The Express. — London, England, 1846-11-12 00:00:00

si r it c hed Inglis, Mr. H. T. Hops, Mr. A. Milne, I l itd Mr. C. I tarry. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had ,gesend meeting 3 esterda There were present the Arch bithop of Canterbury, the shop of London, the Bishop of • tha Bi.bop of Oxford, s a d the Right Hon. Robhouse. The most ster Bev d. D at the r. Polding had an ce interview with Thev yesy , Colonial-offi, Gre Earl of Lonadale had an interview with the thlacellor of the Exche qu er yesterday, at his official resi dence in Rornirut-strtet. Mr, Mantz, M.P., had an interview with the Earl d Clarendon yesterdey, at the o ffi ce of the Board of Trade. The Marquis of Clanricarde Have a dinner yester go see D in, at his residence. on Carlton-hse-terrace, to the Cabinegt Ministers, including Lord John ou Russell , the 3 1 0 , t ais of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer , the Earl of Auckland, Sir nobhouse, Viscount Morpeth. Viscount Palmerston left town yesterday afternoon Windsor Castle. on a visit to her Majesty. The Earl de Grey has, since his arrival in town bona York-hire, experienced an attack of his old complaint, which has h. en instrumental of the delay of his leaving with the Count.s. for Brighton. Viscountess Palmerston received the Earl and C o untess of Tankerville, Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn, Lord and Lady Ashley, Mr. F. Byng, the Right Hon. J. B. Stanley, and a select party to dinner last evening, at her hose on Carlton-house -terrace. Lord Willoughby de Broke is gradually recovering boo the dangerous attack of illness his lordship has been W from during the last five weeks at Compton Verney, weewtekshire. We hear that the noble lord R as suddenly B ilged by a stroke of apoplexy, and that up to Saturday List Ina l o rdship's medical attendants were apprehensive of dan er. Since then, however, the noble lord has given symp toms mom favourable, and his ultimate recovery is now looked forward to, The Marquis of Anglesey has arrived in town from Besudescrt, tue noble and gallant marquis's seat in Stafford shire. • --- —• EXTRA GAZETTE was issued last night of unusual hulk. It contains 123 pages, chiefly filled with railway notices. Satlo DaY.—On Guy Fawkes day a large number of boys assembled round the Wellington statue, and saluted the passers-by with "Please to remember the Guy !" Pumh. METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.—A wardmoto of Farringdon Without was held at the Court-house, Old Dailey, yesterday afternoon, Sir James Duke in the chair, to take into consideration the proposition of the Common Council for the widening of Cannon-street.—Mr. Carpenter mid, the proposed new street would commence at King Wil liam-street, opposite the statue, and run to Queen-street, Cheapside. It was, in point of fact, a widening of Cannon street, which would he made sixty feet in width. This was t o be done to afford increased accommodation to the traffic from the railway termini. He objected to it, because it only afforded accommodation to the eastern end of Cheapside, although it would cost from 250,0001. to . MO,OOO/. From Queen-street tin to St. Paul's Churchyard, no additional ac commodation would be afforded; and the game observation would apply to Fleet-street. it was said, that the proposed alteratina was only part of an extensive plan of improvement, but the money to be expended would mortgage all the reve nue at the command of the City for the next 25 years. The alteration contemplated wauld be like a large skittle ground—it would he a great road that would l against the makinz of a stre;it of such questionable utility ; it was the worst of four or five projects which had been already before the Court of Common Council, and they ought to have waited before they proposed so absurd and enormous an expenditure, the more especially as there were persons of the highest authority engaged, in conjunction with the go vernment, in laying out plans for the improvement of the metropolis. The speaker then went at length into the subject of the sanatory state of the metropolis, and the varied improvements which were necessary in the City of London. He concluded by moving the following resolution, which was seconded by Mr. Clcmow, and adopted after a short discussion That th;. meeting h 'earned with surprise and regret that the I, Court of Common Council hos passed a resslution for the appropria tion of a sum amounting to nearly goo.oont, to the making of a new street of very questionable utility, and which will pr hahly involve the outlay of half a million more, without affording relief for the 'vale in same parts of the most importantand crowded thoroughfares elthe City of London. The lowingfn resolution was then moved by Mr. Carnpkin, seconded by Mr. Fonder, and adopted: That bow important As:ever it may be to increase for traffic in the City of London, dime are other and much stronger claims upon the yawls for those sanatory regulations upon which the health, comfort, and lives of m my Inhabitants of the City of London depend. After a s;tort discussion it was suggested that the meeting should be adjourned in order that the question of the sana tory condition of the City might be more fully considered and at:mt.:rd. The suggestion was adopted, and the meeting was adjourned till Wednesday next at 11 o'clock. IMPERIAL. AND CONTINENTAL GAS ASSOCIATION. — Yesterday, the half-yearly meeting of shareholders and pro- prietor+ in the Imperial and Continental Gas Association, was held at the offices of the company, 7, White Hart-court, Lombard-street. Sir Moses Montefiore, chairman of the board of directors, presided. The secretary read the report of the mittee of direction, detailing the operations of the association since the last meeting, by which it appeared that the affairs generally were in a healthy state. The associa tion had expended in furtherance of the object for which it Was estalilished, the entire amount of paid-up capital (1x,0,000'.) authorised to he raised by their act of incorpora tion, and a greater 'urn might be invested with advantage. After some discussion and suggestions by hon. proprietors as to the most desirable mode of extending the operations of the associufion in the various continental towns of Europe, a divide nd of 21.25. fid. per share for the half year, payable in January next, was declared, and the customary vote of thanks to the chairman having been passed, the proprietary, a large nember of whom attended, separated. SERVANTS' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.—A meeting , in support of this institution was held last evening, at the Assembly-room, Kentish-town. This praiseworthy inst'tu tion, whose object is probably known to few of oar readers, wasestablished, in 1844, chiefly through the exertions of Mr. W. Ashwell, of New-end, Hampstead, and other benevolent individuals, for the purpose of building and endowing forty almshouses, and providing a relief fund for domestic ser vants, who, after a life of industry and unsullied character, might herniae candidates for general sympathy. Since the promulgation of the plan, which has been generally approved by both masters and servants, various meetings in support of the object have been held ; hut, up te June last, the sub scriptions received had only reached 2601., out of which about 15el. had been disbursed in the necessary expenses. It was than resolved that the institution sh ,uld he dissolved, and the present meeting was called for the purpose of re establishing it on a somewhat different footing. Unfortu nately, the meeting was so thin that no effective step could be taaen ; but the promoters of the object are not without hope that it may still be carried out. BENEFIT SOCIETIES.—Sir,—The able remarks you made a few flays ago on benefit aneleties, induces me to hops you may spare a short space in your valuable journal to Investigate the preten sion. of a prolific stock of schemes now afloat, called " Building Societies," to me of which I was solicited to lend my name, which led me to examine the prospectus and its rules, that were similar to others aim ale established,—The first discovery I Made was, that they Were ant building societies, as they neither contemplate building nor purchasing houses, but they are merely " Loan Societies," under a numorace calculated to mislead. not to say adnnted for that purpose. Subecriptincm are 10x. to be paid monthly, amounting to OE annual, mid tbs. is called "a share," but there is no limit to the number of shares, nether ate the shareholders confined to sex, age, or locality ; all are welcome, and the society is declared ta wind up at the expiration of ten years, when, as the moaned , . Maths, each share having paid GOL, willlbe worth 1007. or 1201. The popular inducement held out is that persons holding shares may be enabled to purchase a house, i.e., the society will advance a certain sum, in other words, be come the mortgagee ; but, obviously, that offers no greater advantage than private Individuals who advertise to lend money on mortgage. Another advantage proclaimed is, that a subscriber may withdraw his money when he pleat's; but onexamining that point, I found it meant that be may sell his "share or shorts," but to whom, or at what rice, mug depend upon the good or bad reputation the society may hem at the time. The management is under direcors, self-elected, of coarse, at the commencement, and consist of persons in trade, but let of a grade that ea' be expected to work without being paid directly or Indirectly ; also, a paid secretary, solicitor, and surveyor; the funds of the eoeif•ty to belent on mortgage on finished or unfinished houses ; and from the. application of the subscriptions the shares are to he daub:est in value at the end of ten years, at least so says theprospectus, yet cowman sense tells us that it requires fourteen years at an interest of live per cent. to double capital ; whilst the capital in this case tato be paid up only at the rate of ten per sent-, finishing on the day the society is to expire. Surely these promises are enough to stamp the character of the concerns ; and it is not too much to presume that some et the active promoters must be interested either ass mateur or pro fes•-innal builders. requiring mortgagees (or somethingworse), who in the character of directors employ their own surveyor to value the pro- Terty they propose to mortgage. Really, sir, experience tells as such things are hazardous in the extreme, and as a plea is raised that these societies are formed to encourage the habit of saving in the lower and middle classes, It will be a public benefit to contrast these mushroom arrieties sith the Savings Ranks, where the prudent, with " govern ment w curie!" may deposit their monthly 10s. Cr 101., and receive it back at any or at ail times with interest.—Yours, M. J. EXTENSION OF TILE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH- - The Eastern Counties have, we understand, intimated their intention of carrying out an important extension of their electric telegraph to the Royal Exchange and Lloyd's, by which instantaneous communication will be obtained with Liverpool. The company's engineer is now engaged com pleting the electric wires along the Eastern Counties branch lines from Ely, Peterborough, Stamford, Syston, to Derby, and thence to Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool. The wires will be conducted to the Royal Exchange from the Shoreditch station, in pipes under the streets, similar to the gas pipes, proofing posts being erected in various parts, in order to detect any inaccuracies that may occur in the work ing of the telegraph. Contemplating the extraordinary results of the electric telegraph, it must strike the minds of all who consider the matter that a point ought to be chosen near the Liverpool Exchange, for the purpose of instanta neous communication with all parts of the kingdom. It matters little whether the wires be placed over buildings or in pipes under the street, but the converging point ought to be near the Exchange. Exchange-court has been spoken of es the point most convenient for the purpose. —Liverpool Courier. A Coln CffnlsTENlNG.—After another cold in terval, a wheezy little pew-opener afflicted with an asthma, appropriate to the churchyard, if not to the church, sum tanned them to the font. Here they waited some little time while the marriage party enrolled themselves; and mean while the wh eez y lit t l e p ew - o pener—partly in consequence ofher infirmity, and partly that the marriage party might not foreet her — went about the building coughing like a grampus. Presently the clerk (the only cheerful -looking object there, and he was an undertaker) came up with a jug of warm water, and said something , as he poured it ~i,T.l t o the font, about taking the chill off ; which of gallons boiling hot could not have done for the occasion. Then the clergyman, an enviable ntuL•• lr c•e , . • 1. BO W ceale nts toods 4Aa ' e ; dig ern vol. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12, 1846. and mild-looking young curate, but obviously afraid of the baby, appeared like the principal character in a ghost story, " a tall figure all in white ;" at sight of whom Paul rent the air with his cries, and never left off again till he was taken out black in the face. Even when that event had happened, to the great 1'6;4 of every body, he was heard under the portico, during the rest of the ceremony, now fainter, now louder, now hushed, now bursting for h again with an irr, preasible sense of his wrong!- This so distracted the attention of the two ladies, that Me:- Chick was con stantly deploying into the centre aisle, to mud out menages by the pew-opener, while Miss To= kept her Frayer-book open at the Gunpowder Plot, and occasionally read rtsponses from that servitc.—Dornbsy and Son. OLIN S tWDUST.—We find in the Athenceum of last Saturday the following: " We have submitted the specimen of gun sawdust sent us by Mr. Turner to experiment ;—and, although in our hands both its igniting and explosive powers were less than that of gunpowder, we have no doubt that sawdust or any other kind of vegetable tissue containing lig nine, may be converted into an explosive compound by the agency of nitric acid." The sawdust to be used should obviously be from such woods as contain the leant quantity of resinous matter, for that leaves a residuum after explosion which clogs the gun from which it is discharged. THE 'l' Ka DUTIES.—The following are extracts from a letter, dated Birmingham, addreseed to us Oil the tea trade:—" My object is to show that the present high duty does not materially limit the consumption of tea. That tea is not only ill general, but in universal consumption. and that the increase of consumption would • tailleg, even if the whole of the present duty were remitted. Telhis Wit' will bringtny experience as a retailer of tea for the last twit* pew% and show ling the little probability of any greatly in most einnempllea amongst the very poor. It wad my lot to serve rep eppretalkwito one of the lowest parts of London, aboutuling WAD et pewit, the poorest of the po or ; but they all eon *" gni Wed Y bega day to day, l at a time. lam yews leek when tea of moderee quality was de let &pw 4 w =tite iron was flee farthings. It fell to four tarthings, ned spin PM MI thaw farthings; but they still bought, and to this any MN Vey may the l oz; and this is all they wouW buy if the j oz. weeretlfea& to a hallpetuiy, which would be a reduction of I6d. per lb. I will now take the respectable mechanic or W hen whose wife buys her 2 ca. of tea on th e Saturda y night. l was first la trwle, the 2 oz. was ;it fell to Dd.; again to Lid, and again to ed. ; but ',be still bnye her 1 oz., and only 2 oz. ; nor would she buy mere if it were reduced to 4d. There is, therefore, little incrca'e to be expected from this class. I will take now the middle ekes. Twenty years aeon this class bought its 11. or jib. of tea at 6s. or 7e.: and, although many of this cu.., buy tea at de, and some even lower still, they buy only their customary lb. or 41b. and very frequently avail themselves of the opportunity afforded them of buying a superior quality ut the old price: hence the reason why the great majority of families still pay Is. or fel. for ten, whilst as good quality can be obtained now for 41. as was obtainable at Os. a few years hack. We can look, therefore, for little increase of consumption In this quarter. An to the rich, we cannot suppose they are ever guided by price in the use of tea. I must, therefore, repeat that no reduction of the duty on tea would be attended with any material increase of consumption. Year by year, for the last ten years, has the price of tea been (idling; but little do I see In the yearly comparative statements of consumption, beyond an in. crease which merely keeps pace with the growth of the population. That the reduction in the tea duty would :vivre our trade ;or even im prove our trade) with China, unless the coneumption of tea greatly in creased, is not attempted to be shown ; but there is a class that would most certainly be benefited by a reduction of the tea duty, and that elaus consists of the wheltuale tea dealers; and, 1 am bound to ac knowledge, that even in my humble business a reducti on of Is. p er lb. would be equal to an accession of 2,0001. capital. And here is the grand secret. Who are they who form the anti-tea tax league ! The wholeude tea dealers. In conclusion, Mr. Miter, let tare express a hope that our trade with China rests upon some more solid bads than a sudden and greatly increased coniumptioa of tea ; and let us also hope (in allusion to one of the paragraphs in the anti-tea tax pre amble) that the sobriety and secial feeling of the nation are not de pendent on, or regulated by, the price of an owner of tea. FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS NEAR THE ROYAL ESC/lA:VC/E.—ln addition to the vario';s alterations on this spot, with the new buildings erecting by Alderman Moon in the rear of the Union Assurance Office, it has been arranged to build a commercial adjoining the Hall of Com merce. It was in contemplation to obtain the concur rence of the directors of the Union to join the corporation of London in making further improvements upon this spot, more especially the rebuilding of the Union Office on an en largi d scale, in conformity with tho other public buildings in the immediate neighbourhood. The directors, however, of that ancient institution preferred the 10,0001. or 12,0001. which it would cad in rebuilding to remain in the coffers of the society, for the benefit of the shareholders : thus the ' public lose an advantage. The inhabitants of Finch-lane have petitioned the Commissioners of Sewers to allow the thoroughfare to be made for foot-passengers only, which is now under consideration. ANOTHER BRIDGE OVER THE THAM F.S.—Yester day, notice was given to the public that application is in tended to be made to Parliament in the next cession for leave to bring in a bill for making and constructing a bridge over or across the River Thames, at from or near Essex street, Strand, to the opposite chore, at or near to Dowson's wharf, in the Marsh and Wall liberty. Also fur making and maintaining a market, at or near the south end of the pro. I posed bridge ; and also to obtain powers for the compulsory purchase of lands and houses, and to levy tolls, rates, or duties in respect of the said bridge and market. THE GOODMAN'S-FIELDS ESTATE.—For some years past the whole of the extensive property, known as the Goodman estate, in Whitechapcl, has been without any ostensible proprietor, the occupiers of houses living rent free ; and when, from circumstances, quitting their dwellings, generally selling the keys of the houses to new corners, sel dom for less than 201. Within the last Law days, however, a notice has been extensively circulated in the district, mach to the dismay of these squatters, that " Goodman's-fields, along with several other places—Northaw,l'a Hertfordshire ; Rampton, in Cambridgeshire; and Warboys, in Hunting donshire, is the property of the Lemons, now claiming the ancient estate of their ancestor..." ESTATE OF THE LATE MARQUIS OF EXETER. — The London portion of the estates of the late Maiquis of Exeter, situate in the Strand, Catherine-street, Wellington street North, and the neighbourhood, together with the Ezeter-change, and the New Engli-h Opera-house, the whole producing a yearly rental of .5,0001., are announced fur sale. FEVER AND SMALL PDX HOSPITALS.--The removal of these useful institutions at King's-crow, which, it was feared, would become necessary, as their site was selected as the proposed terminus of the Londan and York Railway, will not take place. A clause in the art required that a notice of vacation should be given for sir months, and that within twelve months after the act had received the royal assent. The company have marked out the site of their terminus at Pentonville, opposite the Bagnigge-wells-road. THE CASE OF MRS. CAMPBELL AND TIIE COVENT GARDEN THEATRICAL Fr:CU.—OM' Southwark police report of last Saturday contained, it will be remembered, a narra tive of the pitiable condition of Mary Campbell, once an actress at the Edinburgh Theatre. Having been refused, with her fuur children, admission into the St. Saviour's Union work house, she broke a pane of glass to obtain the shelter of a prison. It transpired that Mrs. Stanley, of the Haymarket Theatre, had benevolently assisted her, and the case having been seen by the Secretary of the Covent-garden Theatrical Fund (Mr. Drinkwutcr Meadows), that gentleman imme diately forwarded to Mrs. Stanley 2!. from the fund, for the use of Mrs. Campbell. It is hoped that this example will be followed. TIIE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. —Yesterday were printed, by order of the House of Commons, four re ports from the Select Committee of the House of Lords appointed to inquire into the progress of the building of the Houses of Parliament, together with the minutes of evi dence. The committee, in February and March last, ex amined Mr. Barry, Dr. Reid, Mr. A. Milne, and Mr. J. Gwilt, and, in their first report, declared that the system of ventilation contemplated by Dr. Reid could not be carried into effect for some years, as it depended on the completion of the central and Victoria towers. "The committee are satisfied, from the evidence given before them, that the House of Lords may without difficulty be co upleted with permanent fittings fur the opening of parliament next year." In the second report the committee stated, that they had ex amined Mr. G. Gurney as to the best system of ventilation, and were of opinion that further icquines and experiments should be made before the final adoption of any plan hitherto proposed for that purpose. Before the third report was made Mr. Barry was again examined, and they reported, That the committee have met and further considered the subject-matter referred to them, and have examined two witnesses in relation thereto, and the committee are of opi- j n'on that the only impediment to the preparation of the new House of Lords for the commencement of the session of 11147 at ices from a delay in the arrangement for warming and ven tilating the apartment according to the views of Dr. Reid. That the architect has expressed his willingness to under ta'ce the warming and ventilation of the new House upon a I plan of his own and on his own responsibility. That the committee are convinced, that if this proposal of the archi tect be not accepted, the occupation of their new House by the Peers will be postponed to an indefinite period." Mr.Barq and Dr. Reid were further examined before the fourth report was presented. The Committee kad received an assurance from the architect that the House would be in a fit state for the occupation of the Lords at the opening of the session next year. " The attention of the committee having been called by the Lord Great Chamberlain to the inconve nience which has been felt from the manner in which the House has been crowded on state occasions, they are of opinion no ladies, except peeresses and their daughters, should be permitted to sit in the new House upon any of the benches in the division nearest the throne, and that all the front benches throughout the House, and two more benches on each side in the centre division, should be reserved exclu sively for the use of the Lords." The reports, with the evi dence, extend to forty-nine folio pages; they are now given in one Parliamentary , document.—Tisses. THE ANDOVER INQUIRY BLUE BOOKS.—The printer to the House of Commons has just sent forth the report of the Andover inquiry. It occupies two thick folio volumes, containing 2,031 pages ; 15,619 questions ; and 704 pages of appendices ,• the whole, weigh within an ounce of fourteen pounds. We are told by an experienced printer that the mere cost of paper and print cannot be less than from 1,5001. to 1,6001. This being the lightest item in the expense of the inquiry, it affords some means of estimating what the country has had to pay for the flirtations of Mr. McDonghnll with the Andover paupers ' • and for the vs cries of Mr. Assistant Commissioner Parker during the delicate investi gation which they occasioned. EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY BY A YOUNG FRENCH ROMAN.—On Wednesday evening, the 27th ult., amongst the passengers brought by the up train from Southampton to the terminus at Nine Elms, was a young Frenchwoman, fashionably dressed, but whose appearance was rendered more than ordinarily attractive from the fact of wearing her hair, which consisted of a profusion of magnificently black tresses, wholly unconfined, and flowing over her shoulders to her waiat. The young woman, who spoke English with difficulty, inquired for an hotel, and was taken by the ser vants of the railway company to the Railway Hotel. Upon being introduced to Mr. Howse, the landlord, she stated her name to be Mdlle. Malvina Florentine de Saumarez. Having remained in the house some days, Mr. Howse ques tioned her g as to her connexions , an d her reasons for remain timeslon in London, but her answers were, if not at all per f ect ly satisfactory, sufficient to lull suspicion. She represented somewhat- her mother self-willed rwilled young bee ladyliving at Paris, and herself creature. She had with her a valuable accordion, upon which she played superbly, and otherwise exhibited the fruits of an excellent musical education. On Saturday evening she went to Astley's Theatre, and prior to starting to that place of amusement, produced a cheque on the Fareham Bank for 99/. 13s. ' the name of the drawer being Purkiss, which she requested Mr. m n mrt i cash d n ai g iee .dypeag guards, who st w e . chequ e To, views, proposition ap l d r by giving it Howse to get cashed . Mr. Howse stated that the readiest e s accord o mode e bank om one o i of the wastit obtai n ing n h t e itd replacedadt t h note d it in her pocket, saying that a day or two hence would do. About this rime it wan discovered that a cash box, containing upwards of 1401. in gold, two double sovereigns, and a cheque for 991. 13i., had been stolen fromthe house of a ship-builder living at Fareham. A reward of 201. was offered for the apprehension of the thief and recovery of the property, and Mr. Clow, the superintendent of the Hants county constabulary, having obtained a clue to the probable retreat of the depreda!or, proceeded to London on Monday morning, and accompanied by the guard of the same train that had brought Milne. De Sau mares to town, went over to the hotel, and seeing that that person tallied with the description given of the supposed thief, immediately took her into custody. The prisoner threw herself upon her knees, and in the presence of the superintendent, police-serjeant Moore, 12 V, and policeman Bent of the V division, gave the following extraordinary statement. That a few weeks since a gentleman brought her to England, and after remaining with her for a few days left her at Gosport, where she obtained apartments at • boarding-house. The family with whom she lodged showed her many kiodnesses.and she was introduced to their cousin. who resided at Fareham. Here she remained a week on a visit, and during that time saw the mother of her friend's cousin give him fifty sovereigns from a cash-box, which she afterwards deposited between the sacking and bed of a bedstead. The prisoner added that she left the house and went to Southampton, where she purchased a cult box resembling tin one she had seen, and, returning with it, complained of her head aching, and requested permission to lie down for an hour or so before she left for Gosport. She then went to the room where she knew the cash-box to be deposited, and substituting the empty for the full one, suc ceeded in leaving the house without exciting any suspicion. She then went direct to the railway st.rion, and choosing a firstelase carriage, in which there was no other passenger, the broke open the box with a knife, and having abstracted the contents, threw the box out of the window. She said she bad felt miserable ever since, and inclined to give herself up to justice. Upon being searched, the cheque and two double sovereigns were found upon her, and Mr. Howse, upon opening the bag, discovered it to contain 146/. in sovereigns. The money was given up to the superintendent, who started with the prisoner the same night for Fareham. On Tuesday she was taken before a magistrate, and re manded for the attendance of witnesses from London. Loss OF £3oo.—Yesterday the clerk of an exten sive linen draper, in Oxford-street, whilst proceeding from that district to Cornhill, either lost or was robbed of a pocket book containing, in addition to other valuable papers, bank of England notes to the extent of upwards of 3001. No clue being o itained likely to lead to the recovery of the property, a large reward was offered fur its restoration. FIRES. —Yesterday forenoon a fire, caused by children playing with lucifer matches, broke out in the first floor of the premises occupied by Mrs. Hood, No. 31, Union street, Somers-town. It appears that during the temporary absence of Mrs. Hood, one of the children procured a box of Inciters, and whilst playing with the same the contents of the box became ignited, and set fire to a quantity of linen, and also to the bed and furniture in the room. The cries of the children brought up Mr. Flindell, the landlord of the house, who succeeded in saving them from being burnt to death. With the aid of a few buckets of water the fire was extinguished, but not until considerable damage was done. The occupier, unfortunately. was uninsured.---Late on Tuesday night the inhabitants of Saint Ermains-hill, Broad way, Westminster, were alarmed at hearing violent screams proceeding from the house numbered 4 in that thoroughfare. Upon proceeding to the house, the neighbours found the clothing of a lad named Jahn Moore, a son of the occupier, in a general blaze. After some trouble the flames were sub dued, but not until the lad was meet frightfully burnt; he was conveyed to the Westminster Hospital, where he re mains in a very precarious acute. The disaster was occa sioned by the lad's clothd•g having come in contact with a lighted candle.—Last night, between 11 and 12 o'clock, a I fire that did considerable damage, broke out in the spacious patent-leather factory, belonging to Messrs. Collison and Co., Star-corner, Bermondsey. From inquiries made of one of the proprietor' of the establishment, it appeared, that I the discovery was made by a Mrs. Davidson, who resides at the rear of the factory, throueh perceiving smoke issuing out of the upper windows. Feeling convinced that the building was on fire, the party instantly raised an alarm of fire, and the police coming up, one of the officers was sent to give information of the disaster to the engine stations. The parish engine, with numerons others of the London brigade, with the foreman of the district, Mr. Hen derson, and the superintendent of the catablishment, Mr. I Braidwood, arrived at the scene, and also the West of Eng land engine, with Mr. Connarton. An abundance of water being quickly procured from the mains in the district, the engines were set to work ; but upon the win dows being opened, to introduce the hose of the engines, the smoke rushed out in such bodies, that the firemen were unable, for a considerable time, to find out the exact seat of the flames. At length they found that the fire had originated in the basement, and having forced its way through the flooring, had extended to the floor above. The stock in trade being very valuable, the firemen exerted themselves to the utmost in endeavouring to prevent the flames from at tacking the top floors. In so doing they were forced to get upon their hands and knees to convey the branches of the engines to the place where the fire was burning most fiercely. In that expedient, however, they were highly successful, and by half-past 1 o'clock this morning, they succeeded in entirely extinguishing the flames, but not until a very serious amount of property had been either burned or ex• tensively damaged by fire and heat. Had it not been for the timely discovery, it is quite probable that the entire factory would have fallen a victim to the fury of the flames. It was stated to the reporters by Mr. Collisnn, that upwards of two hundred men were employed on the premises, but whether or not they will be thrown out of employment by the disaster could not be ascertained. Mr. Yates, inspector of the M division of police, with a body of constables, had a difficult task to per form in keeping the great body of spectators out of the way of the firemen. ACCIDENTS.—A MAN ON FIRE IN THE STREET.— Yesterday a very singular occurrence took please in High street, Newington, to a MAU named John Davis, aged thirty two years, a carpenter, residing in Francis-street. Walworth road. About twelve o'clock he was on the way home to his dinner, and, whilst passing the Fishmongers' Almshouses, several foot passengers were suddenly alarmed at seeing a strong body of smoke issuing from his left-hand pocket, and before they could reach him his clothing was found to be on fire. He instantly pulled his coat off, and threw it on the ground, where it was extinguished with a pail of water from the coach-stand. The accident was caused through placing apipe of tobacco in his pocket which he had not thoroughly extinguished.—Loss or Lire ON THE Riven. —Yester day afternoon, about four o'clock, a boat on the river, oppo site the Thames Tunnel steam-boat pier, in which were three youths, named respectively George Somers, William Hawkins, and Edward Brotherton, run foul of a heavily laden coal-bur, and was instantly capsized. They were consequently immersed in the water, and neither being able to swim they struggled violently for a considerable time, and, in the meanwhile, assistance arrived, through which the watermen on the barge which caused the accident sumeeded in recovering the two elder occupants of the boat, Somers and Hawkins, but their unfortunate companion Brotherton, although the utmost exertions were made by those who had immediately put off to his assistance, could not be reached, he having sunk and disappeared almost directly after the accident. The deceased, who was only pardally known to his companions, was a very promising youth of about sixteen or seventeen years of age, and was under stood to be apprenticed to the business of a silk-mercer, at a merchant's of extensive connexions in the City. --Seitious Oceranesies TO A CONVICT IN THZ ROYAL ARARNAL.—Yesterday, as a gang of convicts were employed in removing a heavy piece of timber from a barge on to the quay, at the Royal Arsenal, one of them, named James Rudlu, was caught by the chain, and thrown from the wharf into the barge with such violence, as to cause the fracture of several of his ribs. He was immediately re moved to the convict hospital ship Unite, but his recovery is considered doubtful. INQUESTS.—FATAL ACCIDENT TO A CHELSEA PEN SIONER.—By Mr. Bedford, at the Rising Sun, Charles-street, Grosvenor-square, on the body of Hugh Galaglser, axed 60. The deceased was an out-pensioner of Chelsea Hospital, hay ing formerly belonged to the 27th regiment. On Thursday last he received his pension, and, in the evening went to the Three Crowns, Royal Hospital-row, which he left at nine o'clock, singing a merry tune, but sober. He was then in the act of crossing the road, when a cart, belonging to Mr. Carr, butterman, Bishopsgate-street Without, came along, driven at a fast pace, the horse in which knocked him down, and the near wheel of the vehicle passed over his head. He was picked up and carried to Mr.-Love'e, surgeon, where he was found to be dead, and the body was then conveyed to the workhouse, Mount-street. The driver, Charles Barker, was taken into custody, as some of the witnesses imputed blame to him, and he stands remanded till this day (Thurs day) from Westminster police-court. The evidence, which was very voluminous, having been carefully gone into by the coroner, the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death."— DESTIITTION AND DEATH AT NEWINOTON.—Before Mr. W. Carter, at the Royal Standard, Flint-street, Park-place, Newington, on the remains of Margaret Soloway, aged 72 years, a widow, who died under very painful circumstances : The deceased and her daughter had occupied a wretched apartment at N 0.13, Flint-street, for the last six menthe, in a starving and filthy condition. She had formerly received ss. per week front her son, in Ireland, but the money had not been remitted for a considerable period. The deceased had never applied to the parish, hut lived is a state of abso lute starvation, their only subsistence being for days and weeks together nothing more than a slice or two of bread and weak tea, which they obtained by selling a few articles of clothing at the rag-shop. On Monday week the deceased had not partaken of any food for two or three days, and through her weakened condition, was confined to her bed, which consisted of very filthy materials on the floor in the corner of the room. The following morning the daughter called the landlady up-stairs to see her mother, and when she entered the room she found the deceased dead and stiff, and to all appearance had been in that state some hours. — The daughter, who was evidently of weak intellect, stated, in answer to the Coroner, that she could not say when her mother died, but she recollected feeling the body of the de ceased on the Monday, and she was then quite warm.—Mr. Boddy, a surgeon, said that he g in e the hody of the deceased, which he found in a very emulated sad dirty condition. The aputinent was it a very dreadful state of filth. Upon nuking • poet aeorteas examination he found extensive disease of the pleura gad lungs, %elfish fully accounted for death. The stomach was completely eandy, and had not contained any food for several hours bawl) death. Mr. Brooks, the relieving officer of St. Mary, New ington, stated to the coroner and jury that no application had been made to the parish authorities, otherwise the de- ' erased and her daughter would have received immediate relief.—The coroner said the case was one of great distress, and suggested that the officer (Mr. Brooks) should mist the afflicted daughter, and see that her circumstances were pro perly. placed before the board of guardians at their next meeting in the workhouse, so that something might be done for her.—The jury, having unanimously concurred in the worthy coroner's remarks, returned a verdict of " Died from natural disease of body, greatly weakened by the want of proper nourishment."--SLOr-WORX AND DESTITUTION. —By Mr. Baker, at the Duke of Wellington, Limehouse fields, on the body of Julia Fitzgerald, aged sixteen years, which lay in a little back-room at No. 17, George-street, whither the jury proceeded to view it. The room presented bare walls, not a Engle article of furniture being in the room but a single chair and a few br 'ken articles of crockery. On the case being known to the relieving officers of the pariah, they proceeded to supply her with bed and bedding, and every nourishment. The deeesaed was said to have died from violence. It appeared by the evidence of aeverewitnesses, that the mother of deer:rived, a widow, and two other children, of wham deceased was the eldest, ob tained their living by making slop waistcoats. They were in great distress, and had formerly resided at No. 17, Samuel-street. Not being able to pay 12s. 6d., five weeks' rent, the landlord distrained and took away every article of furniture they were possessed of ; on which occasion a dis pute took place, and the eon and two married daughters of the landlord beat the decesscd.--Mr. Horton, surgeon, said he had attended the deceased ; she died from pleurisy, which might have been accelerated by violence.—The coroner said the case assumed a serious aspect, and ad journed the inquiry. —AN INFANT SUFFOCATED.-By Mr. aker, at the London Hospital. on the body of Elizabeth Clanery, six weeks old, whose parents are in poor dream stances, living at No. 11, Montague-street, Whitechapel. It appeared that on Monday night the deceased was put in a bed where her brother, who is above 15 months old, was sleep ing. On the following morning it was left there while her mother was preparing breakfast, when on going to it again she was found under her brother with her mouth against the pillow. A medical man wad called in who stated that life was extinct. Verdict " Accidental death." IRELAND. DUBLIN, Nov. 10. CONSTITUTION or RELIEF COMMITTEES.—The Lord Lieutenant has, in consideration of the complaints made respecting the exclusion of curates of the Roman Catholic Church from relief committees, given instructions permitting parish priests to nominate one curate on each relief com mittee sitting within his cure, for every parish of which that cure consists. RANK oP IRELAND NOTES PORGED.—The public, says Saunders's News Letter, of to-day, should be aware that there are, at present, several one pound forgeries of the Bank of Ireland note in circulation, rather well executed. We have seen some of them, numbered B-E 39316, 11th May, 1845, and another, 6659, 11th May, 1814. There may he others in circulation bearing different numbers and dates. Persona should, therefore, pay attention to the general ap pearance of the notes. A glance at either the line of heads at the top, or the ruled ground-work, on which the signature is placed, would be sufficient to detect the forgeries. It may be well to observe that those which have come under our notice are printed on paper, not having the water mark Bank of Ireland," as in the genuine note. MEETINGS TO RELIEVE. THE PEOPLU.—Yesterday a meeting of the gentry and eess-payers of Bray was held in the Court-house of the town, for the purpose of taking into consideration the distressed state of the neighbourhood, and devising measures of relief. There was a crowded atten dance. The chair was taken by Sir George Hodson, Bart., and the following resolutions were passed: "That it appears . 0 this meeting that great destitution edits among the labouring classes of the population in this locality, in consequence of the almost total failure of the potato crop, and the high once of provisions of all descriptions and that it is expedient to apply in the barony of Rathilown and county of Wicklow, the provisions of an act passed in the late session of parliament, entitled, an Act to Foci litate the Employment of the Labouring Poor for • limited period in the distre•sed districts in Ireland, 9 and 10 Vic., c. 107. .. 2. That in pursuance of the foregoing resolution, the chaimmn of this meeting do communicate with the secretary, requesting that his Excellsoncy the Lord-Lieutenant, in council, will be pleased to issue his proclamation for the holding of extraordinary presentment ses sions at the court house, Bray, for the barony of Itathdownc, and county of Wicklow."— .. 3. That it be a recommendation from this meeting, that at the baronial presentment sesiion. such works, as far a. practicable, should be brought forward which are of a re productive character, such as drainage and general improvement of land, and of that character alluded to in the instructions of the Lord Lieutenant, in what is commonly called ' Mr. Liboueherc's Letter.' " , " That in order to meet the great amount of destitution existing in a large elms of the population, who, by sex. age, and infirmity arc unable ' to avail th(mseiver of the provisions of the Labour Act, relief com mittees be now formed in this barony (including the parish of Old Connaught, in the county of Dublin), to be in communication with the Government Commissariat Department, and whose objects will be to solicit subscriptions from those willing to contribute, in order to be enabled to apply fora donation from the funds placed for said purpose at the disposal of the Lord Lieutenant ; the united funds to be laid out in the providing of provisions at prices within the reach (tithe destitute among the class above alluded to." RELIEF MEETING AT BALLYLINAN.—A similar meeting for the barony of Ballyadams, was held on Saturday last, the 7th inst., at the Court-house of Ba'lylinan. The chair was taken by the Rev. F. Stewart Trench, J.P., of Kilmaroney; and it was resolved that the Lord Lieutenant be at once memorialised to proclaim another presentment sessions for the barony on the earliest possible day, otherwise the objection able works would be proceeded with, as the people must necessarily be employed. It was then arranged that in the event of a second baronial session being proclaimed, the landlords and their agents should be summoned for a previous day, that they might arrange in private the works that should be proposed at the sessions. MEETING OF THE IRISH ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS. — The Freeman's Journal of this day announces the arrival in town of the following Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church to attend the annual assembly of that body for Church pur • poses His Grace Dr. WHale, Archbishop of Tuam ; Dr. Cantwell, Bishop of Meath; Dr. Higgins , Bishop of Ardagh; Dr. M.Nally, Bishop of Clogher ; Dr. Keating, Bishop of Ferns; Dr. Browne, Bishop of Elphin ; Dr. Martinn, Bishop of Derry ; Dr. Feenv, Bishop of Kilalla ; Dr. ld'Nicholas is expected this day. The following prelates have also arrived in town:—His Grace the Archbishop of Armaeh, Primate of Ireland ; Dr. Hilly, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin ; Dr. Walsh, Bishop of Ossiry ; Dr. Foran, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore ; Dr. Ryan, Bishop of Limerick ; Dr. Egan, Bishop of Kerry ; Dr Denvir, Bishop of Down and Connor; Dr. Browne, Bishop of Kilmore. We understand, says the same journal, that several important subjects are to be discussed by theirlordships. Doubtless, among them will be the godless Co llege? Bill, the new charter of the National Board of Educa tion, and the Bequests Act. And in another place it affords this additional reason for discussing the Bequests Act. An eminent Catholic Bishop has already filed a hill in the court of Chancery for the recovery of a bequest—the respondents to the bill being no others than his Grace the Catholic Pri mate, his Grace the Protestant Primate, and the other reve rend and right reverend, rand lay members of the Board of Charitable Bequests. This proceeding is perhaps the strong est and most practical evidence that could be given of the want of confidence felt by the prelates alluded to—we will not say in the commissioners themselves, for their positions and characters entitle them to all confidence personally—but lin the law under which they act. I MEETING OE LAROURERS AT CASTLISTOWNROCHE. — An important meeting of the labourers of the barony of Fer moy was held on Sunday in Castletownroche—the Rev. Mr. Fitzpatrick in the chair. The object of the meeting, the Cork Examiner informs us, was to address the government on the present condition of the country, and adopt such reso lutions as they considered best calculated to mitigate their destitution, and implore the condition of the labouring population generally. The landed proprietary, anticipating that some disturbance or outrage might result from so large an assemblage of the labouring population, remonstrated with the Rev. Mr. Fitzpatrick on the impropriety, as they considered it, of such a gathering, and recommended him earnestly to use his influence in preventing it.— The Reverend Mr. Fitzpatrick did not consider it advisable to act upon this suggestion; and promised to preserve the peace without the aid of even a single police man, and the result, fortunately, justified his anticipa tion. Though the meeting was, at the lowest calculation, attended by upwards of twelve thousand labourers, the pro • cecilings were conducted in the most orderly and decorous manner, and, at its conclusion the people retired to their homes in peaceable order. The constabulary stationed at Glountane, Mallow, and other convenient localities, came into town at an early hour, as also General Annesley, J.P., Mr. Creagh, J.P., Sub-Inspector M'Leod, who remained in the barracks while the meeting was proceeding. Several resolu tions were proposed; amongst which was one forwarding a memorial to the Lords of the Treasury, requesting an increase of hire commensurate with the present high price of provi sions ; secondly—that in future the hire to be given by employers per day to an able-bodied man be what would purchase a stone of whole meal or oneway flour ; thirdly—a request to their fellow-countrymen not to enter or _purchase in a shop where Scotch or English goods are sold, until the ports are open and the exportation of every species of food fromlreland is forbidden ; fourthly, a re commendation to their fellow-labourers of Ireland to abstain from the use of intoxicating liquors, and a remonstrance to government to prevent the distillation of whisky or porter from grain i o l f gi a t n e i description ; and, lastly, a request to the rs laboure e in seaport towns to abstain from rendering assistance a ddressed e exportation of provisions. The Rev. r. Pitzpatric the meeting in a forcible and eloquent speeh. I BONI:qt.:0 PRIVILEGES.—The Lords of the Treasury having been pleated by their order to approve of Sabina, within the port of Sligo, for the warehousing of tobacco removed coastwise, under bond, I'm:tithe ports of importation, for the purpose of being taken out for home consumption, or for ships' stores, upon suitable premises being provided, the Board of Customs have by their order, just issued, approved of premises at Ballina for that purpose, and have given direc tions for the same to be communicated to the proper officers of the several departments in the port of London, and the collectors and comptrollers of the customs at the various out ports of the United Kingdom, in order that the privilege granted to Balling by their lordships may forthwith take effect. PROVINCIAL. NORTITAMPTONSIITRE. A Pl . nt.te MEETING took place at Northampton on Mon day, when resolutions wero agreed to condemnatory of the punishment of death, and a petition adopted praying its abolition. ..... QUARREL AMONG WORK Hors,. AtTIIORITIEV.—Mr. Neale, Assistant Poor-law Commissioner, has just made, at the request of the Board of Guardians, an investigation into a quarrel between the master, matron, schoolmistress. and the porter of the Loughborough Union workhouse. It ap peared that it originated in an avowed personal dislike, on the part of the matron, toward the schoolmistress, who had been hut newly appointed. The matron lost no opportunity of annoying the governess, and incited the school children to dispute her authority over them. The porter was charged with impropriety towards the female paupers by the matron; and he, in retaliation, charged the matron with having per suaded a lunatic pauper to prefer gross and false charges against him. This was sworn to be the fact. The porter admitted having had " a lark " with some of the female inmates ; hilt called witnesses to show that it was not of an improper nature. The proceedings resulted in the compul sory resignation of the master and matron, the dismissal of the porter, and the schoolmistress retains her situation. CAPITAL PeNisitstr.'sYs.—A meeting was held in the Public Hall, Leicester, on Tuesday evening, for the purpose of hearing addresses on the subject of capital punishments. A deep impression was produced by the facts and arguments adduced, and an Anti-Punishment of Death Society was formed. The newly-appointed Mayor, J. Fielding, Esq., presided, and it was gratifying to see the hearty manner in which that gentleman entered into the subject on his first appearance in public since his election to the office of chief magistrate. RTAFFORDSITTRE. SACRILEGII AND SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF TEE CULPRIT. Some few weeks since, the church at Butterton, was feloni ously entered, and the parish chest, containing the registers and other books, stolen. The chest and its contents were afterwards found in a neighbouring field, the robbers being evidently disappointed in their expectations—the communion plate bad not been left in the vestry. A reward, on convic tion of the offenders, was offered, and active inquiries were made by the police, without, however, producing any imme diate results. The only clue to the identity of the depre dators was a small piece of trousers-stuff, apparently torn from the garment of the robber, who bad effected an entrance through one of the c hurch-windows ' and this relic of crime was handed over to the police, by whom it was carefully preserved. The find bustle of inqu iry over—the chest and books recovered—the affair at Butterton was sinking quietly into oblivion, when a rather singular cident recalled it in all its original freshness. Lag week as a detachment of the Stoke constabulary was taking the prisoners Cook, Dale, Malkin, and Rogers, after their committal for the highway robbery at Clayton, a crowd of men, women, and boys, followed in the train. One of the busiest among the spectators was a youth named Platt, a joiner. He pressed near to the prisoners; he consoled them by word and look ; and when the procession, for such it might fairly be termed, arrived at the Town-hall, Platt affectionately bade Cook and Malkin " good bye," kindly promising to do "what he could" for them. Just at this interesting moment, Mr. Chief-superintendent Sweeting gave first a searching look at Platt, and then at Platt's trousers. The thought immediately flashed across his mind, that the small piece of cloth, so luckily found in Butterton church window, and so carefully preserved at Stoke, bore a remarkable resemblance to the continuation garments of Platt. Mr. Sweeting, therefore, dispensed with the necessity of the parting exclamation, by immediately placing Platt in custody with his friends Cook and Malki found n. The piece of cloth and trowsers were compared, and to correspond—evidence to show that Platt, Cook, and Mal kin were seen in the immediate neighbourhood of Butterton church on the night of the robbery, was at hand, and the case was ripe for hearing. On Monday, Cook, Malkin, and Platt were charged, at Hanley police-court, with feloniously breaking into the church of Butterton, on the 27th of Sep tember last, and stealing therefrom an iron chest and a quantity of books, the property of Lady Pilkington. The cue having been then fully investigated, and the bit of cloth being produced in evidence, and corresponding exactly with the rent in the prisoner's dress, Cook was further committed on this charge, and Platt was also committed for trial at the assizes. %gnome:Venn:M. Cakftlnuximatinc. R. J. EATON, ESQ., M.P. FOR CAMBRIDOESTIIRE.—A paragraph has gone the round of the press, stating that this gentleman had died at Malta. This rumour was prevalent for some time, and wan very generally believed; although, at the same time, it was considered rather remarkable that the family of the honourable gentleman had received no inform ation on the subject. We, (Cambridge Adrestiser), can now state on good authority, that, by the latest amounts, Mr. Eaton is reported to have been very ill, and that his medi cal attendant has gone out to Malta with the view of bringing I him home, if the state of his health will permit. Judging LANUANWAr... FUNERAL or FRI AUTHOR or THE WORD " TEXT°. TAL."—On Sunday last, the remains of Richard Turner were interred at P .. ..eston, ground having been purchased for that purpose thmugh the exertions of a few zealous friends of the temperance cause. A very large number of teetotal lets attended the funeral, and, in addition to those residing in Preston, there were several from Wigan, Hindley, Bol ton, Blackburn, Padihem, Burnley, and Lancaster. Alto- t n .r t t a h p i. pe co aran un oes ty, , t i h t e i m i bel arn ie tigi vet i th o a n t in in b ;h o. e likes-71i; to father, the The numbers treets through roategnhaed which t he f t u h n e e p ral roc a eu mo io u n nted pme t d o wise thronged with spectators. The deceased had been up- be returned. 1 a fru r m aca p n re : wards of fourteen years a member of the Temperance Society, having signed the pledge in Oct. 1832, while in a state of Intoxication. It may not be generally known how the term " teetotallers " became first adopted by the members of the Total Abstinence Society. Turner (says the Preston Pilot), in ore of his ssppsseeoobee, which were generally characterised by as MlaaTafxtnro of wit and blunders, being at. less for ' a word which would convey to the audience that he was a total abstinence man, said, " 1 have signed the tee, teetotal pledge." This speech was delivered in 1831. The word being short aad expressive, was immediately adopted by the abstainers of Lancashire, and ultimptely throughout Eng land nay, we may say, throughout the world, for both in America and India the term is adopted by those who are pledged to abstain from all intoxicating liquors. MR. MACKRADY read Macbeth to a laigs audience in the Mechanics' Institute, Manchester, on Tuesday evening. In moving a vote of thanks to Mr. Macready, who had volun tarily come from London to assist the society, the president stated that the proceeds of the admissions of strangers and members, which amounted to 501., would be entered on the books of the institution as a donation from Mr. Macready, and would be expended in books for the library, and thus Mr. Maenady would not only have the satisfaction of having given great intellectual pleasure to a numerous auditory, but the higher one of having conferred a great and lasting bene fit on the institution, which now numbered 1,800 members. THE COBURN NATIONAL TRIBUTE FUND —The usual weekly meeting of the Manchester committee was held on Tuesday eveuiog. Mr. O. Wilson reported that 3181. 16s. 2d. had been received in the amount of subscriptions since the last week ; and that the t tel contributions to this fund now amounted to 76,9381. Ss. 2d. It was arranged that au tain districts should be more strictly conversed, and that deputations should hereafter be appointed for that purpose. A FIRE broke out in a warehouse in Hodson square, Manchester, on Tuesday night, which consumed a consider able portion of the second story and the goods therein, chiefly ehirtings ; the flames, however, were soon got under. THE IMMIGRATION Or IRISH PAUPERS has of late ex cited considerable attention in Lancashire. Oa particular days the roads leading from Liverpool to Manchestes and other populous parts of the county, are covered with Irish families, consisting of men, women and childran, of all ages, from the grandsire to the infant in arms. "We have counted," says a Liverpool paper, "as many as half a dozen families, in half an hour's walk, on the Liverpool and Man chester road ; and last week one of the county police officers, who lives by the roadside, between Manchester and Eccles, informed us, as a piece of news, that there were ten times as many Irish paupers passing along the road towards Man chester as there usually are at this season of the year. We have conversed with several members of these me lancholy groups, and find that they are from all parts of Ireland. Some of them are from the most distant counties, such as Sligo and Roscommon. They all say that they cannot get a living of any sort in Ireland, and that they are coming over to England to see if they can find work for their children in the facto ries, and for themselves in any other way. Many of these poor people are most decent and respectable in their manner: and language. From the greatly increasing numbers in which these poor creatures are now arriving, there is reason to fear that they will, before loag, produce a consider ible effect both on wages and poor-rates in the country. The facilities for getting across to England and Sentlaud are now so great, that immigrants of this class are likely to came in constantly-increasing numbers, as the pressure of die tress increases in Ireland. Those who have paid any attention to the nature of the extensive emi gration which is going on from Ireland, and which is already sufficiently great to prevent any apparent increase of population in a country in which it is increasing more rapidly than in any other country in Europe, must be aware that it consists of two kinds of einigrants--the emi grants of hope and the emigrants of despair. The class which emigrates from Ireland, not from sheer necessity, but from the hope of improving its condition, consists principally of small f irmers possessed of some capital, say from 20/. to 1001. each, who go to seek the means of improving their condition in Canada and the States ; whilst the second class, the emi grants of despair, consists of the poorest of the poor, who can not live at home, or obtain the means of emigrating to Ame rica, but who beg or borrow the trifle which is necessary to bring them over to this country. For the last twenty years this class has been increasing, with every improvement in the mode of communication between the two countries, until a populous Irish quarter has been formed in London, Liver pool, Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds, and most other large towns in Eneland and Scotland." EMIIIIZZLEMP.NT AT MANCIIE , ITER.—On Wednesday, at the Borough Court, Manchester, an elderly man named Sydney Wimp, WAR charged with embezzlement. The prisoner had been for many years in the service of Mr. Richards, hat manufacturer, Manchester, at clerk and " putter-out "of work. The workmen are not employed on the premises, but do their work by " the piece " at their own homes. On bringina it in enmpleted, they received a hill for the amount of wages they were entitled to draw from Mr. Richards, who always paid wages himself. The practice of the prisoner was to make these hills out for a greater amount than the men were entitled to draw, and I then to affect to have discovered the error when they with draw and obtain the amount of overpayment from them on pretence, and with the understanding, that he would repay it to Mr. Richards. Small as the separate Amounts he thus obtained were, yet practising it with a great number of workmen and over a period of six or seven y ears, the total amount embezzled would not fall short of 2,oool.—The prisoner was remanded till Friday. He had no legal adviser, awl offered no defence, or objection to the remand. NORTIWNIBERLIND. THE WHOLE or THE. MAGI , TRATER OFFICIATTNO AT NeleTH SHIELDS have sent in their resignations, in conse quence, it is understood, of their refusal to grant a license' to the railway terminus at Tynemouth having been over-ruled at the General Quart. r Sessions of the Peace held at Ain wick. An address to the magistrates of the east division of Castle Ward, expressive of confidence in their impartiality and justice, is in the course of signatur• in the borou,h of Tynemouth. TAR DAa ENRAII Musts.—Three of the policemen who eonsmitted perjury before the coroner's jury iu this case have teen di•missed from the police force by the Commisaioners. It i. stated that the opinion of the law officers of the Crown b ee been taken as to whrther a conviction fir perjury could b e e b te i e ,.d, and that those authorities decided that it could not u reeert Ls the men Bulfoy, Fears, and Stevens, because they were not on path when their fir,t statement was made. As soon as this opintan was receive,l, the above-named con stable, were dismissed from the force, and the notice thereof promulgated yesterday. With respect to Parsons, K , mpton, and another constable, no opizion has as yet been given, they will, therefore, remain under the same surveillance as here tofore ; but, as the offence was committed out of the jurisdic tion of the Central Criminal Court, they cannot be tried until the Spring assizes in March, in all probability the re sult of the entire proceedings will not be known until then. LITERATURE. WOUNS Os CANADA.--ThO Emigrant, by Sit F. B. MEAD.— Hochetaga, rdited by E. WARBURTON.—Canada and the Canadians, by Sir E. BONNYCiSTLE. Canada, we are sorry to see, has ceased to be an object of pilgrimage, and a subject of discussion, for liberal travellers and writers. It attracts and in- spires Tories almost exclusively for the present, which renders all the works upon it more conducive to our amusement than to our instruction. Sir Francis Head and Mr. Warburton are both magnificent de scribers, imaginative revellers. We cannot say as much of their views of life. What demon of all that is preposterous could have induced Sir Francis Bond Head to turn politician? It would be difficult to find a mind, so imaginatively susceptible of the beauties and wonders of nature, and of all the poetry and philosophy which spring from their contemplation. It would be impossible to find a pen more powerful to depict and express them. No one can take a more just, more calm. more original view of his fellows, looked at individually or so cially. But this intellect, so sane, so perspicacious, so original, becomes dimm ed the instant it entArs the atmo sphere of politics. It loses at once a great portion of its judgment, nobleness, and calmness, and sinks from the height of philanthropy and philosophy to the nar rowness of rancour, to the fondling of prejudice, and to the worship of mere words, the clap-traps and Shibboleths of provincial party. Nothing can be greater than the contrast be tween the poetical and the political chapters of the present volume. From the glories of Niagara the reader is hurried into the atmosphere of nn Orange club-room, and from the noblest pictures of northern nature back to political sentiment more antiquated than 1700. The Frenchman of 1840 has learned to ridicule the Frenchman of 1810, full of adoration for his Emperor, of idolatry for the tri color, and dreaming wide awake of the glories of Austerlitz. Sir Francis pond Head is in politics the Englishman of 1810, which we do not ridicule on or off the stage, because, in fact, the species has disap peared. But in Sir Francis we have a specimen of the extinct race, just as if the Tory of 1810 had been caught in a Canada winter, frozen in, and had been brought by, some chance to life and speech in 1843, with the still living passions and sentiments of half a century before. We cannot conoeive how Sir Francis Head can have lived, or existed (for life is too strong a word), with out perceiving and taking count of that rapid current in which this world sweeps on, leaving the events of even a short time back, as lost to interest and to any rational purpose of revival, as if they were old as Themistocles. The idea of Sir Francis Ilead fighting his battlesover again with Mr.Mackcnzic forthe amusement of the readers of this present year ! What man in either hemisphere sheds one thought on Mr. Mackenzie, or desires to have his rashness or his fully shown up? Of all countries and histories, Canada and its troubles require to have a veil cast over them—over its sym pathisers and its Orangemen—its Franco-American Republicans, and its Family Compact. Charity and. good feeling would keep this veil drawn. Canada is a country in which, and for which, all should look forward, and none behind. Sir Francis Head repenetrating the past, in order to brood over his own wrongs, record his own triumphs, and nurse his wounded vanity, merely shows that he is still governed by the susceptibilities of the poet, not by the wisdom of the statesman. Sir Francis Head has got a bugbear, at the very mention of which he foams and raves. This bugbear his own creation is "responsible government." These words arc good old English words, expressing a most thoroughly old English invention; being, in fact, the very nucleus of our institutions, the very es sence of our freedom. But this responsible government is the very abhorrence of Sir Francis Head. Of English institutions and of British grandeur Sir Francis adores all the symbols, and execrates all the realities. He devotes a chapter to the glorification of the British flag, and five chapters to anathematise those who would pretend to English freedom. The British lion and the British crown, the royal standard, with its embroidered animals--lions, leopards, and the Irish harp—all these Sir Francis Head loves with the ardour of an antiquary, not for the sake of what they represent, but actually for themselves. Fortunately, however, politics form but a portion of Sir Franeis's volume. lle himself not inaptly describes ibes them, with far more severity than we can, as carrion, and says, that he has added a few feathers to bear it up through the literary atmosphere. If we have been hard upon the carrion, let us do justice to the rathers, and acknowledge that they arc from an eagle's wing. Our modern literature presents nothing loftier or finer. Of llorheloya it is now late to speak. The public has long since pronounced a fa% ourable judg ment; and the work, especially its first volume, is written with rare originality and spirit, which makes its reputation deserved. But do we know Canada much the better for having perused it, or for its glowing and imaginative pictures having passed before our eyes? liockelaga is Canada, visited by a gentleman de bonne societe : a ruder pioneer would have better opened a way for our information. Sir Richard Bonnyeastle's is an unpretentious work ; that of, a gay, jovial, generous soldier ; Hibernian rather in its style of anecdote and stringing of sub jects one to another by a very slender and impercep tible thread, but, at the same time, amusing and in structive. The engineering information is solid and valuable, when we consider that England has spent two millions and a half on public works in Canada. We may ill-treat subject countries for a time, but we certainly have a magnificent way of salving them. England may excite repeal cries by her adminis tration, but she continues to stifle them with her purse. Fisher's Drawing Room_ erap Book. By the non. Mrs. NORTON. We have been lured into a peep at this handsome volume, somewhat foreign to our grave habits, by the promise of meeting therein two political cha racters. Nor were we disappointed. For, lo ! em bedded in poesy and silver paper, smothered by the beauties of art and of fashion, lie the pertraita of Richard Cobden and of Mrs. Harris. One might be startled at finding them together. But poetry, as well as poverty, introduces people to strange bed fellows. Mrs. Harris is attempting, no easy matter for a blear-eyed lady, to get through the eye of a needle. And indeed the old lady seems prone to the undertaking of hopeless tasks. Cobden looks far more apt to achieve Mrs. Hairis's pur pose, with his acute eye and wiry person. Each have tributes of verse to them. There are some beautiful and merited stanzas to Mr. Charles Villiers. Nor are they the only specimen we should desire to quote. The artistic portion of the volume deserves its ample meed of praise. U, Drama. PrascEss's.—Mr. Scott, the American comedian, whose previous impersonations here have been favourably received, appeared last night as Rob Roy, in the popular drama of that name. Our own association with the part was Macready's masterly delineation of its rugged but inte resting features; and it is, therefore, a manifest tribute to Mr. Scott's ability to say that, with this reminiscence before us throughout the piece, our opinion of his performance was, if not comparatively, at all events, positively, advantageous. His stout, well-knit figure, his sonorous voice, anti manly bearing, are well adapted to represent the externals of the character ; and his delivery evinced judgment and feeling. He was supported by, as times go, a very efficient /tails. Nicol Jarrte, in the person of Mr. Compton. We had, with. re spect to him also, a perilous azociation strong in out recollection, that of Liston, whose "ma conscience," indeed, fs not more to be forgotten by those who ever heard it, titan was " My father the Deacon " of the excellent bailie him self. Mrs. Fosbroke was a most imposing Ilelen Ma 4 yreyor, and the " Dougal creature" found an excellent r apreseeta live in Mr. Ryder, who certainly turns out a /PAM alarming savage. Mr. Barker and Miss Smithson 0.; . ,d a pparently their best as Frank Osbaldeston and Dir-na Vernon, and Mr. 11. Hughes If OA a most 'famous Be„,hieigh. will nctiow