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

0 0 i:-1 i o At laf . WA 6 0 6 3 i 3 NEW YORK, Liao. 18. „ et my last commueication, the House of Re re. oretst.see. at Washington, has been daily *age in on g r ueouriog to elect a speaker. A great num of T otes his he ri taken, but without success up to the mom tit of writing this letter. Two circumstances reihsr intereeting have occurred. Tee one, was the oupo .ure Of a democratic member, of the name of p r ose, who attempted to succeed to the post by a scent u nderstanding with the free seders, while to h is ~en peculiar political friends he was passing as a proselsviry candidate. The deception being ecci droully discovered on the floor, he was indignantly d r opped by those whg had at fl et warmly supported ma, and he retired from the contest with a earns. t u m so damaged that he can never again receive the f a vor of ary party in the United States. Such trhl. ry is nicer forg:ven in this country, and the e tt•rder is now most properly designated by the Dim e of Mr. " Dane Brown." The other m ar the giving the "he direct" by_ Mr. Peer, • northern m e mb er, to Mr. Meade, a Leathern member, a challenge ffflowed at once, but explanations were entered into, through mutual f ria .b. which, it is said, have made the meeting at Bladeraburg unnecessary. For many years the southern members have been able to drive through c orers many of their Immure% by the process of intim' , Mice. They are generally professed dullists, the northern members are not so, and the consequence is, that the shooting gallery has been a very usual proinsnede with the `• chivalry." Mr. Doer, who is a men of excellent sense, tine education, and a deseeid lot of Alexander Doer, better known in our revoMtionary history as I.lrd 8 irling, berme, on this occasion, to have departed from the line of " safe pre cedent," sad to have resolved not to flinch even from the arbitration of the du-110. On Dec. 17, the House of Assembly adjourned after balloting 51 times far Speaker without any re sult. Daring the earlier ballots the whig candidate, Winthrop, seemed the favourite : he stood long at 1 0 1 rote& heyend which, however, he could not get. The camber of the house being 228, to make an ab solute mejority required 114 votes. After the 39th belot Wiithrop was withdrawn, and at the 40th, Brown, of Indiana, a dement, headed the list will 109 votes. On the 40th ballot Brown received 112 votes. Hereupm a stormy discumion ensued. Moran. Brown and Wilen3t (of the Wilmot proviso) were called upon to state the terms of their understanding. After some f nciog they complied, and immediately several members exclaimed they bad been deceived. On the subsequent ballots the members who received most votes never rose above ,t. The appearance of matters at the adjournment, co the 17tb, gave less promise of a speedy termination et •he struggle than any of the preceding days. Nleanwhile the Senate have notified to the Pre eideit that they have organised themselves and are reedy to proceed to the business of the session. A communication to their house from the President was' cocs.quence expected on the 18th of December, V , e day subsequent to the latest dates from Wash .ceton. In my last I pointed out to you t' . .e fact that, while it ma, appear rather unfavourable to the character of the present Congress, that the organization of the how* is so long cl•layed and so embarrassing, yet in miry the republic is receiving no damage by the deists, as very little basica. is ever done twit after the holidays. The threats of disunion made by the southern members do not amount to mph. We are used to them. The south dare net di•eolve the Union, they could not keep their slaves in chi ck for six months together, but would become the theatre of a bloody servile war. The ultra-aboli tioniete would send money and arms into these states at once, and glory in the desolation they created. The question must finally be determined in Congress by the vote on the reception of California into the Lidos with its present constitution, which absolutely prthibits for ever within eta territories all involuntary servitude except fur crime. The south, which pro claims with such zeal the absolute eov:reigoty of the states, is es'opped from denying the absolute sove reignty of California. It is impossible to get over this and be consistent. On the other hand, the northern 'twee have allowed the south to pass such laws as they pked reenlatine tho admission of fee. negroes into their territory ; they have even submitted to have the general coastwise commerce of the country sheckled by restrictions enforced by fines and for feitures having relation solely to their own pe:uliar lustitntior.k. But the truth is, we have become so strong as to be able batter to bear small evils than ever we were before. You mu.t remember one thing, that the riddle of self-government has been solved here. What all nations have been puzzled to find cut we have dis covered, viz., ttat men m.y live together safely and happ ly, and yet be without any mutes, but them selves; that personal comfort, affluence, and ambition, may be grat ified without blucdy intestine wars or the retribution of the gallows; and that interests, differ ing with climate, sail, and locality. may be after all fused into one common bond. The perception of th;s fact, if European eyes cannot attain it, is universal here; and such have been the advances in education among us within the last twenty-five years, that even the commonest people understand its whole bearing. Since I am on this subject (and it is an interesting one), let me enlarge upon it for a few moments. There are now no more marked divisions of races or religions than there were at the time of the first confederation. We then had puri tans and presbyterians in some colonies ; Dutch, German, and reformed churches in others; Swedes, in others, and Roman catholic" in others. The slave holding interest, which we owe to the treaty of Utrecht and our Engh.h mother, was so strong and was sustained by so many of our good and great men, that we were compelled to respect it in the for mation of our constitutios. By yielding to this one evil, we have escaped many more. In these respects, then, we are in no more difficulty or doubt than we were at first. Bur, besides this view of the subject, there is another and a much more striking oar. It is this: We have, on many former occasiote, passed through far greater difficnkies than any now before us. No person, who reflects for a moment on the singular emergencies that have threatened ns, can reasonably doubt as to what is our ." manifest destiny." The very first effort to adopt the constitution of 17'.7 led to the most violent contention, among the people of ibis cauntry. The federalists and anti-fede ralists became en hostile as actually to carry their political opposition into their private affairs. I have often heard from the lips of the venerable men of those dais the most thrilling narratives of the dreadful scenes which took place before the constitution was finally adopted. 'luring the European wars of Napoleon, as is well known, our rising commerce became the alternate prey of England and France. When Jay's treaty, which more out of these, was promulgated, there was Apia a mast violent outbreak of party spirit, and ap parently the greatest dan ger o f a division in ease quente. When the orders in council, and the Berlin aril Milan decrees began to exclude our *hips from the ocean, either u fugitives or captives, the retalia tory Olelinfill of our government, the embargo and eon. intercourse acts, which partook of the character of a mid Chinese remedy, rather than of the bravery of a bold neat noes, parts* again divided in the mot t funous manner. Meetings were held every where by tie ft deralies, denouncing them' acts of their own government, and tallies epos the people to resist them at all hazards. la loamy cease, indeed, the laws were sueteefully resisted. When at length after years of earring, spoliation, and insult—when our easimeree wee rained, oar .esmen were immussed, and our rights as neutrals • dieregarde sad a war with England seemed the uely mesas of extricating (wolves from absolute amlitelfleaate as a mem, a strong party arose among us called the peace party, not composed of individuals, a b et of saw, with wealth, power, and talent, which not only opposed the war, refused eapplies, lead countenance, bat artily proposed a dissolution of the Un;os. A public coeuation actually met in New England, with the most inimical inteatioes to wards the Union, and yet we peened happily that danger. Even the : 4:We' of some of Ncs England states ad resolatioes and enacted Imes of a t reenona hl e and yet we were Peler.e4. Daring the adasinistratioa of Mr. Munroe, In 1 0 111, the admission of Missouri into the Union M' ht the question of slavery prominently before 84 ' people. it ui well known that it wasagitated with the intensest violence throughout the United States. much more so than it can ever be again. Threats if • 611 ' 4 111110n of 'be Union came (this tine) from the math, and assumed an importance and a reality we aa they never had before. That peril was Impper peeled ; and by a compromise, wise as it was patrio' io vansisia brightened and secured the chain which us together. Since that eventful moment the United States have brume stronger and greater in all respects. Many maw besot interest have been formed g oar population is batter elevated than it was, and, above all, perhaps 6 thefie besiegessons in its respect f or our national Amsted*: In former years, when we were alter tetely lendete d by France and England, it seemed a ear/ dila& thing fur us to recognise that we had Maddea character. We were lampooned at home lei ebased, ridiculed mad spit upon g some of our own Wing politicians declared that ws could not be • hided into a war" But what is said now P Why, that we are . too belligerent, too sensitive, too ready it eggresmon and violence, an d us i ng oar power Ss %fare and trample upon weaker nations. We must eat forget another oireurastanos, and it has an importantbearing on this question . The war with Mexico has more nailed this people than can well be understood abroad. There is a roam property in that conquest sad those victories, of which every American claims ashen. Men of limited minds (and there are many weals called statesmen who have mean capacities) are in the habit of looking at events by themselves. They insulate a proposition or a fact and receive for it a solitary spark of light. But men with the genius of a Pitt and the philosophy of a Macaulay look at a whole circle of events before they divide it into segments. Thus the Mexican war (be the opinions of Englishmen what they may with re gard to its character) demonstrated that this country was able to carry on an offensive war beyond its own territory, on a new and untried field, and with the disadvantage of climate and of dis tance, against a warlike and populous nation, always boasting of its rowess and its great ness. With but a handf ul of men our govern. went overran a large territory, gained every battle, and dictated piece in the capital of its enemy. To suppose that such circumstances as these had r o effect, and can have no effect upon the national character, is downright stupidity. The acquisitions of that war, wonderful in their elects, are but another bond to bind as together. It is tome, therefore, perfectly apparent that the temper and feeling, aid washes of the Ame rican people, were never more adverse to disunion than at the present moment. Even the threatened difficulties with your own country, arising out of the conduct of your agent, Mr. Chatfield, have lair effect, and a favourable one. And what after all is the state of things in Congress ? Parties are so nearly equal that a hw ultra politicians, free Goiters, hold the balance of power for a time. There is at this moment but sae state in the Union (Ohio) that would be likely to be violent in its opposition to the south. As soon as any fair proposition for an adjustment of the difficulty can be made it will be adopted, even if California should not be received into the Union with its present constitution. I think it will be, however, by a de cided majority. So them, if I am right, we have no cause for alarm whatever, and those gentlemen abroad who flatter themselves that the "Model Republic" is about to fall to pieces, may (to use a homely phrase) save their breath to cool their own porridge. AMERICUS. COLONIAL. BRITISH NORTH AMERICA. CANADA. Our dates from this colony are to the 15th of Dec. They contain little of moment. The storm wi:l burst when the legislature re-assembles. Ministers are preparing a measure relative to the clergy reserves, and from all we can learn ire prepared to deal with that subject in a fitting spirit of boldness. The otfi , ial gazette of tte %b last. announces that his Excellency the Guv.rnor-General has been pleased to disch err the under-mentioned gentlemen from the commis-ion of the peace fur tt.e district of Montreal : —Jacob De Witt, of Montreal (a member of parliament) ; Benjamin Holmes, of ditto (member of parliament) ; Michael M'Culloch, of ditto (a mer chant); Hon. obert Jones (a member of the upper house) ; William 31.Gienis, of St. Atbanase; John Molise, of Montreal (an extensive brewer and dis tiller); Benjamin Hart, of Montreal (a merchant); Will:am D. Lindsay, of St. John's; Peter Dunn, of Montreal ; Jean Bruneau, of ditto • Benjamin Brewster, of ditto (a wealthy merch ant); Jobs :Mathewson, of ditto (merchant); John Gordon 11•Kenzie, of ditto; Le M. Routh, of ditto; James H. Lambe, of ditto ; Charles Geddes, of ditto; J. H. De Witt, of Chateauguay. Relative to this subject, the Montnal Qasette pub lishes the following official letter, addressed to one of the displaced : Secretary's Office, Toronto, Dec. 5, 1849. Sir,—l have the honour, by couinsai.d of the G 111.,T110f ' Gen. eel, to acknoeel dge the receipt of your letter of the 3rd ult., in which you mimic yourself to be • party to an address to the people of Canada, which wag lately published is several of the newspapers of the province, and is which address separation from the British empire and a lion to the United States of America, are recommended as a remedy fur certain evils under which the province is therein alleged to be labouring. His excellency feels bound by a sense of duty, es well to his sovereign and the empire at large, as to the people of Canada themselves, not only to maintain the connexion of the province with the parent state, by the fa lest enemies of all the powers cmiterred upon him by her Majesty, but to discourage by all the means constitutionally within his control, every attempt calculated to impair it. In the performance of this duty, there can be no desire to question any one upon mere abstract speculations regarding different forms of government. It is fur parties to satisfy themselves to what extent they may proved with such specu lations without the risk of compromising themselves by • breech of the laws of the land. When, however, an individual arrives at the deliberate conclusion that what he deems the evils tinder which his country labour., requires not merely a reformation of the constitution, but its entire over throw, and when such person entertains this opinion, not as • mere speculative theory, possibly to be realised in some remote and undefined feature, but actually takes measures directly intended to bring about such revolutionary change, it appears to his Excellency perfectly obvious that, apart from ell considerations or inquiry as to consequences ut a still more serious character, such party should not be per- mitted to remain in the anomalous and invidious position of holding a commission during the pleasure of a sovereign power which he desires to subvert. As by your letter you have admitted being • party to the docum nt in question, his excellency commands me to inform you that bar Majesty has no farther occasion for your services as one of her justices of the peace for the district of Montreal. I have the honour to be, your moat obedient servant, J. Lands, Secretary. To J.P., Montreal REMOVAL OF POLICE MAGISTRATIS.—Yesterday Gilbert i'Betkett, Eag.,the recently appointed magistrate at Greeawich (in the room of t h e late Mr. Jeremy), was re moved from that court to the Southwark Poke* Court, when hi has for some time mot assisted Mr. Sacker, who now will sit at Greenwich. The latter gentleman has latterly emitted much Ircra ill health, and it is stated that he has exchanged with Mr. rßeakett by the advice of hie physician. The genres's' hare damnified to decrease this number of polies magistrates to twenty in number for the metropolitan district by sot filling up vacuities as they mem by miens tion or death. Mr i'llockstt will thirster* be assisted by Illagiatrates from all the other polies courts in regular rota lions. It is stated that two of the easier magistrates will Murray mks. _ _ EXPENSES OF PROSECUTIONS AND MAINTENANCE Or CENIKAL CONVICT= PlidONlNß.—The following re c a u r a subject of coseiderable interest to the citizens of has beessieesee-by the Court of Alums, to be printed : " U °bedlam to an order of the mart of the 2941 t her lest, to further 'outsider oar report respecting the ataintesease el criminal cenvieS is the peels of this City, to report the mews thereof for the last four yet" awl also the torpesses of pesereetiess, sad whether they should be paid by the corporation or the consolidated read, and to re port est *ales theme, we certify that we directed state seats of these merest' to be matte out by the solicitor, cogs 'mein with the year 1646, the period front which, by a resoluttss of the Hesse of Commas, these items el= on the ceesty rates were to be defrayed out of the dated fork under the Assail Appnpriatioa Act ; and we do ferthereertlfy that we have re vi ved frogs the solicitor, In a teholatedi Issm. while we have hereunto saarzed, a state meat of dogma et sad sad the wet of the sulfate eases of oaners Istr the years 1646,1647, sad 18411, are new 4, 664 1. per isient, The corresponding wesesst few the year 1649 will he leli before me as owe ea the yew elem. The Whim repasts •ow kw es be has pagoda wilt the past newlak be ils" ell Mealy. bot otoloololly, m ooed theme's" of lho three piandlos yeses. Awd we do further ototlfy that the ealielteir repots that the Cerporedea of Leedom ere sodded ee dein payment b.ll-yeses!) thou IN= Oinol the none!vevent, the magistrates, ef s= retitled by law to levy a salty rate for the mewl MI we do hid= earthy that, having taltis the whole natter late our oeosideratioe, we resowsised that ea anew for the shames of prassaibri and the welotewowle of eoevfota for the half-yew 4e : 6th Oolobw ho male out by the wanton of the la the Sims papered by the solicitor, sad that be models the bode of her Majesty's Velma too of that omosot, afta of the usual gnat weds by the priatlett Ast for diem parrome. g POLITICK. (ham Om Doily Nous.) At the emfamenosinent of the ent century Washington w as the scene of a *Detest pres attended with no little peril to the then infant republic. The struggle was for no less a stake than the President, of the Union. There having been no election by the peo ple, neither candidate having received a majority of the whole numbe r o f votes, t h e c h o i es o f the chief magistrate devolved, by the ooeseitutioe, upon the House of Repre•entatives. The conflict of patties was violent and protracted. The sick were borne la litters to the hones to vote, and it was not until up wards of thirty ballotiogs had been taken, that StfilfaeON triumphed over his rival. So intense was the excitement throughout the country, that Its continuance, for a short time longer, would have been imminently dangerous to the sta bility of the federal system. In contemplating this event, one of the most celebrated of American judges, the late Chancellor Rani, adopts the election of President as the text of the safety of the Union. It was his opinion that, should the presidential chair be filled is pesos for 60 years after he wrote, the great problem of the Union's durability would have been solved, and it would thenceforth have but minor dangers to avoid. A. the century is on the eve of closing its first jubilee, Washington is again the scene of as ana logous struggle. There is :a resemblance, and yet a difference, between the two cases. In this instance the cionte - st is not for the executive choir et the Union, but for the Speakership of the House. By the advice, just received it appears that a fort night has elapsed, since the day on which Congress was convened, marked by ineffectual struggles to Con stitute the Lower House. So nice is the balance of parties, and so momen one are the issues in prospect, that the different sectionsef the house have determined, as it were, in limits* to put forth their whole strength and develop their tactics for the session. In this country we are not accustomed to look pp on the poli tical views of the Speaker as of any great moment. What is wanted with us is an imp utial man, well acquainted with the forms of the house, and with the intricate and technical channels through which busi ness must proceed. But in America, the election of Speaker is always accepted as a test of party strength in the house. When either of the great partite is decidedly in the ascendancy, the matter is disposed of speedily and without difficulty. But when they are pretty equally balanced, and the session promises to be fruitful in questions of great moment, it is otherwise. Both, then, struggle partly for the 'wartime of carry ing the chair, but chiefly for the substantial party advantages which it confers upon the successful side. It may not be generally known to English readers that the first business d-ne in the House of Represen tatives, after it is constituted, is the appointment of standing committees for the session. These com mittees are appointed with a view to the different classes of subjects under which may be ranged all points raised for discussion in the house. Theis, as the house may de bate on foreign question., it has its standing committee on foreign relations, eft which, with rare exceptions, all questions having a foreign bearing are referred before they are acted upon by the house. Again, it has its standing committees on ways and means, on military and naval affairs, on the judiciary, on Indian claims, &c. &c. All these committees exercise influence, more or less, upon the subjects coming under the particular class with reference to which they are respectively appointed, before the house comes to any decision upon them. It is evident, therefore, that their pia er is not trifling ; and it is on this account and because the Speaker has a voice potential in their appoint ment, that the Speakers chair is in Washington a matter of such importance to the parties at lieu. At present parties assume a variety of aspects in con nexion with the different and dissimilar questions pendirg between them ; but, to illustrate the fore going, let us take them in their respective capacities of free traders and Protectionist. So far as the standing committees are concerned, that in which each of these parties is anxious to preponderate is the committee of ways and means. The executive go. verement is, in all its departmente, indisputably dis poeed towards Protection. The protectionists, as protectionists, have a small majority in the house. But they are divided from each other on other ques tions in such a way as to have hitherto prevented them from acting in concert. The free-traders are also divided, but have, so far, kept better together than their opponents, the division in whose ranks gives them a hope that they may succeed in carrying the chair. It they do so they will also carry the committee—the result of which would be that, as it is usual to have the bill affecting the tariff reported from the committee to the house, a free-trade com mittee would refuse to report any bill for raising the tariff to a house which was really protectionist. This would not necessarily prevent the house from taking an independent course upon the subject, but each an antagonism between the house and its com• mittee, although accidentally established, would, in the present balance of parties, almost paralyse the majority. In 1846, when the pre-ent revenue tariff was adopted, the free trade majority was so small in the house that, at one moment, the fate of the bill was determined by a single vote. The bill in question had been duly prepared and reported to the house by the committee of ways and means, :which, fortu nately, was chiefly composed of fr. e traders. But had the contest for Speaker in 1846 terminated inci dentally in favour of the whigs, or protectionists, and the committee in question been composed chiefly of members of that party, no such bill would have been reported to the House. Although the house might itself h eve taken up the question, still the influence of the administration of the day was so balanced in it, by the opposite interest, that the adop tion of a low revenue tariff that year would have been out of the question. So much may sometimes depend upon the complexion of a committee in Wash ington, and so much consequently upon the political bias of the Speaker of the House. This will explain why it is that so much importance is attached to the appointment, and why, in the present peculiar junc ture of affairs, so protracted and desperate a contest takes place upon the subject. It mast be remembered that, although questions of free trade and protection are likely to occupy a very prominent place in the &missions of the present session, there are other questions of a far more por tentous character, which, for the moment, cast a dark shadow before them. If the present con test were merely for the Speakership, Wash ington might be in convulsions, and the coun try tranquil immediately beyond the bounds of the district. Or if the struggle were only between two systems of national economy, it might excite the public mind without jeopardising the internal rela tions of the confederacy. But there are questions at issue, not simply between the manufacturer and the agriculturist, the capitalist and the labourer, but Which, in their decision, involve the very exist ence of the union. Congress has evidently met with a determination at last to set tle, in one way or other, theme questions for ever. The spirit in which it is about to approach their discussion is ominously indicated by the strug gle which wu still pending in the capitol when the list steamer left the American oust, and if the con test for the e ip is to be accepted as typifying the Mow ise, it is di ffi cult to see on what esmason groan they can possibly meet for the final agestment of the all-important question of slavery. ACCIDSNT TO PROTESSOR SIDOWICX.--WO regret szeredisgly to have to state that an accident of a serious thareeter marred to Professor B.dswlak on Hooey last. The probes°, had taken hone mesh., and was as his re• two to Csaabrido by the Huntingdon road, between 2 and 3 Weis* when, b.tw.M How house and the turnpike, and on a alt demesne, the withal epos which the professor was riding apes a rand dose, dipped up, and rolled over. Tbe peellsesor fell, and the horse fell partially upon hiss. Oa regain*: his fast the prelenor's Ant impulse was to eat& Ithe baser end is thole stieseeded ; sad it was net until he wad thinks the ids es his right ass to lead the missal Mn. that be diasevered that the bens of the sr em was frac tured between th elbow sad the ebeelthr. hems et the Mose were badly cat, and is thie lessetheble usages the maims reseed the tomb% hagss his stesd. Oa his arrival at the pie aAy was ant hr ssi the rehear was seamed to Harems Mr. Zontasy, mph, ws ismahte sitealesse, amid reamed width is a 'lapis en., and we are happy In bs suable(' to that the latest amenats repreant the patiess a mamas( favourably. Tie prefereer was ridimg at an easy caster at the tine dills fa/I.—Canabridge Chr othelthath He was. ia ooiok, • oddities, seriously bruised by the EXPLOSION AT Gi..ftsoow.—Ott Sunday morning, about 7 o'clock, an elpl as i on of p i t o ok plus in Bath- Istreet, Glaetew, what three saes were as draftily injured that they are not 'vested to NITWITS. CORONER'S VERDICr IN THE CASE OF DR. PARKMAN. 1 (hes the Bodes Peet et 14111 Dee.) At mix o'clock yealselifiernooo, the jury of in quo. ea the maim ef Ile fooad ia th Mu ' Col lege, made et !hob elo i li kiabi the amber: of the preps, win Mire WMIN/ la ea rem, were called late the jog leas le heat the , After they had lAN their seats at w ll=l. th w wooer, tinseledWm el anew' i 0 Smilinee. Ile eldest el 'arida, yea la here at thb enema ls 0 11111•111111111 le pa the eosautios to wbkh the jury has mired I. relation Is the seatiere whisk have be. the subject of their itivesslpoliee far several days, sad to make seseespleas , leas to of the awes whisk Mu bees decided yea Si to witu.t the "videos, at presses. li b the advise ow Atterasy-deeere!, mad seek is Ike yob, of this jury of inquest, thatio parto - flbe tsetimamy shall be de veloped until the matter has been laid before the grew d jury. There has been • large lumber of +Musses examined, bat I iten not at liberty to state the umber, sad the testimony I severe S 4 pages closely amigos es Lugs Masa paper. AB therefore that sea be semaualeated to yea now is the es.- auks to which the jury brae arriveiL The reedit* will now he read to you by the secretary- Mr. Jobe L. Amdrews, th e . sow Itrotesdwi to read la • **lea*. emphatic, sad dL manner, the ver diet, as follows : "Suffolk, as. An Inquisitioe taken at the city of Boston, within the toasty of Suffolk, 13th day of December, before Jabes Pratt, Beg., one of the coroners of said soya% upon the view of sundry parts of the body of • dead men, namely : a thorax, kidneys,. pelvis, two thighs, left lea and sundry homes, then lying dead, br the oaths iff Days Brewster, Jobs L. Andrews Purl Martin, Tbomce kestieaux. Lewis iO6Ol, a nd Harem Mew rill, good and lawful men, who In log charged and sworn to Weal» fir the coeuseawalte, when, how, sad by what mesas the laid deed ma eases to his death, apes Iheir oaths do say, that they ell have been demonstrated to be parg of one sad the same pawn ; that these parts el the humus frame have been identifie d ad proved to be tie remains and parts of the dud body and limbs of Dr. Osage Palmitin, late • aim of said Boman, aged about sixty years; that he came to his death by violence at said Boston, on the 23rd day of November last, or between the hour of one-ad-a-half of the clock in the aftereoon of that day (about which time he entered alive and in good bad* foe the Masteeheartte Medical College buildiag, gamed ' North Grou-street, fa said Basta), sad the hour of Icier of the clock is the aftersoon of the 30th day of November last (when a portion of the said remains were found coesseled in and under the apartments of Dr. John W. Weleime, of Cambridge, in the catty of Middlesex, in sail leas building), in which building the residue of said remain were afterwards discovered ; that he was killed in said college building by a blow or blows, wound or wounds, inflicted upon him with some instrument or weapon to the jurors unknown, and by means not yet known to said jurors, and that the said blow or blows, woad or wounds ' were in fl icted upon him and said means were used by the hands of said Dr. John W. Wt ban, by whom be was killed. In witness whereof, the said comer and jurors to tkiv ii.quirition have set their hands sad nab the day and roc above said. Jab.. Pratt, coroner; Ossays Brewster, foremen • Jan L Andrew., secretary; Pearl Martin, Thomas Re:Means, Lewis Jones, Hasse Merrill. Atter the reading of the verdict, the coroner annonneed the following vote: " Voted that the thanks of this jury be presented to the city marshal and the other officers of the polies department, for the prompt and efficient serve* rendered by them to this inquest, in procuring evidence and rendering such other assistance as war in their power, and Um! the coroner be 'eget. sted to oommunleate the same to the city marshal." It was here ate ed that the city marshal, on the night of Friday, Nov. 30. b, after the remains had been found, con• *Had the fact from the press when applied to, and some of the police even stated that no discovery bad been made. The interlocutor added that in consequence of this urines. slot of the facts the public mind was kept in the wildest state of excitement by most extraordinary rumours up till the en sting Monday morning. He, therefore, suggested that the jury would do well to refer to the matter in the vote of thanks to the marshal and his assistants. On behalf of the marshal it was stated that that officer pre- pared a statement to be sent to the different newspaper offi ces that night, and had actually placed it into the hands of a messenger, when the law officer of the county interposed some objections to the publication, and advised the mars'.al sot to send the notice as he bad intended. Hence i: was that the information was not communicated to the press. After this explanation, which we have reason to I:Liege* is s'rictly true, the first speaker ceased to press the subject upon the attention of the jury. Then were read votes thanking the coroner and secretary for their laborious and faithful strokes, and also thanking Mr. Merrill, superintendent of the court house, for his atten tion to the wants of the jury, etc. Here the proceedings closed. Officer E J. Jones made proclamation of the fact, and the coroner wok possession of the verdict and testimony, enclosed in • portfolio, with a lock, and the inquest was dissolved. The jury was impannelled on Saturday, the lat inst., met at the Medical College in the afternoon, examined the frig ments of the remains found there, appointed a committee of doctors to examine them more particularly, and adjourned over till Monday, the 3rd. Oa that day and the following they made a very maul examination of every pan of the college building, vaults, passage ways, private and public entrances, &c. On the 6th, 6th, 7th, Bth, 10th, and 11th, they were engagid M taking testimony. On account of the elegance of a witness, they, en the evening of the 11th, ad jon-ned over to yesterday, Thursday, morning, 13th, and at 12 o'clock the taking of tee isaony was cloud. Tb'y then adjourned t , ll 3, p.m., when they met again, and were occu pied till six o'clock in reading the testimony, making the •erdict up in form, and signing and waling it. The new grand jury, summoned fur the first Monday in Jaanary,will take the aim up, 1)r. Webster in the meantime remaining is gaol. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 1850. Int Court. WINDSOR, Dsc. 31. The Queen and Prime Albert walked this morning in Me Blopes and Windsor Park. The royal family took their accustomed airing. H is . Royal Highness Priam Albert went out shooting thit morning. His royal highness wu attended by Lord Alfret Paget, Colonel Hon. C. B. Phipps, G enera l Bowles, and Colonel Bouvorie. Hie R;Yrl Wiliness Prises George of Cambridge Is ex piated to arrive at the Cutls this afternoon. The royal dinner party is this Castle this evening will in clude her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge. the Ladies-in-Wait ing on the Duchess of Kent, and the Provost of Eton. Her Serene Highness the Duchess of Saxe Wei mar, with their Serene Higlutesses the Princesses Anne and Amen, of Saxe Weisser mad Prince Gustavus of Saxe Weimar, left Marlborough House soon after sight o'clock yesterday morning, and travelled by the South Western Railway to Dover es rouge to the continent. His Sir, as Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar will accompany and Catstein Bedford will attend the Encheas of Saxe Weimar until her Serene Highness has landed on the con tinent and will then return to Town. The Archbishop of Canterbury had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at hi official residence in Downing.etreet. Captain Hay had an interview with Sir George Get, yesterday at the Hoemoaloe. The Earl and Countess Grey returned to Town yesterday from a visit to the Earl of Ellesmere at Hatehford, urrey. Sir Francis Baring arrived in town yesterday. Mr. Cross had an interview yesterday with Lord John Smell. The Hon. H. Fitzroy had an interview yesterlay with Sir George Grey. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial *See from the Governor of Yen Dinsen's Lead, and also from the Governor of the Caps of Good Hope. THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT IN LEICESTER. A correspondent says :—After fourteen years of pmeevering and vigorous effort, the cense of temperance in Leicester has attained an altitude which distinguishes it.. Deo of the most successful and useful of the philanthropic in stitutions of Cho borough. The statistics in the last year's report of the society astonish the most sanguine friends of Cho movement. The number of enrolled abstainers is between throe and four thousand ; and it is believed that there an is tha town an equal number unplodged who adopt the ab stinence praeties. Two menage aro held weakly is the Town-hall, which is generally crowded. For the wee popular occasions and festivals there is not a hall in she tows capable of accommodating the vast somber. that throng to gether; sad this fact led to tho wassidsratioa, as the east asoserssoat of last year, of a scheme for the erection of a temperance hall on a very large scale. An appeal hoe been submitted is, sabseriptions sad shares, which has resulted in • guttaitons fund of 46W., sad shares to the sasosat of up wards of 4,6001. A sit., orabeacing 2,800 yards of ground, is the most public thoroughfare, his been poraltoood, and ere long a ha, capable of seating some 1,800 monk t o t o ho crested. The cash account of the past year shows an income and capeaditan amounting to near 4001, in. tie general On amounting of the society. On Monday, the 24th alt., Charge argil, g ot . of Lied.. delivered • Inters ea the ravages produce's by soon drink, and the mans by which those voyages may be repressed, sad their offsets removed. On Wedanday .beat 600 of the friends of the movement assembled for we Is the largest public ball of the town. Tea was served boas a bar and b eaut if u l pl a t e d um , the property of.** wwWW, Wilia Is lovable of providing, demi- Wwwoutif, Rif 1 , 000 Pwww ll . 'Tlso we is phew! at the heed of the party i .rod from it e. tube d about 70 f ee t, with taps trAvoUnil Mgt *him side, extesk to the bottom of the • The Ise iv wed', in the aro, rid by a valve sad index the puff lo it can makes the supply to almost any event and the groat adman* of this tesensaking machine is, tha t the strength sad boat of the Squid are mu formir ete;or e d to the whole party, besides +kids there is no loss of , :nr. o ice perpleslty in the sappy of hot water to • haegoi too-polo: tka sups ors nod from the taps by ladies litso liave chugs of tam, sad the rata of supply is quit* equal to the demands of the mot rapid seassawn. 1 Several other westing. wore held darir4 the week. THE MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS. (Pram the Deify New.) Mairoffaraa, DzO. 31. TO-11hOrrOW being NSW-year's -day, our printipal trade market was hell - to-day, instead of on Tuesday. There was not afttito sash a till attendance as on the mail day, but Mill there was a fair garter of menufacteren and mer teams, end • fair besieges dose, esacdelly in yarns. Prices had asks ea upward teademy, consequent so the advance in cokes at Liverpool and the specalative spirit still preva lent MOS/ brokers. A carious discrepaacy discovered in the weekly returns of ewes, as creamed with the annual me as Liverpool—the partimilars of which will probably rash yea through another source— was m use of much osaversatios. It b usual on this, the la m day of that year, to make a leant of the stock of cotton on hand, — which return serves am a cheek upon the week•by-week re turns previously forwarded throughout the you. Though there is usually some diagram; between the two, mor ally speaking it is of a very wiling amount. Oa this occasion, however, it I. of a rather startling amount, the stock on hand exceeding _previous estimates by nearly 90,000 bales. In a week and languid state of thentorka for manufactaree, with a full new crop expected from America this might have told im pries very considerably, but with the easouragiag prospects here of business, anti exhausted stocks of manufactures it will not occasion much concern ALL that sea be moped from it is that it may steady the market at Liverpool, and give a cheek to speculation to some *Mat. _ The only event of any interest which has occurred here shun my last I. the death of a poor woman named Mary Hooter, under circumstances of great privation aad appa rent neglect by the pariah authorities. An inquest has been held by Mr. R. Hertord, the coroner for the borough, and the jury threw bhuse for neejlect both upon the relieving often. and the medical man. The following are the deposi tions made by the witnesses la this painful case -- Catherine M'Donough, of 8, Ludgate-street, Manchester, seid—l gel out selling herrings, and keep lodgers. I have only two rooms, a kitchen and • aleeping-rown. I have known deemed absent 12 months. She has lodged with me 14 weeks last Saturday. She paid me Bd. a week, and found her own food. I tumidly charge Is. 6d., bat I took her for this for the sake of her company, because she was re ligious, and I liked her for what she said to me. She went out every day selling apples and oranges, and seemed in very good health. She was a very easy woman, and when she was hurried at all she became very nervous. On Friday last she complained of ear-ache before she went out. She applied an onion, but bad the pain still when she came blase, and a:so neat morning. In other respects she seemed as well as usual when she went out on Saturday morning. On Saturday night she said the earache was well when she came home about five. She had tee, but soon afterwards vomited it. Then she complained of • pain in the left shoulder, down to the left breast. Before she went to bed I made her two meal poultices, and put the second on when the first was', cold. She did not find any relief, but was still in agony. I sat up with her during the night in the kitchen, where she slept She was very restless, moaned frequently, and drank a good deal of tea. Next morning she said I must get her a doctor, and I went to Mr. M'Clill's ; but the young man in the shop said he was not the lowa's doctor. I then went to l another doctor in Oldham-road, but no one came to the duce when I knocked. There was • plate on the door which said it would not open till two o'clock. I then went to the Tib street workhouse, and asked if there was any doctor there that attended to the town. Thy person I saw said "No," and that 1 must get an order from the overseer, who he thought was Mr. Pierce. He said he lived in Ited.hanx, and I went there immediately, but he had removed, they could I not tell me when. to. I then came back and told deceased I could aot find any doctor. I then got her some tea, and she went to sleep. I went to Mr. again, and he gave me • draught, for which I paid him, and he said I must apply a poultice of mustard and meal. She found no relief from these, and et nine o'clock at night I went to Mr. Noble's aad saw Mr. Drown. I told him that deceased was usagerously ill and lying on the flags of my kitchen dint, and that I understood that he was a town's doctor. He said, " You must take her to the infirmary." I said, I can not remove her to the infirmary, she is so heavy." He then said he could do nothing for me. I then came hems. De ceased had not been up since Saturday night. She was no better when I got back. Mr. Brown attends toe poor for Mr. Noble. She was still very ill on Monday m rating , end I said I would apply ta have her taken into the workhouse. She said she did not like it. I said I could do nothing for her, and no doctor could as long as she lay on the cold flags. She consented that I should spply to get her into ti.• work house, and I went there between 12 and 1 o'clock. I saw Mr. Pierce, and told him I wanted a note to remove Mary Hunter into the workhouse. I said she had been danger. ously ill, and wanted nourishment ; and th.t she was lying on the figs. He gave me • note, and said, " Take this to Dr. Noble, and if he says she ought to be removed, she should be removed." I took this note to Mr. Noble's, and gave it to his servant. This was before 1 o'clock. No one came that day ; she lay in the same place still very ill. She did not say that she was worse. I gave her oranges and a little bit of dry toast, which was all she ate. On Tuesday morning at nine o'clock Mr. Brown came, and after asking her questions told me to apply a mustard poultice, and come to him at two o'clock for some medicine. He did not mention anything about a bottle, and I took none, but when I called he said I mast get one. I said I had none, and could not afford to buy one. He said I must borrow one, and come to him at nine o'clock in the morning, he could not give me any medicine before. I got the bottle and went to him at nine o'clock, and he said I must apply a mustard poultice. I did what he directed, and when she took the medicine she said the pain was removed to her hip., and that she had no use of her right arm. I was up with her all night. Next morning she still had the pain in her bock and hips. Her breath was better. I went in the forenoon to Mr. Pierce, but could not see him. I remained till four o'clock, and then saw him. I told him in what state she then was, and that I wanted her removed to the workhouse. He said, I must go to Dr. Noble, and tell him to alter the medicine." He said he woult come the tint thing in the morning to visit net. I said she might be dead by then. I went to Mr. Brown, and he called to see de ceased again. Mr. Pierce came previously, between five and six o'clock in the evening. Deceased told him she had been relieved going on six years ago. I called, by his direction, at his office in half an hour, and he gave me 25.; Mr. Brown came in my absence. On Wednesday night her breath began to be short, and she died about five o'clock on Thursday morning. As Mr. Brown had left word he would come in the morning, I did not go for another doctor. She bad no bed, but some flocks and a piece of carpet over them. She had no olankets or sheets. She said she had any more bed sins* she began to be " lusty." She did not apply for any relief. She told me that some years ago the overseer/ had given her a trifle and • basket to sell (nut. She had • bit of carpet over her at night. Sh• seemed sensible to the last. moment. Oa Thursday morning I told Mr. Pierce she was dead, and he said it was Mr. Rowe's case. On Saturday night she had no money but 3d. She had no clothes except those upon her. I paid for what she required out of my own pocket. She had enjoyed good healtn generally, and did not complain. All that I ever saw her eat was • little brown bread, and sometimes butter, and a little tea. She had no meat. George Merle, Harrison, of Oldham street, Manchester, surgeon, said—l made a post ',torten examination of de ceased this afternoon. I found her lying on the floor, which is flagged, near the fireplace, with some clothes between her and the &round. They seemed to be some old quilts and flocks. The body was extremely corpulent, and the face was disco loured. On opening the cavity of the chest I found marks of recent inflammation of the living membrane of the chest, as well as a large quantity of fluid in the cavity, which had onapieseed A. lung on that side. This was the evidence of acute it:itemisation. There were also marks of similar previous disease from which she had recovered. The stomach was nearly empty, containing • small quantity of fluid, probably tea, with some orange pulp and orange pips. The cause of death was acute inflammation of the lung, and its investing membrane on the hitt side. The corn- Vaint described by the last witness, of pain in the deceased's left side, would be the first pro minent symptom of such a complaint. Such an attack would, in the fleet instance, be produced by exposure to cold, and would subsequently be aggravated by the west of proper nourishment and other comforts. Much nod sines the attack would not have been desirable. Such an attack is not gene- rally fatal, if prorerly attended to ; but Is more likely to be so in a person of her. years. There was no evidence of pre vious deficiency of food. With great care and attention she might have struggled through, but I should say the probabi litiev ws in against her recovery. 1 think the disease cm minced before Saturday night when the pain was felt, and was aggravated by exposure to :MI in her occupation, and by i lying n such a plan as above stated. I should say it was of gnat importance to have such a patient removed to a proper place. It would have been wi ll better to have had arrangements made for her comfort, in tin place whore she was. _ _ — Jane* Dream, of 128, Oldhens-road. butcher—He uid I have known deceased sin yeas.. I saw her en Sunday week. I heard she wu dead yesterday, and went over to seeker. She was lying en • sort of bed on the Ragged floor. An officer ease* is whilst I vas there, and I told hint the ease ought to be investigated. She was extremely poor, but for integrity and honesty, 1 never heard anything against her. She had done her best to earn a livelihood. She bad n• relations that I am aware ot. I wee not aware that eke absolutely wanted food. She attended the same place of worship as I did. I did not 'mow where she lived. She never asked for anything ; bat I sontetintes gave her a trifle, such as tisane* for whisk she seemed gra very teful. The jury returned a verdict of " Died front inflammation of the bulge, aggravated by exposure and lyir.g in the place deserted ;" end expressed their unanimous opinion that there had been noes.% on the part of the overseer and the medical nee who visited the deceased ; recominenling that a copy of the depositions be forwarded to the poor law board. THE EARL OP ELLIISMEIR AND THE LONDON AND NORTH WIRTZ= NAlLlit.T.—For l og i n months an active competition has prevailed between ma trustees of the Bridpwater Canal and the London and North Western Railway, in mwattleellee of which the goods between Liver -I.:itog. _Rauh. "tit WIFI berried at ruinously low rates. llgulswat w bee.,e semimi on for some time between the *it'll hanirta, an bate tottainatad la an amicable nada,- staading• With no °entwinement of the new you the old rates will be irt d iam e d. A BARRA/M.—lt is said that the purehiser of the bed, nu Wbk:n Sarah Thome murdered her mistress in Teen la.at'set, Bristol, by a bidding of 2s. gd., has disco 7001. stowed away thereia.—Curbormjo•iniqs. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' CLUB-ROUSE. Yesterday it mating of commercial travellers took place at the London Tavern, Bishorgate -street, for the purpose of Imaging the necessary preliminaries relative to the fosmation of en establishment, to be called " The Commercial Travellers' Club-house." Mr. A. H. MOORE, of Orars-inn, took the chair, and in explaining the objects of the meeting, stated that, although the number of Beat amen present was very limited, he telt so doubt that la course of tints they should be enabled to carry out the undertaking which they were amembled to consider. Mr. JACKSON moved the first resolutio3 : That the establishment of a club house in some central part of the City of London for the use of commercial gentle men solely, will materially airrame the li-terests and pro mote the comforts of that body. Mr. BOALER seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. The following raw:Whim were successively proposed, and unanimously adopted : That the tithe of so desirable as instPution be " The Com mercial Travellers' Club House." That • slab-holm, with dormitories, Ac , w lob shall he exclusively appropriated to the promotion of the comfort and convenience of the commercial travellers of she United Kingdom, be established in- a neutral part of the City of London, thereby mowing the un , versally-admitted viscounty for some common gathering point i n the metropolis; that such shall be conducted in an unosti stations and consistently economical manner, but with due acid close regard to sub stantiality, respectability, and comfort, and which, with its reading-rooms and appropriate library, will promote baits of mutual and intelligent intercourse that cannot fail to be of advantage to its members, hence to tht trade of the man try, and society g lly. That the proceedings of this meeting be advertised in the daily papers. That a provisional working committee of 12 (5 to constitute quorum) ba appoinVd to carry into effect the foregoing re solutions, sad to (fame a code of laws fur the guidance and government of such inatitivion. It was ultimately resolved that Mr. A. M. Phillips, of Rood-lane, be appointed treasurer pro tens., that Mr. Rum say be the secretary pro tem., and that the office, 3, Queen's strettplece, which he otters gratis, be acknowledged as the addicts for the purposes of the club till further arrangements be entered into. Certain gentlemen were then named to unite with Mr. Rumsey M the formation of a committee; and a vote of thanks having been passed to the chairman, the meeting se parated. POST-OFFICE REFORMS. [From the Globe.) We were enabled to make the following important announcement in the greater part of our imrression on Saturday : We understand that additional measures will tomorrow be brought into operation for diminishing Sunday labntot at the POlt•OffiCO. By (1) a partial discontinuance of the pre sent Sunday morning delivery between the 3 mile and the 6-mile circle in London, about 100 letter carriers will be entirely relieved from Sunday duty; and (2) by discontinu ing certain cross posts, on Sundays, for o.nerai Post letter., in the London district, complete relief from Sunday labour will also be given to 11, and partial relief to several more, of the servants of the establishment. The additional measures for reducing the labour imposed upon the servants of the Post (Ace on Sundays, «bich we had the pleasure of announcing in our last impression, as they have taken effect in the locality in which alone any increase of labour on that day was caused by the late arrangement for relieving the provincial offices, will, we trust, be received by the well-mraning opoorn nts of that arrangement as some evidence that Sir. fill and the Pustmaster General are not engaged in a conspiracy fur the abolition of th e S a bb at h . T hat the work dne in the country offices on Sundays was re duced, even by the hut move, they have nut pretended to doubt. Their strong point has lain, all through the ditcession, in their refusal to recognise a large gain in that direction as any justification what, ver of a small cor , responding loss nearer home. Now, in all couresy, we call upon them to take account of a further step in the same direction, which reduces the Sunday labour in the Loadon office more than the Werner arrangement increased it. Upon a fair balance of the account, fur the m trip .litan office alone, there is now a clear and palpable gain, in the shape of entire exemptiom from labour of more then four times as many persons as those about whom so much needless, and happily fruitless, noise sae made a mon•li or twat ago. The present reform has reference to •he L. radon district branch of the office. The delivery of levers hitherto made, every Sunday morning, beyond the three mi ei circle (from St. Maetin'el a -Gr a nd) and within the sin-mil e circle— which placed that dis rict, so far, upon the same footing as the provincial localities in which Leidon letters are deli vered on Sunday morning, is now discontinued. But the public will not be entirely deorived of the accommo dation thus previously given. The greater number of the letters so delivered were embraced in the dispatch from the chief office. These will now, we uno. rs'and, be sent to their destinaiion, as far as practicedr, on Saturday tutting; and to this end a new delivery (of which the first was made on Saturlay evening last) will be made at ball past seven, p.m. This will en tire ly relieve trom Sunday duty m ire than 100 letter carriers. Also the cross posts which cony. y Geo.ral Post letters daily to and from certain places within the London district, are now discontinued on Sundays, by which toml relief will be given to eleven, and partial relict to many other officers of the London establishment. Altogether, we believe we are within the mark in assum ing that this further step in Post•ofilee reform gives libtrty on the Sunday to an additional 120 persons. TTIE LEAGUE OP BROTHERHOOD.—A correspondent says : " A committee has just been formed io Paris to co- operate with the League of Itrotherhood in this country, for the dissemination of peace principles on the continent. This committee alre►d comprises the names of Victor Hugo, the Abbe Deguerry, H, Cormenin, and 3.1 Zitglen, and other influential men are expected to give in tt eir adhesion. This committee has made ►rrangements to dine .nflether every month, when the operations of the society will be discussed and directed. A monthl♦ ' Olive lest' will be isnied in th- French language, containing short paragraphs adapted to the popular mind in France. This will be forwarded by post every month to about 800 newspapers, with a r. quest to the editors to insert such of the articles as they may approve in their respective journals. By thus feediog the continental press, it is hoped to imbue public sentiment abroad a. well as at home with the principles of peace and brotherhood. Three 'Olive-leaves' are also to be cistributed by band among the ouvriers of Paris and other large towns. An effort will be made, in sccordance with a suggestion of H. de !Amanita*, to form corresponding committees in all the principal towns in France. In thi. way the combined influ ence of many of the most proposal's minds on the continent will be brought to bear in promoting the widest possible ex tension of peace aad brotherhood." OPENING OF THE RE►TOE FOR THE HOUSELESS. —Yesterday the committee of the houseless poor essen.hled at their chambers, No. 75, Broad street, Mr. Charles Hick in the chair, and unanimously agreed to the resolution to throw open the doors of the central asylum in Playhowe yard, Whiteeroe►etreet, for the reception of the bouse!ess immediately, in consequence of the left rity of the weather,. and the diminution of ont-of-door labour. THE RECORDS OF THE MAYOR'S COVET.—The fol lowing is the report made by Mr. Berjeant Mererrether, the town clerk, relative to the arrangement of the records of the Mayor's Court :—" In obedience to the order that I should,: report from time to time the progress made in the examina tion and arrangement of the records of the Mayor's Cr art, I have to certify that, in pursuance of the authority given to me on the 13th April, 1847, to employ • proper and compe tent person to examine the books and the regards connected with the practice and proceedings of the Mayor's Court, I did employ Mr. Brandon, the &linty reghtner, tcr that pur pose, and that he has proceeded in the work, the provers. having been from time to time reported re your committee of general purposes ; that a strong iron dre-prootedoset, in one of the record-rooms under my care, has bet% fitted up. for the reception of the records, numbest. of pest roe& from the fire in 1838. have been removed from the Mice in the Old Jewry to that depository, ant seturrcl in bundles. Other rolls, nine in number, during the reign of Edward I. have been exammed s arranged, ticketed, and epitomised, and forms of each impetrate proceeding have been extracted ..stetaso. Records of the reigns of Rdward TOL, lekhard 11., I Henry IV., V. and VI, hare aha been Mfatid. There are books of precedents of the reign of James 1., illuateated with marginal nines set references weds to them by an index. Records from the reign of Elizabeth to George 1., in SB6 bundles, have been numbered and dated, so so to be capable of re bronco and inepeetiae, a, °session may require, rendering these rewards available for the hangs regulation and prac tice of the onset After the retire ot James L. I did not think is necessary that so topless an index se had been 'before made should be essitinued. mantel the plaints being of an usual and ordinary description. They were, however. classified and duly arranged fur preservation, sad others were arranged for future reference. And after a series of precettests had been secured, a shorter mode of indexing was adopted, curtailing the time necessary for completing the whole arrangement, which I now cons.der sufficient for ordinary practical purposes, though many records still re main nnarranged. Daring the last thre: months of the employment of Mr. Brandon for the purpose of completing the work a shorter mode of arranging and indexinr has been adopted, not so satisfactory as the former, but in as great detail m I felt justified is ordering without the fur ther sanction of the court, with whom it is left to consider the expediency of contialciag or discontinuing the under taking. The arranging, ceased on the 31st of January, 1849, the claming of each species being comp'oteil to the 20th of Charles 1., !caving the subsequent records to the Bth of George I. unelmeed, but sorted in beadles. It will be a satisfaction to the court to learn that in a late case is the Court of St. Martin's-le-Breed, the judge. required a selection of twelve records fee the purpose of !hewing the ancient panties of the court, which were easily produced in o oel eo reenoe of the arrangements which had been made, and the records so produced materially affected the pro oeedir,gs in the cause . -11.14. blakeWltrltili, Town clerk .' A REMARKABLE lwelDwier.—The director. of the Sheffield Banking Company have addressed a circular to their shareholders, containing tha following notice:—" In pursuance of the powers given in the 13th section of the deed of settlement, the directors of the Sheffield Banking Company, finding that, in the present state of commercial money c an ap d itaias adieu, aff teu te ta , i th or ey e, caa hav n e ot e p o r n o c fi l t u a d b e ly a e t m . pl r o e y tt eo rn lu to ge ti.tz shareholders t h e sum of 101. per share, which will ..be pane et balk al sad of sr the 2 1 et Junes/ next."—S4OP J 4 Times. AG s lig NI ; .';% • 7:1 1 :" N 0 a T f i r t s Y