD. -- SamoMi -eight years, a bricklayer, was en in front of a new house in Battersea f the labourers threw a hod of bricks id, which caused one of the poles to give precipitated from the third story to the hod of bricks fell upon him, fracturing rise injuring him. He was removed to tel where very slight hops are enter rery.—ReN OVER.—Last evening, at ged female, whose name could not be rowing the carriage way immediately era' Arms Tavern, Old Kent-road,when a a knocked her down. The driver did all his horses, but before e had time, the off hole passe d over her neck. Before she ✓urgeen's she expired.—Faon DROWN , afternoon a young man named Sullivan, owed in a match on Tuesday next for a r prizes, given to commemorate the pass kippers' Act, hired a small funny and was off Stone-stain, Radcliff, when a large easing behind such a swell that his boat s drowned. iaturday morning, shortly after 12 hich caused great alarm, broke out in the ; to Mr. John Ramsay, a bone-crusher and anufacturer, situate in Dean-street, Shad originated, from some unknown cause, in d with such rapidity did they extend, that tarter of an hour they had penetrated the fire was extinguished that part of the pre t commenced was all but destroyed. Un- Ramsay bad not insured.—Another fire same morning, at a quarter-past three amities, No. 19, Marian - street , Old Kent motion of Mr. J. May, and before the lued, the basement floor and the staircase mad, and the upp er part of the house and aged by water. The fire originated in the he kitchen. The premises were not insured. king, shortly before 4 o'clock, an alarming aged female lost her life, broke out on the Little Bartholomew-close, West Smithfield. cupied by numerous families, and the de la, tenanted the back room of the first ROM. tea having perceived smoke, proceeded to on entering deceased's room a most fearful self to them, the apartment being in a ge , in the middle of the floor was the deceased Del head to foot. She was removed with ice, but expired almost immediately after ace of water being at hand, the flames were tart of the building in which they originated. except the unfortunate woman Gould hay *OM. it is impossible to say what was the unity. - SUICIDE BY DROWNING. MT. W. nquest on Saturday at the King's Arms, St. 3amberwell, on the body of W. J. Dolbie, sommitted suicide on Wednesday evening ng himself into the Surrey Canal.—Mary r re.iding in Essex-street, Strand, said that is her son ; be had been out of employment s, in consequence of having met with a severe i upon his mind, and compelled him to seek workhouse at Bermondsey. On Tuesday sittance to St. Thomas's Hospital, as an ic r a disease of the spine. On the following house without permisaion, and witness had hear anything of him until Thursday, when that his body bad been found in the canal. ig time been in a very desponding . state.— aorary insanity."--DEATH ?ROW ERYSIPE- Yilliam Payne, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, William Montague, aged 57, a cowkseper and 'o. 1, Seabright,treet, Hackney-road. The subject to erys4elas in the leg and had an re attack on Tuesday lest. He went to the el on Thursday, and was told by the surgeon sep his bed, and that unless he came into the g could be done for him. Deceased said that e might be be could not be spared from his Friday he was so much worse that the surgeon speedy death, but considering that his wife e room with him dying of fever, and that he roperly attended to at home, advised his re capital. Hs was taken then in a cab with all but on his arrival was found to be dead.— nal death." OF THE POST-OFFICI6--13, Catherine- Sept. 13th, 1846 —Allow me to call your e following ;—Yesterday morning I sent three &pen in a cab to the Post-office to be for day mad. Fleet street being blocked up, my ;1, as usual, to work their way through the nd on coming mat of Farrineon-street to go ill, they found use:pettedly that the peviors ed that road, which compelled them ro return ingdon-street ; when they reached Newgate as impassable, owing to the large number of I they were obliged to pass through Smith 'sequence of these repeated interruptions the ach the Post-office till three minutes after the for receiving papers. My men begged of the low the papers to go, explaining the cause of time, and ulti ma tely got them taken in with ding that they should go by that pest ; but surprise when at ten o'cloc k last night the r was sent me by a customer at the West-end, ived it by the eight o'clock evening delivery : "General Post-oace, Sept. 12. to inform von that nearly two thoomnd newspapers of Mr. Wild, Cath er ine-street, Strand. arrived ben too late' to be forwarded by the day malls. Some of is superscription, appear to bare been sent from your Mae, any complaints are received by you Of id°l of wail km% thstr condition will be ma. that, hafted of Ming Mt luubinditt. %Op tuiLiutilm. mheria ba uught fthis tu to th rhis lu si= mld misid au te ulliuutu bagpy to ut Malta assaimminter hismera at Win esamdem el eaaree Onmewei: i *h to blt, that WM Mit ma* tin hif tit sal= Memel slltm hest AnY thek 11.411 m and merit eat abbey nodal, but maw sin amen tad to tbak Mom; mills, pine, sad IsuL DIY r dins to setre, Ms swim Wain' Ala to hear nuoMm thmilults the mt. WM ransom ta tbe hulked, of Wank It ots simpent that hem me wiry taw estates wt.* ato tat silent M tas4 6 Meambransin Mown lion, ea that the maw Wimp make Om a prim e auu rt rand "Ma May atiamagessolts. hit enema idea , rental Lisa . bulusullui psolo. yeri llurilluis hw iondkada upla wil uillu b lutilu e ehislualisralisebu the tan =t e al Hs auggsals that martgegers and pawns deriving jointures and annal Mes from WA - should oho be taxed. From Ilene statmainta and arguments Mr. O'Brien infers that podia matt might is meet early in October. If possible, 101 WA It wet to meet in Dublin ; but whether there or " "A. VI .A j am. dsa, this _year's autumnal session ought to be ebbe: • . Irish social and political questions. Eno ' t....721i' mattes will be found in parliamentary reports relative to Inland and in the reports 'of the Repeal Association ts eineurf the attention of parliament during many months. Ms =Want the following list of measures for consideration; , " Proposals for public expenditure upon works of a minimal oho neter-eusli as naval dock yards; safety harbours; • ill prime ; an mhos her oriadael Mastitis; mamas ; agrimiftM suds; inusenne, he. “ *imam ef pith away" by way of i a aid af the enter prises vhish War a preppostme return adialwit is indemnify the stets kr Its out*. Or Ilia niter an railways to program towards amipielian; anatil; warm ararks; 'mammas docks; piers, and law works undstiahm by campoles her tedividasia. " • medal tax upon ellestes fa aid of load *Oats of an useful nature. ..nbill to ware to MEM, when removed hemilialrbellinp, com b, the Islam and apical turptiabd by then In substantial tessera mare allastiveihria those bitheatsadspted for the drain age smit tedmistirsetemslie landa. T i t =brs ginsat et the Ildwrise etlraismi. . W sannisa the dele te e s =efastaies with a view te Misburge Ow .sinew kam view tiding to give sitillaml smartly at tame to kraal of antvettm sptans, sea es hmaret Ins ramie ate for ever, ad ieus " rya i d billhis On asmildiss at aril abbe. ef haerttesee, and of meunteat talsreola imi, by pima' penteing a emanate matinufattlispowhis amitat." Oovsannistr Zuroare.—Kr.Lshamisare has published direetione to any eat the 'hump Miants, which appeared in the Repress of Ike let instant. They conclude with this paragraph l "Malawi Baba la tally sandbia of the patient endurance whisk had winkal Means*, of Mama* at this esnatry, under = to venom ; and ha Puna ant lanaimaw is of ids unceasing alleviate Mir distress by evaa mane in his power will wad te allay eseitommitln their those numerous s= which, vine they arattemni C " .r. et many, no advisitap to them elhajdats me damaremoshrino. Id Readkam asabliargy Mies men Ma cmtnendira an= al tines when SEM it nil bajoessist CM /era_ ia the coolies and Minna of MIMI limb/ the emontasas of the pre war tolunitr I Ind to tray kiss that the biesimpef Divine Pro- Aimee will Woad** united darts to mitigate Its severity." OPICRATION an "NE LABOUR Ram ACT. —lt has been hand, upon armed of this act, tha t thou its provisions make it ntswisday upon the several a . sessions assent bled under the Laid L ieutenant's p lions, to provide employment on public works for the people, still it does not impose any penalty for disexclienee of the mandate ; neither doss it empower the Lord Lieutenant to proceed with any nada under the act without the previous sanction of those • Roman Catholic clergyman of the south of iiits• pasharday, in my hearing, that some of the V Ba IP& eirTippnin7 were already prepared to take &dean t =Mina, and would refuse to approve of any works. I can hardly imagine they would exhibit such mad rashness in the face of a starving people, but if they should, I hare been assured that government is prepared to act at all risks, trusting to a bill of indemnity, which, in such a case, the legislature would not refuse them. The Gazette of last night contains twenty-one additional proclamations for holding baronial presentment sessions in various counties in Ireland. The lumber of proclamations already published amount to eighty. SCOTLAND. Tilt HAZWEST.—Except in the very highest and latest districts, the crops in Scotland are now all cut, and the greater part safe in the stockyard. For the last fortnight we have been favoured, says the Caledonian Mercury, with a tr.* of the finest weather. During the early part of last week, although rather close and sultry, there was no interruption to the labour' , of the harvest worth speaking of, and during the last eight days we have not only had bright, beautiful, and breezy weather during the day, but a full harvest moon of almost surpassing splendour during the night. Everything connected with the cutting down and wearing of the crops has consequently gone on happily and pleasantly, and we may now congratulate our readers on the favourable termination of • bountiful harvest. No doubt, in some situations, where the barley and oat crop were caught and stunted by the droughts of May and June, the straw has been short, and in looms instances the crop thin in the ground. These, however, are exceptions, and we be lieve the produce of the present harvest will be at least a full average. The loss of the potato crop is already telling on the pnces. The alarm about disease in the turnip crop seems to have dissipated. ExTaziatut FINE.—TIIC Greenock Adrertiser announces the total destruction by fire of the extensive sugar refining establishments at Cartedyke belonging to Messrs. James Fsirrie and Co. About three o'clock ou Thursday morning the alarm was given that* stove in the adjoining chip build ing yard was on fire, and from its close proximity to the large sugar-house, the greatest danger was at once appre hended for the safety of the whole adjacent valuable property. In a short space the flames caught the house, end speedily assumed a most formidable appearance, setting at defiance every exertion to stay their destructive progress. Fortunately the morning was calm, for the result would have been rendered still more serious bad a breeze at the time been blowing from any quarter. The large building first seized stood in two short hours a melancholy ruin—pre senting nothing but blackened, calcined, tottering walls. The smaller one adjoining soon followed, and the fire being now confined, the engines were kept at work on the one building, which continued till far in the day burning in several parts. A very decent and industrious man named Mattbewson, a smith in Messrs. Steele's building-yard, was killed by the falling of part of the south gable of the large sugar-house. Along with others he had been engaged at the time at one of the engines, and when his body was recovered, the hose was still firmly fixed in his hands. He has left a wife and child to mourn his sudden and painful end. Prunes TO FISIIERMEN. — The Duke of Sutherland, with a view to encourage the white fishing on the north coact of Sutherlandshire, has announced his intentian of giving two prizes to the crews of such native boats as shall take and deliver for cure, within the Tongue district, the greatest number of cod, ling, and hake, from the first of this month to the lot of May, 1847. The prizes consist each of a well built cod boat, with oars, sails, and materials for • set of great lines. The district is to be divided into two distinct division, in each 01 which a prize will be given. In addi tion to the above, his grace gives this year a prize for her ring fishing in the Tongue district, consisting of materials jar a full drift of nets. HOSPITAL.—A correspondent in Edinburgh writes as follows:—" In your publication of th e 7th instant, under " Scotland," while stating that during the vacation sixty-eight boys were allowed by their parents or other near relatives to remain in Ileriot's Hospital (out of the 180 boys usually in it), you omit to state that perhaps not one of these would have been allowed so to remain but for the inconsiderate re gu lation of the governors of that institution, and which Dr. Lee, whom massy deem less wise than zealous, and who is one of them, has never done anything to remove, viz., that parents who are resident in Edinburgh cannot have their boys out to re side with them in the city, no matter how respectable they are, how creditable their character, or how " good their limes." Before Dr. Lee complaios of the recklessness and ]artlessness of these parents, he should take care to remove from his own door and that of his coadjutors in the govern ment of that institution, the real source of the evils be thus lays at theirs. They can have them out of the hospital during the vacation only, provided they send them . to the country, and, as I have said, cannot, on any groundwr pre withe have them out even for a night to reside them at their own homes.—A CITIZEN OF AVM/ REEIZIE." AT A RECENT MEETING of the Town Council of Ding wall, on an interesting iscussion relative to the potato disease, Provost Cameron stated tha t at Mr . Mr. Matheson, of Auchany and the Lewes, was prepared, without reference to other atrngements, to order Indian corn to the amount of 10,0001., to be at hand to supply the deficiency of food now inevitable from the distemper among the potatoes.—Glasgow Argue. PROVINCIAL. LANCASHIRE. Farms or FREE Taanes—The Liverpool Mail of Sa turday states that the Customs receipts at that port hare in creased within the last few weeks to such an extent as to astonish the officers in the Long-room. The daily receipts at the Customs, until lately, reached from 7,0001. to 8; 0001 . ; whereas the receipts on several days recently have been 13,0001. to 14,0001. Remembering that raw materials and other articles, which form the most bulky part of our com merce. are now mostly " free," what a wondrous expansion of trade is involved in the one " fact !" ROBIAERY OE Llso.—At Liverpool, on Friday, a woman with a pair of black eyes, was committed for trial on a charge of robbing John Parr, a shopkeeper at Birkenhead, of a bag containing 150/. The prosecutor had crossed the Mersey to receive the money from Mr. Houghton, a solicitor at Liverpool, and was robbed before re-crossing the river. Tax MLNCHErITER PRRICt3.—The sub-committees and general parks committee of the Manchester council have agreed upon a report, to be submitted to the next meeting of the council, recommending certain additional accommoda tions, in seats, apparatus far sports, and other improvements. Both parks continue still to be frequented by thousands; very little damage is sustained ; and the con act of the large assemblages, which on Saturday afternoons and Sundays are really more numerous than could have been expected, is ea the whole very orderly and satisfactory. Some few tions there have been, but these are both few and trivial and there is a strong disposition on the part of the people generally to repress any disorderly conduct, and to prevent any injury to the igronnds or property in the parks. Alta gether, the experiment hitherto has been most successful. SINGULAR MATCH. —A wager was laid by several gentlemen in Ashton-under-Lyne, on Wednesday last, that a pigeon would not be able to compete with the railway train 'running between Manchester and Ashton. As the trains upon the Ashton branch of the Leeds Railway were con sideted to run at a greater speed than those upon the Sheffield branch, parties were despatched with the pigeon to Man s chester. At the moment when the train started from Hunt' Bank the pigeon was set at liberty, and arrived at home three minutes before the train reached the Ashton terminus. THE PUBLIC BATES 1,241) WASRIIOI7BIIB AT MAN ORESTIR were fully opened to the pub/se on Wednesday last, and, if we may judge hem the amount of the receipts for three dayps, there is every realm es expect that so desirable an - ment will meet with the most liberal support in that town. The establishment We be kept open from six in the wassains till nine in the eyesight the eemmer, sad iron saves is the morning till nine in the main Eerie/ the wisely meatbs g they will also be °pea to the pelt& fir three bears to the Sunday morning in the summer, and for two bears in the winter, finally closing for that day at nine &sleek in the icarsoon. The charge for the reef the privets bath is fid. sod hr the others2d. In three lap eaeleassimet tad sine used the baths. The 'barge tor wahine/ is Id. for our TOILKSHIELY. ONE or soma AMID/IMM which (says the Halifax Guardian) too frequently arise from cheer carelessness, occurred on Thursday last, in Mr. It. Mitchell's worsted mill, at Saltersley, and which resulted in the death of Joseph Tempest, a lad of about 14 years of age. It appears that while at work in the mill one of the straps broke; Akroyd, a young man who worked in the same room, called upon de ceased to hold the strap over the horizontal shaft while he repaired it. While Akroyd was thus engaged is mending the strap, deceased became entangled, and was whirled round the shaft which was then going at the rate of 120 evolutions per minute. The ecgine was immediately stopped, and the poor lad was found to have both legs and has left arm broken. He was taken to the Infirmsry in a horrible state of suffer ing, but died soon after. At the inquest upon the body, the Coroner severely reprimanded Akroyd for his wanton con duct.—Verdict, "Accidental death." Ate Exanrt.E.—On Friday l►st Lord Worley, M.P., was travelling from London to Lincoln, whon on arriving at the Rugby station, he quitted the first-class carriage, and took a second-class ticket, at the same time producing his address card, and desiring the station-keeper to inform the directors that he should never travel by first-class on their lines, until the present exorbitant fares are reduced. His lordship did the same at Leicester, Nottingham, and Lincoln, so it is to be hoped the directors will get to hear of it. Several noble men and gentlemen see reported to have made similar re solves as it regards the Midland lines; a general observance of such conduct, says the Hull paper, in which the fact is stated, would briag the directors to the more reasonable fares of other lines. TVERI:B FEVER prevails to such an extent at Leicester, that the magistrates have taken the matter in hand. A meet ing of the faculty has been held, at which it was agreed that immediate steps should be taken to alleviate the disease. With this view the County Bridewell, which has now bees some time vacant, is to be opened as a receiving -house, which it is hoped will in some measure prevent the contagion from spreading further. DERBYSHIRE. A sYssclortiON is about to be set on foot for the relief of the girl Ellen Beresfonl, who was on the point of marriage with poor Collis when he was murdered. By his untimely death, says the Derby Reporter, she has lost a husband, and her infant a ..... A marrritto of the Liberals and Vreetraders of Newcastle was held on Thursday evening last, when it was agreed to commence a subscription to defend the claims of the Liberal voters in North Northumberland and North Barham, who had been served with objections. CAM LIKIDGMIIIRE. CLMBRIDOE, SEPT. 12.—PitneENT TO THE UNIVERSITY. —Capt. F. P. Blackwood, who has just returned from a our vt7 of Torres Straits, in command of IL M. ships Fly and Bramble, has offered to present the University with a coin plate collection of preserved Aiwa all theknown Australian Ws, and several of Malacca. NORFOLK. LUCIFER MATOHEP KINDLED BY THE SUN.—A fire of a singular description occurred last week in Norwich, occa sioned by a quantity of Weiler matches lying in the sun in the window of Mr. Twaites, on the Castle Meadow. The person who waits in the shop, which is fronting the south, was below at the time, taking his dinner, when the heat of the sun upon the matches caused them to ignite. The fire speedily communicated with some cigar boxes, and several of them were consumed, and the cigars burnt and spoiled. The Saa returned just in time to sive the shop, which sus tained no injury except in the paint, which was burnt off in places. A few minutes longer, and the whole premises must have been on lire. This tact may, perhaps, help to solve the mystery of some of the fires which have lately occurred. 111•140.1112 1141.1101/1l•cd. A MEETINO of the inhabitants of Romsey, in addition to thew at Southampton and Andover, which took place last week, in favour of the Manchester and Southampton line of railway, rejected by the Lords' Committee. A strong feeling of disappoiorment was elpressed, and resolutions were adopted in favour of proceeding again before parliament. REPRESENTATION Ole LYDINOTON AND ANDOVER.— Lymington is now represented by two Tories ; one, Mr. Stuart, it is all but certain will again be one of the mem bers for the borough, Colonel Keppell, a liberal, will be the candidate on that aide; and it is said the struggle will be between him and Mr. Mackinnon. AtAndover, Mr. Etwall is considered quite safe; the other member has not even the chance of being put in nomination. Mr. Coles is mentioned as the Tory candidate, but his chance is very doubtful if a good colleague be found for Mr. Etwall. DERKSIIIKE. Mute AoE.—The Reading town council have just resolved to apply to Parliament in the ensuing session for a bill fur an effectual and comprehensive sewerage and drainage of the borougb, as well as to obtain powers to widen and improve close and crowded courts and streets, to promote the ventila tion of the dwellings of the poor, and to effect the removal of offensive buildings and annoyances from situations where they are found to be prejudicial to general health. THE RATING OP THE ROYAL PROPERTY AT WINDSOR. —The whole of the arrears of poor's rates and municipal dues, from 1841 (when the Prince took powession of Flemish farm), up to March haat, were paid by General Wemyw, on Friday last, by command of his royal highness, as a " dona tion" to the respective perishes ; the liability of the property in question to be rated is net admitted. ". ssennennio 111,16. F A TAL ACCIDENT AT THE ,I.IRIM OXYOMD RAILWAY STATION. —A dreadful accident occurred at the Oxford station of the Great Western Railway, on the evening of Saturday, about seven o'clock, whereby two men, of the names of Batts and Gardiner, employed as porters at the station, lost their lives. With several others, they were employed in removing large blocks of deal from a boat on the Isis to a truck, fur the pur poseof conveying it by rail, when suddenly the crane, from the great weight attached to it, broke, fell on the two men, and killed them instantly. The head of Batts was com pletely smashed, and the other poor fellow had his neck and arm broken ; the test of the mea e s caped uninjured. BCBSE X. Tur PAVILION AT BILIGHTON.—Various reports are abroad (says the Brighton Herald) as to the fate of this building. ' Some say that Mr. Cubitt, the great builder, has contracted for it ; others, that the Duke of Sutherland will be its purchaser. We do not attach much credit to any of these rumours. No steps will be taken in disposing of the Palace until the sanction of parliament has been obtained, and then the claims of the town will have to be considered. The most plausible idea yet broached, in the event of the sale of the Pavilion being resolved on, is, that it should be bought by a public company which would obtain an Act for the purpose (a matter of not much difficulty, if sane , tioned by the town), and in which Act a clause might be in troduced giving the commissioners power to purchase it for th town if they thought proper." The Pavilion was visited by e great numbers on Saturday se'nnight, after which it was closed to the public. BRUTAL. ASSAULT BY A POLICII-CONSTABLE.—EXTILAOR DINAILY Csur..—At the Ilford Petty Sessions, on Saturday, John Francis, police-constable, was placed at the bar, charged by. William Serjeant, a respectable tradesman, residing at Loughton, with assaulting him under the follow ing moat extraordinary circumstances. The accused was in Pis clothes. and Mr. Pelham , the solicitor, appeared on his behalf. The complainant, whose left eye and cheek bore marks of severe punishment, said that on Monday night last about eleven o'clock, he was sitting outside the King's Head public-house, at Loughton, when he saw his wife walking along the road with police-constable Francis, whom he had previously warned not to have any thing to do with her, as reports were current in the neighbourhood that an improper intimacy existed between them. lie went up to them for the purpose of getting his wife away to go home, when Francis struck him a siolent blow and knocked him down. On getting up he again knocked him down, and then went away with his wife, and from what he (complainant) after wards heard, passed the night with her. lie afterwards went to Francis's house and demanded his wife, upon which Francis said he would sooner lose his life than she (Mrs. Serjeant) should come out. On cross-examination by Mr. Pelham, the complainant said that Francis was on duty at the time, but he had not seen him be fore that evening. His wife was walking close to him, and the complainant rushed at her and knocked her down, but did not touch Francis, who knocked him down directly without saying a word. On his wife getting up, she said to Francis, " Well, come Jack, knock him down again," and Francis did so. The complainant did not fight with Francis, but with his wife, to get her home. Lydia Briggs, who was with Mrs. Francis at the time, corroborated every particular of complainant's statement. M. Pelham made an Ingenious defence for the accused, admitting that the assault was un justifiable, but contending that there were some mitigatory circumstances, the accused letting his feeling s get the better of him, when be taw the woman kn , eked down by his side. The chairman, W. Cotton, Esq., said that he and his brother magistrates were of opinion that it was a gross assault, but as there was another charge against the accused, they would hear that before they came to any decision, The prisoner was then specially charged, by order of the Commiwioners of Police, "with neglect of duty as a police constable." Ser jeant Edwards, K 10 said that he marched Francis on duty at eight o'clock on Monday night last, and he ought to have remained on duty until live o'clock the next morning. He had to meet witness at a certain spot at eleven o'clock, but did not. About a quarter-p William ast eleven o'clock he saw Serjeant, who said he had been assaulted by Francis, who was at home at his own house. He went there and saw Francis, who was out of his uniform. He (Francis) gave witneu his clothes, and said "be should not do any more duty." Serjeant said he had his wife there, upon which Francis said she should not come out. In answer to Mr. Pelham, the witness said, that when a police man wished to resign, he was bound to give a month's notice of his intention, and the accused was well aware of this. After hearing an address from Mr. Pelham on behalf of the prisoner, the magistrates retired, and after being some time absent., the chairman, on their return, said, they had given their beat attention to the case, and although they were at all times anxious to proteetthe police in the perform ance of thir duties, they were determined to unish to the utmost of e their power any neglect of duty. Fo p r the assault, without at all taking into consideration the immorality, they should inflict a fine of 31 . , with the expenses, or two months' imprisonment ; but with res p ect to the neglect