The Express. — London, England, 1846-12-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 28, 1840. 1 o' recurit7e, th , re 1. stood reason to put up again.— The fluihkr. isTITCTION.—If mere numbers indication of the sptead of scientific A this institution on Saturday would 'here was a constant influx and efflux from an early beer till night. The aro active part of the entertainment , features, with the addition of some , which prwved• nit usual, especially etion of schntilie curiosities included ated gun cotton, few which there were diving bell was put in requisition by entitles included, oaring the day. itollse liVaS m ain, after un , 7erzoing a total trans converted it front a place of dramatic e and slanting atleote, under the title the Casino with the Hidutto. To pit is covered over, and the orchestra, Z wick, is raised over the place of the rile being very handsomely fitted up rig a profusion oh plateeglasi, forming at reflecting material. The first part s a concert, vocal and incomm estrumental, after whieh the &suss nces, knee of efficient musters of the core he Waltz, Quadrille, Mazurka, Polka, err well attended. Erening Posf t an early number, a sketch of the re awe which Sir W. Hantilton announced alertly, at the last meeting of that ly received from Professor Maedler, of 9 prraumed discovery of the existence trail sun. TAIN STE.,NER.—The Ten Tomna uis sting the information that the direc -4..1(4 all intention of attempting to odds that a Mr. Stead, having ing tho ship, was answered by Captain rzuation that his was the 412th similar I received. tGER'S SeAßcti WoRKs, BROMLEY. vortly oVoek, a tire broke re and well-known premises, belonging and Co., patent starch manufacturers, tee, Bromley. It commenced in the what cause could not he ascertained. neighbouring distillery, and three be- , on Fire 13 iga le, and the West of Eng e spot with as little delay as possible, I itrtions of all parties, the flames were ore one drying-room was burnt out, and era bly damaged bv tire. The out sow an d Imperial Fire-office.—lN THE %to d a y night, shortly after 9 o'clock, meta at Fox-court, Kent-street, South non, and a larfre Mel of mere with the !tended, and, atter throwing a quantity pun, they were able to enter the place, r they discovered the lifeless body of a roosted to a cinder, and all her clothing e tire had been extingui hsed an exami :ses was made by Mr. Henderson, when at the deceased woman must have fallen e, where her clothes by some means be h communicated with the apartment and the deceased. It is suppesed she was ,TrunAr.—TllE BtRIAL OF STILL -By Mr. Payne, at the Saracen's Head c body ef a female inf int, alleged to have ich W. buried in Aldgate church-yard, a wen presented to the grave-digger to that born on Monday morning, and died the . Taylor , the midwife, got a certificate sign it deceased was still-born, and presented it of Aldgme church-yard, who, upon that Subsequently, upon information being he ward beadle, the body was exhumed. a surgeon, made u po st-nuolem esami - ated that deceased had lived some hours, the cause of death was exposure to the unctions were all in a healthy state.—Mr. Aldgite church. slid that the certificate the way that all were which referred to (ha produced several with the signatur es MICR a.itached).—The Coroner observed ell but that the signatures were fictitious, is duty to make inquiry. It was a most tice. Verdict—" That the deceased was that there was not sufficient evidence to and the jury added, that they could not expressing their severe animadversions in anner of burial of still-born children, and rover to commanicate the same to the IRELAND. DUBLIN, DECEMBER 26. papers were published )esterday, so that mmation of the state of the country, ite benevolence was very active during brd the poor one day of happiness, and in le institutions provisions were very lihe ed to the inmates, which will be re. rear's Day. Parochial meetings have been aside accommodation and maintenance for r. As an instance of parochial zeal, the therine's subscribed, at a meeting on Thurs its own poor, while the Great Aggregate day b fore, realised less than 5001. Under luences of self-defence and charity the citizens re steps to mitigate the destitution which ens through our city on every side, notwith rowded state of the poor-houses, and the Pdendicity Institution. In the southern work lity has beauconsiderable, which has induced osome of our most eminent physicians. The the Bank of Ireland has been imitated by which has subscribed 300/. to the general he distress of the country. An account has d for lodgments to the credit of the fund, to tors and tAlicers of the Hibernian have added (3001. The Indian relief trustees, who, with eans, effected much good, have had their ,gthencd by contributions of 2601., chiefly It is much to be 'amen' ed that the impres opular arming" should have suspended the generosity, which in times of partial suffer sinee province was only affected, came so munificently to Irish relief. d the repeal secession still works. The Rev. mcount of the interview with Mr. Smith rawn from the latter a long letter, in which he ory of his connexion with the Repeal Associa causes which led to his withdrawal. The fou ght out more sharply , and ex p lained es oflanawige than Mr. O'Brien has heretofore imposes " That it ehall hereafter be an invariable he rep:al policy to keep the Irish nation wholly ' English parties opposed to repeal; to support good to oppose bud measures, from whatever party woe; and that with a view to give effect to upon the mat hormurable terms repeaters be abstain from solicitation of situaticms under 'defter far themselves or for their friends. That the past expetaliture oa s t he Repeal Association be an account of its assets ' liabilities to the lot Jan., in future the abstract of receipt and expenditure, which cekly to t committee, be puble.hed every week. That still continue de treasurer and trustee for the associa. io payments beat ade by him except with the recorded committee. T ank the funds of the iimociation be lodged metropolitan bs, or in government securities, and .nt of the balance in the hands of the treasurer be laid nmittee weekly. 'that no °Mier receiving a regular the association be entitled to vote in committee. Kay prepare a report upon the internal ar nocessary to give effect to the objects contem he llepeal Awsociation, in order that the public .ed that no unneerrsary expense is incurred in the main useless staff, and that hereafter the utmost publicity be Procecdmlnv as the mod secure hods for the attainment ttdence. That no person be hereafter expelled the osso it upon a vote of the association, after a we k's notice. ch as the lte:ical Asacciation bi a n cofederacy to which iging to every religiou s persuasion are invited for the orking out the legi.ilative emancipation of their common means of moral, inti..lectual, and political influences, it is avoid as much as passible the expression of opinions and n of topics of a sectarian character; butt hat such under int pretended to prevent remmudranee against substantial which may affect the religious interests of any particular amen." satementa is the north co ntinue to be recorded. ,e mo 4 recent is that of the Fishmongers' company, i followed the example of the Mercers and Grocers. ing the deputation of their company, which visited ates in Derry last September, a reduction was flO per cent. on the half-year's rents due on the Ist at. 'this operated as a stimulant on the tenants, who rithin a fortnight after the notific ttion and cleared ale. The 10 pee cent. was in addition to 20 he per wed for draining, fencing, &e. The company, re afforded constant employment to 150 labourers re last three mouth;, and have offered to employ all iris g population on their estates until next harvest. re also granted 3701. to purchase meal to the relief yes on their property. A new mode of relief has d in the North. The tenantry of Sir It. Batesou red the system which has been followed byn othethe r , namely the voluntary imposition of Gd. I n the poor-rate, fur the relief of the extern destitute. PRESENTMENT SESSIONS. night's Gazette orders Presentment Sessions for additional bar .114.8. oroceedings of two special sessions held in Clare in ,mencement of the week, show the immense misery nust pervade the county, notwithstanding the enor tpenditure under the fined of Works. In the barony . er Tulle, the county curveyor stated the w :o amount to 2, 0 0 01 . ? I n one barony the application tea to 102,0001., and in the other to 93,000 1 ., being three limes the valuation of the two baronies. uoriiinary Stations were also held at Ballydehob, larhery, county Cork, on Medley last, and public to the amount of 33,0001. were presented for, Skib ,, whieh has attained so painful a notoriety recently, tis district. Dunmimway, on TuesdaY. the proceedings were under thour-rate Act, and 9,000/. were presented to finish Odic works pees. Med f3r at a former sessions, from 12 7910. had been sanat toned by the Board of Works. Templemore, on Tuesday, for the barony of Ikerrin, y Tipperary. The proe ,edings here were under Mr. alien's letter, and I. Oa were presented for repro tc. undo. At these •.,11 . LOTIS the following letter was irons Capt. Lareoni, one of the Commissioners of Public Relief Depirtmmt, Office of Public Workry Dee. 17. , -In reply to your titie4ion whether if your turonial torriong be the letter,' un el +long dicort will be exempt from be—that's, a levy of its proportion of the a ,, sesentent --as lOW !: , I , ii: , t , l r t a r a ent ,r a ,, in executed, no ',lief :Int of it b; reamn of pri vate em Aloe n.. hig s chat no anis an en ' t can be maileor not °seemed. ;tit I the electoral di vinione agefore in which wOrk w e rare h bee tc n ati rend un e fo red r the unne time d r u i t l ing iwil w a rke e h m* the la"t othse' ‘vi elect ilte mal nem dri t i f srill.t will be taxed to repay the sum eroded by ptrentment in them. This mar annwer your question to the extent you intend to put it, but the words "to long Us" the works presented for within it remain tin executed require, perh Ina, a few further remarks. It contemplate the CIAC of a barony eontaiaing, say, th e ww e l e dd e reet m or t ,i7 dieinionn, In two of which the works have become executed, while the t re , m ie at r it , a l v e t t i ed, o., a w nd ou t l h a e e l ontin i u mn" i w n o :i l reh tn a t r ise th tha ird ;is+ wunent are, be the letter, divided into ' el t irtoral this requires& long answer, via. :—there can benodeu e b7 ntw l l 'tigh t" the works and the ielectoral division. rdic therefore, A ve i i , o t n o th e e w in o e rt ur 4 si i o n a ot ele au tb t i h r ‘e i division., the people are n o t AO divided, an d th labourers of the distance might render thin ton great extent long as ,steal; but the case thin would became that ad the available works of the third . the burst division would be ei nem ned, and a nsw sessions would elec nary ; ho l 4 t as the new ,t 11011.4 must be for the whole b irony, uc th neees e un execute venr4 xwould h ive to he re-presented fur in their own electoral oltrision. (sr" &ern.); and If they still emtinued nary by private labour g &denied, the workn in the other t e m lee n loTal division would again be consume:l, the third divi t l , *on le w t :Juld again escape. an Iso on. And this is the way I conceive must favourably, a. in a 'pity no mirth an on electoral ViZn ea tri r 11.31 A e you put may frequently arise, and the proprietor, who se poor may ("* payment for the poor of Wi °er cle Weal d' 7 u,n.Str, your obedient +errant, TllOll4ll A. LA acox. John Carden, 1 , ^1., itarnanc, Templemnre. POolt LAWB.—TILALER UNION.—The Kerry Examiner gives th • following picture of the side of the Tralee union workhouse The Chairman acid, that there were in the house 1,0;2 paupers, not • licheling 44 in the fever hospital, and, thee, fore, he would recommend the board to have tee medical officer's opinion Wire they would sated in more admissions. The unethical otficer having been called, gave, no usual hie some tint' past, a horrifying account of the s:at, of the patients in the hospital. He Raid it contained 189 patients, more than double the number for which it Was originally intended, that they were lying four or five in each bed, and that fever and other cuntutious diseases were all confined withia the tine hital." In onsequence of this statement the ettertlians ca oep me to the re c solution that they would not admit any mereaup. The Shinrone correspon dent of the Tipperary Vindicator relates the following gratifying symptom of improvement in wholesome knowledge. The Rev. Mr. O'Malley, P.P., hes opened a meaner teem in Shinrone, fur the purpose of en lightening the people on artriceltural suejecte. There is nothing political introduced. Suclt useful works as Schil ling% on Agriculture, ant the Former's Gazette, constitute the literary pabulum supplied by the rev. gentleman, who is incessant in Itie exhortations to the people to change theirold system of tillage, as ruin and starvation must be the result if resort be had to the extensive culture of the potato. I regret to add, says the same correspondent, that the people are not making any prenaration for nekt season. They seem to be quite bewildered as to what crops they will sow. 'Tis almost impossible to persuade the respectable farmers to change their old content. THE WEATHER. The weather continues excessively severe. There is a considerable depth of snow on the ground, and the frost for the last three nights has been interim. There have been many accidents arising from the extreme gleciness of the streets but none of a serious charac ter. There is scarcely a district, certainly there is not a town, throughout the country in which soup kitchens either are not already established or in progress of establishment. SACUtLitoc—On Thursday evening last, the church of Killionane, in the diocese of Cork, was broken into by some of those depredators who are now legislating for the country. A box was forced open, containing the bible and prayer_ bootee, and some wine for sacramental use, and was taken to an adjoining field. The books were found next morning twittered in the field. Nothing else was left at the church which was capable of being taken away. DRAINARE.—Sir,—As you seem to take a special interest in the affairs of I re land, may I suggest to you the expediency of allowing the farmers in Ireland (uuder lease), to draw three or four pounds per acre for drainage, under the superin tendence of a government officer, in cases where the landlord has not availed himself of the benefit of the drainage act, or exerted himself to find employment for the destitute poor. here would be a source of local beneficial labour of a profit able character —as the farmers ore to pty half of the labour - rate , Ido not see why , government should not enable them to employ money in Immediate useful labour, for the permanent improvement of the property, upon r thei undertakine to pay three per cent. for the money so ex pended during their lease. I tun convinced that, unlike the Irish landlords, they will come forward and avail themselves of this offer, and the increased produce will fully reconcile them to the payment of the annual interest. One objection may be urged against this proposition : that government have not made main drains, or r e m ot e ved the bars and ob structions in the public rivers. ider puhlic sewers as requisite as public roads, and am convinced that the obstructions —the twenty-five great rivers in Ireland— will claim the immediate attention of the executive, so that the formation of the small and private drains will precede the public drainage only by a short iaterval. Government can avail themselves of thus opportunity of imposing terms 114 to the tillage of crops, now neglected in deepair and thereby create additionel labour and hope fur the future. After the present emergency is past, I am clearly of opinion that nothing short of a permanent labour-rate will remedy the evils of Ireland, whereby the landed proprietors, &c., will pay a certain portion of the wages of the destitute peer on theireetateß,ana the government the other. The rate upon the absentee property to excecdthat upon theresident proprietors and the rate not to exceed a certain poundage on the rental, if the average number of persons employed were 50,000, and million s labour-rate to be expended o n railroads, drainage, waste lands, Harbours, &c. By this arrangement, you would stimulate the Irish landlord to expend his money pe employment it would urge him to introduce a proper sys tem of tillage ; to superintend the industrial education of the people ; and it would put a stop to absenteeism, which is in creasing every hour. Without this check upon the idleness, rapacity, and neglect of the Anglo- Irish proprietors, the expenditure of public money will be absorbed by ea in creased rent, and a premiam will be offered to absenteeism and extrivagance.—VlATO ß. GOOD AND HAD IRISH LANDLORDS. —Oar readers must have often observed Cie name of the Marquis of Conyngham, in discussions of the evils of absenteeism, accompanied by carelessness of the welfare of those from whom large reve nues are derived. The following extract of a letter from Mr. J. 11. Take, of York, dated Ballyshennon, Denegal, the 16th inst. (with which we have been favoured), will show that the state of the population on the extensive property of the above-named nobleman has not been e xagger ate Ulster h er e a fmer re writers, and that e ven in the province of districts feet approaching to the wretchednem already exist ing in the south of Ireland. The di ff erence between a good resident landlord and some of the absentees is sttikingly ex hibited in What is recorded of the tenantry on the estates of L o rd George Hill and th e Marquis of Cenyngham —" On the 15th (Dee.) we were at Lord George Hill's hotel, at Gwedore, and are fully able to add our testimony to the statements which have been made with respect to the admi rable zeal and benevolence of this noblemte d i an, and to :the great improvements which have been effecn the land and the pemantry of one of the wildest mountain districts of the county of Donegal. The following morning we started at day-break for Glenties, 35 miles aeroaa the mountains, and oiler leaving Lord G. Hill's property, we soon came on that of the Marquis of Conyngham, the condition of whose estate has obteined so unenvieble a notoriety by the remark. upon it of the Times Commissioner. Our road led us for more than 25 miles through the marquis's property. No statement can be too strong with respecttovati the wretched ch c ondition, the misery, and positive starvation in whi the enttiers in this immense demesne are fouhatnd. a con- We b a ited at a miserable village, Dunglow, and w trast did it present to the excellent hotel, &c., at Gwedore the dilapidation and filth which met us everywhere in this place are indescribable. There was not a pound of meal (Indian or oats) to be bought, yet thousands of persons were depending on this place as their market town, and the peer people were crying with hunger and cold. They could not obtaM anything nearer than the store of Lord G. Hill, a distance of twenty miles ; that excellent nobleman having , . with his usual forethought, provided a depth of food, which hegenerowdy allows not only his own, but the miserable tenantry of the Marquis of Conyngham, buy at prime cost. The clergyman of the parish (a poor curate), whose dilapidated house indicated the poverty of the place, spoke in the strongest terms of the " awful state of distress in the parish.' He thought there were "hundreds of families who knew not where to look for bread for thatday." He mentioned instances of families of seven or eight persons living on two pounds of oatmeal for one or even two days, made into thin gruel. He had the day before shared the general want of food, having had but one meal in the house, and not knowing whether there was any supply at Lord 0. Hill's store, or whether, owing to the snow, it would be possible to pan over the mountains. The extreme wretchedness of this district is in great measure to be attributed to the want of a resident proprietor. The tenants of Lord 0. Hill arc no doubt suffering severely, but he has given them work, has provided them with cheap food, and is constantly. employing him 8, lf for their benefit. The Marquis of Conynghata, on the other hand, is, according to his own statement in the Times,. unable to do anything for the people on his estate." From Dunglow we came to the town of Glenties, also the property of the marquis, and on our journey met which the imastina with the most squalid scenes of mise ry tion can well conceive. Whilst hun reds of thousands of acres of reclaimabe land are here entirely neglected, there are thous l a nds of men w illing and anxious to obtain work, but unable to procure it. There is a poor-heuse here, which, as might be expected, is in a dreadful state. The people are, in fact, even as the house, half starved, and only half clothed. The d a y before they had had bu t one meal, con sisting of oatmeal and water, and at the time of our visit had not sufficient meal in their stores for that day's supply. The poor creatures complained bitterly, as well they might, and were smile of them leaving the house, preferring to starve in their own hovels rather than in the peorhouse. Their bed ding consisted of dirty straw, on which they were laid in rows on the floor, and the rooms were hardly bearable for filth: six persons were crowded under one poor rug, and we did not see a single blanket. The living awl the der dyi the same ng were crowded together on the same dirty draw, un miserahle rug : no wonder that disease aad pestilence were filling the intirmary, and that the pale, ragged looks of the poor boys and girls told of sufferings which it was impossible to think of without the deepest commiseraion. What do people who call themselves Christians mean t When they talk of ' leaving Ireland to itself 2' "—Leeds Mercury. LITERAT URE IN IRELAND. —A paragrap h' has been going the round of the papers, and 1 4 " improved " to great length in the Leinster Express, furaishes us with matter for grave thought.—" In Ireland there are eeventy • four towns, each with a minimum of two thoimand five hundred inhabitants (census 1311), not one of which contains a bookseller. Scotland, with a third of the popula tion, has three times the number of booksellers, being M the proportion of nine to one. The seventy four tewns without eat) of the trade' includethe following : —Dungaree's 12,382; Carrick-on-Suir, 11 ' 049 s Toughs) 9,939 ; Carr;ckfergns, 9,379; Cashel, 8,027 ; Newtewnara• ' 7,621; Lisburn, 7,524; Kinsale, 6,918. More remarkable stall—there are six counties which cannot boast of even one • bookseller, or a single circulating library, and we shall came them :set. Donegal ; 2. Kildare ; 3. Leitrim; 4. Queen's 5. Westmeath ; 6. Wicklow. These may be consideredstrange, but, most assuredly, they are very startling facts!" " The trade," adds our contemporary, "would not of itself support any person outof Dublin, or the larger cities and towns, with out other branches of business—such as stationery, perfumery, &c. A few years since, the most respectable bookseller in Connaught also sold watches, hosiery, and potatoes !" That the educator—ae distinguished from the hedge schoolmaster, skilled in cramming the shoe-less, half wilted, poor scholar, with Greek, Latin, and mathematic—isgrievowly needed in: Ireland, the above statement sadly and sufficiently proves. Were a hundred other necessities remedied, the influence of the one here shadowed forth upon the condition of daily life, and domestic economy must remain as serious and deplorable—a thing for all good seen to lament and wise legislators to con sider. The world will have teaching of some kind. and it is for those of superior intelligence to decide whether it shall he such oral wisdom as is communicated by the desperado who has nothing to lose, or the exclusive sectarian whose lessons are too apt to omit the Christian grace of charity towards those differing from himself, or such wholesome information on all questions and from all sides as can be now furnished through the widely-ramified channels of popular literature. Thus, whether the time be one of destitution or plenty—the last day of an old year of disorder, or the first of a better epoch of concord and good understanding—it is never out of season to press the consideration of the matter upon the literary lea' era of Ireland and England. Some among the former have of late shown themselves eager enough to get up a party literature against "the Saxon :" let us suggest to them us a worthier, though it may be a less showy ob j ect, a literature of no party for the Irialiman !—Athetweirm. Oen PHLOX NEWS.—The programme put forward by the Daily News, says the Cork Southern Reporter, has been received by the press in general in the light of a direct cabinet revelation. Most of our cote.nporaries regard it as an authorised outline of Whig policy with respect to Ireland; and no doubt whatever can remain that measures of the kind described are in contemplation. It would be abeurl to sup pose that a statesman of Lord John Russell's political daring and characteristic and constitutional courage—that a man from wiiinn either emanated, or by whom mainly were advanced, the most radical and comprehensive political ameliorations of the era, would shrink from grappling bolaly with even our gigantic evils. or content him self with petty-peddling efforts for their removal. It is quite possible that when the legislature is convened and the wnole Wnig scheme of Irish policy developed and ex plained, we may be debarred from raising the " loud Ho sanna" of joyful congratulation; but there is at least enough in the revelations of the News, aal the positive an nouncements from its fellow-labourer, the Chronicle, to demonstrate the stupid policy of mere factious declama tion, and to justify completely the course we have ob served. There is no doubt, as we have stated, that mea sures of the nature indicated by the News are resolved upon by Lord John Russell; but the Chronicle, while con firming the fact, and adopting the prominent features of its cotemporary'e programme, decries, at the same time, the assumed corrector's of detail, and deprecates decisive opinion upon plans imperfectly unveiled, and (in print) hastily and loosely put together. It calls the annunciations of the News " a bundle of incongruities," and, in truth, homogeneity is wanting; hut it then proceeds to substantiate the main face, and to declare, in accordance with our convictions, that "a series of measures for the improvement of Ireland " have been devised by government, and " that several bills framed with that object are in readiness" for presenta tion when the legislature assembles. Its words con firm the main facts divulged by its eotemporary. Possessed with incredulity, the Chronicle proceeds to com ment on the text supplied by its estemporary, and, assuming clearer insight and fuller information, is develop the true contour of the policy contemplated, and the measures resolved upon with reference to Ireland. We shall not follow the order adopted by the Chronicle, because it will be better to afford the commentary containing and carrying out what certainly are the sounder principles advocated by the writer and believed by him to be entertained by the Cabinet. The News asserted that " a commission will be issued for the purchase of waste land., which are to be enclosed, re claimed, and cultivated, &c., but the Chronicle, as may be perceived, affirms that though purchase will be an ingredient of the waste land scheme, sale will be compulsory, en terms by no means equivalent to the probable estimate of the owners. It is not in this particular alone that the versions of the two journals oa this subject differ; but as our readers have both before them, we shall proceed to show how far their revelations are opposed as to any other portion of that regenerative and reformatory code the Whigs will submit to legislative investigation. The News is positive that out-door relief through parish officers will be administered, but the Chronicle, referring to the imp neibility of sustaining a million and a half of persons through the agency of the Labour Act, and anticipating the amendment, announced already, of the drainage laws, moth fies the positive assertions of itecotemporary. It gives, how - Ties ever, by no means a plump and positive contradiction of the previous version given by the News, nor is it one that will be universally popular. A. great and influential party arc opposed to out-door relief, but a strong party will be found in Ireland contending for its applicability. And on stable grounds, and with a strength not yet manifested, will it be seen that, high influence notwith standing, out-door relief will be agitated and pressed on to a consummation, unless, indeed, the necessity that now exists disappears at once from among the urban and rural population. Of course, the minister will not Immor talise the Labour Act and the mischief it has relief bred ; but it by no means follows that out-door the sight to live by labour—would perpetuate that .mis chief, nor that, in ordinary years, there either would or could be such a rush to public works as nos prevails. Nay, were there a law compelling and legali-iog employment in parishes, or within spheres of larger size, no demoralisation like that complained of could occur, were we again to be visited by a dearth of food ; and noun like it would hare occurred had there been a pewee to employ the people when the calamity of this year fell up on us. This, we think, is obvious, and if it be—if the minister is not misled by the fallacies of the Chronicle, it is quite probable that in this instance, the version given by its contemporary of his intentions is correct and true. We conclude as we began. In those revelations' there is enough to show the combined silliness and criminality of factious declamatory platitudes, and to justify completely the course we have pursued, the forbearance we felt bound to exercise. Emigration; the allocation of tine waste lands; material amendme it, to say the least, of the Ir ish Poor-law; abrogation of the law of entail ; drainage on a large scale ; loans for public works, and to private individuals ; the for mation of a peasant proprietary ; these and other schemes surely indicate vigoreue Whig a ction, and demand for the , ethers tolerance and fair play. SCOTLAND. Casa or COPTEIGHT.—An interesting ease of copyright came before the Jury Court of the first division ordf the Court d ur of Session on Wednesd a y and Thursday, the 23 in-tant, ani was as follows :—The lute Archibald Constable, publi•her, applied to the late Dugald Stewart to fur nish preliminary dissertations on mental philosophy fur the Supplement to the fourth, fifth, and sixth euitions of the " Encje.equedia Britannia.," and at completion paid him the sum of 1,600/., being a sum equivalent to double the rate at which Sir Walter Scott and other distinguished contribu tors were remunerated. On the failure of Constable, Adam and Charles Black purchased the property of the " Battey- l clopsedia," and after s .me years issued a seventh edition, in I which the dissertations of Stewart were includewith d, besiother des being published en a separate form, in common treatises furnished to the work—but were in the latter edition withdrawn from side when the complainant objected. The action was brought by Professor Stewart's son, on the ground that his father had disposed of the dissertations for insertion in the supplement alone, and he craved dam spa from the MCWIN. Mirk for the copies " piratically" detadetachedsold - by them in the subsequent e dition, as well as in a s h a p e . The jury unan i m ously found for the defendants. Snout Tius.—.Nlessrs. Fielden and Order haavepu ex. I tended their agit lion to Scotland, having held blic meeting in Edinburgh on the 24th inst., at which Sir J F orre st presided. There being no factories in the Scottish ames po metrolis, the Ten Hours' Bill was not made the sole object of attraction, but was coupled with the kindred topic of short hours for clerks and shopmen. In the latter form they discussed a subject about which there cat be no doubt, because whether offices or shops be open for eight or twelve hours, the business, as i n the case of bank.' will precisely . be the same in amoun t ; but as regards mills and factories, limitation affects work to the extent of diminishing the pro ductive power , of those establishments. Hence a difficulty chief; in curtailing factory hours which dues not apply to ear_ly shop-shuttinK. REALTII OP TOWNS. REGULATION Or LODGING oussB.—At the last meeting of the Glasgow Police Com mittee, the following report on the subject of regulating lodfing-houses was re al, and unanimously approved of: " 1• row returns submitted to the general committee it appears that within a small locality there are no fewer than 153 lodging-houses ; rented at from 50s. upwards, but chiefly under Gt. or 71.; and that fever at present prevails to a con siderable extent in these houses : and in regard to the we-tern district, that there are twenty-five lodging houses, some of which COnsist of only one ones lodging_ houses, yet they have numerous inmatea—in ase of a single large apartment there are no fewer than eighteen inmates. In the eastern district, ain, where they . first obtained statutory provisions fur regulating lodging-houses, it appears that these have been in operation with moat salutary and beneficial effect, since the year 1840 ; that 1223 persons have been brought before the sittin ma gtrae in the police-court, for keeping unregistered lodging houses;os that several hundreds have been refused regiatration, on the ground that their furniture, particularly bedding and other accommodation were wholly inadequate; that about 300 persons have been floe.l for offences connected with the registration of their houses, and that the expenses be yond the fees evicted for registration (2s. for each house , amoun ting to about 180, have been quite trifling, the whole duty . having been done by the sup extraerinte man I ndent an d an inspector of police, with one who was employed for about three months. It further I appears that much good has resulted in the way of prevent- 1 ing the spread of disease, from enforcing cleanliness by whitewashing staircases, passages, and apartment., and, above o f th e an arrangement entered into; with the parochial hoard of the barony pari.h, whereby the immediate removal of fever patients was effected. In these circumstances, and looking to the information received from these return', your committee are unanitnaudy of opinion that the provisions of the act empowering the regulation of lodging-,houses over the whole extended municipality , should be carried into ope ration Ei promptly and efficiently as possible. With this vicar, they recoMmended that the superintendents, lieutc- nants, or other °Seem of police be ordered and authorised 1. To require all persona keeping or intending to keep lodging houses, of the description specified in section 180 of the act, to appear and obtain their houses regletered, and upon such houses being inspected and approved of for that purpose, to enter the keepers of such houses in an alphabetical register to be kept at the Central Police-office, specifying the situa tion, rent, landlord's name and designation, his factor, it any, extent of accommoda ti on, number of lodgers to be accommodated, and any other particular that may be considered necessary ; and for the entries so to be made each keeper of such lodging. house shall pay a fee of 2s 641. 2. To fix and determine the number of lodgers who shall be accommodated in each such lodging-house, and by written or printed certificates to license the same. 3. To order a ticket specifying the number of lodgers for which the house is licensed, and an; rules or instructions made by the magistrates or the Police and Statute Labour Committee, regarding health, cleanliness, or ventilation, to be hung up or placed in a conspicuous part of each room in which lodgers are kept. Your committee have agreed upon the following rules and instructions, as proper to be adopted, printed along with the clauses of the act, and hung up or placed in each lodging-house, viz. :-1. The floors are to be washed at least twice in each week, vie, on Wednesday and Saturday, before six o'clock P.ll. each day.-2. The walls are to he white-washed, and the houses thorougly cleansed on the first day of each of the monthsof January, April, July, and October, or on the day immediately following, if any of these days falls on a Sunday.-3. The blankets used in all lodging-houses are to be thoroughly cleaned and scoured on the eighth day of each of the months of January, April, July, and October, or on the following day, if any of these days fall on Sunday ; and if any person or persons in such house shall be affected with fever or other infectious disease, the blankets and bed-clethes used by such person or persons shall be thoroughly cleaned and scoured, and the bedding shall be fumigated immediately after the removal of such person or persona. And, where the bedding used is shavings or straw, the -tune shall be burned immediately after such removal. TICE WEATHEIL AT ADEHDEEN.—From Aberdeen papers we learn that the whole surrounding district is one dreary waste of snow, of the average depth of fourteen inches. Northwards, as far as Inverness, the fall of snow has been even heavier ; and a similar state of things prevails south . ark for some miles beyond Dundee. The storm has been accompenied by intense cold. There has not been so heavy a fall of snow since the year 1838. Four mails from the south reached there on Tuesday evening—namely, those that left Edinburgh on Saturday afternoon, Sunday morn ing and afternoon, and Monday moraine. The stoppsge was on that side of Dundee, where the mail had to be taken on in chaise, which had soon to be abandoned, from the heavy falls of snow on the ground—in some places ten or more feet deep. They were then brought forward on horse . hack, travelling about ten miles along the seashore. The L Defiance was supposed to he 'vine ebout Forfar. PROVIACIAL. LANCAsIIIItE. MR. BRIGHT'S PROSPECTS FOR MANCHESTER.—At the last meeting of Mr. Bright's committee, on Christmas-eve, Mr. Wilson, the chairman, stated thatalthough the canvass Was not yet completed, they had obtained pledges for nearly two thousand votes more than had ever been polled by any Conservative candidate at previous elections. MANCHESTER AND SALFORD WORKHOUSES. The guardians of b.dh these workhouses kept up the good old practice of treating the paupers to a Christmas dinner, of which roast beef and plum - pu ddin g formed the staple food, adding a liberal supply of ale. At the Salford workhouse 350, and at tao Manchester 1,020 inmates partook of this cheer on Christmas-day. The bill of fire for the Manchester dinner included' 0 plum. puddings of 11 lbs. each. THE RAILWAYS INTO MANCHESTER.—The traffic on the various lines of railway having termini in Manchester has been very irregular during the past week, and subject to great delays. As an instance, it may be mentioned that the train on the London and North-Western, which leaves London at G. 15 a.m., bringing down the morning papers, and which is due in Manchester at 2.40 p.m., has been delayed till h elf-past 3,1, and even 5 o'clock. Similar irregularities have been perceptible on the lines running to the north, north-east, and north-west. Not unfrequently two or more trains come in together. One of the canoes is said to he the severe frost and the falls of snow, which have caused a slipperi ness of the rails but there is, we believe, an additional cause, which is likely 'to be of much longer continuance than the frost and snow of the present winter,—and that is the want of locomotive power. The large orders with which our ex tensive machine-shops are busy for the supply of engines to foreign railways, entirely precludes the possibility of executing the many orders which will have to be completed before the railways in the neighbourhood will be able to work their traffic with regularity. Mechanics are working night and day, all that can be had, but epparently with little prospect so far of the supply being able to meet the great demand for these necessary machines. The defieiency on all the lines is understood to be very great, and the result is not oily very serious delays, but a liability to accidents. On some of the lines the stock of engines is so low that almost every machine has its full work for the day, and the consequence is that if a train does not come in to its time, either from the slipperiness of the rails or an acciden'al overloading, there is no engine to take out the next train, and almost Mot tricable confusion follows along the entire line fur the rest of the day. Some of the late serio us accidents, which might probably be traced to this cause, by destroying some of the engines, have rendered the matter worse. It is Mid Hitt. the Sheffield and Manchester Coin pany, though they have made every exertion to get their full complement of locomotives, are wanting at least eleven to work the additional goods-traffic which is at their com mand ; and it was thought a lucky accident the other week, that they were enabled to cet two engines which had been completed for a continental railway, but which, is conse quence of the frost having stopped the navigation of some of the rivers or canals along which they would have had to pass, could not be forwarded. The late serious accidents on the Bolton railway have directed the attention of the public very much to the state of the line, and it is worthy of motion th it the directors of the Leeds company, by which it has been leased, have been so anxious to put it in the best con dition, that they have caused new rails to b: put down over six of the ten miles, and the rails on the remaining four miles are also to be replaced. THE ACCIDENTS ON THE MANCHESTER AND BOLTON RAILWAY.—The memorials presented to the Board of Trade by the town council of B.ilton, and several county mortis Irate'., praying for an inquiry into the condition and manage mmt of the Manchester and Bolton Railway, have produced the desired effect, and a government inspector is now en gaged with the necessary investigation. The following letter has been received, in icply to the memorial of the town council : OlRce of the Commissioners of Railway., 20, Great George-street, 21 et ways, o r 1,146.—Far,---1 am direct, ii . b the commissiors of l- s, to acithowledge the receipt a a y memorial from the t own council of ,Bolton, transmitted to the Earl of Clarendon fur the con sideration of the cosnmiudoner% and to acquaint you in reply, that in conecquence of the representations w hich have been made, they have taken measures to institute a full investigation into the condition and management of tte Manchester and Bolton Railway, at &nearly , ' date an pee-able.-1 am, &c., W.A. Haven A TURKISH VICE-CONSUL IN MANCHESTER.—Notwith standing the extensive commerce carried on between titan chester and the Turkish empire, and the number of Gre k an d Armenian subjects of the Porte resident there, the town has been, until now, destitute of a consular agent from that country. It appears that a Turkish vice-cot Abdullah "'Alibi, has been appointed, and is now resident in Man- cheater. SUNDAY-SCHOOLS AND PEACE PHINCIPLF.S.—A tea-party, got up under the auspices of tho Manchester Sund iy-sehoul Union, was held on k riday last, for the purpose of conferring with Elihu Burritt on the plans which he proposes to further good-will and peace among nations. There were present about 330 persons, male and female, the greoter portion of whom were Sunday-school teachers. Tea having la, en partaken of, Mr. Burritt addressed the company at great Is ngth. He characterised peace as the vital communi catiou of the human heart with Christ, and as the penumbra of the power of God on the heart. Wherever this vital communication existed, the highest heroism of which the Christian was capable, or of which the human soul was capable, would be manifested. nemies, This heroism might be designated as the love of our e and when we were thoroughly imbued wish and manifested this love, we approximated more nearly than anything else could enable us to de, to the spirit of Jesus. It was this love alone which could overcome enmities and enemies. Brute force could not overcome enemies or enmities. If it could, the enmity of France must have been extinguished ere this; for England had been at war with France for 206 out of 621 years. Ni ne-tenths of the people engaged in the terrible battles which had been fought, had net in this coun try land enough to make their graves, nor were they pro mised out of the enemy's territory land enough to make their graves. In those wars there hail been expended by the people of this country more money than would purchase the whole of France—as much money u would have paid 111. per acre for her territories, including mountains, streams, rivers, bogs, morasses, marshes, and unreclaimed land—au, ' in fact, included within her boundaries. But this brute force I entailed upon those who resorted to it other evils besi des this stupendous waste cf money ; it produced a mass of horrors which were almost inconceivable and certainly in expressible, and which affected subsequent generations. And vet the object sought, instead of being effected, was only thrust farther off —enmity , Was increased instead of being overcome. Lave, vital Christian love, was the only power that could accomplish the object. C-ie of the most powerful and accessible means of generating and diffusing this love was to make it an invariable rule in the education of Sunday school children to teach and imbue them with this love. Every school, or small knots of schools, might then enter into friendly and loving communication with the Sunday schools of America; and thus there would be in the two countries some three millions of canductors, teachers, and sc holars in constant communicatinnostrengthening each other continually in the bonds of peace, and the abhorrence of war, and making that monstrosity of humanity an almost perfect impossibility, whatever might he the wickedness of statesmen or sections of the people. In illustratinn of the good resu lts that might be expected to flow from this inter national communication between Sunday schools, Kr. Burin related antiking anecdote relative to a boy of a naiter, a poor , who earned only from Is. to I 9s. per week, and who had a family of six o boy r aortaany to support, had not been a ble to give this schooling, although be was extremely anxious that his lad should learn to read the Bible. Mr. Bdepaurritrtment t. who has in his paper, the Christian Citizen, a devoted to Sunday scholars, wrote home an account to them of this man and his family, and suggested that they should eontrihute a small sum to enable the nailer to spare ' the lad from the anvil, and send him sc to hool. Ile had at that time no great hop e that the suggestion would be attende 1 to ; but, to his great delicht, there arrived in a short time 160 letters from Sunday scholars, each inclosing a silver half diem, worth VA. These letters were sent from various parts of the state, and the money was transmitted to him. Last Tuesday he went all the way oa foot to th nails' Co ttage; he was recei ved with p leasure and gratitude ; told the object of his visit, and the father at last con tented to let his boy be sent to school, the mother having volunteered to work at the anvil in his place, so that their incomings might not he reduced. Mr. Bunitt took the boy to Brom-grove, got his rags exchanged for a new suit of clothes, and sent him to school, and the contributions of the American children are to pay (or his education. Hundreds of persons in America will hereafter feel an interest in this one poor, unknown boy, and with what feelings d alied will they hereafter communicate with each other, when the lad has learned to read and write.—. Mr. S. Fletcher said that Te l the lan laid down by Mr. Burritt showed that there were in the unday-school of England and America undeveleped ices which might be productive of the most beneficial results. If Sunday-School teachers and scholars felt the re sponsibility which devolved upon them, and worked out earnestly this plan of international communication, the youth of the two countries would become annihilators of war. YORKSHIRE. Too PAR NORTR.---The Lards Mercury relates the follow. ing story, which may put others on their guard against the very disinterested persons who advertiso thousands of pounds to be lent to the Iw - fly. A short tins since an advertisement appealed in the local newspapers, stating that 10,0001., 15,0001., or 30,000/. were ready to be advanced en security at 3 per cent., with directions to apply to a Mr. Coward, Lansdowne-crescent, Bath. A party in Bradford, wanting the sum of 10,0001. upon ample security of freehold building, like many others, was delighted with the terms, and entered into treat; with Mr. Coward to advance the money, which he agreed to do at 31. per cent. for 14 years, upon inspecting the 'buildings, and being satisfied of the security. According to arrangement, Mr. Coward came from Bath to Bradford, put up at an inn there, and, by appointment, inspected the buildings in a hasty manner, and assured the money-wanting party that he was perfectly satisfied with the security, but that his silent, who would have to advance the money resided in Wales. and th it his terms were to have his preliminary expenses paid before he proceeded further. Accordingly he handed in a bill : Travelling expenses, 600 miles, at Is. a mile £lO 0 6 Low of time, 7 days, at Si. as. a day Tavern expenses —ES9 6 0 The money-wanting gentleman, on this bill bring put into his hands, asked time to consider the point, and went to consult a professional person, who stated that although the charges were unusual, yet if the money could be obtained at 3 per sent. (mortgages on buildings in Bradford being always, even for the largest sums, 41 and 5 per cent.), and for 14 years, he would advise him to pay the charges, pro vided the money was advanced; and they went together to the inn, where they saw Mr. Coward, a slender, gentle- I manly-looking man, with wtrts around his eyes. Having I stated he was satisfied with the security, he was informed that these charges, besides the ordinary solicitor's charges, would be paid upon the money being obtained; but Mr. Coward stated that he could not go into \Vales without the charges being paid first. lie was then reminded that there were persons in London who made a living by advertising mono v to lend which they had not, in order to obtain fees, and that though nothing discreditable was imputed to him, it could not be expected, unless the money was ethane , il, that nearly 60/. would he trusted to him ; and thus Mr. Caward hail his journey from Bath for his pains. HE aunt OP TOWNS. — An aWe paper on this subject, by Dr. Crowther, was read at the Mechanics' Institute, Wake field, on Monday. The writer dwelt largely upon the nau seous effluvia arising from ce-spools, slaughter-houses and the like, a nuisance which unhappily existed in nearly all the large town, and which was well known to be highly preju dicial to public health. Dirty, narrow, and ill-paved streets were alike injurious, and the vast volumes of smoke con stantly pouring from our factory chimneys and steam engines, were also productive of disease. The writer directed especial attention to the dwellings of the labouring classes. Overcrowding was an evil, and unless cleanliness were ob served in private dwellings, no matter how the public streets were cleanscd,discase would continue to be fostered. When the Asiatic cholera visited our shores in 1332 ' the inhabit ants of Wakefield " whitewashed and cleansed largely," in hopes of avoiding contagion, and the effect was this, fever was lees prevalent in the town for two years afterwards. Proper ventilation was also necessary in every human habi tation, and the writer affirmed that in England and Wales, 5000 deaths occurred annually for the want of it. DURHAM . Tun SUNDERLAND PoST-OFFIi E.—There are great com plaints in this town of inadequate postal accommodation. It is said in addition to the receiving-box now at the foot of Lombard-street, others are required in the High-street, in Hendon-road, and near Ilbdiopwearmauth church. The Lon don morning mail is not delivered till the day after its arrival, and within two hours of the evening mail, and it is also com plained that the despatch to London and the south in the evening now takes place fully an hour sooner than is neces sary. Facilities of communication through the local posts are also said to be in an imperfect state, and the staff of offi cials are not only greatly underpaid, but inadequate to th speedy despatch of the heavy business of the office. WOREESTEIIBII.I II E. Powan-toost Cava-Er FACronA.—A meeting, to tak into csnsideration the formation of an establishment for the manufacture of carpets in Worcester, by steam-power, attended by an influential body of gentlemen connected with that city and neighbourhood, was held on Monday. Mr. Rising introduced the subject to the notice of the meeting, and explained the benefit to be derived from an establish ment having for its object the employment of the poorer classes, and, by adding the advantages of steam-power to the carpet loom, to supply carpets of the very best quality at a price considerably below that at which they can ut pre sent he rocured. Various details and explanations of the nature o f the machinery were then gone into, and resolu- tions adopted. LEICESTERMIIRF.. CHARTISM TN LOOOIIIIOROUGH.—An attempt is being made to re-organise a chartist association in this town; and on Monday afternoon it was announced by the bellman, that a stranger would deliver a lecture on the charter and the chartist land society, that evening, at the Wheat Sheaf, to commence at half-past seven o'clock. At half past eight o'clock about twenty persons had assembled, and in the course of another half-hour the audience amounted to nearly thirty, hut the stranger did not arrive. While waiting fur his arrival, copies of two or three petitions from T. S. Dun combc, hI.P., and a circular which accompanied them, were read to the meeting. The circular requested, that as many signatures of parties favourable to the petitions as possible should be obtained, and forwarded to him (Mr. Duneombe) for presentation to parliament. SoftrIIeMPTONSITHIF.. ENFORCING POOlt-RAIL , FROM AORICULTURAL LA ROVRERS.—At the recent petty sessions at Brackley, Robert Ayres, an elderly agricultural labourer, was summoned by the overseers of Brackley, St. l'eter's, to show cause why he refused to pay two poor's-rates, amounting to Is. G Id. ' to The old man said it was not i n his power to pay ; he went wo-k, although he was scarcely able to do so; h ie wages were 7s. a week, and he had to pay Is. 2d. a week nt e wax 73, and his wife 72 ; his mone y was not enough to pay for bread; he belonged to the parish, and he thought it h .rd t. be so served. The magistrates said they had not the power of excusing • and, to prevent further expense, t he defendant was adviseeto pay. lie declared he could not t was quite out of his power. The case was ultimately adjourned to the next seesion. Several othet persons were summoned for small sums. s The parties were each ordered to ply the amounts, 'and 4.. for summonses. In default, they were informed distress warrants would he issued. HERTFORIMIIIKK. THE ROYAL BAUM/N.-I'6e governor of the Hertford gaol received last'week two documents, extending the gt royal pardon to dos. Brook s, and Thiel. Body, of Wiginon, committed for several terms of imprisonment, for the offence of poaching. The prisoner Brooks was committed on three warrants for one offence, and - Body on two warrants, each of which was to take effect at the expiration of the imprison ment ordered under the pre.lecling convictions. Her Majesty ordered the discharge of the prisoners at the expiration of the term of punishment authorised in the first warrant in each ease. It is stated to be the intention of the government to pursue this) course, with; a view to discourage the inffie tion of cumulative penalties in cases of poaching. ItEngsßlltti. BENEVOLENCE AT W INDROIL —IIer Majesty's gifts of bl an kets, meat, bread, plum-pudding , &e., will be ve e gin to the poor of Windsor , consisting of between 400 and 500 families, at the Royal Mews, on New Year's-day.—The Prince Consort's chestnuts realised the sum of 1271. 1.5.. It wit. be distributed to the poor as under: Old Window, all. ; New Windsor. 32/. ; Clewer , 231. Lis, ; Bahasa . 201. • Winkfield, 101.; and Sunning-hill, 101. Colonel Reid caused to be dis tributed, on Christmas-eve, a liberal supply of bread. meat, and ale, to 130 families of the poor soter; of the borough. The gallant Colonel also transmitted to the Rev. Lease Gosset, the vicar, the sum of 201., to be distributed in meat, &c., amongst the poor of the parish generally so . A t like amouicar nt for a similar bene volent purpose, was al sen to the v by Mr. Neville ; and also 20/. to the Rev. Stephen H awtrey, the curate of the new church, at Clewer, within Vie borough, to be distributed amongst the poor in that dititriet. OPPOSITION TO SANITORF REFORM —A public meeting, convened by the Mayor, was held in the 'Town-ball, Read ing, on Tuewlay, to consider the expediency of adonsing re solutions relstive to the Reading Sanitory Reform Bill. Considerable excitement prevailed previ , us to the meet ing, from the is sue of numerous handbills, &quits., an p l acar ds, and it was evident that a strong opposition would b yt e mnifested against the measure. The chair was occupied b he Mayor, who was surrounded he moet..f the clergy, enil a large body of influential rate-payers. Mr. B. Vines, in a length ened speech, opp the measure, on the ground of its being superseded by Lord Lincoln's hill—the alarming and unne cessary expenditure it would involve, the incoa-ioy of the town council and incompetency of their surveyor to carry it 1 1 out, and the ineorrect data they were proceeding on. 'lt ' I did not oppose sanitory reform, but the meaeure high a hied , act. He was followed by J. B. Monk,exihigh sheriff, of the county, who was opposed to the mea-ure, which w supported by several speakers, including Dr. Cowan i v , Meese.. May and Beall, members of the town einneil ; but such was the impatience and interruption m :it the meeting that it was with the utmost dith silty that the t .e.i latter, as well as Messrs. H. Chase and B irtlett, wao eats sequently addressed the meeting, coutl l .i a hearine. .11. w hich called up the Rev. Merin. 'he oht lpe end 11 who claimed a fair discussion for every epeekili au called on the meeting not to form an ine ms-ler .te opinion nor to prejudge the m •rits e the contionol ited bill. At length the following rev e l were carried by an over whelming mal.ritv That as it is the intent nil ..f vernraent to introduce a gen. r measure for improving toe eanitory improvement of towns, which is like . .e in he pt —t " 1 with all possible speed, the intenite , t he the town council for a local bill is injudicious and prism dare. and will involve an enormous and needless outlay; awl is, therefore, deserving the strongest opp nut the foregoing resolution he transmitted t' Vie t Mayor they the i n f orma tion of the town council , with A reques that will conform to the wi.tes of its s ipportire. A jetition to parliament against 'tie mensal.° w oleo agreed to,to he pre sented by the borough members, who are rept...led to support it. for the year of our Lord 1847. Tim Al.....lT . E f b i zi s T o ll i ß ety F Th . for t h e D ir einw , u o sel Eri a tt imiedir ;a . Compossims Se Ike Almanac; or, Year Book of Getotral Information, for 1847. London, Charles Knight. The British Almanac, " for the ensuing year to mow ^ (to adopt the phraseology of the now obsolete itinerant vendors of penny almanacs) is the twentieth of the series. It was the first in point of time, and is still the first in point of excellence, of the attempts to impart a character to almanacs more worthy of the age's more diffused intelligence. There is a slight alteration in the Calendar. A a Thermometrical Register" has been substituted for the Remarks on the Weather," hitherto inserted at the top corner of the second page of each month. These registers have been carefully copied front those made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and deposited with the Royal Society. They show the highest and lowest ranges within each twenty-four hours from twelve different readings. Each month is placed with its corresponding month, affording a ready means of comparison with the first ten months of 1846 and the last two of 1845. which are all that could be given up to the date of publication. In other respects, the almanac proper continues unaltered, retaining all that full, and neat, and closely packed amount of information for daily use which obtained such a large circulation for the preceding volumes. In the " Companion to the Almanac" we look— with a general similarity of subjects and purpose— for more variety. Nor are we disappointed. Not first in order, but first in interest fur those who, like us, have made familiar friendly referees of the " Almanac" and its " Companion" since their first appearance, is a paper on the " Recurrence of Eclipses and Full Moons." The eclipses, and new and full moons for 1828 and 1846, for 1829 and 1847, as re corded in the " British Almanac," are compared, for the purpose of thus practically reminding the reader that the recurring concurrences of astronomical phe nomena, by which we are enabled to measure time, are, in so far as those brief periods which have prac tical utility for man are concerned, only approximative. The neat and distinct execution of this paper induces us to attribute it to one whose essays on applied mathematics in this publication have done much to give it the high character it maintains. By no means inferior in value to the paper we have been noticing, is the retrospect of the progress of education in England, in which the actual achieve ment of our endowed schools, and of our voluntary associations for education, are successively reviewed, and the results applied to enforce this moral—the " insufficiency of the present system of education." "Government Offices" is a condensed sketch of the actual organisation and functions of the different executive bureaux of Great Britain, with historical indications of their origin and organisation. Who ever can accomplish the task of filling up this sketch from a matured study of our national archives would render an important service both to the student of history and the practical politician. The paper to which we arc directing attention is, we believe, the first attempt of the kind. " Railways of Great Britain," " Fluctuations of the Funds," " buties under the Corn Importation Act," and " Customs Duties," are sequels of the valuable compilations in historical statistics presented under the same titles to the public in previous volumes of the series. The Abstracts of Public Acts and Parliamentary Documents, the Chronicle of the Session of Parliament for 1846, the Catalogues of Private Bills and Public Petitions for the same Session, the Review of Public Improvements, the Chronicle of Currencies, Bank ruptcy• Analysis, and the Annual Necrology of Lite rary Men and Artists, maintain their reputation. Our old friend continues to be indeed a repertory of " Useful Knowledge." Itbr Drama. Saturday tl enough,ua harlequin dnwd Comicwanting n Ggeo ngeeh what i a s tuin t m dt DRURY LANE.—We witnessed et t his theatre On u t s h h e l . ' :1 1 1 a r a m g b e l t: m : l'4 a c ted all i ed ous " pantomime's essence—viz., fun. But the fun of a pantomime has of late years heea confined to a burlesque introduction, the remainder being only notice able for a few novel transformations, having, now and then, sonic point, popular or political. On the present occa sion, the introductory part was burdened by a very short dialogue of no merit, and, notwithstanding the bustle anti rapidity of its action, was so confused and wanting in drollery as to draw down frequent busts of hissing. Mr l'ayne, who played "t. George, was unfortunately ill, and on his account the performance was for a short time suspended ; but even when this gentleman excited himself in his best manner, and whilst he was aided by Mr. Wieland, very un equivocal symptoms of displeasure and weariness were ex hibited by the audience. The real business of the panto mime was equally unfortunate. No topic of the day was successfully touched on; and the absence of political allusions was complete, unless, indeed, wo are so te cons ider the transformation of two trees, marked " Spa nish Nuts," and Orleans l'lums," into a girl and boy, wear ing respectively the Cachueha costume and the dress of a debardcur. The tricks and changes were as commonplace as if neither chemistry nor the science of machinery had made any progress in the last ten years ; and the mythic personagee, Harlequin, Columbine, Clown, and l'antaioun, seemed to be under the iiditienee of the general drowsiness. ILAYSIARKET.—One of the pleasantest stories ultimo Countess d'Anois' Conies des Fees, is that of Prince • Lutin, whom a grateful fairy has cudowed with four gilts: a cap that, turned one way, uausports him whither he will in an instant, and, turned another, renders him invisible ; a red rose that gives him perpetual health ; a yellow rose that, on a wish, places at his disposal boundless wealth; and white rose, that gives him to know whether the fair one he loves at any particular time is worthy of his pension. Upon this story Mr. has fuunded the " Invisible Prince ; or the Island of Tranquil Delights," which constitutes the Christmas piece at the little theatre in the Haymarket. " The Invisible Prince" received the permission of his Imperial Majesty the l'ublic to appear every evening until further notice. " The Invisible l'rince' is one of tho pret tiest of that series of extravaganzea which hare fur some years past attracted first the joyous ex pectation and then the lightsome steps of Christmas merry makers to this agreeable they're. The dialogue is racy and telling, "full of wise saws and mnlern in 'tutees," and, with its wonted nice morality, giving sharp raps over the knuckles of hum ery in general, and of Louis Philippe in particular, while far the simple follies of the day it has its laughing jest and jollity. The perfor mers are all that Mr. Piancei or the public could desire. They enter throughout into the fun of the thing, aud thus give each line, every ward , its full effect. We have 0., epees wherein to Pet forth the merits of nil, and we have no incli nation invidiously to indicate particular personages. Only, ea Miss Reynolds has never before uppcand in en.e of these estravaganz is, whereas Ms's P. lloram, Miss J ulia Bennett, )lr.J . Bland, and others, have bee. ow identified with th ..ir ein em, we wsult just say that now we h.,ve own Miss ynolds one of them, it appears inexplic dee how we could have done without her in wilder yean, sssiiial deersem, with her joy-oesming. la ce h.,r ..inriciation of ;miaow . , and her clear, fine, ringing vai.e. The scenery i. l'ittracEss's. —The entertaiiiinenni at this theatre were pr Bract dvu hueseively as v• de , t h e yea, - o%jeet of • hull lay Ofelling'd 11.11111111,1/1, I. Th, matter (as it may be called) lasted sit wit n u quaur of deem 'clock; by which time the p.m( folks. who b., 4 gists. •• full of jorul enlie.p.tiou of the osintouvrine wouder• promised them, were a orn out with th.sir inisa, tot vial! ; and b . fore the end et the pantomiuse (at past one o'do.k , in Sunday morning), we saw se v er al of .rtat•ncs carriwas eel fast asleep, out el the buite. The first piece " Blauche do VeLnv," a nielselranni. iii two see". was rather pler.siag and inter...tine • sari -'1 the h the per. a. of Mrs. so ...ling, 111,1:i, •, • able impressive 1111 the trash *can:, of the juve.,'.••• Next ea hie a moat ann.:ea...are and already worumut " Se v. r M w hick lasted vl. the, hour we have in. ritiontd. I .. teas os•oelealy poi Insole 1, as if the to *ere quite a wrthat noody carol for it. The psalm:aim - called • 'lle I.:n.b laded !leagues of the Oglelea Castle ; •••,•. :.,' 'in •)We eyed (lame ," a kit e sudiciew t , • shoes - te ," oLkt , riabt w, re drawn tram the A iisbidos Ve; %pie and Illevrie of which were amusi true. • TI.e aela we; not only gorgeous, but no c.• ~f ti. .ey bean tlful, le a view ... car . lof Pan et , , • masterly piece 0: painting. There we . 1.0 :sane capital London etre-. t ,C 0111,11; 11.111101 11, of the noul; , al chandege., w as d (7,.rn0 trans to femoiee of the Wellingt,••• from II! er the More Orients. Lllll the C;issns wor .r e we:, p. earned by 11..1..c.ia Mks Liurleegc, load ilex • m ant the Mew, na I it - -a1. , . per'arrnisl at a es:tan/table the, woabl have le en • i aite saes laTeltl2.ll.--. Suttee the firm of I hz.k.„-nie Life," (Is , drama •, k eeson•.• hsise, to .:se a theatrical phrhwe. " the p arts alLa • 1 in theta. WO an w..rkeelsmo,thle ~ :•1 1 .. Would that w, could ttttt ottoos a si u las result's to tee ssonsel ~,'arse pro. ia.ed the in, agement toss th, th.4:11 , ,rat The Christina. Pauem mass •:.g. fit.) • Iron of the kind at this h neat WA. 43.1:, canuo,lel. Ti:s f a :ban we •I'riho.e to . attmad to eroni , eic ladst with furl. . ; , he one Ir - 4A raglared 111,1,111114 r) t0:1 c other, with but light pr talsinw thi usur,ga pre ..I.l:neatie. ths t n..," The Butt.•rfll's Bail," aaafie.eratise cc to an w Toe h•st• age eit,ion- ts 1.15;.., .;44111,c4.).,,j.,i,,,,,t. of :masa and car!t• tlay, is pries ust y•'tl, ieuts peetilisrly ea aday purpos• huh ou the :1. . 'te as harlsvol. W. are, (sower r, iitle.] that the a ftnery and H.:AJove was 'es.te..:e.: that M:. J. Lauri appeare 1 for first that is 4/eriefirton, a nd assisted by h i. two ~.otliess. the •,1•' -'real e ,1.• tile tst /vntomtme perforined with p rfeet log (est, i rAr if) ,n m utt of the ktist.l ech,il ; that 'At. J. W. per the e' fume ' I ebetrea ; it , . , tr. et7ll su.i a I easy pair , it iteacal j , „ Miss .v• •amerears Marini , sew no tlisal 0w...