The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-16 00:00:00

BRITISH ASSOCIATION.

SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY.
As the session of the Association draws towards its
close, the interest in its proceedings appears to diminish.
To-day the sectional meetings, with some few exceptions, as
theft for geology and mechanics, were far leas numerously
attended than they have hitherto been, and in fact since
Prince Albert's visit yesterday, a vast number of the mem-
bers have left the town, which is now beginning to assume
its usual tranquil appearance. The sectional business of the
day was,—
blernrasncat mos Perivicsi.Scivicx --Summary of Researches in
I.:iestro-Physiology, by M. Matthaei. Paper on Electro-Phadaogy, by
Dr. J. Bulbar. Account of some new Experiments with EL:etre-Mag-
nets, by Profaner Wartmana. Papers on Magnetic Investigation',
by W. PONY, Eat. On the Deviation of Falling Bodies from the
Perpendicular, by M. Oersted. On the Phenomena of Magnetism In
Steel and Don, by Rev. Dr. Scoresby. On • new Equatorial Mounting
for a Teleaope, by Dr. Green. On a new dark gins Eye.plsee, and
anew Method of contracting the Aperture of the Object Glemi, by IL
Lawson. Report on the Meteorological Observations at Kew, with an
Mona of the Photographic ticif-Registertng Apparatus, by Mr. F.
Ronald. On some Meteorological Phenomena, by Professor Wart-
mann. On a new Siecerteat Multiplying Condenser, by Profaner
Somber'. On a new Anemometer, by Dr. Banks. M
observations at Aden and at Bombay, oommunicated by the of
Northampton, by serjeant Mayes, 17th Regiment. On Aberration,
by the Rev. B. PowelL
ON ANICAL Sense; INCLTIAINO era APTLICATINN TO AOMIerLIVRE
AND TIM ARM—Report on the Corrosion of Iron Rails in and out of
use, by R. Mallet. On the Solubility of the Fluoride of Celcium,
by Dr. Wilson. On the Application of the principles of a Natural
fades of Organic Chemistry te the explanation of the Phenomena
occurring In the dimmed Potato Tuber, by Dr. Kempe. Nome In-
' prides into the F.xtrit, Cannes, and Remedies of the Fungi destroctive
Agriculture, by J. Peideaux. On the influence exerted by finely-
divided Patina on the !Methods, of a Voltameter, by Dr. Robinson.
On the Eleetrolthatice of Needles In different Media by Preform
MatteuecL Report ea Colouring Madero, by Dr. Seitink. On the
Differences In the Physiological Actions of the Yellow and Red Prus-
sians, as an Evidence- of their possessing dissimilar Radicals, by Br.
Letheby. Notice of • Gas Furnace for Organic Analysis, by Dr.
Percy. On the Nature of lanipic Acid, by Professor Connell.
ODOLOOT AND PHYRICAL GOOGRAPII7.—Report the Fishes of the
London Clay, by Peeks/see Aped& On made on the Une
of the Great Vreatern Railway, between Bristol and Taunton, by W.
Sanders, Req. Observations on the Muaket Band, commonly tilled
the Black-band Ironstone of the Coal Field of Scotland, by It. Bald,
F.G.S. General Results of the Examination of the Coal of Northern
India, being an Analysis of the Report communicated to the Indian
Government, by ProMmia Assisi. On some new Fossil Manimalla
from South America, by Professor Owen. On Graphic Granite, by
M. :dart Notice of a new Species of Hypantbeerinito, by Mr.
Bedouin. List of the Backlash= Tombs, by Mr. Edwards.
ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY. —On the Production of I'N& in
showing that the Mulberry Tree and Silkworm might be =i
cultivated in this country, paper from Mrs. Whitby. On the true
Character of the Tendrils of the Cucumber, by Dr. Bell Salter. On the
Development of Vegetable Cello, by A. Henfrey. On new and rare
Marine Animals dredged in the British Sao since the bat meeting, by
Profeaor E. Forbes and Mr. M'Andrew. On Additions to the Fauna
of Ireland, including males new to that of Britain; and Comps:bons
of the Periods of the Flowering of Planta in the early sating of IM6,
In the Botanic Garden of Belfast, and the Jardin des Plante' at Psis;
and Notts. an Additions to the Fauna of Ireland, by Mr. W. Thome.
son. On the Hibernation of Snails, by Mr , soles Oa the Marine
Zoology of Cornwall; and a paper from Mr. Couch, on the Egg-
purse and Embryo of a special of Mytiohatis (new to the British
Fauna), by Mr. Pesch. Report on the lifiewascopie /structure of
Shells. (inclusion of Enquiries Into the Natural history of certain
species of the Ow ache, Corregoni; and tlalmondete, by Dr. Knox.
On the Applicata., of Photography to the Microscope, by Dr. Car-
penter. Report ec the Perk:dial Phenomena of Plants and Animals,
by Prof/thaw Owen. Oa Mould containing Phosphorescent Vegetables,
by Hon. W. Fox Strangways. Notice 0! the Application of the Fibres
of the Tree-Mallow to Manufactures (communicated by Captain
Ibbetion). by Captain Peterson. Report on the Vitality of Seeds, by
Mr. Straka/ad.
thritheruth—On the Criminal Statistics of F.ngland for 1812,
1845, and 1844, by Mr. Nelson. On the Statistics of Education in
Goer in ISM, by Mr. Liddell On Statistics of the Government
Charitable Dispensaries of India, by Colonel Sykes.
Meccas lea—An Amount of the Conetruction and Performance
of two Sailing Valais bunt on the Kaye System, by Dr. Phipps.
Description of an Apparatus for Storing and Preserving Corn In large
National Granaries, by Mr. Bodmer. The Results m obtained from
the Experimoats is ceonexion with the proposed Tubular Bridges
across the Conway and Mss Strata, by Mr. Fairbilrn. On the
Chinese Method of Baring, as practised on the Continent, for the
Ventilation of Mans; and in conjunction with Farnell's System for
the Boring of Artisan Wells, by Mr. Vlgnolles. [The Chinese me-
thod here alluded to was explained M he a heavy bar of oat-bra, six
to ten feet long, and from four to six inches diameter ; the lower end
furniehed with a luring tool combined with • modals pipe, and which
is suspended by a rope parsing over a large pulley need oar the bore
hole. The rope to wound round • VIDARM-, and the whole is so con-
trived that the weight may fall from any regnhad height. The tendon
given to the ropeproduces a circular motion sufficient to change the
Mime of the cutting tool at each deemed.) On Improvements in
Marine Wean Engines, with Models, hy Mr. Bran.
Sursterme or ENTROLOGY.—Report on Eatbological Philology, by
Dr.R. G. Latham. On the Origin of the Modern Greeks, by Mr. Finlay.
Oa the Nebrasoweser of Bessarshis, by Dr. Twining. And a paper
teed by me Secretary, m the Natives of Conpang, Timor, and
ltaeasser.

At Are o'clock to-day the member of the association dim
together in the long-room, on which occasion the pretident,
Sir R. Murchison, will take the chair. At eight o'clock a
discourse is to be delivered at the Victoria Rooms, by Mr.
Grove, on the explosive substance lately discovered by Dr.
Schinbein, In the course of which Mr. Grove will communi-
cate some recent researches of his own, on the decomposition
of water into its constituent gases by beat.
The Dean of Winchester today again entertained several
members of the association at his residence at Rishopstoke.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, Barr. 14.
-RETELL Asaomanow.--CONCILIATION HALL.—TBDIDAT.
The usual weekly meeting of the Repeal Association was
held to-day. Mr. Edward Clements, barrister, in the chair.
Mr. Clements is the gentleman to whom Mr. Meagher ap-
plied the term " Apostate," upon the ground that it had
been stated that he had accepted • plate. On taking the
chair he addressed the meeting—his address contained no-
thing particularly interesting.
Mr. Jour O'Corrsl.L having risen to band in some
money, read a letter from Mr. James Naughton, a re-
spectable merchant in Dublin, and • well-known philui-
threpist, desiring that his name should be withdrawn from
the roll of the association, upon the ground that " free
&mission" bad been prevented in Conciliation Hall. Mr.
Hauftlem declared that he was opposed to the warlike
therms of Young Ireland, bat he Nought they ought to
have had their views combated in the Hall, and that they
should not he driven from it.
Mr. Join O'Coirmis denied that they did not allow the
fulleat freedom of &envision, which could be permitted with
safety, and keeping within the law.
Mr. Tionts LLOTD, of Beechmont, County of Limerick,
tequested his name should be removed. Mr. Lloyd stated
no grounds for this step.
Mr. J. M. M•cDoeleara., M.P., handed in the subscrip-
tion of a Catholic clergyman, of Norfolk. Mr. MacDonell
took that occasion to contradict • rumour, that be bad a
place bestowed upon him, and declared that he had never
asked • personal favour if any government, and never
would.
Captain Liivin, in seconding the admission of the clet,

gyman, said he had known several Catholic clergymen in the
Borth of Ireland who refused to join the association m 1843,
because it was then confidently rumoured that there was in-
tended a rising of the Reo alers, and a general assassination
in the ensuing winter. The recent proceedings in that hall
must have quieted those apprehensions, ani • now hoped
those respected gentlemen would join that body.
Mr. O'Conneu., in commenting upon a letter referring to
the potato-blight, and the consequent condition of the people,
referred to certain letters published in the Ereming Mail, in
one of which the writer, who wu called by the journalist
" a respectable gentleman in Tipperary," spoke of the neces-
sity of pressing upon the tenantry to pay their rent ; that
person, whoever he was, was nothing better than a demon in
human form, who, in such a time, could urge the landlords to
sub a course. Mr. O'Connell then proceeded to review the
ellisdition of the country, the extent of the famine, and the
means which should be necessary to take for its relief. lie
Insisted that the money to be given in this season was not
English mosey, but Irish. Ito contended that the grant of
50,0001. was much too email, but he hoped that the power of
unlimited loans, which might be issued under the Labour
Rate Act would be so largely drawn upon as to protect the
people from famine.
A letter was read from Mr. Steele, in which he stated that
the poor of the .City of Limerick were subsisting upon an
admixture of boiled cabbage, with pepper, mashed up with
diseased potatoes, thus endeavouring to counteract the putri-
dity of one vegetable substance by admixture with another
which is wholesome.

Capt. BRODERICK and other gentlemen addressed the as-
sociation, after which it adjourned. The rent was o'er 1001.
DISTRESS MEETINGS.—The Western Star, a journal pub-
lished in Ballinuloe, contains a brief record of the proceed-
ings of a recent meeting held at Loughrea, over which the
Earl of Clanwty presided. Resolutions were adopted
there in accords •ice with those sentiments expressed by so
many of the landlords in the south of Ireland. From all the
proceedings, it is manifest that the Irish landlords are in the
utmost possible alarm. First, they are alarmed at the pros-
pect of the monies which must be raised this year to afford
employment to the people—levies which will remain a con-
stant charge upon their properties. Secondly, because there
exists a very strong disposition upon the part even of those
tenants who have-corn, crops, or butter and pork for sale, to
keep the pork, corn, and butter for their own consumption,
sad to leave the landlord without his rent. The latter, there-
fore, looks forward to a large and certain outlay, and to a
very uncertain return from his tenantry. Meantime, there
are other means at work of impoverishing the people, while
I cannot think they will improve the landlord's prospects.
The Pilot of to-night contains the following dated from
Westport:
The potato crop la entirety gone, and yet the Marquis of Sligo
blushes not at having recourse to enement processes for the purpose
' of getting in his rents. This is the second means he has made usc
of for that purpose, first literally tilled all the pounds on he estate
with the cattle of the poor, till he compelled many of the tenants to
have manes to the Bank of Ireland, and these peas bills for the
amount of rent due, and paid him, and he has now served with
ejectment* hundreds of them who have not acted in the above man-
ner, and more particularly those who at the late election of this
county made use of their franchoe in favour of our representative,
Mr. M'Donnell, and according to the dictates of their swat conscience.
If he persevere in this course, I fear the consequences. It can
Namely be hoped that a people, already a prey to the keen gnawing,
of hunger, will be paeuive under such treatment. Such are the
favours which this nobleman confers on his starving tenantry after an
absence of years."
PROPOSED RIMER BLAGE OP LABOURERS IN CORK.—
The Southern Reporter of Saturday contains the following
narrative ; it is well deserving the notice of the English
puble
We were today informed that n number of unemployed talcums
propose assembling on Monday in the northern parish of the city, and
proceeding to the establishments where others see at work with
view of inducing the working men to join them. About two o'clock
on Friday a number of labouring men, from a distance of over
twenty miles from Cork, the neighbourhood of Ballyfoard, came into
the o ce of this wore, and prevented a documen written evidently
by one of their own body, and containing a • narrative of the
sufferings which the •labouring pope in the baranzpe
Kinnalea—which they stated them es -elv to represent as a
tation —were enduring. They intimated a desire that it should be ad-
vertised, as a public maioe, and desired toknuw the nest of puW aling
It In that kern. On readina over the document we found it to ex-
press, besides relations of misery and dire want, declarations that they
would not be quietly borne any longer—in a word, it wns a funnel
notice, that if certam conditions were not complied with, such as
world procure food for the tarnishing labourers, their wives and
children, within a certain apecilied time, and fur which they were
willing to give In return their labour, that forcible means would be
bad recourse to procure it. Such is the most mitigated form in which
we can at present express, the substance of the notice. The
connected with this }carnal, to whom It was re-
took occasion to point out to the people who
brought it the dangerous nature of the course they took, and to represent
how much they might inerraac the misery they complained of, and
bring aggravated aulfering+ on themselves and their families, by the
slightest violation of the rights of property, or the least approach to I
insubordination or outrage. Their replies removed any suspicion that
they were deposed unnecessarily to commit any act of an illegal
nature—but they pleaded this one, by us unanswerable, argument,
What are we to live upon—what shall we give our children to eat
We have no potatoes, and we can get no work." Such was the burden
of their brief tale; and after having made several additional state-
ments they were induced to return to their distant and coralortlas
homes, on receiving an semeiotic that their distress would at lout be
made known to the public—a promise we have thus far endeavoured
to redeem. Boca after we received this document an opportunity was
'fielded us of knowing the opinion of a Wily.influenual gentleman
connected with that locality, and laying Wore him the at-Meow:se it
contained. He natured us that he considered the actual condition of
the Iwo* not over-stated therein. That put of the county comprising
the homey of Rimer* was one of the largest potato-growing dis-
tricts, and, in consequence of their total doitruetion, the labouring
classes are entirely without fund —the farmers having to forego the
rents of the exidem ground, and not being able to pay money wages
to their labourers, have discharged them, and the means of the
Relief Committee are so limited, that they eon only supply casual
labour to one working-man out of each family, at the rate of six-
pence per day. Another cause stated of the increased distres•
among the labouring elapses there, is the discontinuance of tho
employment large numbers of them obtained in previous Ma-
sons by carrying sand in boats for manure, by which they earned one
shilling a day, but which has now entirely ceased by moon of the
fanners no longer requiring it ea manure for potato ground. It is
further stated that only flee farmers iu the entire parish have kept
them labourers at work. and are supporting them--namely, Bartho-
lomew Covent' , of Old Castle, and he brothers, and Michael Ahearn,
of Mew, and that the prier of Indian meal baa been raised from
14d. to Is. Id. per *tone. We are further informed that a number
of them unemployed labourers went in a body to Luke Joseph
Ithea, Eq., a gentleman highly esteemed throughout that du-
tee, and represented to him the suffering they were enduring,
and we have moon to believe that it is mainly to his admoni-
dons, and to the whim at the respected Catholic curate (the parish
priest being absent frem the stat, of his health), that the tranquillity
at the barony is owing. Mr. Shea promised to come in to the county
meeting, and see his best exertions to procure some relief fur the poor
creatures. Ds was yesterday enabled to obtain employment from
Mr. Benson, county surveyor, for fifty additional men in that neigh-
bourhood, but such a Rumble would searcely be meted out of the
hundreds requiring it. We hove to express our surprise that no steps
hive yet been taken to intrafiroe adequate works, under the oyeration
of the data Act, in that isiony, and we sincerely hope that some such
exertion will deferred.
COmMiltOn .—A proof of the daily increasing
commerce of /is, t a second steamer is about te ply
between that po and4Liverpool ;in addition to which the
Londonderry col par are building a first-class steamer to
replace-the ill-fated RaMbler. A few years ago an attempt
was made to establish steamers in Sligo, and it totally failed,
while the traffic .is at present so great ma to inditee a second
company to send swami here.
THE WEATHER IN THE WEST OP 'REILAND. —THE
CROPS.—The Sligo Champion says:—" Nothing can ex
ceed the fineness of the weather: up to this, September has
been decidedly the best month in the year, and as it is the
month which chiefly decides the fate of the grain crops, the
consequence is, we are happy to say, that all the oats and
wheat have been safely got in. The crop is a good one—
more, we believe, than an average—hut if it were all kept
in the country, it would not support the population, now
that the potatoes are destroyed."
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THI SLIGO MARKETS.—The pries of every article of food
is (says the Champion) rapidly incmaing; the demand for
meal and flour is at present quite unprecedented ; and the
former is already 191. a ton, with an evident tendency up-
wards; owing to Mr. Abraham Martin, the flour hu been
kept down, but he, nor all the millers in the country, wil
not be able to mishit the pressure. The supply is not egad
to the demand, and, consequently, prices must get up. As
to potatoes, even the rich, who can afford to pay anything
demanded for them, have to give them up, as an article of
food, not so much on account of their dearness, as for their
wretched quality.
COCHTT Or COII.—THE Dirrans.—Mr. Gibbons, a
gentleman of the county of Cork, in presenting the Lord
Lieutenant on Saturday with a memorial on the subject of
the Courcies district, in that comity. said:
" In the rural district of COU2Vien, with which be was more isx-
mediasely connected and with the condition of whale people he was
mately amuainted, there were 400 families, whose foie daily sub.
aistenor was six pounds of Indian meal to each family, Wetted by the
Relief Committee on labour tickets. Though the smallness or this
allowance necessarily produced great privations, where the families
were large, yet there had not teen, up to the time of his tearing the
district on last Tuesday, a single act of theft or outrage committed.
When their own supply of provisions was exhausted, the poor 'Hopis
came to the Relief Committee, bssse'hing that employment should be
provided for them. Their words were, •• give us work or food; we
am starving ; we are not beasts ; we cannot eat gram."
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LIX2I.IOLCOVITTY lisoli.—As it frequently happens, from
session to session, that in coorequence of the often disturbed
mats of this county, and the difficulty of apprehending
°leaders (with the dill greater difficulty of finding wit-
nesses), numbers are committed for trial who are subse-
quently set at liberty, it has been very wisely and benevo-
lently devised that efforts should be made to give the inmates
of the prism some means of bettering their isondition for
the future. To this end, many of them are instructed in
some branch of trade -or handicraft. The: gaols divided
into ten classes or wards. Even those who are committed
for the worst offences—capital crimes before trial (Ward
No. 3), and those who are in the Whiteboy class (No. 4),
for burglaries and robbery of arms—are yet employed in a
way lfieely to be advantageous to all who escape sentence of
death. It is true that some of them are set to the almost un-
profitable slavery of cleaning flax and breaking stones; but the '
great majority work at shoe-making, mat-making, twine-
making, and the manufacture of worsted rugs, often of a bright
colour and handsome patters. If anything
wildv a sud-
denly sobering effect upon the mind of a very Limerick
Rockies, it surely must be the contrast between the cabin he
has just left, and the bed-room appropriated for his especial
use and benefit in the county gaol. Instead of the low,
sloping roof of black turf or rotten thatch, with a cock and
two hens perched on a stick just over his bed's head ; instead
of his mud-walls, and wet muddy ground-floor (literally
ground, when not manure) with a dense cloud of smoke
filling all the cabin ; and instead of his wife and family all
sitting upon stools of bricki, or little embankments of clay,
around the bog-turf fire, or else moving about in all direc-
tions, in conjunction end amiable contact with the pigs, the
dog, and the gem, or any other members of his [allay, and
all uplifting theireeveral voices together, perhaps, the last
time he stood in his domestic circle;—instead of all this, he
radenly fields himself between *ivy close end narrow walk.
most alarmingly clean, white, and high (in comparison
with their nemesis/es), with level atone &or, andiron-grated
window, an iron-plated door, and an iron bedstead, with clean
bedding upon ft, in addition to the general and perfect
cleanliness of the place, which from its utter
strangeness, cannot but have a sort of depressing, if not
alarming influence upon his imagination. It must remind
hint that he has been living in a filthy dark stye all his life ;

and when the door is closed and locked upon him, he looks
round and sees that his career is ended in a white vault.
As the Roekites and other " roving lads" of the county of
Limerick are often first-rate runners, leapers, and climbers,
it has been found expedient to provide against the exercise
of these active accomplishments in the construction of the
walls of some of the wards. In these yards the walls are
about twelve feet high, to begin with. Along the top of
them is raised a second wall of about five feet high, all of
open work, being built of large white bricks laid loosely
together, with the light showing through. At the back of
this opeu•work wall run wires, and to these wires a multi-
tude of bells are attached. The fall of a brick or two is sure
to ring a bell or two; and there is always the chance of •
peal of bells, together with a whole volley of bricks upon►
poor Paddy's head. But, notwithstanding all this, "instances
have been known." We believe, however, that the attempt
has never yet been suocemlul.

• Ainsworth, and the Rev. J. Slade, vicar, stated that Mr.
e: Rehardson read the service at the parish church on the let
a August, and from a peculiarity in his manner appeared
▪ to be labouring under the effects of liquor. Two women,
0., named Betty Smith and Ellen Marshall, who live near Mr.
e, Richardson, were called to prove that some time ago, but
a When they Guild not say, they saw Mr. Richardson walking
CI POW fillteadily. Mr. Winder then addressed the corn-
] Itheiffflerra, showing that the charges were not supported by
tlelegle tittle of evidence that could be taken in a court of
• • Nadel ; and the commissioner', after consulting for an hone
sad a half, announced their decision in the following words :
▪ " We are unanimously of opinion that the charges spinet
Mr. Richardson are not proved, and that no primed /arse Can
• he. teen made out against him."
WARWICKSHIRE.
Flea Aays.—H. H. Ibrahim Pacha, during his stay in
. Birmingham, ordered various articles of the manufactured
goods of that town ; amongst these a magnificent papier
=ache table has just been completed at the works of Mr.
George Richmond Collis, and in a few days it will be trans.
mined to Alexandria. The design for the top is from one
of Danby's pictures, and is exquisitely chaste and beautiful.
THE COLESHILL MEETING.--SH,—I was surprised to
see (on reading the proceedings of the meeting at Coleshill
on Wednesday last, in the Daily News of Friday) that you
have reported me as having proposed the health of " Lord
George Bentinck." Now the fact is, that serious afflic-
tion in my family prevented me attending that meeting;
therefore I will thank you to correct the mistake, either by
publishing a paragraph or this letter in your next number.
Mr. Henry Robbins, of the Asps, near Warwick, proposed
the health of Lord G. Bentinck at the above meeting.—l am,
• Sir, your obedient servant, THOMAS 11MBERS.
A SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT occurred near Sunder-
land on Monday morning on the York and Newcastle line.
The cause of the mischief appears to have been the break-
ing of one of the crank pins, while the train was going at
the usual rate of about twenty-five miles an hour. When
the pin broke, the connecting rod of the engine dropped and
came in contact with a cross-sleeper. The engine and tender
were then jerked off the rails and turned completely over;
the carriages went over an embankment on the opposite side,
ran into a field, and turned upside down. The tender was
smashed to pieces and the engine very much climaxed. We
regret to add that the engineman, Hall, and the fireman, are
very seriously injured, the later especially so. Happily
there were very few passenger', and they inset surprisingly

NJM2.I6,V.
CONNISSIONB RE TEL LORD LIBUTINANT.—West SO-
merset Yeomanry Cavalry.—Lieut. W. A. Sandford to be
captain, vice Blake; and Lieut. C. N. Welman to be
captain, vice Lethbridge ; Cornet T. J. Clarke to be lieute-
nant, vice Welman.
RUIPSTITRE.
A SEICIDE was committed at Portsmouth on Sunday
morning by a private soldier of the 13th Regiment, now in
Garrison there. It appears be bad been living with a female
in Pope's-lane, of whom he suddenly became jealous, and
going to her house he demanded admission, but was refused.
He then went to the barracks, and, Icaiing his musket, re-
turned and called her to come to the window and open it.
The woman came to the window, but did not open it, and
he discharged the gun at her, but luckily without effect.
Finding himself foiled, in his excited passion he again. loaded
the musket and shot himself through the head, tying the
musket to the window sill, and pulling the trigger with a
strin
R FORM
PROTECTION SOCIETT.—A meeting of this body
was held last night at the St. Mary's Hotel, at which it was
announced that the registration showed a great increase of
liberal voters, and that the liberal cause was in a more pro-
mising state in the town of Southampton than at any former
period. A hope that at the next election two liberal candi-
dates, who could command the general support of the reform
party, would present themselves, was generally expresiud.—
The only candidate who has been mentioned at present as
likely to come forward in that interest appears on some
ground or other to be objectionable to • section of the
liberals here.

HERTFORD.
Itimenwrioxs.—James Espinasse, Esq., the barrister
appointed to revise the list of voters for the county of Hert-
ford, commenced the business of the revision yesterday, at
the Essex Arms Hotel, Watford, for the parishes of Wat-
ford, Itickmansworth, Bushey, Aldenham, de. The fol-
lowing is the result of tke day's revision :—the objections
sustained were, Conservatives, 46; Liberals, 21 ; the claims
=stained were, Conservatives, 28 ; Liberals, 60.

DISEASE no CATTLE IN WINDSOR-PAUL.—The disease,
now so prevalent amongst cattle, having caused great
mortality amongst the cattle (Scotch heifers especially) be-
longing to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, at Windsor,
it was deemed advisable to dispose of nearly the whole of
that portion which had escaped infection, in order to prevent
the disease extending. Accordingly. . early two hundred
head left Windsor a day or two since for the county of Esse:,
a great portion of them having been ;purchased by Mr.
Dearle, an extensive grazier of that county.
A BEGOING-LETTER WRITHIL—On Monday evening, at
Windsor, a female ofrespectable appearance, supposed to be
an old band at writing -letters, was sentenced to be
imprisoned for two months, for obtaining money from the
Hon. H. Ashley, M.P., on false pretences. On her person
were found two letters from Sir R. Peel, being replies to
some communications she had made to the right hon.
baronet. She had also been guilty of making away with the
property of the house where she lodged. The constable, who
is seldom a friend to such persons, testified to her passing by
many names. On her sentence being intimated to her, she
begged on her knees for pardon, but the magistrate was
inexorable, and she was sent to Reading gaol for two months.

KANT.
REPEAL OP THII MALT TAX.—A meeting of the East.
Sent Agricultural Society took plain at Canterbury, on
Saturday, to take into consideration how far the interests of
agriculture are affected by the malt tax. Sir Brook W.
Bndges, Bart., presided, and having stated the object of the
meeting, and duly set forth its importance, Mr. J. Neame
came forward to propose the first resclution, in doing which
he dwelt especially on the advantages of repealing the tax, so
as to allow good home-brewed beer to be enjoyed by the
labouring population of the country, and permit the
farmer to convert his barley into malt, for the fat
teeing of cattle, that he might be enabled to com-
pete with the foreign grazier. He proposed That
a committee be formed to confer with the Central
board of the Society for the Protection of British Industry,
as to the best means of obtaining a relief from the burden of
the malt tax." J. P. Plumptre, Esg., cordially supported
the proposition, but pointed out the difficulty that would be
felt in supplying the vacuum which so great a tax, amount-
ing to five millions sterling annually, would produce. Capt.
D'Aeth contended for a free trade in everything, if they were
to have it in corn. W. Deedes, Esq., also spike of the many
benefits to which the repeal would conduce, and in none
more than in superseding the use of ardent spirits,
which had been too often found to be the instigator
of crime. Mr. T. Slater remarked on the eagerness
with which this question was now agitated, when,
during the discussion on the alteration of the corn-laws, it
was neglected:—Mr. F. Neame pointed out the boon it
would confer on the poorer classes, to repeal the tax.—Mr.
R. Cobb did not think the vacuum, caused by the repeal of
the tax, would be so great as was anticipated, for it must be
borne in mind that • considerable portion was absorbed in
the collection.—The Chairman also addressed some obeerys,-
eons on the evil of the tax, and after some further discus-
sion the question was put, and the resolution carried
unanimously.—The following were then, on the motion of
B. W. Carter, Esq., seconded by A. Munn, Esq., named as
the committee :—Sir Brook W. Bridges, Bart., Captain
D'Aeth, M. Bell, Esq., Messrs. J. Neame, T. Coleman,
B. Andrews, F. Neame, and T. Slater.

REPRESENTATION OF ROCRISTER.—The requisition in
course of signature, calling on Mr. Bernal to become a can-
didate for the representation of Rochester at the next gene-
ral election, has already upwards of 400 names attached to
it. At the last election 1,019 voters polled, and 88 did not
vote. There were four candidates on that occasion, and the
numbers at the close of the poll were :—.T. S. Douglas, Esq.
634; W. H. Bodkin, Esq., 497 ; Lord Me'ganef, 495 ; F.
Daahwood, Esq., 488.
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LUCIPIIIB AGAIN.—A most disastrous fire took place on
Saturday at Tower Hamlets, about a mile from Dover, con-
awning eight stacks of corn and three of straw, of the value
of about 9001. The above were the property of Mews.
ts".birl and S. Finns, merchants, of Dover, and were in-
uto about half the value only. It is understood that
the conflagration was caused, as is too often the case, by
some boys at play near the stacks igniting some lucifer
matches.