The Express. — London, England, 1846-09-21 00:00:00

proceeded direct to Buenos Ayres. The exact purport of the propositions which Mr. Ifoo• was supposed to be instructed to offer to Ross had not transpired ; but his mission is re ported to have caused the most profound consternatioa amongst the Monte Vidcans, who wait with the greatest anxiety a full disclosure of its nature and extent. There were Tumours also of the intended recall of M. Martuil, the French consul at Buenos Ayres. COLONIAL. WEST INDIES.—ARRIVAL OP THE ROYAL MAIL.—The steamer Avon, Capt. Norton, arrived at South ampton on the 19th inst. Her dates are—Demerara, Aug. 18; Trinidul, 20th ; Jamaica , 23rd ; Barbadoes, 24th ; Gre nada, 2.5 th; St. Thomas, 30t1; Fayal, Sept. 13 ; La Guayas, Au. IN. The early part of the present season in the West I n dies was the driest and hottest ever known. Latterly, however, so much rain has fallen, that the planters have almost fancied it injurious. Among the passengers by the Avon is Dr. Kelley, whose zeal for the propagation of his religious opinions in Madeira has created notoriety, and given great offence to the Portuguese authorities there. The Avon brought home 5,147 dollars, 151. British coin, 68 bales of tobacco, 60 tierces of coffee, and 119 bales of sarsa Feral* CANADA.—SUFFERING. OS BOARD AN EMIGRANT YeseEL A CASE FOR THE COLONIAL LAND AND EMIGRA TION CUMMIsSIONERS.—The Montreal Herald contains a horrible account of the sufferings of some Irish emigrants, on board a ship called the Elizabeth and Sarah, which lett Efilala on the 26th May last. The Herald says: We tind that the Elizabeth and Sarah, is a vessel of 320 tone burden, bet tit,:t she is only 1,520 feet superficial measurement, and was, therefore, only entitled by law to carry 155 adult passengers, instead of which she had 211-46 beyond her complement. 11cr lot 01 passen gers certitied by the proper .uMeer at littlala, contained 2.52 names, while by an error in the addition she appeared to have only 212, and bad in reality 276 souls on board, beelike the crew. she had only 8,700 gallon; of water on board at starting, and in leaky and inside. cient casks ; whereas, the law requires that she should be provided with 52 gallons for each adult passenger, or 12,572 gallons. The law obliges the issue, per day, to each adult passenger, of I lb. of bread•stuf —one half in biscuit. This WAS entirely imprecated, or, at all events, not one pound was issued during the voyage, end the poor emigrants were kit entirely dependent upon their own stores. As we have mentioned, the mister was the ask owner of the vessel, and, we understand, received from the ship-broker 15e. sterling for each pas. meager he took, which will account for his crowding his ship in the way he Mil. The condition of the Elizabeth and Sarah, on her arrival at braise Isle. after a passage of 72 days, may be conceived by the fart, that of 70 cases cat fever among the survivors on board, seven died in hospital and although the crew were then comparatively healthy, their employment in cleaning the ship consigned the majo rity of . them to the Fever-ward. There was no convenience for the pammwers on board, and the state of the vessel has been mentioned to es as being horrible and disgusting beyond the power of language to describe. A letter, with the signatures of John Laval (late of the pariah of Kilmore). John Stephens (late of the parish of Westport), James Joyce (late of the parish of Lanmore, Co. Mayo), details at length the sufferings of themselves and their fellow-emigrant*. They were tint beguiled to Killala by the first of May, when they found the vessel had not yet r.rrived there, and they were obliged to return—nut to their homes, for they had been sold—to beg a scanty shelter from former neighbours. They were next informed that if they were not ready by the 14th of May they would ilirfeit their deposits. This time they found the vessel in port, but far from ready fur eta ; so that they had to lino on their little means till the 26th of May, rendering many of them penni less at their departure. The rest of the horrible tale may be ' told in their own simple fashion : e. We were given to understand that each berth wan to be occupied nut to ecce d R 11; after we h:‘,Tidd nagged, however. It number I :::ft n in r d ' t7:l7 we numbered 2so weals, and that, in.tead of there being forty-seven bertha, as there ribald have been for this number of persons, there were hut thirty pix in all, four of whack were afterwards occupied by the crew; ro that there remained but thirty-two for the auxoninaudestion of the pignengem, which being totally insufficient fur our number, many of us were obliged to deep on the floor. Two quart+ of water per day was the me,: allowed to each pawenger ; nor was bread or oatmeal Veer served out to its, as +fated an our manage tickets; and which, by law, the master was bound to have given us. After having been out da 21 the master informed to that we were on the Bunks of New .l,; whereupon many of the mementoes wanted their pro visions, believing that they were close to port. We did not reach Newfoundland for 24 days after thin, and instead of finding ourselves on the south side we were on the north. We had to make the circuit of the island of Newfoandlauul to gain the Gulf of St. Lawrence, but before doing thin the mate, J. Tindal, (the captain being nick and unable to attend to his duties) ran us ashore ou the Inland of St. Peter, to the south of Newfoundland, thinking at the time It wan St. Paul's Island. We were then in a meet deplorable date, living upon abort allowance, and many of us without any. Our pittance of water Was both gluey and putrid; disease and penlilence Melee nut among us, and carried of many of our fellow paeseengern in its iron grasp. In thin state of thing+ we AUeeeeftell in getting utf the reef, luckily without mush injury. (tear captain, who for many days past hail torn at death', done, now breathed his last, and several more of the pamengervi Ilkewine yielded up their studs to him who created therm Their beefiest were, of course, iannitaliately committed to tho deep; but the mate. as if to add Molar nireety, notwithstanding our most urgent request to the contrary, prnhte.l in keening the body of the Captain. Fur thirteen long dove :at the end of which time we reached Basque Inland), the body 4.1 . y upon the quarfte-deek In a most horrid disgusting mate of derignpositnin, thereby engendering the pestilence among on to a fearful extent, in so much that twenty-two routs had by this time perished. hliortly after leaving the reef of Bt. Peter'n Island, we tell in with a re swl, and it was with the attmod difficulty that we induced the mate to heave-to, in the hopes of obtaining a fee& supply of water and pa (widens, both of which be got, and sold the hitter to us at must etorhilont prices; a few day+ alter thin we met with another vessel, but the cruel mate would not heave-to —no, the unfeeling man con lambed hie course, notadthntanding the heart-rending thee of men, women, and children. who clung to his knees in the agony of their despair. At Basque Island we received ninth attention from a Mr. Webb, mate of the Liverpool, wrecked eat that Island, and whose disintenstel kindness., while it never can be forgotten by tie, we would wish to be particolarlv noticed, on it might be wrvice. I able to him in obtaining his pmenotinn, which he well de- series There, Sir, we would have laid till our ship had berme a charnel Manse, and we had no longer hen numbered analog the living, bad it not been for the promptitude and decision of the government emigrant agent here in tleepatehing u otenn,hout to our s....ietunee; for this act he will ever have our moot carne-t prayer. , rising to the Merry-seat of God, beseeching biro that he will far ever bless both him and his. On the 72ne1 clay after our &Torture from Killiala, we dropped anchor at Geese Isle, w here we were kindly and hospitably treated to Dr. !knights, the niedleal superintendent, as also by Mr. Cullingford, who wan in charge of the sick; here seven more of our fellow peeeeneere ellen. and many still remain there in a s cry preea - limas state.--Quelge, 22nd Aug. The Montreal paper ealls on the home government to punish the guilty parties, by whose heartless cupidity so many lives were sacrificed ; since the death of the master, A. Simpson, who was also sole owner, debars the authorities at Montreal from inflicting upouhim the legal penalties they otherwise would. NEW SOUTH WALES. —MURDER OF Bisnor EPALLE.—A meeting ha• been held at Sydney, for the pur pose of erecting a monument, by public subscription, to the memory of this prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, who was nyissacred by the Ravage natives of the island of Isabel, or 'ruble, one of the new Hebridean group, on the 16th December last. Considerably more than 1001. was subscribed at the meeting, and the memorial will probably be the addition of an orator• to the Roman Catholic cathedral of Sydney. Dean M•Encroe gave the following account of the bishop's death : s• On the morning that the melancholy circumstance occurred, hie lordatup, tiecompanied by the Rev. Mr. I'rentont, the Rae. Mr. ( raine, and two lac brotheth, put off front the vessel in the but, with the second ma s s and four seamen, in order to find a place to fora a settlement; they had been live day. making excurviona for the 'same purpose. Whet' the boot left the cenSCi, the summit mate inquired from tun lontylitp to which place they should go, and wait directed to proceed to the " unfriendly tribe," a name which the inhabitmts of that part of rouble had got on board the cruel, from all the natives who had previouely visited the miasionarits has ing told them that if they went there tb'y would be killed; but in consequence of the dif ferent tribes being at war with each other, little attention was paid to this statement. AA the party appromhed the beach, they observed a number of objects on the ialsad, apparently motionless arid scarcely distinguLahable front the ground; they, at length, observed n convenient and pi oiler place fax landing, and a. they approached the sbore some of the party Paid the objects they saw acre pie:a, and others mid they were not men but gay stone+. .1s the bolt conic nearer to the shore then observed a hole of about a hundred nativett, acme of whom left the teach and went into the bush apparently afraid. Signs were made to them not to he afraid, and an old man with long white hair, in a Mate of trepi dation, went alongside :md examined the boot very minutely, no doubt to:.-certain w hethr r there were any arm in it. Ile had two mam-mt es in hi, hand which he gave to the second mate, who pre sented him in niturn w:th a piece of iron. The party then left the but, tan seamen remaining with it, and the natives attempted to pull it on the beach. Contrary to their uaual custom the seamen were unarmed, sits tog they were ashamed to go armed while the 11,1 top and the priest.; were unarmed. His lordship, with the nee. Mr. Chihraine, one lay brother, and a sea man, walked on on • side ; the Rev. Mr. Fremont, the other lay brother, the second mate, and the other seaman, on the other side. tile. Fremont, by sigma, asked the nation, where their house,. were, but merited no answer. Ile then naked who was their chief, when a wed number of them proudly titling tip their beads intimated that they were chiefs. One of the lay Mother. he sign+ intimated to one of them, that the club he held in hi. hand Was , a very line one, to which he in the same manner haughtily answered that it was. .‘ boy, apparently about thirteen years obi, ohaerved the ring on the bishopie firmer, and offered him two mangroves for it ; his lordship merely smiled, and the seamen observed that they Oct a great value upon thew mangroves. One of the lay brothers saw an axe in the hands of one of the aativea, which be pointed out to Mr. Chau taine, who said that he had elan seen one. These tam were not nn the short handles they a:wally are, but had handles four or live feet :ong, and the axe. themselves were very bright. Mr. Chalk mine directed his lonlyhip'a attention to the circumatance, and Paid tie natives appeared to be ready to attack them. lie said that was true, and asked if the aailorn were armed. He then began to return towards the boat, hut it waa ton late, as he had scarcely taken two steps rhea the native came behind him with an axe, which he raised with both hands, and struck the bishop a violent blow on the bead. His lordship raised both his hands to hi+ head and cried out. AU the natives then yelled, and attacked each of the party individually. The whites were soon smaratcd and could not help each other; the only thine they couhl do was to try to reach the boat • on theirflight thither Mr. Fremont received two rota on the head, and the second node one; Mr. Chauraine remsived a blow on the head, and another on the but not severe. A pistol watt fired from the hoot, and an the name. except three ran off into the bush. These three were trying to "frit , the bishop of his c10th..., when Mr. Chauraine seised a cutlas* and ran to protect his lordship ; as he laid his hand upon him a market wit,. b ird, and the native. ran off yelling. Mr. Chauraine tarred the body tome distance, but being unable to carry it far, he tilled for assistance, but to no purpose; and he called again, when Mr. Fremont anti one of the lay brothers went to his aroatanee and tamed the bishop to the boat, the nativea shouting fiercely and ' tm ariling all the time. Ilia lordship mil insensible and bleeding ;Lamely from the wounds ; when he was washed and hie head s " . '" l s four large wound+, each three inches in length, were dirk ear rild- His lordship lived for three days and a half, during the who'd of which time he remained irmensible, and departed this life at f quarter to one on the fourth day." INFANTICIDE IN Is Bradley, of Ellich re!, states in a paper read before the Bombay Geographical ''etY, that the Klaonds of the districts of l'ondacole, Gulodye, and Bori, annually destroy above one thousand female children . FoaEW.tRYED, FOREARMED.-TIIE TURNIP DIB - portends a season of severe trial to stock `"Vers, and the farmers whose culture depends on feeding 'l4°ev. The threatened disease in the turnips, even should It turn out not to be serious, will, we hope, direct the atten t2a of farmers to the use of auxiliaries, linseed, for instance. 1 " ought also to be a memorial to the Queen, from every market in th e ki ng d om , pray i ng that the duties on imported Min should be suspended bi an order in council. The far m" has a strong and pressing interest in striking off the remnant of duty, which is now enhancing the price of every kind of stock provender.— The Economist. be (Vain. The Court remains at Osborne-house. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Prussia, attended by ber suite, arrived at Marlborough-house, Pall mall, on Saturday morning, from Cashiobury Park, Herta, the residence of her Mates, the Queen Dowager. he Princess visited his Royal Highness Prince George in the afternoon, at his residence in St James's Palace, where her Royal Highness was met by his Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, who arrived in town, and also by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. who arrived from their residence at Kew. A tirjeiner was served to the illustrious party. After luneLcon, the Princess of Prussia, accompanied by the Ditchers of Cambridge anti the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz honoured the establishment of Messrs. Hunt and Roskell with a visit. . _ The Princess of Prussia, attended by her suite, left town at six o'clock, by the Lo.lclon and North-Western Rail way, on her return to Cashiobury Park. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand; Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklen burg-Strelitz returned to Kew. Count de Jarnac, French Charge d'Affaires, had an interview with Lord John Rumen ou Saturday, at his offi cial residence in Dowuing•street- Iler Royal Highness the Princess of Prussia will return to Marlborough House, and, according to arrange ments at , present contemplated, will embark on board the Black Eagle, at Woolwich, on the lst of next month, for Rotterdsm, on her return to Berlin. WIND.t.OIt, SUNDAY EVENING.— Several parties (many of whom are fireigners) arrived at Windsor, in the course of yesterday, with the Lord Chamberlain's tickets to view the private apartments. The period for viewing having expired ou Friday, ;nd the workmen being engaged through out the rooms in preparing them for the reception of the Court, it was impossible, to the great disappointment of the numerous visitor., to admit them. Our readers will remember that not long since the intention of the King of the French to visit queen Victoria during the present autumn, was announced in the London as well as in the Parisian journals. We at the time made inquiries into the subject, and found that such was the de clared intention of Louis Philippe. We have now, however, to state, that no such visit is to take place ; the idea is alto gether abandoned. We speculate not on the causes of this departure from previous arrangements—we state only the fact, leaving it to others to estimate its significancy at this particular juncture. We are indebted to a Paris corre spondent of high rank for the first intimation of thin change of purpose on the part of the King of the French. —ossercer. THE REGISTRATIONS. CITY OF LONIX)N. Commencing with the Skinners' Company, on Saturday morning, the court pro- ceeded through the whole of the remainder of the livery lists, and c'osed the revision, so fur as the freemen are concerned, at two o'clock in the afternoon.—The first case of any inte rest to report was • novel claim put in by W. Wiles, iu respect of • floating residence. He is the master of a Large, and was objected to by Mr, Wansey, on the ground that he had no fixed residence, and therefore could not be held to i reside within seven miles.—Mr. Brown said the man slept iu his barge every night, and the place from which be plied was Whitechapel Dock.—The Barrister said if it could be shown that the barge ever went beyond the seven-mile circle, it would be fatal, as the occupant bad clearly then no residence within the limits. The party not appearing, his name was erased.—The other case was that of T. Butler, vintner, who was objected to as dead ; but he appeared, and claimed costs. Evidence was given to show that the objection was not vexatious, but that the agent of the objector, on inquiry at the residence intimated, had been told that Mr. Butter (referring to the father or uncle of the voter) was dead. In this ease the Barrister awarded 10s. costs, on the ground that the objection, though groundless, was clearly not frivolous sr vessitious. Mr. Butler observed that he thought this a very pa try sum ; he bad been detained in court upwards of three boars. Thy B wrist( r said that this remark was extremely improper, and ordered him to leave the court. Mr. Butler received his costs, and departed. The total results of the revision of the livery lists stand thus:—Of Liberal objections, 78 were sustained, and 120 failed ; of Tory objections, 104 were made good, 383 failed ; of objections by both parties, 76 were sustained, and 2G fell to the ground ; of claims, 3 were allowed to liberals. MARYLEttoSE.--Thc lista of objections and claims for the parish of St. Marylebone were concluded on Saturday. The result of the revision in the parish is as follows—Objec tions disallowed 49, sustained 571 ; claims sustained 23, re jected 37. In the morn of the day a claim was objected to on the ground that the rates had not been paid. In answer to this it was shown that a tender of the rates had been made at the house of the overseer by the hands of a third party. The revising barrister held that this was nut a good tender ; the point having been already decideal by the Court of Common Ileas on appeal, awl the claim was rejected. Two more c wee were rejected on the same ground. No other noticeable case occurred. The court sits this day at the Vestry-room, Gordon- square, to revise the lists fur the parish of St. huscras. NEw CITY oollision, it is believed, is about to take place between the Court of Aldermen and the Court of Common Council, upon the subject of the new prison which government expects the city will speedily erect, in which classification can be adequately carried out It is well known that the great majority of the aldermen are decidedly opposed to the proposition to build a new prison out of the limits of the city, and that the leading men in the Court of Common Council are most favourable . to it. The former court hosing called upon the committee of the Court of Common Council to pis e their reasons for objecting to the erection of a new prison within the city, a paper has been handed iu by Mr. Wire, the chairman. It sets forth a great many reasons why none of the present City prisons could be made applicable to the purpose, and objects to building a new prison within the city ; that the site would cost a large sum, and that it would he a bar to future improvement. It then considers the objection to building a prison beyond the jurisdiction of the City, and recommends Whitecross-street prison for remanded prisoners. It further states, " The tenons wh'eh induce the committee to select a spot out of the City are -first, that OA much space us may now or at any future time be minim) ran he obtained to erect a prawn to accommodate prisoner', with ample airing ground., vaeco for aor l o d m p s , annexed, for ;rums not eyeerling 5,155 t., thereby etfis ling a susing to the city of at least 130,0110(.; secondly, that main the space so to be obtained s pr sun, with all modern improvements, both as regard, the discipline and the reformation of the prisoners, might be erected, which could not be so well accomplished within a uanow space ; thirdly, because many of the aldermen arc magistrates of Miild , rev, and have, therefore, al-ordinate jurisdiction in that county with the jostle, thereof; and, lastly, because the county u tals the rite. and all ports of it while a prison could bo built are more accessible and more within the daily walks o( the city authorities than other counties. For thew ma: rani the committee examined a plot of ground belonging to the corporation, situate at Holloway, and came to the conclusion that it was desirable to erect a new prisnn there; first, because of it. easy :errs from all parts of the city and the metropolis ; secondly, because of the great saying of expense In the purchase of a site ; thirdly, on the ground of its salubrity, its roil being capitge of being wen draintbl, :and of the ample spate which may be obtained for all the purposes which may be The subject thus brought forward will be next week dis cussed in the Committee of Aldermen, who feel some appre hension that their privileges would be entlanfured if they were to consent to the erection of a prison in the county. ERRATUM.—In the remarks upon Mr. Lambert Jones's testimonial in Saturday's paper, the name of the gentleman alluded to as the inventor of the railway system was erroneously printed " Thomas Clarke :" it ought to have been Thomas Gray. FAMINE IN IRELAND.—Yt sterday, in compliance with the direction of Bishop Griffith,', vicar apostolic of the London district, a prayer was °tiered up in all the Roman Catholic places, of worlip in London, supplicating the Almighty to be pleased in his mercy ti avert the horrors of famine which appear to be impending over Ireland. The very rev. Dr. Smyth, of Eatiker, in the county of Galway. one of the most distressed districts of Ireland, has arrived in London on a mission of chari•y throughout England, end will deliver the first of a series of appeals to the humane and merciful in the Catholic church, Caslogan-place, on next Sunday. THE SOCIETY OF VICE AND FALSE. I)ELICACY. This society, which has its abitsea as well as its uses, has petitioned the Itoyal Academy, to abolish studying from the life. "Theirs," writes the Athentruni. from which we glean the information, " is the philosophieal and trinseendLntal treat ment of the subject. The vice that walks in the sunshine and stands right between the wind and their moral nobility may be left to more commonscavengers, while they go in Mntas tic search of that which may hide in possible corners or lie under fair pretences. A leas refined polies may deal with facts—their business is with problems." EDUCATION OF TILE POOR IN LAMBETIL—This day two new schools will be opened for the gratuitous educa tion of the poor in Lambeth: one a school for boys in con nexion with St. Mary's District Chapel, Lambeth, which by the operation of a recent act of Parliament has become a lxx petual curacy and incumbency; the other an evening school for educating persons above 10 years of age. ROBBERY AND SUICIDE.—Mr. Ledger, baker, of Swan-lane, Rotherhithe, had on various occasions missed money from his cash-box, and the abstraction of sovereign= and half-sovereigns at last became so frequent, that he marked his money and endeavoured to trace the thief, but without success. Suspicion fell upon his own sons, and lie was very unhappy. On Friday morning a seed-rake was missing from the shop, and circumstances led to it belief that the servant girl had stolen it. Upon opening one of her boxes, the seed cake, and a variety of articles which he had missed from time to time, were discovered. He imme diately accused her of stealing his money, and threatened to give her into custody. She implored of him not, and con fessed her guilt. She said that she alone was the thief, and had opened his cash-box by a false key, made for the pur pose, and delivered to him 201. in sovereigns and half sovereigns. Mr. Ledger had lost about 341. in all. She had e spent d the remainder iu purchasing dresses and finery. Mr. Ledger then sent for her mother; and the young woman ap peared greatly excited. On her mother's arrival she was found in a water closet, suspended by the neck from a beam; life was extinct. The deceased was only nineteen yearn of ye. THE DANGER OF CONGREVE LIGHTS.—On Satur day night, between eight and nine o'clock, a large pile of boxes containing Congreve matches was discovered to be on fire in the shop of Mr. Cocks, oil and tallow-chandler, 11, Broadway, Westminster. From the highly inflammable nature oh the stock great fears were elate:turned, when one of the shopmen had sufficient presence of mind to throw a wet cloth over the burning boxes, and was thus enabled to carry them into the centre of the roadway, the only damage sus tained being their destruction. THE LATE CASE OF MILITARY FLOGGING AT Hot - xstow.—On the evening of Thursday la st, an .order from the Hone Guards was received b y Lieut.-Cal. IN byte, THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1846. the commanding officer of the 7th (Queen's Own) Hussars, directing that regimant to prepare themselves to le..ve Houns low Barracks to route for lic.and on this day (Monday). Ever since the conclusion of the late inquest heiel on the body of White, the lower orders of the town and neighbour hood of Hounslow, when they have seen any of the officers, and particularly: Lieut.-Col. Whyte, out of the barracks, have assailed them with upbraiding', couched in no very pleasant terms. The farriers have also, when they have ventured into the licensed houses in the neighbourhood, been publicly insulted for the part they took in the infliction of the punishment on White, and it is believed that the knowledge of these facts have induced the Horse Guards' authorities to issue the order for their removal. Their de parture from Hounslow Barracks is looked forward to with much gratification by the majority of the inhabitants, as it will allay musts of that excited and irritated feeling which still exists in that neighbourhood on the subject of military flogging. MILITARY MAGNIPICENCE.—WR learn from a letter in the Natal and Military Gazette that each trooper in the Bengal Horse Artillery has two native attendants for his hone—:t groom and a forager. CHILD DROPPING.—On Saturday night a fine male child, warmly, but poorly clad, was left in the hall of Mr. Kelly's book-binding establishment, Water street, Strand. The constable on duty conveyed it to the union workhouse, where every attenti is was paid to the foundling, who is not more than a fortnight old. ACCIDENT.—DEATH FROM NOT HAVING LEARNED TO swim.—Yesterday morning, a young lad, acting as call boy on board the Laurel Richmond steamboat, then off Arundel-stairs, whil s engaged on deck cleaning the fore sponsun, lost his balance and fell into the river. He could not swim, but struggled violently. A gentleman who was rowing past at the time, threw off the upper part of his dress and plunged in. Though he dived several times, he failed to reach him. Exertions to recover the body, too, were unarailieg. INQCP.STS.—DEATII PROM TAKING LAUDAND.W.— By Mr. W. Payne, on Saturday evening, at the Golden Ball, King-street, Snow-hill, on the body of Miss Lucy Ann Pratt, aged 21, of No. 10, King-street. By the evidence of the witnesses it appeared that t:,e deceased had complained for some time past of passing very restless nights, and that she could hardly get an hour's sleep. A few days ago she heard that her aunt in the country was similarly troubled. She was in the habit of taking laudanum to procure sleep, and asked her brother-in-law, with whom she resided, how much was usually taken. lie told hi rhe did not know, and advised her not to follow the bad practice of her aunt, tclling her that she would soon recover. On Saturday morning, as she was not at the breakfast table at the usual hour, her brother-in-Law went up to call her, and found her apparently asleep. Shortly afterwards, when he went up aga n, he found her dead, and it was probable that when he first saw her she was, suffering fr.,ni the effects of laudanum, which he mistook for sleep. A phial and a cup, both of which had contained laudanum, were found on her dressing-table, and a subsequent examination of the body proved that she had died from opium. Verdict, " Acci - dentally_ poisoned."— Drain FROM DETECTIVE PAVINO.—By Mr. Baker, at the London Hospital, on the body of James Waters, aged 75, ae, open. On Thursday declined was on his way home from the London Docks, and on passing along West-gardens, Ratcliff-highway, he was met by a wagon laden with sugar on its way to the dock. The deceased was c ailed to by the wagoner to retrace his steps, or he would be run over, the place being just wide enough for the wagon to you with only a few inches to spare. The d.ecitacd. instead of turning back, placed himself to the wall. The wagon could not be stopped, us it was passing over a declivity. The near front wheel passed him, but the hind wheel' " lurched" into a hole in the road, and struck the unfortunate man on the chest, twisted him round, and threw him clown ; the wheel passing over his right shoulder, broke his right arm • and five ribs. lle lingered until Wednesday, when death put an end to his sufferings.—The jury said th e roadway in West garden. was in a most disgraceful state, aril that several accidents had occurred there. There were stoppages daily of wagons and carts, which fell into the holes. and there was great neglect on ;he part of the authorities. Verdict, " Accidental Death." _ _ EX etansivE Corros. —The lecture S delivered by Mr. Grove, at the British Association, and merely referred to in our paper of Thursday, commenced by , an explanation of the ioteotate of the composition of gun- I powder which depends 0.1 mixing combustible substance, I with a substance that supplies abundance of oxygen, fur the support of combustion, without depending for the supply an the oxygen of the atmosphere. Nitrate of soda, or saltpetre, wan a substance that answered these conditioes, and when ; intimately mixed with charcoal and sulphur in proper pro. ; portions, it supplied those combustible bodies at once with sufficient oxygen, and the composition became explosive at a given temperature. There was, however, a considerable reailue after the explosion of even the best gunpowder, which showed that the combustion w. s n it perfect, read the residue proved greatly inconvenient by soiling fire arms. In the invention of l'roftseor fichoenbein this inconvenience was entirely r. medied, and the explo sive force was said to be double that of gunpowder. The substance was, in fact, cotton, which wan pre pared in some manner not yet made known, and could not he distinguished in its app •aranee from or.linary cotton. There were two qualities of the preparation, one of which was ' intended for comfit n purposes, and evolved a small quan tity of smoke on explosion ; the other, which was more ex pensive in its preparation, emitted no perceptible smoke, and left no residue whatever. The gun cotton, he said, explodes at the temperature of 400 siegrees—the explosive , point of gunpowder being about 600 degrees; and it might be exploded on gunpawdei without igniting the latter. Mr. (hove then exhibited the experiments. lie first exploded a small qnantity of gunpowder, for the purprete of show ing the large quantity of smoke evolved. Ile then ex • libeled a small 10:k or the gun cotton of the second ; quality. It flashed off as rapidly an gunpowder, and but a very small quantity of smoke was perceptible. The piper on which it was exploded w s hut slightly stained. f he better kind of the gun cotton exploded still more rapidly, without any smoke whatever; Rlld it gave out as orange-coloured flame. The exhibition of the experiment , was received wits loud applause. Mr. Grove next exhibited that peculiar property of the cotton nut being injured by water. Ile steeped a piece of the cotton in a gloss of water, and then pressing it between blotting paper to dry. Though it could not have been thoroughly dry in the time, the cotton floated off when the heated wire was applied to it, and without any perceptible smoke. The flash, however, was not in this rase so instantaneous as that of the perfectly dry cotton. The last and moat curious experiment was the explosion of a piece of the gun cotton when placid upon loose powder, without igniting the latter. The experiment succeeded perfectly, though it requires the cotton to he iliac dry to insure its success, tor if the combustion be less rapid i the gunpowder explodes. NEW BORING APPACIAITS.—This world in so arranged that many substances of the greatest importance to man—such as metale, coals, salt—are buried at great depths in the crust of the gl.:he. Of the amount of mineral wealth thus hid from our view we have a very imperfect idea, because boring, which furnishes the most direct knowledge of the inte rior, is a very expensive operation as hitht rto conducted When the bore is deep, the mere cutting the strata is but a secondary part of the process. The implement aeon bee oiling clogged with the detritus of the sock, must be withdrawn at short intervals, and replaced by an instrument of a shape fitted to lift up the Lose matter. When the bore is 500 or 1.000 feet deep, it may be conceived how much time and labour is con- Burned in withdrawing one heavy iron rod (or rather a series, f rods) of that great length—inserting another to catch up the I detritus—withdrawing that again—and reins rting the first ; one. It was a happy idea to save the whole of this labour of ' shifting and lifting by making the boring tool hollow, and forcing down through it a strong current of water, which wend. in the open space between the outside of the tube and ; the walls of the bore, bearings ith it then hole tiiturated mat ter an fast as it is produced. It will be easily unfit stood that I the boring tool will work more easily in water thou when plunging through some feet of sand or gravel, and that Li the new process most of the power formerly wasted in pounding the debris after they have been separated from the rock will be saved. The example given [at the meeting of the British , Awociation] of the power of the implement will appear in credible to our miners. A bore of .i6O feet in depth (and for an artesian well it must have been 6 or 8 inches wide) pierced in 110 liours : —why, this is m e re like the effect of the prophet's rod than the miner's! The nature of the rock is not mentioned ; but on consulting the geological ma' of France, we find that it must have been the lower part of the' chalk, called the green sand," or, it it pierced beyond this, it must have gene into the transition strata, which would he harder. Now, the celebrated artesian wtll of Grenelle, at , Paris, passes through the same rocks (the chalk and green sand); its width is probably the same; its depth three times greater ; hut what was the time re quired for i ts execution Why, seven years ! The bore at Per- I pignan was sunk at the rate of 31 feet per hour; the bore at Grenelle at the rate of 9 inches per day ! Making every allowance for the increased difficulty attending the greater depth of the latter, the difference is still enormous. The in vention will be applied to a hundred important purposes—to searches for coals, for ores, for salt or salt springs, for mineral waters. Every town or village, which has no stream near it, may bare its sates:an well. The manu facturer may hare one close to his engine or mill : the gentleman may have it in his house or garden. When openings downward can be made at so small an expense (one tenth, it is said, of the present cost), how easy will it be, by forcing down currents of pure air, to ventilate our coal and other mines, and prevent those fearful explosions which often till a whole village with widows and orphans in a single morning.—Sco!sman. EXTR.‘ORDECARY SI'IITERR.INE.IN NOISER. The most striking instance of uninterrupted subterranean noise, unaccompanied by any trace of earthquake, is the phenome non which is known in the Mexican territory by the name of " the subterranean roaring and thundering (brarnidos y truenos subterfaneos) of Guannxuato." This rich and cele brated mountain-city is situated at a distance from any active volcano. The noise began on the 9th January, 1784, at midnight, and lasted above a month. I have been ena bled to give a circumstantial description of the phenomenon from the report of mane witnesses, and from the documents of the municipality which I was permitted to make use of. From the 13th to the 16th of January, it wan as if there were heavy storm-clouds under the feet of the inhabitants, in which slow rolling thunder alternated with short thunder claps. The noise ceased gradually, as it had commenced ; it was confined to a small space, for it WU not heard in a basaltic district at the distance of only a few miles. Almost all the inhabitants were terrified and quitted the city. in which large masses of silver were stored ; but the most courageous, when they had become somewhat accus tomed to the subterranean thunder, returned and fought with the binds of robbers who had taken possession of the treasure. Neither at the surface, nor in imam 1,598 Eng lish feet in depth, could the slightest trembling of the ground be perceived. In no part of the whole mountoinou: country of Mexico had anythang similar been ever known before ; nor has this awful phenomenon been since repeated. Thus, as chasm in the interior of the earth elope or open, the propa. atiun of the waves of sound is either arrested in its progress or contiuned until it reaches the ear.—lison boliys Cosmos. BILLETs DE BANQUE AND BILLETS Doex.—The following romantic story appears in the Augsburg Gazette : " The Countess de --, one of the most attractive lionnes of Berlin, and who is now in the prime of her beauty, is noted for her adhesion to the ultra-liberal principle of female emancipation. Having contracted, when very young, a mariaje tie coaremaire with a man for whom she did not feel the slightest attachment, she dec'ded on making up for the sacrifice by indulging in intrigues with those more to her taste. The count, her httsband, on the other hand, carried on a secret and guilty connexion with the Marquise de ld—, which becoming, at length, known to his wife, she resolved to watch him narrowly in order to procure proofs which might enable her to obtain a divorce. For this pur pose she summoned to her aid two of her admirers. These gentlemen, one of whom is connected with one of the tri bunals at Berlin, cngaicd to get possession of the letters written by the Count to Madame de M—. Knowing that she had just set off for Paris, they followed her and reached an hotel at Cologne, where she had just alighted. While she was at dinner, they contrived to get hold of her luggage, and observing a small box w hi c h th e y i mag i ne d mus t contain the wished-fur billets-doux, they carried it otf. Madame de M— soon becoml4 aware of her loss, made inquiries, and , discovered the gentlemen at the station of the railroad from Cologne to Bono, just as the train was about to start. She got into it. The two gentlemen had in the meantime opened the box, and to their horror found that, instead of contain ing the coveted billets.dors, it contained nothing but a parcel of matter of fact billets de banque, and that in-teal of having executed the m.ssion of them inamsrata, they had placed themselves in the poilt.on of common robbers. Alarmed at the consequences of their act, they endeavoured, on arriving at Bruhl, to make their escape, but the vigilant marquise prevented it, and had them taken into custody by the police, under whose guardianship they still remain, to await the result of further investigation." IRELAND. DUBLIN, Sire. 19. MAYO.—In the FiYemeni's Journal of this evening there is the following reference to the adjourned meeting in Mayo on Thursday.—" I send you the important resolutions of the great adjourned county :meting held here yesterday. I say great beeause, notwithstanding the absence, with some hono- rable excep•ions, of the forty-nine magnates of the land, who assembled in secret conclave here on Saturday, there was an immense tesenib:age of the people, to the number of sonic thousands, of whom not one-tenth could obtain admission into the court-house where the proceedings were eirriAl on." The most Rev. Dr. Mae Hale was present and addressed the mectisg. The Freon - at's correspondent further lays:—'• I should not omit that the 79th Highlanders, just arrived here, were kept under arms the entire day, as well as the police-- I all under the direction of the noble lieutenant of the county. These precautions were ridiculously unnecesmry - -the poor people dispersed quietly to their homes when the pntceedings terminated. During the meeting a banner was earned into the body of the courthouse, on which WAS painted in black letters, • Work or Bread ;* but, at the request of his gran• (Dr. Neenah.) the Archbishop it was instantly removed." The following are tho principal resolutions referred to in the communication:— Moved by hi. Grace the Archbishop of Thant ; recond.l by Valen tine O'Coner 'Shake, Es q., D.L. sad J. P., of Tower-ltill. 1t,..010rl - That it. met:melody evidence obliges us to concur in the that resolution 'seemly adopted by the assembled magistratee and landloi chi of Mayo, "that pie potato, which const.tuted the food of at leant mine-tenth of the Imputation of this count If, amountunt to nearly 110,1501.1presons, In now badly pme ;" bolt though this awful vinitation of an Mateo table Providento cannot be adequately met without large aid from the national resew:nes it is vet RI extensive .wel tio generally spread over every locality, however antall and remote, that without the labour rate art of the 111th of Victoria being brought, without further delay, into operation, the nine-tt•nth of the people, thin old of their daily food, moat nem...My %tarty. Moved by Valentine °Tome Blake, F.q., It. L. and J. If. ; actondell br James (Mow& Esq., harriater-at-Law Resolved - Then•fore. that we, too, concur with lb magtstrataa and Walked% in the opinion of the (suture haunts which the country will theist. hoot railr. cols traversing this county from the extrentitit is thereof toward the metropolis. But that much as we Indite ouch benefits, they would be toodistant in time, too remote a. to several • n•i tut narrow and limited in their operation, to sine the liyrs of nearly 4154110, perstais. who are threatened with instant starvation• which utmost brook delay, and who are spread through mould:we. and piontuntories over and of more than 2,utio square mile.. Moved by tit,. Very Ike. JAM. Ilughea, 1..1'. of l Larentorrin; re emoted hv the Bev. Riehar.! Henry, ff.ff., of Islandeady Res.olved - That are concur in the benevolent resolution of adjuring the coven(. intat to supply convenient depot. with boot, alto II may enable the starving poor to reach it, and at a reasonable prim, without being the vicimia of commenialcupblity. But I. will tweoant rily be attended with delay, and a 'urge portion tot the In...ph has e not MUM, to parchase toed, until the system of labour, ro-extensivt• with their 'local distress, is net on find, there is not any tereible hope of av ping the psopls from perishing in the interim, lout by al l the laugllonln imitating the benevolent resolution of so 111011, hunume nicollßes of their body, and not uunemaceibly dishaining the Mae of their tennntry. Mucci by Rev. PATRICK MAI:MANUS, P.P., Louishurgh; seconded by Rev. James Browns, P.P. of Balliutubber - Resolved, —That nothing could Or farther from our mint. than any interference with the find rights of the landlord., easentiol to the welt being of noeiety. That the cry of paying nu rents would be tun newel,« and iMpOll tie on the one hand, as the threat of rigoroualy cn'oreing them, without ant exception, by legal machinery, be unnitionabb• and unwise on the other; that those tenants who hate au interest in the loud, independently of the potato produce, • would ine ir the reproach of gr injustice if tlo•j• should avail thco- I aches of thi. calamity, to the liefr.suilifig of the landlord of his rights; and that again as the covenant between landlord* and tenants in • bonded on the reciprocal equality, which is nopptessl to be the bind. ins principle of all contract*, it would he utterly at variancr with every nation of equit • anal right, that the teuautr., nine-tenths of the peo ' ple should v u - e o n the whole calamity of the potato that Imo perinhed. The resolutions recommend also that parliament should be called together to consider more fully the it has yet done, land with inure einem.", as hiving more knowledge, the state of Ireland, and that it should meet in October. Mohr: or EMPI.OIIN4; THE I'EOPLE.—At a meeting of the Nenagh Hoard of Guardians on Wednesday last, a rewi lotion was unanimously agreed to that a memorial should I he presented to his Excellency, praying that he wval4 he pleased, under the oat of 10th Victoria, through the Beard of Public Works, to advance to the directors of the Temple ' more and Nenagh Railway Company money roe loan, to commence that line.—The Rev. Mr. Power, au excellent Roman Catholic clergyman in Nenagh, prernesl th.t the special sessions under the Employment Aet,whieh assembled in that town on Wednesday, should construct a canal from Nenagh to the Shannon, with docks and wharfs at Nenagh. The vest would be 3.3,0011 V., and the profits, as entail:dell by Mr. Buck, an eminent engineer, 2,000/. bet per unuuni. The proposal was rejected. Cut!NTY or CLAWg.—At an adjournment of the sessions for the half barony of Tulle, on Wednesday last, the sum of 61,:192f. were preaented furthe employment of the poor. This will *rive an expenditure of 14/. per family to the labouring population fur a period of four months. The Li ini.r.rk Reporter, in recording the proceedinga of the meeting, says: .• Ml. Steele enters' the court, and It cheered liv the people innote aa well as out Iheirter the proceeding. he rtkie,sed the people, 'ave.:aim on theiti the ne....ity of preserving Mill tranquillity and cordial co-operation with the clergy of bah persuasions whom Be saw limo-tit, the unigintratra :Ind gentry 14 the neighbourhood when he saw be tore hint doing tlit•ir part, and lie handed a letter to the chairman $ o belt was read f Mr. We - oiled, under-neenstary to the lord-lieutenant, assuring him of the unholy of the government to give every assistance." TIPPLESItY.—The Nenagh Guardian notices in the,.e terms the endeavour of a Roman Catholic clergyman of that coon . y to preserve the people from tumult and riot i— f` Rev. A. Nolan, P.ff., ore Sundae Lint, at Carrie Chapel, and Arr. want, at Monwa Chapel, addressrai the respective congictrations on t lilTßellt state of the destitution which plcyail., anti the inteutled determination against the payment of rents The rev. gentleman spoke fie upward* of an hour is each pariah on the withholding 04 rents from landlord. under the pretext of the potato I that the solvent farmer should, as far no in him power lay, dia. charge the obligation due to his landlonl by the payment if hi. rent. That it would he woro. than &shoot st so to act, for the land lords of that district, daring the period of diem.. of the I:eit WARM, came forward nobly and contributed Largely to the relief of the people, and t at if their rents were now unpaid, they mould not be able to tut in a similar us inner fur th e future. Cona.—The Lord Commissioners of nee Majesty's Trea sury have given their sanction to a loan of 6,00(i/. for the construction of a market in Cork ; for enlarging another mar ket, and building a bridge. Tile HELLS IfrsoLVTIONS.—The resolutions passed at the special sessions assembled at K ells, hay e nlreadr appeared in the Exprest. The views of the Labour hate Act taken in those resolutions were peculiar, and therefore the following account of an interview of the parties concurring in them, which appears in the Pile(, will he read with in terest, more especially the conversation of the Lord Lieu tenant and Mr. I,abouchere: " In lie course of Thursday a deputation wed' on the Load Lit utenant at the Castle, to potent the resolution, passed at the meeting of hells on the 12th. The resolution- having been read by Naper, of Loughcrew, his Excellency said that he understroil them to eorrespond with the act ID Vic., c. lof as tar as the making sod levying of a rate for employment ; and that they alibied from that act in desiring to apply that rate to the urns pavement of agriculture, rather than to public works. The Lord Lieutenant also stated that it was not posaible to put such a construction on that net as would admit of the object of throe rt.-solutions being carried into effect under it. Ile observed, that during the last three or four days he bad received letters innumerable from all parts of Ireland on the aubject of the resolutions ; but that be MUMdeputation Only Hive to the the same advice which he Ltd giver to the writers of those letters—to make presentments for public work. under that act, and to suggest any other works the y could think of to the Board of Works, to which they would give a. favourable...wider- anon as they could. Ilis Excellency also assured them that the govern ment woubl give us favourable a conntruction as they could to the acts under which works were to be executed. The evil of wasting the re sources of the country upon web,m roach haying been forcibly implored by the deputation, Mr. Labouebere inquired whether drainage works, tending to improve the district could not be fount' and was informed that the baronies...in question (Ad not afford werls of the denerlption to any considerable extent. It was then put Wins Excellenry by a mem ber of the deputation, whether her Majesty'. government would be ready to take such a plan an theirs into conaideration, and whether means might not be found of putting it, or something to the like effect, into operation ! To which boo Excellency replied that no mean of doing 90 were vested in the government. After some conversation reap teting the giving assistance to railways, the deputation took leave, hi. Excellence renewing the assurance that the oubject would continue to receive the attention of government. ASSEMBLAGE OF FARMERS AND LARDER/DIA IN WEN roRD.—A correspondent informs me by letter that there wan a meeting on the 16th of hungry farmers and labourers, on Oulart Hill, armed with scythes, pitchforks, and spades. There was also another assemblage in the district on the Fith, to which the Wexford police hare hurried. My cor respondent adds, that whatever may be the measures of government, they most be prompt. persons at least, consisting of the unemployed labourers, Pestle DISTRESS IN Ctalle. — Onltlonday last a thousand artisans, and small farmers, of the district* of Kilnasnolagh, Newmarket-on-Fergus, half-barony of Bunratty, Carragerra The Well, Itinanna, Fenl d oe ed , coal e s o tee the e r te pa d r Para parts of Newmarket-on-Fergus, demanding employment. Several of them bore the appearance of starvation, some of whom had not a bit to eat nor any means of obtaining breakfast that day, and were actually starving, and scarcely able to come into town to make their grievances known by reason of hunger. It was really dis tressing to tce AO nanny fine, able-looking fellows without food, or any means of Panting it. It is now seen, beyond contradiction, thit the potato is absolutely gone. After filing up the stree's fcr some time, and not being met by any of the gerelemen (a ho knew tot of their meeting), they assembled in a field near Ballycar, to see what would be done, at the same time observing the greatest possible order and quietness. Mr. M'Dermott, M.D , and Mr. Heard, sub inspector of police, hearing of it, attended at the place. The people voted the former to preside at their meeting; they all then sat down on the grass, and the learned gentleman addressed the meeting at some length. Resolutions were proposed and passed unanimously, amongst which was the following : Proposed be nags Higgins, seeonded by Mr. J. Ward. Resolved, that we would reepeetfuily recommend to her Majesty's government to take thin their serious and immediate con,iiieration, the wise policy of giving as extensive employment as pos-ible, by draining, railroad making, and every kind of public works, which in their wisdom they may deem it fit to seleet, in order in time, to provide anuinst the ravage. of famine, pestilence, and disease, which it is our firm and honest conviction are otherwise Merit •itite to the pour unem played laborers and farmers of this populous district. The assembled multitude then gave three hearty cheers for the late government, and three for Earl Besborough, the present viceroy. They departed a little satisfied, and tilled with hopes based on past experience of assistance hitherto afforded. . _ _ DINNER To SERJ RANT MERPIIY.—The dinner to this learned gentleman took place on Thursday night in Cork. Upwards of 280 gentlemen sat dowu. The speeches were not of a polities.) charactarr, but un allusion by Serjeant Mur phy that he might again h e' honoured with the representa tion of Cork was received with enthusiastic applause. The following letter from Lord John Manners, who had been Invited as a guest, WAS read : Lloyd's Hotel, Mood;, 1046. Sir,-1 beg coo will rresent to the gent:emen of the Commune appointed to make prep:in:bons for the dinner about to be given to seneant Murphy, my sinc,re ai.knowledgements for the invitation they have been good enough to send me. Were it in my power, it would give me the greatest pleasure h, witness so gratifying a main. festution of the feelings entertained by the citizens of Cork, tawards their distinguished gated, ho' engagements in another part of Ireland compel me most relavtantly to decline the invitatiosi.—l have the ho:usir to be, your faithful servant, JullS M ANNLIM James Roche, Esq. ItEPRESENTATION OF MONAGHAN. — The Northern Standard states that the return of Mr. C. P. Leslie, M.P. for Monaghan, in t,e event of a general election is secure. This statement i., I think, somewhat nuns- than doubtful. It is certain that the Hon. Mr. Ibisesun, M.l'. for Louth, will offer himself at the next election for Monaghan, and I hAse very little doubt, from all I learn upon the subject, that he will till one of the then vacant seats. FEN YR —Fever is very prevalent, especially in Belfast, at present, amw g the pourer inhabitants residing in narrow, filthy streets, and living upon unwbolesonc: and ssanty sup. plies of food. A NV ELCONE A univat..—A man-of-war's launch from the Comet, government steamer, arrived yesterday at an early hour, and laude d a large quantity of specie, for the payment of those who may be employed on public works. Her valuable freight was conveyed to the Bank of Ireland without the toed:tame or protection of police or military ; Mr. Craig, of the Bank, and a navy li eutenant, being the only parties iu charge of it. STA IC I: OF OTONN eolasaal statue of O'Con nell, by Hogan, the distinguished sculptor, has arrived in Dublin from It-mte. The Freeman's Journal says of it that it " is a eolo-sal figure of the Liberator, upwards of eight feet high, of the purest Carrara marble, robed like a Roman tribune, and in the position of haranguing an ad miring multitude around htm. The likeness i. admirable, taken from li•e, an l the work itself is altogether one of the finest and most interes.ing specimen. of art ever introduced intr this coun:ry. A sulneet worthy of the ,rtist, and the artist or the auWeet." This statue, together with a bust of Lord Cloucurry, will immediately be placed in the Royal Exchange, Dublin, where are the statues of Grattan, Flool, Lucas, and others. Tur LATE Jons Bt ti,i, Esti . —The Kilkenny Moderator states that, through the exert' of the Dean of Ossury, the relict of John Bimini, the di•tintvi.hed novelist, has been granted a pen.ion of upon th e c ivil list. LON', EVITY. -There is at present resideut in the county of 13 none a f.srmer who has reached the age of 120 years; a son, who re-ides with him, is aged 99. The chit rof the two can read without glasses, and his her still retains its original hue, which is brown. Ltrl: Petit:ye NIEETINIi IN COHK.—Sir.— Allow me to correct a misrepresentation (no doubt Irmo misconcep tion) of some observations made by me at the late great public meeting in Cork, which appeared in your paper of the 11th inst., apparently communicated by a Dublin cor respondent. In this abridged report Of the peneetslings I am represented as " opposed to a ding railways in Ireland by Inane of public miner." Now this statement is diametri cally c tntrary, as well to my deliberate dlOnillll.l WI to the whole tenor of my ohnervations on the subject at the me. t ing in question. I believe that there is no channel thmugh which *tate nilvanctss can he more advantageously applied to the distresaed labouring poor of Ireland, at the previa mo nemt, than through the medium of well projected, isimi . kie railways in room of construetion. Aided by liberal loans, at a low rate of interest —which could be fully Premed, first by a ben upon the cells, and afterw Arils by the mortgage of the lines—these work,, would give immediate and extensive employment to thousands of h.:lf-famished human beings, ho now pray only for " work" to keep them from istarva tion ; and W.) 10.1 you'd possitily fall upon the Government, for there is na dooPot that all main hint of railway id Ireland, which will neeessarily monopolise the present - road traffic, most he rentuntrathe. in accordantte with ilsisie views, I submitted the following reiedittion, which was una nimously adopted at the Cork meeting:—" !lewd% eil : That amongst the measures best calculated to afford immediate and t stenaive relief to the labouring poor, well projected railways and other public companies offer the most nutty assistance ; and that under fide and adequate security, pro- viding against soy eintingent lieu to the state, they are well deserving of liberal p.euniary aid from the public exche quer." I also took oveasion to observe upon the cretin; tins notion of railway works only affording relief and employment in their immediate vicinity; whereas it is will known that labour rs will travel twenty and thirty miles to obtain work on a railway in this country, thus relieving the pis ssnre on the labour market and the land in the quieter from whence they come. The Whig government of Delft proposed to con-trust all the main lines of railway in leelaud at the public expense, conceiving them too eirdly for private cute,- prise, but admitting that they would repay the ins estmi sit. Surely they will not now so depart from their own mins eiples—in this calamitous year of scarcity and distress —an to refuse loans *mired, upon these very works.—N. LUDLOW [ LILA NIP'. SCOTLAND. CONVESIENCIES IN IC/CA.—The following extract front the records of the Town Council of Edinburali indicates what travelling csmveniences were available to the Scottish ptedie not quite two centuries ago. Leith, the port of Edinburgh, is distant from the city about two miles, and on the 28th Sept., Lii;il, the authorities granted— .' Libertie sod to:erance to Widiani Woodcw-k. lait , 4lbs r in Leith, to flit laid net up sane Imiekney coahl, for tiers ire of Ilia klajenty'n leitlgen, het nix la ith and Edinburgh, at tir• rate. It dlow log v for the mach byre up or dam, with me single pvrson 12 : if the persai flexile ht no alone, add if that per -on who 1.)11, the t orch will wait the another t get along with him. to pay no more. If their venom mien along with him to pay no more hot 12 t-lailiern all the three. If any may pel,llll, nor three, carlt man to pay four shill. , em., for their hyrw. and the prronet ewiting up to Edinburgh, to light at the lute 01 Leith Wynd, for the ntayno n yr. 01, and this order t o continue during the eminnell's pleanuni allancrlie. Pot iteepoliee alway • to the said William Wtattletak, to Mr VP othern going to aril fray theetiontry, tootle-rid:lo , , mu he and they ruin agree." A shilling Bogs" was nearly equal to an English penny. The tare p-r omnibus from Edingburgh to Leith at present is two-pence. E MM.° V M ENT A PPE.% Ica TO HE rLtiNTIFCL IX SOUL CARTS Or SCuTIAN 10. The f Mowing letter has been received by the Bishop of Derry : seer. 3.- -My Lord, I have read, with regret, Mille arse paper., the appearance of !amine in the county of Doneral. WI account of the failure of the potato erne. lam a nntire of that Islam, and have at present a I.o' contract hre. I cool .1 cocain: rim or hal men at tins 1.1311.: and 170 nun., xho are C 1111.1103 1 .11 in the mama way, rouse take UM or Yet, pertain. The men about you are initemininted with our work Out is going on here, but lice or tix weeks' practiee would be required trfore they ean get the waren that are now mitt here. I may !nay that twe:ce, thirteen, and fourteen shillings weekly. may be paid at dna, and, atter that, may rice to Atka.% 'I they me .iaart and willing to work. Inired, I modd em,gre them at the aline wale fu eightcen month, TCec are within •-tx milt of Dundee, where tiler(' are three excellent Catholic tient, men. I an Inking but fur one myself, for the use of the inen the railway. My rm. hare a orient 'prmanently with than, for the toned of Die men who are I catholic.. Please publish thin in your dioen•e, and plume let pit , k now , w , runty assol, can, it I :nay expect any Men and what number ; and I will let y,ll lue,w bow you -ball ,end them. They most not be meta above fusty Twos of age.— I rini, M . IMN • .tddrtas Cupar of Fife, Scotland." WALES. TURNPIKE T/tI , TB.—An abstract of the (r,neral state ments of the income and expenditure of the Turnpike roads in South Wales for the year 1815, has just been issued by order of the House of Commons, dated August 15, pursuant to the Art of 7th and Bth Viet., c. 91. It app. ars there from that the total income during the year was 9,917/.42.5d., and the total expenditure 9,238/. is. .d. The following are details o: those sums:—The balance in hand at the com mencement of the year, or received from officers of trusts, was 6,563/., and the balance due to officers of trusts 3761. The income from tolls was 9,808/.; from county treasurers 511!, ; from fines 13/. ; and from rile of toll houses. The items under the head of expenditure wore :—For manual labour, constant, 1,878/. ; casual, 3981. ; material* 20871. ; new toll houses 3181. ; tradesmen's bills 3131. ; salaries 701/. ; Pub lic Works Loan Commissioners, 1,9581.; debts of former trusts, 450/. ; incidents. expenses, 9301. The balance in the treasurer's hands, December 31,1845, was 6,8711., but eller payments on account of contracts of 1,070/., the actual balance was 3,424). The actual balance due to trs•asurera, December 31, 180, was 1201. The total len:th of roads included in this account is 1,02.5 miles and 1,•526 yards (including 13 miles and 1,090 yards belonging to county bridges, or re paired by private parties). The cl.argc upon the six counties of South Wales, wes 203,6751. 13s. 7d., and the annuities payable during the present year amount to 11,010/. 17s. The salaries .to officers were—Six clerks to county road% boards, 31.51. ; nine clerks to district roads boards, 3151 : thirteen surveyors, 1,365 J. ; three pay clerks, 601. PROVINCIAL. LANCASHIRE. A M knINT MATE'S WA;;4INO TO "DCKII "-At the Liver po.il police court on Friday, (1. Byford appeared to answer a summons fur an &vault, obtained against him 1 ,,y G. Besing ton. Mr. BeN ington sold to Mr. Byfnrel, on account of Mr. Ingledew, tea broker, a quantity tif tea, amounting to 881. to be paid for in three months. :is I knew that Mr. Byford was not rich, I wrote a note tf., him a few days before the time arrived, stating that 'tie money mast be paid according to bargain. Findin!, defendant did not attempt to pay fur the teas, I made a personal application, when he said he had not made up Lis mind what he slould do ; and he returned similar an,w(rs to other applications. Or. the Itth inst. I went to his office and pressed him for payment, when he threatened to knock my head through the wall, seized me by the collar, thrust me forcibly into the prasage, and tumbled me over a box, by e hich I was much bruised and very much hurt at the back of the heed. Mr. . Byford defence pleaded a set-off, and in eon thr-ation said, Mr. Bevington kas c lied upon me several times, and particularly on Monday list, to know my intention respecting the teas. I stated that I knew nothing of him in the matter, the whole transaction being between me and Mr. Ingledew. Mr. Bevington still per sisting to annoy me in the presence of a geutleman with whom I was engaged, I requested him to leave iris office— he refused—l threatened, if he did not leave quietly, to turn him out; he still refused, and was proem:ding in defiance of all I could say, in inter. uption of my i n t erv i ew w i t h t h e gentleman, when, being irritated his obetimaiy, I roes from my scat and hold with both hands on the collar of his coat and pushed him into the passage, and closed the door upon him.—lie again opened the door violently, and used some insu:ting terms, hut upon my rising he walked out.—Mr. Bevies tat said the defence 141 S all false.—Mr. Rushton : You have no right to enter a man's place and re fuse to depart when you are told. If you visit a 1t11i11 . 101%06 to dun him, you must go out, it he bads you. If you refuse he can turn you out. Ile must use no more force than is necessary to put you out; but it' you resist, the consequences are on your own head. 1 shall dismiss the case. ONE. BROTHER STARRED par ANOTHER. —OR Friday, a young boy, named I). Clarke, was brought berm, Mr Rush ton, at Liverpool, on a charge of having stabbed his elder brother, John, with a table-knife. It appeared that the prisoner accused John of having eaten his breakfast, and that blows and the stab were given. The father appeared in court, and said there had been no mother over the children for the last four years, and that the complainant was an in dolent fellow, who refused to earn a shilling, and who not only domineered over the whole of the children, but Oleo lutely,abuwel and cursed him (his f a ther). " lie wi s h e d t o God,' he mid, " that Mr. Rushton could procure the rascal some situation in which he could serve his king and country abroad, for there was no hope nailer heaven of his doing any good in Liverpool." The prisoner, on the ether hand, was an ,industrious lad, always working, always earning money for the support of the family ; and in a raiment of passion, and when tke lad had been first abused and struck, he stabled his lazy brother, for having devoured the whole of his breakfast. Mr. Rushton said that nothing could jus tify the use of the knife, and that were it not for the citrates • stances derailed by the father, Oa! la I would be punished severely; as it was, he might be discharged. MANCHESTER •ND BRAZIL—The directors of the Man (luster Commercial Apociation have again memorialised the secretary of gaffe relative to the unsatisfactory state of the relations between this kingdom and the government of Brazil, which curter on its load authorities the right to administer the cetera uf all foreigners dying either in ur out or that cowry, and leaving property therein, unless suck foreigners arc subjects of st.tes having special treaties. The memorialists express a confident hope that the way is at length opened to the final and sett-factory adjustmeut of this question, by the t qualistitiou uf the duties on the import of slave and lice labour sugar. FIRE AND LOSS Or Lit I:.—A very disastrous fire oc curred it Preston on Friday evening, attended with the los; of a much respected inhabitant of the town. It broke out in the upper part of the size house attached to Mr. Hib bert's factory, situate in Stanleyistreet, in an apartmert used fur drying warps, which is effected by steam-piles. With ustinvehing rapidity the flame; extended over the whole building. A gentleman named Pickles, who owned some property contiguous to that of Mr. Witten, was early on the spot, with a e iew of rendering assistance : tin Met unately, in his anxiety to ascertain the extent and progrem of the tire, he perished. The deceased was encoeraging the fire men in their operations, when it is supposed that he stepped forward to see if a door was properly classed, w hen the flagged flooring from the intense heat cracked, aid precipitated the unfortunate gentleman open the burning meats. lie was seen to fall through the fourth and third floor and lodge on the Seeolld, where his remain, mere gradually consumed on the iron flooring. The roof shortly afterserels fell in and hid them front I iew. On the ruins being sufficiently cooled, an active mirth was made for what was left of the body. All however that could be found were the charred remnants of the trunk, legs, and am s. The property consented is said to be insured. A New Herter. Colt MAKING LOVE.—On Friday, stays the Licr-rpoul ow one of the dualcateniesi was going along Vauxhall-road, he oliatrved it man running in hot haste after a WM - Mill. When the fellow had nearly overtaken her, he pulled out a pistol and deliberately tired it at her. The woman fell, and the dial-gatemen seized the mould-he mur derer. Fortunately, th r woman had only itwo ttttt at the sound of the pistol's discharge, and it is probable that it con tained ni.thing mote than n charge of powder. The man proved to be a ship-1(.111,r, residing in Benn's.gardens, named F. Young; the wuniau was hit second wife, but, it having been just discovered that the first wife NNA Hilt dead, she refused to ►ire with Itiw. lle was eery much attached to her, and had adopted a system of annoyance and terror to compel her return to her allegiance. She continued to refuse, and he, having met his ri-thrhuol spouse, thrtatened to 'hoot her if abe dill not vow. back. She it-came alarmed at to novel a mods oflove-retaking and ran away, when he pur sued and shot at her as before mentioned. The dock-gate- Mall halald his prisoner over to the Erst policeman he met, and the husband of two wires was brought before Mr. Rushton, who. on hearing the chief of the above particulars, rtmaniled him for further iiaptiry. AN INtal!ENTwu , held on Friday, at Liverpool, cm the Maly of Mr. Charlton, a biker, who destroyed himself after a tit of hard drinking. Verdict " Temporary insanity." NORTHUMBERLAND. MR. ItALVI WILLIAM GREY, aChipehavc Cattle, North umberland,'Private Secretors' to Los:I John Itussell, " har ing lore intOrm.... that Mr. Mitealfe has stated his intention or retiring from Parliament, and that another gentlem.to has already embmenced a canvas. of the eke' ors," his this week announced himself 114 a candidate for the representation of Tynernouth. We regret the retirement of the present wuch-estb yowl m, usher; but in Mr. Grey we shall hare • valuable 'meet-sig. That gentleman, we belies e, is an en &lent, able, and thoroughgoing liberal, and, as such, in every revinet thiervinn of the confidence of an istd,.pcudetit and .111*W-bust constituency like that of Tynemouth. lie is the run ..f the lue IL W. Grey, Esq., of Mick uorth, and nephew of Sir I'. E. (hey, Bart., formerly M.P. .or Tyne mouth.—Gotedn (td Obeereer. AN ENA nett'. •-lIESHIVAL tor NElnANtra AND l'em vnarriost OF CovranioN.—The following noti-e has teen awned by the connty magiitratea of Nottingham : " Whereas eitinislaillt kith lain made to her Slap-t,'. Justice. ol Ile reit., foe the e,audv of Nottingham, that in core quenee of the accumulation of large on:militia of dung, offal, met other off nnive and nosime. twitter, and the existent, of ...nett fret drains and leads on sareousp.ris 01 parish s m the said rowdy, fever. and ton. Upo n. devutsa have inward Nobel• is hereby eaten, that ionle.4 such 3111i,11/4 , to it.miediately rinnord end abided, that the lough.- trate% et lime in mid tor the add county, a ill strati) a Hie Ter the pro sbdoie, .it the law aghast the several owners rind oeupier, of the premises a her^ nnisanors exist, par-cant to the statute lOth Viettais., entitled • An act for inset speedy removal of certain nui. Nino,, and to I 11:1h.i . the Ira. y I rained to male regulations for the pn.wention of entitiigimis and epidemic diseases.'" This new law In more extensive for the purpose of abating nuisances and annovancee than the former eitactinents were, and, if properly put in force throughout the country, will be productive of the best restate. w.titwICKSIIIItE. ALTP.RATION IN THE IiMISIOne se BANK ItI'ETCY COURT. —FIATMtDAT.—Siner the opening of the above court, diesi tialacuou ha, been repeatedly expressed by eoliciton resid ing in the extremities of the 'district at the expense and in convenience to which they were subjected by being obliged to attend the court in this town. To obviate this i ner o us e plane° the eolititure of Nutinightun applied to the Lord Chancellor to extend the jurisdiction of the court to that town, and, i:t compliance with their rept, at, his lordship made an order on the 11th inst. for the opening of • court at Nottingham. 'lbis morning, on Mr. C.anmissioner L.alguy taking his seat en the bench, he directed the order 14 the Chaneellorto he reed, upon whir!' the officer of the court read thej document, which, after reciting the legal preliminarice, nays." Under the circumstances of the ease, it appears to me t / Ir I xpedicnt th..t matters of bankruptcy and petititam for protection from process, arising or to arise within the northern idivivion of the county of Leicester, or within the parts of Kesteven and Holland, in the county of Lincoln, or w ithin the sou th e rn divi s ion of tee county of Nottingham, or within the town and county of the town of Nottingham, or within the southern division of the county of Derby, should he heard and determined at the town of Nottingham. Now I do hereby order that the Court of Bankruptcy for the Birmingham district do hold sittings, except as the Lord Lhancellor may otherwise direct, in the town of Nottingham, for the opening or proceeding upon all cesunissions, fiats in bankruptcy already issued, or hereafter to be hatted, against any person or protons residing within *e divisions, towns, and places aforesaid, and for the receiving of any pro ceeding upon all petitions for pnitcetiou from youcorils, already presented or hereafter to be preseutid by permits residing within the divisions, town., and places afornaill, and in all matters preparatory to, or arising under, or in the prosecution of such tommiasions, fiats, tor petition,. And. Ido farther order that one of the official assignees of the said District Court of Birmingham do have his place fort ram-acting the busineas appertaining to his office at the tr vim of Nottingham, at which he shall trar.eact all his busir.ese in matters of bankruptcy, or pelf tions for protectior from process, by virtue of this order to he transacted at the town of Nottingham." Ilia Honour having made ins relative to the number of the fiats be fore bun from 'Auttineham, wan underat sod to intimate that the new ecue, would be opened in about three week'', but of this due ie.ti oe will, of course, be elven through the ordinary channeht. It is at present understood that air. Commis- Inissionee lialguv and Mr. Commissioner Daniel will preside alternate'ty at Nottingham, tar according to such other lemur silents as they may think proper to make, but I it i, not intended that either of them ehall under take the exclusive jurisdiction of the court. WFSTYORELIND. THE 4 ' N.ivetEs" ON Tile LANYAsTEIt AND CARLISLE 'll..eaLway.—The navigators employed on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway assembled in great numbers in the streets of Kendal, on Wednesday last, in consequence of the refusal of the stili-contractors to pay them their usual monthly wages. The sub-contractors adopted the plan of deferring the pay-day fur ten days in order to keep the men at work, that the line might be opened on Tucaday next, according to previous arrangement. The workmen, however, ware determined to stand only by the old agreement of monthly pay. They surrounded and took possession of a horse and gig belonging to one of the sub-contractors, and prevented has leaving the town. The chief contractor, Mr. Nold, had his horse captured and kept in durance vile were paid. After half-a-day's trial of strew gave in, and the men nearly all returned to' opening of the Lancaster and Carlisle Rait ter to Kendal is definitively fixed for to- The shops in Kendal arc to be closed. DERBYSHIRE. THE MURDER AT CRESTEIuFIEL7' gossip and surcr.ise in this catalti, t i I t mntractor, Mr. :•o•ti, nett tire= vile till the wages iF of ..trength, the masters I turned to their work. The ( 1 isle Railway faom Lama-- # for to-morrow (Tue.day), r.l:)trords a teat for wiV.ch knd some of the rumours r t