The Express. — London, England, 1846-11-20 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1846. he Mated that the child had fallen out of the bed and hurt himself. This, however, did not satisfy them, and on exa mining the child, it wee found with its mouth full of blood and nearly choked. The brutal fellow bad introduced some hard substance or other into the child's mouth, and endea voured to choke him by forcing it down his throat, in the attempt severely lacerating the &ch. Davies immeJietely absconded, but a wegrunt haring been issued for his apPro' pension, in about ten d•ys he was taken into custody. Mean- , while the child continued in.• eery dangerous state. Davies. was brought before the magistrates (the Earl of Dartmouth and J. E. l'iercy, Esq.), atMandsworth, on Saturday week, but in consequeace of its having been stated by Mr. Deswitt, surgeon, of West Bromwich, that the child could not be considered out of danger, the cue wasstill further adjourned. DIJERAM. ATIIIIIPT TO ASSIASINATII A POLICSMAN.—EarIy on Tuesday morning last, a daring attempt was made to shoot one of the rural police at Ryton, in this county. It seems that policeman T. Summers was sitting in his lodgings near Ryton, between twelve and one o'clock on the morning in question, when he thought be heard a slight noise about the door. He took up a candle for the purpose of ascertaining the cause, but the candle was extinguished by the wind. He turned round to procure another light, but had scarcely go t within the threahhold before a gun was fi red at him, err , dently not more than a yard from his person, which shattered the door to pieces, and drove the lime off ihe wall into his face, depriving him, for a time, of his sight. That the nif- Rano intended to commit murder seems certain, the gun being loaded with the largest No. 1 shot. Summers bears an excellent character ; and the only supposable cause for this attempt is revenge on the part of some one whom he has beta instrumental in bringing to justice. FATAL ACCIDENT 0N TIIIILIkCAATIBR AND CAROMS RAILWAY.—On Sunday, Nov. 8, on this line, about one mllB from Kendal, one engine ran against another attached to a short train that was passing a part of the line not yet opened to the public. The stoker of the separate engine was thrown by the collision into the furnace, which he was feeding at the time, and his head and body dreadfully burned. He lingered until Tuesday last, when death put an end to his agony. The driver of the engine had been taken into custody. An inquest was held on the stoker, whose name was Oarvith, on Tuesday, and a verdict of " Accidental Death " returned. It is rumoured that the driver was intoxicated at the time of the accidtux CrM BERLAND. A DISGRACEFUL AFFAIR RECENTLY OCCURRED IN LONOTOWN, which terminated in the death of a poor, weak minded mendicant, called T. Allan, a character well known in this county by the soubriquet of " Willie the Runner," who has for four or five years past made that town his head quarters. A weddingparty, consisting of the bride and bride groom and a male companion, drew up on the 6th in a tub gig at the George and Dragon inn, on their way from Alston to Gretna. The deceased, as was his constant practice, fol lowed the parties into the inn to solicit either drink or money. The companion of the wedding folks, whose name is T. Gibson, being much intoxicated and ex ceedingly violent and outrageous in his mirth, the deceased afforded a most opportune subject for the gratification of his brutal sport. Gibson ordered half a pint of whisky, which was poured into a tumbler glass and given to deceased, who drank it, undiluted, before taking the vessel from his mouth. No sooner had the poor creature swallowed the dose than the barmaid was called from an adjoining room : another half-pint was brought in, and in like manner given to deceased, and drank by him, and in rapid socces ' son repeated until six half-pints of raw spirits had been given to the unconscious victim. Deceased swallowed several of the draughts with all the avidity and haste his brutal enter tainer could desire, but during the latter part of the deigns ing performance the poor idiot appeared to feel satiated, and the beverage to become unpalatable to him. Gilson previ ously encouraged deceased by saying " he would make a gentleman of him." He now urged on the old man by threatening " to knock his head through the bar if he did not drink up the contents of the glass." There were several other persons in the same room, who from time to time re monstrated with Gilson. They told him "he would most assuredly kill the man, and that he ought to recollect that the man had a soul to be saved like the rest of them." All this, however, was unheeded, except so far as a laugh evinced that he heard, but disregarded the caution. The witnesses differed in their statements of the time occu pied in the scene, most of them limiting it to 15 minutes, othersto 20, and one to 30. It was also stated by some that the last half pint was mixed with water, and that some part was left in the glass. Deceased was then turned out of the room by Gibson. He was able to walk as far as the passage ; there he became overpowered, and fell. Medical aid was ob tained, but he died the same evening. An inquest com menced, but was adjourned till Monday. The facts as above given were proved.—Gibson, in his voluntary statement, ex pressed his sorrow for what had happened, but denied hav ing given decea-ed any drink.—The jury, after deliberating about half an hour, and there being a difference of opinion amongst them, ultimately adopted the opinion of the majo rity, and found that deceased died from excessive drinking, but without implicating any one.—Many tourists will re member old Willie, in his rags and unshorn beard, bare headed and unshod, galloping for miles by the side of the public coaches, most frequently on the Carlisle and Penrith roads. AGRICULTURAL WAGE4.—In the northern counties, the hiring' for agricultural servants take place at Martinmas and Whitsuntide yearly. At the various hiring places wages have not been so high this term as they were at Whitsuntide last. At the following places, the following wages were given, namely: At Carlisle, Brampton, Keswick, Maryport, Workinaton, Cockermouth, Wigton, Penrith, Appleby, Kirkby Steven, Kendal, Ambbside, good known men ser vants were hired for the half year at wages ranging from 71.165., Si., 91. 10s., to 111. Ils. Female servants met with masters, their wages varying from 31., 31. 10*., 41., and to 61. Young lads and lasses received from 3/. to 51., and 61. A large number of servants remained anhired. WARWICKSHIRE. REMOVAL OF PAUPER LUNATICS.—A singular case arising out of the alleged improper removal of a pauper lunatic was heard before three magistrates at Birmingham, yesterday. A charge was preferred by Mr. Wright, a solicitor of Bir mingham, on the part of the guardians of the poor of that town, against Wm. Phillips, master of the workhouse in the parish of Kingsnorton, Worcestershire, for having without lawful authority procured the removal of a poor female named Rood, from out of the last-named parish to Birmingham, with the view to make her there chargeable. Mr. Wright briefly stated the provisions of the law relative to removals; but this case derives much of its importance from the fact that it is the first of which public notice has been taken since the passing of the act in the last session of parliament, with respect to the irremovability of paupers out of any parish in which they may have passed an industrial residence of five years. This act, however, might have been easily evaded, because the parish in which the industrial reddence had taken place might, by force or persuasion, procure the pamper to go over into an adjourning parish, where the privilege of irre movability would not exist; the act has, therefore, provided that if any officer of a parish, contrary to law, and wi.h in tent to cause a poor person to become chargeable to another parish, shall remove, or cause to be removed or conveyed, or make use of any threat or bribe, or offer any facility to in duce any poor person to depart from the parish for which the officer acts, and if in consequence of such depirture the poor person shall become chargeable to any other parish, the officer shall forfeit a penalty of from 40s. to 61. It ap peared in the evidence to support this charge, that on the st of October a woman named Sarah Hood hail been in the Kingsnorton union workhouse in state of insanity, having with her two illegitimate children. On this day a man named Motteram, holding some subordinate situation in the Kingsnorton workhouse, conveyed the woman and children to the police-station at Birmingham, where she had a brother a member of the force ; he said that Mr. Phillip., the muter of the Kingsnorton workhouse, had told him " to take her and deliver her up whsle she chose to stop." The brother asked her why she had come there, but she was quite incepalb of giving any rational answer, and merely uttered panne wild and incoherent expressions; she was a ft erwards conveyed to a place where she had formerly lodged, and whilst there additional symptoms of insanity were fully niaaifested.—Mr. Docker, who appeared for the defendant, contended there was nothing to show that Phillips had gives any directions for, or been a party to, the removal of the pauper ; and on these grounds the magistrates dismissed Me case. VERDICT OF 3001. AGAINST THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.—On Wednesday, a writ of enquiry was heard before the Sheriff of Warwickshire, in the shire hall, Warwick, to assess damages in an action in judg ment by default., brought by Mr. Haywood, attorney in Birmingham, against the London and Birmingham railway company, for injuries sustained by his wife through alleged gross negligence of their servants. The damages were laid as 5001. A jury having been sworn, Mr. Partridge. a whole sob dealer in London, Mrs. Laud, mother of Mrs. Haywood, and Messrs. Crompton and Jones, medical practitioners, I were examined for the plaintiffs. The first and second wit , names described the acct lent, which happened at the Coven try station ; the second, third, and fourth described its per mainent effects upon Mrs. Haywood. Mr. Partridge said : After stopping a short time at Coventry, preperatory to ban moved an to the London and Birmingham line, a tresoendoes mom side took Owe; a blow came as from lisednd us. That was occaskrael. as I was informed by one of the aseeents. by some carriages king forced sgatrot the points. I was dtting with m back towards the es. gine, and Mee the skit lbw Mambo into the air. There was a dm ink lOW smods, Rem %maw caw, I presamed, se asmissaid the gest I was =,:goeuts.arid. Mrs. Illywaxl wr me great Mß I . that dr a V i iimovated her seat; she hat tams to do that before the se. mid Moak, mad dauber heed led ea oblique direction, and fen lathe Iliillesedoe doloof the wooden singe which separate the seats. Is the edam of a manta, I seated bee; abe was in a state of considerable • degaussed at fret, end to a bistbisudbion. else was fearfully atemed. dam help M out of the menage, I doe he my arm Into I the waling roted, and she quite *edgiest Her he. ma forehead Wm; sat the side at leg hod was severed with blood. = g* m the dada, was iamb *ma, Ind severed with blood. BIM mg bordering at tnimMOHY. OM was he a very fasidwa. As lobs as she ma someidat towered, Mat a surgeon tram •Oarattry shedd be gent 11rr because I thought the admits so linuidaide as di ropier Wiee ; but Mrs. Haywood aid' gie home ; Illve the of Birmingham, MI I will go to my buslieml * quite peremptory, was retaken to a carriage, and I Mr into the custody of her Paha, to wbega IWM dn. eery whim I Moot ride ha the same wedge dm Comity be bat I mimed bar Is Mr husband. She alp, aired VIM at Wmatrham. as if a saw was as la. think she ad mismand what was said to him at litildsgham, it was just en Mw wt she did. The child was throws am the nurse's lap with g th reat Mbatty into the seat opposite, mad was ingeMbieke a few selnuteu I fen much Injured. lam Lard eaeroberated Palimony, and added — She kept her bed lhr severalthis days, bet sofa for • beg time. She wet daimied by Mr. C 2611101111. the surgeon, • immediately. I have bean mentandy with her Mee, with the exception of a snort abeam. lam Nora to say three are ethereal the collision to be seen now. the bui Mt Use proper awed' sedan from that eye which was • injured ; she has tad her same or smell 1 perceive, and that In the great grief, that there is ',deterioration of the mind ; she can't write without feeling exceedingly ill afterwards for the whole day. It is quite sot of the question, also, for het to superintend her domestic ftli Ms Was tis s = tme seilher person to take et War. us at unsid pewee width Was IOWA& Wow et pinalleepreasure pa We aassientibinesidelissi Ikese-Whaelleaw Wu ansemps- WA* WWaZ s /rWweekatlg st Akin bas emplained et pommel Ws* Flu thobeeas eel amen sod preeene . triZa Sam that Wu I lave Urn obliged to seem. tantliii fresapiscle place, it bent &detail that she should be cameo about Tbieftedmony was corroborakd by the medical gentle bun. After Mr. Serjeant Allot who conducted the cue for the plaintiffs, had concluded, Yr. Xaranlay, us behalf of the defendants, desired hinsto reuse the corregnadente be tween the parties. Mr. Mae:inlay sold, that if the Isamal estleant bed mot opined to Ilas e ry that the London and Ness Waters Company bed never hsa~any Sanndasa is mat the belay Is a quirk bale and conspewstion, (11r.116~ sled& s w at elled par tbst sonespaninse. Maas" nr)tiat bed Inbenalk hag tirades sashed their sesperelka es die maw of the bums 1006 sands of Mr. ma Wesalarreabin pastleeket sod Orebro be 04,114 thought th at, three* Weir seneasi *me individuals Win brood to p adage the neraspandena mina they bed called upon the de le a ts, ury by thrust anise, *be prepared to do. The j found lie the plaintiffs—Damages, 3001. ; costs, 40s. In a second ease, In width We. Haywood alone was plaintiff, to recover expenses to which he Ina necessarily been put by the illness of his wife, such as medical attendance, travelling, tee., a verdict was taken for the plaintiff, by consent, for 701. ; costs, 40e. THIUTY NEW INTANS SCHOOL! YOH BIRMINORAW.—The I Church of England at Birmingham, having succeeded in planting ton new churches, as chapels-tit -ease to the previously existing parish churches, and created a day-school in con nexion with each new church, has resolved to establish thirty infant schools. An attempt wax made at a recent meeting to place the movement on a basis broad enough to admit of the co-operation of every denomination of Christians ; but beyond an assurance that the plan of operations would leave the schools " open to ell who wished to participate in their benefits," nothing was conceded to Evangelical Daunt. The subscriptions of the public generally are to be solicited ; but " the whole management is to be vested in a committee," to consist of the patron and president of the association when formed, and of the archdeacon, rural dean, first and second masters of King Edward's School, and all clergymen being subscribers to a certain amount, with " at least an e%ual number of influential laymen ;" and, " that all applications should be first sanctioned by the parochial minister of the parish or district." ornostroonsrrnv MR. WEALS AND THE LEICESTER BOARD OF GUARDIANS. —At the meeting of the board of guardians at the union house, Leicester, on Tuesday, Mr. Weale, the assistant poor law commissioner for this district, brought the subject of paid nurses before the board. It appeared that on a former occasion, when Mr. Neale was in attendance, a complaint was trade to him relative to the treatment of, and conduct towards, the pauper patients entrusted to the care of a man named Innocent. Mr. Weide 'made an inquiry into the cir cumstances, when he was so satisfied of the incompetency of Innocent as to lead him to suspend the latter at once. Mr. Weale made a minute of the course he had adopted, in the board book, but, greatly to his surprise, so far from the guardians supporting him in the course he had thought it necessary to take, they acted in direct opposition to his re commendation, by reinstating Innocent in his former office, without even communicating with Mr. Weale upon the sub ject. The merits of the case will best be learnt from Mr. Weale himself, who said : I am anxious to draw the attention of the board to the case at Innocent, whom I suspended same weeks ago from his situation as nurse to the infirmary, in consequence of harshness to the sick NOW. As I was going through the wards, my attention was drawn to the man innocent by a nurse, who said he " was behaving ILL and cruelly to a sick man." Finding this to be the ease, I felt it was only doing a necessary duty to suspend such a man from his situation; and I thought the guaruians would have been glad that I had so acted. Sines then, however, I have received notice that Innocent has been restated to his office. I met, at the time, with the medical idiom of the house ; and upon mentioning the moo to him, that gentleman add he "had not had any direct complaint against the man, but be was cross, ill-tempered bid fellow.' I thought, therefore, that I was eels performing an act of kindness to the sick, and a real service to the union, in removing such a nurse from his poet. My especial object day is, that more efficient and responsible parties should be as nurses, and this can only he secured by having paid nurse... M gr: this the more strongly as the man Innocent himself is • paralytic, and it in well known such parties are frequently intolerably peevish and ill-tempered. I make the suggestion I have brought forward, so that this union may not be added to some others, where such nurses as Innocent have been guilty of the greatest cruelty to the sick poor. Notwithstanding Mr. Weale's conduct in attempting to relieve the board of guardians from the odium incurred by boards of other unions, in consequence of positive cruelty exercised towards the ur.fortunate inmates of workhouses, the Leicester board, without attempting to excuse its con duct, deferred the further consideration of the case till the following Tuesday, when it could quietly discuss the matter without being influenced be the presence of Mr. Weale. GLOUCWERSIIIRE. NON-SETTLED AND NON-RESIDENT RELIEF TO PAUPERS. —The Board of Guardians of the Gloucester Union have ordered the following circular to be addressed to the clerks of the different Unions in England and Wales, with whom they have accounts : Gloats ater Union, Nov. 10.—Sir.--I am 'directed by this Board of Guardians to state, that since my circular of the 2;th ultimo was addressed to you, they have given the guillemot non-settled and non resident relief their more mature consider dion ; and entertaining, as they do, much doubt whether the Attorney and Solicitor-General have put a correct construction on the 9 di 10 Viet., c. 66,--ouch eon struction being evidently contrary to the intention of the legislature, and the ordinary meaning of the words used in the drat clause, — Instead, therefore, of acting upon the resolution communicated in such circular, and in order to avoid litigation, and the mischief likely to arise from uncertainty, the board proposes to the Guaidlass of such unions as have authorised relief to their paupers reading within this union, and also to the guardians of such unions as, under the authority of this board, have administered relief to paupers residing in their unions, but acknowledged to be Nettled in some parish of this union, that, with the written concurrence of the guardians of any sr either of such unions, the payments hitherto made to paupers residing out of the parishes where they are legally settled, shall continue precisely as they did previously to the passing of the above act, for six months from this date; in the course of which time, it is probable some legal interpretation will be given to the statute, or an explanatory act be introduced ; and for that limited period the former payments to continue to the respec tive paupers, to be repaid by the union which authorised such pay ments: and that as regards such unions as have revoked their autho rity, this proposition shall have a retrospective effect, so far as such revocations were intended to owed*. It must, however, be clearly understood, that any relief given by this board, in consequence of the peeing of the above act and the opinions thereon, must be ore. side red as temporary relief; and is not to prejudice the parish re tiering in any question an to the party relieved being removable or otherwise. May I beg to know immediately after your next weekly meeting whether your board will agree to this prop Mel 1-1 am, sir, the., S. Maven, CI, rk to the Board. AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY has just been made by Seale workmen whilst excavating the earth in the field around the old abbey of Lantheny, near Gloucester, and close to the present dock. Five old pillars of the Norman period, in cluding the base and about four feet of the shaft, and believed to be of the same date as those in the crypt of Glouce.ter estheeral, were dug up. Some old Norman encaustic tiles were also found. CORNWALL. WRECK/NO.—More than twenty persons have been sum marily committed to Budmin gaol with hard labour, for from three to five months, for plundering from the brig Samari tan and her cargo wished in by the sea, wrecked off St. Brat, near Padstow, during the late gales. FALMOUTH.—At the election of Mayor it was found that Mr. J. H. Lake, bookseller, stood at the head of the poll. Mr. Lake, however, declining to take the office, paid the fine consequent on the refusal, viz. ' 301., and Mr. J. B. Cox, ironmonger, was elected in his ste ad. Sr. Ives.—The quantity of pilchards taken in the last round, which are all secured, may now be estimated to be about 17,000 hogsheads ; out of that number it is proposed by the adventurers that oneofirch part shall be kept at home for colonial and home speculation, so that the whole quantity that will be this season exported to the Italian market will not exceed 13,600 hhds., with the exception of a few hun dred hhds. taken prior to the last catch. DEVONSHIRE. PREVALENCE OP DISTRESS IN DEVONSHIRE.—The fol lowing letter has been addressed to the Home Secretary, by the magistrates of the Axminster division, on the subject of the distress now existing amongst the unemployed labourers in that neighbourhood. — " sir—The undersigned magistrates for the county of Devon, in the Axminster division, basing been repeatedly and earnestly ap pealed to in behalf of the able-bodied labourers in their immediate vicinity, who were represented to them as already suffering great dis. tress front the low rate of wages, the failure of the potato crop, and the total imbility of many of them to find employment of any kind, hare, by means within their power, endeavoured to ascertain the red eeadinoa of this elms of men, not only with a view of afford. M i te& hismethate relief, bat of meeting, if it were possible, thelr Ineressiag neissides. Having i s themselves that • swanderable mow= of &nom and suffering aetu oily did mist in the lowish wherein they reside, arising oat al the above rte. Old whisk in their opinion, admitted of o d Plnebild madar their fit= step ass to bring the subject under die [moldered= the itaingefers, and to urge, upon them as forci bly as they mold, the hamediate weeenty of deriving some means or other s f 1 MseesUg the _editing rate al wages, and of finding employ ment for the ~oohed labourers who were then out of wort, with every prospect of wordeleg se dud= the ensuing winter. They re presented to them two lieu which admitted of no dispute whatever. First, that Is. a wash, the existing rate of wages in the parish, was Inadequate to the =apart of a labourer's family at the present ad vanced price of prmisitems. detemily, that the able-bodied latoswers out of employmept were either throws private charity, and thus rednoed to a state= Wormy, or OW with their Amities into the Uoloriosso, by they madding thronsalves still fur ther degraded, sod In preference to which Amy et *ant Mil submit even to the dame demo at want and edged= ; the indeoleg, too, habits of dishonesty and immorality, width wieht not min wore em fic=witildn tOde reach. The magiisan Own sspasnod that the of the Mira mans Moat le astir SOW operation the sect. le oldie 3 sada W. 4, o lost dim Om& la OM the general =ittef tlds act =a impeded* Ink of Misr porlshos in the all urloood by thedo having bom be. Pam hossmorlel sabdivi. ded into tithing; so that as ewiloMing cob hood b maintain its own highways, no general ndin meld lo ivied la tit wish for the production of additional label& 'To sea a moseee. If it bed been peacticable, there seems* tar as s to moan, but the rate-payers were unwilling to resort to owy whereby weistaoce and relief might be to Oto n et Mowers out of work, and thus, in the 'et the ninglitrates, it matters are suffered to remain Inegar el ete, evils ad a serious magnitnde are bat Wealthy 10 aelim dietteee b obs stlll more widely extended r =oll end Mt' soldl= They therefore meet immediate adopted to Mtn cli N r a itle e tbe 4111 d °Lam beth, ' That the churhgoer.= sea work al sok peso= having no means to maintain theal, mod see crew" dahy train of life to get their own ltvtag...--(Nmsed) WELIAAX Taus, Coryton-put, Taints Reni., FL INEARns, C. A. MAGUalren. DORfiRIBRUtE. REPRESENTATION OP WETMOUTIL—Me. Robert Gordon having most explicitly declined to stand for the seat for this borough, which Mr. Bernal, M.P., will vacate next electiin, the L ib erals have obtained the consent of Colonel Freestun to come forward in the liberal interest, with Mr. W. D. Christie, M.P. Colonel Freestun is said to have seen some service, especially during the late Spanish campaign. He recently married n lady (Madame Pratt) who has been a great heuristics:sato the charitable institutions of the town, and as he himself has a yacht there, and has identified him self with the am of the place, he is rather popular. Col. Freestun has battedtha following address To the Dream o v f iiii tsath sod M.= ae-Regis.—Cientiewe Mr. Basal baba slialast his Intention or returning, at the *eat elect/dm to his ecnotitosnes at Rochester, I presume 50 ' offer myself as • asedidate for the seat which be will vacate. My vli o tiT4 e. ,s views tel jez ,, erfiL• rordance with those which and I shoddier:Zs the opport r u e Mty ws alri s tee, place Y m s e up iri ° the ;woad pthitien Poor rooresostatire, you will and rue ever ready to sup. reseeidhility b &Mind divisions, for the employment of the ffedidele i mittin their respective boundaries. To nub, ay divideassentelde - 11, 418 = ! t l ° tet esse bterrs d the ms electnnd isid on the Tth ot Osts k tlie de, upon whiehtlerclase&Lineensers circular le ttnbeesima ate dna ales talus at the mains were in soosime lealreatieas tradeased in rim later ; shoat ten Imo sled be he reap of the Many, sail to be ws T r bo lo timina losti illestard psisie o dWril as sit e s= a la • the poor-law Mas er the Mole ma sp. eso alseliael divides or Basisthasep, sad mills mks to lli seaseldli pids pressobd es to be meraltd althb the Mods of the Mimi et lisebediem IMkto be Mass% Mad it Meinemgeli lieseeedee7 Pros" dam sepia latereamme the plis mem try the IsssissbniSy elan ti lin maned thereby tram its - dim ef tbe Mad* d the Mei' bar/: Ilotwith biding that the .proprfabes et dull. private empl=ide have preisabi the mm il iltare e" ° be = idiot share of the orwrisaingi se = s ar say portion of it, will list be tb := a proportionate shad. at the romeSM tbe tea lamb 'pylons& en dr rig ef the liszany I To mempthY as in soother way t 11110 b ba toe Meths' time it shads hoed wasssassy to bold testher mina to preside as odditioael seas to mast the mats Oaths mead theism,. alb the Mama division Obsnieslissvar be raptor Pie kr apropertisa et best PI" oWhig is the moloyment ellerdedbythe 'reprises; the eseb li ttZ barrilb lAMB lb lobe she rssM madehol t Tor. I helps o due, Skitter as samtlea—Whelher nips& bility assaasdhs insteni esteem tar the easiormertafthe MS. n u it m e . c l reeikst Media tisk reeposibe beembelit Althea* to mesas sa per valuable Its, I Imo to ASS on alarm an this pas, serembi whirl Ira aware that doehtedete, N endow, at ehdrsta of the relistoomehtee of Derrfashrosy, to by it bdore presiders who are on the committee. in order that they tall isselste their proesedbess accordingly.-1 ern, fii; Year obe dient 'errant, Joan Canino.. Beilline, Tempiensore, Nov. 4. BUIPLT. Detain Castle, Nov. 7. Sir,—With reference to your letter of the 4th inst., 1 have the honour to acquaint you, that whether the proceedings at presentment seseintri ere conducted in accordance with the poor employment act, or the Chief Secretary's letter, the responsibility of any electoral divi- Son to support the destitute poor, resident therein, does not arise. The persons to be employed upon the public works will be invariably selected from the lists of destitute furnished by the various relief *um mitteti within the barony, without reference to their residence in any eleetorat division. The expenditure bye proprietor of the amount of his meesement on any work under his own direction cannot exempt • him front the debility to discharge his portion of the ooze pre sented for worts to be executed under the control of the board in his electotal division or barony, us the case may be, under the gene ral provisions of the act; but if the proceedings are conducted in the manner prescribed by the Conunimioners of Public Works in their re cent instructions (copy of which is herewith enclosed), no difficulty can ariee.—l have the honour Temper most obedient servant, John Carden, Esq., Itarnanelem Tams. iteuLsoros. 70 T. li. 11GOINOTOW, aNO., ITIMILTAMCILETARY. Sir,—l am in receipt of your cammwdeation, dated the 7th, and regret to find, in as far as I can comprehend its purport, that in con sequence of the resent instructions of the Commissioners of Public Works not having at that time issued, the barony of Ikerrin Le pre cluded from any advantages supposed to be derived from the modifications introduced by the circular letter; although the proceedings at the Roscrea semions, as I before ex wed,re materially in accordance with the course pre scribed in that letter, which (as it was then supposed to establish the limited reeponeibil ity of electoral divisions) so completely met the views d several gentlemen in attendance, that the business of the meeting was commenced by a vote of thanks to the Lord Lieutenant for the advantages supposed to be mattered. As It is not im probable that for one reason or other an additional seance for Ikeri in barony may soon be applied for, I beg to ask whether, if the proceedings ut baronial cessions ore conducted according to the prescribed forms, an electoral division will remain exempt from further taxation than the portion of Its own allotment expended, whatever the necessitim of other parts of the barony, as long as the works presented to the value of its own assessment, and to be executed within it, shall remain incomplete for want of hands to execute them? I was quite aware that the public officer is not positively restricted by the act in regard to the selection of from the various lists of destitute for any works within the =; but, es it is found practically impassible to induce labourers to travel far for employment at this season of the year, such fair appor tionment of labour does, in fact, generally ariee, and it is quite clear that your answer to the question I have now put roust involve a mate rial consequence, as determining whether or not the private expendi ture of individuals ran produce any, the slightest, effect on the taxa tion to be imposed upon their properties. It is certain that the indi rect attainment of seen an end could alone Induce a proprietor to ap ply for a portion of the assessment for the purpose of drainage. The terms offered being moat disadvantageous, owing to the ex pense of the accompanying machinery and the total unfitness of the gentlemen who have visited us in the cat Deity of officers of the Board of Works to direct the operations of drainage, which require close attention, skill, and patience, in the hands of unpraetised labourers, I beg to inquire, therefore, whether the baronial sessions, having proceeded according to the Mstructioos lately issued, an elec toral division remains exempt from all further taxation than the por tion expended of its own applotments, whatever may be the fate of the rest of the barony, as long as labourers cannot be found to complete the works presented for within it, owing to the private exertions of resident proprietors am Mr, your obedient aervnnt, Barmuie, Templemote, November 9. JOIIN CARDM REPLY. Dublin Castle, N0v.13. Si ,-1 have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th inst.. and to state that my letter of the 7th inat. was in reply to the inquiry—" Whether responsibility is ounfhwd to electoral dihrialoris for the employment of the destitute poor resident within their respective boundaries f' It was therein stated " that the pertains to be =ed on the public works will be invariably ',elected front the destitute furnished by the various relief committees within Me barony, without reference to their residence in any electoral division." With respect to the question now asked by you, if the eresions proceed strictly, according to the instructions lately issued, the amount of assessment will thereby be ascertained, sad the diem ot the board ot worthyy employ any of the destitute poor is the barony in corepletiag works. Should the relief district not furnish a sufficiency of labourers, and that the wants of the tewasy are supplied by the individual exertions of the proprietors, there will then arise no necessity for eonveutng another minims. Whether the ecesiona shall have presented in accordance with the act of parliament, or the Chief Secretary's letter, each portion of the die. triet in which it has been convened will have to bear its proportion of the easerement, without any exemption whatever.—l have the honour 1 to be, Sir, your most obedient servant, T. N. Renisorox. WALES. WELSH EDUCATION INQUIEY. — This inquiry is proceeding very rapidly ; ar d, from the facilities given everywhere to the CoMmisiioneri, promises to be accomplislled in an unusually brief time. Every parish, it appears, is being looked into; and its shools inspected where they exist. Thus the return, as regards statistics, promises to be complete. PROVINCIAL. MCRDEROVS OtrTE.AOII NEAR PRESTON. —On Tuesday evening one of the most daring outrages ever known in this county took place at Broughton, about three miles from Preston, at the residence of Mr. hiller, land-steward. Mr. Miller's house is somewhat lonely, being at some distance from any other residence. About six o'clock on the above named evening, Mr. Miller and his daughter being in the house, with no other person but a female servant, a knock was given at the front door, which was opened by Miss Miller, when six men, armed with pistols, made a rush into the house; two of them subsequently retreating, remained in front of the building. Miss Miller, terrified by the conduct of the intruders, cried out " Thieves, thieves," and ran, at the same time, towards the lawn in front of the house; when, on emerging from the front door, one of the men outside shouted out, " grab her ;" at the same mo ment a pistol being fired at her, which was imme diately followed by a second attempt upon her life, by the firing of another. Miss Miller then ran to the house of a neighbour screaming out " murder." In the meantime, the villains had gained full access to the house, and one of them presenting a pistol at Mr. Miller, said, "We want your money." Mr. Miller told them he had none, upon which the men said, " We know you have." Mr. Miller again denied having any, anal called to the ser vant, whom the robbers had forced into an adjoining room, to " ring the bell." It should be explained that the bell alluded to is an alarm-bell, situated at the top of the house, from which there is a communication with the room into which, fortunately, the robbers had forced the attendant. At her master's call, the servaat commenced ringing the bell, on which the men looked one at another in amazement, and ran away. In lees than ten minutes from the alarm bell having been rung, a number of neighbours arrived, but the robbers had escaped. The lives of all the family would probably have been sacrificed, had it not been for the timely assistance summoned by the alarm-bell. On Miss Miller returning home, with a neighbouring farmer, she was much exhausted, and it was discovered that her life had been in great peril, the contents of one of the pistols having grazed the front part of the head. She bled considerably, but for tunately is in no danger. It is said that Mr. Miller had, a uw days previously, been receiving certain rents, and the pre mption is that the delinquent are s were aw of that fact. They have nut, up to the present time, been apprehended ; but suspicion rests upon some characters in the neighbour hood, whom the police are on the look out for. TORS.9IHRE. AN ACCIDENT of a MOST PEARPULtDEECRIPTION occurred between Staithes and Runawick, to a number of men recently employed to obtain jet aft of the cliffs, by Mr. Andrew, jet manufacturer , of Whitby. Seven of these men had retired from labour about noon, and seated themselves against the cliff to eat their dinner, not having the least apprehension of danger, when a small piece of stone fell upon the shoulders of one of them named Cuthbert. Looking up to ascertain the cause, he perceived the cliff giving way, and immediately sprung from his seat, calling his com panions to make for safety, as the cliff was coming upon them. Three of them, named Small wo o d, Bennings, and Jefferson, promptly obeyed, and with Cuthbert fortunately got from under the main fall, and caught hold of a rope, impended over the cliff to assist them in ascending and elissioding to their work. This prevented them falling over, sad they escaped with sundry bruises, inflicted by pieces of cliff rolling against them while suspended in said air. The other three men, Bennings, Hopper, and Sayers, delayed a moment, thinking Cuthbert only in jest, but looking up they beheld with horror, when too late to escape, that the assertion was too true—the entire mass, comprieing several thousand tons, came down, and burled them to the bottom, a distance of about 60 feet. Some women, who were on the scar gathering bait, saw the acci dent, and hastening to Staithes, they gave the alarm, when a great number of men set off to their assistance. After great exertion, they were extricated, and, miraculous to say, notwithstanding the great distance they had fallen, and the huge masses falling with them, they were all found to be alive. Hopper showed very little sign of life, but after lying a short time on the beach he rallied a little, and they were all conveyed to Staithes. STAFFORDSHIRE. HORRIBLE ATTEMPT TO MURDER A STEP•CRILD.— Some time ago a man named Isaac Davies, a miner, at West Bromwich, married a widow, to one of whose children by a former husband he appeared to have a violent antipathy. On the 20th ult., his wife had gone out in the evening, leaving her husband, the child, and a young man in the house. After sitting fur some time, Davis said he would take the child up stairs and put him to bed ; but the young man having a pre sentiment of some injury to the lad from his father's apparent dislike to him, requested him to allow the child to remain in the kitchen till his mother came home. Davies, piqued at the young man's suspicions, ordered him out of ' the house, at the same time taking the child in his arms up stairs with him. The young man, however, although he left the house, remained at the door, and shortly after, hearing the child scream in a fearful manner, he got the assistance of a female neighbour, and spin entered the . house. Davies, hearing some one come in, came down stairs hur riedly, in au excited state , and Wing his shirt sleeves covered with blood. In answer to the inquiries of the young man, le of 'the lungs, and it was also easionally to intemperance, and led state after his . teturn home, delirium. that no reliance could It was further proved, by the sd persons in the neighbourhood, in:en:stance that a per should he mid he had been, it that should have heard anything of it, might have fallen accidentally et accordingly was, "That th e causes, accelerated by accidental there were also two inquests on but they presented no feature of case Mr. Baker said that the law hildren of a tender age exposed of manslaughter. In both allffise ntal death."---DEATII natil edford, at tie Running Hens, are, on the body of Mrs. Eliza he wife of a retired tradesman, teL It appeared that for months ushand had not been one single o'clock on Monday night, the eft home together, both the worse If-past ten o'clock the deceased s, drunk ; she was taken into the Has got for her, at her request. Is her nephew left her alone in for Mr. Muddiman, and on his deceased lying at the bottom erfectly insensible, and bleed- She continued insensible, and Verdict, " Died from Injuries stairs whilst intoxicated."— tdford, at St. George's Hotpital, bridge, aged 24. The deceased er, and, on the 29th of August loucester-terrace. Paddington, in ished wall on to some flats, he rem, a depth of 20 feet. 'He was o the above hospital, where the vas found to have sustained-was a to wrist joint. A general prostra , and deceased died on Friday, B . and spleen.—Verdict " Anti- TINE EXPLOSION. tHINGHAM, THURSDAY EVEN the circumstances attending this been proceeded with to-day ; but, t is detailed below, the evidence of resent tended to throw additional occurrence : to-morrow, however, examined, and, in all probability, will come out than those already useless to publish the evidence in to-day; it would be a mere repeti y appeared. There is good reli t the accident has taken place as will, in all probability, lead to au cumstances by government ; but ate of public feeling, it is im ae facts may be. it is alleged, las been worked upon a different iployed, and that it has not been safety. The chief danger seems to iga not beiog properly, or at least and it is improbable that the iuent on an escape of gas from the ere necessarily frequently passed by aps. Great exertions have been yet cleared out ; in fact this is a nd labour. Some idea of the fright ident may be estimated from the ; hundred and two children have nd will be cast upon the parish ! a also deprived of parents. The ate shown a liberal spirit in extend are d families._ . . ,uitable remarks which appeared in lay, with reference to this fatal ognised as such by the numerous I in this district. It is to be hoped have due weight, and that they may 11; a more efficient superintendence ,a desideratum most essential, con mman life dependent thereupon. RELAND. DUBLIN, Nov. IS. ISTMWSTB.-J. O'Dowd, Esq., Bar appointed to the Henry-street police '. Duffy; and J. Somerville, Esq., INC) PHYSICIANS.—Dr. Kane, ex not been included in the list of ma ity, Kilkenny, created by Lord Bes n was ascribed to political causes, the " Young Ireland " party. His lord nnellan, denies the cause assigned, and the rule of the Chancellor, invariably gisterial bench all practising physt• ■ the " invariable " application of the there are at least thirty practising Lidding the commission. The Chan• id firm to the rule, and for all-aulfic• r.—Additional presentment sessions seven baronies; in the counties of nny, Limerick. Wexford, and Wick ip to the present time, has issued ding extraordinary sessions in 331 31L—An extraordinary sessions t Cahirciveen on Monday last, the he chair. Alter some prefatory re recommended the adoption of Mr. tnd suggested the immediate prepare o be ready for execution on the ces dm The minute was adopted, Mr. erving that it was his father's opinion works would go on. Mr. James )aniel O'Connell, M.P., praised the tent and Board of Works in grant nie-third of the sum presented a severe lecture to the labour tempting to intimidate the go conclusion Mr. J. O'C omen observed, e to-day, as well as that of the rest of will negative the false—the grossly 'ins that body by a certain portion of otorions for its calumnies on this infamous Times, which, however, is Taceful notoriety. Those demoniac f the Times newspaper, and others of e very important when you consider those papers are much too wise to s, unless they were well received by people who support those journals, .ons those papers—the Times—Herald do pander for vile lucre. Sir, I here k with intense scorn, those base charges, by of the lowest unlicensed publication. rah—universal, from the highest noble umble individual who now addresses Ile union between the two countries, e feelings of those who form the best rich connects this country with the n. We, forsooth, amid the distress of to England for alms. " Uncky, pay ly to tax ourselves to the utmost. That Times. Various sums were then pre sinage, amounting in the aggregate to t sum presented for was by Daniel ,g 4,078/. ; the Marquis of Lansdowne ht of Kerry 2,6401. On tke breaking Rev. Mr. Sandford, a Protestant der by the people through the town. A tferred on a Protestant proprietor, the rry. BRARY The secretary to the commis informs the secretary to the Temple e, that no portion of the seed rye pro is intended for any district in Tip ment is rebuked for this mysterious cause cannot be divined, though it is -the soil being better adapted to wheat. :BLIC WORKS.—There is necessarily the payments of the labourers, arising of valuing portions of the task work tch individual. Exceptional cases, for cularity, find their way into the pro chanuterised as acts of criminal neglect trd. The Kilkenny Journal complains n Saturday last did not receive money her employed, and the consequence was /a bread shop. The loaves were, how ionstrance. 'LOYMINT ON PUBLIC Wongs.—The ions employed on public works for the tber the Bth, is 1a0,879. Provincially ners are—Munster, 74,693 ; Connaught, 192; Ulster, 2,644. About 600 men have been employed on neighbourhood of Borrisoleigh, county as elsewhere, great complaints exist is rregularity in paying the wages of the ple in many eases are starving, with a e to them. e over 1,200 men employed on public of Castlebar, Mayo; and W. H. Dean, igineer in charge, is unremitting in his /meat and satisfaction to all. nn.—On Thursday last a man, named a lived in the village of Arrives, about a r, went to Westport market to sell grain. her lat., and the horse went home with- II being made his hat was found on the eetport. The river was drawn and exer ✓ his body, if dead (which too probably ire intelligence of him if alive, but up ut success. The most probable conjeo , robbed and murdered, and his body kment where a hill is being cut in the :vile correspondent of the Pilot, Dublin :m Charieville, says:—" The populace late occasion to the number of 1,000. r. W. R. Saunders, J.P., from whom it, and were with difficulty persuaded to :man having promised to bring them an Ly. All were armed with spades, pick's, my determination of their deportment apprehension." tters have been addressed to the under print, with his replies: nON. IT. LADOCCIZIERIC. nwithoandias the cartoon explanations which government concerning the Labour Rate Act, ata on this moat material point, win., whether port well digested message. of Reform, and to mos. rM and ,meat measures of Innovation. My madame amempt von will afford me constant opportunities, of wig& I shall kel it to ims a plosauroMan a duty to avail myself, of observing sod promoting the lotereata of our town.-1 bare the honour to be, &c., W. I. Faxasrus. —l2, Belvidere, 'Weymouth, N0v.17." NORFOLK. AN ANTI-MALT TAX MEETING took place at Lynn, GE Tuesday last. A long di enesion ensued, is which the chair man, Mr. Cockburn, descanted upon the necessity of ha ting free-trade at home, now that it was forced upon them br and the sluices advantages to the farmer, the grazier, the landlord, the labourer, and the consumer, by the repeal of the malt-tax. The organ and orator of the Chartists and teetotallers made a speech of upwards of an hour, ostensibly to prove that the repeal of the malt-tax would lead to in creased druhkennera. Mr. Northhouse replied, that instead of promoting drunkenness, it would prevent it, by inducing innkeepers no longer to make three butts out of two by a compound of intoxicating materials, such as coculue indices, quassia, tobacco, and other abominations; it would induce farmers to brew beer for their labourers which would strengthen and not intoxicate, and labourers to brew for themselves, and drink their beer at home instead of at beer shops, where crime was concocted, and their families deserted. It would keep them away from the gin-shops, and would enable the graziers to feed their cattle upon malted grain at home, to compete with the cattle that may, without duty, be fed upon malted grain abroad, and then brought into our markets to compete with our own produce. When the question was put, a large majority, amid great acclamations, carried an amendment in favour of the repeal of the malt tax, against the resolution condemnatory of intoxicating liquors moved by the teetotallers. The meeting broke up after four hours' hard debate, and the Norfolk Protection Society resolved to incorporate itself and funds into the So ciety for the Total Repeal of the Malt Tax, as the best pro tectionist measure that could be gained. OAHE PRESERVEIL—At a petty sessions for the hundred of Forehoe. held on Tuesday last, at Wymondham, a labouring man, named Samuel Wells, was charged before the Hon. and Rev. Robert Wilson and the lion. and Rev. I W. Wodehouse, with having, on the 3rd of Nov., damaged and spoiled some sticks in a plantation at Colton, the pro perty of Ferdinand Ives, Esq. It appeared that the man was labouring in a field adjoining Captain Ives's plantation, sad a stile led from one into the other. Wells ventured over this and picked a few scraps of dead boughs to cook himself a herring and roast a potato. John Hardy, the keeper, ea-v him, and the result was that he was summoned to answer the charge. He at once acknowledged being in the planta tion, and said that about thirty yards in, under one of the trees, he picked up the sticks in question, and which Hardy now said had been laid there to harbour the game. Wells assured the magistrates that he had no idea that he was doing the least harm in the world, but the damage was esti mated at one penny, and the costs incurred, besides loss of time, were 9s. fid.—the magistrates assuring the defendant they had kept them down as much as pceeible, and by sen tencing him to pay these, they thought he had been leniently dealt with. The poor fellow succeeded in making up the money, and saved himself the disgrace of being sent to prison. THE BOARD Or HEALTH, at Norwich, is pursuing, with much benefit, its useful course. By means of its agency, many nuisances, most prejudicial to the health and comfort of the poor, have already been removed—others are in the course of removal—and not a few, with regard to which the remonstrance of the board has been ineffectual, have, ac• cording to the provision of the act of parliament, been speedi ly be dealt with as the law directs. An experiment, so, on a small scale at first, is about to be tried fur the in troduction of baths and wash-houses into that city. BERKSIIIRE SANATORY IMPROVEMENTB.—Notice has just been given of the intention of the Reading town-council to apply to Parliament next session for an act embracing comprehensive measures for improving the present, or erecting a new mar ket, and purchasing the present water-works for the better supply of water, and also for better sewerage and drainage of the town. Notices are now being affixed and served in this and the adjoining counties, according to the standing orders. A committee of the Town Council has now under consideration the subject of the establishment of baths and vashhouxes. .... _______ SUSSEX. AMONG THE PARLIAMENTARY NOTICES Or NEW PRO JECTS, there arc two for forming or improving harbours; one at Bognor, and another a short distance westward, at Pagham. Perwoarn HOUSE was in imminent danger of being destroyed by fire last week. Some of the domestics dis covered a quantity of smoke and a smell of fire in Miss Wyndham 's sleeping-room; but attributing the circum stance to a screen havii.g been placed too near the fire, no further notice was taken of it at that time. About 3 o'clock in the morning Miss Wyndham awoke, and finding the room full of smoke, called up her maid ; hut after setting the window open, and seeing no cause of alatm, she again retired 'to rest. In the morning, the smoke continuing to increase, with at the same time a strong smell of burning, further search was made, when the smoke was eeen to issue up from under the stove. Mrs. Wyndham gave directions that water should be taken up in bucket:, and the engines be got out. On the floor being cut away, it was found that a large piece of timber, technically called a " girder," was on fire, and nearly burnt through. Half an hour more, and but little doubt a great part of the mansion would have been d. strayed. THE Iltnnteo FISHERT.—It is gratifying to find, at a time when provisions are so generally dear, that there never was a season in which the supply of fresh herrings was larger than it has been during the last fortnight. On Thursday last some Hastings boats landed nn Brighton beach the large quantity of fifteen lasts (or 159,000) of beautiful full-rood fresh herrings. So large a quantity has not been seen on there at one time for the last twenty years. Messrs. G. and J. Chessman, seniors, purchased the whole c f them at 151. per last, and in the course of the day retailed nine lasts at the 1 rate of 201. per last, hut kept the remainder for salting and drying. A finer sample of fish was perhaps never seen. Mr. i J. Chessman selected a dozen of the finest which weighed no lest than 711 n. The finest were sold at the rate of 18 for ls., and many were retailed at 36 for Is. The bulk of these fish was caught off Dungeness. The boat of Mr. G. Chessman. "the Duke of Wellington." has earned nearly 400/. during the herring voyage. Mr. Pocock's hoot, the " Sir Robert Peel," after earning about 2001., has been obliged to return, in consequence of the havoek that the nets have sustained front the destructive dog fish. Mr. Andrews's boat, which has earned about 1001., and Messrs. Shrivell and Harman's boat, which has realised about 130/. or 1401., have been obliged to return for the purpose of repairing their nets. The Brighton boats are now fishing off the South Forelind. Several French boats have purchased considerable quanti'ies of herrings from our fishermen. At Yarmouth last week, one vessel, the lugger Racehorse, was towed up to the quay, with the enormous quantity of 25 lasts, and 9,500 hem on board, which were caught off this coast in about a week. Each last of fish contains 10,000 herrings, or 13,200 short tale, 132 being sold for each hundred; the cargo of the Racehorse Hserefore amounted to the prodigious number of 342,540 herrings, valued at near 4001. The same boat brought in nearly 15 lasts about twelve days before. THE FOLLOWING SCHEMES CONNECTED WITH THIS Corset are projected:—ln the first place, the Brighton and South-Eastern companies are to enlarge their joint station at London Bridge to a great extent, and the Brighton company are to lay down anew line of rails thence to the junction of the London and Dover railways with the old Greenwich line. With regard to the Direct London and Portsmouth line, it has been arranged that the Brighton company shall construct that portion which lies between Epezna and Dork ing, and participate in the remainder of the line from Dorking to Portsmouth, which is to be constructed as far as Havant by the South-Western company. The Direct Portamouth, running into the Portsmouth Extension of the Brighton and Chichester at Havant, the portion of the latter coast lice extending from Havant to Portsmouth, is to be con structed by the Brighton and South-Western companies jointly. The South-Western company are now exWnding their line to Waterloo Bridge, and the Brighton company are to have the advantages of a west-end terminus at I. aux hall, and its extension into the Borough, by means of a branch line from near Croydon to Wandsworth. Two pro jects are on foot for railways to Bognor, one direct from Chichester, the other from the Drayton station of the ex sting , coast line. Another project is to continue the Bonham branch of the London line to Chichester, throwing off sub branches to Petworth and Midhurst. Next are have a project of the Brighton Company for carrying the Kent line of hist session to Maidstone, and another for running a line from Tunbridge Wells, through East Grinstead to the Three Bridges. And lastly we have Hallett's line, which, starting from the Keymer Branch Railway at Landport (Lewes), is to run to Tunbridge Wells. KENT. EARL ROMNEY has been elected chairman of the West Kent Quarter Sessions, in place of J. Berens, Esq., resigned. LITERATURE. Life ise the IVilderness. By H. Merneax. With so many of our countrymen's lives, and more of their fortunes, engaged in the Hottentot bush at the present moment, there can scarcely be a volume more interesting than this. It is written by a keen sportsman, and daintily garnished by a great variety of " heads of game," taken down by the author or his friends. Diana, indeed, as the goddess of sport, seems the muse most successful in inspiring visitors and describers of African life and scenery. Politi cians do not find there wherewithal to give us a full meal. Missionaries somehow or another have failed in communicating int.rest to their narratives. And we follow Mr. Methuen or Major Harris in pursuit of game with more unmixed pleasure than we should follow more serious or interested travellers. We hesitate to decide whether we should quote the attack of the lion and the traps set in vain for him by the wandering party, or the story of the hyenas devouring the hind part of the ox alive. But we prefer to either the adventure of the buffalo and Frolic, the Hottentot. It is as follows : Franc left m mated by the ere, and climbed the hillside, when he apiedtramdt lard et Whims be the thorns below him, and quickly r e demeraillo le Mlbrmel met the I mt. Usder his guidance we pro ceeded, taithedme te leeward, awl bead about twee buffaloes lily es=blwasil 010 meter ; — thele balm with the m in they bial Imo roWag, mime belt ethos yellow or trey, miarele. ft their Imam We malted he pround. At lest lie Ilme • way, mod ereended flaky ram, bet they dived into am huhu, lid 1010.1101.1 the meadm, "Netts Inflow a wounded surs&." we AY vat wise. Uwe we no trees to &Arab, except a fee tdirldt thmedreee, 'lda len err clothes in shreds. Etsliured elathe WI billihilie OM at dill" I ObEidat a bull. which ran towards the mpert, bit sus outstretched, Ida eyes moving in all directions, and has atricenaled in • richt line with tbe hoed, evidently bent au re settle ;--he peened within 30 yards of me, and was lost in the bush. Fro tic again dimmed him standing mixing porne thick bushes ; his head lowered, 9•t a mode stirred. lie was listening ink hely. We crept noiselefelv toe bush, sod some twigs intervening between his shoulder lend the line °faint, I fired t rough them, and heard the bill tell . No good Arlie? being near, sal tits none facing our way, protons* bode us wait. Preeetitly he lay gently flows, but knowing buffaloes to be extremely coming, we drew near with caution. I again leek before going ekes to Lim. Tabbing alepnnderous head round, hie eye caught our figures; I trod my aratrd barrel behind his borns„ but 64 . not meek the brains. IL* wounds game him eemp dilleetty in getting up, which allowed Monerpeany and nryffelf time teenseonce, while Frolic unfortunately took to his heels. The buffalo raw him, and uttering a continued unearthly noire, be tween a grunt and a bellow, advanced at • pane unusual to there cress tures, unless when prompted by revenge. Crashing through the low bindles, he rayed me, and charged over my fi toad's lurking plies, who lodged a ball in his rocky ears ahem. The buffalo wee so near, that hestruck the gen barrels the neat minute; but, confused by Wile and smoke, be misted my friend, and continued his pursuit of Frolics The Hottentot dodged through the leashes, but Ste buffalo dashed through, and gained ground. Speechlessly we watched the chase, and in the awful moment, regardless of concealment, stood up, and raw the buffalo overtake his victim and knock him down. At tide crisis my friend fired his second barrel into the beast, which gave Frolic one or two blown with his fore feet, and with his mac under, endeavoured to tees him; but the Hottentot, aware, lay perfectly still. My friend then shouted, Ile's cooling to us r It was a false alarm ; for the buffalo fell dead by Frolic, who rare and limped towards on. Ile was much hurt, and a powder-dark which by in his game-hag was stamped Sat. But the buffalo was too weak, or the Hottentot would hair been killed, as it *Deter to be under the paw of a wounded lion, than under the head of an angry buffalo. Of such materials isthisvolume made notpretending, not very instructive, but exceedingly simple, vely, and amusing. gbe IBTatna. SURREY THEATRE —The tragedy of " Macbeth " was produced here yesterday evening, for the purpose of present ing to the public a new candidate for its favour, in the per son of Mr. Bavntun Rolt. We fear that the public favour extended to Mr. Holt will be scarcely commensurate with his expectations. How far his ambition might have saved itself from " falling o' the other side," had it been less vaulting, we will not undertake to say, but it is quite clear to ns that he has scarcely sufficient genius for Shakepeore's impersonations. His figure is by no means bad, but he has no idea of managing it; his voice is of powerfhl compass, but husky, and his ut terance very much the revere of distinct; his face is intel lectual in itself, but its effect as such, is, in a gr.( at measure, spoiled by constant efforts at intensity of expression. In the outset we could hardly hear what he said, a circumstance we considered natural enough in the cave of find appearances; but as the play proceeded. he unfortunately acquired an over confidence, and his latter speeches were absolutely roared. The fight with Alacduff was quite one of the " ter rific combats" which so delighted our boyhood in the old Coburg days of Messrs. Bl..nehard and Bradley. Mr. Rolt is a very good fencer ; he fights long and vigorously, but be does not by any means die well. His death was, in fact, extremely ludicrous:—having carefully thrown himself prostrate, he half got up aeon, to see whether it was all right ere he finally abandoned himself to the arms of the grim monster. The Lady Macbeth was Miss Richardson, whose performance was not without merit. Locke.' music was introduced, and not ill executed, the principal singing witches being Miss Louisa Lyons and Min Hamilton, one of whom (we know not which) filled her part with excellent spirit. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. °vox°, Nov. 19.—1 n • congregation holden this morning the following degrees were conferred, vie. Moat, of Arts—Her. A. P. Forbes, Brapenose C. ; Rev. E. T. Water., Woreciiter C.; C. J. Parke, Oriel C.; Rev. Dalton, Pembroke C., incorporated from 'Trinity C., Dublin. Bochelor of Arts—W. T. Browning, Exeter C. ; A. King, Oriel C. ; 11, C. Butler, Guein's C.; E. It. Bastard, WIWI C., Grand Compounder ; E. Elide, Balliol C. ; J. It. Ileawood, All Souls C.; W. J. Roy, All Souls C.; .1. 11. Wodehouse, Branenose C.; F. E. Tuke, Brammaise C.; C. W. Goode, lirasenoge C. ; J. W. Parker, echoer of Brarenose C.; 9. T. H. Jervols, seboliir of itragmorc C. ; 11. g. Pole- I hampton, fellow of Pembroke C.; IL R. Wedmore, Pembroke C. The frolrerhampten Chronicle states, from authority, that under an order of her Majesty In Connell, the Peculiar of Wolverhampton bao been superseded, and that the :bole Jurisdiction boo merged in the diocesan. In future, probsteacif wills and letters of adminiotration, and also minimize licenses, will be granted by the Bishop's Court of Lichfield, instead of the Peculiar, m heretofore. NAVAL. Nov. 11.-The se.,erge, Commander Coffin, proceeds to-morrow to Lisbon, with despatches and dockyard stores for the use of the equadron in the Tagus. The sbipe, ft is expected, will not re turn to EIWI:UhI for the winter-Admiral Sir C. Ogle, Commander in.chief, went across in the Myrtle to Osborne-house this morning, to riot her Majesty.-The elronstife, Commander Lowe, was unlocked to-day, cad the Resistance docked in her room. The present officers and crew of the Crocodile will be turned over to the kesistsake, and the Crocodile will be recommissioned-Col. In ine, the AIIetVMOT of CaliL Brandeth, enolnrer to the Admiralty, pod bin first official vinit inhis dockyard to-day. SIIIKIIINVAS Nov. 19.-A report is current here, which, In justice to the officer in commoud, ought to be published, that it may be contra dicted or investigated. lI.M. sloop Rose, It, W. Petty, commander, bast arrived in this'port from the North American and West India Mallon, and it is confidently stated that nearly eves y man and bey on board has suffered corporal punishment. The Belleisle, tmopathip, Capt. It ingeome, sailed on Saturday foe Deo:import, to await further orders. The Hose, Is, Con. l'elly, arrived at the Noce. on Sunday, from Spithead and the West Indira, to be paid off. The Hares, cutter, lieut. Styphen, was paid off on Monday. She In to have her defecte mode good, and be Immediately recimmiselotted. The Igraine, 12, Con. Tryon, arrived from Chatham on Monday, was mintered, and inspected by the rommanderin-chief, and sailed, on Tuesday, for Portsmouth, to be paid wagon prior to proceeding to the ' Mediterranean station, to relieve the Siren, 16, ordered to the Coast of Attica. The Buryaltia, convict chip, is ready fur sea, but tieing rather leaky she is to be hauled into dock, to have her bottom re. caulked. The !harm, Want-frig - ate, is ready for sea. The Biel . , a head, Capt. Ingram, is rapidly progressing. The Formidoble, Horatio, 24, and Chicliest.T, SO, isle b fug gradually brought fonvord for the pendant. Arroissnocers, Nov. 19.-Te the Resistance, 11. V. Haggard, to be lieutenant; It. P. A. Sparrow, acting amist..eurgeon ; J. C. Lean, psi master and purser; T. S. Gilpin, nuteter's.assistant ; J. IL Twine, acting gunner; J. Phipps, boabw“in; J. Carter, carpenter. To the riltorstrosi-W. T. Ciefton, to be master's-ambitant ; - Dennis, clerk's. assistant. To the Cbledomia -J. Li. Trewin and If. J. Grate to be mater's-constants. To the Nrpod -W . Hills and George Monro, b. he clerks. To the .4cltrost-W 'Mans Kett, to be boatswain. To the Hirkesihead- 11. Munday, to be clerk'sassistant. To the TA, tis -W . Watson, to be clerk•sinalatant. To the .4d.kr-John Eoulton, to be acting second master. To the Medusa, E. Maunder, to be acting second master. To the (bran -I'. T. tart, to be maeter'n-woistant. To the Vengeance-lter. W. s.Miller, to be chaplain. To the P-rates -T. D. Conconl, to be clerk's-assistant. To the 7'ketts--W. Slog 'gett, to be amistant.surgebn. o the Malice-It. J. S. Walker, to be ' clerk; confirmed, W. Wetherell, as boatswain. To the t-J. A. Belond, to be third engineer. To the eireas -J. Thurburn, to be lieutenant and commander. To the Ardent-JAL Baker, ti be lieu-. . tenant and oommantler. SPORTING. TATTEIDIALL'S.—IIorreinsr. About two dozen subset Mere looked in in the course of the after— noon, and flume NEWPORT PAe or six betsGNEL !STEEPLE C H were laid at the followi SE.ng prim:— 1 to 1 agot Mr. Landiden's Discount (L) 6 1 Mr. Power's t4sucepan (t ) No others mentioned. DERRY. 13 to 2 agat Van Tromp (t. to I 28 to 1 agst Sister to Cobweb" SOL) eat (t. to IO)).) 18 1 Planet (offend). I 400 —lO Conylighain ft.) NEWPORT PAGNEL STEEPLE CllASES.—Yirrimoy. Face. HANDICAP HCIDLE RACE of 5 NOV.. each, with 30 added; the Be ' et to rase his stake - gentler. n riding ; qualified an for the Aristocrat Steeple Chime allo wed Mb; two miter. tempt. Gamblers The Red Moen, 61b (Capt. Little) 1 Mr. Oakey's Videria,lo4 71b (Oliver) 2 Mr. Ecans'o Red Streak, lOot 1316 The following also Marted, but were nut placed : —Miriam, I Ist 31b; • spectator, lin 21b; Everton, lOot 131 b; Secundue, loot 121 b; Tra falgar, lOot 10I 6 ; Ten - ss, loot ;lb ; E,ervrrm. 7th; Tombo), Welt 6lb ; Eames, 94 lilb ; Sir Horn Smith, Oat 416. Won by a neck. ANINIVICRAT STY.F.PI.II CHAR% Of 20 WAIL each; 10 ft; Inst each; winners extra ; gentlemen riders. Mr. Cooper'o Little John (Capt. Ilmadiey) 1 Capt. W. Peel no The Return . Cipt. Gambier's linolution The Mowing also started, but were not place!:—Eugene Sue, and 31abonict. Won M a canter. LATEST BETTING ON THE ANNUAL STEEPLE CHASE. 4to 1 apt Switcher ; sto 1 yet Discount. Nu others mentioned. Tun Roe STAO liousse.—The meet on Wednesday, which took place at the Foie-hill, between have, and Hillingdon, was attended by Earl Granville, the lion. Mr. Denman, Captain Seymour, severe' othmrs of the let Life Guards. and a held of upwards of one hundred. he Ilighflyer stag, upon being uncarted, went away to (Attridge Wood ; through Mr. Cox's grounds, at 11 Miriade°, to the Common, on to the West Drayton station, when it doubled to Cowley ; thence crossing the country to Uxbridge. it faced right through the town, over the Coln. into Bucks, away to Long Coppice, and doubting across the Beaconrarld-rood to Denham. The stag grain creased the river, making away in the direction of Ilarefield Church on to Ruislip, when it WM beaded back to the village of Ilarcfletyl, and then taken, after a run of between throe and four hours. Lord Granville, and a large field were up at the finish. Drier's° is Berns nano me reserve max.—Lord Granville, the sew Master of the Rucibounde, has just mode arrangements for enabling the Fatelinghanythire sportsmen to have three days hunting during the ensuing week with the royal pack. The Queen's staghounds will leave the kennel, at Ascot, on Monday next, for Aylesbury, for the put pose of hunting in that immediate neighbourhood on the following Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, returning to the kennel on Si.. turclay. Baron Rothschild's stagbounds will also hunt in the same vicinity on Monday and Thursday: thus affording five tags' sport is one week. The Earl Granville and a large party of his lordship's friends will arrive at Aylesbury on Monday evening. Lati inttiltecnce. LAW NOTICES.—Txus Don. OMIT or CHAMCNAV. Weirtmirester„ at 10.—Duke of Leeds v. Earl Amherst, for judgment. Unopmeed lunatic petitions (7). Appeals: Miner v. Miner (2). part heard; Coore v. Lowudes ; Stocker v. Daw son; Christian v. Foster (2). VIcsAXANCALLOWe Cenins. treatminstre, at 10.—Before Sir 1.. SliadweiL—Cause petitions (S 7), the ;impressed tint, and that magi (0). Petitions, &c., by order: Roswell v. Nicholls; Beresked v.- Armagh Corbett V. Llmbrick ; Johnson v. Forrester ; Ezp ar t• Smith ; kobeon v. Boll; Miami v. Reynolds; Turner v. Tuner (2); Kidd v. Nath ; Jackson V. Brooke ; Palalwan v. Wickham ; Exports Bretherton School, and motions continued. Before Sir J. Knight Brent —Came petiticms(ll). °mums, &c.: Westwood v. Slater (2); Curmn v. Brown; Glanville v. Taunton; Darien V. Davies; Tompsett v. Wick- MA; Bright v. Clarke ; Beard v. Menem ; Milne v. Bamford. Beim Sir J. %igram—lllcks v. Shale, to he spoke to. Causes, Mc.: Ham men v. Sedgwick, part heard; Emerson v. Emerson, part heard; Warner v. Hodgson (2) ; Kirby v. Made; Pennington v. Buckley; Tapperell v. Taylor; Perim v.Odell ; Carlisle v, Ro u te Coss; Wrieiminster, at 10.—Motions, after which Odk•fv. Gray, cause part beard. Notise.—Ate send v. Magdalene iftls lege ; and Yeistel King's Co ll ege, will stand at the head of the next cause paper. Corse or QCW'S }lmre'', Westminster, at 10.--Sittings in Banos. Coyne or COIDION Pinar, Westminster, at 10.—Sittings in Banco. Coyne or Cosmos Pte.", Guildhall, at 10.—London Corsnica Juries. —Macey v. Thomas ; Ikealey v. Cole ; Barker v. Kemp; our v. Curling ; Barry v. Veitch ; v. Malden ; Graham v. Ran dall ; Rich T. Wilkins; Dromgell v. Cabin; Buekwell v. Preston; Bell v. Robertson. Comte or Exensurea, Westminster, at 10.—?diddlosex Common meredith v. Holman; brink, v. Masks; Philips v. Millington; Orborn v. Jodie; Davis v. Mitchell, Ramrden v. Earl of Meaborough; Weston v. nieknell ; Jones v. otkippey, sad four undefended muses. The Court will also idt In Hawn BECONUAIIin COULT, Bealllghol- at !I.—Kirkham v. Bieck; Moss v. Mester; Barnett v. Mote; etgh v. Hill; Barnett e. Byrnes v. Bead; Brace v. Burgers; Carter v. Vainham. EQUITY COURTS.—YEATERDAY. Before the lord Chancellor. SALIELD O. JOHNSON.—Triff F.o.—CoNsmucTlON OP THE ACT 2 AND 3 WILLIAM IV., c. 100.—This cue was mentioned again, to-day, and it was settled that a case should be prepared, and sent for the opinion 4 the judges of the Court of Exchequer. The qui sti,,n relates to the construc tion of the above-mentionod act for shortening the time I required in claims of exemptions (tom tithes. The Tithes I