The Express. — London, England, 1846-11-05 00:00:00

4-ss. to 50s. per quarter--that all game pre be f lied at frcia be claimednational be d waste landsas property, to Wes sa Ist to l a bourers at a small rental, and also that her Majesty be pl'aeed to give one day's income towards relieving sht s a l omet bate distre ss . of the people. After some confusion, J ed by the amendment, the r i esol hch an, th without the tiddl er,s carried on a show o an , e meeting then tic fed. le;ra'eSTERN GAS COMPANV.—A meeting of the ill mbitots 9f L enti l-green, called by the directors of the Western 0 . as-light Company, in consequence of a requisition t a m the inhalutants of the neighbourhood, wets held yester at the Plough tavern, for the purpose of afford sit'rnG°nand • fth s „,, the owners Occupiers o e surrounding property ." 8 f stating their mal wishes with regard to the an oppeetunitl th e coostruction of . new gas-worlu ; as, at a meeting which Id a short time back, it had been stated, that the ope less he r e • n of the works would become a great nuisance by the e t ralatiia of noxious effluvia, and would thereby cause con siderable deterioration in the value of the neighbouring h o usehold and other property . Mr. Taylor, the chairman of t h e B o ard of Directors, occupied the chair. In opening the ae ss offer ex plaining why they had been called together b e assure , b a s• • si the meeting that the works abou t to be erected tr ete to be on an entirely new principle, which he could not wasent esplain, because the patent for t ent) invention w a not yet sealed ; but which would rely ob viate and suppress all noxious effluvia. Mr. Palmer, the engineer, would be most happy to answer any questions that ta ightbe p • ut —Mr. Maxwell then moved a resolution, de ferring all opposition to the gas company on the part of the inhabitantof Kensal-green until it - had been practically ascertained whether a nuisance would be created or nut by the new works. The resaluuen having been seconded, the Ch a i r man, in responding to various questions that were weed, read extracts from several affidavits, made by scien tific persons in the metropolis and in the country, to the effect that the proposed new mode of producing gas, as ex plained to them by Mr. Palmer, would entirely prevent all noxious exhalations; and they further stated, that, generally erae aing, the neighbourhoods of gas works were not un healthy. Mr. Palmer, the engineer, explained the reasons of the nuisances generally complained of in the neighbourhood of gas factories; they were caused, he said, chiefly from the naconsumed coal tar which escaped from the furnace in smoke; tram the escape of carbon during the process of dry ing' the retorts; and from the manner in which the gas was purified by lime. His invention would supersede the Me of coal tar ; coke made from the Cannel coal would be used to dry or to charge the retorts, and in the purifying process the ammonia would not be allowed to es cape. Mr. Palmer, in answer to several other ouestions, stated that experiments had been made upon a very eaten- sive scale. and that their success had been sufficient to satisfy the directors and the shareholders of the value of the peo eess ; he hoped, therefore, they would be satisfactory to the meeting for the present, as, until his patent had been sealed, he weld not enter into more lengthened explanations. The resolution was then carried unanimously, es was another pledging the meeting to support the company if they realised , the cape( totems held out in the affidavits that had been I read, and is the explanations of the chairman and of the engineer. Atter a vote of thanks to the directors of the company and to the chairman, the meeting separated, giving three cheers for the new Gas Company. In concluding the notice of this meeting, it is worthy of remark that the works, which hate been some time commenced, will be the largest in London, the principal tank being 125 feet in diameter. LONDON AND COUNTRY RAILWAY AND GENERAL IN-TEiTMENT COMPANY.—Yesterday a general meeting of the shareholders in this company was held at the office's, in Cannon-street, City, T. Brushfield, Esq., in the chair. The secretary having read the advertisement convening the meeting, the chairman said he had great gleasure in advert ing to the satisfactory increase in the number of their share holders, and which would have been greatly augmented had not the beard found it necessary to pass a resolution for the forfeiture of a number of shares, up..n which the share holders had not paid. He was happy to say that the advan tages of the company were becoming more generally known, which had increased the dividend, which he hoped would not only be kept up, but again increased at the next meet ing, as there was still a balance in hand to be carried to the next account. The secretary then read the report, which was unanimously adopted. A dividend of six per cent. was then declared upon the paid up capital of the company. Mr. Thomas lirushfield, J.H. Duudell, Esq., and Mr. John Bur ner, were re-elected directors. The meeting was then made special fur the purpose of proposing that the company hence forth be called "The London Commercial Exchange Com pany," which was carried. A vote of thanks was passed to the chairman and directors, and the meeting separated. SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE IMPROVEMENT OP THE Law.—The general monthly meeting of the members of this society was held last evening at the society's rooms, Regent-street. About thirty gentlemen were present. Dr. Lushington presided. Mr. Visaed read the minutes of the last general meeting held on the 12th August last. Four new members having been duly proposed and seconded, they were ballotted for and unanimously admitted. Mr. Fon blanque read a report from a committee appointed to consi der on the best means of increasing the efficiency of the so ciety's operations. Its principal recommendation was, that a library should be formed in connexion with the society. The report was unanimously approved. Mr. J. Stewart read a report from the committee on real property, to whom it had been referred to consider whether, ins connexion with a general registration, the principle of insurance of titles might , not be introduced. The committee thought that the princi plc might safely be extended to three classes . of titles,—those that were admittedly good in law and equity ; those that were legally good holding titles, but had some technical de fect; and those that were nut marketable owing to some doubtful points. Such an insurance might safely be under taken either by the state or some public company. Before effecting an insurance the title would have to be investigated by a conveyancer belonging to the office ; and when a title was once insured, a great deal of expense and delay would be saved in aU future transfers of the property. The scale of premiums was a matter of detail, which might easily be settled afterwards. In reference to the 2nd and 3rd dawn of title', it might be supposed that a door would be opened for fraud, by collusion betweea vendors and purchasers ; but it would be easy to guard against this, as well as against the frauds on common insurance offices. This system of insur ance might be established, either in connexion with • general registry, or independently of it. If judiciously carried out, it would be most beneficial; but legislative assistance would be necessary. Oa the motion that the report should be printed, and taken into consideration at the next meeting, a conversation arose, in the course of which Mr. It. Cheer suggested that the holders of doubtful titles might be prejudiced by the fact becoming known that they paid a himih rate of insurance ; but Mr. Stewart stated that this would be provided against by two premiums being paid,—one, the ordinary rate, by the purchaser,—the other, tocover the special risk, by the vendor. He had been told that day, by an eminent real property lawyer in Ireland, that the measure was particularly applicable to that country, and especially so in its present state. Mr. Pitt Taylor, and some other gentlemen, opposed the printing of the report, on the ground that the scheme was impracticable, it being urged that no one would be foolish enough to insure • good title, and no one would bs mad enough to offer a bail one for in surance. MeEwart, M.P., was strongly in favour of the print ing of the report, observing that, to pursue anv other course, would be tantamount to throwing the question aside alto gether. The Chairman thought that the proposed insurance would greatly facilitate the transfer of real property, and would obviate much of the inconvenience arising from opposite opinions given by eminent professional men as to whether a title was good or bad. The motion for the print ing of the report was ultimately agreed to ; and the meeting then adjourned. A NEW BUILDING SCHEME.—A company is now in existence, whose professed object is the political and social amelioration of the condition of the people, by the erection of towns and villages in suburban districts, each member or shareholder to hare a life-freehold, giving at the same time a vote for the county ; the allotment to take place by priority of subscription. 100 acres of land have already been bought for this purpose, about thirty miles from London. The amount of subscription varies according to age, a person aged thirty, paying 451. 14s. 6d, at eighty, 41. 14s. MORNING MAlLS.—Since Tuesday bags were sent by morning mails to the following additional post towns, by Command of the Postmaster-General:—Arundel, Bognor,' Chichester, Emsworth, and Havant. So heavy has the duty at the Post-office become, notwithstanding the recent addi tion to the force of the establishment, that on the mornings of Monday and Tuesday last several baskets of newspapers could not be got off, so that hundreds of them were detained mini the evening, and then despatched. LES I)ANsEUSES VIENNOISES. The Viennese dancers, 48 in number, under the direction of Madame Weiss, sailed yesterday morning in the packet-ship York shire, Captain Bailey, for New York. Tue WEATHER.—From the extract of the Meteor ological Register, kept at the gardens of the Horticultural r '"'eisq, it appears that the quantity of rain recently was unprecedented for many years past, being no less than 4 . 92 ine netheteeen the 6th October and 3rd November. The barometer had Mao a wide range, being highest, or 30'260 on Oct. 27, andlow es t, or 28 934 inch on Oct. 11. The thermo meter was highest, or 6.5 deg. F., on Oct. 6, and lowest, or 29 deg. F., on Oct. 29. SurGnuso.—lt having appeared, upon a recent investigation,_ that parties concerned in, or detained for, s muggling, have been recommended by the detaining officers of the revenue to an agent, with a view to application being made to the Commissioners for mitigation of the penalty in curred, the Bo ar d h ave di recte d t h e o ffi cers at the various departments throughout the port to be informed, that they consider such practice on the part of the officers to be highly objection a bl e, an d di rect that t h e same may be forthwith discontinued. REWARD OF SCIENTIFIC MERIT.—MARSH'S TEST. ,7 44 . J. Marsh, the celebrated chemist, whose well-known tat for th e d etect i on of arsen i c i s so extensively used in medial jurisprud ence , died some short time since, leaving a widow lc and family in very needy circumstances. Mr. Marsh, for about 40 _ years, held appointments in the Royal Arsenal— alS latter years as surgery-man, and though he was fre quently deputed by the government to inquire into scientific !nation, the salary he received amounted to only 30s. a week, WI r ating being that of a foreman. On his death his widow memorialised the Board of Ordnance for a pension • the board, in reply, have just sent her the munificent donation of 20 1., which is all they deem the services of her husband entitle her to. Few names associated with chemistry are so ‘ _seidely known as that of Marsh. Doubtful cases of poisoning oY arsenic have been for som 7 past resolved by the application of Marsh's test hothehere- yea s abroad. It figured P m nlinently in the Fre nc h t r i a l o f M a d ame Laffarge, at which the evidence of M. , respecting his experi ments with M ars h' s test, mre 6 n:11 influenced the con viction. y E DUCATION.—Sir: You state in te your pa per of' to dita4,otra 7%00 r t_he authority of th e British Quarsty Rerim that "Tee bie.d- of oenerai of Marriages has returned nearly half the peop le all classes as unable to write their names." ' is really an appalling statement. Now, will the British public hare patience with me whilst I refer theta to the Great Desert for an ex ample noeutely more improved state of education f Every male child of the omi: of Ohadames can read end write passages from the Koran, and every &own man can reed and write a letter. Of course, you must take my ipse dira for this. But 1 will just add, for the benefit end enlightenment of those who question the utility of edu cating the people, that daring the three months I was residing In the city of Ghadames I never heard of a single ease of murder or man. slaughter; I never heard of a serious case of theft. Perhaps this highly moral state of the p;pulatlce of Ghadames ham soave: connexion with the state of the education of the people. It would oe well f:r the people of England to ponder over and over again this perhaps before it B too late. For myself, lam heartily ashamed of the most deplorable state of the education of my countrymen. lanes RICILAIUMON. EXTENSION OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH FROM THE Sou THAVEST EliN RAILWAY T ERNI IN ITS TO THE STRAND.—On Monday last a number of men commenced the extension of the telegraph from the terminus of the South-Western Railway, Nine Elms, to the central station of the company, No. 345, Strand, opposite Waterloo-bridge. The work was begun by . opening the ground in the goods department of the terminus to the depth of about 18 inches, and laying down 3-inch cast iron pipes, coated inside and out with hot pitch. In these pipes are introduced two half inch leaden tubes or pipes, also tarred outside, through which four copper wires, covered with cotton, and water proofed, pats, conveying the electric power. The course taken by the telegraph is along Nine Elms-lane, the Wands worth-road, across to Vauxhall-gardens ; thence traversing Kennington-lane and road, Oakley-street, and the Waterloo road; passing beneath the pavement of Waterloo-bridge, on the west side, up Wellington-street, and so across the Strand to the central station. The work has only proceeded as yet a short distance up the Wandsworth-road. The lead tubing which contains the wires are from 100 to 250 yards each in length, and the joints are soldered together. After each joints made, it is proved by a battery and very ingenious detector, which instantly indicates whether the connexion is sound or not. When the extension is completed, a message may be received from Gosport at the central station and answered in less than a minute. The existing telegraph is, of course, not at present interfered with. NINE HUNDRED POUNDS.—StoIen, or lost, from the coat-pocket of Mr. H. Aldhouse, of No. 38, Mary-street, Kingsland-road, Shoreditch, between that and Bishopsgate Church, Bishopsgate-street, a black loather pocket-book, containing two Bank of England notes for 1001. each, two of 50/. each, 1001. in smaller Bank of England notes, and 4701. in Ipswich h ink notes, of various amounts, all marked "H. A." in the corner, making 8701. in bank notes; and also a cheque for 301. on Alexander's Dank, Ipswich, and a bill for 291. on Tinney, Clerkenwell, which is overdue, and . various memoranda. FIRES.—IMPORTANT NOTICE.—A number of the metropolitan parishes have, in consequence of the late in crease of fires, issued the following notice :—" Whereas the parish is put to great expense in consequence of fires, which have been occasioned by the inhabitants, as well lodgers as housekeepers, in not causing their chimneys to be duly swept, the parish authorities will, in future, where any rewards or other recompense shall be paid by the church wardens to any engine-keeper or turneock on account of any fire, enforce the repayment of the amount thereof, in every case, against the housekeeper, lodger, or inmate, agreeably to the Act of Parliament of 14 Geo. 111., cap. 78, sec. 78. _ _ - - ISQUESTB.—REPUGNANCE TO NIATRIMONT.—By Mr. Mills, at the British Queen, Sussex-street, Tottenham court-road, on the body of Rosetta Brown, aged 22, servant of Mr. Jenkins, surveyor, of 22, Huntley-street, who cut her throat on Tuesday afternoon.—Mr. Jenkins proved finding deceased, about five o'clock p.m. on Tuesday, lying in his cellar, to which he went attracted by the cries of one of his children, with her throat cut, and a carving knife grasped in her right hand. He sent fur medical assistance, but de ceased was dead before it arrived. She had latterly been much depressed in mind. On Monday last she said that she would rather die than marry a man named Payne, whom her sister urged on her as a husband. It further appeared that she had been long engaged to Payne, but that during the last year his visits ceased, and during the interval she received the attentions of another suitor. This person, whose name was mentioned, was accused by deceased's re lations of destroying her peace of mind, and preventing her from having married Payne on Monday last, whom she had finally, however, resolved t, marry, but wished that the day should be deterred. Whilst labouring under this dilemma, she committed the act above proved. Some of the jury, con trary to the opinion of the coroner, wished to make inquiries concerning the man represented by deceased's relations as the destroyer of her peace of mind, but at length became con vinced that such inquiries would be irrelevant, and returned the following verdict, " That deceased destroy .al herself, but in what state of mind there was no evidence to prove."— A LARGE FAMILY.—On the body of H. J. Battersbee, aged 46, a poor shoemaker, of Walmer-place, Lisson-grove, by Mr. Mills. A cab proprietor, named Cooper, proved finding the body, on Tuesday morning, in the Regent's canal. Deceased's wife said they had eight children, and that at her last confinement she gave birth to twins. This circumstance increased their difficulti a and deceased's anxieties, who was an excellent husband and father. On Monday last he sold some goods of a lodger, for rent due, without the assistance of a sworn broker, and the lodger threatening legal proceedings, deceased said, on Monday night, that what with one trouble and another, there was enough to drive a man to do that which he would be sorry for: The same night he produced several accounts due to him, and gave her instructions as to their recovery, and when she heard of some one having been found dead in the water, it struck her that it was her husband, and that he had destroyed himself. Verdict, " That de ceased drowned himself, but in what state of mind there was no evidence to show."— FIREWORKA.- -Before the name coroner, at the Hawley Arms, Hampstead-road, on the body of a young man un known, apparently about twenty years of age, who was drowned in the Itegent's-cansl. On Monday afternoon, about five o'clock, the deceased, at the Islington-tunnel, 'eked permission to ride in a coal-barge as far as Paddington. Ile was the worse for liquor, as was also the master and steersman of the barge, as well as the driver of the horse which towed it. On arriving at Hawley-lock, Camden-town, deceased got off the barge, and asked the lockleeper to give him some Inciters as he was going to light a tire. They were given to him, when getting on to the barge again, which then went on, he commenced discharging fireworks, and about thirty yards from the lock-gates, while in the act of throwing a lighted squib into the air, he slipped on one side and fell overboard into the water, the body not being found till twenty minutes afterwards, when life was quite extinct. Nothing was found upon him to show who he was, but he looked like a groom, being dressed in a brown cloth jacket, fustian trousers, and blue and yellow striped waistcoat with livery buttons, bearing the crest of a pelican feeding its young. His linen was marked J. W.—Verdict, " That deceased was accidentally drowned by falling into the canal while discharging fireworks."—The body and clothes were subsequently removed to the work house, where they remain to be identified.— KILLED BY A ROLLEIL—By Mr. Carttar, at the Coach and Hones, Blackheath-hill, on the body of Mr. Jno. Scriven.— Edward Cobley, son-in-low of the deceased, and a floor-cloth printer in the employ of Messrs. Cobbett and Co., Deptford , bridge, deposed that himself and others were engaged in raising a piece of floor-cloth, by means of tackle, when the rope slipped and the roller fell against another roller weigh inir upwards of four cwt., which forced it against deceased, who was knocked down, and the entire weight fell upon him. Deceased was conveyed home in a chair to his house in the Blackheath-road, where, notwithstanding prompt medical and other assistance was rendered, he died on Mon day night from internal injuries.—lt appearing that the is. - murrence was purely accidental, a verdict to that effect was returned. WEST GLOUCESTER REPRESENTATION. [From the Bristol G azettrot last night.] The subjOitted Circular, sent to between 200 and 300 of the Electors of West Gloucestershire, forms the best introduction to the Report which follows; "Recent events, affecting the representation of the Western Divi sion of the county of Gloucester, render it necessary that the hide =electors of that division (especially those of the middle dames Liberal principles) should take an early opportunity of meeting together. Such a meeting would afford them an opportunity of con ference and expimation among themselves, and they would be enabled then to take their present position into consideration, and also to adopt such steps as they may think necessary to secure a unity of action in case of a dissolution of Parliament or other Yummy in the Representation of thatDivision.—The undersigned consider that such a meeting among themselves would enable them to take such steps as would beet advance the public interests, without entering into extraneous matter, which would be totally irrevelant to the purposes of the sleeting. The meeting above alluded to will be held at the ' lunge Head, at Gloucester, on Tuesday, the 3rd of November next, a.. half-past twelve o'clock, at which the favour of your company is requested, and to which this circular will be a ticket of admission." ,Kred by 12 gentlemen.; In pursuance of the above, the meeting was held on Tues day (yesterday), at the hour and place mentioned. J. HUNT, Es q., of Almondsbury, was called to the chair I Every elector its that room, he said, must be fully aware of certain publications materially affecting the r, presentation of the NI estern Division. It was clear to those who took an interest in the matter, that their fellow-electors ought to confer together respecting the position in which they were placed, and it was felt that unless some one took the first step, in all probability it would not be taken at all. The result of private conversation led to the calling of the pre sent meeting, a call which had been so influentially responded to. The requisitionists had convened the meeting to afford an opportunity for mutual conference and expla nation. They had not come prepared to prejudge any mat, ten, or with any ready cut and dried resolutions to force upon the meeting. It was their object to obtain a free, im• partial, and full expression of opinion. He recollected when a boy, hearing the remark that a spoonful of honey would catch more wasps than a quart of vinegar. The advice it contained was valuable, and he hoped would be acted on that day, and if any of them had come to the meeting with their tempers a little ruffled and inclined to be waspish, he trusted that they would, whilst they firmly discharged their duties, avoid any asperity of language. (Hear.) In further ex planation he would state, that when the parties who had convened the meeting, were considering the desirableness of so doing, the question naturally arose, " What has given occasion for such a course ?" (Hear, hear.) It was most important that gentlemen should keep their attention to that point. (Hear.) Now, it appeared to the conveners of the meeting that there were three parties, whose proceedings had rendered the present step necessary. First, the Earl Fitz hardinge, who convened the meeting at Gloucester on the 15th of Sept. last; next the nine gentlemen who attended that meeting and passed certain resolutions; and, thirdly, the Hon. G. Berkeley, by the observations he had published. It warn the object of those who called the present meeting to 'produce a great moral effect on the county and tha country, and they could not, of course, expect to do so, unletp they made it apparent that nothing but the most fair play had been shown ant their part. They thought that if they invited any of the three parties to whom he had alluded, they must invite all ; they, could not ask one and exclude another, without justly laying themselves open to the charge of unfair play. (liear.) The requisitionists considered THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, 1846. whether they should invite all three parties, and after duly wsighLng the matter, they came to the conclusion, that in the present position of public and private matters as between those parties, a l ; invitation to all might lead to unpleasant consequences, and wight probably result in a collision it de termination itelnteith was neither o l : , was desirable to avoi d . ; they had come therefore to the the parties, and neither bad received a circ to invite j j „ - „ , weyer, that it would be objectionable to entirely preclude those: Parties from the op portunity of communicating with the meetb.4; . • and accord i tngly a private letter was addressed t o E a rl Fi:teeenthr, to Mr. G. Berkeley, and to Joyner Ellis, Esq., for himself and the eight other gentlemen with whom he acted, in forming them of the meeting, and offering to be the medium of any written communication which either of them might think proper to address to the meeting for its perusal. Having stated the circumstances under which the meeting was called, he would direct its attention to its chief object, and which, he conceived, would be found in the second paragraph of the circular. The best course would be, first to consider the present position of the independent electors of the western division of the county of Gloucester; next, as to whether, under existing circumstances, it was desirable to express any opinion as to the propriety of the Hcn. G. Ber keley being again put in nomination or not; and thirdly and lastly, in the event of such as opinion being expressed either way, whether it would not be advisable to appoint a committee to carryout the viewsso expressed by the meeting. He was reminded that letters had been received from several gentlemen approving of the meeting being held and account mg for their absence. It was right also to tell them that he had received a communication from Earl Fitzhardinge. The best course would be to hear the letters from the absent gentlemen read first, and then the meeting could determine whether it would hear the communication from Earl Fitz hardinge or not. T. NtcHoLsorr, Esq., of Lvdney, had received a letter from Mr. Charles Rosser, which he would read. The writer expressed his regret that he could not affix his sig nature to the circular,aa he had long ago determined to keep aloof from party or politics. He thought however that the electors of the Western Division of Gloucestershire should re joice over the broils of Berkeley Castle, for they had afforded the electors the opportunity of showing that they were not to be bound down by the will or the wealth of any family what ever, and that the really independent voters were not under baronial or any other influence. Out of evil came good, and he hoped the result would be that the electors would choose a man who would march with the progress of events, and not be behind the times. He (Mr. Rosser) regretted that he could not as formerly join hand in hand with them, but he was heart and heart with them, and his earnest wish was to see the county fairly and freely and not nominally repre sented. Ile hoped they would find such a man as they re quired in Mr. G. Berkeley. Mr. Nicholson mentioned that he had received a letter from Mr. Mtsshat, who was unable to attend from illness, and from another gentleman who said that his firm and family had six votes, and they would go with them whenever the occasion came. The Chairman next read a letter which he had received from Earl Fitzhardinge : Berkeley Castle, Nov. 2, 1216.—My dear Sir, In compliance with the request contained in the letter signed by yourself and other gentle men, supporters of the Liberal interest in the Western Division of this county, I address to von it short statement of the facts which led to a communication which I felt called on to make to some friends (both in the political and axial acceptation of the word) on the 15th of September last. I believe it is known to most or all of you, that ever since the contested election of 1532, for the Western Division of this county, the entire expense of the registration of voters, and of defending their votes when objected to by the opposing party, has fallen on'osyself alone. And I an not aware that the fact of my endeavouring to secure for u man the mere right of voting for his representative in parliament can neonsairity email on me a moral or political delinquency. In the summer of 1345, Mr. G. Berkeley made a demand on me fur money, which I masted. I have no intention to follow his example, and to enter into a detail of pri vette affairs, by discussing how far his demand was founded Is equity, or whether I had not done more for him by pecuniary advances than he was in any way entitled to. It is only neee-sary fur me to state that I ref., ed his claim. Thu consequence was, that he acquainted me and several others of his most influential supporters, that unless theseclainis were acceded to, be would inunediately apply for the stew. ardship of the Chiltern Hundreds and redyn his seat for the rowdy. I believed him to tw wrings in this most decided and often repeat ed d,rla. rani», and consequently ea•nestly, moat earnestly, requested him to call his friends together, and to them that his means would MA allow him to be at the expense of attending forliameut :though he had the advantage of firing in my house in London rent free, tee), hot that he would hold his seat either till they could find a substitute to represent the liberal interest, or till a dissolution of parliament. To these entreaties on my part he returned aposittre denial, and in some of his communitations he even went so fur as to state that he would not wait for the result of the Game Committee, of which he was a member (and on which subject he appears to entertain very wild and extravagant notions), but that before their report, i. e. (the report of the committee) be would vacate his seat. This deter mination to resign was communicated, us, i have rid before, to several others, and therefore extraordinary as his conduct may now appear, the fact of the communication due; not rest on me endure or autho rity only. In the end of ISL., and the beginning of 1516, Mr. 0. Berkeley appeared to have given up the attempt of inducing me to advance money bv the threat of abandoning Lis seat, and I endea voured to render the pressure of his pecuniary affairs easier, by the advance of a sum, the particulars of which Mr. Blossome, of [dusky, is acquainted with. This, however, proved but a tempo rary expedient, and bin demands, in the summer of were renewed. What course then had Ito pursue ? What other construc tion could be put on his conduct than that if I did not yield to twine demand for money, when elected at an ensuing parliament, he might turn short round and not only renew, but carry into execution Ins threat of meating lus seat at a time when such a step might be fatal to the liberal interest of the division. !faring taken for some years an active part in the polities of the county, and secured, I hope, the confidence of most who had comp rrated with me, I believe I should ' have betrayed that confidence if 1 had not Liken some steps to make known to the Western divisions the foregoing circumstances, which, joined to the very considerable and fast -iticreasing un popatirity of 31r. 0. Berkeley, seemed to me to ono ier his return to parliament again not only inespedient, but almost inipoisible. Vet what steps could I take ? It was not possible fur me. in toy own per son, to convene a public meeting or to pubbsli an address on such a subject, and I determined in the ant MAMBOS to call together a few of the most influential gentlemen in the Liberal interest, and wise known characters placed them far beyond the suspicion of being acted on by . improper motives, and to lay before them the dargerous position in which the liberal Interest was placed by the conduct of their pre sent r. presentative. They viewed the tar as I did, and took certain preliminary measures in order to secure their party from the peril to which it was unquestionably capered. Their conduct, however, has been grossly misconstrued, and has subjected them, as well as myself, not only to the alanderous insinuations but to the most person . al and scurrilous attacks of Mr. G. Berkeley,wbo does not scruple, if he thinks it would suit his purpose, to invade and misrepresent ;a harsher term might he used) the rights of social and domestic life and mix them up with matters purely public. So much for what h as passed, and I now have only to place before the meeting the course I intend to pursue no re gards the politics of the Western Division of the county. I beg, therefore, to state meet unequivocally that if the party are of opinion either that I have in the slightest degree injured or neglected their interest, or that such interest would better thrive without my interference, I trust they will explicitly say so, and I will interfere no farther, *MI this course will be infinitely the mast agreeable to me, for at my time of life I And a strong and mereasime desire to abstain from politics altogether. Mr. G. Berkelee sometime, chnrynes me with deserting my party, at others with improperly in fluencing it. Both the charges cannot be true: the one must refute the other. The fact is, that neither are true. I ran have no inducement for the use of Improper influence. Nothing would in duce me to adept of an appointment or office under government. I have no dependents to provide for. I hare revived honours from two • of my sovereigns, and I hare neither the right nor the wish to expect more. I defy, therefore, the most sbuiderona imagination to invent a I motive or an inducement for me to interfere improperly in the choice of a member of rairlieunent. I can hare but one—that of seeing the old interest and the old It-lends whom I have fought for and fought with, wed and fairly reps /tented in Parliament. If that desirable end can be achieved without my SAYMOilice, I will do that which is I the wish nearest to my heart, namely, to cease from all meddling or interference. But if I still possess the confidence of my former coadjutors; if they think me still worthy to take un honourable position in their Councils and operations, and claim at my • hands the assistance which I have heretofore given, I will not desert them, and they shall hare it, even though it entail on me more gram andabusive personalities than Ihave (if possible) hitherto experienced. I fear you will hardly decipher this scrawl, as I have but a short I time to write it in, and a muscular affection of my hand very much impedes the facility of using my pen.—l remain, my dear sir, must sincerely yours, Firzasmoneus. " To Josiah Hunt, Esq." . _ It was here announced to the meeting that Mr. G. Ber keley was at the door, and was desirous of being admitted. The CHAIRMAN said he had understood that the meeting had already decided the point, that neither of the parties concerned in the proceedings out of which arose the present meeting, should be invited ; Earl Fitzhardinge had abstained from attending, and he could not see how they could admit Mr. G. Berkeley. LC. CASTE, Esq., inquired whether the chairman had a copy of the letter sent to Mr. 0. Berkeley ?—Mr. NICHOLSON replied, that he, having had a lengthened correspondence with the hon. member before, had at the request of his col leagues written to him. He had not a copy of the letter by him, but it informed the hon. member of the fact of such a meeting being about to be held, that it was convened by circular addressed to about 200 of the electors, and that it was the wish of the parties calling the meeting that neither Earl Fitzhardinge or himself (Mr. G. Berkeley) or either of the nine gentlemen at the meeting of the lath of September should be present, but that any written commu nication should be laid before the meeting. The Cii.tinmax said, it was for the meeting to decide if the hon. member could be admitted. It appeared to be the unanimous opinion of the meeting that they could not consistently admit the hon. gentlethan to the room, and it was determined to inform him of their decision in the most courteous manner possible ; and on the suggestion of the chairman, a deputation, consisting of Mr. Nicholson, Mr. Blox some, jun., and Mr. Morton, was appointed to wait upon Mr. Grantley Berkeley, and inform him of the decision come to.—After the lapse of a brief interval the deputation returned, and Mr. Nicholson said, that the hon. gent. told them that he left home on Saturday before his letters arrived, and consequently had not received the one sent him by himself (Mr. Nicholson). Under these circumstances, the hon. gent. put it to the meeting whether it would kindly hear him or not. The CHAIRMAN said that before the meeting decided, they should have all the elements of the case before them. Now he did happen to know that Earl Fitzhardinge and one or more of the nine gentlemen, had expressed the strongest wish to be present. Mr. CASTLE inquired when the letter was sent to the hon. member ?-111r. NICHOLSON said, on Friday, the 30th ult., at the same time those to Earl Fitzhardinge and Mr. Joyner Ellis were posted.—HAHNIAN VISOER, Esq., re marked that Mr. Orantley Berkeley had addressed long letters through the public papers; and really the whole day would be taken up, if they now allowed the hon. member to enter cirri roce into all those matters again. The CHAIRMAN said, it was his duty as expressing the opinion of the meeting, to request the deputation to retire again and inform the hon. member that they could not admit him to their conference, but they would willingly receive any written communication from him.—The depu tation left the room, and shortly returned, when Mr. BLOESOME said, Mr. G. Berkeley bows to your decision. I have informed him of the object of the meeting, and I have mentioned to him that a letter has been read from Earl Fitzhardinge. Mr. G. Berkeley wishes to hear that letter read ; he considers it to be a public document, u he is in formed that there are reporters present. The CHAIRMAN—The distinct understanding was that no gentleman on behalf of the public press should attend. On my own responsibility I procured the attendance of a gen tleman from Bristol to take notes, for the assistance of the meeting afterwards, if It should be necessary, but with the distinct pledge that the notes should not be published, ex- cept it was the desire of the meeting. A gentleman from the Gloucester Journal applied this morning I. be admitted to the room, and he was admitted on the same distinct un derstanding. Earl Fitzhardinge's letter is not, therefore, public property, and we cannotlet one party see a communi cation from another. The deputation retired for the third time and alma" im mediately returned, when Mr. Bluzsoi.Tie sad, " Mr. Grantley Berkeley will write to the meeting." . The CHAIHWAN.--The question before the meetoii; is the consideration how far the position of the Liberal part; in the I division has been Erected by the recent publications in the papers, taken in connection with the letter just read front Earl Fitzhardinge. Mr. NiewoLsos said one most important object was to as certain the fact that there were independent electors in the oounty, for it had been generally questioned. (Hear.) The nine gentlemen who met in that room in September last, and their honourable member, had, unintentionally he believed, conveyed to the country generally the impression that one lordly will ruled the representative of the division, so far at least as the Liberal party was concerned ; that the Liberal electors might perhaps be goaded into rebellion in defence of an old and valued representative, but that generally speak ing they were quite passive, in fact were not the first but the last and least in the matter. Their firstduty was to put them. selves right with the p u blic. H e believed there were hide pendent electors in the county. (Hear.) He did not believe that the middle classes, whatever their superiors might have done, had done aught to give credence to the idea, that they would give in their adhesion to any man who did not act in accordance with their honest opinions, or that they were under any improper influence whatever. They knew the political principli s of Earl Fit/herding., and they approved of them: had he been a commoner they would have been proud to elect him, and they had no objection to take a younger brother whom they might suppose to have been pretty much under his lordship's guidance, but though they liked that noble family, and though it was to them • proud satisfaction to have them as leaders, they had never, and they would never recognise them as dictators. (Cheers.) It had been said by an eminent authority that large bodies were like the full whose head was pushed forward by its tail; now the Liberal electors hid no objection to be the tail, provided the head moved as they directed—follow ers they might be but not slaves. (Cheen.) They were willing to giro precedence to wealth and rank, if wealth and rank concurred with them ; they were quite willing to be the working men, and to give all the honour and to pay all possible respect to others, but they would rather net have the name if they had not the reality of representation. (Cheers.) They would rather not be represented at all, than not Ise represented by the object of their free choice. (Hear.) There were other matters to come before the meeting, and he would no: at present take up more of their time. It was their first duty to show the public that they were independent electors. The CHAIRMAN invited any other gentleman present to deliver his sentiments. They had not come with any regu larly prepared resolutions, but if any were proposed, he hoped it would be unanimously. Mr. NlestoLswe said he had hastily sketched out a reso lution, which he would lay before the meeting to deal with it at :t thought pruper—During the conversation which ensued, the following letter was handed . . King's Head Hotel, Nov. 3. To J. Bennett, Esq., of CbashilL —Sir : I address SOU on observing that your name ta at the brad of the requidtho. sin Modeling • prirnoe meeting, as I am cos, informed, here this day. Though your circulars are printed, and headed " West Gloucester Representa tion," you refuse me admittance. I then take this hurried opportu nity, the only one you give me, to state, that I object to such a con vention as this, as being improper and unconstitutional, and open to iruspirio . ,n that the custle inituence ha. been at work. 1 deuy that it can be a fair meeting for nay poliarnl purpnse , 88 regarda myself or the constituency generally, for other reasons an well as the one that Mr. Josiah Hunt is in the chair. lie has already written and published a riulmf ldtrr ayainst me, totally throw ing overboard all other interests In the county but the one he ad vocates. 1 object to a.l and every meeting on public question•, with a view to the representation, that it is necessary to guard from free discussion, with a locked door, and I protest signing the injurious fact of the presence of two reporters of the press, whose report your deputation informs me that the meeting will control or suppress al gether, ea suits their pleasure. I must, perjurer, content myself fur the present with this hurried statement of my belief, that the meeting la called on erroneous grounds, but under a good sounding tanner; that I must suppose that the meeting is aware that Mr. Granville Berkeley, the " nominee" of the meeting of September, was to be at the Caustic but night, and that as 1 had no intimation at the Con vention, and therefore no opportunity of writing a studied or delibe rate letter, such as the one sent by Earl litaharclinge, but which I am refused a sight 01, I am nut able to refute anything whirl. may /lore bee, falo•ly Gorged to your notice, and to my prejudice. I tell you, your present proceeding, en far as it has gone, is in no way cal culated to "secure thin unanimity" your pre,ent letter states to be so desirable. I remain, faithfully yours, ICA TL :T F. DUO( V.LEY. Mr. VISOER said they would receive the letter as aproteat. If it had been a public meeting there might have been some thing in it. The CH A 'AMAX said, after Mr. Grantley Berkeley's letter, he could not but leave it to the meeting to decide if he (the Chairman) was a proper person to remain in that position ; if they thought otherwise he hoped that some one would immediately move that he leave the chair (cries of "No, no"). He said the next question to etm.ider was, whether or not it was desirable to put Mr. G. Berkeley into nomina tion at the next election. Mr. HlCks remarked that they could not say whether he should be put in nomination er not ; all that they could de cide was whether or not they should aupport him. Mr. ISGEIL did not think the matter required much considera tion; they had only to look to Mr. Grantley Berkeley's letters and acts. In many respects he was a good member ;in many others he was not; and, above all, was the fact of his being ready, on account of some private matter of his own, to throw the constituency over. That fart was before the public, and even if all other matters were thrown out of con sideration, that must weigh with them ; they ought not to put the honouralde gentleman again in the position of being able, on account of some private pique, to turn round upon the Liberal electors, and perhaps shut them out of the repre sentation altogether. Atter some further discussion, resolutions were passed. 1. Regretting the proceedings of the nine gentlemen on the 15th of September last, and Mr. Grantley Berkeley's letters on the subject, as conveying an unjust imputation that the electors were under improper influences. 2. That the meet ing viewed with dissatisfaction Mr. Granticy Berkeley's public conduct on the corn and game-law questions. 3, That the necessary steps should be token for obtaining a correct representation of the Liberal electors of the county. After which the meeting separated. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Nor. 3. VIOLENCE TO OFEICEII.I OF THE BOARD OF WORKS.— Mr. O'Connell, in his speech at Conciliation-hall, of which I forwarded a sketch on yesterday, adverted to the violence committed in the county of Clare upon some officers of the Board of Works, and be earnestly exhorted the people to abstain from excesses at once foolish and criminal.—The fol lowing proclamation has been issued by the Lord Lieutenant, denouncing those outrages as no less criminal in themselves, than cruel towards the destitute people: "To THE INHADITANTN 09 THE BARONY or UPPER TULLA, COrXTT CLARE, AND THE ADJOININU DIETNICTS.—The Lord Lieutenant has learned with the deepest concern that occurrences hare taken plate in the barony of Tull, and part of the adjacent districts, which have obstructed the operation of those mean• of employment fee the labouring poor in their present distress which the Lemslature intended to afford. Large presentment. have ben made for ptiblic work- in that barons*, a great proportion of which (exceeding 20,0001.) has already received the approval of the proper authorities. Ilia Excellency looked with confidence to the commencement and preoi of those works, as affording to the industrious and wellsiilgeed Ihe mesas of immediate employment, and a prospect of continued support during the approaching winter. Competent officers were provided and employed in the necessary arrangements for setting the works in operation, some of which have already commenced. His Ex cellency has, however, learned that the preparation, made have for the present been frustrated by a system of insubordina tion and outrage, which endangers the lives of the officers and over seers, and deters the poor and peaceable inhabitant. from Ithouringon the works. The Lord Lieutenant desires most earnestly to point out to the people the serious consequences to themselves from ouch a course of conduct. The obstruction to ofßeers ui the discharge of their duties, creates in the first instance confusion and alarm ; bt has the ulterior effect, &heady apparent, of necessarily suspending all further preemie in the work.; and, combined with the outrages committed on private persons and property, must preclude may attempt for the soutinued employment of the destitute pour. The work. in the dis trict have in consequence been suspended. Ample arrangements have been made, and all the powers placed at the disposil of the Executive will be exerted for preening the live. and properties of the peaceable inhabitants, repressing outrage, and bringing to justice the dis turber of the public peace and the perpetrators of crime. But his Excellency woold hope that the good sense of the people will resume Ito influence—that they will see the follyand the crone they are guilty of, in thus wantonly inter feriug with the means provided for the sup port of the destitute in tics time of distress, and that he will have the satisfaction of receiving full assurance of their return to a better course of conduct—of their cordial acquiescence in the arrange ments made fur their employment, and of their determi nation to refrain from further obstruction or injury to persona in laving out or superintending the public works. His Ear. racy will then gladly direct the immediate resumption of those works, in the conviction that they will prove the means of preserving the people from that destitution and ruin which a perseverance in their poet line of conduct must, he fears, inevitably produce.—Dublin Castle, Nov. 2. By his Excellency's command, T. N. KLEINDTON. ADVICE FROM THE COMMISSARIAT TO THE LANDLORDS. --The following letter of advice as to the mode of operating upon the food markets in remote districts, has just been published Commissariat Relief-office, Dubin Ca, le, Oct. 27. Gentlemen—l have laid your letter of the 24th instant, before ! Comminau-v-General Sir Randolph J. Routh, with the resolutions ! adopted by relief committee for the barony of laehiquin, propos ing that 2,000 i. out of the suns presented in barony sessions for relief works, be allocated for providing cheap food : also that all available home corn now in the country or in the hands of speculators be purchased by government for the supply of the population. I am directed to state that the Commireary.Gerwral does not feel called upon to express any opinion with respect to these reso lution.; but he desires, to take this opportunity of drawing the atten tion of the committee to the ooneideration of means for establishing a loan fund to augment the supply of food on sale in the district. In the Dromholm and Roesnevlugh relief district, county Donegal, loans exceeding 1,0307. have been placed by landlords in charge of the com mittee, to be employed with the erthnary relief fund in purchasing food ; and if lone can be obtained by your committee, he recom mends that all the food purchased should be placed for wile with inch , victuals of character, allowing them 51. per cent. for storing and selling, and fixing a price s ufficient to cover the find cost and all charges, in cluding thecommisaion. Ile desires to refer the oommitteeto the acoom panying papers on the means of providing cheap fool from home corn, and begs to observe that, were the committee to employ a fund in providing food at prices under the rates which traders should charge fa order to makes fair profit, a pressure would be invited which would soon exhaust the fund, and the business of traders would be stowed, or so diminished as to leave no inducement for the competition on which the community must mainly rely for eubeistence. It Ls further to be observed that the present high prices tend to econcoaine con sumption, and must oleo induce the importation of rumpling. I have the honour to be, gentlemen, your obedient servant, W. &was; EateetAl7. To Hugh 4Thoghlen and John Oakum. Esgs., Belief Committee, Ennis. ZNOLISH TESTIMONY TO IRISH DESTITETION.—At a meeting of an agricultural society held in Cork, on Satur day, the following speech was made:—" Mr. Watson, an English gentleman, spoke of the advantages which the soil of Ireland possessed for the cultivation of green crops; and ' stated that he had taken some pains, by personal observa tion, to discover the amount of distress which existed amongst the poor of this ce;untzy. About a week ago, he walked out soma distance in the country, from the town of Skibbareen, and, in one hut, saw a family of fifteen persons who had not erten a bit from the day before. lle had like• wise seen a large number of people, at a public work, who informed him that there was a fortnight's wages due to them. Ons poor man in the locality had died of starva tion. He looked upon the Board of Works as extremely culpable in delaying tke payments of their poor workmen, when they had authority to order payments to be made twice a reek." (Hear, hear.) Nes7AerdrThrfficiS.—The folimtring ippdintmeit;..; , announced on Monday at the Registry of Deeds Office, by minute from the Lords of the Treasury : Morgan O'Connell, Eag., to be Registrar of Deeds, vice George Moore, Esq., re tired ; Walter Glaascock, Esq., First Assistant Registrar : John E. Chapman, Eq., Second Assistant Regiemar ; Mr. William Butler, First Clerk ; Mr. John Dillon, Second Clerk ; Mr. William D av i s , Third Clerk.---iN'ews Letter. SCOTLAND. THE REPRESENTATION OF RENPRENFSHIRE.—By the death of Mr. P. M. Stewart, M.P., for Renfrew, a vacancy has been created which will, in all probability, afford oppor tunity for a sharp electioneering struggle, if we may judge from the record of past electioneering events in that county. At the election in 1837, a Conservative candidate was returned by a very narrow majority ; and at the genera l e l ect i on i n 1811, the tide turned in favour of the Whip candidate, and Mr. Stewart was returned by the small majority of 14-959 Totes being recorded for him, and 915 for his Conservative opponent, Col. Mure. PROVINCIAL. LANCASHIRE. OPENING or THE Poars.—A public meeting of the inha bitants of Oldham, convened at the request of 390 requisi tionists, was held in the Town-hall,. on Monday evening last, for the purpose of taking into consideration the pro priety of menionalising her Majesty's minister. to open the ports for the free admission of all articles of food. Mr. A. Taylor, corn-dealer, one of the head-constables, was una nimously called to the chair. He expressed his regret that there was any occasion to call the inhabitants together on such a measure as they were met to discuss, onle a few months after the time they had met to petition rliament for an alteration in the corn and provision laws. Little did he expect that, so soon as this, a time of depression would have come upon them. He conceived that one main cause of the present state of affairs was the failure in the potato crop, which, in the opinion of Cobbett, ought never to have been rendered a principal means of human existence; and even out of the direful suffering of the Irish people the result might be an improvement in the quality of human food. (Cheer.) Such had been the rapid rise of provisions during the last few ' months, that in July last a sack of flour was purchasable fur 14s. or 15s. less than at the present time. The price of po tatoes had, in the same time, advanced more than one-half. Notwithstanding that it had been generally expected that there would be a plentiful crop of corn and wheat, there was not only a serious failure in the produce of our own country, but also elsewhere; and, in Ireland, it was computed that ten millions of pounds of potatoes had been rendered unfit for food. In consequence of this awful state of things, maize and ladian corn had risen to double their usual price ; and from high prices of provisions had arisen depressed trade, an increasing diminution in the demand for labour, and a downward tendency in wages, which ren dered it highly desirable that government should take prompt and vigorous measures to mitigate the evil, as far as practicable, by throwing open the ports to the admission of all articles of food duty free. (Applause.) —J. Mellor, jun., Esq., moved the first resolution. lie re marked that only a year had elapsed since the inhabitants of Oldham hail assembled to petition parliament for an entire removal of all taxes on articles of human food, and yet in that short interval great and important changes had been effected in the corn and provision laws. (Hear.) Now they were very properly called upon to memorialise government for an entire opening of the ports for the unrestricted admis sion of every description of food that would minister to the wants of the starving masses. (Hear, hear.) R.:solutions weal: adopted, and a petition agreed to, praying the imme diate opening of the ports. COROEN TRIBUTE FIND.—The increase in this fund during the week is 3101. 17s. 7d., making the aggregate 76,6201. 17s. 7d. The increase has eam derived chiefly from Manchester, Warrington, Bury, Oldham, Padiham, and the neighhourhod. SINGULAR SUCCESAION Or ACCIDENTS ON THE NORTH WESTERN ILAILWAY.-011 Saturday last, a series of acci dents, causing detentions of various trains, and, in one instance at least, attended with moat serious consequences, both in personal injuries and in the destruction of carriages, occurred on this line, between the Stafford station and the station at Chelford ;—and from the cause being in each in stance a similar one, they seem to point to the imperative necessity for prompt measures being taken to prevent at recurrence of such (banters in future. The train which left London at 8 30 cm., on Saturday, quitted Birmingham at one o'clock, on its route to Marehester; and a few miles north of Stafford, found the rails blocked up in consequence of a luggage train having run into a ballast train. Fort in ately the fog, which had been very dense, had cleared away shortly before, otherwise the down train would have run into th e stationary luggage train. The guard of the down train was sent back to prevent a collision between that train and the down mail train, which leaves Birmingham at 1 4:.) p.m., and which, in fact, did arrive in less than a quarter of an hour afterwards. Both passenger trains returned to Staf ford ; and there was a loM of two hours before the line was declared to be clear, so that they could proceed towards Manchester. About ten miles further on, that is, about beltway between the Norton Bridge and the Whitmore statioc, the two passenger trains found their progress a second time arrested, another luggage train having got off the line. Here, a further detention ensued of about two hours and a half, and during this blocking of the rails, no fewer than six trains,—four from Birmingham, and two from Manchester,—were stopped by the accident. Once more in motion, the two down trains, which usually are joined at Crewe, and proceed thence as one train to Man chester, left Crewe as one train, about half-past eight, instead of 3 40 p.m., the appointed time, and reached the Chelford station soon after nine. Amongst the passen gers by the train from London, were Mr. Robert Hyde Greg and his daughter, in one of the first - class carriages, and one of his sous and a servant were in his private carriage, which was placed on a truck; and the two carriage-horses were in a horse-box. Mr. Greg and Miss Greg got out, Chel ford being the nearest station to Norcliffe ; and Mr. Greg directed a porter to unfasten the horse-box and his carriage. Just as he had done so, and within a minute and a half of the train stopping, Mr. Greg perceived a down luggage train approaching at some speed. He had no time to get !us son and servant out of the carriage, and, indeed, fearing the results of the concussion, which he saw was inevitable, he had scarcely time to withdraw his daughter back from the edge of the platform, when the luggage train ran with tre mendous force into the horse-box a Inch was at the rear of the passenger train - The horse box was smashed to pieces, the flooring or bottom of it being torn asunder and crushed. The horses were thrown out, one on each side, but though one was a goni deal bruised, and the other cut, yet neither scrms to have received material permanent injury. In deed, as soon as they were released, they gallopped away, affrighted, into the neighbouring field, Mr. Greg s carriage was thrown upwards into the air ; all the glass in it broken ; and his son and servant, who were both inside at the time, were a good deal bruised, and thcir faces cut with the broken glass. The concussion was so great that the passenger train, though standing still at the time, was propelled forward about fifty yards. Many of the passengers received severe contusions and bruises, and one gentleman, we understand, had his arm broken. Mr. Cooke, of Oldham, received a severe fracture of the ribs, but is ing well, and has been enabled to proceed to his home. Mr. Lawrie, a commission ' agent from London, was most severely injured, having three of his ribs on the left side fractured, besides numerous con tusions, and other wounds. He is now lying at the Queen's Hotel, Alderley, and, although much hurt, is better than might have been anticipated. Mr. Hill, a teacher of music, from London, who came down for the purpose of being mar ried on the following day, is suffering from several severe contusions of the right arm and wrist, which he is scarcely able is move. The parties hurt appear to have been chiefly those in second-class carriages. Lltimately, we believe, the 11 1 wi co nes n rete j oadidnetloatraifyedtennsimrxelihncouhute:4l betweenbbefore e fi Manchester ye ; Birminghamabout and of e coursel v a o n a d mat the Manches ter, ghwhelt; ter, by the series of casualties we have described. "In every instance, we (Manchester Guardian) believe, the accidents were traceable to the culpable carelessness of the driver of a luggage train ; and to the same cause, many of the recent accidents on various lines are justly attributable. An inferior class of men are employed as luggage train drivers. This is a practice which should be examined into and abolished ; for no man who does not exercise due cir cumspection and caution ought to be allowed to guide any train upon a railway." CHEsiIIRE. TEE ATTEMPTED MURDER AT TAPLET.•—The prisoner J. Wright, who treacherously shot his fellow traveller, Mr. and afterwards robbed him, was brought for exami nation before the magistrates at Knutsfurd on Tuesday. J. Platt deposed that on the morning of the robbery he, in com pany with another person, were ferreting for rabbits, and about 12 o'clock he heard what appeared to him to be a pistol-shot. lie saw one man upon another who appeared to be wrestling in the middle of the road. After some time witness saw one of the men run towards Mr. Barber's, and the other follow him in a feeble state.H. Foden was with the last witne.s on the 23rd October, in Tabley. Witness heard the report of fire-arms. Saw a man in the road near the bridge, and shortly after observed a man getting up from the ground with another man having hold of his arms. They appeared to be wrestling for a short time, and then the man left him, and appeared to be asking the injured man to go with hi m, which he refused to do, and then the other man left him, and he immediately called out " murder," and went in the direction of Barber's farm. Witness then ran after them, and on passing over the bridge he saw a hat, umbrella, and small bag near the spot where the two men were wrestling ; there was also a quan tity of blood at the same place. Thought there was something serious the matter, gave an alarm, and ran in tho direction of Barber's farm, and on the way saw M'Gill, who appeared frightened and very much ex hausted. He was without a bat. Witness got up to him as I he was entering the farm-house, and observed that he was very bloody all about his neck. He afterwards went with him to the Windmill public-house on the Tabley-road.— Several witnesses were called to trace the payment of the money which had been taken from Mr. M`Gill on the day of the robbery. In one case he paid Mr. Massey, of the Greyhound public-house, at Lostock, 201. in dis charge of an I 0 U which he had given on the previous day, and which was promised to be discharged on the Friday, or the day on which the robbery was committed. —Mr. Harrison, of Manchester, surgeon, deposed to the nature of the wounds inflicted on Mr. M'Oill, as well as of Isis present state of health, from which it appeared that he is out of danger. Mr. M'Gill's depositions were taken in andth t a h t e th b e lo p w riw . He ' Manchester and read in court. lie describes the whole she robbery, and the reCtire.4 minutely, but cannot swear that he was fired at, as he ,te that a i t n i, o s b e le is he i a b d l e 8 a 6 21. soon t i his ii s h e rece ived person, overtook him on the bridge described by the other witnesses, G s b r a r a ee tes m n Northwich on the night t; where he addressed him in the most friendly spirit, asking alter Mr. Shannon's health, also where they intended to ... ^Wable, deposed to his apprehension at m ,,7t that day. He then parted, and in a few seconds alter he Tect ;ved a wound which rendered him insensible.— ing of toe money and other 1e.: a ... 7"Y which had been paid by the prisoner to other parties.—The caw; on the part of the prosecution being concluded, Mr. Foster (the Magis— trate) told the prisoner that he was now at liberty to make any observations he might think proper, but cautioned him, that whatever statement he made would he given in evidence aphid him on a future occasion. The prisoner said he had no particular statement to make, but he was anxious that two or three witnesses should be examined on bin behalf. The names of Joseph Tomlinson, Mrs.llolland, • relation of tne prisoner, and Mrs. Wiunington, were severally called, but did not answer. Mr. Foster then said : Prisoner, it is our duty to commit you to take yourarial at the next assizes at Chester, for the offence. The prisoner applied to the court to allow him to be bailed, but Mr. Foster said he could not accede to the proposition. The prisoner having held a short conversation with his father, was taken from the bar to the interior of the gaol, apparently unmoved and un concerned at the position in which he is placed. OXFORDSHIRE. OXFORD, Nov. 4.—THE THIRD CENTENARY OF CHRIST CHU act( was celebrated this day. Full cathedral service oas performed in the cathedral at ten o'clock, and was nume rously attended. At twelve o'clock, the Very Rey. the Dean, the Canons, and members of the college assembled i n their magnificent dining hall, when Latin orations, com memorative of the event were delivered. None hut mem bers of the college were admitted. In the afternoon, at four o'clock, full service was again performed in the cathedral, and an anthem, appropriate to the occasion, sung by tho choir. At six o'clock about 3 . 10 members of the college sat down to a splendid dinner in the hall served up in that style of elegance and excellence for which the cook of this college, Mr. J. Faulkner, has become proverbial. Dessert and wine were provided for the whole party at the expense of the chapter, and the array of black bottles on the various tables was formidable, and testified that the butler, Mr. T. Dry, who has grown grey in the service, had had on this occasion no sinecure office. The Very Rev, the Dean presided, and at the high table we noticed Bishop Coleridge, the Bishop of Sodor and Man, the Solicitor- General, Lord Wodchouse, Lord Darnley, Lord Duf feria, Lord Ogilvie, Sir It. H. Inglis, the Dean of Westminster, Rev. Dr. lluekland, the Dean of Carlisle, Dr. Cramer, Lord Ribblesdale, the President of King's College, London, the Rev. Dr. Jelf, the Regius Professor of Divinity, the Rev. Dr. Campden ' the !guarani Professor of Divinity, Rev. Dr. Faumett, Archdeacon Clerk, the S u b D ean o f Christ Church, the Rev. W. Jelf, Professor Hussey, Dr. Page, Dr. Harcourt, Rev. Dr. Vansittart, Rev. Dr. Russell, Rev. Dr. Saunders, Rey. Dr. Phillimore, Sir T. Ouseley, I Dr. Phillimore, D.C.L, Rev. Dr. Sutherland, Rev. Mr. Veysie, 8.D., Rev. J. Ley, B.D. The Dining Hall looked remarkably well, being lighted with gas and innumerable lamps, and the whole effect was most imposing. The cloth was not cleared till after 7 o'clock, sod it was expected that the grace cups would be passed round in due form, and some few toasts given from the chair. HERTFORDSHIRE THE THING{ AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION held their annual meeting on Tuesday. The cattle show attracted a large number of the farmers of the neighbourhood, and in the evening a party of about a hundred at down to dinner Mr. J. A. Gordon occupied the chair, and in the course of a speech to the assembled company said: " When he addressed thou in 1)14, he expressed his conviction that, unless far mers hail leas, s of their hind, they could not be expected to make experiments in agriculture, and he still held the same opinion, lie was glad to find that the same views were entertained by Earl Talbot and Mr. B. Eseott. Ho had ventured to say, in 1814, that lie considered Scot land was fifty years in advance of England with regard to agriculture ' • but since that time he believed that gr e at progress had been made by the English farmers, and they might yet hope to rival their Scottish neighbours, though they could scarcely expect to do so without come change in the legislative enactments of this country with relation to agriculture. Ile might state that he was the possessor of entailed estates in this country, which be could not lease, or he would have been glad to do so, In Scotland he also held entailed estates; but, fortunately, under an act passed 70 years ago (the Montgomery Act), he was enabled to let his property there on lease. The result was, that the value of his property in Scotland had quadrupled four times within 70 years, while in England, within the same period, it had only doubled. It might be remembered by some of those now present, that, in his padre.. to them in 1814, he had alluded to the failure of an art of Parliament, introduced by Mr. Piney, member for Berk shire , in 1841, to facilitate the draining of entailed estates. He then stated that no one farmer had availed himself of the provisions of that measure; but he now found, train evidence given before the House of Lords, that during tho five years which had elapsed since its adoption eleven perilous had availed themselves of it. After the lapse of tire years, they stood just where they did before • and though, in the three kingdoms, nineteen-twentieth; of the landed property, including church property, was entailed, it was only ID Scotland that the tenants could undertuke drainage or other improvements with the right to obtain a portion of the expense from their landlords. Ho might state that he wrote to Sir R. l'eel expressing his con viction that the measures introduced by Mr ruses and the Duke of Richmond would he wholly ineffixtual in accom plishing the objects they were intended to secure, and strongly recommending that the applicatiuns should be made to the Tithe Commissioners, instead of to the Court of Chan cery. Sir Robert l'eel acknowledged his letter on the day on which he propounded to the House of Commons his important commercial reforms, and proposed to work a new drainage act by means of the Inclosure Act Commissionen, and to advance, by way of loan, 3,000,0001. to the agricultural interest in the three kingdoms, for the purposes of drainage and improve ment. That measure, having received the sanction of Parliament during the last session, had been in operation about two months; and during this time application had been made for loans amounting to 46,887/. 3s. lid., for tho drainage or improvement of 58,256 acres of land. lle had been informed that at this time no less than 25 applications, under the act to which he had just referred, were in CORM of transmission to the Inclosure Commissioners, from Caith ness, the most northerly county of Great Britain, and would it be believed, that not one application from Hertford had pet been made under this measure ? lie had recom mended, in 1811, that the Scotch system of leasing should be extended to England : for, when the landlords called upon the farmers to put their shoulders to the wheel, it was only right that they should themselves set an example, and help their tenants as far as possible, by adopting and carrying out useful legislative enactments. Ile might state that the Duke of Richmond had laid out 30,0001. ou the improvement of his property in Scotland, although that property was entailed. lie WAS now expending 20,0001. on the drainage of his estates; and he believed that on one farm no hie than seventy miles or tile drainage had been undertaken at the expense of the noble duke, who was acting meet liberally towards his tenants. After suggesting the establishment of chemical lectures, and more frequent meetings of the society, the chairman proposed, " Prosperity to the Tring Agricultural Association." The prizes having been distributed, the fes tivities were concluded. ..._ KENT. THE MENICIPAL Etecv;;;;in Canterbury have resulted in a gain of two to the Conservatives. The position of parties is now—Conservatives, 11; Liberals, 13. f!!lusit. SACRED iiARRONIC SOCIETY.—The first of this society's performances, for the winter season took place last evening in Exeter-hall. It consisted of a miscellaneous col lection, followed by Spohr's oratorio, "The Last Judgment." After Handers overture to the occasional oratorio, a 'Ye Drum and Jubilate, composed by Hi, Royal Highness Prince Al bert, were performed, and did much honour to the talent of the royal dilettante. In a work of this kind, unless from a composer of the most original genius, little novelty can be expected. The subject, as part of our eitthedral service, has been treated so very often, that every porement has fallen into a certain prescribed form, to wli iepVmost every succeed. ing composer is constrained to adh •-• ,and is thus nearly precluded from the exercise of t inventive faculty. I'rince Albert's composition, how°, ' regularly con structed, pure in style, and possesses erable grandeur and solemnity. In th ei solo parts the yis smooth ; the choral harmonics are full end solid, wit some fine antique progression; and the instrumentation (though, according to the fashion of the day, somewhat bruyant) is skilful and effective. The Prince's name makes a remarkable addition to the list of royal and noble artistes whom his country has produced.—Hummel's graduale, " Quod, quod in orhe," is a tine composition, but did not receive justice in the perform ance, the time having been unsteadily given by the con ductor. Handel's air from " Susannah, " Clouds o'ertako the brightest day," was sung by Miss Dolby with great beauty and simplicity. Mozart's motctt, " Splendente to Deus," which has been known at all our music meetings for these thirty years, in its English version of " 0 God, when thou appearest," was sung with the original Latin words. It is one of those combinations of exqui,,itely rounded melody, with sublime choral effects, for which Mozart's sacred music is pre-eminently distinguished, and by means of which it acts so powerfully on every class oflisteners It was well executed; and Miss Birch's clear and beautiful voice was beard to great advantage in the solo passages. The ancient Italian hymn, " Alla Trinity beata " (the authorship of which, we believe, is unknown, though it hes been ascribed to Palestrina) was sung as • ouartet by Miss Birch, Miss Dolby, Mr. Hobbs, and Mr. Phillips, with a purity and truth which we have rarely heard surpassed; and this piece of quiet, delicate, and highly refined music, evidently gave more pleasure to the immense audience than any other performance of the evening. The miscellaneous selection concluded with the double chorus "D e alt Dominus," of Leonardo Leo; but this great old master's music was spoiled by the addition of a load of brass, of which, in his day, there was no conception. The re mainder of the evening was occupied with Spohr's " Last Judgment." This, which is the first (and in our opinion the best) of Spobr's oratorios, was first performed in England at the Norwich Festival of 1830 ; and it was next performed by the Philharmonic Society in the following season. It was performed once or twice by the Sacred Harmonic Society, four or five years ago. The sacred works of this great com poser are rarely attempted, in consequence of their difficulty —a difficulty whisk, from their profound and elaborate character, is felt by the auditors as well as the performers. In "The Last Judgment," however, there is certainly a more easy and neutral flow of melody, more freedom from chromatm intricacies, and greater breadth and simplicity of effect, than are found in the " Crucifixion," or the " Fall of Batlike i" and it is =Ore likely to become pop. - Jar u e 4 lf4 ll ( 1 ... the )(fV .1.1 ~...-f, •-r!:.„. -4 71 7) r i ,A