The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-27 00:00:00

011111/LLL DAW4CII.

Capitol account balance -
£13,818 17 8
Advance to local committees 1,444 12 1
Canal ontatandinp and car-
rying steak £22,231 8 9
Cash balance at Waken . 11,143 8 1
33,374 11 10
- _

Cub balances st bankers
Ooods traffic Ila railway, outstanding 16,452 15 10
Sundry &Mom. 19,768 0 9
Doubtful debts. 3OO 0 0
Suspense mounts

£133,203 16 6

Contra/Mors' balance --
£13,535 17 10
J. Wright nod Son on working contract 9,522 11 2
Advance by load committee 412 6 1
Sundry creditors
Reserve fund
Interest on beads 19,465 9 3
Dividend on canal
-._

%dam el swish 26,60 0 7

£133,203 19 6
The proposed dividend on 161,507 stares at h. per chars
1 amounts to 2!,2281.1..

OF TIME BAROAINS IN
FRANCE.

A young man, named Lipman (says Galigsani)
i was, n Oetober last, clerk to M. Lambert, agent de change.
He one day asked his employer's permission to absent him-
self fora day, and it was given. But three days passed
away, and he did not return; nor could his &milt say
what had become of him. Several weeks *lapsed and no
tidiage of kin were received, and from an examination of
his chamber it appeared that he had made arrangements fur
a long abuses. Shortly after he had left, M. Lambert
discovered that he had carried off part of the general no-
counts of the swath of October, whereby not only was great
impressions* caused, but there was reason to believe that
triads bad bora committed. At length a friend of that gea-
dem.. east Lipman at Lyons, and caused him to be ar-
rested. Ls kin Axotmaarau were found St bank notes
for 1,000 ,
_lt three of 200 fr. each, three of 100 f e.,
hawses W. 400 f. in gold, six mamas of 6=l
m@seek aad• bill on the bank of Nantes kr 11,601).
hod hew he came to have seek kapasera mos his
elerieSdle mated that they heard part of a see of
whisk Y. Lambert had paid to him for his father, for
he had remitted business on the Bourse. He the.
that be had been speculating on a rise or fall la the
kale, mad had lost 22,000 f. ; that he beg ant=
Lambert in his operation, but had gives dice e.
same; that ea discovering his loss, sad. being tail"
to pay It, he resolved to take the 721/11f. beleasise
to his brier, and to fly into Italy. nose Nato-
meats ware proved to be correct on a judicial inves-
*Mien Wog made. Bat the taking of his father's
maw admit, in the opinion of the examining magistrate,
mama to a mime in law ; and as to earning off the ac-
senate of IL Unbar, he held that though it was a very
blamable act it could hardly be considered • robbery, se
they were of no iutriade vales. As, however, the young
mss had mostrated in the hods without having the
he was milimed foe trial Sadist Winos, whir& a puns'sall
by the pearl soda. Tea gliatook place on Saturday be-
' fore the Tribunal of Cot reelionel Police. He whetted the
truth of thieratia Ile was she seemed of having im-
properly apt bellegig to ma of his manses
(Meats ; magi that hi had maid them to his
I ather to be *deism certain shares distil be given up
by the drat, eat 01111 charge was assardiagty abaa-
dosed. The milk) prosecutor said that, though he
knew vs well it was almost kapoasible to prevent
Igambliag the funds, yet it was right that the came,
in Artier* 421 and 422 of the penal code,
shimill hemoried. " What the law pamidas," he said,
Hi " MIA spordation necessary to pails medic, when
learrelesdi the limits of • man's pecuniary BMW ;it is
rEis hetdag (parr) es the:l:gal! public ee-
-1 the peril rawle_by a sass of keeping
playing, wiriest ttg of the securities
1 rali4gig the'te -Slab
wahia=rt :TattigtoraPartia4i prior; tc't
mama was concluded, and that of the day fixed
Ligt it." In the pressat case, however, he
might in shows to the accused, as he
away the madame of tpeculatioa which
is all dosses of moiety, the humblest as. well
Pik. IL Cheite4lllorAge• ' who defended
rel‘ that*, thresh • lawyer, bad, entirely
ease whisk thbelidaii
theesti: wrratausdashavwianari_oodifaiaL ii;
daring lest twenty years ; aad no submitten
that a lawyer of thirty-three years eradiag was
gawk a pinto' young man was very excusable
ta apt wig the law relative thereto. The Tribunal
&dam& Ile mewed guilty of "having effected fictitious
aererthe beams, sad haring betted ea the crime er
seaure. hi
duceof esomarseeitly wliset
of white-wow diesels', eelsesesithe MINS ler aid
ewe at the Om of umatinitip masesstirs, IN apthat
. he delivery;" but oaths. win ow/wlwitlor
fayhe case. It ally &Wld ,
its b the petal wit . hese' been "Welted
rive • month's to • yesx's with • due el
his NOON to 10000 fr., Alai with eareeinesee of ***km
for teem ewe to Ave seam

UNITS, MITIOAN MINING AtaOOIATION.-- The
advent yl6pyelT meeting of ehmekoldere in this corn-
-pea wue held yesterday at their oases, 5, Finsbury-circus,
Ws;Wlffellop preddleg. From lbw hest, which was reed
by 'the seastazy, it appeared that dm. the Ina lsollearld
=die gangway tad resolve* imialgeassat ef2o
whisk with the other nesse& dew mines,*
the direst= to declare a diddling et per share leaving
atime2 se met to meet imatiogeasiee. ilwrig had
remind -asset eneemighigreporte et the hos aria
and T plass hall *Mr bed somieelnahr, Captain
Ferrel, Mil time ems nary promest et their inmeasing
la mine. Theft bet selbgaiehed "Ayes Mine, and had
gegelved ea mosnated MI6; °MAN doh., and there still
silmelesd due UMW lilt The Athlimbe mine wee still
aimed owed a debt el 101,66 dols. Quickeilver was
ittuemal Ow of the cempanre, Haciendas bad
a mat of 1,000,d01e. By the financial
estemeat it appeared that the meets, Itinheqaer Bills, &a.,
Maitbe 14,5141. lle. 4d., helm a omegas 00,1191. 18c
uldiek seed be aided the 4,oBllll,reglived by the
lot PIPING. The dividend would abash UM., and the
Wham well essatitate the meal rest—The Chairman is
=to sae we gasolloaa, stated that the Pert el
ha think their aura wee situated wee peals*
Itembaull. chi Mot an islaulaisr claim whisk Ind low est
up
egolms dm ens Wady •to be Oa simg
Isema Z'bro tellthela dad*/4 the dividend, sad sae sY
flasks to the *alms sad emit" were wuudisieft
gamed, sad the gnosilege Isemsested.
SUICIDE ON TNI 11101711E-WROTERN RAILwAT.—
Oa Tuesday main the person travelling by
_me
ef the dews Windom Wm were met psinfolty smelted by
a Wier eseamitesa oaths* Woe by a hi set mine than 15
or If yam of ago, when tame is et proses* leakimwa.
The leash hid hem Meer &hem a siteaties he held in
the nolghleadthel et W , sal SS going home to
his Female hems ems few ensued between him and
his friends as to Me impropriety et hie seadect. While his
temper en wetted ke Muted of 4 'Whet ea to the
ttsatb-
Wueters adlway, and emirs a tan travelling ea the
Wisdom Mao he walked eo totrs metals sem the Wage-
buy stalket, end stood aeredebg the arrival of the fedi.
The carne driver on seaMy him at once nodal tan
whale, eint off the steam, sod the guards spoiled the
Moires most vigorously, hoping to step the guards_
is au&
shot ties to met the bey's Mle. hat osierameasly whitest
mamas, he the buffers of the nem amok the path on
the steam with each so to had him a madder-
, able Mimes op the Use, end se theridalig Wand him as
Ito cams laseamearis des& The bar vasPaad up end
reeseveila a gime el Wel/ le twit as iNgseet

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JAW. 25
which appeared a few days

limb in a Limerick paper, to the effect that the new
Attorney-General (Mr. Brewster) intended to con-
duet in person the prosecution of the persons impli-
cated in the ffix-mile-bridge affray, has been con-
firmed by a brief motion which was made yesterday
in the Court of Queen's Bench. In the case of
"The Queen v. Delmege and others," the Attorney-
General applied on behalf of the crown, that the
depositions against the tnseersers might be returned
to the office of the Clerk of the Crown for the county
of Clare, for the purposes of the prosecution at the
next assizes. The documents in question were
brought up to town upon an cosier of the court for an
application made last term to quash the finding of
the coroner's jury. The Chief Justice granted the
order.

Closely connected with the trial of Mr. De!mega
and the soldiers of the 31st regiment will be that of
the two Clare priests, which the Attorney-General
will also conduct. It is thought that the indictment
against the priests will include a count charging
them with a conspiracy to rescue the electors who
were under the escort of the soldiers. _

We ha re not vet seen the last of the "suppressed
letters " which the tenant league committee thought
to keep snugly under their private desk. That of
Mr. W. Fagan, M.P., of Cork, is now added to the
list of those for which the public is indebted to the
indignant remonstrance of the writers against the
attempted concealment. Mr. Fagan thinks it right
that his constituents should know in what terms he
W replied to the invitation of the league, and there-
lbre he publishes his own letter in the columns of
tie Cork Examiner. The document, at once tem-
perate and sensible, is as follows :
Dear and Reverend Sirs,—My engagements will not per
wit as to be present at the meeting to which your circular
belles toe. As I happen to have heard from a member of
the government, enjoying the highest reputation for Integ-
rity and honour, and whose office gives him pie-eminent in-
fluence in Irish affairs, the very advanced opinions he enter-
tains on the tenant question, I confess I do not yet despair to
learn that the cabinet has resolved to submit to parliament
a measure embodying the essential principles of Sharman
Crawford's bill—namely, the principles of compensation to
tenants for all substantial and unexbausted improvements
ands by them on the land they cultivate. The tenant
farmers of Iceland, feeling the necessity, aitcl.looking for
immediate legislation, would, I aniconvinced, be satisfied
with a generous and bona fide measure of that description.
I should, therefore, were I present—no matter what odium
lenity subject me to, or what angry criticism it may pro-
veke—asest humbly but earnestly urge on the meetinr the
patsy of' mederatios, discretion, and forbearance. Never
spin will the Irish liberal party have in parliament
gamer relative, even if they have greaterabsolute, strength
If they use it with wisdom, and in accordance on every
occasion with their own sworn political principles, then
assuredly will they be attended to mid respected in the
house, and looked upon by both countries as the faithful
guardians of the people's interests. If, on the other hand,
they desert the great and increasing party of progress, their
influence will at once go, and their political power will be
ultimately dissipated. Be assured of this that the anti-pro-
gress party will never by means of any unnatural combina-
tion whatever recover the Treasury Bench this parliament.
If by means of the " Irish vote" they defeat the present
government and force them to appeal to the country, then
will there be such a counter action amongst Euglish con-
stituencies that no longer will the narrow majority exist
which gives to the Irish party, for good or evil, the power
it now possesses. As regards myself I shall not desert the
party of progress to which, through good report and bad,
1 have for five and twenty years attached myself. I shall
not sit in the enemy's camp, feeling myself to be a spy or
an eaves-dropper. I shall "cross the floor" sad take up
my old quarters on the liberal independent benches and
vote on every question as my judgment and long formed
opinions dictate. By associating thus and zealously oo-
onerating with the English popular party, I feel I shall do
more for the interest of Ireland than if I sat in hypocritical
antagonism to them, giving my countenance and my aid as
representative of Cork to those with whom I have no poli-
tical sympathy and scarcely a political opinion in common.
I am, Rev. and dear Sirs, your faithful servant.
Feltrim, 9th January, 1853. WitztAN FkoLs.
To the Rev. Dr. Bell, P.M., and Rev. T. O'Shea, R.C.C.
JAN. 26.
A small fee simple estate in the county of Gal-
way, producing a nett yearly rent of 1584 7s. 3d.,
was sold yesterday, in the Incumbered Estates
Court, for 8,0501., being fully 38 years purchase, ac-
cording to the rental. It is a remarkable proof of
the increasing value of land in Ireland, that this pro-
Tarty was sold under the Court of Chancery in 1844
—that is, before the first appearance of the famine—
for 4,8001., or 1,4504 less than it brought yesterday
in tho court, which, according to tory authorities,
has been confiscating the lands of Ireland. Some
bishop's land in the county of Roscommon, held
under low from the Bishop of Tuam, was sold
yesterday at a rate amounting to about fourteen
years purchase.
Mr. Bernal Osborne, M.P., is at present in
Dublin.
The Dublin University Commission met again yes-
terday at the Archiepiscopal Palace. Present :
His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, the Bishop of
Cork, Dr. Lougfield, Edward J. Cooper, Esq., and
Professor Hancock (Secretary). The next meeting
of the commissioners was fixed for Thursday next,
the 27th instant.
A government commission is at present sitting at
Belfast for the purpose of inquiring and reporting as
to what extension of the boundaries of that borough
should be made under the Municipal Corporation
Act.

INTERCEPTED CORRESPONDENCE.

LETTER TO W. B.

[As an exposition of the principles and sentiments
of the now almost extinct nos of " ftre-eaten," the follow-
ing epistle poetesses a carious interest] :

To Tall WORT nON. W--•
Hair-Trigger Cottage, Co. Galway, Jan. 24.
My good Fellow,—lt went de. You have made a shock-
ing mess of it; which, considering you have Beresford
blood in your veins, is to me utterly unaccountable. lam
an old man now, and cannot long be annoyed by the dege-
neracy of the ego. My Joe Mentonshall be buried with
me : they shall not pess into the bands of a fumbler.
Your way was clear enough too. You might have taken
up the ground that the unlucky Derby affair was an Ent.
hill matter, and mast be conducted with respect to English
usilticazi. Or you thing pleaded the privilege an
and carried As through as we used to do
in Dublin (sad Galway), in the good old times, before the
Union, when Irishmen were Irishmen, and auctions
" affairs of imesour." Yon Moe. dose neither one nor

Veber.
Prom the beginning you made it a matter not of party
but of person. When talking to your PAO= calves, you
did not my "it is the way of us all i all elections are ma-
naged in this way." But you goithered about your cha-
racter as a gestleman, and vowed you were the
victim of a nthiPtinolL Well; you thus bear= bound to
prove a oampiracy. You have dose nothinket the kind;
you have been obliged to admit everything you were
with. You have allowed the Derby men to make
chargedtheirom
assertions by witnesses, instead of insisting up=
their making it good at twelve paces, pistol in hand. You
have acted in this like a sneaking English shopkeeper.
Well, having put yourself in this cursed pudiciunent, you
bethink yourself of our Irish way of going to work. It was
of the latest. What right have you to trouble Lord Drum-
leurig, after allowing so many others to talk unchal-
lenged ? You had put yourself out of the field by your long
silence.
And worm than that, when you do take the field, it is
in the shulling manner of one who likes better to talk
about pistols than use them. You first ask Drumlanrig for
an explanation, without telling him the words you want
explained. lie laughs good-naturedly in your face, and
asks what it is you complain of—promisee to make amends
If he has done wrong. Encouraged by his quiet tone, you
take heart of grace, and in your reply tell him you think
his mentioning you at all was " impertinent."
Still the long-headed Scotchtnan keeps his temper
He sees your drift is to force him to be the chal-
lenger. he sees that If there is to be a challenge, his ao-
%ilk,
Hen tolls upon yon to play that part ; while
i gear =abet% " private and confidential,"
' maybe by him as something between you
ere, under the rose." Well, he simply says that
'ryes think rak e. reason to oonsplain of his conduct, he
fa seedy leseeke ismends. But instead of taking the hint,
ISO ewe a Ilisairiespisisese with a letter intended to be
meg dignified, in whisk youadvise him to be more guarded
another time.
Upon my soul I can compare you to nothing but the ser-
vant in Romeo and Julia longing to bite his thumb at the
enemy's servants, and yet afraid to do it.
In short, I repeat it, you have plunged into a puddle out
of which nobody can haul you. It is mighty ism et tea as
men do now.rdays about a man's being judged by ids se•
bons, not by his ability to stand fire. It may be tears
though lem too old to learn. But this test you hays Mt
stood, and cannot stand. And your 'spewing allude= in
pistols and twelve paces show that you would cut a shabbier
figure stall if tried by our old world test.
You have dimmed, sir, as far as in you lay, the sake
old caste of Milesian fire-eatenby your impudent sheillime
pretence to belong to it. Poor Castlereagh; I was his ima-
fidant at the time of the Union. I remember him as he
quietly booked one of his challenges. " Sir." mid be, " I
have a duty to discharge to my country ; that comes first.
As soon m the Union is =lied I am at your service or an
gentleman's. But I warn you ; you stand only fifty.third
gratified." lis so lam afraid you have little chance of being
How, you,Major W. 8., had no duty to perform to
your country; you had resigned your office. That was a trifle
--you bedmeigued your electioneering managership. You

had nothing earthly to do except to look after your private
" atfairs," or, as the song says, to
" Put your trim to God, uq boy, sad keep your man dry."
But you have wanted either gumption or pluck to do
this the right way. S. this is the last you shall hear from
one who hoped better things of you when a buy.
O'SHAUGHNESSY.
_ _

P.S.—You need not ........
unopened. You need not come; Dorothy, the cook-maid,
has orders to pin the dish•elont to. your tail if you do--and
by the lord, Doll is the lass to do it.

LEEDS MECHANICS' INSTITUTION AND
urEiteux SOCIETY.

This institution, which now numbers 2,166 mem-
bers and subscribers, held its annual mettle', fur the elec-
tion of officers and the transaction of business, on Monday
evening, in the Lecture Hall, South Parade. The chair
was filled by THOMAS WILSON, E'q., one of the vice-presi-
dents; and there was also present, the Mayor of the
borough, and Sir George Goodman, M.P. The institution
has now grown so large that its present building is found to
be quite inadequate for the various purposes of reading-
rooms, clue-rooms, &e.; and it is now proposed to erect a
suitable suite of rooms, at a cost of 10.030/.
The business for the most part was of a formal character.
Tits annual report, which was read by Mr. 'Tice, the
assistant-secretary, gave a detailed liccouct of the opera-
tions and position of the society. The following is a brief
epitome of the report :
" The institution now numbers 2,166 members and sub-
scribers, and the committee see reason to justify the hope
that by judicious management, a proper disposition to main-
tain the steady educational character of the society, and
by keeping pace with the spirit of improvement, it may
reach and maintain a far higher degree of prosperity than
it has yet attained. Comparing the last with the previous
year, there has been added 231 new members and sub-
scribers, from which number has to be deducted • loss of
42 members from the elementary improvement class, show-
ing a clear net increase of 169 during last year upon the
numbers for the year 1831. The financial position of the
institution, u exhibited by the balance sheet, is also most
satisfactory. During the year, the balance of the mortgage
debt, amounting to 3001., has been paid off, and toe build-
ing belonging to the institution is now free from every in-
cumbrance. This building, although admirably suited to
the purposes of the society a few years since, and still so
far as its spacious reading room is concerted, an eligible
building, is very insufficient in respect tolecture accommoda-
tion, class rooms, and other requirements, and offers no faci-
lities for the progressive development of the institution. In
their last annual report, the committee called the attention
of the members and subscribers to the extreme deeirableaese
of obtaining increased accommodation, and the remarks
made at the last annual meeting encouraged the committee
to believe that whenever a project should be matured for
securing a new building, all would thorougly identify them-
selves with the movement. Convinced that the develop-
ment of the various resources of the institution must be re-
tarded by the inadequate(accommodation of the present
premises, the committee have decided that it is no longer
well to delay the steps for securing the erection of a new
building. In order to enable them to obtain data upon
which they could rely both as to the space that would be
necessary, and the probable cost of the building,
the committee have obtained professional advice;
and they propose that in any new building there
should be the following ratio of increase. A dietihct
lecture room to seat at least 1,400 persons, being more than
double the number who can be accommodated in the pre-
sent hall ; a reading room about a third larger than the
present one, in addition to a separate library communi-
cating therewith and capable of holding 30,000 volumes ;
the accommodation for the day school to be about double
the present ; the class rooms to be equal to three times as
much as the institution at present possesses; and such in-
crease in the offices, committee rooms, &c., as would pro-
', vide for every reasonable want. A building to afford those
advantages, with sonic provision for extension, is estimated
to cost, with the land, 10,0001. During the year an
addition has been made to the library of 324 books .by
purchase, and of 123 by (lunation, the total number of
volumes now being 8,629. The committee regret that
they have been compelled to expel a subscriber for taking
books out of the library without having them entered, and
cutting portraits from them, and should this not have the
effect of preventing a repetition of such disgraceful con-
duct, they are prepared to treat any future case of the kind
as a criminal proceeding. During the year the issues have
been, of bound books 43,206, and of unbound periodicals
10,325, making a total of 63,531. Of this number 1,654
were on theology ; 1,638 on philosophy and education; 477
on politics and statistics; 7,413 on history and biography;
4,435 voyages and travel, ; 1,987 poetry and the drama;
14,090 works or fiction ; 4,268 on the fine arts and litera-
ture; and the remainder on mathematics, chemistry, natu-
ral philosophy, natural history, gardening, medicine, diete-
tics, &c. The committee regard the soiree of lut De-
cember. as a memorable event in the annals of the
institution, from its having been presided over by
Lord John Russell, a nobleman who has filled the
highest offing in the state, and is distinguished
both as • statesman and an accomplished lover of
literature. There were present on the occasion 1,480 per-
sons, who, with the exception of the guests end those who
held members' tickets, were actual members or subscribers
of the institution. Lady John Russell bad since presented
the institution with a beautifully engraved portrait of his
lordship. The report concluded with a short notice of the
annual excursion, the concerts, and the School of Orna-
mental Art The total income for the year was stated to
have been 2,1841. 4e. 94., and the expenditure, including
3001. mortgage debt paid off, 2,2781. It,. 2d."
On the motion of the /SATOH, seconded by Sir Gtololl
GOODMAN, an influential committee was appointed to co-
operate with the committee of the institution in raising
funds to erect the proposed new building. A vote of thanks
to Lady John Russell, for the presentation of Lord John
Russell's portrait to the institution, was carried by ac-
clamation.
The proceedings terminated at a late hour, after a vote of
thanks had been awarded to the chairman.