The Express. — London, England, 1849-07-23 00:00:00

I ,~ principle and the practice of efficient poor relief in Leland out of rates imposed on Dish property is wrung ; for that is what has spec:ally and for the first ti.ue been rendered obligatory by law under the present administration. I n the good old tory time, property in Inland had rights, but duties in the contemplation of law it bad none. A similar state of things was perpetuated by sufferance under the ten ye3ri of wbig rale. admittistered by the cabinets of Lord GREY and Lord MaLsovitriz. In 1838 it is true, s ground-plan was aomewhat clumsily laid down, for the future e ggu tiou of an adequate and permanent system of pow relief. But it was not until 1847 that the edi fice was rears, or a refuge offered for the decti ration of Ireland. Fee= the day that the bill obtained the royal inaction wh:ch conferred upon the able-bodied poor a qualified title to rrli. t, an unaleepieg spirit of resistance has been actively at work among the landed roptietors of Ireland to throw off the yoke of moral mid flash responsibility thus imposed upon them. In every locality there has been an unscrupulous cab/A ; in every coterie a sanguine ache me for the di rect or indirect overthrow of the humane law of 1t47. Meetings and petitions innumerable there have been with this view, and discus ions without end from the commencement of the s-csion on every detail of t he subject. But the upshot of the whlsie has been to demonstrate more completely the true purpose and aim • f the nobl- and honourable confederates in both Sums of parliament—Namely, to elude the burden of the poor-law. Wei e it possible that they should succeed, the im. mediate and inevitable consequence must be, either that the ahlc-bodied poor men - be suwained by grants from the imperial treasury, cr that they must be kit to perish is multitudes. Humanity repo s the one. justice the other; yet to one or other of these alterna tives it 1- not dented that the landlord policy c woes; and if this be not the policy for which Mr. Hos& less's motion would pave the way, we know not whither it would tend. A tree is known by si fruits, and a motion is best understood by the votes that are given in support of it. We alt II await the issue in the present case with a conficent assurance that few if any will be found re ceiving their suffrages in its support save those who are peonnally or by eympstny identified with the Irian la , .d ord patty. For t e moat put these are porky, thuogh nut all. Bane Lose and floating spars from the wreck of other hopes may pos,ibly be found drifting together as the tide of the cession ebbs ; but for the most put the materials out of which Me. !Who' tic would endeavour to construct his aszy raft are the old timbers of toryism, held tenspftrity together by some few frail splinters from the mass of , libcra:11 , 111. If another session is not to be wasted ive controversies on this unprofitable subject, ILA thit such a majority will be found restating this ill adv.ae and ill-timed motion as will serve to warn men . t . talent end discretion like Mr. HoitsMAN not bait iy to commit themselves in future in so un popular a cause. MR. FIRRRIES has made a discovery—or rather s'or.c protectionist political eeonorniste have made a di,covory f,r him, and Le, in the lion -e r f Commons, has r . commende d practical application. We hope none of our protectionist writers or orators will take it amiss that we call them political communion. They are in the habit of giving Italy names to political eco nomy ar.d political economists, yet if they will but eel c: that political economy is nothing more than tie application of the theory of the origin and distrilio.ion of national wealth to administrative pur poses, and recollect that they too Im.ve a theory of the kind, and advocate their peculiar financal and com mercial policy by arguments drawn tram this theory, they will see that they are themselves u arrant notified economists ac try member of the Manchester schrol. The poor gentlemen have ell tl;s time been talking political economy (and very bad political economy too), as the hero of NOLlERE'S"Bourgeois GertilliOMMe " talked pr•se ' without knowing it. Perhaps 'hie piece rat information may imince them to be lees liberal for the future in their application of dialogistic epiliets to political economy ; at all events it may r.rve to couvince them that in calling them political ecenomi-te we mean no offence. ...._.. Well, Mr. BERRIES hes neeriniended in the House ef Commons the practiced application of a great dis cover) that has been made by the protectionist poli tic il roan Mil.,. The discovery in question is neither mare nor less than the means of raising a suffi ient revenue to defray . the expi.nditurii of government without taktog a single shilling cut of the pocket of any 11. lush subject. Mr. Helot' is is too wary and experienced a tactitian to unveil the whole of his magnificent echeme at mice, thereby der:lint the op ice of the bystanders. The late GEORGE STEPHENSON, when first examined by a com mittee of the Ileums of C immene, e.id he mild make a steam loootnotise move along a rail road at the rate of ten miles an hour. lie knew he (001 make it move much more rapidly, hut he also knew that if be said so nobody would be'itvc bim at the time. In like manner Mr. Hennes contents hime.ill with de:lefng in the first in stance that he can raise a million annually with out vein:: Coo country a farthing. He asks the Crteerietiolt OF TIIE EXCHEQUER I.) try the experi meot : he knows it will ranted, and as soon as it has mime li d he will point out far adoption the wider application of the principle. The means by which Mr. Minnie., when Chan celler of the Excaequer, will entinly relieve English men from the disagreeable necessity ef paying taxes, is simple enough. It is merely to met foreigners to pay all our taxes for us. Our Ts eiders shake their heads. Nodoubt, if you were to go blunderingly and openy t, work, and est foreigners to pay your taxes for you, their reply would probably be the reverse of cis •I and tonciliatory. lint Mr. HEaRIES proposes to go f r more cunningly to work. lie will take the Ramey from the foreigners without their knowing it. M-Altaartradmits that thereis a good deal of truth Is the theory that all taxes on commodities are paid by the consumer. He maintains, however, that this economical law Ocoee not hold perfectly and absolutely true; there is, he 'eye, "a margin" between high taxwion and no taxation at all, by keeping within which you may save the consumer from paying any part of the tsx. He moreover thinks that he has din- cm-r.d this margin, and that by rerulating our tariff of eustoon-howie (twice according to his discovery, he can shift the whole, or, at all events, the far greater rtt, cf the cost of maintaining our government on to the shoulders of foreigner,. He does not, em we have already remarked, propose the adoption of his plan in its entirety in the first instance. lie only asks leave to try an ex periment upon some one of our least important articles of general consumption. "Fiat experimentvm is f*.rpOre rili," says Mr. MERRIL+. "There is Mtn • which my protectionist friends, it is true, when rents ' 1 seetallmd of, affect to think of some consequence ; but which, by the cool way in which they insist upon keeping up the price and diminishing the quantity of it, they evidently think people can do very well without. Let us test my principle by beginning with imposing a fixed duty, " within the margin," upon corn." Mr. li E RRI re thought the promise of a million per annum would be au irresistible bribe to Sir CHARLEB WOOD, in the difficulty he finds at pre sent to make ends meet. And Mr. Humes looked forward, with palpitating eagerness, to the moment when the million having been netted, he might exclaim, " try the same plan with cotton, try it with sugar, try . it with article we import." BT bringing one : v rt e7 cTe of import after another within the range of his marginal duty, Mr. MERRIES will tax the whole world of foreigners fur our benefit,as sure as Bolnuld, if allowed to try, would have killed off all our eremite by fifties. Mr. Ilenetes is the Bobarlil of finance. . There is one obstacle to the success of this magni ficent scheme which Mr. HERMES, in his er,riguine calculations, appears to have overlor led. " Two can play at that game," se the old proverb 'Aye: other nations would be pretty sure to Icon 'our trick, and play it "ff against ourselves, It we towed colt in and corn for the support of our gevernmeet, France, Ger many, America--all the world—vre,uld tax Birming ham hardware and Mancheste r cottons for the support of theirs. The result would be that, accord ing to the theory of the pratctionist political econo mists, every country would pay fur governing all its reighboars. It is th-e old story of the monkeys in Exeter 'Change, s'. here every monkey insisted upon eating out of it co neighbour's pan. All things con sidered, we suspect it will be beet to adhere to the vulic or but simple and honest plan of every nation paying its own shot. Whoever may have been deluded by this promising theory, Mr. HERRIES evidently bas not. He took care to bring his plan under the consideration of the house in a form that precluded the possibility of a division on it. He threw out the suggestion, in an easy conversational way, as one worthy the attention of the CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER, but made no motion. The consequence was, that he had well nigh escaped even a debiee upon it. One honourable member proposed to get rid of the topic by intro ducing ano her, a second by adjourning the house, and at lsst,the housegrowieg wearied of talking when there was no motion before it, the subjeetwas dropped as informally as it was introdeced. The truth is, that Mr. Ileums and his patty are burning to do something, and yet do not see what they can do. They are much in poor Littn's condi tion : " I will do such things—what they are yet I know not." And besides, they must keep up appear ances, and persuade their followcrs they are doing something. To these feelings we are indebted fur Mr. Denim/as proposal at the beginning of the KIP lion, to relieve agriculturists by transferring the col lection of some millions of taxes from local to govern ment ra'e collectors; and Mr. HERRIES' proposal at the end of it, to b egin the work of every nation paying its neighbour's taxes. People were prepared for any possible amount of eccentricity in financial plans from Mr. Diseseht, but nobody expected to see the sedete and prosaic Mr. Ileitetes excel the author of Yleian Grey in his own line. We have had ere now an administration of " all the talents." When Mr. HbRAELI, Mr. HERMES, and their colleagues, come intooffice, we shall have an administration of " all the crotchets." If there is any meanirg in Mr. Hermes's proposal it is to re-impose a protective duty on home-grown grain. If it can bare any practical result, it is to im posea taxation of 5,000,0001. per annum en the bread-eaters of England, of which one million is to go' into the Exchequer, and four millions into the pucketeof the laudlords. Mr.Heitates would havekept this feature of his rzheme in tte background, but the impatience of Mr. NewnEcAre tamed round its back face, and showed it to all the world. The glorious discovery heralded by Mr. HERRIAS was discovered, when stripped and turned round, to have, like SPENSER'S Dueua. a fox's tail "with dung all foully dight," depending from its caudal extremity. This was unanswerably shown by Mr. MITCHELL, Mr. BRIGHT, and Mr. COBDEN. The remarks of the last-named gentbman drew from Mr. BAnees the dolorous declaration that " the interpoei tion of the honourable member for the West Riding had not in the slightest degree facilitated the object of the debate." It certainly had not facilitated the object which the parties who began the debate had in view. THE annual meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society is an event of too m'ich importance, with re gard to the actual condition of rural industry, to be passed by without remark. The existence of the society is a matter of some eignificaoge, for its forma tion was the first effort of self-reliant 3 on the part of, the landed interest, and its progress has marked the advancement of English husbandry, which the meet ings and journal of the society have methodiced and stimulated. The society, established in 183 e, origi nated from the inquiries made in 1836 by the select committee of the House of Commons upon " agricul tural distress." It was then proved to demonstra Lion that protective duties on foreign corn could not secure what, in the phraseology of the day, was celled "a remunerating price," while farmers were induced, by reliance on agricultural "protection" to neglect or misapply many of the resources within their much. The leading landowners became convinced that to the improvement of husbandry they must lEly look for maintaining their rents, and unseeing that distress which the mode prices, of 1831 arid 1833 had brought upon the inferior classes of English farmers. The late Lord SPENCER, Mr. HENRY HANDLEY, Mr. PCSEY, and the Duke of Rienstoso, were the el.ief originators of the society, and it speedily attained an importance from the station and number of its mem , bers which had no previous parallel among agricultural societies in this country. The highland Society had been of great service to Scotch agriculture, and Mr. COKE, by collecting about him, at his Holkhatn sheep shearing', some of the best farmers from all puts of England, materially contributed to diffuse the knowledge of that improved system of firming he had introduced. The objects proposed in the establishment of the Royal Agricultural Society was to effect the same on a larger scale, and it hen proved completely successful. It war soon discovered that the diffusion of existing l agricu'Aural knowledge, the making known to formers of one district practices which bad been found beneficial in another, would soon effect great and general improvement. It was found, too, that the practice of husbandry as an art was for in advance of scientific knowledge as applicable to agriculture. Now that the society has been established for eleven years its conductors may fairly take credit for having been largely contri butory to the spread of agricultural information and to the ircrease of scientific inquiry in that connexion. The society has become national, its exhibitions being, in fact, formed of stock and implements from every part of the country, wheresoever the annual meetins may happen to be held. Farmers also congregate from the most distant districts, and nobody who hss been in the habit of communication with farmers for the last twenty years can doubt that such gatherings have greatly assisted to wear off the prejudices for which they were formerly so notorious. At this mo ment we believe our more intelligent farmers, and especially the younger men of the class, are as fully alive to the necessity of improvement, and se com pletely open to revise their own systems, and to in vestigate the systems of other farmers and different distrectii, as any other of the industrious capitalists of England are willing to go ahead. The Norwich meeting was an interesting one, for several rca sons. Norfolk is essentially a tillage district. Permanent pasture is there the exception, snd is kept for some special reason. Consequently the agricultural implements are numerous, and of the hest description. It is the head-quarters of mechani cal ingenuity directed towards husbandry. The number, extent, and importance of the verions works for the manufacture of implements of husbandry to be band in Suffolk attest the wants of the rural community of the dis trict we have mentioned. Nowhere have we seen the implement yard examined with more discriminating criticism than at Norwich. There was less, perhaps, of that mere curiosity which the implement show attracts in districts where 'tillage is less advanced than in the eastern counties, but each farmer seemed to be considering the merits of alterations in some implement with the use of which he was himself familiar. There is sotking to which the agricultural show of the Royal Society has given a greater im pulse than to the manufacture of implements, as all who have watched the progress of these exhibitions from the first meeting at Oxford in 1839 will readily admit ; and, perhaps, practical husbandry has been moot benefited by this branch of the society's opera tions. Machinery, in some form or other, is evety day found to be more and more applicable to husbandry, and not a few of such discoveries have been the result of these meetings. The exhibitions of live stock, too, have been of con siderable use. They have enabled all farmers to compare the se hetet] specimess of thevarious breeds shown with their own stock, and th, y have ascertained the source from whence they can derive well-b: el animals for the improvement of their own stock. In this way th c society has certainly contributed to the improveme nt of Kock. But the effect of its operations has been less creative than in the instance of implements. Far mess have not become breeders of stock in conseque,nee of the eocie'y'aprizes, or tho facilities offered by the' society's shows, though doubtless many w h o were breeders before, have availed themselves ' . ,f th e advan tages offered by the exhibitions its their several die trio's. This branch of hushes alri requires more 1 , patience, capital, and skill, tlesn any other ; and nothing is more remarkable thrs the fact, that at all the meetings of the soci ety the substantial portions of the stock show consist of animals exhibited by the same persons. For instance: the sheep, South Downs, Cotawold, or Letasters, are, year after year, shown by the same breeders end from the same dis tricts ; and the competition between them is usually so close, and the merits of a few flocks so decidedly superior to the orel:,nary run that there would be no i difficulty in pres!iicting that the prizes fur each breed will be swirled amongst some half a dozen breeders. I Often wo see a struggle between two or three lead: ing brr s ders continued for a time, when, one having eitelt'oehed his superiority, we see no more of the THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 23, 1849. o wl of his competitors at the societies, and the sue cesst:ll man seems to have attained a kind of cham pions'a.'y, until the palm is aegis contested by new I mee d efg . This will indicate the reason . why there is no great increase in the numbers of sock exhibite.i. Most of the exhibitors consist of three classes: firs'• the professional breeders, who are the mainstay of the: exhibition; nee', amateurs in stock, either noblemen ard gentlemen, or farmer', who take pleasure in maintaining good stock; and lastly, persons of the district in which the meeting of ' the year happens to take place. The two last classes probably fluctuate a good deal, the last especially, and to that fluctuation we believe the variation in the entries of stock in different years is mainly due. At the first meeting of the society at Oxford, in 1839, the entries of stock were only 249; at Bristol, in 1812, they had increased to 610; and at the Derby meeting, in 1843, the entries of stock reached 750, the highest number ever yet exhibited. Many of the animals then shown were, however, inferior, and from that time fewer have in general been entered, but those shown have been good. Their number forms no te,t of the good. earn of a show, being in fact chiefly dependent upon the locality. For instance, at Southampton, in 1844, the entries of stock were 673 ; at Shrewebury, in 1815, 437; at Newcastle, in 1846, 613; at Northampton, in 1817, 459 ; at York, in 1818, 724; and at Norwich, in the present year, 624. Thus we see that the purely agricultural districts around Southampton, Shrewsbury, and Nor:hamp on, produced fewer entries of stock than the distacts around Derby, Newcastle, and York, where agricul tural industry is so much mixed with manufactures. Tee large number of entries at Norwich, bang, with the exceptions of the Derby and York meetings, the highest on rec3rd, speaks volumes fur the effects of improved and tiller farming in producing an in crease of stick as well as of corn. It was currently said and believed that, though a vast quantity of stock is fed in Norfolk and Suff ilk, hut tittle is bred, and consequently that, so far as the show of stock depended upon the locality, it would not be a good one. This has been disproved by the result. The entries by the professional breeders were rather less than usual, tspecia!ly of short-horn cattle, but that was more than compensated fur by the Iced entries; and the stock shown from the eastern coun ties was, on the whole, very good. Tte contrast between the local entries at Norwich and Northamp ton is most striking, and conveys a lesson to the landed proprietors of England th: y should profit by. Northampton is in that pastoral district of the mid lend counties which is commonly called the breeding country, where a sort of superstitious veneration f permanent pastures exists amongst the landlords ' and which years ago was the locality from whence Lon don was chiefly supplied with fat meat ; yet this district produced far fewer local exhibitors of breeding stock than the tillage dierict of the eastern counties. Now, Norfolk and SuffAk were once dairy and breeding counties, dependent chiefly . on permanent pastures, but these pasture lands havog been since broken up and converted to til:aze, we find the dis trict not only more pr. lific in corn and fat meat than the more naturally fertile midland district, but it is able to exhibit more breeding stock. It is plain, therefore, that the system of husbandry which is most conducive to the profit of the farmer, the en.ploymea cf la bourers, and the increase of human food, is at the same time most favourable for breeding stock, a branch of husbandry once thought to be peculiarly adapted to pastoral districts. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES, THE BLOCKADE. We learn that the government of the Duchies has resolved to withdraw its troops southward of the hue between Flensburg and Tandern, set forth in Ihe third article of the convention. The moment this tilteo place, Dmmark is bound to raise the bl whack. But the government of the Duchies is not the less determined to persevere in the war and reject the other articles of the treaty. FRANCE. PARIS, SATURDAY. People are somewta! struck by the exchange made between France and England of the Prince of Canino for M. Guizot. The latter poli'ician landed at Havre, was received in triumph b 7 his political friends, and was escorted with great jubilation to his seat at Val Richer. _ . Toe ex•Preddent of the Roman Republic is not so fortunate as the ex-President of Louis Philip; c's ministry. He is packed off by rail and steamer out of France, as fast as poinble, as belonging to the classes danyerenses. The Prince of Colima stopped at Orleans, dined at the tat le-d'h4te, talkei politics ' to the guests, and styled Oud.not's conduct at Rome a veritable infamie. Being closely watched by a police agent, he begged the ,orchard to give bon his arm (the prince is very fat, and needs support in walking), and in this company be visited the few wonders of Orleans. In the debate on the press law, M. Combavel de Leyval dwelt mach on the necessity of passing the bill, as one d'urgenee. M. Mathieu de la Dn'ime energetically oppo-:d it. Ile candidly confessed that repressive measures were best suited to the interests of his party, but be thought higher aim should be held in view ; repression of indi vidual liberty and freedom of thought was imperious, and b-sides these reasons he felt sure that so many measures contrary to democracy could not but lead at some not dire ant period, to frightful explosions by which the country might ba upturned and destroyed. So soon as democracy ceased to be represented in the assembly it wou.dtike refuge in the streets ; and so ion as liberty was violated the assembly would be pasting laws indeed, but would in reality be support ing tyranny. These words of M. Mathieu were in terrupted by cries of " Aliens dune ; " and after silence was restored he cried out, " he could tell those who interrupted him that the representatives in this assembly were neither superior nor in ferior to other citizens. 'Were they superior they would be aristocrats—inferior if they believed him, they had sufficiently lowered themselves by the pass ing of their regiment. The intended press law was meant as a crusade against socialism, and this was timeless, for all utopias must fall b: fore the force of reason. Such a crusade would merely cause the people to say that the ricia combated socialism, be cause it was liberty, and they wanted to keep the poor in slavery. He then went on to show that re pressive governments had always endeavoured to en chain liberty. He coal& tell the majority that know so well how to lose a government, how they might save one. When the: rich gave their superfluous wealth and education to the people, then they would no longer require prase laws; for if they attacked the people, then they ..could be committing suicide. M. Montalerabr rt followed, and spoke in favour of the law. HE., &at protested his desire to keep up the republican form of government under which he thought France could lire and prosper; but, at the same ti'.ne, he would defend society against the at tacks e f anarchists. He thought that France was on the rel.ge of n tomb, and that society was in danger, and they must be saved at any price. Liberty must be I awed at the same time, but not unlimited liberty ; th t would bring back a dictatorship. He knew that in June disarmaments had taken place, the limbs had Preen disarmed, but the heart and the id-as remained, and the only means of disarming them was to depr,ve them of the press. The news of the proclamation of the Papal authority at Rome has created no surprise either in the Chamber or the public. It is believed to be a mere got uo affair and that the Pope is not a whit more near a return to his capital. IV') read in the National:—" It is affirmed that a very serious collision has broken out iu Corsica, be tween a battalion of the garde mobile and part of the population. If what is stated oa this subject be true, it appears that this struggle, which her cost the lite of a certain number of soldiers and inhabitants, arose out of some not very measured exyressions re specting the President of the Republic, which sounded ill to his countrymen, who, as is } mown, carry their eu-ceptibility writ regard to the Napoleon family vary far." The Courrier de Lynn states that fifteen peers have been arrested at Gie ore, Grigny, and St. Andeol,l on the charge of being concerned in the plot of June 13, and that 300 mut'etts with a number of swords and pistols, bad benn seiz ed. At St. Denis six other persons were arrested for threatening and insulting the armed force on its return with the prinonere and arms. The Court of Causation hie rejected the any-al cf Captain Kleber against the sentence of death pro nounced 1 y court-imanirl, on the grout.d that, as a soldier, he was fully an . eua bl e t o the court which tried him. GERMANY. PRUSSIA.—Our correspondent writes as follows : BERLIN, JULY 18. A royal ordinance has been promulgated by the government of Ilanovnr, summoning a new parlia ment. Tne elections tf the wend chamber, which is to replace the one dis•olv.d by the proclamation of April 25, will take place according to the provisional electoral law. The day of opening psrliameit is not n__.7 The Prussian government has offered to place its troops at the disporsl of the Hamburg senate, for the purpose of dissolving the constituent assembly, and repressing democratic excitement in that free city. People here are very anxious to learn whether the senate will accept this offer. HOLLAND. THE HAGUE, JULY 21.—The Skate Courant publishes the summary of the comparative receipt. and expenditure of the first six months of 1848 and 1849. There is an augmentation of 317.151 flcrius, as the produce of indirect taxes (those taxes having b en 8,339,442 florins for the fit st six months of 1849) ; of 333,637 florins as import, export, and navigation dues (these amounting to 2,356,369 florins) ; of 378,232 florins on the excise (these having amounted t, 9,237,081 florins) ; and of 8,736 florins as patents fur gold and silver (amounting to 72,094 Burlap). On the other hand there has been • diminution during the first six months of 1849 of 211,120 on registration sod succession stamps and duty (the sthavin g amounted to 4,367,876 f1.),0t 31,937 8. on the Post-office (the re ceipts of which have fallen to 667,857 fl.), and of 1,077 fl. on the lottes i.s (whisk have fallen to 133,640 florins). His Molests/ has authorised the state to ac cept a very valuable legacy of a rare collection of an- Cquities, bequeathed by the late Boron H. J. von Westrenen Van Tiellaudt, who died at the Hague in the month of November list. WEST INDIA MAIL. The Royal West India Mail Packet Thames, Captain G. Abbott, arrived at Southampton yee•er day : the mails were landed under the charge of Lieut. J. Strover, R.N., admiralty agent. The dates by the Thames are :—Vera Cruz, June 16; Tampico, June 14 ; Havanna, June 26 ; Jamaica, Jute 22; Demerara, June 10; Trinidad, Juae 21 ; Grenada, June 22 ; Berhadoes, Jane 27 ; Antigua. June 29; Martinique, Jane 2S; St. Thomas, July 1 ; Bermuda, July 6. The freight on board consists of ;-406,662 dollars from Vera Cruz and Tampico (of which 19,990 dollars on account of the Mexican dividends and the rest on merchant's account ; 671!. 13s. 4d. British coin ; 2SI serous of cochineal ; Ll cases of cigars; 104 bales of arrowroot ; 4 lire turtle; and 32 small packages. There were 73 passengers on board, of whom 13 were from Mobile. Mr. Caber, H. B. M. Cimsul at Hayti, and Judge Lees, from Nassau, were among the pessangers, and a number of officers and privates from Bermuda. One item of news brought by the Thames from Mexico is important it true. It is rented that Mr. Robertson, who went out on a special mission to the Mexican government on b-half of the Mexican bond holders, has been ne.:st successful, and that a large remittance m iy be expected by the Gulph mail steamer of August. Ttere are great compla'nts for want of rain at St. Jaga de Cuba, and the misfortune extends to Jamaica. there being abroad an opinion that the Coosa will be compelled, by the urgent necessities of the country, to pass the Rum Inds Bill, that is to say, if ane bus n. ss is done by the two branche s toneds, r. Rice. -A cargo Madras has been offered at tis, per luitbs. in bond, and, Lasing failed to meet a t urchaarr, is bring retailed at 1.. to bs. , :d. In bond. Bengal is taken at I4s. 9,11. per lbollas. Carolina is very dulL Inn res.—The market is heavily au;Jplicd with all docriptiens. In Irish we have heard of • re.sate at ltd. per lb., though importers generally were taking , without however findan'any ourtiplianee ow the part of the trade. After the arrive of the packet receivers were firm at Utl , at which figure moderate sales have been made ; hut a lot of 150 firkins has subsequently been sold at ad. pm. 10. American Is ithout any value in this market at present ; the trade will not pur chase it. For twe or three parcels tried at auction, only al. per lb. was hid. . . . . . Ben:o,—Walson'epilM is taken, for immediate consumption only, at las. paY barrel. Craelters middy command 21s. per basal. Hear.-1::e soup market has been drcadfally overdone. The stock ie immense, and it Is Impossible to effect • sale of any importance, the demand being merely for retail purposes. Humans —Receipt& have occurred rather tom freely, and prices have consequently declined; the lust sales having been made at 16.. with and 14a. without roes. Ou..—The supply of lard and whale is considerable. The former description haa been sold at 3s. ler gallon, and the latter at 2s. 6d. to 2a. ',ad. per Italian. Co .is moved at 2s. 6d. to r R Ilan. Ltan.—The much too.abundant supply of this article has caused Ile value to recede to 4d. per lb., at which price 200 kegs have been told at &nation. . . COLWISII—Has been again sent on in too liberal quantities. Sales of prime have been made at 113. to Its. Cd. per 1001ta. in mks, and 10. for boles; but the arrival of a cargo of 200 tierces in the condition which tLe trade term "sweaty," and which has been so:c1 by auction at 16s. to S. per tierce, to exercising a very depressing influence on the market. . . Samos is very mane; but the coosumption ls extremely limited. No. 1 is sold at b 4., and Na. 2 at Ma, if really prime. Ussm.-6ales ; prime American sugus-cured have been made at 7d. to 74d. par lb. A parcel of 120, aim prio.e suwer.cured, has been sold at 41d. per tb .; and a lut, just arrived, his been tittered at Sid. per lb. Ordin ary qualities are sold at 4d. to 2d. per lb. Lanca shire are worth led.; prime of Mic description are scarce. Barr.—Sales of good family beef have been efeeted at 40s. per half barrel, and 20s. per quarter barrel. Bassur.—Coosiderablo supplies have arrived. We quota M. to 24.6:1. in bead. Gt;rca is dull at 20s. per box of 12 flasks, duty paid. MALT is unusually doll, there being no demand whatever. Bulk is not worth more than 90e. t t 925. per blid. for Barclay, Perkins, and Co.'. porter, and Ws. fur lAne's Cork. Bottled is taken very slowly, at is. 6d. per dozen. Curgix.—gmerlean, in small lots, has been moved at 6,d. to Td. per lb. Bvw.—Proof 21 has been sold at 2.. 3d. per gallon ; and good brand, at 2s. 6d., at 10 days. Seusa has met sale, at 13e. to les , according to quality. Oirrar.—There has not been any offered. The same remark alto splints to FAVIGHT IS PO dull that vessels have left and are leaving in bailart to reck for cargo. Gina. --4 to 5 per cent. prem. for Amerie Columbian doubloon, 3 per cent. prem. on 64.; tipsnish doubloon, 1 per cent. prem. On 654. _ _ _ _ _ . _ Est to csoes—On London: Colonial Bunk, 90 days, i per cent prem. , i.O days, I per cent. mem., 30 days, 11 per cent. prem. Ja -141.11C1 rank. 90 dap, 4 per cent. pet m.; 00 dam I per cent. prem.; 30 dope, lI per cent. prem. Merchants' Mlle, 9u days, par. On New York, 4 per cent. prem. COLONIAL. VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. Letters and papers from Hobart Town have been received to the 25;14 March, aekn iwledgiug advicts from England down to the 24th Nov. In a com mercial point of view the accounts from thence are very uninteresting, and the market was rather languid. Wheat was quoted at 3s. 7d.; barley, Eng lish, at 3s. 3d.; Cape, Is. 91 to 25.; flour, 101. per ton. At Lanncebton the prices were—fur wheat, 24. 10d. to 3a.; barley, English, 3+. ; oats, Is. 9d. to 25.; flour, fine sort, 81. to 81. 10a. per ton. gbe Court. TILE RURAL FETE AT OSBORNE. OSBORNE, SATURDAY.—This of emetic, the ennuel fete, given by her Majesty and his Royal Itighnns the Prince Albert, to the labourers and others employed at Os. borne, and to the seamen of the royal yacht, kook place in the park of her Majesty's marine residence. Dinner was served in tents, at three o'clock preeisely, to which about 310 persons sat down, and shortly after, the Queen and his ll.yal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princes Royal, Prince Alfred, Princess Alico, Primus Helens, and the l)uke and Duchess of Nemours, and attended by the ladies and gen tlemen of the household, proceeded to the ground, and walked through the tent in which the happy guests were dining. Atter dinner, the healthy of her Majesty and his Royal Highness were proposed by Mr. Toward, her Majesty's steward, who presided upon the ccc 41,M, and heartily re sponded to by the cheers of those assembled. After dinner the sp,:rts of the afternoon commenced with • dance upon the green. The ground was decorated e ith tents, flags, and banners; and the weather being very line, the whole icons was one of gaiety and happiness. The bands of the Marines and of the 77th Regiment alternately played to the merry dancers. The games were as fol'ows litinclinan's buff, lly the garter and leap-frog, cricket, foot ra.es, hurdle races, Fai,or's hornpipe, hopping match, fisher man's dame, snapping at gingerbread, whipping the m,nllvy, jumping in sacks, climbing • grew d pole for a leg of mutton, dipping into water for oranges and then into oat meal fit coins, county) , dances, jigs, &c. In ail these old fashioned sports the seamen of the Victoria and 'Albert and laity moot distinguished themselves by their agility, and they occasionally intervened the amusement, with songs. tier Majesty and his Royal Highness, together with the younger branch. s of the Royal Family and the royal guests, honoured the fete with their presence during the whole afternoon, and appeared much to enjoy the mirth, happiness and good humour of their joyous country people, servants and sailor.. . . At balf-past a , yen the sports ceased. The large concourse .Ipeople separated in the most orderly manner, and in less than half an hour the Told pleasure grounds hal resumed their usual appearance of quiet are 1 retireineet. Sun DAY.—ller Majesty and his Royal 11:ghnee•, and the ladies and gentlemen of the royal household, attended divine service et Whippinahum Church, this forenoon. The urmon was preached by the lion. and It v. F. P. Buuverie. Her lt,jal Witham the Duchess of Kent, attended by Ltely Augusta Bruce and Sir Ge rgo Cuuper, crossed from sport in the Men steanr.r, and arrived at Osborne about six o'elsek yesterday. Colonel the Hon. C. Grey and Sir James Clark, also arrived yesterday atier..nou. Colonel Of. y has re:ieved Lord Aimed Paget as Equeny in waiting un her Majesty. Sir James Clark returned to London this afternoon. A Csbiutt Council was held on Saturday at the F otfice. It was atten.ied by Lord John Itus.sell, the MIMIAIS of Lsosilowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Earl Grey, the Cnenesllor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Listing, Sir John Hubhouse, the Riitht lion. Henry Lahon chere, the Earl of Carlisle, and the Marquis of Chumeardr. The council sat two hours, The Geucral Hard of Health, at a full board, rc ceived the President of the Academy of Medicine in France, Mager.die, on a mission of inquiry from the French go vernment as to the progress and treatment of cholera England. M. Istagendie was accompanied by I) *Laughlin. CABINET COUNCIL.—SumMOOeca were isswd on Saturday for a cabinet council on Thur.day nrx:, t h e Foreign-office. THE RIG lIT HON. THE SPEAKER gape his coat canar y entertainment to the officers of the House of Come arms to Saturday lust, preparatory to the close ut the pair , , mcg sgsy session, at the right hon. gentleman's temporary J Oda , resi dence to Eaton-square. CLOSE OF THE PARLIAMENTARY SEW ,lON.—The ministeti.l fi•L dinner, which usually ftecedd , the preroga- Wan (.1 parliament, will take piece at the Tie talgar, Green. ich, on &auras) , r. , xt, the 28th :115 L. ller Majesty, after 4:ttling the 'often from the throne , and !la e royal commie for the ProtuFation , is eiPeetr Arl to sr.il from thborne on the let of August, en route for Cork, ihab.in, Belfast, and Scotland.—Observer„ THE CONSERVATIVES AN,D 'Baum ROTHSCHILD.— Several leading numbers of the Carlton and Conservativ , Clabs have formed theme' v..; into a committee for the pur pose of prosecueing the peedion presented to parliament age net the return of Ben n 'ttott , ehild. They held a meet keg en Saturday at the re Ad awe of one of the leading con servative memlaers of , „tee ilouse of C0M01.11% and it was arranged that steps e'-etude be taken to provecute the petition with energy. Fur da t it is said, to any extent will he h rth coming to carry r n the contest before a committee o: the Muse of Commodae.— Weekly eltronic,e. ORDNANCE R that the gofer nme .it will follow cut. the recommehdation of r.:TRENCUMENT. — it is understood tie summit' d e or. ordnance estimate', and curtail the num ber of slu r ekeepcn' establishment', which is at present too great. Co' AIERT ACCIDENT AT WEST BROMWICH.- 1 1 1! 1 •(. ULOLS ESCAPIL—On Wednesday evening last an at"' dent bappsned in a mine belonging to John Tildes'. y, E 4., called the Queen-pit, eitutted near All Saints' church, io . this parish. It appears the c llisra at work wire alarmed 1 ,y the cracking of that roi lion of coal which formed the rout of the workings, an immense quantity of which tell with a terribl' crash before they bed resched the bottom of the shalt, when they discovers d one of th it fellow-workmen, named Thomas Pitt, who bad been work n 3 at the extreme end of the mine, was mis.sing. A number of colliers from the adjoining pits came to their assistance, and, atter labour ing for some hours, succeeded in getting through the fall n cool, which was upwards of ton yards thick, and tin•'ing the unfortunate fellow providentially unhurt, hut suffering fro .n cold and wet, his clothes being comph tely saturated with water. He was speedily oenvi)ed home, and is now e.o ng well.-li•uamirvihasa Merctoy. DEATH FROM LIGIITNLNO.—An inquest wee held on Ti ursday at Crofton, on the body of Sarah Smi .h, aged 15 'tears. It appestat . ' that wrilst th' droea•e I, h r mot..er, and Mrs. Harriet Hampshire, the wire of Thornas Hamp shire, farmer, were engaged on Wcineaday afternoon last in haymaking, aster= of thunder, lightning, and rain came on. lhey left 'tie hayfield, and were running though the neat field towards home, when, by a viiid float of lightning, ac• compaided by 1 nd thundir, th.y wets all three inttsc tancously et•uck down, a tree near them was shattered. Mrs. IFlTl7thire recovered her &tura firs; and she then saw deceased ldy on the ground and tte souther trying to get up. After a 'line Mrs. MsulPshilw went towards thorn, when she found the poor girl quite dead. The mother Was in such a state of co .11.13i011) and alai = that she ran h o me as soo n as she was able to get up. Tae body presented no marks save a slight disco ration of one check. The jury returipd a verdict in sooottloon with the above facts.— Wakefield Journal. BERMUDA. DIFiTTIES,ING OCCURRENCE AT IRELAND ISLAND.— The i!ernirulls Herold of Thermhay sth July, con tains the following account of a conflict attended with lore of life, between the military and the convicts on beard the Medway convict ship An inquest was held en Tuesday last, on board the ma way convict ship, by Charles C. Keane, E-q., coroner, on view of the bodies of Thomas Kerrigan and John Tobin, who h►d been shot. The billowing is the subidemee of what was elicited before the j tit y :—The four or fire hundred con victs on based the Medway were assembled that morning on the spar deck (the forward part of the ship), to witness the punishment of one of their numbn, James Cumin, for enutievius conduct. The overseer, F. B. Black, Esq., and his officers, with the convict guards, fully armed, and their isnd■ being lorded with ball car,redge (the usual practice, we tolieve), were drawn up on the quarter-deck—they membered 20 in all. The medical officer VIJI also preset , t. The queerer-deck is divided from the Ppar deck by a rail. ing about five feet high. The man to he flogged had a bro- ther on board the ship, older than himself, who had per mission from the overseer to absent himself from witoessing the punishment; but this kindly offer on the part of Mr. Black was refused, and t e appesred with the other prisoners. When the proper oaken were in the act of securing the man to the gratings or ladcer, his brother rushed forward, and leaping en the bonier and waving his hat, called to nien by name. He (the elder Cronin) then addressed some words in Irish to the convicts, which was answered by a wild cheer, and a rush of some 250 to the harrier, upon which they clustered like bees, preparatory to a descent upon the quarter-deck. The men were desperately excited. The ! overseer waved hi. hand, and called to the men to "fall back;" which order was quite disregarded. Mr. Black, (plainly perceiving what must be the of jest of the prismers, viz., the rescue of Cronin, and the probable butchery of him if and his small pary), gave viers to the guards to " fire," which was immediately followed by a volley from the front rank. This did nut have any immediate effect, the desperate men entertaining the idea that only blank car tridges were fired. Jibe rear rank of the guard., which hal been kept in reserve, thin moved to the front, and, under order from Mr. Black, fired. Teo of the mutinous cinviirs fell dead, and 12 were wounded. This instantly quelled the mutiny; the men huniealy retrea ing to hidiog•pleceeabsut the forward part of the ship. The punishment war then ad ministered to the younger Cronin. Ater a lengthy investi gation, the jury unanim usly returned a verdict of " JUPIi liable homicide." One of the wounded men tied on Tuesday afternoon. An inquest on his body was held yesterday. The verdict has not yet transpired. The ringlt ceder, Cronin, was wounded in two places. Two others are mtino.d for life, one having had his leg amputated at the knee, and the other having received a ball in the spins. JAMAICA. A proclamation appeared on the llth of June, sum moning the legislature to meet on the 26th of that month. Various rumours were afloat regarding the course the assembly would adopt, but the prevailiug impression among the more judicious and well-in formed members of society was, that nothing would be decided upon until the assembly met in Spanish Town. Matters remained in general much as formerly : there were general complaints of the stagnation of trade, and it was feared that on the south side of the island what are calla "the May seasons" had been lost. The weather was hot, dry, and dusty. Several meetings had been held, and others were about to be held, with a view to move the home go veramt nt to persist in its attempts to suppress the slave trade by force, and t 3 desist from any measure it may have in contemplation for placing oar trade with the Brazils on a more comfortable and rational footing. Tee Morning Journal of 22nd Juue thus notices these meetings The qua tion of the enforcement of the treaties with Spain end Br-zit for the suppression of the slave trade still occupies ' public attention, and c intinues to be considered of para. mount and presing importance. Meetings have bran held • in the parishes of Clarendon and St. Anti's since the dep,,r lure of the last mail to petition the government and parliament of the mother country to main upon toe fuifilment of the engagements contained in those ttea ti.s. Tte second is particulirly deter/Mg of notice, on account of the declaration that the inhabitants of this island are prepared for competition in the markets of the world with slave sugar, if those treaties see faithfully ote served. We give the resolution entire: "That the elim• te and soil of this telond are so favourable for the proAuctiso of anger and coffee as that of any other e merry; an A that its inhabitants are quite priparcd for competition ; the markets of the world with the natives of Cubs and t he Brazils, provided that the stipulations of the treaties to e s' , between those countries and Great Britain were as f fully observed by them as they hove always hen l,y t h e auhjecta of her Britannic Majesty." Meetings r .re so. nouncei to he held in this city on the 25:h Mat , sad in the parish of St. Mary's on the 29th. The ir.r,,,, mi ti„ n which lately reached the island, of the attemp . to induce the government to reps! the British act, 8 rh end 9.11 Viotoria, has tended very considerably to confirm the oyinion that a general and unanimous shirt to ensure the en:ore meat id the treaties is called fur and accessary. JAMAICA MARKETS. KINGIITON, JVNE. %2. (Prom De C. rdom's Circular.) The business of the past fortnigltt has been dull in most articles of importance. For flour there ham been some littl': inquiry, owing to the diminished co- k; but us a proof that the nor rostment was only momentary, it msy be noticed that the arrival of a small parcel has caused u submi....ma to prices much below the figure at which the article had bees heid, There is rather a better inquiry for our produce, owing to a falling.olT in the sugar crop and to lie tenting advance at home. ;, better enamoeut on the condition of the market for our staple pre.iuet, however, cannot be given Plan by re. terrine our mailers to the remarks below, under the head of freights. Is ruin there has lym, a more act i ve Inquiry coosequent on the lees ; lattlrea having ;e'en summoned to meet to the ensuing week, and MEETING OF ENGLISH AND IRISH REPRESENTATIVES. A n ;tent ial meeting of members of Cie House of C ommons we , held on Baturd 4, in one of the committee roome, for t h e purpoße of making such atiatinmente as wou:d ensure a corcLal cooperation in I sediment between the members of the movement parties on both sides of the Channel. The meeting was presided Gees by John Bright, Esq., M.P., and war' attecieled by a large number of the Irish representatives, and by many of the leading members of the progrc rive party i❑ E.,glavd. We understand that the meeting unanimously resolved upon a united course of ecfion in the house, urun the three following questii ne : The Irish Church question. The franchise question in both kingdoms. The land question in Ireland.—lt was into un derstood between the gentlemen who composed this import ant conference that every exertion should be mode out of doors to secure for these lunriamental nur.tione the moat active and extensive support.-IVeekly Chronicle. SYMPATHY WITH THE HUNGARIANS. On Saturday, a public meeting of the inhabitants o f w ee t io io s iu, was held at thrinville's Hotel, North-street, Westminster" on behalf of the Hungarian reluxees at Folke stone, and for tr're purpose of expressing the sympathy of the people of Eng land in the cause fur which Hungary is now struggling." DANIEL MALLt'tCK, Esq , M.A , was called to the chair. He related the circums•ances which have compelled these Hungarian 'oldie."' to take refuge in this country, and stated that the object of the fund which they were endea vouring to raise win to send them back to their native land to fight for its iudependen le. He concluded by en earnest appeal in their behalf to tle 3 meeting and the British public at large. Mr. WRIGHT moved the first resolution, which was u follows : That this meeting feels the deepest sympathy with the Hungarian nation in its pr-sent .strug&le fur liberty and in dependence." Mr. THOMAS Me ENTERIC asconded the resolu ion, which we. carried unanimously. Mr. HUOGETT moved, " That a subscription be now enters. into for the Pewee of assisting the Hungarian r , fugue in 1 Ingland." He said they should net only egitare fur the support of the poor refugees at Folkestone, but in t avour of the great cause itself. A large subscription would be the best way to show that they did not disregard the Kenn al question—that was, between civilization cud barbarism. if they had, as no doubt they would have, many such in , es inga as the pre sent, the government might be induced to intertere in a serviceable manner. . . _ The resolution was seconded by Mr. DIPI'll and carried unanimously, after which, on the motion of M III'OOSTT, a committee was appointed to metre suhscriptit ms On the moti mof Mr. EVANS, seconded by Mr. HVGOETT, it wee then resolved, " mat the thanks of the meeting be avat to the Express end Sun, and other pope."' support- ing the cuu•e ut Hungary." Several subscriptions were then handed to the chairman, who, at the chi.* of the proceedings, received a rot; of thanks for presiding. PROGRESS OF THE CHOLERA. The returns made to the commissioners of police as to the health of the force, give hut three deaths as hissing re. suited from cholera, throughout the whole police district of 15 miles. In the whale population included in the bah of mortality, the clea.lis reported amounted to but 55 on Satur day, and 45 the day be f re. Oa Saturday a married female named Theresa Phillips, and three of her children, died in King's College Hospital, from Aibitie cholera. The family resided in the Camber well-new-road, not far from Mr. Farmer's vitriol works, and on Thursday hot the mother, with two of her children, were attacked with cholera. The lath. r, who works at a wine merchant's in Pall-mall, was scut for, as well as several medical men, and at the request of the latter the three were instantly removed in a cab to the hespital. The lather re mained there during the night of Thursday, but at an esrly hour un Friday the wife and two of her Odell , . n died, and on the fatter returning home he found two more of his h;l -dren attacked. They were also removed to the samehospi tal, where another of the children expired on Saturday, making tour deaths in one family in the space of a few hours. Whilst the family was befog attended to by the medical officers of the institution, a man residing in Holborn walked in and ci Explained of being seized with cholera. Ile was im mediately placed in het, and the usual remedies applied, but during tiaturday he expired. One et the nurses in the cholera ward was seized about the same time, and remains in a very precise ious state. During the night of Friday, Mr. Robertson, for many years connected with the Molting Past, and latterly with the Railway Retard, died f-om an axack of cholera. A number of persons have died from cholera in Lambeth Workhouse durino the week, but no inquests have been held on them, and Mr. Bedford has decided on not holding inquests on the bodies of those who have dial in King's College lic spital. IRELAND. DUBLIN, JULY za. THE QUEEN IN IRELAND. . . Are general illuminations "to be or not to be ? that is the question"—which is now eagerly discussed. The economists my it i 4 too expemslve, the sanita rims cry it is unieholisame, but the corporations are decidedly for lighting up. It is probable that the matter will be compromised by all the public offices and prin iiinl t come being made refulgent, and the private houses left to the taste and discretion of their inhabitants. Mr. Richard Dowden, of Cork—a zeshme loyalist —bag protested publicly against the citizens b.ing called on in hot weather to licit their bedrooms with burring candles, saying that " tho dirt, thu inconvenience, the risk, and the expei,se, would not at all be compensated by the effect." In Dublin it is asserted that the expense of general illuminations would be between seven and eight thousand Fiends. The Mail cries out against the pro ject, and calls for rigid economy. Tae Chief Baron is pronounced convalescent from his severe attack of English cholera, but, being unable to go the remainder of the circuit, government have sent Mr. Baldwin, t 3 conclude the re mair, ler of the north- . .ast circuit. From the pressuro of teminess on the Munster circuit, arisimg from the err A vdtd gaols, additional judicial assistance has been w nt down, and Mr. Serjeant O'Brien acts as assistant 'judge along with justices Ball and Jackson. The home circuit is over, the Lord Chief Justice going through the numerous records with his unrivalled celerity and clearness of mind. There is much interest still felt about the Orango collision, and there is anxiety to know what steps government will take. RELIEF OF IR:sit FALTERS.--Aghadda It , cthey, Whit gate, stray Cloyne, county Cork, July 20.—Rev Wm. It. Townsend, rector of Aghadda, Whitegate, near Cloys., county Cork, will be tot" obiged to the editor of the Express to acknowledge for him in pencil, July 16 ; post merk, liingwood, two 2s. 6d. pieces, 5:. ; to " F. A. 8.," a friend in every sense, fur first half of No. 6721 Provincial Berl, Belfast, initials on the cal, " F. A B. ;" crest, a hand, 11. EXTRAORDINARY DESERTION OF Two OFFICERS or H.M.S. CIIILDEILS. ••• The second lieutenant, Mr. °roma T. Graham (184 G), and the master also of twat ship, Mr. Andrew It Elliot (1847), whilst the first licuten was at the hospi , al, and the commander was on shore at the Cape of Good Hope, threw their commission' on the deck of the sloop and deserted her, leaving a midshipman of four years' standing only in charge, and were not heard of after. The admiral en the station was obliged to appoint Lieut. G.oson and a second master to officer the chip en her pustule to England. The mast , r was under wept at the time he deserted. Their names have been struck off the list and " It " placed against them on the ship's books. MURDER AT KIRKBY.—An inquest was held at the Cricket Players, Kirkby, a few days ago, upon the body of Mart - di Wilkinson, aged 10 years. Deceased was the illegi timate daughter of William Atkinson, labourer, of Annesley Woodhouse, by his wife before they were married. On the 12th, the deceased and her father, In company with two bovs,went to a field belonging to Mr. Hodgkinson, of Kirkby, to bob turnips. In a short time deceased's father began to swear at her, and said if she did not get on he would beat her severely, to which she replied, " it was so hot she could not." In about half an hour after this she got a short way behind him, when he struck her with great violence with the hoe he was working with, and would have struck her again, but was prevent id by a fellow-workman, named Michael Fletcher. She begged bard that he would let her go home, but he said she should "stay in the field, live cr die." In about 20 minutes after this he struck lee again over the bi.cle with the hoe, causing her to cry out. Prisoner then broke a bm,ela from off an ash tree, and on his daughter being a little behind again, he struck her on the head with it with such force that the stick actually bent round her head end broke in several piece'. She cried out, but appeared to be afraid of being struck again. Deceased went on with her woi but was on exhausted with the blew' that the was 6026 mro k, dto op. s lier fathee turned round and walked towards her. Deceased did not speak t , him, but merely locked at him imploringly. Ile relied his hoe, end before he could be peeventi d. struck her over the back with such violence as to break the hoe shift into pi eta. After the last blow decease) was told to go home by Fletcher, and she left the field. Prisoner end the men continued working until ex o'clock at night. The blows b efore adverted to were given at eleven in the morning. When the primmer and the men had gone over four fi elds they saw de emed in a ditch in the hedge-bottom. On going to her, she was found :ying on her side, deed. A little blood 'flowed from her Dinah and wise. On prisoner seeing this he re peatedly inquired if a doctor would be of any service, but was answered in the negative by the men. She was then carried home, a distance of two and u halt miles. The pri soner, in cross-eaimining the witnesses, attempted to show that deceased might have been killed by a mar , and a foal that were in the field where she was found.—Mr. Paulson, sorpon, of Mansfield, was of opioton that deceased died Ir e CO • gestiou of the train, caused by the blows. The inquiry was 6 , 4 :wood until Monday Review.