The Express. — London, England, 1850-04-29 00:00:00

• armance of the state of siege was do :mg it is to last is not mentioned; •.4.01 to he the uncertainty of the rola , with foreign powers. . /eating entities the deem by whin , an is declared to be opined in the Los : sr territOry. The loan is to be for 120 ~tress lire. Tae least soma that am itet lire. The interest is at 3 pie • , upons are to fel doe in Jane sad De .,in is to be repaid in 23 years. .• vAmiary Ida" 10; Nat West D. $7; pa OPE. Netalapsti. 14; Pm pr rune. 1072. REECE. ,r w►ieh arrived at Trieste en the 22nd .Istis from Athens to the 18th, when f the &apnea with England had been us• rrported that a Real eonfortnes had 7,, !green 'Won Om and Sir Thomas I, it was ssrud that the Orrek gorses. -sr tto,iitu) drachmas e.. - mpensatianowid r Inward an apologet. e note to Erg ! -h deg to he saluted with twinty-one Akropo!is. It Is veered, however, .1, government had refused tomcods to I 6 • . • 1 6 , • • •. • i • • .!,• .‘ • .:..• • r.: , • e t C. }e; • TIED STATES. szroot, SUNDA' 'TIN two. ! o'cuocx. mass packet ship Parfitment has just 11,.e.ey. with dates from Boson to the y .rk to the Bth inst. She reports the , at New York of the Herm inn steam , ' amptoa and Br.men. ..f the unfortunate Professor Webster, • er vents see of a area:ion for the murder his made a strong appeal for mercy Ind to too governor of Massachusetts. • tec,ined by a couaiderAble portion of . ' , ryas, who still doubt the guilt of the • • ontain some interesting and import - • .•n 'dative to the search after Sir John P.-porches bad been ree,ived in New Mirelay. her Britannia 11lesty's con m thesicioi J cf Lake Bupenor, the 16th • the exploration on t►e north coast of ?metal by Dr. Rae and Lieut. Pollen, of ...up Plover. From three documents it :DC Nurse* boat expedition had safely -es roast, the smooth o• the Nlsckenve d then joined Dr. liar. No signs of Sir presence on that coast had been dis : no accounts had been received of him -cr. Official despatches are now en route •city. and may be expicted by the next New York. ogr extracts from letter from EL Paul's, t, the 12. h u 1.., had elven rim to much n New York. but the receipt afterward. 'CLIO above referred to at once negatived ins : aired ben yesterday from some distance error, briagine sews that an Amerieattweeel 'T soe of t - ••AllItTiC411•, and bad sent lettere • J rho Franklin was foen•l. Toe partieulan . however, they say be a sate. ins are the comr•unicntions received by Mackenzie River. Sept. 26, 1849, 90 miles bel is/ Fort Simpson. - . OS deem of Sri John Richardson, who cogs recent overland watching expedition, that I ut address the accospenyaig despatch, with a that It be forward to En..land without loss :Ay mention that it contains a short account of •i.at to the Arctic Sr., via the Covpi nnine . h.. praved quite Italia-metal, the treat quan :eventing we Mum getting to Wellington's Land -1 have the honour to be, JOHN RAE. .• nic Majesty's CJOSIII. New Twit. Hudson's-bay Compimy, Feb 16, 1850. wadi:4ly to initials you mat although the of America has ilia lesson been emplowd by *POT. of t h e brig Plover; from Behriog's- Vi3orrigat Islet, be Lieutenant Pullen ; thence to : the Mackenzie R.vsr by Dr. Rae entidirably ppennines, yet neither of these have seen cr • • rat of Sir J. Franklin and party. I !sincerely the parties arempting to penetrate the Macao *he tattoos.' have been mon sereetaful. ith much respect, I am your ilerlient, JOHN BALLENDER, Chief Fodor. Washington the intelligence is aaiertortant, e tontinuirg to debate Me slavery question. i:e to the cabinet was rumour. d, and it was . that Messrs. Webster, %vier, and King rw introduced into the war department. ,•• TLi miscellaneous proceedings of the Senate • ...tired the presentation of a memorial from y °Fennell, of New York, asking the ap• of area and men and seamen for the ex- : ow Ilttimr out in that city to search for Sir kap. Mr. Clay, on presenting the memo tte Senate warmly in its favour. %lexica, we learn that General Almonte and •its bad petitioned the Mexican Congress 'tam a charter of incorporation to enable !xi/re: the Golf of Mexico with the Pacific mesas of a railroad. The road is to coin- V.-ra Cius within two years, carried 30 tire years thereafter, to the city of Mexico ors more, to the Pacific Ocean in ano:her at advice, from San Francisco to the let of r.iviid by the steamship Oregon, arrived at . snd from Chores by the ream-ships Empire (Aerobe% arrived at New York. Times • c,Aveled toptber 3,600,000 dole. 1 gold I .a rivers bad fallen to their ordinary limits, • ".e min favourable weather the miners g down fur supplies, and business was Ttie remoras of the mining district were 4*. TIT and it was anticipated that large • f geld would shortly be received from the Money in Sacrgmento was high in value, t• mouth being quoted at 10 to l 2 per cent. r. re occurred at Chagree on the evening of the %is•cti, by which most of the old town was The construction cf the Panama Railroad commenced with spirit in the vicinity of 4. were again current in New York of an ti invasion of Cabs, and a schooner, on dtp.rture for Mapes, had been searched, as Laity of an affidavit sada by the Spanish t't ship Hermann arrived at New York on • aut, after a ran of 17 days from South- airiest to the 29th ult. add nothing to .411 intelligence. ..4,.l•ture of Prince Edward's Island had • cute of want of confidence, end had refused .1 • supplies until a responsible government 4 granted to them. LITEILPOOL, SVXDAY NIGHT. 11. t picket-ship Ashbarton, Captain Bunting, has .4 ..nred. She brings no later Waiters than the 4 . MOLL The Ashburton lilt New York on the ..- .Li'., bat becalmed off Liverpool on Thursday last the above was in type we have received the ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA. (By Electric Telrgraph.) It 10.41 OCR (MN CUItkibIONDIKT.) OOL. MONY. bridal and North LIVERP American Royal DA Mail -Lb • .p Europa has just arrived in the Mersey, Kee from New York to the 17th inst. Nicaragua treaty, with a slight modificatioa, '•• '4l,e :anted immediately by the American Se. i!t claims of the British and Dutch upon Vene " 4 i plat to have been adjusted. At.ott,er report of Sir John Franklin's safety had • • t•! from St. Paul's, Minnesota territory, but wu . otuatod. • untie'. flood had occurred at Toronto, in v•ada. The losses were serious. • ~i nercial affairs of the Union are unchanged. es moderately carried on. '.• y market at New York continua in a •''..rs condition. Money is by no MIMI want ,. legitimate purposes. Unit d States Sixes, I 1.-sumry Notes, 11%; Pennsylvania. 92 1. • ....dst unto market was firm, and prices steady. •• • wail Hour, dole. to 5 dole. 12¢o. per brl. new* prime la heat, I dol. 30c. to I dol. 32c. • ' •to there had been a fair amount of business New York; former quotations were fully maintained. New Orleans and Mobile, mid. fair to fair, 121 to 131 1 Uplands, mid. fair to fair, 121 to 121. Provisions steady. Pork in fair danand. goc Court. The Qom et the Deli*" attested by the Casettes Vas due Mown end Me* de Iliestab, visited the Qum se Ileesedv et Duideghea Pelee& Her Ma. jowly was meshed as her mehal et Ile Vanhall Mies hum Clareeasat by Prises Albsseistbsaded by kis Equerry heaWg e Limet.-Ceisesl die Rea. dimeur Hordea), who esse t Mod ft the Palma The Queen of the perish et kawhosa with her Majesty sad Pease The (leers eat Poises Albert, Irak Prises Alfred sad the Primus Alin. bosh • drive as Saturd a y l a saves carries' sad ; lbw equerries la 'Weise, Lad Cearies !tearer sad Lisat.-Coleael the Hoe. A. Gerdes, at waste ea horseback. Her Medesty aed Prism Albert, the Prime's Royal, Use ladies sad isatlesaos oldie some, and the demestie home hold, weeded divine envies yesterday la the private chapel Beeleiarban Palma. The Has. sad Rev. Gerald Welles. ley 'Maimed. MD Duchess of Kant, accompanied by the Prince et Lanier., hemmed her Malsety'l Theatre with her pre mese ea Saturday sums/. The Duke of Cambridge honoured the cocceet of the Royal Leademy of Mane at the Hanover square Room ea Saturday with Cl. presesse. A cabinet council was held on Saturday afternoon at the pomp elle*. The Mialeters meat were Lord Jobe Russell. the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Reri of Mists, Sir Hemp Orgy, Vuormat Palmerston Earl Om, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Si, Francis Baring, Sir Jabs Hobbouse, the Earl of Carlisle. the Right Hoe. H. Labors chore, and the Right lioa. Fox Mania. The general sat one boar cad a half. Mr. Willey and Mr. Williams, M.P. for Marche. field, had an Interview with the CLensissioaers of Railways on Saturday at their °See la the Board of Trade. A deputation from the coal miners of lAnceshin. Cheshire, Durham, sad Norrhumberlaad, coneistiag of Mr. Matthew Richardson (Northumberland), Mr. John Preside (Cheshire), Mr. lad (Northumberland), and M. Swallow luthesehire), had ea Interview with Sir ll Oa rge Grey cm pa suirday, Ms Ilemapsess. is mum was wawa puled by Sir Joshes weVIN , ty.P , Mr. Home, 11. P , Hr. Thiamine, Y P., Mr. Resillar, M.P., Mr. Wyld, M.P., Mr. Goldaworthy Glassy, and Mr. H. Miller. A deputation of members of the Master Carpenters' Society, coneistiug of Meru.. Nahum, Higgs, Stepheas, Stephen Bird, George Bird, (herb, and Bales, bad an ia -0000 iew with Lord Seymour on Saturday, at the office of her Majesty's Coanaraiourn of the Woods and Forests. A deputation on the subject of the Halifax and Quebec Railway, socompenied by Lords Stanley and Mont auk", had as interview oa Saturday with Lord Jolla Rus sell, at his °Skid residence in Dowaing-street. Lord John wu accompanied by the Secretary of State for the Colmar and the President of toe Board of Trade. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, bad an inurrviow with the Chanoellor of the Ex chequer on Saturday. Mr. Frewen, M.P., had an interview with Sir Goons Grey on Saturday. The Earl of Carlisle had a dinner party on Satur day at his residence in Grosvenor-plan*, too company in cluding Lord and Lady Beaumont, Lord sad Lady Wode house, Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood, Sir John and Lady Johnston., Mr. Ham and Lady Parke, Mr. and Mrs. Rates Curio, Hon. F. and Lady Elizabeth Om, Lord [Emden, Mr and Lady Anne Tufart, Lord Strafford, the Counter of Carlisle, Lady Mary Howard and the Hos. Charles Coward. The Princes of the Sandwich Islands attended Divine sorties yesterday at the Chapel Royal St. James's. The prayers were read by t►e Rev. W. Rail, the leans by the R•v. T. Relators sad the Communion service by the Rev. Dr. Wesley. The &roma was preached by the Rev. E. Nepesa. PHILANTHROPIC FARM SCHOOL FOR THE REFORSIATION OF JUVENILE OFFENDERS. On Saturday the anniversary festival of this insti tutions was celebrated at the London Tavern, Bishopegate- Meet. Sir John Pakington, Bart, M.P., presided, and was supported by Mr. Beadles, M.P., Sir A. Rothschild, Bart., Mr. Freabfbeld, the High Sheriff of Surrey, Mr. R. M. Milne*, M.P., Mr. Satinet Adams, Mr. Weguelin (chair man of the Rorie Company), M. Ducpetiaux, Inspector. General of Prisons in Belgium, the Rev. Dr. Rice, Captain Holland, die., numbering in all about 100 gentlemen. It appeared from a report submitted to the company, that since the 13'.h of April, 1849, the date at which the Farm School was opened at Reekill, 65 boys had beta admitted, and 46 placed out. Of the 65 admitted-16 wen orphans, or utterly deserted ; 22 had lost sae of their parents; 6 had dissolute or drunken parents. Of the sixty-five, the ma jori y had been frequently in prison : in the case of thirma of them, however, the cause of their offences was their utter destitution rather than their vicious r r ' nal icedination, their only convictions being for beggirg or vagrancy, or some similar misdemeanor esenuted with th•ir distressed Gad friendless sate. The best and most improving boys of the whole numbar have been those received from country districto, on the eppli- Gallo, of the charitable associations now In union with the Philanthropic, in Cheshire, Norfolk, Ac. These lads are volunteers, selected with judicious care by the chaplain of the prison. They eater the school with a sincere wish to do better for themselves, and to retrieve their charac ter. Many of them, from their ruggedness and unsettled habit., find the self-r*straint and the industrial exertion required of them, hard ; but reason, kindn-re, and, in ex treme cases, the threat of expulsion from the school, have succesued in controlling them, and in enlisting them is earnest in the work of their moral and social recovery. Ten very promising lads of the same clue have lately been sent by Sir George Grey from the Westminster Btidewell. They have all bees carefully chosen out from upwards of one haedred lads in that prison, u (from their character or their I cdreumesoces) deserving of en opportunity to break from their former habits and associates. A few more, similarly selected, from Cold Bath Fields Hoene of Correction, will shortly be received. With reference to the boys placed out since April, 1849, the committee felt st to be desirable to transfer to the farm school on its first opening, as few of the boys that had been and to the employment sad discipline of tee Loudon school as possible. A great many therefore of the younger boys in the latter establishment were either apprenticed or returned to their friends. Thus boys were necessarily but imper fectly reformed, and many of them have relapsed into their former C unee, or are complained of as disorderly and trou blesome. The general want of employment, and the distress and alarm caused by the cholera, have ne doubt greedy coateibuted to this The masters of some of the boys have been involved in diffieultM, and obliged to discontinue their butane, end the parents of others have been unable to sup port them or watch over thorn. Of many of them, however. a good report au be gives. The number that have left the Logsdon school sines April 13, 1849, the date at which Use farm school commenced, is 24 ; of these, one emigrated to Amities, 12 were apprenticed to masters, seven were placed with friends, one was returned to Millbaak prison, two absconded, one was taken away by his mother. Twenty-two lads have left the farraechool since the game date: of these, eight have emigrated; two have been placed la &hustling in Reglor.d ; one has been reemmiled to his meter , tour have returned to their friends; seven have absconded from the echoed. Of them lest, three left the school immediately on being transferred to it; four after some weeks' experience of its diseipline: twe of these four have been aim transperted ; one hat been sentenced to a long period of haprimaseot Is Whichever ; one is on the tramp with his moths The adoption of the present system of &visit:oral training ' has been aecompaakid by facilities for the 'aigrettes of the ' boys touts colonies. Thanks to the active interest of Mr. Maus, to whose connexion with the Cape coleay the society owe the opportunity of sending out the thirly•six who emi grated to Algae Bay in February, 1849, an opining bashes. made kir mural of the older and more improved young men is the farm school as form _apprentices and servants in British North America. Seould those who have been sent behave well (es there is good reams to expect) man more will be gladly received Ia New Brunswick st d Canaria, and all difficulties removed se to the yeevia ing foss the society's objects, so long es its training continues eMaient, and its reformatory results satisfactory and real. Amongst the touts proposed was that of the " Army and Navy," and Captain HOLLAND in returning thanks on !shell of the latter service, mid he could bear Saimaa, to the benefits which had resulted from the institution. A sug gestion bad been made Whist that the Ragged Schools should be connected with this establishmat, sad, in his opinion, such a connexion would be advantageous to both inatitu• tines. The CHAIRMAN, in proposing " Prosperity to the Phi. laathropic Farm School,"mickthat considering the vast amount of vice which existed in the country, and c onsidering Low deficient was our education and religious in 'limbo° there could be no subject: more fitting th e deep and anxious attention of the public sad of the iszeiel g :tare than the reformation of juvenile offenders. The of this institution WU to divert polluted streams into Ike planet channel, and redeem from crime those young creatures who had been led astray, either through misfor tune or evil communications. Such an object was certainly . . a most pralieworthy one, bat be thought their seal in the cams should not lead them to the adoption of any general system which might hare the effect of wilding out &premium I. tics, and thus present advantages to criminals, of which the innocent were &pries& T he toast having been drunk with great enthusiasms, Mr. &great ADAMS propmed the health of Dnepr abd the foreign institutions for the reformaties of jumenile offenden,' and in doing so took occasion to express an opinion highly favourable to the institution. There could be no doubt that the surest way of reforming juvenile offenders was not to enclose the within f.ur walls, but to teach them the value of industrial libbits, by allowing them bo reap the fruits of them. M. DUCPITIAUX (who returned thanks in French) spoke in the wannest terms of the advantages that were 'timely to annul Isom the establishment of • philanthropic krm school. aid he captained an opinion that the system of agricultural training wee one which ought to mews every fievsrel other gentlemen addressed the company in the mane of the evening, and rub crir itnu weell announced alsoosttlag to upwards of GVW. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1850. WINDOW DUTIES. Os Friday Irak susieses dsgsladas, represent ing swim arairary. pidossrapieel, sad eeehltestaral ueo eimine et eb seueretle. waked by eptektang ea the dello& Chemelier et the I:chequer, a the subject of ths whitlow Q =fa ispullatina hating bees introduced by Lord Ronan? 11=11 HOWARD, Bart. briefly stated the general object he wheats the iaterraw ha te been desired. He was, himself, chairman of an association for improving the dwell lags of the working dames, which had found the window dudes an insoprrable bonier to Its Dragnet. The seem enmity of the model lodgings the society bad erected, ma sist,d Is the arnuipments they had made for an deviate supply of air, ligkt, and water; but these arrange ments had led,nader the present system, to such as induce of taxation, that private landlords amid not be expectot te imitate their example. Upon the buildings of the society La Use Panerefernad, they were actually eayine 1821. 18e. window duty, of which the sum of not lees then 351. was foe duties Merged upon their sculleries end water-closet.. If the window duties were to be maintained ofim or this deenritias lad the windows of beeement floors should, et tad every separate mho el rooms let as Mee =put wpm the some hada. as Members in the In.. desert, which were Merged only at the rate of le 9d. pets window. ' Mr. W. Z. HICKSON stated that the ease of the model I lodging-houses, impos tent as ft was, still repreeented comps raUvely but • =all pert of • wide-spread evil. He would beg to sell &Metals to its magnitude, by replying to an ar gement which had bees urged by the Chancel,or of the Ex. ' chequer in his place is the House of Commons. Sir Charles Wood had contended that the window duties did not prose upon the poorer duns of the community, Inasmuch as there were 3,000,00 C houses in Great Britain exempt from their operation. But why were 3,000,000 houses exempt ? Because fa the are of certainly • third of the number they were in adequately lighted and ventilated, end wen so constructed In order to evade the law. Cottages and farm-houses were exempt; but the greet majority of the working (lama did not live in either cottages or firm houses. They were to be found in towns, lodging in the back rooms of the upper 11 ten of what it. called under the Building Act third and fourth rate houses; houses that should have 12 or 16 windows, bat the occupiers of which, by de/keels, the steireases, peerages, closets, and cellars. reduced the swathed below the chargeable maximum of 7. The extern' of the mischief now in operation might be shown by an extract from • recent parliamentary return : Total number HMes liable to of houses. window duty. Birmingham 38,121 6,423 Bristol Leeds Liverpool Manchester Norwich 14,043 1,871 It ought by this time to be understood toat the sanitary objection to the window duties did not apply to the windows opened under the existing system, but to the windows closed. The Chancellor of the Beekeeper was effusing to remit the tax in favour of those who studied the laws of health, but a landlord content to allow his tenants to live in dirt and darkness, and their habitations to become • focus of con teg.ous diseases, was to receive every possible encouragement In favour of • man who had reduced the number of windows in his hours from twelve to seven, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer remittal 21.4 e. Od. per einem ; or of another who bad reduced his windows from thirty to twenty, the sum or 4.. per scam. This was practically to sot the part, not so mach of a flume minister, as that of • minister of pestilence. The remedy, if the money weld not be spared, was a house tax. Windows were, in fact, earls of houses. Why not tax the houses as • whole ? Such • tan might easily be rendered much more equitable then the present mode of assessment, which bore co reference to the ' rentals. There were houses ia public thoroughfares feted to the poor rate at 2001. per annuls that paid little or no win dow duty, the separate floors being cccupied es alive and warehouses ; while private houses, of less than half the value, in a bye aunt, were heavily taxed. If difliculies arossin the aujustwent of this burden, while they were under consideration, let • bill be introduce,' to emend and explain Lord Althorp's act or 1834 (4 & 5 Wm. 4, e. 54), so that the pledge which was then given might now at lest be redeemed. The pledge was, that the amount collected should not be increased, and that after the sth of April, 1835, every one should be allowed to open new windows free of duty. Lord Althorp's words were , that the effect of the act would be " to prevent any increase of rev.nue in the case of houses already existing." The window duty collected for the year ending 6th April , 183.5, was 1,177,8561.; for the year ending sth April, 1849, 1,813,82 W. A large portion of this increase had been produced by a vigorous system of surcharges. A quibble had been raised upon the messing of the act, and the pledge had been broken. It was au extraordinary instance of breach of faith. What would be said in private life of a landlord who, after promising his tenant a lute at • tined sent, raised it every year ? Paragraphs seminude ap. paired in the nevrspapen headed " Conscience Money," from which it appeared that individuals, wishing to make their peace with God, sent large sums, of which they had de frauded the revenue, to the Chancellor of the Richey:ler. He (Mr. Sicken)) trusted the time would come when the conscience of a Chancellor of the Exchequer would induce him to restore to the public that surplus revenue which certainly, SILO, the pawing of Lord Althorp's act in 1834, had been wrongfully obtained. Perhaps in another session the Chancellor of the Exchequer would be prepared with a comprehensive plan for a general reyWon of taxation —abolishing the soap duty, the paper duty, the duty on advertisements, &c., se well as the window duties. A moderate house tee, as a substitute f a some portion of the revenue escriflosd, would then be more acceptable than at the present moment. But, in the mean time, the sanitary objection to the window duties must be met. Permission must be at once accorded to the owners of existing houses to render them healthful without having the fear of the tax gatherer before their eyes. The case of the houses now banding did not pram. If new houses were to remain exempt altogether till another session, the would not lose 60,0001., and would gain upon the timber employed in their construction. Any delay in the abatement of the present evil would be deprecated by public opinion, the Board of Health, and the entire medical profession. A fearful epidemic had raged last autumn. It might break out again after the summer of the present year, and although it night be said that there would be cholera if there were no window duties, the purification of the air by all parable methods was really the only known preventive. One broad fact was this: the basement stories of several hundred thousand houses in Great Br:tain being now inadequately lighted and vent lated, become 1111!TVOill of mephitic vapours. These mephitic vapours, when verified by the summer heats, ascend to the upper floors, end subject the lomat s to fevers of • more or less typhoidal form. The Chancel. for of the Exchequer, therefore, so long as he maintained • system which operated se • direct premium for the encou ragement of dirt, darkness, and defective ventilation, was incurring • heavy responsi bility: he was, is feet, making himself the accountable agent, in the case of some thousands of the population, for health and sickness, life and death. Mr. N. B. WARD repeated the evidence he had given on former occasions to the Health of Towns Commissioners, on the physical influences of light, both upon ;dente and animals, and exhibited specimens of pleats (presenting • shrivelled and withered appearance), which had been grown without light, under circeastaaan otherwise favourable. With regard to the effect ore wanted light on the human con stitution, he had frequently traced some of the most lamentable instances of disease that he had ever met with in his profemional career as a surason, to the living in darkened rooms—that is to say, in rooms of which one or more of the windows had been closed to avoid the duties. -....-_ --- Colonel SYKES wile desirous of expressing his strong conviction that the evil now in operation was so serious that it was hardly possible to exaggerate its baneful influences; bat he felt convinced that the facts already stated most have weight with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and that the system would be abandoned. It was both a sanitary and a moral gunnel, and the argiunente in (avow of $ change were of the gravest imrrtance. Lord ROBERT 0 OSVENOR observed that all men were now so fully agreed upon the magnitude of the present evil, that he meet really put it to the Chancellor of the Exchequer as a great public scandal that the resistance of the goverment to a simple measure of sanitary precaution should have ban prolonged up to the present moment. It must be obvious to every one that the window duties could not be defended upon financial grounds. If the money were required, it could be raised by a moderate sad equitable housiotaz, which he, Lord Robert Grosvenor, should be quite willing to support, as &direct tax, preferable In many ravens to other fiscal burdens antics trade and iadutry. Mr. CHARLES FOWLER, for himself and his brethren of the architectural profession, would testify to the general fact, that the window duties wen °Nee. tionable, not only on sanitary grounds, but also as occasioning much structural deformity, and as imposing an insuperable barrier to the programs of domestic architecture. He felt anxious that there should be no attempt mods to modify the present system, in order merely to palliate the evil, but that it should be wholly abolished. Ths great point to contend for was perfect liberty Ia works of construction in the direction of improve meat. It was preposterous to make the taszgatherar a nun of architectural designs, and ta allow him to blot out, ad Mitre, the features of a building most essential to its health and cheerfulness as a human habitation. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER eaM that the deputation would not of cones expect hint to reply then specifically to the di ff erent points on which he had been addressed. It had been his duty ti listen to their represen tations and it would also be his duty to receive word other deputailons that had written to request an interview upon the MEN subject. Toe question of the window duties would receive the fullest sonsiderstion of her Majesty's govern neat. ARRIVAL or QUINN'S TILOOPS AT Mauitne.—The Tartar, troop ship,arrived at Fort Bt. George, on the 19th of February, with detachments of ofEen and men from Eng. land, to join the 15th Dragoons, 25th, 51st, and 84th regiments of Infantry, reeving in the Madras presidency. OPENINO OF Tin HULL BATIIB AND WARN- I HOUSE'. —On Moody last this establishment was opened to the public without any formality ; but the advertisements announcing that hinny of inspection and a free use of the bathe would be given wfts sufficient to attract thousands to the inspection, end a thousand to the baths in the short space of ef,ht hours In fact, so thronged did the place become, so uproarious were thous who could not obtain ad. mansion, and so disorderly were some who had obtained ad/ninon, but could not readily obtain baths, that the per mission of free en , rassoe was necessarily withdrawn. A little damage was done by some riotous youths during the period when the numbers became ungovernable, and the assistance g( the polies bed W be called in.-11444 Advertiut. ALTERATION IN THE PRACTICE OF THE COURT OF CHANCERY. The sew orders and rules for the Court of Chersitry wen Waal en Wednesday lest by the Lord Chassidim, and have calesed push o:alienist and discussion la the pro fession. The changes to be »trades,» is Chancery mite are of great martian, sad will no doubt affeet meet motional the advantage' of the pearl» sad the lairemee of men. These ceders, ea abridgment of MIA* be dam/ below, provide that any pens geekleg visitable valid la edministntion and•aetore suit , where perr enal Mate only is smarmed, la forceless» sad redemption suite, suite for the sped& performs» of &greases% for partnership aceounte, and for the appointment of new trustees, may, instead of proceeding by bill of cromplaint, in the usual form, file a this against the pence& from whom he seek* relief. The plaintiff is then to as. out a writ of mummies, requiring the• defendant to appear within four teen days and show cause why such relief should not be granted, and an order is then to be made by the cot, upon motion, granting or refusing the relief claimed, or dir ecting neonate or inquiries before the master, who le to be at liberty to direct any other parties not before him to be served with a seances to appear, and alto to direct the revival of Baits which may bare become abated or defective by theism' simple proems; and in any nee other than those enumerated in the orders, the court may, upon the ex pert* application of any person seeking equitable relief, and epos readies the claim prepared to be filed, give leave t o ale such claim, and see out a writ of summons under the orders. These orders, ' however, an not intended to prevent any person, If by rea -1 son of the complicated nature of hie ceee he shall think at, to proceed under the old form of bill of complaint; bat at the same time h• will be subject to pay all the extra costs beyond what would have been incurred by pro- Guiding under the orders, In arse the court upon the hearing should be of opinion that an effectual deem might have been obtained in the lea expensive method pointed out by the orders. It will be seen that an immense saving of ex peon and delay will thus be erected. It is well known that by far the greatest number of Chancery suits are insti tuted for some ace of the purposes Included in the orders and a very great boon will be emilerred by them upon the public. The change thus introduced will enable all (mou ton and administrators to obtoin quickly, and at a small cost, the immense advantage afforded by a judicial investiga tion and a judicial sanction of their accounts. When an exam» penes his accounts In the Court of Chancery, he is discharged from all further liability, and a creditor is left to his remedy against the legatees ; but if he pays away the reside: without passing his accounts in tour ,t he does it at his owe risk, and many ere the cases in which executors, who have distributed their testator's estate In innocence and ignorance of claims, have been made to refund after a great number of years. The present orders will encourage all executors to come for protection to the court. CHARGE OF PERJURY AGAINST AN ATTORNEY AT BULL. At the Hull police-court, on Friday, Mr. Oreaves, solicitor (of the firm of Pr. emit and (heaves), is Hull, was charged with oommitiing wilful and corrupt perjury. The charge was preferred by Jahn Dennis, of Shipton, near Market Weighton. It was stated on the part of the prosecution that in the month of April, 1849, a Mr. Dennis, of Shipton, instructed Messrs. Preston and Or. aces to act as his solicitors, A bill of eJe was prepared by them for some effects belonging to his father in-law, as ascii/II for mousy which he had ad• vaned. An action was afterwards brought by another party against his father-in-law, whose name was Levett, and who then carried on hasieeth in Querwstreet, in this town, An application was wade at the Judgss' Chambers on behalf of Dennis, for as interpleader order, which was made, and part of the terms of that order wes that Mr Dennis should pay the sum of 601. into the Court of Queen's Bench, to the account of Mrs. Canon, who, on that consideration, withdrew from the contest, she payinc his costs. It appeared that though this order was made somewhere about the 4th of July. lest year, and though the money was immediately obtained out of court, on applications being made by Mr. Dennis to Messrs. Preston and Dream's, he was always told that the money was in court. Sting unable to obtain the money, he I pot the matter Into the hands 01 Mears. Frost, and upon their application an order was made by L rd Delman that Menses. Preston and ((reeves's bill of costs should be imitated, and the amount settled. That bill of costs was afterwards delivered, and it became necessary that it should be taxed. Various items were objected to, and in support of them Mr. (heaves made en affidavit, in which the prosecu tion asserted its ability to show there were statements which were grossly Dunne, and that Mr. U , at the time he swore to these statements, must have known them to be untrue. The first all• gation of which the prosecutor com plained wee, that in an affidavit, dated on the 18th of February last, in which the defendant deposed that on the 6th of Jute, 1849, he took a journey to Shipton, with Mr. Oreeock, an auctioneer in Hull, to see Mr. Mani-, and on that occasion had a very 1011, consultation win Mr. Dennis on the subject of the action, examined books, accounts, and vouchets, and took lengthy minutes, and collected evidence, more particularly as to Dennis's ability to make advances to Levett, the priscipal part of Mrs. Carson's case being that he was not able to make each advances—it was stated that it would be shown that, in point of fact, Mr. Orestes was not more than half an hour with Mr. Dennis on the day stated, and that he did not, and could not, take lengthy minutes, or collie* evideuce, and in addition that he could not have a consultation in reference to the aatioa, because the action was not then pending. The next statement Mr. ()reeves had sworn to. and which was totally denied, was that he took a second journey to Shipton, and there saw Dennis on the 16th of June. That visit, it will be proved, was INV.!' made. Another statement, contained to both affidavits, wee, that Mr. Omni had paid Mr. Daniels, the eherirs-officer, 61. 6s fee possession money, when in truth and fact he only paid him 41. The ex planation Mr. Grieves gave of this was, that owing to a misapprehension, Mr Daniels was paid the money in two sums. He first applied for 41, to which Mr. Grieves ob• jeeted, sad only paid 21.65. ; but on finding that V. was due the remainder was paid. A receipt was first given by Mr. Daniels for 21. be., and then for 41. ; thine two receipts were voluted before the Muter in London, and the Maitre allowed the sum of 61 6s. Mr. OreaveVe cash-book must have told him that he bad only paid 41., but it was believed that Mr. Oreaves said the amount was taken inadvertently from the rieneipts : bet this, however, could not be, as the U. wee written over by the 21.6,. Then there was another al:egation that the said John 0:oeock was anxious to put clue of the said John Dthnis his interest in the debt, ! at that the deponent (Mr ()reeves) objected to Dennis selling it, aad by his arguments and explanation persuaded him not to do so. This allegation would be entirely contradicted. Witnesses were called, who supported the case for the prosecution. The only witness called for the defence 1/111 Mr. John Ste phenson, clerk to Meson. Preston and (heaves, who proved that the affidavit, with respect to the bill of costs, was drawn out invest haste. The magistrates having consulted for about a minute, without retiring, Sir William Lowthrop said—We think Mr. Greases has been guilty of culpable irregularity in making out this bill trom memory and mere memoranda, instead of from regular entries in books; but we are of opinion that there is not evidence sufficient to support the charge. Mr. /I•ll.—And Mr. Organs therefore leaves the court without the slightest imputation on his character with res. poet to these charges. Sir William Lowthrop.—Certainly, with respect to these charges. I A CURS OF SOULS FOR given that the perpetual advow-on and next presentation to the vicarage of Braintree is for sale, and as an inducemeat to purchmers it is stated that the present incumbent is is his 79th year. Braintree is • town in Ewe:, the large majority of the iahabitants being dissenten, who have for many can past resisted church rates,and who originated a caw which Asa frequently come under the conaiderstion of oar courts of Lewis,cature. The present patron of the hying is the Rev. J. Le M.A., rector of Ingatestons and %sestina!, the value of whose united benefices (Braintree not included) is 1,1511. per MAUI. hes been A Fans PARDON has been granted by her Majesty to Thomas °hinny, convicted at the late awls= for Surrey, at Kingston, for the =order of his illegitimate child. TM. decision has been arrived at in °emplanes with the noon. emendation of the judge (Baron Mauls) who tried the ewe. FIRE NEAR 71IE GENRRAL POST-OlRlCE.—Yee terday morning, shortly before three o'clock. a are broke oat in Foster-lane, Cheapsidie, behind the General Pest °Mee, which was attended with a great destruction of pro. party, and serious, it not fatal, eoasequences to several per sons. The premises in which the are began were in the occupancy of Mrs. gliabeth Matt, licensed victualler, and were well known as the Fountain Tavern and Railway Par cel-efliee. One of the City policemen on duty in the neigh bourhood, whilst going his rounds perceived fames raging in the second-flour. Re therefore, without a moment n delay, sprang his rattle and sent to the proper quarters for assistance. After considerable trouble he succeeded in irons ing a gentleman named Russell, who gave the alarm to the other inmates, and managed to effect a safe retreat. At that period there were in the burning premises not fewer than nine persons. One of the servants succeeded in getting upon the roof of the house, where she remained screaming for assistance until the Royal Society's fire-escape arrived. The waiter, on making a retreat from the premises, was obliged to rush through the flames, and his night clothe* becoming ignited by the time he reached the street, he was so dreadfully burned, that he was obliged to be taken to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where he at present remains in a very precarious condition. Frederick Sutton, a son of the proprietor, was obliged also to rash through the flames, which burned his feet and face severely. Mr. Sutton, the manager of the property, hie daughter and his son, were extricated by the conductor of the Royal Society's escape, as well as one of the servants. They were obliged to pus through the flames, and were all much burned. Toll landlady of the tavern was also badly burned. The whole of the residents having been extricated, it was found that the premises were from the first floor to the roof in a blase, and immense bodies of sparks were drifted com pletely over the roof of the Post-office, so that that estab- Habitant a: one period appeared in great danger. Several neon were soon on the spot, and the firemen set to work but, in spite of their exertions, the first, second, and third floors were burned out, and the roof partially destroyed, before the are could be extinguished. It is not a little singular that Mr. Russell, who had such a narrow escape, was burned out at the tire in the York•road, Lambeth, a few weeks since, which was the cause of his taking lodgings at this house. The stnek-in-trade, Ito., belonging to Mrs. Mitt was insured in the Licensed Victuallers' /us Unice. THE BRIDEWELLCHAPLAINCY AT BRISTOL. The proceedings in :Arena to the recent appoint ment by the megirrates of the Rev. Robert Simpson, editor of the DriWol Predesiant, to the sheplainey of the Bridewell, sad wheat it was at sae time thought would lead to leered Gorham altar, have bele set at rest by the Right B. the Bishop of o f sad Bristol refusing to weeds to the prayer of the seseterial. ARRIVAL IN LIVERPOOL OF 160 SHIP WRECKED EMIGRANTS. At the Polio. Court, Liverpool, on Friday, Lieut. Hodder, amompanied by Captain John Thomas, applied to Mr. Rushton as follows : Captain Thomas stated that he was muter of the Cushla Machin, emigrant vessel, belonging to Mears. Rens and Son, of Oiderey. Oa the 30th of Hank, when sixteen hun dred miles from Cape Clear, the vessel was stench bye heavy sea, and thrown ea her beam ends ; when she was appa rently sinking he gave orders to have the three meets cat away, and other measuree taken to keep the ship afloat. They hoisted signals of distress, and the Infanta, Captain Henry Purdy, of New York, stood to, and remained with then for thirty hours, ultimately 159 of the passengen (one had died on board), himself, and the crew, wen taken on the Infanta, and arrived in this port that morning, and they were now oa the south quay of the Nelson Dock. Several of the passengers had been wounded by the concussion anp the whole of them, with the exception of a family, consisting of eight, in the cobs, were destitute. Captain Purdy had behaved in the most handsome and humans manner throughout the whole affair. Mr. Rushton remarked to Lieutenant Hodder that there was a shipwreck society in the port, which had a fund of 3,0001., and suggested that the case should be represented to Mr. Llentenan t Hodder remarked that previous applications had been made, in other eaves, without effect Mr. Rushton said the present was a case of real necessity, and the poor people mint be eared for; and, it they were absolutely destitute, the Overseen molt take charge of them. He directed Mr. Superintendent M ur phy immediately to go to the Nelsen Dock with a staff of officers, and do whatever might seem best under the circumstances. After the case had been disposed of in court, our re pester proceeded to the Nelson Dock, where a piteous and heartrending scene of misery prevented itself. The Spoor creatures, who were all from the neighbour. hood of Galway, and the majority et whom are women and children, were coteeting their luggage bemes* the shed on the south aide of the dock; the children were cling ing to the thins of their mothers, who were suffused with tears, the sharks employed by the lodging house keepers having spread a report amongst them that the workhouse (to which, by the advice of Mr. Murphy, they were to be taken for a temporary shelter) was in a most filthy state—that most of the inmates were tying in fever, and that they (the emi grants) would be retained there. However, through the activity of Mr. Murphy and his men, these erroneous im pres-ions were, to a very considerable extent, dissipated ; and the fiends who sought to lead them to dens in which to be plundered of their little all, succeeded in entrapping but comparatively few victim, as nearly the whole of the wretched creatures acted upon the advice of the officers, by going to the workhouse, several lorries having ben engaged to convey their luggage. From the narrative given by Captain Thomas to our reporter, it appeared that the enable Meares, a ship of 1 294 toes register, sailed from Galway on the 14th of March, ,for New York. She took out no cargo, being in ballast, land having on board, including the crew, 170 persons. At half past two p.m. on the 30th of March she was struck by a heavy ses, wallet off the coast of Newfoundland, and was town at the mercy of the winds and waters until the 15th of the present month, when they were descried by Captain Henry Purdy, of the Infanta, who nobly stood to, and relieved them as before stated. Three barques and two brigs passed them before Captain Purdy came up, but paid no attention to their signal of distrem. The effect of the vessel being struck was to throw her on her beam ends, with the main hatches at the water's edge, and while thus lying, to add to the indescribable state of mind and misery of the pneengen, their water fell short. At the time the vessel was strink one of the crew, a yourg fellow from the neighbourhood of Bridgewater, named James Aekitt, was washed overboard, and of crone pe• rished. Biddy Griffin, a young girl 19 years of age, from Tower Bracken, in Galway, died in consequence of injuries she had received. Julia Davern, a child 10 years old, had her thigh broken, and a man, named Patrick Kelly, his arm, and several other of the passengers were injured. At the time they were taken off the wreck it was blowing hard, and it would have been a superhuman thing for the vessel much toiler to have kept afloat. The Infanta as the property of Mr. Hawes, of St. John's, N. 8., and was laden with cotton for Liverpool. Captain Thomas speaks in the highest and moat grateful terms of the manly and humane conduct of Captain Purdy, who afforded to the destitute creatures he had rescued from the jaws of death, and who were compelled to remain on the deck of his vessel from the time of being taken from the wreck to the time the Infanta anivad in this port, every means in hie power to alleviate their sufferings and depriva tions. The pesseugers an unanimous in the same smtiment, and in return for his intrepid and praiseworthy effort/ in affording them help in the hour of need, Captain Purdy re ceives the unbounded blessiops of 163 of his fellow-creatures who are indebted to him to: their present cxatence. Lieutenant-CoL Fitzgibbon is appointed to the vacancy amongst the military knights of Windsor.-06 SW Ver. REPRESENTATION OP LYMINGTON.—Mr. Hutchins, the candidate for Lytningtoo, in Haute, ie a nephew of Sir John Guest, M.P. for Merthyr Tydvil. Mr. Hutchins, with Captain Mangles, contested Southampton some years ago, both of whom were however defeated by the Earl of E'gio, Governor-General of Canada, then Lord Bruce, and a Mr. C. C. Martin. The election of the two latter was petitioned, against, and they were ousted from the House of Commons, alter a long and mod extraordinary investigation by a par liamentary committee. Mr. Hutchins is to be opposed by Mr. Andrew Stuart on the protectionist Interest. REMOVAL OP THE VERNON GALLERY.—Saturday the authorities at the National Gallery received the official instructions for the removal of the Vernon collection from Trefelhar.squar• to Marlborough House, the residence of the late Queen Dowager. where the collection will be opened to public inspection on Whit-Monday. THE CLOSING OP THE BRITISH MUSEO3I.—SAInt , day the trustees issued a notice that the British Museum will be closed on Tuesday, the 30th day of April, till Toes day, the 7th of May, for the purpose of the reading-rooms I and Museum being thoroughly cleansed, when it will be again re-opened to the public. THE IJORHAII CASE.—In consequence of a decla ration issued by a number of the clergy of the diocese iu op position to the resent decision of the Committee of Privy Council, in " Ile Gorham v. the Bishop of Exeter," en ex pression of approval of that sentence is now also in course of signature among the clergy in the counties of Northumber land and Durham.—Netrcartht Guardian. LOAN SOCIETIES. —Oa Saturday was printed • parliamentary paper of 21 folio sheets, containing as abstrait of the accounts of loan societies to the 31st December last, by John Tidd Pratt, Esq., the banister appointed to certify the rules of savings banks. From this document it appears that there are 190 loan sedate., all of which, except one in Wales, are in Ecgland. TOO number of applications for loans in 1849 was no fewer than 69,642, of which number loans were made to 66,710. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday lad a melancholy accident beret the youngest son of William William., Esq , one of the magistrates of Northampton. He was out riding with • friend, and on their return home Mr. Williams's hone broke into • canter, and finally got beyond the control of his rider, wbo either fell or threw himself off. The in. juries he received were so serious that life was almost extinct when howl's taken up, and he had expired before he reached his father's house. An inquest was held on the body on the evening of the saddest, and a verdict returned of " Acci dental 7Destb."—Northanopion Morale?. Tan LINCOLNSHIRE CROl'B.-1110 wheat crops are looking remarkably well— better. In taking a cur sory view over the ten-country, there appears to be a leas breadth of wheat than usual growing the year; of potatoes (until lately cooly grown by cottager.) we shall have an immense supply—many !Armen have planted large fields. Mitered is still looked to as • winning game," and those who possess lands adap'ed for its growth are again trying their luck to a considerable extent. Amongst the changes taking place, we may notice • disposition on the part of the landlords to allow their tenants to break up old impoverished grazing lands. The labourers are generally employed at 91. and 10s. • week. The farmers are un doubtedly suffering, and causing . : distress amongst those depending upon them, and the pressure will most likely con- 1 tines, until new arrangements shall have been mad*, and agricultural affairs generally have resolved themselves into a state promising perman•ney.—tglansforel Mercury. CHILD MURDER.—ChiId murder, perpetrated by a mother and daughter, has been discovered at Helper, and • large amount of money found concealed in the house of the murderers. The following are the facts of the case :—A constable, named John Hawkins, living at Heage, near Helper, having received an anonymous letter, setting forth that a young woman, named Elizabeth Vicar*, who resided with her mother, in a small cottage, had ueen confined, and that the two parties were suspected of having murdered the child, he immediately went to the house, and, having made known his business in calling, was told by the mother that the report was groundless. He, however, apprehended the daughter and mother, and, on the former being exa mined by Mr. Allen, • surgeon, he pronounced her to have been delivered of • child. The constable then proceeded to search the cottage, and, finding that • large paving stone had been recently removed, the cliscovety of the Manning,' murder flashed acres his mind, and he forthwith took the stone up, when he (mind the body of a newly-born female child, wrapped up in as old black apron, the legs being dou bled up under its body, and the latter sqw ezi-d quite flat. The assemble found concealed in the cottage a sum in gold and silver, amounting to 631.3 e. In another hole • quanti y of ooppm money was found, which had not been emitted, but which weighed 37 lbs., and in another place he found 101. 9s. rid. Where they got the money from is • mystery. Both prisoners occasionally went out begging. The surgeon, atthe inquest, which concluded on Thursday night, said the child had been bum ten days ; there were marks of external violence on the head, and • piece of tope had been tied round the neck to produce suttees ion. The enure surface of the 'scalp was • mass of besiege, and Wank from a ffused blood. The injuries WHY inflicted during the life of the child. A conversation between the two primate, which hod been overheard in the lock-up, proved that both were guilty, and the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" oscine both. who were fay committed for trial, IRELAND. DVBLIN, Aram 27. The result of the division on the second reading of Sir John Itomilly's bill has taken by surprise the friends of the Dish land proprietors, and will sadly puzzle them how to proceed for the purpose of obtain ing the extension of that measure which they have been seeking for. The petition for the enlargement of the bill is rapidly receiving signatures, and, as the Evening Mail informs us, has already been signed by " fifty depatv-lieutenants and many other magi strates, besides several members of parliament, cler gymen of different persuasions, agents, men in busi ness, and many of the general public of all shades of ' opinion." Tne arguments employed on the occasion amount to this, that it mud now appear whether the government are seriously resolved upon the extirpa tion of the Irish landlords without any mitigation of hostility or allowing any chance of escape. If the bill be parsed in us present form, they allege that such result must he the icevitable conse quence, and that they will only be confirmed in the opinion that it has long been aimed at by the English government and by a large party in England for per sonal object?. Lord Gough arrived last evening by the Cheater and Holyhead boat at Kingstown, accompanied by Col. Gough, Col. Bates, George Gough, Eeq., and when the distinguished veteran was reco,gnised, the cheers with which he was reteired by a large crowd that had assembled were quite enthusiastic. The correspondent of the Banner of Ulster states that the southern portion of the tenant-right deputa tion now in Lordon are perfectly satisfied as to the justice of the claims put forward on behalf of the north, so that any anticipation of difference on that material point his not been realised. The prepara tions for the conference on tenant-right in Dublin are not lost sight of. The accounts from all pees of the country on the progress of the crops are most chtering. The weather continues favourable, although sometimes chilly and overcast ; and fine specimens of new potatoes have been produced in vanous quarters. In a motion which has been before the Encumbered Estates Commissioners this week, relative to the car riage of the sale of Lord Mounteashers estates, a decision has been arrived at which is calculated to interest duns whose property is likely to come under the jurisdiction of that court. The cue, as briefly explained by the Evening Post, is as follows : A petiqoa has been prreented, in the first instance, on the part of the Commercial Bank of London, for the sale of his Antrim estate, yielding a well paid rental of 11,6001. a year. Subsequently the noble lord lodged a ptition for the salt of the entire of his estates, and lins solicitor obtained the ear -1 riage of the proceedings. The petitioner in the hest case applied, on Thurslay, to have his own solici•or suterituted, on the ground of unnecessary delay, and that the paper , steps to promote a sale had not been t a k e n by L or d Mount ' cashel. The explanation given on behalf of the noble lord— to the effect that the delay had been caused solely by a change in his solicitor, and that his voluntary applies ion to sell his estates in order to pay off his creditors, was evidence of his anxiety to avoid all needless procrastination —wit accepted by the court as satisfactory, and the carriage of the I proceedings remains with his solicitor. In pronouncing judgment, Baton Richards declared the determination of the court to diecour.tenance any. thing in the shape of unnecessary or intentional delay, but stated that they were disposed to b fford every possible facility and to extend indulgence consistent with the practice of the court, to such owners as ap peared before them voluntarily to avail themselves of the beneficial operation of the statute ; and in doing so, that Lord Mountcaahel had acted wisely, and had been well advised. Yet (the Chief Commissioner added), whilst they would be ready to extend such indulgence to parties who were, from their position, better acquainted with the circumstances of the pro perty than an ordinary creditor, yet they would not discourage other creditors from coming in there to complain cf delay. The ieb•s now affecting the NI. - „untcashel estates amount, as it transpired in the course of the proceed ings, to 275,000/.; but it is calculated that the Antrim estates alone will be sufficient to cover that enormous sum. The decision in the English Court of Queen's Bench is the MI 3 of the Mayor of Carlisle, is deemed so analogous to that of our Lord Mayor, that a judg ment equally favourable is now fully anticipated by the friends of Mr. Reynolds. The following, on the state of trade in Ireland, is from the commercial summary of the Evening Post : From week to week, there is scarcely any vitiible feature in the condition of oar limited kome trade; but, certainly, the ten !cur, is towards improvement, pretty plirrally throughout the cnntry, and, as compared with the deplore ble state of affairs during the famine, there is a very decided cli.ange for the better. To a great extent, no doubt, the degree of confidence now prevailing it based upon the hopes of an abundant harvest, and the escape of the present mi ll moose potato crop from a return of the distractive blight of previous years. The continuance of emigration to • great extent, thistly of a class superior in conditi in to the emi graats of former years, is caltulatad to produce partial loss and inconvenience ; but, nevertheless, we learn that many ef the country shopkeepers have latterly been increasing their orders, and that, in several districts, even in the south and wet, there is a manifest improvement in the appearance end clothing of the peasantry. That considerable distress still prevails there can be no doubt, and that the pressure is still most severe, especially upon all connected with the land; but we are disposed to bilieve, from all the information to which we have access, that there are decided symptoms of recovery from the extreme depression and misery produced by the famine. - - - - - --- SCOTLAND. COAL-MINE ACCIDENT FROM CARELESSNESS.—At Glasgow Circuit Court of Justiciary, on the 25th instant, Robert Blair, contractor, and Robert Lumsden, mineral manager, were charged with culpable homicide, or culpable neglect of duty, in so far as, it being their duty to see that the ropes and tackles and in the pit No. 2, Souterhouse, parish of Old Monkland, and in the occupation of Mr. Wil son, of Dundyno, wen in sale working order, they omitted and failed to do so, in consequence of which, on the 21st of September last, a part of the rope or tackle gave way while John Thomson, senior, Robert Thomson (now demand), William Thomson, Alex. Thomson, 414 John Thomson, jun., were in the course of being raised out of the pit, whereby the said parties fell from a great distance to the bottom of the pit—Robert Thomson being mortally injured, and the others more or less hurt.—John Thomson, a collier, proved that on the 21st 01 September last, he and his three eons, cad his grandson, were working at the bottom of the pit, acd, in the course of that day, they got into a hutch to come out of the pit. They went into • cage without a hutch. It was a double cage, and they got into the under compartment of the cage. There was • hutch of coals above them. The cage was raised when a signal was given, and rose about 40 or 50 fathoms, when the rope broke, and the cage tell to the very bottom of the pit. He (Thomson) was very much hurt about the body, and has been unable to work ever since. His son Robert was also very much hurt. He died six days afterwards from the effects of his injuries. The others were more or less hurt Other testimony in respect of the accident was heard ; it corroborated that of Thcmscn. With regard to the cause of the accident, the badniss of the rope, a witness named Bankier said that Mr. Lumsden came to the pit every two days to see that matten went on regularly. Mr. Lumsden and Mr. Blair were at the pit three days before the accident and examined the rope. The part they examined was a little way above the cage, between the cage and the end of the rope, about two feet above the chains. This was the part that after wards broke. The rope at the part was a little ragged. There was • new rope lying at the mouth of the pit on the rise side. It was to be put on because the other one wee eondemaed as not being safe for the men to ride upon. Aft. r a great deal more evidence had been gone into, the. jury found Robert Blair guilty of culpable neglect of duty, and Robert Lumsden not guilty. The sentence of the court was that Robert Blair b imprisoned for six calendar months. ESCAPE FROM Daowistito.—On Saturday lot David Barclay, Req., l►te M P. for Sunderland, and who resides at liastwick Park, near Leatherbead, Surrey, was rescued from a watery grave, under extraordinary circus.. Mince.. On that ern the neighbourhood of Dotting was visited by a terrific storm, during ',hied Mr. Barclay was going on hors.diack from Emden& l'uk over Ramer* Common to hie brother's, Mr. Charles Bar:lay, of Bury Milt. Proceeding along the valley, he reached the bottom end of Milton Court Pond, which supplies an overshot wheel below. Ou nearing its none, where the water was nearly overflowing the banks, the gushing and roaring of the rapid current through the floodgate frightened Mr. Barclay's pony, and, backing towards the pond, the pony and its rider were precipitated into a depth of from 12 to 14 feet of water, with a strong current towards the floodgates. George Quail., a youth about IS years of age, who Ind observ.d the accident, from an opal window at the beck part of the mills, jumped through it, and ran instantly to the floodgates. At first Mr. Barclay was not visible, but a few seconds had only elapsed when 44461i41 saw his body coming some little depth under water, and rapidly carried hr the current to the fliedgates, whe, e he would have been " sucked under," and all human avail would have been use' , as. !limit' , s. , aed Mr. Barclay by his hair, sod brought Li. head above water, at the same t me hi. F. of. ram. wi•h great force against the floodgates, a•.d bis lope were forced omicron ath by the impetuous cur rent ; oth. r persons then rushed forward, and owing to their exortioes, Mr Barclay was brought safe to the hank, war then tel. n into the 'sillies house and put to hod in hot blankets, is 44. After a lai.se of some hours, Mr. Barclay was au far recov..red as to be enabled to endure rem:val to his brother's residence, and i 9, we hear, doing well. The mill and form adjoining are the property of W. J. Evelyn, !•;ray, :cr. for t3urrey. Ins pony swam ashore. N U' 1' I .40004