The Express. — London, England, 1850-01-09 00:00:00

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 NEETINO IN LAMBSTH. MF:CRoPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY. A meeting of the inhabitants of Lambeth was held yet wain', at the Angel Teeent. Lambeth-walk, for the ofits.4 to toe movement set ua foot by the Pare Water Supply Association. )L.. P. P. Naos/air, deirmaa of the Lambeth limitary Asseelatins, presided. ARDII%O 11111.011... Tb, an sforef me patine Westing of the inhabitants ettlie w i mp be convened toe Thursday, the 17th inst., at the Nora Tars/a, kw the parries of tatting the tease of the uml a uts u to the present supply of miter to this district of ; sad that a ootatouniemisa be mimed atilt eke si. alum of the borough, and with the minabers of other w iropolits• berowebs, with a 'Um to meanie their mum& pee at the aggn pte osmium, sod their support in the in w ag session co parasmeut to some comperldmiee ne&ilor. b e improir.llll the present defect's* and impure supply. Nr. ED WARDS, in seinnidiag the rewlatios, expressed ▪ hop: that the aggregate meting would not restrict Aim edit' to the scheme propsesd by the Parochial Associat.on ip $1 EPHENS soil he had encoded them ta.musgs of • new.tstim. but maid sot make eat what their "cant rib. wive meaning" wasn. Ifs r a eoeverettioe the rawhides was to, seal the wineustre wore distend to take stops to essay it oat. WILTING IN ST LEONARD'S. SROREDITCR. in ?Dodge imolai a meeting of beflogatial oariehioners Leollard . ll. Bbereditch, wag held at the Railway Ta•en, near the Biabopegat. Station, to take into outsiders pod eh it step. should be adopt. d in order to ue.re SO dt,i•nt, pan. mid independent supply of water to that dis trict, anJ a to to an•ider certain flirtations which have been tecest!y ismsed by the Board of Health to the medical lea *met ender its control, to collect and transmit to G 'yet hew information they can sequin respecting the supply of eater to the metropolis. It was no Iced, that the beer mid °sly mesas by which a good, plentiful, and c►eep a pply could be obtained, was by having locel water-work., saw the =mu Fremont of a local company, by which Coarse keg delay and enormous eapease would be stoned, and the distrkt guarded mom effectually simian the ravages of cholera and other epidemic discern, than if they partook et g general supply to the whole metropolis. Credit was claimed for Shoreditelt beteg the ant district to eater upon this acetylene, end eventually it was resolved, that it ism desirable, hie order to ascends the feelings of the inbabi win epos the subject, to bold a public meet*, at as early penod. Sees Tel geftlessa aadertook to make the pee beinsry preparations to: such meeting. at which, it is au diestLeid, o;ir of the matropolitaa members will preside. LEN fISII-TOWN LITERARY INSTITUTION. Lae: evening the first annual Meeting of this in ratatem team pima in Trafalgar-place, Kentish town, on each ...smarm there was • nuearrom amemblae• of the most reeyettati.e Inhabitants of the district. The immediate bear sew Yt the evening ems preceded by • saris, during which d ie ewt . n am supplied with tea, coffee, sad other refre sh meat , aP %master. "I be musical entar;alement was under the dueirim of Mr Noyes, sad the selections comprised • %duty et pieces from the works of &Milli, Saber, Bishop, banal, 14 aims, Worm, sad Cuer. . . At eyi\t o'sleek . the 'proceedings of the meeting tom mimed. scd tim chair err take. by Lord DCDLIT COI:7711 orr, M P. _ _ Aswan:. the gentlemen present was Mr. Georg* Cruik. • who hss latterly taken • warm interest in the promo t.m of iamitutione nine ware. CIinIILMA.N stated that be felt no small debree of femur, amt nu hale pride he fulfilling the office to wbieh teen kindness I.ad called him ; and incoming here to preside over this, ih firm annual meeting of the Literary and Senn Lee Iteiteinti n of Kentish-tows. Such institutions had a powerful effect in promo log eiviheatios, in hemming mr rw y. sad in raising men in the scale of society. lei hie ✓enew, that wlr.ch these institutions chiefly required to non them fburish and bear fruit less that they be founded urn br , ad and truly liberal preaciples—upon such pria• • In fact, as he believed that the present is:mammon was 'stab:Cited. The noble lord then proceeded to say that it ft.; some difficulty in addreesing then on account of t;:ere nit g -• no oppositim," and ha concluded by saying taat be trutt•d maw[ Maar:4 that the inatitutioi wuda Imp Carib sad b• manatee of a mat deal of good to ell tlwts of iocirty. (Cbeen.) It. brit annual report wee then rent, from which it &p -pm:4 that Me iamitracre (which bag been Formed emit!, to madam the iatellectual and motel improvement of the incluar duets) bad been mut ded wish great therm during ttu i muted period of he f Mathes.. The socieiy owes its {idols mainly to efforts made during Oat ye.r 1848, by a few individual, who sought to being i.sout, by co-operation, greater fecilities for the moral sod mai:actual improvement of themselves and others in the teighbourhood. They effectst a union with the members of a small society previoasly established, entitled •• Toe Reetish Town Mutual Improvement 8. eiety," and sec nested in obtaining the concurrence and assistance of rental gentlemen friendly to educati n in as extended ;Mat of view, among whom wee the Rev. W. Forster, who, at their request, is order to test the public reeling on the point, end to prepare the way for the introduction of into ciety to the notice wt the inhabitants, Rave a lecture to tee subject of self•improvement, on the 19th December, io, width was very numerously attended. On the 13. b k.6reay, 1849, the society was established, ►ut circus:i s:sues ,Averred which induced the committee to delay it.tg.i.it it more prominently forward until the 28th March It:towing. Bince that time the library and readtogerouln bat bast opened, and twesty.cn• lectures had been delivered. These lectures had been w.ll ansoded, sad appeared to hove l best generelly appreciated by the members of the institatiou. fns sutra/gm he Weedy amounted to upwa►ds of 1001., a tact which •sffkieotly proved the prosurity of the under. c:evekient. Valuable preset.ts of book. had been made to the muituti and the library c intains nearly one thousend ',lotus, the greater p••rtion a which are valuable from their chaster ante rood tti.b. tae boar.c.at statement disclosed the fat that the I :pen. tat of the society had somewhat exceeded its income, and toe commute, win therefore induced to believe th t to .sareee► of fuels would be necessary to enable them to meet the r.quire ..ens of the inetitutilli a. it COntiniiihe to expand. 7441 report having been received and adopted, hevirel in: tissue addressed the as. *nog. and various resolutions wen passed in furtherance of the objtct in view. The meeting separated with a vote of thanks to the chair. INFANTICIDE AND ATTEMPTED SELF-DESTRUCTION t INC Muni/M.—Oa Monday morning, between cl u b u.l nine u'oork, a shceking occurrent* took place at a cot ter. beer the horn and Crown public-Doane, Chelmsford. ills husband cf a women named Page has berm us the employ of a farmer at Writtle as shepherd for •rmis time fun, sad on Baterdsy evening last his master, as we are in- Cr% d. told him he should hese to reduce his wasp s to Be. per west' ; the Pop communicated to his wife, and in the rode) awning he again weal to his rawer to leant if I' a to do so immediately, and repeivioet as an. Is the affirinative, he lel; his employer in order to nod .satthins better. Having based there was a probability of •:,rbs i t work at Billericay, he left his house to go there. B.- site. n I. stated, bad taLit in a low and desponding way fur , ts. tune, aaa her husband's selt-clissausal operating, it u,san her naiad, and mating as ingression which ramv.aceed to her neighbours, JAM she should e sae t. w n•. •L. or. Moody, in her basband's slum*, nearly toe as ad hum the body of her infant chill, only Mil *it •fi 0. . wi:n a now, and anautediatsly otter told a porta& , !*.r she had billed her ehi:d. Her neighbours tumid r•tem•r.: too be too true, end in the amidst of their COG r•tl. E. the awful °czarism*, the unfortunate woman •':amps dh. r own lit, with t instrument with which sbo L . ;i:orhe;,cw7c; I:abOt77orty l•-•• of bd. t &anther child livisj, and she is now closely eat bed • politest's, is irk , s• custody. in Iter own hmost, Its cst free pispd The bdy of the child awaits the Coro- Imo. IQ —Noses fleso'd. . L %AL/it:KIVA HBOT.--On the afternoot of Saturday. 1f.r.., sheet leer o'clock, a labourer in the employ of 3 Sr. Heath, leaser, was pasouog along the tray-r ;: 1 441 hum the seal pits beloeging to Mr. Chambers, of +Cahill. to ILL et stay of Derby, when, on poaching a aloisoia.4 Nowtoci-weed he observed • mss lying h the pouLd; he went up to the spot for the purpose ' • cer..so tag w.. 0 it was, when he discovered that the we was IS t..e nidat of a large pool of blood and quite 6.1 d. Tr.. lieodiser intros distal, procured montane,e and mooned the body, which tuned eat to he that of tills "Illi , rpor, pusskirper to the Rev. F. Sharpe, at Tabs 4.1, Si hie house, where, so rzendeetion. it was f iun4 that tad beta ihoot jest shove tile right kLee, the shot haying ore. .h. &von op a Ind caused his death from lose of blood. •io boa Lends ncertaiaad that sin men, who had • siopnrart. 40 panthers, bed been seen in the vicinity on y LI/tilt,* ~re moss toiborp's body boring famed, and he also • . he a seta thsreabiuts after 3 o'clock the nose alter s,. to was • aspens d that they were the parties who had vibe roes of nLe poor fellow's death. Informstioe wee Ls Lao . ..r , srled to the polies at Maasfisld, re,trtl of the party bong knows, Superior. tht 1 a. r a l poloce•caasiables Redford end Pegs .0 • • 4..,r the suspected mama, and after gnat • s. vied i n taking the whole tie, before 4 o'clock 4 ....in,. The seem of the prieoners, who are Msh•hel4 leek-q, are 'William &tighten, Henry lone Mankell, Tamils Mankall, James Ward, • a N...ka, all or ackaall-sadar-liathwaita, Notts. 41 ``• of an war Is Owl th e oa t en o f th e crime they • N . with and the awful position in which thsy are '*** irons( will hoe held early in the was's. 1 :F t .s I .lvEnront..—About 11 o'clock on Mon -4,4 bre w.s dieevered to have taken place in the • -eau and wind corn mills of Messrs. Lunt and run from Decimates. bush, bounded .1 ni..•••st net to Lime kola • I sae. The fire originated • 'tr. sa.ronie, het es the mill had been stopped irom porpoise of elesnaing the butlers, no cause ' 4 . ssrtoo. eel to which its cite. meneement can be as e • Mr. MaRIV*II and a large body of the Are palms ~". ‘ "4 11 0 r ors the spot, bat water was not obtained until t••• 0ft.4.. tans had .lapsed. From the Ant there wee 41 " it 1' '.l living either the steam or the wind mill, : all ensrgies were devoted so some de, . 6 '''• l ` ' , solos, and a line of *otter' peo_perty in kan•r -_ '.'••• to whist, were ultimately saved. The whole of the !I' , " .4 ~ t.r of the cottages was carried in by the falling 4 t Ira n its horning mi ll. The a m o u n t of lis -t'• thought will be barely covered by the is ; 4 "•`. wt , sto are eff ec t e d to the mount of 8,(100I. la the L. - 46 ' 4 °' Olit , s, and 1,0001. l a th e N or wich Maks. me tar property of Mr. Whalley, and are it I. on•ared &lin and with thu orsk& Union ''''k u l. - I.lterpool * N Wert 6 . A ~~ ' ~ .\f 4.•.. y THE EXPRESS WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1850. using ha-light into the question of legal titmice, for it would take many night. to discus it. I shall have to enter tato that is smother place, and though I have great COWL dome in our caller, sad no distrust Ia the position I intend to take, I have not ohs slightest intention that those who have to answer slogan have two or three week, to prepare their reply. All I can say to Mr. Cobden is, that if hie argu ments spinet my plan are those that he need at Leeds, that his meet burnished armour will not do—there mast be some thing men fascinating and more" Bright." (Heat, hear.) Mr. Cobdea, at Aylesbury, is gaol/ to have what fa the met h England Is es/led a scree. I hue been ba lked to meet him and his friends. M mower to that It that I asset Mr. Cob lea at soirees d uring seven months in the year, and whoa your interests are concerned I have never /imitated to speak my mind. What balcony is this is the man, who, if his principles be teat, ought to have been ths prime minister of Rutland. What distress to the government and to the poltlesl society Mislead that nab a man, if his views be eorreet, should he com pelled to sneak into a unsay town at night, end then, be ause the fanners were away, have the effrontery to state that no este dazed to meet Aim. Imy meat distinctly, that if the fns trade policy be correct, Mr. Cobden ought at this tins to be prime minister of England. I have made these observations in no un:rimidly spirit to Mr Cobden. lam always r ady to meet him in our legitimate element. I deplore that a man of his great ability sad his podium is society is exercising his ability erroneously, and that he is not what he constitutionally ought to be, if he be right in his views—at the head of her Majesty's eouncii• I clarion that he should think It se- to go Aylesbury accompanied by • grotesq ue and i to udibrastie crew, the greaket bores either in or out of parliament. And now, gentlemen, I fear I have detained you too loos. Don't let as fall out amongst ourselves— tenants eneer , ag at landlords, and landlords seeking to be wilder tenants. It is impowible for us to play the game of oar opponents than by sash means. Their tame is not against rent, peak, and wages ; it is an attack upon the egrieultanl interests of the osnatry. They tell as that they wish as to mite this country the workshop of the weld. They have told u that there would not be mash harm if England never grew another grain of wheat. And, la the third place, they tell us that Ragland ought to be govitrned by the kegs towns. To these propoeitious I offer every possible objec tion. The system ham bees tried, and it has tailed. To aoudads, however, if the opinions entertained by the farmers are true, act decisively upon them, support mem bers who are interested in their welfare, and melba that the only qualities to ensure success are energy sad Thanks were sho voted to the members for Great Marlow, who acknowledged the compliment, and the proceedings terminated shortly before 9 o'clock, PROTECTIONIST MEETINGS. MIL DISRAELI AND THE BUCKINGHAM SHIRE PROTEC TIONISTS. GREAT MARLOW, TCSIDLT Evernao. This afternoce the protectionists of the southern division el the seamy of Baths at in snag lone at the Crows Hotel, is this tows, " to take into comidenalcm the present depressed state M sideahere." A. placard, which was posted is 'ad as pens of the tummy, stand that it w oral be a public aseanag, bet at 2 Vela the hoer sp. point. d ter the oenranwarsaest of the poseedier, the whole of then rams peewit set do r• to a swerves@ dieser. The madams was aearsally large , Is soeseqesse of ea as aornesment t at Mr. Thersed, see of the meaty membsn, wood be preat. —Mr. T. P. Wtwene, M.P., presided. Mr. J. TRUMPER, o Dorsey Ledge, moved the dm moieties : flat it is the opinion of this meeting that the owners sad samplers of real property, besides bowing their full pro 'tuition of thegenersi taxation 01 the country, are charged •i'lt an et:llona twelve millions sterling seder the same GI lead taxation, which is telt to be an injuetims in its pin tilde and trader the present mare =pled pressure (the ma stymies of rawest kgislstion) involves • serious hasdahip in usprseical operation." Mr. TOOVEY, seconded the resolution, sad The CliftlideleiN, after some turdnr dimmed= had taken place, put the resoludon to the meeting, and it was eartied, several heads however beast odd up against Mr. REEVMS, • letent broom ol Racks, proposed tlut next r. !mutton ; " That it is the opiaioa of Ibis meeting that the foreigner wise hear no part of .hose imptsta which press so heavily on the Engl.sh krodueer is tiieieby enabled to compete on issitspial ts nets in the English market, and that therefor* it is expsdi.nt a adopt a apt.= caknlatid to render competi tion equ►l by raiiing a portion of the revenue from foreign importations." The rewistion was adopted, and it was agreed that a petition embodying the resolutions should be prepared for presentation to both lioness of parliament, that to the House of I,l\llll he LJfa &este', toddle& to the House of Commons by Mr. Disraeli, M.P. Mr. GibßONd propreed the health of the member for Baeklaailuseneuusi (Mr. thus. it), and in doing so directed the nonotiraute eenleinati's attention to s paragraph which had app.ared in sone of the newspapers, suiting that he had Jammed his rents. Mr. DISRAELI rase to acknowledge the compliment and was readied with load applause. He spoke to the fol lowing effect:-1 rise to radars thanks on behalf of the couoty members for the beard you have jar done them is so eatheerrisolly clerking their health,. I do not think that • county member or do =phi= better than meet hie constituents from tame to time on such occasions as these, and I am quite sure that my colleagues, it present, would have beea very much benefited by what has been said today, bat is their absence I am bound to say, that whenever the iaterests of the county of Buckingham require coasidera tics, I have always received from them the most cordial co operation and their weans and sincere support. lam sorry that I should be ob.iged to refer to an oheervation that has fallen from the lips tat my friend Mr. Gibbons. lus perfectly well aware of that to which he referred. In • parr 'mph, cat feria • newspaper which has been sent to me dur ing t course of this Lauer, I find that it is stated that I have raised my read very considerably very recently, and I am r quests.' to sort Mr. Cobden, at Aylesbury, to morrow (Wedneeday), to explain the cause of my so doing. I have occasion now to trespass very lightly upon your attention with regard to this 'abject. There is no fans an my satin the oat of which I have raised oce sixpence. Mre, hear.) TDIP whole statement is an unmitigated terication. I saver dreamed of tad p such a thing at any time,—cer tainly at the preterit time I am the very last man who would think of such an set ; and I have ones stein to repeat, is awl. r that there may be no mistake, •hat the statement &leaded to is ea unadultereted invention, and I suppose au ineitotion got up tour& toe purposes of the moment. I attended this meting to say at ) our dukedom I under stood Ilia. the formers of the south of Buckinghamshire were extremely anxious to express their opinion upon public al. burr, and noon 'heir easitien, ard that they wished them selves to ask, the lead, as I think becomes th-m, in the public bream of the day. lit fact, in coming here to-day I termed to acquire, as 1 have acquired, the general feeling of ;erasers on their proent position and future prospects. We have heard a great deal of late of the numerous meet. logs that have taken place with respect to agricultural tress. We have read the proceedings of tame mectiogs. We k ow in may ingrates the considerable number of per sons oho hay. attended. We know abet at is often stated that these mirage are got up for what are called poli.ital object, and that the farmers are stirculat-d for party pur poses; but of the present martial; it must be confessed that it Is a scanning aseemb!y of those who are moss into erred in the ore sent teeter puolac affairs ; that the farmers of Bath Buckiugh mashies are the prisons who have got up this meeting. That they have here frankly exore-sed their °Onions, however they may have differed amongst each other, anti very .reat abildo, and trotting that has been said is an impartial and complete refl.: el what is passing Ia their minds at this moment. I will confess that I came here with, I will not say apprehensi is. but w.th some nervous ness alto the tone of the farmer's meeting amongst them selves. I came here with 'ems nervousness es to be cosine which they would take. You kior these has ben great eon:rovers, of late as to the course the cultivators of the pail should take with respect to p lie affairs. And after • lorg tampion of many aorta within • few days of the meetirg of parliament, one of the most important meetings of parliament that has ever occurred, and when it is koo,en that 24 hours coinat elapse after the ✓umbling of that parliament without the expression of public opioton as to th• cote of the agricultural iu when 1 remember all tLis I Lack forward with great interest as to what would be the calm conviction of the farmers themselves as 'o the course they thought it wir to pursue. I ask maw If now, sell thee , men meet and a dmits in vain neclamatioa ' ard call for • return to that mane we have quitted, or will they, as some have done with great sincerity, luing all coatroom in the ancient representative institutions of tad country, feel that there is no refuge tar them but to fly to teat throne whico has often in dime of distress been their seeurity sad their rescue from danger T Or wad they, to this material age, like men of briars, megabit together and say,. it there are not some recta-al measures, which it is probable they may nee. ed in ca...)ina, and the effect of which may be to ameliorate their of-edition atone, an.: ultimately to place them in • se's and secure p aside a. When I con fess, ,hat • te: Has months of coroner:ay and =tuition, I on proud thee luansioereble re the farmers of England, and 'Specially of bdike,lielitellbaliap,dismiesing, coosidering, sad consul thug amongst therm :ves the num that, in this mit meat of tetrad., an . peril—instead of raising fantastical • and sweLiog coorus of despair—that they are prectioalay exanduing their position, in oruer that they may come for cud bcore the Mouse of Commons, and while they detail their f demure, ne prepared with some sag groans for rem, dying tura. We have had an amateur crater tor.ight, woo bloke a little into the order of our protecting., but I am glad that he was listened to atten tively ; hie pro seating was irregular, fur although he took exception to the resolatiou, and applied some rarer terms to it, he was la: prepared, it seems, to move any anthadmeat. That gentleman has told us that anything 1 say is nut in y way to be followed that I am a mere tether, and he wants a practical statesman, by which be memo recordieg to leis own statement, • minor of parliament wan wall propose toe repeal of the malt tam Why, gentleman, members of parlament have been pro posing the r, peal of the malt tax for the Mt quarter of • osatury, sadism never advanced a jot with it, so that Me view of • practical statesman is of a statesman who does no thing at all. (Leaguer.) My brad, bb. Toovey who seconded one of the resoin.ione, made, in my mlad, some very okra-rat °Outerwear. Ido not exactly agree with ham that an al.e.ietion of the law of dis tress woad be. a COinplusesiioll for the loin of the corn laws. I think that even if that greet remedy were applied, both landlords and tenants would be is that vodka —weigh has of late been elegauUy designated—a fix—uut Milos I quite agree with Mr. Toovey Ma. there is no body en amain ..unteson whine acts are more injurious to the mounts wealth :ban that body of lanalords who with to enjoy at the aim, time the advantages of high rents and low prices. (A Voice " That is • hard hit.") I bo r e it is, genuemen, for 1 intended it to be so, and it is • pracipie tar I shah alarm' =rim ; it is founded in truth, and here or in any other pros I shall not be afraid to main tain it. Aid now, lam told that the realutior. moved by Mr. Trumpet this evening is not • prattler reined) —is not • remedy which wial Five immediate relief. Why, 'NOM does that gentleoao mean by immediate relief I If he means by duoiedate relief that he warts halt a-crown given to ham on the instant, I must say that he Is • gent l emen who ought cut to have dined with us today. (Laughter.) I do not protend at any time to regret aerate, of immediate relief. I lure those motors to the statesmen wawa teat gentleman admires—to the gawk etoesore wha Lave beeis alluued to to night; but while 1 Lad the whole k.ngelora iu eonsteroation at the eireamstaaose which have involved them in diorama— wra I had the great interests of that kingdom la ereartiosa and unparioleled depression when I had at the seer tire pnactples laid down by per. um of einasuce as the foundetim of byelaw& which I think wall agyr.vate their ad-fess and preopare the catastrophe—then I te-ca, r • public man. that 1 ought to pressulgsra prlmelpre ol a caning tendency, sad Aria seta mensuros seri, is ray jsderent, will have • sanitary effect. 1 coneidar tM parrs of the cultivator of the soil, r regards the legieledate, to be this-1 am not entering Into say crtrueersy es to the alteratir 4.1 time law, which would weepy more time Was we should iodised to pp .re Cu an owns like tlue—Mr: l will my that than an two things which, is my juogwent, Newlish Mims, has a right to &surd. Ha has a right to dessead, in the first place, that he Well be put up .r. au equaluy with his lelleo•sabjeata; sad, u the waxed place, ho has a tight to demur that in Ms own market le 'timid be pat spoil an aquelity with the foreigner. Now, thew are two great prioasples which 1 lay down for you to torts your public radon ; and it you make dotards of the legislator founded upon these two principle, they will be deeards that must be reciprocated—that will be listened to, es all de stands lousded upon t ought, and truth, and reser, sad consideration must be listend tavarail if eircinnetaaces savour yr —a...) , inset he attended with ream It is very well to oall amass a MISS tram, and that too Is a moment of distress. I shotila like to know bow, if such a man dors not give you erumel which he believes to be wise mei rend, how eivilintion is to be austaised— bow Patios is to he Medicated, rid bow Meerut is to be supported. (Cheers.) And thmat magma who the titterers of truth as mere Wimp, re arid naiads, aim saligueatasto, and, rook i f isking, mkt Intruders. Now, it is of greet important, that the fanners of Englead should understand their It is all very well to talk shoat the landlords m e. they an die scribed as too active, end charged with actin for political purposes ; sometimes they are siu.ken of es tea inert, and holding back became their inters rests an not directly involved aad this, too, la an gge whkb Is ruled by the middle damn. Now if you go to Ningisftar that feet will be told to yea, viz , that the eye is rand b no middle elemee—that observation is always mein& nth Mei elbeeelag, aid the 'middle tdasa is that lushly le always eimused to be the owners of mills—what I want to lapis ens the *name of Ragland is that they aro the most onsiderable ponies et that middle class—that instead of bin pained tens as gene, as they en elegantly desegisi_ pusses who hen newer hoard them creak as I haw ham/ lis dad they are the most toe etheratio pith. of li re i mblfilne, and Werke to acne in scything.* aad iatelllgnee. Now I want to know if this neater is mai, ly to be governed by the middle clams, why the farmer. of Eagles& balmier se have said to no in tantalises', should be treated as it they exercised no in fluesase is public affairs —die* be treated indeed as though the cultivation of the soil Mai entirely depesdost spa others, es having n posse to mein themselves. It is carious to observe how, sine those remarkable nee* of 184'i, the farmers have beet treated. Ia the first place we were told that the farmer wee a man eke ended on his operations without a setfictset amount of capital. Ido not maintain that every fanner has as much capital as he wants, and I de not way know what clam of persons there are that can say they have as mash capital as they desire ; but I know that two or three years ago (1h47) there was great distress in this country. There was a committee of the House of Commons appoiated to inquire lot* the ceases of that dbtrw. The prime minister of Eagland was a amber of that committee, so wen the C sanctifier of the Basheyser. lit R. Pail Mr. Cobden, and oar late lamented Mend Lord George Bentinek; sad the bumbles member of that committee was he who now represents the meaty of Bscklagbam. We sat 40 days to inquire into the canto of commendal distress, and we found out, though we differed upon eons points, the point of remedy. We were ussairsoasty of opialon that the principal noses of commercial distress WS' that people emeasend with cum names canted on their affairs without suSeleat capital. Well, now, I really think that in the face of a fact so Im portant as that, aad a conclusion of such great authirity, it is rather cool to be told that one wen fur the depressed state of the farmers is that they aoudad their belies, with less capital that they require. lan certain it can be proved that no Glees M the country, on the whole conduct their affairs with more capital than the farmers. We are told by the same school why the farmers are not successful in their operations. It is said that they are unsuccessful because they do not keep accounts. I believe that farmers keep &caseate man better than some cockneys who talk about what they do not undentan 1. Than may be some tamers who do not keep accounts. But what have we recently ob served? When farmers have been told to conduct their affairs upon the strict comer ercial principle, events have transpired which prove that commercial men, within the Mt few years, have had the distribution and amninistration of the largest amount of capital ever employed in any single investateat. They have had an amount equal to onioquarter of the national debt. They bays had 210,000,0001. sterdng invested In railways, and it tarns out somewhat unluckily for them that they kept any accounts at all. (Laughter and sheen.) So much, then, for the charge by commercial men, that farmers have not su fficient capital for their opera lions, and that they do not k-ep euffluent amount,. But as time advanced, they found out some new grievance ; the farmer became plunged in such a state of distress that it was necessary some new charge should be brought against him, and after some labour it was disocivered that he did not farm highly enough. I remember two or three years sem, a gentleman named Meet.i proposed a great many alte rations—he was a very intelligent man—lis wrote a gnat many letters which he was kind enough to send to me. I sent them down to one of my constituents, a man who knew something of these matters, and hersturned thorn to me, with the remark, that Mr. Meehi's plans were most execlent one,, but that if put into procam they would be utterly ' ruinous to the farmer. Mr. Mai has recently informed 'us that he hes cultivated his farm in Essex with mt.ch suc cess, but that unfortunately it has coat Lim more than be has We. Coming down Millis meeting this morning, I read in the TOPVICS letter, or advertisement, emanating from the same • Mr. Medal. He advertises for sale a peculiar bagatelle-table, which he says will combine calculation with amusement. I advise him most strongly to apply this prin ciple to his tip-top fanning is Essex, and I have no duuht I that if he does so it will be most diverting amusement. It is all very well tor a L ,ndon tradesmen in Leadenhall-street, who has a pretty good account at his bankers, to talk of such amusement. but it will not do for the farmer, who has move to leok to than mere amusement. This gentleman, Mr. Mechi, was held up to public approbation for a very long time, and it was universally agreed amongst these who pro- fessed to be judges of such matters, that his firm in Eno was a model farm. Mr. Mechi was ;eked to Drayton to dine with Sir It Peel, and every man who did not pursue the same course of farming with Mr. Mechi was described as being a clod, and the reason universally assigned for his being a clod wee that be required protection for his produce. This may be said to be mere talk, but I rather think it is sometimes instructive to turn round and ponder for a little while and thoughtfully upon the gross impostures which have from time to time been brought forward by men in authority to delude the nation. Titers was another distin guished individual named Hultable, who was to assist the omntry, and to compensate for all the evils it had suffered. What have we read lately of Mr. Ho:table ? Why, that be has bun com bining calculation with atteusem.nt, and he had found that his model farm was more diverting than profitable. Well, then, here is another penitent, but are these all ? Oh, no, there were the great Scotch farmers. These eminent inlivi oats, sight after night, were held up in the House of Commons as model farmers. When I have upland as the advocate of your Monist, how often have I seen Sir It Peel wave his hand over his red box, and say, "Look to the Lothians—see what they base done with their high farming —they are min of capital, and men worthy of all imitation. And what course are they now about to adopt just before the meeting of parliament? Why, these great model farmers of East Lothian can preach no longer, and they do es all Scotchmen do upon meat ocesaime—lay their coos heron the people of Boer land, and they have employed one of the most able writers and one of the most able men they could have en pieta for the purpose, and he has written • most elaborate article in Bak -hoopoes Magazine (you have all no doubt read it), showing op the last imposture as as vain a phantom as has ever to en so much lauded. And he has asserted also that if the recent change in the law is to be defended, it mast not be by abusing the farmers of England, or by pre tending that if they had reamers to other means they would have prevented the citutrophe which has befallen them. I come now to the consideration of the two points to which ' I have particularly adverted, and which have been pr. IL.sed ter your consideration today. I am not one of those woo believe that a dissolution of parliament is iamendicas and I do not Minim that any attempt in parliament to retrace our amps would lead to any practical result. I feel it my duty— repreeenting a great agricultural constituency and wishing for immediate relief, in a legislative view of the question-1 fen it my duty to take a course. which I believe will conduce to the . prosparity of our indus•rial agricultural ciao. It results in this: I say that the farmer should coma forward and demani this—that taxation should he adapted to his altered position. (Cheers.) lam not contending for a moment that the revision of our local taxation is all we re quire' but it is the first portion of what we want ; 'it is the su s at step to begin with, for you have justice, you have if a. son, and you have public sympathy on your aide. (Hear, hear.) No man can have been in tots room, and listened to the speeches delivrred, and pretend that a man who has 20,0001. invested in the soil is more bound to support that pc rtios of the nation which I. pauper than the man who has 20,0001. in the funds. lean age which affects to be just, and which determines to see justice ' fully meted out, the farmers of England would come forward with a strong case when their first dentsnd I was founded upon the principles of justice. The question I emphatically my is not a landlord's question, and for this simple reason—What is the proprietor of the soil ? He is the proprietor of the Taw material. He bas • right to get for that raw material whatever the circumstances of the country will enable him to obtain. Cries of " No, no," and " Hear, hear.") You have no tight to interfere with such an arrangement. You have of late abrogated laws btesue they increased rests. I defy you now to pus laws which shall have the effect of lowering rents. (Hear, hear.) The question between) landlords and tenants Is between men u iudividuL, anti can be traded in no other light. I say this not not for the sake of the landlord, but for the sake of the foment. (Hear, bear.) Lower the Itndlord and you make the ealtivator the proprietor of the soil. You blot out from this coturry by that miens the moat important part of the middle dais. I tell you, thereon, that this question of local taxation is the greet question of the day. I may or I may not, in bringing this matter before parliament is the forthcoming session, fashion my motion u I did last year-- I say or I may not decide upon meeting the enemy in a different form. Last session 200 aembers of parlisment supported my motion, when there was not such • pinch as there is now. If I succeed in taking off six mille•ns of taxation, I shall only secure for you the justice you require. (Cheers.) Our fi rst position car ried, thas the celuveter of the soil has • rig..t to be placed on ass quality with his fellow-subjects, we infallibly secure the second, that in his own market he has a right to be leased on an aplenty with the foreigner. (Ct eers.) Per. nothing mere completely shows the importance of nig enention than the oonduct oldie eminent man, Mr. Cobden, who has been referred to. Let us look, if we want soy confirmation of this, to the speech he recently de hvered at Leeds. lie speaks of certain vogue clam tire for protection, sod these he denounces in most unqualified terms. Mr. Cobden professes to by quite surprised that the country rises to that cr y. He would net eondseoend to aseswer me when I argued this queens in another place. The speech he made • few den since at Lseds he ought to have made twelve months ago in the House of Commons. Mr. Cobden saye, too, he will lit to Aylesbury immediately,' in order that he may open the minds of the deluded farmer, of Buckinghamshire. Now all this prom Ike the harpoon is in the great fish. We have got him. I feel he is on the , hook, end there I mean to keep hint, gentlemen. (Loud cheers.) I don't mean to fan.. him easily. I'll give him line enough, I'll play with him, gentlunes. He shell &ender in the water ; but if I don't bring this large trout upon the verdant turf, supported by the gluten of Beekinehem, I am jawed 'reedy mistaken. (Lead skews.) Mr. Cobden says, with regard to local tenths, that the lees we say about it the better. I hove no doubt about that. Gentlemen I do nee think that Kr. Cobden ever said asythiag train Ie ' hie life. I am quite ware that Issal Sonalisa will be the end of Mr. Cobden aid this fief& 'et Nee when of hie school. Mr. Cobden Ibeollllllll room ogles toes relief I millet I dapi1040,1111..1.14r, pro 10. pkg. tqa seer 1,1 &NA THE NATIONAL DEBT. (From last night's Gamete.) The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury having certified to the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt, in pursuance of the Act 10th George IV., e. 27, sto. 1, that the actual surplus ue of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Iteland beyond the actual expenditur , thereof, for the year ended the 10th day of October, 1849, amounted to the sum of one million two hundred and eleven thousand eight hundred and forty-five pounds five shillings. The Commissionen for the Reduction of the National Debt hereby give notice, that t►e sum of three hundred and two thousand sine hundred and sixty. one pounds six shit• lingo and three penes (being one-fourth part of the said surplus of one million two hundred and eleven thous sod eight hundred and forty-five pounds five shillings) will be applied under the provisions of the said ant, between the 7th day of January, 1850, and the sth day of April, 1850, to the following purism s, vas : To be applied to the promos of Stock 1302,961 6 3 Add Interest reeeivalde nn amount of Donations and Bequests, to be applied to the purchase of Stock 3,797 3 7 £306,740 9 10 National Debt-ofike, Jan. 7, 1650. S. Monsx, Comptroller-General. THE VICAR OF CIRENCESTER REFUSING THE COMMUNION TO A SCRIPTURE READER. The Cheltenham Journal says:—" The extraor dinary conduct of the It-v. Mr. Powell, the tractsrian vicar of Cirencester, in excluding the G:oucestershire Society's Scopture Reader (Mr. Thornton) from the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, has already attracted its full share of atten. tion; but it now appear.—from an authorised statement neared by the society—that the high.church vicar, following the example of Henry of Exeter, put the poor Scripture reader through a moat galliner examination, and concluded by telling him—" I cannot prevent your attendance at the holy communion, but if you do attend I shall not administer it to you, but shall pass by you and say nothing." And why does Mr. P owe ll so f ar f orget hi m . self as a christian mini.ter and as a beneficed clergyman of the Church of &island ? Because be lodes upon the Scrip. tore Readers' Society as a "schismatic society," and views with pious horror anything in the shape of an evangelical churchman. The committee of the society have taken the opinion of eminent counsel, aid have applied to the bishop of the diocese on the subject. His lordshep's reply to Colonel Kingscote is worded most ambiguously. The right prela e says : " I have thought of the matter fully and ex• pressed my sentiments to Mr. Powell. As my communica. tion to him is of a private nature, I cannot of course tell you its purport. I trust that nothing of the kind whist you eem to apprehend will take place in the church of Cirencester." THE FINANCIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY REFORM MEETING. TO THE EDITOK OP THE MEMEL& SIR,—I have read, will no small surprise, in your account of the Reform Meeting at the London Tavern, the followinz sentence, in the upon of what I said there : "If we had an ad .quate reform, could it be supposed that such an abomination as the established church would still be left in existence ?" The words I tired were, "Such an abomina tion as the reel Masticsl courts," as reported correc•ly in the Morning Chronicle. I shculd be sorry to be supposed by your readers to have spoken in terms of vituperation of the established church, for which. though not of its commusion, I feel much respect. Yours, ac., RICHARD TAYLOR. P.B. The Morning Post has done me the favour of attri buting to ins a second speech, that of Mr. Jonas, in the character of a socialist. COAST-GUARD BUILDINGS. —The Board of Customs have, by a general order, directed that no pers,in be to futere allowed to occupy any coast-guard buildings without their sanction being tint obtained, and that in all cases in which such perusiuion may be granted, the parties, when occupy ing the buildings, be charged rent for them at the estab lished rate. TIIE MASSACRE IN BORNEO.—We understand that the Peace Society and the Aborifine's P r wecti on s oc h ity , intend to take up the soil , et of Bir James Brooke's recent exploits in the Eastern Archipelago. A public meeting is to be held in the city of London, just before the opening of Parliament, where not only the Bornean massacre, but the whole system of heed money, as now practised by the go. verrment et this country, will be brought under review. THE REV. JANES SHORE.—The committee ap pointed to conduct the case of the Rev. James Shore, on the prosecution of the Bishop of Exeter have just brought their labt.urs to a clear, the total amount placed at their disposal by the public was 6141.2.. 7d. ; of this amount 52.51 168.104., including 3101. 16e. 4d., paid to the Bishop of Exeter. Tile cost of :he proeteeiags in the Court of Arch,* has been ex. raided, and the balance 881. 6s. X handed over to Mr. Shore. TILE WEATHER AND THE FARKE.—Yesterday the various ornamental waters in the royal parks were literally cotter(' with skaters and sliders. The members of the Skating Club mustered in strong numbers on the long water is Kensington gardens. The ice in some of the puke is now 3i inches in thickness, and is to!erably firm. Not a Angle occident worth recording happened, although so many thou and people were congregated together. EFTWTS OF FREE TRADE—DIMINUTION OP BLnikUPTCY.—The tenoning table shows the number of bankruptcies notified in the London Gasettes during the month which ended ye terday (Jan. 8), competed with throw gusted in the corresponding period of last year. From this it will be seen that the bankruptcies so notified during the last month of tie first year of Ire* trade are las than ens half that of the parallel period the year beam : Dot. IS, ISO - . 7 Deo. 14,1619. „ 19 23 26 ........ l4 „ 21 1$ „ 23 ». 29 .... S 28 Jan. f, ISO- .......... .......... 16 Jae. I, 100. 1 • ! lb " 4 ~ . ........ U ~ 111 'Total 92 Total 42 • ATTEMPTED MURDER NEAR DRURT-LANE.—Leat night a case of the me of the knife in passion took place in the neighbourhood o Drury-lane. Two tailors, one of them deaf and dumb, had been engaged at work, sod from some unknown caner Keehn?, the dumb man, exhibited feelings of anger towards the other, whom name is Levy. A scuffle ensued beim en them, when Keeling took from one of has pockets a painter's putty knife, and aimed at Levy's throat. The knife littered the right side of the jugular vein, and eau,ed a frightful gash. An alarm was raised, and after some difficulty Keeling was secured, and taken to Bow-street adios, when Mr. Henry remanded him. The prosecutor was conveyed to King's College Hospital, in • very precarious 'talc. RAILWAY FACILITIIII.—Th. London and North Wvstern Railway Coespeey, with the view of giving increased facili ties to the graziers of the south and west of Ireland for the conveyance of fat stock to Lowden and other large taarb i ets is Enslaud, are at mead ',gaged, is minjunctio• with the City of Dublin Bteam Packet Company and the Irish rail ways in insanities( a system whereby the sender ma book his cattle at aloe, tam any station on the Great Southera and Weaken and Midland Great Waiters to any plain on the Loudon and North W es t ern Railway. This will be a great advantage to grasiers, as they will than he enabled to calcu late the cost of conveyance from ewe paha to another, and will says the expense of ems leg the cattle to the aelentea et Dahlia oft Liverpool.— 'poor. THE STARVATION CASE AT SOUTHAMPTON. SOUTHAMPTON, TUletneT.—Lord Courtenay, the militant poor law commissioner, came down, yesterday, to open an (Acid enquiry on the part of the poor law commis clone's, into the nrcunistenees attendant upon the death of Elisabeth Biggs, the female pauper, whose death on the 23d alt , ening" from neglect of some of the parish officials, has excited such a sensation in thl neighbourhood. The amain ummenced at 10 o'clock this morning, in the grand jury chamber of the Guildholl. M 4 Leigh, soli citor, appeared to watch th e proornodings on the part a the gaardtans, and Mr. 3, Sharp, jun., on behalf of Siousionds. The evidence taken was generally the same as that taken before the 0070601 (which we hove already published). and we therefore only give the mete prominent points of the evidence given to-day, that the &snot the use may be pro perly andersthod. Aare Biggs, sister of the deemed, stated that her sister, who was fir 'demoted in pregamey, had been ailing for about three motatise, and had bees attended by Mr. Cooper, one of the parish surgeons. The demised bad received a shilling and a loaf per week from the board of guardians. Oa Friday afternoon th e 21st ult., she went with her sister to Mr. Cooper, to ask for some relief, and be gays her a paper to take to Bimmoods, the relieving officer. Witness did not go with her to the pout house. She saw her again in fliamelureet, about nine o'clock the same evades, when she showed her a paper, which was an order for a night's lodging at • lodging-house kept by a M. Bowjohn. She left her sister there, and on the following afternoon she saw her sgun in Simnel-street, shivering with cold, and her child with her. They both went to the workh .use, and asked for her admission. The porter at the gate (an old man named Vellum) told her he could not admit her with ' out an order from the doctor, and referred her to Mr. Du , autoy (member of the parish surgeons, who resides near the house). They went there, and saw a lad, who said they had no thing to do with the house. On leaving Mr. D tore house, she took her sister to a Mrs. Davie's, sad took • night's lodging for her. Her sister was very w. apparently getting worse and worse. On the following (Sunday) morning she found her sister van' ill, and she died about four or five in the aiumoen. Mr. Cooper was sent for in the morning, and arrived shortly before 'bet died. In the course of a long erces-examinauon, by several parties, the witness said she had beard her serer occasionally say that she bad not food enough, but she always got what she seed for of Mr. Cooper or the Board of (}aardiaus. Durand sometime. did a little needlework to get victuals. Deceased never asked for mere relief beyond what she had from Mr. Cooper or the Board. She sever received a halfpenny from the gather of bet child. Mr. Cooper had attended witness and her brother during the cholera, and she always found him very attentive and regular in his attendance. Mr. Francis Cooper, surgeon, was next examined. The town Is divided into four medic al districts, one surgeon being appointed for each. The practice is, for each to take the attendance of the house in turn for three months. Oa Fri day, the 21st ult , the deceased and her sister came to my house; she said she was very ill, and scarcely able to get there. He had attended her occasionally for the last two or three months. For about a month she had been suffering from influenza. He asked her why she did not send for him, as she war so ill, and told her to take a seat. In reply to hie question, she said she had had nothing for three or tour days but a little bread and water. She was suffering from weakness and ex haustion. He told her to remain still, and he would gin her an order to Simmonds for instant admission into the house. He wrote an ceder at his desk, and gave it either to her or her sister ; and desired her sister to take the child, and assist her cl:wn to the workhouse as welt as she could. He also told her to tell either Simmoods or the muter that she was to be taken into the workhouse without a moment's delay. The order was as follows:—" Mr. Sim. monds,—Please admit the bean, Elizabeth Biggs, who is in want of tool, and without means, into the poorhouse im mediately—Francis Cooper." This was a case of urgency, and therefore he stated in the order why she should be ad• milted immediately. Sae gave her name as Elizabeth Biggs. I He had previously known her as Elizabeth Harris. He wrote the order in the name of Biggs. She was unknown at the poorhouse by the name of Biggs. She had never personally ',peered at the board on relief days , ; applica tions were made by her brother, George Biggs, and the was known as Elizabeth Harris. About heti-past two on the Sunday afternoon a boy came for him. lie was engaged in an operation at the time, which he could not leave at the moment. Ile sent the bey for a bottle, and on his return he said his sister was worse. It could not have been more than half an hour atter the boy first came to his house before he saw her. She was then in the arms of death. Till then he did not know but what she was in the house. He asked how it was she was not there, and her sister said toey would not admit her. He made a post mortem examioation of the body (the general appearances of which were described by Mr. Cooper). She was pregnant. From the result. of the examination, he bad no doubt what ever teat her death was produced by want of food tun ex posure to mid. Suppeeinir that, on the Friday when his order was given, she had been placed under medical treat ment, and received stimulants and food, with warmth, he thought her life would have been saved. She had received a shilling arid a to if weekly, but on the Monday preceding her death, in cone quence of an anonymous letter being re ceived, stating 'het deceased was in pos.ession of 30a. a week, it was reduced to ed. and a loaf, till inquiries were made. If she had made use of the W. and the loaf, and not been subjected to ezpo.ure to the cold, she would not have died from actual twee:ion. He acquiesced in the reduction, under the understanding that the inquiries into the truth of the statement would be immediately made. He heard no thing more or the matter. Lord Courtenay said that he now wished to ask one or two questions on the general question of the mode of admi nistering relief. In answer to hi. lordship, Mr. Cooper said that the medi cal officers hare power,, under the general regulations of the board, to give general relief in the intervals daring the n.eetings of the board; and this relief may go en till the medical man aces the necessity to stop it. He may order breed, or anythioF el-e that may be necessary. H e sen d s a note to the relieving officer, who files it, and gives the party a printed form, to go to the shop appointed fur the purpose. These orders are almost always complied with, and non compliance would be an exception. He believed it was the wish of the board that such orders as he gave in this case should always be fully and promptly complied with. He was always present at the board whilst the pauper* in his district, under hi• care, were being relieved on Mondays; and he believed the otber medical guideline' were alas, but he could only gown fur himself. He did not remain during the adjudicoi it. of cares not requiring medic 1 relief. Louisa Byl. s was ;seat called, and as her evidence was not given before the unmet., mad is of great importance, we give her statement more in detail. San said that on the afternoon of Friday, the 21st ate was with other women wait.ng for relict, an the deoc i sed came into the waitiog.room with her chill. She got up and let the deceased tit down by the fire. The caild was crying with cold area hunger. Witness went and got eon• bread fry it from the woman is the kit chen. Teo woman appeared to be very ill. Whilst waiting at the board ruin aoor she saw a paper io deceased's hand Witness &thou her what it was, and the said it was an ender from Dr Cooper. She took it and looked at it, and saw it was an order Iron Dr. Cooper to admit her into the ponrheuse. She could make out the words. " Admit' and " Bergs," and Dr. Cooper's name at the bottom; the paper was blotted. She gave the paper bock to rue ueceued, who then went into the board room. The door was open a little way, add when tint de ceased went Oro the room the witness heard Mr. Simi:monde say, " West is it that you're got here I" Sn. could not distinctly hear the reply given by the deceased. He then tithed bur where she lived, and she said she had been living at Murray's, but they had turned her out, and she had no where to e a te. He asked her where her hushand was, and she said she ha.'n't got one. He then said (apparently alluding to the child in her arms), " How came you by that in your arms?" Witness hued no reply made by deceased He tola her, " fnere is nothing but the tramp-hoese for you tooi.u, tiro to-marrow morning you must take 'cur self off." hoe tau came out of the room. There was no one else in the t oatd-room, except Mr. Higgins (the theta militants-leek, eihra removed from his situation). She said Mr. Simevads hod gived her nothing, but told her to go to toe name. house. She went down the yard towards the tramp-h,use, ant witneve saw ne more of her. Wi,ne.s .heat went into the board-room herself, and there was nu one is the raom but Sanmonds and Higgins. flimmonde was very much in liquor, and not capable of attending to her erplicaton. He kept her waiting a long time in the room, 'teeny three quarters of an hour. The boy at the gate sunwards told her the woman was gone into the tremp-bosee. Elisabeth who was in company with the preceding witness, g -ye end, nee eoLfirmatory of that given by Mrs. . . _ . At fire o'clock Lord Courtenay adjourned the inquiry till ten o'clock nt x.1 0 01'1 1 60 1 1 (this day.) This case has exc-tssi groat interest in the town, and the result of the it q.ii , y D. fore the guar iar.s has Ikon an almost entire charge of the officials. The board meet on Thursday to e'en• a relinviog rffi4er in room in Siannor ds, who stsi.us uotonsisted on the charge of manslaughter, and a porter or g.iseko,so. ' in piece of the man Yellen', who has tempormil3 Oiled th e office, he being too old and Imbecile for the ptrfrrinsnee of its duties. Next west they will elect a clerk, the late holder of the office being removed for neglect of duty, and the new officer, at an incr..avd salary, will have to engage all netessary aristancs, itistes4 of the board app,•inttug 111 A assistant clink as heretofore. The late 1140.1 a llUl c:.:k -a, 11,:en discharged for drunkenness and neglect of duty. This evening (Tuesday) the guardians meet to discuses motion, 01 which notice has ben given, to cony& r the propriety of bringing the town under the New Poor Law, Souttiguip_ou hesusg, at present, a local act (or the regula tion of tne war. ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE. —On Monday afternoon 051 of thi is MAILS 01 the Marylebone Almshouses, named Newcomb-, attempted to kill herself by cultic( her tared with a ream. One of the other inmates upon enteric,/ the room of deceased, die:amid a razor case amt a prayer book on the table, and upon searching for her &scoured her in the wash Lou- wt..' a date wound in bee throat. A surgeon was callea in, v 0.,, without loss of time, sewed the wound up, but she rem•itai in • precarious state. . • FIZZ AT TON/MIDGE SCHOOL.-011 Saturday last a the br.lte out iu one ut the dorsi cries of Toobriitite &boot, by wb.ii% Ora or four of the rooms here bees quite destroys'', sod wreral others Wand, though not to an .y great 'stout. The tire was got under in about two noun. o thaw who afterwards visited the spot, it appeared qu piosideatasi that the awned did not extend their ravages much more widely. timidly the boys were all mute home for their Christmas ho lida ys, dad the toady. although most seriously alarmed. ramped as other Mem mimeo or Wary. RAILWAY MEETINGS. YORK, NEWCASTLE, AND BERWICK. SPE:IAL GENERAL MEETING. On Tuesday (yes'erday) a special general meeting of the York, Newcastle, sal Berwick Railway Compiny was held at the De Grey Rooms, York, for the purpose of considering the terms and conditions on which the purchase of the Greet North of Ragland Railway is proposed to be completed, and of approving, altering, or =waling such terms and conditions in lien thereof; and also for the pur pose of authorising the directors to 'mop - wind, settle, adjust, or arrange certain debts, claims, and demands of the tom. pea, upon Mr. Hudson, the late chairman, and of adopting such measures relative thereto as should be thought proper. The meeting was not very numerowly attended. Gao. Laments, Esq., the chairman of the company. pre sided; and after the advertisement convening the meeting had been read by the Secretary (Mr. Close), he stated the two fold object of the meeting, as given above, and proceeded to discuss the position in which the Great North of England purchase question at present stood. The whole circum stances were detailed in the third report of the committee of investigation; and he therefore would not now go into them. Bat that committee had made certain recommenda tions on the subject, which he read to the meeting. These recommendations were, after discussion, adopted, and the committee placed themselves in communication with the Great North of England Company ; the matter was further diagramed from time to time afterwards. Eventually a com mittee of Great North of England shareholders was ap pointed to costar with the directors of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick, and the arrangement now to be subneitted to the present meeting was concluded. It was as follows : Memorandum of at ides agreed this 23rd day of Novem ber, 1849, between the directors of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Reieway, and a committee (cousistisg of directors and shareholders) appointed by an extraordinary general meeting of the Great North of England Railway Company, to arrange terms for the payment of the sum of 3,547,5004, or thereabouts, due from the York. Newcastle, and Berwick Railway Company, to the Great North of England Ccm pony, on the Ist July, 18.50, in substitution for such sum when due on the said Ist day of July, 1850. The said terms of arrangement to be subject to the confirmation of the shareholder of the respective companies. Art. Ist. That three-tenths of the aforesaid sum, due to the Great North of England Railway Company, shall be payable by the delivery of debenture'', falling due on the Ist July, 1853, and bearing interest at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum. Art. 2nd. That four-tenths of the aforesaid sum shall be payable by debentures, falling due on the lit January, 1855, bearing interest at the rate of four per cent- per annum. Article 3rd.—That three•tenthe of the aforesaid sum be payable by debentures, falling due on the let July, 1866, bearing interest at the rate of four per cent, per annum. Article 4th.—The provisions of the pre ceding articles shall be embodied in • separate Act of Par liament, to be promoted by the York, Newcastle, and Ber wick Railway Company, and to be approved and assented to by the Great North of England Railway Company, and the maid act shall convey to the ihareholders of the Great North of England Railway in guarantee for the payment, when due, of the debentures aforementioned all the security which the property of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway Company can, as on this day, be made to confer, after allow ing for the borrowing powers of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway Company on their present line, to the extent of one million three huadred thousand pounds, in lei sive of their existing debentures.—Gao. LEEMAN, Chairman of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway Company. J. G. HUBBARD, Chairman of the Committee of the Great North of England Railway Company." Thus, instead of paying the whole amount at the end of six years, three-tenths would he paid at the expiration of three years from the Ist of July, 18.50; eighteen months would then elapse betweea the first payment of three•tenths and the next payment of four•tenths, taking four and a half yearn for the second payment. Then, again, 18 months more would elapse before paying the remaining three-tenths; thus throwing the whole payment over the period of time in suggested by the committee of investigation, but making the payment of the first instalment due three years earlier than rt otherw se would have been. He concluded by moving a resolution to the effect " Treat the above terms be ratified, and that the directors be authorised to go to parliament to obtain a bill for completing the purchase of the Great North of England Railway, in ccordance with those terms." f Mr. LOVE seconded the resolution. Mr. CHAYTOR ulr.cl if the resolution embraced the position of the Preference shares? The CHAIRMAN sail the resolution was simply a modi-: gallon of that which the shareholders had already deter.' mined upon in principle. Mr. CHAYTOR—Is this the proper time to move the ' appointment of a committee to inquire into the pa-ition of the Preference shares? The CHAIRMAN replied in the newly'. This meeting was called for an express purpose. (Hear, hear.) Mr. W 1 LIE, or Liverpool, said this was a very grave question. The question was, would the shsrehelders affirm thin purchase or not ? and he asked the directors to postpone the ratification of the agreement, for which he assigned several reasons, the principal one of which was that this Great North o: England purchase was the first bold stroke of Hudsonian policy, which bad been the cause and engin of that grasping disposition and rivalry among railway com panies, and that unfortunate gambling among individuals, which had spread ruin all over the country. He had doubts , which led him to think it desirable that this purchase should t be more fully investigated, and he moved accordingly en • amendment to tte tffict, that the ratification should be portioned until the haleyearly meeting in February. Mr. RAMSEY seconded the amendment. Mr. CRAY TOR found fault with the short and itisuffi) Cent notice given of this meeting. Mr. STACK, of Barham, con•ended that the shareholders were now in a position to consider this question as an ori einal matter ; they were not bound 11 any previous resolu , tione whatever. He called upon the Great North of England shareholders to separate themselves teem the rest of the meeting, that it might be seen who were and who were not interested parties (Applause.) This was a matter that had not been sifted to the bottom, as it should be; and he there fore should support the Amendment. (Hear, hear.) Every other stain and blot connected with the Hudson frauds had been made clear to their understandings, and this question also should be cleared up, seeing the vast amount of money involved. (Hear, hear.) The CHAIRMAN, in reply, made some remarks in justification of the course adopted by the directors in calling this meeting, and went on to say that Mr. Wylie's speech would have been a very good one on the 23rd of August last. Why, he asked, when the question then came before the i *bushel ler., did he not come forward and oppose the adop- L tion of the committee of investigation's recommendation upon which the committee and the directors hat since been I acting ? hear.) He defended the report of the in vestigation committee uoon this subject, and contended that i the question was entered ii.to in that report with a minute . nen of detail that did not belong to any other part of the ; report. The directors would deprecate most strenuously any delay in this matter, for by delay the commercial repu tation of the company would suffer, and its financial position would be crippled. The CHAIRMAN then put the question, when there ap , peered for the amendment, 10 ; against it, about 30. The amendment, therefore, was lost. The original teaolutton was then put and carried by a very large majority, almost unanimously, there being only three or four bands held up against it. Mr. CHAYTOR ailed leave to give notice to move at the half-yearly meeting in February the appointment of a com mittee to go into the whole question reepecting the present position of the preference shares. The CHAIRMAN said, if the shareholders wished it, the directors would make the half•yearly meeting special, !or the purpose el clod to by Mr. Chaytor. Mr. CHAYTOR then suggested that a committee should be appointed now, but Tie CHAIRMAN moved— " That the next meeting be made special, for the coneide ration of the matter to welch Mr. Chaytor had called atten tion." • This motion was put and negatived, and thereupon the subject dropp d. The CHAIRMAN then went into the second subject for distussion at this meeting ; via, the settlement of the claims of the company upon their Lite chairman, Mr. Muds ii. He referred to put proceedings in re erence to these Claioll., and invited a calm and dispassionate discussion. He said that legal proceedings had been commenced, two bills in equity having been tiled ; but propositions had been wade by the triewis of Mr. Hudson, and he believed he might sae the friends of this company, and ultimately the directors had taken loud opinions which recommended a compromise with Mr. Hudson, on the terms which he (the chairman) would now 'ring under their notice. He proceeded to detail the pr posed arrangement, from which it appeared that Mr. Hudson had undertaken to pay in all to tee company the sum of 100,0001, he (Mr. Hudson) haying. during the past year, paid to the company no less than 00,0361 He moved that this meeting authorise 'be directors to carry Out and ratify the proposed indenture, which was drawn as between Mr. - Hudson and throe of the present directors. (He sr.) Mr. LOVE peon led the motion. The CHAIRMAN added, that in addition to the terms he had already awed, Mr. Hudson is to ply the e a cones the company have been put to in this matter. (Hear, bear ) Mr. WYLIH would never fine a blind support to any board of directors, and there was so much itnportsrce about this matter, not only to the shsreholders but to the public, that he would ask the directors to postpone the decision of the question. The CHAIRMAN, without consulting with his co director', would say at once that he beli e ved if the pro posed step were taken, it would jeopardise the whole pro- CIN ding. Mr.WYLIE protested against such • momentous ques tion being settled in such • hurry. He thought the shareholders ought to know what th•sy reek wauted from Mr. Hudson, u well as what he off. red; and trey ught to hese time to consider this nutter further. if. should, therefore, move the appointment of a special committee. The CHAIRMAN, indianantly—We are your directors, and we are either enuth-d to credit for going into this natter honestly er not. Mr. WYL4 . farce, B replied and ao that he w had h e.w it w. so. oftenthoughtraisrlay tri we They night change meta as they would, but A wee • change of system that was wonted. He went oa to refer to a petition be had drawn up tor preuntation to the House of Com mons, praying that this Ratter Right be inquired into by • committee of that house, and that if the allegations against Mr. Hudson should be proved. he be expelled from their honourable house. H. chars*. Sniped the proposed arrangement a• a flagrant and IafaIMMO peeding and couleded by moving es en emeeed i esee. hat the'further consideration of the subjeet be till the nut general meeting, sad that 19,1111/ etwehmestag not the objeol el II" • .a.: ,• • • - • •• fa 4 11) -tpt.W by do