The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-30 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS.

Yesterday the half-yearly general court of the
governors of this institution took place at the Leaden Ta-
vern, Di.bop...este-street, Mr. OHM MLITIRMAN, M.P., in
the chair. The following report was presented by the
board of management: On the termination of the filth
year of the society's existence the board appear before the
governors to submit their annual report. The
total amount
of receipts, from all sluices, far the twelve months just
expired is 5,4261. Bs. 4(1. The analysis of this aggregate sum
is as follows : Donations for general purposes. 4241. 3s. fid.;
subscriptions (renewed), 2,9111. 17s. • subscriptions (new),
4191. Bs. fel.; presentations for two 'children, 2101.; dona-
tions for the building fund, 1,0731. lls. •' dividend on stock,
387/. 8.. 4d.—making a total of 1,1281.8 e. 4d. This state-
ment shows a diminution in the receipts of this year, as
compared with those of the preceding twelve months; but
it must be borne in m.nd that in 1840 extraordinary exer-
tions and mean, were put forth to increase the receipts,
especially of the building fund. Tho board of manage-
ment have only one painful circumstance to record.
in November last one of the boys was seised
with an attack of brain fever, which, alter a few
days' illness, terminated fatally. Whilst the board lament
this circumstance tlej cannot help alluding to the gratify-
, ing feet that, although the institution has now existed five
years, this is the first event of the kind which has occurred.
When the event happened the board appointed some mem-
bers of their own body to investieate the INIMMer, with a
view to ascertain if there were any local CAM. hIMILISMIIIig
either as connected with the premises at Wanalleads fie ht
the regimen of the institution, which might bow Wool '1
this particular disorder, and which, if permitted %or
tinne, might endanger the health of the other tnemisee of
the establishment. But no such causes were dimmed ;
and, as regard the particular case referred to, this beard
can assure the governors that the youth received tam the',
house-surgeon and physician to the institution every atten-
tion which his precarious condition required, and that
nothing which medical skill could devise was left untried
to arrest the progress of the disorder. The board
have only to add on this point, that, with a very few oces-
Gams' exceptions, the children have enjoyed the most
perfect health during the past twelve months. Some
months ago a formal application was made for a site to the
directors of every railway company having a terminus in
London. This application was very favourably entertained
by some of the ratites', boards. The directors of the North
Western Company were anxiously disposed to meet the
wishes of the board of management, and it was hoped that
a site on their line might be selected. But no plot of ground
hitherto brought under their notice has, in the judgement of
the board, appeared 60 completely to meet all the
meets of this institution as to justify them in a
purchase. The board have great pleasure in stating
two members of their own body bine kindly u.Wtmi to
devote their attention especially to the task of looking Gs a
suitable site, and they will from time to time cell til• at-
tention of the board to such plots of ground as
they may think eligible for the purposes of this
charity. -During the year just expired six have left the is-
stiestiom, having completed their term for remaining nadir
the essiety's cure. It affords the beard of management ex-
treme satisfaction to state that these boys have been es-
shied, through the active inlainies of kind friends of this
charity, to obtain -ituaticine, wham with perseverance and
steadiness, ea honourable end miefel position in life may
in doe time be secured. The board sincerely trust that at
may be seen by the fugue sendiset of these youths that
the care bestowed then has not been thrown away,
end that is the spheres to which it may please
God reapeetliatzlititiouseall them they yma evince by their vir-
tue nod, that the Ceenieerl Travellers' Schools
see a blowilag to orphans whom they fester and protect.
In eseelemba the beard pebfilly acknowledges the exer-
tions of these treste•lnerts4 friends, who is the capacity of
stewards, stilloontinee to he the mainstay sad strength of ,
the institution. The board feel that any thanks they can
present mina be a very inadequate return for such diain-
iterated Moan, but they trust that these generous friends
may find an maple reward for their efforts in the cm:mut-
ing usefulness of this Institution. This report having been
received and adopted various matters connected with the
management of the institution were briefly discussed, and
the court proceeded to the election of eight children (five
boys and three girls) into the schools. The result being
declared, the meeting separated with the usual vote of
thanks to the chairman.

IRELAND.

Dosi.nr. DEC. 29.

There is no foundation for a paragraph published
by the Warder of Saturday, to the effect that the
Provostship had been conferred on Dr. Longfield,
ono of the Commissioners of Encumbered Estates.

The Daily Express states that the candidates are
Professor Lloyd, Dre. McDonnell, Todd, and Groves.
The last accounts of the state of Mr. Eastwood's
health are unfavourable. The ill-fated gentleman
continues in a very precarious condition. No traces
of the assassins have been yet discovered, but the
authorities are using every exertion towards the ar-
rest of the guilty parties. Meanwhile the executive:
are taking the alarm. An extraordinary Gazette,
which was published on Saturday evening, contains
proclamations declaratory of the previous proclama-
tions of the sth inst., by which the provisions of the
11th Vic. c. 2, were extended and applied to the
perishes of Clontibret and Mucknow, in the barony
of Cremorne, and county of Monaghan, and to the
parishes of Derrynoose and Keady, an the baronies of
firanny and Armagh, in the county of Armagh, and
appointing the 30th December instaat, as the last
day for the deposit with the police of unlicensed
arms.

Sir Robert Bataan, Bart., brother of Mr. Thomas
Bateson, the victim of the Castleblayney tragedy, has
written a lung letter to the editor of the Belfast
Chronicle, vindicating his relative from certain
charges of oppression preferred against him by a
northern paper. Sir Robert, in the coarse of his
defence, observes:

For mane years my brother managed two very extensive
estates in Donegal and Antrim, belonging to different pro-
prietors. He found them both in such a state of dismantle".
tiuu, both as to the accounts, the conduct of the people, and
the state of agriculture, as would have deterred most men
from the undertaking. Let those who recollect them at that
time, and those who saw them when he gave up their man-
agement—let the magistrates with whom he 00-operated—
and the friends he associated with in their vicinity, bear re-
cord, and they will tell what they have often repeated,
that the improvement effected in the different branches
above mentioned on both the estates could hardly have
been believed to have taken place within the time. He
afterwards undertook the management of Lord Temple-
town's estates in Monaghan and Antrim, and from their
great extent and their distance from each other, he was
obliged to devote his whole time to them. The system he
began and tarried out so well on the estates he before
managed, his greater experience enabled him to pursue
even more effectually than before; and with the willing
and generous co-opt ration of Lord Templetown, who fully
appreciated my brother's seal and abilities, both estates
were progressing in • ratio surprising to all who were
acquainted with them, when his career of usefulness was
cut short by the members of that conspiracy which has
already deprived this country of many of its most valuable
friends. But can we be surprised at the atrocions acts of
the ignorant and savage mob who are hounded to the
scene of murder by a miserable section of the public
pre's, whose entire circulation depends upon pandering
to the evil passions, and keeping up those deadly
animosities between man and man which makes part of
this kingdom a hell upon earth ? A paragraph lately
published in a provincial paper, and partly copied into one
of the Dublin journals, is evidently from the pen of a rib-
bonman, who would naturally seek to palliate the enormities
of his companions by representing my brother as cruel to
some of those under his control. (hanks to the greater
portion of the Irish press, he dues not require my feeble
advocacy ; the whole tenor of his life gives the lie to his
calumniators ; and if further testimony were required, the
barrister of the county Monaghan, an eminent Queen's
Counsel, Mr. Kijor, could, if referred to, prove that fewer
processes were Wien out upon the Templetown estate than
on any similar extent of country under his jurisdiction.
Lord Templetown, both from his own wish to benefit his
tenantry, and at my brother's suggestion, annually expended
• very large portion of his income in making improvements,
not at his model farm only, but over his whole estate, giving
employment, premiums for agricultural improvement. and
mem paying the county ems, supporting charitable institu-
titme—in short, to such an amount that I do not hesitate to
mart that, if an average were taken of the entire amount ex-
=on uvula estates in England for like purposes (I say
, because there is not amore generous or liberal pro-
pel/retry in the world than hers), Lord Templetown'a
1 expediter, would exceed it. Now as to the amount
et rent, I would also fearlessly assert that if Lord Tem-
had • similar extent of estate in any county in
ViTeglivil he would be is the possession of a net income
of nearly double this amount. In addition to Lord Temple-
town's liberality, us; brother expended the entire of a
very handsome income of his own (his personal expendi-
tare being trifling) in acts of charity, benevolence, and
public utality, ou and &butt the estates, on which he con-
, neatly resided. It could be easily shown, had I not al-
ready trespassed at too great length on your column., that
the outcry raised against landlords and all connected with
them is only part of a systematic attask on property of all
kinds, but capitally on • class of men who hitherto have
' been the supporters of all the charitable and useful institu-
. tions in the country. I expect to be able (when the heavy
pressure of business on • mind that the recent occurrence
has rendered nearly unfit for it permits) to show that the
rents in Ireland, making due allowance for all the circum-
stances connected with the difference of countries, are less
than in England and Scotland. I could also ;how that
among the agitators of the Tenant-right League are to be
found some of that real oppressors and grinders of the
people, and that it is owing to that inflammatory and in-
' tiling harangues and denunciations that the brutal murder
' of as hum toe, upright, and determined • magistrate as was
In Ireland is to be attributed.

THE NEw YOZZ. 91101111171PTON, AND BREMEN
' Meer. Paca.rrs, wilt* Wm hum hid op for some time
past, will cot.i.uvuee muting hum NeW York the latter end
of January next. and from Southampton the beginning of
/larch next.