The Express. — London, England, 1849-03-17 00:00:00

setaber et sees, ee reemmended by the mambas es me al expediter*. This might safely be des whoa s sae Remembered that W Bast Idle Compaq m entabri net fewer ekes 23 waroteamme ia these wen n. Oa the Paddle and Sesta Algernon statism lest year, the lose meistaised was 26 ships, and 6,431 mu, eesebes kelt a l ass of meas. One MU of that amount would be ample fee di me emcees, sod would be mere thea we had is *op mynas to lad. or before emelaterfarenee is Median et the Plate. This he west redeem by 10 ships end 1,700 ma p s At tees Cape of Geed Hem sad the ismea stades s wim ite ISM there were 18 Mips and 1,400 men. Lest .ter MUM was 37 ships and 4,64 T men, sodas 460,0001. be Bade war ha? seer terminated he woad redoes this Ii en thou l t e shies 11,3 3 men. The rides*. he would thus eta would be 36 Mips and 6,000 men, rd gat fins ohne' +wild then remain would be ample be the postediee al B&W interests and British homer. (Hear.) Abe • few obsereations hem Copt. 1111111.11 T in defines •i tio lenges of the Navy, and he. Mr. 8. Ha sere, w omen en impieved pines' kepis; the anal assesses, Mt. WARD explaised. The sees me were kept is the g oal newer, and it our difficult to alter the symm. Mt.OOBDRN.—Sir, I think hon. gentlemen s i ght net to have %wield all elusions to the peso= meemest--I think, the media's mismasgemest—di ear a wl depomishear, furee)—for I knew that emery Mailed the emmmiNmm et last year, at whim I emcee, nlt it daft imqweeden_ that tiffs bid bees gram mime gegmieeld in the Maltreds. (Rear, hear.) llst I se her wee *ilk MOO hes. sondem . oppeiss, that 1 de think, Mee 14. *0 It pa melanin the most epees you mess aielm I r rev rodsmn to have • went el naismempeMent sew. mese lig at el saimssegemeit, • lame of them Mips is orinery—thees wasels whisk me to is Is be used is seue Marw ; you mob make up yew to that if pea 'maintain tles mama system. (Haan We. Uses is a great want at =assailant is all gow sesidishmeste at present. It seems to me, that th= the setaldiskaent is, the ge Wee the waste. Ten e do what you will in committees— get • gestramieb Able la the matter of shipbuilding or my thing one, to ll• Abe be the sem way m private indleiduals. Whom.) And I guise sew Me that, if yea see to keep skips dine, 1 would nether have them in anther, than Moat. I weed rather see them out d eaneatimies. idle and mks, then egliting ; and who you talk delis evil of not 'timeless Mips 'heady built, let me my that that is the smallest evil. nib is the view of tha memsaity and la the matter of Waal repeatte. (Hear, bear) Bat, at you will effect any notesebk redaction in the cost of year navy, it mat be by l ga; a ki e 7 up y minds toehasge the system and to content me with • mailer establishamet. (Cheers.) And, when I soy • smaller establishmest, I do act an • Ise ea. sisat est. There is • great deal et misconception ea Ws subject. There is asonfosion et ideas do saying that when oe meek els smaller we are the advocates of • Is. efficient eseedialimeat. That is a eanfotading of weeds t fee I be lieve it to be quite possible that you may have a mall sets blielunrat more edk i sat than • large me. (Hear, km) Now, I will take the American navy. There was a d war, the frigate St. Lawrence, whissi arrived at Sou sad will anyb dy say that she was sot • model of mg judgment ? (Hear, bear.) Wei, but that wee a smell speSmen of • navy shah does Mot oast the one-quarter et what ror navy sets es; and therefore do not Ist m be em nand by people who exclaim that we are for keeping down the •ffiaimcy of the navy. I am for keeping it up; and I will tell y u how • end it is the r. salt of investigation 1 have midis into this matter. I would pay our men and offiern better than they are new pea. (Cheers.) I would ;ay them as mach is the Ammonia pay their officers and sailors which is 30 or 40 per cant more then we pay. I wend not have • ship more at ems thee I sold keep ooestantly at work, bemuse is asessene ▪ u fa everything else, if you will keep reds is We ens, you will never fiat them efficient*. (Iletir d a h l o rt this it the nimbi in which I would carry oitt • peas establishment for the navy. The hoe. mambo la Gloucester speaks as if this was • esedien whOh Sedum could not entomb. Why, it is a epodes which we can hest entertain. If it were a gaieties af the baildinr, or manning, or keeping of ships, I meld net give say opinion Moat it ; but when you:come to the !modes of how many won yea meta to have—what the size of your poses establishment ought to be—these are erosions which every civilian is as competent tar judge of as any nautical ma. What do we keep up our present large establishment fir? I sever heard that alums d as yet in such • manner as to satisfy um We crose-exaMesd tee late Lord Outli ned en the subject, and his answer was unsatis factory. He fell ack on the political state of the world, or something of that sort, but we could net get a sp Slit reply from him. Many think you want a kip naval force because it cannot be creet-d in • short time. The right bon. captain opposite said on cannot set up mods hie 'lupins. ThO meant to infer that you must keep up • large establishment in times of peace, use you cannot impress men in case of war. Now, at the bresking out of the Fritsch war you bad. on the lb Jansen, 1793, in cent mace 22 ships of the line, 41 frigates, 18,739 men. That was heists the breaking out of the war with France. Oa 31st December. in the same year. after Alut,wer broke set, you had 78 ships of the line, 101 frigates, and 76,666 mm. We hat an increase of 68,000 semen la lees than • bet, • few months after the war broke out. (Hear.) L if il a lleat captain (Captain Berkeley, we believe) says "by impressaime" I admit you cannot have its est again he if yea had year pre es-gang would be , and publie Maim would saaation it. if suck a thing meld be justified, It certainly would be when a man came to drag you hem your home end force you into the service. No, you must be Mlito pay men high bounties when you want them, r • ht In the maim topay them as meek as the Am rime saved a omen, and by that metes you will make the service p•;pular, ad rather desired than shunned. The right hoe. gentleman the member for Portsmouth says it mast be • matter of meadow. Good betimes ! why ars we brought here, or why is this sables. salmitted to se ? —Omar, hear)--;r who is respessible Ise voting this mosey ? For if you vote the lumber ef men sew doweled, you mem of nessuity vote the 6,000,0001. and aid to pay them Well, than, we am impossible for voting this messy, and if we he se goversurout will fall beet apes es tere and Winn 119 of eessenting to the number et men ; jib se my him hind the :umber ite Sheffield has taunted the member far Hatton with nabs amen 10 or 12 years Se voted he the number at ma demanded, without any probst. The right hes. garleman said it meld be dem with refastens to ether countries, and that he meld wades lash embody it es that rebid ; bat he beget to give us the fame: I suppose Amelia is one of - the esuatelse dila he wished to semipro with this New lhold in my heeds report of the searstary at the ream to the Anieriees Nimbi ileitis the empesffitere melee 'Adobes& tar the am bg yam 1849 Md. we have ball a greet &sal lathe way et mine manmade the Ica lhawit e endAno dise Navies hem ME hePtiditte MI I new Mies hes as peps: Ammiles womb Y eseemie• Min, 47 (esly ems line-el4iWie ship en Moles anise, three eases am ploye& as receiving ships) ; in ordinary, 21 ; ou w smoke. U 79." While we have about 440. The tided Steer it the maritime Seal that Ingised ass he... She bee meads as large • trade with the eostinest Imam es we have, end her meek are required nearly all seer the glebe. I bear the me of Freese quoted by the ken. mush* fee Sheffield. He has brought bread lessee bike to J_sl large estimates ; beet I believe he has Mali? exaggerated the state of the French navy. I have here as send hum a French jeered, the Clinitifefiennel, of thipesuaber 20, 1848, giving a summery dthe actual sedition et the Freed navy. The article be elMilrlPl feed the naval the repel ce ps of th establisk of Nov...f at 40 bies at line (24 Meat and 16 on the stocks), 50 frites (MI diet sad 10 on the stocks), 138 vessels of an i faior dem abet; 160 steam mewls (all Must), and two floating balleries with hem 40 to 60 guas. Total 323 dips. In November, 1846, the navy board, in order to ems- Ihts the pretested eats es, had to mistrust Meet 17 ships of the lime, 27 frigates, 85 inferior bowie 32 steam beats, and 2 fleeting batteries. It amesdrel seven years, and 93,000,0001 (3,700,00014 to e xecute the weeks. The delay and the money were granted. The year 1847 passed away in preparatory sameass. The works is the manila were conducted slowly ad eenteselly. The exposes were ill calculated, and the sem weed be the mania el the operatives was exhausted be bee the ornsbmire of the works which bees wages were hissed to someeint. TM money allotted be be per ems d sabenn was eseseqesstly applied to the permed et teems. Is 1848 the naval edmiaieratne :reddisposed to body mere activity ad more _ . A etatemen p t dm emersetions to be emend Wag the resod ear le make up be last dam, wee Lid lore the paid& The , reveistim et February took dank mil the new govmmeent kit sight ef the navy in the add tithe hffim a which sarremeM them. The French am sew eosin al 24 sail of the Mae dam, 38 frigates, ad IS steam ems& (Behan fi helps of the line, 12 regain IS btseltimediammeemseneeettheirage. Of the 38 frigates them ore M anisemed ; and deb@ 08 steembroM not more then 70 ses Offistivet. The situation et the Freed fleet n, in bet. eash ft it was is the Ist of January, 1848. Al cos Mb% led et Great Britain that of Frame in 8 8 tamed yid ether maritime psalm, it mime Mir atimb. mad HIM 12 ships of the line and the 19 Modes blesteek the hem* lest falls short at those al Sweden ad. Ibined. Owtilthoosisa *sit observes that it Is lidelellis the Pinsk beet met be improved dudes the pee 111.4=bemmnik as the 'Odder of Fieases ese ef 18,000 T ,000 f. (1,1100,0001 la the man lbet sensessement has mod the .) unmet egeratives employed in the omsk 711.411 , mhomynas of the Fresh petablishimst,t=ty . "' be•Maelsema, as • TWOS why we Medd imamsear 1 51.., Ruda hoe elm made the bear y ine bowmen mit le ear rival ? leery bug _ mehmennist whespoke most Is Sitbe laws has said that ear maelibie ......,▪ _ifvevaecy of the seen &gm& mass see s eel= t; aed is it not well knows *0 Bomb lee as msr oretes ? She has fa the Bettie esd Bled dm a few thossead men who sea eery be mad mines, be half the pus they are hems 4. It Pens &vise the duty of eddies. But have we bard as Mask from ROM* se is there a pos. ir wit = a im part with es aa • modelme stab ? the um as between Rasta end Aim. Ihte J i lt Amnia had sot a single war ship dad, end bet our wee dashed between them, maid you net say still ad Amiens wend men honey the Rusks lest U it "Ilirsi set of her buboes. (11w, law.) Beirs ✓n hoses fell well it is a quoins et seems& ; rmes ham odes, these is no sessesity for ?Wag al= . iffielmetber. Hem seembeie masay, " Oh, it is men." Yes, but that lavolves a queens d sIN SISI et 000,0061., edisiont to meet the views ef hes. geallems, who went • removal d Wald that duty , when we are vordr er the &styes seepeg the 'West*, are= s' pew. We ought to lime al we he feels and other Mao:lose duties My hes. Ism am have tally demonstrated the way in whisk yen mat we these men without nay dame M em naval esperierbe er effielesay. But they omitted one bet, and hen it is. By • rebus ea the table of the house k spume that tor the last ell years they have bad is an average 2,000 seen is the River Plats, and ea average ef 10 ramie of for the pupae of isterfaleg between two petty states, whose pentodes would not equal that of some Novas he the North ef Ragland. (Hear, hear.) Now, was then use emit Mk as that ? bear.) I may be taM that Himikk merchants sad 00111•11118 left for them ; est that dotty me to blame for our interference la the River Plats; but that does not justify the goverament they have been snug in yleldiog to their request. If Realist' merthaate sad womb make such unreesonable musses, I would sell them that we don't keep ships of war es kinks ia such seem; Het ft is too expensive a = e t and that we mass afford it. Then there is We are carrying en our trade with China et an easesses national loss. Our annual export trade of 2,000,00 M to 3,000.0001., is burdened with me ezpesditare of 400.0001. or 600,0001. a year. An bon. lumber says 000,0001., bat the expels t be our naval sad satitary tree is at least what I have stated. Better for let some other souk, bring your tea and take bask p oet goods. TIM r.ght hoe. gentleman, the sunhat for Portsmouth, says, you most keep five ships ca the China foam by treaty. But that was year own testy, sad impowd at the point of the bayonet. (Hear, hear.) There would therefore be no breach of faith in withdrawing them ships. Leafed, the right hon. basset the member for Tumor* told to ea • former swim that these shlpe had bees withdrew., and the duty tried to be performed by steenters; but tkt the ships were renewed, because the con suls told them it was neeewary. Than sank have c ii vti r bed advisers la wry cues. I can cos no whaener la the ppvoroposd redaction of 6,11100 men. Of .11 the • my ruses for keeping up the present fors, that ad the hon. mentbse for Heliport is the meet so. He would maintain, because et his mini doses la the noble load the Secretary be Posies Affairs, sad because he wishes him to have • revise 40411121181110• • set up liberty and lastitutioes is all pub of the world. Now, although II mush admire our institatisse, however I may desire to amend them, I do not Sisk we should seed them, like antes% ."to ether oeuntries pertiesierly at the polar ef the bayous Sessiethfog bas bees said of 1835, sad the right houssilk guiessa the member for Portsmouth was very jaunty co the subject, alleging Set it same be thrown over altogether. Bolt be and the boa. masher be Sheffield say that that year pre sented • mere struggle for place alai popularity, and that therefore the Mamies of that year ought not to be Mined to, that He estimates bad bees Masi below the proper f= and had aftarwasde She paspertionately Streamed. sestaledy be sorry to Mime to a whig government and make noshes excuse as that—(lesas); kr thegoverement of the Doke et Welliegton was overturned ea the plea of extempore., and the government of the whims established in its place os the express ground of retreaSisist. Yet they sow tarn rued sad say that the saving of 1836 was not a legitimate one, that they sold of old atone, reduced the estimates sojustifiably low, _and that that year should never be alluded to as a standard. I shall certainly never sue to allude to it--(Sear, h. sr)—nor cease to advocate • retire to the expenditure of that year—but I shall do to by steps, and we have made one already. (Chun.) And with that view I shall now vote for the amendment of my hen. Mend. (Cheers.) Capt. HARRIS was for some time Inaudible, owing to the gement cries of " divide." He said, it was true prudence en the pert of this country always to have regard to the Sete of the French navy. The hon. gentlasea who spoke last had not stated the number of men in that navy ; for this year it was 20,000 mu and 11,000 inseam ; sod, with that force, they could, is a kw we ks. fit out a largely increased fleet. He was opposed to the usum of impressment, sad hoped the Lords of the Admiralty would consider some well-di gested plan for manning the navy is ease of war. This was • subject in which he bad taken much Interest and In refer ence to which he had communicated with the late First Lord of the Admiralty. The mobile lord under whose administra tion the affairs of the men had been so well managed, had favourably entertained his plan ; and he hoped the government would not allow this year to pees over without something being does The basis of his plan was to render every man in the country liable to service in ease of war ; and be thought that would be much preferable either to the system of impressment or the plan proposed by the right hon. baronet near him. (Cube of " Divide.") SIBTHORP asked when it was likely that the dis union as to the eateries of the Lords of the Admiralty would come on, as it was his intention then to propoes some redac tion. (Laughter.) Col. THOMPSON said he bad no doubt he should be ex. pseud to vote for the monotheist, and he should do so. (Hear, hear.) He was fully onnedent that the government, it they chose, could find the means of reducing 6,000 men ; hut he must protest, both en his own coconut and se believ ing that to act in a contrary manner would not be agreeable to any one with whom he was con cerned—that he did not pledge himself to all the details which had been laid before the ;committee. He alluded more particularly to what bad been said on the subject of the African unedroo. He had strong doubts as to the propriety of removing that squires. He believed the spirit was still existing in the country which had led to the employment of that squadron, and wkkh had produoed all the measures conceited with it ; and be believed there would yet be a defence ;lion that point. He could not alto gether approve of the way in which the coming report of the committee bad been alluded to ; but he es 11/41 recommend that report, when it did appear, to the earnest attention of the house. (Rear.) -- • - " Capt. BOLDER . ° said it was wen known that two-thirds Milks troops ware empinyed in the °glade& If, instead of reducing the navy by 5.000 are, soon relief could be given to tke troops in the colonies by emple3ing the navy in their transport, it would be very desireb Admiral DUNDAS said that hoops were much more cheaply ormveyed as the present eyeless. Mr. MIME said a few words in reply to the remarks of Cal. Thompson about the Miriam squadron. He was un ionism* to &ay that there wm any feeling in the country, even ammaget the supeeters et the anti.davery cause, for the maththeuse of that apisdrea. The conunittee they divided. For the vote For the umathasat 69-86 The vote was the. @greed to. 638,6121. fir the expellees elms= and marines wu then voted. ORDNANCE ESTIMATES. Col. ANSON said that as the Ordnance estimate, wen and.. iseulderatices upstairs it would be premature to enter late the detach of the vete. which comprised the sums for the SWAMI of that department. But the committee must be aware that It wee stesrary to take certain votes on mouet to meet the Deer mums after the expiration of the present Saud& year. Tbee, isetimee had been prepared with a due mord to the etheiesey and exigencies cl the ear vice, and with a strict attention to economy. lb. HUME said be would set object to the votes being taken on account ; but he mad pretest against the ob servation that they were mound with strict attention to economy... The following votes were then agreed to :- 350,0001. for the pay, allowanees, and contingencies of the rdasses adlitary corps. 40,0001. kit salaries mad otatlngeacies of the Ordnance 150,0001. for the radium isffituy titablishments sene and abroad. 70.0001. ter the wages of artificers and labourers. 160,0001. ix ordnance stores. 250.0001. for works, buildings, sad repairs. 45,0001. for the sciestille been*. 26,0001. for the non effective eerefers, military and civil. The resolutions were then reported. _ _ _ Lord J. RUSSELL said fiat ha would proceed with the army estimates en Monday, and then, if they were got through in sentient time, rith the navy estimates. NEW BILLS. Th. following Ulla I;t;eint;odaeei: By Mr. BOURKE, for the bettor pplteurration of cattle and thee", end tho more speedy detoetion of cattle and sheep atealen to Ireland. By Mr. 80THERON, to reHrretenante M rsek rent, hay ing a temporary interest is the loads Cr tenements, is re spect of rates leviable for ereetiag old providing county hiss* mayhem By Mr. ItiTICOLDS, to atom sad urged the law relating to premedieds by eltoebseats is emits of retard he the city of Debbi eat oars botoughs fa 'reload. The bane eljsereed at queer to one. ght rpre. OUTGOING MAILS. TM ails 011asiter, MO% Geesse. the kaki bleak Vint, Abia. Ws% batts. lasetplawa sad Mb& via acattheasploa, be made mat the lambed Ss Nth Mired TM nes Ist Mak Beni affilltaa. OM the UMW Iltaisa will la maim ea Se emit et Ws Ord Mtn& Th. =au de te the llediansara. Wyk aim. = Wiapitalla, M, will nide tip as the wads. et The malls tat Win Orlis, sad Moats? sal Is mils up la es et the Wth Marsh. The etas Ist the West d Afries sad Medan will be made up ea the ~YE ti. Odd Emir The mans be Way Mit Walt% Vsa Mara% load, sad Kw &shad 1141111* 111.111.11 n Ss swiss of the blet March. I Wait IBMs Menu Wain Ilinside, limos. Name, = ,Pew Orisons, sad ISM" sad metalling these ka " skell. itteads-Illeastas. Sam% CIA tad P.M will lamb up mils isersai d Ss lad et ApeU. The wells Ilbakira,, We an" sad Brass Ayres, will be mat up ea Or samba et tie 40 et apat. Elba WATZS AT LONDON lIIIDOI. 0,, 0,0. 7 aft. yrs 7. Aftemba. b bb. bet 7. o,4l•Aabe.—lbssibi. I maw past atielarnin• a Aft rim 111. LONDON, SATURDAY, MAR. 17. HAS Mr. Drumm gained ever so small a fraction of his aim, which matufestly enough was not to carry any MINIM for the re-adjustment of local taxation. bat to establish a good, permanent grievance in behalf of the agriculturists—a theme to expatiate on, a bur den to clamour about,yet not stir—e, brief that might place the farmers in the situation of clients feeing their political advocated and attorneys, and make the latter the keepers of the foam' consciences , purses, papers marl votes 1 1 We are ear/ that parliament did not indulge the boa. unalaar fur Bock% did not extent to form a THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1849. committee, and did not listen to his tale--for at Inv ent he is in a petition of some advantage. He is like a freebootiog chief who has fitted out a corsair, and enticed his blends and comrades to enlist in his future expeditions, whieh he promised should be • most lucrative scheme of Vander, whilst he took care to keep secret in his own breast the exact coasts. vessels, and prcperty, which he intended to rush forth upon and plunder. Such a scheme is el promise of gain, whilst difficulties and disc:editor. are keptout of view. Mr. Disahru, in his corsair scheme, has summoned all the ferment to enlist be neath his boomer, he promising them that they should cut the throats and rifle the pockets of the" Broad. brims" and the" Sauffits " but keeping out of view not only the hard knocks mid the punishment which my await the aggressor, but also the chancel that in the final division of the booty the clew may come off penniless. We do not think that the farmers are each fools as to be taken in. They may gather, from the plain statement of the CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER, what they might to expect. And Mr. DIBRATLI him self completed, with regard to the tenants, his own expeoure. He did not in the hot, be could not, deny that the local taxation come out of the rent, and fell eventually upon the landlord; but this rest did not iise " immediately " on the coat of production being lessened. It would require new tenants and new proprietors, be said, to effect the change and raise the scalemproportion, and 'nee meantime the present race of farmers would be tempo wily benefited. It is for this temporary benefit, this met e relief from to-day till to-roorrow,teld out to the tenant farmers of England, that Mr. Humana would disturb the whole local taxation of the country, and take from the farmer his present control over the ex peaditure for the poor in his district. The protec tionist orator showed that the farmers of an unfortu nate parish, paying eight shillings in the pound, would be benefited as lon g as their leases ran, by the transfer of tour shillings in the pound to the general taxation of the country. The landlord alone, how ever, would profit in the end : whilst the tendency to expense, and the lax administration of the poor law, consequent upon the burden being dislocalised, would soon double the expenditure, and the general average of agricultural districts paying two shillings in the pound would be relieved of one shilling in peer rate, to have merely the same shilling added to Heir income tax—whilst in the case of those better managed districts where the poor rate bad been re awed or kept down to a ea* on these the addi tional shilling in the pound would fall as a heavy end nefarious infliction, chilling the industry and esenomy and making the most hugs', active, and worthy subjects of her Majesty curse the rule and the eoeseincr who so selfishly and iniquitously distri buted the final burdens of the country. It in respect to its prom's?. to the farming in terest, the meanie of Mr. Dentant is most illusive and false, it is reckless, factious, and criminal, con oblate' in connexion with the general policy of the Country. Mr. COBDEN and Mr. Unita, who believe, with justice, England to be remote from times causes of strife, disturbance, and war that threaten Europe, and who see in them fresh cause for security, and fresh openings for economy, rather than pretexts for military expenditures, consistently demand the repeal of a burdensome tax, and plainly state how they would curtail the expenditure to meet the deficiency. But how can those parties 'who insist on keeping up military ex penditure, a ho deem that the present state of Europe warrants such an attitude of pr.perationand defiance, mod who consequently look upon war es a contingency to be seriously expected and yearly provided f -r—how can they come forward with the proposal to take six millions from local taxation, end from pro perty which has borne it from time immemorial, to menet r them to the already embarrassed general tax lion of the country? An income tax has been called a war tax, wrongfully enough ; but still it is the only war resource at present. Those statesmen who look to each a contingency ought first and most carefully et all things to cherish and keep sacred the ir war fund. They insist on our military establishment. meting eighteen millions sterling. Of what use can !twee establishments be without ready fonds in case of need,—without a financial provision behind them, tar more necessary than full dockyards or numerous fleets? Were foreign nations meditating to attack or offend us, it is not Portsmouth they would first regard, but our Chancellor's budget; and if they saw Lord STANLEY and Mr. DISRAELI, Se ministers, throwing six or seven millions of local taxation the income tax, they would instantly say, these twin are very warlike, as far as soldiers and ships go, but they have emptied their military chest. They keep up the army evidently not for fighting, or even frightening enemies, bat to pay the well-born and give them rank. Let us proceed as we please, and not mind the empty threats of these week statemnen. l who think they can gull foreign powers because they live by galling their own foolish fanners. But the fact is, that the landlords of this country, under the miserably mean guidance of STANLEY and Co., have ceased to identify themselves with national interests. They think of nothing be yond their own caste, its interests, in influent*, and i's pockets. They may have been brought down a peg. Who has not ? Is there an owner or an employer of capital in any way that has not been disappeinted and mulcted, shorn of his ex pectations, and diminished ofhis rental? And because the landlords were not allowed to remain exceptions, they now make war on all the other classes of their fellow citizens, and seek to enlist the farmer in their merely personal quarrels, and disturb the natural progress and the commercial and ;within' deve lopment of the common weal by their lamentation over lost monopoly, by their factious struggles after power for their incapable selves, by their persistence in occupying the country and parliament with schemes, irritating, and impracticable, and illusory, and, in feet, nullifying and defeating every end for which parliament was instituted or free untitu tions kept up. Take care, mid Lord 3011,1 RuseELL our Thursday night, addressing the protectionists in a curious apostrophe. Carry such a proposal as this for a one-Tided and fractional interest of the country, and you will give birth to a struggle in which you will be deprived not only of dams unfair immunities you stek, but of that undue portion of political power and electoral influence which bad enabled you to press it. In other words, make your fiscal absurdities and Wastes prevail pass them into laws and we will get rid of both yam and them together, by • sweett at l y st just measure of great and true par reform. It was the old Lord Jong that spoke then, the Lard Jour Itusszu. of 1832. Let the prates tionhts beware : although that voice be 008 *OM the grave, it is still a puissant and a prophetic ewe. We rainy and inclement weather which pre- veiled throughout last summer excited a considerable amount of anxious anticipation as the harvest ap proached. With a view to contribute as ouch as lay in our power to disperse or allay the fears of the general public, and at the same time to supply agri culturiats with important practical information, we made arrangements for receiving and publis hing daily, during the weeks when harvest operations were in progress, reports of observations on the state of the weather at a number of stations distributed over great part of England, made each at the same hoar, and transmitted by electric telegraph._ eager nese with which these to, con firmed us in the opinion re g r t tl we w h er a e d hereby rendered a welcome service to the public. Though their im portance ceased with the completion of the harvest, their utility for the instruction and guidance of agri culturists in conducting field operations remained almoet entirely undiminished. It was, therefore, our ppnto have continued them, but difficulties were found rP" t a co in in tta way of ensuring that the ob servations made should be exactly simultaneous, and performed with the same scrupulous accuracy, and also in the way of their due transmission, which com pelled us to desist from the attempt. Some time after the termination of these reports, we received, in addition to various other representations, a communication from the Astronomer Royal, requit ing us to acquaint him (for his private information) whatr their publication was finally discontinued. He assigned as the reason for inquiring, his conviction that such a continuous statement of simultaneous observations of the wind in particular was likely to lead to results of great scientific value; and added that he had made preparations (large in reference to the nature of the subject) for lanai; them down graphically, and had been on the point of writing to as to suggest an extension of the list of places, so as to include some on the southern and western railways. It had teen with regret that we disguised the idea ei continuing our repeat., and this appli.stion sti mulated us to a more determined attempt to obviate the difficulties which entreated its realisation. We o pe ned without loss of time communica tions on the subject with the directors of the leading railway companies, and were gratified by meeting with prompt and liberal expressions°, a desire to pro- mote our viewsfroin the directors of the Great Northern, the Great Western, the South Western, the South Eastern, the South Coast, the Lancaster and Carlisle, and the York Newcastle and Berwick Railways. We mention the names of those companies from whom we have received the first promise of co-oyeration, in part as an expression o our gratitude. in part es a tribute doe to the promptitude of their compliance, indicative at once of a liberal wish to concur in operations of general utility, and a high minded appreciation of the importance of scientific investigation& We have no doubt that equa l liberality and intelligence will be found to animate their railway cotempoearies when they find time to soonest- the resources they have in their power to aid us; and even should we be mistaken on this point, the examples we have noticed may stimulate emulation. Encouraged by the response we have met with we have resolved to commence operations on as extensive a male as is actually in cur power, hoping with to be able to expand and complete them. Our arrangements are so far advanced that we look for ward with confidence to be able in the course of a month to begin the publication of daily meteorologi cal reports from the following places : Reading, Swindon. Oxford, Bristol, Bridgewater, Faster, Plymooth, Leighton, Rugby, Birmingham, Tamworth, (lows, Liverpool, Manchester, Lancaster, 'hap, Corlisis, Moffat, Lanark, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Peterborough, York, Leeds, Whitby, Darlington, Hartlepool, Newcastle, Sunderland, Berwick, Basing. stoke, Soathamptoo, Portsmouth, Hutings, Brighton, Poole, Tunbridge, Folkestone. To these we shall hope to be able to add—Gloucester, Conway, Holyhead, Kingston, Limerick, Galway, Dundee, Blackburn, Rochdale Halifax, Sheffield, Colchester, Cambridge, Yarmouth, Lynn. In selecting these places, we have been decided by various considerations, in some measure sug gested by the Astronomer Royal, by whom also the choice of individual stalk= has been partly made. In the first plasm, it was of con sequence that the extreme stations should be as far apart as possible. In plain countries it was not neces sary to take places near each other, for there the variation from place to place is small. But where high hills intervene, it was obviously desirable to approximate the stations as closely as possible, and to have them on both sides, as well as at different eleva tions, and wherever a point was marked by peculiar features. Sea-ports are, in general, eligible stations, because in them the inhabitants are accustomed to take notes of the weather, particularly of the direc tion of the wind: and so are railway stations on account of their proximity to the lines of electric tele graph. Of course the extent of the field over which the obtaining of simultaneous observations is practi cable is limited by the extent to which the develop ment of the railway and telegraph system has attained. It appears of consequence to bestow a few words on the arrangemeats we have adopted with a view to ensure the: accuracy and regularity of our reports. To every station where co-operation has been promised us, a wind-card has been, or will be, forwarded. The superintendent of the magnetic and meteorological de partment at Greenwich will, if possible, 'lilt all the sta tions to examine the apparatuss of wind-vanes which they possess, to furnish suggestions respecting their management, and to assist in fixing the bearing points. Forms to be filled up with the information required will be supplied to the parties at the stations entrusted with the making of the observations. We subjoin a copy of these forms as the most laconic way of stating the information we propose to give : RUGBY. Nies e'elsek, um, tee day Of -- -- ISM (Fill In date. fill in merely with letters MAN N.— The TIMM trom the patter N.E.— E.— B.E. a—S.W.—W., or N.W. JUN cos at follow an tam.: a Gentle =— t= 1 Wlad Maros Bevy Oslo. U4s .Ta : Sallow. less Partially Cloudy Overcast tkad— Rarinsau Rain —Meow— all Thuadereitorm. 7b w sathte le The obeervations are to be made daily at 9 a.m., and the adoption of London time at all the railway stations will ensure the complete simultaneity of these observation. . . It ii --- sc 7 arcely necessary to paint out the sci entific importance of such reports. Though much has been done of late years to throw light upon the theory of the laws which regulate storms and atmo spheric phenomena in general, mock remains to be I done. Extensive and continuous local observations, systematically pursued, are required in a great number of countries, to complete the observations cf striking at moep heric phenomena, extending over considerable por tions of the globs which have been published. It oar attempt succeed, as we have no doubt it will, the ex ample will, we are sure, be followed in Belgium, America, and other countries, where the combination of the nrilway and electric telegraph, and the de velopment of the daily press, afford similar facilities to the undertaking to those which exist in this coun try . Our @moms will, in fact, redound to the honour of the railway and the press, u showing that they are capable of contributing with unprecedented power to the expansion of knowledge as well as to the increase of the material wealth of society; and that their conductors are capable of aspiring to this nobler kind of usefulness. The results of the knowledge which must thus be acquired will possess a high radical utility as well as philosophical interest, for it is im possible.. to conjecture beforehand the extent to which na , horticulture. agriculture, and even mecha • prmesses of manufacture, may be benefited by luster news and more extended knowledge of meteoro logical science. LA PLATA.—Dates from Buenos Ayres to the 6th Jan. have been received in Liverpool, but the kitten do not contain my news of moment. Exchange ruled at 945. Zbe Court. OSBORNE, FRIDAT.--Gener al Sir Charles Napier took leave of her Medal= his Royal Highness, end left Osborne ea his Mara to As some prams have the impression that the days on which lb. ensuing levee and drawing room are to be held have been changed we are author:sad to state that no altera tion of the kind is intended, and that the levee will take place on Wednesday, the 21st inst. ; and the drawing room oa Thursday, Ms 29th inst—m already announced in the Gowns. The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Duke and Dachas of Csstbridge, at their residence at Kew. Baron de Bruno's, the Russian Minister, had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his edictal residence in Downieg-street. Sir John Burgoyne bad an interview with the Chancellor of the Kzekequer, on Thursday, at his olkdal residing' in Downing• street. Mr. Etwall had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-offiee. •Ptches_ were sent o ff yesterday evening from the 'isi-wee, for the Governors of the West India colonies. (From Let night's Gazette.) ST. JAMES'S PALACE, FEB. 28.—The Queen MA this deatased to c the honoir of Knighthood up= T. 8. of her Majesty, Body Guard of Teases of tke gem Guard. Warransia., MARCH 14.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint J. Cntaturd, E.q., Advocate, to be Sheriff of the Shire or Sheriffdom of Perth, in the room of B. Whigham, Req., dimmed. INQUESTS. SEs 7111.1 IX TEI 111110117.1, Before Mr. W. Fyne, ittise Fountain, Minoring', to inquire into the Statutes:as conasted with the fire which careered at No. 139, Masks, an Tuesday night last. Capt. L Prestos, of the Prussian only, stated that be lodged in the scald floor of the hose in which the fire oc curred. The shop was occupied raseelisly by Kies Shields, a sillies, sad Mho Smile, a stsysaker. Oa Tuesday night, about half-pest tea o'clock, his wits west to bed, and whilst he was si tti ng in the nos be esperinced a strop, smell of sosethiag _lasing. Re called to his wife about it. what he heard Nis Shields go from the Ant floor front lead aloes the des. The ...Ti then decreased. Shortly afterwards he heard • wean from below. 17pon getting to the first floor he found • body of flame fa the out,* of the front rooms. Mira Shklds was standing in the pas sage. He immediately closed the door, ran up stain, and took his wife out of bed, and carried her down. As be passed the second time he found the door which he had previously eland open. Rav ing banded his wife to a friend, he returned, and taking Miss Shields round the waist he attempted to carry her down, when he tail to the bottom of the stairs and injured his head. Captain Atkinson came and assisted him, and he got her out, and some other persons. Miss Shields, a Sunday or two ego, said, " What • pity it was that he was not insured." He had lost everything in the fire. He received en enonymons letter a few weeks since advising him to re move. He took the lett( rto the koliee-station, and showed it to the inspector. Janet Brenton proved that she worked for Miss Shields, and left oa the night of the fire at half past 10 o'clock. There was then no smell of fire. Captain Atkinson confirmed this evidence, and wan quite positive that when he went to the show-room the fire was in the centre of the room, and that neither the curtain nor the taper in the roam were on fire. Miss Elisabeth Shields and that whilst sitting in her bath room she heard a noise in the show-room like a " token." She went in and found the curtains and table near the win dow in flames, and shortly afterwards the paper round the room peeled o ff alight and fired the other table. She had been insured for 1001. for five yew, which she had leagued to 2001. last year. The jury returned a verdict, that " there was not sofa dent evidence to prove how the fire originated." FINANCIAL REFORM. MEETING IN CORNWALL. A meeting of *pi/Naturists took place at the Town hall, St. Gerisemeos HereAsy lest, when Mr. B. BEM& mud tbe first resolution. He said the poor rates were , sad every Sher tax was increas ing, that the emu= paid a fourth peet-of these Umes, end at the same time bed no protection afforded then. There must be a ohmage is this ; the tares must be fairly propor tinned, the unnecamary ex esolitun of the government must be reduced, great retresehmeats must be mad*, else • very sad state rattling' would be the emasequesee. After otts r remarks the speaker eateladed by moving That, from the ruinously low prim elan sericulture at the present time, the owners sad trecupisn do smite humbly het firmly in stating their griev moos to the legislature, and praying them to take into int. mediate consideretkm the unjust and oaegaai burden* now imposed upon them. Mr. K. OTIOGHERTY seconded the resolution. He be lieved the burdens upon the farmer at the present time were sub uthey 'maid not bear. This might be called a land lord's question, but it was thus far a tenant's question, that they bad to pay their landlord his rent,and that, if the bur dens continued le at pew at, sad they had always increased instead of diminished, they would not be able to do so. (Rear.) In his opinion all the taxes, without exception, ought to be reduced, and then, not only the agricultural in terest, but the nation generally, would be benefited ; but this was a question for the nation to consider ; if all felt the burdens pressing upon them as heavily as the farmers did, there would soon be a stop put to the extravagant expendi ture of the government. Mr. T. B BLAKE proposed: That the present meeting feel. that a general redectka vhould be made in the general expenditure or the government, sad u the art. wharfs* are compelled to come down to the catimental prices, the expenses of all government officers ought to be curtailed in the same proportion, which this meeting hopes will be the means of averting the calamities other nations have suffered, and enable the gOVITIIMOISt to relieve the agriraltarists from some of the taxis that press so very heavily on them. Mr. W. PALMER seconded the rnelution —Carried. A petition in accordance with the sentiments of the meet ing having been prepared, wee taken round to the different farmers for signature. The Plymouth Journal saw. " The total tithe measurement of toe ten parishes comprised in the petition is about 32,000; the number represented by the division is more than 25,600, leaving littk more than 0,000 unrepresented by it, and this balance unrepresented would have been still less, had there been longer time allowed ' for procuring signatures, but dam was only Tuesday and Wedt.esday. The petition is 15 feet long, and has been signed by several hundred owners and occupiers of land. IRELAND. Manz, Kasen 18. At the county of Carlow meeting a check has been given to the anti-rate in aid agitation. An amend ment was moved to a string of resolutions against the rate, to the effect that " a rate in aid was the most feasible remedy that could be devised for the relief of the west and south of Ireland. It was the only means whereby the lives of the poor could be pre served from the horrible death of starvation. The Rev. Mr. Mahon, a catholic priest of consider able notoriety as a quondam agitator, made a very strong speech against the landlord party. The amendnrat was carried by an overwhelming majority. This meeting will give the tone to the southern fteling upon the measure. The mortality in the poor law staff continues. At Bantry another victim has fallen in Mr. Adams, the vice-guardian. He was a member of an ancient family in the county of Cork, and was one of the four paid guardians selected from the Fermoy Union, having befn appointed not long after the late Mr. Stephen Barry, another of the victims. Yet hundreds upon hundreds of the gentry are looking for these posts. We have a dreary record of assize intelligence in the provincial papers, but there are no particular cases worthy of notice. The general character of the evidence offered at the trials is in itself enough to show the disorganistd condition of our soc'ety. PROVINCIAL FATAL RAILWAY MINING ACClDlLLM—Yeaterday a man named William Mackenzie, a subcontractor on the Bheol.ld, Rotherha m , Barnsley, Huddersfield, Wakefield, and Gaols Railway, died at the Leeds General Infirmary of injuries received by a fell down a shaft of the tunnel at Woolley Edge, near Wakefield. The deceased, who was a married man, about thirty-two years of age, descended the shaft for the first time on Friday night, the 9th inst., about six o'clock, and was ascending in a skip, about two o'clock on Saturday morning, with a miner, a native of Wales, to partake of the midnight meal, when the rope Woke and they were both precipitated I. the bottom, a distance of fourteen or sixteen yards. Their fall was to some extent impeded by a bombs' placed acmes the shaft, she they would have been dashed to pieces. Both the men were very much bruised internally, the ribs of each being bet ken, Mackenzie being also much injured about the head and face ; and this complication of injuries caused his death, as stated. The other man however, going on favourably at prewnt. NAVAL. ADMIRALTY, MARCH 16. APPOlMTMENTS—Ambeant aurgeom.—D. N. TVOKKR, to Lark; A. Cosies, to Ocean. Navel caat—vi. O. Km, to Rifleman. SweenftieeZMAßCH M.—The Stromboli, 0t..11, ebWtd stamen riggers Dam tils yard te-dar, and got under way for MiMrd. —The Wanderer has pawed op for Chatham, there to be paid off.—On return of the etriaboll here she is expected to be paid og unless any emergency May require her services. MILITARY. WoOLWICH, MARCWl6.—ktinliscoLi-ship, Kam 'Com. J. Peon, left Woolwich at noon te-day, Map on board the (allowing tompsain of Royal Artillery for Halifax and (Roads. Capt. J. M'Coy's Company. Stb battalion ; Capt. H. M. Tint.'. Qom lion. pony, 4 The following th battalion ; Milan woomputisdth and Major W. H. Henn e Pis's Cooops mpany. 7 . d batta- Capt. J Mooed Captain. Haultagi. Clifford, and Elgre. and tient& Arbuthnot, Blair, Moody, Childers. Robinson, Farmer, and Onfinaton. (From last night's Gazette.) WAR-OFFICE, Maim 16. Ist Regt. d LIM Gda.—Cor. and Sub-Lieut. and Adjut. G. ANDREWS, to have the rank of neat.; Lieut. Wn.ume Gioutz, Earl of Man sur, to an .apt,, by par., vie Cavendish, who ret. • Cor. and Bub. Lieut. Z. J. Comeratme, Lard Eliot, to be heat, par, Mee the Earl of Illomter; R. Raman., gent., to be oar. enbaest., by par., vise Lord Mist tad Rer.ef Drage.-0. Beciumax, gent., to be ear, by par., vise D. C. R. C. lass who get 4th Befit.'—Beat. D. Mavittem, from the Nth Y., to be lieut., don who nab. 6th F.—atoll R. IL Amax, to be ambi.sarg, vice Malty; pow. on the staff. 9th 7.—Ustat. oa IL C. Lamina, ham 14th to be Bent., vim De viva th. 14th lflord. W. T. Ds WILTON, from the 9th F., to be lieut., Moe Lomb, who oath. 17th 7.—AgabL4Parg. T. oowas, MX, from the 60th Y., to be mkt.. rug, vim Ilaenrs, who suit. P.—!id Bag. of the we. dam, LC. Ilmutimie, to be mcg. Mee Rork on Mg lea 60th Y.— M. lissmasar N.D., tram 17th 1, to be aloist.eing, Mee who eselia;gen 68th F.taneY —Eam C. B. Nom. to be edj., Mee Storer, who tongue the adin aY. 81th F.—Uent. ll 7.0. Bolton, tram 4th P., to be Bent., Moe Ilanasell, who exelunges. Roarrraz. Brare.—earg.ll. Ram, M.D from the 314 F., to be staff earl. of the Snot than, eke W. Baia, M.D., whom promotion has been eantelled.; Assist-Barg. J. W. Mairrnt, from 6th P., to be staff saris. of thousand does, Mee Mamma; app to the Slot 7. ; BtaSuMit Berg. S. R. Razor, 11. D., from to be staff mist.. meg, vim Atka, app. to the 6th IP. ADMIRALTY, Masai S. 0n,,. of RI. Marbies.—Pleat Lieut. W. L. Satan to be apt, Moe Arm Urquhart ~ . remo yer, ved from the premotod. service ; Lieut. C. B. Yams to be Heat Mee Ba iLaba ilittelltgence. EQUITY COURT:.—Y=22 =AL. Moro Virexamimalior !Weld MOS. En 01111 A. MIXING CODIPA2iT.—WINDIXO4 7 I. ACT. Mr. Lloyd mad Mr. Bigg supported the panties. This we was that of a shareholder is the above eanywny praying that its affairs might be wound up. The aompany was formed in 1836, for the purpose of puredsseng certain quick silver, copper, and other seines in Bavaria, Frauds, and Meath. The petition was unopposed. The Vice-Chancellor asked U the company fell within the dmeription of a mining company in the set wording to the interpretatias recently put upon it by the Lead Chancellor. Mr. Lloyd said there was no doubt es to the eimpany being a commetcial one. The Via-Chencelloc made the easel order of reference. DAY'S o. Sonort—Tae ERA Niwe . _ _ 'unarms: Mr. Russell and Mr. Frieling moved for a special inj tine lion, ex parte, to restrain the defendants, who are lemma of the Era newspaper, from eutering into any agreement ler supplying the Era during any period after September 22 next, (being the expiration, ea the 'Mash insupcort of** motion stated, of the lease), or from soliciting the payment of any money by way of subscription or payment, for any copy or number of the Era to be supplied at any time after that period, or from publishing an advertisement which had appeared in that paper to the following effect : " The Era free gift. Every party, whether a present subscriber to the Bra newspaper or intending to become such, is solicited to pay in advance the sum of 261., which will entitle him to the supply of the Era for twelve months, and in addition he will be presented with a chance gratis in the Era Derby and St. Leg, r gifts. The sum of 5001. has been given away &freed*, particulars of which have been adver tised, and may be seen at the Era office. N.B.—Post office orders for 26e. to be made payable to F. Leger, Era Office, 3, Catherine-street, Strand, London. All newsmen in town and country r:ceive subscriptions, and they will obtain • printed receipt and number for every 265. received by them on application at the Era Office." The word " _" was sl!eged to mean the lotteries called " swine" Theaffidavit stated, that the plaintiff was the proprietor of the copyright and good will of the paper, and bad agreed to give the de fends- t the right of cot.ducting the paper till the Saturday preceding Sept. 29. 1849. The Vice-Chancellor granted an interim order extending over Thursday next, with liberty to give notice of motion far an injunction, the plaintiff undertaking to abide by any ceder of the court ea to damages. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—TitarxiDAY. Before Ilr. commissioner Feeble:Nue. "BOODLE'/ CLuit." J. G. Fuller, described as a wine merchant in Bt. James's-street, the keeper of Boodle's Clvt-house, came up for his last examination on a balance-sheet, erendiag from lit January, 1848, to 31st January hat, end containing the falowing January, To creditors. 30,77 U. ; ditto secures!, 30,8981 ; crpiW , 3851. ; profits, 6001. ; subscription receipts, 21,6671. By good and doubtful debts, 4,4241. ; security in hands of creditors, 38,3001. ; property given up, 3,8801.; exp . wee, 29,5151. ; losses, 8,169/. On the part of the assignees, it was contended that the cash account was ; and the examination was ad journed until the sth of May, to allow of the bankrupt filing a more detailed account. Before Mr. Orengssiacer BoLoyd. THAI ST. ALBLN'o BiBL This was a meeting for the choice of assignees in the case of E. Gibson, one of the partners in the St. Alban's Bank. The amount of debts proved was between 3,00 W. and 4,0001. ' • the total liabilities of the bank are estimated not to exceed 15,0001. The Rev. Bold. Gibson, of Lower Miami, near Bristol; A. R. Cutbill, Esq., of Lothbury, and Mr. Ralph Smith, of Witherhill, Harts, foram', were chosen assignees. Messrs. Lawrence and Plows are solicitors to the fiat, and Mr. Urisom is the official assignee. • ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. ROME CIRCIIIT.—MmtneTows, MARCH le. Caows lissa—Before Yr. Justice Wightman. bitiaDint. George MiGen,l7, andlieVrcheepwarh, 10, were in dicted for the wilful murder of William Law, by beating hint on the head with a crowbar. The learned counsel for the prosecution having briefly de tailed the principal circumstances connected with the charge against the prisoners, the following evidence was eddneed. Thomas Foster, a gamekeeper, an the service of the Rev. Mr. Toke, at Doddangton, deposed that on Wednesday, the 7th February, he was in a woad, called the Seven Acre Wood, when he caw the prisoner, Millen, accompanied by • UM named Smith, walking in the wood, and he beckoned thee; to go away, and they did so. The cottage of the de ceased was a short distance off, and, in the course of the afternoon, he went there for a short time to rest himself, and while he was there he heard some one about the house. He went out and saw the prisoner, Millen, apparently in the eat of examining the house, and he again ordered him to go away and, after this, he saw him siting on a stile in the garden. William Smith deposed that he was a labourer, and knew both the prisoners. Oa the rooming of the 7th of February ho was in company with Millen in the wood, and whim they were ordered away by the keeper they panted. About four o'clock the tune afternoon he again saw Millen, near the Bull, at Bathersth n, in whit* village they resided, and he heard him ay to Sheepwask, " Old Master Lawn', or old Billy Laws', wou!d be a good place to go to." Witness said to him, " Oh, you think old Muter Laws' would be a good place to go to, do you ?" and he replied, " Yes, don't you I" and witness said, in reply, " I know nothing about it." Millen then said to Bheepwssh, " The old man is deaf, and if he does not see he won't hear, and if he did, a lick of the head would lay him still ;" and he at the same time said, that he had got • piece of iron that would do it. Bheepwash made no answer toll* and they both walked away together.—Cross-examined : All this conversation took place in the street. He listened to it at the time, but did not give any information to the constable, because he thought they did n' t mean to do what they said. Thomas Millen deposed that he resided at Bathenden, near the cottage cecupied by the decea'ed , and that the pri soner Georg! Millen was his cousin. Witnees's house was the nearest in the village to that of the deceased. He had been acquainted with him for six years. He was about eighty years old, but his faculties were good, and he ap peared a healthy old man, and the only thing that ailed him was deafness. On the night of the 7th of February, withers and his family went to bed at eight o'clock, and about half put ten he was awoke by bearing some one knocking at his door. He got rep and looked out of the window and saw the deceased standing at the door, and he said "pay Millen let me in, some one has murdered me." Witness immediately went down, and opened the door, and found the deceased nearly in a fainting state. He lifted him up in his arms and carried him in door,. De ceased had nothing on but his shirt, which was covered with Mood, and there were several wounds in his head which were bleeding ixsfuscly. Witness asked the deceased if he knew who bad done it, and he said he did not ; and he also said the first thing he observed was a light in his bedroom, and when he pulled the beideurtales aside he was imme diately struck with a bar of iron. Before the deceased said this he repeatedly ejaculated, " I must die," and he appeared to feel that he could rot recover from the injuries he had received. Witness subsequently repeated the question to the deceased whether he knew who had done it, and he again said he did not. The same evening he went to the de ceased's cottage, and be observed that a pane of glass had been taken out of one of the windows on the ground floor, and this had enabled any one to put his hand in and open the door. The drawers and boxes appeared to have been broken open, sad a Mahe:am-door had been forced off its hinges. In the old man's bedroom he observed a quantity of blood upon the bed, and also upon the floor. He likewise saw some blood upon the window-sill, and on the ground outside under the window. On the Friday following, witness and some other persons dragged a pond in the neighbour hood, and they there found the breathes of the deceased, and also a short frogs bar. The deceased subsequently felt this piece of iron, and seemed to recognise it, and asked witness what he had got.—Cross-examined The deceased was an old man, but he was not very infirm. He could walk about very well. William Terry said he went to the eottage of the last wit aesa about half-pest 11 o'clock on the night in question. He saw the deceased sitting on a chair, apparently in great pain, and he repeatedly exclaimed "Oh Lord, Oh dear, I must die!" Witness asked him who had hurt him, and he said be did not know ; but it was a couple of young chaps. He said that immediately he pulled his curtains aside, upon seeing the light, he was *truck; and he called out, "Don't kill a poor old man—spare a poor old man's life, and take all I have get." Cron-examined.—On the 9ch Feb. deceased became in sensible. The prisoner, Bbeepwash, lived in the village, and had been employed by several firmer* in the neighbour hood. His father had been dead four or live years. Mr. Robert Griflitha, a surgeon at Smerdon, proved that the cause of death was congestion and effusion of the brain, which he ascribed to a wound in the skull. There were other wounds on the head besides the one which he collat.. deged fatal, and the face of the deceased was bruised on both aid - es, sod hie lip was also cut. The injuries were such as were likely to have been occasioned by such a weapon as the pies of iron that bad been produced. The deceased ap peared languid until Sunday, the 11th February, when ha died.—Cromexamieed Such an injury as that which ha believed to have caused the death mig - ht have been occasioned by a fall from the window of the deceased's house to the ground ; but he did not think it was likely that this was the case. None of the other wounds were mortal. _ _ George Taunton, a carrier, at Beilieraen, and the son of the parish constable, dep osed that he took the prisons illseepwash, and a man named Oliver, in a cart from Heiberg den to Ashford. As they were going along Oliver told Sheepwash that he had better tell the truth, end Sherwash than made a statement with regard to what had taken place. —By Mr. Denman I My father, who is the constable of the pariah, and who had the prisoner In charge, was present when this wee said, and he gave the prisoner no cumin. Mr, Denman then submitted to the oourt that under these circumstances the statement of the prisoner wee not admis sible, as it was evidently made under the impression that it would be some benefit to him. Mr. Diodes contended that although the rule of law weir doubt very strict upon this point, no decision bad ever yet gone so far as to declare that a statement of this kind, made by one prisoner to another, would render a statement subse quently made inadmissible. After some argument, Mr. Justice Wightman retired to consult Mr. Baron Parke upon the point, and on his return he said that they were of opinion that the promise being made in the presence of the constable, and ss he did act interfere or disabuse the mind of the prisoner of any impression which it was calculated to convey, it must be taken r though the promise was made by himeelf, and therefor he felt compal,ed to reject the aubrequent state meats made by the prisoner under such circumstances. Henry . Vyle, the mutable of Ashford, deposed that from information he received he went in search of the prisoners, and in the coarse of the afternoon he found the prisoner Millen neer the Pluckley station. He ran away, but was pursued aad token into custody, and on his telling him that he was charged with a robbery at Mr. Law's he asked if any one else was taken, and whether he had not apprehended Sheepresh. Stteepwash was apprehended the same day, and he made a et:tenant to him ccncerning the robbery at Mr. Law's, which was the charge then made mart him, the decea sed being at that time alive. The statement in question was not permitted to be given in riders upon the ruling of the learned judge that under the circumstances in vi , -ich it was made it was not ad missible. The witness went on to state that in ronsequeetk... . 1 arc ;$R kVA. . ~.t A 4. 2 "rfr - ' 7 • ;.; , 1 :- . p , tCJI. ..,,, ...