The Express. — London, England, 1846-12-10 00:00:00

I • ." .... 7 — s d o the progrell Of the principles of the association ; sers vh d Mr. Cheetham, of Oakham , wou ld state to the si . wic ibee fact, which he was sure would be equally iiib"gsgio, as showing that the Central Protection S waste, rki;:th°4 feared would be oppeeed to them, were noW s ees likeiy to go hand in hand with them in their stru7gle be total repeal of the malt tax. (Cheers.) And Po they for no one could doubt that inch a measure was rely connected with protection to agriculture. (Hear.) Mr. Csisretan said, that as chairman of the Oakham s o ciety, he attended a meeting of the Central eckerkl.sy, 13onri.atrect, at which the question of „Srar'slof the malt tax was fully discussed—the discussion a men out of communicationa from Worcester.her A l. so d East Kent, demanding to whet s question which local societies might entertain—. •'g y o g all that Warred, he felt convinced that the mem sees of the society generally were favourable her s , t hough t ever, of Richmond, who presided, and o thought, bawaver, that they ought not to commit the society to a oosal declaration upon the sub ject, until they asc ert a ined gig watimenta of Om local 'societies; and reaolutions were ....imply adopted, calling upon those societies to declare m e r they were for or against a total repeal of the, milt ps i sad to communicate the same to the Central Society on tutefore Tuesday the 12th of January, when a meeting of body would be held to consider the point. He rejoiced amt it was so, because, from his observation of yesterday's acc cup, he was satisfied that the vast majority of the local p ieties would embrace the opportunity to be thus afforded k kese of using their most strenuous exertions to obtain a r eal of the malt duty. As to the county of Rutland, ho me no doubt whatever that lie would have to attend in Bond street on January 12, and declare the general feeling of the cosety to be in favour of that measure. He would not trouble the ragetiag with the reasons fur repealing the malt-tax. Toy were too well known. All they had to consider, fore, was the means to be used for effecting their object. or might just remark, however, that he had learned from a ego-printer in 31anehestert to whom he had written on the p griect, that the increase of consumption in the article of r ested calico since the repeal of the duty of 31d. the square yar d, over and above what might be caused by the increase a r population, was absolutely enormous. This was an im portant fact, because there was some analogy between the sisaufacture of printed cotton and that of malt. The con sumption of glass had also greatly increased since the duty bid been removed. The manufacture et malt was just as emends] as any other, and ought to be equally free. these.) :Rey should not, therefore, be satisfied with anything leas than to t a l r epeal; for if the duty was reduced even to 64., Aiwa still carry with it an those vexatious and oppressive restrictions which rendered the present duty so objectionable. (lieu .) Is compliance with a request from the chair, several gen tlemen who had been deputed to visit particular district:, reported the result of their mission, which they stated to h alt been in all CMOs meet favourable to the repeal of the molt tax—the only opposition they , had met with being from Mither Chartists or teetotallers, whi.efrom the tenant-farmers, Iliboarers, and townspeople they receive d h a most hearty and estaariging support. The places reported of were Berk sure, by Mr. Collyer, who said that as the aristocracy were sot with them they shoul.t depend entirely on the tenantry ; Eat Sussex, by Mr. Smith ; Norfolk and Suffolk, by Mr. C. H. Lattimore, who added that branch societies were being estiblished in those counties to aid the central one, and that subscriptions were freely o f f ered for the purpose; other parts of these counties by Mr. Northhousc, who expressed his gratification at finding the press of England generally fa . wearable to their object, and warmly advocated the necessity fug, sad the great ails antnee next, of giving to the labourer a wholesome beverage like home-brewed beer, instead of the deleterious adulterated stuff he was often sup. plied with frog. the b eer - s hops—those nurseries of gee, and not unfrequently of poaching and ineendiarism ; North Hampshire by Mr. Heriott, who did not not find a disentient voice either to the object of the association or sabcriptions to support that object • Nottinghamshire by Ni. Rowley, who had found the local press generally elis ed to favour the object of the association, and thought that baler:downers and clergymen, if they were opposed to than, as alleged, could not remain any longer inimical to the interests of the farmer and labourer, whom a repeal of the malt tax would obviously serve. it was impossible that e t heavy labours of husbandry could be borne with advan tage to the proprietary unless those engaged in t hem received sutfiereat nourishment either in the shape of beef or barley. Mr. SMITH (the treasurer) stated that the receipts to the *meat day were 7131., which had been expended in giving publicity to their proceedings, and in other measures which bad been productive of much good. He hoped that hence. firth as hitherto their funds would be adequate to their wants. The CHAIRMaN did not altogether agree in the remafk, that beer-shops were nurseries of vice. He conceived that gM-shops were the worse of the two, and that beer-shops, in some cases great nuisances, were in many instances attended with great advantage. He regretted, too, the remarks that had been made about the aristocracy, particularly by Mr. Arkell, in Berkshire. It was better to leave them where they were, and for that association strenuously to follow its own course. (Hear.) Mr. AtatELL (of Wiltshire) wished to explain. What he had said was, that the tenant-farmers mast look no longer to the landlords or the clergy of the county, but to themselves alone. They had sought aid long enough from those above them, who, instead of affording it, had only seduced and swindled them. (Laughter.) He should not find fault with the aristocracy if they kept their proper places. He be lieved they were the better of having three estates ; but when he found the aristocracy interfering to turn the tenant-farmer from the legitimate exercise of his constitu tional right, he felt that he was justified in complaining. He had received letters from members of parliament and others of the same class, telling him that this was set . the proper time to seek for a repeal of the malt tax. (A laugh.) If they waited for seven years sore, they would be told just the same thing. Mr. Redd, the member for Chippenham, stated at a public meeting, held at Devizes, that the poor man ought not to Pay a duty on his beer ; and yet, when he addressed a letter to that gentleman, requesting him, in cone. quenee of that declaration, to take the chair at their meeting atChippenham In a repeal of the malt tax, hie reply vim, that he would do to such thing, as the time for seeking that measure had not yet arrived. (A laugh.) There was, no doubt, a time for all things, and members of parliament must not, therefore, beget that there was a particular season out of seven at wluch the tenant farmers and other electors were their masters. (Hear.) It was said that the removal of the malt tax would cause an increase in the income tax. Even so ; those who possessed large incomes ought to be the last to quarrel about a heavy tax. (Hear.) As for the malt tax, he believed that 19 out of every 20 of the farmers of the country would wish to see it repealed. (Hear.) Mr..HskveY (secretary at the Harlestowe Club) corrobo rated the remarks of the last speaker. He yesterday at tended a meeting of the Agricultural Association at Bury St. Edmund's, at which the chairman, Mr. Waddington, one of the landowners of the neighbourhood, said that this was not the proper time for seeking the removal of the duty on malt, as it would cause the imposition of another tax, and that therefore it was only taking out of one packet to put into unbar. He (Mr. Harvey) thought the inference good, but gib bis addition, that it would be taking from the wrong to lot ikto the right pocket. (Hear.) lb. lot AN (of Lewes) congratulated the association upon lis bet that the Duke of Richmond had unequivocally de iced himself, at the meeting yesterday, in favour of the Mr alof the malt duty ; but considered it necessary, in order fogies full effect to that declaration, to collect the goal lokka ~ Upon the subject of the tenant f a rmers throughout the milsom • Their sentiments would be known on the 12th of ""IrY• He was confident they would be unanimously in brow of the measure • and if so, they could then , in the Vs of the noble duke, assume such a position as would PIP government from refusing their prayer. His IPMS bid also said, and he agreed with him, that nothing Millie worse than to attempt anything by agitation that odd be gained in a manner to command universal respect. Theasociation was now in such a train, not only to com l." "Vett, but to attain such a force as must result in fla9late success. The whole opposition they had met with W king's Lynn was from the teetotallers, whose object was to discourage drunkenness ; but the way to do so was not by hiring the labourer to the public.house, but by allowing 'fla to enjoy a nourishing and wholesome beverage at home. Mt. B. H. CANRELL, H. P. (who was warmly received), MOM he had promised his constituency, on the occasion election, to support any petition in favour of the great atthey had in view • and be should most heartily do so. .) Being questioned upon the subject of free trade, he mil at once, " Let it have a fair trial ;" and with that reply Se querists were satisfied. If he bad been asked to expl ain, Maras prepared to have answered that by a fair trial he Meant a total repeal of the malt tax. He was prepared to have said that if Sir It. Peel looked to his own honour or character as the great minister of the greatest country in the world, he would have included that measure in his re form of the tariff, instead of palming upon the country as genuine that which he knew in his heart was false; because "wanting in that particular which could alone have rendered izst and impartial. (Hear, hear.) SOt. T. 1,101.•08KIN, not a farmer, but a determined hee.trsder, concurred with the hon. gentleman in .4 1 ..rding this as a question of free.trade. Our tra de with ' , men._ nations had been relieved, but the whole of the home maustry of the country was still very much oppressed by our odious system of excise laws. It could not be doubted that !teement there was in the public mind a strong tendency to bee trade and an equally strong aversion to restrictions. But km this association was establishing itself solely for the 'Maul of one of these restrictions—that upon the menu !before of malt ; whereas if they adopted the view of the was gentleman who last addressed them, and placed the tetton neon the basis of free trade, they ought not in his (I.i_LHOdipkin'o) opinion to confine themselves to th at gum !! , but seek for the repeal of the duty upon soap and of all rim restrictions which press upon the home industry of eleigul,.,_, , ,tn. In consequence of the remark which fell from of the he was led to merit that if they regarded the ,„s of the malt tax as a free - trade measure, and wished 41 speedy success, they bad placed their emaciation on too ei,....__!_badsto obtain the support of the great body of the ;. 6 n. 11 V, and must consequent) f ail . ese. LATTIXoIIis said, that ' it part and parcel of tai_ si lls ki•af food would questin m gi a ve it popularity enough. was a measure which would benefit every claim, even the IL .. r;7retors themselves, inasmuch as it would lead to :_"effe ultivation of land and to the bettering the condi .o. cake peasant. ~_I IIT • Nmermotse thought the question might very well Z a Z nit tiPon its own merits. It had the rare advantage of s ._ two edema parties ; and was certainly due to the waset whie se the country as a set-off to the experiment under e th ey were now suffering. .......TheCittiaese observed that however valuable the sug - P ` °°i °I Mr. Hodgskin, and however willing any gentle fheve might bete a d o pt it, it was not now in their power .„, alt er the obje c t fir which the society had been establishe d. 44e th ul"liate question for the meeting to consider was B 0• o ameat the rht tag 'Olen he cir; a am a in I c2l& Live. Ong *boom j it t 4 Hr. 9 , II Lod Awning vieited r . lO A i lue of c able W ion, bt Mr. bart. at L inter muter- I It India De. ~, owood- N. wool' ma lt tw r _ s trees, iced th at ockshir e, Nocti!ir reetifYlng whether it would be advisable to continuo Pending &Teta tions to different parts of the kingdom. Mr. Itaxaci wee of opinion that no more deputations should be sent out until invited by some respectat.le party in the district to which they were to go : and atter sow con versation it was moved by Dr. Lamb (of East Suasek), seconded by Mr. Elman, and unanimously agreed to, 1.: 91 t the association should adopt no further active steps nub: after the meeting of the 12th January. Thanks being then voted to the chairman and the deputations, the association adjourned to the 13th of January. ROYAL GENERAL DlSPElefialtY.—A general meeting of the governors of this institution—tiii Objects of which are to afford medical and surgical relief gratuitously to the sick poor, without regard to their places of abode—was held yes terday, at the Dieperisary Rouse, Aldersgate-street. W. Atkinson, Esq., in the chair. Mr. Wood, the honorary secretary, read a resolution of the general committee, which stated that, though out of debt, the balance in the hands of the treasurer wu small, and recommended that efforts' ' should be made to increase it. From Ist January, 181.5, to I 31st December in the eame year, 10,778 patients, the largest number which the institution had in any previous year, were relieved, and that number would be much increased in the present year, and he (Mr. Wood) bad no doubt it would be considerably more than 12,000 for 1846. That was the first established institution of its kind in the metropolis; there were no paid officers belonging to it except the apothecary and the collector. The poor had the best attendance, and medicines of the purest description ; its advantages were not local ; 1 persons from the most distant parts of the country would be relieved, and in the city, where persons were not able to attend, they were visited at their own homes, and got the brat a.lvice. After other business had been transacted, the meeting then separated. SALE 01' THE BOROUGH HATHARKET.—Yesterday, the Borough Haymarket, sheds, stable., dwelling-houses, and other appurtenances, containing about an acre of ground, was sold for 9001. by private contract. The estate is held under the City of London, 61 years of which aro unexpired. WARNER'S LONG RANGE.—Memo days since the Morning Chronicle published a circumstantial account of certain experiments said to have been made with the long range in the Isle of Anglesca. About the same time a pars graph appeared in this paper, by a correspondent, stating that the trial had taken place in Stafford-hire, near to Beau desert, the seat of the Marquis of Auglesca. Inquiries which we have since made, leave no doubt of the fact that our correspondent was correct, and that the Chronicle's in- • torment, in all probability, made the curious error of mis taking the island from which the Marquis of Anglesea derives his title for his estate. That the experiments did take place where our correspondent indicated, and that they. failed, the information we have received confirms. The cor respondent who sent us the former paragraph, supplies us now with the following. We present it to our readers pre cisely as we received it; but deem it right to add, that the details are much too absurd for our belief: — The following facts relative to the late experiments with tamt. Warner's long range, furnished by a distinguished officer, who, though not directly connected with the commission hail ample opportunities for observing the progress of the experiments, may be rthed upon. The arrangements for the experiments were conducted in Ilaywooil Park, bat Capt. Warner resolutely refused permis.sion to any person, official or non-official, to witness what he called his secret. It was, however, understood from the first that his mode of propelling his shells to the distance of five or six miles was by means of a balloon, a fact in itself sufficiently condemnatory of the allegid invention. The Marquis of Anglesea, Master General of the Ordnance, who manifested great interest in the success of the expel iment, Ad% upon the ground during almost the whole of an entire week, together with Colonel Chalmers, Assistant Director General of Artillery, and Capt. Chadds, R.N., of the Excellent, the two commissioners appointed by govern. mant to watch the experiments. After delaying the time from Mon day till Saturday, Mr. Warner annonneel sensitively that the experi ment should come off on the latter day, shortly after noon, and arranged that a small balloon, by way of a " pilot, should be sent up, to announce thecorning of the aerial machine that was to contain his terrible implement of annihilation. The officers, who were anxious to witness the experiment, were on the alert ; but noon passed, and the afternoon, and the shades of evening began visibly to draw in, and the officers were about to quit the spot, under the impression that the whole experiment was a mere "hats," when about half-past four o'clock a balloon was observe] ascending over Haywood-pork, which, according to the law of all balloons, continued toaseend till it was lost from sight. No portentous shell, fraught with the elements of de. struction, was, however, seen to fall, and some doubts were expressed as to whether thiswas not the smaller balloon, sent up as • signal. A strange noise, however, ■ was heard shortly afterward., rambling the the falling pf some explcsive body, but beyond this ail was vague and uncertain. Capt. Warner, however, asserted that this was the balloon and that the destructive shell had actually fallen. When the morning dawned, search was mode in the brad for the effects of this redoubtable power, but the results led to the belief that the power which Captain Warner had boasted was capable of deetroying Gibraltar, and of blowing up the battery called the Devil's Tongue, was not capable of destroying a mole hill. Th e Select Commitiee, we understand, were heartily sick of the whole transaction, which has been unhesitatingly designated as a piece of s h ee r humbug. When the Treasury agreed to grant Mr. Warner the sum of 1,3001. for the purpose of proving the powers of his missile, it was on the express understanding that if the experimenta were not suc cessful, the money should be returned to the Treasury. It is of course presumed that the Government will demand that the sum a l rea dy advanced shall be paid back to the Treasury. TILE PUNCH PROJECTILE. —Mr. Punch is vOU sorry to hear that Captain Warner's Long Range has failed. To console the government for this disappointment, Mr. P. will engage, on reasonable terms, to compose a squib which shall strike the enemies of his country at any distance.— Ptine/t. TILE TEN HOURS BILL.—A Glasgow correspon dent, referring to the letter of " A Glasgo w Manufacturer, which we published on Saturday last, writes as follows of , the alleged diminution of children's labour by the adoption of self-acting machines : Formerly there were employed one spinner and two phone (children); now the services of the spinner are dispensed with, but the two Mears are retained. Instead, however, of being children, girls I (say of 17, 18, or 19) are usually preferred. This , does not arise limo children being unfit for the work, but because it is considered that there is a greater degree of steadiness at a more advanced age. Atten tion is necessary, and thildren, even above 13, may be giddy and thoughtless. A third pieeer is also required for carrying the bobbins, but this is the same with the self-actors as mulct the old system. With regard to the short-time question, my final cogitations are, that no man ought to be compelled to labour twelve hours a day (half past five am., to seven p.m., with one and a half hour for mealC. Practically, this labour Is compulsory, because a man cannot lay down one trade and take up another at pleasure. Redress from the mill-owners is hopelew, and a fair case is therefore made out for the interference of the legislature. I would apply the same rule to every trade which government could get at. It la no reason to refuse to do what good we can, because we caruaot make the good universal. FORTUNATE ESCAPE.—Yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Dixon, the lady of Mr. Dixon, proprietor of the horse bazaar, Barbican, had completed some purchases at Waterloo House, Charing-cr)u, and had just resumed her seat n her phaeton, when the horse took head, and set off at a furious rate before the driver had mounted the box. Fortunately the phreton came in collisicm with a coal-waggon opposite Northumberland House, by which the body of the former was detached from the shafts. The horse, thus liberated, continued its onward pace with the shafts dangling at its heels, until it reached St. Clement's Church, where it was stopped without its injuring either itself or any person. Mrs. Dixon had presence of mind to keep her seat. A DRUNKEN VILLAGE.—There is a remarkable specimen of a drunken village in the neighbourhood of our own city ; namely the fishing village of Newhaven. A cu rious primitive place it is, and one of the native seats of those singularly-dressed fishwomen who strangers are accustomed to remark on the streets of Edinburgh, which they deity perambulate, selling their fish from huge baskets carried on their backs. The men work as fishers and pilots, the women carry fish to town, and thus a good deal of money is made amongst them. Nevertheless, it is an eminently mean looking and filthy village ; so much so, indeed, that one had better, for the sake of his shoes and his olfastory sense, avoid passing through it. The explanation is— , drink. It appears from a document drawn up by one of the people themselves—one, however, who has a desire of l i better things, and wishes to reform his neighbours—that there are thirty-three public-houses in Newhaven, being one for every perrons in tlse village. If children are left out of sight, as they ought to be, it will be observed what a small number of the productive labourers of the place undertake to support a family for the supplying of themselves with liquor. Although strangers, no doubt, consume not a little liquor in the place, perhap•it would not be too much to say that every dozes families in Newhaven maintains a public house out of their earnings. The worthy fisherman who is endeavouring to effect a reformation says : " Suppose that each public-house draws on an average 15s. a-day, in a year this will amount to 9,0331. 158. Suppose that one-third of the population, or 660, spend on strong drinks 6d. per day, in a year this will amount to 6,0221. 10s." He adds—' One wholesale spirit-merchant confesses that be draws from the public-hourice of Newhaven 1001. per week. There are three or four others who supply them with strong drinks. Suppose that among these another 1001. is taken. In a year, 2001. per week amounts to 10,4001. Take the average of those sums as the tenth, and we have as the annual sum spent on intoxicating drinks in Newhaven, 8,4851.811.4 d.„ or, in round numbers, 8,5001. These calculations are pur posely made at low rates. Any one who knows the customs of the place, and the high rents and licenses charged for p u blic-houses, will perceive that m uch hi g her rums might have been fixed on. After all is, we have only to , a adds a erovmer, a passage from the th notice of Newhaven in the New Statistical Account of Scotland:'—" This Newhaven colony is pre-eminent crer others for its sober, industrious, and peaceable habits." Quite so : this is what Newhaven thinks of itself no doubt. And yo‘ as we see, it annually drinks up, at the very lowest computation, some eight or nine thousand pounds worth of whisky." INDNESS TO ANIMALS.—It has been proposed by a benevolent individual—the same, we believe, who held the umbrella over the duck in a shower of rain—to provide the horse of the Duke of Wellington's Statue with a nos'-bag. The poor dumb animal will never want any victuals, as • there is generally a crowd of people below who keep up co nstant supply of chaff—Punch. INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—DISSIPATION, DESTITU TION, AND DEATIL —B y Mr.W.Corter_, at the We Trooper, Bankside, on the body of • widow named bb Margaret Donoghue, aged 66, of Ray-street, Clerkenwell, Deceased, who used to get a living by selling fruit in the streets , had lately been leading a very dissipated life, and had pawned every article of wearing apparel and furniture, even to the bed she possessed. On the night of Saturday last she was at the White Swan, in Three Pigeons-court, Clerk drinkingenwell, and nothing was seen of her afterwards, until Sun- 1 day morning, when she was di sco vered straggling in the wa ter near Bl ac kfriars-bridge. She was got out of the water, but could not be restored. Verdict, "Found drowned." --DEATH OF A Fonsiosrga.—Also by Mr. W. Carter, at the Sing'sArm , 'Lambeth, on view of the body of Frederick s William Fische Noose, aged 77, lately residing at 1, Mount-garden, Westminster -road. The deceased was formerly a colonel in the service of the lato Emperor Alexander, and had filled other situations of re sponsibility. On Saturday night deceased was di t ec h o a v t ered de. dead in his bed-room. A surgeon having deposed ceased laboured under a disease of the stomach Ina heart. the jury recorded a verdict of " Natural death." THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1846. A WALK AMONGST THE WORKERS AT WORSLEY. This is a neat village, about eight miles west by e g k s ben i o ny f -wara t h , to o e ußnr l r. i a .n t ne e d Duk e IlToehfy et,w ru ns south from Manchester. A canal, one of the earliest under o an tovil d itt tgehae collieries de e r f ea r n es to l f thf B ea rir i odge n ug l h e w ng athth th er , present owner of the property is that noble as... °n " the Earl of Ellesmere, who, having a wu t s lkin th al l tes e parti.lit7 fog the place-u well be may-has . expended, and as still expendire.. large sums in various improvements. There is an air (it fft-ltneg and comfort about the place which is seldom observ.7bise in the lame ie :he rurw districts of Lancashire. sll the better sort of houses here, with the mill, the Trost-el:lee, and the hotel, are white washed, whilst the dwellings of the labourers, though not so embellished, exhibit an appeareatte of cleanly comma to which the warmth of a clear red cast fire is no small addition during this season of anew and hoary cold weather. The Earl of Ellesmere is a very extensive employer, as will be seen, and what is of Mill greater conse quence, he is one of the best in England. A servant here, who has become crippled or disabled by age from performing his wonted task is never dimissed, the hand of kindness fol lows him, sustaining and comforting to his last hour. A very extensive yard, with workshops, office., and sheds, on the bank of the canal, and the left of the road as we enter the place from Manchester, contains the working establishment of the Earl of Ellesmere at this place. It is like a little oulony, and nearly every article which is wanted in the vari ous operations of the Bridgewster trust is here manufac tured. The establishment consists of a superintendent and three clerks, with a foreman to each separate branch of operation. There are seventeen millwrights and engineers, earning from 3s. 4d. to 4s. 6d. per day ; eleven blacksmiths, earning from 33.6 d. toes.; with four strikers or hammer-men, at '2B. 6d. each ; two furgemen at frs. a day ; three tilers at 3s. 6d. ; two shoes, at 3a. 6d. ; four verticle and circular sawyers, at 3s. 10s. ; six joiners, at 3s. 10d. ; twenty-nine boat-builders, at 3s. Bd. per day ; eight wheelwrights, at 3s. 4d. ; two couplers, at 3s. 101.; six carpen ten, at 3s. 6d. ; one engine tenter, at 3s. 4d.; four sail makers, at Is. 4d. ; four masons, at 38. Bd. ; six brick setters, at 3s. 6d.; flee painters, at 35. 4d. ; twenty-eight carters and labourers, at 2s. to 2s. 6d. per day; eight pit sawyers, working by the piece; two nailer', also earning ac cording to the work done; twelve oakum pickers, old men and boys, earning from 6d, to Gd. per day; one captain of a lighter, which runs on any occasion betwixt Worsley and Manchester, said captain also being aged and an old servant, 2s. per day; one boiler-maker, 4s. 6d. per day; one time keeper, also an old servant, ls. per day ; and eighteen coke burners, who burn at Is. 3d. a ton, and will average about 3s. Gd. a-day each. Near the yard, in a snug losking building, are the post office, and a reading-room for the workmen, the latter open from nine in the morning to nine at night. It is a very con venient and comfortable room, neatly furnished with chairs, benches, and tables. Against the walls hung a few prints in frames, one a war scene, of Waterloo, as I thought; the others plans and sections of machinery. The floor seas covered with a clean oil-cloth; in the grate was a bright red coal-tire, which made the place feel homely warm, whilst the tables were covered with newspapers and periodicals, on the whole rather fairly selected with respect to their religious and poli tical tendencies. The subscribers pay two shillings a year only for all these conveniences, and whilst I was there, I was gratified, it being the hour of noon, by seeing several young men enter, take each a publication, draw their seats towards the fire, and sit down to spend the intervening half hour before they returned to work. I expressed my satisfaction at such instance of the utility of the establishment, and was further informed by them that the room was well attended they also expressed a full appreciation of the benefits which they derived from the institution When this property first came into posse.sion of the present noble owner, drunken ness was very prevalent amongst the workmen, and was too often countenanced by the foreman and overlookers. A change for the better has, however, been, with some diffi culty and much perseverance, effected in the habits of both classes; those who could not be reclaimed from drunkenness have been discharged, and their places supplied by others of more self-commend ; at present sobriety is the common rule of all, and intemperance is the comparatively rare exception. Several other praiseworthy and useful Institutions have been carried into effect by the Earl of Ellesmere and his amiable lady. A clothing fund has been established, and the workmen and their wives are encouraged to lay by a sum per week or per month, which is placed in the common fund and laid out for them once a year in articles of bedding or clothing, which aro divided to them, in proportion to their respective savings, and at the wholesale cost price. This division took place about a month ago under the immediate direction of Lady Ellesmere and her daughtirs. There is also a Ravings bank amongst the workmen, to which Lady E. adds five per cent., at the year's end, on all then withdrawn, and 10 per cent. on all sums, which are then transferred to the savings bank at Manchester. These kind and beneficent aids cannot fail to create a feeling of respect and attachment on the part of the working men and their families towards their benefactors ; and such a feeling was displayed in 1812, wt ea the chartists of Eccles, Patricroft, and ott et places, visited Worsley and endeavoured to persuade the working men there to turn-out and join their trumpery strike against nil labour. Not a man at Worsiey could they move from his post, and all they got by their visit was an expression of contempt from those they tried to seduce into a course of folly and peril. On the bill above the works is a building of recent erec tion and tasteful style, which contains infant and juvenile schools for boys and girls: 150 children attend the infant school ; about 90 attend the boys' juvenile school, and 76 the girls' school. It is the rule here that the oldest child of a family attending any of these schools shall pay lid. per week, and the other children of the same family, a penny per week each. The money so received is paid into the hands of a person appointed to re ceive it, and the salaries of the teachers and their assistants are paid by the same gentleman on behalf of the Earl of Ellesmere. The course of instruction is the same as at Walkden Moor, namely, reading, writing, grammar, goo. graphy, drawing, and the rudiments of music for the boys, and the same fur the girls, with sewing and knitting in addi tion ; the infants receive the usual infantile instruction. The church, which is in the course of erection, and suf ficiently finished to admit of service being performed in it, stands on a fine piece of elevated ground called the Cross field, in consequence of being intersected by several foot paths. The style of architecture of this striking and almost unique structure is of the time of Edward 1f T. The roof out side is covered with large scene° slate, from the Delabow quarries in Cornwall, and the rolls covering the vertical points of the slabs being of the same material, give it much the ap pearance of lead, and add to the durability of the building. The extreme base of the tower is thirty feet on each square; the height is seventy-five feet, with pinnacles and flying buttresses springing from each angle ; the spire, from the bottom to the top of the finial, will be 105 feet. The arch of the west door leading into the church, through the tower, is a beautiful design. Above it is a handsome three-light window, with bold and delicate tracery. The arch between the tower and nave is lofty and decorated with mouldings and splays well executed. There is also a fine arch between the chancel and nave; it is richly and deeply moulded, springing from caps tastefully carved, and crowning a corbel shaft, supported by two well-executed heads, one supposed to be that of St. Mark, the patron saint ; the other that of St. Peter. The interior of the church consists of a nave and south aisle, a chancel, and a private chapel on the south of the chancel. On the right of our entrance are five arches, springing from four pillars, and two half-pillare, the details of each pillar being of a different pattern hem the others; they are crowned with caps, richly carved with foliage and heads; the side is lighted by four windows to the south, and one in the west, of two bays each. The chapel is divided by a screen at the end of the south aisle, over which is another richly moulded arch. At the entrance of the chapel are two windows looking south; the window east of the chapel is of three lights, with tracery in the head, of a forte denoting the equilateral triangle, in reference to the Trinity; the ease form is preserved in most of the other traceries, whilst in some there is a blunted square, in reference to the four Evangelists. The chapel is divided from the chancel by two open arches deeply moulded, supported by a small pillar in the centre, with a moulded cap and base, the hood mould terminated on the chapel side by some good foliage, with the crest of the Bridgewater family, and the initials F. E. On the chancel side the hood-mould is terminated by a dove, in representation of the Holy Spirit. On the north side of the chancel are three windows of twobay s each, with mouldings and tracery. On the east is a dof five lights, with mouldings and tracery as before, but at present the whole of the windows throughout the church, with the exception of that of the chapel and the east window, are glued with " Powell's glass," which is cast 1 in moulds of various patterns and tasteful designs. The chancel is ascended by two steps, and two more lead to the altar; the table is placed on another platform six inches above the last level of the floor, which is formed of encaustic tiles of rich design. The floor of the chapel is also tessellated, and the alleys are laid with brown and blue tiles. On the j south of the altar are two seats of stone, and on the same side l are six stalls; on the north are seats, in keeping with the style of the church, for singers,• the chapel, also, is fi tted with oaken benches or seats. The pulpit is of an hexagonal form, and richly carved, one of the pullets representing the Birth of Our Saviour; another, the Offering of the Wise Men. The reading-desk is in keeping with the pulpit. The seats of the church are all open benches, with carved ends, and the whole of the seats are of English oak. The roof is of the same durable material, and there is neither a screw nor a nail in it; it is richly moulded and foliated, with cups at the intersections, and carved figures will probably be placed at the ends of the hammer-beams. The font is of chaste design and workmanship, and is of Caen stone; the canopy is of oak, and in keeping with the font. At the south door is a neat little porch, with oak roof and rich mouldings ; the door is of oak, ' and displays some elaborate iron work. The clear , story windows are of circular tom and varied design, and on the north side piers and arches are built into the wall, so as to allow the addition of e north aisle whenever such may be required. The architect of this singular, and yet grace ful-looking little church, is Mr. Scott, of London, and t designs are carried, out under the superintendence of Mr. WOrdeptl4, the seat of the Earl of Ellesmere, stands at a short distance south by west of the church : it is a large and noble structure of stone, with turrets and pinnacles, and commanding an extensive view of the borders of Cheshire and Lancashire. It stands on ground much lower than the church, on the slope of the same hill in fact, and it strikes me that a better site might have been chosen. The road passes very near to it, which inconvenience might have been obviated, had a more elevated situation been chosen. X. L. M, IRELAND. DUBLIN, DEC. 8. The general topic of tliseamion and speculation to-day is the commissies of grace to fatale all differences between the two parties--a ty.tter of mere magnitude than aapears at first sight. The OW Ireland part; on the character and independence. of the new men intro duced into the commits:ion, and int,.k forw ard _,_, to a happy , reposes with con fi dence solution. The Young IreLnd section '""7l,,,c°nr complain that no voice had been given to them in the °— sentatives at the board of reference. They approv.. ^f the men, but would wish to have been consulted in the chci B E- I The commissioners will have a delicate and difficult task. It is expected the report will appear in a week or ten days. I am informed, that before Mr. O'Connell's amicable prone. sition had been made, very powerful :2fluences were at wa:r. is I,sconcile himself and Smith O'Brien. A distin guished occlesiastb: was the mediator. The result of his in terference will soon appear, The Repeal Association has submitted a report on the em ployment of the labouring classes, involving a great number of questions, and varying in practical importance. The reclamation of waste lands, as a mode of relief, is a topic which now occupies the public mind, and your readers may with to know how the association seeks to give practical effect to the proposition. Where employment on works of a public character is insufficient for the relief of the popula tion, the Board of Works is to be empowered to take pos session of waste lands, paying the owners the full value, to be determined by a competent tribunal. The lands to be selected if possible within the barony where employment is required. On taking possession, the board to be authorised to transfer married labourers and their families from any dis trict, either at the expense of the district in which they previ ously resided, or of the landlord whose tenant, they had been. A separate sum is also to be allowed for their maintenance for • short period, chargeable on the barony or the landlord. As to the terms of the settlement, the settler should occupy the land rent-free for two years. His rent should then com mence for the improved portion, graduating with the im provements effected. limey to be advanced from time to time for out-offices, &c. Twenty acres to be the minimum allotment to each tenant, which he should be bound to reclaim, so as to complete the whole within fifteen years. And when the whole has been brought into cultivation, he is to be entitled in all cases to a lease of thirty-one years at a valuation, with a right of renewal. When the government is owner in fee, the land should be set up to auction anon after the tenant has obtained a lease, giving to the occupier the right of pr. -emption ; and to check undue influence, no tenant of the government is to enjoy the electoral franchise. The cost of the settlement is the next consideration. A labourer, it is supposed, could be located on waste land, and placed in a position to maintain his family for about 401. Of this the barony or landlord would contribute fa., and should the government advance the rest, the total expense and probable profit are then estimated. The aggregate cost of the purchase of one and a half million of acres, and the settlement of 75,000 families, is estimated at about five and a half millions sterling, calculated at 31 per cent. interest. Tke first year's rent is supposed to accrue at the end of the fourth, and to be for the three preceding ye..rs thirty shillings per farm; for the fourth and fifth, two, and the sixth and seventh, three pounds. At the end of the seventh an ad vance of three quarters of a million to be amide to the tenants, which would make the total capital 5,750,000/. sterling, bearing interest. From the eighth to the eleventh years, in clusive, the rent to be four, and for the twelfth five pounds per farm. At the end of the twelfth year there will be found a balance in favour of the lend, to the credit of the interest account, after applying the rents to pay the interest and arrears. The baronial debt should then be paid off, which can be done in two years, by raising the rent to 61. per farm, leaving a large credit over the interest available for further advances to the tenantry and paying off the capital. This may be done in a greater or lesser number of years, according to the amount of the advances and the increased rental. At the end of 28 years, the whole rental of the one and a half million of acres may be estimated at 750,0001., or an average of ten shillings per acre. Such is the reclamation scheme, on a limited scale, proposed by the Repeal Associa tion, and adopted from the calculations of Mr. Griffiths, which embraced the entire waste, but improvable surface of Ireland. The Drainage Act has failed to confer that benefit on the landed proprietors, which the application of one million sterling was calculated to effect. At a baronial sessions in Clare en Friday last, the defects of the law are very concisely but clearly pointed out, and embodied in a resolution, sug gesting that the assents of landed proprietors should be pre sumed if their dissents were not recorded, and that the Board of Works should be authorised to execute the drain age of any particular district, if within a certain specified time the 'dissents of one-half the proprietors on amount of property were not declared. This suggestion cuts at the root of the defect in the Drainage Act. l:nder the circum stances in which the counties are placed, the government is requested to make the necessary advances at the reduced rate of 31 per cent. interest. The IVaterford Fr eeman states, on what it considers " good authority," that the Queen will visit Ireland next summer. In corroboration of this gratifying intelligence, the 'Viceregal-lodge is said to be undergoing extensive alter- ations. Some slight repairs of the ordinary kind are in progress, but wholly unconnected with the Queen's visit. Henry Chester, Esq., has been appointed high sheriff of Drogheda. A society has been founded in Cork, to improve the social condition of the working classes in Ireland. A preliminary meeting was held on Saturday, at which letters were read from Sir It. Musgrave, Sir J. Anderson, Sir Denham Nor reyn, M.P., Mr. Poulett Scrope ; Dr. Carlisle, of London ; Rey. Dr. Nolan, of Manchester; and promising their sup pert and co-operation. A provisional committee has been formed. REJECTION OP A GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR RY THE KILLARNEY RELIEF COMMITTEE. When destitution first developed itself in Killarney , in the harvest of this year, a number of gentlemen associated themselves under the de signation of a relief committee; they entered into large sub. seriptions, purchased food, which they retailed at a price considerably under the current market rates to such as had procured tickets from any of the members intimating that they were proper objects for relief. When the regular com mittees came to be constituted, Lord Kenmore, as Lieutenant of Kerry, appointed by the usual forma liCes this preconatructed committee; but as this body refused to be bound by the instructions issued by the Treasury or the Executive, the Government, as well to cause uniformity of action as to upheld its views of political economy, sent an officer (Capt. Reid) to Killarney, to re present to the Relief Committee that they mu-t not expect the government to sanction their abnormal proceedings, but that they must submit to the general regulations, or cease to be recognised as a Relief Committee, and it was intimated to them that the interference with the markets indicated above could not be approved. The question of compliance was discussed at the meeting of the committee on Wednesday last, and the committee, with entire una nimity expressed an opinion that it could not, in the face of markets exorbitawly high, discontinue the practice of selling to the labourers food under cost price, especially when the wages of labour was utterly disproportioned to the price of food.—Capt. Reid, in answer to an appeal to him from one of the committee, whether the government intended to con trol them in the sale of food, replied that he could not answer that ; hut he thought that if the committee showed good cause for selling the food at a certain price it might be per omitted—This answer was considered unsatisfactory, and the following resolution was passed.—Proposed by Arthur L. Bounden, Esq., and seconded by Denis S. Lawlor, Esq.— Resolved— That we do receive with perfect respect the instructions for Relief Committees handed to our chairman by Captain Reid. But that we adhere to the principles and instructions received and acted on during the administration of Sir Robert Peel as regards our funds. and most respeetfully refuse to allow the principles of the Treasury minute of the 3 tat August to regulate same se toe price of food and of wage. , particularly believing that the poor cannot afford high prices for tae former, or inadequate wages for the latter; and believing that the admission of Captain Reid would sanction our future proceedings, being guided by the mid minutes, we hereby refuse recognising Captain Reid, and acting wider instructions which we cannot approve. Thus the committee is at issue with the government : it remains to be seen what course the government will take. The Cork Examiner says, of the importation of Indian corn:—" Since our last we have had some arrivals of this grain. The Champion from Leghorn, the l'omona from Portsmouth, the Wizard from Terceira, the Neptune from Viana, and the Fisherman from Naples, have brought opportune supplies to this port. The entire of the cargoes of the first four has already gone into manufacturers' hands, thus giving a seasonable addition to the stocks of the article, which, as we stated in our last, were run very low indeed." SCOTLAND. SUITS IN THE COURT OP SESSlON.—Popularity hu its sorrows as well as its joys. The Court of Session, the supreme civil judicatory of Scotland, comprises two houses, called the outer and inner ; the outer consists of five judges who act independently, and who may individually be re. sorted to at the will of the litigants, a discretionary power which throws a surplus of business on some of the lords ordinary, as they are called, and leaves others but scantily employed. The appellant power resides in the inner court, which contains two divisions equal in power and authority: the employment of either being optional. During the present and for some sessions previous, most of the business has flowed into the first division, leaving the second very much untroubled. For a time the lords of the first tribunal might have regarded this as a compliment, but now that it continues to entail on them an overwhelming amount of labour, the President has in open court complained of this new kind of unequal pressure of the public burdens. The mere saving of labour to judicial functionaries is not as argument likely to have any effect with lawyers and their clients, but the circumstance of delays ensuing may influence the latter ; and if the former w ill be moved by none of these things, it is possible that legislative authority may be had recourse to. Bach of the divisions contain four lords, and in the first Lord Jeffrey labours daily. HOSPITAL.—At a meeting of the governors on Monday, the Lord Provost in the chair, the clerk read an interim report of the special committee, appointed to investi gate the circumstances connected with the recent acts of insurbordination. It stated, that from the investigation already made, the committee recommended that twenty three boys be re-admitted, and expressed a hope that they might be able to recommend the re-admission of the greater portion of the remainder of the boys who had been expelled. PROVINCIAL. , LANLAWins.c. REPRESENTATION OP MANCHESTER.--A meeting of the friends of Lord Lincoln wu held yesterday morning to con sider, now that it was understood his lordship would come forward. how the " ways and means " should be raised. It is said about twenty gentlemen put their names down for 1001. each, and that it was understood Mr. Ald. Neild (one of the seceders from the Whig camp) bad consented to become chairman of the committee,—There was a muting of 31r. e en e rion e d fter " fit and proper mßah.nNealme,s'dh.Nthtteeirr•otksofoirif the r frie nd s atio cn d u s um m o n s - 13 i o ci pon, e aT an ft anh ai y angsth u t Ashton hies tie g m jb h e yAt t bh adn hearing rsg room r ottlos h ai pen t t t ,yth C eb o si r g l t ,in crowded up neighbour hoodo r - m po 'sled unani ir r lice of y i nst to represent s u l est t io h n e w . „f as s ih be e Poor-law guar .n dlites- detri ‘l Y th . b. aßbli , l ir ri . i nsess ag oec l i a :e il im ileg r i e j r th o h a l e e t th eo e tamilai h7nige t r i d z o:e i m n of them. the in o u : t e peem gbl4l":l2l:lla is es io: t a t t lee ftpn... :7 ' kr:l3:l n : k e , "Ca T f inuthe o h r e ha a v ic i p : p 7 i l a rB b: aP o y:: r d w lied uan to i th pi e gs ma ty e in a filthy awl r state, occasioned by the wsseunau 'talon of offensive matte!'. grou.lded on the certificate of two duty yuslified medical men, a."vd was made under the provisions of the 9th and 10th Victoria, cap. 90, whereby certain public officers (and in this case the commissioners of police), are :stithonsed, on receipt of the certificate of two medical men, !so prefer complaints against parties causing nuisances. The juirloss to whom the complaint is made are required forthwith to summon the parties complained against; and if the party neglect to appear, or, appearing, neglect to show suffioeni cause to the contrary, the justices, upon proof of the existence of such nuisance, are to make an order fur the cleansing, white washing, or purifying, in ease of a house or other building, or for the removal or abatement of the nuisance: and the expenses are to be recovered from the owner or occupier of the premises by distress. The bench expressed their grati fication that an opportunity was now afforded of improving ' the sanitory condition of towns. The summons was granted. ' This is the lint application made under the above act in this neighbourhood. Ast ACCIDENT occurred on the Manchester and Bolton Railway on Monday, by which the legs of a collier who was trespassing on the line were nearly separated from his body. Iscantse or MENDICANCY. —During the past fortnight the suburbs of Liverpool have been almost overrun with beggars, apparently fresh importations from Ireland. It would :tiny seem, says the Ltrerpool Standard," as if some organised system of immigration was going on ; for it is scarcely imaginable that the bulk of these poor creatures, some of whom travel accompanied by three or four tattered children, can have come across the channel at their own expense. Of course our own parish officers will have to pass them back again at the expense of the ratepayers of Liver pool. It is rather too bad that, on every occasion when the &failure of a crop or any other calamity dries up the sources of charity in Ireland, her habitual beggars are to be drafted over to this country. A poor law for Ireland is the only remedy far the evil ; and it is time that we began to demand it as a measure of justice to Englishmen, who cannot afford to maintain the poor of both countries." Tile HCALTII COMMITTEE in Liverpool have done much good in that town, but it appears that the builders there have been most mischievously ingenious in the construction of plans for defeating the new sanitary arrangements. The Liverpool Standard says: — Since the passing of the local act, by which a large portion of the cellar and court habitations of the poor were declared untenantable, we have seen a large quantity of cottage property springing up in every part of the town to aecommulate the penal:don tlins driven out. But what has been the character of tl>Me dwellings! Un doubtedly their builders have complied literally with the requirements of the act e., they have given the minimum amount of space and accommodation declared to be requisite to health. The most ingenious plans have Data hit upon to comply with the letter, and evade the spirit of the health enactment, with a view to save in cost of eoustrue tion, and to economise land. In some instances, in the heart of the town, where land is mast valuable, we see the area required for one made to serve for two; cottages Sinn upon cottawes ; the upper range approached by steps, with a railed balcony, must dangerous bath for children and adults. Some of these, so far an mere building, con venience, and ventilation are concerned, and their dangerous diame ter apart, are, we believe, much better dwellings than the average of the new cottage erections, the bulk of which are niiscrahle shells, nndrained, with little ventilation, and as provocative of ill-health as some of the old dwellings, which they have been built to supersede. In some of the outskirts we see houses of even a superior class to mere cottage tenements, ereeted—no doubt in lit ral compliance with the taw—with tkeir backs and necessary offices close u; to the blank walls of lofty warehouses; and it is easy to conceive what kind of ventila tion there most be in these cases, where, except with porticolar winds, the effluvia must steam up to the bed-room windows. SOW of the pure cottage-form erections are so closely placed back to back that t:.c back windows of each may be said to admit, for nine months in the year, little better titan a stream of effluvia; whilst the rooms o such habitations are so miserably contracted as barely to supply breathing room for one tenant, without a constant admission of alr from the open window— amt pure air, in such curs, it cannot be. Some of the houses so con snarled at their backs are court-houses ; and with revert to these the evil is increased. The I lealth Committee seem resolved to put in exercise their utmost, and undoubted power, with respect to this claws of habitation. They bare just determined, that in all ca-es where the proposed width of such courts in front is not 15 feet in the clear, and from bark to lock 18 feet ri inches—or nay 7 feet for each back yard, with a 3-feet passage between, and two 0-inch walls—to refuse to pass the plans, the effect of which will be, that, in the event of their being constructed and occupied without such sanction of the Health fosamittee, their owner will be liable to information by any common informer. YORKSHIRE. ...... . ..... RZFRESENTATION OF PONTEFRACT.—John Laurie, Esq., of Hyde-park-place, and late one of the sheriffs of London, has addressed the electors of the borough of Pontefract, stating, that being assured of Lord Pollington't determina tion not to offer hunrelf again for their suffrages, and having been himself earnestly solicited to become a candidate at the next election, he cannot hesitate to do so. SUBNURINE EX170 . 9;17; IN - 111EiYNE.—Monday an attempt was made to blow up the wreck of the Lady Fever sham, a vessel of abeut 700 tons burden, laden with coal, which sunk at the entrance to Shields harbour in November last year, and has since operated very injuriously on the navi gation. Various attempts have been made to raise the wreck by the Universal Salvage Company, and other parties, but all have failed, the wreck remained deeply embedded in sand, a constant source of annoyan :e and danger to the ship ping of the port of Newcastle. The corporation of New castle, in their character of conservators of the river, have now undertaken to remove this obstruction, and their engi neer has been for some time engaged in making preparations to blow it up on tither side of the river. On Monday morning four of Smee's voltaic batteries were placed in the corporation weighing machine, and moored some distance from the wreck, over which was placed a large raft, piles being placed to convey a wire rope from the batteries to ten magazines of powder, which were deposited by divers under different parts of the vessel. Two thousand feet of copper wire was employed for the purpose, covered with cotton, and varnished with India-rubber, the negative and positive wires being twisted together. The canisters of powder averaged about 601bs. in weight. About two o'clock, p.m., the voltaic circle was completed, and an attempt was made to fire the canis ters. From some cause or other, however, only three of the canisters exploded, throwing up a column of water to the height of about 20 feet, and blowing away part of the fore castle and deck. The engineer, who had conducted the operation, intimated his intention of firing the remaining canisters next day. elvtasovol . len DEATHS by STARVATION are not, it appears, confined to the metropolis. On Friday last an inquest was held at Whitehaven, upon the body of an old man named King, who was found dead on the morning of that day. The ramberlarut Pacinet thus refers to the case :—" We paid • visit to King'. miserable abode on the evening after his death. The dwelling consisted of two small rooms, in the first of which were two old broken chairs and • small stool (all the furniture which the house contained), and in the other lay the corpse of the old man upon the floor, for there was neither bed, bedstead, nor bedding in the room, with the exception of a rug which had been sent by one of the guardians, and which was thrown over the body, and had formed the only covering during the last illness of the pour man's miserable life! The corpse was lying on a piece of dirty sacking, and had not even • shirt on, so that the rag which had only been sent • few days previously, formed the only covering the poor old man posseased, and in that state he had laid, but without the rug, for about seven weeks previous to hie death! without even so much as a piece of straw beneath the sacking previously alludid to. On removing the rug the corpse presented a truly shocking appearance. The old man had died unseen, and his limbs, which were drawn up, had become stiffened, so that he could not be properly laid out. The body presented a most miserable and emaciated spectacle, and his fleshless limes had more the appearance of belonging to an animal than • human being. It appears that the old man and his wife had two shillings a week from the township, and on that small sum they contrived to subsist, until the last three weeks, when an additional shilling was given. The relieving officer of the Whitehaven Union was requested to attend to the owe, and he regularly paid the scanty pittance allowed; bat nothing was done to remove the extreme destitution of the aged couple for want of clothing, and the sum allowed Oasts (even with the additional shilling) was not enough to pro cure them a sufficiency of food. The jury returned the toil- 1 lowing verdict : " That the deceased died from natural causes, accelerated by the want of proper food and clothing, and the jury cannot separate without censuring the relieving officer for not having properly attended to the wants of the deceased." Mr. Wilson, the vice-chairman of the board of guardians, and Mr. Spencer, another of the guardians, at. tended the court during the proceedings, and stated that the relieving o ffi cer had orders from the board, so late as the previous Thursday, to pay attention to the case. WARWICIESUIRK FRAUDS IN SILVER PLATE.—It is • fact, notorious amongst the silver-plate manufacturers of Birmingham, and of which many of the influential noblemen and gentlemen connected with this town, who are guardians of the Assay Office, are cognisant, that a manufacturer, who is himself • guardian, and whose business transactions are of a most ex tensive character, has been mulct in the statutory penalties for mixing base metal with that which bad been previously warranted by the stamp of the officials of the Assay Office. The way in which the introduction of base metal to the standard plate, stamped " genuine" by the Assay Office, was accomplished, was this In certain hollow places, such as the feet of vases and candelabra, base metal was introduced after the skeleton had been taken to the Assay Office, and the whole being afterwards weighed, was sold at the price of silver. The " irregularity" was first divulged by a work man, and the matter having been brought under the notice of the guardians of the Assay Office, the party underwent an examination, and having been found guilty, was fined in the legal peuallY. tvonvesmit•HlßE. Tab OLDBI: ay ExeLostom.—The subscription for there lief of the widows and orphans, whose husbands and fathers were killed by the late explosion, now amounts to 6401. The following letter from the Home Office has been received : Warn:nazi., One. 4.—To S. Coot, Eam, Doot..m.—Bir,—l am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey, to acknowledge the meels of your letter of the god instant, tranamitting to him a memorial from IDudiey, on the subject of the late ur lamentable accident you from an az-1 beoege of gas in a coal mine at Oldby. lam to that air , Grey kw already given his anxious attention to assure this subject, and be has been in communication with the coroner who held the cants on tle bodies of the persons who were unfortunate); 'Ewe% and also with gentlemen of great practical and scientific ',,ccwiegge, with a view to the adoption of some measures of timaution against the recurrence of such melancholy accidents. Yi . .l are, perhaps, not aware that a report on explosion in ' which I madam, was wads omit of the present year, by PAr de la Backe god Dr. Playfair, and Sir George Crecy doubts whether any advantage could b gained by turtle r inquiry; but if be ahould base reason to believe tbet snob would be the caw, be will readily instl - ute ouch further In vestigation at may appear likely to lead to any beneficial results.-1( ara,sr, yOUF ObeditTS PerTallt, S. M. ItniLurre. lt Er /1118fitiTATION or E&NT WOUCESTERSTURE. — DROM RICH, WEDNIMDAY.—Idr. Foley, the liberal candidate, has accepted the requisition presented to him, requesting him to come forward as a candidate for East Worcestershire, and to-day has issued the following address: — TO TOO PILKHOLUISS OF TOO P.A.TF.RN DINTISOX OP TER warts or - um:M.1.14 Gentlemen—Having received a requisition, signed by • numerate and influential body of the (lectors, entertaining various pulitioal o t ,!nions, requesting me to come forward to till up the vaminey that has uocurred in the reprerentation of the eastern division of the county ! , y the lamented death of your late respected member Mr. Barneby, a.id the reason sesigned for that request being stated as emanating friAn • perwnal acquaintance with myself, and the scour. once that I shell receive support from electors of all parties. I cannot, under such circumstances, hesitate for a moment to comply with it. At the same time I fear that the kind nartudity of nay friends has greatly overrated my abilities t o nerve them: but of this they may rem assured, that I than ev, t feel grateful for the honour they may design me. and if placed in t h e vow] initiation of one of your renriventativee in parliament, it will my endeavour to seem, with the utmost attention and real. the 1,. 'ad interitta of • county with which nay family Ms h o , no ;wig connected, and to give my beet attention to the Remind kusincas f the country. I think it better to abstain from all pledges, h o pi ng th a t you wilt gare me credit for a desire attentively to consider e ac h meanur that may be bronglit forward, both an its own merita„ a, well as in i onnezion with the public intcreitr..--1 am, gentlemen, your faithful a, "d obedient, humbie servant, J. 11. 11. Potter. Prcstwood, St. urbridae, Tlee..Jth, 1 fl it. It is presumed last the eau vass on both sides will bo imme diately commenced. The Rev. li. B. Hone, 's*2l" of Halm-- owen, has addresmd a letter to the electors, calling on them not to vote for any eandi.late who will not oppose the voting of publie money on sopport of the Rotr.nn Ifathelic in Ireland, and endeavour to rescind the Maynooth grant. OLOUCESTEMIIRE. Tdz MURDER OF • COULD. BT HER lATHER AT BRISTOL.-111lIbTOL, DEC. 9.—The coronet's ioquest on the body of the infant child, Ano Eliza Cann, so cruelly murdered by her father John Cann, was resumed this day at the Two Anchors TiITO/D, Guinan-street. Two women named Elizabeth Bird Ind Esther Bennett, who resided is the same house with the prisoner and his wife, &posed to the former always having manifested a dislike to Ids child from its birth, and to the infant's body having fasquently exhibited bruises which the wife told them the husband had caused. They had heard him, upon occasions,slap the child, and had also heard his wife scream out, "Don't, John, don't beat the child ; don't the chill." The prisoner was in the habit of going out and staying. till late hours, leaving his wife without money or Cinch The prisoner said he never had any ill-feeling towards his child. The coroner having summed up, the jury at once found a verdict of " Wilful Murder " against John Cann, who was com mitted to take his trial. WEST SUFFOLK AGRICULTURAL ASSOC!ATION.—The fourteenth anneal meeting took place on Tus , day. There was a considerable attendance. The show of *limp was poor, but of c. the hirhly creditable. The first prize for an ox was gained by the Marquis of Bristol, and it was afterwards pur chased by Mr. F. Nunn. The second prize was obtained by Mr. I'. N unn. The other suefessful candidates were Messrs. Rainbird, J. Clover, and 11. Crosse. For roots, Meows. Ord. Rainbird, Phillip. , G. Steward, Capt. Parker, and Mr. J. Kemp. The show of roots was excellent. The following prices were realised : The first tat ox was told for 381.8 i. 6d. ; the next, 381.; the third, a heifer, 281.; the next, 26!. Ids. 6d. There were only two sheep, half-bred Lei cester* and Downs, and th( y realised 81. 12s. fel. There were plenty of buyers, but no stock for them. BBitKelxlxt ..... - WINDOW-BREAKING AT THE WINTSOR UNlON.—Yester day, five young fellows, named Hunt, Wilson, Wat‘en, Davis, and Johnson, who had been admitted into the Wind sor Union as casual paupers, on the night before, were charged before Percy Crutchley, Eq., who attendee at the workhouse, with having wilfully broken several square+ of lass that morning. After having been supplied with a night's lodging and a breakfast, they refused to work, and by way of amusement, commenced demolishing the windows. They were committed for fourteen days' hard labour to the House of Correction at Reading. Oa the day before, four other casual paupers were charged More Henry Seymour, Esq. , with the like offence, committed under precisely similar circumstances. They were also sentenced to the like punish ment. S stattsit. CITEAP CONCERTS AT G REEN wicii.—Some influen tial partici having conceived an idea of giving a series of six concerts in Greenwich, embracing the principal vocal and in strumental talent of the day, and at a charge fur admission which should ensure its being within the means of the work ing classes, the first took place in the spacious hull of the Literary and Scientific Society. Members of the institution were admitted at sixpence each, but for non.subieribers one shilling was asked. The vocalists for the first concert em braced the names of Miss Birch, Miss Eliza Birch, Mr. Whit chile, Mr. Witherbee and others—Mr. Richardson, the cele brated/la/aid, being amongst. the instrumental performers. Before the commencement of the coccert every available space in the hall was densely crammed, egress as well as in gress being rendered impossible. The concert passed off with the greatest eclat, several of the performers h •ing honoured with an encore. As an experiment it was perfectly success ful, [which Mr. Bass, the hon. secretary to the society, ac knowledged in a neat address between the parts. For the future concerts the names of the Misses Rainforth and Dolby, as well as of Mr. B. Phillips, and the Diatin family, have been announced. It is computed that at least 500 persons were unable to obtain admission, although the hall will hold nearly 1,5(1) people. Beniduz's NEW OPERI.—Some excitement was created in the musical circles in Path by the production of an extraordinary compoition by Berlioz, entitled " La damnation de Faust," in the theatre of the OpCra Connive, on Sunday. The work is entitled a " Musical Legend," and like the other productions of the same composer, is marked by great eccentricity and originality. It was received, throughout the first three part., with enthusiastic applause, several morreanx being encored ; the interest flagged in the fourth part, which, added to the great length of the per formance, rendered its close less successful. The abstruse character of Berlioz's music, combined with rather • high price of admission, caused rather a thin house. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. em.Batoua, Ds.c.9.—At a congregation holden tbia day the follow ing degrees were an/erred : Ambrose, St. John's; T. 11. Colton, Trinity; T. Harvey, Christ's. At the same congregation the braces inserted in ye sterd ay's Daily News pawed the senate; and Smitb and 'Duping were nominated for the office of fourth librarian. The election will take place to-morrow. -.John I lays. It. A., scholar of Christ's College has been elected a fellow of that society. New CII,ISI`IIFS FOR DitRIBY.MULT.—The Archdeacon of Derby, In his report to the Lichfield and Coventry Diocesan Society, says We want churches at Ashbouni, at Ideridgehay, in Wirimworth; at Shot. Ile, in Duffield; Litton, in Tideswe li ; Bradwell, in Hope; Clay Cross, In North Wingfield, for a population of about 2,000, created by collie ries and railroads; at Ironville, in AUreton (where, though there Is a &tensed schooLroom, them is no church for a population of 2,000); Tax sod a second church at New Mills, in the pariah of Cilkerop. LIV.POOI. Curses BriLlllNn HINITTY has received In sub scription the RIM of 12,023/. Amongthe Inot subscriber Shed,r of Derby, 3001.; It. B. 11. Blundell, lest., 20W. ; C. Le Eaq., 200/.; and James Lawrence, Earl., 100/. The aggregate amount meat be cotriderably increared before the benevolent intentions of the com mittee can becorried out. Parreasiter..—The Hey. W. 11. Rrickman to St. Peter's, P. C., Meecksfielei, value 1307. per annum, vacant by the promotion of the ker. W. Crump. The Rev. C. B. Colley to Chiseldon, It., Witte, value 173/. per annum, vacant by the death of the Bev. T. Bullock. The Rev. G. Cuthbert to the Incumbency of the new district of Castlethill, Dukinfleld, Cheshire. Rev. J.R. Bishop to Doke C., somerset. Brameki, to Mansfield C., Near. Rev. C. D. Breretan to St. F.dmund sti. needier, C., Norwich. Rev. W.Cooke to Brentham P.C., Suffolk. Rev. G. Cuthbert to Castle Hill, Dukingfield, Cheshire. 1t... D. Damien Sc Welton V., Nor hamptonshire ; lit!. Rev. .1. 11. A. Gwyther to chaplaincy of Madeley Union, Salop. Rev. J. C. Hilliard to Nettle. cone* C., Somerset. Rev. C. Holder to Iron Acton C., Gloucestershire. Rev. C. James to Yarington Gurney Assist. C., Somerset. Rev. H. Issues to Stone Easton Assist. C., Somerset. Rev. J. Lewis, to Mam hilad P.C., Monmouthahire. Hee. W. H. R. Merriman to Franc Sewood Aasiat. C., Somerset. Rev. A. M'Ewen to St. Mary'a, fries. Rev. D. Morgan to Nantyglo, , Aberystruth, Monmouthshire. Rev. A. Reid to St. Thomas's P.C., Hyde, Cheshire ; 130/. Rev. J. Roe to High Ham C., Somerset. !ter. J. P. Scott, to Stapiegrove 8., Somme; 2001. Rev. R. W. Sheldon to Martock ie. Somerset. Rev. T. Ward to be Chaphin to the London Hospital. lie,. J. Williams to liendford P.C., Somerset. VACANCIZA.—The third maatership of the City of London School, value 200/. per annum, open to graduates of Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, Dartiam, or London. Althighton P.C., Salop, dio. Lichfield, 521., with residence, patron, W. Spurrier, Esq., by death of the Rey. B. Noddy. Aiveston C. , dio. Gl oucester and Bristol, by resignation of the Rev. C. Holder. Caine 2 nd C., dirt. Ban bury, 1 01.; patron, the vicar. Canton British Clienteles:7,oon, for Ova yearn, with residence and passage out; wheat:ion to the 1t... G. Smith, Church Missionary House, Salisbury-aquare. Rant India Company's Chaplaincy at Bombay, by death of the Rev. T. J. Hogg. •Guireley C., duo. Ripon, SOL Madron C., Mo. Exeter, by oathsresignion of the des. J. It. Bishop. tiemingten C., and Chaplaincy Union, din. Salisbury. Sheffield, Chaplaincy of the General Infir mary, 151/. ; application to the Rev. Dr. Sutton, Sheffield. South ampton : Trinity C., SOL, with title. Stroud Tent, din. D , 2ssr. ; patrons, D. and C. of Rochester ;by death of the Rev. T. Deacon. Wyenondham C., din. Norwich, by promotion of the Rey. W. H. R. man. EMIATVIII.—Sir,—May I beg that you will correct an error in your =of the 7th, under the head of Clerical Preferments, which, of " H. W. J. C. Armstronommon Church," should stead thus, "Rev . Rev. John to Barnet ArmstrongC Cashion to Barnet muon Church," Herts.—Your obedient servant, Jolts A. Cowman, Parsonage, Barnet Common, Beene). NAVAL. Porrsmorrn, Du. 9.—The Apoito, troop-chip C. Radcliffe, Isnot to be proceeded with any (tether at this yard. there not being spare bands enough to attend to her. bite will proceed to Sheerness in of a few days. The Hampshire, timber-ship, sunk in nineteen feet water at the Jetty, in this dock-yarii, while discharging her cargo this morning. bhe had not above a dozen more pieces of timber to get out, when she heeled over and tilled immediately. As the tide goes down, the master attendants will no doubt be ahle to get bee up. Wurn.wien, Use. 9.—The Jonas, a. v., built from the design of the Earl of Dundonald, was towed round from Deptford on Monday. and has been taken into the basin to have some alterations made ha her machinery, it being the intention of the Admiralty to adopt certain summate= of the noble earl, with the view of seeing whether t she. can be made effeettve.—The vesael, hiss l oes , °Memel le he paid et, sad to le th • COMPP:,,m o , of 51 maim—The Mode., a. v. Ooeuosoda 0. G. ILizne; g 4 and the Geyser, s. v., Commander F. J. Browne`` will be te.4,:. y for sea i n t h e course of next week.—The Area, C. V. is bathe /ant p e a. b e i ng re . fitted foe aervice.—The Firm is stlll &oder A ve r i n th e West Dock. &c., in harbour: Wilfistis ewe beg n og. 4,,, g an m (36), Black Bark Leshtssutp, Fearless &won, retir , and Ts steam vessela—ln dock ._• i nk Fn.. steam y e ' sne l,th th e basin: Geyser, Rosamoisd Nokia, Dwarf, Arid, Mmiskay, Tar. tare, Growler. ffhtwie..wattAtio, and Niger steam moth. It 4 " 1 "" T" 'cr--Ruch has been the rush at the various ten tbe entry of lads for the navy. that the Admiralty ',di • ed to issue orders that no more en he taken at pre m..- site fit. Vincent, 120, at Portsmouth, le ordered to 011 up her e'r..ipkinent by the entry of between SO and SO ; ands large stou frardbee of fine t healthy lads have been, and are oet to r jr‘ aent Ito the Channel rquadron, to distribute among the Tarbes Glee*. MILITARY. Wootwicu, C. 9 —Rout. APTILLIJIT.—By the death of Me General Richard C. Dickinson, which was hi-4y alluded to in oar riiterdars tapir, the dice cd Oat Csonsandant ot the 2nd st • !