The Express. — London, England, 1846-12-17 00:00:00

tune in Faris. A yard Menemen tei l a r a ir of shows. and a few LOSS OF THE STEAMER ATLANTIC. 'francs, were all the shams be with him te via the - In the lierwielfor Ezze we find an automat of a 'favoues of the Aside plum s Gawp Ws aatesal lade sad eery peleseelhAT @hip • al. Still, beeswax wen hot fwolleas retn t e lfd mam , It Is with Itolimia of the meet painful nature that we renownrenowna" WIMUL Re willialif * albligift find ourselves eteminedised to publish the particulars of the Veni .It l I:s a native plasm, and thawed it an all Just oseasiene, till l eo e e the ago marimigesat steamer Atlantic, and about his death, which happened a short time awe. On apsodue forty lives. She bed, semgeratively a small number of pas. his will it was found to contain a legacy et 400,000 fr. in the Angers. It as bed bees es crowded se she usually has ootansune of Rhode!. been, the disaster would et mares have been more dreadful BELOIUSI.-131t1n1SEre, DEC. 13.-Their majes- mid terrible in its Imam The passengen for this ill dee the King and Queen will leave Brussels, as ,we hear, on Mad swam, isit Bostea r eg e = five oedosk on Wed- Tuesday neat, for Paris. Their absence will not be pro- nesday ,'sasses . They ever the Worcester and above a week. It is said that after the promulgation Norwich Road, and reached Allyn's Point at half-past Il on " l e ° l 6 re d law, on the promotion of the princes of the royal that night. There they went on baud the Atlantic. She * family in the army, the Duke of Brabant will enter the left for New York between 12 and 1 o'clock Ca Thursday ' Regimeat d'Elite, and the Count of Flanders the Regiment morning. There were between 70 and 80 persons on 'doe Guides, both with the rank of sublieutenant. in all, including passengers, officers, crew, and servants. • NETHERLANDS.-The HAGUE, DEC. 8.-His The Atlantic got well underway, and was running along Excellency the Minister of the Interior has given notice to finely, when the steam-chest exploded and nearly the persons interested that, conformably with the advertise- at the same moment the wind from the Arent, the public lottery for drawing 10 shares in the loan of north-east to the north-west, and blew almost a bur -950,000 florins, for the constructing of a causeway from Mass- ricane. The steamer was thrown into the midst of dark tricht to the f rontiers of Guildersland, took place on the 7th ness and confusion, and the air resounded with the cries of this month. The ten series drawn were, Nos. 6, 162, 165, of the scalded. It was a frightful scene to behold. Captain 196, 198, 203, 418, 636, 735, and 804. Dustan instantly called all hands to the fore-deck, and DEC. 9.-All the boats except one have now re- ordered them to heave over the anchors, but it was found Screed, God b 3 praised, in safety, from the English coast to almost impossible for a man to stand on deck, in . come - Scheveningen. The number of herrings that they have quence of the violence of the gale , the sea continually . brought is nearly 4i millione; which to more than half amg a breach over her bows. Owing to this, it nearly 'million over last year. The fishery has been very successful. an hour to get out the three anchors. The steamer worked Only two of the own e r are said to have barely covered their hfavily, plunging her bows under at every lure'., and drag expences ; the rest have all ample reason to be satisfied. The Mug her anchors. Between the time of ancheinnig t an t e d e ay o i prices have lately risen. light, it is thought that she over the about eleven miles. Thu was a terrible time to all on board. AMSTERDAM, Dec. 9.-This morning, there was It The fires were all put out at daylight , on Th ursda y , and general meeting of the shareholders of the Dutch Commer- from that time to the period of going ashore, the passengers vial Company, in which it was resolved, with the approba- and crew suffered from the intense cold. The only means of lion of his majesty the king, to prolong the grant to the keeping warm was to wrap themselves inblanketa, and walk company of the 31st Dec., 1519, fur a second period of 25 years, that is till the 31st of Dec., 1874. We shall revert in briskly around the steamer. All , a t this time, be g an to look to their own personal safety. All put on the life preservers the sequel to the resolution taken by the assembly, and that the boat was so plentifully supplied with, and prepared communicate it at length. themselves for any emergency. Some put on one, some OERMANY.-VIENNA, Dec. 3.-Two days after we received the intelligence that the well-known Polish in- two, and some four life preservers. The doors, shutters, set tees, &c ., & c ., were detached and cut away, for rafts to 'urgent chief Dembinsky, who appeared after the defeat of the drift ashore upon, whenever the steamer should strike. Oallician nobles at Liss Gore, and had not been heard °rehire, The gale increasin4 in violence, Capt. Dustan, who pie has been arrested MU'S He had been kept in concealment on the estates of an Hungarian nobleman, but had latterly served his self possendon throug hout the p erilous time, ordered about 40 tons Or coals t o be thrown overboard, in obtained a passport fir himself and a fe male, and under a order to lighten the vessel. About noon, on Thursday, the false name had succeeded in getting as far as Celli, where he smoke pipes , w hi c h we re very Large and heavy, were ordered was arrested. to be thrown overboard. This wu'e done , the captain waist- DECEMBER 6.-The day 'before yesterday the tog, and the steamer was eased for ii short time. After this Imperial Russian Lieutenant-General Ven Bibikoff, arrived less resistance was offered to the wit:d. The steamer con from St. Petersburg with a numerous retinue. He is tined to drift, however, and everything looked terribly charged with the commission to accompany the earthly hopeless. The danger increased so rapists that between remains of her Imperial Highness the late Graird-Duchess two and three o'clock Captain Dustan ordered the decks Maria to St. Petersburg. Her Imperial Highness the to be cleared of all merchandise, of every thing that was in (Irani Duchess Helen has recovered from her indisposition. the way. Cases of boots, shoes, barrels of flour, stoves, Our mails from Constantinople have for some time arrived &c., &c., including one package said to contain 7,000 dole. very irregularly. The mail of the 2-sth of November arrived worth of plate, were thrown overboard. There were six to here two days after date. eight thousand dollars worth of lace on board, belonging to Dec. 3.-The Crown Prince of Sweden is gone to one of the passengers, who had previously said that he Hamburg, having first obtained from Prince Charles and would give the whole to any one who would put hint safely Princess Louisa the fine promise of granting him the hand ashore. This lace was afterwards seenstrewn along the beach. of the princess. His royal highness went to the king from All these e ff orts, however, to save the steamer were uneVail- Weimar a week ago, and immediately received iris Majesty's ing. No person worked harder than Capt. Leiden, and his approbation of his intended marriage. The bride, however, passengers and crew. It was fur life or death. After these is so fire from having recovered from her illness at Genoa, repeated and united efforts had faiLd, all hopes of safety that the king has lately sent his own physician, privy were over, and all felt desirous and anxious that the steamer councillor Grimm, to that city,. to take part in the should strike the beach. It was a frightful sight; consultations of the physicians in attendance on her but the feelings of those on board had been royal highness. The affairs of Cracow seem to very wrought up to surh a pitch, that a reaction came much occeupy the attention of our Minister for over them, and they were re-igned to their fate. Foreign Affairs, and while we can only confirm our About midnight she parted one of her cables, there being former statements that Russia ver; reluctanil agreed to the tour out, one attached to thirty hundred weight of tuniace incorporation of the republic, it appears now thscour cabinet bars, and the others to anchors. After this the gale con is ready to approximate on certain terms to the western tinued to increase, and now blew a perfect hurricane. She powers. The protest of Lord Palmerston has already been was driven still nearer the shore, but passed a point that all received here, and is expressed in unlooked-for mild terms errs eted she would strike upon. She then drifted about with respect to the Prussian cabinet, whereas the reply to eleven miles more, making in all twenty-two miles, which the Russian government is said to be very severe. We have occupied about forty-eight hours of terrible uncertainty and now a contradiction of the report which was purposely spread buff, ring. She then struck, stcra first, on a ledge that the western governments, or at least one of them, had of rocks on Fisher's Island, when a tremendous sea seemed been secretly informed beforehand of the intended incorpo- to lilt her up on to the very top of the ledge; so far up, in. ration. deed,. as almost to throw her over on to the other side. Dec. 5.-The King of Hanover is said to be on the This was the crisis in the disaster ; it was terrible, and point of expending a pretty considerable sum (report says heart-rending in the extreme. In five minutes after she five to six million dollars) in the purchase of landed estates struck she was in piece.. In these five minutes at least within the Prussian dominions, and that several negotia one-half of those on hoari the Atlantic were taken from tions have already beets commemed with large estate ownets. time into eternity. &me were drowned, some crushed, It is however added, that there is danger that the entire and some frozen to death. The screams, the crash, the roar plan may fall to the ground, as a difference has hitherto sub. of the sea, were dreadful. misted in regard to the formalities which the King of Ilan- From further accounts we learn that the number of over, as soon as he shall obtain estates in Prussia, will be persons saved is 37 ; of the crew 24. There were obliged to observe towards our king, as landowner, and but three female passengers on board--all lost. The which have been observed by other sovereigns who have new London Ness, of Saturday, gives the number of possessions in P1115418-for instance, the King of the Nether- lands, the Duke of Brunswick, the Duke of Dessau, &c. bodies recovered thus far to be 27 . Dec. 9. -4-The bankruptcy of the house of Schil!er THE ELECTIONS. and Muller, which was made known yesterday, has excited The New York Herald, in a lengthy article on the a great sensation on 'Change. Their debts amount to elections, tee returns from seventeen States in which 800,000 dollars, of which, as far as in yet known, 80,000 e lections dollars fall upon a house its thiscity. The alarm is increased . La ve been held, and compare, the results by the apprehension that the blow will not be the only one, with those of' the Presidential election an 1844.-The since it was supposed, on one hand, that it has some con- following is the table - flexion with the affair of Cracow ; and on the other, it was AWIDEOATO TOTE OF 1611 AND 16412 1616. 1 5 14. found extraordinary that the bankrupt house was unable My. INAS. Winer. to obtain timely assistance from the other influential Dee Abe, 16615. 13. a. 'Abs. houses of Breslau. N. 11.6 2 614157 If !At 17,145 MISS 17,555 27,100 4,141 ea 30 797 5,104 31,37$ 45,711 4438 HANOVF:R, DEC. 9.-Their Royal Highnesses'. the 'ctn..' ,w er ..... . :Air 97,114 2,744 32,131 WAD 1.953 Crown Prince and Princess, and the Hereditary . Prince, veneeet MOM 17,014 4,471 24,770 15,041 3,954 7,4'7 7,356 135 7,321 4047 - arrived here to-day from Celle, by an express train, and l i t n t i t% 141 " . ... - 47 . 00 mist - slighted at the Royal Ernest Palace, which is assigned to marvisint WADI 28,233 - 33.361 33,470 - their Royal Ilighneeses f•r their future residence. •Fbrrida 2,041 1,831 - 2,655 2,05 - • Lusoleas - 13103 13,702 - Letters from the Polish frontier state that the time 31 ,..,,,,.. - 31,731 41,359 - in which the kingdom of Poland is to cease is approaching, rremstrime F 7 573 1 95P u r, 5 1 775 1:1, , ,g, 1:7 4 ,353 3,136 and that it is no •sget that Prince Paekewitsch has orders ( sV"ltintla : 1 111 7 4 ;;9311 10:377 ot:oos ra',OL ‘ le - Are on the slightest revolutionary movement to:fire on Warsaw Oh.. ll:.= 1t1:: 10,317 1.1 , ,73., 141;1r 6,111 from the citadel, and utterly destroy R. 11144%Wert 1 - N., Y e rk 118,627 157 ass 11.x5 531,411 117,MS 13,812 KONIGSBERG, DEC. 1.-With respect to the mar- New re...yr tier contracted by Dr. Falkson with his wife in England, the Procurator General has instituted proceedings for de claring this marriage between a Jew and a Christian lady to be null and void. The tribunal has resolved to require the opinions of the consiatory and of the rabbis how tar a Jew could comply with the Christian laws of marriage. Ca teoW, Dec. 2.-It is stated that the Police department when they expected to idlest John Schubert, at the barrier of Zwierzyniee, were in the hopes of thereby discovering an impertant secret. His disappearance has, however, frustrated their expectation. Report points out the said John Schubert as die of the ringleaders of the new conspiracy, which is said to be brooding against the Austrian government. It might have been inferred that in the pre sent state of affairs, every thought of a conspiracy would have been repea ted u as utterly futile. The report, however, is so often r, and frequently with such certainty, that there must apparently he some foundation for it. -- - - Totals 763,204 742.101 43,353 141,174 174557 63,113 742,401 1114.174 p►q Maj. .. 21.903 Decrease It appears from this that the democratic party had • ma jority of thirteen thousand four hundred and eleven in the presidential election of 1814, and that in the same States the whits have a majority of twenty-ene thousand eight hun dred and three in the year 1816, or at the present time— showing an apparent change in public opinion of thirty-five thousand two hundred and fourteen votes, and an apparent whig gain of the same amount. It may be possible, however, that although the whigs have undoubtedly gained considerable influeace in the state and national councils, they have not gained in the popular vote. It will be perceived that the aggregate vote cast in the same states in the presidential election of 1844, was one million nine hundred and ninety-six thousand five hundred and seventy eight, while in the elections that took place this fall, the aggregate vote is 1,500,988, showirg a decrease of nearly half a million of votes. It is generally thought that neither the democrats nor whigs put forth their whole strength in state elections. Indeed, it is invariably con ceded that the democrats usually fall behind the whigs. There is another fact apparent from the above table, which is, that notwithstanding the large decrease in the aggrega.c vote, the abolition vote in the same number of States, has in cress, d some ten thousand. Congress will meet in a few days, and its ensuing session will be the most important that ever took place in the United States, as far as regards the question of slavery. As a mat ter of course, a large quantity of southern territory will fall into our hands by conquest. This territory will accrue to the United States from the war with Mexico, as indemnit for the e xp a nses we shall be put to in conquering a pe y ace. The moment the annexation of it is agitated, the question of slavery will be met, and must be settled ; and for the purpose of securiag the abolition vote, which, in the States included in the above table alone, appears to and 63,383, the whip will take part with th lae abolitionists, endeavour to prevent the extension of svery. All this is very possible, and if this policy be adopted—and we see no reason to doubt its probability—the accession to the whig ranks will be considerable, and perhapslaree enough to secure the election of the Whig candidate for the Presidency in 1848. This we believe is the object in contemplation, and it will be effected if possible. Stranger events than this have occurred. These reflections are suggested by looking at the above table, and comparing the results of the elections in 1814 and 1816 with the signs of the times. They give preapect of a stormy session. The administration will be mueb ember ' rimed, and will need stout hearts and strong arms to defend it from the assault that will be made on it. Its adherents in the two houses will have the recent results of the elections in the several states to stare them in the face, but still this may not be enough to dismay them. Other inferences may be drawn from this table. The Whigs will commence the presidential campaign with great advantages in their favour ; but it is a matter of lime doubt whether thee can retain these advantages long enough to do them any service. They have the faculty of losing their ground immediately after gaining it. It is sel dom that we see them go into a campaign without the lass of a large number of their forces. But, if they manage their c it 14 shrewdly an I anxiously, the next President of these United State., which will include California, New Mexico, Tamaulipas, &e., &c., will be a Whig. In commercial affairs there were hardly any alter ation since the sailing of the Great Western. No additional information is afforded respecting the cot ton crop. Freights continued to rise, and the price of provisions to decline ; there was even a hope, from the state of the weather, that the canals would be partially opened. There had been a heavy fall of snow in New York. Great fears were entertained that the ship Zenobia, from New York to Liverpool, and laden with flour, bad been lost. MARKETS. From the Cowie' and Is rer of the 30th ult. Cotton.—The sales to-day rears 1,000 bales —prices are steady at ' this morning's quotations. The 5 des More the 14th inst. are esti mated at 11,410 halos. The exports, &c., of Cotton risco the lit of ri ptember are no follows: Total exports. To 0 Brit. Receipts. Stock. This year last ye a r 154,000 111,000 364,000 213 , 000 Ye a. before . Fleur, &l.—All descriptions are lull. 2,500 barrels Orisesee, &c. sold at Idol. Inc., alth.tigh several li Arlen , ask adol. 311 e.; Michigan, fal. 12tc. to 3d. 1130.; Fredericksburg was offered at 3 d. 23 c. ; George Town, ado!. 371c. 2,000 bushels ONO Wheat rold at ldoL 6: ; 1,100 data voudiern mixed tern, 600., weight; 1,3410 ditto Southern Oats, :to to 31c. 101 barrels Jersey Corn Meal, said at Dlol. 871 c. Receipts after, via the oath Amt. far the week ending hoe. as.-moodiy. Dea5.114..... 11,411 11.110.1 Whig :7)::7,W.l le 17 Saw 34.714 a with the Oampei , Mani vole at IN& it. The Native vote le estimated st 11.66 , 1:0 Attnegate vote la 1614 1,50 u,, FIS 1616 .. tt AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE ACADIA. YOUR DAYS LATER FROM AMERICA. The Acadia, Capt. Harrison, arrived in the Mersey, a little before 10 o'clock yesterday (Wednesday) morning, bringing four days later news than that by the Great Western. She left Boston on the let, and Halifax on the 3rd inst., and has thus been nearly 16 days on her voyage from the former place, having to encounter a stroqg east wind nearly the whole of the voyage. She has brought 52 passengers. The principal news from Mexico brought by the Acadia is the capture (if the quietly taking possession can be so called) of Tampico. We extract the fol lowing account of the affair from the New Orleans Picayune of the 21st ult : By the arrival of the U. S. steamer Mississippi, Com- I mender Perry, at the S. W. Pass , news was received in the city yesterday of the capture of Tampico by the U. S. squa- dron, on the 14th inst. We announced in yesterday morns fog's edition of the Picayune the departure of the squadron from Anton Lizardo upon this expedition, and before the day was over, the success of the enterprise. The fleet - ander Commodore Conner, on the 11th and 12th Oi. the 14th, Commodore Perry crossed the bar, with P. trel. ponita and Reefer, reinforced .the Cumberland, Mississippi, reviceton, aud 84. Mare.. _nere was no opposition to the American arms. The town was surrendered unconditionally, the garrison having been pre ' - withdrawn. The Mississippi sailed immediately for the tro ms to garrimn the city. Incoming hither, Com- 'erry touched at the Brazos and despatched a lieu- General Pattersuo's camp to obtain troops for the The Mississippi then came to the Belize for the ject. We learn from proper sources that about one and fifty men, recruited for the let and third in will be despatched immediately for Tampico. A de ent of these troms had already arrived ; the remainder tpccte d to-day or to-morrow. Besides these, four COM of the new riliment of mounted riflemen, under 'turbidge, will be sent to Tampico as soon as they They are hourly looked for. Captain Hotzel, of iartermaster's department, has been despatched to Range for ordnance and munitions ; and Captain Bar of the engineers, will repair directly to Tampico to intend the erecting and arming of the necessary defences. ugh the city was taken without the loss of blood, manifest that it is not to be surrendered without a before peace is declared. The town is now in pos e of the marines and sailors of the fleet, whe cannot be spared from their chip•. As soon as the place is sat ' • garrisoned by land f were, the squadron will proceed r business. A change has came over the fleet, and we oot of its future usefulness. Many of our naval "In regret that Tampico Wt + surrendered without a blow. a well enough as it is. We incline to the opinion that place will become of the utmost consequence to the in tended operations upon the interior. The withdrawal of the Mexican garrison is evidence that Santa Anna is making preparations for a dem instration upon a large scale in the direction of San Luia Potosi or Saltillo--more probably at former. About 600 men are to be despatched from New Orleans, to guard the captured city. 'v despatches received at Washington on the 28th appears that the new administration in Mexico broken up, and Almonte is going to England. tta Anna has delivered up the two millions of dol , which he took from the conducta. Advices from mane to the 13th eceived at New Orleans, to that nothing Iris yet Nov.,l)een done under the letter s marque and naturalization which Mexico has sent for sale. All accounts confirm the opinion that Anna is about to concentrate almost all hie at bra Lois Potosi 1 the voyage. She 1 The principal r 1• Acadia is the cap can be so called) lowing account o Picayune of the By the arrival o mender Perry, at t city yesterday of t dron, on the 14th i i log's edition of the from Anton Lizaw day was over, th sailed under Corn . i inst. Oi. the 14th we. 0 v i.n..., vie. t r. from the Cumberls There was nn oPPo surrendered uncs viously withdraws Bali: , for tro ips ti modore Perry tot tenant to Genera garrison. The 11 same object. M hundred and fifty fantry, will be d.i 1 mehment of these are expected to-d pains of the ni . I Major Burbidge arrive. They a the Qunrtermast Baton It.nige for card, of the eng ..nyerintend the e Altsough the c t it is manifest tl Waggle before wag m of the MI well spared from ciently garrison , to other business doubt not of iti tern regret that I It is well enom the place will b tended operatio the Mexican ga preparations fo direction of Ss i the former. About 600 1 . Orleans, to gi By despatc tilt., it appeal ! 4 1 is broken u Santa Anna I tars which h Hexane to I state that no i li ii. . of marque a] there for salt Santa Anna 1 1' face at 6sa 1 .. l ii. , jc", t. • `. ,~` 1 46 Ill l i g ik - Z \'',.. 4 " • N ".‘ \ ~ . , THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1846. 31,684; messy, 85,253; Wed/many. 30,975; Thursday and Friday, , 31,136; Saturday, 23,751. TOW, IK9U bie.l ProvriiMems.—the solos to-del mass mimarlonB-391t0s steady. Torpostios.—SidoL per Mg. ONO& kil• Mims ma Newborn. Dm rstes ot Preipit are: To Ltesepoi, tiS. per lb. for cotton in muse% sod Id. la round bales; turpoodoo sei Mlow, 3s. per Mi. ; onto, 134 d. 14 1646. per ba. To Landoor Moved slum and dour, bs. to be. rd. per 161. To lisvm : Ootion, lie. ts len per lb.; ashes, BdoL to 104oL case ton; rice, 10dol. pee tan ; a 71114 WM. to 11dol. per bhl. The large shipments of provisions to Great Britain were operating to provide for a return of specie. The following is a list of exports of the part of New York from the 20th to the 27th of Nov, inclusive : TO ORZAT IZITXOt. MB/ Mts. 33,716 Wool bales 159 691M 9 Mao. 309 Plan boles 3 Tespostios 7,124 Corn.aseal Otis. 4,432 Ostion --- hales 2,109 Toluca°, leat lbs. 90,075 ammo 1b5.1,746,787 Tobscco, manuf lho. 13,801 Tillow ....... .......... lbs. 10,696 Beeswax lbs. 2,430 het bblo. 637 Hops balm SOO 1 lard 11n. 24 4 ,491 Staves M. 33,0a0 bus. 104,063 Rice Oms. tierces 636 lost tierces 599 Oil-Wm lbs. 378,236 Lamebus. 31,488 Barley bus. 251 Lather lbs. 13,117 I Whedshems lbs. 6,350 bales 40 Sim —. lbs. 103,110 Bala bbls. 156 *Wm lbs. 27,137 TO TWO& Moor bu s . 22261 _Wheat bus. 3,934 The money article in tlas Herald of the 30th ult. says ; " The operations in the stock market the past week have been to a very limited extent. The cold, wet, disagree able weather, and the suspension of business generally on Thursday, have reduced transactions very much, and made the week rather en inactive one. The time when the new tariff goes into operation is so near at hand, that very little business has recently been done among the importing classes, and the approach of the next session of Congress has induced capitalists and those engaged in stock operations to pause, and await the movements at Washington in relation to public affairs. The Congressof Mexico meets about the same time that of the United States does; and it is the impression of many that negotiations will be entered into for a speedy termination of the war, but we have very little faith to the oilmen of any terms our government might propose. gbe gourt._ -- - Yesterday her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their usual early walk. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY EVENlNG.—lnstructiona were received at the Castle this morning from Osborne house, for the private apartments to be prepared for the reception of her Majesty and the royal family on Friday next. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office; at half-past two o'clock the following miniaten assembled: Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancel lor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Tinto, Sir G. Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland, Sir J. Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpeth, the Earl of Claren don, and the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay. The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in town yesterday to attend the cowl- cil, from his seat, Bowood-park, Wilts. Lord J. Russell arrived in town yesterday from his residence, Chorleywood. The Earl of Clarendon arrived In town from his seat, Grove park, Herts. The Earl of Minter also arrived in town yes terday to be present at the meeting. The Council sat two hours and-a-half. The Cabinet Ministers again assembled in the evening at the residence of Earl Grey, in Belgrave square, the noble Ear) giving a Cabinet dinner. Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Coloaial-office, for the Governors of the West India Colonies. The Count de Montemolin visited the gaol of New gate yesterday, escorted by the Sheriffs, and sat for a short time upon the bench in this sons+. DEATH OF LIEUT.-WU/NEL FOUNTAIN ELW/N, K.C.—This distinguished officer expired on the Bth inst., at his residence at Peckham, owed 67. Colonel Elwin . .. com missions were thus dated: Ensign, April 27, 1798 ; Lieute nant, May 10, 1799 ; Captain, Jan. It, 1802 ; I. jor, June 4, 1813; and Lieut.-Colonel, July 22, 1830. He was on the half-pay list since March, 1816. R. J. Eaton, Esq., M.P. for Cambridgeshire, whose death was erroneously stated, by an evening paper, to have taken place at Malta Mst month, has returned to Lon don somewhat improved. though by no means convalescent. EAST LYDIA 'LOUSE. Yesterday there was a court of East India proprie tors. Sir J. W. Hogg was in the chair. It wwt-aisnounced that the dividend warrants would be ready for delivery on the 6th of next month, and the titles were read of various papers laid before parliament, and of which copies are ready ter the proprietors. °KANTO Ti) THE GOVERNOEXIBNERAL AND THE COX- IgANDEII-IN•CHIEP IN INDIA.— The following letters, re ceived by the Court of Directors, were read : " Simla, July 10, 1946. ° Memorable Sire. --I hare had the honour to roeeive the itr•Dilt ticas of the Court of Directoni and of the Court of Proprietors, confer ring upon me an annuity of five thousand pound., which nieolution hail been confirmed by the right boa. the Board of Commissioners for the Afaire of India. I am most anxious to convey to the honourable Court of Directors, and the hon. Court of Pro prietors, my warmest thanks for the very flattering terms in which they have expressed their favourable , opinion of my conduct in greedily terminating the slab war, by . dictating arranaements tor the restoration of peace, which have rimmed their auprotiotion. I beg to enure the Court of Directors and the Court of Proprietors that their good solnion, and the confidence which they have always reposed in me, will greatly . animate me in the performance of my responsible duties. I receive with much pride and grateful riatufaction the Pro vision so liberally made for mc, and which they are pfeased to declare has been conferred upon me unanimontly, a. ..special mark of the ap prubstion of the Lot India Company. It has given me the greatest plea. sheet° communicate to the Conamander-in-Chicf, Lord Gough, these nonunion' of your honourable courts' despatch which relate to his Bust:temp.—l have the honour to euirseribe myself, honourable airs, your very faithful and obliged servant, (Signed) Ilasourox. To the honourable the Court of Directors. Simla, July 21, 1946. 61r,—1 have the honour to request you to lay before the C aunt of Directors the enclosed letter of Lord Gough, in answer to the Cou-Ve despatch of the 20th of May, which I had the pleasure of communi cating to his lordiship.-1 have the honour to in sir, your very obe dient 'invent, (Signed) I Luna:eon J. Melville. Simla, July 17, 11141. My Lard,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your lordship's letter of the fith instant, giving cover to the extract of a letter from the lion. the Court of Director., dated the 211th Mar, No. Si: I pray your lordship will do me the favour to convey to the Hon the Court of Directors my wannest acknowledgments foe their moat liberal mark of approval, and that of the Court of Proprietors, of the service' of their commander-in-chief, throughout the opera tion* on the b inks of the Seidel of the gallant army it was my good fortune to command. The grant being unprecedented, greatly increases my obligation and my gratitude. The value of this ap proval of my exertions at the head of the Indian Army is greatly enhanced in my estimation by their having been made under the government of, and in conjunction with, your lordship. —I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship . * faithful and obedient servant, lSigned ) Gomm, General Commander-in-Chief in India. To the Right Hon. Vi.eount ibinTmge, K.C.8., Governor-General of Intim A notice of motion given by Mr. Salomon for this day's discussion, was, upon the request of the hon. proprietor (by letter), postponed. Mr. I'. Goanov spin pressed upon the court the necessity of the minutes of the proceedings of the general courts being printed for the use of the proprietors, and he moved a reso lution to that effect.—The motion was not seconded, and it consequently fell to the ground. He then gave notice of a motion for the neat general court, that a committee be ap pointed to inquire into the legality of his arrest, and having been dragged through the streets as a felon (for having ex hibited placards condemnatory of the policy of the Court of Directors), end to report thereon.—The notice of motion was received, and of course will stand for discussion at the neat general meeting. THIS Ex-RUMI OF SATTARA.—Mr. P. GoRDoN then essayed to read the contents of a pamphlet in favour of the assumed claims of the deposed ex-Rajah. The CHAIRMAN : Do you intend to make a motion upon the subject? It is quite inconsistent with the rules which govern the proceedings of the House of Commons (the rou tine of which is followed by all public bodies) to read ex tracts on giving notice of motion. If the hon. proprietor makes a motion that the pamphlet be read, he (the chairman) would put the question to the proprietors. No person, how evi r, seconded Mr. Gordon when he moved has res and the court then adjourned. SOCIETY FOR THE AMENDMENT OF THE LAW.—SECONDARY PUNISHMENTS. The society met yesterday evening, Mr. Commis sioner Fonblanque in the chair. The secretary having read the minutes of the previous meeting— Mr. M. D. HILL, Q.C., proceeded to bring under the notice of the society his views with reference to secondary punishments, and the reformation of juvenile offenders. He said that his intention was in the first instance to call the attention of the society to the various plans which had been suggested for the above objects, with the effects of such as had been brought into operation, and in doing so he could not help congratulating himself on haying seen in that day's newspapers that the plans of Capt. M'Cunochie were about to be submitted, with some modifications, to the test of actual experiment. ( Hear, hear) He would first call the emotion of the society to the proceedings of the Warwick shire association for the reformation of young offenders. That society had been in operation since 1818 ; and it ap peared had effected reformation to the amount of 60 per cent. on the whole number plaid under their control. The expense of the whole hundred, when charged to the sixty reformed offenders, would amount to 251. per heaci, and surely any one who knew the expense of criminal prosecu tions would consider the system an economical one. The next paper to which he should allude was one with which he had been favoured by Mr. Rushton, police magis trate in Liverpool, by which it appeared that, in the cases of 14 young persons, frequently charged and tried, the refor mations were few, and the average expense wet 561. per head, being more than twice the expen , e at the Warwick shire Asylum on Dunsford Heath. Since 1841 the Birming ham magistrates, at quarter sessions, had tried an experi ment which had been attended wit` considerable success. In the case of apprentices convicted of minor offences, they had sent them back to their musters, wherever the latter were willing to take them ; and the result had been, for the Michaelmas sessions of the present year, that out of 113 so treated, 40 turned out decidedly bad, 20 were put down as doubtful, but 44 had reformed so es to stand the tests both of time and examination. And this, too, had been effected without any expense to the community. (Hear.) He had before him reports from the prison inspectors for England and Scotland, as also f:om the chaplains and governors of gaols, and he was happy to find that the attention of all was turned to the reformation of criminals. All were hopeful on the subject, and all attributed the greatest evils to the pre sent sworn of commitments for short periods. The City Solicitor, Mr. Charles Pearson, had also published a volu minous document relating to the treatment of juvenile offenders, with a view t a their reformation, and resolution'. founded on his suggestions had been adopted by tho Blase: magistrates. laving alluded to sumo other plans sad suggestions, the learned gentleman proceeded to say that, while he fully admitted the right of the public to inflict lain. finniebasent for ee:rae, with a view to its future prescutioi,, he eontendiel that the present system had a directly contrary effect. It was now admitted on all hands that the only fair principle in In flicting pain on criminals was, first, that such pain should act as a warning on the criminals themselves and an example to others ; and, secondly, that it should form part of a reformatory discipline, such as to enable the crimi nal at the term of his punishment to resume his place in iso eiety, and to prevent his again falling into crime. But it had been affirmed that these two principles were likely to tome into conflict, and that when they did, the system of warning and example must be preferred to the reformation of the individual He submitted to the society, first ofall, that they did not come into conflict ; and, secondly, that if they did, the former should of right give way to the latter. (Hear.) Pain, even to the destruction of the individual, must, to act as an example, be of prompt and certain result. In every country, civilized and unciv,lised,there were wholselasses who got their living by crime, a thing which could never take place if there were a certainty that eels' one out of ten would meet with punishment. On the other hand, where ever there was a chance of staving off the evil day, criminals would readily be found. He would illustrate this by one or two cases in which there was no crime. Until recently the neeffiemakers worked with a certainty of death at a certain age, and the soldier did not hesitate, although there were the so many chances against him. Granted that in one case man was stimulated by industry, and in the other by a laudable ambition ; but be it remembered that the criminal believed in an inverted morality, and looked at every evasion of the law, every dignified submission to pain as things to be reckoned among his triumphs. The fact was that the number of criminals committed was enormous, and the number of times of committal was equally so. In the northern part of this Wand, where justice was adminis tered with a somewhat lenient hand, the prison inspector found one old woman, who had been committed to Edin burgh gaol eighty-five times, and another ninety nine times. (Laughter) If example had not acted on persons of such advanced age, how was it to be expected that it should operate beneficially upon others ? Hear, hear.) His principle was, that on criminals gener ally, uo more pain should be inflicted than was necessary fur their reformation, but all that was necessary he would have unhesitatingly inflicted. (Hear, hear.) They had all read the inscription which Dante had inscribed over the gates of hell : with a slight addition he would place that in scription over every prison-door in the kingdom. He would say, " Abandon all hope, ye who enter here, of dipart ing unreformed." The present practice was founded on a monstrous at surdity. Punishment was attempted to be adjusted to the crime, while, between the two, there was not the slightest positive relation. For the same offence dif. ferent countries awarded different punishments ; what was capital in one being let off with a whipping in the other. It was this absurd principle which gave use to the commitment of boys charged with slight offences for short periods, to be again charged and again confined. They . should prepare a boy while in prison for his return to society: they should teach him self control, because a slavish obedience while in prison would not fit him for concourse with the world: Per haps the best commencement of such a system would be separate, as distinguished from solitary, confinement. Let the criminal first commune with himself, let him learn that labour was a resource, and to abstain from the sensual indulgences which had most probably brought him into a prison, and then gradually bring him into com munication with other men, so as to fit him for his inter course with the weed after his leaving the prison. These were his principles, the details of which he would reserve for the committee, but he maintained that every . criminal should be treat..ll with a view to his return to society. The prison should be to the moral what the hospital was to the physical man, with this only difference, that he would not turn out the moral incurable. (Hear, hear ) If his views were adopted he should lie glad to see them first put into opera tion with young offenders, although, at the same time, he had no wish to delay the experiment about to be tried on Captain Matonoehie's principles. Mr. Hill concluded by moving, that the various plans which had been submitted for secondary punishments be referred to the committee on Criminal Law, with a view to devising the best plan fur the reformation of juvenile offenders. [So we understood the learned gentleman 1 The motion was agreed to unanimously, and the meeting adjourned. THE SEIZURE OF CRACOW. A public meeting was held at the National-hall, Holborn, last evening, on the subject of the " Seizure of Cracow by the three despotic powers—Au-Via, Russia, and Prussia," on which occasion the spacious hall was filled by a respectable and enthusiastic audience. Dr. llownng, M.P. ' Wok the chair at eight o'clock. Letters were read from Lord Dudley Stuart, T. S. Duncombe. Esq., M.P., Col. Thompson, Mr. George Thompson. Mr. Douglas J rrold, and Mr. H. Vincent, excusing their attendance, but i xpress • ing deep sympat'iy in the objects of the meeting. Mr. Moose moved, and Mr. Ssysoz seconded, the following resolution, which was unanimously carried : That thin meeting, though it views with disgust and abhorrence the attempt of the three powers to complete the annihilation of Poland, nod the destruction of the Polish canoe by the amine of Cracow, yet cannot help expressing its sistiiifisction at the violation, by such seizure, of that infalsous compact known by the name of the treaty of Vienna; Inwood' as that violation exposes nakedly to the world the olesigns and objects at the three powers, and deprives them dell potence for again appealing to that treaty in support of the present tyrannies of giiropet - Mr. WILLIAM Howirr (who was received with unbounded applause), in a powerful speech, alluded to some prominent features in Polish history, and contended that, althou4h he was a friend to peace, unless Englishmen, as a nation, spoke out, and put an end to lurther breaches of treat e., war was inevitable. The speaker concluded by moving the following resolution, whicls was seconded by Mr. Holyoake, and car ried by acclamation : That the Treaty of Vienna, which pretended to finally settle the governments of Europe, Icing now overthrown, there ran no longer be any question, even among those who respected the Treaty, as to the necessity of reconsidering the ',relent cosstruetion of what are elided the governments of Europe; that this meeting, therefore, deems the present a lit opportunity fur reasserting the right of every nation to choose its own government, to Protect its own nationality, and that it re-echoes the appeal of the Liberals of France, in expres sing towards the Pules its warmest sympithy, conlidtmt of the resur rection of Poland and the ultimate triumph of Liberty and Justice. The nest resolution, moved by Mr. J. W. Linton, and se conded by Mr. J. Watson, was as follows : That an Association be now formed, whose object shall be to spread over the widest field the principles of national liberty and progress, and to alit in establishing a good understanding among the people of all countries. The resolution having been unanimously carried, thanks I were voted to the chairman. and •he meeting dissolved. NATIONAL PROVIDENT INartruTioN.—The I Ith annual meeting of the directors, proprietor., and in surers in this association was held yesterday at the London Tavern, Charles Lushington, Esq , in the chair, for the purpose of receiving the yearly report, and other business. The Chairman having briefly stated the pur pose for which they . had assembled, and shortly sketched the condition of the institution ' and the nature of the report, the secretary read the latter, by which it appeared that the institution is in a most prosperous position, that prosperity having progressed on a large, but steady, scale annually since its first commencement in 183.5. The pr, sent capital of the ass iciation amounts to the large sum of, within a fraction, 300,0001., 58,000/. of that amount being an in crease since the report of last year; and the present income from all sources is 89,000/., within a fraction. Upwards of 4,000 members belong to the institution, and the number of policies of insurance in the last year was 1,004, while those of the Equitable Office, that has been eighty years established, reached only 162 in the same time. and the total number of insurances in this institution amounted to above 6,000 in the eleven years of its existence, while the Equitable in eighty years only reached the same number. The claims upon life insurances in the year arising from deaths amounted to 15,0001. only, and the prosperous state of the institution generally appeared to be most flattering, and indeed extraordinary, considering the short period of its existence. The report having been ap proved of with acclamation, and ordered to be printed and circulated amongst the members, two vacancies in the direc tion were filled up, the auditors andother officers for the year were appointed, a sum of 1,5001. was voted to the directors for the ensuing year. Thanks having been cordially given to them for their zeal and ability in bringing the institution to so prosperous a position, the meeting separated. SOCIETY OF ARTS.—The first ordinary meeting for the 93rd session of the Society of Arts was held yesterday evening in the great room at the Society's house, John street, Adelphi, aud was most numerously attended. Dr. Roget, the secretary to the Royal Society, and the vice-pre sident of this society, took the chair according to rotation, and at 8 o'clock the business of the evening commenced by the secretary (Mr. John Scott Russell) reading the opening address of the council on the recent proceedings, the present duties, and the future prospects of the society. The address was received with warm applause, and the secretary then oroceeeded to communicate to the meeting a paper by Mr. D. R. Hay, the author of a " Treatise on the Harmony of Colouring," on the " Principles employed in the recent Decorations of the Great Hall of the Society." Mr. Hay, the artist to whom these decorations had been entrusted by the council, was unavoidably absent; but the paper at length entered into a detail of the principles whi:h had guided his mode of' action in effecting the highly effective improvements, as described in the Express of the 11th instant. A second paper (the first of a series from the pen of the same gentleman) on the " First Principles of Symmetrical Beauty, and their Application in certain Branches of the Art of Design," was read by Mr. Scott Russell, and was received with general ap probation, and after a ballot, at which the following gentle men were elected members of the society, viz.—Edward Smirke, Esq., Robert Murdock, Esq., Joseph Tennant,Esq.. and J. Townsend, Esq., the meeting was dissolved. It would be neglect on our part to omit to mention, that on the table were submitted to the society and its visitors an admirable specimen of American Photography, presented by Mr. It. Lowrance of New York itwo exquisitely wrought specimens of needlework, an imitation of the embroidery of the middle ages. presented by Miss King ; and several spe cimens of enamelled pearled glass, presented by Mr. Lane. THE ST. PANCItAS VESTRY AND DEPUTY CORONER. —Yesterday, at a crowded meeting of St. Pancras Vestry, held at the rooms in Gordon-equare, Mr. Wagstaff, junior churchwarden, in the chair, after the disposal of some routine and other business., the charges against Mr. Mi',ls, the deputy-coroner, were brought under coreideration. Mr. alcOahey, the vestry clerk, read a report of the committee appointed to consider and report what steps, if any, should he token by the vestry in reference to the 01111111 Ur ication of the deputy-coroner, inserted in the Times of ".,oth ult., on the subject of an inquest on the body of oseph Wood war:l, and the verdict of the coroner's jury. The report slated that the committee, en consideratie.n of the circum stances, regretted to find that Mr. Mills. shoul.l have ven tured, whilst exercising the functions of a judge, to publish a statement of thcprocccding4 of an inquiry that was adjourned . N , \ , 11 \ N. l . N .c . before him troths very day on which the said letter appeared, trio which so unjustifiebly attacked the is ithoritithe nea of t ee par • h. The alleged intention of doing good to ec sitous poor, and the pretence that the office of the coroner is a most faithful barometer of the condition of the humbler classes in this country, might be attributed to a desire to court popularity and favour, to extend the jurisdiction of the coroner's court. The report non living at length to condemn the course that the deputy coroner had adopted, and the committee expressed their opinion that it was the duty of the vestry to institute o s e thsobtainhiessuproceedtthyeoionfpg;mnasiron. might mofait the es b considered e c..unrdt oet f necessary,Several gentlemen i nh n t o eum r d e e t r at length, some reprobating, others defending rconduct of Mr. Mills ; the majority, however, depre ciated the course pursued by the deputy-coroner, but still considered it a matter about which the vestry ought not to interfere to involve the parish in needless expenses. It was also understood that Mr. Mills was willing to attend the vestry and give any explanation requisite. A re solution was then moved, to the effect, " That the report be received and recommended to the consideration of the vestry." Mr. Bolting then moved, as an amendment, " That the report be received and taken into consideration that day four weeks." The resolution and the amendment were then put from the chair, when the former was lost by a majority of 5, there being for the amendment 16, end fur the original motion 11. The vestry then separated. RIIYMNEY IRON COMPANY. —Yesterday an ad journed special general meeting of the shareholders of this I company was held at Ore London Tavern, 13ishopsgate-street. Mr. Wilson, the chairman of the Board of Directors, pre sided. The original meeting had been held en the 18th No , vember last, for the purpose of determining the best mode of raising the necessary sum for paying off the mortgage of ' 40,0001. to the Globe Insurance office, and of 39,4001. on loan notes for which the company was liable. On that occasion, the meeting appointed a committee of shareholders Ito act in conjunction with the Board of Directors for the pur -1 pose of considering the various plans which had been sub mitted to them, and to report thereon to the proprietary at the present meeting. The secretary (Mr. J. E. Scudamore) now read the report of the joint committee. After stating the points of reference, the report announced, " that it appear ing from the resultof a consultation with the Attorney-General that the issue of bonds at a higher rate: of interest than five per cent. ' whether as interest or bonus (being for a longer period than twelve months), would render the issuers and holders thereof liable to the penalties attaching to the usury laws, it then le came necessary to consider the possibility of issuing new shares, and the committee were happy to r. port that the Attorney. General is of opinion that by the deed of settlement. there is an authority enabling the com pany to avail themselves of that resource whether as prefer ence shares or otherwise." The committee then went on to rep art that "having given our best attention to the consider ation thereof, and of the several plans that have been refer redto UR, weave ofopinion that it would be expedient toadopt the following resolution. :—First, a resolution creating 10,000 new shares of 151. each, such shares to be i s sued rate ably to the proprietors in the proportion of one new share to each old share, at the price of 91. per share, such new shares; to receive dividends in the proportion of 151. to 501. Secondly ; that the said 91. be paid by instalments at the following periods, viz.-41. on the lot. Feb., 1847 ; 31. on the 20th June, I'ul7; and 21. on the 20th Jan., 1848: scrip re ceiets to be givsm on the payment of such instalments, and the holder thereof, for the tine being, shall, on the comple tion of the payme,it of 91. per share, he entitled to the re spective number of new shires upon which such payments shall have been mad. , respectively, and, on executing the company's deed, shall be certificates of proprietorships accordingly." The thini resolution required the applications fur new shares to be m ale by the existing shareholders on or before the 9th Jan. next. The fourth provided that in the event of the required instalments not being punctually,marle, the right to claim the new shares to cease, and the shares to be absolutely f,rfeited fur the be ustit of the company. The re maining resolutons up to the last, the 10th, had reference to the details for carrying the preceding resolutions into effect. —Mr. Coles Child, who wee stated to be the author of the plan thus recommended by the committee for adoption, addressed some explanatory uhaervations to the meting, and declared that if the plan were carried out, it would enable the company to stand before the public clear of all debts and liabilities—that the profits of the company would form the source of a dividend to the shareholders, instead of being, as now, locked up in the payment of interest on loans, and on the whole, a degree of prosperity not before known would be brought about.—Mr. Wheeler expressed his concurrence in the principles on which the reso lutions were based, but objected to sonic of the de tails, into which he went at considerable length, out as the objections were not persisted in, in anything like a tangible form, it is wholly unnecessary to repeat them. Mr. A:d. Thompson, M.l'., supported the resolutions pro posed, though it was stated by the chairman that the worthy alderman had submitted a plan to the joint committee. After n lengthy and very de-ultory conversation, in which Mr. Wheeler, Mr. Smith, Mr. Blackett, Mr. Alderman Thomp son, and other gentlemen, took part, the resolutions were put seriatim, and adopted unanimously by the meeting alter some slight modifications in those of detail. A resolution to the effect that the Board of Directors be authorised to carry the plan recommended by tnejeint committee into effect was also unanimously agreed to ; and, after a vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting separated. MORE FRAUDS ON THE CUSTOMS.—A few days ago, says the London Mercantile'✓Journal,we gave publicity to an investigation of certain suspicious transactions on the part o' bonded warehouse-ke. pers. The veil of mystery which at all times enshrouds that misgoverned establish ment, the Custom-house, precluded at the time, and even now precludes, our giving full particulars of the iniquitous operations alluded to. It is, nevertheless, our intention not to let pas: any opportunity of gising the fullest exposure we can to the abuses of this deplorably regulesed govern ment department, until the whole is remodelled and carried out upon sound principles, by honest repre sentatives. We have this week to expose a fraud of a most extensive character', committed in one of the largest warehouses belonging to the St. Katherine's Da k Company, by the connivauce of the customs' officer in charge of that warehouse. We und , ret and the amount of which the revenue has been defrauded, in this single in stance, to be between twenty and thirty thousand pounds. Sugar is the article by which this fraud has been effected, and the way it has been done is simply this :—Upon the pre sentation of warrants for the delivery of goods to the com pany's clerks, it is the practice to present the document to the locker on the premises, fur him to certify that he has re ceived the necessary order from the Custom-house that the duty has been paid, before the delivery is allowed to take place. In this instance the locker asserted that he was in re ceipt of the "order " when such was not the case, no duty having been paid. The Dock Company delivered the sugar, and, we presume, stands exonerated. The locker has de camped with, we suppose, half the amount in his pocket, weich may be considered not a bad exchange for a man whose duty commences at seven o'cleck in the morning, with a salary of ninety pounds a-year without the chance of preferment. It was a " split " among the actors which brought this affair to light, and it is to similar differences that the public are mainly indebted for all they know of the frauds upon the Customs, and the Chancellor of the Exche quer for all he may have received, in the shape of verdicts, from fraudulent traders. RELIEF TO CASUAL POOR.--The Poor-law Com missioners Kaye just issued a circular, cal ing on all boards of guardians to state what accommodation is provided for the casual poor; the time they are allowed to remain when admitted; and whether any limitation is placed on the number admitted. DETENTION OF TILE MAILS.—Dn consequence of the snow, a number of mail bags are still overdue. The following is the General Post-office list of the missing harts up to last evening: South Shields, two bags of the 14th, and two bars of the 15th ; North Shields, one bag of the 14th, and two barn of the 15th; Sunderland, the mid day bag of 15th. The mails of Wednesday morning: Alnwick, Berwick, Belford, Felton, Morpeth, Newcastle-on- Tyne, North Shields, South Shields, Sunderland, Whitby, Belfast, Derry, Newry, Wexford, Cardigan, Heverfordwest, Milford, and liorbeth.—Third day mails: Alnwick, Belford, Berwick, Durham, Felton, Gateshead, Heehaw, Leith, Morpeth, North Shields, South Shields. Newcastle-on- Tyne, Sunderland, arid Edinburgh. Most of the mails which did arrive were many hours behind time. The Ham burg mail, due on Sunday last, arrived by the General Steam Navigation Company's Packet, the John Bull, which had been brought from Cuxhaven, where the begs had been transmitted with great difficulty from Altera, near to where the Giraffe lies ice-'iound in the Llh. The Caledonia, with the Holland mail of Sunday is still due. The Lisbon and Gibraltar, and also an American mail, arc overdue. FIRES.—No less than eight fires occurred in the metropolis on Tuesday night, but none of them were of any importance except the following. It broke out at a quarter to four, a.m., at 35, Cannon-street, St. George's-in-the- East, the property of Mr. John House, wire-blind maker ; and was caused from overheating ashen furnace built against ' the division wall. Although an instant alarm was raised, and several of the brigade engines were promptly on the spot, the flames had obtained such a firm hold, that before a drop of water could be discharged, the workshop and the rooms over it, were burning with great fury. The firemen, alter much exertion, at length succeeded in extinguishing the flames. Tho damage dune is thus reported by Mr. Braidwoodl—" No. 3.3, Cannon-street, Mr. John House, wire-blind manufacturer: the workshop and rooms over, destroyed, and rest of house sever. ly damaged by fire. Con tents nut insured, building insured in the Dissenters.—No. 34, Cannon street. Mr. Wm. Bradfield, glass-blower: shed behind burned down and dwelling-house damaged by tire and water. Uninsured.—No. 36, Cannon-street. Mr. Rob. Perk., rule-maker : the workshop and two rooms over it at the rear of dwelling-house considerably damaged by fire. Stock unir.sured, land the building insured in the Dissenters office.--K o. 33, Cannon-street. John Thomas, undertaker : stock and furniture slightly damaged by water and removal. ItitIUESTS YESTERDAY.—SUICIDE OF MAJOR R. F. Eeatita.—By Mr. Bedford (continued, from Friday), on the body of Major Richard Fairfax Eames, aged 60, who e,,ommitted suicide, as was mentioned on Saturday. Mr. Rernlyn Note, assistant-surgeon in the Madras Service, knew the deceased intimately, About 18 months back he came with him from India on board ship. He was at times highly excited, so that in conversation all persons were ob liged to be very guarded. He had been invalided on account of an affection of the brain. If he took the smallest quantity of wine or spirits he became so excited as almost to emoutit to insanitt . During the voyage he frequently shut himself in his cabin, end was heard muttering and making ell sorts of remarks on his fellow-passengers. On one occasion the captain of the ship, in the course of conversation, mentioned " Dutch courage, ' upon which the major became consider ably excited, and said he would not allow such language in his presence, as he was an officer and a pewit 'man. The last time he saw him alive was about a fort'aight back, when he appeared most cheerful, and told him that he was about pur- \ s ' •- , "N \ chasing a shooting-box near Reading. He was a natie r o o f Ireland, and was generally moat cheerful. Mr. Wm.:D e , solicitor, of 1, Queen-street, May fair, was applied t o b y th e deceased to negotiate for the purchase of a small estate near Maidenhead. He then appeared °fa very nervous temperament The night before he committed the act of suicide, wit aeee received a letter from him, in which he requested hi m , if he had not gone too far, to b reak off the purchase. The follow ing letter, found in the room where the deceiieed shot himself, in his handwriting, and addressed, " James Clarke, Reg Post.oflice, Dublin," was read : Prince Albert.llotet, Leionster-equare.—Dear lames,.—Loa r b erm this reaches, the hand that penned it will be elated is death. P im sinuatioas ;and inuenclosi, thrown out at various times, that I have sacrificed my honour and reput ition in rime way or the other, why, I know not, I find Ibis world no longer worth living in, a n d th re w off the mortal and become an immortal. The run whir knows ! roe must ta k e are how you break the news to my dearest sister, wh ose fondness) and goodness of heart I have so little deserved. On pa l mu , t devolve the task of breaking it out to all. My things y ou wai find at 61, Jennvu-street, and my body, I suppose, will remain he m I have been mt.:ring much in body and mind far the last throe days_ in fact, from fancy ' or some ch race or another, I am more like a maa beside himself. Co utta and Co. are my blunter% and the cheque book is at my lodgings. I have 10,000 rupees; let 5,0u0 remain at interest for my daughter. Now, God bless you and yours. I do not know what my poor dear brother If nimbi will way. Kiss them .all, r e , the sake of their unhappy uncle.—Yoursa&etionately, K. F. Earn. The inquest was again aejourned.—DEATH PROM HA. CHINERY.—By Mr. W. Payne, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, respecting the death of Henry Jame Purdue, aged 15 years. Deceased was in the employ of Mr. Powell, the marble paper manufacturer, of Wilson-street, Fiasbury. square. On the 10th of October he was engaged in the manufactory, where a large dazing machine is kept is motion by horse power. Deceased had just passed by it, with a ream of paper, which he placed on a bench, and, whilst is the act of returning to his bench, he missed his teeing, and, in endeavour ing to save himself, he put his right arm oat, which, unfortunately, was drawn between two rollers, sad before the machine could be stopped, the arm was fright. fully crushed. The limb was subsequently amputated, but he died on Tuesday. Verdict, " Accidental death. FOUND DHOWNED.—By Mr. Biker, at the Queen's Read, High-street, Poplar, on the body of a boy unknown. On Tuesday morning the body of the deceased was found lying in the mud, opposite Fully House, Blackwell. He op. peered Le have only been id the water a few dare and saw about 14 years of age, fair complexim, and lieht . hair. He was dressed in a light Guernsey frock, canvas treweee s , bias stockings, and Blucher boots. Verdict, "Found drowned." --DEATH PROM AN UNKNOWN CAUSE.—AIso by M e , Baker, at the Horse and Groom, Curtain-road, on view of the body of Sarah Evans, aged 55. Mr. W. Lloyd, 1, Cumberland. street, said he heed opposite to the deceased. On Monday afternoon, about 5 o'clock, he saw her husband at the street door, who had knocked repeatedly. As he was unable to get admission, witness ass;sted him with a ladder, by which he got in at the first floor window. Ile soon let witneu in at the door, stating that he could not find deceased. Wit nese searched with him, and then discovered her in $ room on the ground their of a lodger named Jones. She was lying on her face, and on lifting her up h, r lips were observed to be swollen, and on the floor was some blood, which had come from a cut on her lips. They subsequently saw the drawer of a bureau open, and from it had been re. moved some money, and near it was a ekeleten key. ge n e Jones, a married woman, said, that she had Si. 10s. in the drawer, and that she had not mired any money.—Me. Bowen, surgeon, Curtain-road, saw no mares el violence to account for death, which might have been the effect of sudden fright —The coroner observed that there may hare been a noise to cause the deceased to cuter that room, sad that some person there was disturbed, who had pushed the deceased down, and made his escape, which would amount nearly to a case of murder. The better way was f thejury to return an open verdict. Verdict, " F ound dead. "— I)ISATHe IN THE HOUSE (D. CORRECTION.—By Mr. Mills, deputy coroner, at the House of Correction, on view of the body of Joseph Thomp-on, aged 27, a sailor. Deceased saw sentenced on the 3rd instant, from the Thames police court, for a violent assault upon the peliee, to 14 days imprison. mint. He had been for several days successively in a state of intoxication, and on entering the prison was placed in the infirmary. On the 13th he was nearly suffecied, in conee quence of inflammation of the larynx. Dr. Wa ,efield ob tained the assistance of Mr. .Morton, of the London I:ne yersity College, who made an incision in the windpipe, u the only means of saving his life. The operation was at lint successful, and deceased was able to hreethe freely. On Tuesday night inflammation came on, after which he sank rapidly, and di. d that morning.—Two prieee re were ens. mined, who stet d teat the deceased received every possible !attention, and that he expressed his thanks for the treatment he received. Verdict—" Natural death."—Also on John Potter, aged 35, who was lame, and who used to walk with the assistance of crutches. He had been a vagrant, and was sentenced to ame nth's imprisonment for vagrancy. He yes admitted on the 26th ult., when he was placed in the vagrant ward. On the 9ch inetant he was observed by Allen, the assistant-surgeon, to he unwell, who ordered him into the infirmary. On Sunday he was much wore, and while the surgeon was attending to the deceased, Toompson, he expired in a chair. Verdict—" Natural de oh "—Tea ACCIDENT IN ST. JAMES'II PALLY. —By Mr. Bedford, at the Star and Gar! er, St. Martin's-lane, on the ()oily of George Wright, aged 19, who lost his life by the breakage of the is in St. James's Park, on Monday last. The only evidenceof • importance was this. Mr. T. Thomas, of 5, Grove, Mile-end, said, that whilst he was skating on the afternoon in quesion, the ice, near the fountain, opposite Buckingham Palace, gave way. The Royal Humane Socieey's men rendered every assistance, and he believed the deceased het his lite in endeavouring to save witness.—Thos. Pavel, iceman, (No. 9). said that he had previously cautioned the witness Thomas, we well as other pennons from going on the ice, but he replied that it was strong enough to bear him. Had it not been for the deceased and other persons going to his assistance no life would have been lost. Al it was witness nearly lost his own life, for he was under water upwards of a minute, and was obliged to crawl through a hole in the breaker ladder.—Verdict, " Accidental Death." IRELAND. DUBLIN, Dec. 16. A very important circular has been issued from the Board of Works, making some very useful changes in the mode hitherto adopted of employing the people, and varying the objects to which labour is to be henceforth directed. Great apprehensions are entertained that the diversion of the labour of the country to public works, which afforded immediate relief, and shut out at the same time the real prospect of the future, would produce a very serious effect on agriculture. Not only ordinary labourers, but the farmers with small holdings, and their families. thronged to the public ways, and the exertions which should have been directed to the prepara tion of the soil—to fencing and clearing and draining — for the operations of spring—were bestowed on less profit able but more immediately remunerative public works. The better class of farmers were unable to employ labour from the avidity with which the public works were sought. This condition of things excited very great alarm. There was no hope front a general system of reproductive works, and in truth the exigency was too pressing and the season too late to try them on any extensive scale. The Board of Works seeks a remedy for this disastrous state, and applies it at the ptoper and critical season when the public works shall hate tirrain..ted, which must be in a few weeks more. Reproductive works must then be subtituted. The intention of the Board is a wise one, and if fairly carried into effect, cannot fen to be pro ductive of the must beneficial consequences, namely, to in dividualise as it w. re the labourer, and give to each person hie own defined and specific contract. There will no gang work—no association—but each will he coo on his own in dividual exertions, to work as a self-reliant agent, and receive the full reward of his well-applied industry. His family will co-operate with him in collecting and breaking the stoma for drainage; and out of their combined exertions full relief will be afforded, while the land will be prepared for a boun tiful crop to meet all deficiencies, and plenty will once more repair our disordered social balance. The great difficulty of carrying out this great scheme will be the insufficiency of nroper instruments. But, it is to be presumed, the Board pas made all its calculations to attain the result before the change was promulgated. This, their last, is also their greatest and wisest movement. The following is the circular : DRAINAGE ACT (IRELAND). Board of Public Works, Dec. 9, 1846. The employment of the destitute on roads and other public works must soon terminate, and reproductive works be substituted for them To render such works really beneficial and morally tofettil, the landed proprietors must join hand in hand with the Board of Works. Every proprietor or farmer will be interested in the practical suoressof lame local work, and as the numb, will be great, the MICA'S, will be in 9 ,6 * portion to the zealous co-operation which the board may creel. , VISAS connected with thorough draining and ec salksed l2l . with the spade must be etuted systematierilly and callmf —no external force, no hurry, can be admitted. 'The Mialeg of Labourers required for each particular work tan be 0 - curately known, and etch individual labourer should have a talk allotted to him, say sufficient for a fortnight or three weeka enable each labourer to till his own farm, or that of a neigh farmer, and at the same time earn the support of his family employment on drainage works, It is propored that the task 10 allotted to each labourer should consist of a certain length of arils. and the collection and breaking of stones for the drain; Where °la.,. stance arc to be gathered from the same or noighoouring befits, children of the labourer may be employed by hint iu collecting into heaps, and if sufficiently near, drpouting them un the tide of the drain cut by the father. If, with the awisto.nce of his childreik the teak, sufficient for a foci eight, be completed in kis or eight dirk the labourer will receive his money and be at liberty to devote the remainder of the fortnight to farm labour, and -till . 81 bare earned sufheient to support his family until the time arrives he commencing a eecond tusk, and so on. To render the drainage soo ts sutetantially beneficial to the landed proprietors, it is nceesker! ... the most approved system of thorough draining khonl , l be adopted. Tia effect this object, the commiusioners of puklic work:, mea n to a ppoint district inspectors ot drainage, whose duty wille, in the first instance , to examine the site of every work presented fo r ; to determine the ex tent of land to be drained, and mark its boundaries on the °When. plans; to lay out the works connected with the main or opendrains_A, to determinethe depth and all the detail belonifill4 the c°?°;,,,; draius ; to estimate the cost of the drainage I" aert the land in its present state, and give his opinion as to the eacreamed value which will result from the drainage , ord "- port on the whole to the commireioners. During the time pied by the inspector of drainage in the pertormanee of foe duty, the landed proprietor, the agent, or steward, , llould inttUla the purpose of receiving instructions as, to the particular works to who executed in each ewe, and should recommend guit,ble may be employed as local overseers to carry them out. The Ste or farmers, us the caw may be, to act without salar y ; but overseers recommended by them, when w;prov,st of by the meperl; of drainage, will be paid according to their qualifications dex . hots. The sanction of the Treasury h a ving been received an for llt6 drainage works of any district, and the number of labour to be employed in each determined, on due Donee being 11 "; to the relief inspecting of of the o f Works, will name labourers fur each from the list of the destitute rcoo within the electoral division or barony, as is usual for the road workv and it is expected that the landed proprietors, farrocr.:, and stev.fr, connected with each work will use every exertion to scrutinise 163 list of the destitute, to insure that none who have abet allesf!' o 2r , support be employed. The land will be assetees: for the expeot.%, and consequently the adini.eion of perilous not mowing rei _l . •_;. ro adding to the number, will poortionahls in .reace the as . hence it becomes the interest LW well as the duty of all erva-Par` to limit the admission of labourer* to those who arc wholly deddilds (By order) Jot. C. WALKEN Seen-WY', a to There was an investigation before the lemPtetor I tors anY I I the M 7. waft hear tbehl .. p .- 07,1; fou stael Man gent P - o'i I alai Ism alsc