The Express. — London, England, 1849-03-14 00:00:00

l o t ion' moose amazed most either be °baited le t t eachmeet of mi lit ary expectant°, or by the ; l ewd e cot ma dotal', or by tempering. dire ctly or in iy, with amimmi faith. The first is as mush si oils and jetzLerepmataea to be hoped kw hem •• meter in q so the last is too perilous and o p e :pled to be ever trenched by any set Of men • %h i, o wery who have either property or character • boa Time remise, &norm% bat the one rw a ges—a retain to the obsolete and mitebieveus eye as of high duties upon imported g o od s —a renewa l Mike tsiestion upon endue/ay, hos which ii hes so g odly been set ee—a resuacit diao , is het, of the g loom policy of protection. le this then at the bottom of the plot? Or are the wa vy party as they love to call t hem selves ready to slide the shock of such a collision of dames and of mutate es this rash and desperate attempt at a e gater•revolution in &ante mum of necessity m ai? There are may men of great possessions, a ny of great privileg es, many of great expectations wocipt then :—wil they hazard the security g all in a struggle such as this? They cannot be gies that the rut interests which such a ahem y i eld openly email, possessing as those interests do *greatest and the most consolieated resources in flee world, would for one hour permit the first step to le taken towards such a re- acuonary policy, without &perste and deadly 'toggle. We tarn from the gesght instinctively. We shrink hem the idea of welding England rent in twain by social feuds so in t We can hardly bing ourselves to harbour the agecion that even Lied &rawer will venture to yi kis intatuated fullers. ra to such a fatal field. MR. TRELAirsT did gold *mice in bringing the ( NORiOR ef Aliarth rates before the house last night. The &isles to ao small proof of the strength of ,opl pia egiNifi these levitating and paltry exactable. &tins then 84 members voted "that effectual steps devaid be immediately taken for the tatal abolition damn+ rates" whilst only 119 objected to the re petition. Bat the members on tha division give a nost incomplete idea of the state of the clue. There were many epetiches in thedebate, but scarcely' word wee 'aid i favour of church rates. Mr. PAGE WOOD, the amber for the City of Oxford, proposed to ex. rapt dissenters altogether from the impost, end Mr. GLAD:note; the member fir the Univeshy ▪ Oxford was willing to consent to the principle. Lad JOHN RUSSELL attempted the only defence of ' ;bodkins sys'eas, and received the reiterated thanks wh' fills the office of objector-general n▪ evety medal proposition. It is easy to perceive bat am:ill-tetra ate now tolerated only because they ina a part of a great system W hick nobody is yet' ✓ werful cAugh to reform or to destroy. The billowing is the summary of the a'tempb that lave been made in poliament to get rid of so irre .& amts. in 1833. 'the Irish church-rate was &libel by the S sod 4 Oeo. IV., c 37, a. 63. The teas requisite kr the purpose* of the rate wire to be "vied by a tax an met awaked temporalities. In (834, fortified by this example, Lord Atrnosr koeght fa/turd a reeolutioe t that the payment of church-rates in Eaglsnd and Waler should, after a certain time, cease, and that in lien thereof 230,0001. Joel be granted. ut if the land tax. This resolu tiqt lib agreed to, and Lord Avrnoar moo alter in baked a bill to awry it out. This bill sou objected n by the dissenters on account of the charge of 230,000/. on the Isn't tax, and was therefore allowed to drop. In 1833 Sir Roeu Pim reposed a scheme br de p ymeut of church ratesont of the consolidated had. This mea-ure, however, was never insis•ed spa, and eas open t 1 the seine object'on as that of ALTHORP. In 1837, 2,328 patit'ons for the idol ion of church rates were laid on the table of the Howe of Cammi nv. In 1837, a resole' ion hostile to church rates was moved by t , e CHANCELLOR OP THE Exennuces, and cirr:ed by 273 egaiist 230 votes. Ou a following day in the same session Lord Joke Wiesen'. moved the order of the day for taking the :notation on cLuroh rates into farther consideration, when the house divided, the numbers being 287 for the resolution, and 262 against it. The bill that it was intended to found upon this resolution, was dropped, and a select committee to inquire into the mode of leasing by cock niastical corporations, &c., was tubstitut.d foe it ; which committee, *wing to the demise of the crown, was not appointed till May, 1838. Tee committee, however, did nothing. In 1810, Mr. DL NCOMEE moved fir leave to bing in a bill to relieve dissenters free' the payment of church rake, which was epitome' by ministers, end lost by a majority of 33. In 1847 Mr. EASTUOPE brought in a bill, which was read a first time, fur the abolition of rharch-rates. This was stifled i 7 the dissolution of parliament. lo the courts of law the prceeedines have been narked by that vague., confused, unsatisfactory cher neer which is the iefellibie result of any attempt to elicit a principle of any kind in the barbarous condi tion t f ourjurioprodence. Fit st came &decision, con firmed on sepia, that neither the churchwardens nor my ea It if astieal an: &nide s have power to levy and imply a fete without consent of parishioners in yes try.Tbis pr incip'e was first laid down in an ablejudg meet by Dr. PHlLLtatom and upheld successively by Lord Dmmax in the Qneen's Bench, and Lord Chief Janke Tirs DAL in the Exchequer Chamber. But the genius of English promedinr could not en dures plan intelligible statement of a general prin ciple. Evasions were sought fn, recourse was had to qoalifacatioos, doubts were flung out, and oppor tamales of litigation suggested. The consequence use, that another case was epeciily engendered under the parer til wing of judicial sophistry, and it was decided ttat although a tare cannot be levied without the assent of the vestry, the vestry have no choice, when repairs are needed, whether the perish church shell be repaired or not That the obligation to provide such repairs is imperative, and therefore, that the deliberation of the parishioners can only re late to the means by which each repairs can moot effectually be providei—and as a corollary to these printiples, it was held that when a majority had vottd against a rate, their votes were to be considered as bug away, and thereto supported by the minority was buid.ng, and might he levied by distress or imprisonment; this, too, although the rate in fact Lever was voted at all by the minority, but an ameedment against church rates had closed the pro ceedings. Against this d•cition an appeal is now pesdlog in the Exchequer Chamber. The objections to it are numerous. Can a bo3y be said to deliberate Wm are forced to come to a particular decision P Have the vestry any volition or sot? If they have,' *ere is the line to be drawn in its exercise ? Who le to judge of the stxmity of repairs? Who is to dee:de the scale upon which they are to be made? If the majority of the merry is to decide these points it is dear that they make the obligation insisted upon samical. If it Is Lot, calling them together is a oockay. In all probability, however, the decision ti the Exchequer Chamber, thanks to our admirable Tien of jurisprudence, will be founded exclusively on some technical point, some of those miserable gua no, cf pleading so dear to our judges, or some Wig- L iceot c ivil—the real matter in dispute will remain aadecidtd, and all the expense and heart burning, aad machinery of this protracted litigation will Be l'eaflawsy. Such at least in 99 cues out of a hue arM is result of judicial insigation, created Or es tbe =lll. of the PLamvane ve stirra, and revived by Court of Exchequer. wonlawads persecution is not idle. Dissenters ere !lei, and, an their refusal to pay what they think mainehts is conselerce honed to withhold, are ox- Psi to penalties varying with the disposition oftheir "blau kits. filmetinies their goods are seized--seme ,_ _wank while the desire to persecute is strong, theynee mined ceder the wretched quibble et disobeying 1 .10.10b1e order and flung into pdem. to dee dis hed at Ismiensb; or malignant Hasidim*. EA_ tb• Jsat laattilkethadall judicious and pessoisvbi mem Blown& was seoteneed to six menther ke Pa meat of a rate of lea) Mr. /cm Story to a w e ek' s i ncarcera ti on lbw nompaymint r • t PeneC Proceedings have been taken fa the "'iciest cal coots against parishioners for refusing to make a sufficient rate. In short, every principle that ought to prevail in legislation has been, as caul, tranipled upon. Men of irreproachable character : r sober halite, have teen punished like the refisi kind. Errors in judgment (if they are to be se Lipped), and an a dh erence to conscientious K 211.• 1.. "' have been dealt with m moral 414 re best confounded w ith th e most ociliTai ha leo against socict.r. Everyth'ng has been does bleats weld wish for, or that mem of sense and 'tir meet abhor. Law is impotent against opinion. 'o9res of truth and violence me different. Much I may be inflicted, bitter hostility may be emu- Id, but that is all ; the determinate* to raja! for t . h i d by every fresh attack. Nobody min Itz. , thigh a dies ntiog minister, who is seat to gaol for refusing to pay a church rite, deserves to be treated like a perjured ruffian, or a man who has obtained goods ander false paste Be long se dis sent from the relii i ion of the state was looked upon by the law as arinteal, such a state of things was at soosistent. Now, when the right of every man te worship God in his own way is solemnly reset. niesel by the Mato, it is an absurdity. To my that every dissenter who eassgos eonsciesos se a nawmfor aeo-payment of char& rat* is • hypocrite, is rare vulgar _nope&see. It is high time that the govern meat shaN lett Aro to pat • stop to as evil of salt magoitade, and relieve a large portion of the oommu oity from hardships which they keenly feel, and which history shows es th ey may one day bitterly resent To delay reform to toe last absent is ungracifte and impolitic. It is ties attributed to necessity, not to a sense of what is right, or • desire of what is useful ; and of all other peciple, those whn are attached to the established church, have, if they are not blind to their own welfare, the deepest interest in altering a system which makes that institution a mark for much vehement and well merited animosity. WEST INDIA MAIL. The Avon, Capt. Heide, arrived yesterday at ihnsthampton (as was announced in our yester day's impression); the mails were lauded under the charge of Lieat. South, R.N., Admiralty agent. The Avon brings no mails from Maxie* or Haven nah. Her dates are :—Chagres, Jan. 29; Cutht gssa. Feb. 1; La Ousyra, Feb. 6; St. Jago de Cuba, Feb. 6; Jamaica, Feb. 7; Demerara, Feb. 4; Trini dad. Feb. 6; Grenada, Feb. 7; Bar ;adore. Feb. 9 ; Alleges, Feb. 11; Porto Rico, Feb. 11; St. Thomas, Feb. 14. This Avon brings about 26 passengers, among whom are Lord William Douglas, Sir Harry S. Wilmot, Hon. J. W. Portman., M P., Captain 'Goodenough, R.A., Mr. J. T. Robertion, from the Pacific', several Preneh and Spanish geollemen, four invalids from her Majesty's ships, and three distressed English seamen. Tim fr iglit on board con•iets of 1,029.124 dollars from Panama on amount of niereltsats in London, 35 florets of mare from Jamie*, 4 threes of wasp -61 box., of saccades, 88 bales of indigo, and 4 bales of deer-skios. The Avon did not stop at Fogel, on account of bad weather. On her outward voyage, from the 3d to the 26th of December, she ene mastered heavy gales from the S.W. •, she had fine weather in the West Indies ; from the 21st of Feb:nary to the Ist of March, she experienced heavy gal. s from the N.E.. and from the E. In five days, while these gales lasted, the ship only ran 313 mike. The detention of the mails mast be attributed to the strong N.E. gales near the Western Islands, and the strong easterly wind for Three days near the Channel. In consequence of the loss of the Furth, and the breaking down of the paddle-gearing of two of the company's steamers at ma, more than the usual in terest attaches at present to the position and pro gnus of its ves s els The Avon left the Trent at St. Thomas. A oorreapon lent informs us, that a malig nant fever broke out amend the crew ow board the Trent while she was at Chagree. A schooner was obliged to be hired to convey her passengers from that place to St. Thomu. Ten of the crew bad died of the fever. One pcor fellow is supposed to have jumped overboard in a fit of delirium. The sick persons will be obliged to be put on shore. The Great Western sailed from S. Thomas for Jamaica on the 12th of February. The Great Western had brought down the mails from Barba does in consequente of the Reindeer requiring re p ks which she remained at that island to complete. The Conway left Barb Woes for Demerara on the 9th of February. The Severn was at New York, and the Clyde gone to the Spanish main. There are complaints of a failure of the sugar crops in Guadeloupe. This is exceptional—in all the other northern islands the crops were remarkably fine, and a geeeral feeling seemed to prevail that things were looking better. The fa:lure at Goadeloupe arises from the fact that for three months after the emanci pation of the slaver, at a time when the canes re quired unintermitting are and attention, no labour could be obtained. Since that time the blacks have returned to the cane griunds and now do their work cheerfully. The average of wages for negroes in Guadeloupe is 6d. a day. The prospects for next season are favourable. An insurrection broke out among the blacks in the Danish island of Santa Crux on the 10th of February. They refused to work, assembled in crowds, and wou'd not disperse when ordered. The troops Mod upon them, and killed or wounded three or four. The authorities mid that tranquility was restored, but there was still a great deal of irritat'oo. Everything was done ender martial law; government fixed the hours of labour and the rates of pay—the latter at a very low figure. A slight re-action in commercial matters had taken place in the English islands, owing to the favoursblel prospects of the crops, and the small rise in the prim I I of sugars. JAMAICA.—The House of Assembly met, per- I anent to adjournment, on the 23rd of January. The members went into committee of the whole on the drat report of the committee of retrenchments, presented on the 9th of December last, and resolved to recommend to the house to mgr. e to the re port. On the 24th, the legislative council sent a message to the house requesting a oonferenn on privileges; the request was granted and a com mittee appointed. At this sittting it was agreed in committee of the whole to recommend the adoption of the se cud and third reports of the retrenchment committee. At the conference, the council demanded reparation for a breach of their privileges which a member of the house had oomartted by publishing a letter in a newspaper. Oe the part of the house it was denied that they could control the c induct of their members when they were not in session, or be held liable for it. The council contented itsel f with passing tosolutione to the effect that the house was in session on the day the letter was published (which is true so far, but the house had adjourned for a long day with consent of the governor before the letter was written); but that to prevent interruption of the public business they could only register their regret at the Assam . bly's want of courtesy. The resolutions were inti mated to the Assembly, which with reference to them pained the following by a majority of 15 to 6: • • - Resolved—That whilattbit ho - use I; gratified to learn that no suppceed infraction of the privileges of the eonacil will be permitted to interrupt the progress of the puillic bushing at this mince' perio4, the house, in rapprrt of its own dig nity, cannot permit the fifth ;isolation conveyed by the mauve of the council of yeeterday te remain on its mutates without a contemporaneous vindication of the trut c m viouily asserted by the house, end now broadly pa by the council. Resolved—That the hones adhere to their sessistiou 01 the 28th January, 1849: " Tint the mew Wyk% lo their notice by the committee of semenenos of sonnolf on Thurs. day the 25th instant, did not onus while the hare was in swim insamook as the Mho of by the council appeared and was pahlkhed esity es the morning of the 26th day of Deonalsor loM, sod the mien of the legit- Ware was not in fact opened by the execanive until 3 o'clock • of that day." The object of the council in insisting upon this matter was generally understood to be to get up a quarrel with the Assembly upon it, and have the legislature prorogued, on account of the impossibility of transacting besmear, instead of the question of re trenchment. The tame and impotent conclusion to which they allowed the affair to come would seem to indicate that there is a temper in the Hoare of As sembly which neither the governor nor his nominees in the legislative oouroil deem it expedient to trifle with. In the meantime, the Assembly is proceeding steadily and firmly, and at the same time with a de gree et caution complained of by some of the more Isry islanders, but which is a guarantee for per severance. The approval of the retrentl mint reports was followed up by the intro duction of a "bill to reduce the expenditure in certain parts of the public service," which was read • first and second time and ordered to be committed on the Ist of February. This bill was read a third time, as was also a " bill respecting the collection of public and parochial tame, " on the 2nd. On the same day a committee was ap pointed to draft an application to the home government for a remission of the 4s. on coals exported from the island in foreign steamers. It is also in agitation to petition for • reduction or abolition of the duties on colonial produce imported into Great Britain. The committee on the remission of the 4s. duty on coals exported from the island in foreign steamers, is connected with a bill to encourage steam navigation to the island, which was read a aimed time en the 6th of February. Thin bill bed its origin in a peti fon relative to recent visits of American steamers. The inhabitants of Junkies are obvionaly alive to the pros pect et their island becoming the great efehvp6t of steam navigation to the Spanish main, both from Liverpool and New York. The last steamer from Magni brought to Jamaica, aloe; with a mil lion of dollen for Londe' merchants, 12,000,'which were forwarded to New York by the Severn. The settlement of California, the development of the resources of the countries on and in the Pacific, and lon the Spanish main, cannot bet open new mallets for an island which is naturally the most eligible intermediate station both for the steamers of Fog ' land and the United States. It is to this zew and extended trade, to tie reduction and gradual abolition of all customs dative, and to economy in their island government, that the men of Jamaica mast look for the return of prosperity, not to the dream of a return of the age of protee tile. And in the facts we have now recorded thus are symptoms of their looking in the right direction. The Mbar topics that were engaging attention in the island were the penal laws and disposal of con victs, and a new elation law. The Imam markets will be found in our last page. GUlANA.—Business waits for the arrival of Mr. Barkly. Earl Grey flattered himself that the mere announcement of that gentleman's appointment would mike the combined court do the bidding of govern ment. Thess gentlemen are not quite eo silly : they wait to see what instructions Mr. Briskly brings. The combined court was senamoned on the 2nd of February. and on their meeting the Lieutenant- Governor addressed them as follows : Hamrala Gentlemen of the Cart of Policy. Gentle man of the Colicp of Fiaanciel Reaseentatives.—ln abe am to the iniWltloa of the right honourable the there tary of State for the Main I hen the honour to lay bane you en timpanist despatch , which I has received has his lordship. I beg to offer to you the assumes of my earnest desire to so coasts with you I. any memane which you may think it desirable to adopt. with the view of giving effect to the suggestion of the Secretary of State for proceeding with the public basin.., in anticipation of the arrival of his Excellency Governor Bukly. The following deTitch wee then read by the colonial secretary: Colonial-oatev, Nov. 29, 1848.—Sir,—I lan rossind your dmoatahsa, No. 126, of Oct. 19, and private ad eaddential of the same date, a the subject of slos seepage ciao ap plies and the ehanges which it might beam ournesey to effect in the system of goverment be Brlfish Guiana. Gristly as I regret the course aide bus bat pu- sued by the combined eourt—l fear to the very Mons injury of the colooy—l shoal be very unwilling M bete mommores nada the pressure of the difficulties thus grata to effect any of the proposed amigos, the time being, so I em very in opportmie. I have thought it better to endeavour to effect an amicable arrangement of the unfortunate differences which had arisen, and with that view I have recom mended to her Majtsiy for the vacant office of governor Mr. Barkly, the member for Leominster, a gentleman who, frogs the stake he has in the Imlay, end Eros the put he has taken in parliament on all aubjeas relating to the West Indies, will, I trust, be regarded with con fidence by the colonists ; and whose appointment I hops will be accepted by them as a proof of the sarong desire of her Majesty's government to adopt a conciliatory course towards than, and to omit nothing which , contistently with our pub lic duty, it is In our power to do, in order, if possible, to out an end to the present differences. I have therefore to desire, that en the receipt of this despatch you will all t lather the I combined court, and hying it before them, you will apply to them to pass the neimary laws for imposing the taus re quired for the t alio service, for so much of the financial year 55 remains UntitOd. If they should consent to do so, time will thus be a borted for a deliberate ennsideratiou of the measures it may be proper to adopt, to effect a r ore per manent settlement of the affairs of the colony, after the arrival of Mr. Berkly, who will leave this country, ms I hope, in the beginning of January. Whoa you recently applied to me to relieve you in the administration of the government, by sending out your successor ', as eta as possible I was not prepared to meet your wishes at the moment, aid I assured you of my disposition to place full confidence in your judgment and ability. Your sabre cant course of proceeding has only tended to confirm that confilence, and although it hes now appeared that the *P. vintment of • gentleman having a peculiar contagion with the colony, is expedient with a view to the settlement of its affain, I cannot announce that appointment to you without at the ems rime conveying to you the expression of her Ma isel's approbation of your conduct in the administration of the government of British Gains, under the very difficult circumstances in which you were called upon to assume it.— I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant, (signed) 01.11T.—Lieieft1111:4-00MTOT Walker, &C &C., &c. When the readiog of this document ended Mr. Rose was the Bret to break silence. He said : I have listened with the utmost attention to the despatch from Earl Grey which ham just been read, and I regret to Say that I kind that there is nothing in it which can justify this court in altering the decision which it dune to in Jely last. We were then inked to pan a to ordinance for the r mata dor of the financial year ; and after giving the subject our m rat deliberate consideration, we dt clined to do so salsa the reductions which were proposed in the estimates were adopted. The question whether these redactions should be mode was put to the vote, and it was carried in the affirmative, when your Excellency thought it proper to adjourn the court sine die. There is no thing in the state of the colony at the present moment, compared with its condition at that time that can justify us in altering our decision. On the contrary, we have additional noon. for refusing to pass the tax ordinance before the admits has been settled. The grounds of our opposition to that moon have been streagthened. All the evils wigs\ we foresaw Ir.ve actually resulted. Surely Earl Grey meet be aware—he has been too loon in the Colonial-offiee set to know—that the estimate must be con pleted—atut be entirely gore through—before we sea enter upon the tax affirms. What ! are we to levy taxes in the dark ?—withont bawd, bow they are to be appropriated —without booming add ram will be absolutely required ? It is im that a man owering a mind like Earl tw oOn dd middy p oppose that we ere such children ae he aide now that which we did but a short time age alter the most deliberate con. sideratios. We did net oppose your excellency in this court hesa eery hastens metioe. We saw the difficulty of your edellesells polities and if, on the 15th July, we could have voted a tax ordinance for the remainder of the year we woa assekettlesoly d haw done so then. Bet to ask as now to do it ! Surely there fa not • mass in the coloey who would not cry *use if we did so. The members of this wart hoe greet satisfaction in stating that, in all private and public intercourse with year excellency, they have met with eon ciliation ; but we have a duty to perform, sad, as far as I em concerned (and I think I as speak for the other members), no consideration will induce us to shrink hem its perform ance. When Mr. Bukly arrive., if he poetess full powers to deal with the question, he will And the members of daemon willing to meet him with the greatest cordiality, sad to enter with a proper spirit upon the discharge of the duty which they owe to the okay. But unless he coma with such powers as will enable him to trot with us upon lair and just principles, we must be content to 'bide by the deci sion of parliament, which will meet on the first of next month, and before which our cue will be laid, I hope, at an early period of the session. I trust, however, if Mr. Darkly has not yet received full powers, that Earl Grey will see the necessity of giving him, before he takes his departure, such powers as are required to settle the differences which exist between this court and the government esi the subject of the estimate. I smoothies in what has been laid before m that can alter or remove oar opposition. I know not what in structions year excellency may have received, or what it may be intruded to entrust the new governor with; but untrue something more is done than what we have already heard, we mast abide the decision of odium,. Mr. Davison followed to the .me effect. The At torney-General then attempted to cajoic the court into some concession, bat refused to submit any pro position as eismoting hem the executive. After some fencing oo both ides Mr. Davison said : As there is nearing before the court, I beg to more the following rearbdies: "That it is the opinion of the court that them It nerbing in the &meta just read that could jos -I=enint IN IMIPSIMPAIE le pass a tax ordinance until the is prieeL"—Mr. Conyers mended the resolution.— Kr. Creel: I think the resolution should stop at the words "ordiesses," and thereat be omitted. We donot know what Mr. Issidyinsibrkgent.-31r.Davison : Bat we cannot pass entesentinnees until the estimate is fixed.—Yr. Creel : It hasihn blew done.—Mr. Davison: It may bee*, but not unite wnerneees Ike the present.—Yr. Stuart : I think the reesintisa Is weeded exactly amoral to my friend's (Kr. °feel's) view of the matter. When Yr. Darkly Milli, if he Wags with Ida lootnsetions which will enable us to go on we ma do so; bat et proem titers is nothing before la to incluse me to do eo.—Theveles were this %ken on the yew- Intim. Tor it: Keen. Dig dowers. Band, Croal, Davison, G 3 riai. Phut. Isms, end less. Agelast it : The Collector of Onstoolks. The Chief Junin and the Attorney General &And te vote. The seeded= we issiond to be carried. eseinier s Seth beinethe deities of members, It devolves upon le t is en the Samar sesseiss. to etUrawn the court. I easiest nom any day, me the governor is expected shortly. I therefese adjourn this court sine *ie. The financial repre sentatives thou retired. TRINIDAD.—On the Ist of Feb. Mr. Rennie (the new member of the council of government) moved five resolutions at the board, which are in effect as follows : 1. That the present stab of the law regulating the trade of the British possessions in the West Indies is prejudicial to Trinidad, by diverting to the neighbouring foreign islands the trade of the Spanish Main. 2. That the construction put by the colonial ministers and law cabers of the crown in England upon the order is mancil of Jane, 1828, which admits all foreign pals paying a duty of not anon than 78 per cent. esi malarima, b enomsello, and not borne oat by the wording ciao whim 8. That the order in council which prohibits the direst importation of govds from Spain in Spanish balm; prevents Trim Mad becoming the entrepot of a trade between aria ma the Spanish Main. 4. That those ratiabdama are woad to that policy of free trade wkisb On Drllich Watt Lib WO. ales tam been taught to leek le so moo ossepoaloloa Oar the loss of a protecting duty faille markets of tits maw THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 14, 1849. erestff. _EL That setwkireepthe the represeasaske by Lard Karns et the Warhol ernes of nem inetrieiess, the ficseesey se Mate teethe stinks hes dedisee to iaterpote, sad thie . it pas therdee Weems is sera directly teaser Wilsey Ms her !thy Osumi. _ maim for the re. pal e the siteesieskarese in coed& sorra te. The l ntalden with whisk the hon. member pfd bin resaiyf. went at great length into the 2of the restrict'ons upon the trade of the of the nt edtive injury done to its cOMMeree, and the cruel in st:ce effected towa r d s it u a oo inanity sing under sash distress, that the Britian government was under the necessity of aiding it by a direct grant of money. Bspporting his views by a large men of statistical data, gathered nearly wholly from official names. Mr. Rennie fully substantiated that a foreign trade amounting td madly one million sterling per annum was driven past within sight of their very harbours to the &tent islands of St. Thomas, Mortlake*. and Congos, merely bemuse the island is exeled from the benefit of the British navigation laws as they now stand by exceptional orders in council. Mr. Rennie was listened to with greet attendee. The rnolutions were adopted unanimously. The Port of Spots Moats ably supports Mr. Beanie'. views. BARBADOBB.—The island was considered as healthy at the time the mail was despatched. During the three months that the visitation of yellow fewer lasted, the garrison had lost ten officers end eighty men. The Princess Royal sailed on the Bth of Feb., with detachments of the 84th end 88th regiments for Trinidad. There were between twenty and thirty ships in Carlisle Bay, loading with sugar, and the crop was maid to be very fine. Cie Court. Sir W. C. ROW, R.A., had the hamar of fairing the last pitting, yesterday, for a Mummer of Priam Brawnof Lelsireso, by etmlasaad of the Queer. Governor Sir G. Aadereon had an interview with Berl Grey yesterday. Mr. Blyth had also an ninth, with the noble sari yesterday, at the Colonial tam. A coramittes of her Majesty's most honourable Privy Csoseil for Trade and Foreign Pleatetioos had a with' yesterday, at the cake of the Board of Tab, Will shall. The Lade remit wen the Right Boa. H. La hatcher, President of the Board at T rad e; Berl Grey, Seerstsr; of State for the Colonies • Bari Granville. Yiee- Pre►ideat of the Board of Trade ; Sir B. Ryas, and Sir J. Stephen. A LEvaz will ba held by her Majesty at St. James's Palace on Wechwday mit, March 21. at 2 o'clock. A DRAWING-ZOOM will also be held at St. James's Palace co Monday, Muth 22, at 2 o'clock MAJOR-GENERAL SUTHERLAND in about to proceed to the Mauritius ea eatawaader of the forme there. THE" CAPTAINCY OF ST. MANTES CASTLE, vacant by the death of Sir George Nugent, will not be filled ap. DEATH OF SIR R. FRANKLAND RIIBBELL.—Thia baronet expired somewhat suddenly at his seat, Great Thirkelby Hall, Yorkshire, on Sunday last, at the age et 65. Sir Robert was on the grand jury at the York anises, and, with his oolleagnee, ended his laboun on Friday. He returned to his watts Saturday morning, and was moon after attacked with violent inflammation, which ended in his dim- InVon after several hours' suffering. In 1816 the hen. baronet married the third daughter of the Bishop of Bt . David's. Sir It. Freakland suormsded hie father (t he sixth baronet) in 1831, end assumed the MU •of Ririe in 1838, on lac eembng to the estates of Sir R. 8. Russell, Bert. Sir Ro bert sat for Think, near is which his hones Is situated, both before and after the passing of the Reform Hll. It was in deed by his influence that the place remained a borough, for its population before the passing of the Boundary Act was mach below 4000 ; and although he waged to sit for it for some years, he exercised a considerable Influence in re turning sta single member. Sir Robert was deputy. haute. nant of Yorkshire. He leaves no family, and is succeeded by bb fiat cousin. (From lest ofgbt's Gazette.) ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, MARCII 9.—Ths Queen hoe been pleased, on the nomination of Lord Foley, to appoint Robert Bryce Hay, E'q. (late 93rd Regiment), to be one of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentleman at Arms, vice Tomkina. retired. THE REV. MR. SHORE AND THE BISHOP OF EXETER. --- --- Last night, at eight o'clock, a meeting of the inha bitants of Stockwell use held at the Stockwell Educational Institute, Stockwell-green, for the purpose of considering the propriety of adopting • petition to parliament, praying for an alteration in the law, by which the Rev. Mr. Shore has been amerced in costa, and liable to imp risonment for life, for contempt, at the suit instituted monad him by the Bishop of Exeter, for preaching the gospel sines his seeemion from the church of England, and in respect of which he is now • prisoner at Exeter. Mr. CARLISLE, of Acre-lane, was called to the chair, and opened the budness of the meeting by reading • letter, addressed to the Rev. Mr. Thomas, from the Rev. Mr. Shore, stating that he bad been arrested in Spa-fields Chapel, on Friday last, and that he expected to be taken to Bt. Thomas's Prison, at Exeter, and that he should be, of I worse, unable to attend the meeting. The Rev. Mr. BEAN moved a resolution to the effect that the meeting regarded the command given by the founder of Christianity to any individual Christian, to I preach his holy gospel, and administer the ordinances of the church as altogether beyond the province of human autho rity—• right on which no court, civil or ecclesiastical, can interfere without great and mama st wrong. Mr. T. B. SIMPSON seconded the resolution, which having been carried, The Rev. Mr. S. GREEN, Wolves* sieved: That this meeting learns with deep end* ssi regret that la the ease of the Bev. Jame Share, bh iseareale ttebt hie Wee later. bred will at the leelemee of hie Mamie by the Breleaseeal Mart of Asshse ; oath meet red sM piesseetep lkY matelei kerma se art halo Coriehrity, see eke* emote Y mesh Wee ?lOW sad Aaron, sae es eishory to the sit seheetese Weeper ot VR:;. W. LEASK mossdod the roesiodeo, which, after some leant ouch reoterko Mel the Rev. Mr. Titoima sad several other goatienso. wee carried unanimously, and a petition to parliament its amordance with the oldens of the meeting agreed to, and stood by the entire meeting, there being mt 500 peessat. After • vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting sepa rated. CHOLl2A.—Yeaterdity, the following fresh asses were reported to the Hoard of Health. It will be seen that them has, of late, been a considerable abatement of the disease Whiteehapel, 4,1 fats! ; Liverpool, 7, 3 fatal ; Edinburgh, 1; Glasgow (11tb), ; ditto (IMO, 2 ; Kuhl?. Me, 2 ; Riocerion, 5, 1 fatal; Greenock, 4 fatal.— Total, 31 new oases; 9 deaths. HEALTH OF LONDON EPRING THE WEEK. By the Reesmar General's report, we learn that a decided is prounaent In the public health has occurred during the week ending March 10. The deaths registered in Ludas, which in the three previous weeks were r. spectively 1,225, 1,191, 1,138, have declined to 1,047, or 122 lase than the winter average. A remarkable improvement has occurred in the mortality from epidemics ; for, whereas this class of disuses wu fatal is the three previous weeks to 333, 318 and 310 persons respectively, in the last week the deaths were only 243, which fa little above the average. Small pox does not prevail muck at present ; -measles is un usually low. Scarlatina and hoopusg cough show a decrease on the previous weeks; and now the mortality from the former does not much exceed the average. The deaths from hoping cough were 69, which Ls more than the average by 27. Typhus has fallen to the average, nsseMy, 42 deaths. Fatal eases of diarrhoea and dysentery were 21, bglag 7 more than the evens= : of cholera, only 15, though in the three preceding w eeks they were 49, 40, and 35. Of the 16, two occurred in Warburton's Lunatic Asylum, Bethnal-green flu in the workhouse of St. George in the Ram. The mortality from diseases of the organs of circulation is also unusually low. Three men died of delirium tremens; a man and a woman of intemperance (both cases attended with epilepsy); also a woman from filing in the strut when drunk. A woman died in Mlle Rad, " eight days after childbirth, of typhoid fever, from previous poor living." A man of 34 years died of " hustled disease—obstruction of colon through its whole length' (poet snort.) The obstruction had unthawed 34 days, but wee removed by medical aid before death. The patient had taken opium medicinally for the last nine years, and latterly in doses of three and semethase four half drachms daily. The mean height of the barometer was above 30 in. daily, except on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday; the highest, which wee on Tuesday, was 30.386. The ther mometer was highest on Sunday, when it was 60 deg. ; the highest of task day fell almost continuously to 42 deg. on Friday. The mean temperature of the week wee 43 des. The mean temperature of each day =attuned above that of the same day on ea averse sleeves years, till Friday. The wind was for the most part la the south-west, till Thursday, when it veered to north and nook-west. The number of births during the week was 1 644. , ISLlNGTONhiutzsr.—'rhie market was built by the late Mr. John Perkins, about fifteen yews ohm, having obtained an act of parliament, which gives the power of holding the market, of slaughtering cattle, melting the fat fee tallow, masufeetaing the offal, Se. The area within the walls h 16 acres, and for the asks of comparison, to enable ear on e to jags of its extent, we will quote Russell um whisk onatains 11a. lr. to the walls el the booms, and Unooleeefna.Ssids contains 10a. it. 29p. There is ao sommodation he 8,000 head of cattle and 60,000 sheep, be- 1 sides layers having 8,280 feet in length el roof, or nearly two Wee . The extent of freehold peoperty, upon which there ar• thirty houses, h seven,exclu sive of the market, end seven Melupon whisk it is =trolled to met abbattoire and a dead meat whet. A main public sewer panes within 300 feet of the seems entrant*, and it is 18 feet lower than the sun- face of the market. The Rut and Wert India Dock Rail way pewee to within 400 yards= the market. —77eir Builder. NARROW ESCAPE OP FIVE PERSONS PROM SUP POCATION.—Last evening, whilst Itr. W. Payne was holding an inquest at the Bull, in Tooley-street, the (hoeing xtra ordinary owe, and /narrow escape of live permos on board the Besownam Maid, was related to him by Mr. Mead, the sanusesiag officer :—The vessel, which behaved is Wass, had a few days canes arrived is the Leaden peel, sad had been neared off Topping's wharf, where she ans. The sight beteg excessively - add, the crew ecasist= s. ve sh e e n / made op • Ism fire, with Webb Goal, is UN preview to retiring to rest they pot dam Ihe knew* betoh. Is the morsieg the wattages. wee sespiesilat Med ias se es* making his amasses bent below Be knocked sod called from above but without emoleigg say mower. This 'educed him to we the belleherq it below. whore he found the See miles theirherthe, with bleed I heating from their assethe woes end Shag emend gate dead. They were taken oe to the desk end me me al& gentlemes wore ere kr, sad they desired that the nos were labssriag coder the eerie of some sexless es poor.—As erseauetios h wise bees made, it wee dealy ascertained that the Wessel breeght is the weed, and which had been burned is the foesmide /entailed a lame quantity of mayhem, the vapour hem wh ich had se filled the cabin mato overpower the sees widhethey were asleep. The mast peempe aseemes wise resseted to by the medical men to restore the unketsualt sad after the lapse of mealy Wave hours they were men out of denier, Thassraous Fru In THE Miscatiza—Last night, ittsa few naisates before 11 °Week, a fire barks est is the saolo ra of premises, cumbered 239 end 239, tate. The buildi n g . , which were of censiderable depth. were Arc doers high, acrd at the time of the outbreak It is feared that the whole of the resides* were within. Use, there is every ground tor supposing that one, if not two psalms have pe rished. Polies constable 629 of the city force, first saw smoke in huge volumes radio, out of the first floor windows. In the course of a taw Ideates several parties made their escape down stabs ; bet the females were se fright ened that the mutable wee obliged to eater the bald ing and pull than out. By the time that this eeeld be weesepliased the flames had burst through the front window en the first floor. The Royal Seday's fhweeespe Dom Aldgete-pump was at the scene to the mune of a few minutes after the outbreak, when the who lad inapt d tried out that several persons were she part of the premises, and begged of the mew Ems to save them if possible. The ember*: placed his machine in bent of the hews, and whilst be was at the top attempting to search the upper rooms, the dome shot out i n • body, fired the canvas baggier of the serape, and it was with the greatest difficulty that the impasse, fn toying to save the loves of his fellow creatures. had sot himself fallen • prey to the fury of the fire. Several engines speedily reached the scene, when the drones found the dames menthes so high into the air as to endeaccer the adjoining property. The engines, however, having been well supplied with water, they were set to work, and by a little after 12 o'clock the fire was extinguished, but sot until the whole of the premises from the ground-door were burned. The fin nan were searching the ruins to see whether any parties had been lost, as was rumoured. The origin of the fire, or whe ther any of the sufferers are insured, wad not be learned florin the excitement which prevailed. INQUESTS. TWO =MAL OTUDINTISDIOTINED IN TWO RITES LTA. Yes'erday Mr. W. Bakrr bel3 an inquest at the Robin Hood publie•honse, High•hill, Hackney, respecting the deaths of J. J. R. Robertson, aged 21, end T. W. C. Hsirby, aged 24, medical students, who were drowned in the River Lea. Margaret Murry stated ;that on Saturday hat she ac companied Hairby to the golly Anglers, adjoining the River Lea, Upper Claptoo, where he hired a small boat which was only sufficient te hold two persons, and shortly after ale had embarked with Hairby, Robert:eon came up and requested to be taken In. The boat was put back, and Robertson jumped in and sat down by the aide of witness. Some persons who were standing on shore cautioned Hairby and ILbertson not to proceed us the boat, as It was too small to hold three petsone, and that it was dangerous to remain in her. Hanby took charge of the sculls, ant Robertson held one of the steeruar strinp and wit ness the other. The boat had not proceeded far when Hnrby said he was tired of rowing, and requested Robertson to take the scull.. They both stood upright, and Hsieh,' attempted to pass Robertson, and in doing so they both leant on one side, which caused the boat to keel over and it began to fill. They became much alarmed, and the deceased immediately caught hold of witness, and the boat instantly capered and turned keel upwards. W. Waller, a bargeman, said his attention was attracted by bearing violent screa ming for awistanee, and he saw three perms in the water. Wifnese was in a barge, and he quickly reached the spot and sueondsd in reaming Murry. The deceased, after swimming a short time, sank, and their bodies were not recovered until half an hour afterwards. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death." - DEATH ET 1111.. Mr. G. I. Mills heitiZinl7tee7tWthe University College Hospital, on the body of Mary Katherine Parke,aged 54, • maiden lady of independent property. Sarah Parke deposed that deceased was her sister, end for sem• years they had ?added together, keeping no servant. On Thursday last deceased was lighting a fire. At that time witness was sitting with her back to her, and in a few minutes she was alarmed bydeciessed screaming out "Fire ;" and, on looking around, saw that she was In flames. In that state she ran down stairs, followed by witness. sad the land lord having put out the fire, the deemed was conveyed to the hospital, when she died the same evening. Mr. J. Overhead, the landlord, stated that, hearing an alarm of fire, and seeing the deceased enveloped in flames, he meoeeded in extinguialung them by trollies her in • bed rug, but not before every article of clothing was burnt com pletely o ff her. Deceased had not been his tenant above an boor be ore the accident. Verdict, " Accidental death." ANOTHER STRANGE RAILWAY SCENE. In the -Express of yesterday we gave an account of some novel proceedings on the previous day (Monday), between the managers of the East Lancashire and Lan cash•re end Yorkshire, at the Clifton junction. We had supposed the acts of hostility had ended here, but we fi nd that in the evening of Monday the East Lancishire company proceeded to obtain forcible possersi , n of a hoist belonging testis' other company, at the Salford station, and this led to eniniter DOOM of a very casting sad strange character. The. Lemesahire and Yorkshire Company sent a sassaage, seen Aar 4_ *Veldt, to the &Word police station, stating that dr Ent Ismieste Company had brought up a great numbers if neevias from a distance, armed with pick-axes crow-bers, and shovel+, and that they apprehended a breach of the pease, sad desired protection. lesle, chief constable, finding there was truth in this statement, and that there were silty or seventy navvies down atthe Salford stance, belonging to the Rut Lancashire Company, and an equal number of the navvies or servants of the other company, sent down a large body of police, unier Superintendent Tailor, to preserve the pews. Re also corn unmated with Capt. Willis, of the Manchester force, to ob tain a reinforcement if necessary. The brief facts of this portion of the dispute are these:— The Lancashire and Yorkshire Company have an immense yard for goods in Irwall-street, Salford, on a level below the railway, where the goods are first put into the railway wag stme, and then hoisted waaggggoona and all, upon the railway. In this yard the East lanashire, on payment of toll, have ea accommodation for loading and ho i sting their goods on to the Hue. The powers under - which the eriale is empowered to be taken by tie Lmmaritn and Yorkshire Company are thus stated in the East Lancashire Company's Act of 1844, Bth Vie.: Wt. AM be it darted, that the eropany, Ned every pima having the reed 'ay earth. or sedeges ot ft oomag.io or bang wee rho Ifearhater sot Holton (Lanerldni awl l'n) Haiti ▪ bearer the pelagelhodoa at CM= shrewd smiths moat terlass at lathed derrokl. or say part dont doff give to the art at the esereey of progritienk to to War or of tolls at when be - salsa kr the pram of adhello tali kr the of Om railway whin seek arrays or oanthges way ler 4. or be skratiOtreveloa met sad fru roma hi Intro sigma by hirs. of the werbor. tertity, or right of paropere. or arida sear pod W auk oda' ar earriape. and the otoofias Pow sed kethistbas, whether spas the Ma dman aid Bern Railway, or the railway May attlo draltto te made (the Oat Useably% Railway), of sok oder, or eardsgo lad of the panniers or articles prayed thereby, sad of the rapoethe rates tolls, or duties whir the aid roar what deemed or mere to raped of therms posooomr or gads trails oder be proviekas of this ad sr othrwO; sad la ere the add 1n 10.11 ft. ar sedk fail to pat swe driver soak rosent. or maw his= of to await (Oscar sr dirk demading the sane. sr Übe AO gre areassa. laws or dryer oo take off ow part ilk pear gars, geode s other lading. at any Ow plea ken did be ontioned la such amour, with any traudalsr What the empsay Ned every ono so Obading O every oar Obese. Three samakted by thwasslves or their mete or oar ore. Walt and pay to the add wormy peopristors any MI suseding Ma kr slay bad of Ode, to of pea, or prof aredieg ar = r ielabe.ae the .ore aw be, which duff be gra any molar or ardor seek malty shell be to ts mak Ws toll. Oro or War pay. l outs to Oak the eargery nay be )WY in rood of oar pas ' logarsoatle, ar soil; end soh widths nay be Ohl rot the odr the pore oli the mom prodded kart by the W• O* NY of Ike add et program or by or end Vag red of law wort& hi soda of afar. .ffk And belt aged. -- d.kr If aq diatom ode beton say tethered tho add of the perm kaki** oboe of ow early. sr Oft the iiisastrwar mad ORO lidway, or , zr , therse4 the nerber, =or urn earle orders. mt. digs, rem oyed garter my loft* d des the ooYaurrisgsat the dodo d the said oompley at progelotere at or any the oval or arawareed starer at stepping " pll i ess ib t of their lad railway, between the Maras at laird, and the NOW' Imola autherlsel to be rale (at Moo), and rent, eamino, orb, gerpa, or otherrhe erne the pesseagers, adds, carrion geode. orders. otters, sad raga al the ease may ben, areveyet thersW, bar rat to dear or impede my ler oar rage or Odle hea p or Item them may be roormy tor the pa:- poses sibrold; aid If meek pretagere or artistes to be of wield, amber. ar quantity, or of other ben shoal =bees Ord be the asesuit given thereof, that the away or the perm who dean have era each tyrant AO pay the rest of sea easaisatka sad ineraarkg ; sad if or of miles moor tolloo of the mere Os ember, or goildlfi. than shall ber bees shred In ark moot, then the add of pro. ratan pay sea soak and lbw shall aro pay to the re to the pima dada dear eardsP. swat OregeM as shad appear to any mammary epplladion lo diet porpter, to ban what that &ratio - - Now we learn that it has been to for f ed e b e re the Batt Luteaskire Company to weigh their geode sing them forward towards the hoist, and then prolog with them a declaration of particulars. The Lancashire and Yorkshire then pass the goods over a weighing machine to teat the de claratkin' and praceed to hoist the goods. Latterly, however, the B , stLmvashlre Compsny have refused to make the do , tiara ion until their goods have been hoisted on the line. I With this reined weltave nothing to do ; we can only pre sume, se parties unmixed up with either of the companies, that they have, or suppose they have, some legal warrant for this emirs , of roc riding. On Al ,ndsy evening, however, the Laheashire azd Yorkshire Company having given them notice that they would not hoist their goods takes accom panied with toe declaration the But Lancashire proceeded to enforce th , hoisting vi et ennui, by their own servants ; foto! bei g neoffeary in order to remove the Luteashire and Y Cqmpany's 'ovum, wh f had panclaion of the alit% or at least the goods and waggons the latter hat in the way of such a proceeding. It was under this eh ennutanion the serest@ of the corn. pasha were e Reefed in something like hostile array, sad that the polio, were felled in. The East Lanoaahir• Com- . psay pv041(.44110) ran their coming's up towards the hoist, end to Mock up the sp?roaches and it was necessary for the lieriambire and Tor ire Coinpany's mennts to remove this obstruastiose belbre they could incased with their owl work. Fora tins the latter suspended operations, but a little before six o'clock they set to work, at the minsmand of Capt. Laws, maeaging dirmtor of the Isneashis and York- - shire Railway, to clear away the obstrestioe. In dela. so - they were naiad by the East Lancashire Mosey's santivies. A. route of great excitemeat followed, ash party slog their now-ban a levers to move or smote the moving of the =MThe tam, and. r the direction of Chief Con eal, looked on until they feared that blows were likely to ensue, isoe of the Rant Lancashire men having wielded his weapon or implement round hi head, so that it same rather roughly in mewl with the superintendent of police'. arm (though, it is believed, accidentally, and more dust* extutemst than Stem ion ), and then be gave or ders for Ante of the East Lascaahire men to be taken into custody. This were locked up, and here for a time elided the contest. An amusing though dangerous scene, however, subsequently scarred en the railway above the hoist. Tile But Latumahire Company's servants, whilst the above proceedings were going forward, had brought as engine and goods' train and backed it against the top dila hoist, leaving it there with brakes on aid engine reversed. The other party a little before ten o'clock brought three en gines and hooked them to, with a view of removing the ab stracting train. This was a work of no slight difficulty. The other party, besides having the engine reversed aid the brakes on, had coupled all the wheels of the wawa, com posing the train. The first effort to move the engine and train therefore tailed ; the connecting chain broke from the Lancashire and Yorkshire's engine, and the damage had to be made good. The next attempt included a little of strategy swell as force. Instead of at once attempting to fore* away the whole East Lancashire train, the three en gines of the other company were forced against it so as to enable the East Lancashire ' Company's engine to be diesennected Irons the waggons. At a signal and before the connexion could be mode good again by the other ponies, the whole force of the three stem was applied in the contrary direction, and the Est Lansibire's engine wu borne away shrieking and screeching most hernbly with the friction of the brakes and coupled wheels on the rails, and emitting immense volumes of speaks from its chimney, owing to its handles being re versed and its steam powers bring tr sttad to the utmost by the engineer in charge of it. Neer was the scene of excitement lessened by the conduct of the driven of the three Lanca shire and Yorkshire ; for these men immediately to proclaim their triumph, plied thelr steam whistles in unison, producing a noise resembling the crowing of a cock, but a thousand times more shrill. The lour navvies were brought before Mr. Trafford and the Mayor of Safford yesterday morning, when Mr. Trafford commented in strong language on the conduct of the parties who, he mid, ought to have been brought before him (tke managers under whose instruc tions they acted) ; but said he must make those who suffered themselves to be made their tools, top +nrible it they pro ceeded to a broach of the peas. He dischar ged three ut the men, however, binding only one or them, Taylor, over to keep the pose for three mouths. IRELAND. D17131.TX. Maaca 13. The accounts from the assizes corroborate the intel ligence we have been receiving about the utterly suseralle state of the lower classes. In the Irish press there is no journal so little prone to exaggeration as Sander's News, and the nature of the calendar at Tipperary, as deserilx by one of its correspondents, its mournful in iti details : Clonmsl, Saturday Evening.—Tice grand jury during the day found a great number of bil t, bin 'linen all were for arenas of a minor clue, and Judge Jackson proceeded to dispose of those cases first, in order to clear the gaol, so much over-crowded. If any one required to see the melancholy petition to which the country is reduced, he would find an index to it in the class of criminals that crowded the dock. Hitherto almost every man brought to the bar was decently if roughly clad, most of athletic frames, and in rude health, and offences for the sake of plunder were the exception, not the rule. On the present occasion the contrast was a striking one—famine tracing its outlines on the feature, of the accused, drawing its converging furrows to the mouth, and giving to the roue tenamcs a kind of half idiotic, half I, offish expression. Tilers was arraigned the whose head scarcely reached the iron bar which the murderer had so often convulsively grasped, es the jury were coming cut to deliver their verdict, and that child who when asked said he did not know if he had a father or a mother, was tried for stealing some toiling article in order to convert It into food. Then came the mother accused of robbing some straw to make a bed for her children, who hcped to sleep away their hunger, or taking some po tatoes, which in happier years charity would have bestowed without being asked for ; and in marked contrast to child hood, age was trembling between Ito weakness incident to such a period of life, and the privations which they had endured ; and the prisonhouse and the cell had, instead of any tenon, bets me the object of attraction to those miser able creatures; it afforded them a supply of the food which they wanted ; and in many inttauees the humanity of the learned judge. in inflicting a light sentence, instead of being regarded as a boon, was considered in the light of a punishment. A number of persons pleaded guilty to haying carried off the clothing which they got in the Cashel workhouse; and William Dwyer, the spokesman, stated in answer to questions from the court, that be did not get enough to eat in the poorhouse, and that he much preferred the gaol, tininess the food there was sufficient ; and a gentle man present added, that the shilikeepers were greatly annoyed and injured by having thee windows broken by the houselen and homeless vagrants wanting to be committed foe any offence. The Tuam Herald statea that Sir Thomas J. Burke, barn, M.P ,of Marble Hill, is ill of fever. The same journal al.o mentions that Mr. Dillon Browne is about to ask for the Chltern Hundreds, and that the vacant teat for Mayo will be contested by Metiers. O. Higgins, and J. M. M . Donuell, of Doo Castle. One of the most noticeable signs of the social revo lution now going on is the enormous quantity of second-hand plate offered for tale at a very low figure by the chief jewellers of this city. Never before was so mu , h plate to be sold, end the price is extremely low. For furniture and equipages of every kind, the price at auc ions is ridiculously smalL At a sale of various effects, a handsome state carriage, little used, was litcly knocked down for 381. There seems now to be a %cry general feeling in the north in favour of the Mimes M'Vcagb, whose courage was so unhandsomely denied for party pur poses. They have recently been presented with a very handsome silver teapot, given to them by some of their English admirers , . There is on the tea-pot a short and suitable inscription, and on the lid is a clamed representation of a gun and a bayonet meeting at a point. It is a very remarkable fact that since the resistance given 4 the Misses APVesgh there has been a cessation of incendiary fires, jusaying the remark of Chief Justice Bush, "that the shooting of one assailmt in gallant self-defence has more effect upon the ill-disposed than a dozen capitalexecations." The Mail of last night rid t eules the idea of Mr. D:sraeli being a lit leader for the protectionists. The honourable gentleman has very few supporters in this country. At the Limerick Assizes, the care of Mr. Stern;was again gone into. It will be recollected that he was tried before, for having adulterated io the year 1847 the Indian oorn, which he bad sold to one of the re lief committees in Limerick. On the firmer trial the jury could not agree, and in the present instance they have been locked up for some time without coming to a verdict. Whatever their decision may be (if they come to one) will be of considerable consequence. The case has attracted much attention. DIA= or COLONIL Silt ROBERT SKAW, BART,—The Dublin &ening; Wail moor& the decease of the above venerable baronet. He died on the night of the 10th, at his seat, Bushy-park, In the county Dublin. in the 76th year of his age. For more than half • century Sir Robert Shaw had filled a useful place in public lire and society; he sat in the Irish parliament; he had been returned by Lord Ely, but when Lord Ely gave in his adherence to the measure of the union, Sir Robert (than Mr.) Shaw resigned his seat, purchased an independent one (continues our Irish authority) for himself, and voted against the union. He represented Dublin in the imperial parliament from 180! to 1826; and for above 53 years constantly acted as a magistrate and grand juror for the county of Dublin. He Is succeeded in his title and principal estates by his eldest ann, Lisut Robert Shaw ; and a portion of the county Dublin estates, the propery of the late Lady Shaw, devolve on the Right Hon. Frederick Shaw, as her second son. A BAND DIABTLit FIRED AT.—Die band-master of the Queen's Hussars was fir d at by one of the band boys, on Saturday afternoon, in Dublin, after parade. The BIM prs videntially took no effect. The culprit is in custody await ing a court.martial. SCOTLAND. THE INSTALLATION Or MR. MACAULAY AS LORD REcroa OF GLASGOW COLLLOS IS to take place on Wed nesday the 21st. At the Town Council, on Thursday, the lord Prosect gave notice of a motion that the freedom of the city be presented to Mr. Macaulay. PROVINCIAL. LANrASHIRE. CALIFORNIAN QnicesiivEß.—The Remittance, arrived at Liverpool from Mazatlan, has brought a quantity of quicksilver ore which had ben shippi d from California. Two speilm.ms were exhibited in the Liverpool 'Change news-nom yesterday Trim SEAsoN.—We (Leeds Mercury) learn that the Wheat is everywhere looking exceedinaly well. It wet .....—...„ aelther injured by the winter, sot kas it been broudit %,..1: Ka , - sae forward by the early spring. 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