The Express. — London, England, 1849-12-25 00:00:00

•T' lamasdiatoly..,...--------r ti rAs solog dall. mai tkno was 1 4 01 0 7. th , Amatiy. The Oil i ll Blit bad too abaskost, oat a pro. s aa Witbiewl. ebbe It was tiouskt would oa llaid"A Illgialli ni rr e vaat il l e tt a a g =t el l itli ddis _, wkDosigeoloOlas he Ito aappeadas of tom. ta ds. Misr redid at it; &meal tt IP — von itiastol s 4 i t mai somistleao °LAW* ber Meig 00 0188 OF DISCONTRRY IN SOUTH AFRICA As b o a Afrieori Corsiturcial dieberfaer el the I ..171mailill Kota*. the bileerieg MAWOdin is a_ it . .. 6. ..... is l is s gie egrobl POWs* it Ahise—M Lod Orwes w oos be Ilmbi" 6 1 .6"0 114 elognoT . ....s., gum les pot bees atiammeed. lb* sway. oy porgleised L;31% Illi obi es the sertb Ilse abase et a hrier Om be Rey . 4 1.1X1e Ms. Mal lassisasiag Ibis diessmi in so kiegy shis Isr lehemedea le . I a buse she her 'ebb resuis Ware wadi „„ i mild le Osisbos, es lagoon og 'a g og o e end etumbeas. a shall give y yes ea be sub ,. 0 • shot Mleasereeeived hem the Lake. r Toig l tbe fed It Daly ems ast night, sod hes ogiell es Isel=". es it will doubtless SW to yeomen. lig le Ohs She lake Nike so Mama, or Spam. We _AA do g dee e . twe see, after a learsey of about %ile Ipso Metesseb sad test ermktal bet ear to boa amid messy mid gismo& We eye new at I be booms aws. awl yesterday mob deem about 6 miles sik- d o ihe bead Mae imam el be leke. We masa% s ou h o ed o h mil be. far we sada net see We lus, es ..jog ,ea the sea* sad west. traversed of m ' 4 gook bort seaudy, sad wen Isaias few the Mk mIII obi Wire we mete le it We trammed boat Z;) a go ass the beaks af • large rivet whisk nias SILL, a ~.iget mum Is woo poet very like the Clyde, bat be .— lorlar. Tbe weer was ,W. g. sod seems to mom a li ts ma, fi rm bird 'mew—lt is se dear c is sett. kr. timrs rum late be labs, beck from be . Kir lllll.lga i s kois is sompusba sl or: Ileyeiye e lisswilsi thas waw a& tribe—aliesde"fiselesidaes:nkthae "I ri s ver iaa llll ; my vki* Ms • dight lank. Chris bellowed out of Ti o - goe, Tay ate ere aery es the kasha hue rimr, imai w o ' tale*. ikeir le me ese th like • ilig 10001*. about Wee hOhee MdiSdiameter.Siel. Mr. isikr ggeo isid Ip es hersobesk misortew. The mimeos go mei* Mr. Money. We foThllow ea the osek likes we mie ma fiebeteem's Mb& e Day** are very seam op, bet d logs* all mall. Lost ebeirealliaa el sea gave Awe if digs. 7 aim We are NAN. elf Lsliebrag, bat , p , fo rm whoa at fiebstemo's to be sembseady farther m om I asp MI to the above• by way of explanation, imedis boob' tribe ere Beelinansa, and originally of the bilelleso tribe, which lie eight days' journey north of the omee4 w hom Mr. Livisgsteint has his statics m oo. The tribe of &bosoms (the chief's sane) ire 's aigeog). e maeass, the MAU" (which mesas sluts) ere a dif g lesofflll. Mei pesos no mule, but lim se fish. Bay @lye emote isms (eaters). ° Mi. 1.. goys that he nreted they would reads Koloben is We seethe I sat wa dies direct to Coeseberg in order le Surod a litter fres Mr. Murray to Mrs. Manny, care of Nob Dims sad Co., as be expects Met. M. to be eat at Cos la Novesibor or December. The party weill TM why received at the lake. Kr. L. says* , sasses ue p e w Miegi—very suaerwas—tkey g• pest/ (middy ia sem easy* bed sleep too is them (die Malcolm). They bik It very sold all she way. Country neiehbourhood if es kb beestifel and fertile. AU pries in that part of 168 " 114 '" -.----------- ---______ lEte Court. Irtxpeoz,Dac. 24.—Tb• Queen and Prince Albert walk. meily tent tkeiroyal real ater Ti. l F ning took welkiag ai d ray mersise Is the Mew and Windsor Park. lb? Serial Highnese the Duchess of Seas Weimar, with He Princeton Aline end Amelia of Saxe Weimar, and their Sams Aiehn^sees the Prisms Edward and Gustavus of Sue Weimar, left the Castle this Kent,mornf town. Her loyal Willow the Dacha* of attended by her Intel Ilighneees Ladies in wil dine with the Own WI Prices Albert this evening. Her Serene Highness the Dneheme of Bale Weimar ma tits Priam Edward and Gustavus, awl Oa Prim:mess Use sad Amelia of Saxe Weimar, after leaving Windsor Cade yesterday stoinnur, went to Cial•Millt to pay a visit *the Count end Counts de Neuilly leak &rens Hies sows Outwards prooloded tallar .Houle, Pall mall, whets they armed at fear o'clock yesterday afteracea. A deputation, headed try Mr. Bernal, had an inter- Utw with Sir G. Grey yesseeday at the amseollioe. Detpatches mire imeived yesterday at the Colo al•oflies from the Gemenses of the West India colonies. M Despatches wee* eeeß OH yeeterday evening from the Coinnial-ogee lee 71r asurnon of Hong Hong, Ceylon, and Lamm COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS. Amongst the many valuable ieetitutiose which hme lees established of late years for chartable there ere bw, If say, which have mob sere rapid pupas than the Conmermal Trevellre Ilidessir The eisightserehert a Weastrid bee bog beer distiemehy a mist pbaereltrus bidding karma , the Taber Mews, owl se peat has wen the messes of thee era es relifteeresi the health of ic es o d e het the woe lesslitybes issia amen for other iselltadem a shiner wens. Within w short • diatoms , hes s t mt t meld be illiselt to salsa a spot which GOA ester admits's" ler as asylums Ili Ms aecriptioa than the harden of Bppiag isnot. The skis ties ins beat hued to be healthy. and the seigh bourhood pressa• many opportunities for youthful recentios. TM esessersial travellers therefore, haw shown ease asleslisa in buildini their minas b this laseliffi end the nerves by which Way ham beet Ni seek Ten te 'stills thus te the nisst Mamba asetilemdss. T hislitalks has Mai Nib Need about Wm mess, mode omen hes Mat issue by the lased el sweesmeat ; ist the Mo i res% seal pweeett : of ifs sheeny law arm yea lesa mole Masa W We l , pales. The present aessiek Ow lag to the -se to say not be iseeparbans. kiestmfb es the 'semi =rim- I r ea Ittwaishy nut, ssi May pssth eary dinne I wil Mei NINO take }less N wide\ edll prove rasa eimMit, sakes cal travellers hem sit a Vol mom* to sem base bh leasim to the medrmameree fit Ms weetry. In proof of the mated towards It mew he Mated that the Owei iambi Trayslisee4 haw way lane selablishei Ni years, and that the ensaw el issidesakeely w et lee" greeds of 70. It Ilhat them ssiessisme tbdr te : a kw earnest sad waned@ swathsve at the WwweigialS who, bine ispeeesal with • swan eswilallea of rt e which 'weld saes frees the - -lilimiat alma ea haft- ' We, meshed w adopt immediate filiSenree 1111 •b.la d IR . ', dieuragrendoS a digit hilow-traerbee in tartlemise the Mist ia view. The reseletiont thus smeared was p'swely earl smienelaearried ma, sad the result has bola se he We directors sew maze an Wake le rut II hi weir to suable this te whir their OrntiClOL Tee bags et the lastitetioa is te else" inalatelek sod educa the darkass=das se elessessi, sod tho ABMs of nece te ssitous, awakes et wag kressiessine ; end the meat adapted M this aid ere seek as as psw : sated by law with roma to mows _estamileed he Mai I table purposes We lam remedy led ea otplawalag et rouse this institatiarialla Ni bear en te Oa eh I sizable manner is maim the ialreeises et its isemilitess 1 1 canied out. The resew MGM( hew MI kmar milwasas, ... ' whim has buss twase eekversse to tee we m me amity, sad will beesea as Nee as hob we be reb tamed- he the mesas* el a sirs sellable sayism. Bat sot" itiatandleg the disabusing's expeasesed by those mere immediately isonneeted with the interests of the institatisa, it bha to visit the estab li sturest without °Nerving that namples of comfort and clesalisess are there put forth, eta* the directors of other sad ewe popular MsMatiems wesid de well to imitate. Entrees war as& reenterlty are saysems thsougheet, sad mom N is him to Monate Vas Malin* on • system whisk shell weft them hereafter te all as amiable wds. is the wamersial world. The losel-roonra are models of aostnew and are so well emesieted is raper! ve dualism mid vastilatime that a " premiliNg "ramie ' sight well be se le leave the lames, waseetbdd. The dieing aed Woad wirresses ere 0 messed ia the mom praiseworthy wow, end Ee walla astablabensW, from the washfeessate the preen, is condors& you sash admirable prieelphe that the ewe menial tracers PM be mead of ths Mmes. they lam made in dm goemeetwa ef sheritabie Mititatisea These is an meal prepartie ed boys and giria ; sad • rule Wm been established whisk Ahem that me mon than MO diadem 0 the as father es mew shall be admitted, ea allowed to be in the institatisa at the same time. TM tars . amesen eia traveller," as used fa the rules and regulations, is intended to signify all sac k pence' es have travelled in town or country, for two years or more, for the purposes of sow m. Tr, and who shall, spat ea overage, have travelled at least three months in each year. EMI effort is ban Ma* to place this institution upon a WWII and postal foundation ; bat (as will appear from a moor to be reed at the public dinner et the London Tavern on Thursday mitt) the directors ere still in was: of pecuniary assietanos. Their wish is to elect at least twisty children every half-year, and they aloe desire to ram • fund for the porches* sad enlargement of the school Premises, or the erection of a new buildiog, es worm may require. The institution is one which appeals to so large 174 influential a portion of the community , and is, more over, ot so praiseworthy a character, that we doubt not its resources will be Increased at each snowedieg dialler which is impend in honour of its warms. The festival on Thur s . day next will be presided over by the Lord Mayoe and raneperoos will be present whose na mes mast beisome auszantee for the auslienew of the kutitation. THE FPRENCII WILL CASE.—The amount of pro perty which reverts to Lord Firench's brother, the R " trUlderoo. Karns Wreath, by the verdict in th e protracted wUI trial, is about 8001. per mums, 6,0001. in the foods and of about 1. 0 001. In various securities, demised by their Ig " e brother, the Roe. Thomas Firma. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, D: Recommendation of the court—The court beg to moat send the pilaster to the merciful consideration of his Ex cellency tke Coomander-in.Chief on the followieg grounds let. Ream the prism's! showed a disposition to pay, as ',Weed by his attempt to borrow from 18,000 to 20,000 rupee* from the North Western Bank Agency, on 21st April, 1549. tad. Breaum he did not originate the reports again st Captain Da Costa. 3rd. On account of the excellent character Major Cooke has hitherto borne, shown by the handsome tatimonials which have been placed before the court. Remarks by his Excellency the Comman der in-Chis—lt is with pain that I express insbfl over any just p ou nds for disturbing the sentence pronounced by the court. (Signed) C. J. N/alll. General. Commander in Chief. The name of Major T. Cooke will cease to be borne on the rolls of the 17th Reg. N . I. Infantry from the date of publi- be cation of this order, at Lahore, a report of wto made to the Adjutaat - Gen eral of the Army, and to the Assistant Adkins:o.o*nm' at the Presidency. By order ol his Excellency the Commander-in Chief; Ear. Oatitr,lient-CoL, Adjutakt.Oeneral of the Amy. MERCHANT SZAMSN's OifiCe.—Yeaterday a quit - - Gall emote! the ggsweraars of this corporatism, iustituted the wad sad sawn of Mk, maimed, and disabled seamen, sad OM whims mad &Mem of such le 'hall be killed, slain, or drowsed is the easiest sonies," was held at No. 25, Blreldaluio-I[r. Lindsay in the shah. The minutes of the het mart were reed, sad a eneameat of me male to Sept. 31) salmideil. The applications el sperm* af al le &W d . an There ts for add mem maddmed, md agesseary aid rde bedlam daring the hamar *brat 1,400 optimists before the eam mittee, te w h om temporary valief err permanent pen ekes had been mated. LEGAL lIIKICATION.—WiI andentand that the molest ammo of readings is *boat to he resumed at the MOIL Temple. Iteadisp will be delivered by Mr. Bowyer, D.0.L., and banister atelaw (who has been appointed to the dudes of r), on the engine* of the three crellsrUp la Teem next, the 16th, 23rd. and 30th JaMewel, is the ha of the Mbidle Temple • and all the des sad ether marathon et the lane of cou rt will be ad- Mahood the payment of any fee. to them and the naleaffma readiags. A favourable malt may be hoped from theazzing of them meetings to the profession, and their hem Now Ina to the floe old hall of the Middle Temple.—Johoi Bum UNFEELING IMPOSITION. —About twelve Maths ego • suite of tie town of Wexford emigrated from Liver pool he UMW& He wee retremely pose, mad brand much diSenlty la mislay mfikisat Made to pay hie. passage, his ape Ida to leave kin ode gad chidren behind lrlortme, hemmer, smiled ea the poor *emigrant on the other side of the Atlantic, and he we enabled, shout • month ace, to remit • sem el 91. to kb wile sad family, with • view . dist they shoal hia Amarlea. This elan was ineelidela to embie Who Ilamity to assignee • maw 1.:01, me et the &Mama wee left behind, and 'the e a ea edge Milano came to Liverpool, end eseurei a pewee ea lima ea emit_ ship. nineties and unties torsi, die met gem= Moat la the kends of a " m me who keep pea se in lliessat-stime. Altar Aging hef perageemy-liarpereleseleei tike provisions moomery fee the meg% _threhlh Mt. *SW of the also• catetan,the pear womes - ame Habit. Her 'yet was anima this, ma ea the eve of L a dmartere from bh house, he at questa bet to alemma tato the street,, es her prams* ea balsam la teeasmetedwit h the ernege. TM . was woman emegliad with the moos', and immediately after leaving the More she was asked " How mei mosey have you ?" " Ten shilli n g s," wee tie veoy. Is a momen t after she was istrodmed to the them eta Swam She am desired to head um the 10'., veld* dm di/ Tim he that &moms moo thia grimed by the wiemmarhwtoilheogh they werelil on middy re as the yams, Piangdy 'applied by tho She wee then esmineull ea beard the in =rho had engeber paionge, _whereat a pew in her ' man. A little nfiectios Monimen die peer woman that she had been victimised ; the tins dm led got for 10e. tuned out not to be worth half the mosey; and on making her complaint to a police aeon, who was unable to interfete,but who expressed kis sympathy for her misfortune, she naively remarked, " that, amongst ether sztieles, the man-catcher had bought her a lantern, but had nu left her a fartbiag to buy a candle tia pat in it." A commission of 25 per cent. is allowed to this dale of persons by a certain class of shop keeper" on the articles purchased in their shops by emigrant'. --Lsveyool Chronicle. A MODERN JACK SIIEITARD.—OW Saturday rennight a man named John Parker was apprehended at Dridgnorth, sad transferred to the county gaol, there to Un dergo a mouth's bard labour adjudged to him by the magis trate', in September last, for apple stealing. Parker, though now bat 16 lean of age, has been so unworthy imitator of W seemthed Jack Sheppard. He was convicted of felony about Sour mars slam, and through the inter ces sion of some gendomes of this lowa, his native place, instead of being ramseeml INNa tyeesatsy he was ant to the Milbank Pe niteatissy, where it we hoped, from the disciples and in struction he would receive, his vicious propensities might be corrected. However, he had not been long in the Peni tentiary before he effected hie escape, and placing himself, unnoticed, in a railway carriage, got to Birmingham, and thence home. He was again taken back and again escapee ; and actually achieved a third escape from the institution after this, and was a third time re-captured ,• but the authorities of the piton e nding that no device for his ucure custody at their command would av declined te have any further trouble with him, sad he wa s turned adrift as incurable and incorrigible Since then he has been con nected with a gang of thieves and dissolute characters, tha pest of this neighbourhood, and nodoubt if the at the fet expirat and ion of his present period of imprisonment, ters bars of the county gaol ere inch as to hold h found im fro so long aga inst his ingenuity and he will again AMMO thou.—Won:stet SUPPLY OF WATER TO LONDON. On Wets, May lasts nn esme Moen was ha at the Mop Ism, Wank 0m the perms. s giving the Mishima en owsnantAyel espeeesiag their epistolist the 1 fp... I r y Winer Bantreey '" sod she to rtaskier If 6011.118 8 Ws r;reeties is the mooed IMM s a g .wt et a dons to Mdancnity abs bilimn ihr ley (*joy they my sesta hem the sail ermemy. 1 Ilie &dr wes takes by C. W. 1100113, Req., ke erste& theyeeseediege by realm the pale amiss whaled been Iliodalled in the tone kr catarcakrs the nmetieg. A ed Me geng i r sem b i e bed melted a Meentsot Mem the Boeing WON • Mash they bat remelt him pis Me eirily It surveyor. With this m to sl it he Mt not Mink It mime te empty, Ma he MI mob& the wags 4 the Me-payees, ea alias& Mona en arcaborag 4 riprarstag their lighten Open the with t hem Ibi s t ested in r o z=g the stmerlis Misr He itadeesteed that were to be mink In the Wished ma Balm modom a Now. be wee set 'eaglet enmesh ee Mos them wing ma be the ollsot dem Mlle mph the in le they n& Mlle nialiel= et il e Mons in Oh sifter; MM. his e hi the em dry bed lera derived of luny privilege. *sough *dr omespimies_ead ImitivitY. If dle i = sus lina vow fres their nolaismesess, _they (the •). it . : =.. isibbilauls MIS it ;at any , Me they set them le my Memegiense bytnlethe 111 - ( 1 Ht time • Mem Meld be insets& m the et et which do mown imily hoped *Ms Mr=erswates min, rommesedeft theatres any b ar the Wm Mae sinlein by the Onsilllnes weeks. (Hear.) Re suggested Me repristy ef epointeg a osmittee to mesh Me em of the parieltionste, sod if neeeargy, Moil emedior palls meting at some future peeled. end meet the ma if their taboos. The Merman contami lry ezresiug • by that whatever &Mem ef °plan might esist es to the eztodiemy of the *chem. every speaker mid De allowed • WI, tair, P :n e rh e n. a potetiating. (Load alsoen) MM e. F. Doom, Culls, Ballard. leer. &tetra were appointed a essessittee to watch the Warta el the pa*. Mr. PATIN mid there would be no abeam isthe part of the di:sten to the indemnification NON& As to Me Proposed phis, _le said the patty of the Misr was Meow. tidied ea ea beau est the mode of wavers, it through pipes to Loam Is east that no costamisaties ma possibly take place. With moat to quantity, he would rehe back to 1633, v . Me im byem aa er t ase km the Mem MOsesmsee, Mr. Telfordinen eagterst, wee re steda by the goon- Mene le ads eimply ewe water - a am ether seem 1 tIME the Those. which bed proved to be Minton. to die hob& of the people, and bed been ceedemed by the gm stmleme appointed by the mem in the water 'Dotty. Is Ilk. Tamil Mal tonort, he ear ; " Having received Meadem hem dm Lea Counimiesers 41 his Majesty's TmomMee egret es the best mass of supplying*. inetzt. pills Vs* pore water, I sound at WatMd Mill, in the setrata of 1833, being the driest mos es regards the supply of riven experienced during *it last seatury. that the Vets boa river produced utterer& of 30 enbie test per second, and the river gage at Hunton-bridge, three miles north of Wet- I I bed. in the same dry stews redoes* 42 sae lot re mond ; south tide of the Thames, the va ry dry the Riot ti th e r as e same extraordinary dry seem of 1833, were (Hear, hear.) It thus appears that these three streams maws& upwards of three millions of Rallies of water dilly, by means of sprier toned through the opening Mares of the c h alk by the great prestos of the l o wer waters, and then from a very small pawn of the chalk formation around London. This was at a season of unparalleled drought ta fact, at • time when all the upper water had flailed. Can we want a greater root es to quan tity ? Mr. Stephenson was correct when he stated in his pamphlet that, independent of the overflowiag springs in this small portion of the valley, there ere upwards of forty millions of gallons of water forcing their way daily is underground entreat*, which by • simple and comparauvely inexpensive plan might be Made &Imitable tor the health and mann of thousands of our fellow creatures, lastesd of pass ing through dark caverns and continuous streams, and find [outwit way into the sea. (Cheers.) Mr. HUMBERT said he did not speak as an opponent to the proposed company, but he wished to pat before the metier a few suggestions. Mr. Paten had jot Meted that there is • great gond, of water in the river Colas, bat he would remind there eeting that this was not the wets? ohieh the issespeny posed to use. From their shaft they would pulp the water from many feet below the level of 1 the river , gm reducing the quantity of water in the chalk. 1 1111 i ONISIVINgIy lowering the wells. The water level rises M% in 14 miles, the distance to the point at Which 1 the s ir outcrops at the Chiltern Hills. A large quantity 1 ef won taken from the proposed shaft would therefore cause I gm water to percolate through the chalk more rapidly than lOW from its highest level to supply the lammed ssed. j TIM wells therefore 14 miles distant where the were Wei 1 is shoot 200 feet higher then at the river Case, weal bet 1 ragetve the effects tit the company's operatics& The dist arm the river would be equally certain, but more elm. lb. Paten had asiorld them that there was an immense quantity of water In the chalk. This was quite Me, bat still he (the speaker) _believed it would be possible to pomp it all out, and lie wished to assure the meeting that the fib etrestAes of so large • Quantity as would be required by the eftwar k y r ; could not fail to lower the water level, and probe, the depths of the existing wells. As the projectors :Xlie scheme an witted Mat existing interim moot be they mold not probibly object to the insertion I M I tittryposed bill of pose such a clause as had been eserinfria. lie earnestly advised the meeting to adopt soh moseures as they might consider would protect their existing Utterer' from the Moms of injury. (Loud cheers.) After a desultory conversation, a vote of thanks to the chairman was agreed to, and the meeting broke up. _ - -- --- _ T HR EATENED ATTACK UPON THE HUDSON'S BAT Couraxv.—Yeaterday Chief Constable Henderson arrested, at the Commercial Hotel, Mr. Jobs Idolottn, • young gentleman, m , st respectably conn ected in st, who had lately returned from AMAMI. on a warrant signed by Mr. Justice Coleridge, eharag him with having attempted to extort money irons the Directors of th publishing certain e Hudson's Bay Cstate om- pany, by a West of printing and ments derogatory to their cha racter and conduct. —Wad RAILWAY Yis;inat. THE LATE CATASTROPHE AT SOCTII SHIELDS. — We understand (ow the Daily Mail), that a subscription paper has been left at the Exchange in behalf of the widows and children left destitute by the late accident at South Shields. in which the mew a one of the life-boats were lost. The rell f required is for 17 widows and 46 =Harem, left fatherless by this great calamity. We need sanely say, that the crews of the Tyne life-boate have timed the lives of away seamen, at, eels fatally illustrated in this (esteem, great risk to %impassive' ; and therslore a general subscri tion will, we trust, enable t he Shields emandttee to provide foe ell those families, without reducing them to the of receiving parochial aid. Hen wbe hazard their Ere i t ti i : : humane purposes should be relieved from that feu. T HE LANDLORDS' ROAD TO RUIN.—" The tale of misfortunes which have occurred in great families during this century is very uniform in character, and may be briefly narrated. The father lives beyond his income, incurs a debt, and is prevented by the wady-extended duties of his position, public as well se private, a Perbar by veldt, or isles pride, or bye want of energy, or of a 00110 a knowledge of the state of hie affairs, from making a reduction in his es tablishment and expenses. The son comes of ego, asd le resisted to saddle the inberitar ee with the 11sabees dabs. He in his turn imitates his father, constantly eseseas Ms CAN M eow to toed the , augsents the debt, and persuades the grandson men inheritance. But if the son or the grandma h a d peassesed the power of selling • portion of his property; if either of them, when his judgment had arrived at matu rity, mold have relieved himself from that Irresistible temp ! taboo to exposes which shim from the melons of teloeld poessosiesokore would have been at lent one additional chance of nesse in the rood tnruin."— Lank) the Right Has. Sir Charles Wood, upon certain Laws affecting Riga' Bow. Frederic Calvert, Reg., Q.C. Dins BY Danwanio.—An inquest was held on Wednesday last, at Rowley Regis, on the body of a yam* woman named Elisabeth Cochin, about sixteen years of ege. Oa the movioas Sunday evening the deemed left thehouse of her uncle, Mr. J. who =espies a wail form en the Haden-hill estate, for the purpose, as was her tom, of attending evening envies at the Chapel at Hales Owen. Th e path fres the tome he Os public road lies across the dam of a large fills peek and into this she must have walked. Her screams were bend I by the in of a house dose to the spot, sad litres times they endeavoured to take lighted mail= but the density of the fog instantly extinguished Insrigatistlei extra or di na ry darknese made it impossible be anything ate band's breadth distance. A torch was speedily procured, but it was too late ; the poor girl bad sunk in more thus tea fed of water, and upwards of an hour had elapsed before the body could bs recovered by the aid of drags. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with these cireanstances.—Biessinhans Mercury. EXTENSIVE BURGLARY AT WALSALL. —Henry Russell and Samuel Smith, alias Humphries, two notorious characters, were charged before the magistrates at Walsall, = Wednesday, with breaking into the dwelling-house of Henry Onosill, re tail brewer, and stealing therefrom the following article§ —Five large hams seven cheeses, one ma, four pounds of tobacco , on e moookfrock, part of a fl of bacon, the contents of two money drawers, consisting of between two and three pounds, and a large quantity of wearing apparel. The prosecutor stated that be went to bed about eleven o'clock 011 the Ilth instant, and upon coming down the next morning found the house had been broken into, and the articles a b ov e mentioned stolen th e refrom. Mr. Rofe, chief constable of the boroughe polenter ice, s t a ted upon being examined that, from saspi.Uon h tained with regard to the two prisoners, he watched them for sev eral nights, in company with Police -sergeant Welch, in disguise ; and from further information he received, he pro ceeded to a rnbliz-howee and captured the two most d prisoneter ers, the prisoner Smith. alias Humphries, making a mined resistance. He then went to the house occupied by the prisoner Smith, accompanied by Sergeant Welch, and on searc hing the premises found a gun, one whole cheese, two es large sieves one pair of shoes, and a large quantity of wearing apparel, the whol e being identified by the prose cutor. They were both committed to take their trial at the next Staffed assises.—Bireeinghace Mercury. SWEATING hionsv.—A man and his wife have just been arrested at Belleville, charged with being engaged in sweating five franc pieces. At his residence were tound files, graving tools, and other things necessary for carrying on his process. He confessed that he earned abc.ut 301. and a week by filing do wn the rough edge of five franc pieces restamping Me letters. A money changer in the Rue St. Martin, to whom the filings were sold, has also been ar rested. The purchases were regularly entered down in his books, but without the real address of the seller being ente r nistand.—Oaligesoni. 11.01. NNW II that d Jut IP Idd mmdell hi tad 4 at Wait bid mildb a • 06 Ile la. • it shag • ei :Tie. Moe oft • Q a t = l 2 Oa MI •111 ipst uaL) • Oar ta ps or ow ra ss loso wart la • Nom or a r ill thaws *Mein elr al an alor • wawa awry ado a 4 le llara 4i a r os. If arat. far ▪ robe amp row a row ' lowa, aft. of Ard lat o I*. no as. theetod bias Amp. mord gra. r ands a the kW* rim *. roe • Werke made. of lie. ouluut, mai it I 1 ic mule pw Odors at Jet the poet • And Itje. . usap hel stela= ha tit. for es. dl I advised by by dr tt die pada. ▪ air Clusede sad me am at% via, Ms Imo la rids. ytetiortir 11,000 apparent that Ilse trOtNi alias Wantitic to tit, respecting the an I pialtri, a Med to COGiiilie. item. I .01 rim dim thence to TUKS:OO.I6. LIN, and Una tko that I line I la, 'awn the Ns- %Willson "Cl— aft at list Mei to above Das Ur et. la sulk al yam marl. It pistil pais& I MO dolls, Ye Ise Is Am will I. anin I &La I dolL lOs. boa OIL I= . lard m, dr a ha. lalleall U 4 Hi al: de.; Ikeda U.S. Pr Amiddigai r word roe riat2o.2lB. 9 MON a, WAIL 7 erne el Ile' is the abeam a sew Wade. NW Nom or ma Moe us nail I I. et all kirk lesirl. mos dr Im• hils Wire ant er, MAO WINO Wed the lose.4lll73hilhele hi esi ehisit teie. Goe b r, 110 1 wStL cam ip:Collaeli: OUt 110,10fT fifteti. *lO tO I DM h mks at 3116. W re rad trio W F. erith Wu* cor err • quoted II W 0.10 SOL 1110 ltA WILL INDIES. 'clot we bate 4,o2W—ilea May sJ Soadi• Ammar: we later Mrs I, nemine ronte• - •nor Ds req oo . ll _, oral to Prom"' r gross coos oral aad org leg the Pro the United ea: e d. The Casoid ▪ cm this subject: he 'agnates is the late. admod, tent to the anti, I negotiate each a apim a. The en. Lever it might be, o the importaaas kat although No °sly a showy sat fear that tbd would thereby be the month would DOT chi;y sonatas* (the erairt ob-we iderattos I a na ,that the esasee descend upon, sad • soil. For war vourable. whsterr_ ['Teets of as esrlY ill be coniders*/ thin a few dale, s rid, instead of wails rhowers." • sad favoured vig oro us. favoured with rw rrovision crops wsse tt as cora and paw • &c. The G aines ibe late dr7 COURT-MARTIAL ON MAJOR COOKE OF TR& BIM:3AL ARMY. Reed lasarten, flisla, Oat. 19,1849. At $ Ossaeral Coast Martial aaterabled at Lahore, ea Friday the 28th day of flopiseaber. 1849, Mejcr Thome Cooke, et the 17th Befit. el Native laAntry, maensigned en the Isibierhig Merges : Fir 4- NE mesdlemilhe anemia, y unbeesesing an Miser a ones se. is Ma ui, at Jcz and at la ii . P :uMas ami = the mina of /Ornery tad 1849, played it dew and M arils with Captain L. G. Da Costa, el the Bith Regiment lathe Infasby, he large stakes sod bees, is the sews of whisk pig he We to Copt Da Owes the mem of twentrde Mensend ewes, or there tot: is e, • ;1 sash esednetteing in diesittabeheMisse of repeated Oaks, peoldbMag gembibeg la the Army, vie., General Ovine by the Cemmenamin•Chisf, dated wpm lively the Ma of Sambee, DM% the UM August, 1811, mad *ell* Jess, esaaall sabsessalag se Aar sad a pads sassy la YVAN at Malllaboare, abets 17th Mash, 18411, sat at Lime, sheet Me MA April, sad 2lst 1949,1 l triad to made the m ama of the largo ass he host so Caftan Da Costa, by endoeverefflog to Sims him to amigo o inch mealier mesa% ea various meneame, hy cM4I Captain Da Costa whatever money be, - MO Comm, I Ma at is the preset yew; and by dodo:arias Mae 1 , amid never pay the Miele rem he hod loot ; mad la leaf* farther demirrad to pay ea airount of curtain eakessiens Is the prejteMes of Captain Da Costa's abissarith report Major Looks had spread Moat, for spiteadisi whisk le ahlowards, Meat the 73rd of May, MO, Weil 'bed m Captain Da Oseta. 11184—For manse sabosemlall ea oats sal • sea, In having, in a letter eddiessed to the etmrlgsmo at Laken, dated Lahore, the 21st of July, 1 dams wants matseneste of the trommeticas beteree mad Capella Da Os ,Is the iiLewing lastances UL Is having, Is the said bum, made a false obttinment is the felleerleg weeds : "Merely as as amusement we did play together at deer and as eards tor one repro per game ; bat ahmeards when under ereitement, mss largo bats were in to Leis, lost 28,000 rupees. This beim a Isar was than I scald immediately command, I rev guessed Captain Da Oasts so wait till I Gould draw She messy Lea liegisnd, when the debt &Laid be paid; het le veglied that be weal& prefer half paid down. and Semis& by my giving a bill far 10,000 rupees, a bogey mai heime, ma era equalling together 13,000 repose • _••• wimples. la Sea, the poise gimped fir lame stakes, Isaias lings Wis. ant 041 min Da Costa did uot elate be prat kslf paid down, settbsr was say pump pliant alma or we'd to is nosed of Os wait poet at Ma side was iselesed to agree w sisibi smaguby Ms* Cooke deelarieg on his Mom Mat he wapiti never be able le pay more of the debt he bra ha cured than the said sem of 13,000 mow, sad tartbor Whited thereto by Major Cooke tenses, sod iipolbahlms for the calumnious reports he had spread shoat ingeniii his. hod. In having, in the said letter, dieinomuondy awl falsely stated as follows : "Ss (Captain Da Costa) the elm Mined his character injured by me, and applied to hie IMP sanding dicer, w ho applied to me, and espees.ed himself la writing perf:Sli satisfied ; but Genesis Ds Costa me nee se, and referred the ease to Brigadier Gatti, but saber quietly recalled the referees' of his eau accord, thereby _be. Asoating that Captain Ds Costa had no paned for maidng that complain ; whereas he, Major Cooke, had injured Me titans. r of Captain Da Costs, and the commanding ogles of the 6Sth native infantry did not express himself eatiellid till Major Cooks had mpressed his regret ; while Captela Da Cots, who still pressed his ansplaiet epos the attention of superior authority, was at length induc-4 to withdraw it, solely by Major Cooke's subsequent retirees:don of all that he had said to the maladies of Captain De Costa, and maklagi au apology he Fieding—Tbe Comr, from the evideses before them, Is if ion that the primmer. Major Thomas Cooke, of the 17th R R of Native lefsauy, is, on the Ist charge, guilty ; 2d charge. guilty; tad gv ilty of the preamble to the ttedd Marge ; 3d charge, Ist iestanee, not guilty, and acqui him; 2d instance, guilty; and guilty of the preamble of the 8d charge. Benteace—The Court sentence the prisoner, Major Thomas Cooke of the 17th Regiment of Native Infantry, to be dis missed' from the sembee.—Coolissed. (Wised) C. J. Martin, Geseral, Commander-in-Chiat Heart gamest', Shale, 17th Oct., 1849. Remarks by his ll:ceiling , the Commendm-in-Chisf — l menot approve of the fisdiog of acquittal on the first in. stance of the third clasp, which appears to me to be sun- Mindy proved. (Signed) C. J. Nevis, General, Commander-in-Chief. IECEMBER 25, 1849. HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. READING, GUILDFORD, AND REIGATE. Yesterday ma ressairtiessr a pst Ms un posy wee told 'at lbw ha Ms perms el entbaabiai It:Leases to raise adddemel MM. Abu by Mile Mr. Whim= se firLO tel alS, havia,takaa rheir, read the Mewls, meet " old= of the dived= is salliettblespsdel soda, is to ebb= dm of the sh.dalti to mite ea de. ' beats= web hollinesam d =my he *I peeress et the Nee as may sew be bleisdosi ea. The welbseised meal el the 'mom I 1101,050 L, divided hate 411,1100 dime al Bea* with pewee t• know the hither Gm of IKON. the egresses= wttk the ewe& lam= ON,OOOI. was to be raised free the paidgpsy 4 4 = 1 * Ike might be were a t el M. skin, mad beep =maw by that to providell by Iw. lnterest at the Me e esa t le per seat. per mem b geareatesd cm the MAIL by the Serefhaisises Dempsey mad that estaqmaray sky smormiltilh by areemeat fai the loam aid the hared dam. 110 Shed= me sew is a peel. dim le =WO mew aserialte ge to de, tstal=diture d the =ythtse they he= lessa mad se the ehndeamest el the Direst Pateessall amides *at the mesas of esseteadisis of IV . " limed= ll= betimes dlemshall and Deitio, atiae seer WI thh . Pee a period the*, Pariasiseati puma die el matzos at *shows e etre=pertioasll jo ris Were= Cheashell end Meth, to the Mil se*, 'Male this sompany. el the llsispo tithe Direst Portessonto Oseepay7= at a sabammt period invested you semeny with ha power to semilluet this potties el the be, bet giving the Direst Pertsessath Company the tight of punk= as mast OM =plasm Maned ; so that, for a elms, we= have leek= he toksbasemest of the =day on this part el our Sae. Aasitimmt =mob by the Eked hettnaostl dew puny, is sambaed= with the Inearekßrightest ae as zberbsea d South Coast Company to sake a Ilse frame Sperm to whisk wadi have been prefudidel to the lomat' of the Reedieg, Gaildfaed, and B.eigat• lbw, but epos to the Court of Chancery by a Direct Portemom ai r la sh i a t m °ll holder, this attempt was cefested. The debestere loan already authorised by you to be rah= is Mated to 50,0001., and an Mae of debases= to as amount not =media, 160,0001. is new proposed to be sastaleued. dim the amesuts a the company have bees duly audited sash half year by the appointed airlines, the directors have deemed it right to employ Maori. (Mutter and Company, the eminent public mountants, for the purpose of going over, vouching, sad are the accounts of the company from its open memossmat to the result period, and on this dory they are Mir ISM —DAVID SALMONS Chairman." Kr. I supposed as this raisieg of 200,0001. was a ease for the South Eastern Company, they would raise ft at the ordinary interest of the day. If they paid their other call as Reading, Guildford, and Reigate shareholders, would the Dover Couspeoy pay 6e per mot. upon that blew's' The CHAIRMAN said the interest of 6e per met. was guaranteed by the South Eastern Company on 1100,0001. It was not decided by the board whether it would be advisable to raise this 200,0001. mourn *moires, or to go into the market and borrow it as cheaply as pcosible. A PROPRIETOR hoped the board would see that they were sot borrowing money for the South Eastern Company's Plireinstead of their own. L I EWIS was g reatly surprised at hearing of 160,0001., when it was stated at the last meeting that 60,0001. was all that was required. The CHAIRMAN replied that the saving' contemplated in the coon= had fallen off greatly from the amount the directors had =pseud to be radioed in them ; beside', there Ws alterations In the stations, and other matters yet un finished, to put them In a position to obtain their lease from the South Eastern Company. A PROPRIETOR hobs, doubted the sincerity of the South Baotou Company towards the Reading, Guildford, mad Reties Company, Mi. WORBOOR stated that the utmost good faith would be elemed by the South Eastern Company I. respect to their gnerentee. (Hear, hear.) TM CHAIRMAN wished the propristen to wintimie *all madam la the direction which they had hitherto gisword, and he could assure them that by agreeing to =be this suat they would be forwarding their own mull (Bear Was.) They mast all be aware that they WON SO Wile he U. )sr share,l6l. having only been paid, which mod semi is a gamma* for these debentures. A hog dose tech plea as to whether the South Sams puny were liable to pay 65 per amt. on this to rugs d 100,0001., in which lir. Alderman Carden, Mr. Tito, sad other proprietors took part, after which, aimi the reading of the words of the agreement, it became gene. welly understood that the South Baste= Company weft (Tally booed to guarantee the same terms of 6i per mt. as wee oddities.' sum of 900,0001. TheCHAIRMAN said in a few weeks the direetors would be in a positioe to make some proposal as to the mode of raising this money. His resom meudation was that they Oswald complete the line with all speed to obtain the leas*, and that eventually they should apply to parliament to peas a bill for the Mal disposal of this company to the South- Eastern Company. The report wee adopted, aad a resolution for raising the sum of 160,0001., in addition to the 60,0001. already me dosed, on mortgage or debentures, was then passed wievi mously. A vote of thanks was given to the =airman and director), and the meeting adjourned. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE. Mawr= or ran PeArsamene Blum.— Ye starday a special meeting of the preference sharene..._ is this concern was held at the Swan Hotel, Stafford, for the purpose of taking into consideration an opinion given by ',Gusset, in favour of their claim to the full dividena, on the 16th day of January next, instead of the reduced dividend, as stated in the last half yearly report of the directors to be then payable, and of deciding whether any, and, if any, what steps should be taken with a view to obtain the fell dividend. The meeting was convened by the Earl of Rarrowby, Lord Hatherton, Earl St. Vincent, and other rrsons largely interested. There are about 400 of these preference share holders holding 58,000 shares, who it may be worth while to state, were the holders of the cane shares, in existence prior to the formation of the North Staffordshire Railway GegaPany. At one o'clock the chair was taken by Mr. TATTON Roairox, and the meeting having been formally opened, Lod HATHERTON rose, and in a somewhat unpins sasidgras manner intimated that the reporters must leave the room : " It is (said his lordship) a prints meeting; see have taken the room, and of course none but shareholders sea be present." There were only about 30 out of the 400 of the shareholder present, and several of them hinted significantly at his lords ship's remarks ; bates Huebert= is a great man in these porta, ID of course position was ventured to his will. The reporters immediately quitted the room. Since the meeting (which lasted about an hoar) broke up, 1 I have ascertained that the cpiniou of 3k. Alexander, I Q.c., and Kr. &le t were read, and, upo the eue sub matted, these learned gentlemen inclined to the belief that the dais of these preference wh it might be esta blished. In view of this fact, it was resolved that a con ference should be sought with the directors of the North Staffordshire Railway on an early day. The act of parliament provides that the preferences share holders in the North Staffordshire Railway shall receive full dividend until the entire line a railway then eel forth should be opened. The line was comp leted het Jell, and the claim is based on the fact that there is a small portion (a link which is said to have been abandoned) still unmade. MAWCIMITNIL 131117711LD, AND LlNcouitutits.—ltis estated that the Berl of Yarborugh intends retiring from the airmenship of this eompany. RAILWAY Docu tN Cont.—We mdentand that the Great Southern and Western Railway Company have agreed to grant to the Harbour Commissioners six acres of Penrose's Harsh for the construction of docks, reserving the right of V"'adjoining their own warehouses. It is also stated at it will neemeary for the cosomissioners to take three or four acres additional from the Steamship Compup.— Cork lhansiner. STRIKES OK TUB MIDLAND RAILWAY.— The die d! ection amongst the employes of the Midland Railway Company appears te be extending rapidly. We have before Mated that the porters and &arms connected with the Leeds station were ou t on strike in consequence of ea attoala to Mao their wages, and we have now to add that OM sows doom of ass at Bradford have quitted their Iran Ilia saws cease. Several of the directors 11▪ 1111=list both places making every effort to procure Ina bask, sad to some extent they have bean inceessful, bat this has led, at Bradford, to adi urbane. The dine- Mei, it gran, ezpeeting the turn out at Bradford, col. Meted a number of men to supply the vaauseies ; and on Frliay a poem of new hands arrived per train (having been presided with free passes) to act as porters and draymen at I. radioed wages. They Innen their aninl saluted with marks of disapprobation fens the dismissed workmen, wise, upon the arrival of the new comers, left their work in a body. The fresh hands not having been informed Mthere dispute between the company and their mee, rasa {quirt' as to the reason of this :disturbance, and expeemed great indignation at having unwittingly been emele the instruments of s persedine, at mimed wages, the eempane's old servants. Many of we en informed, determined to leave at once, bat they WS reminded of the mime ef their engagement, and the majority, who have been bret from a considerable distaseg, will be compelled by their Mnimstanose to retain their situations whatever may be their private oon. Great efforts were on Friday end Saturday being made to get of the goods trains in the ordinary time, bat it is stated that the goods destined for London Gunn be got off; that great delay most take place in the senora carrying trade. FATAL ACCIDENT AT BASS'S BREWEET.—AII acci dent if a painful nature °collard a few days ago at Mean. Bass end Co.'s brewery, Burton-upon-Trent, by which a man, in the prime of life, came to an awful death. The de mised, William Upton, en engineer in the establishment, about ten o'clock in the evening, was In the act of fixing a belt upon a drum, when his apron caught in some wheel, ' and immediately lifted him from hodound, and took him among the machinery, tearing hisy to pieces in such a dreadful manner that, upon some of the other men going to seek him, they were horror-stricken to behold the frightful spectacle before them ; and it was with great difficulty n th the at his entire body could be found. An inquest was held o following day, when evidence to the above effect was ad duced, and, after due consideration, a verdict of " Ascidental death" wee returned. The lamed was a masa of sober ha bits and excellent character. He has left a wits and one child to mourn his lam,—Birminshass may. This Rsuistar-Cieuerid issued his anal report yes terday. It Mates that : In the usimipaittas distrista the deaths registered in the 'week esidkeg bit Saturday wen 1,,013; tb• weekly average ohs Int gasses el See previous yore, sorrestod for M ame et geplielfes, Is 1,812. In the esereepeading week et a. year 11166 1,276 deaths were returned ; ia that of ISM 1,946 deals & when the wiertality wm insrused by iniumea ; sad Is • same weak at 1646, the deaths were Lilt Bat though still emiliently Ism the* usual, the weekly soutiagest sew sieve a semdency to rise to the wiater rate of mortality, sad the poise mem sheers ea bermes of 41 on the deaths et lb* mktg. weak. Ia three onetereene weeks, end*/ 16, the deaths fawn breaehitis were respectledy SO, 44, 89; lad week they rag to 110. whilst the melee is enty IS; from mama Ikon were 21, 16,26, sad 19 la du_ het bar weeks; and from PNIIIIIOOIII (or inflasnmeeks *0 leap) 94, 88, 90, sad 91. The saortality fns pmenmesis, whisk is less Qua the avenge, omen to a Rua greater extent maw children than aged mums sad the latter elsm are now the miecipal salhren from the Cables' of the weather. Tina men and Ilse wanes Mai immesh st 90 molar s = two of the women bad tamed 96years. FTOIO d”satery the daft were 19; • woman of 70 diadem* , 16th December is Gnat Pultosey-etreet from &Wl* which reseeded ea attack of cholera. All epidesaise am leas fatal than arnel, map% measles, which rather exceeds the avegen. The suet infonaut par replanted of each ems et c h o lera ware publidut week hi wok in the tablet ; as Mb sot cal. essieted the various e&sus engaged in 1" and triads( the disease, bit pat the fasts within 11:0 " ra of all those who wen studying the anus and manse ad tie epidemic. Data were thus published which will show the influence of sex, age, news, Medley, water, droner, oompatioe, wealth, or Downy. It is gratifying te Asa thee, in addition to the analjess have bees dna*, deism rip at the General li=e c r-ofiltie. others have bees rise. mien by private iaq And Dr. Guy has favoured the Registrar General with the following account of the pro- Walesa or oompatioes of 4,312 men of the age of 15 and upwards who were destroyed by stolen. It will be sees that the dismiss in London wee not oily fatal to the poor, but to may artisans, tradesmen, shopkeepers, mo fsedosal people, and persons of independent means. Of the men who died of chola% 136 were returned 'imply es gen tlemen, OT of independent seems, 6 ware clergymea we m 6 -1 eiders of rel4gios,l6 medical moo, 13 magistraws r are in bar yon, 11 architects engineers. 11 merchants, 11 , 21, the army and navy, 26 master mariners, 100 clerks or ac mutants, 11 custom house, 7 excise officers, 14 builders, 14 bookseller, ac. ; 14 carpen ters, undertakers, Se. • 13 c h e esemoogers, dinners, &a. ; 11 fishmongers, 12 fret erns, 20 grocers, 13 oilmen, 42 licensed victuallers, 61 wine merchants, 8 muter shoemaker 6 muter tails's, 6 tobacconists, 19 travellers. Of the 'classes returned es artisans and labourers, 62 wen bakers, 32 butcher , . 101 I weavers, 80 tailors, 161 shoemakers, 47 brisklayers, 17 masons, 20 plasterers, 70 cabinet 'ashen, 11l carpenters, 28 coopers, 73 painters end plumbers, 33 sawyers, 20 ship wrights, 22 tanners, 18 turners, 16 coachmakers, 36 cabmen, 67 coachman sad cabmen, 13 sadden, 62 carmen and carriers, 37 grooms and ostlers, 6 drovers, 44 engineers, 10 railway guards, 13 stokers 16 letter carriers and postmen, 99 porters or messengers 24 policemen, 7 watchmen, 62 soldiers, 299 sailors and G reenwich pensilners, 27 watermen, IS bargemen, 7 balle t heavers, 63 omiporters and coal heaven, 25 footmen and man servants ; 766 labourers are returned. Dr. Guy has given in the Table " • rough approximation to the ratio which the deaths bear to the Heine in the several occupations. This deurminatioa is us difficult as it is lamenting. The occupations were only returned for the metropolis ia a wry g.nenl way by the Census COMMiOIIOII - 1841 ; and in the trades mutat w ets not distin guished from men. The result which deserve most atten tion ere those which relate to well-delined, numerous t;Oenpetions. " Labourer," :kentleman," "man senant," are terms very loosely em yed ; but the statement that lin 67 labourers, lin gentlemen, and lin 1,57 2 man servants, it ending footmen , died of cholera, expresses something near the risk incurred by the three dames in the epidemic. Th domestic men servants of Loadon were 39,M0 in 1841, and 25 died of cholera ; the clergy, doctors, and lawyers did act exceed 12.000, yet 35 person* belonging to the learned pro- Unions died of cholera in 1849. In the weekly returns from which the statement is drawn up, the professions were not unibrenly given • but the ab stract will be made mere complete afterwa rds from the register books. The mean daily seeks! of the barometer at Greenwich Observatory was above 30 inches on the lad three days of the week; the mean of the week wee 29 . 952. The daily mean temperante, which was 61 deg. on Sunday, gradually fell to 33 deg. on Friday and Saturday ; the mean of the week was 42 deg., rather more than the average of the same week in seven yesrs. The daily mean was about 10 deg. above the avenge on Sunday and Tuetday, and 6 deg. below 'ton Friday. IRELAND. Dosing, Die. 24. It is quite true, as the Freeman's Journal of this morning observes, that no preparations have yet been made by the liberal party in Leland for the approach ing session. Ths great questions of the church, the land, and the franchise, to which the Freeman adds the poor law, have scarcely been mooted at all, ex cept in occasional newspaper articles, and no single step has been taken to collect public opinion on those most important subjects. The Freeman urges the country to move: I greatly fear its urging will be in vain. " We believe, * says the morning organ of the Irish Lberals, The time has come when the opinion of the countrp ! should be expressed on those subjects. We know that ' already Waleson are bosstiag that they will have a quiet session, so far as regards the Irish popular party ; and chuckling d chuckling with malicious mirt h at the apparent Twin which the silence of the country has given to their ora tion, that the Irish people had ceased to take any interest in the settlement of the church question. Is it tree that the Irish people take no interest in the settle ment of the church question ? If it be not true, there is not a day to be lest i n disproving the ministerial pretext for the maintenance of ascendancy, and demon grating that the Irish people are resolved to render cathode emancipation a reality. Every county, every town, every parish, should meet to pronounce on this question • if they do not, then will be:but too much reason for concluding that the manger was right when he made the assertion, that the catholic Irish were content to have prostestaat aseendancy perpetuated. When they shall have met there are other • steps which it will be necessary for them to take ia order to , give effect to their meetings. but to these we will advert • when we come to deal with each of the four quotient seTaiately. It is almost certain, however, that unless the whole liberal press of Ireland be brought to co-operate cor dially and earnestly for the purpose, there will be no audible voice sent forth from this country to express the feelings of the people and the cause of relorm— public attention, as far as it is aroused at all, being absorbed by the struggle between the high rent inte rest and the tenant farmers. Lord Clonctirry by contradicted the statement of the protectionists that he had signed their memoriaL His lordship, in a letter to the editor of the Freeman, says : My Dear Sir—ln the Evening Packet of last evening I am said to have cheerfully sig ned Lord Olengall's petition. This is a mistake ; I lost not a moment in retailing to sign it ; a reqsisition, calling a mest.ng to dinar the matter, I churfalir signed, as discussies, in my opinion, tends to elicit truth. —My dear sir very truly yours, Maretimo, Dec. 23. CLONCIIRRT. The Rev. Mr. Kelly, parish priest of Kilrush, has addressed a memorial to the Lord-Lieutenant, de scribing thefrightful:state of wretchedness into which the poor of that distact have been suffered to fall. The rev. gentleman who writes, as he says, in con fusion, with his house surrounded by crowds of poor persons crying for relief, and "whose blood has been turned to water by starvation, thus briefly states the case of his clients: In this union (Kilrush), the poorest in Ireland, during the summer months 30,000 persons—half the present ppula tion—rueived outdoor relief. Of these nearly 20,000 have been within the last year thrown houselees and homeless on the world. I shall not harrow your Excellency's tender feelings by a description of their miserable state—whole families huddled together in miserable huts—in appearance more like corpses from the sepulchre than animated beings.,=Several philanthropic Englishmen have visited 1 the district, and saw with their own eyes our situ. I don, who, I presume, have already given your Ex- I aellency a faint idea—yet the cup of our misery has only w ithin the last fortnight been filled up. Not a single ounce of meal or any outdoor relief his been given for I days. Our poorhouse co ntains over 2,000 inmates. Of these, 900 are children of a delicate frame and constitution. I Yet the young as well as the old are fed on turnips for the I list week. Thousands from the neighbouring parishes, de- I prived of outdoor relief, crowd about the union workhouse ; I there :disappointed, they surround the houses of the shop- I keepers and struggling farmer. Their lamentations, their hunger shrieks, are truly heartrending. Yet, my lord, I ea gratified to say that no property is touched—no threats held forth. I kr.ow whole families in this town to Ile down on their bad of straw, determined rather to starve than steal. It is true, that no means are left astried to alleviate their miseries by many, very many, eliariuibly risme, of whom it may be said that, if they I amid coin their hearts into gold, they would give it Ito the poor in their present extreme necessity. Yet what avail their efforts to meet the present awful visitation ? It was determined that a public meeting would be held to address your Excellency; yet, when a report—alas! a true report—has reached, that 35 paupers from Mayarta parish, who travelled some 15 miles in the hspe to be relieved at the workhsuse, were all drowned while crossing a narrow ferry. I considered it my duty not to lose a mo• meat in communicating to your Excellency our awful situation, which may be imagined but cinnot be described. One week more and no foW. The honest peaceable poor of this district fall like leaves in autumn. I feel in thus addressing you I have taken a bold step, yet your sym pathy for the poor has encouraged me." To this memorial the following is his Excellency's ; Dublin Castle, Dee. 18, 1849. Bir,—ln acknowledging the receipt of your memorial, the lard lieutenant hasdirected nee to state, that his excellency has received' with deep regret the intelligence of the me/ast *holy loos of life which has (occurred or the Ferry of Bilreek. and of the destitution stated to prevail is taw union. He that the guardians have not pat rates in course et regrets coll e ction, from which funk could be afforded kr the relief of the poor, the responsibility of providing whisk rats with that body. Your ocannonication has bees referred to the pew law cconinissionera.—l ass, air, T your most obediesd humble servant, T. N. Itimnoxon. Rev. T. Kelly, P.P., ILikadi. SCOTLAND. UNITED INDUSTRIAL SCROOLS. The annual meeting of the subscribers and friends -• of this important and most interesting institution takes pleas on Wednesday first, in the school premises, eolith Gray's Clue, Edinburgh. WeForeman) give the prieeipel por tion of the Annual Resor t about to be issued to the rub scribers, and recommend to special attention what it says regarding . the two distinguishing features of the institution, —industrial training, sad separate or unsecterian religious teaching : t It is only necessary very briefly to remind the subscribers to this institution that it was established on the principle of affording to the children attending it secular education, with industrial training and maintenance, in such a shape as would enable them to receive separate religious instruction according to the creed of their parents, uncontrolled by the mansgers of the secular branch of education. To aotomplish this end, the committee devote their time and attention to secular matters entirely, and they use none of the funds placed at their disposal by the public at large for religious teaching, either protestant or catholic. To give facilities, however, for religious instruction being fully communicated to the children, two small committees are appointed, the one consisting of protestant, the other of catboat, gentlemen, whose duty it is to attend to this essen tial department of education ; while, to render their opera tions the mole convenient, it has been arranged that one of the confiner' teachers shall be a protestant and the other a catholic. The committee believe that the seal with which the offices of religion are performed for the catholic portion of the pupils by their clergy, is not likely to be questioned. The protestant children, we believe, are eate'ully attended to, and continue, accompanied by the protestant master or the superintendent, to attend the Tron Church, to the reve rend pastor of which (Dr. Bunter) the committee have to express their thanks for the attention which has been paid to the portion of the children belonging to his flock. The selection of a place of worship for these children :ell on the parish church, on the principle that as the choice involved in some measure a burden, it would more equitably fall on the church established by the state, and supported by public funds, than en any ecclesiastical institu tion supported by private contribution. But, on the other hand, the committee do not prevent any church or religious body from retaining within itself a child who may, by parentage or otherwise, be connected with it, provided an assurance be given that the child shall be required to give regular attendance at worship. The committee have great pleasure in saying, that the same complete unbroken har mony. which they announced lest year still continues to dis tinguish ea ch t of the protestant and catholic children towards other. In relation to the moral and intellec tual progress made by the school during the past year, the masters, Musts. Cranduff and Donlevi, report moss favourably. The skilled industrial system, which had only been commenced when the last year's report woo pre pared, has been rule and effectively carried out under the able direction of the superintendent, Mr. Maxwell. * • But, besides the prospect which it affords of bringing up useful members of satiety, the industrial system has proved of eminent advantage to the discipline, harmony, and effect iveness of the institution, sea mere place of education. It has been found eminently adapted to the nature of the children, and hence, to their contentedness and good conduct it is too often forgotten, that the mature outcasts of society and the chili of want or degradation are two totally distinct beings, both in their physical and mental nature, and de u.ana as different a scald treatment. The former becomes supine, inert, and hopeless, during his career of vice and misfortune —the latter often shows an acuteness and energy beyond his years. It has been observed that children early deprived of their natural guardians exhibit remarkable precocity, as If by a wise provision their natures were adapted to the aitficulties of their petition. Among those poor abandoned children whose daily ingenuity is taxed to supply their daily wants, the young human facul ties are subjected h e ir artificial forcing system which en larges them to utmost stretch, and the extent to which they are developed seems aometimes incredible. These qualities have an accompanying excitement which de mands afield of development. Employments which do not in some degree fix the ingenuity and the pow. rs 01 body and mind, exhibiting results which increase with the ener gies bestowed on them, cannot fill the vacuum left by the exciting occupations of mendicancy, imposition, and plunder. When the hands are occupied in picking old ropes and sort ing wool, the mind is at the old haunts, accompanying the pickpocket and the gambler, or revelling in the II ish-houes. On the other hand, skilled labour t o tnferring progress with effort, has served entirely supersede these dan gerous banksaings, while it keeps up a healthy energy of body arid mind, visible in the seal with which the children betake themselves, whether to their work or their tasks. The turning lathes are especially popular ; ILIA it is impossible to avoid feeling a sympathetic interest with the evidently keen and absJrbing emotion with which the boy sees the evidence of his own enlarging skill growing into tangible shape before him. In fact, , the hearts of the children are in the otablisnment, and t .sir wires and hopes are in union with all its aims and objects. The girls continue to be trained in needle work, and, so far as the capabilities of the estsblishment permit, in cookery and tidy housekeeping. Fully tiny seven girls, whose probable fate, bad they not been taken in hand, it is distressing to reflect on, have been taken from the achuol into service. With very few exceptions, the employers of these girls have given the most gratiftieg testimony to their honesty and industry. The secular teaching, by its practical character, has been made, in a great measure, auxiliary to the system of industrial trailing. The main object has been to provide the pupils with such knowledge as may be practically useful to them in the affairs of life. It has happened to individual members of the comm ittee to wit ness examinations of schools for the humbler classes, where distant or ancient names in geography or history were glibly told off by rote, while the practical deficiency of the children in these sciences was testified I y their total igncruce of neighbouring towns or other territorial divisions, or of me kind of persons who hold rule in the city they inhabit. Great pains have been taken by the masters to obviate any such reproach, by well grounding the children in familiar and useful kix:wledge, referring in a great measure to places and their government, and productions, to industrial oczups liens, to the mechanical powers, and to machinery, tools, and other means of production. It has been found advan tageous, at the same time, to impart to them a few of the more simple and unquestionable principles of political economy—such is, that welt directed labour is the source of all wealth. Care iv taken to uproot the dangerous ter. lacy natural to their class, that wealth and poverty arc dis tributed through mankind by arbitrary chances, over which the human energies ht tee no control. They are taught that plunder and mendicancy only transfer wealth, they do not create, but rather reduce at; and that them occupations afford at all times but a limited field for adventure, while the capabilities of well-directed industry are illimitable. The considerate liberality of the public has enabled the committee lately to admit to the benefits of the institution forty children, all taken from the lowest grades of destitu tien, and selected from multitudes of objects of compassion pressed upon their notice. The number now led, clothed, unigh*, and trsioed, is 140; and the committee confidently believe, that if a wealthy, intelligent, and liberal public, could see realised b store them the incaiculable good accom plished by their system, the stream of futu re liberall y would he rather in crossei—Junes A. bleanse, Cho man. EXHIBITION. ----_, BANVARD'S PICTURE OF THE OHIO. Last evening there was a private view of Mr. Ban yard's new panoramic picture of the Ohio River, in the Egyptian-hall, which is to be opened to the public to-morrow. It is on the same plan with this artist's well-known picture of the Mississippi; the spectator being carried up the Ohio, from its confluence with the Mississippi to the city of Cincinnati. The scenery of the Ohio is incomparably more interesting than that of the Mississippi, which has scarce , y any other feature than monotonous vastness. The Ohio is a beautiful stream of pure transparent water, and its banks present an endless variety of grand and pic turesque scenery—hill, rock, and forest, animated by s t o wns, villages, and plantations. Mr. Bancard' picture gives a iively representation of ail these ob jects, and their effect is heightened by the different atmospheric influences ander which they are pre- sented—gleaming in the bright sunshine, darkened by clouds and misty, or mellowed by the light of the moon. The view of Cincinnati, which termi nates the exhibition, is especially striking, and gives a wondrous idea of that misrhty progress wit which has called into existence a msgnlticent city h above a hundred thousand pen*, where fifty years ago, there was not a humeri tv.hi , stion. 'As a work of art, Mr. Banvard's picture has the merit of great apparent truth. Every ohjtct senns to have been closely copied from nature, and yo successfully that the effect is often that of at's , la'c illusion. He himself makes an excellent eicerone—Mr ..xplinktory lecture, as it may he called, being b h c., ertaining ice. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL. Cauestnox. Dec. 24.—Pars1 81.711ZEC P.—l. His Hord Highness the Prince Albert, Chancillor i s agi. for Ow the U encou niversity, ten this yesr b e ing p`mased to give annually a goio m ragement of English Poetry : Toe prize will be gi to um inch resident undergraduate as shall canton/ best Elegiic Poem on the late Queen AdeLeitl:. NB. Toe exercises are to be sent in to the Vice-Chancellor on or Orlon March 30, 1850, and are not to exceed 200 hoes in length. 11. The Most Noble the liarrois Camden bung pinata to give smasally a gold medal, as a prize tor the but swim r ITI, du. t• w i. MIT WV d li Is is i essisr, math , vase as As anise lb as ), I MAU& to -- to 10i to loi to Ili