The Express. — London, England, 1846-12-29 00:00:00

r a w, Lieutenants Broome, Wroughton, Edwardes ; a nd Nicolsoa had previously reached camp. Ths.y proceeded upwards, and on tho 29th were at a place called Thannah, which place thy had r eached on the 25th, but had been unable to proce ed, owing to heavy falls of rain during the four days betwixt the former and latter d a te. Thannah is but one march from the highest point of the Peer Punjal pass leading into Cashmere. Intelligence had been received that Shaikh Emaum ood-deen had quitted Cashmere in progress to join Goolaub Singh ou the 24th. Faquecr Dolla Khan, the chief a Rajouree, one of the leading characters in the rebellion, had given himself up to Lieutenant pa - T(1 , 5 ou the 17th at Naosheia, and been for et-9111A on to Lahore. The Seikh force under Shere siegh, moving ) towards Cashmere from Lahore by Mozatterah""l llartni x , lti ltd the western entrance Of the valley, had been joined by Lieutenants Lums den and Nicholson, and were making good progress towards the latter-named place ; and it was supposed that the forces on the south and west of the valley would make a simultaneous entry by the Fcer Punjal and Poonch passes should the Sheikh Emaum-ood deen's conduct render it necessary. It would appear that this chief had joined Colonel Law rence on the 30th of October, or otherwise the advance of General Littler's force would not have been countermanded. Sheikh Emaum-ood deen first visited Cashmere at the time Sheikh Goo laum Mohee-ood-deep was beseiged in Hurree Purvut by the rebellious Seikh troops, who was Governor of the province from 1810 to 1846. Emanm-ood-deen was born in the Jullundur Duab, where he possesses large jaghires. Ile is said in his youth to have been a seller of shoes, and to owe his rise in the state to the late Prince Nao Nehal Singh. Should he, as is almost certain, have come in, there will be a cessation of warlike movements towards Cashmere. The Ho orah district has been quieted and brought into order by . a brother of Shere Singh's. The differences be twixt the NIVLITII of Maoltan have been finally settled by that chief consenting to pay 35,0001. to the Lahore Clovernment in liquidation dell State claims on his pro aince, and by a promise on his part to pay a fourth more revenue than formerly to the Treasury. A considerable portion of cauntry has been taken from him and made over to Misr Bu2waun Singh, a relation or dependent of the Prime Minister's. lie had been inv:sted with full authority over his own portion of Mooltan, and left Lahore on his return to his capital on the 31st October, highly gratified with the result of his visit .to the Barber. You will thus see that matters are progressing favourably in the Punjaub, and that the result of Lord Hardinge's policy is likely to turn out what all lovers of peace and tranquillity would desire. There can scarcely be a doubt that all the provisions of the treaty of Umritsir will be fully carried out, and that our troops will be back in their own provinces by the beginning of 1847. The 24th and 59th N. 1., the Bth Irregulars, and a detachment of artillery, arc at Samba, in the Jamoo territories, under Colonel Bird of the 24th; two com panies of the 41st, occupy the fort of Jusmeerghur, and the remainder of the detachment under CoL Sibbald, were encamped outside the walls of the for tress. A detachment of two companies of the 44th, under Captain Goddard, were at Noorpoor in the Doab. The artillery from Ferozeporo moved from their camp outside the walls into Lahore on the 25th October, the 3d Irregular and 6th Regular Cavalry, remaining outside the town. All was q uiet at the capital. The weather was beautiful, and the health of our troops good. Nothing of consepience has been reported from the Jullundur Doab. the 3Gth, 72nd, 46th, N.I. ; the 2nd Europeans, the 11th Regular, and the 16th Irre gular Cavalry, had all reached the frontiers, in pro gress to relieve the 50th, 2nd, and 11th N. 1., and the let and sth Cavalry, which corps were to return to the provinces. Several changes had been made in the locations of the troops in the province. The troubles in Affghanistan continue to increase. The Ghilzaes, a chief of which tribe had been mur dered at the instigation of Ukhbar Khan, have de manded the surrender of the murderer—a tool of the Wuzeer's. All the passes leading from Peshawur to Cabool have been shut up, and traders were conse quently unable to carry on their traffic. These had appealed in a body to Dost Mahomed, who had pro mised to do something shortly which would relieve them of their difficulties. Altogether the country was in a deplorable condition—not likely to be im proved by the conduct of the "arch fiend," who con tinued to suffer from a disease of the eyes. The Khord tribes of Orissa have lately been causing some disturbances, but through the energy of Captain Macpherson all has again become tranquil. The Governor-General quitted Simla on the 26th Oct., and would reach Loodhiana about the Bth Nov. The Governor of Madras has not yet returned to the pre sidency; he has been on a visit to Bangalore, and in tends visiting Calicut, on the coast. The :Marchioness of Tweeddale is shortly about to return to England with her son, the Earl of Gifford. The Hon. Mr. Reid returns to Bombay in a few days. The Bishop of Bombay returned to the presi dency on the 6th. Sir David Pollock took his seat on the Bombay bench as Chief Justice on the 3rd, and is generally liked by all around him. The ship Elizabeth Walker, from Bombay to China, has been totally destroyed by fire at sea; as usual, the crew all escaped. Is it not singular that vessels never take fire when they are out at sea out of reach of land ? The circular from the London Board of Directors of the Oriental Bank has given very general dissatisfaction to the shareholders in India. Earthquakes and inun dations have been of frequent occurrence of late in Bengal, the consequences of the latter having been very disastrous. India generally is healthy ; and the cola weather, which is just setting in, will keep it so, most likely, for some time. SCOME.—The intimation that two European and five Native regiments, with nearly the whole of the regular cavalry and artillery, are in the course of a few months to be withdrawn from the Indus, is the principal item of intel ligence with which Sciude supplies us. As our frontier is pretty much in the same condition now, as to strength and tranquillity, that it has been for two years past, the infer ences to be deduced from this are, either that the force of 15,000 men hitherto maintained for its defence has been superfluously strong, or that 7,000 to which .it is about to be reduced must be dangerously weak. The truth is not unlikely on the present occasion to lie betwixt the two:—the financial difficulties from which we at present are suffering, naturally lead to the contraction of the drain through which a million sterling is annually drawn to meet the deficiencies in Scinde; while the approaching change in the political arrangements on the Indus will get rid of the necessity of maintaining an enormous army to enable a warlike governor to indulge his love of battle by going forth into the wilderness or the mountains to see and provoke some one to quarrel. 11.M.'s 17th is about to em bark for England; ll.M,'s 86th is understood to be on the eve of its return to Bombay i while H.M.'s 60th Rifles are said to be intended for service is Bengal : the three corps are now at Kurrachee. The building of the barracks for Europeans at Hydrabad still goes on, though it is now known they are never likely to be occupied. The following we give, though we cannot credit it: —The mother of Meer Shaded, we are informed, recently applied to Sir Charles Napier for permission to send four men on a mission to her son. Permission seas granted—and by Sir Charles's orders, the men were proviaed with purteannahs, or passports of safe conduct, to Surat. More treacherous than the conduct of Proteus to Bellerophon, was that of the Governor of Scinde to the Royal lady whom he thus pre tended to oblige. The same officer who was directed to fur nish her messengers with the purwannsdm, was also instructed to have these men narrowly and secretly watched; to have them waylaid on the frontier of Scinde, carefully searched, and then brought back to Hydrabad. These orders were duly executed. About seven hundred rupees in money, and some jewels, were found ba the men. NIZAM'S DOM IN lON B.—After for a length of time stre nuously resisting the wishes of our government in the matter of a change of ministry, his Highness the Nizam has at last consented to the measure ; and what is of more conse quence still, has actually nominated and installed as prime minister the nobleman of our choice—Sooraj-col-Moolk a man whom he had shortly before charged " with a design to bring the English down upon him," and posi tively declared that he of all others should never be at the head of affairs. He has, however, wisely attended to our request, and we learn from the G entlemen's Gazette of the 14th instant, that the above-named nobleman has been appointed to the pest of Dewan or Minister, " with full powers to make such arrangements as to the latter might appear bet for the extrication of the affairs of that state front the diserfranisation into which they have fallen, and especially from the financial embarrassments which have nearly paralysed the functions of his government. The Nuwaub, who is one of the nobles of the country, u said to possess much administrative talent, and as he I, always been considered as a man of honour and late grltY—entoying the confidence alike of his sovereign and the people, as well as of the British representative—it is hoped that he will be able to carry out those measures which the interests of the Nizam, and the good of the people imperatively demand, for the restoration of order and commercial confidence, on a sound basis—but which his predecessors have so lamentably failed in carrying into effect. this appointm en t o f a responsible minister, which was often r ged on his Highness by the British Resident, is, we un derstand, in accordance with the wishes of the government of India. The Nuwaub was installed on the 7th instant in THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 1846. office at a public Durbar, at which the Resident was pre.ent with his suite. When the installation was over, the Paish kar llajalt item Dux, the Cotwal Nuwatab Taluti-00-lliwbili, and the two ministers of Finance, with many other nobles and offices of State, and Soivear4, had audiences of the new minister, and presented Nuzzurs.." We may now hope that better days will speedily come round fir this hitherto mis governed state." A melancholy accident which has occurred at Hy derabad, completes our catalogue of news from this quarter. It is the death of Capt. W. F. Blake, of the 36th N. 1., whi!e about to start on a shouting excur,ion. lie and a friend bail entered the howdah of the elephant which was to carry them, and the animal was in the act of rising, when the jerk accompanying the rise threw Capt. Blake off his balance,and struck the rifle which he held in his hand, uncocued, against a part of the howdah. In recovering himself it would seem that the 11,1:::a; and immediA.;;::i la g° again by impediment, era. nipple being capped, to' ride w.,s discharged, the ball going through the unfortunate officer, occasioning almost instantaneous death. His companion is stated to hive had a very narrow escape from the ball after it had passed through Capt. Blake. The deceased will be remembered as the brother of the officer who fell at Jeyporc during the ecocide when Colonel Alves had so imminent an escape. SAUGOIt.—We announced in our last issue, that an engagement had taken place between the Bhopal c tingent and a body of Itohillue, healed by Ameer Ma homed Khan, a close relative to the lihopal sovereign. It now appears that it had been the regular practice of this chief to collect retainers around him to a very inorer,.. nate extent, never paying them, but making use of their murmurs when lulling into arrears to extort the araeunt from the lihopal government. In concert with the - political agent at Bhopal, the regent of that suite resolved to put a stop to this i 9 stem, and insisted upon the Ame er's se ttli ng his attire once for all under the eyes of It., s t a t e . Th e Amcor then, careless of the warning atkilretoed to him by the political agent, advi.nced as far as Raliseen, where he exhibited a threatning front, insulting even the medium of communication which the agent employed for his warnings. Finding however that the government pre served an unmoved aspect and . nis temporary funds failing, he gave in so far as to come to Bhopal, where, nevertheless, he continued eucamped without the city, sullen and &Hatt. At this juncture, he was reinforced by Kureem Khan, one of the Itohiltas expelled from the Hyderabad territories, who with his followers swelled the Ameer'a to near 2,000 men. As the Huhillas continued to flock to this camp, and the tone of the Ameer was again rising under the inviriting influence of his gathering army, the resident, with the con currence of the Indore resident, called in the services of the contingeut to co-operate with the state troops in briiv inn the Ameer to reason. The moment the advance of the British troops was advertised, the prudent Ameer struck hk camp and moved off, plundering on the line of march. He was, however, overtaken within twenty miles, and surrounded. The military dispositions for an attack having been com pleted, a summons for surrender was conveyed to the Arne. r, which at nearly the last moment he obeyed individually. Ills Hotlines and Villaities however continued contumacious, and the guns opened upon them. In a quarter of an hour they were, as we stated, effectively broken, and scattered afterwards by the cavalry. Trauquility is perfectly restored by this exertion of vigour, the more necessary as the neighhouring ditricts under our eon rule have for some time past been in a very disturbed and feverish state. Care, we trust, will be taken to carry out the measure which we believe was recommended to and resolved on by our government, that the expatiated Rohillas should be strictly escorted across country by detach ments of our troops. Their diffusion throughout the pro vinces on their route northward is anything but conducive to the consolidation of those states.—Cateufte CoooArAli.—The insurgent Nursimn Reddy, with his principal adherents, have at length been toady defeated and captured. After beinv hunted down and beaten in several unimportant skirmishes, he was traced to a hill pagoda, called Juirgernautcondah. After a smart engage ment, in which - about forty-six of the Reddy's followers were killed, the pagoda was carried by a detachment of the 10ih M.N.1., and the insurgents captured. No casualiiee occurred on our side, except one or two bruises from tho enemy's slings.—Calcutta Star. NEPAUL.—We have heard very little, in addition to the paragraphs contained in our last summary, about the Nepaulese massacres. Our own ad vices deny that the Maharanee participated in the murder of the prime minister and his relatives, and describe the affair as follows; On hear ing of the death of her favourite, the Maharanee went to the council and taxed the members with knowing more of the transaction than they chose to avow. Without minding their denial, she left thesis to deliberate upon her demand that the criminals should be given up; and in her absence the soldiers of Guggun Singh's brigade broke into the room. Disputes and recriminations ensued, ending in an impromptu resort to the kookree. The Delhi Gazette however continues to believe that no such perfect innocence is attributable to the Maharanee. The Maharajah had returned to the capital, and matters were, at surf ice, tranquil, though it was evident that discord was still most active, and outbreaks were mo mentarily expected. The M ihranee and the heir-apparent ( the Maharajah's son by a former wife) were at open feud ; osten sibly about the right of precedence, symbolised by re ceiving the teekes or mark on the forehead first, at the annual ceremony. After considerable alarm, a sort of nego tiation was entered into. The Maharanee then declared that she has not sanctioned the massacre of the chiefs, and the onus was thus supposed to be trans ferred to the commander-in-chief, Jung Bahadoor, whom in our last we announced to be the only chief of in fluence left. The heir.apparent then declared it to be his intention to take the life of that officer, who flew for safety to the Maharanee's apartments where he was protected. On consideration, thiwdocs not appear as a matter of course to prove that, if the massacre was not carried out by the Maharanee's orders, it hod at last received her past And present sanction. The Ranee might surely interpose to save the only influential survivor of the court circle, when a vital struggle for power is in prospect, and thus to attach his followers to her party ; and more than one such motive may he, without much impropability, assigned, alto gether irrespective of the part Jung Behadoor may have played in the late events. Mr. Colvin, who continues to labour under ill health, proceeds on have to Ceylon ; Major Thoresby acts for Mr. Colvin during his uhsence. Capt. Wheler takes temporary charge of the residency tilt Major Thoresby joins.—Calcutta Star. MADRAS.—A few days after we last went to press, Madras was visited with a sad calamity. From the ISth to the morning of the 21st ultimo, the rain fell in torrents, and on the 20th was accompaniid with a very strong gale, that served to increase the damage done by the heavy downpour which laid the whole presidency several feet under water for many hours. No less than twenty-four inches of rain fell during the time we have men tioned; and to the want of sufficient channels to carry this great body of water into the sea may be attributed an inun dation such as few residents of Madras can remember to have occurred before. The Minds of nearly all the large tanks gave way ; the river Cooum overflowed its banks ; the houses and huts of the poorer classes were swept away by thousands, and no less than four bridges were destroyed, and six others injured more or less seriously. It is not alone the loss and destruction of property that we have to deplore; fourteen persons were drowned and thirty killed by the falling of houses and walls, in addition to six wounded, while no less than 475 cattle were killed or perished from cold and wet. The wide spread distress that this lamentable visitation has caused, it is almost impossible to conceive. Many thousands of the poorer classes were left without the slightest shelter to bids the pelting of the pitiless storm, most of whom lost all the lit'le property they had in the world ; and had it not been for the strenuous exertions of the European and East Indian portion of the community, number must have perished of cold and hunger. Through the benevoleat exer tions of ourworthy master, attendant-Captairißiden, a public meeting was held as soon as possible after the distressing oc currence, and steps were immediately taken to relieve the sufferers. A general committee, with sub-committees, to ascertain the amount of distress and the proper measures to be taken to alleviate it, were at once formed, and have ever since been actively engaged in their charitable undertaking. Subscriptions in aid of the sufferers were urgently requested from the more fortunate members of the community, and the call was heartily responded to, except by the natives, who, with a few honourable exceptioas, have evinced the most disgraceful apathy to the misery of their fellow-creatures and countrymen. When their own rights and privileges were considered to be in danger, they could meet by thousands to discuss and make known their grievances, and not fewer than 12,500 of them signed an address a short time ago to Mr. Lewin in consequence of his suspension from his office of second Judge of the Sudder Court ; but when appealed to for money that many of them could so well spare, in the cause of humanity, they did little more than subscribe that number of pence ! Much blame has been thrown by some of our contemporaries on the Chief engineer, to whose neglect, in cot causing the bar of the Cooum to be opened, the inundation is said to be mainly owing, though this the Atheneum, in opposition to the other journals, most strenuously denies ; but as the military board have been called on by government to re port on the subject, and have means at command to ascertain whether blame attaches to any one, and to whom, it is certainly premature thus hastily to condemn Colonel Lawe, as some of the papers have done. At sea, the gale, though heavy, was not so destructive to life and property as were the combined gale and inundation on the land. The shipping in the roads, except one vessel, which rode out the storm safely, ran out to sea in obedient to the signals given them from the master-attendant's department and the fort, and all happily returned in a few days without baying sustained much injury. The dhonies, or native craft, did not escape so well, a few of them having foundered or been wrecked, but without much loss of life, the crews for the most part having been picked up and brought safely into port.—Atheniruns. CEYLON.—TEE KANDY RfOTERS.—The Ceylon papers report an occurrence, which seems to indicate that the administration of justice in the Queen's Court at Kandy, is not of an even-handed nature. Our contemporary the Island Times, thus puts us in possession of the facts of the matter.—" It seems that Mr. Gordon, Lieut. Eddington, and some other gentlemen, sallied forth one evening on an expedition, and got involved in a very serious rencontre with a mob of natives in the bazaar. From what we have been able to gather, it appears one of the gentlemen was armed with a pistol, and another with a sword, but what use they made of these weapons we cannot tell, for accounts are condictory ohs this point. At all events it does not es seem to ve been v ery deadly. The gentle men, however, found they were too few in number to contend with an infuriated mob ; and Mr. Gordon, seeing some of the pioneers, called upon them for assistance in —ashort, call whic h were w had up as immediately responded to. All of them, finally hand before the police magistrate, and ed over to the S finpureme Court. The result of the trial was Gordoned 1001., and three months' imprisonment in the common jail ; Lieut. Edd:ngton, 1001. tine; and two of the pioneers, two years' imprisonment in the common jail."— Observer. GENERAL ORDEII.B.—The following movement of troops will take place when the deputy quarter-master general shall have made the necessary arrangements tor carrying them into effect :—Tho 95th Regiment, now statiooed in Kandy and Trincomalee, will he held in readiness to embarx for Hong Kong in the transports which arc to convey the nt h regiment to this island. The head-quarter companies of the 9.5 th regiment from Kandy will be moved to Colombo when the weather permits, and he replaced by bead.quarters of the 15th regiment ; the detachment of the 95th at Triaeo melee when relieved will embark there, and proceed direct to their declination. Six companies of the Ceylon Rifles will be held in readiness to proceed to Hong Kong at tho same time as the 95th regiment. Lieut, Cul. Braybrooke will be pleased to make the necessary pre- Duration for earryiog this into effect, and he will also take immediate steps f, m • comp l et i ng t h.. regi ment under his Command to twenty-two companies (according to Orders front the Horse Guard:s) of 100 men each, he will submit the details and the 'James of the °facers to prdeeca to Hong- Kong, and also 'dose for the recruiting service, and where he proposes stationing the latter for the lieut.-general's approbation. The following is a list of passengers by the steamer Precursor : - - . Prtau Calcutta to Madras.—Mrs. Hider, Mr. W. G. Law, ar naive servant, B. Army. From Calcutta to Point de G:ille.—Mr. Colvin, B. C. S. ; Mr. Drummond, H.V. 10th Cavy ; Mr. J. Mackenzie, 2nd Ors. Mr. Tullnek, Mr. Elphick, and 6 Sycvs, deck. From Calcutta to Suez.—Dr. Taylor, B. Service; Count Nicola and his servant. From C-dcut to to M alt a.—Mrs. Captain Bracken and child, with one European servant. From Calcutta to England.—Lieut. Youle, 16th Lancers, .Mrs. Youle and child, and Miss Youle ; Mr. McEwen • Lieut. Col. Burrough and servant; Lieut. Scudamore, H. M. 29th Regt. ; Captain Lcstrange ; Captain Coker; Rev. H. McCann ; Mrs. and Mrs. Bernard. From Madras to England.—Mrs. White, and 3 children ; Mrs. Ottley, and 2 children ; T. O'Neill, Esq. ; Ensign D. A. McNeill ; Lieut. J. D. Dale ; Miss Haynes, tu.d European servant. :ror Commercial and Shipping Intelligence by tho arrival, see our 4th page, under the taw' hzada.j 'gibe Conn. WINDgOR, MONDAY. —The Queen and. Prince Albert took their tt,ual early morniLe walk. his Serene Highness Prince Lowenstein. his Ex cellency the Chevalier Bunsen, and Sir George Grey are expected to arriva at the Castle to-day on a visit to Her Maliasty. EXPECTED ROYAL VIsIT TO TIADMINTON.--It. is stated that her Majesty will, in all probability, honour the Duke of Beaufort with a visit at Badminton-house, at an early period after Christmas. We have heard that the ' note of preparation " has been already sounded amongst the Gloucestershire Yeomanry Cavalry, of which his Grace is colonel, with a view to their being ready mounted, moustached and all. as a kind of royal guard for the Queen.—Chellettioim ehrost;rlo. Earl Grey arrived in town yesterday:from a visit to the Marquis of Lansdowne, at his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yester day for Hiekleton Hall, Doncaster. Sir George Grey left town yesterday afternoon for Windsor Castle. Lieut.-Col. the Hon. Charles Phipps, brother of the Marquis of Norrnanhy, is to succeed Mr Anti an as private secretary to his Hord Highness Prince Albert. FUNERAL OF THE LATE COUNT POLLON.—Yester day forenoon the remains of this nobleman were interred at Kensall-green cemetery. The funeral ceremony was per formed according to the rites of the Romish Church. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SOCIETY.—The forty- ( seventh anniversary festival of this institution took place yes terday at the London Coffeehouse, Ludgate-hill, the Lord 1 Mayor in the chair, supported by Sir Chapman Marshall, the president of the society, and several distinguished citizens of ; London. After dinner, Sir C. Marshall expressed the great satisfaction he felt in presiding over so excellent an institu tion, and stated the great advantages which the members derived, when it appeared that by the present state of the ac counts, nearly seven thousand three hundred contributors, who had only subscribed about 11,0001., from the first formation of the institution, had produced to the the recipients, nearly, 78,000/. Ile would therefore recom mend every commercial traveller not only to be a subscriber himself, but to induce all his friends to become members. In conclusion, Sir Chapman Marshall proposed the health of Mr. Chapman, who founded the society 47 years ago, and who hid now, from age, retired from the proprietorship of that paper, the Globe and Traveller, which had so much contri buted to the institution, but who was still present that even ing to give his support to the Society. —Mr. Chapman returned thanks; and .n doing so, although it was stated that the gentleman was near eighty, he went through the duty with a juvenility that would have shamed many a more youthful man.—The Secretary announced the subscriptions to be about 6001. A legacy of 5001., it was stated, had been left to the society by a mercantile gentleman named Ilearne. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS.—At the first quart. Ay general court of this institution, which was held yesterday, it was stated that the amount already subscribed is 6,3.101. 10s.; that the annual income of the society amounts to 4131. The school will, it is expected, be in working order about next June. ROYAL GENERAL ANNLITY SOCIETY.—The sub scribers to this charity, which was instituted in 1827, met yesterday, at the London Tavern, Bishopstate-street, at one o'clock, for the purpose of having submitted to them by the directors a statement of the accounts, and for the election of officers for the ensuing year. .1. I'. Hayward, Esq., took the chair, who, after urging the claims of the charity on those benevolently disposed to decayed merchants, bankers, profesaional men, their widows, and clerks, and to single finales, daughters of persons belonging to such classes of society, called upon the secretary, Mr. Stephen Aldrich, to read the report, The report stated, amongst other things, th it the annuity originally proposed was' /. ss. to men, and H. 10s. to women, per month ; but that, in consequence of a great falling off in the funds, owing to the fact of some gentlemen having withdrawn their names from the books of the society after they had placed certain annuitants on the funds, it was thought necessary both toreduce the number of the annuitants annually elected, and also the amount of the monthly payments, so that in 1841 the latter was brought so low as Ids. per month to the men, and 10s. to the women. Through the exertions of the society, and the energy of its officers, the funds had since so increased as to enable them to give 11. 9s. per month to the men, and 11. 2s. to the women. The report concluded with the expression of a hope that the next report would be much more satis factory, and by stating that Lord Stanley had most kindly consented to preside at their next festival, which will be , held at the Loudon Tavern, on Wednesday , Feb. 10, 1847. i• Many of the mos( distinguished noblemen and gentry in , the country, it added, had already consented to become stewards. The funded property of the society now amounts to 1,0191. 3s. 4d., being an increase since the year 1844 of , 6191. 3s. 4d. The following were then elected directors for the ensuing year—Capt. Allen, R.N., Saml. Allen, Edwd. Ballard, Jas. Bidden, IL It. Davis, George Fuller, J. P. Hayward. Geo. Hayward, J. Ireland, J. Johnstone, jun., Geo. Mullins, Edwd. Pain, Geo. Rowe, John Taylor, and John H. Thompson, Esqrs.— after which the meeting _ separated. FARRINGDON WARD.—The scrutiny mentioned in our paper of Thursday last was granted, and resulted in the election of Mr. Hodgson. CLOSING OF NATIONAL EEHIRITIONS.—It being understood that the British Museum, and other national ex hibitions are open during holidays, nearly 20,000 well-dressed artisan called at the Museum during Saturday, but were doomed to disappointment, as on applying for admission they were severally informed that the Museum was " never opened on Saturday." The same answer was returned to such as tried for admission to the National Gallery, where, to prevent parley, the outer gates were most rigidly , kept closed. The number of persons who visited the British Museum yesterday amounted to 14,780; this number however falls far short of the last year—the number of visitors on Boxing-day, 184.5, having been upwards of 30,000. This diminution may be accounted for by the fact of Boxing-day falling on Saturday, and many persons being compelled to take that day as a holiday. The National Galle.—The number of visitors did not exceed 7,000 during the ry day, being far less than on similar occasions, arising from the same cause. THE WEATHER AND THE PARES.—Although there was on Sunday evening every appearance of a thaw, the frost during the early part of yesterday morning was so severe that at seven o'clock the thermometer at the Royal Humane Society's receiving -house, in Hyde-park, was down to 24 degrees, or 8 degrees of frost, and it did not during the day ascend higher than 31 degrees. Last evening, at eight o'clock, the mercury stood at 32 degrees. Between three and four o'clock, a slight fall of sleet took place, and the streets in the metropolis became rather dirty and greasy, but the roads in the suburbs were hard and dry. The Serpentine—lt was yesterday reported by the icemen that the ice was three inches thick, but very dangerous in conse quence of the number df persons who were on it the pre vious day, which caused it to crack in several parts. About 6,000 skaters and sliders disported themselves thereon during the day. Several accidents occurred, and amongst those immersed were the following i—Mr. W. M. Gulmen, 8, Lower Berkley-street, Manchester-square ; Mr. Arthur Barfoot, 7, Little Cadogan-place, Sloane-street ; Christopher Anstead, 12, Chapel-place, Chelsea ; and Mr. John Brown, 27, Tottenham-court-road. Three of the above were rescued by the icemen, James Wood and James Adams, and Barfoot was got out by policeman McQueen, 62 A, who also got immersed by doing so. The whole, including the policeman, were conveyed to the receiving -house, where they were attended by Mr. Woolley, jun., one of the hono rary surgeons of the institution, and after receiving a warm bath, &c., were enabled to proceed home.—The Long Water during the day was attended by about 800 skaters and sliders, and only a few boys broke in at the sides. The Round Pond was more numerously attended i the skaters and sliders amounted to about 3,000, including several members of the Skating Club. No accidents occurred. St. James's park.—The ice in this park was during the day frequented by full 10,000 skaters and sliders. There were a few g mersions, and Richard Marshall, a drummer in the Foot Guards, met with a severe fall while gilding, and was carried in a state of insensibility to the marquee, where he was at tended by Mr. Mc Cann, surgeon, of Parlianmt-street, and after restoratives had be en applied, was enabled to return to the barracks. Regent's-park.—The ice in this park was yesterday very much cracked anti dangerous, yet the iam bir of skate[. and sliders was about 8,003. Two immer sions only of a dangerous character took place. One of the partied was Mr. Hendon, No. 1, Taunton-place, Park-road, Regent's-park, who was rescued by iceman Chas. Griffiths, Nu. 3; and the other a geutlotian totaled Steuart, of 32, liitndford-square, who was re cued by iceman PrLdte x iS Parry; both were able to return home after the usual r. tten . tions. The River.—There was yesterday a vast qurAtity of floating ice in the river above bridge, and the ( 'and Junc tion Canal, which joins the river at Old 13'• ;en ts oe d, was completely frozen oder, and the navigati:', sto pp e d un til opened by the use of ice-boats. THE HIGHT HON. T. CIitENV on Friday that Mr. Grenville b- T ILE.—We announced ixqucathed his unequalled ht rar to the British Munam. We now add the colic] iu ',Melt the bequest is made:— I, the Right lion. Thomas (*.remit's*, do make, publish, and declare this as and itt a further weed to my list will and teM4lll2llt. With the warmest continued dread= to tile Duke of Buckingham and to my (nobly, I feel It in—ambent uoon me, upon further eonsideratba, to cancel the bequest my library and biiolo.ases as contained in my will. A great part of ray library Las been purchased from the profits of a sinecure (lite: given to me be the public, and I feel it to be a debt and a 411%;ty that I should acknowledge this obligation by giving that libr , :ey so acquired to the British Museum, for the use of the public. I do, therefore, by this cadicil, revoke the bequest containid in my will of my library to my great nephew, Richard Bake of Buckingham and Nandi", for life, with remaiader to the senior male gem:cad:int of the head of my family as tan heir-loom ; and I do hereby give and bequeath my library, such as it may be at the tine of my (Lath, to :he trustees of the British Museum, for the purpose thereof anal benefit of the public. But Ido not noun her. by to disturb the I:dullest made by toy will to the said duke of such of my letters and paper. as my executors may on examination consider a, worth being added to the large maraiaeript collection at mune. In witness whereof I have hereunto wt hand thin 38th day of October, lb 13. -TOO)! t) 6 azmvz LLE. ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.—lnformation Was yes terday circulated by the police that on Thursday last a young man, named Francis William Schultze, a German, 19 years of age, absconded from the residence of his master, Mr. C. M. Wellich, No. 25, Suffolk-stmt, Pall-mall East, Charing-cross, stealing and taking with him Bank of England notes, sovereigns, and silver to the amount of 7001. The accused was seen on the Saturday week pre vious in the neighbourhood of Leicester-square in very deep couversation with two male persons, apparently foreigners, one very tall and the other short, both dressed in dark recieh coats, and of dirty appearance. It is supposed he will gu to France. FIRE IN THE HAYMARKET.—This morning, be tween the hours of twelve and one, police constable Ora) n, N 0.141 C, whilst passing along his beat, discovered that the premises belonging to Mr. Stray, a tailor, of 39, Haymarket, were on fire. The constable immediately aroused the in mates. By the time, however, that he had accomplished his object, the whole of the front-shop and the mak r part of the staircase, were enveloped in flames, which completely cut off all means of the residents effecting a retreat by the usual way. The hive persons in the house managed, but not without great difficulty, to get upon the roof of the premises, and they were taken into the adjoining house in the occu pation of Mr. Truman, the dentist. By the time, however, that the parties had left the building, the house was burn ing from the bottom to the top, and for some few minutes it was feared that the houses in the vicinity would base been destroyed. The necessary intelligence having been despatched to the engine stations, in a short time the County engine arrived, with Mr. Garwood, the foreman, which wes followed by Mr. Staples, the district foreman, with several Brigade engines, and Mr. Connorton, with the West of Eng land one from the Waterloo-road. An abundance of water being obtained, and every person exerting himself to the utmost, by two o'clock the fire was safely subdued, but not before it had destroyed a considerable amount of stock, furniture, and other effects. How the fire originated could not be ascertained. An escape belonging to the Royal Society for the Protection of Life from Vire was early in arriving, but forturately its services were not required. INQUESTS YESTERDAY.—DEATII FROM WANT. — By Mr. W. Baker, at the Two Brewers, Whitecross-street, St. Luke's, on the body of John hardy, zged 47 years. De ceased had resided at No. 1, Broad-yard, \Vhiteeross-street. The body preeeuted a mist emaciated appearance; and de ceased had scarcely any clothes to cover him, a miserable bed stead, was the only article of furniture in the room. He had been unable to work at his trade of shoemaking, in conse quence of rheumatism, fora considerable time, and his usual earnings were from 6d. to lfid. per day. Ile refused to apply for parochial relief or medical assistance. Ile was chiefly supported by his brother. On Christmas-day he dined with a neighbour; oa the following morning he was discovered lying on the bed quite dead. A surgeon was called to the deceased. He had no doubt that he had died from the want of the commou necessaries of life. He was almost in a state eff nudity, and the inclemency of the west,. er accelerated hia death. Verdict, "Natural death."-- DI: %Tit FROM A FALL. By Mr. Carter, at the King's Ann., Hickman's Folley, Bermondsey, on the body of John Kitchen, aged 79. On Tuesday, deceased, who was a dyer, was at work in Grange-road ; he was in the act of leaving one of the vats, when, in turning around suddenly, his wooden shoes made him slip, and he tell backwards with great violence down a stoke-hole. Several of his ribs were broken, and he had also suffered severe injury to the spine, and ultimately expired from the re sult of the injuries. Verdict " Accidental death."— DEATII OMNIBUS RALINO.—By WM. Carter, Esq. as to the death of Wm. Lee Fiddy, aged 37, at the Crown and Sceptre Tavern, at Streatham. From the evidence which was voluminous, and in one point contradictory, it resulted that the deceased was the driver of a Brixton omnibus, and ou the 14th instant was racing with a rival omnibus. About 70 yards down the Effra road, his omnibus came in contact with a lair.p-post. The deceased was thrawn off, and he received some severe injuries on the head, which caused his death last Wednesday. It was given in evidence that a Mr. Ford, the driver of the rival omnibus, drew across the road to prevent deceased passing, but there was a difference of testimony as to whether he actually drove his omnibus or not into a col lision with the other, some witnesses deposing that there was a collision, and others that there was not. After a protracted investigation, the jury returned &verdict of "Manslaughter" against Matthew kord, who was committed to Horse monger-lane gaol, to take his trial for the offence. — DEATH IN BILIXTON GAOL.—By W. Carter, at the Brixton House of Correction, on the body of William Jones, aged 14 years. Deceased was received in the prison on the 15th inst., from Southwark police court, sentenced to seven days' imprisonment, or to pay 45., for breaking two panes of glass at St. George's Workhouse, Mint. The deceased was well known to the officers, and was sentenced to hard labour, but was never placed ou the treadmill. It was proved by the evidence of a fellow-prisoner and the surgeon, that deceased received every proper attention and all kind of suitable food, and that his constitution was weakened by a life of vagrancy. He died from a sudden effusion of blood on the brain, causing convulsions. The prison, said the surgeon, is ex ceedingly full, but notwithstanding we have not had a death for nine months. The deceased had been in the prison eleven times, although so young. He preferred the prison to the workhouse. lie had known the deceased go out in the morning and be sent back again in the evemag. Verdict, " Death from natural causes." MEETLNG OF TEN HOURS' DELEGATES. On Sunday one of the most numerous meetings of delegates ever convened was held at the Woodman's Hut, Great Ancoats-street, Manchester. There were 68 delegates present from different places in Lancashire, Cheshire, York, and Derby. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, read the fol lowing letter from Charles Hindley, Esq., M.P.: To the Chairman of the Mating of Delegates from Factory Workers, assembled in Manchester. Sir,—l have written a letter to year meeting on the subject of the Tea Hours Bill, but, upon the whole, I think it better not to vend It. A sketch of the particulars I will give, and I think it will sufficiently answer the purpose. L An impression baying been attempted to be created that lam favourable to an Eleven Hours is preference to a Tea Hours Bill, I distinctly deny this to be tie fact. 2. In any discussion I have had with regard to Amen home, I have always oonaidered the practionaty of obtaining it, and the extreme difficulty, if sot impossibility, as at awe exalt( to ten hours. a. I consider en Eleven Hours Bill has been several times within our resch.-4. I cannot concur with Mr. Fielders that the see hot better refine eleven hours and continue at twelve till stn get a Ten Hours Bill. At all events, the present generation bare to auger by this poliey.-5. We barest the present lONTIEDI a of the cabinet, a majority of the Home of Commons, artery number of the masters, and a not inconsiderable number °fele =fives in favour of an experiment of an Pleven flours Bill. G• t time peculiarly favourable to such a trial, ea the growth of esC eis is n said not to equal the consumption. 7 . In taking the pre. ordloview of thesabjed, I do not think It necessary for theoperativee to Ginnie their grouse. Let them continue to petition for ten hours ar a reesofielge time for pang pennon to be employed, bat let them not say, if you won't give as thirst, we would rather continue to work twelve hours. Rather let them say, U you think it unsafe to go so low be the number of boars, give us as great a relief as you think you can with safety, and asperienee will skew whe eler a further diminutiou would not be attended with *dean tage. Fellow.sonntrymen, you have mint min of time—you have spent thousands in money, and your hours of factory toil base not been diminished within the last twelve years. Are you not weary of such continued and expensive disappointments' May prudence, wisdom, honesty, and fidelity, prevail in your deliberations; and may • strong, a united, and a sueocsoful effort be the result No roe will rejoice in this more than your faithful and devoted friend and fellow- tabourer, CIUJILEN hangar. Dukinfield Lodge, December 26. P.S. I should like to ask our Yorkshire friends if the agitation in Yorkshire will have changed a vote in the House of Commons of any of the members for the district ! Will an advocate for ten hours go for Manchester? The DELEGATE from the Lancashire Central Short Time Committee moved the first resolution as follows : not Mis ameefte of de legates from the manufacturing districts of lodic, York, Mem.r, , and Derby, assembled for the purpose presnottkg the Ten Hours Bill, express our deter tisrf is relax In our exertions until • bill to limit the hoursof factory llama te ten hours • day for five day* in the week, and eight en the Saturday, be obtained from the legislative, believing that we are justly entitled to protection to three limits. It was seconded by Mr. LEACH, of Huddersfield, and unanimously adopted. The DELEGATE from Littleborough moved the second resolution That the experience of the last 35 years in promoting this measure, warrants this meeting of delegates from the manufacturing districts Lancaster, York, t a s ter,Chs and Derby, in believing that the rejec tion of the measure a smo, and the means adopted by the government by which our friends in parliament were defeated, has stimulated the operatives throughout the country to still further exertions than they have ever before made, and this meeting are convinced that the cause which has assembled them together is In accordance with every princiPe of justice, humanity, and religion. The DELEGATE from Oldham seconded the resolution, which was also carried unanimously.—The third resolution, as follows That this meeting having heard the principles of Mr. John Fielden's Bill exoained, which directs that on and after the passing of the act, all milk shall at once commence working eleven hours, and fixes the time of labour at ten hours in 1849, are willing to accept it in the terms proposed. This meeting will, therefdre, on behalf oi their con stituents use every means in their power to promoteits passing during the next session of parliament. It was also carried unanimously The DELEGATE from the Spinners of Oldham moved the fourth reaolutien That it being the constitutional right of Englishmen to be heard In the councils of their country by petition; this meeting resolve to we' the factory workers in every mill in every town and in every district to prepare petition without detty, awl ferwArd them to parliament, preying ter the pagans of the " Ten Hours hill" so prop's. ed br I.tr. John Field( n. The lls.tnoira from Rostrick seconded the resolution, which was carried. The I)m.soArs...from Oldham moved the filth retiolutiJn '•' - - ' That eith a slew of supportmg 74r. lielden to carry Ms bill, and of laying before the member, of parliament 1k rt .3 wools sad fe&A.:O e the rictory warkero, thin mrcting think it detarable that eatt county should appoint and mend to !nation delegates whose duties shall be to ailvotrate the paw.the of hi, bill, :Li the only nhasare uothliai short of which will nattily the factory workers. And it, too, was carried. Thanks of the delegates were Toted to Lord Ashley, Mr. Fie'den, Me. Brotherton, Mr. Hindley, Mr. T. S. Dun combe, and ull other parliamentary friends ; al as to Mr. R. aistls e, Mr. John Wood, Mr. W. Walker, and all friends out of p trl'aracut ; likewise to the editors of the I lows, Post, !Jerald, anti all other newspapers, metropolitan and l i provincial, which support and publiala the proceedings in f .rour or the bill, and to the editor of the Ten Iloara' Ad vacate, and the chairman, after which the meeting separated. THE GREAT BRITAIN. BRISTOL, Dec. 28, 1846. The following report from Mr. Brunel has been printed fur circulation amongst the proprietors of the Great Western Steam-ship Company IS, [hike-street, Westminater, Dec. 14, 18:d. Gentlemen,—Aceending to your request I have, as noon as my en prageinents would allow of my (exeunt London, paid a visit to the Great Ilrltain, and I now beg to n pert to you the state in ethieh I found the vessel, and my opinion of the beat meant, to be talien for recovering the largest possible amount of the i loporty inveoled in loc. If I na.tei those opinious a moiety, and without nue qualiMem times you will not suppose that I have the pneumption let tint Were infallible, but unrety that I am out:sortie:l, by the 'norms: of the time left me to wrLe to you, to avoid all e.reurnii oution, art to give you as simply and briefly ace possible the opinionn I have formed. At the same Witte 1 ant bound to say that I have nut formed them hastily, end that my caacictions upon the several points on which I may ex prim my holing. are very strong. First. —As regards the preterit date of the vessel. I wen agreeably disappointed, atter the report a which had reached me, to had her, tea a whole, and Ludt - pendently of the mere local dauragea, of which I aid speak presertiy, lair:icily sound, and as strong and as loam In form as the day sne wan lamella. In receiving this statement, you must bear in mind the great differ ence between an iron vessel and a Umber-built ship. In the former, parts may be considerably damaged, or even destroyed, and the re mainiler may not only be untouched, but may be lett unstained and uninjured. In a timber ship thin can hardly be the case. If any con niderable portion of a Mips bottom in stove in, the dna: it, or ribs completely moose the ship ant the pidaking longitudinally cannot fall to be strained to a very oonaiderante distance in both directiona You must therefore remove from your minds all impreasiona de rived from your exec - view:o of damages sustained by timber-built ships in order to understand my Automat, which to strictly correct, —that, except the pare actually damaged, the extent of which is comparatively sanalL the ship fin permotly sound, and an good as the hour when she struck. Thee soundness and freedom (roam any da mage extends from about the five-foot water-line la the tap :wan Ile exception of the injury sustained by the knocking away of the rudder post, and a blow under the stern) ; nearly the whole of the vessel therefore sound. Ihe principal injury ih in her bottom, under the boilers and comma The vessel has es idently been thamping upon the rocks, and utmost entirely upon this port of the bottom, from the first few days after she grounded, and at oreoent, in all probability, bee whole weight ip resting on thin port; yet, notwithetanding this, she is perfectly soraigbt, and boa not broken, or even eeprung an inch in the whole length. The boilers hare bee it forced up about Moen inches, and one of the condenser:. has heen lifted about eight inche breaking the airpuntp. At prevent this is morl . the extent of damage Ocoee, all of which could easily be repaired if the vessel were in dock. I will now state my opinion of the best means of recoveiing the largest possible amount tat the property which has been invested en her. In thin view 1 can only imagine two alternatives : the one to beck her op on the sled, and male the most of the materials ; Lice other to get her afloat, and into port, and restore her into good con dition, or sell her to than who would so restore her. the first alternative may, I think, be diseanhal at once. The plates and rib. eti'un Con vu,d are daticult enough to convert into useful motertula for any other purposes, even in the silt of workaltops and with 1001 , and apothem:et at hand. In such a ',lnce us thenetrum they, I du not believe the matcria:s would pay the expense of cut ting up. The mast', nouns charm, toe., in fact, the stores, and perhaps u few of the lighter parts of the engine, might repay the cost of removal; but the whole would certainly not amount to many thousands —preamble* hundreds would be a eater estimate of the :mount to be realined, clear of all ex- To remove the vessel and take her into port, and either restore r ter sell be r, in then Me only means of reeiverino any port of the whole of tae capital invested in this ship. Ii she is so brought into port, cube may he worth, unrepaired, 40,n0u/., 40,000 t., or etyma, according to the opportunities that may otter themselves of em ploying her usefully, or of selling he. 'lto onl quention is, then, how, itt the least expenne, r tool at the y onioileat risk, is the vessel to by got into port f But an I will now endeavour to prove to you the mode of getting the vessel off the theer and into port let again quite secondary to the e.nsidcrauou of how to preserve it where it is, ea that it may be in a condition to be re moved, and to be worth retouving when the means of doing thts are ready, and the proper time in arrived for att e mpting it. In the first plate, I assert, unheeitatingly, that no man in his senses, and ct hu thoroughly understands the etreunistottees of the ease the weight and 'neaten of the vowel—Um amount of the rise and 101 l of the tide, and draught of water mound per—and the extraordina rily expo-CAI nouation —would dream of calculating upon completrm the requline nouns for floating her under three mouths. Ire the mean time the ship tein , t be owlet:LAl. Even if it were practicable to construct the neeensary apparatus, and to dust the yowl to-mor row, it would be little short Otlllaillie6llo go to sea with it at this time of the yea.. But I met doing wrong to downs a nee which Milllta arise. 'the vessel cannot, according to any : rational calculation of chances, be got off tenter three months; sad it is emally against all protrability that, it lett unpnitected, there would ha itnythilig worth taking oft a: that time It is uncles, therefore, at this moment di, cunning the Pat mole of floating the vensel, and, I think, under the cireurnotanrm, would be mud unwise hastily to deterntioe upon any plan. The first thing is, to know whether there tiro any memo of preserving the ccesel, and whether any melt plane tall he curried into effect at some reasonable cost, which it may be worth incurring. 1 have looked at the enema and conneltred the very tap mei etiolation in whloh she is placed (and it more ex posed one could hardly be found), and 1 OM Matthaei,' that to Hoed breakwater of ordinary conntruction could be made at any mationable expenoe, or in time to prevent mis chief. There is no depth of Pant into which to drive piles and the rock in too uneven and broken to allow of any framing being constructed and meowed to it; and any frame work would fee liable to be destroyed during the program of Its 1...0mi1l maim, an that already atiemptel has loon, and clic umber might be the cause of serious da mage to the ship. The plan I should tocionuttend wound, at leant, be free from these objeeti. an —would he comparatively ineopennive I am firmly mentos:el, would be perketly effectual as a protection. At the came time, few persons who hove not wen the effect of a sea beating against fagots will share in that conviction. What I uvxnneueml is, to tom, under the stern, and along the ex ! posed hide tit the vessel, a mane of (aguto, made of strong end long sticks, and used in the manner which hoe been so humwfully or:m used in 11olland and elsewhere, for the repair and protection of honks against the sea, the fagots. being picked clearly, and, for a onnsOler thicknesn, against the ships aide, and up to the level of the dee as, secured with rods run vertically through the mum, and chains Laid horivontally, :not landing the whole tightly to the ship. The heaviest sea has no effect upon molt a neuen; and I believe the mewl would remain as uninjured, and indeed as unaffected by the sea 06 if in dock. Eight or ten thousand fagots —three hundred or four hundred fathoms of 1-inch Or -iamb oecond-hand chain cable, none of which need be lost—three htindreil or hair hundred / rods, sharpened at the ends —a thousand bags to till with sand, with what stores you have on board, would suftlee ; and if next corning ' , prinks, and the gales which have hitherto tooompronled them, are softly posed, I cannot foresee any difficulty whatever in completing the protection I propose. Of course, in all works dependent upon wind, weather, and tide, cer tainty cannot be attained ; but of one thing I um quite certain, that no other plan o ff ers the aut ar chance of meows or at so small a cost. I have communicated to Capt. Chalon the steps which I took In conjunction with Capt. Ilmken for procuring the (tomtit before I left Dominant. I have aloo communicated to him the direction , which I gave with respect to the intone" ibc., See., and it ia unncceweary, therefore, that I nhoutel repeat them. I will only recapitulate, in a few words, the substance or the advice I have above given, and of my resuming. You have a valuable piece of property lying on a most exposol shore. If preserve el for a few menthe, that property will, in all pro bability, be worth 40,0001. or a 0,00111.; if neglected for a few weeks, it will probably be worth nothing. Can you, as men of bonuses, wider such eirewuntaneta waste your time at this moment in dis cussing what you will do three months hence, and which plan you will then adopt to take your property to market But will y not rather first, and immaiately, adopt derisive steps for prtaervl that property, and then consider what you had bent do with it ? I have no w i sh to escape the responsiblity of ode - thing you, as you request me to do so, as to my opimon of the bog plan to be adopted hereafter for removing the ship; but, adhering to the principle that 1 have laid down, f should decline to do so at percent did loot net rumen to fear that you might be hang time and money, by ',lying upon expectations which, lam convinced, would be dimpponted. I wood steongiy urge upon you not to place your rethotee upon any plan which depends upon floating the soma by camel", and taking her to net unrepaired, and, therefore, candy dependent upon those camels. The immense breadth of thew footing camels, and the risk of taking such an cmnconageable finding illmonnected mass to sea, cannot have been correctly or nutft- ciently entonatod ; and the certainty of the whole going to the bottom, in the ascot of even a very moderate gale of wind or a slight emelt, has been apparently quite lost sight ot. 1 ern also of opiaton that the difficulty of Idling the vessel at ail by auxiliary:floats has been under rated. The rowel has worked herself shoot five or Piz feet into the solid rock and nand, and may very probably get a little deeper before tee time for lifting arrive.. she must, therefore, be lilted say, at least, four feet, to foar feet six niche., before abe could be got out of the dock she has made; and the floating power must therefore be calculated at least to Mao her five feet " inched so to be quite sure of moving her. Now there is not more than ten feet of water around the vessel, even at high water of ordinary springs, and it would be impossible to calculate upon more than nine feet as • certainty. No floating power worth having can be got in the vessel, sad the !looting vessels must therefore be capable of sintaining the whale weight, with a draught, when the vessel is lifted, of only about bar feet. The weight to be sustained in two thou*nd tow, and to do this with vessels drawing only four feet, would require that they should be upwards of thirty feet in breadth on each side, farming, with the ship a total width of upwards acme hundred to mac hundred and twenty feet, and upwards of three hundred Pm in length. I dame say that this operation is impracticable, but it is at lust a very difficult one, and must be almost eutirehy &i -ndent upon weather, and, unless in pparfoctly smooth water, • very harardaas one. My belief and conviction is that the safe mode of proceeding, and by far the cheapest, will be to lift the vessel by me chanical means—to lay ways under her—and co haul her up suffi ciently far to be safe from the sea to repair her, just aufftciently to make her water-tight, then to launch and bring her to Liverpool or Bristol. But, as I have betbre stated, we have time to consider these points, if in the meantime we take steps to preeerve the ship. If the property is not even now worth protecting, it will indeed be wade of money to be preparing, at some etxtsiderable expense, to remove what will, in all probability, be only then a valueleas carcase. If the directors should determine upon adopting the course I base recommended, I must remind them that the plan to one depending entirely on the Mill, the vigour, the aptitude for expedients, and pos sibly (If bad weathw should come on, and day after day the work be destroyed) on the unwearying perseverance and deteranned confidence in the plan of the party directing It, and the sufficiency of the means at his command. I cannot conclude without doing justice to Mr. Bremner, whoml met on board, and acknowledging the friendly and liberal manner in which he dimwitted the various wears to beadopted, and eminent me with his valuable advice; and although I may have somewhat differed with him as to the advimblity of attempting to float the vessel away to sea without first repairing her, yet upon mod points we were pollster agreed and I firmly believe that if any man could takeher off (and it it would ! be prudent to let him do so), that Mr. Ltremner'a great experience and sound loudest knowledge, and good sense in devising any plan, and his energy and skill in carrying ft out, would ensure every chance of 'acs's which the circumstaoces admit of.-1 WC gentlemen, pow end eat nerrant, I. KL' K. 88, 111..—Tu the Directors debt Great Western Ste aimahip Company. IRELAND. DUBLIN, DECEMBER 27. Christmas is still held in reverential regard by the provincial journals. There arc only one or two country papers come to baud to-day from the provinces, most of them having either omitted their publication on account of Christmas, or published in anticipation to avoid working on that festival. The meeting to which I referred in a former letter, in Belfast, for the purpose of calling on the government to stop distillation, was held on Thursday last. Th . Mayor presided. The motion in accordance with the object of the meeting was supported by Mr. W. S. Crawford, M. P., and Mr. Thornton. It 'WU op posed by Mr. Ferguson and the Rey. J. T. Porter. The - motion wail carried, and a deputation appointed to wait on the Lord lieutenant, to press the subject on his attentioa. The Northern Whig is opposed to the objects of the meeting. It regrets that such a question should be et - ,n mooted in that commercial hive, and says " it is at if they had never learned the great lessons of politizal economy, and had never experienced the advantage of free trade and the teachi.igs of common sense, or as if they were sinking back to the absurd and pernicious principles of protectioa and prollibitioa." The Northern Whig says, in addition, that three of the members of the deputation, including the mnyor, are opposed to ita object. The resolutions adopted at the meeting were as follow : That the present high prices of provisions and the tiniest of dis tress prevailing in this country. require every atts main to the economy at human food; and, for this purpose, mt.:ours , of an extreme nature should be adopted. That with this view, the meeting is of orinam thot all distillation from grain in there kingdoms should forthwith be suspended. That it is the opinion of this mooting, that brewing from grain in the-ac kingdoms should also he au:mended. GOVERNMENT MEASCRE4.—TREASERY MINI Tr.—Ma. LAhot:eltenu's LETT ER.—At a reeent meeting in Newry, at which many gentlemen of consideration were pr.s...nt, the fol:owing resolutions were adopted. Their tenor wonld. Peen, to indicate a better appreciation of the spirit of the measures adopted from time to time by the executive : Ithealved,—That inasmuch as the Treasury Minute, bearing date lot, explained by Mr. Trevelyan'a letter, of tie I :ith inst.,would seem to afford anew and seas objectionable nark fur givingemplos Mett to the labouring poor than that provided for by the 9th and loth chap. 107, commonly called the Labour Rate Act, it is inex pxbent at present under that act. list a tonituitiee, con sisting of the magistrates and associated en-spayera constituting this court, be tqcointed, three to form a quorum, for W. Purpose of eiiinmuniiting with the Treasury, in order to ascertain with the least possible delay, whether SUN] landlords as may avail themselvm of the facilities offered by the Treasury minute, win thereby be exempt from any compulsory taxes that Lereaft , may be found necessary; and such other informition so Inas , Or inportant. DISTRESE IX DONEGAL—OR the 26th September last a special presentment /lesions was held at. 'lyrtiugh, county Donegal, to present for public works ; the sum presented for was 2,8001. Owing to some causes, probably the pressure of busiuess upon the Board of Works, no employment was afforded up to the middle of December. At that period a joint memorial was addressed to Lord Besiborough by the Presbyterian and Roman Catholic clerieymen of the district, in which, after stating the foregoing facto, they add: Your memorialists further state, that Lieut. Milward, of the Rated of Worlus called here in the course of this week ; but his stay was only calculated to add disaautent and disappointment to the alarming distress that already prevailed, in consequence of hits not giving em ployment to more than sixty of our pour parishioners. Your memo rialists, deeply ayiopathising with our poor distressed flocks, and alarmed at tar awful consequences that must necessarily ensue from further delay, beg leave mud reapestfully to request your excellency to issue such instructions as will CAW, public work', to be put irto operation in this parish that will he calculated to give employment to all who are in distress. 'in this the subjoined answer was returned to Mr. Redingtunt. I am directed by the Lord Lieutenant to acquaint you, for the information of the parties signing the memorial forwarded by you on the I,th inst., that the partieuhir attention of the Board of Works has teen called to the state of the destitute in the parish of has macsaint APPOINTMENTS TO TRE MaourroacT.—Patrick TEVIIRII and Thomas Ennis, Emirs., magistrates of Louth, who re signed from political cutest s in 1843, have been restored on the applicatiat tai Sir P. 11:ffew, Bait., lieutenant of that county. limos Gauen, E,q., Jun., of Brierly-bulge, Meath, has been appointed to the commission for that county. SCOTLAND. DESTITUTIoN IN Tilt lllGHLANus.—Vigorroin messures are being adopted for the relief of the destitute Iligh.ander3; and, as a sequence to the late meeting in Edinburgh, the leading public men of the city have been formed into five acting committee., severally designed as follows :-1. Col lecting ; 2. Finance ; 3. Distributing ; 4. Statistics and Im provements; 5. Correspondence. There seems to be diffe rence of opinion as to the method oe rel. ing supplies, soma being for subscription, others fiir church collet:tent—the " drum ecclesiastic" being sounded for both ways. l'erhaps, as church collections have been begun, they sliould be con tinued, so as to put all sects on an equality, and then re course mieht had to subscription afterwards. Tue See tree TRAIN discussion is still active. The town-council of Stirling have expressed their disapproval of the conduct of the directors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow line. In the coulee of the discussion, the Dean of Guild said "he had seriously, and for some time, considered this matter, and had at tied felt some difficu lty ; but his mind was now made up, turd lie could see no right that these directors had to dictate to people who thought it a duty to travel on the Sabbath. The directors of a public company, having the sole trattiie between Edinburgh and Glasgow, had no right to dictate to a million of people composing the inhabitants of these two cities, and the other towns along the line." On the vote being taken, the motion, censuring the directors and requesting the resumption act the trains, was ; carried by eleven to three —the Provost, three Dailies, Treaaurer, and Dean of Guild, voting in the majority. The minority of three are Free-Churchmen. Three elders of the eetriblishment, and all the Dissenters (with the exception of epee, who declined voting), supported the motion. All the town couneih; in the neighbourhood of the line --Ediu burgh, Leith, Falkirk, Stirling, Linlithgow, Queensterry, Cupar ' Dunfermline—have now condemned the con duct of the director, who have obtained eounienanCe teem no responsible and representative public body, except at such places as Inverness and ltotheay. The general conduct of tke over-pious directors does nut escape scrutiny and remark, and their inconsistency has been shown in more than one instance. The Scotsman afford, another instance of the readiness with which the Sabbath is broken when the interests of the company are concerned. On Saturday rien'night an accident (reported in this paper) took place on the line, whereby several cattle were killed and others seriously injured. It is said that so prompt were the railway authorities to ascertain the extent of pecnniary damages, that a rattle salesman was conveyed to : the scene on Sunday morning to value the injured animals, and on Sunday afternoon 113 f. or some such sum, was paid to the owner as a solatium. i'lhat will the Four say to this act of Sunday desecration on the part of their own officials? But that is a silly question, replies the Scot/man, when the " Four " can and do on Sunday drive in their own carriages, work their clerk., and mend their boilers. ANoTHEit DisASTHOUS COLLISION took plsce on the Glasgow Line, near Bishop-bridge, on Friday, when the pee liengers were thrown into the greatest state of terror and alarm. They called a meeting on the subject next day. " It is surely high time," says the ellaseoto Retbrmers Gazette, '• that the government should look into the state of this railway." MINK oi ANTIMONY.—It sou mentioned in this journal some time ago, that a rich mine of antimony had been dis covered on the estate of We Marquis of Bute in the parish of Cumnock. It has now been wrought for some time, and is giving employment to about a dozen hands. It is every way likely to turn out profitable to the noble pro prietor. The difficulty of access to it—the mine being situated on the top of an eminence called Harehill—is attended with considerable expense.—lfilasartwek Journal. IN Coritnii rev I'osr.—A jury trial in Scotland has definitely fixed the meaning of this current commercial phrase. The case iu question was Iliggius,&e.e. Dunlop, &c., and though referring to pig iron, the principle involved in It affects the whole mercantile community. The issue was re garding the " course of post " from a town where there was more than one poet leaving each day, and it appears from the decision, that a party accepting an offer by the evening post, and omitting to write by the forenoon or day post, is still entitled to the privilege of having accepted the offer " is course of post." Another most important point brought out in the examination of the witnesses, who were gentlemen of the first mercantile standing, was their opinion that, when an offer is made, and no time specified for a reply, yet the party receiving the offer is bound to reply "in course of post." Lout) CAMPBELL—Lord Campbell's Lives of the Chan cellors has gained him the honorary degree of LL.D. from. the University of St. Andrew's, of which seminary his lords ship was formerly an alumnus. " Plain John" stands et strong chance of being obliterated as the cognomen of the ex-Chancellor. First he was made Sir John, then Lord John, and now Dr. John, just as if fate were determined that his primitive ideas of simplicity should not be carried into effect. His lordship is treading fast on the heels of Lord Brougham in regard to variety of acquirement, haying begun life as a theological student, then reporter, then law yer, then senator, then chancellor, then author. PROVINCIAL. ACCIDENT ON THE NO R TH-WESTERN, LIVERPOOL —OD Saturday evening an accident occurred on the Liverpool and Manchester portion of the London and North-western Railway. The line enters Manchester by a viaduct through Salford, adjoining, and running parallel with the Bolton Railway about 300 yards of the distance. At this point there is a junction with the Bolton for the East Lancashire trains to run off that line up to the Victoria station. At 20 minutes to five o'clock, a luggage train was running past this junction, and at the same moment a passenger train was coming up to the Salford station of the Bolton line. The pointsman, who was doing duty for a man who was ill, had mistaken the train on the Bolton line for an East Lancashire train, and placed the points so that this train ran directly against the luggage train of the Liverpool line. Fortunately the passenger train had slackened speed,and the only deinage done was the dislodging of two carriages of the luggage train from the line and the engine and tender of the other train. ; YORKSHIRE. LEEDS AND WEST RIDING BANKING COMPANT.—ID the matter of the flat against this company, an application wan made yesterday before Mr. Commissioner Burge, in the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy, for a further postpone ment of the proceedings under the notice to dispute the adjudication, on the ground that the arrangements in pro gress for paying the creditors of the bank in full were not yet concluded. His Honour entertained some doubt whether he could grant another adjournment, as he might thereby prejudice the rights of other creditors who were not before the court. The further proceedings were in consequence adjourned to Thursday, the 7 th January next. THE LATE RODSEZY AT THE LEEDS WOREHOCRE.-- Yesterday the four persons who stood charged with the late robbery of money it. the relieving officer's rooms at the Leeds Workhouse, in the night of the 4th of November, were brought up at the Court-house, in Leeds. The names of the accused are W. J. P " • • house, and now $- township ; his'. at the time of thi an inmate of having been.gi the robbery, th, after the robbery, which it wax contrail Talbot, which , read over that statement that c r l aPee pal evidence duellthCee ...._ _, r. J. Burrow, for an inmate of the work- w holding a subordinate appointment in the i brother, M. Burrow ;L.Co .. • ••‘,...._, ate the robbery ; and J. TalboC feydna!•„ 7 01 " — ,,,,,, the workhouse last year . ,15.4• b 53 .7 - r ./: i•en as to the circumstanqE Zat a lit .' e Alt*. _. ' the chief constable sai.S.; ›ery, a statement of the -o •• • •.• •. 4 , , ,, t ,,. to fr . :.ommitted was made to h .ti -_- .___, the took down in writi ' • 8... " . ''," ...• tat statement to W. . w 4. •• it he made thereupon," a. .. • — 3l , • 7 ., -, e statement of Talbot w. ". i t r •. ... • against him ; but that tp 011itrir 'IL ad he Te 18• - ii ....i