The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-20 00:00:00

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lists are prepared, the nomination of officers will take
piece.
Detachments from the army of the Alps are ar-
riving every day, to occupy the different camps which
are being formed in the environs of Paris. Two
battalions of the 56th regiment and the 6th light
infantry passed through the capital yesterday on their
way to Versailles.
The Union says :-4 A schism in the meeting of the
Palais National has arisen, from the desire to exclude
82 members of the Republique Rouge, who assemble
privately in the Rue Castiglione, and appear but
very rarely in the Palais National. Thus, henceforth,
the Extreme Gauche and the Gauche will be formed
into three fractions; one continuing to meet at the
Palais National, the second at the Rae Castiglione,
and the third at the Institute."

M. de Cormenin yesterday visited at Vincennes the
persons confined there for the attempt of May 15.
lie saw MM. Barbtls' Albert, Sobrier, and Respell.
Ho found the three first calm, and expecting to be
amnestied; but M. Respell was exceedingly violent.
He speaks during the night time aloud, and at great
length, as if before his judges; in the morning he
falls into a state of great prostration, and the jailers
are obliged to rub his temples with cold water, to
recall him to himself. The prisoners asked for per-
mission to see their families, and to be allowed to
walk out. Gen. Courtais is still at the Conciergerie.
Yesterday evening a great number of officers of
the National Guard were present at the reception of
General Cavaignac.
The carriages were arranged as during the recep-
tions of the late king at the Tuileries. No one spoke
to the General without being first addressed by him.
The mother of General Cavaignac was prisent.
The general was in plain clothes. Amongst the re.
presentatives was M. de Larochejaquelin.
General Cavaignac expressed to the 2nd and 3rd
legions, who appeared the first, how highly he
appreciated their courageous conduct in the late
struggle. " Our cause," said he, "is common, and
the legions can reckon on me, as I do on them."
The 7th company of the 3rd battalion of the 2nd
legion, which, with the sth company, had commenced
the attack on barricades in the Faubourg St. Denis
and the Faubourg Poissonniere, was, in particular,
noticed by the general.
The reports of the desperate state and even the de-
cease of M. Dorni,s are happily not completely exact;
his situation is very grave, but his friends are very
far from having lost hope.
The Constitutionel has the following respecting M.
Prudhon . .

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If anyone wishes to know to what he would be exposed in
auctioning the right of labour, he has only to read a letter
written a few days back by M. Prudhon to the Union. He
there endeavours to prove that in the late dreadful insur-
rection the right was at bath sides of the barricades. Is it
not true, oars M. Prudhon, that the right of labour has be.
come a constitutional right by the same title as the liberty of
the pressthe right of association, universal suffrage, pro..
party ? Has not that right been admitted by the Provisionel
Government by a decree which has the force of law ? Is it
not proposed to write it down in the constitution, placing it
before property itself ? But the matter is to know, adds H.
Prudhon, if one hundred thousand cit:z me, to whom the
right of labour has been constitutionally recognised, are ex-
cusable for having taken up arms (or the maintenance of that
right when violated or turned from its real purpose? To
which M. Prudhon replies that the insurrection of June,
made in the name of the right of labour, may be just as well
justified as the insurrection of July, effected in the name of
the liberties guaranteed by the charter, and as that of Febru-
ary, made in the name of the right of meeting. What is to
be concluded from all this, except that, in sanctioning that
right, which is a deceit, it not a spoliation, it is intended to
furnish an incessant pretext for the attempts of parties. The
right of labour has become an arm of war in the hands of the
factious ; it is the most dangerous of all, ant should not be
left to them when their disarming is'procecded to.

M. Marc Dufraisee, Prefect of the Indre, who pub-
fished a singular proclamation on the events of Paris,
has been dismissed. M. St. Ferric], sub-prefect at
Brioude, has also been dismissed.
The papers, acts, and documents of every kind
relating to the Orleans family and to the Chamber of
Peers, collected at the Tuileries and other royal resi-
dences after the revolution of February, have been
classified in 30,000 parcels, a^d placed in the archives
of the republic.
The tailors of Paris (says the Courner Francais)
yeaterday received orders to made 100,000 great coats
and frock oasts for the troops of King Charles Albert,
who has cent the necessary quantity of cloth from the
manufactories of Turin. They are to be paid for at
the rate of 7fr. a tunic, and 4fr. 75c. the capote.
The contract for the re-purchase of the Lyons
railway was signed to-day. The amount of Rentes
agreed on has been 7f. 60e.
Pauli RILT 19. Near Loan, —; Three per Cents.,
Five per Cents., ——; Moureand-Halt, ; Pours, . Belgian
Fives, 1940,—; Do. 1812,—; Do. Threes, —; Do. T.o-and-a-
Unit, Naples Rentals • Roman ; Treasury
Rands. 19.—; Bank Shares, 1600; Lachungs Treasury
Bands. 30 days,
—; 90 dap, —.
ltanmsytt.— Parts and Orleans, 670; Ports and Rouen, 4;2 50;
Rouen and Havre, 215; Avignoe and Mut-settles, 233 75 ; rum.
Bourg Imo Bee. 98 75. emus vienoe. 277 50; Armes ant. Wee
Lame, Borceaus, 403 75; North, 363 75.

ITALY.—The Milan Gazette, of the 14th, states
that new battalions of Lombardian troops are arriving
every day at the l'iedmontese camp. the Austrians
make frequent sallies from Mantua, but without
leaving the immediate vicinity of the fortress.
Mortality, in consequence of fever, is said to be very
great in their ranks.
The Arvenire d'ltalia of Milan, of the 14th, an-
nounck s that the Turin minis'ry have contract d for
50,000 muskets with the French government; 20,000
more are expected from England, and 40,000 from the
United States.
_ . .

The Patna of Florence, of the 12th, has the follow-
ing from Naples, of the Pith : " A troop of twenty
officers, mostly of the royal guard, forcibly entered the
Cafe de Angelis, in the Via Tolcdo,on the4th, and with
gross insults and imprecations drove out the persons
who were there, calling them assassins, rascally libe-
rals, &e. Strong patrols who wereTassing at the time
took no notice of these excesses, which were repeated
at different other cafés of the same street. It is
also said that the officers of the army had declared
that if the liberal press did not change its tone, they
would take justice into their own hands. Menaces
are also openly offered by them against the deputies."

ME ARMY IM IRELAND.—The following is an
official return of the army at present in Ireland, with the
stations of the regiments : —lst l'ragoon Gurr,:s. Cahir ; 6th
Dragoon Guards, Dundalk; 2nd Dragoons, Athione ; 4th
Light Dragoons, Newbridge; 6th ditto, Dublin; 7th Hunan,
Dublin ; Bth Hussars, BalLneAlig; 12:h Lancers. Cork ; 13th
Light Dragoons, Longford ; 17th Lancers, Dublin ; Ist Foot,
2nd battalion, Bin; 2nd ditto, Dublin ; 3rd, Belfast ; 6th, 2nd
battalion, Youghal ; 13th, Newry; '26th. Cork; 31st, Ath-
lone ; 40th, Galway ; 41st, Butternut; 43rd, Templemore;
47th, Clonmel ; 48th, Dubl,n; 49th Dublin ; 55th, Dublin ;
67th, Ennitkil'en, 59th, Ten piemore; 64th, Limerick; 68th,
Muliingar; 70th, Cork; 71st. Dublin; 74th Dublin; 75th,
Dublin; 83rd, Kilkenny; 85th, Dublin; 92nd, Limerick;
the depbt companies of the 7th Foot, Waterford; the 19th,
Castlebar ; the 34th, Nenah ; 38th, Boyle; 66th, Kinsale;
73rd, Bin.; 77th, Fermoy ; 79th, Idullingar ; 88th, Tralee;
95th, Londonderry. In addition to the preceding, there see
detachments of artillery pensioners, sappers a-d miners, &e.,
which, with the armed police, would give a force of about
45,000 men.
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COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION.—At
the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 18th day of December,
1847. By the Right Honourable Sat Lords of the Committee
of Council on Education. Resolved—l. That the Roman
Catholic Poor School Committee be the ordinary channel of
such general inquiries as may he desirable as to any school
applying for aid as a Roman Catholic school 2. That Roman
Catholic schools receiving aid from the parliamentary grant
be open to inspection, but that the inspectors shall report
respecting the secular instruction only. 3. That the inTee
tore of such schools he not appointed without the previous
concurrence of the Roman Catholic Poor School Committee.
4. That no gratuity, stipend, or augmentation of salary be
awarded to schoolmasters er assistant teachers who are in
holy orders, but that their lordships reserve to themselves
the power of making an exception in the cue of training
schools, and of model schools connector' therewith.
IMPORTATION OF CATTLE.—It will be recollected
that in the autumn of last year the attention of the officers
of the rev nue was speedily directed by the authorities to
the state of the este", arid sheep which should be imported
from abroad ; and also in the early portion of the year 1845,
in consequence of a certain disease being on those two oeca- '
aims prevalent among them on the Continent. The officers
of tie customs department have again been made acquainted
that information has recently been received that the disease
called 'midrib' ovis " is now gre ttly extending in some parts
of the country, especially in two of the eastern counties,
and that apprehensions exist that it may be caused by the
importation of infected sheep, and they have therefore been
directed to exercise the greatest vigilance in enforcing
the precautions previously authorised to be adopted in this
matter, with ► ferther notification that they are forthwith to
state, for the information of the board, whether it appears
that sheep are now being imported at either of the ports is
the kingdom in an infected state. Directions to the above
effect have been given to the officers of the revenue at all the
ports in the kingdom ; and although *ere may, perhaps, be
no absolute necessity for apprehending the infected state of
the cattle whieh am at the present time imported form the
Continent,yet these salutary precautions taken by the govern-
ment authorities in the miner will be duly appreciated by
the public. It will be recollected that this subject was e-
luded to in the Lower House of Parliament during the
part week, when as meuranco was given by Mr. Labouchere
that it would receive the full attention of the government
authorities.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JULY 19.—Great excitement still pre-
vails in Waterford. Mesas. I. S. Varian, J. W.
Bourke, and J. O'Brien, have been arrested at Cork,
for sedition, and bailed.
Her majesty's steamer Rhadamanthus has sailed
from Kingstown Harbour for Waterford, with a body
of two hundred of the county Dublin constabulary,
and the government have chartered a steamer from
the City of Dublin Company, to convey troops from
Belfast to Cork. Thin city is quite tranquil.
By the Gazette of this evening the following per-
sons are appointed to grant licenses to carry arms in
the proclaimed districts :
DUBLIN CITY : J. L. O'Ferrall, Esq.J and Colonel
Brown. DUBLIN COUNTY : Captain J. C. Roberts,
H. W. Thompson, Esq., and F. Tercy, Esq. CORK
CITY : W. Knaresborough, Eeq., and A. K. Fox,
Esq. CORK COUNTY: Neal Browne, Esq., W. Klima-
' borough, Esq., and A. K. Fox, Esq. WATERFORD
CITY: J. Tabuteau, Esq., and J. Clarke, Esq. WATER-
FORD COUNTY: J. Tabuteau, Esq.; P. C. Howley,
Esq.; and J. Clarke, Esq. DROOIIEDA: T. Derinzy,
El•
be Evening Post, the government organ, thus
writes on the proclamation of the various places in
Ireland brought under the operation of the pesos
preservation act. It is understood in this instance
to speak authoritatively :
The Privy Council was summoned last night to meet.
We are fully prepired for the alarm that this determina-
tion will create, but, at the same time, we are perfectly
convinced that there is not one rightminded man
in the community, not a single advocate of law or order,
whatever may be his political opinions, who will not feel
assured that the government must have ample rearms
that not alone justify, but imperatively call for the
course they hale now adopted. We say this, because it is no-
torious that in the course of the last five months, from every
part of the country, from England as well as from Ireland,
and, above all, from an immense number of our owa citi-
zens, the utmost pressure has been applied to induce the
government to proclaim Dublin. Thu pressure has been
steadily resisted, because the government, having means of
complete information at their commend, deemed that such •
step was not called for, end the manner in which the peace
of our city has been maintained, throughout the whole of
that exciting period, proves that the government, acting
upon its responsibility, was justified in not resorting to those
powers confided to it by the law. If now, therefore, the
government, possessing the same means of information,
again acting upon its own responsibility, and prepared to
justify its course to the country, considers that the time has
at length arrived when the exercise of those powers can no
longer with safety be deferred, the public may be well as-
sured that the cause is ample, and admits of no delay.
We know, and our readers will understand that we
speak from authority, that the government has information
of the conspiracy meditated by a few desperate men, not
only to defeat the ends of justice, but by force to subvert
all law and order, and to engage this country in a deadly
social struggle ; in a word, by means precisely identical with
those employed in France, to bring about in Ireland the
tame ruin, and anarchy, and bloodshed as at Paris, and
which have there made the staunchest republicans look upon
a military despotism as a national blessing. That this
insane and horrible plot will signally fail, no reasonable man
can permit himself to doubt; but it is the duty of tte
government to protect the unwary from the snares that
are held out for them ; to guard society against the anxious
care, ar,d the doubta and the losses that these preparations
for its subversion must entail ; and, above all, it is the duty
of the government to pr• vent, if possible, the shedding of a
single drop of blood. The dreadful scenes of Paris must
not be imitated in Dublin, Cork, Waterford, and Drogheda.
The manufacture, and sale, and importation of weapons for
unlawful purposes, must be checked; their possession by
persons who would steep them in the blood of their fellow-
countrymen must not be permitted. These cities have,
therefore, been proclaimed ; and as the measure is solely di-
rected against the evil-minded promoters of civil war, we nerd
hardly assure all other persons, that no precaution will he
neglected by the autht.rities to render its operation as little
annoying or vexatious to them as passible ; and we much
mistake that immense maj city of our fellow citiz -ns who
are friendly to law and order, if they will not cheerfully
submit to a slight and temporary inconvenience, in order to
avert a reign of terror, and to put an end to a state of un-
ceasing sedition, which paralyses all business, is destructive
alike of confidence and credit, and at this moment menaces
not alone the well-being, but the very existence of society.
We will only further add, for the satisfaction of the
public, that the wares and residences of the members of
clubs, who are subordinate agents in the conspiracy, sro as
well known to the government u the criminal intentions of
their leaders.

INGENUITY OF SCIENCE.—Who would have ima-
gine'', when guncotton was produced by M. Schonbein, nod
the world was threatened with destruction by being blown
up by this terrific explosive material, that within a few
months it should be discovered to be en excellent styptic for
dressing cats and wounds ? But so it is. Dissolved in ether,
and applied to the severest cut, it forms an adhesive covering
of singular closeness and adhesiveness, protects the wound,
and excludes atmospheric air, or any irritating matter, so
that the process of healing is carried on speedily and effectu-
ally ; and when all is well, the " protectionist, having done
its duty, is removed. So also has Dr. Simpson, of Edin-
burgh, we are informed, similarly applied chloroform and
gotta percha! This mixture, in a Tguid condition, at about
the consistence of fine honey, is kept in a phis/ or bottle,
and when an accident of the kind to which we have re-
ferred occurs, it is simply poured upon the wound ; the
chloroform instantly evaporates, and the gotta perch' re-
mains a peaces, flexible, second skin, over the injured part,
I preserving it for weeks if necessary, without the no. ed of
dre.sing, bandages, or any other appliance, till there is no
more occasion for this admirable agent. When we call to
mind how much human pain will thus he alleviated, how
many cures effected where hitherto there have been danger
and uncertainty, and how a number of surgical operations
will be simplified, it may not be could' red too much to
rank such inventions among the most valuable that c ,uld be
discovered and applied for the benefit of mankind.—Literary
Gazette. _ _

LORD ASHLEY'S WORKING-MAN'S INSTITUTE.—
Yesterday the first weekly return of the Westminster Work-
ingman's Institute, in Pare-street, Westminster, was made.
The institution was founded by Lord Ashley and a committee
of noblemen and gentlemen, tor the moral improvement of
the working classes. Seventy members have joined, at the
small sum of 18d. a meet. The reading-room is furnished
with the daily papers, and instruction is given to adults in
writing and arithmetic. The beat monthly and other pe-
riodicals affording popular instruction also lie on the tables.
About 150 children have been entered in the school, and are
taught reading, writing, arithmetic, and useful needlework.
EXPERIMENTS WITH CuLoßoFoast.—ln the Lancet
Mr. Nuuncley, of Leeds, states that chlurotorm and other
anaesthetic axente can, he beli..ves, be applied locally to a
part to produce local insensibility to pain, the brain being un-
affected, conscin usnees being retained, and the limbs and other
parts not being subjected to the action of the anesthetic Agent,
retaining their usual ancithetic condition. His opinions
regarding the supposed value and safety of this new mode of
administering anaesthetic agents had been funned by Mr.
Nunneley on the results of experiments. By the local appli-
cation of chloroform to the limbs of frogs and toads and the
hind legs of rabbits, he had rendered these parts anaesthetic,
and he obtained (he states) similar results in the human sub-
ject from keeping his finger immersed in ante.thetic fluid.
for half an hour or an hour. In one case, where the opera-
tion for artificial pupil was to be undergone, he had (lie men-
tions) rendered the parts nearly inseitaiblo by applyin:r to the
eye to twenty minutes previously a small quantity of the
vapour of chloroform.
THE SIX POINTS OP COLONISATION.—The Rail-
way Record publishes the following outline of a comprehen-
sive system of coloeiseion by railways Si the result of the
studied of " one of the moat prat ical and eapasiencel gen-
tlemen in the railway world :"
I. A eclat emigration must be organised as the grand preliminary,
as a means to the great end of colonisation, and in part or its me-
chlaery.-2. Existing markets mint be connected and improved, and
means of immediate employment thereby afforded to emigrants on
their first arrival, by the construction of colonial or rather canonise-
lion, railwayo.-3. Some assistance towards physical preparation, ts
In the clearing of Umber land, the erection of cottages, the
survey of sites for towns, the erection of bridgee, and the
like, must also be afforded by capital and practical phi.
lanthropr, in the oune4 leaving room rind verge enough
for private enterpri,e. —4. Moral and sanitary preparation,
also must be encouraged by the foundation or partial endowment of
schools, churchee, and public institutions ; the formation of parks and
cemeteries ; and provision ear all the means and accessories of phy-
sical and moral health.-3. nese outlay. must be recovered by the
trete of We tines and the enhanced value of the lands, the price of
each [andel° be paid in such moment instalments over a period of
years as shall napless too heavily on the energies or capital of the
yeoman or other colonist ; and Sth. The imperial government, upon the
obvious and unexceptionable security of the colonial revenues, and the
mortgage of the railways and of the lands thus enhanced in value, foe
payment of interest and replacement of capital, mist create the nee
creamy funds by an ilaue of exchequer bills or government money,
to be advanced to the colonies as required, on condition of employing
so many able-bodied men and their families per mile of railway.
RELATIVE PROPORTION* OF JEWS.—The compara-
tive number of Jews to Christians is as follows: Great
Britain and Ireland, 1-2076; Sweden and Norway, 1.5012;
Belgium, 1-2 i 67 ; Friars, 1.482; Denmark, 1-366; Nether-
lands, 1.61; Austrian dominions, 1-57; Russia, including
Asiatic Russia, 1.56; in Germany, the proportion is 1.90,
tut their repartition among the individual states varies con-
siderably. for while in the kingdom of Saxony the propor-
tion is 1.1909, in Brunswick it is 1.180, in Hanover, 1-158,
in Wurtemburg 1-149, in Baden 1.62, in Anhault Dessau
1-37, in Hamburg, 1-22. In the villages of Prussia, the pro
portion is 1.237 ; in the cities and towns 1.26; (in Breslau
1.16.)
PRICE OF BREAD.—The bakers yesterday through-
out the metropolis reduced the price of the gib. loat one half-
penny. At the West-end the best bread is now charged 61d.
to 7d.; second quality, 51d. to 6d. Many bakers, however,
only chorge 6d. for the loaf weighed on delivery, and good
household bread may be obtained at 40.

SHIPPING.

MAILS ARMIVPD.—DubIin, 3; Waterford, 2; Donagha-
dee, 1; Guernsey, tte , 1 ; French, 1; Flanders, 1.
Lotstion, July 20.—Wind this day at noon, W.S.W.,
moderate breeze, and dull weather, with rain.
LITENPOOL, July 19.—W.B.W.—Arrived: Hu, Bombay;
Flora, Islay ; Wm. Pelle, Monte Video; Columbus, Macao
and Pernambuco, sailed 13th ult. ; Pbmnix, Antigua ; Trea-
surer, Porto Rico; Macedonia, and Sea Queen, New Or-
leans; Camillus, Savannah ; Andrew Foster, New York;
Britannia (a), New York, left sth mat , Halifax Bth ; Para-
gon,N Montieal ; Mary Ann, Newfoundland; Joha Sheen,
Bar
SUbary.
DERLAND, July 18.—Arrived Reliance, Antigua.
Slitntus, July 19.—Sailed: Dianthe, Boston. The St.
Lucia, of Dundee, which was stranded near this on the Bth
of Decembere last, was got off to-day and brought in here.
A armossate, July 18.—Sailed; lenbervie,-Havana.
Buisvox, July 19,—S.W.—Arrived : Canada, and Conn-
teas of Durham, Quebec ; Lotion, Newfoundland.
DEAL, July 19.—W.B.W.—Arrived: Clio, and Compton,
Honduras; Carshalton Park, Honduras and -Cork. Arrived
from the river : Navarino, Port Philip ; Janie, Newfound-
land. Arrived from the river and sailed Benjamin B.
Greene, Mauritius
. . . _

OFF Doren, July 19. Arrived: Halcyon, Boston, for
St. Petereburgh.
Pi.visoont, July 19.—Arrived : Spermaceti, Quebec.
Sailed, 18th: Andromache, Port Philip ; North Briton,
Quebec,

Ore TORRLY, July 19.—Arrived: Belmondsey, Sydney,
New South Wales.
Or DARTMOUTH, July 18.—Oom rnor M'Lean, Cape
Coast Castle.
FALMOUTH, July 19.—W.S.W.—Arrived: Sauter, Rio
Janeiro. 19th : Adolph, Bahia, for Bremen. Sailed, 18th :
Jean Goodie, Launceston, Van Thames Land.
On' FALMOUTH, July 19.—Arrived Gunge, Port Ade-
laide.

POTATO BLIGHT.—Sire--We have been willing to
flatter ourselves as long as possible that our fears were pre-
mature, bat from the concurring testimony of all parts of the
country 1 am afraid it is now beyond a doubt that the potato
blight hu set in earlier and with a prospect of spreading
as extensively as it did two years ago. It is too late to at-
tempt to raise any other crop this year except turnips or
cabbages, but there is just time, if they are sown without
any delay, by this means to raise • supply of food in aid of
the diminished stock,that,if not of the:most nourishing kind,
will at least contribute bulk, a most essential element of sub-
sistence. But information is so slow in reaching the agri-
cultural class of labourers, to whom the loos of potatoes will
be the most severe, and they are so slow to act when it does
reach them, that I beg to suggest through your columns
to country proprietors both that they should sow an addi-
tional breadth of turnips themselves and that they should ex-
hort all their tenants and cottagers to do the same without
losing a day; and it would greatly facilitate this if they
would offer to supply the class of labnirers with seed at •
reduced price.••-•DAILPE DIEM.
EIdIGRATION.—It appears from the accounts just
laid before parliament by the Colonial Land and Emigration
Commis,ioners, that the total number of persona who emi-
grated from the United Kingdom during the year 1847, was
268,270. The number is remarkable, uit is about twice as
great as that of any previous year. The average annual
number for the ten years ending with 1837, war about
63,000; and for the ten years ending with 1847, about
104,000. Thus the emigration of 1847 exceeded the decen-
nial average in the proportion of five to two, while that
of 1832 exceeded it only as about five to three. As to the
direction of this stream of emigration—during the last twenty
years, about half the emigrants of each year have gone to the
United States, and of late years the number moving in that
direction has increased. A large proportion, also, of those
landed at the ports of the British North American colonies,
especially the mere labourer', find their way to the States
within the first year or two. Deducting an average of seven
or eight per cent. for all other places, the remainder go to
oar North American colonies. Of the emigrants of 11347,
abut three-fifths (163,000) sailed from English ports, and
95,700, from Irish, and 8,600 from Scottish ports. But these
numbers do not show the proportions proceeding front each
division of the kingdom. In the first place, we have to de-
duct the foreign emigrants, chiefly German, who embarked
from London. These were 10,300 in number. They, there-
f re, reduce the total to about 248,000, and the apparently
Inglish section of it to about 143,000. Further, the num-
ber embarked at Liverpool was no lets than 102,600; and of
these there is reason to believe that four-fifths (say 80,(00)
were persons who had come immediately, or recently, from
Irtlsad. This further reduces the English contribution to
the total, properly so called, to about 63,000; and further,
as of the whole 8,600 embarked in Scottish porta no fewer
than 6,600 were from Glasgow, which has a proportion of
Irish-born population quite equal to that of Liverpool, and
offers similar facilities for the embarkation of Irish emigrants,
we may, perhaps, safely add 3,000 more to the Irish section'
deducting from that given to Scotland.—Liverpool Journal.

LARCENY BY A T/IRUSH.—In removing a dead tree
at Foolden, in Norfolk, a misletoe thrush's nest, of this
year's build, was found in it. A peculiarity in its appearance
causing it to be examined, part of the materials of which it
was constructed was found to consist of a linen cuff, a long
cambric trill (being the tucker of a child's frock), and a small
linen collar, all which articles had been missed from the
bleach in the spring.—Gordeners' Chronicle.
DYING FOR A MEDAL—The Peninsular war vete-
rans are asked to exercise their patience a little longer be-
fore they receive their long. promised medals. Only another
five years mere, or at the utmost ten, and they will be ready;
far has not Earl Grey informed us that " the dies ve
finished, but that at the same time the necessary engraving
will cause some further delay ?" By the time these dilatory
medals are awarded, they will be va:uable as coins, and
future antiquaries will compete for the posserion of one
as eagerly as they do for a Quern Anne's farthing. As for
the poor veteran., they have, in the altered words of one
whom it is the fashion of these fast days to call " slow,"
—set their glory on a cast,
"And they must wait the hazard of the die."
However, whatever difficulty there may be on the side of
the government, there is certainly none on the part of the
veterans in " making a die," as the military obituary will
abundantly prove if examined. Can the Duke, who has the
interest of the soldier so much at heart, possibly knew that
the brave fellows are literally (lying for their medals?
Perhaps, after all, we may be wrong ; for nothing can be
more likely than that the issue of the medals has been post-
poned altogether "sine die."—Punch.