The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-15 00:00:00

ADMIRALTY, MAY 13.

The following promOtiOn..;ii:;eClii.s.--Ly taken place, consequent
upon the death of Adm. S. Point: —Adm. of th • Blue 11. R. Glynn b. he
adm. of the white; Vice-Adm. of the kted the lUght Lion. Jame. Murmi.
of 'llvervind, G.C.H., to be Wm. of the blue; Vim-Adm. of the White
Sir E. D. King, Knt., K.C.IL, to be riee.mlm. of the red ; Vioe-Adm.
of the Blue M. Buckle to be vice-Adm. of the wkute; Rear Adm. of the
Red the lion. G. Elliot, e.B„ to be vim-adm. of the blue ; Rear Adm.
of the %bite J. Ayeeough to be rear adm. of the red; Ibeor Adm. of
the Blue J. W. Ll. (Medea, C. 8.. to be renr Adm. of the white; Capt.
E. W. Ileare to be rear WIS. of the blue.
MAT 10. —RI. Illarinee—llret Lent. S. N. Lowder to he att., vice
Langley, pm.; Sm. Lieu t. F. H. (:ratan to be Snit hoot. Gent.
CAdeta to beßezalgetter. E.G. fd`Callum, b. T.
Ansel, G. H. We lied, end J. Item

NEW ZEALAND COMPANY.

The annual general court wee held yesterday at the
house of the company, in Broad-street-buildings. 11. A.
Aglionby, Esq., N.Y., presided. The report of tne dir.cu re
was read by Mr. Harrington, the secretary. The following
is an ahstraet. _ _

"The correspondence with her Majesty's government had
put the proprietors in possession of the negotiations in which
the directors have ba-rn engaged on their behalf, or at bast
of that portion of them which had led to a practical rend%
That eerrespondenee apprised tnem so fully of the general
nature of the negotiations, and Lord Grey to clearly states
the grounds on which he desired to enable the company to
renew its operations, and the means by which he propos,' to
carry that object into effect, that any comment upon the de-
tails was superfluous. In their reply to Lord Grey they had
stated that the arraagemesto proposed appeared to afford a
fide prospect of auccesa notwithatanning the difficulties by
which the later stage', of the enterprise had been attended ;
that in this belief they were prepared to devote theinseives
to the continued exertions indispensable to the realisation of
the prospect; and that, subject to confirm,tion of the pro-
prietors, they acceded to his fordehip's several propo-,..1e.
Upon receiving that confirmation they would lose no tin'e
in adopting all necessary measures for the resumptio r cat
active colonisation in Its original vigour; especially for the
immediate and effective carrying out of the plan which Lad
been so long in contemplation for the settlement of Ot Igo
in connexion with the free church of Scotland. Since the
last meeting Mr. Charles Boller ha I resigned his seat in the
direction on the occasion of his becoming a memh,r of her
Majesty's government. The committee would not fill up
the vacancy thus created or that canted by the decease
of the Lte governor until the arrangements under con-
sideration should he completed by receiving their approval
and a sanction of parliament. In consequence, four oily
of the directors retired by re'atinn, namely. Stewart Mar-
Rribanks, Esq , M.l'.; John Abel Smith, Esq , M.P.; Sir
alph Howard, Bart., :,1.P.; and William Hutt, Esq.,
M.P.; all of whew they recommended fur re-election."
The motion (Cr the adoption of the report was moved from
the chair, and seconded by Major-General Batons' who,
however, was of opinion that greeter powers should be given
to the company, and that they should be placed in a more
eqsal state of competition with the government with regard
to the sale of their lands; for it appeared to him that although
government had expressed its conviction that colonisation
would be best carried on by a private company, it was not
quite prepared to support that view entirely, but rather to
carry on a simil,r system of colonisation in the northern pro-
vinces of New Zealand,—a competition which he did not
consider fair. He would also prefer that the company should
have the same participation in the appointment ',fib, officers
governing the southern colnniee, as in the appointment of
the commissioner in London; and else that any
governor going out should be nominated in co-opera-
tion with the company; and that any instruction
to such governor should go out through the
medium of the company. It was not his intention to oppose
the adoption of the report in any way, but he thought it his
duty to state his impressions spun the subject.
The CHAIRMAN, while admitting the right of Major-
General Briggs to state his opinions, as well as the justice of
those opinions, did not believe that the company had any
ground of apprehension in snaking the arrangement. There
could be no doubt but that a great improvement in the go-
vernment of the colony had been obtained; and tho mi-
nisters were equally interested with the company in the pro-
tection of their property. After some further discussion,
the report was adopted unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN then pot the formal resolutions ap-
proving of the acceptance by the Court of Directors of the
government proposals, and empowering them to take all
necessary steps to carry out the arrangements therein men.
tinned, which were also adopted, end the retiring directors
and auditors re-elected. Thanks were then voted to Lord
Grey, Governor Grey, Mr. Aglinnby, and other gentlemen.
The CHAIRMAN, in some concluding observations with
reference to the prospects of the company, made especial
allusion to the part which had been taken on the New
Zealand question by the public press, a question to which
they had devoted considerable attention.
It was then agreed, on the motion of one of the pro-
I prie tors, that Mr. Charles Buller be invited to resume his
office of director, the chairman, In putting the motion, ob-
serving that there had been precedents for the holding of '
such an office by one of her Majesty's Ministers. The pro-
oeedings then terminated.
The receipts of the company during the past year
amounted to 105,6061., which included 80,0001. loan loom
the government; and the expenditure to 83,1101. 19s. 4d.,
leaving a balance of 22,449 7s. Id. The total liabilities
amounted to 385,3451. 18s. 3d.

ROYAT. YACHT SQUADRON. The anniversary
meeting of the members of the Royal Squadron Club of
England was held yesterday at the Tnatched-house Tavern,
St. James's-street. The Marquis of Donegal presided. The
announcement that an election for commodore, in the room
of the late Earl of Yarborough, would take place, brought
together eev+'ral of the more distinguished members, in-
cluding the Duke of Be►ufort, the Duke of Buceleuch, the
Marquis of Ormonde, the Marquis of Blandford, the Mar-
quis of Conyngham, the E irl of Wilton, the Earl of Tyrcon-
nel, Viscount Exmouth, Viscount &ahem, and Sir Hyde
Parker. A just tribute of respect was paid to the memory
of the late Earl of Yarborough, who for so long a period
filled the office e commodore ; and it was resolved that the
sum of 2001. be given by the club towards the fund for the
erection of a monument to the memory of the Earl of Yar-
borough, which already amounted to 9301. The meeting
having proceeded to the election of a commodore, in the
room of the deceased nobleman, the names of the Vice-com-
modore (the Marquis of Donegal), and the Marquis of
Anglesey, were submitted. The Marquis of amegal was
chosen, it being understood that the noble marquis would
accept the office Relented. A ballot Dr new members sub-
sequently took place, when several were chosen. It was
announced that the opening match would take place on
Thursday, August 12. The proceedings closed with a vote
of thanks to the chairman. _

FIRE IN CLERKENWELL.—Yesterdsy morning%
shortly after eight o'clock, • fire broke out upon the pre-
mires belonging to Mr. Loe, a gold piercer, carrying on busi-
ness at 53, Myddelton-atrect, Clerkenwell. The Ihunee origi-
nated in one of the workshops, and in the space of a few
I:Minitel; the building and the whole of the contents fell a
prey to the fury of the fire. The workmen of Mr. Turner,
paper stainer, next door, rendered gloat assistance and kept
the tire from extending to the surrounding property, during

the time infiannatiou wu being despatched for the engines.
The Parish, London brigade, sad West of England engines
attendee ; but the flames were not extinguished until cera-
utterable damage was done to Mr. Lee's property, which
mem tunately wa• not insured.
INQUEST, YESTERDAY.—MURDER OF A WIFE AT
HSU HVEINAND.—By adjournment, before Mr. Baker, at the
Grave Maurice, public-house, in the Whittehapel-road, on
the body of Agnes Macdonald. The ease has been twice
b: fore the public, first at the Thames l'olne Court, and after-
war's at the inquest. Mr. Nash, hove aurgoon of St.
George's Hospital, stated that the deccas,d's death had evi-
dently been caused by violence, and apparently by her having
been kicked and stamped upon. Sarah Gray st.ted that she
lived in the same house with the Macdonald*. They fre-
quently quarrelled, and deceased had been struck
,and kicked by her husband. On Saturday last
she came into witnees's room and wanted to creep under
her mangle out of the way of her husband, who
had threatened to kill her. At five o'clock on the same day
withtss saw the deceased, covered with blood, lying on the
top of the stain ; her clothes were torn. Deceased said,
'' Don't let him come near me ; he has killed me." Char-
lotte Hookham said that she had seen the Macdonald*
quarrelling, and the man afterwards persuaded his wife to go
up stairs with him, she evidently being apprehensive of Li-
neage. Iler other evidence correhorated that of the former
wimesa. Police conatahle li 313 deposed as to the state of
the deceased when he was ant for, and that Macdonald, at
the station-house, had owned to striking his wife, who, be
said, was always getting drunk and spent all his =wee ; but
he denied having kicked or stamped upon her. The de-
ceurd's son gave similar evidence, and the jury returned a
verdict of " Wilful Murder" against Gilbert Macdonald.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, MAY 13.
The bulletin of to-dav states that—
The Lord Liettteuant hen had a quiet night, and feels
somewhat stronger.
The following letter, denouncing the perpetrators of
the outrages in the Kruth, is published in the govern-
ment paper this evening :
To Till NIIkILITANIS OF me COOXTILS OF C,aas ASS Intatairs.—
The Lord Lieutenant has observed with regret, that evil and inisauitled
per•ons are endeavouring, in various parts of the country, to pievent
the diatributiou of foul to the destitute M the manner pros Bled LY the
Temporary Relief act, sad he &Area to warn the people hY
equenees of sunk peaceful. inlet. It is the determtnait v. of the
government to carry on,, by every means in their ic•, the flew
mode of relief sanctioned by pariiament, via the distr.hutien at
',lions of food to the &Mutate poor ; and for this object, or tonittees
have been formed in tie different electoral diviskins, and i Ars eting
°facers appointed by government, whew Mtyy it in I, can y the
reguLatinua issued as to the quantity 01 food to be given, an i the mode
of its distribution. It is with pain that his Facelleray has le.. red
that the committees and °Macre thus employed inn heeiou
of the poor, have, in many casts, been made the objects • 0 attack by
deigning or misguided persons, mil he, therefore. desin, to point
nut to the people the evil effects of soda conduct. In some indenees
the articles lived for cooking fool for gratuitous te.on hive
been wantonly destroyed—the foal itself has been (Am.'', aside—
whi:e the imp •siMMg • cacti* and others engird in pro Ming for
the wants of the people, have been threatened with injury sod
death. Those who take part in such (mirage. will 0 OcutoteaUy
bring upon themselves the lead intuashineat due to th i.e crimes,
while they may unit molly cone thee to perish in miser. ed ,rant,
who, but fur inch misconduct, would have received gram.. -OS relief.
The Lord Lieutenant desires therefore to impress upon the ople the
duty of abstaiong from such outrages, and inatintly aliand.inim all
opposition to the relief commltteesend off Leas of rah • poem,. It who
are nip.v.ied in adininisieriog the law by which paella. -.t IL— pro-
vided for the present !clef of theileatitute poor of this country. Lc. ex-
cellency trusts that ltsis Anti:ninon will liar, effect upon the c.,nduct
of the people, and that the public leace, wbi. la he ism I id, by all
means in his power, to maintain, tarry not Ire further di-t', bed. —By
his excellency's intannand, T. 1. Itrutsoroir, Dublo Cattle,
May 11, 1847.
The accounts from the south detail no additional
disturbances. The journals speculate on the punt, and
seasart the "state of the country" with various
rumours, which are immediately. contradicted. The
military are more busy than during the tithe cam-
paign, moving in detachments through the country.
(heir presence ensures tranquillity.
The temporary relief committee of Galwuy have
applied for additional extraordinary prescutrwmt ses-
sions. The Board of Works reply that - o relief
through more road-making can be conceded undcy the
labour-rate, the Temporary Relief Aet having been
substituted for that objtet ; but that the most useful
of the works under the past act, and now incomplete,
may be shortly resumed ; whereat the Galwa gentry
are very indignant, exchanging so very quickly the
hot breath for the cold.

SCOTLAND.
EDINI3I.IIIGII,. 2.1 vr 13.

The weather still continues unfavourable for vege-
tation. The wind is indeed westerly, bat ruin comes
so often as to prevent that steady heat thnt is now
essential to progress. Nevertheless, the trees and
fields have a healthy and fresh appearance.
Road reform will likely become a movement ques-
tion in Scotland. An influential meeting has been
held in Ayr for the purpose of opposing a new road
set connected with that county. There can be no
doubt that the present method of levying assessment
for roads falls heavily. on tenants, and that the toll
system of collecting it is, in its incidence, ,err from
equitable ; and in process of time a tax on haute, er
an impost fulling equally on landlord and toilet, will
be substituted in lieu of the present cumbrous system.
At the recent quarter cessions meetings, attempts
have been made to grapple with the monoer social
evil of Scotland—intemperance. The limitation of
the number of licensed houses, and the strict regula-
tion of those to which license is granted, are at pre-
sent the points to which the magisterial mind is
directed. The justices have not followed a blind
plan of decimation, but have had regard in their
work of excision to the purity of publican character.
Thus the axe has fallen mercilessly on those boni-
faces whose personal indulgences are calculated to
afford a Iliad example to the community.
The nice point of Sunday tippling has also been
taken up in Glasgow, and here are the fist f• airs:—
Last Sunday (says the Chronicle) three was a marked
change observable in the appearance of the streets, and is
the conduct of those of the working claws in the poorer
I localities of the city who have been aceustumed to morning
dram-drinking. All spirit shops being shut for the day,
scarcely a single person was to he seen the wore of liquor,
with the exception of those of the middle classes who could
afford to go to the better class of taverns. The p lice were
more than usually watchful, and, notwithstanding that the
hotels and taverns did a roaring business, the streets were
quiet and free from rigs or disori:er. In the Gerbils district,
we are informed that, although Superintendent Richardson
and bis officers had been an the alert from six o'clo k in the
morning till twelve at night, they could not find a single
publican violating the rules laid down by the magistrates;
and in Glasgow and the other distrirls, where espial attention
was bests wed, no cases were mule out against the publican,.
" A roaring business in the hotels and taverns," and
the dram shops shut up—the middle class of burghers
allowed to get drunk and the poor man kept sober,
unless he lays in a stock of a Saturday night—that
looks like class legislation.

PROVINCIAL.
LANCASHIRE.
COMMISSION tee THE LORD LIEL:TENANs.—Hon. H. T.
Stanley to be Col., vice the End of Derby, of 2nd Regt. of
the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia.
EMIGRANTS AND Sniecownritv.—At Liverpool, on MOD-
day last, Mr. T. Feast, owner of the ship Lady Milton, wu
summoned at the instance of Lieut. Hodder, government
emigration agent. The facts of the cue were depireil to by
Murtagb Brunti. He had paid la. 12s. 6d. for the passage
of himself, his wife, and four children to Quebee. The
vessel sailed from Liverpool on the 22nd April, with emi-
grants for Canada, and in consequence of damages received
in bad weather, returned to this port, having been nine days
at sea. She has since been refitted, and sailed, leaving the
witness and about 143 other of the passengers behind. He
went out with the train the second time. but some of the
family being left behind to procure provisions, he rtturned
in the steamer. Ho had engaged his passagii in Belfast
from Mr. Pinkerton, agent for Mr. Slut, pas-e., '1- agent of
Liverpool, and had paid 4!. there, and the remainder when
he came to Liverpool. Ha had asked the cap'.' ia when the
ship wu to sail, and he told him ho did not know, he must
ask the shipwrights. Mr. Rusliti.n, in his decision, said,
" Tho emigrants mu-t go to Mr. Saul. who is brood to
furnish them with board and another ship."

YORigSlilltr.
REPRISENTATION or Lanos.—On Thursday evening a
meeting of the dissenting portieu of the Whig, or rather
the "Literal," party in Leeds, was held for the purpose of
considering what steps should be taken with regard to the
representation of the blreu;it at the approaching election.
A disposition was manifested to withhold their support from
candidates who may be disposed to support tit, education
grant, but no new candidates were named. As the meeting
was a provisional one, the precise result has not been allowed
to transpire.
WAILEFIELD.—Mr. Loch, son of Mr. Loch, member for
Kirkwall, described aA a young man of considerable talent,
is a candidate for Wakefield.

Tag HIONWAYB BILL AND TIIR HEALTH Or TOWNS
BILL.—On Monday evening a public meeting of the inha-
Want ratepayers or the township of Leeds, convened at the
instance of the surveyors of the highways of Leeds, was held
in the Court-house, Leeds, the mayor of the borough pre-
siding, "to determine whether any and what steps may be
deemed nemesery to be taken in oppor.tion to the Highways
Bill and the Health of Towns Bill now before wile-
ment." The Mayor, Mr. Councillor Brook, Mr. Conn- ,
tiller Richardson, and several other persons addressed the
meeting, all of whom expressed themselves in favour of in-
creased efforts to improve the sanitary condition of the
people. Resolutions were passed deprecating the principle
of centralisation which pervaded the Highways Bill, and
applauding the principle of local self.government. Several
of the details of the measure rem also attacked, especially
those which prescribe the mode of electing the waywardena
The principle of the Health of Towns Bill was generally
approved, but exception was taken to the centralising por-
tion of it, and to that part which charges the expenses of
making new drains upon the occupiers, rather than up ut the
owners, as under the existing Leeds Improvement Act. A
petition with respect to each bill was adopted, and ordered
to be signed by the mayor, as chairman, on behalf of the
meeting, praying that Leeds may be exempted from tke
operation of the Highways Bill and that the Health of
Towns Bill may be amended in the particulars referred to.
the meeting was far from being a numerous one.
CIIEBIIIIIE.
Mr. &MILTON, M.P., HAS !SNOW • PARZWELL ADDRESS
to the electors of North Cheshire. He hat represented the
division for fifteen years. ~.....r.‘

COMMISSION BY IRS LORD LIEUTINANT.—T. P. Hey-
wood, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Blaskistone, of Queen's Own
Rola! Rent. of Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry.
THE DISTIYEBA74CES IN THB MINING DISTRICTS.—
Cp to vesterday afternoon no further outrages had bees
committed in the mining districts, but many hundreds of the
men have not returned to their work ; and the attPude they
have assumed is a source of very considerable uneasiness in
the neighbourhood.—At Kidderminster the poor carpet-
weavers are almost at starvation point, in eoneequenee of the
scarcity of employment, and the high price of provisione;
bat hitherto no disorderly proceedings have been mani-
fested, and the conduct of the poor creatures in these trying
circumstances has been most exemplary.
NORFOLK.
THE CORONER'S INQIIIRT INTO THE POISONING CACBH
AT TIBBENHAM was concluded on Thursday, when the jury
found a verdict—" That Mary Ann Pearson and Elisabeth
Everett died from the effects of arsenic, wilfully adminis-
tered by loins person or persons unknown."

F/RE AT TRINITIFuirsc7i, oniiiainon —on There-
day eight, about 8 o'clock, fire was discovered • „,
the roof of the kitebas of Trinity College, The AIME
given, the greatest owsternntiou prevailed ; the *".—
the college speedily turned out, lino were • •
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Nevill'neourt to the river, and several e. 6 „.T.,
arrived were well supplied with water. The uok
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