The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-15 00:00:00

TO COARF-sPONDENTS.

THM number of STAMP'S iaqued to the DAILY NEWS
by the authuritim of the Stamp-otfice, during the year 1847,
was

From JAN. 1, to Dec. 31, 3,447,009
This we believe, is within eight per cent. of the number
issued to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, aa.d
Morning l'ost, ALL PUT TOOETHEit.

In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS,
Mornino Paper, there were issued for the Evening Edition,
THE EXPRESS,

From JAN. 1, to DEC. 31 778,714
Which was wore, we believe, than were issued cla6_r to the
GMe or Standard, Evening Papers.

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LONDON, TUESDAY,.FEI3II.S

.
POLITICAL chloroform is often productive of effects,
equally salutary and benign. Like other potent
agencies it is, no doubt, liable to manifold abuse. In
ordinary cases it is. perhaps, better dispensed with ; in
all eases it requires to be administered with peculiar
skill and care. But where the existence of society is
at stake, and no gentle remedies avail, its application
is alike merciful and wise. It intervenes between even-
tual danger and immediate pain ; between the sense of
what is desirable to have done, and the doubt as to
what is endurable in the doing ; between the convic-
tion that the growing evil ought to be met ere it be
too late, and the irresolution that clings to an illusive
hope that things may mend of themselves. By a
temporary suspension of the will and the power to
resist, it eaves much painful and perilous irresolution,
and insures that which is requisite shall be accom-
plish d as perfectly and rapidly as possible.
All this is well ; nevertheless, the suspension of the
capacity to suffer admits not of prolongation. Effects
fatal, or even worse than the summary extinction of
life, inevitably ensue when susceptibility is too long
benumbed. The conditions of the trance-compare must
be scrupulously kept. It way even be necessary to
stimulate the tardy resumption of consciousness, and
arouse the sufferer to a sense of what he has under-
gone. It is sometimes a most painful duty, but it is
an imperative one—one that admits of neither falter-
ing nor delay.
It is time that the trance of coercion for Ireland
should be broken. .When recently it was authorita-
tively pronounced indispensable that sharp and dis-
tressing measures should be resorted to, in order to
arrest the advance of a social gangrene that threat-
ened to destroy all social health and strength, public
opinion showed itself willing to be bound and blind-
folded for a season, and immovably to abide whatever
those in whom it trusted might do. But the etmdi-
tions having been on both sides faithfully fu:ll,.ed,
the temporary suspension of public sympathy and ac-
countability is at an end, and the sovereign lights
and duties of public opinion must be resum« d.
The Special Commission has done its work, the law
of life and property has been vindicated, and many
offenders have been brought to condign punishment.
The grave and anxious question still remains, what
securities can be found against the recurrence of such
humiliating necessities? The question is truly an
imperial one. It is in vain that some affect to treat it
otherwise. Agrarian crime and anarchy in any in-
tegral portion of the realm would be disreputable
and dishonouring enough to our pretensions as a
. nation ; but when whole counties—nay groups of
counties —are subjugated by its terroriem, and all hope
of industrial progress or improvement is barred by its
ruthless interposition—our feelings of shame give
place to the consciousness of the practical evil such a
state of things entails upon the whole community.
Slowly but steadily the conviction gains moreover,
that these maladies are more or less referable to causes
whose mischievous operation may be checked, it not
altogether suspended. IVe know that the soil of Ire-
land is distributed in ownership among some eight or
nine thousand persons—in occupancy among some
sight or nine hundred thousand. We know that
wherever the owners—not as isolated individuals,
but generally, and as a class—treat the occupiers
justly and judiciously, there is neither turbulence
nor crime. We know that the habitual and here-
ditary sense of insecurity lies at the root of Tipperary-
. ism ; and that from the threatening notice of the
friendless and revengeful peasants, to the clamorous
and incoherent cry of congregated thousands for what
is called " Tenant-right,"—the one pervading notion
• and sole animating idea is, that the tiller of the soil
should somehow be secured the fruits of his labour,
and a roof to shelter him. Without these it is idle
to expect agricultural improvement or social peen.
And sinceit is disgustingly notorious that in manyparts
of Ireland there are landlords who will neither improve
themselves nor guarantee to their tenants the worth
of the improvements they may make on their farms—
, who will neither grant reasonable leases, nor by their
mode of dealing create that feeling of confidence
which can alone 'apply a practical substitute for
written engagements—it becomes the imperative
duty of the legislature to try whether some means
' may not be found to restrain the rapacity and folly of
these highborn foes of peace and civilisation.
Sir W.Sommtvltuf has given notice of his intention
1 to lay upon the table of the lower house of parliament
this evening a bill intended to grapple with one
' of these evils. The principle that wherever the occu-
pier of land expends his capital and labour on build-
ings,, fences, drains, or such other works of a perms-
, rent character
as shall increase the letting value of

his farm, he shall be entitled on quitting it to eon.
pensation within certain limit, for his outlay, may
aloud for legislative recognition. The impod.
tion of limits to such just and equitable
reimbursed may seem at fil at view needless.
How can there be too mach improvement,
when improvement is measured by so strict a test as
the increased letting value ? If the fee of the farm is
doubled during the occupancy of an industrious and
enterprising tenant, ought the landlord to grudge the
amount of its farther purchase ? But there are other
considerations which ought not to be forgotten.
Where a tenant under lease enjoys for many years
the fall advantage of the improvements he has made,
he compensates himself, to a great extent, fur his ex-
penditure. The balance is all that he can justly claim
from his landlord. To render the landlord liable
to demands for the absolute value of improve-
ments, the usufruct of which the tenant bed
long enjoyed, would practically work a nullity is a
country late Ireland. leases, already grown too scarce
I there, would either wholly vanish, or they would be
loaded with covenants that in effect would preclude
the possibility of such cases arising.
The true policy of any measure of this kind should
be to induce, if possible, mutual co-operation by in-
suring to both parties a portion of the common benefit
of agricultural investment. If the scope and tendency
of the contemplated change in the existing law be
such as will encourage the tenant to labor':
without discouraging the landlord from letting
on fair terms, and for a reasonable Cm/
difficult and uncertain though its immediate working
may prove, we need not despair of its ultimately
effecting considerable good. But no one-bid, d deal-
ing by the state with the subsisting relations betwixt
man and man, can possibly be received as other than
a political or social wrong. And we are persuaded
that, even in an industrial point of view, much mis-
chief would arise from enabling the tenantry of
Ireland suddenly to extort from their landlords mare
than the latter in many cases are able to pay, or to
make the peasantry feel that henceforth their condi-
tion was to be bettered—not pari Bayou with that of
the landlords—but at tho it expense.
A well regulated system of arbitration probably
affords the simplest and must inexpensive means for
reconciling the conflicting views of landlord and
tenant. There would seem no insurmountable diffi-
culty in contriving a machinery of notices and Bali.
mates to be served on the proprietor before the work
is begun, and verified after it has been completed.
One arbiter named on the part of each, and an umpire
chosen by these two b. fore entering upon the specific
case, would, in most countries, be found a cheap
and expeditious mode of determining whether
the changes suggested to be made were likely to
prove permanently profitable or not. The warfare of
classes and the inveterate habit of distrust mutually
subsisting, render us far from sanguine as to the faci-
lity with which ouch a system may be introduced in
Ireland. The want of an independent middle class is
felt here, as everywhere, to be the worst and greeted
of Ireland's wants. The stupid maintenance by law
of the ruinous monopoly of landed property in the
hands of a bankrupt aristocracy, their utter inability
to sell portions of their ancestral domains, and
the correlative inability of persons possessing
moderate capital to invest it in land, more
than all other cause, tend to check the growth
of an agricultural middle class : and until such a class
acquires strength and power, neither property, in-
dustry, nor public tranquillity can be secure.
Meantime we shall look with no ordinary interest
to the exposition of the government scheme by the
Secretary for Ireland. As a good and extensive land-
lord, he knows what the duties of property are, and
what the rights of improvement ought by law to be.

THE state of affairs in the British North American
provinces, will teat the sincerity and moral courage of
the home government. From Nova Scotia we learn
that a provincial ministry, finding itself in a minority
in the House of Assembly. have actually resigned
from Canada, that in the face of an overwhelming
majority against them declared on the hustings, the
provincial ministry are preparing to resign ass an as
the house meets. Since the mission of Lord Dot-
me m, responsible government, as applicable to the
British North American prosiness, has been recognised
in the abstract; but unluckily some reason or pre-
text has always o&red itself to avert the entire
realisation of the principle in practice. Now comes
an opportunity for ministers to show that their pro-
fession of faith in responsible government for the
colonies has been made without any mental ri serve-
tion, and that they are too clear-sighted to allow in-
terested local cliques to whisper them into temporary
forgetfulness of their principles. This is particularly
desirable at a time when the equivocal New Zealand
Government Bill will of necessity awaken mistrust
in the colonies.
In Canada, party spirit has displayed itself with a
degree of virulence and fierceness which has no coun-
terpart in Nova Scotia. The party relations in
Canada, too, are more complicated and difficult to
comprehend than in the sea-board province. And
3 et we have less fear for the ultimate consequences in
Canada than in Nova Scotia, because we have confi-
dence in the frank sincerity of Lord ELGIN ; while
the whole career of Sir JOHN HARVEY marks him,
though animated by the beet intentions in the world,
for what the Irish call a policiser. We believe that Lord
ELGIN will get through his difficulties by straightfor-
ward, manly conduct; and we fear that Sit :Jolts will in-
' crease his by being more clever and dexterous than is
I required.
It would appear that Lord ELGIN has deemed it
necessary to take counsel with the home government
before he acts. At least, this is the natural inter-
pretation of the announcement in the Canada Gazelle
of 22d January, that the provincial parliament is pro-
rogued from the 24th of that month till the
4th of March. We cannot imagine that ministers
should feel a moment's hesitation as to the course
which they ought to pursue. Of 84 members returned
to the House of Assembly 6 only are understood 'o be
doubtful; 24 to be miiiisti rial, and 54 anti-ministerial.
There is nothing for it but that the governor, without
iloss of time, should allow his present executive council
I to go, and till up their places with men who can coat-
i wand the support of a majority in the House of As-
sembly. When Lord NIETCALFE and the Baldwin-
Lafontaine ministry quarrelled, the home government
very properly supported Lord MereALee, not on the
ground that he was in the right, but because at the
general election which ensued, the Canadians gave
him a majority, though a small one. On the
same ground, the Baldwin-Lafontaine party having
now obtained an overwhelming majority at
the late general election, the home goveriment
ought to instruct Lord ELGIN to take them into
his counciL It is conducive to the good go, ernment
of the province that the qualification for administra-
tive office shall be the power to acquire and retain the
public confidence. It is conducive to a good under-
standing between the mother country and the colony,
that the former shall not mix itself up in local heart-
burnings and quarrels. The surest safeguard of the
English crown is the equanimity and impartiality
with which it accepts as ministers the leaders of the
parliamentary majority, whatever be their principles;
the connexion between British North America and
Great Britain will be best maintained by the observance
of this wise policy on the part of the latter. The
government of this country, of necessity imperfectly
acquainted with the spriugs of colonial party, cen do
no good by allying itself more with one set of
provincial politicians than another ; but it
may do harm, and is sure to gain ill-will. When-
ever the home government interferes in the local po-
litics of a colony it is sure to draw down upon its
head the whole of that hatred which the contending
parties would otherwise have spent upon each other.
We abstain from farther allusion to the quarrel be-
tween the late Lord METCALFE and the I..ianadian
ministers in prospectu, in the first place because party
relations have so materially changed since that event
as to render it little more than a matter of history;
in the second place, because that lamentable dispute
appears to have been a pure outburst of temper on
both sides, which all parties would do well to
forget.
The Nova Scotia crisis, though less vio'ent,
appears, for various reasons, in more dander of being
erroneously dealt with. In Canada it has been
practically recognised that the tenure of administrative
office is co-terrainous with the power of the
holders to command a majority in the provincial
parliament. In Nova Scotia this appears to be ques-
tioned by the late provincial ministers. In a letter
addressed to Sir Jons HARVEY, on the 30th of
January, they profess anxiety to keep the provincial
government responsible to the legislature, but argue
that this can be done without making it necessiry for
the heads of departments to resign when in a puha-

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votary minority. They way that the provincial
treasurer and the collector of excise are excluded from
the legislature; that the secretary of the province,
the surveyor-general, the commissioner of crown
lends for Nova Scotia at Halifax, and the officer
exercising eimilar functions for Cape Breton at Syd-
ney, are paid out of the crown revenues, under
ant ngtments with the imp. rial government All
these officers, they maintain, hold their offices
for life. The only officers in a position to be
subjected to the responsible-government system•
are said to be the ATTORN EY-GEN ERAL and SOLICITOR-
GENERA L. It IS easy to see the drift of this. The
ex-ministers wish to impress the governor and home
government with the notion that they cannot be got
rid of M the departments except by pensioning them
off They count upon the home government disliking
to incur such expense, and upon their political rivals
in the colony fearing to recommend their being thus
got rid of hat they should lose popularity by increas-
ing the public burdens. They thus count upon being
allowed to remain heads of di partments under an
executive council composed of non-officials. It is
easy to see the consequences of such an arrangement :
the permanent heath of departments wt•uld necessa-
rily be mestere, let the House of A -sembly, the nominal
executive council, and the governor do what they
would. Now such an indirect mode of working is
just the plan to take Sir JOHN HARVEY'S fancy;
and his public declarations respecting the actual state
of parties have been most oracularly ambiguous;
while in a despatch to Earl GRF:V, dated the 2nd of
February, 1847, he declares his " earnest desire to
continue to act" with the late ministers. Earl GREY'S
reply to this despatch shows, as was to have been ex•
pected, that he saw through the shallow device of the
would-be irresponsible ministers, but evinces, perhaps,
too much desire to win them by eoneessions. The
time fur that has past ; the policy of the home go-
vernment is by a bold decided measure to pat the
Nova :Modems in possession of a really responsible
local government, and leave their local affairs to it.
We do not ask that any injustice should be done to
the veriest jobber of the old obstructive party, but we
claim equal consideration for the pockets of the colo-
nists, which these worthies have most unduly dipped
into.

SWITZERLAND.—THE Mosfa or St. BERNARD.
—We read in the Suiste:—.. According to information,
which we have reason to think well founded, the government
of Turin has not approved of the conduct of the monks of
Si. Bernard. It has been proved that thi y quitted their
establishment without serious cause, and thus abandoned
their duties, and that it war at their solicitation that the
people of the valley of Mete assisted them in devastating the
building. They have received a piece of advice, which they
now appear disposed to follow, namely—to return to their
establishment, end take back the effects which they had
cattiest off,"
PRUSSIA.—BERLIN, FEB. 9.—A letter from this
capital of the above date announces the arrival there of
General Radnwitz and Count Colloredo Wallace, 411 their
return from Paris.
AUSTRIA.—VIENNA.—WILL OF TIIE LATE. ARCTI-
Dr CU Ent; ?1! AMA LOVISA.—IR regard to the will of the late
archduchess it seems probatle that a process will be insti-
tuted unless the litigated question con be set aside by corn.
pensation. It appears that the late archduchess bu left her
very costly jewels to her brother, the Emperor of Austria,
but that the present Duke of Parma has put in his claim,
and refuses to deliver them up, so he considers them part and
parcel of her Majesty's personal property.
BRAZILS.—By a vessel armed at Cowes adrices
have been received from Rio Janeiro to the 29th December,
but the news is unimportant.

ARRIVAL OF SPEcte.—The New York packet-ship
Queen of the West has arrived at Liverpool with 20,0001. in
specie, on freight.

rte Court.

The Queen held a Court at Buckingham Palace, at
three o'clock yesterday afternoon. Count de Reventlow,
the Danish minister, had an audience of the Queen to pre-
sent the official notification of the death of his Majesty the
Ice King of Denmark, and also to present his credentials
from his present sovereign. His Excellency was introduced
by Viscount Palmerston, G.C.B , her Majesty's principal
Secretary of State for Foreign Affair/. The Right llon. Sir
Stratford Canning, G.C.B , was presented to her Majesty by
Viscount Palmerston, on his return from his mission to
Switzerlend, and to take leave on bis departure for Constan-
tinople. Mr. David Morier was presented to the Queen
at an audience, by Viscount Palmerston, on the terminatien
of his mi-sion in Switzerland. Her Majesty gave audience
to Viscount Palmerston. The Queen was attended by the
Earl of Morley, Lord in Waiting, and Colonel Berkeley
Drummond, Groom in Waiting.
Her Majesty, attended by the Viscountess Jocelyn,
Lady in Waiting, and Col. Buckley, Equerry in Waiting,
visited the Princess Sophia yesterday at her residence at
Kensington.
The :men and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Duke and Duchess of Saxe Cobount and Count Arthur Mena-
doff, honoured the performance of the French plays with
their pr. sence yesterday evening. The royal suite consisted
of the ViFCOUIIteSS Jocelyn, Madame la Baronne deWaugen-
beim, the Earl of Morley, Col. Buckley, Capt. the Hon. A.
Gordon, and Baron Fritsch.

A deputation from the London and South-Western
Railwsy—Coinpany, consisting a Mn Chaplin (chairmati),
Hon. ?'.Scott, Kr. Read, Mr. Mill, Mr. liirchara, and Mr.
Basia'gate,had an interview with the Right Hon. E. Stroll
yesterday, at the canoe of the Commissioners of Railways in
the Board of Trade.
Mr. Wickham, chairman of the Stamps and Taxes,
and Mr: Prosily, secretary to the board, had an interview
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his
official residence in Downing-street. Mr. John Wood,
chairman of the Excise, had also an interview yesterday with
the right hon. baronet.

APPROACHING MARRIAGE.—The preliminaries have
been defi,itively arranged for the marriage of Viscount
Enfield, M P., son of General the Earl of Strafford, and
Miss Harriet Cavendish, youngest daughter of the Hon.
Charles and Lady Catherine Cavendish. The noble bride-
groom is'a widower, having married in 1829 Lady Agnes
Pagel, daughter of the Marquis of Angle‘ey, by whom, who
died in Octolwr,.lBk3, he had a family of six children. The
fair fiancee is in her 28th year. The marriage is to be
solemnised early in the ensuing month.
HEATH OP THE COUNTESS Or CtiantEvaLE.—The
Countess of Charleville died suddenly at Naples oa the Ist
inst. from an affection of the heart. The deceased Counties,
who was third daughter of Lady Charlotte Bury, by her
first marriage with the late Colonel John Campbell, was tiger
of Lady Arthur Lennox and Mrs. Langford Brooke, and
cousin of the Duke of Argyll. Her ladyship was in the
prime of life. She married ''26th February, 18_I, the Earl of
Charleville (then Lord Tullamore), by whom her ladyship
leaves a family of three sons and a daughter, namely. Lora
Tuliamore, the lion. John J. and the Hon. Alfred Bury,
and Lady Beaujolais Bury.

DEPARTURE OF THE AUSTRIAN
AMBASSADOR.
We are cratbled to announce, on the highest autho-
rity that his Excellency Count Dietrichstein, the Austrian
ambassador, is on the eve of le►ving England for Vienna,
accompanied by the Countess Dietrichstein and Count
Potocki. The lst proximo is fixed for the departure of his
excellency and suite, and according to the general statement
promulgated at the Austrian embassy, the count and
countess il I be absent five or six months, but probably
longer., as fir absence is entirely dependent on circumstances.
The estabii•hment at Chandos House, as far as the count's
domestics are concerned, have received notice of disminsl.
Various rumours are in circulation in the diplomatic circle.,
re, petting the ambassador quitting this country.

THE COUNTRY PARTY AND THEIR LATE LEADER.
—A letter of thanks to Lord George Bentinek wen agreed to
and siganl by twelve of the country party at their last meet.
lug. It runs thus
Feb. 11, I S is.—Nly Lord, We bare been dedred to ooneey to your
lordship, from those at whose earnest request you accepted the leader-
ship of their earn-, their grateful genie of the zealous and eminently
able manner in which you pre effect to their political endeavours at
a timeof reenlist. exigency. You enabled them, when suddenly de-
serted by leaders in whom they had long placed confidence, to main-
tain that position which in public estimation they are entitled to
eLsim, as representatives of large coastltuencies. Animated be your
rumple, they stood their ground against a combination formed
Under circumstances for which political history affords no
precedent. The honourable OtanadallniOns which induce you
to relinquish the Into ship they cannot but duly appreciate, being
aware that you base ever end openly expressed your feelings irk respect
of dificur ies which have now vireo. Tour aseurance that no reve-
rent of isildieal connexions will ensue persuades them that, In
thole endeavours to promote the prosperity of all classes in this
entry, Kin haying the aid of your energetic talent, and enjoying
Jew continued confidence, they will still benefit by that scrupulous
Slam of honour and uncompromising consistency of character which
bare placed you so high in public estimation. Appointed by the
unsainions voice of a large assemblage of those who have thus acted
in political unison, for the purpose of presenting to your lordship
their expressions of warm and grateful attachment, we have the
honour to sutecrine ourselves, ever your Lordship's most truly, faith.
t. 41, Y. and sincerely, Dioramas, Ossinerros, Sruonme,
UnnIGF. Aturnts STAFTOID, JOIM Taou.on, WILLLAX
MIRAIM Beautt, J. B. T. Bruen. &mean
tnaaoLlT. JOAN W Alan, 1. C. Hattllla.
tt To the Right Rom*, Lord George Bentiock, M.P."
ANTI-WINDOW-TAX ASSOCIATTON. PIMLICO
BRANCH.—A public meeting of inhabitants of the ont-ward
of the parish of St. George, Hanover-squatty wan held last
evening, at the Windsor Castle Tavern, Pimlico, for the pur-
pose of hearing the report of the branch committee of the
Anti.Wiudow-Tax Association, " and deciding upon the pe-
tition to be sent to parliament for the abolition of that odious
W..' Mr. Samuel Wilson presided.—Mr. J. E. Rogers,
the *crew', read • letter from Sir De Lacy Evans, ex-
cusing him.. If tar his non-attendance at the meeting, but
expr,ssisg hi, cordial oncurrenuc in its object The report
of the committte woe then read. It wu very
.brief, and
ecelmenc..d by staing that the association originated at a
Meeting had on the 10th of December, 1847. From that
period it had continued to increase in numbers and Jan-

enc.; and although the state of trade in the district never
was worse than at the present moment, from the large num-
ber of artisans and mechanics as well as do-
Eleatic servants who had been thrown out of
employment, they had the satisfaction to state
that the funds at their disposal had enabled them to print
and circulate at least two thousand handbills, and call the
present meeting without incurring any liability beyond their
means. They trusted that they would meet with that co-
operation by the enrollment of new members, which would
enable them to carry out their views. The report was
adopted on the motion of Mr. Brooker, seconded by Mr.
Brown. A petition to parliament was then read, which it
was agreed should be confided to Sir De Lacy Beam and
Mr. Lushingeou for presentation to the house. A vote of
thanks was then pout d to the committee, upon which Mr.
Savage made a few observations exprimive of the necessity ,
of individual as well as collective exertion In procuring the
abolition of the ter, which was not so likely to be granted se
a meter of justice as yielded to persevering agitation. The
proceedings then esonchided.
THE ItIeNTERIAN ORATION was yesterday delivered
by Mr. It. D. Grainger, in the theatre of the College of
Surgeons, Lincoin'e-inn.fields, which was crowded in every
part by the follows and members of the college, together
with some distinguished visitors, including Sir K. Peel, the
Dean of Westminster, the Bishop of Norwich, the President I,
of the College of Physician., Mr. Justice Erie, and Sir R.
H. loglis, Isl.P. The learned orator, who is well known as
the teacher of anatomy and physiology of St. Thomas's Hos-
pital, presented a view of the state of physiological and patho-
logical science, from the. commencement of the present
century to the present time. The important service ren-
dered to medical Wier= by the application of the micro-
scope was also • sukject expatiated upon and characterised
as marking a sew era in the science of structural anatomy.
Chemistry and the use of the microscope were the two great
means of arriving at a 'Monti& insight into the nature al
health and dieease. It wen the great glory of John Iluater,
that in the infinite diversity of organhatron, by which h.
found himself surrounded, his mucking glance bad recognised
a unity and progressive ascent lathe scale of animated tieing.
The results of Professor Owen's researches in comparative
anatomy were ranked in value after those of envier, in their
tendency to advance that science to its ultimate development
as a complete and harmonious whole. The orator expressed
satistection, founded on hie experience as a teacher in con-
nexion with a large mistreat school, at the devotion to the
higher investigator' of medical science exhibited by the
present race of student', and his c infidence in the benefit
that would result to satiety therefrom. Towards the close
of the oration reference *as made to the heavy loss sustained
by the profession and the public in the removal by death,
since the last anniversary, of Mr. Liston and Mr. Morgan.
In the evening, the president and council of the college en-
tertained a distinguished par_ty at the Freemaeous' Tavern.
Tate GOLDEN-LANE MURDER. It will be re-
collected that the jury who tried the unfortunate woman,
Hariiet Parker, whn was found guilty of the wilful murder
of two children, in Golden-lane, on the 31st of December
last, " strongly recommended her to mercy, on account of
the great provocatiou which she received." The judge
(Mr. Baron Alderson), however, at the time, remarked that
" the children gave her no provocation," but that the recom-
mendation which had accompanied the verdict of the jury
should be forwarded to the proper quarter, hut he entreated
the prisoner not to indulge any hope that it would be of any
effect. His lordship accordingly forwarded a copy of the
evidence to Sir George Grey, Bart., M.P., and in answer to
an upplicatnan on the subject the following letter has been
received from the Horne Secretary :
Whitehall, Feb. 14, 11-43.—Sir,-1 am directed by Secretary Sir
George Cary to acithowledge the receipt of your letter of the 1211 in.
steal, respecting [ltalia Parker, who was ounvicted at the lUt scis-
sions of the Central Criminal Court of murder. to d sentenced to
death. Sir George Grey desires me to inform you that he hbri received
from the Janice l gr. Baron Alderson) before whom the prisoner was
tried a To port of tar evidence, together with the recomroendatioa of
the jury in her favour, and I am to express to you his regret that,
after a careful consideration of the circumstances of the ewe, he is
unable to discover any ground upon which he can, consistently with
hts settee of public duty, recommend the miromr to the mercy of the
crows, and that he must therefore leave the law to take its course.—
S. M. growers.
INQUEST, YESTERDAT.—CHILD MURDER AT KEN-
NINGTON.—Before Mr. William Carter, in the committee-
rooin of Lambeth workhouse, relative to the death tit a male
child, unknown, which died in that institution. Policeman
Jordan said that on Monday morning last, whilst on duty in
the Elsrleyfordroad, Kennington-oval, his attention was di-
rected to a large market basket lying en the sop of a house
in Meadow-place. Witness opened the garden gate and
took up the basket, which he examined. On the lid being
raised he found that it contained a male infant, drew, d in
a gown and night cap. The child was very thin and dread-
fully cold, from the damp and exposure. Witnees had been
pas: the house About an hour previously, but did not see any-
thing lying there, nor did he observe any Wean near.
There were no marks of violence on the body, and the cloth.
ing when searched did net contain any merles or initials.
Witness took the child out, and hosing wrapped it well
round to keep it warm he conveyed the deceased to the
workhouse, and gave him into the care of one of
the nurses. Nothing had transpired to throw any
light on the mysterious case.—Hannah Secular, nurse,
stated that she received the deceared child on the
morning in question. It was very cold and breathed with
difficulty. ,tee placed deceased before the lire and rubbed
its body with warm flannels. The home surgeon was sent
for, and upon hie arrival the child was ordered new milk and
other nourishing wood, but the deceased was so much ex-
hausted from cold. bongo., and exposure that it rover
became aide to take any fsod. The body was shockingly
emachted, but clean and tree from injury.—Mr. Duke,
surgeon, said that the deceased was about six weeks old. He
caw the child soon after its admission. It was very atte-
nuated and weak of body, evidently resulting from the want
of food and long exposure to the weather. Witness had no
hope of saving the child, which had clearly died from starva-
tion and complete exhaustion consequent upon the deficiency
of nourishment and the termed manner Lit which the child
had been inhumanly le ft.—The jury returned a verdict of
" Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown."