The Express. — London, England, 1846-10-28 00:00:00

old will bring down the price of news & them aIL Had they fought fairly, lone this at twopence halfpenny :—we eepence, let them fight how they will. HEncucEs of the press "do what he e shall have a cheap London morning rr will. What we have done, and what to do, is known to u large a circle Times itself can boast; and a larger the other combined papers put toge few months we have created a power i newspaper league for its counteree logue not for free-trade, but for mover, mu..qt bear in mind, that the combined press are co-extensive with —that the effects of this combination n least expected—in the nearest and of the three kingdoms. We have, early received complaints about the curing copies of the Daily Ness at and like places. These difficulties ncrease. The public, therefore, who us must be resolute, and when a copy 78 is wanted, must insist on having :ut off with fair words and another great measure has ever been carried Mignon of the public. For how many to interests enabled successfully to s to those of the public in respect to in food. Could free-trade in intel . for better fortune ? To this hour has never been able to overcome isles of interested opposition, and not yet had the full benefit of his re ! neither can a cheap periodical n its triumph without a struggle est as opposed to public interest.— ust, and will, and shall : and if we ently of the issue, it is because that ds of the public. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Ocr. 26. LABOUR RATE ACT. i Friday, the adjourned extraordinary a was held in the county court-house. .J.P., was unanimously called to the of presentments having passed, Capt. he meeting against the Labour Rate Act, lowing resolution which was seconded by d passed : is meeting, whilst it is duly sensible of the brim- Eseellency Lord Bereborough, cannot separate acne opinion against the bill called the Labour m its demoraliaing tendency as exemplified in mal ropulation to employment on winteemary a, thereby allowing a great portion of the land n without proper cultivation. That whilst we liberal construction given to this act by his mom of inducing the landed proprietors to linage, &c., we are deterred from taking such ted official expenditure entailed thereon, un hole sum granted will be solely applied to such eduction therefrom for the payment of the Works." )o.—On Saturday last a deputation from consisting of the Venerable the Archdea jor O'Hara, of Ansehmore, J.P., and Esq., J.P., repaired to the viceregal ix Park, and were most courteously re ency the Lord Lieutenant, and the Right chere, Secretary of State for Ireland. t feeling terms, represented to his Excel tate of privation and distress under which es in that county are suffering. They , the depression of wages at a time when ahed an exorbitant price, and recom ther remedial measures, the extension of reproductive works to subsoiling, e was unnecessary. They likewise tablishment and use of the Coast depots for the sale and delivery of teen done upon a former occasion. His fined both the former suggestions very deputation were assured that they should Eciently considered. On the last, they r Randolph Routh, to whose department rictly belonged. The deputation suhse lir Randolph Routh, who, for the reasons to the Marquis of Sligo, declined re-esta ;uard stations as depots. Upon this the m which I quote the above statement, aching the motives or the policy of this deter. r the Commismu7-oMnal, WO cannot but regret t taken tosasiatUae Relief Omriesinthe way tion of the supplies wk de& May grewide. It was w that Major O'llara lesh, shag a isrlaight ago, L en entire cargo of bad 11111111, NOW CM its way rte hundred sacks of whisisa /Doer ; but, from ,port It, the whole stock AM romalns at Liver. nves, the greatest indliVellillite will be felt for he means of distribution throughout the several Surely, without violating say sound principle of to regulate supply la sa eadraordinary emer. dation ought to be provided in aid of the Relief re should be glad to lunowbow the great number re now bing idle in dock, or coasting our shores , better or so well employed, as in conveying to eking a convenient places, the stores of food just mentioned, by the voluntary bounty and of our benevolent but meth-maligned nobility is not the government placed the means of al of Ma i O'Hara ton.—'he Sligo Champion thus puts for of food supplies during the coming season e government have ordered large supplies of re expected to arrive here in Dceetnber, or, at t. laity , . Sligo will be made one of the depots Floating depots will be established at Killy he ports of Mayo. 4thly. The government will heir stores until the merchants are not able or food, nor will they come into the market [es they will let "private enterprise" have it fail, they will then open their supplies to the !nment plan, says the Champion, such is be adopted, and, although we would wish ume into the market atone, and pull down some satisfaction to know that a sruffi- I be sent into the country; if it should re will contrive, by " hook or by crook," pen it. The same journal informs us that lately landed in Sligo for tlu relief of le was of a very wretched description, and and for anything in the shape of food, I at once bought up. CE OF THE COUNTRY. • - LOYMENT—DIBTRESS. —On Wednesday 'Teroplemore as Mr. Edmond Byrne, of inning home from it, he was overtaken at :tree fellows, who beat him severely with e very serious cut, and three or four small was unable to proceed further, and re nt at Eastwood, where two doctors are in are 1,505 persons in the workhouse this nber since Its opening. The average cost la. Ild. 109 applicants were received by rednesday. The house not being yet full ice of motion to give one meal a-day to lid not yet commence. The schoolmw nereased to 201. a-year.-128 loads of po market this week, corresponding week tut of the 128 loads but 53 were good. blessed loads is increasing weekly. The Ild. per bucket for cups; for whites, Ito.—ln the county of Clare, the men em -11 of Works are to get ss. a-week, whether Ttnit them to work or not. _ R rRILES—StII , CRIVTIONSI. —Collectors ed (says a Wexford paper) for the purpose nhabitants of Wexford, as they will do in E, to solicit their subscriptions towards the g the markets, and enabling the poor to bod for their earnings. A reduction of pensablc to the existence of the poor gene asures necessary to ensure a reduction of fore be adopted generally, and adopted at olent Richard BPI evereux has commenced the liberal subscription of 100/. T.—DISASTERS AT SEA.—We are sorry to quantity of timber, apparently the cargo American vessel, was yesterday thrown •twecn Portrush and the 13annmouth. A pparently the cabin door of a vessel, was ntage ' and it is said some casks of salted been found. We have not been able to lan respecting the crew, but it is supposed iehed • _ . The weather for the most part of last week is and inclement. The wind continued to riolenee on Tuesday and Wednesday, and, atter day, raged with fearful impetuosity. rd (says a Roscommon paper) of any great being sustained from the effects of the some have taken place. The "take " of on was greater on Wednesday night than Do in this nver, amounting to the enormous me had terrible weather, says the Sligo last week : on Tuesday, Wednesday, and a perfect hurricane, while the rain fell in eg men anticipate disastrous news from have heard of no damage being done to e neighbourhood of this port. EPEAL ASSOCIATION. ILIATION HALL.—THIS DAY. ting of this body was held to-day—the in the chair. i declared himself a staunch Old I relander, lemned the conduct of the Young Ireland I NNELL read a letter from his father,atating Se Pork resolutions would be made on this let he had intended to be in Dublin to at toda7, but fund it impftsible to do so. •mplains of the Board of Works . " Kilkenny, October 25. 'd is justly condemned for is this—that is many "Pedal visions have acted under the Labour r7ftilly board prerentmenta to a very comdderable stances no Work, and in many mitanorr very THE EX PRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 28, 1846. iWks and I would engine of the gallant CRON ((Ca Harry) lb& 4U the to nand ersafal e ver ne, and give me any rigingstion that arms to shad Minn* r iejelYer. Hit e my it wk. warddiotlig nen ad inn a enennasey— I en nein bre en word be say, "Mel maybe =Mad dal saiinn la insinor la myself. It is a end= et nag, sod am bond to tweet and center with non Os ocerion. read IS mg of the Cork aewuppn a liter ai 4 wMe wee Men nen barn egUi at such a time t I will tell nanny I was—l was at warn (Her.) Iwro2 my alma , taking we et my tenon end dependants—endia IS in bar the baryon of no realm year, to I am side le israt • t bombes ems Yaw year. (Haar.) Erg man's own keen, le He bit glass white le dwell anon lo as wants all (Her.) Mid lent, with bleem=ll bessima Preobloses. ad tuniimee d a parsed Lead tient, Its Wen teem rib Heart ) nut par. net is an have to gibe S li Beast net din esathaer year wens an So of this des mann r timairds, Ind mbafl newer y and erelemely numb Seim (How.) I go this enure to Cenral, and shall be la Bonn an Merry, and I shall mere en iodine, nit the Lard lameness es agedßy after as I ma. Erg tone yon bark used I non revolve tea mneyy wind, and N. brow len lest mean ens. I whining that though I err bre nth nottems MO to Yr ape rle i= out, one plea moppeled, tom panabb tierrerna e oHe misery and bubo Tbial dams es in tie bee, yet yam will all beer witness with re not I bar Yard ri gi n revers—calamity areedlog cala mity—en Ile bra* near pohantial misery titan each previous len& The alsond Yr what I am saying— • gargnellid is la ne onparalieled—such as never bites was beard of. Oh, I shudder nil inprehenston lest anything that her me be adasidemd In the remotest to mitten, or even suggest a remedy by any turbulent or t e gft e t mesas otrover. There are gem who probably consider me their friend giedrepud me as their ponied ally. If I have any influence over the peer Wry of the country, over the cattier tenants and small fanners, leesayytre them by all that is solemn and sacred to recollect that any e,eboieate or violence can only defeat the prospects of relief, and bring down a punishment on them ) both at the hands of the law, and by the coneequenees of the act. (Hear.) Nothing can be more mischievous than the smallest violence or outrage, and our great hope is, under the blessing of Providence, that the people will so conduct themselves that they may deserve the esteem of all good men, and the relenting interposition of a bountiful Provident* on their behalf. (Hear, hear.) I wish to have it everywhere proclaimed —I wish to have it made known through every part of the country —as it will be on the wings of the it is my solemn adjuration to the purple to have patience at all events. I Implore that id the people. They have better guides than I, and their torr ential pastors and directors will all join toe in the entreaty to abstain from violence, and exhibit as much patience an human endurance will allow the people to practise. (Hear.) If, upon the one band, I conjure the people to be patient, on the other I conjure every body, mat and small, rich and poor, to rally together and do something for the people. (Hem.) If it be not done who ma tell what the extent of the calamity will be—(hear)—what boundary do you see to it 1 where is it to end t Is it in the bpring —what next Summer may produce we know not—no min can tell. Foreboding fears crowd on my mind. I look over two or three years, per haps, of those calamitous seasons, for that which is called a ban ' aition trom potato food to grain. Who can tell me what prospects ' there are of adequate relief within any given period t I throw these suggestions l out as part of my .duty, and I am thoroughly con vinced that the landed gentry. the dignified clergy of each per suanion, and official personages ought to meet in Dublin ; they ought to tome together to consider what they can suggest and effect for the good of the people. If such a body were met In Dublin, the Hoard of Works would shrink into its native and be compelled to act an a machine, performing its as work, instead of being masters and judges over us as they are now. (Hear, hear, hear.) Last year, when the calamity was not near so great, most active measures were taken by the government of the day—(beer)—and it is not here alone I mine my voice in acknowledgment to Sir Robert Peel for that. (Hear.) 1 did 30 in parliament—in my place in the House of Commons, and in the name of the Irish people I thanked him, and I received the personal acknowledgments of Sir Robert Peel, who came across the home to thank me for what he called an act of ge nerosity, but which 1 call an act of justice. I am also ready to give credit to the present Govertunent : I agree,wlth the rev. gentleman that a better or more kindly disposed man than Lord Beasborough probably never filled a public situation; but he cannot do all. The machinery which he is clogged with impedes him. First, in obtaining sufficient food; second, in respect to the condition of the tenant farmers • and, thirdly, the all-absorbing situation of the poor labour ing pop ulation. (Cheers.) And Ido say in my conscience, that there Yno man who ever lived more anxious to do good than Lord Bees borough. (Hear.) He is an 'lrish gentleman, and one of the beet landlords in the soimtry, and thoroughly deplores the situation we are in at present. (Hear.) But he has perique under him in the Board of Works, and though a gentleman present was perfectly right in alluding to words in one of the resolutions which had rather a scolding tendency, and I agreed with him, and had the word complained of substituted by the word " regret," I cannot but bitterly regret the conduct of the Board of Works. We are told that there is mine prospect of a supply of food, but Sir Randolph ltowth (laughter) or Routh, holds oat no such hope or any such prospect. He tell us that foreign powers are seeking supplies in the grain mar kets. Now we have no Irish power, though we ought to have, but the power that deprived us of it—the English power—should have been in those markets ia early at least as any of those foreign powers. (Ileac) I cannot restrain myself when I see bow we arc deem stewed. We have no power of going into the grain markets, and those who have taken the power from us, should, consequently, have been doubly diligent. (Hear.) But Sir R. Routh really should be ashamed of spending his time in the way he does, writing those epbs tbs. (Laughter.) I often heard It said that the man who was good at making an excuse weaved for nothing else. (Renewedlaughtere Now be speaks so much about doing his duty that be becomes handy at the trade, and makes excuses for not performing the work. (Laughter.) He seems to me to be a man of that kind. Food is the first thing that must be had, and yet he enters into a dissertation on the best mode of using food. (Laughter.) And there is also a class of peewee who he presses much on our attentiou who are not yet in existence. (Laugh ter.) Them are the merchant farmers, or what, I suppose, we call sky farmers in Kerry. (Laughter.) Whit an idea—merchant far mere ! He tells us that in • few years this desirable eLess will be in ' existence, and in the meantime there is not a potato for the people— in the mean time the peopleare mitring starvation—in the meantime they cry out for bread, and hear Sir IL Routh speculating on the ex istence of a clues which are to be of so much benefit to the farmer and gentleman. (laughter.) But I feel ashamed of the levity of my disposition should prompt me to jest on anything so serious ; for my heart feels truly sorry at the absurdity displayed in bringing forward so ridiculous a proposition. Ford must be had; but he knows no , remedy for districts where food is not to be bad. If government do not establish depots and scatter them in different part of the country, I announce emphatically my opinion that the people will starve in thousands. (hear.) The good advice which I sad the ministers of God give them will Inevitably be thrownaway—for after all the people will not dieof hunger. (Hear.) He (Six It. Routh) is epeculating upon not giving us depots. Why t t mercantile men may not make profits enough. I don't know that this community of indivi dual are ready to make sacrifices nor should they be expected from them. Ido not know why they should work and not be paid. Mer cantile speculations in grain are paid by the famine priemobtained for it. We should prevent speculators being afforded the temptation of asking famine prices, and the poreibility of their getting them by having depots to deliver and to sell the food at a lesser price, when ever the mercantile price was going too high. (Hear.) These points I shall urge at greater length and its strongly as I can, before the Lord Lieutenant. Above all I would suggest that something should be done for the neglected clas, of tenant farmers. Tbey are obliged iodic - outs their labourers, and they have no capital to till the land. The great landed proprietors should meet and put their heeds to gether to determine what could be done to relieve that class of society—l mean the middle-tenant farmers, without whose weal social order could not exist. They are represented by nobody, they have no combination among themselves—they have no protection, and heir ease require. the fullest consideration of the gentry of Ireland. (Bear.) And let the Tines rail an long as it pleases, and the bum and paltry press of England, too—thank Heaven there is a gentry in Ireland whose hems are open as day to charity— and among them are to be found in this county the most excellent landlords. I shall not speak of the living, but I may mention the dead. I may name the lamented Hedges Eyre, a Conservative poli- WWI —one of the best Lendlords, the protector of hasten:OlLS. (Hear.) We have landlords in abundance ready to do their duty by the people, if they had the opportunity of doing so at home as they would wash. (Her.) I ask what is to become of the tenant elms of farmers next year? if things go on m at present, the famine now among the labour ing classes will extend to them. There never was a topic more de serving of consideration than the manner of dealing with the tenant farmer. I come to the labourers now, and 1 arraign the Board of Works at once. A month has elapsed since a particular barony with which lam acquainted passed presentments to the full amount of its Poor-law valuation, 11,000/. I wrote day after day to Dub endea vouring to get some of these projects unertaken. I did not allow a post to escape, and yet no substantial work has been commenced in this district up to the present day, though the preeetitments were passed on the 19th of Septemeer. Other instances of a stronger nature might be mentioned. What excuse have the Board of Works for not setting these works in operation 1 Government can lose nothing by them—the entire fee simple of the country is pledged for them—every shilling advanced is to be raised off the country by instalments. What economy then is it to keep the people starving and perishing in this way? They cannot excuse themselves upon the pretence of not haring money to advance—for the Britieh Treasury —the Bank of Eng land is at their back. The Act of Parliament authorises the Treasury to advance any money the Labour Act may require. And if the Lord Lieutenant choose to raise 20,004,0001. under the Labour Act, he has the power of doing so. In the name of wonder, then, why does the Board of Works shrink from giving the people labour. We have heard sad tales boday. The Rev. Mr. Disney and the Rev. Mr. O'Brien, the Rev. Mr. frig and the Rev. Mr. h alb have told tales of horror that make the human heart shrink within the human form, and look with impatient anxiety for sone solution and tome mode of relief. I have trespassed on you for sometime. (Cries of "No, no.") I have endeavoured to avoid any topics but these which have brought us together. lam going to labour with all my heart and soul to endeavour to effect some good for the people—to in sist at all events that the Beard of Works shall give them employ ment. There have been dissertations here upon wages. I don't like to speak of myself, but in reference to the question of wages, I may I state that lid. a day was the ordinary wages when I g, ot into passe pion of the greater part of my property. I raised it to Bd., and now I have raised it to Is. ;Hear.) Less than that is me subsidence for a man. More I should wish to see him earn. Things are coming to a frightful pass. Don't you authorise me to tell the Lord Lieutenant that the peace of the country is not secure? (Loud cries of "We do.") Don't you authorise me to tell him that there is actual starvation in the country at this moment —(" we do")—that be will be responsible be human lives in countless numbers if somethins be not done. Hear.) I will repeat the echo of your voices to the Lord Lieutenant. I know that be has a generous heart and • noble disposition, and I ant of opinion that be will do the best he can for the people. If any attempt is made in England to control him, my reverend friend, Mr. Daly, has suggested what my line of duty will be, to tell Lord John Russell that he shall get no support from the Irish members. (Hear, bear, and cheers.) I belong to no party but the people. I ought to be attached to the people. I owe them everything, and th ey owe me nothing. (No.) Let no man mistake me, when I say the people I do not mean merely the poor man, who earns his precarious livelihood with the spade by the sweat of his brow, or the cattier or the farmer, but everybody from the highest peer o the realm to the lowest peasant boy. 'Tis my solemn duty to attend to their interests—to watch over the rights of the landlords, and the interests of the tenant and the labourer, and to do injustice to no titan, to secure better prospects for the country and to devote my heart and soul to the best fulfilment of my duty to you. 13 (Cheersl e L g Ue honourable gentleman eat down amidst loud and pro- r. i le Beam suggested that each relief committee should send a dertation to Dublin. Agreed to. be t Vcry Rev. Dr. Course observed that they could meet at the Imperial HOW in Dablin, and then go to Mr. Mr. O'Cossau. : Or Mr. O'Connell can go and wait on you. (Laughter.) It was then agreed that they Monet meet at the Imperial es Wednesday. Mr. (Carlene. observed, that as they were to meet on Wednesday, he would wait on the Lord Lieutenant on Thursday. As they had fixed on that day, be would go with whoever should be present at the time—he would wait only for those who should then come up. It was hie plan, like that of the Rumian general Suarrow, to light with those who tirst came up. (Laughter.) Captain Comm proposed the warm thanks of the meeting to Mr. O'Donnell for his rmdy co-operation, and for his appearing amongst them on that occasion, at se much personal inconvenience to himself; and alio to their stht r valued county repreeentative Mr. E. B . Roche. Dr. O'Neill. seconded the resolution, which was Carried with accla mation.—The meeting then agreed that Mr. Roche should accompany Mr. O'Donnell, when waiting on the Lord-Lieutenant—The Chairman then left the chair, and Mr. I lendley was called thereto, when the thanks of the meeting were awarded to Mr. Dennehy for his conduct in the chair, and the meeting cep rated. the neighbourhood of the Glasgow terminus there are about M.OOO souls ; at the Edinburgh terminus there are upwards of 230,000 souls. Reflecting for a moment upon the thommods of industrious artisans comprised in that calcula tion ; w on the men, women, and children, who are there pent up in the confined and unhealthy bye-streets and courts of Edinburch and Glasgow; upon the six days of labour, living hand t a . mouth, breathing nothing but polluted atmo sphere, seeing n °thing but smoke and bricks, hearing nothing but the roar and clatter of industry ; remembering the =my limbs that must an he In those two great cities on the seventh day, the many bravo that must burn with the toil of the preceding week, the many hearts that must sicken with the breath o the facto r y and the workshop,—it is impossible to r , this restriction on the part of the railway directors c e tre itt rwise than as a most cruel and unjust transaction. With the proper observe= e of the Sabbath these Sunday trains have not the remota et connexion • on the contrary, their continuance has been An extraordinary boon to hun dreds, who would have been ,olherw se without any means of attending divine service. It s stated that through their instrument a lity many hundreds of Roman Catholics were enabled to reach their chapels In Glasgow every Sunday from a considerable distance in the c ountry ; and Christians of various other denominations have been benefited in like manner. By the stoppage of thee. L'ains every means of communication between the two princi. nal towns of Scot land will be entirely destroyed, coach's and postehaises having been long since abolished on the :nigh road, in con sequence of the facilities of stem transit. little of the male ham bra asemmeseed. It woad me* be better if dare bad bag se aped usalime at all, lasease, WYE. these seselma imatieede essastatioa of WWI wbid ea 110 Ye sad k tkeir they as imitated *emcee le maims dims mil I ela some reekela myself ca tak *sheet, sad ae awe kr the preen' lea eat things are in the stmt deployable alert eat I= ever yet coma bassist." Mr. Num add/ma Ike pois as mead of the part he leek la the rewseemery wer fa me admilled Sat be was, at else gonad, not man at the Bad mad OM* allegled by O'Ocanell, and se sumerelly used ley him to *iris Ye deeds. It was not be he 11111111111si eft soya eh* ware raver lead at Mere yes terday, amid atampt le holm Ste asa who, tbrlialfa vagary, bad beat *stamen a the musks et Lib Mr. Aix real a Was *sea from Ur. J. Livioston, =kis sa oaken le er. Ma coadnet, in the alum (Obis kitlagy, Wed? prate* sod whoa that the pumas km ahem it emmtall we IMENI abarees at Creme sad Inked, sad utterly oppeal M the estameilk pee seed Toms Imbed. Tbe remitter:se week meampaskei thei sake* amounted to le Mr. Joint O'Coimuc retained emit for Os Weak declared eft he was the Wake encash wide Ike wards mai autlaisaa of es hear ds sd,sal a ake cored Mille kr the abaft anis amodse. He weed the est he wag prild NM spar gut at the tomb dee sad say voaderall err did trey he reseteed awe or tee theemadi a year. • eale mad leo Ilet the ma of the th em et cia kick bed sad. 1 Captain Boom orayad • weft of thanks to the of LITITyOO4 sad dmaremsd tbs loikos =so who append n Moo nlit ta his passed totes... Ms grater also condanited the coodw• eithe Ippain• al iDail la Onto fume , and godse that he was paid oat dike tads al: the •fferstiatka. Mr. Ear mad • Woe from Mr. I. S. O'Neill, mielmbm; his monthly trubliortpliam, add migseting that the breach amass the Repealer' might be hailed. Mr. Jome O'Cororma, after the letter had been read, esteemed that Mr. O'Neill ought to know that they could take no steps at recondite lion without a compromise of principle. Let the Young Irelanders give up their physical force doctrines, and then reconciliation would he easy. He then adverted t the subject of th i e n tevancee of the Roman Catholic soi c t2 of the English armies in Mr. ervaar pro a gentleman as a member of the association, and he handed in rom him a sum of ; thegentleman would openly proclaim himself after Easter—prudence forbade it now. Mr. O'Otstratt. afterwards, In • speech on the public diatress, made some remarks on the department works, over which Sir Ran dolph Routh presided, and iodated that the government should step fn aid sell food at the lowest possible price to the people, and pay out of the public treasury. He did not want to cheapen prices in the market. of the world. He admitted that the effect of lowering prices here would send the food to other markets; but he said let the government pay the high price, but let them sell it cheap to the people. No political theories 'timid prevent the people from being fed, and if they reamed to make food cheap for the people, them they ought to do the next thing which would citable the people to meet the conjuncture—that is to raise the wages on the public works, and thus enable them to meet the high prices of produce. But so far from that, the works were Inadequate, the wages low and ill-paid, and in some places, three weeks—four weeks—live weeks have pawed without any works at all having been commenced. Mr. O'Connell continued to dwell at some length upon the miserable position of the people, and the apathy of the government. Mr. 0'0:noell afterwards argued that the calamity was increased by the destruction dour national resources, consequent upon the unioo, and therefore the cost of alleviating the present misery should fall upon the national treasury. He concluded amid great cheering. ilt was expected that the proceedings of this day's meeting would have been enlivened by a discussion with the Younglrelandcrs. Seve ral of the latter offered themselves for admission, but the O'Cennellite Repealers took measures to exclude them.] The rest for the week nearly approached 100/., of which 301. was a remittance from Liverpool. MR. O'CONNELL—MEETING OF LANDLORDS AND RELIEF COMMITTEES. This day ono of the most important and influential meet ings that has ever assembled in this county took place at Fermoy, for the purpose of conferring on the present alarm ing state of the country, and taking such steps as might be deemed most advisable to meet the exigency created by the scarcity and dearness of food, and the want of useful and beneficial employment for the labouring population. At the request of a large number of gentlemen constituting twelve Relief Committees, in this district, the county representatives, D. O'Connell and E. B. Roche, Esqrs., attended the meet ing, and en their entrance into the News Room, where it was held, were loudly and enthusiastically cheered. Mr. O'COSNELL said that they had come there merely as citizens, to consider a great national calamity, and it was an occasion on which he expected, and desired, no manifestation of political kindness, though he thanked them for the cor diality of his reception. The chair was then taken by Thomas Dennehy, Esq., J.P. Mr. O'C,osset.t. rose and mid—Gentlemen, my colleague and I are here before you, to do whatever you think desirable in the present awful emergency, to beer your sentiments, to understand your views, and to pledge ourselves's, tarry them out as far as we possibly can. I go to Dublin this corning, for in the present emergency there In not one moment to be lost. (dear, hear.) You will be so good as to in. street us, and we shall nee the most unremitting zeal and exertion to carry out what you determine on. (Hear, hear.) Merrnrate Hes DIZY ; Esq., proposed the first resolution, as follows: Resolved—That we can state, of our own personal knowledge, that in our respective baronies the owners and occupiers of land did as far as in them lay to provide for the full employment of the entire labouring population, but we declare with great regret that, instead of facili tating and expediting the projects submitted for approval, 'be Corn. mbesioners of Public Works have created difficulties and delays, and have proved themselves wholly unequal to meeting the awful emer gency of a &neon of blighted crops and consequent famine. TOe Rev. C. B. Grseov seconded the evolution. The Rev. Mr. FREEMAN, before the resolution was put, wished to make a few observations. No man felt more for the distress of the people, or lamented theadamity which it pleased Providence to inflict on them, than he did. Ile was ready to increase the labourer's wages but he was not ready to east an imputation on government, which government he did madder a paternal government, and who were doing all in their power for the support of the people. The Rev. Mr. Glasiom replied that he did not cast any imputation on the Government; be only alluded to the Board of Works. (Hear.) Captain BARRY said, the resolution Imputed to the Board of Works that they were anxious to put a check to their presentment proceedings, which he did not think was the ease. Mr. O'Commr.r.—ln place of the wo rds, "seemingly anxious," in the resolution, Insert "have created. (Hear, hear.) Captain Beaav believed that difficulties had arisen in carrying on the works, but that any Board would interfere, or felt an anxiety of that nature, he could not believe ; and, therefore, it should not be con sidered that he agreed in the resolution. However, he would not *ay another word on the resolution, after what had emanated front Mr. O'Connell, as it would only obstruct their proceedings. General Amer:etre moved the next resolution.—Rtgolved " That an order directing that the pay of the labourers should be two-pence per day under the ordinary rate of wages, in a country where the price of labour has been at all times unjustly low, proves clearly the imbecility of the persona making it, who ought, us political economists, know that the real price of labour is the quantity of the neoawry of life obtainable for a day's wages, which calculated at the rata axed by the Board of Works, and the present famine price of food as 4111 s. of Indian meal -was not enough to afford one full meal per day to an average family." Capt. BARRY thought that what they should do was to raise the rate of wages themselves, and that would raise the standard of wages. (Hear, hear.) Ile did as himself in his parish. (Hear.) Mr. 8. Bsaay.—That would nos meet the difficulty. CapL BAUM—It would meet it in 24 hours. (Hear.) Mr. B. BLIIR Y. -Why we have landlords still only paying Id. per day. Mr. B.llseraerr.—ln Middleton we give Is. per week, and that is not sufficient to support their families. (Hear.) General Arosestrar had been told by Lord T albot that about Dublin they gave Is. (War.) The Rev. Mr. Cotams, in seconding the resolution, adverted to the crying evils of the country, and had great confidenc e that while they have the assistance of their respected representatives, and particularly the Liberal, they would be remedied. Mr. O'Coessrat..—We are all citizens here, and there is no Liberator. Rev. Mr. COLLINS—You are the liberator in every part of the coun try you go, and I will not give up the name even in deference to the Liberator. You are my Liberator. Mr. @Toss zia.—But I am anxious that there should be no differnice of opinion here, or to have politics introduced here. Rev. Mr. COLLINS—It is not my wish to introduce polities. Mr. O'Cori - But in your county it will be considered an intro duction of polities to call me Liberator. The resolution was adopted. Mr. D. Oulu. proposed the next resolution— Reentvan—That looking to the great extent of arable land in the occupation of the class of farmers who are reduced to actual want, by the failure of their potato crops, and who are consequently unable to cultivate their lands, we anticipate that a great breadth of hitherto productim ground will this year become partially, if not wholly, waste. if means be not at once devised to palliate the evil by an exten sion of the provisions of the Labour Rate Act, or the general culture of such farming, whereby an improved system may be effectually in troduced. Capt. o:nue proposed the fourth resolution, and said it set forth • state of facts which could not be denied :—That we have read with feelings of bitter regret the heartless lectures addressed by Sir Ran dolph Routh to several Noblemen, who urged on the Government the adoption of some method if increasing the market supplies of food, and we declare the regulation entered into by the Board of which he is the chief of measuring the Government aid by the amount of local subscriptions, shows the most palpable ignorance of the circumstances of the country inasmuch as the districts where it is meet difficult to create a fund by voluntary contributions, are the places where relief is most urgently required. Mr. Gyros seconded the resolution. Mr. N. M. Cession protested against some words in the resolution. lie did not think that such phrases as "disgust" would be of any Mr. O'Cosrorat recommended that the words "bitter regret" should be substituted. They should speak strongly, for they had a great deal to complain of. The Dean of ARMAOSI proposed the next resolution That we deem the subject of drainage to be one of vast importance, and do hereby recommend that a respectful memorial be presented to his Excellency to pray that he would kindly reconsider the instructions issued by his letter to the Chairman of the Board of the Works, direct ing that wore. of drainage may be undertaken under the provisions of the Labour Rate Act, inasmuch as the advances made in this way must be repaired in ten years instead of twenty-two; and to pray that his Excellency would take upon himself the responsibility of directing that the preliminary proceedings under the drainage act may be shortened and simplified, and that the necessary advances may be made to owners of land without requiring that the works should be feet nearly completed." Dr. Mimi. seconded the resolution. The Bev. Mr. Denier proposed the sixth resolution:—"That we conceive it to be incumbent on the Government, who have to provide against the effects of a European seareityof food, as well ludo insure to the Inman of their ability the proper manufacture of mom into whole some food, to prevent the further distillation of spirits from grain in all of the United Kingdom, which would have the threefold be operation of throwing large quantities of corn on the food market, causing an immediate and immense increase to the present insufficient mill power of the country, and creating the only effective check to the unfortunate habit of dram-drinking to which many are now driven by desperation." The Very Rev. Mr. O'llarze seconded the resolution. The Rev. Mr. Palm" Protestant Rector, proposed the next reso lution, as follows :—" That we strongly recommend the Govern ment proposition for a work which we conceive to be one of national utility, namely to open the navigation of the Upper Blackwater, from Cappoquin in the county of Waterford, to Mallow, in the county of Cork; and that a memorial to that effect be entrusted to our county members for presentation." Counsellor O'FLAssour seconded the resolution. Major PEARD proposed the next resolution: "That, viewing with extreme anxie:y the necessity of giving immediate employment to the people,we consider the proposition of granting the means to the works necessary through the baroniesof Etarrymore, ?airy, Condoms and Clongibbons for the formation of the embankments re quired in the construction of the Cork and Waterford railway, best calculated to effect the object ; and we pledge ourselves in our respec tise baronies to give the security which the law requires." Mr. CARROLL seconded it. The Rev. Mr. Weraen, P.P., Connagh, proposed the next resolution, which was also carried Resolved—That it appears to tbie meeting that the wishes of the , Coons Poor Relief Committee be carried into immediate effect, in making a canal on the banks of the river Bride ham Tallow to Celina, and that our worthy representative be requested to urge on the Go . vemment the beneficial effect that would result from the carrying out of such a remunerative work. Capt. Cows proposed the next resolution— , " That a deputation consisting of one or moreedembers from each Relief Committee be now appointed to join oar illustrious Represen tative in p re ss.nting a memorial founded on our resolutions to his Ex ' ceUency." Mr. Iles wove seconded the resolution, which 11113 put from the chair and carried. Mr. O'Cossi,ll. then rose and was received with even manifests r tion of respect :and cordiality . , after which he puree !echo speak as follows : Gentlemen, I have but a few words to address; to you, and those.will be confined atrittlytothe topics on which webave mumbled, r and if I should deviate into any political allusions it will be tlirougk SCOTLAND. SUNDAT TILAVELLINO.—Dr. Gillis, one of the Roman Catholic bishops in Edinburgh, has addressed a long letter to the newspapers, deprecating the contemplated cessation of Sunday passenger-trains on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. He suggests that a public meeting should he called for the purpose of protesting against the proposed arrangement, as inflicting a grievous public wrong. The directors have formally announced their intentions, but as there will likely be consiierable discussion, it is perhaps , doubtful what will be the ultimate issue. The cruelty of debarring the people from au innocent means of recreation one day in len% i 5 Milting a general fooling of disgust. la WALES. —— - - The Govensatesr:have at length issued the CostsitsstoN to inquire into the STATE of EDUCATION in WA.'.En. Mr. Henry Vaughan Johnston has been appointed so North Wales ; and it is understood to be his intention to co.mmence his inquiries in Anglesey forthwith. There are thre.' com missioners. The object of the commission is to ascertain, as accurately as circumstances will permit, the existing number of schools of all descriptions, for the education of the citil dren of the labouring classes, or of adults—the amount of attendance, the ages of the scholars, and the character of the , instruction given in the schools ; in order that the government and parliament may be enabled, by having these facts before them, in connexion with the wants and circumstances of the population of the principality, to consider what measures ought to be taken for the improvement of the existing means of education in Wales. It is expected that the result of his inquiries will enable the commissioner to form some esti mate of the general state of intelligence and information of , the poorer classes in Wales, and of the influence which an improved education might be expected to produce on the general condition of society, and its moral and religious Progre• NOTICE appears in last night's Gazette of an intended application to parliament fur a bill to enlarge the powers green by various acts relative to the formation of a harbour at Port Madoc, Carmine°. Power is sought to erect certain projected works " within the parish of Ynyscynhaiarn and on Traethmawr," and to authorise the levy of tolls and duties. PROVINCIAL. LANCASHIRE. ALLEGED BRUTALITY OP • WOIIKHOUSE MASTER.— On Saturday a young woman named Catherine Comerford, who was in so weakly a state as to be almost incapable of supporting herself in the dock, was charged before Mr. Rushton, at the Liverpool Police Court, with having con cealed the birth of a child. The prisoner went to live as servant in Hart-street. On Thursday night she complained of pain, and retired early to bed, and on the following morn ing the dead body of a child, lying with its face downwards, was discovered under the bed-clothes. The surgeon could not hay whether the child had been born alive or not. The prisoner said she went to the workhouse on the Wednesday before she went to Hart-street, but that she was turned out next morning by the doctor, who said she was too far off her confinement, and that she would only be an incumbrance if kept until she was delivered. Police officer 164 said : When I went up to the workhouse for the prisoner this morning, for the purpose of bringing her down to the court, there came on a very heavy shower of rain, and as the day was so bad, and the poor woman very weak, I asked the governor for a cab to put her in. His reply was, that they did not keep hones at the workhouse for such purposes; that she was, he believed, a bad woman ; and that, if she committed murder, she ought to be executed for it. He came out with a great deal of that sort of language. Mr. Rushton : Let her be re moved in a car, and on Monday let the governor and also the surgeon of the workhouse be in attendance here. The case was not, however, brought forward again, in conse quence of the prisoner being too ill to be brought to the Court —Liverpool Standard. AN ASSOCIATION of Menbants and Shipowners is forming' in Liverpool, having for its object the reduction of the pre sent exorbitant duties on tea. The intention of its originators is to adopt effectual means of bringing the merits of this question before the public, with a view of showing the evils which result to the community from duties amounting to from one hundred to six hundred per cent. on this great article of consumption, which has now become one of the first necessaries of life, and which, viewed commercially, is the only medium of exchange by which we can hope to ex tend or even retain our trade with the Chinese empire. YORKSHIRE. COMMIB9IONa HT THIII,;;;II:I.IIUTENANT.—RigIit Hon. J. S. Wharncliffe ; L. L. Kaye, Esq. • J. W. Sturges, Esq,; C. Hardy, Esq. ; G. Ramsden, Esq. ;' W. B. Martin, Esq. ; to be Deputy-Lieutenants of the County, and of the City and County.—Gazette. The FOuNDATION STONE of a NEW CHURCH, dedicated in honour of All Saints, is appointed to be laid in Leeds, during this week, on a site near the York-road, adjoining to Pontefract-lane. The Rev. Dr. Hook , the vicar of the parish, will officiate on the occasion. This ts understood to be the edifice alluded to by the right rev. prelate, the Bishop of Ripon, in his speech at the late meeting of the Ripon Dio cesan Church Building Society, when he said—" Last year I had the gratification of recording two instances of great munificence towards the diocese, one from the lamcntedMrs. Lawrence, and the other from a nameless individual, and this year a gentleman, who will not permit his name to be announced, proposes to appropriate 10,0001. towards the building of a church at Leeds, and in all probability before he has completed the parsonage and the school, and provided for the endowment, he will spend 20,0001., but he has pledged himself to the expenditure of 10,0001." (Applause.) The public benefactor, at whose sole coat this building is to be erected, is said to be a resident in Leeds. WARWICKSHIRE. THE LATE ACCIDENT TO MR. NEWDEOATE, The accounts received as to the state of this gentleman are more favourable than was expected. There does not now seem to be any probability of fatal consequences. IMPORTANT TO RETAIL RREWERE.—At the Quarter Sessions at Birmingham, on Saturday, an appeal case, of some importance to retail brewers, was heard before the re corder. The appeal arose out of a conviction made by the respondents (magistrates of the borough of Birmingham) against the defendant, who is • beer-shop keeper, named Jones. The circumstances of the case were these : An in- formation was laid under the sat of the 3rd and 4th Vic e. 61, entitled " An Act to amend an Act relating to the general sale of Beer in England," and the defendant was charged with keeping his hous • open after the hour allowed. The evidence in support of the conviction was that of a policeman, who stated that, on the evening of the 25th July hut, at twenty-five minutes put eleven, he was on duty in London 'Prentice-street, near to the house of the appellant, when, seeing a man coming in the direction of Jones' door, he at once proceeded to it, and knocked for admission, the front door of the house being closed at the time. After knocking two or three times, and waiting two or three minutes, the door was opened by the appellant, and on witness walking into the kitchen, he saw there nine men and one woman. There were cups on the table, but there was no liquor in them, and the table in the room appeared to be wet from what appeared to have been ale spilt upon it. The men weresmok ing. Witness asked Jones if he knew what o'clock it was, and his reply was, " Take no notice ; I will get them out." On the part of the appellant it was contended that there was no evidence to show the house was open for the sale of beer; further that four of the parties present had shown that they were lodgers in the house, and evidence was tendered to show that they had neither bought nor consumed ale after the hour prescribed by the act of parliament. It was there fore insisted that, as the statute was a penal one, it should not be enforced without full proof that it had been violated. In wiring judgment for the respondents the learned Recorder said, it was clear the meaning of the legislature was, that there should be no further " consumption ' of liquor after eleven o'clock, and it was absurd to suppose that a publican might fill his house with people before that hour, and allow them to remain after it, because that would be a complete evasion of the statute ; and with reference to the assertion that the parties were lodgers in the house, that was negatived by the assertion of the land:ord himself, who said ' that he knew what o'clock it was, and would get them out." For these and other reasons the learned gentleman ordered the judgment of the court below to be confirmed. _ AT a MEETING of the commissioners of Sunderland-bridge, held on Monday, it was resolved, on a majority of 17 to 4, that on and after the 12th day of November ensuing, the toll taken from foot passengers shall be entirely abolished, and that the toll on all descriptions of traffic shall be reduced to one-half of the present rates. This decision has given great satisfaction, and is of much importance to the working classes and the trade of the borough. NORTHUMBERLAND. ESCAPE or A PRISONER.—On Wednesday last, while a special coach was conveying the prisoners from Morpeth jail to Alnwick for trial at the sessions, one of them, named Griffiths, slipped the irons from his legs, and sprang from the top of the coach, making his way over the hedge into the Cauledge-park woods, two miles south of Alnwick. A turnkey, who was on the coach, jumped down, and had he not accidentally fallen in crossing the burn, he would have immediately taken the prisoner, who got clear off. The pri soner was charged with stealing goods to a large amount from a bazaar at North Shields, and had been previously convicted of similar offences. THE TOWN OP PENRITH was thrown into a state of excitement on Sunday, by constables taking an Irishman named Donahow, who died before he was got to prison. When opposite the old brewery he became faint. and was taken into Winskill's lodging-house, close at hand, and on examination it was found that blood was gushing out of his shoes. Donahow became worse and died within ten minutes. Dr. Morrison declared that he had died from excitement and loss of blood. It appears that deceased had a bad leg previously, and in struggling with the constables the old wound broke out. THE RECENT ROBBERY AND ATTEMPT AT MURDER. — The special high constable of the dishict found on Saturday night, at the house of a person named Holland, at North wich, a top coat, which has been identified as the one worn by the prisoner, John Wright, when he committed the murderous attack. It was found to be in parts very bloody, particularly about the left arm and breast. On searching it, a book was found in the pocket, containing a 201. and two a no t es. Th e 20/. oote, irhas been ameertained, was paid t o wow on th e ino enbg of the occurrence, at the Roebuck Inn, where he had 'tom ed for the night. The remaining 201. - no t e h as b een b nm drto „is Mr. Stephen Massey, to whom it hid been paid by the prisoi. el' on Friday afternoon, soon after the occurrence took place, These several sums, with the gold and silver found upon tZ`e prisoner when appre hended, make up the whole sum of whi:k McGill was robbed. On Saturday, the depositions of frPOill were taken at Man chester, after which the prisoner was remanded until Tues day week, by which time the probability or not of poor WOill's recovery might more certainly be ascertained. SOMERSEISHIRE. AN EXANPLE.—COL Gore Lan n, M.P., has, owing to the failure of the potato crop, and the consequent high pnces of provisions, again generouslygiven directions to his steward to remit the whole of this last year's rent to his numerous allotment tenants at Newton, Cordon, Bedminster, and throughout the whole of his property. The colonel has more than 150 allotment tenants on hie different estates in Somersetshire and Gloucestershire, towards whom he has now foetwo successive years exercised the same liberality. CORNWALL. ROBBERIES IN MINES.—At the Cornwall General Quarter Sessions, held at Bodmin last week, a series of cases were tried, which exposed a complete organised system of plundering mines. The prisoners were chiefly convicted through the agency of a man named Moyle, who was ad mitted an approver. It appeared that four or five months ago several valuable mining implement', composed chiefly of brass, were missing from various mines in the western parts of the county, and in consequence of some suspi cions this mar's house was searched, and a large quantity of the articles found concealed in a cavity in the chimney. Moyle is a dealer in marine stores, and lives at Redrutla ; on being taken before the magistrates, he con sented to confess, and became an approver, on condition of receiving a pardon. He then acknowledged himself an ex tensive receiver and buyer of brass and other metal from different miners, and in consequence of that information several parties were taken up and convicted. The depreda tions appear to have been carried on to a considerable extent. W. and J. Prince, two miners, were convicted of stealing at Wheal Unity Wood Mine, in the parish of Kenwyn, a brass air-pump bucket, 1,000 lbs. weight of brass, and 50 pieces of brass. Several other cases of a similar character from the Wheal Jowell and other mines were heerd, the priPoners being sentenced, according to the aggravation of their cases, either to transportation or imprisonment with bard labour. DEVONSHIRE. WHILST THE STORM of wind and rain, which raged at Exeter on Wednesday, was at its height, the wall of a dila pidated building in Queen-street came down with great violence; and a young woman passing at the time was knocked down by the descending materials, and literally buried beneath the bricks. Several inhabitants of the street rendered speedy assistance, and the poor woman, on being extricated was carried to the hospital in great agony. This (says the D evonshire Chronicle) is the second accident which has occurred within the last week from the dilapidated walls and abutments of buildings, which disfigure and disgrace the finest street in the city, and render one of the principal tho roughfares positively dangerous to the public. A few days previous, a quantity of stones and bricks fell into the street, and inflicted several injuries upon a boy. DORSETSHIRE. A COUNTT MEETING, called by requisition to the High Sheriff, was held in the Town-hall, Dorchester, on Monday afternoon, with a view to the formation of a society for ameliorating the condition, morally and physically, of the agricultural population, by carrying out the field garden allotment system, under judicious regulations. The an nouncement of the meeting drew together a very large as. semblage ; indeed, it has seldom happened that Dorchester has enjoyed so large an influx of visitors. This was attri butable partly to the interest which has recently been excited throughout the county with respect to the improve ment of the labourers, and partly to the fact that the day fixed un was that devoted to the great annual exhibition of stock. po Most of the farmers who were induced to visit the town for the sake of the exhibition, attended the meet ing, and some of them joined in the proceedings. C. Porcher, Esq., High Sheriff of Dorset, was called to the chair. He was supported by the Lord Bishop of Salisbury, R. Floyer, Esq., M.P., R. by Sheridan, Esq., M.P., the Archdeacon of Dorset, and a large number of other clergy. men and gentlemen of the district. Resolutions were car ried, for the establishment of a society for improving the condition of the agricultural labourers of the county. An influential committee for that purpose having been appointed, the meeting separated. THE QUEEN is expec7;dto;isit the Isle of Wight in a few days. We believe (says the Ilampshire Adrertiser) her Majesty will be in the island before the ensuing week ex pires, and will remain some two or three days, the visit being merely to give directions respecting the alterations on the estate. RICA BURNING IV HAMPSHIRE. - SOUTHAMPTON, TURSDAY.-At an early hour this morning mounted messen gers arrived here bearing the alarming intelligence that an incendiary fire, threatening destruction to an immense amount of valuable property, was ragtag at Fisher's Pond, about eight mles from the town, and about six from Win chester. The principal hotel-keepers were applied to for post-horses, and no time was lest in forwarding the engines. On the arrival of the early trains from Winchester and Gos port, it appeared that similar applications for engines had been made at those towns, which induced fears that other fires had taken place, causing considerable excitement here, as most of the principal resident tradesmen have farms in the vicinity. Such was the case in the present instance, as the farm selected by the incendiary for the perpetration of his diabolical deed was in the occupation of Mr. William Lan ham, a butcher in an extensive way of business in this town. On arriving at Fisher's Pond, the scene of the devastation, I found that two ricks of hay of about 50 tons each, which had beedfired were, nearly con sumed, and two others to which the fire had been communi cated were in a state of rapid combustion. Strenuous exertions were made to save five other equally valuable ricks which were in dangerous proximity with the fire, the more so as they would in all probability have been the means of communicating the fire to adjacent cattle sheds (containing much stock), and thence to the farm dwelling, which must inevitably have led to the destruction of a vast number of corn stacks on the other side of the homestead. Notwith standing the prompt and vigorous efforts which were wil lingly afforded by nearly all present (and it is with regret that I feel obliged to make any exception), the flames sud denly burst from a fifth stack far removed from the great body of fire, indicating, were other proof wanting, the cause of the calamity. This, as well as the other four stacks, was entirely consumed. The other property was saved. During the progress of the fire a group of persons stood around, and one on whom suspicion rests, observed to another, " It's a great pity it didn't blaze more," a circumstance which, added to other information received, has caused him to be carefully watched by the police. The damage sustained by the fire is, I understand, upwards of 1,0001., and Mr. Lan ham is uninsured, or at all events insured for a very trilling sum. ...... THE FATAL FIGHT AT STEEPLE CLATDON.--FRATEA. cum.—Some particulars of a fatal fight at Steeple Claydon, between Joseph and Thomas Shirley, of that village, brothers, have appeared in our columns. It will he remem bered that they were with others drinking at a public-house on the night of the 14th, that they quarrelled and fought, and that Thomas died shortly after the fight terminated. After two adjournments the inquest on view of the deceased was brought to a termination on Friday last, the 23rd inst., and all the evidence of the facts having been Riven, the jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter against Joseph Shirley as principal, and against John Pangbourne and Richard Cross as accessories." The coroner committed them to Aylesbury gaol for trial at the assizes, and bound the various witnesses over to give evidence, and tke parish officers to prosecute. The prisoners were taken back to gaol. MILITARY RIOT AT WINDSOR FAIR. -On Tuesday evening, between nine and ten o'clock, a serious disturbance was created in the High-street, opposite to the parish church, by a large body of privates in the Ist Regiment of Life Guards, in consequence, as it was stated, of a man, named Chippenfield, the proprietor of one of the booths, containing wonderful pigs, boa constrictors, crocodiles, <ke., having " insulted " one of their comrades in the afternoon, by telling him, when he had paid his twopence for admission, that he would have to go without " 'bocce " for a week. In the early part of the evening the showman was threatened by several of the Life Guards to be "paid out " before night. Accordingly, shortly after nine o'clock, a large body of the soldiers came into the fair (between one and two hundred), although not more than about twenty were engaged in the riot, the rest merely looking on. They commenced by drag ging away the flight of wooden M. ps leading into the booth which they entirely demoli-hed. The soldiers next dragged away the whole of the platform in front of the booth ; is doing which, the wife of the proprietor, Mrs. Chippenfield, fell through upon the stones beneath, and was considerably injured. Mr. Chippenficld addressed the soldiers from a pro jecting piece remaining of the platform, begging them to desist, as he had a wife and large family depend ant upon him for support, and humbly apologising for anything he might have said to have given them offence in the early part of the day. The work of destruction, however, still proceeded ; the large canvas painting on the outside being torn, after an attempt had been made to upset the van, but, fortunately, ineffectually. We understand that the learned pig got loose, and that the crocodile had a very narrow escape during the meWe, which lasted for nearly half an hour. Many persons, some of whom were females, who were stand ing in the High-street at the time, got knocked about and severely injured. The proprietor of the exhibition had his hands severely scalded by the upsetting of the boiling oil, which was burning in jars on the platform at the time of the attack. Mr. Blunt, oae of the borough magistrates, was in the High-street during a great part of the riot; but, from the large body of the Life Guards who were present, it was judged inexpedient for the police to interfere, who would, assuredly, have been overpowered. It is a question, how ever, amongst the inhabitants of the neighbourhood (who closed their shutters when they found how serious was the nature of the affray) whether some steps ought not to have been taken by the local authorities to have endeavoured to put a stop to the disturbance at the onset. A picket arrived from the cavalry barracks a little before ten o'clock, but not until the affair was at an end, and the ringleaders had dis persed. As soon as the work of demolition had been com pleted, the proprietor of the booth, addressing the soldiers, said, " Now I hope, gentlemen, you are all satisfied," to which the leader of the emeute replied, " Oh, yes, we are quite satisfied; you sha'nt have any more tuppences Olaf we have taken d—d good care of. So good night, old fellow." The mob then left, and the exhibition classed. NORFOLK. POLITICS Is NORNVICK.—II is pretty generally known that the Reform interest in this city is, at the present moment, stronger than it has been for many years—perhaps than it ever was before—so favourable has the late registra tion been to this party. It is said that a struggle is contem plated to turn out the Marquis of Douro from the represen tation of the place, notwithstanding his support of Sir R. Peel on the corn question, the Whip considering the noble marquis in everything else a Tory; and S. M. Pete, Esq., the great railway contractor, is to contest the city with Ben jamin Smith, Esq., the present Liberal member. CROXER.—The attacks of the sea, and the insidious work ings of the land springs, have taken effect upon the cliff at Sidestrand, near Cromer, on which the village church is erected. The tower is, in consequence, partly in ruins, and the whole edifice ia rendered unsafe. SUSSEX. PRISONERS' CONFXSB/ONS.—A long discussion took place at the recent Quarter Sessions for West Sussex, between the chaplain of the prison, Mr. Longahaw,and the visiting magis trates of Petworth House of Correction, respecting the course to be taken by chaplains of prisons relative to confessions made by prisoners to the spiritual heads of prisons. It appears that a man named James Steer is now waiting his trial at the assizes, having been apprehended by a bench warrant, signed by Lord Denman, on a charge of conspiring for the purpose of obtaining from Percy Burrell a large sum of money, to prevent an unnatural offence being charged against him. This prisoner, it appears, made a confession to the chaplain with a view to restitution to a person whom he had formerly injured, and the chaplain carried the confession out of the prison in order to carry the wishes of the prisoner into effect. A letter written by the prisoner, and passed by the chaplain, was detained by the governor, and the whole affair then came under the notice of the visiting justices,who reported their opinion to the Court, that the chaplain had been guilty of great indiscretion. The chaplain contended for the inviolability of the confession, and maintained his right to carry out the penitential resolutions of a prisoner in the way of restitution, without becoming the accuser of the penitent, or, what would amount to the same thing, making the confession known to the visiting magistrates, since they would be bound to carry the law Into force. The whole court was against the chaplain, Mr. Sergeant D'Oyly, the chairman, and the other magistrates, holding that the chap lain was bound to divulge nothing, but that if he desired to use such confession out of a-prison he must first submit it to the visiting magistrates. The chaplain said he had acted conscientiously. This was a spiritual matter, and he owed obedience only to his spiritual superior, the bishop of the diocese, to whom he was willing to refer the question. Tho chairman thought the chaplain, by accepting office in the jail, owed obedience to the visiting justices and the prison rules. It was at length arranged that the subject should stand over for consideration till next session, the chaplain agreeing to act on the opinion of the visiting justices, should another such case occur. ESSEX. COLCHESTER PORT AND CHANNEL.—Last week an ad journed meeting of the Channel Commissioners was held at the Town-hall, to receive the report of the committee ap pointed to consider the best means of improving the port, and of superintending an application for a new bill. Mr. Goody, the clerk, read the resolutions passed by the commit tee ; they embodied a letter from Mr. Bruff, who gave an estimate of 40,0001. for deepening and widening the channel, constructing a ship lock at New Quay, wharfing the present quay property on both sides of the Hythe (which will be converted into a floating basin), forming a public wharf, cut ting a compensating channel for drainage and tidal scour, and for land and compensation to owners of property injured. A subsequent resolution of the committee recommended the adoption of the plan. A LETTER POSTED AT BRAINTREE FOR BILLERIC both market towns, distant from each other 21 miles, ocen pies tiro days in the transit. This fact has been renresinted to the Post-otfice authorities, but no redress can be obtained. STEALING SHEEP AND ROASTING THEM ON THE PILE MISES.—On Sunday week information was received at Oraett police station that a lamb had been stolen from Mucking Marshes, the property of Mr. Causton, farmer, and a sheep from Mr. Sewell, farmer, at East Tilbury. Inspector Smith immediately despatched two police-constables, who, after searching the marshes, found, in an osier ground, two shoulders of lamb, and, a few yards off, a Dutch oven, sus pended to a stick, which was stuck in the ground. Under neath the oveu a tire had recently been lit, and the oven contained particles of mutton. The constables remained on the marshes the whole of Sunday night, and the following night observed a lad, named Wilding, about 10 years of age, lurking about the osier ground. They went in pursuit, and about two o'clock , on Tuesday, captured him in a shed belonging to Mr. Sewell. He at first denied the charge, but afterwards admitted that he stole both the sheep and la mb. .. .. I . KENT. DISCOVERY OP PROPERTY IN TILE ARSENAL. WOOL wIcm.—A few days since, as a gang of convicts belonging to the Justitia convict hulk were employed in loading sand in the practice range of the Royal Arsenal, near the Butt, they discovered, concealed in the reeds close to the river, a strong oak-box, which was found, on examination, to contain articles of jewellery, wearing-apparel, old coins, spices, and a variety of other articles, but no document that could lead to a discovery of the owner of the property. It appears that instead of communicating the circumstances to the police, one of the keepers, named Gregory, removed the box to his own house, and opened it for the purpose, as he alleges, of ascertaining what were its contents. The mat ter, however, reached the ears of the police of the Royal Arsenal, and the result was an inquiry, when the box was handed over to the inspector. A report of the facts was forwarded to the Secretary of State, and on the following day Gregory resigned his situation. The box remains in the possession of the police, and hitherto it has not been claimed. It is supposed to be the fruit of some robbery, and to have been placed in the reeds for the purpose of concealment. SURREY. NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH.-Mr. Martin, sen., of Reigate, Surrey, has presented to Mr. Anderson, clerk at the Reigate Station, with a magnificent coffee-pot, with a neat inscription, recording the fact of the latter gentleman having miraculously saved his life on the railway, under the following circumstances i—Mr. Martin crowed the line, when Mr. Anderson, seeing the "Express" train coming in, and the inevitable death of Mr. Martin, at the imminent risk of his own life rushed forward and dragged that gentleman off the line, when the train swept by at full speed, Mr. Martin only escaping by a few inches from being smashed to pieces. The inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood are, for Mr. Anderson's daring and intrepid conduct, raising a service of plate by subscription for the same object. gine Arts. NATIONAL GALLEItY.-NEW PICTURES.—The Na tional Gallery opened on Monday last with sixteen new pictures: two of which (the Boar Hunt of Velasquez, and the Temptation of St. Anthony, by Aonibale Caracci), are recent purchases and the remaining fourteen the bequest of Richard Simmons, Esq. The purchases, on this occasion, exceed in importance the value of the bequest. Mr. Sim mons's pictures, consisting of thirct rate matters, and not very favourable specimens of the masters they represent. A catalogue of the names of the artists, and the subjects painted, will give no bad idea of the character and value of the recent acquisition :-1. Godfrey Schalken—Lesbia weighing jewels against her sparrow. 2. Saasoferrato —The Madonna. 3. Joseph Vernet—A Seaport. 4. liondikoeter—Domestic Poultry. 1,. Gerard Van Harp—Conventual Charity. 6. Backhuysen—A Brisk Gale. 7. Deitricy—ltinerant Musi cians. 8. Greuze—Head of a Girl. 9. Nicholas Maes—The Idle Servant. 10. Breenberg—Landscape with Figures. 11. Both—A Landscape, figures by Poelemberg, (the land scape in Both's best style, the figures in Poelemberg's ordi nary manner. 12. Canaletto—The Piazza of St. Mark, Venice, (bolder but less finished than usual.) 13. John Van Hugtenburg—A Battle-piece. 14. Theodore de Keyser—A Merchant and his Clerk. We may add that the celebrated Bacchus and Ariadne of Titian has been cleaned, and, as far as we could observe, with care End judgment. The pictures in the gallery an now 212 in number. be Drama. - - FRENCH PLAYA.—These performances are to be resumed on the 11th November. The list of artists engaged is full and satisfactory. Of old favourites there are Perlet, Frederic Lemaltre, Lafont, Rignier, Hoare, and Cartigny ; Clarisee, Rose Cheri, and Rachel. Among the new presentations arc Mademoiselle Brohan, premiere sou brette, of the Theatre Francais, Mademoiselle Fargueil, Mademoiselle Duverger, of the Theatre Palais Royal, Made moiselle Dunain, of the Francais, and M. Alcide Tousez, of the Palais Royal. The repertoire includes " Clarissa Harlowe." illatbersitp ant! (Hateal Advs. CAMBRIDGE, Ocr. Margaret Profemor of Divinity will resume bin course of lectures on the Cot of the Early Fathers, on Friday, Nov. 6, at one o'clock, in the room at the Pitt Press, and will continue them on eubecquent Wednesdays and Fridays till further notice. The Jacksonian Professor has given notice that on Monday, Nov. 9, at one o'clock, he will give a course of lectures at the room in the Botanic Garden, on Mechanism, Suites, and Dynamics. The lectures will be delivered every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The Rev. J. C. Miller, formerly of Park chapel, Pimlico, has been appointed to the rectizy of St. Martin, Birming ha m. PRZFKIDIENT..—Rev. 8. E. Wentworth to Ribby w. Wrea, P. C., Lancashire, £76. Rev. W. Ir. Lamb to Christchurch, P. C., Cobridge, Staffordshire, £lOO. VACANCIES.—LcominAter V., Herefordshire, dr°. Hereford, .C 230, with glebe house fit for residence. Patron, the fah Chancellor; vacant by the death of the ]rev, G. Woodhouse.—Oshaldwick V., Yorkshire, dio. York, £124. Patron, the Preb. of strensall ; vacant by the death of the Rev. J. Shockley, York.—Mastership of Archbishop Ilolcroft's schooL Shinfleld V. w. tiwalloweeld, P.C., Berkshire, dio. Ox ford, £296, with glebe house fit for residence; vacant by the death of the Rev. M. leilde. Tea ARCXDFACOX OF SlitArY'S GrNT.IIAL VIIITTATIOI4.—Yesterday the Ven. W. Dealtry, D.D., Rector of Clapham, who was presented to the Archthreconry of Sarrey, on the elevation of Dr. Willnrforce ;the present Bishop of Oxford) to the Deanery of Westminster, held his vi citation at St. Saviour's church, Southwark. Nearly the whole of the clergy of the Arebdeaconry were present. Prayers were read by the Rev. J. Benaon, chaplain of St. Saviour's, and the sermon was preadult by the ItcY.O. Lewis, minister of St. Peter's, Southwark, from the ith chap. and Ith verse of the Second Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians : " But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us." The register haring been called, the Venerable Archdeacon delivered a kosthened and eloquent charge. Callum Briunso.—On Monday afternoon the foundation atone of a new church, to be called St. James's, was laid by the Lord Bishop of Ripon, in the district of Woodside, Horsforth, which has been recently formed by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, oat of portions of the ancient parishes of Adel, Cuineky, and Leeds. A numerous body of the clergy, and other friends of the church, assembled at the rumm age, Hssforth, mom whence they walked in procession to the site of the new church. A Pima A I . ltVACrar.R.—The Right Hon. Lord Tevnbam preached in the long room of the Angel Inn, Sherburne, on Monday evening. The room was well filled, upwards of 100 being present, but there is no doubt that had a more efficient notice been given, an immense WACM. blage of persons, of all grades, would have been atti acted by the novelty of healing a nobleman preach.—sherborne Joirhal. NAVAL. c -1-AYLI. ADMIRALTY, OCT. 27.—With reference to the •tc from RS ar-Admiral Sir T. Cochrane C. 8., whseh •""'"` in the Gazette of :nth Septembtr Lu ' it, the to 'IT • promotions have taken place, dated Bth July, t•iii; • of the capture and destruction of the forts - „„. - • , he river Biune, Borneo Proper be • •“'"-' • f rph Lients. G. E. Putey, and J. A. D, Paynter •Lr'Le 4 7 are oleo directed that E. burchatt, (*rpm ssand\T*