The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-28 00:00:00

THE PENINSULAR MAIL.

The Madrid, Captain Weeks (Lieut. Witch, R.N.,
Admiralty agent), arrived at Southampton last night.
Her dates are : Gibraltar, Feb.l7 ; Lisbon, 20 ; Vigo
and Oporto, 22. Count Thomar was allowed to land
at Lisbon, and two days afterwards he attended the
Queen's ball.: Ilia arrival had caused much conver-
sation. t3aldanha continues to gather strength, but
Magalbaens is disliked in the Cartes. On the 13th
a solemn "Te ileum " for the Queen of Spain's es-
cape from assassination was celebrated, at which the
Queen, deputations from both chambers, a multitude
of functionaries, and a great number of the public
satiated.

Psnent has been made in 27 more departments,
which completes the payments of the Actives and
Inactive@ for the month of January. On the lat of
March those classes will commence receiving their
pay for the current month. Ministers have pre-
isented the project of their bill of indemnity for the
acts of the Dictatorship, but it has not yet been voted
on. The scrutiny upon the election of the new
municipal chamber took place on the 15th. The
names are all progreasistas. The Count Das Antis
and the celebrated Jose &term are dangerously ill.
The present government have stigmatised the decree
of Count Thomar, relative to Mr. Croft, as unjust,
and ordered restitution. The Cabralist number
about ten in the upper chambers. The govern-
, most may be considered strong and in a position
to carry out their measures. Among them
will be a railroad to the frontiers. They intend to
ordain a liberal competition for (carrying it into
effect. Among. the various internal improvements
contemplated is the drainage of Mordego. Ex-
change, 531. Discount of Lisbon Bank notes, 31
Er cent. lier Majesty's ship Dragon is the only
nglish man-of-war in the Tagus.
Our correspondent gives the following as the
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State of the Treasury for the mouth of December, 1851,
the receipts of the month, together with the former balance,
amounted to 899,612,790 refs.; the payments amounted to
622,688,219 rein. ; among the receipts were— From the
Custom-house, 112,868,728 rein, ; the Sote-Caaas, 60,151,099
eels.; duties on grain, 10,182,110 refs. ; the Mint, 8,931,767
rt•is. • and the Yost-wee, 9,198,129 reis. • the sum of
50,248,201 rein. were paid to the Junta do (.4edito l'ublico,
and 1,983,128 to Eoglish officers who screed in the Penin-
sula war. . . .

linsinees will now begin in real earnest in the Cortes ;
the Cabe&list's are terribly vexed lest the indemnisations to
the contract of tobacco should be annulled; it may bring
many thing@ to light, and perhaps discover the fountain
from whence many riches flowed, and into what direction.

TURKEY.
It is stated by tsph frot• Onsisitisople that
the dispute conc-the bikpines Is adjuoted.
Equal nghts are ressaysi to Nt Utrigism. creeds.

COLLISION ♦T Srr►.—Ths Avon which brought
home the West India and Pacific mails on Thursday came
into collision with a full rigged ship off the Limn!. on the
morning of the 25th. The collision did not cause any very
serious damage. The Avon's port paddle•boe before the
spomem was smashed. The mouth of the British channel
when the Avon passed wee crowded with shipping. There
could not have been less than three hundred soil there.
TII Pi ORINOCO STEAMER.—lntelligence has reachtd
Southampton of the Royal West India Mail Company's
monster steamer Orinoco, which left the above named port
on the 2nd inst. with the West Indio and Mexican
Oa the sth inst. the Orinoco was in let. 45 21 N., long.
16 W. The wind was westerly, and there was a heavy sea;
all was well on board. The weather was fair. Iler per-
formance wassatisfaetory. She had averaged eight knots
an hoar during the voyage.

gbe court.

The Queen held a court sad privy amen at 12
o'clock yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
Sir George Grey had an audience of her Majesty and re-
signed his seals of oar as Secretary of State fur the Hone
Department.
Bert Grey had an audience and resigned his seals r
Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Earl Uninvillit had an sudieuce and resigned his seals as
Secretory of State for Foreign Affair,.
Lord Truro had an audience end delivered to her Illsjoisty
the Or9it Seal.

Sir Charles Wood had en audience and resigned his seal
of office as Chancellor of the Eschequrr.
The Earl of Mioto had an audience and resigned the
l'riry Seal.
The Martinis of Westminster had an audience and de-
livered up his wand as Lord Steward.
The Marquis of Illreadelbane had an audience and de-
livered to the Queen Isis gold key of office as Lord Chao-
berlain.

1 he Duke of Norfolk had an audience on resigning his
°Mire es Nlaster of the Horse.
Lord Marcus 11111, Lord Edward Howard, and the Earl
of &What're had audiences, and delivered their Wands of
0 like uTreasurer, Vioe-ClMtoberhtin, and Comptroller of
the Household.

1 he Marquis of Donegal had an audience, and delivered
to the Qtwen kis Gold Stick of 01Reu as Captain of the
Yeoluan.bluard. _

The Marquis of Anglesey had an audience on resigning
his (Areas Master-tieneral of the Ordnance.
The liar) of Derby had an audience of the Queen.
Der Majesty then field a Privy Council fur the purpose
of swearing in the members of the new edininistration.
S. venteen gentlemen of the new ministry were sworn of her
Maje,ty's most honourable Privy Council, and took their
places at the board.
The Earl of Derby kissed bands on being appointed First
Lord of the 'Treasury.
The custody of the Great Seal was delivered by the
Queen to Sir Edward Sugden, who was sworn into office as
Lord Chancellor.
_

The Right Hon. William Earl of Lnusd■lo was declared
by the (hies■ in council President of her Majesty's most
honourable l'riry Council, and AU lordship took his place
at the board.

The Moat llonourablc James Marquis of Salisbury was
sworn into office as Lord Privy Meal.
Iler Majesty in Council woo pleased to declare the Right
lion. Archibald Earl of Egliuton Lord Lieutenant of Ire-
land.

1 he Right Ron. Spencer Walpole was sworn in Council
one of the Queen's principal Secretaries of State (Home
Department).
The Right lion. James Earl of Malrnesbury was sworn
in Council one of the Queen's principal Secretaries of State
(Foreign Department).
The Right Him. Sir John Pakington, Dart., was sworn
in Council one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of
State (Colonial Department).
The Quern having been pleased to appoint the
Right Hun. B. Di,raeli, Chancellor and Under Treasurer
of her Majesty's Exchequer, the usual oath was tulminis-
tried to the right hon. gentleman.
The Duke of Northumberland kissed hands on being ap-
pointed Find Lord of the Admiralty.
The Right lion. U. A. Christopher klawed bands on being
appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
The Earl of Hantwicke kissed hands ow being appointed

The Right llon. John Charles Herrin kissed hands on
being appointed l'resident of the Board of Control for the
AlfArs of India.

The Queen in council was pleased to appoint the Right'
lion. J.W. Henley, President, and the Right lion. Charles
Lord Colchester. Vice-President of the Committee of Coun-
cil for the consideration of all matters relating to Trade and
Foreign Plantations.
The Right Hon. W. Bert•sford kissed hands on being ap-
pointed Secretary-at-War.
The Right Hon. Lord John Manners kissed hands on
being appointed Chief Commissioner of Royal Parks,
Palaces, and Public Buildings.
The Right lion. George Bankes kissed hands on being
appointed Judge Advocate General.
Vis,c,.unt Harding° kissed hands on being appointed
Master General of the Ordnance.
. _ _

Lord de Ibis kissed hands oi. bring appointed Captain of
the Yeoman Guard, and received hum the Queen his Quid
Stiek of Office.

The Earl of Sandwich kissed hands on being appointed
captain of the hon. corps of Gentlemen at Arms.
the Hon. William Bathurst was the clerk of the council
in waiting.
The Duke of Montrose had an audience of the Queen,
and received from her Majesty his wand of office u Lord
Steward of the Household.

The Ili.aqui, of Exeter had an audience, and received
from the Queen his gold key of office u Lord Chamber-
lain.

The Earl of Jersey had an audience of her Maiesty, and
kissed hands on being appointed Muster of the Horse.
Lord Claude Hamilton, *lfreusurer of the Household, and
the Hight lion. Cecil Forester, Comptroller of the House.
hold, received from the Queen their wands of office..

After the Privy Council, the Earl of Derby had an
audience of the Queen. tier Majesty was attended by
Lord Elphinstone, Lord in Waiting, and Major General
Berkeley Drummond, Groom ill Waiting.
Prince Albert presided at three o'clock yesterday after-
noon, at • meeting of the Commission ter Promoting and
Encouraging the Pine Arta in the rebuilding the Palace of
Westminster. The Commissioners present were the Earl
of Carlisle, Viscount Canning, Viscount Palmerston, Vis-
count Mahon, Lord Colborne, the Right Hon. tilir James
Graham, Sir obert H. Inglis, Mr. B. Hawes, and Mr.
Italians; Sir C. L. Eutlake, the Secretary, attended. The
meeting broke up at hslf•past four o'clock, when Prince
Albert, attended by Col. the lion. A. Gordon, returned to
Buckineham Palace.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Countess
of Mount Edgcumbe, the lion. Amelia Murray, Lord
Elphinstone, Cul. the Hun. Charles Grey, and Lieut.-Col.
the lion. A. Gordon, honoured the French Plays with their
presence last evening.
Sir Wm. C. Ross, R.A., bad the honour of taking the
last sitting for a miniature of Prince Arthur yesterday by
command of her Majesty.
The Earl of Derby attended at the allies of the First Lord
of the Treasury in Downing-street for the first time yes-
terday.
Mr. Secretary Walpole attended fur the first time yester-
day at the Hommodice.
The Right Hon. Sir John Pakingtoa attended at the
Colonial-office yesterday for the first time.
The Right lion. J. W. Henley and Lord Colchester at-
tended yesterday at the Board of Trade fur the first time.
Last night's Gazette contains the names of ministen as
published in our columns.
Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday
from the Governors of the West India Islands. Despatches
were sent to the Govcrnon of the North American pro-
, winces from the Colonial•offies yesterday.

(Pram last pletit's (Amite.)

BUCKINGHAM PALAcii, FEB. 27.—Her Majesty in
co mil was this da pleased to declare the Right Hon.
William, Earl of Lansdale, Lord President of Her Ma-
jesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and his lordship
took his place at the board accordingly. This day the Most
Noble Algernon, Duke of Northumberland; the Right
Hon. John William, Kart of Sandwich; the Right Hon.
I Archibald William, Karl of Egliaton ; the Right Hon.
Charles Philip, Earl of Hard.icke ; the Right Hon.
' James Howard, Earl of Malmesbury ; the Right
Hon. John James Robert Manners (commonly called
Lord John Manners) ; the Right Hon. Claude
Hamilton (commonly called Lord Claude Hamilton) ;
the Right Hon. William Lennox Lamellae, Lord de Roe;
the Right Hon. Charles, Lord Colchester; the Right Hou.
George Cecil Weld Forester; the Right Hon. Sir John
Somerset Pakington, Bart. ; the Right Hon. Spencer
Horatio Walpole; the Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli; the
Right Hon. Joseph Warner Henley ; the Right Hon.
Robert Adam Christopher ; the Right Hon. William Beres.
ford; and the Right Hoe. George Banks, ; were, by her
Majesty's command, sworn of her Majesty's mast honour-
able Privy Council, and took their respective places at the
board according Sely. lier Majesty in council was this day
pleased to deliver the Great al to the Right Hon.
Sir Edward Bartenahaw Sugden, Kat.; whereupon the
oath of Lord Chancellor of Great Britain and Ire-
land was, by her Majesty's command, administered to
him • and he took his place at the board accordingly. Her 'Majesty having been pleased to deliver the custody of
the Privy Seal to the Most lion. James Brownlow
.darquis of Salisbury, the oath of Keeper of the Privy Seal
was this day administered to him, and his lordship took his
place at the board accordingly. Her Majesty having been
pleased to appoint the Right lion. James Howard, Eari of
Malmesbury, the Right lion. Sic John Somerset Pakington,
Bart., and the Right lion. Spencer Horatio Walpole, to be
three of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, they
were this day, by her Majesty's cummaad, MOM three
of her Majesty's principal Secnitai in of State accordingly.
Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right
lion. Benjamin Disraeli, Chancellor and Under Treasurer
of her Majesty's Exchequer, the usual oath was this day
administered Li him accordingly.—Her Majesty in Council
was this day pleased to declare the Right Hon. Archibald
William, Harlot Eglinton, Lieutenant-General and General
Governor of that part of the Untied Kingdom called Ire-
'Wed.—Her Majesty iu Council was this day pleased to
appoint the Right Hon. Joseph Warner Henley, and, in
his absence, the Right lion. Charles, Lord Colchester,
President of the Committee of Council appointed for the
consideration of all mutt. es relating to Trade and Foreign
Plantations.

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, FEB. 16.—Notice
in hereby riven, that her Majesty will hold • levee at St.
James's Palm*, on Wednenday, 3rd March neat, at two
o'clock.

WHITEHALL, FEB. 26.—The Qneen has been
pleased to direct letters patent to he passed under the Great
Seal, granting the dignity if a Knight of the Unit.d King.
darn of Great Britain and Ireland unto Charles Nicholson,
Esq., Doctor of Medicine, and Speaker of the Legislative
Council of New South Wales.

I/OWNING-STREET, FEB. 26.—The Queen ban been
pleased to appoint the Itev. John /lowlin Monsarrat to be
Colonial Chaplain fur her Alaji sty's settlements in the
Raver (!ambit; also to appoint the Rev. William Cornewall
to be Colonial Chaplain fur her Majesty's settlements on the
Gold Cont.

COMMISSION SIGNED l T TIIE LORD LIEUTENANT
or Yortasmiaa.—Oeorge Micklothwaite Stan‘teld, to be
surgeon in the 2nd West Vert Regiment of West Riding
Yeomanry Cavalry.

KW CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHE-
QUER.

(Fran the Deity Mies.)
IVe now have a gentleman occupying the office of
Chancellor of the Exchequer who is avowedly deri-
roue of upholding that which he has aptly designated
our " territorial system." Mr. DISRAELI has again
and again told the Buckinghamshire squirearchy,
that such is the prime object of a British states-
man. For that purpose he would shift from the land
to the industry of the nation those local and special
charges which have been inherited with the land, or
have been allowed fur, and deducted from, the pur-
chase money paid for every acre of "territory"
our landowners have purchased. Farmers having
been induced to take their farms at rents cal-
culated on a scale of prices artificially high,
because their landlords had power enough in
the legislature to pass a law to prothise them high
prices by act of parliament; and when the pro-
mised prices have nut been realised, and the law to
create an artificial scarcity has been repealed, the
farmers very naturally look to their landlords fur
reductions of rent by way of compensation ; Mr.
Disnam.i then comes forward and tells theta they
shall be relieved from their local taxes. The taxes
they estimated and deducted before they entered
into engagements to pay rent, are to be remitted, in
order that the landowners on whose property such
taxer are the natural and proper charges, may be
saved from the necessity of reducing their rents.
An arrangement, thie,•no doubt agreeable enouh to
the landlords and tenants, a method of "muting'
things pleasant " to both parties, because both
are " relieved " without any sacrifice on either side ;
but what say the toiling millions, the struggling
traders, the competition driven manufacturers and
capitalists of the nation, to such a method of relieving
the 'ended interests? Are they prepared to pay the
landowners' taxer to keep up the landowners rents ?
Arc they content, now they have shaken off the
corn law, which was the landowners' scheme for
indirectly taxing all the rest of the people, to take
upon themselves the direct obligations of the" terri-
torial aristocracy ?" This is a variation of the claim
of exemption from taxation which was made by the
old noblesse of France—and which eventually pro-
duced to themselves and to the nation ouch terrible
evils.

These are questions all who live by industry—all
who are interested in the bade and manufactures of
the country—must now ask themselves, for such
are the avowed methods---the elaborately prepared
plans—of the new CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
for maintaining our " territorial system." This is a
key to the financial scheme about to be inaugurated.
Let us just see in what this territorial system
consists.

It is the accumulation, iu comparatively.few hands,
of great masses of landed property, which are handed
down, in nominal ownership, from generation to ge-
neration, each successive possessor having only a
fettered and limited control over the estate of which
he wields the territorial influence. lle can misuse
the property, to the serious injury of tho local and
general public, but he has no power to improve it.
His own present and personal interests are sacrificed
to the maintenance of a class interest, a territorial
oligarchy, the nearest approach to a feudal system mo-
dern manners will permit. To conserve this system,
to subject all the wealth and industry of the nation
to unequal burthens, in order to increase and per-
petuate territorial power, will be the great and lead-
ing object of the plans of the present CHAN-
cEiton of the Exciteileilt. Not that the real
interests of the owners of land are ad-
verse to the interests of the rest of the
community; on the contrary they arc entirely identi-
cal; but It is just the sinister, the territorial, the
unhealthy oligarchical interest, contradistinguished
from the real interests of landlords, which has done
so much to impede and retard the progress of the
nation. And now the nation is avowedly to be so
governed as will best promote the unwholesome iu-
ten sts of a territorial aristocracy.
Let us turn, now, to an impartial, a neutral source
for authority ani illustration on this point. In the
most recent work on English husbandry, and one of
the ablest, MORTON'S "Cyclopedia of Agriculture,"
there has just appeared the part which contains the
article " Landlord." And here, the subject being
treated strictly iu an agricultural sense, the influence ,
and position of landlords being considered solely in
relation to their effect on the state and progress of
husbandry, we find evidence mast conclusively con-
demnatory of that territorial system the present tory
government has been formed to advance. After
tracing the decay of feudalism in England, in its
original term, from the growth of commerce, learn-
ing, and civilisation, the writer says that "another'
cause has existed in this country, the latent agency
of which upon the history of landed pro-1
perty, and especially as affecting our whole
agricultural system, can hardly be over estimated.
The feudal system, however, decayed and antiquated
in its outworks by the lapse of time and events, as a
national and social organisation, retained in our
body of real property law a fortress that has, with
singular tenacity, preserved most of the features of
its original structure amidst surrounding change.
Tho descent of landed property according to the
order of primogeniture, the very backbone of
feudalism, has survived the great system which gave
it birth and associated it with men's notions of na-
tural right as connected with the inheritance of land."
This law, and the custom of entailing on the eldest
son all the landed property of the family, has exer-
cised a widespread, a most noxious effect, upon our
agriculture; for under this, the CIIANCELLOR of the
Exclieueen's cherished "territorial system," the
soil of the country has "gradually concentrated
under these stagnating influences into the hands of
involuntary, often mere nominal, owners." The new
energy and activity now required and found amongst
our agricultural tenantry demands from the
owner of land, first that he should be in
the position of a capitalist that is, be
able to make the necessary permanent improvements
on his estate to fit it for the beneficial investment of
the tenant's capital; and secondly, that he should be
willing and able to grant to the tenant security of
tenure, by way of lease or otherwise. Yet these two
things—these indispensable preliminaries to the well-
doing of farmers—are utterly inconsistent with the
maintenance of our territorial system. Nor is there the
slightest difficulty in pointing out the necessary im-
provements. He who runs may read ; the traveller by
the express train can see in the dilapidated farm-
buildings, the overgrown fences and timber, the un-
drained land, the half-barren wastes, the plain and
nodeniable particulars in which improvement would
be undertaken by any owner of land ordinarily alive
to his own interest, and free to act up to his know-
ledge. And all the requisite improvements of land,
inclusure, drainage, irrigation, better farm-buildings,
repairs, reads, leases, and tenant-right covenants,
" all the improvements of which land is
susceptible, have been ably enforced," says
the writer we have referred to, " with a
clearness and self-evidence scarcely complimentary
to the subjects of advice so obvious, and duties so
attractive. Yet, no one will deny, who has any
practical acquaintance with the state of husbandry
and of landed estates in this country, that the condi-
tion of whole districts, in points reflecting upon the
proprietor rather than the tenant, is itself an almost
Insuperable bar to good farming. There are thou-
sands,
perhaps millions of acres, over which mere I
incloeure is all that his been done towards improve-
ment; while the number is small of those farms
which do not require considerable outlay by the
landlord to fit them for profitable cultivation." The
reason why the well-meant exhortations to improve
their estates pass unheeded by the owners of " terri-
tories" which are semi-wastes, is that such properties
could only be improved by division, by the breaking
down into more moderate portions those vast masses
of entailed land now held by our great landowners;
by the abrogation, iu short, of our " territorial sys-
tem."

Now, it is a notorious fact, that at least two-thirds
of the land of this country are in strict settlement ;
that is, the nominal owner is a mere life tenant. 1k
cannot buy, sell, borrow, or even let his land on any
rational terms; ho cannot improve, because the
capital so invested would all go to aggrandise the
already too large proportion of the family property
which, under the settlement, must go to Ins eldest
son. and he must do something for his younger
children. Even his territorial influence will scarcely
enable him to provide births at the public cost tor all
his sons and sons-in-law.

But, "besides the lucre uhacklus of eutuils, the
land is subject to an immense variety of locum-
' brances, totally distinct from its mere direction of

inheritance. It is certain that not more thin half
the Income derived froth find truly belongs to its
nominal °mien; and the proportion has by many
well-informed persons been estimated at not more
than one-third. The remainder belougs beneficially
to others—to mortgagees, rent-charge owners, join-
tresses, annuitants, and the like, while the nominal
owner bears all the costs of management, and
all the accidental or occasional losses, which
are necessarily incident to landed property,
whether held beneficially orotherwise." Leery ono
accustomed to mix with landlords and farmers kitows
that this is a true, and nut overcharged statement.
Absolute and independent ownership of a large estate
is comparatively rare; and the ditficulty of improve-
ment often lies less in the unwillingness and ignor-
ance of the landowner, than ill the tact that the ad-
vantages of such improvements to hint personally
would be comparatively small, or that his pecuniary
means do not enable hint to become an improver.
The only practical solution of the difficulty i that the
landowner, like the merchant, should adapt his
business to his capital, should dispose of the acres
he cannot improve, and raise funds wherewith to
improve the remainder. But instead of such a
rational course, the dictates of the territorial system
induce him to aggrandise the size of his estate ut the
expense of him real wealth, to enter into new engage-
ments, to buy more land with borrowed money,
until he approaches the extreme ease of the Duke of
BuCKINUIRM, who, with the nominal ownership of
half a county, became a bankrupt and an outcast.
This subject has long attracted the attention of
philoeophical writers mid thinkers, and has of late
years become, as it deserves to he, u topic of public
disquisition; but its importance has immensely in-
creased now that we have a retrograde ••averiintent
formed to re-impose all the restrictions and traunnela
ou national industry—olliy recently k u off—
end which were invented and maintained solely to
uphold this territorial Nyhti!ni, a few salient points of
which we have now touched upon.
The character of the members of the new govern-
ment necessarily provokes continent on this landed
question; their nets will probably produce still
more. And it will be well to mite, at the very com-
mencement of the struggle iu defence of commercial
freedom, that since the repeal of the torn-law there
has been more actual improvement of laud, a greater
disposition to seek for profit from improvement
rather than from high prices; and an increasing de-
sire to accommodate the law of real property and tho
management of estates to the exigencies of modern
society, dam existed at any previous time.

THE HOLMFIRTH INUNDATION.

ADJOURNED INQUEST.

The adjourned inquest was yesterday re-opened at
the Town Hall, Holmfirth. There were a great number of
persons present.
George Robinson, a millowner and commissioner, made a
voluntary statement, after having been condomd by the
coroner, to the etf. et that although he had at different
time* opposed the commissioners, he had made many at-
tempts to cause money to be raised, or to have some portion
of the rates applied fur the repair of the Hilberty reservoir,
but had always been successfully opposed.
Captain Moody, R.E., having replied in answer to ques-
tions from the et:stoner, this, in consequence of an applica-
tion to the Home-office, he had made an ex oninatiou of the
reservoir, proceeded to make a long smtement in expla-
nation of cause of the calamity (which we are com-
pelled by pressure of matter to postpone publialting).
In answer to questions from the coroner and the jury, he
stated he did not believe the es-a, omit would have horst
now, if the o nste.pit had been lesser than the embankment;
but from the bad construction of the embankment it ulti-
mately must have burst.
Mr. Jacomb, solicitor on behalf or the commissioners,.
called witnesses, who proved that persons were at the reser-
voir on the night it burst, from Holmfirth, nod knew its
dangerous state. Several of them also stated that at half-
past 10 that night (4th Feb.) they heard Mr. John Roebuck,
one of the commissioners, tell people to go down the valley
and w aril the people.
The coroner would not allow Mr. Jacomb to address the
jury.
lhe coroner briefly addressed the jury as to the law in a
case of this kind, but in so low a voice that he was very im-
perfectly heard, but be was understood to say it outscored
to hint there was gross and very culpable negligence on the
part of the commissioners. Ile did out find, its reading over
the evidence and giving all due weight to their difficulties
and their application to parliament, there had been any-
thing said to excuse that ne4ligence. It was negligence
such as, that if they had been individuals, would have jus-
tified and called fur a verdict of manslaughter; but on the
opinion Ito was about to put before them the commissioners,
being a corporate body, could not be indicted for man-
slaughter; they were not, as a body, answerable for the
acts or neglect of iudtviduals. It was well fur them that it
was so, because he thought, were it etherwiti.e, they could
not have hesitated as to what should have been their ver-
dict. It was no excuse fur them that they sought to rai-e
money to repair the reservoir and failed, or that they. failed
in their applications to parliament. Their duty was in that
case to have turned off or lowered the water in the reservoir,
and though under the act of parliament they might have
been subject to penalties, he thought, with the evidence it
would have been in their power to give in justification, no
magistrate could have been found to convict. It would be
for the jury, however, to consider whether they would not
accompany their verdict with a recommendation as to the
steps desirable in future to be taken in such cases. There
were other large reservoirs, and some of them reported to
be in an unsafe state; and if they thought ay pubic steps
were necessary to be taken in reference to them, no doubt
their opinion would be listened to, and have great weight
under circumstances like the present.
The jury retired to consider their verdict at a few minutes
before 2 o'clock.

THE VERDICT.
(ET ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
" That deceased died through the bunting of the
Bilberry Reservoir, which was defective in its original
construction. That the commissioners in permitting the
reservoir to remain in its dangerous state had been guilty
of wilful and culpable negligence, and the jun were only
prevented passing a verdict of manslaugnter in conse-
quence of the commissioners being a corporute body. They
hoped that government would make u provision for the
protection of life and property against corporations of this
kind."

MARRIAGE OP JENNY LIND.—We can state on
the best authority that the intelligence of Madill°. Jenny
Lind's marriage with our countryman, Henry Otto Gold-
schmidt, published in the London papers, is fully confirmed.
—HawsMaw BnewoAssile
ENDOWMENT or NlAvsoort.-I'esterday evening
a public meeting of the inhabitants of Southwark was held
at the Bridge House Hotel, to resolve upon a petition to
parliament against the further endowment of the college of
Maynooth. John Vickers, Esq. in the chair. The 11ev.
W. Curling opened the proceedings in a short prayer, after
which a most stormy meeting ensued. The chain:win was
interrupted several times in the course of his opening ad-
dream, and the interrupter continuing his disregard of the
many calls to order, was ejected. The Rev. Win. Curling,
in a somewhat lengthy speech, in which he quoted several
works of Roman catholic origin, proposed the first resolu-
tion, to the effect that the college of Maynooth is an anti-
scriptural and an immoral institution, and that the support
of such a college is a disgrace to the protestant:mu of the
empire. Mr. James Henry Shears seconded in • brief
speech. Both this gentleman and the proposer met with
considerable interruption. A Mr. lownwild here
wished to address the meeting, bu: having dropped
some expressions which were not well received, the
meeting refused to hear him, He. however, amidst
considerable confusion, during which great numbers
crowded upon the platform, persisted in attempting to ad-
dress the meeting until the assistance of a poliee-eamstable
was called in ; hut, the chairman declining to give him into
custody, he kept his somewhat singular position. He
afterwards sat down without having obtained a bearing.
The second resolution, stating that the policy of endowing
Maynooth had signally failed, and that the large sums un-
constitutionally toted had been expended, nut in improving
the condition of the people of Ireland, but in educating
men who have helped to keep Ireland in a state of insubor-
dination and a source of trouble to the government, was
moved by Amity Pellatt, Rag, and seconded by John
Thwaites, Esq. A third resolution, to adopt a petition to
the legislature for the repeal of the act of Di4s, was moved
by Dr. Armstrong. Altogether the meeting was very con-
fused and noisy, and considerable amusement was caused
by the address of an operative named Crane, who proposed
an amendment to the second resolution. The proceedings
were not closed till a late hour. _ _

rURN-OUT uE WOREIVEtWI.E.—In tho neighbour-
hood of Radcliffe, near Manchester, upwards of 3,:alft work-
people are thrown out of cmplo'ytuent, in cons. quince of the
winders at Messrs. l'endleburys works hissing determined
not to submit to a reduction of winos.
THE ST RI a.—NIANCIIESTEIL —'Tito Stationary
engine drivers hare hail a meeting, at which it was agreed
to give Is. per week to the men who are out of work. The
millwrights of Manchester have held number meeting, at
which it a ar. decided by • majority of seven to one to Join
the Amalgamated Nociety. This was one of the largest
meetings of this trade ever held in Maoctoster.
have determined to send deputations to the millwrights in
other towns to induce them to art in a similar manner.
COURT of CoMMON COVNeu..—Ymterduy, it court
was held for the despatch of business. The Market COM.
miner's report upon the pro used Islington Market Bill
was brought up and recommeudi di opposition to that men.
sure. The opinion of six counsel was produced, recom-
mending the exercise by the court of the right of donation
to the church of St. James, Deke'a.plare. Dr. Letheby
was elected chemical refiner, and Mr. Taunton was ap-
pointed meter inspector, for the Central Cias Consumers'
Company's gas and works.
CRYSTAL PALACE SALE.—A sale of the timber
and other materials used in the construction of the counters
is to take place on the 2nd March, and the public are to be
admitted to view by the purchase of catalogues at Gd. each.

RAILWAY MEETINGS.