The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-06 00:00:00

Cbt Court.

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WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Dachesa of Cambridge
end the Prisms Mary took leave of her Majesty and dr
Priem, and returned to Hew this morning.
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar and Mons. ani
Madame Vag de Wryer left the Castle this morning fat
London.

Sir G. Grey strived in town yesterday eveLini
from hie mat, Fallodon Northumberland.

ROYAL SKATINO.—After luncheon on Wednesdaj
Wt, her Majesty and Prince Albert proceeded to tne Baste
Park at Windsor, where the Prince Consort, some of tie
ladies in the royal suite, and others in her Majesty's estw
blishment, amused themselves, for some time, in shawl
upon the niece of water on the north aide of the fool
leading from Adelaide Lodge to Datchet. Hia B .lal NO*
nets performed some very clever evolutions. At one taw
many persons were cmgregated in the public footpath r.crow
the pork, between Windsor and DAtchet, to witnew the 4111
displayed by the Prince. The park keepers, however, hselal
been commanded by her Majesty to request the public so
proceed onwards, without topping, the wishes of the (14,6
ROM instantly complied with.
(From last night's Gazelgs.)
CROWN-OFFICE, JAN. 6. MEMBER RETI* AN!, D TO
Sum IN PARLIARINT FOR THZ BOROVOR 11F LIsKFAILD.
—it. B Crowder, Bag., or No. 17. Carlton-h,
Westminster, in the room of Charles kinder, t. .. ‘,.d.,er•
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ISSATRIOALS AT WINDSOR CASTLE.
The moot at a scrim of dramatic repramitatioas
wok Om ea Thursday Met at Winds*/ be'ore the
Qom, Priam Albert, the Ditcher e, Kest. the Deetwe
of
p,...heidp,, end the Prisons Mary, Prince Edward of lime
vi—eheige-M Priameme Angie sad Elise of Rokaalaii•
iltSsod a firdoOfibod oink al Imam
omeallgata Ike trj: aad muscled
Z.. at .ad
gadtionaseteilikt 0.4.411.1 a
asamasaissd.
flee pa.
ihieuegg a tie magramate of the evening's
.o,7l.jeseet .—" ammaaad, iwor Maj.'s'', servants will I
.71sieei at Windsor CMS* Oa Thursday, Jen. 4, 1849, a
reZreesh, in two acte, acid front the Preach by Dim
37-woomilt, settled." Used Up." Bit Marko Coldstream,
yt., Mr. Charlie Mathews; air Admit Lack, Mr.
grow Hon Tim Satmlbe, Mr. Bellingbasa; Werra (a
eaege),'Mr. F. Cooke; John ',embrace (e blacksmith), Mr.
Ben; Mr. lemma (a lawyer), Mr. Roemer ; Jaws, Mr.
giarhe • Mary, Mrs. Jacob Barnes (late Mice Jails Bea-
se.t); Lola Chateirads, Mrs Hamby. After which, a
two, is see act, by John Madison 11, floe, entitled " Box
oil cot," a rammer of manila. Jobe Box (a Jammu=
cm), Mr. Bsekincie• ; Joists Cax (a inuracyissa hatter),
g~by; Mn Bomar (a lodaiag-loma 'bow), Mn.
buoator, Mr. Charles Kean; assistant director,
Gimp Ellis. The theatre arranged, and the sosasry
agog, by Mr. Thomas Grieve."
Upon leasing the theatre, the Qum was pleased to sous.
mead that Nis espreseisa of her Majesty's approval M the
eserticas of the different performers should be eonveyed to
the director, Mr. Charles Rein. Refreshments were served
ths Thrrnroom. Her Majesty's private band was in
wengance, and performed in the intervals of the different

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pin mairany present were the Queen, Prima Albert, the
Thicken of Kent. the Dacha's of Cembeidp, sad the Prin.
sea Mary ; the Princesses Amalie and Elise of Hohenlohe
achillingsfann, the Prism Edward of Baas-Weimsr, Mons.
Van &Weyer mad Madame Van de Weyer, the Chevalier
Nora, Viscoaatom Canning, Lady Fanny Howard,
lady Ammta Cadogaa, Lady CarolineCocks,~Hon. Cocks, Hon. Miss
part, the Mainfliosuas of Waterford, the Constant of Mars.
Isla awl (two) Loam Murray, the Viscount Ogden, the
Lad and Lady &Omen, tits Lady Mary Berkeley, the
pastier Lady sad Mies Lytteltoa, sad Miss Carew, Mr.
04 she 800. Mrs. O. B. Anson, Coloaal the Hoe. C. B, and
Ms phippe, the Holt. Mr. and Mrs. Ashley, the Lord in
Waiting, the Groom in Waiting, the Equerry in Waiting,
lir O. as 4 Lsdy Coupe? as Mies Causer, o.nnsi and
Lady Isabella Wesaym Geared rad Mn. Soott, Colonel and
Mn. Chslloaer, the Baron Stoslumar, General Bowls, Cap-
Pia F. &yw, Mr. sad Was Moyne% Mr. and Mrs.
Albers,,.. Outekley, the Evan" in Waiting= Prince
Albert, Bans Kamm wek, the Hoc. mad E. v C. L Courts.
say, Meyer, Dlr. Glover, the Commanding Meer and
Tee Onions of the Ilmmad Life Guards, the Conimaadiag
Meer atd Two Ogees of tko Coldstream Guards, Mies
B.lyud, Madams korai do is Loma, sad Mdlls. Gruner.

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11,674,953
373,774

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424,434
190,000
30,000
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33,241
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medium of the Han". Airs Tiel•graph, and as the whole of
ea, article is founded on • mseppeeheosion of your premises,
1 trust you will also publish this letter. You begin with
stating that the two " eyes of tke diocese of Chichester" take
different views of the church's reition—which may or may
not be truo ; but you attempt to prove this by a quotation
from the charge of Arch& aeon llare, and a speech of Areh•
deacon Manaus" made at • late meeting of thivarehdescoury.
Whatsoever an be the agreement or disagreement of these
two dignitaries in general, on the present occasion they are
awaking of two things which have very little con.
neaion with each other. Archdeacon Manning is
sparking on the very obvious maxim that children
should be taubt church doctrines in church schools, which
he here speaks of as the " principle of the church," and says
very truly, that "so far as the state departs one heir's
breadth from this principle, so far it departs from its own
benefit, inasmuch as it Orrnieces a lower standard"—i e.,
arithmetic or geography, instead of relict...a. Archdeacon
Hare, on the other hand, says—and says truly—that if the I
church were to shut out the laity
.from taking part in
godly works (those of education included), the 'Tett
would be, that the laity would become practicolly isfi lel,
and the church system outwardly weak and inwardly
hollow. In both these statements I concur fully, and so, I
can venture to say, would both the archdeacons. Nor should
have thought it worth while to notice this had I not &t-
-oned that there appears to be a constant endeavour on the
part of the supporters of this government scheme of educa-
tion to repentant the clergy as averse to the co-operation of
the laity. It is au opinion held by no class or party what.
ever among the elergy—it was distinwly, repeat.dly, and
deliberately repudiated by Archdeacon Meaning on that
very OCCSIAOII, and by almost every speaker who followed
him. It was distinctly said, "We court inspection ;" and
again, "Management clauses are necessery." What
we do say is that it is important that the clergy-
men have control over the moral and religious eon-
duct of the schoolmaster as well as of the scholars ;
and that if it pease. the founder, of • school to
make the bishop their referee, they should be permitted so to
do. I ale., prottst against your essumption that the educa-
tion questioa is in any way connected with high and low
church differences—be the views of the sr hdescons what
they may, they are not eaponents of the views of the arch-
deaconries. S. vest! persons are collected—men el &Rattles
of opinion- and on that subject are unanimous. Can you
find no better rcaton for this uaaaimity than a sopposed
feel-
iag in the president of that meeting, on subjects totally uncoil-
' netted with the cause which convened it? In common fairness

Pain!''lnt PeW

CHAROL

called, but lire had been extinct some time.—A juror Is it'
not your duty to visit the steps in emotion occasionally during
the night ? Yes, sir, itappears now that it is a part of my duty,
but I have only been on the beat fournights, and my superior'
officer made ma acquainted with the tact. I did not
go farther than Mile's lane ; if I had I should have seen the '
man earlier.—Mr. C. Smith, of Oracechurch-street, surgeon,
stated that when he saw the deceased he was quite dead,
Witness had examined the body, and, from the climate de-
, ceas4 had been used to, he was of opinion that his death !
was accelerated by exposure to the extreme frost during the
night. If he had been discovered sooner, most probably his
life ni'gbt have h •en saved —The Coroner, ',ter hearing a
severe etagere from several of the jury relative to the neglect
of the police, summed up the case, when the following
special verdict was recorded, " Died from natural cause,
and the jury an of opinion that the deati was hastened by
I exposure to the cold, as the spot where deceased was found
heel not been visital by the police for nine hours."--
I FATAL ACCIDINT TO A 13011011AIHMLIPT.—Brfooe Mr. Baker
, at the Frying Pan, Brick-lane, upon the body of Kr. C.
Vanderstein, the landlord of the cavern, aged 86.—Xmmia
' Kameden, the niece of the deceased, deposed that six weeks
ago a disturbarce occurred in the house, and that deceased
had made extraordinary exertions to expel a number of
riotous and disorderly 'snort,. This circumstance excited
him very cocusiderably, and there was an irritable excite
bility observed in his manner from the time of the occur-
rence until he died. Shortly before two o'clock in the
morning the inmates of the house were awoke by hearing
the crashing of glass, and upon investigation it was disco-
vered that the deceased had Callen from his bedroom window
upon the second floor. Ile lingered until Wednesday last,
when he died. lie had, in the meantime stated that in his
sleep his thoughts reverted to 'he previous night's disturb-
ance in the house, and that he imag hied he was again em
pinyed in a personal cooflict with sense of the parties. H.
rose to pursue ttem, rushed to the window, and hence the
accident —The jury returned a verdict of " Death from
injuries received by falling through a window, whilst in a
state of somnambulism."

THE MAIL ROISIBIRT.—We are glad to leant, from
sedoubte d authority, that the two regist-red letters posted
for L .ndon by the Devon and Cornwall Bank, and noble
from the mail on Monday night, contained chiefly bills of
exchange, which were specially endorse I, sod the cult
cheques were se secured as not to be &isolable. Thus, al
though wane lacoavrbience may WITS*, the pecuniary loss
will not amount to twenty pounds—Pirsosieh Journal.
CHOLUlA.—Yesterday, the Board of Health re-
ceived reports of the follening fresh 01111148:—Akitseltspel, 4,
1 fatal; Dronet's es.ablialment for pauper children, Toot-
*, 15, 10 fatal; Offchurch, near Leanintost, 1, 1 fatal;
Beaderlead, 1 fatal: Holyhead, 1 fatal; Belk-. front 13th
Nov. to 4th nat. 26, 15 fatal; Edinburgh, 4, 8 fata: ;
Greenock, 1 ; Stints, 1 fatal; Olt Mankind, 18, 7 fatal;
Clarion, 2 ; Bothwell, 19, 13 foraL Total new cases,
93; 55 deaths.
CUOLE.RA AT TEE lIIPANT PAUPER ASYLUM,
Totrrlne.—Yesterday, Mr. Oreinyer, one of the medical
inspector of the General Board of Health, as oho Mr. Hall,
the pnar-law isspector for the metropolitan di otrict, visited
Mr. Dreuet's Juvenile Peeper Asylum at Tootiug, for the
puree on Institution an inquiry two the ISFIVIDSUIZICOS wa-
rmed whit the outbreak of cholera. From the rep •rt made
by Mr. Kite, the resident medical officer of the asylum. it
app. ass that the malady is on the the amebic, of
come meted to have occurred up to the paied when 11r.
Grainer and Mr. Hall left Touting peeked ,p afternoon—
sassily, five o'clock bring in the aggregate 1811,
an increase race four o'clock on Thursday afternoon
of 71 enses. The number of cases which occurred
dun,. hoeing
um 2-5, and the number of deaths
were 39, hoeing 114 cases now under medical treatnent,
sea* of which are in a fair way of recovery. The M-
oped," in the course of their proceedings, bad their anew
tint directed to an open stagnant ditch which pares +ling
the reir of the asylum grounds, tnd to the nuisances arising
from the County of Surrey Lunatic Asylum, situate about
a quarter of • mile to the north-east of the establishment.
It was stated that all the filth and refuse of the lunatic
asylum was varied, by means of a large barrel drain, down
towards Mr. Droue.'s establishment, and deposits itself in a
large tank, and open ditches pealing through the fiel !s, and
which were calculated to produce malaria and other
penilential disorden. After a long consultation with
Mr. Kite, and other medical gentlemen, the fol-
lowing reeentmendetione were given by Mr. Grainger:—
That the immediate attendance of a rthelient physician and
of the aesistant surgeons be procured, so that there may be a
medical cane la soestant attendance on the sick both by
night sad dsy, mail that is each new can, as soon as it pre-
seated itself, a consultation should be held. That additional
muses be employ. d, and that evay body, after death, be in-
terred within twenty hours, and not kept for removal by the
nervily parishes to which the children brlooged.—Tbe
atlas was again visited throughout the day by committees
of the Boards of Guardians of Bt. Pattern, St. Luke, Chol-
era, the Holborn Union, St. Mary, bilingual, Newington;
the last of want pieced the following neon en the
visitor.' inspection book of the asylum:—" A sesemittes
of the overtones and guardians of fit Mary, Nee
have thin day visited Mr. Drouet's establishment, and
deemed it expedient, in nosequeoce of the presence of a
fatal diem*, to remove the chiltrea of the above parish. At
the same time they beg to express their sincere commisera-
tion fur the painful nsrons situation in which Mr.
Drourt is placed, sad hope that this fearful visitation will
shortly mituide." In ecoordance with this determinstios, the
girls of Newington parish were removed last evening, and
the boys will follow this morning. The othi r parishes which
lave reeolved on the removal of their children are, the
Bulbous Union, Chelsea, and Islington. It is a remarkable
fact, that whilst all this is going on, Mr. Daniel yesterday
received soneounications free two parishes, to know if he
could art mmudate about 200 children from one, and about
150 from the other. Mr. Drown has, of course, declined
taking them at present. It b expected that the inspuron
who visited the asylum yesterday will immediately make I
their reports to their respective boards, and that some farther
Inquiry will be iastitated.
LICRNSED VICTUALLERS' ASYLUM.—Yesterday, a
general halt yearly court of the governen of this institution
was hold at the Freemasons' Tavent The chair was taken
by Mr. J. Raven, the president The auditors' account
having been received sad adopted, the secretary read a state-
ment of the proceedings of the corporation for the past year.
The annual suneriptions mounted to 1,7041. 7s, showing a
deficiency of 481 2e. when oempared with the preceding
year. In every other SCUM of income there had been an
uscrenee. Tte ball had realised a profit of 811. 18e. 9d. • the
Gory fair, 2531 Is. Bd, ; the dinner, 201. Diming a
peiiod of great commercial difficulty, the board had been
enabled to discharge every liability, place 2601. oat at in-
terest et 6 per cent., sad had left a balance of 271. 2t 3d.
in the bands of their banker.. The society had, at the
end of the year, 7,3041. 19s. 9a. invested in unison
and 2,6001. in the hands of three large :mewing
Arm., for which ave per sent. interest wasallowed.
Thee: enabined resources had enabled the board to continue
the weekly allowances to the occupants of the almshouses.
Those allowances daring the past year amounted to 8661105.
Four mammies in the unbosom had beau occasioned by
deaths, sad four pension's to fill up the vanincies were
elected on the 16th ult., when there were no iesa than 64
catididates, all of whom had bees domes to the asylum in
the days of their preeperity.—The report, which was deemed
Ma.satiefactory, and formed the subject of mash COURTS-
aionesti. The committee and trustee for the
inmelag yearins
wen thin aggeintsd, and the other formal
he a war st tin
bonier bevies bensnan its dipsosalet
tbseanirmss. the proceeding terminated

MR. GRAINGER ON CHOLERA. 41
At a eonversazione held on Wednesday evening at
St. Thomas's hospital, Mr. Grainger eelivered a very
interesting lecture on this subject. Having given it
as his opinion that the mission of the nit dint pro.
(casein was prevention rather than cure, he proceed. d
to inquire it cholera was contagious, arriving at the
conclusion that it was not, and that, as in the ewe
of plague or fever, it was to be attributed to the action
and influence of 'eternal circumetames altogether apart
from contagion, and to he, like them• arrested by prevention,
not cure. Quarstrint s, cordons sandal's*, and every sther
Precaution of the kited, to check those diseases, had ever
tailed, and had bt en abandoned as fruitless by the commas I
consent of every government of this part se
the world. If he were sight in attributing them
to the influence of external circumstances - those
circumstances could be controlled in one Cale as well r
the other. In fact cholera, it was well knows, followed the'
track of fever. F. Ter, but especially that of the typhoid eha•
ratter, was to be found in localities where the atmosphere
was most foul and the inhabitants most crowded, and it die-
appeared in pre:weed in as these external ease.. were dind
Melted. In proportion as a district afflicted with fever-
whether typhus, a mtinued, or scarlet lever-au improved
by drainage, the renewal o. ceespools, and other sources of
unhealthy gases, and the dispasing of crowded inhatAtauts
into cleaner and more commie:bus dwellings, in proportion
did the fever abate and disappear. This he could attest by
illustrations' not only from the great towns, but all the
small agricultural villages of this country. He feared that
the medical mind, particalerly of the metropolis, was
too much inft-aced spin this subject by won was
observed in the hospitals, end that it leant to the belief that
fever was contagion., because physicians, nurses, and
students, who abet dad fever hospitals, were not noire.
qusotly themselves seised with the disease. But it shoal
' be borne in mind that they were meted in an ateaosphemi
Pleas Lima
which was impr •gnated with the effluvia of the feul Mae
Year. Number of Menem. oteeded. ...et charges and impure breath of fever patients, and that men, I
1144 9 h,,,,w4.,1 during year to II ea le
INS ... II 99 99 is ... at ... s lag, were more open to We influence of such external Cir.
1016 .. IS „ ... lee ... 12 euenstances than these is rude health. Let that wan-
ts** ... 21 21 ••• 122 ••• 12 don be tested by placing • fever patient from
114$ ... 24 „ „ 26 ... 213 27
, ... one of the fever hearted' of our cities on the
TITHE COIIIIUTATION.--Sle,-Ace your agricultural, top of a mountain, in pure air, and then he would
as well as clerical, readers may feel =gime; to know the venture to say that none of those attendants, however long
result of the averages for the seven years to Christina lan, they remained with that patient, widd be a tasked with
which have been published in the London Gander of this the disease. He knew many =entry physicians
evening, vie.:-Wheat, 6.. 10ed. per imp. bush. ; barley, who, in discourse of their practice, had frequently to attend
4. ltd. per ditto ; oats, 24.81 d. per ditto-I beg to state cases of typhus, but they were all of opinion that it was not
fog their information, that each 1001 of rent charge will, for contagious. In Liverpool and Manchester, out of 100,000 I
the year 1849, amount to 1001. 3a. Me, or nearly 2 per Mt. born, more than 60,000 died under the age of 6. In Bore y,
lower than last year. The following statement from my one of the healthiest °peptic., in England, out of 100,000'
" Annual Tithe Commutation Tables," will show the value born, only 20,000 died at that age, and yet the operative and
of 1001. of rent charge foe each year since the passing of the poorer classes of Liverpool and Manchester were better fed
Tithe Commutation Act, viz : -For the year 1837, and warmer clothed than those of the country, but they lived
981. 13s. 914. ; 1838, 971.75. lid ; 1839, 951. 7s 9d. ; 1840, in crowded and badly ventilated In, courts, and lane.,
981. 16e. 94d. ; 1841, 1021. 12a. 61d. • 1842, 1061. Bs. 21d. • consequently in a lees healthy mesosphere. Surely this
1843, 1061. 12e. 21d.; 1844, 1041. 3.. Me; 1846, alone spoke volumes in favour of sanitary measures.
1031. 17s. 114 d. ; 1846, 1021. 17e. 81d.; 1847, 99e. 184.101 d. ; It was a curious fact, too, that in those dim-
' 1848, 1021. ls.; 1849, 1001. 3e. 71d. ; total, 1,3171. Os. 81d. ; tracts where there was the highest amount of
general average foe the lest 13 years, 1011. 6s. 2yd.- mortality the inane* of population was greatest.
Mane= M. Witeeett, 26, Suffolk-street, Pall Mall, Jan. The learned lecturer having stated sopie other facts baring
6, 1849. up= the sanitary question, proceeded with his analogy be.
THE RELATIVE VALUE OP SECOND-HAND Nitwit- twin cholera and fever, by proving that ender' followed in
camas.-At the art:oal isle of newspapers in cancan the came track, select. d its victims from amongst the same
with the mason the Leeds shrew, he lege daises, and was espable of being checked or prevented by
was sold for Ike • the &stern Cowestiss Herald, 13e. 64 ; the adiption of the same precautionary measures. He
Yorkshire Gausses, 13s. ; toresAiremets, Ils. 6.1. The assumed, therefore, that cho.era wee not contagious, but spi-
rit, realised .er the Deily Neer exceeded that of the Tints demic, and this opinion he was fortified is by many Acts
and the other daily =p.n.-Boners Carlin Herald. Frenkforteon-the-Maine, k r instance, was a remarkable ex.
RAILWAY ARCHES A REFUGE FOR THE Dlliet- tnYtion of freedom from from cholera, and yet all the towns
cost.-The Builder suggests that if the arches of the South around it were kneel* aff cud by the dirges. He
_it to.. visit one room in a house while
Western Hallway, at Lambetb, were floored ant boarded on pee Ina town near Glasgow, of 10,000
the lid"' "h" would form • ref"e for the h°°.°lll° t° °u the othm
tr.ers had been 42 b in
such an extent that no unfortunate person in London would cues ; at that town
a perfect paroe illelogram of houses with a ditch all
want a dry covering in the inclement season. A merely there w
raised Mama on each side, like those in the military guard. round, into which &bra' and filth of every description was
thrown, exhaling carhuretted and sulphured= h_ydrogen,
rooms, would afford the worn sad weary a better repose than
a heap of atones, or dry trenches in the parks. Other details whose noxious characters were so well known. He cense.
dead, therefore, that h questini was not one of o '
would be readily suopested by the philanthropic; but even
don' but of locality. t eNo less than 140 c lead been mi-
ter baths sad wasbhouaee for the poor, as well as soupekit-
ea
d ' Glasgow itself, some of which were to be attributed
chess, these arches are well adapted. For the latter par- :Lao e
doubt.%the abominable ' '
per, sa enormous and constant supply of hot water weld beto Immutable vice of drunkenness, but many
ehhethed aces the wasted heat of the extensive ht more to the, fact that daring some years past there were
Ntee.athe, beam were erected then, tenne whew:. it poured into Glasgow about 10,000 poor Irish without any effor
made to pr ,ride additional dwellings, the consequence
weld be seaveyed in pipes, and the heated pipes, by paring „.he,ing
through those arches filed up as receptacles for night refuge, overcrowded local-Cm and increased susceptibility of
keep them heeethily dry, sad give genial warmth todisease•These were butte which he realty thought might
the smasiated and distressed deaisen• to be talon. d from every pulpit in the kingdom, as coming
within the province of a minister of the gospel, for so certain
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE BLACKWALL RAILWIY. as they thus crowded human beings together, so surely
-Ace @widest, which terminated fatally, immaired " would morel denudation, religious desecration, and physical
Pat•ed• morning, owing t° neglect of the debarment, follow. In a range of buildings in Glasgow
people at the )Linoriee station not fastening one ef the car- possessed by one man who was distinguished for his immense
rime doors. A seaman was proceeding to the Witt ladle wealth, and in which there resides some hurdreds of per-
Desk and eat. red the second der =department of was of the sons, the families of his Wefkaleo, %litre was but one p•ivy.
and had proceeded se ter as Gun lane, fametuutee And yet, although those families lived under this wealthy
:raailme m at:leant against the carriage door and was looking out, man's eye ; and he had been informed of the fact, he took no
and the doer suddenly flew open and he was precipitated on steps to remedy it-forgetting the great precept that riches
to the line. All the rom211114!1±211•7 the train ram" were entrusted to him as the steward of 61. r. mercy, to use
over hies body, the wheel' mutilating him in • frightful man- for the benefit of the poor. But what con iition of nsorslity
may. Ho was conveyed to the 1.12".112.01126111ray"11°° could, he would ask, be expected from men and women, cif,
where miaow assistancewas procured. but Me was found to muumuct as tense were, and using in common such things
be quits extinct. as he had named ? The learned gentleman, addressing more
Flitaa.-Ar Bow.-Late on Thursday night a are I particularly the medical portion of
,hieaniitory. proceeded
bream out openthe premiums beiongiog to the Nonhumber- 11 to deliver his views upon the subject of cholera, es a disease
land and Durham Cot Company, known as the Railway into which it is beyond our duty to follow. We may, how-
Wharf, lower side of Bow Creek. It commenced in a wooden ever, observe generally that he did not consider diantres a
bundles about 45 feet bag by nearly 20 brow!. Owing to premonitory symptom of cholera. He admitted that there
the sadly ignitable sawn of the building, but few labiate* were premonitory symptoms, seth is great acxiety, restless
elapsed are the same was in flames. Inforw.ation was seep, an enemy nensatio-. about the legs, indicating cramp.
promptly forwarded by the maws, garde to the mew and great Ainurbence of the alimentary canal ; but the real
Nodose, sad in • short period several engines attended, but ' proof of the presence of cholera he behoved to be the stop
not in time to render say setteleale, he the fire had abase, page of the secretion of urine. He awned with • distin-
bent itself out-As POPLAR.-Anotber fire, at No. 6, rushed writer oes the =been that the Mat inflamer of
Tegkrosreot. Poplar New Town, wee ceased by some dill- cholera was on the blood, and that the euenseue discharges
dram pl_eybeg with fire, sad thereby ea a bed, in whisk which took pier erne ally efforts ei nature to purity It.
two Nail= were lying, a flames- The Meg of the inmates There was se cessation of the ggaa juice ;at least milk
banged meistaaus, and the children were rescued, bat not istrodasal bad bees hand eoagselated, and to show that the
bolero ear wee dreadfully homed the Wine nenewl7 action of the liver did not cease, the learned gentleman held
ewesped. up to view a gall bladder t egad with bile, which had
INQuittrys, YLIVERDAT.-FROZEN TO DEATH.- been taken from • cholera subject, and the sight
Before Mr. W. Payne sued a jury. in the vestry of Bt. Magmas of which, he hoped, would not alarm non.
cher* Fish-etreee-hill. relative to the death of a Lesser professional friends. The learned emblem= concluded his
sailer, who was band deed on Missteps leading from Upper address (deride:lt we give • mere outline) by expressing an
yistmoe.eseest as King Williawstrest, London-bridge.-W. earnest hope that the attention of pathol eats would he di-
Canaink, city policeman, deposed that on Wednesday ozone reeved to the great question of prevention rather thin cure,
log lams, about balf-past In whilst on duty in Upper and that there would be a speedy enlightenment of eliciting
TligaiwiNnet, a ~ean called his attention to a pease who of the rublic on the subject, lamenting. as he did, the
was lying dead out thoi western steps of the bridge, near Fie.- lantentsble amount of ignorance that prevailed amongst
mongers' Hall. The 4.'eresed appeared to be a fireigner, , them ; which he ifigestreted by referring to an observation
and was very badly clod. ed. -Ifr. Smith, the etortecire was Pad" by a member of one ol ,12c local boards of guardian.

I call upon you to publish this letter. You hays, I believe
from misapprehension, larenght • shaige against r of only the
Archdeacon hut the archdesconry, which both he and we re•
pudiste. You have brought against us things which we
disclaim as well as you ; and you are barely doing us justice
in publishing our disclaimer --Right NaWLAND, West-
hourne•viesrage Ennworth, Jan. 4.
MORAL CONDITION OF TOR GOLD-FINDERS.-
A correspondent in California of the New York Tribune,
gives the following fearful account of the effects of the ple-
thora of gold in that province : As you would suppose,
vice of every kind, and in the most horrible forms, prevails
here. The runaway sailors work awhile and collect a quan-
tity of dust, which they spend with the same reckleasnies
that they do so much silver at home. They pay seven or'
eight dollars per bottle for liquor, have a b. spree," from
which they come out destitute, and then begin again. A
great deal of sickness prevails, and as one after another dies,
he is thrown aside with the utmost indiffersone,without even
a oovering of earth. There has not, as far as I can learn,
been any quarrelling among the diguen. There is so much
room for all to Operate, that there seem, no necessity for any
disturbance.
_lV:hat will be the result of this I cannot hari•

say idea. I shall improve every opportunity to inform you
how lam getting along. I have wen the last min on board
of an English brig, near me, hoist his chest out olona, and
scull to shore, abandoning the craft to her fate, the captain
and mates and all the others having gone before."
ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF LIFE
raw( Plan —Summary of 8n attended and human life
saved by min% of the sNiett's firs escapes and conductor
time its mestablishiscat In 1843 :

- 7rIII6FINANCIAL REFORM ASSOClATlOS.:oBemotteatly
hes the rosiness id the Fiesatial R-forms • r-
evered, owing to oommureations pastries in from all parte
of the kingdom, that the council have resolved upon ?MOT.
ing their offices trout Hergrave'sletildings to mama memo-
thous rooms, in the Nernagtoeshambers, North John-street
These is not, perhaps, ea instance es Nerd In which • body
of men, united for the prothstioe tithe Withal adventsp,
has beta 'o signally stressehd as this. From all quar-
ters of the kingdom, from men of ell sore end
parties, including the civil sad military dear, alike
the remegest expose-ions of empathy and offers of co:
epreilles re daily received ; whir mares of evidence, in
Vimosimeifleseish ezproiltars, are trsnamitted from the mat
sewer the end near. The agitation for state
end 1111111111411 Jessie. to tax pyre has indeed era-
sieff k esold analotedy to In persevered in. ern if
some memo arriammeselel prosperity be the remit of cer-
tain dither sew propible in the world. Then will be no
serrity for the future, ff the past be for • moment forgotten ;
sad Uthe rapt, rah off %hetr national ledger keens me-
mos; say seeuandatitim of means mein hum better trade
will not mire ter the fferrusti enjoyment, but will be ab-
sorbed by these who so systersticelly rep each re ben.
vests without sowing the . weds ef them. —Lierrposi
OPINING Of THE NVW LONDON CATTLE MAD/ET.
—The spociers Garr mans, which hes tar woe time per
ben in erne of tweeds. st Minim, is to he opened with
meek esvemeny en Tuesday Ant, the 9th last. The gentle-
men who have the ntemegessent of the samern heir per-
domed the valuable lallegien estate, enneistieg of the market
bore, eaves prie-honses, 30 dwelling-houses, with the
larder in the market, d.• , Lin secreing 16 ear, with
Pr" stalls, MINN baskiset-Eatem. erwided 97
the lets Kr. Perkins en 22 eerie of lend. The area ef Smith-
geld Yorkist, for all purposes, does sot, it appears, exceed
lye ems. The new market ut Islisposi, In its purest state,
essommodate 8,000 sank and 60,000 sheep, besides hov-
er
pip, Le., safely lodged within its wells. The Janus..
Railway, new construed eg from Bleckwell to the narthers
sad ewers esaintre, and the Oreat Northern and Western
Railway. will pre the market within 360 war* from which
• tmeroad will be rid into the merket: It is calculated
that, r seven-eighths of the cattle brought into the market
enter by three path Ira, very few need be driven into
Lambe at all.
TH Z CHICHESTER A BCH DEAOOIIIIIT. -- —AR
snide of !nun has just melted me, distilled through the

THE EXPRESS. SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6. 1849.
AN ABSTRACT OF THE NET PRODUCE OF THE REVENUE OF GREAT BRITAIN,
Ix Till YIAly AND QUAIIIII4 =DID JAN. 5, 1848, AND JAN. 5, 1849.
Queners ended Tsar 1 413allotao =dad Year . you 0r:449. Jim. 3, !Quarter ended Jail. 3,
aided '
Ara!' jr147473, 0ct.8;14 j 114.314. 1116a42.3, Ar 6118.9, 1 jrz.s.. Oct.,,r, I-42. ties? -
....... .................. ______..... ..447,47 4,319,D9 034,444 4,111, 111.014184 4,42,6501 -4.447,432 3,443411 4,443 11,941,40 1 914,063 370,34 -1
Wise --.---..... .._ 1,64, 1,191,032 3,329,1116 3.244,667 11,730,74 4002,901' 4474603 4,102,374 3,233,16 11,634140 101,184 6,270
Noma -- -...-----. 3.1121 1;69,464 1,707,145 4564,633 4,359,344 4616,441 1,317, 1,4111,14/ 1,472,396 4110,644 643,696 91,237
Two .......-___._. 4073.031 11343 1,114,7 4,834,861 143401 2,434.1 116,656 1.1737.01 4.974.787 19,657 6,220
ikin
=jaz -..- ...„ „..... MAP 4484,317 4114615 442,47 1440,401 2,044640 186,411 1.1104 414, 6,347,141
111,1453 123,000 416, 1114,000 221. en us, 291,•oo in, 776,006 113.434
10,000 10,000
40, 77001, 31.4011 91.0001 4,oce 10,000
7,411 /SAS 11,7 164.926 36,307 %IV 14913 1 7 164186 111,760 9,063 .....
- I - _ -
Total ardlaarf rooms .10,430,377 13,013,414 11,612,191 11,360, 47,616,676 10,497,74 12-707 ISAIAS la, 11 48.401,1141 4019,466 1,143,731 184,003 130,390
Clibss Mary
laspreal aNdlother Mom ............. .......... _ 13,339 1111,611 4,6117 10,614 216,641 24,432 1116, 112.,427 UM 413,3041 166,7471 93,211
Repaymeals of Advances ........».......»._.»..,... 164,563 137,944 167,468 74,046 364,044 74,136 30.1113 112,103 141063 414451 149.795 88,147
'Total Llama ... 10,648,404 13,240,190 12,643414 11,663,3 411,737,34 11,051,379 1241440 11,613 31 12,33141 47,934823 41127,303 4393,344 637,117 130,390
Am 33 011. Tualla...lAava. tbes. of Lana 1,207034 9,912,613 6,236,46 7,014,- 26,847,04 3,9541,43 11,614,05 7,11.,416 C 174.147 • 4.978.114 1721674441 DM' Dm' 11°'119° Doi De"'
Dittl=d al
4,940,000 1,756,311 396,064 340,630 5.403,113 14,019 211.111 434744 114. MSS - Imolai* - b....
Do. am partottbowirpt molastithoyear 5,461,196 7,113,616 3,116,232 4,669 744 =,3110,670 4,946,016 3344319 0.136,136 &193.63019,931,403 383,1571037N6 74ar 4447427 0.1 wawa.
Total
I

The INCOME and CRA.ROB of the CONSOLIDATED FUND, in the QIIALTRiII ended Jen. 6,1848, and 1849.

ToroNNW Aanitito-
toloototaa
iudlathsgwar MY brawl to IN amp es Omotklated road
eadog
711.11 OA us

OtberAdoeireo Cargos ch the Ohio Waled Foal
For -

Total Chop . ... ..-
The Surplus

,M 4,728
379,700

11547
351.1101
11140,830

The amount of Ms Wool to meet the lime cm the Cases-
lidded Fund for the l3carter em kd Oct 10, ISIS. se ml mid elf out of
Um growing pf °duce of thst Pond foe tbe Clnarter mild Jon. 1, UM
The Amount tented In the Qr. ended Jan. 5, lOWA be pert of the Smog
greeted by Parliemmt oat of the Conselideledfund bring*, eerviees
lbeffurplue of the Oloodidated Fund, Quarter meted Jan. 1,1114 S
The Surplus Revenue, ease provtdlsi for the aeries on the Ocanolideted
the earnest of mredv florets. In ferret Refute la the Quarter aided is

7,207,632
6,043,02/

I 8,13.3.99638
I lB,lOB
!hal, sad for
r. 3. 1849

6,8044737
676,876
1,033

91,693
164,330
379,234

7,044,953
5,116,203

12,361,161

1,362,007

1,1R4,530

when he declared Vienne atmosphere at a certain part of
Whitechanal was pestilential, to the effect that he (the
member of the beard) wee so aoaviated that such smells
were wholesome that he would not suffer a water-closet in
his Imes. (Laughter.) He. however, congratulated the
countiy on the fact, that 90 towns had already applied to
parliament for a general improvement act.

A PRIVATE'S REPLY TO GENERAL NAPIER.
Sir,—There appeared some days ago in the Times
newspaper, a letter from Major-Gen ml William Napier,
colonel of the 27th Regiment, laudatory of the purity, pa
tnotism, dic. of himself and a few other disinterested indi-
viduals, who, for " their country's pod " only, have (doubt-
lees after much solicitation) suffered themselves to be pre-
vailed upon to take the command of their country's regiments.
As the, of 031111 e, gallant and reform-repudiating general
has. in the shove letter, unaccoun.ablyoverlookedtho " beam
in his own eye," while philanthropically tugging away at
the " mote" in the visual organ of his neighbours, and as
from say pmition and experience as • private soldier I have
some acquaintance with the various matters on which he has
kindly undertaken to enlighten • benighted any be aildered
public, I trust you will allow me to correct • few of that
officer's misrepresentations. If, in so doing, my sympathies
may appear to be strongly in favour of the Cobden school of
reformers, I have to remind the worthy general that this is
but natural, seeing that free trade has added 2d. • day (or
nearly so) to the soldier's pay by cheapening the price of his
provisoes. Soldiers have good cause, therefore, to regard
financial reformers" with respect and gratitude.
The " clothi. g matter " has been so ably handled in Mr.
Glade/melt letter, printed in the Express of yeete rday,
that any farther remarks on the subject may 'twin superflu-
ous, yet I cannotavoid pointing out, in pasting, how utterly
inapposite and foreign to the purpose is the reply of the
Major General (I give it this title by courtesy) to the charge
made by the Finance Association. Teat charge, n few
word., was to this effect—via., that the tailor colonels of
regiments got a profit by delivering had clothing to their
men ; in fact, being allowed some 315p001. for clothing the
various regiments, they only expended some 240,000/ for
that purpose, and patriotically put the trifle remaining into
thee: pockets ; a charge not entnplintentary certainly, but
plain enough and intelligible. Well, what says " the colonel
of the 27th regiment" to this? Why, after expending a deal
of virtuous indignation, he enters on a rigmarole statement
about" boards " and " checks " amounting in the end to
this, that the clothing was as " good as the samples !"
(:" sealed patterns"). A pretty explanation truly. lie
doesn't say • word about the price, quality, &c., of
the "se led patterns," who selects them, or whether
they are selected with an eye to the amount of
cash advanced by government. Into none of these secrets
of the trade does he enter; but having stated that the quality
is equal to the "sealed pattern," details all the check, devised
to prevent any other quality being used afterwards—in other
words, having got their own share of the proceeds, he en-
larges on the Vidocq iogeouity with which they prevent any
one else getting any—" the clothing is equal to the sealed
patterns t" Private Guzzle, being accuser of being intoxi-
cated on the morning march, in London, satisfactorily proves
that he was sober at the evening halt at Manchester.
Major-Gen. Napier next advaroes to another degree of
comparison. Nut only is the ebbing as "good" as the
sample, but it is even " better " than that of continental
military. Looking at my coatee for the present year, I pity
the continental soldier.
Aud now, air, I proceed to a few statements of the gene-
ral, on which experience qualifies me to speak unhesi-
tatingly. First, we have an interesting picture drawn of a
parental sup- rice officer loop cting a regiment, and a touch-
ing statement about " mutual confidence," &c., which looks
wonderfully pretty on paper—the only place in which I ever
saw it. The fact is, that the general on these occasions just
looks round, and (mindful of the evening dinner at mess)
stairs that the regiment is in a state of the hiihest possible
order, perfection, and discipline, and then coldly asks if there
ere " any oomplainfs ? " But. while he asks this, he knows
(or might know) what every man present knows, from the
colonel downwards, that the whole business is a vile Gam,
and that if any one dared to make a complaint, his whole
subuquent life would be a curse to him. Ido not speak
from hearsay or fancy. I saw one poor fellow complain to a
geoeral officer about some gross treatment he had received
from his captain ; the officer, of coarse, got nil; the private
afterwards worried, badgered, and bullied, until, in a
fit of despair, he deserted, and on being re-taken, got twelve
months imprisonment, the usual punishment for a first de
e-rtion being three months. Another man got four months
imprisonment for writing • letter to the Board of Ordnance,
for a civilian who could not write, and such cases are fre-
quent.
It is notorious that quartermasters of regiments make
large sums of 11101117 : ask the general where it comes from.
If he does not know, I can tell him. The general says we
can boy where we like : this is all stuff. The greatest exer-
tions are urd to prevent the men buying anywhere save of
the military authorities, and at their owe prices. Spadal
inspeitors of neesseeries " are ordered, for this very pur-
pose ; the captain goes round, with the pay earjsant at his
heels, and if an unfortunate fellow has purchased say article
himself, no matter how good it is, it Is pounced on straight-
way, iu.ndemned as " unregunental," and the man has to
pay for a new one. I have seen fifty or sixty shirts con-
demned at one inspection of • single company ; not that the
articles were old, but they were "not regimental." The
quartermaster's articles are scandakusly dear, and pretty
notions of justice must they have, who, when I an buy •
rood knife and fork elsewhere for sixpence, insist upon my
purchasing an inferior article of hit for Woman.
The general says : "All officers are ordered to retire at
half-yes:lr inspections, when the general mks if there are
any complaints." If this be the case, how is it that I, who
have been present at amens of impactions, never yet saw it
Space prevents any farther remarks from me at present.
With your postilion, I hasps again to return to this sub-
ject. Misanwhi.e, I beg to remind the general that the
" you're another" strain in which ha concludes his letter to
the Tames is always • sign that the writer is sadly put to it
for facts and arguments. The general ought not to need
reminding that my neighbour's being a poacher is no excuse
for me in turning @muggier ; and that even if a stray menu-
facturrr or two may curtail a few p.m. from their people's
allowance, this will hardly justify a ample of hundred colo-
nels filching some seventy or eighty thousand from the
national pocket. A NIP/AM SOLDIIII.

LORD CREWE'S

SIR,-f have often read, with a great deal of
pleasure, your exposure of irregularities end abuses in the
church, and of church properties, and I trust therefore in
bangle' before you an abuse by churchmen, of property left
for charitable purposes, I em not trespassing too much upon
your valuable time.
Led Crewe, Bishop of Durham, left large estates in the '
.ty of Northumberland to trustees, who were to apply
rents to charitable purposes. The present trustees are
the Master of Lincoln College, Oztord—by virtue of his
oiliee—and, I believe, who troubles himself little about the
tetra estate ; the Rev. D. Duren, D D., canes of Durham ;
the Rev. IL G. Liddell, rector of Eulogies, in the county
of Durham—both of whom also pay little attention to the
charity ; the Venerable Cha les Thorp, D.D., rector of
Syron, archdeacon of Durham, canon of Durham,
warden of the University of Durham, &c., &a., &c., sod the
Bev. William Nicholas Darnell, the mild, generous, and
well-beloved (!) recipient of 6,0001. a year as rector of Stan-
hope, in the county of Durham. These are the trustees, the
two tattiest WhOOI manage the estates, I should my almost
without consulting their brethren in trust. To viva these
rev. gentlemen their due, I must mention that they attend
to the business of the charity without fee or reward, further
than that they are allowed to charge what they think proper
for travelling expenses ; they are allowed,
also, a handsome residence in Bemborough Castle,
which is often occupied by either one or the other of the two
last-mentioned trustees. But to come to the abase of which
I sneak. Amongst the other estates loft by Lord Crewe,
was the estate and village of Bleachland, in the county of
Nartimamberiand, the village being built upon the vim of an
eneisat meaastery , founded by Walter de Bolber, in a place
where en anett to knight mielat choose to dwell, a lovely and
sequestered spot, Deep in the bosom of a valley"—` Fair to
look upon"—so much so, tout you misht imagine neither
sorrow nor misery could enter there. But such is not
the case, for the reverend custodians of another charity
have sown the seeds of both sorrow and misery,
when they should have held out the open hand
of charity. The inhabitants of the village are ahneet:wholly
dependent upon the lead mines wetted in the neighbour.
hood for their sumwt, and, consequently, with the success or
failure of the produce of ere and price of lead so fluctuates
the comfort of the inhabitants of Blanchland. The lead
mines, et the rev. trustees must be aware, have been very

unpneloative for mime that past. so mush so that many of
the shun who lived at a distanee,and could set other work,
have left the mina. That lead has not produced so great a
Pries recently may not be known to the meek rector of
Stanhope, who derives the greater portion of his
femme from that soures, but, for his information,
I beg to let him know that such is the fact.
Well, notwithstanding this depression of the staple
trade of the &strict, sad notwithstanding that there
are great numbers of poor widows and bedridden men who
have hithereojetst been able to pay the rent of the cottages
occupied by them in Blanohland, and to keep themselves
from applying to the parish—yet, notwithstanding all this, I
say, the rev. managers of the estates have given to all the
ocenpaata of their houses—rich and poor, healthy and bed-
ridden--notioe to quit, or pay en increased rent, in some
cues a doable rent. Others one-third, or one-half more
an arbitrary increase, subject only to the whim of the trus-
tee,. Perhaps one poor cottager may have offended the
sreltdesoon, or the wealthy rector—then double his rent.
Perhaps he may have offended some of the rev. gentleman's
sons—let his rent be increased one-half ; or if he have only
offended the agent, he may get off by an increase of oae-
fourth or one-third. But takinf into consideration the pre-
sent poverty of the district, we must look for
some good and valid reason for raising rents on a
charitable estate, when so many of the occupants
are fit objects of charity. Where other landlords lower
their relate, or return tenants 10 per cent., it surely
ought to be some eowerful motive that makes Lord Crewe's
representatives raise theirs. Let WI look for a reason.
Rave they increased recently the number of recipients of
their bounty ? No.—Rove they found the amount of rents
received inadequate to support the present number who are
on the list of Lord Crewe's charity? I should say it was
ample.—Then what is the reason? I can find an answer
easily ; but I will not swear it is the true one. I trust it is
not ; bat nevertheless I will give it, ae I have no doubt it
has something to do with this rent raising.
Amongst other valuable appurtenances to the Blancliland
estate, is en extensive moor, abounding with grouse, the
shooting of which, until recently, was let at a rental, to
the benefit of the funds of the charity ; but arc deafens, sad
even rectors will get sone, and these sons will have shooting,
and where so convenient as at Blanchland, where there's
nothing to pay ? 8o Blanchland is fixed so the shooting
quarters of the young shoots of Messrs. Thorp and Darnell,
and their friends. But where is the offspring of the plethoric
pluralist and wealthy rector to find a fitting residence for
their few days' sojourn during the shooting season?
There are two inns certainly in the village, and one
an exceedingly goad one, constructed out of a portion of Cu
old monastery; but a private reel lace must be infinitely su-
perior, and a private residence is forthwith provided in a
portion of the old gateway to the abbey still standing. An
old and deserving servant of the estate, who I daresay
might have been born in the house, is turned out, and the
house is restored, at an enormous expense, as in the " olden
time," with its sculptured columns and arched ceilings, its
wainscoting and stained windows, so that it wu made fitting
to receive any of the wealthy trustees who might wish to
revel in a style emblematic of the former wen-
pants of the place. This restoration I could not have ob-
jected to if it had been of any use, e, being a hit
of an an.iquary, I like to see old things paid proper
to; but when I find that only luring one season is
this residence occupied by the hopeful juniors, and then no
longer required except to store curd, to which purpose it is
now applied, I then naturally inquire why the money was
laid out to restore—or rather render a good and profitable
house into a grand but unprofitable granary ? Thus is seen
a great expenditure of money to no purpose, certainly to no
benefit of the cheeky. But that money must be made up,
and what place so proper to suffer for it as the place where
it was soent ? S., the poor inhabitants of B:anchland suffer.
No doubt" charity he gins at home," and the trustees, in the
first place, chant ,bly provide shooting for their sons; they
then charitably provide a residence at great cost ror them ;
and then they—charitably to provide for their loss to the
estate—carry their charity to the home of eve', one of their
tenants in Blanchland by raising their rents. This, I pre,
sumo was the intention of Bishop Crewe when he left his
estates to charitab'e uses. At least, the trustees seem to ka-
t his will so..
urtrahts been customary for years past, also, to distribute at
Christmas time, amongst the poorer inhabitants of the village,
40 stone of beef, with coals, and other usual gifts at thus
season ; hut, I presume, from a spirit of economy, to be traced
no doubt to the above reasons, the quantity of beef dis-
tributed this season has been only 7 stone. Ido not know
to whom the trustees are answerable for their abuse or can •
leesners of the trust reposed in them, but I thick the sooner
the Attorney-Gonersl prepares a scheme for the better ad-
ministration of the fonds of the charity the better.—Atat
Leeve.—Jan. 3, 1849.

MAILS BETWEEN ENGLAND AND FItANCE
Sir,—l beg your permission again to address you
a few observations relative to the conveyance of mails b.- '
tween London and Paris. If the night mail between the
capitals is 'join conveyed by the longer route yid Calais, the
question of sending the ecorevondetce from each capital in
the evening, to arrive at the other at an hour early enough
fur business the nest morning, is virtually given up, and,
alter this great advantage has been enjoyed for a year, the
public must one. more be prepared fur letters posted in Lin-
don or Paris in the evening not coming to band until Late
the next afternoon.
. . . . . . . .

Such being the case, it is worth while inquiring what rea-
sons led to the proposed suspension of the present satisfactory
arrangements, and if there are no means of overcoming
them. From the circumstances Imi ntiohed in my lut let-
ter it certainly does appear that the English mail-packets
have had a more onerous duty to perform then the Frrnch
packets during the past year ; but this arises solely from their
taking the quick or night mail, and is in no way in conse-
quence of any greeter didlculties experienced in running to
and from Boulogne. The Boulogne service has, for all prac-
tical purposes, been performed as regularly as that by Calais;
audit appears that the only fault found with the present ar-
rangement is that our steamer, have the hardest work to do.
Lard Clanricarde went to Paris with a view of negotiating
an equal division of both services between the packets of the
two governments, but failed in accomplishing this, from the
French government hesitating to assume any part of the
niubt service, for which their steamers are notoriously in-
efficient. How the matter is to be mended by our steamers
with the tight mail going to Calais it is difficult to see.
They will still incur the difficulties resulting from landing
and embarking the n ail bags at low water, and by night
when the weather is rough ; and probably to a greater
extent, as it is understood that to avoid the public losing all
the extra time required on account of the longer land Jour-
ney, a less allowance will be made for delays connected with
the sea voyage, and partial variations in the time of sailing
of the steamers than at present.
But, on the other hand, if the present route be mein-
tained, the Bout .gne and Amiens Railway Company are not
only prepared to take the mails between Paris and lioulogne
by express train in 6X hour", as I have already stated ; but
it appears that they have already coin•• to terms with the
French government on which to do it; and when this is
done, the present time of transit between London and Paris
will permit of a sufficient interval being left betwers the
arrival of the mail train at Dover, and the departure of the
corresponding one from Boulogne, for the mail-steamers to
come in and go out with the tide nearly on ail occasion'', and
the trouble and &Scatty of the low water service will be
obviated. It is also understood in Paris that the French
government are prepared to pay half the additional expense
of conveying the mails by thesborter route through Boulogne,
should is appear that there is any; and should oar govern-
ment consent to continue to work the whole of that station
as at present.
Under these circumstances, it is to be hoped that Lord
Clanriearde will accede to the unanimous wishes of the mer-
cantile community, acid lase no time in enteting into nego-
tiations with the French postal authorities for the continu-
ance of the night mail tries Boulogne.—H,