The Express. — London, England, 1850-12-30 00:00:00

UNITED STATES. , rte Commodore hulking. arrived at Liver- , 1 41 Siturday sight , with dates from New York , l.:.h icor. She beings about 2.50,000 dollars W oe l f b n e l swit " .. imprint item of the intelligens* brought P • Asia i 9 the alma report of the Secretary of irem iry to Conreem b t Nor fork Cannier aid Inquirer gives the KlAiegeananutry of the document : " s able, elaborate, sad valuabla docassoat, sad , for ar,t.• read by all wbo ars iatereetad is the eon ry condition of tits icatatry. c or i n IlattO tits receipts sad eapeaditares et tlith sad estimable those GI the mean year sr r:. 1850. 1861. ei ..,...lobe. 49 608,713 64,312 69 4 43,082,188 63.863,697 Eyessitan lire* ...... tole. 8,904,846 4;8,997 t, C addo.. of evetome aid sarverom of beterior porta , t a made pentorim of the public /AMR,. rell4C debt, on the Ist of December, 1849 WL6 4,15, ; on %b. 30tb of November laet it was • dole. Ter cosh receipts sad expenditures for " mull sod estimated, are prisms r follows: 1..„. yen, 1850. 1851. 1862. _ _ aVo .0141. 43,771;848 47.592,000 46,80.000 ,1„.„“ L *.k).365,26 . 1 83,737,647 48,124,993 ea in expl.kha in ch.tai the calms of this large tM actual Led ',gaited expeediturte, sad s►ow. • 5, L 5 sod 4:5117 with Mesice have test us the sus C rine states thet— a,- yreei•loes of the ant of :sly, 1846, bare been -.oifienet fs.r the ereventien of trawls and ender .. the event to which they hate been canted, 4., ffle e in which they have been Tendered systematic te. Inn Men highly detrimental to the r.rentni. , t , ra rtem n• has L mg given the subject of these frauds as-,: t ated stantion, and exhausted all its authority rt rres.i.:ian and detection. but they an stall of with nude, a .1 so demoralising in their *flan, se to de isia.s dist* in•erposition of Congress." uses spoil Coegrees to inquire fully into the peas l'or•UOG of our present system of imposing duties upon iesra cost or values of merchandise. being fully setts- At the larger it ie continued the weaker will bosoms sod the stronger the inducements to the or trawls, by misrepresenting the dutiable values. wintery. under the Lead of Ways and Means, dii "hi thee the laws tore *Matta& with the imposed by them on lorrigs sieratiandim, will tLe ISJUta MCC. sway to defray W annual ordinary ,ti.re 0: the government, and most prancingly di* Me r. puhlic debt. Ti. signers of ad ninon dada. term st, ea applied to all articles of trade, in ins b. I lieriesee of the department to be wanjoot no a; strong objections. The experience of the most orb ,deoninscal natiossof Europe is believed to be against • iri avow operation of the existing tariff upon our dit• inies•ry and the vanel prosperity of the country in ;yr st inte.b:y let torah, and it u shown that the seri , nonest esperislly Termites suds legislation as shall, in nil, of s.c.ssity, foe revenue, also by encouraging a y 01 espliy ment in our own country, news the only . sure market for oar (seeming productima which can net. This portion of the report is especially able and TO . Mr. Corwin, from the considerations urged seiu to Congress the following modifications of our ....nee laws. Ml,L': L Ar qar• A Lhasa.. in the Ferat ad valorem system, which ,; ,top. t ',medic duties upon all articles to which s msy be safely applied with home vulastiou such as are necessarily subject to ad valorem rates. it the prie.eisile of op. -die daties shall not be adopted, ,se ciao awn, insier-1 A t►e foreign, should then be . to al. nonor•e subject to ad valorem duties. - with , r of the foregoing changes shall be thought •. it is dtemed highly necessary that the premnt deans should be Moused on • great variety of 'thick it will be found could bear such increase with seutary effects upon both trade and revenue. • r of the too first modifications ragges.ed above ai•lmhtedl7, correct many of the inegaalities of the ••Ist‘ in, place ell importers, whether purchaser, or A. tun to, fro equ il grounds in respect to valu►tions for ffitllllll , s.!sinst the flayrant frauds which ...ill perpetrated under existing laws, sad insure .s sod p month% ineressis of the revenue. They are, • re. earantly commended to the favourable considsre , • t• .1 gets. . . . . • .... . r •eau in it is believed that experienas has settled r:licy to be pursued in several particulars which tar ryetein of terrine laws. Among these me taw material should be admitted at • indents rate y. when assesat.d at all, that all noa•enumerated • aid he teemed at higher rates of duty than the inutoctured articles, and that all articles cent • It , e mum material should pay in general the same I. r ; t., irs.,re uniformity in the business of the L. 4', and equality in the valostions under any I eemarly racommend the creation of a corps of at taro, whose duty it shall he lonian the pried• en• ry is the United States from dose to Use ...7 to correct improper valuations and prescribe r the total appralseri. re.u.1.4 and importent euffintiont are made in m• to the outhouse eystem. It but been toned imps. t • ilitisa of the warehouses at New York and Baton I. fit', which the government le obliged to pay, audit:. . injutt that importers should be compelled to store r in those houses without regard to their own •-•• r t ~atenienee. Mr. C. tecosamends that the time ~1, da may be kept in store, after the original ..n sod entry, be extended to three jean, sad with .re of 11p,IL to any foreign country, without sin vet tif duties; also that prorMon be made by .eff imp vats from the payment of duties upon n rte destroyed by fire in bonded warehouses, and tiirinn-hetuse ft es be ab„,lished, a wtll as those t:isrg ab:e upon the registering, enrolling, and e of reseal, as those relating to . the entry, ware - •. sod trassportation of enerensactiee. lb* mount his is less testa 300,000 dots. per annum, while • • stsnee which their collection croutons is very gnat. a would be well also to dispense with the oaths, • at.d reinitiates that appertain to entries of merchan t i, reign cat or value, and adopt the value is the . S .ton. .s...nt of redefine at the Mint, in Philadelphia, the month jest weed, hes 'wooded four .it. :I as ; and, if the sapariments now in progress, a new proems of ',saying should equal the • i , ne which have haw formed respecting It, the loin of that establishment will be extended to the co et h,000,000 monthly; sad, with the branch mint w Orleans, Mr. Corwia ear, will be lady able to far . aa without say unnameable delay for all the future ads receipts of gold bullion. In order, however, that receivers of the precious metals from abroad, and per. _sly at New York, where the greater portion of them •,, may the more promptly and without expense realise mouse, he recommends 1.. Congress that the tremucy rant should be authorised to receive all gold or sliver • n attended for re manage, aad so soon as it mold • • ay. d sad the cornet value of it ascertained, that mint • • •hould be issued for the same is cenveuient some, .1..,r. of the owners, which certificates should be • • r•c,v.ble fo r all dues to the United States, the germs ' : I t.tg at the expense of conveying such bullion to the r. .; I r e.inagir. I a news by the Asia, though not unimpoetani . '-1 Ix• compieurd into a brief narrative. The Pre ..t.. has issued a proclamation declaring that the • 0! (engrave fixing the Texas boundary is in fall • ! . • a: d efi.'t. This shows that Texas acquiesces in ' • - .t, ry compromise of last simian. On the con- - .7. the legislature of South Carolina has emitted a to'' • t .ailik•ir preparation, the Senate having paned s •n.. tar a conveation, and giving 300,000 dollars for ta ...my purposes. It is not likely, however, that IT! ...g will come of this, foe all the forts in the 1 ' .r of Charleston are fully manned with the ' of tie central government, and 100,000 ' "`k kr , could be raised in the adjoining states in a lo! , ,e.sja to take possession of all the principal towns. , ''' ~ g •:ature had sot to burdenss in good earnest. . •''' '..ri lest. Mr. QM moved in the Senate that .. , spoodence between government and the minister, relative to the agent sent by the ... States to ungery during the contest there, I. -d on the table. The discussion was postponed. M• dental, ' the same day introduced a bill for the r -.smilers of a railroad from St. Louis to San Fran c,. • In the House of Representatives the same day, *•:•i.t i tap postage bill was made the special order of the sl tor Wednesday, the 18th inst. A resolution to ir.l.l.t e iuto the propriety of requesting the President 10 ;. , c notice to Great Britain of the desire of his Vrtrr.ment to withdraw the squadron stationed on t't sr , ' coast of Africa, was referred to the commit ter or. naval affairs; the New York branch Mint was L•si . ... tLe order of the day for the second Tuesday in J4 r.u.ly ; and the first Tuesday , Wednesday, and „. '" ,, day in February, were set apart for the coma farie....:ll, ~.n c and tah, of the territorial T business of Oregon, Min tte ew A court-martial for the trial of Commodore Jones ! 1 1 , 0 , 44 , iced at Waahingtoo, on the 16th inst. He a CLtt, f . d with fraud, in speculating with the publie i f's o Y in gold duet; with scandalous conduct towards 410, ordinates, on the Pacific station; and with op oo, in hanging two men under an illegal nu .bY a court-martial, the penalty of death not l.c. , F Clewed on board a ship beyond the limits of " ~• ed State.. Commodore Jones, in hie mowers, t !presstd has willingness to stand his trial IS all the 1 1:',at but took exceptions to the lastouestlismais tv ,r . NS th at the Attorney-General had &MI all . At 10 his favour, California having biome part 7 ,-It anion ; a n d that if he had exceeded his j arm 'if' -4 bas offence was not oppression bat murder. thttl'titd, acne justification of his 000 duct as commodore acne fleet, on the ground of the frequent attempts at mating, in consequence of the temptations of the mines. On the 16th the business in the senate was tempo rally interrupted, in consequences of the excitement of thee/Raton on the appearance of Jenny Lind in the gallery. The navigation of the Hodson was epee, but Its closure by the ies wee daily looked for. Oa the 17th inst. the Miniseippi, between St. Louis and Cairo, was full of floating lee; several boats were ice bound, and navigation was suspended. At Detroit on the 17th the river was fall of ice and the weather wee very cold. Oa Dee. 13, while the Anglo-Norman (steamer) was proceeding up the river from New Orleans, on a pleasure excursion, with between two and three hun dred persons on board, most of them respectable citi zens, her boiler exploded, and from eighty to a hundred pereors were killed, wounded, or missing. The press was largely represented on board, and Mr. Perry, of the New Orleans Bulletin. was killed ; Mr. Bigner, of the Della, and Mr. Kidd, of the Dail:, Crescent, were so dreadfully injured that there i hardly a hop* of their surviving. Mr. Janine Beebe, a state senator of Louisiana, was killed; and Messrs. N. Jarvis, Stillman, and Storm, of the New York Novelty Machine Works, are said to be mortally wounded. Also Captain Aminadab and Captain Thomism. Several articles have been received at the New York Navy-yard,:to be forwarded to the World's Fair in London. A letter from Halifax of the 12th inst. says :—The despatch of the America's news yesterday was de layed, owing to the destruction of the telegraphic wires through a portion of the city, by one of the severest conflagrations ever experienced in Halifax. The fire commens.d at two o'clock, in the North barracks, which were speedily in ruins. Opposite the barracks, one entire square, bounded by Jacob, Duke, and Albemarle streets, wu also destroyed, in chiding about one hundred houses. The further spread of the fire was arrested by pulling down several buildings. The section of the city burnt was mostly occupied by poor families, and though the aggregate low of , property is less than it otherwise would have been, yet the disaster will canoe much suffering, esproially so as the extreme cold weather hu fairly set in, after • season of unusual mildness. In the subjoined communication from our New York correspondent will be found a notice of the state of feeling in the United States respecting papal aggression here and there! and also of the interference of the pulpit in the slavery controversy : New Yoe', Des. 18. The news from Europe by the last steamer, leads us to believe there will yet be considerable dilliculty in that quarter before there will be much quiet. A continental war would affect us in several ways. We should rejoice at the overthrow of those princes who are hostile to the independence of States, and particu larly of those who are secretly engaged in maintain ing the power of the pope. We should have an immerise accession to our population, and a new sti mulus to our trade. It seems to us that the English government would naturally entertain the same views. At all events we are thankful that we are not within the vortex of European agitation. We have enough at home to give us at times our share of anxiety. We notice with interest the rousing of the old protestant feeling of England, and the truth is, we are likely to experience it here. The Barthian arrow which Bishop floghes shot at us, as he departed for his pallium, has canted a wound not deadly but irritating. All our protestant clergy, no matter what their denomination, are now vigour onsly defending themselves and their common faith against the imputation of its decline, and the; probe bili.y is, all the learning, wit, and logic which were once aimed so successfully against the Itomish church in England, will be resuscitated and brought out again, with additional improvements, in this country as well es that. Already I hear the note of prepara tion, and observe the republication of the old treatises. If the discussion fairly gets going here, through our newspapers end magazines, I undert ake to say that the pretentious of the Romish church to infallibility, power to remit sins, and to work miracles, wiil be laughed down. As it is very few educated people belong to the American Romish church. It is almost exclusively composed of servant women and ordinary labourers. There are some who attend masa who have means and standing, but they are generally those who have ac quired their property in very low occupations. A few genteel families of French and Irish descent may be found at the Romeo catholic churches, but it is from habit or family pride that they continue there. They do not any of them respect the Sabbath, as do the protestant', and usually the afternoon and evening of the day are spent in amusements. The American people, the Anglo-Saxons, are sound to the core on this point; and while from policy, principle, and kind feelings they allow perfect toleration, they are not the least backward in commenting upm clerical ab surdities, and making them the laughing stock of the public. A new movement was noticed among our leading clergy last week, on the occasion of thanksgiving—a day observed under the proclamation of the governor of this state. They have in this city, for many years, avoided anything like an allusion to politics in their sermons. On the present occasion they warmlyentered upon the discussion of the questions of union and slavery, and, with the greatest unanimity, they ad vised obedience to the existing laws, both as a Chris tian duty end a security against civil war. Some of them stated that slavery was a political condition, which was recognised both in the Old and New Testa ments; that neither our Saviour nor his apostlessooght to overturn it; that it was engrafted on this country by England against the will of the early colonists ; and that any violent or unconstitutional attempt on the part of the north to eradicate it in the south would lead to the overthrow of the Union, the ruin of the public funds, war between the states, bloodshed in torrents, taxation for centuries to come, • diminu tion of our industry, the creation of standing armies, and all those dreadful evils which are every few years witnessed on the continent of Europe, and are very likely to occur again. AMERICUS. Leer Cowmen Intelligens in last gsge.) it, THIS COLLISION ON THE NORTH Idayan inquiry wee held by adjournment at South Md ford, la reference to the death of three unfortunate men who ' lest their lives by a collision on the York and North Midland Railway. The luaus of the unfortunate fellows who were killed were—Joseph Gerrick, aged 33, sepia. drive; Mania Tindall, aged 11, stoker; and Hoary Varley, sped 66, whimsies. Henry Wainwright, station elm at the Old Milford junction of the Leeds and Selby Railway, w's the ' witness called. He knew the deemed may, Valley, who bad been polonaise, at the junction for many paw saw him a few minutes before the accident ; hews. pithead; sober. Noticed that he had hold of the lever of the poise he hot the pasesupe train up the line to Leeds. The de. I lerneff. heipit Garrick. was engine driver of • passager gig ea the old lice to Leeds. Tladall win stoker if the sews migaw. The train had been waiting at the WAGO See Wastes before the saddest took place, to it a kr Leeds ion the halfip 7 o'clock train kenthe The loopektrain, whisk its.. from York, W en the seek and pawed oa the old line, anselpieltelerli ea hoes before the monger trete MN up. The metient happened before he was aware that ef the gook mss wen musts( beck ea the Rae. RI bad pr. Mee*/ gee Ms me of the manager carriages, far the purpose ed plerelling to Sank Mefferd where he bilged. litter the lareadrel Grub, he got oat mid inunedi• gaily assisted two ladies flea the nut esupertmeet when he was ; one wee Mimed is the hair. There were buten carriages in the l tub, sad he law that eine of the waggons had bees brides bees the train, sad bad retuned down the bask, esuing la 'Minion with the pesosager train. The aegis* ef the latter was thrown off the Rae and broken. Saw the body of Garrick lying between the two lien of rolls. Tindall was about two yards from Garrick, his legs were off, and he was quite dead. Did not know ',MONT there wee a break to the feet earwig* of the luggage train,aor whether the paid 'risme the last carriage. It was Ina daily to have boom es at. Fear of the carriages that returned dews the bank had brakes, sad If one had been applied the oak night have bees stepped. These who had Mum a the luggage male wee Edward Oriessteue, the guard, The. Carrie, the driver, sad Christopher Charlton, the Asher. The eine animas had Gush about three tons of goods wpm thee.—ChristoOom Charlton, the fireman, was thee ealieL Left York with • luggage tram of 22 waggons. Arrived se the Old Jennies about a quarter before seven o'clock. There the Irak was divided, sad proceeded with • pest GI the trek to the top of the beak, • dimness of smelt Mee, Summed to take up the other; but did set he the holm MAW opospled the emigres as, he precook& with them up Me bank, and when they had got about six and • bdf mike frog the Junks, when the kinder marriages Wm away, kit the wheels of the eagles stipple( ' and be thought thm thee had lest sew part of he train. Oa r=g the klp_ef the beak, he knurl that they had.-- evidesse iagai uldued relative to the nada of Oman i th t e ns W ass ead their sinegtb, the Gerona: =r eg the da lamkg ler sdnailad i e wan y odiousal aala Maeda, ( day). THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1850. CO court. WINDSOR. Saxons T, Dna. 2t The Queen and Prises Albert took their usual early month% walk. Toe Royal family sock walking and posy exereses is the grounds acquent to the Cull. Prince Albert west est shooting this morning, secompuded by the Dike de Nemesis and the Prince do Jaiavllle , sad attended by Colesel Ste His. Charlie Grey and Colima &ramie. Vie Duke and Deimos is Hasus and the Prince de J.la• villa took Save of the Qum and the Prates to-day and quitted the Castle. 80/4DAT, Dec. 72.-11.1 Majesty and Priam Albert, the ladies and gentlemen of the emit, and the domestic home , hold, attended Divine persist this taming in the grants chapel. The Hoo. and Rev. G. Wellesley ablated and administered the Holy Comeasaion. The Qum. and Priem Albert walked to the Slopes. The Rs* family tack walk. leg eseeeiss. The Duchess of Gloucester oostinues ill at her residues. Gloameter Home, Pissedlay. legairies were made after the health of the nyal dashes' yesterday oh the part of the Quo' and the memben of the Royal family. Vireonnt and rounded by • large party at Broadleads, sear Ramsey. His Excelleney the Marquis d'Aseglin, his Repellency Senor laterite, Si, J•ehn and Lady :Milbank', Lord and Lady Ashley, Mr. C. Clifford, M. T. de B. Hollwei, ito., are among the gue.ta. The Earl and Countess Grey, niece their arrival at Howick Castle on Christmas. eve from Melting the Mar quis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, at Boweod path, Wilts, accompanied by their niece Lady AIM' LssMon, have entertained a mallet circle at the ancient anescral seat. The noble earl is expected in town by the 11th of next month for the season. •re Mr- Tnz Qua= bas conferred the dignity of baronet of the Unite,' Kiesicim upon Major G 1 Sir W. R. Gilbert, 0.C.8., James liatheso, Bag., F.R.8., and Thomas Tufton, B•q. The services of General Gilbert in Lodi* are well known. Mr. Matheson is member for Roes and Cromarty, and was formerly partner is the eminent house of Mathison, Jardine, and Co., in which his suds, A. Matheson, E.q. (M.P. for Inveraess), is now the leading I partner. Mr. Maths= resided for many yens in India and Chia., and on his return to Ragland received an address and • service of plate, worth 1,6001., from the merchants of Bombay, who szprersed their high sense of the judgment and firmness displayed by his is the diflicidbes which sprung out of the seizure of the opium Mr. Talton has succeeded to the sat estates of the late Barl of Limner.— (fir James Emerms Tennant, eoloninl wrezetuy ►t Ceylon, will surosed the late Sir Patrick Root, K.G.8., as gsversor of Bt. Haless.-06mres. MR. DODBWORTH has, it is stated, placed his resig amiss is the heads of the Bishop of London. THE QUARTER'S REVENUE. There is every reason to expect that the quarter's ue will show a very trifliog deemase—if any—when compared with the corresponelie g quarter of lest year, not. withetandir g the reductions which the Chanctltir of the Exchequer wee able to make in the last 11•41011. The brim duties-700,0001. a year—were wholly abandoned, and yet we And thee:cies so prosperous, In the other items, as scarcely to miss the total lees in title. The buoyancy of the revenue of cads' is one of the most convincing and conclusive proof, of the wide.spread prosperity and occupation of the great mass of the people. The stamps, although prosily re duced, will not exhibit the signs of that reduction in MI in the present quarter, since a great lemmas of !matinee', which ' was kept back tor the cbange,wtll probably show its effect upon the present quarter, which to its full extent cannot be hoped for again. The Customs ductaate, but will show well la spite of the great reductions that have taken place. These Cr. the chief items which mark the slate of the country. The others will probably vary very little, and will be shown by the tabular returns. In the meantime the large amount of public deposits exhibited in the weekly retinae of the Bask of England, smi.uiating to the sum et nearly half a million of increase weekly, shows that the debtor and creditor acumen of the Chancellor of toe Exchequer stands well, and that his balance at the end of the financial year is more likely to inasese than to be diminished, notwithstanding the taxes that he has relined or reduce d , and the mama that are in course of expenditure in Lquidation of the pnblic debt.— Obu►eer. THE BISHOP OF LONDON AND THE REV. MB. BENNETT.-IMPORTANT PROCEEDINGS. On Saturday the preliminary proceedings for de priving Mr. Buren of the incumbency of S:. Paul's, Knightsbridge, and the chapel', of St. Barnet's*, Pimlico, were commenced on behalfof the Bishop of Loadoo. It wilt be reeoUeet.d that Mr. Bennett, in his letter to the Bishop of London, stated that "it his lordship would tot allow him time to msk. the desired &Winnow' in his mode of conduct ive the "erste , sat hie churches, he had no alternative but to place his It ing into his lordship's hands." This part of his letter the Biseop coesidered as a formal resi,nai ion, an.t intimated to Mr. linnet& that he ace, pled the resignation.' A few days afterwards the bishop made arrangements for the tutor* performance of the services in the churches, and informed Mr. Bent.ett of the nature of them. The d gentleman then declared that be had net resigned et all, and, moreover, that it was not his intention to do so. The bishop informed him that he had resigned, at.d that he thouln, therefore, insist on his giving up the two churches. Mr. Bennett, however, stoutly refuses to do so, and the matter is now to be brought into the Ecclesiastical Court ; and, from the nature of the eel dente which will be brought forward, it is likely to De some years before it is finally settled, as Mr. Bennett and his friends are determined to appeal to every court open to them, should the bishop succeed in the first instance. Banal of the moot eminent eeeksiastieal lawyers who have bets consulted on the matter maintain that Mr. Bennett cannot De said to have resigned until be executes the formal dud required in such cases, a course which he is not likely now to adopt. The proceedings taken by the Bishop of London are under the 314 Vic., oap hOosections 3 and 4, which is as follows: " And he it enacted that in every case of any clerk la holy orders of the unit , el church of England and Inland, who may be charged with any offence against the laws eccle siastical, sr concerning whom there mey exit scandal or evil report, as having offended against the said laws, it shall be lawful kr the bishop of the diceese within which the offsets is alleged or reported to have bees committed, on the anoliestion of any party complaining thereof, or if he shall sk tit of his own men motive, to issue • commission under Ms hand and seal to des persons, of whom one shall be his eiser.peural, or an archdeacon or rural dean within the diocese, for the purpose of making inquiry as to the grounds of each charge or report. • • • • • That it shall be lawful for the said commissioners, or any thr, • of them, to examine upon oath all witnesses who shall be tendered to Sem for examination, u well as of arty party alleging the Bath of the charge or report as of the party seemed, and to all witnesses whom they may deem it necessary to summon Bs the purpose of fully prosecuting the inquiry and enter- Seising whether there be sufficient prima facie ground for Instituting further proceedings. erten such preliminary proceedings shall have closed, one of the oommissionen shall openly and publicly declare the opinion of the majority of the commissioners present at such inquiry, whether there be sodlcient grounds for further procesdiags." Should tho teernmissioners decide that there is ground for farther proceedings, the bishop may, with the consent of Mr. Bennett, pronounce sentence at one*, but u Mr. Bennett will ant submit to this coarse, the matter will have to go before the Arabes C.,urt. Is the mean time the earring at St. Paul's end St. &mains will be performed by the curates. Beth the eharehee et St. Paul sits St. Barnabas were built sod endowed by the Bey. Mr. Bennett. the former of which is worth 1,0001. a year, and the latter 3601. It is stated that the reverend gentlemen has expended upwards of 100,0001. in the building end endowing the churches and schools •f she districts of St. Paul and St. Sarmatian— Sunday rinse. Thi LIABUSIT or -Dtzwr Bur.- -- NINOILLin AND OxrOaD RLItwAT.— His Honour Vies- Chancellor Rolfe has appointed the first day is the ensuing tern lee delivering judsnasst on the appeal of Pippin to this tompany. +Mob, short of the &claim of the Home of Lords, will settle tha great gwalks of the liability of ales wee in railway and joint-sleek companies His lordship has at present intimated that his imprisons is in favour of tin noes liability of allottees in Waned utopian', who ban ' not paid any deposit or don. say set after oohing applies- I * 4shis lion for shires ; but his lardshi has sent for all the paper and reserved en Younal i tattaanna to Mr. Cappar's tounael that if issue to dune his opinion he will bear Wm la gayly giving judgment. Sbohld it be eventually desiiiiidat awe allotting are not liable, it will release fret the lilts between 1,000 and 2,000 persou is tM Direst Binaloglaun and Oxford Hallway, and consequently the enormous samba of these room who were were applissats for slam daring tie imaarabla mania of '45._ -- A 130 T Saar.—Os Friday, at Hatfield, a village &boat three milts from Bristol, a lad named Winless Brett was shot by a compaaisa. The statement shish Mt reached Bristol was a very startling one, viz., that the uefortimate lad had boss rim diraaoa this Mart, sad left deed re ter bid. Our aarariaridat, however, age 's quirm; as the spot, Swat *bat Is aesmiat or t e r asaarrear me es szeggsrated ass. Masses the lad has resolved gunshot wounds hi the right side sad right ant, sheald so mare antsmerable symptoms ems as Peas at pre- mat swam themislith them le ovary peasieet at Ids ultimate reeovay. The within mawmted with the affair are m fellow : SOY lads were Is the field with a bee maths themselves by the Mies at small birds, sad Brett, who was cm arms et setthimeam with Mama, followed them. Tim lad who serried the gua till hls fist *ay dill ea mat with thou, sad la be etdi ilaielael ems, mil him t• f. belly threatealag es the same time She did ass doable these Ida The thissamahe boy, sew hosing rhea thaw was ma immelra •• any the arms IND eassalism voila fa felletrise them. sad mimed iwthaffarsto theme. and he noshed its mamas la his die err mom - Tim mplaaatios width the lad de eseriod the learliamthes mime of the seams b th at he aim. was parair in erA arias( Item ate of of the WW I el al anglit la the bales of his inlet; owl II is RIOS la ihall the Mimed lmr swell . Wes SIM this flalemsist Is em B ..dust am tite leJery =was mak el POLICE INTELLIGENCE. THIS DAY. FINAL EXAMINATION AND COMMITTAL OF MR SLOANE FOR TRIAL. GUILDHALL. This maniac st as early hear, sad bag beim the anal time for soisraeordag burbles' at this mom Yr. 6. Sloane. the Isarvistar, who steads charged with starting and ether. wise ill-treatiag Jule Wobred, was asesontedly brought op is the 'malady of Mr. Roe, the warrant officio of the wan, from Gittapar attest Compter, and placed at the bar for flail exandastioa. This ease had been adopted at the suggestion of Alder. man Hump hrey, • repetition of the armee of Friday last being apprehended from the suited state of mind of the public, and the indignation felt against the accused, should the dap sad hour of his examination be suffered to transpire; and to profound a secret has the matter been kept that even the °Mom of the gaol, and those in attendance at the mart, were nnscqsaintol with the feet ; and the inquiry was sun ducted with dosed doors, the only perm= present 'maids. tie Mclennan and clerk, and 800 the officer, being the soli citors on the part of the defendant and the Formation, the witnesses, with two exceptions, having all been bound over to appear at the sessions at the Old Bailey. The defendant, accompanied only by Mr. Roe, left the prison about half past ten, and succeeded in reaching the office without being recognised. Mr. Wood, the chief clerk, then esid, as the whole of the depositions had been read over, signed, and sworn to by the several wither's., with the @nee pt on of those of Jane Hill and Jane IV'ibred, taken on Friday, it would not be n► entity to reed Mein over again. Tie depositions of Jane Hill and Jane Wilbred having been rood over, Mr. Wood said that would complete the whole of the deposition, which walla be returned to the Central Cri minal Court. Alderman Humphrey, addrewang the defendant, said— lir. Mow. is is my duty to road over to you the form pm scribed, by way of caution. You are not bound to say anything, but whatever you do say will be taken down and need against you on your trial. The defendant said he should reserve hie defence until the trial. Mr. Alderman Humphrey—Theo it is my duty to fully commit you for trial at the nest mono= of be Central Criminal Court. Bail Imola, beta gives, the prisoner was liberated. _ BOWSTRBET. COONMPIIT 10.111. 1 5;;; WaIiNMS, alias Har ris, • plea' woman very neatly attired, was soused with uttering eeenterfeit sovereigns. On Saturday afternoon the prisoner entered Knight's oyster-shop, in the Strand, and requested to be serval with • lobster. She selected one for Is. 3d., and me • sovereign is payment. The shopman returned her the change. She then said she thought the lobster was to be only • shilling, refused to have . it, aad demised the acreareien to be returned to her. The ehopmen gave it her, sad at that time two men entered, and engaged his attention. The prisoner left the shop, and almost immeoiately returned, saying she would have the I.ehater, tendering whet seemed to be • sovereign. He gave the pities to the waitress, who said the coin was spurious. The two men rushed out of the shop, leaving their change upon the counter, and the prisoner wee de tained. It mimed that the two men were companions of the prisoner, and end ed to engage the attention of the atiopman for the purpose of preventing him noticing the piece. Inspector Dodd said the prisoner bad frequently been in custody for passing counterfeit coin. She and • man were charged • fortnight since for uttering a counterfeit half :Le:rigs at a coffee-house in Covent-garden. Elks was end her eonsp.n e t was committed. He had tun isapemoned for fourteen dap, and we. found engaged in her nefarious transactions widths an hour alter her release from gaol. The prisoner, who said nothing in her defence, was re manded until the Hint solicitor was informed of the charge. Tan LONDON Doc% Konanntse.—J. Clarke, the suntan, and R. Collins, commission agent, wore re-examined, charged, the former with stealing various begs of coffee from the bondet warehouse of the London D Arks, in 1849, and the later with the receiving the s me, knowing them to be IMAM. They were again remanded until Thursday. WANDSWORTH. ALLIOSI, INCIIIIDIABISK AT CLAPHAIII.—Edward AII4OI wee re examined, charged with kayieg set Bre to certain warehouses end workshops belonging to Captsin Tromas Roes, and situate in the vicinity of Clapham•commoa, on the evening of Friday, the 20th inst. The partichlan ci the cam appeared in the Express of Saturday. . . No fresh evidence was adduced, and the chief clerk having reed over the depositions, Mr. Beadon committed the prisoser for trial. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. On Friday evening when the men received their wlilte the printed document, published in Saturday's Express, and which contained the intentioasof the direston, having been prepared, was placed into the Wines of every man se he came up. As each engine driver or fireman arrived he had to present himself to Mr. M'Connel and Mr. Welkin, the under-secretary of the company, at the Camden Station. A printed copy of the I no:ice was then handed to him, awl some men were called upon to give an immediate decision upon the question, others had a quarter of an hour's consideration allowed them, others half an hoar, and some were allows t until Monday to con slier the matter. Anything like concert among the men wider such circionstences was out of the question, and, there fore, each felt himself involved in great difficulty. Notwith standing this unexpected proceeding, it is stated that there was bat one maw who signed a document " to remain in the service of the company under the existing regulations," and that the man referred to subsequently requested that his LIMO might be erased. This at once showed a determination on the past of the men which the authorities of the Company could scarcely hays been prepared for, and in way, it is presumed, of re prisal, on Saturday notices were given on the pert of the directors to seven men, for which they were equally unpre pared, of dismiss'. Last night about fifty erginemen and firemen assembled at the Railway Tavern in the Hampstead-read, and it will be remembered theist the conclusion of the meeting held on Thursday night a raolution was passed agreeing to • month's notice provided the directors would give • guinea tee that the wages of the men should not be reduced or the labour increased for the space of three years, and to take the opinion of the men throughout the entire line on the point. On arriving at the Railway Tavern the puha*, prow were ' informed that no meeting was to be held, although they were conscious at the moment that the drivers had assesw bled in groats's, The doers were doled against their ad , °simian. . . . . Atter an interval of about an hour, it was intimated that the doors were opened ; the reporters then entered, end found the room Ailed with drivers and firemen, but no chairman presided, and then were no signs either of ban ana having been or being about to be trammted. The men were imaged is eonvenational poops, sad no division to the business taken& treaspired. At length, Mr. Hall (an oegiandriver, there still no chair man) said—Fellow-workmen, we ham met, I hem, to night to consider the proposal which we speed to on Thursday night, sad to rien•ll the opinions of the various districts If the hue with regard to it. Butltlm time has been 6o short, that we have net been able to maim the ezpeeted replies, and I should Mauler* suggest that we adjoarn to, a few days, sad is the mesa time I hope, from all that has taken plass, an amicable arrengement may be arrived nt. There is mother notice irom the company which has also to be esesiderei, and therefore we had better adjourn for slew days. As Mare was no &Mimes, and the meeting was not y constituted, no resolution maid be hemally pot,Cll P tt proposition appeared to meet with the assent et all present. It is said Me directors are prepared to made to a propo sition for • montles notice, should it be treed to upon the whole of the line, and that in that event those men who have received notion Se quit will, upon making the mosseary siabmimion, be reinstated. Dvern or Ma. -Tee death of Mr. D. W. Oebaldloees the well known thestrisel 'mum sad till lately bane of the Valeria theatre, took ectauthat tusespatrally yesterday oftener= about eas o'clrek. Dowareg e who was 66 yeses of ap, had been any far Was or bar weeks, bat buss were saterteised of refs reeevery mall Ws ea Saturday ovular, whoa Kr. Babette, kis maul aeliadeat, btrimated to his fully that the maroon bed eismosti a fatal character. Kr. 0e- Isaktiesea has bees sesaeger of the Caveat Garden, Badler's Wells, Sum, sad City of Leadoa Theatres, and, as lessee of the Vie, reprodased oa Thanday last the Christian Mess whisk had easseeded at the gat meatball theatre jut butes. years babe*. law Viossat, ILL George Othildistes, sad Mr. flearheow, all of the V ic t oria Thea tr e, were with him la his bat mosautr. YoIGID &MI Nano:A balmy has been eon mined ra the 61. was of the Noltiogissa sad Neetisikau skim lleaklag Compeay. ♦ umber of theme notes Lau heat passed at Derby (where two pusses ere la custody on the roam), at Newark, cad ether plows. The form is lithos= tad weedly well dose ; bat the paper is • Nose hue yet beir met with purport's" te v brissud from any at the brio& basks; bat they ell bear the sigsatares of T. H. Smith" sad "H. W. Wileolk sem" Pintas assuaresed iss to os Ike geadas sots will wally t:uxCaTeole. Strut the brgery.—Neelim Journal. MIRICA2I COTrole.—We (Lianpool lownol) yes terday saw la the peesusisse et Mr. Warbertea, man elalte ... Mtirt=nes;a minium of the wild ultra pleath fell witha lay yards et the sea t es the west soot efLagast lass. Th. qamilq Rae, aad this ep silon skews that this. would be is Madly in ttltlystlng sillia wino it no glibanL THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS. MANCHESTER ATRENJEUM SOIREE. MANCHESTER, Dno. 28. The Manchester Atbessum, which was founded usrs than • dcsen ye , rs ago by Mr. Cobden, under Mecum. AMON so full of hope, and which la the way, in thew pent annual re-alone at the Few-trade Hall, presided over Massively by Dickens, th e Earl of Carlisle, Alison; lei L ord Mahon, to the many other agreeable meetings of Ow kind we NO annually taking place in other towns, 118111 as Lads. Sheffield, and Huddersfield, is now giving a Mlle of • Meal" sniffles on • smaller scale, spread over the year at periods of about three months spur. The stades on • lane male, by some mismanagement, did not answer, and the institution subsequently esteeming some what involved in difficulties for want of finances, the fame attendant on these 'settings was not held to be a maNci•rst inducement to continue th.m. The present Robles, besides being on • more limited and economical sale, are made subservient to repeated and more sus tained efforts to relieve the building from • heavy mortgage debt, wHelt has been a sad incubus, paralysing its energies for years past, and there are now strong reasons tor believing that the institution will struggle through its difficulties, and, palming its noble building fres from all ircumbrances, will become a more fburisi,ing concern than it as ever yet awn. One et these agreeable social parties was given last evening in the .patinas library, and Mr. Cobden, M.P., having consented to preside, there was a numerous gathering of ladies and gentlemen, consi dering the rather high price of admission. The programme inducted mate (vocal and instrumental), dramatic mania, and dancing, with refreshments seivad in an autoroute. One of the readicge was from Sheridan's play of " The' Rivals," and, after the recent correspondence between the hon. chairman end Sir Thomas flutings, It.N., the part of Sir Lucius 0' Trigger bad of thane more then ordinary point in it, and was received with rapturous applause. RICHARD COBDBN, Esq., M.P., in taking the chair, sad—Ladies and gentlemen, the occasion on which this meeting is held, and the season of the year at which it is helm, both warn me that my task, fortunately, will be one of Wiry short duration, and not of • very onerous character, tonight. This is a meeting periodically held, in which the members of this expellent institution are enabled toshow, by their own latent resources, that they pones. the means 'Firkin this institution of f urnishing rational, iatellectual, and refined amusement and instruction to the members en this association, without estraneeus sill. Now, I feel instill:4 at having the opportunity of meeting you on inch as occasion as this. (Cheep.) I feel happy, u one of y for Iwo' her megabits—and, in fact, a member from the beginning, aid a member for the rest of my life—(cheers)—l feel happy in meeting you under circumstances more favourable than those ts,iter which we met last year. Tor) number of mem bers of this institution is increasing. We are liable, as you know, in all such institutions, to ebbs and flows of pros. bat at present I am happy to congratulate you upon the fact that we are in the flood nde—(cheen)—and that our numbers are increasing. I think from the last year we have had an inenaso of 15 to 20 per cent.; and ,if I de lay you for a moment or two, before you proceed to much more agreeable employment, it would be with a view of trying to improve upon this occasion, and see if we cannot make, nest year, a much better and more prosperous meet ing than the present. Now, I think it woull be very unfair if I were to address those present in the way of censure— if I went to think of scolding those who are present for those who do not belong to this institution : but, at the same time, I must say that, although we have no reason to complain, and still leas reason to despair in our present cir cumstances. still I think that the number of the member, of this irritation ,is not so great as it ought to be in Manchester. This institution woe founded originally fir the purpose of affording a resource to young men engaged in busbies', u clerks and warehousemen—in fact, that portion of the community—of the junior brooches of the trading community of this town, which may be called the middle class. Now, if this inititu lion do not altogether meet the expectations of its originator; we have not the same excuse to offer as the cci duties' institutions have which we sometimes fi nd not attegetber succeeding, or at have not altogether being com posed of mechanics—when we allege a 4 an excuse for that, that the operative elegises of this country are not sufficiently educated to appr,ciate ouch) institutions, we cannot allege that of this Atheneum, as the micelle class are sufficiently educated to enjoy the benefits of this icetitutioa. This in stttivioo, so far as it has been patronised, his been patron ised by persons of the middle class, and therefore it has been bona fide what it professed to be from the beginning, and if it have not succeeded altogether in the number of its members, we have not to tall back upon any such excuse as we have in the case of mechanics' to sututione, and we cannot console our selves with the idea that when peoplaare better educated there will be &greeter accessioned numbers to this instituion. Now, I say we bare not so great a number as I aliou!cl like us to have in this institution, sod the members of this society are not altogether of the ages which I ibould like to see in tie membership of this taatitution. For instance, Ido not think you have more than 260 or 300 members of this institution' who ars under 20 or 21 years of age ; and I think probably the majority of the members of this institution are upwards of 40 years of age. Well, I am very glad that an institution of this kind should c,ntain attractions so varied that persons of all ago find here something congenial to their taste, sad something in which they can find means of intelligent recre ation or inetioction. (Hear.) But I must say, having been at the early deliberations of those who were instrumental in founding this institution, that it was expected that a much greater number of young men of Manchester would profit by it than have done; and I do think that if those young men who are now of the age of twenty or fiva and-twenty—it they had hoed in Manchester fifteen years ago, as I did, and had known what it was to be without such an institution as the Atheneum, then, I must say, 1 think they would prise this institutions greet deal more than they do. And L would soy to those who are employers of young =em— end I know on the platform there is one or more who are very large employers of young men in counting houses or wsrebouses—l should ssy that it would be well if they were to consider whether they might not very much pro mote the permanent interests of the young men in their employ, it they wuu:d encourege tht in to belong to this institution. And I would say, that I do not think there could be a more useful Christmas present or New Yeses gift, presented to • youth is a warehouse sr counting-house, than if they would give them a year's subscription to this institution. (Loud sheers) Now, gentlemen, I wish the members of this institution to bear in mind that they have en interest In increasing the number of its members. Ido not think that is sufficiently understood. I want tho members of the Atheneum to view themselves as partners in • concern, the prosperity cf which depends. like all other concerns, mainly upon tho amount of business it can transact. Ido not know any concern in Manchester which so much depends for its prosperity upon the increased number of its customers—that is, an extension of its business—as this Athens mum; because I do not know any concern where the fixed charges are so large in proportion to the other curlew expenses. And when I speak el fixed charges, I mean such items ea ground rent—between three and four hundred pounds—interest on your mortgage, two or three hundred pounds—lighting—salaries—and rates, sad expenses of that kind, which in this institution amount to upwards of 1,0001. upon an income of about 1,9001. So that you see, if you can:increue your number of submit:it re, your fixed charges remaining the same, all that you can get additional, up to the extent of 2 or 3 hundred members from the precut moment, would all be char profit to your society. If you could get three or four hundred more eubecribers to the Atheastoco, nearly the whole amount of their payments —probably about 3001. a year, I will amume— would be available for the purchsee of an hammed supply of books and other sources which would minister to the increased attractiveness of this institution, and also tend to increase the enjoyment of the existing members. (Cheers.) I hope the ladies will excuse me making these dry remarks, Mow the interest of the institution depends upon the.. considerations, and the ladies' occasional enjoyment Mir the root of this institution will of course in some degree depend also upon the prosperity and the cheerful of the members of this institution. (Cheers.) Now should may that the members of the Atter rum should ell =odder themselves es partners. They should not consider that the directors—the government of this institution—are sessething apart, and that the members, once having elected their directors, may think no more of the institution, but ray leave its anemia's', and the responsibility of its rac eme, entirely la the bands of the directors. The members should consider that they are all partnere in this excellent thm, and they should go about every day trying to increase the beldame of this excellent firm; and if they will each try to Sad a customer, and bring Wm hers, and 111101 hint amongst their members, they will be doing hint a geed salvia, and especially if he be a young man ; sad they wW, at the suns time, be doing themselves a benefit by imweadag the general prosperity of the institution. (Cheers.) how, while I am upon the subject of the ma's and MIAOW this institution, I should like very much to draw your attendee to as expense which you incur, which, think with a little effect from thee* institutions, might be pt rid of I masa these taxes which press immediately on the ardatee whisk you consume in these establishments. (Seam, bear, and loud applause.) Now, I speak to you as a amber of parliament, sad I tell you that, whether you are aimed in one business or another, if you have taxes that press upon you, end impede your proper, that you mutt be up sad stirring, sad petition to her those taxes taken off, or ekes, is the general seramble, which will take place when the Chancellor of the Exchequer lass a esuplus, as be probably will have next year—you will be overlooked, and they will est a remission of taxation who ore most clamorous for it. (Cheers.) Now, 1 eosins I have been astonished aye& to had the amount to which institutions like this are taxed. I sailed is the aid of your curler sad latelligeat esentery, in making • computation r to the asemeat midi these taus, sa the different oressedithe you prehees, her upon this lastitudon. Now, I lad that in the runs of the year this irritation pareitases paper in the Apra of beaks sr newspauffe, or paw he prinsieg, as the =teat atheist.= weight ; and I had that the duty ea that paper ameanta to seasewhere shoot 441. Now, even the espy - beer that are used is the salmis el the Keeitenise• Insiftntka or Lyeeeir —I lad theme espy hooks, who you was row up by the berkedweight, pap • tax whisk really sesonats to a ma =rm. And I cis my, is it ass ma renetrone that, a ll ay where wa d re to esteem knowledge, sad to Maedsostir, an dean the people to be nelgoeted— ine neenstrer rat tree should exis t whisk are Or* spa knewl•dp. (Mem) Weil, bed pa haw weethae brash bridle your loser ; yen have bras* ef yaw hulas., whisk probably is more ettraceive Was fop Other—l mean you newereaa. Now, 16 on 111 years ego, when reausies• institutions were IMO in their Wham Ahem they ere now, I re liminba there was a gar prejudice in the Wade di Ms pima td we. kmess, sadist the 'minimills of newspapers within their walls. It used to be sold that that was politica% and that these wristlet were farmed not to le political. But in proem of tints It was found that the rest majority of the members of these iss.itutions did not join them for the purpose of severe study, Mot for the par pose of daily and hourly recreation and ictelligett erjoy. stunt and amusement. But there become a greater and greater desire to have newspapers added to their niectanics' institutionst and 1 think I may now say, with ant the fear of eontradiction, that, taking the mechanics' institutions ge nerally, the most attractive feature—that which does more than aayttiog else to sustain the numbers of these societies — is to be tound in the newsroom, with the newspapere, and the other periodical literature. Well, now, such being the case, any tas upon newspaper. is a direct pries upon that In which you deal and that which you purchase annu ally. Now I find that betides the duty on paper for the newspaper y.O purchase, you pay between 70/. and 801. as the stamp upon the newepaptre they purchase. But here I most observe that for a portion of those newspspers you get a consideration for your stamp; that is, you get the poeteige,—the free postage of the newspaper. But that does not apply to cue-half of the papers you buy; for all your London morning papers, and all year Manchester pipers are brought to you without the interver.tion of the post-ellia at all; and thrisfora for one half, at least, of the stamps you pay for upon newspapers, you get no consideration what ever in the shape of postage ; atd, therefore, it the stamp were not imposed to that extent, this society would be relieved from an annual charge. (Hurl Now if I adopt one halt the amount you pay for your paper, and if I add to that the increased charge which there is both to books and newspapers, in consequence of that impediment which we all know is offered by the maintenance of any tax or duty of the kind. I cannot tut down the charge which you pay annually fa them taxes at less than 1021., and I believe I am very much under the mark when I sq you pay an income tax of at least 1001. on your expenditure of MM. fur the tem lapel' your paper and newspapers. (Applause.) Well now I see no reason whatever why theses institutions generally—l mean Ather reams, and Mechanics' institutions, and Lyceums — should not make an effort to redeye theoelves of this charge. For bear in mind, if you could but get this abatement of taxation one of two things would arise;—either you would b., abler to have a much larger amount laid out in newspapers and built@ for the convenience and erjin, meet of your members, or you would have a saving of 1001., which you might lay out in dimi nishing your mortgage debt, or in any other way, relieeieg the pressure of your angagemenn upon this inriiution. In either ease it would be a positive gain to the institution. • Now, I hope that no one fir a moment will suppose that in wait I am saying I may be thought to be torgiog any thing which could by anybody, however divested they might be to card, be construed into an attempt to make you juin to any political object. Yoe are all pecuniarily inter ested in this question. I might gn into any countine-house or warehouse in Manchester, and I should ba quite at a lose to Hod any body who paid at the rate of 100 L in taxation noon every 1,9001. of their return annually. (Hear, bear.) Yoa are especially interested in this question, and I say that it the paper dut with the other duties and taxes ctlecting knowledge, the di ff usion of are to b.: removed, it must be by the intervention of societies such as these; who, by the very fart of their moving at all in the matter, will prevent the assumption, or the accusati,n, that it is at all a political question. Because, seeming that you are men of all political parties here, haring one object, which is written in large charseten over the front of your building, " the advancement and diffusion of knowledge," if you pray for the removal of taxes which work to impede that edvance mint and diffusion of knowledge, as you are men met here for that object and no other, if you join in petitioning for the removal of those obstacles to your progress, 1 have ro doubt they will be removid, because it cannot be alleged you are doing so for political interest. Mr. Coh.ten concluded by referri.:g to the after amusements, and sat down amidst much spp:ause. . r At a later period of the evening, after the concert and dramatic readies' alluded to ohove, Mr. Same But WARS moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Cobden, which was seconded by Mr. BILOTIICKTON, M P. The Hon. CHAIRMAN sugges , cd that they shoal 1 form a canvassiog nmmitlee solely to the pxrpose of extending the number of the member., and he would guarentee that before this time next year they would find success attend their efforts. (Cheers.) At the ball, which concluded the enterteinments, dancing wan kept up till two o'clock this morning. IRELAND. Bnat.nr. Dec. 2R. Two new accessions have been made to the four already announced of those who are ready to act on Mr. J. O'Connell's proposition for a meeting of the Irish Roman catholic memb.wa in Dublin, before the opening of the parliamentary session. These are Sir Timothy O'Brien and Sir Percy Nugent. The latter, in his reply to Mr. O'Connell, says: I am very much obliged by jour 'minis" me with your views respecting a proposed nirring of the Roman catholic members in Dublin, previously to the assembling tt parlia ment. I will take care and make it my business 1 , . attend. I cannot help, a: the same tins?, remarking, that I sus not iodised to place much est.Glerce in nvetings ,ugh se these, nor hu my experience given me cause to rely much on their result B. A gentleman in London, who, as the Evening Mail says, " possesses good means of information," writing in that jootn►l, mentions the manifesto of the Irish members, to which I have already alluded. He says : —" Lord Castlereagh and some others of Peel tory ish tendencies are acid to have signed it." lie adds —" Lord Stanley takes his stand on the income tax renewal next session, which he intends to oppose ; and as the government contemplates its extension to Ire land, which the Irish members will of course vote against, it is thought that that may be the field on which whiggery may fall." Her Excellency the Countess of Clarendon, accom panied by Sir Wm. Russell, Bart., A.1).C., distributed warm clothing; on Christmas•eve to 2do poor persons assembled at Cestleknock glebe, and selected by the clergymen of the various religious denominations in 'the neighbourhood. An influential meeting was held at Lismore, in the county of Waterford, on Monday last, for the purpose of encouraging the growth and manufacture of flax. The chair was occupied by Lord Stuart de Dccies, and the meeting was composed of some of the first men in the South of Ireland in point of influence, useful ness, and intelligence. The great point discussed, and that which seems to be very generally felt, was the difficulty of securing a simultaneous enclurage ment for the producers of the crop and for the manu facturing speculator; to afford to tho latter an as surance of a sufficient crop to induce him to embark in the undertaking, and to the farmer a ready and easy sale and a near market to induce him to grow the crop. While each of these parties is waiting for the other to begin, it is naturally to be feared that neither the cultivation nor the manufacture of flax can be carried on to any great extent. A committee was appointed at the Lismore meeting to prepare some practical plan on the subject. The Attorney-General has appointed Mr. Thomas Jacob Sessional Crown Solicitor for the Queen's County. A serious affray took place on Monday morning last at a place in the county of Tyrone, where the revenue police had gone to make a seizure of an illicit still. When returning to their station with three pri soners, whom they had taken on the occasion, the police were fired upon by • number of persons who lay in ambush on the road. After about 20 shots bad been exchanged, the police were allowed to proceed on their way, one of their number having been danger . oualy wounded by a rifle ball in the leg. COLLEGE OF PRECEPTOIS.—On Saturday a special meeting of the members of this institution was held at the offices, Bloomsbary square—Mr. Stokes in the chair. The meeting was preparatory to the general meeting which is to take place on Sitaday next, and was called for the purpose of considering the bye-laws, as remised by the cannel, with a view so their confirmation as the rules of the corporation. Theo regulations having been confirmed and adopted, as were also a common seal and form of diploma recommended by the taunt% the meeting operated. ACCIDENT AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE.—On Saturday morning an accident *marred at the building in Hyde-park. A man, named Smith, was at work at one of the.gatten. when he fell to the ground, between 60 and 60 feat below. He was paled up ba a onseleas state, and conveyed to St. Georp's Hospital, where it was di scovered that both hie lege wear fractured, sad his head having come in contact with a projection of the &Network, one of his eyeball, was dreadfully injured ; but notwithstanding these sad other impulse great hopes at. entertained of his recovery THE IRON TRADE OF SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE.-••• The preliminary monist of the fon and coal masters of this district was held at Dudley, en Friday evening, at the hotel:in that town, sod was numerously attended. Nearly all the important hopes in the trade were represeated, and the result of the 'Rafts is deemed satisfactory. From the reports made by these well acquainted with the trade in all Its bearings, it appears that than are well-founded hopes of a eonsiderabls imprevameat, and that the new year will witness a restoraters et at lead some portion of the profits, which a serious &preset= during the last twelve months sad a ruinous competition had sacrificed. The demand at present Is certainly . en the Wow, but not to such am extent as would kiddy an advance, and it was resolved to adhered daring the ensuing quarte r to the prices of last. It is stated that at some uf the works increased activity will be required to execute the abundance of orders recently received from limeries, and the spring shipments are likely to be heavy. Ner are the railways to be overlooked in our fintisipations of the future. In that quarter an Improvement hos alrudy taken plot, and it is confidently expected that there will be en inereesed demand for railway iron for home and Weiss consumption. Add to this, the general steady demand for:manafolarsd goods from the United Slates, and the pompoms of the ironasasters for the forthcoming year are mash better than they were at the commencement of the one we are slain. AU, howenr, must eventually depend ft • Mktg the make se sear se irmlble to the demand. * 144". t.;„, ,s ' • , t" . ,:-‘• (.)) 4 , \ l 4 ‘i 'p ea .4 id. rirt