The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-06 00:00:00

Irk Court.

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ARDVERIKIE, THURSDAY, SEPT. 2.—Yesterday a
continued wet day, in spite of which her Majesty and his
Royal Highness walked in the grounds in the evening.
Viscount Palmerston is expected to-day, as the Secretary of
State in attendance upon her Majesty. The Marquis of
Abercorn, Viscount Jocelyn, and Mr. Popham, will join the
loyal circle at dinner this evening.--Sari. 3.—Yesterday
Prince Albert and the Prince of Leiningem went out deer
stalking. In the afternoon her Majesty and his Royal
Highness drove out, attended by the Master of the Horse
and Major-General Wemyse on horseback.

Baron de Brunnow had an interview with Sir
George Grey, on Saturday, at the Home-office.
Earl Grey has arrived at his seat, Howick Hall,
Northumberland, from attending the Queen at Ardvertitie.
Despatches for the Governor of the Falkland
Islands were sent off, on Saturday evening, from the Colo-
nial-office.

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Sir George Grey arrived in town, on Friday night,
from his neat, Fallodon, Northumberland. Mr. Bellew had
an interview with the right hon. baronet, on Saturday, at
the Hoene-Milne. _

Despatches were received yestcrday ar the Colonial-
offios from the Governor of Gibraltar. Despatches mere re-
ceived on Saturday at the Colonial. office from the Governor
of Sierra Leone.

RETURN HE THE Qt EEN.—A correspondent at
Carmarthen writes that the Queen is expected at Milford
Haven on the 12th September, on her return from Scotland,
and orders have been received at Pembroke Dockyard to pro-
vide coal for the use of the steam squadron. Her Majesty,
it is expected, will land at Pembroke, and visit Lord Cawdor,
at Stockpot° Court.
The Duchess of Kent is expected to arrive in Eng-
land film the continent on Wednesday next; an order
having been received for the whole of the extensive repair,
and embellishments at Frogmore Howe (which were com-
menced immediately after her Royal Highness's departure
fur Belgium, the Bth of last Jane) to be completed by that
day.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlPS.—Wynyani, the beau-
tiful seat of the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry,
is just now the scene of brilliant festivities, consequent on the
marriage of the Lady Alexandrine Vane, second daughter of
the marquis and marchioness, and the youthful Earl of
l'ortarlington. The noble marquis also availed himself of
the opportunity to celebrate at the same time the return of
his son, Viscount Seaham, as member for the northern divi-
sion of the county of Durham. The order of events is some
thing as follows:—The marriage was solemnised on Thurs-
day evening within the mansion, and succeeded fly a
magnificent banquet, at which coven were laid for 56.
Shortly before seven o'clock the company began to assemble
in the banquetting room. The ladies having taken their
position on one side of the apartment, and the gentlemen on
the opposite side, the Bishop of Durham entered, attended
by the Rev. W. Casaide, vicar of Grindon, is which parish
Wyoyard is situate. After a few momenta' delay, the bride
proceeded across the gallery resting on her noble father's
arm, and attended by • train of nine bridesmaids. As the
bridal train passed up the banquetting room the visitors
closed in, and formed a circle round the betrothed pair. li
The noble bridegroom having received her ladyship at the
altar, they took their places, and the Lard Bishop
of Durham performed the enemony, at the close of
which the noble bridegroom raised the veil from
the face of his fair bride, and kissed her ladyship.
The bride then warmly embraced her noble mother and
father, and turning to the attendant bridesmaids affection-
ately kissed each of them. The noble pair, having brat re-
mised the congratulations of the assembled company signed
the usual record of their marriage in the register of the ad-
joining parish of Grindon. The entry was attested by the
Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry, an well as by the
Dake of Rutland, the Duke of Cleveland, the Duke of
Devonshire, the Viscount Comberrnere, and Sir R. Peel.
The bride and bridegroom then took leave of the assembled
circle, and at 8 o'clock left Wynyord in • travelling carriage
and fur for Scaham.hall, where they intend to pass the first
few days of their honeymoon.
ENBARRASsMENTB.—We learn that the myrmidons
of the law forcibly took posoession of the princely seat of a
noble duke, in a county long known for the political in-
fluence he exercised, on Monday last, and, it is feared, that
the urgency of the demands made on his grace will even-
tually lead to the dispersion of ose of the finest collections
of works of art and vertu possessed by a private individual
is this country. We should have refrained from announcing
this much-to-be-regretted fact, had we not felt convinced
that it cannot fail to be made public very shortly.
RECONCILIATION IN HIGH LIFE.—It will be a
source of gratification to all our readers in the highest circles
of society to learn, that the estrangement, which has caked
in a ducal family, canoed by the indiscreet elopement of a
youthful lady, has at length ended in a reconciliation, hap-
pily_brought about by a near relative of the noble family.
THE EARL OP DUNDONALD departed on Thursday
for Edinburgh, to attend the election of the representative
peer. for Scotland, at Holyrood Palace, on Wednesday next,
the Bth inst. The noble earl is a candidate, and a general
impreskion exists that he will be elected.

THE PRISON INSPECTORSHIPS.—R ie understood
that Captain Williams, the inspector of prisons for the
Midland district, will succeed to the inspectorship of the
Home district, vacated by the death of Mr. Russell. Captain
O'Brien will move from the Scotch district to the Midland;
and the inspector appointed for the Scotch district is Captain
Kincaid, who has been for many years the governor of
Brulewell prison.— Tinset.
LIBRARIES FOR THE POLICE.—The Secretary of
State for the Home Department has presented the sum of
201. to each division of the metropolitan police, to be dis-
posed of in the purchase of useful books, to be placed in the
various libraries attached to the stations for the use of the
men. The station libraries are already possessed of several
hundred volumes, and the men pay one halfpenny per week
subscription for their use. It is intended to form reading-
rooms at all the station.houses in the metropolis.
REMOVAL OP CONVICTS.—THE FREE TICKET
SYSTEM.—On Saturday the first batch of convicts, who are
to leave their country on the free ticket system for Austral-
asia, were removed from tho Millbenk Prison. They num-
bered between 70 and 80, and appeared in the best of health
and spirits. The Waterman steamer, No. 7, took them on
board for Woolwich, where they still remain until another
draught arrives from the new Model Prison with about the
acme number. On sailing, the vessel will call at Cork for
another lot, and then proceed direct to Australasia. Oa
arriving at their destination they will be treated as freemen,
and everything will be done, by order of her Majesty's
government, to make them forget the degraded state which
they had formerly been in.
REFUSAL OF AN ALDERMAN TO OBEY AN ACT OP
Paatramexr.—At the City Police Committee on Saturday,
Mr. bill, the pass master to the City of Londoa, attended
with several Irish females before Mr. Alderman Farebrother
for the purpose of passing them home. One of the persona,
a woman with five children, informed the alderman that she
was to be sent home against her will, for she had no person
in Ireland living to whom she was related. The family had
like many others come to Eegland through want, and were
landed at Liverpool, from whence, although they were
they were sent to London, where her husband died the next
day. They had since been in the City of London anion, but
the guankno had now determined to pass them back to Ire-
land. AVorman Farebrother said he should certainly not sign
the order of removal, and directed Mr. Russell, the clerk to
ikeboard of guardiam, to be soot for. That officer subsequently
allamftsd, and said it was the wish of the woman to go bask ;
leskiee it was necessary to send back the casual paupers.—
Mr. Alderman Farebrother said she had, with tears in her
oyes, told him a very different story, sad although it was
necessary to send some back, he certainly should not sign a
pass to send back a poor woman who declares that she has
not a single relative left, and thus force her and her five
children to die for want of food. He certainly would not be
• party to such proceedings.—Mr. Russell submitted that he
was compelled by act of parliament to carry out the law; but
the worthy alderman maintained that he would not carry
out an act of parliament that, for aught he knew, might
saute the poor creature' to die from want as soon as they
arrived in Ireland or on their passage.— Observer.
DRAINAGE OF' LAND.—AIR DRAINS.—Sir,—On
the 10th of February, 1846, I recommended in •
pamphlet, the construction of air-drains or connecting
head-drains, in addition to the ordinary parallel drains,
a practice at that time entirely new to the public. Ex
perienco having confirmed my opinions as to the advan-
tages of this practice, it may not be uninteresting to your
readers to be informed of the result of one of the many ex-
periments I have made to test its utility. The field to which
I shall refer is in the occupation of Mr. Stafford, of Mans-
ham, near Newark-on-Treut, and consists of ten acne of
strong loamy soil, upon a clay subsoil. It was underdrained
by Mr. Stafford four years ago, by twenty-five
drains, two feet deep, and five yards apart, each diseha Bing
into a covered Outran at the bottom of the field. In the
autumn of 1848 it occurred to me that this being a
somewhat shallow-drained field, it preeeated a good
opportunity for experiment; I divided it into four
compartments, each containing five of the drains.
With the two outside and centre compartments I did
not interfere. Into the two other compartments I in-
troduced what I call an air-drain across the upper ends of
the five drains, in each ease, to join them together. I then
connected the drain so cut with the adjacent open ditch at
the top of the field, in order to increase the natural current
or circulation of air through all the drains. The field was
4terwards cultivated in the usual manner for turnips, and I
did not again visit it until Wednesday, the 19th of May, the
heavy rains of the winter and spring having concluded late
the previous evening by a pounog rain of tsar hours does.
son ; Mr. Stedind and I on this day traversed the Add th

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every direction and the superior condition of the soli on the
two air-drained pieces was everywhere distinctly apparent ;
but what afforded proof more convincing and undenieble
was the eireuenstancop that, on ploughing the field mom all
the drains, on the following morning (Thursday), wet
bright marks were left by the plough on the land within
the two outside and centre compartments, but no indications
of wetness appeared on the two air-drained pieces.
We together again visited the field on the 4th of
August, when we found the turnips, owing to
the intervening and uninterruptedly dry weather,
by no means fiourithintr; yet it was peculiarly
gratifying to find the turnips on the air-drained land, cer-
tainly one half superior to thee* on the remainder of the
field. Mr. Stafford informs me that, during windy or
breezy weather, a draught of air through the drains is
always perceptible at the outlets; and, at other times, •
steamy evaporation is frequently visible. The conclusion to
which my mind has been brooOt by this and similar expe-
riments is, that drains two feet deep, with air-drains to faci-
litate evaporation, &c., are equal to drains two feet six inches
deep without such auxiliaries. Thus, by the simple and in-
expensive plan of introducing my mr-drains into lands
drained by present innifficiently deep drains, the superior
advantages of deeper drainage are in some degree acquired.
—Sumer literceonsow.—Oranthans, Sept. 3.
SUPPRES.OION OP PROSTITUTION.—It having been
ascertained that a large number of the houses of a certain
description, into which young and inexperienced females are
inveigled, are kept by persons of the Jewish nation, the pre-
sent High Priest or Chief Rabbi (Mr. Alder) has, within the
last week or two, caused it to ho intimated that no member
of the Jewish persuasion who is the keeper of an improper
house, either directly or indirectly, will be permitted to
attend the synagogue, nor be acknowledged as one of the
people ; that neither their sons nor their daughters shall be
allowed to be married according to their Jewish ritual, nor
will any of the religious rites he performed at the birth of a
child ; and should the party die at the time of keeping such
a house, he will be refused the rite of sepulture ; no prayers
will be read, nor will they be interred amongst their fore-
fathers, but be buried behind what ate termed the boards,
the same as if the party had died accurst—Sunday paper.
THZ MARYLEBONK MURDER.—CONFESSION.—The
unfortunate woman Mary Anne Hunt, who was convicted at
the last eassion of the Genre Criminal Court of murdering
an old woman named Stowell, still remains in Newgate,
awaiting the decision of government, as to whether the sen-
tence of death pared upon her is to be carried into effect or
not. It was proved at the trial that the wretched criminal
would eventually become a mother, and the sentence, of
course, menet be carried into effect for some time. The
unhappy culprit has, within the last few days, in clear and
undisguised terms, admitted her guilt. Immediately that
she retired from the dock, after sentence had been pro-
nounced, she appeared to recover her selepossession, and
said to one of the officials who was accompanying her, " They
don't know yet how it was done." For some days after the
trial she was very taciturn, but at length she detailed the
cireu metinees under which the act was committed. She denies
that the act waa premeditated. It will be remembered
that upon the trial it was proved that on the Monday pre-
vious to the fatal occurrence the culprit and the deceased had
a violent quarrel, and that the former made use of such
terms towards the old woman as to induce the other lodgers
to send for the landlordOf the house, and this was adduced
as a proof that the crime was premeditated by the prisoner.
She, however, declares that at this time she had no inten-
tion to hurt her, and that her threatening to "do for her"
merely referred to her intention to prevent her from con-
tinuing to receive assistance from the family of Col. Wynd-
ham, by informing them that she was not a worthy object
of charity. The prisoner states that at this time she was in
great distress of mind, owing to her pecuniary difficulties,
and her inability, from want of funds, to get to Brighton,
where, u she was well known, she expected to have been
able immediately to obtain a situation, and for several days
before the fatal occurrence she states that she was hardly
aware of what she was doing. It transpired accident-
ally in the course of the trial that the prisoner had
been connected with • police constable of the detective force,
and who, it appears, is the father of the child of which she is
enceinte, and he it seemed had promised to send her some
money, but failing to deli:), it increased her distress, and an she
lam almost drove her beside herself. It was evident, from
the contents of letters that were produced at the trial, but
which Mr. Justice Erie, who tried the case, considered were
not legally admissible as evidence, that the prisoner was in
very great pecuniary distress, sad the repeated demands of
the poor old woman for the trifling amount of rent, about
94., which she owed hor, created great excitement in her
mind, and in all probability occasioned the fatal result. On
the day of the murder the prisoner states that she was again
pressed by the deceased for payment, and is the course of a
violent quarrel the deceased attempted to strike her. This
excited her, and induced her to strike the old woman in re-
turn: she fell to the ground insensible, and she then threw
herself upon her, and did not desist from violence until
the decreed was no more. It then occurred to her that the
deceased had a hoard of money in her drawee, and she
opened the one in which she believed it was kept, and was
surprised to find that there was no more than one or two
and twenty shillings, which she possessed herself of, and
then went out to make her way to Brighton, but, finding
that the last train had started, she returned.to the house,
and stayed in the room with the deceased until the following
morning, when, en her attempting to depart, she was
arrested in the extraordinary manner detailed at the trial.
It is imagined by the medical officers of the prison that the
unhappy prisoner will become • mother in about four or five
months, so that no decision can ha come to in reference to
the sentence till the end of that time—Sunday Timer. .

TWO CHILDREN POUND MURDERED.—Yeaterday
morning, about six o'dock, the police-constable on duty on
Walworth-common, diacorered a wicker basket hidden in a

ditch on the common, and on opening it found the body of a
female infant, about fourteen days old, wrapped in a blue
cotton handkerchief, death having been caused by a ban-
dage tied over -the mouth. It was taken to Newington
workhouse to await the coroner's inquest. About the same
hour yesterday morning some boys bathing in the Regent's-
canal at Mile-end, found the body of a male infant, about
three weeks old, that hod been strangled with a piece of cord
and then thrown into the water. It is now in Mile-end
workhouse, awaiting a coroner's inquest.
FIRE3.—AT HAMPSTEAD.-011 afternoon
the boarding school of Mrs. Jackson Smirk, in
Hampstead, was discovered to be ea Snort tbr tbe
flames had already robed sr rieer• Idea the mew
floor for any oaf to saw k The ronelid MON vso
speedily brewed le to rot, red set le week be. &prim
the lawn. bat ealds hinds bebenete en the
raorremegt net toren erre evraberet
of the sled the Wee efisibel abeeml belkoonee
of lomat* irks onlieet reit oretallrkt
wore
wheelie lbesetwent enbeeelligniggebet ewe erfor
amend
tie of die pries was posed, nefbeesed olf, and
tie lower Saes The belidipt rid fur-
niture is said to ben iins rred It is not harm how the fire m-
essed, and the damage is estimated at oneralbundred pounds.
AT BILOYPTON.—Yederday forenoon, about half-past 11
e'siock, a fire,by which six houses were more or lees damaged,
broke out upon the premises in the occupation of Mr. Porter,
12, Queen's-gardens, Brompton. The fire commenced on
the first floor, and rapidly extendul to the roof, and from
thence to the adjoining houses, numbered severally 13 and 14
in the tenure of Mr. Cf. Arter. The engines of the parish
were quickly at the scene, followed by numerous others of
the London brigade. Unfortunately the firemen had to wait
20 minutes before a drop of water could be obtained from the
Chelsea mains, and the flames thus continued to progress
without restraint, and for some time it wu expected that the
whole range of builuings in the district would have been con-
sumed. Water at length having been obtained, the engines
ware worked; but some time elapsed before the fire wu ex-
tinguished, and not until the building in which it
commenced was nearly destroyed, and five other houses se-
verly damaged —AT RLTCLIIP-1110HWAY.—About half-
put 6 o'clock last• evening a fire Mike out in the
premises numbered 106 and 107, St. George-street,
late Ratcliff-highway. The flames originated in the
lower portion of the premises, and, notwithstanding that im-
mediate assistance was obtained, owing to the combustible
nature of the stock in trade the flames extended with emit
rapidity, and in the course of a few minutes the spacious
pits wu completely enveloped in fire. Several engines
soon reached the scene of conflagration, and there being
an abundant supply of water obtained, vast streams
were scattered over the burning mass. Such, how-
ever, was the violence of the firs that for some time it ap-
peared to defy the exertions of the brigade. The men
mounted the roof, of the surrounding louses, and thus were
enabled to cut off the farther prey= al the flames, but it
wee nearly eight o'clock before they were considered safely
extinguished. The loss is very eensiderable' one house
being literally gate* sad the rime partially buried eat.
One or two of the semaigneas berg have likewbe received
some damage by water and keit, removal of the' are.
IMQTJEITEI, t3ATURDAT.—ACCIDENT AT Mil MA-
JEIITT'S T . Before Mr. Bedford, at Chariarcrose
Hospital, on the body of John Chapman, aged 67 a car-
penter at Her Idejeaty's Theatre. The deceased, cm Friday
afternoon last, was at work in tog flies of this theatre,
arranging the machinery, and whilst in the set of stepping
from the flies into the grooves, it is suppo•ed that he most
have missed his footing, for he was observed by souse other
parties working on the stage to fall to the bottom. In his
descent several workman narrowly escaped being knocked
down. The deceased understood the working of the
machinery perfectly well, having been engaged in the same
sort of work for several years. He was brought bleeding to the
above hospital, where he died in the course of an hour or so
after his admission, from the effects of the injuries received.
Verdict, "Accidental death."—A DEAD BODY CON-
CIALIM II( A Roost TIMID YlLEttl.—Befor• Mr. Wakley,
M.P., at the Feathers, Warren-atreet, Fitzroy-square, on the
body of the male infant of Jane Hinch, an unmarried woman.
The body, which, from decomposition, wu reduced almost to
a skeleton, was brought into the inquest-room in a box.—
Sarah Cutler, landlady of 69, Warren-street, where de-
ceased's mother resided, stated that she had been her lodger
upwards of three years. During that period a most intolerable
stench issued from the room, of which she complained, and
the mother ridged to adopt measures to do away with its
same. At witness bad her boxes removed and exa-
mined, when bend the skeleton produced.—Constable
Ring, 108 C, teak dee merle into custody, when she ac-
knowledged that the child was hem, and that it had been
born dead.—lfr. Preston, surgeon, said that the child was
born about three years ago, but that the body had so wasted
away he could not pronounce whether it was born alive or
not. A verdict in accordance with the surgeon's celibate
was given.—Paosancx or MlND.—Before Mr. Payne, at
St. Thom/Ps Hospital, on the bodyof Samuel Jerome aged
28, a labourer on the North Rent Railway. About 1 &cloak
on Thursday morning the deceased, with some other missy
was employed in sinking a shaft on Blackheath, for the pt-
pose of forming a tunnel to connect a railway between Greer
with and Gravesend. He was at the top of the shaft, width
is 9 feet in diameter and 46 feet in depth, and had drawn up
by a windlass a pail filled with water, taken from a La

win, when, souls Ia the' act of it over, ha fell back.
VOCW•cI immediately called out " below !" upon which the
men at the bottom of tha shah", moved on one side, and the
deceased, fell in the midst of them, Be was drawn up `0 •
state of insensibility, when he was sem by a surgeon and
moved to the above institution. Be was There attended to by
Mr. T. Bull, home-surgeon, who found both thighs and the
elbow bones severely fractured, and there was an ostensive
scalp wound, from the effect of which injuries be died the
same day in the afternoons—Verdict, " Accidental death."

SIR ROBERT PEEL IN DURHAM.
SEA 11•11, SATURDAY.—The ex-premier, who since
Wednesday last has been the guest of the Marquis and
Marchioness of Londonderry at Wynyard-park, in this
county, where a large party are Resembled on the occasion of
the 'marriage of the Lady Alexandrine Vane with the youth-
ful Earl of Portarlington, visited this place yesterday, in
company with the Marquis of Londonderry and several
other distinguished personages, for the purpose of Inspecting
the newly-formed harbour here.
The present being the first visit of the right hen. baronet
to this county a considerable degree of interest has been
excited among the inhabitants of all the principd towns, and
the admirers of his political career have been very active in
getting up congratulatory addresses during the past few days.
All applications to be allowed to present the same have been
met with an intimation from head quarters to the effect that
Sir Robert was most anxious to avoid the exhibition of
any political feeling towards himself on the occasion of his
visit to Durham, which was stated to be of a strictly private
nature. Notwithstanding this expressed wish, the town
council of Sunderland, which is distant from this place only
four miles, pressed their suit so closely as to obtain the con-
sent of the right hon. baronet, through his noble host, the
Marquis of Londonderry, to receive the address from that
borough on the occasion of his visit to this place yesterday.
This fact having become known, the inhabitant, of the
surrounding districts flocked into Seaham yesterday morning
in great numbers, and before noon the town presented an
unusually gay appearance. The vessels in harbour were
decked out with flags, and the shops were all closed, the day
being, in fact, kept as • general holiday. A triumphal arch,
formed of evergreens, was thrown over the road at the
entrance of the town from Wynyard and the Vane Arms.
The principal inn, where a ckjeilrs.c had been ordered, was
also gaily decorated with flags and evergreens.
The party from Wynyard arrived at the Seaton colliery
I —within little more than a mile of this place—at one o'clock,
when a salute was fired as the noble owner of the colliery
entered with Sir R. Peel, and the band played appropriate
music. After having inspected the colliery, the harbour, &c.,
the party returned to the summit of the cliff, where a neat
little pavili 41 had been erected to enable the corporation of
Sunderland to present their address to Sir R. Peel. Through
some mismanagement the pavilion was crowded before the
marquis and has party arrived, and it was with some diffi-
culty that the right hon. baronet could make his way to the
table.

This inconvenience once overcome, and the borough offi-
cials having arranged themselves in due form, the mayor
(Mr. Robert Brown) having opened the proceedings, the
town clerk (Mr. Brunton) read the addrese from an en-
grossed parchment, which was handed to Sir R. Peel, who
spoke as follows
"Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,—Since you were good
enough to transmit me • copy of the document which you
here just placed in my hands, and as I was not aware that
such adequate accommodation would have been provided
for that very valuable class of gentlemen (referring to the
reporters), several of whom I see present, I had pre-
pared • written answer to the address which you have
done me the honour to present. With your permis-
sion, therefore, I will read that, instead of making
set reply." The right hon. baronet then read as follows:
•• Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, I have visited this neighbour.
hood for the sole purpose of gratifying feelings of private
friendship and of being present on an occasion deeply inte-
resting to the members of a noble family for whom I feel
a very sincere regard, and who bear a name which I
must ever hold in the highest respect. Your kindness
compels me to forget for • moment the private capa-
city in which my visit has been paid, and publicly to
return to you my best acknowledgments fur the adorer
you have presented to me in pursuance of the unani-
mous vote of the council of the borough of Sunderland.
I thank you for the justice you have done to the motives
which influenced my conduct on the occasion to which you
have alluded in the address. On entering the service of our
gracious Sovereign I accepted, together with the distinction
and privileges of office, the heavy responsibility which it
imposes. NVben, at a crisis of great difficulty, I offered that
advice which in my heart and conscience I believed to be
best calculated to mitigate the immediate suffering, and to
diminish the risk of future peril, I was only fulfilling
the solemn obligation which I had contracted when
undertook the duties of a minister. It is gratifying for
me to receive from you the emphatic assurance
that I so discharged those duties as to have en-
titled me to your anprobatioa and esteem. I fully partici-
pate in the anxieties you express for the maintenance and
promotion of our maritime interest. They are intimately
connected with the general welfare of this great country, and
with our national defence and security. I confidently trust
that the several measures which have been adopted of late
years for simplifying the commercial code, for abolishing
vexatious regulations on trade, and for reducing the duties•
on articles of the first importance in the construction and
navigation of our commercial marine, will have a beneficial
effect on those interests with which the town of Sunderland
has ea intimate and important a connexion. Permit me, in
conclusion, to offer my hearty good wishes for the prosperity
of that town, the extension of its commerce, and for the in-
creasing comfort and happinere of its inhabitants."
The right hon. baronet's reply was listened to throughout
with the most profound attention. At its close, the Mayor of
Sunderland asked and received permission to introduce the
members of the council to the right hon. gentleman. This
ceremony concluded, the Marquis of Londonderry invited
the deputation to lunch with his party at the Vane Arms,
expees.ing his regret that, as &team Hall was now occu-
pied
by other inmates, he could not have the pleasure of en-
tertaining them there. The mayor having accepted the in-
vitation on behalf of himself and the council, the whole party
proooodoi to the hotel referred to, where • dejeiner, com-
psYaa delicacy, was laid out. After dub justice had
bust js~e to the noble marquis's hospitality, • variety of
peasant and local toasts wire proposed, end appropriate
opsooloto delivered. At five o'clock, they noble marquir, ac-
, omposiod by has guest returned to Wroyost, distance of
some than 20 miles from the village.

IRELAND.
DIMITN, SEPT. 4.
The conduct of the authorities in England charged
with the removal of the Irish poor is considered here
u scarcely humane. The last case has been attended
with unfortunate results. The Duchess of Kent
steamer took on beard at Liverpool 40 Irish paupers,
on the warrant of the parish officers of the latter
town and Rochdale, to which they had become
chargeable. Of these two died on board; one in
consequence of exposure to wet and cold in a very
tempestuous night, having been transferred from the
hospital in Rochdale to the Liverpool Railway, and
placed cruelly on board in that weakly state. The in-
quest on the bodies took place yesterday iu the presence
of the Lord Mayor and several respectable citizens,
who appended to their verdict the following :—" We
cannot too strongly condemn the treatment of the
said Michael Dingman by the parish authorities of
Rochdale, and attribute his death to their inhuman
conduct in sending him in such a state of weakness
to Ireland." Previous to the inquest an examination
took place by two very eminent surgeons, Wright and
Hatchell. In the case of the boy, they state that " death
was produced by the exposure of his delicate frame
to the cold of a tempestuous night." And in that of
the other pauper, name unknown, that "his death
was accelerated if not prematurely caused by his
exposure." The evidence on the inquest is very pain-
ful, and shows how miserably poor humanity fares at
the hands of authority. A few days to recruit might
have been allowed the orphan Duigenan before his
return to wretchedness. Another fact elicited on the

inquest has created much indignation, that while the
greatest activity is used in Dublin to prevent persons
affected with fever sailing to England, there is no
restriction on the other side. There is an embargo on
fever in Ireland—free exportation in England.
The poor-law commissioners have addressed a letter
to the rural boards of guardians throughout Ireland,
of a nature most interesting and important. It has
reference to the transition from the temporary relief
system to that of the poor laws, the former of which
will finally close on the 12th of this present. At this
period the commissioners remind the guardians " the
poor rotes will be liable for the relief of a mass of
epperent destitution, which, in many districts,
usyrestetotally unmanageable," unless the guardians
have prseime notions of the evil, and the beat way it
may be " counteracted or mitigated." The extent of
the " unmanageableness" • of the pauperism which
would have to be dealt with by guardians, and the
extent to which it may be mitigated, the commis-
sioners illustrate by reference to the North Dublin
union. On the 15th August, when the temporary
telief ceased in Dublin, there were in that union
20,000 houses on the relief list ; but, by offering re-
lief in the workhouse to all applicants, the guardians
at once succeeded in reducing the lists to 3,000, for
persons not really destitute will not accept relief in
the workhouse. In order to extend the workhouse
aocommodation as much as possible, and thus to ob-
viate the neressity of outdoor relief, the commissioners
prescribe these instructions:
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boos Mir wo/o.
Lea Mossteethel is resolved ea a heed lee* he
will not !Wee to the fat of the pesr-law sesiskie-

sms,iotio.nyoenaunirstoionfnthlhunee gngaewlteordsdnaot
ir,cmewodhficmstronghodvionugbstiloeisardestealoinfrpecemarorkvo:
good his resistance. At the last meeting of the Fer-
the hearty support of . . Burke Roche. The propo-
Ations are not of the violent class which the good
se,‘se of the guardians negatived on a former occa-
sion, but their admission would tend to no prettiest
result, the reason which operates strongest on very
many berds. Lord Mountcasliel sets out with a
proposition that the population of the union is 92,352,
and the poo.- law valuation 133,453/., which, on a
division, would afford 11. 13s. 2d. for each individual.
Lord Mounteashtl forgets to state what the real desti-
tution of the unimi is ; but this is among the
transparent fallacies with which all his lord-
ship's arguments abou.id. Passing through se-
veral other propositions, in which he labours
to establish the total incompetency of any
class —proprietorial or occupying—to meet the
heavy demands made upon their resources by the poor
law—he deems it utter fatuity on the part of the
government to attempt the recovery of the instal-
ments under the Relief Act. The effect of any strin-
gent attempt on the part of the government will be,
according to Lord Mountcashel, the destruction of all
credit, the increase of bankruptcy, and pauperism—
the withdrawal of land from cultivation—diminished
produce—and the promotion of famine and disease
next year—together with general discontent, dis-
satisfaction,' and demoralisation. The remaining
propositions only expose his lordahip's impatient
ignorance of the plainest principles of economy, and
in other respects arc of no value whatever.

LIMERICK DEPUTATION TO THE LORD LIEUTENANT.
The deputation, appointed at the late meeting in the city of
Limerick, waited on his excellency, at the nce-regal lodge,
on Wednesday, the lit hut. The following. memorial,
adopted at the meeting, waa presented :

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et. 11 V.A11—.../411;11.00 1.011.111.11.1‘,14. or 111.1...11411.
11100064 01 the eitisens of Liol.ll//' In public meeting assembled.
111.11 we approach your excellency with every rentimeet of respect
for your personal character, and of acknowledgment of those Ligh
qualities which hare so long distinguirhed the diaeharge of your
official and public duties. We regret our first address to your excel-
lency, on your appointment to vioe-regal station, sh•uld be that of
coniptaint, and to which we respectful, elicit your excellency's
immediate and earnest consideration. We particularly refer
to the unfinished state of the roads of our city and
cinity, relented under the Labour-rate Act, which, In
their present condition are • fertile retiree of publie dis-
content, • reproach to the policy of a government which we would
willingly sustain, and a ditheenesies example of abortive legislation
and put heavy ins=iling expooteiture. That those roads were
adopted at the rompeolthe etheketh by virtue of an net of parliament,
which might he arilered es otonthohory in its provision:, being the
sole =diem at Mid Award as permitted by the edvernment In our
late ealeadteesellasties; sad es optioui We to which, even the =et
qaMidel, was atioadal by the reproacher, and often and naturally by
the mmeou el olantes population ; that they were adopt. don the
full sidolsedthrg the meerry amount for their execution should be
advanced by doe deileilithilth And with every rroprct for an admin..
tration of oebioligemr eueollmey Y m distinguished an ornament, we
hold that nen annineineett in their peen nt condition shall be not I ss
a reproach le the good Nth of the government, than destructive
of the later al@ of the emetry. That the grand juries of Ireland are
unequal to the tank of *Or completion. The grand jury system
works by holtyearly astamient ; but under the Labour Rate Act we
had ten years for repaymint; that we submit to your excellency the
rapid and unavoidable dthertoration incident to unfinished roads and
the accumulated ezuense ef their subenuent repair. We pirtleularly
incite your excellency's ealmthis to the heavy damages to which the
landed proprietary Anil le =Mod, and winch could not, or would
j not, be awarded bad then reeds been finished, the advantages of
the Wily opened communisadon would more than equal the trespass
Involved. That we aPeelelly cal! your eocelksey's regard to our
present undeniable condition our highways impassable life
Imperilled—put beery expenditure more than neutralised, and
the aspect of the country one of ruin and devastation; and
we urgently implore your excellency's gracious and imme-
diate interposition to remedy a state so disaster)la and unparal.
lelled We now address your excellency on a subject Intimately
'dieting the keel intercom of our city—we allude to the completion
of our port and harbour, provided fur by a special act of parliament,
pared the last sesion, and which we gratefrily trace to the wise,
the enlightened, and ;rely rem uterofire policy, in thla instance, of
her Majesty's present government. tie tried that those comm.
unprovernente, provided for by the act alluded to, may be
rotrttith commenced, thereby securing to our inerianule classes
those commercial facilities for which they are cow paying a heavy
Warne of harbour dues, and to our 11t00010.014, b1V.4114 unoccupied
populaton, that employment, with it. kcitimate rcmuntrauon,
which it is their right to expect, and the duty. of government
to afford. We also submit to your excellency's conanieratiou the
value •f the harbour of Lime. ick, in reference to the all.
important, the now urgent and iseprebil gumtree, of transab.
Untie communication. Limerick, the centre of commercial enterprise
sad agricultural smith, with its capacious harbour, bud 101 rails ayw,
now approaching maturity, within a few hours, by steam navigation,
of the Atlantic, appals pedaled oat as the fitting oornmimication be-
tween the kindred empires of Urcat Britain and America; and we re.
spect fully all on your excellency to submit to her Majesty's govern-
merit the propriety of adopting a city, so circumstaneed, as the packet
station about being selected, and as the medium of those commercial
sod irbernational intercourse% alike promotive ol the well-being and
happiness of both hemispheres. That we ureter ly solaat your excel-
leacy's early and c.umest attention to the important objects referred
to in thin memoriaL—Tuocas Watist el , Major.

After the Meyor of Limerick had briefly indicated the im-
portance of the objects embraced in the memorial, the city
members, Mr. John O'Connell and Mr. John O'Brien,
strongly, and at name length, sustained the objects of the
memorial, particularly calling the attention of his excellency
to the fithesa of Limenck as the proper medium of trans-
atlantic communication. It appears that one of the objects
01 the deputation had been achieved, as by a late communi-
cation from the Board of Works, the contemplated improve-
ment in the harbour will forthwith commence.

His excellency, in reply, stated the selection of Limerick
as a packet-station was of great general interest; that there
were rival claims, but that when those railways were com-
plete to which reference had been mode the subjsct should
receive the full and dispasaionate consideration of the go-
vernment. He regretted the statements made to him re-
specting the unfinished roads of th.countey. But the period
for the operation of the Labour Rate Aet had expires'. He
was aware of the embarrassments surrounding the suhjeet,
but the difficulties of the government should be also remem-
bered. He had used his beet efforts in obtaining from the
treasury all possible aid for this country. He had secured a
sum of 360,0001. for drainage operations. He apprehended
the grand juries should finish those presentments ; that many
had been unadvisedly granted. He wished to know. what
suggestion, within reasonable limits, could be made by the
deputation..
It was submitted to his excellency that the presentments
in question were, in fact, almost compulsory—that they were
the sole medium of relief devised or permitted by the
government, and that any opposition was attended by the
reproaches and menaces of a starving people—that the
damages sought by the landed proprietary would be immense,
which would be neither sought for, nor awarded, had these
roads been finished—that it allowed to remain in their pre-

sent condition, they would suffer fifty per cent.
in the coming winter; that a selection should be made by
competent engineers of such as were of unquestionable
utility ; and that the country would reaaily repay the full
amount of their completion ; but if the unfiniAsed wnrks
were thus abandoned by the government, that a strong re-
luctance would be felt by the occupiers of land in Ireland in
repayment of an expenditure so misapplied sad unproduc-
tive, a reluctance with which it was not improbable the gen-
try and landed proprietary of the country would strongly
sympathise. After a lengthened interview, in which many
details were alluded to, the deputation withdrew, with a full
impression of his excellency's urbanity, and of his good
feeling,.
UNVeIrAL CASE OP DHOWNING.—A few days since, a
young man named Osborne Elliott, was drowned near
Enniskillen, by the upsetting sf a boat on Lough Erne.
His body was drawn to the surface in a quarter of an hour
after the accident by a diver, who found it in an erect posi-
tion at the bottom of the lake, the feet fastened ia the mud,
and the hands pressed tifeht upon the ears.
FEVER is still on the increase in Dundalk and Newry. It
is to be regretted that parties of influence in those towns
will not exert themselves, as the rapid spread of the disease
Is attributable to want of sewerage and the utter uncleanli-
ness so well of the houses am the streets of certain portions of
both towns.

SCOTLAND.

EDINRORON, SRPT. 3.

The Edinburgh baths for the working classes are
shut up for want of water, a result which the inventor
of the famous sanitary query could not have contem-
plated, otherwise he would have included the pare
element as well as " swap" in his interrogatory. The
prevailing aridity is affecting vegetable as well as
animal existence. Turnips, lean and half made up,
threaten to run into seed, and cabbages and kale, the
mainstays of kitchen and cottage gardens at this sea-
son, are shrivelled into a yellow deformity which will
end in decay unless rain come speedily. As to pota-
toes, in some quarters the cry is that the disease has
come, in others that it has net yet arrived ; but one
thing is clear, that the drought is telling on them in
common with other esculents. Meanwhile, the grain
harvest goes on gloriously, and the staple fruit of the
earth once gleaned and well garnered, we can afford
to view minor disasters with somewhat of philosophy.
As the sanitary cause looms in the distance, people
here, very much satisfied as to its desirableness, have
forebodings as to its expense : the Glasgow Argus,
however, has an emollient. It considers that the coat
of sanitary improvement might be defrayed by the
economical collection of local rates. Local taxes in
Scotland amount to two millions—the sources being
city and county police assessments, burgh customs,
harbour dues, lightage dues, commutation road-money,
turnpike tolls, the usessments in the northern districts
for Highland roads and bridges, imposts is particular
localities for keeping up various descriptions of public
works, such as gas and water works, court-houses,
&c. In some places there are separate paving and
draining assessments; religion and education go
the form of a tax in some localities, and, to crown
the list, there are the poor amemment and the prison
taxes.
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to do with fares for loeg dishiness. It is accordingly Issea-Mwprth delivered along addr,...e in suppmt and praise
reckoned that the ocermaidelicsa of those imposts of the theta:dim+. Ile theught the promoter+ of it had dome
would be an im imatissid benefit; and it is
t=rici well in msing with the more Pr...stir-ally useful branches
structrA some attention to th••a higher walksof elegant enema-
likely that the ad Haase of parliament plish.menta and graceful lit nature, mid to the cultivation of •
will be asked to peas Inel solopos, aced to press Ito As for art, poetry, and music, which tend se much not
it 'with energy, as burgh megrim wed see nothing i ally to relax but to refine the mind. While he noon-
boat lions in the way. .i lasseled to these who were inclined to such studies to give
-- their fns hest attention to the severer walks of history mid
pOlhoephys be did not wish them to exclude the elegant
pesos of poetry and fiction. His lordship gave no small
planers to his numerous hearers by a kind of Baormiaa in-
of the marriage of Vulcan with Venus—of labour
reriaboaduteca.' and tuts. Many other gentlemen addressed
the meeting, among others, Mr. E. Barnes, jun , who consi-
dered that mechanics' institutions were to be looked upon as
being really auxiliary to religion itself. The meeting was
closed with the national anthem. The new building is de-
signed by George Alexander, Esq., F.S.A. The estimated
cost is 5,0001., of which 3,0001. has already been raised.
THE FACTORY ACT.—ln some parts of the West
Riding of Yorkshire, where the woollen manufacture is tole-
rably brisk, it is the practice of the masters to work the
mills twelve hours • day, as usual—not by employing any of
the women or ehildren more than eleven hours, as the law
at present prescribes, but by a relay of hands. '' This pres-
tice," says the Leeds
Mereury," has, we find, been objected
to by some of the factory inspectors, and the question is now
at issue whether it may or may not be pursued without an
infringement of the law. The object of the act is, no doubt,
to prevent the persons meant to he protected, and not the
machinery, from being overworked ; and it that object can
be effected by Riving employment to an increased number of
workmen without violating the spirit of the law, the decision
of the legal authorities, to whom the question is referred, will
probably be in favour of this extension of the relay system"
WARWICKSHIRE.
The RIBBON TRADE.—A document, declaring the'
istsnaimatioa or the ribbon manufacturers of Coventry net
is Aspen Itooths imperial standard measure of thirty-dR
Men to ass red, has been signed by all the prinelpal
1 ribbon ataaatexturers in CoveWILTSHIRE.ntry.
Tine Devizes BEAR CLUB—a local, benevolent, sad
festive society—celebrated their ninety.fourth anniversary
bat week, when a proposition was made by the committee,
in their report, to place the school, hereafter under the M-
emel= of government, so as to entitle the institution to a
peed= of the educational grant of last session, which, it was
might be appropriated to the payment of stipends,
Illeirtitt me of exhibitions, to deserving and intelligent Inds.
Upon this subject Sir J. Cam Hobhouse, who was one of
the guests on the occasion, said :—Allusion has been
made to what is commonly called the government scheme of
education ; and although I feel called upon to refer to it, it
wonid ill become me, on such an occasion to say more than
this, that the plan was conceived with the best intentions
sad after the most mature deliberation ; and if it has any
faults—which, of course, every scheme formed by the human
brain must haw—it has, at least, not those faults which have
hum so recklessly attributed to it. It is not, as some have
gessamsed.to say, a sectarian grant; or if it be sectarian, it is
seMarian in the same settee as all grants must be which inte-
rest the great majority of the whole community ; and, if it so
happen that the members of the established church reap
the greatest advantage from it, it is to be attributed to
their laudable disposition and to their good fortune, and not
to any vice inherent in the scheme itself. Her Majesty's
ministers, in asking parliament for these educational greate,
did not exclusively help, nor did they wish exclusively to
help, the established church of this country ; their desire
was to benefit the majority of the people ; and, as the
church constitutes that majority, the scheme has bet n found
most available to the church. But is there any. blame
he des cabinet, because those who compose the minority of
the sooatry—because those who possess the greatest wealth,
the greatest iafluence (I will not eay the greatest intelli-
as that would be invidious—though I may remark
at t have at least their share, and are numerically the
greatest)—have been found to belong to the church of Eng-
, land. I beg to say the intentions of the Queen's government
have been misconstrued, if it is thought that they have done
anything to assist any particular portion of the country at
the expense of the other. The boon was intended for all reli-
gious communities, that it might be partaken of by all, in
proportion to their number, their wealth, their intelligence,
and their desire to receive it.

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donsld, whose' reiterating to the honours of the Beth we
lately reeerded, hes atleurell the hilowieg letter to the
elective pews of Serried:'
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DIULTII mom FOOL Aza.-0a Bawds, ]eat, • collier
met his death ate coal-pit, about two miles tram Loa:trod, •
near Edinburgh. About ten days prinisasly foal sir yes
foetid to have collected in the pit, and In consequence the
colliers ceased working in it, and were employed in sinking
another one 60 yards distant, to procure ventilation. On
Saturday one Smith, as was customary among the men, left
his companions, and repaired to the old pit to see whether
the foul air was diminished. He had accordingly descended
the pit some 30 feet, when he found he was unable to return.
Sometime elapsed before he was missed and his perilous
situation discovered ; even then it was found almost im-
passible to relieve him, and no less than 10 attempts to de-
wend the pit were suocesaively mule and as often aban-
doned, from the person being unable to descend to • suffi-
cient depth. At last one man succeeded in getting a rope
round Smith's body, when he was drawn to the surface, but
life was extinct. The unfortunate man was heard moaning
for fully two hours after he was discovered, but three hours
and a half elapsed before his lifeless body was extricated.
He was 31 years of age, and has left a widow and three
children. It is certainly surprising that proprietors do not
iratrnet their colliers than the presence of foul air can be
discovered by its incompatibility with combustion.
PIiIt,ENOLoOICAL SOCIETY Or EDISBI:Itoit.-Some time
ago a Scotch physician, named Robertson, who lived in
Paris for many years, left on his death a considerable sum of
money (about 14,0001.) to the Phrenological Society of Edin-
burgh; but from the defective wording of the will the
general legatee, a Dr. Verity, believed himself warranted in
retaining the money for himself and some of the deceased's
relatives, which gave rise to some proceedings before the
French courts against Dr. Verity, who resides in Paris. The-
last stage of the matter was an order to the doctor to pay a
certain sum into court; but on appeal to the supreme court,
which appeal came on for argument a few days ego, the
order was set aside as bad in law. Consequently the Phren-
ological Society of Edinburgh may be held to have definitely
lost its cause.
ErratiStra (Glasgow Aram) regret to
learn that a shipping and mercantile firm in Oieeneek, which
has long been engaged in extensive transactions, and consi-
dered one of the most respectable houses in that town, has
been obliged to suapend payment. The liabilities are said to
amount to about 100,000/. ; and the cause of the failure is
understood to be lames upon shipments of sugar and grain.
No estimate has transpired of the amount of the assets. This
is the first failure of consequence which has yet taken place
in the grain trade in the west of Scotland.
WALES.
A FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT which caused the
death of six men, has jut occurred at a place called Waun-
coe-gurwen, in the vale of Swansea. An inquest was held
on Thursday, upon the bodies of some of the sufferers. The
names of the unfortunate men killed are:-D. Matthews,
aged 36; J. Lewis, 23; R. Williams, 1S; E. Rees, 37; J.
Mainwaring, 30; and T. Rees, 17. They were colliers in
the employ of a gentleman, named Wood, and the circum-
stances under which they met with their deaths, as appeared
by the evidence adduced, were these. At between 6 and 7
o clock on Tuesday evening, they descended into the Wean-
coe-gurwen colliery for the purpose of cutting coal, and the
platform or hoist upon which they were lowered was left at
the bottom of the shalt preparatory to their coming up
again. Between 3 and 4 o'clock David Morgan, the man
who has charge of the steam-engine, heard them give the
urinal signal given by men who want to ascesid, by
blowing a horn at the bottom of the pit, and he
immediately set the engine to work raising the plat-
form. Nothing amiss occurred till the platform was close
to the mouth of the shaft, when the chain suddenly parted
at one of the links, and the hoist and men were dashed to the
bottom of the pit, • distance of over 90 fathoms. The en-
gineer, hinrgan, immediately proceeded to some neighbeur-
sng house, and aroused the inmates, and in a short time
several men were lowered by means of chains into the pit.
All the six men were, however, quite dead, and their per-
sons shockingly mutilated. Three of the sufferers, Mat
thews, Rees, and Lewis, were married men with families,
sod r all of them were much respected, a most painful sen-
orita& was caused in the neighbourhood. It was found, upon
'sandaled the chain, that it had given way at a flaw in one
piths links, which had not previously been noticed, but
which rendered the chain unequal to the weight attached to
it. There were two different juries summoned, and they
each returned verdicts of " Accidental death, " nceompany-
ing the verdict with a recommendation that the proprietors
of collieries should keep some competent person at the mouth
of pits to look to the chains. &c.
PROVINCIAL.

LITBRATU.RE,

The Parliamentary Companion. Fifteenth year. New
Parliament. By CHAILLE6 R. DODD, Esq. London:
Whittaker and Co. 1847.
To those who have frequent occasion to make use
of Mr. Dodd's work, we do not need to say anything
in its favour : to thaw who are unacquainted with it
—if any such there be—it is difficult to do it justice
without appearing to use the language of exaggera-
tion. For fifteen years has Mr. Dodd been indefati-
gably labouring to aeommodate his publication to
every change in the composition of parliament, to
render it more and more critically accurate, and to
introduce into it more and more useful information
respecting the composition of the legislature, and its
modes of transacting business. A gentleman of his
opportunities, industry, and singular candour and
fairness could not labour thus without producing
something of value ; and, accordingly, his Parlia-
mentary Companion comes probably as near to what
is wanted as mere human efforts could make it. Instead
of describing the form and matterof a work so generally
known and appreciated, we prefer presenting to our
readers some of the most interesting facts respecting
the New Parliament which it indicates.
A greater amount of change in the personnels!'
parliament has been effected by the late general ela-
tion than by any that has taken place since the first
parliament under the Reform Act. In the reffirmed
parliament there were 280 members who sat for the
first time; in the present parliament 223 old mem-
bers have been replaced by 223 new. The change at
the election in 1834 5 only amounted to 181 persons ;
at the election of 1837 to 121 ; at the election of 1841
to 183.
A still more important circumstance relating to
the composition of parliament is, however, shown by
the pages of Mr. Dodd. In the new parliament there
is a smaller number of persons connected with noble
families and a smaller number of country gentlemen
than in any previous parliament. On the contrary
there is a greater number of—railway directors, en-
gineers, and contractors ; of barristers ; of mer-
chants ; of retail tradesmen ; of political writers and
lecturers; of naval and military officers. This is as it
ought to be. The Reform Act is gradually doing its
work, and admitting the working members of society
to a larger share of political influence.
The party designations are curiously multiplied.
We have : supporters of Sir IL Peel's police; friends
of Lord John Russell's government: filesMe eiC
Lord George &lain& ; free-traders ; advocates est tics
people's charter; two sections of the Irish repeal
party ; with others too numerous to mention. The
old party desi&nations, if not utterly extinct, seem
nearly obliterated from our records. Even the new-
fangled 0 liberal" and " conservative " cannot keep
their ground.
Pledges have been exacted from some members
relative to the proposal for endowing the Roman ca-
tholic clergy, the navigation laws, the further exten-
sion of free-trade, &c. ; but on the whole pledges
appear to have been at a discount.

Jute Parts.
THE VELABQIIE2 PRINCE CHARLIE.—Mr. Snare,
of Reading, the proprietor of the so-called portrait of Charles
1., by Veleagues, lou published two hundred and twenty-
eight octavo pages about it—price five shillings. It appears
that Mr. Snare had read, for the first time, in Mr. Ford's
" Handbook of Spain," that the king, when prince, had sat
to Velasquez at Madrid, and that no portrait of the king
from the hand of Velasquez was known to exist. " But if it
did exist, it must exist now," was Mr. Bnare's chain of
reasoning ; and wherever ho went his favourite pursuit was
in endeavouring to discover the long-lost Velasquez. The
idea troubled his dreams, and really Interrupted his business
as a bookecller. At last he found it—or fancied he had
found it—end the picture, still, we believe, exhibiting, was
bought by Mr. Sure at the sale at Radley-hall, in Oxford-
, shire, in October, 1845, for the sum of 81. The next thing
was to show it to the public, challenge criticism, and produce
Its history. A room was consequently taken in Bend-street,
the Wail handsomely hung with velvet, and the picture, in
a rich gold frame, placed in a good light in a little recess or
oratory of its own. We noticed the picture at the time,
end are still of opinion that it is a good picture ;
others have thought differently, and there has been
• good deal of very absurd and excessive criticism
both ways about it. But our present object Is its history as
far as Mr. Snare professes to make it out. And really in the
two hundred and twenty eight octavo pages there is not a
fact or circumstance of importance, but the fact of the per-
chase at Radley-hall, and a piece of fairly supported evi-
dence that the picture belonged to the Earl of Fife, who
died in 1809, and that it was hung where Pennant described
i., and the earl made out his catalogue, in the " first draw ing-
ruorn "in Fife-house, at Whitehall. There is reason to be-
lieve that Mr. Snare possesses the picture catalogued by the
earl as " Charles I. when Prince of Wales "-3-quarter'
—painted at Madrid, 1625, when his marriage with the In-
fanta was proposed, assigned by the Earl to Velasquez, and
accompanied by the following note : " This picture belonged
to the Duke of Buckingham." But bare begins Mr. Snare's
romance—and a curious confusion he has made in
thinking York-house in the Strand, and York-house, after-
wards Whitehall, one and the same building I The Duke of
Buckingham lived in York-house in the Strand, which was
sold by his son, and pulled down by the builders, to whom it
was sold, in 1672. Mr. Snare gays, however, that it was de-
stroyed by fire in 1697, which 11l tem el Whitehall—the new
name given, as every reader of Shahtweare knows, to
93EYork-
house,
after the disgrace of Weiser. We may add,
what we are glad to hear “ the exhibition of the
picture se a pecuniary has not been attended
with los."

THE ROYAL MAIL STEAMER BRITANNIA, Captain
Harrison, sailed from Liverpool yesterday with a full coin- I
plesnent and a large cargo. Bhe carriesRK&IIIRF. out no specie.
YO
SHEFFIELD ATIIENYAJM AND MECHANICS' INSTITU-
noiL—Tho ceremony of laying the first stone of the new
building for this institution was performed on Wednesday by
the Earl of Arundel and Surrey,),l.P. After performing the
ceremony, his lordship, in a brief speech, remarked upon the
numerous and lasting benefits to be derived from such an
institution, observing, that there the more illiterate would
be able to learn reading, writing, and arithmetic ; the mere
advanced would be able to advance themselves still further;
while those who were well educated would be able to obtain
the adequate information en science generally. In the
evening a ward. wen given, in further celebration of the
event. Here the Earl of Arundel 'gain. gave hie services as
chairman ; and among other influential persons present,

CLERICAL.
VALUE OF PRISENTATIONL—At a ule by Mr. T. M.
Mien at Msatebatier, on Mamday, the mat permutation to the
MOW, GI MOMS ins rad by public auction to Mr. Meitard Hal.