The Express. — London, England, 1846-09-26 00:00:00

(From last night's Gazette.) DOWNING-STREET, SEPT. 23.—The Queen hos ap- Do wied the Right Hon. Sir C. E. Grey, lint., to he Captain beneral and Governor in chief of the i•land of Jamaica ; WI. R e id, Esq., Lieut.-Col. in the Royal Engineers, to be Go vernor and Commander in Chief in the islands of Earbadoec, Grenada, St, Vincent, Tobago, and St. Lucia; C. Elliot, E s q., Captain in the Royal Naoy, to be Governor and Com mander in Chief in the Bermudas and Somers Islands ; and t h e Bight Hon. Sir H. Pottinger, Bart., Alajor-General in the Service of the East India Company, to be Governor and Commander in Chief in the settlement of the Cape of Good DOr• WAR-OFFICE, Sire. 23. 2nd F.—Ens. R. 0. Potts to be lieut., by pur., rite (Minty, who ; Iloklaworth to be ens., by pur. 20th F.—Assist. -Sung. J. Morrison, from 89th F., to be surf., vice Ser ,3l3 , Prola• 25th F.—H. D. Parrott to be ens., without pur., vice Strange, whose W pointment has been cancelled. 29th F. -.Lieut. E. T. Fitzgerald, from 3rd W. India Regt., to be lieut., vice Henry, who ret. 30th F.—M. Walker to be ens., without pur., vice Butler, prom. in 89th I. 47th F.—Serf:Major W. It'lntosh to be quartermaster, vice O'DOll. mil, dec. 64th F.—Lieut. W. B. Jopp to be capt., by par., vice Fownes, who yet.; Ens. N.H. Shute to be lieut., by pur.; 11. it. C. Godley to be ens., by ma. 69th F.—F.ns. C. E. Butler, from 30th F., to be lieut., without pi e., vice Carmichael, app. edit.; Ens. G. Bigot to he lieut., by a r, vice Mundell, who ret. ; J. Smyth to be ens., by par.; Lieut. t. J. Carmichael to be adjt., lice Moore, prom. 71st F.—Ens. W. S. l'Ance to be lieut., by pur., vice Danville, who l eg.; W. N. Micklethweit to be ens., by pur. 84th F.—Ens. A. Macbean, Iran 97th F., to be ens., without pur., vice O'Brien. Prom. 87th F. Dec. Lieut. F. T. Patterson to be Bret lieut., without pur., vice J. W. Austen, superseded; the lion. A. M. Cathcart to be see. 97th F.—A. Macbean to be ens„ by pur, vice Peat, who net. ; R. F. Holm , to be ens., without pur., vice Macbean, app. to 84th F. 3rd W. India Regt.—Ens. C. F. Amiel to be lieut., by pur., vice Fitzgerald, app. to 29th F.; W. I. Littman to be ens., by pur. Snow.'-Lseut. J. Sabine, from h.-p. RI. African Corps (repaying the difference), to he paymaster of a recruiting district, vice Luca*, 11.14PITAt. STAl7.—Staff-gurg. of the First Class J. Hall, M.D., to be dep. invect..gen. of hospitals; Staff -surf. of the See. Class T. Atkin nn, M.D., to be staff -surf. of the first clam; Surg. S. Teevan, from 28th F., to be staff-sing. of thetirst class, vice T. Smith,3l.o.,who mt. upon • Amid-Surf. A. Ferguson, M.D., from 18th F., to be staff-surf. of the see. class ; Assist.-Burg. F. Roberto, from 50th F, to be staff.-surg. of the see. elan. To be Assist-Surgeons to the Forces G. W. I'. Sparrow, E. W. T. Mandeville, W. T. Black, W. Cameron, . Nich,lion, J. S. Grant, F. B. Phillipson. THE REGISTRATIONS. ----- LONDON.—The lists of St. Michael llassishaw, St. Olave Jewry, and St. Stephen Coleman-street, occupied' the court yesterday. On the claim of James Waters, of St. Michael bassishaw, being investigated, the question of tender man arose, and Mr. Ainie was further examined as to what he should have done had the overseer taken the money tendered ; but Mr. Arnold adhered to his decision of the previous day, that " an intention to pay " was a neces sary ingredient in a legal tender. The claim was disallowed, but Mr. Arnold expressed his readiness to grant a case on some other claim which might raise the point of law in a clear form. After some conversation, Mr. Wansey said he should protest against the whole of these decisions, and ultimately he gave notice of appeal in the case of Mr. Henry Haste, of Basinghall-street. A long discussion ensued as to the precise point to be raised ; and ultimately Mr. Wansey un dertook to draw up a case, and submit it for the approval of the barrister. In several similar cases the claims were dis alio, ed. subject to the appeal. Three out of the nineteen wards have now been disposed of. To-day, the ward of Lishopsgate Within and Without will be proceeded with. At the rising of the court, the result, as fur as the house holders' lists are concerned, stood thus : Liberal objections, 49 sustained; failed or withdrawn. Tory do. 143 157 Double do. 30 13 1 Abend claims, 33 . . 59 1 Tory do. Wearstuesten.—M:. C. 1). Moylan, the revising banister for the city of Westminster, commenced his sittings yester dry, in the Vice-Chancellor of England's Court, Westmin ster-hall. The number of claims and objettion. for the entire district is as follows:—Liberal chum . , 262; Tory claims, 24. Liberal objections, 263 ; Tory objections, none. Mr. G. Iluggett and Mr. Trott attended as agents for the Liberal party; Mr. Score for the opposite one. The parish first taken was that of St. Anne, in which there was a single ob jection, viz., to Thomas l'ickford, 395, Oxford-street. The only question raised in this cape wee, whether the notice of objection was good in point of form, the objector not having stated whether he was himself registered in the scot and lot list or in the house list, but merely that he was " On the list of voters." In a similar case, at Bristol, a notice so named was held to be invalid, beeause there was an evident inten tio% to mislead; but no such intention or tendency appearina• in the case under consideration, the notice was held to be valid. and the ground of objection being also good, the vote was disallowed. W. H. Barry claimed to be placed on the list of voters. The accessed taxes for the house in respect of which the claim was made were not paid ; and the question, the deci sion of which turns on the construction of the 27th and 30th sections of the Reform Act, was whether the claimant was not entitled to be placed en the list, inasmuch as he had not been returned in the list of defaulters but, instead, a person named Knott, who is the superior landlord. For the claim ant, it was contended that the payment of the poor-rate is sufficient. In opposition to the claim, it ISM urged that the areseased taxes must all be paid to secure the vote. The de cision was postponed. Having gone through the claims and objections in St. Anne's, the revising barrister then proceeded with the pa rishes of St. Paul, Covent-garden, St. Clement Danes, St. Mary-le-Strand, St. Martin, and the Precinct of the Savoy - . Most of the of were sustained ; a few cases were postponed. PROVINCIAL.— Nosed DURHAM (COUNTY). — A caution was given by the revising-banister in this court, which may be useful to a certain class of claimants. A ' glaringly untenable claim having been made, the learned barrister remarked that parties who make frivolous claims are equally liable to costs as persons who prefer frivolous ob jections. The object of the legislature was to keep the registers pure, and if any individual were proved before him to have claimed a vote well knowing that he had no title to one, he should impose heavy costs. It was further important that it be known that persons who combine to Mist fictitious Totes on the register are liable to be indicted atthe assize/4 for a misdemeanour under the Registration Act. In the course of the sittings, the united Liberal and Fret-trade party have put iu one hundred and fifty new claims, and established every one of them. The same party made twenty-three ob jections, of which they sustained twenty. The Tory party made eighty-six objections, every one of which failed. The Tories made fifty new claims, and sustained about forty of them. WE-T RIDING Or YORKSHIRE. On Tuesday last, William Blanshard, Benjamin Boothby, and ',nitric 'temple, Esqrs., the barristers-at-law appointed to revise the list of voters in the election of the shire for the West Riding of Yorkshire, held their court for this district at the Town hall, in this town. The Tories being unrepresented, the re sult of the revision was greatly in favour of the Liberal party, who had a gain upon the objections sustained and new claims made of upwards of 100. At Sheffield, the court for which was held on Monday, the revision was as equally gratifying as at Doncaster. The following is given as the state ot the register as regards this district :—New claims, Conservatives, 6; Liberals, 125; doubtful, 12. Objections, struck off, Con servatives, 47; Liberals, 0 ; doubtful, 0. Liberal gain, 166. WAKEFIELD.—In this borough the Tories have gained ten votes. COUNTY of EDINBURGII.—The registration court for this county has concluded its sittings, and the results are stated as follows : The total number of claims lodged was sixty-three, of which thirty-four Couservatires and twenty one Liberals were admitted, the remaining eight having been ?elected, Of the votes objected, twenty-five belonged to the Liberal, and six to the Conservative party. LEITH.—The registration for the Leith burghs was concluded in favour of the Liberals who have gained twenty rotes. ORKNEY AND SIIETLAND.—Eighty-one new claims have been established here, of which all' belong to Liberals except eight. ALDERMAN WOOD AND THE CIVIC CHAIR.—The friends of Alderman Wood met yesterday at the Crown Tavern, Bow-lane, for the purpose of considering the means best calculated to ensure his success at the coming election. Atter a speech from the alderman, in which he stated that the Irish Court of Queen's Bench had relieved him from the charges of fraud which had been laid to him in an English toilet, the following resolution was passed : .• That the unabated confidence of this meeting in Alderman Wood vantiot be inure forcibly expressed than be the earnest assurance that • ewli and every individual composing it willow his utmast endeavours to secure the election of the worthy alderman to the civic chair." The meeting having given three cheers for the alderman, separated. THE OLD RED-BRICK RECTORY ILOUSE OF ST. Jxfaes's, WESTMINSTER, was gutted this week, and in the course of a couple of days will be level with the ground. It stood in Piccadilly, at the sorrier of Church-place. In this Los r (one of Sir Christopher Wren's) Dr. Samuel Clarke, when rector of St. James's, wrote his " Attributes of the Deity." Clarke, though fond of staying at home, was fond of violent exercise ; he therefore amused himself with leap ing over chairs and tables. Perhaps this kind of amuse ment had something to do with the necessity for rebuilding the house. EXTRAORDINARY METEOR.—Last night, about 10 o'cick, a magnificent meteor was observed in the metropolis to shoot with great velocity in a north-westerly direction across the heavens. its light was so powerful, that for the space of 30 seconds the atmosphere seemed to undergo a transition from darkness to daylight. The attention of a Peat number of persons was rivetted to it, and perhaps no one amongst them ever witnessed a similar beautiful sight. VAUXHALL GARDENS.—CLOSE OF TILE 114TH SE " 95 .—Yesterdav evening the Vauxhall Gardens closed aft( r a season of unexampled prosperity, mainly attributable to the fineness of the weather and the attractive character of the entertainments. The season has extended over eighty h%e nights, the longest on record, out of which there has a t iris been five wet evenings. In the course of the e v e nin g „,,ar J. W. Sharp, the comic vocalist, delivered the following valedictory address Gentlemen, —I am deputed by the management to say words at paring on this the last night of the season, which has ?ten one of the mod favoured us regard." the weather that bas ever loom by the oldest member of the establishment. It Is a pleas ., tatk at all Times to meet our friends, but it is the reverse at parting with them. W e have • . t our eighty - fifth night, and lam irotruet e d b I now arrived t management to bid you farewell, and to convey their Muni, hp . .you tor the extensive patronage they have received, also to l the..t thanks of the ladies and gentlemen of the vocal department, I.hestra, the member; of M. Tourniairr's troupe, the illumina :!_e"ral pyrotechnic "wastes, and every member of the establishment, ' t '; i ., l 2! . ...arouragem en t and support they have received throughout Vest season that has ever been attempted. It now only sri' UM to say mo s t respectfully—k'arewelL" THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1846. The gardens were first opened on Wednesday, June 7th, 1732, when 400 persons paid a guinea each for edmission. - - INQUESTS. DEATH FROM BLOWS. The ad journed inquest mentioned under the above title in the Daily News on IVeduesday, as held at the Cock, Ratchff, on the body of J. H. Levitt, was continued by Mr. Baker, when the following account of the outrage which caused deceased's death was given. John Pigrome, of Plaistow, deposed: about six o'clock in the evening he was on the Barking road ; saw deceased in a light chaise cart, driving at a moderate pace ; a barouche drawn by two horses, in which were eight or ten persons, was driving rapidly after him, and, on reach ing him, the driver struck at deceased with his whip; de ceased endeavoured to return the cut, when his whip fell into the road ' • he then stopped his horse, and the people in the barouche did the same, when severa l of them got out. one of whom climbed into deceased's vehicle and knocked him backwards, his head falling over the tail-board, and his feet under the scat ; whilst in that position, holding him by the hair, he struck him a number of blows about the head and face with all his force ; whilst so doing another of them, in going to the back of the cart, also struck the deceased a violent blow, as his head was hanging down. Others also struck him. They then went to their carriage, and, as they passed deceased, cut at him with the whip as he sat wiping the blood which flowed in streams from several places in his face, and covering the whole of his shirt-front. It was the most brutal and wanton assault witness ever saw.—John Pluckrose deposed to the assault taking place at the termina tion of the race, and, on the party being remonstrated with, they said " he deserved it, as he had purposely run against one of the men, and caused him to lose the wager ;" deceased said he had not —The medical evidence was, that the de. ceased died from inflammation of the membranes of the brain brought on by violence. The inquiry was again adjourned until Wednesday next for futther evidence. The prin. eines in the outrage have abseonded.—Drresi- MINED SEICIDP.—By Mr. Baker, touching the death of James Walters, aged 45, late a porter at the Eastern C,nnties Railway. For some time past, he had been in a low and desponding state, in consequence of his wife having left him, twelve months since. He bad latterly been always in a state of intoxication, and was attacked with delirium tremens. On Saturday night he threw himself out of the window. His leg caught the winnow ledge, and he struck his left arm with greatviolence against the wall. His screams for assistance brought several persons to the spot, who re leased him from his perilous situation. It was found that he had received a severe wound on the arm. He lingered until Tuesday, when he expired. Verdict, " Temporary_ insanity." —DEATH FROM IMPROPER NURSING.--By Mr. Carter, at the Peacock Tavern, Holland-street, Blackfriars-road, on Henry Bageley, aged eight weeks, lately residing at No. 57, Holland-street, St. Saviour's, Southwark. The deceased, on the afternoon of the 16th inst., was placed in the care of a neighbour's child to untie, who let the deceased fall out of her arms on to the pavement. He was put under the care of a surgeon, who subsequently . ascertained that the deceased was labouring under concussion of the brain, no doubt caused by a fall. The girl having been questioned, admitted such was the case.—Verdict, "Accidental Death."--KILLED BY A CAPIC.—By Mr. W. Payne, at Guy's Hospital, on William Taylor, aged 42, a labourer. On Thursday week he was employed on a barge alongside Schofield's wharf, Toolcy street, when an empty hogshead fell from a height of about thirty feet, and struck the deceased on the head. He was instantly removed to Guy's Hospital, where he was found to have received a saidocation of the spine, which caused his death on Wednesday last.—Verdict, " Accidental Death." --Braxen To DEATH. —Also by Mr. Baker, on the body of Thomas Snow, aged 51 years. On Wednesday morning his mother, who was unable to assist herself, and was in bed, asked him to light the fire. While doing so, his shirt caught the candle, and was burnt entirely off his body. He died a few hours after his admission to the hospital. —Verdict, " Accidental Death." THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAM-SHIP.—LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY.—The Windsor steamer, of Belfast, brought from that port to Liverpool sixty more passengers to-day. The paasengen have held a meeting to decide upon what steps it is advisable to take under the circumstances, and, when our express left, they were awaiting an aaswer from the consig nees of the Great Britain to the deputation appointed by the passengers. Amongst her passengers were Mr. King, United States 'Minister at Paris; the Rey. Dr. Cox, and a number of other clergymen, who attended the Evangelical Alliance meeting in London ; upwards of thirty of the celebrated dancing children, the Viennoises, &c. THE SURVEYOR OF TILE NAVY IN A NEW POSITION. —About half-past eight o'clock on Wednesday evening, the night being pitchy dark, the Phoenix steamer, from Tenby, was run into by the Herald steamer, outwasid bound, whilst in the narrow channel of the Swash ,i at the entrance of our river. The iron rails and stanchions of the Phenix were carried away, and the Herald received some slight damage. The noise of the crash occasioned considerable alarm to the passengers, and the feelings of those on board the Phoenix were most painfully excited, when, after the collision it was di-covered that Sir William Symonds, the celebrated Sur veyor of the Navy, who had been on board, was missing. It was rumoured here that the gallant officer was drowned, bnt we are rejoiced to be enabled to contradict the statement on authority. Sir William had, however, a very narrow escape. Ile was in the bows of the Phoenix at the time the Herald ran into her, and when the vessels parted was car ried off astride of the cutwater of the Herald, to which he clung, until his situation was perceived, and he was taken on hoard, and landed at Clevedon, from which place he pro ceeded at once to Bristol to relieve the anxiety of his friends. He is quite well, nst having received the slightest injury. No blame attaches, as far as we have learnt, to the commanders of either of the vesaels.—Bristol Gazette. MR. SERJEANT TALFOURD'S CLAIMS TO THE SOUL ITOR-GENEHALSHIP. —There is a vacancy in the office of her Majesty's Solicitor-General. The universal voice of the profession points to Mr. Serjeant Talfourd as the very fittest man to whom the appointment could be offered. We should have named the learned serjeant as an eligible candidate fur the vacant seat in the Queen's Bench, but that we consider that a man who has led his circuit for the last seven years, or more, without a rival, and who has been second to none in the Common Pleas (always excepting Sir Thomas Wilde, now presiding over that court),—who is dis tinguished not merely by legal learning, but by eloquence and power of expression,—and who has acquired a certain par liamentary and literary repute,—should look to something better than a most laborious puisne judgeship. Already has Mr. Serjeant Talfourd made sacrifices for his party of no mean order, and these sacrifices have been ill, not to say ungratefully, requited. It were well that Lord John Rus sell should think of this. Genius and eloquence, rare at all times, have now nearly disappeared front the forum. In making the offer to Serjeant Milliard he will raise his own character, and the character of his Government ; for it can not too often be proclaimed in the hearing of politicians, that by the connexion of a party with a great advocate, honour is reflected on the party, not on the advocate. — Mowing Herald. THE CONDUCT OF TILE POLICE IN TILE.DAGEN HAM INVESTIGATION.—Such an atrocity as that perpetrated at Dagenham it has not been our duty to chronicle for many years, if all the circumstances attending it be but duly con sidered. Less reasonable causes have scared lone houses from their propriety, and spread an irresistible panic even through populous towns... The disclosures which have come to light during the inquest on the unfortunate police-con stable, George Clarke, are of a character tending to shake our confidence in that system on which we now entirely rely for the security of life and property. It would be very un becoming in us to anticipate a conclusion which a patient jury has declared itself as yet incompetent to form. Who murdered Clarke we do not pretend to say, though we trust this most heinous crime will struggle into day with that irresistible power of emersion proverbially attached to it. But there are circumstances incidental to the inquiry which demand all the exposure which the public press of a country can give. On the night of the 29th of June a policeman, who had marched whole and sound to his beat, was missing. Four days afterwards the body was found, in a spot admirably chosen for such a deed of blood, and exhibiting marks of such brutal mutilation that revenge, and not robbery, alone was naturally inferred to have been the object of the murderer. Se far the crime wears no other features than that of a peculiarly horrible murder. A constable was not unlikely to have been an object of hatred to a desperate character ; nor was there anything strange in the concealment of the crime for a few days, though it might not unfairly have been presumed that the professional activity and necessary sagacity of the police would have been sharpened by tome promptings of the esprit de corps, and that so singular an atrocity, of which a comrade had been the victim, would have been marked with the most unwinking watchfulness, and tracked with the moat untiring exertion. But no sooner is the man reported missing than, even before the discovery of the body, we find the serjeant on duty pro. posing a tale to be reported to the magistrates, and adhered to by the whole guard, respecting the incidents of this event ful night ! This proposition of deliberate and systematic perjury—this gratuitous desertion of a most serious duty— this abominable falsification of a story which it was their express business and bounden office to clear—is instanta neously acceded to; and five constables go before the magis trates and swear together to a most wicked lie, in order to defeat the ends of justice in detecting the murderers of an unoffending comrade ! What shall we conclude concerning the conduct of these men ? Were they ready to forswear themselves to abet the guilty ? Were they ready to blink a murder to save themselves from a charge of inattention ? Or is such the spirit of those to whom we intrust our lives and property that killing is held no murder, and robbery no theft, if it should disturb the private arrangements of the police—that perjury is so familiar and habitual a practice as to be in request and useat the first call, to promote any favourite device or secure any agreeable end ? Which of these suppositions will the most charitable of our readers be inclined to adopt ?..Suppose these five constables, who so coolly forswore themselves at a moment's warning, and who gravely came before the coroner on Tuesday and deposed again, with great solemnity, to the truth of " their lose evidence"—suppose that these men, insteal of taking oath to an unintelligible lie, bad sworn the murder against some guiltless person—what would have been his chance of escape ?..Surely it is high time that more signal notice should be taken of the infamous habits which this mysteri ous atrocity has disclosed, and under the influence of which no 'man's life or character can for a moment be reckoned secure.— The Times. TIIE ORIGINATOR OF THE RAILWAY SYSTEM.- Sir,—Some kind friend forwarded to your paper of the 22nd inst., an article signed " Yentas," den Ting my right of claim to the title of the projector of the railway system. Now, if " Veritas" will publish his real name, he will ever find me ready to compare notes and publications with him or any of his friends, as I am fortified by documentary evi dence and living witnesses innumerable, both at home and abroad. However, without any reference to partial friends on either side, I can refer to a better judge, a more impartial investigator, the press of England, which has, after a most minute consideration, decide d in my favour. Let " Veritas" give me kis real name and address, and I am ready to accept the challenge, but I have no chance with a shadow, under the assumed but imposing name of " Veritas." Relying on your immediate insertion of this short note, I am, sir, re spectfully yours, TURMAS GRAY. ACCIDENT ON TILE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. — Sir,—On reading the report, in the Express of this day, of the inquest held at Farricgdon on the bodies of two passen gen killed by a train on Monday last, the cause of the acci dent seems very clear, though the evidence which leads me I to a conclusion seems not to have produced any impression on the coroner and jury. It appears that a luggage van, witA only four wheels, was between the tender and the broken carriage in which the two passengers were killed ; it appears, also, that the train was heavier than usual, that the driver had slasekened his pace, but had not given any signal to the guard to put the break en the carriages. Sothat here we find a four-wheeled van going at great speed with a heavy engine and tender before it, with slackened speed, and seven passenger carriages, and a parcel van, " rather a heavy load," behind it at full speed. Is it not obvious that the comparatively light four-wheeled carriage must be pressed out of its course between the two heavy bodies before and behind? If so, the inference is, that a carriage with only four wheels ought not to be used at all, or certainly ought not to be so placed; and that whenever the driver slackens his pace he should give the signal for the hinder break to be put on, that the binder carriages may not by their continued velocity overrun those that are before them.—J. RAILWAY POLICE.—SIB,—It waswith surprise and regret that I read, in your otherwise excellent and temper ate article on railway accidents, in yesterday's Express, a suggestion that the railway police should be placed under government control. Sir, I have heard this suggestion made before now, and from less impartial sources ; but what there can be desirable in your view, that the government unarmed army of this country should be so encrmously in creased, as would be the result of carrying the scheme into effect, I cannot conceive ; while the mischiefs likely to occur are obvious; the first and greatest is the divided re sponsibility ; the recriminations in case of an accident between the working and the police branches, would drown all chance of getting at the truth, and juries would be found reluctant to inflict damages on companies who had not full control over all their subordinates. Secondly. The same thing would occur in the country, as now takes place in the metropolis, i. e. when any extraordinary occasion arises fur the presence of a larger body of police than usual at a par ticular place, the other districts are drained of their usual protection, and the men are returned after an interval of a day or two regularly " used-up," and scarcely able them selves to " move on." Fancy these blase; individuals neg lecting switches and signals, _or giving the wrong turn whilst in a state of very decided somnambulism. Moreover in the rural districts, ill-feeling would inevitably spring up between the rustics and police, which would sometimes be found to seek indulgence at the hazard of the lives of pas sengers. I confess I can perceive no analogy in your at tempted illustration. The business of the suburban, as of the metropolitan police, is to watch and protect the public in general, travelling or residing along their beats—passengers included; whilst that of the railway police, is to yield and enforce obedience to all neccsiiiry and established precau tions for the safety of passengers, and protection of the property of their employers. It appears to me that a com parison, at least as fair and germaiue to the point, would be to suppose the trustees of the turnpike-road, to insist upon the appointment of the driver. and conductors of the omnibi travelling thereon.—Your Subscriber, STOP TkIIET. LOUD STANLEY ON THE POTATO 11UP.ItAIN.—In an excellent speech delivered by Lord Stanley at the Liverpool Agricultural Dinner, on Thursday evening, his lordship said : In pestling, ten does ago, through the town of Edinburgh, I was assured that a potato had not beam exhibited for sale fur ten days or a fortnight. Gentlemen, I will not dilate on this topic, and that for the best of all posaible reasons, beemse I know nothing at all about it. I believe, if all the most learned men were to wake am honeat confession, they would say that they knew no more about the cause of the failure of the putatu crop than I do. They know nu to to about the diutare than this, that it is elanaerou.s in its willowy antl lamentable in its effects; but as to its cause, its origin, or the mode of preventing or palliating it, they are altogether in a state of uncer tainty. Ido hope that, notwithatanding the indications of failure in the potato crop which have come muter my own curenisanec, when during three or four yearn I held the office of Colonial Secret: ry.snd when I was applied to by persons in the distant eland of at. Ilekaa to consult practical persons in this country with left ream to a mks. terious disease which then prevailed in the potato crop in that island —I du trust that, notwithstanding thin universal failure of the potato crop, the disease dues nut owe its origin to a perm mint failure to the rout itnelf, but to some extraordinary atmospheric influence. I am persuaded that it is the will it Providence to afflict us with this dispensation, and I look forward with humble confidence to the with drawal, by Divine Peocielenet, of that calamity which no human skill nor foresight can avert. lain the more led to entertain this rondo- Won, because I find that amity practical farmers have found that other crows have been similarly affected, though not to the same extent as the potato crop. In the turnip trope in this and ether distrieta, an extraordinary dream, similar to that which has infected the potato crop, has manifested itself. 'the same observation applies to celery. Ido not intend to Mlle any °formations on either of these topics, although they are matters 01 the deepest interest to many of you, who are practical fanner,. I rather turn to Srt what advantage we can derive from these misforttine.s ; and I will venture to say that the uncertainty tend general failure of the potato crop Wilt be no small advantage to this part of the country. They will lead the farmer, and especially the small fanner, to rest his trust Ines on the potato crop, to the exclusion or other produetiona that might be miter certain and advantageous. I know to my cost, as an Irish landlorl, that the small fanners of that country have relied too much on that crop -that has hero their sole stay, at; that failing, their distress has been grievotialy aggravated. I recollect the time when it wee declared that A turnip would not grow in this country—that the soil and cli mate were adverse to turnip cultivation, and that to atteopt to grow a turnip here would be poked on as the height of absurdity. Now I will venture to say that there is no district in England which Ira yield a more remunerative return on a crop of turnip than the district comprised within the limits of this society. In the course of this evening I shall have to read to vou instances in which--what do you sumiose--22, 25, or 26 ton. ! go • but 30 ton and 13 tons of sweetish turnips per acre have been pr oduced by fanner. Within the Mateo! this modesty. I hliove that, with proper tillage watt dr.iinag, of the and, a great part of thin district would be eminently calculate' for the growth of turd{', which it was formerly believed could not be grown here. I believe also that the generel inoistore of the climate of this country, which moistures is Ulll:lrOtirable to some descriptions of 'unlace, is eminently favourable to the growth and exteu.sion of the turnip crop. It will, therefore, be deriving good from veil if the farmers of this country turn their attention to the cultivation of tur nips more than they have leitLesto done. PROTECTIONIST DINNER, ESSEX. CHELMSFORD, FRIDAY Mom The E-wv Aerieultural Protection Society, with a view to compliment the Duke of Richmond (who wu unable to be present), and Lard George Dentin& invited them to a public dinner, which took place this evening, in the Assembly-room of the Shire-hall, and which by the favour able contrast it presented to the ordinary character of agri cultural repasts, may be said to have contained within itself a striking proof of the value of competition, having been arranged, prepared, and served by the rival establishments of the Saracen's Read and Black Boy Inns. There was a total absence of motto, device, or decoration in the room in which eleven tables, with about thirty-two covers on each, were placed transversely. Mr. Toole, from London, acted u toast-muter. The chair was filled by Mr. R. Baker, of Writtle, the founder of the society, the seats on either side being oceup'...-d by the noble guest. Mr. C. G. Round, Newde gate, M.P., Mr Hudson, M.P., Mr. 0. Gore, M.P., Mr. Waddington, M.P., Sir J. Tyrrell, M.P., Mr. G. Palmer, M.P., Major Beresford, M.P., Mr.P. Bennet, M.P., and Mr. lieneker ; the Rev. J. Cox, Rev. F. Hope, Rev. T. Fisher, Rev. W. Shepherd, Rev. C. T. James, Rev. 1.). Gwilt, Rev. J. Bullock, Rev. \V. P. Honywood, Rev. J. 11. Randolph, Rev. E. Edwards, Rev. M. Kemble, Rev. E. Nottage, Captain Ileyborn, Captain Cox, Colonel Bagges, and several other gentlemen from the surrounding country. The Cit vinu ss; (previous to proposing the ordinary national toasts, which were drunk with enthusiasm) referred to several communications conveying apologies for absence, but showing, as he observed, that the feeling in favour of protection to British industry remained unabated. (Cheers.) One of them, he regretted to say, was from the Duke of Richmond, who stated that, since his arrival in Scotland, he had not enjoyed good health, the parliamentary campaign having knocked him up, and on that account, fearing to undertake so long a journey, but cxpressiug his grateful acknowledgments for the invitation. Lord Ashburton, the Duke of Grafton, and Sir H. Smith wera also amongst the apologists. " The Bishop of Rochester and the Clergy of the Diocese," having been proposed by Mr. A. Majendie, of Iledingham Castle, the toast was responded to by the Rev. J. Cox, of Feirsted, who said that they had assembled not simply to compliment Lord G. Bentinek for having laid the founda tion of a great and lasting party, but to raise upon that foundation the superstructure of the party itself, guided by this great principle that all due protection should be extended to British industry against uncontrolled competition with foreign labour—(hear, hear)—and that free encouragement should be given to the produce of Great Britain, whether emanating from the anvil, the loom, or the land, and like wise to British shipping. (Cheers.) He would venture to include the protection of the church and the monarchy itself, being convinced that the principle of free-trade and of buy ing in the cheapest market was totally at variance with the presen - ation of the monarchy and the church, as at present established. The rev. gentleman then drew a contrast between the bishop of the diocese, who, he said, bad main tained his consistency as a protectionist, and the Bishop of Oxford, who, while he professed his love of free-trade, and declared that it was c .mnion sense, made that declara tion, with a mental reservation against free-trade in sugar, because it would promote slavery. But the great body of Quakers, who, as free-traders, went still further, and refused to make use i f slave-grown sugar, were well-known to be purely democratic in their principles, both as regarded church and state, and he believed, therefore, if the principle of free-trade were to be carried out in all its integrity, that it would ultimately lead to democratic doctrines, to the destruction of the church and the present form of govern meat. (Cheers.) The CitAIRMAN introduced the next toast with more than ordinary pleasure. It was no ordinary occasion on which they were met to do honour to those wlio had so nobly fought their battle, and who were still able to defend their interests. , Never was a party placed in such a position as the protec- . tionists. Defeated by their own chief, and that chief since overthrown by his awn party. Bat, though defeated, they had still sufficient courage remaining to stand forward in the cause of truth and justice, and by God's help they would continue to stand by it till it prevailed. (Cheers.) He regretted that illness had occasioned the absence of the Duke of Richmond, but they had the noble lord (G. Bentinck) present ; and they all knew, that he, and the party in the House of Commons who followed him, had conducted them selves, when called upon to play what was supposed at the time to be a desperate same, in a manner to call forth the admiration, not only of the farmers and the labourers, but of the whole kingdom. (Cheers.) It was for the purpose of expressing their sympathy with the cause in which the noble lord and the noble duke bad engaged that they were then met, and it was with feelings of gratitude, thankfulness, and respect, that he now proposed the health of the Duke of Richmond and Lord George Bentinek. The tout was drunk with nine times nine. Lord GEORGE BENTINCK, who was loudly cheered, said, r that, in rising to return the thanks of the Duke of Richmond and his own for the cordial manner in which they had met the toast just proposed from the chair, he was sure that he only re. echoed the pulses that beat in every breast when he expressed his deep regret that his noble friend the Duke of Richmond was not present to receive the thanks his exer tions and zeal in the cause of agriculture eneitled him to. The noble duke had been the warrior of the working day, and he had better apostrophise the answer he gave to their invitation when he directed him (Lord 0. Bentinck) to say how deeply he felt the honour intended him by the county of Essex, which was the first to raise the banner of protec tion, and which at the last great fight was unanimous is the voice it sent up to parliament, and which was eminently dis tinguished above all other counties, for, if not the unani mity, at least the almost unanimity with which the repre sentatives of Essex had displayed their fidelity to their engagements. (Cheers.) The members whom Essex had sent up to support those principles of national protection to all British industry, of which in 1841 Sir R. Peel professed to be the advocate, though in 1846 they had witnessed the spectacle of Sir R. Peel overthrowing those principles which in 1841 he obtained power by professing—of the ten members for Essex, nine had remained faithful to the county and to their principles. (Cheers.) It grieved him to think that no other district could claim for its representatives similar honour and similar honesty. But, looking at the state of Essex, his noble friend had bid him tell them how deeply he felt ho noured by their invitation ; and, in one line from one of the oldest poets of this country, he might apostrophise the noble duke's message to them thus : 'ln God's name cheerly on, courageous Mends." The rev, gentleman who lately spoke bad said truly that they were now met, not so much to pay personal comphrnents as to show that the mind of the country was not changed in its determination to uphold the principle of protection to native industry—whether the anvil, the loom, the soil, or the land of England—(cheers)—and if he (Lord G. Bentinck)} could claim any merit at all, it was that in a moment of dif. ficulty, when treason was in the camp—when the enemy, far more dangerous than the foreign foe, was their own leader— (hear, hear)—when deserted by all those in whom they had been taught to place confidence, at a moment when the heart of the country was—he would not say beaten down,—but when the confidence of the country was weakened, he had stood forward to rally the shaken troops of the protectionists. If the ministry was false he saw at least one honourable and righteous man among them, a man distinguished beyond all his colleagues for high talent and great ability, and he pointed to Lord Stanley as the pilot who would weather the storm. He said to them. Tcucro duce et auspice, Teucro nil desperandurn. And when he was told that if there was a leader in the House of Lords, there was no man to be found to govern the party in the House of C. , 131011T11., he scorned to think that England was so degraded and so fallen from her high estate— that having withstood the storm of civil commotion—having maintained her ground when threatened by France and the United States conjointly, the time had arrived when she was so bound down at the feet of Sir Robert Peel, or any other minister, and—he said—not dreaming that he himselt should ever be called upon to take any prominent part in the move ment, much less that he should be required to take the high position in the House of Commons which their representa tion had assigned to him. (Cheers.) The constituencies of the empire will find new men whenever the old shall b' found wanting either in power or inclination honestly to serve the state. (Cheers.) Was he to be told that no other man could govern the destinies of the State but Sir Robert Peel Of Lord John Itionell—(hear) —or that English glory or English existence must end with the political existence of Sir Robert Peel ! (Hear, hear.) Ile believed he had shown that though their ranks had been decimated by treason and cowardice, still the remnant had eshibit.'d some power of combination against those who had coalesced against them. It was for the country to send men to parliament to help and assist them in their struggle, and to take the place he now held. The condition on which he agreed to serve in that place was that every colleague he had—every one of the 210 members who acknowledged him for their leader, should hold it as their duty to assist heartily, and be prepared to take their turn at the labouring oar when his own strength failed. The example thus shown he believed had had it, effect ; and when he saw how men of too great modesty, but of superior ability, had been thus induced to come forwurd in the service of their country, he trusted the example would not be lost upon many other men much younger, and others who were older than himself, to step lorward and see if good and honest intentions, and a determination to maintain those intentions fearlessly, would not obtain for them that confidence in par liament and in the country which they had been pleased to lavish on him. (Cheers.) Then this would be his boast, and whatever the ultimate result of the contest, it would be hie consolation on his dying day, that he had steed forward to prevent the constituencies of the empire from servilely permitting themselves to be trampled upon by a haughty, an arrogant, and an unprincipled administratioo. (Cheers.) In that county, as in others, he was confident there were young men of talent and integrity of principle who felt they owed a duty to their country, and who, taking an example by him, whose ability was in nothing superior to their own, woula be prompt to eerve theircountry and avert that disgrace which must arise to England were she permitted to be trampled upon by an administration altogether careless of principle and political honour. It would he in the recollection of all present that about ten o'clock at night, just three months ago, Sir It. Peel had taken front agriculture the protection it was entitled to, and thrown this country on the foreigner'for its supplies of food ' • and they had no doubt seen on article lately in one of the leading journals of Europe, and had, with him, admired the modesty and the humility with which, before free- trade had been carried three months, the great organ of the free-Loaders had come screaming, crav ing and yelping to them, the Protectionits of Essex. craving t 3 know how they were prepared to get Ireland oat of the scrape into which free-trade had plunged her. Without demanding a fee for his advice, he would say that Ireland might still be saved from the calamity with which she was threatened, by clinging to the hat plank of protec tion. (Cheers.) In 1807 she was an importing country; but owing to the encouragement of her domestic industry by British domestic laws, she had in the last few years so in creased her production of corn as to be able to export to England wheat, oats, barley, and beans, to the extent of 3,000,000 of quarters. The Times said there were 4,000,000 of people to be provided for, and that allowing to each one quarter of their own superabundant supply of grain three out of the four millions would be provide() for. But what if there had been no protection to Ireland in the shape of a corn-law, with a monopoly of the English market during the last forty years ? Why, simply this, that she would be in the condition that distinguished her in 1807, of not growing enough for her own consumption : and, her potatoes failing, of not haling any grain to fall back upon. There would in that case have been, not such a famine as the Times spoke of, when the warehouses of England and Scotland were loaded with gram, containing, at Christmas last, above 1,000,000 of quarters, being 100,000 quarters more than at any former period of our history; hut such a famine as took place in 1813 in Norway, when dependent upon - Sweden, the result being that in • single diocese 5,000 souls died of absolute strrvation. The prophecies of the Protec tionisto had been verified in a manner which present cir cumstances rendered particularly striking. On the 30th of last March old red wheat fetched from .375. to 705., and on ' the 10;h of August it fetched only from Via. to 54s —a fall in price which could only be explained by the fact of 2,000,000 quarters having come into competition with British grain. A. for the potato disease, observing that it was general, and that it attacked land that had never been broken before, as well as land which had been for many years used for the growth of potatoes, he could only regard it as a calamity similar to that of the cholera, and which, by the blessing of God, would last but for a short period—he hoped not beyond the present season. The Pro tectionists had shown how Ireland might be supplied with food even in her greatest difficulty. He might be told that they had only provided for three out of four millions of the Irish people. He was assured by good authority that they might expect 2,500,000 barrels of wheaten flour, excluoively of maize, from the United States of America; but the wheat from which that flour was made had been grown before the free-trade mea sures of the late government were introduced into parliament, and they had then exactly the mine access to it as if those free-trade measures had not been passed. (Hear, hear.) It was now proposed that Great Britain should feed Ireland. If so, what difference would it have made to the government to have paid the duty with one hand, and received it back with the other ; or to have got grain at a less price by the amount of duty taken off. It was said that the present was a period of general scarcity on the continent and elsewhere. Such were just the periods at which it was madness to make this country dependent upon foreigners. (Cheers.) Sweden, Belgium, Sardinia, and Egypt. finding a scarcity last year, prohibited the export of grain—taking care that peride Albion should not avail itself of any portion of their supply. The principles of Chatham, Pitt, 11 %Wasson, and Canning were quite consistent with this ; so, until now, were the doctrines of Sir J. Graham, who had told them that the most foolish thing a great empire like this could do was to rely upon foreigners for its supply. (Hear, hear.) Sr Robert Peel had said that foreign nations, not through a feeling of enmity-, but actuated by a desire to protect themselves, would naturally enough pro hibit the exportation of their grain to this country. In tact, every statesman, living and dead, including Lord J. Russell, ' but excepting those of the Anti-Corn-Law League, had been of opinion that there was no safety for a country like this in time of a general deficiency of harvest, unless by relying upon its own exertions and capital. The free-trader said that no sooner would their measures be carried than the artisans of England had only to open their mouths and food i would flow into it. Now the duty of two guineas per ton upon potatoes had been totally removed in 1811, and yet no potatoes had been since sent to this country, although, owing to the failure in the growth of that article, there was now a famine in Ireland. They also said that the people would obtain higher wages and a larger loaf, but he doubted if the people of Stockpert and Manchester would verify this pre diction. Indeed, he had received communications from ' Stockport saving that the wages had been reduced Id. a cut, or 10d. a week, and from Cole, stating a reduction of 3d. a I cut. And yet the price of the loaf was no less—a fact which would induce the manufacturers of the country to believe that they (the agriculturists) had not deceived them, and that in mutual protection they would find their best pros perity. Sir R. Peel, with his hereditary recollections of Manchester, had taken off the duty upon America raw cotton, by which our West Indian subjects were deprived of their protection of 5-I6ths of a penny in the pound —a duty that amounted altogether to 68,000/., from which it was supposed the men of Manchester would be relieved, and which was only a trifle more than the amount which 1 • was annually levied on the income tax, from the tenant-' • farmers of England. But Sir R. Peel preferred the men of Manchester, and vet what had been the result of his attempt to serve them ? On the hit of July, ISIS, the price of Ame rican cotton varied for 31d. to 4!d., befit ! an average, of 31d. ; it had so upon the aver had absolutely , of Manchester, fairly assume that the manufacturers themselves would be disappointed with the prophecies of the free-traders, would soon believe that their confiwnce had been abused ; and, be fore another general election, would be found joining the agriculturist in seeking for prooetion. (" Hear," and a cry of The Malt-tax. ') Unless the: , were prepared to turn repudiators, like Sir H. Peel and the As :seriatim—unless they no longer intended to pay their just deNb they must find a revenue sufficient fur all emergencies, and ths.refore the repeal of the Malt-tax would imply the reinstating' of those taxes through the customs which had been removed or reduced. He did not hesitate to say that the Malt-tax ought to be taken off, in preference to the duties upon timber, sugar, cotton, wool, silk, and a thousand other articles; and if they could not get those duties put on first, they must only see whether they could not have the Malt-tax abolished. (Cheers.) That once accomplished, the government would probably invite them to renew the customs duties, so that the removal of the Malt-tax might eventually prove the means of recovering their lost protection to native industry. They had been defeated in their endeavours to maintain that pro tection by 112 gentlemen who had been returned to parlia ment to defend, but who, instead of defending, had betrayed the interests of their constituents. He trusted that the people of England would be true to themselves at the next election, and never consent to become the slaves of their representatives. (Loud and long-cootinued cheering.) Mr. NEWDEGATC M.P., proposed the health of Lord Stanley and the Peers who, in the House of Lords, sup ported Protection to British Industry, who, though told that adherence to principle in them was calculated to bring the two branches of the legislature into collision, still, feel ing confident that the feeling of the people was the same in 1846 as it was in 1841, persevered; and though for a time unsuccessful, had shown a noble example: to the country. Lord Stanley had especially distinguished himself in the cause of protection to British agriculture ; his speech in the House of Lords placed the question on its true foot ing, and furnished an unanswerable argument to the falla cies of the free-traders. The result of free trade in its full application would he a great reduction of the value of labour and property throughout the country, and while the abolition of the corn-laws, by redUcing the price of corn would ruin the farmer, it would deprive the country, in seasons of scarcity, of its only safe guard against famine. (Hear, hear.) Then the bond ing system by which England had been made as one great free port and the depot fur the world, could not continue under the operation of free-trade. Merchants would no longer have any inducement to store their corn here ; it would go to other countries ; and when seasons of scarcity arrived, the cost of transit would add to the difficulty of relieving the wants of the people. (Hear, hear.) Under the operation of free-trade he believed the maximum average price of corn would be 40a. The price of corn in New Orleans was 245. 6d., the cost of transit here was 104. ; and in the Baltic, previous to 1839, the price was 235., the cast of transit to this country about 7s. or 88.; so that, had there been no duty, we might have imported the whole surplus pro duction of those countries at about 3.ss. or 36g. a quarter. The honourable gentleman quoted Dr. John son in favour of affording encouragement to the natural production of any country as against mere commerce, and M. fluizot on the importance of forming and maintaining a grand party for constitutional purposes—the constitutional system, according to that stati.smau, consisting properly of a governing party and an opposition party, each having dcli nits, principles, and an understood system, each system being brought int) ily discussion, and constantly placed in oppo sition to the other ; and concluded a s cry lung speech, in which he was constantly interrupted by tin audience so im patient and unruly that the chairman's efforts and the toast master's (Mr. O'Toole) entreaties and gesticulations for silence were wholly unavailing, by propiciug the tans', which was drunk amidst loud cheers. Lord RAYLEIGH, in returning thanks. eulogised Lord Stanley, condemned Sir R. Peel, assured the protectionists that their cause was by no means dtverate, mid advised them not to be again humbugged. N 1 hen once a famine should come, and the manufacturers found the result of free-trade in corn, there would be no more difficulty in re enacting the corn-law than there had been in enacting the income tax, which was a much more unpopular impost. The remaining toasts were •• Sir J. 1. Tyrell and the ether members of Parliament for the county" " The Chairman" —" The numbers for the boroughs in the coui.ty "—" The Protectionist members of the House of Commons "—" The Yeomanry and the Committee ;•" but the noise and confusion which prevailed rendered all at tempt to report the principal speeches made in proposing and acknowledging them abortive. The party broke up at about ten o'clock. IRELAND. DUBLIN, SEPT. 24. THE CASTI.E.—LIMRRICK DEPVTATION.—On Tuesday, at two o'clock, p.m., the Mayor of Limerick, Alderman Watson, Rev. Dr. Brahan, and F. J. O'Neill, Esq., the deputation appointed by the meeting in this city on Satur day, accompanied by William Monsen, Esq., of Terror, who arrived that morning front Belfast, waited on his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, at the Vice Regal Lodge. and presented the memorial describing the distress of the numerous work ing class. s in this city, and entreating immediate relief, by the prosecution of local works, and the supply of provisions. 'the Lord Lieutenant intimated that the plans for the Floating Docks were forwarded to the Treasury, and from his anxiety to have them in operation, as well as from the exigency of the crisis, he was persuaded that little time would be lost in having them commenced. j As to the opening of Commissariat granaries for India meal, his Excellency did not think it would be carried into effect, as the Government were committed by a declaration in parliament that no interterence would be had with the usual current of commercial private enterprise. lie would direct a proclamation to be issued, which would en able the magistrates and ceas-pavers of Limerick to extend the works at Ashboume, and also to remove the encroach ment,' in the Shannon, between the bridge and Lax Weir, the advance to he repaid by instalment. through the bridge commissioners, who arc the present proprietors of that part of the river. The deputation proce,ded thence to Sir Randolph Routh, the Commissary-General, who assured the deputation that the government would act liberally in aid of any charitable subscriptions in Limerick, to mitigate the wants of the poor; that at present the quantity of Indian meal and corn in the commissariat stores was very inconsider able, but that several cargoes ordered on the Ist instant, were expected from America in November, which would be applied for the relief of the moat necessitous. Oust! REPRESENTATIVE PEEIL—The Earl of Desert will be the successor of the late Marquis of Thomond in the representative peerage of Ireland. LIMERICK PROTESTANT 01(1.11AN SOCU:TY.—A meeting of one of the auxiliary branches of this society was held at Newcastle., County of Limerick, on Monday last. The Earl of Devon presiding. His lordship's eldest son, Viscount Courtenay, addressed the meeting, speaking in the following terms of the principle of such societies :—I must confer I had some ntisgirings relative to proselytism, from which I am now freed. There is • great call fur charity at the present moment, but I cannot help recognising that principle of duty which obliges us to provide for the chil dren of that branch of the church of Christ, to which we conscientiously belong. I feel hound to support this society to the extent of my means, not only for the reasons assigned in my resolution, which declares our duty not only as men but as baptised christians, to provide for all forlorn orphans and bereaved widows of our communion. LABOtiltß ATE ACT. • CLARE.—MOYARTA.—The special presentment sessions were held at Kilrush on Friday week : Captain Studdart presided. There was allotted for part of the parish of Car rigaholt, 2,500/. ; at this rate the whole parish will have 8,000/. To Kilkee was apportioned 5,000/. The meeting then adjourned till Monday. The order in which the divi sions and parishes were to be taken up was decided by lot. The expected removal of Mr. Sin) th, engineer to the Board of Work., from Kilrush, has excited much regret. Lieut. Fitzgerald stated in court that his cows had been milked three nights, and that the people threatened to take his corn away unless they got milk or food. The crowd on the streets were perfectly orderly. Coacomnor.—The special presentment sessions were held at Ennistymon on Monday last W. N. Macnamara, Esq., in the chair. The total amount of presentments passed was 41,341/. lls. John Macnamnra, Esq., said, "«e arc not met here this day under ordinary circumstances: we are met to provide relief for a vast population, under circumstances of unex ampled distress. That is our object in coming here, to bring food and employment home to the poor man's neighbourhood, and I hope, Mr. Hill, that in recommending public works to the magistrates here, you will take into consideration the amount of population, and the great distress which prevails in each district and neighbourhood in which these works are sought to be carried out ; and I am sure the same benevolent feelings, the employment of the poor, will actuate the magis trates and cess-payers assembled on this occasion."—There was scarcely any opposition made to the presentments. Some objection being made to one road, a cess-payer exclaimed— " It is better for re to keep the people making roads than doing mischief. Your advice will not feed the poor ; and I'll engage they will make out food if you don't give it to them, and plenty of it too." TBRICAN.—The presentment sessions were held on Satur day, the 19th inst., James O'Dwyer, Esq., in the chair. An effort was made to prevent the people entering the court house, but on the remonstrance of Mr. John Comyn and the Rev. Mr. Hill, they were admitted. Sir Burton M'Namara observed that, however people might differ in politics, he held in his hand a letter written to Mr. Conway, proprietor of The Dublin Erening Post, which he thought should be read for the valuable information it afforded at the present crisis. That letter was written by one of the most powerful and extraordinary men in this country O'Connell. Mr. James O'Dwyer read the letter. Presentations were passed to the amount of 28,358/. Some sparring took place between Mr. Russell, the County Engineer, and Mr. Francis Owlet Morony. The latter said the cess-payers complained, and with justice, of the manner in which the works had been carried on last summer, which were not completed with satisfaction. Persons had been employed as gangsman by the officers of the Board of Works who were not competent to the discharge of their duties. Mr. Russell retorted that the Relief Committee were in fault:—" They did their business in such a manner as to obstruct the works, by having frequently sent in 500 nsnn where not 100 could be employed. They thus overpowered the works in such a way that it was impossible for the officers to do their duty. Among many of these sent in to the em ployment we had all sorts of tradesmen—tailors and weavers, &c. (laughter), in place of the feeble and destitute. We took no man es gangsman or overseer who was not recom mended by the committees in each district." DONEGAL.— KILMACRENNAN. The special present ment sessions for this barony (the third held in Donegal' Esq., took the chair. After taking the chair, he addressed the assembly, concluding with these remarkable words : " They should place confidence in the government. For his part, though us accordance with his principles he should prefer a Tory government, still he must acknowledge that the present government had used every exertion to meet the coming calamity ; they have shown an anxiety to befriend Ireland. The Lord-Lieutenant did the same. He sympa thised strongly with the people, and expressed his ardent wishes to co-operate with the local gentry. He (the chair man) did hope that every class would place confidence in the government. Let them in fine look up to Providence, who could alone administer sufficient relief. We cannot totally relieve the existing distress. We cannnot, either, remove entirely the consequences. We must only look up to God for assistance." Mr. Stuart was loudly applauded. The sum total of presentment passed was between 47,0001. and 48,000/. THE RATHOE LANDLORDS.—The " own correspondent" of the Freeman's Journal writes from Donegal.—" It may not be amiss to acquaint you with a fact which was omitted in the special report you received of the Raphoc sessions, and one with which the writer was perhaps unacquainted. I allude to certain resolutions which were proposed on the part of Sir E. S. Hayes, M.P., and hi , party (Tory), to the effect that the assembled magistrates and landlords should petition her Majesty to convene parliament, and rescind th e p resent act, and thus leave it in the power of the landlords to dispose of the public money as they might deem best suited to Use wants of the people. This was opposed by Sir Robert Fer guson, M.P., and the Whig party, who negatived the resolu tion by a majority of one." MEATH.—Lux e.—The special presentment sessions were held in Athboy on Monday last, Joseph lirowne, Esq.,in the chair. A very interesting report relative to the state of the barony was read by Lambert Disney, Esq., and ordered to be printed and circulated. The reports of the several sub-com mittees, who had been appointed a week previous to inquire as to the number of persons who would require employment during the winter, and to report upon the public works which they recommended to be undertaken, were nest read, and it wits found that there would be 1,100 persons for whom employment should be provided, and that a sum of 4,0001. would be requisite to subsist those persons for the next three months. The most useful of the public works that were re commended by the sub-committees were then selected and ap proved of, ands...teased upon the barony. They consi.sted of three new lines of road, chiefly across bogs,which would both shorten the distance between two market towns, and also give future employment in cutting turf, which could then be so easily conveyed out, and which would cause fuel to be cheaper in future ; two of these roads were to cost 1,0001. each, and ono 6401 • three hills were to be lowered and hollows filled; several old lines of roads to bogs to be repaired, and three riven to be deepened and widened. The greatest unanimity prevailed at Cie meeting. The sole desire appeared to be, to discover what suns might be necessary to relieve the im pending distress, and to applot that sum, whatever it might be, upon the barony, and the entire sum granted was, at the conclusion, found to be— For roads El 9'4 0 0 For sinking rivers.... (1,334 0 0 The suh-committees were found to have been most efficient in their different localities in preparing reports, and giving information to the magistrates and cess-pavers, and all sepa rated highly gratified by the day's proceedings. SLIGO.—CA/tHe/RY.—The special presentment sessions were held in Sligo on Monday last. Atter passing present ments to the amount of 16.0001., the sessions were adjourned till next day, when th e presentments fur the town were to come on. " I remarked," says the correspondent of the Dublin Free,ann, "that the landlords did not appear mush pleased at voting so much money —money of which they will have to pay a consideruble mtion, but, as if reckless, they made no objection. Mr. Wynne deserves much praise, nni he is an exception to the general class of landlords. I must remark, and I do so with pleasure, the exertions made by the Catholic and P ro t es t ant clergymen. They worked in common, and did all in their power to gain employment for the people. They spurred the landlords to the work. Not the least sign of ill-feeling was exhibited." TIPPERARY.—Irt•A AND Orra WEAT.—The present ment sessions for this barony were held at C ,hir on '1 wedgy. Lord filengall in the chair. Presentments were passed to the amount of 1,77 ti/. Two motions by the elesirman were passed:—One to memorialise government to allow them to proceed under the act of Ist Victoria; the other to memo rialise the Lord-Lieutenant to establish elep4ts for the sale of. Indian meal in the serious localities. Sonic discussion arose respecting the employment of the able•bodied exclusively. The impression seemed to prevail that the Treasury Minute did not admit of the employmmit of any others. A charac teristic display was made by Lord Olengull. A road having been presented that would cost 2036/., he exclaimed " 20361.! oh ! nonsense." In the course of the discussion Counsellor Mulcahy said, " I call ou the magistrates and cess-payers to piss this presentment, or when we go home the people of the district will say that you were either unable or unwilling to assist them." Lord Glengall told him lie could not allow such huigvage to pass. The, road was rejected by 11 votes to 9. -- - LOWER ORwoNn.—The adjourned presentment sessions were held at Nenagh on Wedncwlay, It. C. liayly, Esq., in the chair. The sums passed at the various meetings for this barony (two at Nenagh, one in Newport. and one in Toomevara) amount in all to 26,000 f. The following resolution was unanimously adopted at the meeting of Wednesday : "That presentments for public works pursuant to the Ist Viet, chap. 21, and 9th Viet., chap. I, having been passed under the sanc tion and recommendation of government, we conceive that the government is fully pledged to the carrying nut all those work+, and that their deelining to she so wouid mutt 'hake the confidence of tho people In all future measurte+ proposed for their renef, and materially imprde the efforts now making to protide labour and food, and insure that tra n gnhlile whleh in KO toiressory to mitigate the suffering+ eon mequent on the failure of the potato crop in this district. We there , fore feel tong trained inset earnestly to call noon the government to give full ettict to the presentments pamed, tinder let Viet., chap. 21, and 9 Viet., chap. 1, and uphold that confidence in the effOrts government and the local authorttlet with which it is our endeavour to ha-pine the ptople." THE 43nn or ELIZABETIL—Notice has been given at the Board of Guardians of the North Dublin Poor-law Union, that a petition to Parliament will be moved there for the extension of the 43rd of Elizabeth—the basis of the old poor law of England —to Ireland. TYPHUS invett.—Fever has become on fearfully prevalent in Kilkenny that the hospital there can hold no more pa tients, and applicants for admission are turned away from the gates. A Mayo paper Mates that typhus fever exists to an alarming extent. The number of patienta in the hospital at present and under the rare of the medical officer very much racer-do the usual number, but few cans, if any, have proved fatal. The prevalence of fever in this town and its imme diate vicinity, however, is not attended with the awful extent of suffering and misery which is witnessed every day in more remote places ' owing to the existence of a well-appointed fever hospital. ln the neighbourhood of Foxford, and be tween that town and Lough Conn, molly members of several families are in fever, without one to attend or give them a drink of cold water, and funerals are seen every day going from the different THE OUTBREAK IN YOUGHAL. The Cork Examiner, just come to hand, after detailing the circumstances men tioned respecting the outbreak in Youghal, as in my com munication of yesterday, thus proceeds : "After visiting Peveral of the tom More• with the apparent inten. timi of intimidating the proprietont, the mob prtooltsl 41000 to the quay, where they speedily compelled some carmen, who were loading the vileals with ties for exportation, to diaist and return to the stores; On coming lxick, they met another carman, who, however, did not remain to receive the injunctions of the mob, but imintsliately turned the horse's toad, and tomicened a speedy retreat amiiivt the dicers and jell" , of the multitude. Not aati.rled with their suc cess in (11(14. instanee., they turned toward another portion of the quay. whdte they succeeded in a similar manner. I'p to four o clock their proceeding. Melt COMtillfd to preventing VIP exportation of provisions ; and by the et-spend& (union of the inhabitants, it was anticipated that no actual aiolenee mould be the result • hut unfortu nately th e i r exp e ctations were frustrated. I untlersti;nd, in conse quence of theextent to which the., outrages were curried, that Mr. Kelly, .I.le, arrived in this city yesterday, fur the purpose of consult. ing with the Cienend of the district, and obtaining a huge reinforce . meet of military. The following communications from correspondents of the E.raminer describe the alarm of the inhabitants, and the riotous conduct of the mob, with apparently some little of national exaggeration : YOUI.IIAT, 'ft tansy, Twelve o'Cloelh—lt would be Milan:slide to convey any idea of the alarming state of this town Riser yir.tertlay'a meeting. The people were dissatisfied at the proceeding there, as not a single resolution except the last, w 16(.11 was prow:sea by Mr. thirty, was at all capable of being carried into edirt for a month or six weeks, while the people are at this mtanent driven to frenzy and despair for fowl. Like nien mad& lied with lionger, they ran through the streets—they rushed into the breadethopta, and Num the loaves amongst the famished crowd. The military were called out—cavalry, infantry and police—but half the shone were plundered before they arrived. On this morning (Tuesday) an immense number of people from the adjoining parishes came in, with hunger depicted in their fares The military arc now mazehhig through the town, and the unfortunate people are at this moment, while I write, in hundreds, tearing the bread out of the shops. The town is in the most dreadful abate of excitement the shop. closed—business suspended—groups aistembling in a few Omen, not knowing what the mutt will be; and, unless the its Commit tee act promptly in petting a Pupp:y of kid, and giving employment until the public works are in operation, God only knows what a starv ing people will do. Mr. John, whose exertions on behalf of the people are unceasing, as I have just been told, convened a meetinu of the Relief Conunittee, and it is expected they will expend the 400/. whili they have now tan hands, in giving immediate employment. 11 not, the irtult will be, I tear, appalling. There are gangs stationed at either end of the town to prevent earn from coming to market —the portcullis of the bridge is raird—and the town has more the appraranee of a siege than of businost. I trust the relief committee will now see the neetwaity of acting promptly and decisively, and expend this money, for hunger will admit of no delay. Y 01,11.41., TtLsiAY Nlol(L—there I wrote today, iilaeartis have been ia.uedhy the Relief Committee, stating that they a if now employ the pc•op:e and null food at a educed price. Time for them, when they are obliged to do It. PROVINCIAL. LANCASIII RE. AsuTON-I'NnEa-LTNE WWI visited by an alarming thunder storm on Wednesday. Many minor disasters were the consequence of it, but no life was lost. The Li vEnrooL AoatcutAr ItAL SOCIETY met yesterday in the New Haymarket. Th.? show of horses and cattle was excellent. there were more mulch cows and heifers than last year, and the breeds much improved. Twenty bulls were shown ; the chief prize being awarded to the animal exhibited by Mr. Atherton ' of tipholland. The committee in their report regret that up to the present time circum stances have prevented the union of this society with that of Manchester, but they look forward to such an amalgamation. At the dinner Lord Stanley occupied the chair. The CENTRAL SnORT TIME COMMITTER held a meeting of operatives in Preston, on Wednesday night. The Tempe rance-hall was crowded on the occasion. CORNWALL. COMMISSION BY TYR LORD LISET TO!r r ,„ , i. .• Esq. be Deputy r bieutenant t. - ! P 1 7 4 .: yy J/ m ? On the Ist of J uly, 16.1 , ), toe price of Arne- vu.sx.i.x."...— ....................—.. .-. ..„.._. ---____ COMMISSION BY THE LORD LIE1:111 t can for 31d. to ild., being an exerage, of meat sessions for this barony (the third held in Donega l) WWZ:linta. , .. I Blom risen to from 31d. to 5!d., being a rise assembled et Letterkenney on Monda y last. There had been Roberts', Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant u . "i..;7 s• / .." erage of more than id. per lb., so that America great excitement throughout the barony for some days pre- BERKSHIRE. ely pocketed the relief intended for the people Twos, fears Iceine entertained (which proxesl unfounded) of COMMISSION BY tux Lotto LIEVIENEC ....4i.. 119 iertir .. .' ter, tolthc extent of 680,000/. From this he might the scene at Raphoe being repeated. Alexander R. Stuart, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant. .... ..., ir (i.i. , '1 . J 1 1 0" 4. : .. .: .sak j i t' . ;; - 4;;4 ..... . 1 .1: , '....411.......21 .. ...W I ( 1 .i