The Express. — London, England, 1850-07-25 00:00:00

.......---------1—`11E811)1tNT TAYLOR. . 4 poising the melancholy intimation of the Ow chid magistrate of his republic, the ye Nitate'm at the Coact of St. James' Mated 111,,,,,--eitip c i rc ular : :srasry Taylor. Tresideat of th• United Status, ea the thh instant, after a very betel rAtn teataenett is too festally curtain to permit s• P* - •• • esCial satouncenest before isivi•itig Jou to jots v s•i.i . , o 3e, , w. Teach: in infancy News' of pee fi oe. seesettser d is youth to the dangers of • frontlet 0 ,-,a l t the went of lite c,uatry in early mamboed— hitn.elt dar:og a life of toil by sisasubts It g. " • t uned safer yttat distrivaates—ha Gamma a,4 io the an y he wocld have left hatted his the roClier. eau' ions in council, firs in opiates teat , ,iocatt.m, of *esprit toned integrity, humanity. see A fitzher lase was reserved to him. L a ing V.: • , e l of one Cl the pnwerfol Wiese el the sank i ss the world, tvi - Jer cireanistaecte of rare trial, a rt= are, end a tazdatation„ combined with a s nn.e of justice, sad a poriotio &motive be the true Wiles! , of his country, which wee foe „,•osit,vl eonfileivo at bonne, and • pr o f an ed With • i t ve ousa.ts of the pari ty of hie 01*. 04 ,„; i n to death, bresthing the words, "I as pre. t _ 1 hoe end(aroured to do soy duty." v14,4.'1190. of the United States, sad °then ge`l';';..ntronee in the United Nuedoie, to manifest their _;,, t .tr is t t red event, and lIIIILIO in the i resee t t Oar mote,' has lost, in the hour of her need, .ri :NI Let as hope that, while his nanny °P'" 3 „, eelte I.avr tat champ , our public affairs y itrioti.m. Itir integrity, hi. jus:..Ce. and his self. and th.t our coontrysnen generally say • the modest o , lf-reliance, the purity, and the -.A...3 A beat ithi4ll di st inguished him in privet. life. " ABBOT r LAURENCE st t; vas Legalist, Ludas, Joey td. ‘IILLAHD FILLMORE, YESIDZSIT Or TIM lIIITSO 1111M2S. Tat We: .1 ri , e stir Ittesi.leat of the Vatted Sate. , , .% as wend leases, by eho w i c , l what ' ...,.i la Use fate of the groom obstseles, by se St ra w and strict isteprity, ia pub lic and sre.r.t. Asoiel Fillmore, was a* American fumes " who d a' Hatneser Hid, C trays y where now t President, was lar , 7. INV :Vont tte year 1602 henna ived to the %11 . • Ni'es, aad resided there till 1819, ti Ent roomy, when he still lives, oalti ~.~.:.ism7. ,am of his father deprived Millard Finset& O.! ps of 'aerating booed what were afforded , r effe.t and ill-taegin cosmos schools of the wan b a were tom sad dear. and at the age of fifteen, was 10 , if soot youths In tar &dewed is their elseet. ,s. CI 'Ors ire in alleges tne benefit of well fur -ranee )air it Floors bad read bat little except ;: an scto,l books and the 1311 e. At that period he of Livings': a entity, to tsars the ts.m. , dices p..ti' the _ aw - :rude Be remained' dim about four months, .0 f e n I d toil another pence to pursue the same . w;el carding is the tows 'mere his fattier pg A f igs .ibrary tbat was brined there worn ste ;,.. ha the first means of wishing general boom nsh halts. He improved the opportunity tout rem:. :L. armlet grew by what it fed upon. The th:ret ; • .edie tows became insatiate, and every leisure 11110• o w lir , trot n rei.ling. Four years were natant in this ..• at his trade sad attain his mind, during such tt.!t tte reuld command, with the emitents of booha of a t•ry. waylay. sad travels. .1•:-e up Cl lit be f irtanately mad* an acquaintance r e !iv .re Judie Woos!, a man of wealth and pest hued tte e,: t.:te, who bad au excellent law lib-ary. He DOM law tneter tie rude i!etior of the clothier's boy wire rem met eny required prime development to raw tbe u:-:motion and umtnisews, and &deemed him to Ira.. mid eta :y law. in reply to • question of a mean, tad friends to aid him in a seta se r ovi study. Jtietee Wo.-d kind 4 allured to give g in his .fgte, to advdr.ce mosey to defray bia ex „t, • w uttil suttees in business should fundebibe cont. lhe oiler was weepted. The • • ode: be time, entered the office of lodge= t r c re tt an tw.. years app:ied himself elcutly se bud /ff. Be rsad law sad g. moral literature, rag • : ••41 priewed 'dirtying. tea ni ti• should incur too large • debt to big benefiting', ti:s..nt In • school toe three mourns in Ike year, sad .e,..red the meats of partially supporting Windt tt. autumn of 1021 be remorsd to the county of tte butt spring entered a law aloe is Budalo. awaited himself by bumble', asbool, and legal swats until the spring of 1823, where tf est •Asitted to tke Common Flints, and commenced 't the village of Aurora, where he remained until . •en Le spin removed to Boggles. foram into public We was in :winery, 1829, et- : . his seat as a mainbir from Brie county, to he was re-elected two lollowiag years. His ,reity mud assiduous devotion to public business, e:- • - tug Else the ciefideace of the boom is as se- MS; ..111/1f• It wu • clams remark amorig the h•z it Maim says it is right, we will vote :Le most important measure of a poenl nature that tote !art.; p his service in the state leatelature was the 1- :5 al imprisonment for debt. Ja behalf of that phi lander p : r.e,store Mr. Fillmore took an active part, eagle g in ,•., .:.d expediesey, aid, • member of the con.- S:tter :t.e *sliest, tiding to perfect its details. The bill aset • fierce, etorelenting opposition at every step of .9 ;races ; but Fillmore and • compact party fought the c..e.ti a so well, tact .mpriamment for debt was abolished Sc rte state. lie w.e elected to Convect is the fall of 1832. Thesis r.r. of 1933 4 la remembered as the one in which that ewes et yolitics knows under the name of Jacksonbm ems tally developed. H. tock hie seat in the stormy makes ei 18334. In these dais the business of the house end debates were led by oil end experienced members— taw Sues, Indus they rjny • widespread sad almost catcall reputation, rarely taking an octave sad coespicu. ice pert. Little duce, therefore, wag afforded him as a Sieber of the opposition, young aed unassomieg, of dis y..yhe those qualities that so eminently fit him fir leek, • osilieloess. But the school was one admirably • to more ful:y develop sad cultivate thine powers • under more favourable circumstances, have enabled I= :o render such varied and important service to his e .t n. lie diatharged his duty with scrupulous ft lelity, tMlr (.z.,:tine on el proper occasions any etlorts to advance • waists of his constituents and the country, and win o:: the r..pect and coalesce of 'U. t:a thee of his tires of service he rsoustd the pin ta ci I rottenest, which he penned with reputation and rites. 3 adding to the public voice, he consented to ted,x• cetdidate, and was re-elected to Congress in the i 5...! ~ In this Congress him. Fillmore took a more et*.a. part thin he did daring his first term, and on the c. o' the next Congress, to which he was ro c' tat rd . a largely Ire:reamed maj ority, he was assigned a Ina. - lit place on what. next to that of ways and means, • ei• justly anticipated would become the most ins ' rmaiittee of the house—that on elections in ent'iling of the neat Caserta, to which Mr. f-ats was re-elected by • Majority lager than Will ever h.: re rot - c in the , district, he was placed at the head of the h do. :tee of Ways and Meths, the duties of that eta t)t L. 167. arduous and responsible, were at that time Pe' •-v ! so. A new administration had come lute power, tot fiutd public affairs in a state of the greatest derange tett Menet, had been wrongly kept, peculation of Ittry aldoeded ia molt departments of the government, ttA ft It% A was inadequate to meet the ordinary expenses, ice ar.dy lane existing debt was rapidly swelling in l'irtdude, commerce and manufactures were depressed, tea Lew ey was deranged, the bank, were embarrassed, sn a a., t.. distress pervaded the community. To bring tw.tr of disorder, to replenish the national tree. 1, 1 • ;snide means that would enable the goverment l• few me demands against it, sad to pay off the debt, to tot a the Murry of the country, restore ite wooled pros Petty , thew were the tasks devolved upon the Cegamittee tit Ways sad Mesas. T o increase their diMeadales, the 1 . 4 . 110 7, composed of that party that had hawk* the remand, sad esestry into such • semMtlem e Mandl of achy to repair the evil they had dose. nallbrady oppemad almost every mesas beouelit !award fir relief, and tassel= their orevauleg effir I wa et successfully aided by • tremolo roes. executive. lid with an insergy and devotion ta the pithie trial worthy of admiration, Mr. Fillmore applied himself to the taqi, and sustained bye majority —succeeded is it. aemplithment. lot r mutes Ficught forward and sustained speediiy Issued the erseernenent fr9m its embarrassment, A new cd age secants oysters of keeping accounts, rendering Plea teor and tatetheible, was then introduced. The fi.r.,..ressa lad peculation whi c h hid so long disgraced the lArtmest and plundered the Treasery, were shocked by tee, ne rsiataition of tgetracts. The credit of the government , ample means were provided for the exigeasies IN a. ic•a4 artier, sad the Pa yateat of the milkiest debt the former adorns' istration. if . le he was .e.etted as the whig candidate for goversor Yttif, ' , it tailed. Confident, however, Owls seeekl 7eit't the Stror en TOW in New York, the walls 11 11010 naval eim as t ear candidate for comptroller, in 1847, and t tto:tael ta Ceche, had by es upreeedented majority. . 1 ,21-",_wat the moo wh om t h e whip presented as their caa i'" 'or tice-president. le every statics ha whisk he had he had shown himself " bested, eapable, and the y the nretitutiNn." He was eaPhatiottl , (Se Si Fee all that be bed and was, he was imishisi ." teed to hi s own exertions. Born loan inherits:L i t Ur , t , VP poverty, has rure l t d with difficulties that • .: 01 -td and crushed • less resolute mea. He i"" elected Vice. President and new, by the death ed T 9 7 10 e, the see r cl o thier's boy le Neediest of the latea Vrkv • N L y • LEA:Wiwi ENGINL-A trial has just ben mil. at Charleroi of a newly ioeostad engine, leor native ft,•.l whit h operates in a stinpletely different swam hit 11111 in um, The limner,. M. Heeler do Collin, a Baroieies eatinser, proposes by his Ow to isomers the steed of keimantares to It,. them as agleortaa, ant lino Pat. r %lathe) LtAI have, and to deem the expesseof fool. r the poems,. 41 only one ateacepleare the wheels mad* revo.ioioas a raiLate, which mould Si,.. spud of 24 61'1"bror. the Belgian Minister of rubile Works tas Pl ' . ' a te a ' , Amines of engtneen to report to him as the experimeme ishieti are to take place on the government liar.., mil him ard, red every assistance to be given to the in mates to ( militate hie object. COLONIAL. !SINGAPORE. JUNK 3.—Oe the 4th alt., but Majeety'eahip Cleopatra arrived teem Bombay, sad Admiral Aeolis hoisted his sag la her the same day ender UM anal salute. Oa eke 6th her Majesty's ship Ceabiles Untied foe Union . else and Ragland, finial ea baud • hive quantity el the Aeries aa=tl fee fere the &kith Museum, make ea. irogieo.d us Is the Penh% Gel . Maunder* Ple studs Is Bathed Mtn the ark* pro. hem goverment haviag determined to de away with the w =el eseamedon se the Beet India sad Chin mites , will throe ea &Athena Sairralla of leen' ea the emeataader•irehief, Oa May OA her Meleetee anew Fery arrived here from Teinemanke, sad ea the nth the Admiral removed Lb Her from the Ctiespalea le the Fray. Os the letter date the Clowns sailed for Trio...mite sad Medne, and will be permanently Metiend is the Wiesen* in phis et the Cambrian. Oa the 10th May the Pennons tripes Doane Maria arrived Irma (ha with Irene Ar Masao, sad salted sleuth is three day° The Desna Male will be folhwed by ease additional ships et war teem Linn, when, it le re- Kpaned, operaties• will be undertaken aphid a t t to avenge the insult offer e d t o G overnor Amaral ' , and to enforce fall reparation far the in , juries Weida on Mane. Os the 241, the anti vinery of the Cleeeh's birth-day, all was gaiety, Governor Butterworth, the admiral, and a heat of the foreign ansule, merebents, sad treeasseues mended to Pedro Branca to take port in the ceremony of laying the foundation stun of the Hoeabsrgh testimonial—a lighthouse for all melons—to be crested on Pedro Branca, • rock which commands the entrance to the China Sea and the Straits of Simonelli and Moth. The etereinony oncludtd, the party returned to Sin , gape, to be preemet at a ball and supper prepared by the governor. The utmost enthusiasm prevailed, and the local realest. of our 00vamioh in this distant opener of the globe showed fully their !appreciation of the lonises and worth of Quota Vieterit. On the 26th the French frigate La Pour &elven% arrived from the Pacifie, having on board Admiral De Trammel* who is reported to have been oupenseded for the part he took in nano upon the Foilsmen''n kingdom of Hawaii. Ti. Poirsuinat will proceed in a few days to Pondicherry sad Bombay, after undergoing some necessary repairs at the latter port. The frigate will nil for Burope. Os the 26th alt., Bir James Books renamed from Penang, whether he had been to recruit his health; his constitadon has been apparently but little benefited by a sojourn in the Streit.. Sr James will await here the arrival of H. M 's ship Hastings from China, saddles proceed on his mission to Sian. Sanest oomplaisas have been made to the local authorities teepee ing the piratical conduct of some judo which now occupy the cruising ground of Bhap-'ng to', near Hainan and the Gelf of Siam. In the Straits Times, Mae 28th, there arocars a letter from the captain of one of the Cakutta Opium clip ping, detailing an attempt by two junks, well armed and manned, to eat off the clipper, bet on a near approach, and finding the dipper fully prepared for action, the nearmoet junk bore away. On May 31st a complaint was made to the Btegapore authorities by a Chien*, when peak had beep taken and the cargo pitman*d by pastes in the Gulf of Siam; the information was Hat to Admiral Austin, who immedionly ordered the Hon. Company's steamer Nemesis to proceed to sod scour thee neighbourhood of the pirate's cruising ground, and thus afford protection to the tradog junks on Melt return from Singapore to China with valuable cargoes. The wind for the put few days toes been from the southward, thiamine ailed by role, and the temperature has averaged 90 degrees Fahrenheit, so that we are literally routed ; and this high and sensual temperature will probably be fillood by dines. of • fatal type. Governor Butterworth proceeds in a few days to Manes and Penang, sad will remain at the sister stations for about three months. The admiral will also, it is believed, shortly proceed either to Penny or on a ensile to sea during the hot weather. JAVA. BATAVIA, MAT 25.—The principal event of the month has beta the diotarbances in the district of Bantam, sad which, althowth for the present suppreleed, will soon break out again with renewed vigour. It is impossible to cement the fact, that a spirit of edifieal pogrom is mani festing itself thronehout Netherland. India, which the notch are vainly endeavouring to check by military cove don, and which is resisted in a manner not to be mistaken even by the phlegmatic H Minder. The Bantam inerree. don is attributable to • foreign regent being placed in power by the Bowfin government, and whom the natives refuse to acknowledge • ti ey wish to have the ein of their former regent (who dad about seven or eight years ago), and a Beads man to rule them, in place of which the Batch have installed a J omen, who by his tyranny has made himself so disliked, that on two or three occasions they have attempted to take his life; to avoid being poisoned, be subside votirily upon b died logs, and carries his own water-pot. These Bantam people have the iodoenitehl enrage sad pen of the small domesticated (ark known as Bantam coke, and origi• sally brought from that country. Daring the native' festivities at the end of April, it was resolved to make a hold stand in defence of their liberties, but the Hatch Resident having been informed of their intention*, wrote to the O >Tensor General for additional military aid. as also did the commander of the threes in the disaffoted dietriets. The insurgents moaned to grin • mach in at:vance of the axe* for the pewees of eurprisiner sod attacking the town of *nine, in the Straits of Sun ; tney succeeded ea the morning of April 28th in beating the vest tin online, and fired the bamboo dwellings of the outskirts of Anjeur, whither the regular troops proceeded with all haste. But before the mill miry force reached Anjeer, the whets of the dwelling houses of the Da.ch officials, as also th. se of the native chief and his mantra., were burned. An attempt was made to fire tee house of the harbour master at Aejeer Point, but • well directed abut from the tort prevented the ion of this project. Oa the approach of the troops, the i to took to their native fastnenee, from whence, by a detour, they reached the town of 8 rang, where they made an unman's fel sank on the military, hut bring poorly supplied with ernes, they were forced to retreat, leaving some five and twenty dead and wounded behind them. A strorg military fern has proceeded to the disaffected districts, and will con• tines I eased there until order is restored. The affair ed. dead, occasions the government much uneasiness. Pante advice, from Mahone announce the occurrence Hen of a severe earthquake ; atter shieh an epidemic broke out which carried off nearly all the European population. Governor Clemens and most of the civilians had died, and the Ferris:a was reduced to 17 men. The official despatches detailing the calamity are reported to have been aunt by • vessel now daily ropes!. From Tensaw we also learn there bad been some crop. tious of the volcanoes just before midnight of February 28, which were preceded by a rumbling sound like thuader, and the cosenision of gunshots. A shower of ashes were thrown out and fell into the en. A few days before, and also on the day of the eruption it had raised heavily. CAMBODIA AND COCHIN CHINA. Amounts have reached Singapore of sad ranges committed by the cholera in the abrve muntrirs, depopu lating whole villages cad decimating the towac. The disease I broke out in September last, immediately after the reins, and quickly spread throughout the kingdlin In both gauntries the deaths is a few months were estimated at nearly 200,000, and by WM, authorities at even a higher number. Tee people, panic struck, neglected to succour the sick, who were abaadoned to their fate as the fret ap pearance of the disease, and allowed the dead bodies to vitiate cod deaden the atmosphere by neglecting to bury the corpses. After some mouths sad during the cor tinusace of the rains the mortality somewhat abated, but broke oat with fresh vigour as the raise facilely seeable. At the date of the latest advice. (Marsh 1850) the cholera was raging fearfully in Cambodia, aced It was greatly feared it would again vi.it the neighbourieg country of Siam, which suff.red so muck last year as to gamy off amrly one-fourth of the entire population. Commercial and agricultural operations had bast comparatively suspended, sad to augment the suffer ingo of the inhabitants a lover. drought had prevailed, to the destruction of the ataadlag crops of rice and sugar. The latest received accounts from Siam notice that the United States plenipotentiary, Mr. Balmier. had not seeseeded is indasiag the Siamese authorities to negotiate a treaty, and that all applications had been met by subter fuges for the purposes of delay. Sash a result we hinted would mime, as the British authorities in sending the hon . comapasy's stainer, Nemesis, to Siam in March, suggested etch a mane of prosiodure until after the advent of Si, James Brooke. The Baldish mission has bee* delayed to i await the arrival at Siegapore of her Majesty's ship, Beatings, and it was expected that Sir James Brooke would proceed to Siam about the end of Jane. In the meantime the United States ship, Plymouth, with the A 11014440 pkialpeteatiery had sailed for Sarawak and Singa pore being ezpected at the latter port about the middle of Jun.. The cholera had not wholly abated in Siam, and fears were entertained that the disease would increase in oilskin:eft= the fast et its raging is Cochin China, and Cambodia. Private &Avian represent the King as beteg very uneasy at the steps in progress, a feelirg in which the nobles coin aide; in fact, this latter class menage to uphold the preju dice agaiase all freedom of intercourse with foreigners, whilst the moues people are very desirous of free *mussel fedi& The elmultaneons application of England and Ame rica may well cause the Siamese some anxiety, considering the result of cookie( in contact with two such powerful oaths% the 400 assimilating to itself the countries of the we, the Ober grespiag at the donsisioas in the west. TRADE 01P NEWPOUEDLAWD.—A correspondent at Bt. John's, Newfoundland, has recently furnished the fol lowing statistics relative to the trade of that Was& during the year ending sth January. 1860: The number td resin en tered inwards was 1,149-133,321 tau ; outwards, 1,077 amnia-127,074 tons. The another of meals owned in the Wand was 970-59,601 tens. New etweele built last year, 30, searing 1,066 sera The quantity of wise parted was 37,13 i mallow. 1 lie value of Imports frees Gress was 278,732 1 ; frees British West Wks, 6,0083 ; frees British North America, 94,13361. ; frees the United Biases, 233,6521. ; from ether British plans, 12,2391. The tem& vales of goods imparted was 770,1901. The valise of their 'spores wee fellews :To Great Britain, 261,964/ ; the British Westl ndies , 66,73/1. ;to British North Aviaries, 49,1391 ; to the United States, 20,8691 ; to foreign awes, 466,032 i ; other BONA plasm, 9,791/ The total vane ef geode exports& daring the last year was 876,6671. The quasilty I dry old Y es from the Wand lag year was 1,176,167 geistah ; parto& 41, 4,190 toss (910 gallons to the ten) ; es& ell, 4,300 teas ; herrings, 11,471 berr oie eh r l salsas. 6,911 barrels; and the samba el seal skins eir dung the year, wee 306,072. THE EXPRESS, got court. CHIBOB.NE, JULY 24. The Qessa and Prince, accompanied by their inse t:leas Kate'', walked *arty this morals, la Chborse Park sad smentele, Ike Prism of Wales and the younger members of the rotri/ashy !Walked sad rode as anal. Jetta Hassell arrived et Osborne yesterday afteroom sad had the hamar of joining the royal Wawa party. His lordship retuned to London this Mamma. The Duohees of Heat and her Royal Highr.ess the Deakin of Gloaseetsr visited than !loyal Hireling*. the Deane of Cambridge sad tin HweditteyyJ Greed Dasher , of Kesidsebarg Sonata yesterday at go House. Her Royal }ileums the Dasher of Glosoester visited keit Royal Highness the Dasher et Heat, as Tuesday ewe*, at Clarease Howe. Bt. de:au& Thu Oseasslotiosere of Clerksareell Improvements, Mr. Ramat Have, Dlr. John R. Teller, Mr. Spindles Hopwood, Mr. Pasn'll, Kr. Cranky, and Mr. Hunt. had u hairdo, with the Chancellor of the Reebequer Jester day at his official residence to Downier snort. The depots. dos was iatrodessd by Lord R. Grammer. MP., and Mr. Wahloy, Y.P. Sir Jafilli Deka, M.P., Hr. Deputy Hud son, Hr. H. Taylor, the City Itenterabranaer, Mr. Bonney. ad Mr. Soon, had an interview with the Ch ancellor of the Badman at the same time. A deputation, oonsistiog of Lord Robert Grosvenor, 11 P.• Mr. T. H. Boykatt, ' , Armin" RAP. D. Wit. ; eon, ; Mr. C. Woodward, P.R. S. • Mr. L J mu, Mr. W. Tyler , arid the senior churchwardens of the arishes of St. Lake, Middlesex; St. Andrew, Holbrrn ; St. Jaws's, Clerkenwill ; and St. Mary, Islington, attond i d by Mr. James Lloyd, their honorary seerrterr,and projector of the Park, and accompanied by Mr. T. W.kley, had an Interview with Sir George Grey yesterday at the Home office, and presented • memorial from the inhabitants of the borough of Finsbury, on the subject of • perk for the northern district of the metropolis. Mr. Tarubull had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Coloalial.ollice. Lord John Russell arrived at his residence, Pem broke Lode, Richmond Park, yesterday aliento.st from Osborne. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Brotherton, NLP., Mr. Alderman Meld. Mr. G.E. Marsden, Mr. H. NielJ, and Mr. Bright, M.P., ba4 an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Enbrquer. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial. office from the governors of Hone K Ceylon, and Malta, and also from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Island.. Deopetehee were sent cff lent evening from the Colonial-ofieo for ens governors of Ceylon and Hong ion.'. DINNER AT YORK AND SOUTHAMPTON TO THR Loup MOTO). or LOMIDON.—Prisee Albert hes slaniled hie interstice to dine with the Lord Mayer of York upon the occasion of the entertainment of the Lord Mayor of London in that city in October. Prince Albert via, very shortly fix the day. The Guildhall of Southampton is underprolt.g repair previously to the entortakanUatill the Lord Major of Lauloa is that town is learaL 7ARY ANDFINANCIAL REFORM AssOciATioN. Last evening, e Mcelitg of the Parliament sty and financial reformers of the remelt of Wa'worth was held at the Literary Institution, Carter street, Walwortb. Sir JOSHUA WALIKSLIT, M.P., presided, 'apt, etttell by 0. Tnumpsoo, Esq., M.P.; J. Thwaites, H. Kingdom, and several other gentlemen. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said they were ay.( mbled that evening for the purpose of considering how t.tey should best promote the objects of the natio reform alexiation. The last time he had the _pleasure o! addressing the reformers of that nistrict, at Kenningtoe• common, it was immediately after the formation of the national parliamentary and reform association, which was then, by the way, only called the " Meropoliten Association." Os that occasion he tack the liberty of explaining the objects and principles of the association—namely, the extension of the steerage, vote by bell ,t, weenie' parliaments, electoral districts, and the abolition of all property qualification. (Hear, hear.) What be particularly referred to was the latter, because at that period, when the association had been only recently formed, it bad forgotten that lest and most Important point. How ever, he (Sir Joshua Walmeley) had tate upon himself to say that it was not an omission, bat an error; and he ac cordingly undertook to remedy it. (Hear, hear.) He was happy to say the council cf the emaciation called • special meeting of the association to cm:eider the sulject, and by a unanimous vote—he might almost say with acclamation— they approved of what he had done and suggested, and since then no property qualificati•n for mem bers had been one of the points of the association. (" Hear, hear," and applause.) It was rather singular that on ;he present occasion he should have something new also to communicate. Formerly they adopted a money qualification of 101. is necessary to sidm'ssion to the council to the association, but that qualtfieation was by an unanimous vote abolished—(bear, hear)—and henceforth the only qaalifi ation would assist in the payment of • shilling, • mere mordent Mine, and election. (Hear, hear.) Where there were 50 members in a local association, they would have the power to send a washer to the council; and by such means the council would become a truly representative and popular body. (Hear, hear.) For obvious and well grounded reasons the fundamental principl. sof the amnia. don cou:d not be changed but in a full meeting composed of all the members. (Hear, hear.) The council had also under taken the responsibility of electing every year 50 honorary members to its body, because from time Wilms gentlemen whom it would be desirable to have ea We cosset!, might be paved over without being elected. (Hear, hear.) He then proceeded to comment on the composition of the House of Commons, and the manner in which the finances of the eountry were them demoted of. As long as he (Sir Joshua) should exist he would not cease to advocate the right of the working classes to a fair and full representation, he would not s'epart from the principles of the association. ncr derogate from the opinions and views which he at present entertained. (Lend applause.) Mr. H. KINGDOM proposed the first resolution, to the effect that the middle and working classes in this country had long and patiently struggled weittr the weight of taxa tion, welch state of things was attributable to clan legisla tion, and that as • remedy they were resolved to seek the extension of the suffrage, vote by ballot, triennial parlia- ments, equalisation of eltetoral districts, and non-property qualification. (Hear, beer.) The speaker denounced pre petty qual fication, as the result was to confine the repre ssive:ion of the masses to the aristocracy. (Hear, hear.) Mr. THWAITES seconded the resolution. He was ever a friend to manhood suffrage. However, that did not pre. vent him from endeavouring to attain that which came nearest to it, leaving universal suffrage to follow in due time. (Hear, hear.) Yr. G. THOMPSON, 24. P., supported the resolution. In his opinion constituencies required looking after as much as representatives did. In 50 years hence he doubted not it would be a matter of weeder to their children and sums. eon that the wealth-producing people of the 19th century in England &wild have had so small • share is the manage ment sad entrol of their owe affairs. (Hear, hear.) But there was • " good time coming," and therefore they should be oontent to " wait • little tourer." ("Hear, hear," sad laughter.) There were visible signs of improvement is the Commons. Oae great man, a truly great man, was taken from the berme' opposite to the mini sterial. (Hear, hear.) Far beyond all his cempeen and wintemporaries—the man who had the sagacity to perceive, the intellect to devise, the eloqueow to expound and to illustrate, the parliamentary influence to acisoesplieh and demonstrate, and the lean to carry out the great measures which the w ants of tke country, the spirit of the age, and the wishes sad will of the people demanded—that greet man was gone. (Hear, hear.) Aad never did he appear es great in his (Mr. Thompson's) eyes, as since he had de ra; booms it beelines divulged by the records which t, that he laboured not for himself, but for his country, (am hear.) That be sought net hie reward in glitter ing vier,is aguish& garters, is ribbons, in Mike or in pensions, but In imeppig the Setters that shackled commerce of Great Britai n n; and giving to Weary fair the play and com mon reward. Meer, beer.) Ellis was gone ; bat who was worthy ref his mantle) (Hear boar.) Well, bat to revert to Iberia% already had a Eosin gentlemen, formerly adherents of liir R. Peel, steroid on their &mum, or, ee their /risme muss the Atlantic expressed it, " on their own kook " )—but each and) all determined to turn out the as soon as possible. (Hear, hear.) Oa that all were ogre* and of all the patties that ever sealed the he et ear and attained the ministerial bandies the whige bed restialyshown themselves the mesa beeemposeat and eingebeigied. (Hear, hear.) They were bealtreqrat s, the 0 credit et** emery ; and but ter the " loaves and could mat enmesanel a majority on the doer of the bones. (Hoer, beer.) All that augured well for the people; end though be tionheni not the whip understood the value of electoral refer= very well, they were keeping it in • foram, until, in some ease of great urgency, they would bring it oat as • pasty sty, sad toll oa the gnaw, to rally i round then in sustentation of that reform ; but the country, in his opinion, should then spit upon them. (Hear, hear.) The grannies was not the right of ono man mon than another. (Hear, hear.) They were all equal, at least they wen so in the eyes of the Chancellor of the gaoheqau—(aughter, and "hear, hear") —though probably not so In Mr. Disraeli'. eyes; who, however, was of a different opinion from that entertained by him at pro. sent, on the need= when be write his eiddrem le the else tors of 24arylabose in a tallow-ehemdbee sleep ( I andrS " Hear, hear.") The boa . gentleman an Id great length to comment on the domestic and polity of the present ministry, and was warmly ap throe asst, as also at the eonolusion of his address, when the neolndea wee put sad envied. Mr. H. Haim proposed, and Mr. J. B. Erameu. seeseeded the Amend mender, to the effect that • committee be ap pealed to carry oat the cab set of the preceding resolution, whisk being carried, the proeeedinp terminated with the peramary sompliment to the Chairman. FIRE IN TUB CliTr-43stwash dues and four °Weak ea Tamely alleorsa aholowollee lre bra* out on the proatioes being/es le Ni. sz. p t elerbesiasolaw law, No. 1, stmai It originated is i thr e" nallooltioge dm upper pot of the pre mises, mad It wee ilot hal e dam ea* the workshop were gutted, sad oemiderelile damp dame le the restelader et the Dallas,/ by water, Is. The psalm ems of the Its hold not he explained. THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 25, 1850. 'OPINION OF THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL ON THE PROPOSED INFORMATION AGAINST THE EXHIBITION BUILDING IN HYDE PAIL. Tb• Glob* publishes this document with the follow ing eomment: The following lea full copy of the statement shade by the Attorney•Geserel in justification of his retail to aunties the proposed information: " 1 hays hi this matter a duty of a judicial nature to per form. The otdeet of the information le to call is question the exercise of the diseretioa of the Woods and Forests is the management of a past of the roperty of the crown. The Intormados states that what the Commiestoners of Woods and Person are about to do is illegal a= Works= to the public The informatics states no foots whieh, la any opinion establish Alter of these prepaeltie= But even i t there were a question m to the legality, the Attorney. Bimetal is bound to judge whether it is for the Merest of the public to litigate the question. Cam may be soneeived, end, indeed, not unfrequatly, arise, la which the latter of the law has been violat e d, and in which the court has, nevertheless, required the Attorney- General to consider whether he would allow informal= to premed oomplidaing of each violation, even when the Attorney Genera had already in hie dkeretioa allowed the Information to be tiled, sad where, if the tafermation had proceeded, the mitt could have dose no other than =tom toe strict tight. The dberetion of the Attormy. General le interposed to p this mischief ; and his exercise of that daereden is purely an =ere= of a judicial function, and se nth I have exercised it to the best of my ability. In the present ease • the =nee or what is for the interest of the public, with relation to what the Commissioners of Woods end Forests propose to do, has been en. quivocally expressed by a vote of the Rouse of Commons. It would, in my opi nion, be ea improper measure on the part of the Attorney- General if, in the exercise of his discretion, and acting on tiehslf of the public, he were to sanction a 1 reseeding directly at variance with that vote. If any private right were &Meted by my decision It would be a different matter; but I have the satisfaction of knowing that no private tight of any 7 individual or individuals can he withdrawn from the ceulderedon of any court, or in any manner anted by my refusal to sanction this informstion." We print this statement at length, injustice to Mr John Romany. Our own views of the propeety of the site are, se our readers are aware, the same es those avowed by the par ties who desire to file the Information. Bat we are bound in candour to admit the., legally speaking, he is perfectly instal= in the course he has taken. Lord Campbell, when Attorney-General, took the same course with reference to the opposition mote to the erection of the statue of George 111. in Yeti Mall East—in which Cll6ll a bill wee filed, making the Attorney-Oeneral a defendant (see Milne and Craig's Es ports, i. p. 469) The discretionary power cannot be da -1 petit Whether, in this instance. it has been =My exer cised, is another question ; but &r J. Moonily, thirling as he does on the subject, has, it seems to tea, no alternative. NORTH AND EAST LONDON BENEVOLENT horrru- 710 X.—Yesterday the annual festival in aid of the funds of this institution took plop at the Freentuone Tavern, Brest Queen-stmt, Lincoln's Inn.fislds. The Barl of Car lisle presided, and in proposing the Wad of the evades— .' The North and Ent London Benevolent Institution," ►is lordship staled that the society was established in the yeas 1849 for the purpose of granting permanent amenities to manufecturers, tradesmen, artisans, mechanics, and others, and the widows of such persons above 60 yr►rs of age, with additional pecuniary aid, medicines, and medical attend ' men at their residence, in eases of sickness. His lordship proceeded to expatiate upon the advantages to be derived from the institution, and celled attention to certain facts which were embodied in an ►ddress distributed on the occa sion. It appeared from this address that, in addition to an annual stipend, this Society gives further pecankry relief to the pensioners in the time of sickness, together with medicines sod medical attendance at the abodes of the patients, and also an aduwanee to the widow of a deceased pensioner, of such amount as the directors shell see AL This arrange meat will confer a benefit upon the recipients w►ich co other pension society affords, and rendem this charity the most complete of its kind in the metropolis. The extensive and dersely populated district which this in. sti'ution proposes to comprehend, peculiuly requires a society of this deteription ; a large portion of the inhabit ants consisting of persons most likely to need the aid of beneficence—v z., operatives, tradesmen, manulacturers, and others; the firssnamed, from their rarely being eusbled to provide for the exigencies of old age and infirmity; and the latter, as before observed, brine liable to casualties from th, fluctuations of trade ; these aro the person., and their widows, whom this society proposes to suee•.or, without distinction as to country or reiigio;. ; and for such the directors appeal to the beeevulcnt and humane, earnestly hnping that the appeal will not be frui:less. The institution allows 11. Si. per month to the males, and It per month to the female', payable the first Monday in each month, with an additilnal weekly sum at the discretion or the board during sickness. This toast was followed Ly •e the Loath of the Esrl 01 Carlisle." proposed by the Rev. Dr. Carlyle In a speech warmly eulogistic el the character of the noble chairman. Several gentlemen addressed the company ►a the course of the evenirg, and subscriptions were announced amounting to about 20111. NATIONAL INSTITUTE OP MEDICINE.—MEDICAL Rarettat.—Yesterday afternoon a meeting of the council of the Nat West institute of Medicine, Suriery, and Midwifery, and other member/ of the medical profession, was 'whist thtir rooms, in Hanover-square, Thomas Mar:in, Ertl , presid ing. The report of the council exhibited a mate of amporta..t documents bearing upon the cue of the general practitioners, leaving little doubt of the ultimate etlaeSl of the exertions of the institute, notwithstanding the opposition of the College of Surgeons and Physiciins„to redress the grievances warner which the general practitioners of this kingdom at present la bour. A ci,culer, bitted by the Institute to the general grand damn, detailing its objects, and requiring individually the persons addressed to state whether they are desirous of a se parate incorporation of all the qualified general practitioner. of medicine, surgery, and irilwifery, in an independent col kge of their own, upon the elective principle, compr.sing within its own limits the entire range of medical and surgical science and practice, with the control of the educa tion and examination of all future members, has already been responded to is the affirm s:lye by a great msfirity of the thousands of practitioners throughout the kingdom, proving the necessity of a separate incorporated body. Mr. Wyld, M.P., has just ilitained leave to bring into tine House of Commcus a bill (on behalf of the council), with the sanction of the Secretary of State, but which, from the advanced period of the session, cannot he fur her proceeded with beyond its introduction. The details of the bill show the anomalous position in which the g I practitioners ral medical science in this tenet'', are placed, in consequence el their bring obliged to uadergo an examination and take oat a diploma from the College of Surgeons and the company at Anothecaries'-hall, without being enabled to participate in any benefits derivable from thou institutions. The passing of thu bill through the legislatuse would place the general practitioner in a higher status, and enable him to occupy a more di fined position than that which he now holds. Os Wednesday last, at a dinner given at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's, by the members of the institute, a pre eentation took place to James Bird, Esq., and Henry Ancell, BM.. the late honorary secretaries of the Institute, In token of the valuable and efficient services rendered to the cause of the general practitioner/ of medical since since the forma tion of the society in 1545. The testimonials °resisted of handsome silver candelabra, bearing suitable Inscriptions, each of the value of 80 guineas, mutated to each of the above gentlemen. THE CHARITIES OP LONDON.—The following is a summary of the charitab:e institutions of the metropolis, excluding local charitii 1, and those in the gift of the corpo rate companies, from" 8. - "w's Ch. ' sof " :4; 00.;;O3oor frotto"43l;ol; ; ;6ll44liies of t;ssio7J • T2 — Ii It 11 ilq Q, ~" Gourd Sosobary. 011 - IS 1 I ill i g i g ig 1,. h -it . . & & Omni moiliod burbolo 5 5 2 13 31,136 111,841 WOW aboritho tor woe o l eg ols= 6. 34 II 1 $ 17,974 88,690 22 13 14470 2,934 Pions*. of 1118 aod Olio arab Sr llones, It 1 It 8,730 2,773 1 Tail milt=iorogror of NOM pe . l4 4 18 14299 114737 abi orol lbo the modabtrao l2 2 14 20, 3,224 Aillintl amb lo Beata opilo4 Or me 9 2 1 12 19,473 18,108 pm 41 m. 1 3 1 14 4,877 3,369 Per Y. Ibid. &X sad dumb .Orb'fasis. = 8 3 11 11,983 23,797 Oollosib sab ir sad obsit be sPd Chablis lO 24 69 103 5,837 77,190 woks so dodo Clar bablo orl pro= dilly !kr ism Asykus Sx orphans 56 15 3 74 19,903 33,222 orl other setoolitoss abbot lB 15 31 65, • 25,549 blourionsl lboadadoos . 10 10 13, , 78,112 ariorkotio soolora boo - Odom Mogi moieties, Wok, Churob ra = mg auuthisi yi l abg, a 5.... . 11614 orrikolawy 27 8— SS 494 03,048 Ithselhassos --.-- Total Total _, to k9III.4STAiIi FOOL-CATCHINO.— A correspondent says :—" A very lags nambor of bitten kayo lately passed themes tbe Dead Utter office, each containing • shilling's weeds stumps, addressed to • person who called Metal a prassear, and who, for lOW eon or other, was OOPS 014 when Ilhe letters arrived for hia. These lima wore addressed to the ti*Sw; in masegnmes of his advertising that lie for a =Wisp, • give plain direetioas to enable MdMs Bag to Isla, by a simple bat eaptivatiag eel Bag prows, tbe devoted amnions of as nag eales= l site ea as their hearts say desire.' Frew the of these letters, it was evident that they smal•liiiTa:' middle-aged, sad yang persons if both mass, hi every cask and station of life. Sash a fast as this enables an estiwar.te to be brined of the almost marvellous extent of hew ere daily in this enlightened age and essary. FAILURE OF A PROTECTIO AT IPSWICH. About 600 proteotioniaft signed a ',nation to the Mayor of Ipserkei. reguarda" him to convene& meeting of the rate payers of the town, in order that the present 46 i distress he the cesatry " might be censidered, aste l l a bl a Jejesty be petitioned to dissolve the $ par liament. The desire was that the nestle' ahoald be held in the omen number of the tows hall ; the neyor, however, greatly to the denary of the proteritioeiste, that it should be held la the open air on the Corn-bill—a• area wide immesh to orsonsmodete every rate payer. From that moment a 'read protectionst failure was certain. This day (Wednesday), at one O'clock, the proceedings ocreamenced, I end the result of them was a most triumphant vindication of th• principles of free trade. There were between two and three thousand persona present, and in the voting the pro tectionists were beaten by at least twenty to one. Mr. TONNEREAII rose and proposed the following reso lution :—" That the agricultural and shipping interests, the colonial, trading, and other great interests of this contery, for some time peat have been iavolved in internee suffering and difficulty; and that the country generaly is rapidly cep reaching to general distress and rule, front whi:h no relief sin be expected until the present policy of free trade is abandoned or greatly modified, or a system of justice against foreign competition bs adopted; and that such a reduction in saltation be made as the country has • right to deemed." The speaker said, whatever reeking the meeting might entwine regarding free-toads, he bad no doubt they would all vote for diminished taxation. But the question, after all, was, how had free trade affected Ipswich, far they had nn basins= to sunder its resales ou ins kingdom generally ? (Laud derisive laughter.) This was the point he wanted toss to settle, as his great anxiety wee to give them the ' means of expressing their calm opinion. Tun must be diminishes' taxation, and especially would he call upon them to seek the removal of the window tax (Cheers.) The speaker added afew other remarks, from which it was diffi cult to tell whether he was a protectionist or a free-trader. After a scene of great confusion, during which an immense ires•tradie loaf and • smaller one were barns in triumph before the people, the speaker resumed his seat. Mr. MEADOWS seconded the resolution ; but bad such difficulty is making himself heard, in consequence of the unpopularity of his sentiments, that he was speedily nom pelted to sit down. Mr. GEORGE ALEXANDER (banker), a free trader, said that the resolution which had been proposed by the op posite party was so +worded that he could almost go with very word of it. Bat he did not approve of it, as he knew it to be clap -trap. The object of the party who proposed that resolution was nothing more nor less than to oust the present ministry for the purpose of baying a keen ')se ine; having for their &Pot the returning protection mem bers to parliament. (Cries of " Shame.") If that was not tie object of the requisitionists, why did they come there and ;$4 the meeting to petition for • dissolu tion of parliament ? (Immense cheering) That was their object, and nothing else. lie telt greet plums in moving an amendment to that resolution. It was to the following effect : That this meeting, while it sympathises with the agricultural and shipping interests of this king tom in the depression and difficulties naturally experienced by them at the present time, as is invariably the case during a transition state, and which we trust will o n ly be temporary, we boil with delight the continued prosperity of all the leading branches of trade and commerce through. out the country." The reading of the resolution was re ceived amidst deafening omen. Mr. E. GRIM WADE seconded the amendment. The amendment was carried. _ During the delivery of Mr. °dimwitle's speech the utmost :chasten% was frequently occasioned in the meeting. The protectionists had two oil paintieurs, on which were depicted the alleged evils of free trade. Thaw were raised on pales and were guarded by • number of picked mew. Whim they were espied, an immense rush was made to them, and, after a severe struggle, they were torn down and not to atoms, amidst triumphant cheering. 3 ton after, the hearted" loot was attacked, and • tremendous battle ensued ' • it was wrested from its stand, but the loaf was secured and borne in trineassh bi fore the platform aad exhibited before the noes of 'the protectionist 'peahen, many of whom were afterwards pelted with the " s•aff of life." Mr. OLIVER PREN TICE, a free trader, meted the following resolution :—" That this meeting prays her Ma jesty will direct the full development of free trade ' in the removal of all existing burdens, and establish in all depart ments of her Mojesty's service the most rigid economy and tetrenehment with a view to lessen general taxation." Mr. WALLACE seconded the resolution, which was carried. A resolution proposed by Mr Rteunnoottn, and seconded by Mr. MACPMIIISON, demanding on extension of the fran chise, was also carried. Mr. LILLIRGSTONH, a protectionist, objected that all the persons wto voted were not ratepayers, and made some offenxive remaiks regarding the conduct of the Mayor. His WORSHIP made a spirited and energetic reply, after which Mr. Ldlings one apologised, and tte meeting concluded. REGATTA AT LOWEsTOPT.—On Monday an iM men,e attendance of visitors from Yarmouth, Norwich, and mast of the towns in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridge, was drawn Lowestoft, to the regatta. It is only within the last two or three years that railway and other facilities have ran !eyed Lowestoft accessible to the public and within that period its popularity has been extraordinary, and its sub stantial prosperity not less so. Upwards of 14,000 persons, of nearly every rink in life, poured into the place on Monday, equally to the benefit and gratification of the inhabitants, *nese local pride was not a little augmented by the fact of the prise yacht of the day, the Fanny, haying been built on the sp it, and sailed by her owner, Mr. William Clay. In the evening about one hundred gentlemen eat down to • splendid dinner at the Royal Hotel, one of the numerous and basun ful structures erec . e 1 by Mr. Peto, MP. for Norwich. In his absence through indisposition she chair was taken by Mr. Roney, secretary to the Eastern Counties Railway, under whose presidency the festivities of the night were brought to a close with eclat. inn LIVERPOOL BURGLARS.—On Friday night last Thomas blotch, one of the prisoners charged with a eerie, of burglaries in the neighbourhood of Liverpool, w.is apprehended at Leeds. It will be recollected that Match made cis escape from custody while being conveyed from the police-court to the bridewell. In the early part of last weak, information reached the police-office in this town that a serious burglary had been committed at Halifax, a jeweller's shop basing been broken into, and property to the value of upwards of 1,0001. carried , ff. The manner in which the {.remises were entered was by cutting circular holes in the woodwork, and it immediately occu-red to the detective police here that the thieves who were concerned is the robbery must have some connexion with the burglar Match. Au officer was accordingly despatched to Halifax, and male • tour of the neighbourhood, but without meet ing with the object of his search. However, on Friday, Murphy, the detective officer, had occasion to go to Leeds to convey a prisoner who had been apprehended in Liver pool, when be fell in with Mutch, and placed him in cue tody.—Liverpool Mercury. ALLEGED VIOLENCE OP TORN-OPTS AT MAN CRZWIER —Five cotton spinners (Hargr , Bullis, Win ter, Lowe, and another), lately in the employ of Messrs. Richard Birley and Brothers, spinners and manufacturers at Manchester, were yesterday brought before the magistrates on a charge el intinsidai in. Blesses. Birley have bees making an experiment with a view to economising labour is their establishment. It has been the custom to employ • great number of spinner., each spinner having a piece, to assist him, whose duty it is to piece broken threads; but Mean. Birley having made an experiment in a room where viscera were employed, by which they found that these piecers might be dispensed with, gave them notice to leave the establishment. It was understood that the notice would be afterwards extended to the whole of the other piecen employed in the establish ment, and the spinners feeling aggrieved at the e &arse which was taken, gave notice also, and " turned out" about seven weeks ago. The eons,- venee has been that other men have been employed who submit to the new order of things, and the prisoners way. laid these new hands as they left the works several nights last week, and entered into • resonstmos with them on the impropriety of " taking the bread out of their months" (to use their own homely expression.) Ac seeding to one witness the prisoners celled the new bands knobstieks," and threatened if they did not leave Messrs. Barley's; employ, to " kill," or " make them so that they could not work ;" but this evidence was not borne out by** statements of the other witnesses. Mr. S. Heelis, attorney, conducted the case for the prosecution, and Mr. W. P. Roberts addressed the court for the prisoners, appealing to the peaceable conduct of the turn-outs for seven week. as evi dence that they did not wish to resort to violence. He did not deny that the prisoners had endeavoured to persuade the " knobsticks" from lowering wages by taking work at Means. Birley. The alteration at Meson. Birley's would hays the effect of turning out of employ ninety-ono women and children, throwing extra labour upon the men retained without incresee of salary, and a saving would be effected of 2,0001. per annum. It was not won derful it in each a IMO a hard word or two fell from some of the parties aggrieved, bat he thought the fact that no actual violence had been used by the old hands towards the new ones ought to plead very powerfully in their favour. The magistrates, titer a long consultation, committed the prisoners to herd labour for seven days, manning them that • much heavier punish ment would fellow any future interference with the hands now working for Melon Birley. EXPLOSION OP FIRE-DAMP AT AIRDEIL—REs PORTALS LOBS or Lisa.—Yesterday (Tuesday) ,evening, in telligence reached here (Glasgow) from Airdrie of the explo sion of fire-damp in one of the pits there, and the consequent sacrifice of many line. The facts, as stated by our informant, we subjoin, without vouching for their accuracy. Yesterday morning, about seven o'clock, the town and neighbourhood of Airdrie were thrown into a state of the moot intense ex citement, by the explosion of fire damp in one of the pits, attended by great Wee of life. It is believed that there were twenty-two pelves in the pit at the time--one ally of whom had escaped the general destruction. Ile happened to be near the foot of the shaft, and was thus monied to escape almost unhurt. From the probable situation of the work men at the tithe of the catastrophe, it is conjectured that all have periatici. Up till a late hour in the afternoon, when our ialorirant left, nine bodies were said to have been got out of th'a pit. How the accident happened will probably never be ascertained. We understand that it is the practice for ore of the miners, with a Davy lamp to examine the date, of the air in the pit every morning, before the work wearneseen. We know set whether this precaution bad 'seen taken yesterday morning, ea it seems the pence' who " del* " that duty IS e killed. Davy lamps are sot in ordinary has by the, who seem to pester Ives safely—though it may be men waveniently—ewnetraoled onee.—Glargoto Daily Mail, July 24. NORTH STAFFORD'S iIRE RAILWAY. Yesterday the half-yearly mating of this compare j was held at the railway stapes at StekseeporieTrent. J. L. Ettoeino, Beg., M.P., the chairman of die board oldie. etas, presided. The report read by the secretary appealed in all EKelf resterdety es CHAIRMAN, In moving the aeloptice of the report, said, he was happy to state that with reference to the political condition of their affairs (so to speak) his tongue was in • great measure loosened, and that he was enabled to say what had bee. done, and what remained of the policy of the company still to be sanded ant. Any mores which bad bee. m-de or might be made was only such as might be deemed essential for the protection of the interests of this proprietary. The directors had made the sacrifice in this—in the not being able to lay before their proprietors the sort of oppod tion they had had to contend with. Since their last meeting an abstract of the agreement with the London and North West ern Company had been sent to every shareholder; there were Matters of detail still in dispute. If It were thought advis able s complete copy of that agreement should be sent to every shareholder, but be thought it would be inexpedient to read • long technical document at that meeting. (Hear.) He would next call their attention back to the month of Feb., 1815: at that time an gemeat or agreement existed between the London and Birmingham Railway Company and the ChurnetValleyCompany. There were terms between these two companie a,ack.nowledging that the projects d ChurnetVal ley line was the direct route to London, and that it should, to soon as it was complete 1, have the through traffic to London pus over it, but should at be inexpedient to tarry out this part of the agreement, the Churoet Valley line was still to receive the amount of the traffic; any disputes in carrying ant this agreement to be referred to the Bo,rd of Trade or to arbitrators to be !appointed by them. Shortly after the date to which he had referred, the Pottery line was projected, and Mr. Glyn urged its projectors to amalgomate with the Caurnet Valley line, and looking to the agreement to which he had referred and to the support which the undertaking might be likely to receive under such circumstances from the London and Birmingham Company—looking, too, to the opposition which they might receive from that com pany, it was thought advisable to amalgamate the Churned Valley with the Pottery line, as suggested by Mr. Glyn; and he (Mr. Ricardo) believed at the time that amalgam'. tics took place they became seised of that agreement be tween the London and Birmingham and Churnet Valley line for securing to the letter the proceeds of the through; traffic. Shortly after that time • pre ject was set on foot for amalgamating the London and Birmingham and Grand Junction Companies ; it was thought that the interests of the Pottery line might be jeopardised by such an arrangement, therefore a petition was got up setting forth that unless the through traffic war accurst to the pottery line as previously agreed upon, the amalgamation would be opposed. Thereupon Mr. Olin acid that this peti• tion must no: be presented ; that it would be regarded as a hostile act; and he, as representing the London and Bir mingham Company, and the chairman or the Grand Junc tion Company, signed an agreement to the effect that the through traffic from Manchester to London, and southwards, should go over the Pottery line. This agreement had been strengthened by subsequent correspondence, and although be did not now wish to say anything of a character to produce animosity, his wish being rather to allay it, he did believe that but for the committee which had been ap pointed, they would have obtained the fulfilmeet of the meet in all its integrity from the London and North Western Company. He was disposed to think, however, that the terms which they had obtained were nearly as good as they were entitled to under the original agreement ; they were to have their share of the through traffic, not only between Manchester and London, but to the intermediate places. They were also to participate in a share of the cm* traffic, as between Chester and Holyhead to Derby and the E sat, to all places south of Boston. At present, however, there were many matters to be arranged they had obtained the through traffic from Crewe to Derby, but not that from Man chester to Crewe : there were differences yet to ad just between them and the Lan& n and North Western Company : the traffic returns they had received from that company were still the eubject of dispute ; they (the North Staffordshire C smpany) had checked the through traffic to Derby, and the returns tenni the clearing house of the London Company did not coinciae with their own esti mate. He hoped that before next year all these matters would be adjured ; and that they would not only get a share of the profile of the through &raffia, but that tney would actually pus ever their lice—this being an element essential to the development of th, ir local traffic. The too. gentle man went on to remark how completely their directors had been embarrassed in their negotiators with the London and North Western Company, in consequence of the suspicions attaching to them from the fact of a committee having been appointed to examine into the high crimes and misdemeanors of the North Staffordshire boar*, which board of directors was at the time seeking justice for its shareholders at the hands of another public company. Committees of ir quirt' were always bad and always objectionable ; they tended to paralyse the efforts of directors and to create a suspicion in the public mind which could only tend to depreciate the market value of the property. In conc:usion, he said that the directors were forthwith prepared to reduce the allow ance to themselves ; these honest and trustworthy officers had offered in a hotly to submit to a reduction of their salaries. (Cheers.) Their present expenses were equal to the carrying on of a much larger amount of treffit ; for any increase they received he believed that 60 per cent. of it w,uld be profit to the shareholders To obtain this accession of traffic and also to obtain such terms as they were entitled to from the Midland and other companies, could rely be hoped for by the cordial end complete support to the directors by the proprietary. The hon. gentleman concluded by formally moving the adoption of the report. Mr. R. C. SHARP, of Manchester, seconded the motion. . _ Major G 1 BRIGGS, the chairman of the committee of investigation, moved as an amendment, that the report of the committee ehoeld be first considered. r.TAUNTON, another member of the committee, seconded the amendment. After some conversation, Lord HARROWBY saturated that General Briggs should withdraw his amendment until after the directors' report had been pasted —General Briggs ass-nted. Mr. /MOCKS, of Holifes, a.,id that he held 400 shares, many of which he had bought at a premium, and he cunsi derail that the charges which the committee bad trumped up against tkis concern were o' a moat scandalous Outset( r, and had greatly injured the value of their priperty. Of all the milk-and-water and contemptible reports that ever emanated from a railway committee, this wu the finest specimen. (Cheers.) The motion for the adoption of the report was then put and unaahnously carried. Lord HARROWBY, without pled;ing hinivell to any of the details in the report of the committee, moved a vote of thanks tothem for their services, which was c rried. The seal having been affixed to the registry of shareholders, The CHAIRMAN replied to the sort of charge preferred by Mr Taunton against the Earl of Shrewsbury. Mr. Ri cardo slid—. A more honourable and noble-minded man I never met than the noble earl who has been referred to ; and to say that he has said his parliamentary interest for 1,0001. a year is most unfair and improper: it is a most unfair attack, and never ought to have been uttered or mode. Now it is always usual, when a bill is before parliament, the effect of which will be to injure a great landowner's pro party, that a specific sum shall be specified by way of com pensation; and if there is any property in the kingdom in ' lured more than another by a railway, it is that very beauti lid estate called Alton Towers. The sum of 20,0001. was agreed upon by the Churnet Valley Company before we amalgamated with them ; and I believe that Lord Shrews bury never gave a vote in parliament on the subject of this railway in his life. (Hear, hear.) His lordship has made all sorts of concessions to us; he has lent to us every possible facility. The line runs for four miles through his property, dose to his pleasure grounds, cud he has opened his gardens to 0.1 trips. I believe that the 20,0001. which had been converted in debe-turn was a fair sum to be paid to Lord Shrewsbury, as times went when the estimate woe fixed ; and he, for one, would never be the man to endeavour to set such agreement aside. Lord Shrews bury had never himself interfered in the matter in his life." Mr. TAUNTON subsequently in part explained away his aceu'ation, but he considered that the 20,0001. paid as compensation was 'Eclairs. - The retiring directors were re-elected. The motion for declaring a dividend of Is. 6d. per share woo put and lost, so that the surplus of revenue stands over to the credit of the ensuing half year. General BRIGGS moved a vote of thanks to the chair- -- man, which was carried, and then Mr. HICKS, of Halifax, said that something more than a mere fennel vote was necessary on this occasion. In this spirit he moved the following, " That this meeting cannot separate without expressing their high opinion of the board of directors, and their full confidence in their upright and honourable conduct in the management of the affairs of the railway." General BRIGGS seconded this motion, and it was carried by acclamation. The CHAIRMAN—Ws came here prepared to offer our resignations. We are content, however, to remain with this expression of your goodwill; dial when you cis find better men we shall gladly retire from your service. (Applause.) Tits meeting then broke up, having lasted ire hours and a quarter. TRY SURTEVALTY OF THE CITY OF LONDON.—Yeill terday, at the Court of Common Hall, at the conclusion of the proceedings for the day at three o'clock, the numbers for sheriff were declared as being—far Mr. Hodgkinson 314, for Mr. Butler 90. Mr. Secondary James, with Mr. billiard. the under-sheriff, was upon the hustings during the whole of the afternoon. The proceedings with reference to the r leo tion having closed, Mr. Low said that it would be Ia the re collection of many of the persons present that he had on the day named for the opening of the proceedings nominated Mr. Butler as a fit and proper person to BB the office of sheriff, in cobjunotion with Alderman Carden. That morn sag, huwever, a letter bail appesrid in the Times, purporting to have been Idgrood by Mr. Butler, which stated that he (Mr. Butler) had declined to serve, on the qrounds . that he had been proposed, without having given Ins sanction, to who the office, end that, in ecoolusion, he . begged any parties who might be friendly to him to vote against him. The facts of the ease were simply theset—lie (Mr. Low) had entered the hall for the purpose of attending to his general duties, whet a letter was put into his hands, signed by the clerk of the Honore Company, which was to the effect that he (the I shirk) had no trump to doubt that Mr. Butler, of Upper t °lepton, would serve during the ensuing mayoralty if he wee I approved of. This letter was addressed to Alderman Mu. • grove, and given to him (Mr. Low) on his entrance into the hall. In enassqueaos of this, having some personal know s ledge of Mr. Better, and knowing him to be a respectable llgentleman, he (Mr . Low) did not hesitate to propose that gentleman for sheriff. N