The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-21 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING; FEBRUARY 21. 1848.

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27 tai. alai 111 Meek
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FIZZ IN EDINBURGH.—Great excitement was created on
Friday morning in the Csnongate and Itigh-street by a re-
port that one of the large old tenements at the top et the for.
mer street was on are. The tenement is near to Chem's%
court, on the south aide of the Canongate, and are stories in
height. Flames were first observed about belt-past seven
o'clock bursting out of two windows on the second flat, occu-
pied by Mr. Hutton, pawnbroker, who, with his family, in.
habited the flat above. All of them were in bed when the
alarm was gives, and fled to the street in their night-clothes.
In the hurry of the flight an infant was leftbehind, but Mrs.
Hutton returned and brought it safely through the soaks in
her arms. By this time, the Ronal* had not only reached the
fiat above the warerooms in which they were first observed,
by a wooden stair that communicated with the ware-
rooms and the dwelling-house, but had also pent!.
trated through the ceiling in several places, so that
two fists of the tenement were ravaged. The fire-
men succeeded in subduing the flames about ten
o'clock, but not until they had penetrated to another story,
one room of which was entirel consumed, and some others
very much destroyed. Mr. Hutton's loss is estimated at
3,0001., and no part of it is insured. A melancholy incident
connected with the event has to be noticed. It appears that
an Irish porter, who, with a family of eight persons, pos-
sessed one of the attic rooms, died on the previous day, and
a number of the neighbour' had sat up during the night
holding a wake in the house, which had not concluded when
the conflagrstion burst forth. With much difficulty the
corpse was carried down and laid into an adjoining close, '
where it lay till some neighbours took it and had it buried.
NATI4EAL TRADES ABSOCIATION.—The newly-formed
National Trades Association is receiving some favour in
Glasgow. The association promises to provide for the em-
ployment of its member., both in the manufacturing and
agricultural departments of labour. Each person joining
is required to contribute 2d. in the pound per week of his
average earnings; or, in another form, ten men will pay so
many pence as their average consists of in shillings. The
directors hold that, if the hours of labour were regulated,
there would ba so surplus of hands in the labour market.
At present about 1,500 power-loom workers are unemployed
in Glasgow, owing to a dispute with their employers, but
this matter has no immediate connexion with the wocia-
ion reared to.
MEAL 'nom Tontairs.—The Agricultural Chemical As-
sociation has had under its oorpideration a new kind of meal
manufactured from Swedish turnips. Professor Johnston
does not regard it as suitable for human food, but considers
that it would be beneficial and economical fur rattle. It is
rather deficient in oil, but if mixed with linseed the protein
la would be equal to 17 per cent.

Tugsltayo.—W do not Mar of any settlements, and prices are at
pronast Mint '
Ilyorma.-7140 pardassoa are chitty by AllieriCiall menthonts for
affinmera die United Sutra, at from 26 air, to
imperial aadOunpowder.—Quotatious, 28 to 31, and good to
1111 e AO to OD tans
Young Ilyamt—flocan purchases bane been made for the American
market at from 15 to 55 tarts.
FREIGIIII,—To England the rates are 41. lan to Si,. and cargo very
difficult to obtain.
Exchange—bills on England Melt months' sight, M. 44. to 4s. Sd.;
on Inilia. East lochs Company's aotepted paper, 21S rupees to 216
rupees per IN dollars.
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trht court.
Yesterday her Majesty a d Prince Albert and the
royal party attended divine service at Claremont. The Hon.
and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated.
The Duchess of Kent arrived at her residence,
Clarence-house, St James's, at one o'clock on Saturday
aft moon, from Frogroore-house. Her royal highness was
' attended by Lady F. Howard, Baroness de Sped', and Sir
G Couper. Yesterday the Duchess of Cambridge and the
Prince,e Mary. and Prince Frederick of Hesse, paid visits to
the royal duchess at Clarence-house, Sr. James's.
The I)uke and Duchess of Cambridge and the
Princess Mary, and Prince Frederick of Hesse, arrived at
Cambridge-bause on Ssturdey, from Kew.

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A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon
at the Foreign-otSce. The ministers present were Lord
John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lans-
downe, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland,
Lord Campbell, Sir John Robhouse, the Marquis of Clanri-
carde, the Right lien. H. Lahouchere, Viscount Morpeth,
and the Right How. T. B. Macaulay. The council sat two
hours and a half.

Major-General Sir Dudley+ dill, C. 8., and Major-
General Rolt, C. B. are appointed by the Queen Knights
Commanders of the Bath.
APPROACHING MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE.—The
marriage of Lady Adeliza Manners, daughter of the Duke of
Rutland, and the Rey. F. Norman, rector of Bottesford, son
of the late Mr. Richard and Lady Elizabeth Norman, is to
be solemnised to-morrow at Belaoir Castle, Leicestershire.
The Duke f Rutland will entertain a Large family circle at
title ducal seat on the interesting occasion, comprisiog
the Marquis of Granby, Mr. A. and Lady Elizabeth
Drummond, Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley, the
Earl and Lady Katherine Jermyn, Lord Charles Manners,
and Lord George Manners, who have assembled there.—The
nuptials of Viscount Enfield, NI P., and Miss Harriet Ca-
ndish, youngest daughter of the lion. Charles Compton
Cavendish, M.P., antlLady Catherine Cavendish, are to be
erlebrated the first week in the ensuing month.

INQUESTS, SATURDAY.—EFFIECTS OF DRINK. —By
Mr. W. Payne, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, as to the
death of Clara Jones.—A boy, named Martin, stated that on
Wednesday fortnight, he and the deceased and another
young woman came out of an betel in Oraftou-etreet East,
at four o'clock in the morning. The deceased was intoxi-
cated, and the landlord pushed her. She came back and
caught hold of the gate of the area railings, which came
open, and she fell down a depth of about six feet. Her head
was much cut, and she was taken to the University Coll. ge
Hnepital. In an hour she was got home, but erysipelas
came on, and at last she was cave yed to St. Bartholomew's
Hospital, where she died on Thursday morning. She told a
friend the next day that she wanted to dance with the young
woman, and in trying no do so lell down the area.—Verdict,
.4 Accidental death."--ACCIDENT ON BOARD SNIP.—By
Mr. Payne, on the body of George Jeffrys, a labourer. On
Saturday last he wan engaged with others to discharge
cargo of salt, at Davis's-wharf, Tooley-street, o
front • schoner,
and while he was stepping from the plank to the deck of the
ship, his foot caught the combings of the hatchway, and he
fell down upon an empty hogshead below, a distance of 12
Get. Re was got up, and conveyed to the hoqiital, where
he ultimately died from the injurie s received. Upon a post-
mortem examination of the body, it was discovered that sere
cal of his ribs were fractured in two or three places, and
parts had penetrated his right lung ; and the left being in a
very diseased state, was unable to carry on the vital functions,
and he died from the inflammation of the other.—Verdict,
" Accidental death."

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, Feu. 19
The measure of Sir W. Somerville for amending
the relations of landlord and tenant in Ireland has
given satisfaction to those parties who at both sides
are deemed moderate, and on all sides are respected.
The Mail, indeed, warmed somewhat by the coercive
legislation of the supplementary session, complains of
the invasion of the rights of the landlords ;on the other
hand, the repeal talk of the insufficiency of the pro-
tettion extended to the tenantry. It is, however, in
the nature of things that legislation will be unpleas-
ing to extremes, but sound-thinking men believe that
now the law will, to a large degree, hold the balance
equal between landowner and occupier. The new con-
nexion between them will soon become adjusted to
their social necessities.
One cannot but regard with satisfaction the few
indications the times afford of a desire on the part of
the classes with whom improvement must commence,
to exert themselves for the redress of the social evils
of the country. The county of Wexford has mani-
fested more than a proportionate energy in this
movement. A landlord and tenant association
has been formed there, as you have more than once
noticed, whose operations are directed to the mutual
advantage of landlord and tenant. The association
has just homed aa address to the occupiers of land in
Wexford, recommending them to cultivate the flax-
plant, not only as a means of employing labour, but
as an incentive to the establishment of public and
domestic manufactures, and also as an agricul-
tural resource " calculated in some measure to supply
the loos of the potato." To this end the society
claims the co-operation of landlords and local farming
associations. If such combinations existed in every
county the "land question " would not be difficult of
solution.
The election for a representative, in the room of the
Right lion. Frederick Shaw, was held at 10 o'clock
this morning, when, no other candidate appearing,
Mr. Joseph Napier, Q.C., was declared duly elected.
The learned gentleman was proposed by the Rev. Dr.
Singer, the Rev. Mortimer O'Sullivan 'seconding the
nomination. The speaking was on an unusually
limited scale, and the whole proceedings had termi-
nated before half the town was aware they had begun.
Mr. Napier paid a graceful tribute to the memory of
the late Professor M'Cullagh, and with equally good
taste referred in terms of regret to the cause which
deprived the electors of the services of the late
member.

STATE OF THE COUNTRY.
A concocted conspiracy in Kerry Ins been followed by the
discovery of a reel one, suggested by motives the meat base
and diabolical that ever prompted an intended assassin. It
appeals that a Mr. Mason, of Kerry, had amongst his
tenantry a man named Hannan, a person in comfortable cir-
cumstances. Hannan, several years since, effected an in-
surance upon the life of Mr. Mason, at whose decease 'farm
was to have fallen into his concision. Panting
session of the money and the farm, Ha
nnan conceived
the diabolical intention of procuring assassi
of Mr. Mason. He tempted one man in miserable
circumstances, who refused a bribe, to compass
Mason's death, with another man, one who has a wife
and five children in the extreme of misery, the tempter was
more successful. The latter watched Mr. Mason two
successive nights, but haply had no opportunity of fo
rcoes,ting
his horrid purpose. Meantime a magistrate, Mr. S
got information of the conspiracy, and scoured the country
to secure the suspected parties.intended anusin be
found in bed in his own house, with a loaded pistol at the
Dead thereof. Hannan and his famil be also seized, and
the whole party era now in the polo( Tralee.

SCOTLAND.
BoleatsOß, FEB. 19.
Mr. J. B. Smith, the member for the Stirling
burghs, has written one of his constituents that the
Lord Advocate has informed him that a sanitary bill
for Scotland, similar to Lord Morpeth'a measure for
England, will be introduced this session—an intima-
tion which has given much satisfaction here, as an
apprehension prevailed that the sanitary regulations
in-
of Scotland might, like London, be postponed
definitely. In Edinburgh the town council are de-
fending their municipal and sanitary bills before the
surveyor of the Woods and Forests commis
and in presence of opponents determined, although
not numerous. In his opening speech the Lord Pr o-
vost gave the Daily News illustration of Archbishop
Whately's white and red bean parochial ballet ; but
his lordship might as well have pelted Arthur's
seat with rose-buds, as the cogency of the bean