The Express. — London, England, 1850-12-25 00:00:00

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The political quarrels of parties, and the social suite of classes, were never at • lower ebb. Protectionism is left but a squeak, and chartism does not indulge even in that. The religious quarrels, which have sprung up, are of themselves a proof that there is an absence of those substantial vireo and moral afflictions, which absorb the public mind, nor allow it to get entangled in the play of polemics. This, too, must be said, at least, of the parties which dispute possession of the religions mind of England, that their objects—the objects of the disinterested amongst them—are in the main the same. Both would develop, excite, and attain the vitality of re ligion , and would devise some pan for arousing the easy and ind.fferent of the world, not merely from torpor, bat even from egoanimity, and would thus force the whole community into ore fervent mass of religion; feeling. It is this aim, a worthy and a holy one, which has rent the church in twain, or crested, as it were, two wings, or two collateral churches, seeking the great aim of vitality by two opposite means, either by the dieciplige and mutu►l encouragement of the community itself, or by the power and prestige of its appointed teachers. Of the former we have had long experience; we know its action and its fruits. We have examples o! its wonderful influence and effects in certain times, and have only had to regret the difficulty of sustaining a high degree of religious, se indeed of any sentiment, for a continued warm of time. Of the other system, to keep mankind to a given point of religious tention, by meansof priesthood and prelacy, resplendent with dignity and pomp, macro nanetity and ceremony, we n had experience out of the Church of Home, which seldom brought talent, or the concomitants necessary to exercise such over a well-informed, a thinking, and an enlightened people. The experiment has never ben tried in the Church of England, sod it has now been fortunately put to the proof. For what could not have been known before, is now perfectly irte fragably established, which is, that all each eff,cts lead to Romanism and to the Porn, and nothing else. The unhappy clergy who followed this iynis Aeons can scarcely be expected to abandon at once the illu sion, or own themselves in a body, to have been guilty of egregious folly. Many will peeler leaping straight to lt , ,me to drawing back in shame. But their en emies' are the vomit of a mistake, that cannot again revive. No man henceforth can tamper with media valiant, without knowing whither it leads him. And if a min tin want to go to Rome he will travel by a Ka more direct. And, so tar, those attached to the great protestant principle of religious freedom have great cause of con gratulation. A more utter failure or more pernicious consequence could not have ensued upon the trial of the antagonist principles of religious authority. It has borne its fruits, and we may contemplate them with satisfaction, with benevolence, and without fear from the quiet corner of Christmas contemplation. We have no reason to be discontented with the result., in wisdom and in experience, ot the year that has passed away. Would we could say as much of our brethren in foreign countries, or at least on the continent of Europe. For to them we fear that the present season, though one of momentary peace, is also one of peculiar bitterness and scanty hope. France, indeed, scarcely fetes the day ; that san guine people give neither ceremony nor attention within or without the family circle to the great an niversary of Christian regeneration. All festivity with them is reserved for the opening of the new year. Their devotion is directed to the future, not the past ; their regards always turn to the rising min, or to the east, where the sun ought to rise. They are no worshippers of the peat; nor is there any fear of their resuscitating aught tiled is anti quated or even medueval in religion or in politic*. With strange inconsistency, however, the French can patronise abroad what they are little for at home. Their bayonets alone support the PUPS in his chair. 'fheir troops alone enabled hies to go through the cere monies of such a day as this onexecrated, utopia upon, unstoned by a population which worshipped his predecessors, but which have for him but the curse of hatred and of scorn. Even the cere monies of religion have, we understand, become odious to the Romans, linked as the priesthood have been with all that is eangviinary, Infamous and oppressive. Nothing can be imagined more lugubrious or unchristian than the celebration of tteristma , throughout crushed and bleeding Italy in the year le;0. In Germany and Central Europe the state of things is even more sad. A population which is under the eyes of Europe and its publicity cannot, at least, be exterminated. Bat this ex treme has not been shrunk from in regions over which despotism rules, unchecked by any observer. Titre we have learned that • system of persecution and depopulation was carrying into °hint throughout the protestant districts of Hungary, which would even reduce the Slovacks to the sob missive catholicism of the Bohemians. Whilst the catholic government of Austria thus permeates the protestants of Hungary, the Russians are de-catholi cising Poland. They have Wisensanised that coun try by the planting of Greek biabeps and priests throughout it; and Rome, so aggressive at Westmin ster, dorsi not utter • word for its oppressed and per secuted Bock at Warsaw. In the late events of Germany the Protestant cause has suffered more than it has done since the treaty of Westphalia. The pusillanimity of Prussia in giving up Protestant Hesse to be victimised by the troops of Austria and B means, as well as the authority of Austria acknowledged in the affsirsgenerally of North- ern and Protestant Germany, has widely awakened fears for the balance of religions power, as well as for the revival of constitutional freedom. Germany does not want men like MONTALIMIIIERT, who render all politics subordinate to the establishment of Jesuits as the only legislators and the only statesmen. Count MON, the head of the Frank/art diet, is one of these men, and actively has he exer ed himself. So much is this the case, that whilst the last popular insurrection in Germany sea.' marked by not • word of hatred to either king, or noble, or priest, the next will probably be charac terised by all the sentiments of the old French revola rims, and by a proscription of thoss privileged classes. Such is the seed that bigotry and despotism are sowitig—such the sentiments that corrupt and mar what was once so pure, the kind and fraternal senti ments that surround the German's Christmas tree. Tits law which in this country assumes to regulate the interests of inventors, imperatively demand', not partial amendment, but entire reconstruction. It is wrong iu principle, and wrong in practice ; it virtu ally treats as a favour what it ought to concede as a right; and it makes the so coring of that right so costly as to put it wholly beyond the reach of all dis coverers, however gifttd, who cannot command an amount of capital, which, to r. pow man, is wholly unattainable. For the make of those aranngst our readers who may not yet have given much consideration to the gan tlet of Patent Law Reform, we shall endeavour, very concisely, to state the principles on which such law ought to rest, the mode in which it is now actually administered in this country, and the remedies which it becomes the dety of all who bare any voice in the matter to press upon the attention of the legislature. Is it desirable that tho rights of inventive labour THE EXPRESS. WEDNESDAY EVENLNG,• DECEMBER 25, 185 Q. should be recognised by the state to the semi di giving the inventor for a limited period of Illemal exclusive title to the profits arising front the um al his invention P Assuming this to be the oast.. on what principles ought the concession of such right to . bir regulated ? In other words , ought there to be say law of patents at all ? If so, what' ought th at law tot be? Such are the question s lie at the very tome I dation of the whole subject of the patent laws. As to the first point, few in the pr esent day will be found to cavil at the position that intellectual labour employed in the conception and elaboration of pray tical inventions gives as indefeasible a claim to per 1 perty as the same kind of labour when bestowed ili any other way. A man spends ten years in literary.' artistic, or professional toil, and and thereby segairee certain rights of property, which the statesmen. to him with the most Inviolable sanctions; smeither UM spends ten years in bringing to perfection a new sail improved prows in manufacture: how is the fruit d his labour to be ensured to him? Thee blic waists to know the secret of his pre ens • ventor Ms that right of property in it which his ten year& 1 labour has fairly purchased for him. How is the' bargain to be struck between the requirements of the 1 public on the one side, and the rights of the inventor , on the other ? Toe practice of all mercantile natiousl supplies the answer. Let the public, concede to the inventor the sole use of his invention for a limited time, in consideration of his disclosing the secret of his method and giving its use, after the fixed period ' has passed away, to the community at large. Such, thee, is the true bowie of the patent law : an equitable adjustment between the rights of inventive labour on the one side and the claims of public interest on the other. The next 9uestion is ea what principle should the law be earned oat : the Nom seems obvious, on the principle of promoting to the very utmost that spirit of practical inventioo, the d-' vantage of which to the community is wholly la calculable, by facilitating and cheapening the pro cesses by which rights of property in the nsalts of inventive labour shall be ascertained and established. Is order so to ascertain and establish these rights it is of absolute necessity that some simple and economical method should be devised of discovering the exact na ture and description of all inventions in respect of which exclusive rights of enjoyment have already been con ceded ; without this it is plain no patent rights could be @merely and effectually conceded at all. A complete registration therefore of inventions and a perfectly ready method of referring to such registra tion is one of the prime requisites, or rather is Me prime requisite of any well-ordered system of patent law. If there be another which can at all be put in competition with this it would be the possession of a clear, exact, end definite statement of what that is for which alone the law will concede a patent right. A single office far the registration of all patents and the deposit of all plane and specifications—a prin cipal registrar, with au adequate staff of officers, who should be charged with the sole duty of carrying such registration into force—cheap and intelligible forms of process, by means of which such registration should be perfected and evidenced—these would seem to be the great first steps to be taken towards an efficient system of patent law procedure. The expense of taking out a patent for such limited time as the law might allow, ought not to exceed such fees as would be reasonably adequate, taking the total average somber of patents applied for in a given time, to save the public any expense arising from patent registra tion. The principle ought to be broadly established that on defraying this amount of expense, an inventor should be entitled to obtain a legal recognition of hie exclusive right to enjoy for a limited time the fruits of his invention. Such, in rough and rapid outline, is a statement of the general principles on which the law of patents is hued, and the mode in which such law ought to be administered. If we now tarn to the origin and actual state of the patent law as it exists in England in the year of grace 1850, we shall find it somewhat as follows: Monopolies granted by the crown had, under the reign of the first STUART, grown to so odious an height, that even in those days of passive obedience the Com mons rose in wrath, and demanded their abolition. The origin of our present patent law is to be sought in the statute (21 Jec. 1., c. 3) by which these abuses were swept away; that law excepted by terms from its operation " letters patent for the sole working or making of any manner of new manufactures within this realm to the true and first inventors thereof," &c., fur the term of 14 years. There can be no doubt that, owing to patents being thus excepted from the enacting part of a statute passed to destroy moaopc lies, the legislative sanction of the rights of inventors came itself to be regarded as a species of monopoly. From the same cause the con cession of a patent was looked upon rather as an exercise of the Crown's bounty, than a recognition of the subject's right, and hence, too, undoubtedly flowed that absurd and mischievous system of refer ring to the law officers of the Crown as a part of its prerogative, questions affectieg matters on which it might well happen that the greatest master of Crown law would be tar less competent to pees a judgment, than a moderately intelligent manutacturer, or a com petently instructed mechanic. Hence, too, arose that intolerable grievance of nugatory forms and costly fees, which, commencing with the humble petition to the Crown, and passing through all the grades of subordinate office till it ends in the Deputy-chaff-wax, renders the suing out a patent the must vexatious of all sublunary processes, and swells the expense of obtaining it for the three kingdoms to very little short of 3001. An average period of about two months is con sumed in going through all the forms, of which, except the hearing before the Attorney and Solictor- General, the whole are absolutely and confessedly nugatory. With regard to this hearing again it is entirely useless for any practical purpose, and is moreover a source of fraud, by enabling any party who has got an intimation of the proposed invention, and has lodged what is called a eareat at the office, to turn the information elicited at the hearing to his own account. It is obvious that the law efficers, pressed as they are by urgent and multifarious de mands on their time, cannot exercise anything like an adequate judgment on the claims of tne contending inventors; in fact, in nine cues out of ten they make no attempt at doing so, but recommend the grant of the patent as a matter of course, leaving the law courts to settle any litigation on the subject that mav hereafter arias. But apart from the hardship and absurdity of a system which thus compels an inventor to spend 3001. in the preliminary steps necessary for securing the recognition of what, on every true theory of legis lation, is his undoubted right—the present system besides exposes him to the greatest difficulty in ascer taining the existence of previously enrolled patents and specifications. In a very valuable paper lately 1 hewed by the COSIIIIITEZ of the SOCIETY OF ARTS for I promoting the legislative recognition of the rights of inventors, the facts as to this part of the case are thus succinctly stated: "Until within the last few mouths, the specifications were enrolled at three separate offices, and excepting at the Rolls Chapel—for which the public thanks are due to the present Muter of the Rolls--the means of reference were most diffi cult and imperfect, and indeed practically useless" Professor WOODCROTT, when examined on this point in 1848 by the committee on the signet and privy seal offices, states that the only mode of search is so tedious and expensive, that only one patentee in a thousand will go through it—that most inventors are of opinion that it is quite a hopeless task ; and that. lon one occasion, he himself was three weeks making l esarchea, and daring that time paid in fees for searches Ito the Petty Bag-office alone as much as 21. 8.. in 1 one day. It is needless to pursue the items of charge at greater length. The system is so radically wrong, that no attempt at portal change will suffice: it has i all the defects which a good system ought to be free from—none'of the advantages which a good system would be certain to procure. It makes no provision ' for ascertaining the nature of existing patents, and imposes a delay of two months, and a tax of 3001., on the patience and the pockets of every Euglish man who comes to assert an effectual right of property in an invention destined, perhaps, to in crease to an untold amount the future resources of his country. Oa the present occasion we must be content with having thus imperfectly endeavoured to point out some of the most glaring defects of the existing sys tem of patent law procedure : we shall take an early opportunity of recurring to the subject; important at all times, it acquires an addiional interest at the present moment, from the near approach of that great industrial festival to which England has invited all the nations of the world. GERMANY. ($T itscratc DRESDEN, Dam 23. Herr von Mant•uffel and Baron von Prokeech mrived hers, at shwa thate pasts/day after noon. Prince Behwarsenberg, Count Bud, and Count Rechberg, arrived about Eve. Von Manta caf&l and Schwarsenberg are staying in the Princes' Palace. Immediately after the arrival of the two list, they commenced a conference, which occupied them until late at night. The Conferences wall open at noon to-day. Pleni potentiaries are here from almost every state. Herr Haesenpflug is not here yet (although he left Hansa on the 21st). BERLIN. Tano. 23. General Thiamin is hers at present, and will pro- coed immediately to Holstein. MUNICH, Dec. 20. - - - - • • Early this morning the President of the Ministry, Vos der Pforden, in company with Herr von Are tin, Von Hienze, and Mayer, started for Dresden. The Chambers are to meet on the 3rd of February. CARLSKUHE. Ds° 21. Oar Minister for Foreign Affairs, Von Riidt, left yesterday to represent Baden at the Dresden Con ference. TRIESTE Dsc 10 . The corvette Louise has rectivtd ordeis to oppose by force the debarcation of Ottoman troops on the neutral territory of Dalmatia, and the frigate Venus is to be held in readiness to assist the oorvette it needful. A telegraphic despatch, addressed from Frankfort, on the 19th, to a Hanoverian paper, usually well in formed u to Danish matters, says that General Legt ditsch has received orders to hold himself in readi ness to march with his corps (numbering 25,000 men) towards Holstein. The corps is at present on the frontiers of HOW. SWUM!, Dec. 23.—VOitietat7 LOGS, 1041; New Loan, Fearand-a-Half pot Costa., 991; National Debt, 831; Com ments' Merino tiosisty'a Prwiu, 120 ; Bank Shares. 94. Vaasa, Dec. 21.—Five per Coat. Iletelliquee, 941 ; Foorand-a-Half per Ceuta., ditto, 811. Doak Shares, 1,116. Itschaage on Loudon. 12.43. • • Clic Court. JT * WINDSOR. Dia. 24. M. Queen leaked tbb manioc in the Slopes is Whim Park. TIM royal family took their usual &Wisp. Mersa Albert went out Aweßag thk morning, seeasprnial by the Earl of Linings. Lord Catnap, Lieut.-Coloael Hos. C. B. Phipps, Colonel Ron. Charles Grey, see Waal Bonsai', was ia attenuants on Ms Royal Highness. The gal of Lincoln left the Cosa* Ibis Mistime. The royal disuse Waal• at the Castle this evening will latilude Dachau of Kent, Lady Fapay Howard, Bar oa w do Speth, e nd Sir Orme Coops? . The Qeees'e paw* baud attend ImesLord Canioys has relieved the Berl of Lktowel duty al Lord in Waiting to her Majesty, and Lieu t.. °sant Ba Biward Semitic as relieved Captain lion. J. Denman, R.N., in his duty room is Waiting to ha Majesty. The Duchess of Gloucester has i been ndisposed for s ome day' past, at bee residence, Glouceste House, Picca dilly. Yesterday her Boyd Elobsees was a hide better. Mr. Freshfield, High Sheriff for the County of Barre,. attended at the Home-office yesterday, to present the address ...grad on at the late Coast, meeting to her Ilejesty on Papal aggression. The Mosinee Committee of the Royal Commission of the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations in the pear 1831 met yestetday at the office ot lb. Board of Trade. Major-General Fox had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday at tlis Homeoftlos. The School of Design had a meeting yesterday at the Board of Trade. Despatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial-office for the Governors o f Cr y lan and Hong Long. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston returned to Broadlands yesterday, from visiting the Ms gaffs and Marchioness of Lansdowne at Bowood Park, Wilts. Lord and Lady Ashley hit town ye Wedgy on a Wait to the noble viscrunt and viscountess, who will entertains succession of visitors during the holidays. THE ROYAL BARON or BE/F.—The baron of beef which will grace the royal dinner table at Windsor Castle, this Christmas Day, was put down to rout at nine o'clock on Ideaday morning. and the proems of cooking was not s=- plated before 10 o'clock at night. The noble baron was taken from an unusually flue Scotch ox, supplied by Mr. Matas, the royal butcher, and weighed 368 Dm It will be served up cold, and placed on a side table in the dining-room this Christmas Day. DIATB OF LORD TALBOT DS MALAIIIDS.—Wo hare to record the dentate of Lord Talbot de Ma'abide, who expired on Feiday lam, at his east, Evercreach Rona, Smsersetehire, at an &dressed age. Tim deces.ed James Talbot, Baron Talbot de Illahhide and Lord Malahide of MaWilde, county Dublin, in the peerage of Inland; Baron Fornival, of Malahids, county Dublin, in the peerage ot the United Riogdont, was mooed son the late Barootea Talbot de Ida'abide, and brother of the late peer, wimps be succeeded in the title a few month. sires. He married 26:h December, 1804, Mies Anse Sarah Rodbard, ow:mud daughter and co-heir of the late Mr. &maid Rodbard, by whom he 1 large family. He is succeeded in his family honours by James Talbot, the eldest of his sin tone. Man last night's Gasettil. FOREIGN-OFTICE, DEC. 24.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Congreva Brackenbury, Esq., now Consular. Assistant to the British Mission at Madrid, to be her Majesty's Consul at that capital. PROPOSED PARK FOR FINSBURY. A deputation, consisting of Lord Robert Grosvenor, Id P., Sir James Duke, But., M.P., Mr. Wakley, M.P., C. Woodward, Erq., F.R.S., a *aunty magistrate, W. Tyler, Req., J. Parsons, Est i , Rev. A. Clissold, A.M , Mr. Churchwarden Tarp's*, and Messrs. Taylor, Wade, Barnet, and T. H. BoykAt, the returning officer of the borough, waited upon Lid John Russell, yesterday, at his official residence in Downing street, to present a memorial agreed to at a meeting of nearly 3,000 inhabitants of Final:ism, on the subject of tits new park so much desired in that borough. The deputation was introduced by Mr. Wakley. Mr. WOODWARD urged the necessity of procuring en open se e rs in the northern district of London tor the health ful recreation and exercise of the vast multitudes it contained. He also impressed upon his lordship that, as a sanitary men sure, the prOpond park had the strongest claims upon the favoursbl• consideration of the government. Lird ROBERT GROSVENOR observed that he had presided at the meeting from which the memorial had ani mated, from a strong conviction, not merely that a perk north of London was necessary, bit also because he thought it but just that the same provision should be made out of the public resources fur Finsbury .shad been made for the metropolitan inhabitants south and east of the Theme'. His lordship added that the site of the proposed park was equi.dtatant from Regent's and Victoria - Parks, and would, if adopted, sompleut the circle of parks around London. Mr. LLOYD then explained to. the Premier, at the request of Lord Groavemor, the plan and situation of the proposed park. Three plans were alluded to—vie., one containing an area of 640 acres, which it was estimated would coot 300,0001. ; 480 saes at a cost of 200,0001. ; and 380 acres for 180,0001. Srl JAMBS DUKE urged that it woof great importance to the City of Loodun, that the present unoccupied space mentioned in the memorial should be kept open. All other spots which years ago had supplied an in-draught to the metropolis had Deem built upon. Sir James concluded by s E ' er ga support li:44:rt . ...pd.. that the City of London had not interfered and p tad so many open spaces as had been . alladed to b 7 Mr. Lloyd, from being covered with buildings. Mr. PARSONS said that Lord Seymour and Sir George Grey had both admitted the importance of the object, but had suggested difficulties', on the ground of expense, and it was for that reason the deputatian had sought his lordship's assistance and support. Mr. WAHLRY considered the present application had stror g claims upon the favourable consideration of the go. viniment. Unless the ground were secured now, all hope of obtaining a park for the north of London would be gone— or, at 'gut, each would be the accumulation of buildings upon it, that it could be had only upon terms infloitely higher than those for which it might now be obtained. He mentioned as an instance the northern end of Chancery. lane. A few yeah ago that pert of the lane might have been widened at an expense of about 7001. A new house was now being built there, tad if the widening ever took place it would be at the expense of as many thousands. Kr. Box Karr and other members of the deputation hay. log severally addressed his lordship, The noble lord remarked that it appeared to him the proposed park was desirable, and he would confer with Str George Grey sod Lord Seymour on the subject. The deputation having thanked his lordship withdrew. IRISII REPRESENTATIVE BISHOPIL—n. Irish pre •ltm who are to sit in parliament the rowans, semi= are the Archbishop of Dahlia, Bishops of theory, Cork, and KiHalo/. SINGULAR CHAROR OF SHOOTING. William James Tyrrell was exemised on Monday at Manchester, for the first time, on a charge of shooting • man named Joseph Hughes. Seperintendest &year said that the charge against the prisoner was that of having fired a pistol, on the 7th inst., at one Joseph Hugh'', now lying in Mount street, ehorlton, in a very dangerous eonditioo. The prisoner had been sought for messeesselully by the police during a day or two; and would not, in all probability, have bees in the dock at present, bad he not voluntarily surrendered. A 'Ding woman, named Jam Pugh, residing in Hiltuystreet, stated that she and the prisoner, on the 7th lust , were sleeping together ea a dwelling house in Mount-street, and that at about half-put three in the mousing she heard a man (afterwards ascertained to have been Hughes) attempt- Lag to lone kis way into the hoses at the bock door, and afterwards at the window under the bedroom In which she then was. Alter a short time the man succeeded in climbing spud opening the window of that very bedroom • and when she stet It, he opened it again, and appeared to be pro. seeding to effect his entrance. She distinctly saw kis ha, bemuse he pressed it against the glue outside. The prisoner then asked the man what he wanted, and told him that if he did not go, he (pr saner) would make him. The man refused to go away, and at last the prisoner seised a pistol and fired upon him. It was us known at the tea whether the man was hurt at all ; but he seemed to fall down from the window, and when at the bottom was heard to say, " D— your impudence." The witness added that she was very much alarmed at the time, as the man was evidently attempting to get ie.—Mr. Bent, who appeared on behalf of the pre. goner, 'liaised from Superintendent Savior that Hughes, the wounded man, had been convicted ones of burgluy. It was evident, from Mr. Bent's cross examination of the female witness, that the bedroom was oa the second floor; and a neighbour deposed that she saw the man Hughes and an. other run away soon after the discharge of the pistol. Mr. Houma the prisoner had • good deal of money with him at the time, and was afraid, for certain good reasons, that an attempt was shout to be made to rob him of It ; and therefore he end in self defence. A policeman whose at tention was called to the plates by the now saw the female witness with her head out of the window, and heard her say that a man had boss attempting to get in, and that the prisoner had fired at him, but they De li-wed he had sot hit him. Mr. Bent further stated that the wounded man, when taken to the Dis pentery, said that he wee bun by a Jell, and that the place on his arm (where the shot bad taken effect) was caused by a burn. This seemed to show that he bad been doing something at the time which made him ashamed to confess that he bad been shot at. Superintendent Saynor stated that when the prisoner gave himself up on that (Monday) musing, he said be had fired off a pistol at some man, bat \ewes in such tenor at the time he fired that he did sat kosior what he was doing. The man Hughes was said to be demestookr 111, and unable to appear. Oa the application of bell was accepted for the gni euer's appearanesea Thursday week, or wiener it need be ; his mother (a lady residing at Broughton) and a gentl e m an undertaking to be rosemelble in 601. sub, for such ap : peanuts. It was C112•04111111b• that If grave symptoms should set in meanwhile, the deposition of Hughes should be at twee takes. IRELAND. Maine. Dui. 24. The (Mowing communication from the office of Sir George Grey has been received by the foreman of the Dahlia Grand Jury : Whitehall, Dee. 20,1860.-81 r : I am directed by there tory Sir George Grey to ocknowledge the receipt, on the 16th looting, or your letter dated the 4th izatant, and to inform you that he has bad the houoar to lay before the Queen the petition of the Ilanhaelasee Terse Grand Jury of the city of Dahlia prollag that the °flee of viceroy of Ireland may not be abolielnd....l have the honour to be, air, your obedient _ _ _ TOTTAIII, B. WADDINGTON. Sir Robert Ratty, Bert., Dublin. The principles upon which the distribution of the grant made by parliament to reimburse the depositors of the notorious Cuffe-street Savings Bank has hitherto been conducted, have been a source of enormous grievince to a great number of those unfor tunatepeople. It appears that at various times the public bad reaeon to entertain misgivings u to the stability of the bank ; and consequently the de positors withdrew their money, but confidence being again restored, were induced in many instances to return their deposits, and this they did on the assur ance of the trustees that they were enabled to do so with perfect legality. In all the cases in which this was done, and in which the original deposits and the re-deposits—being, in fact, the same money— exceeded the regulated amount of 30/. within the year, the deposits are pronounced illegal by the dis tributors of the fund, and the poor people are refused a single shilling of their money. Several meetings have recently been held on the subject, and a me morial to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in which the matter is fully . stated, has been sent for ! ward. In this memorial appears the following state- meats : " That it is a matter of notoriety, and is evidence before the select committee no savings books, that the acting trustees of the bank publicly informed the depositors that they were authori+od by government to take huger deposits tbna those prescribed by the savings bank laws, and re• curable by other savings banks ; and depositors acting upon those statements, were induce d to make deposits exceeding the regulated amount ; and that this fact (amongst others) waa brought under the special notice of the government on more than one occasion in the year 1845, but no mea sures were taken by that branch of the executive having the control of savings banks to put an end to the abuse, but some was permitted to continue up to the tailors of the idstitution. - " That the majority of your memorialists' deposits o.me within the description as relorigmenta,' owing to the want of confidence that manifested itself on one or two occasions in the stability of the bank, when the depositors drew out their money ; and on the panic subsiding, and their tieing re-assured of the safety of the Institution, invested it in one gross sum, thereby (where the sum exceeded 301.) violating, it not the spirit, the letter of the enactment referred to. " And memorialists take leave to particularly call the Chancellor of the Exchequer's attention to the section referred to—' That no money, whether such money shall have been previously withdrawn, dm, shall at any time be received by the trusses from any depositor,' &c, which appears a mandatory direction more for the trustees and manager* than depositors. And fur;her, that the rule inserted in the depositors' book, and allowed to stand unaltered from Nov., 1644 (Me time Mr. Tidd Pratt certified them) until the amino of the bank, was greatly calculated to mislead depositors, and which is as follows : 'HOLe 23—Rs LODOliaNla.—Mpoeitors withdrawing deposits may re-lodge at any time or times within one year, reckoning from the 20:h November, any sum or sums of money, provided such sum or sums shall not increase his or her account in such year beyond the sum of 301. additional principal money, bearing interest on the sum of 1501. in the whole.' "That it rppeert this rule found its way into depositors' books in the form above given (as accounted for by Mr. Tidd Pratt, in a letter written by him under the date of 13th October, 1846), by ' the word " additional " having been inadvertently allowed to stand,' and 'that he had taken step, to have it corrected . ' However this latter fact may be, certain it is, that it never has been corrected is your Ollomorialitts deposit hooky, or any reprint thereof, up to this hour. " That your memorialists respectfully submit under this rale (which Mr. Tidd Pratt certified), it would have been eompetent for depsitors to have deposited and drawn out egensiderablit sums of money in one year, without having at any one time during the year more to his credit than 301., and might so act without supposing they had been guilty of a violation of law. "Your memorialists further respectfully submit that the grant of 30,0001. was made by parliament to depositors generally, unfettered by soy restriction as to any clam of depositors. And memorialists were further fortified in the belief that no such restriction would be imposed by the declaration of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that a sum of 10s. in the pound would be paid on the amount of the depositors' claims. A considerable time since a site was taken in Dub lin for the purpose of erecting baths and wash homes for the poor, but the matter was neglected and forgotten, and moat probably would long remain so, had not the corporation been informed yesterday by their law agent that proceedings were commenced spinet them to recover the price of the ground. It is to be hoped that this circumstance will have the effect of compelling that worshipful body to take the thing once more in hand. The week's receipts of "rent," announced at the meeting of the Loyal Catholic and National Repeal Association yesterday, only amounted to 145., exclu sive of a remittance of 201. from America. The following appears in a northern journal: MEETING OP THE CLERGY OF ARMAOH.-00 Friday a meeting of the clergy of the above diocese, convened by the Archdeacon, was held in the Tontine Rooms, Armagh. A very large number of the clergy attended, sad unanimously agreed to an address to the Lord Primate, expressive 01 their is incurrence with their English brethren in their pro test against the recant aggremion of the Pope, and praying his Grace to convey to them an assurance of the zeal and earnestness of the clergy of the Irish branch of the church in the same cause. The addless tumid, in temperate language, that as the Queen's prerogative is the same in friend as in England, whatever measures may be adopted to secure the latter from the usurpation of a foreign power ought to be extended to the former, in order that the members of the united church in this country may enjoy the protection of equal laws with their fellow-subjects in Great Britain. Until the address has been presented, and kis Grace's answer received, it was agretd that it should not be published. The Cork Examiner has the following notice of the prospects of the flax trade in the south of Ireland : With much satisfaction we perceive increasing evidences of seal fur the extension of flag. In one case we have just heard of the intention of a gentleman to plant fif , y acres of the crop ; and other instances might be mentioned of pre parations to lay down an equal or even a greater extent. From all appearances it is probable that an immense quan tity will be produced is the next year. Together with the sowing, arrangements are becoming general for the process of scotching ; and we hear of several parties who are about to erect the necessary machinery, both for their own cone, • meets and that of the public. A. Armstrong, Esq., A.M., one of the resident masters of Trinity College, Dublin, and for some time past accountant and keeper of the deeds under the Encumbered Estates Commission, died of apoplexy on Sunday morr.ing. FRANCE. PARIS, TOZADST MORNING. In the Lrgis Assembly yesterday, the discus sion on the Mortgage Reform Bill occupied the whole sitting, and wu again adjourned. The Moniteur announces that Monseigneur Gari baldi, Archbishop of Myra, has presented kis creden tials as Nuncio of the Holy Apostolic See to the French Republic. The 2lfoniteur also publishes several columns of appointments and promotions in the order of the Le gion of Honour. At the Ac idemy of Sciences, yesterday, Lord Brougham read a supplementary paper on light. The reading of the essay lasted an hour. His lordship left Paris last night for London. The publisher of the new Republican journal, Le Vote Universe!, was yesterday tried for an attack on the right of property, contained in two articles published in that journal abut a month ego. On the first he WAS acquitted, but on the second he was found guilty, and sentenced to six months' imprisument and a fine of 8,000 trance. PARIS FUNDS, DEC. 24. Three per Cents. Five per Cents. o3f. 50e. Bank Shares.. 2 335f. De. At the time of going to press our French despatches of last evening had not arrived. CHRISTMAS DAT.—To day being Christmu day, has bees observed as a strict holiday at all the goverosseat and other public offices, no Donnas of any kind having been 'ransomed at them of a regular or ordinary nature. The only exception is the Post-ofilee, at which establishment there ware a receipt of letters for, and delivery of letters from, the provinces and abroad in the swathing as usual on other week days, and the deli in the 'metropolitan or district post took plasm until noon, after which ' , business was suspended in that branch of the establish ment for the remainder of the day, the only one is the year. This day, with the exception of Good Friday, and the day appointed for celebrating her Majesty's birthday, is the only None's! holiday *binned at the Castonahouse in tasequenco of the compete stoppage to the import busliess and trade of the country which is ;heyday occasioned. THE PUPILS OP THE MANCHESTER SCHOOL . . Diatom held their second social soirée on Monday evening. Mr. Cobden, M.P., Mr. Brotherton, M.P., the Mayon of Manchester and Salford, and other influential merchants and gentlemen being present. Mr. Thomas 11,eley, President of the Chamber of Commerce, presided on the 'cession, and cieliverel an interesting address, is which he dwelt upon the important influence which the Exhibitioa of 1841 would exert upon the arts in general, and upon that of design in particular. Mr. Joseph Brotherton recommended the es tablishment of a museum in connexion with the school. Taste, he argued, was not intuitive; the eye must be tutored, and it could only be tutored by esespartions, !acuities tee making which such museums would afford. Mr. Brotherton referred to the Museums Bill, which he and others had been instrumental in carrying—a bill which empowered the lea, of • rate of a halfpenny la the pound to provide buildings for the reception of works of art, Ac. ; and be recommended the directors of the school to endeavour to bring their institution within the operettas of this act. Mr. Cobden, M.P., also made reference to a local rate for the support of the school. He was not lend, he said, of government interference ; bat he would say that, If • rate in Manchester could be legitimately raised (or anything in the shape of education, it might be raised for the parrot of supporting a school of design. Ha would rather have money raised by • local rate than derived from this exchequer. because, it locally raised, it would be better applied. If money was raised where it was spent, it was well locked aft, r ; there was very little jobbing about its disponi, while there was • great deal of jobbing about money dispensed from the central government. One half penny in the pound urn the Munitions, assessment would realise the sum of 2,.001. • year ; while, If Salford were to join in the movement, upwards of 3.0001. might be secured for the support of the school, and for the establishment of a museum. (Hear, bear.) The company were afterwards addressed by this Mayors of Manchester and S al ford , by Mr. J. A. Hammersley, head master of the school, and by other aentlemen. The rooms of the institution, all of which were thrlwn open, were decorated with the produe ins of the pupils, some of the paintings and drawings being of a very thperior character. DREADFUL SUFFERINGS OF A BOAT'S CREW.—Tc..e following extract of a letter from Mr Jamie 0. Jones, second master of her Majesty's steamer Dee, employed on the Cape of Good Hope 'taboo, which has come to Ragland to his parents, discloses some almost unparalleled privations sad sufferings of himself and crew, by the upsetting of their boat:—" We are at present lying up Quilimane River, tan' I believe we go to the Caps about Christmas; we are nearly tired of stopping up here. It was a very great chance sending this letter, as the vessel only anchored off here yesterday (no date is given), and sails to-morrow, sad she ha about nine miles from us. The greater part of this was written in an open boat, as I was going out to ewers haul her. . . . I have sad news to tell you. I had a narrow neap with my lite. 1 was going into the rim from the Pantaloon, 10, Commander Parker, where I had beta for provisions in one of the Dn's ("alien, when join as we wire nosing the bar a heavy breaker ran in over the stern, filled and capsized the boat in the griddle of the surf s and as it wasjust dusk they could not see us treatise 'hip, se we were &Mine about the breakers all night, clingieg to the , ' boat. la the morning we drifted up the river, and an Me from the ship, has, as only our heads were above water, they could not is. us, although looking cut for us; at last we drove ashore on a sand-bask, where we got out. more dead than alive, after having been In the water 34 bean without anything to eat or drink. The next day, about o'clock, the ship seat a boat and picked us up. Out of eta swot and three officers who were in the boat, there are Italy myself and four others eared. The manses assistant (Mg, Dyer) and three men were washed off the boat by the Rif. Poor Dyer got bold of my foot and took me down a good way with him ; I tried to swim up with him, but found I could not, so I was compelled to kick him clear of myself, I and could only just get hold of the boat then " BURGLARY AT BRISTOL—A OM was heard yester day (Tuesday) at the Bristol polies court, from which it appeared that on Friday night, or rather on Saturday wrung last, a very daring burglary was perpetrated by two boys, named Thomas Yowl.* and George Jones, at the Sancta's HMI lan, near the Great West. rn Railway ter minus, Bristol. It appeared that at 12 o'clock on Friday night the prisoner Vuwles, who had been previously urn lurking about the premises, entered the house with two of the railway policemen. It was supposed at the time that he was to their company, but it was sniped that he was very officious in goinf a to the bar to fetch what was wanted. At 2 o'clock the land dy saw the house apparently securely fas tened, and retired to reit. About 5 the meant girl was called up by a policeman, who informed her the front door was open, and, on examina•ion, it was found that the bar had bean broken open, and 101. worth of silver with other porta. Ole artllm were abetracted. The large lock of the outer door wee heed ages, and the lock of another door. Suspicion Yea Verestee s who was apprehended, and on his way to the Medea-hesse esafessed the facts, and alleged that he had hem " pat op to it" by Jones, who bad received 11. of the sr may. heal was apprehended and brought up yesterday, emd, with the other prisoner, remanded till Saturday, to isliplete the depositions against them. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE IN IRELAI A Blue Book was issued a short time ago, compiled by Capt. T. A. Larcom, of the office of Public Work. in Ireland, giving statistical tables of a voluminous character, to show the general quantity of produce in each county, both by farms and crops and farms and stock, and also similar results for the several unions; also, returns of crops and stook arranged by unions and electoral divisions, and by COWltille and baronies. The tablas are preceded by some prefatory remarks addressed by Capt. Lamm to his Excel lency the Lord Lieutenant, from which the following extracts ars made, with the intimation that, ow:ns; to the disturbed state of the country, the counties of Tipperary and Waterford and the city of Dublin were not included in the returns for 1848, but that those fir 1849 are complete for the entire kingdom. CuoPs AND Pmetse.—Tbe total decrease in the number of farms between 1847 and 1848, was 71,137. The de aims between 1848 and 1849, was 46,041. This smaller reduction would appear to indicate a pause in the process of consolidation of farms in progress in the country ; but when the classes in which the reduction in 1849 has taken place are compared, the subject assumes perhaps en in creased importance. In the artier class the nam ben were is the year 1849, in many counties r they were in 1848, and in other counties the reduction was inconsiderable, the total reduction brag only 2,846 against 18,185 in the former year. In the next two elasses—vie., holders of farms from I to 6 urea and from 6 to 15, the reduction bad diminished, in the first clue, from 24,147 In 1848 to 13,585 in 1849, and ice the second, from 28,379 in 1848 to 24,081 in 1849; but in the fourth clue—ti., holden of from 16 to 30 acres, the de crement ror from 4,274 in 1848 to 6,984 in 1849. In the list class of terms—via., above 30 acres, the increase in the total number was 1,455 in 1849, while in 1848 it was 3,670. The follosing is an abstract showing the number of farms of each , class in the years 1848 and 1849 for each province in Ireland, excluding the counties of Dabl , n, Tipperary, and Waterford. Province of Leineter (part of): Holdings above 1 and net exceeding 6 acres, 1848, 29,164 ; 1849, 28,440—decresee, 2,724. Holdings above 6 and not exceeding 15 acres, 1848, 39,860 ; 1649, 35,997—deemee, 3,863. Holdings above 15 and not exceeding 30 acres, 1848, 28,761; 1849. 27,660 — degrease, 1,101. Holdings above 30 acne, 1848, 37,368; 1849, 37,860—increar. 492. Holdings not exceeding 1 sere, 1848, 12,444 ; 1849, 11,397—decreer, 1,047. Total number of holdings, 1848, 147,693 ; 1849, 139,340—t0tal decrease, 8,263. Provisos of Monster (part of —Holdings above 1 end not exceeding 6 wen, 1848, 11,t36 ; 1849, B,Bo6—de grease, 2,941. Holding, above 6 sad sot exceeding 16 sera, 4 4 241 1 8486° I sc ,7 24 :;:9 2 : 41 ; 1 11 ." 84 24 :::9 1" 6 4 ,:4 409 . 1 1 ,208 841 ; ::0 1 1 -d , 84 7(2"41 9 ; 9 7 1D1 4 8°411 1 eaea sT u i -l oo d30 2. , ta_ :' &4 1 :79 : 1. ? . 1 9,31 1 " ... ' 8 . b. . 441, 1, 0d8 84 . 4 , 6 5i,69 . 3 7 0. 1 3f.30.t 7 0.45 : 1:1 3 14 :11; . . j 8 dt... 4 4:7 7 "1".."' ,. ,n l i d.ii ll: lint : 4 l / 44,, 2 , 9 ...1,_,,t, bar of holdings, 1848, 113.555; 14,500. Province of Ulster . -11,1d; and net exceeding 6 scree, 1848, 34,848; s ign 3 . 291, " , ti Breese, 2,604. Holdings above 5 and not ; ee. - 7' .-- "' acres, 1848, 95,328. 1849, 91 , 44 6-demos* 3 . i m.,,, ---44 15 leas above 15 and not exceeding 30 inn s 1 0 7: HON. 1849, 68,308-increase, 273. kleidilaga above 30 63445; .38 T.4 , t4 6 a 1 i 0 ag. ; .1. 184 b.. 9 : ,..39 .11 ,6- 8, 5 4. 7 514. - iii i 6 7 .6 re .79 a5e 1L8184, 1, 93 1 ,2 4 . 7 4006 , m t i.. ,,,,,.. 9 “ .... 2 ., 11 . fi t: decrease, 6,367,-Province of Connaught; Hod ..' Al-- and not eiceedir g 6 eerie, 1648, 25,931 ; 1849..2t3 ' 4 ' "L11 crease, 6,316. Holdings above 6 sad no ae ' --'-'" are, 1845, 63,816; 1849, 63,833-d i " crpss ~or 15 Holdiags shove lb and not exeriedin ' s 3.6 4/S3 . 1848, 31,619 ; 1849, 29,535-decease *, 2,1704. goldi a ..." l " i 30 acres, 1846, 23,190 ; 1849, 23,65 7-incluse, 367" - u - 7.," fogs not exceediag 1 acre, 1848. 6,487 ; 1819 . 5 ,-.,,'``..• , crease, 915. Total number of holdings, 1848 . m o ,i'' ‘ --- do 133,112-demotes, 17 7 931.-Oeneral reset, : i i , i , 4 3; 1849 . 1 and not exceeding 6 acres, 1848, 101,779 ; lia °ll : 4 l , l l 7e decresee, 13,585. Holdings above 5 aa4 not ' b-- "'" acres . 1848, 225,251 ; 1849, 201,170_d a ,„1! "hair i 5 Holdings above 15 and not exceeding 30 sere a ,l4 4B ' l ,'" l ,9 B l. 1849, 139,741-decease, 6,984. Holdings ab ort ', '' ol . s i 1848, 140,817 ; 1849, 142,272-ine rtia ,. 34 unts in n g l s 73_ no d t eere e m. xcei:d 2 ing .B46 644,t91 ; 1849, 508,650 -deers, 46 041. The t ui ell' I"' ' of land under crop continues t o Wow, . ot . ithi. :ttat the reduction in the number of farms. Tie total inc . e a , '.4:41 ,. leguminous crops was 66,535 acres, beina ea Lem.. a r " a „., -- -, 2 per Celt. On the preceding your. In er e , cr0 ,,,,, -. ..... The counties in which the extent of corn cropa p e n r ar, ' ,. ',,- ;1 1 , 26 ice , e 0 as 64 w e d u i nw11e6848;e68T,7)..r awes , o , i t ..e a i n ffi d a l l cil w y s i e , 9 n l N , s 2, x ds y . l ,B o . k : lt i l ~ t 1 .., ' , l e l t„.: l , a b l i,. , ..., 1 .8 ,, ~:d 7 b r - i1...1 , 7' , ,,,: f Cavan, Longford, and Sligo. In Londonderry, g o ,: ;, h ''' and Some (Antra, there wa s little or ro chino ; fa uses„ counties the equality of extent is remark ahl. : taus (r -- in 1848, had 115,088 acres, and in 1849, 111,700 ; p,Y. neigh, in 1848, had 65,852, and, in 1849, 55,657. g,,,,,, , M 4 ' 1848. had 49,597, and, in 1849, 49,574; in Met:n th.re'.'reu as a crafinnation of the correctnees of the mt siAre in all these districts the number as far m„U:: extent of crops on each have changad can.idertb.y, et; the aggregate remains the same. The return. f,r le chow that the extent of the potato cro p had i r ,,,,,, in the counties of Antrim, Duerr/al, Fermanagh, I,, r e, idintecwerveyLryTnyoerutohnleyer,cetStuligen:tj.texascepi,,MlB4Bayo an T . l ,,, lt t, , : t te , :in a m te , , , e , , ,,, ~ 86,341 acres. On the other band, the tamp crop tad i creased 69.016 acres, and this increase was elated ever 1,1 county in Ireland; Macgel wurzel had elm incensed 4, acres. The following numbers exhi l ait the compere extent of preparation crop of one year to the , at of white crop in the succteding year for It;; i 1848, exclusive of the counties or Ihi.t . .in, Tip; ers and Waterford. Green cii, 1317. 148,405.. 1 ,, 1,030,605; 1849, 1,017,292. White mule, 14.1, 2,Ni 0 .,, 1849, 2,872,580. Atter some eiplanatory stat. matte to the variation of the rates of pa duce in dilf, eat i trio's, _ the remarks proceed to state that th e low ft of produce were not general, that the av, rag a on tt ,,,,.., kingdom for 1849 was only in one invance below the 1848 ; in every other WO the rates of produce were nit equal to or above that of the previous yam. Toe aurae any CIO:. must necessarily depend, in a great d gr. e, oar natural fitness of the sod, and on the chararer on the mate; end in a country like Ireland me wheat ern, is hom the latter cause, be always a huaruous one. Nan lees the mode of cultivation also enters larey tato tte . lion. la the observations on the returns for 1348 a•tenti drawn to the great breadth of white cr .0 of . h e t )e ., pared with the preparation crops of the previous yen an entenaina-s4-the - letier an 1848 le,: to the hop, higher rates of produce might be at Mend in iSt , apparent improvement is however but small ; yet Ibe extreme depression which existed in borne nouricts ei; dared it is matter for congratulation that on the eh;:, preemie gee have been a t only maintained,hu.,: exceeded. With reseed to the cultivation of flax, ra in 1849 exceeded that in 1843 by 6,451 gam oo the sr, gale of the whole of lrelan.i, althourh in the prva.t.r Ltinster, Connaught, and Munster, the returns show siderable diminution ; this diminution hes been more compensated by the increase in Cuter done, which scoot to 8,102 acres. The county of Dthegal product 1849, the greatest (luau ity of flax, but in county of Londonderry its erne; bore a 1 proportion to that devdted to oth, r crepe, than in any county in Ireland, the proportion being 1 •creel flat to 14 acres of &rehire land. In thaws .1, it was 1 to 18; in 1 ghao, 1 to 21 ; in Tyrone, I to 27 ; in Armagh, 1 to 0 Antrim, 1 to 56; in Down, 1 to 64; is Cavan, 78 ; and in Fermanagh, 1 to 104. The (idioms statement of the extent of fl .x cultivation in awe,, province, during the yean 1847, 1644, and 1849:- 1847, 53,701; 11148, 49,649; Ibl9, 67,651. Munn,), 1,156; 1.84 h , 1,2493 1849, 937. Ltineter, 1017, 1,6 i 1 , 1,239; 11449, 741. Connaught, 1847. 1,811; ISI ~ 1 1849, 985. Total, 1847, 68,112 ; 1848, 63103; 1.49 e SIOCK -The quantitim in meek have undergone , di rable changes between 1848 and 1819. Th. total ber of cattle have increased 56,397, and pigs 13, whereas horses have decressad 13,363 and .litep 1,. Captain Lamm observes on this heed, that a therm the number of horses should follow a r. auction to the I bar of farms was but reasonable to eel, r•: bet that more difficult to assign a cause for the immense :audit the number of sheep. As to the d,atr.' . ,rr 00l 1141, classes of farmers among wtich the (tames mg a li e th ie ri ely inh p aa r ve m e: e . : i n l c i i hrx e inegd inat ut t h e ke r iern o f . t m pw : c.k c h m i n:o.. wiser. s i t. , ryhy The' rd, tion, except sheep. On the clue of farms from Ito a ell kinds of stock have diminished excrpt p ga and the total lots to this etas being equal to 27,2211 • Mons in a similar way have taken phee in tee chi. o r c°6 l T h e i d ..bo hnW e e u v i r, , l e ci dl e t°4 k d i r d s : b l ic i:nc i l o t n efes ene u: c h' m h ,ieen ed :: np cla e n T e t r g s , ii u c t u w o cr.u. :Bl li f r sc e:r h e m .l o i s a s e d p : g s o leu La t s: 2 t: t aw tl: 4 7. e p39 : 7 3 :e i di a ma h n .d d u7 la em : ;: n i en e: th : tp are b b 'b ei :a g ;r n, : i e . : : ol :i i n i l dls :: ' Increase being estimated at 397,8371. Ths follow recapitulatioa of the value of stock in the year. P.. 1849, on the different holdings : Holding. nod r 1 we 276.6941.; 1849, 314,1531 ; InCT.nit, 37,4491 Soldier' 1 and not exceeding 6 scree, 1848, 623,6331.; 1849,3') -decrease, 27,2261. Holding , above 5 and not met( are, 1848, 3,704,8481.; 1849, 3,54G,7731 -do 158,0761. Holdings above 15 and not a 1 :c.eding 11 1848, 6,074,0004; 1849, 6,052,2794 - &creme. 2 .23:11 . i e3‘ hers n i mo',WaterfordB6ll t i i2 t isak lob: s t ock btoke c o n cl u deli a: tot do of, abi lnevBtcktelirhi ter 1 847. s 8:1d308t withc o 2. o f 7 3u: . l 39anat74 ; t o o:r i eBs7d i fl f o r 4l. o dol . l.l r e f'l 7 64l t Ti a h ni i l e nB:g 41 in b Dahli a , l "llel r u 3 ti , .1 , 4: 9: T.3:11 4 1 : "1°1 9 1 P.114" 9 ; :9 4 f5 0 jeit : : th i'l (..: t 247 2: 11 984 , 8 1 :5 4. 820 86 9 7. 4 ' . 3 1 , 64 1: 6 77 8 , 7 67 , ; 9 2 171 88 ; 1 . 2 ,05,5 84 . , 7 084 9 A : 1 : 1 4 , 1 8 7 5 : 7 1 ; 7 69 1 , 9.1 1 8 264 4 1 1 : 37 1 66: 4 1 1043 9 7 1 ; 3 26 . P ig ,;00 2,3 11 75 ; 4. 51. 9 1 8 1 : 3 4: 9 7; 9 , 1 ' 6 9 1 2: 8 2 1 : 7 . 4. 4 e v. .j . 5 9uP:j; DEATH PROM DESITrUTION IN DOBLIN.—Bi six and seven o'clock on Saturday evening the constable on duty in Bridgefoot-street disc-rered in' of the house 49 in the same street, • woman, name en stretched on the Ilmrway in a state of insansicilr! skeleton figure and general &pretence showed plainly that she was rapidly peruhing from the e: destitution. The constable hastened to the Net station-house for the purpose of procuring the I to have her conveyed to the douth Dublin Cuini house. On his return, however,. he found her a cup EVICTIONS IN GALWAY.—A correopoLdent Rossonunon Itessenger, writing from Bsilyncte, Galway, Deo. 19, says : °I am to inform ion that tl of extermination is going on rapidly in 'his iambi this very day a strong party of military and police. ponied by the sheriff of this county and his proceeded from here to the lands of Curasmaci Tramboy (the property of Colonel Sewell), there n work of desolation and destruction, by throwing °u% bleak world, on the very eve of the crest Christina , and in tee depth of winter, about 40 families, amount somber to at least 280 individuals, a great Limy of had their rents paid up in full." COUNTY ARMAOII.--MALICIOO9 BININTY( Monday night lest • farm house, at Glassdrummoo d, neighbourhood of Market hill, was burned to the by incendiaries, and the furniture it contained whc muted. Th• farm on which this outrage wae coatisi held under Lord Gosford, one of she most kind nr 'Hereto landowners in the north of Ireland, at a lot but the tenant being much in arrears, and twill) . cultivate the land, was ejected; and en Pt possession was taken into the employment of Lord as a labourer, for which the man seemed isti‘l grateful, The in-coming tenant, however, had nt paid the arrears of rent and taken pm.sessint of the than his hones was burned and his property desum, Wafer Gazette. PROPOSED EXTENSION OF Carrox :41ANCI'M pa lN uarpod is , runa l V th l t el eo tt Lbi er imp T s OjomiLmAtuvansittioncaPtioo,ontbfro—e Unifonuadoeocargilthispo.pahit "We have received a statement of a rather curio interesting, character, ',earns on the realisation important commercial fruits from the R irington Pike, to the effect that, on the introduction of water from distria numerous cotton manufactories will be ' around Liverpool, capable of employing vast numbers poor and young criminal classes advantageously to selves and the community. Hitherto, it is Od d ' manufactories have not existed because of the Wiwi our existing wets r supplies for the secondary proem of ing goods after being spun; but with the new wale! obstacle will disappear, and consequently capitalists from MOON parts of Lancashire, finding t may now locate their enterprises in this va-indy subjecting themselves to the charges arisias from the.. laimion of their productions to the Manchester SF", will at no very distant period seise on the peat To"' offered by Liverpool in other respects." it is exert R i r tta 5 d e l the Ito Poi tM 1 e Id S . ail I. to 9 . Y• sal id es 5; a• no 111 St is ily CV Ler tide a. th rk, IC I Yr bit a 4. co eeR kla OW, CO sad ap t;:s , i) a of end fm tare a I ty 111. /Jll 1.17 j as ire ha aro re tad fo het, CO ,ul5; tb +u do. 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