The Express. — London, England, 1850-03-11 00:00:00

robe if the wiesturts rerorteil to Ifffil Worth_ 7 et amighty power like Eadland towards a held@ bah dedmadsda ma c Pat what we are perfectly ins'ided I. reasaskiag, sad what we h ave a right to sompiain of, I. the total sweat of setertesy towed. the two "swine who were pinked the treaty; who emehlithed the kiaadom of Greece ; who, alit abase the 6th cac j,0 7 , 1627, had @amnesty seed broker, sad who have sere tali. a the same tolerate is the affairs of that essairy. R o d& was well awsre that Nodded had private otalms w ile with Odds, sad that ia 1847, dantg the adnisistratian of Colletti, she was on the point of adopting statures for their eakilitaitat. Bat save that period she heard ao mere deb..; sad cessidering that tar more impertaat objects ca lled elsewhere the attention of Beglaad, she, Weed, little o raided that the solution f that goodies would appear to br ig 50 'oral as to justify the sunk/ a sz:ress• l a puns. Had Russia mewed say bilbeaties ea the p u f,j. et, she would have 'outsell's! Graft to Weed to those c hi ni ., gad if the latter reused to satirfy theta, that, to gas!, England might have adopted sash mimes aseraissd tor to odds redeem. But Englesd Y ant anew; did not coademeed to apprise either Rain er Pram= late-tido. No wissondeatios to that Wed was made, e i t her at go tato . ..burgh of at Paris; and it wee tab when the era was done, and the mischief cessantaawd, at the Rated and roma Governments were informed of it. The Ku.aien Madder et Ai brat twit* offered hi• good dikes to gyr Viyes, whit tilde tejetted them, say bia that ' he would am m op the arbitratien es the two Powers fa • spustioa that add set omens then.' Yet Greece is not an isolated state ; she sanest be mkt to la a power that is Meshed te hor rid aloes Ike her existeme (et se rskreuee fll4/ de hii-Nl6/01). Or. ere is • state created by Retina and Fromm, is vistas e t the lams tights sad es the same terms as It was by Nailed. The dues powers f ,unded it is estamon, aad Itzrisd t:tssxtees. each towards list two others, to Ito iadependend, to malatiffe its iategrity, sad is stee r ei the dynasty they fluid on the *rue. Sorely anther of thus ( Ares powers as pretend, Of dies it become either of was, to soda ihe own eolleetive w. Os, to threaten the ma Lade ma" Glaparf,toonerosalt oa its iateprity, to eaduger (. askr) the shins ace of that dynasty by humbling it ia eke eyes of the woad, liy disturbing the traaquiliity of the salty, r* Mooing it to the attacks of faeti-as en coasted. as they may he, by the prewar* of the English geet, and perhaps to the Moron of 'am' war. Russia sad France ate nautialy and materially iaterested in the maintenance of its repose. They had Mat it lauds, the is Toyama' of which both these sties" deism as lees this testasd. Bat they mast surnarily semen= means us. are likely to incapacitate 13MIND from doted hamar to her peetriary tote& meats. They bus therefore a right to lithe re into the came of a quarrel which is productive to them of such sirloin conadjesame, and to retard the lath not by any means as the Blink minister wefts, in the Silight an exclusively English question, but as mu which, la ea torml degree, "elects both France and Ranh. It is true that England somusunies•cd to Runts a list of her claims, bat judgiag form the otformation supplied by the opposite pm. they appeased somewhat exaggerated. At sit frosts, wh et her we regaled their @mount, or their object, they are oat of all properties with the means employed to . obese then. Toe sane may be said, d fortiori of the two small elude eontigeoss to the Mattes • oontinent, sad whisk England claire as leloaging to the lonian Islands. This becomes a territorial gentian, and on It Russia sad Femme arejustilled is demand lag fa virtue of what title E-gi.a/ premium le change a steam two that has lasted fir Its years; to take upon beryl( to reconstruct the map et therm, and to appropriate any portion. how ratan soarer, of • territory. Tb is a question that mu'; be eximiaed into by the three powers. Rorie, England, sag From g ii vri. ic ps;cned to Greece a certain sail of hooter and VW canadefild SalltdaSt ter her defence, you will ask if that c' :eat ma be astaised if Eogland be aetkorised to have a 1 tootirg la them small i.biods, ens oa which is situate within acc-ttghth of a mile horn the cease. The Emperor instreds y• u sat mice serious rsprtseatatio"s to the English Govern. meat sad to lavits it is the m.ss - sanest maaaer to bootee thi cc's ion of a state of things which there is nothiag v hstiver to reader aeceo'sry, er to justify, std which ea- 1 rots Greece to Gloaters and dolmen of a mast serious kind. Tat manner to which your npreratatioas will be received • throw much light oa the nature of the rations which we may hereafter slyest to aatertflo with England, and, ail add, on her positina with respect to all the power. meat sad small, whom coasts are exposed to sudden stunk: It will also 'sable us to judge whether Ragland, shoaled the pot Los afforded to her by her bassesse maritime inspenio- AM, etetimplates is future to pursue a distinct sad isolated r ay, (selitigue d'isolensent), regardless of those same. se ats nub beade d hr with other governments, to free her- K 2 from mil joist sa common obligatow, ma d a u cogoiso . ▪ of areas (seheiarite sraction), ea/ to authority rseh of pie prat Pio fia, whenever an opportunity shall offer, to Wm, as mode the weak and defenceless, no other rule but their elm good will and pleasure ; no other right hat that of material fame (4 as orcorinaltro maws Lea foibles ,taut. ',ye rot so rolonti, drawers vertu gem fu force ma tossi:r.") TURKEY. From Crnstantinople letters have been received up to the 20:h u.t. Daring the week preceding that due M. Titoff had been admitted to three conference. with Rabid Pacha and Ali Pacha. These related to the Danubian principalities. Titoff glided on to the abuse of protection, although this question had been eliminated from the note of his government. Hence the refugee question, which everybcdy thought quite dead and buried, has been moseitated. The fact is, eat Russia is sot yet satisfied, and it may be safely assumed that until she is satisfied no question can be considered as settled. The new demand which she Li- in the blekground is apparently the expulsion of arum persons in the service of the Porte who have exercised a beneficial influence in comateresiming Ros in designs upon the Christian pope/Mims. While Turkey is thus bullied because two or three men of frc.nees aid intelligence attempt to hold her outposts amity Russia, there is throughout the Turkish em pire a Russian propaganda, whom only task is the destruction (diatom. If Turkey were to demand the ezpulsios of these, or rather to expel them, sines they arc in htr own dominions, ohs would only be doing in her own interest a very small part of what the Czar now insists upon her doing in the teeth of her own interest. The ground upon which M. Tito ff has laid his representations is thel treaty of Kotachuk Ksicardji, 'wording to an article of which Russia has the right of demanding the expulsion of Russian subjects who machinate against her. Sir Stratfurd Canning has also had a conference with the Viz r and Ali Pasha. This diplomatic braview turned upon certain reforms affecting the Mu-oi.lman population as well as the Christian. It is understood that the measures proposed ty Sir Strat ford were intended to counteract the ton visible Imwth of Russian influence upon the Slavonia* pope lei* of Turkey. Not improbably, one of the mes terei urged by his excellency was the admission of maks tato the Turkish army, and a corresponding alitesent of the lierekt or poll-tax levied on thristianr. Acim Bey, the Egyptian chargé d'affaires, Win also admitted to the interview, se if to emptied., the English policy of 1840, and give to aeierstami, that the measures proposed extended also to Egypt me i yawl tithe Ports. Ttis proceeding of the English ambassador meat,- zebcee the belief here, general in well-informed weer, that Lord Palmerston is much less apprehen sive of open war from Russia than of an underhand mining of the Turkish empire by Hessian pats. Much reliant is placed by the English gommeaust on the efficaey of measures of administrative miscue in Welles the empire together ; and certainly thin is in some measure countenanced by the fact that the resources of Turkey have greatly increased daring the last 15 years, la which so many reforms have lees se omplished. 31 Leosthice, the Russian consul of Belgrade, ham liken it into his head to be immensely aggrieved at so order of the Prince Alexander to all func tionaries to wear the fez. Tois is indeed a symbol of Turkish influence, but the objection to such a symbol in a province where the Bohan is &anew 4dged as suzerain, throws a glaring light on the errogance of Roman pretensions. Complaints have been made by the Turkish government latterly' ageing the meddles ma and vehement character and conduct of M. I. whine. Titoff answered that the counsel !it,Nht in Rossiaa and spoke in Sonia's and sines h - knew thi s l anguage but very imperfectly, he might be mteralic exrcted tu make blunders. The fact is teat Lt:oscliise has been misled by the representations s' ll 4 etre-hussies' Senecas into making proms: tut ilisr.citratioos. The adoption of the fez is oat- Wired v. , a decided snub to Russia. The commander of the Russian army in Moldavia !ft ''' Wallachia, General Ludas, has received orders um the minister of war at St. Petersburg, to eveca- Fi e e the Principalities without delay, a n d to leave be ally the 16th divisi on o f i n f antry , t h e 9th !ruted ertllery brigade, and two regißve ments sto of 11. "1 At the same ti me the General was urged the precast possible publicity to this order, ankh he did sot fail to do. But it wee soon sees that there was no intention of complying therewith. E 1 . (14 t be the present. Indeed th e same courier .7 i .ight another note with the same signature t:,',Peritcription, calling upon General Loden ' L erbith • report to the governme n t as far it m i g h t be possible or advim gd 1 1 . : " 0 goro us a mama to e ff ect the removal Mass if T Ps; so of course they will stay until bS a nd m . kiet entracte have been already signed c orsousariat officers for the supply of the troops 4 to e th middle of _ summer. 7 ti• latest accounts from Shank, Keough bed t t l re commissioner of the Porte, Admit that he should only com r p e lz i tt s h the met '. Vas Porte for ending the to dotes ties in the interior when force wan applied ; to which &shad Effendi replied that, however loath toepply sosmion, he must strictly carry oat the WifteWoes of his government. A traveller fres Brooms says that led - giage ars already in coarse of preparation in that Midis tufty for many of the ' ; but it mess they are only expected to remain a few months. The feet is that the Porte, after a goad deal of kagglieg with Count Stunner, ism pro mised ilateatim! tw a year. But the meat would take sot a moment leas then Are years; end so we are obliged to wait for Visas& A letter from Odessa hams is that di prisoners, who were masigned to the dispose of Bt. Prinking for taking part in the gnat recent conspiracy, have died mAdealy. This bas created mach masation. The last packet from Varna brought the noble wife of Kossuth. All sorts of stories are current about a rlr t far abdoctioe, end bow the captain lost his clean West oa pnrpesa to favour this design, and how one Signer thiansam west and told the Eng lish maiirmy at rare, and how Sir Stratford imme diately took the fair Maparess under his chivalrous protection ; together with much else on which wide mouthed marvel feeds. So mach is true, that all circles are greatly interested in this lady, who seems so less beautiful than true and brew. She goes, it seems, for the present under a fictitious name. THE LEVANT. The Oriental Company's steamer Sultan, Captain Brooks, arrived at Southampton from the Levant on Saturday. She left Constantinople on the 20th ult., Smyrna on the 22nd, Malta the 28th, and Gibraltar on the 3rd instant. She brought home about fifteen passengers. She missed the passengers from Bombay at Malta, having left before the Alexandria packet with the Indian Mail arrived there. Mir cargo is de of the mod valuable ever brought into South ampton, consisting of 17 packages specie, 67 b.ixse °naps, 280 do. raisins, 49 do opium, 34 bales tattoo, 934 do silk, 136 cases silk, 730 bales wool, 16 bags galls, 206 do. yellow berries, 22 tubs leeches, 57 cases sponges, 22 do. sesminoay, 47 bales carpets, 5 cues otto, 65 packages sundries. The Sultan learnt at Gibraltar disastrous news from Atria. Earthquakes, which succeeded sac% other for no fewer tt an six days, have spread consternation and ruin among the Kahlle poptalstions on the road from Setif to Bogie and the Baban. The natives could only save their flocks and movables. The buildings were generally demolishes; and in the two manufac turing towns of Zammora and Guenza, revere losers most thus have been inflicted on the laborious and rather wealthy inhabitants, some of whom bad storied h•uses. A strong concussion was felt at Algiers on the 9:11 February, by which a few buildings were damaged. Exchanges at Gibraltar : London, 90 days date, 603 ; Paris, ditto, sf. 360. ; Marseilles, ditto, s'. 38e. ; Genoa, ditto, sf. 50e.; Madrid, 8 days sight, par ; Cadiz, ditto, pm.; Maier), ditto, dia. ; Seville, ditto, ;'du. ; Alicante, ditto, i die.; Valencia and Barcelona, no paper. Freights : To London sad ontporte :in the United Kiegdom, Brazil, and River Plate, 12 do's. per ton and 10 per cent. ; Gulf of Mexico and Havannah, 12 dole. per ton and 10 per cent.; Malta, Leghorn, Genoa, Marseilles, 4 dole. per ton and 5 per cent. ; lead at lees. The Sultan met two line of battle ships, four frigates, and two steamers, part of her Majestj's squadron from the Tagus, in Straits of Gibraltar, bound to the eastward. Her Majesty's steam-sloop Jesus lilt the Hay of Gibraltar on the 28th ult. The Ssltan brought home a mail from the lonian Islands, betides ship letter bags from Constantinople, Smyrna, Malta, and Gibraltar. GRAND DI:ClIT or BADF.N.—The States of Baden were opened on the 6th inst., by the grand duke in person. BT. PISTIRSBURG, FIB. 28.—0 a Monday, the 25th, General Caatelbajae, the Freneb azabamador„ maa admitted , o an asdienoa by the emperor, and delivered his credential letter. ELOPEMENT or CAPT. DOUGLAS WITH Miss EL MOM—A painful degree of excitemeat has prevailed in Cheltenham during the past week, m the subject of an elopement which has jest taken plea. The parties are Captna Douglas, late of the 16th Regiment, whose name has been recent!, breaght before the public is sonteition with a court martial, held is the idled of Gamow, and Miss Mariam* Elliott, youagest daughter of Leant Elliott, Esq , • gestlemas of ladepsedent , resident in Centesimal. Ths parties Int eloped darin g the abuse* of the piing lady's father ou • visit to Bail Fitsitard lege, at Berkeley Cade, • few days lime, but • else having been obtained to her retreat, she was brought home at the fo loosing day, sad pretentious were takes to prevent a repatition of the indiseretios. All the WADS taken, he.. ever, proved insufficient, sad as Thuisday last she quitted her father's roof in dismiss, and SSW to Leaden by the nest train. Captain Doggies has • wife and two children, and has beta resident I. Cheltenham for some weeks. The young lady is only 19 yesrs of age, highly aecomplistod, sad the idol of her family. Mr. Serpent Warren, the author at " Ten Thousand • Year," who defended the captain before the court martial, and addressed a letter to theQaeen upon the hardship of his client's case, thus apostrophises him is sae of the early mei of his peesplhet:—" Captain Douglas, himailf • father — the father - slimly children, and me el them a son ; bat the sane et them is agony to him foe they bear, ala f • now •Mommeweel acme, sad are the uncoescietts offspring of a reined anOssidlhat gentle man I believe to be at this memisat one of the meet deeply injured mos in your Majetty's domiaions." ASSAULTS BY MILITARY OPTICERS.—The Ply ninth Joints, sates—" Two einem beleagieg to a regi ment quartered is that 'anima ware brought up before the beach on Tuesday lent, charged with belay hank and disor derly at 12 o'clock ea the previews evening. Oa* of them you're gmtlessam, it wee stead la evideate, was "tepidly drunk, sad ehme es boob imd rasa every perms whom he nisi • mma deemed is teMGm*lathes resisted him, end • light sassed, whist' attreseel Madre& of people to the spot, and the polies were obliged Is 'starrier'. The two young aspirate for military fame were rescued from the sob, but the sae of them had meshed• avers term/Jag he renewed Ns Meek epee' *my in when he met, sad his enemies awl him es sad mehhalbim. A pecans was waled be by • geademma when they insulted, sad, apes remeaserefiag with them. was Mid that they wave goallemm, sad, if he ventured to interfere with them, their Missal Mr Cilibbesawould tar hie met off his back. Nothing dammed, hemmer, the timetable behead on their moving ea, sad, ages their velmeel. lea them to the station-house. They samed him m essy es the way es release them, whist' the stanin==:l7 refer; sad•having been congaed in the they were sow Sailed eyes to stet* wity the elmeeld met be petalled he the atom Navin as mum le the /aid the sae 'dm was drank fa., iedered th eme tamer i soya sle their ginsenol en. abases ia the aim of ROL te keep the perm for the ant three sheaths. sad *Nomad the regret of the bulb that they had it not is their power to indict • homier yew* ED two perms who. being oleo, had rated so The doe having bean mod, the part Les were amt/,". The Jowled aide— " Out of respect for the disolear M the re/Mime, sad sot for that of iadividomb we rebate hes giving their WINS." ATROCIOUS ATTEMPT TO POISON IN MANCHESTER. —A cations as. Is under favestiptisa by the police of Nasehaster. Two well- hosed sass. having the appear ma of g 'anemia, called a few weeks beak at a large Sad respectable eigsr shop in Manshester, sad were waited upon by a female. It was about ten o'clock in the evening, and having purchased some cigars, as. of them remained in conversation with the lady,_ whilst the other smoked his Agar at the door. The one who remained in the shop delimited his cigars la a Madame boa, apparently of silver, and predtmaid Irma another boa, apparently of the sane metal, some Images, which he offered to the lady. She decliaed Meat at first, but having a geld, and bolas sasured they would remove it, she was allmately persuaded to um two of than. After Militias atm time about the shop the gentlemen departed, sad had MN gone bat a short time wheel the awn of the loam gsh Ramie apparent. She was seised with a Manias oesestioel to the threat, followed by vomitiag, and had to be led home by • kind. These somatic= were Wowed by faintness, mil peat of the eyes, which affected the eight. She was put to bed and loot all consciousness of what was posting. Three surgeons were ultimately called in b 7 her friends, sad an eminent physician, and with Ma assistanes a pad= of the Motents of the stomach were dislodged, containing poison. She entirely lost the sight of her eyes for two days, and soessiousness wee anted for seedy • week. She has only this week been able to manse her duties at Ule shop, sad the particulars of the matter are now leader lavestigatioa by Mr. Berwick, the chief superinteadent of the detective police, in the hope that he will be able to discover tin* men who administered the poison. The recent administration of a drug through the instrumentality of Imago fa • railway envier, has led to the suspicion that the some potties have been at work la this case, sad that rare wee, had the poinn takes effect soccer, to have the shop. Some trace of the parties has been ob tained, but they are not yet in custody. ItETENEIVE ROEENJUEE or PLATE AND JEWELL —Oa ?ditty intelligens of the following robberies tom added daring the day was rewired by th re a ct r e ll e os: lessa Thom Dr 61, 61, Naeland- street, ewels, value 2601. ; hem N Isq , 36, Bedford. , Resell square, silver plate, vale, 2001. ; from Alf Jesse, Eeq., 61, Lower Grosvenor street, silver plate, value, 801. ; from 116, Camdenroad-villas, silver plate, value, 961. ; from Mr. Pritchard, 29, Tavistosk-street, emelt 61. Bask of England saes; from the Egritmost Rotel, BArktes, jewels, value, 1901. • and front the house of Mr. Edward neidt Lek, BtaffMtlahire, law. in gold. THE EXPRESQ, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 11, 1850. gbe Court. reeding, placed in the hands of Mr. Clarkson, who did all that could be done under math disadvaatageous circumstances. It traaepirtd in curt, as moos u the trial wee over, that Ave Meads of the prisoner were in the gallery (one the brother, and another the sister, of the goetheed), ready to 'peek to the character of the seemed: Many circumatanete have also been sines elicited, we understand, which render the anheppy woman's account of the transaction not unlikely to be tree. The deadened was up and dressed as late as eight o'clock on the night of ble allitho and several times daring the same day took oat of the screwed-up papers the &Ants powders, u he thought, " to kill the bile.' Ought the woman, under such circumstances of doubt, to suffer the ex treme penalty of the law, convicted, ae she is, upon a chernieel opinion P There Is no saving clause to the opinion given by the chemist (mach as supposing the common theory about the time substances remain in the stoma* to be true), but we have positive dogma tism as to what time the poison was in the 'stomach and on this dogma the woman dies! The Queen held a Privy Council and alert on Si- ' turd, afterama at three Privy at Beshingkam Palms. ' Ma omen was invaded by Priam Albert, the Lord Pre- • Meat. the First Lard of the T , the Secretaries of Stele fir the Home, Neap, sad Departaisals. the Glimellor of the Daub - el Lanetatn, the Presideat the Bawd ef Coled, the Peatmasear General, the Seaver, ' M Wfa i hil th Lad Ghstelterlailt. Her leeks, Pre m asses ballare the Meat to me Marquis of Leneelowne. The report if ihe Saadi Climuittee on the appall "Gorham v. Bleb. of Bathe" ham the Court of Aram was sp eller the Queen be Ceentell. Carrmiloas yr re made is l ames of the MM tar the Casettes of Meantouth sad Mmkaitla. The Zee. Williams Bathurst was the clerk of the i* Walla,. Loyd John Russell had as m ance elf the Qom. Lord Foley bad an au. dimes at hos Majesty. At the mart Melia& Pomba, the Turkish easkarador, had ea aadivese of the Quiet to deliver a letter from the Sultan. La Oommaadeet Marques Lisboa, the Brazilian Minister, bad an maims of her Majesty to take leave as tamistrerf ammo. M. Metaled had his first sadism, of Um Queen, to proem hie credeatiale ea • email minim hem the Republie of le rages. Their Bred head@ wore Mime away introduced by Figment Palassestca. G.C.8.. Queue principal Beer Mary of State fee Foreign AS. ire, and mad oeted by Colonel the How. Sir Edward Cue', beer Majesty's Master of the Camicenee. The mart was attended by the Captain of the Hon. Corp of (teatimes at Arms ; the Marquis of Aeglesey, Gold Stick la Waiting ; the Tremont/ of the Homehold ; the View Chamberlain ; the Comptroller of the Household ; Lord Dalian, Lord in Wattle,; and Sir Rimini Bowater, Groom in Wane,. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on kora/be& ca Saturday morning, attended by Coloael Bouverio. The Queen had a dame party on Saturday at Burliest ham Palma. The sampan_ yis ended his Serene Highness Priam Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Portuguese Minister and Vireenntas de Mosesena, the American Minister and Mrs. Lawrence, the Duchess a Betherlaad, the Marquis of Donegal, Visoodat Hawarden, the Bishop of London and Mrs. Blessfield, Lord &Mee, Sir George and Lady Grim the Right Hoe. Fox Mauls, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, Lord Marcus Hill, and Colonel the lion. Charles Grey. The Queen and Priem Albert, the Princess Royal, the Ladies and Gentlemen asks Court, and the domestic home hold attended Divine 'seam yeaterdaymorniag in the pri vate &awl in bnekinebasa Palma. The lion. and Bee. Gadd Wellesley ollelatel. The Royal family took theft meal fanlike yesterdatinthe garden of Bmkingbam Palace. The Duchess of Cambridge and the Mums Mtry, kis Scene Highness Pilate Frederick of Hesse, honoured the Lyeeam Theatre with their presence on Saturday ereslag. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge at leaded Divine service yesterday moratert in the °W el of the Female Orphan Asylum. Baron Hnesebeck was in waiting ou his Royal Highness. The Royal Duke visited Christ's Hospital School yesterday evening. ' A Cabinet Council woe held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-o Mos. It was attended by Lord John Rua sell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Had of Mint., Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmenton, Rai Grey, the Earl of Carlisle, Sir John Kabbala,. the Right Hon. H. Laboucherea the Margele of Clanriearde, and the Right lion. Fox Marie. The Cosucil sat two hours. A deputation, beaded by the Duke of Richmond, bat an interview with Sir George Grey on Saturday at the Home Mee, to permit a memorial to the Queen in lariur of an application to parliament to pat an and to the working by " Shifts' in Factorise, that being an somas of the spirit of the Factory Acts, and greatly pripledicial to the workbag people. The deputakim esmisted of Lord John Manner, M.P., Sir Robert Leptis, M.P. Sir Cisme Strick land, M.P., Mr. ilrocklehunt, M.P., Mr. George Banks*, M.P., Memo. Thomas ?elides, Samuel Fend**, J. Mellor, Grant, J. Cobbs', Mills, Pitt, Wallow Hay, Hargreaves, Bala Uneworth, Bal. and Bottomley , and tits Rev. 0. Bell. Mr. George Hamilton, M.P. had an interview with the Right Hon. H. Laholichare on Setarday. Sir Anthony Perrier and Mr. Power, M.P., bed also interviews with Mr. Labouchere on Saturday, at the Office of the Board of Trade. --- A deputation on Prison Labour, consisting of Mr. Alderman Farebrother, the Rev. Mr. Fry, Marrs. Banter R. Taylor, Nieholay, and Roper, had an interview on Saarday with Sir George Grey. li , rd Robert Grosvenor was linable to accompany the deputation. Tut SPEAKER'S LEVEE—The Speaker of the Rouse of Commons held his second and last lew• this sewiqn on Saturday night at his temporary official residence in Baton-Kuare. The levee was preceded lay a grand par liamentary entertainawat. TIM BILL FOR ABOLISHING THE MICE OF ME TROPOLITAN CAIIIIIIIOI4 -4Mb:011101d by Mr. COMOWIIdi Lewis and Sir George Gr—and for trankerring the ditties to the Commissioners of Police, is • simple simaiture at te trearhasent, simply carried oat. The salary of the lisped., of Hackney Coaches is 0001. • year, and the espenses of the office 8601. The greater part of this sum will be eventually saved, es • wall portion only of the OLE will be assmorsy to be added to the present establishment of the polies, he su able them to mond to this additional duty. APPOINTILENTIL—John Porter Atthill, Esq. lots' Attorney-General of St. Lucie, is appointed Pawns Jules elf the Supreme Court in that island. Louis Ls Cam, ' Solicitor-Genenl, succeeds Mr. Atthill as Attorney-Generel, and Cypriots Millet Pont, Esq., is •Mated to the vacant office of S , licitor-Gmieral. George Gard Meq., is appointed Solicitor General for Trinidad. David Jardine and Jcsaph Frost, Esqs., are appointed members of the Legialative Coun cil of Hoag Mon.—Observer. PARLIAMENT Is EXPECTED TO ADJOURN for the holidays on Tuesday fortnight—three days earlier than usual. THE Orrice OF ABSOCIATZ TO THZ CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE Qualm's BENCH has, it is well known, almost invariably been held by a son of that great judicial functionary for the time being, and that it is resigned on a vacancy, either by death oe retirement, of the chief justice. Thus, in the time of Chief Justice Ellenloorough the office was held by the present Recorder for London ; during Chief Justice Tenterden'a incum bency, the present Lord Tenterden was associate, and lately the Hon. Thomas Denman acted in that capa city. Immediately on the appointment of Lord Campbell as chief justice he wrote to Mr. Denman, requesting that Mr. Denman would continue to be hie associate. This handsome offer of the new chief justice was, however, delicately declined by Mr. Denman ; who reminded Lord Campbell that he had sons of his own quite as competent to fill the office. Its emoluments are understood to be worth 2,0001. • year, paid, of course, by the suitors for justice in the 's Bench. THE WOMAN UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH IN NEWOATE. A cue is now before the public that muffed at the Sessions House, Old Bailey; on Friday lest, which demand. SOW interposition on the part of the friends of humanity. A woman is sentenced to be hanged, not on a fact, bat on an opinion. Ann Merritt was charged with having poisoned her hatband by ad ministering to him arsenic. The wretched woman admits buying the poison, and taking from it the label marked with the word " poison," and most tbougittlessly placing it in the only cupboard they pomessed, screwed up in a piece of paper, in which same cupboard, screwed opal' similar pieces of paper, were powders of soda and acids bought by the ounce, and not in doses, to form effervescing draughts, in the frequent use of which her husband indulged. Her object in baying tie poison she of was to destroy herself, because her life was rendered wretched by the drunk= habits of her husband. He, however, altered these habits for a few days, and she repented of her purpose, and thought no more of the poison. in less than a week the husband again takes to drinking, and on the morning of Thursday, the 24th of January last, goes to the cupboard, takes a Seidlits powder, as be thought, and soon after is se..ted with vomiting. His wife had prepared his leech & In for him about 11 o'clock, which he does not eat, but' gives the meat and potatoes, to a know turneock, nan.'ed Ashby, and requests to have sew gruel. A solitary' 1' alrPez!n7 - worth of oatmeal hi latched by the child of 'a neigh bour, and being sob into gruel in the sight Of Mh by, the deemed partakes of some of it, and his wu. o says she and boo child ate the rest. There was . 1 7 - dently no pion la the meat and potatoes, and it is sat too nosh to sin es, therefore, there was none in the grooL During the day the man gets worse, and 'As pis out about his duty, comes home and goes to bet Several medical men are sent for, and none comas to see him till half-past 10 at night. Some Weasel and opium pills are given him, and he dies about half-past 12 the same night. On 'post wrists examination of the body arsenic to the extent of 8 grains is found in his stomach, in about a quart of liquid there remaining, and resembling gruel. Dr. Lstheby, of the London Hospital, gave it as his opinion that this 8 grains could not have been in his stomach son than tour hours at furthest, though he took no pool shoe 11 o'clock. And upon this opinion the woman was convicted, the Lord Chief Bares admitting thin was no evidence of her having adadaisterod the pekoe. The warns'''. poverty prevented her from being properly defended. To the lut moment it was hoped that her friends would have been able to procure counsel. But the depadtiono were obtaised by the humanity of the sheri4 and, alined waist FARMING PROSPECTS-THE CROPS. It is admitted on all hands that the prospects of the season are excellent The most inveterate prate°. timid grumbler cannot deny that seldom has the growing wheat looked better than now, and that the spring crops an being sown with every advantage which can be derived from a good seed bed. And when the farmer has not his land in good plight for roots and green crops, the fault must be his own ; nothing can have been more favourable to husbandry than the past autumn and winter. Then provender for stook has been and is cheap and abundant, and though the pries of wheat is low and that of meat is not high, the British farmer now possesses means of producing both wheat and meat at a less cost than at any former period in the history of modern British agriculture. On the subject of protection the agri cultural mind is recovering its balanoe, and a reason able consideration of the peculiar circumstances of his own busieess is taking the place in the farmers' thoughts of reimposed food monopoly and political clitation. The immediate prospect of the corn trade is, that prices will be steadily moderate. At this moment the low pries of wheat is the result of the favourable appearance of our own crops, and the total absence of anythicg like speculative purchases—in a great measure caused by the absurd and frantic policy adopted by the protectionists—rather than of foreiga importation; though the protectionist journals, admit ting this, are still crying "wolf" Thus the Merle ktne Espress says: "The accounts from all parts of the country respecting the appearance of the young wheat plant are of a sa tis factory nature; and at present there is nothing is the aspect of affairs to give rise to uneasiness in regard to the future @apply of home grown food." This shows the fallacy of the protectionist predic tion that oar own soil would be less cultivated in consequence of free trade and moderate prices. The free traders, on the other hand, said the reverse would happen, and that British husbandry would receive a stimulus, not a check from foreign competition; aced here we have the fact admitted by the protectionist organ. The truth is, there has been a larger breadth of wheat planted during the past autumn than usual, arising In part no doubt from the very fine season. This alone is safficient to keep down prices, and so the corn trade reviewer somewhat reluctantly admits saying, "Ti.ti (the promising state of the wheat crops) is not verhaps of much importance so early in the year; still it is not without its influence, and unquestionably assists to induce caution on the part of purchasers . He is not, however, going to let the farmers escape just yet from the bugbear of foreign competition, for he says, " The principal cause of the increase in the trade we are, however, inclined to attribute to the expectation of foreign supplies ;" which he makes out thus. " Notwithstanding the con tinued fall in prices during the winter months, a good many purchsses were made abroad from time to time on English et:count ; and our merchants, millers, and dealers, anticipating the speedy arrival of a por tion of the enn bought by them, are more disposed to diminish than to add to the stocks they have still on hand." Now, a comparison of the prices in Mark-lane sad at the continental ports will satisfy the most timid alarmist that very few importations of wheat can take place with a view to profit. What comes mart be the result of speculation, which has failed. For instance, white wheat on Monday last in Mark-lane ranged from 40s. to 48s. per quarter, and red whist from 375. to 425. per quarter. Now at Dantsig, though the demand wuslow, prices were erm, and wheat sold from 3.55. to 39.. per quarter, according to quality, free on board. At Konigsberg red wheat was quoted at 325. to 335. 6d. per quarter, free on board. At Stettin wheat of different aorta ranged from 345. to 365. per quarter. At Rostock the price was 355. per quarter. At Rotterdam the price was from 33a. to 381. the quarter ; and at Antwerp it was 375. per quarter. The following are the charges on a quarter of wheat from Danzig, assuming it to be free on board there. Freight and primary, 8 mad dues Ininaranee, average rase of winter sad summer 1 0 Entry and lighterage 0 8 Moorage inward 0 6 Leading 0 4 Loss sad damage ea voyage not covered by in allinalte Conmeisaion for sale 1 0 Metonym, portion paid by seller 0 4 Delivin7 Daty 1 0 Total Here we have the cost of 10s. a quarter without any allowance for interest, or profit, or for warehousing, and so forth, should the corn not be Bold immediately on its arrival. To my that our market is dependent on expectant importation is simply to mislead ; out actual prices are very mach the consequence of home 'applies and home prospects. From all districts the aoeounts ars good. In Surrey it is said " The state of the land is sentinel, fine. The ploughs are at work in all direetions; end it is most gratifying to watch the slices as they an turned over and reveal the supere . xcellsot temperament of the ground into which spring wheat, oats, sad potatoes are daily introduced. We have watched their [the farmers'] processes, by pressers, drills, or dibbles, and find that the texture of land is alike propitious to • . . Th e condition of young wheat. rye, turnips after stubble, clever, rye grass,teres, and unit:sin, is subdued and kept back, but sound and healthy The flock farmers report very favourably of the sheep, and of the lambing seseou." In Leicestershire the late sown wheat is looking particularly well, and a considerable breadth ham been sown after the removal of root cropy which, from the favourable manner in which it has been put in, gives a reasonable hope for waccess." Then has been no epidemic, either in the flasks or herds, this winter. From Scotland, too, report is good. In Mid Lothian a large breadth of land has been ploughed "in a satisfactory manner. Wheat and the grass fields are fully planted, and look well." The grass parks near Edinburgh which have been let have brought increased prices. In East Lothian we hear that " a large breadth of ' wheat has been sown. Winter wheat and grass havelatterly been assuming a more verdant hue; both are looking well. Feeding stocks have been thriving well. Stackyards are mach about their ordinary size at this season, but it must be recollected that a stack prodnoes much more grain for its size than on average seasons." In West Lothian the weather has been tempestuous and severe, and work is, in consequence, rather in war. Yet it is said, " Oar young wheats and _grasses have still a favourable appear ance." In Fifes!** "pastures have assumed a fine rowing appearanoe. The young wheats also look K t . ‘lthy and promising; and what were sown just b e f o re the severe frosts set in are now apiearing a b ove ground. and seem sufficiently thick. The fine dry we wen which has prevailed for the last ten days has ca m, 'bid farmers to put in a large breadth of spring wi.‘ent ; and as there is still a good breadth in preparation foe this crop, the extent in wheat will be much greater • than usual this season." W e note wise things thus early in the season; and should the .'emeieder of the year cep to harvest prove as propitio as as the early part of the mason, there is no doubt ,hat very abundant crops of wheat over a great extent of ground will be reaped; end if so, the price will be Ow. EXIGIATION.—NearIy two hundred pauper emi grants from the Cheltenham 1110 0 a ag• ollowted to go out to Chtebee in the Corsair, to sail fro:o Olowester la tbe month of Alla , THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS. MANCHESTER, Melon 9. I mentioned illaS thin age that Mr. John Owns, • weelleby_ameigheut who died in 1846, had left &loin 100,0001. to bi • to educational mimes tkl=nalleilim of • fae in or near the bo. rough a • TIOM if the funds is ea- Mani to 14 tremens memat ill in all h a rar ma the direction is that they shall leapplled be kWhg sa lemdtatios for pro 'Wag or aiding the Intrudes of yank alum 14 years of age in seek btageles of lessalzhd mines as are now or may be beesaftee taught la the anhezeities, but with e t% Ziertmat preeiso that theme be no religiose teats *dm le iepeeks= se Masan The only limit apes adembelen Is to be that *NM of mesa resesse be Xambestsg see to have spralliease, and next to them obildires if mann in Beni Immesbire. comemilen of live gentlemen appointed by the trades. have so recently as ymerdeby repseted on the sebum of education to be Mooted, and tliey advise as the 'eabiatem of study : The end literature of Gnome and Rome; maths. sis tEr Mani philosept a rg u ke and tamest philosophy; grammar, Inglish • and literature ; history and moral and philosop y ; natural history ; Weft; madam languages; and commercial endue, in. eilg leek beeping, geography of commercial protium, himep ned of arts and manufactures, and the of sonamercial jurisprudence. Yee arsa• rid of of learning the committee resemmind the eppelatmeat of slafflailiesses brides other heathen. They =paint is sad Greek, at 3501. per annum of mehanseles mil natural philosophy, at 3601. ; and • mimeo el bend., mortal philosophy, and English lea gasp sit Mentor% me inf. Then there will be • pro Wearer Wiry and moral and political philosophy, at 1601. ; a warm of mating Weep (including botany and geo- logy), 1601.; and a Folmar of chemistry, ;at 1501. And besides these it is to lays four masts for German, French, Italian, and le-keeping, who an to be paid ISOL per annum each. Three saluteses will take 1,7001. of the an nual income, and it is intended to add 2001. • year to the in come of the professor who shall also be appointed principal of the inatitatim, making hie salary 6601. la reference to the coarse of inatntetica the committee recommend frequent private 42•111iMii11111y asd annual pablie examinations; and they say that alttuough it is desirable that whenever circum stances admit of it, readmits should go through a regular nurse at study tosahneing an the subjects ;provided for u subjects of isetinseles); yet it is evident that to insist on this m a canines mold matnet within narrow limits the benefits of the iretkolies. Meinidering the age at which young nun enter spot butane pursuits, they think there will be a large dam of students desirous of improving them selves in the several subjects of • regular course, bat unable to devote to their stud its the period which may be required for embracing the higher deparunenth To accommodate these they therefore suggest mein and junior mum adapted to each elms, similar to the plans which have been found to work advantageously at the Scotch uniesusities, and in King's College, London. With regard te adesissioas, the committee recommend that • certain amount of -attainment in the °helical languages end mathematics be required as a rendition, and that the proficiency of the applicants be ascer tained by two professes. The fees recommended each ses sion are—for regular students of either 11111i0n or junior mutate, a guinea fir admissioe, 8 te 4 guineas annually to Greek and Latin Professor, 3 to 4 guineas to Professor of mathematics, the same to the professor of logic, etc., 3 gutless to the professor of history, 2 guineas to the pro ' Amor of natural histoey, and 2 gainsas to the chemistry' manse, each session. A fee of two guineas is suggested also for each teacher of modern languages, and a tee of 1 - guinea to the metier of book-keeping. Of these fees two thirds are to go to the prolesson and teachers, and the remainder to the in stitution. The public ars to be admitted to the lectures on payment of • mall fee, to be applied to the purposes of the Institution. It is proposed that the whole of the fees received by the trustees on behalf of the institution shall be expended in rewards and prizes to be distributed among the students. Religious ' tiOR is to be reviled, but the attendant)* is to he optional, in conformity with the founder's expressed wishes on that head. Such is • line( outline of the "ahem of proposed 'declaim at the college, which is to be called the " Owen's College," and which the committee venture • llte may term the nucleus of • future university. A building se net yet provided, bat it is to be heped now that the general plan is propounded, no time will be lost in bringing the institution into play. Such a coll.ge is much wanted in the neighbourhood, and if properly managed will be a hamlet to the whole district. Tr.' account I sent you not many weeks back of the great success which had attended the formation of a public lensing library in Salford, was no doubt looked to with interest far and wide. We have now • similar scheme on foot for sup plying • library for one of the most densely populated dis tricts of Manchester. Some eight or ten years ago a hand some, commodious hall was erected in Campfitld, user St. Matthew's Church, as a place of meeting for the socialists. With the decline of that body the buildin g has been a good deal disused, and the idea having been suggested that it would make a good receptacle for a public library, some inquiries have been made as to the terms on which the building can be obtained, and as a means of clearing away one of tne principal obstacles, it is said Sir Oswald Mosley has generously given up the whole of the ground rant on the site of the building. Some other encouraging nape have been taken, but it is thought rather premature at present that they should be given to the public. At Shaw, a populous manufacturing suburb of Oldham, not many days since ea interesting meeting was held, at which 900 people were present, to start a public library. Mr. Charles Swain, Mr. Prentice, Mr. Wm. Bhuttleworth, and other advocates of popular education, were present, and is is expected the experiment will be successful. In politics as well as trade, we continue rather dull. When the latter nags we have otter • revival in the other ; but at present the public attention is fixed on parliament, and as the patient sometimes finds relief from the toothache when earnestly seeking the dentist to extract the offending member, so we, in this reputed centre of agitations and dim. content, feel the luxury of a little repose, whilst intent on watching the tnenuip of the dice in " the grand council of the nation." It is not that we expect mach from it. We know that we have a body of earnest able reformers in the house ; bat we know also at the same time that there are • great majority Wm whom we can get nothing, unless unexpected party cogabinatioce should achieve us something approaching to a miracle. Whilst recognising the advice, " Blessed is he who expecte nothing ; he shall not be disap pointed," we, however, still look on to see if the miracle be not working. It is min, as we see our representatives, semis after session, enter on the notice paper motions for the extension of the suffrage, vote by ballot, or triennial par liaments, that an inward monitor warns us not to hope; with each return of the experiment we find ourselves watching the result as intensely as ever, too wil nag to persuade ourselves it is the wheel of for. tune we an looking on, and that it is charged at least with some few prizes, though there may be many blanks. We do pick up a numb of comfort now and then to soften the monotony of the thing, u whines the division list :in the ballot, given in the Daily News of to.day. Amongst the ayes we notice a lens majority of the members for this county, and ban remit to be proud that at least we in the nunufaquring districts have made some progress. Lancashire shows particularly to adiaatage—the " ayes," Mending the name of Messrs. Armstrong, Bright, Bro. thereon, Fox, Gibson, Greaten Henry, Heywood, Brown, Pilkineton, Thicknesse, Sir J. Walinaley, and Sir 0. Strick land. Then we have also on the borders of the county Messrs. Brocklehurst, Cobden, Kerehaw, Stansfield, Col. Thompson, and J. William& When the colleague of Mr. Kershaw, for Stockport, told the House of Calmness that nine-tenths of his constituents were against the ballot, it is to be feared the hon. member had been partaking rather plentifully of " salmon "at the dinner table. It would hardly be a matter of surprise if nine-tenths of his misrepresented constituents should be sending up • petition next year foe the measure, in order to set themeless right and convict him of the fib. Tait NIAGARA, Captain Stone, mailed from Liver pool en Saturday, ler Halifax and Boston. RAILWAYS AUDIT BlLL.—Saturday afternoon, at one o'clock, a meeting, adjourned from the pprevious day, of delegates from the lending railway eompaniee was held at Ruston Hotel, for the purpose of comeldming the provisions of a bill to be presented to parliament' kw securing efficient auditing of railway account.. The leading provisions of the contemplated tumours had been agreed on et the previous meeting, and the discussion of Saturday was chiefly waited to details of minor importance. Mr. Serjmnt Oarelee, Mr. Nash, and some other delegates, objected to particular part of the bill ; but the proceedings were charactised by excel lent feeling, with very little diversity of sentiment on im portant points. The meeting was unanimous in repudiating the right of government to interfere in any wey directly or Indirectly in railway affairs, and the bill is to be based and framed on the principle of no govern ment interference. Mr. Swift and Mr. Swart were appo inted . X, wait on Lord Stanley, to ascertain when it would snit the noble lord to re naive a depteation from the delegates, in order that they may personally solicit his lordship to intrados, their bill into parliament. The noble lord is to be impeethilly solicited to give in the meantime hie most stream= opposition to the government measure for the auditing of Illaiway amount; introduced by Lord Granville. WINDOW TAX.— MEETING AT PLYMOUTII.—OR Friday evening, a meeting was held in this town, on the subject of the above tax. Mr. I. Cookworthy occupied the 'hair. Mr. Fox, Mr. Silas, and other gentlemen do livered addressee, and denouseed the tax in strong terms. Beeolutions in accordance with these opinions were adopted, and the form of a petition to parliament agreed upon. PROTECTIONISTS AT FAULT.—It ham been, and still is, the cry of protectionists that, owing to the free,im portatios of foreign corn, land in this country cannot be tilled bat at a lees; eenseinently, It will be thrown out of cultivation, and converted, u in days of yore, into sheep walks and rabbit warrens. The following fact, however, so far a refutation of that statement :—Two bugs trace of land, belonging to Sir ammo Strickland, Bart., M.P., which for ages past have been used as sheep walk', have within the last three or four weeks been ploughed out for the purpose of grewirg corn. One of these tracts of land, containing be. tween tarty and fifty wee, is situate in the parish of Boy's , ton, and in the occupation of its owner, though not for w an t I eta tenant, far the person who occupied the sane land I until lately frequently requested leave to plough it ou t, b ut was not allowed. The other sheep walk, containing about ninety or one hundred acres, is in the parish of Owenby, and rented by Mr. Clark, of that place, along se other land belonging to the same laaldlord. Diatraesum to the tenant gamer, as th e y we l t the `resat t nes are, sure.ly th is cir cumstance doss not mach favour tho idea that lee d , in this locality at least, is in imminent danger of being M N :an out of cultivation.—Hull Adeertieer. LITERATURE. WORM in Ft MIN. By JULIA KAVANILON. Smith and Elder. 1860. • ------ --- What effect would it have upon a nation, were the position of the mats to be reversed, and were women to become masters? This is the theme that Mias Julia Havanmh seems to have undertaken tadilate upon, by depicting that long period of French history In which female influence predominated bath In the government and in society. France has certainly the credit of emancipating women. Francis the Find began that revolution, which king after king fur thered. The regime reached its highest point under Louis the Fourteenth and Louis the Fifteenth, when women were the octuacillors, the statesmen, the minis. tent of both public and private life. And it is some what remarkable that when women were deposed, or attempted to be deposed under Louis the Sixteenth, the political and social fabric fell to pieces. Miss Julia Kavanagh is evidently a writer of esprit, who has undertaken a task rather seabreux, but has got through it with great skill, delicacy, and snotty& She is, on the whole, too indulgent, and evidently dazzled by the splendour she depicts and the power she describes. And she sometimes paints as attractive what was really disgusting. But Miss K gh only follows the world in all this; and M. Thiers spoke but a general opinion when he de dyed the other da y that he preferred the . glorious profligacy of Lo uis the Fourteenth to the simplicity of either Swiss or New England republicanism. DUBLIN, MARCIE 9. The question of the abolition of the lord-lieutenancy is privately debated in all parts of the city. It would, perhape, be rather premature in me to offer an opraion as to what the majority of the citizens think u to the expediency of doing away with the vice regal court. Public meetings will no doubt be held, and the subject brought before them ; but, for the present, I may observe that those tradespeople amongst whom the patronage of such as attend the levees, and drawing-rooms, and Castle balls is divided, all say that, with the lord•lieutenancy, if it be abo lished, a very large annual expenditure will with drawn ;rom the Irish capital. Saunders News Letter of this morning contains the following: The contemplated arrangement is to create a Secretary of State for Ireland with a seat in the cabinet, and to transfer to him, by act of parliament, such of the executive rights as are at present vested in the Lord Lieutenant. The pre rogative rights will go to the Queen. This Becretsry for Ireland will have a parliamentary Under Secret►ry, and an office establishment, uniting the Chief Secretary's Office in Dublin Castle with the Irian Office in London. By the con stant residence in Idusdr.n of the Secretary for Inland, Irish members of parliament will helve the government of Ireland always on the spot, without dropping in at the Irish Office, or going to the Home Office, or wri•ing over to a Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, as at present. These arrangements will of course involve some others, and be perhaps them selves somewhat altered, but the abolition of the viceroyalty is expected to take place before the opening of next !session. Such at least it understood to be the proposed charges. An occasional visit of tee Queen is part of the plan. The county of Westmeath grand jury have adopted the following petition to parliament: - - • • - • - • That many works of arterial drainage have been cons. menced in Ireland within the last few years—that from want of funds, arising pertly from misgovernment and extrava gant expenditure on the part of the hoard of WAIS, moot of them are now inoompl.te, to the great detriment of the country at large. That your petitioners entreat you to direct advances to be made to the Lords of the Treasury for the completion of these most important works, to inch parties as may wish to finish them under such restrictions as will insure their speedy, perfect, and economical execution. _ _ _ . . The Tyrone Constitution eve that Mr. Robert Evans, of Dungannon, the agent of Lord Cast lestuart's estatcs, contradicts toe statement regarding a general reduction of rents by his lordship, whicti appeared in almost all the papers last week. A red-mama has been made upon some portions of his lordship's properties, but not in the manner or upon the scale stated. . The accounts of preparations for spring cropping are highly satisfactory; and the sowicg of wheat, which was necessarily very limited during winter, owing to the severity of the season, still continues to be carried on, and will perhaps for some weeks loner. But the chief attention of the small agricul turists is bestowed upon the potato. There is a large stock in the country available for seed. The Galway Vindicator states that a lead mine has been discovered in the neighbourhood of Gort, which contains a large amount of silver ore. At the mews now being held in various parts of the country, there have been during the present week some convictions for offences of a very serious cha racter. In Waterford, on Thursday, two men, named Downey, were found guilty of the murder of Michael Hogan, a person who had been sent to the lands cf Curragaun, in that county, to distrain for arrears of rent due by a farmer. On Wednesday, at the same amizes, four men were convicted of having made an attack on the police barracks of Cappoquin in Septem ber last. Daring the trial there were about 50 pikes, fixed upon ash poles 7 feet long, lying on the table of the Court-house. These instruments furnished strong evidence of the intention of the parties under prosecution. In Limerick, on Thursday, there was a conviction of two men for • whiteboy offence—an attack on a dwelling ; and, in the King's County, a man named John Ryan was convicted of the murder of Staff-Sergeant Grant, wbo was aesasinated in No vember, 1848, whilst on his way to Shiurone, whither he was proceeding to pay some pensioners. As yet few remarkable cases have been tried at these assizes. In Westmeath Mr. William Vise, a person holding the rank of a gentleman, has been acquitted of a charge of murder for shooting a man named Flynn, who was one of a party of men who lame to take forcible possession of a house. The ease excited a good deal of interest when the occurrence took place. Mr. Vise is married to the niece of a deceased gentleman, Captain Ogle, and was in occu pation of the family mansion at Dysart, in virtue of a will bequeathing the property to his wife, and dis- inheriting the nephews of the deceased. The latter came with a numerous party of men to take the house by force, when Mr. Vise fired and shot one man dead, wounding another. PROPOSED ALTERATIONS IN ST. PAUL'S CIIVRCII. YLUD.—A very general feeling prevails throughout the City in favour of the plan recently proposed in the Court of Com mon Council, for the removal of the cumbrous iron railings round St. Paul's Cathedral. A deputation to the Arch bishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, and Demi Mill man will be beaded by three of the City members, Sir Duke, Baron Rothschild, and Mr. Mastcrma n , an d i t i s con fidently expected that the removal will commence early in the ensuing month. A FATAL ACCIDENT IN HCNTINO, with the Shrop shire hounds, occurred on Tuesday to C. 8. Stoke+, Esq youngest soa of the Rev. J. C. H. Stokes, of Abbey Fore. gate, in Shrewsbury. The meet was at Liston Shelf, and the hounds had found at Preston Hubbele, and were in hll cry towards Battlefield, when near Preston Gubbals, oa the offside of a fence, there was a pit ten feet deep, to avoid which they had to turn on one side, and it is sup posed that, instead of doing so, Mr. Stokes' horse rushed straight over the gap and stumbled into the pool. Mr. Stokes was then unseated, and was struggling a short time with his hands and whip above the water, unable to reach the bank, apparently sinking into the mud, which was very deep. Peter Beck, Esq., of this town, who bad just passed the place, on hearing the struggle turned back, and went into the pool, but the deceased bad disappeared, and Mr. Beck found himself so fast sinking into the muddy bottom (immediately getting up to his chin) that he was obliged to return, which he only did by the assistance of a whip that was thrown to him. Assistance was obtained, but it was nearly half an-henr before the body was got out.—Eil .owes's Journal. The GAME LAWS.—On Tuesday week, the keeper to Lord Hardwick', brought a man named Peacock before the bench of magistrates at Caxton, Cambridgeshire, charged with snaring a rabbit. Peacock in his defence, said that the rabbits got into his garden and destroyed all his green crops, and as they were not reckoned game he thought he had a right to destroy them. The man was un doubtedly right, t very person is justified by law in destroy ing rabbits on land in his own occupation, without being amenable to the iniquitous game laws. The game procrving Salons who occupy the magisterial seats at Canton thought different, and committed the man to pri.on—thus log his family on the parish and the man on the county for kis maintenance. It is high time for Mr. Bright, or some other member, to secure the repeal of these atrocious feudal laws.—Catnbriii,e Advertiser. BUIIGLARIEs IN EAST SUSSEL—For eeveral weeks past the inhabitants, both of the turn of Lewes as well as of the neighbourhood, have suffered considerable fear And ap prehension from the uotorious gang of burglars who suc ceeded in their nefarious practices at Willingham and at Lures, being at large Warren w were issued by the Lewes magistrates for the apprehension of several suspected persons, and on Thursday the police riceived their orders of pro cedure, and before one o'clock at night they had secured live prisontirs,vit.Gawer,Carey, Riehardsongunnell, and Darby, and safely lodged them in the Lewes police station. The men underwent an examination before H. Blackman and U. Motion'', Elva. us Friday afternoon, at the House of Cot• reati,,e, and remanded. Several witnesses were examined, but the laristigatiou was strictly private. *' . \ ,4 11111111110 •46. ' IP 1 1 11 I I t I 4 ' 4