The Express. — London, England, 1849-11-08 00:00:00

r visibw --- i s emMggegither tho eerier sod Mehl Wa gs. a Misty la eig Mialese, and the egiabliehing, NMI • wo o lge.' • He oneeeeded la se doles: end asgs. me thil He welesies, re j e t slim s g asolees p ia this tows, though fr om el& ems of yetd—l was but • mm les awed vety re seethe or to be your repuestatis : eg / am sem that this is • hall built by the egged s it e ef the sews el gee ma o fif idos the miseaties of the people. (A sus.) I We O ka. sod I win mk set to boor with see ke or so mems while I pat the qeseties—l ask how mos it gosh this rather magaillseat hall esti remarkable I d a, ~,, new. are, how was Is robed ? Woe it la rat: is A }I so 's lung) was it rebid by the and mistake ad ;gess of the Maoist repeUden I foes it was sot; me win ten yes how it wee dens. It was raised by that =el the popes who saw thatibis lugs body this say s ths sous of module. or patties g o esed dad fee Ike tablas ono saris, ese • hiris Ma this : sot they. goiag la advents el the wield, boo m id, we, sympathiskst with oar fellows, cheese to Musa our who sad ear mensys ia the &Unapt to ilatgems who are bore, what is called • Me. matte ma' l maesdoste—thb great bandiag—sad we are with mm. Arad I take this to be ems of the meat masked and jabs instmess of • sympathy of Molise; ameort all mom, w his t j ai I hope sod believe, sir, will lead to the greet aiwiso mnes of all el as, not sally in social bat is every on masa et enjoyment whisk beluga sot only to the ;mg !bet to di the isdestrioss dames. (Cheers.) Bet il l, I am shed why lam here. That is • quotatioa earth I sea anaveir at out. But Igo a step farther, mad sea Irby ethos sae here : and I can ask of myself hes there bees la the Moto' y of England—sow mark ate, sir, there bees in the Main of Begthed so marked as losideat as this whisk we have WI !diseased tweight? It ast that there Me bees one amengst sympat iw bie a t Mth from his positios—it b not this that I have them look "tea, became he would have ho s hen mi me any cireamstasiess: bat there Is amongst us• a gonna of this great kiagdeni—(applaose)—ons who has act thought it inconsistent with him who holds the t 'shot position to this kingdom to be here simply as the twice d pot of • Mechasics' Institute! (Chou) A Yorkshire os, he would have been : Remota who had represented Me county, he would have been here : Carlisle, who is s wags: you always, he who has been here: that I could hove understood, and have felt at aethiag. Bat • cabinet minister here I (Mesh theerisig.) Asd I take It to be • marked eireanteteses to the history Of our oantry, that at a Mechanist' Institute, made f the hard-workleg hand of men whos week is iron and steel, and at the hard sad hot fosses day by day—the governor of this country (one of them : there Is • very small number, sir; particularly mark that)—(hear, hear) — he is hen ; and I say that's a most marked incident in the history of this country. If, in the reign of Charles I , Hampden or Pym bad met together, they would hers their retainers babied them: they would have bees the ',Ad ler& of this gaudy ; they would have led to the Long Poliaseet. the honest, well-monisg, sad Gos.fearing send Englaad to sod sad assist them. Bat in the reign N Victoria is is a totally daunt thing. We have not the Pres and we lave met the Hampden': but I am proud to my that we have Lard Carlisle. (Cheers.) And why am I proud to say it? Why, that the spirit o f the time is such that it does not come from the streusel downwards —it does not come from the great sad of • man like Hampden or Pre to inspire bb followers with the great not at all. The great idea is in the man, and it brings the noble lord amongst as: and that is the great feeling of the present time; and I take en institution like this to be one of the most marked of any 1$ the 'denary of sankiad. It is small in its dimensioss, sir. I dare my there us not • h o t here. Bet why are they here ? Foe an rot cause of partisauship : no polltital foiling has brought them here : hut it is the elevedion of their roe that has brought them here. (Lod cheers ) Why, I em quite out of my dement in a sphere like this, unless I can create • practice' bearing. The &obis lord by the ode of me, I lave no doubt, woos • muse whisk I have nought to do with—on the high issantain with the sod end with the valley sad its balmy breath— I has no doubt the noble lord may have far more potency with that mw than 1 have. I on • prosaic man. I come down to the hard strand of ease, when I hod the rough breaker waking with me sad against me, sad I delve you down to it, sad I want you to andentaad waist from day to day is working around es. Let no m b.: liars that however high kis aspirations, how. ova satins* may he his comiderations of the ',oculist sof knowledge, however sack separated from us denldly die oction—let him sot buy that he is bey the nub sow of powder eastol. (Peen.) It will reach him no matter Own tee goes—it's like the in_ ,r it wit surround nom wherever he Breathes. Asd it may be like that penitential Smothers of which the sable lord seems to know is hi. hard wt.rkings but too much—the statooph re may be pesti lential, still tt surrounds his It may be like the air fres the mountain top, quite pure; win it will sr mod Sm. It is hate duty to see that it is pare—that it is ens ual : and the higher he mounts the more harm es{ les sill hod it to be to meet it, and to make it pare sound him, sod that he 'Seidel not allow say influence bat • geoid and beneficent influents loafed the austersere. Now dr, I sounder an insituttoo like this is a great el the semi.. Milatises et ear time, and that it depend" epos the leading able ameaget us teddies the saulfestation shell be lot pod es fee evil, for we mono( hold it, ear ; it is idle to milk about s it: the world is about to be rtverted by the penile, sad ot by • small portion—Owed applanse)--eod I my hit the topmost Ii eviry co:meshy takie this teeth with them —that the people wail govern, and that this will be a sleassuity advancing—that a people are to prom ; sod it wid to for mankind beneficial is a great degree It the dadiag minds amonget as be our guides. had they may be our guides through isoimitioas like this, (Bear, hear, sad coin.) Now, air, everybody knows—l doa't see why I should hold it bath, as every body Wows it—that lam a democrat as lar as I go. Now I aboald he gl id to be mused by a eigher mind thaii my oils. (Chien.) I would bow with • submission that I onset opiate. My mind would bow down to it as the ladies bolos his idol, but with this difference : it should be a meats' rostratioo, arising from a thor,ugh subjegwion Say understanding sad not my feelings. Idow 1 a ould like to let guided by melt • person as that; 1.1141 I Wheys that one great advantage from societies like the present will be Ohne. withia its 'deb an dames of knowledge. New we all of us hot • goo deal of the advantages of physical Imo/ledge. No man can be mos willing to allow that than I am. 1 have been brought three bandied miles to this piece la I Ada something like ten hours. That is the malt of Myles' iequiry. If I had wanted to tell my child how I us, I voila have told her in • minute whether I was seller whether I was ill by the electric telegraph. This is • great triumph of physical [squirt • bat thug lea species of inquiry very different from this that 1 underetuad you shut out. AU inquiry respecting mental operations, upon which in reality all those others depeod, are shut out trim institu tions like the pretest. And why ? Ba it appears we quar tel when we enter upon their Glasslike, and people say, " Well, we canno . . have in ULU ions like the resat any discussion that leads to divans Barely, sir, as we advance in knowledge, ma we advance' in kiadtthess--44 I can met the noble lord (who is a whi t {, I being • radical), in pi rf-et good feeling, why should not you meet one another io the investigation of political end metal science without quarrel. hog soh one mother ? (Apples's.) 1 hope, in our maenad stage through life to go on with the noble lord : I dare my we shall be very mob opposed ; bet I am sure that on his part, sad I hope that on my own, there sill be no unkindly feeling. Wh should it not be the isms with lon ? Way should you, t he moment that you have • moral, • political, or a Teligious object, why Plastid you go • to pulling cape and quarrelling with one ano th er ? (Cheers.) I have been told teat you may get the art of driving by intuition ; every man may drive a gig without knowing anything about it previously, I eat told; but I sa quite sure he cannot get knowledge by any such promo. There is no " royal road " to legislative say more than mathematical sties* ; and I am rate sus that if the people of England eliminate out of their curriculum of knowledge all consideration of moral, and religiose sabres, they will be en ignorant peo- ple to the end cf time. Well, if that be the ease, bear with me when I my why paw* you admit it as • matter of science —for it is a seises, damsel upon it, whatever you may call it. I cannot suppose there is • demagogue in Leeds —I can oed supra* such a thing—(A saes, " You're in Sheffield ") —I beg pardon ; I as in Sheffield ;—I roust possibly suppose that there is such • thing in Shethld. But p toeing there is, does it not depead upon the adores' —l won't call it polities; I will call it, if you please, any tame you like; but et is the government of asasind. It de pends upon certain laws, which laws are evolved from every consideration of the knowledge and natant of man. It hes had to be wrought out by a crude toad !oration of ineideets of his wawa • and shell it be said that we are so quesbosts, whist we ems to consider ourselves, that we tear one anotlier's ayes out ? I hope not. New, if you will permit me to cites them few oborvations, whisk bay. been very unworthy of you and of this very fine room is which I am speaking, it shall be by a suggestion. Polska' knowledge is of very great importance, and what is more it is °imperatively easy. Yea out take a lump of earth, you sea place at under a item and you can eaelyes it, sad you sea tell every per iris iis that sinit ; and you can rodeos it to its elements, and put it into • tabular * foes. No rasa has_ yet got the human mind under a glue; but the haw =dad b the inetnimeat which in reality makes your happiness or your misery. It is from the investigation of its many powers —eye, sad ha many weaknesses, its pagileau, sad its pee j upon which the happiness of meakbliegealle. We go on from egg tome, scarcely aequitiag keowledoe reepeet log that great instrument tips which all haprness dogsleds. On every side lit-rest and potion eneu 'other, and delay, ea/ annoy as in the investigation. Ws cannot arrive at the truth because of the interests which oppose, of the pojedices that surround, of the ignorance that obverses us. Bat I will entreat you to be above it alt, and to my that we sow, having vindicated to ourselves the goverment of ourselves —we, being in reality the g orirpOri of ourselves, and a really democratic govern ment (though we be • moisareby)—ought to be well iastrasted is thous great truths upon which the bapti sms of mankind depends. And, then, Sir, depend open it that no ignorant demagogue would saillwid us, and that no powerful noble would frighten 11 , ; but that we should go en hand in hand with the b neheent and in- Muted superior, while we contemned him who should suavest to mow the seeds of dissension by misleading ss, whiz the great truths which morality sad law pointed out us the requisites of the goverment of our oesatry. I on it coming ; the people must governs; midi will ends- Tear to instruct the people. (Much cheering.) The meeting was sebesquntly addressed by the Rev. Mr. Larked, rector of Banos, sear Lineola; Sir Arnold J. Haight, of Liverpool; Mr. Heywood, for North Lancashire ; the Rev. Josh. Hunter (the historian of Hsi, larnande); Dr. Watts, al Minchseter ; and other gentle- PUBLIC BOMBE TO GOO. THOMPSON, ESQ. , M.P., AT MINSIONLIL toseerpolielf of the untesliable Ammo of MY. Tbsespea,a th e ;abbe aeseles bad ea the poseisue week, I sad es tbalasteattle seelkaara Wed to reaelaia tb asishheirdaell a fbw doedi see ifeeMad to loam bb.. talhawill Mr Jaime Webesim 111111 • as pasty, a Ste i llell.at Monday eseeles._ Sank sot sumer =:ream.stleailedi by a sagestahle Sank of Miss wed minatea tbe osapsay wee enaekbably aloft by the sfset ef verities Masse. sad about kalbpast el: iamb Hama Waixana, Hog., took the &dr. CHAIIIIIAN Ikea adhered Ste westing at seas is whisk he dwelt ea the awaily ef every well of lb ....try scales tweed is aid of tke Na tiosel Parilusarsay and Fissasial Maim Assatiatios. Mr. JOHN HENSON next addesteed the sad ia aesiesisa seessesd as a sestinal—a Heated's' sad Manama is Me }airlift sagnailleare, and shako to MOM& Sassy Clebisa. vest Male weadistan for aide abed& stabs, limb is and eat of pediment •' sad she awns to the Naketal Parliaasstary Rehm Awe- Mika and the speedy 614 sordid anion of the middle sal ways; sasses. ter the attaiantat of Its particular il tr.O. THOMPSON thou prosieeded to address the eta pay in a speech of three bare duration, is which he urged the seaseity of daaacial reform in every department of the state, sled, aiiiiary, and ecclesiastic. He Waal ems the seesseity of pardanientary reform ea a variety of sroastis, sad Maas i•esleated antes, self. ne r t e rat im and ea re. parades be a gaudeke ion, flubbed by es the extension of freehold lan d seekties, sad eoseluded hive address aabist sathasiaric sad mien. d applaute. Some Woe speeches were delivered, sad is the laterals appropriate sage seas, W soaviviality being kept up to a lets hear. Sir Joshua Naimoli was prevented attending, for whose abeam Mr. Theapess offered a suitable apology. OUR REPRESENTATIVE SYSTEM DROITWYCH. In one of the pleasantest valleys of a rather remote part of Worcestershire is one of those eternal sources of health and wealth, a brine-spring. The American' cell thus salt-fields " ticker the Suns, whoa lite rature was more polite, and probably to their own ideas quite u expressive, denominated them " wyehes." In the time of the Normans this" wyche" was a royal property, and hence it C.. 1210 to be called "Droit-wych," which has given the name to the borough we are about to treat of. The town of Droitwych consists chiefly of one close irregular street, built, singularly enough,orer the very bed from whence the hens is supposed to spring. Etch freeholder, therefore, may have his own saline bath in hie own back yard. And singularly enough many of the Droitwych pr ple have taken lately to the enjoyment of this luxury. For, in consequence of the proceedings of an influential company who have been trying to monopolise the salt manufacture of the place, the smaller makers have found rt SOC4IIF nary to sink brine pits in various nooks and corners of the town, in places that might be considered sin gularly inappropriate, if it were not recollected that the brine is alune to be obtained on the spot where the houses stand. Droitwych was originally a royal boroegh. Its charter was granted by the 23rd Edw. I. to " the burgeasesof the salt springs at Droitwych;" and in the early history of the place the Crown appears to have hen the dominant influence. From the period of the Restoration, however, the borough was exercised by the family of Foley, who had become lords of the manor and proprietors of much of the property in the town. The Pakingtre s contested it with them in 1690, when the question was raised weether the right of election was in the " burgesses" or in the " proprietors" of the salt spring.. There voted on that occasion—for Pakington, 26 ; for Foley', 22 ; nut of Pakington's 26 only 8 were " burgesses," and in these the right of election was subsequently determined to be vested. From this period to 1747 tree.• were contests for the representation in which the Foley family had the advantage. But from that year to the period of the Refers Bill they retained the representation without on any occesien experiencing opposition. This is almost the only cas m England of a borough in which an electorate existed having for a hundred years re turned its representatives without the occurrence of a single contest. Tie Foley family bold Droitwych during this pro tracted interval, by the influence of old association, by acts of kindness to the inhabitant*, and the dispensa tion of patronage among the voters. They had no direct sway over the town, their property in it not being extensive, and their r. sides°, bring ate con siderable distance. Their affairs in Droitwych were, consequently, for the most part, managed by an agent, whom it was easy enough for so powerful a family to make a man of weiet and influence in so small a place, and among co unimportant a population. Teat the firefly had been well 'tiered was evident from the say way in which the double representation was secured. Droll wyeh was one of those Whig boroughs which the Wnig adminis , ration of 1831 were anxious to pre serve. They had never the most dis ant idea that the Foley influence in this town could in any way be shaken. Nor ; it would stem, did each a problemati cal contingence present its If to the imagine ion of the Foleys theme lv. s. They scarcely interested them selves at e l s nout the new arrangements under which the town was to be plic d. The population of Droitwychi was thee more than 2,000 ; it was therefore necessary to exte rd its boundsry. As we have since seen, the arrangements respect ing bouedaries have hen the key to half the boroughs in the kingdom. Where the boundaries were well anew cl, as at Mor path, or at Maltose where whig noblemen in on were alive to their own interests, there r i r reel) no difficulty in man iging the boroughs since. But the Foley' were easy, careless sort of people ; or, it may be, thought of making pablic la rr a ngements of this sort subse rvient to their own purpose s. Accordingly they let the commissioaers I manage the beuediry of Droitwych pretty much as they ttought beet. Nething seems to be on record u to the mode in which the boundary commissioners were induced to I arrive at the eoeclu-ions to which they came. The I probabilities see, the ratite, that they were left to themselves, and that they willed the matter over their port wine and walnuts at the Droitwych inn. They included in the borough a number of agricultural parishes about the town, extending in oce cirection two milt s, in another three aid a half, and in no , ther nearly five, and including the following very miscellaneous ist f places : Tae oil hor..ng . of Droitwych ; the several parishes of Doddeihill, Hemp cr Lovett D Salearp, Martin Hum.ineone, oJdn.sley, , Hindlip, Hinableton,and ; the 111. rewsy end division of the pada of Hanbury ; the extrepuerreal places celled Cru•ch sad Wntwood Park; togs her with the two parts of the re species parehn of C.aines and Warndon, which are MI , rounded by the remiectin pariihee of Hindlip and !thrift I Huningtree; and ale th- ex aa-paro.bial pion cal Shell, and the detached parts of the parish of Inkbi now, which are re.peetively con.abitd 'startle the parish of Hintbletaa and the Broughton divisi in of the parish of Haobary. Such a catalogue of places, huddled together for the purpose of seeking up a borough, probably is not to be awaited. Tome is a manufacturing town, tea rural villages, half a parish, two or three "extra parochial places," and en abundance of "detached parts" of districts which are not themselves interested or included in tee borough. The sole object of the coinniesioners appears to have lean to make up a eufficient population. Having added the ten parishes to the old borough, they found probably that they were still 500 short of the requutite 5,000. "Then stick in the p rash of Hanbury," said Commissioner A. "That will overdo it," says Commissioner 8 ., sipping his port. " Tcke half of it, then," climes in the first ; " and here are acme extra-parochial place., with uncouth names, stick them in also " That will give 4,500," remarks the other, cracking a walnut; " but here I find some parts of perishes which will give a few more." tr And the detached Parts of Inkberrov," rays A. a Inkberrow ! what is tale now r inquires B. " Never mind what the parish may be," impends A, " the detached parts thereof elute between, 80. make up all we want, so let us pack up cur papers and have done with it.' In some such way as this most the borough el Droitwych have bean settl..d, or it would never have included S 3 strange a compound as it does at present. Here every sort of interest is brought into until.% and as might be expected, each complains that it goes unrepresented. Town and country, salt maker and farmer, ploughman, bsine-pumper, and canal nevi- I gator, are all classed terteer ; and what makes the matter worse is, that in Fxing their boundary the commisstoners I,ave abedutely left out altogether the meat important „Lee of all, namely, the neighboer ing town of Bremsgeuve, to which it was duirable,l on many accounts, to afford a snare in town reps.. sentation, but which ucder the present arrangement TIM EXPRESS. THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 8, 1849. is deems without mercy into one of the divide:is of the suety. Having told*. story of the Droitwych boundary, l we have now to sea what has been the effect of it, and how thus praises arrangements have worked. The Reform Act reduced the representation from two members to one. Mr. Hodgetts Foley, who had been member for the borough from 1820, offered himself to the new ermatininney, and was unanimously elected. Rs was a quiet, easy, gutlemenhke man, of no bril liant puts, bet of highly honourable reputation, and of lurk esteem amongst his neighbours. During the ant returned whammed Mr. Foley performed his pad as member for the borough respectably; be wM at his post when he was wanted, and his votes were emisciention,. and tolerably liberal. Bat the parted war one of excitement, and excitement induces a disposition to change. The town of Droit wych was a very quiet town, bat still there were par ties there, as every where dee, who were dissatisfied and grumbling. This dissatisfeetioo was rather enoureird than suppressed by influential individuals in the neighbourhood, who, as it turned out after wards, had their own interests to serve. It only re quired that some accident should blow the smoulder log dissatisfaction into a flame of oppositiem—sad just at the right time each en accident occurred. The town of Droitwych was anciently governed by two bailiffs appointed at a court lest of the lord of the manor, and it was customary upon the mask* of their appointment to give a dinner to the principal inhabitant. of the town. The legal gentleman who was agent for Lord Foley in 1834 issued the tickets fee the bailiffs' dinner in a way that caused much die satisfastism Persons were not asked who they ought to be ; and they declared spot did not regard . the interests of the tows, tot merely his own private partialities. The suss qualm was dissatisfaction more openly 'amused than had been ever before known. And whilst this matter was fresh in the public mind at Droitwyeb, the Whig administration was dismissed, and Sir Robert Peel was called to power. In the long interval which elapsed between the dismissal of the Whig ministry, and the dissolution of the parliament, a document was put into circulation at Drodwych, it was scarcely clear by whom, pledging I the electors in the event of an election to give their support to a local gentleman who would consult the interests of the town. The paper had no party char acter : it did not refer distinctly to any individual. The consequecce was, that many persons signed it whose politics were anything but Tory. Amongst the first parties it was taken to were those who bad not been invited to the dinner, and they signed it almost to a man, not foreseeing the consequences that would ensue, but merely from a desire to annoy the Foley agent, and show their independence. The document, in fact, was well subscribed, and the general impres sion was, that it would have the good effect of bring ing down the agent's self-importance, and making him more conciliatory in future. Well, the dissolution occurred, and in due time, there being, as he supposed, no necessity for hurry, Mr. Hodgetts Foley drove over to Droitwych. The first thing he aid was to ride out to Wedwood Park, to pay his respects to one of his most influential con stituents, Captain Pakington. Captain Pakington was not at home, bat Mrs. Pakington was. Now Mrs. Pakington was, in every way, a charming woman, and Mr. Hodgetts Foley could not resist the pleasure of spending half-ac-hour with her until Capt. Pakington came back. The half-hour, amid Mrs. Pak ington's fascinations, extended itself to an hour, two, three—half the day—evening. It was dark ere Mr. Hodgetta Foley found himself on his way back. As he rode into Droitwych he heard au mutual tumult— music, hemming, and en uproar. The first thing he heard when he alighted was that Capt. Pakington, and Mn Barneby, of Brockbampton House, had been canvassing the town all day, and that Mn Barneby was to stand for the borough upon the " zoquisitiou which had been signed by so many of the voters ! Mn llodgetts Foley appeared thunder eteu-k ! However he set to work to redeem lost time. lie found that he had everything to do There was nothing in the shape of organisation : no committee, no arrangements, he scarcely knew indeed who were the constituency. Weal he began to look into that last point he found to be astonishment that the majority of them were not as of old, the burgesses and salt makers of Droitwych —but the tenants of Capt. Palingion and others in the surrounding villages and parishes. Of course, Mr. Hodgette Foley did not know one of those by sight or name. Captain Pakington knew every one of them, their wives and children, ducks and chickens, and all about their rents and leases. The danger was evidently imminent. Mr. Foley found himself un popular—the agent of his family still more so. He found, too, that the other side were treating the sig natures to the document as ph dges, and were calling on the subscribers to redeem them. In the midst of all this embarrassment there occur red another incident still more embarrassing. The agent who had acted for the now decaying house of Foley in this their utmost need deserted them ! This was a blow which might have struck down a more energetic man than Mr. Folk y. Bat whenever things come to the worst they mead. This very incident, the climax to the misfortunes of the election, rallied around Mr. Foley friends whose appearance gave him new courage. Such a desertion, at such a time, was regarded with anything but favour by the honest men of Droitwych. They had found out. too, by this time, that Mr. Barneby, the candidate Captain Pakington had put forward, was a rank old tory. This by no means suited the politics of Droitwych ; and as the agent had deserted, many liberals whom he had offended, and who Lad joined in the cry of "No nominee," began to think it their duty to give Mr. Foley their sup port. In a short time that gentleman had recovered the town. Droitwych was with him. Bat when he looked at the list of voters lathe country round about, he saw that the contest must inevitably be a close one. "Dodderhill and Hampton Lovett, Hind lip and Hadeora—the divisioos of parishes, and parts of parithen and detached parts of parishes, and extra parochial places—all told for the Tories. And these places contributed as many TOWS as Droitwych town itself. The contest proved as close as it could be. " Squire Barneby" won by a single vote, the numbers being, for Buneby 125, Foley 124. Several times in the course of the day the votes were equal, and the wholol contest was one of great excitement, and was giber recterised by much ill-feeling. Discord, for the first time in the history of Droitwych, reigned supreme within the town. Mr. Foley let it be known, immediately the elec tion was concluded, that he should never again offer himself for Droitwych. It was not his wish, he said, to force himself or any one else on the electors, and he left them, in future, to choose another mem her. Mr. Fol , y's secession from the town, which he had represented in six successive parliamints, is to this day a matter of regret in a place where persou ally and politically he has always been respected. To conclude the history of the Foley reign in Drab wych, it should be mentioned that, not leg after, the property in the borough was sold, with all the rest of their Worcestershire estate. It came into the posemsion of the general purchaser, Lord Ward, in whose handed still remains. Lord Ward at present belongs to the same section of the same party as the sitting member for Droitwych. But should ercurestasue throw either one or the other into the ranks of another set of politicians, the conseviecce might be a collision in Droitwych of which the result can scarcely be fore- It cost Mr. Barneby a lsrge sum of money to se cure the election to which we have referred ; and he was not destined to reap any solid advantages from the triumph so secured. In 1837 Mr. Barneby was "prevailed upon" to offer himself for the eastern di vision of the county of Worcester, for which two tone. were to stand in opposition to the two whig members. Mr. Barneby was considered "highly fitted" for a county candidate on such ocoasion—because his purse was so deep, and a deep parse was required. tie or Droitwych, nothing could be easier than to secure the safety of that town. Captain Pakington was "emi nently qualified" to represent it. Bo Mr. Barneby relinquished his snug seat for Droitwych to fight the county at enormous cost, whilst Capt. Pakington dipped into the easy chair which the squire's cash had two years previously prepared foe him. From that time to the present, Captain Pakington has sat for Droitwych as the Foley. did before him-1 without cost, without trouble, and wholly unopposed. He took are to look after that which the Foley' entirely neglected, the registration for the borough. Under his arrangements the constituency was swollen from 243 in 1832, to 341 in 1837. There are now 367 on the register. Don't nppose trim this that the town of Droitwyoh hes increased; there probably has not been a new hone built in it the last twenty years. Bat " the tenants" have boss made to register, and up to the prteent time the owner of " the tenants" has set opposition at defiance, for "the tenants" stead in the relation of one and a half to one of the con stituency. Under there circumstances we are not by any means sore that Droitwyeli is not jest as elope a borough now as it was, in other hands, before the peados of the Reform Mt. But of this the reader may judge for himsrlL _ - . At the lest election, 1817, s young aspirant for parliamentary honours was breaght down to Droit wych with a view to offer himself in opposition to the sitting m mbar. An intleentiel liberal, however, re siding near the town dissuaded him from entering spot the coated. The cause of this may be briefly stated. Sir John Pakiagton (a family baronetcy has been revived in his person) sopported the repeal of the own laws and other measures of free trade policy. This was a comas by no means palatable to the agri cultural part of the constituency, and though the ma , jerky of them were obliged to grin and bear it, there were eomN unoonnected with Sir John Pakiogton's land, who loudly threatened to torn him out. The liberals of Droitwych, however, thought that this was • dissension of which they ought not to take advan tage, and the more influential of them consequently declined to be parties to an opposition. Sir John Pakington is not unpopular in the town of Droitwych, where his business-l'ks attention to his parliamentary duties has duly impressed a busi ness population in his favour. A large section of the liberals, who are, in fact, the Wolin men of these ematitneucies, w ould probably on this account prefer Sir John Pakiogton to any untried man, although of political views more consonant with their own. But let the representative be who he may, it is obvious that Droitwych ought not to be permitted to enigma borough with the bonadarywhich at present is assigned to it. We have spoken of the adjacent town of Bromegrove. The two parishes of that place contain 10,000 inhabitants, whilst the town of Droitwych has only 2,081. It is obviously unjust that the latter should return a member and the former be ex cluded from the exerese of the electoral privilege. We propose to alter the boundary of Droitwych, so u to include Broom/rove, and omit the agricultural parishes which do net appertain to either place. A fair constituency, representing a population of from 15,000 to 20,000, would thus be formed, and the people of Bromagrove and Droitwych would alike be gratified. SHIPWRECK ON THE GOoDWIN SANDS.—A brig, with a valuable earri of woods from Sicily, bound to Norway ran on the Goodwin Sands en Friday last, and soon became waterlogged, and sank in three fathom water. Her eaptakt and crew left her, and landed at Dail. Our hovebing boats, with their us ual perseverance, managed to cut away her masts and ringing, and eo lightened her that she again floated . • and with great assistance, aided by steam she was towed to the harbour's mouth. Just as the stun: tug approached, a schooner was leaving the harbour in full sail in a line with the steamer ; to avoid a collision the steamer hid to slack-s the rope and sheer off to clear the schooner, when the ill-fated wreck was whirled by the tide to the hack of the pier. Fortunately the weather was calm, and by the most strenuous exertic;ns the wreck was drawn round the pier head, and fastened to the harbour chains. Thus, a most valuable cargo and this new brig were placed in safety.—Doren Tokgraph. ADMINISTRATION OP CHLOROFORM IN DELliutil TIPUBNIS AND ALLIOSD DIATH PROD ITS APPLICATION.— % conrequencii of a statement which appeared in some et the medical periodicals, that a man had (lied from the admin. istration of chloroform by a medical practitioner at L els, the coroner for that borough held an inquest on the body yesterday. The deceased Robert Mitch. 11, who was an omnibus driver, died on the 25th of October, and had been buried for more than a week, when his body was dis interred and examined by Samuel Satoh. E.ej the serior surgeon at Leeds Infirmary, and William Price, Esq., a surgeon of considerable standing in the town. Mitchell had long been addicted to habits of intemperance, and about a year ago was matted with delirium tremens, when hr was attended by Mr. Joseph Teak., a surge a of established repute, under whose eats he recovered. Sines then he has been a teetotaller, till within about a fortnight of his death, when he again commenced driskina white brought on another attack of delirium tremens. Mr. Teals was min applied to, when, after treating him in the usual way with opium and morphia without success, till he leered to pursue it further, he bad recourse to chloroform, which he ap p.ied twice. 'Die took piaci on the same evening on whish The man died, about a drachm being ponred upon a napkin four times foldrd, and applied by degrees to the patteat's month and nostrils. The deceased, with before had bees most violent, gradually I scams quieter, and Mr. Teale leas him mush more tranquil than before the administeation of the chloroform. The two surgeons who had made the post mortem examination of the body described the mucous mem brane of the trachea and the lungs as discoloured and highly congested, whilst the heart was in a collapsed state, which they thought attributable to the combined effects of delirium tremens and the application of chloroform. Mr. Smith said •he should have administered chloroform under similar cir cumstances. In fact, it was the recommended, but not established, practice of the faculty. If the ordinary means had failed, Mr. Teale was fully justified in trying ehlorofoi m, and such a practice would be approved of by the heals of tie profession in this country. Mr. Price agreed in the main with the statement and opinion of Mr. Smith, but said h. should not is delirium tremens use chloroform without can saltation; and both the gentlemen agreed that death bad really been caused by delirium Di men.. Mr. Samuel another *upon of eminence, stewed that in acme of delirium tremens under his care he had administer. d chloroform with the most marked success, and that Mr. Teale, in doing so, was giving the patient the last chance of recovery. The ver dict of the jury was that " death had been caused by deli rium tremens, and that no blame whatever attached to Mr. Tsale, who appeared to have adopted the proper and necessary remedies." THE REMAINS OP • FORMER GENERATION. —The workmen engaged in removing the earth fur the foundations of the viaduct over the reed at the north end of the town have turned up, a few feet from the urine, a considerable number if skietons, in the close by the brick wall formerly belonging to the late Mr. Swindell'. So numerous are they, that in • space of a faw square yards upwards of 100 skulls have been displaced, and, what is remarkable, the bodies appeir to have been thrown into their rating place indiscriminately, some being frond with the heads in one direction, and some in another; others appear to have lain with their fame downwards, and others thrown transversely arras them,. without any appearance of coffins, leading to the presumption that they were hastily Interred at the time of some fatal uiitlOO or pestilence lwhen the nan regard to Christian sepulture was peose with. There I s little doubt that this spot was the burial rotted attached to the church of St. Peter, long since de stroyed, end pre. bably the period of interment may have been shortly antecedent to 1364, when the chart- rof Ert -1 ward the Third was granted to the borough—which states that the town, " by mortal Feetilenoes, and other advenities, WOO so impoverished and injured, that the fourth pert of the I sows was not inhabited, and the remaining few had scarcely wherewith to live," and it was apprehended that wile., certain privileges were granted to them, the town would Ibe wholly given up and deserted fur the maidens:a of men." Or it might have been the graveyard of theme who gallantly tell in resisting the thsurgents "there coming " in Wet Tyler's rebeldoe, 1381, for which good service Eichard we e Second con fi rmed the foregoing charter, and granted another to the bewough, or the period of the civil wars may have numbered them =onset the slain. Be this es it may, however, speculation is of little worth, the whole of the immediate environs of the town are full of the " trail me morials" of departed years, sad it is a common thing in digging in any direction to turn them up in great abundance, all tending to confirm the recorded fact that the town was at one period of considerably greater extent than at present. The tinting of so many bones attracted numbers to the spot, and seen al of the more perfect skulls were taken away ; the remainder were again ewe signed to the earth, where they are not for the Anus likely to be disturbed, as the rail will pass over the spot on an embankment mote than twenty feet above them.— Consbridge Chronicle. AN UNPLEASANT RECOONITION.—In July last, a transport, named Frederick Orienwood, escaped from hi wick gaol, as many had done before him On Tuesday week, at the sessions at Bury, amen, described as Thomas " Smith," of Norwich, a name which eo many men delight to honour in times of adversity—was placed at the bar, and pleaded " Guilty" of stealing sundry articlre. Superiuten dent Mason was in court, and instantly recognised him as the veritable Frederick Oriniwood. A communication of the circumstance was quickly made to the authorities, who have decided, that be shall first undergo five months' impel. sonment for the offeace, and then be transported. Since his recognition, he has informed the police, that he made his escape in his shirt, re! on his no other article of apparel. In this state Ee rsa ;assed over the fields to Claydon, and arriv ing in the vide at an early hour , soug ht re fuge in an orchard. Hue he was for some time puzzled bow to proceed, apprehending every moment that he sh.,uld be detected. At length he olterved at one end of the orchard, a "mere-crow" fired on a cherry tree, for the purpose of 'raring away birds from the fruit. I n n mmediately occurred to Grhawood that, is his despe circumstances, the "scars-crow" could lir turned to better account, and so mounting the tree, he himself himself of what to him turned oat to be a value e prize; and thus having dressed himself in the "scarnewow" trousers, jacket, and hat, he started off is grotesque a figure se ever perhaps appeared ie the quiet village of Claydne He escaped unobserved, and proceeding to the dmas& of * Sir W. F. F. Middleton, Bart , at Shrubland, concealed himself in the woods. From thence he emerged the next night, and up to the time of his com mittal to Bury gaol on the charge of housebreaking at Watley, had rambled over Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Hunt ingdonshire, and Brox, subsisting manly upon plunder. IRELAND. Dumnr. Nov. 7. The total failure of the atteml,t to estates in London forme, as might be expected, a subject of general ounvererion here. That it has caused no little alarm to those who have lands of their own to come ere long seder the hammer, cannot be denied ; bat the pascal fader appears to be that if the lands had bean awed with a parliamentary title, under the new commission, they would have found more ready perehamers,and that in Ireland their value would be 1r understood and appreciated than be yond the Channel. As it is, Ace extraordinary holding back of the Eegli.h capitalists se makes rather severe comments here. I believe however that much of the failure of the experiment in to ba attributed te its having been made prematurely by a few weeks. The Incumbered Estates Commis sioners resume their public sittings the day after to morrow. In the mean time there is a total stagnation of businessin oar law courts, and the hall presents a moat deressin4 exhibition of empty begs. Mr. Jobe O'Connell appeared there yesterday in his vig and gown, and as it was the first time people remembered to have Win him thee, he became an object of notice. MEETING OF THE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION. Last night the Dahlia Protestant Associatioa held Omit promised demonstration in the Rotunda, "to pronouns. on the met of tyranny perpetrated by the government on Lead Roden and the Masan. Bats, to petition the Queen to recall Lord Clarsoden, and to dismiss her present ministry, by whose councils Ireland Is reduced to the lowest degree of calamity, and the British empire well nigh overthrown." The meeting was numerous, but was umposed almost exclusively of a fanatic party, known here by the title of " Greggites," or parties= of the Rev. Tuatara Gregg ; and • great number of thee" present were decorated with Oatrige Letters of apology were read from the Marquis of Dorn shire, the Earl of Raniskillen, Dean Murray, Lieut.-Colonel Lewis, &a. The chair was occupied by the Rev. Alexander Johnson Montgomery ; and the speakers were Mr. Thomp son, • hatcher Mr. Munn, Grand Master of the Orange men of Dubl in; the Rev. George Do Butts, the Rev. Tea-sham D. Gregg, and a few others ; bat the tone of the meeting may be peresived from the follawiag resolution, unanimously passed: "Resolved,—That the lying in wait of • body of Papists, of whom great numbers came from distant parts, at Dolly'. Brae, with arms, ammunition, and weapons of assault, for the avowed parcels of impeding the lawful procession of Orannemen, et murdering them, and triumphing cur them, this Popish embus:ado being cheered on by priests, led by them, excited and blessed by them, affords &glaring instance of the utterly intolerant character of Popery ; and that this intolerance becomes more marked, hateful, and disgusting, when it is remembered that Protestants um interfered to impede the processions of Roman Catholics during the whole progress of the monster meetings; and that we be have that when the Orangemen on the occasion in question gathered around them the lawful authorities, whose duty it was to disperse the ambush which contemplated • mur derous assault, they did all they were sailed upon to de, or that it was possible to do, in order to avoid • breath of the peace, and to show their respect for the law; and that it is the deliberate conviction of this meeting that if they had yielded to the threats of Wee papists, and allowed them to conclude that their ambuscade had frightened at once the protestant' and the authorities, that they would have acted as traitors to their Queen and the British connexion, and originated a feeling in the breasts of the Roman catholic' of all Inand, which would have rendered protestant life un safe in every past of the kingdom ; that on such grounds we thiak that the conduct of the Orangemen, previous to the assault of the assassins, was legal, praiseworthy, end admi rable ; and that their opponents were alone to blame for the subsequent enemas which their own intolerant and unlawful violence solely and wholly provoked." EXPRESS MAILS ON INN LONDON AND NORTH WEST: zax.—With the of the month a new important system of acceleration was effected in all the mail trains on this line, and by which an hour is gained to pas sengers and correspondence at all the principal termini, such as Liverpool, Manchester, Holyhead , Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and other places. The speed on some por*ins of the line Is at 'sprees parr, and the average increase in the rate of speed is about five miles per hour. This improve. meat is the malt of an arrangement just come to between the Postmaster-General and the railway authorities. A HINT TO LANDLORDS.—The Hon. Lady Cock- I erell. et 8, ziecot, Glouewerabire, te:urned ha tenants 10 per cent. a• her audit on Friday last. SCARCITY OP WELSH BEGGARS.—A work entitled Tales about Wales," recently pubisbcd, contains the fol. lowing ()usage —" A Welsh beggar is rarely seen, even in these days, in any part of the kingdom ; and it is a fact worthy of notice, that when an investigation into the men dicky of Lmnion was made some years ago, not one Welsh man was found, although the number of beggars that in. tested the cents of that capitul at that time was reported by the committee of the House of Commons to he 15,249 !" may add (says the editor) that I have frequently travelled the rrircipality, and in some very poor and sick diatriets, bat never met with a Welsh beggar. AN ARITHMETICAL ERROR.—A young woman, named Ann Smith, was brought before the Liverpool magic. trace. on Tuesday, on charge of John Whittaker, of York, who hid sent her to bridewell, for robbing him of 1891., es appeared by the police sheet. As the prosecutor had left by the morning train the woman was discharged, 'b e magistrate remarking that it was a serious thing to be so lightly dealt with. After the case had been disposed of it turned at that the 1891. should hay.• been 11. th. 92., the Meer who booked the charge against the woman having omitted to place the dots between the figures. AODIT OF POOR-LAW ACCOUNTS.—The Liverpool Courser states, that on Tuesday, T. Rebuts, Esq , attended at the Beard-room, Birkenhead, for the peewee of auditing the accounts of the various townships in the Wirral Union. On the Birkenhead overseers presenting their accounts, it was found they d•ffered materially from those laid before the s a u u c - h i c zt s t a t i e d t, be had no power to punish the ratepayers for their inspection, which led to en espy alter which was very wrong, and if it C o s :: r o e n ee . re T to h r e were es stated, they were liable to penalties. Mr. Mortimer said be would take are the penalties were sued for, as he had no bertatioa in stating that the accounts had been fal sified for the purpose of deceiving the ratepayers. This charge wee indignantly denied by Mr. Willis, on behalf of the overseers. The audit wes then Proceeded with, and, after the disallowance of one or two items, the accounts passed. THE IRON TRADE or AMERICA.—The Mount Sa vage Iron Works—the lamest in America—are now pur chased by a new company, and will soon be ready to re ennimence operations. The** works were started by an E , glish company, some 15 years ege, for the purpose of manufacturing iron on the largest scale. They consist of three blast-furnaces, amongst them the largest in the United Stares, the blast of which is carried by a steamengioe erected at a coat of 72,000 dollar, a puddling-furnace and rolling mill large enough to employ 600 men, a foundry, fire-hrick yard, store, 321 houses for workmen, nine miles of II railroad, besides eight or ten miles of plate mine roads, a very large real estate at Mount Savage, Cumber land, comprising mines of iron and coal of various qualities, a superior clay for firs-brick, abundance of lime stone, and building materials of all kinds. From the balance sheets of the old company, it &open that the works and property have cost over the sum of 1,600,000 dollars. The whole concern was sold to the new company for a little over 200,000 dollars. This company are now bury making sr , raogements to open the establishment for work as soon as the price of railroad iron shall be such u to admit of sue orshil competition with the English article. At present, tbsp say, "the high price of labour in this country renders B impusible to compete smth the English manufacturer, who, ch prived of a market in Europe by the suspension of all works of internal improvement on the continent, sends ail his stock to America." The Mount Savage establish. sun?, when is operation, employs nearly 4,000 men, mostly (retinue. These men are II banded together among them selves, and with the workmen in other establishments, that they will remain idle, or work at another business fot one- Salt what the company could afford to give them, rather than abate one amt. from their wages. Puddler', for in stance, who formerly received from 3 dollars toy dollars per ton, mu:d now urn 2 dollars 60 cents per ton, but prefer to work in the mines, or on the canal, for one-half the amount. A pretty general complaint of the inferior quality of English railroad iron is getting abroad ; and, in one in stance lately, the Camden and Amboy Likud Company have made a contract Witt. a Jerry iron company for a quan tity of tells at something Oyer 60 dollars pi r too, in pre ference to buying Brithh iron at 45 dollars. The English rails, it is said, are p made of three qualities of iron, the best g u the to, where the most wear comes. A short time a ter pon these rails have been used, this surface wears off, sad the a ear then comes upon the second layer, and in a Urie while the rails become FO much worn that they are useless. While on this subject, I give the following extract from a Pennsylvania paper. It notices the fact that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company have contracted in England for all the iron necessary to lay their track from Cumberleni to the Ohio , and says : " The contract prie--, we understand is 25 dollars per ton, delivered, we belies+, in Baltiaore. From Cumberland to the Ohio river, the divines by the railroad is something upwards of 200 miles. Quantity of iron for the track, per mile, 94 tons —lB,BOO, whole quantity ; contract price, lees duty, 19 dol lar, 26 cents; add duty ander tariff of 1842. 25 dollars ; total, 44 dollen 23 osrils; number of tone, 18,800 ; cost per ton, 44 donee' 23 cents ; cost of iron to make the whole road, 831,524 dollar. It requires 7 tons of coal to make a ton of iron. Then 18,800 tons, by 7, would show 131,600 tans of coal required to make the whole quantity, at, say, 1 dollar 12 cents. Then 81,800 tons; whole cost, 137,392 dollar ; cost of iron, 831,514 dollars; cost et coal, 137,352 ; total, 968,916 debars." In connection with this iron sub ject, it may perhaps interest some of your readers to hear of a new method of casting *samosa, lately adopted at Pitts burg. Instead et bringing them from the mould solid, and dterwaras boring them, they are cast with the proper bore ; the bore being carefully prepared so as to endue a circle of cold WOO r, which it receives and discharges in a continuous eurrent during the process of cooling, the object probably being to chill the inner surface mote rapidly than the outer, and thereby give to it a greater density and strength. The plan is the suggestion of a Lieutenant Rodman ; and two gnus, one cast as the old, and the other on the new plan, having been subjected W the usual testa, _the first exploded the 84th round, and the latter at the 266th round.--Corres pondent of the Birmingham Journal. RAILWAY DIERTING. SOUTH DEVON. EINTIL Nov. 6.—An adjourned special meeting of the propristen is this company was held at the New London Inn, in this city, this day, for the following purpose : To receive and exasider a report from the directors of the mac sane whisk they recommend to be adopted with reference he the riebutare debt of the company, and in Invention of the peeped approved by the shareholders in April last, to (Sayan au* debt into a capital stock. Also with Wert rice to the prevision of funds kr the discharge of the current Welke fns of the company, and procuring stock for working the VD% mei le adage wash swum with reference to the 211111 of "di 16 . 4 1 =ff‘raly , as the shareholder, at to& Niel ; and, in ease it shall be so thosigie , he wethetris an application to perlianient in the =MM. for the neousarypowers to give effect to the ef loch "twin. T. WalinuMeam, Poo , the chairman of the board of disasters. The SgittAßT, W. Carr, having read the minutes oldie !untie( at Plymouth, which wire merely a note of adjourament, The CHAIRMAN', in a lengthened speech, moved : " VW the report of the directors and the prospectus [which we have already published] be received and adopteu, and that the directors be empowered to take all proceedings necessary to carry it into immediate operation, and particu larly to apply to parliament for additional powers, and that • copy be forwarded to the snareholden, • ith • strong re• commendation that eseli shareholder should si„,rily his approval of the sehense." Mr. T. W. FOE would be happy to second the motion provided the directors would explain to him ono passage in the repert. He saw it was proposed that the dividend should be at 6 per cent. for seven years, and that the com pany should have the option of redeeming at any time within the following five years. He thought it would be much better for all parties that at the seven years' end the 6 per 1 cent.dividend should cease absolutely, and 6 per cent. in perpetuity be substituted. li The CHAIRMAN said the directors were placed in the position of parties who bad had to make a b again. The original proposal was that the d per cent. should continue for only three years, and that then it should give place to 5 per cent. They were assured, however, that any attempt to float the stock on such terms would be fruitless, and were urged to offer 6 per cent, in perpetuity. - Some further discussion took place, but no alteration wu made in the report. Mr. Fox ,:editing to press his own views upon the muting. In answer to a Question put by Mr. MILLMAN The CHAIRMAN cad tne eau:dated companies could not subscribe to the new stock without the consent of special meetings of their shareholders, to be afterwards ratifie 1 by parliament. Si that he was afield there was not much chance of any portion of the stock being taken up by them. lie was happy, however, to state that the directors of the associated companies, in their individual capacity, had come forward in an excieediugly liberal and handsome er..y. .., a Mr. JAMES S. KARDON, having seconded the chair. man's motion, some other explanations were asked and given. The CHAIRMAN, haying observed upon the extreme importance of an unanimous vote, the onesti.in wee pat, and declared carried without a dissentient voice. Tree meeting was then dissolved. OPENINO or Tan NORWICH EXTENSION OP EASTERN UNION RAlLWAY.—Yesterday this eeinpanj's extension into Norwich wee opened with considerable ceremony by the directors and sharehelden resident in the various loca:itm. At half-put 11 o'click a special train proceeded from the Ipswich terminus, having lett London at 10 minutes past 8, ' and Colchester at 45 minutes put 10, conveying the directors and rhareholden over the 31 miles, the length of the nosily opened extension from Ipswi, h to Norwich, and arriving at the statio'i in the latter city at about one o'clock. A train from Bury Si. Edmund's at 12, joined in with the special train at libughly junction. In the evening there was a public dinner of the citizens of Norwich in St. Andrew's lisp in celebration of the event. The newly-opened line, the first turf of which was turned in April, 1847, is expected to be of great advantage ia developing the agricultural and commercial interests of the Eastern Union districts. By it the distance tram Nor wich to the metropolis, will as compared with the rouse tint Cambridge be as 100 miles to 126, and the actual gain in time about one hour. The works have been constructed by Mr. Brutf, the engineer, the principal works being au em benkment out of Norwich 21 feet high, the viaducts over the Norfo.k railway, the Waveney, the Tete, and the Tare. The first of these structures is one of great magnitude, consisting of seer n large brick arches, and is the most expensive struc ture of the kind in that part o' the kingdom. There are con• sider►ble cuttirege at Marluhall and Bwanthorps wish a curi ous angle bridge at Dunstan. Between N arwieb and Don there are numerous bridges in which upwards of tw., mil. liens of bricks have been used. In the evening there were i return trains to Uolzhester and other stations on the Eastern , Union line. MUSIC. LONDON WEDNESDAY CONCERTS. Mr. Stammers is one of those sensible passes who take lemons from experience. This season be has greatly improved the plan of his concerto, avid new succeeds in arranging them on the utilitarian principle of giving " the greatest piecteure to the greatest num ber." Though his concerts are intended to be of the ' most popular kind, yet he avoids the tinge of vulgarity with which they were reproached last !Oft.oo. The programme of last evening contained a good deal of familiar English music, yet there was not a piece w hich could justly offend the most fastidious taste ; while there were many things with which the most refined taste most have beta delighted. The concert began with a selection from John Barnett's " Mcuntein Sylph," one of the finest operas that the English school Las produced. The srlee:ion cough , ed of the overture ; the favourite trio, t• The magic-wove scarf;" the scene, "See what thou hest east away ;" the air, "Caret thou, love;" the bong, " Deep in a forest dell ;" and "Farewell to the moun tain." These pieces were well song by Miss Isaacs, Mr. G. Tedder, and Herr Femmes. The last. named vocalist sang big two amigo in Eng lish, or what was called English; and his up roarious reception was a curious example of the prestige created by the Teutonic prefix to his name. He sang with a powerful sonorous voice, but with an affected manner aid exaggerated expres sion; sadly reminding us, by the aesniation of con trariety, of the unaffected simplicity, the pure elocu tion, and the mellow ewe e'ness of Phillips. Madame (Mine played a fantasia on the piano forte with a powerful band and brilliant finger, but the composition was by no means remarkable. Mrs. A. Newton repeated the bravura air "GE angui d'inferno" in the " Flauto Magico,"of which we have spoken already. It is a display of extraordinary vocal compass; bat Mrs. Newton should beware of indulging in this kind of singing, for if she makes it a practice to turn her voice into a flageolet, she will soon have no voice for anything else. Signor Bartolini, a young tenor singer of great promise, Rang Donizettes beautiful romance, " Una furtive lagrimi," with a fresh sweet voice and great taste and feeling. He afterwards sang (accompany ing himself on the pianoforte) a barcarole of Rossini with much grace and elegance. NI. Sainton flayed a fantasia cn airs fr.em" Luerez;s. Borgia " with that richness of tone and facility of execution in which l e e is not surpassed by any violinist of the day. Mies Rainforth sang Mr. Davison's pretty romance, " Ah, Coun t y Guy," but she was not in good voice, and did not give the air the effect of which it is capable. Tue Distills played a quartet on their Sax horns, in a manner which car net, we believe, be rivalled by any other performer+ in Europe. Miss Huddart sang an air from " Linda di Chamoani," with a contralto voice that can scarcely be exceeded in power and richness; but, in respect to style and execution, she has still much to learn. The first part of the concert concluded with the over ture to " Euryanthe," very well executed. The second part, as usual, was composed of familiar songs and ballads, but they wire exceedingly well chosen, and well suited to a concert of this kind. The hall was completely filled; and the audience were as lavish as usual of their applause. DRAMA. MARYLEBONE THEATRE. Last night, a new drama, in three acts, called "The Crusaders," was produced here, and with tolera ble success. The author of the piece is Mr. J. Ebs worth—a gentleman hitherto unknown in the tbei tri ad world—and" The Crusaders" may be considert d as establishing his tight to aconepicuous position lunoogst the dramatists of the Surrey and Victoria theatres. "The action of the drama (as the bills state) takes place partly in the Christian camp, Wore Niceum, and partly in the adjacent convent of Hospital of Nuns." From this descripti m the nature of the piece may be inferred, and it would therefore be su perfluous to enter minutely into particulars. Saffic2 it to sly that the author has not drawn his resources from the opera founded upon the sa me subject, hie. he has plunged boldy into the " wars of the Crusaders," and has brought together a variety ?f characters different nations, whose business it is to rant and rave in such a manner as to " split the o f f tbe ground lingo." Toe principal members the drania tis persona are respectively named Baldwin of Eichenhorst, Beaumont of Sehicarteneek, Kim" Of Daben, Rinaldo of Gkieken, Bruno yf ;Setstenberg, Robert of Witserungen, An Emir of the Arab Tribe, Emma Von Falkenstein, Ste. Such