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years, shall be exempt from removal, thereby virtually giving
and fixing a settlement, is retrospective or not; or whether
the period must be computed from the time of the p using of
the act. Cases have been submitted by the poor-law com-
missioners for the opinion of the Attorney and Solicitor.
General, the result of which is not yet known, but it is un-
derstood that the subject will be brought before the Court of
Queen's Bench.
ANOTHER SITE FOR THE WELLINGTON STATUE.
Sir,—la the event of the Wellington Statue being removed
from its present position, I would suggest the meeting of the
eight avenues in the centre of Kensington Gardens, as an
eligible site for its erection, where it would be visible from
eight different and distant points.—A CONSTANT READER.
MORTALITY AND HEALTH IN THE METROPOLIS.—
The number of deaths registered in the week ending the 26th
instant was 1268, being a small increase on the large number
of the week before. The principal causes of the increased
number were, bronchitis-128 above the average of five
autumns—diseases of the heart, and diseases of the brain.
The very old and the very young appear to have been the chief
sufferers, doubtless from the rapid variations and occasional
severity of the weather. During the last few days the ap-
plications for the admission of patients into the several public
hospitals have been more numerous than was ever known
before. In m►ny inst inces deserving cases have been refused.
CHAROE FOR CUSTOM-HOUSE AGENCY FOR CLEAR-
ING BAGGAGE FORBIDDAR.—Sir,—Having had occasion to
complain to the commissioners of customs of au illegal charge
made by the agent of the South-Eastern Railway Company,
at Folkestone, of Is., for entry of a few trifling foreign arti-
cles contained in my baggage from the continent, I have re-
ceived the following reply, which, for the benefit of other
travellers, you will perha:is think it right to insert in your
respectable jouraal.—T. G. _

WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen and Prince
Albert took their accustomed early morning walk.
The Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Caroline
Leveson Gower are expected to arrive at the Castle to-day.
Sir John Hobhouse is also expected on a visit to her Majesty.
Sir George Grey left the Castle this afternoon, and
returned to town.
Arrangements have been made for her Majesty
and H.R.H. Prince Albert, accompanied by the Royal
Family, to leave Wind,or in the early part of next week for
Claremont. Monday is the day at present named. Her
Majesty is expi cted to remain at Claremont until Friday or
Saturday, the lith or 16th proximo, and then return to
Windsor, remaining at the Castle until the following Mon-
day, on which day, according to present arrangements, the
court will proceed to London. Her Majesty will open Par-
liament in person. It is expected, in consequence of the
extensive nature of the alterations in progress at Buck-
ingham Palace, that her Majesty will not remain in town
beyond a week or ten days. It is stated that the Queen, the
Prince Consort, and the Royal Family, will leave London
for Osborne House about the '2sth of next mouth, and remain
in the Isle of Wight till the middle of February.

The Archbishop of Canterbury had an interview
with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office.

Dec 29, 1816
Sir—l am commanded by the commissioners of her Majesty's CUR--
toms to =quaint you, that ut consequence of your communication of
the Bth instant, representing that you bail been subjected to a charge
of Is. for agency, upon the passing of your baggage at Folkestone, the
board caused the directors of the South-Eastern Railway Compaily (by
whose clerk the demand was made) to be apprised of the eircumstanae,
and it appears from the communication which the board have received
in reply, that the directors hare given instruction, that no charge
whatever shall be made fur passing entries fur goods in the beggrigeof
pus...engem -I am, air, your most obedient servant, C. Stoma., Soc.—
T. G., Esq.
VELcri IN SPECULUM.—" The world is a looking-
class, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own
face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you:
laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and
so let all young pers-us take their choice."— Panity Fair.
OPENING OP NEW OXFORD-STREET.—Yesterday,
the part of New Oxford-street between Bloomsbury-strect
and Hart-street was opened for the passage of vehicles ; the
entire thoroughfare from Holborn to Tottenham-court-road
will be opened early next week.
NON-PAYERS OF CHURCH RATES.—Sir,—Your
correspondent, " Free-thinker," in attempting to justify the
enforcement of church-tares and tithes upon conscientious
recusants, overlooks the fact that he is also apologising for
the outrageous abuses connected with the present methods of
obtaining those imposts. It is pretty generally known that
in the upper or Middlesex liberty of St. Andrew's, High
Holborn, a most vexatious litigation has for years been going
ou between the rector and the pariahioners with a view to
extend, and form, compliatiae with, a demand for " ancient
money payments in lieu of tithes," supposed to have
originated in a "customary payment" by church-going
voluntaries on the one hand, and such as " asking no ques-
tions for conscience-sake :" have thus brought upon
themselves and others a demand arising out of that
sort of compliance which erroneously supposes that
to "bow down" to the priest, and submit to priest-
craft, is to do homage to religion and obey the command to
" hear the church !" These claims vary from Os. to Bs. and
10s. a house, and ere very irregularly, for the reasons before
given, edlectecl, both in Holborn and the streets branching
from and around it. Some four years ago a seizure was
made—an illegal one—for six years' arrears, upon a firm of
the Society of Friends in the above locality, which they sub-
mitted to in accordance with the passive principle they
profess—because legal redress is never resorted to by them.
What alternative but conscientious submission, and taking
" joyfully the spoiling of their goods," have these parties?
leaving to society at large the indignation and obloquy which
such proceedings Coll forth on the head of the wrong-doer.
In the other cases of reeusancy, no less than fourteen bills in
Chancery were filed against as many of the most respectable of
the inhabitants, eight of whom were (as it was intended they
should he) frightened into compliance, funded in illegality;
two, through treating the matter lightly, were attached for
contempt ; and four are still awaiting judgment. All this,
be it observed, inflicted upon them after their cases had been
heard before, and finally adjudicated upon under the powers
and directions given to the magistrates by the acts of
William, 3rd and 4th, for the more easy recovery of small
tithes." No longer ago than Christmas week an honest and
industrious tradesman in the Minories was thrust into
Whitecross-street Prison from inability to pay his tithes, or
rather, for neglecting, through ignorance, to " put in an
appearance" to a bill filed in Chancery against him for de-
fault. There he lies immured now, and is likely to remain,
" till he has paid the uttermost farthing." including legal
expenses unless the hand of benevolence shall release him.
Do not these iniquities " cry to Heaven" and the legislature
for redress ?—Yours, &c. A FILIEND TO THE CHURCH.
CLOSING OF THE BRITISH MUSECM.—The British
Museum will close this afternoon until Friday the Bth of
January.
DEATH BY THE FALLING OP A WALL.—Yesterday
morning, about half-past 11 o'clock, Mr. William Webber,
a master cooper at lllackwall-point, near Blackwell-stairs,
was killed by the falling of a wall 10 feet high bounding the
premises of Mr. Lungley, house and ship joiner, better
known as Ashton 's wharf, adjoining the river. A few days
ago upwards of 70 tons of sand was delivered from a barge
on Ashton's wharf, and piled against the wall. Mr. Webber
having just left his house wasassing close to the wall when
it suddenly fell, and Mr. Wepbber was knocked down and
buried under the bricks and rubbish. Several watermen
plying at the stairs immediately set about clearing away the
materials, and the unfortunate man was soon extricated, but
he was quite dead. The deceased's right leg was broken,
several ribs were fractured, and the face was frightfully cut
and disfigured. Mr. Webber was in his 53rd year, and has
left 3 children to deplore his Ines. The falling of the wall is
attributed to the weight of the sand piled against it. Several
ratermen were standing close to the wall a few minutes

AMOUNT OF OFFICIAL POSTAGE.-Formerly the
correspondence of all the public offices went free ; but when
the penny postage was established, that privilege, together
with parliamentary and official franks, was abolished. The
different offices of government paid for official postage, in
the year which ended 31st March, 1846, 121,8171. 7s. This
sum is thus divided :
War-office, 18,782/. 4s. ; Foreign-office, 16,745/. 15a. sd. ; Post-
offiee, 15,742/. 19s 4d.; Adjutant-General's-oellee, 13,76 IL 14,'.; Ad-
miralty, 7,0871. 7a. 11,1.; Ordnance, 4,633/. 7s. 11d.; RegeArar-
General, 6,536/. 19s. Id.; Colonial-office, 6,414/. Is. 3d.; Audit-office,
4,159/. sa. 241.; Tithe Commissioners, 3,934/. 180. 94.; Lords of the
Treasury, 3,5541. His. 10d.; Poor-law Commissioners, 3,4401. 9s. Ild.;
Home-office, 3,0951. 15s. 4d.; Custom.house, 2,996/. 10a.; Stamps
and Taxes, 2,3911. HI.. Rd.; Coancil-office, 1,7061. Ss. Gd.;
Registrars
of Merchant Seamen, 1,6561. 3s. 48.; Commander-in-Chief 's office,
7611. 4s. 7d.; Exciac-office, 5271. 3s. 3d.; Quarter-Maater-General's
epee, 231/. Ils. 9.1.; Board of Trude, 235/. 17s. 7d.; Woods and
Forests, 228/. 6s. 6d. Chelsea Hospital, 160. 12s. Sd ; Greenwich
Oat-Pension office, 1361. 3s. 4d.; Irish office, 64/. Is. Id.; tier
llsjesty the Queen, 601. 13s Ild.; the Lord Chancellor, 331. 12s. Bd. ;
Duchy of Cornwall, 25. 2d.
COLLEGE OF PRECEPTORS.-A numerously-attended
meeting of the members of this society was held yesterday,
at the FreemasorS Tavern, Henry Stein Turrell, Esq., m
the chair. The meeting was convened for the purpose of
deciding upon a plan for the relief of members who might
from sickness or other causes be in want of assistance, and
also for amending the 10th rule of the society. Mr.
Parker, the secretary, read the half-yearly report, which,
after setting forth the advantages which the College of Pre-
ceptors was calculated to confer on the members, and society
in general, went on to state that their ¢seat object was to
afford teacher' the opportunity of obtaining credentials of
competency from an impartial board of examiners, whooe
diploma would bear the impress of a royal charter. Having
acknowledged the efficient support which they re-
ceived from the public press, and from various
influential persons, the report stated that since
the 20th of June the number of members had greatly in-
creased, and during the last month 200 had been added to
the list. With respect to the funds their income had hitherto
been equal to their expenditure. The balance in band was
501., after cancelling all obligations; and when they bad in
hand the subscriptions not yet received, they hoped it would
amount to 1001. The report recommended the formation of
a mutual assurance and benefit society in connexion with
the college, to which subject, previous to the next meeting,
the attention of the council would be directed. It finally
stated that there were 450 members and sixty-eight
honorary secretaries, with local boards in the course
of formation. The report was adopted with acclamation.
Mr. Freeman proposed, and the Rev. G. H. Stoddart, M.A.,
seconded, a resolution altering the 10th rule, which, with
several other alterations in the rules, was passed. With
respect to the classification, it was proposed and agreed to
that those masters of schools who joined the society previous
to the 20th of June should, upon proper testimonials being
presented, have the title of MC P. (Member of the College
of Preceptors) ; that those persons who passed the higher
examination. 1n classics and mathematics should have the
same title as the masters; and that those who passed the
lower examination should have the title of A.C.P. (Associate
of the College of Preceptors).-The Rev. Dr. Wilson recom-
mended that school-books should be issued by the society, the
profits from the sale of which should be allowed to accumu-
late for the benefit of the widows and relatives of members.
The duties of a schoolmaster, he said, were most important
to society, and the schoolmaster should be made a profes-
sional man of, as well as the divine, the lawyer, or physician.
-A vote of thanks having been passed to the chairman, the
meeting separated.
RHYMNEY IRON COMPANY.-A special general
meeting of the proprietors of this company was held yester-
day at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, for the pur-
pose of confirming the resolutions and report unanimously
adopted at a preceding meeting, held on the 16th instant,
(the proceedings of which were reported in this paper of the
17th), in reference to the best mode of raising the necessary
sum to pay off the mortgage of 40,0001. to the Globe Insur-
ance Company, and of 39,4001. on loan notes, for which the
company was liable. The minutes and resolutions of the
last meeting were read and unanimously confirmed, and the
directors were authorised to carry the same into effect.
After some conversation Mr. Cole. Child proposed that a
requisition be presented to the directors requesting them to
convene a special general meeting of the proprietors at the
earliest period for the purpose of taking intoconsideration the
propriety of repealing the 13th clause of the company's deed
of settlement, which provided that dividends only could be
declared upon the average returns of five years.-Mr. Child
said that this step was necessary, in order to give full effect
to that portion of his plan for the relief of the company
which had now received the unanimous sanction of the pro-

previously.
SUPPOSED MURDER. A suspicion has arisen
that Rosetta Brown, a young female who lived in Totten
ham.court-road, an inquest on whom was held on the
23rd ult., when a verdict of " Destroyed herself" was re-
turned, was murdered, and active measures have been taken
by her friends to procure another official investigation of the
mysterious business.
NUMEROUS ROBBERlES.—Yesterday, information
was received by the police that the residence of Mr. Trickey,
49, Gloucester-street, Queen-square, had been plundered of
a quantity of wearing apparel, jewellery, cash, &c., amount-
ing to 701. ; that the car age of Mrs. Flasker, of Hampstead,
had been robbed of a jewel-case whilst standing in Berkeley-
square, containing jewellery valued at 3001. ; that Mr. Aspin,
of Tooley-street, Bermondsey, had been deprived of his
pocket-book, containing several 101. Bank notes, and a Lon-
don Dock brandy warrant; and from the warehouses of
Mears. Nash and Hicks, Fickle-herring lower wharf, a
number of firkins of butter.
A WOLF was shot at Peckham yesterday. It was
an old animal, and is supposed to have escaped from some
travelling menagerie. Near its place of refuge a number of
cats' skins were found, as if it bad fed on the tabbies of the

neighbourhood
EXPLOSION OF GAlL—Yesterday forenoon, shortly
before 11 o'clock, an explosion of gas occurred in the private
residence of Mr. R. Baxter, No. 43, Cadogan-place, Chelsea,
by which a lad nearly lost his life. It appeared that the lad
took a light into the knife-room, in the front area, which was
I filled with gas that bad escaped from the main. tie had
no sooner entered the room than the gas exploded with a
loud report, knocking him down and burning him severely.
The police succeeded in extinguishing the fire without
further damage.
FIRE AT A TALLOW-CHANDLEEN.—Yestertlay after-
noon, a fire broke out in the melting house belonging to Mr.
Geo:Muller, tallow chandler, 19, High-street, Whitechapel.
Some fat having fallen into the steam-consumer behind the
boiler, caught fire, and speedily communicated with the
stock in the copr which blazed for a few minutes with
great fury. The Sire:engines attended, but the fire was not
extinguished until 1e cwt. of tallow was burned, and the
doorframe, and part of the flooring of the melting-house
were destroyed.

psietary,— The chairman (Kr. Wilson), Mr. Alderman I "MONSTER, AWAY !"—A correspondent suggests
Thompson, M.P., and other direct:a, at aloe expressed' heir that instead of removing the Monster Statue by machinery,
readiness to act upon the requisition` to convene a meeting which must be a very slow proses, it would be very much
for the purposes mentioned.—The requisition was at ODes better to blow him up, and let him alight on thespot where he
prepared ; and having received the number of signatures re- is enraged to make his next appearance. If this plan of firing
quired by the deed of settlement, it was ar:anged that the a horse should be adopted, it will be necessary to conduct
meeting should, if possible, be held on this Gay fortnight,experiment the with gun-cotton, as gunpowder, it has Ix en
but, at all events, due notice of the day of meetreg should proved, is the last thing in the world to make the Duke
be
.given to all the shareholders. fly.—Punch.
NATIONAL MERCANTILE LIFE ASSURANCE SOClk"nr• ARTISTIC POWER.—A provincial critic, speaking of
—The directors, members, and friends of this society, dinezt a popular actress, says that ' when she ran out to meet her
together yesterday at the London Tavern, to commemorate lover, she carried the whole of the audience with her." We
the establishment of that institution, B. Wileoxon, Esq., in have heard of pieces " embracing the entire company," but
the chair, supported by Alderman Sidney, J. Waddington, the idea of an actress running off the stage, and carrying
Esq., and a party of nearly 200 gentlemen. The AMU,- with her an entire audience, gives us the image of a lady
tamed loyal and patriotic toasts having been duly honoured, with such a pair of armsful! as it is really painful to con-
the chairman proposed " Prosperity to the National Met- template. We make a gold deal of allowance for the power
cantile Life Assurance Society," and congratulated the cam- of genius, but its strength does not usually consist in such
pany, as friends and proprietors, on the immense success tours de force as that which is described by our provincial
that had attended their institution since its foundation, and critic. This beats the ordinary theatrical feat of " bringing
more especially in the last year. They would be surprised the house down," or "eliciting thunders" by electrifying
to learn that the society had only become liable for policies the whole audience. We have seen occasionally such
filling in to the amount of 6001., while the business done in " beggarly account of empty boxes," that the most fragile
the same period was on as extensive a scale m mazy of the female performer might have "carried the entire audience
oldest offices in the metropolis. The toast having been re- with her," for it has consisted of a boy and a baby ; but we
ceived with general applause, Alderman Sidney proposed the cannot believe a lady, so attractive as our provincial critic's
health of the chairman, and passed a warm eulogoim on his description indicates, could possibly have been in such a
merits. The chairman briefly returned thanks. The health* desoiate position.—Punch.
of the directors and other officers of the company were then RELATIVE PROPORTIONS OF THE AGRICULTURAL
given in due course, and the company broke up. AND MANUFACTURING POPULATION.—We quote the fol-
A LETTER BEARING THE FOLLOWING CURIOUS lowing from a new edition of Mr. Porter's " Progress of the
IsscnirrioN on the envelope passed through the General Nation:"—" We have seen that the proportionate number of
Poet-office yesterday morning (Wednesday) :—" This dm persons employed in agriculture in Great Britain has been
33 years, a letter thus directed was stolen at the London continually lessening, a fact which might have been foreseen
post-office. It contained three 501. notes, which were ex- by persons acquainted with the improvements that have
changed for thirty 5/. notes the same day at the Bank of
been introduced into farming operations since the beginning
England, and were passed at as many shops in the course of of the present century, and especially of late years; but it
the day. If the thief should see this, and is able, he had could hardly have been foreseen, that while the population
better pay the money than die miserably sad lose his eternal has made such rapid strides as we know it to have made,
happiness." The letter was addressed to a party in Drury- the absolute number of the population engaged in agricul-
lane, and bore the Southampton post-mark. ture should have diminished. This, however, is the fact. In
REMOVAL OF PAUPERS.—Yesterday, at the Petty 1831 the number of adult males employed in agriculture in
Sessions of Southwark, held for the removal of paupers, a Great Britain wa51,213,057, out of a population of 16,5:19,318;
difficulty was, xperienced from the working of the late act ui but in 1841, with our numbers increased to 18,720,394, the
Parliament. It was said sot to be clear whether the clause adult males so employed were only 1,207,989, or fewer than
in the act, stating that any person residing in the parish at the preceding census by 35,068 persons.
from which it is intended to remove him fora term of tire COMMERCIAL VALUE OF EDUCATION.—Mr. Horace

Mann, in his fifth annual report on the state of the
common schools in Massachusetts, gives sutne interesting
statements respecting the influence of education on
the earnings of work-people. Among others, it is men-
tioned by Mr. John Clark, superiuteudent of the
Merrimack Mills, at Lowell, that out of 1,229 females in
his employ, 40 were in the habit of making their minks
to the receipts for their wales. Of these 26 were employed
on piece-work, and :heir average wages were found to be
184 per cent. below the general average of those employed
in the same departments. Mr. James K. Mills, of Boston,
states that in his cotton mill the earnings of 45 men
unable to write were 27 per cent. under the average wages of
an equal number of the better educated. He expresses his
opinion " that the best cotton mill in New England, with
such operatives only as the 45 mentioned above who are
unable to write their names, would never yield the proprietor
a profit. Oa these and some other facts, Mr. Maui remarks
as follows:—" These are a fair specimen, and no more than
a fair specimen, of a mass of facts which I have obtained
from the most authentic sources. They seem to prove in-
contestably that education is not only a moral renovator,
and a multiplier of intellectual power, hut that it is also the
most prolific parent of material riches. It has a right,
therefore, not only to be included in the grand inventory of
a nation's resources, but to be placed at the very head of
that inventory. It is not only the most honest and honour-
able, but the surest means of amassing property. A trespasser
or a knave may forcibly or fraudulently appropriate the
earnings of others to himself; but education has the prero-
gative of originating or generating property, more certainly
and more rapidly than it was ever accumulated by force or
fraud. It has more than the quality of an ordinary mercan-
tile commodity, from which the property realties but a single
profit as it easses through his hands; it rather resembles
fixed capital, yielding constant and high revenues. As it enjoys
an immunity from common casualties, it incurs no cost for
insurance or de:ence. It is above the reach of changes in
administration, or in administrational policy ; and it Is free
from those fluctuations of trade which agitate the market,
and make it so frequent an occurrence, that a merchant who
goes to bed a man of wealth at night, rises a pauper in the
morning. Possessing these qualities, it has the highest eco-
nomical value, and although statesmen who assail or defend,
who raise up or put down systems of commercial, inanufat •
turing, or agricultural policy, have seldom or never deigned
to look at education as the grand agent for the development
or augmentation of national resources, yet it measures the
efficacy of every other means of aggrandisement, and is more
powerful in the production and gainful employment of the
total wealth of a country, than ail other things mentioned in
the books of the political economist."
TIIE WEATHER AND TILE PARKS.—Yesterday,
the thermometer at the Royal Humane Society's R.e-
ceiving-house, Hyde-park, stood at thirty degrees, and,
although the ice was exceedingly dangerous, many thou-
sand persons ventured upon it. I. rom an early hour in the
forenoon that portion of the Serpentine covered with ice was
crowded with skaters and sliders. The eastern end was so
dangerous that the Royal Humane Society deemed it ores
stry to erect a barrier over the ice, to prevent the skaters
from getting into danger. Towards twelve o'clock, how-
ever, the barrier was thrown down, and two accidents
occurred though no lite was lost.
INQUESTS YESTERDAY. I)EATTI FROM INTEM-
PEItAriCE.—By Mr. Baker, at the Royal Pavilion, Can-
non-street-road, Whitechapel, on the body of Sarah (Jerkin,
aged 58 years. The deceased was a widow, and resided at
No. 9, Kettlehy-court, Rosemary-lane. On Saturday last
she was drinking with several persons, and towards evening
she became much intoxicated. While leaving her room the
same night she slipped and fell from the landing to the bot-
tom of the staircase. She complained of her hack and head,
and on the following morning she expired. Webb, the con-
stab'e, said the house was in a most dilapidated condition,
and that it was dangerous for any person to stand on the
stairs, I'art of the landing had given way, and there MU
large hole about two feet long from the door of the room
where the deceased lived and the staircase. The Coroner
directed Webb to inform the district surveyor. Verdict—
" Accidental death."---Also, by Mr. Baker, at the Ship
Tavern, St. George's East, on the body of Eliza Dowdall,
aged about twelve months. The child's father was at sea,
andits mother, with two other children, were invited to •
Christmas dinner. Whilst at table deceased snatched a piece
of meat and attempted to swallow it, but it stuck in its throat
and suffocated it. Verdict "Accidental death." --
Dealit enost EXPOSTRE TO COLD.—By Mr. Carter, in the
governor's room of Horsemongerlane l'rison, on the body
of Thomas Harrow, aged 19. Deceased was committed on
the 21st of December, at the Lambeth Police-court, for
stealing a cake of the value of 4s. lid. On his admission into
the gaol he was in • very weak condition, and his legs were
in a state of mortification from exposure to frost. He was
at once taken to the infirmary, where everything possible
was done for him, but he died on Sunday morning from the
mortification. It was given in evidence that the deceased
had ran away from the Epsom union workhouse, as he said,
because he had not enough to eat, and he had lain two
nights during the frost under a hedge, and wanted tood.
Mr. Kean, the governor, stated to the coroner that the de-
m:aired had broken into his mother's house, a poor woman at
Norwood, and stolen all he could carry away, and she de-
clined to attend the inquest. Verdict—" Natural death,
caused by mortification of the legs resulting from cx.
posure to cold before his admission Into that prison."—
DEATH or AN AGED FEMALE. —By C. Bedford,
Eel., an adjourned inquiry, at the Grange, Carey-
street, Lincoln'e-inn-fields, into the death of Mary
Phillips, aged 70. The deceased was a recipient
of the Queen's Bounty, and with some little relief
from the parish of St. Bride eked out a subsistence. On
Tuesday night week, about 8, she was found in Tweezer's-
alley, a dark court running from Milford-lane, in the Strand,
lying with her face on the footpath and her legs up three
stone steps. She was taken to King's College Hospital,
where she was found to be dead. A post-mortem examina-
tion showed that death arose from fracture of the base of the
skull. Verdict, "That the deceased died from fracture of
the base of the skull ; but how such fracture was caused
there was not sufficient evidence to show."--..-
FATAL ACCIDENT AT A PAPER-MILL. —By W. Payne,
Esq., at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of
James Davis, aged 18, employed at Venable.' paper-mills,
Woburn, Buckinghamshire. On the 11th of this month, the
deceased, while at work in the factory, got his elbow, by
some means unexplained, caught by a roller of the machinery
and drawn between that am' the cylinder. The flesh of the
arm was frightfully lacerated, and the deceased died in the
above hospital, to which he had been removed, on Sunday
last. Verdict, "Accidental death." DEATH FROM
COLD.—By Mr. Carter, at the King's Head, Upper Kenning-
ton-lane' as to the death of Mrs. Sarah Tow aged 44. The
deceased on Saturday went to Leadenhalf-market to pur-
chase the Sunday's dinner, and on her return home in the
afternoon, she complained of being unwell. About three
o'clock on the Sunday morning she retched violently, and
had great pain in her stomach, which she attributed to being
out so long in the cold without food. She continued very
ill, and cramp and spasms in the stomach came on. A sur-
geon was in the house on Sunday to see her son, but the
husband stated that although she was so ill she would not
see the surgeon, as she should be better in the morning.
About six o'clock on Monday morning a noise was heard in
her room, and upon the husband and a Miss Bourne going
up she was found lying cold and insensible on the floor; her
face dreadfully distorted. A surgeon was sent for, but she
expired before his arrival.—Miss Bourne, in answer to the
Coroner, said she had no doubt her death had been caused
by going so long without food when exposed to the cold ; and
that if a medical man had been called in she would have
been saved.—The coroner and jury observed that it was
greatly to be regretted medical aid was not called in without
consulting the deceased. Verdict—" Natural death."--
DEATH FROM 131:RNING.—By Mr. Payne, at St. Bartholo-
mew's Hospital, on the body of Jane Pearson, aged 7 years.
Deceased, on Saturday morning, whilst putting some hair
into the fire, a cinder fell on to her pinafore, and set her
clothes on fire. Her mother went to ker assistance, but,
before she extinguished the flames, the child was so much
burnt as to cause her death the following day. Verdict—
" AocidentalDeath."---ALLEOED DEATH FROM NEGLECT.
—By Mr. Payne, in the board-room of the West London
Union workhouse, West-street, Smithfield, on the body of
James Kiddie, aged 38. The coroner said he had summoned
the jury from having received the following letter
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ample evidence to prove the
John Winstead, costermonger, of No. 30, Cock-lane, deposed
that the deceased had got his,
living when he was able by
working in the markets ; but latterly had been employed in
the parish stone-pad. On Thursday week deceased told

him that he was too ill to work ; that he had been la Yr.
Miller, the relieving officer, who refused to Five hia Awarder
for the doctor or to relieve him with anythatif but sixpence.
Witness saw him that aventeg foe the het time ; but heard
that on Saturday the deeeaaed was admitted to the work-
house. Wite.eas knew him to be in the greatest distress—
for several weeks be bad lived upon nothinsx but bread
and cocoa.—Ann Winstead, wife of the last witness., corro-
borated his evidence, and stated the deceased had 9d. a day
for working in the stone-yard, except on Monday, when, as
no work wee done, he had but 6d., and Saturday, Is. 6d.
He had made the tame complaint to witness as to her
husband. Deceased told her several times that Mr. Miller
would be the cause of tie death for refusing to relieve him.
He bad hardly any clothes, and no shoes. Mr. Miller said
he had acted according to the rules. He had no power to
give the deceased an order fur the parish surgeon, because
he heed out of the parish, in Peter's-lane ; he therefore told
him to go to Gray's-inn-lane. Dr. Lynda said the deceased
was admitted on Saturday week, and died on the following
Wednesday ; the cause of death being inflammation of the
lungs and heart. The body was frightfully emaciated, and
it was evident deceased had suffered severely from want of
food and clothing. His impoverished itate would render
him less likely to recover from such an attack; though he did
not die from actual starvation. Verdict, " Died from in-
flammation of the lungs and heart."

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, Deeegnsa 29.
The country journals published on Monday, of which there
aie very few, have not reached to-day, so that we are still
unable to ascertain the condition of the provinces. I have
heard from a gentleman, who arrived this morning from
Cunnaught,that the condition of the people along the coast is
beyond the power of language to express. Fared, he says,
is last disappearing from the country. Not a vestige of a
potato to be any where found, and the farmers, who in that
district are all very poor, are all driven to eat their sees corn.
Next year, he conceive!, will exhibit a more intense destitu-
tion than the present along the western shores .f Connaught,
for no potatos will be planted, and oat sowing must he on a
very limited scale, unless seed he supplied. Fowls and pigs
—anything in short of un edible character has vanished, or
is vanishing. Oatmeal 2s. 44. a stone, anti on the rise. To
add to the fearful alarm of the peasantry, the landlords
have issued processes, not by scores, but by hun-
dreds, for the recovery of arrears of rent. An-
other report has been issued by the committee of the
Repea, Association, supplementary to the former one, for
employ ing the labouring classes in Ireland. The report
contemplates a surplus income arising from the reclamation
of waste lands, which it would apply to the formation and
training of a peasant proprietary. But the question of quea-
tions—the employment of the people—how is this to be satis-
factorily solved ? The potato failure has put an end to the
conacre system, and labour henceforward must ba paid in
money. The report assumes 600,000 labourers beyond the
demand ; and to support these at 6s. a week, would require
an annual sum of nearly nine and a half millions sterling!
Making allowance for part payments in grain, such as exists
in England, the money payments must still be enormous,
with little prospect of an increased income to meet them.
Omitting the intricacy of statistics for the pr. sent,
the question is, how the 600,000 may be profitably
absorbed ? The waste lands, it is estimated, will take
125,000 from the labour-market, The deepening of rivers,
101,1C1111q the surfaces of lakes, and works necessary for sur-
face-draining, 50,000; roads, piers, and harbour improve-
ments, 30,000 ; railroads, 30,000 ; fisheries, 110,000 ; general
improvements of the reproductive class by the landlords,
100,000, or a grand total of 415.000 labourers. One sugges-
tion, however, is worthy the immediate attention of the go-
verninrnt. In Ireland more manual labour must be employed
on the same quantity of ground than in Eugland. Now, the
cost of superintendence is very great, and may be diminished
by the execution of work by coutract. A constant demand
fir labour might be kept up by imposing heavy penalties on
the contractors for non-performance within a reasonable
time, as well to guard against the undue reduction of wages
from the numbers and necessities of the workmen.
The economic distribution of our snick of con els is begin-
ning to touch the public mind. With the rivalry of several
European nations the promised superabundance of the
United States falls into a stinted supply. Let us look, then,
to what we have, rather than to u oat we may expect. A
sensible writer in the Fret,aan computes that according to
the present consumption of wheat in flour, a great propor-
tion of its quantity is lost, without eampensati, g in whole-
someness and nutrition for its disuse. Ilia illustration
runs thus. One barrel of manufactured wheat produces 12j
stones of fine flour, 3 of inferior qualities, 4 of bran, the
rest being waste. The inferior sorts anti bran being
applied to confectionary and cattle. The 12; stones of
Hour out of 20 of wheat are only used by the baker.
Assuming the daily consumption of the city to be 2,000
sacks of tine `flour, 3,230 barrels of wheat arc required for
the manufacture. Now, if whole meal bread were used, 7i
stones more would be consumed in the barrel, which would
effect a saving of 2,013 barrels of wheat in one day, or a
quantity tantamount to seven weeks' supply for the next
three months ! The Vice-regal Court is recommended to
show a good example, by trying the whole meal. Adopted
or disregarded, the plan is practicable, and well deserving of
consideration.
The General Relief Committee for Ireland meets to-day,
for the first time, to receive subscriptions. The names are
among the highest in the land, and it is to be hoped the
natioual benevolence of both countries will enable them to
give full effect to their humane and generous exertions.

STATE OF THE COUNTRY.
Foon Rtor.—A correspondent of the Cork Emptiest.,
writing from Tralee, states that :RIO men, in a body, attacked
the Iteliel Committee's stores, at Killorglin, on Monday last,
and one member of the Ite!iet Committee, the Rev. Mr. De
hloleyn, a magistrate, seemed particularly obnoxious to the
multitude. Fortunately for that gentleman and for the
public peace, the police kept the people at bay until further
assistance arrived and dispersed the rioters without doing any
serious mischief.
LANDLOILDIMM IN CORK.—The Cork Examinrr, received
this evening, in the midst of an article against the landlords
conceived in a hostile spirit, and speaking of them with great
severity. makes the following statemeut of facts, which would
seem to justify much of the severity of the remarks of the
journalist: "Out of 1,9a0 civil bill processes at the last
Macroom sessions, over 1,000 were for rent. There were
about fifty ejectment's; and of that number thirty were from
—what quarter f—Skibbereen 1" The Examiner adds that
in several districts which at enumerates, the landlords have
succeeded in causing the tenantry in arrear to accept bills
fur the amount. These the landlords lodge in the bank, have
the amounts less discount placed to their credit, or, as in
some cases, add the discount in the hill with the rent, and
thus transfer the process of heal recovery from themselves to
the bank.
The Earl of Shannon, the Examiner states, employs on
his Castlemartyr estate 400 men doily. At Christmas he
presented, as a giR, two stones of flour and u piece of beef
to each of 600 of his tenants.
7dELTIND OF TRH LANDED PROPRIETOR-40F CORK.—The
committee appointed at the preliminary meeting of this
hotly, held at Lloyd's on Wednesday last, met on Thursday,
when the resolutions adopted at the Longford meeting were
approved of. The great county meeting is expected to be
held on or about the 4th of January.
The Longford resolutions recommend a meeting of the
Irish gentry and representatives in Dublin. The Daily
News has already published them.
MURDER IN CORK. The Cork Examiner of Monday
contains the following shocking relation of the murder of a
female named Margaret Galway, 21 years of age, and who
had been lately widowed, by her brother, Patrick Galway.
Both were residents of Cork :—" It appears that on Christ-
mas Eve Galway had a quarrel with his mother, in which
he attempted to beat her, and the daughter interfered to pro-
tect her from his violence. In a scuffle which ensued,
he received a slight scratch upon the face. However,
nothing occurred subsequently, until last evening about
six o'clock, when he came home tipsy. He sat opposite
the fire, and, after a few minutes' silence, turning to his
sister, who was near him, he began to reproach her for the
scratches which she had inflicted upon him on the occasion
of the altercation with his mother. Having got into a rage,
he then struck her three blows upon the face. The woman
did not resent the attack, and at the solicitation of a young
girl, Ellen Humphreys.who was in the room, she got up and
at upon a chair away from the fire. lie followed her, how-
ever, and gave her a severe kick upon the side. Not satis-
fied with this brutal violence, he next took a short, sharp-
pointed poker, with which he pierced her right temple.
Having lingered until three o'clock this morning, the
female died of the wound thus inflicted. Constable Gale,
having received information of the occurrence, proceeded in
search of the murderer, and arrested him in bed at an uncle's
house, in a lane leading off Blarney-lane. Ile is an active,
and rather well-looking young man. At the sitting of the
Bench to-day, he was brought up in custody, and remanded
until the result of the coroner's inquest should be ascer-
tained. The sensation occasioned by this event has been
increased, if possible, by the long interval which has elapsed
since the commission in this city of the crime of murder.
Coax.—From a communication in a Cork paper, written
by a reporter connected with the journal, and having re-
lation to the district of Castletown Berehaven, I extract
the following: A poor man called Timothy Sullivan
(Rochterah), the father of four children, made several in-
effectual appeals for employment." Each day found his
children clamourous for food ; each day he solicited assist-
ance, and the same result attended his exertions. Hia
sorrowful appeal was, however, heard on Tuesday week
last, and he was provided with a ticket for employment :
but the assistance was rendered too late, poor Sullivan died
on Tuesday last, solemnly declaring to the assembled neigh-
bours that he had not tasted a morsel of food for four
days before, and that no drink had entered his lips during
that time, with the exception of a drop of cold water.
KERRY.—An inquest was held in Tralee on Thursday
last, on the body of a weaver, named Connell. It appeared
in evidence that the poor man had three children, the
youngest four, and the eldest thirteen, whom, with a mother-
in-law, aged 70, he was endeavouring to support. Sickness
seized on all, and for the last few weeks it appeared they
continued to live daily on some small quantity of bread. A
verdict of " Death from starvation " was returned.
WORKHOVIIRB.—DUBLIN NORTH UNION.—The number
of paupers in the North Dublin Union Workhouse at the
close of the week was 2,352. The children charged on the
house were removed yesterday to the late City Marshalace,
in order to make room for paupers in the workhouse.
Seventy of the latter were admittod to the workhouse on the
same day.
Matbow UNION.—Nine paupers died in the workhouse
of Mallow on Christmas-day. The next rate in that dis-
trict, owing to the numbers of paupers in the house, will be,
it is anticipated, five shillings in the pound on the valuation
DISTRESS IN IRELAND.
The following are extracts from a letter from J. Crosfleld,
a member of the Society of Friends, containing anomalies
of the first week of W. Forster's visit to some of thaeljtertred. .-
districts in Ireland : - ' •
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