The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-08 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 8, 1846.

way's to traria:et the busieese was appointed. The parties were
soon in communication. Aftevaome brief negutiatiene, the un-
suspecting loan-seeker de/soaked with the supposed lender sun-
dry gold watekes and other valuables, together with his notc-of-
hetet for the stipulated sum, receiving iureturn tbr the amount
a cheque upon un eminent hawker at the We:4-end of the
metropolis. It was on ysesented, but the drawer was
entirely unknown. The watchmaker hastened back, and
ascertained tkat the lender wee ale° unknown there. Thins
he was minus his property anti his note-of-hand, of which
he will probably hear wheu it tomes to maturity.
ArrEUrrF3 SUlClDE.—YeAvoinst • very- respect-
ably deemed female Clung hem& from "the bridge near the
Magazine, Hyde-park, into the Serpentine. Two men who
were paseeig at tine time ruined a my fist ;16E4st-tote. and the
men nt the RtrAa Humane Soeitey Heem ham red in a ;
boat to the spot: Not seeing the WOlll4ll they dropped their
grappling irotwand succeeded iu hauling her inn, the Lost
apparently tireless. They conveyed her to the Receiving
Home, and aster a considerable lame of time, she was re-
stored,
and pronounced to be oat of danger.
ACCIDENTA—FALL OF A HOUSE WALL AT KEN-
NING roe.—Yesterday afternoon, about 4 o'clecke fur men
named Thomas Saker, Edward Dowell, Daniel Williems,
and Richard Careen, were all at work building the upper
part of an end house, immediately facing the Greyhound
Tavern, adjoining iieneingtoo church. Thee had carried
the brickwork of the building ciessiderably abuse the second
flour, when a strong give of wind carried the outer wall and
the scaffoldine into the street, hurling the four unfortunate
men with violence to the hasement of the building, and bury-
ing them all with the brickwork and the filling timber. An
alarm was raised by the carpenters and others who were at
work in the adjointng houses, together with a number of I
po'icemen, tee., who, with great exertions, removed the rub-
bish, sod after a few minutes extricated Willianit and
Dowell ; Green was longer under the rubbish, and Saker,
when extricated, sea: apparently lifeless. They were taken
to Guy's Hospital, where Sakts lies in a very precarious
state, haviagneeivel extensive lacerations of the scalp and
injury to the skull, with fractured ribs, and eoutuaed body.
Green it also seriously injured. The others, who are lees in-
jured, are going on favourably.—DEATli ream A BOAT CAP.
atztece—Yeaterdey, about three o'clock, a young man named
Peter Moos, residing in Ilorseferry-road and another young
man, were seising on the river in a small skiff with a main and
fore-ail set, when a squall capsized the boat, in consequence
of the man-sheet having been mark fast, and the beat being
without ballast. Moss's friend wee rescued ; but he (Moss)
sank, and was not seen again. The body wan not found.
INQUESTS. SUICIDE LT lIANGING. By Mr.
Mills, at the George and Dragon, Upper Cleveland-strict,
Fitzroy-square, on the body of Margaret Fitegerrslol, or
Walsh, aged 25. The deceased lived at No. 7, Cambridge-
. court, Cleveland-street, and on Monday morning hanged
herself in a kitchen tenanted by several panics in the above-
named court, which the jary. and summoning officer de-
scribed as an unparalleled nuisance. The jury, iu the hope
that publicity would cause the proper ateherities to abate it,
returned a verdict " that deceased hanged herself, but in i
what state of inhid there was i.o evidence to prove," and
appended to it, "'that in viewing the place where the de-
ceased woman was found thad, they had found the court to
he ill ventilated, dark and Skies in the highest degree, and
unfit for the residence of human'beings; and they express a
hope that either the proprietors of the houses in Cambridge-
court will spec lily voluntatily put them in a proper and ha-
bitable c .ndition, or the authorities, in whom is vested the
legal powers to abate nuisances iu the metropolis, will adopt
measures for compelling the said proprietors to amend the
unhealthy character of the building;."—Beowieo out
THE BHAINS.—By the same coroner, on the body of John
Tuittley, aged 26, landlord of the Green Mar, beer shop,
Brighton-street, Cromer-at:vet. Deceased on Tuesday told
hit wife that he was gang to shoot hims, If, and produced a
pistol that he had had some time in his possession. She forced it
from him and placed it in a cupboard ; and, not thinking he
was serious, went to fetch a mutton-chop for his diener.
On her return he was loading the pistol, and when he saw
her he ran down stairs into the skittle-ground, exclaiming,
as he rau, that she should seen see him d / something tors Pile.
She hurried alter him, and just as she gut to the foot of the
stairs the sew him put the muzzle of the pistol to the back
part of Isis head mad discharge it. He died before sur-
gical all arrived. Tho weapon, being heavily loaded
with large shot, iefiicted a frightfully fetal wound.
Verdict, "That decesteel shot himself, but in what
state of mind there was not evidence to show."—
Dseett BY A BLOW FROM A " Brimat."—By W. Baker,
E•q.,'at the Westmoreland Arms, Pearson-street, lilingslaud-
ruad, ea the hely of Joseph Lauselon, aged 2S. 1) leased
was a guard in the service of the Eastern Counties Railway
Company ; and about a fortnight ago, whiles engaged in turn-
-1 ing a carnige, received a blow from one of the buffers, which
I gave him much pain at the time. Recently, however, he
had complained a we'd deal, but continued to attend to his
duties on the railwuy ep to the time of his il pith, which
occurred *deed 4 o'clock on Tuesday miming, when his
wife found him dying by her side. Venliet :"'1 ee deceased
died a natural death, which might have been =eel :rated
be a Vow received by him while in the performance of
his duty."
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MEC-lIANICAL ENGINEEn3.—A meeting took place
at the Queen's Hotel at Birmingham yesterday, for the
purpose of forming a society to " enable mechanics end
engineers engaged in the different manufactories, railways,
and other establishments in the kingdom, to meet and cur-
respond, and by a mutual int •rehanre of ideas respecting
improvements in the various branches of mechanical science,
to increase their k nowledge, and give an impulse to iir.ordions
likely to be useful to the world." The f meting was attended
by the representatives of mote of the find houses in all parts
of the kingdom; amongst these ve ere Mr. fluekl.., of the
firm of Balton and Watt, Birmingham ; Mr. E IluinVirey
(Mown. Rennie'', London); Mr. Slate, front the !Ml*
%Yorks, Smetliw;ek, Staffifrilshire ; Mr. Char!..2a Beyer
(Sharp and Co., Manchester) ; Mr. •Cowpper (For, lien-
dries, and Co.); Mr. B. Cubitt. London; Mr. Itamshotham,
Maliehester and Birmingham Railway ; Mr. Peacock, Man-
chester and She:diet.' Railway, 6:c. Mr. J. E, M'Connell,
of the Bristol and Birmingham Weil way, was called
upm to preside; anti ant r a few introductory ohs. rvatims,
said they Lad another object in view, that of the advancement
amor.get the neuters of the prole,sion of a friei.dly feeliog
towards one another ; to estabisli, in fact, a commonwealth
of mechanical intelligence. It was distinctly understood that
in establishing that institution they lind no desire to interfere
with any already in existence. The it sole de sire was to add
to their own information, and to give an impulse to inv. n-
tions likely to he useful to this great commercial empire.—
Mr. B. Cubitt moven the appointm vit of a committee. The
resolution was seconded by Mr. Garland, of the Soho Works,
Birmingham. Other resolutions neces.ary to constitute the
society were carried ,• and at the .sancludon Mr. Backle (from
Messrs. BoPon and Watt's) addr. seed •the meeting on the
:Armitage of the institution to science : he leJlieeed (he said)
that on it important results would be conferred; he was proud
to be a member of it, because, if well carried out, he was
certain its advantages would he almod incalculable.—A vote
of thanks was passed to the eaairinan, and the members
afterwards dined together.

la,nues. I imagine, pliolle iirdperty, and the public has it right to
aninitivert ob its conteets. It apican... by extract% in that letter tram
the Mu-book of the alit a, that, at Sb. Um., land was INLV:I on her star-
; boon' bow, which, by the *nano: stated, being N.W. by N., could have
beets no other than the Ide of Man, as nu other could then be in view
in that or env other dieetion: It may be as'ted, why was not the
vessel then kept away (the wind being motherly) far that land, in
order to have a better and nearer view of it, as thee was then sufti-
: cient daylight, and the ship might have been put under ea-y any.
We ate ant told what induced QiPtiin lleken hot to carry into clfiet
what he Is said to has: stated to Christopher Claxton,—namely, at
" Bh., toshorten all, and go easy for the North Channel." 'there
sere two or three eorrobording en-clung:ince 41 awtur a petTOrl of
his pretimity to the I : fir, takiag this interpolations in the log-
book as (sets (as to the coo:es:Winn between the captain and the
mate), Captain Hoohen, of 7b., sars that " the ship has run her di
twee, and Joust be wallop to the Calf of Mum" if thc ship had then
beet hove to, and sounding. taken, fourteen fathoms water would have
been Salad if he had heenirithin four or toe miles of the Calf b yard
that distance it detliensrather abniatly, to fifty and fifty-Ise fathoms,
bombloMar.nel. Thiswould have shown the po-Ottua of the ship, in.
Pied of which 'the shipla run for two hours (fern 7 to-9 e.g.) after
the belief ext-ts that she se.w " well up to :he Calf," in a COWS, of
N..' W. by N., with one small variation at.Bh. 30m., to N. by W. how
it was 14.ible to imagine that after string the Isle of 'Mint at
and the ahip having rim her distance :it 71m that upon :a noun, kept
S.W. by N., tit Bb. 3•. a., and then X. by W. till bh., the ship could
fetch the north passage, in awe incomprelmasibie, for that course we
sure to put her ashore, as it did. Upon view of the dm its which I
pease., the distancesitom the Bell-lane to Dublin ual Dandrum bay
appear abou: equal, ail that of the firmer to be HS miles; now,
biking it to be 130 from the Bell-buoy to Dundrum-bay, that in eight
bourn, at II an hour, make ups:sits of forty mile which IN:
vessel h d
a overrun he reckoning in voyam of hours : Should.
it not be atiktlyinquired auto who threw and kept on aeloint of the
/oft Who (if any one) took the soundings ! The vessel Joust boor I
been doing very nearly fifteen miles an hour insteinl of eleven,
stated in that' log. There axe many minor itaterueins which &pp, or
perfectly irrecencildb!c when ecuipared together, an stated in the !
lett*? I have alluded to. 1 shah only aivert to nra'. It is always- a
suspicious circumstance when a document Is put terwurd as a qualifi-
cation of a iortieular Let, that such a document should contain a
material interpoiadom This moat always detroy the effect it is b.
temled to erniviy, by throwing a auspicious appearance ou the very
Let intended to be proved.—.l SALLOII a 111.111., u.

REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON
RAILWAY LABOURERS.

The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the
condition of the labourers employed in the construction of I
railways and other public works, and into the remedies !
which may be calculated to lt s•en the peculiar evils of such
condition, having made its report, that report, together with
the minutes of the evidence, has been printed, fur the in-
formation of Parliament and the public. The committee
consisted of the following members of the House of Com-
mons :—Mr. Bouverie (chairmanl, Lord Francis Egerton,
Mr. Rich, Viscount Ehrington, Sir G. Grey, Lord Claude
Hamilton, Mr. Lam Mon. Sir Thomas iclaud, Sir William
Jollitfe, Mr. Mangle!. Mr. Hodson, Viscount Barrington, ,
Mr. Mackinnon, Mr. Ewart, and Mr. Deedes ...rind the fol.
lowing is a Val% ful abstract of what is contained in the Report.
The expenditure of capital fur several years income, in the
construction of railways, will prob,,hly give employment to
not mach less than '200,000 of the efficient labouring 'opal*-
, thin of the country; and the great amount of outlay already
made has crested or developed evils, touching both the well-
' fare of the labourers employed and the interests of society,
the taint of which seems not unlikely to survive their origi-
nal cause. Steady employment and high wages might be
expected to lead to habits of order, of systematic industry,
and of economy ; but other circumstances mu-t be favours.
tale before any improvement in the siacial condition of the
labourers can be realised. Evidence received from various
parts of the country, shows that the circumstances under
which this lab Jur is carried on are too often of a deteriurat-
ing kind. The labourers being brought hn,:ily together in
large bodies, no time is given for that gradual growth of
accommodation which would naturally accompany the gra-
dual growth of numbers. They are crowded i ,ta unwhole-
some dwellings, where scarcely any provision is made for
comfort or decency of living; they are relea'ed front the
useful influence of etoinestic ties; they are hard worked,
exposed to great risk of life and limb; are too often
hardly treated; many inducements are pre% ntcd to
them to be thoughtless and improvident ; and, as
intemperance, disorder, and demoralisation have a bet-
ter chance of growth amongst them than decency, fru-
gaaty, and improvement, their arrival in a nviAbourhood
is naturally viewed with feelings of dislike and dismay by
the inhabitants. The principal evils brought under the
notice of the committee are comprises! under the fuhiu•.ring
heads:—the made and time of payment of the nun, and
their consequent discontent, disorder, and irregul kitty ; the
want of proper lodging for them ; their care!, el exposure to
risk ; the defective provision for maintaining peace and
good order among them; the imperfereions cr ohs me of
pros ision for their religious education and the instruction of
their childrrn.

I. As regards the mole and time of payment there has !
been much complairit from three quarters, via., the men,
the local authorities, and the permanent inhabitants of
particular vicinities. The system pursued is this: large
Portieres of the marks arc let by the companies to con-
tractors, who divide their reveals e rations amongst
contractors of smaller capital, ant these again sub-let
to a minor class of contractors, called a gangers, '•
who are themselves labourers, and who Loth engage and
superintend the workmen on the line. On many works the
labourers receise their wages only once a month, ins inc
cases less frequently; and advarees are made in the first
instance by the employers by means of printed tickets, or
orders on a shop, which are filled up with the name of the
article required. On pay-day each labourer receives the
balance due to him, after deducting for what has been sup-
plied. The shop on which the tickets are drawn belongs
either to the contractor or to the ganger, or, if nut, its
keeper pays the contractor from 5 to 10 per cent, on the
price of the article. In some cases the labourer receives a
ticket for money, a hich is paid at the shop, a penny in the
shilling, or 100 per cant., being deduated. Linde r this sys-
tem the labourer is apt to be defrauded in the quality and
quantity of the goods fixed upon him, and, even where
this is not the can., and distrust towards the cm-
player are engendered. The monthly pay-day is frequently
an ucea-ion fur dispute, riot, and di-content. Sometimes
workmen cannot get employment unless they will deal at
the master's shop. An intimate connexion exists between
this system and the infrequency of payment ; and it is the
opinion of those who have had much experience, that the
frequent payment of small some would be much more favour.
able to the extension of frugality than rarer payments of
gross amounts. With respect to many kinds of employment
the practice of paying in goods is already prohibited ; and
the labourer can recover any wages which cannot be proved
to hare been paid in coin. 'The act on that subject might, it
is urged, he beneficially extended to labourers engaged on
railways and other public work.. The ticket system would
the 11 come to an end, and the contraetor wou:d no 'Queer be
able to procure men ualess he were willina to pay them with
stitticie to frequency. The great demand at present for this spy-
eitarillabour affiwas to the workman a f evourable opportunity
of en foreiog legal provisions in his own favour. As regards the
argument that many employers have facilities for supplying
their workmen with weals at wholesale prices, those facili-
ties might still be extended if the labourer: were always
paid in coin. This is an answer to the plea that the truck
system is occasionally necessary, on account of the distance
pf the ordinary markets; even it experience did not allow
That, where there are large periodical payments, the effiirts
of private enterprise will be sufficient. The men themselves
I state that they would prefer a system of warkly payments.
2. As regards lodsing, the la'bourers are at present either
left to crowded villages mar the works, where habits of in-
decency and discomfort arc generated, or else temporary
accommodation of the moat wretched description Is
provided by themselves or their employers On
this point, it is euggcsted that, previous to the
collection of a laxly of these workpeop:e at any
spot, sufficient lodging for them should be ascertained
to exist, and when the neighbourhood cannot provide it, the
company should be required to do so. Every railway com-
pany, before employ,nl more than a small number of labour-
ers in any part of their works, should be required to notify
their intention to the public hoard for the supervision of rail-
ways, and to state the number of melt likely to be employed
there; and they should not be allowed to proceed with the
works until a competent officer r mployed by the board has
resorted that sufficient accommodation has been provided;
all such_proremliugs to take place At the expense of the com-
pany. The inspecting officer ought also from time to time to
visit the works and tha loeloinga of the men, and report
thereon to the board; and he should have the power
of making sanatory regulations on approval by the
bleed, as well as regulations for the providing of re-
lief and medical attendance fur the sick and wounded.
As regards the latter point, the provision now
made Is, it appears,a-cry inadequate. It has been
H maxi-ued that excellent temporary dwellings may be pro.
Titled at about the same charge 1•4 is now made fur the most
miserable lodging.
3. The detect. of the existing law for the summary '
raec,very of wages have occasioned loss and dissatisfaction
amongst the labourers 0.. several railway works. It has ,
been doubted whether, under the existing acts, one justice
of the peace has power to order the payment of wages to
the amount of 10/. in the case of this class of labourers; ,
as d one bench of nmaistmtee, before which many such cases '
have been brought, after making orders for payee nt, has
declined to enforce them. Justice, too, is often defeated
laecause the employers are only lodgers and hare no goods
upon which a distress can be levied. To meet this case, it is
proposed that, as in the case of costs and penalties, magis-
trates should have a power of imprisonment for a short
given period, unless payment be previously made;
an arrangement which would be the more equit-
able, as the later of the two acts on the subject
provides that a justice may imprison a servant or labourer
for a breach of his part of the contract. Further, it would
be just and useful that the seties of ceutractors, from the one
who lets work to the ganger up to the company, should
guarantee the payment of the labourer's wages. It would
thus become the interest of the company to select fair-
dealing and reap nsible men far gangers.
4. For the promotion of peace and good order, it is re-
commended that, wherever more than a certain number of
men are employed, an adequate police force, appointed by the
local authorities, and maintaivad at the expense of the coca-
party, ghoul.' always be within reach.
I 5. From the evidence respecting the nature, causes, and
I amount of the accidents affecting life and limb, it appears
that the annual amount of casualties is both formidable and
distressing. On this print tutu questions arise—first, whether
all, or any material part, of these accidents, may be
prevented ; secondly, whether the peculiar burthen which
they occasion is rightly placed. The committee think
that a part of the accidents, at least, may be prevented
by the legislature, and that the burthen should be placed
elsewhere than on the shoulders of the public. Conclusive
pr.of has been given that every practicable individual exer-
tion is not, at present, made to prevent accident. The
blasting of rock, the working of tunnels, the making of
deep open cuttings in earth or clay, and the construction of
embanameats, are an fruitful sourer, of accidents. It is
alleged that these accidents are mainly owing to the fool-
hardiness and %:nprodence of the sufferers and their fellow
workmen ; but, though the allegation is partially true, one
portion, at least, of the accidents in question is traceable to

the general condect of the operations ; end the want of care
in the tools and machinery lurnished, and in the engineer-
ing arrangements, sometimes results in fearlul injury
to the wt-rkpeople. A large share of the merifice
of human life, which occurred at the summit tun-
nel on the ?thumbs ster and Sheffield Knit% ay, appears
from the evidence not to be attributable solely to the men.
The use of the patent fusee for tiring boss's, which was mist
important for the safety of the men, was negl 041; iron
" stennuera," instead of cropper ones, were Lewd in charing
the blasts, though by the former was bourn d, nod by the
latter would have been avoided, the danger of sudden explo-
[ Sion; and fatal accidents occurred to the men in going up
the shafts, by their striking against the horse-trees or C 1,46
beams. A nutterlitl diminution in the amount of accidents
would probably result from making the companies prima
facie eiviily responsible in all C.:Oh:ft of injury to
or limb ; and the liability should not end with the
most mischievous result of a breach or neglect of
duty, viz., death. Further, instead of resting with
the ganger or contractor, the liability should rest with
the company, the party having the greatest power to pre-
vent the Minty, and the greatest means of repairing it.
Nothing but wilful carelessness on the part of the sufferer
should relieve the company from responsibility On this
subject the eommiotee's recommendation goes to the full
extent of the provisions of the Code Napoleon. •
6. The means of general and religious instruction provided
in the several localities, art totally inadequate to meet the de-
mand suddenly mode upon them. The men are often willing
'and glad tomvtdl themselves of the opportunities of improve-
ment afforded to them. Valuable aid on their behalf has been
rendered by two metropolitan institutions—the Pastoral Aid
Society, and .he City Minsion Society. It is matter of regret
that on one great line of railway now being constructed, the
Lancaster and Carlisle, the men are deprived of the !riser of
using the means of instruction which exist, by the fact of
their work being continued throughout the Sunday.
It has been suggested by Captain Moorsom, that
companies engaged in constructing works should be
repaired to make periodical returns, including the number
of men employed, the progress of instruction, the cessation
of labour on Sundays. accidents, and other d. tails. The
object would, it is thouelit. be further promoted if a public in-
spectur were ozeasionally to visit the works, and report
thereon.
la conclusion, a belief is expressed by the committee that
there is no indisposition on the part of B med. of Directors
to adopt well-advised schemes for the benefit of the Labourers.

IRELAND.
, O cr. 6
OFFICIAL EXPOSITION OF TILE LDUBLANOVIt RTE ACT..
The following conummication, from the Lord Livolizant to
the Chairman of the Bolted of Works, h.ts jug Ineu made
public:

"Dublin Castle, sth October, ISIG.
fair —I am direeted be the Loot Lioittemint to inform you. that
his excellency has Lail under hi. orrisiderutiam the various repre.
Pentation, which have been nettle to him of the operation of the Pour Enspiminent :tat, anal Of the clittku!ty of finding, in tine greater numb's
of Iraronies, ' l'ublic Works' upon which it would be expolient or
bedelkcial to expend money to the extent requisite for afford-
ing employment to the pimple during the exit, nye of the present
ilistresi; and, with the view of olisialing the bad effects of
a "reit expcniliotre of money in the execution of works eom-
pinotively unproimetive, he alesires teat the COMIII:Nni11111.11.1
Of Public Works will direct the natters acting under Oval
in the respectise countie., to consider anti report upon such mirk, of
a reproluctive character and pernkimut utility as may he presented
in thy manner hereinafter nientionol, at any assasions total under the
above act. Anal his Excellency wit be primal ml to wowtion anti apt.
prove lat such of thug. work. WI tarry be rionionenaleal lay the bond
awl so presented, in etc coma manna r as if they had been strictly
' public works, and iweismted as push in the manner required by
the act.
" I. The presentment smsions will estimate the stun whirl. it may
he neemaviry to raise off thy barony tar the purisase 01 attiariiing
employment.
" 2. Tha y will also agoitain the pmportion of such assessment,
which, iicomilinfr to the last porw-law valuation, may be chargeab/e
upon each electoral ilisisiou or an union, or amnion alt an ch.:tonal
doision (if the whale shall nag be int:11111rd. in iht• 11.11011 i ; and they
will obtain for this purpose, from the c:erk of each issar-law Illii•,11; a
copy of sue!. valuation.
"3. 11, y will pow-nt for such useful anal laminable works to be
executed in each eksctoral division, to the anoint of its proportion of
the iosmastuent ascertaiiwil sat above.
" I. In the ea, of dmin age, le.wever, and mt.-sidling, so far as it
shall be connected with drainage, un undertaking shalt he ;ism in
writ big, amt transmitted wit's the presmitimmt, by the person Or Iler.
• ens whose lanais are propossst to he drainel *Mg . Kopf...mar' in
the terms of the Act 3 anal ea Vie., chap. tot , stating that the MOM'S so
i to Ix• expended shall he a charge exclusively an the hind so to he Ma-
-1
lmo-cif, and he levied from the 'none, marauding tat an sword il be
made by the commissioners as under the last.mentionixt Act anal its
antenalments.
i

s.llis tae ellency wishes it to be further untiersamal that, in ease
these fl`1111!361111, aft` not 1111111 upon, and tin 'mations of the assess-
ment which would ho lei iable from emit Ceti rd tiit ision, are not
presented to he expended int wane work within 0,1/11 the
proceedings at such sessagis alma he con,,idenai with atria referenee
to the provisions of the 9th and inth Ale., cap. to% His taerdirw•r,
nwidering tlsto that many 4rn•nie', have already w tm,A•r
that art, to whieb baronies the opport 111 l ity of making alpha-dime, in
the manner now prescribed has not been alf,rded, it is lus oesire that
all works already Kam-tam...l in those 11611,111111, eg 10t.v:,.31 for. and
wide', it mat Is'iorne requisite to ainetioti iu ordtr in a"•nl tont lows'
employment, shall be pi oetsakil with until other se, ions oily be cam-
veniently held ill '41(11 Lamed,•+.
•'11:/1 1:X1 1.114.111. y, in I.lllllg Upon himself the respimsibility, tinder
the urg•nt eiremustanetw of the ear, of inviting the magistrate, and
taw-pavers to provide eliiidoinweit for the ps,,pte Id Ili, 1 Itl-1111011
01. useful anal reproductive works, etailidentlY tririgs, with their
assistance 1111,1 tilt bliwsing of the Almighty on their miatil extrtions,
that the ealaniity With 101101 it hos pleased Provide ,us to atilt,/ Ire.
hand may tot in its results laconic eonducive to tit• pnaluetion of a
greater abundance of human food from the sod, and to the 'inure
penuasent improvement of tte country.-1 have the Naomi to be,
sir, your madden/ servant, "11. Lamm-oink.,
" Ilse Chairman of the flivaril of Public Works."

THE COVE .o CORK A NAV L STATION --.1 hare, alremly
. med you that the tzuvvrament were determined to fix a
°we, stution et the Cove of Cork. Ihe following I. tier
afta:na:Lo6rd John Russell un this subj‘ et I find in tin Cork
jourua

fatiyte , the county and city of Cork, preying that "u
lohrd -r, ef
surrey mak. la• malt of Itaulhouline, for the purpose of ascertaining
to
„„„..„, site therein, or elsewhere in the harbour of Cove, for the
cn.rraqi„e of a drychock and building station," I hate now to inform
your lord„,),ip that lasve received a letter front the Earl of ,luekkawl
,h "o.nt'ffon't!!!:ltP "I,
thei iI r b elf lace of
(res.thttrn2fiir our fleet+, anal that the exiting
la'artdm eintiftbkg,:lv't•o intimate that the Admiralty are of
y br
intimating that the .tibjert
yew atutakp•itteronewsnt
node in future touch more than
orthu.e:in
may advantatnxtu,ly Ite extended. They remark,
.thor*o.eet7orn'.tho'At.t.„l:u" present ItGyal wkyarda are sufficient 10: the
itintent of the ship. id the navy, and that the tom-
no„..connt of new arsenal eta work nut to be unilerlakun unless
required for the Piddle service. 'There is, however, limey of
convcntrnt de,,,,ts and quays for (11.1 e war steanters, and works 01 this
knot, ,niner „rah a factory' for the repair of the machinery, might
properly be und,rtaken, providol a %till:0'1011 Weer found fat mot& to
tio,,,n,tnort Hoard will, thereline, with the sanction of the
lleasury,sentl au Ottl''r ofEbleiol.o,to the (bVe of l'ork w it h in...trac-
tion. to tnnort upon the site, and should his 00111011 be favonilde he will
be directel rt wave to organise'the amens of construction, and ciatllluY
labourers in the pro:a:abut ol material., in the tacy:dim,
of ground. and in other branthes of labsm. In this manner it mm-
be r of baboon t s 1.011-11 tor such work may be etupki3eil even before
the working plans shall have la cn accurately pretored. 1 have
before stated to your lordMip my view of the hi:Adequacy of any such
works to supply work old wages to the sitalot 11.1; tof the popula-
tion in the interior of the comity of ('ark. Itut her Majtaty'a govern-
ment are anxious to do all that tufty be priteti.ble, vorr.isteritly with
their ',untie duty, to contply with the wi-hes of the itienioriali.ts td
the comity and city of Cork.-1 have the honour to be, your lordship's
obedient humble servant, .1. Rt. K• 1.1.1..
The Lail of Bandon.

I)PATHS t9ulM FAMINF.—On Yesterday the secretary to
the Calcutta Relief Committee, was in receipt of a leto r
front the Rev. John Finn, a ltoman ehrgymnn of
Mayo, informing him that he had just administered the
rites of his chureh to one of his paishioners who had übiso-
lutely perished of starvation, he having immediutely after led.
A day or two prcviote.ly, the Rev. Mr. TO racy, of Clonti-
bret, Co. .Mon..glian, addressed a I. tier to the same com-
mittee, in which he named five individuids of his parish who
had died of absolute starvation. Mr. Tierney was one of
the gentlemen proceeded against in the great state prosecu-
tion of 1844. _

DEhTITUTION IN CORK.—ID the F/eearan9✓ournalofthis
morning, I find the following :lake of a representation
made to the Lord Lieutenant yesterday, reelecting the
state of Clonakilty, in the county or Cork Yes-
terday, the Lev. Mr. Townsend, Protestant clergy-
man, and John °lice, Esq., of Clonakilty, waited on
Mr. Labouthere, at the Castle, to press upon the consi-
deration of government the destitute condition of the labour-
ing classes in their district. They suited that they were
deputed by the clergy of all persuasions, the magistrates,
gentry, and people of the district, to lay before government
the utter desolation caused by the destructiou of the
potato crop, and that the poor had been obliged to support a
state of the utmost misery, by living for some time past,
for the most past, on cabbage leases, and food of that
description. They further pressed upon the government
the necessity of an immediate supply of provisions being
brought into the district. The magistrates had directed
them to state that they could not be responsible for the
peace of the district, if a supply of food was not forthwith
Introduced there, so as to cheek the exorbitant prices of
meal. The deputation had a very long interview with Mr.
Labouchere, and urged the necessity of this supply in the
most pressing terms. Nothing could exceed the attention
pp id to their statement, and the anxiety exhibited by Mr.
Labouchere to find out, with the greatest minuteness, the
exact state of the district, and the result of the interview
was, that the deputation left the castle with the expectation
of relief being speedily afforded to the unfortunate popula-
tion in their neighbourhood. The deputation brought with
them a memorial from the magistrates of the district to the
Lord Lieutenant, representing to his excellency the impossi-
bility of expecting them to use force against a famishing
multitude, which force they stated they would not resort to
in case of outrage or attack upon provision-stores by a starv-
ing population. His excellency promised to take the case
into his own immediate consideration."
OCTIatEAK AND LOBS OF LIFE AT CASTLE-CONNMLL.—
The Clare Journal which reached town this morning brings
the following confused statement of an affray, unhappily at-
tended with loss of life, which occurred at Castle-Connell on
Sunday night We have just heard at our goi rig to press
that in some rioting in Castle-Connell yesterday, twosoldiers
and one of the police lost their lives. We have not heard the
particulars, and rumour gives two versions of the tale. One
that the police interfered between the people and soldiers,
and another that the police and soldiers attacked
each other." There seems little doubt but that an
affray has taken p1at...4 and ended fatally, fur the
following corroborative statement appears in the Free-
man's Journal front a correspondent : " Very distressing
accounts were re•leived at Limerick, on Monday morning,
from Castle Cor,nell, where a fatal riot took place last night.
The amount" of the affray are very contradictory, but the
fatal facts are, I fear, unquestionable, that a private soldier
of the Bs'.h Regiment is dead, shot, it is said, by a random
ball fr''.,m a police carbine, a man named Gleeaon 'lead, and
'not:der man badly wounded. The riot originated with the
stirring people, whose conduct, under such circumstances,
should be regarded with forbearance. Colonel .Maunsel, the
adjutant-general of the district, has left this fur Castle-Connell,

to investigate the cause of this distreasine occurrence."
Castle-Count 11 is within six milts of Limerick, on the banks
of the Shannon."
STMPTONIa DP TURBULENCE AT Macatiom.—The cork
Examiner, this moment (4 o'clock) come to hand, contains
the following •tatement :—" On Saturday it was understood
that the population of the surrounding districts dependent on
labour for subsistence, would amemble in mass at Macroom
for some purpose connected with distress. It was 'dated
that the intention had been communicated from place to
phase fir sonic days prey kW.. One labourer, it iwernd, told
the next that the matter was iu contemplation ; while no
one mentioned who originated it, but spoke as if the design
were simultaneous. In their dreadful situation, as may
eaeily he supposed, no difficulty was experienced in lead-
ing the people to catch at the slight. et hope, and do as
the rest. The hour and rotate of deirarture, and ether
preliminaries appeared to have been arranged with the
greatest despatch and prevision. Accordingly, near noon
the expected mass air Ted. From the approach.* on the
east and south three or four thousand men came pouring in
haste into the town. The number appeared to be wholly
composed of the lalsouring class, with few exceptions all able-
bodied pereons, A few wonacu acrumpanitd them, bringing
their young children. The multitude had no weapons of
any kind. They pressed into the town directly, wedging
elieely the street throuth which they passed, and 'proceeded
straightway to the workhouse. It was nut the stress of
suffering which had sent most part of them into the
town. Neither was it with any view to make de.
monstration. The march was a measure of yolicy.
They came to Fat information of what aid could be
expected. However, it was true many severe ceases of desti-
tution were to he found anteng the throng. The appearance
of all showed that they were on the verge of the same state.
One or two individuals appeared to act as marshuls tlf/011 the
occasion, in directing the march. At first intercourse with
the gentry, there seemed a passing wish to show the rude-
ness of straneere. However, after a moment, their natural
respect for persons of station was not restruined. Altogether,
the assemblage presented a formidable atray of power. It
was also a most attesting sight to behold. All the spectators
seemed to feel with due strength for the first time, that
starrat:on was near home. A meeting of the respectable in-
habitants of the town, together with some of the neigh-
bouring gentry, was the result, and the following resolution
were rinsed:
"That In consequence of the alarnaing elate of Oestltutt in eat-tin
in the barony of Wevt Mwkerv, we aprrehend the moot alarming
results, unless ince:sures be ado:4ml by the Government ottlyi is to
commence ut on e the worts which may be reamearnaksl ut the
Special sissions: :mil that the Mated of is ~cho be cane-Cy reimasted
ti give directions to that effeg. TLut a swatof stirahout •be given in
the maul of the wirkimmee to snob destitute daemons iis stay utility
for it, until public works commence; and :u this relief mu.: ho
borne iv the general union, that we will require the upplic:aits to
remain two into on the pry:Miss; 'slice their wants are impplical
That the Poor-law Commissioners be re 11111141,11 to suit tioll the
opening of isire,..hops in every electoral division of this unimi, where
an applieation may be made Sir sine, with the objet of admit:rig
tool to such destilllic liel.lllu aa• may vply. That, 111 the Illealltillte,
a meal be given to any persons upldying at the union workhouse, pro-
dming a ticket from floe clergyman, stating their ris.idt taco, ai.d that
the electoral aliai•killif be Chu: .eel accordingly."
It was nest arranged that such of the crowd still re-
maining without the gates or scattered through the town,
as we, e extremely destitute, should lie admitted to the
yard; and, as euhicient oatmeal could not he procured, that
each instead should receive helf a loaf of bread. The Board
thin separated. The result was announced to the people by
the Ito,. Mr. Lee, who acquainted them with the nature of
the immediate itesietance to be afforded, as well as the per-
manent measures of relief. One man eagerly iuquireil what
the poor children, who could not walk to the workhouse,
would do ; and no one could but feel the force of his objec-
tion. I'm's:ceding to the towu, the two clergymen eneuun-
ti red the main body, sells were miming out. Amidst pro-
found silence the multitude was addressed by the Rev. Mr.
Lee and Rev. Mr. Barry, sure. ssively, with adtuiralde etfeet.
With one voice all promised to retire paaccubly to their
homes ; and it appeared the engagement was kept to a mm.
In the evening the town resumed its wonted appearance of
tranquillity.
DEPUTY LITI-TENANTCIEa.—Sir William Verner lets
been restored to the dignity of Deputy Lieutenant of
Tv rune; and Johu O'Connell, Esq., M.l'., has been named
a Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Kerry.
A KIND Aer.—)lc. Daniel Callaghan, M.P., has for-
given his con-acre tenants tine year their rents, and allowed
teem in addition to take away whatever produce the lands
yielder'.
DEATH Or TILE RIGHT RI:V. Da. CIUITT.—The Eight
Rev. Dr. Crotty, Rumen Catholic Bishop of Melte and
Ito., died on Saturday night last, at the age of 17 years.
He formerly, and through the whole of the l'ininsular veer,
was President of the Irish College in Lisbon' and 5ub.....
quently of the College of Slayuuuth. lle filled the t thee
of Lishup for 23 years.