The Express. — London, England, 1849-11-01 00:00:00

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The ek illumines, Is the Mediterreeeee, Copies, lain% IlowtHeei, Ito., will be sada up ea the swab( of Nov 7. 'WOK WATIIII AT LONDON WWI TI DAT-Wandiss, IL *a Al%mom lIA Oa Tronagnr-Wales, AL Ma AkeTais, I I. 4a LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1. Tres re-actionista sad the violent moderates of Europe should, neither of them, be allowed to hag themselves with the idea that they are restoring things to their past sad normal state of absolute monarchy or quiet ceestientionalism. The condHoo into which almost all the canaries of the continent !aerobe= brought resmables nothing that ever existed before. It is so longer monarchy or liberty, or con atitudonal government. It is amply and inikedly the naiversal establishment of military influence and authority. A superficial obeetver is apt to see in this the triumph of the monarchic principle and the abasement of the popular one. It is quite a mistake. Thrones have been humbled in the dust eves wee than popular rights, and kingship has dwindled to quits as empty a shadow as freedom. Is there indeed a king in Europe that reigns by the grace of any other thing or power than his army P There is LOUIS NAPOLEON, an army Miles president: the moment he mi.bshaves, the French exiderados threaten him with CHANOARNIER, sad he becomes quiet as a chidden baby. The Emperor of AUSTRIA P The young man is dieginted with the hangings and quartering, of the Hungarians, yet he cannot stop them. ScnWAR EMBER° and BACH would raise a civilian voice in the council; they are not livened to. The King - of PRUSSIA is no longer sovereign of his country, much less of tiermany. He is a general officer, nothing more. and his only ministers worthy of the name are general aura. Their ordonnances sound a halt, and beat a charge". But as for the pretences, the func tions, or the machinery of representative government, that is all humbug. The King of PRUSSIA could not establish • constitutional government, even if he would. His officers would not ;et him. Their sabres form the only sceptres of the day. No country offers so complete an example of the utter annihilation of both monarchic dignity and rights as Spain. Some days ago a fer ia Lterers persuaded ISABELLA to believe that she was guess, that she had, at least, the rights of • oonetitutional queen, to choose her ministers, and to enable them to cry to get a majority in the Cortes. ISABELLA and the LINO CONFORT set to work in this belief. Bat the very first exertion of their will showed them their utter powerlessness. No we would obey them. No one could be got to take office. Every functionary of any importance re 'signed. The very treasury would have (domed its d ors; the army would have turned its back ; and Zemlya-a and her husband might have walked out of a kingdom in which they really have no more power, respect, or authority, than a pair of infants. The story of Queen ISABELLA of Spain in October, 1848, deserves, though full of truth, to be printed as a fable, and put into the hands of every reign ing monarch with its app-opr.ate moral. This is, that every sovereign who in these days sepa rates from his people becomes the slave of one or two general officers. The only mode of escape is to become general officer himself, and to practise successfully the profession of hero. But to do this, triumph is necessary ; and that is a stake not only difficult to win, but one which people, and even armies, object to play for. Au hundred thousand men are no longer anxious to slay each other in order to swell the potirer and the renown of one. The fact is, and we wonder it escaped the notice of tho Peace Meeting on Tuesday night, the great duty of an army is no longer demanded of it, the profession of military hero has been abrogated— " Othello's occupation's gone." Dosing the last two years we have men the several half millions of armed men kept up by each great power in presence of each other, but with such a scrupulous avoidance of collision, that it is evident a fight between two equal parties is a contingency henceforth impossible. War henceforth is that of the hawk, the vulture, and other birds of prey, who pounce upon the weak and carry them off is their talons. But a large country, with a spirited population and dormant resources, has nothing to fear. If France and Austria could ever war, they would have fought for Italy. If Russia dared ever faze the powers of the west. it would have been in October, 1848. The peace congresses, therefore, march with the spirit of the times, and are in fact chiming in With the great popular air. War we shall have none, though of oppression we shall have a great deal. And thus it is that the Peace Congress, we prophesy, must b: come, what it--- dead it is already, a Congress of Freedom. Already we see in its assemblies the warriors of independence, whose swords have been broken by the might of despotism, and who trust no longer to weapons, but to the words of a peaceful people. To these peace congresses, however, we shall by and-by. have supporters and converts more august, if not more illustrious, than KLAFKA or KOSSUTH. These will be the monarchs of Europe themselves, weary of their military Mentors, of the tutelage of the ash and sabre. It is not LAIARTINR or the Arch bishop of PARIS that we shall have seeking the coun cils of Mr. COBDEN, or adopting the fi nancial princi ples of Mr. GURNEY; we shall have Queen ISABELLA of Spain, President Louie NAPOLEON of France Emperor FERDINAND of the piebald realm of Austria , who shall come to be delivered of the tyranny and extravagance of a purely military aging. Sovereigns, however, will have much to do, is order to get up any popular sympathy in their favour. We ens in the Spanish quarrel how all the world takes with NARvAEZ against the court. Tyrant though part be, he is preferred to the imbecility of a court. And, indeed, NARVAEZ himself has discovered that the army is an onsathinstery source of power. Thus, wt the bet moothe o le bus gives an amnesty, and a we, olunpiele sae, Wadley llelamanc and even those atir.Pred his penes. share or h r. t° be wishedmt y. he has introdused into Spain for thi n ftra ni t time tlite principle of free bade. 'the new tariff is, we leer, as yet, but the prissireb, tte practice being de famed. But the liberals sr Spain do think it some &lag to have gained the principle. Moreover, Nut- TAU has made advisees to this IMO liberal party. It no longer abhors bin. It is willing to me in the errors and atrocities of his latter conduct a law of imperious necessity. And sew that NARvALZ has full power in his hazt lir E n iberals do hops that he will ass it for the t and establishm en t o f thew great principles his dictatorship has • We meat confess that we are not so supine, whatever degree of truth there may be in them excul pation= of MARVA= We believe, on the contrary, that the system of military domestic government will be established pretty generally throughout Europe and that both kings and people will be reduced to subservience and nonage. We believe that the sole aim of this great military confederacy will be to rule and to keep down—a task incompatible with war or mutual quarrelling. The rogues will rather agree, in order to share the spoil in more security. WI are in no anxiety for peace. What we are more anxious about is freedom. And that. it , is to be feared, is little likely to recover until reaction or revolution is aroused against the military spirit, sad until thou armies which are maintained under the pretext of defuse, bat for the reality of °ppm dos. bays been disbanded, and the eprings•aad 10- senreee, ead aad empties dgetrerniskilaseglased in claims liberal beads. k :.? 474 : Tax Dean and Chaptig 0611eahattevkl ui s it sear, in dealing oat Wile *O. La dled spew of justice which used kiln a Jell tart daring the border wan. and w 'misted in feet sooduining sad thea-tryieg a moat he they bare a sectood time served that gentleman with a Deed of Dismissal from his elks of sassier of the cathedral grammar school of that city. This sort of jostles is, however, too repugnant to what is usually admiaidered by th e Court of Queen's Beach, that Mr. Whist= has, is his tarn, saved the DIM and Chap ter with notice that be will apply to that wart to prohibit them from 'minting the Falsity they have thought it demist to award against him. And though, in this wetly appliestion, Mr. WaleroN will be under the disadvantage of austainieg his position with hte private means spina a corporation per usals; him with ample church funds, his fellowship at Trinity seems to have infused into him se much of the spi spit of its old master, BENTLEY, that it is to be hoped he will, in a better cause than the great scholar, be ultimately as successful. Meanwhile, however, the coarse pursued by the Dean and Chapter of Rochester is bringing great scandal on the Church of England : for let therp of Mr. Waitron's pamphlet on Treats have been ever so irritating and offensive, people will not and cannot separate the righteenimess of his object from the treatment he has received. Though the Dean and Chapter may now be so much hurt by the resolute manner in which he at last tried to bring them to a sense of their duty, and to a knowledge of their statutes, as to overlook and forget the facts, that they repulsed his early pri vate and respectful efforts to improve the Grammar School, by inducing them to give the foundation boys ' a substantial instead of a fictitious " maintenance,"l and that his Bishop and their Visitor refused to listen to the appeal he aide to that prelate, the solpr think ing and temperate portion of the public will not be so oblivious. And, in spite of all the nice dis tinctions of capitulir metaphysics, the conclusion which common sense will come to on the matter is, that Mr. WHIBTON has been punished because he sought to improve the school by means which would. have reduced the divisible income of the chapter of Rochester Cathedral. Nor, in coming to this judgment on the capitals: conduct, will it be forgotten that for many years, the deans of Rochester Cathedral appropriated to them selves nine-tenths of the large income—probably not less than 3,0001. a year—belonging to the Lazar-house of St. Bartholomew, at Chatham, without the shadow of legal pretence beyond the pract ice of th , it predeces sors ; that it was only an information at the suit of the Arroauxv-Guamn, on the certificate of the charity commissioners, which arrested this me- appropriation ; and that, in all human probability, bat for this infor nation, the present Dean of RJCUESTEII would have closed hie ecclesiastical career in the illegal practice in which be, etc: the example of his fellows, bad oommenctd it. Bat it is now reported that the Dean and Chapter of Rochester are willing to carry out Mr. WIII6TON'e views as to the foundation scholars and students, as soon as they have succeeded in punishing that gen tleman. This report would have been Incredible, had it not (oar correspondents write) been traced to two members of the Chapter. For, if Mr. Wills- Ton's object be so good as to prove irresistible, it is surely the deity of men placed in the high and responsible position of the Dean and Cuspter of Rochester to forgive those defects of tempt r or that rudeness of manner whit& Mr. Winsrox's enthusiasm on the subject of education may have seduced him into. Mr. WHISTON, be it rememb!red, found Ro chester Grammar School on his appsintment scholar less; he has rendered it so attractive and useful to the city for whose benefit it was endowed, that the citizens have testified their sense of his sufficiency for and efficiency in the poet at a public meeting. He has endeavoured to render it still mere attractive by pro curing far its scholars all the advantages intended by its founder. And yet the Dean and Chapter of Rochester hold his dismisial to be a ne cessary expiation for the increase of those advantages! And one of the Chapter is himself the head of a great educational foundation ! The Provost of Oriel College, Ozfard, Dr. HAWKINS, a men emi nent in literature and in theology, is oie of the Ca noes participating in this preliminary requirement, and, if report belie him not, is one of tag bitterest of Mr. WIIIIITOMI persecutors. Shade of the great and good Armour, look down and reprove thy ancient friend! But even this is not the only exemplification of 1 uncharitable feeling manitstel on the occasion by the Caapter. For, we are assured, on the second neuter of the whack hesitating to supersede, at the instance of the Chapter, Mr. Wittsrox, before he was legally removed from its direction, one of the Canons, within a few hours of this hesitation, and withcatt any previous complaint or notice,. actually took away a young relative from th e second master's hones ! We are positively ashamed to pot such little ness and m:aciness on record. Let us therefore re tarn to the graver parts of the use. Whilst thus sensitive and critical of even the lan guage of others, the Dean and Chapter of Rochester will not be surprised, and cannot complain if their own conduct be very closey scrutinised, and their own position very severely examiatd. Who and what they are we have already shown. We have shown that each and every member of the Chapter is a pluralist; that out of the six members of which it is made up, four of them hold even more than two pieces of church . preferment; that the average itIC3IIIS they derive from ecclesiastical benefices is not less than 1,5001. a year ; that in one case it is nearly double; that the dean and two of the canoes bold benefi ces in their own gift of the average worth of 6001. a year ; that seven of the beet livings in the gift of the Chapter, after those held by its members, have been bestowed on their sone, brothers, and connexions ; that the value of some of these livings is as high as 7001. a year ; and that widlst the dean and caner. and their kinsmen are thus gorged with church patronage, the minor canons cf the cathedral are still on short commons ' and the foundation scholars and student s are starved by the allowances fixed for maintenance in the reign of Hatrat VIII. Nay, if we are correctly informed, even of this miserable stipend they are mulcted a pro portion as fees to the congenial clerk of such Chapter ; and instead of having four exhibitioners at the uni versities, there have occasionally only been two. • True, however. it is—for we have no desire to be unjust to this body—that the Dean and Chapter of Rochester have within the last tweoty years spent as many thousand pounds on the cathedral. Bot this fulfilment of their boanden duty to "stones and tim ber" does not exonerate them from the duties they owe to the human beings who have quite as strong • claim on their fond. I nor haa it prevented the deanery being worth 1,4001. a year, sad cana ries 6801. a ?ear to their incumbents. " Woe unto him that moth to the wood, Awake! to the dumb stone, Aries : it shall teach ! Behold, it is led over with gold and silver ; but there is no breath at all Some of the livings held by these reverend plu ralists are, too, at great distances from their cathe dral church. Thus, foe example, Canon GRIFFITH holds a benefice in Lincolnshire; Canon litvimo, one in Dorsetshire; Canon HOTHAN, one in Norfolk, and I another in SoffAk. Now it is more than doubtful whether, under the chapter statutes, the incam bencies of these distant benefices are legally compa tible with their canaries. Fur the statutes clearly intended that priests connected with the cathedral should not hold benefices distant mote tbaa 24 miles from that edifice. But the muter evil chargeable spinet the Chapter ii the condition into which they have allowed the great parish of Chatham, which lies under the very walls of their cathedral, and is not only in their gift but is held by one of themselves (Canon Limit), a pluralist lour deep), to fall. A full exposition of the state of this parish, which, though worth 1,0001. a r, ear, cinnot secure a resident incumbent for its 16,000 inhabitants, is however too large a matter to be given at the tail of an article. So it must keep far another occasion. Baugh foe to day, if we have =feasted the wanes with which the Dean and Chapter have meted out to Mr. WHISTON, with the measure with which they have meted to themselves, their sons, and brethren. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1, 1849. THE OVERLAND MAIL. The regular monthly India mail * yid Munilles, gasarrived in= art 111T;t r ajg,_Aringing a menthe aud M44. 1 .11in ' ti tow pumps Ne there Wring bra lei oppoo l aw of tin ea beard the IPMeellithich Weight WI bi-mnotllBl imfilis the :11antIola of 'obis" were pabliallei' cis bight oa this omelkloa are from Bombay Ootp:a, sad 'aborts delay had been caused by the extraordinary forge of the wienesen, wleltdris said to have best the meet violent for assay The amount of rain fallen in aimed beyond pre ce dent, and the floods throughout India have base most destructive. /a one inmarmo the rain and the flood have by their united operation produced a most unexpected effect—the re nowned Fort of Wolters, with all its bomb-proof de pendencies, which had so long held out against all tied@ of samilints, has melted away before the joint attacks of the monsoon torrent and the Mood of the Chines& On the 18th of August the rain began ; building after building fell in rapid succession, and on the 23rd the river had covered the whole country. The floods gradually ascended the coarse of the rivers at the rate, it is said, of about 70 miles a-day, and had everywhere done much temporary damage. The following is the letter of one correspondent: BOMBAY, Oct. 3. The monsoon has at length, to all appearance, ter-4 mioated, very little rain having fallen since the deluge of the 17th, of which I gave particulars in my last. We have had 118 inches diming the season, the fall on the Mahabuleshwar bills having been nearly three times as much. The whole of Western India seems to have shared in the downpour of the 17th. On the oast at the cotton poet of Comptah, a tremeodons hurricane occurred on the 18th, 17th, and 18th, wherebyeighteen large native boats, some laden wi h cotton for Bombay, and others with specie, &e., from this port, wire completely wrecked, and pro , perty to the value of at least 10,0001. destroyed. Our cotton dealers, who seldom or never think of insuring their merchandise, are the sufferers by 'this storm. Numerous other country craft have been wrecked along the coast, and quantities of goods have been picked up some little way out to sea. I have not heard of any of our merchantmen having sustained damage, from which it would appear that the storm was coa -1 fined to the coast, and did not extend any die tanoe out to sea. At Mulligan the river rose to a great height, sweeping away the suspension bridge, l ead also a Hindoo temple on its bank, with several men who were therein. At Surat the Taptee river overflowed its banks, and on the 19th the water burst into the city, forcing the inhabitants to fly before it. People from the Dutch Bunder were obliged in to boats all over the road to a place in the centre o f the city, called Bhaga-tullao. From the Adawlut gate down to the Racecourse gate, over all the gardens where the European gentlemen live, it was one im mense sheet of water, to the depth of three or four feet. The Dutch Bender was under water, where the people and cattle had fled in their fright for safety. A number of old houses had tumbled down, and the destruction of property had been very great. At Cambay the sea had risen to an unprecedented height, and Femoral large boats had been thrown ashore and there left high and dry some hundred of yards flan their proper element, and there they must re main till some future monster tide comes to their rescue. At Kaira and Ahmedabad there were tre mendous falls of rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning. At Hyderabad, in the Heenan, on the 10th, the rain came down in cataracts, overflowing all the tanks and well., and damaging a large number of houses. On the 12th, the river Moose overflowed its barks, and the water entering the city, washed away the Begum Bazaar, entering the Residency compound. At Hydrabad, in Scinde, it rained fearfully on the 17th, and numbers of houses and trees were blown down by the storm.' On the 18th, a very heavy fall of rain occurred at D‘lhi ; and on the 20. h Meerut was visited by one of the severest storms of rain, thunder, and lightning, which had been known for a number of years. Throughout the Gooseerat the bajree crops had been much damaged by the rain, while the rice mops had been benefited by it. Throughcut the country at large an abundant harvest is expected, which will, as usual, enable the poor cul tivators to purchase some of our coarser cotton fabrics, and thus a pretty extensive trade in them may be ex pected next month, after the conclusion of the Dewal lee holidays, which commence on the 15th instant and last till the 20th, on which occasion the native desires close their accounts, and worship their wealth, prepa ratory to commencing a new commercial year. Very little has occurred in the Bombay presidency requiring particular notice. A young ensign of the 80th, named Bowers, has lately been tried at Deems, for having been drank at a guard-mounting parade—at least such was the charge; but be was acquitted. Sir W. Oomm has taken up his billet at Ceylon, watching the course of events, with an eye, it lie said, to stepping into Sir William's shoes, or those of Sir C. Napie r , w hi c h I dare say be would prefer. _ __ _ - . The Moplabs on the Malabar coast were overtaken on the 4th of September by the grenadier company of her Majesty's 94th Foot and a detachment of the 39:h Native grenadiers; and as they would not sur render, but on the contrary seemed determined to sell their lives dearly, they were bayonetted to a man, 61 of them being killed on the spot, the remaining one being taken alive covered with wounds. Oar force lost two Europeans and one Sepoy killed, and one European mortally wounded. Major Dennis and Lieutenant Vaughan, 94th, with several of their men and a number of the Sepoys, were wounded. On this cccaaion the " blacks a vied wi h their European brethren in arms—all have been highly praised by Sir G. Berkeley for their gallantry. Lieu tenant Partridge, of the 14th Madras Native Infantry, has been dismissed the service for drunkenness. The Madras troops are to occupy the Sanger and Norbudda territories, while Bombay corps are per manently to garrison the station/. along the Malabar coast as far down as Cochin. The Bengal regiments now in the Sanger territories will thus be available for service on the north-west frontier. The Hindoo inhabitants of Madras are about to present a testi monial to Sir E. Gambier, Chief Justice, on his approaching retirement from the bench. .he Rev. Mr. Mahon has met with a serious accident by being thrown from his carriage and having his arm broken. Colonel Considin- Quartermaster-General of the Madras army, h as gone home on sick leave. Lieutenants A. V. Layard and J. Hayter, of the 23rd M.L.L, both died on the Bth September, at Kamptee. The former was the youngest son of the Rev. B. V. Layard, of Uffington, Lincolnshire. Sir George Berkeley was to have visited Cannanore late last month, front whence he would return to Bangalore, and thence to Madras in the end of October. The detac hment of the 94th Foot returned to Canna nore on the 13th September—the wounded all doing welL The latest date received from Madras is the 25th September, when the weather was anything but agreeable, thoMh not particularly disagreeable= and there was bat little sickness prevalent. The Calcutta police inquiry has terminated, and the commissioners have emit in their report to govern ment : it is expected to appear shortly in the go vernment Gazette, with the remarks of government on its disclosures. No conjecture can be formed as to the punishment which will be inflicted on the delin quents, for such they one and all (Mr. Hume alone excepted) appear to be. Meanwhile Captain Hicks and Major Birch have been remanded to the c i= uten ts, and one of the lesser culprits—Mr. M , a deputy superintendent of police—has been called to his final account, having died from enlargement of the liver on the 20th Sept. Mr. W. Blunt, Cll., senior member of the Board of Customs, Opium, and Salt, has been suspended the service pending the in vestigation he had himself solicited into his conduct. The r—enmissioners in this case are Messrs. Harvey and ' C.S. The Governs .- n-- -- ' 114 Gough, _- —...ornor-iteneral will . it is said, return to Calcutta before 1851. The Hon. Mr. Bethune has recommended the abolition of ex prt duties at Calcutta. Dr. Duff was about to leave Calcutta for good in the end of September. The government Gazett• of the 22nd ult., received this morning, contains a draft of an " Act to Incorpo rate a Company for Building a Pier at Pdadras."—The Hurkans of the 22nd gives the following extract of a letter of 30th August irons Moulmein: Yesterday the whole town was thrown Cato high excite seat by the daring attempt oa the part of a Burmese to murder ear napes d espossainioner. It is asserted that the ilinow, wilt an order passed by tbe commies'**, letershsedi * revenge himself, to ensure which he called on War Sigh with a petition, and armed with a bludgeon. The pelNfia w ri tsesated, and while the commissioner was =c is it, he was felled es the ground with • blow. w wu mufti lipids sal spin. Thls dome, OM nibs as of Owing du milimiuMlN for dad) to the house of Capt. Impoy, to whom be surrendered him- Self, saylog that he had killed the oommissioner. Ca lillastragelsko• as he had ordered the "man to be es • em tint house of the 001111Mt1111011•T whom he f • still=eab bat attended by Dr. Marion. Thank God, the in isresorfle ei cted tin not dangerous, altd the sownis •. thew A geed deal of sickness (fever) -Sae broken oat mom* the keeps at Meehan, mesqwent on the late flood:. The following extract from ifUtter of the 11th ult. gime the latest news I hare men from the station : The heat of the weather hare continues dreadful, mad the water subsiding makes it very unhealthy ; nearly all the Beropease laid op. 170 of the Rifles, 80 of the 9th NI, and • member of thee/Boer% have fever. The stench Is dradfel ! No air, ea/ at nightwe lie awake and are tor mented with maidlifles.• slrep is hapoesible The old bide elan, Abdul Fu Akbar, 300 years ego, says : From Meehan to Bakker Ise eaves or eight months of the year there blows a wind fulled the °Barti-oilmoom,' and next to h —ll it is the honest plasm known I" A very true account Tie Meantime of ilitie tl Rifles ea outpost at Lash have nearly all the men risk Oliver, sod the worst month yet to 00•12. The following is from the Bombay Tbnerloverland of this morning We have LAMA from Peshawar to the 14th ult., with a report on the weather for the 'month of August. From this letter we bare that the highest range of the thermometer during the mouth had been 104 deg. at 4 p.m. the lowest, at sunrise, 81 deg., the midday maximum 101 deg., the said. night ditto 100 deg. The mouth had not, however, been characterised, as would be supposed by the indications of the therairmeter, by any unusual degree of hat over those which had just preceded it ; it even showed that the met fury did not range so high as it had done in May, Jane, and July ; yet we regret to find that more fatal elms of apoplexy had occurred amongst the Eu ropean troops during August than in any month g DOII our oesapation of the province. la the middle of the month there had been a sacemsdon of exceedingly close gad suffocating nights, and in the space of three days no fewer than twelve Europeans had died from apoplexy of the longs alone; several of them having been cut off in their barracks unknown to their comrades darin the night, without having previously complained of anything ailing them. During the entire month the casualties had been thirty, of which twenty-six were Europeans, and four natives. Of the former, two belongso to the 3rd company Ist battalion, and one to the detachment Bengal Foot Artil lery, seven to the 61st Foot. three to the 3rd troop Bombay Horse, and one to the Zed company let battalion Bombay Foot Artillery, eight to the 60th Rifles, and four to the Bombay Fusiliers. Of the latter, one each belonged to the 31st Bengal N. 1., 13th Bengal I. C., 9rd and 19th Bombay N. I. The whole force consisted of 9.154 men, of whom 493 bad been on the sick list, or five and a half per cent. The prevailing diseases had been biwel affections, fevers, and opthahnia. At the date of our letters sickness was on the decrease, both amongst the natives and Europeans. The but weather had passed, and the cold was setting in—the nights and mornings Lag delightful, especially to these who had guff. red from the previous heat. Throughout the 'ninth of August thunder storms with rain had been of frequent occurrence—the effect of which in cooling the atmosphere had hien felt for several days after their advent. Heavy rain fell on the 7th, 9u", 15th, 16th, 17th, 20th, and 29. b, and on several occasions light showers had fallen. During the time it• was raining on the 15th the thermometer had (alien 28 degrees in two hours ! Daring the month there had been a beautiful dis play of brilliant meteors—rod, blue, and green—in the lower regions of the atmosphere. As many as twenty had fre quently been counted in an hour. Their direction was prin cipally from north-west to south-east, but often to and from other points of the compass. The following table will show the strength of the several corps and detachments now at Peshawar _• _ -- Euroteins.-2ad troop 2n4 brig. Bengal H. A. 111 ; 3ri troop Bombay H. A., 131; 3rd co. lit ban Bengal F. A., 69 ; detsehns.nt Bengal F. A . 211 ; 2nd 00. 1.. t batt. Dam bay F. A ,100 ; H.M. 60th Rifles, 862 H.M. 61st Foot, 830; lit Bombay Fusiliers, 813.—Total, 3,117 men. Natives Detail. Benicia H. A., 120; Details Bengal Foot A., 155; let Bengal L. Cavalry, 502; 18th Bengal Irreg. Cavalry, 530 ; 2nd 11*r. Scinde Horse, 514 ; Bengal Sappers and Miners, 90; Bombay Sappers and Mi. era. 129; 3rd Bom bay N 1., 899; 19th Bombay N. I , 937; 31st Bengal N. 1., 896 ; 70th Bengal N 1., 605 ; Sciade Baggago C mpg, 660. total Natives, 6,037. Total Europeans, 3,117. Grand total, 9,154 men. Sir H. Lawrenos doss not leave Lahore for the present. Sickness had diminished at Lahore, but still prevailed to some extent at Wuzeei abed and else where. The charge against Captain Gell, of tyrannoas con duct towards the Jam of the Jokeahs, would appear to have been a just one, ae that officer has been removed from his appointment of lieutenant of police at Kurrachee, and remanded to his corps. The hill tribes had made a foray into Upper Scinde, and carried off some of our esmels. The Scinde Horse were quickly on their track, but the robbers were this time mounted, and so got off, though a number of the an;mals were recovered. The old blibjes, or Qu.en-mother, the last repre sentative • f the Holkare, died of cholera at Indore on the 9th of Septemba, no medical assistsume being afforded her. Although the residenly surgeon was on the spot he was not informed of her illness. Mr. Ha milton, the resident at Indore, h ben appointed a provisional member of the Connell of India ; who will succeed him at the court of Indore is not known. We add the following from cur Bombay correspon dent, which should have arrived by the last mail. It contains many items of intell g. nee from various parts of India which were not to be found in the correspondence and papers which came last to hard : BOMBAY, SIFT. 17, 1849. The monsoon continues at Bombay as heavy as it did in July last ; and to-day, while I write, rain is pouring down in deluges. We have already had 112 inches this season, and then is still little prospect of the weather clearing up. Daring the present month 23 inches have fallen, and it Is not improbable we mug have eight or ten lane. Since 1817 oar present season's fall hss only once been exceeded, 122 inches having' fallen in 1828. The dwellings of the indi gent classes are perfectly saturated, and numbers are daily dying of • species of cholera superinduced by damp and the cuureat food, the poor wretches entirely oul...isting on a little haled rim, with perhaps a dried fish and a little chilli. water. As many as twenty and thirty have been cut facially for the past fortnight. In one compound, out of aim men, six died, the oth-r three being still in hospital. An unfortunate man, lamed King, formerly, I believe, a captain is her Msjesty's 41st, but who was cashiered many years sines from that corps, fell a victim to the disease this morning. During the month of August the total number of deaths in Bombay from all was 1,104—0 f these 127 died from cholera, upwards of a sixth being pro bably seamen. This dreadful epidemic has this month also cut off a number of Europeans of the Indian and mercantile navies; net • single case having occurred seaman the European soldiers on the island. The late dreadfully wet weather will, it is feared, lay the Ties crops, which are now nearly rips, and this cause their destruction. Sickness to a great extent is almost sure to follow on the ',reeking up of the present rain ; indeed it has already made its appearance. The filthy old bulk Hastings, which first set the cholera to work in the harbour, has been brought into dock for repair, and to be cleaned. A filthier vessel, or one more infested with vermin of every description, disgraces not an navy in the world . Ste H. Lawrence has given 201. as a donation to the Pensioners' Fund at Bombay. Upwards of 1,0002 have now been subsctibed, with annual subscriptions amounting to 1601., and operations bars been commenced. The two engineers through whose carelessness the boilers of the 'Pam frigate Queen were destroyed on her voyage to Aden, in May last, have been dismissed the service by goverment. A miserable affair has happened on the Malabar Coast, at a place edited Munjerry, 12 miles from Callan. It would seem that a gang of fanatic "Moplahs" bad been com mitting robberies end murders in the neighbourhoi.d, when • party of the 6th Native Infantry was sent out alter them. These they eluded, and took up • position in • strong temple, and set their opponents at deflates. A strong party of the 43rd was next sent out on the 27th August, bat the commander, Bailin Wyse, not thinking himself =snack to attack the marauders in the pagoda, • detachment of the 43rd, under Captain Watts, went to hisaisistance. There were now 120 Sep's, led by two Ramps= oilloere,—the Moplahs being estimated at 30 or 40. agta Wyse and his party of 60 men advanced en the temple, when half the maranden came cut to meet them, armed with knives, spears, and matchlocks—fire of each weapons. The Belays fucked! fired at random without orders, sad all but tour turned tail and fled ! En sign Wyse sad his four supporters were immediately cut to pieces, and the fanatic. returned to the pagoda. Captain Watts in vain endeavoured to rally the retreating Sepoye—his ;own detachment would not ap parently move against the enemy, so he was compelled to marsh them down to the Cutcherry to guard the treasury and the collector. Was anything more disgraceful ever heard oft—the affair is wholly unaccountable. A detach ment of 200 of her Majesty's 94th, with two guns, was on this news reaching Camisole immediately sent off to Mutt. Jerry, which they would not reach before the 3rd inst., by which time the Mopialts would of course have decamprW. The 12th N. I. at Cannanore volunteered to go in plan of the 94th, but though given all praise for their offer it was not accepted. The steamer direct from Madras will doubt less convey home intelligence of how the affair ended. I have never heretofore heard the Madras &port accused of cowardice in front of an enemy, and cannot help thinking there must have been some bungling in wry iog out the expedition. Noonan has been almost totally destroyed by an kande, doe. The river Chenaub bunt its bounds and carried every thing before it—laying the whole country for miles around under water. There had been heavy rain about the middle of August, which had caused a number of the domes and mosques to fall in ; and on the 23rd the rise of the river com pleted the destruction of the celebrated fort of Mooltan, which is now one mass of ruins. I subjoin the following account of both occurrences from this morning's Otter/anal Times. No news that l have seen has bran received from the setae of destruction of later Gate than the 27th ult.. though Ulan up to the 2nd inst. ought to have reached Bombay, and I dare say have been received by friends of the I o ffi cers t here; but as nothing has been published, w t is sa m i aj presume matters zunained as at the date first men The steamer Dwoka, hourly expected from Komi:lee, will uo doubt bring tvp,biar perticulars. DESTRUCTION OF MOOLTAN. Moovraw, Aug. I&—We have been visited here by one of **headset falls of rain remembered by the bloeltanees. The remits have been mdansholy ; the town and fort, shat tered by shot. and shaken by the terrific explosion of the 301 k ea, 184$, have been greatly gut up, walls under min and seewal py people buried ander the rdni. Tee d of the edited an so unsafe, that the officers and are moving into tents, four of them having fallen la. he men fa the Kanner Lot are also moved into torte, as the ditch, being fall of water, melts the mud wall, and it Ms slid down bodily in several as also has the counter scarp; sad the inner brisk is expected to go in s few daps. The destruction to the fort has been very great, end we an at present on an himikall around being flooded. The 4th Rifles lines are drowsed, end under water, and the men are pitched on a small digs gresand user the cavalry. At tan this morning we were all startled by what at fleet was thought to be an earthquake, but it was soon dheovered that Ike *pennons &me of the beautiful shrine of Bhawal uk, (injured by our shot) bad fallen in with a noise like thunder : fortmately the fakeers were all at a distance ; it is now a heap denims. Another fell of rain will lay the r i a:see " feet ed Meehan flat: being built ea an old site, par tway keeisysembed in all directions, it is dangers to ride about, die earth everywhere giving way. A major of artil hey and Ids home were nearly swallowed up in one of these immense lisseres, and several small tremens have been die sound to the peke agents by the ground °patine. The stench and exhalation are most unplestant, and the flies and insect* very annoying. Everyone now is anxiously looking forward for the relief : the men, who have had no furlough for two years, are as anxious to rejoin their families as the officers, and it is greatly to ',admired thatao delay will now take place. The order kettle general disarming of the Pus janb has been proclaimed, and not come too early. The bands of marauders as well as thugs in this neighbourhood suffer few travellers to 'expo them. The engineers were getting on famously with the repairs of the shattered wails, etc., of the fort, when as order was suddenly sent to stop work—or rather I understand the funds were wanting: the late lamentable consequences are the result. Perhaps some of your correspondents can tell you the amount expended on the battered shrine a Shuns USN's, which has been re paired at the expanse of government (before the rain fell) though not injured by oar guns. It is said fifteen thousand rupees have been granted to the three saints ! at the recom mendation of the—Hero of Mooltan ! " Kooken, like Surat, seems this season destined to be the victim alternately of tire and water—of the British artillery and the naiads. What Whish was so long of diming, and then performed but imperfectly, the waters of the Chenaub have accomplished noiselessly and without difficulty. On the 23rd ultimo the river, breaking through all restraint, Caine pouring into the ditch, when the greater part of the bastions, a large portion of the wall, and the whole of the counterecarp, tumbled In. The fanne-brays was immedi ately filled with water, and nearly the whole of the huts in the sepey lines fell down. Two companies of the 9th N. I. have lost all their musical instruments, arms, and accoutre ments. The W bad esdgah, where the rifts were quartered, came tumbling about their ears, and compelled them to seek refuge in the fort, the only place for miles ' around not under water. On the evening of the 24. h, the flood at last made its way into the citadel, and rendered Mooltan nearly as unsafe a place of residence as it was in December, though from a totally different cause. The horses of the artillery had escaped drowning by swimming and wading to an elevation some way off ; end for miles around the whole country was one magnificent lake, studded with innumerable islands, on which the people and their live stock sought refuge—bears and rafts be log the only means of communication. Serious apprehensions began to be entertained that if the waters of the 11 iced did no- subside immediately, the severest privations might be apprehended, if fearful sickness dil not ensue. We trust that some careful chronicler will be !mind to give us all particulars of the rise, duration, subsidence, and influence of this most memorable find, and to determine whether with in the period referred to by history or tradition, any similar phenomenon was ever known to have occurred. The fact of stately structures being built within the reach of the over flowing water, and of these having remained for a long lam of time uninjured, indicates that floods of this rent are of very rare occurrence. The swallow never builds on the sash window or opening casement, and mankind erect no struc tures where there remains any chance of their being washe d away. A large overflow of water was said to have occurred some fourteen years ago, occasioned by the bursting of a hund, which continued ever after to be carefully attended to by Modraj : there seems no reason to suppose that an such catastrophe was ever known in Mooltan as the present." Sickness continues at both Lahore and Peshawur. At the (firmer Dr. G. Thompson, Horse Artillery, and at the latter Brevet-C dl. M'Leod, C 8., 61st Foot (the tooth officer of this regiment who has been cut off since June) have died, their diseases having been apoplexy and chronic dysentery. The colony around L Ihore has been inundated, end the cantonment of Sbahpore has been swept away by an over flow of the river Jhelum. We may shortly expect to hear of Scinde (upper) having been under water, the flo.d pro- bably occurring about the Ist or 2nd inst., as the torrent seemed to flow towards the sea at the rate of 70 miles a day. Sir H. Lawrence had almost completely recover. d from his illness, and hod abandoned the intention of s. eking chaire of air in Cashmere. The affirmation that Goolaub Singh had never been requested to give op his artillery has been re peated, with every appearance of authority, by the Bombay Tema, so It is intended by the big-wigs that it should be implicitly believed. The Bombay government are said to have administered a severe rebuke to the Imaum of Muscat, for having, either directly violated the slave-prevention treaty entered into by him, or suffered others to do so with impunity. A gentle. man named 11. C. Harrow, of Hydrabad (Deccan), com mitted suicide on the 21st August, while on his way to Ma dras. His remains were interred at Pulicat—Soonj onl- Moolk, lately in disgrace with the litmus, is in hopes of being reinstated as Prime Minister.—Another officer has died at Joulnah, Lieut. F , 33rd M. N. 1., making the sixth in the course of the month of August His widow only sur vived him a fortnight, when she also was cut ..ff. The station was a scene of mourning, and a day of humiliation before the Almighty had been set apart —The ship Pncebr, Csptain Hodder, belonging to Mr. D. Dunbar, of Limehouse, was wrecked near Eskapillay, on the Madras coast, on the 28th August —A dreadful accident occurred at Trichinopoly, on the 21st August, by which betwixt threes and four hundred persons were killed. For penicillin, I refer you to the pspen.—l take no notice of Bengal, and you will receive much later news direct than I could send you.—C .ptain 8. Tabor, 7th Bengal Cavalry, died at Juliundhun on the 21st August. P.B. No post in yet-3, p.m.—detained no doubt by the dreadfully heavy rain which has fallen since yesterday. At 6 this morning our total fall for the season was 110 05 inches. From that hour up to 2 p.m.—eight hours—the enormous quantity of 6.16 inches have fallen, making in all 115.20 inches. It it continues at this rate we will nave to employ boats in the streets. A good deal of thunder and lightning all day. [For markets see last page.] BOMBAY ORIENTAL BANIL—The ordinary annual meeting of the Oriental Bank in Bombay, was held on the 15th ult. ; and altnough it wee expected that a large at tendance of shareholders would have been present, we were sorry to observe that only a very smell number a sembled at the hour fur business. The directon took occasion to revert to the position of the bank, and in doing so, to assure the shareholders that considerable progress had been made in rearming the balances on overdue balls and credits re sulting from the crisis of 1847-8; and that the provision made from current profits had up to this time proved sufficient to meet all ascertained losses; also that the business of the bank is in a very healthy state, and the reserved fund of 112,0001. (or 11,20,000 Re.) still remains untouched as at last annual balance. It was farther remarked by the directors in their address, that the debility of Colonel Pew, Mr. Rich mond, and others, and the presumed loss by those transac tions, wero grossly exaggerated; and in evidence thereof, a statement of those accounts was laid before the altar. holeers, from which it appears that the amount due by Colonel Pew is under four lace of rupees (in place of 10 lees as stated in the newspepers), and that the security held by the bank will in allprobabdity fully cover the debt; while the sum due by Mr. Richmond (magnified into four and a half laced rupees) is no more than Re. 12,000! and that the saute was written off to profit and loos in September, 1848 ! At the sutgestion of the dir, ctors, an additional audit of local wets was re solved on, and two shareholders were named by the meeting for that duty. Mr. Henry Young, our respected collector of customs, was appointed a director in the room of Mr. Grant, who went out by rotation ; and as no ether native gentle man was put forward in the en m of Juggonath Sunkeraint, Esq., whose time had also expired, that gentleman was re elected. THE BERMONDSEY MORDER.—DiSCOVERY OF moan or• O'Coristoree Paorearr.—On Monday last Man ning particularly el. sired to have an interview with Mr. Sinus, his solicitor, as he had some important communica tion to make to him. A special order from the visiting magistrates being required, Mr. Bina wee unable to visit his late client until yesterday. Shortly after ten o'clock the interview took place in the pretence of the deputy governor and two turnkeys. Manning seemed much pleased to see his attorney, and thanked him for the activity he had dis played in defending him. Re made no allusion to the sen tence, but gave some important information relative to some shares which belosgei to O'Connor, end which were de stroyed by Mrs. Manning on the evening after the murder was committed. The shares were of considerable value, and their worth will, no doubt, be restored by the railway company that issued them. Mre. Manning burnt them in the ►ack kitchen with several old ;miters and some rags. Manning told Mr. Sinn' that he wishedO'Connor's exe cutors to know the fact, as the property might be restored to them. Last evening Mr. Biwa communicated with them, giving a particular description of the shares, with hiann'ng's statement respecting them. While conversing with Mr. Binns, Manning seemed in excellent spirits, and appeared quite reigned to the awful fate that awaits him. He still asserts that bit wife perpetrated the crime, and that he as sisted in disposing of the body. Yesterday afternoon, by the advice of Mr. Binns, Manning wrote an affecting letter to his wife, appealing to her feelings, and calling upon her to confess everything connected with the dreadful crime. He exhorts her to tell the truth and rely upon forgiveness from her Maker. The letter was handed to her in the evening by the female turnkey, and for some time she refused to read it. She however perused it, and requested to be furnished with writing materials, for the purpose of answering her husband's letter. Ebt (Court. wygpsoa, Oar. 31.—The Queen, attended of Countess of Mou n t Bdgeesinbe (Lad e it- 1 % th ... - i t "I et. n Major-General Weinym (Eatterry-in-Waitioe), Wiudsor Great Park. Ills Ave' /Bon er went out shooting this morning. atti t h o Naa s Ormond', Idelor-Oesseral Bowles, and Col oss ii tf __ The royal family took walking a n d pony etyma Ws log, in the Slop es an d Windsor-park. Nig Zile. addition to the royal dinner party rya s main sin THE QUEEN DOWAGER. The following bulletin of the Qua, Dsuip t i r health was issued yesterday : The Priory, Warm Wednesday o a t, gu st " The Queen Warmer passed a eonfortabla having had a few hours of refreshing sleep, whi s k his sigh restored her strength, an d this mornla g her 128,4 1 4 herself better. "DAVID DaOlp . X " Iticunnn Baton; gyys A deputation, consisting of Mr. Blair, ?dal_ Mayor or Bolton, Mr. Councillor Myerscough, eillor Btaekdale, the Town. Clerk of Bolton, sad ig,7o; parliamentary agent. had an interview yesterday rya; Board of Health at 0 wydy r H ouse , to ask inromi.,/ - 7 to board in relation legislative provision s tor tka improvement of Great and Little Bolton, Mr. Justice Creswell had an interview wlik a, George Grey yesterday at the Horne -office. M r . had also an interview yesterday with the right hcia.6Z . rue BARON AND BARONESS TUYLL and c„„., Linbergstein embarked at the St. Katherine's wharf day morning, on board the General Steam Naviga t i a io; pany's mail steam-ab;p Ocean, for Rotterdam. AUCTION OF THE CONNEMARA ESTARt Yesterday Mr. Wainwright offered for sale, di% Mart, the ant portion of the Galway estates of the ye e t B. Msrtio, Req. Previously to reading the conditiroo ff sale, the auctioneer made a statement, from which it op. peered that he was instructed by the mortgag es pewees of sale to offer them estates i•i 114 lots. Too pi, party was known as the Connemara estates, and w ax* large portions of the baronies of Ballynabiaelt tad llop cul!en, and the half barony of Role in the county of ljek ii Ireland, extending almost uninterruptedly from t►sy~ Galway to Clifden and Cleggan Bay, a diseases miles, having Lough Corrib on the north, sad Ms ih e of Galway and the Atlantic Ocean as the 8 .6 and south-western boundaries. The whole of h property is freehold, and comprises nearly two bud:Wait, sand statute acres of land, which are stated in the whi m to be "valuable and highly improval•le, with Waimea mints and quarries of marble, limestone, and alma, extensive and vain -tale fisheries in the innumerable hay rivers which intersect the property." After several remarks upon the capability and fertility d the soil, and the practicability of reclaiming the Mg 1.1 which Ins been found to produce 40 tons of swedes per in k followed by craps of grain, tho auctioneer quoted the opiaja of a gentleman who has visited Galway, who reports de " No crl my of Great Britain offers to industrious yomg of small or large capital a surer, more profitable, and tisfactory field for investment, either in the purcluss e farming of lands than Ireland ; and in no colony will lathe meet with cheaper labour, and with a mote willing , dea s and tractable race, when justly treated, th an the WI ps. sentry." The same gentleman states the ex' tritium*, been successful in the west of Mayo and Galway, &admit estate of Lord George Hill, in DAienal. The tangs* also alluded to the Dublin and Galway Railway for the* pletlon of which government have advanced the fee, which will mace this property within three hours of Dahl, and fifteen of London ; and also called the attentions! tie company to several specimens of mineral and &grafted produce, which were exhibited in the room. Lot 1, coneisted of a hostile in Id trket-street, Gahm, let fur three liver, and 61 years: after the death of the at. visor of them, at a reserved rent of 71. 7.. Bd. per um. subject t- a quit-rent of 45. 11d. to tho croene—lmsQ down at 951. Lot 2. Part of the townland of Dangan Upper, wasp* three residences and variaus tenements and holdings—Lathe whole, 220 acres ; one residence in band, the remit:der lg on various terms for 1291 Om 2a. per annum; quit mg, 11 3s. 5d.; the reserved price for this lot was 3,0004 us the highest bidding offered was 2,7501. Lot 3. Part of the townland of Dingan Lower, conic* of Dangan Cottage and other holdiogs—in the Mule, 1955. 3r. 18,% • let at rents amounting to 1971. Os. 104 set. rent, 11. 10s. sjcl. ; reserved price, 3,0001.; highest biddag, 2,7001.. _ _ _ Lot 4. The townlanda of Barnacranny, containing rtsa dens and 101 a. 3r. Bp., producing 721.2 s 61., war, 2a. Ild.; reserved price, 1,0001. ; higher bidding, 8001. Lot 5. Tile townland of Busby-park and pin of tone lend of Ballsgh, containing a residence and 105. Or. ky., producing 15/. 13s. Bd. ; quit-rent, 61. ; reserved pigs, 1,0001.; blithest bidding, 9001. Lot 6. Tile townland of Killeen, 86a. 3r. 33g., he for MI. 7e. 82. ; qui , -rent, 14s. 61.-knocked down at the re served price of 8001. Lot 7. The townland of Oranbill, containing &rang and 335. 2r. 19p., let for 261.51. ; quit-vent, 3s. 016.-40 k Lot 8. The townland of Tonabrockv, 435. Or. 3y4 arable, pasture, lake, and bog ; let to 31 yearly turn kr 871. 171. 6d. ; quit-rent, 41. B d. ; reserved price, 1,0004; highest bidding, 9001. Lot 9. The townland of Anbwee, 1063. 3r. 36p., Irk 601. • quit-rent, 90. 9d.-knocked down for 8001. Lir 10. The townland of C , Jrcullen, retrain; 282 a. 3r. 17p., producing 1031. le, 62. per mown-cold k 1,2201. _ . . Most of the larger tenants et the above lots hold for tees of three lives ; in Cr me instances with further Tenni= PROPOSED NEW PARLIAMENTARY Bolovoz—Lt night a public meeting of the inliabituitsof Chellea,= Kensington, and Hammersmith was held at the C Hotel, Chelsea, for the purpose of considtring the OR um to be adopted for erecting those districts into a politer tary borough. The meeting was convened by the WO London Reform Association. Frederick Oukell, PA, * copied the chair, and the report prepared by the comill, was submitted to the meeting. It stated, Wu aka, IYI the committee feel great satisfaction in presthting to tie members the second annual report of the proceedings Id progress of the association. During the put year KMe di* sands of a circular embodying the pringtples and objected** association had been circulated throughout the district, e 1 A include an extension of the suffrage to every householder, stn by ballot, triennial parliaments, electoral districts hoed on population and property, a repeal of the window endue form of the income tax, an efficient measure of senior, is. form, a reform of the existing laws relating to the relief d the poor, a proper application of the funds known to natio this country for charitable purlieus, and the obtaining.* presentative. in parliament for the parishes of Chebes, eington, Hammersmith, and Fulham. In March list tte report observed : "John M'aregor, Esq., M.P., Intend* following notice of motion on the books of the Bowed Commons-' That in consideration of the ;mistime K. singles, Chelsea, Fulham, and Hammersmith manilla( population of about 120,000 inhabitants, residing in ustw not exceeding 8,000 acres, and comprising also above 18,010 houses, of the annual rental of 101. and upwards; audio then, in consideration that there is no other district in Onfl Britain with so great a number of inhabitants and haul unrepresented directly in this house, it is expedient andital to incorporate by an act of parliament the perishes of Her sington, Chelsea, Fulkam,sad Hammersmith, into a Putil' =eatery borough, empowered to return two members tog. house, to fill up the vacancies caused by t he disfranthisemeotel the late borough of Sudbury.' Your committee thought It their duty to support this movement by every means to • thth power, and therefore convened • public maaboi a t tit. Commercial Hall, on March 21, 1849, to promote to obiaat of the foregoing motion." The report was unanimouly adopted. Mr. Johnson, of Slosnostreet, Mr. Danford, at Notting-kill, Mr. M'Mehon (barristevat-law), and Mite gentlemen spoke in favour of various resolution which were submitted for adoption, all of which were curled nem. ilia A vote of thanks to Dr. Haskell for his courtesy in Past" closed the proceedings. EDGE'B PATENT LEVEE VALVE METER.—The p venient@ carried out In this meter lie chiefly in the lever valve, and syphon ; it is, perhaps, necessary to that the index serves to denote the quantity of gu ekes r posed through the meter; in the old index, hash es pointers are made to revolve round the dish., and tha figures to which they point denote the number of cubit fie of gas, but these needles do not always point exactly te ells numbers; they maybe between two number., so that a pet must be well acquainted with this tort of index to be able to read off the quantity of gas that has been consumed, Oa this, it seems, 311 often the source of differences between the consumers and inspectors; not only that, but the feeling d doubt and distrust which it has created among con sumers hoe been the cause of p tieg meters fan coming more into general use. In the sew index the dials revolve, and the numbers appear through holes, so that la have a set of numbers in one row, which in reading it is to possible to mis'ake. The valve (the duty of which is to call attention to the meter when it wants water) merely consists in reducing its working parts, thereby rendering it len liable to suffer from corrosion, and making its action more delicate. ' The syphon (which serves to convey the gas into the mar surer) has several improvements ; for example, the twO let of the syphon being sealed, gas cannot escape. Sint preventing the possibility of explosion, or the possibility gas being fraudulently obtained; and frustrates ley attempts being made to abstract water from the meter which would cause • serious loos to the company, in fete acting as a protector alike to the coneumer and the compast These meters are extensively used in the country &g d ll~a Ireland ; but in London they have net yet come into geom l use, and, indeed, do not seem likely to do so, owing to the apparently complex nature of reading off from the &I index the quantity of gas consumed, which inspectors like, as it gives their duty an air of importance, which the improao index would do away with. Such, we hear, is the at reason for their not coming into use in the metropolis. tt is a curious fact, that inventions very often meet with ow opposition from that very class which they are intended SO benefit. r . 4- a th• I &vet pend esam — ii:l @halt hop - fel hew ill. I lie I SO, IC resol ands mat faro Scot] per are edu mai all, tad the