The Express. — London, England, 1846-11-30 00:00:00

.•-•--- ereeigan is olleet on different the same spot all the v • statues now rusfigunng different parts of the t the Wellington Grenadier at the lead of .--"`wl-..altertao,qpuusd- . They would make a rare trwelh"e o She ,u bags, and south in velvet gowns ;" Dow Mese' with flowing earls, some in cocked . hats, sane w eg - p - io g b oo ted, some in togs and sandals , look i ng in their Ike some ragemuffin riding a gentleman's cite bediZ2t of a g roone-Feranth reer. wi les - Di cers or THE MON EY-ORDER OFFICE.— , "-.Nmeadent hes sent to Douglas Jerrokrs Weekly - ger a statement, showing, that because his name was we'elehompeon," instead of " Thomson," on a post-office get 84 ,.. g requ ired seven letters from the respective d • delay of three weeks qu estion e matter *mild ...I 1• ' although there was no about identity. lives three miles from the post-office, and had 'e a lk in a 1142 miles. iiglitz CLEREENWELL.-After the inquest 11 1 ' gay gore reported under its proper head, Mr. Charles e fore ' man, and one of the guardians of the poor . of ,„Ailiell addressed Mr. Mills, the deputy-coroner, stating wedbeen deputed by several influential inhabitants , e ' eat the coroner of the district to summon a jury to in :olo'7* the circumstances attending the late destruc- Are f Palmer's manufactory. Mr. Mills observed the -tatiOn .mawdeasto him should be submitted to Mr it o sley, w h o , h e glad to say. had so far improved i n . w to be able to resume his official duties in the course Th latter gentleman, he said, was inclined r ia fur &Y e e. ~e e that he had no power to enter on such an inquiry; bject should again re ceive his earnest attention. - e . giF.,XTRAORDINARY RAILWAY ADVENTURE.- g , a rkham, the gentleman whose violent attack on a r aee ig ' n rr, and extraordi nar y escape .from a railway "- =labouring under an attack of brain fever, recently mu ch of public observat ion, is now restored to h e l :lth and has left town to rejoin his family ,- Z‘ ia ' paw or STEAM VESSELS.-Sir, -The many lo ots* failures in building stea m men-of-war, indicate • radially wrong id the principles followed in can preag them. Iwae g team on this subject a short time u gh a very ingenious Mexican gentleman, at present ,77. e; lue tropolss, and be astonished. me by saying th at we issg never do better till we got . rid of our old ideas, and ofee r ro thr. " You . see," he said, " that ships, till pee rages by steam was invented, were . all constructed to be ; o gled by the wind. To accomplish that, you required ;ifouts and broad yards, to spread out a large sur to of canvass. To supply • fulcrum for your igg an d broad lever--a mewls of resistance to the lateral ..mre of the wind, you were obliged to sink your ships 6, late Ole water, and place in their holds great weights, gesiliellast ; and thus, being able to move in the line of to resist the lateral force t ailwind. the ship was compelled Mot taistanee, or go ahead. But you do not require to use a sk steamers. You have a totally different means of ivfrom that of the wind -a propulsion that in the line of the moving ship ; and yet you mew to build steamers so as to sink them deep ko she water, and continue to load them with Asa give them great top hamper, when your object bate to diminish, to the greatest degree poasible, the w imps offered by acedho‘ph and the Water to the ogra propulsion prodby the paddle wheel or the snow. I have not determined what would be the best form e re imaship ; the subject is new to me ; but I am per k* selsvieeed that you never will make rale, economical, me swift-moving steam ships as long as you con denser, mustruct them on the principle of sailing vessels." thougbt my iliend's remark an extiemely just one, and I resolved thrmeh your widely circulated journal to place it *fore the ship builders of Great Britain. Have they eon- Mendther the old form of sailing vessels is the best for sant s hips ? lam afraid they have not, and I ask them eriously to take the suggestion of my Mexican friend into sonsidemtion, and apply their minds to construct steam ships using exclusively regard to the element they are to be moved ;trough and the means of moving them. My impression is hat det, low , broa d and lon g vessels, pointed at the bow, sold skimming over the surface, would answer better for steam vessels than the narrow, deep, and high forms which ire indispeaable for vessels that are:to be moved by the Usk -I am, ea., A LOVER or Cosmos; SENSE. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.-The Court of fssininers assembled at the institution, in Lincoln's-inn ,this, on Friday evening last, November 27 when the bllowing gentlemen , having passed the required amina nt', were admitted members, with license to practise J M ee h am , Camberwell ; J. N. Gourd], Ilan d d • D. Tame Royal Navy ; M. Ledger, Loudon ; G. re Badeley, future Salop ; J. F. Jackson, Southwick, Staffordshire; t H. Tribe, Chatham • F. bleuger, Guernsey ; J. J. H alls awWed ; R. Graveley, Cowford, Sussex ; J. G. Musk" (oaden-town. For the information and direction of the ambers, the council of the Royal College of Surgeons have ptfished a list of the gentlemen who have passed their exa :intim within the last two years. MENTAL CULTURE FOR GARDENERS.-A reading-1, rem has been provided for the benefit of the workmen seployed in the gardens of the Roy al Horticultural Society it Chiswick. The walls of the room -at prese o nt a temprary me -are furnished with maps and plans of continental !ideas. Besides various kind s of mathematical instru- Delt3, the library now contains about 175 different works, the puler part of which are of direct importance to the pursuits sfurdeners, and all of which are suited to enlarge and ins, PR the mind. The room was opened last week by Dr. ley, who delivered a lecture on the objects and advan tages, especially to the persons he addresseed, of such humble ea institutions. He hoped that this small beginning would ld to greater results; that the course now taken by the Horti cultural Society and others would be followed by everyis an large establishment ill over the country, aud that by thd similar means a more solid foundation would be laid fur that great school of British gardening which other countries might rival, but could never hope to excel. FliiEs.-Yesterday about 12 o'clock a la was holding a sack in front of the fire place, in the shop of Mr. burs, marine-store dealer, No. 1, New-inn-passage, to buten the kindling of the coal, when the sack caught fire, setting fire to the boys clothes, who, in his fright, threw the sack upon a quantity of cork cuttingsand other inflammable materials, which instantly enveloped the place in flames. The engines of the fire-brigade were quickly on the spot and the fire was confined to the stock and shop. The boy is danger misty burnt.—Lose OF Lire -About 8 o'clock on Satur day RS Mrs. Thomas Daniels, of No. 28, Nightingale-street, Portman-market, was passing through the hack room on the 1 1 pound floor, the bed clothes and her wearing apparel caught fire. Her screams brought several persons to her assistance, sad the fire was extinguished, hut not before she bed and bedding were destroyed, and Mrs. Daniels severely burned. She was removed to the hospital, where death in the spice of a few hours put a period to her sufferings.— FIRE CAUSED HY A CAT.-011 Saturday morning several dozens of boxes wee piled round the fire place at Mr. Cruse's, hat-box maker, 7, Duke.court, Southwark, when a eat, jumping towards a bird-cage, knocked one of the bo edxto es into the stove. The box took fire, and speedily extend mend other b?ses. In less than five minutes the room was in a general blaze. The fire, by the assistance of the neighboun and the brigade, was got under, but not until the fast floor, and also the passage, were extensively damaged. tnfortunately Mr. Cruse was uninsured. —A FALSE Atsam.-Yesterday morning (Sunday), from 3 till nearly 5 o'clock, considerable alarm was occasioned by the well l known rumbling of fire engines through the principa thoreughfares. The alarm, however, was false. Shortly after the first named hour, ." calls " were s;multaneously received at the Brigade, West of England, and County I station!, for a fire said to be raging towards Bow or Strat ford, but what was imagined to be an outbreak of some tre- 1 sondem conflagration, turned out to be merely the flames I from the large coke ovens recently erected at Blackwell. % INQUESTS.-I)EATII FROM ANXIETY. - Saturaity, an inquiry was instituted at the Jolly Coopers public house, in Clerkenwell-close, on view of the body of Mary I Moore, aged 65, whose death occurred under very melan- Moly circumstances. Some months ago the deceased had her pocket picked of 2201., and having reason to suspect that the robbery was committed by two men that were then em plored by her, she gave them into custody, but they were liberated at Clerkenwell court for want of evidence Subse quently they brought an action against her for Wee impri lament,. which was to have been tried on Thursday last, sad during that and several previous days she exprmed Pat anxiety as to the result, expressing an opinion that she should have to prison and die there for the damages and costa of the sui t s That fear operated so powerfully on fee frame that she gradually became more enfeebled, and in the afternoon she sunk exhausted into the arms of Mrs. Ihvis a neighbour, who had known her for years ; and before medical ads ice could be procured, she died, in the presence of several members of her family. The jury expressed them- Selves satisfied that her death had resulted from over anxiety of mind, and returned a verdict to that effect.— De BY FIRE AND DESTITUTION.-ByL Mr. Mills, at DEATH the Middlesex Hospital, on the body ofLavinia Edmonds, tad four years. The child, in the absence of its mother, set its clothes, on fire with a piece of wood she had ignited at the grate. She was found lying on a bed on the floor, the bed on fire, and the flames almost reaching a sleeping infant a few months eld. The mother, a remarkably decent young female, said she had just gone out to pawn two shoe brushes. She was lent 3d. on them, with which she bought some bread and two herrings, and was returning with the food for herself and children, when she met a fellow-lodger conveying her child to the above hospital. The unfortunate woman stated that she was formerly well off, hut had married a gay husband, a teacher of languages, who had abandoned her, and had gone, she believed, to America. By degrees she had parted with ell her effects, and had earned sully 3s• within a fortnight. The coroner, finding that she lived at N 0.2, Denny-lane, recommended her to call on Mr. Reiley, the re 'wring officer of St. Giles's, and inform him of the result. Verdict-" Accidentaldeath." The coroner, jury, and others then subscribed something towards the women's present wants, and persuaded her, not without considerable difficulty, to allow the parish to bury the decease d, and keep the little Toney then given her fur the support of her surviving child.- DEATH OF A LITERARY LADY. -By Mr. Mills' at the Coro "tiuu, Seymour-street, Euston-square , on the body of Mrs. Agnes Hall, aged 70, of No. 5, Charles-street. -Mira. Agnes hen, daughter of the deceased; said that her mother was the relict of a medical army officer, and had been an Witham for forty years. When Dr. Aiken edited the " Old Monthly Magazine," she wrote very largely for it. She Wrote for it latterly, for " Fraser's Magazine," and for some of Mr. C. Knight's publications. Deceased was attending to her literary occupations up to Tueaday last, when she died stuldenly, whilst in the ct of takin some beef tea. De- re" was not in want of the necessaries of life. Dr. needy, of Tavistock-square, saw deceased both before and alter her death, and told her daughter that it resulted from natural causes. Veal:et, " Natural death." --- Desist %%ow A GAUL STONE.-By Mr. Bedford, at the ilton Arms, Kennerton-street, Belgrave-square, on the body el Mary Groem, or Bugg, aged 54, housekeeper to the Hon. ;11tNET. ad dreg nded, is forgeries Sub and ;ESO in the in ff to the was that had beim that city nn thence the name in a est 7 money he asiderabb .._ • ie BelVio t is not it this ittaut- .11EATIE. 'imea, that which ie T ehi depot. may ill' a quantitl hes bent -which the gele , infinite, 40 * e, eagle t St. flea an-le-Bre.; fristaa_.o llo A Mor"r ke 1 ,0 " of the hoe ger mid is onag - i s carbons" read a shownPl4 absent, 11 ! com rsthe ss ehistia. It is, theta" loped far lb. beast, (I t p ; 0 ,,..... 5 s fat said not to is throng. ,m t he saltall' , ar that thla at events _..11, fore eating use of teete r unohieet i°°. why the r would wolt ified. 0 r°86 ..0 home, " employed fQt to ORLEANL—' ed to th e . r ". :at of s duet from r 41 .:, e vigour " 3 luty on test of its thes i o n to a!! incient cal' CATION S". _A A* P take its stem al that it WOUW Mre. Gore, of No. 21, Wiltost-arstent. who was alleged to have destroyed herself by poison. Deceased had been ten years housekeeper in the family, by whom she was highly :Ter. About six weeks ago she hid an attack of which she appeared to have entirely recovered from. On Tuesday morning, between 11 and 12 o'clock, deceased was suddenly seized with violent spasms and sick ness, and though she had the beet medical assistants, died the same evening. The circumstances attending the de ceased's death led to a belief that she had taken poison to destroy herself. A port-mortess examination, however, discovered a gall stone of the size of a large walnut, and weighing nearly half an ounce, which was the cause of her death. Verdict—" Natural death." THE GREAT BRITAIN. BRISTOL, NOV. 28. — There seems to be now no hope from the intelligence which reached this city last night, of the Great Britain being got off from her present position on the sands in Dundrum-bay. It was stated in the Commercial Rooms, that a letter from the engineer, whose plan for getting her off had been approved, • represents that the late gales have so far strained and damaged her, that she will not repay the cost which would necessarily be incurred in the attempt. veyance of cattle between Intenseselt and London, on the Norfolk and Rasters Counties Railways, and to adopt such measures as might be deemed necessary not to submit to them. Mr. R. 'Till, secretary to the Norfolk Railwsy, and Mr. Robert Moody, superintendent of traffic on the Eastern Counties, attended for the purpose of giving say axplaeation to the gentlemen present which might be . Xr. James Neave, of Wymondham, occupied the . Ms chairman explained that the alteration forth. esses of beasts between Norwich and London was 10s. a per, ; for calves, 3s. • and sheep, Is. 6d. per head. From Brian, 78. fa h tom beasts i 2s. 6d. for calves; and Is. 3d. fez sheep; and the company in their bills stated " that all cattle must be paid for before loading ; " their other regulatioas were, ' lean cattle rates, sd. per mile per waggon (four wheels) no less charge than for 20 miles will be made; no less charge than for four fat beasts will be made at the above rates ; no less a charge will be made for calves and sheep than 6d. per waggon per mile. The company are not responsible for any cattle jumping out of e waggon, and the owners are required to find halters or ti es; nor do the company engage to load or unload the waggons ; the cattle are considered to be entirely under the care of the owner. A free pass will be granted to the drover who has the care of them, if he travels with not less than three waggons, allowing him to return in a third-class earriege. Trains by which cattle can be forwarded, leave Norwich at 6.30 p.m., for London, and un less the waggons are loaded by 5 p.m., they will not be for warded that day except when there is cattle to load twenty five waggons, in which case they will be sent off with all pos sible speed." This was the new regulation, and it was for the meeting to say whether they would consent to its con tinuance or adopt some other method of sending their cattle to London. Two gentlemen were present on the part of the Norfolk and Eaatern Counties Railway to offer some expla nation, and he trusted the meeting would hearthein patiently. Mr. Till, the secretary of the Norfolk Railway, could assure the meeting that there was no class of persons for whom the company felt a deeper interest than the one he had the Y honour of addressing, and the compan had authorised him to state that not only one, but that the whole of those regu lations which were felt to be so obnoxious should be with drawn immediately—(cheers)—and he begged to assure them that, as fax as possible, the Nortilie Railway Company would at all times be willing to attend to any sugketion for the better conveyance of cattle between Norwich and Brandon. — Mr. R. Moody said it would not be necessary for him to address them on the part of the Eastern Counties Railway, as they had made such arrangements for the conveyance of cattle between London and Bran don, as would most fully compensate the salesmen, and would, he trusted, also meet the wiehes of the graziers. With regard to the regulations, they would, to meet the traffic, continue to find halters and ties; and, he was happy to say, they were getting proper cattle trucks made, at a cost of many thousand pounds, for security in the conveyance of the cattle, and getting them sooner to London. (Hear.) In November last a change took place in the ad ministration, and then it was , although opposed by Mr. Waddington, the deputy-chairman, that this new regulation was adopted. They .were of opinion that for carrying cattle through from Norwich to London, 125 miles could not be done for less than Id. per mile per head ; and when the meeting took into consideration that they had to send back the empty trucks, with the wear and tear, they would be of the opinion that it was a very small sum. There was not a single line in existence which charged lees. The Eastern Counties Company set the high est value upon the trade with the Norfolk and. Suffolk graziers, but they could not afford to carry the cattle for less, nor could he give a guarantee that they would charge leas than at present —A Grazier : But you don't take us to London ; you drop the cattle miles this aide of it —Mr. Moseley said the company had laid out many thousands of pounds in the construction of a station at Tottenham for the a-commodation of the cattle traffic, which they bad been solicited to do by many salesmen.--The Chairman said, he trusted something would be done for the erection of a cattle station nearer London. The usua l compliment having been paid the chairman, votes of thanks were given to Messrs. Mosely and Till and the railway companies, the meeting separated. Pooa REMOVAL.—The effects of the recent Act with re gard to the administration of relief to the poor, begin to be severely felt by the inhabitants a Norwich. not Dur belonk ing to the past week no less than 650 peraons, who did the city, but cannot be removed home to their respective unions, have been relieved at an expenditure of upwards of 701.—Norwich Mercury. SUFFOLK. Muanea OF a UUSRANIL—At Acton, near Sudbury, on Friday, after a protracted investigation, a verdict of wilful murder was returned against Catherine Foster for poisoning her husband. The parties had been married only three weeks: the husband was 24 and the wife 18 years of age. There was evidence adduced that they had lived happily t oge ther. It was, however , distinctly proved that the man died from the effects of arsenic ; and as the wife had d ic mt ade hi s s tea and prepared his food , the jury returned the ver ab stated. The woman was committed to the county gaol at Bury, to take her trial at the ensuing assizes. SUSSEX. THEINHARITANTS OF BRIGHTON are still zealously intent upon averting from their town any loss by the contemplated disposal of the Pavilion. On the last occasion that the depu tation appointed for the purpose waited upon Lord Morpeth, the interview, it will be recollected, terminated with an inti mation by his lordship that he should be happ to support y to receive the deputation again when the y were prepared the claims made by the town. Since that period—above I three months ago—the Pavilion committee have been en- 1 gaged in making researches and procuring documents, maps, I plans, and manorial grants, which throw great light on toe subject, and go to bear out the claims before set up. This information was embodied in a written statement, which was , forwarded to Lord Morpeth, with plans, la-t week, and con tains many circumstances connected with the Pavilion and its origin. The statement of the committee embraces a period from 1765 to 1835. At this first-mentioned period, the palace did not exist ; but a portion of its site waoccupied by Grove House (afterwards Marlborough House), t he residence of the Duke of Cumberland; a house adjoining belonging then o Thomas Kemp, Esq., and some other tenemi nts. the Prince of Wales resolved on erecting a marine residence here, he bought Mr. Kemp's house and Marlborough Howie ; and these form. d the nucleus of the Pavilion. Up to 1806, however, this structure was of very modest appearance and dimensions, compared with its present size and character. At this period (1806), the Prince of Wales projected great additions to the Palace, and a series of designs were taken, under the Prince's directions, by Mr. H. Repton, an artist of I the day, showing the Palace as it then existed and as it was intended to be made. These designs were publismhed, hey sad the committee succeeded in getting a copy.of the. T bad become rare from the fact of thei teg b r be ing boug ht up at I the time when the profuse expenditure of the Prince at I Wales became a subject of discussion in Parliament. Them designs show in the clearest manner possible the original ex tent of the Pavilion and the means by which it has arrived e at its present magnitude. T he Palace then was nothing mor than an ordinary, though somewhat ornamental residence. It was skirted to the west by a public road (of which East street is, in fact, but a remnant), and towards which road it fronted; on the north, it was bounded by another road—not that which we now see, but close pot the Pavililic on, and w hich hich road (together with a large portio he pub ground called the Parade, but known, since the encloeure as bof theen e remainder of it, as the N orth Steyne Enclosure), h swallowed up by the Pavillion gardens. The old palace stood an open building, with a few shrubberies and trees, in the middle of the town, bounded on the east, west, and north by public roads and grounds. The present palace is now an enclosed building, covering with its gardens an area of seven acres. The road to the west has been blocked up altogether ; that to the north and north-east has been, if we may use the expression, driven back some hundreds of feet to where it now runs ; and a large shoe has been cut off the public gounds to the north and also to the t a st. " But, it may be urged, (says the Brighton Ikrald), ese grounds were 1 tenantry: downs. Trite. And they may have been granted to the prince. Doubtless, some portion of them were la to the east. But these grants were restrictive grants, they were upon condition, and the condition of one of these grants, singularly enough, was, that it should only be good whilst the Pavilion was the property of the Prince of Wales. Of course, no attention was paid to such a condition in tbe subsequent transfer of the Pavilion from the King to the Crown ; but these, and other fact o g a similar kind, have weight in a moral claim ; for as to a legal one, we do not understand that the depute tation thought of advancing it. It is singular enough that, in one of th drawings of Mr. Repton, showing old western fron t of the Pavilion, looking into East-stree the t, there are the remains of the old town-pump, which was after wards enclosed, and the well of which can oubtleraThe i ll be found, if it be necessary to seek the truth thdere.nr view of the deputation with Lord Morpeth lasted one hour and a half, and his lordship evinced an interest in the ques tion which sufficiently proved that be app reciated ia the feel ings of the deputation and the town upo bj, and will give full weight to them e in any decision that may be arrived at. AT ARUNDEL great preparations have been made for the reception of her Majesty to-morrow. Some triumphal arches have been erected, and the inhabitants intend to P d a. tribute meat and drink to the poor. The Arundel and Bram _ .. I ber yeomanry will be on duty during the royal visa. old. I -------- _.---_______ LITERATURE. 3ichelet.-slichelet is no more ; the stubborn foe of the Jesuits, the eloquent and erudite, though some what mystic historian, the revered professor of the College de France. In his recent work, Le Peuple, Michelet recounted the circumstances of his early life.' He was born in 1798, in the choir of a Parisian nun nery, which, he tells us, " was occupied, not profaned," by the types and workmen of his father's printing establishment. The printers, however, met the same fate as the nuns ; if the revolution routed the one, Napoleon herepibed the other. And at last the Emperor limited umber of printers to sixty, obliging them to obtain the authorisation of the government in the shape of a brevet. This mingled tyranny and monopoly of the press still continues. Michelet's father, unable to employ workmen, set the whole family to compose, and the boy thus learned to put words together before he had ideas. Sufficient time was still found amidst the labour of a printing office, for those of juvenile educa tion. It may be here remarked, that several of the eminent French writers of the time were originally co mpositors in a printing office. Leroux, editor of Le Globe, and celebrated as a Saint Simonian, was one. Young Michelet, though pinched by hunger, and scarcely clad, was able to enter the College of Char lemagne, and partake of the advantages of a Parisian university education. Such were the noble facilities of education , from which poverty was not excluded In 1821, Michelet became professor himself. In 1827 he published his Précis d'Histoire Moderns, which. as well as his Precis d'Histoire Romaine, is an ad mirable school book. A translation of Vico, with a preface, published the same year, showed how ar dently his studies were turned towards philosophy; and this procured him the post of professor of the Book Normale. In 1837 he quitted this school, when the " eclectic spirit became dominant there." Ho then obtained a place in the Archires, and in 1838 was elected Professor of History in the College of France. This position he preserved till his death, which took place a few days back. Michelet was one of that numerous class of French students who gave themselves up to the study of German philosophy. Though by nature prompted to modes of thought and expression the direct contrary of such models, viz, clearness and precision, as is evinced in his admirable abridgments, Michelet was often carried away by the vague and vaporous mysticity of the Germans. The manner of this school he applied even to history, and it at first dimmed and obscured his narration, so as to render the first volume of his History of France frequently unintelligible. His good sense, however, his profound researches, and his love of truth, enabled him to divest himself of this cloud, and his subsequent volumes have all the originality and picturesque, without the obscurity of the style in which he corn- menced. Michelet's historical works have been folly and fairly app! eciated in this country, as, indeed, they deserve, for his researches into the middle ages of French history have shed no small light upon our own. Of late years, however, his time and pen have been i turned to politics and polemics, by the opposition which the Jesuit party set up to the doc trines preached in his professorial chair, a war which, in conjunction with his friend and brother professor, Quint, he waged with infinite spirit and acumen in return. We shall not enter into the cir cumstances of that war, nor the manifold exaggera tions on both sides. If the minister felt obliged to silence the anti-Jesuit professors, the Chamber of Deputies thought fit to enforce the law against the existence of the Jesuits. Much as we admire the elo quence of Michelet, his simplicity of logic, and singleness of heart, we cannot say much in praise of the politi cal doctrines which he was led to propound in the heat of this dispute. And, although the little books in which he developed them went to far more editions than those works on which he bestowed time and re flection, we should lay very light stress indeed upon them in effect, while making strong appeal for him to the gratitude and admiration of posterity. "RUSK. Tut MUSICAL BIJOU; an Album of Music and. Poetry, for 1847 ; edited by F. H. Burney.—The " Musi cal Bijou" is a flower which blooms annually at this season, and which has put forth its leaves this year with more than usual splendour. It blazes in gay anti gorgeous colours; but brilliancy is chastened by good taste. The embellishments of the title-page, frontism ce, Ac., are ell copied from the designs of Giulio Clovio, a cele brated Italian miniature painter of the sixteenth century, in the illustrations of the beautiful Grimani Manuscript in the , &unman collection ; and they unite the brighteet hues ith clessical elegance of form. The musical contents of w the ' volume are ample and interesting. There are, in the first place, fifty original songs and ballads, most of which arc by the moot favourite composers of the day, among whom Sir Henry Bishop is the largest contributor; and we are glad to see that he has not lost his vein of pure, expressive English i melody. Among the other composers are Edward Loder, I Macfarren, Johu Barnett, Horn, and Lindpaintner, whose c o. t tributions do no diacredit to their names. The instru musicmenta half of the volume i s made up of light pianoforte ,of the kind which is most in vogue in our fashionable drawing rooms; showy waltzes, quadrilles, and galops with brilliant ' fantasias and variations by Thalbcrg, d.alkbrenner, Rosellen. Heir, Linter, Holmes, and other pianists of note. Though. the volume certainly contains a number of productions by inferior hands, which by no means add to its value; yet, ' setting these aside, enough remains to render it a very agree ' able companion at the pianoforte. The new operas by Bane and Wallace, Madame forthcoming at Drury-lane, ate, it seems, to be produced Bishop. Balfe's opera is now in rehearsal with Miss Romer as the heroine. Wallace's opera is to be brought out early lin the ensuing year. Madame Bishop's engagement term mites at Christmas, end it is announced that she is then to go 1 starring for several months in the provinces. Jenny Lind, it is said, is engtmed at Vienna for four months, at the salary of 100,000 francs (4,0001. sterling), Int 'Drama. ILAYStAItEES.—On Saturday evening a little musical piece, called "The Young Pretender," was successfully pro duced at this theatre. Its subject is an adventure suspoeed to have happened to Prince Charles Edward after the desi sive day of Culloden. He was endeavouring to avoid the pursuit of his enemies, and to make his escape out of the kingdom; an object which he accomplished through his eroic own presence of mind and ski l l in assuming aillglli ,e h devotedness of his friends, and the noble fidelity of the poor people of the country, to numbers of whom his places of re fuge were known, but not one of whom seas moved by the I:30,000 offered as the price of his head. The scene of the piece is the house in the Isle of Skye, of an old lady, Mrs. Margaret Craggie, a friend of the government, who is enter taining a militia officer, Captain Cocker, with a party of his i men, employed in hunting down the Pretender, and eager to pocket the reward. The old lady has a niece, Mary Armadak, and she has a lover, her cousin, Captain O' Neal, an Irish officer, a tried friend of the Prince. O'Neal arrives at the house, followed by an uncouth -lacking Highland:ser vant, and contrives to make his cousin aware that this atten dant is Charles Edward himself. Iler agitation nearly betrays the secret, but she promptly recovers herself, and enters with enthusiasm into the scheme ofassisting his escape. The militia captain happeniag to say something disrespectful of the Pre tender; Charles, forgetting his situation, collars him ; on which his seeming master, taking advantage of the incident, orders his arvar iicneoteutnylmeonfatenxsapee.drvandbieyotthutoctoftrocagaabopintthu:nhthise business; from im to a distance from the house. Ile is no sooner gone than a letter is deli vered to Captain Cocker, containing information as to the Prince's disguise. O'Neal, surmising its contents, uses a i an din a g th h e i " m ld fr ie o n m reading it; and, after working alternately on Ins gullibility and, assuming a bold and royal air, assures the captain that the Castle of Edinburgh and the Tower of London are by this time in the power of his adherents; and so works on his credu lity and tempts him with offers, that he in on his knees receiv ing the honour of knighthood, when the old lady enters, the cheat is discovered, and the Captain covered with mortifica tion ; but by this time the Prince is beyondeonthe reach of his anyooeed7cod"wpardreiteinci,dfo:ffrrersithn,eepeopnnld7enatipmalpellyrn,ytomwiunliitrpoopdedhuaessetmhaliemal npotwoitthiltiee. enemies. This is going to the verg he farcical ; for Captain Cocker, supposing him ever so stolid, could scarcely have believed that he eould receivreme advancement hunte andd honour from a defeated, pros fugitive. However, the piece, being extremely well acted, went off with much spirit. Buckstone made thesd, cowardly, foolish militia captain very entertaining; Hudson was a fine dashing Irishman ; and Miss Horton made the part of Mary Armadak exceedincly pleasing. Several vocal pieces, composed by Mrs. a Beckett, did honour to that lady's musical talent. There was a duet, sung by Mnd. iss Horton and Mr. Hudso n, which had a charming effect, a was loudly encored. It is calculated to become a favourite in private circles, as its two parts, graceful in themselves, are nicely dialogued, and produce • well-combined effect. There are, besides, a ballad sung by MisS Horton, b Hudson` warning the Prince of his danger ; and a song by Mr. troth pleasing, but not possessed of any remarkable featwt.. 'rbe whole performance was greatly a prlauded, and the Piece -, s announced for repetition every evening. --- `" 12 , 1TrIAL NEWEL UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS, Ortolan, Nov. M.—The Bishop of Oxford attended trmisty, at 12 o'clock, a general meeting of the subscribers to the "Oxford Peri& Burial Ground" at Christ Church. At one o'clock hie lordehip pre sided over one of the largeet meetings we ever remember of the mem bers of the Society for the Propagation c! the Gospel in Foreign Perla, in the town-hall of title city. Yesterday his loriNlin Pleeided over similar meeting at Woodstock. On Wednesday he jeellehed at bury Church in behalf of the mine laudable object. On Tuscol a) . preached at En-ham Church , fur the p ur p ose of providing Moe pay the expenses ot the erection of a new organ. On Monday he bald a confirmation of the undergraduates of the univaasity at St NAM's Clorab, and on Sunday his lordship preached at Cartes Church to * very crowded congregation, in behalf of that most excellent Melte ties the Oxford blue Coat Charity School. The following clam list " In Literis llomanioriboe," well published this evening. Clam I.—E. It. Baetard, Baltiol4 W. Bright, University ; J. Conington, University ;C. Cookron, Johns; T. F.:. Espin, Lincoln ; T. V. French, University ; W. Inos, Lincoln; W. G. Palgrave, Trinity ; G. S. Read, St. Mary. Clara 2. T. G. Baring, Christ church ; G. H. Curteit', University ; R. 11. Hill, Magdalen ; J. J. Hooper, Wadham; E. G. Hunt, Exeter; J.O. Joyce, Magdalen ;H.G. Merriman, Br o w J. Oatee, Lintetn; 11. Watford, Wedham. Class 3.—W. T. Brning, Exeteir; Kir J. Gibbons, Ballot; G. R. Gibson. Oriel: T. Harvey, Ballot; C. F. Hayden, Corpus multi ; E. Hill, Wadham ; B. 0. Joura, Bragentae ; E. C. Lowe, Lincoln ; C. A. Marren, Pembroke; T. Mester man, Wadriam T. W. Newell, Bras/crime ;W. P. Parker, Pembroke; J, Peaks, Magdalen ; J. E. Philippe. Christ Church ; J. Rummy, Pembroke ; R. Tweed, Exeter; T. Whitehead, Exeter; it P. Wilkinrun, Lincoln ; T. Williams, Jeeus. Class I.—W . It. Bright, talliel; T. It. Cholmondeley, Oriel ; E C. Eade, Ballot ; T. W. Harts horne, Wadham ;H. A. Harvey, Christ hrch ;J. Hughee, Oriel; E. Hulme, It ; G. G. Lawrence, St. Edmund; G. Potter, Queen's; W. W. Pullman, Christ Church ; J. M. Rice, Magdalen; J. Robin . . son, Oriel ; R.G. M. Sumner, Balliol ; A. Wirehair, Trinity; C. P. M. Williame,Jeswi. T. F. Homey, C. Daman, J. E. Bode, W. R. Buckley, Examiners. CAMBRIDGM, Nov. Vl.—The nomination of two persons for the (Mee of Fourth Library Keeper, will take place in the Kenate-boars on Wednesday, and toe election will be made at a congregate" on the following day. The third centenary since the foundation of Telhflry C. win be tate. brated with greet splendour on Tuesday, Decedr r :R ba. . larletiere to a glee banquet are to be aent a el the late of the noblemen, bishops, judges, deans, arehdescont. 01= ment, who are or have been members of the yeller ; doserea who have been on the foundation; the heads °Cheeses, proterxw, officers. &c. S. ANDREICI. — The degree of LL.D. has bpi coofernd on She Right Hon. Lent Campbell. looes, Esq., 8.A., has been inducted to t he RrecalorshiP of I.:averse history, in the roar of Protract Ferrier. i 1 , i ,s 1 1 , II lli 1 I ! i it f 1 . .1 1 L , 1 I 1 1!\ i' i 1 ' 1 wo elf as &et. am leir the ers' Ain. In II thus es to re , Fe of erred jag - 41eip me ball D Jewel• MO. RUM" CIIOWA Lin Hap• there g be to in- sth, to ion. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 30, 1846. SIR THOMAS LETHBRIDGE AT TAUNTON. The annual meeting of the Taunton Agricul tural Association was held in that town on Friday. The show of stock of all kinds was of a very superior description, if we except lean oxen, which were not equal to those of for mer years. There were some very fine fat oxen and heifers, and the show of pigs was also unusually good. The general meeting of the society was held at the Guild hall in the forenoon, and a dinner at the London Hotel, served in Miss Coombe's best manner, took place' in the evening. Sir Alexander Hood presided, and amongst his supporters was Sir Thomas Lethbridge, whose speech, on propo,ing the health of the chaii man, was the leading feature of the festival. The vete ran baronet rose amidst tremendous cheering. My duty here to-day, he said, is a very plain one. First of all it is to congratulate my friends and neighbours that they have shown their faces in the noble manner in which I see them here before me. They are engaged in a good cause — the cause of agriculture in the west of England, and the west of England has long set a good an d bold example to other parts of the empire. We have been followed, gentlemen. I am old enough to tell you , that fifty - five y ears ago . I was member of the only agricultural society then in the empire, called the Bath and West of England Society. I am the oldest vice-president now, except one. But time has done its work, and I cannot address you now as I would. Col. Gore Langton is my senior, and a most excellent member of the society he is. We have trodden in the steps of that society. That was the mother; you are the grown-up child, and a most splendid child you are . (Cheers, and laughter.) You can do everything. Take care that what you do is right. There are various ways of coming to the same ecd. Many go one road, and many an other. We have gone the straight road hitherto. Let us keep to it. There is one thing, gentlemen, which I particu larly rose for. It is to propose the health of the President. (Loud cheering.) He has shown you what he can do to-day . He can do what he likes , all that is right and proper, in te most manly way. (Cheers.) He will forgive me when I tell you I was one of these who did themselves the honour to join the corps of his gallant father, who was killed in the service of his country. He stood the chances of war in behalf of his country, and a bullet sent him to a better world. I followed him here, and have lived long enough to see the elder son of that great man perforating his duty in that manly way in which he always has performed it. You have heard from your county members very good and sensible speeches. They are gentlemen who wish well to you and to your country, and they may one day be at the top of the tree as agriculturists, for they are young men now. lam gbid, gentlemen, that you have met them, an that they h lye met you. if there is any difference of op d i nion between you, take htld of the plough, look at your oxen, look at the prices you are getting for them, arid shake hands with each other. There is one thing I wish to tell you. You have gone far enough in fattening stock. It strikes me that you are putting too W muchhave tfa ohow lean what we nes. That does no good to anybody. e s o on can do, and you can do what you have done, o ver and over ag ain. But it is not wise and profitable to do it. If it takes away an atom of food from the poor, stop it. Breed as much as you like ; breed to the top of the tree. Breeding in all branches! (Cheers.) Go on with your breeding, gentle men, but don't put too much fat upon lean bones. You are starving people by doing so. One of my tenants told ineleat week that he had two biautiful oxen for which he has got • prize. They were brought here to-day. They were fed with ten times as much as they ought to have been. Is this wise ? Where is your money ? It is not in your pocket. It is on the animal's back. One-half of it will go into the chandler's shop, and into the soap-basin. Who will thank you? You have shown what y ou can do. See if you can- the not do something better. I meant to say a gnat dea 1 subject of the labourers, hut I have not breath enou k gh to do l it well. But I must say this , that y ou and I may tae counse together and spend money ; but if you forget the men whose labour gets all for you, you &reacting ungratefully. I therefore, in three words say, " Raise your wages." I have done it myself, and Itl all my friends to do it. I tell you all to raise your wag e s , and I tell you this—there never was& man in your employ who ever struck a stroke for hie master, but ' struck that stroke with redoubled force and energy (and ' if he does this, who profits ?) when he knows he is welt used. (Cheers.) How is he used? In Somerset they give what ? (A voice, " They give what it is worth." airs ) I gußecol essed I should be interrupted, but recollect my grey h. lect my experience. Recollect my triumphs in farming. Recollect how many labourers I have employed—how 1 have lived among them. Recollect, also, that though lower in the scale than some are, they are men before God as well as yourselves. (Cheers.) Woe be to him who will not mete out to others what he wishes to have meted out to himself. But must you do it if the rules of political economy say yo u should not do it ? I say, " Avaunt, political economy, if they say so. But, gentlemen, the rules of political economy say no such thing. They do not make men brutes. 1 They do not seal up and freeze all the finer feeling of human nature of man towards man. They have thrown open the 1 whole world to competition, and I hope and believe that out of this the hest results will come to all. 1 believe that those I principles are true. (Cheers.) So far as we have tried them, I they appear to be true. No man can predict what they may I do for us in the future. But looking, as I have always looked, and always do look, I am well convinced, as surel j as I am standing in this r oom (most likely for the last time (Loud cries of " No, no," and vehement cheering) — firmly believe we are going on in the right path—to the path which leads to the prosperity of the landlord, the prosperity of the labourer, and to the prosperit of the whole people, and even more than all, to permanent p e a ce ; and let me say, God grant it may be so, for peace is the greatest blessing that can flow to a people like the English, who are united among themselves, and are beloved by the whole world because they have made the rule of ri g ht their rule. (Cheers.) Now, sir, I have one more word to say, and then I will sit down. It is this: I shall offer a higher reward if the society will not, but the society had better do it, not for putting fat upon lean bones, but for putting comfort into the cottages of the poor labourer+. (Cheers.) If you fo do not encourage them, all your meetings here are good r nothing. You may as well go home when you leave this, and say " Well, I have done very little."—(Laughter.) What I propose is to give to the farmer who from the first day of De cember, 1846, to the first day of November, 1847, shall em ploy the greatest number of labourers and servants, at the kigbest rate of wages, by the week or month, and without reference to the size of the farm, the sum of 111.—(Cheers.) I ho the society will do more than it has yet done for the labourer. He must be raised from his present poverty and degradation, and I call upon you to do what you can towards accomplishing that purpose. In conclusion I beg to propose the health of Sir Alexander Hood.—(Drunk with three times three.) Sp ee ches having been delivered by Sir A. Hood, Mr. Acland, Mr. Dickenson, and Sir E. Colebrooke, the prizes we re awarded. The convires were then addressed by ?dr. B. Escott, and the president finished the evening by proposing as a last toast " Our next merry meeting." A WALK AMONGST THE WORK._ TRAINING SCIIOOLS AT SWINTON. After forwarding to the Express the ataternt_ relative t 3 the condition of the colliers ;at Walkden Moor, and the means for instruction th eme dispensed byl thnext e noble o wner of the property and his ficent lady, in tended to have given some notices of like matters at Worsley, but, on my arrival there for that purpose, I found that one of the gentlemen from whom I expected to receive information I was absent, and the other was so deeply engaged in time that moment. I, therefore, recollecting that in I had in my pocket a letter to the g overnor, the clergyman attendance at the training schools at Swinton, directed my steps thither, and a pleasant walk of some two short miles across the fields brought me to the large and palace-like building which had now become the object of my attention. I shall not attempt to describe this great pile, which, at a cost, as I had been informed, of not far from sixty thousand pounds, bad here been erected, by the guardians of the Man chester poor-law union , for the reddence and proper training up of orphans and other unprotected children within their district. The motive was a noble one, and the structure is worthy of the motive ; but when I say the building is palace like, I mean in form, extent, and exterior embellishments only—perhaps there are more of theme tter than are really wanted—but all the interior arrangents, so far as my ob servation enabled me to judge, are calculated for strict utility only. Raving rung the bell, a sharp lad, apparently one of the inmates, quickly made his appearance, and took my letter. The hall was open ; it was blowing a keen wind, and so I stepped inside, and stood examining a model of our glorious little isle, which lay on a large square table, when the ap proach of footsteps, and the humming of a tune, caused me to look aside, and a gentleman in canonicals, with square cap and tassel, came forward, and apologising for not being able to accompany me through the building himself, consigned me to the guidance of one whom he designated " the porter," with whom as a conductor I had every reason to be satisfied. The building is calculated to accommodate one thousand children, with suitable of fi ces and apartments' for the go vernor, matron, clergyman, teachers, servants, and other necessary attendants. At present there are o in to it 255 bo n ys, and 197 girls, and their ages vary from tw fourtet or fifteen years. On arising in the morning, the infants area en by classes to a la v at or y set apart for their own shed a especi llover, where, with tepid water and soap, they are w tticoats and pine a and then dressed , in g ood clean frocks, pe, fores, of checked and other warm serviceable cottons. The boys and girls have also each a lavatory, to which they are conducted in classes from their sleeping - ro oms, and where they wash their hands, necks, and faces, and dry themselves en rod clean towels. There is also in each lavatory a bath, which can be filled with tepid or cold water, at pleasure ; this bath is used where health or other eircums require it, and at stated times the whole of the children undergo a thorough ablution. The clothing of the girls is chiefly of the sort of cottons worn by the infants, with shoes or clogs for their feet. The boys are clothed in gray-ribbed fustian, with clogs, shoes, and cloth caps ; and their clothes, as well as those of the girls and infants, were all very clean, neat, and comfortable in ap pearance. After being washed, the whole of them attend chapel, and the prayers of the Church of England are reed by the minister. They next breakfast on milk and oatmeal porridge ; their diuners consist of butcher's-meat, soup, hash, bread, potatoes, and run-milk, as the dieters fur the clay prescrilna ; and their suppers are uniformly hived and milk the milk varying from a pint and a half to a pint; and the' bread from five to six ounces. A pint and a half of i milk, or of any other liquid, is certainly too much for any child or big boy, or girl, to take before going to sleep. A I gill of liquid, with a little cheese or butter to their bread, would be an improvement. Each class, infants, boys, and girls, attends its separate school forenoon and afternoon : the instruction which the infants receive is of the usual alphabe tical and other elementary nature. The boys learn reading, writing, accounts , and the rudiments of music ; they are also instructed in useful branches of employ ment, as tailoring, shoemaking, clogging, and spade and other husbandry work; one gang of the boys are frequently employed in digging, wheeling, and levelling the garden, I which is &large plot of ground, capable of growing most of the rzots and horticultural vegetables which will be wanted by the establishment. The school instruction of the girls is similar to that of the boys, besides which they are taught knitting,sewing ; and they perform all the household eznploy ment by turns, a certain number at a time. Every evening the Church prayers are again read, and twice a week the children of Church Protestant par or who have Pro testant connexions, are instructed in the Church catechism. The children of Roman Catholics also attend pceyers, it being understood that their priests have no objection to their doing so, but they are exempted from attendance on the catechist. A separate place of worship altogether is in the course of pre paration for them. The rooms were all very clean; the infants' dormitories, their bedding, and the floors, were surpassingly clean, d well arranged. The condition of the other sleeping:rooanms was equally satisfactory , and with one scarcely distingizishable exception, nothing whatever like a c.lue or confined air could be detected. Such is the course of nurture and instruction afforded to these poor, homeless, parentless children by this noble insti tution. The motive does great honour to the ori-:inators ; and, though some of the details might be improved, the es tablishment, imperfect as it yet is, and must necessarily be, is a vast advance on any similar attempt under the be old poor law. Here, however, the dietary might, perhaps, consi derably amended. It strikes me as being of too liquid a nature ; out of ten descriptions of food which they partake in the course of a week, seven are chiefly liquid. Por ridge, milk, soup, hash, potatoes, run-milk, or milk curdled by runnet, and milk again. These are their chief dishes, and if they eat what is set before them—as probably children will do—they get far too much slop and far too little solid food in proportion.. They have potatoes twice a week and hash twice a week, which is potatoes stewed over again whereas we all know that potatoes are at present probably the most costly and the least nutritious in proportion of any food which can be placed before human beings. A recur rence to our old•fashioned mo de of living would, I am per waded, be better, and if either children or upgrown persons must have have slops lic etwe a day, they should, at any rate, have solid food at noon of c day. In one of the rooms of the infants' school WAS a cage with a throstle in it, and my guide informed me the bird was kept for the purpose of conveying instruction in ornithology. The poor captive looked " dowse an' was " indeed, and I could not for my life acquiesce in that cruel detention merely for the purpose of showing English children " what a throstle was." rate play-ground, or yard, in which Each class has a sepa they can take exereive without restraint, when they . are not at work or at school. In one yard girls were swinging most joyously,. and in another infants, both bps` d girls, were playing in the sunshine. Each party arge room to p'ay in when the weather prevents the enjoyment of out door exercise. Still I thought something seemed wanting amongst the young folks. I did not notice any dolls or other girlish play-things on the one side, nor any tops or marbles amongst the boys ; they may have them, but I did not see any, and I wished I had ; fur however commissioners and guardians may smile at the notion, my opinion is, that the first thing done to these young folks should be to make them happy—happy in all innocent enjoyments ; happy as if they were on their own hearths, and under the eye of their parents. In one of the store-rooms was a drum, and I men tioned to my guide that if the young musicians could muster a fife to it, the boys would have go ml exercise in and marchnineing . Why, also, might they not have boats, " pins" and hall-play, and why might not the have besta - con ducted of the girls and the boys be to dance now and then ; to have " a ball " in their own humble way at Christmas or any other time, when the world out of doors is merry? Such indulgences would be great incen tives to good behaviour, and would, I am certain, make them both happy and grateful. The responses in the church-service are chanted on Sun days, as well as at morning and evening on other days. Ths children have, therefore, enough of music, including their lessons. It is also introduced at meals. A class of girls was taken into the eating-room for dinner just before I came away. Their food was each a plentiful dish of potato hash, and not amiss was it either considering what sort of potatoes we all eat now-a-days. Good warm hash it was, with beef in it ; still it was but hash, for I saw not any bread. The girls each took her place and was seated. The music master stood facing them. A pause ensued. The master whistled and said "stand up ;" the girls stood up. The master said, "eyes shut," the girls shut their eyes, and sung "a grace before meat." The master then whistled again, paused, and said, "sit down," when the girls sat down and commenced their meal. All this semed very exact, and precise, an d methodical, hut I must confeu I would rather have beheld less of the trainer, and more of the brother on this occasion ; less of the disciplinarian and more of the father. These young beings should, as mush a+ pos!ible, be governed, and ordered, and arranged, without their hearts being made to feel the bonds by which they are restrained ; and it strikes me that devotion is not to be called forth by the cry of a whistle, or at the word of command; the humble exhortation, "let us pray," is far more likely to touch the heart and bring forth true devotion. One incident gave me a favourable opinion of my conduc tor. We had passed thrr , urh the infants' school, where a class was under tuition, and had entered the next apartment, where another class were at play, when we perceived one of the little fellows fast asleep on the cold flags of the floor. My conductor stepped forth, and raising him kindly, patted his head and face until the child opened his eyes and smiled. He then set him on his feet, and in a moment we sur rounded by the lit t l e creatures, clasping our knees were , taking our hands, pulling our clothes, and stretching out their arms to be noticed and caressed. I saw that my guide was quite on familiar terms with them, and I thought a great deal of " the porter" from witnessing the pleasure which thei tiality gave him, and his kind endeavours, in return, to m e them happy. With a suggestion or two, meant in all good feeling. I will close this letter. In one of the yards was a fire•engine, in apparent good order. Would not two be better, and should not the boys be well trained to work them ? There is some• thing almost awful in the idea of a family of a thousand Would p r eons being all dead asleep under one rasa at night. it not be as well to have some one or more always awake and perambulating whilst the others slept water would it not be well to have always a large supply of at hand X. L ? M. Nov. 24. . SCOTLAND. VIOLENT SHOCIL OF EARTHQUAR be fo re Perthhire 12 C ou rier says :—On Tuesday night, a few minutes o'clock, a shock of earthquake was felt re here of reate In tensityi and longer duration than any membered. state of the atmosphere at the time was cairn, and beautifully clear. Early on the previous morning a very heavy rain had fallen, whick had cleared the air, and softened the tempera ture, and the following day waa unseasonably fine and mild ; the thermometer standing about 52 degrees. At nine o'clock ng , evening, it had fallen to 42 degrees, the barometer indicati 29,50 inches; the greatest cold during the night was 36 de grees, and the barometer, inclined to rise, standing next morning at 29.51 inches. The feeling of inividuals It, during the shock, depended greatly on their situatdion. is most generally described as being rather tremulous than undu lating, and in high tenements heavy articles of fur niture were violently shaken, bells were rung, and crockery-ware overturned. Every family was alarmed, and many rushed out to the streets, under the im pression that their houses were falling. Such as were walking at the time describe the ground as shaken under their feet, much like the tremulous motion in steam-boats. The duration of the shock, by all accounts, must ha careen been from 15 to 20 second s, although the fears of many nat led them to think it longer. It extended as far north as our accounts yesterday reached, and, along the line of the Gram pians it seems to have been particularly severe. Our corres pondent at Crieff writes last night thus At twelve o'clock, perhaps two minutes after it, a low rumble, resem bling distant thunder, but one which a practised ear could d a on ce detect to be the h erald of an earthquake, was hear. For five or six seconds It approached nearer and nearer, and waxed louder and louder ; then came a he ga d undergro ling, und knock or two , th en a sensible uphsaving an downfal accom panied by a violent slinking of everything on the sur face, and the thunder-like noise continuing for six or eight seconds, and died away in the distance. This may not have been the heaviest shock of esethquake that has occurred in Crieff fur the last fifty years, but it certainlyake . was ave Thery sma rt one, and caused m an y a timid heart to qu air before and at the time of the shock was calm and still, but a short time thereafter a fresh breeze s prang up." WALES. EptcperioN IN WALE.—It is anticipated that the report of the Government Commissioners will be ready for presen tation at o the commencement of the ensuing sess ion. The inquiry will extend to the hills and minin• districts of Mon mouthshire, where a lare proportion of the miners and labourers speak only the Welsh langusge. J. C. Symons. Esq., commissioner for the midland and part of the mineral districts, has been makig his inquiries in Aberystwith and neighbourhood. H. V. Johnson, Esq., has nearly completes' the circuit of the island of Anglesey, having visited Beatimaris, Llangefni, Holyhead, and Bodedern. He has now commenced his labours in the adjoining county of Carnarvon. R. W. Lingen. Ess., commissioner for the south, has been prosecuting his inquiries throughout the various towns in Carmarthenshire, and will shortly extend them into the other counties in his district. The commis sioners are each accompanied by gentlemen well conversant with the language. The beneficial object of the commission, says a correspondent, seems to be fully appreciated by the inhabitants; and every aid is 'afforded to facilitate the col lection of the necessary details. DISTRIBUTION 07 CHURCH PATRON/AM—Ws And the following in the Merthyr Guardian :—There are fourteen dignities in the Cathedra of St. Auph, Nine of these are held by Englishmen, and five by Welshmen. The revenues of those held by the English amount in the aggregate to 1,8411. per annum; and the total amount of fines, at the time of making the returns, during an average of three years, were 7721. On the other hand, the revenue* enjoyed by the five Welsh amounted to 311. per annum, and the fines during the same period of three years were 2011. per annum. Thus : Total Income of Englishmen Z 1,1141 per annum. Welshmen 3l „ Total tines of Friglishinen 772 Welshmen Total re4ived by Englishmen during throe years " 12,611 Welshmen Excess received by Englishmen over Welshmen /2,381 PROVINCIAL. umereammuss. Mr. Batoar has Mimed Mu Mowing addresa to the electors of the borough of Maathathar : Oestlemen,—The sastimbet mot ouspostad cathitka of a email seetina of the Literal peaty milk Its Tories bes boa huswel ban attack spa me in as aims 'Etas Grantham sauggimer thismorn- Mg, walla I id Maid Muds% mot so math from tint it may bags mu the meted, as Om a ant the chimer, thief ealy, het of Mr. °tidemark Isat Th e charge meals Mateitsbatkat Mr. Oablembesibi aeleamtke to cealbms la gatheasat berM tbe Imot sethel s bed sarsorrsd la a seheraemmenetedia the reassaf tas ast Isbaddle brumbt forward se a eandldltho Mr Meier 1 _ aImaiMERIEE Mee white sathely &mpg Mr. cftdases rents mad lbw; red Ora I, from MUM of pummada salsa laths wy et Ms Os Mar of the u =theriaa ef the beremOomi rotated tr i = kiss that en Is me. The km edramsbeoes °Meese anthem: = al oe tut ramearaltbst Mr. lleaffithips intended to Netke, Mr. (WM sagmeelli Is KM OM PlablhaitY of tuMai l Is sassedhr, desbetag Ora Ilempt Mourn nese eta isseith4 be mod& yak miler sum assectvable ci Mom a emmaew himself. la mew to my objec tion Is Ids he maelthat gratitude to the peopleof Ids woof *dim Meat. ma somakientioasef kis Mrs gr= doss al limn Is es opera gram palls amatims, If mot thantemed wit Is the berry prtorM brim lERMpinsidi OM IME TummostEtion of aluthathr, all delmerbell him IR RIMY la Ids yam* paitke. 1 ma beasetosp lath I base owe lerath these views= may sea alum bot malmat mesa Dunu Mr. Oellism's tampoeary raidooos in Wales, Me Mhos k• left leall a I mashed a orgy fraldeg in vite** Its sisal Mg the Stirling Marsha )m la • MU, I wrote Is Mr. Witham the subject of Itheshelds4 my Meths SIM dratundermeas let ebsmysil, awl um that is was the mod aseesei ossommeldthe ef tbe eel ur&a Way if any demo la lis Mews bed elm soolow ow know it pringElyom a MERE.MIdI momEIMMRES ammo other constituency willing Masout my serviers. Ito lids Mr. Oallsimes reply was in erect eadrmill4 with hr pukes dersethem • and aterwards, whoa I raw him in L. Ids was most positive mid gembeth to the ems alibi I dishes solemnly that I have breseady led repeatedly peseedMr.thblea to &ac cept the seat offered to him, ell that it is my dreasemoletke last, were Mr. Cobden here, he would bs the very foremost Is saatrether, in the most explicit manner, the unfoonded charges which the GMErdigns of this morning has put Meth. 1 feel now, however, thrifty ormaszt, too 1 tar Nam concerned, is as nothing compared to ha Impareece to your great and honoured constituency. You have Menge listen the Tory party, and, single-banded, they own they mast that. A hand- ful of those who woe were in the Liberal rinks lave Mood the enemy, and by a coalition, discreditable to them, it Is mega to pervert the honest political course you have hitherto punned. TM true is =bi portant to me personally ; public life can yield In MOE* bsysith pri.d X . the consciousness of hen' useful. But to you it is of much import ance. You arc not second toany constituency in the , and your adherence to, or reieetion of, our long by will deeply affect the character and of the coming t.—lsm, &c., lonv Blllolll%—MlMblater, Nov. 28. 1 MURDER OP THE EARL oP DEERE'S GAMEKEEPER. —At the St. Helen's petty sessions, on Tuesday, H. Robin son was charged with being one of a gang of poachers who shot R. Kenyon, one of the Earl of Derby a gamekeepers' in the month of November , 1843. It will be remembeted, that at the time before stated, a gang of poacher', to the number of ten, entered the preserves of the Earl of Derby, at Knowsley, in the night time, and an affray took place be tween them and the keepers. One of the gamekeepers, named R. Kenyon, was shot. Five of the poachers, in a few days afterwards, were apprehended, tried, and convicted. One of them, named Rob erts, was execu ted ' and other the four were transported for life. Robinson, although not ap prehend( d, was indicted at the same time, a true bill was found against him, and a warrant issued for his apprehen sion. This we put in the hands of Mr. Superin tendent Story, and that officer c onve y ed Robinson from Beggar's Bush barracks, Dublin, to St. Helen's, on Thursday se'noight. It appeared, that after the keeper was shot, Robinson made his escape, and a month afterwards enlisted into the 48th Foot, where he has been ever since. He was committed to take hid trial at the next Liverpool assizes. YORKSHIRE. Duty ON TEAR.—The Mayor of Leeds has convened a public meeting of the inhabitants of the borough for Wed nesday next, to take into consideration the propriety of peti tioning for a reduction of the duty on teas imported. The requicition is signed by many of the leading firms in the town. REPRESENTATION OF RNARBSBRO'.—At a recent meeting of the Liberal electors of this borough, held in the Court house, the following resolution was un animously agreed li to : „ That while this meeting h as heard with deep regret that enry Rich, Esq., has decided to re lin q uish the prospect of again represent ing this borough in parliament, it begs to tender him its bet thanks for his services, not only as a late faithful representative, but also fur his unwearied and successful exertions ta serve the public and private intere!a of all connected with the town, without respect to creed or party." After which, the meeting entered into the consideration of adopting measures to secure the return of two Liberal mem hers, as th state of the gistration appeared to leave no doubt that e such might be e re ffected. Letters were then read from several gentlemen who had offered to become candi dates ; hut it was deemed desirable to defer coming to any decisive line of action at present, especially as the time for calling a new parliament was uncerain ; but it was consi dered nect nary to be provided with two eandidetes to be ready to take the field. MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY.—The young men of Woodhouse, near Leeds, have imitated the example set them by the young men of other districts in and about Leeds, and formed themselves into a Mutual Improvement Society. A week or two ago, they opened their classes with about sixty pupils, and they have also estiblished a reading-room, which ros is already well May they pper.—People's Journal. FALL OF SNOW.—On Saturday last, after a very fine frosty day at Leeds, a heavy snow began to fall after desk, and, at the time of the despatc'i of our daily express parcel, bade fair to be of considerable thickners. ONLY 22 PERsONs have been committed to Scarborough gaol during last year's mayoralty. The prison has been many weeks at different times without a tenant. WISDOM IN YORKSHIRE. —lt is pleasant to learn there is much less litigation in Bradford than formerly. In the at torney's offices it is well known that common law practice is greatly on the decline. The business at the Court-house, Bradford, is also much on the decrease. There used to Wed be on the Wednesday as many u 120 cases for hearing ; on n esday last there were only 16. For some time past there has been a gradual decrease. LINCOLNSHIRE. The EARL of YARBOROUGH has given his tenants at Cad ney, Howsham, and Newstead full permission to kill the game on their farm. NOTTINGRAMEDIR E. THE EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY AT NOTTINGHAM. — ADJOURNED INQUEST. —On Saturday evening last, the jury reassembled at Nottingham, to hear evidence re specting the female child found on the preceding Thurs day, in a package at the railway station. W. Roger son, superintendent of the Nottingham police, said he received the body from Mr. Richardson, ok-keeper in the parcels office, Midland Railway station. It was in a wicker basket. The direction on a slip of paper on the lid was "W. J. Smith, Esq., New Sneton, Suffolk," and he received a letter which Mr. Richardson said had been it taken out of the basket. The fo llowin g is a literal copy of : Arnold, November.—Sir, -1 have written several times to Inform you of my illness • have not received any . answer; 1 have sent you the Baby. It la n in my Power Nu pt it, as you Promise to take It of My hands, Put it out tO Nurse. It Is a Sweat Little crea ture, for Its age. I hope this may warn you from Reducing another Pour girl. It has made me very 111 with Parting with the Baby, and By the time you get this I shall Be no more. Whenever you ootne this way, only cast Tour eye In the church yard, and think of one you have Been the Death of, and adue from ?dram-Ass W. Outside the letter was an address " W. G. Smith, Esq., Suffolk." He (the superintendent) had been to Arnold and made inquiry, but could not find any female there, or information, likely to lead to a clue o btain any as to the perty who belonged to the infant. John Willoughby, parcels porter at the Nottingham Rail way station, said he received the basket a fortnight ago, of • hale dark-complexiened woman, according to the best of his recollection; and she wished to know if it would be placed inside the carriage, so as not to be thrown on its side, as it required great care. She paid 2d. for the booking. It was sent off by the mail train the same night. He saw it again on Thursday morning last, amongst the London par celi. It had been returned " refused." Thinking it might be some perishable article, such as be ef or pork-pie, he opened the basket, and, while attempting to unwrap , the shawl, r- a dead child fell out upon the ticket-table. —W. Yates, su aeon at the Nottingham Dispensary, said, I have examined the body of the infant, and found it a fine well-formed female child, and should think it was n a we the ek bodyold. There were no marks of violence upo. I am of opinion that the c hild died partially from want of nourishment, partially owing to cold, and partially from the effects of an overdose of opiate. There was nothing like suffocation ; the lungs were not gorged with blood as they would have been had it been suffocated. I should think the child was put into the basket alive. There being no further evidence, the coroner adjourned the inquest sine die, to permit of inquiries being made, informing the jury that they should be told when matters were in a proper shape for further inquiry. Since the inquest, it has been ascertained that a sma.ldark complexioned female, rather , elderly, and a young girl, rather tall, apparently her daugh- 1 ter, remained in the station-yard the night the basket was taken to the office for a long period, and they watched the train take its departure. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. , 1 A THIEF DROWNED BY HIS PLUNDER. On Thussaay last, as a man named George }larding was attempting to escape, by means of a boat, from the yard of Mr. Kennett, railway contractor, Bristol, he overbilanced himself, and fell into the water. The weight of the stolen iron upo re n his he person caused him to sink to th e bottom, and befo could be got out life was extinct. 6011EftsEraGRE. REPRESENTATION OF BATH.—The requisition to Lord Ashley has received numerous and influential signatures. A canvass, for the purpose of ascertaining the feelings of the Bath constituency towards hie Lordship is in progress. NORFOLK. THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAIL WAY AND THE GRAZIERS. S. —On Saturday afternoon a large and highly in meeting of the farmers and graziers of the counties of Nor folk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, and Essex, took place at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, for the purpose of taking into con sideration the recent alteration in the charges for the con- ••-• . -