The Express. — London, England, 1849-10-24 00:00:00

his predictions on that oraltaion have been more 'hen taltillel The Ohio Cs.oal and its branches furnish boat navirstion to the extent of 334 miles. Th. Miami Caul and branch extend 66 mile.. These canals are admi•.ably constructed, and have been of rest service to the state, although their aggregate net revenue has not as yet amounted to six per cent. It is on th e same principle precisely that Broadway, th o ugh it produces no revenue to the City of New York, is nevertheless of incalculable value and im portance to its general interests. Indeed this prin. though acted on everywhere, does not seem to be considered in public improvements such as railways and canals. la 1832 a large number of railways was incor porated in Ohio, and in 1836 and 1837 the legislature weed an act, by which it was agreed that whenever half the stock of a turnpike company or two-thirds of a canal was taken up by individuals , the state would furnish the balance. 'Twenty-six turnpike companies, four railways, and two canals, were commenced under this provision of the law. State works were also commenced at this time, of a very extensive da nder, ...legated to wet about eight and a half millions of dollars. These were the extension of the Miami Canal, the Wabash and Erie, the Wei bel:ling. the Vernon, Mohican, the Warren County, tlib Hocking, the Muskingum river improvement, and the Maumee road. All these are completed. When Ohio commenced her system of internal im provements, she established a corresponding system of taxation, and this sound measure, which is quite characteristic of our state legislation, and is not foi.nded on any European precedent, kept op (and de servedly) the credit of the state. The pressers of 1839 and 1840, and the suspension of the banks, of course, affected Ohio. She had to decide between a lose of her credit, and a loss of per public works, or to make sacriSoes to sustain them. Tier citisens did not hesitate as to what course they should parses. The legislature authorised money to be borrowed, cost what it might, Shylock sharpened his knife, foreign creditors were clamorous at the embarrassed state, and some of the British press gloated over the rain at band. Thu bankers who could lend to monarchies that never ray, yowled at those repabli sans who made every attempt to pay, but Ohio rose triumphantly above her misfortunes. She has learned a lesson, as we all have, never more to trust our selves to foreign capitalis ts. If they choose to bay our stocks, very well, bat we wll create no more for them. Without going into some very interesting particulars, which show the willingness of the people of Ohio to be taxed for the payment of their debts, and the extraordinary promptness they have shown in paying them, it is only necessary now to add that the debts of the state are now at their limit, and are, in fact, decreasing, and that the present resources of the state, which are not near their limit, but are increasing, are, nevertheless, ample for their liquida tion and paymeat. The steam-ship Panama arrived at Panama on the 22nd of Sept., with dates from San Francisco t• the first of that month. She brought down 132 passen gers to the Isthmus, and half a million in gold duet. The greatest part of this amount is arrived in theßra pits City. By these arrivals we learn that the steam ersUaloosn and Senator have reached Panama safely. The convention for forming a constitution for the state of California met at Monterey on the 31st oil August. It is stated that the members of the con vention are generally men of intelligence and integrity : A letter from San Francisco states that • constitution will be formed, sad members of a legisla ture be elected under it by the Ist of November. _ . The Hon. Thomas Butler King, of Georgia, was dangerously ill at San Francisco, of bilious fever, and his recovery was considered very doubtful. lieut. Beale, bearer of despatches from the govern meat at Washington, had arrived at San Francisco, and proceeded immediately to the head-quarters of General Parader F. Smith. General Smith had gone upon an expedition to the mountains. Gt neral Ben net Riley was at Monterey at the last accounts, and his health had greatly improved. Colonel Fremont was at Monterey. The United States ship Ohio, Commodore Jones ; the Warren, Cont. Long; and the frigate Savannah, Captain Voorhies, were at San Francisco. The Ohio was to be relieved by the Savannah, and would sail for Boston, via Valparaiso, on the 11th of September. Commcdore Jones was to remain in command of the Pacific squadron. The ship Minor had arrived at San Francisco, in 120 days, from New York. The Vice-Cooed of the United States at the Sand wich ls!ands, died at San Francisco on the 26th of August. A young gentleman who returned this morning from Panama ' informs me that he came across to Cruces in six hours on a mule. This was remarkably quick. The rainy season wu quite over, and tang partition across the isthmus was tolerably easy. On the whole, we come to the conclusion, that vast amounts of gold aro to be found in California, but that vast amounts of labour must be expended to obtain it. VW Court. Wimnson, TUESDAY.—The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert walked this rooming in the Slopes. The royal family took walking and pony exercise. The infant son of Lord and Lid y John Ru.sell was christened at the Royal Chapel is Windsor Castle this day, In presence of her Majesty and Prince Albert. The ceremony was per formed by the Rev. Lord Wriothishry Russell. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Earl of Carlisle, and Lady Mary Ahereromby were the volume The Burl of Carlisle and the Rev Lord Wriothesley Russell arrived at the Castle today, and will have the honour of joining the royal party at dinner. Lord and Lady John Russell and the Hon. R. and Lady Mary Abercromby will also have the honour of joining the royal party at dinner. Lord James Hay triumeted business on Monday at the office of the Board of Trode. The Earl of Carlisle left town yesterday morning for Windsor Castle. THE QUEEN DOWAGER. Her Mei.My the Queen Dowager remained in a favourable date during the whole of yesterday. PRINCE ALBERT'S SECPXTART. —The Hoe. Mr. Chaska Grey sessiseels 0. E. Anton, deceased. In the post of Secretary to Prism Albut THE PRINCE or WALES IN THE CITT.—We are authorised to mate that the Lord Mayor kas had the honour to fteitiTll an intimation from Windsor Cecile, that her Hs. Potty, desirous of gratifying the citizens of London, will be graciously pleased to allow their Royal Hillhouse. the Prince of Wales sad the Princess Royal to accompany the Queen open the occasion of her Majesty's visit to the city on Tues day neat. (inn hot Net's Gazette.) WINDSOR CASTLE, OCT. day bad audience of her Illsiretv Abbott Lawrence, EN., Envoy Ratraor. &Mary and Minster Plenipotonuary from the Usltied States of America, to deliver his etediratials to which be was introduced by Viscount Palms/otos, 0.0 8., Mot Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. WINDAOR CASTLE, OCT. 22.—tha Royal Highness Primo Albert has hems pleased to appoint Willis. Fer gwaraa, Req., F.R.S., Preform of Surgery in Rim's College, Limbs, to be Stigma in Ordinary to his Royal Highness, is the room of Charlie A. Ray. Esq , dimmed. Fortirox-Orncs. Ocr. 20.--Th• Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Thomas Were Fog, jun., as Don na at Plymouth kw the Republic of Chili. WHITEHALL, OCT. 17. The Queen has been phased to overtime and appoint William Henry Snell, gma., to be Adjutant of the Artillery Compeay of London, la the seem of Frederick William Horsy. iq , resigned. WHITEHALL, Ocr. 22.—The Queen has been pleased to nominate the Venerable Archdeacon Philip Ira nians, D.D., to the Perpetual Curaey of St. James's Chapel, la the perish of Saint Itarelebone, in the musty of Middle erg, and diocese of London, the some beta' void by the death of the Roo. Thema White. Iflasuery, Ocr. 23.—Her Msjesty has bees pleased to appaat Edward Berkeley Bane Formes, Joke Lucia' Damper, Esq., Barristmat-Law sad Dominick Daly, Esq., to be Comesissimere to inquireinto and report upset rights sr shuns over the New Forest, in the county of Southantp• tea, and Welchem Forest, la the county of Ere:. And the Lords COUlniZiOnefll or her Majesty's Trearry have beau pleased to appoint Joseph Barsky Hume, Eeq., Bar- Assam Low, to be Socrstuy ead Clerk to the COMllliegoll. 00,113116810 N SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT or Somaasarem tax—Cornet Charles Frederick Moore t I be Linnemat sa the West Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry. Commissions SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT or Yortuams.—C,ornet William Fowler and Hoary Beilby Else,, gest., to be Lieutenants ; Arthur Joseph Smith, pat , cad Hooey Taylor, gent. to be Cartels; Charles Ed ward Sorplons Cooke, gent to be Veterinary Bargees, in the Fate West Yost Yeomanry Cavalry. CO3IIIIBsIoN SIGNED BT THE LORD LIEUTENANT or Ftrannair.—Heart John Graham Comm, gent., to be Lieutenant Ia the FM Militia. RIMOURED ABOLITION OF THE BOARD OF ORD leanaL—lt is confidently remand that at. goverment seeionaly contemplate abolishing the Bond of Drums!, sod that the entire control of this branch of the service w ill be vista . .a the cosateader.in-chid ea lit two °liken, to be esil...i the Canter:air of °abuses Store Amirante, and tlis Ceeaperoller of Ordnance, Cash Aawnutte. What gives additional strength to this statement, is the fart that the ease of Secretary to the Board of Ordnance, vacant by the death of Mr. By has, has eat been pt filled up, and will not, It is stated, be filled up till the Army Finalise Com mittee have Bade their report In 1850 or 1851 ___ . . __ ECCLESIASTICAL APPO INTIIIIITIL—WO (the Chro nicle) sadertand that Dr. Tait, heed master of Resby school, is to be &misted I. the Dautery of Carlide. We bear, also, that Lord Auckland, the present Enahea s o l iZ t eder sad Was, wLe to be traaslated to the vacant of THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO THE CITY. Yesterday the committee of the whole court of aldermen trembled at the Guildhall, the Right Hon. the LORD MATOR in the chair, for the purpose 'of making RV. rangements for the reception of ha Majesty at the Coal Exchange, on the 30th inst. The Commissioner of Police wu heard upon hie plan for stopping the several streets to the locality of the Coal Mark•t ; and it was resolved that the commissioner should make all the necessary regulations for preserving a free pas sage through Thames-eireet, and the adjoining streets, and take all other measures he easy consider necessary otanectrd with the arrangements fur the dee reception of the Queen. It wu ordered that the architect should make whatever prevision the Commissioner of the City Police might think requisite upon the occasion. The architect wu heard with respect to the arrange ments for the landing of her Majesty at the Castom-house. The Lord Mayor wu requested to put the water•bailift and the harbour-masters in communication with Commodore Eden as to the river arrangements. The committee of the corporation appointed to make pre parations for the reception of the Qseen assembled and sat at the Gaildhill during the whole day. Their business con sisted of matters of detail which remain es yet without form. The Doke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke of Wel lington have accepted the invitations of the corporation. BURIALS. Last evening the National Nocisq for the Abolition of Burials is Towes assembled at their Rooms, Bridge.street, Bltickfriars, Mr. G. A. WALIBZ, preside'', in the chair. The er inutes of the previous meeting having been confirmed, sad several valuable rommunic.tious read, Mr. THICKE read the following letter from the Board of Health to the President of the Society, which was warmly applauded : The General Board of Health, Gwydyr House, Whitehall, Oct. n, 1849. S.r,—l am directed by the General Board ot Health to ac quaint you that they Immo."' very shortly to enter npoa the consideration of the whole subject of intramural interments, ' and of the means generally which it may be most advisable I to adopt for remedying the vast and increasing evils of the present practice, and I am to state that the Board of Health will be very glad to receive from you, either by letter or at a personal interview, any suggestion on this .mportagt subject which you may desire ta communicate, and which your great experience therein will enable ion to furnish. G. A. Walker, Esq. maxim AUSTIN. The CHAIRMAN said that, without being amenable to the charge of egotism, be coald assert that be was in the poeession of a large and valuable collection of facts and °plaices on the burial in towas gaieties, which during many years be had collected and arranged. These facts and opinioas he would lay before the Board of Health, who were doing all in their power to crush for ever the destructive peeress of burying the dead amidst the living. (Hear, hear.) Nr. G. GOD WIN, Jas., PAS., bogged peruduion to ask the president to urge apes the Board et Health the im portance of their acting not only upon his opinions and suggestions, but also upon the ungetal.flod opinion of the society which to r.presented, end enforce Immediately the *belie= of intra-moral burials. (Rear, bear.) Is conclu des, las moved a resolution to the following effect: " That Mr. Walker be requested to eommunirate to the Board of Health the society's anxious desire for the speedy abolition of Intramaral burials, and that he be also requested to as sure the Board that the society would aid them by et err seems In their power to effect that great national object." (He et, boar.) Mr. J. ROGERS, surgeon, wounded the motion, which was carried. Several other gentlemen addressed the meeting, which separated after a vote of thanks to the chairman. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, 1849. FIRE IN THE CITY. Last evening, between the hours of b and 6, a fire of a very fearful character bri,kis out on the premises in the tenure of Messrs. Bans, Brother', and Co., wholesale dru gists. The property had • large frontage in King ' s Ilea oourt, Fish-street - hil l, and t 'tended backwards into Lower Thauserstrott, immediately facing St. Magnus's Church. This clerks and numerous workpeople employed on the pre mises, to avoid being burned to death, were compelled Li Jump out of the upper windows. Fortunately, none of them, se far es could be ascertained, sustained personal injury. Owing to the very combustible satyrs of the stock in trade , la the premise, the fames travelled with unusual rapidity, so that in the epees of a very few minutes, the fire had gained possession of the whole range of buildings, and were rushing out of the various windows in King's Head csurt, as well as through the different apertures in the pro miles in Thames-strut. The flames at that period extended almost as far us St. Magnus's Church in one direction, whilst is the ether, bout. after house in King's Head-court became *AA either at the back, (rants, or roofs. Several engines were promptly brought to the spot, but in eonsequence of the immense body of flame with which they had to contend, a o insiderable time elapsed before the extension of the are was finally arrested. LILT UT PARTICULARS. Elevate o'CLoce rxe.—At this hoar, notwithstanding that the powerful floating eagles belonging to the London Fire-Begine Establishment, with numerous land machines belonging to the same establishment, the West of Esuland engine, and several others connected with the puish, her Majesty's customs, and Messrs Calvin's brewery, have bees actively employed during the time since the fine commenced, it is not yet entirely extinguished, and it would be urerly impossible to tell the exact amount of property destroyed. At this hour Mr. Fogo, the chief officer of the N district of the London Brigade, is busily engaged in endeavouring to collect the names and ascertain the extent of the sulferen' loam Owing to the arrest number of damages it is exceed laxly questionable whether the whole of the losses will be learned during the night. The whole of the Tower side of London-bridge is completely crowded at this hour with people looking at the firemen who are engaged in getting the flames subsided, and it requires the assistance of a power ful body of police, uaderthe command of Mr. Superintendent Median, Inspectors Howell, Mitchell, and Todhunter, with Acting Inspector White, to keep the immerse crowd out of danger. Had it not been fur services rendered by the police, there is no doubt that several parsons would have lost their lives, so eager were the populace to rush to the seen of danger. It has been ascertained that several of the public refreshment rooms, including Francis's Coffee Howe, Scully's Ham and Ale Stores, although much damaged by fire and water, are not injured to the extent to prevent bow ono being carried on as usual. The church of St. Magnus, at the foot of London-bridge, has escaped any damage, except what was occasioned by the men standing on the roof and the water from the hose of the engines. The cause of the disaster was owing to a boy taking a candle into the basement to draw some spirits of nitre cif, when the fluid tan upon the ground and instantly became ignited, too that it was with groat difficulty the youth made his escape. It appears, from inquiries made by the Brigade authorities, that at the time of the misfortune there were upwards of 250 gallons of spirits of wine and tisanes@ in the place, besides an immense quantity of nagtka, and other equally iaaminable articles, which will, in some measure, account for the rapt! of the flame. Tile premises of Meters. Seise an Co., indepu dimly of extending from Thames street into liieg'elsead eisert,were nearly 50 feet high, and comprised six floors, each of which was stored with cells, spirits, and drugs the mo. meat the flames reached the carboys filled with spirits of nitre and aapthe, they exploded with a fearful noise, and then the fire extended both upwards and downwards with the greatest impetuosity. The total number of men ww. played cm the premises were 22, and it is not a little slags ler that they were to have dined together last night at the expense of the firm, as a mark of respect for their un wearied menials in behalf of their emplos ere. Some of the met drought their best clothes to the premises, and so fiercely did the fire travel, that noosed them were able to save • sines snide of wearing apparel. Thelon, at a moderate calculation, will reach to some thousand pounds, but the whole of the account books. title duds, and other valuable documents belonging to the establishment have been saved. The Royal Society's fire-escape has proved of great use to the firemen, by enabling them to weed with their branches to those parts of the building otherwise inaccessible to th'm on em count of its great height. The spot where this fire began was within a few feet of where the great fire of Louden in 1666 commenced. Tin AVSTRIAII ATROCITIES.-A memorial to Lord Palmerston, prepared by Berl Fitswithem, on the subjeet of Auettian atrocities sad Hungarian freedom, is now being circulated for signatures amongst the peers and mem bers of the Home of Commons of the liberal party. It urges the Foreign Secretary to use every means in his reer to put a stop to the barbarities of Hapnau, and to restore to Hungary a canatitistMaal system. It has already been very numerously signed ; and will shortly be made public. FINANCIAL REFORM MEETINGS.—A series of meet hos on the subject of Financial Reform wall shortly be held In the north of England, and is Scotland. It will eammener, we believe, with Neweastthon-Tyne, sad it • Berwick-on•Tweed, Bdiabargh, Glasgow, Dudes, sad a seeend meeting is Aberdeen. Mr. Hume, it is ex pected, will attend those held in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Di. WARNEFORD has placed in the hands of the Lord Bishop of Glolorater another thousand pounds. to pro mote the building of personage homes in benefices of small value at pretest without them. THE ALLEGED MURDER AT CHELSEA.—The body lona 4 off Bettie on Tuesday, whisk was supprsed to be that of the Nun WOouran, whose robbery and submquest dissp. rene• have mom, mush eueitement in Chelsea, was identified, upon examination, as the remains of a perms named Dimond, who, with his wife, Ellen, were drowned eff Alarms Stairs on the 20th ult. The inquest was opaud, and the identity having been proved, evidence was given proving t..Ne occurrence to have been accidental. HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. (has the Megistrar-aaserare Return) In the week leading last Saturday, the number of deaths registered, in Landau, is 1 028, and shows a further decrease GU the returns of previous weeks. The weekly average of five previous autumns, corrected fur increase of pop ulation, is, 1,162 ; the decrease on the avenge, as shown by the pm sent return, amounts therefore to 131 deaths. This India tioa of the 'mortality is greatest in the districts on the smith side of the river; for the deaths of the week in this division were 276, whereas the as. rage is 324. The mortality from cholera sow rapidly approaches, the average; the deaths having Wien hoes 110 in the previous week to 41 in the last La the wart dim:lets they have declined hem 16 to 4 ; in the north, from 7 to 1; is the central, from 10 to 6 ; in the east, from 32 to 17 ; and in the south, from 46 to 13. There were 6 deaths in the week in each of the districts of Shoreditch and litthual green; in all others ihe number of fatal cues of the epidemic was still it.. In the whole me tropolis the dilly number did not in any butanes eineed 9; on Wednesday sad Saturday it was only 6. The deaths from diarrltrea and dysentery were more numerous, and amounted in the week to 63 ; is the previous week they were 106. Of the 14,538 persons, who have died of cholera in Loudon in 55 weeks, 6,657, or nearly one half, died after lees than one day's illness (exclusive of the duration of premonitory dienficet) ; and of the remainder, 2,466 sunk under the disease before it had reached the second day. At present small-pox sad measles are much lees fatal than usual ; scar latina was fatal in 41 curs, the average being 64 ; typhus in 63 cues, the average being M. The births during the week were 1,363. The rending of the barometer reached 3004 in. ea Thursday at 9 o'clock a.m. ; the mean of the week was 29439. The mean daily temperature increased from 43 deg. on Sunda to 69 deg. 7 min. on Thursday, and continued at nearly th is value during the rest of the week. The highest temperature was 69 deg. 7 min. on Friday. On the first ' three days of the week the mean temperature was below the average of corresponding days in seven years ; in the last three days it was about 12 deg. above the average. The mean of the week was 52 deg. 4 tun. THE CHOLERA. ENGLAND A Return of deaths front chol the General Baud of Hea ltl from the Superintendent Regi Bedford and Turverg,c.2,d.l. Bradford and Nethertowo, c. 1, d. 1. Bridgwater, e. 5. Burton-on Trent, 6. 1. Carmarthen, c 1 . CgickhoweU (Llaaganider), c. 1. Dartford wanscombel, d.l . Ttadley (Sedate) and Rawly Regis), it. 4, d. 1. &Metall Bierlow, d. 1. Ethan (Hythe), d.l. Farnham, c. 2. Huddersfield (Ahnondbury and Melthant). d. 2. Hundrt Holoeck, Kirkatall, and Whitkirk), e. 2, d. 1. Leeds, c. 3. rD WALES. ova and die:ilia'', reported to yesterday, October 23, 1849, tram' district • Newark, e. 1. Naweastle-uyon-Tyne, a. 1. Oxford, e. 1. Pembroke (St.Floreses), 6.1. Porten (Souttnea), d.l. , Preston (Alston distriet),d. 1. St. Faith (Sprowston), a. 1. Salford (Itegonteroad), a, 1. &oath Shi.lds, is. 4. Stockton (Hartlepool), e. 1. Sanderland (Bishop Wear mouth), 6. 2. Tedenter (.4berford), a. 1. Walsall (Borough), e. 4, d.l. Wella (Glastonbury), e. 1. Wigan and P.mhorton, a. 6. Wycombe (Princes ills borough), e. 1. SCOT] Hougten, Rfafreerekin, e. 1. Hawick, e. 3. .AND. General Total—London and 1 Bagland and Scotland ... ~...—. Fore/deo,Crsig, & Montrose, Paabrido, Carnoustio. e. 3. Cho. Di.. Total . trinity.. No return. rules .. 44 16 12 0 The deaths are returned according to the superintendent registrars' districts, es it i‘ iound impracticable to distinguish every place separately. The house to house visitation of the metropolis having al most ceased, no furtlwr retains will be published. TIIE REGISTRATIONS. HERTFORDSHIRE. The revision of the register for this county closed at Hatfield on Tuesday. John Ws on, who bad claimed in the Welwyn list, had described his qualification ae " veterinary surgeon." ' Mr. Boxxxste applied to have the description amended, and called Mr. Wynn to explain the mistake, and to prove that he was the owner of a freehold house at Welwyn. Mr. MANNING objected to the correction, and contended that the claim was bad in law, and could not be supported. The Barrister said it was very careless of Mr. Wynn to send in such a claim ; but as he had attended to prove his qualification, he should allow the claim to be amended : The following is the result of the day's revision : Liberal gain on claims ll Ditto on objections Tory gain on claims ll Ditto on objections At the rising of the court, Mr. BOSTIM said he weld not allow the proceedings to close without expressing his Wigs ton to the court for the great kindness and courtesy with which the proceedings throughout the circuit had hem con ducted, a feeling in which he wits quite sure every n who had transacted business with the court must pate. Mr. Masts:a:to sold there could be but one opinion upon the subject, and he quite agreed with what Mr. Bontems had said. The Barrister declared himself pleased with the way in which the business had been conducted, anal with the good feeling which had prevailed throughout the revisit*, The following is the result of the revision throughout the county : Liberal gain on claims Ditto on objections Tory gain on claims 66 Ditto on objections l2O Claims of persons ut.known Persons unknown struck of EAST SURREY. Yesterday S. C. C. Fish, Esq., the revising bar rister for the eastern division et Surrey, concluded the re vision of the county lists, at the workhouse corarnitte-room, Bermondsey. The subjoined figures exhibit the number of electors on the register now in force, the number of them expunged, the claims allowed, and the number of electors for the electoral year 180 50; namely, The number of electors on the register for 1348.9 6,351 The number 'sponged Electors on list Add chins allowed 698 The clamber of elector, for 1849.60 6,388 Incite.. 37 Of the number expunged, 234 will be on the new register. and 165 are deceased. THE ATTEMPTED MURDER AT MAN. John Barnsley, apprehended on Sunday, the 16th inst., for attempting to murder his wife,;l7 cutting her throat, was again brought before the magistrate', on Monday, for eneneatioa. Ann Barnsley, the wife, was sufficiently re emend to give her evidence, sad was brought (min the Halal Manchester Infirmary for that purpose, under the era of cue of the assistant eargeona She was in en ex eseflagly weak and exhausted 001114i0011, sad, though an eammodated with a chair, was at times unable to proceed for ISM sisrats with her evidenee, from feebleness and emeden. M. Mande, the chairman of the bench of magis erase, et cue time suggested the further adjournment of the ear for her evidrnee, but the surgeon advised that it had bettor be taken at once. 111111Isiortunate woman's statement was that she sad lee Instead and child lived is a house in Rowe-street, Clay them Her husband is a plater to boiler makers, but having been oat of work many months they were reduced to gram poverty. On Sunday. the 16th instant, she sad her husband (the prisoner) had taken dinner sad tea together very ecteatortably, but the prisoner had had some drink, and when she suggested, between five sad adz o'clock, that as none of them had a change of linen (having pledged all bat what was Go their backs for food), he should take his shirt off that she might wish it, he became greatly excited, seized hold of a table knife sad stabbed her at the ride of her neck. Tee knife was not very sharp, and the point glanced downwards towards the throat, indict ing only a flesh wound. They were up stain at the time, and alter exclaiming " Oh, Lord, have mercy upon me ! " she made all the haste the could down stairs. On her reaching the room below she sank exhausted and faint mum the floor, when the primmer, who had followed her down, placed one of hie knees upon her chest, and with another knife— a clasp knife which he usually carried in his pocket, and widish is pointed semabing like a poignard—made seve ral stabs and cuts at her throat. He inflicted three stabs or cuts on her neck besides the previous one, and would have inflicted more serious wounds, but she placed her hand in the way, and she believed he did not at the time perceive that her hand received sae of the most se vere of these gashes. In one phase the knife had nearly penetrated through her hand. She ogled on him several times to spare her life for their child's sake. He dies returned up stairs, and she heard him say as he went up : " Tkojeb's dose now." She had 410814 her eyes as= but, hearing huts coming down stairs again, she se the remaining strength she had, reeelleming then wee a drop latch to the stains.' door, and succeeded in letting it slip down before the prisoner could get to her. He was thee prevented from attacking her again. She then heard same neighbours at the back door, gamed, as they told her after wards, by her cries, and she succeeded in finding her way to the door sad in opening it. She was removed to the house next door, where a surgeon dressed her wounds, and she was then removed to the Royal Infirmary. A surgeon, who was called as the next witness, said he bad examined the wounds upon Asa Barnsley's nosh sod throat. The meat serious one was an insides which had separated the principal Runk of the neck, and which, had h extended a little:either, would have severed also the jugular vein. The prisoner, in defence, stated that he was drunk at the time, and did aot know what he eras doing. The magistrates committed him to Hirkdale prison hr trial at the next Liverpool swims. SOIREE OF THE LANCASHIRE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION. PUBLIC The first monthly soiree of the Lancashire Public I , School Arecietion, for the present season, was held on Thursday empaisg, et the roosts of the assicciation, Cross. street, Maaelester. A. Henry, M.P., presided. The CHAIRMAN anaossced that the executive com mittee lad determined to hold a gnat mistime in the Free trade Hall, early in December, to which several distil'. I visited ladividnals and menthe's of parliament had bees incited to attecuL Kr. W. J. Fox, 3I .P., had aheady signi fied his lateen's to be present ; sad so doubt many other gentlsaasa of inflame would by their proems promote the cause of this association, which appeared to Ida (the chair man) to be daily growing in patina estimation. Mr. P. Earn USSR, the secretary, read the Wowing Mu : tomeving phllusepher has compered ea uneducated people in which eTtry man should have his right hand lamed. What a sad thing it would be, thinks this philosopher, to travel through a country where all the inhabitaats had their 21 1 114 ands lamed • incapable of working—wen so it is, he with an nnichicatere people, a people that (swot read and write. There is mach aptness in this comparison of the living philosopher's; but would there not haw been more if he had compared an uneducated wade to one in which every man should be deal and dumb. The man who cannot rum what is his sense of hearing worth ? The menwanica lions of business, the gossip of this household, the clink of guinea, and the whir of spindles he ma hear; but to the high and highest voices which God has fashioned to edify him and all men, he is deaf. The man who can not write, beyond some little temporary circle, he is dumb. While he who can read has an eartnuapet that conveys to him the uttered thought of the remotest past and distaste., he who can writs has • speak ing-trumpet that tarries his messages over all the con- detente, and through the loudest storm of the ever-noisy sea of time. This is true indeed of all ages, in which the art of writing has been practised ; but of no age is it so widely true es eif ours. A cursory glance at the modes by which the British people have been spiritually instructed and delighted fa pmt seas, will perhaps make the matter clearer for us. all written popular literature, there has existed in every soundly, eves In inarticulate Ragland, en oral popular literature aeon". In the rudest sges, the tragic and pathetic sad notable incidents in which human life everywhere and every when abounds, moved meriting men of . gesius to embody them in simple song. Chevy Chase, and the " agitation " which Robin Hood conducted " under the greenwood tree," have had their laureates not 1111 than Waterloo and the anti-corn-law movement. Transmitted from the lips of parent to the lips of child, kept fresh and living by beads of wandering minstrels traversing the country, these songs were no doubt a chief element in the cultivation of the unreadiag people—they were its rhymed novels and biographies aadhistuirs. But as acts of parliament began to punish the wandering minstrel for a vagrant, song died out smogs the rural po p ulations ; and last century the Pereies and Kitson' with difficulty rescued some few fragments of what had owe been a whole world of mud". And now remark what even in this department of g for Wile the Ith re m ad n i a r ry an an d ti lr qu ri ar ti ll wer e collecting colle m ct . in ancient reliques and the like, a Scottish ploughboy, with the I fiery and susceptive heart of en old minstrel in him, was driving his team afield. Had the lot of Robert Burns bees east in an mareadiag and unwriting age, the dumb plough boy might have died • dumb ploughman ; his melody wen have to Mersin upon the dry grimed, refreshing it but I disappearing for ever. But Robert had been taught both to read and wnte, and • book or two ley in his pocket as heehaw his team &field; so instead of an anonymous minstrel Mu one of the cattle on a thousand hills, he became a ass waiter for Britain and the world. And already, in • slash generation, who Anglo-Saxons meet ? en the banks if the Mississippi er the Irwell, among the Himalayas, or beside the Australian *genes, his songs an heard ; to perish only with the human soul, of which they celebrate the emotions. Next, in order of time, as a favoured helper in the culture of the people, soma the drama—a kind of composition whisk presupposes reading and writing in its neaten, but by no ma'am' In its esjoyen. In order to get a hearing for his I some, the minstrel had to pious the ears of his rude waken with a mesical accompaniment of voice or fiddle ;'ad se the dramatist had to please the eyes of his rude speedsters with scenery and costume, and the pretended actual preemies it the persons whose doings and sufferings he communicated its dialogue. It is true that Shakespeare and his brethren were patronised by reading royalty sad nobility; but his mainstay was the weeding multitude ; Maw the boldness with which he took kis plots hem em rent contemporazy . works. The scholar might shaky English history in Hollinshed—the educated man the world could enjoy the pages of Boomed°. Bat to Skullcaps's'. unnewing audiences these were ell enkaowa. In • wider way than the old miostrel had hum, the dram. tilt was now • novelist, historian, mad blegewher he the people. Very soon, too, witness Ben halm ;he Weans its moralist and name elm. Skip a century or so from the death of Shakspere and Ben Jenson, and what a difference do we find ? Obscenity struts on the stage ; profligacy ap plauds from the pit. It is not from wooden boards toe few, but on printed paper to the many, that the man of genius now gives instruction and delight. The satirists and moral- ists of the eighteenth century are not dramatists. but Addi eons and Steele., with their gay Spectators and Tatters P..pes with their polished rhymes, Johnson. with their stately Ramblers and Idlers. In the hands of the FieUlege and Suellen', the Richardson' and Sterne', the English novel arises, and British history in those of the Humes, and Robertson', and Goldsmiths. Coming nearer to our own time, we find the actor a more important person than the dramatist, and writing for the stage abandoned to trifling dilettantism. William Shakspere found in English history matter cap Age of yielding wino pleasure; he works it up into an historical play, and carries off the applause of • Globe Theatre audience. Walter Stott finds in European history similar matter ; but not into an historical play, into an historical novel does he work tt ; and for audience, even in his lifetime, he has a whole reading Europe, and a colossal fortune for his profits. So many Englishmen can now read, that the man of talent finds a far surer and wider audience through the press than through the stage, and is at the same time freed from so many shackles which the latter imposed on him. That great engine of popular I culture, the theatre, has been in the wane of centuries ' degraded into what we see it to be. He who wishes the beet instruction or delight that his contemporaries can afford him must look for it now in printed books. It is curious to observe the means by which, mainly, this change has hem produced. Just alter that glorious flowering of the drama " which so did take Miss and our James," Peniten tial burst forth indignant, finally triumphant, bade the theatre manager 'hut up shop, and his establi s h ment has sever yet recovered the blow. You might have been tempted to say—Here is • positive injury ; one attractive means of educating the people is abolished. But sue what puritanism did for the education of the people in a merely mechanical way. It is seveateentle-century puritanism, and eighteenth century methodism, that more than any other influences have bestowed on the English people what reeding power they have. Before pantomime there was nothing in the English church (whatever else of good it might contain) to make the English • reading people. Provision was made for the read ing of the Bible to the ropier, not by the people._ Puritan ism started up, saying, ' Interpret the word of God for your selves—this prieethood's interpretation aft is worth nothing." What an educating influence was this! All serious men now set their children to learn to read, that they might read the Bible. The mac who could read the Bible could read other books; hence, in great part, our present multitude of readers. So true is it, as even the political economist may understand : that religion, of one kind or another, is the parent of all good things on this earth; small as well as great. Not less important was the change which, in the matter of reading and writing also, the great revolt of Puritanism has in tr oduced into our political pro. cedars. The king and his parliament having both finally quarreled, and resolved on settling that quarrel by arms, they both appealed to the people. Doubtless sash had its settled and decided 'odium whim no app eal ' from any quarter could alter ; but is that salional dispute thew were many =dependent or indifferent persons, whose support was moat valuable. And now berms that appeal, through the press, to peals opinion, which has oontinsed ever sines, and whisk hems so remetkable • feature in modern polideal his tory. Is thuold feudaltime, the great noblemen and chweh men wee. ill important to snare ; as the chiefs west. so went the meals. Bat with the growth of an independent middle class of yeomen, traders, merchant', each member of it ready to set en his own judgment, • conviction of the un derstanding was the one thing needful. Add to this the call for new', as natural la a Was of civil war; and you hew is the Pains revolt the origin of the newspaper press sad political writing. In the next maturyyou fi nd the men of talent who can writ* • class sweemely important. The real political debate is carried en, net la parliament, but in the press. JOINNWS pamphlets were ant re important than any minister's speeshes. It is whaled ea all hands that Burke's one book did mere then eight she bawdy England for an attack on Frames end beg Rawhides. In the premat cen tury William Cobbett wrestles he a dew months with Eng lish grammar, gad emerges late pendia literature—tes be comes a power fa the state. People week of the church in old times—how it furnished men of talent with the means of procuring authority and influence. But for thr man who has talent and insight now, the areas of the press may well be an ample one for power over the heads and hearts of his fellows is sure to'find, exact proportion (in the long ran) to hie merit; and what ambition could look for more ? For the gnat mass, there fore, of mankind, the sue sole avenue of amusement, untrue , time, and edification is reading ; for the man of genius, the sae sole arena is writing. Brindle', the great engineer, his =weeks all finished, dropped into deep melancholy in his years, say the biographers ; be had never been taught to read ; his mind, engineering schemes once removed out of it, was a black vacuum, which the amts shows of things presented in books might have perhaps ea ' ly filled, to the exclaim of hypochondria. William hakapere's father, it Is pretty certain, could not write ; leanly there was a free grammar school in Stratford ; and new we have Shekapere's works. Were it ooly for the sake of the few Shaksperee, eel the few Windom let schools everywhere be built in Mislead ; and the sounds of young instruction blend every where with the tones of labour which rise there without ele e s.bi a. 7 te the cops of heaven." awe followed the readieg of the essay. Mr. OIat I POUNTNEY proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. _glasses for his valuable paper, and observed that be bribes* highly gratified by the manner in which the sub jest led hew treated, is an historical paint of view. Mr. Alderman HARVEY saciaded - the resolution. He taila WWI with the meayist, that if people were universally taught to read and writs, many men who did not st linnet peasw the power of representing their thoughts and feelings M With fellow -eaten, woad enlighten the world upon sub- Sae morality, the arts, and sciences. In order, however, to lie mach good, the morality of the people must be raised ; gal he felt convinced that such would be the tendency of ildemeutation, were its principles carried into effect. Tim resolution of Masks to the seeretary was unanimously The SECRETARY observed that considerable difference of opinion existed as to the cause of the failure of mechanics' institutes in the present da Perhaps some of the gentlemen profilist would Mate their v iews on the subject. Mr. SAMUEL LUCAS considered the chief cause of the failure to be a want of education swags, the people. (Hear, hear.) He was satisfied that Ifs large moss of the working population were educated, and if they received a better kind of educed= than they, at present, got in the sectarian schools and the comma day schools, mechanics' institutes would be better supported. The decline of the drama was a subject to which attentioa had been frequently celled of late years. He believed there was no single cause to which it was so much owing se the imam of clap publics time; for, whereas • man most formerly have paid one shilling, or a larger Inn, W obtain an evening's amusement from the representation of a play, he could now procure • better evening's amusement foe himself and family at a much cheaper rate. Mr. Alderman HARVEY said the one great point to be aimed at in the education of the working classes was to effect a moral reformation amongst the people ; and one of the first steps should be to draw them out of the public houses, and put some more rational mode of enjoyment within their reach. The reformation, he considered, must begin with the young. A library had been established in his mill, but he found that only from 10 to 16 per cent. of the people in the establishment availed themselves of it, and they were principally young people. They had also classes connected with the mil,. Mr. SATTERTHWAITE said he had been informed that the chief cause of the rim of the Liverpool Mechanics' institution had been the establishment of juvenile day schools. _ Some further conversation followed, alter which, On the motion of Mr. A. Unmeant, seconded by Mr. Ald. KARON; a TOW of thanks was given to the chairman, and the proceedings terminated. THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH. PUBLIC MEETING AT BRIDGEWATER. A public meeting of the inhabitants of Bridgewater was held in the Town Hall on Monday, Oct. 22, the Mayor, Jamas HAI/MAIM. EA., in the chair, for the purpose of oonsidering the propriety of sternorialiming the Queen to commute the sentence of death pained upon Charlotte Harris fur one less ohnoxiim to the common feelings of humanity. Capt. BROWN, R.N. (rcagistra:e), having briefly alluded to the circumstances of the cue, moved that the following memorial be signed by the mayor on behalf of the meeting, and forwarded to Sir George Grey for presentation to her fdajesty : To the Queen's most excellent Majesty.—May it please your Majesty,—We your Majesty's faithful subjects, inha bitants of Bridgewater, in public meeting assembled, moat respectfully beg to draw your at.ention to the case of Char lotte Harriewho, being in a state of pregnancy, now lies in the gaol at Taunton under sentence of death for the murder of her husband. The prisoner is to be preserved and tended through the pains of childbirth, and the punishment of her crime is only to be postponed until she has been strength ened to rise from her bed of &aerial! to endure a vio lent and revolting death. Your memorialists wish to convey to your Majesty their deep distress and painful feelings on behalf of this unhappy woman, and they most earnestly entreat your Majesty will be pleased to commute the sen tence of death pesed upon Charlotte Harris for one less re pugnant to the common dictates of humanity." - ' • Mr. F. J. THOMPSON seconded the resolution. lie remarked, that were the question of capital punishment generally to be considered, he believed it might be shown that executions did not further the ends of justice, nor deter from the crime at murder, but that, on the contrary, they tended to demoralise public feeling, to familiarise peo ple with killing, and to gratify the depraved ap petite of the mars for scenes of violence and blood. The subject they were met to consider need not occupy time. It was to decide whether they should memo rialise the Queen to commute the sentence of death passed upon Charlotte Hanle. She was now confined at Taunton in a state of pregnant, ; she would receive medical old, and when restored to partial strength, the last penalty of the law would be ioffisted. The idea was too painful to dwelt. upon. The reality would be horrible and disgusting. The resolution was carried unanimously. Jonte Daowie, Req., proposed, and Dlr. Taos. BLACH st conded a vote of thanks to the mayor. LORD DENMktg.—The retirement of Lord Denman from the beach on account of ill health is again rumoured in the profession. ANOTHER DISPUTE AT EXETER.—For some time put a difference has existed between Mr. John Hooker, who holds the office of secondary in our cathedral, snd the chapter. For some reasons, to which rumour gives all sorts of colours, but which we do not judge it needful to detail, Homer has been desired to give up his office of secondary or chorister. He says no charge has been made against him of sufficient weight to induce him to comply with this desire ; his apprintment being of the nature of a freehold, of which he cannot be deprived, while he is able to attend in his place. Mr. Hooker his taken Dr. Adams's opinion upon the case, who thinks the appointment Is in the nature of a freehold. The case has been going on sines Lady. day last, many pros and eons having been exchanged, always ending with the chorister maintaining that it is his right. This day (Monday) on Mr. Hooker's presenting himself, a bar was placed across, so as to prevent his entrance. the case, we understand, will be carried before the competent tribunals, it being the flint of the kind that has arisen since the Reformation=Derionsidire Chronicle. A STRONG FEELING HA, BEEN EXCITED AT ERLE STOIC*, which has led to an act of violence, in consequence of some protetdings which Sir John blubbouee thought proper to take at the late Devizes petty sessions against three young gentlemen of the place for a breach of the game laws. It appears that Sir John, for the convenience of his preserves, had stopped up, and diverted a road, through which the owner of Bruncker's Farm hat a right to pass. Dr. Johnson, the owuer of the fano, feeling annoyed at Sir John's conduct, determined, since the petty ael sions, to assert his right to this road; and for the purpose . he borrowed a car and two horses, and was driving through the swedes with which the original road is now planted, with the intention of cutting down the gate at its end, but his progress was arrested by Mr. Beegin (Sir John's house-steward), and several men who were present. The doctor, however, got out of the cart and walked unmolested through the swedes, but without injuring the gate. A few days afterwards, the gate was completely demolished by a party of young men from an adjoining village. For the purpose of preserving his deer, Sir John had placed another gate across a road leading to the church, which caused an obstruction. Dr. Johnson served S's John with notice to remove this obstruction, and Sir John, feeling that he bad no legal right to place the gate there, hu caused it to be taken away; but the whole place continues in a ferment.—Devises CAPTURE OF FOUR SMUGGLER/.—On Monday nigh* labout 10 o'clock, a Coast Guard boat, belonging to Ports mouth harbour station, with four men and Lieutenant Brown, were rowing in Stokes Bay, when • large boat was seen coming from toe westward ; chase was instantly given, and in • few minutes the strange boat was boarded, and found to contain 42 tubs of foreign spirits and four men, Henry Morton, George Bullard, W. Laisbley, and John Byle, all known smugglers. Seven tubs which bad been thrown overboard by the smugglers, in order to aid their escape, were picked up close by, and the whole conveyed to the station. The lollowing morning the prisoners were taken before the county magistrates at Portsmouth, and remanded for a week to await instructions from the Commissioners of Customs. The spirits consisted of 160 gallons of Geneva and brandy, more than 40 per cent. over proof. CRIME no WatwlcKsHlM—The Rev. Mr. Lang- berme, chaplain of Warwick gaol, reports " • reduction in' the number of committals to the county gaol during the put year to the amount of 162. Whilst there has been an in crease of 21 committed from the county, there has been a decrease from Birmingham of the large number of 183 ; like. wise in the House of Correction there his been an increase of 166 from the county, but a decrease of 125 from Bir mingham, making a total reduction in the committals from that borough during the year of 308, and a total in crease from the county of 187. The conduct of the prisoners has been upon the whole as satisfactory as could be expected from the crowded state of the wards • and though there has bean the average number of punishments inflicted for pri son offences, those offeuces have been generally of the usual description, not calling for any remark ; two attempts, how ever, have been made to escape, and one of them under circumstances of an aggravated nature. In his intercourse with the prisoners, the chaplain has continually found one meet painful mane of crime to be the strong temptation to intemperance and extravagance held out by the present class of beer-houses; and many, of their own accord, fre quently confess to him that they trace their first steps in evil to the unhappy practice of frequenting such places. Num bers, again, never attend any piece of worship; and others, who have once been in the habit oleo attending, have lately neglected that duty, and the reason constantly given is ' that they have not clothes sufficiently good to appear there;" the money that ought to have provided them for themselves and households having been squandered in the beer-houses. And the evil is not confined to the husband or father aline ; independent of the evil consequences of a bad parental example, the drunkard's family are reduced to a state of destitution and wretchedness—half naked, half fa mished, they cannot attend a place of worship, they spend the Sabbath in habits of idleness and sin ; and so the evil con tinues increasing, until the whole family are oftentimes re duced to the same state of misery and crane, and the home which formerly produced but one criminal, now supplies the prisons with many. Another universally . admitted cause of the great prevalence of crime is the dense ignorance that pre vails ; and in this particular thou committed to the Warwick prisons, though probably not worse than in other counties, will certainly not bear any favourable comparison. It is desirable that a schoolmaster should be appointed for the instruction of such prisoners as desire it, and wh-us conduct entitles them thereto, and the eresent appears to be a moat favourable opp ortunity for such appointment, when, owing to the decrease of prisoners expected from the open ing of the Birmit gham gaol, the present fehoolmaster for the boys will have much lighter duty devolving upon him An other circumstance, too, renders the present a favourable opportunity ; namely, the increased denim for reading and general knowledge lately manifested amongst the men, and which the chaplain has already taken advantage of by selecting a mere varied collection of books for the use of the prisoners, con•aining both useful and religions knowledge." —The Rev, P. L. Sandberg, the aeting chaplain at Coventry Gaol, reports to the e ff ect that the number of prisoners com mitted during the year was 480. Severs! of the prisoners were inclined to receive religious instruction, and had con sulted him as tothe means of obtaining an honest livelihood when their terms of imprisonment should expire. JACQUARD K, IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENT UPON THE (Deem the Manchester Ecassiner.) Onr attention has recently been celled to as article in the Mostiteur ladautriel, descriptive of a new machine, the invention of K. Aoki's, of Feria, which, from what we have been able to ascertain, is calculated to become of cocci. derable importanos in Jacquard weaving. The machine, which was exhibited in the recant exposition at Paris, is designated "The Monocle,. Organ." It is played with one single key, the mechanism of which it applicable to the sub stitatios of paper Instead of the card nasally employed in the Jacquard maeliinis. It may be used for engraving musi cal typography, and also for nansferria?„ in a most Interest ing and surpniing manner, music into design. Thefollow. big is the description of the machine, as given in the journal to which we have alluded • . . The moncelave is a machine which is placed at will upon the organ or pianoforte, and it is worked by • single key which embraces all the length of the keyboard. The various sounds are produced by the insertion in the machine of pieces of piper, having, indeed of the usual musical nota tion, a number of perforations which determine the action of the instrument. According to the number and situation of the perforations an the paper, so is the number and variety of the keys to be acted upon. By this invention, the organ may hereafter be used in small places where no or ganist is engaged, and it admits of the performance of all kinds of music even by those who are unacquainted with the science; while by applying certain porticos of this apparatus to the finger organ, entirely new and extremely diversified effects may be obtained. It also affords zenurkable facilities for the production of sustained notes on the pianoforte. lite notation of music by this new system, that is to say, the perforatioa of paper, may be conducted by everyone by band, sad without expense. But Pd. Acklin has invented another machine, fa:cubit:l with a ki y board, by which, if a person plays once over the piece which he is adieus of noting for the monoclare, the perfect notation is °Dustily impressed upon a key:band, from which may be obtained as many copies as are desired. This machine and its ap plieation constitute truly a musical typography. • • • M. Acklin, in hie system of noting music upon paper, has made a discovery which must be teen to be believed: it is, that there exists an extraordinary af fi nity between music and design. Thus, when some musical passages are transferred to the notes, they represent vases, monuments. itc., which, on the other hand, being played by the monoclave from the notes, are such airs as are frequently found in the works of Meyetbeer, ssrsini, &c. For example, there was displayed at the Parisian exposition the Are Verms of Mozart trans ferred to drawing by the delineorpht , onie (which name M. Acklin has applied to this singular discovery). It repre sented a magnificent porch of a Gothic cathedral, with its column., arches, dtc.. bold, and yet of the most exquisite taste. A vast field is thus opened to the art of the musician and the draughtsman, which may ultimately be attended with the most important results. But it is more especially as effecting a revolution in the working of the jacquard frames that the monoclese organ of M. Acklin should be considered. Up to the present time, in the manufacture of brocaded and figured tissues, perforated cards have been used, thrcugh which the needles pass, causing the threads to rift and tall according to the holes in the cards, thus reproducing upon the tissue in the loom the pattern which is perforated on the card. This mode of fabrica tion istroublesome as well as costly, as it necessitates, even for the smallest pattern, the use ef an enormous quantity of cards of high pricy, and inconvenient on account of their bulk. By toe present invention, the cards are entirely superseded, and the thinnest paper is used in their stead—so much so, that out of 3,600 metres used in the manufacture of 1,000 cards, 3,595 metres are saved by M Acklin's invention. It will at once be seen that this invention opens a source of economy of which the bearing is incalculable. One great advantage of the machine is the ease with which it can be adapted to the old jacquard frames, without causing any delay or stoppage of the works. The old cylin den may be taken off, and those of the new apparatus substituted in • few hours, without altering the loom, and with such use and exactness that, even although some work is in progress by the old machine, it moy be taken up and completed by that of M. Acklin, if the holes have been pre viously perforated on the paper. We may here state that the perforating can be done by hand upon the apparatus without requiring the usual sy stem of " reeding; " but for this pur pose M. Acklin has invented another machine, by which reading and perforating is cimed on. The reading is conducted by this machine In the usual manner, but as the paper can follow on the line continuously, the perkration proceeds much more :rapidly than with the cards. Thirty thousand perforations (meirchures) may be made in a day, instead of 1,500 which were made by the elf machine (called tellers), or 3 or 4,000 made by those called acoileies. There are also other advantages than those which we have mentioned. For instance, the holes of the old cards would net permit of the passage of more then 7 needles ; whereas by this system a hole in the paper of one ire oiameter, will allow nine needles, and one of double that size, sixteen needles to pass. Tnis, it will be seen, is calculated to give • greater air urity In the manufacture, more exactness in the work, and more finish and beauty in the tisane. Besides, the machine is so easily worked, that the labour of the workman is considerably diminished. Its play is so easy and gentle, that a paper of 4ho mare/tures, with which M. Acklin has con stantly experimented for fifteen months, scarcely shows the point of contact of the needles. The combination of the machine is altogether so clever, and its construction so solid and perfect, that it is almost impossible, even intentionally, to derange rt. By the invention of this machine, M. Ackhn hes effected the solution of a problem, before which many men of mechanical genius have fail ed. The impulse has been sine. In addition to the French manufacturers, many from Prussia and Austria, who have visited the exhibitions, have eagerly investigated the Acklin machine, and we are assured that the ingenious inventor 11 daily re ceiving new orders. England is already in possession of the new invention M. Kurtz, a most honor able and intelligent Manchester manufacturer, well known both in France and England by his industrial labours, having seen M. Acklin's machine in Paris, and being con vinced of its importance, was desirous ef introducing to England an invention which was like ly to open a new era in the manufacture of ornamental tissues. The article states that many people who visited the exiled. lion might probably not take so much interest is the machine as they would have done if M. Acklin had been on the spot to explain it. Unfortunately, however, he was elsewhere engaged at the time, upon matters of importance. It will be seen, however, tha t machire, or at all event, that appli cation of it to the jacquard loom to which refers nce is made above, has been introduced into Manchester, by Mr. Kurtz, of Ordeal House. We have had an opportunity of seeing the machine, and corjointly with more prac tical men who have inspected it, were much pleased with its simplicity and evident utility. We were assured by Mr. Webb and Mr. Wilson, the gentlemen who are super intending the erection of the maleins et Ordeal House, that eighteen inches of paper are made by this invention to answer the purpose of 100 card boards. An important saving is thus effected, not so much, perhaps, to the English re to the French manufacturers (for on the continent there is a considerable duty on the importation of cardboard), yet sufficient to lead manufacturers to interest themselves in the new invention. And when we consider that there are up wards of 60,000 jacquard looms at work in this town and neighbourhood, the importance of any invention w'oich is calculated to effect a saving, however smell, in the process of manufacture, is greatly enhanced. It is proposed that this apparatus should receive the name of the "Acklin machine," after its ingenious inventor. We understand that in the course of a few days the machine at Ordeal House will be fairly at work, and that then the attention of the manufac. turen of the neighbourhood will be invited to it. GREAT WESTERN FISHERIES COMTSNY or IRE LAN o.—We have been informed on the best authority that some very influential and intelligent members of the above important company (formed in London last year) are at present in the west of Ireland, about Caatlebar, Sligo, &c., making arrangements for immediate operations in the im portant branch of trade—the fisheries of this country, which have been se long neglected. The enterprising company promise to open up a wide field for the employagat of thou sands of our countrymen.—Dublinpaper. ENGLISH EMIGRANTS IN ILLINOIB.—The follow ing letter from an emigrant who went to America in the autumn of last year, has been published in the Lmeo:nshire Times :—" Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois, U.S., Sept. 14, 1849.—Dear 81r,—We are now settled in a lat ent country, in which most of the settlers are English, and nearly all o f them of the class of farm labourers. They were for the most part in needy circumstances; some of them had not more than half a dollar on coming here, yet, by industry and perseverance, most of them are well off, and none in indigent circumstances. I bought an improved farm of 215 acres, with a good farmhouse on it, a log-barn and stables for 8 horses, a log-house, a good young orchard, and three wells, for 3,00) dollars. We have abundance of apples and peaches, more than sufficient for the supply of our family. I did this rather than endure the trouble and inconvenience of making a farm out of a rough prairie, it is a Job I was not well qualified for from previous habits. The land consists of 160 acres of rolling prairie ground, with a patch of wood in the north-east corner of about 20 acres, leaving 140 acres without a tree; the farm-boas. is in the centre of the farm and abort 200 yards from the farm build log ; this lot is bounded on the south by a railway, and on the east by the common road. The remainder of the land is timbered, 25 acres lying a mile south, and 50 acres half a mule north ; the timber consists of several varieties of oak, bickery, walnut, elm, locust, and thirty. I also bought 40 acres of wheat, growing on the farm, at three dollars per acre, being the prioe of seed and labour. We sowed eight acres of barley, four of oats, and planted f..rty-five acres of Indian own, and one sere of potatoes. I had the wheat cut by a machine on the 2.d, 3rd, and 4th of July ; the ield is estimated at 20 bushels so acre, which, at 80 cents a bushel, will produce 16 do.lars per acre, and leave at least 8 dollars clear of all expenses, iocluding a rent calcu lated at 10 per cent. on tie purchase oney. The barley, at a moderate calculation, will produce 30 bushels to the acre. I have already had 621 cents per bushel bid for it, which is ecoofniw,htehaet crap 601b.,.p will be and barley to 4B l / I . b considerably below an avervire all o.rough the western states ; tal 0 s. W lOd i per reg g iu r. th to my farm produced list year 75 bash. per acre. and this year will not exceed 50. With regard to stock , I have 4 horses, 4 e l h n u d l i h 4 e n l milch cows in calf, 4 heifers in calf, 3 calves, 26 sheep, and 61 store hogs, and 25 three months old, with a prospect of at ast 100 more in a short time ; I have 20 thri e year-old steers bought. which I intend to &nen, together with 60 ' hogs, this winter. I shall have 800 bushels of wheat, and upwards of 200 of barley, for market, and the railway close • at hand. This is a country that any working man may do I well in. I can afford to give 251. a year, with board, to a • good working man, and if any labourers come out from Sta ir too, I will reader them all the assistance I ean.—Yoara truly, W." ) . . • LCHINE. I. 4 1 1 II 1 , , ,