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

IRELAND.

Dostiu, JAN. f.
Every body knows the relations in which Mr.
Barrett, of the Pilot, stood with respect to the late
Mr. O'Connell, whom publications always originated
in that journal. Well, in the Packet of last night—
the great opposition organ of OVonnellism—there
appears a letter having the signature " Richard Bar-
re.t," in which, after stating that money was owing to
him from the late repeal association, he asks to he in-
formed in what treasurer's hands the five pounds for-
warded on New Year's Day, by Mr. O'Connell, to the
funds of that body can be found, as he would " im-
pound them in the hands of the garnishee."
At a meeting held in Ennis on the let Jan. a me-
morial was adopted to Lord Clarendon calling on his
excellency to postpone the call for payment of the re-
lief advances which have been placed on the mum
collectors' warrants. The memorialists say that, be-
tween April and Oct., 1848, they had paid in one
union of Clare Be. 3d. in the pound, and, in another,
lyet higher rates, and would now be called on
to pay, for pauper purposes, a new rate of 3a. in the
pound ; while within the last 15 months the amount
collected as rates in Clare amounted to 130,0001.
The following letter from Mr. John B. Dillon
appears in the last number of the Nation (American) :
Nsw Yost, Dec 11.—To the Editor of the Nivion.—
Dear Sir,—A letter from a Dublin correspondent in the
hut number of your jOurnal, is calculated to impress your
readers with a belief that the failure of the late movement lb
Inland was owing to some incapacity or misconduct on the
part of Mr. S. O'Brien. Although I feel no d.sire to ob-
trude myself upon the nonce of any portion of the American
public, I cannot suffer this calumay, upon the best and
bravest man I have ever kaown, to pass without contradic-
tion. A simple nerrative of all Mr. O'Brien'. acts, during
the week which I spent with him in Tipperary, would be the
most satisfactory sn,wer to suchinnietuationsas thole contained
in the letter referred to. But the publication of such a de-
tail, d account, at this moment, might be considered as
hardly compatible with a decent regard to the pesi-ion in
which he and others are now placed. Asking your residers,
then, to take my word for whet it may be worth, I assert
that if Hannibal or Napoleon had been in the position of
W. 8. O'Brien, neither of those great commanders, with
such materials as he had, and such cooperation as he re-
ceived, could have achieved any more respectable result. At
no time, to my certain knowledge, had Mr. O'Brien an armed
force that could be rationally expected to withstand
a single company. About thirty rust eaten fowting-pieces,
with as average of one round of ammunition for each, and
some few auxiliary weapons of the most despicable descrip-
tion, constituted the most imposing array of arms t xhibited
throughout the whole" campaign." Of the many thousands;
of armed club men (some of whom are probably new criti-
cising Mr. O'Brien's ooaduct very fro el)), those who " fol-
, lowed him to the field " fell short of a dozen men. lie was
met repeatedly in the streets, and opposed by priests,
acting, I hive no dohbt, in strict accordance with
the dictates of coascitner. His. orders and instruc-
tions were received by the people with respect,
nay, sometimes, with chisels; but they " were never
obeyed." I wish, sir, that for the benefit of others
who may hereafter be placed in like circumstances, your tor-
respondent would furnish us with some easy method of
achieving a revolution with s handful of unarmed and diso-
bedient peasants, opposed by a disciplined army of tome
40,000 men. It will naturally be asked why did Mr. O'Brien
and his friends ever conceive the prepcsteroua idea of resist-
ing, with such contemptible resources, the power of the
English government ? But of his conduct in this respect,
I submit, no fair judgmeat can be formed without a know-
ledge of the antecedent facts et the representations which
had been made, end of the promise which were never ful-
filled. Even with such knowledge, it might be necessary to
claim some allowance for the position in which the British
minister had raced them by his tyrannical proceedings. The
alternative before them was this, eith, r to submit p4uively
to imprisonment without trial, or to resist. And tee worst,
perhaps, that can be said of them i., that they chow, ruin and
exile end death, rather than suffer that right which lies at
the bottom of all freedom to be violated in their persons.
Or Mr. O'Brien, individually. I can say, with perfect. truth,
' that of all that party which ackoowkdg, d him for its head,
he was ever the moat reluctant to commit his country to the
perils of a civil war ; and that, once driven to resistance, he
was of all the firmest and most leer), re in maintaining the
pod ion he had maimed, and the lest to abandon it.
Your correspondent may poioihli think that he i•
rendering good service to (felon, by sacrifi,,n the
character of an individual in .rder that the cha-
racter of the country may be save But impartia men
wiil hardly tolerate this. They will ay that William mith
O'Brien has devoted twenty ain .1 a spotless lite to un-
ceasing efforts for the good of hie cuunsry, and that, finally,
he his forfeited life itself for her sake. And they will con-
clude that it argues but little generosity in those for whom
he has sacrificed so much, to seek to rob him of that which
be pries above all that he has lost—the reputation of a brave
and true man. Sincerely wicking that this may be the lost
time my name may appear in connexion with the events
referred to in this letter, I beg to subscribe myself, Ike.—
JOHN B. DILLON.

ACCIDENT ON THE MIDLAND 011.1IAT WESTERN RAlL-
VAT.—Yesterday morning, when the 10 o'clock up train
from Mailings/ had arrived betwi en Clonsilla and the ter-
minal at the Br aida.one. the eiwine Came in euntact wilt a
pilot engine which leas lying on the lo3e. the .h..ck was
considerable, but we are happy to say ths. no strieu. injury
to lire or limb happened. S. a. rd of tne passer's. rs were
bru.sed .rd had some Cu!., 11.11 ct. J on them. T- e vitae-
anver, Holmes, was cut s rely in the heao, hu• t c wounds

LIBKRAL MoVIXEST 131 WEST YORKS/MR—The
liberal doctors of the West Riding of Yorkshire Sr. sot
disposed to it down quietly under their late reverse.
• meeting of delegates from the various polling dis-
tricts to the Riding his been convened for Monday
sicmt, at the Remnant= Station Hotel, for the pur-
pose of forming a Mona Registration Society, judo-
Camt dthat la which the leading wbige of the Riding
s hitherto taken park The object of the new aaseeiation
will be not tamely to watch over the registration at the elec-
tors, but to constitute a political body which chill take a
prontinest and active part in demanding from the legielature
such manne gf political change and amelioration es public
opinion may call for.
..

A CHRISTMAS PARTY 11l THZ PROVINCES.—Last
evening, being Old Christmas live, the Manchester Mecha-
nics' Institution gays their sauna Christmas party in the
Free Trade Hall. A correspondent, writing last aignt, says,
" The two great popular literary anal ediacanal institutions
of the metropolis at insauthatarea, the Atkisson and II o-
&inks' Institute, though rivals to some extant in their ie
sera scope and object, have now, for a aeries of , been
a the habit of giving annual patties vertdiasi dissimilar in cha-
racter, though, to a great extent, squally attractive. The
Atheneum, in the shape of • soiree, to which di►
tinguished literary men ban beta invited, as a
means of attraction and hest; and the Mechanics',
in the more homely gabs of • family Christmas celebration,
with the ancient mummeries and mystic ceremonies of hy-
psi times. The Atheneum wales, it will not be desied,
have some of them ham very brilliant affairs ; but always
aiming at the utmost, they have been very unequal in cha-
racter. The thadniten of the Mechanics Institution, lea
ambitious in their alma, have found their aorta mars uni-
formly succeeds'. Commencing with a small party in use
of their sun committee-reems, they have gone on to bolder
efforts you by year. The present celebration was the most
succesalul of ell : there were from 3,000 to 4,000 persons of
both ones, and all ages, assembled in the Free Trade Hall,
to witness the spectacles and be partaken in the
merry making!. All tbe books in the library of the
sati.ution, likely to knish infaraaatiaa, had bola
ransacked for ancient lore, touching the meat ap-
proved modes of celebrating the festival from Btow
and Herrick down to air Walter Scott, who, in his " Mar.
anon," after diseribiag the hall on such occasions, "dressed
with holly green," cat tha " grim boar's bead," the " wussil
round," the "hug* *lsis" and Christmas pie which
adorned the table, tells >H

tae Nam maws la.
And web arse whit litreseme din ;
Ise immeledisms wee re ern
wes • bony uses ma saw.
The proceedirc epee with am adders from the president,
who briefly admen to the eoeditkm and prospects of the in-
stitution. Theo gereatire the revels, in which from 160 to
200 stealers of the lastitatioe itself are the aeon, having
irefully studied ad premised their parts for months past.
The Pros Trade Hall is decorated, end made, r
nearly as may be, to resemble an old baronial
erasion at Christmas tint, ; the company, rated around
the floor, and in the galleries and platform, being supposed
to represent the guests and family circle, while • large open
pace is left I. the middle of the floor for the introduction of
be mummers and merrymakers. The first of these mum-
meries is the proclamation and inauguration of the Christmas
Prince, who is fancifully Wight with the several titles of the
Lard of Misrule, Master of the Revels, and Abbot of Un
reason. The soda followed by the maskers on this occasion
fee the character was that of George Perron—a lawyer,
‘estise end histarisa—whe,ia the court of Rdward.Vl., is said
to have borne this ogles at Greenwich, in 1662, and
to have eo pleasantly end wisely behaved himself that the
kill ball great delight le his pastimes." He is first a.
armed by heralds, who realaim him as " the high and
mislay grime, *Duerr of el levels," and he is then intro.
dosed with allibe pear and eirearsta-ce of the olden courts,
W grown bef
_kerns advers,ead his train by peges,whiht
• guard of thfagars attend te protect hint, and • court
j err emir ble wit to keep him in good humour. The
erhaving beta eseehml with beam* honour, apses
rata, sad We le the veronica of the yak log. The
caraway of heaaiaat the rife leg to the Arias on Christmas
Ire is one of thoeiirt camera, we are tell, known of these
easier festivitiea la the representatios adopted on this
assesion it is borne in preessioa. with Herners rag—
Ors bring with • era, my. monis =eerie bola
The Christmas Me te the firing.
A ponderer log of ash, eat from the root of the Mee, is
hoer slob, decked with ribber and overgrow A boy
dewed in rattle attire is seated astride it, bearing a banner
with the word " tale" isaribed—an old Christmas
UM which is vociferously bawled oat by the at-
tendant notice, and is ern inscribed on all the br-
ain borne in the procession, and is wreathed in holly,
box, and mislitoe in various devices. which they tarry.
The rustles dance, and sing, and jostle each other with all
the rade hilarity supposed to have characterised thee, ma-
sker in lees polies and refined egos than the present: end
the rater& between the rasasers of the periods represented
—the one by the rantenen and the other by the crepany
looking on—is no bad crarentary on the aeration or folly
daffier of ponces whose sodium of " good times" and popu-
lar enjoyment are eammiated only with the past, and are m-
itred), depreesting the present as all the tendencies of the
future. The next repreartatina was an allegorical masque
illustrative of the months of the year, each typified by
sans well-known emblem, carom, ar observance ; the last
of all being ff Old December; having in its illustration the
Christmas "waits," who sing the old carol, " I saw three ships."
The whole procession powered interest enough perhaps to
(Mures a lengthened detail had we spar for the purpose.
Next are the " Protection of the boar's bead," on the
model (and .moompanied by the carol) of that which takes
rannually at Queens' College followed Oxford. This is
ho " proosesion of the were bowl ;" after which " old
ether Christmas" (dressed receding to Bin loner's
masque) makes his • with hie children sad mum-
mer, sad attended " flaapdragen," whose antics and
dries intrusion of his ponderer open jaws near the pretty
fen of the fairest aimalssee of the audience, to the greet
risk of the meet prosaism* hater* of their =is •
source of never-bilker seeriaset. The whole up
with the enactment et " threehieut Christmas play of At
George and the Dragek" as still perfanned in many of the
rural districts of the .sentry at this sears of the
_per
_par-
ticularly in Btaffordirre, Derbyshire, Isiah= erthe
sad Counties ; sad Witrinoriag whet ere rad
rearm of the olden Haw" the anmpanyurt asked
prides Ore that of pismire tpelelleue el the

Tim Ray. W. Ways; Vi at of Pinchbeck, has sub
earlbei I,ooof. towards the building of the raw thumb about to be
emoted la We perish.
A Naw DISTRICT Cmvaam was opened on Sunday at the
17slan lettm Plyntouthom e temporary place of worship for the die.
Wet altarah Met. Jammu Plymouth, by the her. O. A Hookey,
hemerly earafe of It Asdnew's, under license from the ?Whop of
Itsalsr.

NAVAL
DITONPORT, JAN. 4.—Tess r, ut. Selwyn, sailed
on the lad Le Um elan of Africa, with tbe monthly mei —ollNone,
OrpL Ntonky, Vibe two Iv got reedy, will he paid don the MIL
at 101. Oapt. Slr T. Maitland, Is to be wat tbo bands
the by the Sin Lat., ad to be reedy in ether respects
by tag Ima.-04,6a1e. 130, Capt. Caner, and Arena. gym. Raw.
morns, are eut lithe heeds of the deeklead penis.
Tan lINNONANT NaeT.—(From Friday's Oaseas.)—
A Lit of all the Masters and Mates la the Ilmaat Menial who
:=lwa IL, 891 h Nev. lest, voluntarily pared sa eziannatian and ,
metleudeset quaillmtiss Leda alisret awe simignad,
onderthemenolinalmasd W the Ileird at
Istune. lm *Am sert., North Briteln,DCLitinstle
H. Rork Sid. MIME; laden; It. Lords* Sad, New,New-
mann; W. Pdlard. reaweetwonsa, Newmann J. led,
Venn% iliewesate; IWlie. SA Othello, Newesetle ;J. ylor,
led CILI. Jelmson. Is, Tay Missaidd• J. apt, fled, Henri-
Gila. Landon; W. 9•l.kriail, lChlialdy; Br 4 Ro
Loom; T. J. Illmme.blwah Julianne. Neweesup; W. /..d.L.,,er.
,Isl. Adis% Peaksenop Oriental; T. !st. Hemet Home,
I I. Key, IN, SW el LI • IL Jack-
Ueng Edwin, Loonesenatisinad4l. Weetbeg=l, rdr 11141liste, New-
oft ; J. Work, tad. Illeskton; T. C. IL Gill, fad, H.M.
arlittembell; J. S. Reno* John Mitchell, Olaspow ;J. W.
Sammid Imilerfey, London; C. Yonne, and,
Loadsia W. Cdsbaray. ard, Heroine, Landon; J. hisekranr,wri,
Herns, London ; J. Douglas, in, John Mitchell, Glaapow •
P. Ikon. IA Rept, loath Shields; W. Liam, 2nd, Heroine, Lon:
am; 3.llllmih. and, David Malcolm, London; J. Bustle. 2nd, Lan.
dam, Lewin; A. Asthma t, 2nd, Tory, London ;C. U. Yretwell, 2nd,
ems Nam Liverpool; D. Smith, Ist, Duilbrook, London; R.
Mein. Mb Robert sad Lobelia, Newcastle; T. Knox, 2nd, Thetis,
Neeth SlidebL; Ist, liajeatie, Cliaegow; IL Winter, Ltd,
Reirsetes. Wien; B. Miner, bid, Persia, Landon; E. Montgomery,
M W 4:: Leonia; W. Deane, Ist,* Landon; A. Cowie,
roe::
H. ilimen, London; R. Ind. y, Lon.
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Cans. lieweenla; Z Neecaner, 2nd, Pair. Limilsn; H. Lake,
Mamd.Nansivia, Limped. J. A. Batten, lad. him Lye,lmam;lL
frokfariesse ; 1.. Jew. rna••,, Um.
psii • A. W. WAIL irdiltingdovs, Wllashama ; R. T. 0. Howse,
Limion; Y. Wear, lat. Tribune, filest Yarmouth;
W. Rehm. Lid. Abesorle, New ;C. If Lambert, 2nd, Mar.
Wiles,• Land. ; B. H. Newby, and, Oreetee, Southampton J.
Wiles, id. British Empire, North Shields; J. W. Lock, 3rd,
Nautilus, Lewin; R. L Kirby, bid, Veracity, Landon ; L Dickman,
and, larooky, Medan; MAW., Lid, Dement. London; A. Ste-
ven. la, W. W. Stewart, bid, Satellite, Liver-
pool; 0.0. Holl. fad, Newcastle; W. Luopek, 3rd. Thomas
and Mary, Hirwerana; R. Rater, 3rd, Cooterenee, Newcastle ; W.
J.ldswinsemsl t, FolAtirtek Liverpool; 0. IL Corbett, Ist, Le-
vantine, Laden; I. DWI% Md. Diana, Landon; A. Boyle, 2nd,
Tulle& Coss* lambs. W. Ong. lad, Wanes, LesrpooL
lird dam cert., Edwin, of London; 11.
R. James. 229. Behest a. • T. Noble, 2nd, Duncan, Leith ;
J. W. fiss44 ; A. lit'Callan, Ind, Earl of
Babrines, • J. land, Jessie, Banff ; IL W. C 0111231118,
ad, Hanenny. Landow.

SPORTING.
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COURT OF BAN .1-I•TCY.—YzeTazDAT.
_ Before Mr. Cceemdrioner Yaw._ _

LONG SCSPINSION 01 CIIMPICATZS.—HOIII, COltalltt,
baker, of Portage, applied for his certificate.—Mr. Bagley
opposed, for the assignees, on the ground that the bankrupt
had endeavoured to maks over his property to his father and
brother-in-law. It appeared that they bad given a guarantee
for the bankrupt, which, however, bad not entailed any loes,•
bat on the bankrupt getting into difficulties, they had
brought an action against biro, and obtained judgment
(which he suffered to go by default) with speedy execution.
The • had, however, obtained nonunion of great
part of the property.—The Commissioner said this was a
cowmen trick, for which the present mats of the law
afforded too great facility ; that the trick had been
unsuccessful in the present instance wu no reason why the
court should not mark henna* of the iniquity of such trans-
actions. The certificate mast be suspended for 18 months,
without protection.—The bankrupt's debts, secured and un.
secured, are about 1,1004. ; probable auto, 2501—1 n a
simile' ease, that of George Gillingham, veterinary surgeon,
Chalon, whose application for certificate was supported by
Mr. Dunesa, hie Mon6ur observed that the bankrupt had
made over all his property by a bill of sale, the co sequence
of which was that no one would accept the office of assignee
except some one who held an 1.0. U. for 361. The thing had
been 'managed by the bankrupt's own solicitor from beak-
fling to end. The certificate suet be adjourned for 18
months from the data of the flat, without protection.—His
debts and liabilities were about 2,0831. ; probable assets,
1241.

Ba HUONIADOX AND MACILAT.—This was the day
appointed for the adj armed bat examination of the bank-
rupts, who were merchants at Calcutta —Mr. F)son, for the
amissess, mid that as adjournment would be necessary, se
no artouats had been filed ; the bankrupts had both arrived
frog India, bat were not yet prepared with their aceonnt•
There wort curtain books, without which they could not
; it was neoessery these should be obtaiaed from
ralfrta
; they bad been written for, and might be repaired
is about a month.—Mr. Lawrence, for the bankrupts, also
said as adjournmeat weal i be neceseary.—ln answer to
from the Commissioner, Mr. Firm stated that the
owed, in mad mmber% upwards of 100,0001., •
Wiof ogbilli wee on blue reeertable. Hitherto
llgroslie had hem realised. There wore certain die-
pohrti Mom has Ada tawdry would Lye to be ludo,

OUILDHALL.—CakOOO or Itt-trenro Aft Arrant-
vica.—Mr A. Higho, • watchmaker, was summoned
for having ill-used kis + argotic*, by eonspellift him to
work ea Soudan aid net iladlog him safilitiest &W
J. Lyme
_stated *albs was apprenticed to the defendant by
the Leedom Scadety foe tii• Conversion of Jews, mid a pre-
miums ef 151. was gives ; the condition of the Indenture
Zathat his water was to lad lint* board, lodging, sad
Mink he lad not done, having may during the
feet impended impended 11. is the purchase of seroadthand
and his father had several times had his boots
AIM this society had 'applied him with elothes
tern er *meg yaw Witness alro complained that after he
had finished his day's labour, he was directed to tout. His
manor had a ream about 50 fast long at the back of
his shop, ha w balls roam,
place every night and as soon
as he bad done work, he was ordered to rand outside the
door and solicit customers and sell tickets of admission. At
10 o'clock he went inside and acted as waiter until one or
two in the morning, serving the customers with spirits, ale,
or whatever they wsatid.—ln reply to Alderman
Lawrence, who asked if the house was licensed, Lyon
replied that It was not. Witmer' first obtained money
from the parties requiring refreshment, and then
went to a neighbouring publio-bouse and got it.—
Alderman Lawrence inquired the prices of the liquors and
beer t—Lycra said that for the ale he received from the ens.
tooter, Bd. per pot, and on his way to the pablimbouse he
gave his molter 4d., and then got a pot of fourpenny ale for
them. With respect to the gin and water, parties paid 64.
per tentage, thinking they were served with the best,
whereas the spirits only cost 31d. per quartern, and it was
sometime s mixed by the landlady of the public-house, and
sometimes by Mrs. Higho.—Mr. Higho did not deny the
material portions of his apprentice's evidence' bat said the
whole charge at out of mere spite because he
gave the lad a thrashing, which, if Mr. Higho's
statement was correct, he richly deserved.—Mr. Lion,
here stepped forward and said that sins the
summons had been served, Mr. Higho had threatened that
if hie son persevered in the matter, he would. bring several
charge, against him, particularly one of having attempted
these times to set fire to his premises.—Mr. High° said that
he had witnesses to prove it.—Alderman Lawrence said he
should adjourn the summons for one month to give the de.
fondant an opportunity of properly clothing the boy ; at the
same time he mast understand that he could not use his ap-
prentice either as a pot-boy or a labourer.
BO W.STRERT. Ro AT TUB PUTTY BAB-
B/MI.-1i Smith, a clerk, wee finally examined, charged
with stealing five parchment rolls from the Petty Bag-office
in Rolls-yard, Chancery-lank—The prisoner was employed
about ten months in the establishment as a copying clerk,
and when the record. in question were mimed, on being
questioned he denied any knowledge of them, and imme-
diately absconded; but wrote to Mr. Abbott, the chief clerk,
respecting the manner in which he had disposed of them,
which enabled a detective officer to find them at the house of
an artists' oolourman, where they had been sold by
the prisoner at the rata of le. per lb., together with
a number of plain skins of parchment, which he had
disposed of at another shop of the same description.—
Mr. Henry told the person who rhad bought the pro-
perty that he should have examined the documents,
Instead of rendering himself liable to be indicted for
purchasing articles wbich,had he looked at them,he would have
seen belonged to the Court of Chancery.—Mr. Hayward, from
the office of the solicitor to the treasury, said that Mr. For.
stir, who had purchased the property stolen, bad restored to
the Insolvent Debtors' Court a quantity of rehMules that
had been stolen from that establishment and sold to him,
but, from henceforth, he wished it to be publicly understood
that the government was determined to put a stop to such •
system of traffic by prosecuting every person who would be
found engaged in it —The prisoner, who said he considered
the records produced only waste paper, was committed for
trial, bail being taken.
Ro RRRRR AT TUB INIIOLTINT DIBTOBB'
BoyU and A. Schmidt were finally examined, charged
with stealing • quantity of schedules from the Insolvent
' Debtors' Court. On the Bth of December last, between three
and four in the afternoon, the prisoner, were observed urn
a staircase leading to the room in which the records of the
court were kept, and to which the public had no right of ac-
cess. The prisoners, upon being observed, ran away, and the
housekeeper, sweetie, there was something wrong, went
up to the room, and found that a great many schedules and
other documents bad been abstracted from one of the presses.
Upon searching the room he discovered a blue bag, contain.
lag no lees than thirty-nine schedules.—The prisoners were
committed for trial.—As they were being taken out of
court, Schmidt leaned over the partition which separates the
peelings from the body of the court, and struck • woman
named Robinson (whose husband was mentioned in the
course of the evidence as being suspected of having given in-
formation) a violent blow on the head.
BINIVOLINCR.—Ta• RUB of 51. has been received from
the Countess of P., and a similar amount from the Earl of C.,
for the relief of the poor.
WO REM I P-ST RE RT. R or Form:la.—An
application was made to the magistrate a few days since on
behalf of a gentleman named Smith, • sculptor, who, in con-
sequence of severe illness and other unforeseen misfortunes,
had been missed, with his wife and daughter, to • state of
shiest weelebedness. Yesterday the warrant officer, who had
been directed to visit them, reported that he found the poor
sculptor stretched upon a mattress in • wretched apartment
with scarcely a vestige of furniture, and almost totally on-
provided with the actual necessaries of life. He had been
attended by the parish surgeon, and appeared to
be labouring under rheumatic fever, with which his
wife had also been attacked and reduced to the
same helplessness and suffering &iodide's. The officer
was accompanied to the court by Mr. Smith's daughter
from whom it was elicited that her father was formerly a
pupil of the late Sir William Chantey, under whose aus-
pices he estardished himself several years since in the south
of France, where he successfully pursued hie professional
avocations, until the outbreak of the revolution, when the
tide of feeling against his countrymen set in so strongly, that
he was compelled hastily to provide for the personal mfety
of himself and family, leaving behind him outstanding dr bts
to the amount of 6001, and abandoning a galosh's collection
of Italian marbles and statuary. On reaching this country
he was fortunate enough to procure some temporary employ-
ment, which placed them beyond the reach of want, but was
soon afterwards seised with the malady which now sfil,cted
him. and alter disposing of every convertible article in their pos-
session, they were at length forced to submit to the necessity
of throwing themselves upon the bounty of the parish.—Mr.
Hammill warmly expressed his sympathy for the distrened
condition of the unfortunate family, and presented the yourg
woman with 10s. from the poorthox for their immediate exi-
gencies, which the received with a grateful acknowledg.
meat

iiNETOLINCII.—The magistrate announced his receipt of
a communication from the Commissioners of Police enclosing
• remittance of dl. from the " Earl of C.," and a similar do-
nation from " The Countess of P.," to be applied to the
poor-box.
WESTMINSTER. BINIVOLINCI.— Mr. Burrell ac-
knowledged the receipt of 61. from the Earl of C—, and
a like donation from the Countess of P—, for the poor-box.
THAMES.— ErraNatva STISTIDI or PLM4DiII. —T.
Amen*, T. Arasent.jun his son, and S. Chester, porter,
were finally examined charged with steeling 100 yards of
silk damask and silk wonted damask, value 401, two carpets,
• hearth-rug, and other property, belonging to Messrs Deuce
and Co., upholsterers. This ease has been repeatedly before
the novistrate, and during its progress the magistrate and
Mr. Ballantine, counsel ter the prosecution, have made se-
I van comments on the conduct of several upholsterers and
linendrapers who have !purchased a portion of the stolen
property for about half its vales, and witheut making
any Winne. as to whether it had been Innestly obtained
er not. The prisoner Chester had been in the 'Ervin of
the prosecutors three months at their estahliehment in Re-
=street, and in the course of that time four pieces of
carpets, and other property, have keen miss.
sing, but no suspicion was entertained of his
I honesty until the other prisoners were in custody.
About three weeks ago he was questioned by the police
in common with all the persons employed upon the
'p»mwa, and denied all knowledge of the Armen's. On
Tuesday night the officers arrested him, and he then ad
mined that he knew the other prisoners, and that he and an-
other man named Pans had plundered MIMS. Drone and
Co. of considerable property. In addition to the evidence
given in the Express of Thursday, Fans stated that, in
Oet. • very cagily carpet was delivered at his beam from one
of the cans of Ike Parcels Delivery Company. He knew it
came from Chester, who had promised to make him a pre-
sent. When he saw what a rich thing the carpet was, he
refused to accept of it or to allow it to be laid down in tie
room. On the following morning his cousin, Graves, known
as Paw, took it away, and a bearding which had
been sent with it. A few days alter this he met Chester
who made him a present of the pieces of dragger which had
been identified as the property of Messrs. lass. On the
14th of last December a policeman saw the younger Arment
offering • piece of silk damask to a broker in the White-
chapel-road. It measured 28 yards, and the value of it was
about 101. Arment was questioned as to I is possession offs,
and he gave several unsatisfactory aceounte, and wee taken
into custody. The damask taken from him was part of a
large piece stolen from Marrs. Deuce. The Isms officer
traced other pieces of silk damask and silk and wonted de-
mask to the possession of the younger Arment. Mr. R.
Cuter, wholes upholsterer, in the ?dinettes, purchased 30
yards of nth and worsted damask of the younger Arment
about three weeks before he was taken into custody, and gave
him Is. 9d. per yard for it. The prisoner said he took it
in swop, or something of that kind. Mr. Carter produced
the damask which Mr. Fray, in the employ of Messrs.
Deuce, Identified, and it was proved by the agent of the
sasnuthetarer that the wholesale price was 4s. 10d.
per yard, but owing to a slight defect, it was sold to
Messrs. Druce and Co., for Is. 6d. per yard. Mr. J. Jackson,
upholsterer, in High-street, Shoreditch. bought • piece of
mimeos silk damask of a commiubn agent named Wall, who
acted on behalf of the younger Arment, and gave him
Bs. 6d. per yard for it. There were forty yards of It. The
masnafeeturing price of this damask was stated to be 9s. 6d.
per yard. Mr. Jackson, on hie first examination, said he
only bought one piece of damask of Wall, who brought him
omens of other damask, which he declined to pur-
chase. On • subsequent examination Mr. Jackson
weed another piece of damask, which he bought of
at a pries far below its 'Alas.—Mr. Fothergillf
in the employ of Hewitson and Co., massed 16 yards of
wham silk damask of Wall, sad gave kis is. per yard. It
was of the some piece as that odd to Mr. holism for Is. ed.
Fye. it. TM whole of the dame produssil was identified
Mir. Fray as braise • portion of that sloloa. The agent
ell, who said ha said as asomisissi In the oil end colour
line, said he hod he.,. the Assisses he about three months.
He proved die ries* of pisses of sdk damask sad silk and
worsted dome ken Om Armlets en various oessolate.

FRIDAY EVININO.
Consols recovered in some degree at the close of
business from the morning's depression, and left off
881 to 9 ex-dividend for the opening, but the funds
have been altogether flat all day, with few transac-
tions and prices looking down. At one time Consuls
were sold as low as 88, as also were Reduced Threes.
The decline was attributed in some quarters to the
rumours in currency latterly of the unfavourable
prospects of revenue. But towards the close of the
market it became known that the returns,
to be made up this evening, were of a
more encouraging nature than might have been
anticipated, and the short summary of results given
in the Eaprue came subsequently to confirm the anti-
cipation. It needs not, however, be disguised that,
if reports in accredited quarters may be trusted, ex-
traordinary efforts have been latterly made, and a
stringent course of action pursued, by the various
revenue boards under instructions from the Treasury,
to enforce the collection of all arrears and backward
payments throughout the country, so as to
payment the return, with a more satisfactory face.
Reduced Threes left off 881 to 9. Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents., 891 to 1. Exchequer Bills, 425. to
45.. prem. India Bonds, 41s. to 455. prem. Long
Annuities, 811-16 to t. Bank Stock, 1891 to 11.
Foreign securities have been heavy, and with more
limited dealings. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
were 48 to 9 ; the Fours, 76 to 7. Belgian were
done at 761, but quoted still 74 to 6. Russian, 102
to 4. Danish, 66 to 9. Mexican rather lower at 25
to 1. Peruvian not so good at 484 to 9 French
Five per Cent. Rents were sold at 744, at exchange,
241 francs. Spanish Fives, 131 to 14 ; the Threes,
261 to 7 ex-dividend ; Passive, 31 to 1. Portuguese,
251 to 61. Brazilian, 75 to 7. Cbilian, 86 to 8.
Buenos Ayres, 24 to 6. Venezuela, 18 to 20.
The variations in foreign ezel.ange were unimpor-
tant, and the business in bills very contracted. On
Vienna no rates were made. On Amsterdam the ne-
gotiations were 12.21 to 1; on Rotterdam, 12.21 ; on
Antwerp, 25.671 to 70; on Hamburg, 13.111 to 1; on
Frankfort. 1211 ; on Petersburg, 361 ; on Paris,
25.55 to 60—at short, 26.30 to 33; on Leghorn, 31.9.5
to 32 ; on Naples, 394 to 40 ; ou Madrid, 471 to 1;
on Lisbon, 51} to i—all at three months, except as
otherwise described.

The mercantile houses connec'ed with Mexico are
by no means satisfied with the new arrangements
adopted by the Mexican treasury, and enforced by in-
structions from the Foreign-office here to the com-
manders of British men-of-war, fir ensuring the re-
gular payment of the duties on the export of silver
from the Mexican ports on the Pacific, before it is ad-
mitted for shipment. These duties, cr the larger pro-
portion of them, are, as is known, resigned
towards the payment of interest on the foreign
debt. Hitherto they have tot yiel,:ed any-
thing, as the coin and bullion from those quarters,
as well as much of that from the eastern ports, has
usually been exported by contraband. The British
commanders in the Pacific are dirt cted in future to
require certificates of the duty paid, or otherwise to
be assured of the fact by value in hand, before receiv-
ing the metallic treasure on board.
The merchants here complain that the effect of
these measures will be to make French and American,
if not other foreign vessels, the exclusive carriers of
silver from those parts to France or other
countries in Europe; from the advantage preferentially
possessed of being enabled to receive it on board free
of the 6 per cent. duty, which it is the affair of the
shippers, or parties having payments to make, to pay,
and is no concern of the commander of the vessel, not
unfrequently not even of the merchant who may thus
have received his payments free on board from in-
debted parties.
This is evidently a matter for discussion between
the merchants and the Foreign-office. It may be re-
marked, however, as • diplomatic singularity, that
the Foreign-office should undertake so far to be the
custos of the treasury, and the guardian of the
ports of a foreign and not very friendly count-y,
against an illicit traffic carried oa by its own subjects.
The Bank of England averages for the week end-
ing the 30th ult., give, as compared with those for
the week preceding, the following results :
Circulation Woe .../36,226,595
Circulation actin 17,129,833
Public depends 6,396,118
Other deposits
Government esenritias
in ""
f 394.315
lament 120,338
Banking Deparinaist
Other seetuitiai 10,957,933
170111 and Mullion
Seven day and other OWe 972,112
The beet 3,382,800
The reserve of notes in the banking department at
11,096,9601., were lees than in the week before by
21:,3751. The increase in " other " securities would

probably consist for the most part of railway deben-
tures, which :about that time it wu understood the
Bank had been taking in for some considerable sums
at the rate of 6 per cent.

t for the Week endues Dec. 30. ISM
Government Debt— . ,1111.011400
Other Securities 2.914.900
Gold Cols sod 13,T18.886
Wirer Hellion

PA 'TAINT.

"t;;:, ;Eueo— t Scourltlea
daelad. Dead Weight
Annaltyl L13.84.51111
OtherSoeurales 10.967.9311
Gold aad Oela

AO
I. MARSHALL, Otdd =
_FUNDS.

loan , cruder Zll4l 4
Oossols for A, 9
Szebsquar BU et.IL 22.949, , March.
42 6 , 29., June, 42 6
Ditto, f,500, 291., Nan* 42 6; 26.,
Di. 42 6
tto, Sava let, March, 42 6;
2cL, Juno, 42 6
FUND&
_ . _

ipso or Opal& div. from
Nov., IMO, 131
3 pa Ct. bpsole Bds., '261
Ditto, Amt., Jon. 16, If
6 per Ct. 'quarts Homes, 141. 751..
261 60c.

4i per et. Belgian Ma, ex. W.. 763
24 par Ct. Dutch Its.. LS Gull., 49

Catheroe, and West lorhabire-11. .oe., Jae Jan. 1; Caledonian -
D. ilk. us the new tel. preference sharer, due Deo. 21;
Durdalk and Erusiskillra.-21. lus., due Jet,. ; East
Anglian -11. on the new U. shares, and 10s. on the new 31. los.
Murex, both due Dee. 30; East and West India Docks and Binning.
ham Junction-21. 10e.,..5e Dec. 1S; Eastern Union -21. ios. on
the "11 " &arm due Jan. 10 ; Gingow and Ayr-
'M. 10s. on the prettiness shares, due Jan. 4; Great
Southern and Western-IL 10'., dus Jan. 10; Oreat Wes-
tern - 101. on the 1001. shares, due Jan. 3, and 21.
ea the 231. and 111. shares, both due Jan. t• Lana.
shire and Yoe kshire-11. on the fifth shares, due Dee. 13, sad
V. 10s. on the new 101.6 per eon. shares, due Dee. 21 • Leeds
and Think-31. en the extension shares (1646), due Jan. 1 ; Loudon,
Brighton, and SouUs Cori-IL an the Dew 31. 6 per sent.
doe Dee 6; Landon and North-Western-IL on the Manebestershara
A and B due Jan. 1 ; London sad flaunt-Western
en the third (IM7), due Dec. ; Londonderry
and Ilanlrkilkst-IL lea, doe Jan. 10; 7
), due
Buxton, and Mat-
losk-10a., due Jar. 10; Midland-31. on the 301. shame; 21.
ea the &kW and Giousteler 601. shares; and 31. 14.. 6d.
on the ISTIS'oI and Gionneter 371. ss. sane., all due
Jan. 3 ; Mold-21. 10N., due Jan. 13 ; Monkland-21. 10e. en the
puaranteei 251. elutes, due Jan. 6; Newontle and Carlisle-131. on
the sew 1001. shares, due Dee. 31; Norfolk-31. on the new 201.
shares, due Dee. 13 ; Northern and Eastern-91. on the scrip 301.1
shares, due Jan. 12; Shrewsbury and Birmingham-4. on the new
SI. preference sham, due Deo. 3a; tbrewebury and Mester-13e.
on the Oswestry 2411. shares; 11. on the North Wales Mineral 201.
Mares, and 10s. on the ICI. shares, all due Jan. 3 ; Shropshire Union
-11. on the 201. shares, due Jan 12; South• Eastern-41. ea the No. 1
Mures. and 31. on the No. 3 shares, kith due Jan. S ; South Wales-
IL, due Jan. 10; N hitehaven end Forums-IL, due Dr.. 12;
Wnitehaven Junction-11. 10s. on the 34 preference shares, due
Jan. I.

TRANSFER Boone Canso.—Midland (6 per oei..t stock and shares)
-rtiU Jan. 13._ _

TRAITIC.—Wceks ending Dr. 23 to Dec. 30.—(From Railway awes.)
1646. j W 47. I 11646 1641
34.664, 36,882
1.8.41 693
41.69' 6.706
8,142 6,261
161
1.892 1.161.1
. 4.8.164 23.1911
- 764
2.3 A) 2.113
IKA)
L 644 633
1,166 741;
TAD 8,138
1.303 1.614
663 662
176 190
13.11 17.1271,347
7
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Laac.,& Claw&
ebomer sad Holyhead
Dublin & Drugbala
Dublin alilaystowa
Dund.l.th.&Allnan.
E.Uuuntle• & Noriol6
Edlnbturb &
Adlobargh &Northam
Glam., Paln. & Ayr
Ulan.. Pair. &
Ores* Oth. a Ment.(l )
linnt, Western
K.d.la t!Tdc.l:ll- • •

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