The Express. — London, England, 1850-01-02 00:00:00

10 0- ot r 0 OF REPRESENTATIVES. oios—Tness ism) web person in 0 . e house. ' .r. Droo—l think so. v 4;-*==iih;r;lita7 are alias. he rn of rer ir- :re ire he .he Wit 1 of "u we.b.we (francs —se 400,000 k), siege this i s hem , i ;;;.„ Th ee liesres deserve emotions. Add Ibis, that it i v ...es seteritese tee the lest twisty years that the mediae ime et cereals is Belgium, espeeielly shies the separation 0 ,. L.b.:re se d Lusentbury, is inodeqeato to the cos. ..„, r ,,e, aid yet the esporu of 1849 have • iterwded the int p I's In the tan of such facts it mance be diesied that the 4:; a Trrwt. newt be attribeted to tariffs. This dseeseia „., ; e f fusive is other maws. Tbis is so 011/111* that is y r i,v,l.y the optimise of the sliding male whisk the law ~ . 0 .: estisliehed them, there has this berm all satire 0.. .. i. „ ,„/ cosign pais, satire she has fall's as low atesn er es 1:t is «ma distrists. It is mph, that it Ens. i r', line ithicandinst the easemeus Jamas' is the isipoets r . ,t- years. the actsal amuse pries (40s. the quarter) is k., z t t has it has bees knows to be (36a.) under the former r.:. rya' ea Te e eosclusion drawn from there fees by the liscle ! ',re is, .. Th tt to seek in euntome tariffs the r. / . . 2 . ~,f con i er ri+ g fixity in the pries of grain is s:rargilr to d ludo one's self,—is to pursue a real et.mera." liw writer from whom we bare b en quoting goes r t., ask : " whether these tariffs exercise no oda- Is ~,,. up.si micas . lle maintains that they exercise stmt i: norm*, and a most mischievous and den p Will one. They are fearfully felt when, as in 8e1 g.1.-11. g.1.-11. the pr7eluce of tbe country is inadcquive for the ( „,., uni rrilo,„ When there is any extra sho-tcoming t, et sec.:. rate three: of price% Thee do or t always d. this in a marner to bent tit the proiuccr, but they t iw xv • do it in a manner to injure the consumer. ... •- u:d it he isle, thee. to refire the price of bread by artill ca; means at *kis Melee et," protordauser author," seeing that fr iOse•te and moos peetielthirli since ISO, the et:lomM,, et lies...d meow, the wofkiltell (end we embrace ua er this came the &orient:oral labourer as •. 11 as the maautaturing operative) has bete ohl , i ted to impose so Wee) prients•ve es hittleell on semiat of the high prior of It is only a year dace bread has been at anything like s m 'dew, peke ; it is lowly a few months since it tiou:d be esl•eit chesp. It is only within this bide( puled that the ie. urn. otter providing for the sae:mance of his family, pas psweweil a surplus to expend On clothing and furniture. sat to me bins somewhat the appearance of well doing. It a it w months the* he has been enianeipateit from a e. 0: normal divassteat. We &polo wit, is it politic ander ci-estastencis to talk of veldt', the price of food by tAstett the duties on its ialpOftati.n ? We may be allowed r. mine: the rejectors of such a measure that we are not yet r r oath removed from the storms of 1818 to have any ex• for Wee•-teina the ham they taught us." fa haeiteitikinee proceeds to comment on the f of having recourse to artificial means of raising pric: of bread when ere long it must rise of its z ..ccod. It is imp sisible that in Belgium, where •.4 con.umption exceeds the production, grain can 4 1 : continuo at a low price. The writer affirms that :Er p: ice of grain would actually have riven ere now L.! it not Nees for the unscrupulous efforts of the of high dines to disseminate a belief that a ;.- her Lill was iropetclicg. lie concludes with these v : ,•augniostation of duties on imparted grain proposed etar. - 1 committee appointed to report on the Lill tor the duties on food, has not y.t been noted, aua hope it teem will h... Already its promeen declare the augmentati n proposed is not sunioicut ; that they only as a Missiles to acre rigorous system of t..ian. This frank conteMon, whi:h is embodi din the r of the central committee, is a fresh warning to the ;.ents of high duties, sad to all who bdieve that chimp is an important Mum% in the melioration of the ..r.r's colditton. It is now evident that the affveted Too- of the partisans of an ultra•protective system is a r-tori..l flourish, and that if they succeed, they wi 1 es•ily persuaded to halt in their victorious much. IN THE. UNITED STATES' HOUSE Inc following extract from an account of the .4 Ow Route of Representative. (referred to by nu ctrcspondint is hie letter yesterday) os the 13th December, ▪ ecavey some ides of the manner in which sii.casties Is coned •-n by °train members of that body : Mr. Daunts, of Mississippi, a &red a reett'ntion, that the 11. n. H. Cobb be aad he is hereby ehoeen Speaker of the aw the 314 Congress. He stud that be drew theme. :.• on without eoneraltatios with any of his political frieads, r • arterst Kivu g rotic2 that he intended to offer it. It was se.: gasmen that the democratic patty had a 'majority is the but they c..uld not coacentrate their power. The free *..ere helot ging to both partite refseed to tar it. with either. demo*ratic party, being in a majority. should have the sa .k r. He spoke for himself only when he said that he • williag for • fair 0i1...M0n of the offices. The gentleman :r a North Carolina (Mr. Stanley) yesterday said that he • a Jemteratie Speaker. MA. STA.:4ILT expl.ine.t. What he said was, that sooner trs. the IL..sa die : rgartised, he would take a democratic m. An. hut how cud the gentleman know the democrats tie* a arijority ? Mr. 111.UTT:C replied, that if the free soi!ers wcn divided , mling to their political p. /ties, the dcmocrate would t... e araj city of one. The absence of King, of Georgie, t --.try, of Teatime*, and Julian, of Indiana, gave them snaky of fin. Hr. Bril. LA (of Pa.) proposed a resolution, leaving a Ask for the Marion of the name of the person who shall, cc the nett trial, mein the highest another of votes. It c eir.!tiou, then the next highest. Mr Trommoox (of Penn) *ffer.d a resolution that the :platten pirated to vote by ballot for speaker, and continue t....a.1es swill/ear o'clook to-day ; and ao motion to adjoura 41 any other, shall be received until the snivel of that Lr. He urged the adoption of the resoltriem. Mr. COWL& offered as amendment "That any person • co.hall be eluded B.4llllger shalt b - divested of the power ! e.l strut the Dietriet of Col.mbia and Territorial C. m -Leven, sad that the same be made by a vote of tee h A/10." Le yielded to linamis, of Tennessee, who said that he was one el :• •• she v.ited for Brews epos throe several bellotinr ; he being deceived by tte gentleman feta Indiana. . , Sir CAST= 1 , 1111114;41, sad coudewserd the ridiculous • node of the lieue—esskleg &grave i.ette la • eeresesoisi Loewy. Us thought that tW was below the manhood of • H. prept.wel to !needy the difficulty is the row It was oaly by iteepirip up the subterranean slimed . m.jwity was crippled la its sentiments. Slsios cometvid t►u r either of the propositions nee► the evil *Matas,. It was the ematease bad pasty that tamed the trouble. If os the or . .. •.:ira toe house. prop:aldose were to be bimodal:4 ►'every in the dietrict of Columbia, or prohibit ry in the territories, he trusted is God that his eyes had •-.dv Testy! on Use :net ape ker el the house. The south • . d mat ell eggresei ow, sad the mistime of every man's that seatiem would be steel. Raul, in a hasnorom spank said that the proposition .r Cant 1' mu Ulm tie play of Hamlet, with the character . lisivivt vendee-I. We were to home a splaer who was v. sppootot the coamiotees. He would not vote for any vo wLn was not eonopetest to appoint the committees '.um I. 11 th, re is to be a Woodall= of the union, let it babes the home is organised, and it would not then be ...a. ( Lachter.) He wanted to be excluded from the that his conatititeata might know how hiivof;4l. Mr Drina said that the resolution of Mr. brown, is • it. called upon the Whigs to take an unconditional sw um He would vote for anybody but a diaunioniat to -et the their. -..—.—.. Mr. ban pointed to Mr. Meade. Mr hi/ALS-11W gootlomaa charges am with being • .41.iusiet it it haw. snediatelyllrilf•ide ►eft ►is seat on the opposite side • • •`.•. hal% and ru.hed towards Mr. Doer. The parties were than four feet span, when members rushed be• +••en. There were cries of "tight." The Bergeant-at- Alms harried down with the ni.ce of office in hr hand •.s were cries of order. Lobby members amounted the •ceaee. Mr. Shade beckoned Mr. Doer to follow bins totunde. There were notioas to sdjourn, and the tor . stei• posuhle dioirder. :• a few minutes quiet was rester, d, and Mr lit cu, titer boggier ths pardon of the Louse for his r•rdott, resumed an•r concluded his speech. Re thought if tatiaSin adj Aimed fo► a 'lay they could then come ‘lr. .1.,)111h• made an energetic speech, reviewing the of the Free Soilers and Abolitionists, and lomat ': ~ psa southern rights. Rather than submit to further trim be north, the sout► would resist. He hid Mutation it, saying that he was for disunion, it this state st •hu.gs •could cootie lAO. Ist southern mesalsen applauded him throughout his Mr proposed to have another trial for the 1 .• a:ker • en.i wade some further remarks. Sir L A WU is favuur of the Wilmot proviso. He ei • that the people of the north were opposed to union • esemg suer doctrines, and contended that the majo : . •.4 pr..vent the extension of slavery. In conclusion, • the union, and did not think it would be dissolved. If. .14 SW) lauded. % I'"rn Colcoek, Walling, Hilliard, and Stephens, of •r.s, concur:. d in the views expressed by Mr. Toombs. '•• Wdinut proviso and abolish slavery is the district , 61.14'.i,A. end the union would be dimulved. de wr Ileveland, Allen, and McClrrnand mule remarks ' e sg vise seethern selAisealis g, basks. demand toythat he iddressed a letter Bruen, being hen—l. Whether he wee in favour of • t%••aot provi•u d 2. Whether he believed that Con r... P rot s ad • abolish slavery in the district of, • 111 'sot' He was pointed by Mr. Brown to his speech, klr they or feu lean ante. I.4olkali Impressed his opinion that, to far from an ' aloht to worm iss the house on sectional grounds, ~nouaty Iliad seises from the effort to prevent an or • ..a oil soca grounds. He concurred to much said by e•s•isaisa from Uweeia (Mr. Toirsh9, but thouiht 't ty• nut* 6 i alarm h a d been sounded too soon tor the 41 . 11411ANALL NI Kentucky) was in favour of a gentle. lweevnt'ng any extreme for Speaker, and hopvi •• ry 44 1 ).• devoted to th e i n t erests o f the 'own/ her o'd , tk. The house main voted lira voce. •••• I.o‘. , - • *trio Nraqated mama a tlwen caneitlatti, and •rsa adpazaul. MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE AT NIAGARA. The Dared Advertiser gives the following particle lars of the maysteriens death of Mr., Miller, daughter of the He. John Novell, Ist* United Sates senate, of Detrolte and the wife of Mellor Miller, of the army, now in Florida. Ting , lady /Imbed the Eagle Hotel, at Niagara, hem Wisettester, Va., eta the 28th ult., with her two little boys, four and six year' old. She disuppeand doting the light, but sundry letters, her geld wateb, a purse with some 4 de liars in rain, all the ornamental parts of her hair, two Wrath% wed • very frafolothes, her weddiag ring, the., were fendon her chamber Welt. Among the note. were the rallovriog Nuoen Feu.", Nov. 26.—Evening Hos. J. Norrall, U. S., Drariet Megrim, any diar father and mother, this is wham the last letter ynu will receive limn me. I hide's I left Winchester for Pittabseoh, by way of Philratelphis ; but somehow I got bete. I don% know how, for I sever travelled it alone before. Take good sera of two dear Elle boys. I neended, I think, going to Detroit; but do all you can for my child's's. My little girl is is heaven. I hop e to join her some My head aches almost he distraction sow. Grad bye, dear parents, brothers sad straw. Don't forget to do all you cas for Msjur Miller. He has always Nem • kind husbased.--As ever, our affec tionate daughter, I. G. Mitten Ta. Advertiser thus proceeds in the further history of the OW: Her two Dor e, the oldest of whom is upwards of six years of age, say that on the night of their arrival at the Falls, their mother put them to bed and bade them good bye ; when they awoke on the moroino of Tuesday, the 27th of November, they as weal went to the bad in which they sup posed she had slept. etee b.d not, apparently, bees in the bed. They rang the bell Toe bar keeper came up to the room. They asked for their mother. He knew nothing of her disappearance. He observed the letters noticed above, and gave the alarm. Upos the Cann being glen of her disappearance, much excitement lock place ea the village, sod different persons wad parties set nut in 'each of her. Finally, her new silk bosun or leried, trust led upon, wu found in the abutment et the bridge wrach lead. from the main shore to Goat Island about 200 irat from the shore. Her crape shawl, turn into three pints, tied together by very bud haw, was tarteced to the raids*, apparently to let herrall down, Hest to the ahatmente, and tten to lower hetselt still further towards the rapid current which sweeps over the V. 11.. This is the left trace which could he discovered of her. as fir as regards her meditated self distraction. Mts. Willer, with her children, arrived et Buffalo os Sunday morning, the 25:b of November, aid went in • carriage to the Lovejoy House. She then opened 6a 1 re ad th e letter a bleb was headed to her at the depot. Finding that she had wide& whisk, in going to that house, she ap prised the landlord of it, expressing herself perfectly satis fied with her accommodations, but said she bad • friend, or acme triende, at the Eachange, and desire a to go there. Upon the suggestion of the landlord, she 'mote a snort note to some one at the Eactange, and rem toed where the was foe brczkfast. In • few minutes, • man came from the Eschew, sad inquired for the lady who had ant ior ! im. ' She was notified of his arnval. She mid that she would see him in the public pul we. Asoroiegly, she came down, saw this person a moment, and after tereektret ordered • carriage to take her end her children to the Exchange, where she remained till the next morning, which w.,s the morning ou wMeh, at nine o'clock, she proceeded in the ears to the Falls of Niagara. At the Exchange, she was not seen in c enapany with the stranger who had gone from that hotel (oche Lovejoy Reuse, in compliance with her nose. When she went in the rare in the morning, this man did Lot atconway her, but WAS seeu neer toe cars, and direct d the conductor to put the lady rate them. Tree conductor, &gentlemanly man, was strode with the appearance of the two boys, took them in his arm', I al d placed them in the car where their mother was. When I they arrived at the Falls, the SOM. conductor vire kindk agate took the eteldreo, carried them to the Eagl thee then returned tot their :Mother. He had but one wheelie It was raining. Hence the necessity of two tries On tne Tuesday prior to the arrival of Mrs. Miller at the I Falls, • stranger came to the Eagle tavern at thet place, and put up. The book-keeper requested him ogees or twice to eater his name. He +electoral, took up the pea, clot. er Henry," threw it down, and raked the book-keeper to I finish the rue saying that die Sneers were cold. and giving his same as Henry Blekemer. 04 the 1 huredae after he 1 1 arrived at th e Exchange en Buffalo, ana remained there ' several days. In the ouok of t:..at Louse Le en.trA his name, with similar r.lucuruce, Ls Henry linkemer, of Philadelphia. This man is repreerated to have been from live feet six to eight inches in height, thin in p non and visage, with dark eye., dark hair, dark whiskers, mastachioa. and • large quantity of bar and nude, his chin. He occasionally wore a hat, sod then • cop. occaeLmally he pas' on spec tacit*, to which he was evidently unaccustomed HIS deport ment was restless, aid his mooons sieves'. He kept • cos ecant look out lOT the Eastern cars, and directed the porter of the Eschen re to notify every time they arr.ved. Hie whole coudact demonstrated that be was nut • gentiesua in feeling or MIIIIIISIIII. Whoa he arrived at the Each., re, he insisted epos a bargain to pay only for the mule of which he actually patio k, and refused to give anythir g ter • bed the night he purposed to leave Buffalo f r Ton .wands. In imaging a buggy and pair of horses at a livery stable, he complained of the price, and induced the oeser to reduce it. Late on Monday arterevoe, the 26th N mthr, haveug essaged the horses and buggy, he set oft, a. he said, towards Tosawanda--eaying that it was Mayor ant that le sh aid go two miles below that place the Same night. The next morning, at trine o'clock, lane before day light, he arrived, with a lady, at the Manakin House, m Buffalo; sad the two left that may in the last :rein of Eastern ears, at five o'clock the same. morning. The man wanted tickers ter Cayuga lake, hut on being :old that way *wets were not given out, h• took them for come other stoppi n r point. Mr. Fargo telegraphed to this city to know whether he should despatch a police-officer m pursuit of the parties. He was immediately requested to do to. Accordingly an etNcer proceeded ell along the route to New Yee It, die covered the trace of them, and, in the city, could e oily learn that two persons, corresponding in description, bed (ewes towards Poilaraphia. 'toe *Seer was then, b. telegraphic despatch, directed to follow see to Yhiladelpbis , and, it he could learn note hog there, to return to Buffalo. The only evidence lending to the conclusion that Mrs. Miller was the lady brought back in the buggy by the die. plied stranger, is the fact of his handing bra letter; their swim each other in Buffalo, leer going to the Estima t es, his leasonai about the cars when she lilt lee tbe F ells, sad the ' also ete tae person, on arriving at the Mansion House, appear ing le be that of Km Miller. No ane saw her fete. She was thickly veiled, and may, though that ia uncertain, have Worn a black straw hat, which she bad with her. lo this relating, embeseiag all the asaterial facts now knows here os tt a suleject. it is pre-per to ado, that at Win skeeter the infant daughter of Mts. Miller was distressingly ill fur several months. Of course she telt called on to devote her days and nights to the sick bed of the child A yourg mother, with an ardent attachment, seldom equalled, to her children, her unremitted attentions, her sleepless vigils, her lose of rest, made heavy drafts upon her constitution and mind. In her letters to her mother she evinced an admi rable spirit of fortitude, bat 'irrationally intimated that. the absence of all rest, and her distress of heart, had affected her health in venom ways. That she could have placed herself in the power of a streamer, left her pour little orphan children several hunched miles from any of their retail; as, helpless, thrown upon the mercy of persons to whom they were unknown, —that she could have done so, blighting the hopes and albedo.% humiliating the pride, vanishing the repute. tion, lacerating the feelings, of her fam ly and cones:tens, is still note beyond the possibility of belief. II she left ilie Falls with the peregi described, he must have bees a mere agent. All her tastes, all her habits, all her previous sentiments, must have cawed her to merit from seek an association. FATAL VISIT TO TIl ICE.—Two BROTHERS I DZUW/1111D.—An accident as the to. occurred near Ciren. I costar on Saturday, by with& two of the eons of Mr. Thomas draper, lest their lives. On the sheet of water in the park belonging to Rail Bathurst, the 'onager portion of the inhabitants of the to en are in the habit of skating and sliding, after sufficient frost to make the ice bear. On Satur day last there had been two day.' severe frost, and it was thought that the ice was of sufficient eons:steney to bear the weight of skaters. Accordingly. many people restated thi ther to recreate themselves. All west on well till about four o'clock in the afternoon, when Dosiel Bovrly, aged about 12 years, was paas,r.g the middle of the pond, where the lee, it Is prentmed fr at the high wind had not bees so frozen as elsewhere, as it broke, and the you'h task Into the water. An elder brother, named Thome., aged 14, who had a few days previously returned home from school at Walton. near Ba th , seeing his brother fall into the water, ce rushed in after him, and iu • fruition effort to save brother he also sunk. Perceiving his danger, he endeavoured to catch at the edge of the ice meant him, but l it broke in his grasp. A ladder and some ropes were speedily procured, but the spar of the ladder to which the rope was bedewed broke, and after several ineffectual efforts to seize the rope, which be could not hold, it is conjectured, from the benumbed rate of his hand., the poor youth uttered a cryof agony and sunk to a watery grave. It is suppoted that the my was occasioned by the seizure of cramp. Drags were speedily procured. but some time elapsed before the bodies could be menrod. In the meantime MOM +. Th. e. Warner and Crippe laorgamm, had arrived, and had tamed the necessary sppLi. ' amess—hot water and a fire—to be provided at the nearest 'home, that of Mr. Bolton, at the Lodge Wee. Is about three quarters of an hour the bodies were recovered, sad im mediately taken to the how* above named, where they were rubbed, and every ma'am which human art could suggest was used, but all was of no avail. A tly was then obtained, and the !stylise were taken to the residence of the grand. father, Mr. Richard Solely. draper, in the Market Place, there to await the coroner's Inquest The inhabitants of the tzetzmseed deep and heartfelt sympathy for the grief ly felt by the numerous in .miters of • highly ' respected family. Mr Thomas B iwly, the father of the ',deceased, was at the time in London, Mr. was expected to return that night. We bear that the eldest brother, Richard, who had also returned from school fir the Christmas boll. days, WAS kept b,ck by ford., or he would bays rushed into the water, in an attempt to save his brothers, and probably have shared their fate. ACCIDENT FROM BREAKING A BOTTLE.—On Christ mas day, as 8 'fillet', Raj , of Hill House, Leaden, Cul I:hirer, was ia the act of drawieg a net from a bottle, the week broke, wad his left hand was so much lacerated, that pe became quit* ralbau fed from lose .1 Wood. Mr. Morris, jurgeun, succeeded in ropping the 'il cal, but Mr. Tillett Sas been since confined to hi. bed. Tue wound is going on favourably, although the complete restoration of hia hand cannot he expected fur a etmaiderzliln time.—lparicA Ezionsa. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, 1850. Vbe Court. WINDSOR, Her Majesty's New Y ear ' s Gifts of meat, bread, ems. potatoes, igankets, sad clothing, were distributed this ssoening to the aged, infirm, and distressed poor of Windier and its vicinity, in the presence of the Quom and Prisms Albert, and the Royal famiiy, his Royal Highness Price, George of Cambridge, the ladies and gentleman in waiting, end the Ron. and Rev. 0, Wellesley (domestic sharpie to her Majesty). The distribution took place in the Riding school. Their Royal Higheoeses the Doke and Daehen of Cam bridge (attended by a gentlemen and lady in waiting), her Royal Highness the Prioress Mary of Cambridge, and his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Huse, are expected to arrive at the Castle this eeening free Hew, on a visit to her Nejestv and the Prince. The Royal discs, party at the Carle this evening includes her Royal Highness the Derbies of Kent, their Royal High noses the Duke and Duchess of Canihridp, Princess Masy ' of Cambridge and Prince George of CunWiege, his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse, the ladies and gentle men in attendance on their Royal Highnesses, the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Colonel HOG. C. B. Phipps, the Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell, Colowl the Hon. C. Grey, and Mr. Glover. The following had the honour of Bing invited after dinnir : Genes 1 and Lady Isabella Wemyes, Hon. Mrs. C. B Phipps, Hon. Mrs Charles Grey, Sir George, Lady, and Miss Cooper, Hon. Mies Lytteltou, and Miss Pi.JeCarew. The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Tu , s lay, the Bth January, at Windsor Castle. Summonses were lamed yesterday to the ministers and °Moen of oats. The Earl and Countess Granville left town on Monday for Paris. Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governor of Bermuda and also for the Governors all the West India colonies. __ HER SERENE ntonNess THE Dumm; IDA OF SAII Waimea (.1..., of ("wen As:Wilde), accom panied by tee Princes Edward and Gustavus, and the Price cents Anne and Amelia, embarked on board the Prircess Alia steamer, at Dever, at noon, on Monday last, for Calais, a guard of honour heicg in attendance to receive the Duchess and family at that szeport. Her Serene Highness and party, after a pleasant passage across the Channel, reached Calais shortly before 2 o'clock, and at came repaired to the Hotel Detain. Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar there took farewell of the Duchess, and returned by the Princess Alice to Dover, returning to London by the last train The Duchess and family were to leave Calms yesterday morning by railway for Ghent, Mom last mght's Gower...) WirrrniALL, Dtc. 28.—The following address of condolence to the Quern, on the occasion of the death of her late Majesty Queen Adelaide, having heen transtai:ted to the Right 11 'mineable Sir George Grey, Bart , her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Deput ies nt, Icr presentation, was presented accordingly to her Majesty, w►o was phased to receive the same very graciously :—At a .pecisl meeting of the corporation of the city of Doblin, bed at the Royal Exchange, on Wed nrsday the 12 It cloy of December 1849, it was unanimously resolved, " That we, the council of the borough of Dublin, do moat respectfully and I usably convey to her Most °racists , Majesty the Queen, and to his R lel Highness Prince Albert, our deep sympathy and sincere condolence upon the melancholy event of the decease of her late Majesty the Q seen Dowager—a lady highly distinguished for her charities andhrr domestic virtues." WHITEHALL, DEC. 29.—Th• Queen has been toed t direct lettere patent to be passed under the Brent l, waiving the cliotity of a Knight of the United King. door of (heat Britain and Irel-nd, unto William JeCcott. E.q., litcorJtr of Prince of Wales' Island, Singapore, and Manic A. -.- - Leows-oerics, Dec. 31.—Member returned to serve in this present Parliament for the borough of New Shoreham:—Alexander Francis Charles Garcon Lennox, commonly call, d bitL.urt Alexander Francis Charks Gordon Lennox, a the room of Charts Gurii g, EN., deceased. LONDON DOCK COMPANY. Yesterday the half-yearly general meeting of this company took plate at the establishment in Priam...street, Blink, sad W:l3 numerously attendtd. Jots CATtLEY, E. q., hark g taken the chair, Toe tsECRETARY read the notice convening the meet ing, and the minutes of th 3 former 'nesting, which were contirmeit. The report of the director was thou read to the meeting, from which it appeared that the number of loaded chips from foreign ports that entered the docks during the six month, ending the 3d:11 of November wee 780, measuring 200,012 tone ; for the corresponding period of 1818 the .umber was 983, measuring 234,436 tow. The amqunt of the company's earnings for the six months was 247,388/. Br. 81. ; in the like period of 1848 they were 231,3901 4.. Id. Although the amount of tonnage entering the dock. h►d diminished the revenue of the company lord increased. The large increase of grain lodes vessels brought but mall ue to the cram• patty. The cxpeldliture ul the half-year was 139,2G0/. 100. 4d.; the UMW fur 1848 wail, 132,9071. Ils. 91. The annexed rudiment cf profit and lo , s chewed • balance of 247.9.541. 2.. Ild , out of which the directors recommended the proprietor to agree to a dividend of 7I10;. - ;;;c7,747;; the company's stack (or the half year amounting to 90,9671. 12s 3,1 , leaving a balance in favour of the company of 156,0367. 10s. Bd., from which was to be deducted a sum of 15,0001. appropriated to ntw works, reducing the balance of profit to 33,9391. Toe balance of 189,6031. standing to the credit of profit and loss, consisted of sums outstanding and due to the company for goods in their warehnuses. The stock of goods in the warehouses was 127,835 tons. The directors had been compelled to proceed with measures for effecting additional warehouse en cominodation' fur the important Gruel, of indigo in parley lay, for which they would appropriate their remaining plot of potted oo the twist quay, the works to be completed about the 'Biddle of the pis sent }car. The outlay on this account goad be about 62,0001. The accounts were then read by the secretary and were approved. A PROPRIETOR coked what was the average interest Of the &beaters,. The CHAIRMAN earl that a portion of the interest was at 34; some amounts were at 4y. The average interest being caresser their dividend, made it for their advantage to have the money so placed icstead of being in stock. He would now merely reati:.d the proprietors that the accounts "mold lay at the office for the inspection of any proprietor. He could say, in addi-ion to what was stated in the report, that the;directors did their best to bring business to their docks, and although their ships had not ineressed during the half year, he hoped the propri.ton would not think that the directors bad the lees performed their duties. (Hear, hear.) If they had decreased in bomber, the quantity of goods had increased in the last half year, and their receipts of money had also considerably iberessed. It would be the duty of the director' to do all iu their power to maintain and im. prove the position of the company. (Applause ) A dividend at the rate of 21 10s. per cent...n the com pany's stock for the halt year ending the 31st December last, free of income tax, was then declared. Toe report was adopted unanimously. Two scrutineers were then appointed is take the ballot for a director in the place of Mr. Gore, deceased. The CHAIRMAN said they Lad to regret the death of their live friend, Mr. Clore, and in selecting a successor to that geothnen, the board thought they Gould not submit • better name than that of Lis son-in-law, Mr. George Mar. shall, who had for • long time been • valuable customer to their docks. (Hear, hear.) A PROPRI:.TOR asked when the dividend would be ready. The CHAIRMAN replied, on the Bth instant, so that parties coming to the Bank might call there at the same time for their div id end. Mr. TWINING had great pleasure in finding every hell year and every year the same correctness and zeal on the part of the directors to promote the interests of the company, in which it seemed they were entirely successful. It was there fore with great pleasure that he would propose—" That the thanks of the proprietors be given to the board of directors for their valuable 'leviers in promoting tho interest of the company." (Applause.) The resoLittan was peseed MM. con., and the chairman having returned thanks, the meeting adjourned. EDUCATION lit TEI BART INDIEB.—In the state ment respecting the rn , nay 'eroded in education in the Rut ladle+, the various sums were, by a printer's urn, made pounds sterling, hafted of rupees. WEIGHING DEPARTMENT GP THE BANK OP Exoutnu. —One of the meet interesting and astonishing departments within the whole compass of the Bank of Eng land is the weighing department, in which, with the rapidity of thought, and a precis;on approaching W the hundredth port 01 • grain, the weight of the gold coins are determined There are rim weighing machines, kept working by the DIM agency which supplies all the mechanical power In the Bank, and three weigher' attend to these. Rolls of sovereigns, or haltsovereigns, are placed in grooves, and are shaken, one at • time, by the motion of the 'machine, into the weights. If they are of standard weights they are thrown by the same mechanical intelligs nes into the b .1 at the right hand side of the person who watches the operation ; if they have lost the hundredth part of a grain they are cast into a box on the left. Those which stand the test are put into bags of one thousand sovereigns oath, and them below par are cut by a machine, and sent back to the Mint. B-tween one and two thousand tluht sovereigns are thus daily sent out of circulation. The silver is put up into bags each of one hundred pouads value, and the gold into bags of a thousand, and then these bag fuls of bullion are sent through a strongly guarded door, or rather window, into the treasury. The treasury is a dark gloomy apartment, fitted up with iron presses which are supplied with huge locks and bolts, and which are perfectly tiro proof. Gold, silver, end paper money ready fir circulation, to the entrust of twenty-two millions sterling, were in the treasury when we visited it. One of the gentlemen in that department placed one thousand sovereigns in our hand, and at the same time pointed to seventy bags full of gold in the little nano which he had thr mn open, making in all the modest sumo( seventy thousand pounds. Hr placed notes to the *mount of half • million els t upon our palm, which no doubt had its own asations as the prachius depoeit trembled on its top. The heeds of the departments moot in the treasury every even• leg, and then, all the ac.ounts are balanced —flogg's MAN bolreutor. ANNUAL CIRCULARS. SPIRIT OF THE LIVERPOOL BROKERS' At a late hour last night we (Liverpool Standard) sacaseded in getting copies of the annual circulan of some of our leading broaen; and we now proceed to give their cements, or their substance, referring our readers for the statistics ribliabed in the tabular forms at the loot of this article. We take flint the cotton circular, authorised by 30 of the principal firms of this town, which supplies the follow ing partinalars : " no total import into this port during the present year Us amounted to 1,732,219 bales, bein g an i n c rease of 165,321 bales as compared with last year, and of 643,983 bales as with that of 1847. This export from this poet amounts to 184,050 bales, against 142,000 bales in 1848, and 138,600 bale, in 1847. ' The stock in Liverpaol, as declared this day, le 468,170, against 393,340 bales in 1848, and 306,630 belts in 1847. " The total deliveries for home consumption (tenths ports of the United Kingdom are 1,597,603 bales, being en average weekly delivery of 30,690 bales, against 28,948 bales in 1848, and 21,269 bales in 1847. " Sire Friday there has been an active demand, sod the sale* have been extensive, amounting to 16,230 bales, of , which 4,630 bales to speculators at an e dvance of il. upon American and Brasil descriptions. The stock as declared this day exceeds the wham*, 96,487 bales, but the eff e ct upon else market has not been yet felt. The arrival of the Canada from Boston puts as in possession of later intelli gence, which varies little from previous accounts. The re °clots continue heavy, but the estimate, of the crop do not vary from prrvi .ugly expressed opinions of its ultimate turn out, being about 2,250,000 Wes." Messrs. Haywood and M'Viecar gate their views at Very gnat length, and we must therefore take the liberty to abridge them a little. After remarking spun the increase of consumption in 1849 of 1,660 bales per week over that of IB4B—the average in 1849 being 30,611 this year against 28,944 last year, which is an ipotesi of about 7,000 per week over 1847—thes e gentlemen proceed to detail the various changers in pekes which bare taken place during the put veer, consequent upon eonflictitig opinions me lo the yield of the crop at different periods of the year. We com menced the year with the expectation that the yield would not exceed 2,400,000 hales, which, however, ultimately re sulted in a crop of 2,728,0U0 bales. Cade r this idea, aided by a general improsion that trots was about to take a favourable turn, we had an animated demand in January and a partial advance, counteracted to some extent by tarp arrivals and a disposition on the pot of importers to realise at current rates. In February mere spirit was evinced ; but in March the prospects of trade in India and other causes stilt rates back. In the following two months increased estimates were circulated, and the renewal of the Daniell war, with the unsettled state of Germany, so arr. sted the demand in Manchester for yarns that the market wee only kept steady by the indispotion of im porters to sell at a lose. The same state of thine e s continued up to May, but at this time we had reports of severe injury to the crop from frost, which tended to strengthen the mar he'. In June and July corroborating accounts continued to arrive, and prices advanced. Moue. Haywood and M'Vicear coignes : _ "It was about this time also, that is, the end of June, that in addition to the front of April, novices of seri .us inunda tions of the Mississippi and of Red River, as well as losses of slaves from cholera, were transmitted, and these were so cir cumstantial in their details as to lead to the almost certainty that, whatever might be the future amelioration in the wea ther for the remaider of the season, the growth of 1849-60 must be one•fifth lees theta that of 18411.49. It is this hypo thesis, backed by an extraordinary consumption, which, up to this day, has, with some fluctuation, maintained the up. ward tendency of the market, and given to it a &muss and a position little foreseen at the beginning of the year; and one whtch, withoot toe us. emitted events alluded to, could never have been inagiord, sunposusg the crop Lad for one aperient been cenctaved to turn out what it has really proved. In July the average purchases of spinners amounted to 40,000 bales per week, wisest speculators took an average of 28,000 belts weekly darieg the same period. August, again, was a month of most extensive operations, and of important rise, the sales amounting to no less than 284,800 bales. September was dull, but prices remained firm, the trade buying little daring the whole of the mouth. In October 366,000 bales, and the advance realised was id. per lb. The stocks, which at the beginning of the month were 20,000 bales more than at the Fame period last year, were, at the close of the month, 90,000 bale. lest Transactions so large naturally incurred with the business in November, which was limited, and as the ad. from toe States were rather more favourable as to the season, the trade kept more and more aloof, under the expec'ati..n that holders would be disposed to give way in irices. Specie eters, however, remained COLfitlent, and purchased 78,1.100 bales during the month. December has beau a varied period of singular reprice, so ter as the character of the market has been cot cerced. NVI h esch succeeding packet there his been such a variety of estimates as to c• Wound the most intelligent. The north and south have differed fr ins 300,000 to 400,000 bales in their r. ports, and whilst from New York 300,000 bale", and even more have been named as a path!' crop, New Orleans, Cearles ton, and other important places, have stated 2,200,000 bales to be the extreme. With so groat a discrepancy, holders have periodicilly been smutted by alternate hope and leer, and as the one or the other feeling pre dominwe el, the market h.a sympatbised accordingly. During the first two or three weeks, and under a certain impression of disappoiotment, prices gave way some little, but the cheering accounts of business in India, and a very animated market in Man. thaw, together with the advice' by too American pacatt of the Ilth ult., strengthening very much the previous lose estimates, have led to large transactions during the last and the present week, both by spe:ulators and the trade, and the market closes at the quotations of the 30th ultimo. Com pared with those of the Ist of January last, prices are now 21d. per lb. higher in American, 1;el. in liras 1, id. in Egyptian, and lid. in Surat cotton " The real stocks on hand, as declared authentically, are less in accordance than usual with the ordinary weekly re ports; but the operations of the year have been io unwind. baled as to render exactitude a matter or great difficulty. The difference does not, however, interfere with our y,eneral reasoning, nor will its bearing upon the suture be lurked upon as important, esp dally it the estimates of crop received this day by the packet of the 19th ult., which are very con• siderably below 2,300,000 bales, be found to be ne,r the truth. If the stock here be larger than anticipated by 80,000 bales, it is probable that the supply in the spinners' hands is so mach the less, so that whether the cotton be here or in the interior. the issue must ultimately be the same. The following are the met important of their mini stions, as to the probable 'nciation of the market for the raw mate rial for the year upon which we have now entered. After expressing a doubt whether the existence of the present abundance of currency e n exercise any Important result upon prices, Messrs. Haywood proceed : " In a inclusion, then, fruitful as former years have been in experiences, and in results differing from nticipetions, and open as the put has ever been to vicimitude, yet this year may perhaps be considered the moat remarkable on record. With an American crop larger than yet known, even supposing we are correct in stating it to have been only 2,600,000 bales, it has exceeded the average of the five preceding years by nearly 400,000 bales. l'rices are now higher than they were at the end of 1847 by lid. per lb., when the crop proved to be only 1,778,000 bales, and higher by 21d. per lb. than at this date in 1848. The main awe of the !weariful issue of the present year is to be found in the reduced stocks in foreign markets, such a vacuum having been there created by the limited transactions of 1847 as afterwards necessitated large e xports, and I to wiriest% the low quotations of cotton for man! months of this and the fast year greatly contributed. The result also has been much aides by the reoeteblishm• nt of order throughout Europe, and the overthrow of revolu tionary principles. While anarchy menaced every country, credit naturally disappeared, and contraction, not extension, was the aim of every commercial man. It was only when there seemed something like a return to rounder views, and when more rational ideas had displaced wild and visionary theories, that trade resumed it wonted activity, and ootifi &see revived. The lesson his been severe. It is to be hoped it will not have been offered in vaio." In conclusion, they express an opinion that " Looking to the consofidation.of outer on the Continent, and to the supply of cotton to be expected, not only that the present quotations for this article are 'moderate, but that, unless we are grossly deceived in the estimates of the crop from the United States and other ocunuit a or present prises are beeed upon a firm and solid kitedation, and that the COMil . l4 year ie, from the general aspics . of the commercial and political world, likely to be one of iudividual and general prosperity." The annual circular of Messrs Stead, Brothers, enters elaborately tato the statistics of the cotton trade, but we have not room for more than the following extracts : " The import of Egyptian colic., which fell off so consi derably in 1847 and 1848, has this year been exceedingly large, amounting to 72,720 bales, against 29,000 last sear la the quantity received from Brasil there is also a great increase, it has reached 163,440 bales, spinal 100,200 last year, and is 63,000 nodes more than any previous import, The increase in the supply from India experienced daring the two previous years has been very nearly maintained, the import antonntiag to 182,070 bales, against 227,500 to 1548. With regard to the new crop, it is generally admitted that it will fell short of the last, the injury experienced by unfavourable weather in the spring not having been ooun terbelaaced even by an unusually fins autumn and late frost. The present lap receipts at the ports would cer tainly lead to a different conclusion, bat they cannot safely be taken thus early in the reason as any correct index of the ultimate yield, especially if we take into account the in creased railway facilities for transit. By toe last advice, the estimates of many well informed housed are rather re daeed than otherwise, and vary from 2,100,000 to 2,300,000 bales; if we take even the higher estimate, and bear to mind the increasing quantity required by American spinners, and the light quantity held in this country as well aeon the Continent, there doss not seem any reasonable proba bility of the supply of cotton for the present year being such es to maintain the present rate of consumption. "The efforts now being made to extend the growth of cotton in India, as well as to improve its quality, must be regarded as highly important, the experiment of growing it there from American seed has proved successful, and there does net sous any reason why this should not be carried out on an extensive scale. Again, we would ark, as at the close of 1347, ' Could British skill and capital h • hetrer employed than in producing this important staple ?• " Tits prospects of the year now before us may fairly be considered encouraging ; during this pr iverbielly dull month a good business has been going on at M inchestcr, which certainly seems likely to "tontine's, tnr the stock of yarns and manufactured felines are said to be extremely limited, whilst food is cheap and money plentiful, beyond all prece dent. Should the raw material prove abundant, it a.ight not be too saaguiee to expect a year of great prow rity ; on the other hand, should the consumption be found to overtake the supply, either it must be at once curtailed or prices will be forced up to such • point as will inevitably lead to a s vete r &Igloo. A limit d and unc-rtain supply of cotton must be regarded as • serious evil ; it will always occasion those extreme fluctuations in its value which of late years have proved so injurious both to the merchaat and the ohn sumer, whilst it will continue to operate as an effectual check to the full and free development of the great manufacturing power of the country. A.l bearing ;upon the question of the consperative re ceipts and exports from this port, Mesas. Heffinshead, Tetley and Co. remark in their circular, which must suffer from the abbreviation which we are compelled to resort to at the late hour at which we write, that " notwith. standing the large (direct shipments from the United Stator to Franco sad the continent (asarly 700,000 bales), our export' have been considerably ia xcess of any pre vious year—so much so, that th qu a ntity , retained for home cousumption, which may be termed the nett import, is nearly 80,000 bales less than that in the previous year of greatest import, 1845, and this important feature must be borne in mind in all future calculations respecting crop and supply. The quantity exported le 256,300 bales, against 189,600 in 1848." These gentlemen then enter fully and carefully into the many important statistics connected with the censureption, prices, sales, &e., of cotton, and ceoclude with the fol lowing valuable remarks as to our prospects for the year on which we have just entered : Psoepects for the general trade of the country, at least as regards the principal artielos of export, more pa-ticu luly cotton fabrics, were perh.ps more promising; and it is evident that the late disturbing causes, political and social, in Europe and litchi. with the effects produced upon other countries, reducing the consumption of cotton to 22,230 weekly in 1847, and 27,602 in 1848 (previously upwards of 30,000 bales weekly), meat. d • vacuum which has not been IlEed up by the increased coneumption of 30,512 bales weekly in the present year ; ind e ed it wou ld ' seem that thin large quantity (and it has been pro portionately great in other a.tton manufacturing coun tries) has only been sufficient to supply the 'nurse sag wants of the world, as we no longer hear of glutted markets, but the report Is of light stocks almost every whore. Acrd when we take into consideration the low price of all articles of food, corn particularly, the great abundance of money, i:s low value, not (xceeding, per haps, 'l4 per cent, per annum in the London market, with a larger amount of gold, &c. (17,000,0001.3 in the Bank of Eugland than was ever known before, it is evident that • great stimulus may he given to the trade "f the country , and that with the disfavour shown to railway property it is moot likely the usual effects will follow, viz., extensive speculation and greatly enhanced prices of all articles of import, and of cotton in particular. With high prices we must have • reduced consumption, and the latter would seem to be inevitable, as we do not see where a supply of the raw material equal to the present year's consumption Is to come from. In estimating the supply of cotton for 1850, it mac be observed that the quantity reeeind front countries other than the United Stets for the previm. ten yeses hes only averaged 370,000 baler, varying but little each year from this average, and forming a quanti:y so comparatively insignificent that we shall consider oily the sopply from the i United . Sates. The crop of last year was 2,728,596 bales, the whole of w hich has gone into consumption, leaving no increase of stock in any quarter. 01 this crop the United State, con sumption absorbed 618 039 bah-e, France and the coati's, sit ci Europe 689,943 bales, besides 163,100 helm exported from this country, nuking a total of 1,361.682 bale.; and sup posing the American crop to amount to 2,300,000 bale., which is considered a full estimate, the supply for this country would only be abet 940,000 bales, and the con sumption this year was 1,279,332 hales. A short supply, however, will cause high prices and a diminished con sumption, and the quee ion is, where will that diminished consumption fall. We may answer at once mainly in this country, dependent as it is up in foreign trade, which is immediately chocked by any serious advance in the cost of our manufactures. In the Unit d State., France, and the c'nti eat of Europe, where they are prometed by high ,:u . its upon our manufacture., and dependant entirely upon their internal trade, the cost of the raw material it of 1 ss niuquence, and an odvonce in price which would check consumption 25 per cent, in this country would scarcely be felt there ; it follows, therefore, that if there is a short supply of cotton, as stated, it will tall mace ly upon this country. The high price already ruling may, bower. r, give us • goad supply early in the ensuing year, whamver may be the re salt hereafter. CuNSTIIPTION UT COTTON, &C., IN 1849. Imported into Gnat Britain in 1849 Exported :Nen ditto, am lollows : From Liverpool London Glzegow, &e Nat Import 1,648.060 Stock in Great Britain Deeeaabev 31,1818 Nett Import, as above Stock in Um Kingdom, Doeenabor 31, 1849 2,14 110 M 8,400 Apparent consumption of the muntry in 1849.... 1,68-5,710 or 30.494 bake wtekly. against 29,020 in 1848 against 28,278 in 1843 „ 22,230 in 1847 ~ 22,414 as 1842 „ 31,261 in 1848 ~ 22,762 in 1841 „ 311,065 In 1846 „ 24,062 in 1840 and 28,400 in 1844 „ 21,834 in 1839 Average Weiebt of Americ:n Cotton since 1844. 184'J 1848 1847 NARROW ESCAPE OP MADAME SONTAG AND PARTY.-0n the morning of Friday last, Madame Sontag and petty left Glisgov for Aberdeen, to attend the ttorni.ig concert, on the following day. All went well till the train re-c+' el Glammis, when a greater depth of snow was e xpe• rienced, and from thence to Laurence kirk, the speed wins materially retarded. At Middleton Bridge, about a mile or a mile and a half farther on, the engine ran into a cutting filled eri.h snow to the depth of six L et, and then lecame completely immoveable. At thin time, five in the afternoon, the blast was most fierce and cutting, carryitg the drift from the fields into the hollow of the railway, and rapidly burying the carriages. The situation, as may be imagined, was any thing but agreeable for the passengers A consulta tion having been held with the guard and driver, Mr. Wood determined to lire. the train, and endeavour to reach L turence kirk on foot. This, pith the assistance of ta o guides, he happily ace •mpliehed, although the strength of the wind and depth of the 'mow brought them several times to a standstill. Aid having been procured, and a b Meet of previsions got ready, the party again started for the em bedded train. The wind being now in their faces, the to k became more difficult, as well as dangerous, but by avoiding the road and taking through the fields, from which the snow had been partially dislodged, the train was once more reached at halt-past seven. The question was now whether it was possible to remove the ladies from the carriages, and gain t►e summit of the cutting. Madame Sontag, with undaunted energy, at cure deter mined to attempt it, and descended from the carriage. The men were sent on before to make a track, when Madame Sontag, aft r great exertion, and several falls, leached the level ground. There the blest Immune quite blinding ; but Madame S 'meg having covered her head wiih a cloak, was soon supported through the fields and over the fences, to the house of Mr. Wilson, a most hospit►ble farmer, where along with Count Rome, Mr F. Lablache, Signor Calaolari, asd Signor Platte, she remained all night. Mr. Wood, with some others of the putty, again faced the blast, and reached Laurencekirk in safety, although much worn out. Between Drumlithie and Middleton Bridge, there were five engines and four trains all fast. Next moraine the snow had so completely filled the cutting as to bury the carriages. The railway authorities are using every exertion to clear the line. and they hope to restore the communication during the day. It is hoped that Madame Sontag will reach Edinburgh on Tuesday.—Caledonian Mercury. , - RECENTLY PROJECTED ABSCRANCE SOCIETIES.— I The titles of projected companies provisionally registered during the year 1849 are 63 in number ; nine appear, how- ever, to be duplicates or partially altered, applying, it would seem, to others previously named, and emanating from the same promoters The followieg is a statistical summary of their various intended operations: Accidental death, 5 ; co. loisation, 1; life alone, 35; life and fidelity euarantee, 8 ; marine, 3; cattle, 2; fire and life, 6; fir- al , ne, ; property, 3; solvency and einumercisi debt, 2. Some of the titles are highly novel, and characteristic of the curious taste of their progenitors. One start, with a " Champion" and ends with a British Homeopathic Life," suggestive, we ',ppm., of intioitessimal assurances. Then follows a " Gas Protector's Mutual," with the additional variety of argand end bat's. wing policies. Cambria, hitherto Dill. cted, enjoys a triple slice ; nor are the mining, trading, and industrial interests neglected. Amongst the novelties in the shape of assurances ' we have a sample of " Bachelor Policies of Fidelite," text ' whether the guarantee applies to pecuniary or hymeneal en ' mem eta the chronicler speaketh not. If, however, to the latter, we doubt not but the insurers will be well sapported ' by the fair sex.—The Reporter. A PRItION BREAKElL—Frederick Grimwood, Dome time since, whin neer rentenee of transportation for seven years, quietly walked a from Ipswich gaol, to the utter consternation of the authorities. He then indulged in a plundering expedition throughout Norfolk, Huatingdon, and Cambridge, and ultimately found his way into the Bury Assize Court for rohbery. Here he was convicted, I and was also recognised by Superintendent Masm, who happened to be ia court at the s entenced wo who had adopted the name of Smith, was to six months which he convicted, and offenc e es t b ee o d f a t w t e the vewieh gaol pre iirainuy to undergoing his former sentence. On Wednesday afternoon, however, he took a distaste to her Majesty's poi at 'Bury, and aociadingle walked off on his own account, without in any measure studying the meting. of the governor, who had been quite unaccustomed to lose his prisoners. We lento :bat his ap• was rff.eted by the negligence of the plumb. r, in leaving a ladder which he had been using in the well. The prisoni r could see the ladder from his yard, and he immediately climbed over the iron railings, si land the ladder, mounted the wall, and dragged the ladder over the wall to dant nil by. But it appears the ladder slipped aide. ways out el his reach, and he had to drop from the top of the wall, a distance of 2i3 feet, as a deep indenture was mate in the sod by I.is feet in the fall. The officer having had occasion to leave the yard for about a minute, it appears that he took immediate advantage uf his ab.ence. 0111,:ere are scouring the c unrrt, bu• nothing has been heard of the pri caner since.—lpswido &pews. A Stows-BARGE, name not known, sunk in the river at Bristol vesterilay. She was very deeply laden, and went down in the swell caused ay the Osprey steam-packet. REFORM OF ENDOWED SCHOOLS. TO TX. ZDITOZ OP THZ EXPRESq SIR,—As the subject of endowed schools has now become one of general interest, and as the future msnagement of them is a question upon which very little public discussion has taken place, I bare tho.ight it possible that many of your readers, like mj self, feel a degree of curiosity to ascertain the nature of the different *chimes which may ultimately be adopted by the authorities. With this view, I venture to suggest the necesnity cf making the different schemes public, and also the wisdom of consulting the inhabi tants of the districts interested, so that they may know something of the manner in which these in stitution, shall be goverced in time to come. Each scheme will bear, of counie, the impress of the founder's intentions; tut as there must be a large discretion exercised In the numerous cases which %ill happily undergo the process of reformation, it would be desirable that the public also, as well as those locally interested, should know how they are hence forth to be managed. And this positive knowledge of their management becomes the more necessary when we reflect how shamefully the greater number of them have b:en abused, and how discouragingly these abuses must have acted upan the bene volent feelings of many charitably disposed persons. It would be well, therefore, it all the schemes w. re published, so that where possible, the best parts of each scheme might be selected, and the beat one adopted. It is especially important that in the choice of governors, or whatever other names thay may,bear, the election or choice of them be based upon a popu lar foundation, and that such choice should not be in the power of any patron (certainly not in any of those who have already forfeited all confidence), nrr yet in that of any class, properly so called. It will be neces sary to be secured at the outset against all pos.ibility of the management degenerating into n clique of self-appointing governors; for however high or lade. pendent in a worldly sense they may be. all experi ence shows that independence beets indifference, and indifference teglect. The emsti.ution of the board of governors will, therefore, require the gre ate:t care, for upon that constitution depends the momentous question whether these truly great institutions shall or shall not become the nucleus of still greater and more efficient efforts for the education of the people. I am sanguine enough to believe in their success, and that they will became large and popular institu tions, and of much greater importance, in every tense, than we have at present any idea of. All the public require is lecurity against corruption ; and publicity is in itself a great security. To this we are all fully entitled. The dread of insecurity in this respect Las the effect of checking at its source the well-spring of private bene volence, an d of eutt ing off at the fountain head theatre am of public bounty which would otherwi-e inevitably flow towards these useful foundatior s. Were it per fectly certain that the funds devoted could not have been corruply absorbed by private cupidity, such as has pre-eminently distinguished the Brentwood Grammar School, who shrill eay byw many large additions would have been made to that distinguished charity? During a period of more titan tee, cen turies how many benevolent parties would have largely added by gifts, legacies, and other m-gens, to assist the great purpose of the found, r, i❑ an object which does honour to ote of the first virtues of our nature. Even ragged schools are producing beneficial effects, though supported merely by what was once sneeringly termed a clam of " self-deluding enthu siasts." To obtain this security then, the mode of eh c'ing or choosing the governors is alone if the greatest im portance. In the case of the Brentwood school there are fifteen parishes (the more the better), ' who will have exclusive interest in that insti tution. There are to be, I believe, 12 governors—not quite one for each parish. Bat how to choose them is I the great question. The first board of governors will have many important matters to transact—many things to do which will require gnat care and great in tegrity. The choice of the site, the purity of the budding contracts, the selection of the masters (ex cept the head master), and many other things, in all of which they most act with clean hands and beyond suspicion. But before all and above all, tlrar acts must bare the most perfect publicity. Na personal in fluence must be allowed to weigh against the public good ; no important step be taken without public cession; no pre-arrangements confirned without rigid investietation. It may be said that these stapes tions might produce discomfort in the councils. 'this, though far from certain, would not be an unqualified evil. A little irritation is necessary to good health. An occasional breeze clears the atmosphere, and a little opposition is found abso.utely eeceseary to bene ficial legislation. But how far preferable even this than the iniquitous condition of stagnant corruption from which this charity has just emerged. In addi tion, the introduction of fresh governors, say every three years, by the retirement of a porti'n of them at those periods, would keep the board-ram healthy, and refresh the gzverniug powers. No high-minded gentleman could object, but would rather praise every effort to protect this sacred properly against all the world, even against himself, and against every indivi ' dual of a body to which he belonged. The governors ought to be men of high character and gent lecoen of zeal. Not necessarily the worldly rich nor the titled, but the zealous Christians—the good men, if they can be Nebel, of all persuasions; men ' who, fir the love of good itself, will carry out honestly the wishes of the country in these institutions. I am aware that the Court of Chancery will require to be satisfied as to the fitness el the proposed governors fur the Brentwo id Grammar School. But who is to propose them Surely not the patron! If he be permitted to present his own list, no pew r in court nor out of court will prevent the suspicion (after ' what has passed) that they would be merely the nominees of tha patron. And shoald the rules of their meeting . permit th ree or fire to act for the whole body, then a ireu to the confidence which the public would have in the management. Tne eases of the Beaton Grammar School and the Middleton Grammar School, contained in your paper of the 27th iect., convinces me that the appointment of the governors is a subject of the highs,: im portance.. It may be thought that this anxiety is dearly an ticipating evils before they have arrived. Ido not think so. This is the proper time to prevent evils, and to check at once any hopes that the "grey iniquity " which has hitherto absorbed the funds of this noble charity can again be practised. There is one other subject to which the parties in terested ought especially to direct their attention. It is the question of the " law coats." It w,ll, indeed, be a cruel satire upon the equity of the Court of " Equity," if in the Brentwood school case it be per mitted that the costs of the proceedings during the hit seventeen years shall he taken out of the funds of the charity. In defiance of the court's own decree the funds have been impudently pocketed by means that I will not name; and if it be found that the cost of this continuation of a put lic wrong is to he wrung from the charity funds, then it will explain the delay of justice. and will fairly throw upon the court itself and others a portion of the guilt justly attributed to the pstron and his party: lam the more anxious on this part of the subject, knowing how frequently, in cases of charity, the whole law expenses have en taken uut of the estate. In one instance, lately, the whole fund—lie charity itself —wee, I believe, insufficient to nay the law expenses. Under all the circumstances, it is imperatively necessary that the parties interested look sharply into the condition of affairs, and that they prepare their minds for the exercise of their duties to the institu tions which are ari"ing. lam willing to believe that some of the.c suggestions have been already con sidered and justly disposed of by the the proper authorities ; still, at a time when so many " friendly suits" are posing through the courts, and when so little official information appears bef tre the pubic, I have thought it proper, with your permission, to thus draw a pas,irg attention to the subject. Your, S:c., Z. BOOK-TRADE SALES. TO TUB 1101T011 OV THII EXPIIkuIS. an article in the last numb. r of the AtAtstlesdi, which you her , c .pied, on " B.) kopllsr: Trade Salts," till puhlte err told that sal.e of this description are limited th two Iverees. Now there f not a piOlishin,t house of any magnitude Ant has sales ,d precisely the same il. scription, end two Irlmes at least neessiimally hare soles nearly r quid its smoort to those two irahlishments. Perhaps mg...love this error wa. unnecessary, since wit% kremlin* and inteliont public such always *Sag their soh I correetires.-1 am. Sir, NUE A FAVUL IILED r BLISILIELL