The Express. — London, England, 1849-01-30 00:00:00

innocial salons Anodations as bees, or nay hereafter saw lenitsrlde . dr. Purday s ad that the country had at all got wad the stage of public information when a Wainer had Othem with an Ignorant impatiens of taxation ; the wls now filled with an enlightened *prisms of wa wa, sot of the taxation really necessary to emery as the eifiirs of the country, but of taxaitm =T s. wide for the maintenance of wasteful sad SOUTIIBB seconded the resolntios, and =grand r w. gratiliation to me the middle claws at length from the apathy which had for no many years ta loa then in the consequences of oppressive and lavish Thereat. The neolution was adopted unanimously. yr. HYDE reminded the meeting that the anti-corn law s odas had lasted seven years ; bat he trusted trot the wont movement would be brought to a suessesnal termiaa sies in lin thee half that time. He weed : Mat de Wee reamer, to promote throughout the constry mo i l ed erten ineression the numb or. res i treeheders to m ew, sed a metal attention to a comp er ete regstration of the n o un to eittee wd hersegba. MILLI BRIM wended the motion. A g edema present wished to inform the meeting as to wee wilt which the county forty-sbillieg franchise IDOL he obtained. lie had himself qualified in three collu des, and be believed he might add that votes of this descrip dee bad hada very important effect in deciding the last Ilideeses election. A subscription of shout 2.. Gd a week waif is aver, short tires flit • man in the poesesdon of the es., an elector. whal ` - dr. He/WHITT, in corroboration, wished to state that in hiselistrin many franchises had bees obtained by a slcisty, lotialweription to whits was only ninepenc• halfpenny a go*. la seven years each .saber would hare a 201. free will, and in oven more he would have all has subscriptions Mal sans. Hr. MACFARLANE gave an inClitle• of the inequality at la the fan that while the nobleman paid only el arm as a tar ea his carriage, the poor man who got his wig by his harekley•coach paid 241. a year. (Rear.) The moieties was unanimously agreed to. Eir. 'wain', moved the hith neolution, formally sp gaieties Ute posthasteresent a general committee for the „ r pm a currying o ut the objects of the society, with powtr to add to their number. The following gentlemen were sennisteal the buainesr rassm.ttee : Messrs. d. Manson, 1. Clarke, Dr. Pritchard, Mr. Madison, Rall, Faros, and au other genthestsa whore name escaped us. Mr. W. Arthur son was appointed treasurer, and thanks were voted to , MIS cialrima. The CHAIRMAN, in returning thanks for the way in which the meeting had testified its sp?robation of the manner is which he had filled the chair, wished to chum. that tits being in that honourable position Sal arisen from the ausvoidable ab.enoe of Sir Joshua Walnoiley. Row- , weer ia order that the meeting might brow what were Sir Jerhisa's ow the suhject natter of their deliberations, he would read the following letter, which he had just re eseted from that gentleman: Maroc Jaw. V, 1819.-1117 dew rejoice to Imre tam year iota awl circular et Ike OW bestest, which km sal, Jost Peeked me Wm, Out the bleeds et progreseve token lathe metro. eke MR at heath Jotemakted the they will, W treek set he behind he Mows et wed =cot in ether loess; ead I I'M mew. Pee with than earn anlbrehafirobWie envy way Ins. I ore ay molest ensinly illeposst et the saweratiert, wed will War tam the obi cc she deeelessisee pities Is as ameehtles poi which I emienserne us meals we. I pees es I Wyou. etc dodo a pew ea wee pro/ M raieti olio I her u Pre 'eve Nes. I*l aW_Atr filtiond at the retsinsone ertoii I should ea rote, nal beg skunk moll MOM my Mardis In yam stils way. I i n crod to sob however, the war Mewls bete will set seers we al t heed.y sight. They me is **saddle of as active end, *stud tte ahmea, It will base a bed effect. My hurt Is with yen, sod I .hell look anxiously kw the result of your denteratioss.—May I bryi the looter uf albe to the Panedhe ben.-1 sea, Maly yours,— J. WALIPCST.—Vramis Play, lise, All., the reading el the letter, which elicited loud cheers, the meeting separated. PRISON DISCIPLINE. The diaaunioa cot Mr. Posroon's proposition was resumed last ~Wig, at the Alberspe Literary I ostitatio• ; She Itu. Dr. Mire, Master of Christchurch hospital, in Ike chair. The Rev. Yr. ROWE,chaplaisof Horsemonger lane Gaol, maid that a great deal bast bun said about the septette eye toss, and their attontien bad been called over and over again to the gnaw proud is MWbeak and Reading prisons, in order to make it appear that the rystem pursued in them ins bed ; bet he contended that it was nit fair to ter • sperm by one or two particular branchu of It. He had re-milted (Adel document*. and he had found that the (.4.4 of the p rison et Readies was unquestion ably vary great; b ut satisfactory press had bep as. signed for this. He found by looking at the prison statistics that the annual cost was for the cells in Reading, IV7I. per call, sad as the prism at Widtefield it was 1261 per cell, but thou who supported Mr. Pouson'is resolutiona said nothing of Wakefield simply lissanes it did not pit their purpose. Of 3.666 porn ns whom he had examined is prisons, he found that 77 hod been commercial travedersandattornies' clerk.. three had hewn medical students, and two anomie% He would recommend that an asylum be built for the recep tion of criminals who were to be imprisoned for short periods, sad that they should be provided with the sea varies of life for a short time alter the it discharge. It had bun stated by Mr. Pearson in his proposition that he coal I surround 1,000 sous of land with a suhetantial wall for 100,00 W. ' • but he (Mr. Rowe) had bees infuriated by competent judges of the matter that handl not is done for lose than GI per yard. Mr. II DIXON said it appeared to him that the systems of prison discipline at present adopted were three :—First, there was the separate system, of which they had heard so mach. Thee there was the silent system, which, he believed, was adopted in most of the prisons in the United Kisedom ; and, hotly, there was the non-intervention system. He h ad as great an objeethe to the separate system as Mr. Pearson himself, and although it was adopted ia Reatliag Gaol, he did not hesitate to state that, with ail its faults, it was infi nitely preferable to Gillemr-street and Newpte Prisons. He had wend on asking inquire that there were no less than forty-ma large gaoh in England conducted on the mums system, and they contained 6,022 separate cells. He believed the average cost per cell was 20W. Arta taking all the cells of the prisons he had alluded to at this cost, he found that the total cwt woad I be 1,224,40 W , and with other pals (which he had not included) this sum would amount to two millions starling per YAM. Hs be lieved also that twenty new gaols were to bo built, which would further increase the annual *sunset for prisons by one million and a half. They had bees referred to the report of the commissioners of Pentonvills, and they had been reminded of the high position and character of those gentlemen ; but ha confessed he had very little faith in that report, for those who had draws it up had found out that the system adopted in Pontonvills Prison would not de, and they were at present modifying it. He could have wished that the hon. gelation's& (Mr. Peeress), when making his statement, had entered more folly into We detailsof his plan. He (Mr. Dixon) thought it would be difficult for him to show how • thousand men, poisoning little or no knowledge of agriculture, pull, when placed over a thousand acres of valueless lead, obtain a livelihood. After SOON further observations from the Rev. Mr. Coosa and Mr. BCAMSOIOI7OIII, Mr. Dentin% M.P. for Bucking. hanntaire. , and Mr. BA/MITT seconded, an amen d . meat on r. WSW. resolution, which was lost by a large majority. Mr. CHAS. PEARSON M.P., said he should do great injustice to the cause in which he had engaged if, at that late hour, he attempted to reply at length to the arguments which hid bun urged against hil proposition, but he could sot consent to an adjournment without making some ob servations with reference to what had been stated by those who had preceded him. He had made a proposal to some of these gentlemen who opposed his proposition to the effect that two or three of them should, in conjunction with a like number of his friends, visit prisons that they might test the accuracy of the statements he had suds, for he was certain that if sultan inquiry were made the truth dills assertions would be made apparent. He again made the lam proposal, but`those whom he had invited had thought property decline. In replying to the arguments of those who opposed him, he would not use ironical expressions which had been freely in dulged in by his opponents, excepting as applied to the sys- WM to wh ic h hie propositions related. After some observa tions with referent* to the statements of those who opposed IP proposition, the hon. gentleman proceeded to state that he had just received the ananal report of the chaplain et Nowpte prison, and from that report it appeared that he arrangements were not as perfect as th ht to be, bet emu as it was he would contrast it with e ßeading gaol, awl leave the meeting to decide as to the respective mints of tk• Istablishments. He found that, out of 3,166 prisoners k Newest' is the year 1847, 400 had been preriewsly sanuaitted, which was in the proportion of sheet one in eight of the total number thea imprisoned, and there fore seven out of eight were in prison for the first time. Whil.t in Reading gaol, which Mr. Dixon had characterised as so touch superior to say of the metropolitan prisons, he found that out of the number of 2,669, 163 had been previ ously in prison, which wee in the proportion of 2 in 11 in Pail', and 2 in 9 in 1646. He found from a colonial news paper (:he Mercury of Anetralia) that the basins of the puke. cakes in that colony bad increased fourfold in consequent* of • large amber of persons who had been inmates of SW prisms having been seat oat as emigrants by the government. It being 11 o'clock the Wm gentleman said he would rams the escdmisa of his Warms until Monday the 6111 Feb. A vow ef thinks was then siren to the 'Libman and the meeting sdlenmed. TR Paoraiii . _ _a OMITS WITHOUT • LTADTH.—A• the =Pry struggle approaches, we understand that her"ta opposition bas been sadly puzzled to find • preetutable knee for the lower house to supply the great void lef t mi s tir lammed death of Lord George The ..* poiar to Lord Granby. Mr. Darnell ',Mots M himself. Not big I. the seeress of the protestlonht 7eann de we own than give the mutest is disks. limmaree says that the mantis dmermdad as the shasidses of Mr. Henke, who, in maw wawa tithe may dm ased pada of late at which he eaters . vow ma Moises dads, is to in misted by Mr. G. Beaks.is eh that Wafts It esmilsy seam It Is shoo said—bet we tis oat woe Me tholoworaqorthorliwr—that Lord etaaloy, sa th• siews i k Naelth " alifs induced to write a progrz es ietter to ma._w ith a view to deprecate Its Wein dies poi tm t f Ms =hiatus isagingnafter the wept leadership 'a to which "'° the Wilt, 001111111111161. Is r. peewit ep h ays i ' Teta that he wee womb engaged is rural pursuits and pleasures that he so probably not be enabled to devote an , thing like pa w')." attar, lance to his parliamentary duti '- promise a • • slant es—a vole we aped as little expect him to keep as ...h o od L A - Brougham himself. L'ke the eccentric nobleman, whom h reftiobles in ups respects, we shall be disappo' la' We , w e cont, es, unless we see Mr. Disraeli in his place in the H ones of ( ininions, repeating those bitter serums aitainst his old political friends foe which he has gained so tiappy a nolo. arty . The protectionist, talk very big, we understand, of in amendment to the eddies on the foreign policy of Groat SAW*. There is also a telk h mallee--of in amain& meat in favour of a used duty on tai imp:attics of frreign eorn—but it is sot at all likely that they mill mime to the assault upon any eaeh forlorn hope, as either el these tortes would tiara them a merlons intoonnter.—Obeweer. Tax Fa's= MAlLB.—Sir,—lt sow appears that the coneepondence between London and Paris is to be ear veryed by the direct rotate, vita Boulogne, eight months of the year, and throned Calais during the winter month*, front 15th November to 15th Marsh. Consequently the peeks% will run to sad from Calais from the Ist February until the 15th March next. The stupidity of this ezrargement is ob. vim. If certain winds are particularly propitious to the parmge to or heat Calais, how is it ascertained that they will blow from the 15th November to the 15th M uc h ? And will not the lase of two hours and a half in the time allowed fir the tea voyage, in consequence of the greater distance of the land route, render the use of boat. to land or embark the despatches so much more frequently necessary at Calais during the four winter mouths than at Boulogne daring the rest ef the year, as to much mote than balance any surposed superiority of the anchorage off Calais is rough weather? It this extraordinary arrangement is finally agreed to, it will certainly be found, not only that delays in the arrival of the mails will be more fr. quoit from the 15th November to the 15th March than at any other period of the year, but that the service imposed on the captains of the mail-steamers is also hardest in that period. If the shorter route is pre ferable for eight months of the year, why should the ad vantages presented by it be r. jetted in the other four ? If the captains of the mail seamen are so firmly per suaded the perm' to Calais is more easy in certain weathers, let them have permission to go there under such eireumetances i and let means of transport be provided there to take the mail bags on to Boulogne ; but only impeei the delay rrulting from this change of route on the pubic, when i• it necessary, and not in an arbitrary manner during any particular portion of the year. It could hardly be sup posed the captains of the mail steamers would often find it neonrary to inconvenience the public by availing them selves of such a privilege, when the steamers from Folkesteme to Boulogne were able to get moose every day during the whole year 184 S, with only one exce p tion . and never ones found it requisite to run for Calais.—U.—Landon, January 26, 1849, CitoLatta.—Yeaterday the Board of Health received reports of the following fresh sun: Lambeth, 1; High Hill Ferry, Claptee, 6, 2 fatal; Wandsworth, 3 fatal; Whiteehopel, 2; Gateshead, 7, 2 fatal; Milehem. 7, 1 fatal; Stadley ( War w ick ), 3, 1 fatal: Edinburgh, 3 fatal; Glas gow, 27th, 37, 7 total ; Ditto, 28th, 72, 20 fatal; Riccarton, 10, 1 fatal; Greenock, 10, 3 fatal; Old Mookland, 37, 10 fatal; Charleston, Dunfermline ' 1 fatal; Paisley, from 20th lost., 156, 78 fatal ; Selkirk, 3, 2 fatal ; Dunblane, 1 fatal ; Loudon, 12, 3 fatal; Alva, Stirling, 1 fatal ; Doune, 2 fatal; C. &manna, 24, 11 fatal ; Row, by Helensburg, 1 fatal.— Taal new cuss, 393, 163 deaths. ROYAL GENERAL ANNUITY SOCIETY. —The Mi ami meeting of the members of this society au held yes terday, at the London Tavern, to receive a statement of the amounts, appoint officers for the ensuing year. end to elect six annuitants cn the funds. A. W. Roberts, Esq, in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and confirmed, the secretary proceeded to read the report, from which it appeared that since the last annual on cong 4881. had been invested in the Inett:s, which made the society's total fulled property amount to 2,2421. Go. 104. The subscriptions for the past year amounted to 3261. 18s. 62., being the largest subscrip tion for the list sixteen years, and exceeding the subscription of the previous year by 1201. The monthly pensions of the annuitants had been increased as follows: Ti,:. Men from 11. 12a. to 11. 183. ; women from 11. 4s. tc 11. Is. And the directen confidently hoped that they would shortly be in a petition to locreue them to the maximum amount, which would make the pensions of th. men 21. 65., and of the women 11. 10a. per month. Twenty-eight per son were at present partaken of the benefit, of the society, and the number would be increased to thirty-four by that election. The report also stated that amongst those who had applied for assistance to the society w• re four merchants, two widows of wereSants, the daughter of a baronet, the widow of a banker, and many other highly respectable persons. The total receipts for the past year were 1.6131. 18s. 3d.. and the expenditure 1,6051. Ss. 9d., and of this sum 6701. 3s. 9,1. had been invested in three far cent. consols. It was then moved by the Rev. Wm. Henry Jones. and seconded by Mr. Lnsid nan, that en asylum he erected in connexion with the testi- Union, and that a special fund ho opened for that purpose. Carried. The following is a list of the successful candidthes, and the numbers polled by each:—Men—Ralph Austin, 1 915 ; James Forsyth, 724 ; John Woods, 613 —Women— Ann Thonsington 3,248 ; Eliza Hudnall", 2802 ; Mary Artie, 2,004. A ;ote of thanks having been voted to the chairman, the proceedings terminated. FOREIGN WATCHES SOLD AT THE CUSTOM-HOUSE. Early last year 326 watches were seised from being entered at to.. low a value, and paid for with the addition of 10 per cent. as usual in tlll4ll cases. They were subsequently en- Mred for sale as gold watches in the usual manner, attakgue printed, and exhibited with the other goods for sale. It was then diseovered that they were not gold, bat metal so well gilt as to deceive arty but those very conversant with the Witness, and in cossequelne withdrawn. They have again been brought forward in the present year, and are entered in the Wakens es merely watches, but with oriole attached upon which the advances are to be mad* quite as high as though they were gold mashes. TM Clechmakers' Com pany have thought fit to put the public on their guard re specting these imitation geld articles by advertising their true character in the Daily New and other papers. IMPORTATION OF GOLD FROM CALIFORNIA.—The Charles Brownell, arrived at Liverpool from Valparaiso, has brought gold ben to the value of 15,0001., which had been received at that port from California. The SALE OF THE STOWE LIBRARY wu cOn- Hotted yesterday. A rare copy of " Lnion's Topographical Account of Buckinghamthire," illustrated with a rich as semblage of about 480 original drawings, a great portion of which are beautifally finished in colours, by Buckler, Trot ter, Neale, Reed, Alexander, De Coot, and ether celebrated arusts,—with several hundred shields of arms emblazoned, and upwards of 360 portraits of eminent personages connected with the county of Iluckin.thimshire, very many of the lat ter bang proof impresVons from private plates by Bartoloui, Cooke, Farthonse, Vertuc,Ward, doe., the whale very neatly inlaid in 8 vols., was sold for 6101., and Is now restored to the family, having been purchased on the instruction of Lady Grenville. Another important lot was a copy . of " Lyson's Environs of London and the Middlesex Parishes," large paper, illustrated with upwards of 1,000 original draw ing', chiefly finished in odours, end some in colours and geld, 17 vols., Russia extra, 1331. - - A MODEL WATER COMPANT.—A water company in Bunderlouid supplies 400 poor familia, gratis, with ser vice pipes and water.tspe in their houses, and with an us. limited supply of water at the rate of one penny per week.— Bradford (Sommer. REGISTRY OF ESTATES.--Bir,-1 hate read your observations " on the want of a general registry of deeds for Ragland," with many of which I fully concur. A re. mark or two trike me as not inappropriate. You complain that the discussion of this question has been protracted (or • period of 16 years. This complaint scarcely reaches the full extent of the evil it points at. It is now 138 years (I believe) sines the example of such a registry bin been set in Ireland, aad we do not filed that the repeal of the Irish Registry Act of 1711 (I speak only from me awry) has ever bent urged upon the grounds put forward by you as the popular objections to a similar enactment in Rap land. Nor do I believe that on examination it would be found that evils nth as those have arisen from the inatitu tios of a user& registry °Mae in Ireland, while vast benefits have indubitably been conferred by it on the owners of estates in that country, and eminently so in cases like that which induced your observations. Let me now, u "an Iri.h soticitor," hastily point out some few features of our Registry Act which it may be well to avoid. The labours of the houses of parliament in last session on the Incorabered hum/a Bill for Inland have developed some of the raischieh of leaded proprietors Is that country, but it does not to me that the scares of many of those evils has been Indicated—nor does the attention of the le/illation appear to have been pointed to it. Much these from an unwise eagerness to avail of the oases of this very registry act, and of similar provisions, as in the mad= of ens or more mortgagee cones. quest upon as colgissi mortgage, and the registers of liens on land arising from judgmeats in the courts of law. The force of these liens has ben lately extended, and whereas they formerly only a ff ected real estates (or lands held in fee or fr eehold) by • late enactment it has been declared that they are equally a charge on chattel interests in land or tenements, sad a like character has been conferred on several classes of orders of courts of law and equity which previously ranked nearly on a par with simple etatract debts. I be lieve that thus investing the judgment or order of the court for however small an amount with the character of a perms, vent ,ies on every tittle of land powered by the debtor bas worked mask of the evil emplaned of in 'reload, end although I &namable to prescribe a remedy, I think it right to caution ea against it. Ido this the more willingly from the hope But a chance suggestion such as this may possibly anted the attention of some better able than I am to propose a node of Salim with the ears of incumbered estates in heland.—Ace hang Sotterron. --- FIRE AT THE EAST LOI4EOOII BAZAAIL—Ixot oven lag, between 6 sad 7 o'clock, a ate beet set In the gismo of mereihmallhe nod by the Jewish panoseelem fee Ike disposal of waft apparel, known as the Ben Loin Beim, inm ate la Zapf likateuvet, like elms. The gamine, which covered se rasa of wend shaded spare feet, conta!ned, at the doe tithe enthreak, the slosh in trade of a large nom tut- of Jowl* adman red gemmed dealers. Information of the man& wee green* fennimied to the brigade eta tine, sod elz or seven emsfsem wen Igiehly despatched to the Nese w seallegratism. The Mesta upon forting eke how, hood • somber of ems filled with goods, is lase is several of the cross, in a general blame- at the lame time the dames wen =Wading along the roof id* gnat vapidity, and is gin of not toneate of water Wog emotherad nor the fl t z2l , ine use pea 11 o'elosit ocep ti=were eddy el God sot a quantity of Prortety beet destroyed, rem heibilat_extensively horned. INQUESTS, YISSISIDAT.—SUICIDE IPROX FEAR.— ' Belem 3(r. W. Baker, at the Hone-shose, Gowen siren, es the body of Antall; Clarke, aged 41, the wife of a linseed victualler, sad landlord of the above bone.—Caroline Con, servant to deceased, stated that her master and misuses lived together on very happy terms until a fortaight shin, when • quarrel reamed between them, arising from jealousy on her put. On Thursday week, her master heard the d o . ceased joking with ore of the lodgen, which appeared greatly to melte him, but he said nothing at the time. About half gait 11 o'clock at night he 'Tent up stairs to bed; shortly ally/wank the deceased closed the house and west to her bodT3o l ll, followed by witness. They hadrnot been It the bedroom assay minutes when the street-door THE EXPRESS, TUSEDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1849. bell was rung by a lodger, upon which Hr. Clarke come to the room door ia an excited state, and called out to doomed "to let her men in," at the same time shaking the door violently. Deceased appeared in great terror, and told me to go and open the room door. Immediately she bad turned round to do so eke heard the window thrown open, and, turning to me what it was, she saw the deceased tag henelf out of the window into the street. Witness waisted la pisking Oa deemed up, in sa insensible state, and con voying bee 'Me the isstme.-44r. Dam, surgron, said that dm demised bed resolved s sempeund fracture of the bones el the right elbow joint, an estimalus lacerated wound of the mere arse, sad injury to the spin*, of which injuries she died on Friday lam—Verdies, T inasalty."— A Seamus Jois.—Before Kr. W. Haker , at the Omen Gate, City . rosd, touching ttie death of R. Hays, aged 62, a shoemaker. On Friday evening the deceased was in the taproom of a pablic-house in 04-street, when some prim, present. who knew the deceaaed's love for bear, thought they would h ire a " lsrk" with him, and whilst his attention was drawn to another part of the room, one of them mired • quantity ofjalsp in a pot of beer, which th then me him to drink, and before he put it down be amity empled it. He shortly afar cards became unmade, and was placed on some damp strew in an ent-building, where he was discovered in the morning dead. The body not having been examined by • medical man, the coroner said that it was necessary a post csortmet examination should be made, and the inquiry was adjourned for that purp.isi. OUR REPRESENTATIVE SYSTEM. HARWICH—(CoNcLump). Two or three things that came out before the Roues of Commons mmunittee last Much, were calcu lated rather to induce a conclusion that Mr. Att wood', influence In Harwich was not of the purest character. It appeared that the honourable gentle man had been investing a little of his earplug nalney in the house property of the borough. Mr. Attwood's hone, agents were cal!ed. One of them produced a letter from Mr. Attwood's electiln agent, desiring him " to get a good blue tenant" for a house, "to see that all the tenants were properly rated, and that they supported the naive on alloccasio. s." It was sworn that Mr. Attwood's house. were not let without the condition of a vote being a part and I parcel of the letting. A tenant had received a notice I to quit, and Mr. Attwood's agents admitted that "it was banana° be voted agaiast that gentleman." At the last election it seems Mr. Attwoes property cox sista of no less than 20 occupains a number aufficient, among inch a constituency, to turn the'seale at anytime. But, since that period, a considerable addition has been made to this property. An entire caurt out of Church-street has been secured by Mr. Attwool's agent, on lease, the houses put into tenantable repair, and let for 101. or 111. a year. Thes e houses will give ten or twelve additional voters, when all are tenanted, which they are not at present; so that, before the next election, Mr. Attwood will probably have from 30 to 40 tenant voters out of a constituency of 280. And these will not include the Baxbys and other gentlemen electors to • horn sums of money are lent on loan by charitable friends. Harwich is, to all intents and purposes, a rotten borough now; In a few years, if things are not altered, it will be as completely so as ever it was before the Reform Act. From the peculiar local position of the bore ugh, there is little or so opportunity of increasing its town property in any way. Harwich stands on a promontory ;' at the upper end, of it, commanding alike the approach to the town by sea and land, is a huge battery, with half a dozen bristling guns. The land about this battery is the only spare 1 old in Harwich. It belongs chiefly to the Woods and Forests. The Woods and Forests will neither sell, nor let on building leases, nor do anything else with the ground that might make it profitable to themselves or useful to the town. If you ask the reason why, they refer you to the Board of Ordnance, and if you go to the Board of Or lnance they . tell yin that the land " within range of the fire from the battery." New, inasmuch as not a shot bca been fired from the battery lins the peace, except seawards as afro de joie, people might stand all the chance of lying " witnin range " without much amrehension. But the Ordnance do nit look at things in that light ; they may have occasion t) fire their guns some day; so the land remains uncovered. West with the improvement-stopping battery at one end of the town, and the decayed and gram grown dockyard at the other, Harwich can scarcely be regarded as a thriv ing place. Its statistics prove this. It hem scarcely a larger population now than in 1811, when it had 3,732 to the 3,829 returned at the last census. According to parliamentary returns the number of houses in Harwich is about 700; the number estimated of the value of 101. a year and upwards, including storehouses and warehouses, about 450. Of these, however, only about 270 are rated at that amount. Of all the houses in Harwich in 1833 the number taxed at 201 a year and upwards was 28—at 401. a year and upwards, 3 ! One of the 401. houses is now shut up. And yet this place has me great a voice in the legislature as Marylebone or Westusiester, in which the houses below 401. a year are the exception, not the rule ! In 1816 the annual value of real property in Harwich was re tamed at 12,3921. In 1833 it was taken at 11,2,181. ; since then it has been still further reduced. For the pur poses of parochial assessment the prop rty of Harwich is valued at 7,5001. ; for the seme purposes the pro perty of Liverpool is valued at 815,4441., or more than one hundred and twelve limes the amount ! Harwich has a population of 3,732 and an electorate of 279. The Tower Hamlets contain 425,000 population and 18,748 electors. Whilst, therefore, Bir John Cam Hobbonse, a cabinet nisi& ter, represents 1,866 men, women, and children, and IX voters, of whom one-third, or 46 in all, may be supposed to be pure, Mr. George Thompson, who has nothing to do with the cabinet, represents '42,000 souls, and no leas than 9.974 electors, or 113 times as many individuals, and nearly 68 times se many constituents! To show the decaying state of the commerce of the place, it need only be mentioned that whilst in 1778 Harwich had 78 fishing vessels, averaging 40 tons each, in 1833 the total number on the register of the port was 10 ! If Harwich is permitted by the present parliament to con tinue the exercise of all its existing borough privileges, what will be its fate at the next election / Mr. Attwood will doubtless come there with another " grateful Irishman " in his train, and a double thick cheque-book in his pocket. His thirty or forty tenants must bring him in himself,. his puree, in all probability, would bring in his nominee. Thus, as in 1841, to the parliament of England, two members will be returned by one of the smallest constituencies of the empire, under an influence, and by an exercise of power which will not bear examination or discussion. The re able *Linton of Harwich themselves feel the e vil which ensues to the oountry at large, and are far from desirous to present °Wades to an improved system. It is for the coun try, therefore, to decide whether laws are to continue to be made by representatives of such constituencies as this—and whether taxes us to be imposed en others by men who secure their own return to make them, by the basest use of their accumulated gains. worst paid—whose claims to consideration have ever been overruled by the influence of interested pirties,who are neither the to apprthiata the merits, nor disposed to advance the interests of engineer civil effhere ; but who have always been prompt In taking advantage of every means of improving their own condition, at the expense of those by whom more laborious and equally, if not more, responii ht. executive and practic a l d u n es h ave t o b e perfo rmed. Boum pains having been taken to prejudice the claims of engineer civil Mims in public estimation, I beg leave to point out the nature of the duties and resp onsi bility of engineer clerks of works and clerks ; and in Jar feet confidence, :caving to discerning man of business to farm a judgment and decision, whether, comparing the relative duties and charge, the services of the engineer civi. liens have been compensated in anything like a comparative measure, with those of 'the stor e an d o t h er c i v il b rauu l ds o f the ord nance, who are neither by education, nor by qqalifi cations, entitled to higher consideration, and whose occupa tions are neither more responsible, nor requiring even • moiety of that constant and unceasi ng appliadson and study, re eminently ess.ntial in the discharge of the ordinary duties of engineer clerks of worts and clerks. In the performance of the responsible dudes of clerk of works, agreeably to the regulations which, " require the strictest integrity, activity, and attention, he must be fully acquainted with deelgeing, building , artificer.' works, ant the qualities of building materials of every daveriptiou, com petent to draw with neatness and accuracy plans, seed ,as, and elevations., qual.fied to give detailed working plans tor the different parts of a building—understanding thoroughly how to estimate and mown works of eli kinds—be well acquainted with the mode of keeping as mute," and embracing, as they do, the designing, esti mating, and superintending of all ordnance and barrack work. in Great Britain and titer cotoaies, ant the e tdement of the compiicated and vuluminoas accounts of cantrad...rs, fur the ec:uracy of all which clerks of works an cortointly responsible with engineer eld'ithry officers, it follows that I the duties are most arduous in every way, and call for great mental exertion and study. The qualifications of the clerks of the engineer and evil branches are expressed in the regulations as precisely similar. The duties of engineer clerks require him to labour bard, early and late, demand the "rentest possible attention and esre, with muck mentel application in working out the office duties of their districts, involving much responsibility ; not so the duties of storekeepers' cl rks and clerks of other civil branches, which are comparatively easy, very simple, a id involve no material exertion. Memorials have been repeatedly brought forward for the removal of the invidious distinctions, so prejudicial to the interests of the engineer branch ; but whether from selfishness, the desire of withholding the advantage which obtain for the civil brsnches lest, it granted, they mi g ht prejudice the interest, of the latter; or, from the inc rpabi Ivy acfficials to appreciate the claims of the engin. ercivi.lane, cer tain it is, that such memorials nave always failed to rt mqve the feeling that nothing appears to justify the elevation of the clerks of works and clerks of the engineer department to the position and advantuges enjoyed by the clerks and others of the store and other civil branches. To embarrass the condition of the engineer civilians still more, they have unknowingly been made amenable to the articles of war at home and abroad, and this moreover with- out in any other way being recognised as public officers of a military department. Tnus, then, it appeure that ',has:the greatest amount of integrity and vigilance is requircd in performing their responsible doing—whilst placed under peremptory military control, and rendered liable to all the inconvenience*, expenses, and lore,, consequent upon frequent and unc^rtain removals from place to place ; every boon and advantage so li`ierelly dealt out with novena; hands to the civil brarchcs of the ordnance, are obstinately refused, even for the consideration of improving the positions and inindition of that Imthful and zealous cis's, the engineer cheeks of works and clerks. Despairing of anything approaching to a fair and equit able consideration of their services and claim:, so long as the ordnance remains constituted as it is, I beg your insertion of this communication is the Erpress —a means whereby, in all probability, the 10- jeer may possibly he brought under the notice of those quali fied and experienced nun in author.ty who are disposed to teal out svrn•hsnded justice to every department cf the public setv:ce. SUA ISLA TONANTI. IRELAND. DCOLIN, JAN 29. The Freeman's Journal mats a Kr at outcry about the removal of Mr. Wym., and sne:ety in Dublin is equally wroth. But it is reported that Mr. Wyse is not to be overlooked. The question of endowing the Irish catholic clergy will certainly be brought before parliament in the middle of text session by Mr. Keogh, the conservative and catholic M.P. for Athlone. It is rumoured that the Dean of St. l'atrick will ob tain the vacant mitre, and that the Rev. Merle Perrin, brother of Judge Perrin, will be appointed to tee vacant deanery. Dan Paktlham is very popular. He was refused a mitre when his telative the Duke of Wellington was in power. A new weekly journal, The Province if Munger, has appeared at Cork. It is started on the ultra-popu lar interest, and one of its proprietors was confined ander the " Habeas Corpus Suspension Act." It is very remarkable that it flings overboard repeal, -'red says that nationality, in any of the senses in which that word has been understood in Ireland for the last fifteen years, is impossible. In the union of Listowell, in Kerry, the rates are 12s. in the pound, and in the union of Trim the ave rage rating is 7d. in the pound. There are 14,000 paupers receiving outdoor relief in the Listowell Union, besides 2,000 paupers now in the workhouse. In consequence of the apprehension felt amongst the people about the security of savings banks, the directors of the National Bank of Ireland have re solved to take deposits as low as 10a. The Clare Journal says : From the countyWexfird, Athlone, Athy, and elsewhere throughout the country, requisitions lave been sent 'o the dir. ctors of the Bank on this subject, embodying the wish. of the most influent al of the notility, clergy, and gentry of Ireland. In compliance with their request we are happy to learn that the Court et Directors have resolved after the 29th inst. to accept from parties desirous of making deposits with this bank sums not below 10s each, nor containing • fractional part of 10s. noires the sum to be lodised.exceed 51. The resolution of the bank will, we have no doubt, be comidered as a great boon to the poorer classes throughout the kingdom, who will gladly avail them selves of it; esJecially as the losses they have lately sustained from several of the savings banks have mule them now generally suspicions of these institu tions. We should not omit to observe, however, that as far as the Ennis Savings Bank is concerned, there casino:. be the slightest vround for apprehension among the depositors. It has all along fully preserved its credit, and the statement of its present position, lately given by the treasurer and secre tary, is most satisfactory. But independent of this, which merely refers to one locality—we believe that it would be very difficult, If not impossible, to restore public confidence generally in these institutions, sod we have much plccsure in apprising the public of this important resolution of the National Bank. Inceatharism 6till continues in the north. Within two miles of Belfast the criminal disturbers have been doing their work of mischief in the open day. A public meeting was held in Belfast on Thursday, the mayor in the chair, and strong resolutions were passed. There is en account in the Belfast Chronirle of an incendiary outrage. The stacks of a Capt. Garner were fired, and damaged to the amount of 501. DINOIIIMIIIIT OP THE Naw - roxI3I7DA Romerecn.—lt appears that the heroism "of Miss M'Veigh was an ela borately contrived fiction. A correspondent of the Free man's Journal (who is corroborated by the Belfast papers) says " Miss Greet M'Veigh's laurels have been torn down. It was sat'afecterily proved before the magistrate this day (Friday), that she had been in Belfast on the day prose ling the night that she made such courageous work ; that she was in several butchers' shops trying to get a bottle of blood; that she got one at length from a very decent man, of the name of John Hamill, who, le well es his daughter, and a boy about 16 years of age, have all identified Miss Grace as the person who tame for the blood, and took it with lost. The cap that was found as having belonged to the man oho was shot, has also been identified by a person in the old clothes trade as the ore which he sold to Mist M'Veigh on the same day that she bought the blood; he hes identified Miss M'Veigh also. This the young lady seems to have riddled with shot, to assist in making the story app:ar like truth." COUNTY COURTS. The aggregate amount of debts and damages sued for in the mime county courts of the Wes' Cheshire Circuit, in the year 1848, was 31,8681, 4s. 10d. ; but even this sum, Loge as it is, affords a very inadequate test of the real im portances of the county courts, as it is well known that, for one claim that is brought into mart, at least five are now amicably arranged between the par ties, without suit. If, therefore, West Cheshire be a fair sample of the sixty eremite into which England and Wales have been divided—end we select it ae comprising both an agricultural and a manufac turing population—it is manifest that many millions per annum are recovered through the instrumentality of these cheap and Summary trbunds. It would be difficult to put too high an estimate upon the importance of such a boon to the community at large, and more particularly to tredennen, in times like those (we bops we may say) we have lately pared through, and we rejoice in the success of this great experiment in law reform. No comprehensive enactment of the legislature, involving new and important principles, can be expected to be perfect at the oaten ; bat while the objections even to the details et the new system are singularly few, and may be easily obvi ated, we have not heard even a cavil at the threefold prin ciple upon which the system is based; viz , dispensing with written pleadings ; allowing each side to tell his own stery, under the sanction of an oath ; sad enabling parties by mu tual cament to dispense with juries, and leave the matter in dispute, stripped of all needless technicalities, to the decision of a competent and experiensed judge. The system has now had a fair trial, and is universally admitted to be most salu tary. We trust, therefore, that her majesty's ministers will proceed as they have begun, and extend the principle of "cheap, speedy, and substantial justice." If the experiment has been so euoeeesful in common law, why should it not be tried in Chancery ? If parties may be safely heard in their own causes, why should this privilege, which is common to all, be limited to causes under 201., or any other rum ? If rebutters and Bur-rebutters, and all the canning arts of the special pleader, may with benefit to th e public be dispensed with in any ore, why should they be indispensable in all ceases above 2W ? If, es in West Cheshire, of 20,418 stilton ten only have not pre:erred the decision of a single judge to the finding of a jury, why should they be compelled either to abandon all claims above 201. or go before a tribunal which, if allowed I. exercise a choice, they would not select ? We are no advocates for proceeding too rapidly in an experi mental course, and are content that the exclusive jurisdiction of the county courts should be limited, as at present, to 201. But where both parties are satisfied with the tribunal, we can see no good reason why they might not resort to it. What objection, for example, could be urged (except by the lawyers) to a plaintiff being allowed to commence his action for any amount in the county court, with liberty to the de fendant to remove all muses above 201. by certiorari, an giving warily for meta ? We know of none. la the foregoing remarks we have confined ounelves to the estrasim and improvement of the civil jurisdiction of the spumy *arts, but we cannot help thinking that it is well washy the consideration of the legislature whether a criminal Julie:fiction might not well be entrusted to the same judges, as is the case in Ireland, where the system of sesistaat-barriten is one of the few institutions which works well. If the judges of the county courts acted as chairmen of quarter sessions, each disgraceful scenes as have lately been reported at Preston and at Taunton would not occur. ORDNANCE.-ENOLNEER CLERKS. --- Stit,—The anomalous system of the Ordnance hav ing beta brought under notice in the public journals, would desire to draw attention to the unjust and partial operation of that system, against the cl.rka of works, and elTrks of the engineer branch, who, of all °then employed in the ordnance service, are undeniably the hardest worked sad SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH. Difficult u it is to get at the burdens on land, there is one time peculiarly favourable for obtaining a we- Irect account of the taxes that bear down the landed interest; that time is when land is to sell, and then the burdens are as sure to be small as they are certain to be great when the equitable adjustment of national taxation is spoken of. An estate in Stirlingshire is just now being advertised for sale: in extent it is upwards of 1,100 acres, and the upset price is 14,0001. "The case, bridge and rogue money, minis ter's stipend, and eohoolmaster's salary, amount for the whole estate to 9/. 3s. Bd." On consulting the poor-law report, there is, in addition, no as ' 'moment for the poor. An Edinburgh shop keeper, with a rent of 1504 will, for the single item of minister's stipend, pay more than the proprietor of this estate pays for all the taxes mentioned. On the subject of finance reform, it may be mentioned that intimation is said to have come to Edinburgh from head-quarters, that at the commence ment of the session Lord Jahn Russ-11 is to take the wind out of Mr. Cobden's sails, and astonish the coun try with a detail of what ho has done, is doing, and will do, in the way of retrenchment. Except in the insignificant item of never having been able to keep expenditure from running ahead of income, Lord John is to show himself to have been all along a finance reformer. The story is as good as that of the draught-player, who, finding he was losing the game, turned round the board, and declared the winning men to be his. The ruse will not deceive the Edin burgh financiers. Tae Fonothice at tia.aeteuer.—ln reference to the extensive forgeries just dieeevered (as reported in this paper yesterday') the Glettgow Citizen says "It is now apparent that the delinquent, who was well esunected, and used high in society in the city, mutt have been guilty, during the last two or three years, of many similar forFtries, bet which he had skilfully managed to prevent awning to light. As he was in the Ivneriean trwle, and omicron of personal intimacy with the partners of both the respectable firms upon which he drew, it was impossible that the basil:ars who discounted the bills canld have the slightest doubt of their authenticity. We learn, however, that in September last the manager of the City B ink, not liking the look of Mr. Buchanan's account, insisted on its being curtailed—that little or no paper had been dieemr..te.l for him sines teat date—while the &merit had been reduced to a third of its then ernount— no leas than B.OOW. having in the interim been paid. None of the' other acceptances' referred to above, are held by the City Bank ; and a cash credit which Mr. Buchanan has held for the last flee yesrs in that bunk is, we are intumed, perfectly regular and secure." Ma. MACAULAY'S INAUGURATION AI LORD RECTOR Or GLASGOW UNIVERSITY has been postpsited fir the ens nat. Although the period origiruilly indicated continued perfectly oenvissient for Mr. Mocaulay, the authorities of the University have, we are informed, considered it judicious to decline fixing a day for the ceremony in the wending), o wing chit tly to the prevalence of thetas, in the city, and the consequent thinness of the classes. It has also been resolved to prolour the postponement ulna alter the ruing of puha merit at Sister, in obed'ence to the wishes of several emi nent Wends who desire t) be present on the occasion. The inauguration may, therefore, be expected to take place about the middle of April. PROPINCIAL. LANCASHIRE. A GENERAL MEETING OP THE PROPRIETORS OF THE LIVEUPOOL 'Cmasoa buildings was held 3 esterday, when a dividend of 81. 10s. was declared. Cool Taicx.—At the Hulme Cavalry Barrack., Manchester, on 8 iturdsy, • valuable horse belonging to one of the offlers (a ehargfr, worth at least 2001, or 2601) was stolen from the stable. A man entered the barrack-yard in the garb of an officer's servant, and going to the stable deli. beratels brought out the horse, in presenee of many of the troopers, and, mounting it, rode out at the gate unchallenged ' by ttv sentry, and unsuspected by any one to he other than ' what he seemed. Re got clear off with the steed, and neithi r of them have yet been trend. EIGHT LIVES LOST AT LANCASTER.—An inquest was held on Wednrsday upon eig mon who lost their lives by the upsetting of a boat on the river Lune, at Lancaster. The men were working at Donny Beck Qoa-rv, on the North-Western Railway, about two milts, from Lancaster. They were in the habit of amine the Lune in a body to get to Hilton, where they lived. On the a f ter , oon o f M on d ay the boat h ad crested twice, once with ten in it and once with sewn. The third time, eleven got in, but one, thinking it too full, jumped out. The others pushed elf. The fresh was then running strong, and the wind being very high, while the •d e of the beat was close to the water, the waves dashed into it, and turned it evmpletely over, throwing then: all into the . One of them clung to the bout, and was heard for some time crying for help. Two others saved themselves by swimming, and tho teat su n k. V er di c t, "Accidental death." TORK9HIRR. SEVERAL MEETING 4 TO PROMOTE THE PEACE MOVEXENT have recently been held, at which Mr. Jcseph Sturgis. and other ge..tlemen, have urged upon large audiences the desirability of dispensin g w i t h standing armies, and of Fettling all national disputes without reference to the sword. One of these meetings took place at Ruddersfuld on Friday. A CONSIDERATE POLICEMAN.—The Halifax new borough police have printed instructions that their duty is to yrevent offences One of the body th, other day carried out his instructions in rather a nay I manner. Two drunken fellows were quarrelling in the wee% and from words were [woes, iing to blows, when the gentleman in Nue came up. Without drawing staff he marched up to the irate combatants, and tapping one of them on the shoutler, said gravely," You haven't tither of you fourtten shillin' that you can sp,re, beet you ?" Tois broad hie tat penalty and vote" brought the two to their armee. ft,,y ient•mbered that they could not afford the luxury of a street row, and so they went away in ream FRUITS OF VIE GASIL-LAWS.—A murder was com mitted on Earl de Grey's proptrty, near Ripon, on Thurs day night. A gamekeeper named Harrison on the noble earl's estrte went out about 4 p.m. nn that day, unarmed, for the purp sse i f some of the plantations in hit hes ping. Ile did not return a: night, but no alarm was tic essi,ned, as ha was frequently in the habit of being out at a late hour. On the following morning, however, the tin. fortunate man not having returned, a search wa- made, and his body was found in a plantation at uo great distance from his own house, and where it appeared that he had been shot through the heart—it is belf.jed by poachers. DUEFIAM. ANOTIIKR " GAME-LAW " MlJRDen.—The Durham Adverloser of Friday reports another murder, believed to have been committed by poachers, on Sunday morning lest, at Trundle Mire Plantations, &bow two milesfromWest Auck land. George May, a game watcher in the service of the Duke of CPveland i- the victim. The unfortunate man left his house at Raby Folly, ab .nt six o'clock that morning, to walk over same of the grounds. Nut retoraine , fears began to be enter tiined for his safety, :a threats had been uttered by certain arties agaiest him. Search was made in different places, and, on Tuesday afternoon, while his brutbor and another man was anteing the plantation above-mentioned, they found the body of May in a thicket lying in • pool of blood, and his head nearly blown off. His stick was lying by his side, and • Inadrd pistol was in his pocket. lie appeared to have been shot dead without any resistance or eruggle. Marks of shut were found in a tree opposite, and the footmarks of the deceased were traced into the thieltrt, and footmarks of twa persons were tread out of the thicket towards liurnmerbeck. The keeper of Eveawood tollbar had heard several shots fired in the direc tion of the plantation during the Saturday night and Sunday morning. It is rather a remarkable circumstance that the Raby fox hounds had been ranging through the plantation on the Monday. without any one having seen the body. An inquest was held on Thursday, when the above fact. harries been given in evidence, the inquiry was adjourned for a week. "It will be remembered," adds the Durham paper " that it was tbo,.ght Thompson and Dow son, who kdled John Shirley, at Refry, about a year ago, expected it was May at whom they fi red, and not Shirley. May was also a witness against them at their trial at the assizes." May bas left a wife and three children. CHESHIRE. DEATHS PROM STARVATION.—On Sunday, In spector M'Neill proceeded to an empty house i,. Oak street, Birkenhead, where he found a woman lying deed upon the floor, and a child, about nine months old, also dead, lying at her feet. Four young children, whess ages average from about four to ten, were huddled round the fire-place. The grits contained some scanty fuel, and the poor creatures were, in the language of the inspector, " attempting to squeeze the heat out of the bars.' Behind the children lay the dead bodies of the mother and child. The house contained no article of furniture whatever, nor was there a morsel of food of any dercription within the wale. It appears that the deceased female (who was about forty years of age) wan named Ellen Kane. She had come with her children from Ireland only • few days ago, and facing in the door, tale poenmsion of the unoccupied house, where she was found dead. She never applied to any of the parochial officers for relief, probably from fear of removal, and the existence of the family, and their circumatances, were unknown to the authorities of the plate until the wasin strectogeer 11 k t r h m e yedh o f her h n e o r t dteast„Ti hlenhgil sinceea sitittueitldatey morning, when their mother distributed amongst them a little bread. Mr. D swning, surgeon, was called in, and gave an opinion that Ir.th mother and child had perished from starvation. WARY/IMMURE. JENNY LIND'S CON — CEIVAT iamINGHAm.—At the weekly board of the Queen's Hospital on Friday lut a ape cial meeting was appointed to determine upon the form of tablet to be placed in the vestibule of the charity in com memoration of the generous services of Mettle. Lind, on the 28th ult., in aid of the funds of this charity. The accounts have been audited, and it appear that the gross receipts of the concert amount to 1,2981. Bs. 6d., the expenses to 241. 17s. 3d., leaving a balance in favour of the hospital of 1,0701. lls. 3d. SUSPECTED POISONISG BY A IVIFE.—The retired village of Manley, &bent eight miles west, of Worcester, has been excited by a rumour that a young married man, named Solomon Cooper, who expired on the 1:t of January, after a very sudden and brief illness, was poisoned by his wife, who it is stated had formed an improper COZU1SI1011wi:h another person. The deceased was seized with Musa just before Christmas, and having died on New Year's day (as already stated), a as buried in due time afterwards, though not with out same rumours having thus early got into circulation derogatory to the character of the wife. These rumours, however, subsequently gained strength, and the coroner for the county dicted that the body of the • •ieceved should be i re exhumed,n order that it might be examined. Toe exhu• oration accordingly took place yetterdey. It is stated that before the death of Cooper his wife &stained a quantify of poison from a druggist's shop in Worcester through the means of another party, a woman named Susan B don. The inquest on the body was to be opened last nigkt at Hartley. ESSEX. _ _ _ COMMISSION BY THEI.ZiD-LIECTENANY.—Lietit. C. Brewster, to be Cart 7sa the Asst Base: Militia. MURDER BY A LU ----- NATIC.—At Portant', on Friday, a woman, named Beveridge, meet to tbs station-house there and said she had strangled her child. Upon inquiry this statement was found to be true; the deceased, a male eLi!el aged live years, being dkcovered dead with a plea of calico tightly twisted round its neck. The prisoner was coneic'ed at the Winchester wires, two years ago, for the murder of her youngest child, which she strangled in a similar manner, a verdict of "Not Guilty on the ground of insanity" h-ing returned, and she was ordered to be confined. After about twelve months' confinement in Winchester Gaol she was liberated, and sent to the PorOes Union, whereshe remained for a few months and was afterwards dlsebsrg d. AN ENGAGEMENT WITH SMUGGLER-I.—An ingtice. was held at Wansash, on Saturday on the body of B. Cork, who was found drowned on Frilay on the mud in Ramble River. It cppeircel ftom the evileuca taken that the deceased was a native of Cowes, in the Is'e of Wight, but resided at Gosport, and cn Thursdly night last was one of the crew of six in a long French galley or tub-boat, laden with contrabacd spirits, and from anew Of weather had been driven into Ramble River, when they encountered the coast guard, with whom it is believed there was some resistance, a. up wards of twenty roports of fire-arms were heard during the night. The whole of the galley's crew abandoned her and went overboard, three of whom evidently stripped them selves, as their clothes were found on board, and one of them, a Frenchman, wr the next :awning found at Rook, near the spot, and removed to Southampton with the galley and its eargo. The other four men have not been yet heard of. The deceased Cork bad no mark of vio:ence whatever on his body, and must hays been drowned in endeavouring to get on shore. The verdict of the jury was " Found drowned." The anteggler'a .ugger brought from France 146 half mitten, or 480 gallons. She put isto Portsmouth on Friday. It is reported in the neighbourhood that one of the smuggler's crew was shot through the body and killed, but that his com panions carried bins od: UCNTINGDONBIIIRE. TILE STILTON 3lui - Lia;. - - - ine -- prisoner, Charles Burton, who was convicted at the last 111 sizes for the murder of Lis w ife, at Stilton, and ?received senlence of death, which has l•em respired until the 10th day of April next, will, at the next amazes, be tried upon en indictment for the murder of his child. The friends of this prisoner will thereby hare an opportunity of producing evidence 01 his insanity at the time he committed the murders, which did not appear in court on his former ts ial. A Fla; supposed to have been canoed by an in cendiary, occurred at Huntingdon on Thursday, by which th• premises of Mr. Jenkins, of the George Hotel, were very emieualy damaged. ALLEGED POlBO ST - iila AT i;tleTOL. Yesterday Henry Evans, charged with attempting to murder him wile at Bristol by administering poison to her, underwent *final examination and was fully committed fur trial. In addition to the testimony slready given. a witness named Thomas Finer, a farrier, residing ha the Ohl Market-street, depesed that about six cr seven weeks ago the prisoner came to his shop and asked him if he could let him have um, liaison to destroy mice. Wi.nesi told him that he had some 1011.11/0 which he kept to ma . ..e ointments for liana, and gave him some. There was a third person in the shop at the time, and he said, "Don't give it to me now." AP.er that pinta read left he told witness to throw the packet of poison oa the ground, and thin picking it up he said, 0 Mod, you did not give it to me," end went away. He did no . . pay for it, as it was a gift. Oa the 17th of the present month he said to witness, " That was not arsenic you gave me, bat only a white powder." Witness replied that it was amok, upon which he replied that he had tried it on a cat, and it took no affect. 8011ERSETSIIIIIR REDUCTION OP THE TAXES.—A meeting, priuci pally coosisting of farmers, was held in the County hall, Taunton, ou Samrday, to petition parliament fur a reduc tion of taxes and just economy.—B. E•cott, Esq., was called to the chair, and having addressed the meeting in support of its objects, moved the ...minion of a petitiou, wnich lie read, and which was carried unanimously. It was then ordered that the petition &tumid be forwar.ltd to the Right lion. H. Labouchere for presentation. The whole proeeedinga were of the most encouraging and enthusivaic character. Parish petitions are forthwith to be prepared, and the wdolc county seems awakened to the necessity of such reforms as were urged in Mr. Ear.ott's speech. _lusts. -- Ma. BAUM'S CONCERT.—JENNY LIND.—The con cert in Heeler Hall, at which Jenny Lind volunteer el her gratuitcus assistance for the benefit of Mr. Bale, in acknow ledgment of his able and ambito services during her provin cial engagements tine, the close of the last opera season, took Vatne last evening. The hall was completely tfiLd, hut net disagreeably crowded, the save of tickets having been limited, so as to proveut inconvenience 4' this kind. Many distinguished personages were present —among others, the Duke of Wellington, who was greatly apulteuded on his entrance. The concert, indepowtently of Mettle Lind, erg by no means of a remarkable kind. The (sir Swede was " the observed of all observe re." The audience, indeed, sewed to have neither eyes nor ears for anybody el, r. Even L ablecLe's amusing !nazi in the buffo duet " Un s greto d'importenxi," and Thellserles brilliant performance or his " Taranto do," wire received with an indifference to which those great performers are little accustomed. Such bring the case, it was fortunate that Jenny Lind sung a great deal, otherwise the evening would have been a dull one. tier first piece was the scene from the "Nome di Figaro," con tenting •he beautiful air " Deh view, nen taruar." This was toe finest thing she sang, but it was not her moat successful performance. The time of the air was token much Igo ger than we ever heard it before; and ttis mistake (tor so we must consider it, with all deference to Mdlle. Lied and Mr. Balt. ), almost daprivi tl the air of its warm and passion ate exore,sion, and made it somewhat languid and heavy notwithstanding the beauty of voice and execution with which it was sung. Iler soxt air, the famous "Casts Diva" from "Norma,' evidently made a Henan r impres sion. It was indeed a stream of the most enshant lug e;ody, uttered in tones at tort and silvery as the beams of the pleura to which this touching invocation is addressed. The second part of this air—the allegro com mencing "Ah, bello ame ritorna," is a fel:ing oil from the ideal purity and loftiness of the commencement. It be comes a series of flsrid passa,es of rather an ordinary de scription ; but Millie. Lied made these passages charming, not only by the exquisite finish of her vocalisation, but by the variety of expression which she threw into them. The trio for the voice and two fluter, from blayerbeer's opera of " Vielka," concluded the first part of the eoecert. This piece, which Mdlle. Lind performed at se veral cone , eta during last season, is quite a musical curiosity. The voice is literally converted into an instrument, and con tends with the two flutes in a profusion of passages, divisions, roulades, and teilla, blended and interwoven with each other with a enniplexity sufficient to puezle a skilful inttrumintal ist ; yet Jenny Lind not only eclipses the flute-players in clear, briaient, and articulate execution, and in the facility with which she reaches the highest regions of the reale, but in imperturbable steadiness of time, and in the precaion with which every response and point of imitation is taken. Setting aside the difficult& vaincue," the piece is of no great value, It means nothing, but it livery pretty, and as a teat of vocal gymnastics, it throws the variation, on "Rode 's air" end every other thing of that sort, completely into the shade. In the second part of the concert Jenny Lind sang, with Lablache, the well known buffo duet, " Con patrenzo," in which a pupil goes through, to her master, a variety of ex ercises in singing. This, too, is a mere display of execution which has been a favourite with prima donna., for the last half century, but certainly we have never heard it dene with such facility and grace as by Jenny Liod ; and she does it, too, with deightful naireti and atriums. She concluded by singing a new English bolted, composed for her by Belli, called " The Lonely Hose," a pretty trifle, to which she gave great interest by her elegant and ex. eremites performance, and especially by her beauti ful delivery of the words. It is almost unnecessary to say that her performance, were received with an enthusiasm which went on crescendo during the evening. Of the re mainder of the concert there is little to be said. There was a good orchestra, who played two of Mr. Balfe's overtures, and accompanied most of the vocal pieces. The other per formers, besides those already named, were Sig. Belletti, Mdlle. Vera, Mime Bassano, Miss Durlacher, and Mr. F. Lablache. Cbt Dirtina. SIMBEY.—A new drama, entitled "The Bivouac of the Hills, r,r the Bridal," was produced here lest night. It is of the Surrey character, and certainly not above the Sur rey standard aexcellence. The incidents are entirely desti tute of novelty. There is a quarrel between a prin.e sol dier and his commanding officer about the sweetheart of the former, resulting, of course, in the condemnation of the sol dier, who is, as usual, saved at the moment of execution by the lady whose heroism locums a husband sad rids her coun try (Switserlaad) of its French invaders by the same act. The piece, which was respectably acted, especially the pert filled by Mr. Emery, and well put nowt the stage, was suc cessful, and—seeing with what small matters the audiences of the other side of the water are satisfied—may possibly run for some few weeks. CLERICAL. PREFERMENTS —Hey. Dr. Stansbury to Sutton C. North ampton. dio. Peterborougb.—Rev. 0. Bateman to Tensor C., North. amptoo, dio. Peterborough.—Res. J. Cochin to A,hwelthorpe Stip. C., Norfolk.—Rev. J. bostrvih to Waith V., Line., dio. Line.; 661. pats., Mr. Haigh and Mrs. Halgh.—Rev. E. Lovell to Cochlington 8., Heref., dio. liereL; 1701., 11 ith res. ; pat., Bp. of Hereford.—Rev. J. Stevenson, to Leighton RwceardV., Bab., din Ely ; 1931., with res.; pat., Web. thereof; Rev. J. Wilson, dee.—Rev. 0. V. Nutt, Blum al ai Whitley P.C., Melkabam, dio. Bar. ; 100/., with ren.; pat, Vicar of Melksisam: /dr. C. Williams, prom.—Rev. J. E. Cos to St. Helen V., Itiehopermie, London, dio. Loa.; RIM .; pat., D. and C. of St. Paul's. —Rev. It. Bootie to Chaddiagton 8., Dorset, db. Sarum ; 1.81„ with Tn. ; Da le W. T. COZ, Eeq.; Rev. J. C. CD; prom.—Rev. C. 0. Danes to Chaplain of tie Tewkesbury Cajon.—Rev. W. 11. Bond, to Wevingtm V., Bads., dila Ely: 1081. with residence ; pat., fluke of Bedford.—Rev. T. ilhattlawortb, to Y.glaahavle V.; Cornw., silo. Exeter; 3271. with tandem.; pat„ Bishop of Exeter.—Bev. D. M. Cult, to be Read Muter and Chaplain of the Royal Agricultural Coll. —Rev. B. 0. P. Perry, to Tottingtm P. C., Bury, dio. Man. ; 1501.; pat., Rector of Bury.—Rev. F. A. Piggott, to West Hackney C., Mid dlesex. NAVAL • --- DSVONPORT, JAN. 28.-841amander, Rattler, Growler, and Julia ate amers, as part of the steam reserve to be kept at this port, and acconmaked by the Driver, Com. Johnson, arrirzel from Portamouth th.s mmnimr, and proceeded to their moorings off the new sham works. The Driver will bike their crews back to Ports mouth. tilsevnxEss, JAN. 28.—President arrived et the Wore vcsterday, aed her ught up. On working Into our harbor this day with a *trees wind from W. by S. elm wm caught is the counter tides, by which she was drifted foul or the fiag-ahlp, the jits•hoom and flying ib•boom of which were carried away, the President's fly- Log jib- toom being also damaged. The President was be.ught up by her anchor immediately, and subsequently the government steamers towed her to a fair berth in the harbour. She is to proceed to. Chat ham, where she is ordered to be paid eft.—ne Dutch barque Johannes Mariam, Capt. J. Van Deft, was yesterday taken into one of H.M.'s docks here for repairs, with her cargo undisturbed; the is oitgng in whores; she has a very valuable cargo of coffee, sugar, in digo, cochineal, Banco tin, he, from Java for ltotterdam. Oct the water being pumped out of the dock at the rate of sixty tons per minute by the d• . ~ck steam-engine, It was found that her false keel pieces forward and art were gone. She has received sundry other ex ternal damace, all of which will be repaired here by the government without di,cbarging the cargo. MILITARY. ----- - • Mons TROOPS FOR INDIA.—The But India Company have, It i± understood, applied to the government far three regiments in addition to these which have Just embarked for India. Should their request be acerdel to, a force amountind to 6,000 rank die will en.bwk for India dining this year, the entire oust of maintaining which will be borne by 'he coropery. 28rn RISIIT.—T”e prisoner Toonvy, belornien to the 28th RTC, In Plymouth citadel, who was tried by court martial some time *mix r striking an officer of that rest., we on Sg,urJny,berlienCed to be touPorted for It years. 1