The Express. — London, England, 1846-12-23 00:00:00

I f f . SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER be performed HANDEL'S ORATORIO, MESslAll. 23, will Principal Vocal Performers—Madame Condon Alien. Mbh M. B. Nowa, Mr. Mures. and Mr. 11. Phillipa Ths Bawl and Morin will condst of shore 300 Portemers. Tickets, 3a. each; Iteserved rests (in the arcs or WOW, may be o btained of the principal Musiociellers; of Mr. Bewley, 33, areas ; of Mr. lila, 102, Strand ; or of Mr. Mitchell, 39. awing-crow THOMAS BREWER. Hen. See. k_:__- OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITU TION.— BY PERMISSION.—PROFF-setOß SCIICENBETN'S th e differing from all other specimens meently before the pub lic, is lecturel 00, with other Exp!oure Compounds, by Dr. Ryan, daily, at half-past Three; and on the Evenings of Mondays, Wednes days, and Milers. The principle of the ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH demonstrated daily by Pnifi.sor liathboireer, °specialty with refer ence to the new Patent of Mcmux Nott aid Gamble. By the Oxyhy ilrogai blicartempes are exhibited Specimens of the Diseased Potato, 1 showing the Lome, Cutting" of the Tubers, he., together with the Destructive Instal. "unposed by A. Wove, Y.oq., 1.11.0., to be the muse of the dinime. The Physluivmpe ; Diving F.xperiments ; Dis. siding Views, by Smith, itc.—Adini,sson, 10.. Schools half-price. An entire new and beautiful SERIES OF DISSOLVINO VIEWS will be introduced at CIDUSTM AS, and the Institution will be open on the evening of Saturday. t 4 e "IL ---------- gtunfris MODEITof—ANCIENT JERU SALEM. me In the days of our Redeemer —the labour of years— tbe Bible and Jomphos —nearly 200 superficial feet —visited in Dublin, Liverpool, tr., by at Imes 60,000 permank, 00lb/ding 1,000 elergyinen and 300 travellers to the Holy Lanit—Now in course of inhibition at SIS, Piccadilly, from Eleven til A l Fire Seven every till Ten. Admi'lnef, Is. Children and Schools, Gd. lecitire hour in MU SIC.—LONDON MECHANICS' INSTITUTION, Seuthatnnton-buildings, Cluncery.lane. GEOHCF. BUCKLAND, Fog., will lecture this evening, LlCeeMbef Md. ea MUSICAL CHARACTER isrics, at halapist eight o'clock H I In the course of the lecture Mr. Dockland will introduce the following popular sunga—The Standard Bearer—ln the Days that have Wed —The Gambler's Wife -Bunt, Song, Young England. (An Interval of Five Minutes.) The Maniac —Sally, Sally do not tarry— What is vomiter mee—Tbe Meeting of the Waters--Buffo Song, Matri mony. Tickets for the present quarter are a now issuing. it g ,, , is. per quarter, with Is. Gd. entrance. gle lecture tickets, G each, may be obtained en application a' the Library of the Institutions. Sceretare. COLOSSEUM. NEW ARRANGEMENT. DIVISION OF PRICETA —The celebrated Panorama of London and Museum, Is.; the Conatories. Swiss Cottage, Mont Blanc, he., ; the stalactite Caverns .sem at Adelsberg, la. Prim Cartoons on View, no extra charge. EVENC..—Grand .rourenade, Museum of Sculpture, Conserva tories, Aviary, Swim Cottage, Mont Blanc, and Torrent, he., Is. the Marvellous Panorama of London by Night, with Atmospheric Effects every half hour, Is. extra; the Stalactite Caverns, Is. extra. The whole brilliantly illuminated. Musk from two till dusk, and eignt till half-past ten. Evening lousily tickets to see the whole for four persons and upwards, Is. Gd. each person, may be had at the iftlnesicum from ten till four, and at the principal music wambouses and libraries. Children, day and evening, half price. Open front ten till duet. and seven till half-past ten. The whole Exhibition designed by Mr. W. Bradvrell. LA:IIJILENT'S CAS ----;--' INO, -- ROYAL ADELAIDE GALLERY.—Extroordinary Sumer" —Nightly Overliow.—The gtaote for music and dancing has inducts! the proprietor to ags all available talent, vocal, instrunumtal, and terpsichorean. The wonders of the "modem republic," the LAN rum ETHIOPIAN SERE NADERg, have been secured, regarditee of coot, and will appear THIS EVENING, Dee. 21. No emerge or pains will be spared to render thrir entertainment m attractive at penible, Adiniseion, One Philling. Doors open at Seven, eteamcnee at I Lilf•past, and terminate at linlf-Pat Eie."4----------- rrIiEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.--Great SUCON4 of the new Original Drama of T 112: ROUND OF WRONG and the new Comic Drama of MKT TELLING ; or, Novcl Effects, EVERY NIGHT. The new Comedy, in five acts, of LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP, TO-NIGHT. On 'Manley will be produced a new Christmas Fairy Extravaganza, called THE INVISIBLE PRINCE. - c - br Falregg. MAILS. The overland closed mall., tie ism Ries, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hon t Kong, Re., will be made up on the evening of the 24th December (to-morrow). The reads for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Catlin, and Gibraltar, will be made up on the morning of the 29th December. The made for New South Wales, Van Diemen's land, and New Lcalaml will be made up on the evening of the 31st December. The West Jodi., mails, including those fur Mexico, Honduras, and the Havannalt, will be made no on the morning of the 2nd January, Tbv overland mails for Gibraltar, Malts, Geese, the lonian Islands, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, and China, via Southampton, will be made up on the evening of the 2d January. The mails for North America, Bermuda, and the United States, will be male up on the evenlag of the 4th January. The for the Brazil., the River Plate, Monte Video, Pernam. Mao. Bahia, Ma kir*, and Buenos Ayres, will be dispatched on the evening of the ith January. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have received several letters of inquiry as to the proper charges to be mate by London agents to their country correspondents, and by newsmen to the public. To all the reply must be substantially the mine. One engagement was with those who had paid their sub seription in advance; but, as we could not distinguish the pre pay mg ft mu those who took crtslit, and could not, therefore, regu late our issue without the risk of injustice, we resolved that every newsman should receive up to the 2Sth January the same number of copies which he had received prior to the 2Sth October. The whole loss of the difference was borne by the proprietors—the whole gain , was given to the newsnum. What price, under these circumstances, , the London agent Mall charge hi, correspondent or the newsman his customer, is a question we must leave the parties to decide for themselves. Ail who had rind in advance are entitled to their copies at the old subscription prier to the 20th January. We are anxious to impress on all parties that what we say now or have ever said. ass to price, prekunes payment in adrn to, and delivery by hand or by ivat. If the submriber prefer taking credit, then no matter grhcther the areal. he for qua hour, n day, or • altolvornouth, the chalice is a matter for private arrangement with which the pro prietors have nothing to do. So with copies despatched by reprisal railway trains. In this, as in everything, apecial service moat be specially paid for. Thus much premised, we have only I. repeat that If there be theleaat d Acuity in obtaining copies, the proprietors will undertake to get all persona supplied who shall forward a Post other order, made payable to imam' SMITH, DAILY NEVId OVEICE, Nl , hitr!riuro, London, at the rate of 19 s. lid. for every three months. •. Advertisements intended for The Erprese, London evening paper, must be at the Office by Two o'clock on the day of publication. RIGEL WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. Tins DAT. —Morning, 3 min. past 5; Afteinoon, 2 min. past 5. To-Moscow—Homing, 41 min. past 5; Afternoon, 17 min. put b. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 23. THE knowledge that the army, its composition, condition, and future improvement, have formed the object of ministerial meditations, and that these medi tations have already borne fruit in the shape of ma tured plans of reform, has spread universal satisfac tion through the country, and will do so through the empire. What has as yet transpired on the subject is limited to the announcements, that a medal will be granted to the heroes of the Peninsular war, and that the term of a soldier's engagement will be henceforth limited to ten years. We shall take a future oppor tunity of recurring to the Peninsular medal, merely hinting, for the present, that the grant of such decora tion to such men had become necessary, not so much in their interest as in the interest of all wearers of medals, present and future. The veterans of the Pen insula can communicate lustre by their contact ; we doubt if they can now receive more than history and the public respect have already largely, though silently, bestowed. The remodelling of the army is a more serious question. All countries and governments have wade far greater progress than we have, in assimilating the soldier to the people, from which he springs. In all countries, as the lower ranks rose in consideration and respect, the soldier has risen with them. Not so with us. He has been kept the helot that he ever was ; and whilst our peasant class has certainly pro ,, ressed in knowledge and humane feeling and pride, the soldier is still treated as a brute, to be driven by blows, with out being considered worthy or capable of premium or promotion. Let us say, for the credit of our ancestors, that we of the present generation arc not the first to perceive and protest against the depression of the soldier. Mr. WYNDHAM long since insisted that enlistment should be but for seven years, thereby leaving the soldier the not distant prospect of re-becoming a freeman. As enlistments, however, were for seven years or for a life, one pound more in bounty to the recruit over anme the difference between seven years and twenty : and an act usually committed in inebriety or despair, was of course marked by folly. It has now become a very great object to get a better class of men for the army, than have hither to afforded the materials of enlistment. It is indispensable indeed; for, unless this can be done, the old system of discipline, the flogging and coercion, must be either continued to the disgust of the popu lation, or suspended to the disorganisation of the army. But this very flogging is one of the many things, which disgust people with seeing their sons in the ranks of the army. The length of service is the other great objection; for by it the soldier is, one may say, for ever lost to his family and friends. A more limited term of service; the absence of cor poral punishment ; and the chance, however slight, but still the fair chance of the well-educated, brave, honour able soldier rising from the ranks to become an officer : these three things would at once elevate the army, and open a temptation to the military spirit of young men in humble and respectable life to follow their inclination, and embrace a profession that was no longer without its prizes and its pride. We are very glad, not only to learn that our military administration admits the justice of these ideas, but that it acts upon them. There has, we believe, been at least one promotion of a non-com missioned officer to be officer in every regiment en gaged in the battles on the Sutlej. Another imperative necessity of the time, closely connected with that of raising the condition of the soldier, and the class from which he is recruited, is the expediency of providing in some more efficient manner for the national defence. We are in no fear of war, notwithstanding all we hear of our bad understanding with France. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1846. link between scholastic education and active life is frequently , lost in the National Schools, but in most of the schools for the middle classes it is not only lost, but it is obstinately and of set purpose rejected. Everything is sacrificed for that which is not gained, classical knowledge ; and which, if gained, would in ninety-nine cases out of the hundred be practically noe -1 less. Even Mr.WATSON confesses that our grammar ' schools require the interference of the government, since, conducted as too many of them are, they arc no better than public nuisances. We are told, however, that they are so conducted in accordance with the testa mentary dispositions of the founders; and that the founders expressly declared that these schools were established " to give youth instruction in the Latin tongue." This pretence is sufficiently absurd, and furthermore, as used by the advocates of existing ' grammar-schools, is utterly untrue. By " instruc tion in the Latin tongue," the founders did not mean " a classical education ;" in their days every treatise on art and science, small or great, was written in I.atin ; and, consequently, " instruction in the Latin tongue" included all the elements of an in dustrial and commercial education. If the masters of grammar-schools are determined to adhere to the letter of wills and charters, let them forthwith prepare Latin treatises on arithmetic, algebra, geometry, botany, zoology, chemistry, and the whole cycle of mixed and applied sciences, and let them teach those in their schools instead of authors whose style and subject are equally beyond the range of youthful appreciation. If they arc resolved to adhere to what is "nominated in the bond," let them fulfil all its conditions ; if their tender consciences preclude them from giving any thing beyond " instr uction in the Latin tongue," let them place the Latin tongue in the condition in which it stood when the restriction was imposed. We are surprised that this obvious distinction between what was intended by " instruction in the Latin tongue and a classical education, escaped the notice of so acute an ansiquarian as the Vice-Chancellor of Eng land. CORDERYS colloquies might have satisfied him that there was no necessity of going before a Master to find out that " instruction in the rudiments of science " was consistent with " the will of the founder," for it was actually such instruction that the testator designed and intended. Of the value of a classical education none can be more sensible than we are; a young man of eighteen studying Horace is nobly employed ; he can appre ciate his beauties, he can admire his tact, and he can interpret his allusions from the records of history. But a boy of ten or twelve poring over the same author is merely a palpable absurdity. Ile is destroy ing his future power of enjoying the author, and imbibing not a classical education, but a weariness and hatred of the classics, and of all belonging to them. We give the books of men into the hands of children, and then complain that children are idle and in attentive; we might as reasonably assert that they were lazy farmers, if we found them reluctant to take the charge of ploughs and harrows. The evil of which the pamphlet before us complains is not confined to the National. Schools ; it is nearly universal in the country, and a remedy can be obtained only by the intervention of government. Schoolmasters will buy their information, as apothe caries buy their drugs, in the cheapest market, and sell it in the dearest. But public morals require supervision of the learning market, as public health does of the medicine market, and to calm the appre hensions of Mr. EDWARD BAINES, we deem it right to add, that such supervision does not impose on officers of state the necessity of becoming either schoolmasters or apothecaries. JEREMY BENTHAM, hi the preface to his "Rationale I of Judicial Evidence,"indulgesin a stminof happy and powerful ridicule, directed against the English law practice of excluding certain kinds of evidence. No item of evidence, says the utilitarian sage, ought to be withheld from the parties who arc to pronounce judgment. The evidence may be worth something, or it may be worth nothing, but it is their business to determine that its worthlessness ought not to be pre-supposed. This would be very sound doctrine were all matters of law and fact decided by competent pro fessional judges. But we have jurymen to deal with, men who arc brought from behind the counter or the plough, or (equally ill prepared for the judicial office) from turning sentences or painting portraits, and placed in the jury box to judge in complicated questions between man and man. These individuals, from want of previous habit and study, are but indifferently qualified at best to sift and winnow truth from falsehood, even in testi mony which bears directly on the point at issue. To let in a Hood of irrelevant gossip upon them is sure to distract their minds, divert their attention from the question submitted to them, and lead to some Wan- dering, even when not an unjust, verdict. It was to guard against this danger that the " practical wis dom" of the English law introduced the custom of withholding all in [levant evidence from juries, in stead of iding unnecessary perplexity to their already sufficiently puzzled brains, by calling upon them to decide what was relevant testimony and what not. The decision in the action against the Spectator newspaper for libel on Monday week, is an illustra tion of the wisdom of this practice. In April last, a paragraph appeared in that journal containing a charge of improper conduct on the part of the Society of Bri tish Artists, in getting up a petition for a royal charter. The Spectator is published on Saturday afternoon : on Monday the editor was waited upon by the secretary and solicitor of the inculpated body, who represented to him that the accusation was libel lous and untrue. The editor being satisfied of the correctness of their representation, immediately gave' orders that not another copy of the paper should be sold ; and in his next number inserted a distinct and full contradiction of the charge, adding, "as the assumption on which our censure was founded proves to have been erroneous, we willingly retract the offen sive comments, and express our sincere regret at hav ing, through misapprehension, imputed blame which was undeserved." This was the whole case with which the jury had to deal. But Sir FREDERICK TIII:SIGER, in opening for the plaintiff, read critiques upon the exhibitions and management of the society from Spectators of former years. Lord DENMAN allowed these criticisms to be read, although, in his charge to the jury, he told them, "They were not to give damages for the former articles." if these articles were not to influence the minds of the jurymen in assessing damages, why did Lord DENMAN allow them to be brought before them ? He knows the jealous care with which English judges have always sought to withhold from the cognisance of jurors facts and circumstances which ought not to bias the decision of men acting as judges, but which can scarcely fail to bias unprofes sional minds. Lord DENMAN'S charge shows that he was fully aware of the danger. " They were not to give damages for the former articles; but it teas impossible to help recollecting their spirit." This is an English law version of " mind, don't nail his ears to the pump." It is saying, in as many words, "these articles ought to have no influence on your decision, but I could scarcely blame you if they had." Lord DENMAN has on this occasion neglected the wise habitual caution of English judges, although fully aware of the danger of doing so. This departure from the usual practice on his part left the jury under an impression that it would be no unpardonable act to award damages, not only on the act immediately under their consideration, but in recompense of purely ..Esthetical strictures of an earlier date. The question is one of less importance to the Spec tator (though the costs of a law-suit are no trifle) than to the profession of journalists at large. The journal—which, during an existence of eighteen years, has only thrice been called in question for l•bel : twice on purely vexatious and nugatory , grounds, and once for precipitate harshness promptly and effectively atoned for—can be little injured by the verdict. But the public press, already sufficiently open to annoyance and chicane by the indetermi nate vagueness of the law of libel, will be still more exposed if the precedent of Lord I)F.SM.tN is to be followed, and counsel allowed to perplex the minds of jurymen by all kinds of irrelevant and mistifying testimony. We claim no impunity for libels : we know how apt the power of disseminating accusa tions is to be abused ; we do not even ask for Lidency towards makers of rash assertions; but we do ask— as matter of common justice—clear, definite, un rernlexed rules of law, and the banishment of all I Irrelevant topics from the declamations of counsel and the testimony of witnesses. PARIS, Dac. 20. It now appears positive that the ministry, intimi dated by the high barons of the funded property and the industry of France, will not this next session pro pose to the chambers any change in the prohibitive system of the customs. Its organs in the press will , erdeavour to cover this shameful retreat, by attri buting to it a conservative intention, but no one will be deceived by it ; on the coutrarv, it will be looked upon as an act of weakness. We shall only acquire the further conviction that this deplorable cabinet, wholly occupied, by intrigues and personal questions, has neither the will, the intelligence, nor the neces sary strength to discuss the real interests of the country. A solution of difficulties was, however, never more urgent. The question of free trade en groans all minds. There is not a city in France in which the inhabitants have not met, or arc not on the point of meeting, to deliberate solemnly upon it ; and, whatever may happen, this difficulty wall have contributed to spread and increase the tendency towards public discussion. Seveml journals, the Constitutinnee/ amongst others, have passed in review the respective forces of the prohibitionists and free-traders, but the truth has yet been declared by none. To take a sound view of the question, it is necessary to call to mind that the partisans of the prohibitive system, for the last four years in parti cular, have had organised committees in all the manu facturing towns. The composition of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Chambersof Manufactures, which consist of coteries arbitrarily chosen,countenance every demonstration in favour of privileged interests. 1 think I have mentioned that with the exception of Bordeaux and Marseilles, where the friends of free trade are strong and active, the reformers are getting up an organisation, which can only be the work of time. The following, however, is the actual state of the two parties. The prohibitionists may reckon on Normandy, Flanders, a part of Alsace, and some manufacturing places in the centre and south of France; Elbmuf, Lille, Rouen, Amiens, St. Quen tin, Troyes, and Limoges arc openly favourable to them. Nantes and Mulhausen daily with the ques tion, each after its own manner. But Nantes is a commercial city, and while protesting against free trade desires that prohibitions should be done away with. Mulhausen exports its produce, and in this view of the case demands various reductions in the tariff. On the side of free trade are ranged the great maritime towns, such as Havre, Bordeaux, and Mar seilles. The silk trade is represented by Lyons, car rying in its train Avignon and Nimes; and woollen manufactures by Rheims. Sedan, which pro duces the finest tloths, without declaring for free trade, has raised its voice against prohibition, and the son of M. Cunin Gridaine, himself a cloth manu facturer, is at the head of this movement. It is not at all doubtful that the towns in the midst of the wine districts—Orleans, Tours, Dijon, Macon, Toulouse, Epernay, Chalons-tier-Saone, and Chalons-sur-Marne —will sooner or later join the ranks of free trade ; and the same thing will take place with the imperial cities of Metz, Nancy, and Strasbourg. Paris is a world to agitate. The idea of cammer cial liberty is receiving a slow but sure development. But some years may elapse before it becomes popular. The founders of the association are unceasing in their endeavours to forward the cause. Everything in its favour was to be expected from the railway companies. They are sufferers by the prohibitive system in general, and by the mono poly of iron in particular, more so inaeed in this respect than any others: but they are fettered by the iron-masters, who have become members of their divers administrative bodies. The TALABOTS are masters of the Avignon Company, The proprietors of Firchambauld and Crcuzet arc in league with the Lyons Company. M. Ditouti.LAßD, of the Alais Mines, influences the Nantes Company. In short, the iron-masters form a feudal aristocracy, and domi nate the industrial freedom of the country. The agriculturists, desirous of preventing the introduction of foreign corn, also oppose the cause of free trade. This is not its real interest : but the landed proprietors are men of little education, and the political privileges which they enjoy have given them a taste for preserving privileges to industry. When it is said that the landed aris tocracy in France is liberal, one point is apparently forgotten, and that is, that the duties on iron were established less for the interest of the iron-masters than for that of the timber proprietors. To sum up : although the forces of the free trade party are balanced by those of the prohibitionists, the founders of liberty of ex change in France will only triumph when they have brought to their standard the whole mass of con sumers. It is the mass which makes revolutions. The war which has now begun is one of claw.rs. The struggle must take a wider field. Inert matter must be stirred up, heated, and set in motion. The popular lava must flow and inundate the soil, if monopolies and privileges are to disappear. 0. FRANCE.—SINGULAR PIIENOMENON.—A letter in the Phare de Bayonne states that the whole surrounding country was literally buried in snow. The falling of snow was accompanied by thunder and lightning. The electric fluid fell into the theatre whilst the performance was going on. t also struck the mast of a ship in the roadsteads of Blono pignon, causing much damage to the spars. Some of the windows is the towns were smashed. GERMANY.—DR. LIST.—The Nuremberg corres respowlent gives the following details of the death of the cele brated leader of the Zollverein :—" The suppositions relative tothe tragic cud of Dr. List are but too well founded. On Thursday last his body was found near Kuffstein. A pistol-shot had terminated his existence. The coroner's inquest, as well as letters found upon his person, left no doubt as to the rash act he had committed. The letters proved that he ha I long nourished the idea of suicide, and a violent flowing of blood to the head irresistibly drew him on to the desperate resolu tion. Ile recommends his family to the care of his friends. His affairs, however, are in excellent order. Ile was years of age." BRAZILS.—Bv the Antelope steam trader, arrived at Liverpool from Ito de Janeiro, the Gazelea 0/fir hit of that city has been received to the 2nd of November ; but those to the 21st of October are miming, having been trans mitted by the Spider sailing packet on the 22nd of that month. The Spider, it will be borne in mind, comes home direct to Falmouth, whilst the Antelope called at Bahia and Pernambuco, taking in bags at both those places. Such facts speak for themselves—here is the Antelope safe in the Liverpool docks and her letters delivered—the Spider is still, it is supposed, spinning her cobweb on the Atlantic. The importance, therefore, and superior advantages of a steam [ conveyance for mails and despatches to and from South America cannot be, for a moment, questioned. The Ex change had improved to 28/, and the Home Stock Six per' Cents to 83. Coffee way in good demand, but that for sugar was rather slack. 8,000 chests were in stock. From Monte Video the date was to the 20th Octolrr, but all was in antis taw. An attempt to check the slave trade had been made by the sovernment, by placing obstacles in the way of a colourable transfer of the property in foreign vessels to Brazilian • and an alteration in the rate of postage on foreign periodicals had been decreed, reducing it to id. eachon those printed in countries which did not charge more on those of Brazil. But if there be a motive which might operate upon ea the zl or ambition of the French to go to war with us, it would be the knowledge that we were totally unprepared even for defence. Louis Purtierz, in arguing with our statesmen on the relations of the two countries, has frequently declared his opinion that there exists no obstacle to a French army capturing London in a week. Nor could any of these statesmen refute that royal opinion. Now, even in acquitting the King of the FRENCH of any idea of acting upon such a conviction, does it not sway his policy ? Does it not Had him to count more upon our obsequiousness than he otherwise might? The French have an army of 400,000 men. In the opinion of some they might throw a force of 80,000 men on the coast of England without much difficulty. How many soldiers, with all our railroads, could we concentrate against them? About 15,000! For we have no more than 20,000 infantry in England. With such facts before us, we recommend no in crease either of the army or its estimates, but a better training and creation of military de fenders of the country. For this we learn ministers are about to provide. And the plan, we understand, originated with Earl GREY when he was at the head of the War-office. The intention, we have beard, is to put at once in force the law limiting the service to ten years, and to release all the soldiers who have served that term, adopting towards them similar arrangements with those adopted towards the pensioners. Like the pensioners, they are to be enrolled at their place of abode, and be subject to be called out for exercise or for service. This may take place once a year, and each reserve or retired soldier will re ceive two shillings a day whilst thus engaged. This is something like )4arshal SOULT'S plan of a military reserve, except that the French soldier, engaged for eight years, serves really but four, and remains the other four in reserve. The great objection to our adopting so short a term of service, or even that of ten years, is the large pro portion of our army on colonial service, which would lead to such expense and trouble in continually send ing home men whose term had expired, and sending out recruits to replace them. This objection is, however, not so formidable as it may at first appear. Our military force at present amounts to 139,000. Of these there are about 80,000 beyond sea, half that number being in India. Now there is scarcely any expense to be calculated under the head of sending home soldiers from India. Being better paid in that country, and occupying a higher level than at home, soldiers like the service, and, instead of returning with their regiments, volunteer to others which remain. This gives rise to the tragical paragraphs which we find in newspapers from Greenwich, telling us how such a regiment, after so many years' ab sence in India, landed with a hundred men. This is wound up by deploring the loss of the remainder. But the remainder had merely volunteered to other re giments, preferring India to home. Out of the last four regiments which returned from India, 2,000 men volunteered to remain. The increased expense, there fore, is limited to the remaining 30,000 in the other colonies. And of these few would return from Canada, for example, or from Australia. The retirement of the soldier after ten years service would of course greatly diminish the demands on the pension list ; and the Ni hole of the intended reform is a self-remunerative one, that is more lessening than increasing expenditure. But it is important, both towards the retired soldier locating himself profitably in civil life, and towards his being useful as a soldier of reserve if called on, that he should belong to a better class, and that, in fact, he should belong to the respectable peasant population of the country. We trust the intended reform may attain these desirable ends. A CLEVER and sensible pamphlet has been sent us, entitled, National School Teaching, tchat it is and what it is not. The writer dwells strongly on the want of adaptation of the system of instruction to the circumstances and capacities of the children for whom it is intended, and points out some of the results aris ing from exclusive cultivation of the memory, and total neglect of the awakening of the understanding. " The national school requires silence, passive recep tion of certain ideas, quietude, and obedienee"--ele ments of order not to be neglected, but most pernicious in their results if cultivated alone. The greater pro portion of the schools for the middle classes make the same requisitions as the national schools, and like them are conducted on the principle of sparing the labour of the teacher as much as possible. Our illustrations of the errors of the system shall be drawn from both, for we arc of those who are finnly per suaded that the education of the poor is not the whole —nay, that is not even the most important part—of the question of national education. All that the majority of English teachers demand from their pupils is simply acquiescence. " Doc trines," the author might have added, " and all other formularies must be learned by rote." ln plain terms, children are taught like parrots. The system is an admirable one for concealing the ignorance and incapacity of schoolmasters and schoolmistresses ; it reduces the whole duty of teaching to mere listening, and precludes the necessity of labouring to understand any subject whatever. If any proof of this be want ing, it may be found in the extensive use of PiNstoen's and other catechisms—works which have wrought more evil to the rising generation than it is within the power of man to calculate. It has been our for tune to visit two ladies' schools and to go into both at a time when a class was receiving a lesson in astro nomy ; in the first school the teacher was giving an explanatory lecture in simple language, referring the pupils to a resume of the science as a text-book, keep ing alive their attention by interrogatories, and always requesting them to answer in their own words : in the second, the teacher was examining a class out of Pinnock's Catechism, and the only direction she ever gave her scholars was, " Verbatim, ladies." Here anise° systems, the first of which is rarely found in Britain, while the second flourishes almost univer sally. Let us compare them ; in the first, the teacher thoroughly understood her subject; in the second, as we happen to know, the mistress knew no more about astronomy than she did about Chinese. ilad PINNOCK published a Chinese grammar, she would undoubtedly have undertaken to teach the language. In the first, the pupils were learning ; they were aim t, attentive, pleased, and excited by the acquisition of new ideas beyond the rigid limits of staid decorum. A physi cian will tell you that their bodily health was thus advanced not less than their mental cultivation. But in the second the pupils were as listless and inert as so many automata; they differed from Wirearsroxes speaking machines only in a spontaneous tendency to yawn ; they were victims of physical and moral lethargy, and the lesson they repeated was to them as unmeaning as Abracadabra. The pamphlet before us justly condemns this mechanical and memorial sys tem in the national schools, but, in truth, the charity schools of Britain are less objectionable in this re spect than the schools in which extravagant sums are charged for tuition. Take another instance : a boy has just come home for the vacation honoured with a prize fur proficiency in arithmetic. His name has been paraded in the county paper and a congratula tory letter, addressed to his delighted parents, which will assuredly bring to the youth weighty pockets at Christmas. Now, this boy really knows no more of arithmetic than he does of the Calculus; be can me chanically put in practice any rule which he finds in his Bonnycastle, but of the reasons on which the rule is founded he knows not a particle. He cannot tell you why, in multiplication, he places the first figure of each line successively a place mare to the left as he goes through the successive figures of the multiplier, and thg,only differencehe knows between direct and inverse proportion is, that the sums belong ing to the latter are farther on in the book than those belonging to the former. It was even news to him to be told that the value of a fraction was lessened by increasing the denominatoit- So much for the prize arithmetician. Turn next to his cousin, the prize geographer. He has learned the whole of Goldsmith's Geography by rote ; he could not have found in England a better text-book, but unfor tunately on that text he has had no commentary. He knows nothing of the causes of day and night ; the subject of the longitude is a puzzle beyond his com prehension, and he doubts whether the equinoctial line be a piece of whipcord tied round the globe, or a black tracing accomplished by some mysterious navigator. Some may exclaim against this statement as an exaggeration ; let parents take advantage of this season to examine their children when they come home without the book, and they will soon find their confidence in school-prizes and schoolmasters letters greatly abated. The pamphlet further complains that the connecting COLONIAL. NEW SOUTH WALES. ATTEMPTS AT DlB - IN AUSTRALIA FEhlx.—The Galway Advertiser of Bth of Animist has the following account of a frustrated ex pedition of Mr. Smythe, colonial surveyor .—" Yesterday this indefatigable explorer returned from his second expedi tion to Cape Otway. His return has been hastened in con sequence of the murder of one of his men by the blacks. After the expedition left the Barwon Heads, about a month ago, they encountered a succession of westerly gales, and made several ineffectual attempts to get round the cape. They at last landed on the eastern side and encamped, while Mr. Smythe, accompanied by four men, penetrated to the westward to survey the Eyre River. Mr. Smythe started on the 26 - th of July. Proceeding along the shore they fell in with a tribe of blacks, composed of one man, four women, and three boys, all of whom had been at the tent some days before. Mr. Smythe prevailed on the man and one of the boys to act as his guide to Gunna-waar, or Eyredale. After travelling for about three hours, they came to a part of the country with which Mr. Smythe was familiar, and as he had no further use for the blacks, he sent them to the tents, first giving them a supply of tea, and a note to the coxswain, directing him to give them some flour. Mt. Smythe re turned on the es ening of the 31st, when he learned that one of the men, named Conroy, had been barbarously murdered about 200 yards from the tent, where he had gone to cut wood. This happened on Sunday morning between nine and ten o'clock. The blacks had arrived at the teut early that morning, and had been supplied with damper. They then went away along the beach ; and just previous to the per petration of the murder, they were seen returning, making a great noise. On their again retiring, the body of the deceased was found by his companions drenfully mangled absut the head, and life entirely extinct. A tomahawk was found near the spot, with which no doubt the blows had been inflicted. The left jaw was broken, and there were several deep gashes on the left temple ; there were three deep cuts on the neck and throat; theclothing had been stripped from the body and carried off—even the boots were not left behind. The body was not mutilated in any other manner, so that it appears the only object of the murderers was to possess themselves of the clothing worn by the unfortunate man. The body was buried. After this event, Mr. Smythe finding his stock of provisions nearly exhausted, deemed it advisable to return. The party, therefore, re-embarked, and sailed eastward to Loutit Bay (under Plattopped Point), a well-sheltered bar- hour, where they beached their whale-boat, and secured it above high-water mark, Mr. Smythe determining to make his way to Geelong by Lind. It is his intention, we believe, to make a third excursion to the Cape Otway country as soon as ho has given in his report to government. Under the cir cumstances of Mr. Smythe's return, he was prevented from bringing many geological specimens. On one part of the coast the cliffs area pure chalk, and he has ascertained that the coal formation extends to the westward of the Cape, to wards Moonlight Bead. In the neighbourhood of Loutit Bay there are immense beds of rottenstoue, used for polish ing brass, tic. The rivers and water courses were almost impassable from the floods." The court. . WINDSOR, TUESDAT.—Ifer Majesty and Prince Albert took their usual early morning walk. A deputation from the Aggregate Meeting of the Directors of Railroads in Ireland, consisting of Mr. Ald. Boyce, Mr. Perry, Mr. Kinnear, Mr. Frith, Mr. Layard, Mr. Tyrrell, Mr. Currie, and Mr. Reniin,;s, had a long in terview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. The deputation was introduced by Mr. G. Moffatt, N.P. Mr. C. K. Murray had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President) left town yesterday for his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts. Lord Campbell left town yesterday for Hartriggc House, Roxburghshire. (From last night's Go.otte.) DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 21.—The Queen has ap pointed Major-Gen. C. W. Pasley, Comps lion of the Most Hon. Military Order of the Bath, to be a Knight Commander of the said Order. WHITEHALL, DEC. 21.—The Queen has presented the Rev. J. Poole, 8.A., to the rectory of Llandys,lio, in the county of Montgomery and diocese of St. A,aph, void by the death of Dr. W. Carey. late Bishop of that ace. FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEc. 19.—The Qicen has ap pointed W. S. Craig, Esq., to be Her Majesty's Consul in the island of Sardinia ' to reside nt Cagliari ; and F. W. Cal vert, Esq., to be Her Majesty's Consul at the Dardanelles. ADMIRALTY, DEC. 19.—Her Majesty has appointed Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker, Bart., Cf.t.B., to ho Her Majesty's First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp, vice Admiral the Right Hon. Lord A. Beaucierk, D.C.8., D.C.H., deceased. WAR-OFFICF O DEC. Bth lA. Dnigs.-I.Leut. J. Thompson to be cap'., by - put., vim Low/Wes, who ret.; Coe. W. Davis to be lieut., by par., vice Thomp son ; D. 11. autterbuek to be cur., by pur., vice Davis. 14th U. Drags.-A. Lloyd to be cur., by pur., vice Bradbury, app. to list Drag. Gds. 4th F.-Ens. J. N. M•lielvey to be lieut., by pur., vice Byrne, who mt. ; O. F. F. Whitlock to IN ens., by par., vice Whelvey ;Cadet G. Morgan, front Royal Mil. Col., to be ens., without put., vim Thorpe, dec. Sth F.-To be capt., without par.: Lieut. L. 11. Hamilton. To be fleet 'hots., without pur. : See. Lieuts. A. E. C. Forster, G. S. Home, A. E. Johnson, from 66th F. vice Hamilton. To be sm. lieuts., without par .: Ens. J. W. T. 11ickson, from 27th F.; Cadets A. 1 , - Ross, from Royal Mil. Cul. ; J. blood, from Royal MR. Cot., vice Forster; W. U. P. Hearn, from Royal Mil. Col., vice Holme. 26th K-Ens, It. W. Clerke tube lieu[., by par., vice Rudyerd, who ret. ; 11. V. Stuart to be ens., by pur., vice Cleric. 30th F.- limy. Lieut.-Cul. E. A. Angelo, from h.p. feat[., to be mot., vice Brev. Maj. 11. J. M. Cregury, who exch., rec. the dill. ; Lieut. 11. Shum to be cwt., by par., vice Angelo, who ret. 33rd F.-Lieut. C. P. It. Wsller to be capt, by par, vice 11. K. Erskine, who ret. ; Ens. T. Wickham to be lieut, by intr., vice Walker, J. H. Twice to be ens., by pur., vice Wickluini. 36th F.-Lieut. J.. 1. Briddell, from h..p. of the mgt., to be lieut., vice Dickens, app. to 26th F.; Ens. it. It. S. TrehArney to be lieut, by pur., vice Briuldell, uhu mt. ; it. Ilarbord to be ens., by par., vice Trelawney. 44th F.-Lleut.J. S. Howard to be adjt., vice Philippe, prom. Stith F.-Assist.-Surg. O. A. Cowper, M.D., from 60th F., to be surg. • J. 11. May to be asaist...surg. outh F.-Cadet C. NV. Earle, from Royal Mil. Cot, to be see. lieut., without pur., vice Johnson, prom. in sth 66th F.-Licut. S. Browne to be capt., by pur., vice Ju'laston, who ref. ; Ens. lion. D. U. Finch to be heat., by pur., vice I:rowne ; W. F. W. Oat forth to be ens., by pur., vice Finch. 7lst F.-Assist.-Surst. H. C. Made, from h.p. 79th F., to be assist.- surg., vice Grant, prom. in Royal Newfoundland Companies. 76th F.-LkuL T. C. Poole, from Nith F., to be lieut., vice 0. A. Bayly, who ret. on h.-p. 37th F. 81st F.-Lieut. G. W. Haikes to be capt., by pur., vice Neynoe, who ret. ; Ens. C. E. Goodwin to be lieut., by pur., vice 'Lathes; W. F. Currie to be ens., by pur.. vice titiodwin. Royal Newfoundland Compantes.-Assist.-Sure. C. C.. IL Gra..t, from ;Ist F., to be surg., vim ]'ink, app. to Pratt.. Batt. Provisional Batt.-Burg. J. F. Pink, from Royal Newfoundland Companies, to be surg., v¢r S..t. Piper, M.D., who ret. on h.p. Bilivrr.-Licut-OoL E. A. Angelo, from 30th F , to be cuL OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Dvc. 22. - . . . — . Royal Artillery.—Cadets to IwSec. •. J. E. MicbcTl, G C. henry, T. P. Warlow I'. Bed ngfield, S. P. J. Childers, W.ll. Mytton, lion. J. J. Bury, lt. P. C. Jones, lI.J. M. Ciunpbell, li. 0. Farmer, C. 14. Govan, C. 11. ingilby, and IL I'. GAMMA. Royal Engineers.—J. Liddell, vice 110 Cam, pram.; C. W. Barry, vice Kerr, prom.; C. 11. Setilky ' vice Moggridge, prom ' .; W. F Lam bert, vice Roe, prom. • IL Warren. vice Jerre's, prom. ; H. Williams, vice Tyler, prom. ; n od A. Mackenzie, vice De Butt , , prom. MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. —Last night's Gazette contains notice of the prorogation of Parliament from the 12th of January, to Tuesday, the 19th of January, A hen it is to meet for the despatch of business. COCNTY COURTS.—A notice appears in last night's Gazette to the effect, that after the expiration of a calendar month from that date, the (Limn in Council will take into consideration the propriety of making orders for putting the Act for the more easy Recovery of Small Debts aad De- Demands in England ' in execution in every county throughout England and Wales. Our readers will recollect that the old constitutional County Court is the machinery by which effect is to be given to this act, and that her Majesty is authorised, with advice of her council, to make new and more convenient divisions of counties to that end. THE WARDMOTES.—The aldermen presiding at the various wardmotes yesterday had an easy task to perform, the voters coming up very slowly, and a remarkable absence of excitemei,t distinguishing the proceedings of nearly all the meetings. From this general remark must, however, be excepted the word of Farringdon Without. This section of the civic corporation has obtained an unenviable notoriety for the boisterous character of its meetings, and yesterday formed no exception to the rule. The chief feature of the day was a violent altercation between Dr. Lynch, who was elected for the first time lust year, and Mr. W. Carpenter, the editor of a cheap Sunday newspaper, who comes forward as a new candidate on the present occasion. The personali ties reached such a height that Sir James Duke declared his intention of breaking up the court if they were not discontinued. In most of the contested wards the new candidates occupy the lowest position on the various polls, which will close at fiur o'clock to-day. INFANT ORPHAN ASYLUM, WANSTEAD.—The COM mince of Management of this Asylum met yesterday at their office, No. 46, Ludgate-hill, for the purpose of making an addition to their third rule. Mr. Win. Kirby took the chair, and stated that they were frequently disabled by the rule in question from givina the benefits of the charity to many children of respectable parents, who, by some accident or other, had at some period received the slightest amount of parochial relief. The third rule provided, "that in order to preserve the benefits of this charity to those for whose aid it was specially intended, no child be eligible whose parents have received parochial relief," to which it was now thought desirable to add the following words—" unless it shall have been under some urgent and extreme circumstances, and the connexions of the child have been respectable." That was the only object for which they bad met. A proposition to that elrect was moved by Mr. NVm. Devey and seconded by Mr. Chas. Hilhouse, and unanimously carried. The meeting then separated. CHEAP NEWSPAPERS.—Sir,—As one of the hard working classes, I hold myself indebted to you, not only fur the Daily News itself, and, and for the only opportunity I have ever had of a sight of a London daily paper at my own fireside, but for the reforms whickyour noble example has worked here. It is not yet a month, sir, since we had not a single newspaper published in this town under Ficcpence, yet we shall open the new year with half a dozen cheap papers, or more. The following have either already reduced their price, or rumoured their Intention to do so forthwith : The Journal is to be THREEPENCE. The Chronicle The Seandard THREEPENCE. The IVeekly News Times:Pearce. The .ilail The Express TWOPENcE. Our neighbours, too, at Manchester, are at length aroused, and the conductors of the Examiner announce— The Express at THREEPENCE. With hearty wishes that your success may bear a due pro portion to your merits and your daring, I remain, &c., A MECHANlC.—Liverpool, Dec.2l. GASPEFISDEIIT AND COAL MINING COMPANY.-Sir, —ln reference to the report in your paper of this day, of the Gaspe Fishery and Coal Mining Company, I am directed to correct an error into which you have inadvertently fallen. You say, "The failure of the mining project, which re sulted in a loss to them of 10,0001." Now the fact is simply this, that a coal mine was alleged to exist by the vendors, and from the date of purchase two years are allowed them to substantiate that ftet to the satisfaction of the company ; failing in this proof, the sum of 10,0001. is to be deducted by the vendors from the amount originally agreed upon as the price of the estates. It is clear, there fore, that the company can be no losers by the coal-field turning out valueless.—l am, sir, your glint obedient see , vant, FILANCIi DYKEN, Secretary.-2, New Broad-street, Dee. 22. PENNY LABELS FOR RAILWAY PARCELS.-Sit - A greater boon to retail tradesmen can hardly be conceived than that which is announced in your paper of the 16th, :ollowed up the next day by your spirited article upon increased benefits in post-office arrargements. The idea of Penny Labels for Parcels is one calculated to confer immense advantages on tradesmen, who, like myself, arc so heavily taxed in railway charges for parcels. Surely, however, this benefit is not to be limited to the metropolis. Rowland Hill's principle—uniformity of price without regard to dis. tance—must not be sacrificed. Liverpool, Manchester, Bir mingham, and the other great towns muvt he sharers in the boon—must be put on a level with London itself. Let the free-trade principle have full scope in this as in all commer cial measures, and while individuals thrive under it, the revenue will largely gain. The plan I propose is, that in imitation of the Post-office I would have all parcels on the same line charged at the same rate, irrespective of distance, so that a parcel front Liverpool to London should be the same as one to Birmingham or any of the intermediate stations on this or the other dde of that town.—E. F. —Liverpool, Dec. 18, 1846. PUBLIC RECORDS.— Nir,—Your remark/1 o n A _ increased jeopardy to which the frost expo,ed the re cor d s - 1 Carlton Itide, by freeriu 4 the waterpipes, scent t o b e ... 14 awakened the authoritie, to a sense of the danger , found to-day, on going to that repository to make • for a judgment, that 901..0 workmen were employ e d • covering the watcrpipes .te.r the Searching- o ffi ce with jet ? , to prevent the water fr,o/ing . Pray do not cease yo . efforts to obtain a suitable Lailding, which will relieve*, Records of their present •' • il3erous situation, o t o 1 merchant of ordinary pr00,... , ,e wou ld 16. 4 :: 4 1 ac eount."—A SoLicrror. BARLVI AND MALT I . P.t 1311EWING.—Sir.-1 ao , a tired practical brewer, and 11 e been engaged during th e !: 4 ". torty -two yam% to aeverat t '.3 large beewerice, the unet b erms noticed a paragraph la the kapreu of this " Novel mode of reducing thc Irma duty," which I emotive t e iThi mislead those permits who tirco at home, I beg leeveto state fro m own experience, that the pro,css recommended in the fiaragr et hl which I refer, of mixing barlc with malt, could not fail of p ro th,„„„_. a bed result, male beer brewNl Clout this mixtur e o f grain am i d mk t ... bra one sour. Brewer. COll4l int I. reject molt impe r f ect l y Duce, [bet Each as contains bard Or Wilnuitod corns of barl e y, or b o in, teemu z, ere on ly panty malted, well knowing that such malt would make t o „ pound beer that would not k 7,: a ,. I bore no motive in troublirc with this notice, save that Ix.- ar.xlous that sO useful a Lorry,; your should not be the moan. of Promulgating an optaion roe x t,„ iatvd to me.tead as the ark-L. trOrrred to. If any o r your should doubt the correctness 01 ;kat I state, they will, j am eaa ,„, be satisfied that I ant right, if :bey Igioultl be tempted to mak e experiment of a mixture of by tiy with twit in their brewing. .Ile late Mr. CObett, in his early edition of Coinior art i c l e on b re wing, aloe s, ode ~! using birley with malt, but oni n tet it in a subsequent edition.-7..t. Baowx.---Dec. 21. - -- • ItEMOVAL OF THE WVf LINGTON STATUE TO Tire HORSE-GUARDS PARAI" . —Whatever may he the ultimat a destination of this statue, tii:3 does not seem intended for ib final resting place, the 4. xravations recently male he• yesterday filled up and Atoned, the bite h av i ng, if ,„. Intended, been found tri..';‘• unfit for ‘uch a purpole—ths numerous land-springs imth.:diately filling up the escaratitna with water, and renderinz it impussible to procure a solid foundation. THE SUPPOSED Srl.llll -7 ..—The bodies of the tut, fortunate woman and child • .re yesterday morning A m u/ rat by a sister-irtlaw of the Jr :and woman ; their m ole , are H anna h Reid, aged 32 , utd William Reid, who wu remarkably handsome chi , aged 11 months. The femalewas unmarried, and for s lorigth of time had no settled residence. Shc had been I:. : state of the greatest goy, and destitution. There is .cry reason to supp ose thar l was an act of self -destru.,,Qa on the part of the wome n , and it is aLo thought tha - . •'..3 did not precipitate h erself sag child from any of the bridt,a, but went into the river from one of the wharfs in the BA - Mere-rood. From the ane w once of the bodirs, it is Wm.:lied they could not haw be eei in the water more than iris o; seven hours at the time they were discovered. ISIQUEsTS, YEeTERD.,V.--DEATH FROM WaXT.—. CHARGE AGAINST A PA oISH SUosEON.—By Mr. J I. Mills, in the Board-room ief Clerkenweil workhouse, w e cerning the death of .Anee Wright, aged le. !d u e t , Wright, the mother of di .eased, said, on Tuesday Wo w daughter, who was out at eervico at a laundreseo, w et e )r her, as she was ill, and etee2lained of severe pain in the chest. She brought deccosail home in a cab, and immediately went to the parish worlhow.e for a medical order, which . w . as rim g o i i v i e , n in to llc h , e h r i . te S L h io e u. k; t e r e „ t n, wi b th ut i c t o to uld M m r. ik G e il i f, the no one ' hear, She came back and told this at the workhouse, and 1148 tent back to Mr. Gill, but dill .tot see him. She went a third time, at seven the same te ming, having left the medical order with Mrs. Gill at fns i ieleck. She then saw Mr. Gel, jun., who said his father w.'. fll, ;old that lie did not thi n k h e was bound to come out, at is: had had so many to attend to. Witness told him the state 11. x daughter WAS iu, and liei e a 2 her two powders to make di' caned sick, end two pills, • witness to put her feet in warm water, and a mustard tice on her chest. He atidtil, if she was worse by ten o'clock to let him know, and h. would came mid see her, bet he would be sure and te. , her at twelve on the follow. ing day. The deceased did not get worse that night, but on the Wednesday morale.; she complained of itertaed pain, and appeared most e ....ions to nee the doctor. She died before one o'clock. The gentleman who had opened the body proved that death 'esti resulted front inflemmatioa of the membranes surrounliag the heart, no doubt produced from cold. The only chinea of seeing life in such acre would be prompt meslieel treatment. If a surgeon sail prescribe in such a UK! without seeing the patient, he num be extremely clever. Me. Gill, jun., said his father wadi and he did duty for him. lie considered the blame rested with the mother, ne she did not inform him of dk ceased bring worse so Tweilly night. On the Wednesday he went the other way to visit patients in the morning, sad on calling in ou his way home to see deceased, Le was in formed she was dead. The jury ultiraatey returned a verdict —" That the dene.ited, Anne Wright, died from inflammation of the lin:a3 membranes of the bean, and that she did n, .t base the prompt and db. eject parochial medic..l aid her case required."— THE SUICIDE OF MAJOR EASIES.—r Mr. Be ford, who concluded the inquest, on Major R. aide: Eames, which was adjourned for the atteocitlnce of deceased's relatives, and fur further evidence as to the state of his mind. Captaia Claude Roberts, of the Ist Urns Native Infantry, and the Rev. Benjamin Eames, \leer of Killcandougb, co Mayo, the brother of the do cased, who was deeply affrted, having deputed to the die.erbed state of his 'Mud, the jury, alter some deliberation, returned a verdict of " Temp:rary Insanity."—DEATH rite-. Ex rosuitE TO COLD—By Mr. Mille, in Islington workhouse, on the hedy of John • Birt, aged 32. On the ee aing of Monday week he was brought to the workhouse, offering either from the effects • of intoxication or of come ffection of the brain. He was • placed in bed, and food W l - , given him, hut not getting • better next day he was retaiiied and attended by the sargon. l Deceased died on Saturday I:st. A past mortem examina tion showed deceased had di I•el of inflammation of the bra's, ; probably resulting from pri :mien and exposure to the cold. Verdict accordingly. THIRD CENTENARY OF THE FOUNDATION OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. The Third Centenary of the Royal Foundation of Trinity College was celebrated yesterday with unusual mag nificence; for some weeks past rumour hail been rife alto the splendid hospitality whice the college had determined to exercise on this oecuion, and from what we had the oppor tunity of observing we should say that rumour on this occo don did not exceed the truth. The proceedings commenced at 10 o'clock, p.m., by the recital of the Prize Essays in the Dining Hall of the College, end the distribution of prizes to the prizemcn. The Masar nresided, and there were prment most of the noble and distininished guests who bad been in vited to take part in the fasted. The list of prizemen wil be found under its proper head. COMMENILIIUTION Staivt. s IN THE C 11.% PEL.—Precisely at four o'clock. the 7tlaster of Trinity, attended be the great majority of the distingui/lied members of the University, who had been attracted by the festivities of the day to revisit the scenes of their scheluetic life, entered the chapel. The stalls were, by order, reserved for the heads of houses, fa fellows, and distinguished visitors, while the hods - of the chapel was allotted to sach -..rangers and other intlivilluais as had been fortunate enough to secure cards of admission from the senior dean, the Re e. William Carus, M.A. By some gross want of arrangement. the chapel-clerks, in oheying the orders of the superior feectionaries, kept at the entrance to the choir a ma-s of lathe , and gentlemen, though amp:. space was left unoccupied ou :he floor of the chattel. Amongst this body stood no less distineuished and learned a personage than Mr. Justice Coltman. In short a more wanton neglect of that which almost *moue to self-imposed duty it never was our lot to witness. It is with the utmost dilieulty, in consequence of the tots] absence of all accommodation, that we are enabled to furnish even a narrative of the proceedings. The Commemoration Service commenced with the chanting by the choir of three Psalms selected appropriately for the occasion, viz., Psalms, 145, 146, and 147. The 41 s chapter of the Book of &eke siutes was next read as tha lesson of the day, which html ended, the Rev. James Amitaux Jeremie, M.A., one of the Fellows of the foundation, Cl Classical Professor in the East India College, Haileybury, and .;amining chaplain to the Lord Bishop of London, proceeded to deliver the commemoration sermon or oration. So far ^is we could, in the portion which we were placed, full.. - the rev. gentleman. we under• stood him to open with au s iequent allusion to the advan tages of a sound classical and ..cademie course of education, and to enforce his views by a reteospect of the events which turd closed each of the three centuries of the foundation of the college, the lastot which the sroceedingsol' the day were in tended to commemorate. Its two predecessors had bre* marked—the one by intestin. wars, which brought monarch to a scaffold—the second by a divided empire, which led to disputes, destroying the nearest ties of affinity and kia, while the third century, which the expiring year brought to a close, saw this nation blessed with peace, and happy vac the dominion of a gracious monarch and constitutional go- vernment. The rev. preacher then proceeded to point oat the many brilliant ornamenhs of all the learned prefet-ton! which this college had sent forth to advance literature ph science, and to promote the best interests of the natio; Taking a rapid review of the lives and characters of Lon! Bacon, Sir Isaac Newton, and other distinguished names el the olden times, and of Bentley Parson and Greene golly own times, and adopting as a prey Sae of future excellent:, the feet that the college had now exiseed three centuries unimpseeed.bY decay, the rev. gentleman concluded the discourse be coking a blessing of Providence upon the future chile which would still remain to he made by - those entrusted with its conduct. The choir sun' Purcell's celebrated anthill. " Oh, give thanks unto the lend." The reverend the roaster and the visitors retired from the chapel, the Hallelujah Chorus being executed as a voluntary by the organist% e THE Bexur ET.—Of this, the crowning ceremonial, :r id arc wholly unable, in consequence of the peremetcrY on the part of the superintending authoritiev, to cupw , tickets of /Omission to re ten of the press to tunnels torch any record of the p in , s except the fact that ewers were laid in the hail for abut $OO guests. have applied themselves eunestly IRELAND. DUBLIN, DEC. fl The Committee of Landlords have not been idle. TI P Y present events and future prApects have compelled them to undertake. They have had -everal meetings `last wee's, and a sub -committee of practiell and intelligent men Was pointed to prepare a report for adoption and c irculation among the Irish gentry. The report will be submit:ldt° the committee to-day, and i r possible 1 will forward a ci , pY , If attainable, before closing t'qis letter. The substance to the following effect : Each proprietor is required to undr' take his proportion of the b a onial assessment, on cot:dates to the heavy task which of expending it on reproductive employment on his own Pr ) " Pert'', subject vs the supers ision of the Board of tt oro• end opening tie employment to all the Ishmael in the barony, whethe r his own tenants , or not ; This suggsstion ii a great improvement on the tows and , tuo r ei3O ropr: seete y•Labet t itle° re that VI m eant ; rty , woe! T oted P. the enti ito anling ar, of .10,0 001 ' " Y oral A t h e telt* t, it hie PT ° P er " ,h —•___wewilteg" Z O 7OO bi s na ° ' the boar'e'ffico. om tl r ° mad PI°P". t° to w the P mbuuo r The Popod goo. p,r131 01 0 P net". tO C pel gt p roperty• Oa : 11.01 w ho exP. l to t he genera swhich it is likely t The comm 15'-u the ezteusi pleb 0 h„e to tdr. 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The usual we held this day at Esq., solicitor, meeting at sot in the Clare t herence to O'Co Mr. JOHN 0 financial positio said, he could to be subjected sant advances, 1 should be retai ferred to the the subject of official. He w article ' but the intimated that even to the soli that announcer advances were of justice. He the English the abuse of th and the Englis others. Thule lumnious—tuo country. lie he contended against the cal duatrious. Mr. D. o'l Mr. O'Co:sp more unfair people were ac obtained work actually pera the awe u object' of tl their purpose others—their conh3cation tredit for 1 tould not pi he himaelt twenty toil Mr. O'N the sesociati The rest vhich th r DESTRI:e Between si broke out t of No. 77, arket, w the con provision 'Reilly. aY, but 111 an abu le of wk ad the en t. Thorn Nether w promptly i are, whtct lice force' the flames. erder and which inc a the back so ha d ve of Irelane perty of lrela that way. M Association h plan to remov as it was effec prepared to el complete in al gramme put then rend an Mr. O'Cost from Mr. M, in the Kerry tenantry had at Cahircivee that attack, 3 tons of India] Mr. O'Cot, trice, rose to the miserable lorrora of e, occurs in he poet /to 'limiter) , was tl condemned Shadow, for t a national c Osborne, to recommender from each p they could so of the thirty pudent" for be impudent They shoul convention, eat to insist me now to a 'eland waso , hedefied th elly.) Ile lace the pal erything b loos a ut. They 1 eat, but at he did affair with hole of th, y must gone into th Mr. Joxa tons, struck cries, for th Mr. O'Co