The Express. — London, England, 1849-01-16 00:00:00

Isw furilsso Mails rmsisMi she ilmarslistsg 411 t o rr from of this prim. sod Ma prowrood kr ismer. TOW sight tlis stationsus of kis ma Mem. THE TOTING CHOLERA CASES. Kr. Watley held ea inquest yesterday, at Masai workhouse, ea fin named Ridgway, s w ag, Inger, end Po/lisps planed hem Mr Dreamt% pauper frahlisament at Tooling, whew Map had china of dales. In the coaxes of the preesediso it wee *baited that the Cellars guardians hen 106 pauper deem still at Toot. mg, and that 10 children sum Chaise. had died at Mr. Dreesta. TheConen observed that he had heard ney bed anemia —Mr. Popham said that there had bias me tree teem of Wears at T o eing sinus Saturday ; the ern IMO weft ammemse. taw aver. The Canner: How gamy deaths ban yam hal wt T on gi n g alwatber ?—Mr. Popham : Over 100. 1 Noma needy say.—The Ceram: Yoe, a greet many men than mat—more that 130.—Mr. Popham : The mambo' at , rhalhe mime have buss I the ratio of lin24 of Oars 'linked,. The Careen : Hew way perishes hen their children et the i m am emahlkhatest are ?-11r. Deem* replied that More were the ethane .Icily this. perishes mew with him, via., fit Gen e •siatheaset, 811. Leas% Mira, and Chita,. well. All the rimallaese bodteging to ether parishes were the chit. Jelin Renick namined Wm a labourer, and now an la ma of Chelsea workhouse. His two Manama wne met te Tooting from that workhouse about gas weeks bask. They wen that as healthy girls me they Genial wish te see. The ma OW eider child was 11 years, sad that of the deeremed II lean. He visited them Oat at Tootne about six weeks b o a, and then was mere eatisfia d with their app nanny then when in Chelsea greeithoue. When he saw the children be eery an allowed to en them La private. The children were seat oat tete the lodge to gee him, and the porter and some other officen of the establishment WON men,. —By the Conan : I did ace ask to be permitted to see *en privately sad alone. I again saw them on my last meaddy Sunday me, mad I tam inked thus if thin had mad- at to rat there. ash they answered " No." I rook lint dew three allowaaare ef paddine, which my wife had Wash% here, and two allowances of bread and butter, end slthosin the children bad just had their dinar May wen so Imam that they ate the whole of it. They said they db. not get awash to eat then, and they winked they were at home, meeting beck at the Chelsea Workhouse. 1 did net complan to the Chen' guardians that my children had sot *sough to eat at Tooting. Had I does so 1 might have at with worse tenement than I have dew. When I west the second time I fated that an wen as sot having bad ennui' to eat the younger one was eons up with the itch. I was there last Sunday week, and th, • thought sit children looked well ; but that was the time they were dying Oa the following Thursday I received sense that my child was ill, end on going to Tooting the same diy I found the deceased in one of the sick ward., sad very p ey Iri mined in the ward with her for two bean. I bays been down there several times since I saw no ma dins gentleman attend upon an child, or any other, all the time I was there.—Mr. Kite : Do you mean no say you sever saw me?—Witness: Yes, I saw you mad that gestlemaa (Mr. Popham), but not attending my add. I think then were about fifteen children fa the ward when my child wain—Coroner : Did you ask to we the la. heal men about you , child ?—Witness: did not. I am p Wive I saw no medicine administered either by the nurses or the Medical men. When I amt beck I sent n • petition with four others, to the Board, to say that we would find lodgings for oar chldren in the parish, if the guardians would let theta ease away from Tooting, end find them le food. - fete answer was, that the 'martian had iscided the' the children should all remain at Tooting, and it could wet be allowed.—The foreman : Do you know if there is any ectoolaint of the food at Towing now ? Witness: No. there le not. The a ildren my they have plenty of food now, sine this her broken out.—The coroner: If the guardians have allowed their children to remain at Tooting, no doubt they hao genii rearm fir doing so. In doing so, hownver, they must he aware that they have involved themselves in a vast amount of risponsioility. It is net assumed that • wrong bus be. n 'one ; bat, if there her, it will be a portion of the day of the jury to investigate who are the authors of that wrong. Maria Ingo said she was the mother of the deceased Sarah laws, sad saw hi r di. at the Tootle" Asylum at four o'clock on Snout , y anomie,/ feat, after an illness of 24 hours. She bad gat at pain and cramps in the stomach, and had mustard poultices and oilier remedies applied, and medicine atlminia tend by the medical gentlemen. Deceased had been at Tootles about eight weeks, and on remarking that she looked very pale the last time she saw her, she laasplaiaed thatch use kept out in a cold yard.—By the Co oner : I saw her ft the lodge, but I had no opportunity of speaking to hir in private. I did not notice that she wee annelle clothed except about the meek and shoulders. On Friday tight, alter she was taken ill, I asked her if she had until tient rood, and she said, " No, mother ; I did not get food enougb." an -I she then told me she had nought bread one of the sumo, with some halfpence I had given her. Ott the Friday evening socking was gives her bet brandy and water. Mr William Horn l'opnam deposed that be was • ii em bev of the It iyal Coll. ge of Surgeon. He had attended the decresei, Grafi* Halley, from Tuesday last, when he was first attacked, until the time of his death, on the morning of Friday last, the 12th instant. His case oresenti d all the usual symptom. of cholera, and he died in • state of collapse —By the Corner : Witaas was seat to ay. Tooting erablish. meat by the board of directors of the poor of St. Ibiatrile, at the sunrestion of the Board of Health, to attend the boys be longing to the parch. Ile saw also moat of the other patient., se he went maximally fn's all the other ward., as well as that is which the St. Pancras children were placed. Mr. If olio, Mr. Pi en, and Mr. Phial'e were also surgeons attendance on the children. Mr. Waklity then addressing Mr. Popham said—You ban sow Mr. Poplin' been celled so prove the cause of the death of nue of the deceased, Gawp Hartley, but by tad It, you will hr (orbit examined sad called upon te state what is your opinion as to the canard this calamity ; and it is there fore essentially necessary that you 'hosed be present inring the whine of tn• enquiry, so that you may know sad make yours. It acquainted with all the facts of the cam developed by the videuce given. Mr. Popham said he was desiring of explaining one eiri eumnowes, whisk was rather of importance. Amongst the facts which hate gout forward before the public Mr.Cirainger in his evincing given at the inquest held uu Friday las at the Free Hospital, stated that the patients had some lain five in a bed. He (Mr. Popham) had given Mr. Grainger that infor mation under an erroneous istpremicia that it was a net, but he had subsequently asenteineu that where he enplaned that to he the case it was a feet that a board had been plated between two beds for the purpose of making an addi tional bed for • patient, which made it appear that five IMO is a bed. Th. Coroner thea observed that the inquiry had now reachsd the point at which it would be necessary it should be ea:journa d. There would be two questions into which they would have to 'again. Tee first was, as to how this calamity bad triginatcd, and, secondly, as to the noiaremoval in the • chilorss tainting to Chelsea from Tonting,which would re gain to be mat folly gene into; and he supposed that some of the members of the board of guardians would, at the proper time, be able to state the lesions which in ducsd damn to detenstine ea etatinuing them there to the present time. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and, after a laps of eh et half an hoar, the public were readmitted, 'rhea The C." 1147 said it would beneensary that this inest should be adjourned until after that held at the Free Ho. peal was ene:udtd, so as to prevent the two clashia.g to gether. lie proposed to take the Free Hospital inquest on Tunifil and Wednesday aext, and it would most probably be held on the lollowisg Tanday. He would, therefore, suggest that this inquiry should be adjourned until after that time. Th. For man of the Jury (Mt. Martin) said they had keno that the board of guardian bad up to the present time sent no medical mass to take the especial care of the children belongiag to that parish, and the jury had in con sequence of that [set, while the room had been cloned, at the suggeetiou of tic. Ceroll.7, resolved to suggest to the guardians present their unanimous wish that the children now retaining at Tooting should be removed home to Cio lees hlr. Fielder (Viets•Citeirmem of the Board of Guardians) rather warmly advocated the mane the board had ado,ned is it. eping the diddles at Tooting. lir. Itp.er (the Chairman) said be would tall the foreman and the Jury why the board had coin, to the conclusion th• y had done. They believed that the outbreak had been caused by the enema* overcrowding of the establi.hment, and the went of proper ventilation; and, there being titer the re m,, el of the other shildren, plenty of room, and plenty of amen and mod cal mon in 'Madame, which was not the ere at first, they determined ha the non-removal of the Chilies children. The children had also now food of a superior quality, and the board were therefore of opinion that as they meld not find any pLas in Chelsea in which upwards of en hundred meow could be plated, it would be better ss keep them where they wen at present. st Juryman said he and seen a itmliy_ot five children a day or tor t slam which had come frees Tooting, and such objects be had never before men, for they wand half Mined —The *airy wee then adjossmcd. Is ST. Panama, parer& , Kr. Mills roamed the in quiry open the sum of the a brought from Tootiop, who died in Bt. Pancras workhouse. The inquest was again adjonssed. Ct t oLgin.—Yesterdar the following fresh come were reported by the Boarded Health: Grouses peeper establish men , , Twin`, 13 fatal ; Workhouse, HolWra Union, 2, 1 fatal ; Keep, Ookratreet, Mapleton, 1; Althorps-home, eattorme, l ; Wsedsworth sad Clapham Gahm, 2, 1 fatal ; Wandsworth, 3, 1 Mal ; Sindel* Cake, 2 fatal; Hack ney, 1 fatal; Spittal, Bar aiel apse-Tweed Ilalon, 1 fatal; Carlisle, 10, 1 fatal; Wakefield, 7, 6 fatal; Akimbo's, Hens, 1 fatal. Edinbereb, S fatal ; Glasgow, 118, 53 fatal ; Bairns, by Glasgow, 1 fatal; Karoo, 1 fatal ; Old Monk land, from 9th to 13th, 42, 25 fatal; New Monklaad, 44, 30 fatal ; Kdmadock, Nmae, 10, 6 fatal ; Paisley, 25, 11 fatal; Ontipair, 1 fatal ; Greenock, 3, 2 fatal ; Jedbergh, 2, 1 fatal ; Stevenston. Ayrshire, 4, 1 fatal; Selkirk, 3. Total new CIWP, 289, 161 deaths nnThIINSTIA REIPOJUI SnclitTr.—An adjourned me ?Mc t f this society was held last evening, at the York • Cotett-prdea, to take into consideranon the follow lag megadeals which ware mused at the Free Trade.ball, Manchester, es lats 10th twat. : Thut t melees la sweginei_e with the Warped now • lirforin AreitWoo, and aim Ma% talhelr GINN Brasses the pubis uplifting to at lest Me Miseme at Ink awl to amenne a inoreequitabk andannoinimi wee= anomalies. Ttut ltd. weakly tally imam Ina do soft had at Man ehr.ter rat the lee tait., r ballrilm doe. dimr a embed elfuet tbv,ughnut the amieveer. 11111111111V a illne relts Wm in the pain 111124 sondinee has lbws on• wog will not lownien nin nit 611•Taffinth a r otnninund Mucha /is 111111011 , 11 MIR duo las-pagaas I *NM of Orreser, by' amen end semplets the emeineei et ow mom Thee ibis nada Mile with meddled= the reededicee of the rehmesefllesehater to Lew so eeneletiaa be the 'wpm el ,4Meedleg the ineethe ht beeelephe eel esuathe; mad thereby gisimeNeirls Ow Wirt elletwee ma mart to web eseceistioe when it Ai Mee Inue bawl Mr. Lads Yreka takes tie ask ilr. 3. Ball moved the first meeksges. awl after twOrw the sewity, on panel as wen as "said growls of I slag the expenditure of the loluasfy M as hie WWI ty g uild aet do hems. Wes mew is the wake et the law 00l himmiatiee, and Wise *hest that great aideestars width the emainer. Mel ales of Mraribrareer had se wdl delisted in the remandes. Mr. (elmeitweirdes), Y wereding it, eaLgieed Mr. Cirlades °l9l ride asstssee is Lietliag the year DM as a atomised Is. the guldease ef gessement, Pad and Wellies- We Wks Wes Is Wise. Great peaks was also due to Mr. Ghia fir the bias he had selected upon which to redsse the taz—sa malt, tea, and windows. He was wake sera& that if they made • debtor and creditor eeeosst, placing the army, navy, ow! Daman es we Be,a and malt, tee, and windows on the other, that thressow would express a strong opinion In favour of the lathers—Mr. Towline seconded the resolu tion, hoping that, while they petitiamed for a km expendi ture, they would not lath sight of the great question of parliamentary ~bra—Mr. A. Wright, in moving the es wad ressistlis, mid that, had it sot been ter the Ref rm Bill, England night lave been recently is • maestros from ace end M the ether. Tom was, therefore, great virtue In timely easeemion.—Mr. Tomlin* was 94 pleased with tie terms of the resolution that hir beaded to be permittrel to greendit also. It was supported by D. Mannock,Esq , M A. ; and the third Imola inn, moved by Mr. Le Bread, having been also unarmed, sly adopted, the Nemeth' separated. BANK or AUSTRALAslA.—Yesterday the halt-yearly muting of the proprietors of this company was hold at the beak is Austin. friars, for est:giving a statement of the directed, on the affair of the undertaking. 01:ver Ferrer, Beg , took the chili., and read the statement, from which it pp wed that the business at Sydney end Launceston had been reeteived byor.ier of the directors, but at Melbourne and AdAside the improvement of business had conursued t. au& an extent as led the di, man to think thai these branches would become of solid and permanent advantage to the corporation. The directors to .ked forward with cob& deuce to the thous for the realieation ;Attie properties halo be the beak, in onsecrieece of the abundant supply of labor now being supplied to the colonies and the advent* in Vie wool market in this country. Mr. J. J. Falconer had bees appointed superintendent in polar* of Mr. Hart. With respect to the debt due bv the flank of Australia to this 'tympany, the directors had come to an amusement, which they hoped would be generally adopted, so as to prevent legal measure under the julgement against the shareholders of that bank T..• profits of the half year had answered the expectations of the directors, and in the pea business no losses of thy importance bad occurred. The meeting, :dux some disetragos, came to an unanimous vote of coofidence in the directors, and then adjourned. PIOVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL BENEFIT AIISOCIA TION.—The eighth annual meeting of this society was held yesterday evening, a: the Lonion Tavera, Jones, RK.. in the chair. There was a lull attendance of members. The Chairman read the report, wheats it air. peered that during the past year 524 prepnsela bad been made to the assuei .tion, amountiog to 111,4601. • of which 409 hail been acne p ted,f.Bdeelised,so witherawn and waiting further information. 431 policies, re,reseuting 84,1101., had been issw d during the year. Although meth sickness had prevailed, the board were happy to ants that the chins. con tinue below the average rathe, only eleven deaths having occurre 1 during the year, hieg ei rims to the extent of 2,1501., some of these deat hs had been of a very sudden nature. The annual income from premiums had been in creased by 2,33.51., which, with the interest ou stock, amounts to about 8,9001. During the past year the board had settled to the funded property by purchasing 4,6001 Threesand a-Quarter per Cent. Btuek, making the total, sundint in the names of the trustees, 14,0001. The report then alluded to the first quinquennial division of profits, which task place during the year, and which was of so satisfactory a nature as to give • reversionary bonus of ease per cent. per annum on the amount assured for toe period, the policies had been in force, or au equivalent r. doe lion of thirty-three per cent. on the premiums payable fur the ant five years At the last annual meeting the board called attentim to the favourable results produced by sending deputations to the provinces, to make more generally known the advarrages of the association, and during the pasty ear the same pito had been pursued by deputations visiting Gloucester, Stroud, Wearmouth, Newport, Bristol, Norwich. Politic meet ings had been held at Liverpool, with the ber eff eon The report having been adopted, Mr. WM. y moved, .• That, with the hear y thanks of the mode. y for toeir exertion-, a sum of 40W. b. pees nted to the directors. es a small remits aeration for their valuable eervieee during the pest year " Mr. Mollett seconded the resolute n, which w s carded unanimously. Oa the motion of Mr. Wel.h, &pervaded by Mr. Pries, the chairman was unanimonay reelected Ma ni% rof the Amocieition. The other managers having bees re-elected, and Mr. Daneart elected, a. d o the r routine buse- neat gone through, the meeting 'opera tad. ROYAL NAVAL BLISZVOLUT SOCIETY.-The quar terly peseta meeting of subscribers to this isisti' shin took plasm yestmtlay at the Tnatebed Home, St James's &truce, Vice Admiral Sir Chides Malcolm in the chair. The hen• . nay secretary, Commander airkun, read the report, from which it appeared that the charity was in s flourishing coo ditiou. The r ceipts for the quarter amounted to 13711. Bs. 6 '., sad the disbursements, including grants, to 4361., leaving a balance of upwards of 7141. in Leone of the until. tUtioll. The new sub-criners of all ranks, including one =arias °Meer, numbered 160, and their sub.eriptions amounted to 601. 7s. bd., •hils they had lost by dealt 83 subscribers, whose contributious amounted to 331. 17s AL The annual subscription of the society to the Adult Orphan Institution, for educating the doughten of clergymen sit the established church and of tacos of the army and navy, was raised from 20 to 22 guineas. A vote of thanks to Admiral Sir Charles Ogle for tne successful efforts he had ma .e to ri store harmony o the quarterly meetings of the society was moved by Commander Jay, seconds d by Capt. T. Diatoms, and owned unanimously. Tim proceedings then terminated CITY ORPHAN Asti.SM.-The annual meeting of this institution trek place ye nv rdoy at the London Tavern, G. B Harrison, Esq., in the chair. The proceedings e.in menced with an election for ft children out of 26 applications (all eligible), which had been submitted to the dr , eters since the last meeting. After the poll, the Rev. R. Bitkir steth read the report, from which it sreared that the aver• age number of children in the asylum is 94, and was on the 31. t D. c., 91-57 boys and 34 girls. Applications hail in two instances been made for the admission of British orphans exp. lied from an asylum in Paris during the lite revolution, but, owing to certain requisite' not having been complied with, neither was successful. The income for the put year had been : Life subscription', 5641. ; annual, 1,1331.188.61 ; sermons ' 2111. 3s. ; admission children by rule, 31.- 4401. ; dividends as 3,8501. stock, 1091. 10s. 94. ; a portion of a legacy, 161. 2a. 10d.: total, 2,4641. 16e. 14.- The ekpeoaee were :-Food, 1,1321. 12s. ; clothing, 314 L B*. Sd • medicines, 231. 12s. 4d.; salaries, muter, matron, eke , 3081 134.; repayment of a loan 300/. purchase, goyern men( securities, 316 L Sa. 4d. ; collectors' conuntiaien, 671 164. tit, with other items of less importance, making in an 2,13-is. 4s. 9d., and leaving the balance in hand on tee Mat Dee. last, 741. 2s. II I. The report was unanimously adopted, after which rewards for good conduct in service were gives, with a suitable (rebuttable' from the chairtaan;to Emma Miller, Eliesbeth Scaanal, Ana Pommy, Jas. Heppensti, Omelette Cook, James Latter, John Cemther, and Joseph Needham. The proceediage terminated with the declara tion of the poll, the succeesad candidates being--Bimpvm, 2.745; Currie, 2,418 ; Chapman, Seaward, Yorks a 2,367 ; Hood, 2,276 ; Haines, 1,966 ; Crad dock, 1 , 762. OAms.-Sir,-I beg to call your attention to one source of revenue to which I have been in the habit of con tributing-vie., that derived from game certificates, but to which, in consequence of the late alteration of the law, many of those who have been accustomed t s pay 41. le. have now no inducement to pay this heavy tax, since in many districts the only game left which require. a game cer Wieste to enable a person to shoot it consists of a few part ridges. Now, Mr. Editor, it does appear a rather hard case that a gentleman possessing a small estate should be eon pelled by law to pay so large a sum bef ire he ran shoot a few birds, whilst others who are less scrupulous kill all they meet with, and escape all payment simply because they are not worth powder and shot. If the government felt disposed to relax the game laws t think that they might to have reduced the chary* for the 'AMC certi ienies. Had this been done, I believe the revenue would bevelyaised mersiderably. As the law r.ow stands, thousands lime* ale regular ly shoot without patina any. Wog, whisk i i ra l t ra toevenue, and a great hardship Mt Sees who do pey. I apprehend that, if • law were rby which no person should be allowed to carry any ..1, without an annual license, at • cost of from 20s. to 305.. the government would by suck a =awe derive a cam siderable income, and also possess the means of preventing any armed parties, under any pretence wliateysr, from doing any mischief. Bach person's name should be entered upon the license granted, together with his oleos of residenee; and should any person carrying any firearm refuse to produce his license, upon its beteg demanded, it should be hateful ter the person so demanding the license to detain the fire-arm until the production .hereof I believe that a repo 'sties of this nature would be generally acceptable : it would not press with severity upon any class, and would be a better pro echos to those who delight in shooting ; for at prompt by far the greater portion of the game is either killed by c imam poachers, or by thou who do not take out gam certificates. I would also suggest that the fines for trespass in pursuit of game should be handed over to the revenue ac count-Tvriarro YRAILS A SPORTSMAN. MILITARY AND OFFICIAL RETRENCHMENT IN FRAKCIL-Do you know anything of the new President ? If real 4 is ea able man, earnest, and desirous to govern France for the benefit orate French, he has a great career *pen to him. Tna most popular act he can do is the one be must do if national bankruptcy is to be avoided-vin., re duce the army one-half, The service is much disliked by the peasantry ; go mash so that our gardener getting 140 fr. per annum, or 10/11 than 61 wages, refused 2,000 fr. to go as a substitute ; and thP butcher we deal with has just paid 1,800 fr. to get a substitute for his foreman, who bad the W hich to be drawn for the conscription ; and this only for a service of seven years. The objectersto the reduction would be a mall proportion of the onicerywhichCavaignat proposed to remedy by i nereasing the numben attuned tomb regiment. The next popular move, changing the present prohibitive duties to revenue ones will be opposed by the great monopolists who under Louis Philippe have so long governed France but it will have the warm support of the great MIAMI ; and the product of suck a revised tariff is the only chance the reotiers have of preesrvieg their dividends-for no more direct taxation will be borne The vote on the salt duties shows what will be the fate of the iron andotber monopolies when fairly brought before the chambers, Think gt cow. Tali EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVEN]NO, JANUARY 16, 1649. 111111 seitiellim here within eight of the sea at YU per tea! .—tbe miss at Liverpool is, Me ou bout, lti to Ids. per ta..l 44" for the essamoneen sgrieultaral parpases, 354. per ins . Zee weeder that their ploughs are two hundred yean N o m a d o n ; MSS ; the eddy iron used I. them being the tip s m. a i m The asw Preaked Ms seeing to de but m g". th e Is nAlishmeate, great revenue duties an all moms s b o w n &imports, reduce the bareaureey merkelf, no h ow rum is Co., and he will be sere popular then use bi n neen. w ay nits the reel permit of Frame. • • • we b ane nhi r ty. i g n n,lilliose of teectati to deal with . i ds= • nbirri€...l wh ole j will be boned, new a emobery SUM the pemeatry la 1111 411.11.14._ " we d s w ee p in gs; is, sad PM ne me jalal s. • merely ssimetaral onto, ; 'mid had (Violin before the earth cries ' Hold, elnewdit.' It &Odd be ',vetoed ; sad the only way Ix: Meta M shay, is sees. The only daagerlear ohm °limbos. is the Parishes; mil Soy don't went p rotsedon, r working se the de battish* ef . usury and taste.' —Cur.esposdest of Ws Till WORKING CuitoT.--Bir,—ln ye or die "Slide on the abases of the church, you ohms that Dr. Maltby has, in tem it.,. H. Petits, " found a ch mum rash enough to undertake the am of 20,000 soole Is Iheadalsad, with a =Useably Inadequate pro vision of 2641. a year." Wietrable t Why, sir, I knew " troops " of inmates, with 1 ,me familial, who would u any jump out of their eking with joy to =olive each so appointment, with a provision et 2004. a veer; ban now obliged to work like mill his..., appear like gentle -'s std rear their familier, with an Moose of halt 2004 The 4 you talk of Dr. Maltby's mimes " regard trr kis kith and lus. Why, our Dr. Hasp len hr jolt ordained his wife's norther, new 60 ymrs old, and presented him with the living of Coddington. The friend, of the cha-eh are van dalised st the tendency of certain clergymen for the Itomish " rites sad 0011111110ait e i" if the bishops would give their pro tormest, and expend their princely mosses for the benefit of the church, a* the catholic i Shops did in " the olden time," the P rotestant church would benefit, though the " kith sad lea of the bishops solid net " fare so sumptuously every la)." The while "pates must be revised and coneeded.— Q =Hereford, THIS FIRS IN LINCOLN'S-111N.—ADDITIONAL PAZ- Ticottaina.—Net fewer then r inn fin-prout boxes have been t ken on of the b ten sot of the destroyed building, where they had fates from the gut-floor, and, upon opening them yesterday morning, the deeds and other documents were found uninjured. This is exceedingly fortunate, as the papers had reference to property of c onuder►ble value. The account books helot ging to began. Jones, Bateman, end Bennet . , with severs( drawers filled with important writinis, have hero taken out of the pr Anion but trill .ogly injured, but a great heather of tin boxes, ennui, ing legal perchenents, have been entirely destrey.d. The present unfortunate en , tum.tance wilt cause the question to be again agitated to obtain a general regis ry of all deed- and mortgaged pro primly, as is the cave in fizotland, in Ireland, and most parts of the Continent. The oldest fir men Can scarcely remember fine of similar msgeitude turning for so long a period. Although the eogines were kept at work during the writ le ot Sunday night and yerger lay, there remained at seven o'clock last evening a consi itrable body of fire on the lunament, and also in the walls of the building. Mr. Kettle, a hamster, had a narrow .'cape from being burred to death. He slept on the ground Boor, at the beta of the premises, and b tore any alarm was given in the front, •te was awoke by hearing a slight 'lota, line the dripping of wet r, in the neat rt.om. He immedi ally jumped out of bed, and on opening toe door found t►e pavane full of smoke, and of such a suffocating nature that he could not pas through. He there:ore ran to south r door, and found that the fire wee breaking into tne paaine, so that his ercipe in that der. ction was likewise cut off. He therefore made fur one of the windows, but even his tape wa• in that direction cut off, for had he jumped down a dirance of only a few feat, he would have had to c.imb up wall twelve or (-lateen feet high. Not knowing chat to do for the best, Mr. K. tile sat upon the window sill, where he remained calling •' Fire" and " He.p" fur upwards of a quarter of an hour, during uhien tame the dames broke through the door of hi. ►o.am, and noshing but destruction I ,eked him in the face. At I. oath, however, a himp.i.hter's ladder w a brought, and by its aid he manag d to effect a retreat. Hie opinion i.. that the fire must have occurred in the area Cur At hal Tat nine o'clock last evening the firemen were still engaged pouring water upon the ruins ; and a. da•igernu' were the walls that Os ey were expected momentarily to fell. The houses on either aide have sustained less damage than wig at first expected. Durirg ye►terday forenoon, whilst the fin men war.• em played upon thi• fire. an alarm was given that ►nother had broken out in Chancery lane. 0.. e of the engines was im mediately taken there, when it was ascertained that some of the burning flakes had b en wafted by the wind u••on the roof of the law chamt•en, No. 77, in the Lute, and having melted the gutnr plate l ad cease in centect with the tiuthe r underneath and fired the roof. When the brigade arrived, th e flames were raging with stab fury that the two riots at the least nee* in gee at danger of being consumed. With the aid, honey. r, of plenty in w.iter, the fir. was extinguished, hut not before ceusiderable damage was done by fire and water. magistrates, seek member of which bemek rendes in the loseilty of their prosecuting brother. The latter of having permission to shoot on lead at both from the landlord and tenant, about the of the day we bent mrstep thither, and not for the tenant, who wee not in the trai. 4 Bli B elieving we had a comet Mot/lean Said ot the ida and r them wee no evidease preasniag, no land Ming eke knowing there me so mount of gem words leek* AM to the best of oar belief we old mat move off the had we had the liheet7 et efeening over; ben, _it afterwards appears, in fol. a amp of birds we did go dews fatermer rubble add to Edwarci Bridgman, of Cleney Westr.a, %Mk: tenant of his enoto vs nee 11b111411 Owe wen% awl charged as with wilfully nemesia, on Me. Bridgmea's land. We told him that,' If he said we know inglytrespered on Bridgman's land , he lied." He then mi . d, •He believed we knew It wee Befdinaeree land." We the, said, " That is very diff rest: we Were unaware of having been on Mr. Bridgmaa's land, bat if we h ad wore ready to epolegies to Mr. Britten ter so =off Summonens were inaid against us on information of this tenant (Green, of lonnam). We wrote to Mr. Bridgetan, appointing to cell upon him on a rerun day, giving him time to write to m derlidag the interview if he thought pont : we wrote en explanatory letter, and one of apology, f M orr vim on by mistake the four sere ince or Lod, if it was going by received no answer, and cooeluded we should ham an &Miami with Mr. Bridgman, es in revue .ted ; however, an seeing tie servant, who at last answered the hankies at the door (for there was no bell or ko• Mite heed or to be seen), we mind the servant's instructions were to deity his meeterb being at home, though we know he was in the home, and heard ea tell the man " We knew he was in the house, and probably within bearing." We left. The tint sommeases were informal. The mooed set of nen- stones we attended to, some these menthe attoriisOffeilc;, before a bench of megistrates, at Larline-ford. in Norfolk, and were tined the full amount they could indict—lo•. each, and 11. 13s. each, expense*, or one month's imprisonment in Norwich Coale. To. m.gistrates who indicted this doe were the Rev. T. P. Blapp, of Old Beckenham, Norfolk; and Mr. H. C. Partridge, of Hockbans, N rfolk, a game pre server, and who, I Wises, sincerely regretted he could not theist a much heavier penalty. This is spiel's statement of facts which will be more fully enlarged on in a narrative ot the affair we are about to pub. ; but the above is sufficient tor the camas of your ps per, and sufficient, we trust, to prove the impropriety of etch men's sitting on the bench end being entrusted with the power of ordering fines or imprisonment. In the very worst and most tyrannic days of game prosecution, we yew vire to nett no case on record comes to a parallel with Ott•. We have both taken out game certificates for nearly twenty years,—were never told to leave lead we were on—were never asked to show the gains certificate—never received a notice—never wiltuily triispaseed in our lies. ; and, under these circumstances, with the verbal apology to the lan ihrd through the tenant, and the written apology to the landlord, we can but hold in diegtoo the conduct of Mr. litidgmen and the partisanship of this bench of magistrates for the rights and immunities of their game preserving brother ma gistrate. The county is heartily sick of the present bench of magistrates is they generally are selected, and would hall it as a boon indeed to have a paid intellectual, unprejn d magistracy. We are indebted to the Glo9e as well as to von for the advocacy of so desi-able a change, and trust the obligations of the country will be increasingly due to you both for increased advocacy in the same dais caueo—intel lect rather than acres, juigment rather than prejudice.- 0. B. ano W. H. D., Jan 12, 1849. Sir,—From my former letter we have these facts— that the adainistrstion of the laws throughout the kingdom is intro. ted to persons woos* sole qualification is 1001. • year, to land; men of one claw., and that class remarkable for ex clusivenese—who hold their weekly sessions without a bar an.: without a public—and yet are not even expected to apply themselves to understand the laws they admmion r, bat are entirely is the heeds of a clerk of their own appointment, often their too n men of business. Nut only so, they sit to decide causes in the very focus of their own influence and interests u landlords, customers, aid palitical partisans ; and where many who app. at bef ire them beligye themeelves r. pined with favour or disfavour ; and to encourage them to use weir vast t owen ignorantly, electron, and intemperately, parliament I.as eurrounded them with protecting statutes that effectually sate', them &Octet all consequer cis. Verily, the country 'squire who, upon bring nominated as the csmicisaion, wro:e to his bookseller, t• Please send the ax relating to a gustus pease,' was but the type of such a system. More ignorant tit grammar he might be than 'tie worshipful successor*, but he could not have u.ed his ass in hewing the laws with greater ignorance of the it mature. lett na proceed to instances: We have witnessed a con tested etre ion in which the principal magistrates have been keenly engaged, tenants and tradesmen stric.ly canvassed; ' and feelings of diee offence widely engeadered. Is it cachou', thee, that in the maltitune of civil, to say nothing of crinti eel cases, in wroth the magistrates are empowered to inter fere, parties should find themselvi a is the hands of a quorum of squires to one or other of whom they are ebnoxious ? At such a time we have seen • whole community pervaded by the feeling that, al bough all men may be equal in the eye of the law, they are far from being equal to the eye of its ministen. Again, in thee* ever recurring eases in which partiality , can be cheaply indulged, and wherein the powers of illation at petty sessions are so various and extensive—in appointing to onerous offices—in ratings and rates---In the multifarious matters relating to highway acts. turnpike sets, and pollee— in the anomalous casts occurring under local att., and in usuititudes of others, is it pleasant or right for parties or the public to see these powers wielded br • clew of persons placed in the very circumstances in which they are moat open o bias, and ia which they can indulge such bias without the possibility of being detected ? Let us take anat. r class of instances. We often see country justices acting in cases in which they would not be all Had to sit on a jury, although, as magistrates, they dis charge the comhiued dut n bath of judge and jary. Woen they are «dumbly parties, they do indeed retire usually te a seat immediately behind the bench ; fur they have not always escaped with impunity. But many • party appears Were them who, under such circumstances, would have preferred a bench of stsetgers. Few persons are aware of the cieeenees of corporations of rural justices. They never di ff er on the bench. The judges do, hut justices know better. They settle their differences in their private room. Let us proceed to soother case. Suppose an act of parlia ment empowering a company to construct a great public work, a pier, for instance, in a much frequented w tiering place. Suppose that, under this act, power is given to en act bye-laws with penal•ies annexed—that those and other powers were obtained Irani parliament under the allegation containea in the preamble, that the pier would be a great public benefit, and that, on this ',count, the public are pre vented from landing themselves or their goodf except upon this pier. Suppose, further, (we know bow these ar r a are carried through) no provision is made to prevent shares and votes accumulating in the hands of one or two directors. Lastly, suppose these one or two directors to be the ma gistrates (one of them, perhaps, the chairman) of that very district. Here, then, we have the case of a die.cior first, determining what shill be offences against a pier of which he i s c hi e f propri e tor, and which the public are compelled to use on his own terms; and then, si Ling as • magistrate, sur rounded by the county constabulary, and all the pride and pimp of office (eo prised by country justices), to decide cases en which his worship is h‘e own client; eases brought before nim by his own paid servants, with power to adjudge discre tioway penalties foe discretionary od'eacte, or to stud the *fender to a prison Why, under such circumstances, the ' supreme judges of the land would not sit to try • cause ! And yet such ewes are of frequent occurrence And we, the p..blic, bear it, although the remedy of • salaried magis ' trate with a circuit, is to easy and so desired.—Ovria. OUR REPRESENTATIVE SYSTEM. HARWICH. Harwich is a town living on its reminiscences of 1 , the past and its hopes of the future. Onoe upon a time—many years ago 7 it was a thriving place. When Queen Elizabeth visited it in one of her stately processions, and, being pleased with her reception, offered to confer any advantage on the borough it might desire to secure, the Mayor of Harwich replied to her Majesty with the address of a courtier and the dignity of a mayor, that " under her sway Harwich had nsthing it could wish for or could ask." A ve►y different tale would they tell now if the royal lady who in our time sways the sceptre of Elizabeth were to pay one of her flying visits to the town. Half a century ago, 74-gun ships were built and launched at Harwich— fleets floated on its silent waters—convoys awaited de parture in its bay —privateers went out at night stealth ily and came back again in the morning with prizes captured from the French—fast-sailing packets were sontinaally entering and leaving the harbour bearing those despatches which have since become the text-book of military commanders, and the very index of military science—post chaises and fleet horses brought down government messengers almost hourly, and bore back officers arrived from the seat of war with despatches of life and of death—of glorious victory or of stern defeat. In fact, Harwich was the port of communication with the northern parts of Europe, and its importance was in correspondence with that fact. To be a member of the corporation of Harwich in those days was no small dignity, and no small advan tage. Elections were vested in the corporation, and the mambas composing it became, of consequence, important to the government It is worth while seeing how they profited by it. We have here a list of the corporation of Harwich as it was at the period of the Reform Act—a time when great part of their glory had departed, but when the cor poration still had pickings. Let us see who at that time were the constituency of the borough : 1. The mayor; a shipbuilder occupying the sent dockyard under a grant from the Navy I-2. The predecessor-mayor ; a brewer, owning nearly all the public houses in the tows.-3. A banker; at one time agent for the government packets, then reviving a peados for his ser vices!-4. The collector of customs at fierwich.-4. Ditto at Wisbeach.-11. An ex.oomrawder of a government et. —7. A ntn; surgeon and agent to the ~~ de partme of the Aimiralty.-8. A suFgeon; surgeon to the ordnance department —9. A physic= in London, non reddest is thirty years.-18. A government pen vi .ner, reddest at Ilford, formerly halting waiter in the Coettna-hones in L3ndon.-11. A termer ci of a government packet receiving a peasion..-12.r n t a t i o. —l3. Ditto ; his son succeeded him in the packets. —l4 A surgeon; one of the medical attendents in the Ordnance department. —l5 The barrack-muter at Sheer ness.-14. A Alpo vser.-17. A clerk in the Btansp-officie in London.-18, 19, and 20. Patens not holding 'Ace, (they deserve to be recorded) —2l A limiline waiter in the cetstovw.-22. An attorney; writ of the admiralty solicitor. 23. A retired commander of sgevemment packet.-24. The crtmptroller of customs at Rerwielf.-23. A former com mander of • mica (pen.ioned).-26 A lan ling waiter at Barbadnee.—',7 A former commander of another packet -28, N, 30, and 31.—Persons n4t holding vffi.a., two of them insolvent debtors. Such was the constituency of yore in the free ard independent borough of Harwich. To those gentle men pensioners it was committed, under the charter of Lng Junes 1., to " choose and nominate two dis creet aid honest men to be burgesses of the parlia ment for the same borough." The discretion and honesty which the electorate sought fur they never found elsewhere than at the Treasury. There was no contest for the borough from 1802 to 1831. A mem ber of the cabinet aid one of the secretaries of the Treasury invariably held the seats, and amply did they reward their constituents and their friends. 'f the electors sought wi-dum and discretion exclusively at the treasury, it may fairly be said of the repreientatives that they sought com petency and ability for c ce exclusively a song the Harwich corporation. Nor was the number of public appointments heaped upon the muLicipalite more remarkable than the transformations which the members of it occasionally underwent. A linendraper became a landing waiter in the customer —a rope maker was found the best qualified 1 arson for a barrack master or a stampuffice cleric--a surgeon was found the fittest clerk of the check and store keeper of the navy. Office, moreover, with the accompanying pension, was by no means the only link by which the loyalty of the council wee strengteened and rewarded. Not only themselves, bat their sons, nephews, and cousins, were secured for the service of the state. It appears from a public doeument that in 1832 the different members of the council had twelve sons maintained at the cost and charge of the public, at an annual outlay from the public purse exceeding 7,0001. a year. And yet we verily believe, with regard to Harwich, that this system, bad as it may have been, wan purity itself in comparison with the system under which the town has since been represented! The Reform Bill extended to 150 what had previ ously been the exclusive privilege of 30. The boun daries of the boron,ch were not touched. The Whig governments of those days were, for more ob-erva tiun of outward term than they happe n to be it. oars. They were far from unx'ous to perpetuate, as far as the public went, the close Treasury system of jobbing previously predominant. They sent no Secre tary of the Treasury to stand for Harwich; those members of the administration made their seats fur larger constituencies. But Lord Wes.ern, who seems in those days to have managed every' h.n.: in Essex for the whigs, just as Sir John Tyrrell now is under taker-general for the protectionist., gave every assu rance to the reform party that the place should be provided for. Tte candidates who appeared to contest it were, Mr. Disney, the chairman of the Essex Qlarier Session., end Mr. Christopher Power, of Weald-hall, an active comity magistrate. A consider able party in the town took object on to this equity archy nomination. They secured as a candidate , an Irish gentleman, named Leader, of mare advanced principles than either of the other two. In conse quence of this disunion au opportunity was afforded to the tory party of bringing in a man. Mr. II :-rriee, one of their old members, was select' dto quid. He did so and obtained a majority over the other candi dates., the numbers being for Herries, 97 ; Tower, 93; Leader, 90 ; Disney, 89. A year or two after, the packets were removed from Warwick The whip in consequence became exceedingly unp 'pular, and when Sir Robert Peel amti in it. 18'35 Mt ssra !terries and Bonham, the government nominee s, were re' urned with a mere shad .w of opp *Chin. In 1837 the whigs had returned to power, aid then there took place an election which was attended by very unusual circumstance.. Mears. Hurries and Bonham stood "gain, and Mr. Tower also presented himself. In addition to these, the Treasury sent down a Captain Ellice, brolier of the late right hon. member for Coventry. Mr. Bonham had little chance, but between the others the contest promised to be very close. It proved so. Towards the close of the poll single votes became of great import ance. A very Nw remained Lobe polled. Some of those required considerable compensation for the trouble of going up. to one case IDOL was given by the torus ; in another instance, 200/. is supposed to have been the figure. At half-past three or thereabo it. three of the candidates, Messrs. Hurries, Ellice, nod Tower, had polled 74 a piece. But one ava.lahie voter re mained to be polled. It is sill by some in the town that he was a tory, and that it was a matter of arrangement with the whigs that he should split with Mr. Ellice in order to settle the matter and avoid dispute'. Others say the vote was a bad one, and that nobody cared which way the suffrage was given. Amid much conflicting evidence on the subj. et in Harwich, we resort to a uni versal source of information io London, to wit, Joseph Parkes, Esq., of 'he Reform Club. Mr. Parkes is a ma's who knows everything about elections, from the timed Edward I. to the days of Victoria. Here is his account of the casting vote at the Harwich elec tion in '37, and we prefer it, infinitely, to any other account extant. " There was (says he) an intention of petitioning:in 1837, by Mr. Tower ; and I know that one man hail Sold. for the casting rde at that election ! I know it had been offered to Mr. Tower and refused by him, and that half the votes had been bought on each side for the two sitting members, and I have reason to believe that the man had 5001."—neither more nor less. Thus it was that Messrs. Herries and Ellice were duly elected by a majority of one vote over Mr. Tower. But this was a mere trifle. It was not until 1841 that bribery really began in Harwich. Then they disdained hundreds and counted on nothing less than thousands ! And they got the money, too, as we @hal show hereaftrr. ARMY CLOTHING. Sts,—Permit me to uffer a few obeervaione on one psvicular passage in Gen. Napier's defence of the pr. sent sweat of clothing the British army. Ti e general asserts "that the clothing is of sup oior quality to that of any foreign army," and he slid- nily wishes the public to believe that it is also e'.esper. Now hat are the facts t The clothing of the French army cost in the year 1847, in eluding the expense of cents and encampment is Algiers. 454,3161 95.2,1., for 377,12.5 mars cf all ranks, including officers, or aa average est 11.134.2 d. • head. The doable, fiche Prussian army cost in the same par 217,3781 10s., for 118,313 mea of all ranks, officers included, or an average alit 13. 101. per bead. But this sum pro. vided in reality, for, 1, the reserve clothing necessary tomer pl 'te the troop , of the line up to the war establishment of 217.729 men ; and 2. the complete clothing required fur 1118,316 nit n, lsndwehr of the lit Ban. And that toe clothing fa both purposes was ri ally in existence and in condition to be used has been proved ; because in the year 1848 the troops of the line were augmented to the war footing, and a , lorge a proportion of the lsndwehr as it was thought nicer sari to call out has also been fully clothed and equipped. The clothing of the Bri.ialt army rot the country in 1847 402,1421. 9s. 10.1. (including great Goats, but 'swindles the clothing f .r the ma'am , department and the colonial corps, as also the winter clothing for the troops in Canada), for 132,959 men of all ranks, or rather more than 31. per head. But this is not all toe difference, for is the French and Prussian armies the soldier is supplit d for the above sum with knapsack, foraging cap, jacket, shirts, drawers, dte., in fact, all his necessaries, whereas the British sold.er pur chases all these swaths. and several others beside out of his daily pay. So much for the item of comparative economy ; and now for that of quality. The time of wear for • coatee in the Frenc t and Pnwian armies is three years ; but the soldier has alwais too coats and a jacket in wear; and I will assert, without fear of contradiction, that, saving the difference of eat and colour, which h .ve nothing to do with the paint at WWI. the French and Prussian soldiers are &mays turned out to parade at least a , well dressed as the Eoglisn soldier, whose eoetee it c deulated to 1 st for one year, which, consi dering its quality, is quite 'Olen nt. Now the foreign soldiers wear the government clothing at all times, and the English soldier wears his own foraging cap and jacket pretty nearly constantly, except when on oar titular duties, end his own summer miusen for six months in the year. The time of wear of the trousers, is the same in all three armies, re., one year. Now England Masts itself to be • great manufaceuriii country, and pretends to be able to sell article of clothing, especially, muen cheaper than any other country in the world; but this is evidently a sheer mistake; and as I am not • free trader, I conclude that Mr. Cobdea must have been hitherto either humbugging the country or el.ceivingltienseli. Joking apart, the true expleastios of the above phenomenon is that Sae cloth worn by the Prussian soldier especially is of so Ruth better quality then that worn by the English sol dier that it lasts with rue three times as long, and come , quently, in addition to the price of the material, two-thirds of the expenses of 'staking, racking, freight, insurance, &e., are saved, to say nothing of the geographical miles of win" e moon tape with which the present amiable philosopher of Saes Saud does not think it necessary to bedizen his soldiers. Now, lest some great arithmetician should be inclined to find fault with my averages, because they include the offi. oars, I beg to mention thee the proportion of officers te men is much greater in the Britith army than in either of the other two =rationed ; and, further, as cavalry clothing is Mao much more expensive than infantry clothing, I have also to observe that the proportion of cavalrry in the British army is much the smallest. Coasideriog, however, the :peculiar duties of the British soldier, and hie being obliged to move about so much more than either the French or Prussian soldier, I do not think it would be advis bie tide the period of wear of the Goatee at more than two year.; but I believe that it would be perlectly possible to give the English private and corporal toe same kind of cloth now worn by the sergeant (a little stouter, perhaps), and to give to the sergeant otheers cloth, which be should have, and withal to e ff ect a saving of 9 5, 0001 . per 'engem on t he clothing of the army,. especially if the white tape was curtailed and a proper provision made for paying rural officers. Now, Sir, I have reason to know that all these facts were brought under the notice of her Majery's government ma-y months age, before the estimates tor 184849 were voted; but the attend' n and solicitude of the said government has been w Ruch devcred to the Sicilian army of late that I suppose it had no time to think of the British. There are a sreat many other little interesting things of the above nature, wlich I shall have much pleasure in eds. municating to you on your dropping a hint to that effect, provided always that you will allow me to have my own way, which I like very much ; and that you do not expect me, because I am anxious to assist in diminishing the nier:scary expels e of the army, therefore to set about de stroying it alsogetber, which would outrage my teenage.— A Sonoma, Germania t• A Brutal Hireling." THE UNPAID MAGISTRATES. Sir, —Agreeing moat earnestly in year observations under the heading "The Unpaid Magistracy," in your paper of the 9.h nit., we beg to devote a few confirmatory observa tions on one Mika reasons of unfinsass you have given of the present eft of men to item a bench for the dispensation of fines and imprisco swats and will at some future w as, touch on other parts of the same article, moving at and touched on right and left as we are, with the sluts of parsons to whew. your article kw reference. Our observafiess now a in which we have been p e y concerned, immediately to om to the onfleress of the present shim of magistrates Weto adjudicanoaie cam. ZiGe go fax about, but COMO to the rat once , s mom . a ." l " • concerned, d against under the Trelpale het tr. pursuit of belie */ one magistrate, and whadicated oe by a b t neb of IRELAND. DUBLIN, JAM. 15. Amongst the questions which will be brought be fore the House of Commons in the ensuing session will be the propriety of abolishing the viceroyalty. An English member for an important constituency, connected by property and marriage with Ireland, intends, be says more stn,, " to make a dash at it." The proposition is unpalatable to the citizens of Dublin, who conceive that society here would lose by i•, and that the metropolis would not be visited in the season by so many country families. But the general public of Ireland are perfectly indifferent to the question of giving up or retaining thelord-lientenancy. It is thought that the iudges will give judgment of respondent ouster for Mr. Duffy to-day, and that the accused will in a few days be brought to trial before a jury. Mr. Napier, Q-C., spoke with great ability in his argument on Saturday, but Judge Perrin checked the learned counsel for employing language of unne cessary harshness towards the Attorney-General. It seems not to be very certain whether Mr. Keogh, the member for Athlone, will persevere in biinging forward the endowment of the catholic clergy. That subject is as little popular here with any great party as in England. The landowners are not in favour of it, and the popular organs cry out against it Poor-law reform, in all its branches, is still the chief topic of discussion in this country. It would be amusing (were not the matter too serious for sport) to contrast the opposite views and contradictory ideas of the professed reformers of the poor law. There would, probably, be a greater outc'y amongst the gentry, only for the number amongst them who are looking for place under the system. A pro vincial journal recently stated that on the list of candidates for the office of vice-guardians, there were the names of a thousand magistrate... This, of course, is an exaggeration ; but, in some parts of the country there have been gentle men of high name and great pretensions who have condescended during the present crisis to accept offi cial relief in the shape of a salary of two hundred and fifty pounds. As many of the paid vice-guardians perform their duties they must often experience " the sharp convulsive pangs of agonising pride." Cer tainly the crumbling of the old structure of society in this country is a most extraordinary moral spectacle. Upon the results of this social revolution it is almost ; presumptuous to speculate. An express edition of the Cork Reporter, of Satnr t day. contains an account of a very imp ortant meetin g . held at bkibbereen, of famine zotoriety, concerning • the working of the poor law and reproductive em ployment. The meeting wu very respectably at. tended by the chief representatives of the local public, and assumed no partisan character. The titivation o. a discriminating rate was brought under the conside ration of those assembled. The Tipperary Board of Guardians were distaissed last week by a sealed order of the poor-law commis sioners, fur refusing to strike a rate including the re payment of the Treasury advances. The average an neal rata tor the last three years of the famine was less than 2.4. in the pound. It is said the vice-guard ians will now lay on a rate of Ss. in the pound. THE STATE PROSECU LIONS. CoIIYISSION OOURT.—SATURDAY. Tut QoszN v CHARLES GAVAN DUTPY.—This day was fixed tor Destine , the arguments of counsel on both sides as to whether the judgment of the °oust should be final against Mr. Duffy, or wit:Aber he should be allowed to plead to the indictment. Mr Duffy having been placed at the bar, The S Jlicitor• General argued that the kidgment shouldlbe conclusive, riot teat the prisoner was not entitled to respon eat (nate; Aner citing many authorities in supl ors of his view ut the law, the S.Aicitor General concluded by sub mitting t bat, ex th , demurrer was ruled against the prisoner, he stood cAivie-d in point of law, and that no thi ng rema i ne d but to prtn.nunc. , such sentenc 3 as the nature of his offence warranted. Mr. Napier, Q C., replied for the defence, and conk ndsd— withou a -ingle decision from the earlien time, without a single avec. d rat •., warrant such a course, the court was now called up is, for the first time, to make a decision on the admicia.ra.i. th - criminal law that mutt., from its nature, be praiielieial t.. r.,e fair administration of justice. Parts of the in uctment would be prejudicial to the prisoner, if he pro ceeded to trail en it. If he had counsel to a. Piet ►im in matten of law. it was their duty, and that of the court, to see that he s not embarrassed by pt ading to the indict. ment, end they would be perfectly warranted In submitting the question .o. the opinion of the sort; yet it wu con tended that if that was done In a case of felony, where a man might b transported for life, and the cr .wn could not wrigule out of the matter by endeavouring to establish a distinction between capital and other Pees, for hero was no inetion, if a man's etunsel submitted that quanta's for the o •anion of the court, it was contended by the crown that he did so at his peril, and that if his counsel made a tni.tak.. in pleading, he would lose hie ik or hb-rty. That was the hold and monstrous proposition put forward on the part of ; i.e crown. He ref-Iced, fur the honour of the la e. tt,..t was the lint time any prosecutor dared to put furor.' d aw h a proposition. Mr. Ju tie,. Perrin said it was better to argue the case calmly, and tot make u eof such language, which was not peon. r. Mr. Napier acknowledged the patience and propriety evinced by the court throughout the cue ; hut he felt that he was en: itled to state his opinion of the mode in which tkeprosecuti ni was conducted. M. Justice. Perrin observed, the up to the present the cue had hrn c..nducted without the use of onk ctionable • langu.ue, and i.e roped the same proper course would be continued till i s conclusion. Mr. Napier pre*, tided to sebmit his view of the law appli cable to the case. and quoted several authoriti.s in ripposi tio t to those alitue.M by the Solicitor and Attorney General. Whether in the ancient or modern law, according to the opi nion of text writers, the statute or common -mow. it would be etc reg. OM t 0 tit trip a man be suer his counsel, in think ing the I.w in his f .roar, took the opinion 0' the conrt as to the autliciedey of tee indictment. The Attorney- General inns ht say he told the prisoner that he would ask f r anal judgment if the question on the demurrer was in favour of th crown. Bat the question WAS, were the prisner's counsel to he prevented from taking the. opinion of t:te court on tee in•letment, or were they run the risk of seeing their client transported if be wee not estate, or letting toe case go to trial on an indictment not properly framed. Counsel subtnitt. d that it would be a very strong C .use to estahlish them new decision asked here by the crown. for it would he a new deeision. Whatever douhts might be ex lress..d in the books, it would be a strong thing for their ordship., notwithstinding their desire to do what was right &cording to law, to make a new decision °tiptoed to the ep t nion of judges a. el text writers, and inconsistent with reason and jusice. item should express his reoret it any ob servatioid. fed from him that were inconsistent with pro oriety ; hut he lioneirly onnfessed he did lied the. the pro ceeding agailet the rid:voter was novel snit harsh, aid when a 111311 f. I strongly and warm on a auhj• v, he t:pressed him...lt 84 . N.. doubt the Attorney-Gate-rat felt he was right in pressing the matter as he did ; but he (Mr. N elder) could nut evrii.l s that there well an • 'tempt to estxt‘lish in this ea., a novel precedent:, that there was no decision to warrant such a .cred•net, and that it might ho most em batrasititt end prejudicial to the rights of the prisoner. Mt. Butt. Q C., to:lowed on the same ride. The Attorney-General leaving replied on behalf of the =WS, Judge Perrin said that, after conferring with the Re corder, he mend triey c.nld not have the court on Moeda,. ; no Timmer the Court of Queen's Bench would have to de clare a very important judgment ; and on Wednesday the judge woul , t have a meeting to choose their circuits and maid."' a most iniportsw question (tom the county Cnrk re garding the Board of Works ; therefore they could not give judgment in this case before Tim uraday. The eonsuitioe adjourned to Thur,day at 11 o'clock. PRlrwr• —The Lawrie* Reporter says that some of the prisms e.f the diocese of Kerry are in such • state of destituuote, that they would abandon their perishes, but fur the asalstance given to them by the bishop. THY. WR , CA OF TOP. BARUCH CEYLON WAS • nounced some dile •takee in this paper. 'ome pat iculara of that dis tressing event are communicated to the Cork Southern Re porter, by te reesenger named Arch. Cochran t--•• 1 wish to states few of the pa-ticular , of the ewe, on the 7th inst., of the barque Ceylon, commanded by Captain Le Fenn, bound from Glativow to New York with is heavy general cargo, .a crew of 19, and 2.5 passengers, with a list of the our vivues and t. oat olio met with an marl oily end ; the ew talo and mate, Mr. John Win. Barry, of your city, being is very delicate state of health from their exertions, the latter 6eing washed overboard twice, and only saved by the nuts in attempting to swim from the wreck when all the sur view a were landed De centher ri.h, soled from the Clyde, mud on the 9th loin bulwark, and a boat in heavy gale from 8.8. W. to 8.8. E., which moderated until the 16th December, when we were again struck by a heavy sea, carrying away the lore channels and springing the foremast; it modersttd for • shnrt tour, and then commenced with repeats 1 fury, winbiug the dreks clear, the ship labouring end making water. The car *in and officers (the rest of the crow being laid up) . °newt. d ler the gaiety of the vessel end passenger, and bore up. Tee mate, Mr. Rem, with the passenger, agreed to pump the ship and to divide themselves into two watches. We eontinued to gain on it until the 20th ult., when it increased with the gale, which carded awry the foresail and to, sails from the yards. The top.gallant-mast and other yards erre towered to ease the curl until the 26th. Tne weather then moderated, and a heavy fog sprung op. We wen not able to see hcf the 1-ngth of the vessel. Fresh sails were then set, and we cantieuett to go on until Sunday night last, at 7 o'clock, when the reckoning being up at 8, to melte tile land the ship was hove to. The weather clear ing, th • mute went aloft, but came down without being able to see land. After remaining sometime on di ck the Galley Read appeared under our lee, the wind haul.ng round from the .uth. The vessel broke off, and breakers were then din eivtred a- head ; they then tried to tack to the westward, the wind sill veering, and the ship bee' mlng unmanageable before the got round, struck on the Cro leer's Ruck The enchor er.s then let go to keep her steady, the sea breeking over, ano the yesest snaking water fast. The captain and mate then got the three boata ready, and divided the crew in them, but the sea and wind continuing, they were only able to get three women into them, when the vessel broke up, killng eensal pour creatures. The rest were packed up by the back tne captain and mite se uraging the sailors by their example, and at the risk of their lives, to exert themselves in saving the *theta They are de serving our most lasting gratitude for te.eir kind. MU all through, and particularly at that critical time. Passengers saved—Arch. Cochran, R. Johnson, J. Catalog and War, J Rankin, J. Stephenson, Rachael Dick son, Rhzabeth M.Cullagh, Alexaeder Caldwell, and two sons. —Peasengere lost stargaretTaldwell, Matthew Lyons, Jane Short %eel b ty, Mary Shore and child, Matthew Flana gan, Mary Fain...ran, James Wilson, Maraaret Wilson, John Bowl, Peter Dillon, John Johnson, William M'Cullagh, Anne Crane, two children of Mrs. Canasta, John M'Ke veron, Be.fast, ship's apprentice, Edward Boyd. PROVINCIAL. LANCASHIRE. MANCHESTER COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATION.—Yester day the mental general meeting ef the numb , rs of this aro eiatiou was held at their rooms, King street , and was very numerously attended. J. A. Turner, - Req., president of the uFalciatiOn, took the chair, and, alter a tow opening remarks, called upon the secretary (Mr. li. Fierain - -) to r, ad the re part of the transactions for the put year. 'I he report entered at length into a statement of the various sub.ects which had engaged the attention of the board, a considerable portion bung devoted to the East India cotton quut on, in which such en interest had been always taken by the ass elation. it was stet , d that during the [pet year upwards of 1,700 bales of cotton, of • greatly improved quality, imported from various quartets of India, had been consigned by the com pany to the sieretary of the association for axle; that public attention had been care ully directed to each shipment as it arrived,ancl in every cue satisfactory prices had been obtained. An amount wee also given ef the cottage saw-gin, constructed under the direction of the board for introduction amongst the natives of India as an improved and cheep means of cleaninst cotton. A table of the results of the comparative workings of the couture gin, the hand-gin, and the cheeks, from the pen of Mr. J. Petrie, engineer in the own service, was read, showing the results to be greatly in favour of the former instrument, the cottage gin. It was also stated that the Rut India Company had ordered 200 cattaie gins to be furnished with all possible despatch, so as to be in readiness for the crop of the next season. The rep ,rt con duct, d by briefly reviewing the events of the past year, and stated that unmistakeable evidence was afforded of the re turn of more prosperous times. Thanks were voted to the retiring directors, and to the chairman, and +he proceedings dosed. 5T , 0131 IN MORECAMBE BAY.—Last week witnessed a most severe storm and • higher tide than has been known for army years. On Wednesday lasi the gale rose toe per feet hurricane, and the high tide occasioned serious damage to the works of the Furness Railway, near Barrow, and also to the embankment between Roe Isle and the main land. The force of the water rushed over the embankment, and ripped up and carried away the upper pavement on the west side to a great extent. In some pkces the rails and sleepers • I 1 It I k 4 ~1