The Express. — London, England, 1846-12-21 00:00:00

''' - ''' .---------",----,1 Is le ' hops,mee an , two pounds. From these he • 2 and of beer , at a cost ( rating barleyat its o e' o T e . i - pe'en a )of snout 6ad. a gallon. Of cote" , the sre of the brewer '+ license would prevent the adoption °I ti l l. t c so rah method in public breweries, but his idea o:f ,'brewing the use of the raw material became general, pri 'so,. e re nrag might be ehteded i , and farmers and others . e a j a w quantity of beer be enabled to provide their 1111 ''' lee a wholesome beverage at a considerably re tailer& with dee d rate. T EAABLISIIMENTS.—Iti consequence O CONVICT due recent determination of the government, relative to the of transporting felons to the penal colonies, some ex laaa;ialve -alterations are bring made in the convict establish ...ea it Woolwich. Orders have been received to increase aumber of prisoners in the dockyard and the Royal , e t Forty-tive men were set to work last week in the a ea meet, where they ',carom the menial Lek of dam, 'tinge-short and shells. .There is a report that the present . e st. a of hulking the prisoners is to be abolished, and that -eaitele buildings for their reception are to be erected both in 41. siockyard aid Royal ar•enal. Sr DESTITUTE POOR.--The number of apcats • t fie re fuges for the houselcss poor has greatly i ncr ea s ed eiri ig the week. At the asylum, Playhouse-vard, White ‘etreet, there were, i u Sraurday night, 359 inmates ; at Car r Ogle-steeet,23o ; and at Glaeshouse-yard, East Smith- A I M, upwards of 250. The class of the eleatitute is of the -al average of former years, with the exception of nevi- RN"' esto.., who arc comparatisely few, ou account of the great a,. ad for their labour. C IMP NENVSPAPERS.—The London papers have sg re . d to act togethe r is obtaining reports, exelueing the Dm / News. This is nothing more than an endeavour to crash the latter journal, which, on account of being disposed el s• %les% cos', interferes with "the thunderer " and the D ep. 3 sold at the same price, uara,ly, tivepeuce—the News l o ge - half the amount. We trust that the patronage which tee News may obtain will defeat the un-English ateattempt to d e er iy it. In point of intellect an d tone, it is needless for us toe. •wy that it is equal to any of its coetemporariel.-3/on trete remes,Nov. 2t). .IS tie At:TOUR-IPM, & c.—On Saturday, at the S' cont. iss6on of the sale, in addition to those mentioned in the • Wrest of that day, the felloe Mg articles fetched the -, :icm mentionci : The signature of Marie Antoinette to a do assent, upon vellum, dated Paris, November, 1789, 11. s'. ; Cardinal Matarin's signature to a document, Dec. 29, 1 ;12, el. ; a Letter of Montesquieu, Paris, August 21, 1749, 11. 135.; NJ:ph:en—a Life of Alesander, 4 pag es folio occupying cue half the page, the ethe r tilled withclosely writeen remarks be Napoleon, 71.; four reatographs of the same personage from 25a. to 315. each ; signature to an o rder of Nelson. dated ouboard the Victory, in Largos Bay, May 10,1645, U. 55.; a letter of Samuel Richardson, the tannin, to the celebrated De Luc, Lendon, Feb. 17, 1759, 2!. 45.; the signature of Robespierre,l l . 13s. ; two odes in the autoe:aph of.:an sate It maseati, 5/. 15s • letter of J. J. Rowecau, dated Jan. 4,175 e, a ddressed to Madame d'lloadetet, 6!.; aletter of St. Vincent de Paul, canonized by Clement XII., in 1737, W. 103. ; signature of her present Majesty to a summons for the attendance of the Bishop of Wintuester at the Cocoa ition, dated May 9, 1834, 11. 6s. ; s eveeteetive letters in the hands citing of Voltaire and of his secretiu7 Wagniere, relating to the " -effeire des Celas," 91. lie; Larater—Melanges de 1:;.•;1. a Physionomiques, ma easerit pour des Allis, avec quelques Merles Caracteristiques, mounted or. 103 sheets : this nuumseript was presented by Lasater to the huslriud of Madame de Steel, with the ex press coed:Lion, as stAted in the preface, of its novel being published. There is bet one other copy known which is in the I.IIIIIT. This one is now in the possession of' the British Museum, Sir Frederick Madden becoming the purchaser of it, for 101. les. N aloNat EDUCATION.—SIR, —The ability and eye Ana; s. ith which the E.rpress he s taken up and advocated "the questieu of questions"—" national educi tion," entities it to the gratit'udo and support of every parent and real eetriest in the empire. The education of the libeetring pane hes at - a...etc-1 the netice of many, for it was a subject fronswhieh trading rape:al might be gist for political or sectarian purposes. Bat the Daily News was the first to call attention, in an arts: to last month, to the vs ry defective and faulty provision for the educatien of the middle classes in this country. The troth of your remarks has been illus trat:d in a very prominent and distressing manner by the recent attacks in the press, and more particularly in the Titles, on the Reyal Military Academy at Wool wieii—a seminary, where, under tho immediate saperin tenlenee of government,. a number of young men of Week connexion are trained at great expease to their parents and the country, for situations of great trust. Tb it - the former state of the academy realised all that the Ti an sans of the shocking scenes of low and wanton bru tality within its walls is toe true. But the violent abase so roe :nay bestowed o' the cadets at WoolwiTh is as unjust as it i, ill-timed. It is, indeed, most necessary to urge on the re' inns in the us:limy, quite overlooked and dim , earned by the Times, but which we re begun be the present autho rities last summer, and since steadily followed up. of the Your correspondent " IL." has justly expesed the silence 7 uses when the abases it now denounces were in full vigour. E. a: pprcis vice and maint ain authority, expel eight cr nine c .lets list autumn, for insubordination and drunkenr.ess, end set himself seriously to reform the yells sanctioned by tee former authorities and overlooked, or tacitly approved of, liethe press and the public , than a needless outcry is raised ' hen the cadets referred to were expelled in autumn it was i tstel that their p ,rents were persons of wealth and influence. lave their wealth ma influence any connexioa with the ecent indiscriminate attacks on the academy, and the .ttempts to involve the innocent and the guilty in the same disgrace; those who were expelled and the cadets who, in .pite of past neglect and bad treatment late came compara tively unharmed out of the furnace ?—F. FIRES. — AT PEN TON Vil. LE CHAPEL. —Yesterday afternoon, between four and five o'clock, on one of the pew openers of Penter.ville Chapel going into the building, he found the place filled with smoke. 'floe engines soon arrived. Upon the :firemen entering, they found the flooring of the communba burning fiercely. For some time the chapel was exposed to great danger. By tearing up the board; and cut ting away the jo!stings, however, the firemen races eded in extinguening the fire, but not until considerable damage was done. The fire originated from the overheating of the furnace used for warming the building, which is immediately =the the altar.—Ar THE PRIVAIIi 11.E,IDENCE or Mu. W. ELL;4, M.P.—Yesterday afternoon, shortly before one o'clock, a tire brake out in the private residenee of Mr. Wynn Ellis, M.P. for Leicester, situate at :30, Cadogan place, Chelsea, which injured the second and third stories of the house, and slestroyed much of the furniture. An exa mination of the premises, after the tire was extinguished, left no doubt that it originated through the overheating. of a stove belonging to Mr. Jacobs, the o wner of the adjoining house. Deftie6 Belt6eAßlE9.—On Saturday the shop of Mr. Joseph Maplin, of No. 15, Fore-street; City, dressing ease maker and cu tler, was entered during the night by burglars, and a large quantity of property removed, consist in eof dressing-ewes with geld and silver fittings, cutlery, &c., valued at 100/.—A robbery of a very extensive nature was also committed at Mr. Robinson's, 10, Bow-lane, City, a few doors from the station-house ; cloth, kerseymeres, satins, and wearing apparel, were stolen. In both cases an entrance is supposed to have been obtained by skeleton keys. INQUESTS SATURDAY.—DF:ATII FROM COLD AND WANT.—By INQUESTS, G. I. Mills, at the Grapes Tavern, Fulham- road, Brompton, Into the circumstances attending the death of Anne Boyce, 56 years of age. S. Webber, gardener e cf No. 10, Ycoman's-row, near Brampton, deposed that the deceased lodged at his house. On the morning of Wednee dee last, about fire o'clock, he found her lying on the floor quite dead, and perfectly naked. There was no bed in the room, but some rags. Had seen deceased about half-past twelve on the pretends night. When deceased came to wit- l nese's house, a week before she died, she said she had been hurried out of No. 4, in the same row, because she could not pay the rent. It was also stated that the deceased was the widow of a soldier in the Life Guards, and since his death had got her livina by washing and charing. She belonged to the pariah of St. George's in-the-East, by whom she was allowed Is. 6d. per week. She had been advised to go into St. George's workhouse, but refused, saying she would sooner die in the street. A surgeon deposed to having made a post mortem examination of the body and found no fowl whatever in the stomach. There was a serus effusion on the surface and ventricles of the brain, but he could no way account the , death unless it was occasioned by the exposure to the intense cold of Monday night. The jury, after considerable discus sion, returned a verdict that "the deceased died from ex posure to cold, and the want of the common necessaries of life."--DEATII FROM DRUNKENNESS AND STARVATION. By Mr. G J. Mills, at the Elephant and Castle, facing St. Pancres Workhouse, to inquire into the death of James • Rout, aged 33, late a pauper in the Leightonstone Union. The deceased was reported to have died of starvation, and the body was frightfully e maciated. Elizabeth Rout, the widow of deceased, whose att enuated appearance indicated the privations she had suffered said, she lived at No. 7, Chapel-court, Caroline-street, Camden-town. Her husband died on Wednesday morning, at 6 o'clock. He used to sell sandwiches, outside Saddler's-wells Theatre, and beg, until within the last six weeks, when he kept his bed. During that time she had given him as much food as she could out of her little earnings, having herself and two children to keep. He had not enough food to eat during the last six weeks, but although she advised him, he refused to go into the workh aae. lie had been a great drunkard for 14 years, and hid ruined himself. My only means, she con tinued, of earning money was, by going out charing or washing, for which I sometimes got ls. per day, and some times ls. Gil. I would sometimes get five day's work in a week, and sometimes not more than three, and outer t of the my earnings I have to padis. per week rent of m roem. I y2d not make any applica tion to St. y Pancras' Workhouse for money or bread until the day before yesterday. I did not do so because I thought they wouli not relieve me as I did not belong to St. Pancras, but to Woodford, which is in the Leightonstone • Union.—Witness :My only reason for not applying was that I did not think they would relieve me. In answer to further questions witness stated she had lived in St. Pancras six months, and came there from the Leightonstone Union in May last. When they came out of the union the guardians gave her husband a sovereign, but he spent it in drink. All i the beddin:; her husband had was the mattress on which he died. It was the only one she had to give him, and she went without herself. No surgeon saw him till after death. All the food he had the day before he died was a little beer and breadand cheese. He had some meat on the previous Sunday, but it was very little. The reason she did not apply to her own parish, Wondford, was that they would be sure to make them go into the union. She did not like to go hack there as rho was made to work very hard from morning till night in cleaning stone stairs and passes es, and they refused to give her even half a pint of lacer. Mr. Pitt, on the part of the parish, stated that not only was a loaf and shilling sent by the boy, but the widow of de ceased was subsequently visited and relieved with half a crown and two more loaves. She at the same time had a ticket given her to go before the board on Friday, when she received 3s. fid. more, making altogether 7s. and 3 loaves of bread since Wednesday.—The witness admitted the correct ness of this statement, and, in answer to other questions, said all she and her children had to ley upon at night was • few rags, and all their covering her own gown.—Mr. Joseph Curtis, parish surgeon, said, on Wednesday afternoon the widow of deceased and another woman came to his house. The widow appeared in a state of stupefaction, and haring recovered her, she said her husband had died that morning, starved to death, and she wished him to see the body. She added that she had also two children at home, who had not had a bit:to eat since six that morning. He gave her some bread, and shortly after went to see the body, which lie found in a shockingly emaciated condition, lying on a mat tress partially covered by part of an old blanket. The apart ment presented the most deplorable evidences of destitution, one old chair constituting the entire furniture, and there ) were no appearances whatever of firing or food. Having tent to his own house for some coals, and a note by deceased's boy to the workhouse, he examined the body externally, and found it dreadfully attenuated. After its removal to the workhouse he opened it, and found the stomach much contracted, and the intestines blown out with air. There was, however, some fasces. The liver was a nutmeg liver, and there was extreme canjestion and inflammation of the lungs. The immediate cause of death was the inflammation of the lungs, aided by exposure to cold and want of nutri ment. The jury returned a verdict " that the deceased, James Rout, died from the want of the common necessaries of life." They begged to add their opinion, that it was caused by his own intemperance, and that the authorities cf St. Pancras were exonerated from all hlame.—A CHILD SMOTHERED TO DEATIt.--ity Mr. Bedford, at the Sun, Chapel-street, Grosvenor-place, on the hotly of Robert Mason, aged seven months, the child of Mr. G. Mason, butcher, No. 6 in the same street. On Thursday evening deceased was pleeed in its parents' bed by the servant, who first rolled it in a flarael, which confined its arms. On the father going up stairs to bed, at 11 o'clock, he found the deceased Lear the faot, lying on its face, quite dead from suffocation. Verdict, " Accidentally suffocated."-- DEATH FROM DESTITUTION. —By Mr. Baker, at the King of Prussia. Cartwright-street, Tto-emary-lane, on the tinily of Charles Hall, aged 77 years. Deceased had obtained a living by the sale of matches in the streets for many years. On Friday morning he was found deed in his room, which was in a most filthy condition, and did not appear to have been cleaned out for many years. An old bedstead, not worth lid., and two broken chairs, was all the furniture the dismal apartment contained. There had been no fire in the stove for upwards of a year. A surgeon attributed death to cold, and the want of the common necessaries of life. The jury expressed their surprise that any human being could have lived in such a state as the old man did, and said it was hor rible to hear of a poor dead reature enduring such privations. A verdict of " Found " was recorded. solemn oath he bad taken. The youth upon this burst into tears, and then stated that the deceased was in the kitchen — that she was alarmed at a gun. and he made her more so when, to get out of the way, she ran into the dairy, and the gun " went off." The boy added, that he was sure he had not pulled the trigger, and that the piece was loaded with patent wad. The Coroner commented upon the evidence of the boy, remarking that the life of the deceased had, to say the least, been sacrificed by a most indiscreet and incautious act.—Verdict, " Accidental Death." writteesreetslME. REPRESENTATION OP East WORCESTERSHIRE. —lt seems that the arrangement entered into between Mr. Foley's eomnUttee, and the East Worcestershire Con servative Association may have satisfied the contracting particle Mr. Taylor (of 'Moeda), father of the present mem be: for East Woreestershirc—Mr. James Arthur Taylor—is not into of the consenting parties. Mr. Taylor's son, it should be stated—for it has not yet been mentioned in any of the metropolitan papers decisively—is to retire at the next general election for private reason, and it was arranged (as stated in last Mondsv's ttp.re) that Mr. Foley ehoeld at that election be returned without opposition being off. red on the part of the Ceneervatives. The following letter has just been issued by Mr. Taylor, senior: To the freeholders and electors of the Fa :rot Division of the county of Woreeater.—ceetkinen: Having been resound by the Seeretary of the Earn Worcestershire Conservative As , oelation with a report the arrangement approved of nt their meeting on the Ilth inn., and thistly settled v. ith the Whig party at Worcester on the I,llowlng day, to the effect that Capt.= Rudraut shall come in now but that at the ensuing general eleetion, neither cf the great parties shall propose more than one candidate, and that this arrangement was sired to in coon yarn., of the repeat.' inue.ations which were rcpnrtrd to have been received from me son, Mr. Jame Arthur Taylor, of his determlcation to retire from the honour of again nine- Neither von in the next parliament, I feel nrys-If compel' ed, melee the circumstances of my things° very near conne si at of your retiring memher to state to you, that though I am roam! to uee,uiesee in his =cans for so Ming, I cannot agree, or In any way subscribe to become a party to any arrzyzernent now, wheel deprive me of the exercise of my fere eleet.ve right et the next r.rescral ekvtion. I highly value, and have always exercised, that r ig ht in the way that has ut the time of van; it, appeared to me the mast likely to pro mote the best interests of .he community. It sea, however, some sans faction to me, to have learnt that a unanimity of opinion did not pre vail between the partin to the !wod ,1 am co:ripened to ea u ly compromise av Mr riacints. Aral, hope, I may yet ft an opportunity of ;untied with those perso • s. and with very many other electors; and I will' hold myself tee an bandit, individu..l , at full liberty to give my vote and Murat at the next general election to that candidate, whnnnver be may be, whose opinions and prin ciples may be most in accordance with my own. Tartaa. SOMERSETSIIIME. EXT•LOsION Or . A Bomen AT BRISTOL .— Two Ltvaa L o sr.—An expli mon of a boiler at the engine foundry of Messrs. Seethed, Slaughter tied Co., in Ch.:tee-lane, Bristol, took place on Seturday morning, and deprived two unfor tunate men (workmen cf the firm) of their lives, besides severely in:urine several otheis, who no, lie iu a state of great suffering in the infirmity of that city. The weather being cold, several of the men went into the h 'iler•room, in order to warm themselves while parfaking of their bred:fest, when the boiler seeldenly exploded. An in quest was held the same. afternoon. N'enlict, "Accidental death." HEREFORDSHIRE TENANTS' Itteritte.—A series of public meetings are an nounced to be held in Herefortlehire, for the purpose of 'ha mming the suhject of tenants' rights, especial attention being paid to security of posseeden. OXFOltrielliltE. exte.re ron TILE Pooft.—Two hundred fat does ere, by order of the Duke a Mariberough, to be killed in Blen heim Park this week, and the venison given to the poor. II SATCRIIAT'S DATIX Nliwg.—SotTllAMPToN, DEC. 19. — In consequence of tne !Petri having imblielted exelu eively the announcement of the series of meaeures which government intend introducing respecting Ire Lind, end the news Sum Porteignl, tiiere w as an unusually greet demand for that journal in the town it-day, when it was found that no other morning paper coOltrOntaine 18. the same Intelligence. N ANOTITER Marne n or TUN GRAZIERS ANII DItoTETOI of Norfolk and of the eastern counties was held on &aurally at the Norfolk Hotel,. Norwich, with reference to the railway charges for carreyeag cattle from those counties, especially Norfolk, to London.—The Chairman, Mr. Neave, eel , ' that promises of reformation had been made tit the last meeting, but he hail received a Etter Item a respectable drover tteel, he had received several), 'whit', stated t-at so far thew promises haring been felfilleel, trucks with cattle iota been tot:tithed to the glee's traii.e. and being sent off on the Saturday had not nrrivul is London till ten o'dock on the Sunday morning, an tour when all knew the autho rities would not allow cattle to he driven. 'I he consequence was the stock was Wird to he lying about where there was uo food, to the great anneeance and ineonvenieece of the drover., and injury to the hensts.-1: solution , wera adapted, which were thought likely to p rocure an amend ment of these and other morn of complaint. Zbt Drama. PIITSCESSS.-A piece, dcsieraated a " Musical itomante," and entitlsil " 'lhe Seven Mails of Munich," was produced at this theatre on Setunlay eveuing. It is nut without merit, bath as reeards the drama, and the mutie, which last is the wiry of Mr. Rodwell : hut in n" ither respect has it sufficient pretensions to he put fixeren), as the 1: adin; entertainment of an evening. Abridged and reduc to an efterpiece, it would be found p 1: cant en ugh. Its plot we did not clearly understand; but it is tont:thing to the fellouing parlays,:--A Bavarian nohle, Main Rristlebach, has seven tier daughters—the " Sesen sof " Munich. The Emperor Napoleon is at this time subjecting all (ler many, B Leans included, to his overehelming sway ; and the Iln.ron, animated by patrieteon, terms a conspiracy to deliver his country , by the assassination of the formidable ins-t.der. The French army are at siunich, and tile seven damsels, we do not know how, have f mired "attain of the heart" with coven of the French officers. The young ladies, who are suffi ciently bold and enterprising, visit their lovers in the guise of gipsies, and tell their fortunes, with whet object wo were unable to discover. Afterward', a party of the officers, serenading their mistresses ou the river under their windows, are nearly drowned by the upsetting of their Loa., but ore rescued (rum their danger and brought into the Castle. Ilere one of theta, a ridiculous renal Geo . : at, dis covers the secret ineeeeg of the c ons p irators, and reveds the plot to the French Emperor. The yeeing ladies, who are much given to trequ'see impose upon their lovers a second Cate, and are t.ken into custody as a party of conspirators. Thu upshot of the whole is, that the conspiracy is proved beyond denial; but the etonmander of the troops takes upon himsai the reseoneihility of pardoning the Baron, en condi tion of his daughters marryieg the seven Frenchmen. Thus a set of incoherent in ei'lents i" roll n wed by an absurd dc:otoirement. The dialogue is not r emarkable in Guy re:.pect either for goodnern or Induce: ; and the same msdieerity characterises the music. Mr. lbelwell has long been known as a com poser of ballads and light musical pieces fur the theatres; and this new pr , duction will a' r add to nor detract from his reputation. The, music consists of a good many Indlads, and two or three chore:es. It is smooth and flucete easily sung, and suieuble enough to the words: but it never deviates from the well-beaten track of cur English balled-mongers. Every phrase of melody is an old familiar friend ; and the choral and orchestral effects arc equally innocent of nov elty. Neither was there anything remarkab learn the perf 'by Al len ormanand Missce. The principal singing parts were Sara Flower ; but they bud little room for the display of their vocal powers. A shoat fragment of melody, expres sively sung by Allen, was encored, and the earns compliment wsa paid to a little cactus. These were the only cocoas, and the applause throuehout was very far from enthusiastic. The piece, in short, had something like what the French cal/ "um sore, a d'estime ;" but not a reception which gives it any promise of longevity. Ye- UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. THY. BMW' .0 1/)7,1101'.10/11111ATIO/1.—Yel.ItTdly (fiantlayi morn. Mg the Lord llkhop sf lonean held =ordination at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall. Prayers v.cre read by the 11ev. W. IL Roselatt, and the re :mon was presched by the Lerrl Eishep, eh.: wlected far his text the words of the Anonle, " I have chosen you :tad ordained you that ye , eholl go and bring forth fruit, and that your faith elsould remain." The following gentlemen were admitted Into holy ordme : —Levee:ie.—Oxford F. 0. Blaineekl, BA., Ballot ; G. J. Dlomlicld, 8.A., Exeter; M. 11. Buckland, 8.A., Corpus Christi ; J. Dan. teed, 8.A., New Inn Mal ; C. Hawkins, 11.C.L., Christ Church; G. S. Ombler, 11. A., University. Cambridge : 11. J. It. Rathbone. 8.A., Clare Hall; C. W. Cavendinli, RA., Trinity. Pekes.-- Rev. t . J. Inirbeed, 8.A., 0111'14 Coll.,lettere dinsle:sry flora Arehbp. of Quit. ; Rev. W. Hater, WA., Conville End Caius Coll . Cam., by letter* dimb.sory from Arebbp..l Cunt.; Rev. B. Kinpford. 11. A., Rice r Coll., Oaf., by letters dimissory fr om Archbp. Cont.; Bev. J. Bock, RA., Christ's ColL, Cam. ; Rev. C. G. Curtis, 8.A., Merton Coll., Oaf.; ACT. M. Davies,Coll., B. lbyley, jun., WA., Worees. Coll., (lit ; Rev. H. W. Jerrnyn, 8.A.,, Tele. Hall, Cam. ; Rev. le H. Mallet, 8.A., Ballot; Tee. J. 11. Smith, RA., St. John's Coll., Cam.; Rev. W. G. Watson. 8.A., Gone. and C.,ju4 ; EXT. W. W. G. Ceoper, WA., St. Mary Meted. Mal, by leeks din:Jewry from Archbp. of Cud.; 11 :v. T. S. hurl-7, 8.A., Era. Coll., by Moors dimlesory from Archbp. of Cant.; 'Rev. 11. L. Parry, WA., St. Peter's Col., Cam., by lettere dimissory from AMA*. of • Cost. ; Rev. B. F. Ankh, M.A.. Trio. Coll., Cron., by kttere dirniseary tram Archbp. of Cant. fhe ' following sin eentlemen. memiers of the Church Missionary College, Islington, were nbes ordained and Will fee hwith proceed to the colonies and dependencies of the , mpire or to miseionary stations an:richt the beetle n : RW. ev. S. E,lle, J. Each-, Ito Itc 3. .•. J. I Isrding, Rev. S. liasell, Rcv. T. Jcrrom, I:ev. Wood. 1.11.010 P or Memo's 010/ISATlON.—YeAtererts (gond:iv) the Lord ll,hop a (h.tard held an orlination in the Cathedral of Ch holy rint Church, when the following gentlemen were admitte into or d e rs, sir.: Priests — J. M. V, awn, M.A.. Fell. Cot pus Christi; G. E. De Tessier, M.A., Scholar Corpus Christi; Ci. l'hillimore, M.A., Student Christ Church ; A. Y. Stopford, H.A. Fv:L All se,ubs ; W. Andrewee, M.A., Fell. Exeter titer; J. 11. tkipte, 8.A., Emanuel. Chmbridge ; T. Sanctuary, RA., Exeter ; C. P. CI rot A, , M.A., FelL Oriel; R. 11. Hooper, 8.A., Lincoln; T. H. Jones. 8.A., Pembroke ; J. C. )Conte . 8.. t., Belief; T. IL Lullow, 8.A., Chaplain of Cliriet Church ; T. Bell, Keeler; A. Pott„ 8.A., Dotty of Maxdalen ; W. H. Wright. Dea ran s—R. E. Batty, ILA., Brancnnre; C. Warner, T . Sch..!4: of "Worce , ter ; It. Holt, ILA., St. John's, Cat. .bridge ; T. F. Wo-dmen, RA., Alsedalen ; G. Trevor, Corpus rithisti, Comb.; B. Gandell, M.A. YelL Queen's ; W. David, 8.A., Fell.l Jesus; E. stokes, M.A., Student ' of Christ Church: 0. Alford, teen's;Clov p. ; Atkinson, Trinity Cull., Dublin; J. H. Brooke , 8.A., FelL se U. E. Moberly „ RA., Fell. New Coll.; IL Williams, RA., Qellueen's. Comb. ; C. E. Moberly, L.A. Balliol ; W. Healey, M.A., y. Unie versify ; 1.. C. K. Silty, 8.A., Prosenase ; W. J. Sprlag, :! A., Wad bar; If. B. Bowlby, 8.A., Scholar of Wadham ; J. Fr uter, M.A.. Oriel; T. I'. Powell, 8.A., Oriel; G. 1 e k, M.A., Oriel ;J. Hughes. LA., Scholar of Jesus ' 1". B. Pryor,Ft 11. Recs . F. B. Berm M.A., Fell. Queen's; O. Weston, 8.A., l'snruurA, Comb.; T. Welker. I 8.A., St. John's • 11. C. Adam:, :A.A., Fell. Magda:tin ; F.. Foulke. M.A., Jena; I.:Bosley, Literate. Tnt. 111.11',? 01 Won...riles Or.nec iTlON.—Yesterci ,y (Sunday the Lord Bishop of Worcester held an ordination at de Church at Worcester. There was an unusually large ow ober of can didates for ordination, and the following were admit; .d into holy orders :Deaeone.--01 Oxford : i ron , untie, of Queen's ; IL. Churcall4 S.C.L, New Inn Hall ; J. IL Dav D.A., Corpus CM • U; P. Down ward, BA., Queen's : W. W. How, 8.A., Wielcam ;lope, 8.A., Leg .glen ; F. Lamm 8.A., Worcester ; the Hon. s. W. Lawler, RA., Balite ;G. Pardee, RA., Saint John's—Of Carnteide: :O. M. Vol. Ireton, Downing; W. W. Gibbon, B.A.,Clltrist's; I.E. Hastings, 13. A.. Trinity ; B. Herne% 8.A., St. Peter's; J. 8. Maw. D.A., Trinity ; IL Skes,arth, S.C. L, Trinity; C. B. Snepp, S. C. I. Gonville and. Cain.; J. M t Tiailivr,i.B.A., Trinity. —Of Dublin . .S. Fisher, 8.A.,, Trinity ; F.M.A., Trinity: D. Maconlay„ Ike .. Tti:dtv ; W. A. Cobiesem, ILA., Ite.-01 t. 4. LAYS: 11. lII4IC - . of the . Clerical Crake of St. Beetc—Pkestic—Of Oxford : J. Bow en, 8.A., Exeter C. Farebrolier, H. C. L., New Inn Hall ; J. rat, 11.8., Quist's; ------, 'rt, or t h e beet took e had a s on so u ,. Mr, TN,. itlemaa. :iew with lee of th e t• Mr. F. the ri g h t Ragmen vedue.d„ ra Abb.. Ilottenhaaa 'le Rous e Earl and 04, ',rid cm but him out Elbe. He march of 18 roperty wael w perished. Beein was ve objects of c arrival at L the part of )!ic life in roux leisure hd the ele owever, of n us it arose them from clearness of nate:is and the debates tais sener tin fourteen ayhaod he syctl in the and uncle's lie W 35 " Literary h Windham, he was pro :it by Oliva )X OF LIFE ililers belong- Saturday, in Ir, Mr. Low, efficient state. ladders were ['feet safety of hat it would ere they were iircnty-two of aura on each, so thoroughly ement of the ,ne present to saved by these id rewards are men the alarm. On Satur * of the Court id reading the Thursday, Mr. said, that he in for 18 years, - ither place was could apply to instead of the it wai pure; it hands into the `Mr. .11 !email di.iatbfied, let ia:idamus. The , and it was the ) it assumed its Emmen Council ,f the court to it mac all the 7ommonwcalth, ,m.sion Council. and he should the next court.' drawn for by tins ) committee? , cut- Ipal, and a mm il ' r er of the Gurt of re Lord Mayor, rt of eatll[lloll !ir election, and a bill to compel the only way to trusted that the Such a course —Mr. Alderman tination to bring obtain a legisla resent relwilion, defunct. — T he Y • I itid• nimous y.— • o ceedisga of the rued. CAPTAIN MA' ours' Chronicle mated from Your, the intentions of alleged that the notlaied, because of fear. 1 ha ve Wentions of her •et nor by what P- )But if you thus pre-slons repro misconceive their • sentences mea ,cl by tas k s , or by iab to work either esire to say to the a to your offence, debtor is relaseu rr by dischargi n g feature into the ired that nothing while everything he enclosed ty. T , and the van ous be regarded. -1 MALT TAx.- -- rgeon, of the Old lie malt tai migh t wivate breavege. For the grain in oral experimen t ? , er, by brewing an. ad a half buslielel THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1846. DEATH BY PRUSSIC ACID AT LUTON.- B X II UM AT lON. Much excitement has been caused in the town of Luton, Berlforilshire, by the exhumation of the body of Miss Rebecca Allen, who died by prussic acid on the 21th of November; on the following day an inquest was held at the George Hotel, before Eyre Eagles, Esq., when, after a very short inquiry, the following verdict was returned: "That the deceased had died from the effects of prussic acid, but how and by whom administered there is no evidence to I show." The body was interred; but shortly afterwards such a variety of rumours got abroad on the subject, that a requisition was forwarded to the coroner, demandino a I further investigation. Accordingly, another inquest was menced before the same coroner on Thursday, the 17th ion . . The body having been disinterred, and placed in the vestry of the Baptist Chapel, was there viewed by the jury, and having been identified, the jury returned to the Goorge ; and Jane Colson, servant in the family of Mr. Noakes, de posed that it was stout a month since Miss Allen died. She he appeared very ill on the Sunday preceding her death. was very sick. She took nothing but gruel and water all Sunday. Some rned:chte,was sent up to her front the surgery but she would not take it. Saw the bottle again after her death, when it was in the same state. Saw the deceased at half-ast six next morning. She opened the of wit ness'sp room% she was undressed. D:.l not ku y o wlere she had been. The two rooms were close together. At ten minutes past se , en saw deceasi.d again coming down stairs, undressed. She asked for a candle, which witness gave her, and she went into tho back parlour. Thin was a room be tween the back parlour and surgery, leadint to the latter. I went into the ki•claen, leaving deceased in the hack notions:. Returned in about a minute, and found that the deceased had gone up stairs, leaving the candle in the passage. Abeut nine went to deceased's room. Miss Woakes went with mc. The door of the bralroom wasdeceased was in bed, and apparently lifeless. Judging from her co untenance, thought she was dead. Went down to Mr. Worker's bed room ; found him there, andcalled him. Returned with him to deceased's bedroom. Mr. Winkes then went downdw to the surgery. Witness followed him. He took tec from the shelf, and some brandy, and then Te tnrned up stairs. Witness returned with him. Mr. W. sent witness to call in Mr. Benson, a surgeon. There were bottles in the room containing hair-oil, &c. ; they were in a drawer. Mr. Benson came immediately, De ceased had no supper on Saturday. She bad a few words with Mr. Woakes on the Saturday night. Cron-examined by Coroner : Had thought deceased very strange at times.—The witness was cross-examined at great length by the jury, the coroner, and Mr. Day, but nothing material was elicited from her, except that her statements varied cons iderably from those she made at the previous in quint. Mr. I'. Benson, surgeon , of Linen, depnsed to having been sent for to Mr. Woakes's on Monday, about nine, and that he found deceased quite dead in bed. Mr. W. said that he had tried various remedies. Judged from the lividness of her lips that deceased had taken poison. There was no smell in the room. Observed same bottles on the tables ; ex amined their contents; neither of them contained poison. In canjimetion with Mr. Heals bad made a post neoriem ex amination of the body ; found no marks of external injury. The chest and abdomen were perfectly healthy. As soon as the stomach was opened, the peculiar odour of bitter almonds proceeded from it so strongly as to leave no doubt of the presence of prosaic acid. Deceased was not pregnant, but witness did not examine the rest of the body ; the presence of Mr. Woakes prevented him from doing so. Deceased could not have had time to return to her room if she took the poison in the surgery. Witness was asked other ques tions, but none of importance. Mr. Beale, surgeon. of Litton, corroborated the above ; and Mr. Phillips, chemist, of Luton, deposed that he had analysed the contents of the stomach, and had detected by three separate tests the presence of pruesic acid in large quantities. Witness described the experiments. The Coroner here said that from the evidence given by the medical gentlemen he had no alternative but to order a re-examination of the body, and he requested that Dr. Hawkins, of Hitchin, would c. operate with the Luton medical men ; and he adjourned the inquest till Saturday. On Friday the medical gentlemen made another pest mor tetn examination ; and on Saturday the jury re-assembled at tan o'clock at the George, when a Drr. Dr. Ilawkins deposed that he had made a post warless examination of the body in con junction with Messrs. Benson and Heale. There was no eon elusive evidence as to the deceased having been enceinte. — Messrs. Neale and Benson coincided with the evidence of Dr. Hawkins. Superintendent Blogdon, of tho Bedford Rural Police, I I knew the deceased slightly. Was sent for on Monday morn ing, the 2nd or 3rd of November. lie went to Mr. Woake's with Mr. Benson , th e sur g eon. Saw the corpse on the deceased on the bed. The head was lying of one side, and the mouth perfectly open. Smelt at the mouth of the deceased, and could distinguish the smell of aromatic spirits of ammonia. Had been a chemist. Took oft the counterpane, and in conjunction with Mr. Benson carefully searched the feather bed and mattress, but found no bottle or vessel of any kind. Observed to have a letter I on the pillow ; Mr. Ben son took it up ; it appeared been opened ; he looked at it, and said it was of no impor tance. It was given to Mr. Woakes, who said it came from a Miss Cant. Witness had since conversed with Mr. Woakes as to the prussic acid, when Mr. W. said that he did not use it ; lie had some in a bottle, but so weak that he considered it could not cause death. He said he had used some a lam time ago. Mr. Woakes did insanity whether he had ever observed any signs of or derangement I of the mind in deceased. Witness here produced a letter from Messrs. Lester, Evans. and Evans, chemists, in London. Mr. Day objected to it, and it was not then admitted. Sub sequently, however, it was, and it was then shown that Mr. Woakes bad had prussic acid from them a short time Woakes, back. G. Noakes, the nephew and apprentice of Mr. was then examined, but his evidence was sucpa s t issue of contradictions, that nothing worth anything elicited from him. At one time he stated that on missing the pruss ut ic acid bottle from the surgery, it was found by his ue, b that be did not know where. lie then said he would swear that his uncle did not find it. In answer to other questions, witness stated that on one occasion not being able to find the laudanum bottle, when he wanted to make up some medi cine he left it out altogether. (Laughter.) Witness was cautioned several times by the coroner, when he refused to answer the questions put to him. Mr. J. Jordan, chemist, of Luton, had never sold prussic acid to Miss Allen. Ile kept minutes of drugs sold upon credit. Mr. Woakes had purchased drugs from witness. Had sold him prussic acid on the 3rd Sept. last : it was two drams of the London pharmaceutical strength. The bottle in which it was supplied was, he believed, furnished by Mr. Noakes. Mr. Woakes had had prussic acid of witness mere than once. Oa the 2nd of August he supplied him with two drams; that was the last time. It was fetched by Mr. Alfred Rolfe. G. Woakes re-examined : Had seen the bottles produced, a long while ago in the surgery. Mrs. Williams was then celled : She stated that she was a married woman residing at Luton. Was intimate with Miss Rebecca Allen. After the first inquiry, Mr. Weaker; called upon her. Witness said to him that it was very sad, and that she felt bound to be honest with him ; that the in timacy between hlm and Miss Allen was anything but, what she could have wished. The witness was proceeding to detail conversations which she had had with Mr. Woakes when that gentleman's solicitor, Mr. Day, interposed. Ile objected to such evidence as being illegal, and the coroner co:nciding in the illegality of the evidence, the witness was not further examined. Susannah Horne deposed to having been in the surgery of Mr. Woakes on the Monday morning, when the apprentice said that he had und he bott which he could not fin b e f o re. It contain fo ed at dark fluid not a whiten t Mr. d I,V oaken came into the shop, but witness did not see him t le from the shelf. This concluded the evidence ake any bott on the part of the inquiry. i e m b i n s e d . r kn w 3 as w t m h e i n s, Allen called s b ix M or r. se lty , : y h rs e s m r t. a F e t e n a d t n t r t y o s s c i D ece ased wrote very s in g ular letters. Had perceived that 00 l with her. Ha d corresponded with her. the assessed was wiry shrew{. for 1101114 time. The deceased sent for witness in Aug. last, when she was suffering from a bad throat. Witness went and nursed her; slept with her. Deceased frequently got up in the night and went about the house. She said she was very wretched, for everybody hated her; she should like to take poison. She always spoke of prussic acid. Witness remonstrated with her. Deceased di rected witness's attention to adrawer in the room, end pointed out a bottle. Deceased took it out of the bottom drawer; she said, There it is, will you believe it now ? It is prussic acid. Witness asked to look at it, and endeavoured to take it front her, but did not succeed, and the deceased put it in her pocket. That was in August. While visiting at the' house of witness's father some time previously deceased com plained of head-ache and took laudanum ; she sa;tl that she often took laudanum. The bottle was a lettered bottle, and it was the same bottle which witness subsequently saw con taining the prussic acid. She had not the slightest doubt that the bottle which was produe-d was the one in question, which she had seen in Mr. Jordan's possession. The colour of the fluid in the bottle was white, like water. Witness received a letter from deceased in August, and destroyed it, temuse on showing it to a Mts. Pledge, that person said it was the fitter of a mad girl. In that letter deceased said that she would commit suicide in a more modern and refined mode—by prosaic acid. The letter was very strange and unconnected.—Mrs. Pledge corroborated the above testimony, with some slight addition as to deceased's strangeness. Miss Jordan deposed that deceased had said, in her pre sence, that she would take pruss:.:. aeit Thought her con dutt very /orange. Had never seen, though a const nit visitor et Mr. Woakes's, the slightest approach to any undue familiarity towards deceased iu his conduct. Martha Nash and MI s. R. H. Taylar gave similar evi dence, the latter adding that two members of the deecaced'a family had been insane, and that one had committed suicide. The coroner briefly summed up, and the jury, after a short retirement, returned a similar verdict to their forme r one, viz., " That the deceased died from the edits of prus s ic acid, but how and by whom administered there was no . evi dence to show." The inquiry terminat ed at half-put lime. The mode of conducting the business at this inquest may he judged of, when we mention that r,vour/e wets frequently had to our reporter's notes to correct the depositions. IRELAND. DUBLIN, DEC. 19. TREASURY MINUTE, DEC. 1. My lords have before them Mr. Redington's letter, dated 11th ultimo, icquiring, by desire of the Lord Lieutenant, to what extent, and upon what terms as to interest, and the period of repayment, their lordships will sanction advances to parties who may apply under the several enactments authorising Maas for the drainage and improvement of estates in Ireland, with the exception of the act 9 and 10 Vice., c. 101, in giving effect to which difficulties had been experienced. Their lordships also have Were tar to a letter from the Board of Works, dated 11th oust., transmitting a copy of a letter which had been addressed to their chairman, by Mr. It. More O'Ferrall, M.P., containing suggestion as to the operation of the drainage acts, and inquiring whether ad vances will be made from "the million voted far drainao in Ireland, on the terms specified in the 9 & 10 Viet., c. 101, although the application f w it be m ide under the provi sions of the 9 Vict., e. 4." My Lords proceed to consider the enactments referred to in the above-mentioned letters; first, the acts for drainage in Ireland, 5 & 6 Viet., c. 89, amended by 8 & 9 Viet., c. 69, and 9 Viet., c. 4 ; and, ac condly, the provisions far the gene rat improvement of estates in Ireland, contaLed in the "'2nd section of the act 1 & 2 \i el. IV., c. 33, amended by 9 Viet., c. I, s. G. My lords arc of opinion that the moat advantageous mode of applying the provisions of the first series of acts, viz the drainage acts, is that the Board of 1V arks should undertake the executioa of such works as are necessary - for deepening, or removing ohstructions in rivers, their tri butary streams, or the largtr watercourses of the country, by means of which great improvement mar be effected to the meat outfalls for the drainage of considerable tracts of land. Such works can seldom be accomplished by any single proprietor, as these streams and watercourses, form ing the main drains, generally pass through the estates of many ditferetit proprietors. The difficulty which arises from this cause, is chviated by the power which the Board of Works possesses of proceeding with the consent of a cer tain number of proprietors, and of charging the repayment upon the lands drained, even of dissenting proprietors, in proportion to the benefit conferred upon them. My lords do not think that the agency of the Brawl of Works can, as a general title, he advantageously applied to draining in de. tail—to Lying down draining tiles, or pipes or stone-draia in; in each tild. This description of work, they are of nal nion, can, unless when particular circumstances call for spe cial eaception' he far more advantageou sl y done b y each proprietor forhimself on his own estate, the improved outfall for his drainage haviag been afforded, if necessary, by the , more general operations of the Board of Works above stated. Mr. M. O'Ferrall, expressing the opinion of the magi " @ t es tes, ratepayers, and principal inhabitants of the barony of Carbury, county Kildare, states in his letter, a copy of which has been communicated to the Board of Works, that the barony is bounded by two rivers, one of which has already been opened, and works on the other are in progress for the same purpose, under the existing Drainage Act; nod then proceed , to suggest that the most advantageous mode of employing labour, at present in the barony, would be for the Commissioners of Public Works to open the smaller tributary streams running into these two rivers, and thus to improve the outfall for drainage throughout the barony —by this means affording to each proprietor the opportunity of more effectually draining his own fields for hiindilf. This view of the magistrates, ratepayers, &c., of the barony of Carbury, is in perfect accordance with the measures contem plated by this board, as above stated. My lords are pre pared, therefore, to sauctiou advances for such purposes, and will consider applications, each to be dealt with ca its own merits, for rorks for drainage under this series oi acts, the last of which, conferring m ore summary power of proceed lugs, is more particularly applicable to the present state of things in Ireland. Proceeding to the cm sideration of the second class of enactments, i. e., 1 and 2 Wm. IV., c. 33, a. 32, and 9 Vict., c. 1, s. 6, under which loans may made to individuals, to enable them to effect the improvement of their estates ether fur themselves, by drainage, rceliaming waste lands, or works of substantial improvement, my lards arc prepared to make advances to proprietors who comply with the con ditions of the 1 and 2 Wm. IV., c. 33, amended by 9 Viet. c. 1, a 6, as to the nature of the works; and who can obtain from a competent person, approved by the Board of Works, the certificate of increased value to he given to the land im proved, as prescribed by that net. This latter condition is necessary iu order to protect the interests of those who are to succeed the person In actual posseraion, from having their future property subjected to a charge for unsubstantial and improvident improvements. Their lordships, however, desire that it may be uuderstood that parties applying far loans under any of the enactments above adverted to Milt undertake to submit to such terms in respect to the period of repayment, and such oth er provisions, as min parli uteament Mr. may hereafter enact. Transmit a copy of thito Redington for tho information of the Lord Lieutenant and the Board of Works. MR. TREVELTAN TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF PUBLIC WORE.S. Dec. 15.—1 am commanded by the Lords Commission ceeto rs of her Majesty's Treasury to inform you, with referen the minute of this board, dated the Ist instant, that their lordships think it advisable to furnish the following addi tional explanations on the subject of the arrangements contemplated by the above-mentioned minute fur making advances both to individual proprietors of estates, and also to the Board of Works, from national funds, for the drainage and general improvement of private estates in Ireland. My lords are aware that difficulties have been experienced ,giving practical effect to the act 9 and 10 Vic., cap. 101, and that in some parts oft he country works of improvement other than drainage be more beneficially undertaken. Their lordships are, however, of opinion that the general COWS!! of proceeding prescribed by that act (according to' which the improvements on each private estate are to be I executed by the proprietor, and the Interference of the offi cers of the goverement is confined to ascertaining, in the first instance, that the proposed improvements are likely to be of such a permanent and p roductive character as would justif with y the cost of them being made a charge upon the estate priority over other incumbrances, and afterwards to inspect ing the works from time to time so as to secure the proper application of the sums advanced to th e purpose, for which they were intended) is the mode in which the intervention of the state can be most extensively and effectually directed to the improvement of t he land of the country ; and her Ma jesty's Government propose to submit a bill to parliament founded on these principles, embracing and extending the objects of the 32ad section of the act 1 and 2 Will. IV.. cap. 33, amended by the 9 Viet. cap. 1, sect. 6, and of the 9 and 10 Vict., cap. 101. It is proposed by her Majesty's Government that the mil lion sterling appropriated by . the Act 9 and 10 Vic. cap. 101, to be batted in loana for drainage in Ireland, should be ICU dered available for the purposes of general, improvement of lands, including drainage, under the provisions of the act proposed to be passed in the next session of Parliament, as above explained ; and their lordships are prepared to adopt the principle of the 9 and 10 Vie., cap. 101, as to qua re -1 p a yment, and to author ise its being made by e half-yearly instalments of 31. ss. each, distrtbuted over a period 0f . '22 years, with a power of redemption as provided la the act, unless the borrowers should themselves desire that a shorter period should be fixed, in which case the number and amount of instalments :will be determined in each particular case, as shall be desired by the pro prietors, and sanctioned by the Treasury, the rate of interest being calculated, in all cases, at 31 per cent. There being reason to ed helive that considerable difficulty is sometimes experienc by Irish proprietors in effecting desirable improvements on their estates, owing to the pe culiarities in the tenure of land in Ireland, and the rights of per sons havng different interests in it, t hir Lordships are of opinion i that it may be desirable to iase e rt in the bill to be submitted to parliament on this subject, provisions somewhat similar to those contained in the this obstacle, and aportioning. on the various parties who will derive benefit from the imp a proportionate contribution towards the repayment of tbe loan, the whole principal and interest being payable to the government by the person who shall be deemed proprietor of the land drthe ained occur i m p r oved, and the contribution on the part pier, being in the shape of increased submit rent to the proparietosepa r. Uer Majesty's govern ment also propose to rate bill to parliament, in which the provisions of the 5 and 6 Vic , cap. SI), 8 and 9 Vic., esp. 69, and the 9 Vic., cap. 4 . which have for their object the execution by the Boar of Works of drainage works of a more extended description,d in most cases involving the interest of several proprietors, will be consolidated and simplified, and such o amendments will be made in them as th e occasion may appear t require. The loans which have hitherto been made from the Pub lic Works Loan Fund for this object, have been made at the usual rate of interest of 5 per cent. ; but adverting to the great public importance at the present period of encouraging every description of agricultural improvement in Ireland, their lordships arc prepared to reduce the interest on future losnsto 4 per cent. In order thatefforts now being made for the drain age and improvement of land may not experience any dis couragement, their lordships will authorise the terms of re payment above described to take effect from the let inst.; that is to say, loans for the drainage, or general improvement of estates, to be executed by the proprietors under the inspec tion of the Board of Works. according to the provisions of the 32nd section of the act 1 aid 2 Will. IV., cap. 33, the 9th Vic., cap. 1, sec. 6, and the 0 and 10 Vic., cap, 101, will be repayable according to the terms above stated in respect of advances to individuals, with interest at 31 percent., while lo:nis made to the Board of Works for drainage to be executed by them under the provisions of the 5 and 6 Vie., cap. 89, 8 and 9 Vic. cap. 69, and the 9 Vic., cap. 4, will be repayable by half-yearly instalments, according to an award of the commissioners, with interest at the rate of 4 per cent. My lords are farther of opinion, that with the view both of providing security for the repayment of the advances fieni the public purse, and of relieving entailed estates from the evil of accumulated charges, two powers should be conferred by the measures which it is proposed to submit to parlia ment. 1. A power to the proprietors of an entailed estate to sell for the purpose of repapng the advances for improve ments made by the Board of Weeks, or if made by himself, with the aid of government money, under the inspec tion of the Board of Works, any part of the estate so improved, or of other estates settled to the same uses, in the same manner as a poster exists in this country of selliag for the redemption of the land tax. 2. A power to the government of selling, in default of payment of two consecutive instalments, so much of the land improved or of other estates settled to the same uses, which the proprietor mip.lat prefer, as would repay capita l, interest, and expenses of sale. My lords desire it to be clearly understood, that in thus laying down the canditions on whie . a they are prepared to make advances on any appli cations mode subsequently to the Ist instant, they have no intention of interfering with any works or trrangement fur works, now in progress, under any existing act, or with such as have been undertak-n, or as may ba nrdertaken, until parliament shall otherwise provide under the poor emplo:onent act as extended by Mr. Labouchtre's letter of Octeilior 5. Mr. O'Connell and the Young Ireland party are moving with the wariness of old chess-placer. Both atm at giving cheeemate, but as yet the victory is undetermined. Public opinion must decide the triumpli or the discoutiture. Since my last communication, events have grown more com plicated, and the hopes of unanimity snore distant. Mr. O'Connell is quite distatitfied with the report of the inter view between himself and the seceders. lied he known of their intention to " protocolise," he would have guarded against errors, by summoning to the cause of truth the reporters of the Freeman. In his explanatory letter of yesterday he alines that the report suppressed some of his most powerful arguments er illuetratione, and restatee the terms on which alone there could be a chance of concord. They vary very slightly from all we knew before. There ie, however, a discrepancy in a material point between the report and Mr. O'Connell's statement. The report afirms that Mr. O'Connell refused any submission to the commis sioners, except the simple question of the legality . of the physical force doctrine. Mr. O'Connell denies the restriction, and declares that his offer was—in the event of the question being determined in their favour—to eeree in submitting any " reasonable " terms to the judg ment of the commissioners. The Reverend lit. Miley Iso, on his own behalf, and in support of Mr. O'Connell, impugns the correctness of the report. The seceders affirmed that the rev. gentleman, deputed by Mr. O'Connell to Mr. Smith O'Brien, offered to submit to the award "all points of difference" between both parties. Dr. Miley, in his letter to the Freema n, c har g es them with being less trnthful than hypercritical. By " paints of difference," he meant, generally, a mieunderstanding on the question of the "two forces." Ilia authority was special—exclusively limited to the solution of that difficulty, and in his interview with Mr. Smith O'Brien he offer: d ne more through the com mission than the settlement of that " fountain of all ill." The publicatien of Mr. O'Brien's letter calls forth another from Mr. O'Connell, in which he clings still more closely to the phveited force views, and carts on Mr. O'Brien the re sponsibility of shunning an amicable adjustment. "Till the point of legality is settled, no further arrangement is possible." So stands the matter between the leedere. The papers teem with letters. Among the most elaborate is one from the pen of Archbitieop M'llule, in this morning's Freemen, addressed to Lord John Rueeell. Ili Grace lives in a very wretched and acutely-suit:ring district, anti the condition of society in which he necessarily moves has pointed his pen with excessive severity. file Grace traverses the history of Ireland since the Union, and draws the usual lesion of misgovernment, neglect, and consequential famine. The language is more bold than the arguments are profound, or the emelte.ions correct. The following is the conclusion of his Grace's letter: — ]oar lordship has now a great destiny to fulfil—the rescuing an entire m aide from the jaws of famine ; for nothing l wi 0: to inithons from the imperial exchequer c an avert the doom that hang orer the Irish nation. Be prepared, then, to ads mate such an en! trued mea sure; or, since your humanity would shrink (ran the rprietacle of a nation perishing Ly iiimine, you will doubtless rinse from the helm which you may lint yourself unable to guide. stub a measure of relief ifulTl the inqi.irial exchequer will be indispensable notwithstanding all the aid may be lent by the Irish landiords. Their apathy and listlessness, their want of counsel and concert at a moment which requires, their united energies, are not among the least meancloily of ties misamlings cur our aerial condition forces on every retLcung mind. it would autos 15 if there wen arist y acrac in the country, or as if the confu sion of " the great ones and of Tunis were c^me upon th^m. They seem altogether manta a n t s.' of those national attributes with which Mlle of their ances tors were en d ue d. Their proiwrtY is shifting awaT frOM under their feet. and they 11 , •111 seized wits en utter in ability to arrest the ruin. They are eiallltlrOWl 101 . ICKatilletiVe wor ks, In order to be relieved of the labour rate. They the notch of remunerative larviir, but litth of rear int votive totem, ilt"erly ferect tut that it was the tenant's want of permanent security to enjoy in subst .ntial food the iruit of their improvements, that consigned our pormlatMa, as if they were wandering tribe., to such a prveariowa root as the potato, and that without a tenere which will wake labour reproductive to Loth Wants and Lindliads, no agricultural improve mmts, such as the cris's demands ver he achieved. Let the se entity of tenure, the n. and a fair remuneration for improvement. form on essential part of any amendment of the labour act, and it will be seen what a magical etfect it will have in thawing imay the pop* to the seasor.able cidtivaLon of thilr own tittle Isms.•sp snow is at this moment coverbig the earth, and even the mise rable day's hit., wt.r.eli could not afford half meal in the 24 hours to all the memb - rs of a ungehed family, is, in Mil, instincos, with drawn. I shudder at the consegnences. It is ton Painful to eontem plate. theme you adept more enlarged 111^aftlret , than throwing the relief of the people mi the landlord..., w co, whdever be their sins, sLonld be corrected and reformed rather than ennihilated, your ministry will be memorable In !rand. Private charity is becoming more active with the growth of destitution. l'arochial meetings arc about to be consisted on the requisitions of the most eminent and opulent indi viduals sin Dublin to provide the poor with fuel and food in this calamitous season. Soup shops, in which excellent soup is distributed at one penny a quart, are at work in many of the provincial towns, and the gentry throughout the country are engaged in the same distribution, of course gratuitously. A suggestion, signed by twelve of the most distinguished medical men in Dublin, has hems addressed to the Relief Committees, strongly recommending meat-soul), wherever procurable, as strengthening the poor for labour, and enabling them to resist better the attacks of disease, as well as constituting an excellent restorative during the period of convalescence. In this work of charity the Society of Friends have made the initiative. Their time and money ere Water- at the service of destitution. This is especially the case in ford. At a meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society on Thurs day, Lord Clancarty stated that he had recently a conversa tion with the Lord Lieutenant, in which the latter expressed a strong desire that the council should compile and distribute practical:directions for the small farmers of Ireland, in refe rence to the future cultivation of their farms. A letter to the same effect was read from the Duke of Leinstcr, in which he says that if the funds of the society should prove insufficue of ient the government would u ndertake the printing and iss such a document for general cliKribution. It is probable Lord John Russell has communicated with his grace on the subject, and that the duke and viceroy only reflect the opi nions of the premier. The C;azette of last night orders presentment sessions for thirteen baronies. Four hundred and twentye-ei Labour-rate ght se•sions have been already held in Ireland under th Act. upon which the Assistant Poor-law Commiedoner pre- sent said,—" If you leave the husband on the ptb lic works, which is out door relief, and receive the family , into the workhouse, they receiving out. door and tn-door relief, the question for the Guardians to consider is,--is the family to receive relief from two funds? If you leave the husband on the public works, he fills up the place cf another, and you act contrary to law. You can give a cheque ticket for the entire family to come into the workhouse, if they please, and, when signed by the chairman, will be in force for three days; and, should they present it within that time to the master, I.e is bound to receive them." The suggestion was well received, and the wumen and children in general were given cheque tickets for their husbands and families. THE Weariten.—The thaw is complete, and as far as the country journals bring us intelligence it I. general. Even . trace of frost and snow has diseppeered i'rum Dublin, and the atmosphere has become mild and warm. DUBLIN AND LIVERPOOL STEAM-zzHIP BUILDING COM PANV.—There was a meeting of the above company to-day, at the company'. offices, Eden-quay. The usual report was read Ly the secretary, which was, I understand (for the company does not admit any but shareholders t 3 its meet . ings), adopted, and a dividend of 3 per cent. for the half-year enditig November last was declared. SCOTLAND. STATISTICS 0? WOIMROcAft , Ntszarav,—Externs reltevul in the must week, 11,759; imitate., 1,391 ;in bespital, 200 ;in Esser, 89; died, 20; see first per head, 2 s . iid. Number 690 Ardee I t a . u n‘ rt „ 1320 —Average 1 9 ~ 1 111 „ 791 1 C a ,. ll3ll .....• •. . „ 2 0 2 01 Nevi In Cavan more tsar 18,600 men are employed on public works. STATE OF THE COUNTRY. The country journals of this morning contain accounts, almost countless, of petty thefts, roMeries of food of various kinds, and killing of sheep and cattle. There are no outrages of a personal kind worth recording, and none of any peculiar magnitude or atrocity of any description. The Cork Examiner, come to and this moment (four o'clock p.m.), states that an outbreak occurred at Clonmel on the 16th instant, when three sacks of flour were taken off some cars which were passing at the moment. But damage was done to a great many others. The correspondent of the Examiner says:—The out-kirts and environs of the town presented a more alarming and determined appearance • l arg e masses of men and. women peramtu lated the different roads leading from it in every direction, and levying contribut ions off every carrier of provisions. They commenced by attacking and abstracting 17 racks of flour from some cars on the Cahir road, two of which, by the activity of the police, were subsequently recovered ; but there ISM no account obtained of the other 15. This moment a party ef the " Scots Greys" have marched into town, as a reinforcement to the garrison of Clogheen, and two mounted pica of the same regiment, accompanitd by infantry, have marched out, a Logistrate h.ving ridden into the barracks for their aid. HORRIBLE DETAIL,—T'ue following shocking tale of hor ror and woe is contained in the Weekly Register of this day. I have reason to know that it is the relation of a Roman Catholic clergyman : Skibbercen, Weduesday.—The entire country is covered with sno times we are going through are beyond description. Tho deaths daily in the town far exceed the worst period of the cholera. Yesterday the police were told of a house outside of the town, w hich was remarked to be closed for some days. When opened, there were seven dead bodies therein in a state of decomposition. Oct-DOOR AND IN-noon RELIEF. —At the last meeting of the Thurles Board of Guardians, amongst the paitlis ap. plying for admission were several women e with ch workildrens. , whose husbands w ere employed upon th public They urged that the weekly watles of di. a week paid to labourers was , at the present prica of provisions, no more th an adequate to afford are meal a day to each family. Several guardians were far the admission of these parties, - --- - • —. MAne or OVELDRZ.—The arrangements of the 'North i l British Railway require the demolition of Trinity College 1 church, Edinburgh, a fine old Gothic building, erected in 1 1462, by Mary of Gueldres, wife of James 11. of Scotland, ' whose tomb and remains are deposited within its walls. With laudable zeal the Commissioners of Woods and Forests have ap; lied to the magistrates, iu osier that these relics m..y be saved. Her Majesty died in 1463, so that unless em balmed, of which we have no account, she must now be, like " imperious Cm:ar," turned to clay. The tooth, however, remair-s in tolerable preseivatien,and whilst one cannot help regretting the rude utilitarian spirit which consigns venerable ent;quity to oblivion, it is so far consolitory to had a public board solicitous for the salvation of particular monuments front the general wreck. Like many other characters in Scottish history, the reputation of Mary of Gueldrcs is not allowed to pass unchallenged in Mr. Tytler's poets ; but Lir beauty, Boadieean courage, and her endowment of a church and hospital, which have been of much service to posterity, quite entitle her ashes to be rescued from the unhallowed pressure of railway trains. The hospital was demolished some years since, to make room for the terminus. PROVINCIAL. LANCASHIRE MR. BatcaT, AT MANCIII:9TER.—Me. Bright has yet more than a week's work before him to complete his yieits to the different districts composing the borough of Manches ter. His prospects seem to become the more er.couragiug the more this kind of canvass proceeds. Oa Friday night he met the electors of Cheetham at the Mile House Inn, and there was one of the largest and most influential assemblages that has yet taken place to receive him.—Wm. Evans, E.g., of Crumpsall, was called to the chair, and in introducing Mr. Bright said the hon. gentleman did not come before them with so high a character for courteousness and polite de meanour as his courtly opponent, but he hat all the more sterling qualithe to tit hint for the representation of a bo rough like this. Tho first consideration with their oppo nents teemed to be, to induce a candidate to time forward at all rides, and, accordingly, they were asking for signatures to the requisition to Lord Lincen, with au understanding that the requisitionists were by no means thereby pledged to vote for hi. lordship. He did r.ut quarrel ARIL : thus* who conscientiously thought Lord Lincoln a fitter man to repre sent Manchester than Mr. Bright, but it did appear ti him extraordinary, after Manchester had taken sneh a distinguished lead in great public questions, that they should put aside the m en who had conducted those questione, and go in forma pau l . ris to the Duke of Newcastle, on the plea of qualifying his ion for a more important position in the House of terde. Id chester had receeetly been engaged in a great struggle for commercial freedom, and, after eight v.ars' canfliet, the enemy was driven into a corner, and obliged to yield ; yet, strange to say, it wits sought to crown with laurel, not the brow of the conqueror, but the vanquished! Th:s was so ridiculous, that the whole country could s ee it, and were laughing at the absurdity. A borough like th'e wanted not the qualifications in its representative which fitted for the drawing-room, but a man of independent mind, having the ability and the courage . fearlusly to speak out his sentiments, and advocate the Interests of his cor.stitut nes— reed such a man was Mr. Bright. All the oth. r classes of the community were repreeented—too well repreoentied— why should not the commercial interest be represented ? Their opponents pretended that the eld landmarks of party I were to lie done away with, but the line of demarcation be tween the Tory and Reformer was surely as broad as ever. The Tory was still the advocate of old institutione, and the' Iteformer was still for progressive improvement and the', removal of abusea.—Mr. Bright was then called upon, and I eeplained conaidreable length his politica! vie NS, after which some questions were asked and answered, and upon the metion of Mr. A. Prentice, a resolution, pledging the I meetihg to support Mr. Bright at the next election, was carried. unanimously. TentlielintE. M't. 1117)st:tat, M.P., gave a sumptuous official dinner, in his character of lord nviyor of York, on Thureday, to a numerous and aristocintic company ; amongst whom were the Duke of Leed.:, Mr. Stedien•on (the engineer), and Lord G. lientinek. The latter, in speaking respecting a tcast, said: It !ma been remorse I by the gteat minister ofFrantie that railways, nest to the art of printing, have been the mast powerful instrument that the ingennity of man ever defied for the civilisation of the And it my right hon. friend cannot claim for himself the invention which he hue carried out, at least he can claim more than any other man in the world, that he has carried that hivention into prae tiee. Who is there hero that does not feel the atliartage w hich the invention of George Slete.eneen, atrried out by Ccorge Hudson, I,t predated: We all remember the state of distress that cast a gloom over the entire cffP'.re P.l fee 1 and 1510. 41,1510 able-bodied labourers were In the workhouse, the revenue was falling oil, and th.ro facie Letto,eue paupers upon the pour-L.le. Railways were at a dis.munL My right bon. friend rlepped forth,. and set a nobie ex.:mole. Ile r oused the talent and d od nant energas of his countrymen die urged thee, to action -and it is ia the greatest degree , to big erertior.s that rails ~;a have bees since constructed, which ate chile 'riving employment to . 21)0,000 l a b o urers, ut wages averaging 225. rid. per week. Heuer the pros perity of Cie last few years. But that is not an. we have he I to-day what the cite of York has gained In the article of ccel think ore s . M We hear much of cheap justice at every mania door, but.t ill:: inclement seas Oil of the year. when winter has bid her fiusty heed upon the earth, we must all feel that cheap fuel for 0- poor man's heath is at pre. ent a far greater Mersin/ than any other that can be roam , ' upon him; and it 1. to my right he,'. frimal that the pour of the city of York are indebted foe the bl. wina. Where they once paid, OA I have been told, Ins. id. per ton foe their coal., before railways were established, they now pay res. The telvantage also extrivis th e re rich ; and here we are todlity from 1.-..nilosk Naylor breeefastei thre by daylight, and been brought in daylight, to, to a Ices sum of money than a few year , ago it wadd base cost us to have paid our postb...,s and the turnpike tolls on the road. Rut then we are told that my right hon. friend necks nothing but his own protit. Why who but the mod niggardly-minded nein ran do othisrwise than repiee at the inetulitt fortune tie nu.. ' , e mceed I Talk o! commerce or enterprise without profit. Why profit is the aliment —profit is the very breath of enusrprise an:l commerce. Deny , to commerce and enterprise her just profit, and few years will elapse ' before the enterprise of Englund will subside ; and instead of being at ' the head, we shall be at the tail of all the nations ol the world. .Most intimately allied, inseparably blended, with the , nterpries my hon. ftientl Is the great Inventor who honours us with his pre sence today — one whose name will live in the pages of history, when the names of warriors and of kings—unless it Is of him who stands beside me—shall have passed into oblivion. Nut at this day only, but in all thee to come, the name of G. htephenacm will be remembered) and honoured. It will be revered toy hen whose lot Is to 12xkur, :dad who obtains his fuel cheap. It all be remembered by every farmer, whose corn is carried to market for every merchant am mercial man who profits by the Invention of railways. id It will be re memlrred by every country that ha s an army to be pa to keep the civil peace, fur we have been told that railways have in this ueintry made a little array to do the work of • greet oor. I think, then, when we look at all these things, we must agree with the minister off caner that the art of printing alone surpasses the invention of which G. Stephenson is the great author. NORTIII:3IIIERLAND. ENCHANGF. OF COMPLIMENTS HY ELECTRICITY. — On Thursday night, when the Mayor of Newcastle, J. Archbold, Esq. w as entertaining his friends in the Assebehly Rooms, "'he Health of the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City of York" was drunk a little before 10 o'clock, and a message sent over to the Gateshead station to communicate the fact by telegraph to his lordship, who, at the same time, had a large party in the Mansion-house at York; and in about an hour, despite the interposing snow, an answer was received in the Asremldy Rooms at Newcastle, to the effect that the civility had been reciprocated, and the health of " The Mayor and Corporation of Newcastle" been drunk by his lordship and his guests. WEiTMORELAND. A FATAL. EPIDF.MIC is very prevalent in Kendal and the neighbourhood. it has been unusually . destructive among young persons. The whole dtstrict is in a very unhealthy sate, area the expectation of improvement from the frost has not yet been at all realised. CHESHIRE. REPRF.SENTATION STOCI:PORT.—MF. Cobden, it iS said, will be opposed in his seat for Stockport at the next general election, the Conservative Tradesmen and Ope ratives' Society having resolved on starting a candidate. NORTltaMMONetlifte. Tar CORICCIL OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND have defiaitirely. arranged that the annual country meeting for the ensuing year shall be held at Northampton. tnless prevented by the appointment of the county atsiees, the mencipal day of the show will be Thursday, the 15th of July. LLNCOLNSITLP.E. REPRESENTATIO!C OP NORTH EINCOLNSITIRE.—SiT Mon tagu J. Cbolmeley has at length issued an address offering himself as a candidate for the parliamentary seat vacant by the successioa of Lard Worsley to the Yarborough peerage. It hu been far some time past understood that Sir Monta gu had been solicited to allow himself to be put into nomi nation ; and it amounts' almost to a certainty that he will not be opposed. It is expected the election will take place as we have before stated on Thursday the 31st inst. Moue MISCHIEF FROM FIRE ARMS.—The Lincoln papevs contain the following:—On the 3rd inst. an inquest was held on the bode o f Millicent Dixon. a servant ref Mr. Harland, of Branston Fen. Her death was occasioned by the die- I charge of ears, whilst in the hands of Alfred Harland, a youth 13 yaof age. The deceased was shot in a dairy, the charge having perforated the door, which is three-fourths of an inch tidies. For come time the evidence was most un suisEsetory ; nothir.g could he elicited except that the gun went o that the girl was shot ; but why the deceased went intend the ddry remained an enigma. The they, on being examir.ed by the coroner, stated that he had gun in hie hand, but how it went off he did not know; that he was let aware of the presence of the deceased in the un dairy, butne that he instantly ran there to see what damage the g hadwhe he found the deceased, lifted her up, and ran for assistance. This statement being at variance with ocher facts elicited of , the the corone r remonstrated with the boy upo Lis disregard la Susannah Horne tier... , P+ Mr. Woakes on the Mon lay morning, when the apprentice „ • ,er said that he had fonad the bottle which he could not tind rate bill to parliament, in wmca p*.• before. It contained a dark fluid not a white one. Mr. Vic , cap. S 8 and 9 Vic., cap. 69, and the 9 Vic., cap. 4, OCT-000 1 i kego Woakes came into the shop, but witness did not see him which have for their object the execution by the Board of of the Thurles Board of Guardians, amongst me p.--tii‘v ke nn take any bottle from the shelf. This concluded the evidence Works of drainage works of a more extended description, in plying for admission were several women with children, hand, but how it went Oil no nd on the part of the to moat cases involving the Mterest of several proprietors, will whi ne husbands were employed upon . the public i . tware of the presence of the deceased in the dairy, but thatle 5,t,77: B cr. Fanny Plummer was then called by r• Day : She be consolidated and simplified, and such amendments will be They urged that the weakly wa:les of us. a week paid to I instantly ran thereto see whatdams,ge the gunhaddone, when F T uoi j ras stated that she had known Miss Allen six or seven years. made in them as the occasion may appear to require. labourers was, at the present price of provisions, no more he found the deemed, lifted 11 , 2 up, and ran for assistance. • / ..a . - , -- t rth i ts .r . j ot v 3 47 Went to school with her. Had corresponded with her. The loans which have hitherto been made limn the Pub- than adequate to afford ere meal a day to each family. This and being at variance with other facts elicited, the o r ,u fg e s t . 8,„0...._pi0„0..._0( (word F a Deceased wrote very singular letters. Had Perceived that lie Works Loan Fund for this object, have been made at the Several guardians were for tho admission of these partici', coroner remonstrated with the boy upon Lis disregard of the C. farcbrother, C. L., New Ina Hag; J. Frit i ; (WWI; M