The Express. — London, England, 1846-12-08 00:00:00

OW. olotoo that it is not naosionon in awned deft Ito. Allow mow ay, II WO te Slattelaillt faidilig 101014.111. t platy, ali aitellA ci thellt IXE , , at I 10.0. = 4 lO rift !V . ! isiaW priiitiliell Its WWI so itmostot r ,, , • :los, tilordiat o s tro& ves m ot oillotoo tin two Oiksattoc. OM lei m Ile 'MO t= O :E t i t libtolibilterto swim& that i t t to Volbion tait I=4 to ant intimate ibl Ow the 'ii--rfotot Orme dispeoves 11.--a. L. M., ,D ABOYINATION.—We tiltderatelid ,f the City have come to the determine field u a cattle market, as soon as any I casualties shall, from the driving of ueets of London, occur . Whenever a ve his carriage windows broken, or even in Alderman shall be slightly tossed ; whew of the Court of Common Council eth, leaving a wi dow a piece, and in all, children. And it is lutist.: decided, iful calamity shall occur to such Lord lan, or such Common Councilmen—tteat es, inflicted upon any man, woman, or lered in any other light than as an 'tse tse endured with the most Christian-like resignation!—Punch, 'ED TfilEF.—An attempt was made by a well-dreamed thief to steal about , the property of Mr. Johnson, the late ion. One of Alderman Johnson's 'ru in loading a cab at the private door of with the goods of his master, and as soon rae deposited on the driver's box, a man Licle suddenly, and ordered the driver to ton railroad as quickly as possible. The that the person who gave him the order began to turn his horse round ; but ttendants at naught hous who WAS ; up the good a glimpse of the to the driver that there was el. The thief inside immediateTy m ol g ie l t i et side, upon being asked what he had to do and disappeared in a twinkling. • DE-PARK.— Informatics was ne s yesterday that between 9 and 10 o'clock ed Hilkr, residing at Kensington"; WU the western part of the park. towards at a lonely part, he was attacked by two I him down, and robbed him of his purse ,reigns and eleven shillings in silver, with heir escape. CPLOEIN.—Last evening an alarming carted in Chnrch-street . Blackfriars-road, attended with the moat disastrous cease the early part of the day workmen had pa i r ing the pipes in the streets, and coo t perfectly safe. A little before 5 o'clock, bft e nts were alarmed at hearing noise ,charge of a piece of cannon, at the same that the brick work and partition under w of Mr. Pariniren, in Church-street, were in of the flooring lifted up, and several feet royed. A number of workmen were sent my, and were at a late hour last night ing the mains. ESEERDAY.—ANOTHER CHILD BURNT Mr. Joseph Payne. et Guy's Hospital, on hun Hanson Morgan, aged 3 years. On ig, about 9 o'clock, the mother of the de deceased in bed, whilst she went on an return, she found the place enveloped in d had attempted to light a candle at the I; clothes ignited. Bearing his mother ap to bed, eulaiming, " I've been to bye bye." :r his admission into the hospital. Verdict, ARAILWATCAIINIA GW:- r, at • the Railway Tap, Nine Elms, Batters* ,of lielen 'Thomson, aged 48 years. Th e :wardess on board the M,oyal Tar steamer, , Southampton to Gibraltar, but for the last been entering from an attack of gout and tth. On Thursday deceased and her daugh ird class carriage. at Southampton, to code In reaching Basingstoke the deceased was little water was given to her, and she rallied. Ni n e Elms, Battersea , s he was again taken a medical gentleman could attend, life was et "Natural death."—Buictos or fir. W. Carter, at the Cannon, West Mold - r of Mary Ann Watford, aged 24, the wife therer. On the evening of Friday last, a house the deceased lodged, was astenlshed vat screams of children proceeding from the Yount. On entering it, the grandmother of iscovered her daughter banging to the bed extinct. Verdict: " That deceased &- whilst of unsound mind." NS IN TOWNS.—EXETER. ant meeting was held at Exeter, on Pri se the .sanitary condition of that city. The nu by the mayor, who was surrounded by most influential residents of the locality. ▪ .pressnt were Viscount Ebrington, Y. oral, M.P.—Edwin Chadwick, Esq., and 1 Smith, attended as a deputation from Lch iy report was read by Mr. Terrell. It &na tality of Exeter, and showed that while the puts of that city where there was good sewerage supply of water was from 1.. N to 1.93 per parts, where the drainage was imperfect or where the supply of water was de fi cient, the 5 and 7 per cent. eOTON, after some remarks pointing out the ion between dirt, disease, famine, sad crime, think many whom I may be addressing at the st have looked upon this country as a 1e rthabitants as stock. (Hear.) Now I will take he matter. Let us look at the consequecom nces 1 , economically considered, upon the hen a man is ill, he is not only M, but b e ing an unproductive member of society. a people, economically speaking, is of cours e roportion to the number of the effective, as td with the number of the ineffective and un 'embers of society. Experience has shown that, ate, the average portion of human life in these Wines is very short—that infant life is very , e d—but that the far greater number of persons at in the prime of their life. Now what should the folly of anybody who allowed all his it to be cut off just at the very time when mast useful to him ? Tear.) It II quite ng exactly the same principle, what should ie folly of a nation, or community, or a city, its members to be cut off just at the time re adding most to its wealth. (Hear.) What quence of thir state of things ? Why, the widows and orphans ? young children unable to iselves, is immensely increased. My friend, Mr. tatted in his report, on calculations founded on ments of fact, that there were about 27,000 cases Id, and 1 00 , 000 ca ses of orphanage, every year, i preventible cause s alone. (Hear.). Can any itrongly, d e monstrate the folly and wic ess the nte f kedn o t a te of things, not only destructive of i gion and morality, but destructive of the torn- Racial, and economical prosperity of the country. ILADWICIL said —Having been called upon to ex ist towns, and, about twelve ith month kir.s a timithgo, to miter, I did so in company w, I, am of the Health of TownsCommistioa to tell e Now, rs, and t pioneer in the cause, Dr. Shapter. ak results o f our o b s ervations in this city of .14 require rather a lone and detailed repor M t ; generally state that in going over red the lower s iw quite enough , an d were surpri ter= lently situated such extensive habitats er in going over one of these lower districts, in ' ,em with Mr. Smith, of Deanston, I said to him, lust a nest for fever ; " when out ran a group of rho were deeply marked by th e sma ll -pox, and had pox then very heavily upon them. (Sensation.) apparently an entire absence of drainage in th e Acts. The chairman will excuse me for saying, he has called, in opening these proceedings, coin age and complete drainage, carrying_the sewers he street, is only one part of the work. It is quite demonstrated in this place that the machinery of su pply and of the drainage must be gad;combine d m ust have water carried into every house, arrang that every piece of refam ca oared rried fromements t h e house to the sewer, and e sewer removed immediately to the outer at the exterior of the city. (Hear.) T hee ' e no refuse in the city, in a state of deans**. renty-four hours old ; it should be immeißillk l , I could demonstrate for the satistaedia population, that the cesspool is universally thing, and that the water-closet apparatus • very cheap thing. (Hear.) If the town retain triple and the right to that refuse, it will be found removal of the refuse in suspension in water is dome deal less cost than it can be removed by aay e labour, and that the expense, not only of remora% its application, may be greatly saved ; *slue and t he he all be able to give an increased sae, from the cheaper mode o i l er alleaties, at increased value will most • edam the tax and the outlay for the neology i m p rove ment of the town. Gentlemen, I stated to t we found everywhere a belief that the lower dir e the habitat of fever. Now, Mr. Terrell has given try important report, comparing district with district city. But Ido not think that the citizens of Exeter me a proper view of their own condition until they paratively the rate of mortality i n Exeter, as co tom- Frith other cities and other places in the unty. • Now I have done that. I h ave taken for corn- Tiverton—the town and district of Tiverton. Now, a itself is not a well-conditioned town, and it is not a tandard to test or try Exeter by ; f or within the In district there s a great deal of epidemic disease; together it is quite obvious to anybody who has inervations on this subject, and looked at the ad district, that there is a great deal of it there. But the moat important tests I have taken o f the sanitary on of the population is the infantile mortality ; and reason. My friend, Dr. Shapter, will concur with it infantile life is more susceptible than at any other --that infants, as it were, live more on air—(Hear) — a statistical point of view it is found that the deaths of ass are to the last degree affected by their miera rid emigration, and not at all by their occu a tti g o e n d , those other circumstanceswhich, it is affect the retort I lieu* lthdality: of the adul t dew. Now wird is die rate el mortality at Exeter compared with Tiverton ? I tied that while one child out of every ten born at Tiverton dies within the year—and one-tenth is the average of the eounty•-at Exeter one in five dies. (Hear.) And then, after its escape of the first ear's mortality, it has pot gone through all its channs. find that further, while in Tiverton twenty-tix per cent. die under the age of five years, in Exeter no less than forty.five per cent. die under the age of five vain. (Hear, hear.) Well, now, here in this city, in one of the healthiest counties of the kingdom, with an admirable site, and with all favourable circumstances, you Wive an, infantile mortality and slaughter that very nearly follows—very closely, indeed—upon the infantile slaughter of Spitalfields, and in Leeds, and in the Little Ireland o Manchester , — home of the won t conditioned districts we have had toti— (Hear)—and it appears that out of all, that one-hl of the people born in this town have positively been—no! more than one half, 56 per cent. of all who were bora, die under 20 years in Exeter, while at Tiverton there is only 35 per cent. • and that, indeed, is s; high amount, and one whirls certainly' is capable of being reduced by proper sanatory care. (Hear.) Now in talking of this subject, I find generally we have people generally admit all the moral evils,- 4hig the moral evils for granted ; bat what Cwt generally find is the objection to the apparent expense, ant the difficulty of accomplishing the work. (Hear.) Pavia say, first, " Can you do this ?" Now on that subject rwe are every day and every week receiving most complete andconclusive evidence that it is in the power of men, with nest precaution, to prevent many Of those diseases that ravage the lower districts. You have got in your own not county—within your own view, a complete specimen ooly of what may be d o n e, by what is done iu public este ', blishments, for iostance in prisons—(bear)—in barracks, in ships, and in all places under tolerable supervision, as in I unions, and such establishments, where they are well situated. Ido not speak upon my own experience, but on :t alx perience of Sir JIM'S Macgregor, the thief of the army se board—when I say, that if a fever were to break out in a barrack, an investiration would be ordered ; and the person ordering it would have the perfect conviction that there would be fault with somebody ; in truth, almost with the certainty that there would be somebody to be dismissed for what 'taken place. (Cheers.) The other day a fever broke out in a prison to the surprise of everybody,. An in broke was ordered, and the medical man was dismissed. It turned out that the cause was this : it was an old prison, surrounded by a meat; the noxious deposit of Which had been disturbed by so me Works in progress, and the fever broke out in the direction in whiclithe wind was blowing from the moat on to the prison. (Hear, hear.) It ap peared that the medial men had never seen the trams there before, though they bad been many pen attendants on that prison. They had never assn one case in the prison, and did not knew it. It: as Weed a case of male praxis, and the prison doctor ga it the wrong treatment, and he was removed. Well, now, that was so with the prison, but you have these deposits stirred up in your courts and alleys every day down in Exeter ti . In your inurtsand alleys you have effluvium every day, and the unhapp y inhabitants have not got an officer, and a person world be re sponsible for the oversight, as in the case of . (Cheers.) There was another case, a prisms ward dysentery break out in one wing of the prises., So confident were the medical men that it must hove wheel ' from some accidental but controllable cause. that they sailkl "It can't be the food—they have had that all their live wet be this nor the other elements—it must be the water." They got the water from the usual well. The people said the water was not so fresh as it had hem, but they had not tasted anything very particular, but enly not so good or fresh as it was formerly. at on exami nation it turned out that a drain run near the well had broken into it, and had polluted it. This was stopped up, and the well cleaned, and the water purified, and the dysen tery disappeared. (Cheers.) The ewe was dearly brought within view and within management. Well, here in your ,eourts and a lleys, here are cesspools that are polluting the Wells which supply the population—here is the water that in the cellars of the more respectable homey elamit the gems that are evolved, - and thus every istWation are exposed to it. Without doubt resound) sod management to, prevent disease are as much within reach as they are in the prison. (Cheers.) So completely is this the case, that I =give another instance. About three rats ago there was an epidemic raged in Glasgow, and there was not a single family, high or low, who escaped attacks from it, But at Glasgow they have an exceedi gly well-appointed, well-ventilated prison, and in that prison there was not a single case of epidemic ; and in consequence I of the overcrowding of the hospitals from the extreme severity of the attack! which killed ecime two thousand people, they took forty 'eases into the prison, and not one of them spread. (Cheers.) In fact, there are so many classes of disease so completely within management, that medical man who have the care and custody of those who are in 00 lug wen conditioned ;daces. are' in th e habit of sire. in relation to cases in their pnvate practice, " Oh, if had but that case in prison, I could save it." (Cheers.) Now, what has y ou r mortality to do with that disease here i n Exeter ? I find that , in Tiverton, while 23 oat of 10,000 of the population are swept off by epidemic disease, in Exeter no leas than 103 are killed. Now this being so, and this being the amount of prevention, I think it is very right I should follow it up, and represent to you, as far as noe rate to which may be done, what is the fever and the pestile the city is subjected, because that will give you some Weida: tion as to what expenditure may be warranted for its reduc tion. (Hear.) Now while, amidst this population of the Tiverton district, 32,499, in Tiverton 610 die; no less than 920 die in Exeter. That makes an excess of deaths due to Exeter of 332 deaths in the year. The explain of a funeral is certainly Mt lass than Si. on the average. Taking it at 51., your ex in funerals [ y ear the emcees of funerals compared with I =in during the y are 1,6001. (Hear.) But, besides that, every case of death involves at least twenty-nine cases of 9 c Be which, at 71. per case, is an annual expense of 9,2961. Besides that, you have a loss of labour of four years and eleven months by premature death as compared with Tiverton, which, on the excess of this year's mortality, makes a sum, 'opposing wages to be 71. 6d. weekly per I adult, on the avenge—and a very low average—of 39,0001. ; your sickness bills and funeral bills to be added ; excess for funeral bills, 1,6001. ; excess of sickness bills, 9,0001. ;and your loss of labour, 39,0001. ; making a total charge to this city of at least 5001. a year—and that does not take into account anything for the loss of the maintenance of the chil dren that have been swept away • nothing for the extensive amount of premature w i dowhood, and for the large amount of orphanage you will find burtheniag your charities. (Hear, hear.) Now, as to the cost at which this may be remedied. All I can say at present is, that the cost of the remedy would be a rate far low than this cost which has been calculated, if it were set about—with legislative and adobe the legislative aids. I have talked of whet is possible physically ; t and administrative possibilities are another and much newer question, which I could not attempt to address you upon. Of course one thing will be to arrange with the water company that the supply of water may be g eneral, and not limited , so that the com pany may be enabled, with profit to them selves, to supply at reduced rates, and for less expense, in p ro portion to its general extension ; and mythe belief is that a proper adaptation of the rates will enable Citizens to carry out this with very little, if any ultimate even havetual chant! whatever. But your committee, which will load information and the benefits of the experience d to of other places, will be able to carry out this completely ; an cor rect the details of the expenditure, of the actual loss, well ' as the expense of the improvement which I hare end eavoured as to lay before you. (Great cheering.) Dr. S. Sung said, it is certainly, a most remarkable thing ' that the human family has now lived together in communi ties for 6,000 years at least, and has not yet made its places of abode salubrious. Perhaps there has never yet existed a single city in any age or country, the inhabitants of which have not experienced some degree of suffering, some amount of sickness, and some diminution of the natural term of life, from the neglect of those precautions which are necessary to render humor ists habitations healthy. Air, water, and light are physical age which are indispensable to human existence. They are the primary pabulum of life; and being so, they are provided for us by nature ia unlimited abundanee • we have only to open our hands to receive them, a lways fresh, always pure, always inexhaustible ; and yet there is no city or towns° constructed as to a dmit everywhere free currents of fresh air ; there are few bosses so constructed as to admit of a proper degreees for of air and light ; and almost unirenany the contrivanc the 'supply of water have hitherto been to the last degree clumsy and inadequate. (Hear.) Wherever human beings reside, there must of necessity always be a large quantity of dead and decayin g vegetable and animal matter, the refuse of food and clothing, and of the materials used in the various branches of trade and manufactire. By the decomposition of this matter, gases are p roduced which are poisonous to every human being who inhales them. To warn us of their danger, Nature has made them disgusting. One would have thought that the first effect of intelligence, sot to speak of science, would have been to provide for their immediate and complete remond—(theen)—yet every where they are allowed to remain about and to contaminate our fields, our gardens, our streets, our houses, and the very innermost TOMS in which we live and sleep—(theers). If a s ingle individual perishes in oonosquenee of injustice or neglect, the case excites the sympathy of all classes, fill the columns of the press, occupies the public mind, forms the subject of excited conversation in private, th ew of ani mated discussion in parliament, and every o anxious to . apply a prompt and effectual remedy. Proclaim that ten thowand lives are destroyed in one quarter of a year, in a pmt only of England, by causes which are removable ; that Is le say, in consequence of the neglect of authorities who We the power, and whose proper office it is to remove these Wes; and it produces scarcely any impression. (Hear.) llst while we remain apathetic and do nothing, these de aiming agents steodily, though silently, pursue their work. destroying, when only as fatal as during this quarter, 40000 persons annually, in a part o nly of England. But even that this slaughter, frightful as it al, is small compared with which has taken place in the very quarter whisk lie just limed. I have here the table of registered deaths far the waster ending 30th of September in the neased Ism Ao seeding to th is table, 51,235 deaths were registered in this ; " athisable, number," adds the Registrar-General, " greater b~ttarby 15,227 than the deaths of the corresponding quarter of last year." In m e of the larger towns and more populous districts the mortality has nearly doubled, in some it has quite doubled, and in others more than doubled. To this quarterly report the Registrar-General has appended notes, taken from the local registrar's reports—a most instructive but truly melancholy document. You will find, if you look through it, the running commentaries to be— " This is the largest number of deaths the num registered by me in one Tarter.' " More than double ber registered in either of the corre sponding quarters of 1843, 1844, and 1845." " A mortality during this quarter far exceeding any previous quarter since the Eeg9- tration Act came iato operation." " Nearly , double the average of the last five =ding quarters. ' " A imp excess of mortality, in the number of deaths is 32 mere they datable that of the corresponding quarter for the laic year "—and so the commentary on to the end. Now, what are the causes of this d ul mortality ? They have been stated over and over again by medial men, who have been taught the truth by their professional observation and experience. But now this truth is forced on the eon viction of the Registrar-Oeneral. He arrives at the same conclusion by ~ a totally different proosesx—by the com parison of the recorded facts, ea worked out by figures. What, then, IPA stated by him, is the cold and dry expression of the result I " The high mortality of towns," he ear, " has been traced to crowded lodgings, dirty dwelhage, personal uncleanlinese, the concentration of unhealthy emanations from narrow streets without fresh air, water, or sewers. The rapidity of deeompoadion, and the facility with which all kinds of Ytral matter become tainted and run into putrefaction, enable us to undentand how, in a summer like the peat, in which the temperature was unusually high, the diseases referable to an impure atmosphere should be so prevalent and fatal." Now, when large masses of the people ere thus allowed to perish from known causes, from causes which are remoweable , and when the c ertain: means of removing these causes are known and within our power, it is an immolation. (Great cheering.) For every one of the lives of the 15,000 persons who thus unneces sarily perish, those who know the remedy, and who have it in their power to use it, but who take no step' to use it, are responsible. (Cheers.) After some further observations, Dr. Smith concluded thus:—We call upon every man, each in his station, and according to the abilities that are given to him, in spite of the sinister and short-sighted interests which may be arrayed against it, to co-operate in this great work. which must be accomplished before it is postible to make any real progress in rendering our population healthy, intelli gent, moral, religious, and happy (Enthusiastic cheering.) It is in the spirit of this appeal that I now ark you, ueant mously and cordially, to adopt the resolution which I have now to propose, namely, That with • view to the dbihmita of seemd information on the Pnlifest, as well as fee the purpose of tooklog the exertions of the Width of Towns Association more avalisbki, it Is dadroble that a branch association be formed in this city, whiok *add pat geetf tato immediate communication with the parent meaciatioe, solid advise, and expreaeing the readiness of the eitirens to co-openste with it. (Carried unanimously.) A committee wax formed to tarry out the objects of the association, and Mr. Drew. subse quently stated that measures were in progress for the eda blishinent of baths and wailhouses in Exeter. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Dec. & The country papers, which arrived this morning, are mostly from the south of Ireland, and the intelligence they bring is of a consolatory tendency. Thereislittleofautrage, few orno robberies of money or food, and no serious tales of ilestitu tk n : none, at least, of that extreme destitution which pre vails in other places. In the county of Galway the aspect of affairs is not so bright ; but in a large county such as Gal way, and an unimproved county, distress must always exist at this season. Most of that which now prevails is very little aggravated beyond the usual, and one might almost say un happily, the indigenous destitution of the west of Ireland. I stated in a former communication that one member at least of the Irish government was directly opposed to the substitution of the townland for the electoral dirision, lie. Labouchere's letter confirms this statement. In reply to the memorial of the Royal Agricultural Society, the chief secre tary writes to Mr. Dublin Castle, Dec. 4. 9r —I en /seated by his Excellency to the tamest of the merepiel oldie loyal ddrieullutel DeleatY Wear of the askalitation el the town.land Ibir the Imam the beak of lanais be reproductive works =be the Pear t Act. The Lord Lisstenent Om elm to it that which was alike due to the memerlall and te 'MIMS llortfillille•sf ihe seidest le which ft*tdates ; hat he is of asides lam he wont, wodisseeltr with his &V, adopt the cameo Ishii is primed. Ho So some is this .endive, net merely terra an sp. Ceb=of the mime wetted tinsmiths rthlrb ld by an atimegt to tarry it into annistion also frees a belief that It woad be ineonairsne with the gimpy objtd of dm Poor Finplerthat Ad—which was to wet, se .der ;as email, •Se priming Wow et the germ, by madding onn tenems been fleadesta,fireno the moms ot labour o al amileMeemsmer el width *terieWlees et the ctaet i lelarmithrt Ws Ere/= the W been &dress et as soli melds wish the --""" E.Lesiture or the 114 ups Moped dr Teres. ef affording the egetha et ea serer Blot this spika wes=rwit a iratirdeparture as perdie dem the midt et the memo eiretkere by piedmont: the ednelealt the Timaleadithered efthe denim' d 2•11• 0 1. = rn ia may west. Mil to dip reedest. angsanianst Marled plies where emennt of delnatien to les rdiseed wen Met The Lard Uprose* Is not be W i le del kederkres et at illffeffiliffled. by NM end esfintffie teams, the ereatlea mil l the maul Inked; int maim oliention is in ocejmniint with. bee ll minhilientiende indertant Nor elifi Lm irbeet sidzembed a =Midi amp no bray of the gentry of this the segsrtuffty el an earnest hops that tiez a lbr Z thefi eerier Mid lend then old to Government is as slam • pub* whit in ins mop to Inc ben very eflemairdppeevaileS, of sitMlogyaners who are by me means to a iftellitela resdidsb to . indieyed en So public watts—thus de- V or is me* eshomas el the limit which was Intended Mr sWithdrawinstromthe esen, cultivation of the sell is essential to urea eris. es of the people.— tele OM bliinsm to be, sir, your edient went, .R. Lieconsma. "Edward Bonen, Eaq., gory to Agricultural doliety, t r Seek In opposition to the views of the government, Mr. We sell, of Tarroe, who originated the productive question, pm's posed on Wednesday last a resolution at a presentment ase liOEP in Limerick, which was unanimmuly adopted, to the effect that in seeking to carry out the principle of productive labour on the electoral system ; the rate-payers failed in ' three divisions and succeeded in one • and that the determi nation of the government involves, "the monstrous anomaly of meeting famine by increasing production." A bill has lately pored through Parliament for the im provement of the town of Belfast, and an inquisition has been taken for the valuation of the property which the con templated improvements will affect. The cost of the inqui sition, which has already sat for six weeks, and after an adjournment been resamed, is about 3001. per day. Fire-arms are still purchased with great avidity. A cor respondent of the Dublin Herold, writing from Cavan, states, that two competing auctioneers sold large quantities at prices varying from 21. for rifles, to tis. for pistols, in the open street, to the frieze-coated peasantry ; gunpowder, from Bd. to 10d. per lb.; bullet-moulds, from ad. to 6d. each. The Tipperary Free Press states, that in Clonmel the sale and demand for fire-arms continues unabated. A correspondent. of the Limerick CArceskle, speaks for the peasantry of that county thus : Yesterday I met on the Dublin mail-coach road, not far from Limerick, numbers of the peasantry, with guns and muskets, evidently quite new, and which must have been purchased that morning in your city." The writer, however, adds that a farmer whom he met and ques tioned on the 'abject, stated that the guns were bought to enable the peasantry, " to shoot hares on the mountains during the winter.' Tux POSITION OF THE COUNTET.-.—The Galway Mer cury describes the condition of that county, from an Byre court eorrespondent On the night of Saturday W filth ult.; a ;arty of armed mins visited the house of a respectable man named Devis, who rides ta Limon, three miles distant from this town, and demanded liereems: the old man of the house aid that his son had the gun out Mir laid where he was testable, some of his property ; one of the nil said that as they had some upcm ether bushiest tinkles that et preendas firoarms, they might a well 11l two birds with seas stare where upon edremer of wimp" told his comrades, Weise the sera was oatthis , r they should pay the father with interest. On this the =lion having dubbed his musket, struck the aid man upon the bee with the stock of the gun, and liseelly miles hie n a il n se fiat as the vest of his bee: the old ore down shuinn. end his &miner, • mere child, bring= fared to save Mr araar rescind a deep cut ids sword, whistresether or these villains carried, , upon the head: and she, too, kl NV over the dead body of her father; the ruffians then son who had Month the field, upon coming in and toting and sister lying on the floor, welteting in their Mead, was horrified ; he lost no time in applying the pryer restora tives, and procuring medical aid. Ehe old mess, I eat sled to hear, is mending, but the girl is still In a premises stale. A nun of Ms name of Killeen, who llves • shift ille•mm NEM- ' ward Banisher, was most inhumanly Dodos some night lost week, and would, no doubt, lave been murdered bat Ihr the approach of sone perms, who scared away the murderers. She cause of this outrageown, unless it be this, that Killeen is steward and manager to a gentleman in his own stishEsEthostl , -- These, the writer adds, are but akw of the many outrages BM lam oc curred during the put three weeks, in the 101SIlily WEISE IVO MON dads town. To speak of simenetening, it is now no novelty to dad a sheepfold minus from one to four, some morning. Bosun OP Wonsts.—An Inspector of Finance by eke Board of Works is to be appointed to teach of the counties ia Ireland. Two hundred and filty pay clerks have been ap pointed by the Board of Works, and are now simaged throughout the country. Sir David Roche, Bart., is nominated to fill the ales of High Sheriff of the county of Limerick. Detail BY DESTITUTION AT MARTBOROUGIL-0 11 Saturday, a labouring man, named Wm. Fitzpatrick died 06 Tea-lane, Maryborough. From the evidence at the *pea an intelligent jury found the verdict, " That the fisseased died of want and destitution." Language is biadegrees to describe the horrifying misery with which the d ece ased was encountered. The night- he died, we understand, there was neither fire nor candlelight in the wretched hovel ; no drink to allay the death thirst of his parched lips but cold water; while his bed was a wisp . of straw, on a damp door, with little or no covering. The wife of the unhappy man, in giving evidence before the coroner, at the inquest on the body, said, I think it is the want of a sufficient supply of food that caused his Bath; he had been almost every day, for the last four or fi weeks, trying to get food for his children; I often heard him com plain of hunger ; he used to go among the neighbours to get food ; when I pressed him to eat, he desired me to eat it my self and the children •• he was a quiet man, and had very little to ay; upon Friday I had no food in the house; I went out, and Mr. Mope humanely gave me an order for • supply of bread, but my husband was not able to use it;' when he lay down on Friday night, he said he did not think he would sleep much ; I had no drink to give him but cold water ; we have no house of our own, we lodge in John Cul len's cabin. SCOTLAND. On the 28th ult. the following paragraph appeared in this paper: 801. DAT le EDIMIVROII.-111 Edinburgh there aye PM licensed public-houses, of which 424 are open on Sundays. One publican de chum that on a recent Sunday be drew 201. after the morns lighted ; but, faking him as a Triton among minnows, and mourning N. average Sunday inoome, we have 2,1701. spent on drink every Sunday, or 112,840 1 . per annum. Moot of this= xpenditure takes place round about the yeti house where John Kno tired and died. Parts is re mediable Ihr basing aomewbere about an equal number of schools for Imornft mathematics as of schools Sir teaching dancing, !ad henceforth Edinburgh will, or ought to be, conspicuous for having wm elt the first Cay of the week a nearly equal number of spirit shops and Sabtoth schools. The juvenile part of the population taught theology, and the adult drunkenness. Where is all this to and! A eaerogionaeot says, "Be Gray, who supplies the above Moduli" threw Memel! bdo the breach, in order to cartel' the num ber of licensee , Lb kat Mimi la the Town Council in ccomuence at that, sad ter harmg noted siphon Mr. Meanlay; so that tt wool& wpm airmen aembrineoes net only with their victims, het with unseen& eiseteso. limartheless. dm dose is coming whin B ri tian, Mks speedo elf seem te te demises." Been after it agmeennee we received a remonstrance, with relative doermeata, 6081 • party to whom, from his position, we are maths - to pay all doe nospect. We cannot , nevertheless, digoomm was with the aid of the &eminence furnished by the ermghtirmat, wherein the tarries& is calumnious." We um stet megataikkeibAtito statistics of ex-Ba il ie Gray„ and it hia•ggeregues us with more carnet data, we shell be. below le gmbilek theca --although , as we shall pcesentlyristra, eseaparstive reef ean be ad dated to demeastaste that their " exaggerations 'Lemelz extend to the " gross" or " ridiculous.' The amens that Mr. Gray lost his baillie's chair by aU to " curtail the number of licenses"—our respected monitor says that, " instead of having fallen a martyr tibia efforts in behalf of temperance—which, be it observed, was not the language employed—he was " ejected fur endeavours emi nently calculated to promote intemperance." Now. on turning to the resolutions of a public meeting of distillers and spirit merchants held in Edinburgh on the 2nd of November last, we find that they " especially deprecated any legislative or other arbitrary attempt to reduce or restrict the mere number of licensed houses." And on referring to the Edinburgh Chronicle of the 7th of same month, which is the organ of the opposition to Mr. Gray, it is stated that restriction is " absurd," " ridiculous," and altogether dm temptable ; we therefore think that when the notorious fact is admitted, that Mr. Gray's re-election was opposed by " distillers and spirit merchants," the paragraph declared uothing but warm the resolutions of those parties warranted, when it asserted that he was driven from the bench in con sequence of having tried to " curtail the number of licenses." But to the general question. Scotland is an intemperate nation, and it is net enough to admit this in a few declama tory sentences, and then leave the matter alone. Let us " nail it," as Burns said, with faces, and for this purpose we shall—leaving ex-Bailie Gray for a-while—quote authorities which are unchallenged and unchallengable, and when we have imprinted their evidence on the public mind, we shall have a word or two to My regarding remedies. From Mr. McCulloch we learn, that in the year ending Jauuary, 1843, the duty paid on foreign and British spirits in each of the three kfaidgins was as follows : England Scotland Ireland 8,320,196 „ Showing that Scotland, with • seventh of the population of England, pays duty, or rather consume., about one-half of what England does and, with • population of about one fourth of Ireland, ac4rtally consumes more spirits than Ire land. In 1841, Mr. Sheriff Alison made the spirits entered for home consumption in Scotland, 6,620,000 gallons, or 21 gallons, that is 16 bottles per head for the whole population. Now let temtotallen, children, invalids, &c. be deducted, and what must the average be amongst tipplers ? Taking the single case of Glasgow, Sheriff Alison esumatee the con sumption per head there at the rate of 6 bottles.* Paring from Glasgow to Dundee, the Rev. George Lewis surveyed his p sish in the latter town somewhat minutely, and found that it contained 11 bakers' slop., and 108 spirit-housee-t Estimating their profits at 2s. per diem, and the profits being regarded as 20 per cent, on sales, the enormous result was 19,7101. annually spent for spirits, in this one parish, or one-fourth of the wages of the labouring classes within its precincts. Allowing 4 bottles per head for the whole town, the total tavern bill of Dundee is set down by Mr. Lewis at 180,0001. per annum. linlam, therefore, P.dinburgh, be much more sober than Glasgow or Dundee, ex-Bailie Gray cannot be far wrong. But more than this, if the working-clam' in Scotland are not more intemperate and improvident than their fellows in the sister kingdoms, how comes it that the savings bank depositors as being 301. in England, 291. in Wales, 301. in Ireland, and only 161. In Scotland ? Making all allowance for the Scotch system of banking, intemperance must have some oonnerion with this circumstance. With such clamant facts ea-Bailie Gray, and those who think with him, are entitled to have the mantle of eharit7 thrown over them if their seal has somewhat outrun their prudence, uis generally the ease with all reformers. No sound man could walk on Sunday from Holyrood palitoe to Edinburgh castle and behold shops and cellars illuminated for the sale of the liquid fire that leads to the infirmary, the poor-house, the prison, the hulks and the gallows, without having his better feelings lacerated and disturbed. And whilst all Scotland would be in arms were one poor baker to open his shop on Sunday, or the savings bank to take in • single shilling from the labouring man, the publican is allowed to ply his deadly traffic unmolested, except "during the hours of divine service." Our good mentor will have listened to this detail with little patience, and he will tell us that it is a thrice told tale —that he agrees to every word of it—and that if we have no more to say, he and wo are perfectly at one.' And so are ex-Bailie Gray and his antagonists. The late magistrate did not take the license from a single respectable publican—and the publicans en the other hand are not to avert the descend ing sword from a single sinner in their whole fraterniV'. Wherein, then, do the part:es differ ? They diMr very much as other people differ, on subjects of et econoinico-moral character. Vintners regard spirits as a vendible commodity li ke bread the supply of which is to be regulate d by the demand, and, therefore, they can conceive, as they frankly inform us, no re striction to the number of shops fur the sale of spirits, except the non-support of the public, which in due time will correct excess in gin-palaces. They regard themselves as capitalists, engaged in • calling recognised by law, and ex- Bailie Gray as a sour roundhead, who levels his blows for their destruction. Mr. Gray, on the other hand, regards his poorer countrymen as drinking more whisky than is good for them ; and whilst he is quite willing to leave them to eat as many penny rolls for breakfast as they have a mind, or rather stomach for, under the conviction that the necessaries of life can rarely be made subjects of excess, he regards the demand for gills of whisky to increase with the supply and to strengthen with its strength. We are not aware that he is a teetotaller; and so far, as Joshua Geddes mid to Peter Peebles, he may nut object to " naturel drought," while he abhors "artificial thirst," ss an unquenchable thing that grows on what it feeds on, and I,bould, therefore, be dis missed out of the category of those articles left to the natural operation of demand and supply. As to ill-will to spirit dealers, we presume Mr. Gray has as much of that as the inhabitants of this country had against gun-makers and powder manufacturers when they opposed the late threatened American war—which was none at all. What then Is to be done ? The only effectual method of curing drunkenness, as well as every other social evil, is to raise the moral state of the people by education. Bat national education must be slow in telling on evils of deep growth—should the executive, thereto*, not interfere in the meantime ? We think it should. Ex-bailie Gray and the truly respectable vintners should join hand in hand to purge afterl& of the worthless licensees who now do such harm — that, the hours of opening and shutting at night, should be contracted—then Sunday traffic should be regulated, if not abolished, for we really cannot see why the poor man should not purchase his whiskey as well as his tea and coffee on Saturday. Hotels and inns would be more difficult to manage, but because all cannot be done, that is no reason why something should not be attempted. Such, in brief form, is the pith and marrow of a contro versy which, we are informed, is " exciting a struggle " in the north. As for the lengthy resolutions of the committee of the House of Commons, and the still more lengthy counter resolves of the distillers and spirit dealers in public meeting assembled , we must be excused from giving any analysis of them, as it would not materially add to the in formation we have already given. We therefore leave the subject at present, as one involving the pregnant question of how far a nation is entitled to legislate for preventing the intemperate portion of its inhabitants from ruining them selves and being burdensome to others, without trenching on that individual liberty of the subject which every free state is bound to respect. The drawing of the line is a nice problem, and, placed as we are at a distance from the same of strife, we think that both of the belligerent parties ham crossed it in their respective gyrations, but still there is *a earnestness manifested by the present age in regard to suck questions, which cheers us with the hope tha practiaal solution will yet be given. At all events the Jack Cade of former days is exploded, as no legislator, amateur or in office, will now vow that " the three-hooped pot shall have' ten hoops," or that it " shall be felony to drink small beer." RENPREWSHIRE ELEcrtow.—The nomination for the county of Renfrew, vacant by the death of Mr. Part* Maxwell Stewart, has been appointed to take al e ? Wednesday, the 9th current, at the county town of Colonel Mum, of Caldwell, has completed a canvass of the whole county, and there is, says our correspondent, no doubt of his quiet election. This might not have been the case but for the near jpproach of the dissolution of parliament. Col. Mare, who unsuccessfully opposed Mr. Stewart at the last general election, is a moderate Conservative THE P•HOCEIAL SCHOOLEIMITEES or SCOTLEPID.— Sir,—lt must be a matter of deep regret to many who, like yourself, are interested in the cause of education, to learn that the government are not to propose any educational scheme at the ensuing meeting of parliament; and the regret must be the deeper, when to every reflecting mind so many circumstances conspire to favour present action. With Scotland the government would have but little difficulty. Let us only look at the machinery already in exist ence. At the commencement of the present century the parochial teachers of Scotland were organised into something lilte a corporation, when they obtained an act for establishing a' fund for the relief of widows and orphans belonging to their body. They were then subdivided into presbyteries, the same as the clergy, and each pres bytery was autho ri sed to send delegates to a general meeting which was to be held in Edinburgh annually. Great benefit has been derived from these meetings in Edinburgh, not only the wants of the widows and orphans have been at tended to, but the teachers themselves, even from the short intercourse they have with each, have derived mutual in. struction in different systems of education. It is from this that we are to date the commencement of anything like im provement among the teachers as a body. Here, then, we have • financial body legally constituted, and besides t h r i v ing beyond anything of the kind in Scotland, the present accumulated capital being upwards of 68,0001. When we look at this body of men numerically equal to the esta blished clergy of Scotland, not only transacting their financial concerns with the greatest prudence, but a party of them, embracing the opportunity of their annual convoca tion, organising themselves into a society for improving the system of education in the country, by publishingeheap books open the most approved principles, and doing for Scotland what the government itself is doing for Ireland; when we look into this body of men, we see nothing awantieg but the judicious arrangements of the legislature to organise them into an educational society, as they have done into a financial. It has been too common( f late to undervalue the literary and scientific atts:-• the public instructors of • Alai( j• i 10 4 • • ,woistioa. t Lewin Maas ot Bt. David's Parish, Mods& youth. Taking a part for a whole, equal opprobrium is heaped on all, but it would be no difficult matter to point out, were it not invidious to name individuals, many pro feelers in the Scottish universities who at ono time had been parochial teachers. And notwithstanding all that has been said of normal schools, and the benefits to be derived from them, there is nothing more certain than that in Scot land the system has failed in producing sufficiently educated men. In place of normal seminaries, carried out as they are at present, it would be better to appoint a committee of teachers in 'each presbytery to watch over the education of those who were preparing for the office of teacher, and that these committees should report to the synod of the bounds where the final examination ought to take place. To this it will be objected that such a system would not include Dis senters ; but we are persuaded a li - tle extension of Christian charity would include them. From the remarks that bare lately been made in public by the Rev. Mr. Guthrie, the Rev. Dr. M'Ferhuse, sad in the organ of the Free Church party, the No rth British Review, it is quite evident that the prejudice of Sootchmen is in favour of the parochial system. Were Dissenters made eligible to such situations all oppo sition would at once cease, for at the present all and sundry attend the same seminary and associate indiscriminately with each other; but should the voluntary system be allowed to prevail, a separation will not only take place, but the supply will not be adequate to the wants of society.—S. T. S. A FAMILY or SAVAGE/.—On the night of Sunday wetk, a most brutal assault wee committed on the person of Hugh M'Annally, miner, Burnside, Dairy. About ten o'clock, when emoting the bridge at Kilbirnie, he was knocked down by Thomas Goodwin, jun., and James Goodwin, both colliers in Kilbirnie, and, while down, they set two bulldogs on hint, but luckily they did not bite him, but merely tore his clothes. After kicking and abusing V.m for some time, the two Goodwin/ made off. On getting up, he tried to get into several houses, but such is the ter ror entertained of the Goodwin. that none would admit him; he then crawled into an entry and laid down on a stair. It would appear that the two Goodwin' had gone home and told their father, Thomas Goodwin, lien., what they had done ; as in • short time he came to the place where M'Annally was lying, with a lamp in hie hand. M'Aenally, expecting to be murdered, lay as if dead; bat old Goodwin held the lamp so close to his face, that he ' eat fire to his shirt, and lacerated one of his eyes dreadfully with the picker of the lamp. The moment he showed signs of animation, old Goodwin kicked him until he could maltreat him ne longer. Old Goodwin was apprehended on the 17th alt., and committed to Ayr jail, but Thomas Good win, jun., and James Goodwin, are still at large. The only cause that can be assigned for this outrage is, that the Good wins had met some Sundays past to hare a dog-fight, and that M'Annally had used means to put a atop to it, on which occasion they swore to be revenged on him.—Kilosarnock Herald. Ties EARTHQUAKE IN PERTHSHIRIL—The Atheneum gives from a Perthshire correspondent a variety of particu- Um relating to a shock of earthquake which was felt in parts of that county about midnight of the 24th ult.,—supposed to have equalled in intensity the most violent of the series that occurred in 1839. The atmosphere, at the time, Wes calm and clear; and the startled population rushed from their heaving beds into the moonlit streets. After describ ing the more popular incidents which followed the phenome non, the correspondent, dating on the 29th, says, " Profes sor Forbee's inverted pendulum seismometer was thrown to the west about an inch; Mr. Milne's horizontal pendulum vibrated about an inch,—indieating a perpeadicular heave of the ground of fully halt an inch ; Mr. M'Farlane's spiral wire one indicated the same amount of perpendicular heave of the ground by the concussion, and ranged in a north-west direction one inch, indicating that the stroke came up to the town from the north-west, at an angle of about 26 degrees. The last shock, measured in the same way, gave an angle of 46 degrees, Is the focus rising towards the surface ? We shall have a better opportunity of judging this when it is ascertained how great the superficial area is over which this shock was experienced. If as widely as some of the former shocks, the seat is probably still very deep ;—if more concentrated, it is nearer the surface, as indicated by the seismometer. The barometer was at 29.3 all day yesterday, and at the same this morning. It has come back at 29 . 24. The thermometer yesterday morning, 47 deg. ; evening, 49 deg. ; this morning, 48 deg. Some lightning during the night. • • About three-quar ters of an hour after the first violent shock above descnbed, there was another smart one ; and half an hour afterwards a third—while in the intervals, and afterwards until six o'clock a.m., there were several slight ' rumbles.' Some people counted as many as thirty ; and since, up to the hour this notice is penning (six o'clock p.m.), there have been three additional." MURDER or A OAMEILEAPHIL—On Wednesday last, one of the gamekeepers of Mr. Colquhoun, of Killermont, was fired at by poachers, and so severely wounded below the knee that he died the same night. When found he was so weak as to be able only to articulate with some difficulty, that the " deed was done by two men who had a white dog." HERIOT'I HOSPITAL.—It appears that the governors are at present examining the youths privately, with a view to ascertain the real ground of the revolt. In this work they have been engaged for several days, and the evidence, were it published, would make a goodly-sized volume. A general meeting of the governors is to be called to decide what is to be done in the circumstances. TiI*__EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1846. PROVINCIAL. .14".71,1110.1.1nr.5. REPRESENTATION OP MANCHESTEL—A meeting of Lord Lincoln's friends way held last evening at the Clarence Hotel, Spring Hardin', when it was stated that every ob stacle to his lordship's acceptance of the invitation to stand for Manehestor was removed, and a meeting of the requisi tionists is to be held to-morrow evening to take steps for forming a committee and instituting ► canvass. Mr.Bnght's friends, however, have got the start, and are very actively at work. itfinammac. ELOPINEITY.—A report prevails that a lady of family and distinction in the neighbourhood of Leeds has recently with drawn her allegiance from her lord, and placed herself under the protection of his lordship's friend. NORFOLK. THE CAse OF THE RAILWAY SuwveTlNO RIOT, which occurred upon the projected Norwich and East Dereham Line, came before the magistrates in petty serious on Satur day last, when, by arrangement, several of the recognisance's into which the parties had entered were discharged. The four principal defendants were also liberated upon giving small bail for six months to appear if called upon. - --------- rano. I a aw. COLLISION, AND PUNISHICINT OF A RAILWAY OFFICIAL. —A collision happened at Westerleigh, on the Bristol and Birmingham Railway, which caused considerable damage. but happily, with the exeeption of the engine-man, without injury to any one else on the train. It appears that a la bourer was shifting some coal waggons from the siding to the:main line at the time a train from Bristol was approach ing, contrary to the regulations, and while in the act, the engine-man of the train from Bristol, not seeing the obstruction until within a short distance, could not top; and although every e ff ort was used to prevent an accident, a very severe collision took place. Several of the coal waggons were damaged, the luggage van of the train was thrown off the line, and other carriages slightly damaged. On hearing of the circumstance, the authorities took the policeman and the labourer before the magistrate. After a very lengthened inquiry, the policeman was found guilty of gross disobedience of orders in allowing the waggons to be on the main line at the time the train was due ; he was sen tenced to a month in the House of Correction, or a fine of 405., the magistrate observing that he mitigated the punish ment from a conviction that the offender would lose his &Ana- I tion under the company. - Tun CASE Or HiouwAY ROBBERY mentioned in our journal of the 27th ult. as occurring near Wheathampstead, was investigated at Shire Hall, Hertford, on Saturday. The hawker identified two men, named Parse and Smith, as his sealants, and confirmatory evidence being adduoed they were committed for trial. BERKSHIRE. Han Mantax's New YF.AR'S GIFTS TO THE POOR or Wilanou.—The overseers have received a communication from the Hon. and Rev. C. L. Courtenay, domestic chaplain to the Queen, that her Majesty intends to pleas in the hands of the parochial authorities of Windsor the sum of 2501., to be distributed amongst the needy and distressed parishioners on New Year's day, In meat, bread, coals, and blankets. The objects of the royal bounty are to be selected by the parish officers ; and the distribution is to take place in the New Riding School, in the presence of her Majesty and the Prince consort. KENT. POLICE INJUSTICE AT Doren.—We have received a long letter from one James Bower, detailing—ez pat*, of coma. —a case of police oppression, on which we have commented elsewhere. He describes his occupation thus : " I am a poor man, who, for the last twenty years, have obtained my living by rending various Muds of publications, all of which I bay in the sheets. I fold them, stitch, and plough them. I make the covers and hind them myself, and travel trough different towns to attend the markets on market days." On Saturday night week be went to do business in Dover market, and paid the regular toll for that privilege. While offering his books for sale, two men in plain clothes de manded 4s. 6d. of him, for the use of " la feet of corporation ground." On refusing the demand, he was roughly collared, his books were tumbled into the mud, and himself' dragged to the station-I%mm. Here the inspector deprived him et the rest of his books, and ordered him to appear at the Town Hall cm Monday. The mayor then decided that Bower was I justified in selling the books, which he ordered to be restored; but fis. 6d. worth of them had been lost, and the rest were so soiled with mud that they were rendered unsaleable. He. Inaturally asked who would reimburse him for his low, amounting to 2bs. less one penny, and was referred to the police committee. A ft er he had b ran kept waiting for some Lours, the answer he got was being again taken into cagy. on a charge which was not even stated. He was a gees teed, without one tittle of evidence, 101., and is &shalt , committe torison for three months. He sa the removed, when the policeman w ho ~ lad enaill hiss appeared, and for some reason he was liberated, although he had been previ ous ly committed. On appearing next day before the mayor to get compenastion, he was seized by the officers and thrust out of the office into the street. " There," continues the latter, 1 " was held while policeman No. IS placed on my wrists spate of I heavy handeugh, and In that state I was the public streets to the station, and there, without= a tb i r r ou A b of charge, I was locked up in • dark all where, but for the Wisdoms of • trades man, who became bail for me. I most ha ve remained until morning. At the umml time I surrendered myself at the office and was placed before the mayor, who coolie told the court that he " washed hie hands of the whole affair:" 'and then walked out of the office followed by the police, and I was left rid and ing there without even bearing what I had been charged_ with when I was handcuffed locked up in the station the day barge." The mar has very properly sent a statement of his we to Sir George Grey. Ur 11) lama HAY M ARKET. — MiII Reynolds, "of the American Theatres," made herappsaranee here yesterday evening. The United States ewe us more or less tome return for the histrionic talent, of various value, that we have from time to time lent them ; we are quite willing to accept Miss Reynolds as a very considerable instalment of the debt. Or, rather, we are disposed to regard her as an excelling daughter of " Britain's Isle," recovered front the Western Contineat ; for, if she be not an English lady, she is the best study after one that we ever saw, manifesting, in mien and mecum, all that unaffected, m o dest, graceful ease, so winning, pre cisely because of its seeming in no way to aim at conquest, which not only we ourselves alone assert, but which all reasonable persons elsewhere admit to tie the characteristic of the women of England. Her features exactly corre spond with her mien and manner; they are handsome, thoroughly lady-like, and full of intellectual animation, with an expression giving effect to each word. Her is without prudery in its gravity, without pertness in its gaiety. Her voice is rich, full, and harmonious, and she gave proof of having carefully cultivated its capabilities, by singing two incidental songs so admirably, as in both to be encored. We can announce Miss Reynolds's dined as at once most successful, and most deserving of success. The part selected was Kale O'Brien, in—as we think—Planchk's pleasant comedietta of " Perfection, or the Lady of Man sur." The debutante was ably supported by Mr. Holl, who showed that when he is not animated in his Impersonations be does himself an injustice ; by Mr. Tilbury, the excellent ' successor of Strickland ; by Mr. Clarke, the very beau ideal of one elms of gentleman's gentleman ; and by lira. Humby, the pink and peony of lady's maids. FRENCH PLAYS.—Perlet appeared last night is "Le Bourgeois HenfilhOmmc." This comedy, though it is as remote as possible from the severe and classical style of Moliere's . greatest,works, the " Misantrope " and the " Tar tufe " is, us its own way, as admirable as either of them. It is really a farce in five acts, for no farce was ever more ex travagant in its incidents ; but no comedy, on the other hand, is fuller of pointed wit, and rich and genuine humour. There is hardly a scene in it which does not cousin some of those happy phrases full of shrewdness and knowledge of life, which, lake those of Shakspeare, have passed sat proverbs, and ate constantly referred to in allusion to every. day ocearrences. Pellet's representation of Monsieur Jou , dais was a Rniehed and most amusing piece of acting ; aai yet, with all our admiration of his talents, it was not quit satisfactory .to us. He did not exactly look the part. II appeared too much the "lean and slipper'd pantaloon. M. Junkies is evidently • pros patting of middle al or little more, and not a withered old man in tb last stage of decrepitude ; an aspect at varies' with the whole tone and spirit of the character. The bee 4 of the worthy citizen, too, though capitally acted, had th appearance of being ac ted. The countenance was too sharp as intelligent, and sometimes ga ve th e id es of a man laughg his sleeve at his own folly. Perlet, besides, did a thing whet we could hardly have expected from so accomplished s artist. He spoke more than was set down for hint ; and r peatedly, fur the sake of epigrammatic smartness, act phrases which certainly are not in the play, as thi were quite inconsistent with the character. One of the especially struck us. In the scene where Madame Jourds suddenly breaks in upon the dinner which her husband giving to Dorante and the Marquise, Dorante tells her, pacify her, that M. Jourdain has only lent him his hoar and that it is he (Dorante) who is the giver of t entertainment; and M. Jourdain says, Oui, imp tinente, c'est Monsieur le Carte qui donne tout out Madame." But Perlet added, " C est lui qui regale, c'est moi qui pale ;" an antithesis utterly at va ante with the situation and the character of the speak, But, setting aside these things, his performance was rich treat. His lessons in fencing and philosophy, t pains he took to pronounce the vowels according to tee nil rule, and his delight at discovering that he had been epee ing prose for forty years without knowing it, kept audience in convulsions of laughter. The play was al gether admirably performed. Mdlle. Stollen made I little part of Nicole quite delicious. It was not the sus knowing lady's maid, whom this actress so often presents, but the frank, unsophisticated, lain4Polll servant girl, who falls into fits of laug hter at 1 master's absurdities from exuberant animal spirits, and te him her mind with as much shrewdness as simpliei Moliere's idea was probably never more completely ent died. The blunt abruptness of Madeline Joutiolain was w given by Madame Orasseau ; Cartigny, as the Moths l'hilosophie, gave full effect to the scene in which the wh pedantry of scholastic science, prevalent in Moliere's so happily ridiculed. The play was a little shortened; the ceremony of creating Madame Jourdain a mamamom a piece of mummery too broad even lot farce, was very p perly omitted.—Amongst the visitors present on this now was the Conde Montemolin. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. OXFORD, Die. 6.—On Saturday evening, Mews. Rolloton and ( tithe were elected, the former to a acholarship at Pembroke Celt on the foundation of lidnituid Cutler Bather, laq., and the Ii to sn exhibition on the foundation of Fronde 11046, Fag. PILLOWIMPS Vamer.—At University College, on the foundsib Ilenry IV., ►y the death of the Rte•. James Charnock ; at Qua on the old foundation, by the marriage of the Rev. The Caraansix, Dxc. 7.—At the Congregation, to-morrow, the inst., the following among other graces will be offered to the least To appoint Mr. C. Rabington, of ht. John's College, an EX.RI.II the preViolla examinations in the Lent and Michaelmas Terms year 1847, in the place of Mr. Thompson. To return thanks to P. Ellichened, R.N., for the valuable ornitbological collection be presented to the University in the last vacan. Pere fkirotausine.—The Vice.Chaneellor has given notice there will be an examination of candidates for the scholarship this foundation, lute) :holden by Mr. E. 11. Gifford, of fit. Johns commencing on Monday, Jan. 23, at twelve o'clock. The trend are required to eignify their intention of offering themselves by lag a Latin letter to each of the elector., which is to be delivered smelly, on Tuaday, the 13th, or Thursday, the 3 lst Dee. electors aro—tbe Vioe-Clunoellor, the Public Orator, the Regius fewer of Greek, Mr. Warter, of Magdalene C., sad Mr. Currey, John's C. In order to facilitate this delivery, one or more of the tors will attend in the law schools on the above days, from one o" till two; and no candidates will be admitted who do not aliairy intention in the above manner. Tao lIIPITOP or WORCI , 7II ADD TUC Rev, It. BIITLDOTOWIG- FrorentersAi , CA.rmidr mays : °Fome few weeks ago we stated the Rev. H. Bittlestene, the curate of Leamington, had been ebi with holding doctrines end exhibiting practices having • tender the Church of Rome, epedally an the question of Transutetanth and in inducing a young female to mole to the confeasionaL Bishop of Worcester having put himself in communication wit reverend gentleman on the sulemt, the latter requested a kw time to consider of bin reply, and at length the earrepandenoe be him and the bishop is published. Mr. Bittlestone denies the al heresy In all points, and says be 11111 no thought, purpose, or I boa of leering the thumb of England for that of Boone, or of h ing any soul away from the fold of the Established Church. Bishop, in reply, acquits Mr. Dittlestone of heresy, but convict of meat indiscretion; end in regard to the doctrinal questions were the subject of controversy, says that many points might I duced in which • clergyman, under corer of certain doubtful ph purpoeely perhaps retained in our Prayer-book with a s tew Millar Roman Catholic converts, at the time it was prepared vised, may insensibly create Rainmaking tendencies in the mil his people, and yet keep within the strict letter of the areal formularies of the Mech. The Bishop consents to counterea Bittlesteee's testimonials ; hut, In taking leave of him, =pre hope that be will pursue elsewhere his miniaterial labours wit zeal, but with somewhat more of discretion than he manifested his lordship's episcopal soperintendesee." TM PARISH CIIVIIICH Or NIITIXILD, OXON, which has been restored and enlarged by euteeription, was consecrated on Thu the 3rd inst., by the Bishop of Ward. Arroumanims.—Win Hon. and Rm. J. Fotteseue, Canon e make Cathedral, to the Masked* of St. Oswald's Hospital, i city, in the room of the Rev.W. Dishy, resigned.—The Rev. J. A M.A., heed master of the Demeport Classical School, has he pointed minister of the new eerie of St. Paul* in that patio the Rev. G. Procter, son of G. Procter, Esq., of the Royal Hospital, to the district of St. grnOens. The Rev, J. Killroek short time Inns Appointed to the dinrictof St. James, and there ' fore, remains only one other mpolatinent, to the district of St. I The eateries are Ilink per annum, from date of appointment I creme* 1301. as soon as a mom is licensed for puNieworship, 1501. as soon es • chunk In the district shall be cornet rated. elpenda are paid by the Eceledistkal Conirekeiceers, out borrowed by the Oonuniedomers of Queen Anne's Booty, who be repaid out of the revenues of the 'apprised canneries, and sources, as they become mailable. 'The pate:mop is vested Government, and the Bishop alternately. The present appoio being the first, antosile by theGavernment. Pazreanasr.—Rew. W. Meddes, to Fareham V., Hants Mee the Rev. Sir H. Thompson, Bart., who has resigned, and the V. of Front, Sams ; 4.61. I Vocoirems.—Cliester Conk, chaplaincy of, by the dismissal Rey. W. G. Raton. Freeborn, Trinity P.C., Manta, do. Wine patron, Sir H. Thompson ; by the promotion of the 1t.,. ; Madden. Kirk Braddon V. Isle of Man, den. !Odor and Man with residence ; pat., the Bishop; by the death of the Rev. B. Unix* P.C., Lancashire, die Mader, 1351., with residers V. of Preston; by the death of Rev. Charles Bullet,. Mottos. Hill, R. Lanewhire, dn. ander ; Pte, J. S. Leigh, Eaq. ; by tt of the Rev. S. lieathoote. NAVAL. Paritoms, Deo. 4.—llear•Admirel Sir John Louie, Bart., Ti a ppointed superintendent of this dock yard, mitred here on evening. The gallant admiral dined with Sir Samuel l'ym ao and left again for Lariat on Saturday morning. Kir Safety time 'anima on the 16th inst. The Penman, Lieutensal-Car Walter Lade, was put upon the graving clip on Friday mor i have her tottom examined, having touched the ground ocher home from the Brazils. Thy Timed, 20, ham been examined edrairal-auperintendent, and reported ready for 03113131iii0 Rattkatake, surreyit4 chip, Capt Owen stanley, ar ri ved frog mouth, has come into Barepo ol . She takes out mcriearti, for the Cape and Mauritius, and will proceed from t Straits. APPO INT KINTS, Dec. s.—Lietiensabs: H. Croft. SPartan Place, Amphion ; and W. R. Darks. Cherokee. Ailing Pa., Blade; Aiblartelh Second Water A. J. &unwell, Birk Clerk in Charge: J. H. W. Bowanut, Cuckoo. Master's Am T. May, Amliohi.o2l; and R. D. Speer, Penguin. Clerk's Am A. Young, MILITARY. CHATHAM, Der. 7.—druvat as ma Slur Ilsoroorr nos: We patents witneered the riwipbst eat at the bra& dthe 3let t into this wrier. The WM at lh medals yea at tee statics alike 0113Vtalla and Reabouter to meet thew ; art tice idridters ot the lows, as well r and men hoes the derrier. Irked to thst rot to greet dr at tree hrt hired Mir ispitirtl swarm the! for several pl bawl. der ars try re fiee y o'doeic Iser. a received with lowa abases her Tr arrabled asideeis. 1 ttesittimanditadre Mod, MA Wald by their aseastardila ihay . mellhed through the bigh • AxAmtar art I =lo. lis• Wed *win " See Ora Os Hero erre le al. breads. mere elms. redoes. I shed la MS, the 31st 'Lidded th sisqsaist bramble/ otthe Royal Madre& I%rew their owe edam tors Is silibrd awl der dardards tairs enno meh t ig oos in Tiovoodre, as at AIMI. MI two at Me the beenrits Qs deers et the eddies then rem la welcoming their awoollos tom This Tim at tho anterked at Oredis am the Sell et Awe" ea to Wriagesesr, rad asseiredi d lie weft IS rem% sad dna While at Orerresert. S. PW, Itsh.. st Warr pre to every wider a Pm et whir, at the sire tire ash aritica lewd hest, tetdri easy ireredisrly pied is , ... 4 „ Tide 's son, in cam la ins regimwt. MI in Ward la MTh a listresor la dee toolmot 'lli I co No osootaa. woo tomod thom am WWI i bollsois. Sol mod opsilt tar sad was d=l ON 1111.1 bed am* many polls to Elam this 3